Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-05-20
MINNESOTA NEWS.
stinE happenings in the North
Star State.

s~& o. Ab
Comfy Auditor Michael Hoffman of
Dakotl county received S103.31 from
,ie state as wolf bounty refunded from
Jun IL, 1896, to May 3, 1897.
Ernest Pankonin died suddealy at the
nome OF Ferdinand pankonin at Still
water Deceased was sixty-one years
of age.
nedlcatlon services were held nj the
oiileu Norwegian Lutheran church at
oiarkneid Several prominent Lutheran
ministers assisted.
While j. \. Johnson Of Mabel was
u shooting sparrows he accidentally
shot himself through the foot. INJECTING
q painful wound.
lhe q. A. II, at Brainerd has begun
10 make arrangements for the state en-
caihpfnent, 10 be held there June -, %
and ~.
The Thirteen Towns Fair association
OF FoSston have elected O. l.. Larson
president. The date for the fair WI
be fixed later.
The state prison hoard granted nine
paroles and also made arrangements
Tor the experiment Of manufacturing
tWlne u of wire grass.
Ed Stedeman, a barber from Bcr-
midli, was arrested at Fosston by Mar
shal Holt upon receipt of a telegram
from Ortonville. He was wanted on
u charge of seduction.
The Little Falls mills have already
sawed about ten million feet this spring
and he prospects are that the seasons
cut will be one of the largest evcr made
by the Pine Tree Lumber company.
The windmill and barn, together with
eight head of horses, belonging to John
B1ork, q farmer living a few miles
north or Willmar, was entirely de.
stroyed by fire late Monday night.
The Fosston fire department has ne
organized under a new constitution and
have elected g, /. Hou.hfaling chief.
They will practice every Monday eveE-
ing during the summer.
Devery & Donohue, hardware MGR
chants of Farihault, had their place of
business ~burglarized Of ~revclvers. ra-
zors and knives to the value Of about
500.
The Willmar hook and ladde COM
pany has elected George H.. Bitterness
and Lewis Moline as delegates and
Peter Andrcen and S. Rasmussen as
alternates to the State Fircmen's assoc
citation, to be held at Little Falls next
June.
The Moorhead National hank has
brought suit against Clay county 10
have its assessment reduced. II claims
among other things that in 1896 the as
SCISSORS of Moorhcad city assessed it for
gtp.k which IL diH MOI own
The following corps of teachers for
Sandstone was hired for the ensuing
year: Principal, j. II. Hay; assistants,
Misses nj. Smith, W~oesner. Parish, III.
Parish, Lena Erickson. The school
also planted in the school grounds lao
elms, naples and box elders.
Attorney c. A. Pngcon of Buffalo
was appointed by the county colnmis-
Sioners to the office of county attorney.
J. G. Tarbox. who was recently ap-
pointed Judge of the new judicial dis
trict, having handed in his resignation
as county attorney.
Considerable excitement has been
caused in Brainerd in the last few DAYS
by a ~clairvoyant claiming that the body
Of n boy named st. Clair, who was
missing Two weeks ago Sunday, would
be found in Boom lake with his throat
cut. The boy has o been found yet,
but the medium is making all kinds OF
money during the excitement.
The coroner was called 90 Tyler to
hold an inquest IN the body OF Gust
Christ;anson, a young man who died
while ch~Ioroform was being admins
tered Ivy DIR. a. J. Cox, before perform
ing an operation. The jury's verdict
entirely exonerated the physician and
assistant.
The police at st. Cloud have round
| ed up the gang OF forgcrs that has been
passing small checks in that section.
Chief Wheeler has brought Mary Lind
| strom from Minneapolis, where she was
| arrested for vagrancy, and she has con-
fessed. duplicating William Gordner, q
reformatory convict out ON parole, who
is also in jail now. Another e~x-convict,
Martin Johnson, alias I.indstrum, is
also implicated.
Charles w. Thompson has brought
suit at Willmar against the Great
| Northern railway IN the amount of
So. 900 for damages sustained last fan
while employed by them as brakeman.
| Thompson claims that he was about 70
board q box car to set the brakes when
the step on the car gave way, causing
hin to fall under the wheels, which
raised over one of his legs, which had
to be ann utated.
The three alleged forgers are now m
| iail at Little Falls. Fred Nelson of
| Randall, who forged the name of Mrs.
| Bergstrom. to an American Express or
| der, admits his guilt, but says he was
drunk. George Lamphear, who Is
| charged with forging an order for q b.
cycle, will be given n hearing Wednes-
| day. @. w. Clark, who is charged with
raising a school order, denied his guilt.
! He said Broker Trebby raised the or
der.
The boiler In the Rock saw mill, 10
Gated five miles above Milaca, blew up
and killed James Caulield and serious
" injured Frank Benoit and William
| Vinson. Caulfield was at work In the
| lumber yard, fifty yards away, from the
boiler. when the accident occurred.
The boiler had beeen condemned. and
four engineers refused to run 1t. but
finally one, Herman Prieduch OF New
Ulm. was induced to run 1t. George