The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-09-12
INCREASE At RATE OF 14.2 PER-
- CENT MAY BRING STATES TO-
..- tai TO $4,000, 900.
HUNTING PROSPECTS GOOD
BountifuI Season Assured Nimrods al
Birds Are Flying Thick and Good
Crops Leave State Teeming
With Game.
St. Paul.

TED TO the Minnesota Tax COmm1S-|
sion abstracts of money and credit
returns for 1917 which show a gain
of approximately 14.2 per cent over
1915.
If this same rate of increase isl
maintained by the remaining thirty
eight counties, the total assessment
for this class Of property will GOMEZ
close to $270,000,000, as compared to!
the 1916 record of $234,108,26S.
The total in these forty-eight coun-
ties for 1916 was $59,228,S17 and for
1917 is $66,463,488. Ramsey, Henne-i
pin and St. Louis county reports are
not included
Lake and Dodge, of the forty-eight|
| tabulated show decrease.
Money and credits are assessed at,
full value and are subject to a gen.
| eral rate of but mills. Prior tot
1911 this class of property was as
sessed and taxed as all other person
atty and as a result of the heavy
burden then imposed the amount re-
ported in 1910, the last year under|
the old law, was but $13,919,806, and
the revenue derived but $379,754, con-!
tributed by 5000 persons
In 1916 the number reporting money,
and credits under the new SYSTEM
was 1929, the assessment $234,186,- !
26S and the revenue $702,588.
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Hunting Prospects Good.
Minnesota game laws this year pro-
vide for open season on duck, goose,
| brant and coot from September Isl
to November 80; prairie chickens may
| be hunted from September 16 to Sep
| TENDER 80, and the open season for,
quail is during November Moose and
! deer may lawfully be hunted from
November 10 to November 80.
In North Dakota the open season.
on prairie chickens, grouse, plover,
and woodcocks is between SeptemberI
16 and October 16. Ducks, geese and
brant may be killed and held in pos
, session from September 16 to Novem-
Der 80. This state has a closed sea.
son on deer until 1920.
| Antlered moose must be at least a.,
year old, according to the Minnesota
law. 1t provides that hunters may
bag either one antlered moose or one
deer during the season and permits
licensees to ship such game to their
homes.
Regarding small game, the law per-
mits five birds per day Of all varie-
ties except quail or duck, with thirty
allowed in each hunters possession.
Fifteen ducks may be killed per day.,
with forty-tive in ones possession; !
and ten quail each day, with twenty
In possession. The season bag limit
on chickens is twenty five, on quail
thirty. Nonresident hunters may ship
twenty-five game birds to their homes,
while resident sportsmen are permit
ted to make three shipments each Of
fifteen birds.
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Must Pay, for Shortage.
The state supreme court holds that
the law providing for a maximum of
60 pounds loss to each car of grain
while ip transit is a penal provisions
only and does not affect the civil IL
ability Of the carrier. Accordingly,
the municipal court OF Minneapolis is
reversed on the appeal of the Nation
al Elevator company in it's suit against
the Great Northern Railway company.
The elevator company delivered 85,-
O86 pounds Of rye to the Great North
ern for transportation from Clarissa
to Minneapolis. The company deliv-
cred 81,160 at Minneapolis.
The trial court found that 1926
pounds of rye, valued at $64.55 were
lost in transit. Making a deduction of
80 pounds, it awarded a Judgment for
1888. The appeal followed.
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Sheriff to Have Hearing.
Governor J. "A. A. Burnquist has ap-
pointed L. S. Headley, a st. Paul at.
torney, commissioner to take testi-
mony on charges of malfeasance fled
against Sheriff Joseph J. Urness Of
Mahnomen county by County-Attorney
Clayton G. Cooper. Hearings are to
start soon at Mahnomen. Sheriff
Urness will be permitted to continue
IN Office. The removal of Sheriff Ur-
ness was recently recommended BY
the state public safety commission on
allegations that he failed to enforce
the liquor laws, but the governor an
nounced no such action would be-
taken. A. 800
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Rothenburg on New UIm Board.
DR.. J. G. Rothenburg of Springfield
viii replace Louis G. vogel Of New
Ulm, deposed auditor Of Brown coun-
IT, on the Brown county exemption
board, today. ='5~ - :. - ~,
Vogels dismissal and Rothenburg's
appointment were announced by Gov
ernor J. A. A. Burnquist following the
approval OF federal authorities.
r. Vogel acted as marshal of the M,
rade that preceded the New Ulm IN
tiswar meeting. He u a former p
5utant Of the Second Minnesota
fantry. 7-,,'- n