The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1915-12-02
StateTl9W$ltl brief
nolnus Of Last Few Days Throughout
Minnesota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

s=5E TASTY FSTuSdts
Candy. - Fire starting at 10:45
o'clock =. m. destroyed the First Ma
tional bank building at loss of $685.
O0e. and for time threatened the en-
tire business portion of the town. The
cause Is unknown.
Winona - Former Congressman
James A. Tawney, has declared that
Ex-Governor Eberhart's decision to re-
tain his residence at Mankato and to
run for Senator will have no effect
upon his position.
Walker.-"Buck fever" hunters
have been bringing in practically all
the deer this week, much to the chag-
rim of the expert nimrods, who have
seemingly worked on the wrong
"hunch" az to runways.
Duluth The Gary plan of school
has been formally adopted for the
school at Morgan Park, the steel plant
district, and the school board Will
test it out there, afterwards, it I
proves a succ sss, introducing it In
other schools Of the city.
Albert Lea. =, Five hunters of this
city, Burt Skinne:>, Peter Knutson, Ed
mund Gulbrandsoh, Casper Hanson
and Dan Drommerhausen, have re-
turned from the big woods in st. Louis
county Each brought back a buck.
Hanson's deer weighed nearly 300
pounds.
Rochester. = The formal opening
of the new home of the Rochester
Commercial club, the first community
house in the state, took place on Nov.
%. The women of the Civic club and
the members Of the commercial club
united in an "at home" that was
community social event.
Red Wing.-Mrs. George Brobert OF
Minneapolis, widow of the locomotive
fireman on the Milwaukee road who
lost his life near Lake City last sum-
mer in train wreck as the result OF
cloudburst, has been PAID $4,000 by the
railroad, it has been learned. The set
Element was reached few days ago.
st. Cloud.-Discontinu Of the
italian steamship service will change
the plans of one former Minnesota
woman. Mrs. Mary C. Burbank, for
merly of st. Paul, widely known
throughout the state as lecturer on
art subjects, had planned to sail for
Siena, Italy. She was to have taken
the Duca Degli Abruzzi.
Balaton-Two boys, Evold Byland-
err and John Bollman, bagged fifty
two pound wolf in rather novel way.
They were out hunting-one boy on
the motorcycle and the other with a
gun in the side car-when they spied
the wolf and gave chase. After "a
wild ride of several miles they made
successful long shot.
Litchfeld.-Dr. John J. Donovan has
returned from Chicago, where he stud
led the work of DR.. Brophy, the fam
GUS oral surgeon. DR.. Donovan ex-
poets to leave December 10 for Paris,
where he will specialize for several
months in the reconstruction Of jaws
Of wounded soldiers, at the request Of
the French government.
Winona. = During binding snow
storm in this city, two boys, Theodore
Jones, IL, and William Jennison, also
IL, walked out on thin ice on Lake
Winona. 1t gave way and the pair
were rescued after 20 minutes by
large number of persons who were at
tracted by their cries. The storm was
so severe that the boys lost their way.
Thief River Falls-The Pennington
County Livestock Breeders associa-
ton was launched at a meeting here
attended by IS prominent farmers.
The following officers were elected:
President, Henry Hanson; vice presi
dent, Harry Woolson; secretary and
treasurer, Henry Werner; directors,
Peter Englestad and Fred Beerbour,
all of Thief River Fails.
St. Cloud - Though a verdict of
$209.6S was returned by jury in dis
trict court against w. L. Seabury, the
Judgment on file in the office of the
clerk has been settled by the Meth
odist church committee, plaintiff in
the action. The suit was started by
Rev. F. w. Hill, former pastor of the
church, in common with several other
suits against men whom Hill claimed
had subscribed to the new church but
refused to pay. Acting under pol
icy adopted by the new pastor, all the
cases have been dropped.
St. Paul.-Minnesota did a business
OF S45, 439 ,69O.33 during the year end
ing July 81, 1915, according to figures
just made public by Walter j. Smith,
state treasurer.
This round sum serves to convey
the mind of the taxpayer the wide
extent to which the governmental
business Of the state has grown, but
some of the mathematical conjurors
in Mr.. Smiths Office have worked out
a small table which makes the big
business of Minnesota even more
forcibly apparent. Their figures
show the business is done in the fol-
lowing amounts: $45.439,6 90.9S a year;
s3,7s6,64e92 a month; s126,221.36 a