Little Falls herald., 1904-12-09
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

pioneer railroad men of Minnesota, is
dead, aged sixty-two.
John A. Johnson's plurality over
Robert c. Dunn is $3.50, according to
complete official returns.
Three hundred and thirty-six rural
free delivery routes were established
in Minnesota during the past year.
An unknown tramp and thirty-two
horses perished in fire which de-
stroyed Aamoth's livery barn at Twin
Valley.
E. Warren Mcclure, aged sixty-four
years, prominent surveyor and lum-
herman, dropped dead in cigar store
at Duluth.
Charles Charlson, residing in Burn
side, about three miles from Red
Wing, is dead as the result of being
sored by an angry bull.
Through the caving in Of a forty,
five feet high bank at Mountain Iron
open pit mine Matt Rokka and John
Kogla, two miners, were suffocated to
death.
William Ripley Dorr, for many years
a prominent and wealthy business
man of st. Paul, died suddenly ot
pneumonia in a cheap lodging house
at Chicago.
Clear Lake Jute H., owned by the
Minnesota experimental station, was
declared the grand champion steer OF
the International Live Stock exposi-
tion at Chicago.
Jim Moe, or Moe Jim, as he is some
times known, one of the big Cinnamon
of +,;@l fl, <l,o ~
improper CONDUCT toward young girls,
has been acquitted.
T. R. Simms, a wealthy stock buyer
OF Blooming Prairie, committed sui.
eide by hanging. No motive for the
deed is known. Simms was prominent
politically and in business.
Ringleadeis of the miners strike at
Chisholm have been run out of town
by the authorities. It is thought that
with the ringleaders gone work will
continue without interruption.
The big Minnesota steer, Clear Lake
Jute H., winner of the international
grand championship at the Chicago
live stock show, has been sold to a
New York firm for $36 per 100 pounds
Roy Mathews, aged twenty six years,
was drowned while skating on pond
near Battle Lake and a son of J. S.
Bixby, formerly of Steel county, also
was drowned while skating on Dead
lake in the same vicinity.
The Duluth, Missabe and Northern
railway has just closed a contract to
put in seven miles of new track on the
main line east of Hibbing. This new
line will shorten the distance to Du-
luth and avoid the Scott hills.
Robert f. Regan, alias Alexander
Granville Gordon, who is now confined
in the Central police station in Min
neapohs, is alleged to have written a
letter to President Roosevelt about
three weeks ago and demanded the
payment of $4,000.
A rapier Of the Fifteenth century
by Representative James TaWney OF
presentation on behalf of Jacob Schcl.
fus Of Winona, personal and polite al
admirer of the president.
Harry Gilbert, twenty years Of age,
is in Jail at Fairmont charged with
writing two letters to a promineli;
local banker demanding that $lG,UVn
be left in a designated spot and threat,
ening to slay The banker unless the
demands We're complied with.
The annual tWO-day session Of the
Minnesota butter and cheese maker )
was held last week in the CHAPEL
building of the state agricultui al
school. About 400 were present, rep.
resenting all parts OF Minnesota and
several counties in Wisconsin.
Three unknown men attempted to
blow the safe Of the State bank OF
Falnum early Thursday morning. After
eirg frightened away they proceeded
, ,he railroad station, where they
held up and robbed R. 0. Dye farm e1
living at Moose Lake: of few dollars.
Unusual activity among hunters and
trappers has been created in st. Louis
each for wolves. The animals are ap.
pearing in ever increasing numbers
in the territory north and west of Du.
luth, so that stock must be sheltered
at night or otherwise protected.
Orlin Kalderwit, Charles Harmon
and John Kalb, arrested on suspicion
of being the men who held up Ed
Mingos saloon in Columbia Heights
NOV. 22 and Killed nlne-year-Old Fred.
die King, were given hearing at
Anoka last week and bound over to
await the action of the grand jury.
The state game and fish commission
estimates that between 5000 and 1000
deer and moose were killed in Mime
sofa during the open season for big
game, just closed. AS far as can be
ascertained only two caribou were
killed. The number Of big game ami.
mails killed this season was probably
between 5000 and 1000 less than last
year.
The Minnesota immigration society
has issued an address to the people
of the state asking the cooperation
of every citizen in promoting the OBJ
jects of that organization. The crea.
tion of state board of immigration
by the next legislature, with the pur.
pose OF inducing immigration to this
state, is one Of the plans of the So
ciety.
The Minneapolis millers propose
forcing the hands of the freight roads
by cutting down their shipments of
-four after Dec. to the minimum. The
same plan was tried last year with