The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-03-01
Representative Hall has introduced

Representative Hall has introduced
bill providing for an appropriation
of $4,000 for improvement OF the
Minnesota river, opposite Belle PLANE,
MINI. In.view of the fact that Mr..
Hall has introduced this measure at
so late date, it is presumed that he
loes not anticipate being able to Sc
cure its passage at this session.
The teachers who refused to teach
in our public schools on Washington's
birthday are to be commended for
their course. They showed their pa
triotism not only personally but in i'm
pressing their pupils with the patriotic
occasion. It is National holiday,
and should be more generally observed
than by the mere closing of schools.
Mrs. Simonton and Mrs. Birken-
meyer, sister and mother to Frank
Birkenmeyer, returned to their home
in Lacrosse last Saturday in response
to a telegram announcing the death
of Franks half-brother, who was sud-
denly and instantly killed in an acct
dent which happened in a machine
shop where the young man was labor
ing, on last Friday afternoon.
1t is estimated that in ten years
time the State school fund will have
increased to $25, 100000, larger than
any State in the Union. The fund is
derived from the sale of stumpage on
State school lands, fees on mineral
leases and contracts and from the roy
atty of Is cents per ton on iron ore
mined on State land. At the present
time there is $11, 100000 in the fund.
Those who attended the Madigan
trial at New Ulm will vouch for Com
missioner Arnold's ability as phren-
ologist. He is considered par excel
lence by all those who permitted him
toexamine their bump of intelligence.
The First district commissioner might
try his skill in ascertaining just where
the $500 paid to Mr.. Pierce, and al
legged to have been returned, is at the
present time.
Tracy Republican: Rey. Mr.. Sin
clair, of Redwood Falls, was here on
Tuesday in attendance upon the ses-
sion of Presbytery and remained over
until Thursday noon, in the meantime
calling on many of his numerous
friends in the city. The people of
Tracy have very warm spot in their
hearts for Mr.. Sinclair, whom they met
for the first time about three years ago
when he was fresh from Scotland.
Julius Melges had narrow escape
from death while inspecting the paint
mines during the early part of the
week. He stepped on a block of ice,
his feet went out from under him, and
he rolled down the bank several feet,
finally stopping himself by grasping
some brush. Had he rolled two feet
farther he would have gone over the
precipice and been hurled to death on
the rocks many feet below. AS it was
he escaped with a sprained ankle, a
bruised side, and lacerated hands.
G. c. Whitney, of the Marshall
Messenger, in a three column write
up on the Redwood coal fields, is the
first to recognize the persistent serv-
ices of the local press in calling atten-
ton to the fields. He says that the
renewed attention given the coal min
ing interests is almost solely due to
the local press and correspondents of
that city, who, in spite of incredulity
and ridicule, have constantly during
the past year kept the matter before
the public in the home papers, and
attracted the attention of people
abroad through the city press.
The Mankato Review, in giving the
history of the coal finds along the Cot
tonwood and Redwood rivers, says, in
conclusion, that in the summer of 1866,
vein outcropping in the banks of the
Redwood river for distance of 100
feet and four feet thick, was reported
among the discoveries by prospectors,
and samples of the coal were brought
into the settlements. This condition
was repeated at intervals up to this
time, but the present enterprise of op-
ening and working the Redwood vein
is the only positive move to utilizing
Minnesota coal that has ever been