The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-08-02

labor, the proposed hotel here will
| cost 100000 more now than a year
ago.
Mankato.-The harvest is well along
and nearly all fields except spring
wheat have been cut The cutting of
spring wheat will begin this week.
Haying is progressing. Showers have
slightly delayed the harvest.
st. Paul--Adjt.-G Gen. w. F. Rhinow
has been notified by Provost Marshal
Gen. E. H. Crowder that more than
10000 Minnesota draft registrants will
be called during August Approx
mately 1000 of this total will be ne
groes.
Crookston.-J. Adam Bede, DIR. Os-
ten-Sacken and NJ. j. Bowling were
the principal speakers at the North
western Minnesota fair here Monday.
Polk, Marshall, Red Lake and Norman
counties united in sending exhibits to
the fair
CIoquet.-Peter Hubert, a teamster
for the Cloquet Lumber company,
while Harvesting his team, was kicked
in the stomach by one of his horses
and knocked ten feet away. He was
picked up unconscious and carried to
his home.
Winona. The Yankee Doodle
Highway" a new trail leading from
Winona to the Twin Cities, which will
serve to advertise Winona throughout
the United States, has just been
mapped out and will be definitely laid
out by the newly organized Yankee
Doodle Highway association.
Aitkin.-Plans for the new smoke
stack have been completed by the
Aitkin water and light commission.
The contract has been let to the Web
er Chimney company of Chicago, con-
struction to begin Aug. 1. J. G. Rob-
ertson of st. Paul, of the engineering
department of that firm, will have
charge of the building.
Faribault.-With an ugly cash on
the back of her head, caused by a
blow from club and other bruises
about the face and neck, Mrs. Bert
Chappieu was found lying near her
home. 1t is believed that Mrs. Chap
pieu was the victim of an attack by a
pro-German who desired to wreak
vengeance on her for reporting dis
loyal remarks.
ST. James.-Bernard Remple, presi-
dent of the Peoples State bank at
Butterfield, has been held to the Wa
tonwan county grand jury on charge
of disloyalty. Remple, who is thought
to be worth $250,000, is alleged to have
said the German troops would get the
Americans into the pocket on the
French front and kill them off, as they
had no business in France.
Cloquet.-Employes of the Rath,
borne, Halt & Ridgeway Box factory
have gone out on strike for an in
crease in wages. Since the employees
OF sawmills here were given an in
crease recently of so cents a day, the
box factory workers have been dis
satisfied, it is said. Manager Peter
Thull, Jr., ordered the factory closed
until an agreement is made
Detroit for somewhere
around $4,000 worth of work on Fed
eral Highway No. Is, the road run
ming between FraZee and Lake Park in
this county, have been let by the
county board. This work will be only
the grading and the construction of |
culverts, the money available being |
to allow of letting the con-
tract for graveling this year.
Questionable Northwest school |
of agriculture service flag has it's first |
golden star. 1t commentaries the |
service Of Gilbert Kittleson, the first |
OF the students of that school to pay |
the supreme sacrifice. He enlisted two
weeks after leaving school at the |
close of the winter term, and was sent |
to Jefferson barracks, Mo- While
there he contracted pneumonia and |
later died from the results of an oper-
alton.
Duluth.-Safety Commissioner Sill
bernstein, Duluth, has written Senator
knute Nelson and Congressman C. B.
Miller, Minnesota, and Senator Len
root, Wisconsin, asking that federal
action be taken against saloons at |
Oliver, Wis, close to the United |
States Steel plant, Duluth, and to ship
yards, both of which are turning out
government contracts. The presence
Of the saloons was characterized as
national menace"
Morris.-The annual harvest season
IS on in Stevens county, rye and bar
ley being the first crops to face the
binder. One field Of rye was cut last
week and was the first in shock be-
,ween Norris and St. Paul Wheat is
rapidly ripenin.g and all other grains
ire nearing the shocking stage. From
present appearance the farmers of
his county will reap the most profit
able harvest in their history and the
outlook is the best in years.
Minneapolis. = So thoroughly has
Germany saturated Russia with lying
Russian people now be-
ieve that the Germans have won the
var, that Paris is taken, that America
S defeated, that England is starving
Ind that there is no use to resist.
This was shown in a letter received |
lere by Prof. W. NJ Sternberg, Uni
versity of Minnesota, from his twin
brother, A. M. Sternberg, who is chief
engineer of the Province of Baku, CEN
er of the Russian oil district.
Tower.-Isaac Honhanen, aged %,
vas drowned in Myrtle lake, few
niles from Orr. Honhanen was a
voodsman employed by the Virginia &
tainy Lake company at Orr. He was
with companion and
wan out some distance and then dis
1t is believed that he was
eized with cramps
Cuyuna.-School District No. So, To-