The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-02-18
MINNESOTA MEMS ITEMS

Ml1N4NIAJOlh lNGH.Y Ii EMD
The Great Northern Railway COM
pany earned q, sos, 355.SS in Minnesota
last year. e~a
Judge Farmer. of the First district. is
said to be willing to accept congress
sional nomination.
A new postoffice has been established
at Earle, Martin county, Wallace B.
Mayo, postmaster.
w. II. Maunsell, court stenoorapher
at Red Lake Falls,is wanted for forging
the name of Judge Mills.
= P. B. Winston, mayor Of M;nneanol;s
Is mentioned as candidate for governor
OF Minnesota on the Democratic ticket.
Architect Adler has made a report on
the Minneapolis convention hall. and
says that it will be the finest in the
country.
Bills have been introduced in congress
for public buildings at Red Wing and
Crookston, the former to cost x50. GOO
and the latter $4,000.
It is positively stated that both the
Bushnells, who left st. Paul soon after
their assignment, to Secure needed
rest, are located at Adelaide, Australia.
Editor Quinn, of the Cloouet Pine
Knot, has secured writ of mandamus
compelling the city council to publish
the proceedings of the council. as re-
quested by law.
The creditors of the Merchants bank
OF Moorhead, which closed it's doors
Monday, are taking steps looking to the
resurrection OF the bank, to be put in
charge Oft. G. Kurtz.
The st. Paul Commercial club is fit.
ting up rooms at an expense of about
$4,000. The club means to make araid
on merchants that do not give prefer.
ence to home producers
Augustus A. Watkins, alias Alfred
Cline, pleaded guilty at Blue Earth City
to an indictment Of forgery and was
sentenced to two years and two months
in the state pehitentiaIy.
II. A. Bruins, president of the Mer.
chants bank at Moorhead, was arrest.
ed Thursday, chargd with defrauding
depositors out of $50, 900. The complaint
is made by the bookkeeper of the bank.
Henry Marker, young man IS years
OF age, disappeared from his home at
Red Wing Saturday and nothing has
been heard Of him since. It is feared
that he was temporarily deranged when
he left the city.
The city Jail at Moorhead burned
early Wednesday morning. Joseph
Coming, arrested for drunkenness the
night before, was burned beyond reeog-
milton. The cause of the fire is supposed
to have been the explosion Of lantern.
A Minnesota court holds that while
option dealing is gambling, it is not q
game. Under q Minnesota statute,
money lost at cards, dice, or other
games may be recovered, but money
lost in option gambling can not, be-
cause there is no game about it.
The report of Marcus johnson, inter-
nal revenue collector for this state.
shows the total collections for the year
to have been $2,654, $50, of which
$3,04S.23 was for penalties, $S49, 672. 20
for beer stamps, $685., All. 70 for spirit
stamps, 1929, 049.01 for cigar and cigar
cite stamps, 81 1898. 46 for snuff stamps.
$l2,2SO. 80 for tobacco stamps, 1928, 023
for special stamps.
A permanent injunction has been
served on the city officials of Crookston
by George J. McManus, restraining
them from disposing of the $4,000 in
bonds which were voted to the Duluth,
Crookston and Northern Railway COM
pany few years ago. The road missed
getting into the city by reason of the
Great Northern Railway company block
ing crossing mile from the city.
Articles Of incorporation of the Red
River Valley Railroad company have
been filed with the register Of deeds of
Polk county. The incorporators are all
East Grand Forks men and that city
will be the principal place of business
for the company. The document does
not state where the road is to run, but
it is supposed to be along the Red river
from East Grand Forks to Halstead.
Superintendent Hunt, of the worlds
fair commission, reports that the work
of raising the additional funds Is pro.
crossing nicely. and that up to date fifty
counties have been secured. He expects
that by the LIST of March the commission
will have succeeded in securing rs per
cent. Of the counties. This will insure
the actual subscription of the additional
sum of 800, 1000. The amount practically
secured is something over $4,000.
John White was found in a straw
stack by William Wylie, postmaster at
Wylie Station, badly frozen. The dis.
covery was made by suspicious being
aroused by the tracks of wolves around
the stack. The wolves had approached
to within few feet of White, White
came here last summer from Iowa, where
he has relatives. He said he was helping
farmers to haul hay. After he had put
on load he started ahead of the team
to walk home. Going as far as the
stack he laid down to wait for the team
and fell asleep. The team went by
without observing him. He remained
in the stack three days and four nights
He will survive.
During the past year there have been
1925 marriages, 6O4 divorces and 2, 4ss
naturalizations in the state. OF the
latter 1915 were Scandinavians, $40
Germans, Poles, Bohemians and Rus
and 318 of other nationalities. Henne-
pin county leads in the number Of mar
riages, having 1908, as against 1885 in
IsdiuScy, WuiCu COiucS dcAt III bHo ilSC.
Hennepin also leads by a large majority
in the number of divorces granted, hav.
ing 1913, as against 6S in Ramsey county.
St. Louis county is far in the lead as to
the number of snaturaliyed, having 47S,
as against 1888 in Polk, 175 in Hennepin,
and 1902 in Ramsey. For the past ten
years the record stands as follows: Mar
riages, 96,93S; divorces, 1858; natural
izations, 102, l75; of which 81, 4S4 were
Scandiuavians, 25,055 Germans, Poles
Bohemians and Russians, 9,485 Scotch
and English, 4,l46 Irish and 1905 of
other nationalities.