The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-11-21
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Northwest

The state game commissions of
Washington and Wisconsin have
agreed to swap fish for experimental
purposes.
Ten passenger trains on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railway in the
northwest have been temporarily sus-
pended owing to the coal shortage.
The Great Falls, Mont, camp of the
American Legion has taken steps to
see that first paper slackers" en-
ployed in that city and county are
replaced by service men.
DR.. M. w. Roam, Bismarck, shot by
a fellow hunter who says that he fired
on the doctor thinking that he was
shooting a coyote, is in a serious
condition at Bismarck hospital.
Directors of the Washburn Ignite
Coal company announce that they will
contest in the courts the right of Gov
ernor Frazier of North Dakota to seize
and operate their mines at Wilton,
N. D.
A joint meeting of the food control
supporters of Minnesota, North and
South Dakota, interested in the pro-
jected control of food waters in the
upper Red River valley and upper
Minnesota river region, will meet in
Fargo next month.
Local Fuel Administrator John R..
Mcintosh said there are $500 homes
in Butte, Mont, where coal is needed.
The county is admitting families to
the county hospital and the Y. M. G. A.
has offered it's buildings for the use
of families without fuel.
Mrs. Bertha Miller, A years old,
and her daughter, II, have been ar
rested at Butte, Mont, on charge
of passing forged checks, by which, it
is alleged, they obtained clothes valued
at several hundred dollars. The daugh-
ter and mother came from Bismarck,
N ID.
A statewide organization to be
known as the North Dakota Good
Roads association, which will bend it's
activities toward improving the high
ways of this state, was launched at a
meeting at Minot, called by the Minot
Auto club. 1t was decided to call a
state good roads convention in Minot,
Dec. 2.
Activities against l. w. w. are being
continued in different parts of Wash
ington and Oregon. In Tacoma par
ties were sent to nearby logging
camps, where it was reported /. w.
w. were arming. Sixty-six alleged
I. w. w. were arraigned in Tacoma
for violation of the state criminal
syndicalism law.
The total value of the new construc-
tion in Minnesota, North Dakota and
South Dakota for the first 10 months
of 1919 amounted to more than $751;
100000, total which has been ex-
ceeded only once before, in 1916, &C
cording to building statistics. In 1916
the total for the 10 months period
was $60,974,000.
The soft coal supply of Duluth and
Superior, originally intended for the
Northwest district, ordinarily supplied
from the Head of the Lakes, may be
needed to maintain essential indus
tries in Montana and Wyoming, &C.
cording to E. d. Brigham, chairman,
and w. H. Groverman, Fuel admin
istration member of the Fuel COM
mittee.
Only heroic efforts on the part of
government officials can prevent the
determination of the great herd of elk
in the Yellowstone park this winter,
declared Horace M. Albright, superin-
tendent of the park Unfavorable
weather conditions and the slaughter
by hunters in Montana threaten to
wipe out the last : elk in North
America.
Plans for the establishment at Hell
ena, Mont, of branch of the Ninth
District Federal Reserve bank, were
announced by John H. Rich, federal
reserve agent for the district. The
branch will be opened as soon as ar
rangements for a building can be
made. o. A. Carlson, chief federal
bank examiner for this district, will
be head of the branch.
Ernest Lundeen, former Congress-
man, of the Fifth Minnesota district,
who was scheduled to speak at the
opera house at Ortonville, Mimi,
against the league of nations, was
taken from the stage by American
Legion men and escorted to the rail-
road depot. He was placed in refrig-
orator car and the door fastened.
The train was slowly moving eastward
at the time.
: Washington
Demands of union miners for a 30.
hour week and 60 per cent increase
in wages "are impossibilities and
ought to be eliminated at the very
beginning" Secretary Wilson de-
clared in opening the conference be-
tween union officials and operators
called by him to settle the differences
existing in the coal industry.
Attorney General Palmer told the
senate that there are 10000 soviet
suspects in this country and that more
adequate laws for punishment and de-
portation are needed.
A maximum wholesale price of fen
and one-half cents pound for all beet
sugars at all points in the United
States has been established by the
Department of Justice.
The House, by vote of 203 to 159.
passed the Esch railroad bill to ter
inmate government control of the car
riers and provide regulations for their
supervision after control is ended.
A resolution proposing an amend
ment to the constitution requiring rati
f1cation of constitutional amendments