Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-11-14
MINNESOTA NEWS.
A New Industry.

Anew Industry.
A new industry, which opens new
market for tamarack, variety of
wood that is common in Northern Min
nesota, and heretofore little in demand,
Is being established in that section.
ihe timber is being sought for ship
knees for use in the construction of
wooden vessels at the Atlantic coast
sh1pyards. 1t is said that the only
supply of timber, oak and tamarack,
has heretofore been procured entirely
IN Maine, but that the supply there
has nearly become exhausted and tho
prices are very high. Northern Min
nesota has a vast amount of tamarack
and it is cheap:
Three camps for the getting out Of
tamarack ship knees have been estab-
hshed in the vicinity of Columbia sta
tlon on the Duluth, Missabe e. North
ern road, sixty miles north of Duluth,
and the product will be shipped to
Bath, Me-, all rail- Select ship knees
at the Bath shipyards are worth 81 to
$s each. A tamarack tree twelve or
more inches in diameter is selected. It
is cut off from four to five feet above
the ground, and the main root, always
running at right angles to the stump,
is cut off at about the same distance,
forming an ~" shaped timber: The
pieces must measure at least twelve
inches in diameter.
About 1000 of these knees are re-
qulred in large wooden vessel. The
elasticity, as well as strength and true
angle, count in the value of the ship
knees. About $50 of the knees make q
car load.
dual Life.
A strange case of dual life was re-
vealed in the Minneapolis police court.
Timothy hammers, or Mr.. Simpson, az
he Is known outside of business hours,
was sent to the workhouse for thirty
days as result of the revelation.
A detective had been watching the
man for some time. In the role of Lam
mers, crippled beggar, he was we'll
known. Once in his room, however,
he dropped the role, and would emerge
an hour later resplendent in fine linen,
diamonds and patent leather shoes.
He was also we'll known in the down
town cafes as Mr.. Simpson, where he
spent the money he collected by beg
ging.
On the street he was dirty, his face
was wrinkled and, his body bent. He
used a crutch, around which one leg
was twined to Indicate q serious de-
feet in his anatomy.
Probably False.
John Norbum of St. Paul visited tho
Minneapolis police headquarters and
told the police of plot to dynamite
the Minneapolis -four mills. The man
says his wife overheard two men dis
cussing the plan, and he came at once
to report it.
The police are declined to believe
that there is nothing in the mans sto-
ry, and say that If there is such q plot
1t is the work of few hotheads and
not of the larger portion of the strik-
ers. The strike, for one in which so
many men were involved, was conduct
ed in q most orderly manner, and at
this date no violence is looked for.
Too Much Foot Ball.
Death as the result of the big foot
ball game-not from injury but in the
form of too much enthusiasm.
While the bands were playing "See,
The Conquering Hero Comes,'' while
the bubbling mobs Of players, admir-
ers and students were parading the
streets with Kiss Boom BAIL" mega
phones and blatant fog-horns, Louis
Hart, excited beyond the point of hui
man endurance by overpowering en-
thusiasm, dropped dead at the corner
of Seventeenth stree and Nicollet ave-
nue., Minneapolis.
Arrested.
Frank Lattimer and P. Burns were
arrested on Selby avenue street car
in St. Paul by the sheriff of Superior,
assisted by two Ramsey county depu-
ties and Pinkerton detective.
1t is alleged that the men are mem
bers of the gang which recently rob-
bed the postoffice at Superior.
When captured on the street car,
the men carried loaded revolvers. They
are now in the Ramsey county Jail.
November Strawberries.
The Minnesota climate finds indorse-
mont in the fact that in the vicinity of
Minnetonka large quantities of straw
berries were harvested.