Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-30
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.

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NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.
MICA has been found at the depth of
fifteen feet at Big Stone
CREDITORS of 81. o. Sproat, of Duluth,
mourn his absence to the amount of a
good many dollars.
The capital stock of the First National
Bank of Crookston has been increased
to $100, 900; all paid in.
W. w. PERRY, Brainerd restaurant
keeper, has skipped for parts unknown,
leaving creditors to mourn.
B. B. WOLFF and II. 81. Wells. of
Morris, have dissolved partnership, the
latter to give his entire attention to his
bank.
Gus THoREsoN, farmer living near
Esthervi]le, left town intoxicated, and
was found frozen to death the next day.
he was an habitual drunkard.
CHARLES P. Moves, of St. Paul, has
been appointed receiver of G. F. Gill,
of Willard, who has been adjudged in
solvent on the petition of creditors.
G1ENwooD has natural water works.
A gushing spring in the glen has been
tapped by galvanized iron pipes and now
the village is supplied with aqua 2oura
in a never failing supply.
ANDREW ERICKSON, of Freeland. left
Candy in an intoxicated condition, and
before reaching home was so badly
frozen that the amputation of both legs
above the knees has become necessary.
MoosEDUNa, chief Of the Red Lake
Indians, has gone to Washington to see
the great father. BE may jmportune
congress looking to revision of his sur
| name in the interest of his admission to
good society.
Mr.. SAMPSON, of Crookston, has gone
to Washington to advocate scheme to
dam the headwaters of the Red Lake
River at its source, so as to be able to
utilize the water as wanted to aid the
water powers.
JUDGE BUCKHAM decides that the
! Waseca County bank is holden to pay
its taxes as equalized by the state board,
and also all costs and disbursements o1
the lawsuit that has been nece ssary tc
get this decision.
| JoDGE COLLINS has ordered John r.
Byrnee, of Byrnes & Byrnes, attorneys
of Minneapolis, to show cause at cham.
| bers in st. Cloud, on the 28th- Of this
month, why he should not be disbarred
from practice in that court.
Two sons of Peter Peterson of the
town of Harvey, Meeker County, we're
foolipg with a revolver. As usual, the
thing was loaded, and went eff just at
the wrong moment, the ball entering one
of the boys head just above the mouth.
The boy will recover.
LORENZO BARTON, pioneer of this
state, died at st. Charles recently, aged
ninety -one years. He was the father of
rine children, only three of whom sur
vive him, namely: Mrs. P. T. West, of
st. Charles, Mr.. HI. E. Barton, Of Min
neapolis, and Mrs. J. Ingraham, of
Sleepy Eye, MINI.
The Manitoba Railway Company has
begun suit at Murdock against Robert
Davie, to recover large amount claimed
on the charge that defendant under
billed cars when shipping grain, and
| that he concealed hardware in cars of
lumber. The company has attached
$4,000 worth of his property. Davie
made an assignment some weeks since.
DAKOTA.
THERE are about three hundred In
dians in Hand County.
BA1NBR1DaE, the alleged Sioux Falls
rape fend, is over 80 years old.
DELEGATE RAYMOND will oppose the
repeal of the pre- emption law.
PRoPR1EToRs of two Valley City gam
bling rooms have been arrested and
| fined.
TIMOTHY LONG has disappeared from
Fargo, leaving creditors to the amount
of $500.
A PETITION is being circulated asking
for the removal of the land office from
Yankton to Chamberlain.
In Brookings County the county
license for saloons is $500, and the
Brookings city license is $500, making
$l,000in all.
Mr.. REID, of st. Paul. has declined
the presidency of the First National
Bank of Mandan, to which he was re-
Gently elected.
MAJOR HOWARD WHITE, from Pine
Ridge Agency. says that the winter SO
far has been favorable for range stock,
and cattle are looking we'll. There is
not much snow. There have been no
bad blowing storms.
The report that E. 81. Bly, had been
appointed receiver of the Bismarck
Flouring Mill Company, taken from
a local paper, is denied by the officers of
the company, who say they are not
aware that any receiver has been sp-
pointed.
The action of Register Lord, of the
Creelsburg land Office, is sharply criti-
cised by interested parties, on account
of his alleged refusal to allow settlers to
publish notices of final proof in the pa
per nearest the land, as required by law,
and a protest has been sent to the inter-
ior department..
A CASE of destltution has come to pub
lie notice in Bismarck. The family
name is Luyken. A visit to the house
| disclosed that the father was sick in bed
and that there was not moutbful of
| food in the house, while thirteen chill
dren sat shivering around stove in
which was a little fire, but for which
there was no fuel. The oldest child is
only fourteen, and the youngest a
babe of few weeks.
In Berlin, near Wahpeton, August
Berrendt had six children all sick with
diphtheria, and one little girl, year
and half old, died few days ago, and
a boy three years old died the same
night. Another was not expected to
live, but the other three are getting bet
ter. In the family of George Warner,
/ Sr.. two DAUGHTERS died last FRIDAY. and