Willmar tribune., 1908-12-30
news OF minnesota.
MATTERS OF INTEREST IN THE
GOPHER STATE.
Official Figures Of the Eiection-Lay
man Conference e-Bounties for
Tree Planting.
Official Figures.

| 175, ,136 votes, a gain of 100 over the
unofficial count. The official major
ity of Johnson is 27,779. There is
little change in the figures on the
other candidates.
| The totals on the state officials as
issued by the state oanvassing board
show only occasional changes from
the unofficial totals issued by Secre-
tary of State Schmahl a month ago.
| The official figures on state officers
are:
| Governor: Jacobson, 147,357, John
son. 1876, Haggard 1924, Moore
6,516, Allen, 500.
| Lieutenant governor: Eberhart,
1c4,ss4; Reiter, 10000; Anderson,
1887; Higbee, 1919.
| Secretary of state: Schmahl.
1864: Lamb, 96,561; Damon, 49,
PIG; Lefevre, 10,939; Waterston,
2.024.
| Attorney general: Simpson, 180,-
621, Mathers, 1850; Uhl, 1861;
Power, 1896.
State treasurer: Dinehart, 49,
SGT; Nelson, 103,330; Kolu, 1884;
Nordlaef, 1851.
Railway and warehouse commits
sioner: Mills, 143,77S; Elmquist,
140,S04; Bjorge, s5,S57; Nee, s1,404;
Lindsay, 2O,790.
| The total number of those who reg
istered was 3S8,262 males and 24,749
females. There were 355,263 ballots
cast by males and 16,7OO by females.
| Laymen's Conference.
The Minnesota Conference of the
Laymen's Missionary Movement,
which is to be held at Minneapolis.
Feb. Al, it is expected, will surpass
in general interest any religious CAM
paign ever held in the Northwest 1t
is to be state wide in it's influence,
as it is inter-denominational and in
ter-county in it's organization.
1t is distinctively laymen's move
ment, inaugurated, financed and
managed by them, with the sole pur-
pose of quickening interest in mis-
sions and unifying the effort for
evangelizing the non-C Christian coun-
tries of the world.
The movement had a spontaneous
beginning at New York two years ago
and since then great meetings have
been held in twelve cities of the
south and west, in every city in Can
ada from Halifax to Vancouver, and
last November in Boston. 49,.
Numerous representatives of mis-
sionary boards and missionaries, who
are on furlough, are expected to at
tend and prominent speakers will ad-
dress meetings to be held in a num-
ber of churches each day of the con.
ference. There is also to be din
ner, at which Pres. Northrop, of the
Mimi. State University, will preside,
which it is expected will be attend
ed by many leading laymen of all
| denominations.
Among the prominent speakers ex-
pected are: Col. Elijah w. Halford,
the founder Of the Chicago-Inter.
Ocean; w. T. Ellis. a newspaper
correspondent of worldwide fame; J.
Campbell White, regarded as the
greatest foreign missionary speaker
of this generation and E. F. WILDER,
U. S. Consul at Halifax. Gov. John
A. Johnson has signifed his desire
to take an active part.
| Tree Planting.
Bounties for tree planting have
been distributed during the present
year from the state treasury to 2,529
persons, who planted 7,443h acres in
trees and received $18,6OS.75 of
bounty money.
The amounts distributed by coun-
ties are as follows:
Becker, $195.63; Benton, $3.50; Big
| Stone, $416.25; Blue Earth, $773.75;
Brown, $66S.13: Chippewa, $1,51O62;
Clay, $526.25; Cottonwood, $S45.62;
Dodge, $1o1.25; Douglas, $3.50; Fari-
bault, $372.50; Freeborn, $71.25;
Goodhue, $10.63; Grant, $161.25;
jackson, $655.62; Kandiyohi, $434.3S:
Kittson, s25; Lac qui Parle, $337.50;
Lincoln, $253.75; Lyon, $435; Mcleod,
IS; Martin, $51s.12; Meeker, $433.13;
Mower, $GSG.25; Murray, $1.244.37;
Nicollet, $55; Mobiles, s243.13; Ohm.
sted, $2375; Otter Tail, $165.62;
Pipestone, $70.63; Polk, $8S.75; Pope.
$3.50; Redwood, $2,OS6.S7; Renville,
$1,104.5S; Rock, $3.50; Stbley,
$543.75; Stearns, sS187; Steele,
$72.50; Stevens, $134.3S; Swift.
$421.87; Traverse, $S5; Waseca.
$315.63; Watonwan, $711.25; Wilkin,
$40; Yellow Medicine, $7S5.62.
NEWS NOTES.
Minneapolis.-The attraction at the
Bijou Opera House, Minneapolis, for
New Years week, starting Dec. %,
Will be a new melodrama from tho
pen of Harry Clay Blaney, the author
actor, entitled From Sing Sing to
Liberty" with Jack Doris as the star.
Zumbrota. - Speaker-elect Rockne
denies any intention of securing re-
duction in salaries of house employees.
st. Paul.-Suicide of James Dugan
at saltwater marks the last of the
famous Rice street gang.
Otisville.-John M. Jonasson, post