The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-03-04
CITY IN BRIEF.

The Twin City Rapid Transit COM
pany will have employment for several
hundred men in the spring and they
will be needed just as soon as the
frost is out of the ground. General
Manager Held says that an army of
men will be required on the new line
to Lake Minnetonka, as it is the COM
pany's determination to build the line
rs quickly as possible in order that
efficient service between Minneapolis
and Excelsior may be inaugurated
this season.
Swan NJ. Lindahl, the South Mime
apolis policeman who was arrested on
the charge Of robbing and firing the
branch public library at Bloomington
and Franklin avenues, was in the
police court Tuesday and was held to
the grand jury in ST. 800 bonds. He is
charges of arson, one in the second
and the other in the third degree, We're
made against him. He waived exami-
nation and bail was fixed at $500 in
each case, and in default Of bonds he
was committed to the county Jail.
Mayor Jones and Superintendent OF
Police Doyle were in Chicago and Mil
waukee recently getting ideas on sew
'eral municipal problems. and some
of their ideas will shortly be put in
force Slot machines in saloons and
cigar stores came in for special atten-
ton and the mayor has announced
that such gambling devices will soon
be ordered out Of all places in Mime
apolis. In Chicago he learned from
the saloon-keepers and cigar men
themselves that no such machines
were in operation, and that if any
such We're found they were immedi-
ately destroyed by the police. San
Francisco does not tolerate them, and
they have been entirely abolished in
New York.
Experiments With rusted wheat in
scribed in bulletin just issued by the
Minnesota state experiment station.
These show that the yield of wheat
from unrusted seed wheat will exceed
that from rusted seed sufficiently to
warrant the purchase of high grade
wheat and that rusted wheat is both
nd Il nj
fessor Harry Snyder conducted the eX-
periments. All rusted wheat is light
in weight and seeding experiments
just conducted show that yield of
from one to three bushels less an acre
is secured from lightweight seed than
from heavy weight. Professor Snyder
in commenting on this, says that this
should pay the expense of cleaning
rusted wheat or even of buying high
grade seed instead. Experiments in
milling with ten grades of wheat re-
suited in a yield Of flour that was in
direct proportion to the weight to the
bushel of the wheat used. A further
experiment showed that flour made
from light weight wheat that was free
of rust would make better bread than
flour made from wheat of equai
weight that had been affected by rust.
Although some local curbstone
weather experts have declared openly
that they thought winter was at an
end and that this section of the coun.
try was destined to have an early
spring, Weather Observer Outram
says that Minneapolis will see many
cold days before spring finally arrives.
precedent counts for little in fore
telling weather and it is such an un-
certain proposition anyway that it is
impossible to say whether we are to
have an early spring or not,' said Mr..
Outram yesterday. 1T is safe to say,
however, that the winter is not vet
over These warm spells toward the
last of February are quite usual. On
Feb. 26, 1902, the temperature was 50
degrees above zero and the same year
it was degrees below zero on March
16 and below on March IT," The
local weather bureau has issued q
table showing March weather for the
past fourteen years. The mean TEN.
perature has been 20 degrees above
zero. The warmest March in the past
fourteen years was in 1894, when the
mean temperature was SO degrees
above zero. The coolest March was
in 1899, when the mean temperature
was II degrees above. The average
precipitation is 1T inches and the
prevailing winds have been from the