The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1915-12-30
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attended meetings..
Plainview. A petition is being
circulated among citizens asking the
attorney general to come to PlainvieW
to investigate the alleged miscarriage
OF Justice in the prosecution of state
cases.
Duluth.--W. H. Smallwood has been
declared judge in the Duluth munich
pal court by the supreme court and
". L. Window, who has been battling
with Mr.. Smallwood for the office
since April, is ousted
Euluth. A reward of $1,000 has
been offered by Thomas Furniss, pro-
prietor of local theaters, for the arrest
and conviction of the persons who,
during picture exhibition, poured Of
fensive smelling. acid on the floor.
Chatfeld. - Henry Silsbee has been
installed secretary Of the Masonic
lodge here for the 37th time. He has
held the Office continuously since 1878.
In appreciation the lodge at its late
meeting voted to double his salary.
Litchfield - A piece of musty hard
tack carried in knapsack by her
brother, Enoch Leavitt, when he
marched under Colonel Buford as INST
the famous Morgan raiders, is a
memento OF the civil war possessed by
Mrs. James Lowater.
Lyle - Two workmen met death
here in a cave-in of quicksand in a
sewer ditch in which they were work
ing. The dangerous part of the work
was supposedly finished when the two
men were sent to the bottom of the
excavation. ... t
Crookston. The body of A. E..
Schroeder, who was shot and killed at
Schroeder, Texas, while writing let
ter to his mother in Crookston, was
buried here. He owned big ranch.
There is said to be no clue as to who
fired the shot through his bedroom
window.
Winona. = J. II. Mullen. assistant
engineer of the state highway COM
mission, the county board. and a rep
resentative Of the Doctors Mayo of
Rochester, conferred here regarding
improvement to an east and west high
way between Dodge Center and Wi
mona next year
Washington. The peat fields of
Minnesota will soon be utilized, &C
cording to Director Van Fl. Manning
in the annual report of the bureau of
mines, for the fiscal year, ending June
80, 1915. That the Minnesota peat
fields possess great potential wealth
has already been recognized.
Winona. - With princely Christ.
mas gift, Santa Claus filed Winona's
stocking. 1t was in the form Of three
deeds which conveyed to the muiaici-
pality property aggregating in value
$125,OOO, the most magnificent and
substantial present Winona ever has
received, although exceptionally for
tunate in that respect.
Moorhead. = Fire broke out in the
school building here. Painters were
oiling floors and used gasoline stove
to heat the oil before spreading. The
oil boiled over and a man tried to
smother the fire, but smoke and flames
prevented. The damage to walls and
ceiling of the corridor amounts to
$1,000
St. Paul. The University of Min
nesota through its department. of ag-
riculture, is planning to confer honors
upon men who have been of signal
service to Minnesota's agriculture and
rural life. The first Of such honors
will be conferred on the last day of
Farmers and Home Makers Week.
University Farm, St. Paul. January
3-8, 1916.
Duluth. A decision handed down
by the state supreme court freed a
dead man from paying damages found
against him for the death of girl
killed by his auto May 8, 1914. The
man was Assistant Fire Chief Fred d..
Granzow, who was killed when his
auto collided with another, while the
chief was going to fire on the night
Of Sept. 10.
Clouuet. - Mrs. Kate Kannianen, a
widow, So years old, who made her
home with her eldest son, John, on a
farm near Gowan, committed suicide
by hanging herself to a rafter in the
barn. Suicidal mania is given by the
coroner as the cause. One Of her sons,
21 years of age, killed himself last
spring with rife ball through his
head and her husband hanged himself
about three years ago to tree in the
woods near their home.
Notwithstanding briefs, Judge
Marshall A. Spooner of Bemidji, rep
resenting International Falls liquor
dealers; George A. Bangs, appearing
for East Grand Forks men, and AS
sistant Attorney General L. S. Head
ley of st. Paul, representing the state,
were before Judge w. s. McClenahan
of the district court, thus taking an
important step in the legal fight
brought by interests of international
Falls to overthrow the Minnesota
county option law as it applies to home
rule charters.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT have been
completed for the homecoming and
twenty-ifth anniversary celebration of