The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-04-01

              THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, APRIL 1, 1915.
NO. 42.
STATE NEWS BITS
Various Happenings of the Week
Throughout Minnesota.
William S. Combs, eighty-four
years old, first Minnesotan to be made
a Master Mason in Minnesota, distinguished in the affairs Of the order
since 1854, and the man who conducted the first business college in Minnesota, is dead at North St. Paul. Because of his weakened condition he
had been cautioned to avoid exposure
in severe weather. On the night of
March 5 he attended a meeting of
Ancient Landmark lodge No. 5, In
which lodge he was initiated Nov. 5,
1854. In going home through the
snowstorm he got his feet wet and
did not survive the resulting illness.
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Special officers from the Indian department quietly slipped into Hol-
man and notified the saloon keepers
to close tlieii- places immediately.
There are five saloons in Holnian. At
the last election there were eleven
voters. This is an average of almost
one saloon to every two voters. Liquor licenses are held for the most
part in the names of women. Thoy
qualify under the classification of
boarding houses, but the bars are
said to be owned by men, some of
whom are members of the -village
board or hold  other public  offices.
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With but one dissenting vote the
state senate passed the Minette-Bur-
rows telephone bill placing the telephone companies operating in Minnesota under the jurisdiction of the
state railroad and warehouse commission and insuring the physical connection of lines of competing companies. As passed by the senate the
bill was slightly changed from the
fprm* in which it unanimously passed
the house on March 5.
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Binding twine from the state prison
twine plant will be sold at the old
prices this summer, despite the advance in the cost of sisal fiber, due
to the revolutionary movement in Yucatan. All contracts for 1915 will be
filled, as the prison has enough raw
materia! on hand to make the run as
planned. The private twine plants
have raised prices about one cent a
pound on the sisal twines.
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Under the final decree and settlement of the estate of William Hood
Dunwoody of Minneapolis there is
$3,151,473.52 for the benefit of the
William Hood Dunwoody Industrial
Institute. This amount far exceeds
what the executors at first thought
would be available. The Dunwoody
estate, which totaled $8,461,230.91, is
the largest ever probated In Minneapolis.
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Preparations for the observance of
the fifty-seventh anniversary of the
entrance of Minnesota into the union
of states, May 11, are being made by
the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers'
association. The exercises will take
place In the hall of representatives in
the old capitol.
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Lyon county will hold a county option election April 26. In two days
a petition for the election was signed
by 1,237 men, twice as many as are
necessary for an election. Lyon is
practically a "dry" county, Ghent and
Taunton being the only communities
having saloons.
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Preliminary drafts of the uniform
school accounting system by which
the state of Minnesota is going to
learn just how the financial affairs of
the 9,000 public schools are conducted have been sent out by C. G.
Schulz, state superintendent of public instruction.
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James Donovan, engineer on the
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Omaha railroad, and one of the principal witnesses in the recent trial of Mrs. Charlotte Sharpless for the murder of her
husband, Learning Sharpless, was
found dead in bed at his home in
Minneapolis.
While Victor Niels, thirteen-year-
old son of Julius Niels, banker and
lumberman of Cass l>ake, was coasting down hill in a dump cart he fell
over the front of the car and was
fatally crushed under the wheels of
the vehicle.   He died an hour later.
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Charles T. Fitzsimmons, president
of the Fitzsimmons-Palmer company
of Duluth, wholesale fruit commission
house, was stricken with apoplexy,
fell to a cement walk, fractured the
base of his skull and died at a hospital several hours later.
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Declaring that resorts are so plentiful In Minneapolis that thoy are sold
through a brokerage concern, Marie
Walker, arrested In a raid, told the
court the names of three men she alleges are engaged in selling such
places.
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John   W.   Booth,   sixty-seven   years
old,   for   thirty-five   years   identified
with the banking business in  Minnesota, is dead at Winona.
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Anton Knoblauch, pioneer shoe dealer of .Minneapolis, is dead. He was
fifty-four years old and was bom in
Minneapolis.
