The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-03-22

The Marshall Reporter says that
the base ball sensation was rather
a short lived affair, evidently. The
soliciting committee met with little
success and the list was only start
ed around. The 500 per month
could not possibly be raised by
subscription, and the team will not
be hired. This means that a local
team will be organized after while
unless Mr.. Cruikshank accepts the
of1er given him to enter the Iowa
league, and at present he thinks he
will not.
The engineers of the Omaha rail
road have visited ST. Peter, covered
the ground between the present
depot and the Broadway wagon
bridge in that town, al for the pur-
pose of preparing for the construc-
ton of a new depot on possibly a
new site, for that town. The fact
that st. Peter has produced three
or four governors, several state
officials, ETC., the Omaha road feels
as though it has also won the right
to have the present ramshackle old
depot replaced with new and more
modern structure.
Pope & Howard, who have been
fattening between 1000 and 5000
sheep in their yards near New Ulm
during the past winter, have been
conducting the spring shearing
during the past two weeks and the
amount realized from the wool will
be something enormous. In con-
nection with this it is reported that
Glover & Son of Minneapolis have
purchased a 40 acre tract near
Sleepy Eye, on which they will
continually fatten sheep. Sheep
fatteners enjoy getting close to
large mills, where they can secure
screenings at a low price.
The Sentinel says that Fred.
Trapp has secured letters patent on
a mail carrying device which he
invented during the past winter.
The carrier is made up of a small
box which is transported from the
road to the house by means of wire
and cable, and all that is necessary
is for the person to stand on the
porch of the farm residence and
turn small crank, and his mail is
carried from the place OF deposit by
the mail>carrier to the porch. Mr..
Trapp has not decided whether he
will manufacture the device him
self or sell the patent outright.
Burgess & Sons, importers of
fine stations, who had some of their
animals on sale at Redwood Falls
several years ago, and who became
involved in legal complications over
a commission claimed by Barnes
Bros. for sale of one of the ami
mails, and who have since been con-
Quoting stable at Granite Falls,
have discharged their local sales
man, A. P. Coon, at that point, and
given notice that they will not be
responsible for any debts contract
ed by Coon. The court will prob
ably be called upon to say whether
they will not pay the actual debts
contracted by Coon for his com pany.
Employees in charge of the horses
have attached several of the animals
to make good their claims.
The early residents of Redwood
Falls and in the territory along the
Redwood and Minnesota rivers, will
remember the peculiar hum of the
many pheasants chat were scattered
in the timber around this city and
along the river banks. The bird,
for some reason, has been hunted
out of this section. and is seldom
seen. The old residents, as well as
the new, will be pleased to know
that the state game and fish COM
mission intends to experiment in
breeding the birds in the st. Paul
Willow Brook fish hatchery, and
orders have already been placed for
so ring neck pheasants. A pleas
ant will lay at least go eggs each
year, and it is hoped at the end Of
the first vnar tn houo Soma uoupn