Morris tribune., 1890-10-15
MINNESOTA MATTERS.

The Presbyterian Synod of Minnesota
began its annual session at Fergus Falls,
Thursday.
st. Paul is to have geological garden
in Smith park. They have three eagles
for a starter.
Pipestone has contracted for an arc
electric light plant. A company also
want a gas franchise.
Judge Ensign has been renominated
by Republicans of the Eleventh (Duluth)
judidial district for judge.
The Presbyterian synod held its an
nual session at Fergus Falls from
Thursday to Monday last.
The Swedes of Lake City celebrated
the 250th anniversary of the first Swed-
ish settlement in America.
Duluth's population is 32,725, in
crease, 50,0S0. st. Paul, 1873, 1856; in
crease, 91,683. Saltwater, II, 1889; in
crease, 2, 1888.
NJ. S. Wilkinson, the Democratic can
didate for congress in the Second dis
| triet, has withdrawn in favor of Gen.
| Baker, the Alliance candidate.
An English syndicate has secured an
option ON the Duluth Iron and Steel
| GOLiptt . 1Ol S~UU,UUO. LIE uGttl
is expected to be closed in few days.
The state auditor drew warrant on
State Treasurer Bobleter Wednesday for
$81S,335 for the school apportionment.
This is the largest warrant ever drawn
upon the treasury of Minnesota.
Professor D. N. Harper, of the state
experimental farm at st. Anthony Park,
! has begun a series of experiments at the
Trout Brook sugar works, near Red
! Wing, with sugar beets raised in that
county.
The Mesabia Iron company has Sc
cured an option on 5000 acres of the
| richest iron lands on either the Yer
million or Mesabia ranges, for $50, ZOO.
The property lies in towns so, l2 and 60,
13, on the line of the rich developments
in town SO, IA.
A correspondent frem Chisago county
says that that county can furnish the
whole state with potatoes. They have
| been shipped for six weeks all over the
United States, and this week dropped 20
cents and no sales. There is contiguous
to Harris 100000 bushels in sight.
Contracts have heen let for the erec-
ton of the Duluth Milling company's
! Touring mill, docks, elevators, ware
houses and cooper shops. The mill will
be constructed of brick and stone. six
stories in height, and will measure
| 130x113 on the foundation. 1t will cost
$225,0
The Duluth Retail Clerks union is
carrying on a regular crusade against
storekeepers who keep open on Sunday.
Five merchants We're brought before
the municipal court Wednesday. Sew
eral plead guilty, and the court sus-
| pended sentence on condition that they
would go and sin no more
At St. Paul Friday three young men
We're in the clerks office for the purpose
| of procuring marriage licenses At the
same time the sheriff was hunting for
talismen for jury and summoned the
| three aforesaid young men. The case
| proved a stubborn one and the weddings,
which were to have occurred Saturday.
had to be postponed, as the sheriff had
charge of the grooms over Sunday.
One day last week the house of a
wealthy resident of st. Louis Park, six
miles from Minneapolis, was burglarized
in wholesale manner. All the furni-
ture, including the carpets and piano,
were removed during the temporary abb
sence Of the family. To cover up the
| job the house was then set on fire, but
was eXtlnguished before great damage
had been done.
Charles Hoppenrath, a wealthy Ger
man farmer living near st. Paul, be-
came enraged because his wife refused
to live with him and set fire to his house
and barn, burning them to the ground.
Before burning the barn he Securely
tied his horses in their stalls and the
poor animals were burneh to death. He
has been arrested on charge of arson.
but claims he did not know what he was
doing.
The population of the Third district
OF Minnesota as given out officially by
the census bureau is 291, ,657. The dis
trict comprises the counties of Aitkin.
Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Chisago.
Cook, Crow Wing, Isanti, Itasca, Kama
bee, Lake, Mile Lacs, Morrison, Pine.
Ramsey, st. Louis, Sherburne and
Washington. In 1880 the same counties
had 110,9i9 an increase of 19O.740. or
1925 per cent.
The total output of logs at the Still
water boom for the season is All ,00O, 900
feet. A new departure is being lr qde at
saltwater as an experiment, 10 ship
lumber in barges to the South, and eight
barges have been loaded with 1900, 900
feet by joy, OF st. Louis, for Weyer-
hauser and others. If it is successful it
| will give an impetus to barge building.
which will tax the capacity of the shin
| yard at South Saltwater, and bring info
prominence class of tugs not used on
the river formerly.
| A prominent Duluth gentleman con-
nected with the Port Arthur, Duluth
and Western road, says work is being
pushed rapidly and year hence trains
will run regularly between Duluth and
Port Arthur by the way of the Duluth
and Iron Range to Ely, and the new
road from Ely to Port Arthur. There
is corps of engineers in the woods
surveying the line across Minnesota ter
ritory from Gun Flint lake to Ely. The
road will be ironed to the Minnesota
boundary at the narrows of the lake by
winter. An English syndicate is back.
ing the enterprise and has plenty of
capital.
The annual statement of the commits
sloner OF the general land Office, show
ing the business done in the local land
Offices of the country, has been made
public. 1t will appear as a part of the
commissioners annual report. In Min
t1S5Obb io,Sco dClco VI bWalIlp laQu nave
been selected, 153 Indian patents have
been issued and 261 ,773 acres of railroad
lands have been patented. The surveyor
generals force has surveyed IA, ,855
acres. There is, the commissioner saws.
an increasing demand for survey of
the balance of the unsurveyed lands in
the state. At the Croolxston Office there
We're entered during the year 1881
acres; Duluth, S2,s74; Marshall, 3S S,S7O:
St. Cloud, 81 ,045; Taylors Falls, 6,049.
The claim is made that an attempt to
assassinate ex-Congressman Brecken-
riege occurred at Center Ridge, Ark,
Monday night.
Of the $780, needed to establish a
woman's medical college in connection
with John Hopkins university, more
than $50, ,000 has been raised.
A great many of the oranges on the
west coast of Florida have been sold for
81 per box on the trees. This is a better