The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-04-02
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
Given in Brief TENS for
Busy Rc--1ers.
ENTIRE FIELD COVERED
News Of Events In GOPHER State
Gathered From Many Different
Sources and Arranged In
Crisp Readable Form.

Crisp Readable Form.
Virginia. graduating class of rs
is expected from the Virginia high
school this year.
Slayton-Charles Chapman, a re-
turned soldier, had one hand shot off
when shotgun he was inspecting was
accidentally discharged.
st. Vincent.-Mrs. G. A. Perry of
this city has been appointed postmis-
tress to succeed Richard Lapp who
resigned several months ago.
Northfield.-St Olaf college mega
tive team won an easy victory over
Augustana college of Rock Island, ILL.,,
in debate on the question of compul-
sorry arbitration in public service cor
porations.
Winona.-Potatoes scored record
top price for the season on the local
market, $5.25 hundred being paid by
produce company This is $3.15 a
bushel against $40 to $2.55 paid a
week ago.
Littlefork-W. L. Keiver has finish
ed hulling his twenty-two-acre field of
clover, and the yield is approximately
140 bushels, worth in the present mar
ket about 5000, gross yield of near
ly $3.50 an acre.
Brainerd.-War has been declared
on crows by the Crow Wing Game and
Fish Protective club. The club voted
to pay bounty of cents on crows
bills, 2 cents for eggs and 2 cents
each for young birds. This offer holds
good until June Is, when an armistice
will be declared.
Chisholm.-A play for the purpose
of aiding starving Armenians and Sy-
rians will be presented by the Mas
quer's Dramatic club of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota at the high school
auditorium April 6, under the auspices
of the Erodelphian Literary society of
the Chisholm high school,
Bemidji.-Joseph Clarkin, arrested
in state room of the sleeping car on
the southbound M. & 1. train by In
dian Agents William Johnson and Ed
ward Escola charged with having nine
dress suit cases filed with whisky he
was taking from Canada to ST. Paul,
was arraigned before United States
Commissioner Simons here and held
in $500 to the Fergus Falls Federal
grand jury.
Duluth.-Julian Arthur Jackson,
aged 4, is dead and his sister, Lillian,
8, is in hospital in serious condi-
tion as result Of taking sugar-coated
pills intended for their mother. They
are the children of o. A. Jackson A
third child, aged Is months, also par
took of the candy but spat out the
pill. Not until the boy and his sister
were taken violently ill some hours
later did the parents know they had
eaten the medicine.
Thief River Falls.-Seed grain ap-
plication made to the county agents
of Pennington, Marshall and Roseau
counties, were distributed among the
various bankers of these counties who
were present at the special meeting
here. These applications, together
with those of Beltrami and Koochich-
ing counties, show that more than
100000 had been asked in the way
of five seed grains comprising wheat,
oats, barley, rye and fax.
st. PauL--The moth of the canker
worm, says A. G. Ruggles of the Uni
versity farm, state entomologist, is due
soon to emerge from the ground and
begin it's journey up the trunk of the
Eastwood, elm or other species of tree
while looking for favored place on
the smooth bark of upper limbs to
deposit its eggs. The pests can be
struck a hard blow at this critical
time, says Mr.. Ruggles, if city and
town people and park authorities will
renew the tanglefoot bands which have
been placed around tree trunks to
check the march of the wingless fe-
male moths. These bands, usually
made with tree tanglefoot," can be
renewed, he says, by the simple ex-
Dedient of scratching them with a
curry-comb or other similar device.
Ortonville.-Floods in the Little
Milestone and Yellow
Bank rivers are subsiding rapidly.
These streams have their sources in
the Dakota hills, where there was a
large amount of snow. The recent
warm weather melted it rapidly and
sent the water in torrents down the
three streams to the Minnesota river,
which was already bank full. A food
ha 70 ,-su
Browns Valley was under water and
residents were taken from their houses
to places of safety in boats. Wagon
roads are impossible and bridges have
been carried away.
Mountaineering a note of fare
well to his wife, in which he gave her
all his household goods, money coming
from the village and from the govern
ment, But" Russ, the newly elected
village clerk here, left and his where
abouts are unknown. He was a re-
turned soldier. He is not known to
have had any trouble and his action is
a mystery to his fellow townsmen.
Bemidji.-Bemidji is receiving no
small amount of advertising as the re-
suit Of being designated as the north
ern terminal of the Mississippi River
Scenic highway, which extends from
this city to New Orleans
Cloquet.-Cloquet residents were ap-
prehensiye of the melting SHOWS
which put the Cloquet river in dan
gerous condition. 1t overflowed at sew
eral places, but no serious damage
near Cloquet has been reported. At
Brookston, the only bridge available
to automobile and team traffic, col
lapsed when the ice jam demolished
temporary piling Of the structure.
Virginia.-Matt Antella, an en-
nlouaa of the Ranoo Contra cfino com.