The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-01-20
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap
pened Throughout Confines
of North Star State.

Uno OUneF udy'
The Farmers Mutual Insurance COM
pany will limit risks.
There will be 80 farmers Institutes
in Minnesota this month.
Senator Layburn will introduce
bill abolishing the grand jury.
Y. NJ. c. A. defeats Manchester in
the first game of the basket ball league.
The supreme council of the Bohe-
mian Catholic Workmen met in VII
mona.
The Mower County Poultry associa-
tion has closed it's fourth annual show
at Austin.
The St. Anthony Park residents ask
Sheriff Miesen to protect them from
highwaymen.
Beecher Ward, formerly state game
commissioner, is accused of violating
the game laws.
The annual meeting of the State
Agricultural society opens at the old
capitol, st. Paul.
The attendance at the farmers
course at the school of agriculture
breaks the record.
The Orpheum circuit officials an
nounce that they will erect 100000
theater in St. Paul.
A constitutional amendment to en-
power the state TO insure crops may be
prop osed by the Legislature,
CONGRESSMAN Voistead has recon-
mended the appointment of N. E.
Lewis as postmaster at Vesta. ~.
Farm school experts favor Congress
man Steenerson's bill to admit Cana
dian seed wheat free OF duty. ~
Howard Middleton, IA years old, &C
cidentally shot and killed himself while
hunting rabbits near Marshall.
The convention of the Interstate Ma
tional Guard association will be held
in st. Paul, probably on June IL.
The school principals advise that no
more medals be given to the winners
of athletic contests among students.
State Treasurer Blacks recommend
alton for the new standard Of weights
and measures probably will be adopted.
The state fair managers will ask the
legislature to appropriate $500, 900 for
live stock pavilion at the fair grounds.
The United States grand jury at Du-
luth Indicted Frank Benloit of Crook
.ste4 q sheAeharge of emllezzling from
the mails
freight train ran into broken
rail about two and halk miles west
of AitAin, causing foue Seen freight
GAYS to be wrecked
The original daft OF ,sAe Minnesota
peustitus;ap j. fossus-sl 80 -.
moval of the secretary on states rec
ords to the new capitel
Dralso & strsttton hiase Commenced
the work OF making a capt through ths
Fsyal mine dump for thaf new. track o.
81 Duiuth q Iron Rangef road.
\ 1oNinlder Bros hardwaae store in tbs
4 fasgtAof Dent has burned down.
Tie origin of the fire is unknown.
The loss is So, 800, insurance $4,000.
Provision for the extension and beau.
tifying of st. PauPs pah system is
made in two bills introduced in the
senate by Senator Dunn of St Paul.
Somberger, Blackjack man, quar-
relied with his wife and threatened to
burn the house and cremate her in it.
He was gathered in by the Bemidji
police
According to the records of the Du-
luth health department, the total mum
Der of births for the year 1904 was l, =
AS. of which T23 were male and 6se
female. The total number of deaths
was 773.
An engine on the Duluth, Mesabe 4
Northern road, in charge of Swan An
derson, ran down and almost instantly
killed julius Berg, his nephew, aged
10, who was visiting him from Mich
igan.
The smallpox report of the state
Jan. shows that there are 25 new
cases in Minnesota Ottertail county
has 8, Wadena 5, Todd and ST.
Louis g.
State Auditor Iverson has received a
check from the government for So, 700
which is federal aid because of the
maintenance of an agricultural school
in connection with the state univer
sity.
Articles of Incorporation. were filed
with the secretary of state by the
Great Northern Power company OF
Duluth, increasing the capital stock te
So, 900, 600 and the limit of liability te
SIC, 200, O00
Dr. H. M. Bracken, secretary of the
state board of health, brands as vicious
the method of selling tickets of admit
tance to patients in vogue at certain
hospitals.
The eleventh annual convention OF
the Minnesota Good Roads association
will be held in ST Paul, Jan. "a. The
location, construction and mainte-
nance of roads will be discussed, to
gether with proposed plans for state
and national cooperation in road
building
John Olson, of Rush City, was hand.
ling shotgun when it was accident.
ally discharged, the load entering and
tearing away the right side OF the face
of Louis Clausen. Clausen will proba
bly, lose an eye, while part of the nose
is shot away.
The Northern Pacific has just placed
an order for twenty-five huge locomo-
z1slxo1o tuna 70 he ,,ca1