Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-02-03
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

Spine disease carries off horses in
several counties.
Burglars ransack the home of Rev.
Theodore Sedgwick.
Gotlieb Schurch is held up and
robbed of $25 in St. Paul.
Extensive improvements will be
made at Minnesota transfer.
The government issues a pamphlet
giving weather signs for Minnesota.
The saloon of Thomas Jordan at
Howard Lake, was destroyed by fire.
The state fair managers re-elect
Secretary Randall and Treasurer Will
cox.
The street railway company agrees
to charge but one fare to South St.
Paul.
The state live stock board orders
dogs muzzled to prevent the spread of
rabies.
Five hundred delegates attended the
annual convention of the grand lodge
of Masons in St. Paul.
The farmers organization of the
country will hold convention in St.
Paul next month.
Judge Buckham, who sentenced the
Nelson boys, recommends that the
sentence be commuted
The Owatonna wholesale grocery
has been sold to the Theopold Mer-
camille company of Faribault.
The report of the secretary of the
state board of health shows that the
death rate from smallpox is increas-
ing.
George r. Hart, a brakeman on the
Wisconsin Central railroad. was run
over by freight car at Gladstone and
killed.
The Columbus hotel at Swanville
was destroyed by fire at o'clock in
the morning. The loss is $4,000; in
surance, $1,000.
George Wadsworth, saloon-keeper
of Winton, pleaded guilty to having in
his possession a moose head and horns
and was fined $50.
The Eastern Minnesota Railway
company's bridge between Cass Lake
and Pike bay was barely saved from
total destruction by fire.
John Goodnow. consul at Shanghai,
yesterday presented a copy of the re-
cent Chinese treaty to President
Northrop, for the university.
During the quaHer ending Dec. 81,
1908, 100 horses and nearly 200 head
of cattle have been killed by the state
live stock sanitary board in it's effort
to protect the animals of the state
from contagious diseases.
The Perham brick yard turned out
100000 brick the past year. The
brick are of cream color and have
a large sale through northern Mime
sofa and North Dakota.
Alleged overcharges in the printing
for the state agricultural school and
experiment station were investigated
at meeting in the Office of Presi-
dent Northrop.
Jene Cain. trapper living six miles
north of the village of Little Forks,
has been killed by wolves. His body
was completely destroyed. His jaw
bone, bones and shoes and part OF
his clothing were found near the spot.
Edward Bennett, A. D. Reece and
Fred Lake, Northern Pacific switch
men, were arrested in Minneapolis,
charged with having robbed box cars
for the last five years.
Secretary Hitchcock of the interior
department has ordered patented to
the state Of Minnesota, 13.s43 acres of
land in the Duluth district, on &C
count of the swamp land grant.
The Ladner block. comprising the
Fl. Anderson shoe store and J. n.
Tate's residence at Perham, was
burned, the total loss on building and
contents being about $1,000 with 49,
; 300 insurance.
James Hallenbeck, of St. Cloud, was
SO years old. but he did not feel like
waiting little longer for death to
come in the natural way, and sui
cided.
A couple of lumber jacks who rode
in a coach on the NJ. e. l. road north
of Bemidji were found to be afflicted
with smallpox, and a thorough fumi-
cation was in order.
The steamer Bon Ami is the ONLY
boat in commission on Lake Superior,
and is making points on the north
shore between Duluth and Grand
Portage.
1t is believed that Edward Luther,
employed by J. w. Babcoc<, the dairy
, man whose barn was burned a few
nights ago, near Minneapolis, lost his
life in the fire.
The camp which the bureau of for
estry has maintained in the vicinity
, of Cass Lake for six months or more
has been broken and members of the
corps have been assigned to other
work.
kilograms poured in upon Secretary
Hitchcock protesting against the evic-
ton of settlers on the Bena townsite
in Minnesota, ordered by Mai. Scott.
An investigation is recommended by
Indian Commissioner Jones, who
wants action delayed.
The St. Paul branch of the Saliva
ton army plans to establish in St.
Paul so-called industrial home con-
sisting of a lodging house for men
and secondhand store.
The handsome club house of the
Minnetonka Ice Yacht club, which
, during the past three years has been
r the scene of many brilliant social
| event, was totally destroyed by fire.
} The jawbone of a man and two hui
on the Little Fork river about sixty