The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-30
GUARDS BAT Tie
WIND AND RAIN
MANY MINNesoTAkS RETREAT
TO MERCEDES As RESULT OF
VIOLENT HURRICANE.
FINDS TRUST FUNDS ARE SAFE

State Public Examiner Declares Every
Dollar Accounted For After Inquiry
Statement Caused by Reported
Shortage Of tsa,o9S.
Mercedes, Tex.
Many Minnesota guardsmen were
forced to take up a temporary
abode in Mercedes as result
of the hurricane and heavy rainstorm
which flooded the camp at Llano
Grande, three miles west of here.
Many tents were blown down. Some
parts of the camp were under two feet
Of water.
Several North Dakota boys, whose
tents were blown down, slept in Mer-
cedes school houses.
One motion picture theater and sew
eral Minnesota mess kitchens were
blown down and crops suffered thou
sands of dollars worth of damage.
No injuries among the soldiers have
been reported
St. Paul.
Trust Funds Safe.
Approximately $25,000,000 of state
trust funds outstanding in loans to
Minnesota municipalities and school
districts is entirely and satisfactorily
accounted for, according to Andrew
Fritz, state public examiner. "A spe-
cial examination of the state treasury,
made at the request of the State
Board Of Audit, has shown the loan
record correct Mr.. Fritz said.
Every dollar is accounted for and
there are no further shortages to be
disclosed"
Proves Records Correct.
The statement was elected by a re-
port that $6S,o00 Of loan funds were
unaccounted for, and that officials of
three schools districts denied loans of
more than $4,000 charged to them, and
intimations of possible further short
ages. Mr.. Fritz said he had communi-
Gated with the state board regarding
loans to sixteen districts
But" he explained, "a check of re-
cent interest remittances from these
districts to the state treasurer proves
absolutely that the treasury records
are correct, and that the loans were
received in the amounts charged
against the various districts.
"On all other loans statements, near
~ 100 in all, were obtained from the
district officials acknowledging the
charges as listed against them.
ITO make the first hand check COM
plete l suggested in my report to the
board that deputy examiners be asked,
when in nearby localities, to visit the
district officials and clear up the rec.
ords. Practically all of these cases are
in districts where new officials have
been elected since the loans were OBJ
tanned.
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Oppose Students Release.
Officers Of the Minnesota brigade
are unit in expressing disapproval
of the move to grant discharges to
college students enrolled in the guard
in order that these men may return
to their classes in September. Opin-
ions of the colonies of the four Min
nesota regiments submitted in compli-
ance Of General Lewis request were
to the effect that college students
could better afford to remain on the
border than many others in the or
CARNATIONS and that such measure
would tend to disorganize the regi-
mepts. All four commanders favor
resembling the order
Breadwinners First.
Loss of semester or even a year
of collegiate work is of minor conse.
quence in the case Of these young men
when compared to the absence of a
business or professional man for the
same period, the officers say. 1t is the
general feeling that men who are sac.
rificing their business interests and
in many cases their positions in re.
naming with the guard are entitled
to first consideration in the matter of
~~A9SAA~A OWL ~ 40 4OAAtOu Out IllCL llCU
in this class have families dependent
on them, while the college man has
not as yet entered on a business ca
reer, and while the one has only q
part of his training postponed by his
service with the colors, the other has
everything at stake.
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Gorham Elected Major.
The election of George T. Gorham
as major of the First Minnesota Field
artillery has been announced. The
new major was formerly captain OF
j; D battery, and he succeeds George E
Leach, recently elected colonel. An
nouncement of the result Of the cleo
ton was delayed because of interrupt
ed wire communication with the Sec
ond battalion at Camp Llano Grande
due to the recent Texas storm.
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Plans Milk and Cream Exhibit.
J. J. Farrell, state dairy and food
| commissioner, is preparing for a milk