Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-08-17
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Mortgages.
Labor Commissioner Powers has
compiled some interesting figures re-
lating to the evolution of mortgages
in the twonty-three southeastern agri-
cultural counties of the state. These
counties are Blue Earth, Carver, Chi
sage, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault, Fill
more, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston,
LIE Sueur, Mcleod, Mower, Nicollet,
Olmstead, Rice, Scott, Steele, Wa
basha, Washington, Winona, Wright.
The mortgages upon acre property
in these counties showed the highest
ratio in the years 1880 and 1881. The
foreclosures numbe 1,449, and were
for the sum of $1,S72. 371 and covered
liz, 287 acres of land. Since the year
1881, with the adoption of good sys-
tenn of farming, of a diversified char
acter, there has been a continuous de-
cline. The years 1896 and 1897 record
the lowest amount of foreclosures cov-
cred by the investigation. The num-
Der for these years was 357 and for the
sum OF S464. 1873, covering 1921 acres
of land, being about one fourth of the
number, amount and acreage FORE
closed in 1880 and 1881.
Crop Report.
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Minnesota Section, Climate and Crop
Service. Weather Bureau.-There have
been rains in some part of the state
every day in the week except the Sd;
those in the early part of the week
were light and scattered, while those
on the 4th and 5th were more general
and much heavier.
Spring wheat harvest has advanced
northward to Norman county, and it
will reach the northern boundary
about the 18th. Wheat and oat cut
ting is we'll advanced to north of CEN
ter OF the state, and nearly finished in
the south. where it would all have
been in shock except for the rain. In
the region where the rain was heavy
the uncut grains are badly beaten
down and tangled 50 that cutting will
be slow and attended with loss. Grain
shocks not in good condition were
soaked with water, and some fears
were expressed that wheat would
sprout, but only one or two cases of
sprouting are reported.
Fish Protection.
Secretary of State Berg received a
letter from the American secretary of
the joint high commission, which
meets in Quebec, Aug. 10, asking for
information in regard to the reciprocal
privileges between Minnesota and
Canada in protecting the fish preserves
IN international waters. For a num-
Der OF years Minnesota has been I'M
able to secure laws uniform with those
existing in Canada for the protection
of the fish in the waters bordering both
countries.
At the last session of congress an act
was passed providing for a high COM
mission to act in conjunction with a
similar commission appointed by the
Canadian government to secure uni
formity of the laws of all the boundary
states with those of Canada, and also
secure concession from the Canadian
government along the same lines.
The commission will also take up
the matter of the use by both govern
ments of canals crossing and near the
border lines of the two countries.
Fuel.
The state fuel commissioners. at a
recent meeting, received bids for 5000
tons of coal for state institutions. The
range of the prices which the big coal
companies agreed to supply the state
was considerably lower than last year.
Soft coal ran from 30 to so cents per
ton lower. Last year the price paid
by the state for anthracite coal was
$770. and this year the range of this
class is lower than 81. The fuel COM
mission, which consists of the gov
ernor, auditor and state treasurer, will
award contracts in a few days, as soon
as the figures submitted can be assem-
bled and tabulated. The contracts
will go to the lowest bidder.
Gave Himself Up.
A man with a badly bruised face and
his left ear torn and bleeding came in
to the sheriff's Office at Winona and
SutA uAu1S0l4 W GQdL OhClal.
saying he had set fire to strawstack
and barn on the farm of Emil Timm.
between Bethany and Altura, while
under the influence of liquor. A tele-
phone message developed that only
the strawstack was burned, the barn
being saved by hard work. The man
gave his name as Paul Kurgus.
Minnesota Briefs
Charles j. Evans, prominent farm
er of Douglass county, was kicked to
death by mule.
A mysterious poisoning occurred at
Pease station, three miles south of
Milaca. N. Myers, a farmer, was
found dead and his wife claimed he
took poison himself. They did not
live happily together.
Hans S. Bentrude, living near Peli-
can Rapids, was kicked to death by a
horse.