The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-08-15
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lin Minnesota.
e, State News of the i
Week Briefly Told. |
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q resident OF Minneota. lis dead.
The Benson elevator has been sold to
the Cargill Elevator company.
1 The unusual large number Of game
birds will make Minnesota hunters
paradise this fall.
The new state law permitting the con-
solidation OF country schools Will be put
| In operation this fall.
\ The shipments from Two Harbors for
| the month OF July were 1,OO5, 900 tons.
which beats all records
Lacemaking and common school in-
struction have proved popular at the
Rochester insane asylum.
| DR.. Bracken, OF the state board OF 1
health, says that the state is In grave
danger Of a diphtheria epidemic.
John Ludwlck OF Minnieska, pleaded
! guilty at Winona to fishing with
seine, and was fined s25 and costs.
The August butter and cheese contest
Of the state dairy and food commission
was the most successful in the series
| IT Is estimated that Minnesota dairy
men lose 100000 through failure to care
| properly for their cattle during the hot
! weather. KS #s
The Duluth normal school building
| will be ready for occupancy Dec. !. but
| there Is no money available for hiring
| teachers. VII n.
It Is reported that the Phoenix Noun
| tain Iron company has made q discov-s
cry Of an extensive deposit of iron ore
near Hibbing.
| The summer school at Buffalo, under
| the supervision Of County Supt zeck.
has closed. The total enrolment was
ninety-nine.
Arrangements are being made for the
seventeenth annual fair Of Todd county.
| which will be held Sept. 10. II and IL, at
| Long Prairie.
The three year-old child of Mr.. and
1 Mrs. James Daggett Of Akeley was
burned to death and the family resi-
| denee destroyed.
| A heavy rain and wind storm broke
nearly all Of the window panes on the
north sides Of houses and stores at BIZ
wabic recently.
Battery A, Wisconsin National Guard,
has accepted the challenge Of the First
| ARTILLERY Of Minnesota for a contest at
Camp I4akeview.
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at Rochester were: President, III. Bliss;
vice president. Waiter Hurlbut; seere-
| tary, Mrs. Margaret Heffron
The creditors of f. G. Burdick s. Co.
| carpenters and contractors Of Mankato.
who made an assignment in 1896. will
| receive 10 cents on the dollar.
The elevator Of r. H. White, at Keat-
| ing's Crossing, near Hastings, was de-
| stroyed by fire. Tt contained about A.
600 bushels OF grain and was partly in
| sured. iss
The first shipment Of the product Of
| the st. Cloud Crushed Granite company
| was made to the Northern Pacific, at
| Motley, where It will be used for ball
lasting.
| More than 1000 car loads OF coal We're
shipped out Of the head OF the lakes,
Duluth and Superior, during the month
OF July, and shipments are continuing
very steadily.
John Wagner. fifteen years old was
arrested at Bemidji on the charge Of
robbing the postofsice at Black Duck.
He Is out OF the Red Wing Reform
school on parole
Deputy Game Warden A. P. Biaglc
was arrested at Winona by the mar
shall OF Minnesota for furnishing intoxi-
eating liquor to minors, The prosecu-
tion Is the result of a grudge.
L. d. Bingham who is In charge OF
the logging interests of Gov. Van SAINT.
was knocked senseless with n capstan
bar by some men whom he found acting
suspiciously on rat at Winona.
Burt Bellinger, the Duluth boy who Is
charged with robbinr dental offices,
was caught at Mackinac island through
information given by girl with whom
he became acquainted, and who was
from Duluth.
G.. O. Westby's residence and barn,
Bethania hall and the barns Of William
Whitson, J. n. Have, r H Gray, Mrs.
Carlson and Theodore Johnson were de- 4
stroyed by fire at Fergus Falls. Boys
with matches were the cause.
Fl. d. Brown died at Albert Lea. aged
sixty-eight years. He was the oldest
banker In point Of service In that city.
(. Moses Cohen, a wealthy, religious
Hebrew, died suddenly at Duluth while
attending religious services.
The Chicago a. Northwestern road
has just commenced a cross-road ex-
tending from Evans, Mimi, to Mar
shall. The actual length Of the new
line will be about fifty-nine miles, as 1t
will intersect the Chicago & Northwest
ern WATERFOWL branch at Hickman,
saving about four miles of construction.
Winston Eros. are the principal con-
tractors, and already have several
crews on the ground at different points
to commence work. Three new towns
will be laid out on the. line between Ev-
ans and Wabasso, and two between
Wabasso and Marshall. IT was but
short time ago that the Northwestern
completed a line from Sanborn 10 YES
ia, in Redwood county, and several
thriving towns have sprung up beside
1t. The new line from Evans 20 Mar
shall practically taps the same terrfto-
ry that the Sanborn-Vesta line tray-
erses, and the new, as well as several
old towns, are feeling somewhat appre-
hensive as to what effect the proposed
new lire win hare on them In bust
ness way. The steel on the Evans
Marshall line is expected to be laid be-
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