Excerpt from History of Rice and Steele Counties, Minnesota, Vol. 2 Events Transpiring Between January, 1888, and June, 1910 Compiled from Newspaper Files. The history of the settlement, growth and progress of Steele county is treated in detail in the various chapters in this history. In this chapter, it has been the aim of the editors to record, in chronological order, events transpiring from January, 1888, to June, 1910, as recorded in the files of the newspapers. But brief est mention is given here to each event, and much, especially relating to matters which received attention elsewhere, has been omitted. Nevertheless the reader will find here much of interest, together with thousands of items which may have escaped the memory of the people of the county and which are here recorded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.