The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14
GOPHER GOSSIP.


Stillwater.-The states prison pop
ulation increases 40.2 per cent in five
years.
St. Paul.-The jury brings in YER
dict of guilty against Thomas Cum
mings.
st. Paul.-Fred Durette, nine years
old, is drowned in pond on the
West side flats.
ST. Paul.-Ole Olson is overcome by
the heat while walking to town from
the workhouse.
st. Paul.-Miss Dawson defeats
Miss Mairs in the tennis tournament
at the Town and Country club.
Litehfield.-The heavy rains and
luxuriant growth of weeds interfere
with the quality of Minnesota, butter
Minneapolis.-The state board of
health will try to secure sanitary
conditions in railway smoking cars.
Duluth.-Lack of funds may pre-
vent Minnesota from sending a. team
to the national rifle tournament at
Seagirt, N. j.
Detroit.-The shaft broke on the
engine of a special on the Northern
Pacific the other day, and the engine
cab was ripped up some.
st. Paul.-The omission of a comma
in an ordinance prevents the fire
board from prohibiting the erection
of gas tanks within fire limits.
Mizpah.-A large black bear en-
tered town and was finally brought
to bay by the village marshal, VIII
Hangsleben, who killed it at the first
shot.
Crookston.-Over in the Big Fork
country there are many bears roam
ing in the swamps, and the story of
the trapping of big one is being
published.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of Ray W.
Jones of Minneapolis, lieutenant gov
ernor of Minnesota, are urging his
claims for appointment as governor
of Alaska.
Mankato.-Charles G. Swanson, a
former ice dealer, has filed a petition
in bankruptcy, his assets being $3.50,
all exempt, and his liabilities $4,000,
all unsecured.
Minneapolis.-A great gain in bank
clearings for the last six months is
shown over the corresponding period
of last year. The increase is no less
than $54,756,033.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. county trout
streams have this week been i'm
proved by the planting of twenty
cans of trout fry received from the
state fish hatchery.
Elbow Lake.-John Hutchinson, Jr.,
son of Prof. J. C. Hutchinson of the
Greek department of the university,
was drowned in Ten Mile lake, be-
tween here and Dalton.
st. Paul.-The attorney general re-
ceived the following inexplainable
telegram from Blooming Prairie: II
demand protection from hypnotists
and prosecution of parties.-H. j.
Nelson"
ST. Paul.-Annie Nelson, II years
of age, is about to make her third
trip between the United States and
Denmark because she has a mania
for self-destruction and neither coun-
try wants her.
nneapolis.-Vernon B. Martin,
well known young Minneapolis ath-
lete and university student, was
drowned during the Fourth of July
yacht races of the Minnetonka Boat
club on Lake Minnetonka.
st. Paula report of the business
at the st. Paul postoffice for the fiscal
year ending June 80, issued by Post
master McGill, shows an increase of
3,595.55 in the receipts over the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1904.
Crookston.-M. Langevin, farmer
residing four miles east of here, while
digging an artesian well on his farm
on the road to GENTLY, struck
regular gusher. The water shoots up
in the air distance of ten feet and
flows 60 barrels per hour.
Crookston.-Th best methods of
draining the hundreds of thousands
of acres of swamp lands in the north
ern part of the state will be discussed
at meeting of the Minnesota Drain
age league, which will be held here
on Aug. /. The organization OF the
league, which was begun a few weeks
ago, will be perfected.
st. Paul.-The state dairy and food
commission is having a hard time to
find samples of whisky that can be
called impure under the Minnesota
law. All of sixteen samples analysed
recently were found legal.
Moorhead.-P. August Eklund, sec
rotary of the Clay County Land Com
pany, is missing and it is reported
that there is a shortage in his ac-
counts, variously estimated at fro u
81, 900 to $1,000.
Northfeld.-The city council re-
fused to grant more than five saloon
licenses for next year. John HOWE.
Jr., who applied for license last
year, and carried his case to the SUI
preme court, where he lost, was de-
MED license again this year.
Preston.-The Fillmore County Old
Settlers, Soldiers and Sailors asso-
citation held it's annual reunion here.
Fine weather helped to make the day
ENJOYABLE. Officers of the old settlers
are: President, C. 81. Conkey of
Preston, and secretary, F. E. Titus
of Lenora.