The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-02-20
Big Happenings of the Week
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Kernels CuIied From News OF Moment
In All Parts Of the World
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pie Everywhere.
Northwest

The laundry strike in Helena, Mont,
has been settled.
Sportsmen near Presho, S. D., are
arranging a wolf hunt.
Three Ignite mines in North Dakota
have been ordered closed by the state
mine inspector.
Hog cholera has broken out in the
vicinity of Arcadia, Wis. Widespread
vaccination is in progress.
Two hundred and thirty pieces of
land in Standing Rock Indian reserva-
ton will be sold March 20 and April
20.
The Long Pine district in Harding
county, South Dakota, north of Camp
Crook, may be the scene of an oil
boom"
A campaign to raise 100000 for the
construction of Y. NJ. c. A. building
at Aberdeen, S. D., will open the first
of April.
Mrs. w. E. Morrow has been ap-
pointed auditor of Hand county, S. D.,
to succeed her husband, who died a
week ago.
Sheepmen of the western, part of
a pound for the spring clip which will
be unusually heavy.
Tax payers residing in the central
and eastern portions of Meade county,
South Dakota, have started move
ment for a division of the county.
A general conference Of pastors of
the North Dakota district of the Nor
wegian Lutheran Church of America,
will be conducted in Fargo, Feb. 20
to "a
The Mobridge, S. D., Commercial
club has taken up the campaign start
ed by the Yellowstone Trail associa-
ton of South Dakota to obtain state
bridge over he Missouri river at that
point
To provide for the constantly in
creasing number of tourists who use
the Red Trail, the Dickinson, N. d.,
commissioners have voted to prepare
a camp site near the city limits this
spring.
Mayor L. X. Larson, of Dell Rapids,
South Dakota, has vetoed the curfew
ordinance recently passed by the city
council, because he believes that the
matter of keeping children home is a
subject of parental control.
Neil T. and Carl Gire, brothers, SO
and &c years old respectively, were
found dead in a rooming house at Far
go, victims of fumes arising from fumi-
cation pots. They were the sons of
G. o. Gire of Fosston, Minnesota.
The threatened increase in freight
rates on hogs from South Dakota,
North Dakota and Minnesota to Pacific
coast points will not be put into effect,
according to word received by the Nit
chell, S. D., Chamber of Commerce.
Twenty-one conventions and meet
ings of varying importance are sched-
uled to be held at Grand Forks, N. D.,
during the balance of 1920, according
to schedule made out by l.. w. Mey-
ers, secretary of the Grand Forks
Commercial club.
Dates for the annual North Dakota
high school conference at the state
university were announced as May
Is, IA and Is. The high school con-
ference, high school debate, high
school oratorical contest and high
school field and track meets are on
the program.
Sure, proposed to him." said Mrs
Minnie Kruger, as she applied for the
free marriage license offered by
County Clerk Schulze Of Manitowoc
Wis, for the first leap year marriage
The bridegroom in the case is August
Krevis, 81, and this in his second mar
riage. The bride is IS years old and
is plunging into matrimony for the
third time.
On account of the light demand for
horses, state officials are receiving
complaints that ranches are permit
ting their animals to roam unchecked
west Of the Missouri river and it is
claimed that considerable damage has
been done by hungry horses searching
for food. Correspondence with state
officials in Montana indicates condi
tions are even worse in that state.
Mrs. Stanley Blomski, mother of AL
ban Blomski, 6-year-old boy who was
found dead several weeks ago at the
BIomski farmhouse at Sugar Camp
Wis, has confessed to beating the boy
with heavy poker and razor strap
according to District Attorney A. j
Omelia's office. The husband, who has
stoutly maintained his innocence
throughout, was exonerated by Mrs
Blomski, it is said.
To Mrs. Frank Chairman of Fond
du Lac, Wis, belongs the double dis
tinction of becoming grandmother and
great grandmother within twenty-fouI
hours. Her daughter, Mrs E. e. Thew
Ashland, Wis, and her granddaughter
Mrs. Clarence Alcorn, both giving
birth to daughters. Both were born
at the Thew home.
Six hundred Sioux Indians of the
Standing Rock reservation will be
come members of an organization
which hopes to accomplish division
among citizen Indians of trust funds
held to their credit in the United
States treasury.
Dr. Park b. Jenkins of Waubay, SUI
perintendent of the board of health
and medical examiners of South Da
kota has ordered quarantine on al
cases Of Influenza In the state. This
step vas taken when reports from al
parts of the state recorded 700 cases
of the diseases and four deaths.
In accordance with a national policy
of the railroad administration, head
quarters of the Montana division o
the Northern Pacific In Livingston
Mont. issued instructions to all agents
conductors and others to refuse to &C
cept Canadian money because OF tn,