Found Wolf's Nest
With Four Young
Ones In Hay Stack
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One morning last week Valentine Scliraut saw a wolf prowl
and slink around a haystack in
Kapsner's meadow about four
miles east of town. A shot or
two went wide and the animal
escaped.
From the raked-like side of
tlie stack where the wolf had
climbed up and down, and from
the general appearance of the
stack and the surrounding's, led
Val. to believe that here must
be the home of a wolf family.
His surmises were verified when
he gained the top of the stack.
There, comfortably nestled and
skillfully concealed, he found
four young- wolves about a week
old
Six Trains Run
At $63,000 Loss
Committee at
Work on ListJos-Neisius Killed
By Horse Tuesday
Evening
The committee in cliargfe of
securing- the necessary 85,000
stock subscriptions to the Minneapolis and Central Minnesota
proposed line from Little Falls
to Pierz is still working- on the
list and expects to finish soon.
It will be necessary to have the
money, as the survey will be
finished in a short time and 30
per cent of the $5,000 must be
turned over when the survey is
complete.
The surveying crew is at
work getting- a preliminary line
through and it is planned to
take a route to the south of
Pelky lake, going direct into
Pierz. The survey is expected
to take from two to three weeks.
It was begun last Friday.—
Transcript.
It is said that the surveying-
crew is near Carl Heimert's
place.
President Edmund Pennington of
the Soo line today placed in tin; hauls
of every member of the state legislature a statement showing thai; the
company, in the year ending Dec. :il,
1914, operated six of its Minnesota
passenger trains at an actual net loss
of $63,203.45.
The statement carries specific presentation of expenses involved in the
operation of the trains. A book bearing Mr. Pennington's name that already is in possession of the legislators,
entitled " Why Railroad Passenger
Pares Should be Raised," and which
in its foreword stated its purpose as
expository, brought demand for further information in  detail.
Today's    statement    takes    up    the
Alfalfa Proves Popular
Joseph Neisius, sou of Jacob
Neisius, lost his life in a most
shocking accident last Tuesday
evening" about 8 o'clock.
According to several eyewitnesses, and information gleaned
from other sources, the following version of the affair is given:
Joseph Benfeld had been   rid
ing his saddle horse around and
left-it   untied  in   front   of  the
Interesting
Local News
Jim Hill says the war will
soon end.
John Thommes and John
Stumpf were Bowlus visitors
last week.
Why does a spring February always bring a winter
March?
Geo.     Gravel     and     Jos.
Nimsch    of     Onamia     were
Pierz visitors this week.
John    Schmolke
shipped
postoffice while stepping inside j horses etc.   to   his   farm    in
to  get the   mail.   During   this Canada Monday morning
time, Joseph  Neisius   straddled
al-
tlie horse, as he had often done
before, galloped the circle of
several blocks and returned to
the postoffice.
Instead of coming to a stop,
the horse shied and turned at
Mrs. Voseu's corner and ran
down the side street. Here,
while trying to dismount, the
unfortunate boy's left foot was
caught in the stirrup and was
dragged head down under the
the  horse's   hind  feet into  the
N. W. Fuersteuberg of Lastrup sold a mare to Andrew
Suess of Buckman last Tuesday.
Clarence Benson, who just
returned fromKrimlen,Mont.
says that Christ. Morrill is
working on a farm.
Tom Lease and family returned to St. Cloud Tuesday,
after spending the winter on
their place in Rucker.
Clarence Benson returned
this ,-ear that (Bentfeld yard,  where the horse hist   Frid ^    Krin)lt)
y   twenty   car- | ^^    tQ & ^ j Bentfeld ! n*     .* U .  III. .„   *.	
So great is the demand  fo
falfa. seed  in  Minnesota
it   is  estimated   that  fully
loads  will  be  planted.    Last year over i , IVlOlll
six carloads were sown, mostly In west j I t)l lowed as  quickly as   possible1
Central Minnesota, and everyone won-  £Ulti extricated the foot from the1,,
dered   at   such   consumption,   but   1915, l,u
He likes the country
and has taken   up a half sec-
Next week  he
according to Frank Balmcr, State Sup- | stUTUp,    and   let    the  limp   and j
ei visor of County Agents, is certain to   lifeless bodv to the gfOUlld.      He '
beat all previous records by more than
.".00  per cent.
