The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-03-10
MINNESOTA IS HIT
BY S|SAL TRUST
INCREASE IN PRICES MEANS $780,.
600 TO PRISON INDUSTRY,
WARDEN TESTIFIES.
STATE CAPITOL HAPPENINGS
Events Of General Interest In Mime
sofa Condensed and Revised for
the Greater Convenience
OF Busy Readers.
St. Paul

st. Paul
Warden Reed and former Warden
Wolfer of the Minnesota state prison
were examined by the subcommittee
of the Senate on agriculture relative
to the alleged combination of Yucatan
farmers to control the price of sisal.
Mr.. Wolfer made the statement that
the proposed increase in prices fixed
by this combination this year alone,
would mean a difference of half a mil
lion dollars to the Minnesota prison in
dustry.
The combination is an iron clad one,
known as the Regula Doro Commicion,
which aims to fix the prices of sisal.
No sisal can come out of Yucatan
without being handled by them and
they fix the price arbitrarily. 1t is
financed by American bankers who are
said to be making twenty million dol
lars year out of the proposition.
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Economy Board to Meet.
Representative L. C. Cooper of the
Efficiency and Economy Commission
has written a letter to Representative
A. F. Teigen of Montevideo, stating
that Governor Burnquist may have
something to say when the commits
sion re-assembles March 21, and that
Mr.. Teigen and Charles A. Russell of
Brainerd, who attacked the Railroad
and Warehouse Commission at it's last
meeting, may be heard then; not, he
says, to make long or garrulous talks,
but deliver thoughtfully and intelli-
gently prepared arguments and state
ments of facts properly authenticated
as to grain inspection"
Other members say the commission
at its meeting March 81 will get down
to business at once and discuss such
plans for legislation as the members
have formulated.
State And Federal Officers Clash.
A mixup between federal and state
governments over the right of state
court to free a prisoner held on a fed
eral charge impended in Minneapolis
when w. w. Barron, attorney of
Grand Rapids, Mimi, told w. w. Sea-
man, in charge of the United States
immigration bureau, he might cause
his arrest on a charge of malicious
prosecution. The clash was the re-
suit OF the second arrest of Michael
Conner of Grand Rapids, charged with
violating federal immigration laws.
Conner, after his arrest, was freed,
Feb. IA, by the st. Louie county dis
trict court on writ of habeas corpus.
Ten days later he was rearrested by
the government and was placed in the
county Jail.
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larson Worse Than Murder"
Arson was declared a worse crime
than murder by Robert w. Hargadine,
state fire marshal, in an address on
Fire Prevention at st. Paul.
'The people must be educated to the
fact that not only do the insurance
companies lose by fires, but that the
entire city and community has to help
pay for unnecessary fires i'm higher
premiums" Mr.. Hargadine said. "Citi-
zens should maintain an eternal vigil
ance against this danger"
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Starts FlyIess Farm Crusade.
Prof. G. w. Howard of the en-
tomology department is inaugurating
a flyless-farm crusade. THE rural flies
are much more harmful than their city
brethren" Prof. Howard said why?
Because the majority of the breeding
places are found on the farm. These
breeding places must go. Statistics
tell us that every forty seconds
child dies from disease traced directly
to fly Infection
Thousands of Quail Saved.
Thousands of quail have been saved
from starvation as a result of the ac-
tivity of the st. Paul sportsmen, ac-
cording to Carlos Avery, state game
commissioner "The best part of the
work, in addition to saving the birds.
was the interest that has been aroused
in their welfare" said Mr.. Avery. I'm
less we get heavy wet snow there is
little danger now but that the quail
will get through the winter alright
Affects State Institutions.
The high cost of commodities used
at the sixteen state institutions will
make it difficult for the state board of
Control to keep within it's appropria-
ton this year. c. j. Swendsen of the
board says. The war has caused
prices to advance. Denim probably
will not be used at all in the state
asylums in short time because it
cannot be bought.
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~" Students As Foreign Bankers.
Opportunity will be offered this
spring for University of Minnesota to
send a senior student and probably
some sophomores to the National City
bank of New York to prepare to be
foreign bankers, if the university &C.
cepts the plan proposed by w. F.
Kies, vice president of the bank, at
conference of representatives of thir.
teen universities of the East and Mid
die West in Chicago, said Dean J. B.
Johnston, of the college of science, lit
erature and the arts, Minnesota's re.
preventative.
To Settle inheritance TAX Case.
William r Stevenson assistant at