The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-10-16
MINNESOTA MATTERS.
There are 10000 school children In

Renville farmers will build a ware
house and handle their own grain.
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 starter.
Pipestone has contracted for an arc
electric light plant. A company also
want gas franchise.
Judge Ensign has been renominated
by Republicans of the Eleventh Duluth)
judicial 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 25Oth anniversary of the first Swed-
ish settlement in America.
Duluth's population is 32,725, in
crease, 3O,0SO. st. Paul, 1873, 1855; in
crease, 81 1888. Saltwater, 11,239; in
crease, 2,1S3.
M. s. Wilkinson, the Democratic can
didate for congress in the Second dis
trict, has withdrawn in favor of Gen.
Baker, the Alliance candidate.
An English syndicate has secured an
option on the Duluth Iron and Steel
company's plant for $25O,000. The deal
is expected to be closed in few days.
The state auditor drew a warrant on
State Treasurer Bobleter Wednesday for
$81S, 1886 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 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, 900.
The property lies in towns 60, 10 and 60,
10, on the line of the rich developments
in town SO, IA.
A correspondent from 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
13Ox113 on the foundation. It will cost
1926, 900.
The Duluth Retail Clerks union is
carrying on a regular crusade against
storekeepers who keep open on Sunday.
Five merchants were brought before
the municipal court Wednesday. Sew
eral plead guilty, and the court sus-
pended sentence on condition that they
would 60 and sin no more,
At st. Paul Friday three young men
were in the clerks Office for the purpose
of procuring marriage licenses. At the
same time the sheriff was hunting for
tailsmen for a 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 q
wealthy resident of st. Louis Park, six
miles from Minneapolis, was bnrglarized
in a wholesale manner. All the furni-
ture, including the carpets and piano,
were removed during the temporary alb
sence of the family. To cover up the
job the house was then set on fire. but
was extinguished before great damage
had been done.
Charles Hoppenrath, 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 Laos, Morrison, Pine,
Ramsey, St. Louis, Sherburne and
Washington. In 1880 the same counties
had 1919, an increase of $780, 4O, or
1925 per cent.
The total output of logs at the Still
water boom for the season is AL ,O0O. 900
feet. A new departure is being made at
Saltwater as an experiment, to 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 buildin9.
which will tax the capacity Of the ship
yard at South Saltwater, and bring into
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
sioner 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 part of the
commissioners annual report. In Min
nesota 49, 53 acres Of swamp land have
been selected, 1853 Indian patents have
been issued and 261 ,773 acres of railroad
lands have been patented. The surveyor
generals force has surveyed IA, $3.50
acres. There Is. the commissioner says.
an increasing demand for a survey OF
the balance Of the unsurveyed lands in
the state. At the Crookston office there
were entered during the year 70, 81
acres; Duluth, so, 974: Marshall, SO, 270;
st. Cloud. 81 ,045; Taylors Falls, 6,O49.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Oct. Mrs.
Hannah Cook, who in 1918 started tho
third power loom put up in this city,
died Sunday in the s7th year of her age.
She was at the time Of starting the loom
IA years old Mrs. Cook was also the
discoverer of the skeleton which was
celebrated by Longfellow in his poem
aThe Skeleton in Armor." The skeleton
was found in sand bank, and was de-
stsoysd in the Athsneum 6rs IN ls48,