Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-05-05
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

NEWS IN MINNESOTA
New Payn esville people want their
city council to pass curfew ordinance.
A 9-year-old girl died at Minneapolis
Friday as the result of excessive rope
jumping.
Sportsmen Of Pelican Rapids and vi
clnlty have organized for the local en-.
forcement Of the game law.
The Fifth district Republican con.
gressional convention will be held at
Minneapolis Saturday, May %.
During thunder storm lightning
struck the barn of liver Brendjord of
Bandon, burning the barn, Is head of
cattle and As hogs.
A coursing meet is being arranged to
take place at Minnehaha park, Mime.
apolis, May T. and 9. Jack rabbits
will be imported from Kansas.
Tramps broke into Keber's clothing
store at Madelia and stole three suits of
clothes. They left their rags in the
store and donned the new suits.
The registration for the St. Paul city
election shows marked decrease.
Both Democrats and Republicans claim
it means apathy on the other side.
The lumber market at Duluth is
quite active. About 1000, 900 feet
have been sold to go by lake as against
100000 900 feet ct this time last year.
The annual gathering OF Minnesota
homeopaths will this year be held in
Minneapolis, the State Homeopathic
society having called its convention for
May 1921.
Secretary Smith has approved as a
basis for patent the list of swamp land
selections made by the State Of Mime
sofa, embracing S6.05S acres in the Du-
luth district.
John Grant, deputy game warden,
arrested two Minneapolis men for il
legal fishing at Coon lake. Justice
Hart of Anoka fined them 500 and
lodged them in the city jail.
The case against Edwin Ball, man.
ager of the Minnesota mine at Tower
for discriminating against union men,
was dismissed on motion Of defense, Oh
ground of insufficient proof.
The Minneapolis Times asserts that
Eustis, Van SAINT and Lee met in that
city and decided that an anti Clough
delegation should be sent to the state
convention from Minneapolis
The supreme court has refused re.
hearing in the county seat contest OF
Renville county. The county seat has
been at Olivia for e year, but Will low
have to go back to Beaver Falls.
Martin J. Spencer, we'll known
merchant Of Otsego, Wright county.
and his son, were drowned il the Mis-
sissippi river. Spencer was an excellent
swimmer, and it is supposed he per-
ished trying to save his boy.
Love Powder Roberts of jackson,
who was arrested few months ago,
charged with sending love powders
and indecent pictures through the mail,
was sentenced in the United State:
court to two years at Saltwater, and
to fine of 500. The jury was out q
hours.
John Leet, an 1l-year-o old son Of Even
Leet, living near Fosston, had the TOP
of his head, blown off by shot from a
gun in the hands Of Ole Rustad, 10.
year-old son of P. A. Rustad of Hill
River The Leet boy had gone home
with the Rustad boy with the inten'
ton Of spending the night with him.
The gun was supposed to be empty.
According to an opinion BY Attorney
General Childs, the state treasurer has
no alternative than to pay the warrant
drawn by the state auditor in payment
for the fourth insane hospital site al
Anoka In his letter to Treasurer
Koerner the attorney general holds that
the issuance of a warrant by the auditor
is sufficient certifcation to the treas
urer that the claim is all right and il
must be paid without question.
Union men on the Duluth, Messabi
and Northern ore docks started a strike
ing the day and inaugurated a strike
which may result in trouble before it i:
finished. The ore trimmers recently
organized union, and when the Har
vey Brown, the first ore boat to con
up, was at the dock they demanded
the exclusive employment of unio1
men. This was refused. and the me1
quit work, which was finished by non
union men. There was no trouble, bu
there may be later when boats begin tt
arrive in greater numbers.
The mining department Of the uni
versity, under the direction Of PROBES
sors Appleby and Denton, will com
mence practical work in the northern
part of the state next week. The en-
tire mining department., With the ex
ception of the freshmen, will leave Sat
urday for the Vermillion range in tn
extreme northeastern part Of the state
and will spend the month of May i!
doing practical work in Metallurgy an