The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-06-21
CITY IN BRIEF

The choir of st. Anthony church, to-
gether with Father Kenny, had an out
ing Sunday at Excelsior, where they
sang nigh mass.
The alumnae of st. Anthony High
School held their annual banquet Mon
day evening, June 10th, at the Learn
lngton. After the banquet meeting
was held by the members and Miss
Margaret Bradley was elected presi-
dent for the coming year.
Miles Lawler, star South High in
fielder and leading high school hitter
in the city, will lead the 1914 South
High school baseball team. Lawler
was unanimously elected to captain
the IA team and as he is due to be
graduated next June, the University
of Minnesota will land another men,
Der of the great Lawler family of ath-
letic stars. Miles Lawler not only led
his teammates at bat this season but
topped the High School league. He
son and his nearest competitor for
top-notch honors was Curtin, who hit
at .461 clip. Dean of South batted
1887 and Miller at .235.
Controversy between the city asses
sor and the state tax commission over
the right to assess the personal prop
erty of the Minneapolis Street Rail-
way company is promised in the state
ment by City Assessor Fort Wednes-
day that he would not abide by the
opinion of the attorney general. The
attorney general Tuesday held that in
asmuch as the property of the street
railway company was in more than
one assessing district it came under
the state tax commission. Mr.. Fort
said that he would not recognize this
opinion and would continue assessing
street railway property until the
courts held otherwise.
Dan F. Faribault died at the st. Pau
city hospital Thursday afternoon OF
last week. His death marks the pass
ing of one of the remaining few iden-
titled with the early settlement and
history of Minnesota. He died pract-
ically a city charge. When Dan passed
away it was with the knowledge that
his life's work and that Of his father
who died some years ago, was not
without honor. The county and city
of Faribault were named after his
father. The son, who was 70 years Of
age when he died, was a half breed
Indian, his father having married the
daughter OF an Indian chief on his ar
rival from France in the thirties. Hi
father settled on the present site o.
Faribault.
The city won two favorable deci
sions in connection with the Halls is
land municipal baths, one in the stat
district court where Judge Hale rulet
that the city council had the right t.
condemn land for public baths, and tn
other in the federal district court
where Judge Willard denied a motion
to vacate and set aside all proceed
ings. Efforts to defeat the city's ain
were made in both courts on tn
grounds that the city's charter did no
authorize the council to condemn LAM
for public baths and that all proceed
ings to condemn were therefore il
legal. The case was carried to tn
courts from the appraisal of the con
demnation commissioners appointe
by the city council by the three own
ers of the land-the 500 railroad, rep
resented by the Minnesota Trust Co
John H. Rowe Of Minneapoli
and Mary Hobart Crowl of 1lli
nois. The commission appointed b
the council awarded $25,783 for tn
main land which controls the island
about one-fourth the amount asked b
the owners.