The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap
p,ned Throughout Confines
of North Star State.


The factory owners will hold state
convention in st. Paul
Hiram D. Brown dies at his home on
Portland avenue, st. Paul
Five companies of infantrymen from
Fort Smelling start overland to Lake
City.
The Johnson-Smith sash and door
factory in Minneapolis was destroyed
by fire. -.-.
The western automobiles will make
their endurance race from Chicago to
st. Paul.
An interesting book on poultry rails
ing is being ributed from the state
farm school .E .......
Carleton college was awarded vic.
tory in the joint debate with the Upper
Iowa university!
Pietro Villella, Ramsey county
prisoner at Saltwater, was pardoned
by the state board of pardons.
The quality of the milk sold in the
Twin Cities improves rapidly as the
work of inspection progresses.
The was department orders that the
historic towers at Fort Smelling be re-
stored to their original condition.
Ramsey county will have a license
inspector to round up alleged blind
pigs outside of the limits of st. Paul.
John p. Schmidt was appointed post
master at Ferrie, Hubbard county,
in place of NJ. NJ. Nygeard, resigned.
Lizzie E. Collev has been appointed
postmistress at Bergman, Pine county,
in place of August Bergman, resigned.
Charlotte Anderson is appointed post
mistress at Huntington, Kittson coun-
ty, in place of Isabel Doupe. resigned.
Ed. Peterson, deputy assessor of
Ramsey county, was appointed to the
position of deputy insurance commits
sioner
Twenty-one young men of st. Cloud
Joined the United States navy during
the weeks stay of the recruiting Off
GERS in that city.
Bell, milk dealer in St. Paul, was
fined $25 for selling milk and cream
that did not come up to the require
meEts of the law.
Harvey Rogers was found guilty of
using the mails for fraudulent pur-
poses by jury in Judge Lochren's
court in Minneapolis.
The application to convert the Sc
curity Bank of Luverne into the Farm
ers' National bank is approved by the
controller ofuthe currency.
The r. ,nt of commerce takes
ar She fight on trusts which
Is ue.-s l by the Independent oil
dealers in -, Tain Cities
]. w. Tavlo Asyears old, carpeu-
ter living in M neapolis, was proba-
bly, fataltyinjH. by a fall from bi.
cycle and kick by passing horse.
Matt Cannon. who was murdered at
Beaudette, made sworn statement to
the public examiner in which he pre-
ferred charges against the county at
torney.
State Auditor Iverson says that un-
der the Leech Lake forestry reserve
resolution in the legislature the state
would have lost land easily worth ST.
100000.
The South ST. Paul school board re-
ceived two bids for the proposed $685.
900 issue of school bonds, but rejected
both bids. The board declined to re-
advertise.
Col. c. H., Graves. of Duluth. the
newly appointed minister to Stock
holm, was rendered a banquet at the
Duluth Commercial club by the Seam
dinavian Americans
The Business Mems Protective asso-
citation at New Richland elected C. A.
Newgard, president; c. b. johnson,
vice president; Charles Spillane, secre-
tary, and II A. Anderson, treasurer.
At largely attended bar quet of the
Commercial club of Pelican Rapids,
committees were appointed to estab-
fish a park in the center OF the city,
plant trees and boulevard some streets.
With the $35o,OOo appropriation by
the legislature and the insurance from
the burned building, the university re-
gents will have S4O3, 600 with which to
erect a new main building on the cam
pus. ,...
A fire of unknown origin destroyed
the downtown warehouse of the Keller
Manufacturing COM any at Sank Cen
ter. Several thousand dollars worth
of cutters and fine lumber was con-
suned. Partial insurance was carried.
Citizens of Pelican Rapids have or
ganized a Commercial club for the
purpose of civic improvement. A
banquet is to be given soon. Officers:
o. NJ. Carr. president: F. j. Cooking,
vice president: S. o. Diffendorf, Sec
rotary; c. r. Frazee, treasurer.
The efficiency of the st. Paul fire de-
partment and the general stability of
St Paul buildings have been COM
mended in the annual report of In
surance Commissi oner Il. D. O'Brien
relative to fire insurance companies
doing business within the state.
The members of the Berglund Lum-
Der company, whose plant at White
Bear was destroyed by fire, announce
that it is very doubtful whether the
plant will be rebuilt. They place
their loss at $4,000, with but $4,000
insurance.
The proposition has been preached