The Twin City star., 1918-10-05
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELf TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief items For
Busy Readers.

state, causing loss to farmers
Bemidji.-A. e. Fritz, state public
examiner, and Deputy A. J. Linden are
making annual audit of the records Of
Beltrami county.
: Moorhead.-A special meeting Of
the Clay county board will be held on
Saturday, Oct. S, to adopt plans for
highway work for next year. - /,
Sabin.-Some of the pickers in this
section are making as high as $40 and
$12 day and are hard to get even at
the price growers are paying, 8 cents
q bushel.
Brainerd.-Friends surprised Mrs.
Anna Johnson of Southeast Brainerd
at her home and presented her with
$131.45. There were seventy-five peo-
pie present.
International Falls.-Forest Ranger
Johnson of Big Falls brought here a
man whom he had arrested for setting
forest fires in the Big Falls section.
He is evidently demented.
Virginia.-Complaints have been
made to Game Warden George Wood
that partridge are being shot and he
is Investigating, since 1t is unlawful
to shoot partridge this year.
BemidjL-F. G. Troppman has re-
ceived contract from the government
to furnish 100000 pounds, about $500
bushels, of potatoes, No. 1 grade and
inspected, and he is filling the order.
Roosevelt.-Last spring Mrs. Rhodes
oIQnf0d Ynntofn M iofu
She cut it in six pieces, putting one
eye to a hill. This fall she gathered
a heaping twelve-quart pail of extra
large potatoes.
Saltwater. Coroner e. E. Wells
was called to a farm residence one
and a half miles south of Forest Lake
to investigate the death Of Mrs.
Fredericks, an aged woman, who died
quite suddenly there.
Minneapolis. - Reuben G. Curtis,
found guilty of Staying Ernest E. Lack,
known as the defender Of children,
was sentenced by Judge w. E. Hale
to hard labor for the remainder of his
life in the Saltwater penitentiary.
st. Paul.-Governor Burnquist last
week made patriotic speeches at
county fairs in Hopkins and Carver.
Secretary Of State julius A. Schmahl
was speaker at Liberty Loan rally
at Pequot. Governor Burnquist will
continue his patriotic speeches at
county fairs.
st. Cloud.-Sartell Brothers have
donated their old sawmill and sluice-
way to the Stearns County Red Cross
chapter and they will be sold at pub.
lie auction on the grounds on Satur.
day afternoon, Sept. %. This old mill
is worth considerable money and
should swell the Golfers to quite an
extent.
Brainerd.-Every available bit of
man power and equipment is being
rushed for service on the Northern
Pacific to relieve the inundatioh Of
wheat in transportation to Duluth.
There are 10000 cars of wheat on the
Minnesota division, west of Brainerd,
$4,000 cars on the Fargo division and
$4,000 cars on the Dakota division.
st. Cloud.-John Hanlon, son of
Mrs. Harry Grimmer Of this city, has
been selected as one of the twenty
five to go to the officers training
camp recently opened at Camp Grant,
Ill. Hanlon was one of the volunteers
who went to the deaf asylum at In
dianapolis, Ind, for special training
as an auto mechanic about two months
ago.
Winona.-F. R. Stevenson, formerly
local hotel clerk, charged with the
murder of Elmer Mead, a taxicab
driver and an attempt to kill his own
wife. hopes to get an acQuittal on the
grounds of temporary insanity" ac-
cording to reports. His trial has
opened. John E. Palmer, assisting at
torney general, is assisting County
Attorney Earl Simpson in presenting
the states case. Stevenson shot and
killed Mead on the night Of May 21.
Keewatin.-An appeal to district
court by William Darling, local mer-
chant, to test the early closing ordi-
suited in decision favorable to Mr..
nance passed by the local council re-
Darling. Mr.. Darling appealed from a
judgme1t of conviction and sentence
against him for the violation of an
ordinance which prohibited him from
keeping his place of business open
after 8 o'clock p. m. The decision of
the district court is that the ordinance
is null and void and Of no effect for
the reason that It is not a proper
exercise of the police power of the
state in that It in no sense tends to
promote or preserve public health,
morals, peace, order, safety or well
fare; second, that there exists no leg
islative authority for it's enactment;
third, that its provisions are unreason.
able and arbitrary; fourth, that It con-
situtes an unwarranted interference
with the constitutional property and
personal rights Of the individual.
Crookston-Mayor Morrisey appoint
ed two new members to the library
board to take the places OF Mai.
Charles Loring and B. L. Grove, w. T.
Carlisle for three yeara IN nlaco NJ