Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-09-05
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
Foot Ball.


cago will be played at Chicago on the
10th of November. Carlisle Indian
School will be met on Northrop Field
on the 18th and the season will close
with a. game with Indiana on the oath
OF November. For the first time in
seventeen years Wisconsin will not be
met. The general opinion about the
University of Minnesota seems to be
that the schedule is in every way sat-
lsfactory and that the new rules which
have come as result Of last springs
agitation will improve the game, by
making 1t more open and interesting
to spectators. The danger Of injury,
while not lessened by the change in
the style Of play, will be greatly re-
duced by the stricter enforcement of
the rules provided for by the two-um-
p1re system and the <stricter regula-
tons which specify what constitutes
foul, and the severer penalties for
the infraction Of the rules of the game
Lovers Of the sport are likely to see
one of the most satisfactory football
seasons Minnesota has ever had.
Calves Play Havoc.
st. Paul-Two husky calves, which
had escaped from the wrecked stock
train under the Third street bridge
made a dashing raid on the general
offices of the Northern Pacific in the
morning shortly after 5 o'clock. The
building was left standing, but car
penters were busy all day restoring
the interior.
Rendered frantic by their expert
ences in the railroad yards, the two
calves tore down Broadway. The front
doors of the Northern Pacific building
were wide open, through which the
excited animals rushed into the hall.
They took a few hurried turns through
the corridors of the first floor. One
of them tried to break into the pas
senger department, and the glass on
the door was shattered. The other in
the meantime was busy bucking up
against a window at the other end
Of the hall. Heavy wire netting pre-
vented the calf from breaking through,
but it was successful in smashing all
the glass in the window.
Killed His Uncle.
Observation-Disclosures for a dog bv
his eleven-year-old nephew, Herman
S. Hoffman, forty-two years old, was
shot and instantly killed.
Hoffman was lying under & tree in
the early evening, resting from a hard
days work in the harvest field. A
white dog, which had displayed smyp-
toms of rabies had been prowling about
the farm for several days and Lloyd
Hoffman, eleven years old, had armed
himself with a 22-calibre rifle with
yufi or tn III
chance.
In the dusk the boy mistook the
PROSTATE form Of his uncle for the
mad dog and taking careful aim fired
the ball piercing the uncle's heart and
causing instant death.
The boy is almost Frustrated with
grief over the sad accident.
Close Call.
Moorhead-As the Great Northern
train from Crookston rounded the
curve to get on the main track the
engineer saw a little way ahead what
he supposed was a pile Of ashes on
the track. When within a few feet
Of the object the engineer was startled
to note that what he supposed was an
ash heap was in reality man.
The engineer brought the train to
a quick stop, not soon enough, how
ever, to keep from striking the man,
who, strange to relate; escaped with
only slight injuries.
The man was picked up and taken
to Moorhead. He gave his name as
Silver Loakk and stated that he had
fallen asleep while sitting on the rail-
road track
Duluth Presumably driven from
the north woods by the numerous for
est fires and the scarcity of water, the
millions Of wild pigeons that recently
returned to Minnesota pineries after
all absence Of thirty years again are
winging their. way to the dense jun
giles of South America, where they
are supposed to have had their habitat
of recent years. The flight Of the
birds was watched today by many peo-
pie in Duluth. Flock after flock of the
birds went sailing by, apparently fol-
lowing the north shore until Duluth
was reached and then winging their
way southwesterly across the bay un-
til lost to sight.
News Notes.
st. Paul-Charles Knowlan is run
injured.
st. Paul-The monument to the
German American veterans in the
German Lutheran cemetery is I'M
yelled.
Mankato-Two fields of wheat
threshed by George Keith Of Sterling
yielded sixteen and twenty bushels Of
No. l wheat respectively.
Kasson-Roy Daggert, a farmer liv-
ing five miles southwest of here, lost
several valuable horses, killed by eat
ing too much wheat.
Duluth Shortage of cars is serious
ly. interfering with the lake shipping
business, and as a result the vessels
are being held longer in unloading at
the terminal points.
st. Paul-The state board of in
vestment met at the capitol and ap-
proved loans of state funds to coun-
ties, school districts and municipali-
ties. totaling $130,525. ."~
Aitkin-W. A. Rathburn claims the
distinction Of being the only man be-
longing to a Texas regiment to at
tend the reunion at Minneapolis. He
served two years in Company A, First
Texas volunteer cavalry.
Nashwauk-Oscar Olson, tl1irty-five
years old, was found dead from SUM-
stroke at SNOWFALL, near here. Moth
ing is known about the dead mans
antecedents, but he is supposed to
have sister in Michigan.