There   is   also   an   enormous   demand   in less    than two   minutes.     His j
will start  for his  new home
i in the west,
was dead.    And it all happened j
Jos. Schmidtbauer and his
for   clover    seed,    in Lac Qui Parle j race, head and chest, where the \ sister,  Mrs.   Jos. Tretter left
county aiom, over 800 bushels of dov- j    ,    t,       ,     ,-   ren8attsdlv ^Tuesday morning for Blabon,
<u» see^l wf.ll ha*-e been sold by the end ,   e"=nl»css   noors tepeaieuiy   in J r>
of spring.   H. E. Kiger, county agent' flicted their   deadly  work, were  N. *'•     ^os-  ^
movement of a passenger train  over a'">   Traverse   county,   says   more   clover
stated   mileage,   the   cost   thereof   and    seed  will be planted  in his county this
the income, sets forth  these findings:
Train Mo. 161 that operates daily
except Sunday from Duluth to Brooten,
cost 80 cents a train mile to operate
last year and the receipts, per train
mile, showed 51 cents. In the year
that it made the daily run from Duluth
to Brooten, this train brought in $:'(l,-
28J3.95. It cost the company $47,822.86
to run it. If the company had withdrawn the train entirely, Mr. Pennington's statement shows, the people in
that part of Minns so ta might have
been seriously inconvenienced, but the
Soo line would have saved $17,558.91
of  actual   loss.
The six trains, the earnings of which
have been taken for illustrations of
losses due to the 2 cent a mile passenger rate, that would have been made
up in part under a 2M> cent a mile rate,
or turned to the profitable side by a
small margin in some instances, show
these  figures:
Train 1(51—Duluth to Brooten, $17,-
5(iS.!H; 160—Brooten to Duluth, $16,-
$40:44 j 162—Thief River Falls to Duluth, $11.9l:!.4.!; 163—Duluth to Thief
River Falls, $S,045.59; 111—St. Paul io
Thief River Falls, $7,G:-!8.:!S; 112—
Thief  River Falls to St.  Paul, $i)0(i.70.
Total loss in 1914,, $63,203.45.—Moose
Lake Gazette.
IHE PEOPLE'S SONG OF PEACE.
The grass  is green on  Hunker Hill;
The water's sweet  in Brandy wine;
The  sword  sleeps in  the scabbard still.
The farmer  keeps his flock and  vine;
Then who would mar the scene today
With  vaunt of battlefield or fray.'
The brave corn  lifts in regiments
Ten thousand  sabers  in  the sun;
The ricks  replace the battle tents.
The   bannered   tassels   toss  and   run,
The  neighing steed,  the  bugle's  blast,
These be but stories of the past.
year than has been planted the last
five years. In fact, every county agent
in the state has found such a demand
for the clover and alfalfa seed that
his office has been turned into a regular seed exchange. Bach of them is
listing the seed which local farmers
wish to sell and finding buyers. In
tliis way not only will there be a large
acreage of clover and alfalfa planted
but those who sow seed will be able to
use gooil local seed, whicli is always
the best.
The unusual use of clover and alfalfa seed in Minnesota not only indicates
that more fertility will be retained and
stored in the soil in the future but that
more live stock will be kept to consume
the excellent roughage raised.
a continuous mass of gashes and | several   weeks    ago    and   se-
bruises, : cured a   place for his family
The stricken family has theJ ou a biK farm' Jos. Schmidt-
sympathy of the community.!bauer expects to get work on
Funeral services will beheld at |the sanie' ov ou ? nearby
St. Joseph's church Friday alter-  farm-
noon at two o'clock. jyow   js   (]„,    t}m(J    f()|.   aij
"Tis the wink   of   an   eye. the  good farmers to look careful-
draft of a breath, Jy iut0 tile condition of their
From the fullness of life, to the farm machinery.    An inventory of farm machinery should
be made, and that while it is
The War From
Another Angle
We are often confronted with the
question: How is it that God permit*
such wholesale slaughter of human bu-
ings as is common in wars?
