Mower County transcript., 1906-01-10
Ne vlS In M ES 3 4
EVENTS OF .A WEEK THROUGH
oU UT THE STATE.

# Mrs. Jesse McIntire, for fifty wears
q resident Of Red Wing, is dead. aged
eighty-three years. # IS. s., .>.5 7ss.s2
w. %. Kirk, president of the Canita1 t;3sl
bank of st. Paul, died suddenly Of
heart failure a following a severe cold: Z
sz The state normal school at Mankato
reopened last, week with an attend
>ance or sof 4so, as compared with 42l a
year ago. e :z...ss ~ f. .&i E,seE%.
Q. p. Hand, a brakeman on the Rock
Island railway, was blown from the
top OF freight car at Inver Grove and
seriously hurt. ...'
III one one OF the hottest city contests
ever held at Redwood Falls the license
people won out on mayor by q ma ;or:
ity OF 4 in a total of AS votes cast.
4 i DR.. Carl aBendeke, who had .shcc-
engaged IN the practice OF medicine il
Minneapolis for many years and was
favorably known throughout the North
west, is dead.
, The annual report of State Tibraria,n
John. E. King, filed with the governor,
shows that the state library has over
$4,000 volumes, exclusive of all pamLa :.
lets and duplicate volumes.
Building operations in Minneapol;~
for the year just closed reached the
total OF $l0,a64, ,240 and thus exceed@.,
the figures of 1904 by s2,544,2oO, an
increase of about 33 l-3 per cent.
Not far from half a million head C.:
cattle passed through st. Paul l.ct
year on the way to the Chicago stct-
yards. This does not include the
stock killed at the South St. Pa;
yards.
= Grain receipts in Minneapolis for
1905 were 6,371,610 bushels more ths i
those Of the preceding year. The total
receipts for the year just .closed worr
145, ,440,5O0 bushels, which breaks all
previous records.
The. resolution adopted by the Min
neapolis city council in 1901 requiring
the union label on all printing done
for the city has been declared il1esal
by Judge Andrew Holt of the Henne
pin county district court. .l~
Announcement is made at the gen.
eral offices of the Great Northern that
auditors will be placed on nearly all
of the passenger trains of that road tO
relieve the conductors from the task OF
looking after the collection Of trans
portation.
The board of county commissioners
of st. Louis county has authorized the
appropriation OF 100000 for the con.
struction of a new courthouse in Du-
luth. A courthouse commission Will
be appointed to handle the fund and
look after the construction Of the
building.
Dr. Theron H. 'Bly, recently convict.
ed at Minneapolis of criminal surgical
practice, has been sentenced to the.
state penitentiary for a term Of three
and one-half years. A stay of twenty
days was granted for an appeal auI
Dr. BLY, wa released on an apneal
bond of $4,000.
The terms of one-half the members
of the state board of equalization have
expired and Governor Johnson has an.
their successors. The o:?!,'
one Of the nine retained is w. ?.
Hodges Of Sleepy Eye, a Democratic
editor whom Governor Johnson Sc
lected last fall to fill vacancy.
Alex Garbe, one OF the pioneers CT
Saltwater, died suddenly Saturday CT
heart disease. When his wife went u
call him for breakfast she beran1a
alarmed at his condition and sent .f;;.-
a physician. An examination Shove
he had been dead for more than iu5
hours before his wife entered the r1o--::..
The state railroad- and WarehCnc@
commission has announced r.>t
Dwight C. Morgan, assistant to +.
general superint endent of the On3:i:
railway, had been appointed to ENit,-
take the gigantic task Of valuinS IT, u
railroad properties in Minnesota IRE.
paratory to a readjustment OF the rail.
road rates in the state
Fergus Falls citizens have organized
a company to take up the charter o.
the Duluth and Fergus Falls Northern
railway, company chartered in ISIS
and composed largely Of Fergus. Fall.
citizens. The new company is bein
formed with view to inducing ei.ha;
the 500 or Milwaukee railways to b,,i,l
into that city and its first work will BE-
to secure surveys and estimates show
ing the most feasible route.
Public Examiner Kerst has sent to
the county attorney of Hennepin ccun
ty copies of reports of examination:
made of various county offices where,
in certain irregularities are alleged to
have been discovered. Those men
toned adversely by the examiners. arc
said to be former Clerk of Courts {.
N. Dickey, former Coroner U. G. Will
Jams, Coroner J. NJ. Kistler, the board
Of county commissioners, former Au-
ditor C. J. Minor and others.
Governor Johnson has announced
The appointment of three state high
v;3y ,H-IslsI.'~:: 5 TO maize III 5ti: !
[. l. j., >t-...ili5.IOn created by J..
last iegislatuEe.- The appointments q:
as follows: Charles Halvorsol% u
Dawson. Lac qui Parle county; JOIN
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