Mower County transcript., 1900-01-24
NEWS IN MINNESOTA IA

NEWS IN MINNESOTA ia,
st. Paul telephone girls have formed
. union.
Rev. 9. L. Diven, pastor of Unitv
church st. Paul, died of peritonitis,
The Minnesota grind lodge A. F. and
A. NJ: began its annual meeting at St.
Paul Wednesday.
The New Ulm board of education has
decided to erect new high school build
ing to cost $4,000.
The Minnesota State Editorial associ.
| alton will hold it's annual meeting at
Minneapolis Feb. Is and 16.
The annual convention of the Mime
sofa district of the turnverein was held
at St. Paul Saturday and Sunday.
Alonzo Brandenburg of Fergus Falls
has been elected grand master by the
Masonic grand lodge of Minnesota.
oe60Ao Ii 0A0 uOItucIu part or the
state complain of the mild weather
which makes hauling extremely diff
cult.
The annual breakfast of the State
Federation of Women's Clubs will be
eaten at the Ryan hotel, St. Paul,
Feb. 10.
The civic league of St. Paul has
adopted "white list" of licensed milk
men, and urges that others be not pa-
tronized.
Game Warden Myerding seized big
tin trunk containing 50 prairie chickens
from the north consigned to R. E. Cobb
& Co., St. Paul.
Captain Masterman of the Saltwater
company in the First (Thirteenth Min
nesota) has resigned from the national
guard, having removed to Dorchester,
Mo.
The fair and festival at White Earth,
under the auspices Of the Ladies' Catho-
lie Benevolent society, and for the ben
eft Of St. Benedict's mission church
orphanage, was a success socially and
financially. The proceeds were nearly
600.
The Northern Pacific has purchased
the Miller dock in Duluth, 760 feet long
and 2S7 feet wide, for $217,O0O. The
company will improve the property with
warehouses to accommodate it's west
bound business, which has outgrown
present. facilities.
Wardens of the fish and game COM
mission report that they have destroyed
something like 60 fish houses on the ice,
IA on Pine lake in Pine county, as many
on Fairy lake near Sauk Center, and
sthers on Cannon lake in Rice, Osakis
and Sarah in Grant and others.
Auditor Dunn has issued general
circular to county auditors directing at
tention to the provisions of the general
tax law provided for by the last legisla-
ture. The circular holds that absolute
sales of property upon which taxes are
due must be suspended until after the
clearance sale in lieu of full paymenttof
taxes, interest and penalties, and that
there can be no transfers.
A decision Of interest to the printing
fraternity has been filed by Judge Jag
gard in the district court at St. Paul.
It was in the case of the Allied Printing
Trades council against J. E. Dempsey
and E. G. Whittlesey, permanently re-
straining the defendants from further
using the union label of the Printing
Trades council and ordering the delivery
of the labels to the officers of the conn
Gil.
The celebrated Anderson tax case, in
volving the constitutionaGty of the act
Of 1895 Of the legislature of Minnesota,
directing the taxation of all railroad
lands in the same manner as other prop
erty, was argued before the United
States supreme court on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday of this week
on appeal from the supreme court of
Minnesota. The case is now under ad-
visement.
w. H. Cook, Henry Turrisli and a
Wisconsin man have bought 200, ,O0O. 900
feet in township So, range IL and nei gh-
boring towns in st. Louis county from
Avery, the Detroit pine land man. The
consideration was 100000. Another
deal is the purchase of 10000 feet in
Cook county along the line of the Port
Arthur, Duluth and Western railway
by Rupp & Keer and j. w. Millen from
Wright & Davis and others. The price
paid was $65, 900.
Friday afternoon genuine timber
wolf made it's appearance in Hawthorne
park, at Thirteenth street and Haw-
thorne avenue, in the very heart of
Minneapolis. A butcher boy first no.
ticed the animal runnino thro,,c oh tho