Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-03
MINNESOTA NEWS
OFFICIAL VOTE.

: OFFICIAL VOTE.
The state canvassing board com.
pleted its labors this afternoon, and
will certify the following total vote
cast for candidate on the state ticket:
Governor-Van SAINT (rep), 155,s49
Rosing (dem.), e9,362; Meighen
(pop.), 1921; Scanlon (pro.), 5,765;
Nash (no partly, 1881; Van Lear
(soc.-lab.), 2,57O; scattering, 4.
Lieutenant Governor-Jones (rep.),
49, $3.50; Smith (dem.), 1855; Hompe
(pop.), 1876; Aaker, (pro.), 1872;
Brattland (soc.), 5,143.
Secretary of State-Hanson (rep),
1896; Odell (dem.), s3,1S1; Lanman
(pop.), 1915; Loveless (pro), 1868;
Morledge (soc.), 5000.
State Auditor-Iverson (rep.), 1884,
543; Leicht (dem.), $3.50; Carlson
(soc.), 1929.
State Treasurer-Block (rep.), 1884,
800; Shirley (dem.), s2,646; Knatvold
(pop.), 11,153; Kanne (pro.), s,1OO.
Attorney General-Douglas (rep.),
| 1874; Larrabee (dem.), 9O,52O.
Clerk of Supreme Court-Pidgeon
(rep.), 1886; Jones (dem.), ss,o7s;
1msdahl (pop.), 1864.
Railroad Commissioner - Staples
(rep.), 155,296; Bowler (dem.), 1859;
Gibbs (pop.), 1857.
The total registration was 347, 1881
miles, 29,274 females.
The total vote cast and counted was
276,071 males and 1858 females. ',
Constitutional amendments to carry
had to receive 138,0a6 affirmative
votes. The vote on the four PROPOSE
tions was as follows:
Four per cent gross earnings bill,
yes, 130,522; no, 1903.
School loan amendment: Yes, 49,
666; no, 20,777.
Road and bridge amendment: Yes,
ia 1863; no, 33,942.
Taxation amendment: Yes, 124,5S4;
no, 21,251.
The gross earnings bill fell short by
1914 votes.
FIRE.
Fire started at o'clock in the
morning in the main building of the
state institute for the feeble minded
| at Faribault. The blaze was discov-
! cred in the attic near the over and
the 300 inmates of the school were re-
moved before the fire had spread to
the floors below the garnet and no one
was hurt.
The building was erected twelve
years ago at cost of 100000. The
central portion, where the fire started,
is used as the Offices and for the
| dormitories for the inmates, and is
fanked by tower. Other wings have
been added until the whole building
is $50 feet long.
The loss is $4,000 on the building
and $4,000 on contents. Everything is
covered by blanket insurance carried
by the state. The tower and the two
floors Immediately below were burned
through and otherwise damaged by
smoke and water.
The blaze was caused by electric
wires on the fifth floor. There will
be no interruption to the work of the
school. Dinner was served in the
A AoLD-UP HELD.
In short, fierce struggle, j. w.
Moore met and overpowered Ole Lar
son, in Minneapolis, an alleged high
wayman, who by the timely arrival of
Louis and Gustave Stanley, was dis
| armed of an ugly revolver and heavy
billy.
The black mask which covered the
| mans face was torn aside, and in
spite of his hardest struggle Larson
was marched to the Offices of the A.
D. T., Fourth and Nicollet avenue,
where he was taken in charge by Of
ficer Bacon and later locked up in the
| Central police station.
The attempted hold-up occurred at
! 6 o'clock on Fifth street south, be-
tween Fifth and Sixth avenues, in a
spot Swallowed by street lamp
where pedestrians on the other side
of the street would be unlikely to no.
tice any struggle.
DWIGHT M. SABIN.
Former United States Senator
Dwight NJ. Sabin, of Minnesota, died
suddenly early in his apartments at
the Auditorium annex, Chicago.
Mr.. Sabin had been a guest of the
hotel since Nov. 2, being accompanied
| by his wife and daughter. He was
stricken with heart failure at II
o'clock last night, and Mrs. Sabin
promptly notified the office and doc
tor was summoned. He found Mr..
Sabin in a dying condition and be-
You'd medical aid. The patient re-
manned conscious for upward of an
hour, and the end was peaceful.
| NEWS NOTES.
Since Aug. l over 1900, 900 bushels OF
barley has gone out of sight in Min.
neapolis-lntoc consumption and private
elevators-says the Commercial West.
The St. Paul Union Stock Yards com.