The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-10-04
May Keep Guards on Road.


under dispute between Colonel George
E. Leach of the Firs: Minnesota Field
artillery and Lieutenant Colonel Will
liam J. Murphy, is definitely establish.
ed before the national guard is mus.
tered out of Federal SERVICE -four
members Of Llama Grande, Texas, may
do considerable travelling between Fort
Smelling and the border before the win.
ter is over.
Governor Burnquist, commander-in.
chief Of the Minnesota guard, and Ad.
jutant General Fred B. Wood recognize
Colonel Leach as the commanding of
ficer for the First Field artillery, now
stationed on the border.
Disputes Authority.
Lieutenant Colonel Murphy, now sta
toned at Camp Bobleter, disputes Colo.
mel Leach's authority, basing his pre-.
sumption on the alleged failure of the
Central War department to recognize
Colonel Leach's commission.
Lieutenant Colonel Murphy contends
that Colonel Leach had no authority
to return Lawrence Miller, Robert
Mills, Henry Kuhrmeyer and Robert
johns, members of F Battery, to camp
Bobleter, when they rightfully belong,
ed to headquarters detail, and H."
threatened to send them back to Llano
Grande.
In the event he takes such action,
Adjutant Genueral Wood says there ia
nothing to prevent Colonel Leach from
sending them back to Fort Smelling.
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Hundred Recruits Accepted.
More than 100 men alrec dy accepted
for the First Minnesota in the recruit,
ing campaign which has been conduct.
ed here since September l by officers,
returned from the border for the pur.
pose, were reviewed in dress parade
at Camp Bobleter by Col Erie D. Luce
prior to the departure Of 40 of them
for the border The Third innoculation
for typhoid, required before departure
has been completed. The recruiting
order provides for the shipment Of
troops in patches Of 49,
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To Pay First Annuity Oct. I.
The first annuity of the state teach.
ers' insurance and retirement fund
will be paid October 1 on a basis OF
80 per cent of the highest amount
possible under the law. but in no case
exceeding the amount paid or credited
to any member, according to decision
by the fund trustees at a special meet
ing. Lyndon A. Smith, attorney gen
eral, was asked for an opinion as to the
constitutionality Of the law creating
the fund.
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Make Pure Food Dictionary.
A pure food dictionary is being madd
by State Chemist julius Hortvet and
eight other federal and state Noah
Websters on the subject. 1t will not
only be to the food world what the
American pharmacopoeia is in the
drug world, but will contain a pure
drugs section of it's own, supplement-
ing rather than changing the present
pEarmacopoeia, which is not complete,
according to Mr.. Hortvet.
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Timber Losses Heavy.
Crews of timber experts employed by
the state Of Minnesota have for more
than month been in the north woods
checking up on state timber sold in
the last six years. Preliminary re-
ports made by these crews, according
to state officials, are startling in their
disclosures of alleged frauds in the
scaling of state timber. Criminal pro-
ceedings against many men and lum.
Der companies and civil suits to recov-
er hundreds of thousands of dollars
for the state, will be discussed, it IL
said. by the state timber board