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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Saved From Death on Mill Saw.

Cloquet. = Three men were injured,
one seriously, here when the piston
rod in the Cloquet water power mill
broke and partially wrecked the plant.
John Sironen escaped death when
rescued from the slasher chain, on
which he had been thrown and which
was carrying him into rapidly re-
volving saw. His left leg was frac-
tured and he is believed to be inter-
nally injured. Rugnar Almin and
Fred Hill are in hospital here. They
will be able to leave In few days.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22

wise paernistc People speak
of Washington world" There
mo exaggeaon in such enum Indeed falls short of full truth
World
eclpes
Wahngons The life of the
altogether charming transformation
vncasm of Gotham stands prominently gangy
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Road improvements Approved

Washington. Three projects for
the Improvement of 1O3 miles of road
in Minnesota through federal aid have
been approved by D. F. Houston, SEQ
rotary of agriculture. These are the
first of the road Improvement projects
to be approved in the middle western
states. The improvements will cost
$4,000 and the federal government
will advance half of this sum under
the general appropriation for post
roads improvement. C.. M. Babcock
and ]. H. Mullen have returned from
Washington.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22

essentials Of a successful garden are
Connolly explains:
"The first essential is a gardener
who is enthusiastic, willing and likes
the work. met man the other day
who had plot 16 feet square and he
said if he could only find someone to
spade it up for him he would tend to
it afterward. 1t isn't likely that man
would be successful gardener be-
cause If he was too Indifferent to
spade it up he would likely be too in
different to care for il aftarWard
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Governor Not Candidate for senats.

st. Paul.-Governor Burnquist, who
has been mentioned as a possible
aspirant for the United States Senate
to succeed Senator Knute Nelson,
who, 1t has been announced, would
not succeed himself, has announced
officially he would not become a can
d1date for the Office. 81 should pre-
fer" the governor said, ito be can
didate for reelection as governor,
should / determine to remain in pub
&c life." State Auditor Preus has
been considered a likely man.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
CONVERSATIONS

To enable athletes to develop their
neck muscles a leather ring to be
weighted with shot and worn around
the head has been invented.
Flexible lath for many building pur-
poses has been patented that is COM
posed of wire cloth, coated with brick
clay.
In the New Testament (Rev. 12:O
Michael fights in heaven against the
dragon and satan (which deceiveth the
whole world"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
FILLS Former Wife and Self,

st. Cloud. = Leroy Quinn shot and
killed his former wife and himself at
the farm on which she was'living near
Eden Valley, according to word which
reached officials at st. Cloud. Jeal-
GUS has been suggested as the prob
able motive.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Graduate From Catholic School.

Mankato. The following were
graduated from Good Council acad-
envy, which trains young women to
be teachers in parochial schools:
Classical course-M. Leonard, L. Bic
nemann, M. Borgmeier, A. Butter,
Mankato; c. Weaver, Easton; M. Pet
tit, Fergus Falls; A. O'Connor, Lake
Park, Iowa; G. Thissen, Clara City;
NJ. Murphy, Lakefield; NJ Wolf, St.
Paul; B. Fleischmann, Wausau, Wis;
J. Kauth, T. Schell, Shakopee; M.
Pumper, c. Stein.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22

