Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-02-20
NEWS TN MlNNESO

All night street car service, for st
Paul is practically assured. =
S Mrs. F. G.. Winston, wife Of q .1promi
nent> Minneapolis business II man. il
lead. Z
Isaac P. Wright, resident Of St
Paul since 1850, is dead, aged eighty
years. IN >s4Es,s.ss.s.
Fred Lindgren, o. f1ifteen-year-old
boy, was killed in q bobsled collision
in st. Paul Friday. s !,
Rev. q. H. Bauman, a retired Ger
man Evangelical minister, died al
Blue Earth last week.
Henry Prosser, a resident of Spring
Valley since 1856, is dead. He was
ninety-one years of age.
w. M. Churchill, who has been q
resident of Glencoe for many years
is dead. He was Lightweight years
Of age.
Jonathan T. Grimes, who had beep
resident of Minneapolis since 1855
died of old age last week. He was
born in 1918.
George w. Brannon, one of Mime.
sofas earliest settlers, is dead at St.
Paul. He was a veteran of the Mexi
can and Civil wars.
The proposition to issue $4,000
bonds. to build a city hall carried at
a special election at Albert Lea, the
vote standing 247 to 1913.
Miss Rose Whalen of St. Paul is re.
ported to have fallen heir to fortune
of 100000 by the death of her grand.
mother, Mrs. Annie Whalen of Hall
fax, N. S.
John F. Stevens has retired as gen.
eral manager and chief engineer of the
Great Northern. The resignation OF
Mr.. Stevens was unexpected and
caused great surprise in railroad cir
c1es.
What is believed to be the largest
tree in the state is on the farm of O.
Mikkelser, a mile west Of Red Lake
Falls. 1t is cottonwood and meas.
ures twenty eight feet in circumfer-
ence.
Charles w. Wilson, president of the
board Of public works of Duluth and
for many years one of the leading citi
zens, is dead after three weeks of i'll
ness, valvular disease of the heart
being the primary cause.
Judge William A. Cant of Duluth
has filed his findings in the Johann
Mueller case, involving iron lands on
the Mesaba range. The claims of
Father Kosmerl and other owners of
the lands in dispute are upheld.
The race between S. A. Farnsworth
and VIM Powers, both of St. Paul
for the position of grand master of the
Odd Fellows Of the state, was a close
one. At the end Farnsworth had re-
ceived 800 votes and Powers S87.
The state dairy and food department
plans crusade against dairymen
who do not keep clean barns. Condi-
lions throughout the state, but espe-
cially in and about the Twin Cities,
are reported very bad in this respect.
Mrs. Caroline Townsley White died
at st. Paul last week, aged ninety-six
years. She recently contracted sc.
we're cold which she was unable to re-
sist because of her extreme age. She
had been a resident of St. Paul since
1855. ::
The retail dealers in agricultural
implements in Northern Iowa and
Southern Minnesota met at" Albert
Lea last week and organized the Min
nesota Retail Implement Dealers as
ISOLATION. There were fifty or sixty
present.
Ambrose Gardner. was fatally in
jured by Milwaukee passenger train
while crossing the tracks near Lake
City. Both of his horses were killed
and Gardner himself was hurled sew
eral feet, striking against a post, frac-
turing his skull.
Charles Arosell, a man living a few
miles east of Tower, has been arrest.
ed by Deputy Game Warden Green
and locked up charged with killing
moose. 1t is understood he has been
killing big game to furnish logging
camp with fresh meat.
A large number of Indians have
been arrested during the past ten days
for timber trespassing along the south
line of the White Earth reservation
More arrests will follow. 1t is said
that these arrests will cut off the tim
Der supply of certain lumber firms in
that section.
M. j. Monahan, formerly Northern
Pacific Express company clerk in Min
neapolis and later a member of the
Andrews Opera company, has been
arrested in Little Falls, this state on
a charge of having embezzled $1,000
of the express company's money. The
prisoner denies the charge.
The state board of control has an
nounced the list of successful bidders
for supplies for the state institutions
for the ensuing three months. Ap-
proximately Is per cent of the bust
ness is to firms outside the state St.
Paul secures 81, Minneapolis 10, Fari-
bault 8, Fergus Falls 4, and Duluth 8.
The business men of Cass Lake held
q meeting and issued an appeal to the
jcbbers Of the Twin Cities and Duluth
asking that they use influence with
the Minnesota senators and congress-
men to induce the United States land
Office to advertise the timber and agri-
cultural land of the Chippewa reserva-
ton.
One of the largest real estate deals
ever made in Red Lake county, if not
in Northern Minnesota, was closed
last week by N. G. Bitterness of the
julius Pleth land Office at st. Hilaire.
who disposed of sixteen sections Of
land in Beltrami county and four