The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-02


old, wife of Peyton Boone Of Hermis-
ton, Ore, and daughter of the late
Captain John Kent of Saltwater was
burned to death with her six-months-
old baby at Hermiston, according to
information received by relatives in
Moorhead
Minneapolis grain merchants have
complained to the interstate commerce
commission that the Mill City is being
Disseminated against in favor of Mil
waukee and Chicago in rates on grain
and grain products from Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, North and South Da-
kota and Montana.
After sweltering through the hottest
day of the year in stuffy courtroom
at Winona, attorneys for Mrs. Johanna
Gundlaff, in an action to recover dam
ages for the death of her husband un
der the workmen's compensation act
found they had brought suit against
the wrong insurance company.
Threats to take the life of Minneso-
ta's governor and to dynamite the cap
itol have been made within the past
week by sympathizers with the Iron
Range strike, it is believed. AS re-
suit special precautions have been
made to protect both Governor Burn
Quist and the property of the state.
The Democratic nominees for state
Offices, at a meeting in St. Paul, voted
to leave the selection Of a chairman
to the new state central committee,
but recommended Fred E. Wheaton
Of Minneapolis. 1t is understood that
R. w. Hargadine, the present secre
tary, will be reelected if he will &C.
cept.
Henry F. Seward of Duluth has paid
$4,000 for a Minneapolis chamber of
commerce membership, thereby bring
ing the price to maximum figure.
There are $50 memberships, but the
directors are authorized to issue ad
ditional ones at $4,000. The last pre-
vious sale of a membership was at
$4,000.
Dan Patch, 1855, famous as a rec
ord breaking PAGER, is dead at the
Savage farm near Minneapolis. He
was foaled April 26, 1898, and was
purchased by NJ. w. Savage of Mime.
apolis fourteen years ago for 100000.
athletic heart" is given as the cause
of death, which was sudden and un-
expected.
The state timber board will ask the
next legislature to appropriate suti
cient funds to provide for rescale un-
der all state timber contracts on
which the statute of limitations has
not operated and to amend the laws
regulating the sales of state timber
so as to establish a more businesslike
system in the timber department.
M. w. Savage, millionaire Minneap-
oils horseman, manufacturer and rail
road promoter, died suddenly at Hill
crest hospital Minneapolis His death
came thirty-six hours after that of
Dan Patch, the worlds greatest PAGER
and the horse which founded Mr.. Saw.
ages wealth. Between horse and man
there had been the keenest friendship
State Treasurer A. C. Gooding has
accepted the resignation of Edward l..
Erickson, for sixteen years connected
with the state treasurer's office and
for the last six years first assistant
state treasurer. Mr.. Gooding said that
the resignation was the aftermath of
Investigations made following the pee
ulations of former State Treasurer
Wo1%or Cpoj<l,
The amended petition of Charles L.
Sawyer and others, charging Thomas
Frankson with violating the corrupt
practices law and asking that he be
barred from the Republican nomina-
ton for lieutenant governor, has been
served on Mr.. Frankson's attorneys.
1t contains a mass of items, aggregat-
ing about $4,000, which Mr. Frankson
Is alleged to have spent.
John A. Swenson, eighty-three years
old, his face scanned by the flashing
winds of the Far North, has returned
to Hitterdal, this state, to visit rela-
tives after an absence of six years.
A cyclone which swept Canada sew
eral years ago was reported to have
killed Swenson, but he escaped and
went to the Far North, where he wan
dered within the Arctic circle. hunting
and trapping.