Morris tribune., 1889-11-20
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

out at Moorhead.
Litchfield will vote on the question of
bonds for waterworks Nov. 25.
Great excitement exists at Springfield
over the discovery of a vein CT hard coal
two miles west OF town.
Louis T. Stensgaard, who was accused
of wholesale real estate forgery at st.
Paul, was acquitted by the jury. /.
Architect A. III. Haas, of St. Paul. has
designed an ice structure $50 feet high,
on the Eiffel tower style, for the car
nival.
Burglars have been working Saltwater
houses of late, and many prominent
people have lost valuable Jewels and
money.
1t is said the English syndicate will
continue the profit-sharing system with
the employees of the Pillsbury mills at
Minneapolis.
Frank Wood is under arrest at Hector
on charge of horsestealing No less
than fifteen horses have disappeared
from that neigh borhood this fall.
Marshal Ballington Booth, high mogul
of the Salvation Army, has been looking
after his forces in st. Paul and Mime
apolis during the past week. They do
need watching, and closely.
The state dairy fair and cor antion
will be held at Mankato on the Iva, 18th
and 18th of December. Some liberal
premiums ars offered for the best speci-
mems of butter and cheese. The railroads
will give reduced rates.
For the month of October State Oil
Inspector Nicols turned into the state
treasury S6, ,506.36 besides his salary. The
barrels of Oil inspected in Ramsey
county numbered 3,213, in Hennepin,
1850 and in st. Louis 1850.
A Winona farmers wife died recently.
He washed and dressed the body to save
expense, put it in a rough box and drove
to town for coffin. On the way back
he met another man and traded horses.
then continuing his funeral.
The Washburn-C Crosby Milling COM
pany of Minneapolis announces that by
September, 1890. the time when its lease
will expire on the Washburn mills in
that city, it will have S2,OOO,O0O plant
in operation in Duluth. with a daily ca
pacity of 5000 barrels.
The government operations at the
progress through the summer, will he
closed up next month. 1t was intends sd
to expend the whole of the appropl ia
ton Of S650,000 set aside for work Il Iere
this season but it is found that the low
stage of water prevents.
The Minneapolis school authorities are
endeavoring to suppress the h abit of
cigarette smoking among the school
scholars. 1t was found by investigation
that in some of the schools all of the
boys and many of the girls are addicted
to the habit, and whenever a new boy
comes he is made to learn the habit.
A new United States customs station
has been established on the south shore
of Lake of the Woods, near the mouth of
Rainy Lake river, with Deputy Collector
of Customs Hamline R. Prosser in
charge. Its object is to stop the whole
sale plundering of Uncle Sans forests
on the northern boundary of Minnesota.
Three out of flock of twenty-four
white swans were killed by parties on
the steamer Pepin, on Lake Pepin, in
two discharges of fowling piece. One
of the swans measured six and half
feet from tip to tip and weighed twenty
pounds. It was secured by DR.. Estes,
who will have it mounted.
A Montana man has bought $4,000
acres of the st. Paul and Duluth land,
between Mile Laos and Duluth, on
which he will start large sheep ranch.
| He claims that Northern Minnesota is
| far ahead of Montana for sheep raising
in several particulars. He will buy more
| land if the experiment is successful. He
paid 81 per acre for the land.
In the case of Sheriff Brandenburg
against the county commissioners 81
| Otter Tail county, in which verdict
was recently rendered by Judges Baxter
| and Searle, giving to the sheriff mileage
for one prisoner arrested ON the west
coast, he having claimed double mileage
for one trip on the ground that he ar
rested two men, the commissioners have
decided to appeal the case to the sll-
preme court of the state.
Muller Post No. 1, G. A. R., Saltwater,
has become possessed of relic of the
| late war, being no less than list OF the
guard mount at Libby prison in 1894. It
/ had been obtained by the late Comrade
/ A. A. Capron, when he was an inmate,
and he kept 1t sacredly. His brother, w.
! NJ. Capron, the executor Of the property,
presented this roll to the post.
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This story comes from Faribault: A
man who lives north of here near one OF
the lakes is said to have killed 1874 wild
ducks one morning last week. On look
ing out of the window earlyin the morn
ing he saw ducks extricate their legs
from the ice that had formed around
them while resting in the water the pre-.
vious night. The man took corn cut.
ter, went down to the lake and clipped
/ off their heads. = So ~
| Deputy Dairy Commissioner Bertram,
of st. Paul, has returned from trip on
the Manitoba railway as far as Benson.
He states that the country merchants ex'
press great anxiety concerning the en-
1 forcement of the food laws, and are re-
fusing to handle adulterated goods, espe
cially baking powders and vinegars. In
many instances, since the report oi
the chemical analysis of these goods BY
the commissioner, country dealers have
labeled the cans at their own expense
indicating whether or not the powders
contain alum. } ;