The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-15

county. vice Simon L. Dotson, re-
signed.
A defect in the heating plant may
make it impossible to have the legis-
Iature meet in the new capitol this
winter.
The Duluth & Iron Range road is
the first of the three range ore car
rying roads to cease shipping for the
season.
The second annual meeting of the
Minnesota Butter and Cheese Max
ers' association is held at the state
farm school.
An aged farmer by the name of
Christian Hanson was found dead by
the Northern Pacific railroad tracks
at Audubon.
A woodsman named James Con-
molly, employed in O'Brien's camp
near Cloquet. was killed yesterday
by a failing tree.
1t cost d. p. Jones just SIS to con-
duct and win one of the most siren
uous mayoralty campaigns ever con-
Quoted in Minneapolis.
TO Danish long range rifles and
also to prevent deer shooting for a
few years is Minnesota Legislation
proposed by Duluth solons.
The G.. A. r. veterans hope to Sc
cure the hall of representatives at
the old capitol as meeting place for
the various posts of the city.
Col. William Gerlach says made
quate accommodations furnished by
smaller cities threaten the efficiency
of the Minnesota national guard.
! \ slight increase in the salaries
of county superintendent of schools
is shown by the biennial report OF
| State Superintendent j. w. Olson.
The city council of Eveleth has ac,
| cepted the offer of the Itasca Invest
ment company to take $4,000 water
bonds with interest at per cent.
Charles Trzebiatowski, aged about
limb while working for the Pine
Tree Lumber company near Little
Falls.
| Mr.. and Mrs. John Schweich OF
Hastings celebrated their golden
wedding yesterday afternoon ano
evening. They are among Dakota
county's oldest citizens.
A band of hunters is being organ
lied here to join in a wolf hunting
expedition in the Ripple country
fifty miles north from Northome, the
end of the Minnesota & Information
al railway.
The Crookston council granted {
permit for the building of frame
! structure within the fire limits
| Neighbors protested, and the mayor
said that the building must not &C
| on.
Fire, water and smoke ruined Wi
mans & MaXwell's stock of millinery
at Winona. The fire is supposed tt
have started through a lamp eNplo
sion. The loss is $1,400; insurance
5000.
The statement made that the state
school for the blind at Faribault hac
been closed because of the prevalence
: of diphtheria was an error. The cpl
| demic prevails at the state school a
Faribault for the deaf, and it was the
latter that was closed by the state
J board of health.
| George Weetman of Bemidji has
made application for patent upon ar
improved acetylene gas plant. He
asserts that acetylene. gas under his
process is absolutely safe and that il
can be manufactured at low cost.
The secretary of the interior has
rejected all bids for standing pine
timber sold on Minnesota coded In
dian reservations which was Offered
at Cass Lake Nov. Is, except the bids
of A. E. Merrill, Minneapolis; North
land Lumber company and the Nea
Lumber company.
| With nearly $50 of its members iT
attendance, and about 80 students
from the agricultural college as spe
| cial guests, the Minnesota State Hor
ticultural society opened its annua
convention in the large audience
room of the First Unitarian church
at Minneapolis.
The eleventh annual session of the
national Agricultural Press league
with a large attendance of editors
closed at Chicago by the election Of
| f. A. Webb, of the Farmer, st. Paul
as president; Scion Goode, of the
American Farmer, Indianapolis, vice
| president, and j. L. Draper, of the
American Agriculturist, New York
secretary.
The big Minnesota steer "Cleal
Lake Jute H." winner of the inter
national grand championship at the
livestock show in progress at Chica
| go, was sold to New York firm to-
day for $50 per 100 pounds.
Two unconscious persons and three
who were in an upper room with al
means of egress cut off from them
were carried from burning board
| ing house at 525 jackson street, ST
Paul, by iremen.
7. d. O'Brien of ST. Paul will be
appointed insurance commissioner.