The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-05-24
Domestic

DOVtGSEtC
A "super wheat" containing Ia per
cent gluten, has been discovered by
Burbank, the noted California horti-
culturist, after experiments extending
over IL years, it was announced at
Santa Rosa, Cal. The wheat may be
grown from Hudson bay to Patagonia.
Employees of the Twin City Rapid
Transit company will be granted wage
t1crease ranging from 81 to $40 a
month effective June 1, it was an
nounced at Minneapolis, MINI.
A course in camoufage, said to be
the first ever offered by any college
Of the world, was opened at Columbia
university. 1t will be open to artists
and mature students in various
branches.
Mrs. Potter Palmers will, affecting
the disposal of between $2O,O0O,60O
and S30,000,000, was filed In the pro-
bate court at Chicago. The bulk Of the
estate is handed down, in trust, to
Honore Palmer and Potter Palmer, Jr,
the two sons.
Capt Antonio Silvio Resnati of the
Royal Italian flying corps, who pi-
loted the ten-passenger Caproni BIZ
plane from Washington to New York
and back again recently, was killed at
the Hampstead flying field.
Almost a mutiny broke out among
the 300 interned Germans at Hot
Springs, N. c., when they learned Of
the governments plan to move them
before July to army posts at Forts
Oglethorpe and Mcpherson, Ga.
President Thomas f. Holgate of
Northwestern university at Evanston,
registered alien enemy, and Edward T..
Asling, German professors at the in
stitution, are to be dropped from the
pay rolls for the next college year.
The total of the Third Liberty loan
is $4,170,O19,650, an oversubscripuon
of SO per cent above the three billion
minimum sought, according to a treas
hry statement. The number Of SUBJ
scribers was about 100000. Every
federal reserve district oversub-
scribed.
Wooden ships have been launched
at the rate of more than one day for
the past four weeks. The shipping
board announced that just II wooden
craft, aggregating 10000 tons burden.
had been added to the American mer-
chant marine in the first II days of
this month.
Three men were blown to pieces by
the explosion of quantity of nitro
glycerin being hauled to the oil fields
pear Pleasant City, O., by John Huey,
whose horses were killed. The other
victims were farmers.
Howard D. De Weese, sentenced to
be shot Friday, May "a, for the MUIR
der of his wife, permitted a petition
for Communication of0sentence to be
filed at Salt Lake City, in his behalf.
Twenty-one of the leading mining
company officials, employees and bus
mess men Of the Warren district were
arrested at Bisbee, Ariz., on indict-
ments returned by the federal grand
Jury which completed an investigation
of the deportation of nearly 100 al
legged members of the Industrial Work
ers of the World.
Eighteen alien enemy employees
were discharged by the Chicago Ath-
letic association In pursuance of its
policy of excluding such aliens from
the premises of the club.
"War to the DEATH" demanded for
mer President Taft In his keynote
speech at the opening session of the
win-the-war- convention of the League
to Enforce Peace at Philadelphia. "Let
us have peace, but let us have war
that we may have peace. To sound
the trumpet of stern, implacable war
tn the end this convention was called /"