Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-04-20

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mitted to use the new rifle range at
Fort Smelling.
The St. Paul Typothetae is testing
in the courts whether labor unions
are bound by their contracts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Nasten Of Lake
Park will celebrate their sixtyfourth
anniversary of their marriage.
A large public meeting was held at
the Davidson opera, St. Cloud, to
boom the proposed tri-county fair.
John Renswick was found dead in
his room in Delano. He had been sui
fering from rheumatism of the heart.
The Third United States Infantry,
which was formerly stationed at Fort
Smelling, has been ordered to Alaska.
The Catholics of St. Charles will
build an $4,000 church to replace the
one destroyed by the cyclone last
fall.
The body of Daniel Burgett, who
was drowned while crossing the Can
non river on Dec. 9, has been recov-
cred.
The Mining Range Development
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incorporation with the secretary of
state.
The body of Charles Moberg, who
was killed by his companions, is
found in a box car at the Midway
transfer.
Fire at the Stephen Jail burned to
death Finnish woodsman who had
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drunkenness.
The secretary's Office of the Farm
ers' United Mutual Hail Insurance
company was removed from Pipestone
to West Concord.
The St. Paul ministers are planning
to organize federation of ministers.
The work on improvements at Fort
Smelling is renewed.
One million four hundred thousand
acres of land have been added to the
acreage subject to the. homestead
laws in Minnesota.
Eddie Isner, IS years of age, was ac-
cidentally killed while playing with
shotgun at his cousins home, four
miles east of Pequot.
w. B. Douglas was unable to at
tend the session of the supreme court
this morning, when the April term
opened, to be sworn in.
Charles Bickstrom was painfully in
jured in St. Paul by being struck on
the head with heavy timber from an
old barn which he was wrecking.
The Minnesota National Guard will
be allowed to use the new rifle range
at Fort Smelling, for which 500 acres
of land is now being condemned.
March proved another record-break-
ing month at the Minneapolis post
office. For the first time the stamp
sales for March ran over 100000.
Secretary Caulfeld figures that l.
100000 gallons of water were wasted
each day in Minneapolis during Feb
ruary to keep pipes from freezing.
The little four-year-old daughter OF
Marvin HARDWOOD, farmer residing
about four miles from Chatfeld, was
fatally burned while playing at the
house of neighbor whom she and
her father were visiting.
A strike of the stonecutters of Min
neapolis seems imminent. A Difficult
ty between some of the contractors
and companies employing stonecut-
tiers has arisen, and some of the mem
bers of the local stonecutters' union
are now out on strike.
The government will hold civil
:, service examination in St. Paul on
April 26, ~ and % for the appoint
ment of cadets for the revenue cutter
service.
The jail at Shevlin, seven miles east
t was destroyed by fire. A stranger
had entered the Jail for nights
: lodging and was seen smoking clay
, pipe. After the fire had been sub
. dued the charred remains of the mar
e were raked from the ruins.
Special Indian Agent Thomas
Downs has not been successful in Sc
\ curing the signatures of the Indians
resident on the west end of Red Lake
t reservation to an agreement to vacatt
these lands earlier than the time set
}. While on their way to their home a
|, Robbinsdale, William Struck and :
Il friend were held up by two highway
D men and robbed of $40 and their jew
elry.
J. The state board of control awarded
l. to O'Neill & Son, of Faribault, tn
t contract for constructing an addition
to the administration building at tn
4 home for Predetermined at Faribault
c The St. Paul city hospital cared TO
nearly 5000 patients during 1908, &C
e cording to a report just submitted b,
. the hospital authorities. OF the mum
n Der treated 2Os died. The averag
It cost per patient was $3.50 week.
n The village of Kennedy is foode
d with water and some of tho resi-
dences are partly submerged.
I. According to the monthly report
"a stamp sales from the Minneapoli
r. postofice, $101, 94799 worth of posi-
is age stamps were sold during tn
!. month of March. This is $10,696.9
more than was sold in March, 100
when the receipts were $9i,25107.