Willmar tribune., 1901-12-25
BRIEF MINNESOTA NOTES.

oK1Ef M1NNESUIA NOTES.
A commercial club will be organized as
West Duluth.
The Budd hospital, costing $4,000 will
be built at Two Harbors.
Manuel training will be introduced in
the schools at Mankato.
Bra1nerd has raised the liquor license
from $500 to $1,000.
Eddie Bobst, 3-year-old boy of Min
neapolis, fen into a tub OF boiling water
and was killed.
David G. Housh, is in a Minncapo.
lis hospital because he attempted to start
fire with .enzine.
sion on the Great Western road near
Red Wing.
| A box factory is to be started in MINI
neapolls with capacity Of $1,000 to 10000
feet of lumber per day.
woman was arrested in st. Paul for
assault and battery who was deaf and
| dumb and did not know the English Ian
guage.
H. L. Miller, recently arrested at Jen-
n1n9s, Mont, and wanted In Crookston
on the charge OF obtaining money under
| false >pretences. will return without ex-
| tradition.
Schuneman & Evans have informed
City Controller McCardy of St. Paul that
| they will provide the money needed to
pay In full teachers salaries for Novem-
ber.
The statement compiled by the state
superintendent of public instruction on
state high schools for the year ending
July 81, 1901, shows slight decrease in
| the average salaries Of all persons en-
| ployed in high school work as compared
| with 1900.
Captain William A. Mercer of the
Eighth cavalry, who for three years
years has been detailed by the secretary
| of war as acting Indian agent at the
Leech Lake agency, will be relieved Dec
| 81 by Major George l.. Scott, Tenth cav
airy.
State Superintendent Olson has been
advised by the attorney general that the
| repeating of the Lords prayer or other
| devotional exercises in the public schools
Is contrary to section 16, article 1, of the
| state constitution, which provides that no
one shall be compelled to erect, attend
| or support place of worship.
Al the tat cattle show in Chicago, Min.
| nesOta captured 60 prizes worth 81, 500
and the sale of stock and carcasses will
bring the receipts to about $4,000. One
yearling steer, weighing 1853 pounds, was
sold at auction for cents pound, and
J yearling he1fer. weighing 1,40O sold for
| 8h cents.
DR.. H. NJ. Bracken, secretary Of the
| state board Of health announces that
| there will be a conference of physicians
Of the state in Minneapolis, Jan. "A and
| Is. at which the subject of contagious
| diseases will be discussed.
| A free Christmas. dinner at which II
IS expected over 1000 will be present to
enjoy the turkey, cranberry sauce and
| other good things that go with Christ
mas feast, is an undertaking of which the
Salvation Army Of Minneapolis has taken
hold.
The state factory inspection Of Duluth
disclosed 273 esta blishments, Of which III
are factories. There are 5,979 persons en-
| ployed. In the manufacturing establish
ments there are 1852 men, 3S boys and
226 women, total of 1885, In non-man-
ufacturing establishments, 1909 men, 2S1
| women, 81 boys and girls are employed,
| a total Of 1923.
| The estate agricultural society is flush.
| After paying all bills and making a num-
| ber of small improvements, the 1901 fair
leaves a balance in the treasury of $37,-
| 604.32. OF this it is intended to set aside
! $4,000 as an emergency fund for the pos
sible "rainy week. which is likely any
year to leave the society on the wrong
side of the ledger.
John Bowen of West Duluth, who has
| been missing for four months, and who
! has been given up for dead, is now be-
| lieved to be alive. A man thinks he saw
| him working on the Eastern Minnesota
road.
Henry Z1emer, a farmer of Delano, "A
years old, was committed to the asylum
at Fergus Falls on evidence trumped up
by some Of his neighbors, who had a
spite against him. He has been released
and may bring suits.
The proposed plans for the erection of
q ho11 nd 1,,hh 3o Do,,1
are outlined in prospectus issued by the
st. Paul Lyceum company. The corpora
| ton is not yet fully organized, but SUBJ
scriptions for first mortgage bonds to
| provide the funds have been invited.
These are void unless $4,000 is secured
before April Is.
All the election laws of Minnesota are
brought together in concise form in a
pamphlet just issued by the secretary OF
state. The general election law, the
primary election law, the corrupt prac-
Ftices act, and the apportionmehts, are in
| cluded, with copious index and side
notes. The book is compiled by P. G.
| Sjoblom, assistant secretary Of state.
William Farley, Northern Pacific
mile out of Moorhead. His foot is sc
badly crushed that amputation will be
necessary, and he has been removed tC
the sanitarium at Brainerd for treatment
I'farley is single man, making his home
at Staples.
John Olsop, a sawyer employed by the
| Red Cliff Lumber Company at Highland
| was struck and fatally injured by fall
| ing tree.
| William H. Stewart was arrested JUS
| as he was about to board a train at st
| Cloud for the east. He is charged with
| having appropriated sN belonging to {
man whose farm he worked.
AZ l~Sl -
| been hanging fire for three years at WI
mona, has Deen disposed of by Judge A
H. Snow, who holds that Smith is entitled
| to pay, sustaining the contention that the
mayor did not have the power to dis
| charge him.
Twice within q year Mrs. Harry Lun
don of West Duluth, has lost her speech
through fright. Recently she was on {
street car that collided with a coal wag
on. sne was overcome with fright an<
| her power of speech is gone.
! The sales movement of land in Poll
| county continues to show heavy in
crease. During November there were q
transfers of farm property, aggregatint
| 1929 acres, for consideration of SSH,
bss.-The large new skating rink just com
| pleted collapsed. No one was in th'
building.-James E. Montague has beer
appointed copyist in the pension burea,
| at Washington.
The stores Of Hille Foss, c.. L. Brus
letten and J. c. E. Holmes at Kenyon
! were broken into, but only small amount
| were taken. The blacksmith shop of o
Svenson was broken into and tools Sc
| cured.
| Postmaster General Smith issue,
FRAUD" orders against the Tontine Saw
ings association of Minneapolis. Thi
bars the association from the use Of tn,
| mails.
| The Masons of St. Paul wNl soon beef,