The Tomahawk., 1916-06-01
STATE BRFV|1lES

Winona. - Drawn into the tlywheel
of a gasoline engine on his farm near
Utica, this county, John A. Dahle was
| injured so seriously that death result
ed IL hours later.
St. Paul. -, St. Paul has three rep
resentatives on the faculty of the sum-
mer school in mental deficiency to be
conducted at the Minnesota school
for feeble minded at Faribault, June
26 to August 5.
st. Paul. - The Minnesota primary
law was sharply criticized at a meet
ing OF the executive committee of the
Republican League of minnesota at
Tie Saint Paul. Sentiment was unan-
imously against it.
Duluth. The passenger steamer
Roanoke, which sank off San Fran
cisco few days ago, formerly sailed
the Great Lakes, and for several years
was used as a ferry boat between Du-
luth and Old Superior.
Minneapolis-Seatin arrangements
we're made for 500 delegates to the
Northwest Congress of Life Under
writer's in Minneapolis and st. Paul.
Topics related to Insurance were treat
! ed by national insurance experts.
Pipestcne. - Charles H. Bennett,
commander of the First District G.
A. r. association of Southwestern
Minnesota, has issued orders announc-
ing the annual encampment of the as
ISOLATION here on June q. % and 49,.
Mankato. - Mrs. F. w. Foster of
Omaha, Neb., died suddenly on an
Omaha train en- route home from Min
neapolis, where she was delegate
to the Northern Baptist convention.
The body was taken from the train
here.
Lake City. When the Minnesota
Horse Breeders association and the
Eastern Minnesota Horse Breeders
association meet here June II, all ses-
sions will take place on board the
steamer Frontenac and barge Missis-
sippi, afioat on Lake Pepin.
ST.. Paul. - Passage Of bill pro-
viding for industrial insurance for rail-
way employees engaged wholly in in
trastate traffic will be asked of the
next legislature. This was decided by
the Minnesota legislative board of the
Minneapolis. - In order to land the
1917 convention Of the National Edito-
rial association for Minneapolis, the
"convention-getting committee of the
Minnesota Editorial association is
working for a delegation of rs or 80
Minnesota editors to attend the 1916
meeting at New York city, beginning
June 10.
Moorhead.-Road boosters of West
ern Minnesota, seeking the establish
ment of the lake and park" road as
the official route of the Jefferson high
| way. met here to further outline the
campaign. The western route support
ers are opposing an organization that
is seeking the establishment of the
road through the central section of the
state.
St. Peter. Swan Lake, the hunt
ers' paradise of Southern Minnesota,
is to be drained into the Minnesota
river. An association to further the
project has been formed by farmers
living near the lake. The project
means the retaining of twenty-six
sections of land, more than 1880
acres, or nearly one-third of Nicollet
county.
st. Peter.-That Patrick J. Gibbons,
former st. Paul commission man, who
escaped from the asylum for the GRIM
inal insane at St. Peter had help
either from the inside of the institu-
| ton or that friends awaited him in an
| automobile and hustled him out Of
danger of capture, is intimated in the
| report Of the superintendent, r. M.
| Phelps, to the state board of control.
Cass Lake. Delegates from the
Cass County Development association
have been appointed to represent this
county at the All-Minnesota Develop
ment association meeting in st. Paul.
June 16 and II, as follows: Senator
P. H. McGarry Of Walker, A. C. Miller
River, M. N. Kohl of Cass Lake, c. A..
| Graham OF Remer, w. B. Jones of Pill
lager and Robert De Lury Of Walker.
st. Paul. - Regimental commanders
| of the MINI esota national guard, in
which some companies have been
placed on probation as a result of the
last Federal inspection, have been Civ
en- the inspection reports by Adjutant
| General Wood and have been request
| ed to confer Immediately with their
| company commanders and report to
| the adjutant general on the cause of
| failure to meet the war department
| standard and what steps they are TAX
| ing to remedy conditions.
st. Paul. - Validity of the treaty Of
| February %, 1855, under which \ large
portion of Minnesota was ceded to the
government by the Mississippi and
| other bands of Chippewa Indians again
| will go before the United States SUI
preme court with special attention
| called to the question as to whether
liquor may he shipped in interstate
commerce into the Indian territory