The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-08-15
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Albert iLea.-Tfial of the cash and
carry" system by Albert Lea grocers
is resulting In a reduction In prices
Of food commodities to consumers. :
St. Paul-Heirs of Charles E. Otis
have paid inheritance taxes of $2,075
on his estate, valued at $137, AL, &C
cording to a report issued by Claude
S. Brown of the state legal depart
ment.
st. Paul.-The prospect Of a viva
cious milkn.aid to administer unto
bovines at the city workhouse is not st
all remote, according to H. w. Austin,
general superintendent. Men are not
to be had. ~.
Stillwater.-C. A. Smith, who ID
being held in the Washington county
jail to await the action of the Chi
sage county grand jury, is passing his
spare time by knitting WOODEN socks
for the Red Cross.
Minneapolis.-Arth outrageously
curious, as most bears are, bit $2O5
worth of flesh from the hand of Frank
German at the AL. G. Barnes wild
animal menagerie. It cost that much
for the management to settle.
Rochester.-Mrs. Frank James OF
Wagner, Okla, a patient at the Mayo
hospital here, was run down and killed
by an automobile driven by Miss Lila
Reiter, daughter of Mayor Reiter OF
this city. Miss Reiter was not held.
Farmers living in the Bear River
and Little Swan countries are eager
to begin sheep raising. They believe
that the council could purchase a. car
load of sheep at the lowest price. The
sheep could then be sold to the far
mers. .>.. '.[
St. Cloud.-Plans have been com.
pleted for the organization of Min
nesota Motor Reserve corps to pro-
vide speedy conveyance of Home
Guards to scenes of disturbance. About
fifty automobile owners have signed
for volunteer memberships.
Morris.-Commercial fertilizer tests
being made at the West Central School
oe"Agricdlture, located here, are at
tracing wide attention. The work is
in connection with the campaign to
increase. yields on old lands, and lands
where plant food supply is. low.
st. James.-Mrs John German, wife
of an Omaha road engineer, was killed
in an automobile accident on the Long
Lake road. Her father, w. R. Wyre,
recently bought an automobile. Mrs.
Gornlan was learning to drive. The
car went over an embankment.
st. Cloud.-John Hartinger, who was
brought before the authorities charged
with saying that the United States
had better confine its attentions to
getting Villa, and other remarks of a
seditious character, has again been
taken into custody on similar charges.
An investigation is being made con-
corning his record. ...,
St. Paul.-Sixty-six state deputy oil
Cor payment of fees aggregating $4,000.
Only those of Minneapolis, st. Paul
and Duluth receive salaries. The sit
uation is due to the upsetting Of the
precedent of paying fees for the last
of the state fiscal year ending July
81, from the appropriation for the fol-
lowing year.
Hibbing.-On information received
by members of the Hibbing Gun club
that illegal hunting was promiscuous
in the Sturgeon Lake district, Game
Warden George E. Woods visited that
region and arrested Charles Sands,
Frank Calwel and William Bartlett,
for killing deer and moose in the
closed season. In municipal court all
three entered pleas of guilty and were
fined $3.50 each or so days at the
county work farm.
Wabasha.-Sheriff Julius Boehlke
discovered that his 14-year-old pris'
oner, Harry Jacoby, who is held here
in the county Jail on charge of muir.
der, had completed preparations tc
escape. The prisoner, with the aid OF
a tin spoon handle, had opened the
window castings and removed the
weights. These, with an iron bar tax.
en- from a radiator, were the tools
with which he removed a three-foot
square of plaster and two thicknesses
of brick. " r-
Aurora.-The Stacker drive here re.
suited in fifty men being sent over to
Eveleth, where their cases are being
considered. In addition to Aurora and
the mines, the Home Guards covered
Pike River, Embarrass, Waasa and
Palo farming districts. In the Waasa
district at a camp near lake eight
men were caught by Captain Blanch-
cite. It is believed they had been
netting and dynamiting fish and living
almost entirely in the woods for some
time in order to evade the draft.
. st. Paul-Wheat hoarders of Brown,
Nicollet, Redwood, Blue Earth, Rem
vile and Cottonwood counties, dis.
covered under an investigation being
conducted by Vidian B. WYE, special
representative of the food admins.
tration, at Sleepy Eye, Mimi, were
obliged to surrender 1000 bushels of
wheat during the past In the
past three weeks Mr.. WYE has pro.
cured 10000 bushels Of wheat that
should have heen rIlaced on the mar.