The Tomahawk., 1917-07-12
STAT: bR}EVITIES.

| eXDend $2,UUOpUU on new COuSI1 ucIloli
at the Duluth plant this year.
The statute framed by the State
Child Wcl re commission and passed
| by the last Legislature, providing FOR
| more drastic provisions regarding
abandonment has gone into effect.
| Minnesota probably will receive the
pending $4,000 federal military allot-
| ment, but it will be used chiefly to
equip an ambulance company instead
of the proposed field hospital corps.
Bakers in section 70, comprising the
Northern half Of St. Louis county and
all of Lake county, will be modified
| Tor the, conservation of food at meet
ing called by District Chairman Pc
ter WALL
| 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.
Expenditures by the State Public
! Safety Commission from the $1,000
900 appropriation provided by the 1917
Legislature are held exempt from
general rules and regulations govern
ing ordinary appropriations.
Twice voted out of existence by Du-
luthians, once on a saloon mems Pc
tition questioning the intent Of the vot-
ers at the first wet and dry election
two years ago, the final SO saloons
here have gone out of business.
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.
A resolution urging Senators Nelson
and Kellogg to support the bill now
pending in Congress to prohibit the
use of grains in the manufacture of
liquors was adopted at the closing ses-
sion of the State Dairymen's associa-
ton at Brainerd.
Despite the small increase Of S41,-
107.49 in the liquor tax of Minnesota
during the fiscal year ending June 80,
the internal revenue Office of St. Paul
with a total collection of $10,O52,368.-
IS set a record for the office, surpas-
sing by 3,224,990.96 the previous rec
ord made last year.
Minnesota railroads will not ask in
definite postponement of action on
their joint petition for a Is per cent
increase in interstate freight rates de-
spite the virtual denial of a similar in
crease by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. They have indicated
that they intend to keep up the fight.
Twenty persons we're injured,ten Sc
riously, at Winona, when a high pow
cred racing car, driven by King Kel-
ley, Chicago millionaire sportsman,
crashed through a fence and into a.
crowd Of spectators at a race program
at the Tri-County fair grounds. Ten
of the injured were treated at the local
hospital. All will recover.
The state drainage engineers will
begin survey of Red Lake river Au'
Congressman Halvor Stevenson Of
Crookston by state officials. The
survey will be the first step toward
the establishment of a drainage and
flood control district which will bring
with it the drainage Of 100000 acres
of land.
The committee appointed by the
State Public Safety Commission to in
vestigate labor and law enforcement
in Koochiching county adjourned after
having heard thirty,fve 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.
Minnesota will have a food commits
sioner, who will be named shortly by
Washington. The state also will have
woman economics expert. These
wartime food conservation plans have
been announced by Josephine Berry of
the University of Minnesota. The de-
flee of Herbert C. Hoover, national
food commissioner, in Washington.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn told Duluth
police before departing for her home
that William Haywood of Chicago,
president of the Industrial Workers OF
the organization. Miss Flynn said
Haywood and his advisers say she CON
'spired with Carl Tresca, former lieu
tenant to Haywood, to double cross
four I. w. w. on the Minnesota iron
range last summer.
Adjutant General Wood has official.
ry notified Governor Burnquist that
the returns from his Office demanded
by the War department have been for
awarded to Washington, together with
q draft covering the balance.
DR.. Marion Leroy Burton, the new
| president of the University of Mime
sofa, has arrived at Duluth on the
| steamer Tionesta. He and his party
left Immediately for Minneapolis in
automobiles.
| A telegram urging that the Mime
sofa National guard be mustered into
| federal service July Is, as originally
| planned instead of August 5, has beer