The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-10-10

Nesheim automobile was hit by the
North Coast limited of the Northern
Pacific near Detroit.
Moorhead.-Frank Robotka of the
University Farm, st. Paul, has been in
this section to make preliminary ar
rangements for short course in book
keeping by the officers Of farmers CO.
operative organizations.
st. Cloud.-Letters have been re-
ceived here from large manufacture
ing concern in Middle Grandville, N.
Y, making inquiries as to the granite
production here and the possibilities
of obtaining and unlimited amount of
crushed granite.
Owatonna.-Steele county now has
two posts of the American Legion, the
second, at Blooming Prairie, having
Just been temporary organized with
a membership of nearly $50. Plans
are being made for its formal organ
ization some time late this month.
st. Paul-Owing to shortage of
freight cars in which to transport po-
tatoes, warehouses at Dale, Mimi, have
been filed, and many acres of tubers
there remain to be dug, according to
a report made yesterday to the state
Railroad and Warehouse commission.
Minneapolis. - Hundreds of Indians
were in Minneapolis attending the an
nual convention of the Society of
American Indians. DR. Carlos Monte
yuma, Chicago, condemned the reser-
walton system as tending to degrade
ton of the race.
Staples.-In attempting to arrest a
stranger in the railroad yards here,
Patrolmen. Ed Kuhns and Ed O'Grady
were met with fusillade of bullets
fired by the stranger as he ran through
a lumber yard and escaped. The man
is said to be wanted for highway rob-
berry.
Two Harbors.-The Duluth & Iron
Range railroad has laid off two of its
train crews hauling ore from the Yer
million range, presumably as con-
sequence of the strike at Ely. The
company has II trains in operation
to bring the bulk Of its business here
by way of Biwabik.
Ericsburg.-Posses have searched in
vain for Rev. William Pearson, sc,
retired Quaker preacher, who disap-
peared from the home of Dr. w. T.
Pearson two miles from here after he
washed the breakfast dishes. 1t is
feared the old man lost his bearings
in the woods and persisted from ex-
posture.
ST. Paula state-owned flour mill
to test the flour-making qualities of
Minnesota-grown wheat, for which
$4,000 was voted by the last legisla-
ture, will be in operation within a
year, o. P. B. Jacobson, state railroad
and warehouse commissioner, has an
nounced. The location and plans for
the mill remain to be decided upon,
he said.
Bemidji-Mayor L. F. Johnson, who
sign by the city council said he would
take the matter under consideration
and denied he was responsible for al
legged bad conditions. The mayors
resignation was asked in resolution
adopted by the council to straighten
out bootlegging conditions which have
existed for some time.
st. Paul.-Actual field work has
been started to determine methods of
preventing floods in the Minnesota
River valley. Similar Investigations
in the Red Lake, and Roseau river
basins will be undertaken when pend
ing negotiations with Canadian Off
Gals handling interrelated problems
are completed, according to E. V. Will
lard, state drainage engineer.
Professionally. G. Anderson was
elected first mayor of Hatfield, newly
incorporated village, at the initial cleo
ton Theodore Smallfield, Nick Pech-
on and J. H. Wiener were chosen as
councilmen; w. NJ Smith, clerk; N. J..
Nilsson, treasurer, and John A. Thomp-
son, justice of the peace. Hatfield is
the second village in the county to in
corporate during the present year.
ST. Paul-Minnesota possesses more
net assets-state cash, lands, buildings
and other properties-than any other
state in the union, H. E. Samuelson,
executive clerk to Governor Burnquist,
quoting from late government census
volume on financial statistics of state,
declared. Minnesota is credited with
assets of SIPS, 1894, 421 and debts of only
$201S,501. 1t is led in totals of assets
by New York, with $239,397 ,545, but
that state has $241 ,164,23O of outstand-
ing Indebtedness, according to the GEN.
sus bureau. In second place is Wash
ington with assets of $123 ,693,966 and
state debt of $3,417,6 33.
Deer Rivera 9-month-old baby Of
woman from a range town whose
name could not be learned, was killed
in runaway on the farm home OF
Bert Baird. The mother was driving
the team and had the baby in the seat
beside her, and as she got out to open
the gate the team became frightened
at something and ran across the field
dragging the buggy with cow tied be-
hind it. The woman ran after the
team and after catching it looked for
her baby. She found it near the gate,
where it was tossed out at the first
lunge of the horses. The child was
breathing it's last and died soon after
reaching the house.
Bemidji.-C. w. Brandborg, manager
of the local branch of the Falk Ameri
can Potato Flour corporation, who has
returned from an extended trip thru
the potato-growing sections of Mime
sofa, reports crops little below the
average as to quantity, but states that
quality is of the best.