Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-19

agricultural and manufacturing industries
OF the country and which still continues. /
have directed the issue OF commission to
iRssnire into the causes of this depression
ed by legislation. During the past session
your time has been principally occupied by
the enlargement of the electoral and exten-
sive changes which you have in consequence
made in the constitution of the house of
commons. / earnestly trust that these
efficiency of parliament and may add to
contentment among my people. It is my
purpose before long to seek their counsel by
a dissolution of parliament. pray the
blessing of God may be upon their extend
ed liberties and that the members who are
called upon to exercise new powers will use
them with the sobriety and discernment
which have for so long period marked the
history of this nation.
NORTHWESTEKN NEWS.
The N. Y, Times of the 18th contains the
following; Stories regarding the future of
the Northern Pacific railroad follow each
other in rapid succession. The report that
the Northern Pacific was about to engage
largely in the importation of teas from Chi
ma and Japan had scarcely got started on it's
travels before rumors sprung up that the
Northern Pacific was likely to pass under
the control of another corporation. For
while possible combination between the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the
Northern Pacific was talked about. Next
it was the Rock Island that wanted the
Northern Pacific, and now come intimations
that Jay Gould has lately been
a large holder of the securities of that road,
with view to involving the property in
some scheme of his own. The trip now be-
ing made by President Gable on the Rock
Island, over the Northern Pacific road and
its branches, has given some color to the
reports that the Rock Island is about to ac-
quire the Northern Pacific There are also
any number of plausible reasons
why the first-named road should
desire to control the other one.
This subject was discussed very freely in
Wall street to-day, and many inquiries
were made by persons anxious to ascertain
the facts. Nothing definite could be ascer-
tanned, and in well-informed railroad cir
cles the impression prevailed that if there
was any consolidation or deal on foot it
was being managedvery quietly. The gen.
eral manager of the Rock Island was
quoted as saying that the story connecting
that road with the Northern Pacific was
romance.
A new era in the trade of st. Paul and
Minnesota was developed last week in the
shape of direct importations of tea by the
car load from Japan. The P. II. Kelly
Mercantile company, of st. Paul, inaugur-
ated this enterprise, and on the 9TH of
August, 1885, the ship ''Isaber' from Yoko-
hama, Japan, arrived at Tacoma, W. T.,
with a cargo of %, AS half chests of Japan
tea consigned to St. Paul, Chicago and New
York. This is the first importation Of teas
over the Northern Pacific railroad, and not
only opens up a new route, for this mer-
chandise, surprising all others in economy
and rapidity of transit, but makes St. Paul
the primary market for distributing teas
throughout all the western and most of the
northern states. Beside large shipments
which they made to the eastern markets,
the Kelly Mercantile company received
one entire train load of 4, 900 half chests at
| their establishment in st. Paul. The
halcyon day for the tea drinker of the very
best article for small amount of money,
| has arrived.
! Owing to the rumors of injury by grass
hoppers in parts of Montana, the signal
bureau has, at Prof. Riley's request, in
structed it's agents in the Northwest to tele=
graph at once observations of injury or
movements instead of sending them
monthly as heretofore. Prof. Riley also
sent an agent to the field whose reports
confirm previous statements. Not only are
there large numbers of this destructive
Rocky mountain species at work, but the
common native and migratory species are
also much more numerous than usual. AT
Fort Buford and Poplar river agency the
locusts are very abundant and are damag,
ing the crops. On July Goth, during the
middle of the day, large proportion OF
the Rocky mountain species left toward the
east and southeast.
Commissioner of Statistics Nordin, ol
Minnesota, has completed his comparative
tables of the wheat corn, oats, barley and
fax seed crops for 1884 and the acreage fol
1885, The acreage for wheat shows slight
increase over last year, being $751; ,671
against 3,1O9814 ::acres, a gain Of 71,79i
acres. Tne acreage devoted to oats il
1884 greater than last year; corn, SO, 9443
barley, 1856: faxseed, IL, 733; the latter be
ing nearly 100 per cent increase. The in
creased acreage is confined to no one sec
tlon of the state, but there have been small
additions in most counties, though few
have fallen of.
When deputy Sheriff Dow entered the cal
room of the county Jail at Grand Forks
Dakota on Sunday, four prisoners attacked
overpowered and threw him to the floor
took his revolver from him and would hav
escaped had Dow not locked the door Of tn
cell-room and thrown the keys through tn
, grated door when entering. All the prison
ers, including Miller the murderer. inten
ded to escape. Sheriff jerks heard tn
, groans of Dow and rushed in, driving tn
prisoners back into the cells with his revol
yer.
: Conrad Krez, the new collector of Gus
toms at Milwaukee, has taken possession Q
. his Office. He telegraphed to Washington
, that he preferred not to take the Office unit
September, but peremptory order wa
sent back directing him to take charge a
/ once. Krez has appointed as his subordir
b ates jefferson Kuehn, deputy, salar
5 1,sOO; NJ. Almv Aldrich, newspaper corrt
:. spondent, appraiser of the port, salar
i $1,000: C. T. Noonan: deputy, salary 1850
: NJ. J. Hogan, deputy, salary $4per da,
VIM. d. Merrick, Of Anoka, shot an
+ killed Peter Grass in that town at an earl
hour on Sunday. He was drunk and she
t Grass without provocation, having no a
= quaintance with him. MerHck is in jail,
l. is a printer and worked on the Minneapol
y Evening Journal.
l It is reported that the Minnesota 4 Eort'
western, the new line built from the Soutl
= ern part of the state to st Paul has bee