The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-01-09
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Northwest

NORTHWEST
MIR. and Mrs. Jesse Conner, who
were married in Hart, Mimi, SO years
ago, celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary at Flandreau. S. d.
Dolores Orser, years old, daughter
OF Mr. and Mrs. w. B. Orser, fell from
high precipice into Prior creek, near
Joliet, Mont, and was drowned.
The First Congregational church of
Beloit, Wis, has rendered call to the
Rev. w. w. Willard of Chicago, who
has been iterim pastor for the past
several months
DR.. M. L. Burton's salary as head
of the University of Michigan will be
$4,000 a year, and, in addition, he will
have free use of the presidents resi-
dence, heated and lighted, on the cam
pus.
One person E. J. McGrath of Aitkin,
Mimi, was killed and SO reported in
jured among them, 20 Minnesotans,
when Chicago Great Western train
from Minneapolis was derailed near
Wyeth, Mo. ........ ..-..
South Dakota sent 298 men into the
army during 1919, according to Colon
ell L. c. Bennett, head of the recruit
ing staff for North and South Dakota
North Dakota sent 358 men during the
same period
The latest census of the Indian popu-
lation of Montana, as given by Cato
Sells, Indian commissioner, shows H.
1873 in that state. These figures in
al, WI ,;xryo RI Of fha
government, who remain on reserva-
lions.
Three little children, the oldest 7,
were left motherless when Mrs. Henry
Silk, aged q, was instantly killed by
the accidental discharge of rifle in
the hands of her husband, former
resident in Glenavon, Emmons county,
n. D.
Forty-two persons were injured at
Seattle, when street-car left the
tracks and crashed into telephone
pole. The injured received bruises,
broken arms and severe cuts from fly
ing glass.
Eight restaurants keepers of Aber-
deem, S. D., indicted by the federal
grand jury here Dec. Is, were to ans
wer to the charge of exacting excess
prices from patrons. These are the
first cases to be tried in South Dakota
under the Lever food control act.
Faculty members of the University
of North Dakota at Grand Forks will
receive increases in salary amounting
to $500 year in most cases, under a
general scale adopted by the state
board of administration. The action
affects Sc members of the faculty.
Major General Leonard Wood has
filed with the secretary of state of
South Dakota acceptance to the in
dorsement of the republican state con-
vention as candidate for the presi-
dency. His former filing now brings
seven presidential candidates into the
field.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Belfield,
N. D., have suffered sudden and serious
losses of cattle during the last week
from an apparently new disease, said
to be a combination of dry feed and
cold weather. E. G. Lease, living
north of here, lost nine cows in one
night and nights tolls on a neigh
boris farm was so head.
Recent alarming reports concerning
losses of stock in Montana do not ap-
pear to be borne out by the state press.
While the recent storm and cold spell
undoubtedly caused some loss to cat
tie, horses and sheep, the presumption
that the losses are the greatest in the
annals of the state apparently is con-
sidered unwarranted.
December, 1919, just passed, was the
coolest December in sixty-eight years,
with one exception, according to gov
eminent records, at Manitowoc, Wis
The average for the past month was
1873. There has been only one colder
December in the past sixty-eight years,
and that was December, 1872, when
the average was 1876 for the month.
Governor Frank o. Lowden of I'LL
nois has accepted an invitation to
speak before the annual convention of
the Northwestern Lumbermen's asso-
citation in Minneapolis on its opening
day, Jan. 20. He will deliver an ad-
dress with no particular subject an
nounced. Another speaker during the
three-day meeting will be Harry H.
Merrick of Chicago, president of the
Mississippi Valley Association and of
the Chicago Association of Commerce,
who will talk on Business Problems"
Other addresses will be on technical
subjects.
More than ITO young men are en-
nlo IN, 49,
auto course at State college at Brook
ings, South. Dakota. Of this number,
"a came to college solely for the
course, while SO are school of agricul-
ture students.
The volume of holiday traffic on
railways and ferries has caused the
United States public health service to
increase its staff at Port Huron to vac
cinate Canadians and Americans en-
tering the United States. Trains are
being held up from 10 to 40 minutes
while the passengers comply with the
medical law.
Eighteen airplanes, manned by pilots
of the United States Air Service, and
observers furnished by the forestry
service will be stationed in Montana
in 1920 for use in locating fires in
forest reserves, if the recommendation
of the fire review board meets with
approval.
The Marinette county Wisconsin
workhouse, erected fifteen years ago
to house Migrants and men convicted
of drunkenness, closed it's doors for
ever, January LIST. Prohibition so de-
creased the business of the institution
that only one prisoner was sent there
in the past four months.