Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-28
MINNESOTA NEWS.
G. A. z. Officers.

z% G. A. r. Officers.
The Minnesota G. A. r. encamp-
i ment elected the following officers:
Commander-Isaac L. Mahan, St.
4 Paul.
v Senior Vice Commander-Harriso
T.. White, Luverne
Junior Vice Commander-C. a.
: Taylor, Long Prairie.
There was no opposition to Mr..
y: Mahan for commander, but E. w. Col
ms was candidate for senior vice
Junior Vice Commander White re-
celved the promotion. l.. o. Merriam
was MIR. Taylor's opponent for ju-
nior vice.
The committee on report of the de-
Partment commander complimented
Commander Starkwather for having
secured gain of 246 members.
The roll of the dead for 1902 was
read, which showed that $50 had
passed away.
Swamp Land Decision.
Secretary Hitchcock has decided
the question affecting the Min
has been pending since early in
Dunn through T. f. Byrnes of Min
neapolis, filed an application for a
change in the rule for the adjustment
of the swamp lands grant to Min
nesota to provide that the field notes
of survey should be accepted as prima
facie evidence of the swampy char
acter of lands claimed by the state
instead of putting upon the state the
burden of proof.
AS it is decided the department is
to go back to the old practice and
will accept the field notes in controv-
ersies and contests and selections fl
ed from now on.
Killed Ills Man,
James Kildee, formerly marshal at
Deer River, and known to the police
OF Duluth as very quarrelsome lum-
berjack, was fatally shot in the bar
room of the Commercial hotel at Two
Harbors by John Roach, a sporting
man from Cross river on the north
shore. Kildee, it appears, picked a
quarrel with Roach and followed the
latter about asking him for money.
Roach finally gave him $40.
Later they met at the Commercial
hotel, where Kildee applied abusive
names to Roach. The men clinched
and Kildee drew a gun and fired
twice without effect. Roach returned
the fire and fatally wounded Kildee.
The wounded man, according to the
doctor, cannot live but few hours.
Burned to Death.
Charles Johnston, a coachman, was
found burned to crisp in the barn of
M. Doran, St. Paul. After the fire.
man had cleared the room of smoke
and fire, Johnston's body was dis
covered to be burned and charred in
horrible manner from the neck to
the knees. The man had been crem-
ated to such an extent that the alb
domen burst.
There is suspicion that johnson
shot himself either before or after
setting fire to the bed clothes. A re-
volver, with blood specks on it, was
found in the bed and two of the
chambers had been discharged and
fresh powder burns were discernible
in the empty chambers.
Internal Revenue Receipts.
The receipts of the internal revenue
department. of Minnesota for Feb.
ruary amounted to $112,5O9, an in
crease of more than $4,000 over the
receipts for January. The February
receipts this year were not nearly so
large as those of last year on &C
count of the decrease in all the re-
manning taxes and the adjustment
of many. Since February, 1902, the
documentary stamps brought into
use at the time of the Spanish war
have been abolished. The revenue on
beer has been decreased from $1.6O
to 81 barrel, and the revenue on
cigars is reduced from $1s a thousand
to SIS.
Big Meeting.
One of the greatest labor mass
meetings ever held in Minneapolis is
now being planned by the Interna-
tional Union of Flour and Cereal Mill
Employees, which has headquarters in
Minneapolis.
= The international union will hold
it's second convention in this city be-
ginning June IS, and it is proposed to
wind up the weeks sessions with a
mass meeting Friday night, at which
either John Mitchell, president of the
Mine Workers. Union, or Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, will be the chief
speaker.
Business at the Stock Yards.
The increase in the business of the
st. Paul Union Stock Yards company
is shown in the following report for
the month of February:
Receipts-Cattles, 1o,oo2; calves, e.
1859: hogs, 61,799; sheep, 1886;
horses, IS. Last Year-Cattle, 49,
17s; calves, 2,o29; hogs, 56,656; sheep,
44,774; horses, 1873.
Shipments-Cattle, 4,625; calves, L.
1913; hogs, 1902; sheep, $4,000;
horses, 80.
Since the first of January POI, 794
animals have been slaughtered at
South St. Paul.
News Notes.
The water in the river at Winona
is commencing to fall, after having
reached a stage of about seven feet.
Unless, there are spring rains it is
believed this fall will continue.
F. A monument on the grounds of the
noru state canit01 in o0nmom0rafiOn