Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-12-10
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

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SOME STATISTICS OF MINNESOTA
RAILROADS FOR A YEAR.
Many Applications for Few Places a.
Summer Teachers-New Kind of front
at the State Hatohery-AIinins Sta
tistlcs.
The new city hall at Appleton has
been dedicated.
Duluth street railway men will have
cooperative grocery store and market.
The Minnesota university foot ball
teams cleared s., 500 during the season.
La Crosse, Winona and tho Twin
Cities are now connected by long dis
tance telephone.
The seventeenth annual convention
OF the Minnesota National guards will
be held in St. Paul Jan. 20.
A meeting Of the State Educational
association has been called for Dec. 81.
and Jan. 2, at the state capitol.
President Cleveland has pardoned
Zepherin Paquette, the Minneapolis
man who has been in Jail on the charge
of illicit distilling.
Several srloonkeepers of Waverly will
have to answer to the charge of selling
liquor to minors, three indictments hay
ing been found by the grand jury.
As result of visits of government
spoilers, six Duluth letter carriers have
been ordered to show cause why they
should not be suspended for lettering,
visiting saloons, etc.
Speaker Reed has been presented with
q gavel made from the old schooner
Algonquin, the first ship that passed
through the 500 and reached Superior
Duluth harbor in l847. Mr.. Nelson of
Duluth was the donor,
State Superintendent Pendergast has
fled 1000 applications from teachers
who desire to secure positions for next
summer as instructors and assistants in
the summer schools. There are about
20positions that have not been filled.
Upon investigating an unusual CON-
motion in his barnyard Edward Brophy,
living near Waterville, found a large
timber wolf attached to the throat Of q
2-year-old steer in the barnyard. The
wolf showed fight. but was driven away
before killing the steer.
Postmaster Castle says that the rev.
enues Of the St. Paul postoffice in
creased per cent during November
over November, 1894. Receipts during
the first eleven months of the year
amount to $5Y, 10s.41, an increase of
16 l:5 per cent over the corresponding
period Of 1894.
By the report of the railroad and
warehouse commission the gross earn
ings of railroads of the state for the
year were $39, ,952, ,220, and the proper.
tional net income was $13, ,672, 1895. New
road built was SO. 9.03 miles The amount
paid to officers and employees was $11,-
322, ,396, an average compensation of
$575.
At tho state fish hatchery at St. Paul
@are 200 whi.e brook trout. They are
,therassult of ''freak' which in 1891
gave *he hatchery three of the white
beauties, From these have been
hatched the 700 and there are now
Matching 20, 900 mere eggs. These are
1.-The only white trout in the world, so
far as known.
State Auditor Dunn has received a
report from six iron mining companies
OF the number of tons Of ore they mined
during the past year. The total num-
Der of tons Of ore mined by these half
dozen companies, all of whom have
their mines located on the mineral
ranges in the northern part of the
state. is 1885, 230. The state receives q
tax of cent per ton.
Police of Minneapolis are hot after
blind pigs, and it looks as though there
might be some convictions. People
who frequent the suspected places are
watched, their names taken and they
will have to appear before the grand
jury. Already Is citizens are said to
have been surprised by summons. If
they tell all they know it will be easy
to secure convictions.
The widow Of Chief Ma Gal Nab died
@on the Fond du Lac reservation Sunday
at the age of 81. Na-Ga-Na himself
died about a year and half ago at the
age Of los. He was an historic character
in that section among tho aborigines,
and he was tho chief who signed for
the Chippewas the treaty of 1854, which
ceded to the whites the entire north
shore north Of the st. Louis river.
A meeting for reorganization of the
State University Republican club was
held and q new constitution adopted.
The club il to be q member Of the state
league. as we'll as of the. American
League of College Republican clubs. It
is expressly stated that the club is not
to work in the interest Of any candi-
date before nomination by the regular
convention Of the Republican party.
Three passengers were killed ON rail-
roads in Minnesota last year, and AZ in
jured. o. trainmen 10 were killed and
ITO injured. OF switchmen. fagmen
and watchmen IL were killed and NO
injured. Of other employees were
killed and 128 injured. OF trespassers
IS were killed and 81 injured. Of 9th.
ers not trespassers, were killed and ~
injured. Making total Of 1o2 killed
nh 4 549 injured. Last year 81 We're
kii1e,,' and 473 injured. :: -
-. The MINNESOTA FEDERATION
Annual sfeet,nE Hold at Winons-Tha
.s""% ,' Reaelutions Passed.
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