The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-02-26
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Northwest
The laundry strike in Helena, Mont
has been settled.
Sportsmen near Presho, s. d., are
arranging wolf hunt.
Three Ignite mines in North Dakota
have been ordered closed by the state
mine inspector.
Hog cholera has broken out in the
vicinity of Arcadia, Wis. Widespread
vaccination is in progress.
The Long Pine district in Harding
county, South Dakota, north OF Camp
Crook, may be the scene OF an Oil
"boom."
A campaign to raise 100000 for the
construction of Y. M. c. A. building
at Aberdeen, S. D., will open the first
of April.
Mrs. w. E. Morrow has been ap-
pointed auditor of Hand county, s. D.,
to succeed her husband, who died
week ago.
John Fromberger, electrical con-
tractor of Pasaic, N. j., shot his baby
son and killed himself Is minutes after
his wife died Of influunza.
One child was killed, three severely
burned and Ike Ruggles q miner may
die as the result of an explosion OF a
25-pound can Of blasting powder in
mine near Plentywood, Mont.
The Mobridge, S. D., Commercial
club has taken up the campaign start
ed by the Yellowstone Trail associa-
ton of South Dakota to obtain a state
bridge over he Missouri river at that
point.
To provide for the constantly in
creasing number of tourists who use
the Red Trail, the Dickinson, N. D.,
commissioners have voted to prepare
a camp site near the city limits this
spring.
The Maryland general assembly de-
cisively rejected the federal woman
suffrage amendment. In the senate
the vote was 10 against and for rati-
fication, in the house Ga against and
16 for ratification.
Walter Hill has purchased the inter-
ests of R. P. McClelland in the Hill
Land and Cattle corporation in Mon
tana. The St. Paul man will finance
the operation of his Park county and
Power river cattle property alone.
The threatened increase in freight
rates on hogs from South Dakota,
North Dakota and Minnesota to Pacific
coast points will not be put into effect,
according to word received by the Nit
chell, 5. D., Chamber of Commerce.
Twenty-one conventions and meet
ings of varying Importance are sched-
uled to be held at Grand Forks, N. D.,
during the balance of 1920, according
to schedule made out by L. w. Mey-
ers, secretary of the Grand Forks
Commercial club.
Dates for the annual North Dakota
high school conference at the state
university were announced as May
10, IA and Is. The high school con-
ference, high school debate, high
school oratorical contest and high
school field and track meets are on
the program.
South Dakota is still in dire need of
cars to move its grain. Grain men
state that the priority order has not
helped the state, that no additional
cars have been received and that there
were not enough cars in South Dakota
to permit relief from the priority or
der.
"Sure, proposed to him." said Mrs.
Minnie Kruger, as she applied for the
free marriage license offered by
County Clerk Schulze of Manitowoc,
Wis, for the first leap year marriage.
The bridegroom in the case is August
Krevis, 67, and this in his second mar
riage. The bride is So years old and
is plunging into matrimony for the
third time.
On account of the light demand for
horses, state officials are receiving
complaints that ranches are permit
ting their animals to roam unchecked
west of the Missouri river and it is
claimed that considerable damage has
been done by hungry horses searching
for food. Correspondence with state
officials in Montana indicates condi-
lions are even worse in that state.
Mrs. Stanley Blomski, mother of AL
ban Blomski, 6-year-old boy who was
found dead several weeks ago at the
BlOmski farmhouse at Sugar camp,
Wis, has confessed to beating the boy
with a heavy poker and razor strap,
according to District Attorney A. J.
Omelia's office. The husband, who has
stoutly maintained his innocence
throughout, was exonerated by Mrs.
Blomski, it is said.
To Mrs. Frank Chairman of Fond
du Lac, Wis, belongs the double dis
tinction of becoming grandmother and
great grandmother within twenty-four
hours. Her daughter, Mrs. E. E. Thew,
Ashland, Wis, and her granddaughter,
Mrs. Clarence Alcorn, both giving
birth to daughters. Both were born
at the Thew home.
Six hundred Sioux Indians Of the
Standing Rock reservation will be-
come members of an organization
which hopes to accomplish division
among citizen Indians of trust funds
held to their credit in the United