Morris tribune., 1915-06-11
HORRIBLE SUICIDE
AT BRECKENRIDGE
WeIl.t DIDO Pioneer Blows Head
Off with Shotgun-Pulled
Trigger with His Toes

Joseph Sanker, IA years OF age and
for "a years a resident near Brecken-
ridge. committed suicide last week by
blowing his head off with shot gun.
He had been in town in the afternoon
with his wife and upon reaching home
went out back of the barn where he
seated himself on the beam of ploW.
removed his shoes, placed the gun to
his head and pulled the trigger with
his toes. He leaves wife and nine
grown children. Booze is blamed for
his act.
Red Lake Falls bids fair to become |
the liquor supply station for all north
ern Minnesota and a part OF North |
Dakota. Crookston and East Grand
Forks have held this honor till the
farmers were heard fromsin the recent
county option election. Through the
working of the county option elections
and the "lid' laws large part of the |
north country is or will be dry soon
but Red Lake county has filed no
county option petitions SO far and it is
stated none will be ciurclated right
away. The county is settled by Can.
adian French who have the majority.
and it is stated they are against dry
zone.
Glenwood's new summer hotel was
opened with banquet last week and
is already enjoying a fine business.
1t is situated on one of the most
pictureso lie beauty spots on the lake
and was built by a former engineer
running into Glenwood who saw the
business opening at the lake. Among
those who spoke at the banquet and
gere introduced in parody song by
the GlenwCod quartet were Mayor
Thacker who told how the early set
tiers had spent life dreaming Of the
coming of a summer hotel; DR..
Shipstead. Sam Koonblawd, J. A.
Pinkerton, Theodore Aune and DR..
Jeffers who was asked to explain why
all Irishmen are so homely. One hun
dred people enjoyed the banquet.
Hancock people are talking of con-
verting the commercial club rooms in
to a rest room for farmers wives and
children on Saturday afternoons. The
ladies of the village will be asked to
get busy and appoint matron who
will have charge of the rooms on such
days.
The Chokio Review is the only
newspaper in Stevens county which
espouses the cause of the liquor in
terests. Unlike most liquor organs
the Review has adopted a policy of
standing for beer only and is willing
to have whiskey and gin placed on the
banished list along with other poisons.
The Hancock Record is battling for
the drys and predicts a dry county.
The Morris Sun shines on both
sides of the fence with one page de-
voted to stories about the miseries of
dry county while another sets forth
the curses of booze. The Tribune is
on the side of the drys.
The Great Northern has announced
plans for doubling its tracks from
Willmar to Minneapolis, and the work
will be commenced soon. The pro.
position of double tracks to Brecken-
ridge was also considered but will
be deferred for the present.
International Falls has secured five
cent beer. Last week one of the new
saloon keepers there reduced the price
and the others followed suit. Beer
was sold at ten cents a scoop before
the arrival of the new man.
Northern Minnesota editors will
permit the dust to gather on the edit
orial scissors for four days in
August while they enjoy picnic out
ing at some of the northern lakes.
August 6, 7, 8 and 9 are the dates
fixed and the place will be selected by
committee.
Wilkin county is preparing to do
without county agent. At the
meeting of the county board at Breck-
enridge last week it YVES voted to omit
the appropriation for this years
county agent work and unless the
farmers take some independent action
Agent Billings will terminate his con-
tract Aug. /.
People interested in automobiles in
Morris are specializing upon who will
be the first to bring one of the new
twelve cylinder cars to the city. A
Detroit manufacture is placing such a
car on the market and car drivers saw
it stands chance of immediate popu-
larity. The six and eight cylinder
car made its appearance few years
ago and it was thought the limit had