The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25


Saturday, Oct. 1917.
st. Paul.-Primary voting in ST.
Paul and Ramsey county was the
smallest ever recorded.
st. Paul.-Aldermen pass resolution
authorizing issuance of $4,000 bonds
for extension Of water system.
Brainerd.- International Falls is said
to be threatened by forest fires; six
men missing near Grand Marais.
st. Paul.-Pedestrians on Third ST.
between Sibley and Jackson, were ter
rorized by the cry of mad dog!" as
a small water spaniel ran down the
street swapping and snarling.
Worthington.-As a result of visit
here of Postoffice Inspector Carl Egge
of st. Paul, at least three fines of $40
each have been paid by persons who
misused the mails.
Duluth.-Emil Grafstrom, working
man forty years old, of 1902 Garfield
avenue, committed suicide by shooting
himself. He was unmarried and had
been drinking of late.
Alberta.-An unknown incendiary
shortly after midnight, set fire to and
burned four settings of grain belong
ing to ]. M. Buckley and those belong
ing to P. Kieff of Morris.
Montrose.-Jesse Streeter, aged 35,
was struck by a freight engine near
Howard Lake, while on his way to
work. He was deaf mule His death
occurred before medical aid arrived.
Duluth.-A settler named Monker
and six Indians are believed to have
persisted in the flames at Grand Ma
rails, according to reports brought back
by militiamen, who were aboard the
steamer Gopher.
Minneapolis halfback
and famous drop kicker, George Cap
ron, was elected captain of the 1908
varsity football team. The choice was
unanimous at the meeting of the IN"
men held at the university armory.
Howard.-The fortieth annual meet
ing of the Wright County Agricultural
society will be held this week. A
feature of the fair will be ball game
between the Colored Gophers of st.
Paul and a picked team from Wright
county.
st. Paul.-William w. Erwin, for
many years the ablest criminal lawyer
in the northwest, and known through
out the country for his ability as a
legal advocate and an orator, died the
18th, at his home in Miami, Fla, where
he has been seriously i'll for many
weeks.
Red Wing.-P. C.. Myher of Hart
land, Wis, was seriously injured and
his wife received a severe shock and
bad burns ON her hand by bolt of
lightning which struck an umbrella
Mrs. Myher was carrying as they were
driving home from Ellsworth during
a storm.
Observation-Disclosures Barrett, q lab
orer, had a narrow escape from death
this morning when a hole which he
was digging for sewer pipe caved
in. He was soon uncovered and as
the rock and dirt left hole through
which air reached him he was not
seriously injured.
Crookston.-C. R. Young, of the U.
S. navy, who has been sojourning here
for two weeks in an endeavor to get re-
cruits, did not succeed in finding a
single one and says the young men of
this section seem to be too busy and
too prosperous to be interested in the
naval proposition.
st. Paul.-James ]. Hill, still hale
and hearty, passed his SEVENTEEN birth
day the 10th. At three score years
and ten he is still able to direct the
affairs of the network of transporta-
ton facilities which he has fathered
since railroads first became known to
Minnesota people, something like forty
years ago.
neapolis.-Ludwig Hanson was
arrested by Detectives Lyons and
Hayes and locked up at Central sta
ton, where he is being held for the
state prison warden at Saltwater.
Hanson was sentenced to two years
for burglary and released on parole,
which he broke by leaving the state
and going to the Dakota harvest fields.
Minneapolis.-The heaviest inspec-
ton of grain was recorded by the
Grain Inspection Bureau, the 18th. One
thousand eight hundred cars of grain
were on track, by far the greatest
number for one day in the history OF
the local bureau. The unusual amount
of business is attributed to the high
price paid for grain at the present
time.
Duluth.-Edward Peterson, state fire
marshal, makes the suggestion that
the state, county or the mining COM
panies on the range get together and
maintain portable fire department to
fight forest and other fires. He would
have an automobile fire engine and
hose wagon mounted on a gasoline
propelled car on siding of the rail-
way track.
st. Paul.-The following fourth
class postoffices have been advanced
to the presidential class, effective Oct.
1, with salaries as shown; Brooten,
$l,100; Henderson, 1000.
st. Paul-The Twin Cities, and in
fact all the larger cities in the North
west, will be visited by William H.
Taft, as a result of the Bryan and
Johnson alliance.
Hamline.-The pigskin artists as
sembled for practice under Coach
Burgan for the first time in their own
honk ward after the training at C0neY