The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-01-30
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

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Stillwater.-A ski tournament ia ,ikely
to be held here in February.
Alexandria.-A proposition for the
city to buy the electric light plant will
be voted on shortly. The plant is now
owned by a st. Cloud man..
st. Paul.-Minnesota farmers ara well
organized. There are $50 alliances in
the state and all are doing more or less
good for the local members.
Duluth Lake Superior Land
company was organized here with a cap
ltal stock of $4,000. Iowa and Mime
sofa men are the stockholders.
Observation-Disclosures johnson, the new
collector of internal revenue of Mime
sofa, who resides here, came to this state
in 1857, when only 7 years of age.
Minneapolis. The Tribune building,
the scene of one of the saddest calamities
which has ever occurred in MINNEAPOLIS.
will be converted into a hotel, and nlans
to that end are now almost completed.
Sank Rapids.-The grand jury has
been discharged, having found not a
single indictment, there having been no
lndlctable offenses committed within
the county during the past year. The
county has not a prisoner in Jail.
Moorhead.-One feed store in this CITY
has sold SO far this season thirty-four
cars of shelled corr and TWENTY-FIVE cars
of ground feed, and now complains bit.
terly because u farmers are COMPELLED
to buy grain for feeding stock, when
! they might raise it here.
Brainerd.-This city will collect no
taxes on the property of the Viewer
hauser Lumber company for five wears if
the company establishes mills here and
carries on a general lumber manufactur-
ing business. The city's proposition will
undoubtedly be accepted.
st. Paul.-It is now claimed that the
Canadian Pacific railroad will cooperate
with the officers of the National Educa-
tional association and with all Minnesota
railroads in arranging excursions for the
teachers who attend the meeting of the
association here in July.
Browns Valley.-Hon. A. S. Cross
field, of this city. has been in Washing
ton the past week looking after matters
pertaining to the opening of the Sisseton
reservation. Mr.. Crossfie1d hopes to
clear up some difficulty which prevents
the payment of $3.50, 900 to the Indians
on account OF old annuity claims.
Duluth.-This city is feeling big this
week and here's why: A train of cars
made by the car company here, and filled
with Jour turned out by our city mills,
has just started for Boston. The train
was decorated with flags, and hangers
covered with statistical matter were put
on in every available place.
st. Paul.-President Minot, of the
Eastern Minnesota, speaking of the
Great Northern Railway company, said
the new company would probably in
clude all the properties owned by the
Manitoba company, excepting the East
ern Minnesota and the Northern steam
ship company. These, he thought, would
continue under their own names, because
of the peculiar nature of their business,
and the fact that financial undertakings
by either company could be the better
carried out.
Minneapolis.-A statement is made to
the effect that C. A. Pillsbury has a
scheme on foot to improve the water
from the falls to a point below the uni
versity. There is a fall of about forty
feet at the falls proper and between
there and the university an additional
thirty feet fall. RuNor has it that Mr..
PillSbury proposes to sink a shaft at the
falls to tie depth of seventy feet and
construct a canal from that point to a
point opposite the university, thus giving
additional power.
st. Paul, John Wick. a day laborer,
has commenced suit against j. d. Moran,
a contractor, for $50, 600 damages,
Wick worked for Moran rs helper in a
stol.e quarry aid a premature explosion
of dynamite blew out both of his eyes,
split his nose. shattered his teeth, LAGER
ated the flesh Oh lR5>-orehead to the
bone, completely severed his left hand
from the body, shattered lis right hand
and. besides all this. crippled him fol-
life, and he thinks $4,000 will carry him
through all right, although it will not
begin te repair the damsges.
Duiuth.-So rersistcntly has one Fred
crick Prentice, of New York, fought in
the courts for title to some ,70J lots in
what is known as Duluth's Third add.
ton, valued at $40, COS. 900, that property
owners in thai addition have determined
to act decisively in an effort to forever
silence the New Yorker. Prentice has
lost all suits he ever brought to acquire
title to the property, and good lawyers
say he has no chance whatever to make
good his claim to ownership, but it may
be possible for him to keep the present
owners in a continual rOnnd of litiga
ton. A purse of $25, 900 has been raised
to fight Mr.. Prentice in the highest
courts.
st. Paul.-The annual report of the
Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse com
mission will contain the following inter
esting information: Total railroad mile.
age in state, 5,303.07; the capital stock.
bonds and debt of all the railroads in the
state, as reported by the companies
June 80, 1888, was 1921 ,973, 1866; increase
for year ending June so, 1889, S25, 800,
1922; total gross earnings were $685. 25,
57S, a decrease from the previous year OF
S52O,9S3; freight earnings were $685.,
S33, and the decrease was $1.315. 9S7;
passenger earnings aggregated 81, 1887 ,306
the decrease being $54. 7O5; earnings fol
baggage, mail, express, etc., were So,
5,439, and the increase was 5000, III
total operating expenses were SD, 9S6, 912
and there was a decrease from the pre-.
vious year of S34O, 073; total net in.
comes of the lines in the state was $10,-
239, SOC, and there was a decrease OF
S1S0,910; amount of taxes certified by
the commission to the state auditor for
the year ending Dec. 81, 1888, was $500.
4l6. 26; total amount of interest paid by
the roads wa SIG, $50, 654. and on cur
ront liabilities for same time, S24S, 74O
making a total of $26, 999, 1914; tota
amount of dividends paid on stock was
s. ,554, 4S6: total number of tons of freigh,
carried in the state for the year was 10,
221, 1853, a decrease from the previous
year of l,766,S37 tons: average rate pei
ton per mile was -1.21 cents; total mum
Der of passengers carried on all lines in
the state was S,S,64S, 5S1, and for the pre-
vious year 10,443, $50; total number Of
passengers, employees and other killed
during the year was 1O6; number of rail
road employees in the state 1902, who
received in wages for the year, s12,379
$50.
Reports of gales and floods through.
ont Great britain continua to no ro