The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-07-14
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 Tersely
ChronicIed for Their
Benefit.

Benefit
Mankato-Louis Bloemka, student
at the Mankato Commercial college,
was drowned here last night in the
Minnesota river.
Windom-Fire destroyed the resi-
dence of w. f. Mode, here, together
with all it's contents. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
Little Falls-Rudolph Mattieson, 20
years old, of Swanville, was drowned
in the Platte river, near Graceville. He
could not swim and got into water
over his depth.
Hibbing-By defeating Hibbing here
9 to 7, Chisholm won the firt half pen
nant in the Mesaba Range league,
Chisholm deserved the trophy, it being
it's first pennant in ten years.
Waseca-A summer colony will be
established on Clear Lake, near Vase
ca, an organization of business and
professional men, having purchased a
tract of land for this purpose.
Granite Falls-A verdict giving G. S.
Maginley $4,000 damages in his suit
%AAN
St. Paul railroad was returned by a
jury in the district court here.
Minneapolis-One young man was
dead, 7-year-old girl was reported
dying, and six persons were nursing
injuries, as a result of the first "fire
works Fourth" in Minneapolis since
1909.
St. Cloud-Dr. Frank Lonsdale, aged
"a, practising physician at Sank Rap
ids and Royalton for 33 years, died late
yesterday in a st. Cloud hospital, fol-
lowing heat prostration, two hours
earlier.
Fergus Falls-Twelve thousand per-
sons gathered in the grandstand and
on hillsides to watch the first perfor-
nance of the historic pageant of Otter
tail county and Fergus Falls given at
the county fair grounds.
Minneapolis - Anthem c. Jensen,
members of the police department for
Is years and now serving as night
captain, veteran of both the Spanish
American and World wars, will be the
new superintendent of police.
Duluth-Fred B. Ferguson, bank
teller, was killed and F. F. Leach, his
cousin, was seriously bruised and
burned when an automobile in which
they were riding overturned here, at
ter skidding and striking curb:
St. Paul-About 80 employees of the
automobile license department, under
Secretary of State Mike Holm, have
been laid off. This was made pos
sible by the letting up of the rush Of
applications for automobile licenses.
Hastings - Gertrude Gerlach, Red
Wing, was drowned at st. Mary's point,
Lake st. Croix, while learning to swims
Her body was recovered two hours Ia
ter by boy with casting rod and a
spoon hook, while others were diving
for it.
Duluth-William O'Brien, con-
tracing foreman, was blown to pieces
when 40 pounds of dynamite which he
carried in a box exploded. A spark
from the pipe the dead man was smok-
ing, is believed to have caused tho ex-
plosion.
St. Cloud-The suit Of J. M. Arrow
wood, former banker of Kimball, who
sought $4,000 damages against +. E..
Pearson, A. H. Turritin, o. J. Brand
void and Andrew P. Rotert, all present
or former state banking officials, and
several other defendants, was dismiss
ed by Judge John A. Roeser on mo-
ton of the defense.
St. Paul-Minnesota Thursday night
ended the fiscal year with the largest
cash reserve in the state treasury that
there has been in the history of the
state, M. ]. Desmond, deputy state au-
ditor, announced. Books will be bal
anced in the office of Henry Rines,
state treasurer, to show the financial
standing at the close of the fiscal year.
Faribault-Bothered by guilty con-
science for five years, a man who stole
groceries from a store here has sent
the proprietor of the store a money
order covering the cost Of the purloin-
ed articles. Writing to the store own
or after he had moved from Faribault,
the man inclosed an itemized list of
the things stolen and asked that a bill
be sent him.
St. Paul-Beginning July l, commits
sion men and dealers handling any cold
storage products will be required to dis
play placards announcing that the
store in which the placards are dis
played deals in cold storage products.
These placards are being distributed
through the state department of agri-
culture. The 1921 Legislature author
lied the commissioner of agriculture to
renuire the release or immediate sale
of food stuffs held in storage when con-
| ditions warrant it. . e.. s.sE
Winona-More than 800 physicians
and surgeons and their wives attended
the banquet which was the principal
feature of the opening days program
of an annual midsummer session OF
the Southern Minnesota Medical asso-
citation in this city. siE a IL Il.
st. Paul-Minnesota's fiscal year be-
gan Friday, and all appropriations
made by the recent legislature, totaling
ahnnt Sf2 O00 900 are now available.