The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-17

/ pany, were llieu with the clerk or The
court Monday morning. The dis
miSsals did not state the terms Of the
settlement, Most of the claims grew
out of claims Of damages for injuries
said TO have been incurred in the
mines. The plaintiffs in all of the ac-
tions were represented by Henio & IIGl
lister. The cases settled and dismiss
ed were instituted by the following
named person: John Lepisto, Mat
Matson, Erick Pisspa Matt Laitala
and Charles Fors.
E. +. Roberts, former citizen of
this city is doing. we'll with roller
skating rink built and run by him at
Virginia.
Mayor Hawkinson of Virginia has
sounded the death kuell to the slGt
machines in that city, an action
which meets with favor. The former
administration collected a certain
amount monthly for allowing the
things to run,
The Mesaba range merchants. report
better business since the passes went
out of existence the first Of the year.
A. j. MCGEE who was suing Rev. j.
A. McGaughey of Two Harbors for
SANDER, lost his suit by having same
thrown out of court. MCGEE was on
a jury last summer and in company
with the other jurymen was severely
censured by the Rev. gentleman from
the pulpit.
E. w. Glass, we'll known conductor
on the Duluth s. Iron Range was mar
ried in Duluth last week to Miss Edith
Dewitt.
$1,000 damage was done to the Sigel
building at Virginia by fire Tues
day morning, the Bijou theater being
the principal loser.
A committee of Eveleth business
men will confer with Adjutant Gen.
Wood in ST. Paul this week in regard
TO the organization of a militia COM
pany for EVeleth.
Fred LeFevre employed as cruiser
committed suicide at Duluth Tuesday
by shooting himself twice with 80
calibre revolver. Dependency over
Isume trouble Ire had with his parents
in Canada is said to be accountable for
the deed.
Chas. Stewart a popular young man
of Two Harbors, died Tuesday of ty-
phoid pneumonia. He has lived in
Two Harbors since childhood and had
a host of friends.
A five months old blby of Conduct
or and Mrs. George Johnson also died
yesterday at Two Harbors.
The parcels post bill before con-
gress is doomed, from all indications,
to ali Iguominious death, The demand
for such law was wholly traceable to
the big department. stores and the
mammoth mail and catalogue houses
of the big cities. The bill was not
framed in the interest of the business
of the country and its passage by cong.
ress would only tend to build up the
larger community as the expense Of
the smaller. 1t was an effort to leg.
islate out Of business that class of
retailers who, after all, are the found
alton of the country's Fl amelia
strength.
! Parents who permit boys of tender
years to play with revolvers. must be
prepared for the consequences. The
latest victim of this dangerous prac
lice is reported from "a Michigan town
where two boys were playing with q
3S-caliber revolver, which as a matter
of course, was mot loaded" AS re-
suit of the affair. one Of the boys /:
dead and his companion is murderer
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Skala of Tower
mourn the loss through appendicitis
OF their ten-year old daughter, The
death occurred last week, Tuesday.
E. M. Clark who formerly visited
the range towns as the representative,
of the Duluth Music compan,
attempted suicide in Duluth w e
! nesday by swallowing large quaint
ity Of morphine. The doctor sayet
his life.
Based on the number of deer ant
| moose known to have been killed dur
, ing the open season. Carlos Avery
executive agent of the state game ant
: fish commission, estimated that nearl
: 5000 deer and perhaps l50 moose wer
) killed in this state. The figures avail
y able are those of the number shippe,
! into the several counties. This show
that 2,S08 deer and 81 moose wer
T shipped by the hunters and it is es
, timated that at least as many wer
killed by the residents o.. the countic
In which the big game abounds an
were not shipped.