The Ely miner., 1915-11-12
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Happenings Of the Week
in Minnesota.

game commission in the protection OF
game in the Superior National forest
preserve, Northern Minnesota. Carlos
Avery, state game and fish commits
sioner, has received word from the
forest service that it will permit its
rangers to act as deputy game war
dens and to report all violations OF
game laws in the preserve.
DR.. Leonard G. Rountree, assistant
head of the department of medicine
at Johns Hopkins university, was ap-
pointed by the board of regents at the
University of Minnesota to become
professor of medicine and chief of
the department in the Minnesota med
ical school
Peter Benolken, mayor of Freeport
and for many years prominent mer-
chant of that village, was instantly
killed when his automobile was struck
by a Great Northern engine at the
outskirts of st. Cloud. Two other oc-
cupants of the machine were not in
jured
With a 10 per cent increase in the
Minnesota butter output this year over
last year, the value of milk products
in the state in 1915 exceeds the total
value of the combined wheat and corn
crops by $3,000,000. The total value
of milk products is placed at $96,O00,-
900.
Martin Nelson, ninety years old,
father of o. M. Nelson, vice presi-
dent of the First National bank OF
ST. Paul, is dead. Mr. Nelson was
born in Denmark and came to st. Paul
in 1852. He was an attache Of the
state supreme court for many years.
Cyrus F. Redlon, seventy-five years
old, is dead at Minneapolis. Born in
Boston, he came to Rockford, this
state, with his parents in 1855. He
had lived in Minneapolis since 1867.
He was member of the G. A. r. and
the Loyal Legion.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rockstroh, fifty-six
years a resident of Minnesota, is dead
at Lakeland. Mrs. Rockstroh, who
was eighty-one years of age and came
to Minnesota in 1859, first settling in
ST. Paul, had lived forty years at
Lakeland.
August Maniko, Finlander living
about nine miles from Tower, was
killed by rifle bullet. Another Finn
named Matt Niemitako, who was in
the vicinity at the time, is held to
await the action of the grand jury.
F. w. Flint, former night editor of
the Chicago Inter-Ocean, but for four
teen months resident in Minneapolis
as correspondent of the Associated
Press, fell dead on the sidewalk. He
was fifty-eight years old.
Mrs. Margaret G. Fairbanks, one of
the oldest settlers on White Earth
reservation, is dead, aged ninety. She
was the widow of George Fairbanks,
one of the early fur traders of the
Northwest.
Paul Pearson, driver for Roches.
ter firm, was killed almost instantly
when his team ran away throwing him
under a load of coal. The wagon
passed over the chest, crushing him.
Henry Harley, thirty-four years old,
a farmer ten miles south of Black
duck, is dead as the result of having
been accidentally shot by his fourteen
year-old brother-in-law while hunting.
The year-and-half-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Maurice Sorenson of Albert Lea
toddled away from the house and ten
minutes later was found drowned in
a water tank.
John Harders, retired contractor
and the last of small group of pio-
neers who founded the German Luth-
eran church at Winona, died suddenly
of apoplexy.
Fifty years a boilermaker, thirty
record of Harry Edwards, aged seven
ty years, who died of heart disease
at Brainerd.
Receipts at the prison twine and
machinery plant since Aug. 1 total ST.
306, 1929. For August, September and
October last year the receipts were
$SO6, 1929.
Bishop Patrick Heffron, who was
shot by demented priest some weeks
ago, has returned to his home in WI
mona from st. Mary's hospital at Ro-
chester
Noble Gardner, a farmland, aged
about fifty-eight, was killed by light
ming last week while threshing on
Frank Bernard's farm near Chatfield
]. ]. McCafferty, for many pears a
prominent attorney, district court
judge and Democratic politician of
st. Paul, is dead at Seattle.
Mrs. Thomas Lowry of Minneapolis,
who died Oct. 27, left an estate of ST.
100000. All the property is distributed
to members of her family.
Lewis Hartman, a farmer near
Heron Lake, was thrown from a load
of tile and killed when the wagon
passed over his body.
Mrs. Harriet Wakefield, aged ninety
years, who reached st. Paul with her
husband from Providence, R. l., in
1859 is dead.
Rev. Father Francis H. Freckmann
is dead at st. Elizabeth hospital at
Wabasha, where he had been under
treatment.
Louis D. Jarchow, sheriff of Wash