The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-09-15
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Ouy ndPlu lIduSlL COulpdHy dutuOTIz-
ed the payment of regular quarter
ly dividend on preferred stock at
meeting held at the company's offices
here. The dividend is SITS per share.
Duluth-Attorneys representing the
United States railroad administration
and claimants in fire cases, dismissed
142 cases. listed on the special calen-
dar of the Duluth district.
Wlnona-Martin Peterson, Is years
old, of Rochester, is being held at the
Winona County Jail in connection with
the theft of automobile tires from
garage at Minnesota City.
Mankato-.When within a block of
her own home, returning from touring
trip through Minnesota and northern
Wisconsin, Mrs. H. C. Kroon of this
city was badly injured in an automo-
bile accident.
Bagley-The Bagley Independent
| owned by large number of farmer
stockholders, announces that it will be
sold as quickly as possible, and the
stockholders to make up for the losses
| incurred during the past three years.
| st. Paul-Marion Lindley, rs years
| old, painter employed by the Great
Northern railroad in st. Paul, was
crushed to death between two freight
cars at the Jackson Street shops.
Northfield-Alumni students and
former students of Carleton college
| now residents of Cannon Falls, Farm.
| ington and Mortified united there the
9Th in the organization of Carleton
club.
Owatonna-The city council has
split the first and second wards into
| two precincts each in order that votes
cast at the November elections can
| be counted more quickly.
BuhI-Several hundred tons of iron
ore from the Adams mine, in the Eve
leth district, have been shipped to
st. Louis, where it will be used in the
| manufacture of paint.
Observation-Disclosures are offering 35
| and 40 cents per bushel here for u. S.
No. potatoes, according to state.
ment by A. P. Probstfield, secretary of
the Northern Potato Growers Sales
| company. Demand for the tubers even
at that price is slow, he said.
virginia-An action asking $4,000
damages Of the city of Virginia, filed
| by the A. W.. Kerr company, archi.
tects, was placed on the calendar for
September. The architects allege the
| city put them to undue expense in the
preparation of plans for the new mu.
nicipal building.
MISREPRESENTATION in every de.
partment of the city government will
have to be made in the retrenchment
campaign if the city is to keep within
the law, the expenses will have to be
cut more than half The police force,
| now more than SO men, will be cut
to % and the fire department, which
now has three platoons, would be re-
| duced to two.
Red Wing-The Hamline university
piano which was used at Red Wing in
1854 has been placed in front of
the speakers platform in Portrait hall
of the Territorial Pioneers building
and was used in programs during fair
week.
DuIuth-Although failing to deposit
a $4,000 check required to insure
purchase of the abandoned line of the
Duluth & Northern Minnesota railroad
Robert Waldron, Minneapolis, declared
| he had not abandoned plans for the
purchase of the road.
DuIuth-Legislation authorizing issu-
ance of camping licenses to campers
| will be advocated at the next state
legislature by the State Forestry de-
| partment as means of obtaining
funds to carry out the forestry pro-
gram, State Forester w. T. Cox said.
st. James,. A. McRell, guard for
the Omaha railway, was fired on here
| by unidentified persons who sped away
in an automobile. McRell, who was
| injured, was guarding the home of
railway employee who went out on
strike, but who returned to work re.
Gently.
Aitkin-Will B. Gwathmey, aged so,
pioneer jeweler of this city, died at
his home here after several months
| illness. He was native of Faribault
and graduate of Shattuck. Interment
at Osceola Mimi, beside his wife.
ST. PauI-After more than Is years
with the school and college of agri-
culture at University farm, Miss
Estelle Cook has accepted position
with the Raymond Lull Mission school
in North Africa.
Minneapolis - Forty-five persons
were killed and 541 injured in 912 au-
| tomobile accidents in the IL principal
cities of the United States in week.
One was killed and 20 injured in to-
tai of 81 accidents in Minneapolis and
st. Paul 81 accidents with but two
killed.
| ExceIsior-William PrieDe, aged 40,
| and Henry Eibe1, aged "a, who have
a summer home at Minnetonka, were
injured seriously when the car in
which they were driving overtur. ed
on Superior boulevard. Both men
were pinned beneath the debris.
Buffalo Application of Henry
Hahnke, of Buffalo, to operate mo-
tor bus line between Minneapolis and
Litchfeld was approved by the Min.
| neapolis city council license commit.
tee.
Crosby = Sheriffs, deputies are
searching the woods here for two men
who represented themselves to be fed
eral agents and robbed the home Of
| Frank Krawl of Cuyune, four miles
from here of $500 in cash and iewelry.
| Minneapolis-A. w. Davis, Mime.
apolis postal clerk, was appointed
chairman of the committee on classi.
fication and working conditions of the
Omitted National Association of Post
Office Clerks at the national ,onven