The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-09-28
/ What's Doing
in Minnesota


nual session OF the Southern Mime
sofa conference of the Methodist Epis.
copal church, which opens at Roches.
ter was expected to be notable be.
cause of changes in the leading church.
es Of the district.
St. Paul. - October 9, the anniver-
sary of the Chicago fire in 1871, has
been set apart by Governor J.. A. A.
Burnquist as fire prevention day. An
organized effort in cities and villages
and on farms is to be made at this
time to reduce the fire hazard by a
general cleanup.
Fort Smelling. - Governor Burn
quist says he will petition the war de-
partment for a furlough for the men
of the First Minnesota field artillery
in camp at Camp Bobleter in the event
of continued cold weather and an ex.
preston from the officers and men
stating they desired such action.
Bagley. A searching party, in
Guiding every available man in Bagley,
located the body of Henning Weme, Is
years old, who was drowned with o.
car Furuseth, Is years old, when a
boat capsized in Tamarack lake.
Weme's mother is seriously ill with
heart trouble as result of the acct
dent.
Minneapolis. - County commission
ers OF Minnesota are said to have been
converted in considerable numbers to
belief in concrete as a desirable
bridge material. G.. E. Nagel, deputy
state highway engineer in charge of
bridges said the bridge-testing dem
onstration at the state fair had con.
vinced many.
Anoka A large munitions plant,
financed by Minneapolis men, will be
built ut Anoka, according to announce
ment Land has already been pur'
chased and options have been taken
Oh additional tracts at Anoka. The
company will be known as the Federal
will be capitalized at $50O,OO0.
Moorhead. - With drainage work
amounting to $59,3S2.97 accomplished
the past summer and plans laid for an
additional $114,623.33 worth, Clay
county's 1916 record in this respect
bids fair to stand as record through
out the state. Appropriations have
been made for the work planned bring
ing the years total up to $173,806.3O in
funds voted.
St. Paul. - Three deaths from in.
fantile paralysis in Minnesota have
just been reported to the state depart
ment of health. Truman Lapham, a.
year-o son of Frank Lapham, White
Bear village, died after a weeks ILL
ness and was buried privately. The
department records show $50 cases OF
the disease in the state and total
of sixty deaths.
Duluth. - Odin Halden, st. Louis
county auditor, has completed certifi'
cation to the state of wolf bounties.
About 1000 of the pirates of the wilds
were killed in st. Louie county dur
ing the last Is months and approx
mately $4,000 was paid out for boun'
ties. Last winter the deep snow made
it comparatively easy to kill wolves
St. Paul. - Minnesota spent $685.
1854 on it's thirty state institutions
in the last fiscal year, and more than
third of that sum went to the Uni
versity of Minnesota, according to tig
ures compiled in the office of "A. g.
Gooding, state treasurer. The state
ment comprised all appropriations, in
Guiding those for buildings, mainte
nance and the like.
Minneapolis. - Public health sub
tects will be discussed by experts at
a meeting of county and municipal
health officers Of the state at Mime.
apolis, October II, the day preceding
the meeting Of the state medical as
ISOLATION. The meeting called by the
state board of health will be given tc
symposiums designed to be of practi
cal value to the health officers.
St. Paul. - Minnesota, since becom.
ing a state in 1858 received $316,892,'
1888 and disbursed $311, 435,434.4 in
cash and so has available in cash now
$5,456, 94S.52, according to statement
made public by State Auditor J.. A. O..
Preus. The cash survey of the state
dating SO years was prepared under
the direction Of M. J. Desmond, chief
bookkeeper in the auditors Office.
Virginia The strike on the Me-
saba iron range has been declared of
by Industrial Workers of the World.
The votes Of local unions in Biwabik,
Aurora, Chisholm, Hibbing and at
other points have made it impracti.
cable for other striking miners to con-
tinue the fight. No vote was taken
in Virginia. according to the l. w. w.,
aud it is not felt it will be necessary
to take any further votes.
International Falls. - Charges Of
nonfeasance against two more Koo
chiching county commissioners, not
mentioned in the first allegations of
illegal expenditures of county funds,
aggregating 100000, which resulted
in suspension of the county auditor
and three other commissioners, pend
ing investigation. have been filed with
Governor Burnquist, together with q
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