Only the business section of Ojas.
CAL, and few isolated residences are
standing after the fire which swept
down the Ojai valley, burning over
fifty sugar mills and causing damage
estimated to be in excess of $2OO,OOO.
The Belgian mission has arrived In
the United States on the Steamship
MontevideO. 1t Is composed OF M
Moucheur, former Belgian minister to-
the United States General Leclerq OF
the Belgian army; COmte D'Ursell,
Hector Caller and Jean Mertens.
The war emergency committee Of
the baking industry named at con-
ference in Chicago in May and repre-
senting 7S cities, conferred with con-
gressional leaders at Washington, and
urged the necessity for prompt action
on measures to conserve the food
products Of the country.
penitentiary sentence of IL;
months and % days for not register
Ing under the selective draft law was
imposed by Judge Chatfield in the fed
eral court in Brooklyn on Herman p.
Levine, schoOlteacher.
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berk-
man. known to the police as anarchists,
were arrested by the federal authori-
ties in the Office of the No-Conscription
league at New York charged with con-
spiracy to Illustrate the operation Of
the selective draft law.
Several persons were killed in a tor
nado that swept KNOXVILLE and Mer-
Ger, Mo.
Foreign
A dispatch to New York from Tokyo
says the Japanese steamer Sakaki has
met with a disaster and that the cap
tain and "a members of the crew were
killed
Eighteen dead and sixty injured per-
SOILS nave DceU ldhtu 1IOlu tIlt IukklS VI
the munition factory in Paris. France,
which collapsed.
The cabinet at PetrOgrad has decid-
ed to suggest a conference with the
allies to examine the various treaties
among the several allied powers.
1t was announced in Paris that an
experimental hydroairplane postal
route connecting France and Corsica,
with connections at Marseilles, Toulon
and Ajaccio, is being considered by
the minister of commerce.
Fifty persons were killed and many
persons were injured by an explosion
at Ashton-under-Lyne England, An
drew BOnar Law, chancellor of the
exchequer, announced in the house Of
commons. Ashton UNDERLINE is a man.
ufacturing town near Manchester.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
GUARD IN NEED OF $3.50 MEN
Figures Include Proposed New Units
Recruiting Active.

Minneapolis. = The Minnesota Ma
tional guard, including the new units
about to be organized, will need about
1856 recruits to bring the organiza-
ton Up to full war strength. Recruit
ing in the First infantry is progress
ing well, but about 125 men are need
ed to bring this regiment, now in fed
eral service, up to war strength. The
First field artillery and the Second
anc Third infantry regiments need
about 1900 men collectively.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Patients Escape Fire by Ladder.

Pennington. = Fire here has de-
stroyed the Sanford Drew hospital, the
market, causing a loss of $1,000. Pa
tients in the hospital were rescued
from the second floor by ladders. The
loss is partially covered by insurance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Bulk of States Fires Preventable.

Minneapolis. - More than 33 per
cent of Minnesota's fire losses are
partly preventable, % per cent are
strictly preventable and a large per-
centage of the balance are ''un-
known but probably preventable," ac-
cording to a report furnished Chief
Ringer of the fire department by the
National Board of Fire Underwriters.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22

heWlng TO the line In the years OF CITY
building and no radical departure
from the artistic designs of the great
engineer to whom George Washington
intrusted the laying out of the nations
seat and its scope of development. 1t
is today the capital they intended 1t
should be-perhaps surprising In
grandeur the most roseate vision OF
that primitive day. 1t is the distinc-
tive American city-the city of cities.
destined to become increasingly beau
fif,,I ,,nlor tho onntinrod y,rOiipal vet
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
European War News

