The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-06-08
STATE BREVITIES

escaped from the hospital for the in
sane, this city, has not gone West is
now the belief of officials since the re-
port the fugitive was seen at Lake
Washington, twelve miles from here.
Winona. - F. J. Ross of Mankato,
president of the Minnesota Rural Let
ter Carriers association, was in Wi
mona to make arrangements for the
state convention to be held here July
and 8. The convention will attract
200 carriers.
Minneapolis. - Alick Angle, mil
Ter, killed his wife in a South Mime
apolis drug store, shot and fatally
wounded policeman and then com.
mitted suicide after he had barricaded
himself in his home to fight off q cor
don of police.
St. Paul. - A town board in Mime
sofa may be compelled to carry out
any specific duty the people of the
township direct, according to deci-
sion given by the supreme court in
the case of Eric Olson ct al VS.. John
Honett ct AL of Martin county.
Anoka. - One thousand persons
gathered in Anokas stadium applaud
ed Frank B. Kellogg as he emphasized
the salient points in his argument for
preparedness, merchant marine and
protection of labor and industry from
foreign competition after the war.
bayfield, - Delbert e. Ingle, aged
III Tod x.,I,@ t1on
50ton automatic coal chute Of the
Great Western road collapsed, bury.
ing him under SO tons Of coal and
debris. Two other men were slightly
injured. The chute was being given
it's first capacity test.
St. Paul. - The Minnesota Old Set
tiers association held it's meeting in
the rooms of the State Historical So
ciety as it has met on the first day Of
each June for more than half cen.
fury. 1t was perhaps the last meet
ing of the association, for there are
now only four surviving members.
Thief River Falls. - With good
prospects for the location of mill to
separate flax fiber from the straw and
with the backward spring making it
impossible to SOW oats and barley on
some lands in this and Marshall coun-
ties. it is forecast that the acreage OF
flax in these counties will be large.
st. Paul. - H. V. Winchell, secre-
tary and chairman of the Minnesota
directors of the industrial prepared
ness survey being made under the
auspices of the Naval Consulting
board, has announced that the first
blanks filled in according to the re-
quest Of the government have been
received.
Minneapolis. - With a range of en-
tertainment features from "Yama
Yama" offering by the Girls Glee club
to lecture on Slaves of Tradition
the University Of Minnesota has be-
gun its annual campaign to carry to
Minnesota small towns ideas for con
structive citizenship, community CO.
operation and better living"
st. Paul. - George A. Hedger, in
structor in rhetoric at the University
OF Minnesota, was found in semi
conscious condition on the bank of
the Mississippi river near the Wash
ington avenue bridge. 1t was thought
his spine was fractured. One hand
was in the water. He was unable to
explain connectedly what had &C.
Cured.
Wheaton. At a meeting in the
Commercial club rooms here steps
we're taken to relieve the Red river
and Minnesota river valleys from flood
conditions. There we're delegates from
all the towns between Ortonville and
lied under the name of Red River
and Minnesota Valley Improvement
association.
st. Paul. - Henry Wirtz, Minneapo-
lis ironworker, who has been near
death from the effects of pernicious
anemia which reduced him almost to
a skeleton, was placed temporarily out
of danger when one and one-half pints
of blood were transfused to his veins
from those Of Wallace Hamilton, a
former University of Minnesota foot
ball star.
DeCrO1t, MINI. - L lie JOINT SuluIliCi
meeting Of the Minnesota Red River
Valley Development association, the
State Livestock Breeders association
and the Red River Valley Livestock
Breeders association, will be held in
Detroit on June 1G and II. An inter
esting program, including speeches by
Governor Burnquist and other state
and local officials, has been prepared.
St. Paul. The first annual meet
ing of the All Minnesota Development
association at the State Capitol, st.
Paul, June IA and -, is a meeting of
great importance to every resident Of
Minnesota This meeting will have
great deal to do with the future sue
cess of the organization. The or
ganization may" as the late James
J. Hill said, become either valu-
able agency in promoting growth and
prosperity of the state or simply one
more wheel added to it's already cum
Tho pnnn1n nf tho