The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-04-28
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 Frors Many Different
Sources and Arranged In
Crisp Readable Form.

Crisp Readable Form.
Vireinia-Installatio Of a radio
outfit in the club rooms of the Burton
Pratt post of the American legion will
be made soon, committee working
on plans for the feature announced.
Brainerd-Appearing under Brain
erd Musical club auspices, the Apollo
club of Minneapolis, male chorus of
lbs voices, will sing here the latter
part of May.
Chisholm-A farmer over north of
Chisholm converted the tonneau Of an
old Ford into a moonshine still and
has been having rafting good time
ever since.
ST. Paul Chris. Heen, state dairy
and food commissioner, has been re-
tuested by Governor Preus to discon-
inue his adverse activities against the
minnesota Cooperative Creamery as
ISOLATION, Incorporated.
Brainerd-Brainerd will have spe-
cial city election May 25 to vote on
issuing $4,000 bonds for water works
extensions, improvements, etc. An
amendment to the charter is also to be
voted on to increase the tax levy for
hydrant rental
OWatonna-J. Sampson of Faribault
was awarded the contract for grading
the Lemond road this season at "a
cents yard. Last year So cents a
yard was paid. Several concrete cul-
verts are to be laid.
Hibbing = State lands comprising
$500 acres in northern Minnesota
will be offered for sale this summer,
according to maps, lists and other data
to be offered are tracts in q townships
in ST. Louis county.
Minneapolis Robert Jamison
of Minneapolis, who was chairman of
the Republican state central commit
tee when Knute Nelson was elected
governor of Minnesota, fell dead in a
hotel lobby in San Francisco.
Hibbing-Exploratio work on many
leases has been started in this sec
ton, and number of new mines will
be opened within the next few years,
it is believed. Drilling and digging
testpits on ore properties is now in
progress.
st. Paul-Taxes in Minnesota, on
the average, are too high, and the
states tax burden for improvements
has grown more rapidly than the
states wealth or population, Ray P.
Chase, state auditor, told members of
the Lions club.
HibbingTImprovem Of state
owned land will be delayed until 335
improved tracts owned by the state
have been sold, according to A. p.
Silliman of the state land department
board This action was taken, he said,
because improved idle lands are of no
benefit.
ST. PauI-Mike Holm, Secretary Of
State, announces that some of the IL
cense tags issued for 1922 are defec-
tive as to paint. The manufacturer is
under bond to put out good tag and
II any car has tags upon which the
paint fades, and will report to Mike
Holm, Secretary of State, State Capt.
Yished in exchange for the old ones.
MinneapoIis-Dr. B. G Anderson, as
sistant professor in prosthetic surgery
in the University of Minnesota college
of dentistry, has accepted a position
as oral surgeon at Picking Union Medi-
cal college. He will leave July 1. Dr.
Anderson is said to be the first quail
fed oral surgeon to be sent to China
He will be gone for five years.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for the pur-
chase Of the McDougall-Dulu Ship
building plant of the United States
Steel corporation, by the American
Bridge company, are In progress. The
deal involves millions, but officials
here refuse to discuss the matter, al
though they do not deny that negotia-
tions are in progress.
Duluth Suits aggregating more
than 100000 were filed in district
court by 46 plaintiffs against the Unit
ed States railroad administration, the
Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific, Cloquet
Lumber company, the Duluth & North
eastern, the Cloquet Tie and Post COM
pany and the Duluth and Iron Range
railway for losses sustained in the for
est fires of 1918.
st. PauI-Initial steps in the organ
ization of a division of child hygiene,
the department of state government
that will conduct the work provided
for by the Sheppard owner act, was
taken at a meeting of the state board
of health, held in the Minnesota club.
With the federal aid granted by the
act, Minnesota is assured of $4,000 an
nually to carry an educational cam.
paign to reach mothers and prospec.
tive mothers of the state.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ere being
made by August Neubauer, county
agent, with, the agricultural college of
the University of Minnesota to con-
duct countrywide land clearing field
day next month. According to pres
ent plans, land clearing train from
the university will make a tour of
northern Minnesota May to 20.
st. Paula Duroc Jersey pig, bred
and raised at University Farm, st.
Paul. was grand champion barrow at
the Southwestern Exposition and Fat
Stock show at Fort Worth, Texas,
Marss to IL. according to E. F. Fer
rim, al the University of Minnesota.