The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-12-09
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STATE NEWS BITS 81 5. :, ::
Happenings Of the Week
in Minnesota.
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The United States forest service
will cooperate with the Minnesota
game commission in the protection of
game in the Superior National forest
preserve, Northern Minnesota. Carlos
Avery, state game and fish commits
sioner, has received word from the
forest service that it will permit its
rangers to act as deputy game war
dens and to report all violations Of
game laws in the preserve.
John Lang, territorial pioneer, is
dead at St. Paul after prolonged ILL
ness. Lang reached Minnesota in
1859 and became resident of Meeker
county. He enlisted in a Minnesota
volunteer company during the Civil
war and was a member of the Mime
sofa G.. A. r.
DR.. Leonard G. Rountree, assistant
at Johns Hopkins university, was ap-
pointed by the board of regents at the
University of Minnesota to become
professor of medicine and chief Of
the department in the Minnesota med
ical school.
Peter Benolken, mayor of Freeport
and for many years prominent mer-
chant Of that village, was instantly
killed when his automobile was struck
by Great Northern engine at the
| outskirts of st. Cloud. Two other &C.
cupants of the machine were not in
jured.
The body of Jacob Frederickson,
who disappeared from his home about
| two weeks ago, was found in Long
lake, near Fergus Falls. He had tied
two axes to his body to make sure it
would sink. His eyesight had been
failing and he feared he would go
blind.
With a 10 per cent increase in the
Minnesota butter output this year over
last year, the value of milk products
in the state in 1915 exceeds the total
value of the combined wheat and corn
crops by 100000. The total value
of milk products is placed at $96,000,-
900.
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father of o. NJ. Nelson, vice presi-
dent of the First National bank of
st. Paul, is dead. Mr.. Nelson was
born in Denmark and came to st. Paul
in 1852. He was an attache of the
state supreme court for many years.
| Cyrus F. Redlon, seventy.fve years
old, is dead at Minneapolis Born in
Boston, he came to Rockford, this
state, with his parents in 1855. He
had lived in Minneapolis since 1867.
He was member Of the G. A. R. and
the Loyal Legion.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rockstroh, fifty-six
years resident of Minnesota, is dead
at Lakeland. Mrs. Rockstroh, who
was eighty-one years of age and came
to Minnesota in 1859, first settling in
st. Paul, had lived forty years at
Lakeland.
The state revnue fund showed a
balance Of $1,341, 486 at the beginning
of November, according to state
ment issued by Walter j. Smith, state
treasurer. The total balance to the
credit of all state funds is $2,24o,-
36677.
| August Maniko, F1nlander living
about nine miles from Tower, was
killed by rifle bullet. Another Finn
named Matt Niemitako, who was in
the vicinity at the time, is held to
await the action Of the grand jury.
F. w. Flint, former night editor Of
the Chicago Inter-Ocean, but for four
teen months resident in Minneapolis
as correspondent Of the Associated
Press, fell dead on the sidewalk. He
was t1fty-eight years old.
Paul Pearson, driver for Roches.
ter firm, was killed almost instantly
when his team ran away throwing him
under a load of coal. The wagon
Henry Harley, thirty-four years old,
a farmer ten miles south of Black
duck, is dead as the result of having
been accidentally shot by his fourteen
year-old brother-in-law while hunting.
John Harders, retired contractor
and the last of a small group Of pio-
neers who founded the German Luth.
eran church at Winona, died suddenly
of apoplexy.
Fifty years a boilermaker, thirty
eight years as foreman, was the life
record of Harry Edwards, aged seven
ty years, who died of heart disease
at Brainerd.
Receipts at the prison twine and
machinery plant since Aug. total ST.
BOG, 1929. For August, September and
October last year the receipts were
$500, 107.29.
Noble Gardner, q farmland, aged
about ffty-eight, was killed by light
ming last week while threshing on
Frank Demands farm near Chatfield.
]. J. McCafferty, for many pears a
prominent attorney, district court
Judge and Democratic politician Of
st. Paul, is dead at Seattle.
Mrs. Thomas Lowry of Minneapolis,
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