The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-11-14
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Sore feet hunger and q snow storm
was trinity that proved too eraat Z
! test for the patriotism of Carl Leach,
I Sparta, Wis, and he was arrested
at Ws'1nona. The boy, IA years old, 4
endeaVored to enlist at Sparta, but
failed. He was determined. he Sc.
cured y soldier's cap and blouse and
started to walk. He said he was on
his way to- California. NJ .:Ssss @#$=s 81 ID
a. Gen. William GatesSL Due, pioneer
MeL1n'nesotas for many. years among the
best known men in public life in this
state, and q national figure in the de-
svelopment of agriculture, died in his
home In Hastings, the city which he
had laid out in the fifties. Pneumonia
from which he had suffered for "a
week, was the cause Of death. =; He
was "a years old. .y /. =, II NH I
Fire completely destroyed two 'buffd-
tngs at Baker and threatened the rest
OF the town, local citizens spending
several hours fighting the flames in
their successful struggle to keep the
fire from spreading. The Odd Eel,
lows Hall and the Oscar Iverson gro
Gerry store were both burned to the
ground, causing a loss Of over $4,000,
about half of which is covered by in
4 Soldiers in the scantonments at
Fort Smelling are experiencing much
discomfort from the cold weather. AS
the environments were constructed on
post foundations a foot from the
ground and with but a single board
sic1ng, in the hope that the Northwest
would have it's usual Indian summer,
there are plenty Of places for the cold
air to creep in. The stoves are too
small to heat them. -.
Steps were, taken at meeting held
at Hibbing, of coal dealers from Hib-
bing, Chisholm, Bull, and Kinney to
cooperate with Judge J. F. MCGEE of
st. Paul, state fuel administrator, in
remedying the iron range coal stu
alton. Coal dealers will prepare an
estimate Of the coal required for i'm
mediate use. The coal situation is
considered exceedingly bad. There has
been no decrease in prices this year.
Game Warden Munich of Crookston,
receiving his first shipments of white
fish from the fisheries at Red Lake,
near Bemidji, Vas completely
swamped by consumers seeking to
cut down the high cost of living by
buying, fish from the fish and game
commission at prices less than half
of those being charged by the butch
ers. Ten minutes after the fish
were unpacked the game warden ~aS
completely sold out. , 49,.
/ A legal battle of six years. duration
involving title to a half interest in 40
acres of land near Riwabik, St. Louis
county, was decided when Judge Will
liam c. Hook, Leavenworth, kan,
handed down an opinion in United
States circuit court OF appeals affirm
ing the decision of Judge Page Morris
in district court in favor of Charles
N. Orr, Herman F. Stark and Charles
| S. kidder. The suit was one brought
by Robert W. Hunt C Co., Chicago,
against Orr, Stark and Kidder, to re-
gain title to iron ore property in St.
Louis county.
W. r. Cross, president of the First
! National bank at Blue Earth, caused
the arrest of Fred Koch of that city,
for alleged seditious utterances, and
also for speaking against the second
Liberty Loan.
). A. Smith of Saltwater township
missed three valuable Percheron ami
mails from his pasture one night re-
Gently, and although search has been
| made so far it htts been impossible to
even secure clue as to their where
abouts.
The third disloyalty arrest in Martin
| county was recorded when Charles
Alp, a farmer, was taken into custody
On charges made by Liberty Loan So
licitors that he ordered them off his
place, saying the United States got in
to the war and could now get out with
out~his assistance Alps was released
on $1,000 bail.
Coal cargoes continue to come in to
Duluth harbor at rapid rate, seven
large steamers reaching there in one
day. The record day OF the 1917 grain
shipping season closed when the local
elevators sent 925, 900 bushels of wheat
and flax on their way to Buffalo. OF
the total, $4,000 bushels is wheat and
100000 bushels, flax.
More than 500 refrigerator cars of
the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific railways will be diverted to
the minnesota territory the next two
weeks to relieve the car shortage
and protect the sugar beet and po-
tato crops, G. w. Murnane, chairman
Of the car service committee of the
Railroads War board announces.
Minnesota's next increment in the
draft will probably be called in the
period from Nov. to 10, it was re-
iterated by Captain W. A. Curtis,
draft aidto Adjutant General w. F.