The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-11-19
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.

Sources ano Arranged in
Crisp Readable Form.
. Pine River-Warner Lee has a sue
cessful Skunk farm in operation near
Gull Lake.
Owatonna-Fourteen men have
agreed to aid in the reorganization of
Company l..
Mankato-Officers of the American
ization council have been reelected for
the ensuing fiscal year,
Pine Rivera. r. Ittner has sold
his interest in the Cass Lake Times to
his partner, Mr.. Uttley.
Appleton-A single masked bandit
held up the Milwaukee STATEN here
and escaped with 500 in cash and a
$500 ring.
Fergus Falls-The United States
grand jury completed it's work here
and adjourned after returning 80 in
dictments.
Albert Lea-A group of young men.
playing african golf," were held up
and robbed of about $500 in cash and
two gold watches.
Willmar-J. H. VanHelme, real es-
tate dealer at Clarissa, Todd county,
believed to be Respondent, and without
funds, committed suicide.
Hugo-The Hugo school district is
now consolidated and Independent. 1t
is likely that an addition will be made
to the present school building next
year.
Rochester-Leaving notes asking
forgiveness of his mother, wife and
four children, Louis Stanley, Olmstead
county farmer, committed suicide by
drinking carbolic acid.
Rochester-William A. Jones, 3S,
was burned to death and several
horses and 81 head of cattle cremat-
ed when the barn on the o. M. Ket-
chum farm was destroyed by fire last
night.
Minneapolis-A suggestion that
South st. Paul be included in the air
mail between the Twin Cities and
Chicago was made by Postmaster E..
A Purdy in a letter to j. G. Rooms,
first assistant postmaster general.
Cloquet-The closing here of what
is known as the water power will mark
the passing of Cloquet's oldest mill,
it was built % years ago. 1t will
be dismantled to make room for a
mill to be erected by the North
west Paper company upon the same
site.
Paramount - The Martin county
grand jury has been discharged after
returning 10 indictments, the largest
number in the county's history. Sew
eral of the Indictments were returned
against persons accused of being con-
with robbery of freight cars
here.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS examina-
for commissions in the First
observation squadron will
take place Dec. 6, according to an or
der issued by Lieutenant Colonel w.
G.. CARTS, commander. Three commits
sions will be awarded, two as observ-
ers and n as communications Off
Ger.
Lakefield-For a second time with
in a few weeks Lakefield has been
stirred up by the activities of a "Yel-
low Paint Gang" A store owned by
farmers has been the target for the
paint daubers both times and
the authorities are making every eff
fort to ascertain who is back of the
movement.
Pipestone-At the annual meeting of
the Southwestern Medical society
here, F. G. Watson of Worthington
was elected president; F. M. Metcalf
Of Fulda, vicepresident, and E. G. Nc
.eowan of P~ipestone, secretary and
treasurer. Fulda was selected as the
place for the semi-annual meeting of
the society in May, 1921.
.Cottonwood-Charged with the
theft of six diamonds valued at $1,000,
Andrew Sanoki was arrested here as
ne was boarding a train. A few weeks
ago a travelling salesman stopped at
4 farm house, where a threshing crew
was at work. He exhibited his stock
If jewelry and after leaving found that
| small box containing the diamonds
was missing.
st. Paul-East Grand Forks, Eve
eth, Sandstone, Mcintosh, Lafayette
points in Northern Minnesota
nave complained to the Railroad and
commission that with the
beginning Of cold weather, they are
x-;tbo- c,,ppI;ac Of fuel Coma IF tho /
were addressed to Cover
Burnquist and others to j. f. Nc
Zee, former fuel administrator, and
we're turned yer to the Railroad and
commission.
Virginia-Leo and Thomas Smegelo,
I3 and Is years old, were found un-
conscious in the STOW here n with
lis right leg and the other his right
lrm severed. Two men, attracted by
,ries, found one of the boys, who
to his brother a few feet away.
rhe lads were lying alongside the rail-
'oad tracks leading to the Mesaba
mountain pile.
Mankato-At a meeting of members
If the Black and Yellow Trail associa-
ion, committees representing ten Min
lesota counties, and several in South
Dakota, were appointed to further de-
of the highway.
st. Paul-Reports from small game
indicate that on an average
'nly Is ducks per hunter were killed
his year as compared to an average of
u last year. The weather was unfa-
for duck hunting this season,
according to Carlos Avery, state game1
fish commissioner.
st. Paul-The coal shortage situa-
ion hereafter will be referred to Judge
"a y Mills chairman IF tho Poilrood