Mower County transcript., 1898-08-03
NEWS In MINNESO

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St Paul press feeders struck Friday
for an advance in wages.
The ore rats hsa.ing ata Duluth has
boon Suspended for 5six weeks. . 4.
The states cash balancsat che end
Of the fiscal year was e, 184, ,619.6Y. -
The state summer school is now in
session at the state university. It will
sontinue until Aug. 20. a. ...~s.
John II. Steele Of Minneapolis ha.
been made chairman Of the Republican
,tate central committes. 2~@@'
John n. Converse Of Philadelphia
has donated 81, 800 toward raising the
debt Of Macalester college.
The midroad Populists@ of Minneap.
plis have deposed Professor Cation aa
their candidate for congress.
1 Congressman f. @. Stevens has been
unanimously renominated for congress
by Fourth district Republicans.
! Quite a number Of counterfeit quar-.
ters have been passed at Barnesyille by
two colored men, who are in the hands
of the police. - .- -
M. H. Seeley, the exist. Paul and
Duluth railroad cashier, who was
charged with embezzling $2.3ll from
the road, was dismissed on the prelim-
mary hearing, - - =. r
| State Forest Warden Andrews says
the state could easily have an income
OF $3, 0o0, ,000sa year inside 20 years, by
cultivating timber on lands it owns
that are good for nothing else.
Gov Clough has appointed Dan
Hughes special judge Of the municipal
court of Mankato to succeed S. B. Will
son, who has become judge of the pro-
bate court of Blue Earth county.
News has been received from Homo
lulu of the death of Bandmaster Wat
son Of the Thirteenth Minnesota and
William Sullivan of Company L. Both
died at Honolulu of typhoid fever. ?
Gov: Cloueh has appointed John
O'Brien Of Saltwater one of the board
of trustees for the institution for de.
fectives at Faribault to succeed An
thony Kelly. of Minneapolis, resigned.
Track laying is scheduled to begin
this week on the Brainerd and North
ern extension from Walker northwest
about 80 miles to Lake Bemidji. A.
Guthrie & Co., St. Paul, are the con-
tractors.
The chief architect of the Indian Of
fee has completed the plans and speci.
fications for the new dormitory build
ing at Morris, which will be sent to the
secretary of the interior for approval
this week.
While cutting grain close to his
house at Paulina, Hector Cowan, Jr..
ran over small son of his who was
lying asleep in the edge of the grain,
nearly severing leg and an arm, and
otherwise injuring him.
Ole Asleson and Andrew Tuff of
Dawson, this state, have returned from
Alaska. These parties have been in
the Copper river district since last
March prospecting for gold and claim
that there is none in that section.
The Northwestern Telephone Ex.
change company has fled an amend
ment to its articles of incorporation,
increasing the capital stock from
81, 600, 900 to $4,000, 900. The registra.
ton fee in the secretary of states Office
was $500.
Tax returns have been received by
the state auditor from the Duluth and
Omaha roads for the first six months
of 1898. The Omaha's is $45 1856. 65,
being per cent on $1,516, ,221.41, and
the St. Paul and Duluth's is $40, 400. 90
on earnings of $3.50, 320.12.
The Meehan Bros. have just complet.
Cd the sorting Of the Red Lake drives,
amounting to $4,000, 900 feet of logs,
owned by the St. Hiliare Lumber com.
pany, Meehan Bros. and the Red Lake
Falls Lumber company. About Is, ,oO0,.
feet still remain on the shores of Red
lake to be driven.
It has been decided that new set of
regulations governing the timber oper.
ntions in Minnesota will be prepared,
and the land commissioner says they
Will W WdUo puOlIC rs SOOu dS com.
pleted. The new regulations are to be
based upon the recommendations of the
visiting timber experts.
James Clayham, alias James Curran,
was arrested in Duluth by the United
States authorities on suspicion of com.
plioity in the Northern Pacific train
robbery that took place at. Glyndon,
Sept. %, 1897. The tip was given to
the authorities by man named Stew.
ems, who had been in the Duluth lock
up several days as drunk.
The sales of state lands during the
spring and summer of the present year
show a total of $SlS, 60. The aver.
age price per acre has been S. 40, as
compared with $3.50, the price two
years ago. All these sales were at
public auction, no land being sold for
less than $5 an acre. The highest price
received for any Of these lands was
$40, % per acre for 100 acres in 'Wilkin
county.
Colonel John G. Shandrew of the
Fifteenth Minnesota was stricken with
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