Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-11-21
IN MINNESOTA

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Edward t. Warren has been ap
pointed chief classifier of the. coded
lands of the Chippewa Indians in this
state. p.
Treasurer Al Coons Of East Grand
Forks, who is $4,000 short in his &C.
counts, has been released on $2,750
bonds.
Henry Rathbun, a veteran of the
Civil war, who was blind for the last
twenty years, caused by his army serv.
ice. is dead at Spring Valley.
Governor Lind's majority over Loren
Fletcher in the Fifth congressional
district was 1854, according to the
completed returns of the. c%anvassing
board.
A freight wreck occurred on the
Great Northern near Garfield. Nine
cars were demolished, but mo- one was
injured. The wreck was, due to a
broken hange.
Lester r. Brooks, millionaire lum.
herman n grain magnate Of Minneap.
oils. expired suddenly of apoplexy at
the West hotel. while playing chess
Win MS physician.
Simon Clark of Duluth has been an.
pointed by Governor Van SAINT survey.
or general of logs for the Duluth dis.
trict. Mr.. Clark is an old-timer in
Duluth and a we'll known grocer.
The district court of Mcleod county
has opened at Glencoe with judge
Caldwell presiding. The calendar is
Tho 0h1Wfoet nm r41~~l <~n Af.~A --.-A-.
There are only five court cases.
The Farmers Mercantile company
Is the name of a new organization in
Lake Crystal. It has incorporated
with a capital of $780, 900 andSawill do a
general department store business.
Seventeen COWS belonging torzMartin
1venson, a dairyman, were burned in
the barn at Arcade and Ivy:Sstreets,
st. Paul. The loss is in the 2neighboh.
hood of $4,000. 1venson suspects a
f1rebug. : ~
Hundreds of black ducks ,%encount.
cred a driving sleet at Sleepy Eye. In
Leavenworth township six miles south
OF there, many of them fell to the
ground exhausted. They 500 frcze
fast and became an easy prey to the
farmers, who gathered them in by
sackfuls.
The state board of pardons has de-
MED the application of Frank H. Ham.
ilton of Minneapolis for pardon. He
was convicted for causing the death OF
Leonard Day, who was stabbed at the
West hotel two years ago. Hamilton
is serving a seven-year term in the
penitentiary.
The seven-year-old daughter of John
Holland, a farmer living eight miles
south of Chokio, was burned to death
During the absence of her parents, the
girl in attempting to remove a kettle
of water from the stove ignited he1
clothing and before assistance arrived
was almost burned to a crisp.
A. e. Barnes, a commercial traveller
Of Minneapolis, committed suicide in
his room at the Kennard House al
Cleveland, o., by shooting. The sui
eide left the following note: "Dea,
Will. Tell the folks I had to do. this Of
60 crazy" Barnes was about forty
| years of age and well dressed.
The trial of John Grahek of Ely
charged with the murder of Elias
Seatavich Oct. 5 last, has begun in the
district court at Duluth. The meE
quarreled over the affections of a girl
Hot words led to blows and Graheh
whipped out a revolver and shot his
rival, killing him, instantly. He main
tatns self defense.
*Lumber operations in the vicinity o.
Virginia will be, more active this win
ter than ever before. O<Neil Bros. OF
Saltwater have taken a four-year con
tract to bank from 49, 600, 900 to ~.
100000 feet of logs annually for the
Taber Lumber company Of Keokuk
Ia. The company is operating sixteen
miles north of Virginia.
The" annual sale of stumpage or
state lands, which was held at thu
state capitol last week, was the mos
successful ever held as to prices oh
tanned. The amount. realized wa:
$507, 900 and 60, zoo, 900 feet of pine wa
sold. The price was 81 per thousand
higher than v before secured and
the average was $685. per thousand.'
Never before in the history of the
numbering interests of the Northwest
has there been such activity along Tho
lines of logging as this year. The mum
Der Of small jobbers who take con
tracts to get out a certain quantity o.
timber for the larger companies, a.
we'll as those companies who hire
thousands of men and run scores o.
camps, are increasing in Minnesota.
The United States Steel" corporation
expects to move a great deal more ore
from Duluth in 1903: than this year
and will consume four or i've millio1
toms more in. its own furnaces, at which
construction tsfnow going on. It. is jth<
opfn1on of we'll posted lake ore: mel
that the total tonnage to be mined an
other year will not be: less than : ~
600, 900 tons, and that an even 10000,
600 tons is not impossible: '"'
Andrew Haakenson and Levi Ny
stedt. admit completely in q; series o
brutal highway robberies in Minneap
oils. Nystedt, twenty-three years old
is five years. the senior: of his accom-
plice. Yet these beardless youths hay'
~perpetrated a series Of crimes the dar
ing O" which~is, explained only" by sth'
culprits' seeming ignorance of thei!
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