ho ! WES NEWTON.ndfrom Oar Own Correspondent:j Alex Irvine pays us a visit about i twice a sveek. We are all glad to see ^ | him.\ 1 Hugh ’'Stew art’is at Beef Slough keep-I ing books.i Geo. Scott, the chief book-keeper and j assistant secretary, is at Winona, lie n 1 visits Beef Slough two or three times a! week:3CSbethteWleiIU!Sitilorththis Ifa. by■ J, F. Chapman, the superintendent of te - i the Lumberman’s Protective Union, of ?ar : La Crosse makes Minneiska his head-] pis ; quarters during the summer, In the : Sj . [ winter he scales a good deal; and looks j b} ’ | after the interests of Gardner Baatchel-! ro ! }! der Welles, the great saw-mill men i j-0 ' of Lyons, Iowa, | j.j.’ey Ed Douglas, superintendent of thejfn n‘(r j Minnesota Boom company will soon be ' th j down to visit you at Eau Claire. • He .is | be ng fa red-hot republican, and has been j w| 3te [ howling ever since the landslide took ! an I place. He is employed by-the Chip-j I pew a Logging company to look after i 0‘c 1 their interests on the.Chippewa. j yj! I notice J. F. Chapman iias taken ajf0 I j run down to the sawdust city. He feels j p}: :i trifle .downcast since the election. He j !ir lost every thing except Wabasha j Sp count}’ and the Minnesota state ticket, j j.0Duncan'J. McKenzie is now a high-toner, and you must be Careful to put a handle in front of his name, as ne is now the lion . D, J. He feels as phmd as'iv! peacbck. He is go ing, to have his j “1 ;ar steamboat, “Vernie Mac” ' painted' red j Tii whitel arid blue, He will keep her’ nozzle: “agin” the logs all summer of *93.:' * Macsavs; it will bekind of lonely atJ'Madison, tiut then he. has that otherMac at Eau Claire for company. S '. There is quite a contest Jiere. between j. W. Short and Johnnie Peshon as to j p who will get the Minneiska postollice. j: i’om-er-al-.heitect-laIniri ■A1Y1A!Bei th • af ■PiiSaJaraLeM:m.vilinie,iartre•asThe longand short of it is, one of them ; vil•will get there provided Geo. GentzkowjJadoes not upset their calculations. 1 rt' Short is the long candidate, and Peshon is the short one, while George is aRitaiSt.medium weight. Be sure and send the vilLeader resru 1 arl v,We would like to have a visit fromeitvi:UK : n_.ii. tt_ nil ,• T-1