The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-07-17
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE,

organization of the irst National
Bank of Rush City, with capital of
$4,000.
A Wright county medical society
was organized at Buffalo, almost all
of the doctors of the county being
present.
Settlers of Beltrami county report
game of all kinds more plentiful this
year than for many seasons past.
Deer are especially numerous.
Two. electricians met horrible
death at duluth at the grounds of the
Ferari Carnival. They are Moses
Blewett of Dulu.h ana George Rabis-
chung of 312 University avenue, ST.
Paul.
The Cass Lake land office was
register, receiver and two clerks were
present, with few prominent bust
ness men.
Patrolman Moses Zimmerman of
the West Side police precinct, ST.
Paul, was beaten into insensibility by
three young men. They took the po-
liceman's club from him and beat him
over the head and kicked him while
he was unconscious on Inc sidewalk.
Mike Welsh, a section foreman at
Burnett, seventeen miles from Du-
luth, employed by the Duluth, Mis-
sabe & Northern road, suffered the
loss of his right hand while setting off
giant crackers. He was brought to
Duluth on a special train to enter a
hospital.
The body of a man badly decom-
posed, having been in the water for
months, probably, was found near the
water power mill at Cloquet. Letters
in his pocket gave his name as Otto
Swanson. His drowning is supposed
to have been accidental.
Wolford and Franklin Nelson, sons
of Alexander Nelson, weSe drowned
in Lake st. Croix near the Atwood
A mill yards, Saltwater, while Latt-
ing. The boys were nine and ten
years of age.
Despondent over his inablIity to Sc
cure work and brooding over repeat
ed attacks of ill health, John Carl
son, a tailor living in st. Paul, stsshed
his throat from ear to ear witt a
razor and then lay down on a couch
in the parlor of his home and died.
Archie, the sixteen-months-old son
of A. d. Hall, st. Paul, fell from a
window, distance of forty feet, and
received serious injuries. The boy
sustained no fractures, but he is
thought to be hurt internally.
The fiscal year for The United
States government closed June 80,
and the customs receipt at the port
of ST. Paul amounted to $SSO,O00. The
internal revenue collections for the
district of Minnesota, comprising ST.
Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth, were
$1,465, 57O.62. The report of the post
office receipts is not finished, but
enough has been compiled to show an
increase of $4,000 over the business
of last year.
Mai. Burlingame, of Tracy, is do
ing little house cleaning for the
good of the city. Many business
places have been operating nickel-in-
the-slot machines without let or
hindrance for several years. The
mayor instructed the marshal to or
der every machine in town removed
at once, and by morning they had all
disappeared. Many small boys were
fooling away lots of money ana ac-
quiring the gambling habit by means
of them.
John NJ. McClintock of Duluth has
undertaken to mine iron ore from
under the waters of Longyear lake,
in the -Mesaoa range, without lower
ing the level of the wafer in the lake
or interfering with the riparian
rights of the other owners along the
shore. Just how Mr.. McClintock will
accomplish this he does not state, but
he has taken out a prospector's lease
and evidently intends to find a way
He is county attorney of st. Louis
county.
The increase of business at the Du-
luth land office for the fiscal year was
in excess of 100 per cent. The grand
total of receipts for the year was
$3.50, 147.54, as compared with $780,
513.75 for the preceding fiscal year.
Mrs. Peter Becker of 116 Seven
teenth avenue n, Minneapolis, is ~
ing at the city hospital with bad
knife wound under her left arm, in
fiicted by her husband, with small
pocket knife.
Carl August Finnell, st. Paul art
list, who considers it a disgrace to
work at anything but his art, was
adjudged insane by the Ramsey coun-
ty probate court. He was taken to
Rochester. Finnell has figured in po-
lice court hearings several times, al
ways being charged with non-support
of his wife. 1t is said that during
the past five years the artist has done
no work except paint unstable land
scapes and has contributed only Sc
to his family's support.
June ore shipments from Mime
sofa broke all records with a total on
roads coming into Duluth from the
Mesabi and Vermilion ore districts of
100000 gross tons. This makes
more than 100000 tons for the sea-