The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-15
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

Lumber Company has started.
The movement of settlers is heavier
than the railroads expected.
The Omaha road grants new wage
scale for telegraph operators.
The Winnipeg baseball team reports
for spring practice in st. Paul.
The Crookston people are having
trouble with bursted water mains.
The st. Paul dairymen will charge 6
cents for milk during the summer.
Several ST. Paul people are likely to
go to the ST. Louis fair by automo-
bile.
The railroads will be asked to CO.
operate in the immigration convcn-
ton.
Burglars loot store of G. E. Bruck-
ner on South Wabasha street, st.
Paul.
Labor Commissioner O'Donjll is
considering plan to supply harvest
hands.
E.. G.. Stringer of ST. Paul is elected
president of the Minnesota Bar as
ISOLATION.
Several cases of CHAMBERS have APP
peared among the horses about
Beardsley.
The state investment board has
more applications for loans than 1t
can satisfy.
The national guardsmen will be per-
mitted to use the new rifle range at
Fort Smelling.
The ST. Paul Typothetae is testing
in the courts whether labor unions
are bound by their contracts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Nasten of Lake
Park will celebrate their siNty-fourth
anniversary of their marriage.
A large public meeting was held at
the Davidson opera, ST. Cloud, to
boom the proposed tri-county fair.
John Renswick was found dead in
his room in Delano. He had been suf-
| fering from rheumatism of the heart.
The Third United States Infantry,
which was formerly stationed at Fort
Smelling, has been ordered to Alaska.
The Catholics of ST. Charles will
build ali $4,000 church to replace the
one destroyed by the cyclone last
| fall.
The body of Daniel Burgett, who
was drowned while crossing the Can
non river on Dec. 0, has been recov-
cred.
The Mining Range Development
Company of Duluth filed articles of
incorporation with the secretary of
state.
The body of Charles Moberg, who
was killed by his companions, is
found in box car at the Midway
transfer.
Fire at the Stephen Jail burned to
death Finnish woodsman who had
been confined there on charge of
drunkenness.
The secretary's Office of the Farm
ers' United Mutual Hail Insurance
company was removed from Pipestone
to West Concord.
The st. Paul ministers are planning
to organize a federation of ministers.
The work on improvements at Fort
Smelling is renewed.
One million four hundred thousand
acres of land have been added to the
acreage subject to the homestead
laws in Minnesota.
Eddie Isner, 13 years of age, was ac-
cidentally killed while playing with
a shotgun at his cousins home, four
miles east of Pequot.
w. B. Douglas was unable to at
tend the session of the supreme court
this morning, when the April term
opened, to be sworn in.
Charles Bickstrom was painfully in
iured in st. Paul by being struck on
the head with heavy timber from an
old barn which he was wrecking.
The Minnesota National Guard will
be allowed to use the new rifle range
at Fort Smelling, for which 500 acres
of land is now being condemned.
March proved another record-break-
ing month at the Minneapolis post.
office. For the first time the stamp
sales for March ran over 100000.
Secretary Caulfield figures that L..
100000 gallons of water were wasted
each day in Minneapolis during Feb
ruary to keep pipes from freezing.
The little four-year-old daughter OF
Marvin HARDWOOD, a farmer residing
about four miles from Chatfield, was
fatally burned while playing at the
house of neighbor whom she and
her father were visiting.
A strike of the stonecutters of Min
neapolis seems imminent. A difficult
ty between some of the contractors
and companies employing stonecut-
ters has arisen, and some of the mem
bers of the local stonecutters' union
are now out on strike.
The government will hold civil
service examination in st. Paul on
April 26, % and % for the appoint
lment of cadets for the revenue cutter
! service.
/ The Jail at Shevlin, seven miles east
was destroyed by fire. A stranger
had entered the Jail for nights
lodging and was seen smoking a clay
pipe. After the fire had been sub.
dued the charred remains of the man
were raked from the ruins.
Special Indian Agent Thomas
Downs has not been successful in Sc
curing the signatures of the Indians
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