E. K. Slater, state dairy and food
commissioner, has issued a general
report of the progress made in the
investigation of the milk supply of
the state. He states that since the
investigation was commenced several
weeks ago 4,106 samples have been
collected and of these 643 were ijle
gal.
Judge Cray at Mankato has decid
ed that Philip Liesch, publisher of thp
Brown County Journal at New Ulm,
is in contempt of court because he
published a certain article in the
Koch case and imposed a fine of $I5e.
Notice
or appeal was given and the
court granted a stay of proceedings
until May 8.
Alleging that graft, favoritism and
protection of crime have run riot in
Beltrami
county for the past several
years Public Examiner P. A. Kerst
has filed a report with Governor
Johnson asking that two county com
missioners and the county attorney be
suspended
and that a commission
r.
,•
u,Fornierly
+he
of
Royal
Neighbors of America at a meeting of
the Minnesota camp in Minneapolis.
Lars Arsolud, a farmhand about
fifty years of age, was struck by an
Omaha prssenger train between Wai
tham and Hayfield aud instantly
killed.
Henry Heck, a prtsoner in the coun
ty jail at Long Prairie, ccmmitffeir
from Staples on the charge of bijli
way -robbery, has escaped from 'the
lockup.
Julius Kicke of Turtle Lake,
charged, with threatening to kill his
family, committed suicide by drinkiii
carbolic acid rather than fall into thj
sheriff's hands.
After vainly trying to cut his throat,
with a razor Seivert Anderson, arc-!
about sixty years, hanged himself i./
a shanty in Minneapolis. He had bee
drinking heavily.
