The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1926-01-07
MINNESOTA NEWS

FlnIayson-Five unmarked bandits
who locked four persons In a vault
obtained $1,000 in daylight robbery
Of the First State bank. They fed in
large sedan. -,.r..
st. PauI-Secretary of State Frank
B. Kellogg and Mrs. Kellogg. who had
spent the Christmas holidays at their
home in st. Paul, left the Twin Cities
on their return trip to Washington.
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st. PauI-Holding that trade cam
paigns carried on through the medium
Of raffles or lotteries are in violation
OF the state law, Governor Theodore
Christianson called on Minnesota off,
GERS to enforce the law.
Albert Lea-wnile preparing for a
Christmas celebration, T. v. Knat.
void, ~ years old. former speak OF
the Minnesota house, died At the
home Of his daughter at Grafton, N. d.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In Min
nesota SMr. and Mrs. Farmer are re-
ceiving invitations 70 attend the
twelfth annual Farmers and Home
makers week Short Course at Uni
versity Farm, Jan. Is to 20.
Minneapolis - Two shipments OF
rubbing alcohol, shipped for sale at
prices totaling $4,000, as holiday
liquors rebottled under famous trade
names for Twin City consumption,
were in warehouses under federal
guard. seized in last minute drive
to make this dry" Christmas.
st. Paul-That Minnesota Is rapidly
becoming the winter sport center Of
the northwest Is indicated by scores
OF inquiries received by the Ten
Thousand Lakes association regarding
the winter sport activities Of Mime
sofa, H.. c. Hotaling, secretary Of the
association, said.
Red Wina-Lieutenant Leslie Arm.
old, U. s. army round-the-world fiier,
will be guest at numerous functions
planned on January IA, when he speaks
here. Lieutenant Arnold has been
loaned" to the state for a week by
the war department to tell OF the
historic air voyage.
st. PauI-With the 1925 total of
nine principal crops in Minnesota es-
timated at 464,000,000 bushels by the
department Of agriculture and the
states wheat production for the year
fixed at 100000 bushels, the acre
age planted to winter wheat this fall
shows decline Of 10000 acres from
the figure Of a year ago.
Minneapolis - One woman was
burned to death and "a men, woman
and children were. saved when they
leaped from windows or were over
come by smoke and were carried down
ladders by firemen in Is below zero
weather in a $4,000 fire which gut
ted three-story brick building.
st. Paula total of 569,9S7 automo-
biles were registered in Minnesota
during 1925, an increase of 1872 per
cent over the total for 1924. The pro-
portional gain for the year was al
most exactly the asme as that in the
whole United States, which was 1873
per cent, according to figures recently
compiled. OF the Minnesota automo-
biles, 1889 were trucks and 524,542
pleasure cars.
st. cIoud-Contractor making pri-
mary excavations for st. Clouds new
100000 hospital, struck vein of
low grade coal. The vein was discov-
cred by workmen sinking wells and is
reported to be so feet below the sur.
face. It has been arranged for ex-
perts to take samples Of the coal to
determine whether its quality and
quantity will make 1t feasible to con-
slider working it.
Brooten-Mrs. Marie Rengel of
Brooten, wife Of Leo Rengel, World
war veteran, started fight for part
Of the s6,000,000 estate of Edwin B.
Jennings, eccentric millionaire of Chi
cago. when she flied suit in Chicago
for 100000. Her claim is based on
the assertion that she saved the aged
man from being struck by an automo-
bile truck and that in gratitude he
promised her part of his fortune.
MinneapoIls-TheU University of Min
nesota entered upon the fifty-eighth
year of its institutional life after the
most successful IL months in it's his.
tory. In February, 1868, the univer-
sity, little more than an academy, iso-
lated and forlorn on the banks Of the
Mississippi river, was opened The
university will open for its first 1926
quarter, with an enrolment expected
to reach close to the 10000 mark, ex-
elusive of the thousands registered in
extension and short courses and in
the high school courses in the agricul-
ture division.
Minneapolis-Two high producing
Guernsey grade cows owned by the
University Of Minnesota are an
nounced as winners of high records in
the Guernsey breed, in bulletin re-
ceived at University farm, from the
American Guernsey Cattle club.
"Spot g." grade COW in the north
central experiment station herd at
Grand Rapids, won with production
record Of 427 pounds Of butterfat in
305 days. Sawyer g." another grade
cow owned by the university, COM
pleted years test in Class "a" pro-