Morris tribune., 1889-12-18
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

Crookston wants twine factory.
Minneapolis has an electric railway in
operation.
Over 1000 was subscribed to the new
Catholic church at New Ulm in a single
day.
The Collum forgery case at Minneapo-
lis has been put over to the next term of
court.
There is boom in lire escapes in Min
neapolis. Nearly a hundred were put up
last week.
The Empire Mill company, of New
Ulm, have contract to ship 1900 bar
rels of -four to Belfast, Ireland.
There is reported to be five inches of
snow in the woods north of Aitkin, and
lumbermen are much encouraged.
On Dec. q will occur at st. Paul the
bishops recently appointed to the North
western sees.
Andrew Wold has been convicted at
Breckenridge of murder in the first de-
gree. He murdered companion near
McCauleyville last fall. An application
for a new trial has been made.
The English syndicate has Just closed
a deal for some of ST Paul's most valu2-
BILE real estate. 1t extends on Sixth
street from the chamber of commerce to
Minnesota street. l. is said they will
erect magnificent block on the prop
Erty.
A new plan for the safe keeping of
fire alarm keys has been adopted at
Red Wing. They will be hung in
boxes with glass fronts on the same poles
the fire alarm hoxes hang, and the in
struction will be to break the glass and
take the key.
The question having been raised, tie
discovery is made that the deed by whi' h
the state holds the capitol grounds in St.
Paul is absolute. By provision of the
constitution if they should be abandoned
for capitol purposes they would revert to
the State Historical society.
There are now ten creameries in Good
hue county in operation. There three 1T
Kenyon, one at Stanton. one at Cannon
Falls, one at White Rock, one at Aspe-
lund, one at Pine Island and one at
Forest Mills. Besides these there is a
milk separator at Aspelund.
The Crookston. Fort Stevenson and
Montana Railroad company has been Or
ganized at Crookston. The company in
tends to equip and operate line of rail-
road from CrookstOn directly west to-
the Missouri river in North Dakota.
thus tapping the coal fields of that sec
ton.
The Episcopal mission church, a mag
nificent stone editice in the White Earth
reservation, was totally destroyed by fire
Sunday. The church was built and COM
pleted about eight years ago and was one
of the finest structures in the Northwest.
The loss is about 20 900; no insurance.
There is state tax of / cent per ton
on all iron ore mined in Minnesota. Re-
Gently, under the law, the Minnesota
Iron company reported to the state audi
tor that 545, I'll tons of ore had been
mined and sold by them during the past
working year, making S5.457 due to the
State. Half of this amount goes back to
the county in which the ore is mined.
Of the removal of Deputy Warden
Westby, The Saltwater Gazette says:
"As to his action in relieving MIR.
Westby, the warden sf.ys that the dep
uty's ideas as to The methods of conduct
ing affairs were not in accord with his
own, and that change whereby har-
mony and unity of action could be Sc
cured was necessary"
Lewis Olson, of Wiz ona, has been ap-
pointed messenger by Doorkeeper Adams
upon the request of Representative Dun
nell. Olson is the man who had both
hands blown off by the premature dis
charge of cannon when Winona was
celebrating the victory of Harrison last
fall. He is the second man in the en-
ploy of the house who has no hands.
Chief Grain Inspector Clausen has
compiled a circular in which the state
wheat inspection laws and the details of
the work in general, which will be dis
tributed among the farmers, wheat
growers and shippers of the state. He is
confident that fewer alterations and
complaints would be made if the wheat
men understood the modus operandi of
the inspection law and its operations.
A trust deed from the Minnesota
Central Railroad company to Russell
Sage, of New York city, has been
filed for re.9prd with the register of
deeds. 1t covers property in. Steele,
Scott, Dakota, Dodge, Moore, Freeborn
and Goodhue counties, and provides for
the disposition of this property for the
benefit of the stockholders in the com.
pany.
Judge Webber recently made decis-
ion of considerable Importance affecting
the value of dogs as personal property.
Charles Berg, the owner of hunting
dog, paid tax upon him, but refused
to take cut license under the village
ordinances of Sleepy Eye, and the mar
shal killed the dog. The plaintiff held
that the dog had 1een assessed and
taxed as personal property, and therefore
the village had no right to destroy his
property in the enforcement of village
ordinance requiring dog to be licensed.
The court decided that the point was
well-taken, but cut the plaintiffs claim of
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