Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-09-15
NEWS IN MINNESOTA.
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

The annual reunions Of Minnesota
Civil war regiments were held in st.
Paul last week.
The Chinese government has or.
dered 10000 tons of -four from Min.
neapolis millers.
James J. Hill will make an address
1T the Fillmore County Agricultural
society fair at Preston on Sept. 20.
John Accole, an employe in the
Rapid Transit company powerhouse
at Minneapolis, fell from a gallery in
the plant to the floor, sustaining ia
tai injuries.
Iron ore shipment out sof Htbbing
and mines in the immediate neigh.
borhood. that is within say five miles
east and four miles west, are this
year about 10000 tons daily.
The monthly statement on rural free
delivery shows that 1888 routes were
In operation in Minnesota on Sept. l,
as compared with 1918 on Aug. !.
Petitions to the number of 22O await
action.
For the purpose of determining the
effect OF disease germs in milk on
public health the state board of health
Is making a meteorological examina-
ton of the milk supply of the prin-
clpal cities in Minnesota.
A special correspondence course in
Nature Study has been added by tie
Minnesota School of Agriculture. This
special course will be under the dire
ton and instruction of Miss Floren< g
E. Lille of Cornell university.
The state board of health has alol.t-
ed plans for the establishment o. 4
branch laboratory at Duluth, fru,A
which point eventually all inves1i- :.
tions by the board of conditions in
Northern Minnesota will be made.
Sneak thieves provided with a pa
key made complete tour Of tie
building at 725 Hennepin avenue, Min
neapolis, one night last week an
stole money to the amount of S.,
from different dodgers in the house.
AS means of further developing
the resources of Northern Minnesota
the Minnesota State Drainage league
WIN urge congress to provide for the
draining of approximately 200,cn0
acres of land in the Indian reserya-
tions.
Pedestrians on the St. German
street bridge, which spans the Miss.s-
sippi at St. Cloud, Friday morning
saw the body of a young woman float
Ing down the river. The police We're
notified, but the body was sucked in
an undertow before it could be recov-
cred.
State Auditor Iverson will issue no
more mineral leases on the beds Of
lakes until he is expressly authorizf i
to do so by the state legislature. H
has recently refused to accept $475 in
gold for thirty-fve leases on the beds
of lakes in Crow Wing county in the
ore district recently discovered.
Mankato gets the conventions OF
both the Minnesota Butter and Cheese
makers association and the Mime.
sofa State Dairymen's association this
year. The Buttermakers' association
will have its meeting in the latter part
OF November and the Dairymen's as
ISOLATION will meet Dec. -, 13 and Il.
A Great Northern extra freight train
collided with an extra stock train OF
forty-eight cars just outside of Mime
apolis; Wrecking the caboose and two
stock cars on the stock train and
badly demolishing the engine OF the
freight train. Many hogs were killed,
but the crews of both trains escaDcu
injury.
Mystery surrounds the death of Ia.
gage, an aged Red Lake Indian WHO
was found last week lying outside hi:
cabin between Battle lake and Ma
guam bay with bullet hole throa-n
his heart. 1t was asserted at first Il. i
the oid man had committed sui>l> :,
but circumstances indicate that nllr-
der may have been committed.
A mammoth forestry, fish and game
reserve to be under the supervision
OF the state forestry board is propose /
to be established in the vicinity OF
Lakes LIE Croix and Crooked, in the
northern part of st. Louis and Lake
counties. The tract covers about
10000 acres and contains some Of the
finest scenery in the Northwest.
Plans for the suppression OF tuber-
culosis among teachers in the Mime
sofa public schools are under consid-
GRAFTON by the state board of health.
Information has reached the hoard
that some OF the teachers in the state
have tuberculosis in mild form and
that the school authorities have taxi n
no action to prevent these teachers
from teaching.
Public Examiner Kerst has decided
to investigate several investment con-
panies and building and loan associa.
tons which are doing business in
Minnesota but are not Incorporates
under the laws of the state. The in.
vestigation will be made at the re-