The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-27

the Republican presidential nomina.
ton were obtained from Secretary of
State julius Schmahl.
James Van Horn Benton, seventy
eight years of age, veteran of the
First Minnesota regiment in the Civil
war, is dead at St. Paul. Mr.. Benton
saw service as q sharpshooter and
was wounded at Gettysburg.
Duluth has a COW with a gross earn
ing capacity of $1,000 annually for
milk alone, with an additional 81, 900
for her calf. In the past year. she
produced 20,2S0 pounds Of milk, con.
tanning 891 pounds of butter fat.
Thomas w. Evans, one of the eight
cen Americans murdered by bandits
near San Ysabel, Mex, comes from a
we'll known Mankato family. His
grandfather, the late D. c. Evans, was
county treasurer of Blue Earth county
The yeggmen who blew the vault in
the old Federal building at st. Paul,
securing nearly 100000 worth of ne
gotiable revenue stamps, have so far
eluded detection. Secret service men
say the robbers may never be caught
Increase A. Pelton, a wealthy pio-
neer, is dead at Mankato, aged sew
enty-nine. MIR. Pelton came to Mime
sofa in 1856 and was one of those who
went to the relief of New Ulm when
that city was besieged by Indians in
1862.
In close range pistol battle Mrs.
Thomas Taylor of Minneapolis drove
two staggering unmasked bandits
from her husbands store in front of
the residence after he had been CON-
PEELED to hold his hands above his
head.
Walter Case was killed and Dr..
Christianson may die as the result Of
an automobile accident near Slayton.
Christianson was pinned under the
overturned auto and was almost
frozen when found several hours after
the accident.
Elihu Root has wired Secretary of
State Schmahl that he does not wish
his name to appear upon the presiden-
tial ballot in Minnesota and Mr..
Schmahl has responded that the
request of the New Yorker will be
complied with.
Carl Gerstenmaier of St. Paul is un-
der arrest in New York accused of
shortages in his accounts as treasurer
of the German Lutheran Cemetery as
sociation and two church organiza
tions. The shortages are said to az
gregate $4,000.
The All Minnesota Development as
sociation will meet in st. Paul June
II and Is. Each county will have five
delegates to the convention and each
of the four big development associa-
tons and various smaller ones will
have three delegates each.
Coolheaded work by citizens of
North St. Paul prevented the raiding
of the postoffice there, although two
bandits who had blown the safe es-
capped after a street battle in which
twenty shots were fired and one of
the bandits seriously wounded.
Sweeping reductions in express
rates in Minnesota on packages
weighing 100 pounds or less have been
ordered by the state railroad and
warehouse commission to take effect
at once The reduction is from 20 to
IS cents on each 100 pounds, accord
ing to distance.
The Minnesota Retail Harness Deal
ers' association ended it's annual
convention with banquet at the Mer-
chants hotel at st. Paul. Officers for
the next year are B. A. .Koebe, Zum-
brota, president; Henry Joerg, Made
liza, vice president; John sprey, LIE
Sueur, secretary-treasurer.
Property of the Western Union Tel
egraph company within Minnesota
comes under the general property ia,
and cannot be assessed on a basis o
100 per cent of the full and true value
as contended recently by the state tax
commission, according to a decision
Of the state supreme court.
The two Oldest Winona pioneers,
both nonogenarians, died within the
same hour. They were Mortimer
Gage, ninety-five years old, who had
been resident of Winona county for
sixty years, and Mrs. Mary Schroeder,
ninety-two years OF age, who had been
resident of the county for sixty-five
years.
Sixteen-year-old Vernon Adams of
Winnebago, Martin county, is the
champion boy corn grower of Mime
sofa for 1915. Vernon made record
of 1876 bushels of dry shelled corn on
one acre of land and by doing so wins
the gold medal offered by the agricul-
tural extension division of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota.
Governor J. A. A. Burnquist will ask
! friends of the late Governor w. s..
Hammond to name the members of
the big committee to raise funds for
monument. The plan provides for
five members from each of eighty-three
counties, with fifteen from St. Louis
county and twenty-five each from Hen