The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-09-11
sAuK CENTRE MINNESOTA
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.
There are 3O4 prisoners at Saltwater

MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.
There are 3O4 prisoners at Saltwater.
The St. Paul Base Ball club has
changed owners again.
The enrolment of students in the ST..
Paul schools is reported to be 10, 1877.
Six hundred and sixty-six pupils were
enrolled the first day Of school at Albert
Lea.
The population of the win Cities are
to be given out simultaneously next Sat-
urday.
An immense -four and saw mill is be
erected at st. Louis, a small town near
Duluth.
Hon. Gordon E. Cole and daughter,
of st. Paul, have gone to Europe for a
few weeks.
The Swedish Methodist conference,
the only one in the United States, is in
session at st. Paul. -s....s.
Three of the prison inspectors have
gone East to purchase binding Irvine
plant for Saltwater. ..
A new postofice has been established
at Carlson, Swift county; Andrew P.
Carlson, postmaster.
Col. G. 81. Brush, of Campbell, is to
be made bank examiner of Minnesota
for the treasury department..
A. g. Hunkins, editor of The Austin
Democrat, was married to Miss Lottie
j. Cotton, at Austin Wednesday.
Tho or 70 ,,o,,,,,o1 ooloo1 81
opened last week with an enrolment of
172, d decided improvement over last
year.
The tub and pail factory in the Still
water penitentiary, which has been in
active for some time, has resumed oper-
atoms.
A. K. Teisberg has been appointed to
succeed Tams Bixby as secretary of the
Minnesota railroad and warehouse com.
mission.
Ten thousand cattle are to be fatted
at South st. Paul this winter. The feed
from the distillery will be utilized for
the purpose.
The first term of the United States
court ever held in Minneapolis last
week. There were about fifty cases to
present to the grand jury.
The sixth annual rifle tournament OF
the Minnesota National Guards associa-
ton commenced at Lakeview Thursday,
Col. A. E. Chantler inspector.
Mr.. J. J. Hill, who has decided to en-.
dow a great Catholic seminary, at St.
Paul, has recently given $4,000 to Mac.
alester college, of the same city.
F. L. Greenleaf, the Minneapolis mil
Ter, has leased the Saltwater Touring
mills. He proposes to operate the mill
to its full capacity, which is 600 barrels
daily.
The state normal school at Winona,
Mimi, opened Wednesday with the
largest enrolment in the normal depart
| ment ever known in the school. New
entries, 145.
Rev. Thomas O'Gorman, of St. Paul,
one of the best known Catholic educat.
ors of the Northwest, has been appointed
to chair in the Catholic university at
Washington. -.
Three men employed by the Great
Northern Railway company at Barnes.
vile, John Carlson, baggagemaster, and
his assistant, Fred Gruber, and Chris
Bijurhus, Car checker, were arrested by
the officials of the road for the alleged
systematic stealing of goods.
During the past week the agricultural
societies of the state have each received
bounties Of $222.22 from the state
auditor. Warrants for the high school
bonuses were also sent out by the state
auditor. Every high school receives
$40O.20.
Mortified was treated to lively SEN
sation last week. Miss Ada Truax, a
handsome young lady, moving in the
best society, met young man named D.
A. Gage on the public street and ad-
ministered to him a sound drubbing
| with blacksnake whip. Miss Truax
| alleges that Gage has been defaming her
character.
One hundred and twenty-five land
seekers from the drouth- stricken dis.
tricts of Iowa arrived at Luverne over
the Omaha Thursday morning and were
shown over Rock county. The real es-
tate dealers have disposed of over 5000
acres of land in the county since harvest
commenced.
A separator on the farm of Peter
| Thomas, near Faribault, took fire from
| the machinery getting hot. The fire
spread so fast that the separator, team,
stacks, barn, 500 tons of hay and loo
| bushels of fax that was in sacks piled
near the separator, were all consumed.
Loss $4,000.
The -four output at Minneapolis last
| week was the heaviest in nearly year.
The five Pillsbury mills alone ground
1000 barrels. The aggregate produc-
| ton for the week was $4,000 barrels,
averaging 26, 76O barrels daily-against
ISL ,265 barrels the previous week, and
| 133, $50 barrels for the corresponding
| time in 1889.
The report of business at Duluth post
office during the month of August shows
large increase. The receipts from sale
of stamps were $3,573.S0, against ST.
777.6O the corresponding month last
year. The sale of envelopes last month
reached $2,43, against 81 1913. 70 in Au-
gust, 1889. The total number of pieces
handled were 599,593.
According to contract made by the
| Minnesota Indians with the government
the former will get about 500, 900 in cool
cash for certain concessions made by
them. This provision has been the cause
| for two or three government and several
special Investigations into the alleged
| and in some cases the actual starvation
of the Indians last winter and this
spring. The amount will average $40
to each Indian, buck, squaw or pap
| poose.
The value of real property in
Minnesota, as returned by county equal
ization boards is $491, 161 1892, as
against $3.50, 7s5, 09s, in 1883. The
value of the land in the state
exclusive of city lots, has increased dur
| ing the past two years over 81 Zoo, 900,
while the value of town and city lots
has increased $1S,O00,000. At the same
time the value per acre of farm lands,
exclusive of structures, has fallen from
$3.50 in 1888 to 1851 in 1890. The aver
age value Of land per acre, including all
improvements, has fallen from $3.50 to
$7.0S.
George William Brown, an eminent
jurist, ex-chief judge of the supreme
bench of Baltimore, rs years old, died
Saturday in Mohonk, N. Y. Mr.. Brown
was mayor of Baltimore during the
time of the Massachusetts, regiments
riots