Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-08-11
STATE NEWS BITS
Minor Happenings Of the Week
Throughout Minnesota

Sixteen new highway engineers and
nine new road superintendent have
been appointed by the state highway
commission to take charge of the CON-.
missions work in different districts.
With their appointment also has
arisen a need for reapportionment
of the districts, the work being heavy
in some and light in others, and this
probably will be done at the meeting
OF engineers and road superintendent
called by George w. Cooley, secretary
OF the commission, to be held in Litch-
field, Aug. Is.
With $3,508, 1925 cash on hand and
$17,989,019.79 invested in bonds and
loans, the state on Aug. opened
new set of books after closing the big
gest fiscal year in it's history. The
books of State Treasurer Walter J.
Smith showed that Minnesota for the
year closing July 81, 1911, expended
1884, 1921, or more than 100000
above the disbursements of 1910. OF
this sum, however, $1,100,000 was used
in canceling state capitol certificates.
Lieutenant Governor H. L. Nichols
OF Ohio has written to Fred B. Lynch
of St. Paul, Democratic national COM
mitteeman for Minnesota, that he will
be in the Twin Cities Sept. Is to do
some missionary work for Governor
Judson Harmon. The friends of the
Ohio governor are organizing in many
states to bring about his nomination
for president and expect to have a
strong following in Minnesota.
1t is estimated that approximately
10000 tons of iron ore have been
shipped to date by the Kennedy mine
of the Rogers-Brown Ore company,
at Guyana to the 500 docks at Su-
perior, Wis. The stock pile contained
about 10000 tons and the steam SHOW
81 is now engaged in loading directly
from this stock pile to the cars on the
siding near by.
Charles E. Keller, state fire mar
shall, has sent out 1000 placards Of
fering $500 reward for the capture of
Mike (Curly) Davis, the yeggman who
recently figured in the holdup of the
general store and postofice at Pupos-
ky, which resulted in the arrest of
Mayor D. T. Dumas of Cass Lake.
Alderman at Large H. J. Irwin of
Two Harbors will not heed the elec-
ton of July Is, when his Socialist
brethren invoked the recall and chose
Alfred Johnson for the Office. He an
nounces that he will not give up his
seat in the council without fight to
finish in the courts.
AS a result of the meeting of the
Southern Minnesota Valley Medical
association at Rochester a new medi-
cal organization has been formed
which will embrace the greater part
of Southern Minnesota and be one of
the largest and strongest societies of
its kind in the state.
H. M. Bracken, secretary of the
state board of health, has been ap-
pointed by Governor Eberhart the
fifth member of the state tuberculosis
commission. The commission was au-
thorized by the last legislature to
gather statistics on tuberculosis.
In the poll of editors of 1000 West
ern newspapers on their attitude to-
ward tariff revision, 222 Minnesota
editors voted for revision, thirty-four
| were against it, nineteen favored revi-
sion by the tariff commission and
eighteen gave qualified replies.
The 1911 Minneapolis city directory
contains 147,9S0 names and indicates
a population of S0S,50o. Advance
sheets show an increase of $40
names over the 1910 directory. The
United States census figures gave the
city little more than 1000.
| While fishing clans in the Missis-
sippi river at Winona, Herbert Wahl
Of Faribault found pearl valued at
$1,000. It is a perfect gem, weighs
thirty-six grains and is q creamy
white color.
Sixty Italians employed by Butler
Bros, stripping contractors at the
Grant mine at Bull, have struck for
an advance of Is cents day in wages.
They are now getting $1.75.
While patrolling the north shore of
Clear lake, William Hardshell of Wa
SEGA was fortunate enough to find a
pearl which it is estimated is worth
between $4,000 and $4,000.