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

| the other day.
The Farmers Mutual Insurance COM
pany will limit risks.
There will be 80 farmers institutes
in Minnesota this month.
Senator Layburn will introduce a
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-
milan 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.
Bcecher 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 "A $500, 900
theater in st. Paul.
A constitutional amendment to en-
power the state 20 insure crops may be
prop ,sed by the Legislature
Congressman Voistead has recon-
| mended the appointment of n. E.
Lewis as postmaster at Vesta
Farm school experts favor Congress-
man SteeaerSon's bill to admit Cana
dian seed wheat free of duty.
Howard Middleton, II years old, ac-
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 ~.
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 Benioit of Crook
stal. = .hetcharge of emiIezzling from
the mails.
A freight train ran info a broken
rail about two and haik miles west
csrs to be wrecked.
The original daft of sfsae Minnesots
enustitusiapis foar'~sA -
moval of the secretary o4 state's rec
ords to the new capitol
Dra,so & Stratton hiaNe commenced
the worlk OF making q c1lt through th,
Fayal mine dump fer theS new track o
81 Duluth & Iron Ranget road.
\1oNinkIer Bros hardware store in .hs
8 sa,gt@oi Dent has burned down.
| Tie origin of the fire lis unknown
The loss is 50, 800, insuran,, re $4,000.
Provision for the extension and bea u
tifying of St. Paurs paA system i:
made in two bills introduced in the
senate by Senator Dunn of St Paul.
Somberger, a Blackjack man, quar-
relied with his wife and threatened to
burn the house and cremate her in it.
He was gathered in by the Bemidj
police.
According to the records of the Du-
luth health department, the total mum
L Is E.,
AS, of which 723 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
board of health for the week ending
Jan. 9 shows that there are % new
cases in Minnesota Ottertail county
has 8, Wadena s, Todd and ST.
Louis 3.
State Auditor Iverson has received q
check from the government for So, 700
which is federal aid because of the
maintenance of an agricultural schoo
in connection with the state uuiver
sity.
Articles of Incorporation. were FLED
with the secretary of state by the
Great Northern Power company Of
Duluth, increasing the capital stock to
So, 900, 600 and the limit of liability tt
$4,000, 600
Dr. II. Nj. 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 o.
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-
+;yaS Of the Mi<adO tVpe. to be used