The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-01-02

TINE STATE NEWS OF q
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The Aithn- Grow Wing county san-I
atorium at Brainerd for treating tu-..
bercular patients will be completed
in Februay st cost of SAG. 600 and
be occupied IN the spring.
The mayor AMI chief Of police Of
Lester Prairie and ten other resi-
dents Of that village have been In
dicted BY the Mcleod county grand
jury on charge Of being members
Of raiding party that assaulted
owners Of the Klatt hotel July IS. 81
AS q result Of alleged disloyalty
utterances and publications, Is indict-.
ments have been returned against
Faribault residents by a grand jury,
and J. p. Palmer, assistant attorney
general, has gone to aid James r.
Mcmahon, county attorney, in the
prosecutions before District Judge
A. B. Childress. s s. .-: z. va. {. s
F. S. Schwa1en, a Triumph banker,
Earrested several weeks ago on a
Eeharge Of interfering with the sale
of Liberty bonds, appeared in court
at Fairmont and was fined 500 by
Judge E. C.. Dean. When his case
was called Schwalen appeared before
the court wearing Liberty; Loan and
Red Cross buttons. He told the court
he had subscribed to, the Loan and
Red Cross fund, and for that reason
was given a: light fine. =
| Effort to coordinate Minnesota or
CARNATIONS engaged in patriotic SER
vices will be made by representatives
Of the State Public Safety commits
ion at conference in St.. Paul soon.
announcement of the proposed con-
erence is made by c. w. Henke, pub
lefty director of the commission, who
aid the undertaking is along lines
aid down at meeting in Chicago
which was called by Arthur E. Bes-
tor of Washington, whom President
Wilson has. placed in charge Of ma
tional patriotic work. ~
St. Paul's mild epidemic of small
pox assumed serious proportions when
10 new cases were discovered. Off
ciak of the health department, who
have supervised the vaccination Of
approximately 1900 persons since the
present epidemic started a month
ago, assert that it will be necessary
to vaccinate at least 2,00Q more to
alt its spread.
E. B. Ford, Mrs, Elizabeth Ford and
Edward Bosky, indicted on charge
of disloyabty in connection with. the
publication of the Faribault Refer
endum, entered pleas of not guilty
before Judge A. B. Childress. The
charges Of disloyalty are the out
growth Of certain items published in
the newspaper of which the defen-
dants are owners and editors.
All the patriotic organizations of
Minnesota will be represented at the
annual convention of the National
Security league, to be held February
i, % and % in Chicago. The meet
ing this year will be in the nature
Of national war time council, which
will call in for consultation the Red
Cross, state safety commissions, CT
william relief socities and all the 9TH
er organizations brought about by
war exigencies.
A clash between state draft Off
:ials and District Board No. 3, St.
RAUL, over exemptions for about ESQ
men in the new Second Minnesota
field artillery regiment and steps to-
ward the removal of the Ramsey
county local board, Whit Bear, have
oeen made public at the office of Ad-
jutant General Rhinow at the Capt.
tol. Inclined to believe that enlist
:nent in the Second artillery should
entitle man to draft exemption, es-
1
pecially after the new regiment was
granted Federal recognition, state
draft officials appealed to authori-
ties at Washington for reversal Of
uling to the contrary. A telegram
from Provost Marshal General Crow
de was interpreted to authorize such
exemption for the present, but the
ST. Paul district board rejected the
construction placed on the message.
Major w. A. Curtis, chief draft aide
to General Rhinow, then announced
that local boards would be requested
to reopen each of the $50 cases hing
ing on the question. to remove il1ris-