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Story of an Emigrant.
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thousand feet above the sea. The climate is delightful and
the scenery beautiful, but the country is not fit for
cultivation, except such parts as can be irrigated. Ilence most of
it is devoted to stock raising, and herds of countless cattle
were roaming over the prairies, the Maxwell Company alone
owning at the time I left its service nearly twenty thousand
head.
In the fall of 1886 I was for the second time elected
secretary of state by the citizens of Minnesota, re-elected in 1888
and thus made for the third time the head of the state
department.
In the fall of 1887 the citizens of Minneapolis were
honored by a visit from a large number of Swedish, Norwegian
and Danish military officers, non-commissioned officers and
soldiers. They arrived by an express train from Chicago,
and were met at the union depot by thousands of people.
The Swedish Guard, Norm anna Infantry, and the society
Dania were paraded outside the depot building. The guests
were received by a committee, and conducted in procession
through the illuminated and crowded streets to Dania hall,
where a splendid banquet wras enjoyed, while music was
discoursed by the Svea and Normanna bands. The city mayor,
Dr. Ames, made an address of welcome, after which several
Scandinavians made speeches. I had been elected as the
spokesman for the Swedes, and expressed myself as follows:
" Honored Guests from Sweden, Norway and Denmark :
"From the place where we now stand the roar of the St. Anthony falls
may be heard through the still night. You are, therefore, far back in the
depths of the American West; and yet this is only the modern gate of
entrance to the great North-west.
"A couple ot hours ago a half dozen railway trains left our depot over
different roads and are now speeding on toward the setting sun, and some
of them do not cease their journey until thev have passed distances greater
than that between London and Rome, through fertile, but, as yet, mostly
unsettled regions. Thirty-four years ago I, with a few other of your
countrymen, some of the earliest in Minnesota, gazed for the first time at
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