The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-05-10
ABOUT THE STATE
News Of. Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

Mrs. II. r. Whitted Of Minneapolis
won first and second prizes for orchids
at the fourth National Flower show at
Philadelphia, and first prize for or.
chids at the International Flower
show in New York city.
The Northern Minnesota Jefferson
Highway association has been formed
at Bemidji Representatives from Bel.
trami, Polk, Red Lake, Clearwater,
Pennington, Marshall and Kittson
| counties were present.
Patrick F. Murphy, forty.fve years
| old, counselor of the Minnesota North
Dakota jurisdiction of the U. c. T of
! America and widely known travel
ing man, is dead at his home in Still
| water of ptcmaine poisoning.
n. c. Nelson, an employe of the
fered broken arm when his glove
caught in the lacing of belt he was
attempting to replace on a pulley. He
was whir!ed about the shafting twice.
About 500 farmers, representing ten
| counties in Southeastern Minnesota,
met at Owatonna and organized the
! Owatonna Farmers Cooperative Pack
ing company and will build $l50,000
! packing plant in that city this sum-
| mer.
Captain John r. Beatty, eighty-four
years old. is dead at Alankato. He
| was born in Pennsylvania and came
| to Minnesota in 1857. He built the
| first lime kiln in Mankato and shipped
the first carload of lime from that
place.
Contending that a deer is the prop
erty Of the state. and that an indict-
ment which charged that one had
beer, stolen trDm private citizen w&s
! faulty. an attorney of St. Cloud sue
ceeded in freeing man charged with
| larceny.
From the sale of rough fish taken
out of the inland waters of Minnesota
during the winter the state will re-
ceive an amount exceeding 100000. &C.
cording to estimates prepared by Car
los Avery. state game and fish CON-
missioner.
LII proclamation issued by Gov
ernor Burnquist designating May 5 as
cleanup day he calls attention to the
fact that the fire loss last year in Min
nesota was nearly $5,000,000 and
urges citizens to cooperate In lessen
ing fire hazards.
| Business men of number Of cities
in the southern part of the state ap-
peared before the state railroad and
warehouse commission and protested
against an advance Of 10 cents a ton
on freight rates on coal from Duluth
to their territory.
| Fearful that the service of sub
poena on her husband meant he was
to be thrust into jail, Mrs. Helen Kul-
kay of Minneapolis committed suicide
by cutting her throat. The subpoena
asked for the husbands presence in
court as a witness.
Barret House, seventy years old,
pioneer contractor of Eyota and one
of the first to answer President Lin
coins call for volunteers, dropped
dead at the Northwestern depot at
Rochester as he was about to board a
train for his home.
With the filing of an initiative ordi-
nance calling for the elimination Of
all saloons in the city by July l, 1917,
1t is considered certain that an option
election will be called by the Duluth
city commissioners. The dry petition
contained 5,179 signatures.
John Giedeman, formerly a resident
of Rockville, Stearns county, but for
the past ten years a farmer in Can
ada, has sold his dominion holdings
and returned to the United States be-
cause Of the pressure brought to bear
on his two sons to join the army
Walter J. Smith, former state treas.
urer, and Robert c. Pickit, former
clerk Of the investment board, must
90 to the penitentiary despite the ef.
forts Of their friends to secure par.
dons. The state board of parole de-
clfned to extend clemency in either
case.
AS a result OF the recent dry vic
tory at Hastings the city council haa
revoked the licenses of the fifteen "a
looms Of that place and the wet goods
emporiums have been closed. The sum
of $2,326.26 was refunded the saloon
keepers In payment of unexpired II
censes.
Charles A. Lindbergh, representa-
tive In congress from the Sixth Min
nssota district, has filed his petition
for the Republican nomination for the
United States senate. With the psti
ton was Lindbergh's announcement
Of his withdrawal from the race fe1
governor. 1855 !