••'•v
Frank Smith, tho first of tho aua1c
tette indicted on the charge off mur
dering H. J. Ledbeter to ho tried,
was found guilty by tho jury at Map
kato of murder in the first degree, ail
charged in the indictment,
The trial Of Mrs Grace Ledbeter,
another of the four indicted, has now
begun. Although the state had tfot:
expected to commence it until Dec 27.
the defense insisted on an immediate
trial and the court granted it.
Farm School Dean Elected.
The regents of the state univer
sity have elected A. F. Woods
Washington, D. C., as dean of the state.
colle«
'.to
John W. Olsen, resigned. His salary
was fixed at $6,000.' This probably
will, end the complicated controversy
which has lasted since Dean E. iy.
Randall resigned, a little mora than a
year ago. ^V
.y Workman Killed at Cloquet.
Joseph Garsaw met death at Cloquet
driver twenty feet high and was buried
'with- a ^^^bi^Upasseng»|^i ^der broken timbers and" tho*^hammer1
train. Weighing. 2,500 pdiuTntf*. Hisrskiillv asi^i
:Thoccoasters
scattered for a- one leg "Were the- oilly'^partr- of his'1b|:
ldiock along the track. The ~sli4 was body that remained unbroken,.
reduced to kindling wood, .4%- leaves a wife and' four children.^
HEC0RB YEAR ON THE RANGE
Koads Haul More Iron dro ^Kan Ivor
Before.
The season of 1909 was the great
est in the history of the two range
railroads and all records for the ports
of Duluth and Two Harbors were
broken.
