The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1923-01-25

| mere.
DuIuth-Thirty judgments in favor
Of insurance companies against the
United States Railroad administration
were entered in the district court
here. The judgments, totaling $5,-
678.43, are the results of settlements
in cases arising from forest fires in
1918.
Rochester-A gain of 43 per cent in
the business of the Rochester postof-
flee. is noted for 1922 by Postmaster
D. L. Williams. The total amount of
business done at the Rochester post
office last year was $102,799.14. In
1912 the business amounted to only
$41,56496.
Red WIng-The bank of Maiden
| Rock, known as the Carpenter bank,
was broken into and the vault door
broken, but the big money safe was
unmolested.
| Ouluth-The city of Duluth has
started an action in district court to
recover approximately $4,000 from
the Duluth Street Railway company
for paving between streetcar tracks.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of rotary
club in Winona is practically COM
pleted. Norman Black Of Fargo, dis
trict governor, outlined the purposes
OF the club at an organization meet
ing.
MinneapoIis-Curtis L. Johnson Of
Rush City, hardware dealer, and
member of the governing board of the
Minnesota State agriculture society,
was elected president of the society,
at the close Of its annual meeting.
Owatonna-The Steel county child
welfare board will continue its work
| throughout the county in spite of the
withdrawal Of the support of the
| county commissioners in providing a
paid executive secretary. This deci.
sion was made at the annual meeting
of the board here.
Acknowledgment Hansvick, four
teen years old was shot and almost
instantly killed by his elder brother,
Jalmar, when a Winchester rifle In
the hands Of Jalmar was accidentally
| discharged. The accident happened
in the kitchen of the family home.
St. James-The sheriff's office of
Watonwan county has been run at
| profit to the county in the year 1922,
| according to reports from Sheriff ]. c.
Bermel. Amount collected from de-
linquent tax warrants and fines ex-
ceeds the salaries Of the sheriff and
his deputy.
Rochester-For the first time since
1854 the village of Marion, once the
most ambitious town in Olmsted coun.
| ty, has no place Of business. Earl
| Yates, who Of late has been conduct
ing a store there, has closed up his
affairs and ceased operation. This
probably marks the last act in the
drama of civic progress in Marion
village. =
DuIuth-Improved railroad transpor-
tation is resulting in freer move
ment Of coal from the head of the
lake, according to Duluth dock men,
who asserted that the anthracite sup.
ply is diminishing quickly. Shipments
from the docks during December
reached 23,0S5 cars compared with
20,63S cars in November.
st. PauI-The Minnesota County
Auditors association elected Nicholas
Thomey, Stearns county auditor, presi.
| dent; Frank Kaisersatt, Rice county.
vice president; c. w. Nahum, Grow
Wing, secretary, and A. F. l.. Strom.
gren, Chisago county, treasurer. The
auditors were addressed by represen.
tatives of the state highway depart.
ment, the public examiners office, and
other state offices.
Virginia.. Toivo Aho, 20, was found
| not guilty of murder in connection
with the killing October 80 last of his
mother, Mrs. Frank Wirtanen, and his
stepfather, Frank Wirtanen, by dis
trict court jury here. The verdict held
Aho could not be held responsible for
the double Staying inasmuch as he is
insane and has homicidal tendencies
Taylors Falls-John Daubney, the
oldest and one of the best known pic.
neers Of Minnesota, died at Taylors
Falls. He. was 103 years old on Oc
tober 8, 1922. Infirmities Of old age
were the cause of the death. Only 10
days before he died he was downtown,
visiting with his friends and smoking
cigar. ~
| DuIuth-A request that Attorney
General Hilton be instructed to take
an appeal from the decision of the
| state railroad and warehouse commits
sion granting an increase in telephone
| rates in Duluth is contained in reso-
luton unanimously adopted by the
city council. The request follows the
ruling Of District Judge w. A. Cant,
holding that only the attorney general
could institute proceedings in the
| case.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of the couu.
ty fair associations of Marshall, Polk,
Kittson and Norman counties met here
to form fair circuit and fix fair dates
for next summer that will allow each
| fair to show the same attraction Con.