The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-10-18
NEWS or STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.


| Wells.-There have been four deaths
here as result of Spanish influenza
| and approximately 200 cases of the
disease are being treated.
| Wrginia.-The local draft board Is
| ordered to entrain eight men during
the f1ve-day period beginning Oct. 81
to go to Camp Cody, N. Mex.
| Little Falls.-Perry Smith was taken
off Northern Pacific train here and is
charged with desertion from Camp
Grant His home Is In Hackensack.
Hibbing.-Attorney for the Great
| Northern railroad gave August Ansel
mo S125 in settlement of his claim for
a COW killed by train and he dropped
| his suit to recover.
Virginia.-The local Red Cross chap
| ter will soon start survey of nursing
resources, having received Instructions
and questionnaires for the work. Every
house in the city will be visited
| Little Falls.-Miss Susan Hough,
county food administrator, has devised
plans whereby every rural school in
Morrison county will be able to serve
hot lunches to the students this winter.
Aitkin.-Joseph Saumier of Crosby,
after being arrested, confessed to hav-
ing robbed the jewelry store of j. N.
Nelson and the Northern Pacific depot
He was sentenced to the training school
at Red Wing.
| Little Falls.-Joseph Pawlenty of
this city dropped from load of hay to
the ground, striking on his head and
sustaining a fracture of the spine in
the region of the neck. He is par
alyzed from the neck down.
| Hibbing.-Authoriti are investigat-
ing the theft of 81 800 in Liberty bonds,
War Savings Stamps and checks from
a safe in mercantile establishment at
Carson Lake, last week. Entrance to
the building was gained at night.
Virginia. = The library board ap-
pointed the following directors to at
tend the annual meeting of the League
Of Minnesota municipalities at Roch-
ester: Lafayette Bliss, Rev. Father
William Power and Carl R. Johnson.
st. Paul-Dr. H. M. Bracken, Min
nesota health officer, has been named
member of the health and medical
relief committee of the Federal rail-
road administration. The committee
will establish an Office in Washing
| ton.
| Bemidji-Many views of Bemidji are
to appear In a film being prepared by
New York organization under the
direction OF the Ten Thousand Lakes
association. The film will be entitled
"A Canoe Trip from Itasca State Park
to st. Paul"
Hibbing-The draft board has re-
ceived call for twenty men to be. sent
to Camp Cody Oct. Il. AS the last call
for Camp Cody was Cancelled because
of Spanish influenza prevailing at that
camp, the men chosen at that time will
go on the 21st, instead.
Red Wing. W. Elliott, alleged de-
serter from the National army at
Camp Grant, also said to be wanted
for robbery in Ellsworth, Wis, where
he is alleged to have stolen $50 in
gold, was apprehended in the railroad
yards here and was taken to Fort
Smelling.
Minneapolfs.-Th nice powdery gu
gar which mother used to sprinkle over
the tops of pies is to totally disappear
from the American home, according to
Frank S. Pool. Minnesota representa-
tive of the sugar division of the United
States FOOD administration. Whole
sale and retail grocers may dispose of
their stocks by permission from the
Federal Food administration at Uni
versity Farm, Mr.. Pool said.
Winona-O Organized effort to COM
bat the increasing epidemic of Span
ish influenza has been launched here.
DR.. D. B. Pritchard, city health Off
Ger, is chairman of a committee of Red
| Cross workers who will make a sur
vey of the cases and employ sufficient
nurses to handle the emergency.
There are hundreds of cases here. AL
though several are serious only one
local death has been reported.
Mankato.-A county boys and girls
calf club contest and show, the first
ever held in the county, will take place
in this city October % and %, as
result of efforts of the Blue Earth
| County Farm bureau, assisted by the
Tri-county Holstein club and the Guern-
sew Breeders club. There will be
about 100 calves that have been raised
the past season by boys and girls of
Blue Earth, LIE Seuer and Nicollet
counties entered in the competition for
81, 200 in premiums.
| st. Paul-The state food admins
tration, acting upon requests from the
national administration, is reaching
| into the lumber camps of Minnesota to
obtain carbon for gas masks. AS lum-
| berjacks are great eaters of prunes,
| the pits are saved. A. D. Wilson, state
! food administrator, declares that the
lumber camps In Minnesota have re-
sponded to every conservation request
| and have even cut down on their pie
quota to help win the war.
Minneapolis Peterson, guilty
of perjury in connection with his state
ment regarding ability to justify In
the sum of $4,000 as surety on Jacob
| o. BentalPs bond last spring, was SEN
fenced to sixty days in Ramsey county
jail Wednesday by Judge Wilbur F.
Booth in United States district court.
st. Paul.-Fire losses of $316,3S8 in
| Minnesota during September, an in
| crease of more than $4,000 over the
total for the corresponding period last
year, despite slight decrease in the
number of fires reported, are shown in
| a bulletin issued by George H. Nettle-
ton. assistant state fire marshal.
/ Rrainerd Wages or backpay OF q