The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-12-29
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Hhort Items Showing Whist has Hap
psned Throughout Confines
of North Star State.
Royalton has a new brass band.

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Three masked men attempt robbery
at the home of E. E: Machovec of st.
Paul
Bagley, Howard Lake, Scanlon and
West Concord become presidential post
Offices
Plans were made for charitable Or
CARNATIONS to entertain the poor on
Christmas
M. d. Grover, gen eral counsel of the
Great Northern, dies after an illness of
three weeks
The Twin City league will ask clubs
to post cash guarantee that they will
finish season.
State game commission would make
it man sla lighter to shoot a man in mis-
take for deer
Seven me n engaged in the construc-
ton of buildings are killed in st. Paul
during the year.
Money withheld from Minnesota
lum bermen by governmental red tape
will be returned.
The state good roads association will
ask the legislature to pass bill pro-
viding for state aid.
Peter Zioikowski was arrested in
Corliss on a charge of shooting his
father, John Zioikowski.
J. A. McDermott, of Candy, Mimi.
is named as state oil inspector by Gov
elect John A. johnson.
Mrs. E. n. Dennis, a young married
woman of Biwabik, was found dead in
an clubhouse at her home.
Benjamin Campbell of Chicago will
succeed j. w. Blabon as fourth vice
president of the Great Northern.
There are seven cases of smallpox in
the woods near Blackjack, and the
winter season has scarcely started.
The Schlitz Brewing company sus-
tanned loss of SO, 500 in fire in their
cold storage plant in East Grand Forks.
The golden wedding anniversary OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Obediah Smith was cele-
brated at their residence west of Aus
tin.
T. J. Knox says the revision commits
sion has condensed but has not at
tempted to change the laws of the
state.
The Minnesota State Art society will
hold its second annual exhibit in Wi
mona some time early next spring
probably in March.
Henry Buentheir, taxidermist, OF
Bemidji, received the skin of an enor
nous lynx which was killed by two
women about As miles east of Black
duck.
The region around Lake Minuetonka
visited by the storm last summer i:
now the camping place of several large
crews of wood choppers and sawmil
gangs
A. B. Monroe, superintendent Of
British Columbia's mining exhibit al
St. Louis, says Minnesota's mining
laws are not advantageous to pros
pectors.
big Jack" Flemming, a farmer Of
Derrynane township, in LIE Sueu,
county, met with his match the Other
day when a tree fell on him, crushing
him severely.
The Minnesota experiment station
and national department of agriculture
officials are cooperating to evolve plans
for the management of small farms or
business basis.
Congressman Steernerson has recon-
manded the appointment of John P.
| T a
Marshall county, to succeed John
Walters, resigned.
Three young men of Sc. Minneapo
lis slaves to the cocaine habit, have
asked Police Superintendent Conroy to
prohibit certain druggists from selling
the poison to them.
After shooting seven times at John
Capistran, John Stricken, a travelling
man, was arrested at Crookston and
committed to the Fergus Falls asylum,
after desperate struggle.
The announcement was made that
the Gould interests have completed ar
rangements for the early opening of a
line from st. Joseph, Mo-, across Iowa
and Minnesota to st. Paul.
Minnesota postmasters appointed:
Charles O. Ryberg, at Fridley, Anoka
county, vice Jane Demott, resigned;
August S. Yeeh, at Searles, Brown
county, vice F. A. Williamson.
The Clarke National bank of Mime.
apolis will probably change hands on
Jan. /, syndicate of Minneapolis cap,
italists to take hold, with Public Elk.
aminer s. T. johnson as president.
Gov. elect johnson has followed a
we'll established precedent and ap.
pointed an active newspaper man to
the position of state librarian. The
| governor-elect has announced the ap.
pointment of John E. King, of Red
Lake Falls, to the position, which pays
an annual salary of $4,000.
The asphalt pavement on one OF
Crookston's streets is cracking, sup.
posed to be due to the fact that there
is no snow an the street, and the pave.
ment is consequently exposed to a
greater degree Of frost than usual.
The state of Minnesota has brought
| suit for 81, $50 damages against the
Northern Pacific railroad company. II
is claimed by the plaintiff that, in
raising its tracks near the St. Cloud
reformatory last year, the defendant
company failed to properly construct
its culverts, and that the water has
been backed up and damaged the fields
and gardens of the reformatory.
James Ven Wiert, indicted by che
federal grand jury at Fergus Falls last
May on a charge of embezzling s4ot
from the United States while he was
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