The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-07-12
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota.
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

Brainerd.-Six Crow Wing county
boys called to the colors leave fol
Dunwoody institute of Minneapolis to
perfect themselves in mechanical
training courses.
Winona.-John R. Milne, former Wi
mona boy, who has been successful il
the electrical field, has been appoint
ed city electrician, succeeding E. Fin
kelnburg, resigned. Mr.. Milne has
moved his family to Winona.
| st. Cloud.-J. p Bellanger, who
held the position of electrician on
board the United States ship Presi
dent Lincoln at the time it was tor.
pedoed and sunk by a German sub
marine short time ago, is in the
city On furlough visiting his brother
st. Peter.-Mr. and Mrs. Peter G.
Peterson, residents of this county for
| fifty years, celebrated their golden
| wedding anniversary. Mr.. Peterson
was a member of the Fourth Mime
| sofa infantry In the Civil war and
marched with General Sherman to the
| sea- He is now n years old.
Minneapolis of the new
$4,000 building of the International
Christian Bible college at Fifteenth
and University avenues southeast was
the principal event of the closing day
of the congress. Rev. d. e. Olson,
president of the college, delivered the
dedictory address. The congress vot-
ed to raise $1,00O,OO0 for financial and
benevolent purposes during the next
five years.
Minneapolis Agricultural Experts,
millers and food administration Off
Gals have expressed increased optim-
ism regarding Minnesota's wheat
crop during the past few days. Doz-
ems of county reports have been re.
ceived up to today. The expression
wheat is good" has become pleasant:
ly monotonous. A bit of warm
weather seems to be all that most
wheat growers are asking for.
Mnkato.-Mankato is to have four
military organizations, under the new
plan of organizing the national guard
G company of the Home Guards is
being recognized into national
guard company with 103 members; a
headquarters company of fifty-niae
members, including the Second regi-
mental band and drum corps, is be-
ing organized. There also will be a
machine gun company of 81, and a sup
ply company of 80.
st. Paula dividend of 20 per cent
has been sent to creditors of the First
State bank of Federal Dam, by F. E.
State bank of Federal Dam, by F. E.
Pearson, state superintendent of
bnks, by whose order the bank was
closed July Is, 1917. The superintend-
ent said an additional dividend of Is
or 20 per cent on the liquidation of the
bank probably will be paid later. A
new state bank now operating at Fed
eral Dam is the Federal Dam State
bank.
st. Paul.-Herbert Hoover, national
food administrator, will be asked by
the st. Paul association to aid in the
effort to have homeseekers' rates
made effective Immediately. High
passenger fares have halted the entry
into the Northwest of prospective set
tiers, a survey of the association
Northwest development committee
showed. Mr. Hoover will be told that
the effort to increase crop acreage is
being seriously hampered by absence
of the low rates.
st. Paul-In addition to sending
out missionaries throughout Mime
sofa to ascertain the labor needs of
farmers during the harvest season,
the United States employment service
also is making survey to determine
common labor needs for the next
three months in war industries. With
August l as the date on which indie
dependent common labor recruiting by
war industries will cease, the employ
ment service is hurrying the compile
tion of its national labor recruiting
and placing machinery.
Minneapolis.-The body of Reuben
Kuethe, 33 years old, wealthy mine
owner and oil operator of this city,
was found in the Mississippi river
here, badly bruised and with a bullet
hole in it. Police expressed the opin-
ion that he had been murdered but
were unable to find clue as to who
did the killing. The bruised condition
of the body, the police say, Indicated
that after Kuethe had been shot he
was thrown over seventy-foot cliff
into the river. That robbery was not
the motive of the murderer was the
belief of the authorities, for negotfa-
BILE papers on oil property in Kansas
and Wyoming totalling more than $685.
900, were found scattered along the
river bank Several thousand dollars
I'M cash which Kuethe was known to
have had when he disappeared Wed
nesday, was missing, however.
Bemidji-Bemidji is soon to have
another industry in the form of po-
tato -four mill and Saratoga chips
factory Morris Kaplan, promoter of
the proposition, has purchased the big
plant of the Bemidji Brewing COM
pany. which was closed by the Indian
department in the fall of 1914, when
the treaty of 1856, prohibiting the in
PRODUCTION of liquor into this territory, |
was enforced Mr.. Kaplan says that
It is his intention to have the -four
mill and Saratoga chips factory in OPP
Grafton in time to take care of the
potato crop next fall and that ma
chinery will soon be installed.
Clinton.-Farms, pastures and gar
dens have been greatly revived by the
rains. This district had been without |
rain for thirty-five days. Some dam |