The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-03-04
Secular News Of the Week.

Secular News Of the Week.
Winnebago, Mimi, has plan on
foot to form a stock company to re-
build the flour mill 1t is proposed to
capitalize for $4,000 and put up
modern equipped mill.
A bitter controversy over title to
land in Minnesota between claimants
under the congressional land grant to
the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany and claimants under the stone
and timber act has recently been de-
cided by the Supreme Court OF the
United States in favor of the railroad
claimants. The controversy had its
origin in the dispute as to whether the
Eastern terminus of the Northern Pa
cific was at Duluth, Mimi, or Ashland,
Wis. The interior department decided
it was at Duluth and Cancelled selec-
lions of land the railroad had made
east of that point, under the land
grant acts. When the Supreme Court
determined the terminus was at Ash
land, the interior department reconsld-
cred the former cancellation and
awarded to the road the land previ-
ously selected by it, despite the fact
that individuals claimed it.
A bill was introduced in the legis-
lature last week to enable North Man
kato to become annexed to Mankato.
The residents of North Mankato have
almost unanimously signed a petition
to this end To enjoy the full benefit
of annexation, North Mankato wants
to be detached from Nicollet County
and added to Blue Earth County so as
to be able to transact county business
in Mankato instead of st. Peter. With
North Mankato annexed, MankatO be-
comes the fifth city in size in the
state instead of the seventh.
The 1911 campaign for seed selec-
ton and better farming commenced in
earnest when the first good seed"
train left Minneapolis last Monday on
the Omaha road for run to South
ern Minnesota and into the southwest
ern corner of the state.
The $2,5OO,OO0 plant of the Dakota
Portland Cement works at Chamber
lain, S. D., will be ready next fall.
The plant will have twelve acres Oh
floor space and will employ from one
hundred to one hundred and fifty men,
and have daily capacity of twenty
five hundred to three thousand barrels
of cement. Two of the buildings are
now completed and the heavy machin-
cry is now arriving.
The steamer Narragansett from New
York, February 9Th for London, report
ed that she passed the old French war
ship Richelieu, waterlogged and aban-
doned in the track of liners one hun
dred and sixty miles west of Queens
town. The derelict is extremely dan
gerous to navigation. The Richelieu
was recently sold to be broken up.
She broke loose from tugs in the Bay
of Biscay in gale.
The much discussed case of the In
ternational Bana Food Co. against the
Boex Holman Co., was begun in Fon
du Lac, Wis, February 21st The case
grows out of contract A. M. Boex
made with the plaintiff for the pur-
chase of his six hundred tons of ba-
mana food. The contract was later
repudiated by the directors of the de-
PENDANT company. In the original &C
ton the plaintiff sought damages in
the amount of $4,000.
Concerted action by the manufactur.
ers and producers of the country to
secure proper expansion for American
trade abroad, which was urged by Sen
ator Root in his speech before the
Pan-American Commercial Congress
on February 18th, already has been
taken An organization has been
formed under the name of American
Manufacturers Export Association
which already numbers among its
members many of the largest manu-
featuring concerns in the United
States. One of the principal aims oil
the association will be to protect the
/ trademarks of American manufactur
ers, by combating the common prac
tice of INSCRIPTIONS foreign firms OF
individuals in registering and doing
business under trademarks not right
fully their own. Pressure will be
brought to bear upon transportation
companies for the establishment o.
equitable freight rates and better
service.
i Canada resents the talk of annexa
ton. Feeling on the subject is Sc
strong that it may jeopardize the pas
sage of the reciprocity measure nov
I before parliament