Morris tribune., 1890-12-24
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS


ley has subsidized.
The Owatonna Democrat has been
sold to Iowa parties.
Minneapolis mills ground l35, ,685 bar
rels of -four last week.
The Winona and Southwestern track
layers have reached Spring Valley.
A decision of the Minnesota supreme
court defeats the Duluth and Winnipeg
road in the swamp land case.
Lieut.. Col. c. McC. Reeve, of Minne-
apolis, has been appointed by Governor
Merriam an inspecting officer.
TIE next farmers state institute will
be held in Faribault, probably the last
of January or the first of February.
The Owatonna (Minn.) Democrat has
been sold by d. j. OConnell TOD. G.
jones, late of The Sheldon Qowa) Eagle.
Con. james S. Brisbin, of the First
cavalry, u. S. a.. and Miss Amelia VIII
son. of Red Wing, were. married on the
18th inst.
T. o. Halls broken West Duluth
bank filed it's schedule of assets and liza
bilities. The latter are $47, ,108.67 and
the former $65 ,694.52.
Ignatius Donnelly admits that he
wrote "Csesar's Column, published soon
after The election of Senator Washburn
by the Minnesota legislature.
It is announced that J. J. Hill has
made contract for the use of one Of
the boxes at the new Metropolitan opera
house at ST. Paul for a year for s., 500.
The Imperial mill at Duluth started up
s.; a;a1rlay morning and will grind for .
silst ;i>Ho about 1 ZOO barrels per day,
bus Will soon increase its capacity to
2.5tj barrels.
Ike new Goodhue county poor house
is BOW ready for occupancy, and has
cost s Coo, and is the finest structure
of its kind in the state.
A. Barto says that the st. Cloud land
office, of which he is an officer, is turn
ing out 100 homesteads a month, and
that there are yet over 2,500,0 900 of acres
for homeseekers to file upon.
The new Goodhue county, Minnesota,
poor house is now ready for occupancy,
and has been accepted by the commits
sioners. 1t cost $11 900 and is the finest
STRUCTURE Of the kind in the state.
The Sa4-asident of the Lake Superior
and North Wcstern road states that the
bonds to the extent .eet 81 Gff-ssyersl million
dollars have been placed and thai CON
struction will commence in the spslnG
The road will tap the Mesaba range ana
make Duluth an iron port.
There were weighed in Minneapolis
during October 10000 cars of grain,
which is 1000 more than We're ever
weighed IN any month since the system
was inaugurated. In November 16, 600
cars were weighed, and Mr.. Reese says
December will show up with IL, 900 cars.
The official canvass of the vote Of
Minnesota very unexpectedly shows
that the amendment to the constitution
allowing iTe-sixths of a jury to render a
verdict in all civil cases has been car
ried. The press of the state fought the
amendment throughout the canvass in
the interest of corporations.
A. Fl. Orth, Of Minneapolis, has re-
ceived dispatch giving the intelligence
of the drowning of four of his string of
six trotting thoroughbreds in the river
at New Orleans. The boat on which
the horses were being conveyed down
the river capsized while making the
landing. st. Leger, the most valuable
of the six. was saved, also one other.
George Mackin, of Carver county, was
convicted of larceny at Mankato. was
sentenced to the reform school for two
years. and James Flynn and William
Brown, convicted of grand larceny in
the second degree, We're sentenced to a
year and half each in the state prison,
and George Reed, convicted with them,
was sent to the ST. Cloud reformatory.
Engineer Russell has started out from
Duluth with party to make surveys
locating the Aticokan Iron Range rail-
way from Carlstadt ninety miles west,
and from Aticokan river about fifty
miles. On the completion of this road,
which will be virtually branch of the
Canadion Pacific, 100000 tons of ore
per annum can easily be shipped from
the Aticokan mines.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Salisbury, proba.
bly, the Oldest married couple in the
United States, last week celebrated the
103d birthday of Mr.. Salisbury. His
wife is 101 years old Christmas day.
Jan. 12 they will have been married
eighty years. Until quite recently they
lived alone in comfortable log house
on the Yellow Bank river, Mrs. Sails.
bury doing the cooking and general
housework, while Mr.. Salisbury chopped
wood and attended to the chores about
the house.
When the village of Worthington was
laid out by the Sioux City and ST. Paul
Railroad company one condition put
into the deeds given to purchasers OF
lots was that intoxicating liquors should
not be sold or Yended on the premises,
and if done habitually the deed was to
be void. This condition was lived up to
for some time, but several saloons hav.
ing become permanent places of buai-
ness, the railroad company, through
Mr.. Rohrer, its attorney. has com.
menced an action to set aside the deeds
to the property on which are located
these several places Of business. The
lots have each 4 costly building. There
are precedents in the decisions of state
and United States courts where similar
conditions have been enforced.
In the supreme court, on the nth.
Justice Mitchell handed down one Of !
the most important decisions of the
whole term. 1t was the settlement of
celebrated swamp land litigation, and
it assured to the Duluth and Iron Range
the title to between I, ,000, 900 and 4, ,00O, 600
acres of land in the northern part of the
state. The title Of the suit Is the Min
neapolis and st. Cloud road, appellant,
VS.. the Duluth and Winnipeg, appellant,
the Duluth and Iron Range, intervenor
and respondent. The Judgment of the
lower court is affirmed. The tract in
question extends for ten miles on either
side of the Iron Range road. The Min
neapolis and st. Cloud road some of the
original companies, now part of the
Great Northern system, and the decision
is therefore a defeat for J. j. Hill, the
Great Northern's president.
Hiram Yealman died at Black River
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