The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-06
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.


A man, evidently a woodsman. died
on the Omaha train from Duluth to st.
Paul.
The Clearwater Telephone company
was organized with capital stock of
$4,000.
The Shaft-Pierce Shoe company may
remove its plant from Minneapolis to
Faribault.
Improvements are to be made in the
telephone service at Crookston, espec-
tally the toll service
Sug-waun-dug a Chippewa Indian,
belonging to the Leech Lake Pillagea
band, was frozen to death.
j. Saltman was robbed of an over
coat containing $3.50 in the 500 railroad
yards in Northeast Minneapolis.
The Native Sons of Minnesota have
perfected an organization and will
hereafter hold annual meetings.
A United States photographer will be
stationed near Crookston to observe the
fluctuations of the Red Lake river.
A man near Cass Lake was arrested
on the charge of stealing logs. He adj
mitted taking the logs, but said he was
joking.
c. Andert, of Belle PLANE, while de-
spondent over i'll health, hanged him
self to the knob of a door. He was 72
years old.
Frans Gronberg, a stranger who
speaks five different languages, tried
to commit suicide at Duluth by taking
chloroform.
Charles Hubert, aged 10, and Oscar
We'll, aged 1s, had narrow escape
from asphyxiation in their room in
Minneapolis. -
Peter Monson was sentenced by
Judge Dickinson of Minneapolis to
serve sixty days in the workhouse for
beating his wife.
tits now practically certain that the
American association will give up its
idea of transferring the st. Paul base
ball club to Chicago.
'Det Norska Selskab i America" is
the name of a society organized in Min
neapolis by prominent Norwegians OF
the northwestern states.
The Holland State bank of Holland
Pipestone county, with a capital of So
900, was authorized by the public ex.
aminer to commence business.
Beecher III. Ward of Fairmont was
appointed by Gov. Van SAINT a member
of the game and fish commission to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation
of w. p. Hill.
The town hall at Excelsior was sold
at auction for 5000. The village OF
Excelsior owned two-ninths interest
in the building and the township the
remainder
A mutilated mail pouch marked
'Wayzata to Minneapolis" and con
tanning III letters mailed at Wayzata
was found on the Great Northern
tracks near Cedar Lake
Governor Van SAINT has appointed
Charles w. McKillip of Faribault 6
member of the state board of defec
tives to succeed r. A. Mott.
Eugene A. Bryant was convicted in
the federal court at ST. Paul of coun
terfeiting. Bryent was indicted
jointly with Edward Brown.
The North Dakota Editorial delega
ton will be in ST. Paul during the
first part of February. H. P. Hall ha:
been delegated to formulate plan o.
entertainment.
w. D. Ellsworth, the defaulting
postmaster at Evelyth, who has beer
at liberty under a bond for $4,000
with nine sureties, was taken into
custody yesterday.
Because of the numerous artesiaI
wells now existing in ST. Paul, tht
city water department estimates tha
it's annual revenue is depleted to the
extent of nearly $4,000.
The house committee in congress:
on public lands ordered a favorable
report on Senator Clapp's bill extend
ing the townsite laws to the cedeo
Indian lands in Minnesota.
Private John Kyllo, member of trool
G of the Thirteenth cavalry at For
Smelling, has been discharged from
duty and sentenced to one year at hare
labor on charge of desertion.
Sylvester Montour, an expressmar
living in West st. Paul, placed SIS il
bills in his heating stove for safe keep
ing, and then later in the day forgo
about the money being there and kin
died fire. The money was destroyed
Adjutant General Libbey has made
q rennisition on the war deWartment