River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-16
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.

Land Commissioner Sparks has rendered
a decision atlrmingthe right Of entry under
the public land laws, and decisions of the
supreme court of the United States OF lands
heretofore withdrawn by the voluntary ac-
ton of the general land office for railroad
indemnity purposes, where no requirements
of law existed for making such withdraw
ais The effect of this decision, if sustained
by the secretary of the interior, viii be to
restore to entry under the homestead and
other laws many millions of acres of public
lands which have been kept out of the mar
bet for many years because claimed by
railroad corporations.
The St Paul directory man is now out
with his figures, only one day behind the
Minneapolis directory man. The st. Paul
directory has 1880 names or only 290 less
than Minneapolis. This is gain of i23l
since last year. The St. Paul man takes p
as his multiple of population, and thus fig
ures out a population of 10000 Taking
the multiple Of , 40 which is adopted by
Minneapolis it makes the population of St
Paul lis, 962 against 19,495 for Minneapolis
These are the directory figures and the
state census figures are yet to be heard
from.
Stockholders of St. Paul, Brainard &
Northwestern have elected the following
board of directors f. F. Buxton, Mime
apolis: j. r. Howe, W. f. Seelye 6, S.
Garfield. O. H. Harille. F. B Thompson
and f. E. Webster of Brainard. The Of
ficers elected are: President, Z. F. Buxton :;
vice president, W f. Seelye; treasurer,
f. E. Webster; Secretary, +. b. Thomp-
son.
Secretary Manning has rescinded his
order requiring grain and merchandise
shipped from this country through
Canada to pay a duty Such an order if
damage to the Northwest as wheat could
not have been sent through the Welland
canal without paying duty.
Judge Mcconnell in charging the grand
jury at Fargo said there were serious
charges against the land officers at Devil 5
Lake d. r., and urged their investigation.
One Of the charges is that one Of the officers
is interested in the newspaper which pub
fishes the advertisements of the land Of
fee
The Sunday storm which caused such a
terrible disaster at Lake Minnetonka, did a
good deal of damage in Meeker county and
also at Duluth Rice and Olmsted counties
MINI. were also touched, and in a portion
of the latter county the storm was a regu-
lar cyclone, destroying many buildings.
The senate subcommittee on Indian af-
fairs is about to visit Dakota to inquire into
the troubles arising from the opening
of the Winnebago reservation in ac-
cordance with ex-President Arthur's order,
which has recently been revoked by Presi-
dent Cleveland.
At the annual meeting Of the Dakota
Midland, held in Glendale last week, Ran
dolph Holding was elected president; j. A.
Scott, vice president; A. A. Handy, secre-
tary, and T. W. Milham treasurer. r. f.
Kirk was the only new director elected.
Joseph F. Townsend of Mount Pleasant.
Wabashaw county, Mimi, was driving home
from Lake City Wednesday night with his
ten year old boy when he encountered q
food in a ravine which swept the wagon
from the road and drowned the boy.
Sacred Heart. Mimi, has suffered a
severe loss by the burning of Schyau &
Listernd's hardware store together with
Stenson q RamstuGds general store and
several other buildings.
The Patriarchal Circle, a secret organ
ization composed Of Oddd Fellows has been
holding its annual session at St. Paul.
There were 1900 Patriarchs in attendance.
a cyclone visited Wright Co. Mimi, on
the sth and did good dea of damage
about five miles from Monticello. There
were no fatalities.
Cantieny the Minneapolis man who muir
dered officer Laughlin has been denied a
new trial and goes to ,he penitentiary for
seven years.
The wife of William H Grimshaw, an
architect of Minneapolis, has obtained a
divorce on the ground Of adultery
c. W. Sanders, a prominent lumberman
at Duluth, has been arrested for cutting
timber on government land.
Two hundred men who have been
" orking on the water works at Wapheton
d. T, are on a strike.
The new Minneapolis directory has 49, 20
names and they claim a population Of 10000
on that basis,
Felix E. Stacy, brick mason fell from a
scaffolding in Minneapolis on the 10th and
,,-os l-iIla5