The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-10-05
Rhinow to Head Regiment.

HnInoW TO HEAD Regiment.
Adjutant General w. F. Rhinow
will take charge of the Fourth Min
nesota infantry when the resignation
of Major Frank B. Rowley of Minnea-
polls becomes effective.
The plan was adopted, General
Rhinow said, to save the salary of
$4,000 by leaving the office vacant in
the newest Minnesota National Guard
unit
The new regiment has been refer.
red to as the "plutocratic" regiment
after an announcement that the pri-
Yates will receive 1915 day and
that it will be the highest paid mill.
tary organization in the world.
1t is being organized to relieve the
First Minnesota infantry, now guard
ing public property, bridges, food
warehouses and factories in st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Duluth, when the
First regiment is ordered to camp.
Although it was announced pri-
marily as stay.at-home organiza-
ton, the regiment will be subject to
call as are other National Guard
units.
Governor Too Busy to Go.
Keeping in touch with the Public
Safety Commission, rushed with the
La Toilette case and busy with plans
in connection with Colonel ROosevelt's
visit, Governor Burnquist was unable
to lead Nhe Minnesota delegation to
the international Soil Products expo
sition at Peoria, Ill. The Minnesota
delegation, which included many
state officials, left in special car over
the Rock Island line.
Chief Justice Calvin L. Brown Of
the Supreme Court took Governor
Burnquist's place on the program,
delivering the principal address Min.
nesOta day.
Not Proposed Vet to Close Saloons.
Fearing the Minnesota Public Safety
commission would issue an order clos
ing all Minneapolis saloons, the Min
neapolis Trades and Labor assembly
requested the commission to grant it
hearing before any such order should
be issued. No proposal to close the
Minneapolis saloons has been made in
commission meetings, Secretary H. w.
Libby said.
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To Make Movies Of Indians.
Motion pictures wilt be made of In
dams harvesting W Id rice at Rice lake,
midway between Bemidji and Mahno-
men, and added to the collection of
educational films owned by the state
game and fish department, Commits
sioner Carlos Avery announces.
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Plan to Move Regiment.
Colonel w. T. Mollison, Faribault,
commanding the Second Minnesota In
fantry, and Captain Minot J. Brown
and Lieutenant Robert Deininger, both
of Owatonna, of the quartermaster
corps. conferred at the capitol with
railroad agents, to arrange tentative
plans for the movement of the Second
regiment when it is ordered to en-.
train for Camp Cody, N. NJ. Colonel
MolIison said that he had received 70
official advice indicating a departure
date. The plans made provide for four
special trains.
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Seed Corn Scarcity Sure.
Farmers must be sure to provide
for seed corn if i real crop is to be
expected next season, A. ID. Wilson.
state food administrator and director
of the agricultural extension divi-
sion of the University, says.
THE seed corn situation is serious
and everything that can be done to
encourage saving seed corn is worth
WHILE" Mr. Wilson said
Seed corn time is past, but we
fear that owing to the frost MANY
farmers will not mako the necessary
4fort to ret seed CO: