The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1926-01-21
MINNESOTA NEWS

Mankato-Miss Caroline Robbins,
author and for many years a mem
Der Of the Teachers College faculty
died at Rochester recently.
Mankato-August 9, 10 and II were
set as dates for the convention Of
the department of Minnesota, Ameri.
can Legion, following a meeting Of
the state department executive COM
mittee. The convention this year will
be conducted at Mankato.
Lake WiIson-To be stricken blind
while alone in his quarters on his
farm near Hadley, was the fate Of
Samuel Johnson. The man, who had
homesteaded his place here in the
early '70s, was found wandering
about the farm by a neighbor.
Observation-Disclosures are being
made here for entertaining the forty
eighth annual convention of the Min
nesota State Dairymen's association
which convenes January 10 to 81 in
the convention hall Of the chamber Of
commerce.
st. Pau-Financial interests OF the
northwest, headed by the Minnesota
Bankers association, lined up in sup
port Of nationwide movement to
standardize the sizes and designs Of
bank checks and do away with the
thousands Of different STYLES now in
use, as an effort to facilitate busi-
ness transactions, reduce possibility
Of errors and curtail expense.
Pine city-Four men will spend
their lives in Minnesota's state prison
at Saltwater to atone for bank rob-
Der (which enriched them $1,19412
for two days they were at liberty.
The four men, all Of Superior, Wis,
pleaded guilty in district court here,
and were sentenced to life terms un-
der the law which provides only that
penalty for robbery of a bank occu-
pied by human beings.
MlnneapoIis-The Minnesota state
highway commission, the Ten Thou
sand Lakes association, the state for
estry board, the state game and fish
commission, the University Of Mime
sofa, the Isaak Walton league, vari-
| GUS other sportsmen's organizations
and a dozen cities and towns Of Min
nesota will be represented in booths
at the Twin City Auto Show, Feb. G.
13 in the Overland building.
st. PauI--Minnesota's % principal
crops harvested in 1925 placed the
state fourth in estimated value in the
United States, with a value Of $780,
075,000, Paul H. Kirk, state agricul-
tural statistician reports. States
ahead of Minnesota in total crop
values were Texas, Iowa, and Illinois.
For all crops, the hypothetical value
in Minnesota was $685., TO-, 900, plac-
ing Minnesota fifth among states. For
the five year period ended 1923, Min
nesota ranked ninth in value Of %
principal crops.
st. Paul-Plans for Encouragement of
the old state capitol and a shifting of
state departments in line with the re-
organization were completed by the
department of administration and
finance. The state board of health,
and the inspection unit, which now
comes under the board, move from the
new to the old capitol, and the oil in
spection department also goes to that
building. The supplies division Of the
adjutant generals department moves
to the armory at St. Paul Park.
st. PauI-Farmers Of the northwest
already have cashed in on most Of the
1925 wheat crop and the purchasing
power Of this section of the country
has been increased many millions of
dollars in the past three months, &C
cording to railroad survey just COM
pleted. Figures compiled by the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific rail.
roads show that a crop of about 1885,
900, 900 bushels of wheat was raised
in the territory supplied by these two
systems.
st. Paui-Minnesota state officers
and shippers turned to Washington,
in an organized fight for immediate
relief from discriminatory freight
rates, which they contend were forced
upon the state by federal govern
emit agency, acting without jurisdic-
4. Headed by Governor Theodore
istianson, and including o. P. B.
OLSON and Ivan Bowen, state rail-
I'd and warehouse commissioners,
NE delegates visited the CAPT
| tai to protest what they termed wreck
Z age of the states rail rate structure
the interstate commerce commits
Paula sweeping Investigation
| D, ninal law and the machinery for
dealing with criminals in Minnesota,
with the purpose Of formulating rene
- legislation, was ordered by Gov
3r Theodore Christianson. The gov.
nor appointed a commission of rs
1 members, including members of the
supreme court, leaders of the Mime
sofa bar, educators and social work
ers, representatives of the churches,
and police and prison authorities to
ndertake this work at once. This
sp was taken by the governor as a
| sequel to the killing Of Minneapolis
police sergeant and the wounding of
policeman and grocer by paroled
convict but two weeks out of Still