The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-07-19
$tatef>&W$i1t Brief
Doings Of Last Few Days Throughout
Minnesota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

y. y. AOIleu, OIL years O1O, LII AAe'AA'
years active in Minnesota politics, died
at the St. Paul hospital of locomotor
ataxia after an illness of six years.
The thirteenth annual encampment
Of the Minnesota veterans of the
Spanish-American war has been held
with almost 800 members attending.
The office of Captain H. S. Nelson,
regimental adjutant of the Second
Minnesota infantry, reports a gain in
week of more than 200 enlistmemts.
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.
Authority for the tri-state flood con-
troll agreement between Minnesota,
North and South Dakota is given in
the rivers and harbors bill in Con-
gress.
Olga, 8-year-old daughter of John
Pakiz, Chisholm, has been lost in the
woods. Two hundred volunteer search
ers, men and women, were out at last
report.
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.
Less than half the states in the Cen
trail Western department have reached
their quota in applications for the Sec
ond officers training camp to be held
soon. Minnesota's quota is 36l and
225 have applied.
Seven persons are believed to have
lost their lives when the excursion
steamer Muskegon went down on Big
Stone lake near here during heavy
storm. Two of the nine persons
known to have been on the boat were
found lying on the shore of the lake
Colonel BENJAMIN B. Herbert of Chi
cago, founder of the National Editorial
association, who has taken suddenly
i'll, died at the University of Minnesota
farm school hospital. Death was due
to heart disease. Col. Herbert had
been attending the editors convention
ir Minneapolis.
A commandment Of the soldiers
home with make believe shells and a
battle between. the Red and Blue
armies for possession of the stone
tower at Fort Smelling marked the
beginning of the military training
week at Fort Smelling. The carnage
was mythical and the property DAM
age slight.
Congressional action requiring the
Federal Trade commission Immediate
ly to take over the operation of Ameri-
can paper mills for the benefit of the
war and to import and distribute Cana
dian news print paper, was demanded
in resolutions adopted by the National
Editorial associat ton in session in Min
neapolis.
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-
fore. Each Of the sc counties in Min
nesota had at least one delegate and
all of the 10 congressional districts
we're represented.
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. .. ,
Scores of war gardens in. Winona
are doomed to failure because Of high
water in Lake Winona, which is fed
by the Mississippi.
Tearing down an American flag and
crushing it under his heel while utter
ing vile epithets almost cost Victor
Salmi his life at Kinney, Mimi.
Winona county has experienced the
'dryest" Sunday in it's history. Every
saloon in the county was closed in &C.
cordance with an order issued to the
saloon men by the sheriff.
Herbert c.. Hotaling, of Mapleton,
Mimi, was slated for election as presi-
dent of the National Editorial associa-
ton, which met in Minneapolis Mon
day for a four days session.
All dental instruments needed by
the Minnesota base hospital have been
given to the hospital by group of
dentists, who raised fund
Of $3.50 to make the purchase.
Fruit raising has received great
impetus in the Red River valley.
Judging from reports received at the
northwest experiment station the
bolt has moved northward
again.
In spite of the late opening of the
navigation season and ice delays after
wards, the receipts of coal at Duluth
and Superior docks from the East up
to June 80 were just $4,000 tons less
.han a year ago.
State and civil authorities are con-
the necessity of calling bat
.alion of regulars from Fort Smelling
% guard nearly 800 slackers who are
Under arrest in the Minnesota Iron
'ange districts when they are taken to
Duluth for trial.
The Northwestern Minnesota Young
Peoples league of the Norwegian