The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21

IL Unlawful to shoot ducks before
sunrise or after sunset.
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George Shanks, charged with TAX
ing a Ford runabout, was bound over
to the district court at Brainerd, after
a hearing in municipal court before
Judge Walter F. Wieland.
The premium list of the Koochiching
county fair, to be held at Northohe
on Sept. Is, 10 and 20, was issued
yesterday by the committee and is an
unusually attractive one.
George w. Scherer died in the Abb
bolt hospital, Minneapolis, after long
fight to regain his health. He was
prominent in the public and business
life of Mankato and vicinity for many
years.
Prof. A. d. Wilson, professor at the
University of Minnesota, has been ap-
pointed food administrator for Mime
sofa by President Wilson He will
carry out Herbert C. Hoover's policies
in the state.
w. ]. Wendorf, we'll known resi-
dent of Melrose, has been lying at the
point of death at the city hospital
there He was caught under a box
car at the Great Northern yards and
crushed under wheel.
Drafted men for the new National
Army were honored at Silver Lake
by a banquet that was attended by
500 persons. After the banquet the
men were presented with S. safety
razor, donated by men of Silver Lake.
On 40 acres of Wright's farm near
Brainerd 2,140 bushels of oats were
threshed. Although the cucumber
crop this year has not been an ex-
tensive one, the Barrow's pickle plant
has received about 1900 bushels to
date.
e. G. Purssell of Minneapolis, mete-
orologist of weather bureau, was in
Brainerd inspecting the local station
and also gathering earthquake data,
etc. From Brainerd, Mr. Purssell went
north to Bemidji, Grand Rapids and
other stations.
Northern lumber men forecast a Sc
rious labor shortage in the woods this
fall and next winter and it is feared
that the cutting of logs will be great
ly handicapped for lack of men. Few
er men are available at this time than
for many years.
Max Greenberg of Guyana, charged
with introducing liquor into Indian ter
ritory country, was before United
States Commissioner w. A. Fleming
at Brainerd, and was bound over to
the federal court, bonds being fixed at
$780, Indian agents assert Greenberg
brought in trunkful of whisky, load
ed at Superior.
A resident at Gilbert applied to the
State Public Safety commission for
job as beer commissioner" The
applicant for the job stated that he
had heard the safety body wanted a
man to watch bottles of beer being
delivered at range boarding houses
and hotels. The commission replied
that there was no vacancy.
| Dakota county, amid rain and dark
ened skies, paid tribute to it's draft
ed men by giving them banquet and
loyalty meeting at Hastings. BY the
time the meeting was about to begin
5000 people were waiting and special
trains had arrived bringing thousands
from South st. Paul, Pennington,
Lakeville and other neighboring
| towns.
Hearing of the charges against Sher-
if Joseph j. Urness of this county is
on at Mahnomen, Governor Burnquist
having ordered an investigation after
the Minnesota public safety commits
sion had recommended the removal of
the sheriff, charging him with failure
to enforce anti-gambling and liquor
laws and refusing to cooperate with
federal authorities in the enforcement
Of laws.
In the presence of squad of Min
neapolis city police sent from the
North Side station in response to a
call for protection, A. s. Brons, an
anti-war street speaker, was arrested
at Forty-second and Washington ave-
nues north by military police who had
been attracted by his haranguing.
Brons was locked up in the city Jail
on a disorderly conduct charge, but
Socialist friends soon furnished bail.
A fifteen years contract has been
granted M. d. Stoner and T. H. Cross
we'll to erect and operate an electric
light and power plant in the village
of Walker. The present plant at
Walker has been unsatisfactory for
some time, giving poor service, hence
the granting of the franchise.
Plans have been completed for the
big booster convention of the Upper
Mississippi River Improvement asso-
citation, October IL and IL, at Winona,
Mimi, by special committee of the
governing board of the association In
session at the rooms of the st. Paul
Association few days since.
The will of the late E. e. Corliss,
who was in charge of the state cap
itol at st. Paul as custodian for sew
eral years before his death, has been
filed for probate at Fergus Falls. His
personal property is estimated to be
worth $4,000 and his real estate is
placed at $3.50.
Chas. Rittenberg of Pennington died
here yesterday from injuries received
| in an automobile accident near Lake
/ vile last night. Rittenberg lost con-
ttrol of the machine and it went over
an embankment, throwing him out
against telephone POLE He never
regained consciousness. 49,,