The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-02
AUCTIONEER'S LICENSE
Issue of Statewide Interest Fought
Out at Mankato.

MIANKATO, MINN.-A case involving
the rights of a city council to refuse an
auctioneers license to a proper applicant
has just been decided in the district court
of Blue Earth county. Some time ago &.
F. Williams & Co., prominent La Crosse
business firm, opened store In Mankato.
The firm had a large surplus of jewels,
which it desired to dispose of at auction,
and engaged the services OF Samuel S.
Levy, Of Chicago, to conduct the sale. Mr..
Levy applied for auctioneer'S license
as required by the city ordinance. and
rendered the proper fees. Pressure was
brought to bear upon the council by the
local merchants and the license was re-
fused upon the advice OF the city attor-
ney and counsel representing the Mer-
| chants Protective association, who took
the position that the council had right
to refuse absolutely license, holding that
Mr. Levy was not a resident of this state
and was not qualified to secure license
because not legal voter.
| The state law provides in effect that the
| county commissioners of any county may
| license any legal voter of their county
as an auctioneer. Mr.. Levy laid the mat
ter before Attorney A e. Clark who gave
| 1t as his opinion that the council could
not without just cause refuse a license
and held further. that the state auction
GERS law inasmuch as 1t operated to dis
criminate against citizens of other states
was void
| An application was made to Judge Cray
| Of the circuit court for writ of man.
damas directed to the city council and
mayor and upon hearing the judge
made an order directing that a preemp-
| tory writ of mandamas be issued to the
city council requiring that body to forth
with issue a license to Mr.. Levy.
Under the direction of the court the
council granted the license to Mr.. Levy
on Saturday night. The outcome Is OF
interest to all cities and villages In the
state.
ANOkA, MINN.-A good estimate Of
the potato crop in this county can be
made from the farm of Mr.. Kelley Of
| Grow, who has in seven acres OF tuberS
averaging 800 bushels to the acre. At the
price potatoes sold last fall, this small
patch would bring about $2,000.-Al the
employees of the Reed &, Sherwood mills
have received their annual dividend. a.
their share of the net profits Of the year
Twenty per cent of the profits are yearly
divided among the employees. The check:
amounted from $50 upward.-The voting
contest for carnival queen opens to-day
and will continue throughout the week.
Thomas Boyle died last night of acute
alcoholism, aged about 80.
The school election was held yesterday
Mrs. 7. J. Abbott and L. ]. Greenwalt
were elected directors for three years. On
hundred and sixty-seven votes were cast
| MARSHFlELD, WIS.-After seyera
years agitation and much litigation Judg
Webb has handed down a decision where
by $50 square miles of unproductive Gran
berry swamp lands are about to be put Of
a productive basis by means of a drainag
system The lands are in the counties o
Wood, Monroe, Jackson and Clark. A de
cade ago the tract was one of the great
, est cranberry producing districts in tn
state. 1t began drying UP and each yea
saw the cranberry crop diminish in it
yield till finally the greater portion of tn
E industry was given up. Since then til
land has laid waste.
HIBBING, MIN Red
fern Of the Penobscot Mining compan
and A. P. Silliman, mining engineer, LET
for Butte. Mont. to attend the interna
tional mining congress.-City Presiden
Powers; owner Of the, Merchants an
Miners bank, will open branch bank i
the new town Of Buhl-Jerome Kellile
| of Brainerd has purchased the Bell blocl
= = The consideration was $500. He wi
> convert the saloon into a grocery.-Th
= D., M. &, N. railway will add addition:
, sidetracks to care for its increasing bus
1ass bare