The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-23
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

Ground has been broken for the
new hospital at Crookston.
The Office and lumber sheds of
Canada & Yates burned at Osakis.
The Northern Pacific railroad has Sc
cured terminal rights in Saltwater.
Henry Hill, who died in Minneapo-
lis, left an estate of nearly 100000.
Major Henderson of Minneapolis
was chosen commander of the Loyal
Legion.
LeSueur defeated Glenwood in the
oratorical contest for state champion
ship and the Journal Silver Cup.
Two rural free delivery routes have
been ordered established at st. Peter,
Nicollet county, Mimi, service to be-
gin July 1.
Work has begun on a new bank.
The building is expected to be ready
June 1. The State Bank of Wanda
was organized May S.
The ball game between the Du-
luth high school and Minneapolis Cen
trail high broke up in row, and the
SoIhS was given W DuluIu.
William Anderson, who recently
burglarized Nutting's grocery store
at Faribault, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to the reformatory.
The city council of Austin has vot-
ed the Southern Minnesota normal
college of this city $4,000, to be used
in the construction of new building.
Henry E. Harris, author of the nov
ell, "The King of Andora," died of pto-
maine at Duluth. He was at work on
another novel at the time of his
death.
Mrs. Ethel Searles of St. Paul,
Mimi, arrived in Golden, Colorado,
and found her 12-year-old boy an in
mate of the state industrial school
for boys.
Duluth, Minneapolis and Chicago
capitalists have organized what will
Land company, with a capitalization
of So, 100000.
A request submitted by Mime
apolis brewing company to have it's
gallon measure tested has develop the
fact that Minnesota has no standard
beer measure.
Workman in the ST. Paul shops of
the Omaha are planning boycott
against beef under an agreement
binding the signers not to eat beef
for thirty days.
Claims amounting to $14,S25 have
ln1 cf hn w nf
head for personal injury and damages
to the threshing machines which fell
through a bridge.
The lighting of the Minneapolis
Elks' carnival, which opens in this
city on June 2, seems likely to be
the most profigate illumination ever
attempted in the west.
The Spencer Grain company has
purchased sixteen country elevators
along~the Hastings & Dakota division
of the Milwaukee road formerly con-
trolled by S. Strong & Co.
Five boys made their escape from
the state training school at Red
Wing recently-Walter Freeze, Lam
bert Waller, Edward Hagman, Jack
Reed and Carl Fagelstrom.
Governor Van SAINT has appointed
siXty-nine delegates to represent Min
nesota at the national conference of
charities and corrections in Detroit,
Mich, May % to June 3.
A couple of prisoners took their de-
parture from the Crookston Jail We'd
nesday night without waiting to take
formal leave of the authorities. The
men had filed their way out.
The body of a newly born infant
was found yesterday floating in the
river above the Pike island boom. 1t
was that of male child, and is be-
lieved to have been drowned.
The Western Elevator company has
purchased the interests of the several
grain companies located at Winona,
which will be hereafter operated I'M
der the name of the Western Elevator
company. -
John z. Calderwood has resigned as
comptroller of the Twin City Rapid
Transit company to accept the posi-
ton of assistant to President J. L.
Greatsinger of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company.
The management of the Elks' Fair
June to IA promises that the at
fractions of the midway will be ths
best that money can employ. The best
features of former successes in other
cities have been secured for Minne7
apolis.
The largest price for fat steers ever
paid at the South st. Paul stock yards
was brought by small bunch of
steers, which sold at $3.50 hundred
pounds. This price prevailed only for
a short while, though later two car
loads sold for $3.50.
All of the property formerly owned
by the United States Flour Milling
company, which includes the CONSOLE
dated company's mills and other
plants in Minneapolis and elsewhere,
has been formally transferred to the
Standard Milling company.
Returns to the postoffice depart
ment show that the receipts of the
Minneapolis office in April were $780,
426, compared with SOS, 147 in April,
1901, an increase of 23.4 per cent. The
receipts of the st. Paul Office were