Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-05-20
news OF minnesota.
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
Minneapolis-May II, the state of
Minnesota was so years old. On that
day, fifty years ago the telegraph sta
ton nearest to Minneapolis was
Prairie du Chen, Wis. The news of
the passage of the bill by congress
for the admission of the state was
flashed over the wires from Washing
ton to the little Wisconsin town only
few minutes after President James
Buchanan had attached his signature
to the document making it a law, but
the people most interested were not
aware of their good fortune until two
days later, when the steamer Mil
waukee, at a. m. arrived in st. Paul
bringing both official and private ad-
vices of the suspicious event. The
newspapers of the twin cities issued
extras" that day, and followed these
on the 18th with liberal extracts from
papers published down the river"
brought on the afternoon of the 18th,
by the steamer Gray Eagle.
The first session of the state legis-
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of December at the capitol in st. Paul,
five months before the state was ad-
mitted to the Union. In that month,
Henry NJ. Rice and James Shields
were elected United States senators.
On Jan. 20, 1858, Senator Stephen A.
Douglas submitted bill to the Unit
ed States senate for the admission of
Minnesota into the union. On April
Z, the bill passed the senate with only
three dissenting votes, was shortly
concurred in by the house of repre-
sentatives and on May II, 1858, the
president affixed his signature to it.
The population of the new state
was 150,037. The state officers, who
had been elected in October of the
previous year, assumed their duties
on May "a, 1858. They were: H. H.
Sibley, governor; William Holcomb,
lieutenant governor; Francis 'Baason,
secretary of state; George w. Arm
strong, treasurer; w. F. Dunbar, au-
ditor; Charles H. Berry, attorney gen.
eral; Lafayette Emmett, chief justice:
Charles E. Flandreau and Isaac At.
water, associate justices. The clerk
of the supreme court was Jacob J.
Noah, and the reporter, Harvey Off
Ger; James Shields and Henry NJ.
Rice, democrats. United States SEN
ators; J. NJ. Cavanaugh, democrat,
representative in congress from the
first district, and w. w. Phelps, demo-
crat, from the second district.
Remove elots.
st. Paul-The state of Minnesota,
through it's capitol grounds commits
sion, is about to take the first steps
to clearing up the approaches TO the
new capitol by wiping out some of
the big billboards which are in such
generous abundance in that neighbor-
hood. The first attack will be along
Wabasha street on the ground recent
ly purchased by the commission.
The state has now acquired title to
the land on Wabasha street, between
Central avenue and Park avenue, ex-
cept that occupied by the buildings at
the corner of Central avenue. The
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visible over the tops of the billboards
have already been removed and the
billboards will soon follow them.
Watching.
Long Lake-Sheriff Dreger and his
| deputies are maintaining close
watch on the Kadelbach farm near
here, where the murder of Mrs. Kath-
crime Mozart was committed a year
ago.
It is thought that George Kadel-
bach, the suspect, may return for
few days to look after his farm. In
case he does there will be. officers
waiting to welcome him.
Mrs. Kadelbach has been away from
the farm several weeks and it is be-
| lieved that she has been in California,
where Kadelbach has taken refuge
since the crime. She is expected
home soon to look after business af-
fairs.
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