The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-01
STATE BRfV|IIES'.

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ing up with the Department of Mines
in Washington the subject of the con-
servation of iron ore in Minnesota
The new child welfare laws will be
discussed at the next quarterly con-,
ference of the officers Of the state in
st1tutions, to be held at the state re-
formatory in st. Cloud August Z.
The State Board of Control has
abandoned hope of assistance from
Federal authorities in obtaining fuel
for the state institutions and is buy
ing coal wherever it can be obtained.
Two men and two women were
drowned in the st. Louis river at Du:
luth near the Morgan Park hospital
while trying to rescue girl. She was
saved by boatman after the others
sank. -,
The State High School Board has
voted to 2 to pay Immediately the
outstanding state high school and
graded school aid deficits of 1914-15
and 1856, totaling $1,o70,193, from
available funds.
Dean William R. Appleby of the
school of mines of the University of
Minnesota is in Washington to try to
obtain exemption for students in his
school in order that they may COM
plete the course.
Commissions for &c officers in the
Minnesota Home guard have been is
sued by Governor Burnquist on rec
ommendation of Major Oscar Seebach,
guard organizer for tho State Public
Safety commission.
The removal of Adjutant- General
Fred B. Wood from office "in the in
terests of the Minnesota National
Guard" has been recommended by the
state military board to the Public
Safety commission.
Arrangements for the hearing in tho
boundary dispute between Minnesota
| and Wisconsin have been completed
before Commissioner D. E. Roberts in
the district court at Duluth and the
taking of testimony has begun.
Representative of state charitable
institutions, city and county relief
and correctional societies, and all
other agencies interested in welfare
work have met in St. Paul to form
Central Council of welfare workers.
Residents of East Rochester were
terrorized when Mike Slis, an insane
man, escaped from the state hospital
and armed with club smashed in
several windows and attacked mum.
Der OF citizens. He finally was over
powered.
An appeal for a deeper seriousness
and realization of the meaning of citi-
! zenship has been made by President
Marion R. Burton of the University Of
Minnesota i'm his maiden address be-
fore an all-uniyersity convocation at
the university armory.
The coal shortage situation in the
Northwest is acute. Instead of 2,OOO.-
600 tons monthly, which experts agree
| is the minimum Of receipts at Duluth
that would be necessary to tide the
trade over, receipts are running at less
| than half that tonnage.
| Upon Minnesota more than any 9TH
or state in the Union depends success
| full prosecution of the war against Ger
! many, declared Ambrose Tighe, coun-
sci for the State Public Safety COM
| mission, as he defended the commits
sion against the attack of Minneap-
| oils saloonkeeper upon the commits
sion's authority to issue war order
No. Z.
One hundred and thirteen indict,
| ments have been returned by the Fed
eral grand jury against men who failed
! to register June and are now held
in the st. Louis county jail or have
been released on bonds.
| Mystery surrounds the poisoning of
seven persons in two Winona county
homes. While several of them are
| recovering, at least one is critically
i'll and others are still in danger,
Physicians suspect milk poisoning.
AS result of heavy rains in many
counties of Minnesota, bumper crop,
including heavy yield of alfalfa, hay
and other grain is assured, according
to reports received from seventeen
counties. These indicate that the Go.
pher state is to help materially to meet
the desire of the nation for a record
crop.
Examinations of swine herds by
County Agent w. V. Gousseff in Mer.
! ton and Medford townships has led
to the discovery Of several cases of
hog cholera. Immediately steps were
taken to prevent the further spread
of the disease.
Educators, business men and the
governors of 10 western and north.
western states have been invited ia
attend conference on rural education
and rural life at the Minnesota State
Agricultural college, beginning Wed.
nesday, August 20, and continuing fol
three days. Governor Burnquist has
been asked to make an address.
The state commission in charge OF
the Improvement and sale of state
lands to settlers under Constitutional
Amendment No. 1, adopted at the last
election, will not wait for purchasers
to appear before beginning the work
| pf Improvement. The plan of the
commission is to- get the work of set
tlement started early by making the