Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-12-30
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EVENTS OF WEEP 8THRoU UGH
4. oUT THE STATE.

. John Walsh, q 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. sH & =1S:
- Frank McClymont of Anoka was
Killed at McReavey's logging camp,
north OF Akeley, by a lodged tree. :.
Governor Van SAINT has formally
entered the field as a 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 ]. A. Johnson. Mr.. Me-
Dermott is travelling man.
After shooting seven times at John
Caplstran at Crookston John Strick-
Ter, q 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 a tender passed over
him.
During the year 1904 new buildings
were erected in St. Paul at a cost of
nearly $4,000,000. Eighteen of the
structures cost more than $4,000
each.
Secretary of State Hanson will ask
the legislature to appropriate S75.000
Tor the state census of 1905 instead of
$4,000, which was the cost of the 1895
census.
A state law making it manslaughter
IN the first degree for a hunter TO kill
q man, installing him for deer, is
recommended by the state game and
fish commission
The charred and blackened bones,
all that is left of the body Of John Eel
lows, the fireman who lost his life in
the Boutell fire at Minneapolis Dec 10,
were found last week.
After being out ten hours and ten
minutes a jury at Two Harbors re-
turned a 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 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,
viii get 800.
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 H. Williams, railway postal
clerk between Tracy, this state, and
Pierre, S. D., has been arrested at
Huron, S. d, charged with appropri-
ating a registered package said to
contain $2.0O0.
Attorney General Moody has passed
favOrably on the request of the Min
neapolis millers that they be allowed
to mix American and Canadian wheat
In grinding flour under the new draw
back regulations.
Detective James G. Doyle, who for
the past eighteen years has been al
most continuously connected with the
Minneapolis police department, ha>
been appointed superintendent of the
department by Mayor-elect Jones.
Wolves are becoming SO ferocious
along the north shore of Lake Superior
that the settlers east of Two Harbors
do not dare to go 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
4 few days ago near Mine Center, in
the Rainy River country, by an Indian
from whom he had just purchased
800 worth of furs. The murderer is
under arrest.
The complete vote of the state at
the recent election shows that the con-
stitutional amendment for the abolish
ment OF the grand jury in the state
passed by vote of 1855 yeas to
62,152 nays. It is now up to the leg
islature to act.
Fred l.. Ryan of Duluth has been
named surveyor general of logs and
lumber for the Duluth district by Gov
ernor-elect Johnson and r. B. Hyberg
Of Montevideo has been selected for
position of deputy in the dairy and
food department.
Reports from the st. Paul health
department for the eleven months
ending Nov 80 show that of the 1867
deaths almost 9 per cent were from
unnatural causes. There we're 1876
deaths in this class, SO being caused
by accidents, 40 suicides, 6 homicides
and by poison.
Theodore Roosevelt's plurality in
Minnesota is 164,464, according to re-
turns compiled by the state canvass
ing board. The vote for each party
follows: Republican 216,651, Demo
cratic 55,187, Peoples 2,103, Prohibi-
ton 6,253, Public Ownership 1862,
Socialist Labor 974.
Moore Stephens of Minneapolis,
agent for the Duluth Elevator company
at Hancock, was caught in the belt Of
q gasoline engine and instantly killed
He apparently tried to stop the en-
CINE and his coat caught in the flying
wheel. His neck and the bones Of his
body were broken to pieces.
The report that the state capitoI
commission will ask the next 2egi5
lature for a further appropriation 20
complete the. new structure is not true,
according to Charming Seabury, chair
man of the commission Mr.. Seabury