Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-26
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap
poned Throughout Confines
of North Star State.

Minnesota grapes win medals at st.
Louis
Mr.: Blashfield's paintings for tho
capitol are completed.
The associated charities of St. Paul
reports deficit of 5000.
Cass Gilbert, architect of the new
capitol, roasts St. Paul.
Dr. Ohage says there is danger Of
typhoid fever in st. Paul.
The Twin City exhibit at the fair
may be shown in other cities.
The Northern Pacific report shows
good business in Minnesota.
Rural free delivery route No. will
be established Nov. / at Crookston.
The butter in the last state contest
Is the best yet offered in competition.
The state art society is establishing
circulating art galleries for smaller
towns
There are seven candidates in the
field for the speakership of the house
of representatives.
An Outlook club has been organized
at Two Harbors. It's purpose is to dis
cuss current events
Underground properties On the iron
ranges in Minnesota are expected to
display unusual activity.
The residents of the Midway district
appeal to the police and sheriff in an
attempt to get rid of gypsy campers.
The Federal elevator at Climax was
burned to the ground, with $4,000
bushels of wheat and 1000 bushels of
fax
Hart N. Cook, formerly chief of the
st. Paul fire department., has been APP
pointed chief of the Red Wing depart
ment
j. R. Campbell, an actor, who was
brutally murdered at the stage door of
a Memphis (Tenn.) theater, was Min
neapolis man.
The big warehouse of the Union
Fiber company of Winona was dam
aged by fire to the extent of $4,000;
origin unknown.
Frank Boutin, an employe of the
Crookston Lumber company, met a
horrible death by falling on the saw
carriage in the mill.
The Minneapolis library board will
erect a tablet to the memory of DR..
Kirby Spencer, benefactor Of the pub
lie library of Minneapolis
O. A. Sanders, prominent Cass
county farmer, committed suicide by
drowning himself in the Red river. He
is believed to have been insane.
A new 1000 school house has just
been completed at Hawley, and hi gh
school course and equipment added to
the educational facilities of the town.
The state live stock board has prac-
tically exterminated hog cholera from
Minnesota, and more live pork is grunt-
ing in healthy content today than for
many years past.
Polk county will sell $4,000 more
ditch bonds. The county has done
some splendid drainage work within
the past two or three years, and is get
ting big returns from it.
Charles x. johnson met with a pc.
culiar accident at Two Harbers. While
assisting in test of some fire hose, it
burst, and one end struck him on the
leg and fractured the bone
Percifal Ross, Minneapolis postal
clerk, was tried in the federal court
before Judge Page Morris on a charge
of embezzlement, and the jury re-
turned verdict of acquittal.
The general store of r. J. Krugmire
at Minnesota City, was burglarized
and thirty pairs of shoes and three O,
four shotguns taken. This is the Sec
ond burglary in that vicinity within q
week.
The students at the state university
plan to hold a real circus in the armo
ry next March. There will be clowns
sleight-of-hand performers, boy won
ders, trapeze artists and everything
seen in a regular circus
Wages at the Cass mine, on the Ne
saba, were advanced 10 cents day
The mine stripping companies are pay.
ing from 16 to 40 cents a day more
eow than they were a short time ago
md are finding difficulty in getting
men.
Andrew Leighton, an inmate of the
state reformatory, ont on parole, was
arrested by Sheriff Williams at the
Milwaukee station at Mankato, on his
arrival from Mapleton in company
with young woman of the latter
place, the daughter of promincn,
farmer.
Reports of the wholesale slaughter
of deer and game birds out of season
come to Duluth from the ranges. 1,
is asserted that scores of men are en-
gagged at hunting to supply camps ant
individuals in towns with venison anl
partridge.
After walking 800 miles to enlist il
the United States navy, Hannibal F.
Lyman, youth of II years, failed tt
pass the physical examination at the
Minneapolis recruiting station, and il
now in the city hospital The tars a.
the station have informed him tina
when he comes out well he NAV b,
able to pass and accomplish his ambi
ton to become a sailor.
In the annual report of the United
States commissioner of pensions, which
was received by L L. Mahoen, forme
department commander of the G. A
R., it is shown that there are 1853,
pensioners in the state of Minnesot;
who received during the present yea
s., 2o3, 799. 90.
The biggest boy for his age in tn
state of Minnesota was in Bemidii tn
other day. His name is Wayne Leple.