The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-04-16

Andrew j. Stockstead of Mankato
formerly of this city, was in Redwood
Falls over Friday.
Mrs. A. E. King and daughter left
Thursday to visit friends and relatives
at Rockford, ILL.,, where Miss King
! ! will also. receive medical treatment.
Miss Lucy Woodward. of Wood
Lake, a graduate of the Redwood
Falls high school, has been visiting
with friends in this city during the
past week.
An additional stay of ten days was
granted by the Supreme Court in the
Renville county seat contest case. The
result of this was to give Olivia the
April term of court which convened
at that place Tuesday.
Mr.. Fuller preached at the Christ
ian church last Sunday morning and
evening and has been visiting in this
section since. Mr.. Fuller seemed to
be satisfactory to the whole congrega-
ton. He is quite aged.
Sheriff Wichmann of Renville coun-
ty and a deputy we're over Monday
and secured three prisoners awaiting
trial at the April term of court in
Renville county. The charges against
all of the prisoners we're larceny.
There was some seeding done last
Monday afternoon. 1t was orly on
high tracts, however, where the sun
dried the ground rapidly. Monday
night was clear and starry, but it
rained Tuesday morning and the sky
was cloudy nearly all day.
Rev. John Sinclair left on Monday
to go to the Spring meeting of Pres
bytery held at Tracy. He will also
make a Christian Endeavor tour OF
several of the towns on the Northwest
ern line and will not return till Mon
day. Rev. George j. Buck, Congre-
gational minister of Springfield, will
preach in the Presbyterian church
here on Sunday next.
Joseph Tyson attended the farmers
meeting at Wood Lake last Friday
He listened to the lectures on diversi-
fed farming and sheep husbandry by
Prof. Otto Hacker and Prof. Thos
Shaw, and states that they we're both
highly interesting and instructive. A
large crowd attended the meeting
which was divided into an evening
session. Mr.. Tyson went from Wood
Lake to Granite Falls.
Judge G. E. Flandrau, chairman oil
the Fort Ridgely monument commits
sion, says that with good weather from
5000 to 5000 people will undoubtedly
be present at the exercises attending
the unwilling of the monument on the
anniversary of the fight, Aug. 23d
next. At present the contractors are
awaiting the passage of the snow and
frost, so that they may begin work or
the foundation, and the sculptor is a
work on the tablets, which are to beal
the names OF the soldiers participant
ing in the encounter.
Christian Kolhase, aged So years
died suddenly of hemmorhage of thu
lungs at Sleepy Eye on Thursday O
last week. Kolhase was son-in-law tt
the late Emmanuel Otto, who was
murdered in his house just north O
Morton year or more ago. At thu
coroner's inquest he was witness, bu
the fact that he was in Sleepy Eye
during the day and long time before
the murder, was sufficient to prove
to the jury that he knew nothing o.
the affair. Kolhase has lived in
Sleepy Eye for ten years.
Velora Tenney, brother of W. P. anc
Chas. Tenney of this city, quit The
barber business in Oakland, CAL, {
week ago last Sunday, and according
to a letter received from there hal
gone to placer mining up in Amardt
county, that State, just northwest O
San Francisco. Velora will be one O
q party of three. He says that hi
colleagues have already brought dow1
sand that runs about S. to the ton
They have purchased q machine tina
works up about ten tons of sand pc
day, costing $3.50. II am tired push
ing whiskers," writes Velora, "but if
can't make a go of the mining, I vii
open a shop in some of the mountain
towns"
Joseph Roach, in the employ o
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