Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-08-25
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

"A
st. Cloud Friday.
Rural free delivery at Rush City is
under contemplation.
The Thirteenth Minnesota has ar
rived at Nagasaki, Japan.
Department headquarters for Indian
affairs have been established in St. Paul.
Executive Agent Beutner reports
game plentiful in Minnesota this year.
Public Examiner Pope is making an
investigation in the county auditors
Office.
A postoffice has been established at
Rockstad, Marshall county, with Jens
P. Folden postmaster.
The annual national congress of the
Episcopal church will be held in St.
Paul Oct. 10 to IL.
An order has been issued discontinue
ing the postofhce at Milford, Brown
county. Mail will be sent to New Ulm.
The coal handlers of Duluth are said
to contemplate a demand on the coal
companies for so cents an hour. They
now receive so cents.
The body of a man supposed to be
Patrick Ryan of Duluth, was found
hanging in lumber yard at Montreal.
He had been dead for several days.
State Librarian johnson is working
on a new catalogue, the first that has
been made of the law library for five
years. There have been 5000 or 10000
additions in the meantime.
The annual retreat of the Cath olic
clergy of the Winona diocese will be
held at the Young Ladies' seminary,
Winona, commencing Monday evening,
Sept. 4, and closing Sept. s.
The Oliver Mining company has Sc
cured lease of the Stevens mine, To-
Gated on sections rs and 26, township
50, range Is, Virginia. The lease dates
from Jan. 1, 1900, and is for so years,
with minimum output of 100, 600 tons
annually.
Major Gerlach, commanding officer
at Fort Smelling, has received orders to
enlist men for the Eleventh volunteer
cavalry, to do service in the Philip
pines. The recruits will be sent for
ward to Colorado to be drilled and from
there VIZ e. to the Philippines:
Lu1nber deeds to property in St.Louis
county transferring from the Pillsburys
of Minneapolis to Leander .Choate of
Oshkosh for the sum of 100000, have
been filed at Duluth. The property in
volved is in the northwest corner of St.
Louis corner of St. Louis county, for
the most part adjacent to Itasca county.
Mayor Xiefer has received word from
Lieutenant Hoffer Of the ordnance de-
partment that the Spanish cannon se.4
cured to St. Paul by the Commercial
club, was shipped last Saturday. 1t was
sent from the Watervliet IN. W Jar
senal and will come from Buffaloi by
way Of the lakes and the Great NORTH
ern railway: ~~-as::szs:"s ;a4'" =
! Adjuta6t General Lambert has Sc
lected the site for the friendly Sioux
monument to be erected on the state
land near Morton. It will be located at
! point about 100 feet southeast of
where the soldiers fell at the battle of
Birch Coulee. The site is high and the
monument can be seen from any part Of
the town, from the railroad, and from
long distance in the country.
Governor Lind is still corresponding
with Secretary Root touching the trans
portat1on Of the Thirteenth to sound
port from San Francisco. While the
secretary said the muster out was set
tied for San Francisco, the governor
says that doesn't tell anything about
lending the state a transport boat for
Portland or Seattle or Tacoma. If the
war department. will lend the boat he
will take chances on getting the men to
occupy it: <=::-z:::.:.:;;
The Minnesota men who have been
recruited for the new Thirty fourth reg
iment have already made their mark at
Fort Logan, Colo, where the regiment
will be organized. William j. Mccain,
Minneapolis, has been appointed first
sergeant. Company M; Charles J. Brit
ton, late of Company A, Fifteenth Min
nesota, has been appointed duty SER
geant in Company B; Albert Rollings
has been appointed acting regimental
quartermaster sergeant, and Charles F.
Moore is acting battalion sergeant ma
jor. Besides the above there are num-
Der of Minnesota men who are acting
corporals. ~~.-..