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

receipts 1Or the state fOau ana DrlQSo
fund prepared by the state auditor.
A man who plays "sQuatter' on a
piece of land for nineteen years has
possession of the land even though a
public street cuts his property. This
decision was given by the supreme
court in a case from ltasca county.
DR.. H. M. Bracken, secretary of the
state board of health, says there are
only eight lepers in the state and that
they are all isolated, and that the dan
ger from the spread of leprosy is
about one-hundredth as great as that
from tuberculosis.
William Pfanstiehl, aged eighty.
nine, who settled on farm on the
outskirts of St. Paul in 1854 and has
resided in the same place ever since,
is dead. He is survived by six chill
dren, fourteen grandchildren and five
great grandchildren.
All the students of the law and med
ical departments of the University of
Minnesota have just been vaccinated
The enrolment Of the two schools to-
tails 423. The occasion was the devel-
opment of a case Of smallpox by one
of the law students.
Andrew Peterson, aged seventy-eight
years, a veteran Minnesota Indian
fighter, member of the Third Mime
sofa volunteers in the Civil war and
member OF the Minnesota legislature
from 1878 to 1882, is dead at Wood
bury, Washington county.
Patrick Cudmore, Civil war veteran,
historian and lawyer, is dead at the
Old Soldiers home. He served in
Company H, Eighth Minnesota regi.
ment. Among Mr.. Cutmore's literary
achievements is a constitutional his
tory of the United States.
Two hundred thousand dollars in
state securities, drawing 4 per cent
interest, have just been sold at pre-
MUM of $500, reducing the interest to
1856 per cent. Recently the state was
compelled to raise the interest to AZ
per cent to tempt bidders.
John A. Shields, who has been the
office secretary Of the Prohibition ma.
tional committee at Chicago, has been
engaged by the Prohibition state COM
mittee of Minnesota and will move to
this state at once to take charge of
headquarters at Minneapolis
Hiram w. Johnson, governor of Cal.
ifornia, is not out for nomination as
Progressive candidate for president
His request to have Julius A. Schmahl,
secretary of state, keep his name off
the primary election ballot in Mime
sofa has been complied with.
The farmers of Minnesota must pay
more for prison twine this year be-
cause of the increase in cost of raw
material. The price by carload for
the several grades will be as follows:
Standard, 81 cents; sisal, 81; 600
foot Manila, IL; pure Manila, u.
The cost of maintaining St. Paul
public schools in 1915 was $1,0S0,565,
all average cost pupil of about
$3.50. This amount includes supplies,
fuel, water, light, heat, maintaining
plants, sundry expenses and all sal.
aries of teachers, officers, clerks and
janitors.
William Gross, eighty-six years old,
veteran of the Civil war, is dead at
St. Paul. Mr. Gross came to Mime
sofa in 1856 and for several years
lived on farm near Shakopee. He
afterwards lived in Wadena and
Wright counties, removing to St. Paul
nine years ago.
J. D. Humiston shipped a carload
of lambs from his farm near Mankato
to Chicago and received a check for
more than $1,000, with the statement
that the lambs sold for $11.35 per
hundred pounds, which was the high
est price ever paid for fed native
lambs in Chicago.
Cipratino Barbeiro owns property
worth $1,000, but he permitted his
four children to beg on the streets and
his wife was compelled to appeal to
the Salvation Army for food and cloth
ing, Mrs. Rose Barbeiro asserts in
suit for divorce filed in the Ramsey
county district court.
Frederick P. Wright, president of
Wright, Barrett & Stillwell, one of the
five Republican former mayors of St.
Paul and former colonel of the First
regiment, NJ. N. G., died suddenly of
heart disease while on a yacht cruise
among the Southern Florida keys. He
was sixty years of age.
BY the adoption of an amendment
proposed by Representative Miller of
Minnesota the house included in the
provisions of bill to pension citizen
soldiery who fought in Indian wars
a large number of Minnesotans who
participated in the suppression of the
Sioux insurrection of 1862 and 1853.
January, 1916, was the busiest and
most prosperous January in the his
tory of the Minnesota Transfer rail-
way, making the third successive
month in which business has passed
all previous bounds. During January
the company handled 59,527 cars of
freight, an increase over January,