Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-07-24
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.


| There are eight cases of smallpox in
Otter Tail county.
Total receipts at Crookston land office
last year were $57 ,222.
A bridge will soon be built across the
Mississippi river at Royalton.
The blueberry crop of Northern Min
nesota is declared to be a complete fail
ure.
E. w. Dayton was arrested at Bird
Island on a charge of having forged
pension papers.
The Albert Lea Ministers association
has decided to have all violaters of the
Sunday law arrested.
Veterans at Blue Earth City voted not
to attend the Milwaukee encampment
without 1-cent-a-mile fare.
The Minneapolis police commission in
vestigating charges against Superlntend-
ent Bracket have exonerated him.
Spring Valley young men have petit
toned the adjutant general for permis-
1ion to form a militia company.
Labor Commissioner Lamb is in the
Vermillion mining region investigating
the recent accidents to workmen.
All lumber business at Rice's Lake is
stopped because the lumber dealers say
the assessors have saxed them too high.
Mrs. II. A. Hobart, President of the
State w. G. I. u, has issued call for
state convention at Duluth, Sept. 10,
II and 12.
c. S. Fulton, of Duluth, has received
official notification of his appointment
to the position of chief grain inspector
for Duluth.
The residents of Albert Lea are not
pleased with their chicken koop post
office" as they term it, and say they
will not patronize it.
The st. Croix boom has closed at Still
water on account of low water. 1t is es-
timated there are yet 75,OOO,O00 feet of
logs in the st. Croix river.
An Arab who is studying, at Carl
eton College, to be missionary spoke at
Mankato Sunday evening. He told
about the people of his country.
Three valuable horses belonging to A,
Brendemuhl were run over and killed
at Moorhead by train. One of them
was a trotter with record of 2:35.
Eight hundred tons of milled steel was
used in the ship "l02" launched at Du-
luth last week. She is 26O feet long.
She will carry 100, 600 bushels of grain.
The Heron Lake News says that st.
Paul and Minneapolis are ready to join
hands on just two things-horseracing
and 'hogging" all the federal appoint
ments.
An inmate of the poor house at Madi-
son has declined to receive a suit of
clothes offered him by the county on the
ground that he was not in the habit of
accepting charity.
Large numbers of settlers are passing
through Red Lake Falls daily en- route
for the Red Lake reservation. If emil
grafton continues the land will all be
squatted upon by September.
Snakes grow large in some parts of
Minnesota. A report has it that dead
snake twenty eight feet long, was found
in Geneva lake, near the town Of Geneva,
and that larger one has been seen near
there.
Editor Burns of The St. Paul Herald,
is after Thompson, of the Dispatch.
Burns claims Thompson is not natural
lied citizen, yet has been acting as no
tary public, for which Burns seeks a
warrant.
The prosecution in the cases of the
Saltwater aldermen and ex-aldermen
charged with malfeasance in office was
knocked out by the court on the ground
that the charges were vague and in
definite.
Emil Birkle, of Kenyon, has COM
menced suit in the district court against
the members of the village council for
S., 900 for causing to be posted in the
different saloons notices forbidding the
sale to him of intoxicating liquors.
The Roman Catholic sisterhood of the
White Earth reservation has ordered a
tombstone for the daughter of Chief
Hole-in.t the-Day. The stone is to bear
the inscription, "Rose, Daughter of Chief
Hole-in-the-Day, Died June 5, 1889, Aged
"a years"
The personal property valuation in
Goodhue county this year is 81, 112 ,S75,
about one-quarter of which amount rep
resents the Red Wing valuation. There
are over II 900 houses in the county,
and about 5000 COWS, 10000 hogs and
5000 sheep.
On the 10th of June Nils Strand, en-
ployed on the county surveyors staff at
Mud Lake, was bitten by a cat while
asleep at night in tent. He is now in
the hospital at Minneapolis, with every
manifestation of hydrophobia, and his
recovery is doubtful.
The government fleet is now at work
at the head of the Wisconsin channel,
about three miles above Red Wing, re-
pairing the damage done by the spring
high water to the dam. Operations will
soon commense at the head of Lake
Pepin, where some 100000 will be ex-
pended this season.
The colored Odd Fellows of the state
are making extensive arrangements for
their first of August celebration at Spring
Park, Lake Minnetonka. They will
have the grandest parade ever had by
the colored people in this state. Governor
Merriam has consented to review them
from the steps of the capitol.
The Duluth G. A. R. post has ap-
pointed committee to look about for
the best plan to build home for the
post: If the post goes it alone it will
probably expend $4,000 in a neat brick
structure, but if the city will help
handsome memorial hall and armory for
Company X, costing S25, 1000, will proba-
bly, be built.
According to the Minneapolis city di-
rectory, the city is losing population.
The name of Austin Secore this year
occurs on the 977th of the pages devoted
to names. Last year it was on the
1,0l5th page. This shows that there are
up to this point thirty EIGHT pages of
names less this year than last, and the
decrease of names, taking sixty to the
page, would thus be about 1890. At the
same ratio the decrease when the work
lis finished will approximate 2,640.
The Cologne Gazette publishes a dis
patch from st. Petersburg stating that
the czar has expressed the intention of
meeting Emperor William on the Ger
man coast while en- route to Denmark
about Aug. 80. The czar is averse to