The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-07-16
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.

Dawson--A heavy hail storm struck
| section of Dawson and vicinity and
| continued for two hours. Rain fol
lowed the hail. AS result hundreds
| of acres of farm land FOUR miles long
| cradle damage.
| Owatonna-Steel county real estate
transfers for the months of April,
| May and June, 1920, total almost ST.
| 100000. The total is the largest on
| record for the second quarters of any
year although that period is usually
the lightest in real estate deals.
Moorhead-Clay county is shown to
be one of the most prosperous and
| progressive agricultural centers id
| Minnesota in report containing a
large amount of data on agricultural
conditions in the Northwest, which
has been gathered by the Farmer.
Marshall-Rose Poets, Is, of Cam
bra, Wyo., was drowned in Lake She
| TEX, while attending a picnic. Miss
Poets last year was student at st.
GATHERINGS college, st. Paul. A boat
| in which she and four others were rid
ing capsized The other four were
rescued.
Bemidji-Arrangements are being
| made by the Beltrami county farm
| bureau to receive weather reports
| daily from Duluth and complete such
system that the weather forecast
| will be telephoned to every commu-
| nifty near here that can be reached
by telephone each day.
Tracy Official notice has been re-
ceived here from Washington, to the
| effect that Tracy is in line to have
| free mail delivery established as soon
as the city complies with the regula-
| tions regarding the placing of sign
| boards on the streets, and numbering
| CT the business places and residences.
Aitkin-Louis Beebe and his son
| Ralph, aged 6, were drowned while
bathing in Mud river The father was
| swimming with the boy on his back.
He was strangled by the clasp of the
| boys arms. The bodies were recov-
cred. Beebe was an engineer in a
saw mill here.
/
ers and persons caught in burning
| mine, Daniel Bionovitch, miner of
! this place, has been awarded the gold
hero medal by the Joseph A.. Holmes
| Safety association, the hero commits
sion of the mining industry. He is
one of four in the entire country to be
| honored.
Duluth-The report of the trustees
of the Ct. Northern Iron Ore Proper
| ties, showed the 10 companies under
the control of the trustees, shipped
more than 100000 tons of ore from
the Messabe range in Minnesota in
1919 and that the trustees distributed
to holders of certificates Of beneficial
interest, $6,000,OO0.
Moose Lake-The new Methodist
church building was dedicated last
Sunday. Services were held during
the entire day. The building has a
seating capacity of $50 people with
full basement for Sunday school serv-
ices. The Methodist general confer
ence appropriated $4,000 toward the
church, and the balance was raised by
popular subscription.
Hibbing living on the
range, have contributed literally to
their stricken countrymen in the war
district. Recently a check for $1,000,
making total of about $4,000 since
the end of the war, was sent to the re-
lief committee. The instructions are
that the money is to be spent in pur-
chasing food and clothing for the poor,
particularly In the large cities of
Croatia.
Winona-Richard Frederickson, 20
year old son of a Blair businessman,
Is in a critical condition in hospi-
tai as the result of injuries sustain
ed when his car ran off the road, turn
ed over and pinned him beneath. A
companion, Ralph Immell, aged Is,
sustained internal injuries in lifting
the heavy car to release Frederickson
Frederickson's lung were punctured
by his fractured ribs and he may not
recover.
Virginia = Jake Saiki, and Aleck
Nicioruk, were victims of a confidence
game. The former lost $2,335 and
the latter lost $500. They had been
told by confidence men to draw all
their money from a bank, put it in a
paper press between sheets Of paper
and leave it there several days, when
they opened the press they found it
empty. Their friends" had left the
city the day before they switched
presses
Misunderstanding into a hardware
store, stealing several pistols and then
shooting up house, narrowly miss
ing hitting young woman lying in
bed, comprised nights adventure for
Harry Czasiewski and Herbert Trop-
pie, two 16 year old boys of this
city. They will be tried in the juven-
lie court.
Crosby-Herbert Humble, the IS
year old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Humble, was caught in a cavein at
the Mahnomen mine. Prompt work
by his fellow workers saved his life
He was taken to the hospital where he
is recovering.
Montevideo-After steadily rising
for 36 hours the Minnesota and Chip
pewa rivers overlooked their banks
here. Thousands of acres in the bot
tom lands of the Minnesota river val
ley were flooded and several hundred
persons living on the flats near here
awoke to find their gardens ruined
and their houses surrounded by water.
Fairmont-Patrick H. Murphy, pio-
need, Civil war veteran and postmas-
ter in the village of Huntley for IS
years, died at his home here. He was
born in Wexford county, Ireland, in
1846 He is survived by his widow and