Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-08-15
NEWS in MINNESOTA


dent Of Wykof. Is dead, aged eighty
years. : =. ::=s 's'>S, :.
Attorney General Douglas holds that
Aug. "a is the last day for fling for the
primaries. ~ II. + .ssss.Ts h r-,...
Fire at st. Paul destroyed or par
TALLY destroyed five dwellinghouses,
causing q loss of 10000. -: -
The Minnesota delegation to Council
Bluffs will endeavor to secure for st.
Paul the next reunion of the Army Of
the Philippines. s@~' "
Land Commissioner. Hermann, who
is in st. Paul, has decided that the
wild lands in Minnesota must be sur
veyed as soon as possible.
The last piece of marble has been
placed on the exterior of the new cap
itol at st. Paul and the interior of the
dome practically completed.
Private Charles Hires, chief cook Of
Company E, Twenty-first infantry, sta
toned at Fort Smelling, shot himself
through the head Sunday morning and
died in short time.
H. E. Selden, one of the oldest and
best known contractors of Minneapo-
lis, died at his summer home at Breezy
Point, Lake Minnetonka, last week.
Mr.. Selden was sixty-seven years OF
age.
The two dredge companies under
contract with the government for
dredging the harbors of Duluth and
West Superior report having moved
459,881 cubic yards of mud during
July.
Burglars entered Carlson Bros
clothing stores at Hansaka and stole
some clothing and jewelry and took
about $125 in cash from the safe in the
postoffice. The robbers left town on
handcar.
The Cambria Steel company has
in the Mesaba region and the hard ore
region. 1t is understood that the price
paid for the Republic mines was over
81, 100000
Estimated from the figures of the
new city directory the present popula-
ton of Minneapolis is 247,525. Com
pared with the directory estimate Of
last years total shows gain or 4,482
in the twelve months.
More than 100000 tons of ore
have been shipped from the upper
lakes to Eastern and Chicago furnaces
this year to date. OF this 7,250,000
tons have come from Minnesota mines,
a greater proportion than in any past
year.
The first shipment of new barley has
arrived at the Duluth market. The
grain is rather poor and is stained
fxo, offo 0f inf 7
is thought that all grain in the north
In the same manner.
Miss Minnie Jacobs, the pretty
eighteen-year-old daughter of prom
inent farmer residing at Beaver, near
Winona, is lying at the point of death
as the result of having been bitten by
a rattlesnake while working in the
field with her father.
Reuben B. Galusha, one of the Oldest
!. attorneys of St. Paul, died Sunday at
q hospital in Rochester. He was born
in 1888 and came to st. Paul in 1858
; and was identified with the growth of
st. Paul. For the past five years he
had retired from active practice.
The output of the Minneapolis -four
mills for the 19o1-1e02 crop year prom
ises to be the largest on record, &C.
cording to the Northwestern Miller,
!. which says that, estimating for the en-.
suing four weeks, they will in the year
ending Sept. l make 15,600.000 barrels
of -four.
Hereafter Blue Earth City will be Of
fcially known only as blue Earth"
The new city charter Topped of the
word "city" when adopted two years
ago. The express and railroad COM
~panies soon followed suit and now
the postofice has been changed to
plain "Blue Earth"
The discovery of what is said to un-
doubtedly be a large deposit of ore far
south Of the southern run of the Me-
saba and Vermillion ranges has Gre
ated a stir in iron ore circles. The
find is only thirty-seven miles north of
Duluth, or thirteen miles north of Two
! Harbors, on the Duluth and Iron Range
road.
Applications for homestead entry
have been made at the United States
land Office at st. Cloud for many tracts
of land in the Northern Pacific inde1n.
nifty belt in Morrison, Todd and Crow
w lUS CVuuClCo ~ ID 6Sll1udlSu Ildt
fully 100000 acres in this belt have
been sold by the railroad company to
settlers.
! Traffic officials of the Chicago-St.
Paul lines have received verbal notice
! that the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific would reduce grain rates from
all Northwest territory to St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Duluth, to take effect
Sept. /. It is announced that the max
| imum reduction will be 2 cents per
100 pounds.
| Lazarus Silverman, the Chicago
banker, who is an extensive owner of
stone quarries around Duluth signified
his willingness to donate enough gran.
tie for the construction of the new
courthouse to be erected in the Zenith
City at cost Of 100000 This offer
will enable reduction of the annual
tax levy of 100000.
Otto Calvert, deputy state food in
spector, has returned to Duluth from
a three weeks trip through Carlton
county. and brought with him samples
! of cough medicine and Jamaica ginge"
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