Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-01-10
NEWS FL MINNESOT

Several cases Of smallpox are report.
ed from the town OF Greenbush. &
Mrs. L. e. Pearce OF Morris was Sc
verely burned about the face while
starting the kitchen fire with kero;
sene.
James Walker, wife and son, old res
fdents and well-to-do farmers of
I WorthingtoD, have left to take up their
home with Dowie in Zion City.
Bernard Michel, one OF the best
known German citizens Of st. Paul.
committed suicide by cutting his
throat. He believed himself insane.
Gustaf Berglund, an eccentric young
man who Mas been residing at Center
City for some years, was found dead in
a haymow Saturday. He disappeared
three weeks ago. 1885,
: The Chicago Great Western Railway
company is planning to spend nearly
$750,e00 in betterments on its main
line in Minnesota between Minneapolis
and Dodge Center. ss,-- F.. ..t,,.-. .z..
w. I. Pierce, single man employed
at Carlton by the Cloquet Electric
company, was instantly killed while
connecting wires. His father lives In
Idaho and his sister in Tacoma.
Thomas E. Heggein and Andrew
Patrick, two farmers who live near
Fulda, met death at about the same
hour by being thrown from their wag-
ons while returning to their homes
from town. - 1870
. At meeting of Duluth business men
with G delegation from Cass Lake and
Walker, to consider the advisability Of
opening the Chippewa reservation,
resolution was unanimously adopted
favoring the project. 49,
The price of gas at Duluth took an.
other drop this year, and it is now
$1.15 per thousand feet, instead Of
1925. Last year the price was cut
from $3.50 to $125, and the use Of gas
increased. The city owns the gas
works.
/ The first death from smallpox in
Houston occurred last week when Mrs.
Theodore Moltenhaur, wife of a prom
inent farmer, succumbed to the dis
ease. She was the mother of g.
weeks-old babe and leaves five other
children.
Chauncey Whiting, who led the first
colony into Otter Tail county, enjoyed
a family reunion last week at his
homesat Clitherall, which was attend
ed by over so of his children, grand
children and great grandchildren. Mr..
Whiting is SO years of age. He came
to that county in 1865.
The Catholic church and priests
house at Client, six miles west of Mar
shall, were totally destroyed by fire
with all contents. The loss is about
$4,000, with $4,000 insurance. The
priests personal loss is about 81 500
without insurance. Father Schaffer
and his sister had narrow escape.
State Chemist Hortvet made 1926
analyses of food products during 1901,
of which 2,184 were legal, and Liz
were found illegal. There were 899
tests of milk by the Babcock process,
and other sample tests included meats,
vinegar, jellies, cheese, butter, bak-
ing powder, malt and spirituous liq-
uors, oil and paints. ...~
- The st. Paul. Trust company, cap
italt $20O, OO0, has voted to go into
liquidation. The chief cause is a re-
cent supreme, court decision making
the trust company liable for the judy
ment of 500, 900 in the estate of C. D.
Strong, which has been in charge of
the company for the past nine or ten
years. The creditors will probably
be paid in full, but the stockholders
will receive an uncertain amount.
At Duluth Judge Cant has decided
for the settlers in the case of Freder-
lex Weyerhaeuser and others and the
Northern Pacific railroad against set
tiers on the famous second indemnity
strip, which has been in litigation in
the land department and the courts
for some time. The court holds that
the settlers were entitled to the land,
and not the plaintiffs, who acquired
title through the Northern Pacific.
The Ann River Land company has
sold to the Ann River Farm company
$4,000 acres of land in the counties of
Mile Laos, Kanabec and .Aitkin. The
consideration was $210,O00. Among
those interested in the purchase and
who are connected with the Ann River
Farm company are Sears McHenry of
Denison, Ia, Robert w. Webb and c..
e. Cook of Minneapolis, and M. E..
Rutherford of Mora, M. S. Rutherford
| of Princeton and H. E. Barnum Of Mi
1aca. The lands will be put on the
market at once.
The state supreme court, by a ma
jority opinion, decided that the newly
! organized state board of control has
| full charge of all matters pertaining
to normal schools, the normal school
board having in formal court proceed
| ings questioned the right of the board
of control to dictate in normal school
matters. This closes notable contest
of interest to the whole Northwest.
Justice Lovely wrote the majority
opinion and it is concurred in by JUS
| tees Lewis and Brown: Chief Justice
Start and Justice Collins dissent.
At Duluth T. Pressnell, United
States court commissioner, sold the
Duluth Transfer railroad under the or
der of Judge Lochren. The property
was bid in by John G. Williams, Du-
luth attorney. He represents the re-
organization committee of the bond
holders The holders Of tho bonds aro