The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-09-02
HAPPENINGS IN
GOPHER STATE
News From All Parts of Minne'
sofa Given in Condensed
Form
EVENTS BRIEFLY TOLD
Where Busy Readers viii Find News
From All Parts OF State Terse'y
Chronicled for Their
Benefit.

Benefit.
Bemidji-A fall from load Of slabs
here killed Erick Erickson, rs years
of age. He was an employee OF the
Crookston Lumber company.
Pipestone-While crossing the st.,
in the downtown district of the city, p.
p. Cady, Judge of the municipal court
was run down and injured by motor
truck.
Litchfield-John l.. Werdin of Eden
Valley committed suicide by shooting
his head off. He lay in bed, placed
the muzzle of a shotgun at his chin
and discharged it.
Hill City-Mr. and Mrs. James F.
Murphy of St. Paul while touring on
motorcycle skidded on a turn and
were hurled from the machine. Both
suffered bruises and cuts about the
face.
Brainerd-A school of instruction OF
the League of Women Voters will be
conducted in Brainerd Wednesday.
September %, Miss Anne Severance
of Crosby, county chairman has an
nounced.
Spooner-E. r. Eide, who returned
Wednesday evening from Thief River
Falls and Holt, reported that there
wore some fires south of Warroad, also
around Williams, but that the worst
were in this section.
Owatonna-Lella, Z year old daugh'
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Seminar,
is dead as the result of injuries re-
ceived when she was struck and run
over by car driven by Charles
Haines of this city.
Grove City-Mrs. Thomas Reed who
lives six miles northwest Of here re-
ports raising chicken that has four
legs. Two of the legs are shorter than
the ones it uses to walk on, but it is
perfectly developed otherwise.
nneapolis-Sherman Dickinson,
assistant professor of agricultural edu
cation at the University farm, has &C
copied an appointment of professor of
agricultural education and principal OF
the Idaho school of agriculture at Mos
COW, Idaho.
st. Cloud-Henry Wolfson and his
son of Evansville, escaped death by d
scant margin when the Ford car in
which they were riding was struck by
Great Northern train No. IL at the
crossing near the brickyards on the
St. Augusta road.
Point Douglas-The two story stone
residence of Louis Hanson here was
Quilted by fire that originated in the
attic from an unknown cause. Loss
$4,000. The building, an old landmark,
attracted attention of passengers on
vessels plying the Mississippi.
Mankato-Jesse Majewski and Will
lam Walters of Sleepy Eye were Sc
verely injured when an automobile
hearse in which they were riding was
struck by a passenger train. Majew-
ski suffered fractured leg and other
cuts and bruises. Walters is believed
to have sustained severe internal in
juries.
Brainerd-Judge w. S. McClenahan
of the district court is hearing the case
brought by Mrs. Quirk, daughter OF
the late II. C. Akeley, against T. b.
Walker, of Minneapolis, requesting an
accounting in the matter of negotia-
lions and deals between her father
and Mr.. Walker, starting in the early
sos and continuing until his death.
Dulutll-For the second time in his.
tory Daniel de Greysolon, Sieur Du
Lhut, landed on the uncharted shores
of the Head of the Lakes, established
friendship with the Ojibway Indians,
and wrote the first page in the history
of the Zenith City. The occasion was
the North Star festival and Golden Ju-
bilee anniversary of the city Of Duluth
staged fifty years after the city re-
ceived it's charter.
Crookston--The Minnesota Electro
cal Distribution company, with head
quarters here, is setting the poles for
the third rural power and light line
out of this city. This line, the long
est and most extensive yet undertaken,
is designed to serve large number OF
farmers as we'll as number of the vii
lagos between Crookston and Argyle
in Marshall county, which will be the
terminus for the present at least.
Bemidji-The new state normal
school here recently closed its first
year with total attendance beyond
all expectations. Since the opening OF
the school in June, 1919, 500 students
attending one or more terms each,
have been enrolled. Notwithstanding
the fact that the school is only a year
old several students who entered with
advance standing were graduated in
June from the two.year advance
course.
Red Wing-Two runaway 14-year-
old Chicago boys suspected of having
robbed the Frontenac Cash Store, at
Frontenac, nine miles from here, were
captured by residents of that place
midway between Frontenac and Lake
City. They were brought to Red Wing
and placed in jail pending investiga-
ton.
Fulda-Frank Atwood was probably
fatally injured when he was run down
by an Omaha passenger train near
o..~5.. Atwood xuoc drivin0 an oil