The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-08

NlSlOh VI Cclldlu Glass VI luN6StulcAt
companies will be introduced in legis-
lature.
st. Paul.-Five windows with SYM
bolical medallions were installed re-
Gently at st. Paups Universalist
church.
mission has organized by electing
George M. Palmer chairman and c. o.
Daley secretary and attorney.
Stillwater.-The state prison twine
plant turned S6S,OOO of it's December
receipts into the state treasury today,
and the state institutions RENTED
their November receipts, amounting to
$2O,70646.
Minheapolis.-Th powers that be Of
Northwestern railways have sat in
| judgment and the turkey cannot ride
| on the sleepers of trains leaving st.
Paul, no matter If it is carried like a
babe in arms.
st. Paul.-Following the robbery
| OF postal station No. "a, in the drug
store of F. A. Munich, Rice and Sum-
NIT streets, st. Paul, two men who
gave the names of Harry Collins and
Oscar Larson were arrested.
Thief River Falls.-Among other
| legislation of an educational nature
that will demand the attention of the
lawmakers next month will be the es-
tablishment of sixth state normal
school in the northwestern portion of
| the state.
Minneapolis.-A decided increase in
the number Of automobiles in Mime
apolis is shown in the report of the
city clerk for 1908. A gain of 1,716
automobiles and motorcycles licenses
is shown over the year 1907. Re-
ciepts show an increase Of s2,41o.
Minneapolis. = Election night in
New York with its wild excitement
| is seen to advantage in one of the big
scenes depicted in Owen Davis melo-
dramatic novelty, "The Prince of
Swindlers," which comes to the BIZ
jou, inneapolis, the week of Janu-
airy 10th.
WinOna.-The funeral services of
Rev. Philip Won Rohr were held here.
| Nearly sixty-ive clergymen of the
German Lutheran church in the north
| west, including nearly all the minis
tiers in the Wisconsin synod of which
Mr.. Won Rohr was the president, were
in attendance.
Duluth.-The case of st. Peters and
st. Paul's Polish Roman society
against the Rev. Father leon NJ Las
| kowsky for the recovery of certain
church property located at Twenty
fourth avenue west and Third street,
was begun before Judge Ensign in dis
trict court today.
Hastings.-Frank Tyler, indicted for
grand larceny in the second degree.
at South st. Paul, was sentenced by
Judge Crosby to eight months in
! states prison. Mr.. and Mrs. w. B.
Reed of Hastings will celebrate their
golden wedding at Daytona Beach.
Fla, on the End prox.
st. Paul.-The Northwestern Tele-
phone Exchange company reported to
the state auditor that it's gross earn
ings for the year ending Nov. 80, on
business confined to Minnesota, were
$1,5S3,354.S3. The per cent tax on
the earnings, which is paid to the
state, will be $47,50O.64.
| st. James.-Rev. Londahl has been
| doing some detective work and has
reported the results of his labors to
! Mayor Rowe. He told where poker
games were played, and Mayor Rowe,
as result, demanded Chief of Police
| Wermerskirchen's resignation, a day
or so ago, and it was forthcoming.
Duluth.-A. E. Bickford, city clerk
of Virginia, had very narrow escape
from being blown to atoms by an In
fernal machine, which was sent to
him by some unknown person. 1t was
due to his disregarding directions as
| to how to open the package that the
one-half pound of dynamite it con-
tanned was not exploded.
St. Paul-S. G. Iverson, state audi
tor, recommends to the legislature
that his department be divided and
that a new elective Office be created,
that of state land commissioner, who
should assume entire charge Of the
states holdings of land, including tim.
! Der and minerals, with an advisory
| board of other state officers.
st. Paul.-During the two years end
ing July 81, 1908, the permanent trust
fund increased by $2,257,4S5, the
school fund getting the lions share,
$1,S85,24S, giving this fund a total Of
$19.7O9,383. The permanent university
fund is now S1,413,817; the internal
improvement land fund, $2.939.67, and
the swamp land fund, $1,243,272.
| Moorhead.-A plot to liberate Joe
Wolff, alias George T. Frankhauser,
who is now being held in the Clay
county Jail for boxcar robberies and
who has confessed to the robbery of
the Oriental Limited of the Great
Northern at Rondo, Mont, in Septem.
Der, 1907, when $4,000 booty was
taken, was made known yesterday.
st. Paul.-That railroads place diff
ferent values on the same property
was demonstrated by Dwight c. Nor.
gan, state engineer in the employ Of
the commission.
st. Paul-State Auditor Iverson
recommends law allowing partial pay
ments Of cost of drainage in sales of
state drained land, as present law re-
| tards sales.
Granite Falls.-Court in this county
holds that man defeated in primary
election but elected in general cleo
ton, must let victor in primaries take
| the Office.
Winona.-Seized early last June
with violent spells Of hiccoughs, ]. E.
Jackmeyer, aged seventy-six years, an