Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-01-30
MINNESOTA NEWS
VVI Interesting Items Gathered in the
~ Gopher State ~
LARGE LAND BUSINESS.

I7n06 IAINO 0O0IlNGo0s
St. Paul-During the last ten years
the land business of the state Of Min
nesota has more than trebled, and the
total volume Of the financial transac-
lions of the state have nearly doubled.
This is demonstrated by surprising
statistics prepared by Samuel G. Iver-
son, state auditor, relative to the busi-
ness of his office. For the two years
ending July 81, 1896, the end Of the
hscal year, the total accumulation from
state lands and credited to the differ
ent trust funds, was $737,894.65; for
the two years ending July 81, 1906, 1t
was $2,239, 3O5.S2.
For the two years ending July 81,
1885, the total cash received was $780,
909,812.23 and the total amount dis
bursed during the period was $685.
'o1. For the two years ending July 81,
1905, the total amount received was
$19,651,114.07, the total amount dis
bursed, was $19,507, $780,
Since the formation Of it's state gov
eminent Minnesota has never gone
through year without having a bal
ance to the states credit at the end of
the year. In 1860 this record came near
being broken, as the balance at the end
of the year, 7as only $675.78. The year
1899 was the one when the state came
| out with the largest balance ever
shown by the auditors ledger. Ex-
elusive of money carried over from the
| previous year, it then totaled $26o7,-
1857.
ATTEMPTED HOLDUP.
st. PAULA daring attempt to hold
| up a street car at Fillmore avenue and
South Robert street was made by a
| lone highwayman.
! The car had stopped to let off some
| passengers. Just as the conductor rang
| the "gO ahead bell a man stepped ir
front of the motormans window anG
attracted his attention. Motorman Der,
nard S. Arndt, thinking that some
| trouble had happened, opened the door
| of his car to make inquiries. AS he
did so the man pointed a revolver at his
head.
| Mr.. Arndt quickly closed the door o.
| the vestibule and scrambled back into
the car through the window. When the
| passengers, the motorman and con
ductor got outside the car the man wa!
| gone. Three men, it is said, were run
| ming west on Fillmore avenue.
| The police were notified and Sergean
| Dennis Mccarthy Of the Ducas stree
police station sent out several officer
A man giving the name of William
| Whipple twenty eight years old ant
a stranger in the city, was arrested IL
a saloon near the Robert street bridge
EXPERT BEEF CUTTING.
Hamline.-John Gosling is from Mis-
souri,, and if there is any one Of tn
component parts Of beef's carcass
that he has not discovered, you will
have ITO show him. He gave wha
he calls a beef demonstration at tn
agricultural experiment station Of tn
university, before about 200 of the shor
course students and a bunch of cattl
| buyers from South ST. Paul.
There is no man in the United State
who is better posted on the subject o
beefsteak than Mr.. Costing. He wa
the buyer of export cattle for some o
the biggest packing houses in the coun
try for several years; at present he il
engaged in the demonstration business
| giving his expert opinion on the choic
| cuts Of beef.
There were three beef "critters" use,
in the classroon1-one of the five steer
that the school showed at the recen
fat stock show in Chicago; a fair t.
good" steer from the farm, and a poo
skinny cow-crea ture whose carcass wa
carved before the farmer students as
specific warning against killing tn
wrong sort of "critter'' to make beef.
THE STATE WINS.
st. Paul.-Judge Oscar Hallam of tn
Ramsey district court has granted tn
request Of the state of Minnesota TO
a temporary injunction against tn
| Great Northern railways proposed
| $60,000,000 increase of capital stock
| of court at s.: 80 a. m.
Judge Hallam's decision is a com
plete victory for the state in the action
brought last month by Attorney Gen
eral E. T. Young and his assistant, r
! A. Stone, to compel the railroad to rec
ognize the state railroad and warehouse
| as provided in the laws of the stat.
commission before issuing the stock
requiring railroads first to make ap.
| plication to the commission and to Sc.
cure its approval Of the issue.
All points made by the state were
sustained, while the contentious Of the
railroad company's attorneys, W. r
Begg. F. B. Kellogg, C. A. Severance
and r. E. Olds, were contravened
| MINNESOTA LONG JUMP.
Duluth.-More than five thousand
people, one of the largest crowds tina
ever witnessed ski jumping confess
in this country. saw the American
record of the long distance jump brok.
en- by six feet on the hill Of the Duluth
Ski club. Ole Feiring of Duluth was
| the successful contestant His Longest
jump was 112 feet, but on each Of his