The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-08-31

ers. Al laround it looks as if the bat
tie for control of the next house is
going to be some scrap.
Governor Burnquist is not going to
have any trouble finding material to
fill State Insurance Commissioner
Works shoes when it comes time to
retire that well known Democrat to
private life. Quite a number have
placed themselves on the waiting list
Gust Lindquist of st. Paul, close
friend of the governor, is reported to
aspire to the position. L. w. Weeks,
an assistant attorney general, has his
eye on the job and still another is
prominently connected with several
fraternal insurance societies. A close
in candidate is Ira Peterson, at pres
ent assistant insurance commissioner.
In the minds of many he has the call.
Is the cold guard" going to control
the next senate? Quite few are ask
ing the question, but if an answer is
wanted, Thomas Frankson, who will
likely be the next presiding officer of
that august body, will have to furnish
it. AS lieutenant governor and presl-
dent of the senate, he alone, in a
measure, will be responsible for any
assumed control. That an attempt
will be made to handle the senate
when it meets for organization this
winter is only natural. AS the smaller
and more deliberate legislative body,
the idea of control naturally appeals,
and what is being done now in that
respect is only repetition of what
has been going on ever since the state
was organized. Accepting this as
fact, what the boys want to know now
is who will be boss. Senator Sullivan
of Saltwater, it is said, aspires to that
honor, and the chances are excellent
that he will land.
According to Public Examiner Fritz
like $4,000, part of the
states trust funds, is unaccounted for.
He has just completed an examination
of the various transactions involving
these funds for the state board of
audit and his findings are not at all
to the credit of the officials who have
been in charge. While his report
shows that $4,000 has been lost some
where in the shuttle, Mr.. Fritz does
not say outright that the amount has
been stolen. The books in the state
auditors office and those of the vari-
ous county officials having to do with
oans from the state trust funds dc
not agree, hence the discrepancies.
He hopes that the next legislature
will regard the whole thing as impor
;ant enough to call for thorough in
1estigation and the establishment. of
q better system of handling the funds.
All of the Twin City dailies with the
of one have withdrawn their
from the state capitol
and have placed the gathering of news
r the big building in the hands of the
Associated Press. The gathering OF
their Northwest news also has been
turned over to the same syndicate.
The new idea responsible for the
sameness of the news which appears
IN each. The stuff is without color or
Quoting one Of the pub
fishers, the new scheme is in the in
terest of economy and efficiency and
he also hints that the syndicate fea-
ture may be extended to other well
known sources of news. He calls II
the passing of the reporter.
At the fall election Ramsey and Da-
kota counties will vote on the ques-
ton of the annexation of a part of the
latter county by Ramsey county. The
idea is to bring into the city limits of
st. Paul what is known as West st.