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# NEWS IN MINNESOTA Winona Druids will build a temple. Minnesota editors held their 29th annual meeting at St. Paul. The flouring mill of Frank La Crosse, near Pelican Rapids, burned. H. L. Wold has sold the Hokah Chief to W. S. Moe and A. E. House. Judge Jacob Story of Winona is dead. He was a pioneer and prominent citizen. The nomination of R. T. O'Connor as marshal of Minnesota has been confirmed. Sixteen fatal accidents have occurred in the pineries of Pine county this winter. W. H. Laird, the Winona lumberman, was married to Mrs. Shawhan, a wealthy Tiffin (O.) widow. The first annual convention of Northwestern photographers was held at St. Paul Thursday and Friday. Four persons were seriously burned in an omnibus, which caught fire after being overturned near St. Cloud. Joint legislative committees of North Dakota and Minnesota agree to recommend a bill reducing freight rates. Watonwan county anti-horse thief association has a thousand members. Riders have been appointed in every town. George M. Fish and F. C. Baird, proprietors of the bank of Graceville, made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. A Northern Pacific sleeper was derailed near Fergus Falls. There were only two occupants and they sustained slight injuries. It is stated that the Rock Island will build the Jackson and Southern branch this sesson. It will run north and south through Jackson. The government Indian school at White Earth reservation burned. A lamp explosion is given as the cause. Three hundred people were in attendance. There was no loss of life. Judge Severance has denied the petition for the appointment of a receiver for the Mankato Mercantile company. Small claims have been paid in full and larger creditors have agreed to allow business to continue. In looking over the ruins of the government school building, which burned at White Earth agency, charred bones were found, supposed to be those of a boy named Peter Donnell, who could not be found after the fire. Andrew Johnson, a wealthy farmer of Henning, states that he was stumped for a horse trade by a man named Berg and that while they were examining each other's horses Berg suddenly mounted his horse and galloped away. The village of Rosean, the county seat of the new county of Roseau, was duly incorporated Feb. 21 by a majority vote of 51. The citizens will ask the authorities at Washington to change the name of the postoffice form Jadis to Roseau. The election of village officers will take place March 12. Minnesota editors elected the following officers at their state convention: President, C. C. Whitney, Marshall News-Messenger; first vice president, Alvah Eastman, St. Cloud Journal-Press; second vice president, W. R. Edwards, Tracy Trumpet; third vice president, S. A. Langum, Preston Times; recording secretary, M.J. Dowling, Renville Star-Farmer; treasurer, David Ramaley, A. O. U. W. Guide. The state fire relief commission and the joint committee met at St. Paul Thursday. C. A. Pillsbury, Kenneth Clark and Mr. Hart represented the commission. G. D. Holt, agent of the commission at Hinckley, read a report of what had been done at that point. A subcommittee was appointed to examine the accounts of the commission. The question of giving further relief to certain families was discussed, but no action was taken. The grand encampment of Odd Fellows, at St. Paul, elected the following officers: E. G. Bloomfield of Willmar, grand patriarch; grand senior warden, W. W. Tratton, Faribault; grand high priest, J. F. Moran; grand scribe, S. F. Ferre, Minneapolis; grand treasurer, F. N. Ware, Amboy; grand junier warden, R. E. Patterson, Duluth, and grand representative, W. G. Nye, Minneapolis. Some important changes were made in the constitution. # GAME WARDENS MADE A HAUL