Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-03-24
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

st. Paul has q c,irfew oedirs1oe,
Minneapolis is preparing for big:
syele meet the coming summer. !
Private Bruce Of Company G, Thir-
teenth Minnesota, was wounded in 20
ton near Manila Sunday.
Private Timothy EnrigAt, Company
B. Thirteenth Minnesota, died ct Ma
Mia March 90 from IN electric shock.
Reports from the three companies Of
the Second regiment indicate that the
organization will be kept nearly intact.
st. Paul's real estate transfers in Feb
ruary show an increase of 80 per cent
over last year, building permits 81 per
cent.
Gregory Greenier, an old resident of
Cloquet, has been arrested on charge
Of forgery preferred by B. J. Summer
field.
Anoka county has young giant who
may tackle Hall Adali. the Turk. The
young man is 6 feet s inches high and
weighs 388 pounds
Captain C. G. Tears of Company G,
Fourteenth Minnesota regiment, of Du-
luth, has forwarded his resignation to
the adjutant general.
Rev. James D. Paxton of Philadel-
phia has been called to the House of
Hope church, st. Paul. in place of Rev.
John P. Egbert, resigne6
DR.. Weitzenberg, the agency physi-
clan at Pine Point, is dead of congestion
Of the brain. His remains will be taken
to Cincinnati for interment.
The county attorney attacked the
gamblers of BemidE last week because
Of their boldness in defying the law and
caused several gambling outfits to be
coniscated. His life has been threat
ened.
General Young, in announcing and
approving the sentences Of the mu-
tinous members Of the Fifteenth Mime
sofa regiment, severely roasted the Off
GERS, whom he holds largely responsible
for the outbreak. The rioters got from
six months to six years.
Thomas Knudson, ex-treasurer of
Swift county, who has been ia Jail at
Benson since the LIST of February, has
been discharged by Judge G.. E. Qvale.
He was arrested on an Indictment for
having appropriated to his own use sew
eral thousand dollars belonging to Swift
county.
Dairy Commissioner Bowler has made
report OF the results Of examinations
of food products, including baking pow
ders and vinegar, made last week in
the chemical lahratory of the DEPART
ment. Out Of II samples but one stood
the test as being what it was repre-
sented on the label.
State Superintendent Lewis has dis
covered that unless there is deficiency
appropriation there can be no summer
schools this year. And some of the
members of the legislature have made
up their minds there shall be no def
cheney appropriation for summer schools
at all for two years anyway.
A memorial has been prepared and is
being generally signed by intelligent
members OF the White Earth reserva-
ton setting forth the advisability and
urging that the proposed pine land sale
to take place next May be permitted to
go ON, and avoid the enormous expense
Of additional examinations and possible
destruction by storm and forest fires.
Thirty-fve acres Of state land adioin-
ing the TOWNSHIP of Bemidji brought
411o per acre at the recent sale in that
county. Another lot the same size
brought SO per acre. Otherwise about
9,000 acres were sold at fair prices,
bringing an average better than s. per
acre. That one fractional section came
to $4,000, and the proceeds of the whole
sale will amount to more than SCI, COO
The initial payments were from the
minimum Of 10 per cent up to ~ per
cent.
Executive Agent Beutner will imme-
dlately institute a crusade against pot
hunters in Northern Minnesota, who
have been supplying the lumber camps
with venison and moose meat during
the winter. Mr.. Beutner stated that he
was personally in possession of informal
ton which, if turned to evidence against
the contractors operating the camps
would make them liable for heavy fines.
He says he will at once institute pro-
eeedings and cause the arrest Of all who
have been violating the law during the
winter. It is his intention not only to
arrest the pot hunters, but those who
have encouraged them to kill the game
by buying it for consumption in the
camps.
NOTIFIED TO CLOSE UP.
Anti-Saloon League After Des Moines
Dealers in Wet Goods.
DIES MONIES, Ia, March 22.-All the
saloons of Des Moines have been mott