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THE DEATH Of €. C. HOWLAHD: | TEXAS AND THE INDIAN TERRI-TORY.Full Particulars, with Certificate of Examining Surgeon.Paynebville, April 6th, 1876.Editor Journal.—On Sunday, thu 14th of March, Mr. C. C. Howland, a .shoemaker of 1'ayncsvillc, and Peter Hanson, a hoy that worked for him, went on foot to Rose-ville, about five miles distant. Ilowlund did not eat much breakfast, merely lmlf a biscuit With a cup of tea. Hanson stayed at the house of S. Flanders while Howland went further to the house of Hugh Jones uud returned to Flanders's after the family were through with dinner. He decliued to let them get him dinner, and started in company with Hanson to return home, the wind blowing pretty oold from tlic north and drifting the snow some. Howland soon began to complain of being tired in the knees, walked slow, and after going a mile or two had to sit down and rest occasionally. Traveling so slowly aud stopping so much Hanson got quite cold, and he would ran on ahead and then wait for Howland to come up to him. Howland, having to use all his strength to keep going at all, was quite warm, in fact perspiring. He told Hanson several times to take the key and go on home, fire up and get supper ready (they were “batching”) by the time he should get home. When within a mile of Paynesville and in sight of it, socn after six o’clock, Hanson took the key and started on, Howland telling him that if he did not get home not to worry about him, for perhaps he should go to “that house,” meaning either the houso of II. P. Luce or W. H. Blaisdell (the first to reach from where they were). After Hanson left him, Howland sat down to rest and Hanson waited a few minutes until he saw him get up. and start on again, then went home, got his supper and instead of going back to see how Howland got along, he laid down on his bed to wait for him and went to sleep; says’he woke up in the night but did not feel uneasy about his chum thinking ho had stopped at Blaisdell’s. Next morning True Blaisdell called in at the slioeshop and inquired for Howland. Not seeing him there and Hanson finding he had not staid at Blaisdell’s, for the first became uneasy and with others started in search of Howland, and very soon found his body beside the road, nearly in front of Mr. Blaisdell's barn. He had apparently crawled on his hands and knees for more than sixty rods in a straight line for Mr. Blais-deli’s house (probably seeing the light), and had evidently stopped to rest with his back to the wind and perhaps dropped asleep, fallen over backwards and there in the cold slept his life away. His face, hands and feet were frozen but the body was not. He was taken to his own house and properly taken care of by his neighbors, and as soon as Dr. Riely could be got was examined by him, and was buried on Friday by neighbors who will miss him very much. The young men of the place very properly filled the place of mourners as no relatives were present, and none have yet been discovered. The report of Dr. Riely’s examination will be found below.Very respectfully,J. W. DARBY.1 have carefully examined the remains of C. C. Howland and find that he came to his death by reason of natural causes, to-wit, great prostration from general debility, and consequently find no marks of violence upon his person.C. M. RIELY, M. D.We huYo becu permitted to make the following extracts from a letter written by Mr. Charles G. Fillmore to his mother, ih this city. It is dated at Caddo, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, April 3d:“You wished to know how I liked Paris (Texas). I did not like it at all. It is a regular old-fogy town. I saw no ladiefc on the street in all the time I was there—r.oth-thing but niggers. I do not think there is a dressmaking establishment in the place, and judging from appearances one could not live there. There are no nice stores like those in the Norlh; all are dingy little dens, aud most of them have a big fire-place in the back part. We stopped at a boarding house while there and paid $4.50 per week. About all we had to eat were sweet potatoes, bacon and coffee. They drink coffee three times a day all through the South.“I like it much better up here than I did in Texas. Although there are but few whites here, yet whut there are came from the North, and of course it seems more like home to me in their company. This is a very rough place. Nearly every man, woman and child carries a six-shooter, and two or three persons are arrested and taken to the States nearly every day. A half dozen of us around the depot are the only persons in the place who do not go armed.“The weather is perfectly splendid. Flowers are in bloom, trees leaved out, and peach and apple trees also in blooiu. I like the climate so far very much.”While on his way to Texas, Mr. F. stopped for a r-liQrt time in Iowa, and says, “Minnesota i* a much better country to live ill than Iowa.” Paris is a town of 6,000 or 7,000 inhabitants and is about forty miles south of Caddo.lie regrets having left St. Cloud and intends returning toon.REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.Reported weekly expressly for The Journal by John Zapp, Esq., Register of Deeds.For the week ending April 8, 1875.First DivStPPRR Coto Henry Burns for nej nwj sec 15 T 123 R 28 w$320Gustav Duebcr and wife to John E and Louis Mockenhaupi for sj lot 0 blk 6 in St Cloud $3,000Alexander Moore and wife to Winter Ja-ques for 22x66 ft of lot 1 blk 19 in Sauk Centre $100Henry Borgerding and wife to John Hiltna for aw j nwi sec 20 T 125 R 32 w $445 John Rooney to John Dressier for nwj and n j swj sec 26 T 125 R 35 w * $175 Peter T Safford to George Goodhue for nj bw} sec 2 T 125 R 34 w $1,000Peter T Saflord to Electre Cleveland for w} swj see 2 T 125 R 34 w $1,000Louis Gerard anti wife to Franz Naegele for lot9 5 and 6 blk 77 in Lowry's add to St Cloud $550James L Gray and wife to Charles M His-cock for 2 acres in nwj Be} sec 15 T 126 R 29 w $25Bernard Gohmann to Henry Golvmann for s} sej sec 18 T t23 R 27 w $500Frederick H Tubbs and wife to William H Tubbs for bw} set eec 6 T 126 R 34 $150 Nathan Lamb and wife to Joseph G Smith for sw} otse} set sec 10 and wj of net net sec 15 T 124 R 28 w $1,200Joseph G Smith and wife to Amelia Lamb for nwj sec 9 T122 R 32 westALL ABOARD !READ THIS ITEM!Goetten Trossen, at their popular meat market, have everything that may be want-A.,.-
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