The Minneapolis journal., 1901-02-11
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The controller of the currency has author
lied the First National bank Of Lyle, Mimi.
TO begin business with capital Of S25 coo
A. H. Anderson is namad president, and
F. NJ. Beach as cashier of the new bank
Four rural free delivery routes have been
ordered established at Corning, Adams coun-
ty, Iowa, March l, with ]. w. Lucas. j. R.
Lucas, j. H. Eldridge and H. L. Pickett as
carriers.
The president has signed a bill for the ex-
tension of time for the completion of the
bridge at 0acoma, S. D., and it is now
law.
Miss Helen NJ Hamilton. daughter of Major
and Mrs. ]. A. Hamilton, of Grand Forks
y. D., is visiting her parents. She will re-
main until after the inauguration.
favorable report has been made from
the committee on military affairs on Repre-
sentative Spaldings bill to place Paul Crum
on the muster rolls of the First North Da-
kota volunteers. Crum is North Dakota
boy, who was under the legal enlistment age
at the outbreak of the Spanish war. He
went with the North Dakota volunteers to
the Philippines and fought with that and
other regiments. As he was not enlisted,
he could not get transportation or travelling
allowances home, and obliged to work
his way across the Pacific and pay his own
way home. The bill provides for a reimbur-
sal OF the money expended by him in getting
back to North Dakota.
The controller of the currency has ap
proved the Hanover National Bank of New
York. as reserve agent for the First Ma
tional Bank, of Lyle, Mimi.
The controller of the currency has ap
proved the application of James T. B.gelow,
4. J. Knight, O. w. Erickson, John P Ten
old and E. 4. Akam for authority to organize
the First Na iOnal Bank, of Flandreau, 5. D.,
with a capital of $25, 600.
Two additional rural free delivery routes
are TO be established at Marion Linn, county,
Iowa. March 1, with o. B. Martin and Eu-
gene Simson as carriers. One route is to be
established at Truro, Madison county, Iowa,
on the same date, with T. H. Lyons as
carrier.
Postmasters appointed to-day: North Da-
kota-Williamsport, Emmons county, w. L.
YeateF. South Dakota-Gann Valley, Buffalo
county, J. " Dripps Kyle, Shannon county,
c. B. Parsons: Laketon, Brookings county
|. c. Trasta; Sphinx, Union county, Christen
Rasmussen.
Former State Senator johnson, Of Elyria.
Ohio, was at the White House to-day. He
saw the president and urged the re-appoint-
nlent of his son, Nathan j. Johnson, as In
dian agent at Ssseton, S. d. Johnson S
term expires in April and there is consider
able opposition to his being, continued in
Office. as he had a lot OF friction with the
department officials and with residents near
the reservation. Indian Inspector Gray is
now at Sisseton making an investigation of
Johnson s administration. 1t is said at the
department that this is a routine inspection
and no significance ATTACKS to it. South
Dakota members have not considered the
question of filling the place.
Representatives Gamble and Burke called
al the war department to-day and asked for
the transfer of Second Lieutenant Russell c.
regiment. He was formerly a resident of
Parker.
Representative Heatwole has recommended
Captain John n. Loge of the Fifty fifth in
fantry, formerly of Red Wing, now in the
Philippines and Edgar F. Davis of Zumbrota,
formerly lieutenant in the Fourteenth Min
nesota. for appointment as officers in the
army He has also Endorsed Lieutenant
Colonel Friedrich, of the Thirteenth Mime
sota now a resident of Red Wing, for ap-
pointment in the staff department Colonel
Friedrich cannot be appointed paymaster, as
that corps is already more than filed. Eff
forts will be made to have an amendment
put on the army appropriation Dill to allow
the president to appoint civilians who have
geen military service in the commissary
and ouartermaster's departments. If ii is
adopted, Colonel Friedrich will be pressed
Tor one of these places
The postal receipts for Minneapolis aggre-
rated s67. 209 in January, as against S62, ,2SS
Ia the corresponding period last year, an IN
crease of S4,926 or 19 per cent AT 81
Paul. the receipts were SOL and S4l,2Os
for the two months, respectively, an increase
IF $4,000 or S.5 per cent.
Senator Nelson has introduced bill to au-
lhorize the Pigeon River Improvement, Slide
and Boom company TO enter upon the Crane
Portage Indian reservation and improv'
Pigeon river al what is known as the cas-
rades of that river. A similar bill was. intro
duced in the house by Representative Morris
representative McCleary has recommended
Louis G. Vogel, of New Ulm. and Loren b.
Town, Of Worthington, for appointment IN the
army. Vogel is county auditor of Brown
county and the regmental adlutant OF
the Twelfth Minnesota in the Spanish war
Town was the first sergeant of the Fifteenth
Minnesota. Mr.. MeCleary has also endorsed
Or. John NJ. Edwards OF Mankato as assist
ant surgeon in the navy. Dr. Edwards was a
state normal school when Mr.. McCleary was
q member Of the faculty.
The secretary of the interior to-day recon-
mended the appropriation of $4,000 to sup
ply the deficiency IN the appropriation for the
payment Of employees salaries and the pur-
chase in the open market Of supplies for the
indians on the White Earth and the Leech
Lake reservations
Senator Clapp presided over the senate fol
short time to-day.
Representative Tawney has recommended
Lieutenant Blakes OF the Forty fifth infantry
as the second man TO NIL his quota of army
appointments Blakes is resident of Vino
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