Mower County transcript., 1902-12-17
NEWS IN AIINNESO

of logs and lumber for the Minneapolis
district.
A movement is under way at Pipe.
stone to organize commercial club
for the advancement of the interests
of the city.
Mrs. George Taylor, mother of Rev.
Mrs. B. F. McKenney of Winona, is
dead. Mrs. Taylor was ninety-nine
years of age.
Burglars entered the store of Phil
Catmenson at Montevideo and car
ried OIL seventeen coonskin overcoats
valued at $500.
A company of Winona men has been
formed to carry on hardwood lum-
bering business in Tennessee. It is
capitalized at $4,000.
The Great Northern has opened
station at town to be called Tilden
on the Dakota division of the system,
twenty miles east of Crookston.
All previous records were badly frac-
tured at South st. Paul Tuesday with
run of $3.50 hogs. The best previous
run for single day was 7,840.
Lumber shipments over the. docks
at Two Harbors have been heavier
during the past summer than during
any previous navigation season.
Colonel P. H. Swift, special agent
of the United States land department
at St. Cloud, has been transferred to
the land Office at The Dalles, Ore.
James E. Bearnes, for eighteen
years an attorney of Minneapolis, has
been disbarred by the supreme court
for the misappropriation of clients
funds.
Mayor Hitchcock and City Control
ler Bell of Crookston have signed a
contract for paving the business
streets OF the city with asphalt next
spring.
The Minnesota Historical society
will receive the steering wheel of the
old frigate Minnesota. The senate
bill to this effect has been favorably
reported on.
Fenton G. Warner of St. Paul has
been selected for state oil inspector.
Mr.. Warner has been prominent as
Republican worker in Ramsey county
for some years past.
+ c. H. Wolfram, who has a record of
twenty-five years continuous service
as postmaster of Hart, Winona county,
has retired and is succeeded by his
son, Ernest Wolfram.
The La Rue Mining company of Du-
luth, with capital stock of 81, ,O0O,0 900,
has filed articles of incorporation with
the secretary of state. The incorpo-
ration fees amounted to $525.
William Harvey, a former employe,
was given verdict for $500 damages
against Scheffer & Rossum of st.
Paul. This was blacklisting suit and
Harvey's original claim was $4,000.
One death from smallpox is reported
to the state health board. The regular
weekly report shows slight decrease
over last week. There are twenty-one
cases at Plymouth, Hennepin county.
The state butter and cheesemakers.
at their annual convention in st. Paul,
demanded that the appointment of
creamery inspectors be removed from
politics. The 200 present were unit
in this expression.
Three cracksmen attempted to rob
the safe of the State bank at Clare
mont Thursday night, but before they
could carry out their plans were fright
ened away by man who slept in a
room over the bank.
Fire at Bird Island caused the de-
struction of 100000 worth of property
George Fewer, aged about fifteen. was
helping carry goods out of a burning
store when the kerosene oil tank ex.
ploded and caused his death. .
A chair car on the Minnesota and
International railroad jumped the
track at South Bemedji and rolled
down an embankment. No ore was
killed, but nearly every occupant of
the car was more or less bruised.
During the season of navigation that
wheat was shipped, April 1 to Dec. 8,
the grain receipts at the head of the
lakes were 61,409,419 bushels and the
shipments were 66,454,954 bushels.
Wheat shipments were 37,851, ,766 and
the shipments 44,409,S21 bushels.
The cheese factories of Minnesota
last year consumed 38,994,548 pounds
of milk, which made 3,699,600 pounds
of cheese, and paid the patrons of the
factories 1922, 2,285.62, according to fig
ures compiled for the biennial report
of the state dairy and food depart
ment.
John McAlpine of Duluth has pur-
chased about 150,000,00O feet of pine
in Hasca county, which is tributary to
the Mississippi river, for a considera-
tion of $750,000. The former own
ers of the pine were the Pillsbury es-
tate of Minneapolis and Charles Rug
giles of Manistee, Mich.
While stealing a ride on an east
bound cattle train James S. Hanson
was instantly killed and William
Friis fatally injured in headend COL
1ision between two Northern Pacific
trains at Fridley, ten miles west Of
Minneapolis. Two hundred hogs were
also killed in the smashup.
Public Examiner S. T.. Johnson, in
his biennial report, will recommend
that state banks be allowed to make
first mortgage loans on farms in Min
nesota, to an amount not to exceed
per cent of the paid-in capital; no loan
to exceed 50 per cent of the appraised
cash value of any piece of land.
The state supreme court, in a per
curiam order handed down Friday.