Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-03-07
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. The Moorhead city council has rails
ed the liquor license to 81, 500. 8.
Beltrami county politicians are fight
Ing for a division Of the county. ss
The recent thaw has ended the log
ging season in Northern Minnesota.
John Swanstrom, one Of the best
known Scandinavians Ia Minnesota, ID
dead at st. Paul. Il ..,... ...Sl .js
John W. Van SAINT, father of Gov.
ernor Van SAINT, is dead at lie Claire,
Ia, aged SO years. s4z ~ III
John Craig, an employe in Hubbard
q Vlncent's saw mill yards at Duluth
was crushed to death. IL : .H..- =.
~ Duluth is 70 have new bank with
a capitalization of 100000. John r.
Mitchell of Winona is the promoter.
The South-Central Minnesota Teach.
ers.. sAssociation will hold convention
In Waseca, March IA and Is. About
40 towns are in this circuit.
Judge Ensign of Duluth filed a de-
cision that all range towns that neGde
expenditures. for fighting SMALLPOX
epidemics must foot the bills them
selves. -
George G.. Seibert, one of the best
known musicians Of the Northwest
and for many years leader of Seiberts
band and Of the Metropolitan orches-
ira, St. Paul, is dead.
Mrs. Mary Van Eaton, supposed to
be the oldest woman in Minnesota, is
dead at her home in Fulda. She was
102 years old, but had lost all her fac
ulties and died of old age.
Two children of Peter Singer of Per-
ham, aged and 5, took headache wa
fers, thinking they were candy. The
youngest child is dead, but it is
thought the other will recover.
Gilmore Stotts, an aged farmer resid-
ing two miles south of Appleton, was
kicked and trampled upon by colt
he was training, and injured so seri.
ously that he died in a few hours.
Sixteen men living at West Duluth
have started a farming colony just
back of Proctorknott. They have
bought lands adjoining one another
and will develop their agricultural
possibilities.
A daring thief scaled the wall at the
Saltwater prison the other night and
carried of three cases of shoes from
the factory. The stolen goods were
sold in St. Paul and the arrest of the
culprit followed.
A meeting OF representatives OF in
dependent and farmers elevators of
Iowa and Southern Minnesota was
held at Austin and the Northwestern
Independent and Farmers Elevator
association organized.
The Eastern Railway of Minnesota,
in addition to building $25O,000 addi-
ton to it's large ore dock at AllOuez
bay, head of Lake Superior, has order
ed 1000 50-ton pressed steel ore cars
of the universal hopper type, and will
have them in use next season.
The Duluth common council has re.
ceived application for 25-year fran
chise to the Highland Canal and Pow.
er company. The company has per.
fected it's arrangements to begin work
at once upon one of the greatest water
power systems in the country outside
of Niagara Falls.
In a trial at Hokah Judge Kingsley
held that the game laws of 1901 are
defective in that possession of deel
| out of season is no breach of the
laws. He discharged Aaron Crow
held for shooting deer out of season,
possession being no proof.
Mrs. -Johannah Hammerstrom, liv.
ing on farm near Eagle Lake, com.
mitted suicide last week. Her eldest
daughter committed suicide by hang.
ing last summer because of disagree.
ment with her lover, and this SO
| preyed on the mothers mind that she
lost her reason.
The St. Cloud granite situation is
said to be in an unsettled condition as
result of a recent action of the Gran
tie Cutters union adopting scale OF
1926 per day, to take effect June IL
next, in place of wage of SO, now
prevailing. The producers asked a re-
consideration of this action.
Saltwater loggers have been ad
vised of heavy snowfall in Northern
Minnesota and Wisconsin. In the
vicinity of Dedham there are 10 inches
of snow on the ground. With a day
or two of cold weather hauling can be
| resumed. There is fair prospect, it
is thought, of getting in all logs.
William Matthews, a fireman on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul rail
road, at about 10 a. m. put on mask
entered the Bank of Plato, seized and
| locked the cashier in the back room
robbed the vault of $1,000 and took a
freight train for Glencoe where he was
captured and the money recovered.
On Thursday morning the barn be
! longing to Frank Kinling in the town
! of Ridgley, Nicollet county, was
burned to the ground and eight head
| of horses and two COWS we're incin
Grated. The burning had all the ap
pearanace of having been the work Of
an ncendiary, as the fire evidently
started in the nay loft.
Traffic officials of the Great North
ern and Northern Pacific have notified
/ the state railroad commission that, az
the result of meeting between the
F! officials in question and representa-
tive jobbers of st. Cloud, Fergus Fall:
and Crookston, a mutually satisfactory