Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-21
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS,
Short Items Showing What has Hap
poned Throughout Confines
of North Star State,

The st. Paul Basket Ball league is
organized.
Gov.-elect johnson can't dodge the
Office seekers.
st. Paul ministers would have Sum-
day begin Saturday night.
George B. Alton, state high school
inspector, makes his report.
Some of the Crookston young men
are talking of organizing a Y. NJ
c. A.
Minnesota fruit exhibits win eigh-
ty-one medals at the St. Louis ex-
hibit.
Henry F. Greene of Duluth goes to
canal zone to establish civil service
board.
A movement has been started to Sc
cure normal school for the Twin
Cities.
The state live stock sanitary board
will ask for an increase in appro-
priation.
Presidents interest in Stevenson
free home bill is secured by Mime
sofa solons.
Fort Smelling Improvements are
urged by Congressman Stevens at
war department.
Mrs. John brennan dropped dead
from heart disease at Crookston. She
was an old resident.
Congressman Tawney has appoint
ed Fred Fellows of St. Paul as his
personal stenographer.
W. H. Wright, postmaster at Mon
trose, has moved into the new post
office he has just completed.
The creamery owners are consider
ing the plan of placing a premium on
cleanliness in purchasing milk.
Robbers broke into the postoffice
at Thompson and stole $3.50 worth of
postage stamps and other valuables.
Robert S. Spillman today was APP
pointed postmaster at Poison, Brown
county, vice Simon L. Dotson, re-
signed.
A defect in the heating plant may
make it impossible to have the legis-
lature 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 OBrien's camp
near Cloquet, was killed yesterday
by a failing tree.
It 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.
A 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-
copied the offer of the Itasca Invest
ment company to take $4,000 water
bonds with interest at per cent.
Charles Trzebiatowski, aged about
20, was instantly killed by falling
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 and
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 & Internation-
al railway.
The Crookston council granted a
permit for the building of frame
structure within the fire limits,
Neighbors protested, and the mayor
said that the building must not go
on.
Fire, water and smoke ruined Wi
mans & Maxwell's stock of millinery
at Winona. The fire is supposed to
have started through a lamp explo-
sion. The loss is $1,400; insurance,
5000.
The statement made that the state
school for the blind at Faribault had
been closed because of the prevalence
of diphtheria was an error. The cpl
demic prevails at the state school at
Faribault for the deaf, and it was the
latter that was closed by the state
board of health.
George Weetman of Bemidji has
made application for a patent upon an
improved acetylene gas plant. He
asserts that acetylene gas under his
process is absolutely safe and that it
can be manufactured at low cost.
The secretary of the interior has
rejected all bids for standing pine
timber sold on. Minnesota ceded 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 Neal
Lumber company.
With nearly $50 of it's members in
attendance, and about 50 students