The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-07-12
NEWS NOTES.

Mankato.-State Game and Fish
Warden Jordan has received 25O, 900
pike fry to be placed in Lake Wash
ington, they having been shipped
from the state hatchery.
Faribault. - Albert Hendricks, of
the town of Wolcott, was brought to
this city and tried for beating his wife.
He was found guilty and fined $29. 95
or thirty daysin Jail. He paid his fine.
Hallock.-Robert Scribner, brake
man, was run over and killed by a
freight car at Noyes. The crew was
switching near crossing and while
Scribner walked ahead of the car his
foot caught between plank and the
rail.
North Branch.-The large barn of
Charles Britt of Amador, was burned
in an electric storm. Three COWS,
some hay, a lot of harness and other
farm stuff were in the barn and moth
ing was saved. There was no insur-
ance.
Brainerd.- Willis, the IT,
year-old son of James Willis, and who
was run over by a train and both
legs cut off, died of his injuries. He
fell between the cars of a freight
train on which he was trying to ride
to Staples.
Minneapolis Watkins was
found dead hanging by rope made
from part of his cell blanket at the
workhouse. Watkins would have
been released from a ten-day sem
tence for drunkenness three hours
after he took his own life.
ST. PAULA series of eighteen
auction sales of state lands has been
closed by State Auditor S. G. Iverson.
About 10000 acres were sold, from
which the state will receive about
$3.50, OCo. Of this amount SIS, 1000 was
taken in on the first payments on the
land sold. The average price re-
ceived for the land was 81. so per acre,
which is about the same as the aver
age last year.
St. Paul.-George N. Lamphere has
resigned as secretary of the Soldiers
home board and Capt. w. H. Harries
of Caledonia has been elected by the
board as his successor. Captain
Harries, who has been member of
the board for some time, has resigned
to accept the new position, and Gov
ernor johnson has appointed E. T.
Champlin of Garden City to his place
on the board.
Minneapolis.-Fi years at hard
labor in the penitentiary at Stillwa-
ter was the sentence passed by Judge
H. D. Dickinson upon w. F. Bechtel,
former president of the Northwestern
National Life Insurance Company of
Minneapolis, under conviction of
grand larceny in the first degree for
an alleged fraudulent agreement be-
tween officers of the company.
Crookston.-Deputy Game Warden
Will Munich of this city captured
three illegal fishers at Maple Lake.
The men were fishing with a net four
by forty-five feet. One of the men
showed fight and stated that no war
den would ever arrest him, but the
three were brought in by Mr.. Munich
and arraigned in justice court where
they were fined in all $62. so and costs.
Dodge Center.-While some Dodge
Center young men were spending the
evening in Kasson not long ago they
got into fight with youths of that
place, and Sherman Livingston, al
though not party to the trouble, re-
ceived blow on the head which
caused serious injury. In conse-
quence, Christ Rohrer has been
bound over to the grand Jury
Another Kasson man, it is said, has
confessed to the county attorney that
he dealt the blow.
Minneapolis boys, swimming
off the fats, discovered a plank and
in play drew it towards them. Some
thing dragged behind it and on inves-
tigating they found dead baby. A
stout cord around the baby's neck
was secured firmly to one end of the
plank Physicians who examined
the bxsdy soon after it was taken from
the water assert that it was thrown
into the water while alive. They saw
it was apparently born in perfect con-
dition and would undoubtedly have
lived had it been given proper atten-
ton.
Chisholm.-In a densely wooded
and unfrequented spot about half a
mile from the Shenango mine the dead
body of man was found with a bull
let hole through his head. Whether
the man was murdered, committed
suicide or Vas the victim of stray
bullet has not been established.
st. Paul.-The state board of con-
troll appointed A. @. Dorr steward at
the Hastings insane asylum, and Mrs.
Mira B. Gray head ward nurse at the
Fergus Falls hospital for the insane,
state agents fcs paroled insane and
epileptio inmates OF the state insti.
tutions