The Tomahawk., 1903-06-04
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

| letter IN a lire alarm box ana called
out the fire department and hundreds
of spectators.
Thomas Short, seventy years of
age, and rather feeble, fell into the
river near Fort Smelling, and would
have drowned had not DR.. c. B.
Strang and Frank LaDue, universe
ty law student, jumped in and drag
ged him out of eight feet of water.
The Clark-Jackson Lumber COM
pany secured a contract from the
Hines Lumber Company of Chicago
to saw $20,O0O,O00 feet of lumber this
season. Contracts for 3O,OOO,000 feet
more will be let necessitated by the
burning recently of the Scofield mill
at Superior which was to have sawed
the entire 5O,OOO,OOO feet for the Hines
company.
Harry Child, son of DR.. Fl. B..
Child, of Minneapolis, had narrow
escape from drowning in Lake Min
netonka. He was in a sailboat when
the craft capsized. Harry Swenson,
a Minneapolis attorney, reached the
young man with a rowboat and took
him to shore.
Albert Peterson of St. Paul, pas
senger on an eastbound Northern Pa
cific train. fell from his car near
Trout creek, Mont, and died in Mis-
soula hospital, where he was con-
veyed by a special train.
John Oliver was sentenced for two
months at Slayton for selling mort
gagged property. Austin and Robert
McCullom, brother, were sentenced to
the reformatory for stealing horses.
A. S. Pierce, an employee of the Mil
waukee road, was held up in St. Paul
by man and a woman and robbed
of $50. The woman was arrested and
! $40 found on her person. The man
| fed with $40.
A river driver giving the name of
E. D. Williams, was locked up at Lit
tie Falls on charge of having had
several small checks cashed with the
forged name of A. c. Morrill,.
William Koelner of Collegeville
town was possibly fatally injured in
saw mill accident. He was struck
by driving belt and thrown on the
carriage. He sustained fractured
skull.
Henry Green, of St. Cloud, veter-
an of the Eleventh Minnesota in the
civil war, is dead at the age of 72.
He lived in Stearns county since 1861,
and was forced by the Indians to
leave his homestead near Melrose in
Pioneer days.
By breaking in plate glass door
thieves effected an entrance to the
store of the HUM Drug company in
Minneapolis and made away with
about $25 worth of candy and cigars.
The supreme lodge of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen will as
semble in St. Paul June 9. More than
1000 delegates and visitors from all
parts of the country will be present
and important matters will be dis
cussed.
Work has commenced on the build
ing of 2OO-foot docks at Beaver Bay,
twenty-five miles up the shore from
Two Ha1bors. Heretofore passengers
and merchandise have been transfer
y
skiffs.
The entire product of the binding
twine factory at the Saltwater peni-
tentiary has this year been sold to
farmers for the first time in the his
tory of the institution.
A report of iron discoveries on
what is described as the Western
Vermillion range reached Duluth.
The finds are in the neighborhood of
Graves lake, north of Deer River and
far from any known iron deposit IN
the recognized iraa country.
The forty-sixth annual session of
the Winona district conference of
Congregational ministers and
churches was held at Lake City. A
large number of delegates and minis
ters were present.
Sheriff Hardy, Cass county. report
ed finding the body of a man in the
creek this side of Backus, who is
thought to have been murdered. In
aications pointed to the fact of the
man having been slugged, dragged
some distance and then thrown in the
creek.
Washington county teachers are to
have summer training school at
Saltwater in June, continuing for six
weeks. Prof. C. F. w. Carlson of
Alexandria, formerly of saltwater,
will be in charge of the school.
S. G. Iverson, state auditor, estim-
ates that the Nelson law taxing
freight car companies and the per
cent tax on railroad gross earnings,
when put in operation will provide
additional revenue to the state of
100000 year. The gross earnings
| tax, however, must be ratified at the
general election before it will be-
! come effective.
But for the fact that his suspend
ers stretched, Fred Hope. arrested for
| robbing the residence of Rev. Father
| JameS O'Reil1v in MinneaDO1iS would