Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-01
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.

is SOC.
The Third Ward of Fergus Falls has
voted $4,000 for school-house.
THERE are still over 100000 acres
of railroad land unsold in Minnesota.
A SYNDICATE is to build fine opera
house at Anoka, with the auditorium
ON the ground floor.
Mrs. LAvAoUe, who was badly injured
by the Saltwater cyclone, is the mother
of nineteen children.
AN ear of corn raised on a farm in
Sac River Bottom, Cedar County,
measures twenty-one inches round.
IT is estimated that there will be be-
tween $4,000 and 100000 bushels of
wheat marketed at st. Hilaire this fall
The Southern Minnesota Fair, at
Rochester, was the only financial sue
cess in the fair line in the state this
fall.
A DRUNKEN hack driver at Rochester,
last week, succeeded in cverturning a
load, of about fifteen or twenty people,
smashing his wagon to pieces, breaking
one mans leg, cutting another mans
head open, and raising a rumpus gener-
ally. -
PROF. WILLIAM w. PAYNE, director
of the observatory of Carleton College,
has been requested by Gen. W. B.
Hazen, chief signal officer, Washington,
D. c., to organize state Teather SER
vice for Minnesota, with : station in
each county.
CAPT. RuBLE, of Albert Lea, raised
this year sample quantity of grass, the
seed of which came from the Island of
Guinea, It grows six or eight feet
high, and is very succulent. The roots
are tender, like the artichoke, and are
said to be valuable for fattening hogs.
DAKOTA.
TIE contracts have been let for build.
ing number of school-houses in Bluff
County.
So far this year Pukwana has invested
about $25,O00 in substantial improve
ments.
OFFICIAL figures show that the assets
of Day County exceed the liabilities by
$3,72S96.
CENTERv1LLE has issued bonds for a
new school-house, and has placed them
at SO cents.
AN unknown friend has presented the
CooperstownP resbyter. an church society
a 520-pound bell.
EVERY available man in Devils Lake
is engaged in building operations to re-
place the structures burned last July.
LADIES of Mitchell have built an ar
tistic railway locomotive of Dakots
grains and grasses for exhibition at the
New Orleans and other expositions.
A HERD of about 800 buffaloes wal
seen in the Bad Lands in West Dakott
recently. A few scattering ones have
been seen east of the Missouri River.
BISHOP MARTY has ordered Catholic
church to be built in Vermillion, ant
steps will be soon taken to see that it j
done. In connection with the churcl
there will be parochial school.
An attempt was recently mad
to blow up the powder house at Spill
Tail Gulch by firing into it. The hous,
contained 1000 pounds of stout pow
der, and an explosion would have dom
immense damage.
The Indians at Standing Rock agenc,
have been very successful as farmer
this year. Their crops are said to hav
yielded about as follows: Wheat, 2
bushels to the acre; oats, 40 bushels
potatoes, 100 bushels; corn. 70 bushels
and peas, 25 bushels.
BURGLARS entered the Star grocery a
Fargo and drilled a hole in the saf
door but were unable to break the CON
bination lock, and thus secured n
booty. The job is said to have bee
done by professionals, and it is though
that the gang that have been workin
Duluth and Brainerd have reache
Fargo.
A LAND decision of much interest
the citizens of Steele has just bee
made, involving as it does a valuab]
homestead claim adjoining the cit,
The decision holds that the Gilman
Mr.. Grimshaw, who is a commercis
traveller, and whose residence has COZ
sisted of occasional! visits to the land
has failed to maintain residence sue
as is required by the homestead Law
and, therefore, the local land Office re.
ommends the cancellation of the entr,