Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-11-12
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.

The council of Wlnona is after the
gamblers.
PRAIRIE fires have been raging around
GAINESVILLE.
MOOSE are said to be plenty near
Chengwatena.
AT Emerson there are 600 head of
cattle in quarantine.
CONSIDERABLE wine is manufactured
in Jackson County from wild grapes.
ALL the Minneapolis saw-mills will
be shut down in less than two weeks.
A LITTLE son of Mrs. Demeules of
Sank Rapids drank a half pint of kero-
sene oil, but it didn't kill him.
JOSEPH MAsANz, of Delano, planted
a half bushel of artichokes on less than
one-tenth of an acre of land and har-
vested crop of fifty bushels.
The grand jury of Polk County have
examined the charges made by State
Examiner Knox against Auditor Nc
Guire, and find that his accounts are all
right.
A BURGLAR who attempted to rob
Joy & Co.'s store in Morristown was
scared away by shot from a gun in the
hands of the watchman, leaving a fine
set of tools.
K. T. MODEM, restaurant proprietor
at st. Peter, has disappeared, leaving a
profitable business and considerable
property. Fear of arrest for bigamy is
said to have prompted his action.
DURING two days, recently, 1000
acres Of land, supposed to contain silver,
were located in townships 64 and IS,
range 6, st. Louis County. Some of
Duluth's wealthy citizens are interested
in the scheme.
HATTIE j. BALsTER, of Minneapolis,
has sued Arthur McMullen for breach
of promise. Arthur has already patched
Hattie's lacerated feelings with $1,000
coin of the realm, but Hattie thinks
$4,000 more will be necessary to make
them as good as new.
The new Manitoba passenger depot
and eating house at Barnesville, built
last fall, and now nearly completed, is
one of the largest and finest between
st. Paul and Winnipeg. It is nearly
200 feet long, two stories high, with bay
windows fronting the main track on the
west and surrounded with large YER
anda.
AVERY interesting council was recent
ly held between Chief Moosedung and
Prof. Painter and Hon. Knute Nelson
concerning the opening of the reserva-
tion. The chief said that nearly all the
Indians we're in favor of selling their
land, as hunting was poor and they
could do nothing else, as they had no
implements to farm with. Prof. Painter
was fully convinced that it was for the
best interests of the Indians to sell
their land.
DAKOTA.
A NATIONAL bank is to be established
at Rapid City.
Ten thousand acres of timber land
have been destroyed by the fire at
Sturgis.
A HUTCHINSON COUNTY farmer raised
260 bushels of fax on sixteen acres of
ground.
FAULKToN has doubled in size since
last June, and now contains eight hun
dred people.
MITCHELL wants cheese factory, and
thinks she could furnish the milk from
one thousand COWS for one.
LARGE quantities of Sioux Falls
granite are being shipped to Grinnell,
Ia., to be used in the construction of the
college library building,
In some of the public schools in Da-
kota the pupils are given lessons in the
popular method of conducting political
conventions and holding elections.
MRS. G.. w. HARLAN, of Canton, is
preparing for the New Orleans exposi-
tion a mammoth wreath, made of the
flowers and grasses of the territory.
A MAN in Waterbury, the other day,
laid down his coat and an inquisitive
bovine nosed out wallet containing
$165 and swallowed the wallet and
greenbacks.
A FINE residence is being built for
the warden of the Sioux Falls peniten-
tiary, but citizens regret that it's loca-
tion is such as to mar the front eleva-
ton of the prison.
JOSEPH LE1THEsER was found dead
beside the road between his farm and
Br1dgewater. He started to walk to
town in the morning, and it is supposed
he fell dead of apoplexy.
DAKOTA papers are advertising for q
young boy of Kalamazoo, Mich, named
George Maurice Yurnn, who left his
home August 3. His mother is q widow
and lives at 715 Milard Street, Kalama-
zoo.
SEVERAL wealthy citizens of Redfelc
offer to erect $4,000 courthouse fol
Sphinx County if the county seat ii
removed thither. The city will donate
lot of seven and half acres for the
same purpose.
i THERE was double wedding at Glen
coe, in Emmons County, recently, and
about all the high joints for twenty
; miles around shared the festivities and
danced all night. It was the second
wedding that had been celebrated in
the county.
A NUMBER of Dakota papers are ad
! vising the> farmers to use the bowldert
which are found on the orests of mounds
and the borders of coolies for house
, building. With plenty of mortar, s
substantial wall can be put up without
great expense. A house thus built
would be warm in winter and cool ir
summer.
,, The granite wall, angles and bays o]
Bishop Hare's Cathedral college, al
Sioux Falls, are growing slowly, solidly
and beautifully. The masons are nov
laying the jasper blocks well up TOWARD
the second floor above the basement
This superb improvement will be in
closed before work on it for the winter
,, is suspended.
MRS. BILLINGS, who recently died in 1
shack at Pierre, and was buried at tn
> county's expense, was not long sine
worth $4,000 in her own right, Will
her husband had about as much more
All this money was lost in speculation
in Chicago, and when adversely cam,
the husband and wife separated. Mr.
: Billings is said to be living at Blunt.
. SCENE at the White House, 1885,
!, Servant Mrs. President, there's biz
8 whiskered-man at the door to see you.
> President LOCKWOOD -"Good gracious
; and my hair still on tins! Who is he?
S0rV0nt-"DUDuO. YOUR ExceuencV