Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-01-19

While carrying log of wood across
Crow river on the ice P. Dahlin, a
| farmer residing near Cokato slipped
and fell, striking on his head AND
fracturing his skull. Death soon re-
suited.
After an eventful life that spanneG
nlnety-seven years Mrs Julia Sti]ley
| Smith, wife Of former Minnesota
state senator, died at Kettle Falls,
Wash. The remains were brought to
| Mankato for interment.
Steps are being taken at Washington
to have a meeting of the Minnesota
delegation in the near future relative
to the various plans that have been
| proposed for draining the lands in the
! northern part of the state
Thirty surviving members OF the
engineering crews that built the North
ern Pacific road westward from tc
Twin Cities to the coast in the ea~}
seventies were present at a reun.ll,
held in Minneapolis last week.
There is movement or foot to ere
ate new county out OF the sixteen
unorganiZed townships in the eas11l
end of Norman county, now in rl;
White Earth Indian reservation Four
reservation townships in Clearwaier
county may also be included.
Carl Bye, a freight checker at tie
Minnesota transfer yards, was IL
stanuy killed by the falling Of a
heavy safe which was being trans.
terred from one car to another, :
| crew OF men was at work transferrin.
the freight and Bye was assisting.
George w. Cooley, county surveyor
OF Hennepin county, has been elected
to the new office of state engineer an;,
secretary OF the state highway cO-:l-
mission. Mr.. Cooley is father of the
State Good Roads association and sur
renders position worth $4,000 ye:.;
to take the present one.
The sale of the Duluth, St. Cloud,
Glencoe and Mankato road to E. l..
Tobie & Co. of New York. has been
completed and the purchase money
paid over. A meeting of the new com.
pany will be held in Chicago in few
days, when the new board of dire1 tors
and officers will be chosen
Two young men engaged in q fign;
ut billiard room at Duluth and Mich.
olas Loallella, aged sixty years, sep.
arated them with considerable effort.
The aged man three minutes later WIS
proving too much for him. He tot.
tered away from the late corabata.t.
and dropped dead
The freight movement from Duluth
Superior harbor during 1905 was 60
o76,l45 net tons, OF total value G.
$196, ,5S4. This is an increase Ct
3612 per cent over the receipts ard
shipments in 1903 and the increase III
valuation is more than $4,000 900
The Increase in net freight tons :.r
the harbor last year was cas- Der cen.
over 1890.
Duluth was unanim ousiy chosen as
the next meeting place Of the Mime
sofa Municipal! and Commercial! lea ~
at Its closing session at St. Panl. TIC
entire corps Of o!G o1h cers were =.
elected. They are: President, !, 4.
Rosing, Cannon Falls; vice president.
Leslie Weller, Moorhead: secretary,
w. c. Wecber, Rochester: treasurer,
J. Esbjornsson, Litclhe}d.
E. S. Cary, presumably acting for
the Retail Liquor Dealers association,
has served notice upon Mayor Jones
of Minneapolis calling attention to tie
fact that he has certain information
at hand that disorderly houses are be-
ing operated within the city limits and
that the theaters have been open on
Sundays in violation Of the laws Of
the state and the city ordinances. Mr..
Cary demands that the laws be en-
forced