Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-03-17
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

center, Saturday night. was Is inches
Manchester students have voted not te
enter the intercollegiate oraterical con
test.
St. Paul Cycle Path association ex.
poets to build Is miles of new paths
this season.
Recruiting stations for the regular
army have been established at Mime
apo1is and st. Paul
Washington officials have virtually
decided not to remove the Leech Lake
Indian agency to Be11a-
Experts Of the French government
will visit st. Paul to examine West
ern railway locomotives
William H. Grimshaw. Of Minneapo-
lis. has been appointed, marshal OF the
United States for the district Of Min
nesota.
William Fl. GIinlsEl1w- of Minneapo-
lis has been na,nesI fo1- United States
marshal and s. J. Picha Of St. Paul for
chief deputy
Chippewa and White Earth Indian
delegations have finished their pow
vows at Washington and have started
for Minnesota.
Minnesota Will soon be partially re-
tmbursed for expenses in raising and
equipping troops. twenty-five thous-
and dollars is the expected first allow
ance
Representative McCleary has recon-
mended the establishment of postof-
fee in Blue Earth county to he called
Perch, with Mrs. Esther Thurston post
mistress.
The board Of commissioners of Wash
fngton county has decided to build over
the county Jail at cost Of $4,000. It
will be modern in every particular and
have fifteen cells
The First State bank of Detroit, of
which jeff H. Irish is president, E. G.
Holmes, vice president. and A. G.
Wedge, Jr:, late Of St. Paul, cashier,
has opened for business.
Colonel John T. West, we'll known in
the Northwest as the proprietor of the
West hotel. Minneapolis, died suddenly
in the office Of his hotel Monday even
ing. He was "a years Of age.
James Gilmore the second Of a trio
of highwayxnen wanted al Fergus Falls.
MIMI. for train robbery has been con-
victed Of highway robbery at St. Joseph.
Mo-. and sentenced K, G.i::l1t years.
At Duluth. Thomas Sui1pr and Henry
White were rMLyirrtl Of larceny in the
first degree. They were drrmen on the
tug Zenith anil h'.}!,n.l >icai flour from
the wrecked Arthur Orr. They were
recommended 10 he mercy Of the court,
L. e. Powers l1;s been appointed
statistician OF the agricultural division
of the census ]Urean by Superintendent
W. R. N:rTialr Mr. Powers. who
lives in Minneapolis. is widely known
as commissioner OF the state labor bu-
reau from 1891 to 1893
Clark b. Elliott. lieutenant Fifteenth
Minnesota volunteers, A. A. Q. NJ, Sec
ond army corps. and Reuben Smith,
second lieutenant Fourteenth Mime
sofa volunteer infantry. have been
named to fill the two lieutenancies al
1otted to Minnesota under the army re-
organization bill.
The. programme for the second an
nual meeting Of the Northern Mime
sofa Educational Association, to be held
in St. Cloud. March 20, 80 and 81. has
been issued by the programme commit
The meetings will be held in the nor
NAL school building, and the first ses-
sion begins at 4:30 p. H., the goth inst.
The new fish and game commission
has organized. The new commission
chose A. T. Williams of Minneapolis
president: Jacob Danz, II. st. Paul, vice
president; w. W. Ward. Fairmont, sec.
Rotary; A. L. Cramb. St. Cloud, treas
urer: Jacob Beutner, Proctor Knott, ex-
ecutive agent; Stan Donnelly, St. Paul,
attorney.
Julius J. Heinrich, state oil inspector,
has announced the appointment of two
additional deputy oil inspectors. G. II.
Sturdevant of Detroit was appointed tc
succeed himself. He is an old soldier,
and Mr.. Heinrich decided to make nc
change on this account. Jacob Cute OF
Austin was appointed for the Mower
county district.
Mrs. Fred Kier has been murdered by
her husband six miles north of Howard
Lake. The deceased was daughter of
Thomas Boxell, who, with his second
wife, was murdered near that place a
year ago. Kier is subject to insanity
and has been in the asylum several
times. 1t is supposed he was crazy
when the crime was committed.
It has been decided that the two ap
pointments Of second ieutenants from
Minnesota on the recommendation
Of Senators Davis and Nelson will be R
c. Elliott of Minneapolis, of the Fiji
teenth Minnesota regiment, and Reube1
Smith of Duluth, of the Fourteenth reg
iment. Clinton Mccormick of Duluth
also of the Fourteenth regiment, has
been designated as alternate.
The population Of the states institu.
tions has come close to 5000 by thu
figures returned to the state board OIL
charities and corrections for Feb. %
1t shows the usual increase over ont
year ago. chiefly in the insane hosnita1s