The wars latest development is a
twO-minute battle. 1t took the British
just that long to capture three-Quar-
ters of mile of trenches on infantry
hill, east of MOnchy LIE Preaux. The
time for "gOing over tie top" was set
for 7:25 and at :27 rockets signaled
the fact all along the line attacked
that the detectives had been taken.
Two persons were killed and 16 in
jured In an air raid in England dur
ing which Zeppelin was brought
down.
While Japanese destrOyers were at
lacking submarine in the Mediter-
ranean the destroyer Sakaki was tor
pedOed and damaged, says an official
announcement of the Japanese admir-
atty at Tokyo. 1t is believed many Of
the crew were killed or wounded.
The Japanese steamer Tansan, which
left East Boston for Manchester, Eng
land, has been sunk by a submarine Off
the English coast, according to advices
received at Boston through insurance
all Japanese and all are believed lost.
A largely attended citizens meeting
at the London opera house adopted
resolution proposed by the lord mayor,
urging the government to initiate
policy of reprisals in the shape OF
ceaseless attacks on German town
and cities so that their populations
may experience the effects of such
methods of warware.
resolution, calling for an fmme-
date offensive by Russian troops has
been adopted by the duma at Petro-
grad in secret session. The Pan-Rus-
sian congress of all councils of work
mems and soldiers delegates ratified
the action of the provisional govern
ment in expelling from Russia Robert
Grimm, the Swiss socialist, medium
through which the Germans attempted
to arrange separate peace with Rus
STA.
The British armed merchant cruiser
Avenger was torpedoed and sunk In
the North sea. All but one Of the
crew were saved.
The Leyland liner Anglican has been
torpedoed and sunk. Five men are
missing.
The sinking of several more Norwe-
gian vessels, with considerable loss Of
life, is reported by the Norwegian for
eign office, as quoted in q. Central
News dispatch to London from Copen-
hagen.
The Messines offensive was the most
successful attack which the British
that was marked In the preliminary
plans have been attained, said Maj.
Gen. T. B. Maurice, chief director of
military operations at the British war
office in London in his weekly talk.
The death of 81 persons and the in
jury of 437 in an air raid on London
was announced in the house Of lords
by the earl Of Derby, secretary of state
for war.
The French South Atlantic liner Sc
guiana, 5,557 tons, with $50 passengers
on board, has been torpedoed and sunk
with a loss Of 100 men.
Fort Saliff, on the east shore Of the
Red sea, has been captured by British
warships, 1t was officially announced
at London.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Chisholm to Have Home Guards.

Chisholm. - Success in the forma-
ton of local company of home
guards was assured when 43 men, all
American citizens, signed applications
for admission to the company. 1t is
believed that full company of IA men
will be recruited here.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Slabs Sister, Cuts OF Hand.

Mountain Lake. = Frank O'Conror,
a farmer living near here stabbed and
killed his sister, Mary, in a fit of de-
spondency, and later cut off the hand
in which he held the knife with which
his sister was killed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Takes Four Times Loan Quota.

Pine City. Pine City's contribu-
ton to the Liberty Loan of $32,25O,
exceeds its proportion, which ran un-
der $1,000. Pine City, with a popula-
ton of about 1880, also has about so
men in all branches of the military
and naval service
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
VIRGINIA Arrests 100 Slackers.

Virginia. Twelve more arrests
here for. not registering have brought
the total number to 100. Since the
order from the provost marshal gen.
eral to round up all slackers officers
have been working steadily to ascer-
tain all those who did not register
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Four Drown When Launch Hits Dam.

Winona. = Four persons returning
from a visit to an island near here
were drowned in the Mississippi river,
when their launch collided with sub
merged dam. The dead: Agnes
Mlympzak, 10; Frances Mlympzak, %;
Michael Stolda, %; Ludwig Stolpman,
10. Their bodies nave not been re-
covered.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22

,UOHHeI lHdI HdU OHCU D1tn DIue anu
red Bingham trimmed with used-to-be
white fringe.
A circus-watching person who
happened to stand next, and who
knows a gentleman when she sees one,
asked the old man if he reckoned his
horse knew she had on q midsummer
bonnet on a spring day.
"Yes'm. Suttinly she knows she
got her bonnet on! County Cider amt
.nobody's fool. Yes'm. County Cider
knows she gOtter bonnet on, an. fnr-
thermO', she knows why-hut hun"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Capital Is Waxing Enthusiastic Over Garden Plots

ARDENNG will be principal Washington
predicts popular
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Congress Takes Care of Banners of "Besiegers''


of
Heannns the Of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22

enemy city?
Such thoughts as these ran through
my head only few nights past at
something that took place in the house
of representatives office building,
writes Earl Goodwin in the Washington
Star.
You know there are always pair
of suffrage sentinels standing guard at
the corner of New Jersey avenue and
Il street-opposite the front door of
the house office building They stand
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Water WAGON Driven Held Stacker.

