Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-02-17
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

The Great Northern Railway COM
pany earned IS, 300, S65.3S in Minnesota
last year.
Judge Farmer, of the First district, is
said to be willing to accept a congress
sional nomination.
A new postofice has been established
Mayo, postmaster.
w. FL. Maunsell, court stenographer
at Red Lake Falls, is wanted for forging
the name of Judge Mills.
P. B. Winston, mayor Of Minneapolis.
is mentioned as q candidate for governor
of Minnesota on the Democratic ticket.
Architect Adler has made q 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
Croollston, the former to cost 100000
and the Latter $75, 900. 40. d. ,-e.>> 3. , a,..
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 Cloquet Pine
Knot, has secured a 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 its doors
Monday, are taking steps looking to the
resurrection of the bank, to be put in
charge of T. 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 indie .lneut of forgery and was
sentenced to two years and two months
in the state pehitentiay.
II. A. Bruins, president OF the Mer-
chants bank at M0orhe&d, was arrest
ed Thursday, chargd with defrauding
depOsitofs out Of $780, coo. The complaint
is made by the bookkeeper of the bank
Henry Marker, young man 50 years
Of age, disappeared from his home at
Red Wing Saturday and nothing has
been heard Of him since. 1t is feared
that he was temporarily deranged when
he Left the city.
The city Jail at GIoorhead burned
early Wednesday morning. Joseph
Coming, arrested for drunkenness the
night before, was burned beyond recog-
milton. The cause Of the fire is supposed
to have been the explosion Of a lantern.
A Minnesota court holds that while
option dealing is gambling, it is not a
game. Under a Minnesota statute,
money lest 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 tne total collections for the year
to have been $2,654, $50, of which
$3,049.23 was for penalties, $349, ,672 20
for beer stamps, $685., 447.70 for spirit
stamps, S129, ,049.O1 for cigar and cigar
cite stamps, 81, ,S9S.46 for snuff stamps.
$l2, 2,230. 80 for tobacco stamps; $123, ,025
for special stamps.
A permanent injunction has been
served cn the city officials of Crookston
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 q crossing mile from the city.
Articles of incorporation of the Red
River Valley Railroad company have
been fled with the register of deeds of
Polk county. The incorporators are all
East Grand Forks men and that city
will he the principal place Of business
fer. 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 1st of March the commission
will have succeeded in securing rs per
cent. Of the counties. This will insu q
the actual subscription of the additional
sum Of 100000. The amount practically
secured is something over $S0,000.
John White was found in 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
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farmers to haul hay. After he had put
on load he started ahead of the team
to walk home. Going as far as the
and fell asleep. The team went by
in the stack three days and four nights.
He will survive.
During the past year there have been
1886 marriages, GOA divorces and 2, ,46S
naturalizations in the state. Of the
latter 1916 were Scandinavians, $40
Germans, Poles, Bohemians and Rus
SLAMS, l54 Irish, 100 English and Scotch,
and 319 of other nationalities. Henne-
pin county leads in the number of mar
riages, having 1908, as against 1885 in
Ramsey, which comes next in the list.
Hennepin also leads by large majority
in the number of divorces granted, hay
ing 1913, as against 6S in Ramsey county.
st. Louis county is far in the lead as to
the number of naturalized, having 479,
as against 1873 in Polk, 175 in Hennepin,
and 1902 in Ramsey. For the past ten
years the record stands as follows: Mar
riages, 96,93S; divorces, 4,653; natural
izations, 102, l75; of which 56,4S4 were
Scandinavians. 25,055 Germans, Poles
Bohemians and Russians, 9,485 Scotch
and English, 4,146 Irish and zoos of
other nationalities.
A Prominent MiDnesotan Dead.
ST. PAUL, Feb. 16.-E. F. Drake, one