Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-02-26
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

$4,000.
Duluth. city firm has contract
to furnish 1900 tons of ice to a Clncln-
natl firm for cold storage purposes.
Luverne.-This town has hoe-maker
| good work and large amount of it.
st. Cloud.-Dates for holding the next
Central Minnesota fair have been fixed
for Sept. Is, II, IS and ~ at this city.
Duluth.-Two car loads of coal were
shipped from here last Saturday to Ram
sey county, N. D., for the destitute farm
ers of that county.
Brainerd. = Reports from the Mile
Laos Indian reservation are contirmatory
of the reported destitution there and that
an unusual fatality has occurred.
Slayton.-The county seat contest that
has been on for five years between Currie
and Slayton has just been decided by
| Judge Perkins in favor of this place.
Worthington.-Thist town, with pop
uIation of little more than 1900, has
! just completed one of the finest high
school buildings in the state, costing
$4,000.
Owaeonna. City election will take
place Tuesday, March II, and very
warm contest is expected, the water
works and license questions being the
points at issue.
Eyota.-Charles Elsbury, of this place,
has been allowed pension of So, $50 and
$50 month. Mr.. Elsoury has been per-
fectly helpless for several years and was
in destitute circumstances.
st. Vincent Greely has decided
to abolish the signal station at this place
and establish one in Minneapolis in its
place. He gives as reasons that the re-
ports from Winnipeg cover this district.
Albert Lea.-Farmers in the towns of
Richland and Hayard, Freeborn county,
will run cooperative creamery this
season. In Richland $50 COWS have al
ready been engaged. and it is expected
700 will be used in Hayward.
st. loud,-Jonas Meilar has sued the
Minnesota Polishing works for $50, 200
damages for personal injuries to himself.
Meilar lost an arm in 1887 while working
for the defendant company. Cause, pre-
mature explosion of dynamite.
Fergus Falls.-Alexander Fry is in Jail
here waiting to see what action the
grand jury will take on the charge of
attempted assault, for which he was ar
rested. His victim was the 12-year-old
daughter of friend with whom he lived.
st. Cloud.-At a largely attended
meeting of the chamber of commerce
resolution was adopted agreeing that the
city would provide suitable site for the
new public building to cost 100000, a
bill for which Representative Comstock
has introduced in the house.
Red Wing.-The state board of correc-
tions and charities will hold meeting
here Tuesday, March Is, to consult with
the county board concerning plans for
poorhouse to be erected. 1t will be
brick or brick veneered building, with
accommodations for thirty-fve inmates,
and the cost will be about $4,000.
Anoka.-The city council has formally
works plant from Jan. l, 1890, put in by
E. T. Sykes, of Minneapolis, and re-
ieved him of a $4,000 bond under
which he was held by the city to lower
the water mains and become responsible
for all damage resulting from fire
should they freeze up. It is thought
this action will not give general salts
faction.
heu " "IIlS.-A COutiONeTSy UetWe6u
the local school authorities of this county
and the state text book contractors seems
imminent. The county treasurer says
he will pay no more money to school dis
tricts save on certificate from the county
superintendent that the state text book
law is complied with, and the superin-
tendent says he can give no such certifi-
Gates in the case of many school districts,
having advised them to use other text
books.
Washington.-A bill has been intro
duced in the senate granting the Red
Lake and Western Railway and Naviga-
ton company the right to cross the Red
Lake Indian reservation. The bill also
gives the company the right to enter $40
acres for townsite purposes. The latter
is to be at some point on Red lake. The
company is to pay S1.25 per acre for the
land, and will, in three years from the
passage of the act, complete standard
guage road from the terminus of the
Red River and Lake of the Woods road
to the point selected for the townsite.