The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-20
ESTIMATES $4,000 .
AUTOS IN STATE
SECRETARY OF STATE BASES
FIGURES ON NUMBER OF IL.
CENSES ISSUED.
EVENTS AT STATE CAPITOL
Interesting and Important Happenings
Of the Past Few Days Selected
and Arranged for the conven.
ience of Busy Readers.

and Arranged for the conven.
fence Of Busy Readers.
M1nnesotans own approximately 95,-
900 automobiles, according to an es-
innate made by Julius Schmahl Sec
retary OF state, based on the number
OF Individual licenses issued and on
the probable recent ownership Of
cars not yet listed in the secretary's
office. At the close of 1914 there were
$500 registered machines. The per-
centage of increase during the year
is nearly 40, the ratio of growth being
larger than that of 1914 compared
with 1913. Hennepin county is first
with l4,111 registered cars, Ramsey
second with 6,135, and st. Louis third
with 2,747 cars Redwood county
leads in the number of cars proper
toned to population, it's total being
1866.
Government Cost $22,6O0,A58.
1t cost $22,600,458 to run the state
OF Minnesota in all departments last
year; in fact, it cost about $S3 more
than the total income of the state,
but the extra money is within reach.
The annual report of J. A. o. Preus,
state auditor, giving expenditures and
income OF the state, has just been is
sued. 1t shows that the amounts paid
in by the counties and by the rail-
roads in gross earnings taxes make
the two largest sources of revenue.
The states share of taxes paid in the
counties was $6,859,210, and from the
railroads it obtained $4,93S,3G6. The
rest OF the money which kept up the
public school aid, built roads paid SAL
aries and did all the other things that
state has to do came from special
taxes, fees for services of state off,
Gals, royalties from ore lands and
from the sale of state school lands.
The state sold 79,485 acres of la.,d
last year for $560,911. The lan:s
averaged 81 an acre. The largest
land sales were in Aitkin county,
where 22,922 acres were sold, and tae
smallest sales were in Wabasha coun-
ty, one of the old counties of tnz
state, where only 40 acres of LIANT
were put on the block.
New Drug Law Effective.
Two laws passed by the 1915 Ma.
nesota legislature have just gone ixto
effect with the opening of new scar
The Nimocks act regulating the sale
OF narcotics will, it is believed. plug
the hole in the Harrison act. JUDGE
Wilbur F. Booth recently ruled "a
federal court that mere possession 81
narcotic by All unauthorized person
was not punishable Under the fec@ral
act. The Nimocks law prohibits JOS
session and Forbes the sale OF any
preparation containing narcotic drugs
except by 4 licensed pharmacist. If
the preparation contains narcotics
above certain strength, it can %:
sold only on prescription. Choral is
also covered by the. new law. Viola.
lions are made a felony. The MIN
ocks act went into effect Dec. 81. The
other new law, which became effec.
tive Jan. 1, requires every county
treasurer to have printed on the back
OF receipts for current taxes a state
ment showing how the lev is appor
toned to different purposes.
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37,259 Ask Lower Taxes.
Since its organization in 1907, the
Minnesota tax commission has re-
ceived and passed on 37,259 applica
lions which have come to il aadel
the statute which provides that the
commission shall hear and deter
mine all matters of grievance relatin.
to taxation" Of these 1852 have been
received from Ramsey county alone
or 1876 per cent of the total from all
Of the eighty-six counties of the state
Hennepin county comes next with
$500 applications, or 14.2 per cent OF
the whole number while St. Louis is
third with 1881 or 1912 per cent. That
is, 1858 or So per cent of the total
number of applications have come from
the three big counties, while but 49,.
566 or AZ per cent have come from
the remaining eighty-three counties.
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Counties Erect Hospitals.
Fourteen county or intercounty tn.
bercular sanatoriums will soon be
completed in Minnesota as the result
of the 1913 law allowing state aid to
such institutions and each of them
will have received aid amounting to
$4,000. The legislative appropria.
tons cared for 100000 of the aid
necessary and the remainder was met
out of the funds not otherwise apDro.
priated. The states percentage of re-
ceipts from boxing bouts conducted
under the state law and amounting
to $4,4S4, went into this fund
To Tax Fail Property.
An order to place on the 1915 tax
rolls, stocks, bonds. and credit ad.
vancements, the property of seven
railroads in Minnesota, which assess