The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-03-10

appeal.
A party of IL prospectors has gone
from Dawson this state, to the Copper
river country.
The senate committee on public build
ings favors the enlargement OF the ST.
Paul building.
Companies Of the Minnesota national
guard will be inspected the last half OK
April and first of May.
Judge Vanderburgh, the veteran
Minnesota jurist, is dead. He had BEEN
on district and supreme benches 3o
years.
Special Commissioners Oar Hall has
gone to the Mile Laos reservation to-
induce the Indians to remove to White
Earth.
Fire destroyed the building owned by
the Young Mems Investment company
at Mankato. The building cost $34, 00U
and was insured for $lS,5OO.
The Winona Trade Council has de-
cided to draw up memorial for presen-
tation to the city council requesting the
establishment of free public baths.
Henry T. Welles. one of Minneapo-
lis oldest and most respected citizens.
is dead, after an illness of several years
The trouble which finally resulted in
his death was heart failure.
Mrs Ellen r. Mendenhau of Duluth
has been granted a divorce from Luther
Mendenhall on the ground of desertion-
Mr.. Mendenhall filed an affidavit adj
hitting the truth of the charge.
Winona lumbermen report rather a,
light cut in the pineries this winter
The Empire Lumber company has put
in about 10, 900, 900 feet of logs and the
Laird. Norton company 10000, 900 feet
The Omaha road has put in through
tariff on -four with the trunk lines from
Minneapolis to New York of 81 cents
on flour to New York for export, and
% cents to New York on -four for
domestic sale.
A new disease has broken out in the
lumber camps among the horses, and
so general has it become and SO fatal is
it in it's effects that steps have BEEN
taken to investigate it. A slight scratch
develops into fostering sore, and the
animal soon dies.
The capitol commissioners held their
regular monthly meeting at St. Paul
and passed estimates for contractors,
who take charge of the erection now
The Butler-Ryan company has begun
at the top of the foundation and the
capitol site has assumed busy appear
ance. sss
Fire destroyed the large -four mill of
Cargill & Fall at Houston. The capac-
ity of the mill was $50 barrels daily. A
large quantity of wheat, -four and
other millstuffs was destroyed and sew
eral Milwaukee cars on the track were
burned. The loss is estimated at $780,
600; insured for half.
Five St. Paul retail houses, Field.
Schlick & Co., Manufacturer Bros
ochuneman & Evans, the Plymouth
and the Golden Rule have refused to-
pay the personal property taxes assessed
against them on the ground that the
increases in the assessments made by
the local board of equalization were
arbitrary and unfair.
State Auditor Dunn is now at work
on the selection of state lands to be sold
this year. Ee expects to dispose of a.
large amount of state lands in the
spring and summer, especially in the
western, northwestern and southwest
ern portions of the state. He has not
yet fixed the dates of the sales or de-
cided on the counties in which the
lands will be sold.
1t has been definitely decided that
Luther seminary. whose buildings at
Robbinsdale. in Minneapolis, were de-
stroyed by fire some time ago, will be
moved to Hamline, President J. j. Hill
of the Great Northern railway having
delivered to the synod, for the Norwe-
gian Evangelical Lutheran church in
America, a warranty deed to four
acres on Smelling avenue near the Ham
line university buildings.
The state encampnent of the G. A. r.
elected the following officers: Conn
mander, e, w. Mortimer, Minneapolis
senior vice commander, D. B. Searles,
St.. Cloud; junior vice commander,
Daniel A. Morrison, Rochester; chap
lain, John A. Henry, Anoka. The
council of administration was reelected
The Woman's Relief Corps selected
Mrs. Mary A. Silloway of Minneapolis
for president for the ensuing year, and
the Ladies of the G. A. R. named Mrs.
Julial Lobdell, also of Minneapolis, for
presiding officer of their organization
Ess . + 4 : ast
Governor Clough is having prepared
q statement showing the cost of car
fying on the government of Minnesota
since 1887. The information is for
Governor Scofeld of Wisconsin, who is,
compiling statistics relative TO the cost
of the Wisconsin government and
wishes to compare the cost of running
his state with that in other states. The
list that is being prepared for the gov
ernor shows the cost to have been as
follows:
1907 q, -Sc, fro ~