The Tomahawk., 1916-09-14
STATE RREYIIIES


| on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
| Sept. 81, 20 and %, at the Cloquet
| baseball park.
Garfield. George F., Hughes OF
| Emmetsburg, Iowa, was killed and his
| wife and child injured when an auto
| mobile in which they were riding was
struck by Great Northern passenger
train No. 4, near here.
Lake Crystal. - The general assem-
bly, Of the Welsh Calvanistic Methodist
church is being held at Lake Crystal
This assembly meets every three
Utica, N. Y. Chicago, Racine, Wis.
and Columbus, Ohio, are extending in
vitations.
Bemidji. Work has commenced
here on a $4,000 home for the Be
midjt Elks' lodge, to be ready for oc
cupancy by December 1. The building
| will be so feet wide and 40 feet long
The ground will provide room for two
stores and a theater with seating room
! for 400 persons.
self-desense extend to use of the teeth
Mrs. Andy Charles so pleaded when
charged in police court with biting
Mrs. Olga Skog's little finger. Judge
Wade admitted the question was per-
picking, and will consider it before
announcing his decision.
Verndale Because a brakeman
uncoupled some cars from freight
train standing here to permit Levin
Smith, local business man, to pass
in his motor, and the latter was struck
and killed by a passenger train that
did not stop, spectators became en-
ragged at the brakeman and threatened
to lynch him.
Ivanhoe. - Lincoln county's records
are locked up and large part of the
county business is at a standstill as
the result of dispute between the
| commissioners and the sheriff. The
county has no courthouse and has
been using the building intended for
the sheriffs residence and Jail for Of
fees for it's officials.
Virginia. Attorney General Lyn
don A. Smith states that his office will
be represented at hearings at Inter-
national Falls before M. J. Brown
commissioner appointed by Governor
J. A. A. Burnquist> to take testimony
Koochiching county officials, alleged
to total more than 100000.
Virginia. - Sheriff Meining contin
ues gradually to reduce his force OF
deputies in the strike zone, conditions
becoming so much better that less of
ticers are needed, he said. Barring
the four shots fired near the Hudson
mine at Aurora presumably by over
jealous pickets following strikers
meeting there have been no develop
| ments. No arrests were made.
Hibbing - In spite of the strike or
the Mesaba range, the output from
state mines during the past three
months was unusually heavy and
shows a gain over the corresponding
period last year, according to re
port to the state auditor by F. A
| Wildes, chief inspector. Shipments
to date this season total more thar
| 100000 tons, compared with a tota
| OF 100000 tons to September 1, 1915
MINNEAPOLIS. - The state efficiency
and economy commission created by
| the last Legislature will be called to
gether by Senator A. ]. Rockne o.
Zumbrota, chairman Of the commits
sion, in September to take definite
| action on the report to be submitted
| at the next Legislature. The commits
| sion was directed to investigate thu
| governmental system of Minnesota
and devise method to improve it.
Faribault - The state schools fo
.he blind and the deaf at Faribaul
will not open until October IT, accord
ING to announcement by G. G. Schulz
state superintendent of education
Fear of infantile paralysis is the rea
son assigned. The postponement fol
lowed the advice of DR.. H. M. Brack
eli. executive officer of the state boart
OF health. Dr. Bracken favored thu
postronement because the pupils cam'
from all over the state.
ST. Paul. - There are $4,000 auto
mobiles and motor vehicles owned II
the state Of Minnesota, according t
registrations. That means that one il
every II persons in the state owns ;
| machine of some kind. During thu
first half of this year, Minnesota gain
| c.l 31,171 of those cars. The increas
for Minnesota is 33 per cent. Onl.
two other states in the union-Nev
| York and Pernsylvania-show such
| large percentage of increase.
| Eemidii A navigable channe
| from Hudson bay to the Gulf of Mex
| co that would put the water tina
| covers 100000 acres OF land nea
hcrc in the gull, was planned by
committee meeting here. A commit
| tee CT the All Minnesota Development
| association and citizens of Beltram
| county most seriously affected me
here. The proposed cost is S25,000,00C
The Miss ssippi river is navigable t.
| s.. Paul. and it is planned to brin
! The channels of the canal to tina