The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-07-18
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LAW IS IN EFFECT
STATUTE FRAMED BY COMMITS,
SION sTIFFENs PENALTY FOR
ABANDONMENT.
FELONY TO FAIL TO SUPPORT
provision Regarding Age of Children
Changed From IS to is Years.
Maximum Penalty Five Years
imprisonment.

Imprisonment.
| st. Pau
Inc statute framed by the State
Child Welfare commission and passed
Dy the last Legislature, providing for
more drastic provisions regarding
abandonment has gone into effect.
| 1t now is a felony to abandon a
child under 16 years of age, and maxi
mum punishment for this crime has
oeen raised from one year to five
years imprisonment. A divorced hus-
band who is responsible for the SUD-
port of a child, or the father of an
lllegltimate child is considered as the
head OF family. Desertion. of a preg-
nant wife is considered as sufficient
evidence of intention to abandon the
child.
BY the new law not only the wife
of a deserter but anyone can make a
complaint against the offender.
| while before it was misdemeanor
to fail to provide for a. child under
| Is years, the age now has been
raised to 16.
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Brewers to Fight "Piggers."
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,
according to Judge ]. F. MCGEE who
had just returned from Washington
and represented the state authorities.
Home guard uniforms are to be pre-
scribed by order of the war depart
ment, Judge MCGEE announced. It is
believed, the Minnesota home guard
| will be able to use the uniforms they
now have, with little modification.
X X X
Red Lake River Survey Beuins Auo. I.
The state drainage engineers will
begin survey of Red Lake river Au-
gust l. This assurance has been given
Congressman Ha1vor Stevenson of
Crookston by state officials. The
survey will be the first step toward
the establishment of drainage and
flood control district which will bring
with it the drainage of 100000 acres
OF land, of deep waterway for the
movement Of logs and perhaps boats,
waterpower and an all-year supply of
water for the cities and villages that
depend upon the river for their SUD-
ply.
X X X
Expenditures Exempt From Rules.
Expenditures by the State Public
Safety Commission from the $1,000
600 appropriation provided by the 1917
Legislature are held exempt from
general rules and regulations govern
ing ordinary appropriations in an opin.
ion given by Deputy Attorney Gener-
al Hilton. The question was raised
in connection with the proposal to
place a $1,000 revolving fund in the
hands of Don D. Lescohier, as man.
ager Of it's wartime labor bureau in
Minneapolis.
X X Il
Committee Finds No Labor Trouble.
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.
II X X
Fish to Cut State II. c. L.
Fish are to be taken from Mime
sofa lakes to reduce the cost Of liv-
ing under special plan made public
by the State Public Safety commits
sion. The primary purpose is to cut
| food bills at state institutions, but the
SEEMING is to be on a large scale and
| any surplus will be marketed at rea-
! sonable prices.
X X X
To Receive Federal Allotment.
Minnesota probably will receive the
pending $4,000 federal military a1lot-
ment, but it will be used chiefly to
equip an ambulance company instead
Of the proposed field hospital corps,
Capt. w. F. Rhinow, military secre-
tary to Governor Burnquist, said on
his return from Washington.
X X X
| April Supreme Court Term Ends.
The summer vacation period in the
Minnesota Supreme Court has started.
The April term, which has just end
ed, was given to hearings on 254
cases, about sixty-fve of which remain
to be decided
X X X
To Send Guards South at Once.
Minnesota National guard units, in
common with those Of the other states
in the Union, will be sent forward to
their divisional mobilization camps in