The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-03-28

Mrs. Frank Waters and Maj. S. w.
Tredway, of Morton. we're in Red
wood Falls calling on friends last Fri
day.
o. B. DeLaurier came over from
Hector with j. A. Engelhardt last
Saturday, and the two remained over
Sunday.
j. A. Pugh left Tuesday morning
over the Northwestern for Waseca,
where he will attend district court
which is now in session.
Horace Jones and Cliff Tanner have
entered into a sort of an agreement to
paint the town. They have already
given Ring & Co.'S front a coat of
paint.
Lawrence King has purchased the
Garner tract of 100 acres, west of Red
wood Falls, while Finn Dodge has
sold 80 acres of his land to George
Whittet.
The Northwestern railway carpen
tiers have been in Redwood Falls dur
ing the past week, repairing and inn
proving the company's property in
this city.
Sleepy Eye Dispatch: Senator
French voted against the bill taxing
railroad lands. Our senator seems to
have forgotten what kind of a plat
form he was elected upon.
There was mistake in last weeks
issue of this paper concerning the pro-
duction of the play called Signing
the Pledge in which it gave credit to
the High School, which was incorrect,
as the pupils of the seventh grade
should haye had the praise.
Morton is,without an official head,
J. H. MCGOWAN, who was elected as
president of the village council at the
recent election, refusing to qualify for
the reason that business interests will
not allow him to serve. A special cleo
ton will probably have to be called,or
else the council will elect president.
Joseph Fischer was in town last
Saturday and reported that seeding
was we'll under way In his county.
Some farmers, he said, were half
through, while others on the high
ground had not, commenced. Mr..
Fischer thinks that there is plenty
time for this work.
Journal: The enterprising miners
of Redwood Falls, not content with
coal, asbestos, petroleum, gold and a
few other known products of the earth,
have now, according to dispatches,
mined and shipped a carload of "keo-
tene." Just what keotene is the Red
wood Falls miners haven't said, and
as mineralogy doesn't tell, the world
will wait breathlessly for information.
Frank Barnard writes from Renville
that Stratford, the trotting stallion,
will make his usual trips to Redwood
in Mr.. Barnard's charge during the
coming summer and that he will prob
ably participate in some of the trot-
ting meetings that will occur during
the summer. :. He states that Strath-
more, the sire of Stratford, died March
II, 1895, over % years of age, and
leaving IS sons in the 2 80 list. Strath-
more was one of the best of the Ham
bletonian family.
The Morton Enterprise says that
Hon. G.. D. Gilfllan and Jerry Patten
returned from St. Paul last Thursday
night. Their mission in St. Paul was
to convince the special legislative com;
mittee that the Birch Coulee monu-
ment was now erected on the proper
site and gave the committee some
very good food for reflection. Mr.
Patten, who was member of Co. A.
that fought in the battle, says that he
knows of no living member of his old
company who favors the change.
The Northwestern railroad company
sustained heavy loss at Tracy by g
fire which broke out at 5 o'clock Fri.
day morning in the large coal-house
located near the railroad shops. The
coalhouse, an adjacent sandhouse and
water tank, and 1900 tons of coal will
be the loss. The coal is still burning
and doubtless will be for several days
The fire is supposed to have caught
from an outgoing engine, the wine