The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
ENTIRE FIELD COVERED
News of Events In Gopher stats
Gathered From Many Different
Sources and Arranged In
Crisp Readable Form.

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Minnesota are under way for the Uni
versity of Minnesota Glee club.
Rochester, Minn.-The Lutheran
{ pastoral conference of southern Min
nesota held a three days session here
Adrian-While hitching up his team
A. j. Kunkle, a farmer, was kicked in
the face by one of the animals and his
nose was broken.
Neutrality-suspicious. of an oil stove
in the home of Fred Smith, drove the
family into the cold and caused a loss
of $4,000 to the building.
Albert Lea-Mrs. Robert Dwight
was chosen by the city council to fill
the vacancy in that body made vacant
by Robert Anderson, who resigned.
Minneapolis-The hearing on the
suit contrasting the election of Mayor
George E.. Leach was continued BY
mutual agreement to February 10.
Faribault-Fire originating from ar
overheated furnace caused $500 dam
age to a farm house at the Minnesota
State School for the Feeble Minded.
Duluth-Two men, tried jointly or
a charge of robbing the postoffice al
Ray, Mimi, last July were acquitted
by a jury in United States district
court.
Fairmont - The Commercial State
Bank of Triumph has asked the state
bank department to send a deputy ex
aminer to take charge, after volun
tarily closing.
MISUNDERSTANDING that 80 pei
cent of the farms in this territory are
mortgaged, 200 farmers at a meeting
here formed an organization designed
to get financial relief.
Brookston - Twenty-eight schoo
children were marched to safety
when fire broke out in the rural schoo
here. The flames, of unknown origin
destroyed the structure.
notwithstanding to a new city di
rectory, just issued, Austin has a pop
ulation of 12,131. This is an increase
of 2,013 over the United States censu.
figures of two years age.
Lamberton - Grace Sorenson an(
Bernin Emerson won the declamatory
and o~ratorieal contest here and viii
represent Lamberton high school ii
the state declamatory league.
Virginia. great deal of interest i.
being shown by the women voters il
the coming city election. Most o
them are registering and taking al
active part in the preliminary discus
sions.
Pipestone-The jury in the case o.
State against Jerry Hines, charged
with attempting to burn his 500, 00t
Orpheum theater here last November
were unable to agree or a verdict, after
celebrating 16 hours.
st. Paul-State officials were served
with copies Of a petition filed by 81
Minnesota mining companies in fed
eral court asking an injunction to re
strain collection of the state tonnage
tax imposed by act of the 1921 legis
lature.
Owatonna-Ernest Sloan Of Ellen
dale, has been elected head of thu
Steele County Holstein Breeders as
ISOLATION. Other officers chosen are
E. G. Heinz, Meridian, vice president
and Donald Alexander, secretary
treasurer.
Red Wing-Addresses by Bishop
McElwain and DIR. Luke, of st. Glenn
ons church, st. Paul, opened the 65tl
annual Minnesota diocesan council o
the Episcopal church here. About 5,
clergymen and owe 200 lay delegate
were in attendance.
Rochester-Colantha Pauline Segis
4-year4old Holstein heifer, broke tw'
worlds records for seven days pre-
duction. She produced $50 pounds o
milk from which was made 134I
pounds of butter. The heifer is owne'
by DR.. C. Graham of Rochester.
Minneapolis-The Cappelen Memo
rial bridge, under construction owe
the Mississippi river at Franklin ave
nue., suffered damage estimated at SIS
900 and its completion was delayed
month by a fire in the false work. Tn
names were started by the explosion
of a small stove under the centra
span of the bridge.
Duluth-A hearing on an interlocu
tory injunction sought by the Olive
Iron Mining company, and 80 indepeI
dent corporations to test the constitu
tionality of the state occupation ia.
will take place in st. Paul abou
March /, Judge Page Morris indicateI
in United States supreme court here
when he granted an order restraining
the state of Minnesota temporary
from proceeding any further with tn
company's books or assessments o
their tax.
st. Paul-Notice of appeal from tn
ruling of Judge F. M. Catlin in Ram
sey county district court denying tn
motion for an order restraining tn
st. Paul City Railway company iron
abolishing the neutral zone in tn
Midway district, was filed with tn
supreme court by T. d. O'Brien, 81
Paul attorney, in behalf of severa
Midway firms
Elmore-A few county schools il
this vicinity have been closed becaus
of the several cases of scarlet fever
In some cases nurses have been en-
ployed to look after the pupils in al
effort to stamp out the disease.
Springfield-As a result of its vii
tory over the Lake Crystal high schoo
team, the Springfield high school dc
batting team win meet the winner O
the Pipestone-Sherburn debating cor
test for the championship of the set
ond congressional district. Springfield
was given a two to one decision owe
Lake Crystal.
Mankato-Women club members O
this city have started a movement
looking toward the erection of a Y
w. C. A. building in this city, to b
used to a large extent for the wome