The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-02-20
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

Crookston poStoftice will be started
on March 2.
Patrons of mail routes at Spring
field are complaining that their mail
boxes are being broken open.
S. A. Farnsworth of ST. Paul has
been elected grand master of the Min
nesota Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows.
c. S. c. Christensen was instantly
killed by an east-bound Northwest
ern passenger train at Mankato, while
walking along the track. He was one
of the oldest and best known resi-
dents.
The name of the Washburn postoffice
Hennepin county, has been changed to
Eden Prairie, the name of the railroad
town.
Litchfield will have new creamery
which will cost in the neighborhood of
$4,000. 1t will be built early in the
spring.
The state university has RENTED to
the auditors Office $10,681.50, fees re-
ceived from students for the second
semester.
Bridget Stappleton of Minneapolis
started the kitchen fire with kerosene.
An explosion followed and she was
burned to death.
Harold c. Brown. clerk in the
Bank of Commerce, Minneapolis, COM
mitted suicide by shooting. His ac-
counts were all straight.
Fire in d. Retma's general store at
Clara City damaged the stock to the
amount of $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The building was saved.
Professor Ayers is new member
of the faculty at the Springfield nor
NAL in place of Miss Swezy, who re-
signed'on account of i'll health.
The big mill of the Midland Linseed
Oil company, in the Midway district,
has been on the verge of closing down
for week, owing to the car situation.
From day to day the management has
carried along operations, straining ev-
cry point to keep the plant going,
Influenced, not alone by desire to fill
contracts, but by consideration for
the employees.
Major Scott, acting Indian agent of
the Chippewa agency, paid off at Cass
Lake on the 4th. Each man, woman
and child received $24.55, and about
$4,000 was distributed among them.
A deal involving the transfer of ii
tie to 16 sections of land in Beltrami
county, Mimi, and the payment. of
over 100000 was made a few days
ago. This is the largest land deal
that was ever made in northern Min
nesota.
The stockholders of the State bank
of Blooming Prairie voted to double
the capital stock by increasing it to
$4,000, with surplus of $4,000. The
new stock has been subscribed by sew
eral business men.
Only two teachers wrote for first
grade certificates at the recent exami-
nation in Crookston. and the superin-
tendent suggests that districts want
ing teachers of that grade had better
file their applications early.
ST. Mary's hospital at Rochester will
build an addition in the spring which
will be S2I feet east and 40 feet in
depth north and south. The land was
staked out yesterday.
What is believed to be the largest
tree in the state is on the farm of o.
Mikkelser, a mile west of Red Lake
Falls. 1t is a cottonwood and meas
ures twenty-eight feet in circumfer-
ence.
Rural free delivery service was or
dered established in Minnesota COM
mencing March 2, as follows: Lans-
ing, Mower county, one carrier;
Spring Valley, Fillmore county, addi-
tional service, two carriers.
Winona's first primary election
passed off very quietly. The vote was
light, owing largely to the fact that
there were no contests on the republic
can ticket, and none for two offices
On the democratic ticket.
The freight elevator of the Red
Wing Furniture company broke, fall
ing to the ground floor. Fred Seeberg
had three ribs broken and sustained
other injuries.
A petition has been formulated for a
new city charter for Ely and the coun-
ell fixed March for the holding of a
special election to vote on the pro-
posed new instrument.
A cooperative farmers creamery as
ISOLATION was organized at Longs Sid
ing, few miles north of Princeton.
The association will erect $4,000
creamery next spring.
Ira Fairchild, one of crowd of
eight privates who deserted from the
army garrison at Cheyenne, Wyo.,
Dec. "a, 1902, was arrested in Min
neapolis by Sergeant Riviere, and is
now being held waiting action on the
part of federal authorities.
A spirited debate between the high
schools of Owatonna and Austin was
decided in favor of Austin, which had
the negative side of the question, "Re-
solved, That United States senator's
should be chosen by popular vote"
Valentine Svane, aged about As
years, comparative stranger, was
killed near Elko, the first station west
of Pennington on the new Farming
ton-Mankato branch of the Milwau-
kee. He was lying on the track near
curve when train struck him and
crushed his skull.
The German Lutherans held a meet