The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-01-06

ware business OF Al. van DIE Hylng
thick and fast. NJ. Gleason, of
Loretto, Mich, is reported to be the
purchaser. As yet the sale has not
been consumated.
1t is reported that the mines in the
vicinity of Eveleth will oppose the
incorporation of the village as a city
because they believe that their taxa
tion will be heavier if they are includ-
ed in the city limits.
The interior department has held
up the sale of the timber on the Red
Lake reservation. This action fully
sustains the charges of Maj. Baldwin
that the Indians were being robbed
by dishonest estimators.
The decision of Secretary Francis
in the case of Patrick Costello VS..
William Bonnie has been received at
the United States land office at Dull
nth. The motion for review of the
decision in favor of Bonnie is denied.
Attorney Thomas created sensa-
tion at the last meeting Of the city
council by presentinga bill OF 81, l51 .43
for services in drawing up the city
charter and municipal court bill and
time spent in securing their passage
at St. Paul.
Considerable snow fell during the
night of Sunday and Monday morning.
The fall would not have bothered us
to any alarming extent only for the
fact of its drifting into ridges of such
mammoth proportions never seen in
this part of the county before.
W. T. James has taken a contract
to furnish 5000 ties for the d. & /. r.
from lands in section 5, 63-12, located
about II miles west of the city. The
ties are to be tamarack and bring
good figure Mr. James has sublet
the cutting to And. Wattila & Co.
Since the holiday rush the mer-
chants have been having rather
easy time of it. One of them re-
marked they would not wear out much
clothes with the exception of pants.
A remedy has been discovered in the
pants with the patent leather-lined
seat.
Several Of our citizens are suffering
from kleptomania as to clothes lines,
and several other institutions are the
victims Of the diseased. They will
be suffering from a mania of another
kind one of these evenings when they
run onto shot gun loaded with bird
shot or rOcksalt.
About 10 gallons Of Peerless juice
was distributed over the floors of the
Finn hall the evening of the enter
tainment. Those who participated
in the distribution can rest assured
that the work was done up brown .
The ''Afioat" chorus produced at the
end of the drama was very appro-
pirate.
The Tower Logging Co.. have be-
gun the shipment of two train loads
of logs per day to the Howe mill.
The mill wiki Start up about the 10th
of the month The mill will in all
probability run steady as large orders
are already in and almost empty
yards.
The Odd Fellows and Rebeccas are
making grand preparations for a
! public installation of officers at their
lodge rooms week from tomorrow
night. The installation will include
both the officers of the Odd Fellows
and Rebeccas and will be followed by
appropriate exercises and a banquet.
Invitations will be out in !; few days
and those fortunate enough to secure
one should not fail to be present.
Ely Fire Department No. l have
decided to give grand ball for the
benefit of the department On Friday
evening, January %. A committee
consisting of Peter Schaefer. Thos
Jury and Thos. Polkinghorn have been
appointed to act as arrangement COM
mittee with full power to appoint all
other necessary committees. The
fremen always have good turnouts
and this one promises to hold its own.
| A vicious COW, owned by Anton
Hegler, Friday attacked Howard
Whiteside and his dog team on Fourth
avenue and but for the timely inter-
ference Of the neighbors it would
have gone hard with Howard and his
team. The cow paved and horned
the. dogs who could not get away
until Omer Hebert with a stick of
wood beat her off. This is the second
| time the beast has INDUCED in such