The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-19
news OF STATE
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Recent Happenings In Minnesota
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uS1Sul udppcItIlyS III MiIIiieSOts
Given In Brief items For
BUSY Readers.
st. Pathfinder of 100 state-ownes
tracts will be offered for sale Octobe
Is, by State Auditor j. A. o. Preus, i
has been announced.
| Moorhead.-At a bid of $22,S62, C
H. Johnson of Great Falls, Mont, wa,
awarded the contract for the basement
OF the north and south ends of the
new high school building.
| st. Paul.-George A. Coates, a pa
tient at the Fergus Falls insane hospi
tai, committed suicide with a razor
according to word received from DR.. G
q. WEIGH, superintendent of the hos
pital
St Paul-Leslie E. Reed. st. Paul
has been named United States consul
i'll London. Word of the promotion
from vice consul was received here
by his father, Edgar A. Reed. Mr
Reed is 20 and married.
| Winona.-After two weeks of ex
IRENE dryness, rain, which fell over
all of the southern part of Minnesota
was declared to be worth millions OF
dollars. Threshing operations are
practically completed in most of the
territory.
| Moorhead.-Louis W. Ringer, who
says he is 10 years old and that his
home is at Pettibone, N. D., was held
to the Clay county district court by
Judge E. U. Wade, charged with taking
an automobile from the garage of the
Smith Motor Co.
Bemidji.-As the result of action
taken by the board of education at a
meeting here no teachers in the Be
midi schools will receive less then
500 a month. This amount was
| placed as a minimum and all teachers
getting that amount were given an in.
crease of 81 in salary.
| Worthington.-The funeral of Ira S.
Mishler, sheriff of Mobiles county, who
was killed when a revolver he was
examining was discharged, was held
here under the auspices of the. Knights
of Pythias lodge. Mr. Mishler was
Identified with the sheriff's office for
more than twelve years.
Willmar.-J. R. Franks, suspected
slayer of Carl Anderson, who was
fonnd dead with throat cut, near the
W1llmar roundhouse in July, was ar
rested here by order of Detective M
F. Hallowell of st. Paul, who has been
working on the case for a long time.
Hallowell was employed by relatives
of the deceased.
Little Falls.-Morrison county is ex-
| periencing an unprecedented sale of
| lands. Farmers are coming from the
surrounding states and buying farms
here. Never before have outsiders
come to this county in the numbers
that they have this year. Land has
increased in value over 100 per cent in
the last few years.
Aitkin.-John Golf, having farm
near Glen postoffiae, has been raising
| ginseng for eleven years, starting
with few plants which he brought
from the woods and set out in small
bed, by 9 feet. He now has plants
covering bed 80 by 100 feet, besides
other plants growing in the woods. He
| finds market for all he raises.
Baudette.-Hazel Kelly, 20, daughter
Of Henry Kelly of Graceton, who was
| driving the car that killed L. o. Wick
| at Clementson has been held to the
Beltrami county grand jury, that met
| IN Bemidji recently, on a manslaughter
| charge. She is at liberty on $1,000
bonds that were promptly furnished
after she waived hearing before Court
| Commissioner ]. U. Williams.
Spooner. = Oscar E. Johnson of
| Spooner township, raised the best crop
| Of wheat, rye, oats and barley in this
| locality, according to Arthur Holm
gren of Carp, who threshed Mr.. John
sons grain. Mr.. Johnson's oats av-
eraged fifty bushels; rye, twenty-five
and barley, twenty. Mr.. Johnson has
has more land cleared and ready for
the pillow and expects much more
acreage in grain next season.
Brook Park:-A Great Northern pas
senger train, ST. Paul to Duluth, was
ierailed here. Only seven persons
] were hurt, receiving only scratches
and bruises. All of the coaches over
| turned when the accident occurred.
The train was not travelling at high
rate of speed, approaching this place,
preparatory to stop. In some man
ner the rear truck of the engine split
| switch, tearing up the track at that
| point. The baggage car stayed on its
wheels but the cars behind it rolled
over.
st. Cloud.-Martin Kurlunski, 10
years old, is suffering internal injuries
which probably viii be fatal; his
brother, julius, IL years old, lost his
right arm below the elbow, and Viii.
liam Arnovich, 26 years old, suffered
painful cuts when truck driven by
| the latter crashed into switch en-
| CINE at, the west end yards here. All
| three were taken to the hospital, but
Arnovich, insane with grief and the
belief that he was responsible for the
accident, escaped and went to the Kur
lunski home at Waite Park. He Ii
| suffering a severe mental shock.
Little ls.-Arrangements are be
| ing completed for the 18th annual con
vention of the Minnesota Federation
of Women's clubs to take place here
Sept. "a, rs and 26. officers Of the
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