First we must consider that
there is existing in this world much
wickedness. The Almighty does u<>t
wish this any more than he wishes pSO
pie to mak" war ou each other, and
kill each other. No one can deny the
fad that we are instruments iu the
hands of God. So may the Almighty
use a nation as the means of punishing
those nations that have become so < irrupt that they have earned the wrath
of God.
As our Lord has selected Judith to
slay Holofornos, because she was the
most chaste, the most pure, so will Goil
select the most morally clean nation as
His instrument to mete out the punishment.
When crime becomes general, depravity rampant, then He will serid war or
pestilence as a means of punishment.
As nothing happens at random oi without the will of God, we can safely say
that He is the Supreme Ruler over all
the rulers.
We. as human beings, have diversified opinion;-, have many remedies to
offer or ways in which we would end
this war, but we too often foot our
bill without consulting the Landlord."
To err is human, so may most articles on the war be subjected to strict
censorship. If the writers of these
many sided articles would dwell more
on Divine destiny they would not so
often make such blunders as is the
case. Some are departing from the
path "f reason to cause us rauch astonishment.
Considering tlie aforesaid should
ho\\e\er not be construed as dfscoun-
tenanciiig a discussion of the present
conflict or a prediction of possibilities
in the l-hiropean war, but in doing so
we should always be governed by
Christian motives, ami call to our
memory the teachings ol' the Great
Na/arine.
To say that theie will be no more
crowned heads in Europe after this
treat   war  is  pure  rot.
—,1. L.  Sohmann.
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
HOUSE KILLS DRY MEASURE
Resolution   for   Submission   of   Constitutional   Amendment   to   People
Fails  of  Adoption.
mmsm
paleness of death.''
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Holstein Park News,
Shoirfd Have
being made, every machine
should be carefully examined:
also that note should be made
Bdtef  DfcUflcKTe oi'any repairs nei-ssary. Such
"    I repairs should  be completed
'before   the   rush   of   spring
work begins.
Main street   ot   Pierz   needs
drainage   in   two   places.   One
place is the stretch from Blake's J- S. Grier, a resident of
corner to Mandts place; the'Rucker for 18 }'eaI's< left
other place is in uupef town  in ' for Canada Tuesday morning
i
buildings,   thus   giving   easy   access   to
the city of Hillman and other points.
Those attending the farewell party
at G. W. Waller'* Wednesday evening
in honor of the Grier family, were Mr.
and Mrs. Thompson. Miss Nellie Martin, Messrs Alva, Sam ami Kd Martin,
.1. R. Taylor and wife and son Donald,
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sanborn, also Bert
Sanborn.
('. E. Look was a business caller on
Justice Sanborn  Monday.
The  .1.   N.   Lease  family   are   selling
their  stock,  machinery     and     personal
property,   preparatory   to   returning   to
St.  Cloud.    The poor    health     of    Mr.
earth   has    healed     her    wounded , Lease is the reason of the change.
breast, Geo. Kelly has a very good cow. She
The cannons plow the field no more; pa making one pound of butter per day
The heroes rest! O. let them rest
In peace along the peaceful shore!
They fought  for peace, for peace tliey
fell;
They sleep in peace, and all is well.
M. Manning, who recently moved up
from Iowa, has rented the Lamot farm
for the summer, while he is building on
his land. The negotiations and closing
of the deal were made by the .1. li.
Taylor Heal Estate company of Morrison  coustV,  a   voting  but   thriving con-I ,,.. ,, , . Hja  nhlce is    '21      IllileS     fl'OII)
■'.".,     .   .    ....     lefarng'e. When the roads are dry > iX1° J'ia»-C 1D   -L    "'""    J,um
cern.    Mr.  Manning intends to  build a   B        " m  ., , ,., io    ,,
road through the tamarack east of the  everywhere else one is   sure   to   -inDiine, wuere  lony   woiKe
mul mud puddles in   these   two lived'    "Xt is   a   dr*    Wintry
George Myers, tlie butter-
maker for the Lastrup creamery arrived from Brooten
last week, and after a short
visit witli Bayer, our tatter*
maker, began his duties in
his new field. Mr. livers'
family will not come for the
present, but the rooms over
the creamery formerly occupied by Steve Gross, are reserved for him.
