The Tomahawk., 1916-08-31
/ What's Doing
in Minnesota

Deer Creek.-Nine cases of suspect
ed infantile paralysis have been dag
nosed as positive by DR.. w. P. Green,
medical examiner for the state board
Of health.
Duluth. - Rye sold at $1.20.a bush
ell, the highest price ever recorded
for it on the Duluth Board of Trade,
Aug. %. The highest previous price
for rye was SLIT.
St. Paul. - Governor J. A. A. Burn
quist has announced appointments OF
20 Minnesota delegates to the Farm
ers' National congress, October II to
20, at Indianapolis.
1t is up to the State Highway Com
mission and the various county boards
to make the best possible use of the
$142,394.O6 which the Federal govern
ment has assigned as Minnesota's S
share of the s5,000,000 appropriation
under the Federal road act.
Detroit.-With two organization
centers established in Minnesota, one
at Detroit and another at New Ulm,
the work of the Minnesota Nonparti-
san league, affiliated with the North
Dakota league, has succeeded already
in signing up about $500 members in
this state. From Minnesota the
league will turn to South Dakota.
Winona. - The Tri-County fair,
scheduled to be held here August 29
to September 1, has been postponed in
definitely because of the prevalence of
sickness and the demands Of harvest
ing, according to an announcement by
the management. The exposition
probably will be held late in Septem-
ber or early in October it is announc-
ed.
Misunderstanding that since its
purchase by the state in 1894 the six
acres of Renville county land on
which occurred the battle of Birch
Coulie has been cropped annually with
abutting land, J. P. Patten of Morton,
the nearest town, through an attor-
ney, has offered Governor Burnquist
his services without compensation as
caretaker of the tract.
West St. Paul. - Governor J. A. A.
Burnquist has signed a proclamation
calling special election November 7,
on the petition of citizens OF West St.
Paul and vicinity asking that part of
Dakota county be set aside and an
nexed to Ramsey county. The cleo
tion will be in the district affected
and on the same day as the general
election.
St. Paul Andrew E. Fritz, state
animation just completed Of st. Paul
departments and made pub
lie shows practical shortage of $2,575
in armory funds unaccounted for in
the records, also numerous minor ir-
regularities and cites a need for more
systematic and thorough accounting
by the city administration.
Faribault. = According to Lyndon
A. Smith, attorney general, further
inquiry by Louis S. Headley, one of
his assistants, into the condition of
the Fire Relief association at Fari-
bault, tends to sustain findings in the
examination by J. o. Cederberg, dep
uty public examiner, whose report
charged Edward F. Kelley as treas
urer of the organization with $11,1S8
alleged shortage.
St. Paul. - According to state
ment issued by State Auditor J. A. @.
Preus, a new high record will be set
iron ore, despite recent reductions at
tributed to the strike on the Mesaba
range. The auditor estimates that
1916 shipments from Minnesota mines
will reach or exceed 40,O0O,OO0 tons,
with the previous high rec
ord of 36,33S,264 tons in 1913
Minnesota, with an annual pota-
to crop of 36,OOO,0OO bushels, and
which last year led all other
states of the Union in the harvest of
the tubers, will fall far short of it's
mark this year. This is the opinion
expressed by H. G. Krum, Ramsey
county agricultural agent, and is based.
on the shortage of the early crop and
the present condition of the late crop
which usually is harvested about Oc-
tober /.
St. Cloud. - A 100000 project,
which will give St. Cloud civic cen.
ter, has been launched. The old
Catholic club here will be turned into
a non-sectarian institute and the
building will be remodeled. Business
men of all denominations are inter
ested and those who were instru-
mental in raising more than S1,000,000
for the new Minneapolis Y. NJ. c. 4.
will be brought here to raise tn.
funds.
st. Paul-The average value Of an
acre of land in Minnesota is $55, &C.
cording to the summary of sales of
real estate for 1914 and 1915 compiled
by the Minnesota tax commission.
This average includes the wild lands
Of Cook county in the extreme north
eastern corner of the state and un-
crossed by railroads where s7.61 an
acre is the prevailing price, as well as
The fertile agricultural lands of Little
Rock county in the extreme south