The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-02-14

buying cattle for shipment to the e&'
change.
saltwater of the mail carriers
of the city have taken up knitting
sweaters for the local Red Cross
many having already made good prog
ress along that line.
st. Cloud-A new building for the
Melrose district school, four miles
vest of Melrose, has been suggested
owing to- the fact that the school IS
rapidly growing in number OF pupils.
There are 70 pupils now.
Crookston.-Word has been recelv.
cd from Los Angeles, CAL, OF tire
death of John r. Becker, former
resident of this city. Mr.. Becker spent
his boyhood in Crookston, his father
being engaged in the ice business.
St. Paul.-Two bandits, who month
ago held up seven persons in st.
Paul. are under arrest and have made
full confession, according to a state
ment by J. J. O'Connor, chief of police.
st. Paul.-Frank A. Weld, president
of the state normal school, Moorhead,
has been appointed chairman of Gov
ernor Burnquist's school aid commits
sion. J. P. Vaughan, superintendent
Of schools, Chisholm, is secretary.
St. Paul. - Investigations of acct
dents in which nine school children
We're killed and 20 others were injured
when busses in which they were rid
ing to school were struck by trains
near Nelson and near Moose Lake
have been ordered by the state rail-
road and warehouse commission.
Duluth. 49, Slowly but surely the
stocks of anthracite coal on the docks
at the head of the lakes are being de-
pleted, and according to G. P. Craig,
chairman of the Duluth fuel admins
tration board, only the greatest econ
ony in it's consumption can prevent
shortage in the spring. The~bitumi-
nous coal situation is slightly better
Bemidji-When the Beltrami county
district court convenes Feb. IL one OF
the first criminal cases to be called
will be against Roland Henrionnet,
who will face charge of murder in
the first degree for alleged Staying OF
Oscar Nelson, young teller of the
Northern National bank, after con-
troversy over enlistment on Nov. Is.
Moose Lake,. L. Thomas, engl-
ueer of the locomotive which crashed
into a bus load of school children
here, was exonerated from blame for
the accident and the killing of seven
children and injuring of II others.
Thomas almost broke down while on
tho stand at the inquest. Two months
ago his engine struck and killed two
men driving an automobile over a
crossing at Willow River.
Fairmont Lemuel Wickham, an
2O-year-old recluse, was found frozen
to death in his bed when police officers
broke into his shack, following infor-
nation that he had not been seen for
several days. Wickham, who had
years, is believed to have frozen to
death one night recently, when the
thermometer registered nearly IS be-
| low zero.
Mankato-The Southern Minnesota
contest of the State Discussion league
of high schools took place in this CITY
! and was won by Melvin Meirbachtol
OF Faribault, with Thomas Phelps of
Rochester and Earl Loomis of st. Pc
ter tied for second place. Schools
! represented were those of Mankato.
Taribault, Rochester, St. Peter, Wa
SEGA, Kasson and Fulda. The sub
iact was, 'How shall the world be
organized SO as to prevent wars in
the future?"
Minneapolis" in Mime.
sofa will be called on to raise $780,
: 600 for social and religious work
. among American soldiers and sailors
in this country and abroad" S. H.
Holstad announced on his return from
Pittsburgh, where he represented
Western synods at a meeting of the
| National Lutheran commission for SOL
diars' and sailors welfare. statistics
showed that Minnesota has the second
largest number of Lutherans of any
state in the Union, Pennsylvania lead.
ing" Mr. Holstad said.
St. Paul.-Brewery owners and liq.
nor distributors of St. Paul were
taken by surprise by the action or the
State Public Safety commission in ex-
tending the bone dry order, but none
who was interviewed could give in
detail an opinion as to how far the
order will affect his business. All
admitted that the order necessarily
will prevent the shipment of consid-
cradle liquor and beer which hereto
fore has been permitted in the "a
counties now made bone dry by the
commissions latest order.
Eairmont.-Chris Schmidt. German
alien of Truman, was arrested on two
charges of disloyalty and County At
torney Allen said dozen counts could
be brought against him. He was held
to t;le grand jury in $4,000 bail. The
complaints charged that Schmidt ad-
rised drafted man not to go to the