Warren sheaf., 1911-10-19
GOPHER NEWS NOTES.
Minnesota Events ct the Week In
Condemned Form.


Minneapolis. The seventeenth
annual conference Of the Min
nesota Daughters of the American
Revolution, and quarterly meeting of
the Sibley House association will be
held in Minneapolis Thursday, Oct. 26.
Bemidji.-Dr. D. F. Dumas, mayor
of Cass Lake, was found guilty of ar.
son in the third degree. DR.. Dumas
was charged with having attempted,
with Martin Behan, to burn the post
office building at Puposky early in
the morning Of June IT, The case will
be appealed.
Springheld.-This city is to have a
new park, to be known as the Martha
Anderson Memorial Park, as a result
of arrangements just entered into be-
tween the heirs of the late Martha An
derson and the city authorities. The
property lies just east of the opera
house.
Cloquet.-A new township known as
Perch Lake, will be organized in Carl.
ton county out of the unorganized ter
ritory of the Fond du Lac reservation,
taking in all of the unorganized por-
tion Of the county except small tract
in Section 49-17. A petition is being
circulated for the small portion to be
added to the town Of Knife Falls.
Moorhead.-The Clay county potato
market is Tightening up. While pota-
toes are still coming into the ware
houses at different points in great
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other shipping points the visible sup
ply is small and the tendency toward
a rise in prices is strong. At Barnes
vile 60 cents a bushel is being paid.
Mankato.-Louis Hauck, manufac-
turer and retailer of candy, has filed
petition in voluntary bankruptcy in
federal court, placing his liabilities at
$2,940 and his assets at $3.50. Will
liam F. Flowers, farmer living near
Cleveland, LeSueur county, filed vol
untary petition in bankruptcy. He has
liabilities of $12,76O, with secured
claims of $5,925, and his assets are
$1,000, aside from $3.50 exempt
Mankato.-The Blue Earth County
Swine Breeders Association was or
ganized. John G. Gerlich, of Mankato,
was elected president; Robert Haedt,
of Decoria, president; F. M. Wash
burn, of Vernon Center, secretary; w.
R. Adams, of Lime, treasurer, and l..
T. Silkey, of LIE Ray, and A. B. Chap
man, of Lime, were named as an execu-
tive committee. 1t is the intention of
the association to erect building on
the fair grounds for the exclusive use
of the swine breeders About $500
has been raised for this purpose.
Mankato. - Superintendent Perkins
of the St. Paul road the other day
took an automobile ride from this city
to St. Clair, twelve miles east, the
present terminus of the Alphabet road,
and this has given rise to a crop OF
rumors as to what the st. Paul is to
do with the new line, which it re.
Gently took over. This line runs from
Albert Lea to st. Clair and has been
in operation couple of years. It is
rumored that the st. Paul will extend
the line from st. Clair to this city
and thence to Hutchinson and to Far
go and other North Dakota points. II
is said that the surveys have already
been made.
Chicago, Illinois. = Addresses by
Speaker Champ Clark, Governors A
o. Eberhart, of Minnesota, and Judsor
Harmon, of Ohio, Representative Os
car Underwood, of Alabama, and En-
gineer Lyman e. Cooley occupied {
session of the Lake -the-Gulf Deer
Waterway Association. The later ses
sion was taken up by stereoptico1
lecture upon the relation between th<
Panama canal and the Mississippi
river; an address by former Governor
Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, and de
bates by the delegates. Presiden
Kavanaugh is endeavoring to have {
criticism of President Taft for his at
titude toward deep waterway legisla
ton kept out Of the resolutions which
will be reported late today.
Portland, Ore. - Annulment of tn
marriage of Mary Burgan, formerl!
of Duluth, with Gilbert w. Burgan
which took place Oct. 21, 1910, a
Vancouver, Wash, was allowed b,
d
that her first husband was living
The plaintiff told the judge she wa
married to w. e. Clemens in st. Loui
county, MINI, in 1906, but was de
serted by him in February, 1908. Sh'
was informed that Clemens was dea'
and yielded to Burgan's entreaties AM
became his wife. Later, however
Clemens put in an appearance AM
she Immediately left Burgan.
kinsella cIings to Office.
St. Paul. Mr.. John Kinsella
county attorney of Lake county, VIII
was removed from Office by Governo
Eberhart because Of charges Of ma
feasance and nonfeasance, refused t
be fired. He has obtained writ Q
certiorari from the supreme court
1t is made returnable Oct. 81, an
+ho+ 1o+o tho oOuornNrt will h9V