Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-02-28
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i & s. @:@ Tacoma, Wash, Feb. 10, 1906. i
: On Jan. 81 attended funeral in charge
of the NJ. w. A The South Tacoma Gene
terry is very beautiful, nicely enclosed, and
within is found all kinds of evergreens and
ornamental trees and flowers of all sorts
imaginable; even white Gala lilies stood in
full bloom. 1t is practically beautiful park.
Have seen Mrs. Nj artha Negaard and Miss
Hanna. They are feeling very enthusiastic
over the country, and are doing well at the
coy home of Mrs. Negaard's daughter, Mrs.
E. Truedson Of Puyallup.
On Sunday, Feb. 4, I took trip over to
Seattle to call On Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Cold
held OF New London. The run between the
two places takes an hour and a half, lovely
trip, and when the negroes open up their mu-
Sic and sing their favorite songs a passenger
feels that he reaches his detination too soon.
1 spent Sunday with the Go1dfe1ds and their
cousin, B. II. Swenson, with whom they are
making their home at present. Mrs. Sven
son was formerly Miss Lizzie Hendrickson of
Union Grove. Amid smiling flowers, green
trees and ripping waters laughing at the
month of February, we enjoyed ourselves
walking around the yard in shirt sleeves and
bareheaded.
mastadon tusk measuring nine feet in length,
weight 300 pounds, eight inches in diameter;
it is arch shaped and when standing on both
ends measures three feet to top of arch. Mr..
Swenson found the tooth on Paradise
Hill, Klondyke, rs feet below the surface of
the ground in a rich gold gravel ore. judy
ngtrom other bones found there, the animal
must have stood about twelve feet high.
Not far from the shin docL found o,,.;
osity shop and Indian curios. Outside saw
two teeth or tusks of a whale, which 1 took
to be petrified- logs. They weighed 600
pounds together, were thirteen feet long and
fourteen to sixteen inches in diameter. In
side the shop were thousands of relics, most
Indian work, and bones, tusks and skulls of
all kinds Of animals.
went thru Minnesota. one day, with the
thermometer showing 20 degrees above zero.
Now, don't doubt but that the readers will
take this for piece of stretched goods 50 it
may be as well for my own credit to explain
that it was the ship Minnesota, which in it's
dignified and majestic style came blowing
thru the water like goose among flock Of
duck1ings. Other large ships seemed small,
compared with her. After obtaining pei
mission also saw the battleship Nebraska,
for treatment. This vessel is 40 feet long
and rs feet wide.
made my headquarters here with John
Abe1set. Mrs. Abelset was formerly Miss
Ida Olson, daughter of ohm Olson, who lived
for number of years at the west end of Foot
lake. Mr.. Abelset is in the tailor business
and is doing we'll.
Going on street car got in with a fune
raj party going out to perform the last sad
rites over two children brother and sister,
who had been among the victims on the ILL
fated steamer Valencia.
Two trolley cars col1ided on a trest1e on
Feb. 7. had just given up my seat to a
lady when our car and another going at a
rate Of twenty miles an hour ran into each
other, smashing both cars badly. Every
light in the cars was broken. Two were
killed and thirteen injured. 1 flew from the
rear door half the length of the car and land
ed on top of some other victims. A man
standing by my side flew the same length,
breaking his right shoulder and two seats in
his flight. thank myself for the theory of
always taking place near the rear end of
cars and coaches. was not hurt the least.
Got out as soon as I could, and found we
were on a trestle II feet over deep water
1t was miracle that the cars were not tip
ped over, drowning every passenger.
heavy fog was the cause of the accident.
Indian women We're walking barefooted on
cement sidewalks on Feb Z. They were sell
ling handmade trinkets, such as baskets,
bags. etc.
Weather fine, rather warm, with bright
sunshine. No windmi1ls in this country; they
would not run one day in the year for want
of wind. LAKE ANDREW SCR1BBIER