Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

poStmaSCef at Ada.
Three young wolves were captured
by William Waggoner, six miles west
of Northfield.
Navigation was opened at Duluth by
the steamer Hunter departing for
Grand Marias.
License has been raised at Two Har-
bors to $1,000. The liquor dealers OBJ
:ect and will go out of business.
The Northwestern Photographic AS
sociation will hold it's annual conven-
ton in Minneapolis next September.
Herman Leighton, well known as a
lumberman and logger throughout the
state, has hled a petition in bank
ruptcy.
-Four barns, belonging in Linwood
place, st. Paul, were destroyed by fire
yesterday morning as a result of rub
bish fires.
The St. Cloud branch of the Granite
cutters National union has served no.
tice on all employers that the scale of
wages after June ~ will be $3.25 per
day of eight hours, instead of So.
Five cars We're loaded at Browns
dale with emigrant supplies, repre-
senting eight families. The cars will
leave tonight over the Milwaukee to
st. Paul, thence over the 500 to Minot,
n. D.
Carlton county is excited about gold.
NJ. L. Fay OF Virginia and several 9TH
el Mesaba range iron explorers, have
become interested, and Captain Fay
has four crews in the field south of
Carlton sinking shafts.
Fred Bohanon, butcher, 40 years
of age, residing with his wife and
three children at 1916 Washington ave-
nue. n, Minneapolis, shot himself be-
hind the right ear with 80 calibcr
revolver in his home.
About 2c0 retail saleswomen met
and perfected an organization to be
known as the Minneapolis Retail
Salesladies' association, No. 55l. The
exercises were conducted by Miss En-
ma Lalnphere of Denver, COL, national
organizer Of the association.
John a. Chandler, the dean of west
ern railway men, general agent for the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, died
at his home, 229 l.. Tenth street, St.
Paul. Mr.. Chandler had spent forty
five Of his sevcnty-one years with the
Milwaukee road.
Professor w. II. Manwaring, a mem
Der Of the normal school faculty last
year, who is studying in Johns Hop
kins university, has been appointed
to the chair of physics and chemistry
in the Eastern Illinois state summer
school at Charleston, Ill.
Half a million railroad ties are be-
ing sent from the shores of Lake SUI
perior into Mexico, the longest haul
shipment of such material ever made
They are consigned to the Mexican
Central railroad for use in the central
part of Mexico.
The state dairy and food depart.
ment is sending out blanks for the
creamery sccretary's annual report
from which are compiled the depart
ment's figures regarding the cream
cry industry Of the state. There are
nearly 700 creAmeries in the state
and Il blank is sent to each.
St. Paul may lose next years poul.
try show, unless a place more suitable
than the old Auditorium is secured
The Minnesota State Poultry associa
ton, at it's annual meeting decided te
allow the executive committee to Sc
lect a location for the exhibit in 1908
The Mankato &, st. Peter Railway
and Lighting company was organized
at a meeting of citizens to build ar
electric street railway in Mankato
with suburban line to St. Peter by
the way of Kasota, and also to con
struct an electric lighting and gas
plant.
The women of Kenyon village were
largely responsible for the favorable
result of un election to vote $4,000
bonds for a new school building
There had been some strong opposi
ton promised, and to meet this. thu
ladies of the Round Table club quiet
ly organized and marched thirty
strong in a body to the polls. The op
position wilted and the bond issue car
ried by 81 to 5 votes.
Former Governor John Lind ha!
purchased the 16O-acre U'Brien farm
at Lake Minnewashta, just over thu
line in Carver county. The farm il
two miles from Excelsior. It is wei
developed and has large sugar bush
Jacob Johnston, farmer residing
near Tomah, Wis, was killed. at Ores
bach, q few miles below Winona, by
being run over by a Milwaukee, switch
engine.
Frank X. Chabot, inspector of build
| ings for the Omaha railroad, fell thir
| ty feet from the top of new build
| ing being constructed near the Oman:
shops, St. Paul, and received probabl,
fatal injuries.
Because oscar Johnson bought :
new pair of shoes to attend caste
! services Sunday, his father, Joh1
johnson, hanged himself in the rea
| of his home at st. Paul.
The Washburn-Crosby Milling Com
pany has given up, for the present a
least, the proposition of milling Can
| adian wheat in bond. This announce
ment was made officially at the ONCE:
of the company and will be source
of some disappointment to many mill
ers in Minneapolis.
Articles of Incorporation were FLEE
with the secretary>o of state by thre'
Roman Catholic churches, the Churc]
of St. 1Iyacinth, Owatonna; Church o
the Sacred Heart, Adams, and Churc]
of St. Francis Xavier, Window.
| w. B. Anderson of Winona has file,
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