The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-06-21
FORTY YEARS AGO.
Excerpts Taken From st. Paul Papers
June 10, 1865.


street led to the arrest of man |
named Flavin, by two policemen.
The fellow proved too much for the |
officers to either drag or carry up
Third street. Mayor Prince and a !!
young fellow named Edward Austin
rushed to the rescue. Luke Patten,
who had been sitting quietly in a |
buggy, jumped out and knocked Aus
stin down and kicked him. Alder
man Murray then mixed in and seized |
Patten by the shoulder. declaring
him under arrest. Patten pulled
pistol on the member of the council,
and the alderman, happening to re-
member that he had neglected to take
out an accident policy on his life, and
the undergraduates of his salary, if |
he was to act as a target, concluded
to retire from the police business.
The mayor was game to the finish,
and accompanied the prisoner to the
city hall.
n. P. Langford, recently of this
city, is president of a company be-
ing formed in Montana for the pur-
pose of opening up wagon road
from Virginia City by short route
to Minnesota. The company is es-
tablishing ferries across the Big
Stone, Clark s Fork and Yellowstone,
with branches to Fort Benton, Milk
River, etc. Bridges are being built
across the smaller streams. These
improvements will shorten the dis
lance to the new Eldorado by about
800 miles.
The following tale of woe comes
from Itaska, Mimi, which as a Sc
quail to two years of unprecedented
drouth, four yearsof war, is hard luck
indeed: 1.-The beauty our forests is
ruined by caterpillars; the crops on
our fields are being devoured by cut
worms, earth fleas, etc., and we are |
suffering from drouth. Worms to
the north of US, worms to the right /
of US, worms to the left of ns-we
have worms on the brain. We are
determined tokeep at work, however,
and never surrender. The rain
must come some time.
Forty million feet of logs have
been delivered at Minneapolis and
St. Anthony this season. This is
enough to run the mills day and
night for two years.
The Lake Superior and Mississip-
pi Railroad company has deposited
$40, 900 in the state treasury, which
will be forfeited to the state on it's
failure to construct twenty miles of
the road within the year. Officers
of'the company say it is their inten-
ton to construct the entire road to
Lake Superior Immediately.
Telegraph poles are being set
along the leyee for the new line
from ST. Paul to Prescott by way of
Saltwater and Hudson. The line
on the west side of the river to
Hastings will be abandoned.
Messrs. L. V. D. Heard and JOS.
McCloud are preparing a history of
Minnesota in the war now SO hap
PLY ended. Mr.. Heard is gentle
man of considerable literary ability
and his collaboration is an artist of
some merit.
President Johnson has reappoint-
ed Rev. Edward Neill, formerly OF
st. Paul, as his secretary to sign
land patents. This is the same po-
sition he held under Lincoln.
Upon an honorable discharge
from the service of the United
States, all volunteer soldiers desir
ing to, may retain their arms and
accoutrements on paying therefor
their value to the ordnance depart
ment.
Now that the soldiers home pro-
ject is we'll under way, it would be
an excellent idea to make it perma-
nent. Not only for the soldiers
who arc disabled and need Such an h