The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-10
CITY Y BRIEF.

CITY " BRIEF.
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real estate, leans, 22O Temple Courl
corner Washington and Hennepin
Friends of DR.. Kohler, Democratic
candidate for congress, will meet this
Saturday night at 7:30 o'clock in the
bank offices, Bank of Minneapolis
building, corner Third and Nicollet.
All are invited to attend.
Mrs. Jane Buxton, who has lived in
Minneapolis since 1913, died at the
residence Of her nephew, George
Brown, 2416 Fifteenth avenue s..
Monday morning, at the advanced age
of LOG years. Mrs. Buxton was the
: oldest of family of thirteen children,
every one of whom she has survived.
Mrs. Margaret X. Tower, of St.
Louis, is the first woman to apply for
nonresident license to shoot small
game in Minnesota. The license was
issued Tuesday to Mrs. Tower to-
gether with one for her husband,
George T. Tower. They will come to
Minnesota next week to hunt prairie
chickens.
If you are thinking of building a
house it will be of much assistance to
secure from Sedgwick & Saxton, arch
fleets, 1927 Lumber Exchange, Min
neapolis, copy of their illustrated and
descriptive book of plans and specifi-
cations. The book contains over 100
pages, showing the cost complete of
I scores of residences at all prices. Cost
. of book Is cents.
Under instruction from the county
commissioners, the county surveyor
has re-surveyed school district No.
1913 Of the town of Plymouth, known
as the Bass Lake school. The survey
was made at the request of the voters
in the vicinity who wanted the school
house moved to a more central loca-
ton. AS result of the survey, an
order has been issued for the moving
of the school house at once.
A. NJ. Cleland, general passenger
agent Of the Northern Pacific road,
has received telegram from Mann
moth Hot Springs, in the Yellowstone
National Park which conveys the
gladful tidings that the Splendid gey-
ser, which has lain dormant for four
years, has gone to work once more.
The message stated that the geyser
was spouting regularly every three
hours, and while it did not say who is
to be praised for the awakening, the
people on the ground think the beauty
of the eruptions are sufficient to
atone for the lapse.
Fines collected amounting to $3.50
represents the work for August Of the
i seven poundmasters in the employ of
the city. Their salaries during the
same period amounted to $3.50, and
four of the seven failed to collect q
solitary copper. Of those who actual
, ~ did business for the municipality
M. j. Fitzgerald, Of the second dis
trict, picked up a couple of stray
horses and taxed their owners 50 in
fines; w. A. Shook, of the fourth dis,
trict, rounded up horse and COW
and obtained 81 in fines, and A. E..
Allen, of the sixth district, appre-
hended trio Of COWS and levied $1.5O
on them.
A body supposed to be that of Ed.
ward Hankins who was drowned
while attempting to escape from the
workhouse about three months ago
was taken from the river at Forty.
fourth avenue N. Tuesday afternoon
The body was SO badly decomposed
that the head and shoulders and one
arm were missing and on this account
it was impossible to make any posi-
tive Identification, but because there
was only one other drowning in that
: portion of the river of any recent date
the body is thought to be that Of Han
kins. There was nothing on the body
which would lead to an Identification
The remains were taken to the county
morgue.
A decision of great interest tt
dairymen was rendered by Judge
Dickinson in municipal court Tuesday
morning. e. s. st. Martin was arrest
ed charged with selling milk To the
Minneapolis Milk company, which
fell below the legal test. His defense
was that he was simply acting as car
rier for several dairymen in his vicin
Y ity and that the milk was not in fact
his. He stated that he was paid q
I. certain amount of money per gallo1
for the milk he brought in, but beyond
his charge he had no interest in 1t
The court held that as he brought the