River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-20

largely in the importation Of teas from Chi
ma and Japan had scarcely got started onits
travels before rumors sprung up that the
Northern Pacific was likely to pass under
the control of another corporation. For a
while possible combination between the
Chicago, Burlington a Quincy and the
Northern Pacific was talked about. Next
it was the Rock Island that wanted the
Northern Pacific, and nov come intimations
that Jay Gould has lately been
a large holder of the securities of that road,
with a 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 i'll
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 q
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 18th of
August, 1885, the ship 'Isabel'' from Yoke
hama, Japan, arrived at Tacoma, W. T.,
with "a cargo of -, 475 half chests of Japan
tea consigned to st. Paul, Chicago aud 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 1000 half chests at
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 its agents i'll 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 Notonly 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, a large proportion of
the Rocky mountain species left toward the
east and southeast.
Commissioner of Statistics Nordin, of
Minnesota, has completed his comparative
tables of the wheat corn, oats, barley and
flax seed crops for 1884 and the acreage for
1885. The acreage for wheat shows slight
increase over last year, being 3,1Sl, 81
against 3,l09,S74 sacres, gain of u,791
acres. The acreage devoted to oats is
1854 greater than last year; corn, S9,9f3;
barley, 1855; flaxseed, l., 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 a few
have fallen off.
When deputy Sheriff Dow entered thee 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 have
escaped had Dow not locked the door of the
cell-room and thrown the keys through the
grated door when entering. All the prison
ers, including Miller, the murderer, inten-
ded to escape. Sheriff jerks heard the
groans of Dow and rushed in, driving the
prisoners back into the cells with his revol-
yer.
Conrad Krez, the new collector of Gus
toms at Milwaukee, has taken possession of
his office He telegraphed to Washington
that he preferred not to take the office until
September, but a peremptory order was
sent back directing him to take charge at
once. Krez has appointed as his subordin-
ates Jefferson Kuehn, deputy, salary
81, 800; NJ Almv Aldrich, newspaper CORE
spondent, appraiser of the port, salary
LOCO; C. T. Noonan, deputy, salary $1,000;
II. J. Hogan, deputy, salary 81 per day,
Brit Mickey, Geo. Merriam and Geo.
Mabey of Lake City, three young men
about 20 years old, were arrested in
Madison, Wis, charged with stealing Sl02
from r. f. Mickey, father of Brit. 1t was
shown that the Mickey boy did the stealing
and treated the others to an excursion.
Young Mickey was handed over to his
father for trial at home and the others were
released.
Geo. Rice, attorney general of Dakota, in
looking over the census returns al Bismarck
the other day discovered that he was re
corded as a bastard" The record was
made by the enumerators, Z. W. Pettigrew,
brother of Frank Pettigrew of Sioux Falls
between whom and Rice there is bitter
fued. Rice proposes toprosecute Petigrew
civilly aud criminally
H. A. Fritz, the absconding agent of the
American Express company and the
Chicago Milwaukee a. st. Paul railroad
at New Albin, Ia, has been captured, aud
placed in the Jail at Waukon. He was
held under 5000 bonds, but being unable
to procure bail was lodged in Jail to await
the action of the grand jury
VIM. H. Merrick, of Anoka, shot and
killed Peter Grass in that town at an early
hour on Sunday He was drunk and shot
Grass without provocation, having no ac-
quaintance with him. Merrick is in jail, he
is printer and worked on the Minneapolis
Evening Journal
The large grocery house of Dugas & Wood
at Eau Claire, Wis, has been closed by
the foreclosure of chattel mortgage. The
claim is not considered genuine by some
creditors Other claims are pressing the
firm of Dugas & Rillette, West side grocers.
1t is reported that the Minnesota & North
western, the new line built from the South
ern part of the state to st Paul has been
sold to the Illinois Central As the connec-
tions of the road are with the Illinois Cen
trail this is deemed probable.
Three trains of tea passed over the
Northern Pacific road from Tacoma TO
st. Paul a few days ago. Each train con
sisted of sixteen cars and each car had ten
tons. Ii is the first direct shipment from