Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-05-04
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

G. M. Cushman, aged eighty, the
Oldest bookseller in Minneapolis, 10
dead.
Matthias Cans, one of the most pop ;
ular of the old settlers of Stearns
county, il dead. .....-
c. A. Almquist, an old resident of
Red Wing, is dead as the result Of in
juries received in a runaway.
The largest live stock amphitheater
IN the world is in course of construc-
ton at the state fair grounds.
A. J. Smith will retire as superin-
tendent of the St. Paul schools at tho
end of the present school year.
The first eight months of the opera
ton OF the Somerville Inheritance tax
has yielded $58,1S1.13 for the state.
More than 100000 has been con-
tributed to the Minneapolis fund for
the relief of the earthquake sufferers
Of California.
A box of $50 cherries from Califor-
MIA was sold at retail in St. Paul for
the benefit of the California sufferers
and brought $3.50.
The Minneapolis Gas Light company
will make voluntary reduction in the
price of metered gas on Oct. /, 1905,
from $1.10 per thousand feet to 81.
The faculty of tho University Of
Minnesota has voted to retain Dr. H.
L. Williams as coach of the football
squad for one year at 4 salary Of
$4,000. u4
The president has sent to the SEN
ate the nomination of John Peterson
to be collector of customs for the dis
trict of Minnesota. Peterson is the
present incumbent.
One of the transient dodgers at the
Economy hotel in Minneapolis, who
was registered as j. w. Hill, Dsca-
naba, Mich" committed suicide in his
room by taking carbolic acid.
A. L. Cole of Walker, representative
from the Fifty-second district in the
legislative sessions of 1903 and 1905,
has announced his candidacy for the
Republican nomination for governor.
Senator George w. Somerville of
Sleepy Eye has announced his candi-
dacy for the Republican nomination
for governor. There are now seven
avowed candidates for the nomination.
Peter Shatka, police officer of the
city of Eveleth, has been bound over
to await the action of the grand jury
on charge of robbing a prisoner. A
similar case against Tony Azzo, also a
police officer, was dismissed
The state championship of the Min
nesota high school debating league
was won by the team of the Humboldt
high school of st. Paul in the final
contest of the season against the Gen.
; trail high school Of Minneapolis.
Charles A. Bohall, Stearns county
pioneer and Civil war veteran, is dead
at Sank Center. Mr. Bohall was born
in Jefferson county, N. Y, seventy
three years ago. He removed to Sank
Center when mere lad and has re-
sided there ever since. - w. H.
The state drainage board has appro-
priated $4,000 for bitches In the
northern part of the state. All the
land to be drained by these bitches is
state land and approximately 10000
acres will be benefited. The work
will be completed this summer
The payment Of nearly 100000 by
the state and counties during the last
thirty years for the slaughter Of wolves
does not seem to have any Improbable
effect on the supply and the number
of wolves paid for this year would
seem to indicate that, If anything the
number is increasing.
Governor Johnson has decided to
issue proclamation submitting to the
voters of 1tasca county at the next
general election the petition calling
for division Of 1tasca county into two
counties, one to be known as Koo-
ch1ching and the other portion to re-
tai4 the name of 1tasca.
After crossing half the continent to
escape the terrors of earthquake
shocks in California Albert Scharz,
formerly resident of Minneapolis, is
dead at the home of his sister at St.
Paul. 1t is believed that the excite
ment of the earthquake shock and the
hurried journey East fastened his
death.
1t is believed that the murderers of
Charles o. Bader, the keeper of the
Falls hotel at Minneapolis, who was
killed in his barroom on the evening
OF Dec. %, are now under arrest in
Iowa and are serving sentences of fit.
teen years for job committed at Des
Moines Feb. 6 similar to that in which
Bader was killed.
The Chicago Great Western Railway
company has appealed to the district
court from an order of the state rail.
road and warehouse commission allow
ing a reduction of 1926 a carload for
wood shipped from St. Paul to South
St.. Paul. The decision was made upon
the objection of Thuet Bros. to a
charge of IS a car for such transporta-
ton. 81
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