The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-01-24
NEWS OF STATE
T ! TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

Busy Readers.
Duluth. Sprague, 80 years
old, of West Duluth, drove head-on
with an automobile into rapidly NOV
ing streetcar here and was instantly
killed.
st. Paul.-Governor Burnquist has
announced the appointment of Ezra
r. Smith as municipal judge of Crosby
to fill the vacancy caused by the resig.
nation of D. j. Severance.
ST. Paul-Receipt by Representa-.
tive w. A. Pittenger of Duluth, grand
master of the state 1. o. o. F., of a
check for 5000 brought the total sum
received for the Northern Minnesota
fire sufferers from that order to $18,.
600.
Bemidji.-Four boys at the Central
school, Julius Goldberg, Robert Ora
ham, Lawrence Burns and Owen Web
ster, enriched the Junior Red Cross
fund 1892 when they secured permits
sion from the principal to give an en-
tertainment of lantern slides.
Minneapolis. - Carleton L. Wallace
state senator from the Thirty-fourth
district, comprising the Eighth ward
passed away at his home in this city
Senator Wallace is the second mem
Der of this years senate who has died
since the session convened Senator
Harry F. Weis of LIE Sueur died pre-
viously.
st. Paul.-Major H. L. Brady, fed
eral property and disbursing officer
for Minnesota, has announced that
draft expenditures in Minnesota now
total $585,200. This amount includes
remittance of $40,500 received from
the War department to apply on 1918
claims and expenses of draft boards
throughout the state.
st. Paul.-The Minnesota Public
Safety commission has issued check
for $5,53S, from voluntary contribu
tons received by it, to the state forest
fire relief committee The remittance
it was said, made total of $190,689
turned over to the committee from
funds forwarded to Governor Burn
QClSC ana the COMMISSION.
ST. Paul-Maj. ]. W. Edwards, st
Paul, has resigned as assistant adju
tant general The resignation was &C
copied Immediately by Adjt. Gen. F
H. Rhinow, who appointed Sergt. ]
C.. LeClaire, st. Paul, to the position
Capt. M. C. Nolan, son of Senator w
A. Nolan, Grand Meadow, was APP
pointed to fill Sergeant LeClaire's
place.
LeSueur-At caucus of $50 local
citizens, C. N. Cosgrove, who has been
connected with the State Fair board
was selected as candidate to make
the race for state senator from LIE
Sueur county to fill the vacancy
caused by the recent death of Senator
Harry P. Weis. 1t is expected Gov
ernor Burnquist will call a special
election soon to select Weis' success
sor
St. Paul-More carloads of immi
grant movaDles passing through Min
nesota Transfer during December
were consigned to Minnesota points
than to destinations in other states
according to Fred D. Sherman, state
commissioner of immigration. Out o.
a total of $50 cars, 66 were to Mime
sofa points, % to Iowa, II to Wiscon
sin. to Illinois and z to Canadian
stations.
ST. Paul-John B. Sanborn, st. Paul
has resumed the duties of state insur
Y11fc cin
which he resigned early in October tt
enter military service. C. Lewis
Weeks, Minneapolis, state insurance
commissioner in the interim, agair
became deputy attorney general, anG
Egbert S. Oakley, Duluth, left that of
fee to continue as assistant in the
staff of Attorney General Clifford L
Hilton.
Minneapolis. = The annual meetins
of the Minnesota Federation of County
Fairs was held at the Hotel Dyckmar
in this city. There were about LIE
fair men, who had come together
from every county in the state. George
E. Hanscom of st. Cloud, R. F. Hal
of Minneapolis and Charles F. Serline
Of Mora were reelected president, sec
rotary and treasurer, respectively
John Stoneburg of Cambridge was
elected vice president.
st. Minnesota's 49,, 400 schoo
children are to join in national tour
nament designed to improve the
health of the millions of American
children who will enter the lists with
the idea not only of washing theil
hands before each meal but of wash
ing their ears and necks at least once
daily. The grand tournament in Min
nesota, the dates of which are from
February 9 to May 24-fifteen weeks
lis to be carried out under the joint
cooperation of the Minnesota Public
Health association, representing the
Modern Health Crusaders, the Junior
Red Cross, Little Citizens league, the
Boys and Girls clubs of the agricul
tural extension division of the Uuiyer
sity of Minnesota, and other organi
cations representative of young Amer
lea.
Minneapolis.-A petition signed by
hundreds of Minnesota agriculturists
will be presented to Governor Burn.
Quist asking that the state conspiracy