The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-01-19

Tie snow pillow and force of abou:
200 men are st work opening The
Browns Valley branch of the Man
itoba.
The roads being otherwise impass.
able the remains of Mrs. Carlson,
Inferred last Saturday, were broug hs
to the cemetery Oh toboggan.
BORN-To Mr.. and Mrs. e. w.
Randall on Monday night boy. CT
gars and congratulations are the order
of the day.
Mrs. J. c. Campbells mother died
recently and was buried in the ceme-
terry at this place yesterday after
noon. Deceased was ninety years old
Wood dealers have hard work this
week getting at cars which could not
be moved and were loaded with wood
for them.
The Manitoba branch from Benson
to Waterfowl has been abandoned;
and all employees on that branch ex-
cepting the road master and the Wa
tertown and Appleton agents have
been laid off until the road reopens in
the spring.
The railroad yard is the busiest
place about town at present and has
been since the storm. Besides the
main track one side track has been
cleaned aud gravel train with a
large crew of men is now engaged
in hauling the snow away.
A rotary plow of the n. P. Ry. is
boring its way to Morris over the L.
F. 4 ID. branch, travelling with more
effectiveness and greater rapiditY
th, n any other plow invented. 1t
will be greeted by large crowd to
see this wonderful machine work its
way through the ponlerous drifts on
the road approaching Morris.
Village election occupies good
share of general discussion. The
''straws that show which way the
wind blows" are beginning to move.
and SO are vitally interested citizens
alto beginning to move with painful
anxiety. "What shall the morrow
TUESDAY, March 49, bring! is moot
ed question
On Thursday John F. Hplbe started
from Morris for his home in Potsdam
township. a distance of sixteen miles.
1t is reported that his team has been
found frozen to death and that Hoibe
is missing. No reliable account o;
the affair has yet reached this Office
and we give the report for what it is
worth.
Several weeks ago, Miss Carlson,
who was employed at the Central
house hotel, was taken sick with
typhoid fever; aud her mother came
from Wheeler Station to care for her
daughter, as it proved, at the cost of
her own life. For as the daughter
recovered the elder lady was stricken
down with the same disease and after
oaly short illness died at the Cent
raj house last Wednesday afternoon.
The funeral took place last Saturday
afternoon attended by the friends Of
the deceased.
w. j. Munro went to Little Falls
| last Wednesday to meet his brother
| Geo, H., who was ON his way to Mon
tana. The former left Little Falls
on his return home the same day but
| when he arrived at Cyrus the. storm
was SO terrific that he feared the
train would not be able to reach Nor
ris and he did not venture further.
To his great disappointment, how
| ever, the train arrived here on time
but has not made trip since, and
Mr.. Munro was sojourner at Cyrus
until Sunday, when Frank Zahl, who
undertook the trip with a livery rig,
brought him to town.
Late in the afternoon on Thursday
last John Reckelberg, who is emplyed
by Wm.F. Miller, started with team
of the latter's for his home at Don.
nelly. He had not gone many miles
on his way when the terrible storm Of
that day increased so that he lost the
road. He then left the team standing
on the praiIie to find the track, intend
ing to return to them again. But at
ter he found the road he was unable
to get the team, and after futile
search he started for Donnelly reach
ing there through the binding storm
at about ten o'clock that night. The
next day the team was discovered on
the prairie, frozen to death. The
team was valuable one, and the loss
is severe one to Mr.. Miller.
DonnelIy Items
Miss frankie Tosney and Mrs. j.