Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
.MlNNESO NEWS.
Troubled Conscience.

Troubled Conscience.
The Ramsey county conscience fund
is growing. a,
few weeks ago a man wrote from
the East and inclosed a check for
$137.90 which he said was due the
county for taxes which he had never
paid, and later the county auditor re-
ceived a letter from woman living in
st. Paul inclosing $653.76 which she
says she owes the county.
The explanation for this check con-
tanned in the letter is that the writer
secreted a portion of her personal
property from the assessor during the
last seven years, and that her con-
science troubles her. She says that her
religion will not allow her to remain
defaulter and that she has figured
out she owes the county the amount
which she includes.
She does not give the nature of the
property, and it is impossible to tell
whether she has computed the
amount of taxes correctly or not, but
the auditor and treasurer will ask no
questions, and will accept the money.
Prosperous.
About sixty farmers gathered in
the senate chamber at the state capt.
toll, St. Paul, to talk insurance. They
represent the State Association of
Township Mutual Insurance Com
panies, which have just closed very
prosperous year. There are 124 of
they carry insurance to the amount of
over 100000 at cost averaging Slit
per $1,000. President A. T. Stewart,
OF Redwood county, called the meet
ing together, and the following COM
mittee on constitution and bylaws
was appointed: NJ. j. Feaney, j. H.
Pettis, j. J. Sullivan, Otto Hansen, NJ.
j. Rosenwald, A. j. Bornaux and A.
Hall, R. c. Vonlehe, LeSueur county;
F. j. Thoe, of Dodge, and H. w. Wads-
| worth, of Watonwan, were named as
a committee on credentials.
High appointment.
Joseph B. Hudson, the well known
Minneapolis jeweler and art dealer,
received notification from Ferdinand
Peck, commissioner general for the
United States to the Paris exposit ton
of 1900, notifying him of his appoint
ment as judge in the varied indus
try" department of the exposition
Mr.. Hudson and his confreres will
pass upon the artistic merits OF the
| decorated china to be exhibited by the
| National League of Mineral Painters
The appointment is high compli-
ment and 4 deserved one to Mr.. Hud-
son, and is all the more worth while
| in that he had no idea that he was be-
! ing considered and is still in ignor-
| ance of how his name was brought to
Mr.. Peck's attention.
Soldiers Home.
The board of trustees of the SOL
diers' home has filed copy of the an
nual report of the institution with the
governor. The quartermaster's report
gives the per capita cost of maintain
ing the grizzled heroes of four years.
war at $1S1.23. The home property is
| reported in good state of repair, with
! the exception of the general dining
room, which is very much in need of
repairs. The product of the farm dur
ing the year amounted to nearly 5000.
$50, 16O.55. The United States govern
ment paid on per capita allowance
2,376.0S, and the members of the
home contributed pension money
amounting to $12,710.50, leaving the
net cost of the institution to the state,
! $1S,O14.O7.
! Favor the Park.
| Resolutions will be passed at the
next meeting of the Hennepin and
Ramsey County Medical Associations,
favoring the establishment of a forest
park in northern Minnesota to include
the Indian reservations, Cass Lake,
Leech Lake and Lake Winnibigoshish.
| The associations will also make the
representations to President McKin-
ley in support of the movement. A
plan has already been carried into eff
feet by the Federation of Woman's
Clubs. That body has telegraphed the
president it's conviction that interest
ed opposition was at work to secure
the notification of plans for the park,
and besought his influence to bring
about realization of the plan for
| which the federation has striven.
| Commercial Museum.
| Should the efforts of Senator Davis,
Congressman Stevens and local COM
mittee prevail, st. Paul will be one
of the nine substations of the Phila-
delphia Commercial Museum. The
managers of the museums, who have
headquarters at Philadelphia, are to
locate the central points as soon as a
bill in which they are interested has
passed congress. The purpose of the
museum is to foster trade, and con-
gress has been asked for an appropri-
alton of 100000.
| News in Brief.
The long warehouse. on the St. Paul
river front, between Jackson and Sib-
ley streets, the property of the St.
Louis, St. Paul & Minneapolis Packet
Company, was nearly destroyed by
I fire.
Fred w. Guion. was sentenced to
imprisonment for life for killing
james Miller. Nov. IS. in the Office of
justice of the peace in St. Paul.
Statistics show over 1000, 900 pounds
of oleomargarine was used in the
state last year.
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