The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-10-04
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

making annual audit Of the records o.
Beltrami county.
Moorhead.-A special meeting o.
the Clay county board will be held OF
Saturday, Oct. S. to adopt plans fol
highway work for next year.
Sabin-Some of the pickers in this
section are making as high as $40 and
S12 day and are hard to get even al
the price growers are paying, cents
o bushel
Brainerd-Friends surprised Mrs
Anna Johnson of Southeast Brainerd
at her home and presented her with
S13145. There were seventy-five PEG
pie present.
International Falls.-Forest Ranger
Johnson of Big Falls brought here a
man whom he had arrested for setting
forest fires in the Big Falls section
He is evidently demented.
Virginia. have been
made to Game Warden George Wood
that partridge are being shot and he
Is investigating. since it is unlawful
to shoot partridge this year.
Bemidji-F. G. Troppman has re.
ceived a contract from the government
to furnish 100000 pounds, about $500
bushels. of potatoes. No. l grade and
inspected. and he is filling the order.
Roosevelt.-L.asts spring Mrs. Rhodes
planted one potato of new variety.
She cut it in six pieces, putting one
eye to hill. This fall she gathered
a heaping twelve-quart pail of extra
large potatoes.
saltwater. = Coroner Ed E. Wells
was called to a farm residence one
and half miles south of Forest Lake
10 investigate the death of Mrs
Fredericks, an aged woman, who died
quite suddenly there
Minneapolis. Reuben C. Curtis,
known as the defender of children,
Yas sentenced by Judge w. E. Hale
TO hard labor for the remainder of his
life in the Saltwater penitentiary.
st. Governor Burnquist last
week made patriotic speeches at
county fairs in Hopkins and Carver.
Secretary of State julius A. Schmahl
was speaker at Liberty Loan rally
at Pequot. Governor Burnquist will
continue his patriotic speeches at
county fairs.
St Cloud-Sartell Brothers have
donated their old sawmill and sluice-
way to the Stearns County Red Cross
chapter and they will be sold at pub
iic auction on the grounds on Satur-
day afternoon, Sept. %. This old mill
Is worth considerable money and
should swell the Golfers to quite an
extent
Brainerd.-Every available bit Of
man power and equipment is being
Nlshed for service on the Northern
Pacific IS relieve the inundation of
wheat in transportation to Duluth
There are $4,000 cars of wheat on the
Minnesota division, west of Brainerd,
10000 cars on the Fargo division and
$4,000 cars on the Dakota division.
St. Goud.-John Hanlon, son of
Mrs. Harry Grimmer of this city, has
been selected as one of the twenty
Ave to go to the officers training
camp recently opened at Camp Grant,
Ill. Hanlon was one of the volunteers
who went to the deaf asylum at In
dianapolis, Ind, for special training
as an auto mechSnic about two months
aga
Winona.-F.x r. Stevenson, formerly
local hotel clerk, charged with the
murder Of Elmer Mead, a taxicab
driver, and an attempt to kill his own
wife. hopes to get an acquittal on the
grounds of temporary insanity" ac-
cording to reports. His trial has
opened. John E. Palmer, assisting at
torney general. is assisting County
Attorney Earl Simpson in presenting
The states case. Stevenson shot and
killed Mead on the night of May 81.
Keewatin.-An appeal to district
court by William Darling, local mer-
chant, to test the early closing ordi-
suited in decision favorable to Mr..
nance passed by the local council re-
Darling. Mr.. Darling appealed from a
judgment of conviction and sentence
against him for the violation of an
ordinance which prohibited him from
keeping his place of business open
after 8 O'Clock p. m. The decision OF
the district court is that the ordinance
is null and void and OF no effect for
the reason that it is not a proper
exercise of the police power of the
state in that it in no sense tends to
promote or preserve public health
morals, peace, order, safety or vel
fare; second, that there exists no leg
tslative authority for it's enactment
third, that its provisions are unreason
eble and arbitrary; fourth, that it con
situtes an unwarranted interference
~ith the constitutional property and
personal rights of the individual.
Crookston-Mayor Morrisey appoint
ed two new members to the library
board to take the places of Mai
Charles Loring and B. L. Grove, w. T
Carlisle for three years in place O
Mai. Loring, and J. j. Flynn to sue
coed Mr. Grove. The two appoint
:Geats were unanimously approved b,
the city council.
Bemidji.-Nels Sioberg, who ha
been employed on the farm of H. w
Alsop. nine miles south of Blackduck
has donated handsome buck dee
head, mounted, to the Red Cross, t,
se sold and the money devoted t,
war work.
Wheaton.-At the meeting Of thu
Red River Presbytery held here Rev
w. ] LGwrie was reappointed chair
man OF the home mission COMMITTEE
and Rev. Mr.. Stevenson the secon,
member of that committee. BothNar
from Brainerd