Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-12-30
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

John Walsh, pioneer of Minneap.
Oils, is Dead aged seventy-eight years.
The state board of control has
moved into it's quarters in the new
state capitol.
Frank McClymont of Anoka was
killed at McReavey's logging camp,
north OF Akeley, by lodged tree.
Governor Van SAINT has formally
entered the field as candidate for
United States senator to succeed Sen
ator Clapp.
J. A. McDermott of Candy has been
appointed state oil inspector by Gov.
ernor-elect J. A. Johnson. Mr.. Nc
Dermott is a travelling man.
After shooting seven times at John
Caplstran at CroOkston John Strick-
Ter, 4 travelling man, was arrested and
committed to the Fergus Falls asylum.
c. r. Henton, a we'll known con
ductor on the Milwaukee road, was
killed at Kasota while switching
Five cars and tender passed over
him.
During the year 1904 new buildings
were erected in ST. Paul at a cost OF
nearly 100000. Eighteen of the
structures cost more than s15,0iU
each.
Secretary of State Hanson will ask
the legislature to appropriate S75.N'U
for the state census Of 1905 instead OF
S45, 900, which was the cost of the 1885
census.
A state law making it manslaughter
IN the first degree for a hunter to kill
q man, installing him for a deer, is
recommended by the state game AMI
fish commission.
The charred and blackened bones
all that is left of the body of John Eel
lows, the fireman who lost his life il
the Boutell fire at Minneapolis Dec Il,
were found last week.
After being out ten hours and ten
minutes jury at Two Harbors re-
turned verdict of murder in the first
degree against O. H. Hammerburg for
the murder Of Andrew Blum last Octo-
Der.
Mrs. Frank Gibbs Of GAINESVILLE,
who was shot in the head and thigh
by her husband about a week ago, has
died of her injuries. Gibbs committed
suicide Immediately after shooting his
wife.
Major Scott, Indian agent at Leech
Lake, will begin the disbursement Of
about $4,000 to Indians of the Red
Lake tribe about JAN IS. Each Indian
including men, women and children
will get 500.
John Edwards and Gus Bloomer,
timber cruisers, have been missing
since Oct. 20, and from clues which
have been discovered it is believed
they were drowned in Knife lake,
north of Ely.
Warren II. Williams, railway postal
clerk between Tracy, this state, ami
Pierre, s. D., has been arrested at
Huron, S. d, charged with apnrOD.i-
ating a registered package said to
contain S2.GU0
Attorney General Moody has passed
favorably On the request Of the A!i!2-
neapolis rliIlers that they be allowed!
to mix American and Canadian wheat
In grinding -four under the new draw
beck regulations.
Detective James G. Doyle, who f<:'
the past eighteen years has been al
most continuously connected with tn"
Minneapolis police department, ha>
been appoint ed superintendent Of the
department by NavoT-elect Jones.
Wolves are becoming 50 feroci0I5
along tho north shore Of Lake S1peiic:'
that the settlers east Of Two HarbOlS
do not dare to 80 out into the woods
or even along the packroads at night
unless several men are in the party.
Word has reached Duluth that Dan
Cameron, a fur trader, was murdered
q few days a5O near Mine Center, in
the Rainy River country, by an Indian
from whom he had just purchased
500 worth Of frrs. The murderer is
under arrest.
The complete vote Of the state at
the recent election shows that the con-
stitutiCnal amendment for the abolish
ment OF the grand Jury in the state
passed by a vote of l64,555 yeas to
62,152 nays. It is now up to the leg
islatule to act.
Fred l.. Ran of Duluth has been
named surveyor general Of logs and
lumber for the Duluth district by Gov
ernor-elect Johnson and f. 3. Hyberg
of Monrevideo has been selected for
position Of deputy in the dairy and
food department.
Reports from the St. Paul health
department TOT tNo oleNeu luCllIS
ending Nov. 80 show that of the 1867
deaths almost 9 per cent were from
unnatural causes. There were 1856
deaths in this class, 80 being caused
by accidents, 40 suicides, 6 homicides
and by poison.
Theodore Rooseyelt's plurality in
Minnesota is 1874 AGA, according to re-
turns compiled by the state canvass
ing board. The vote for each party
follows Republican 21GG51, Demo
cratic 55,1S7. Peoples 2,1o3. Prohibit
ton 6,25:, Public Ownership 1852,
Socialist Labor 974.
Moore Stephens of Minneapolis.
agent for the Duluth Elevator company
at Hancock. was caught in the belt ':t
q gasoline engine and instantly ki':@.
He apparently tried to stop the @o~
CINE and his coat caught in the f.. =
Wheel His neck and the bones o. ii;:'
body were broken to pieces.
The report that the state ca0:'"-
com mission Will ask the next ~
latuIe Tor a further apnIo2liatj>
complete the new structure is not true,
according to Charming SeahurT, chair
man Of the commission. MI. Se2;;'"E
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