The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-08-29
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief items For
BUSY Readers.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS have announced
that loot Obtained by yeggs in raiding
the Sabin State bank at Sabin, this
county, was approximately $1,000, made
up largely OF Liberty bonds.
MARSHALL post of the American
Legion has been formed here and Of
ficers will be elected as soon as the
charter is received. The name chosen
for the post is Luther 1. Snapp post"
Brainerd.-When an automobile, be-
longing to Earl Clemencer here, broke
pants ran the machine in to a lake
and saved the car from total destruc-
ton.
Stillwater-Andrew Peterson, farm
er living near Forest Lake, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Olus Ander-
son at her home Nov. Is last, has been
taken to the st. Peter hospital for
the insane.
Tyler.-At mass meeting of cit
liens here it was decided to erect a
modern hospital building replacing the
one which was destroyed by the tor
nado year ago. A structure costing
more than $4,000 is planned.
st. Paul. - The TO per cent sur
charge on fire insurance premiums
which added approximately 100000 a
| year to the fire insurance bill of Min
| nesota property owners, will be dis
continued before Sept. 1, John B. San
born, state insurance commissioner,
announced on information from I'M
official but authoritative sources.
st. Peter. = Stacking and shock
threshing will be completed this week
in Nicollet and LIE Sueur counties and
indications are for one of the poorest
small grain crops in years. The aver
age yield of wheat in Nicollet county
will be from seven to ten bushels, or
| about half that of last year. LIE Sueur
will show from eight to fifteen bushels
Red Wing.-Following the death of
Vincent Kelly from injuries sustained
| in an automobile wreck at Cannon
Falls, George Tiedeman, Mobridge, S.
| D., driver of the car in which Kelly
| was fiding, was arrested by Sheriff
| Anderson on warrant charging him
with manslaughter in the second de-
gree.
Bemidji-Thomas w. Swenson of
Bemidji has been appointed as census
supervisor of the sixth district, which
| includes these counties: Aitkin, Bel
trami, Benton, Cass, Crow Wing, Hub
| Ior ri Mnrricny1 CharhTrnn
Todd and Wadena. The population
for the eleven counties in 1910 was
| 191,616 ~
Winona-Tse theft of a motorboat,
| the stealing ci two automobiles and
the robbery OF hotel and barber
shop are charged to Max Laird, Is
years old, and Elwood W. Haupt, IS,
| sons of prominent persons at Prairie
| du Chen, Wis, both boys being brot
to the Winona county jail.
Duluth.-Wiiliam Kumpulu, alleged
]. w. w. agitator and draft evader,
has confessed he murdered and robbed
Jacob Carlson, in, his store at Mark
ham, June Is, according to tele-
gram received by Sheriff Magic of St.
Louis county, from Deputy Sheriff
Troyer, who went to Cakes, N. D., to
bring Kumpulu back here.
Chisholm.-Myrtle Bartol, Swear
old daughter of Anton Bartol, bust
ness man OF this village, was struck
and instantly killed by an automobile
owned and driven by William Rowe,
master mechanic of the Oliver Iron
Mining company at Hibbing. Wit
nesses state that Rowe was driving at
| a speed not in excess of eight or ten
miles per hour and that the child ran
from the sidewalk directly in froYt
of the car.
st. Paul.-Inaefinite postponement
of the establishment of state grades
| for potatoes, authorized by 1919 law
| il deemed advisable, is announced by
N. ]. Holmberg, state commissioner of
agriculture. The decision that the fix
| ing of separate Minnesota grades
| would be undesirable and unwise at
this time is based by the commission
er on conclusions following recent
hearing on the subject for potato grow
ers, dealers and consumers, all of
whom, he states, opposed the grade.
Two Harbors.-Mrs. William Rick
EFT, residing at Larsmont, five miles
south, of here, was assaulted and rob-
| bed by an unknown man. Mrs. Rick
EFT had been over to her brothers
home, John HI. Masters, assisting with
| the work because Mrs. Masters was
| i'll, and when she returned she found
strange man in the house engaged
| in looting. When she appeared he
drew revolver and forced submission
to his desires. He then went away
/ telling her that if she made stir for
ten minutes he would blow her brains
| out. AS soon as she dared the woman
rushed to the home of. her brother,
who grabbed a rifle and gave chase.
He saw the man come out of the
woods once and ordered him to halt,
but he started to run for the woods.
| Masters shot at him but missed and
| that is the last that has been seen of
him.
Hibbing.-Before the architect en-
gagged to draw plans for the basement
of the proposed new recreational build
| ing can submit them to the council,
| test pits will have to be sunk on the
| site to determine the preliminary work
to be done before building the founda-
ton. g
Crookston. Crookston, together
| with other Minnesota towns maintain
ing cornpanies in the Fifth Minnesota