Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-01-13
PREDICTS ATTACK !.
ON ELECTION LAWS
COMMISSIONER WORKS SEES
PARTIAL RETURN TO CON.
vENTioN SYSTEM.
STATE CAPITOL HAPPENINGS
Events o. General interest IN Mime
sofa Condensed and Revised Tor
The Greater Convenience
OF Busy Readers.

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| In the opinion OF s. ID. Works,
| State insurance commissioner and
close political adviser of the late
Governor Hammond, the present pri-
mary election laws will be attacked at
| the next session OF the legislature.
| MIR. Works says he sees In present de-
mands a partial return to the conven.
tion system.
Reports to the contrary" said Mr..
| Works. the meeting OF the Democrat.
ic state central committee held re-
Gently, was unanimous Ia favor OF
convention to name delegates to our
| national convention. We will hold cur
convention as OF DID,
/ James A. Peterson. who withdrew
from the Republican nomination for
governor. is reported to be drafting
| plan for q convention system OF which
he will ask approval. 4 A. caswell.
manager of the cummins presidential
/ campaign. has suggested to the dis
| trict that candidates for the several
deiegateships be named In mass con-
vention.
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| Selects Route OF Highway.
/ The Minnesota Highway Com
| mission has selected the route of
the jefferson Memorial highway from
/ ST. Paul to Bemidji on the route to
/ Winnipeg The jefferson Highway as.
sociation designated the road leading
from Albert Lea to ST. Paul known as
the Capital National highway which
passes through Owatonna, Faribamlt,
Mortified and Pennington The as
socintion authorizes the Minnesota
Highway Commission 10 select the
rest Of the route through Minnesota.
The route selected is through Osseo
to Anoka, Hennepin coutny, to ELK
River in Sherburne county, thence
north on the east side Of the Mississip-
pi river to Little Falls, thence north
west to Staples In Todd county, west
ana perth through Wadena and Park
Rapids to the source of the MISSISSIPPI
pi i'm Itasca state park, thence north
east to Bemidji AT this point the So
lection will be postponed until engi.
neers have had an opportunity Of pick
| ing out the best route from Bemidii
to St Vincent, where the highway
will connect with the Canadian diyi-
sion.
| No venison az Free Lunch.
Carlos Avery, state game and fish
commissioner, has announced that he
has ruling from the attorney general
declaring 1t Illegal TO serve eenison or
any other game as n free lunch on the
| ground that the wild NEST Is offered rs
an attraction to bring customers. ST
Paul saloons and saloons In some
northern Minnesota towns have been
serving venison, wild duck, and other
tidbits. The legal limit of time in
| which birds might he kept In cold
storage expired Jan. I.
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Plans ~" Extension.
| More extensive training for business
comparing with that for law AMI med.
| icine training for social and public
| service, and short courses for news
| paper men are among projects the Uni
| versity of Minnesota will take up, &C.
| cording to the president, George u
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placed on the university by the rapid
development of Minnesota and which
have not been met are enumerated
by President Vincent.
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| thousand Lakes Stocked.
One thousand lakes and streams OF
| Minnesota were stocked with Iso,02I,
| 442 fish from state hatcheries during
| 1915. Carlos Avery, game and fish
| commissioner said. The numbers OF
each kind of fish follow: Brook trout,
5,s09,s24 brown trout, s72,372; lake
| trout, s1.110; steeihead trout, So ESQ,
! pike, 49,, 227 900; bass, 29,2s5; crap
| pies, 122,727; sunish, 1897, perch.
s,087.
Health Work Curtaiied.
| The failure of the 1915 legislature
to appropriate sufficient funds to car
ry on correctly the work Of the State
Board Of Health from April | tn An
| gust 1 was setback 10 public healtlI
/ work In Minnesota, said Dir. A. J.
Chesley, head OF the division of pre-,
yentable diseases, In his annual report
| beginning III SDI1i the aENisiDa2 WE
compelled to curtaiI its feId work
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| Gift to State Blind School.
| The Minnesota school for the blind
IN this city, with the legal department
of the state as custodian, has come
| into the possession Of the estate Of
, the late Samuel c. Brown. OF Luverne,
amounting to about $4,000.
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Opposes State Life Insurance.
The establishment of state life in
sura.ca would be step In retrogres-
sion rather than one In advance ac-
asr-ding to j. A. O. Preus, former state |
commissioner of insurance and now
state auditor. Mr.. Preus maintained |
however, that the state should main |
tain it's rights to govern the condiIet |
of life insurance companies and iadi- |
Gated that statute is liz coatenyia