The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-03-17
MINNESOTA BRIEFS
Weeks History in Gopher state
Told In Paragraphs

locomotive ana baggage car ana IN
stantly killed.
Deerwood.-The schools of the vii
age were closed on account of the cpl
iemic of scarlet fever The disease
las not only attacked children, but
grown people. too.
st. Cloud.-M. weidert of Rice, aged
81 years, arrived in the city to take
treatment at the hospital here. just
after entering the door he dropped
lead from heart failure.
Faribualt.-The slot machines in the
village of Morristown have been re-
moved. Many complaints have been
made that the young boys were play
ing them, so the authorities ordered
them removed.
Minneapolis. Emmett Smith and
John Sank. claimed by the police to
have confessed to several recent rob-
berries, were arrested by detectives.
Much of their loot has been recovered
from local pawnshops.
Austin.-Rev. w. l.. Riley, OF De-
troit. Mich. formerly pastor of the
Chicago Avenue Baptist Church OF
Minneapolis, has accepted call to
the pastorate of the Baptist church
here and will begin his labors April /.
Albert Lea-The total deposits OF
the four banks in this city foot up
s1,S26, 923.S7. and those of other banks
in the county total Sl,122, 1859, or
s2,949,379.1 for the county. The
amount will pass the 100000 mark
in a short time.
Madelia. - From fifteen to twenty
families arrived here Friday and
Saturday to settle on farms which they
bought last summer. The most of
them came from Iowa and Nebraska.
Land has advanced to 500 an acre
and very little is for sale.
Duluth.-Detamus McElwain. a Min
nesota pioneer. died at Fond du Lac,
Mimi. at the age of So. He came to
Minnesota from Illinois in 1851, and
settled on a homestead, which is now
the site of Mortified. He hauled the
lumber used in building the first
school house in st. Paul.
Minneapolis. - DIR. George Edgar
Vincent, president-elect of the State
University. who Is to assume the Of
flee April I. will address the members
of the superintendent section Of the
Minnesota Educational Association at
its annual convention at the univer.
sity, March 81 and April |.
Minneapolis. John McKeever.
fifty-five years old, 36i5 Fifteenth
avenue south. a "hostler" for the Mil.
waukee railroad, was instantly killed
by falling into the turntable pit in
the Milwaukee roundhouse. His body
was removed to the morgue. Mckee
yer is survived by his wife and family.
One Of his sons is an engineer on
the same road.
Brainerd.-The Iron Range Town
site company has been Incorporated
N Brainerd by Messrs. Z. G. Bane, DR..
Il. A. Beise. J. III. KreckelybeTg, Carl
Zaffe and J. p. Ernster for the pur-
pose OF handling real estate and min.
eral lands and engaging in mining and
exploration work. The capital stock
is S25, 900 and Brainerd is the principal
place OF business.
| Albert Lea.-The county auditor has
awarded the contract for ditch No. %
to George Conn of Royal Center. Ind.
and the work will be pushed. While
this is the twenty-third county ditch
one judicial ditch has been construct
ed in Freedom county and over a hun
dred miles of ditch have been laid at
an expense of fully a third of a mil.
lion dollars. while thousands of acres
have been reclaimed.
East Grand Forks.-Women of the
Adams presbytery. embracing the
counties in northwestern Minnesota.
will hold their annual meeting in East
Grand Forks March % and 30. on the
occasion of the annual conference of
the Women's Home Missionary So
ciety. The program that will be car
ried out has not been completed up
to the present time. but IL is being
arranged and will be announced with
in the next week.
Duluth.-William Bruman was SEN
fenced to 20 years Imprisonment for
knocking down and robbing his chum.
, Jalmar Altonen. and then throwing
him over a high bank TO the Ice on
, Lake Superior. few weeks ago The
deep snow on the ice broke the fall OF
the unconscious man. and he was alive
when discovered. but he is still In the
hospital Bruman at first denied his
guilt but later confessed. He pleaded
guilty of robbery in the first degree.
Washington. ID. c. The inter,
national joint commission to define
and regulate the boundary waters be,
tween the United States and Canada,
IL was announced informally at the
White House. will be made up of for.
mer Representative James Tawney, O,
Minnesota, chairman: former Senator
Thomas A. Carter, of Montana, and
Frank s. Streeter. Republican nation.
al committeeman from New Hamp,
shire. The commission is to exist un.
der a treaty OF May Is, 1910. The
Canadian members have not yet been
named.
ST. Paul-Isaac Quinn, an Indian
hoy from the Sisseton resaryatio,