Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-03-14
METHUEN is TAKEN NEWS IN MINNESOTA

mounted ponce Will be adQed TO the
Duluth police department May 1.
The senate has passed the bill appro.
priating $4,000 for the relief of the
Mile Laos Indians of Minnesota.
An epidemic of scarlet fever is rag
ing in Cloquet, and the. health authori-
ties have closed the public schools.
The state superintendent is arrang-
ing for lectures on industrial training
to be given at the teachers summer
schools.
Some 70 or more advertising agents
Of the Twin Cities met last week at
The Ryan hotel in St. Paul and organ
fed an advertising club.
The exchange of the Zenith Tele-
phone company at Duluth burned out
early Friday morning. The fire will
lay out the system for 60 days.
The contract for the fire proofng,
metal Turing and lathing of the new
state capitol has been awarded to the
Butler-Ryan company, the contract
price being S137,533
George Beach, residing near Stew
artville, is dead of old age. He was
one OF the oldest settlers of Olmsted
he died for nearly so years.
W. J. Bryan, Democratic candidate
for the presidency during the last two
campaigns, is buying number of car
loads of Lake Superior brownstone in
Duluth for new home he is building
at Lincoln, Neb.
DR.. Waite A. Shoemaker Of St. Cloud
has been elected president of the nor
NAL school at that place by the state
normal board. He succeeds DR.. George
R. Kleeberger, who will leave at the
close of the year.
A council of Chippewas is being held
at Red Lake agency. Chiefs and
braves from all over the reservation
are present to listen to a proposition for
the purchase of the Wast end of the
Red Lake reservation
The state drainage commission has
let a contract for the construction of
the Grand Marais drainage ditch in
Polk county. The ditch is to be one
half mile long and connects the Grand
Marais with the Red river.
The Duluth, Virginia and Rainy
Lake road is preparing to haul 5,000,-
900 feet of logs from north Of Virginia
to the Eastern Minnesota which will
carry them to Minneapolis all-rail for
the Scanlon-Gipson company.
Charges have been filed at the land
Office in washington against Inspector
N. S. Schweitzer, who has recently
been engaged in making land surveys
in Northern Minnesota. The nature
of the charges cannot be ascertained.
Brownsville has been suffering from
an epidemic Of petty thievery. and as
the residents are of the opinion that
the thieves live nearby. an effort will
be made to track them with blood
hounds from the st. Cloud reforma-
tory.
The most notable event in Austin
Masonry took place there Friday night
when the six Aultfather brothers were
given their third degree. This Incl
dent is undoubtedly without parallel
in the Masonic history of the North
west.
The records of the St. Cloud land Of
fee for the month Of February show
receipts amounting to $1,70A44 There
we're 70 homestead entries on 5,532.01
acres, 81 homestead proofs on 4,950.70
acres and cash entries to the extent of
$98075.
TO avenge insults he claims were
offered his wife, Herbert Gallahugh
shot Charles Collins, colored, through
the heart, in the kitchen of the San
Angelo hotel, Minnea polls. Two hours
after the tragedy Gallahugh gave him
self up to the police.
The eastbound Northern Pacific pas.
senger train was held at st. Cloud one
day last week for a sufficient time to
give the comDany's physician time to
vaccinate a carload Of passengers. A
! passenger suffering from smallpox was
removed at Little Falls. There were
| a dozen or more people in the car.
Great Northern engineers have com
pleted surveys of the river at Sand
stone, looking towards replacing the
high trestle bridge with a steel one
! The present structure was constructed
| Immediately after the Hinckley fire
and by reason Of the heavy nature oil
the traffic is not strong enough tt
Withstand the strain.
Announcement is made of the con
summation Of an elevator deal, by
which the Van Dusen-Harrington com
pany of Minneapolis secures posses
sion of sc grain elevators and ware
houses, the property of the St. Pau
and Kansas City Grain company. The
elevators and warehouses are located
in Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska
Philip T. Megaarden has been for
mally removed from the Office of sher
if of Hennepin county. The action o
the governor was taken after a care
full review of the testimony taken be
fore the. commissioners appointed fol
| this purpose, and although strong in
fluence was brought to bear to affec
his action, he declined to be governed
! by anything but the facts.
According to the report Of the st
Paul workhouse board for the pas
year, George Ellingsworth holds tn
! championship for having been com
mitted to the workhouse more time
than any other offender in the polic
court of st. Paul. The report gives tn
Information that he has been commit
ed to the workhouse 81 times, and h
is regarded by the authorities as a per
manent resident at that place.
James J. McKusick of Duluth wa
killed by shock of electricity whit
talking through telephone. McKu