Willmar tribune., 1900-08-22
MINNESOTA. NEWS.
State vs.. Express Companies.

M1NNEOOIAf NEWS.
State vs.. Express Companies.
The state will at once proceed
against the express companies doing
business in Minnesota on account of
the refusal of the latter to comply
with the gross earnings tax law. Ex-
ception is taken by the companies to
the bill, increasing the rate from to
5 per cent. The legislature raised the
rate from to AZ, but after the bill
was signed the figure was seen to be
5 per cent.
The last statement of the express
companies regarding their gross earn
ings, as shown by the legislative
manual, is as follows: Great North
ern, taxable receipts, $67,s42.7s, re-
sulting in a tax at per cent. of
United States, receipts, $751;
919.sO, and tax of $1,737.59; American,
receipts, $37,7o2.66, and tax of ST.
131.OS; Northern Pacific. $26,5O0.94,
and tax of $795.O2; Adams, receipts,
Sc, ,406, and tax of $2s2.1S; Wells, Far
go. receipts, $2,497.14, and tax of
$74.91. The total tax from all COM
panies was $6,O56.O6.
Convict Labor.
The state labor commissioner, upon
an investigation of conditions in the
state prison and reformatory, finds
that during 1899 but forty-fve con-
victs in the reformatory were en-
ployed in quarrying and cutting
stone, while the number engaged in
this trade outside was 97O, making the
total number employed 1918. In the
state prison, however, the convicts en-
ployed in the shoe department num-
Der 237, out of total of 1855 en-
ployed in factories throughout the
state, percentage of 1877 for the
convicts. The percentage of reforma-
tory labor to the whole is but 2.31.
Startling Death.
Warner Anderson, laborer at
Lakewood cemetery, Minneapolis, met
a sudden and unusual death while
riding a bicycle.
He was on the street outside the
cemetery, riding fast, and turned to
avoid heavy wagon. In so doing he
ran into buggy, and shaft struck
him square in the throat, breaking
the cartilage rings. He died in four
hours.
The name of the woman who was
driving in the buggy could not be
learned, but it is not thought that
she could have avoided the accident.
New Commandant.
Captain Thomas Mcmillan, who has
been commandant of the Minnesota
Soldiers Home ever since it's estab-
lishment about thirteen years ago.
will be superseded on September by
Captain James Compton, of Fergus
Falls. Such is the result of the action
of the board of trustees of the SOL
diers' Home, which held it's annual
meeting at the home.
The board also elected George N.
Lamphere, of St. Paul, formerly of
Moorhead, secretary to succeed Secre-
tary l. H. B. Beebe, of St. Paul.
Extensive Depredations.
1t was discovered that a party of
twenty-five men from Lacrosse, who
make log stealing profession, had at
tackled the raft of j. w. Van SAINT,
which was tied at Dresbech, Minn, and
removed several hundred logs from it,
which are valued at $1,000 or more.
The men went up in ten skiffs and
overpowered the watchman. After
taking the logs they came to Lacrosse
and sold them to local lumberman.
Heat Causes Death.
While the intense heat of the past
two weeks has not occasioned many
deaths among grown people, it has
been particularly severe on children
and infants in Minneapolis.
According to the records of the
health department., IA deaths have oc-
CURED in this respect and there are
a number more which the torrid
weather contributed to.
News In Brief.
Postoffice service has been estab-
ished at Esqugammot, Aitkin county,
and F. H. Seth appointed postmaster.
Postoffice service has been ordered
discontinued at West Duluth and Up
ton.
Mrs. Nina Larson and her 12-year-
old daughter, of Minneapolis, met
death as the result of S-year-old Lena
Larson attempting to light the
kitchen fire with gasoline.
Little Michael LINEN lost his life
while bathing in the Mississippi river
at Thirtieth avenue northeast, Mime
apolis.
Peter LIE Due and Edythe G. Pierce,
two full-blooded Indians, were mar
ried by Judge Bazille, St. Paul, the
ceremony being held in the room of
the court commissioner. Both bride
and groom have been teaching school
at Mile Laos. The bride is a native
of Niagara, N. Y.
The depot at Long Prairie was par
TALLY destroyed by lightning.
The house of Mrs. C. Stay, at Glen
dora, was struck by lightning and two
young ladies who had entered the
house to remain until the storm
passed over, were badly injured. Both
were seated close to back wall. The
bolt followed the wall down, striking
one in the back of the neck, followed
the spinal column and completely de-
nuded her, leaving her in terrible
condition.