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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1894
Page
1
The supreme court denies the motion for a new trial in the land tax dispute. Itasca Lumber Co faces suits to recover 74500 dollars claimed for illegally cut logs in Itasca county. Public figures ponder political shifts and pine land probes draw anticipated sensational suits against lumber firms.
Winnipeg reports a major lumber syndicate that controls the Lake of the Woods trade and parts of northern Minnesota intends to build a railroad to Winnipeg to cut transport costs. The group seeks a grant of 1000 dollars per mile from the Manitoba legislature.
A Minneapolis lumberman platted a new town named Hiawatha on the upper Mississippi. The site lies fifty miles upriver from Aitkin in Itasca County near the Duluth Mississippi River and Northern railroad where the logging road of Michigan and Weyerhaeuser reaches the river at Swan River mouth.
Excitement grows as Vermillion Iron Journal notes road work to Rainy Lake City advancing with 80 men at the site. J Hallet & Co of Brainerd plan to bring 20,000 pounds of merchandise to Rainy Lake City to support a new townsite and stores. D G Cash presides over a firm of investors from Duluth Minneapolis and Chicago backing the enterprise. A booming influx of workers and teams swells the population toward 400 as two small restaurants open and a grand hotel nears completion.
The Minneapolis Tribune reports a plan to join the Brainerd and Northern Minnesota railroad to a new system extending from Minneapolis northward through Itasca and Itasca’s Mills Lacs counties to Brainerd. The project envisions routing east of Leech Lake to Grand Rapids then northeast to Rainy Lake gold fields with local aid likely, Itasca offering about 100000 dollars. Maj. R. Jones leads the push with a review by executives from the Minneapolis & St. Louis and other firms, who praise feasibility and expect rapid progress.
A Poughkeepsie man took a friend home for lunch without his wife’s knowledge. After four oysters each had been eaten the husband urged more, the wife groaned, the guest refused, and the couple quarreled over the last remaining supply. The husband apologized admitting he forgot.
A Melbourne newspaper recounts a shopkeeper who hired a Celestial to paint a Chinese language sign to boost trade. The sign failed to entice Chinese emigrants until a higher payment yielded an English render reading Dont buy any thing here storekeeper rogue.
The Weyerhauser saw mill at Rock Island Illinois was totally destroyed by fire on Monday. G A R members of Aitkin enjoyed a masquerade on Washington's Birthday. The Little Falls Transcript congratulates Celestine Sylvester on his wife giving her time. August Jahn, accused of killing J T Stanley near St Cloud, bound over for second degree murder with self defense suggested. Reverend W E H Ware of Cloquet Minnesota, pastor, suffering nervous prostration, moved to St Paul hospital with Dr Allen. St Cloud Times ran a want ad from a Stearns County young lady seeking wet nurse position and now chased by the outfit. An Indian in Aitkin County jailed for deer killing outsized by a sixty day term. Indians in area reportedly slaughtering deer daily.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat notes a theoretical puzzle: a train at 60 mph with a rear cannon firing a ball at 60 mph opposite the train’s motion. It asks whether their speeds cancel so the ball drops as if from a stationary platform or if another outcome occurs, a paradox yet to be solved experimentally.
In a dialogue from Texas Siftings a man named Mr Harlem Heights confronts Mr Uptown Boulevard about his shift in stance toward Cortland Street and his consent to Cortland Street’s marriage to Boulevard’s daughter. The talk centers on vengeance through family ties and a mother in law gained via marriage.
An artist famed for portraits, while forging a presentment of a lady, noted she tried to purse her lips. He quipped that he would draw her face without a mouth if she preferred.
Delinquent real estate taxes for Crow Wing County Minnesota year 1892 remain unpaid as of January 1894. The court clerk requires owners to file defenses by March 20 184 to avoid judgment for taxes penalties and costs. Also includes misc short notes on remarriage in New York and historic curiosities.
In the matter of the estate of Zillah Goss deceased a last will instrument is presented for probate Thomas Blackburn sole executor petitions for letters testamentary hearing set for March Sth 1804 at 10 oclock a.m. notices to interested parties to publish in the Brainerd Dispatch for three weeks prior to the hearing.
The Crow Wing County Court in Brainerd orders a discharge hearing for insolv ent H Rosenblatt. Judge Geo W Molland is absent. hearing set for March 19 1894 at opening court and publication required for three weeks in the Brainerd Dispatch.
U S Land Office St Cloud Minn Feb 19 1894 summons Martin Johnson vs Adolph Irwick for abandonment of Homestead No 15948 dated Oct 28 1892 in Crow Wing County Minn to appear Apr 4 1894 at 10 am in Brainerd to respond and testify. hearing set Apr 24 1894 10 am to examine testimony and render decision.
Land Office at St. Cloud Minnesota gives final proof notice for John A Decoster H E No 13782 for NE Sec 6 Township 43 Range 2 Brainerd Crow Wing County Minnesota. Proof to be made before Clerk of District Court A F Akerman March 5 1894 witnesses Milton Gorton Arthur Gorton John Racy Polite Harmon all Brainerd Minnesota.
Land Office notice dated January 19 1804 states Andrew Stafford heir of Delia S Lake deceased seeks final proof March 3 1894 before F Alderman Clerk District Court Brainerd Minn. He lands claim NY SW and SE SW section 18 township 45 range 2s with witnesses Archibald Shepard Irath Shew at Brainerd address Bartos Register
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