The Tomahawk., 1916-04-20
StateDeW$i1( Brief
Doings Of Last Few Days Throughout
Minnesota Condensed for
HIasty PerusaI.

Austin. - Herbert Emery, 81 years
old, committed suicide by cutting his
| throat with a razor. Illness and finan-
cial trouble are supposed to have
prompted the deed.
Duluth. - Jesse R. Hubbard, 45
years old, one of the best known rail
| road conductors OF Northern Mime
sofa, died at st. Lukes hospital here
! following an operation.
St. Paul.-More than 100000 hogs
have been marketed at South St. Paul
since January /. This announcement
has just been made. 1t breaks all
records in the packing town.
Moorhead.-Governor Burnquist has
fixed April Is and 26 as the dates for
his visit to Moorhead, when he will
be the guest of the Young Mems
| Booster club and the Moorhead Prog
ress club.
Washington, D. C. - Congress-
man Lindbergh has notified Secretary
of State Schmahl to file his name as a
| candidate for United States senator.
Senator Clapp maintains his attitude
Of silence.
Owatonna. Miss Winifred Hogan
Of Owatonna has been named valedic-
| torian of the Pillsbury academy grad
| uating class of 1916. Miss Esther
Holcomb of Arlington, S. D., will be
| the salutatorian.
Duluth. r. D. McKercher, chief
of police, has left for Boston. He will
try to run down a much wanted forg-
or for this department., and while East
will participate in probate court
fight which, it is believed, will result
In his being declared one of the heirs
to very large estate.
St. Paul.-Whether burial ground
is exempt from local assessments is
question which the state supreme
court will be asked to decide. Dis
trict Judge Michael recently decided
force the Oakland. cemetery to pay
$1,400 sewer assessment, holding
cemetery was exempt.
St. Paul.-By an artificial arm he
is said to have thrown away in his
flight, Brady Henry, alleged slayer of
Joseph Young, who was killed in a
saloon at 558 Broadway, St. Paul, April
I, was located in Superior, Wis, and
captured while hurrying over bridge
to Duluth, according to message re-
ceived by the police.
Bemidji. - Representatives of Bel
trami, Polk, Red Lake, Clearwater,
Pennington, Marshall and Kittson
counties met here and formed the
Northern Minnesota Jefferson High
way Assn. Daniel Shaw Of Thief
River Falls was elected president; F..
M. Satire of Bemidji, secretary; M.
Jensen, Clear Brook, treasurer.
Hutchinson. Socialists of Nc
Leod county will have an active or
ganization this year. The campaign
was opened with an address by J. O..
Bentall of Cedar Mills, farmer candi-
date for governor o. the Socialist
ticket. Davis Haines and B. B. Far
Der were appointed a committee to Or
ganiZe the 100 or more Socialists of
Hutchinson.
Walker.-Thirteen talks by as many
Minnesota men of prominence were
crowded into the oneday meeting of
the Cass County Development asso-
citation at Walker. The program was
interspersed with musical numbers
under the direction of A. J. Linden,
Pine River, but after the welcome
address by President M. N. Kohl of
Cass Lake there were hours Of solid,
pithy talk.
St. Paul. - Walter J. Smith, good
fellow with thousand friends, lost
the last step in his fight to keep out
of states prison. The pardon board
ruled he will have to go to saltwater
at once. With the former state treas
urer will go Robert Z. Pickit, former
clerk of the investment board, the
state officers despite the effort of
friends, declining to extend clemency
in either case.
Winona. - The body of Peter B.
Crogan, driver of the automobile that
plunged from a submerged causeway
across the Mississippi river from Wi
mona, carrying four persons to death,
has been recovered. The bodies of
Mrs. Crogan and her 5-year-old daugh-
ter we're taken from the water the
day of the tragedy. The fourth body,
that of a s-year-old son, still is in the
slough. A triple funeral for the bod
les recovered was held at Etrick, Wis,
! the home.
Minnea yolis-With the building
permits running considerably in ex-
| cess OF $1,OO0,0OO and the announce
ment Of one milling company that ST.
| 100000 worth of improvements would
be started at once, Minneapolis en-
rerienced one of the great building
| weeks in its history. Building per-
| mits for the first week in April total
| ed $1,122,065 1t was not only the
largest week of this year, but there
| have been few weeks in the history
of the city when such an enormous
total has been reached.
| Thief River Falls.-As the result of
q ten-day organizing campaign in this
county by Professors Hay and Wer-
ner OF the high school, number OF
boys and girls clubs have been form