The Tomahawk., 1917-08-16
C2he State
I'm Brief


expected a week ago, according to late
reports.
Acting Under orders from the War
department., Captain P. L. McClay,
Minneapolis, of the First Minnesota
infantry, has rc.opened the state mus
term office at the Capitol.
Judge j. F. MCGEE, member of the
Minnesota Public Safety Commission,
who left Cleveland for Washington,
had to be carried from the train to
a taxicab at the Washington station
because of a broken arch in his right
foot, according to word from Wash
ington.
Guy Empey, more than so years old,
was pinned beneath his car when 1t
turned over near Waterville. He was
taken to Owatonna and examination
disclosed two broken ribs and bad
ly bruised face. The car was almost
demolished. Mr.. Empey declares he
is going to cut out fast driving in the
future.
Ellen McCadden, a 15-year-old girl,
saved the life Of Harvey H. Warwick,
a St. Paul architect, when the latter
was thrown into the Mississippi river
by the capsizing of his canoe yester-
day. The girl on shore saw him strug-
Cling jumped into the river and swan
to him, bringing both the man and the
canoe to safety.
John Boarth of Winona, Mimi, an
1. w. w. held in the Dunn county jail
at Manning for seditious utterances
and for failure to register at Roches-
ter, Mimi, his last legal residence, was
indicted as Stacker by the federal
grand jury on testimony of States At
torney Johnson and Deputy Sheriff
Dawes of Dunn county.
More than 200 stationary engineers
from Minnesota attended the eighth
annual convention Of the Minnesota
Stationary Engineers association,
which convened at the Merchants Ho-
tel for a three days session. The
Central States Exhibitors association,
displaying new appliances for station
airy engines, met jointly with the en-
gineers.
A score of patrons of the Dan Patch
Electric line, many of them stockhold-
ers, were in Federal court in Mime
apolis to fight the petition of the bond
holders, now before Judge Wilbur F..
Booth, to have she 1oad dismantled
and sold for junk. Harlan P. Rob-
erts, representing the patrons of the
road, told the court the road could be
operated with profit.
In the western section of MinnaSO-
ia, in the Red River valley region, q
good crop is being harvested. This
is true particularly of Clay, W1lkin
and Norman counties. The grain crop
is better than earlier reports indicat-
3D. Rain has been of material bene-
fit to the potato and corn crops. The
great potato acreage in Clay county
now bids fair to yield well.
Crops in the Melrose vicinity are In
an excellent condition. Harvesting is
we'll under way, and threshing has
started in many localities. The best
yield reported as yet is an average OF
sixty-one bushels of wheat, which was
threshed on a farm near this city. Po-
tatoes are plentiful throughout Stearns
county and the pastures are In an ex-
tremely good condition, due to rains
during the past. week.
For the first time in the history Of
the Scottish rite of the Southern ju-
risdiction, mother council of the world,
q meeting of the chief officers of the
supreme council was held outside of
Washington. The meeting was held
Monday. The body is the council of
administration of the supreme coun-
Gil. Some emergency matters OF bus
mess have come up which will not
wait until the annual meeting In Oc-
tober.
Due to lack of patronage, the Ulen
creamery has closed it's doors. Ar
rangements have been made for the
Hitterdal creamery to take care OF it's
patrons.
Peter Ongman, so, former resident
of Cloquet, shot himself in the heart
at his home at Brainerd, dying in
stantly. Despondehcy over an attack
of asthma is believed to be the cause.
Winona county probably is carrying
on the largest amount of work OF the
kind of any place in Minnesota. Prob
ably 200 men are employed on road
Jobs in the county and the equipment
assembled by the contractors is worth
as much as 100000. Rushing to COM
pletion a half million dollars worth OF
highway construction work, the county
is losing no chance to expedite the big
undertaking.
A near riot occurred at Hutchinson
when J. o. Bentall, socialist speaker,
accused Postmaster Sam G. Anderson
of holding UP mail for him containing
anti-draft literature. The postmaster
jumped on the platform and offered
to thrash the speaker. Fully 5000 per-
sons, mostly German farmers, wit
messed the affair. Bentall later apollo
gized and escaped from the town be-
fore a mob, made up of draft support
ers, could reach him.
The storm at Brainerd blew the
house of Ole Rasmussen from it's foun-
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