The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-14
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of General Interest Taken From
Different County Papers.
If you want good rubber boot,
high or low, light or heavy, calf on
Us. Cor stock is always complete.
HEILMAN & DELONG.

lief of suffering humanity ever de-
vised. Such is HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain tea or tablets. H. M.
Hitchcock & Co. 6.
Winston Bros. & Dear have a
crew of men at work rip-rapping
the river bank along the new road
bed east of St. Peter. 1t will take
several thousand carloads of rock to
do the work and it will not be fin
ished before the first of the year.
This work will also protect the
wagon road to Ottawa which has
been washed out in several places
during the past few years.
O. w. Mckee, a horse doctor liv-
ing at Benson, and a former resident
of Atwater, was convicted this week
of using a Cancelled two cent stamp.
He was fined 500. His expenses in
the matter were S125. The govern
ment spent $3.50 in prosecuting him.
Doc. could have bought II $50 good
stamps with the money he paid for
the privilege of trying to save 2
cents.
One dozen Chinese pheasants, four
male and eight female, were re-
ceived last Monday from Sam Full
lerton, state game warden, says
a Sleepy Eye paper. They were
distributed in four different places
one male and two females and
an attempt will be made tc
start raising them around here. Mr.
Mo has taken an interest in this
matter and has also planted a lot OF
quail in this county. A state law
forbids the shooting of these pleas
ants until 1910 under penalty of {
fine from $40 to 500 or 10 to 6(
days in Jail. Don't shoot pheasants
Inside of four years there will be
lots of these fowls around here.
Analysis of samples of Minnesota
river water collected at Shakopee
Mimi, show that the water contains
a high percentage of calcium, sui
phate and carbonates, and rather
high proportion of magnesium. The
magnesium and calcium in this
water cause the formation of boiler
scale that has given difficulty in some
of the industrial plants using the
water for steam purposes. Water
of this character is generally i'm
proved by using soda ash and pre-
heater, or by applying lime anc
either soda ash and caustic soda tt
the cold water. The United States
geological survey is making a regu
lar analysis of the water of Mime
sofa river and other streams, anC
the results will be published fol
general distribution after the worl
has been extended over a sufficient
period to show the range in the
chemical composition of the water
Such analysis will be of great value
to all industrial plants, as they will
enable the users of the water tt
treat it so that scale will not b.
formed.
The Tyler Journal speaks of the
mysterious origin of fire in tina
town, and winds up its article in al
insinuating manner. The Journa
says: Monday morning at about I
o'clock Miss Sarah Olsen was awak
ened by the heat, smoke, and the
cracking of fire in the Tyler bakery
building. Immediately she gave thu
alarm of fire. Mr.. Svendsen, anC
other occupants of the building wht
were sleeping in adjoining rooms
hurried up to extinguish the flames
A travelling man who was waiting
for his train saw the fire and gave
the alarm to Knapp at the LIVERY
stable shortly after the fire bell wa
announcing the alarm of fire. TIL,
flames were soon under control
Had it not been for the sprinklins
rain, the sparks which the strong
west wind blew upon the residence
of P. C. Petersen's, this and severa
others would have been impossible
to protect from destruction. Con
siderable household goods wer,
saved and the rooms of the building
facing the street did not suffer an,
damage. The origin of the fire is