The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-07-25
IleSate News Of
The Week IN Brief
An Epitome of All the Big and
Interesting Events of the Past
Few Days In the State.

The thirteenth annual encampment
Of the Minnesota veterans of the
spanish-American war has been held
with almost 800 members attending.
Poison beans, shipped into the
United States either with intent to
cause harm to consumers or sent by
mistake, have been found in Mime.
sofa.
Olga, S-year-old daughter of John
Pakfz, Chisholm. has been lost in the
woods. Two hundred volunteer search
ers, men and women, were out at last
report.
The 18th annual convention of the
Minnesota Rural Letter Carriers asso-
citation has been held in Pipestone.
Between 200 and 800 delegates were
present.
The embargo placed by the United
States government on the expectation
Of grain, effective July Is, is already
beginning to affect sales of wheat in
Minnesota.
DR.. Marion Leroy Burton, president
Of the University of Minnesota, was
principal speaker at a community pic
nic at South Long lake. His subject
Was "The Meaning of America
Less than half the states in the Gen.
ral Western department have reached
heir quota in applications for the Sec
md officers training camp to be held
soon. Minnesota's quota is 361 and
US have applied.
Minnesota's public employment Of
ice in Minneapolis needs 200 men a
lay to fill demands from farmers for
harvest work. eve can use 100 men
laily at from 81 to So a day, including
'oard," Don D. Leschoier, in charge of
he Office. said.
Senator Frank B. Kellogg, in a letter
% Ira B. Mills Of the state railroad
md warehouse commission, said he
would call on the Interstate commerce
commission to urge that steps be taken
% increase the amount of hard coal
shipped into the northwest.
Seven persons are believed to have
ost their lives when the excursion
steamer Muskegon went down on Big
stone lake near here during a heavy
storm. Two of the nine persons
Known to have been on the boat were
ound lying on the shore of the lake.
]. J. Lomen, 81 years old, for many
'ears active in Minnesota politics., died
It the St. Paul hospital of locomotor
ltaxia after an illness of six years.
He had been assistant secretary of
state for three terms and chief clerk
N the secretary of states office for
many years.
Authority for the tri-state food con-
rol agreement between Minnesota,
North and South Dakota is given in
he rivers and harbors bill in Con-
yress. Senator Knute Nelson succeed
I'd in inserting the amendment when
The bill was considered by the COM
nerce committee.
One hundred clubWomen from all
parts of Minnesota gathered at the
state capitol for a two-day convention,
The like of which NO group of club
women ever staged in Minnesota be-
:ore. Each Of the SO counties in Min
nesota had at least one delegate and
all Of the 10 congressional districts
we're represented.
The office of Captain H. S. Nelson,
regimental adjutant of the Secoud
Minnesota infantry, reports a gain in
week of more than 200 enlistments
The enlistments give the regiment a
roster of 1,404 enlisted men and 4O4
recruits. The vicinities of Owatonna
and Faribault are furnishing more men
than any others, each city being the
home station of two and one-half CON-
panies.
Developments from Washington may
result in the internment of Frank
Schley, the Osseo farmer held at the
county jail for alleged remarks against
the government, it is declared at the
office of the United States district at
torney. Schley cannot be arraigned
before the court as he is a German
alien. Further action in the case de-
ponds upon the attitude of the depart
ment Of justice.
Active preparation for mobilization
Of the Minnesota National Guard units
not already in the Federal service be-
gan upon receipt of the expected or
ders calling them into the Federal SER
vice. The guard units affected are the
Second and Third infantry regiments,
hospital corps, Second artillery, now
being organized, and the ambulance
company, yet to be organized. The
First infantry and the First artillery
already are in the Federal service.
An entirely new Mayo foundation for
medical education has been offered to
the board of regents of the University
Of Minnesota by Doctors William J.
and Charles H. Mayo of Rochester, to
take the place of the foundation that
is now on trial. The university will
be in absolute control of the new foun-
dation, and the donors have even re-
the restriction that the prin-
cipal work of the foundation be con-
Quoted in Rochester.
A bombardment Of the soldiers
home with make believe shells and
battle between the Red and Blue
armies for possession of the stone
tower at Fort Smelling marked the
beginning Of the military training