The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-08-06
BrietrMm
All 3 State
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
Of the Week in Minnesota

the Ninth and Half District" Ro
tarians will be conducted here Aug
ust 10 at the Country Club.
Detroit-A man, young married
woman and a 10-year-old girl wer,
burned to death here when the air
plane in which they had just taker
on caught fire after a forced landing
Fulda-The second annual area tn
berculosis cow test conducted in Muir
ray county, disclosed that out O.
more than $4,000 cows, 27S reactors
were found.
Minneapolis - Seventeen person:
are dead, four others critically hurt
and more than a score Of others were
injured as the result Of traffic and
drowning accidents in the northwest
over the weekend.
Hibbing-The state forestry depart
ment has decided upon the erection
OF three large steel towers, observa
ton points which will be used by
forest rangers in detecting fires, it is
announced here.
Henderson-Gust Brandt, a Blakely
township farmer, has completed his
twenty-eighth harvest with the same
binder. The machine performed as
we'll this year as it did the year he
bought it, Mr.. Brandt said.
st. Cloud-Tobacco this year will
be harvested earlier than at any
time in the history Of the state,
Charles Lien, state tobacco expert,
says. Harvesting will start the latter
part Of August.
Minneapolis - Northwestern rail.
roads have on their own rails an aver
age Of 95 per cent of their grain cars,
many Of which are stored in the grain
growing territory, in preparation for
q crop movement comparable with
that of 1924.
EIy-Forest fire suppression costs,
the first ever collected from private
Individual in Minnesota, were paid by
Glenn Shields and J. P. Riddell to the
United States government in connec-
ton with fire trespass case in the
Superior national forest.
NorthfieId-A resolution asking the
state railroad and warehouse COM
mission not to issue any more per-
mits to bus and truck lines through
Mortified operating parallel to exist
ing carriers has been adopted by the
board Of directors of the Mortified
Community club.
Hibbins-D. G. Kerr Of New York,
vicepresident of the United States
Steel Corporation, was here for his
annual trip Of inspection of mine
properties on the Mesaba range. Mr..
Kerr expressed himself as very op-
timistic over the prospective business
for the remainder Of the year.
South St.. PauI-Purchase Of the
Newport plant of the Farmers Ter
minal Packing Company, with so
acres Of land, by the Cudahy Packing
Company Of Chicago, for $21O, 900,
brought another large packing COM
pany actively into the South st. Paul
field.
DuIuth-L. ]. Chapman, who won
nationwide interest by travelling to
Duluth from Kansas City in a refrig-
orator car after collapse due to the
Missouri heat wave, is rapidly regain
Ing health and enjoying the climate
at Isle Royale, according to word re-
ceived here.
lakefieId-Through efforts Of the
Commercial club a plan has been
worked out whereby farms in the vi
cinity Of Lakefield can obtain fire pro-
lection from the department here.
The firemen have agreed to answer
all calls within seven miles for a fiat
charge of $25.
St. CIoud-A man and 17-year-oId
boy are dead, the boys mother prob
ably fatally injured and four others
are In a st. Cloud hospital, injured
when two automobiles crashed in a
headon collision on the paved high
way between st. Cloud and St. Jo-
seph.
MinneapoIis-On hundred and fifty
University of Minnesota students who
spent their vacations studying and list
ening to lectures received their de-
grees at commencement exercises in
the music building, which brought
to close the first term of the univer-
sity summer school, at which more
than $500 students were enrolled.
FaribauIt-Armed squads Of World
war veterans, sworn in as deputy
sheriffs, and equipped with high pow
cred automobiles, were being organ
lied to protect the banks of Rice
county against bandit raids. Deci-
sion to adopt the ranger system was
made here at meeting of the Rice
County Bankers Association.
owatonna-A 2-year-old purebred
Holstein heifer is being shipped to
Japan by H. w. Schroeder, a breeder
and dairy farmer The animal was
bought by X. Takahaski, commission
er Of agriculture and forestry, for the
Japanese government. 1t is the third
occasion on which the Schroeder farm
has shipped blooded stock to Japan.
Observation-Disclosures of the old
home of Major Joseph r Brown here