The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-07-07
STATE BRfv|T|ES|


by the last Legislature, providing for
more drastic provisions regarding,
abandonment has gone into effect.
Minnesota probably will receive the.
pending $4,000 federal military allot-
ment, but It will be used chiefly to.
equip an ambulance company instead
of the proposed field hospital corps.
Bakers in section 70, comprising the.
Northern half of st. Louis county and
all Of Lake county, will be modified
for the conservation of food at meet
ing called by District Chairman Pc
ter WALL
The summer vacation period in the,
Minnesota Supreme Court has started.
The April term, which has just end
cd, was given to hearings on 254
cases, about sixty-five of which remain
to be decided.
Expenditures by the State Public.
Safety Commission from the $1,000
900 appropriation provided by the 1917
Legislature are held exempt from
general rules and regulations govern,
ing ordinary appropriations.
Twice voted out of existence by Du-,
luthians, once on a saloon mems Pc
tition questioning the intent of the vot-,
ers at the first wet and dry election
two years ago, the final SO saloons
here have gone out of business.
Representatives of practically all
brewing companies doing business in
Minnesota, assembled in st. Paul, have
assured the Minnesota Public Safety
commission that they will take effec-.
tive measures to suppress blind pigs.
A resolution urging Senators Nelson
and Kellogg to support the bill now
pending in Congress to prohibit the,
use of grains in the manufacture of
liquors was adopted at the closing ses.
sion of the State Dairymen's associa-
ton at Brainerd
Despite the small increase of SAL.
107.4s in the liquor tax of Minnesota
during the fiscal year ending June 30,
the internal revenue Office of st. Paul
with a total collection of $10,052,36S.-,
45 set record for the office, surpas.,
sing by $3,224,990.96 the previous rec
ord made last year.
Minnesota railroads will not ask in
definite postponement of action on
their joint petition for a Is per cent
increase in interstate freight rates de-
spite the virtual denial of similar in
crease by the Interstate Commerce,
Commission. They have indicated
that they intend to keep up the fight.
Twenty persons were injured,t ten Sc
r1ously, at Winona, when high pow.
cred racing car, driven by King Kel-
ley. Chicago millionaire sportsman.
crashed through a fence and~into a
crowd Of spectators at race program
at the Tri-County fair grounds. Ten
of the injured were treated at the local
hospital All will recover
The state drainage engineers will
begin a survey Of Red Lake river Au-
gust 1. This assurance has been given
Congressman Halvor STEVENSON Of
Crookston by state officials. The
survey will be the first step toward
the establishment Of a drainage and
flood control district which will bring
with it the drainage of 100000 acres
of land.
The committee appointed by the
State Public Safety Commission to in,
vestigate labor and law enforcement
In Koochiching county adjourned after.
having heard thirty-five witnesses.
Judge Thomas D. O'Brien Of st. Paul,
one of the committee members, de.
clared that the inquiry had disclosed
that there are no labor troubles in
the county.
Minnesota will have food commits
sioner, who will be named shortly by
Washington. The state also will have,
woman economics expert. These
wartime food conservation plans have,
been announced by Josephine Berry Of
the University of Minnesota. The de-
tails are being worked out in the Of.
flee OF Herbert c. Hoover, national
food commissioner, in Washington.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn told Duluth
police before departing for her home,
that William Haywood of Chicago,
president Of the Industrial; Workers of
the World, had discharged her from
the organization. Miss Flynn said
and his advisers say she con-
spired with Carl Tresca, former lieu
tenant to Haywood, to double cross"
four l. w. w. on the Minnesota iron
range last summer.
Adjutant General Wood has Official
ly notified Governor Burnquist that.
the returns from his Office demanded
by the War department have been for
warded to Washington, together with
q draft covering the balance.
DR.. Marion Leroy Burton, the new
president Of the University of Mime
sofa, has arrived at Duluth on the
steamer Tionesta. He and his party
left Immediately for Minneapolis in
A telegram urging that the Mime
sofa National guard be mustered into
federal service July Is, as originally.
Planned instead of August 5, has been
sent Secretary of War Baker by Gov
ernor Burnquist.