The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-08-03
1l1eStateNeWSOf
The Week IN Brief
An Epitome of All the Big and
Interesting Events of the Past
Few Days In the State.


send Minnesota guardsmen from home
company quarters direct to Camp Cody
near Deming, N. NJ, for training.
The bringing Of the war to their
doors, the pillaging of the city and
finally the outbreak of ravaging dis
eases was the tale brought to Winona
by jeanette Weisman of Chlewiczi, Rus
STA, who has fled that country with
the money she hid from the German
raiders.
Fort Ripley. fourteen miles south OF
Brainerd, has had a $4,000 fire. The
blaze, which originated in an apart
ment over Johnson Bros hardware
store, wiped out buildings on one side
of principal street for a distance OF
two blocks. Johnson Bros. suffered a
loss estimated at $4,000.
With the extreme heat and neces
sity for speeding up farm work and
with the man and horse power of the
farms seriously affected, the labor
shortage in Winona county has been
80 acute that appeals have been reach
ing the local Office of the labor bureau
OF the safety commission constantly.
J. Willard Tawney, son of former
Representative James A. Tawney, ar
rived at Winona from Japan to learn
that the commission in the Minnesota
National Guard he came 5000 miles
to fill had been supplied by the selec.
ton of another man. Mr.. Tawney will
try for a commission in some other
branch of the service.
tuuity to register after they had been
imprisoned in the ST. Louis county
Jail Jared better at the hands of Fed
eral Judge Page Morris at Duluth.
Thirty Austrians were released upon
their own recognizance until next jan
uary. If they are law-abiding until
then the charge will be dropped.
Minnesota fire insurance men, 80
strong, have been organized into the
Conservation Association of Minnesota
and will assume their share of war
work by devoting all their time
throughout the state to the inspection
of factories, warehouses, storehouses
and elevators. Practical elimination
of food waste through fire losses is
the purpose.
The patriotism of James H. Ben
nett brakeman on the Northwestern
railroad, has given him unique sta
tus in the draft lottery. He registered
twice, one by mail and a second time
in person at Milwaukee. If the serial
number he drew on one registration
prevails he was drafted in the first
call. Otherwise he will not be called
on for several months.
The body of Patrick Larkin, SO years
old, of Brainerd, an auto livery man
here, who was drowned in sight of
his wife and seven children as he
stepped into twenty-fve-foot hole in
Gull lake, was sent to Graceville for
burial. An automobile rushing to the
lake with the pulmotor overturned en-
route and Richard Bush and Thomas
Derocher in it were injured.
The military funeral of Private
Christian Erickson, who died of diph-
iberia June %, while on board trans
port bound for France with the first
American expeditionary force, has
been held at Slayton. The funeral
was the largest ever held in this coun-
ty. Erickson was one Of the nine
young men who left here three months
ago for Jefferson Barracks, Mo. He
was % years old.
Only fair and reasonable investment
projects will be licensed by the Min
nesota Securities commission if it
adopts the governing policy of the
Michigan commission, which is oper-
ating under similar law, according
to reports by John B. Sanborn, state
insurance commissioner, and c. Louis
Weaks, assistant attorney general, who
consulted the Michigan commissioners
at Lansing in behalf of the Minnesota
body.
Twenty thousand editors of the
United States will become affiliated
with the National Editorial association
If the plans of President c. H. Hotal-
ing, Mapleton, Mimi, are realized.
''The editors realize they should be
in national body, and the city and
country press must work in conjunc-
tion," President Hotaling said. Mr..
Hotaling came here with a party on
the last lap of 6,OO0-mile trip to
Western Canada.
L. H. Slocum, former county audi.
tor of Koochiching county, who was
removed from Office because of alleged
irregularities, has pleaded guilty to an
Indictment charging him with issuing
fraudulent warrants for $1,000 in con
nection with the building of state high
ways. Judge McLenahan sentenced
him to year in the county Jail OF
to pay fine Of $4,000. The fine was
paid and the other indictments against
Slocum we're Quashed.
The state board of law examiners
the Legislature and the method OF
drafting laws will come in for criti
cism at the meeting of the Minnesota
Bar association to be held in Mime
apolis August z, and 9. The ethics
committee, composed of George W.
Burlington, Edward Lees, Robert E.
Odds and Victor Stearns, holds that
the failure to get results in the at.
tempt to discipline five attorneys who
were charged with misconduct was
due to "the defective and incompetent
machinery provided at the present
tine for the prosecution of such com.
plants"
River men along the Upper Missis.
sippi, although they have been urging
the necessity of the appropriation,
have practically lost hope of the sue.
cess of the $27,OO0,0OO river bill in
the present war Congress. Private
messages advised that the tendency
was to sidetrack all legislation save