The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05
1IleState Ngvsof
The Week in Brief
An Epitome of All the Big and
Interesting Events of the Past
Few Days In the State.

united States Senate, is urged IN
| resolution sent to Senators Nelson
and Kellogg by Bemidji citizens.
Bemidji's school district tax levy
| was placed at $4,000 at a meeting of
| the board of education. This amount
| is $4,000 more than last year, but it is
believed that the increase in valuation
| In the city will make the rate less
| than it was at that time.
Jess Dunning, ex-secretary of the l.
w. w local at Bemidji, convicted on
a charge of sabotage, was sentenced
to maximum of two years in the pen
itentiary by Judge c. w. Stanton. An
appeal will be taken and a new triaI
asked for, Cummings attorney SAID,
In spite of two braSeH ries, suffer
| ed when he fcii from ladder. and a
broken arm, injured when a knife slip
ped, Joseph Stackmesser canvaSsed
the city of Tower with a petition ask
ing that Robert M. La Toilette be Of
ficially muzZled until the close of the
war. Only two men approached re-
fused to sign.
Resolutions denouncing the conduct
of Senator La Toilette as spreading dis
loyalty and sedition, pledge to aid
the food administration in the regu-
lation of prices and proclaiming 10y
atty to God and to the nation were
adopted by the Minnesota conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
which met at Pipestone.
With the river at the lowest stage
in many years, the work of pulling
snags is facilitated, according to the
crew of the steamer David Upton, in
the Federal service. The boat was in
Winona few days since on it's last
trip of the year to st. Paul. Many of
the dangerous ad hidden snags that
have been revealed are being removed.
Necessity for public health nurses
is to be emphasized n the sessions of
the Mississippi Valley Conference on
tuberculosis, which are to be held in
and 10. Delegates from thirteen states
are expected and an elaborate pro-
gram, including addresses and papers
By physicians, nurses and public offici-
ais.
With the finding of a skeleton and
gun in a swamp about eight miles
south of Warba, the disappearance of
George Johnson, homesteader and
trApper in Split Hen township in 1913,
has been cleared. The discovery was
made by A. Leinonen, farmer, who
reported il to Coroner Plair. Posi-
tive identification WAS made possible
by means of gun with one empty
shell in the barrel
Nearly 1000 crippled children have
gone before the travelling poliomyelitis
clinic of the State Board of Health for
free treatment, according to DR.. w.
p. Greene, epidemiologist OF the
board, who is in charge at Winona.
The clinic drew many from outside
points to Winona. There will be fol-
low-up campaign, it IS announced, and
OF the patients at intervals in the
next two weeks.
Winona organized labor men are i'm
patient with the delay of local retail
coal dealers in reducing the price of
coal. The Machinists' union, the larg.
est in the city, initiated the protest
by wiring Coal Administrators H. A.
Garfield and Judge F.. S. MCGEE of
the Minnesota Public Safety Commits
sion. urging that Winona dealers be
forced to lower the price of coal in
conformity with the governments Fed
eral at-the-mine prices.
Great excitement prevailed in the
city park at CrOOkston and the police
reserves called out when the big Amer
lean eagle donated to the park board
by the Eagle lodge escaped from its
cage. After pursuit as desperate as
any made by the criminal chasers,
Park Policeman Mike O'Boyle and
Deputy Sheriff Fleming finally round
ed mp the representative of American
libsrty and replaced it in it's cage.
Tho eagle, however, put up a good
fight and in the struggle he ripped a
cash in O'BOyle's arm almost to the
bone.
A convention of farmers and others
interested in sheep raising in northern
Minnesota is hereby called to meet at
the Commercial Club Rooms in the
City of Bemidii, October and 8. The
purpose of this convention is to form
an organization of Wool Growers and
to formulate and adopt plans for the
cooperation of Minnesota and Federal
Reserve banks, Farmers Clubs, Live.
stock Dealers, Western Ranchers and
Railroads to secure and place sheep
on our idle Minnesota lands. Able
speakers will be present to discuss the
problems Of the wool grower from a
practical standpoint. This convention
is called at the instance of the Bemid.
il Commercial Club.
A little army of forty women has
started out to HooveriZe Winona. The
campaign calls for house-to-house
canvas OF the entire city in an effort
to get the housewives to sign the
Hoover pledge, emphasizing conserva-
ton of food and cooperation with the
government.
With 1910 voluntary members and
more than 5000 compulsory members
the trustees OF the State Insurance
and Retirement Fund association met
in the state capitol at ST. Paul and
elected c. G. Schulz, state superin-
tendent of schools, as president of the
association.
DR.. Maria l.. Sanford, professor
emeritus of the University of Mime,
sofa, was the principal speaker at the
opening meeting Of the twenty-sixth
annual state conference of Charities
and Corrections which opened four
day session at the First Baptist church