Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-23
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Crop ReDOrt,

| Crop Report.
The tables supplementary to the
census report showing the relative ex-
tent of land devoted to the cultivation
OF barley, buckwheat, corn, oats, rye
ana wheat in the year 1899 in the
states OF Minnesota, North Dakota
anu South Dakota, have been made
public.
According to these records. Mime
sofa compares to advantage with the
TWO sister states combined.
The number of acres in Minnesota
devoted to barley in 1899 was 7o,492;
to buckwheat, 600; to corn, 1,441,-
$50; to oats, 2,201,325 to rye, 1850,
and to wheat, 6,5G0,7O7. The total
number of acres given over exclusive
~ to grain crops was 11,2O7 ,O26.
The number of bushels produced
was: Barley, 100000; of buckwheat,
e2,oS7; of corn, 47,256, 900; of oats, a.
o54,12o; of rye, 1866, $50, and of wheat,
95,27s 500.
The total crop was 1855, s07 bush
els.
Fillmore county raised 2,530,O5o
bushels of corn from 63,073 acres till
cd. Martin and Blue Earth counties
are high on the list. State total:
Acres, 1,441 $50; bushels, 47,256,oo0.
Oats were raised in Mower county
to tho extent of 4,1sS,3SO bushels from
l14,452 acres. The amount of oats
raised in the entire state in 1899 was
74,O54,15 bushels. The number of
acres cultivated for this crop, 2,2o1,-
325. Dakota and Fillmore counties
are high on the list
The totals for rye in Minnesota arc:
Acres, 1855; bushels, 1,s66,150. Dakota
county is well in the lead with 14,OO3
acres titled and 200,140 bushels. Good
hue and Sherburne rank second and
third respectively.
Wheat as usual held the palm over
all other grains of Minnesota. Otter
tail county secured a crop of 3,o41, 100
bushels from 241.169 acres. Renvillc
was second and Lac qui Parle third.
The state totals arc: Acres, $3.50, 707;
bushels, 95,27s,66o.
| A""lST hnCS.
Minnesota stood seventh in the NUN.
Der OF foreign settlers received through
the port of New York during 1901.
The states receiving more than Mime
sofa, with one exception lie on the At
lantic seaboard territory.
During 1900 the state received from
immigration through New York 4, 955
settlers. Last year the number was
1888. Other states in adjacent terri
tory obtained no increase whatever,
and in all Of them the total number of
new settlers was but fracti on of what
Minnesota received.
North Dakota obtained 1856 of the
immigrants, q decided falling off.
South Dakota received 2,1O3; Montana,
Ills; Washington, 1868; Oregon, 5os.
The total immigration for the year
amounted to 4l2,4l6 persons, against
81, 600 for the previous year. The inn
migrants were of more than thirty ma
tionalities, those of southern Europe
predominating. This is taken as the
cause for the heavier settlement in the
seaboard states. Illinois was the only
inland state leading Minnesota.
News In Brief.
William Crane of Winona has been
appointed steward of the asylum for
the insane at St. Peter by the board
of control. He takes the place OF j.
NJ. Rogers, whose case is now being
Investigated by the board.
The residence of Representative
George b. Laybourne at Duluth was
burned and damage done to the extent
of $4,000 to building and contents.
William Elder, Arthur Howell, E.
FraEhenfeld Of Duluth, have incorpo.
rated tire Leetonia Mining company
with $1,00o,000 capital. 1t will engages
in iron mining.
a site for a new home.
Mrs. w. Doyle, Jr,, OF Goodhue, was
seriously injured by being thrown
from a carriage in a runaway.
Suit has been begun against the
city of Duluth by Robert Smith, who
seeks to recover $4,000 for damages
occasioned to his Garfield avenue
property by the construction of tn.
big viaduct.
The safe in the Office of the North
Star Feed &, Cereal company, Mime
apolis, was attacked by burglars, but
they did not succeed in entering the
strong box. This is the third at
tempt within a year.
A Shorthorn COW belonging to Gil
bert Halgerson of Eureka, gave birth
Wednesday night to four calves. AL
are living and doing nicely.
Serious trouble and delay at the
ports of Duluth and Superior, as 9
result of the strike by the tug fire
men, is seemingly assured. What has
looked like a trifling labor difficulty
involving wages has developed more
serious phases.
Receiver ". H. Donahue of the Min
neapolis Police Department Relief AS
ISOLATION, has applied to the district
court for instructions as to what tc
do with the property. He has $685.,
3O8.17, and he does not know what &c
do with the remainder after taking
out his own fee.
twenty-five employees of the Great
Western railway shops in st. Pau
quit work because of the order of the
road requiring that every employe
should be vaccinated.
Children playing in vacant lot
in Minneapolis found the dead body
Of II. A. Stran.
The Lee Sueur High school debating
team defeated team from the St
Paul Central High school in debate