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The Ely miner., 1921-09-16
ROAD BUILDING TO
CUT UNEMPLOYMENT.
Highway Departments of Progressive States
Unite to Avert Forced Idleness and Suf.
fering and to Speed Road Work.

alton in Minnesota toward averting
possible serious unemployment err
sis during the winter. The cam
paign follows suggestions on the
general subject by Secretary Her
bert C. Hoover of the department
of commerce whom President Hard
ing recently directed to call a
national conference to devise relief
measures and remedies. Highway
commissioners of other states, as
public officials, are acting in like
capacities.
"The public is looking to state
and other departments to take the
lead in this important matter" said
Commissioner Babcock, ''and be-
cause much road work can be done
economically and advantageously
during cold weather, the highway
officials of the several states are
uniting to do their part.
To Aid Many Families.
Several hundred men with fam
lilies can be employed on Minnesota
highway work this fall and winter
if funds are made available. The
highway department already had
laid its plans to that end with ex-
pectations that the usual $2,84O, 900
allotment of federal aid for 1921
would be forthcoming and that it
would be allowed to anticipate col
lections of state funds.
''Then' came advices from Wash
ington that in spite of the unem-
ployment situation and the need of
highway improvements adapted win
ter construction, 25 per cent re-
duction in the federal aid appropri-
alton is prepared.
Public Cooperation Wanted.
Full realization of the possibili-
ties for providing jobs for men, pre-
venting suffering among women and
children, and making road improve
ments which are actual public nee
essities, she added, will result, we
believe, in doubling federal aid to
meet this emergency and to that
end public cooperation is invited"
The official plan, as outlined by
Commissioner Babcock, is for every
man and woman, both indivually
and through organizations, to ap-
peal to senator's and representatives
from their states to lend their offic-
es and Influence to obtain the
double appropriation of highway
funds.
Minnesota vitality Interested.
Individuals need only write short
letters referring to the numbers OF
unemployed men and their oDser-
vations and endorse the proposal to
double the appropriation toward re-
lieving conditions. It is rated es.
pecially important in Minnesota
where numbering, the main winter
The Ely miner., 1921-09-16


Adoption Of partial budget
system, along lines recommended by
the Taxpayers League Of st. Louis
County, was made Thursday by
members of the county board, at q
special meeting for the purpose Of
considering the budget proposition.
The board voted to require the
head of each county Office to pre-
pare and submit, prior to Sept. 90.
an estimate required for the use
of each county Office for the COM
ing year. This statement is to
show the purposes for which the
amount necessary to maintain the
Office is to be used.
A further paragraph Of the re-
solution calling upon each member
of the county board and the county
highway engineer to prepare and
submit at the same time a detailed
written estimate of the amount Of
money necessary for the construc-
tion and maintenance of all county
roads within each commissioners
district, and also for the mainten-
,ance of the county highway engin-
eer's Office for the coming year,
was stricken from the resolution
before adoption.
The meeting Thursday was held
following the regular meeting Of the
commissioners on Wednesday in
which Robert M. Goodrich, execu-
tive secretary of the Taxpayers
League, and members of the board
of directors of the league, pointed
out the necessity of a detailed bud
get to govern expenditures to the
members of the board. Commits
sioner Naughton and County Audit
or Bergen, urged the board to
adopt a resolution ordering the in
stallation of budget, at the We'd
nesday meeting, but other members
of the board decided to consider the
matter for another day before MAX
ing their final decision.
In speaking of the action of the
county commissioners Mr.. Goodrich
said today that it was to be regret
ted that they had not seen fit to
adopt a complete budget program,
but that the action which had been
taken was step in the right diA
rection.
The rational method of handling
q city or county is upon budget
the same as in any other large bus
iness," Mr.. Goodrich said. .The
county commissioners are to be
congratulated that they have start
ed upon course which will tend
to place st. Louis County on par
with any other county in the coun.
try as far as the handling Of fl
nances is concerned"
The striking of the paragraph OF
the resolution asking the County
Commissioners and the Highway En-
gineer to make up a budget of what
they would need was the proper
thing to do. This county needs
roads and the budget should only
limit each commissioner in the
amount the county is able to fur
nish-and nothing less. The build
ing of highways should not be re-
stricted to any bookkeepers figures
made at the beginning of the year
but to actual needs.
The Ely miner., 1921-09-16
Hunter. are Leaving.

