The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-13

for a Kanabec all-county celebration
to be held at Mora on Fridays July 4.
Wadena.-The Wadena farm bureau
and Farmers club will have picnic
at Twin Lakes, Ave miles northeast
Of Menahga,. Tuesday, June II.
East Grand Forks.-Relatives and
friends of the couple from many other
places were here for the silver wedding
celebration of Mr.. and Mrs. Morris
Sullivan.
Red Lake Falls.-Nels Benoit, form
erly of this city, now manager of the
Red Lake Falls Milling company's
elevator at st. Hilaire, got his right
arm caught in a worm conveyor and
crushed.
Alexandria.-At the Alexandria high
school commencement exercises, Dean
L. d. Coffman of the college of educa.
ton, University of Minnesota, deliv-
cred the address. There were 81
graduates.
Albert Lea.-The contracts for the
big new 100000 gallon reservoir and
the $4,000 gallon pressure tank for
the city, have been awarded to William
Danforth and McManus & Tarnoski,
>both of st. Paul. for $53,S50.
Duluth.-Duluth was host to $500
Odd Fellows when the members of the
state organization held their annual
meeting and convention and celebrated
the one-hundredth anniversary of the
founding of the order in America.
Stillwater.-H. Peterson of st. Paul
arrested by Deputy Game Warden
Walter Klinefelter charged with catch
ing understood sunfish and black bass
in Long Lake, appeared in municipal
court and was fined $40 and costs
by Judge Lee.
st. Cloud.-The body of George
Green, 40, former resident of this city,
who died from injuries sustained in a
runaway accident at New Rockford,
N. D., where he resided, was brought
here for burial. He left this city about
eleven years ago.
st. Cloud.-F. w. Lindeneau of st.
Paul, who pleaded guilty to a violation
of the blue sky law, was sentenced by
Judge Roeser to six months in the
county Jail and fined $3.50 The jail
sentence was suspended to give Lin
deneau chance to reimburse those
who bought stock of him.
Tenstrike. = One thousand sheep
from the L. H. White Ranch at Cogs-
well, N. D., have been placed on the
Gibson-Miller farm. The sheep were
purchased by A. E. Gibson and G. B.
Miller, both of Waterloo, Iowa, and
they are to be the foundation of
large sheep raising farm in the town of
O'Brien.
Virginia,-In order to stimulate more
interest along Americanization lines
in this city and have it reach the wo-
men and girls in the foreign families
an eight weeks club for study and
recreation is being formed in the vari-
Gus towns on the range. The clubs
will be conducted under the direction
of the Young Women's Christian AS
sociation.
st. Paul.-The state forest service
has received $4,000 Of Federal aid un-
der the Weeks law appropriating $780,
900 annually to various states for the
protection of headwaters of navigable
streams. The money is being used to
pay the salaries of seventeen patrol
men in forest districts at the sources
of the Mississippi st. Louis and Rainy
rivers and tributary streams, accord
ing to P H. Hanson, forest service
clerk.
,Winona-The first wooden steam
boat to be made nonsinkable by divid-
ing the hull into watertight compart-
ments is on the way from New Or
leans to st. Paul, it was announced
here. She is the well known excursion
steamer Sidney. Captain Roy Streck-
fus, owner and navigator, said after
demonstrating the unsinkability by
pumping 81 inches of water into her
forward compartments that the work
is costing $4,000.
st. Paul.-Although the time when
transfers to this country of the bodies
of officers, enlisted men and civilian
employees, who died overseas will be-
gin cannot be stated yet, the war de-
partment advised the state military
headquarters, it desires to ascertain
the wishes of families Of the men re-
garding the permanent disposition of
the bodies. Information of this kind
should be supplied without delay, the
message stated.
Crosby.-The body of Mrs. George
Bennett was found lying in the middle
of the road near her home at 10 o'clock
at night, nine miles north of Crosby, by
her husband and brother, who were
returning from town with a load Of
hay. The body was still warm. Dep
uty Coroner Koop of Crosby found
the woman had been shot, the bullet
entering the back of her neck and
coming out through the nose. Three
men are suspected, but no arrests
have been made as yet.
St. Paul.-The first Jail sentence for
violation of the blue sky" law was
six months jail term given A. w.
Lindeneau at st. Cloud, according to
report to the capitol officers of the
state securities commission. Linde-
neau, it was said, was selling stock in
the Southern Alaska Mining company
without license. The company has
headquarters in Minneapolis, but the
sale of its stock in Minnesota has not
been licensed by the commission for
several months. Lindeneau was in
dicted and convicted at a jury trial.
Brainerd.-In confessions made by
the brother and husband of Mrs.
George Bennett, who was found dead
in the road near the farm home north
of Crosby, both appear to have repudi-