Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-05-26
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

The Minnesota Sheriff's association
held session at Mankato. Pr.
Several arrests have been made for
unlawful fishing in Lake Shetek.
Iowa university students defeated
Minnesota in the annual joint debate.
Auditor Dunn announces that there
will be no sale of timber on state lands
this year.
The Central Christian Endeavor con-
vention convenes at Royalton June o,
10 and II.
The state grand grove of the Order of
Druids will meet at Minneapolis to
second week in June.
Mayor-elect Doran will appoint M. N.
Goss chief of police and Captain
Schweitzer chief of detectives of St.
Paul.
On May % Bishop Cotter will cele.
b7ate the 25th anniversary of his Or
dination as priest and his coming to
Winona.
Garfield post, G.. A. R., of St. Paul,
passed resolutions opposing Junge Loeb
ren's confirmation as Judge Nelson q
successor.
The First State bank of Thief River
Falls, with $40, 900 capital, has filed ar
ticles of incorporation with the state
bank examiner.
Joe Wolcott and Charley johnson OF
Minneapolis have signed articles to box
20 rounds. at the Woburn Athletic club,
Boston, on May 20.
The United Norwegian Lutheran
churches will discuss the question of
secret societies at the annual meeting in
St. Paul, June 3 to 10.
Justice CAVITY rendered several deci.
sions for the supreme court ,one of (which
declares that the state is preferred
creditor for its deposits in failed banks.
The officials Of the Northern Pacific
Railway company have decided to build
an addition to the present general office
building at St. Paul which will more
than double it's capacity.
The Minnesota university field day
sports will be held at Minnehaha park,
May %. The Y. M. G. A. of Minneap.
oils has also entered men in all events
and will try to win some of the honors.
Another railroad is projected from
Duluth. 1t is to be an air line to the
Missouri and will tap rich country in
Northern Minnesota and North Dakota.
It is to be called the Duluth Great
Western.
The Minneapolis Pythian reunion has
risen to the dignity of an interstate Gu.
campment, in which the states of Wis.
consin, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, North
and South Dakota will be represented
by uniformed hosts.
The 14-year-old boy of R. G. Work.
man, who resides about five miles south
of Annadale, becoming enraged at his
eldest brother, 10 years of age, threw a
stick of stovewood at him, striking him
on his left temple. The injured young
man will die.
The state fish and game commission
stated that the results of the work at the
fish hatchery had been most gratifying
this year. More than 600, 900 fish have
been Matched and distributed at White
Bear, Bald Eagle, Forest lakes, Lind
strom and Minnetonka.
Adjutant General Muehlberg is ready
to let the contract for the removal OF
the Birch Coolie monument from the
Morton fair grounds to the site upon the
battlefield proper, as provided by the
last session of the legislature. Bids
were called for some time since, but nc
response was received.
The grand chapter Order Of the East
ern Star elected Mrs. A. N. McGindleJ
of Duluth, worthy grand matron; T. H
Warren Of Saltwater, worthy grand
patron; Mrs. Florence E. ~Pattee Of
Minneapolis, associate grand matron
The next meeting of the grand chapter
will be held at Litchfield,
It has been decided not to build the
nine-mie extension of the Itasca Lum
Der company's logging railway unit
next year. The water is so high thai
nearly all the timber cut in the Bow
String country last winter can be foatet
to market and there is no necessity fol
rail facilities to move it this season.
Stonecutters belonging to the St
Cloud branch of tho union quit work
owing to the refusal of the contractor
to sign new bill Of prices. It provides
for eight hours work at $500 per day
and a semi-monthly pay day. Thu
change in wages is only fraction of 8:
cent, but the producers object to til,
semi-monthly pay day.
The Minnesota Agricultural society
held a special meeting and practically
arranged a race programme for the fair
There will be six pacing races, six trot
ting races and several running races
for all Of which purses aggregating ST.,
900 will be hung up. Entries for tn,
events must be in the hands of the sec
rotary not later than June 1. ~.
The annual meeting of the Children
Home society of Minnesota was held a
St. Paul Thursday. The report of tn,
superintendent, Rev. E. P. Savage
showed that during the year ending
May the society took care of.204 chill
dren. The report called attention Il
the decrease In the number of person,
incarcerated, although the population {.
the state is increasing, and credited tt,
change in part to the work Of the 50
ciety in placing children in good homes
State Auditor Dunn states that the re
suit Of his recent communication to At
torney General Childs was q practica
decision to institute test suit in orde
! to determine the states right to til,