Small game hunters are leaving
in large numbers for the lakes north
and west of the city for the annual
slaughter of wild ducks. Today is
the date on which the season opens
for wild duck (except wood duck)
geese, coot, Wilson snipe and yel-
lowlegs. The season closes Novem-
Der 80. The largest number of
hunters from this city are leaving
for the Nett Lake country.
The Ely miner., 1921-09-16
Fire at Chandler Location.

At about 9 o'clock Sunday even
ing the fire department was called
to the Chandler location where the
residence owned by Nick Nasair
was discovered to be in mass of
flames. The fire had gained such
headway that the house was almost
completely Quilted when the depart
ment arrived. After a battle of
over two hours the fire was confn-
ed to the one building. The loss
was total
The Ely miner., 1921-09-16
ANNOUNCEMENT.

| wish to announce that / have
opened a garage in the old Hodge
blacksmith shop where l am pre-
pared to take care of your wants.
| will keep in stock complete line
of repairs and accessories for
Scripps-Booth, Buick and Chevrolet
Automobiles. / also specialize in
auto repairing. Phone 232. Chap
man Street.
STALEY'S GARAGE,
Carl Staley, Prop.
The Ely miner., 1921-09-16

The Bethany Swedish Luthern
Church will have its Sunday School
session at 9:30 Sunday morning.
The morning service in Swedish will
be at 1890 and the English service
at 7:30 P. NJ.
The Ely miner., 1921-09-16

PLuMBiNG-If it is plumbing or
heating, call at the Service Shop
at the corner of Central Ave. and
Chapman Street.
The Ely miner., 1921-09-16

the Superior National Forest in con-
nection with fire protection work,
and it is hoped that we will always
in the future receive this invalu-
able cooperation. With all the pub
licity we are receiving, it can cas-
lily be forseen that next year will
bring an unprecedented number of
visitors to our wonder land.
The Ely miner., 1921-09-16

Forest Assistant Fox and Guard
Harmon have completed the survey
of cottage sites along the South
Kawishiwi River, and have surveyed
approximately fifty-fve lots, and all
are very choice locations. Local
people have taken up several of
these lots, and judging from the
flood of applications being received
at the Forest Office, the result of
write-up given this region in the
Twin City dailies, it can be readily
seen that the remaining lots will
be taken up within a short time.
Local people interested in obtaining
a summer cottage site should in
quire at the Office where full par
ticulars will be given them.
The duck season opens Friday
and all parties who expect to hunt
these birds should obtain a small
game license and should carry same
with them on their hunting trips.
The State Game and Fish Com
missioner has just appointed
Game Warden for this district to
succeed former Warden Heikkila,
and from now on the game laws
will be strictly enforced and all per-
pretrators of game violations will
not be leniently dealt with. 1t is
the duty of all American citizens
who have knowledge of game vio-
lations to report same to this Office
as only through the most deter
mined cooperation from the local
people can we expect to solve the
game question. Few local people
realize or appreciate what wild life
means to this section of the country
and its perseverance should be given
serious consideration at all times
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LEAVE YOUR CAMP GROUNDS
IN A NEAT AND ORDERLY CON-
DITION. SOMEONE ELSE MAY
WANT TO USE 1T.
The Ely miner., 1921-09-16
LOCAL COOPERATION ASKED.
Home Organization and individuals
Urged to Join with Appeals to
Consressmen for Favorable
Legislation.
THE PLAN.

