Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-10-02
MINNESOTA NEWS
New Kind of Wheat.


New Kind of Wheat.
The Minnesota State Agricultural
Experiment station has been engaged
for ten years in making new kinds of
wheat, and enough has been accumu-
lated last year to give seeds to Q num-
Der of farmers for field tests. The re-
ports indicate that the new kind thus
produced will average about two BUSH
els to the acre more than the old kind,
which in the three states of Minnesota,
North and South Dakota would make
a crop larger by 100000 bushels,
amounting to about So, 900, 900. - The
new wheat is produced by crossing
two selected heads Of the best old va
rieties, thus making one head Of the
new. The work is done by transferring
the pollen from the flower of one head
to the stigma of the flower of the
other. A tissue sack is then placed
over the latter to protect it from in
sects and birds. The process is always
uncertain, however, for the new kind
may have none of the good qualities of
the two old kinds used; on the other
hand, it may be better than either Of
them.
Unknown Man Killed.
An unknown man with bullet hole
in his breast was found in the toilet
room of an incoming Minneapolis &
St. Louis train into Minneapolis. The
mans body was not found until the
train crew began cleaning the cars in
the yards, after the passengers had de-
parted.
It is supposed that the man came
from Detroit, Mich, but he had so
carefully concealed his identity by re-
moving everything from his pockets
and from notebook he carried that
nothing but a hat purchased in Detroit
is left to aid the officers in locating
his identity.
Neither the trainmen nor any of the
passengers know when the deed was
done The body was taken from the
train and placed in the morgue to
await Identification There was no
money in the dead mans pockets.
Child Labor.
The state labor bureau has COM
menced campaign in this state
against the employment of children
under 16 years of age during the nine
months of the year when school is in
session, which it is believed will work
a radical reform in this direction.
The agents of the bureau have been
very active for the past few months,
and the result is that for the first time
in their history the department stores
of the twin cities are advertising for
cash boys. The telegraph companies
and the large factories have been thor
oughly investigated by the bureau and
several hundred children formerly en-
ployed all the year round by these con-
Germs have been sent to schools.
Escaped Assessment.
The schedules which have been sub
mitted to the state board of equaliza-
ton discloses the fact that there are
eighteen private banks in Minnesota
which have not been assessed. They
will all escape the burdens of taxation
for this year at least, for the board is
powerless in the matter. There is no
way to reach them. The board has no
power to order the assessment of a
piece of property which has not been
assessed; it can only raise or lower the
assessments made by the assessors
The assessors We're subjected to Sc
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equalization board as the list of banks
not reported nor assessed was read.
High Score.
The scoring of Minnesota butter at
the Pan-American exposition, Buffalo,
for September is very high. There
was no scoring in August, so this is the
first since the~sJuly scoring. In all,
thirty-nine tubs from the state were
in competition, thirtv-seven being from
creameries and two from diaries. The
average scoring for Minnesota butter
for September was 94.6, and the high
est scored tub of creamery was from
A. T. Rookie, of Viola, Olmstead coun-
ty, scoring 81 fat. or quarter of one
per cent higher than was scored by
any Minnesota tub in the July scoring.
Plucky Girl.
Miss Louise Fowble, a high school
student living at Hamline. proved Her.
self heroine by stopping runaway
team belonging to Frank NJ. Stanley,
a grocer. She saw the team coming
down the street, and running out into
the thoroughfare. waved her hands in
the air, with the result that the team
stopped suddenly, after which she got
into the rig and drove back to where
the astounded grocer was.
News in Brief.
The commission men have decided to
comply with the Grindeland law.
The State Historical society has ad-
mitted a woman to full membership,
the first instance of the kind since its
formation in ls49. The young woman
SO honored is Miss Hester M. Pollock.
teacher of civics and history at the
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