Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-02-09
NEWS IN shIlVNESOTA
EvENTs or. a WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

A movement is on foot to change
the county seat of Jackson county
from jackson to Lakefeld.
John Evans, pioneer citizen and
one of Faribault county's wealthiest
farmers, is dead, aged seventy-six
years.
| The contract has been let for the
new Orpheum theater at st. Paul. 1t
will cost in the neighborhood of
! 100000.
Thomas Minshall, postmaster at La
Crescent for forty consecutive years,
! 1889 to 1899, is dead at the age of
eighty-two years.
| Daniel J. Getchell, a we'll known
| resident of Minneapolis, who was born
! in that city and resided there all his
life, is dead, aged forty-one years.
| Minnesota buttermakers will go to
Chicago in a special train to attend
the meeting Of the National Creamery
Buttermakers' association Feb. 10 to
FL:
, Senator E. B. Hawkins of Duluth
has decided to become candidate for
the Republican nomination for the
Office of lieutenant governor of Mime
sofa.
) r. E. Wangen, twenty-eight years of
age, who lives with his brother ten
miles from Albert Lea. is declared by
physicians to have a clear case of
]eprosy.
Charles B. Allen, wheat buyer for
the w. J. Jennison Mill company. at
Appleton, fell from the roof of the
elevator to the ground and was almost
Instantly killed.
| Judge Waite of the Minneapolis mu-
nlcipal court has discharged forty-fve
Of the sixty three men arrested in the
recent raid Of alleged gambling houses
in the Mill City,
| The railroads have secured further
| continuance of nearly sixty days in
the freight rate inquiry which has
been Instituted by the state railroad
and warehouse commission.
William Williams, who is to be
executed at St. Paul on Feb. 10, has
accepted the Roman Catholic faith and
priest of that denomination will ac-
company him to the gallows
In giving the annual death rate as
TIA to each 1000 Of population Health
Commissioner Murray in his annual
report says Duluth Is the healthiest
city of similar size in the world.
A test case has been brought
against the state dairy and food de-
partment to try the validity of the
pure food laws OF Minnesota relative
to the labelling of evaporated cream.
Suits have been started by Attorney
General Young against the Western
Union Telegraph company for. $685.
1916, amount due in taxes on dig
puted valuation during the years 1901,
1902, 1903 and 1904. 49,
Major Henry A. Norton is dead at
Minneapolis after a protracted illness.
Major Norton was a prominent mem
Der of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, having served with distinction
through the Civil war
st. Paul's total expenditures through
the city treasurer during 1905 exceed
ed the total receipts by $125,743.84
The total receipts from all sources
were 1922, 1905 and the total ex.
penditures were 1926, 464.19.
P. Mcdonnell contractor of Du.
luth. will put IN a 1,C0C,O GOO irrigation
dam for the government at Boise City,
Ida. Bids on the work were opened
at Boise City Friday and Mr.. Melon
nell secured the contract as the lowest
bidder.
A ditch that will canal the Crow
river q distance Of fifty miles, be-
ginning ia Meeker county and passing
through Stearns and into Pope, is
| sought to be established by petitions
now being circulated in Stearns
county.
Edward A. Vaughan, wanted at Min
neapOlls On q charge of using >tEe
mails TO defraud, brought against him
last October By the federal grand jury
at Minneapolis, has been arrested at
Denver and is now lodged in Jail at
St. Paul.
The ST. Paul Auditorium building
committee has awarded the contract
for erecting the superstructure of the
Auditorium to F. J. ROmer & Son.
The contract price approximates $780,
900 and the contractors are to COM
plete their work by July TO- ''
| Theodore a. Lienau, who has lived
in st. Paul all his life, period of
forty -eight years, is dead after an ILL
ness of several months. He was son
Of Charles Lienau, founder of the
Volkszeitung, the St. Paul German
daily paper, and for many years was
connected with it.
Owing to a broken switch at Red
Wing passenger train on the Great
Western backed On the wrong track
and collided with another passenger
train. Roy Baker, a tralnman, mai Ills
E!g $: 81 :;tHlsH IiaSSssait,sii..
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