The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-07-24
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WEDNESDAY, JULY "a, 1907.
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

Oswald henderson, twelve years
old, only son Of Frank henderson, a
well-to-do farmer of Lafayette town
ship, was accidentally killed. While
walking thru a pasture he was
kicked by horse. The blow frac-
tured his skull and he lived but a few
moments.
Olivia Review: w. J. Heaney
made trip to southern sunny AL
berta, Canada, this week, with a
party of land seekers from Redwood
county. Mr.. Heaney has made fire.
quent visits into that country and
has been quite successful in getting
people interested in the land he rep
resents.
Brown County Journal: Brown
county will soon be as tight as a
Prohibition county, after IL o'clock
and on Sunday. This condition when
placed in effect will be an innova-
ton for this county, as it will be
the initial time the saloons will be
restricted in the county since it was
organized. Nearly all the villages
and cities have heretofore permitted
the proprietors to use their own
judgment in regard to closing their
places of business.
Brown County Journal: Mining
Expert Philip Bernhard of Denver,
COL, who has been testing the sands
on the Bier farm, supposed to con-
tain gold, has made tests of various
kinds. He claims that the sand con-
tains enough gold to make it profit
able to mine. He took out $2.67
worth of gold from a half ton of
sand, but failed to establish the
quantity of other ores. The ma
chinery was left here and Mr.. Bern
hard will return in a few weeks
accompanied by another mining ex-
pert and assaying will be continued.
Buffalo Lake News: tits not very
often that I. farmer is seen driving
into town with ton Of wool on his
wagon, but such thing occurred
here this week. On Wednesday
Howard McEwen brought to town a
load of wool that weighed over 1900
pounds and netted him nice sum.
He has about 400 sheep and lambs
which he keeps on $50 acres of his
farm and he believes sheep raising
to be more profitable. than anything
else he might turn his hand to on
the farm. Aside from the ordinary
profits realized, Mr.. Even says that
the sheep serve to clean the land of
wild oats and other foul seed and in
this way render a great service to
the farmer.
1t is reported on apparently reli-
able authority that the Milwaukee
road has definitely decided upon its
track changes at Ortonville and at
Big Stone City to facilitate the hand
ling of trains at those points when
the new coast line is completed and
the fast coast trains are put on.
There will be a cutoff from the
junction running a little west of the
present track and Ortonville depot,
thru the center of Big Stone City
and forming a junction with the
present line somewhere near where
it crosses the Milestone about two
miles west of Big Stone City. New
depots will be built for both towns,
the Ortonville depot being little
west and north of the present depot,
and the Big Stone City depot on the
western edge of the town. This
cutoff will be used only for the pas
senger trains, all freights going
over the line as now existing.
A tramp riding on the blind bag
gage of a train out of Willmar saved
the train from destruction, He was
on his way to Minneapolis and the
proposition of saving the fare was
great with him. Three miles out of
Hancock the tender jumped the
track and was tearing up the ties
at a lively rate when the tramp
woke up. Foreseeing a wreck he
decided upon immediate action. At
that particular point the train was
passing over a high grade and he
realized that destruction of the cars
and death for himself and passen-