Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-06-30

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Ed Nolan, a teamster employed by
W. G. Larkin, 4 Minneapolis con-
tractor, was run down and killed by
Great Northern train near Wayzata.
The body was horribly cut and man
gled.
While driving a roller on the
grounds Of the Northland Golf club at
Duluth Herman Utick fell from his
seat in front of the roller, which
passed over his skull, crushing it fiat
and killing him instantly.
State census officials who are watch
Ing the returns as they are received
from the several cities and villages
estimate that Minnesota's population
will be between 100000 and 100000,
IN increase of over 100000 from 1900.
Governor Johnson has named nine
aew members of the state board OF
equalization to fill vacancies Of men,
bers whose terms have expired. All
The new appointees are Democrats, but
the Republicans still have a majority
Of the. board.
Five of the fourteen Minneapolis
Daloonkeepers arrested for keeping
their saloons open on Sunday pleaded
guilty in the Minneapolis police court
Ind were fined $25 each. The other
nine saloonkespers pleaded not guilty
md will be tried later.
State Auditor 1verson has received
reports Of the discovery of two new
IRE fields. One Of these IL located
about thirty miles north Of Brainerd
II Crow Wing county. The other is
located just east Of the Leech Lake
indian reservation, in Cass county.
. The saltwater prison population is
D92, equal to that of any pefiod in the
history Of the institution. 1t is ex-
pected to grow before the courts take
the usual summer vacation. Cots in
corridors are in use and tho female
ward has fourteen women in ten cells.
Messrs. Reed, Bruels and Davlin,
representing the Duluth, St. Cloud,
Glencoe and Mankato Railroad CON-
pany, are buying the right Of way for
the line through Freedom county. AS
high as $3.50 an acre has been offered,
but farmers are not anxious to sell at
even that figure.
Governor Johnson has decided to
offer a prize of silver cup for the
best score in the butter making con-
test which is being conducted under
the auspices Of the state dairy and
food commission. This cup will cost
about SIS and the winners name will
be engraved upon it.
Another moose from the north
woods, the third this year, ran into
Duluth the other morning, but owing
rowboat, who drove the animal to the
shore from the lake at Forty-ifth av
enue, it made lively trip through
Lakeside and vanished in. the woods
All of the Italian laborers along the
Great Northern line between Crook
ston and Winnipeg who are employed
on the extensive improvements being
made on the line have struck, not for
more wages or for fewer hours, but
for permission to work twelve hours a
day instead of ten hours, as they have
been doing.
| The supreme court has upheld the
ruling of the Ramsey county district
court in sustaining the demurrer o.
the defendant in the case of the state
against c. B. Buckman for the recov
cry Of $4,000 for alleged timber tres
pass on the ground that the suit was
not brought within the time limit anG
is, theG>fore, outlawed.
Minnesota boys and girls are for
saking the farms and crowding into
the cities and villages, according t
the latest returns received by George
F. Wright, supervisor of state census
Mr.. Wright announces that while thu
returns from the country districts d.
not show a substantial gain there arr
300 cities and villages in Minnesota
that show an increase of from SO K
| 400 per cent in population.
Lightning played queer antics in the
home of John O'Brien at st. Paul. A
bolt struck the roof, passed dow1
through the wall Of the kitchen, STRUCK
q gaspipe, tore off the meter in the
cellar, igniting the gas, set fire to thu
basement and then, tearing around tn.
cellar, went back to the kitchen I'm
der the wall and tore off all the plas
ter. The family slept over the kitchen
and all the plaster in this room was
torn off, but none of the family in
jured.
The Independent oil dealers of thi:
state, through an action brough
against the railway companies Of tn
state, won a victory over the STANDARD
Oil company when the railroad ant
warehouse commissioners rendered {
decision that kerosene and gasoline
oil, when shipped in less than carload
lots, should be classed as fourth class
freight. It is claimed the decision
will result in a total saving of 5000,
600 per year to consumers of oil ii