The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-12-07
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Plans are well under way for the
second annual industrial short course
to be offered by the st. Cloud Techni-
cal high school, which will open on
Monday, Jan. Z, and will continue for
II weeks
Rev. Robert Brown, formerly moder-
ator for the Minnesota presbytery and
for five years pastor of the First Pres
byterian church of Winona, has re-
signed to go to the church of Bad
Axe, Mich.
The assault case against Chief of
Police d. S. Proper and Miss Augusta
Metteb visiting nurse of International
Falls, resulted in hung jury after
the jury had balloted for "a hours
without reaching decision.
Ferdicts of not guilty in the cases
of Oliver Smith of Morristown and
William Van Hout of Dundas, charged
with disloyalty, were returned in dis
trict court at Faribault. Smith was
accused of saying that the United
States never should have entered the
war and Van Hout of stating he
wished the president were dead.
F. E. Grindal, aged 60, of Cass Lake,
was taken before Judge B. F. Wright
at Park Rapids by the sheriff of Cass
county and pleaded guilty to a charge
Of sedition, for which he had pre-
viously been indicted by a grand jury.
The court imposed fine of 5000 and
costs, which was paid. Grindal has
lived in Cass county all his life.
Two messages to Coroner Vigen of
Otter Tail county at Fergus Falls
brought the news of the first skating
fatalities of that county. Jow Saw
ami, 13-year-old boy of Vergas, was
drowned in lake near there. A mes
sage from Brandon announced the
drowning of Freeman Olson, nine
years old. Both went through the
ice
The water and light plant at Lake
field, jackson county, blew up, killing
Peter Nelson, engineer, and badly in
Juring three other men. 1t is believed
cry boilers caused the explosion. The
blast shook the entire town. Lake
field is without electric lights or wa
ter from the city system as result.
The explosion blew the roof from the
brick building and the walls were
badly shattered.
Without one casualty in Minnesota,
the big game season has ended. The
number of hunters was below normal.
because many of the former big game
hunters were stalking foes in North
ern France. Hunting was largely con-
fined to residents, who sought to hang
up deer to keep down the high cost
of meat during the winter. The num-
Der of moose killed in Minnesota was
proportionately higher than usual
Major Fred Won Baumbach, for Is
years collector of internal revenue in
st. Paul and former secretary of
state, died at his home at Alexandria
after an illness of several weeks. He
became secretary of state in 1879,
which office he held for seven years.
In 1898 he was appointed collector of
internal revenue under the Mckinley
administration. He held the position
until the first Wilson administration.
Edward Bosky, editor of the Fari-
bault Referendum, charged with VIC
ton of the state law prohibiting dis
couragement of enlistment, was found
guilty by jury and a sentence of II
months in the Rice county Jail was
imposed by Judge A B. Childress.
This conviction places all three per-
sons responsible for for the publica-
ton of the Referendum in Jail, e. E.
Ford and Mrs. Elizabeth Ford having
previously been found guilty of like
charge. They were sentenced to a
year in Jail and to pay fine of $500
each
F. A. Cross, 80 years old, a Civil
war veteran, died at his farm home
near Bemidji.
Superintendent H. K. w. Scott of
st. Cloud reformatory and d. H.
Knickerbocker have returned from
New Orleans where they attended the
National Prison congress.
Thomas A. Doniin, manager of the
Thompson yards at ST. Cloud, enlisted
in the forestry service for the engi-
neers' corps and left for Fort Shell
ing, where he has been ordered to re-
port.
Nearly 200 Crookston people, includ-
Guiding the Home Guard and the Cit
liens band, went to Ada on a special
train to participate in the ceremonies
incident to the opening of the new
Great Northern depot at that place.
An appropriation of s1,000,00O has
been made by the Minnesota public
safety commission to be used in per-
fecting the organization and supply
ing equipment for the Minnesota home
guard, this action being taken on
advice of Secretary Baker of the de-
partment of war.
Representative A. c. Welch of
$4,000 brought by Representative
Charles kennig of Bird Island, for in
Juries received IN a fight at the last
session of the Minnesota legislature,
won verdict in district court at Glen
coe. Kenning charged that he was as
saulted by WEIGH.
Miss Grace Andersen, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. +. Andersen of Red
Wing, has been called for Red Cross
service and before long will be ac-
lively engaged at one of the American
base hospitals in France She has
left for cantonment
Archie Stone, member of the legis-
lature from Stevens county, and H.
A. lie Lashmutt, late city editor of
the Morris Tribune, have enlisted in
the aviation service. The former will
go to the training camp at Berkeley,
CAL, and the latter to Fort Sam Hous-
ton, Texas.
Mrs. Farley Dare. who for years
was connected with her husband in