The Ely miner., 1918-04-05
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

Ter D0luS luTueU uOWu IuiSo IiiucS.
Ortonville.-The jury in the case of
A. B. Kaercher, county attorney of
Big Stone county, charged with dis
loyalty, disagreed after having been
out eighteen hours.
Moorhead-The annual commence
ment address at the Moorhead state
normal school will be given by DR..
Herbert L. Willett of the University
of Chicago on May 26
St Paul-Minnesota automobile and
motor cycle owners and drivers have
paid 735,724.50 in fee under the new
automobile license laws, according to
a report issued by secretary of State
Julius A. Schmal.
Lake City.-P. H. Rahily, Sc years
old and a representative from this
county in the state legislature for
three terms, the first beginning in
ring as a candidate for senator in
this district.
Bemidji.-The first indication that
the knights of Liberty had organized
in this city was when the cOnfec-
tionary store of w. B. McChalain,
suspected of being pro-German, was
panied brilliant yellow and sign
posted asking him to move in thirty
days.
st. Peter.-With every section of
the state participating, st. Peter held
a gigantic loyalty meeting Sunday. W..
c. Munchoff, former officer in the
Prussian army and a graduate of the
University of Berlin, was the chief
speaker. He is touring the state un-
| der the auspices of the American
First association.
Princeton PrincetOn's starch
manufacturing plant has commenced
| to buy potatoes and farmers readily
responded to the demand for them,
in fact, so large a quantity was re-
ceived that the grinding machinery
| has been set in motion. Sixty cents
per 100 pounds, field run, is being
paid by the factory.
|. Minneapolis-Th Minneapolis navy
| recruiting station will send 452 en-
listed men to the Great Lakes train
| ing station on April z, 8 and 9,
Lieutenant George Greadwell has an
nounced They are men who have
been furloughed home awaiting the
| call to active service Fifty-one will
60 April Z, 200 April and 201 April
8.
Duluth the season OF
navigation of 1917 opened eight days
1 later and closed three days earlier
and ice hampered shipping until
June 10, the season showed an in
crease in business over the season
of 1916 of $S4O9O,111, according to
the annual report of the United
States engineers here, reporting on
the Duluth-Superior harbor
st Paul.-Permissio to increase
telephone rates at Blue Earth, Win.
nebago and Wells was denied by
the state railroad and warehouse
commission in an order on the appli
cation of the Blue Earth Valley Tele
phone company The commission
further ordered that the company will
either discontinue it's two party line
service or file new tariffs on such
service at figures we'll below the
present individual line rates.
i Hawley. Citizens of Hawley who
some time ago entered the home Of
resident here and took picture oi
; the kaiser from the walls and burned
: it, resumed their campaign again tt
make Hawley 100 per cent loyal by
destroying all German text books ii
the school house. Certain persons be
: lieved to be pro-German were made t.
kiss the flag and huge iron eros;
was painted on the potato warehouse
of Herman Schultz of Leavenworth
Kas.
ST Paul.-Limited funds and wal
time prices are causing stringencie'
in at least two state institutions, &C
cording to reports from the State
Board of Visitors filed in Governo
, Burnquist's office Because of th
financial stringency at the Mime
: sofa State Soldiers home, tempora1
lily relieved by recent emergenc.
appropriation OF $4,000, the boar
recommends that the next Legisle
ture considers modifying the lay
prohibiting inmates from contribut
ing parts of their pension money t
the support OF the home. Everyda
clothing of boys in the Red Wins
state training school is in very poo
condition. much of it absolutely rag
ged, the boards report of an inspee
ton of that institution says, and ir
dicates further the pinch of wa
conditions and limited appropris
t1ons.
Blue Earth-At the frst sale hel
by the Faribau1t County Herefor
association in this city, 54 hea
! brought $21,345, or an average {
$395.25. The animals were in fai
condition, and buyers were presen
, from Nebraska, North and South d;
hota, Kansas, Indiana, Iowa an
!. Minnesota
Stromberg, about two miles south {
Central postoffice, burned to tn
ground last week with its entire col
tents It is not known how the fir
. started as when discovered nothin
could be done to save the building
Winona--River improvements
this section will begin in the mont
of May, fully q month earlier tha
/ IN the normal season. The earl
! start Is permitted because none
! appropriated late last year was onl
n partially used when the cold weathe
!. interfered with operations.