The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-11-13
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

Governor Merriam has issued biz
Thanksgiving proclamation.
The st. Paul chamber of commerce.
advises the city to issue no more bonds.
Large numbers Of deer are beins shot
BY pot hunters In the northern part Of
the state. =
The next state Methodist camp meet
ing will be held at Red Rock from June
10 to 10, 1891.
Minneapolis mills have begun to shut
down. The output for the season 80 far
is about s75, COO, 600 feet.
Goodhue county banks are estimated
to contain deposits amounting to $7OO,-
600, all to the credit Of citizens of that
county. -- ..---..-
Judge Simons, of the Ramsey county
district court, died of paralysis Sunday,
He was st. PauPs oldest lawyer, having
come there in 1849. - :
The harvest home festival at St. Paul
Melted $1,000. It will be divided be-
tween the Woman's Industrial home
and st. Luke's hospital.
The sixth annual convention of the
Young Women's Christian association
of Minnesota held three days session
at Minneapolis last week.
The St. Paul city council has granted
an extension Of four months to Thomas
Lowry in which to complete the change
from horse to electric power on street
car lines.
Polk, Marshall and Kittson counties
have organized for the purpose of at
tracing immigration. Five thousand
dollars will be spent in advertising the
counties named.
The last sale of Minnesota pine stump
age for the year was held at the state
capitol by Auditor Braden Friday.
About 100000 feet was sold at an
avrage price of 81 per thousand.
Joel P. Heatwole. chairman of the
Republican state central committee and
editor of The Mortified News, sailed
Saturday for London, where he will be
married to Mrs. Archi bald, of Faribault,
who is now in Europe.
John Lathrop, formerly secretary Of
the state Farmers alliance, has begun
suit against e. w. Fish and A. K. Frain,
publishers of The Great West, charging
them with criminal libel. The trouble
grows out OF the publication in The
NAOos w CoG VI oil al tIClc WulCu CudT&Gu
Lathrop with embezzlement.
The graduates from the state high
schools for the year ending July 81,
1890, as shown by the report of the su-
perintendent of public instruction,
numbered 1874 males and 2S4 females.
There were 344 diplomas issued by the
board of education and twenty-seven by
the state high school board, the latter
number comprising l2 general, 8 liter
airy, II scientific and 1 classical.
There were 1853 citizens naturalized
in Minneapolis during the late lamented
campaign. Fifty Of them couldn't
write their name. Of the number 4SS
were from Sweden, 312 from Norway,
100 from Germany, lO3 from Canada,
90 from Austria, CO from Ireland, 40
from Denmark, 4S from Russia, 45 from
England, 20 from Scotland, 10 from
Roumania, 9 from Switzerland, Z from
France, and the rest scattering.
The valuation of assessed taxable prop
erty in the, made by the board of equal
ization, has been tabulated by the state
auditor, and shows the total valuation
of taxable personal property to be $780,
809, 434, about Sc, OG0, 900 more than was
returned by the assessors; the valuation
of real estate is $497. 1873 1895, more than
$25, 000,0 900 larger than the assessors
valuation. The total amount of assessed
taxable property is SGO6, 527, 727.