The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-28
T|1eState NeWSOf
The Week IN Brief
An Epitome of All the Big and
Interesting Events of the Past
Few Days In the State.

hunting licenses have been issued by
County Auditor nicholas Thomey at
st. Cloud.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of
priesthood of Rev. A. P. Lamey, pas
tor Of st. Matthias Catholic church at
Brainerd for eight years, was cele-
brated few days since at the St.
Matthias church.
Miss Dorothy Adams, who has
charge of the Red Cross sewing in
Fergus Falls, announces that 1873 COM
fort bags have been shipped to the
French soldiers, each containing a
personal letter.
The installation of the Rev. Frank
Arthur McElwain as bishop of Mime
sofa will take place at Faribault,
October 10, the Rev. Andrew D. Stowe,
secretary of the Episcopal diocese Of
Minnesota has announced.
Joseph H. Gates, pioneer resident
of Rice Lake, was run down and killed
by an automobile driven by Mrs. Jerry
Fencl. Gates was riding bicycle and
ran directly in front of Mrs. Pencils
car and before she could stop, the car
crushed Gates underneath. Mrs. Fencl,
who lives at Haugen, was exonerated
of all blame for the accident.
answering loyalty to the United
States and staunch support of the gov
eminent in its prosecution of the war,
on the part of Norwegian Danish
Methodists was voiced in resolution
unanimously passed at the final ses-
sion of the Northern conference of the
Norwegian-Danish Methodist church
in the Bethlehem Methodist church,
Minneapolis.
The suicide of a woman patient
Tuesday at the Fergus Falls state
hospital for the insane, who hanged
herself to a window screen by some
of her clothing, without awakening
four or five other patients in the same
room, has been reported to the State
Board of Control. The woman was
Clara s. Clapp, Sc years old, sent to
the institution only three days before
from Duluth, the report stated
Thirty-four of the 46 men bearing
I. w. w. cards, driven out of Sabin
by Clay county officials and. Moorehead
Home Guard officers were lodged in
jail at Moorhead following their return
to Sabin. The men are charged by
citizens of Sabin with terrorizing the
district refusing to work and not per-
hitting laborers DESTROYS of taking
jobs to do so. The potato marketing
industry, officials say, is being SER
iously interferred with in Clay county.
In just seven weeks the entire $4,000
acres of the ]. j. Hill farm, near
Humboldt, was sold to the pub
lie in 1877 farms, of an average size
of about 200 acres each, the Payne
Investment company, Omaha, announc-
ed today, following the close of the
most rapidly completed colonization
campaign in the history of the North
west. Approximately Is per cent of the
new owners will be on the land by
March 1. The 1877 farms brought ST.
027,000, or an average of $3.50 an
acre.
William Lunger, 60 years old, was
arrested at Long Prairie and lodged
In Jail to await hearing on a charge
of making insulting and seditious re-
marks about the contingent of fifty
four men, who left for Camp Dodge.
He is alleged to have said that he
hoped the kaiser would kill all of them
and then entreated a number of Ger
4 mo A mo ~ in, ho %
by the fatherland. Lunger is ma
turalized citizen and a prosperous
farmer and has been a resident of
Minnesota since 1890.
C. H. Saulpaugh, for many years a
prominent figure in the public life of
Mankato, died in his apartment at the
Saulpaugh hotel in that city, death re-
sulting from complication of all
ments with which he had suffered for
several months past. Saulpaugh's
father built the Saulpaugh hotel,
located in Mankato, in the early
eighties. He was the organizer and
first exalted ruler of Mankato lodge,
No. 225, B. P. o. E., more than twenty.
five years ago. The funeral services
were nelQ In minneapolis.
With a sickening thud the heavy
hand of the Minnesota Public Safety
commission has descended on the sa-
loon keepers of Martin and Pipestone
counties, located in the southwestern
part of the state. The saloons in
these counties must operate only from
3 o'clock in the morning until o'clock
In the afternoon, and all liquor sold
must be consumed on the premises.
This action was taken following a
hearing at which charges were made
that these saloons had a tendency
to injure the health of members OF
the national army, that they made
travel on the nearby roads dangerous
and that they generally debauched
the youth along the border line OF
Minnesota. South Dakota and Iowa.
A number of suspicious happenings
at Ulen awakened the villagers to the
necessity of guarding the town al
night. A guard of three men is SET
each night, three business men vol
unteering for the duty. They are
armed to the teeth and ready for any
emergency.
The Territorial Pioneer association
held its annual meeting and banquet
at the Sawyer house in Saltwater and
elected the following officers: F. C
Ford, president; Adam Marty, secre
tary; A. L. Larpenteur, st. Paul, treas
urer emeritus, and Mrs. Helen A
Terminus, acting secretary.
Grain is coming into the upper lake
ports more freely. There will be bis
increase in the movement after this