GENERAL
MARKET REPORTS.
front and up    beyond   the   Gau
where he has a 160 acre fa mi.
in
places. Qwiijg to the cement
walks, the water cannot drain,
and has to wait for the sun to
evaporate it.
West Pierz News
Hem"}' Meyer of Parker   town
'and there are no trees nor
'even shrubs to be seen..' said
!Mr. Grier. "One exception
is a small willow about two
feet high on my claim. Ihave
been told that i might strike
water not very far from the
surface  under  this  willow."
Trying out a new car on a
TH
visited his parents in Pies* and  new country road the   motor-
at the same   time   visited   rela-' igt gt() ,   tQ       iek
lives out this way. |   ., .     .     ,    ,       ....
• old man, who looked as it he
besides furnishing a familv of five with
,. .,      ...       ,* n'   '„.<> attending-school at Little Falls,
all the milk and cream they use.
Kate  Neisius. who   has  been  might like a   ride,   and    who
admitted that it was his li ist
for   Easter
The  holds  forget   the  battles  fought.
The trenches wave in golden grain:
Shall we neglect  the lessons taught,
And tear the wounds agape again.'
Sweet Mother  Nature, nurse the land.
new electric line.
Old doe has passed away. 1'^s returned   home
Hd    Thompson    purchased    a    fresh   vacation.
milch cow from the Longmeadow Stock
Farm   company,  last   Monday.
Chas.   Sanborn   and   wife   -visited   at
M.  Sanborn's Sunday.
The   town   of   Hillman   is   getting   to
be   very   metropolitan.     It   now   boasts
a pick-pocket.    Hillman  would  do well
And heal her wounds with gentle hand,   to perfect  its police system.    We have
made    a    very    thorough    investigation
Lo!  peace on earth! Lo! flock aud fold!   and  find   that  the  ■■rime  was  .ommited    horse troill .lollll   Kobilka.
Lo!   rich  abundance, fat  increase. in  broad   day   light   and   in   a   crowded
And  valleys clad  in  sheen  of gold! department  store of said city.  Let  this
O, rise and sing a  song of peace! be  a   warning to  the  ladies.     It   is  best    employed  ill  this town.
For Theseus roams the land no more,       to  stav   by  the  old   fashioned   pockets
ind Janus  rests with  rusted door. of  your  grandmothers  and  let  the  new School ill  District 78 will Open   <.01Hlcl|>U< UB        WUCCO
—Joaquin Miller,  fashioned ones alone. ayain on Wednesday April   7th.  am t no trees.
experience in an automobile.
The machine was going pret-
A crew of surveyors is here inlfy fast when it skid on a soft
the town of Huh with   the   view!8pot and    rau    iIlto   a    tree.
'  None were hurt, but   as   the
old man picked    himself    up
Andrew   Seelen    bought   his  )le     g^d    to    the    motorist:
and   onty"\Vell. that was   goin   some.
j But. say. mister,   there's  mie
Harry  Miller  of   Hillman   is  tiling I'd like to ask ye. How
•rdb ye stop one of these   here
there
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
'Vheat, No. 1,      1.28
Wheat, No. 2       1/26
Plax,         1.H0
liar ley ..     05
liye    !;08
Oats       :o
Ear Corn       .">(>
Hay . $5.00
liutter, Creamery ..       37
Dairy        -7
Kggs        15
Flour. Best      3.60
"    Straight      3.50
Low grade flour 1.8C
Bran    1.40
Shorts   1.45
Clacked Corn &0 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans       2.00
Onions	
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday     	
Friday	
Saturday.-   ...
