Saturday, March 14, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 14

March 14, 19731 – Camp Release State Monument was the first property added to the Minn. state park system and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on this date.

The monument is located on the edge of Montevideo, Minn., just off Highway 212. The Camp Release Monument stands as a reminder of Minnesota's early state history. The Minnesota River Valley and Montevideo played an integral part in the Dakota War of 1862.

In the fall of 1862, the Dakota tribes surrendered to Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley on a bluff overlooking the valley and the present day site of Montevideo
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1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Lac_qui_Parle_County,_Minnesota

2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Release_State_Monument



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Release_State_Monument

The Camp Release Monument was dedicated on July 4, 1894, commemorating the release of 269 captives and the surrender of about 1200 Dakota people at the end of the conflict. The four faces of the 51-footgranite monument are inscribed with information about the battles that took place along the Minnesota River during the conflict, the Dakota's surrender, and the creation of the monument.

Friday, March 13, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 13

March 13, 1961 - The loon (Gavia immer) was designated as Minnesota’s State Bird by the Legislature on this date. The statute (Minnesota Statutes 1.145) also states that “a photograph of the loon shall be preserved in the Office of the Secretary of State.”

http://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/symbols.aspx


 http://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/symbols.aspx
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Thursday, March 12, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 12

March 12, 1896 – Hennepin County Sheriff Alonzo Phillips appeared in probate court today before Judge Harvey to show cause why he should not be fined for contempt of court in connection with the case of Mrs. Carrie Olson, a woman held by authorities on the ground of insanity, but whom the sheriff at first refused to care for as he was ordered to do by Judge Harvey yesterday. Because of his refusal, Sheriff Phillips was placed under arrest, becoming the first Hennepin County sheriff to be arrested.

E. R. Lych appeared today as attorney for Sheriff Phillips, and at the opening of the proceedings took exception to the citation to show cause. The exceptions, however, were overruled. The court then reprimanded the sheriff and dismissed him without a fine.

It all began with the arrest of Mrs. Olson yesterday on grounds of insanity. She was brought before Judge Harvey, but the court ran out of time and she was not examined during the day. Late in the afternoon Judge Harvey released his warrant of arrest, and issued an order for the sheriff to arrest her. This order was immediately served upon the sheriff, who saw it as a scheme on the part of the judge to force him to take care of Mrs. Olson over night, after which she would again be placed in the care of the probate court.

“I guess I won’t do it,” Phillips said.

The clerk departed and returned to Judge Harvey with the sheriff’s response.

Mrs. Olson was brought to the central police station, and the judge immediately issued an order to the sheriff for him to appear before the court at 9 a.m. to show cause why he should not be fined for contempt of court. Since the serving of such a warrant could not, under the circumstance, be exercised by himself, Coroner Dennis, who according to law, is the officer upon whom that duty falls in such a case, performed that act. The sheriff’s arrest was made at 5 p.m., and is a result of one of many altercations that have taken place between the sheriff and Judge Harvey.

After the clerk had left the sheriff, the latter began to think a little about the matter, and finally decided to arrest Mrs. Olson. He then wrote out a warrant for the woman’s arrest, and dispatched a deputy to Judge Harvey’s court room. The deputy arrived too late, as the woman had already been brought to the jail. The deputy then went down to the jail where the warrant was served, and the woman was placed in the custody of the sheriff. She spent the night as a ward of the sheriff.

In leaving the court room today Sheriff Phillips said that he did not think he could receive a fair trial or justice where the judge was so prejudiced against him, and where the judge was the plaintiff, judge, jury and all.

“No,” he said, “I am not satisfied with the ruling. I would rather have been fined; then I could have carried it to the district court.” He thought that the case ought to have come before the superior court for trial in the first instance.


The Saint Paul Globe; “His Own Prisoner. Phillips the First Sheriff To Be Arrested. Sheriff Versus Court. The Culmination of His Fight With Probate Judge Harvey.”; March 12, 1897; p. 3.

The Saint Paul Globe; “A Free Man Again. Sheriff Phillips No Longer Under the Ban of the Law.”; March 13, 1897; p. 3.




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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 11

March 11, 1911 – “The Norman Mine, an open-pit mine near Virginia [Minn.], collapsed about 6 p.m. while 30 men were working 125 feet underground. Approximately 500,000 tons of debris—iron ore, rock, earth, and ice—buried 26 of the miners. Four men survived, three with serious injuries.”

http://dplreference.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/mine-accidents-march-11-1911-2/




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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 19

March 10, 19881Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, the roadside attractions on the southern entrance to the town of Bemidji, Minn., were placed on the National Register of Historic Places on this date.  “The statues have been hailed by the Kodak Company as the ‘second most photographed statues in the United States,’ behind only Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.”2

1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Beltrami_County,_Minnesota

2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bunyan_and_Babe_the_Blue_Ox


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Monday, March 9, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 9

March 9, 1920 - Postal inspectors have announced the recovery of at least $9,000 worth of Liberty bonds, checks and securities recently lost from a mail pouch on a Northern Pacific train en route from Bemidji to Minneapolis, and addressed to the Federal Reserve Bank, the Northwestern National Bank, the First and Security National Bank and the Minneapolis Trust Company.

Most of the bonds were recovered when inspectors uncovered a cache in a patch of woods in Midway where $1,800 in Liberty bonds were found. This find, made by the postal inspectors, led to the arrest of Mike Spanyir and Mike Bolak, a track foreman and laborer employed by the Northern Pacific Railroad. Spanyir is being held in the Ramsey County jail, but Bolak was released.

Still missing, however, is a valuable package of diamonds consigned to a Minneapolis jeweler. Postal inspectors have not been successful in recovering this loss.

There is still to be recovered $200 in Liberty bonds.

Authorities who have been working secretly on the case for the last 30 days assert that the bonds originally were lost. An investigation showed that a railway mail employee on the Northern Pacific’s incoming Bemidji train operated over the Minnesota & International Railroad, put a large package of the registered packages by mistake in a waste paper bag that hung on the side of the car alongside the registered mail pouch. The mail employee was exonerated.

The burlap bag, containing the waste paper and other refuse swept out of the cars, was transported to the Midway and thrown in a dump provided for that purpose. Here a track laborer, Mike Bolak, is said to have found the package and to have turned it over to the foreman, Mike Spanyir. Bolak is said to have given the authorities $800 worth of bonds and Spanyir, just before being placed in jail, led the authorities to the cache in Midway where the $1,800 worth of bonds were found.

Three thousand dollars’ worth of Public Service Corporation bonds of the Citizens Light, Heat and Power Company of Canby and addressed to the Minneapolis Trust Company, were also recovered according to J. L. Root, manager of the trust company’s bond department. Other individual bonds consigned to bond houses in Minneapolis were found.

The Minneapolis Trust Company recovered the securities after a Minneapolis insurance company had made good the loss, the officials having believed the bonds were stolen.


Bemidji  Daily Pioneer
; “P.O. Inspectors Recover $9,000 Liberty Bonds Lost In Mails. Were in Pouch on Train En Route From Bemidji to Minneapolis. Package of Diamonds Is Still Missing. Mail Employee Misplaces Package; Thrown Out as Waste; Found and Hidden.”; March 9, 1920; p. 1.




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Sunday, March 8, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 8

March 8, 1920“The U. S. Supreme Court settled a boundary squabble between Minnesota and Wisconsin over control of the Duluth harbor, finding in Minnesota's favor.”

http://www.thehistorypeople.com/data/docs/timeline-part2.pdf


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