Popular nationwide appeal by
individual citizens and public
organizations to all senators and
representative in congress to
vote double the usual appropri-
alton of federal highway aid.
THE PURPOSE.
Funds available, states will
provide large amount of employ
ment, averting possible winter
want and suffering in thousands
of families, and economically
and advantageously advance
needed road improvements
making every dollar do double
duty.
THE PEOPLES PART.
Individual citizens-men and
women-farmers, businesss and
professional men, skilled and
other workmen-all can do
public service by writing person
al appeals to their representa-
tives in congress as suggested in
the accompanying announcement.
Officers and members of or
ganizations can assist further by
securing adoption of resolutions
of similar import and forwarding
them to representative in Wash
ington.
The Ely miner., 1921-09-16

FIRE, PUT 1T OUT IF YOU CAN.
REPORT 1T TO THE NEAREST
FOREST OFFICER AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE.
Supervisor Dahlgren returned yes
terday from St. Paul where he at
tended the State Fair and helped
put on the Annual Forestry Ex-
hibit.
-
Ranger Carney returns Friday af-
ter a three weeks stay in the Twin
Cities. During the time Mr.. Carney
was down there he aided in install
ling the Forestry Exhibit which
proved to be a marked success for
the year 1921.
r
Assistant Dist. Forester Thomp-
son, in charge of Silviculture, from
the Denver, Colorado Office is at
present visiting the Superior Ma
tional Forest checking over the tim
Der sales work and aiding in silvi-
culture studies being conducted on
the Superior National Forest.
r
Ranger Heikkila and Guards Ken
nedy and Wenstron are on Iron
Lake reconstructing the present
Forest Service boat house, situated
on that lake, which does not meet
the present neeGs of the Big Lake
Ranger District. This work will be
completed before the freeze up.
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GAME ANIMALS AND FISH
ARE DESTROYED BY FOREST
FIRES. DO NOT MAKE YOUR
SELF RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS
OF LIFE, BY LEAVING YOUR
CAMP. FIRE BURNING.
During the month of August and
the early part of September over
two hundred tourists registered at
the National Forest Office alone be-
fore leaving on canoe trips over the
various routes thru the forest. The
majority of the tourists were from
the middle West, Illinois, Kansas,
Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, North Da-
kota, South Dakota, Ohio, Michigan,
and one party that registered halls
from Australia. It is estimated
that in the neighborhood of 1900
to 1000 people have taken canoe
trips in this region this year. This
does not include transient tourists
who motor up for a day or two and
stop at the various lodges. The.
Forest Service wishes to express its
appreciation of the cooperation it
has received from the travellers into
The Ely miner., 1921-09-16

IF YOU DISCOVER A FOREST
FIRE, PUT 1T OUT IF YOU CAN.
REPORT 1T TO THE NEAREST
FOREST OFFICER AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE.
The Ely miner., 1921-09-16

Supervisor Dahlgren returned yes
terday from st. Paul where he at
tended the State Fair and helped
put on the Annual Forestry Ex-
hibit.
The Ely miner., 1921-09-16

GAME ANIMALS AND FISH
ARE DESTROYED BY FOREST
FIRES. DO NOT MAKE YOUR
SELF RESPONSIBLE FOR LOSS
OF LIFE, BY LEAVING YOUB
CAMP. FIRE BURNING.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-04-01

An official call has been issued by
President Chas, L. Davis of the AS
ISOLATION of county commissioners of
Georgia for the seventh annual con-
vention to be held in Dublin on May
So.
Sweet potato plants began moving
from Triton this week, one month
earlier than last year. Tomato and
other plants will be ready for ship
ment in a short time.
An S5-gallon capacity copper still
was discovered III operation at the
home of Tom Benning, colored, on
the Camp Benning reservation. Fom
is held under $500 bond.
Refusing the request of the jury
in the Sewell arson case that they
be permitted to attend a moving
picture show, Judge w. c. Worrill,
in Dougherty county superior court
Wednesday, said that it would be
er meeting that evening They took
advantage of the suggestion and at
tended the meeting at the First
Presbyterian
The cotton acreage in Georgia
will be reduced so percent or more,
according to reports from all parts
of the state brought out at the
meeting of Georgia bankers at Ma.
con recently, according to Commits
sioner J. J. Brown.
The Fulton superior court has
been petitoned by the mayor and
general council of Gainesville to en-
join the Southern Bell Telephone
company from increasing rates in
that city under the recent order of
the railroad commission in which
they alleged that their city did not
have an opportunity to be heard by
the commission before the increase
was granted
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-04-01
HIGH SPOTS IN
GEORGIA. NEWS

