The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-06-03
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.

will be graduated from the MonteVideo
high school on May 81. Dr. Allen OF
Carleton college will deliver the com.
mencement address.
Millville- George w. Kuhfuss, coun-
| ty, has been convicted of obtaining
money unlawfully from the county by
means of false and fraudulent time
checks and was fined $500.
| st. Cloud-Bernard Kennedy, charg-
ed with arson, was acquitted by a jury
after but a few minutes of delibera-
ton, Kennedy was charged with hav-
ing set fire to his employers meat mar
ket on the night of April II.
Minneapolis p. Bull, state weed
Inspector, returned from trip to the
northwestern part of Minnesota where
he has been making a survey of condi-
lions preliminary to campaign for
| the eradiction of SOW thistle and other
| weeds.
Minneapolis-Th first Christian
| Americanization congress ever held
will convene in Minneapolis June II
| to 26, inclusive, under the auspices of
/ the international Christian Missionary
association, an organization of the Dis
ciples of Christ.
ST. Paul-Christian K. Preus, father
of Governor ]. A. o. Preus, died at his
home in DEBORAH, Iowa. He was presi-
| dent of Luther college at DEBORAH since
| 1902. Despite the fact he was 70
years old in October, he had been &C
tive in college affairs until his death.
Duluth-A lengthy plea to the court
for clemency failed to gain higher
sentence for William Cooley, Ga years
sentenced to not more than 10 years in
| the state prison for passing a worth
! less check for S65 on a local music
store.
| Brainerd-Notices were posted at
! the Northern Pacific railway shops
here that forces in the car repair de-
] partment would be increased by SO
men, This will replace nearly the en-
tire force laid off January and will
bring back crew almost equal to the
highest number previously employed.
st. Paul-In planning for the work
| of the next year, the women'S auxil
larry of the Diocese of Minnesota Pro
testant Episcopal church, voted to hold
an educational institute in st. Mary's
parish, St. Paul, September 14-16, to
be directed by Miss Emily Tillotson OF
New York, national church secretary.
Hibbing-The mining of copper in
| Minnesota on profitable basis is a
possibility, according to F. A. Wildes
state superintendent of mines, with
mines, with headquarters here. While
| Mr.. Wildes does not wish to discourage
| the recent gold mining hopes, he ap
| pears to think that copper mining
| holds greater opportunities.
Little Falls Morrison county board
| Of county commissioners in special ses.
sion voted to issue 100000 in bonds
the proceeds to be used in paving a
! portion of the Jefferson highway from
st. Cloud here designated by the state
| highway department This action was
taken after listening to c. NJ. Babcock
state commissioner of highways, and J.
H. Mullen, deputy commissioner, who
came here to engineer the proposition
Minneapolis-Th Minneapolis Fed
eral Reserve bank has borrowed anoth.
| er $2,500,000 from other Federal Re
serve banks to meet the credit de
mands in the Northwest, bringing the
| total borrowings in the last two weeks
up to $1O,347, 900, it was revealed in
! the weekly statement of the bank to
day. Total accommodation extended
| the Ninth Federal district amounts to
more than $7S,0OO,O00 at the present
| time
st. Paul-The board of control has
made arrangements with C. NJ. Bah
cock, commissioner of highways, fol
the sale of crushed rock produced al
the state reformatory at st. Cloud to
| road contractors at the market price
| for crushed rock. New machinery fol
greater production at the reformatory
has been installed by Warden Charles
! E. Vasaly. The production will net
the state reformatory more than $500
day.
st. Paul-In accordance with the
| ofrest protection week as proclaimed
by President Harding, w. t. Cox, state
forester, in statement urged teachers
| and boy scout leaders to instruct the
! children in forest protection. He urged
| that time be devoted to instruct the
children in the need of protecting the
! present timber supply, the future sup
ply and the cause of fires. He caution
ed the boy scouts to be careful when
camping and to extinguish all camp
| fires before leaving
Rochester-Former Mayor ]. ]. Rel
ter announced that he would fight the
suit brought against him by George
! Miller, former saloonkeeper, because
| while he was chief executive he re
fused to grant Miller license Miller
| recently brought suit for $500 dam
! ages. claiming he suffered this los.
while his place of business was closed
st. Paul-The 1921 session laws viii
| be ready for distribution about June
| 10, Mike Holm, secretary of state, said
| This will be earlier than ever before
although the session laws will com
| prise book of 1900 pages, 300 pages
| more than any previous issue.
notwithstanding from what pc
| lice said was drunken stuper, JohI
| Chebul told police that his wife wa.
shot and killed while he and John Gu
arantini, neighbor, were graphing
for possession of a revolver. Mrs
| Chebul, mother of six children, wal
found slain in the back yard of he
home
Menahga-The impact of an automo
| bile collision in which he figured caus
ed Eugene, the 2 year old SON Of MI
and Mrs. Andrew Anderson to cougl