Monday	
Tuesday	
Wednesday	
South St. Paul
Live Stock/Market.
s    $7.7?) to
s and Heifer
Calves, stead\ .
Feeders
When the lower house of the legis
lature voted to adont the majority re
port of the temperance committee
recommending indefinite postponement of the I^irlmore-Davls resolution
submitting to the people at the 1916
election a constitutional amendment
prohibiting the sale of linuor in Minnesota it ended all hope of temper
ance advocates for additional lei
tion   at  Oils  session.
The resolution was the one which
which was sprung so suddenly In the
house soon after the county option
bill was passed.
The vote for Indefinite postponement was 80. of which 14 voted for
((•enty option.
In the senate temperance commit
Aide prohibition received an
other body blow when the Qandrud
resolution, similar to the Larlniore
r>avis resolution, was recommended
for   Indefinite   postponement.
VICTORY FOR ITS OPPONENTS
Forestry   Appropriation   Bill   Returned
to Committee.
A motion by Representative Warner to return to the appropriations
committee the bills carrying a total
appropriation of ?:t30,noo for the state
forestry department prevailed in the
lower house of the legislature by a
vote of SH to 48. This was considered
by opponents of the forestry department  as a victory.
The motion stipulated that thi
prcprlntions committee and th<'
ate finance committee should tl
out the matter together and the bills
bo returned to the house Includl
the omnibus appropriation bill.
As    the    appropriations    comin
had   talten  no  action   on  the  bill
ii   tli'-\    had   been   consider!
public   hearings,   it   was   pointed   out
on  the floor that this was a little Irregular.
SHOOTS WIFE AND HIMSELF
Domestic     Difficulties     Culminate     in
Tragedy  at  St.   Paul.
Three   children   are   fatherless
may he orphans as a result of tl
hen Clay.
ton Smith of St. Paul, forty-three
years old, a carpenter, shot down bis
wife and then tired a bullet into bis;
brain, lulling himself. The wife, with
a bullet wound in the head, is said to'
be dying at the city hospital.
The tragedy at  the Smith home, ac-;
cording to the statement of the children  and   relatives,  followed  domestic
troubles    which    reached    a    climax.
March  8,   when   the  husband   was  ar;
rested for beating Mrs. Smith
was   convicted  of  d [orderlj   conduct
in municipal court,    iven a snsp' ;
sentence   at   the   request   of  his   wife;
and   ordered   to   remain   away
home.
SUFFRAGISTS    GAIN    POINT!
Majority  Report Overruled  by   Minnesota   House.
Woman suffrage scored a victory in
the lower house of the legislature
when the majority report of th<-
tions committee recommending for
indeimite postponement the bill
which would extend the franchise to
women in presidential elections was
overridden and the minority report
recommending the bill for passage
and placing It on general orders was
adopted by a vote of 65 to 44.
Proponents of woman suffrage
were elated and declared that they
now -Ibllity  of  forcing  the
bill   through   the   house   and   to   tbe
senate.    It is probable an effort  will
be made to have tin- measure made a
il  order  in  the  house.
BILL KILLED B> COMMITTEE
Westlake    Measure    Would    ir-rease
Railroad  Fares.
Senator Westlake's bill to raise pas-'
senger   fares   0 sota   railroads!
j   cents   a   mile   was   killed   by;
unanimous   vote   of  the   senate   com-'
mittee  on   railroads   and   warehouses'
after a further hearing had been |
to J. B   Shean and  K.  \V   Hoot, attor-;
neys  for  the  Omaha and   Milwaukee]
roads.    Senator Kdward Rustad, chairman   of   the   committee,   said   that   ln:
view of the pending Investigation by
the   interstate  commerce  commission
he did net think this a proper time
for the  state to decide the question.
Senator O.  A.  I.ende said there was
not proper time at this session for an
adequate Investigation.
Minnesota Oil Inspector.
A. J. Ruth of Mankato, Democratic
candidate for state auditor at tbe November election, lias been appointed
oil inspector by Ciovernor Hammond.
He will succeed Guy A. Eaton of Du-
n Kberbart appointee, who has
had the office four years.
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