The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-12-26
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Northwest

Powder River and Rosebud counties.
A proposition to bond Fond du Lac
county, Wis, good roads $4,6OO,OOO,
was carried by majority of SAT in an
election.
Senator Edsell H. Sikee, Mountrail
county, N. D., died in Minot hospital.
The remains were shipped TO Stanley,
N. D., for burial.
The ninth annual road school will be
conducted under the auspices of the
Wisconsin highway commission at
Madison, Jan. rs to 81.
The. body of Harold M. Morrison, a
United States forest ranger, missing
in the Cache forest Utah, has been
found, the report saying Morrison was
frozen to death.
J. O. Adams, locator and founder of
the city of Three Forks in Gallapin
county, Mont, died in Chicago, aged
73. He sold the townsite to the Mil
waukee railroad.
The State Association of County
Commissioners of South Dakota, held
its three days meeting at Aberdeen,
with discussion of the good highway
Improvement law.
Martin Lee, "a, was killed by bull
at the home of his son, Chris Lee,
near Blair, Wis. He was gored when
he entered the barnyard wearing a
fur collar over his coat.
The Farmers Grain Dealers associa-
ton of South Dakota will stage its an
nual convention at Aberdeen Jan. 10,
Ia and Is. 1t is expected that more
than 200 delegates will attend.
Wood county has voted road bonds
amounting to $1,500,000, the biggest
proposition provided for in the road
program is SO miles of concrete road
between Grand Rapids and Marshfield.
Victor l.. Berger, who was reelected
to congress from the fifth congress
sional district December 18th, Mil
waukee, following his expulsion from
that body, said that he will go to
Washington Jan. 9Th, to claim his seat.
Judge A. Mccartney, Beede, poet
laureate of the Standing Rock Sioux,
: for many years an Episcopal mission
airy to the Indians, and now probate
Judge of Sioux county, North Dakota,
claims a new hiking record. Between
1:45 p. m. and a. M, he walked 66
miles. ---..
Plans and specifications for the ST.
100000 wagon bridge which is to span
the Missouri river, at Bismarck, N. D.,
prepared by C. A. P. Thurner, of Min
neapolis, are now in the hands of the
commission, and it was stated today
that work on the structure will begin
next spring. ..
With a record of having killed at
least 100 sheep, King, large gray
wolf, is dead. Hunted for seven years
by farmers of Rock county, Mimi, he
was shot by Burr Jones and his son,
Arthur, of Evansville, who ran him
down in the deep snow. Two shots
did the trick.
A fortune of $4,000 in cash, an
allotment of $4,000 and inherited
land of great value awaits Clara Lar.
REVERE of Clara Humphrey, woman
whose mother was a Teton Dekotah
OF Standing Rock reservation, N. D.,
and who disappeared from that reser.
walton in 1897.
North Dakota will vote at the pres
idential election March Is, on -four
laws initiated by petitions filed with
the secretary of state. The bills pro
posed provide for the creation of q
state boxing commission, licensing the
sale of cigarets and Iegalizing Sunday
baseball and Sunday theaters.
Art Court Of Marmath, N D., while
blowing on his farm two years ago
lost wallet which contained $40. La
ter he enlisted and went overseas and
fought in France. Now he is back in
Marmath and, the other day, as he
was watching Lee Gilmore blowing
the same field the lost wallet was
turned over The bills were badly
damaged, but enough remains of them
to that they may be changed for new
money.
Mrs. Lucy M. Mullenax is in the
county Jail at Occur d'Alene, Idaho
here charged with having murdered
/, her month old daughter and two
sons, and years old, by drowning
them in cistern. She also is said b,
the police to have attacked Mrs. Mary
Mullenax, their "A year old grand
mother. The mother says she killed
the children because she feared the
hypnotic influence of the aged wo
man, the police said.
The First Methodist church at Man
dan, N. D., was burned to the grounC
with all it's contents in fire which
started from unknown origin. Plan!
are already being formulated for tn,
erection of $4,000 building to re
place it.
According to the December repor
for the U. S. Bureau Of Crop EST
mates the fall sown rye acreage il
North Dakota is less than half of tn,
acreage sown a year ago. Fall condi
ton is below average. Wages pait
Ito farm labor substantially increased
over 1918. Acreage Of fall blowing il
above average.
The cornstalk disease has made it
appearance near Beresford, South Da
kota, where many farmers are battling
with the disease, which has infectet
their cattle. One farmer in that dis
trict lost 10 head of cattle and man.
other losses are reported by the farm
ers of that vicinity.
OF 100000 women in the United
States who are taking or have takel
the Red Cross course in elementar.
- principles of household sanitation an,
nursing offered under the peace pro
,ram, 1920 are in the Northern Divi
SIGN state of Minnesota, North Da
eota South Dakota and Montana.