The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-11-24
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

The seventh annual conference of the
state Association of Corrections and
Charities has adjourned. The confer
ence was held at Saltwater and was
very successful.
An incident of the Minneapolis Press
club reception to Governor-elect and
Mrs. Lind was the presence of the de-
feated candidate, William H. Eustis,
who heartily congratulated the victor.
A Duluth dispatch emphatically de-
MES there is any prospect of a coal
famine this winter. The supply at the
head of the lakes is nearly 100000 tons
more than it was last year, besides about
100000 tons left over.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed by E. T. Williams & Sons, the large
government dredging contractors of
Duluth. The capital stock is $500, 900
and the incorporators are Ezra T. Will
Jams, Theodore H. and John R. Will
Jams.
More than a hundred educators at
tended the meeting of the Southeastern
Minnesota association at Winona. Pres
ident Harvey Of the Milwaukee normal
school gave an address On 1.-THE Educa-
ton the Common Schools Should Give.
The chief architect of the Indian office
is making preparations to begin work on
plans for the new school buildings at
Leech Lake and Red Lake, for which
congress appropriated $4,000 and $780,
900, respectively. The plans will be
prepared as soon as surveys Of the loca-
lions for the buildings have been re-
ceived from Agent Sutherland.
It develops that George Adams, who
has been bound over to the district. court
at Winona on the charge of stealing
from Northwestern box cars, is leader
of a gang who have been robbing cars
all along the Northwestern road for
some time past, their hauls aggregating
between $4,000 and $4,000. The police
are on the tracks of the other members
of the gang.
The state board of pardons will hold
it's next regular session in January.
There are already in the hands of the
board applications from Charles Hart
ings, sentenced from Fergus Falls; Will
lam Gillen, sent up by Judge Elliott of
the Hennepin county court; Henrietta
Smaller and Clarence Winch from Ram
say county; and Patrick Markey, SEN
fenced by Judge MCGEE of Minneapolis.
A Fond du Lac Indian now at Leech
Lake, and who was there during the re-
cent battle with the whites, has written
a lengthy letter to an Indian policeman
at Cloquet, in which he states that the
trouble among the Indians is not yet
settled, and that hostilities are liable to
be resumed at any time. The Indians
are divided on the question as to whether
logging operations shall be continued On
the reservation under the dead and down
timber act. ss .-r.
Auditor Castle has placed upon the
honorable service roll of the treasury
department DR.. Thomas Foster, for
merly well known in st. Paul. Accord
ing to the rules of the Office when a
clerk has spent 80 years in consecutive
service he is placed upon this roll,
which carries privileges denied to
younger clerks. DR.. Foster came from
Pennsylvania to Minnesota in 1849 and
was the private, secretary ct Atez>2naa3
Esa43s ~, tue ltsJ f3IlltoriaI governor OF
Minnesota,
The state railroad and Harel ,ouse
commission las seIlg 4 written statement
to Attorney General Cniids that the
Great Northern Railway company re.
fused to answer rtainquestions deemed
essential to the publication of the com
missions annual report, ana asked MN
10 take sach, action in the matter as he
deemed advisable. Mr.. Childs has been
busy several days with the Duluth and
Iron Range land grant case, but as soon
as he gets time to take up Che matter
referred to him by the commission nc
will probably institute proceedings u
the district court against the Greai
Northern to compel it to fur1iAh The M
formation desired