The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-30

| I Red Lake Falls-Milton CONVERSE
has been named chief of the local
fire department. ysa
] = Brooks.-Fire damage estimated az
$4,000 was caused by flames starting
in a vacant building which wiped
out virtually half the business sectiOn-
Little Falls-Peter Juba has accept
ed the cashieTship of~the First State
bank of Flensburg to fill the vacancy
of Anton J. Bandura, who is now
in the National service.
| Brainerd.-Four persons were In
| jured when an automobile in which
they were riding turned over at Neu-
trail. Oliver Wunderlich, one of the
passengers, was severely injured. He
was crushed beneath the car.
Winona.-The steamer Helen Blair
will reopen packet service on the UP.
per Mississippi river, between st.
Paul and Davenport, June %. This
boat replaces the Morning Star and
is in command of Captain w. A. Blair.
! Rush City.-The organization of
J, Chisago county for the Council OF
National Defense. woman's committee,
Minnesota Commission of Public Safe
| ty, is about completed through the
chairman, Mrs. Marilla Stone of Rush
City,
| + Bemidji.-Roy Bailey, while fishing
in Red Lake, landed 1S9-pound stur-
geon. said to be the largest ever
caught in that water. The same day
another fisherman brought in a stur-
geon weighing between 100 and ITO
pounds. 80
Aftkin.-This city entertained Gov.
ernor J. A. A. Burnqutst> on the &C.
casion Of the Red Cross day, when an
auction Of donated articles was held.
The governor spoke on "The War;"
The Aitkin and Deerwood bands fur
nished music
Brainerd.-The Brainerd Water and
Light board has received the first unit
of the electrical pump equipment and
installation Is under way The plant
probably will be completed by next
week and is to supplant the old steam
affair which was unsatisfactory.
Spring Valley.-The defeat OF al-
tocracy in this war will benefit the
German people, our own people and
the people Of all the world, said Gov
ernor J. A. A. Burnquist. at loyalty
rally here. More than G,OOO persons
were in attendance. Captain G. F.
Richards of the Canadian army also
was speaker.
| St. Cloud-While driving from Min
neapolis to St. Cloud an automobile
driven by Alfred May of St. Cloud
went into ditch and turned turtle.
There were six men in the car, but
all escaped uninjured, except May.
who sustained a compound fracture
at the base of the skull. His condi-
ton Is critical.
Brainerd.-A message from General
Pershing was delivered at Red Cross
mass meeting here by Corporal Harry
Welcome of the regular army, who
returned to Brainerd after spending
eight months in France. Welcome is
one OF the fifty men sent to the Unit
ed States by General Pershing to tell
Of conditions at the battle front
Bemidji-As the result OF the ef-
fective recruiting machine developed
in Bemidji and the individual efforts
| III OcISCduL SldIcHCC WHO
has left to enter the third officers
training camp at Camp Grant, ILL.,,
Bemidji has sent nearly 1000 men to
the service. OF this number, it is es.
timated 800 are from Beltrami county.
Minneapolis.-A wind storm that
swept the Lake Minnetonka district
caused one death, unroofed houses.
uprooted trees, demolished small
buildings and inflicted heavy damage
to telegraph and telephone poles and
wires. John August Thor of Carlton,
Iowa, was drowned when he set out
to cross Stubs bay and was caught
in a squall.
Pine City.-Fire destroyed the
harm at the home of S. r. Frazier,
travelling man, on the St. Croix road,
east of here, and the two Frazier
boys, Morse, s, and Emmett, 5, were
burned to death. The origin OF the
fire is not known, but as the boys
were inside alone It is presumed that
they started the fire that claimed
their lives.
Sleepy Eye.eAn unidentified BAN
dit was shot and killed here after he
had robbed the saloon of Fred Land
strom. He was shot by Edward Cut
ting, after Cutting had been fired on.
The man entered the saloon and loot
ed the safe and cash drawer. The
sheriff and posse started in pur-
suit Edward Cutting, who led the
posse, was fired on and replied with
shotgun, wounding the bandit, who
disappeared. Later he was found dead
from loss of blood just outside the
city limits.
st. Paul-Twenty persons were in
jured, some seriously, when tornado
late Saturday night demolished the
new barn on the Elof Nelson farm,
13 miles east of st. Paul, where $50
men and women were gathered for a
| harm dance The barn was left d