The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-08-14
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AND BE HAPPY.
JOS. BRACCO, Sole Agent.
Jos. J. SOkliCh, Manager.
Ely, minnesota.


at the Minnesota has resigned to
accept the position of professor of
mining engineering and metallurgy
at the state university. Mr. Denton
formerly held the same position at
the Michigan university.
Surveyor Nichols and his crew, have
about concluded the work of running
the lines and setting the grade for
the Fall lake cutoff road. The new
grade is one of the easiest yet found
in this country and will make an ex-
cellent piece of highway.
The Ironton Structural Steel plant,
of Ironton, which has been idle for a
long time, started up its new open
hearth furnaces Thursday and by the
middle Of next week it is expected
that the entire plant will be in active
operation. This will make employ
ment for a large number of now idle
men.
An engine and caboose were derail-
ed by half thrown switch in the
yard Friday night and it required all
that night and up to Saturday noon,
to again place it in running order.
No serious damage was done. The
brakeman who threw the switch did
not throw it far enough to catch,
hence the spread when the heavy
engine struck it.
President Greatsinger, of the Dull
nth & Iron Range, contemplates
erecting cottage on an island in
BURNSIDE lake before the season
closes. Frank A. Flower, of Superior
newspaper fame, also contemplates
the erection of cottage on his grave
yard island. This lake will in time
become one of the best patronized
summer resorts in the state.
An unknown floater was picked up
at Two Harbors last week. The man
was apparently of Scandinavian
origin, about 45 years old. sandy
moustache, not very well dressed,
weighed about $50 and was about five
feet eleven inches in height. The
coronor's jury pronounced the case
accidental drowning or suicide.
Nothing could be discovered as to the
identity of the man.
A pony trail has been cut by the
| Canadian crovarppoapt from Tonoo ct %
tion on the Canadian Pacific railway
to Sturgeon Falls on Seine river. the
head of steamboat navigation on
Rainy lake. The road is probably 20
miles in length. The proposed county
road from Duluth to the Rainy
country would make the country boom
provided the road was cut in the wet
season SO that dry ground could be
picked.
The Ely Miner neatly printed
weekly newspaper, is recent produc-
ton of the iron range edited by Peter
Schaefer, formerly associate editor Of
the Tower Journal. The paper gives
good grist Of local and general news
and made pleasing salute to the
public in its first issue. May its pro-
prietor reap very satisfactory reward
for his new Northumberland Rapids
Magnet.
An exchange says that laying on
of hands" for complaints, especially
in children, is now taking the place of
Christian science. A mother cured
her boy of the cigarette habit with
one dose. She laid her left hand on
the boys neck, her right hand ON a
substantial slipper, and then laid the
slipper where it would do the most
good. 1t effected cure and relapse
is not looked for.
The editor of the big daily paper.
who ridicules the country paper for
chronicling the fact that: .'Pete
Browns red cow had black calf last
week." or that Tom White had
given his house new coat of paint -
or that Billy Simpkins and Mehitable
Jones went to church to Podunk
Holler last Sunday" ought TO run his
eye-the one win the monocle-over
the slush he prints as society news.
before he sets up in business as
high-minded critic.
The kid" nuisance at the depot
every evening at the time of the in
coming passenger train is getting
more prevalent every day. Officer