The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1924-08-14
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Condensed Stories Of Hsppeninss
Of the Week IN Minnesota

Austln-M1SS Mary Lac0ck or Spring
Valley was appointed home agent for
Mower county at meeting Of county
club leaders here.
Tracy-Improveme which it is es.
timated will cost $4,000 has been com,
menced on the First Presbyterian
church building here.
OuIuth-Dr. E. L. Tuohy, of Duluth,
was elected president of the Northern
Minnesota Medical Association at the
closing session here of the two day
annual conference.
Windom-Whiled drilling a we'll near
Okabena, two veins of coal were en-
countered. One vein two feet thick
was struck at depth of 60 feet from
the surface and another vein was
struck at a depth of IS feet.
Faribault-Old st. Mary's hall, the
main building at ST. Mary's Episcopal
School for Girls here, was destroyed
by fire after lightning had struck the
room Of the structure. School author
tiles said the loss would approximate
$4,000 with insurance of 100000. 1t
is expected that the structure will be
rebuilt
Hokah-Ed Selke has revived navi-
cation on the Root river between Ho-
kah and the Mississippi river. A
steamboat has not made a trip from
La Crosse to Hokah for many years,
but Selke is running a powerboat on
this old creek with all the assurance
and safety that marked the passage
of the steamers.
st. PauI-Overturning of a Mime
apolis-St. Paul bus resulted in the in
jury of four persons and Is others be.
ing shaken and bruised when the bus
was struck by street car. The acct.
dent was one Of a series of weekend
accidents reported to the police of
the Twin Cities in which two children
were killed and total of IT persons
injured.
Duluth-A resolution protesting
against the closing Of the partridge
and deer season in Minnesota, was
unanimously adopted at the monthly
meeting OF the Northwestern Gun
pointed to telegraph Governor J. A.
o. Preus protesting against the closed
season.
DuIuth-Stipulation for judgments
in II fire cases brought by residents
Of Carlton county against the govern
ment for losses sustained in the forest
fires OF October, 1918, were signed
here by Federal Judge w. A. Cant. BY
obtaining the final settlement Of the
cases, only IL cases of more than $50
originally on the federal court docket
remain for trial.
Mankato-Blue Earth County Cow
Testing Associations No. 2 and No. 1,
topped the 80 associations of the state
for the month Of June, according to re-
turns received by L. E. McMillen,
county agent. Blue Earth County AS
ISOLATION No. 2 led the field in June.
Three hundred and fifteen COWS were
tested, the average milk production
being 900 pounds per cow and the aver
age butter fat 35.7 pounds.
MinneapoIis-The identity of Arthur
Frazier, Indian World war veteran,
was further confused when the Vet
erans' bureau received a report from
University of Minnesota experts, show
ing that the measurements of the
body at Niobrara, Neb., compare fav-
orally with War department records
and that they differ from the measure
ments of the living man, who has been
accepted by the Frazier parents as
their son.
Zumbra Heishts-Out of $4,000
trials, the University of Minnesota
fruit breeding experiment station at
/Zumbra Heights, Lake Minnetonka, is
hoping to make the one success that
will double the strawberry production
Of Minnesota. In 1911, $4,000 seed
lings were grown from crosses of June
bearing strawberries with the ever.
bearing kind. BY scores, by dozens,
and singly, year by year, since, these
seedlings have been discarded until
only few remain.
Dover-Bandits who blasted their
way into the vault of the First State
Bank Of Dover failed to get as much
as one cent, 1t was disclosed, when a
safe expert succeeded in opening the
money compartment of the banks
safe. The six charges Of explosives
which the bandit gang set O. wrecked
the vault and blew the outer dor of
the safe off. but failed to open the
inner door. When this compartment
was opened, approxim ely 100000 in
cash was found to be intact.
Mankato-As the result of recent
threshing on various Blue Earth coun-
ty farms, leaders in farm bureau work
are claiming it is the champion wheat
raising county of Minnesota. Latest
and best of the returns so far made is
that of Edward Tarjeson, farmer
eight miles south of Mankato. He as
serts, and his neighbors back his as
sertion, that on fraction over eight
acres Of wheat he got 70 bushels to
the acre OF the finest and heaviest
grain seen this season.
Standardization Fobes, superin-
tendent of schools here for the last