The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-05-10

MIR. F. s. Woodbury., of Waseca, a
civil engineer, has decided to locate in
this city and expects to oon move his
family here. He has been engaged in
railroad work on the engineer corps of
the Northern Pacific road and is spoken
Of as a very competent man. In case
the council decides to have the city re-
surveyed, the city engineer will employ
Mr.. Woodbury. as assistant, and will
give him any outside work that cur
The council committee on printing
met this morning and awarded the city
printing for the coming year to the Re
VietO, which was made the official paper.
A. M. Morrison was the only other bid
der for an English paper and his bids
were away below the Reviews, but the
new charter allows the council to take
the circulation into consideration.
There is now some hope of the Official
notices being read by the people.
Mr.. Ben Sheppard, a member ofthe
High school graduating class, met with q
painful accident shortly after supper last
evening. He was riding a bicycle down
Front street and when near Crouch's
restaurant the front wheel al into q de-
preston in a crosswalk that is being re.
paired, throwing Mr.. Sheppard over the
wheel, or giving him what cyclists call
a header" He fell heavily to the
ground and broke his left arm near the
wrist. DR.. Andrews dressed the wound.
The search for natural gas at Minne-
opa Falls has been abandoned, and the
machinery taken away. The owner of
the property secures q good thing in the
fine artesian well which was found. The
stockholders of the company expended
alas,k 90 EnA f.. x,h,ah khnx, noatx,aI ~
return, and there was little prospect Of
success. The we'll had reached a depth
Of 600 feet without sign of gas or other
valuable substance. A similar we'll al
Saltwater is down over $500 feet with
out striking any gas. The company is
deserving of credit for the grit 1t showed
in working the well as long as it did,
and had there been gas there it would
have found it, and Mankato would have
had the benefit.
"A magnificent shower visited this To-
cality this morning, accompanied by
thunder and lightning. The rain fell in
torrents for a full hour or more, and put
a different aspect on the appearance of
things, and new life into men. Thus far
the crops have not suffered for the want
of rain, but the shower came Just when
it was most needed. Many empty cis-
terms were resupplied, but above all, the
terrible dust of the past week was effec-
tually laid for a few days at least. A lit
tie hail fell, cooling the atmosphere con-
siderably. The high wind of yesterday
broke down several trees in different
parts of the city, including a large cot
tonwood near buttons livery, that took
part of the sidewalk down with it in its
fall.
"A meeting of the jobbers' union was
held at the Board of Trade rooms last
evening and listened to Gen. Pope, who
explained the latest railroad legislation
and the present status of the fight over
freight rates. He said that the recent
Omaha case decision, declaring that the |
road TO Duluth did an interstate bust
ness because it passed through Wiscon-
sin, had been appealed to the U. s. Su-
preme court. He thought that the de-
cision of the state court would be over
ruled. He cited a similar case in Penn
sylvania, where a road ran through a
part of New Jersey. The Supreme court
vi Pennsylvania declared that the road
did q state business, and that court has
the reputation of making strong de-
cisions. The railroad has appealed to
the U. S. Supreme court, however, and
the case is still pending. MI. G. IL.
Higgs made some remarks IN the freight |
rate situation, in which he called atten-
ton to the fact that the rate for salt from
Chicago to Mankato 10 the same as from
Chicago to Sioux Falls. The matter was
left with the transportation committee.