Warren sheaf., 1905-08-24
GOPHER GOSSIP.

ment decides not to sell the Virginia
bonds.
St. Paul.--S. f. Stoler has resigned
as general freight agent of the Chi.
cago Great Western
Crookston.-Prairie chickens arc
drowned out in the low lands OF
h Northern Minnesota.
St. Paul.-Three state officials work
on bill requiring children of school
age to attend school,
st. Paul Edward H. C. Taylor
Northern Pacific auditor Of freight
receipts, dies suddenly.
st. Paul.-State Auditor Iverson will
sell many tracts of forfeited land at
public auction this fall.
Moorheadu.-More than five thou
sand harvest hands are needed along
the Great Northern line.
St. Paul.--The state board of con
troll plans to revise the payroll OF
employees at state institutions.
Red Wing.-Lieut. Col. Gerlach
makes very favorable report on the
Minnesota national guardsmen.
Minneapolis.-Melton Blunt, II
years old, rescued a young woman
from drowning at Lake Harriet
st. Paul.-Non-board fire insurance
agents have organized a non-union
st. Paul board of fire underwriters.
." Minneapolis.-The biennial national
convention of the Universalist church
will meet in this city Oct. 10 to 25,
I. Lake City.-A farm hand working
: for James Whellan was badly injured
by the bursting of cream separator.
Minneapolis.-Ihis city consumes
about. twelve carloads OF bananas a
day, through shipping and it's retail
trade.
st. Paul.-Cdpt. J. c. Devereux, 613
Grotto street, yesterday celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of his arrival
in this city. i
Aitkin.-United States engineers
begin investigation of the operation
of government dams on the upper
Mississippi.
Minneapolis McGrath,, the
two-year-old child of Mrs. Frank Nc
Grath, died in its mothers arms at
their home. %
Washington.-The salary of the
postmaster at New Prague, Minn., has
been ordered increased from $1,000 to
$1,000 year.
Minneapolis.-For the first time In
twelve years a Democrat presided at
a
ans were in the minority.
Crookston.-The state game COM
mission will make war on the para
site which is killing millions of fish
in .44e northern part of the state.
Minneapolis.-Ar Blaylock,
sippi river while attempting to board
an excursion steamer at St. Paul. :
ENcelsior.-At special meeting of
the village council the time for tire
completion of the electric railway
from Minneapolis was extended to-
Nov. %. j.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. property in
this city for purposes of taxation, is
valued at $32,S19, 147, according to the
figures in the office of City Assessor
C. J. Minor. ...
~ St. Paul.-Minnesota may be able:
to collect thousands of dollars from
the federal governments as the re-
suit of the sale of Indian lands by
federal officials.
St. Paul.-For the first time in the
history of the state all persons hunt
ing game birds outside their home
county will be required to take out
q license this year.
South St. Paul.-The legality of the
school board has been questioned, and
General Young is investigat-
ing the question whether the act Gre
ating the board is valid.
St. Pau1.-The city's population, as
figured by the state census bureau,
is 197.O25- In 1900 the federal census
gave the city 163,o65. The increase
is $1,000, or about 21 per cent.
Crookston.-O1e Olson, whose home
is in Garness township, Red Lake
county, lies in precarious condition
as the result of Vicious assault made
upon him by one of his cows.
Austin.- city council has grant
ed to the Leckband Gas company of
Mason City a twenty-year franchise
to lay pipes in this city and build and
conduct q gas plant for heatings and
lighting purposes.
Delavan.-O. F.. Colby, farmer and
old settler, was thrown forward in
his buggy in such manner that he
became entangled in the whifaetree.
The team became frightened, ran
away and killed him.
St. Paul-While the corpse of the
two-year-old son of S. A. Hooper was
being taken to the union depot en-
route to Belle Plaine for interment
the team got frightened at Sixth and
Robert streets and ran away.
Rooseevlt.-Tom Knudson, home
steader, who was formerly employed
as a moulder in Sweden, has discov-
cred fine pottery clay on land near
the siding Of the Canadian Northern
railway at Roosevelt. It is of reddish
color.
Duluth Lumber stocks in Mime