The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-26

The typhoid fever epidemic at CHS
| holm cannot be traced to the water
supply, in the belief of Dr. L. j. Burns,
state board of health inspector, who
investigated conditions A bacteriolog-
ical investigation revealed no typhoid
germs in the water. One of the cases
was traced to Ely and two to Kee-
watin. THE spread of the disease
may be through carriers" said DR.. Rip
pert, chairman of the local health
board
proposal to increase the minimum
carload of potatoes is being discussed
by Minnesota railroad traffic men as
a move toward relieving the car short
age situation. AS reported at the Cap
itol the plan is to increase the mini
mum from $4,000 pounds, or about 600
sacks, to $4,000 pounds, or 900 sacks.
The Nurses Alumni Association of
the Northern Pacific Railway Hospital
Training School for Nurses at Brain
erd and the Brainerd Musical club
have invested in Liberty Bonds
John Bergstrom, postmaster of
Flynnsburg, was run down and killed
by the Morris train BergstrOm
rushed to the train with bag of mail
and stepped directly in the path of
the engine
John F. Kassube, who was dissuad-
ed from registering for the draft by
j. o. Bentall, appeared at the United
States navy recruiting office in Min
neapolis and applied for enlistment as
fireman.
Store houses to preserve foodstuffs
may be established in Duluth as the
result of the appointment of L. u.
Young by The Public Safety Commits
sion as special Investigator of alleged
destruction of foodstuffs by commits
sion merchants.
The Fleckenstein brewery at Fari-
bault was Quilted by fire, entailing a
loss estimated at $4,000. The con-
denser and brew room were destroyed
and the walls of the building so weak
ened that the police have ordered that
no one pass the ruins until the walls
have been wrecked. 1t is believed
the building was struck by lightning
Profits of the Minnesota State Fair
this year totaled $33,67O, more than
four times those of the 1916 Fair, &C
cording to report filed late yester
day by Secretary Thomas H. Garfield
4 in the Office of State Auditor Preus.
The statement shows expenses of
S242,225 and receipts of $275,S95, ex-
elusive of state appropriation of
$4,000.
The Otter Tail county commissioners
at Fergus Falls voted to accept $780,
900 in Federal government aid, and
to appropriate an equal amount from
the county treasury to be expended
on the state road from the county
line near Ashby, to this city, next
summer. The distance is twenty-five
miles. The road will cross the state
from st. Paul to Fargo.
/ Postmasters' examinations, the first
in Minnesota, are announced by the
| United States Civil Service board for
November IA at Duluth, New Ulm,
The tests will be to fill vacancies in
the postoffice at Albany, salary $1,40O;
Butterfield, salary $1,000; Carlton,
1,400; Eyota, $1,000; Hallock, $1,000;
Hanska, $1,000, and Ruthton, $1,000.
Publicity regarding aliens in posses
sion of firearms, they being violators
of the law unless the weapons are sur
rendered, has resulted in wholesale
deposit of hundreds of guns ON the
iron ranges with deputy sheriffs Game
| wardens have estimated that at least
1000 deer and moose have been killed,
in and out of season, annually by
alien "shackers" and hunters.
Although native of Germany and
with five brothers doing compulsory
service IL the Kaiser's army, Mrs
Veronica Shous of Mahnomen, is an
American through and through. Re-
Gently her son enlisted He was her
principal support, yet Mrs. Sho4s
cheerfully Endorsed his action. These
facts were related in letter to the
Federal Farm Loan Bank of st. Paul
by a field appraiser, H. F. Vessel, to
who Mrs. Shous had applied for aid
after her son had enlisted
Destitute Belgians will be cared for
on large tract of land seventy-five
or 100 miles from st. Paul, it was an
nounced yesterday by James Slevin,
| delegated by the Societe to Colonial
ton Americana of Paris to make the
arrangements in the United States.
ION the tract Of land which will be
set aside in Minnesota for the estab-
lishment of the colony" Mr.. Slevin
said, 1--WE will establish churches and
schools, build stores, homes and bust
ness houses. / have plans laid for
the colonization in Minnesota and will
select the site soon.
| Friday was the first pay day in the
worlds highest paid military organi-
| cation, the Fourth Minnesota infantry,
which recently relieved the First in
fantry on property guard. duty, after
being organized with the expectation
that it would be continued in that
service and not be called by the War
department. About 500, officers and
men drew more than $4,000 from the
state general revenue fund for Sep
TENDER services, exclusive of the sub
! sistence allowance of SO cents day
| for each man and the bonus" paid
them from fund subscribed by bust
ness houses and citizens in Minneap-
oils and Duluth.
One hundred Minnesota mer of the
depot brigade at Camp Dodge who
were in charge of squads that sold
| $62,050 Liberty Loan bonds to the Sec
ond provisional regiment, composed of
Minnesota men, were entertained at