Jewett S. Peak, wealthy Cobl
county farmer, who shot and kiIIed
his wife Wednesday, has ne,
judged hopelessly insane by pbysi.
clans at the Grady Hospital in At.
lanta.
About 10 of the several hundred
employees who walked out of tbo
Eagle and Phenix Textile Mills ~
Columbus Wednesday when Their ra'
quest for increased wages was re-
fused, returned to work Thnrsdo,,
morning and were assigned to tbe;y
former positions. '''0--
The First Congressional DISTRICT
Republican Club has formally en-
forced DR.. Lawson KirIand for on
polntment TO the position of collector
OF customs at the port of Savannah
and given like endorsement to Fl.
y. durham for the postmastership at
Savannah.
The smallpox epidemic which re.
Gently broke out afresh in several
communities in Irwin county is now
under control.
A. H. Hendricks, former cashier
of the Bank at Muak, who is charged
with a shortage, has been indicted
on three counts by the Taylor coun-
ty grand jury. He was placed in
Iall owing to defect in the bond he
offered. ''' -
The fourteenth carload of swee,
potatoes to be shipped from Dodge
county during the past 60 DAYS was
billed out of Eastman Thursday.
All shipments were marketed by the
Dodge county farm bureau.
Charges that 70 percent of the
doctors practicing in Columbus are
violating the laws of the city by
falling to report cases of communi.
cable diseases coming to their at.
tentlon are made in letter sent to
all practicing physicians in the CITY
By health Officer DR.. J. A. Thrash.
The letter warns them that hereaf.
ter cases will be made against all
who fail to comply with the law.
Policeman Dorman, of Cordele,
had the end of his thumb bitten off
in fight that followed his attempt
to arrest J. c. Moon for being
drunk.
AOuA Val lOduo VI mugs, OOO Ill all
were sold at Valdosta Wednesday
and shipped to Virginia. The price
paid was more than $4,000.
At meeting of the merchants and
business men of Dublin Wednesday
it was decided to put on second
annual Trade Extention Tour. Last
April the trip was made and about
II counties visited
A Piggy Wiggly store will be
opened in Brunswick within two
weeks, and another will be opened at
Waycross a week later
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry P. Dawson
and Miss Dawson, who have been
spending the winter at their winter
home at Townsville, leave Friday
in their pirate car for the Pacific
vcoast where they will spend several
weeks.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-04
BY Garter Field

WASHINGTON, Feb. s. Progressive
Republicans are beginning to show
their dissatisfaction over the Cabinet
state as indicated in dispatches from
Florida. They began to criticize it
rather openly to-day after Harry M.
Daugerty and Senator Albert B. Fall
fresh from fishing trip with Har-
ding--had talked with Republican
leaders here.
The two latest Fall
for Secretary of Interior and Andrew
w Mellon for Secretary Of the Treas
ury--are especially irritating to what
might be termed the radical element
of The party.
Henry C. Wallace, for Secretary of
Agriculture, the radicals say, is the
only man named as being sure of a
portfolio who has ever been branded
as Progressive, and they are not
overly sure even about him.
Shocked AT Choice Of Fall
They are particularly shocked, how
ever, at the idea of Senator Fall for
Secretary of Interior This does pot
mean they do not like Fall personally.
Most of them fought shoulder to
shoulder with him in the peace treaty
fight, in which he was an irreconcilable.
But they regard Falls whole trend of
thought as being in sympathy with
what they delight to call the "in-
terests," and they fear he will ma, ,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-04
100000 to Quit,
Leader Says, il
Roads Cut Paw
Official of Maintenance
Mem and Shop Laborers
Reports 100, 900 i'm Or
ganization Get 26c Hour
Chiefs Fearful of Bolt
Prediction Made Revocation
OF Agreement Means Toll
ers Will Ignore Unions
Special Dtspatoh to The rrtbu.s

