Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-10-28
NEWS in MINNESOTA
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6t. Paul dairymen have raised the
price Of milk. Hereafter sixteen quart
tickets will be sold for 81. y 19,2,r, =.
Anders Larson, an Otter Tail coun.
~ farmer. respondent over poor crops
committed suicide by drowning.
At 1 special election held in the two
villages Thursday the Villages Of
Paynesville and New Paynesville voted
In favor Of consolidation. ri ',j7'
John Havan, 4 telephone nneman,
fell thirty-hve feet from q pole at Min.
neapolis and escaped with q slight
scalp wound and few bruises.
The tax levy in st. Paul this year is
2 mills lower than in 1903, the rate of
assessment ranging from 26 to ~ mills,
while last year the tax was q trifie
over % mills.
Seven thousand five hundred per-
sons in the state of Minnesota are de-
pendent upon the Junk business for a
living, according to Labor Commits
sioner O'Donnell.
High water mark for st. Paul's city
bonds was made last week when the
sinking fund committee disposed Of
the 100000 school bond issue at a
premium of $11,053.
Close to 100 applications for leases
on mineral lands were filed with the
state auditor Friday morning and over
$4,000 in cash was received by the
officer for options on them.
The land rush at Duluth terminated
Thursday after being in progress three
days. Two hundred and eighty-fve
applications were made, involving
about $4,000 acres.
Charles Rausch, seventy-eight years
old and a. widoWer for many years
past, was run down by an Omaha train
in st. Paul and both feet were sev-
cred. He died several hours later.
Bud" Braun, the Chicago pugilist,
who was severely pummeled by "Jim-
my" Potts in the f1stic carnival at the
st. Paul Amateur Athletic club last
week, has recovered and returned to
the Windy City.
The method of selecting swamp lands
In coded Indian reservations by the
state of Minnesota is denounced in Sc
we're terms by Major Scott, Indian
agent at Leech Lake, in his annual re-
port to the commissioner of Indian
affairs.
A seven-year-old son of John L. Sui
Ivan, a thresher, living eight miles
south of Belle PLANE. was killed in an
unusual manner. He opened a valve
on a thresher engine, starting the en-
CINE, which rxn over him and killed
him instantly.
Captain H. Peterson OF the schooner
Commodore was robbed while the boat
lay at the dock at Duluth. He was
lying In his bunk in his room asleep
when "a, :, thief crept in, chloroformed
him and distracted $3.50 from pocket
in his clothes.
Tobias Phlepper, a farmer fifty
years of age. living in the town Of
Stearns county, was found
dead in straw stack. He had been
on a prolonged spree and death was
due to acute alcoholism, according to
the physicians.
After being out forty hours the jury
In the BRIBERY case Of former Mayor
Ames Of Minneapolis announced dis
agreement. The members were reluc-
family discharged by Judge Harrison
1t is understood that the vote stood
to for conviction.
Andrew Olson, a miner at the Spruce
mine at Eveleth, was killed by blast
In a drift. The dynamite failed to ex.
plode within reasonable time and
Olson went to investigate. The charge
went off as he bent over the explosive
and he was instantly killed.
Attorney General Donahower has
decided that district school cannot
have a special session during part of
the day for German children and part
of the day as a public school. The
opinion was given in answer to query
from the superintendent of schools of
Swift county.
At the annal sale of state timber by
State Auditor 1verson in the senate
chamber of the capitol Thursday morn
ing there was approximately 100000 900
feet sold at an average price of $7.25
per thousand feet. The total amount
Of money received was $289,671, as
against s650,0O0 in 1902
Arthur Olson and Pat Madden of
Biwabik will trap all winter at the
headwaters OF the st. Louis river.
twenty miles from the nearest railway
station. The incentive is the bounty
on wolves, which has been raised by
St. Louis county so that with the state
bounty it amounts to $40.
The: supreme commandery of the
Knights of Malta, at it's meeting in
revoked the charter of
the Minnesota commandery of that or
der. The reason given was that the
of the Minnesota branch
was inadequate, there being less than
100 members in the whole state.
The new state capitol in St. Paul is
rapidly nearing completion and already
the work OF transferring the vaults
from the O.! structure has begun in
earnest. The vault fixtures of the
auditor and treasurer are already in
place and the state officials expect to
be installed before the first of next
year.
Application has been made by the
ashburn company of Min.
neapolis; to the United States treasury
to bond one of it's mills so
that Canadian wheat may be ground
at Minneapolis In transit. AS soon as
the formalities have been completed
the grinding of Canadian wheat will
begin.
Minnesota scooped the world on
dairy butter at the worlds fair. Mrs.