The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-04-02
Big Happenings of the Week
Condensed for Benefit of
Busy Readers.
TOLD IN A few WORDS
Kernels culIed From News of Moment
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pie Everywhere.
WASHINGTON


barbershop at the capitol.
An investigation of the profits Of the
beet sugar manufacturers in the Col
orado district was ordered by the de
partment of justice.
An official estimate by the state de
partment placed the number of Amer
leans in Germany at about 5000, OF
whom approximately 400 are women.
Overnight bags or suitcases may be
searched on sight by official enforcers
of the dry" act, according to ruling
by United States Commissioner Nc
Goldrick.
The naval appropriation bill carry
ing $425,O0O,O00 to complete the 191f
three year building program and pro
viding a personnel of $4,000 passed
the house and goes to the senate
Thomas A. Scott resigned as mem
Der of the shipping board effective
April Is, and John E. Cushing as di
rector of operations effective April
Both will return to private business.
Arrangements have been completed
by the senate subcommittee on priv
leges and election for recounting the
Michigan ballots to determine whether
Truman H. Newberry or Henry Ford
was elected senator in 1918.
President Wilson posed for more
than five minutes for moving picture
men as he was leaving the White
House grounds for an automobile ride.
The pictures showed him somewhat
thinner than before his illness.
One of the first acts of cambridge
Colby after he assumed the office of
secretary of state was to request the
chairman of the foreign relations COM
mittee to lift the lid off the mystery
surrounding his fitness for the position
of secretary. ...
Don't waste" Secretary of Com
merce ]. w. Alexander urged upon the
American housewife, calling attention
to the possibility of utilizing much of
the refuse which will be disclosed by
the spring house cleaning. At least
$3.50, 100000 worth of waste paper, rub
Der, metals and other articles sent to
the rubbish heap each year can be re-
claimed, the secretary said.
Northwest
Rev. Gustaf E. Rydquist, Mitchell,
S. D., has organized a Lutheran
church at Labolt, with a charter mem
bership of ~.
The Edmunds County, S. D., Live
stock Breeders association, at a meet
ing in Roseau, launched a campaign
to build stock sales pavilion in that
city.
By a vote of 63 to 3S the voters of
Halstad, N. D., decided to install a
sewer system, at an approximate cost
of $4,000. Of this amount $4,000 has
already been raised.
The Red river at Fargo recorded an
advance in 4S hours of more than
seven feet. No serious results are ex-
pected there, but it is likely that in
the northern end of the Red river val
ley difficulties of serious nature
might result.
A contract for the construction of
the Yellowstone trail through Wal
worth county will be let April IL. The
work is in conjunction with the plans
formulated by the Yellowstone Trail
association in the northern part of
South Dakota.
Approximately so families were
driven from their homes in Manis-
tique, Mich, when the Manistique
river broke it's bounds. Nearly half
mile Of the residential sections were
flooded by water ranging in depth from
two to six feet
The Missouri river broke at Sanish,
N. D., and the water rose nine feet in
several minutes, according to the re-
port Of c. w. Roberts, weather observ-
er. Everyone occupying the bottoms
between Sanish and Fort Yates was
notified to move.
The families of Twenty-Five World
war soldiers who gave their lives in
the great struggle are receiving the
resolutions of coincidence issued by the
city council of Virginia, Mimi. They
go to states as widely separated as
Maine and California, one will go to
England and one to Italy.
Mystery cloaks the death of Carl
Wusik, former service man, in a hos
pital at Neenah, Wis, after lying un-
conscious for over forty-eight hours.
Wusik, lost his power of speech when
he was found alone in his room at Me-
nasha. Shortly after arriving at the
hospital he lapsed into unsconscious.
ness from which he never awakened.
The local teachers federation, COM
prising all OF the teachers of the Wi
mona public schools, have made new
demands upon the board of education
as follows: An extension of time for
the return of teachers contracts be-
yond the ten-day period originally al
lowed; salary schedule relating to
compensation in case of illness.
Caroline Jones, II, was found guilty
Of voluntary manslaughter by a jury
trying her at Durango, Colo, on a
charge of killing Karl Bay, who was
slain on the street at Bayfield, in jan
nary. The penalty is from one to eight
years in the penitentiary
Seth Bullock post, the United
Spanish War Veterans, at Lead, an
nounced that if South Dakota rewards
service men Of the late war from this
state with a bonus, it should not for
get South Dakota's veterans of the
Spanish-American war. They state
they are not asking for bonus, but
think if one is granted by the state
they should be considered also.
The first state convention of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion in North Dakota was held at Val
ley City. There are now four chapters
in the state. Fargo. jamestown, Valley
City and Bismarck.