Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-02-13
] NEWS In MINES TA

John Fey. prominent pioneer 81
Ortonvflle, Is dead.
Tallmadge Elwell, resident Of Min.
neapolis since 1852, is dead.
Christ Lippert, for forty-six years 3
resident Of Wabasha county, is dead.
Hennepin county proposes to raise
$1,000 for famine sufferers in Swe
den and Finland. " #
Announcement is made that steps
have been taken to bring former
Mayor A. A. Ames back to Minneapo
lis Immediately.
Measles are becoming rampant
throughout the state. Reports to the
state board of health indicate the
spread of the disease. 49,.
"A railing upon which General Grant
rested his hands when making an ad
dress in Winona has been presented
to the G. A. R. post of that city
At Herman a mad dog bit two of W.
B. Schmidt's little girls. Mr.. Schmidt
has taken the children to Chicago fol-
treatment at the Pasteur institute.
Half hundred sheriffs from all parts
of the state met at St. Paul last week
Much of the time Of the session was
devoted to discussion of a uniform
fee system.
Major Scott, acting Indian agent
has completed the payment of the
Leech Lake band of Chippewas al
Walker. He was successful in sup
pressing the sale Of liquor during the
payment.
The sixth annual session of the
Northern Minnesota Teachers asso
citation will be held in St. Cloud on
April 10 and II. Superintendent H
E. White of Princeton is president oil
the organization.
After holding back for three months
DR.. H. L. Williams has agreed to sign
a contract to coach the University of
Minnesota football team for period
OF three years at a salary of $4,000 a
year, an increase of $500.
The next. new mine to be opened on
the Mesaba will be the South Clark
belonging to the Great Northern road
where E. F. Bradt, formerly mines
manager for the Lake Superior Power
company, and lately at the Josephine
mine, is in charge.
Charles e. L. Henderson, the negro
murderer of Duluth, and Ole G. Ole.
son of Aitkin, who stabbed his own
daughter to death, will die by the rope
on March 6, Governor Van SAINT having
affixed his signature to the decree set,
ting the date OF their hanging.
DR.. M S. Whitcomb of Austin has
just completed the inspection of the
herds of cows in the surrounding ter.
ritory.I A tuberculosis fright had
caused many to use milk sparingly.
One hundred and sixty cows were in.
spected and thirty-four condemned.
The report of the state board of
health for the week ending Feb. 2
gives the number. of new cases OF
smallpox as 1924. OF this number 149
cases were reported from Douglas
county, which includes something over
100 cases in the township of Miller.
vile.
The ShenangO Furnace company
one of the largest Independent iror
and steel concerns in the country, has
purchased state leases covering thir
teen forties from Alexander Maitland,
lieutenant governor of Michigan and
general manager Of the Republic Iron
and Steel company.
The interior department has made
a demand on the state of Minnesota
for the money it received from the sale
of the timber on four coded townships
on the White Earth reservation and
the money will, when received, be
placed In the treasury to the credit OF
the Indians on that reservation.
d. s. Culver, national bank examin.
or for Minnesota and Wisconsin,, will
on April I, become the cashier of the
National German-American bank, St.
Paul. He succeeds Joseph Jockey,
who has resigned to become the head
Of new national bank to be estab.
lished in st. Paul in the near future.
Farmers in different parts of the
state have lost a number of horses re.
Gently from what seems to be an cpl.
demic of spinal meningitis. The mat.
ter has been brought to the attention
OF the veterinary board, which will
endeavOr to ascertain the causes OF
the epidemic and suggest remedies.
Judge Sanborn, in the federal court
of appeals at St. Paul, filed a decision
holding that anyone serving an In.
dian with liquor, even though the In.
dian has an allotment of land, en-.
tered in the land Office, and the land is
held in trust for him by the govern.
ment, is guilty of an infraction of the
statutes.
While serving writ of restitution
upon J. w. Smith and wife, colored
people, who have been living at 325
Carroll street, St. Paul, Constable
John Lohmann narrowly escaped be
ing killed at the hands of Mrs. Smith,
who is said by the constable to have
held a revolver within six inches OF
his head and pulled the trigger.
In the state supreme court Friday
fifteen per curtain decisions we're filed
In cases appealed from Traverse and
Big Stone counties involving title to
tracts of land The court in it's deci
sion afirms the order of the lower
courts, basing the decisions rendered
by it in the case of O'Connor VS..
Gjertgens, which covered the same