The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-12-30
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

LUCALs NEWS ITEMS.
Editor Hoskins of the Alliance .Advo-
cate, of Fergus Falls, has been Judged
insane
The Eliza made another trip to Du:
luth this week, returning Thursday af-
ternoon. s. ss<z. :.
I'd A regular meeting Of the board of
county commissioners will be held at
the court house next Monday. ~
Auditor Fisher returned from Duluth
on the Eliza Thursday afternoon. He
now suffering from severe attack of
the grip which he contracted while in
Duluth,
At the election held in Chicago on
Tuesday of last week John F, Hopkins,
the Democratic candidate for mayor, was
elected to serve out the unexpired term
of the late Carter H. Harrison.
West Duluth, more approp riately
known as 'The Pittsburg of the North
west" will BE- welded to the City of Du-
luth next Monday. The engag ement
dates back to the time of the ATTEMPTED
abduction by the latter three years ago.
The many friends Of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
DeLacy Wood will be glad to learn that
Mercedes, their eldest daughter, who is
so sorely afflicted with that dread dis
ease, consumption, is improving under
the famous Amick treatment. That she
may continue to improve until she has
entirely recovered is our sincere wish.
The city council of Mankato, Kan:, to
increase depleted funds in the city treas
Iury. recently passed 11nanimou sly an or
.dlnance making it nuisence for any
person. man, woman or child, to hereaf-
ter whistle or sing "After the Ball' be-
tween the hours OF 6 a. M and 10 o. m .
The offense is punished by fine of so
cents for each performance.
Mayor O'Keefe of Ashland declares
that he will be compelled to discharge
the police force, the fire departm ent and
other city employees, cut off the electric
lighting and bring the expenses down to
suit the city's income, unless the taxpay.
ers pay up more promptly. Money is
short in the city treasury and running
expenses cannot be paid I'm less more
comes in.
{; A laboring man few days ago applied
az the office of the Street Railway com
pany for work, saying that he had wife
and four children who were starving.
They gave him some work shoveling
snow around the barn. That night the
late heavy snow storm came, and the
next morning when he returned to work
he made this candid acknowledgement:
1.-The Lord heard my prayer and gave us
!, aaoEe snow."-West Duluth San.
The next annual meeting of the Ma
tional Educational association will be
held in Duluth, word having been receiv-
ed that the executive committee has vot-
ed in favor of that city, which must pay
the expenses of the execu tive committee
while there, publish the official bulletin
OF the proceedings, provide sufficient
halls for the meetings and procure the
usual reduction of rates from the rail-
{rroad. All these conditions will be &C.
cepted and carried out.
Mr.. Proctor of Vermont has introduced
ia bill in the Senate to. annex the terrific
'ry OF Utah to the state of Nevada It
twas referred to the committee on terri.
tories. The bill will probably be op-
posed in the senate by it's old antagon-
list, the Ladies' Home Missionary society.
The members Of this society take excep-
ton to the statement that polygamy is
dead in Utah, and say that, on the con-
Etrary they have positive inform alton
that the opposite is the case. The in
formation is that the practice is not car
irled on as openly as formerly, but in the
!places remote from the towns and the
scenters of habitation, there is little or
oabatement of the custom.
: The greatest rush in the history of
the Duluth land office came off this
i: morning, when township Ola was open
led for entry. The ne " town is in Cook
county, little over twenty miles north
west of Grand Marais, and the land in it
is chiefly valuable for the timber on it.
When the land Office opened at 9 o'clock
there were nearly one hundred men in
line and the crowd on the land Office
. tioor numbered fully $50 men: The So
:lections were made with considerable
trapidity, SO entries being recorded UP to
:.ll:3O. The entries we're divided about
equally between the homesteadsa and tim
Der and stone claims. Many of the men
!: who took up lands came from distant
parts OF the state.-Duluth Common
wealth Of the 21st. 81
K When the land Office opened on the
snoring Of the 22nd there were seventy
amen in line waiting to file timber lands
in 62-4 About forty filings vera mada