The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-04-20
ABOUT TIRE STATE:
News Of Especial Interest to,
Minnesota Readers.


the United States Indian service at
large and will have charge Of all res.
ervations in the country.
Farmers In the neighborhood Of
Warren are becoming stock growers
and shippers. They have formed ship
ping and breeding associations and
have employed a specialist to devote
his entire time to test cows.
Duluth elevators contain 25,OO0,O0O
bushels of grain, only 100000 BUSH
els less than their total capacity.
Steamer space is quoted at 5h cents
per bushel. against a rate of w cents
current at this time last year.
The annual championship scull and
gig races of the National Association
of Amateur Oarsmen will be held un-
der the auspices of the Duluth Boat
club on Aug. II and II, according to
the executive committee of the asso-
citation.
Total resources in the twenty-five
banks of Blue Earth county are 49,
2SS,9O3. OF this sum banks of Man
kato have $6,009,772. The total re-
sources of the banks of the county
are $9,S64,760 and of the Mankato
banks $7,066,703.
Favorable legislation stimulated the
organization of trust companies to
such an extent in 1915 that the mum.
Der of these institutions in Minnesota
increased from five to ten, according
to Albert H. Turrittin, state superin-
tendent Of banks.
According to officials of the Crooks.
ton Lumber company both lumber
mills of that concern in Bemidji will
be opened shortly and will operate
both day and night throughout the
summer and give employment to
nearly 1000 men.
Edward l.. Rogers. part Indian and
formerly star end on Minnesota foot.
ball teams, has filed for the Repub-
lican nomination for congress from
the Sixth district. Mr.. Rogers is now
serving his second term as county at
torney of Cass county.
With three counties to be heard
from sos votes separate Frederick c.
Stevens of st. Paul and o. J. Larson
of Duluth for the fourth place as del
egate at large to the Republican ma
tional convention. James Manahan is
1928 votes behind Larson.
Construction of the state road be.
tween Luverne and Hardwick, ten
miles north, is being pressed vigor.
ously. That portion of the road run.
ming over the Mounds will be made
straight by blasting tons OF rock that
obstruct the old highway.
Former Governor Eberhart has for.
mally announced his candidacy for
United States senator to succeed
Moses E. Clapp. In his statement he
gives his large primary vote for ma
tional convention delegate as reason
for entering the senatorial race.
Three times within a week and
twice in one day death saddened a
Red Wing home. The dead are Nels
Tufvesson, flfty-seven years old; his
son, Frank Earl, aged thirty, and Mrs.
Margaret Meyers, aged eighty-four,
mother of Mrs. Nels Tufvesson.
Rev. J. p. Fox, afty-eight years old,
is dead at his home In GAINESVILLE. He
had been in charge of the, Catholic
parish there several years. Father
Fox was we'll known az 4 lecturer and
singer. He formerly served, as priest
at Mapleton and New Richland.
Cole Younger, last of the Mortified
bank robbers, is dead at Lees Summit
NO., at the age of seventy-two. Fol
lowing the robbery of the Mortified
bank Younger spent twenty-six years
In saltwater prison. He was then pa
rolled and three years later given his
freedom.
George Tishhouser, a Detroit meat
dealer, paid $500 in fines at Moorhead
upon admitting the states charge. Of
having prairie chickens in his posses
sion out Of season. The court fined
him on the basis Of approximately $40
for each Of twenty-three chickens
found in his possession.
G. r. Beebe, sixty years old, whose
sccentricities made him widely known,
IL dead at Winona. For twenty-five
years Mr.. Beebe had only q carpet
covered piano stool a. his once hx-
ture while seated on q downtown bust.
ness corner, where he came in contact
with his real estate patrons.
st. Paul manufacturing establish.
ments, increased the value of their
products. $9,6S2,ooo in 1914 a. com.
pared with 1909. 4 gain Of moro than
IS per cent, according to 4 report Of
the United States census bureau. In
1909 the value Of products was $780,.
$4,000 and in 1914 it was $e8, 6s2, 900:
Minnesota's veteran blacksmith, Au.
gust Jobst. eighty years old. 10 dead
at St. Paul. He had followed his trade
in that city since, 1851, when he. BE-
gan shoeing horses for the handful of
settlers gathered 1T the site Of st. Paul.
Mr.. Jobst was one. Of the first to enlist
in tho Civil war, serving through the
conflict at his trade.