The Northern Pacific farmer., 1884-02-14
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

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Articles Of incorporation have been fled for
the Mississippi Water Power and Boom com.
pany at the state capitol with capital stock Of
$4,000 and q limit of liability, $lOO, geo. The
principal place Of business is Brainerd This
|incorporators are @. +. Kindred, g. g. Hart
ley, E. r.. French, W. H BARLEY, W. E. -seelye,
J. NJ Nevers, B. +. Hartley, F. B. Thompson,
+ F. Lum and g. B. Sleeper, all Of Brainerd.
Land company, to deal in lands and to negotiate
loans, with headquarters at Fergus Falls and a
capital stock of $25, 900, with The limit of La
biities of $10,0 600. The incorporators are
James Compton, G. G. Waraela, A. Braden:
Brown and G. G. Clement, all of Fergus Falls
Also articles of the Northwestern Endowment
and Legacy association. of Minnesota. The
principal place of business is Red Wing and
the object the mutual protection and relief Of
members.
The following schedules of teachers insti-
tutes has been arranged for March: Insaniti,
Cambridge, March 10; Lyon, Marshall, March
10; Lyon, Marshall, March 10; Olmstead, Roch-
ester March II; Kandiyohi, Wilmar, March "a;
Mower, Austin, March "a; jackson,
Hennepn % n Excelsior March e;'S 81 Ste7ens i Nor,
ris, March 81.
uo btdIS CCuGIu1 COuulUCcC OI Iu0 IIOulD-
ton party has called convention to meet Feb.
22d in each of the congressional districts, as
follows: First district Dodge Center; Second
district, Lake Crystal; Third district, Red
Wing; Fourth district, Minneapolis; Fifth dis
trict Fergus Falls The object Of these meet
lngs is to discuss the general condition Of the
work and to act upon reports of committees on
resolutions, on the more thorough organization
of towns and counties, and on Prohibition cele-
brations on the Fourth of July. They will per-
feet the organization of the districts by the ap-
pointment of a central committee, and elect
twenty delegates to state conference, subject
pose of choosing delegates to the national con-
vention, to be held in Pittsburg in May. These
will be mass meetings of all prOhibitionists who
favor independent political action.
The Marquis de Mores has purchased the
Drake Arctic stores, in St Paul, to be added to
his system of packing houses for dressed
meats and cold storage goods The consider
alton paid was $3.50 These buildings will
be used for keeping meats, principally to sup
ply steaks and outlets to hotels, etc.
The stockholders Of the Bank of Ortonville
have decided to increase their capitol stock to
$50, 600, and merge the same into national
bank The officers under the new dispensation
will be: President Albert Scheffer of St. Paul !;
vice president, c. X. Orton; cashier G. E.
Brooks.
Mrs. Cults, arrested in Northfe]d, charged
with killing the illegitimate child of her daugh-
ter, has been held for trial in $500 bonds.
John L. Erickson, young man about twenty
years of age was found dead in his bed at his
home at Prairie Greek.
l. A Davis, who attempted suicide in Crook
ston recently, by shooting himself in the head,
is recovering.
One hundred and forty-six deaths out of As
in Otter Tail county lastyearwere from diph-
liberia.
The Merchants and Farmers National bank
of Shakopee with cash capital of $50, 600, was
organized in Shakopee, and the following are
the directors and officers Of the institution: J.
B. Coulter, president; Mat Berens, Jr, vice
president; John NJ shwartz, cashier 'Direc-
tors, John Jacaeknicke of Louisville township;
John Theis, Sand Creek; Valentine. ZOller
Jacob Spinck, H. H. Kohls, Michael Shwartz,
of Shakopee This bank was remodeled from
the German American bank of Shakopee, Or
ganized as private bank July, 1883, with a
capital of $25,000
The residence of E. Rackliff of Maple Lake,
was destroyed by fire Wednesday, the 9Th inst,
J. H. Past, the only occupant at the time, was
atso Duiueu. LIS CAaA !Su !SiAdiIs "oAo Aounu
where sleeping when Mr.. Rackliff and wife
left him, short time previous when they went
to spend the evening at a neighbours.
A petition asking for the appointment of a
grain inspector for each county is being pre-
pared for presentation to the governor
Jeremiah Meacham, an old and respected
citizen of Red Wing died on the 7th inst, aged
sixty-four years.
P W. McAllister of Howard Lake has made
an assignment, with liabilities of $4, 600.
Louis Kriegher, an old and we'll known citi-
zen of St. Paul died on the 9Th inst, of dropsy.
postoffice has been established on the north
shore of Mile Lacs Lake to be called Mile
Lacs, with Mrs. Mary J. Garrison postmistress.
The mails are to be brought by special service
from Brainard, twenty two miles distant
The wife of Herman Ollin of Buffalo went to
visit her parents They would not allow her
to return home, and Henry secured her upon
q writ of habeas corpus.
Hugh Connolly, sheriff of Dakota county, adds
four to Warden Reeds charge at Saltwater as
follows: Robert Gray, larceny from the per-
con, three months; Robert Evans, larceny
from the person eighteen months; George
!. ,GlAEk. anA Fred Earle each one year for lar
& The pay rolls arc bsing made up for thsstate
militia who served during the Saltwater trouble
which win be sub1aisted . The Governor upon
his retzarn from. the East L The enecessary cash
viii likely be drawn from the natonA gpAr1