The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

O0udLOT j. w. Andrews OF MdnkaLO
appeared before the state efficiency
and economy commission and made a
plea for greater authority and scope,
as we'll as better appropriations, for
the state public health service.
Ernest and Wilhelmina Karsten,
schoolmates together years ago in
Germany, man and wife for forty-fve
years and pioneers of Winona county,
died within few hours of each other
and were buried in the same grave.
Fifteen possibilities for mayor, nine
for city controller and seventy-three
for members of the council face the
voters of st. Paul at the close of the
period for filing petitions preliminary
to the city primary election of March
IA.
Thousands of bushels of corn, being
held in Minnesota for seed for 1916,
is lacking in terminating power and
if planted will produce only partial
crops, according to elaborate tests
made by Professor P. G.. Holden, corn
expert.
Colonel Josias R. King, said to be
the first to answer the call of Presi-
dent Lincoln for volunteers for the
Civil war, is dead at St. Paul. Colo
mel King was born in Washington, D.
c., Feb. 81, 1882, and had lived in St.
Paul since 1860.
The Bemidji Commercial club has
4Q00 RI 1o1o IN
ington to oppose Senator Nelson's Red
Lake forest reservation. John Morri-
son, chief of the Chippewas, and other
Indians are already in Washington in
opposition to the bill.
Fifteen agricultural short courses
ranging from one to five days in
length will be held in Dakota county.
The enrolment to date indicates that
between 5000 and 5000 inhabitants
of farms in that county will be reached
by the extension work.
Goodhne county's oldest woman,
Mrs. Gertrude Quale, a centenarian,
is dead at Kenyon. Mrs. Quale was
born in Norway Aug. q, 1915. While
very feeble she did not suffer much
In her old age and death came to her
while in peaceful sleep.
Revenue stamps valued at $4,000,
which were stolen from the St. Paul
federal building by safe blowers the
night of Jan 6, were recovered in Chi
cago by federal secret service men.
Eight persons have been arrested in
connection with the theft.
J. B. Crosby, aged sixty; Charles
Davidson, aged thirty-fve, and an UNI
identified man were found dead from
gas poisoning in bed in the rooming
house conducted by Martin Skarus at
st. Paul. The gas leaked from part
of the gas fixture on the wall used to
attach a gas hose.
John H. Jordan, pioneer and one
of the most widely known farmers in
Hennepin county, is dead. He was
born in Germany seventy-one years
ago and reached Minnesota in 1856.
He served during the Civil war in the
Eighth Minnesota regiment, volunteer
ing when eighteen years old.
Walter J. Smith, under indictment
charging grand larceny as the result
Of a shortage in the state treasury,
turned in his resignation as state
treasurer to Governor Burnquist, and
Arthur c. Gooding, Rochester banker,
was appointed to the vacancy. Mr..
GOoding is unknown in state politics.
After forty-three years service with
the First National bank of Mortified,
most of the time as cashier, G. NJ.
Phillips has resigned on account of
failing health. Mr.. Phillips was cash.
Ter of the bank at the time of the
James-Younger raid in 1876, but was
absent from the city on the day of the
holdup.
Peace at any price advocates were
criticised and national preparedness
was termed a religious as we'll as a
patriotic duty by Archbishop John
Ireland in an eloquent funeral grafton
over the body of Colonel Josias r.
King of st. Paul, the first man to an
als were the call of President Lincoln for
volunteers for the Civil war.