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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1885
Page
2
The Brainerd Dispatch is issued every Thursday morning in Brainerd Minnesota. Annual advance subscription is 81.50. Editors and Proprietors are N. H. Ingersoll F. W. Wieland. Official paper of Crow Wing Cass Traska and Aitrex counties and the City of Brainerd. Entered as second class matter at Brainerd Post Office.
H B Morrison is commissioned as postmaster at Motley. London publishes 400 newspapers with sixteen morning editions, nine evening editions, and 375 weekly editions.
Fergus Falls shutters the Grand hotel for the season noting the town’s winter demand cannot sustain a first class facility. The decision reflects seasonal tourism patterns and local economic conditions in the Minnesota city.
The Duluth fire department advertised for hose samples for an AC bids, and the next day fourteen different kinds were laid on the recorder's desk including garden hoses and striped hose among the lot.
W F Thompson entered pleas to two new indictments for embezzlement and posted bonds for trial. He had been acquitted on six prior indictments on the same charge and faces a libel suit from the Pioneer Press pending.
Signal services report New Year’s night as the coldest ever in the United States except for January 1, 1879 in some localities, while the average temperature matched the record set on January 1, 1885.
At a Saturday meeting the Minneapolis Lumberman's Association unanimously passed a resolution asking the legislature to reduce scaling price to three cents and to publish the books of the surveyor general as public records.
Brainerd attorneys signed a petition to the governor urging Judge Reynolds for an extra judge seat in the district. The writers question the move and suggest appointing a Brainerd resident to better center business locally.
President Colby told an Associated Press representative that reports of a planned via Detroit and Grand Haven line to ship east are unfounded. He expects a deal with the Milwaukee and St. Paul, but if blocked the company likely builds an independent line to Chicago using a non competing line with terminal access.
In St Louis twenty thousand industrial workers lack jobs and eight thousand face starvation. Private charity funds are insufficient, so a plan to tax property owners per block to raise money for street and sewer cleaning and sanitation is adopted. Twenty five thousand dollars are already raised with a goal of fifty thousand.
David E. Swan former Northern Pacific official and treasurer defrauded the company of 30000 dollars. He was captured at Suttons Bay Michigan by a Pinkerton detective while living under the alias D F Edington. Swan had posed as a respected citizen and church leader before his arrest and agreed to return to St Paul.
A letter argues for reorganizing Minnesota districts to create one new district including Wilkin Clay Ottertail Becker Norman Polk Marshall Kitson with Beltrami attached and remapping the 11th to include Wadena Todd Hubbard Cass Itasca Crow Wing Morrison Mille Lacs Aitken Carleton St Louis Lake Cook. It questions a west Becker county appointment and urges Brainerd representation.
The New York Sun analyzes Henry Ward Beecher as a preacher who has exhausted sympathy with his lies and contrasting his former emotional rhetoric with a colder, ordinary mendacity. It notes his attempts to spin new charges against the Republican party and reframe his motives, drawing a sharp public reaction.
Charles Coburn district treasurer of Green Prairie township near Little Falls is believed to have skipped the country with 96 dollars from the district fund. Bondsmen are insolvent. Colinson is under arrest for theft related to a time check of 19 dollars from a post office in Pipe Creek. A body found in Tower woods is a unidentified young man in freezing conditions after a long trek in heavy snow.
Sealed bids by Commissioner Varrar and Gardner for furnishing wood (10 cards or more) for the court house and jail. Bids due by January 20, 1885. Commissioners reserve the right to reject any or all bids. J. E. Wilson, Auditor.
The undersigned invites bids from physicians to provide medical attendance and medicines for the poor in Crow Wing county for 1885. Bids must be received by January 20 and the commissioners reserve the right to reject any or all bids. J. E. Wilson, Auditor.
Frank H. Envinge announces the sale of his business and calls all creditors to present balances for settlement immediately. He requests those who owe him to settle at their earliest convenience.
On Laurel street between Veon's store and the barber shop a tiger eye stone from a ring was lost Friday night January 9. The finder will be rewarded upon leaving the stone at the Telephone Exchange near J. M. Hays' store. Lost also a black setter aged about nine months with a small white breast spot wearing a collar with a name. Reward for its return to M. Child at Ninth and Juniper No. 45.
Fergus Falls crowd of about four hundred saw C A Smith fail to arrive for a scheduled bout with Hafey. The manager awarded the purse to Hafey amid boos and claims of cowardice. Gilbert, the Jefferson fighter, then faced Hafey, dominating early rounds before Hafey bled and refused to continue, leading to Gilbert earning the win.
Regular meeting notes Ald. Taylor Howe Watts Ort present with Forsyth. Approved minutes and police reports for several months. Audited bills include McCarthy wood for jail and December payroll, Hartley maps, Mahan hose house work, and prison board. Finance committee to review several items. council authorizes Pine street grading. rescinds Jas Dewar appointment. charter amendments committee formed. Adjournment by City Clerk Keene.
Ten word riddles published by a Brainerd correspondent will run two per week for five weeks. Answers spell the name of a popular local young man or woman. highest correct entry wins Whittier poems. Submit by next Wednesday to be in the next issue.
The report describes slugger Sullivan allegedly touching a Boston waiter girl lightly with a glove and later assaulting a police officer and driving a drunken sleigh through Oak and Washington streets. Sullivan and his companions reportedly attacked the sleigh team, were dragged free, and the fighter showed no serious injuries. Separately, D. D. Whitney faces divorce-related disputes after alleged infidelity and a fractured family, including a skating rink abduction of his younger son and loss of two stores deeded to his wife.
Notice in Crow Wing County Minnesota that Myron C Gould has filed for final proof to support his land claim W and SE quarter section 36 to 44 township 32 range ? before the Register in St. Cloud Minnesota on February 14, 1885. Witnesses named are John W Moore L E Coon C M Everest and H F Phelps. P O Crow Wing. ----------------------------------------------------------------
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