The Ely miner., 1919-01-31

church here and st. Joseph's church
at Thielman, died of pneumonia. He
was 49,
Stillwater.-Three hundred farmers
attended the annual institute and crop
show held at the village OF Hugo. In
structors from the state agricultural
college were in attendance.
Minneapolis. - With SO additions
during 1918, the federal reserve sys-
tenn has S66 banks in its membership
in the ninth district, according to
John H. Rich, federal reserve agent.
Bemidji.-Partial reports of Bel
trami county tax valuations show that
the assessed valuation of the county
| is $8,03S,6S2, the assessed valuation per
acre is 1886, and redeemed warrants
to have been 6,160.
Crookston.-Martin Ulseth, a farm.
er Of Hammond township, has left
Bethesda hospital, where he had been
| for week past owing to injuries re.
ceived at his farm. He had two ribs
broken when steer, struck him.
Hibbing ng.-President E. G. Hall OF
the Minnesota State Federation of La.
| Dor, who is on the range, denies re.
| ports of a projected strike among
| mine workers that is agitated by q
| small coterie of l. w. w. and says
that such reports are unfounded.
Thief River Falls.-The Pennington
County Agricultural society at its an
nual election here e'ncted: President
Herbert Fuller; firse vice president,
| Albert Johnson; seG3ud vice presi
| dent, Fred Bierbauer; secretary, G.
Howard Smith; treasurer, A. j. Ander.
son.
Mankato.-The two Norwegian Lu
theran churches in this city, Our Saw.
ior's and Trinity Lutheran, are to be
united under the name of Bethlehem
| Lutheran church, as a result of a
joint meeting of the congregations
Rev. Nels Nordgaard was asked to
serve as pastor.
Crookston.-Sergeant Dean Leick
sou of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leick OF
this city, and A. +. Mckenzie Of Bot
tineau, N. D., walked to Crookstou
from Grand Forks, where they are
attending the University of North Da
kota. The trip was made on an aver
age of four miles an hour and with.
| out miShap.
Grand Rapids.-Tbe farmers living
| east of the Prairie river and all 9th
ers interested will hold a meeting al
the town hall here to discuss the fea
sibility of building potato warehouse
at Erskine's spur on Prairie river. The
warehouse would serve a large terri
tory and save the farmers haul OF
three or four miles, and the project is
considered desirable.
ST. Paul.-Reginald Eugene Pease
st. Paul, arraigned in municipal court
before Judge Matthias Baldwin on a
charge of bigamy, pleaded not guilty
waived examination and was bound
over to the grand jury, which in
dicted him. Bail was fixed at $4,000
Pease is alleged to have wife and
two small children in st. Paul and tC
have married Miss Goldie Russell, a
Duluth telephone operator, in Su
1 perior, Wis. Jan. IA.
st, Paul.-Closed July 80 following
| discovery of shortages charged to the
president, w. H. Cloud, the First
State Bank of Pequot has re-opened
under new management, ( it was an
nounced by F. E. Pearson, state SUI
perintendent of banks. He said
stockholders have removed the short
ages. A. T. Kimball, Pequot, and ]
| ncfh hxy ri af
president and cashier, respectively
under the new management.
| Pipestone.-There is a good reason
to believe that the state supreme
court will have opportunity to pass on
the constitutionality of the law which
prevents creameries from using lime
water to kill the acid in butterfat. A
test case was brought by state Off
cials against Pipestone creamery
worker who was convicted in district
court here. In the event of the trial
| judge refusing a new trial, the local
creamery company, supported by
other creameries of the state. will
appeal to the higher court.
st. Paul-Andrew E. Fritz, state
public examiner, has recommended
that S22,273, a cash surplus from sale
of rough fish by the state game com
mission, be turned into the state
treasury by Carlos Avery, state game
and fish commissioner. The fish were
| taken from lakes under state super
vision and sold practically at cost, un
| der orders of the Stale Public Safety
| commission, to reduce the cost of liv
ing. There is no Jaw to cover the
situation, the publs9 examiner says
and he asks legisls:wn to make dis
| posal of the funds.
st. Paul-Speakie before repre-.
sentatives Of majority of the county
farm bureaus of the state at the cap
itol, A. D. Wilson, state food admins.
traitor and official in charge of the
operation of the Federal farm bureau
program in the state, pressed the
| claims of the county bureaus on state
| funds for the continuation of the
work now in progress under Federal
aid A state appropriation of $4,000
was urged by Mr.. Wilson, from which
each county would receive $1,000, to
which would be added the 81 900 now
| possible for the county boards to ap-
propriate, and $500 expected from
| Federal funds after July, 1919, max
ing total of $4,000 for each county
| continuing the bureaus.
Minneapolis.-The Woman's Bank
| of Minneapolis, with a capital of $780,.
900 and surplus of $4,000 has ap.
piled to F. E. Pearson, state superin-
tendent of banks, for charter. The