The Ely miner., 1907-02-01

OelHS DrOkon, as the DdldnCe at the enc
of the year was only $675.7s. The year
1899 was the one when the state came
out with the largest balance ever
shown by the auditors ledger. Ex-
elusive of money carried over from the
previous year, it then totaled s2,607,-
1887
ATTEMPTED HoLDUP.
ST. Paula daring attempt to hold
up street car at Fillmore avenue and
South Robert street was made by a
lone highwayman.
The car had stopped to let off some
passengers. Just as the conductor rang
the "go ahead" bell a man stepped in
front of the motorman's window and
attracted his attention. Motorman Ber-
nard S. Arndt, thinking that some
trouble had happened, opened the door
of his car to make inquiries. AS he
did so the man pointed a revolver at his
head.
Mr.. Arndt quickly closed the door Of
the vestibule and scrambled back into
the car through the window. When the
passengers, the motorman and con-
ductor got outside the car the man was
gone. Three men, it is said, were run
ming west on Fillmore avenue.
The police were notified and Sergeant
Dennis Mccarthy of the Ducas street
police station sent out several officers
A man giving the name Of William
Whipple twenty-eight years old and
stranger in the city, was arrested IN
q saloon near the Robert street bridge.
EXPERT BEEF CUTTING.
Hamline.-John Gosling is from Mis-
souri,, and if there is any one of the
component parts of beef's carcass
that he has not discovered, you will
have "to show" him. He gave what
he calls beef demonstration" at the
agricultural experiment station of the
university, before about 200 Of the short
course students and bunch of cattle
buyers from South st. Paul.
There is no man in the United States
who is better posted on the subject of
beefsteak than Mr.. Gosling. He was
the buyer of export cattle for some of
the biggest packing houses in the coun-
Try for several years; at present he is
engaged in the demonstration business,
giving his expert opinion on the choice
cuts of beef.
There were three beef CRITTERS" used
I'm the classroom-one of the five steers
that the school showed at the recent
fat stock show in Chicago; "fair to
good" steer from the farm, and a poor
skinny cow-creature whose carcass was
carved before the farmer students as
specific warning against killing the
wrong sort of "critter" to make beef
THE STATE WINS.
St Paul.-Judge Oscar HaIlam of the
Ramsey district court has granted the
request of the state of Minnesota for
a temporary injunction against the
Great Northern railways proposed
100000, 900 increase Of capital stock
The document was filed with the clerk
of court at $3.50 a. m.
Judge Hallam's decision is a COM
plete victory for the state in the action
brought last month by Attorney GEN
eral E. T. Young and his assistant, r.
A. Stone, to compel the railroad to rec
ognize the state railroad and warehouse
as provided in the laws of the state
commission before issuing the stock,
requiring railroads first to make ap-
plication to the commission and to Sc
cure its approval of the issue.
All points made by the state were
sustained, while the contentious Of the
railroad company's attorneys, w. r.
Begg, F. B. Kellogg, c. A. Severance
and r. E. Olds. were contravened.
MINNESOTA LONG JUMP.
Duluth.-More than five thousand
people, one of the largest crowds that
ever witnessed ski jumping contest
in this country, saw the American
record of the long distance jump brok-
o,.v f1a I,s 0f n,
ski club. Ole Feiring of Duluth was
the successful contestant. His longest
Jump was 112 feet, but on each of his
trials he broke the former worlds
record of 106 feet, making 108 on his
preliminary attempt, 112 feet on his
first regular jump and 110 feet on his
second regular jump.
NEWS NOTES.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. orators chosen
by competition to take part in the Ware
oratorical contest on Feb. IL are Ed
ward w. Cross of ST. Louis Park, and
John Munroe of Dell Rapids, s. d.
Mankato.-District Judge Cray haf
filed a decision in which he upholds
the legality of the re-assessment of the
cost of paving Broad street upon the
property owners. All but two of the
owners have paid. The paving litiga-
ton has been in the courts for several
years both in the state and federal
courts.
winena.--Wah-a-hd -hduga, the Winnie
bago chief who was killed on the St
Paul road in the city limits, was buried
in woodlawn cemetery at the expense
Of the county.
St. Paul.-The Commercial club di-
reetors indorse s5co.ooo bend issue for
districs high schools.