The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-02-20

until Feb. 20.
DR.. Nj. A. Brannon will not take the
presidency of the North Dakota uni
versity. In letter to Rev. Jonathan
Watson of Grand Forks, a personal
friend, he said that he had informed
the North Dakota board of administra-
ton that he would not accept their
offer. His resignation as president Of
Beloit college has not been accepted.
Washington
President Wilson is understood to
have decided on the appointment of
William Phillips, assistant secretary
Of state, as minister to the Neither
lands.
No extension of time for filing in
come tax returns will be granted this
year by the bureau of internal re-
venue. Commissioner Daniel c. Roper
announced those who failed to make
the required return on or before
March Is would be subjected to heavy
penalties.
President Wilson has granted full
pardon to Robert R. Sidebotham, con-
victed three years ago at Helena,
Mont, on the charge of using the mail
to defraud. The charge against Side
botham grew out of alleged irregular
practices in connection with the
Northwestern Trustee company.
Establishment of a federal motor
registration bureau in the department
of justice, with registrars in each of
the states designed to reduce thefts
of automobiles, is proposed in bill
introduced by Representative Harreld
(rep. Okla.). No person would be per-
mitted to sell an auto without certi-
was his property. .
Secretary of State Lansing has res
igned. The President has accepted the
resignation with appreciation" and
Mr. Lansing becomes the second Sec
rotary of State to leave the present
administration. Notification of Mr..
Lansing's retirement was sent to all
foreign governments by Frank L..
Polk, first assistant Secretary of
S ate 1t was said at the State de-
partment that Mr.. Polk would serve as
acting secretary for period of 80
days unless successor to Mr.. Lansing
is chosen sooner.
Foreign
A heavy concentration of bolsheviki
troops is reported at three points
along the Polish frontier.
Premier Lloyd George told the Brit
ish House of Commons that he hoped
to introduce the Irish home rule bill
in the house in few days.
Admiral Kolchak was executed by
his own troops to prevent his rescue
by white troops, according to Copen-
hagen dispatch to the Herald.
Denmark won an overwhelming vic
tory in the plebiscite in the province
of Sleswig, by which the future status
of that district as determined.
A clash between Polish and Czech
sympathizers in Orlova, Teschen, is re-
ported in cablegram received by the
Czech-Slovak information bureau in
this country.
A large body of Sim Feiners at
tackled the police barracks at Bella.
train, in Ulster, overcame the garri.
son, four of whom were wounded, and
| removed the arms and ammunition.
The Jugo-Slavia cabinet, headed by
Premier Liouba Davidovitch, resigned
owing to the refusal of Prince Regent
Alexander to dissolve the present pro-
visional national representation and
| order elections for national constitu.
ent assembly
A Berlin court decided that the so.
called kaiser flm," depicting the for
tune of William II, was serious libel
| on the former German emperor as a
man and ordered that all copies of the
| film and also reproductions of the eX.
kaiser's portraits from it should be
destroyed.
Domestic
The Idaho legislature ratified the
woman suffrage amendment.
DR.. Jacob Gould Schurmann, presi-
dent Of Cornell university for nearly
| % years, has rendered his resignation.
The Americans Manufacturers Elk.
port ASSOCIATION has warned its mem.
bers against trading with soviet Rus.
| STA.
The Il days fur sale at the Funston
Brothers & Co., international Fur ex'
change at St. Louis, closed with the
| announcement from the auctioneers
stand that more than $27, 100000 worth
of furs had been sold.
Recess until March 1 has been tax
en- by the industrial conference to al
low a drafting committee to put into
final form the conferences recommen.
dations for harmonizing relations be-
tween capital and labor.
After a hearing of shipyard work.
ers and real estate men, the shipping
board decided to reject bids totaling
| $5,541,SG0 for the Elmwood housing
development at Philadelphia, compos,
ed of 1,479 dwellings built for wartime
shipyard workers.
A Travis county, Texas, hen. aided
by high prices, earned for its owner
| $3.50 during 1919, according to rec
ords kept by Mrs. Susan Walker, who
owns the hen. This chicken is a cross
between a Rhode Island Red and a
White Leghorn. Her records for the
year was 103 eggs laid, seventy-three
chickens Matched and sixty-two chick
ems raised.
Fire of undetermined origin caused
damage estimated at $4,000 at the
Texas state penitentiary at Huntsville
The prisoners assisted in combating
the flames.
Oil production in the United States