The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13

It cost $22,600,45S to run the state
Of Minnesota in all departments last
year, in fact, it cost about $83 more
than the total income of the state,
but the extra money is within reach.
Harold M. Luxton, aged thirty, son
Of Mrs. w. F. Luxton of st. Paul, who
enlisted in the Thirty-frst Canadian
battalion from Calgary, has been
killed in action somewhere in
France"
Two school districts in Faribault
county and four in Martin county have
consolidated and a $4,000 school
house will be built at Huntley. This
will he the first consolidated school
in Martin county
Railroads operating in Minnesota
made net revenue gain per mile dur
ing November, 1915, of $139 over the
corresponding period Of 1914. The to-
tai revenues per mile were 1888, while
expenses were $587.
The plan for the state to write it's
own insurance on state buildings,
which went into effect Aug. 1, 1913,
has saved the taxpayers $109,556SS,
according to S. w. Works, state in
surance commissioner
Accused of having murdered her
husband three years ago at Glendive,
Mont, Mrs. Georgiana Steele, propri-
etor of a rooming house at st. Paul,
is in the Ramsey county jail awaiting
the arrival of Montana authorities.
David S. Sivright, one of Hutchin-
sons best known pioneers, is dead at
the age of eighty-four. He was born
in Nova Scotia and reached Hutchin-
son in 1857. He participated in all of
the Indian troubles of the early days.
Judge McClenahan has ordered the
injunction made permanent, thus sus-
tanning the state in it's contention that
the village council of International
Falls has no authority to issue sa-
loon license in county dry by option
S. w. Morgan, founder of the oldest
jewelry house in Southern Minnesota,
is dead at Winona, where he estab-
1ished the Morgan jewelry store in
1862 and continued in business until
the final and only sickness of his life
developed.
Despite the fact that Kelliher is in
the Indian lid territory the village
council of that place has granted a sa-
loon license. This is the first saloon
to be licensed by village in the dry
zone, where liquor can be confiscated
wherever found.
John Reagen, superintendent of the
Omaha road coal shed at Austin, had
been in six railroad accidents. The
seventh proved fatal when he slipped
on the ice and fell beneath the wheels
of a locomotive driven by Dennis De-
neen, his brother-in-law.
New Minnesota postmasters: w. G.
Galbraith, Balaton; c. M. Anderson,
Baudette; Henry J. Beck, Delano;
John Kasper, Faribault; J. H. Pelham,
Menahga; M. w. A. Murray Parkers
Prairie; John A. Timpane, Waterville;
Frank M. Clark, Wells.
Minnesota's state lands sold during
1915 brought an average of 81 an
acre. The highest price per acre was
received for lands in Polk county and
the lowest in Lake. During the year
there were 79,4S5 acres disposed of by
the state for an aggregate of $780,
GLIB.
A. L. Larpenteur of St. Paul, ninety
three years old, was the oldest pio-
neer among seventeen who gathered
at the bennington hotel in Minneapo-
lis as the guests of George A. Brack-
EFT, Hennepin county pioneer. Most
of those present had passed their
ninetieth milestone.
John c. NethaWay, assistant attor-
ney general, has been appointed by
Governor Burnquist as judge of the
Nineteenth judicial district. In max
Ing the appointment Governor Burn
quist made the statement that Judge
Nethaway was the choice of the late
Governor Hammond for the place.
The state investment board has do
cided to dispose of the foreign" bonds
now held by the state as investments.
The state owns approximately $5,000,-
900 of bonds Of other states, but has
no money to grant applications for
loans from Minnesota cities, villages
and school districts totaling almost
100000.