The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-21
GOPHER NEWS NOTES.
Minnesota Events of the Week In
Condensed Form.

Faribault.-This city passed from
the old ward system of city govern
ment to the commission form, recent
ly adopted.
Litchfield.-Litchfield is an appli-
cant under the enlarged act giving
state aid to schools for agricultural
construction. Thirty such schools will
be selected by the State High School
Board.
Duluth. - N. w. Thayer, Duluth
land attorney, died at the age of fifty
six years. He was a former receiv-
er of the United States land Office in
Duluth. Mr.. Thayer is survived by
bis wife and one daughter.
Duluth.-Rev. ]. Wilfred Laugh
bridge, pastor of the Central Baptist
church, has resigned after II years
occupancy of that pulpit. Rev. M.
Fish of Pueblo succeeds him. Rev.
hr. Laughbridge will travel for year
sr two.
Duluth. = The Indians of the Fond
au Lac reservation have petitioned
the department to have w. H.
Farr, an inspector of logs, removed.
He is paid $3.50 monthly out of the
indian fund and the Indians think it is
too much.
Duluth.-R. C. Coffin, assistant edu-
rational director of the Duluth Y. M.
:. A., has resigned his position here
70 become assistant state secretary OF
the association, with headquarters in
Minneapolis. He will assume his
Jew duties June /.
Tracy.-The two-year-old daughter
of E. F. Klocow was SO severely
scalded by falling into tub of hot
water that death resulted. The boil.
er of hot water had been taken from
the stove and placed on the floor and
while the baby's mother was attending
to the wants of another sick child the
accident occurred.
Minneapolis. = One man was killed
and eight or more injured by
the falling down of the old Superior
boulevard bridge, where it crosses the
Great Northern and Minneapolis C st.
Louis Railroads. Fifty men have been
at work raising the old bridge. A new
one is being erected. Some of the up
right supports were removed today and
the old bridge collapsed, burying a
dozen men under the wreckage.
Minneapolis. = Minneapolis birth
rate showed an unusual increase for
the month of March in the bulletin
of the health department. There were
$40 births during the month. Janu.
airy, however, is the banner month OF
1911 with 557 births, a record breaker.
There were 324 deaths, many from
pneumonia. Contagious diseases were
conspicuous by their infrequency.
There were five deaths from typhoid,
three from scarlet fever and eight
from diphtheria.
Duluth.-A 17-year-old boy, giving
Lis name as James Thomasson and
his home as South ST. Paul, was ar
rested and is locked up at the police
station charged with forgery. He is
alleged to have bought revolver at
a bowery store and rendered check
for $12, made out to Ray Jacobson and
signed by William Pagan. He claims
that he found the paper. When
searched he had $11 in his pocket.
Thomasson says he came to Duluth
to ship on one of the lake boats.
Winona-W A. Tawney, half
brother of ex-Congressman James A.
Tawney and Attorney D. e. Tawney Of
Winona, who has just died, was a
farmer and stock raiser in Pierce
county near Osmond, Neb. He came
with the other members Of the Tawney
family years ago from Pennsylvania
to Cedar Bluff, Neb., which was made
the family home. Later he purchased
small tract of land in Pierce county,
100 miles away. He was 3S years old
and is survived by a widow and three
sons.
Bemidji.- Beltrami and Clearwater
counties are making an effort to effect
o compromise of the suit now pending
in district court in which Beltrami
county seeks to recover from Clear
water county a portion of the amount
of the Indebtedness of Beltrami
county at the time Clearwater was
created. The county board of each
county has appointed two of it's mem
bers-Vigge Peterson and A. E. Rake
for Beltrami county and T. o. Nelson
and Theo. Welte for Clearwater-to
endeavor to reach a mutual agree
ment.
Duluth. = Between now and May
1Othe Captain William O'Neill OF
Call Lake, superintendent of logging
on the Chippewa reservation, will file
notice with the United States land
office at that place of some 10000
acres of cut over Indian land around
Call lake, is open for settlement. I'm
der the law, the land may be settled
on as soon as this notice is given.
Homeseekers may proceed in the u.s.
ual way Of making actual settlement
on the land and then file at the land
Office later. The settler may COM
mute in II months and pay $1.25 an
acre, or reside the usual five years be-
fore proving up. A large acreage will
be opened for entry on the Fond du
Lac reservation near Cloquet, also
soon.
Red Wing.-At the May term of the
district court the $4,000 personal In