Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-03-12

without discovery. He then went over
the outer wall and conveyed the stolen
goods to an old paint shop belonging
to the car company. and standing on
the banks of Lake st. Croix.
Warden Wolfer and men who have
had long experience with all phases of
crime are amazed at the reckless dar-
ing displayed by the former convict.
Stock Census
Director of Census Merriam made
public the live stock bulletin compiled
from figures secured by the twelfth
census. The figures from Minnesota
are as follows:
Total farms in state. 1859; reporting
domestic animals, 14S,261; total value of
all domestic animals, $780, SAB; number
Of cattle, 1871, s25: value, $36, 24S,95S.
Dairy cows. 1852; value, s21. 513.s 37;
other cows, 6S565; value 81, 6S9,6S4.
Horses. $685. 1859; value, $42, 253, 944: mules,
SS39; value, $685. $50; asses and burros, ISL:
value, s11 ,475
Sheep-2SO56 farms report sheep to the
number of 5S9,s7S, valued at $1,74o.0ss;
swine, 1,440,S06; value, $3.50, 500: goats, g.
S21; value, s12,0S9.
Received in 1899 from the sale OF live
animals, SIG, 046,622; value of live animals
slaughtered on farms in 1899, s4,9OS, O51.
States reporting domestic animals, $780,
99S. Total value Of all domestic animals,
1881 ,054, lis; total number reporting cattle,
1880, 800; number of all-1neat cattle in
United States, 67,SO4,022, valued at $1,476,-
5,134; number of farms reporting horses,
4,532O1S; number of horses, 18,266,140.
valued at 1896. 721 ,095; number Of mules,
occn.
asses and burros, 95,6O3, valued at
$5,S24 ,5s9; number Of sheep, 61,6O5,S1
valued at $780, ,O02; number Of swine,
81, Jos, valued at $232.027, 7O7; number Of
goats, 1,S71,252, valued at $s,26s,OSo; re-
ceived in 1899 from the sale of live ami
mails on 3,024,962 farms, $723O13,114: value
Of animals slaughtered, $4,122.2S5; farms IN
| 1899, s1S9, S73, $40.
News In Brief.
The state of Minnesota will receive
SIS, 1913. 81 taxes from the express COM
panies doing business within the state
during the year ending Dec. 81, 1901.
The companies pay tax of per cent
on their net receipts.
Charles NJ. Jordan, superintendent
of the Minneapolis schools, was elected
president of the National Educational
| association.
The war department. wants Polk
county to elevate Red Lake river
bridges between Crookston and Grand
| Forks from seven to ten feet. The
commissioners say this is impractical
BILE, and if the order stands the bridg-
es must be abandoned and ferry boats
substituted for summer use.
! Charles Woods, the negro arrested
in st. Paul at the request of the po-
lice of Superior, Wis, has confessed
to the crime of aiding in the killing
of the Chinese laundryman, Charley
Vim, who was murdered at West SUI
perior early Christmas morning.
The graduating classes of the state
| normal school at Mankato have formed
an organization by electing an officer
from each class. E. S. Parker of the
senior class is president, Miss Anna
Devany of the elementary professional
class is vice president.
The Omaha and Milwaukee roads for
! the first time have been obliged to go
into the Duluth market for ties. The
| tie industry has assumed large proper
| tions.
The city council of Moorhead raised
| the liquor license from $500 to 81, 500.
The vote of the council was divided
equally, and it required the mayors
vote to decide the question.
The business men of Murdoch have
decided to hold a street fair.
Edward Floyd, whose home is at
Saginaw, was struck on the head with
a log at Duluth and almost instantly
killed.
The Moore Boat works at Wayzata,
which burned recently, will be rebuilt
on the old site as soon as the losses can
be adjusted. The new structure will
be 60 feet wide, 100 feet long and two
or three stories high.
| August Nightingale was instantly
killed by Minnesota Transfer train.
The engine and three cars passed over
his body, completely severing his head.
Capt. J. w. Van SAINT, father of Gov.
Van SAINT, died at his home in lie Clair,
Iowa. He was SO years of age.
An old landmark, known as Martin
Mills, two miles from Rush City, was
destroyed by fire.
Frank Johnson, of Point Douglas,
a student of the Hastings high school,
was accidentally shot in the shoulder
by Emerson Leavitt.
August Boyer, farmer living near
Maple Grove, was killed by fall from
his wagon. His body was found by
the roadside. He had suffered a COM
pound fracture of the skull.
People of Red Wing are indignant
over the circulation of a report that
the city has a smallpox epidemic and
that the hotel is quarantined. The
city has had seven or eight mild cases.
which is less than any city of It's size
in the northwest.
Firemen found the body of Joshua
Farmhouse in his burning grocery store
at St. Paul. The face and ears were
charred and burned beyond recogni-
ton, and the upper portion of the body
was also badly burned.
Ex-senator Washburn has gone to