Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-08-16
GOPHER GOSSIP.

st Paul-The state closes fiscal
year with deficit in the revenue fund
of 1914, 6?4 IS:
neutrality-suspicious. Bede says the
foods in northern Minnesota mi ght
have been averted.
Hastings-Magnus Shuholm was as
saulted and robbed of $50 by = footpad
in front of his home.
St. Paul-Fifteen thousand people
month, practically all -sightseers, visit
the new state capitol.
Kragness-Wm. Mutterer, farm
laborer, while swimming in tho Buff
falo river, was drowned.
Duluth-Opposition is arising to tho
sale of 100000 Virginia bonds held
by the state school fund I
st. Paul-'The Treaty Of the Tray
erse des Sioux" by Frances d. Mille:,
is hung in the new capitol.
St Paul-The census figures show IN
increase of almost so per cent in the
Indian population in the state.
Eveleth-John Aho. a Finn, ee years
old, was smothered by ore at the Petit
mine stock pile, Eve miles east OF here.
Brainerd-The state sues lumber
company to recover for the loss of fish
killed and frightened away by log
jam.
Westinghouse. A. Engelstead was
appointed postmaster at Gatzka, Mar
shall county, vice c. E. johnson, re-
signed.
Duluth-Four lives were lost by the
capsizing of a small skiff on Swan
river, five miles north of Verna, Itasca
county.
Minneapolis-A movement is started
to secure an endowment fund for a
chair of forestry at the Minnesota uni
versity:
St. Paul-The remains of a woman,
supposed to be those of Mrs Grace
Adamson, of Minneapolis, were found
in the river.
Minneapolis - Albert Erickson, Is
years old, was instantly killed while
adjusting a belt in the c. A. Smith
sawmill. -,
st. Paul-Dr. o. Wellington Archi-
bald, a prominent oculist and aurist,
was found dead in the bathtub at his
apartments.
St Paul-The parents of three boys
who borrowed and wrecked an auto
mobile have to pay $3.50 for repairs to
the machine.
st. Paul-The annual convention Of
the Women's Christian Temperance
union for the twenty-third district was
held at the House of Hope.
Two Harbors-Ole Nastin, aged "a,
employed as a tiemaker on the Indian
reservation in Cook county, was
drowned while in bathing.
Ada-Directors of the Norman coun-
ty telephone company are contemplate
ing the purchase Of the Ada, Halstad,
Shelly and Twin Valley lines.
Minneapolis-Wheat deliveries at the
Chamber of Commerce July 81 were
1880, 900 bushels, which quantity was
taken over by millers principally.
S. Paul-Governor johnson has is
sued the annual Labor Day proclama-
ton, designating the frs. Monday in
September for fitting observance.
Winona-Articles of incorporation
of the Security Bank of Lewiston, this
county, have been filed with the regis
ter of deeds. It has capital stock of
$4,000.
Mankato-Alfrcd A. Buck of Man
kato was preparing to 60 into the res
taurant business in Havana when he
was arrested. He says he will come
back and take his medicine"
Minneapolis-Fifty Jewish families
have formed an organization for the
purpose of establishing an agricultural
colony in some part of Minnesota, or
in the Canadian wheat belt
MISUNDERSTANDING: the, month of
July the police department made 776
arrests upon various charges, The
month was the most profitable of any
since the present administration of po-
lice assumed charge of the department.
St Paul-Frank Day, the governors
private secretary, intends to take his
campaign against the abattoirs at the
Minnesota Transfer to the state board
of health if the st. Paul city board re-
fuses to take some action.
Minneapolis-In the week ending
July ~ the state dairy and food de-
partment collected twenty-seven sam
pies of milk and cream from dairies
and dealers in and about the city, and
found eight of them illegal.
Duluth. E. Bergston of Ellis, Wis,
shot himself to death just after part
ing with Ellen Samuelson, who had
refused to marry him. Bergston was
30 years old and identified with the
lumber industry.
St. Paul-Insurance Commissioner
T. D. O'Brien filed an opinion that q
mutual live stock insurance company
cannot legally do business in Mime
sofa without first complying with the
insurance laws requiring a deposit of
9l00, 200.
Hastings-Joseph Chovin, 10 years
old, OF Barron. Wis had a portion Of
his right foot crushed beneath tho
wheels Of train.
Duluth-The grain firm of A. D.
Thompson & Co has leased from the
Great Northern road its three large
elevators in Superior
Observation-Disclosures agents are pre-.