Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-10-02
news OF minnesota,
Diamond Robbery.


hen & Co.'s jewelry store % Washing
ton avenue south, Minneapolis, early,
In the evening, a bold theft seized!
81, 900 worth of diamonds and made!
his escape. The robbery was one of
the boldest on record, the streets be-
ing crowded at the time and the store
full of people.
In making his escape the robber
held M. L. Cohen and Torby Dobrin,
one of his employees, at bay with =
revolver. He then fed through the
saloon of George Mcmahon, 81 WASH:
lngton avenue south, spreading terror
with his revolver, and was then lost
OF In the darkness in the alley at tho
rear.
A dozen or more detectives and .
large number of uniformed men were
placed on the case at once by Chief
Corriston, but up to an early hour
this morning no trace of the bold
thief had been found. When he broke
the window he cut his hand severely.
Blood was smeared ON the window
and formed trail through the Nc
Mahon saloon. How serious the cuts
are cannot be ascertained.
The robbery was committed about
10 o'clock. Every clerk in the store
was busy showing goods to customers
when they heard the crash as the thief
broke in the window. Every one
looked and saw the man reach in and
seize the diamonds. Toby Dobrin, 2
clerk, and M. L. Cohen, one of the
proprietors, dashed out onto the side
and pursued the thief about fifty feet.
Butter Scoring.
St. -Buttermakers Of Mime
sofa have issued a challenge to the
butter judges of the country to prove
their competency. They have done
so by announcing that when the four
teenth annual convention of the Min
nesota State Butter and Cheese Max
ers' Association is held in this city
on Oct. 80 and 81 and Nov. / they will
offer prizes for a butter-scoring con.
test, which will be open to every but
ter judge, butter maker, or dealer in
the United States. This is a new
feature for buttermakers' conventions,
and the contest will be the first of its
kind ever held.
Members of the Minnesota society
and of other state associations long
have sought to devise way to test
the efficiency of the men who test
the butter. Butter scorers and judges
| never have been entirely free from
suspicion, but competitive matches
have been frowned upon because
there was no standard by which to
| Judge the judges. This obstacle has
been overcome by pitting them agaist
| standards established by themselves.
Under the rules Of the contest each
| participant will be required to score
| twenty-five tubs of butter and then
rescore the same samples. A careful
record will be kept of the markings
and in rescoring any deviation from
the first set of grades will be counted
| against the participant. Where there
is no dissimilarity between the two
sets of scores the judge will be award
ed a perfect grade Of 100 points.
TO Keep money az nome.
St. Paula plan to enable the
smaller banks of Minnesota and other
| Northwestern states to handle com
| mercial paper of the large mercantile
and manufacturing institutions of the
state has been suggested by A. Schae
fer, public examiner, which is meet
ing with the approval of bankers and
brokers who handle this paper in con
siderable quantities.
The plan suggested is that the notes
be issued for amounts as low as $1,000
instead of $4,000, as is now the Gus
tom. The object is to enable tue
smaller banks whose capital will not
allow them to purchase the larger
notes to handle this gilt-edge paper
and keep their capital active without
sending large sums of their surplus
| to the New York and Eastern banks
BRIEF NOTES.
Washington-B. Hendrickson is ap
pointed postmaster at Spicer, Kandi
yohi county, vice Nelson Orred, re
moved, and Peter Peterson, at Sar
geant, Mower county, Minnesota, vice
E. A. Weber, resigned.
Faribault-Carlos Avery, executive
| agent of the Minnesota game and fish
| commission, has been in this city look
! ing after the dams on Cannon ant
Straight rivers and will compel the
! owners to construct fishways in &C
cordance with the fish laws of the
state.
Minneapolis attraction at tn
Bijou Opera House, Minneapolis, TO
the week of September Goth, will b.
the well known pastoral play, ~
Volunteer Organist," portraying' tru'
to nature scenes and characters foun'
in the most picturesque of Vermont
rural section.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT has been filet
in the clerk of courts office in tn
Devil Creek ditch case. The decision
is in favor of the petitioners, who ap
pealed from the report of the count!
commissioners. The ditch will b
constructed as specified in the repor
OF the civil engineer. 1t runs through
Morristown and Shieldsville township
and is long.
Washington-Donald M. Robertson
is appointed postmaster at Dover
Olmsted county, vice H. Ida Bondy
resigned.
Minneapolis-James Larkin wa
given ninety days in the Minneapolis
workhouse for working a fake Chart,