The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-01-16
Big Happenings of the Week
Condensed for Benefit of
Busy Readers.
TOLD IN A few WORDS
Kernels Culied From New Of Moment
in Ali Parts of the World--
Of Interest to All the Pee
Pile Everywhere.
Northwest


DIR. G. G. Redfield, for the last three
years warden of the South Dakota pen
itentiary, has resigned his position.
Lewis Flat, prominent business
man of Rapid City, S. D., died as a
result of small silver penetrating his
left leg.
The North Dakota state supreme
court held valid and constitutional
the state laws providing for state in
dustrial program.
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.
Clarence Elstad post of the Ameri-
can Legion at Ipswich, S. D., has
launched campaign for the erection
of building for the exclusive use of
the legion.
Roy N. Stewart, county surveyor for
Richland county, has been named bust
ness manager for the city government
of Scobey, Mont His appointment is
for one year.
State taxes in North Dakota have
increased more than lit per cent in
1919 over 1913, according to the state
ment issued by State Tax Commits
sioner George e. Wallace.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Johnson has suffered what is be-
lieved fatal burns when she fell from
a buggy and rolled under steam
radiator at Great Falls, Mont.
The first annual midwinter fair for
Pembina county, N. d., will be staged
at Cavalier, JAM 1881. 1t is believed
the number of entries will tax the ca
pacity of the buildings available.
Governor Sam V. Stewart of Mon
tana, has issued papers of requisition
on the state of Minnesota for Paul
Connell, charged in Missoula county
with highway robbery and held at St
Paul
Thomas Sullivan, secretary of the
North Dakota Employers association
has announced that the annual meet
ing of the association, scheduled to be
conducted in Grand Forks, Jan. IA,
has been postponed indefinitely.
North Dakota Ignite producers,
whose mines were operated by the
state under martial law from Nov. 13
to Dec. 5, will receive 25 cents for
each ton of coal mined by the state.
j. w. Deemy, state mine director,
stated.
Burr Clark, forester supervisor at
Chateau, Montana, denies stories that
elk in the Sun river section are starv-
ing to death. He estimates there are
not more than 1000 of the animals in
that section and says they have for
aged WELL
Operating Income of the Northern
Pacific railroad for the first eleven
months of 1919 decreased almost 80
per cent compared with the same
period of 1918, according to an audit
of the books by Federal officials, just
announced.
Adam Kiefer,2 years old, was burn
ed to death at Devils Lake. N. D.,
when his clothes caught fire from
matches he had taken from a shelf
His mother, away at the time, found
the child unconscious on the floor
when she returned
charged with the murder of Margaret
Kottke, z years old, were found guilty
by jury at Towner, N. D., yesterday
of Manslaughter. Punishment was
fixed at five years in the state peniten-
tiary at Bismarck
DR.. A. J. Freudenberg of Markeson,
Wis, was arrested on a warrant
oh T. a..
alleged that he caused the death last
November Of Mrs. Nettie Duties, his
mother-in-law, by injecting mustard
solutions into her vital organs.
Discovery of gold assaying SIS on
ranch IL miles north from Winnett,
Mont, in regian where none ever. be-
fore had been found has aroused much
interest. Owners of the ranch are not
miners and the discovery was by acct
dent. 1t is thought a new mining dis
trict may lie in that section. -
Investigation of all wholesale and
retail prices of necessities sold in Mil
waukee and a vigorous plan to in
crease production and cut down con-
sumption are some of the recommen-
dations of the committee Of five, ap-
pointed to combat the high cost of liv-
ing there. Reports of overcharging
are to be made and data is to be gath
cred from the women from which a
fair price tabulation will be made.
Ten restaurant keepers Of Aberdeen
S. D., appeared before Judge Elliot in
federal court there to arrange bonds
in cases pending against them in fed
eralF court on charges of profiteering.
Bond in each case was fixed at $1,000.
Trial of the cases begin at the next
term of court. Z
States Attorney Gallagher and
Sheriff Persina of Beach, N. D., were
removed from office by Governor Lynn
Frazier on charges growing out, of the
killing of M. K. Bowen last summer.
Governor Frazier charged Gallagher
with neglect of duty and Persina with
neglect and i1icompetency.
The first application for space at the
proposed worlds fair to be held in
1926 at Philadelphia was forwarded to
that city by the American Forestry
association. Charles Lathrop Pack,
president of the association, declared
world exposition within the next six
years would accomplish much towards
cementing the nations Of the world.
Capital for tn Scandinavian-Amer-
lean Bank of Fargo. N. D., which was
closed in October by order of the state
banking board and later reopened af-
ter being declared solvent, was in
creased from $4,000 to 100000 at a
meeting Of the stockholders.
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