The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-07-13
What's Doing
| in Minnesota

Washington, D. G. = A statement
made public by the census bureau
shows that there are 5O5,187 able
bodied men in Minnesota capable Of
performing military service.
Kellogg After sixty years con-
tinuous residence on a farm near Kel-
logg, Minn., taken up as homestead,
Mrs. Margaret Toomey Heating died
yesterday She was 81 years old.
Virginia. Governor Burnquist's
orders to disarm Mesaba range mine
strikers were obeyed here. Chief Dep
uty Witte started a house to house
canvass, Selling and confiscating all
firearms found.
Bemidji. - The Bemidji division of
the Minnesota Naval militia, IS strong,
will be ready to go to war at any min
ute should further complications with
Mexico result, the last details in get
ting ready being completed.
Winona. - Clad in pair of over
alls and a blue jacket, Joseph Meyer,
who was run out of Co. c, Second in
fantry, at Camp Bobleter, when he re-
fused to take the Federal oath, ar
rived in Winona on the blind baggage
of local passenger train.
st. Paul. - AT a meeting OF North
ern Minnesota Boosters, held at the
Capitol, plans were discussed for
six days tour of Southern Minnesota,
in the interest of Constitutional amend
ment No. 1, which provides for re-
volving fund for the reclamation of
state lands and which will be voted
on next fall.
Camp Bobleter, Fort Snelling.-
When the Minnesota guardsmen en-
train for the south neither their des-
tination nor route will be made public.
This was the statement OF Lieut.. Col.
Arthur Johnson, following instructions
received from the war department.
Fear Of accident to troop trains has
compelled this order, he said.
St. Paul. - If rider now attached
to the federal appropriation bill gets
by the Senate the Minnesota state
board of grain. appeals will be prac.
tically put out Of business. This is
the opinion of o. P. B. Jacobson, who
has returned from Washington, where
he interviewed the Minnesota delega-
ton regarding the Moss act.
Camp Bobleter, Fort Smelling
"Slackers"-menw who refused to take
the Federal oath of allegiance-will
be dismissed from the camp and dealt
with according to state law, it has
1hn Nf
these is too small to concern the war
department with at this time and the
state regulations will be utilized to
cover these cases.
st. Paul. - The question of a union
Of the synods of the Lutheran church
failed to come before the Minnesota
district synod at Concordia college, or
before the conference of the ministers
after the adjournment of the synod.
This means that thu subject, which
now is of much Importance in Luth-
eran councils, will not be c1icially
considered by the Minnesota district
for at least two years.
Duluth. - Professor A. M. Locker.
general secretary of the Minnesota
Sunday School association; R. w.
Bowden, secretary for Duluth and st.
Paul, and Mark G. Hoffman, secre-
tary for Minneapolis, will represent
Minnesota at the conference of en-
ployed officers of organized Sunday
school work at Conference Point, on
Lake Geneva, Wis, July to 7. Many
prominent religious workers Will at
tend.
St. Paul. - The assessment OF In
come tax, both corporation and indi-
vidual, this year, is $729.897.S5 more
than that made on 1914 incomes in
Minnesota. The total assessment on
1915 incomes in the state is $2,5l1.-
6195, of which $685. .5.46 is on cor
poration incomes, and 1923, 1O6.49 on
individual incomes. On 1914 incomes
the corporation tax was $l,199,7i4.7S,
and the individual income tax assess
ment $5Sl.949.32.
Minneapolis to state
ment filed by Thomas Frankson, Re-
publican nominee for lieutenant gov
ernor he invested $2.S55.94 in the cam
| paign. His travelling expenses, he
says, were $3.50; postage, $263.5O;
telephone and telegraph, 1888; rent
$50; clerical services, $42o.54; print
ing, $1,275.2O, and newspaper advertis.
| ing, $656.27. Mr.. Frankson's right to
the nomination has been attacked by
| friends of J. A. Peterson, who charges
| he violated the corrupt practices act
Duluth. A score of police and
sheriff's men are guarding the ST.
| Louis county jnil in this city, where
| are lodged seven 1. w. w. members
| charged with first degree murder in
! connection with the shooting of Dep
uty Sheriff James Myron and by
stander at Biwabik. Three of the
men are leaders, being Carlo Tresca
F.. H. Little and Joseph Gilday. They
| were not implicated in the actual
shooting, but at the order Of the coun
ty attorney, Warren Greene, were ar
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