The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-08-04
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

The ore rate hearing at Duluth ha
been suspended for six weeks.
The states cash balance at the ent
Of the fiscal year was $2,1s4612.53.
The state summer school is now il
session at the state university. 1t vii
continue until Aug. 26.
John III. Steele of Minneapolis hal
been made chairman of the Republican
state central committee.
John Fl. Converse of Philadelphia
has donated 50, 500 toward raising the
debt of Manchester college.
The midroad Populists of Minneap
oils have deposed Professor Cation as
their candidate for congress.
Congressman f. Q. Stevens has been
unanimously renominated for congress
by Fourth district Republicans. al
Quite number of counterfeit quar-
tiers have been passed at GAINESVILLE by
two colored men who are in the hands
of the police.
M. II. Seeley, the exist. Paul and
Duluth railroad cashier, who was
charged with embezzling $2.s1l from
the road, was dismissed on the prelim.
mary hearing.
State Forest Warden Andrews says
the state could easily have an income
of S. 600, 900 year inside 90 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. Clough 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 Branerd 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
flee has completed the plans and speci.
fcations 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 sevaring leg and an arm, and
otherwise iniuring him. .. H.
Ole Asleson and Andrew Turf 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 Elk.
change company has filed an amend.
ment to it's articles OF incorporation,
increasing the capital stock from
SIS, 200, 900 to 81, 00O.O 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 1893. The Omaha's is $45, 486. 65,
being per cent on $l,516, 221.4l, and
the St. Paul and Duluth's is $50, 400. 90
on earnings of $3.50, 800. IL.
The Meohan Bros. have just complet.
ed the sorting Of the Red Lake drives,
amounting to S5,00O,0 600 feet of logs,
owned by the ST. Hiliare Lumber com.
pany, Meehan Bros. and the Red Lake
Falls Lumber company. About Ii, 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.
ations in Minnesota will be prepared.
and the land commissioner says they
will be made public as soon as COM
peted. The new regulations are to be
based upon the recommendations Of the
visiting timber experts.
James Clayhar,. alias James Curran,
was arrested i'll Duluth by the United
States authorities on suspicion of com.
plicity in the Northern Pacific train
robbery that took place at Glyndon,
Sept. 20, 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 total OF $Sl8,946 60. The aver.
age price per acre has been $6. 40, as
compared with $500, the price two
years ago. All these sales were at
public auction, no land being sold for
less than SIS an acre. The highest price
received for any Of these lands was
$50, 30 per acre for 100 acres in Wilkin
county.
Colonel John @. Shandrew of the
Fifteenth Minnesota was stricken with
paralysis Friday He will probably
recover slowly, but it is unlikely that
he will continue in active command Of
the regiment, as his speech is entirely
gone, and it may be stated on excellent
authority that if he RECEIVERS the use of
his vocal chords it will be after some
time and by slow degrees His medical
advisers do not look for his return to
Sae regiment.