The Tomahawk., 1923-04-12
BrietrMn
All & State
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
Of the Week In Minnesota

| 247 votes at the city election, accord
ing to unoffi >ial returns made public.
He defeated o. ]. Bouma.
Austln-Circular letters have been
| received by persons in Austin from S.
c.. Pandolfo requesting that they write
to President Harding in favor OF a
pardon for the st. Cloud man who is
under sentence Of 10 years in federal
| prison.
Duluth-3acked by the Better Gov
| eminent council, DR.. Oliver S. Olson,
| former newspaper man, and w. Har-
low Fischer, an engineer. were named
at city primary to serve four years
as city commissioners. The defeated
candidates are Commissioners James
| A. Farrell and w. F. Murnian, who
were candidates to succeed them
| selves.
Duuth-After "a hours search for
the 10 year old Katherine Pauliot, who
was seized while on her way to school
and whisked away in an automobile,
Duluth police were no nearer solu-
| ton of her mysterious abduction. They
| admitted, however, that the abduct-
| ors had laid careful plans to conceal
their identity and their avenues OF es-
| cape.
WilImar-V. E. Lawson, three times
mayor of this city, lost to c. w. O'Dell
| by a 10 vote margin. Lawson had the
| Endorsement of labor. The council will
have a majority Of labor members.
question of erecting an armory here
was defeated. A light vote was cast.
Mankato-Dr. William A. Beach,
present mayor of this city, was re-
elected at the city election by mar
gin of 1876 votes over his opponent, E.
V. Waters. The contest was the most
bitterly fought and closely contested
one ever conducted in this city.
| Crookston - The election contest
brought by former sheriff Oscar Boil
stad against Anton Nelson, who de-
feated him by 500 vote majority at
| the November election, was dismissed
| by Judge William Watts in district
court here Bolstad based his petition
on alleged violations of the corrupt
practises act in Nelson's campaign.
FaribauIt-By majority vote Of 33
votes, Mayor Thomas H. Quinn, called
at his first election the youngest may
or in the United States, was reelected
here, defeating R. A. Tomadt by
vote of 1,644 to 1911. Mayor Quinn
was only % years old when first elect
ed He Is now "a.
St. cloud-Final plans for the ST.
| 100000 war veterans hospital to be
| erected here have been approved by
| the Veterans bureau at Washington,
according to a telegram received from
Director Frank Hines by the st. Cloud
| Chamber of Commerce. The hospital
will have $50 beds and will consist Of
| II buildings. Bids for sewer and wa
| ter systems will be called on April
| rs, according to Director Hines tele-
gram. Director Hines has ordered
| survey to determine whether or not
there will be need for greater capac-
| ity. Plans for the hospital are such
that the capacity can be increased any
time
| Minneapolis - While three secret
| group indictments charging nearly
| score of twin city business men, attor-
| neys and other persons with implica
tion in the sale or possessioc of bonds
| stolen in daring mar robberes
| throughout the country, totaling mil
lions of dollars, were being returned
| by the federal grand jury. United
| States secret service operatives and
| postal inspectors were testifying be.
| fore the Jury regarding the recovery
here Of $4,000 in currency taken in
the sensational Denver mint robbery.
st. PauI-Minnce ota farm land tax
es jumped 146 per Get from 1913 to
| 1922, according to figures made public
by the United States department Of
| agriculture crop reporting service.
| Minnesota farmers paid an average of
| 81 cents tax an acre for every acre
listing as farm land in 1922, and 81
cents an acre in 1894, the statistics
show. The percentage of increase in
| the period was greater than that OF
Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Mis-
souri,. The average tax an acre re-
| mains less than that OF the first three
states made, however. The percent
age increase is less than that Of either
| South or North Dakota and not much
| larger than the average for the coun-
| try.
Duluth-Eight reasons are cited by
the city of Eveleth officials sustaining
their action in annexing approx
mately 1,540 acres of land south and
southeast of the city, in their answer
to writ of quo warranto, issued by
District Judge H. A. Dancer, here, or
dering the officials to show by what
rights they annexed the territory.
The order has been postponed two
weeks at the request of several attor-
neys who are presenting arguments in
the Hibibng North Forties" case.
DuIuth-Methods of procedure oc-
| cupied the first day of the hearing
| before District Judge w. A. Cant, on