Arthur Safford, a farmer living at Bennettville, near Aitkin, 

 Minn., is exhibiting the pelt of a 350-pound bear he killed in 

 his orchard a few nights ago. 



Mrs. Stafford discovered Bruin in the orchard about dusk, 

 about ten rods from their home. The first thought a colt had 

 invaded the place and was feasting on the apples that had 

 fallen from the trees and so notified her husband. He grabbed 

 his rifle, preferring to take no chances, and hastening to 

 where the animal was "nosing" about for apples, saw that the 

 brute had too shaggy a coat for a colt and, surmising it was 

 a bear, fired his weapon as the beast retreated toward the 

 timber with a grunt. 



It was too dark to give pursuit, but the next morning Mr. 

 Safford found Bruin stretched out dead. Duluth Herald. 



The Cook & Ketchum mill at Tower, Minn., has closed 

 down for the season. The mill is now being thoroughly over- 

 hauled preparatory to next season's run when some 30,000,000 

 feet of logs will likely be cut. During the winter a large 

 Corliss engine will be installed and with the consummation 

 of a probable deal for more timber, the running of the mill 

 will probably continue for fifteen years or more. 



Announcement is made by W. R. Mackenzie of the state 

 reclamation board that the state's ready-made farm, two 

 miles north of Blackduck, Minn., is to be sold to the highest 

 bidder in Bemidji on Nov. 12. 



The farm is made up of twenty acres of rich clay loam, 

 all cleared. It may be had for 15 per cent of the purchase 

 price with forty years' time at 4 per cent on the remainder. 

 This was one of the five tracts put in shape for farming by 

 the reclamation board which was established by the 1911 leg- 

 islature. 



The log cut for 1912 will exceed that of 1911, according to 

 information from the office of the surveyor general of logs 

 and lumber in the second Minnesota district. About 80,000,000 

 feet of logs have been cut already by the two mills operating 

 in Minneapolis this season. 



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