MINXKS' 



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of t7.582360.91. 

 v ;. -.,:-... 

 of fS.044.lW.86. The per- 

 fund, invested in bonds, amounts 

 . and the permanent university 

 The receipt* from railroad 

 to I851.8N.23; 

 , f227.712.lW; for inin- 

 on Stale land*. *187.075.60 The re- 

 bondsmen of the banks that had State 

 on deposit when they failed during the 

 panic are gradually paying their m- 



Bto the treasury, though then was 



tin outstanding in Mar atout $1*5.300. 



B4nration. The school population in 1808- 

 *N was estimated at 450,000. The numlx r en 

 rolled was 887361. and the average dailv a 

 M 8W.307. The number of teachers was 

 



BJlre4ft. The Bureau of Labor has pub- 

 ttsbed figures showing the changes in the rela- 

 tive burden -f u*at ion borne by the railroads in 

 Minnesota from 1870 to 1894. My this it p- 

 pears that the relative percentage of taxation in- 

 Imiinl from 1870 to 1885, since which time it 

 has been decreasing. This decrease in the rela- 

 tive amount of taxation took place, notwith- 

 standing the fact that the taxes paid per mile of 

 road in operation increased continuously from 

 -: !-:.! 



The taM* includes these figures of taxes per 

 lie: 1870. 41*18; 1875, 54-60; 1880. 71-12; 



I-.;, i.s,;,,. 



The Ihiluth-Mesaba Railroad Company was 

 incorporated in September with a capital stock 

 of $$40.000. The object is to build a railroad 

 from doqnet to the northern boundary. 



An important ones affecting freight charges 

 was decided in October. Elias Steenerson, of 

 Polk County, began proceedings in 1894 before 

 thr Railmad and Warehouse C 



Commission, al- 

 leging thai the freight charges of the Great 

 Monhera on grain from East Grand Forks, 

 Fisher, and Crookston, respectively, to Minne- 

 apolis and Duluth were excessive and unreason- 

 able. The ootnmissinn heard the case and fixed 

 the rate. The commission's rate applied to the 

 sntiw State, and was : For 5 miles and under. 4 

 per 100 pounds; over 5 miles and not ex- 

 I" miles, 4-95 cents; over 10 miles and 

 ing 15 miles, 4*5 cents; and so on up 

 fee. The railroad company appealed 

 



Tbe court found that the rates fixed by the 

 eosmmisrion were too low to afford a reasonable 

 IMMM on the present value of the railroad 

 property, so far as that was involved, bul 

 ot fix or sanest any rate that should be 



the 



of wheat in the 

 68.dOO.000 bushel*. Itap- 

 than two thirds of the flax crop 

 ' u produced in the region 

 .-* Minneapolis, and Duluth. 

 rfl-meal product is a far row valu- 

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Immigration. A Northwestern Immu 



ntion was held in St. Paul in November. 

 A resolution was adopt << l totheetTect th.,- 

 be organized a permanent N.-rthweMern 



I board, to be composed of representative 

 full the Northwestern > 



pose it fhall IN- to awaken int. rest in im< 

 Hon. The State association orga: 

 Schiirmeier as president. 

 \\,-l superior. The mayor of West 

 rior. Charles S. her. was imp. 



and at the end of a trial that la- 1 

 was removed from office by a vote of 1 7 ' 

 the Board of Aldermen. The charges w. : 

 gambling houses were permitted t.. I 

 and saloons to sell on Sundays: that a 

 had been allowed to sell liquor without a license; 

 that the mayor received bribes for neglect 

 nerforra his duty ; and that money was ex 

 from appointees on the fire department and 



police force. 



Public Lands. A di-pa:-h from Duluth, 

 July 16, says: 



Pour new towns were opened tv>rentr\ 

 States Land Office to-day, and there was the livalknt 



time that has been seen tin-re f,- r many n 

 towns arc in the valley of the upjH-r Ifissinnj 

 some of them only fractional part* were op*n< 

 in many canes the entries contliet with Indian u!i..t- 



Mot of those who made entries w ? 

 St Paul and Minneapolis. The eni.*l: 



DM "!' the men who went thr.'iiL'li it \\ . 

 worn out. One fellow almost fainted, and ),. 

 assisted into one of the offices and i/; 

 order In revive him. Another stn 

 door when h'm turn came, and leaned airain.st tl 

 a moment t< tfet strength enouirh to walk to t! 

 .en he wa> unable to say a word. 



The State still has 220,000 acres to con 

 from the General Government. There a: 

 230 unsurveved townships in the S:. 



The school fund is to receive from the Govern- 

 ment sections 16 and 36 in the agricultural part 

 of the Red Lake reservation. 



More pine-timber frauds (see "Annual ' 

 pa-dia" for 1804, page 489) have come to jj^B 

 since the change in the office of the Si . 

 They come under 75 permits, covering f',' 

 tionsof pine land, on which it is computed there 

 are 304,000,000 feet of pine timber. Th 

 was sold under the pretense that it wa* in 

 of being destroyed by fire, under th.r 

 the law which permits the Audit*, rton-11 t! 

 ber on pine lands "when it i* liable to wa*' 

 not otherwise." The examiners sent 

 present Auditor report that the timber embraced 

 in these sections is Vou i 

 pine in no danger from (Ire. Ii. 

 of these frauds, the derision on one in July set- 

 tles important points in favor of t he - 



Legrlftlntm- Session. The tw-nty-ni; 



Mature In-iran .Ian. v 

 late in April. S. K. Van Sant wasch' 

 of the House. 



election of a United State 

 ceed W. D. Washburn was effected after 

 contest among the supporters 

 candidates Mr. Washburn, Gov. N 

 Messrs. Comstock and McOleary. The 

 date of the Democrats was Judge Mitchell, and 

 of the Populists Ignatius Donnelly. K n u 



