The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-01-03
BRIEF MINNESOTA NOTES.

sure at Brainerd was damaged by fire
$4,000 worth.
Mrs. Martin o'Hern, died from burns
caused by the ignition of her clothes from
dropped match.
". X. Bowes, a bartender who came to
minneapolis from Chicago a month ago,
oieo suddenly at the Beaufort hotel
by the terms of decree in foreclosure
the property of the Duluth Transfer
railway Company will be sold at auction
at the federal building on Jan. 2.
COL Gus Widell has presented the
WIN handsome pipe organ to cost
d,oco: 1t will be placed in the church
Within few weeks
Inc Moorhead Philosophical Club, COM
posed of college graduates, who have a
taste for philosophical research, has just
been organized
AT meeting of Endowment Rank No.
34n knights of Pythias of ST. Cloud, o.
II. Wood was elected president, F. E.
Kreatz, vice-president, and O. H. Havill,
secretary
Mayor Hugo of Duluth, received the
resignation of Chief of Police Crandall
and accepted it, to- take effect JAN l.
Crandall pleads business reasons as in
spring his resignation, but it is doubt
less due to political pressure.
Tie Patterson & Stevenson Company,
-
terday filed articles of Incorporation. The
nrm Will conduct a general jobbing bust
ness in hats and furs. The incorporators
are X. II. Patterson, Lavenia =. Patter-
son, f. w. Stevenson and Cora ]. Stew
enson.
The Minnesota Fiber Company has been
incorporated, with a capital of $65, 600 and
Will manufacture tow and products of
flax straw at Heron Lake. 1t controls
the latest patents of ]. T. Smith.
Fire in the basement of James Muir
phys saloon at Pipestone did slight
damage. 1t is supposed to have original
ed by lamp being upset by Joseph
Keller, an employee, who was suffocated
in the smoke before help could reach
him.
Wing Lung pleaded guilty before Judge
Elliott in Minneapolis to the charge of
operating an opium joint. H. B. Cham
berlain, his attorney, said Wing Lung
would return to China. Judge Elliott SEN
fenced him to pay a fine of $500, which
was paid.
A reduction of freight rates on the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific has
been promised for some months owing
to the increased volume of traffic. 1t
is now stated that new rates will be put
in effect soon after the first of the new
year.
In the contest between st. Louis and
Carleton counties as to which of them
is entitled to collect taxes from the Nit
chell and Mcclure Lumber Company of
Duluth upon a logging railroad which is
operated in Carleton county, State Au-
ditor Dunn, to whom the question was
referred, has decided in favor of Garlic
ton county.
John Mulcahy, an electrician in Mime
apclis, was caught by a revolving shaft
and every stitch of his clothing except his
shoes was torn from his body. He es-
capped with slight injury.
In a saloon row in Minneapolis, Claus
w. Carlson, was stabbed in the left side
of the abdomen, and is lingering at the
city hospital in great pain. The wound
was nearly two inches long, and laid
bare the viscera, which were replaced
only after charging the cut 1t is not
yet known whether the victim will sur
vive. John Johnson was arrested charg-
ed with the assault.
Workmen will begin Immediately bur-
rowing the tunnel which is to connect the
new state capitol with the power house,
300 feet away. 1t is to be an immense
hole, large enough for team and wagon
and will be bricked all through.
ST. Paul Masons have purchased an
SIS, 900 site for a new temple and will erect
100000 BUILDING. The two lots pur-
chased have a 100-foot frontage on Mar
ket by 12O feet on West Fourth.
Patrolman Charles c. Bahneman of the
81. Paul police department, discharged
his revolver at Special Police Office Peter
Raverty. at E. Seventh and Locust
streets and missed him.
Charles Berrier 9 years, is lying in
dangerous condition at his home in Min
neapolis, as a result of a coasting ac-
cident. The physician who is attending
him states that he has sustained a frac-
ture of the skull. Berrier fell off his
sled anu rolled over the sidewalk onto
pile of rock His head struck with
great violence and he was rendered un.
conscious.
A meeting of some of the Northwestern
governors is 20 be held at Helena, Mon
tana on Dec. Goth, to consider what
action to take concerning the so-called
railroad merger case. The governors of
South Dakota, Idaho and Washington
have sent word that they cannot be pres
ent, but Minnesota, North Dakota and
Montana will be represented. Gov. Her.
ried, of South Dakota, says nothing has
occurred as yet to disturb the railroad
rates and facilities in that state and he
does not think there can be anything for
some time at least.
Walter Wilmot says that he has Sc
cured possession of the Minneapolis fran
chise in the American association and if
so he is now a full-fledged baseball mag
nate. 1t will be pleasant news to the
Minneapolis fans to learn that the tam
gle has been unsnarled and that Wilmot
is the whole thing"
The gas well near Pelican Rapids is at
tracing a good deal of attention. The
gas was struck at a depth of lis feet.
A match was applied to the gas and 1t
burned until the pipe was closed.
Advance sheets of the seventeenth an
nual report of the Minnesota railway
commission show an increase of 1883
miles of track, but a decrease OF both
gross and net earnings.
Nels Olson, by liver Chelson, his guar
dian, has brought suit for $4,000 against
the Itasca Lumber Company for injuries
alleged to have been sustained last Feb
ruary near Deer River, MINI.
Dan Doone, said to be moulder re-
siding in st. Paul, is languishing in
cell at the Minneapolis lookup, charged
with attempted highway robbery.
Alex McCully of st. Paul, has brought
suit against Frank J. Poppier to recover
$500 damages for wounds inflicted ON his
boy by Poppier's dog. "
ST. Cloud, Mimi, Dec. A.-Special
agent Thorpe of the United States gener-
al land office, who has been working
since September in investigating eleven
eleven townships in st. Louis county
lanus claimed by the state as swamp
lands, has reported locating 271 forties
claimed by the state as swamp lands,
which he finds do not come under the