The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-05-13
Secular News Of the Week.

Secular News Of the Week.
Mankato has planned to lay about
two miles of paving on the business
and residence streets this summer if
the council does not rescind the action
already taken. Twenty blocks are to
be paved with creosoted blocks, one
block with brick and five blocks with
tar or asphalt macadam Only a few
of the property owners are known to
have objections.
The lair of the counterfeiters, who
are now flooding the Canadian field
with United States bogus silver is be-
lieved to be in Winnipeg. For three
weeks the ablest members of the de-
tective bureau have been carrying out
a systematic investigation, during the
course of which a number of homes
of colored residents have been raided
and searched, but so far no trace has
been found of the molds.
Government detectives have arrived
from Ottawa to assist. The money
initiated is a 50-cent piece, and the
form used for making it has evidently
been a plaster cast. The metal is de-
cidedly off color. The weight is not
bad, but the finish on the edges is
very rough, being done by a separate
operation after the casting is made
the chief victims.
The sportsmen of Deadwood, S. D.,
are protesting against the means used
by the employees of the forestry service
to kill mice and chipmunks, that injure
the young growth. Wheat poisoned
with strychnine is used for this pur-
pose; and it is claimed to be serious
menace to the pheasants and prairie
chickens in that part of the state
The poisoned wheat has been scat
tered broadcast wherever the forest
service is reseeding and planting in
burned sections and, although the Of
ficials say that similar experiments
in the southern hills did not result
disastrously to the birds, many of the
hunters are protesting against this
method of determination.
Arguments on a writ of habeas
corpus before the supreme court in the
case of Temple VS.. State, of North
Dakota, charged with the violation of
the Sunday theatre closing law were
made at Bismarck, N. D., last week.
The arguments lasted for an hour
and half, after which the court
remanded Temple again to the care
of the sheriff until he paid his fine
of $50 and costs as imposed by the
police magistrate following his convic
ton. It is probable that Temple will
ask for an appeal to the district court
as the supreme court did not pass upon
the constitutionality of the law
Temple was twice acquitted by juries
of representative business men before
the last trial was held.
For the first time since statehood
Oklahoma is being recognized by the
big jobbing houses of the country as
a big purchaser of goods. Some Of
the leading jobbing houses of The
country have recently submitted price
lists and catalogues to the State BOARD
of Public Affairs and have offered the
benefit of jobbers' prices. The State
Board of Public Affairs will purchase
aside from the contracts it will let fol
public buildings, approximately So,
100000 worth of goods of all kind.
during the coming year for the variou!
departments and State institutions
All purchases, except those for tht
State Board of Agriculture, must come
through the State Board of Public AT
fairs, which make it the biggest pur
chasing agency in the Southwest. NJ
department or head of any institution
can purchase even so much as LEAF
pencil or yard of cloth except through
the board
Perkins and Harding counties, S. D.
appear to be the only ones in the stat,
which are making a general applica
| ton of the seed grain" law of las
winter. On account of the DIR,
weather of last season many of tn
7 settlers in these counties came through
! the year in poor shape financially, an,
the counties are now purchasing see,
grain and loaning it to farmers VIII
I make the proper application and VIII
: are entitled to such relief.
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The announcement regarding tn
. advanced credit hereafter to be give
/ to graduates of the advanced cours
i of normal schools by the University Q
Minnesota is one of special interest t