The Tomahawk., 1904-03-10
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

John Florin's planning mill at Crook
ston went up in smoke the other
morning.
At the close of the farmers instl-
tute at st. Cloud, woman's institute
was organized.
The school population of Bemidji is
| growing fastor than the school board
can secure quarters.
There is a project on foot over in
Itasca county, Mimi, for the manu-
facture of turpentine.
Kearney & Co. have sold the Detroit
roller mill to the Blaisdell Milling
company of Minneapolis.
The Crescent is the name of the
mine in the southwest quarter of the
southwest quarter 22-5s-2o.
Sixty patients were transferred
from the insane hospital at Fergus
Falls to the asylum at Anokar
The fortieth anniversary of the
wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. George W..
| CLAYTON, was celebrated at Frazee.
Dietrich Becker, aged Is, who came
to Hastings in 1856 and opened the
first wagon shop, died in Empire yes.
terday.
During the summer between $4,000
and $4,000 will be expended on sta
tions and the parking of the levee at
Red Wing.
Willie Anderson, a sixth grade pu-
pil of the Stephen schools, shot and
killed a wolf within half mile of the
schoolhouse.
That the east side of Minneapolis
is in the clutches of an epidemic OF
typhoid is practically admitted by the
city health officials.
Lang & Carter have begun work on
their broom handle factory at Nary.
Citizens put up substantial bonus
to secure it's location.
Ernest r. Brown has resigned as
captain of Company H, Mankato, and
porarily by First Lieutenant Fred e.
Day.
Judge Pond has appointed H. v.
Mercer to act with Freeman L. Lane
as one of the receivers for the Millers
and Manufacturers Fire Insurance
company.
A mail sack was stolen from the
station at New York Mills, the thief
taking it upon the platform during
the night, cutting it open and remov-
ing it's contents.
Sneak thieves entered the residence
of Mr.. and Mrs. Guy L. Landis, Mime
apolis and carried off plunder to the
value of $500. The property taken con-
sisted of silverware.
| Alfred Anderson, aged about 35,
was killed in A. c.. Hatch's clay pit at
Battle Lake. while loading clay. He
was buried under a chunk of clay and
died almost instantly.
The Russians of st. Paul, who re-
side in the settlement on the West
side, have little sympathy for their
fellow countrymen who are waging
war in the east against the japanese.
The council of Lake Crystal is ad-
vertising the sale of $4,000 worth OF
town bonds, which will pay per cent
and run twenty years, for the purpose
of erecting city hall and stand pipe
Louis Larson, a team contractor,
was killed by train on the Duluth,
Missabe & Northern road near Du-
luth. He was walking on the track
| and failed to heed the signals. Lar
son was not married.
| The 500 road made it's report of
| 1908 gross earnings in Minnesota to
| the state auditor. The earnings were
Se.359,S6S.s5, and the per cent tax
amounts to $L1 1,O96.:4. The earnings
| for 1902 were $2,256, ,303.01.
August Milz, a young man, commit
| ted suicide by shooting off the top OF
his head with a shotgun. No reason
can be found for the act. His wife
was at neighbours house and upon
her return found him dead.
Minnesota postmasters appointed:
T. Anderson, Boston, vice Hans Han
son, resigned; D. E. Jones, Bristol,
vice James Berning, resigned; Hans
Larum, Roland, vice Lars Olina, re-
signed, and C. B. Rae, kroschel, wee
August Kroschel resigned.
A small blaze in the boiler room OF
the Washburn- Crosby A mill, Mime
apolis, gave the fire department a
small scare. The blaze was extin-
guished by the engineers before the
department arrived, but several
streams of water were put on.
Edward Rogers, captain and left
end of the university football team
last year, will coach the Carlisle In
dians. Rogers yesterday announced
his determination of accepting flat
tering offer from the athletic manage
ment of that school.
Governor Van San granted requi-
sition for Thos. Hopkin, under arrest
at Aitkin. He is wanted at Black
River Falls, Wis, on the charge OF
seduction, preferred by the parents
of 15-year-old Rosa Gehring, VINO ran
away with him to AitlSin.
Inquiries have been sent to the
lumber camps in Lake and Cook coun-
ties and every effort to locate Anton