New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-11-15

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The validity of the Duluth wheelage
tax ordinance has been sustained on
all points raised in an appeal just de-
cided by the state supreme court.
Emil Johnson, married two months
ago in Sweden, failed to earn as much
money as he expected on coming to
America and then became ill. He
turned on the gas while alone in his
cottage in Minneapolis and was found
dead when his wife returned from a
visit to friends.
Royalties OF nearly $475,OOO under
leases of state owned mines on the
iron ranges for the quarter just ended
represent new high record. The TO-
tai averages $4,000 for each working
day. 1t also bears out the prediction
that the states royalties on iron ore
this year will exceed $1,OOO,O00.
Roy Hammes, ten-year-old son OF
BATHS Hammes, farmer residing
near Nicollet, accidentally shot him.
self. The father leaped into his auto.
mobile and started at high speed for
neighbours home to telephone for a
doctor. The car ran into ditch and
Mr.. Hammes narrowly escaped death.
Samuel w. Pond, sixty-one years
old, son of Samuel w. Pond, Mime
sofa territorial pioneer and early mis-
sionary to the Indians, is dead at Min
neapolis. Mr.. Pond was member of
the Hennepin County Pioneers asso-
citation and of the Native Sons of Min
nesota. His father came to Minnesota
in 1884
Private John Mahady, E battery
First Minnesota artillery, who was
found unconscious on railroad track
twenty-five miles north of Browns
vile, Tex, died at Brownsville hos
pital without regaining consciousness.
Mahady, whose parents reside in Min
neapolis, is supposed to have been
struck by train.
While greeting his guests at BAH
quet in the G. A. r. hall at Minneapo-
lis Dr. Owen J. Evans, commander Of
Rawlins post, G. A. r., died of heart
disease. DR.. Evans; who was seventy
six years old, was the last surviving
charter member of both the Minnesota
State Medical society and the Henne-
pin County Medical society.
Minnesota spent: five times as much
for good roads last year as in 1904, q
year before any law providing stase
aid in road building had been passed.
The expenditure in 1904 was $1,6O7 Alt
and in 1915 $S,292,OOO. Minnesota is
twelfth in the list of states in the
amount spent on roads, with New
York leading and California a close
second.
An order issued by R. w. Harga7
dine, state fire marshal, condemns the
st. Paul Union depot and directs that
the building be torn down and re-
moved from the premises within six
months. The order includes the en-
tire building NOW used as depot and
also the sheds adjacent thereto, used
as an approach to trains, and the
restaurant.
Francis C. Cary of Minneapolis,
against whom charges were filed by
members of the Clay County Bar asso-
citation, resulting in his application for
admission to the bar being held up by
the supreme court, has been com
pletely exonerated by the state board
of law examiners The board found
that none of the fifteen charges pre-
ferred was sustained by the evidence
Figures compiled by Karl F. Dreher,
deputy commissioner Of education of
st. Paul, show that in 1915 the schools
of that city were conducted at an ex-
pense averaging $496 for each inhab-
liant. The cost was $46.67 for each
pupil during the year, the total ex-
pense including not only salaries, adj
ministration and maintenance, but the
expenditures fer new school buildings.
Minnesota Chippewa Indians will re-
ceive an aggregate of S1,500,00O within
the next few days. The secretary of
the interior has approved the dis.
bursement to members of the tribe Of
one-fourth of the money now to the
credit of the tribe in the United
States treasury in accordance with the
terms of the last Indian appropriation
act. The funds are to be-distributed
: on pro rata basis, each Indian, in
Guiding men, women and children, be.
ing entitled to about $3.50.