The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-08-16

| The contract for tho heating APP
lparatus for the West Side school
house has been let to Tunstad &
Moore, of st. Paul, and the system
adopted is indirect steam radiation.
The contract price for the heating of
the entire building throughout and
warranting q given temperature under
all conditions is $3.50.
] Charles f. Yeager, an old time en-
gineer and conductor on the st. Paul
Il Pacific, died at his home in st. Paul
last Friday. Old residents in this
town will remember Charlie as one of
the engineers who pulled the first pas
senger train on this division. For the
past Ave years he has been steam
boat inspector.
While c. D. Hill, of Horton, was
busy at work in his field the other
day, prairie fire was seen to start at
short distance from him, and at a
point where there had been no one
near that day. What started the blaze
no one knows, and the only plausible
theory is, that party OF emigrants
who camped some days previously
near where the fire started, must have
left matches, that either the heat or
fed mice ignited. Fortunately the
fire was seen in time to prevent its
getting beyond control.
Some may think our estimate of
the value of the land in Stevens
county is too high, but when we
consider the fact that we have never
had total failure of crops, that our
soil even under the most adverse con-
ditions has yielded fair returns, that
we have unexcelled transportation
facilities and that our population is
composed of the intelligent, thrifty
and enterprising classes, it must be
admitted that we enjoy numerous
natural and other advantages that
few communities possess.
On tomorrow evening the juvenile
society of the Methodist church,
the Busy Bees, will hold a soap
bubble social in the church.
Bubbling will begin at $50 p. m.
and end when young and old are
either exhausted or ready for ice
cream, cake and lemonade that will
be served as refreshments. The. &C.
casion promises something new in the
line of novel amusement, and will
doubtless prove great success.
Some sneak thief, one evidently &C.
quainted with the premises, gained
entrance to the Riverside mill Mon
day night and robbed the safe till of
about $12 in change. The safe is the
same one burglarized year or two
ago and as it had never had the door
lock repaired, the removal of the
small chest and money drawer was
an easy matter after gaining entrance
to the Office. The thieves took the
iron box as we'll as the contents along
with them.
The two base ball games between
Brainerd and Saltwater were peculiar,
in that they We're on the decimal
order, both resulting in a tie, the
scores in each game being 10 to 10 in
the tenth inning. From F. e. Hill,
who pitched the first four innings of
the Saturday game, we learn that the
clubs are closely matched, with the
advantage if any, in favor Of Still
water. There was much excitement
over the games and the final game is
to be played on Sunday next at White
Bear for $500 and half the gate re-
ceipts.
With our literary, musical and dra-
matte talent, it would seem as if
club could be formed that would give
series of public entertainments that,
besides providing pleasant and prof
table recreation during the winter
months, would cultivate the aesthetic
taste, encourage latent talent and pro-
vide higher order of instructive di-
version. Some years ago, the effort
was successfully made here, and the
series Of entertainments given for two
successive seasons, under the auspices
of the board of trade, were encour-
agingly successful.
About four years ago the pepper
grass weed made its appearance in
Dakota on summer fallowed land, as
it has done ON the lands devastated
by hail in this county year ago, and
which was plowed in midsummer.
Much fear was expressed that it would
become permanent nuisance and in
jury, but we are informed by Ford
Walker that the weed disappeared
after the first season and very little
has been seen of it since. There was
no especial effort to eradicate it, and
it is supposed the seed had not
matured at the time of the harvest
ing crops.
A law to prohibit the shipment of
game out of the county in which it
was killed, would prevent the whole
sale slaughter of birds and suppress
the destructive pest knownas the pot
hunter. AS it now stands the season
for prairie chicken is too late, and
while law that made the open