Water Wagon Driver Held Stacker.
Gilbert. = j. Neimi, the village
water wagon driver, was taken off his
wagon by officers and arrested for
not registering in accordance with the
provisions of the draft law.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Possible Explanation Of Old Mares Queer Name

RCKETY old coored man had drawn his horse
The
somehow implied humiliation
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
E(ldnloxl,lL Cllgll{El19 =
IAlFlEAa1RS ! at, 80 80
Washington's Clear Right to Title, "Cit Beautiful

the city beautiful In this second decade
Len
adhered literally but general
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Washington

Herbert c.. Hoover outlined his plans
at Washington for enlisting the ma
tons housewives as actual members
of the food administration and on the
theory that 80 per cent Of American
food passes through their hands ap-
pealed to them to join him in the fight
for conservation measures and elimina-
ton of waste. The women will be en-
rolled during a period Of registration
from July 1 to July Is.
Full approval has been given by the
war department at Washington to the
air supremacy program of the defense
councils aircraft board, and President
Wilson has been asked to put the ad-
ministratiOn's support behind the ap-
preparation of $6OO,OOO,OO0.
The senate at Washington adopted
the Smoot resolution calling on the Sec
rotary of war to state whether the En-
field rife has been adopted for army
use in place of the Springfield rifle,
and also to give the facts regarding
the Standardization of arms and am
munition of the allies.
The $3,34OOOO,OOO war budget, long
delayed by congressional controversy,
became law when President Wilson af-
fixed his signature to the measure at
the White House at Washington.
The house war tax bill was de-
creased about 100000 more when
the senate finance committee decided
to reduce the manufacturers tax on
athletic goods patent medicines. per-
fumeries and cosmetics from to 2
per cent.
The senate at Washington agreed to
the conference report on the $3,34O,-
100000 army and navy war budget
without roll call or dissenting voice.
Domestic
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation Of Labor, cabled
message from Washington to James
Duncan, representing organized labor
in the United States diplomatic mis-
sion to Russia, to contend for demOc-
racy and national independence at the
conference of socialistic bodies to be
held in Petrograd.
The general education board, found
ed by John d. Rockefeller, has writ
ten it's check for $1,OOOOOO and will
mail it in few days to Washington
university for use in financing re-
search in surgery, medicine and pedi-
atrics, it was announced at st. Louis.
The war department at Washington
announced approval of the following
four national army cantonment sites,
completing the Is sites to be selected:
Rockford, Ill.,; Yapbank, South Haven,
L. l.. Annapolis Junction, Nd, and Pc
tersburg, Va.
AdOlph Germer, executive secretary
of the National Socialist party, under
indictment with IL others charged with
conspiracy to violate the military con-
scription law, surrendered at Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Frederick Jerger, secretary of the
Martin Ferry Socialist organization,
was sentenced by Federal Judge Safer
at Columbus, O., to eight months in
the Delaware county Jail. Jerger
pleaded guilty to opposing the federal
draft. He was registered, however,
,fter being arrested.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
MINNESOTA DRAFT
COUNT COMPLETE
OFFICIAL RETURNS SHOW 221,747
REGISTERED UNDER CON-
ScRIPTION ACT.
ARE SUBJECT. TO REVISION
Figures May Be Changed by Rechecks
of Summaries and Supplementary
Acknowledgements 1a,8o4
Below Estimate.

st. Paul.
The official Minnesota return, show.
ing 221,747 selective draft registra-
tions, has been sent by Governor
Burnquist to Provost Marshal General
=. H. Crowder at Washington, D. G..
koochiching county reports complet-
ed the returns. Minnesota's registra-
ton is now 1S,804 below the govern
ment estimate of 25O,551, but is sub
1ect to corrections on rechecks of the
summaries and to supplementary re-
turns on late registrations.
Exemption claims are indicated on
the cards of 108,796 out Of 194 1853
white citizens and of $50 out of 9S2
negroes registered. The Indians in
cluded 30 in Carlton county, the cards
of other Minnesota red men having
been sent direct to Washington by the
Indian agent.
Aliens numbering 24,599 and 1,971
alien enemies make up the balance Of
the state registration total.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
To Act on Draft EXCAVATIONS.

