Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-08-10
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

paving and stonecutters.
The state supreme court upholds
the anti-smoke ordinance.
The state labor commissioner will
make an investigation of strikes.
Minnesota will be represented at ST.
Louis by sixteen cars of livestock.
n. P. Bend of St.: Paul wins state
golf championship at Winona tournar
ment.
The state wins title to valuable
tract of mineral lands on the Mesaba
range.
A former Minneapolis fireman is un.
der arrest in New York, charged with
murder.
Figures show Minnesota's sweeping
victory in the Worlds Fair butter
contest.
The Ontario Zinc Mining company
will be incorporated by Owatonna
capitalists.
John Covell, pioneer resident of
White Bear, is killed by fall from q
load of hay.
Proceedings are under way to bond
the city of Eveleth for $4,000 for a
waterworks system.
The German State Bank of Ellis
worth, with capital of $4,000, was
authorized to begin business.
Seven applicants took the examina-
ton at the local postoffce for rural
carriers for the county of Sherburne.
The body of a newly born babe was
found on the grounds of the old ball
park on First avenue north, Mime
apolis.
The postofice at Royalton was rob-
bed. The safe was blown and rihed
of about $500 in cash and $40O in
stamps.
Allan Black & Co., of st. Paul,
were awarded the contract for an ex-
tension of the water system at Fort
Smelling.
The new Minneapolis city directory
will show a population of 272,677 for
Minneapolis. This is gain of 1o,237
over last years figures.
The'wreck of an ore train bound for
Two Harbors, at the foot of the large
Cloquet river grade, caused a tenn
porary tieup at Eveleth.
Five St. Paul American Association
players-Chech, Slagle, Sessions, Jack
son: and Jones-are said to be slated
for sale to major leagues.
The Democratic state convention
will be held in Minneapolis on Aug.
30. The place for the convention will
be the International Auditorium.
The Minnesota Veterans associa-
ton will hold it's annual reunion at
the new capitol building on Wednes-
day, Aug. 81, during fair week.
State Treasurer Julius 81. Block re-
ceived a draft for $4,000 from the
state prison, the proceeds from the
sale of binder Irvine during June.
The 100000 feet of logs which
have been in Ely lake for about three
years were sluiced out by the North
ern Lumber company of Cloquet.
AS outcome of dispute over wages
of farm hand, E. E. Howe, Hennepin
county farmer, is at point of death
from stabs, and Peter Torlein is q
prisoner.
The Northern Pacific morning train
on the Duluth Short line brought to
St. Paul the dead body of 14-months-
old baby, the child of Mrs. Brabender
of Aitkin.
Mora suffered the most disastrous
fire in her history, resulting in loss
Of from 100000 to $4,000 and the de-
struction of a block of twelve places
of business.
Joseph H. Gardner shot and killed
William Garrison at the latter's home
stead, fifty-ive miles north of Hib-
bling. Both were homesteaders, liv-
ing in the same locality.
After several days. search for the
meteorite which fell somewhere in
central Minnesota, State Geologist N.
Fl. Winchell returned to Minneapolis,
having been unsuccessful.
Andrew Pletten, a bartender at
Tracy, was tried before Judge Gibbs
for opening a saloon on a special cleo
ton day. The jury disagreed and the
case will be tried again.
Edward Bransham, the colored lad
of II, whose leg was crushed under a
Northern Pacific freight car near
Becker, died at St. Raphael's hospital
and was buried here today.
The skeletons of two full-grown In
dams have been unearthed by Pro-
fessor William r. Hoag of the State
University at his summer home on
Big Island, Lake Minnetonka.
Three Minneapolis dairymen en-
riched the city treasury by $25. They
were arrested for selling milk which
was not up to the standard, and all
pleaded guilty., but each one had a
different excuse.
Eight counties are delinquent in re-
porting to the state auditor June tax
collections, which were due June 20.
The counties are Beltrami, Clearwa-
ter, Fillmore, Hennepin, Itasca, Otter
Tail, Ramsey and St. Louis.
Joseph Bowe, who had been en-
ployed ON the farm of Matt Willmus,
two miles from the corner of Hamline
and Langford avenues, was found
dead at the corner of Hamline and
Mckinley avenues, St. Paul.
Since the supreme court has handed
down its decision holding the license
ordinances Of Minneapolis valid, the
law will be enforced impartially
against all peddlers who do not take
out their licenses promptly.
The body of N. o. Dahl, who TO-
gether with his daughter, Miss Aagot,
disappeared from their claim on Sec
ton 33-151-32, two miles from During
postofice, about April 9, was found
BY James Caldwell, a neighbor.
Horace Wellman, aged 10, q burnt
wood artist, who ievd at Minneapolis,