Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-01-30

No. l Il orthern, 80; No. 2 North'n, 80;
No. 8 Northern, 80; Rejected, 80.
Oats, Is q %.
Kandiyohi county has three Sean
dinavians in the legislature.
There will be meeting of the city
council next Saturday evening.
The insurance adjusters arrived here
Sunday and Monday, and we under
stand that they settled satisfactorily
with those who sustained loss by the
recent fire.
Hancock & StebbIns have the fol-
lowing brands of teas: Oolong, Eng
lish Breakfast, Basket-fred Japan,
Sun-cured Japan, Green, and Gun
powder. All fresh. p to 75c.
The regular monthly meeting of the
stockholders of the Norris Loan d
Building Association will be held at
the office of the secretary next Mon
day evening, Feb. 4th, at 80 o'clock.
The oats that were not destroyed by
the fire were sold at auction yesterday.
One lot was purchased by D. A. Mar
tin, OF Milwaukee, for $3.50, and the
- other lot was bought by E. P. Watson
for $3.50.
After being thoroughly overhauled
by Engineer Callahan, the fire engine
was taken out Monday evening and
it worked like charm, while throw
ing water on the smouldering oats on
= the ground of the recent fire.
Hancock Olive Branch: The new
fire bell arrived the last of the week
and belfry has been erected on the
engine house so that in the future the
fire department can depend on hear
ing the alarm in case of a fire.
Died, on Saturday last, Mrs. II. E..
Wolff, at Bird Island. The deceased
was the the mother of Mrs. II. d.
Wells, Mrs. J. w. Bailey, Henry, Ed
ward and Samuel Wolff, of this city,
who left here yesterday to attend the
funeral.
REPRESENTATIVE Crossfield intro
duced a bill in the legislature last
week asking for an appropriation o.
$1,000 to build bridge across the
Mustinka river in Traverse county
Referred to committee on roads and
bridges.
The law passed by the legislature
,wo years ago making the salary of the
clerk of the court of Kandiyohi county
twelve hundred dollars has been re-
oeaIed. The clerk will hereafter be
paid by fees, the same as was the case
before the change was made by the
last legislature.
Browns Valley Reporter: Gabriel
RenviIle. Chief of the Sisseton Nation
md s. J, Brown, of this place, left
donday morning for Washington, t.
ook after the bill to reimburse the
oval Sisseton Indians for property
,onfscated by the government during
he Sioux massacre.
The dispatch sent from here to thu
Pioneer Press in relation to the recen
fire in our city, was knocked into th'
worst kind of "pi," either by the au
49, thor, or the telegraph operator here
or the operator in st. Paul, or thu
might editor, or the printer who Use
it up,n or by the proof reader. Which
Mr.. F. J. Waterous, Representative
of the Waterous Engine Works Co.
while here this week, in referring t
= the accident to our engine on TIL
night of the fire, said tlat he Ina,
known similar accidents to occur RICH
in st. Paul where they had everythin
in the best possible shape, and no on
4held the engineer responsible. Sue
accidents, he said, would at time
= happen, and the best engineer in th
world could not helpit.
An exchange says: "If we We're I
nut TIVE line local In the mosts oil
' secure corner of the paper, which state
that certain business man charge
more for his goods or kept an inferie
quality than his competitors, that ma
would employ bull-headed sluggs
to come around and kill us the mel
morning. But five were to ask TIL
same man for an advertisement of h
wares he would say, No, I don't b
lieve in advertising; no one reads II
papers
We are told that there are quite
number of climneys in the city thu
{ are actually dangerous, and that pa
ties have been notified by the prop,
& authority to have them repaired, bl
q have failed to do SO. The recent fir
-Mwhich came near destroying lars
Il portion of the business part of ii
city, was caused by defective chin
ney. This fact ought to be suffice
warning to all of our citizens to u
the utmost care In having their CHR
tars in good condition.