River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-01-07
NoRrHMEsrERN NEWS.


The land commissioner of the Northern
Pacific, reports sales of land made by his
department during the month of December
of %, ls9 acres for s93,913 against 29,376
acres sold during December, 1854 The
total sales for the six months ending Dec.
81 were 295, lS2 acres for $S1O,5i5, against
l5g, 43j acres for SI9l, asa sold during the
corresponding time of the year before. The
sales made during the past six months
were divided as follows: Minnesota and
Dakota, 10000 acres; Montana, 44,4l0;
Washington and Oregon, ~, l12.
Insurance Commissioner Spooner of Mad
isoB, Wis, has commenced suits against
the Oakland Home Insurance of California,
the Commercial of California, and the New
Orleans Insurance association, for trans
acting business in Wisconsin without
license. The penalty prescribed by law for
the offense Is 500 per month during the
time business is carried ON without a license
aud the suits now brought are to compel
the payment from each company of $4,000
accumulated penalties.
Columbus b. Chambers, a we'll known
citizen of Duluth, Minnesota, has mysteri-
Ously disappeared. On the 3lst ult., he
went away from his house and has not
been seen since. He left his watch and
pocket book and his wife found note in
his coat reading: Where the pines sigh,
there Nudli j DE- DuiN liAc AntIt YOU Aiiiu
me" Search is being made in the woods
for him He was not financially embarass-
ed aud had happy home.
A murder occurred at Devils Lake ID. L.
on New Years eve. William Oswald, shot
aud killed Patrick McWeenly in a saloon.
Oswald was drunk and when McWeenly
came in applied an opprobrious epithet TO
New eenly who promptly Knocked nm
down whereupon Oswald fired three shots
{ of xrbieh ura fatal in five miuHfpS
| McWeenly leaves young wife TO whom
[ he was married about year ago. Oswald
was noted as a tough rough and dangerous
/ when drunk,
/ John R. Raymond died at Fargo, ID. T.,
/ the Sd, after an illness OF five days, his
/ attack being typhoid pneumonia. Mr..
RAYMOND was appointed U. >. marshal for
| Dakota in lS71 and located at Fargo. He was
/ subsequently elected delegate TO congress.
serving for two years. He leaves a sou
I aud two daughters, his wife having died in
/ Washington year ago.
The Dakota Loan and Trust company
4 has been organized at WATERFOWL, ID. T.,
/ with capital of s5OOOOO. r. W Thomas
/ is president and general manager, and A.
\ &. Mellette treasurer. Judge Church of
/ Huron is one of the directors.
Abram Generous Of Maple Grove,
Hennepin Co., returning home from
| Anoka Wednesday, being unable from
drink to manage his horses, drove OFF a
/ narrow bridge across a rayine, and was
killed.
| Julius Duel, editor OF the st. Croix Post,
! a prosperous German paper, died on the
[ Both at Orlando, Florida, where he had gone
I for his health He was educated aud
/ acquired the printing trade at Saltwater.
December 3lst Judge Wescott Wilkin
! celebrated the twenty first anniversary of
4 his election as District Court Judge of Ram
sey County. Since his first election he has
+ been chosen without opposition.
During 1885 the railroad companies have
/ expended 81, JOO,O 600 at st. Paul, the street
/ car company Sl35,OO0, the gas light com
1 pany $4,000, and the electric light COM
I pany s3O0OJ, III improvements
The first through train to Chicago. over
1 the North Western Centreville route, left
/ Eankton, Dec. 30, and hereafter one
I through, and two local trains, will be run
ON that line.
/ Rev T. NJ. Gossard, formerly promin-
] ent clergyman in Minnesota, died in Cali,
| foFnia few days ago, where he had gone
/ for his health.
1t has been decided to bury ex-Represen-
tative Raymond of Fargo d. T., beside his
wife in the Congressional cemetery at
/ Washington.
! The Anoka National Bank shows earnings
I of s., 900 for the last six months, and hall
yearly dividend of per cent. has been
I declared.
Gov. Millette ald Senators Moody
and EdgeFton have gone 20 Wash
ington TO urge the admission OF Dakota.
Farmers at Luverne were blowing all OF
the last week of December, and one seeded
a tract of land to timothy.
Francis Baasen, the first Secretary OF
State i'll Minnesota has been appointed
postmaster at New Ulm.
A meeting Of the Minnesota State Dairy
| mems Association is TO be held at Albert
Lea, February &
About thousand men haze come out ei
the pineries and are. quartered at Chippe-
wa Falls, Wis.
On the 3Oth, at Aurora, Dakota, the
farmers were blowing, narrowing, and
cutting sod.
Judge Smith who was recently removed
from the bench in Dakota is reported Il
be insane
10 schulein, olothieg at Qwatonna has as
signed, with liabilities amounting t.
$1,000.
The new court house at Fargo, costing
$4,000. will be dedicated Jan. (.