~ SSI OF OTdTt exemptions.
Names of the men selected by Gov
ernor Burnquist to draft Minnesota
young men for war service have been
sent to President Wilson by Governor
Burnquist in whose hands the selec-
ton was placed.
Rumors that mayors of various cities
could make recommendations for the
exemption boards were given quietus
IN an announcement made by Provost
Marshal Enoch Crowder IN Washing
ton that the selecting of the boards
lay entirely with the state executives.
The lists were sent to Washington
In compliance with the draft law which
specifies that exemption boards shall
be appointed by the President.
In a large majority of cases the per-
sonnet of the boards will be Identical
with that of the registration boards.
All the boards are expected to be
ready that exemptions may be consid-
cred by July 1. The provost marshal
said that in the interim he would
check up with state executives any
protests that may be made against
their selections and allow time for aa.
Justments before the lists are an
nounced.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22
Urged to Exhibit More Sheen

F. F. Marshall, superintendent of
the sheep department of the state fair,
urges stock raisers to exhibit more
sheep. There will probably be mar
ket established for selling and trading
sheep at the fair, he said.
1T will be absolutely necessary to
increase wool production" Mr.. Mar
shall explained Uniforms, over
coats, socks and other articles of army
apparel are manufactured from wool,
and the wool supply is low"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-22

apparel are manufactured from wool,
and the wool supply is low"
X X X
Home Guard Companies for RANGE.
Seven companies of the Minnesota
Home Guard probably will be organ.
lied in towns on the Mesaba range,
according to reports at the Capitol,
following the return from. that section
of Major Oscar Seebach, chief Home
Guard organization aide to the State
Public Safety Commission. The major
refused to make public any plans.
4 X 4
To Load Freight Cars to Capacity.
The Minnesota Railroad and Ware
house Commission has pledged it's full
cooperation in a campaign to load all
freight cars to capacity, the railroads
war board announces.
Investigation shows that the aver.
age car Is loaded only to 43 per cent
Of its capacity.
X X X
Designated as 1.-THE Gopher Gunners."
II
has been officially designated as "The
Gopher Gunners" Colonel George E..
Leach, commanding the regiment, an
nounced that the men who will man
Mihnesota's field guns in the present
war will be given that name.
4 X X
Humane Society Names Executive.
W.. w. Bradley of Minneapolis has
been elected executive officer of the
Minnesota Society for Prevention of
Cruelty at special meeting of the
organization in the Senate retiring
room at the Capitol. He will enter on
his new duties August 1.
X 4 X
May Fire Losses Show Increase.
Minnesota fire losses during May to-
tailed $676,502, compared with losses
Of $55S,523 in the corresponding month
last year, according to bulletin made
public by the state fire marshal.
X X K
Grants Degrees in Clinical Branches.
Degrees to specialists in the clinical
branches have been granted for .he
first time at the University of Mime
sofa. DR.. Colder L. McWhorter re-
ceived the degree Of doctor of bhil-
osophy in surgery; DR.. Henry w.
Woltmann, the degree of doctor of sci.
ence in neurology; DR.. Rood Taylor,
the degree of doctor of science in
pediatrics. President Vincent says
these are the first doctors degrees in
clinical branches ever granted any
where. These raen did most of their
work at the "U."
4 X *
Rate Advance Plea Involves Millions.
The Minnesota railroad and ware
house commission has begun hearings
OH the application of Minnesota rail-
roads for general increase of 15 per
cent on intrast~te freight rates. A
like application by railroads of the
United States for a similar advance
in interstate rates is pending in the
Interstate commerce commission. Both
contend that increased cost Of labor,
fuel and other supplies, and wartime
demands on the railroads are increas-
ing operating expenses. The proposal
involves millions Of dollars.