The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-03-11
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All Mp State
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
Of the Week in Minnesota

st. Paul. C. Hodgson, st. Paul,
commissioner of finance, announced
that he will be a candidate for may
or of st. Paul.
OrtonviIIe-Henry Pafrath of Clin-
Ton has been advised that big ship
ment of seed corn he sent to Illinois
has been sold at $40 hushel.
MarshaII-The Minnesota Hereford
Breeders Association will conduct its
annual sale and outing here May 26
at the Lyon county fair grounds.
St. charIes-Mrs. Sophia Ann Pick.
ert, direct descendant of General
George A. Custer, Indian fighter and
hero of Clusters last CHARGE" OBJ
served her 1920 birthday anniversary
here.
NinneapoIis-Roy Brockman, who
escaped from Hennepin county jail
January %, was brought back to his
cell by Sheriff Earle Brown who led
o posse which captured the fugitive
in cabin near Hayward, Wis. Mrs.
Brockman also was held, but no
charge has been placed against her.
Minneapolis hundred and fifty
county agents in four northwest
states, enlisted in an army fighting to
save $S,000,000 for farmers of Mime
sofa, North and South Dakota and
Montana, were Gin the front lines
taking the lead in a northwest wide
grain smut prevention campaign.
EaIIe-An oUaptful caraar
as a gentleman adventurer, physi-
clan, soldier, sheriff and hangman,
ended here with the burial Of DR..
e. M. Conyngham of Underwood.
DR.. Conyngham's papers reveal that
he came of an old baronial Scottish
family and probably could have
claimed the title of baronet, had he
desired.
St. PauI-Fred D. Sherman, former
state immigration commissioner, died
at his home in st. Paul. Mr.. Sher-
man was 4S years old. In 1920 he
filed for the republican nomination
for secretary of state. In 1913 he
was appointed state immigration COM
missioner by Governor Eberhart, a
position he filed until 1920, when he
bought the St. Paul Herald, weekly
paper, of which he was editor and
publisher at the time of his death.
St. PauI-The Minnesota railroad
and warehouse commission charted
new course in the fight to establish
its Jurisdiction over intrastate freight
rates. A new action will be started
as soon as possible against the rail-
roads as a civil suit, which will per-
init it to be appealed to the state SUI
preme court, Ivan Bowen, chairman
of the commission said. This will
be done by getting shipper to file
the suit, charging discrimination in
rates.
MinneapoIis-A directed verdict of
not guilty was ordered by Judge
Matthias Baldwin in district court in
the trial of the states indictment
charging the Northern Pacific rail-
road with establishing discriminatory
freight rates in Minnesota. The rul-
ing of the court leaves the position
OF the state untenable in all but one
III tuO AhuiSIAAOhIo o6nhhoI
the railroads, as far as the state
courts are concerned, Floyd B. Olson,
county attorney, said.
Crookston-Actual cost of produc-
ing crops on Red River valley farms
near here will be determined in a
survey of rs farms by a group of
farm experts headed by Professor
George A. Pond Of the University of
Minnesota. The survey, which is ex-
pected to give valuable data regard
ing production cost of everything
raised on the farms. will be conduct