Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-01-12
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

w. d. Kirk, president of the Capital
bank of st. Paul, died suddenly of
heart failure following a severe cold.
The state normal school at Mankato
reopened last week with an attend
ance of 4S0, as compared with 421
year ago.
O. E. Hand, brakeman on the Rock
Island railway, was blown from the
top Of a freight car at Inver Grove and
seriously hurt.
In one of the hottest city contests
ever held at Redwood Falls the license
people won out on mayor by major
ity OF In total Of AS votes cast.
DR.. Carl Bendeke, who had been
engaged in the practice of medicine in
Minneapolis for many years and was
favorably known throughout the North
west, is dead.
The annual report of State Librarian
John E. King, filed with the governor.
shows that the state library has over
$4,000 volumes, exclusive of all pamph-
lets and duplicate volumes.
Building operations in MINNEAPOLIS
tor the year just closed reached the
total OF $10,364, 240 and thus exceeded
the figures of 1904 by $2,544,200, an
Increase of about 80 1-3 per cent.
Not far from half a million head of
cattle passed through st. Paul last
year on the way to the Chicago stock
yards. This does not include the
stock killed at the South st. Paul
yards.
Grain receipts in Minneapolis for
1905 were 6,371 $40 bushels more than
those Of the preceding year. The total
receipts for the year just closed were
145, 440,500 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 illegal
by Judge Andrew Holt of the Henne-
pin county district court.
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
p0rtatiOn.
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.
DIR. Theron H. Bly,, recently convict
ed at Minneapolis of criminal surgical
practice, has been sentenced to the
state penitentiary for term of three
and one-half years. A stay of twenty
days was granted for an appeal and
DIR. BLY, was released on an appeal
bond of $4,000.
The terms of cne-half the members
OF the state board of equalization have
expired and Governor Johnson has an
nounced their successors. The only
one of the nine retained is w. r.
Hodges Of Sleepy Eye, a Democratic
editor whom Governor johnson Sc
lected last fall to fill a vacancy.
Alex Carrie, one Of the pioneers Of
saltwater, died suddenly Saturday of
heart disease. When his wife went to
call him for breakfast she became
alarmed at his condition and sent for
a physician. An examination showed
he had been dead for more than two
hours before his wife entered the room.
The state railroad and warehouse
commission has announced that
Dwight c. Morgan, assistant to the
general superintendent of the Omaha
railway, had been appointed to under
take the gigantic task of valuing the
railroad properties in Minnesota pre-
paratory to readjustment of the rail-
road rates in the state.
Fergus Falls citizens have organized
q company to take up the charter of
the Duluth and Fergus Falls Northern
railway, a company chartered in 1884
and composed largely of Fergus Falls
citizens. The new company lis being
formed with view to inducing either
the 500 or Milwaukee railways to bhiid
into that cityrand It's first work will be
q secure surveys and estimates show
Ing the most feasible route.
1 Public Examiner Kerst has sent to
the county attorney of Hennepin coun-
ty copies of reports of examinations
made of various county offices where
IN certain irregularities are alleged to.
have been discovered. Those men
toned adversely by the examiners are
said to be former Clerk of Courts C.
N. Dickey, former Coroner U. G. Will
Iams, Coroner J. M. Kistler, the board
Of county commissioners, former Au-
ditor c. J. Minor and others.
Governor Johnson has announced
the appointment of three state high
way commissioners to make up the
highway commission created by the
last legislature. The appointments are
as follows: Charles Halvorson of
Dawson, Lac qui Parle county; John
B. Galarneault OF Aitkin and Gustav
bcholle of St. Paul. The last two
aamed are Democrats and were rec
commended to the governor by~nnmer-