Mower County transcript., 1904-02-17
NEWS I'm MINNESOTA
EVENTS oF:THE WEEK THRoUaH.;
OUT. THE STATE.

1 Governor Van SAINT has removed
Sheriff Torkelson OF Clearwater coun-
ty for malfeasance. ..;5s.;. ss.*: :.
Ten gambling houses and Ave other
resorts went out OF business in Be
midi last week as the result of an
order of the city council. ...&. 4
Eight persons narrowly escaped
death in q clearinghouse fire at Min.
neapolis last week. ALI were more or
loss injured, one perhaps fatally. ;:
Henry Downs, q Minnesota terri
torlal pioneer and for many years
prominent in Minneapolis building
circles. is dead at Long Beach, Cal
Joseph sykera: Of Brainerd was
found dead in a room at the. Grand
Central hotel, St. Paul, as the result
OF gas asphyxiation., It is believed he
committed suicide.
>,.y The bill ratifying the treaty with
the Indians of Red Lake reservation
in Minnesota for the cession of 250,OO0
acres OF their land has been passed by
both branches of congress.
Mrs. R. S. White of st. Paul dropped
dead at the midwinter breakfast of the
Minnesota Federation of Women's
clubs in the university armory at Min
neapolis. Death was due to heart dis
ease.
The st. Paul Union depot estab-
nshed new records last year for tickets
sold, train movements, the number of
passengers handled and the amount
OF mail and baggage received, trans
ferred and sent out
Warden Henry Wolfer has handed
IN his resignation as warden of the
state prison. The state board of con-
troll has appointed N. F. Boucher, war
den of the North Dakota penitentiary.
to succeed Mr.. Wolfer.
With $4,000 to pay out in premiums:
and purses the Minnesota state fair.
tits year will be far superior to any,
thing of it's kind ever ATTEMPTED in
the West. There will be $4,000 for
trotters and PAGERS alone.
The Lakefeld game law violators
were sentenced by Judge Quinn at
Jackson last week. William Kerr re-
ceived 300 days at Saltwater and Rob-
ert Pool 2C0 days, or a fine of $4,000
in each case. An appeal will be taken.
G. A. St. Clair of Duluth has made
an important find of iron ore near BIZ
Wabik on lands owned in large part by
Lon Merritt and Frank W. Eaton Of
Duluth. He has proved up 100000
tons of non-Bessemer ore of choice
quality.
A number Of Fergus Falls business
men have organized what will be
known as the Fergus Packing COM
pany, with capitalization of $50 900.
The erection of a packinghouse will
begin as soon as possible in the
spring.
A headon collision occurred Thurs
day afternoon between two freight
trains on the Northern Pacific a short
distance east of Clear Lake station.
Both engines were wrecked, one train
took fire and five loaded cars were de-
stroyed.
The New York Central lines, with
an aggregate mileage of 10000 miles,
have selected st. Paul as the North
western passenger headquarters of
their lines and will open one of the
finest city ticket offices in St. Paul
March Is.
Forty-three timber and stone appli-
cations and eleven homestead entries
were recorded at the Duluth land
office Thursday morning at the open
ing of the new town in the Northern
Itasca county, twenty-five miles south
west of international Falls.
Olmsted county farmers assembled
at Rochester last week and organized
union of the American Society of
Equity, after a speech by Hon. H. B.
Sherman of Indiana. The object is to
control market prices on farm produce
by forming farmers trust.
Miss Lena Underdahl, nineteen
year-old girl employed as domestic
in st. Paul clearinghouse, is report
ed to be heiress to an estate of $780,
600, left by Dr. John Tyler, an uncle,
who died in New York sixteen years
ago. Miss Underdahl is said to be the
sole surviving heir.
H. L. Irving of Wadena county was
reelected president of the Minnesota
Sheriffs' association, in session at St.
Paul. and J. =. Lundgren of Douglas
county vice president. J. w. Dreger
OF Hennepin county succeeded P. C.
Justus of Ramsey as secretary and
Mr.. Justus was made treasurer.
Samuel G. Hazard, alias Samuel C.
Hargreave, has been convicted of big
amy at Minneapolis. Hazards case
attracted attention because he was a
distinguished army officer. He was
accused by Viva kirkpatrick OF hav-
ing married DR.. Linda Burt1eld after
his marriage to Miss Kirkpatrick.
The Northern Pacific and Great
Northern have eiven notice to the rail-
road and warehouse commission that
they will appeal from the decision of
Judge Kelly of the Ramsey county dis
trict court upholding the commissions
rates from Crookston, ST.
Cloud, Brainerd, Fergus Fails and
other points on the same basis as from
the Twin Cities. ..r....
= Three men were killed in a collision
on the Great Northern at Pennock last
week. They were William H. Hill.
salesman for George R. New
ell & Co., Minneapolis; Edwin l. Eeif-
ner. travelling sa!esn:an for the Chal-4
lenge Windmill .an:! ..'se1 company.
G. G. Ha2@conba. travel
ing salesman for the St. Peter Furni-
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