DETROIT, Feb. "a waIk-ous of
$4,000 members of the United Brother
hood OF Maintenance of Way employees
and Railway Shop Laborers if the ma
s'onal agreements are broken by rail.
Soad officials and wages are cut was
predicted to-day by S. j pegg. inter-
national grand e.retary-treasurer of
the organization, which has headauar-
ters here.
The American Association Of Rail-
way Executives, through its labor COM
mittee, has asked the United States
Railroad Labor Board to authorize cam
collation. of the national agreement.
Ine board, after hearing informal pro-
tests from labor leaders, has postponed
action until Monday, when labor lead
ers will be heard at length. Mean
while both sides have laid their cases
before President Wilson.
Thousands of the brotherhooa
members, embittered over present wage
conditions. are threatening even now
TO leave their work." Mr.. Pegg de-
clarsd to-day. While he refused to
Predict strike, he declared the men
simply will refuse to work for less
money, whether union officials want
them to or not.
The international grand president
and other officials of this brotherhood
have gone to Chicago to attend the pro-
test meet ng of officers of sixteen
major brotherhoods of railroad en-
pioyees. Resolutions will be drawn and
presented to the Labor Board denounc-
ing any attempt to abrogate agree
ments.
Before national agreements were
drawn maintenance of way EMPLOYEES
had separate contracts and wage agree
ments with thirty-six railroads, each
differing from the others, and some
were satisfactory to the EMPLOYEES,
However, when the government as
sumed control of the roads new agree.
ments were drawn. Although many
maintenance of way men were receiy-
ing higher wages under individual
agreements. others ga ned many ad-
vantages under national contracts.
One Of these advantages was an
eight-hour day, with time and half
for all overtime.
Railway officials declare high wages
eat UP profits, but the membership Of
our brotherhood cannot be classified
with highly paid help" Mr.. Pegg said
"The great bulk of our men are allowed
maximum wage of DO cents an hour
and only per cent are receiving the
maximum. More than 33 per cent OF
our total membership, or more thar
900 men, receive IS cents an hour
for eight hours work"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-04
Progressives Open Drive on
Latest Harding Cabinet Slate
senator Fall for Secretary of Interior and Mellon
ior treasury Are Assailed as Being i'm Sym
pathy With big Business

little patience with the ideas Of The
strict conservationists on the Develop
ment of the natural resources of tl. >
West.
They are the more disappointed
ABOUT the seeming sureness that. Mr..
Mellon will be Secretary Of the Treas
ury, because Senator Harding's con-
,yersations while at Marion, as quoted
by men returning to Washington, In
d1cated that he had firmly made up his
mind to appoint man from the West.
Ihls was generally given as his reason
TOR not appointing John w. Weeks to
the Treasury portfolio, the only Cab
met place which Mr.. Weeks's heart
was really set upon.
Against Mr.. Mellon the radicals urge
that he has been connected with "big
business Tor years, being director
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad and an
ofhcial Of one of the big Pittsburgh
banks, where his interests were CEN
tered on the iron and steel industries
of that section.
Hert Not Eliminated
Then, as the radicals go over the list.
they point out that Weeks, who is re-
garded as certain for Secretary Of War.
mas always been regarded as a reac-
tIonary, and if the East ever regarded
Gnarfes Il. Hughes as progressive the
West never did, but, on the contrary.
came. during the 1916 campaign, to ac.
cept him as "stand-patter.n
Governor Lowden personally is no
more objectionable to the radicals than
are Weeks, Fall and several others. but
they point to his connections with "big
Continues on pags threeb
New-York tribune., 1921-02-04

Street, toward Lexington Avenue: saw
two patrolmen in offing and turned and
ran into fve-story building at $50 East
Eight fifth Street; officers heard crash
and woman's screams on fourth floor
and found that the person pursued had
broken in door to an apartment and
dashed to kitchen, climbing to fire
escape; made his way tc ground by
dropping from one fire escape landing
to another, not using ladders; hurdled
twelve foot fence and dashed through
yard and garage to Eighty-fourth
Street; tried to force door to ls8 East
Eighty-fourth Street, and failing in
this hurdled high iron fence, alighting
in areaway and diving into cellar. where
he was later found by detectives and
several patrolmens
According TO the police Matthias
served six months for Durglaries in tae
Bronx in 1918, and also for jumping
his bail. He is suspected, according to
he police, OF knowing something of
numerous burglaries that have hap
1ened of late from Eighty-secofid
Street to Eighty sixth Street, east of
Third Avenue to the river. Matthias
says the suit he was lrying to pledge
was given to him bv a friend.