Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-10-05
$tateneW$in6 Brief
Doings OF Last Few DAYS Throuchcut
Minnesota Condensed for
Hasty Perusai.


Bemidji.-The jury in the case Of
Mike Haley, charged with entering
state land and cutting timber, dis
agreed last night and was discharged
Marshall. - J. o. Thompson, pro
prietor of local restaurant, shot him
self through the head. following an
attempt to kill his wife. Mrs. Thomp
son was not seriously injured. Thomp
sons death was instantaneous.
Cedar Mills. Albert Kruger, a
harvest hand, is dead from infantile
paralysis after a few days illness. He
had contracted the disease while
working in threshing crew. There
Is one other case in this vicinity.
st. Paul. - The yieldsof potatoes In
Minnesota this year will be about half
q normal crop. according to a state,
ment given out by the state immigra,
ton department and based on reports
from the principal tuber- growing dis.
tricts.
Winona-Thwarted in attempts to
take her life, one by poisoning and a
second by shooting, Mrs. Godfrey
Schultze succeeded in drowning her
self in the waters of Crooken Slough
two miles north of Minnesota City,
where her body was found.
LIE Sueur Center. Following in.
dictments by the grand jury, Sam
Campbell, farm hand, charged with
having attacked 7-year-old girl near
New Prague, June II last, pleaded
guilty before Judge Morrison in dis.
trict court here and was sentenced to
the state prison in Saltwater for life.
st. Paul.-Governor Burnquist has
just signed orders ,suspendirg Commits
sioners John Bursack and M. A. Ulve.
dahl of Koochiching county pending
investigation of charges of 'nonfeas
ance against them ami appointed to
the respective vacancies so caused c.
P. Ellingson of Northome and Gust
Holm of Ericksburg.
Duluth.-Completion of the official
count showed that the proposal for an
additional 3-mill tax assessment for
street improvements was defeated
nearly two to one in the special ref
erendum here. The tax increase pro
posal was the outgrowth of June cleo
lions resulting In the voting out of sa
looms and $4,000 annual revenue.
st. Cloud. -- Glenn s. Rogers of ST.
Cloud spent twelve days in the United
States army. An effort is being made
to procure pension for him. Rogers
enlisted in the regulars at Chicago and
was sent to Jefferson barracks in Mis-
souri,. He remained there only twelve
days when he was released because
he had contracted bronchial pneumo
nia.
st. Paul.-Joseph T. Mannix, state
printer, Is out to save the state
money. He has written to heads OF
state departments requesting them tc
boil it down" as much as possible in
preparing annual or biennial reports
this fall. He hints that expenditure
for reports can be reduced If uuneces
sary verbiate and useless detail are
eliminated"
Fergus Falls.-The potato crop is
this county is about half as large as
1t was last year, but will bring In a
third more money. Last year the
average yield was 200 bushels pei
acre, and the potatoes sold at from
Is cents to IS cents during the mar
keting season. This year the average
probably is 100 bushels per acre, but
marketing began at 81 per bushel.
Blackduck. Travel-stained, and
showing signs Of long exposure, man
who refused to give his name arrived
In this place with a rural mail driver
and, according to Deputy Sheriff Frank
Carson, who placed him under arrest,
he answers the description of the as.
sailant of Miss Olga Dahl, the Round
Lake school teacher, in every particu.
lar. The man has refused to give his
aame and will give no information re-
garding himself except to say that he
walked nearly all the way from Cass
Lake.
Crystal Bay, Mimi. Sept 2S.--Sixty
days in the county jail is to be the pun
lshment of Harold Chapman, Spring
Park, Lake Minnetonka who confess,
ed that he threw the dead body of his
infant child into Lake Minnetonka and
did not notify the authorities of the
child's death. Chapman was arraign-
ed before Justice Fred White at Crys.
tai Bay late Tuesday. He pleaded
guilty to unlawfully burying the child s
body and was sentenced. The child s
body has not been recovered.
Minneapolis. - Writing from some
where in France" to his brother, the
Rev. T. w. Graham. pastor of Andrew
Presbyterian church, Lieutenant John
r. Graham of the Ninety sixth brig
ade, British field artillery. sent news
that his command, which had been in
action on the Somme front during
July and had later been put to rest,
had been ordered into action at Arras,
Nv hich is ever SO much quieter than
where we were. 1t will not seem like
war at ALL" That was in August. Mr..
Graham has just received news that
his brother had died Friday from
wounds suffered September Is at Ar
ras.
St. Paul.-In practically every city