Morris tribune., 1891-11-25
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS
ia has just voted SEQ, 900 to build

Madelia has just voted $25, 900 to build
a new school house.
Mail will be delivered free in Fari-
bault after Jan. l, 1892.
Schools at Sauk Rapids and Pelican
Rapids are closed until a diphtheria ep-
idemic subsidies.
Miss Costigan, aged 60, living in the
outskirts Of Hinckley, died last week
from want and exposure.
The Mitchell Mcclure Lumber COM
pany expects to manufacture 50.000,000
feet of lumber at Duluth next season.
J. A. Oblinger, postmaster at Arling-
ton, and owner of the bank there, is
said to be short $4,000, lost in specula-
ton.
The State bank of Springfield, Brown
county, has filed articles of association
with the public examiner. Capital
stock, $4,000
A new artesian well on the Brayton
ranch near Alpena sends out 2A0 gallons
of water per minute through pipe 81
inches in diameter.
A st. Paul Chinaman named Al You
has been sentenced to pay fine of $500
and serve four months in Jail for run
ming an opium smoking joint.
The proposition to have the city of
Duluth buy the plant of the Water and
Gas company for $1,950,000 was de-
feated. A light vote was cast.
Threshing is no more than three
fourths done in Hubbard county, and it
looks as though some grain would have
to stand in the stack until spring.
The register of deeds, of Brown
county, reports that since wheat COM
menced to be marketed, nearly 1000
farm mortgages have been paid off.
1t cost s., ,1O6. IS to run the state pub
lie school at Owatonna during the
month of October. One new building
was erected and an old one improved.
George Horne, motorneer on the
Saltwater street railway. lost his right
hand by having it crushed in the gear
ing of the car while sandpapering the
commutator.
In row over a game of cards on a
Great Northern train. near Pipestone,
Jack Keefe, the pugilist, was severely,
possibly fatally, stabbed by stranger,
who escaped.
The state auditor has paid warrant
of $500, bounty for the capture of Fred
A. Grover, horse thief, captured and
convicted by w. A. Houston, sheriff of
Dodge county.
The state dairy and food commissioner
has issued an order notifying grocers
and dealers that the product of the
"Alden" Vinegar company is spurious,
impure and unfit for use.
The receipts of the department of
grain inspection for the month of Octo-
Der were $23,375.26, the largest sum
ever received by the department in any
one month since its formation
The auditor, of Goodhue county, re-
ports that forty wolf bounties were paid
during the year ending Nov. Is,
amounting to $1S2. During the prev
ious year $240 was paid for sixty wolves.
Superintendent Williams, of the Mil
waukee road, stationed at Minneapolis,
denies that there is such thing as a
car famine. He says his road has more
cars than last year and is handling
grain faster.
An Indian shot buck deer near Pine
when the wounded animal struck him
in the eye with its large antlers, stun
ming him. In its further struggles to
escape the deer injured the hunter so
badly that death ensued.
James Whalen a lumberman in the
employ of James Sherry, of Grand
Rapids, was frozen to death while MAX
ing his way to camp. His body was
found within one mile of La Prairie and
Jug of alcohol beside it. He left
Grand Rapids in very intoxicated con-
dition.
George A. Atwood, secretary of the
Hersey & Bean Lumber company, has
purchased the entire manufactured pro-
duct of that mill. including 100000
feet of lumber, 100000 shingles and
$500, 600 of lath. The purchase price is
not made public, but must approximate
$400, 200.
Ladies of st. Paul have organized a
Queen Isabella society, the object Of
which is to perpetuate the memory Of
Queen Isabella for her action in extend
ing aid to Columbus by erecting a
statue of the queen on the exposition
grounds in Chicago, and the society
| will erect building on the fair grounds,
| where visiting members will be given
special privileges. These societies
flourish in nearly all states.
Bank Examiner Kenyon, after con-
| ferring with the officials of the Ameri-
can Building and Loan association, of
Minneapolis, has ordered the surety
| bonds increased as follows: That Of
the treasurer from $4,000 to $75, 600.
| and the bonds of both president and
| secretary from $4,000 to $4,000, He
| has also placed such restrictions upon
| their banking rules as will make it i'm
| possible for the treasurer to draw
money without the knowledge of the
president and secretary.
The general and sectional meetings of
| the winter sessions of the Minnesota
| Educational association will be held in
| st. Paul on Dec. 90, 80 and 30. The
| county superintendents will meet with
Superintendent Kiehle on the 2Sth. On
the evening of the 2Sth there will be
high school declamatory contest, to be
| participated in by pupils of the high
| schools of the state. There will be
| papers before each section and discus
sion of the same. The Windsor hotel
has been selected as headquarters, and
| reduced railroad rates have been Sc
| cured.
The state game and fish commission
met at the capitol last Friday to hear
the reports of officers and prepare it's an
nual report for submission to the COVER
nor. Only SD, 500 of the $4,000 legisla-
tive appropriation have been expended
by the commission during the present
fiscal year. Superintendent Watkins, of
the fish hatchery, reported that 800, 900
trout and II, 200, 900 wall-eyed pike had
been distributed in the lakes and
streams of the state. Many millions of
the latter fish had been killed in spawn,
the report stated, by the bursting of the
st. Panl City Railways oil tanks some
time ago, the oil running into the river
and being carried into the hatchery.