The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-06-27

New York is to have training
school for suffrage workers.
The United States produces about
IS per cent OF the world oysters.
Baltimore. Nd. will establish a
municipal storehouse to care for ana
issue supplies to city departments.
St Louis, Mo-, has nineteen citt
zens whose properties are assessed at
more than 100000 each.
New Jerseys greatest altitude is 49,
275 feet, which is a point two miles
north OF Trucha's peak.
Fifteen OF twenty shots fired from
one of San Francisco's mortar battery
defense struck a target FIVE and one
half miles out at sea-
Leprosy is steadily increasing in
the United States, according to DR..
Rupert Blue, surgeon general of the
United States, public health service.
In the first five months VI 1919 re
.uIns sew TIN. "a Mining Mining corpora.
tons have paid out s51,000,000 in
dividends. OF these corporations thir-
ty-one operate copper properties.
E. Dana Durand, director of the
United States census, has accepted
the position of director of the bureau
of research in agricultural economics
at the Minnesota Agricultural college.
A music publisher, addressing the
New York State Music Teachers as
ISOLATION, said the nations annual mu-
sic bill was nearly S600,000,000 say a
per capita of $3.50, which isn't so
much.
The estate of the late Mrs. Levi 2.
Letter has been appraised at ST.
672,725, not including household eff
fects Of the Letter mansion in Wash
ington or personal property in Chi
cago.
Five thousand New York orphans
loaded into S44 automobiles were Ia
ken to Central park one day last week
and given a picnic with all the trim
mings big hearts and purses could
supply.
Richard L. Metcalfe, appointed gov
ernor OF the Panama canal zone, has
held long conference with Colonel
Goethals, engineer in charge. Met
calfe expects to leave for the zone
August l.
n. w. Flaisig of Alhambra, Cal,
who has passed his eightieth birthday
and has spent sixty-three years in the
employ of one firm, has signed a con-
tract with the same for twenty-five
years longer.
nnJoD IJfoh hoc o;t1y
physician who is also quarantine Of
ficer, and recently used the cow
catcher Of an engine to carry her
several miles on the hunt of an es-
Gaping smallpox patient.
President Wilson does not plan to
attend the fiftieth anniversary cele-
bration Of the battle of Gettysburg
on the battle field next month. He
will be at the summer White house
at Cornish. N. H., over July 4.
The people of New York are becom-
ing badly frightened at the ever in
creasing cost of their city govern
ment. In 1898 the city budget was
s77,437,OS4. In 1913 it is $192,709,-
342. The debt of the city in 1898
was $341.S44,225. In 1912 it was ST.
117,153, 09S.
The greatest fortune ever accumu-
lated by an Indian of the Northwest
ern tribes probably is that left by the
late Mrs. Alma G. Parkins, direct
descendant of Sitting Bull, famous
chief Of the Sioux. Mrs. Parkin who
died recently at Cannon Ball, N. D.,
left an estate valued at more than
100000.
President Wilson has received calls
from Viscount Chinda, the Japanese
ambassador; Kajinaosuke lbuka, pres.
dent of the Federation of Christian
Churches in Japan; DR.. Juichi Soye-
da, former president of the indus
trial banks of Japan, and Tadal Ka-
mlya, chief secretary of the chamber
of commerce.