Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE,

V: ID. Coykendall, gateman at the
st, Paul depot, is robbed by pick
pockets. a
The members of the congressional
rivers and harbors committee visit
st. Paul.
w. W. Butchart, sheriff of St. Louis
county, died this morning of diabetes
| at the age of so years.
| There were twenty-three patients
cared for at the emergency hospital
at the fair grounds in one day.
| ;Ihe sale of lands in the ceded por-
ton of the Red Lake Indian reserva-
tlon will be resumed in Crookston.
Nels Nelson, one of the pioneer citi-
zens OF northern Minnesota is dead.
he was born in Denmark and was AZ.
"A bolt of lightning instantly killed
two horses while their owner, A.
Swanson, was cleaning them at St.
Paul.
Harold Kinkaid and Guy Cotton of
oshkosh, Wis, were run down by a
| Great Northern train at Kenwood and
killed.
Fire destroyed the Wheeler single
mill at Seventh street and Becker
avenue, Duluth, entailing a loss of
$1,000.
The state farm school will play a
prominent part in the program at
st. Louis arranged for colleges of
agriculture.
Eight Minnesota regiments of wal
veterans and three special veterans
organizations held annual reunions
in St. Paul.
There were more than forty arrests
made by the state fair police in one
day and more than $500 collected in
fines and bail.
George Frediani, a seven-year-old
boy, was taken to the emergency hos
pital at the fair grounds with his
right thigh broken.
Minneapolis has just become naval
recruiting headquarters for the sub
stations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ne
braska and the Dakotas.
William Rogers, a pugilist, who
claims North Dakota as his home,
was arrested at Crookston for beat
ing an old man severely.
j. M. Anderson, connected with the
State Savings bank of St. Paul, has
been appointed manager of the First
National bank at Braham.
1t isn't right for New York to claim
with Minnesota the honor of being a
butter state, even if there are a large
number of goats in Harlem.
The Modern Woodmen Park asso-
citation of Hennepin- county was in
corporated for the purpose of &C
oepting the proffer of tract of land.
Paul Fleischnacker, street sweep
err at St. Paul, was stricken at Sixth
and Wabasha street and died at the
city hospital of cerebral hemorrhage.
There were 304 building permits is
sued during August, aggregating
$491, 1928, as compared with 143 per-
mits aggregating $317, 445 in August,
1908.
Down at St. Cloud the public serv-
ice heating plant is to be abandoned
and the owners of the buildings will
have to put in heating plants of their
own.
The scoring of dairy butter was
completed at the state fair. Mrs. S.
Jensen of Tyler is the premier but
termaker of the state. Her score
was 93l.
Jesse Phillips, a fourteen-year-old
boy who was arrested at the fair
grounds for climbing the fence, has
had an unusual experience, accord
ing to his story.
Ward Burton of Minneapolis won
from George X. Belden the finals
and state championship in singles at
the state tennis tournament at the
Town and Country club.
Minneapolis bank clerks won out
at the national convention of the
American Institute of Bank Clerks
at St. Louis, and the local chapter
will entertain the next convention.
Fiftytwo per cent of the 6,487 ap-
plicants who took the summer teach
ers' examination in Minnesota failed
to pass the required marking and
have been denied the teachers certi-
ficates.
Rural free delivery carriers ap-
pointed: Minnesota, Wy1ie, route one,
Hans P. Anderson; South Dakota,
Clear Lake, route two, Claud E.
Force; Tyndall, route four, John E.
Murphy.
The finding of % empty whisky
bottles stored away under the old
Methodist church at Crookston Gre
ated some commotion until it was
remembered that the building was
formerly a theater.
Frank Benoit, railway mail clerk
on the Great Northern road between
Duluth and Grand Forks, has been
arrested at Duluth on a charge of
stealing valuable letters from the
United States mails.
The state auditor issued warrant
for $4,000, which was appropriated
by the legislature for the various
fair associations of the state. This
amount will be apportioned among
fifty-two associations.
A fire was discovered in the new
school house at Hills, and is supposed
to have been set by tramps, who
thought that by attracting the citi-
zens to the building some business
house downtown could be robbed.
A spark from the engine used by
the Kern threshing crew ignited a
stack of grain on D. J. Hooley's farm
near Lily Lake, and the blaze de-.
stroyed 200 bushels of oats and the
separator. The machinery was valued
at $780, q.
Il guess nay heart is beating for
about the last time," said Peter
D e. L.