Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-19
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap
poned Throughout Confines
of North Star State.

noger Little, eight years old, is hit
oy train and killed at St. Paul.
The state board of equalization will
not raise assessments on real estate.
The board of aldermen of st. Paul
passes the anti-free lunch ordinance.
Supt. Whittier says military drill
makes training school people eat more
There 1855 more pupils in the Min
nesota schools than there were a year
ago.
Moorhead wants the street railway
and the company wants line in Moor.
head.
Body of an Italian is found badly
mangled by train on tracks at Still
water.
The First National bank at Cass
Lake was sold to the Neils-Shevlin
combination.
The state begins work on the SAM
forum to be erected near Walker for
consumptives-
Minnesota now has facilities for
stocking with fish every lake and
stream in the state.
Charles Turin, aged %, laborer at
Duluth, fell from roof and was killed.
He was unmarried.
The state board of equalization
adopts new tactics in raising the street
car company's assessment.
Burglars are frightened away from
q house on Dell street, St. Paul, by the
ringing Of the telephone bell.
j. Coyle, of Buffalo, N. Y, 81 years
old, clothing merchant, was found
dead in bed at a hotel in Eveleth.
Edward Somers, 25 years old, switch
man working for the Burlington, was
killed in the railroad yards at st. Paul.
Telegraph companies are assessed
same as in 1908 by the state board of
equalization, despite vigorous protests.
The state board of equalization in
creases the returns on logs and lum-
Der, machinery and stocks and bonds.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. R. Fields, of St.
Paul, are injured, and their 12-year-old
son probably fatally hurt in runaway
accident.
Patrick Murphy, a well-known tra%-
cling salesman, who was a candidate
for sheriff two years ago, fell dead in
St. Paul.
Fred Poppe, butcher at Luverne,
convicted VI assault in the second de-
gree, was sentenced to one year at
Saltwater.
The total assessed valuation Of real
and personal property in Minnesota is
increased $21, 3l4, 900 by the state board
of equalization.
R. Geise, an employee of the Crooks
ton opera house, fell down twenty
foot elevator 81 aft in the building and
was badly shaken up.
Father Augustine Berockmeyer, for
many years pastor of St. Joseph's
Roman Catholic church of Moorhead,
left for South Africa
Ten country schools in Polk county
are insuhciently ventilated, and will
not receive grants from the state. The
loss will be about $500.
John Doran of Winton, near Ely,
was drowned in Farm lake. He was
in boat with Earl Welshons of the
St. Croix Lumber company
State Auditor Iverson received a
check from Henry Wolfer, warden of
the state prison, for $6,6l702, the
hemp and Irvine receipts for Septem-
Der.
Alvah Eastman of st. Cloud, editor
of the St. Cloud Journal-Press has
been appointed president Of the state
normal board, to succeed the late C. A.
Morey.
Harry Rodman, who resides west Of
has demonstrated that there
is practically no limit to the resources
of Rock county's soil and climate. He
has this year planted and raised an
abundant crop of sweet potatoes.
After entering his residence by
the porch and cutting the
the screens of the second story win
dow, burglars chloroformed John Burt
who was sleeping in room at Mime
apolis. The robbers then ransacked
the house, securing $74 in money and a
gold watch valued at $3.50.
George Stretter of St. Cloud, aged 40,
took shotgun and went in the woods
for two hours hunt. He did not re-
turn and no trace of him has been
found. It is feared he has either met
with an accident or foul play.
Duluth insurance agents have re-
ceived notice to the effect that insur-
ance rates have been advanced from
10 to 20 per cent in the territory be-
tween Third avenue east and Sixth
avenue west and between Second street
and the water 'front.'
A 3-year-old buck deer has been cap.
tured in the west end of Duluth. The
animal had been pursued by dogs and
sought safety in the precincts of civili-
zation. The deer was tired when it
made its appearance in the city, and
became entangled in wire fence.
which made it's capture possible.
The annual thanksgiving feast of
the Winnibigosish tribe of Indians was
held recently, and about 500 braves,
squaws and old men were in attend
ance. The meeting place was on Sand
lake on the Bow String river, and the
feast lasted four days and nights.
A Serious epidemic case of smallpox
has been reported to the state board
of health from Maple Plain, Hennepin
county,. The entire town has been
put under the most rigid quarantine,
but the rapid spread of the disease be-
fore report vas made to the state
board, it is feared, will lead to gen.
eral spread through the village.
Charles S. lPillsbury's residence in
was robbed of jewelry and
other valuables to the amount of 3D.