The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-01-11

establishments will resume business.
Pardons for more than fifty in
mates of the state prison and reform
atory will be asked when the state
board of pardons meets at the CAPT.
tol Jan. IA. Forty applications are
now on file. Governor .Burnquist will
go to Saltwater Jan. I'll to hear the
pleas of prisoners in that city.
c. w. Anding, county auditor of Wi
mona county, was arrested at Winona
by Deputy United States Marshal JOS
eph Buisson and charged with an at
tempt to cause INSTRUMENTATION, dis
loyalty and refusal of duty. Specific
ally, Anding is accused of urging
Kurth Shellhas, Clarence Crawford
and others to refuse to take the feder-
al oath if drafted.
August Carlson, member of the
town board and one of the best
known farmers of Bray township,
near Thief River Falls, is unable to
tell how he received a fracture of
the skull at the base of the brain,
the loss of his right eye, and deem
cash in the side of his head, sus-
tanned when he went out to look for
colt. He staggered home several
hours later with his injuries, unable
to give an account of what happen d..
The surmise Is that in getting the
colt, which had returned in the
meantime, to its feet, he was kicked.
Daniel S. Hayward, proprietor of
the Grand Central hotel, st. Cloud,
has leased the hotel for twelve years
to w. S. Beard of Minneapolis, for
mer proprietor of the Hotel Nicollet.
Mr. Hayward has left for Riverside,
Cal, to spend the winter.
Five Winona boys, all classmates,
have arrived in France, according to
messages received by their parents
They are: Privates William Riley,
Arthur Gallien, Paul Baumgartner,
Stanley Ollhoff and Corporal Clarence
B. Barth. All were enlisted early in
the spring and left New York as
members of the aviation corps two
weeks ago.
Gustavus Adolphus college at st.
Peter has been designated a school for
instruction for the signal corps by the
War department. An instructor and
instruments, 20 sets in all, are fur
nished by the government, and all
young men eligible to draft age are
admitted free of charge. At the end
of the course the government issues
certificate which practically insures
position in the signal corps.
Saving, giving, loyalty and constant
recognition of the difference between
right and wrong-these are four great
lessons, which the year 1917 brought
to the American people, said President
Burton of Minnesota university at the
| University farm school. DR.. Burton
and President Fred B. Snyder of the
| University board of regents spoke
on 1.-THE Present Crisis" at the session
Of Farmers and Homemakers' week
at the farm school,
Reinhold Kintzi, publisher of "Die
Freie Presse," at Glencoe, has beer
arrested on charge of perjury il
connection with alleged seditious ar
ticles published in his paper. Kintz
was brought to Minneapolis by Jos
eph Buisson, United States deputy
marshal and taken before Howard S
Abbott, United States commissioner
He waived examination and was com
mitted to the Hennepin county jail
in default of $4,000 bail He is to be
tried at the April term of the United
States district court.
Eat more potatoes" said A. ID
Wilson, state food administrator, who
addressed the Minnesota Farm Blu
reau association at the University
farm, in connection with farmers and
homemakers' week. Farmers must
realize the loss on their potatoe:
this year, even below the cost o
production" said Mr.. Wilson. There
are now between 100000 and Zoe.
100000 surplus bushels of potatoes
in the United States. The food ad
ministration did not urge increased
acreage of potatoes last spring. They
are perishable, and as war food, fal
J below the production of corn, bean:
aud wheat"
After eluding officers for more thai
three months, Eugene Eagle was ar
rested in Duluth charged with takin,
mortgaged property and when arraign
ed before Judge Crewe, pleaded guilt.
and was sentenced to serve one yea
in the state penitentiary.
Telegraphic offer of the unprece
denied price of SIS a ton, f. o. b. AT
lantic port, for the rails of the Dal
Patch line reaching Minneapoli
brought crisis in the reorganization
plans of the road. On decision tina
must be made within the next few
days depends whether the road shall
promptly be scrapped, or reconstruct
ed and electrified.
Six appointments from Minnesota t
take the March examinations for er
trance to the military academy a
West Point have been made public b
the War department. They are Wa
ter H. Petereine, Echo; Robert H
Kruger of Morris first alternate
Richard c. Dougherty of Glenwoot
second alternate; Franklin P. Serri
of Glenwood; Marshal A. Webb @
Amiret, first alternate; Harold
Sand of Willmar. second alternate.
Lamb sold in Minnesota the othe
day for $5.36 pound, the highes
price ever known in the state. Ind
rectly the war was responsible. Onl
"a pounds of lamb brought this price
and proceeds will go to the Red Cross
The sale took place on the Universit
farm campus and was conducted b
the Minnesota Sheep Breeders sssC
citation. The animal raised by H. +
Pond of Minneapolis, had won frs
prize in the associations exhibit tn