The Tomahawk., 1903-06-11
News Notea.

The village council Of Fosston has
let contracts for new electric light
generator and engine. Fosston is one
of the few towns that have made a
success in owning and operating pub
lie utilities.
The state inspector in st. Paul
found 222 dairies with 4,S97 cows sup
plying 7,57O gallons of milk the
dairies of Minneapolis and St. Paul,
dairies with 9,719 cows supplying
16,527 gallons of milk each day.
Details have been decided upon for
the most notable prize band contest
that has ever taken place in the
northwest. 1t will occur Monday,
June 8, Retail Merchants Association
day of the June Fair and Carnival.
Because four of their coworkers
were discharged, fourteen of the girl
telephone operators employed at the
central Office of the Twin City Tele-
phone Company, in Minneapolis, went
out on sympathetic strike.
Willie Wilson, years old, was run
down by street car on Payne ave-
nue., St. Paul, and instantly killed.
The lad was standing in the street on
the car track and did not notice the
approaching car.
Daney Blair, the 12-year-old son of
farmer, near Kensington, had por-
ton of his hand blown off while ex-
perimenting with a dynamite car
fridge. He was curious to know
whether it would go off and proceed
ed to pound it with a rock.
Joseph A. Jeremy of Nininger was
arrested on charge of larceny of
logs valued at $40 on May 10, the pro-
perty of r. III. Chute of Minneapolis.
Oscar Wick. farmer who was uns
loading freight car at Watson. was
killed by the carelessness of the train
crew in switching. He was about 80
years of age and had lived in the vi
cinity from childhood.
Daniel Woodbury., eighty years old,
was gored to death by Jersey bull.
alone at 10 Cedar Lake road near
Minneapolis. He had raised the bull
from calve and treated the animal
as pet.
William Martin, aged 10 years, was
shot and almost instantly killed at
Long Prairie. He and an older
brother took revolver from their
unc1e's trunk. A bullet in the yegion
of the heart was the result of fooling
with the gun.
Minneapolis grain houses, with
lines of elevators in the Canadian
northwest, are inclined to the opin-
ion that the quantity of old crop
wheat back in farmers hands across
the line is about 6,vOO,O0O bushels.
w. w. P. Mcconnell, state dairy and
food commissioner, has received re-
plies from the commissioners of
North and South Dakota and Wiscon-
sin indorsing the idea Of calling con-
vention to fix uniform tests of food
products. The convention will prob
ably be held in st. Paul.
In the near future the state board
of investment which consists of the
governor, auditor and treasurer and
which passes upon all loans from the
state school funds, will approve loans
to certain counties of the state from
drainage purposes amounting in the
aggregate to about 100000.
The manufacture of turpentine,
axle grease and charcoal from pine
stumps will be the business of the
Standard Turpentine Manufacturing
Company of ST. Paul with a capital
stock of $4,000, which filed articles
of incorporation with the secretary
of state.
Judge Kelly of the Ramsey district
court has decided that the state audi
cor is an official of so high station
that he cannot be mandamused by the
Minnesota Sugar Company, which
seeks to compel him to draw war
rant for $19,523.21, claimed to have
been earned under the bounty law.