The Tomahawk., 1915-12-16
StaterleW$ltl briet
DoInus of Last Few Days Throughout
Minnesota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

vi INCONSISTENCIES VI liS AAoAA
nepin County Territorial Pioneers as
ISOLATION will hold their annual winter
meeting at Godfrey House on New
Years day.
Wheaton. Petitions have been
filed for the esta blishment OF four jul
dicial drainage systems, which will al
feet Traverse, Big Stone, Wilkin,
Grant and Stevens counties.
Lewiston. The family OF Els
worth Gray escaped from a burning
building here only because of ladder
that had been left at the side of the
structure the day before by repalrers.
Winona. Two official representa-
tives of the government of the prov
ince of Saskatchewan were in WinGna
to study the methods of taxation EN-
ployed in a model county in Mime
sofa.
/ Alexandria. - The Douglas County
Breeders association, which, in many
respects, is a model organization, held
it's annual meeting here, re-electlns
officers and planning extension OF its
work next year.
unity and forward movement OF the
party were urged by James A. Peter
son, in an address before the Get To-
gether banquet CT the Seventh Ward
Republican club, Minneapolis.
Pipestone. - Members OF the Pipe
stone county board have paid and
burned the last t7<o bonds which were
issued when the courthouse was erect
ed several years ago. Pipestone coun-
ty is now free from all bonded 1ndebt-
eduess.
Faribault. 49, Faribault is to have a
corn and grain show this winter. The
exhibit will be held at the same time
when the annual poultry show OF the
Cannon Valley Poultry association
gives their annual show January Is,
10 and 20.
Glenwood. - George Nelson and
John Jacobson, charged with the MUIR
der of the three Mitmoen brothers
last May on their farm, were acqult-
| ted in the district court here after
| four weeks trial. The jury was out
only 20 minutes and took only one
| ballot. ..
Hibbing. - Liquor to more than
$500 in value was confiscated by gov
rnment Indian agents in the base
| ment of the First National bank build
ing. The raid, which was the first
| since the recent closing, was carried
out under the direction Of V. H. Ellis,
assisted by G. E. Benson.
Minneapolis every foot
| of the sixty thousand feet of space
| available for the annual automobse
show at the Armory, January 2O-feb.
ruary 5, was taken at the end OF the
space,drawing by exhibitors at the
headquarters of the Minneapolis Auto
| mobile Trade association.
Bemidji. - "On to Bemidji, the
Magic City of the North" is the slogan
of the Northern Minnesota Develop
ment association. More than 300 dele
gates representing not less than thirty
counties of this section of the state
and a number from other sections
| were expected to be present at the
meeting, for the sixth annual winter
session.
Winona. - An investigation which
has been prosecuted for weeks by the
| Winona police department reached a
climax at La Crosse when David d..
Hale of Ann Arbor, Mich, was arrest
ed on information furnished by Eliza
beth Ehlerts, II years old, of this city.
The police say Hale will be arra1gned
| before a court commissioner charged
with violation of the Mann white slave
| act.
Albert Lea. - Jasper Thompson, 80
years old, a. wealthy resident of For.
est City, Iowa, southwest of this city,
with philanthropic inclinations, has
erected a building, costing more than
$4,000, on Sunnyside farm near that
town and has turned over the whole
property, valued at more than $4,000,
to the people of the county. The place
is called the Farmers Social club and
is the first one of it's kind ever erect
ed in the Northwest.
St. Paul. - The Minnesota College
of Agriculture is making preparations
| for an attendance of from 1900 to
| 1900 at Farmers and Home-Makers'
| Week to be held at University farm,
| St. Paul, Jan. 3-S, 1916. This week,
as it is called, is in fact, expected to
become a great annual rural-life school
and conference, and on the home
| makers side it is expected to inter
est not only the women of the coun-
try, but the women of the city as we'll.
Cleveland. - While temporarily in
sane, Mrs. David Marsh, 80, wife OF
| a telephone lineman, cut the throat OF
her 6-year-old son, Vernon, and then,
| using the same weapon, a butcher
| knife, slashed her own throat. The
woman had evidently planned to kill
her husband and younger son who
were sleeping together, but was pre-
vented by the husband, who was awak-
ened by the cries of the dying boy.
Before he could stay her hand, how
ever, she drew the knife across her
own throat.
st. Cloud. - Pressed into military