The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-23

Total earnings of the railroads OF
Minnesota for the second half Of 1915
were $66,942,145, as compared to $685.
73S,7S7 for the last six months of
1914. The state will realize $3,347, 1O7
as 5 per cent tax on the earnings of
all the roads.
An inheritance tax of $4,000 has
been paid to the state by the heirs OF
j. c. Osborne, who died in Minneapolis
ten years ago. The state has been
endeavoring to collect this tax ever
since, the case being carried to the
supreme court twice.
Mrs. Frances Tillotson, instructor
in Central high school at St. Paul for
nine years and daughter OF Mrs. Mary
Durkin Tillotson How, and Benjamin
Willis How, son of the late c. F. How,
who was Mrs. How's second husband,
were married at St. Paul.
In the third daylight bank holdup
of the winter in the Twin Cities
lone gunman entered the Camden Park
State bank at Minneapolis, locked two
men in the vault and fed with $500.
This bank was robbed in a similar
manner three months ago.
Stephen Jewett, resident of Fari-
bault since 1865 and widely known in
the Northwest, is dead at Albuquerque.
N. NJ. Mr.. Jewett had been treasurer
Of the Seabury mission It Faribault
for nearly fifty years and was mayor
OF that city in 1888 and 1889.
Mrs. Mary Halsted, aged ninety-two,
mother of Colonel A. J. Halsted, ed
ltor of the Brainerd Tribune, is dead
at Brainerd. Her father, Jacob Grub,
was soldier in the war of 1912 and
her husband, Trial w. Halsted, was
killed at Richmond in the Civil war.
Directors of the St. Paul Union De-
pot company, in session at Chicago,
adopted general working plans for the
new $15,Oo0,000 passenger terminal in
st. Paul and authorized the executive
and engineering committees to pro-
coed to construct as fast as possible.
Mayor. Victor Power of Hibbing ha,
filed as candidate for reelection to
that office. Mr.. Power has been prom
inently mentioned in the range coun-
try as candidate for governor, but
this gubernatorial boom is halted by
his decision to run again for his old
position.
Simon Morgan, nineteen years old,
a messenger boy employed by the
Western Union Telegraph company
at Duluth, was chased by two large
timber wolves while engaged in mes
senger duty. He broke all records for
speed in that line in making his es-
cape from the animals.
Laborers in the granite quarries
around st. Cloud will don goggles
during working hours, according to a
plan of w. F. Houk, state labor com.
missioner. Mr.. Houk asks EMPLOYERS
to cooperate with him In enforcing
their use In an effort to reduce the
percentage Of eye injuries.
One OF the most brilliant functions
OF the year In the Northwest marked
the celebration of the twenty.fifth an.
niversary of E. H. Hobe's service az
Norwegian consul at st. Paul. The
function took place at the Saint Paul
hotel and was attended by leading
Observation-Disclosures of the entire
Northwest.
John Henning of st. Paul has
brought suit for. his four-year.old
daughter for $4,000 damages from
the st. Paul City Railway company,
charging that the child is mentally
and physically defective as the result
OF bo1sterous conduct on a street car
on which his wife was passenger two
months before the birth of the baby
AS direct descendant of Pocahon-
tas Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was pre.
scented with pair of real Indian moe.
castns by Kah-Ga-G eh- Fash. chief Of
the Mississippi Chippewa Indians of
Minnesota. The chief said, they had
been made for Mrs. Wilson by his
squaw. Kah- Gal. Fash also pre.
scented the president with two hand.
some Indian pillows. .:r
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