The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-08-30

Judge Ingerval NJ. Olson, Of Somer-
vile & Olson, Sleepy Eye, was in the
city last Tuesday.
Harry Ward accompanied his aunt,
Miss Florence Ward, to Waseca last
week.
Miss Davidson, Of Northfeld, who
has been visiting the Misses Hitchcock
for some time past, returned home
yesterday.
Jos. Gales, of New Ulm, L. w.
Gales, of Hillsboro, New Mexico. an
old miner, and J. N. Gales, of Fari-
bault, three brothers, we're in the city
yesterday, and together with 81. G.
Ackmann, drove to the Redwood gold
mines.
The Minnesota Valley Agricultural
and Live Stock Association fair opens
at Morton, commencing on Wednes-
day of next week. The races will be
far ahead Of anything yet seen in the
valley, and Redwood county people
will no doubt attend in large numbers.
Redwood Falls has boom on says
the Granite Falls Tribune. Its gold
mine is hummer and people are
looking that way for investments. Be-
fore the chilly blasts of December
thousands of people will flock thither
to partake of the fruit of natures
bounty.
The premium lists for the Redwood
county fair to be held at the associa-
ton grounds in this city the third
week in September has just been is
sued from the GAZETTE job Office, and
is declared pamphlet of neatness
and beauty by all who have seen it.
The books can be had by applying to
Secretary Dornberg. The premiums
are liberal and ought to call out sharp
competition.
g. A. Francois & Co. announce that
on and after Sept. LIST their business
will be conducted on strictly cash
basis. 1t is fact that goods can be
purchased at much lower figures for
cash than on time, and that firm will
from that time on mark their goods
at the lowest possible figures to secure
profit, and will no doubt, realize
handsomely from the venture. They
cut on the very things that are needed.
Capt. A. w. White recently made q
visit to Redwood county, says the Al
bert Lea Standard, and with his usual
interest in archaeological investigation
was led to investigate the Indian
mounds,of which there are many along
the rivers, and at the junction of the
Minnesota and Redwood rivers he ex-
cavated a small mound with very
gratifying results. It was evidently
the grave of a great chief, for the
crumbling skeleton was large; it was
encased in bark and the relics recov-
cred were such as only the most dis
tinguished Indians possessed. Among
the articles found were pipestone
pipe, inlaid ingeniously with lead;
copper breastplate with perforated Or
namentation and as large as small
saucer; a bears claw, worn in neck
lace; wooden paint cup, a curious
painted stick,a hundred or more beads
of wampun and glass, and most inter-
esting perhaps of ALA pair of delicate,
ingeniously made copper ear rings,
such as we're sold to the Indians by
the earliest traders. 1t is likely that
the warriors remains had been buried
there for century and possibly long
or. The discovery is certainly i'm
portant and the collection is one of the
most valuable and interesting ever ex-
humed in the State.
One of the worst hail and rain storms
that has visited this section for several
years was last Wednesday evening at
six o'clock, says the Belview INDIE
pendent. The storm covered a strip
about two miles wide, and swept every
thing in its path. w. D. Tibbits says
he heard the storm coming while he
was in his barn and it sounded like
potato wagon crossing bridge; water
at his place was two or three feet deep
on the field; but the ground was SO
dry that it soon ran off or soaked in
the ground. Thurday morning there
was about 18 inches of water on his
cornfield which was stripped of blades
and ears. Grant Adsit lost about 200
nice watermelons and other garden