The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-10-28
HAPPENINGS IN
GOPHER STATE
News From All Parts of Mime.
sofa Given in Condensed
Form.
EVENTS BRIEFLY TOLD
Where Busy Readers Will Find News
From All Parts of State TerseIy
Chronicled for Their
Benefit.

From All Parts of State TerseIy
Chronicled for Their
Benefit.
Aitkin-The contract for the plans
Of the proposed courthouse have been
awarded by the county board here.
Lake Mills-Kenneth Nelson, 6 year
old, was killed in canning factory
here when caught in corn conveyor.
Brainerd-Robbers entered the
Brainerd Grocery company and carted
away a stock of cigarets valued at
$4,000.
Rushford-After serving the Nor
wegian Lutheran church here for AZ
years, Rev. E. Jaastad has resigned
his pastorate.
Brainerd-Henry Wolford was fined
$40 and costs of 81 for having In his
possession % muskrats caught in
closed season.
Luverne-Organizat of stock
shippers association was perfected at
a meeting here of livestock breeders
Of Rock county.
Delano-Sugar beets are being de-
livered here In such quantities that
they are dumped on the ground for
lack of proper shipping facilities.
Jackson-Two boys, both of Austin.
have been bound over to the grand
jury here in bonds of $1,000 each,
charged with the theft of an automo-
bile.
Buhl-The municipal water and light
company has announced an increase OF
20 per cent on water rates and 33 1-3
per cent raise in the price of elec-
tricity.
observation-disclosures and business
places of Luverne have been numbered
and other postal regulations complied
with so that the free delivery mail
service can be inaugurated Dec. 1.
Thief River Falls-Arthur Nestvold,
Is years old, was drowned in Red Lake
river, near the city limits, when the
automobile he was driving ran into the
river and he was pinned beneath the
car.
St. Paul-Fred Schloss of Rose,
Mimi, is in Jail here following raid
on his farm, in which federal officers
said they found one still in lake, 16
empty barrels in his cellar and 900
pounds of sugar in the barn.
'Hibbing-Fires in the meadow lands
district are practically all out, accord
ing to D. l.. Mcintosh, forest ranger,
who with a crew of 100 men fought the
blaze day and night with centrifugal
pump moved from place to place with
q tractor.
Duluth-Federal Judge Page Morris
handed down a decision denying new
trial to Nels Hokstad in his suit
against Charles Swain and IS other
defendants for 100000 growing out Of
an alleged tar and feather party In
Pine county in 1918.
MISUNDERSTANDING that the vari-
GUS interclass scraps" at the Univer-
city of Minnesota reflect unhappily on
the institution, the all-university stu
dent council went on record as op-
posed to any interclass demonstrations
off the campus, and to such battles on
L1c AuJuAO SuO JILL
versity's reputation.
Moorhead-Thomas O'Leary, under
arrest here charged with robbing the
State bank of Georgetown, at George
town, Mimi, and the shooting Of the
cashier, Peter Stennes, in an alleged
confession made to county officials,
said he engineered the robbery for the
purpose of obtaining capital with
which to finance the purchase of Can
adam liquor.
St. Paul-Resignation Of Cal. E..
Stone, passenger traffic manager Of the
Great Northern railway was announced
in St. Paul. Mr.. Stone will make his
home in California after settling his
st. Paul affairs. Mr.. Stone is widely
known. In 1912 he was manager OF
w. H. Taft's campaign in Minnesota.
He was a member Of the Minnesota
state legislature for three sessions, and
was the Minnesota commissioner OF
the Panama exposition in San Fran
cisco.
Minneapolis-The difficulty year
ago of getting labor for cordwood cut
ting and the fact that most southern
Minnesota farms have been cleared
about as much as their owners wish
them to be, combined with the heavy
freight charges on soft woods brought
down from northern Minnesota, are
combining to make good cordwood a
scarce article in Minneapolis. Hard
woods, to be available for burning this
year, must have been cut year ago,
when labor was scarce, to have sea-
,oned sufficiently. Softwoods are plen-
tiful in the north, but both labor and
freight costs have worked against get
ting it out
St. Paul-Marshall county has the
distinction of being the first county In
Minnesota to go over the top in rails
ing its apportionment Of the Salvation
army's state budget Of $2S,05O. The
army's advisory board in that county
will be presented with special flag
Tor it's achievement.
Minneapolis-Reta dry goods mer-
chants from various Minnesota cities