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Show the flr.l Tlimlilng In lied filter Valley, One ot tho Pnrgo para remarked recently, concerning the first threshing down In tho lied Itlver valley, that It waa In Ihe winter ot IfM, at MeCau-leyvllle. MeCau-leyvllle. Clay county, Minn. That la true, and I waa there and helped I wai alatloned at the time at Fort Aber-crombte. Aber-crombte. Laborer! were scares In thoto days, and Ibo toldleri were called call-ed on to help, and wo did IL Gov. Uriels' father wai there, too He waa the commissary aergeant ot Company A. J. 8. Nelson In Mnndan (N. D.) Pi-oncer. |