Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-08-10
STATE BRfV|T|ES


EN-" was typical of a spicy program
bf toasts featuring the banquet which
closed the third quarterly conference
bf the Minnesota Woman's Suffrage
association here.
st. Paul--Ths state tax commits
bion has heard arguments ON the Ques-
ton of whether revenue from leased
equipment of q railroad represents
gross earnings within the meaning OF
the gross earnings tax law.
st. Paul. Samuel ID. Works, state
Insurance commissioner, has just is
sued a statement showing that the
state during the last year carried APP
proximately $12.o00,000 of fire insur-
ance on state property at q total cost
of $23,SS3.
Ely.-According to officials Of the
Superior national forest service, fire
conditions still are serious In this Sec
ton. Five fires have been put out and
one Is under control and Is being pa
troled. Three others are being fought
with a crew Of seventy-five men.
Duluth. - All previous records In
grain handling from this port we're
surpassed in the crop year ended July
81, according to annual figures OF the
Board Of Trade. During that period
145, 1S4,930 bushels, of all grains were
received, compared with 144,532.S41 In
the previous record season of 1928.
Albert Lea. - In an effort to deter
mine the advisability of continuing
hn r n
weeks campaign was lunched here to
| procure pledges which will insure an
income of $l2,500 annually for Pc
riod of Ave years, $4,000 of that
amount to be provided yearly by sub
scribers of this city.
Buhl MINI. Arrests were expect
ed to follow the firing of eight shots
into an Austrian boarding house at
| Kinney. Six bullets entered upstairs
rooms and two downstairs. One
boarder was hit by flying glass. Three
sizes of bullets were found after the
shooting. The men living at the house
work in nearby mines.
Virginia.-In the case of Louis
| Novak and Tony Tomisch of Aurora.
on trial here on charge of unlawful
Assemblage, Assistant County Attor-
hey Funck ordered the arrest cf Mnr-
tin Zupen and John Seber Of Aurora.
Witnesses in the case, when they ad-
mitted they had taken part in the
| trouble near the Hudson mine.
Lake City. - Hurled more than 80
feet from the point at which an en-
Eine on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul railroad, struck his automobile.
DR.. G. V. Cole of Lake City, gradu-
lite of the University of Minnesota,
lied of injuries received as he was
icing placed aboard special train
which was to take him to the Wab-
tsha hospital at Wabasha, Mimi.
st. Paul.-Creation of a state depart
hent of public domain, to place the adj
illustration of the state mining, tim
Ter, investment and land holdings on
/ solid business basis has been pro-
Iosed by State Treasurer A. c. Good
lag, following the announcement by
Btate Auditor J. A. o. Prens that the
text legislature will be asked to pro-
tide for an inventory Of state property.
Winona. Protection of southern
Minnesota game, particularly proven
ton of slaughter by ''sooners" this
coming fall, Ia receiving close consid-
Grafton from the Winona Sportsmen' s
club, which proposes to exert every
effort to make the work of game war
dens effective. Especial attention will
be given, 1t is said, to curtail the an
hual practice of killing birds before
the season opens.
Duluth. Threats to close every
Industry In the United States unless
the 10 /. w. w. agitators in the St
Louis county Jail at Duluth ard freed
were made by Joseph Ettor, an !. w
w leader, at meeting of Duluth So
cialists. Resolutions were adopted de-
manding that Governor J. A. A. bxrn
quist remove what the resolutions
termed gunner from the range strike
zone. The Socialists declared for fu.
sion with the |. w. w. Ettor also
threatened delivery of the 10 men.
Hibbing. - Deputy Sheriff Peter
Wiring, who received severe cash in
the forehead from a rock thrown by
a striking miner in a clash between
deputies and picketers at Kittsyille, Ia
out of the hospital with five stitches
in his head. The disturbances that
have occurred regularly at Kittsville
Nelson and Leetonia locations were
resumed, miners being assailed with
rocks and eggs. Deputies say 1t Ia
impossible to use their riot sticks as
mothers unhesitatingly raise their In
fants as protection for themselves and
their men.
St Paul. - The project of state r..
clamation, launched at the AllMinne
sofa Development association meeting
was the subject Of confederation at a
luncheon at the University club. A. L.
Croker who has been designated By
the governor as chairman Of the re
clamation committee, invited to the
luncheon the Governor, Dean Woods
OF the School of Agriculture; Theo
dore Void. governor of the Reserve
bank; r. w Sardeson, geoiogist, and
s. r. Childs. Mr.. Croker explained
the general proposition.
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