The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-03-26
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The census returns shows Bismarck,
N. D., to have population of 6,951, an
increase of 1903 or 27.7 per cent.
The South Dakota fire marshaPs
March bulletin just issued, places the
January fire loss throughout the state
at $47,132.
Watertown was selected as the next
convention city of the Daughters Of
the American Revolution of South Da-
kota at the closing session of the an
nual convention at Sioux Falls.
Theodore, youngest son of R. c. San
ders, custodian of the state capital
building at Pierre, S. D., was electro
cuted while repairing electric light
connections damaged by the recent
storm.
Bids for the construction of state
owned terminal grain elevator and
flour mill at Grand Forks, will be open
ed on April 5, it was announced today
by the state industrial commission at
Bismarck.
Edward Ralph, proprietor of a Sioux
Falls cafe, is looking for thief who,
after stealing $57 from a tomato can
in which it was concealed in his place
of business, stole Ralph's automobile
and escaped.
Seventeen United States Marines
from North Dakota lost their lives in
the late European war, according to a
list from Marine Corps headquarters
at Washington made public by Adju-
tant General G. A. Fraser.
All state records were broken for
the average price of stock sold at an
auction sale at Huron, S. D., by the
South Dakota Shorthorn Breeders as
sociation sale, when 80 head of Royal
shorthorn cattle sold for $42,5S0.
While Fred Sampson, aged 9, son
of Mrs. T. Sampson of Negaunee,
Mich, was playing with "a dynamite
cap as he was seated at his desk in
school, the explosive went off and the
boy lost the thumb and three fingers
of the right hand.
Because wolves and coyotes in
crease their ravages, the Ruby Val
ley Stock association in Montana, has
Fifty dollars is offered for wolf and
$25 for coyote, of all ages, being an
increase of S. each.
Portland, Ore.-Three alleged men,
bers of the Communist party of Ore
gon, on trial here on charges of violat-
ing the state syndicalism act, were
found guilty by jury in circuit court
The penalty provides for maximum
of 10 years Imprisonment
Forty Montana bankers will go to
Minneapolis by automobile, June Z, to
celebrate the establishment by the
ninth District Federal Reserve bank of
branch at Helena. The tourists will
travel in four of the sightseeing auto
mobiles used in Yellowstone National
park.
A. G. Lowery of Huron, S. D., sold
10 acres of land adjoining the city,
south of Huron college campus, for
$1,000 an acre, according to reports of
the Huron Commercial club. This is
the highest price paid for land in
Beadle county, if not the highest in
the state.
The Wisconsin railroad commission
will hold hearing on April 9 for the
purpose of determining whether or not
the commission should issue an order
prescribing that on all grade crossings
of steam and electric railroads trolley
guards and other protective devices
should be Installed
The first case under North Dakotas
law, enacted to establish the legiti-
macy of children born out of wedlock
has been completed in Case county
courts and a child so born has receiv-
ed its fathers name and been declar-
ed his legitimate heir. The law was
passed by the legislature in March,
1917.
Seventy-fiye guests of the Kirkwood
hotel at Darlington, N. D., were forced
to make dash for safety, CARRIED only
in their night clothing when fire was
discovered in the building. The
building, frame structure, was en-
tirely destroyed. The loss is estimat-
ed at between $4,000 and $4,000.
The guests lost all their personal be-
longings.
Twenty-Five hundred dollars has
been contributed through the Mime
sofa Committee for the Relief of Ger
man children, to aid the American
Friends Service Committee in it's task
of feeding the starving children of
Central European countries. 1t is es-
timated that in Germany alone there
are 100000 boys and girls who go
to bed at night hungry.
Wondering at her long absence
from home neighbors, led by a police
officer broke into the house of Miss
Mary L. Hitchcock, IS years old, a
nurse at Fon du Lac, Wis, to find her
dead body in bed, clad in a night robe.
Death is believed to have occurred
five weeks ago.
The South Dakota state land depart
ment will offer approximately 10000
acres of state lands at auction the last
week of this month and the first part
of April The prices will range from
$40 to SIPS per acre, with cash pay
ment of 10 per cent. The land is In
more than dozen counties.
Two unmasked men held up H. e.
Stafford, cashier in the Internal Rev
enue Collectors office in the federal
building at Seattle, and robbed the
strong box of $4,000 in currency and
fed. The money represented nearly
all the cash returns from the last days
income tax collections for the Seattle
district
Quarantine against the shipment of
lowers. straw, vegetables or other car
riers of the corn borer, from infested
districts of Massachusetts,, New Hamp-
shire, New York and Pennsylvania