The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1926-03-04
MINNESOTA NEWS.

$1.200.000 hospital for disabled form
er service men. lts.g
st. PAUL.. @. ,Hodgson. st. Paul.
commissioner Of finance, announced
that he will be 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 boon sold at $40 blshel.
MarshaiI-The Minnesota Hereford
Breeders Association win conduct its
annual sale and outing here May: 26
at the Lyon county fair grounds.
MInneapolIs-Three hundred mem
bers of the Minnesota Retail Grocers
and General Merchants Association
attended the thirtieth annual conven.
ton OF the organization here.
Notwithstanding University, rep
resented by Cecil Prior, won the Min.
nesota state oratorical contest at st.
Olaf College. Prior, who is a senior,
spoke on "Our Friend, China" ..,s
MinneapoIis-Mrs. ]. A. Burnquist,
mother of j. A. Burnquist, former gov
ernor of Minnesota, died at her home
in Dayton, Iowa. Mrs. Burnquist was
50 years old. '-
Fergus FaIIs-An eventful career
as gentleman adventurer, physi.
clan, soldier, sheriff and hangman,
ended here with the burial of DIR.
q. M. Conyngham of Underwood.
Mlnneapolis-Roy Brockman, who
escaped from Hennepin county jail
January %, was brought back to his
cell by Sheriff Earle Brown who led
a posse which captured the fugitive
in a cabin near Hayward, Wis.
St. Paul.. Harris Of Minneapolis,
won the state chess championship by
defeating Harry Kline, his fellow
townsman, in the finals of the Mime
sofa Chess association tournament at
the st. Paul Athletic club.
Moorhead-A subscription of $4,000
to the Lutheran campaign to raise a
100000 endowment for Concordia
College was made at a meeting of the
senior class, which has a membership
of IS.
AustIn-Citizens of Mower county
paid tribute to the memory of Mrs.
Nancy Clark. Mrs. Clark died at the
home of her daughter here, at the
age Of 102, living in Mower county
for so years.
Tracy-Forty-eight boy scouts of
Tracy edited the Tracy Headlight
Herald under the direction of Scout
Master William R. Mitchell. They
wrote all the news stories for "a
pages.
Crookston-Actual cost OF produc.
ing crops on Red River valley farms
near here will be determined in a
survey of % farms by group Of
farm experts headed by Professor
George A. Pond of the University Of
Minnesota.
Mound-7S wild turkeys were liber-
ated from the game refuge at this
place. So other birds were freed at
Belle PLANE, Winona, Rush City and
Hinckley. Forebears of these tur-
keys came from Pennsylvania and
Texas. &c.. '.--...-.
MlnneapoIis-Two 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 northwest wide
grain smut prevention campaign.
81. Paul-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 1926.
ST. Paula $15,000,000 building and
improvement program for 1925 has
been announced by the Northern Pa
cific Railroad. It is one of the larg-
est railroad constructions programs
undertaken In recent years. Plans Of
the Northern Pacific bring expected
expenditures by northwest roads this
year to more than $50,000,000.
st. Paul-The Minnesota railroad
and warehouse commission charted q
new course in the fight to establish
its jurisdiction over iptrastate freight
rates. A new action will be started
as soon as possible against the rail.
roads as a civil suit, which will per.
NIT 1t to be appealed to the state su-
preme court, Ivan Bowen, chairman
Of the commission said.
st. PauI-Applications of nine rail.
roads operating in Minnesota for in
creased freight rates to remove dis
elimination existing In various COM
munities we're dismissed by the state
railroad and warehouse commission
with the comment that this commits.
sion cannot be coerced into any sur
render of state sovereignty" This
dismissal is the latest move in a. legal
contest over intrastate freight rates
in Minnesota which involves the prin.
ciple of whether the state or the fed.
eral commission Is to hold the power
of making these rates.