The Ely miner., 1919-08-22
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief items For
Busy Readers.

IL "duCud COuuIy CulS year Is COu-
servatively estimated to be worth
over 100000.
MinneapoliS-Ira Montgomery, re.
turned soldier, of st. Paul, was elected
agricultural agent for Hennepin coun-
ty by the executive committee of the
county farm bureau.
Sauk Rapids-The continued alb
sence of Donald Campbell, 14-year-old
Sauk Rapids boy, who mysteriously
disappeared fourteen days ago, has
caused increasing anxiety at his home.
nneapolis.-Where necessary Red
Cross chapters have extended money
relief to the families of soldiers, draw
ing upon the funds collected locally.
In May s9,S74.94 was thus expended in
Minnesota.
Stillwater.-Dr. William A. Caine,
landed trout of the German brown
variety that weighed just exactly
seven pounds. The big trout was
caught at Sand Creek, common, ordi-
nary fly being used.
Thief River Falls-Eleven-yeaT-
Allen Sorenson, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Sorenson, suffered compound
fracture of the left leg just below the
knee while attending the fair, when
run over by an automobile.
Moorhead.-Walter Peterson, alleged
|. w. w. organizer, who was carrying
32-caliber revolver, and George
Grier, who was armed with a 45-
caliber Colt, were held to the Clay
county grand jury by Judge L. D.
Evans. .at s.a
Marshall.-Wabasso and Redwood
Falls will fight out the county seat
matter at the polls. The county board
of Redwood county has set the date
for the election, which has been peti-
toned for by more than half the voters
Of the county.
st. Cloud.-Edward Schrelarecki, Is,
Of Sauk Rapids appeared before Judge
Roeser on charge Of stealing a $50
Liberty bond from his employer, Will
liam Demo, and was put on probation
for six months on the condition that
during that time he could pay back
the amount of the bond to the owner.
Mora.-Army worms got into field
Of millet on the Elliott stock farm and
within few days entirely cleaned out
the forty-acre field and threatened to
do serious damage in adjoining co1n
fields. State division of entomology
was notified and immediate steps were
taken to confine the pest to that field
by plowing around it.
ST. Cloud.-St. Clouds population
has grown to approximately 10000
during the past few years, according
to an estimate made by the publisher
Of the biennial directory. This is an
Increase of about 25 per cent in the
last three years.
Hibbing.-Edward Hirschbach, trav.
cling salesman, was killed and Will
liam Thomas, his companion, had his
leg broken in an auto accident south
Of town, when the car made a sharp
turn, throwing both men out, Hirsch-
bach sweeping along the ground for
about twenty feet, his scalp being
torn off and skull fractured. He was
dead when picked up.
Bemidji.-The Bemidji Townsite &
Improvement company, said to be de-
linqgent on payment of taxes since
1912 on $50 lots, got out a restraining
order for the city to show cause be-
fore Judge Stanton, why its property
should be sold for delinquent taxes
after being illegally assessed, as the
company claimed, in 1912, by the board
Of equalization, which raised the as
sessment 10 per cent.
st. Paul.-The first lease Of state
land at one cent an acre under the
offer by State Auditor ]. A. o. Preus
to attract stockmen from 3 drouth
stricken Western states to good pas
lures on Northern Minnesota cut-over
land has been made. George H. Cros-
by, of Crosby, paid $6 rental on 600
acre tract of state land near that town
for a Western stockman who will pas
ture sheep there. The rental was
asked by the auditor to comply with
the law and was paid by Mr.. Crosby
that the Western stockman might use
The land without cost.
University Farm.-"More corn Is
now grown in the farthest northwest
county of the state, Kittson, than was
grown so years ago in the southeast
ermost county of the state, Houston, y
says Andrew Ross, vice director of the
Minnesota Experiment Station. Corn
with deeper kernels, more rows and
better yielding habits has been devel-
oped. A steady increase in livestock
raising has made farming more profit
able. The fertility of worn out soils
has been restored and employment
given to the farmers labor. Besides,
cultivation of corn has meant cleaner
farms through the subjugation of
weeds. The result is much more
remunerative farm. Time devoted to
the adaptation of variety of corn to
local environments is almost sure to
result in larger yields of better corn
and greater profits from farming"
st. Paul.-W. A. Wittbecker, state
hotel inspector, announces that his
department will close all restaurants
and lunch counters at the State Fair,
not properly screened against flies.
The inspector purposes to send depu-
ties to the fair, he said, to enforce the
requirement for screens.
International Falls.-The blueberry
harvest continues and the berries are
now said to be as good and even big
ger than earlier in the season. Thou
sands of bushels of them will go to
waste, despite the fact that an un.
usual quantity of them have been
picked.
Red Lake Falls.-A new Catholic