Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-25
Neuuf BrietrMn
All Me State
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
Of the Week in Minnesota


B. Kellogg was elected honorary pres
ident of the Minnesota State society
in Washington.
DeerWood-O. M. Vanwig, of the
First National Bank here, has received
word that his cousin, Ivar K. Lykke,
of Oslo, has been chosen premier of
Norway.
chatfieid-D. E. Farrell, 70 years
old, territorial pioneer, and for a
long time known as the cattle king
of southern Minnesota" died here
from heart attack.
neapoIis-AlmonI L. Kruger,
president of the A. L. Kruger ,Lum-
Der Company and leading wholesaler
of cedar posts and poles in the north
west, died suddenly at Northwestern
hospital.
Duluth-With crash heard over
most of the west end, $50 tons of rock,
loosed by dynamite blast, fell 70
feet from the top of the point of rocks
here at Fourteenth avenue west and
Superior tsreet.
acknowledgements Henry L. Fuqua
signed extradition papers ordering
Tom Concord, Leo Salmey and John
Petersgon brought back to Anoka to
face trial on charge of robbing the
Anoka National bank at Anoka.
st. PauI-One thousand miles of
notorious routes in Minnesota were
tied up as the result of the spring
breakup, causing the most serious
tieup of highway transportation in the
history of the state.
st. PauI-Competitive bids on the
construction and the improvement of
nearly $1,000,000 of added trunk high
way throughout the state of Mime
sofa for 1926, were opened by Charles
M. Babcock, state highway commits
sioner.
kenyon-Cost of transportation,
taxation and the low buying power
of the dollar are greatly responsible
for the farm problem, Governor
Theodore Christianson declared here
before the Kenyon and South Central
Minnesota corn show.
st. PauI-Four bandits, arrested re-
Gently in Menomonie, Wis, on suspt.
cion that they were slayers of the
two st. Paul policemen, we're sen.
fenced to the state penitentiary at
Saltwater on highway robbery charg,
es.
st. PauI-Snow has blocked 900
miles of trunk highway In the state,
the highway department reported in
its weekly condition report. The de.
partment has had $500 men, SO snow
plows and 1000 teams at work open
ing the roads.
Observation-Disclosures has ap
proxjmately 200 women in public Of
fee including mayors, sheriffs, con
stables, justices of the peace, game
wardens and even an excellent
smoke scout" in the forest fire SER
vice-a survey made under the aus
pices of the Minnesota League OF
Women Voters has revealed.
st. PauI-While the death rate from
tuberculosis and cancer is showing a
decline in Minnesota, heart disease is
taking more lives than ever before
and now has the highest death rate
in the state, DR.. A. ]. Chesley, execu
tive officer on the state board Of
health said. Last year 1923 Mime
sotans died from heart disease. Can
Ger was fatal to 2,427 and tubercu
losis to 1886.
ST. PauI-Purchasers of stock in
the u S. l. Realty company, by con
tract, are not obliged to fulfill the con
tract of purchase, the state supreme
court held in affirming the actions OF
Mile Laos, Olmsted, Stearns, and
Polk county district courts. The de
cision does not affect actual stock
holders. The action of the high court
is far reaching and involves payment
of from 100000 to 100000 by 60(
persons.
st. Paul-Although the total mum
Der of fatal automobile accidents In
the United States increased from II,
S27 in 1924 to 1928 in 1925, Mime
sofa had fewer fatal accidents last
year than in the year previous, &C
cording to figures made public by the
National Automobile Chamber o.
Commerce. The total for Minnesota
last year was 345, as compared with
361 the year before. Minnesota, New
York and Oregon are the only states
that show a reduction.
st. Paul-The house passed a bill
granting consent Of congress to the
highway department of Minnesota to
reconstruct bridge across the Mis-
sissippf river between the city of An
Okla, and Champlin. A measure Civ
ing federal authority to the board oil
county commissioners Of Aitkin coun
ty, Minnesota, to construct a bridge
across the Mississippi river also was
passed.
st. Paul-Oscar Arneson, AZ years
old, chief clerk of the Minnesots
house of representatives, for Is years
fell dead a short distance from hii
home.
ST. PauI-Laurence G.. "Larry-Ho'
Hodgson lead the field of three can
didates In the St. Paul primary cleo
fion for MAYOR. His opponent on the