Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-03-02
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

A rife range for Fort Smelling will be-
established at Frontenac. -
Minnesota retail grocers will meet
next February at Saltwater.
w. o. Hillman of St. Paul has won
the state chess championship
The St. Paul high school won il the
state interscholastic contests in Mime
apolis.
Mrs. W. P. Jewett Of St. Paul has
been chosen one Of the vice presidents
of the D. A. R.
Minnesota grocers, in convention at
Winona voted to uphold the state bal1-
ing powder law.
Police Captain A. NJ. Lowell, enc Ct
the oldest officers Of the St. Paul force,
died in California Friday.
An order has been issued establishing
postoffice at Northrop, Martin county,
with Orville Merritt, postmaster.
DR.. Morell Of Slayton has been ap-
pointed assistant army surgeon and Will
The annual encampnlent of the de-
partment Of Minnesota G. A. r. began
at Minneapolis Wednesday morning.
There is a good attendance.
The secretary of the interior approved
for patent to Minnesota on account Of
the swamp land grants 16, 400 acres OF
land in the Duluth land district.
The members Of the Fifteenth Mime
sofa regiment, for SO long imprisoned at
Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla, have
been transferred to Fort Monroe Va.
1t developed that one of the soldiers,
William White, whom the Winora POI
lice picked up Oh Saturday morning. is
deserter from Fort Smelling. He will
be taken back
Representative Morris Monday called
up in the house and had 1asSe,l rhe bill
extending the time four years for tie
completing Of tho dam and bridge
across the Mississippi river uC Grand
Rapids, MINI.
Authority has been g1~tnt,-,l fJr the
! organization # tire First National bank
Of Montevitlec:. Capital, $4,000. c.
/ D. Griffith, w Smith. VI T. Titus,
Lyndon 4 Smith and f. Betzpld are
the incorpora tors.
The Northern Pacific read will build
a new dock at Duluth 800 by 80 feet,
and erect warehouses thereon for local
lake and rail traffic. it VIII also i'm
prove dock 230 by 100 feet adjoining
the Northern Steamship co,npany's local
terminals.
superintendent Coleman of Anoka
and Carmichael Of Hastings have been
! visiting Wisconsin county asylu1nns to
get pointers as to the best method Of
caring for their charges, who will be
| similar in character to those in the
county institutions Of the sister state.
| The ninth annual meeting Of the Mis-
sissippi Valley Lumbermens association
is being held at Minneapolis this week.
The bureau of grades, the price list
committee, the railroad committee and
the committee on trade relations report
ed matters OF interest to the convention.
The work Of recounGng the ballots
cast in the late city election at Duluth
is in progress, Twenty ballots were
laid aside the first day for the inspec-
! ton OF the court; two about which
| there is most question were for Hugo.
The names Of the voters that cast them
were written Oh them.
This March superintendent is being
made up. Preliminary figures show
that there is $3.50, 900 in the state school
fund now and it is estimated that the
spring tax collections available for this
distribution will come to $4,000 more.
| That allows a per carl Of 1925. The
largest spring appoc1ipnment heretofore
was 81, two years ago.
Colonel W. S. K If Minneapolis
died at 2:15 a. m. LAY. He had
been growing wors:- FOR IS hours pre-
viOus to his death and the end was not
unexpected. Colonel King was one Of
tie most prominent men in Minnesota.
His public zeal in behalf Of the Twin
: Cities and everything that benefited
| Minnesota gave him widespread popu-
larity.
+ Deputy Game Warden Henry Meyer
, has made another confscatiOn Of a
trunk load Of contra band goods at the
Union depot, St. Paul. He seized
zinc covered trunk, Of rather small size
and not ii, the least suspicious looking
to the ordinary observer. But the
casket contained, however, 80 pheasants,
6 skunk pelts, several wolf skins and
one rlJ,skrat skin.
A bill has been prepared by Repre-
sentative McCleary setting aside the
l,n,! embraced in Fort Ridgely for ma
tional park, for the benefit of soldiers
and sailors Of the United States. The
proposed park will also embrace the
cemetery adjacent to the fort. Mr.. Nc
Cleary does not expect action On the
measure at this session, but will offer it
at this time In order that it may obtain
early consideration.