The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-07-02
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
ENTIRE FIELD COVERED
News of Events In Gopher State
Gathered From Many Different
Sources and Arranged In
Crisp Readable Form.

Fourth of July celebration, Luverne
this year will have three day base
ball tournament.
the county jail as result of the in
vestigation by a special grand jury of
the lynching of three Negroes June
Is.
st. Cloud-A W. Hines local bar
Der, was arrested for being drunk and
disorderly. He acquired his jag by
drinking toilet water, he told the pol
ice. He was released to secure the
money.
st. Cloud-Herbert Luckaroth, 6
year old son of Ignatz Luckaroth, was
killed at Avon. In taking a loaded
shotgun from the wall, the weapon
was discharged, the full load tearing
through the boys neck.
st. Paul-Hearings have been resum-
ed in custer proceedings against Will
liam N. Nash, Hennepin county attor-
new under suspension of bribery
charge connected with the Minnea-
polls liquor smuggling conspiracy.
| Winona-Because of the great num-
Der of bugs attracted by the electric
lights the city council has ordered the
| Winona white way and downtown dis
tricts darkened for the summer. A pro-
test has been registered against the
order.
Rochester, boy who wrote typi-
cal black hand letter to E. A. Knowl-
ton, local merchant, threatening his
| life unless $4,000 in cash were placed
in shoe box at specified place at an
indicated time was caught by the pol
ice and released on. probation.
Hastings-Police of the twin cities
| have been asked to aid in the search
| for the brace of thugs who assaulted
and held up former Mayor ]. G. Sieben
at Hastings. Mr.. Sieben is able to be
around, but is still weak from the eff
fects of the beating he received.
| Hibbing-Industria teams in Hib-
bling will be asked to enter the Nation
al Amateur Industrial baseball series
to be played at Akron, Ohio, early this
fall. One hundred concerns from diff
ferent parts of the United States have
already signed up for the series.
| Sank Center-The Sank Center
Farmers shipping association handled
$114,000 worth of stock during the
year Just closed A dividend of 8 per
cent was declared and $1,000 placed
in the surplus fund. 1t is planned to
increase the capital stock to $4,000.
Crookston-In an effort to get bet
ter price for their wool farmers of
the Polk County Wool Growers asso-
citation will pool their wool at Crooks
ston and Erskine next week. The asso-
citation expects to hold the product un-
til satisfactory price has been es-
tablished when it will be sold accord
ing to grade.
Slayton-A proposed $4,000 bond
issue for the erection of a memorial
to Murray county soldiers of the
world war was defeated by a large
majority at special election. Slayton
voted 166 to 81 in favor of the issue,
but other parts of the county strong
ly opposed it, 1t was proposed to
erect community building.
Crookston--A campaign to improve
| the streets and residence property in
Crookston has been launched by the
| Crookston Association Of Public At
fairs. A general committee to super
wise the entire city has been named
as we'll as committees for each ward.
Awards will be made in each section
of the city at the end of the summer
season.
| Notwithstanding who have
been investigating the matter, will re-
port on progress toward securing a
site for the proposed s125,000 armory.
Tentative plans submitted by Toltz,
King & Day, of St Paul, call for a
combined armory and auditorium in
Guiding headquarters for the Fifth
Regiment The present armory would
be used for supply room and storage
building for the regiments motor
| trucks.
Winona-Winona housewives who
put empty milk bottles, with enough
money in them to pay for the next
days supply on the back porch, at
night wondered why no milk was left
and the money gone. The driver,
| when questioned, said he found no
money and his firms rule was mo
money, no milk" The police caught
a man on the rounds just ahead of the
milkwagon extracting the money from
! the bottles. In court he pleaded gull
| ty saying he was out of work and hard
up.
/ ST. Paul-Governors of Wisconsin,
North Dakota and South Dakota have
been asked to confer here with Cover
nor Burnquist of Minnesota to discuss
| the coal shortage situation in the
Northwest. The date of the confer
ence has not been definitely set, but
| probably will be next week. Several
towns in the Northwest are reported
to be without any coal and the sup
ply on hand at the DuluthSuperior
docks on Lake Superior is said to be
comparatively small. Means of speed
ing up coal shipments to this section
of the country will be discussed by the
governors.
Bemidji-More than 100 delegates
were entertained here at the summer
outing of the Minnesota Fire Under
writers association. The delegates
were entertained at Birchmont, Be
midii's popular summer resort, at the
head of Lake Bemidji, and the meet
ing was purely an outing.
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Della Metz,
daughters of Rev. C. C. Metz, and Ed
ward Johnson, young farmer, were
severely injured when their automo-
bile was struck by truck and hurled
Into a ditch here. The young woman
suffered broken arms and Johnson
was injured about the head.