The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-07-20

The Minnesota Epworth League in
stitute has begun ten days session
at Groveland, Lake Minnetonka. The
meeting will be attended by delegates
from all parts of Minnesota.
In charge of Major B. Euochs of the
regular army, the battalion marched
two miles on the Bloomington road
and then deployed to the east of the
road to hold sector $50 yards long.
That Minnesota militia units as well
as those Of other states will practically
lose their identity under the new army
organization plans is announced in a
bulletin from the office of the adjutant
general of the army.
A blackbird alighting on the high
tension wire of the power line between
Coon Rapids and Anoka, put oct all
electric lights and caused the suspen-
sion of car service for two hours. The
bird was electrocuted.
A resolution demanding that the
Bureau of Indian affairs be abolished
and charging that officials at the head
Of the bureau are incompetent was
doOptCu at DCllluJA at IhO SOuhSlA VI
Minnesota Chippewas.
Searching parties have recovered
from the waters of Big Stone lake the
last bodies of the seven persons who
lost their lives when the excursion
steamer MuskegOn was swamped dur
ing heavy storm on the lake.
After advancing north against the
enemy, the battalion was ordered to
dig in along the military crest of the
ridge. 1t was real digging in," as
the trenches were patterned after the
French battle trenches in France.
Fort Smelling may yet be chosen
for the second officers training camp
which opens August 81. This informa-
ton has been received from Washing
ton by Donald R. Cotton, head of the
training camp association in st. Paul.
After refusing chiefs of the tribe
representation in their council on the
ground that modern Indians are demo
Gratis and not monarchists, Minnesota
Chippewas in council at Bemidji, by a
two to one vote, gave the suffrage to
women.
A series of freight shipments on
the Mississippi river to demonstrate
the economy and practicability Of wa
ter transportation to and from Mime
apolis has been inaugurated with the
arrival of a big cargo of plows from
Moline, Ill.
w. A. Curtis, of st. Paul, was elect
ed president of the Minnesota Depart
ment of the Bolo clubs, an organiza-
ton of Spanish war veterans, at the
closing session of the state encamp-
ment of United Spanish American
Veterans at Waseca.
Minnesota, according to the official
war department announcement, will
be called upon to furnish 1854 men
by draft. OF these approximately 49,
COL will go into the new national army,
LABS into the regular army and the
remainder into the national guard.
Members of the Medicine Lake I'm
provement association and residents
of the Medicine lake district have petit
toned the government to set aside as
a game reserve for the protection Of
ringneck pheasants approximately all
the territory within one mile of Medi-
cine Lake.
The consumer is at last coming into
his own, in so far as potatoes 60.
Hundreds of growers over the north
country who had been holding out for
even higher prices than those recently
paid, now find that they overstayed
their market, according to commission
house men.
After years of agitation for bridge
across the Red Lake river at one or
more points between this city and
the Red Lakes, the county commits
sioners of Pennington county have de-
cided to bond the county in the sum
of $4,000 for substantial bridge to
be located at High Landing.
Crop reports from eighteen addi-
tional counties made public by F. D.
Sherman, state commissioner of immi-
grafton, show that wheat and other
grains are generally in good condition.
The reports show conditions similar
to those i'm twenty-five other counties
given out previously.