Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-01-29
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.


Saltwater. ski tournament is likely
to be held here in February.
Alexandria, proposition for the
city to buy the electric light plant will
be voted on shortly. The plant is now
owned by st. Cloud man.
st. Paul.-Minnesota farmers are well
organized. There are $50 alliances in
the state and all are doing more or less
good for the local members.
Duluth.-The Lake Superior Land
company was organized here with cap
ital stock of $4,000. Iowa and Mime
sofa men are the stockholders.
Atwater. Marcus johnson, the now
collector of internal revenue of Mime
sofa, who resides here, came to this state
in 1857, when only 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 plans
to that end are now almost completed.
Sauk Rapids.-The grand jury mas
been discharged, having found not
single Indictment, there having been no
indictable otfenses committed within
the county during the past year. The
county has not prisoner in Jail.
Moorhead. feed store in this city
has sold so far this season thirty-four
cars of shelled corn and twenty five cars
of ground feed, and now complains bit.
terly because our 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 Weyer-
hauser Lumber company for five years If
the company establishes mills here and
carries on 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
clear up some difficulty which prevents
on account oJ old annuity claims.
Duluth. city is feeling big this
week and here's why: A train of cars
made by the car company here, and filled
with flour 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. statement is made to
the effect that G.. A. Pillsbury has
scheme on foot to improve the water
from the falls to 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. Rumor has it that Mr..
Pillsbury proposes to sink shaft at the
falls to the depth of seventy feet and
construct a canal from that point to
point opposite the university, thus giving
additional power.
St. Paul. John Wick, day laborer.
has commenced suit against J. D. Moran,
a contractor, for 1000 damages.
Wick worked for Moran as helper In
stone quarry and premature explosion
of dynamite blew out both of his eyes.
split his nose, shattered his teeth, LAGER
ated the flesh on his forehead to the
bone, completely severed his left hand
from the body, shattered his right hand
and. besides all this, crippled him for
life, and he thinks $50, 900 will carry him
through all right, although it viii not
begin te repair the damsges.
Duluth.-So persistently has one Fred
erick Prentice, of New York, fought in
the courts for title to some 2,700 lots in
what is known as Duluth's Third addi-
ton, valued at SIC, 900, 900, that property
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 continual ronnd of litiga-
tion. A purse of S25, 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 30, 1888, was $231, ,973,S 1866; increase
for year ending June 30, 1889, S25, $685.
1922; total gross earnings were S25. 1885,
578, decrease from the previous year of
$500, 1888; freight earnings were S16,837,-
S33, and the decrease was 1875, ,987;
passenger earnings aggregated $5, ,987 1906,
the decrease being $54, ,705; earnings for
baggage, mail, express, etc., were $2,-
365. .439, and the increase was 5000, I'll;
total operating expenses were $14, ,9S6, ,972,
and there was decrease from the pre-
vious year of $40, ,073; total net in
comes of the lines in the state was $10,-
$780, sos, and there was a decrease of
9lCVsOl0, SblllOuHU VI UctACo CCAb1l Dy
the commission to the state auditor for
the year ending Dec. 81, 1883, was $780,
416.26; total amount of interest paid by
the roads was SIG, 1850, ,654. and on cur
ront liabilities for same time, $248, TAO,
making total of $26, ,999, 1894; total
amount of dividends paid on stock was
Sc, ,554 ,486; total number of tons of freight
carried in the state for the year was 1O,-
221, 1853, decrease from the previous
year of /, ,76G,837 tons; average rate per
ton per mile was 1.21 cents; total num-
ber of passengers carried on all lines in
the state was 8,9 ,64S, ,581, and for the pre-
vious year 10,443, ,230; total number of
passengers, employees and other killed
during the year was 106; number of rail-
road employees in the state 1902, who
received in wages for the year, S12, ,379,
583.
Reports of gales and floods through
out Great Britain continue to be re-