Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1905-01-04

Is named as state oil inspector by Gov
elect John A. johnson.
Mrs E. N. Dennis, a young married
woman of Biwabik, was found dead in
IN clubhouse at her home.
BENJAMIN Campbell of Chicago will
succeed J. w. Blabon as fourth vice
president of the Great Northern.
There are seven cases of smallpox in
the woods near Blackjack, and the
winter season has scarcely started.
The Schlitz Brewing company sus-
tanned a loss of So, 500 in fire in their
cold storage plant in East Grand Forks
The golden wedding anniversary of
Mr.. and Mrs. Obediah Smith was cele-
brated at their residence west of Aus
tin.
T. J. Knox says the revision commits
sion has condensed but has not at
tempted to change the laws of the
state.
The Minnesota State Art society will
hold its second annual exhibit in Wi
mona some time early next spring,
probably in March.
Henry Buentheir, taxidermist, of
Bemidji, received the skin of an enor-
nous lynx which was killed by two
women about As miles east of Black
duck.
The region around Lake Minnetonka
visited by the storm last summer is
now the camping place of several large
crews of wood choppers and sawmiu
gangs.
A. i. Monroe, superintendent of
British Columbia's mining exhibit at
St. Louis, says Minnesota's mining
laws are not advantageous to pros
pectors
big Jack" Flemming, farmer of
Derrynane township, in LIE Sueur
county, met with his match the other
day when a tree fell on him, crushing
him severely.
The Minnesota experiment station
and national department of agriculture
officials are cooperating to evolve plans
for the management of small farms on
a business basis
Congressman Steernerson has recon-
manded the appointment Of John P.
Lundin as postmaster at Stephen,
Marshall county, to succeed John
Walters, resigned.
Three young men of Sc. Minneapo-
lis slaves to the cocaine habit, have
asked Police Superintendent Conroy to
prohibit certain druggists from selling
the poison to them.
After shooting seven times at John
Capistran, John Stricken, travelling
man, was arrested at Crookston and
committed to the Fergus Falls asylum,
after desperate struggle.
The announcement was made that
the Gould interests have completed ar
engagements for the early opening of a
line from St. Joseph, NO., across Iowa
and Minnesota to st. Paul.
Minnesota postmasters appointed:
Charles o. Ryberg, at Fridley, Anoka
county, vice Jane Demott, resigned;
August S. Yeeh, at Searles, Brown
county. vice F. A. Williamson.
The Clarke National bank of Mime
apolis will probably change hands on
Jan. l, a syndicate of Minneapolis cap
italists to take hold, with Public Elk
aminer $. 7. johnson as president.
Gov elect johnson has followed a
we'll established precedent and an
pointed an active newspaper man to
the position of state librarian. The
governor-eleot has announced the an.
pointmeut of John E. King, of Red
Lake Falls, to the position, which paws
an annual salary of $4,000.
The asphalt pavement on one Of
Crookston's streets is cracking. sup
posed to be due to the fact that there
is no snow on the street, and the pave.
ment is consequently exposed to a
greater degree of frost than usual.
The state of Minnesota has brought
suit for $3.50 damages against the
Northern Pacific railroad company. It
is claimed by the plaintiff that, in
raising Its tracks near the st. Cloud
reformatory last year, the defendant
company failed to properly construct
Its culverts, and that the water has
been backed up and damaged the fields
and gardens of the reformatory.
James Ven Wiert, indicted by the
federal grand jury at Fergus Falls last
May on charge Of embezzling 500
from the United States while he was
postmaster at the White Earth Indian
reservation, was arrested in st. Paul
Victor MAXI, Of Buhl, with an uRlv
! wound In his left side and the bullet
from 3s-calibre revolver lodged in the
q muscles OF his back, attended Fin.
i" lander dance there for two hours be.
! fore he realized that he was wounded.
!, Freeman T. Lane, q Minneapolis at
I torney, was suspended from practicing
i In tho courts of the state for one year
By order Of the supreme court '-..= n