The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-10-08
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.

st. Peter-TWenty-flVe members O
Co. B, Fifth Minnesota Infantry, are
scheduled for discharge, according tt
the company's officers.
Winnebago-O. ]. Fairbanks has solo
his 160-acre farm, three miles west Of
Winnebago, for 1926 an acre. This is
| believed to be the highed price land
ever sold in this vicinity.
st. Peter-More than 400 members
were added to the Nicollet County
Farm Bureau association when the
weeks count was totaled in County
Agent o. o. Hotlamus' office.
st. Paul-The equipment for two
squadrons in the aviation service is
practically assured for Minnesota, &C
cording to Adjt. Gen. w. F. Rhinow
who has just returned from Washing
ton.
Duluth-A 16 mill tax rate was
adopted at special election here. A
three-ffths vote was required under
the charter and it went over by an i'm.
pressive vote. Increased carfare was
defeated.
neapolis-Fifteen hundred grain
dealers from all parts of the country
will assemble in Minneapolis, October
II, II and 13, for the annual conven-
ton of the National Grain Dealers as
ISOLATION.
Worthington-Fire which destroyed
the Mitchell block here at loss of
more than $4,000, was caused from a
disconnection of an electric light wire
operating vulcanizing plant, accord
ing to authorities.
nneapolis-Arrest of merchants
who are selling for beverage purposes
medicinal preparations, toilet waters
and hair tonics containing alcohol was
ordered by Jesse G. Steenson, state
prohibition director.
Owatonna-George Wentworth was
badly injured and the machine he was
driving wrecked when the brakes
failed to hold on a grade. The car
plunged from the road down a slope
and into small stream.
Mankato-One of the largest sales
of Guernsey cattle in the northwest
this fall was conducted in the new
stock sales pavilion at Mankato, at
which forty-fve head of Blue Earth
county stock were sold.
st. Paul-Dr. c. Eugene Riggs of st.
Paul was elected president of the Min
nesota State Medical association and
installed at the closing session of the
annual convention of the association
held at the Masonic Temple in St.
Paul.
ST Paula father and daughter are
dead and two other members of the
family are seriously injured as the re-
suit of an automobile accident when a
machine driven by Charles A. Wal
quist of Carver, Mimi, crashed into a
street car.
Stillwater-Effort were being made
by crew of men operating apparatus
loaned by the Minneapolis and st. Paul
fire departments, to stop the spread of
fire which has been smoldering for
weeks in the dryed out sawdust banks
Of the st. Croix at South Saltwater.
Hibbing-After confiscating two au-
several guns and quantities
Of ammunition, some cartridges and 80
kegs of moonshine, Game warden
George Wood returned from the Itasca
county line, accompanied by five pris-
,ners, charged with breaking game
laws.
Minneapolis-Jo Furlong, convict
I'd of first degree robbery for implica-
ion in the daylight holdup of the Fid-
city State bank last April, was SEN
.enced by Judge w. w. Bardwell in
district court to an indeterminate SEN
.ence in the state penitentiary. The
penalty provided under the charge is
rom five to 40 years.
Crookston-The Crookston north |
vest school of agriculture was formal |
y dedicated in connection with the UNI
'eiling of a memorial to the former
Students who died in the World war.
President L. d. Coffman of the Uni |
yersity of Minnesota, and Regents
Fred B. Snyder and Pierce Butler took
,art in the ceremonies.
ST. Paul-General w. B. Douglas,
! member of the forestry board, will
commend that legislation be enacted
o have closed season on moose The
'ow moose have been protected for
everal years, but hunters were allow
'leted the number of bull moose. 1t
lso is proposed to hire hunters to kill
wolves in the North woods, as wolves
ill off more moose and deer in the
winter than the hunters do.
Brainerd-Soft drink bars in the
ity were inspected today by Special
officer E. C. Boyd and assistants In
ONE cases grape juice samples were
AIKEN to be analysed to determine il
hey had been fortified or rein
orced."
st. Paul-Dr. Miller has started &C
ion in federal district court against
ir. Steenson to test the validity of the
equation of the NATIONAL prohibition
ct limiting prescription blanks to
physicians. Steenson filed an answer
D complaint of DR.. Miler's in federal
curt. The case will come up during
he fall term
Washington-M innesota's 1920 popu-
alton exceeds 2,379,SS3, according to
fficial figures given cut by the federal I,
ensus bureau, which is complete with I
he exception of Olmstead county. j
his is population gain of 14.6 per {
emit over the 1910 census which gave .
ne state 2,075,708. 4
Mfrr4o-1J;z
losed car show at the Armory ended
it'll an attendance record for five days
| more than 10000 and with the sale
I many cars and the listing of hun
reds of prospective buyers reported
Y the demonstrators Of the ninety diff