The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-09-05
FORTY YEARS AGO.
Excerpts Taken from St. Paul Papers Of
Forty Years Ago.

guests and the event was celebrated
by magnificent banquet, given by
the proprietors to large number of
ladies and gentlemen. This new
hotel is credit and monument to
the enterprise, good taste and pub
lie spirit of it's proprietors, Geo. w.
harrington and J. w. Paxton. It is
four stories high with basement,
and contains 100 rooms. It's cost is
about $4,000.
The floating debt of the city will
be founded by certain capitalists
providing the city council refuses to
give the Superior railway the con-
templated bonus Of 100000 to aid
in its construction. and the Pacific
(Winona branch) railway $50, 900 for
a similar purpose. The solid men
of ST. Paul met at Ingersoll's hall
last evening for consideration of
this proposal. Gen. H. H. Sibley
was made chairman and J. W. Nc
Chung secretary. Alderman Markoe
explained the offer mentioned above.
After a full discussion of the matter
a committee of eight was appointed
to conduct the matter to a final
issue, consisting of Messrs. Horace
Thompson, John Holland, E. S. Ed
gerton, William Dawson, ]. C. Bur-
bank, D. w. Ingersoll, Gen. H. H.
Sibley and Judge Hale.
That peat was one of the first
discoveries made in Minnesota is
shown by the following: ''The late
Prof. Mather, of Columbus, Ohio,
formerly of the United States topo-
engineers and prominently
connected with the geological sur
vey of New York, when quite a
young man, accompanied Feather
stanaugh, an English geologist, in a
reconnaissance of the Upper Mime
sofa and Mississippi river by direc-
ton of the war office. This was in
1886, and in a diary of his trip he
frequently referred to peat beds in
as the future resource
for fuel of this region of the coun-
try.
The Mollie Mohler arrived from
La Crosse yesterday with two barges
of iron for the St. Paul & Pacific
road. This is the last of the iron
necessary to complete the road to St. |
Cloud, and it is progressing at the
rate of mile a day. By Friday
evening, Aug. 81, the last rail will
be spiked down, and the first train
from St. Paul to St. Cloud will run
thru on Saturday, Sept. l.
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The cholera quarantine is now in
complete running order. All the up
bound boats stop and are inspected
by Mr.. Combs, superintendent of
the quarantine, and Mr.. Smith, |
physician. AS yet they have been
unable to obtain cook, and as some
one has to remain up at night to
examine the boats, it has come
pretty hard on Messrs. Combs and
Smith, as they have only one person
70 relieve them at that duty and one
If them has to cook for the whole
party in addition. Should several
cholera cases be landed there, as
nay happen at any moment, the
small force would be utterly made
luate to the exigencies of the case.
Bishop Grace had a narrow escape
IN the 18th inst, while travelling
With Father Venn. After leaving
Jessenland for St. Peter, a fierce
storm came up. They had barely
the bridge, one mile below
Traverse, when it was swept away
~ the rise and current of the creek.
The stages could not run and the
lrivers declared the roads impas
able, but Father Venn had a grey
'oadster that defed wind, lightning
md rain, and brought the bishop
md his owner safely to st. Peter.
D. c. Shepard, our esteemed towns
nan and energetic railroad builder.
S man of many parts, as is evil
fenced by the following compli-
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