The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-05-24
| What's.Doing
in Minnesota

st. Paul. - The All-Minuesota De-
velopment association has held meet
| ing in the House chamber OF the Old
Capitol to discuss the formation OF a
defense league in every county of the
state.
Red Wing. - Twin brothers, 80
years old, who have lived together
constantly, were separated by the
death Of o. A. Sutherland In a hospi-
tai here. The other brother is An
drew Sutherland.
| Owatonna. - There will be no cur
tailment Of the program of the grand
council, United Commercial Travellers,
meeting at Owatonna next month.
| The question of entertainment will be
left strictly to the judgment OF the
| OwatOnna committee.
Rochester. Rochester has voted,
| 1,194 to 225, to issue $65O,OOO bonds
for the construction of municipal
| power dam to furnish electricity for
the city. The dam will be built in
the Zumbro river ten miles from here.
Work will begin Immediately.
st. Paul. - Warning is given by the
| Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse
Commission to the coal consumers OF
the Northwest that the fuel situation
next winter, through a variety OF
causes, may be more serious than the
trying time of the past season.
Blue Earth. - NJ. R. Murphy and
| Charles Adams, said to have confessed
to an attempt to rob H. G. Elders store
Of $4,000 worth of silks here on May
Is, have just been brought here by
Sheriff George Freer from Worthing-
ton, where they were captured.
Animals at the zoo in Ramsey state
park near Redwood Falls, including
raccoons, pheasants and other beasts
and birds, State Auditor Preus says,
probably will be lent to Mudcura sana-
| forum near Jordan until the state
again provides money for the upkeep
| of it's parks.
New Ulm. - A delegation of New
Ulm citizens headed by Major Albert
| Pfaender has been granted 10 days by
Governor Burnquist to recruit Com
! pany A, Second infantry, up to peace
strength or lose the company by it's be-
ing mustered out of the state service.
Members of the delegation gave as
surances that the company would not
be mustered out.
Chisholm. - While their baby boy
slept in his cradle i'm an adjoining
room, Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Helstein
battled in the kitchen for the posses
sion of three sticks of dynamite. The
woman lost. Just before the explosion
her husband laughed. They are in the
Weber hospital, terribly mangled.
The right arms of both were torn off
few inches below the elbow.
St. Paul. 49, Minnesota can aid ma
| terially in averting a food shortage
| during the war and save thousands of
dollars annually in food i'm times of
peace if it will take steps to utilize
the millions of fish which inhabit it's
thousands of lakes. This is the con-
tention of Sam F. Fullerton, for years
fish and game commissioner of Mime
| sota who has presented his method to
Governor Burnquist.
Private gifts to the University Of
Minnesota exceeding $1,000 in value
have totaled $727,475 since it's found
ing, according to a compilation pre-
| pared by D. W. Sprague of the uni
| versity's business department and
printed as an official statement Of the
| institution. The first gift listed is one
of four acres of land for a site for the
preparatory department" of the uni
versity. This was made by Franklin
Steele in 1851. The value of the gift
is placed at $4,000.
| Brainerd. 49, The body of Mrs. Laura
Adele Richardson, 81, was found near
her home on the east side of Bass
lake, where she was burned to death
in the brush fire. She is survived by
her husband and several children.
Clouds of smoke rolled over Brainerd
from the fires that extend up into Bel
trami and Itasca counties, as far north
| as Remer, in Beltrami and east of Kel-
/ liner into Itasca. All that region is
exceedingly dry, as there have been
no rains for weeks.
| Birth records of the State Board OF
Health bureau of vital statistics are
| expected to prove their value more
than ever before when the conscrip:
ton proclamation is issued by Presi'
dent Wilson, according to Chief Oscar
| C. Pierson. The statistics date to 1871
but are not entirely complete. "A law
| Of 1871 required registration Of all
births and deaths in the state" Mr.
Pierson said, "but not until 1887 was
the State Board of Health made the
custodian"
| St. Paul. - Two proposed laws fol
| Minnesota, one of which requires at
least twenty minutes physical train
ing for each pupil in every school IN
the state every day, and the other au
thorizing local authorities to organize
recreational systems to be financed by
| special taxes when ratified by ma
| jority vote, were discussed at the con
ference on the conservation and mobl
lization of Minnesota's human re