The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-20
MINNESOTA ITEMS.

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on tight by voters.
Gaylord-Business men have organ
| lied a commercial club. with a MEM
bership of thirty-five.
East Grand Forks.-The TriStats
| Telephone Co. was defeated in Its eff
/ forts to get a franchise here.
Chatfield.-The city election passed
off very quietly yesterday. License
| carried by forty-five majority.
Stillwater.-The site for the proposed
new state prison has been decided to
the state and the property owners paid
Duluth.-Navigation opened at the
Head of the Lakes when the Booth line
steamer Bon Ami cleared for north
shore points.
St. Cloud.-A commercial club was
organized last evening at the audi
forum of the public library, with
membership of 100.
Little Falls.-SamueI Jackson, of this
| city, was killed by an accident in saw
mill at Wycliffe, B. c., where he had
secured employment only a few days
| ago.
Pelican Rapids-This thriving little
| city has DCcIl ScIcClCu IOl tic 5dlAlClihA5
of the Minnesota district OF Norwegian
Lutheran synod to be held during the
week of June 90.
Hayfield.-Nels Peterson, eighty
four years DID, homeless and without
relatives. ended his life by taking
morphine at the farm house OF ]. ].
| Peterson, northeast OF here.
Minnea polis-The estate OF the lats
| John E. Grimes, of Minneapolis, was
certified to the state auditor today for
payment of the Inheritance tax. The
estate is appraised at s21,365.41, and
| the tax will be s56.s9.
Winona-On the first of May Wi
mona will have a board to control the
water works and the sewerage systems,
and these two municipal departments
| will then be taken out of the con-
| troll of the city council.
Mankato.-Chief of Police Donohue
| notified the proprietors OF slot ma
chimes that the giving Of cash prizes
would no longer be tolerated. An agita-
| ton has been started to do away with
/ the machines altogether.
Madelia-The Woodmen picnic of
the combined Southern and South
June q. This is the first time that
the two associations have held their
picnic at the same place.
Eveleth.-Lost in the old workings
OF the Adams mine, which he was
traversing with the supposed intention
of making an exit at shaft No. 2,
Walter Ojki, a Finn, about 80 years
| Of age, met with deadly gas.
Stillwater-Deals have been closed
for all the land required for the new
state prison site at South Saltwater.
comprising 156 acres, and for the land
| needed to give right-of-way for a spur
track to the factory buildings.
Hastings.-R. W. Miller and Kent
Moore of the Twenty eighth infantry
were brought from Fort Smelling, hav-
ing been held to the grand jury for
alleged larceny Of a horse which, it is
said, they drowned in the Minnesota
river
Bemidji.-Section men discovered the
dead and badly mutilated body of an
Indian about so years old, lying beside
the railroad track a quarter of a mile
west of Rosby. Both legs had been
| severed, one above the knee and the
other near the foot.
st. Peter-There is an exodus OF
business men from the village of
Vernon Center, Blue Earth county.
Many of its largest mercantile estab-
lishments are to be transported to
small town on the northwestern
frontier of Canada.
St. PauL-The state live stock and
sanitary board, according to the
found numerous cases of rabies, and
many horses, cattle, and sheep have
been infected by being bitten by mad
dogs, and have died.
Little FaIls.-Lucas Schrieber, a
West Side saloonkeeper, who was ar
rested on a charge of allowing a minor
to frequent his resort, pleaded guilty
in police court and paid a fine.
Schrieber was arrested as an example
to the saloon men of the city.
Monticello.-James Nugent, the
Wright county farmer, serving life
sentence at Saltwater, for killing his
14year-old daughter. will be liberated
on parole within six months, and at
the age of ga will leave the prison and
go home to join his faithful wife.
Mankato.-The third annual exhibi-
ton of the Minnesota Art Society is
in progress here. The exhibit IS dis
played at the new Carnegie library
building, where hundred oil paintings
by leading artists are on exhibition,
besides sculpture, fancy work and arts
and crafts.
Northfield.-The Carleton Glee club
left today for the annual Easter vaca-
ton tour. Nine concerts will be given
in southern Minnesota, one in South
Dakota and one in Mortified. The
club is unusually strong and has fine
program OF popular college glees in
terspersed with classical selections.
Winona--Provided right freight
rates can be secured, the manufacture
OF machines for saving flour gold and
for placer mining will be undertaken
in Winona on a large scale at the w.
L. Hardwick machine foundry, by the
Hardwicl & Weeds company backed
to the extent OF s150,000.
Bemidji.-Section men discovered the
fire the fatal shot that killed Rude
Tankovitch at West Duluth March 4.
but he was convicted OF manslaughter
In the first degree nevertheless. Matt
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