The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-01-24

SUI LIuS 1uIO TWO 81 duCo, ACo'AA6 ous
small ones to avoid useless handling
and transportation of waste material
and to save heavy expense of ship
pers' grading, and to retain for use
at home all unmarketabls tubers
that have food value for man and
beast.
Officials Inspecting Camps.
Governor Burnquist, Attorne, Cen
eral Lyndon A. Smith, Colonel g. H.
March and Adjutant General w. F.
Rhinow have gone on a trip to three
military camps to investigate the
health and other conditions of about
1880 Minnesota men in training at
those places.
The investigation was ordered by
the State Public Safety Commission
after conflicting reports of conditions
especially at Camp Cody, we're re-
ceived.
The tentative plan is to go direct
to Camp Cody and thence to Camps
Pike and Dodge, and to return about
Janury % to St. Paul. Camp Pike
was included in the itinerary because
many drafted men have been trans
ferred there from Camp Dodge. to
which 5000 men have been sent from
Minnesota.
Nearly $500 national guardsmeA
from this state are in training at
Camp Cody.
Officials Change ouarters.
Removal of the offices and library
of the State Horticulture society to
the new historical society building
nearby, marked the first assignments
of the rooms in the capitol.
| The State Department of Educa-
ton will move it's offices to the
historical society building soon, and
it's present suite on the first floor
of the capitol will be given to the
State Banking department. Ground
floor rooms, now occupied by the
banking department, will be assigned
to the Board of Control and to Sec.
rotary of State Schmall who will
establish the state automobile license
department there.
| An important change will add the
third floor rooms of the south wing
to the suite of the State Supreme
Court. The State Tax Commission
will move its offices to those just
vacated by the historical society.
The state forestry department will
have tho office formerly occupied by
the secretary Of the historical 90
ciety.
The engineering department of the
State Railroad and Warehouse com.
mission will remain on tho ground
floor, but move to the old newspaper
file rooms Of the society.
The adjutant generals office will
be transferred to the suite now &C.
cupied by the railroad engineers.
To Use STATES Surplus Water Power
The government is preparing "a
use the surplus water power of Min
lnesota and Wisconsin for war indus
tries. =
A survey will be tho first step. II
was ordered yesterday by the power
committee of the Council Of National
Defense. C. o. Frisbie Of Chicago
president Of the Cornell, Wis.,, Wood
Products company and head of the
Chippewa Valley Cooperative asso
citation, was selected for the task and
will begin at once.
cunners Eligible for DRAFT.
About $50 men of draft age enlist
ed in the Second Minnesota field ar
tillery are subject to draft, Proves,
Marshal General E. H. Crowder has
notified Governor Burnquist in re-
spouse to q request for a special rul
ing. The Federal draft chief sale
that, although recognized by the wal
department, the new Minnesota regi
ment was not included in the ordel
, of Aug. 5. mobilizing National Guart
units and that members between q
!. and 80 years old are not e16mp
from the selective draft