The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-08-03
| Whats Doing
in Minnesota

have one of the first village mail car
riers in the United States under the
new law appropriating $25O,OO0 for VII
laee carriers, according to information
! from Washington.
Moose Lake. - While waiting IN
her fathers barn to assist him and
her brothers to unload hay, Miss 10
sephine Michelski, 20 years old, was
shot twice by her sutton, Jack Young.
| She died half an hour later.
| Jordan, Mimi - Four Minneapolis
citizens have been taken into that city
all dangerously injured as the result OF
being hurled twenty-five feet from an
automobile near Jordan, Mimi, at the
breaking of the steering gear.
st. Paul. First official notice OF
the appropriation bill recently passed
by Congress under which Minnesota
| will receive more than $1,4O0,OOO Fed
| eral good roads aid during the next
ten years has been received by Gov
ernor Burnquist
Albert Lea. The Trinity church
and several other buildings were
| wrecked in one of tho most severe
wind storms in the history Oh the cay.
| The storm broke with but slight warn
ing, the wind being accompanied by
rain and some hail.
Virginia. - With the prospect that
the Federal Department of Labor Will
send conciliators to the Mesaba range
and attempt amicably to settle the
| differences between mine operators
and strikers, a more optimistic view
of the strike situation was in evidence.
St. Paul. - Fred D. Sherman, COM
missioner Of immigration, and w. b.
| King, one of his assistants, are plan
fairs in the neighboring states moving
pictures of some of the older and
| more improved sections of Minnesota
| TO give them an idea af what the new
err sections will become In time.
Fairmont.-Three men were killed
and two were injured when an auto
mobile became stalled on the MilWau-
kee road tracks in Fairmont and was
struck by an eastbound passenger
train. The dead are: Martin Smith.
wealthy farmer; F. Emerson, contrac-
tor, and Thomas Sorenson, farmer.
August Nelson, contractor, and Peter
Nelson were severely injured, but will
recover.
Washington, D. C.-Minnesota gain.
ed 1918 manufacturing establishments
in the 10 years from 1904 to 1914, and
at the close of the 1914 census had
1914 establishments of every kind.
| These figures are in the bulletin, car
| rying condensation of the forthcoming
| detailed manufacturing census of the
| state, that was sent out from Washing
! ton In 1909 there were 1851 estab-
| lishments.
st. Paul. - Nothing daunted by their
failure to win the route of the Jeffer-
son highway through Northern Mime
sofa, representatives of the Western
| and Eastern routes met Immediately
| following the announcement of the
choice of the central route by J. D..
Clarkson, general manager of the high
| way, and formulated plans for estab-
| fishing the Northern Minnesota Scenic
highway.
st. Paul. - Total deposits in the 994
state banks operated under the direc-
| ton of the state banking department
! we're $93,9S7, 749.41 at the close of
business June 80, net increase of $780,
| 545,95S21 since June %, 1915. This
showing, A. II. Turrittin, state super
| intendent of banks, regards as the best
| in the history of the department. The
| total resources reported were $224,-
| 715,2O2O1, against $198,169, 243.80 in
| 1915.
Minneapolis. Three possibilities
| for the future of the farm were sug-
gested by President Vincent of the
| University of Minnesota, speaking at
| the rural life conference at the univer-
sity farm. One of these possibilities,
! the president said, is corporate control
of large farming areas; another, CO.
| operative control by farmers them
| selves, and the third a wider extern
sion of the tenant system.
st. Paul - Boosters for the Gen.
| trail Minnesota route for the Jefferson
| highway won out after six months
contest, when J. D. Clarkson of ST..
Joseph, Mo-, announced at St. Paul
| that the middle way would be adopted
by the association. The cities and
| towns on the route are Minneapolis,
st. Paul, Elk River, st. Cloud, Little
Falls, Staples, Wadena, Park Rapids,
1tasca, Lake Park, Bemidji, Bagley,
Red Lake Falls, Thief River Falls,
Hallock and St. Vincent.
ST. Paul. - Black rust reports from
lie Sueur, Wright and adjacent coun-
ties are without foundation in fact, in
the opinion of o. H. P. Jacobson, of
| the state railroad and warehouse COM
! mission. 1T is true there are small
black spots on the stems and leaves
in some fields" he said, "but there is
no black rust on the heads of the grain
and that's what counts. Minnesota
! has suffered from black rust only once
in 80 years. There is always little
rust on the straw from heat after a