The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-01-17
BRIEF MINNESOTA NEWS


vertised for bids for the sale of $780,
600 of water bonds.
Gustav Berglund, an eccentric
young man, was found dead in hay
mo" al Genie, CITY.
Work has begun upon an old peo-
pies home at White Earth. Old In
dams are to be cared for.
Louis Helms barn, 1,400 bushels
of barley and a valuable horse, were
burned at Elba, insurance $500.
The official abstracter of Red Lake
county, Minnesota, has sold a half in
terest in the business for $4,000.
The new charter of Little Falls was
carried by large majority. This
means a new bridge across the Missis-'
sippi.
Burglars forced Michael Morissroe's
saloon at Chatfeld and secured few
bottles of high-grade whisky and $4.90
in money.
David Greenberg, 25 years old, while
leading horse up Rosabel street in
st. Paul. was kicked in the face by
the animal.
The sisal fiber purchased by Warden
Wolfer while in the east and south is
now arriving, and the prison factory
is running at three-fourths its capac-
ity.
The Duluth board of education has
reelected Robert E. Denfeld superin-
tendent of the Duluth public schools
and increased his term from two to
three years.
Engineers report it will cost ST 1885,
900 instead of the original estimate,
81, 166, 457, to complete the revised prof.
ect for two locks and dams in the
Mississippi river, between Minneapo-
lis and ST. Paul.
Smallpox patients cost the city of
st. Paul just 500 each last year. Of
ITO patients, the cost was $10,905.
About $500 was collected from each of
them as could pay. The others were
a burden on the city.
The Great Northern station at
Crookston was robbed Sunday night.
Thieves entered the waiting room
through a window and crawled
through the little wicket into the
ticket office. They got away with
about $40.
Thomas S. Heggein and Andrew
Patrick, farmers, were killed at al
most the same time and in the same
manner near Fulda. They had been
in town and were evidently intoXi-
Gated. While on the road home each
was thrown from his wagon and
killed. -.s
AT meeting. of the Polish members
of the Sacred Heart Catholic church
il was decided to withdraw from that
congregation and build church.
Heretofore the Poles have worshipped
with the Bohemians. but since the
church burned few weeks ago con-
siderable friction has developed.
John w. Olsen, state suerintendent
of schools, agrees with his predecessor,
j. H. Lewis, in favoring the study of
agriculture in the rural schools. The
plan. has been endorsed by the Mime
| sofa Educational Association.
At the annual meeting of the Da-
kota County Agricultural Association
the following officers were elected:
President. j. B. Kelly; secretary, w.
L. Parker; treasurer, w. 81. Brownell.
Duncan Campbell of Duluth, aged
%, pleaded guilty to abduction and
was sentenced to the st. Cloud re-
| formatory. His pleading guilty lifted
aged father.
L. C. Spooner has given the large
| block which was burned to the viii
| lage of Morris, if same is rebuilt at
once, as a public library. There will
be stores and offices in the building.
The West Duluth republicans have
| taken up the subject of the purchase
of the water plant that furnishes that
| end of the city with water as a cam
paign cry. The West Duluth plant is
separate from the Duluth plant, which
is owned by the city.
If the city council of st. Paul had
| let contracts for asphalt paving last
year when the asphalt companies were
at war, it would have saved the city
very tidy sum of money. The two
warning concerns have now evidently
gotten together again, and asphalt
paving will come high this year.
William T. Smith of Des Moines,
vice president and manager of the
Continental Railway Company, has
written Secretary A. G. Clauson of
| the Minnesota railway commission for
maps and information about the rail-
way laws of Minnesota. He inclosed
maps showing the projected route.
An electric railway from DEBORAH,
Ia, to connect with the Minneapolis
and St. Paul system, is contemplated
by a syndicate of Minnesota and Iowa
capitalists, which filed articles of in
corporation today.
An old barn standing near the new
government building in Duluth is SO
rickety that the people won't pass it
for fear it will fall down and spread
them all over the harbor scenery, and
they're pushing the building inspec-
tor to have it condemned.
Eric Ericsson, postmaster and JUS
tice of the peace of the town of INDIE
pendence and former deputy game
warden, was found guilty by jury
in municipal court here of violating
the game laws by having two deer
carcasses in his possession after close
of the deer season.
B. Holrecht, alias Daniel Hobart,
the missing janitor of the Y. NJ. c. A.
building in st. Paul. who decamped
in haste with $S5 from the secretary's
safe, was arrested in Omaha and
will be returned to Minnesota with
out delay. He was engaged as jani-