The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-30
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

denver an address during the Man.
kato fair, Sept. IL, 13 and IA.
Winona.-John Keelner, laborer,
was "frisked" and relieved of s40O in
cash and Liberty bonds to the amount
of $3.50 by fellow-laborer in broad
daylight.
New Ulm.-At a special meeting of
the city council Friday, $500 was ap-
propriated for the relief of the tornado
sufferers of Tyler and the money was
forwarded by telegraph.
Rochester-Louis Hill, oldest son
of L. w. Hill, president of the Great
Northern railroad, is at st. Mary's hos
pital. The boy was injured in Glacier
National park. His condition is not
serious.
st. Paul.-Attired in the remnants
OF a coat of tar and feathers with
which he was decorated, John Meintz
Of Luverne, Rock county, appealed to
Alfred Jaques, United States district
attorney, for redress
Buhl.-The erection of a potato
warehouse came up for consideration
before the regular meeting of the city
council, and the council was named
as committee of the whole to select
suitable site on one block on which
to erect the building.
Wfnona.-Whether or not the
Skip stop" system of street car traf.
f1c will be inaugurated in Winona lies
In the hands of Judge MCGEE, Federal
fuel administrator for Minnesota, for
County Fuel Administrator Prentiss
has asked the state administrator for
q ruling.
Brainerd.- Sherman Renicker, OF
Deerwood, charged with impersonat.
ing Jess Smith and securing bill of
goods from Mr.. Engstrom, store.
keeper at Oreland, was tried by a jury
at Deerwood and found guilty and
fined $50 and costs or sixty days. He
gave notice of an appeal.
Brainerd.-Threshing crews in Grow
Wing county are often short of men
because of the draft. Farmers are
working by communities in an effort
to relieve any labor shortage Haying
Is still in progress and the lowlands
are giving fair yield. The uplands
are very dry, with only one-third yield.
Eveleth.-The Peoples State bank
has opened for business The quar-
tiers in the Peterson block occupied by
the new institution have been COM
pletely furnished with the most mod
ern banking house equipment. The
bank is organized with capital stock
of $4,000 and surplus of $500.
Hibbing.-The United States gov.
eminent was enriched to the extent
of $2,235 by the sale of confscated
automobiles taken by Indian agents
in raids on the range from bootleg
gers. The cars were placed on the
market with U. S. Marshal Joseph
Vessel as auctioneer. He was assist
ed by Marshal Frank Bradley. The
sale was held in front of the city
hall.
Chisholm. - Enforcement of the
work-or-fight provisions of the draft
law was started here by the local
board and formal notice was mailed
to all men whom the board had CLASH
fed as not usefully employed. A reas-
enable length of time will be allowed
for the men notified to secure en-
ployment considered useful. In practi-
cally all cases the men to whom no.
tees were sent were clerks in mer-
camille stores and pool hall attend
ants. They totaled about ten.
st. Paul.-Minnesota ranks eighth
among the states of the Union for low
percentages of reflections of draft reg
istrants at military camps for physical
reasons. The official announcement
from national draft headquarters and
Washington was made public by Mai
John P. Snyder, chief aide at state
headquarters at the capitol. Mime
sofa is credited with 1928 inductions
and only S32 reflections, a percentage
of 3.17. The totals for the United
States were S59,257 inductions and
50,119 reflections, making general
average of 5.83 per cent of reflections.
Bemidji.-Hugo v. Koch, Federal
labor director for the state of Mime
sofa, comforting with local employers
In regard to labor conditions in this
territory, said that if there is a short
age of labor here, the employers will
have no one but themselves to blame
as they neglected to return question
naires sent out by the labor depart
ment regarding labor conditions. Mr..
Koch explained that questionnaires
were sent to all employers in this vi
ain hot h.,t7
returned. Believing there was an
over-supply of men in this vicinity,
the war department made the draft
quota exceedingly heavy for this vi
cinity and the result is that there is
shortage of labor.
Red Lake Falls-Ralph Williams,
11-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ar.
thur Williams of this city, was
drowned while swimming in the Clear.
water river at Sandy Bend near the
Great Northern tracks. He went in
with party of boy friends, but he
was unable to swim and when he ven
tured out over his depth, went down
before he could be rescued. Several
people on the banks, women and chill.
dren, witnessed the accident. Yer
non and George Puschinsky, both un
der 10, reached the scene in few
minutes, and recovered the body with
the assistance of Miss Mary Germo.
Chisholm. Dependency resulting
from long illness, is believed to have
caused Mrs. Otmar Tancig, aged %
to take her own life. Tancig, who
had been out of town all day, found
the body of his wife suspended from
some hooks in the clothes closet al
the residence, 2O3 West Lake street
st. Paul-Asserting that the firsi
solo Of nd De Of, tod