Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-07
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

A successful dairy institute was held
u 6eltraml. 49, = * Is .s
A fire department. has been organized
q Pine Island. r. &C
A New York club has been organized
at Hutchinson 5s-. ~i= %. suz.f -. 81
A Knights Of. Pythias lodge has been
organiizeds at Cokato. .s. Z
~ Pine Island farmers will erect an eIe.
vator at cost Of $4,000 ! =
The total loss by fire in the Yerxa
grocery house at st. Paul was $57, 000
The Elk River Milling company with
. capital Of $50, 900, has been orga !ized.
The date&of Che opening Of the Rcd
Lake reservation has been changed to
May Is
Police raided two gambling dens at
Winona, arresting Is men, and contis-
eating the paraphernalia.
Ole Olson was awarded $4,000 dam.
ages for personal injuries against the
Great Northern at Morris.
Thief River Falls is enjoying boom
on account of the prospective opening
@ the Red Lake reservation.
A man and boy were burned to
death and a woman and boy fatally
burned near Spring Valley, Mimi.
Verill, the boy tried at Duluth for
killing Samuel Den,ars at Biwabik,
was convicted of murder in the first
degree.
A. G. Gray and L. S. Swenson We're
chosen by the First Minnesota district
Republicans, delegates to the national
convention.
The work on steel bridge, spanning
Meeting Scott and Carver counties, is
nearly completed.
Commencement exercises at the
state agricultural farm at St. Anthony
Park were held Friday. There were 20
in the graduating class.
Secretary Smith approves Commits
sioner Lamoreaux's decision against the
claim of the State Of Minnesota to Red
Lake reservation swamp lands.
The Uniformed Rank, knights Of
Pythias, will hold their annual en-.
campment at Cleveland, the officials
taking it away from Minneapolis
The large Touring mill at Granite
Falls, known as the big Pinney MILL
was destroyed by fire Saturday. The
mill cost about $4,000, having ca.
pacity Of 500 barrels per day
During March large amount of
Minnesota railroad lands were sold.
The Great Northern sold 5000 acres,
Northern Pacific, $4,000 ocres, and the
St. Paul and Duluth $4,000 acres.
A cavein at the Vega mines buried two
men and mortally injured the third
The depth of the cave is about 50 feet.
Superintendent St. Clair says it will
take about month to recover the
bodies
The schedules in the assignment of
the P. H. Kelly Mercantile company
have been filed in the office of the clerk
of courts. The total amount of the
assets is $3l7,l12. The total liabilities
are 1881, 096.52. In Mr.. Kelly's per-
sonal assignment the assets were S514,.
S0S.29; liabilities sos, S37S4
A deal between tho C. N. Nelson
Lumber company and the Weyer-
hauser interests has been consummated,
and the property Of the former in
Northern Minnesota passes into Wey-
erhauser's possession. The amount in
volved is placed at about 81, 0GJ, 900 cash
or its equivalent, making the trade one
OF the largest that has ever taken place
in Minnesota pine timber interests
Hoke Smith has decided adversely to
the claim of the State Of Minnesota that
the swamp lands within the ce'ed por-
tons of the Red Lake reservation to be
opened to entry May Is, were granted
TO the state by the swamp land grant of
March II, 1860. The secretary says the
intent of the act was too great to the
state swamp lands within her borders
that had not been, prior to selection by
the state and approved by the depart.
ment, disposed Of as reserved under
some act made prior to the granting
act. Such reservation of these lands
had taken place and accordingly none
of them passed to the state under the
grant.