Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-07-30
ROUND ABOUT =. THE STATE.

Arcade block to the extent of $1,000.
Fire at Saltwater destroyed George
jerks building, two frame buildings
and two barns. ,..@
State Treasurer Brock has resumed
sending out state funds for deposit
in country banks.
The stage which was run from Wi.
mona to Rushford for forty years, has
been discontinued.
Fred Anderson, who attempted sui
eide in a tailor shop in St. Paul, has
suffered relapse and is likely to die.
James E. Kellogg of Two Harbors
filed as a democratic candidate for
representative in the Fifty-frst dis
trict.
The teachers retirement fund, faith
cred by the Minneapolis school board.
wa knocked out by the supreme
| court.
Fire Warden Andrews, who re-
turned from Cass and Itasca counties,
says there is great danger from forest
fires there.
Thomas Burns, a young Canadian
who arrived in Minneapolis from Tor
onto, was swindled out of $63 by two
card sharps.
The\president has issued a commits
sion to Director Merriam under the
new permanent census law as director
of the census.
Great Western earnings for the first
week in August were $125, $3.50, increase
$7,054. This is for the first week in
the fiscal year.
Governor Van SAINT appointed A. r.
Laudon municipal judge of Redwood
| Falls, to succeed the late Joseph Cald-
well, who died July 1.
Dan Donald, teamster, aged IS
! years, committed suicide by shooting
| himself in the heart at Duluth. No
cause for the act is known.
Senator F. B. Daugherty of Duluth
has filed his declaration as a re-
| publican candidate for the state SEN
| ate from the Fifty-frst district.
George w. Wilson of Worthington
filed as a republican candidate for the
house in the Fifteenth district, COM
prising Noble and Murray counties.
Thomas Hanlon, superintendent of
the prison binding Irvine plant, has
| resigned on account of poor health,
and his place will be filled by Warden
Wolfer.
City Assessor Fort of Minneapolis
| reports an increase of more than $5,-
100000 in the assessed valuation of
real estate and personal property in
this city.
Mrs. G: ]. Thomas, who, with Mrs.
L. A. Sewers, registered at the Nation
al hotel, Minneapolis. from Sioux City,
attempted to commit suicide by TAX
ing morphine.
Sign painters of the Twin Cities are
organizing union and will take
charter from the Brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators and Paperhang-
ers of America.
The body of an unknown man was
found beside the Milwaukee railway
track and Twenty-eighth avenue S.
| and Twenty-ninth street, Minneapolis,
by switching crew.
Citizens of Rochester have entered
protest against Carrie Nation COM
ing to that city to speak, and she will
receive a document telling her that
her presence is not desired.
/ Thomas Harborn of Kittson coun-
ty has bought the. D. B. Searles farm,
Fair Oaks" at LIE Sank, Stearns
county, for $4,000. He will engage
in stock raising at that point.
According to an opinion of Attor-
ney General Douglas, the government
oleomargarine law in now way con-
! ficts with the Minnesota laws regard
ing the manufacture of that article.
| The postoffice at Ronneby was
robbed the other night. Charles Lar
rabee, the postmaster, lost SIS in cash
| and stamps. Goods to the amount of
| 500 were taken from the store of Lar
rabee Bros.
The St. Paul city directory canvass,
| just completed, shows 97,72O names, a
that, using the multiplier established
by the census of 1900, the city's pop
ulation is 171,010.
| At the meeting of the board Of
county commissioners, the tax levy
of Dakota county for the ensuing year
was fixed as follows: County revenue
fund, $4,000; county poor fund, ST.
600; county road and bridge fund, $2,-
900, making a total of $4,000.
! Great damage was done at Lake
Minnetonka' and points in that vicin-
ity by a hailstorm. Fruit farms, veg
etable and flower gardens were prac-
tically ruined, and wheat fields were
badly cut and otherwise damaged.
Judge Finehout of the municipal
bench of St. Paul decided that if chill
dren tease dog until they are bit
ten by the animal, the owner cannot
| ho WHIT
nor can the dog be ordered killed.
Anna Holtgrave, domestic at the
Hotel Imperial, Is E. Eighth street,
St. Paul, slipped from the second
story while washing a window and
fell to the sidewalk, breaking both
wrists and sustaining serious bruises.
The state board of pardons made
sparing use of it's power. No par
dons were granted or sentences COM
muted. The governor was authorized
to restore William Shea, sent from
Hennepin county for five years to cit
izenship.
At meeting of the Minnesota State
Veterinary Medical association ar
rangements were made for the enter
tdinment of the national convention
of the American Veterinary associa-
ton in Minneapolis, September 2, 3,
4 and S.
Northern Pacific gross earnings for
the fiscal year ended June 80 are un-
derstood to be $41,4O0,000. These fig
ures do not include the proprietary
lines of the system, which will swell
the total to almost $42,OO0,OOO The
June gross earnings, it is said, will.
when published, show an increase of
over 100000.
The 500 railways gross earnings
for the past fiscal year will be over