New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-08-07
LA TE NEWS ITEMS.

TE NEWS II EMS.
Hamlin of the Blue Earth City Post
has this for Bowen and it's a pretty fair
offer: Don't it seem that man, whose
honesty and integrity is above reproach,
| would never have taken such q course
as Mr.. Bowen did, Our Office is. next
door to the Constans House, Mr.. Bowen,
where we can be found during business
hours.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany in a letter from it's president kicks
against the reduction Of government
| rates to one mill word on the plea
that they are needy and can't afford it.
In order to have his own way about it
Wanamaker should now offer to buy
| them out and relieve them from any
such embarrassing circumstances. If
i necessary pay the needy Gould a life
pension for turning over his monopoly
to government control.
| The officers of the state fair associa-
ton have instituted a bureau for col
lecting information and statistics about
the crops. It is done by sending out
circular letters all over the state, to
from one to eight different parties in
each county. The estimates of each
county are added together and divided
- the number of estimates. The first
publication shows returns from % of
the leading wheat producing counties
in the state, the average of which is
15H for wheat, 37aa for oats, Sc for corn,
263 for barley, and 161 for potatoes.
Minnesota raised38, 100000 bushels of
wheat, 38,000,000 Of oats, 20OOO,O0O of
corn, 100000, of barley and 1900, 900
of potatoes in 1887. In 1888 the wheat
crop dropped to 35,00O,O00, but her oat
crop reached 43, 900, 900 and her barley
went to 100000 and the potato crop
exceeded 100000 bushels. The yield
of the present year is as yet only a
matter Of conjecture but it will doubt
less be much larger than that of the
two years previous. In the Southern
part of the state at least the prospect
for goood crop is far better than for a
long time past.
Mankato is having scandal, which
promises to be quite interesting and is
furnishing excellent food for the gos-
sips. A young and. handsome minister
of the Baptist church, named G.. H.
Melby, and a young lady twenty years
Of age are connected in the scandal and
are said to have eloped. The minister's
friends claim that he has gone to Utah,
leaving a wife and two children in un-
certainty as to his whereabouts. He
has resigned his pastorate and as the
couple were intimate enough beforehand
to excite gossip the natural conclusion
is that they have eloped. The ways of
some preachers are hard.
The earnings of the Chicago and
Northwestern Road for the past wear
show a decrease from that of the pre-.
vious year Of $1,0OO,0OO. This aston
ishing fall off they charge to hostile
legislation, as the expenses of the road
during this time were comparatively
less. On Minnesota and Iowa especial
ly they heap complaints and say that,
if forced to submit to it, little more of
such ruinous rate legislation will bank
rupt the road. This comes from the
railroad and can be taken with allow
ance. Their perplexity can as easily
be traced to other causes rate wars
which bleed the Golfers and add no
wealth to the greedy corporation.
| These have as damaging an effect as
any legislation, which in Minnesota we
do not believe is any more than the
companies can stand or any more
stringent that the people have a right
| to demand.
| The Senate committee consisting Of
Stewart, of Nevada, Plumb, of Kansas,
Allison, of Iowa, Hiscock, of New York,
Reagan, Of Texas, German. Of Mary
land and Jones, of Arkansas, which
was appointed TO visit the western
states with a view Of collecting infor-
nation on the subject of irrigation
and water storage. have begun their
work and held a session at st. Paul last
week. Their task is Of the greatest i'm
portance and if, as the result of their
labors. they can recommend the irriga-
ton of the vast areas of arid land,
which lie to our west, and which are un-
supplied by nature with sufficient mois-