The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-02-03
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short items Showing What has Hap
psned Throughout Confines
q 45s Of North Star State.


b. Red River valley dairynen will
meet ut Crookston. -
Minnesota railway laws are COM
mended in Washington.
Supt. Olson is planning training
schools for next summer.
Butter-scoring contests are likely.
to be held again, next year.
Gov. johnson names p. NJ. Kerst Of
St. Paul as public examiner.
Great Northern will build from
Pelican Rapids to Greenbush.
The legislature may defer action
on the new code until the next ses-
sion.
The new state labor commissioner
will begin an investigation of child
labor.
The farm school experts make some
interesting experiments with seed
corn.
The citizens of St. Cloud will reim-
burse the normal students for fire
losses.
The Minnesota sheriffs will ask to
have their term Of Office extended to
four years.
The state board of health is rccciv'
ing reports on the eye and car tests
in schools.
Railroad men say some OF the pend
ing railroad bills are not in the inter-
est of the public.
The boiler inspector for the St.
Phul district says it costs more than
half to collect his fees.
The national guard companies of
Minneapolis will be inspected by Cen
eral William Gerlach, U.S.A., OH Mar.
18TH.
Olaf Gyllstrom was appointed by
Governor johnson as state boiler in
spector for the Hennepin county dis
trict.
The County Attorneys Association
of Minnesota held it's annual meet
ing in the supreme court room in the
old state capitol.
Peter Zilkowski, who is charged
with killing his father with q shot
gun last month, today was bound
over TO the STduu jury
It will cost $56,70O each year to
operate the new state capitol, accord
ing to the estimates of the capitol
commissioners and Architect Cass
Gilbert.
The resurvey of the disputed lands
around Ely lake, near Sparta on the
Mesaba range, has caused a bad mix
up, and another survey doubtless will
Be made.
+. Cornet, a stockman who says
that he is from Montana, lost at St.
Paul a grip containing chattel mort
cages worth $1g,5OO, and two suits of
clothes.
Robert Fraser, Jr., of Slayton, who
swallowed a bone two weeks ago,
which first lodged in his throat, then
passed to his stomach, was operated
upon at Rochester and is convalesc.
ing.
Fire at Mcintosh, origin unknown,
Harstad & Sons general store was
burned causing $1,000 loss with $4,000
insurance. The Southmayd grocery
and meat market burned, but the
stock was saved.
The Bay State Milling company OF
Winona has made it's initial purchase
of lot of $4,000 bushels of Canadian
wheat to be shipped directly from
country stations in western Canada
by the way of Winnipeg.
State Oil Inspector McDermott has
been undecided for the last few days
as to whether the eleven additional
oil inspectors to be appointed by the
governor can receive their commits
sions and begin their duties before
Aug. 1.
Peter Nygard was sentenced to a
year and one-half in the state prison
in Saltwater yesterday by Judge
Kelly in the district court at St.
Paul. Nygard was charged with the
theft of three boxes of soap from a
box car.
Two hours and half after he left
the Kindergarten school at Minneapo-
lis little Clement Landbasch, a 5-year-
old boy, was found, almost frozen,
about four miles from where he had
started, on the door step at 3443 1rv-
ing avenue south.
Preston and vicinity was swept by
0. heavy snowstorm, which still pre-
walls. A high wind drifted the snow
and within distance of nine miles
of Preston, on the Preston & Reno
line of the Chicago, Milwaukee Il st.
Paul road, there are four dead en-
gines and two stalled trains.
A requisition was made by Cover
nor johnson for the return OF
Allan Goucher, alias kid" Gou-
cher, who is wanted in San Fran
cisco for completely in the murder of
Eugene Robertson. Goucher is about
to be released from the prison at
saltwater, where he is now serving
sentence.
At a meeting of the State Good
Roads association, held in tho old
state capitol yesterday, the follow
ing officers were elected: George w.
Cooley, Minneapolis, president; Ole
Peterson, Nicollet county, vice-presi-
don't. r r. Shaver. Minneapolis. Sec