The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-02-17

Fire at Rochester caused a loss of
$150,000 in the business section of the
city. The Masonic temple, with all
equipment, was the chief loss.
Minnesota farmers are larger buy
ers of automobiles per capita than are
city and village folks, according to the
Automobile Census of Minnesota, just
issued.
Theodore Roosevelt petitions will
not be filed in Minnesota, at least not
with the colonel's consent A. A. D.
Rain Of Minneapolis has received a
letter from Mr. Roosevelt asking him
not to permit use of his name in the
Minnesota primaries.
William Cherry, aged seventy, an
old settler near Emery, was found
frozen to death in his bed by neigh
bors. Near his bed was an old tin
lard can in which he had fed paper
to keep alive fire after he was una
BILE to get out of bed.
The Northern Minnesota Editorial
association, in session at Sank Center,
elected Peter J. Vasaly of Little Falls
president Brainerd was selected as
the winter meeting place in 1917 and
Cass Lake will entertain the associa-
ton at it's 1916 summer outing
Definite arrangements have been
made for inaugurating the Hammond
memorial campaign. A commission
made up of residents of every county
in the state has been named, of which
C. w. Boynton is chairman, S. D.
Works secretary and George H. Price,
treasurer
Attorney General Lyndon A. Smith
is considering a business offer which
means his retirement from public life.
If he accepts he will serve out the
remainder of his term as attorney
general, but will not be a candidate
for another term in that Office or for
supreme court justice.
John Smith, Chippewa Indian, who
says he is 1928 years old, was struck
by a train near Cass Lake and seri-
ously injured. The aged Indian had
just recovered from an attack of the
grippe and was hauling a load of wood
to town when, as he was crossing the
track, the train struck him.
Loans and discounts of Minnesota
state banks on Dec. 81, 1915, showed
an increase of $14,651, 1920, as COM
pared to the year previous, while the
total increase in deposits approx
mated more than $20,000,000. A year
ago there were S91 state banks; now
there are gu, an increase of eighty.
A decision of the United States SUI
preme court upholds the findings of
the United States court of appeals
chamber of commerce are taxable.
The case was begun in the Hennepin
county district court and has been
passed on by the state supreme court.
Drafts to the number of 11,047 and
aggregating $22,5S7, S21.39 were drawn
in 1915 by J. A. O. Preus, state audi
tor, on various counties; estates and
corporations to produce revenues for
the administration of public affairs.
Warrants issued by Mr.. Preus to de-
fray the expenses of the state reached
total in 1915 of 21,086,126.
Senator Knute Nelson has intro.
duced bill in the senate authorizing
an appropriation of 100000 for con-
verting Fort Smelling into military
school similar to West Point. AS the
government has practically abandoned
the use of the post Senator Nelson
believes it should be devoted to the
training of Western military cadets.
Figures compiled by Fred D. Sher-
man, commissioner of immigration,
show that during the past year there
were exactly 4,444 cars of immigrant
movables handled by the Minnesota
Transfer Railway company, of which
Minnesota received 1906 cars. This
gives Minnesota a percentage of 81 per
cent Of the total number handled.
The constitutionality of the oil in
spection law of Minnesota has been
upheld by the state supreme court
and the Bartles Oil company must pay
the state $794.S0 due for inspection
fees for the first nine months of 1914,
which the oil company refused to pay.
Al result of this decision the state
will receive $4,000 in back taxes from
oil companies that agreed to abide by
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