The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-06-29
FIRST ARTILLERY
TO Be Modified
REGIMENT BUSY ROUNDING UP
MEMBERS-EARLY MOVE TO
WAR ZONE EXPECTED.
GOVERNOR GETS TELEGRAM
Receives Notification of Intention to
Assign BattaIions to Officers Train
ing Camps at Fort Smelling and
Fort Riley.

st. Paul
With the machinery of mobilization
well under way and only awaiting re-
ceipt of the formal order from Gen.
eral Thomas H. Barry of the central
division officers of the First Minneso-
ia artillery were busy rounding up the
men of the regiment. About 200 men,
bers of the regiment were out of the
city, when the order came, among the
number being three officers.
The notification of intention to mo-
bilize the regiment and to assign bat
talions to the officers training camps
at Fort Smelling and to Fort Riley,
Kan, was received by Governor j. A.
A. Burnquist in telegram from the
war department..
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Orders Arrest of All SIackers.
The State Public Safety commits
sion has passed resolution calling
upon police officers of the state to en-
force 1917 laws against criminal syn
dicalism and interference with mill
tary enlistment.
The action followed a conference
with mayors and police chiefs Of
town in the northern part of the state
and the edict. the secretary of the
commission said, is addressed especial
ly to the authorities of St. Louis and
Itasca counties where conditions the
law is intended to reach are most
marked.
The commission issued a statement
to the effect that it apprehends no re-
currence of last summers trouble on
the Iron Range.
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State Plants Fish Fry in Lakes.
Owing to the extraordinary need for
increasing the food supply of the peo-
pie the Minnesota Game and Fish de-
partment has made unusual efforts
this spring. The distribution Of WALL
eyed pike has just been completed.
The total output was 273,626,000 pike.
These were distributed in sixty coun-
ties and planted in 377 lakes.
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Labor Census Returns in.
The first complete census returns
of labor conditions in Minnesota, so
far as they pertain to farm help, have
been received at the newly created
Public Employment bureau in Mime
apolis.
These returns will be used by the
bureau as a means of locating farm
help wants.
To Transfer Insane Patients.
Transfer of 60 chronic insane pa
tients from various state hospitals to
| the asylum to be established in con-
| nection with the state farm for ineb-
rates at Wilmar will be made
Aug. 1, and the erection of two cot
tages there for housing insane pa
tients will be rushed
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900 Teachers Again Students.
At the College of Agriculture 900
rural and elementary teachers of the
state have become students once
more. They will attend classes until
July 81 to earn credits toward first
and second class state certificates and
to raise their professional status in
general.
Enlist in New Albert Lea Battery.
Fifty young men enlisted for Albert
Lea's new battery in the Second Min
nesota Field artillery at mass meet
ing here. Colonel w. ]. Murphy, COM
handing officer of the new artillery
regiment was the principal speaker.
A patriotic parade preceded the meet
ing.
Adjutant General May Resign.
Adjutant General Fred B. Wood
may resign within few days, it has
not yet been requested. The next
move is up to the Federal govern
ment, it was said at the Governors
Office.
"Has Best Crop Prospects Ever"
Col. c. H. March Of Litchfeld, food
| commissioner on the state public safe
| ty commission, is sanguine over the
| outlook for a big 1917 crop in this
state. Minnesota has the best pros
poets ever-beautiful, he exclaimed.
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War Board Must Itemize Bills.
Upon being notified that state funds
can be disbursed only on itemized
bills, the State Public Safety Commits
sion summoned State Auditor Preus
and then decided to postpone a con-
ference on the subject.
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For Bureau of Mines at Hibbinq.
Purchase of a building at Hibbing
to be used by the state bureau on
mines has been consummated by
State Auditor Preus and representa-
tives of the E. ]. Longyear company.
Minneapolis, at a consideration of
$35 900, as authorized at the last ses,
sion of the Legislature. A complete
laboratory for testing iron ore, Mr..
Preus said, will be installed. The
building is two-story brick structure,
with vault and has been partly oc-
cupied by the state mining depart
ment.
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Woods Absence Delays Accounting.
Absence Of Adjt. Gen. Fred. B. Wood
from the capitol has again delayed de-
velopments on demands by Governor
Burnquist and the federal militia
chief for an accounting, following an
examination by Capt. w. F. Rhinow.
governors military secretary, showing
federal property unaccounted for and
| $4,000 of bills outstanding against
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