The Tomahawk., 1919-05-22
STATE BRfV|T|ES

capital $4,000: have been filed with
the register of deeds.
St. Paul.-Only 10 cases of influenza
have been reported to the state board
sof health. In November several hun
bred cases were listed every day.
St. Paul.-State departments, which
occupied quarters in st. Paul office
buildings during the recent session of
the legislature, are moving back into
the Capitol.
Mankato.-Hugo Boness, 20, years of
age'a farmer living near Amboy, was
arrested here charged with forging
his fathers name to a $50 check and
casting it with local merchant.
Fairmont.-Mrs. Bertha S. Collier,
60 years old, shot and killed herself
At her home here. She was said to
be respondent over financial difficult
ties and had been in i'll health for sew
eral months.
st. Paul.-State draft headquarters
in Adjutant General Rhinow's Offices
at the capitol have been closed under
orders received from Washington. or
flee equipment and other supplies will
be shipped to Chicago.
st. Cloud. - Plans are now being
made for the 50th anniversary cele-
bration of the founding of the state
normal school here. The school opened
with an enrolment of 40 pupils. To-
day the enrolment is more than 400.
St. Paul. - Minnesota 1919 session
laws will be ready for delivery in
book form about May 20, 10 days
earlier than those of any previous
legislative session were issued, Julius
A. Schmahl, secretary of state, an
nounces. The book contains I'll pages.
Duluth. The body of Howard B.
Clifford, who travelled out of Mime
apolis for the United States Rubber
company, was found at the bottom of
a freight elevator shaft at hotel in
this city. 1t is thought he attempted
to manipulate the elevator himself.
He leaves a widow and daughter.
Bemidji.-A. J. Linden and Charles
Foster of the public examiners office,
St. Paul, are making an audit Of the
books of the county officials. They
will also check the accounts of organ
izations receiving state aid, including
the Lake Julia sanatorium, the Bel
trami Agricultural association and the
Poultry association.
!. Minneapolis. William Mealey, rs,
and a resident of Minneapolis since
1856, died at his home after a brief
illness of pneumonia. Mr.. Mealey was
q native of Indiana. He was en-
gagged in the real estate business in
Minneapolis for more than thirty-five
years. He was also a member of the
Morgan post, G. A. R.
Brainerd.-The Grow Wing county
commissioners unanimously adopted
the road program as outlined by the
good roads convention held at the
courthouse in April: The commission
ers appropriated $500 additional for
expenses of the county agricultural
agent. The board has two men in
view and soon may have a successor
to E. A. Colquohoun, who has accepted
similar work with St. Louis county.
St. Paul.-State revenue from inner
itance taxes may be reduced by 1919
amendments to inheritance tax laws,
Claude S. Brown of the attorney gen.
erals office said. Rates of taxation
are increased, but requests to reli-
gious, charitable and educational or
CARNATIONS, formerly taxed at from
to Is per cent, are exempt under the
new law. Mr. Brown said that. the
exemption clause will reduce revenue
to an extent greater than totals Will
be increased by the higher rates on
other classes.
St. Paul.-Hjalmer Nilsson, Mime
apolis, will become chief state oil i'm
spector under the new law, effective
July /. The appointment was an
nounced by James SOrensen, state
dairy and food commissioner. Mr..
Nilsson has been an oil inspector In
Hennepin county during the last ten
years and is thoroughly familiar with
the work. The appointment will be-
come effective July 1 in a new law
which changes the inspector and depu-
ties from a fee to a salary basis OF
compensation and provides for distil-
lation tests of gasoline and kerosene.
The chief inspectors salary is fixed
at $4,000 a year and those of deputies
at from 500 to $175 q month.
Minneapolis:-Pl were launched
for staging the largest Minnesota state
fair on record in the Northwest when
F.. W. Murphy of Wheaton, a. men,
Der of the State Fair board, conferred
with Thomas Garfield, st. Paul, secre-
tary of the board. The fair is to be
a "Victory Fair" prepared along lines
of a grand postwar exhibition of Amer.
ica's role in the war. With extensive
building and repairing projects about
to be inaugurated to improve the Fair
Grounds and negotiations started to
bring together military men and sing
ers of worldwide note and displays
of the Northwest's prosperity, Mr..
Murphy said that there is little doubt
but what this years exhibition will be
the most extensive fair ever staged in
this section of the country. One OF
the features officials feel certain will
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