The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-20
6he State,
In Brief


the President were adopted.
A letter found written by Mrs. Lot
tie Dunbar, wife Of Freeman Dunbar
Of Brainerd, dated Aug. 20, shortly
before she committed suicide by hang
ing, gives proof Of the dependency
suffered by her and which led to her
death. E..a 49,
In letter to the Commercial club
of st. Cloud, Congressman Harold
Knutson expresses his belief that the
$4,000 appropriation for an addition
to the postoffice building for that city
will be one of the appropriations that
will not be cut down.
A dispatch from Washington, D. c.,
states that man named Kueffner,
who worked with Frank Getchell, was
killed last week. He was member
Of the Tenth engineers 1foresters)
from Bemidji. He was on the running
board of an auto and struck tele-
phone pole. 49,,
The citizens of Little Falls turned
out to bid farewell. to the men who
left for Camp Dodge. At the court
house square, a number of speeches
we're made by prominent men and the
seventeen men left for the depot where
they were presented with comfort bags
by the Red Cross.
The legal battle which has been
waged in court at Red Wing for the
past few years between Emma Math-
ews and her sister, Clara Mires, for
possession of property left by their
mother, is over, the suit in partition
brought by Emma and Robert Math-
ews against. Miss Mires being settled
out Of court.
E. r. Sandberg of Aurora has more
Jobs, official and otherwise, than any
other man in America. And he fills
them all capably. He is the follow
ing: Mayor of Aurora, chief of the
fire department, member of the park
board, member of the library board,
manager of motion picture theater
and chauffeur for himself. In his lei
sure moments Sandberg cultivates a
war garden, is baseball fan, goes
fishing, does odd jobs about the house,
corresponds for Duluth newspaper
and follows the war in the newspa-
pers.
Arnie Barton Clayton Swanson, ~
years old, of Center City, MIMI, was
arrested by Chell M. Smith, United
States deputy marshal, charged with
failure to register June S. He was
taken to St. Paul and arraigned be-
fore Samuel Whaley, United States
commissioner, and pleaded not gull
ty. His mother accompanied him to
St. Paul and gave bond of $1,000 for
his appearance next October at the
Minneapolis session of the Federal
court. The young man said he was
i'll at the time of registration.
Mrs. Sophie Stuhr, 81 years old, Wi
nona's Oldest pioneer woman, died last
week of the first sickness she ever
had known.
Winona coal distributors, while
they are urging patrons to wait until
the government fixes the retail price,
began yesterday delivering coal Sub
ject to government price regulations"
) twenty-five laborers were discharged
they had failed to observe the order
that all employees take out citizenship
papers. Several other aliens quit be-
fore they were discharged.
Shakopee is to be included in new
organization plans Of the State HUI
name society, and Welcome w. Brad
ley, secretary and executive officer of
the Minnesota Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty, annpunces that he
plans soon to arrange the work in that
county. y,
Investigation by county officials fol-
lowing the discovery of the bodies of
Mrs. Park L. Day and her two chill
dren, all victims of poison, developed
a heart-rending story. Robbed OF the
husband and father, who is victim
of tuberculosis and confined to a san
itorium, herself ill and not able to
supply the three children and prepare
home for the fourth, which was ex-
pected soon, the mother lost all hope.
Purchasing some poison at local
store, she gave the three children the
liquid mixed with food. Then taking.
the remaining portion she lay down
and awaited death. One of the chill.
uI0A IcCOSSIHu oAu 6OAA6 " IAS AAonAS
of an uncle gave the alarm which re-
suited in the finding of the bodies of
the mother and two little ones.
Dean Coventry, superintendent of
the Wilcox mine at Woodrow, found
ground glass in the sugar in his cup
of coffee. He went to Brainerd for
treatment and a stomach pump ap-
piled recovered more glass from his
stomach. An investigation is being
made of the whole incident.
Drafted men who leave Hibbing will
have individual hackers whose duties
it will be to provide the soldiers with
tobacco and reading material. Hib-
bing's drafted army will carry the IT,
tie of Iron men" with them so that
they may designate the section of
Minnesota they come from.
Miss Alice Cynthia Archibald OF
Mortified, has been selected by the