Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-05

!, w EDNE ESDAY, AUGUST
1.-THE president, upon my recommenda
tion. am in favor of it. Kansas, Ne
braska and Iowa are thus consolidated
and we rather think Wyoming ought to b
added to it.''
There is also understood to be under con
stderation a sheme to consolidate lant
offices in some Western states. The frs
state to undergo redistricting is Wiscon
sin, and Nebraska will follow. The number
of Dakota land Offices cannot we'll be re
duced. Every land Office in the territory
is maximum Office except one, and tina
Office comes within three cents of it
Watertown, Fargo, Yankton, Bismarck
DeadwoOd, Grand Forks, Aberdeen, Huron
and DEVILS Lake all receive fees enough tx
bring up the salary of register and receiver
ship to 5000 for each. The salary a,
Mitchell is s9,9999ss. 81 to each official. Th<
Minnesota salaries are as follows:
Taylor's Falls. .$79s Worthington. 81 ,59l
Ct. Cloud. ......2, 2,64s Tracy. ......... 1,73::
Duluth: .......2,852 Benson. ........ 2,91!
Fergus Falls. &, 900 Redwood ...... 2,05]
= The Wisconsin land offices have the fol
lowing salaries:
Menasha.. 80. 81, ,14 La Crosse. 81 ,104
St. Croix Falls. 1,Ol6 Bayfield,. ....... n:
Wausau. 1909 Eau Claire..... l, 70:
The Nebraska offices are all maximum
except Beatrice, which pays 1888, and
Lincoln, which pays $1,2O1. The offices al
Niobrara, Grand Island, North Platte
Bloomington, Valentine and McCook al
pay 5000. The Montana offices are all
maximum but that at Bozeman, which pays
s2,14S. Helena and Miles City do a much
larger business. In all these offices quite q
little is made in fees that are not required
to be reported. Fees from 81 to 81 arr
charged for diagrams showing unoccupied
lands in the district: Is cents per 10(
words is charged for copies of testi
mony, and fee of 81 is required in con
tests for the notes of the final cancellation
In some Dakota offices these fees have
amounted to as much in some cases as the
regular salaries.
RECENT APPOINTMENTS.
The following postmasters have been
commissioned: E. +. Dorlval, Caledonia
Mimi; J. F. Quinlan, LIE Sueur Center
Minn.; j. N. Hooper, Mabel, Mimi
C. F. Helgenback, at Canning, d. T..
vice Redick, removed; L. NJ. Cane, al
Cavour, D. T., vice G. NJ. Cane, deceased
The president has appointed NJ. D.
McHenry to be receiver Of public moneys
at Des Moines, Ia., and Joseph N. Monroe
t1be internal revenue collector for the
Sixth district of Wisconsin.
Oscar Malmras, consul at Leith will be
retained Notwithstanding the change OF
administration. Mr.. Malmras is a
Minnesotian.
Samuel De Wolf has been appointed
postmaster at Rochester, Minn., vice
Joseph H. Wagner suspended.
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
The usual weekly, semi-weekly and tri
weekly report of heavy storms has
storm wave visited Wisconsin, Minnesote
and Dakota the 26th, 9th, 2Sth and 29th
each day increasing in violence until the
29th seemed to be the crowning effort Of
the week. 1t would be difficult to report
the damage in detail and it is scarcely
necessary as it is q continuation of what
has been so constantly reported, viz
buildings unroofed, trees and chimneys
blown down, grain lodged and oc
casionally casualties of more or less seri
BUSINESS. A good deal of damage to grai1
is also reported by lodgment and beating
down. Detroit, Warren, Audubon, Moore
head and Hawley, Minn., report especially
heavy damage, while Fergus Falls
Northfeld, Austin, Lake City, Winona anG
light grade. All through northern Dakota
the storm Of the Goth swept doing serious
damage. In Wisconsin, Roberts, New
Richmond and Lacrosse send up storm re
ports. All Southern Wisconsin seems tt
have been touched by the breath of a cy
clone.
About o'clock on the morning of the Sd
W. r. Merriam, President of the Merchant:
National bank st. Paul, heard a noise il
his residence, and upon lighting the gas hi
was confronted by a masked burglar who
pointed a revolver at him and told him il
he moved he would shoot him. The burglar
then proceeded to take Mr.. Merriam's
watch, his diamond studs from his shir
and what money he had in his clothes, af
ter which he walked out of the front door
keeping the revolver pointed at Mr.. Mer
riam until he was we'll out of doors. Be
fore he encountered Mr.. Merriam he hac
ransacked an upper room occupied by Mr.
Merriam's mother-in-law, and upon hel
attempting an outcry had seized her wrists
and threatened her life if she did not keel
still.
The ,land sales of the Northern Pacif'
Railroad company for the month of July
were g, $50 acres for $751; ,2lO, against 1851
acres for sl34, ,9S9 for July of the preceding
year, an increase of sales of 1860 acres
The number of acres sold in each state wa
as follows:
DaKota.: a.:.''.'...''...'.... ~, ~ acres
Minnesota ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $3.50 acres
Montana........ ...............11,S6 1863 acres
Washington Territory ......... S,56 acres
Total. Observation-Disclosures. .3S, $50 acres
The sales in all instances were made TO
actual settlement.
The property of the defunct Minnesot
Elevator company was sold at auction il
Red Wing on the 2Sth, the elevators an
property belonging thereto, except on
warehouse in kellogg. The property il
Eau Claire and the personal propert
about the Wabasha elevator sold to MI
n. J. O'Neill of Winona for $4,000 TIL
personal property about the Wabash
elevator was sold to B. H. Langley TO
$3.50. A certificate of membership i
the Minneapolis chamber of commerce wa
sold to Mr. L. R. Brooks for S251.
A burglar entered the residence of Vic<
President Oakes of the Northern Pacific, i
st. Paul, at an early hour Sunday mor1
ing. Mr.. Oakes heard the fellow and prt
ceeding to investigate they met at a doo1
way and clinched. Mr.. Oakes was unarn
ed but the burglar had revolver and fire
twice at Mr.. Oakes during the scufle, br
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