New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-12-29

new training ship next summer,
congress having made an appropria,,
ton of $15O,00O to be used in fitting
out the government ship Topeka for
this purpose.
Curtis B. Kellar, seventy years old.
president of the First National bank
Of Albert Lea, is dead. He had been
connected with the bank since 1867
and in point Of service was one Of the
oldest bankers In Minnesota.
Captain Josiah R. King, eighty-four
years old, the first man to volunteer
in the Northern army at the outbreak
of the Civil war, was given a purse
of $4,000 by 100 fellow citizens of st.
Paul for Christmas present.
Six iron mining companies have just
paid back taxes to st. Louis county
to the amount Of $1,436, 424.67, besides
penalty Of $143,6 42.48. The taxes.
had been held UP since June 1, pend
ing the result OF the contest at Hib-
bling. ,sS
The Minnesota Transfer railway.
business for 1915 will show almost
100000 more cars received ana shipped
from st. Paul than during 1914. The
increase, railway officials say. shows.
the best condition OF business in
years. 4
Henry Fay Greene, for SIX years
United States civil service commis-
si0ner at Washington, D. c., under ap-
pointment of Presidents Roosevelt and
Taft, is dead at Duluth. He was serv-
ing second term as Duluth city at
torney.
When the saloons at Oslo closed
the other day the event marked the
end of liquor selling on the Western
Minnesota border. The town of 400
Inhabitants had maintained four
brewery wholesale houses and four
saloons.
The fire prevention propaganda Of
r. w. Hargadine, state fire marshal,
has resulted in reduction in fire
losses throughout Minnesota for the
first eleven months of 1915 as COM
pared with the corresponding period
in 1914. ~ a..
Titles to land worth at least $751;
100000 and comprising practically
the entire White Earth Indian reser-
walton in Minnesota are involved in
test case before Judge Page Morris
in the federal district court at Min
neapolis.
The Elm Dale Stock Shipping as
sociation, an organization of farmers
in Southern Morrison county, has
completed one of the most successful
years in it's history. It has paid $97,-
267 to shippers, having handled eighty
nine cars of stock.
The state board of control has re-
jected all bids for the old state prison
at Saltwater at the request of the peo-
pie of that city who have intimated
they may find way to dispose of the
property in manner which will bring
manufactures to the town.
Indians living on the Fond du Lac
reservation near Cloquet are signing
petition addressed to Cato Sells,
commissioner of Indian affairs at
Washington, requesting him to clamp
the Indian liquor lid" on all territory
embraced within the reservation.
p. H. Stolberg, Judge of the Nine
teenth district, composed of courts in
Washington, Chisago, Pine and Kama
bee counties. is dead at Hinckley,
where he had gone in an effort to re-
cuperate from an illness of several
months. He was sixty-ive years old.
William Engel of New Ulm has re-
ported to the police the loss of $4,000
in currency from a bureau drawer in
his home. Three weeks ago he added
the last $40 to his savings and had
not looked in the drawer since then,
so does not know just when the bur-
glary occurred.
Harry L. Moore, alderman from the
Seventh ward of Minneapolis and
commercial agent for the Monon line,
is dead. Mr.. Moore was the third
generation of his family in direct de-
scent to live in the Mill City. His
grandfather, Joseph Moore, came to
Minnesota territory in 1851.
It has been determined definitely
by those who have been surveying
the field for the ,Anti-Saloon league
not to petition for an option election
in st. Louis county until the early
part of 1917. The multiplicity Of pri-
mary and other elections during 1915
is the reason for postponement. 10
Strikers may picket" a plant and
use peaceful and legitimate means to
induce other workmen to leave their
Jobs, but violence must not be resort
ed to, according to an opinion of the
state supreme court in modifying a
temporary injunction granted the Min
nesota Stove company of Shakopee.
One feature of the farmers and
homemakers' week at University
Farm, Jan. to 8, will be a congress
of live stock breeders. The breeders
will come together in the general
meetings of the Minnesota Live Stock
Breeders association on Jan. for the