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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
SENATE PASS ELEVATOR BILL
Senators Approve Measure With Only
Five Dissenting Votes.

st. Paul-After 80 years of agita~
ton, bill providing for a state-owned
grain elevator system passed the Min
nesota legislature. 1t was passed by
the senate by 81 to 5 vote. Those
voting against it were Senators
Brooks, Child and Cameron of Min
neapolis; Senator Denegre, st. Paul,
and Senator Adams, Duluth.
The bill as passed is in the form
Of a constitutional amendment to be
voted on at the 1924 election. 1t pro-
vides for the establishment of any
number of terminal elevators in Min
neapolis, st. Paul and Duluth.
Although the bill as passed in the
house provides tina: the elevators be
established only at Duluth, it is ex-
pected that the house will approve the
measure in its new form. Rep. Carl
NJ. Iverson, author of the bill, declared
that he would favor it's passage. Rep.
]. B. Hompe, author Of the amendment
limiting the elevators to Duluth, said
he would not talk against the bill as
it now stands.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
ROAD BOND BILL
PASSES SENATE
Fate in House in Doubt as 0p-
position Members Show
Strength.

st. Paul-The Babcock s20,000,000
highway bond bill was passed by the
Senate, 35 to ga margin of one
vote more than was necessary to
carry.
Twice the opponents of the bill in
the House have fought efforts to
make the House BIZ, a special order,
and in this way have blocked its pro-
gress.
Friends of the Babcock bill realize
that the one-third vote in the House
absolutely controls the disposition of
the bill, and unless the lines weaken
the bill will die with the close of the
session without ever having been dis
cussed impartially. Whether there
will be any change of sentiment as a
result of the Senate's action is their
only hope.
In the Senate the bill rode through
without a change. Twice efforts were
made to defeat it by bringing about
a delay in the final vote, in the war
ing hours of the legislative session,
it would have no chance whatever to
pass. This also would have relieved
the Senate of the necessity of casting
a record vote.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
TURKS RATIFY MINE GRANT
Chester Concession, In Dispute 20
Years, Wins Assembly Approval.

Angora-The Turkish Nationalist
assembly has ratified the so-called
Chester railway and mining conces-
sion.
Negotiations for the Chester con-
cession" in Turkey, which includes
the development of the Mosul oil re.
gion. and construction of 1900 miles
of railroad in the Mesopotamian fields,
were first instituted by President
Roosevelt.
1t takes it's name from Rear Admiral
Colby M. Cheste, now retired, who
was sent to Turkey in 1908 to obtain
for United States interests certain
valuable priority rights in the Turkish
oil producing distrirt.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
TRUCK TAX DISCUSSED
Fiqht for Revising Motor Vehicle
Schedule Only Begun.

Heavy increases in taxes on COM
mercial motor trucks and busses and
upon minimum taxes for trucks en-
gagged in private enterprises were in"
corporated in the motor vehicle tax
bill which was up for consideration In
the House of Representatives.
Representative F. A. Green, chair
man of the motor vehicles tax COM
mittee, has 80 amendments to be made
to the BILL and there will be dozens
of other proposed changes coming
from almost as many legislators who
schedule
The House adopted another group
of amendments which greatly increas-
ed the minimum tax upon trucks
which are used for private hauling.
The new schedule as adopted follows:
Trucks under one ton carrying ca
pacity would pay minimum tax OF
SIS, except such trucks as have been
converted from passenger vehicles.
which will pay $12 minimum.
Trucks from one to two tons would
be taxed a minimum Of $40. Two to
three-ton trucks would be taxed a
minimum of $40. Trucks from three
to four tons would pay tax of $40.
Trucks from four to five tons would
be taxed 800 minimum. Trucks from
five to six tons would pay a minimum
of $3.50. Trucks from six tons and
over would be taxed a minimum OF
5000.
This new schedule Of taxes on
trucks is a sharp increase over the
figures adopted by the committee ear
lier in the session
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
WAGE INCREASES GRANTED
Increase of II Per Cent Will Be Given
10000, Effective April is.

Increase of II Per Cent Will Be Given
10000, Effective April is.
New York-The United States Steel
corporation announced wage in
crease of IL per cent, for day laborers
employed in the manufacturing plants
of it's subsidiary companies, with an
equitable adjustment for other classes
of labor in those plants. More than
10000 employees are affected and the
increase, it is estimated, will add ap-
proximately 100000 to the weekly
payroll.
The Republican Iron & Steel COM
pany Immediately announced a SINH
lar wage increase for its day laborers.
The Jones & Laughlin, Bethlehem
Steel corporation later announced an
increase of approximately IL per cent.
The Crucible, Youngstown Sheet &
Tube and other large independent
companies are expected to follow suit.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
News of the Nation Briefly Told
Condensed Resume of the Important
Events in the Nation and State.

Athens, Ga.-Gerald Chapman, o,n,
victed New York mail robbery, still
was at liberty. Descriptions of the
man who escaped from hospital have
been broadcast to the four cardinal
points of the compass.
Mount Gilead, Ohio President
Harding purchased his birthplace, a
farm in North Bloomfield township,
Morrow coEnty. The president, If
was said, plans to spend much of his
time there after leaving the White
House.
Milwaukee-The daylight saving or
dinance here was repealed in a refer
endum election here. Early returns
indicated the vote would be more than
two to one against the plan. Milwau-
kee has been under day light saving
two summers, the electorate having
endorsed an ordinance to. that effect
in 1921. Daylight saving lost in She
boygan, Wis, by vote OF three to
one
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
CONSOLIDATE DEPARTMENTS
Concentration of Functions in Board
of Three Members Provided.

st. Elimination of the de-
partment of forestry, reclamation, i'm
migration, public examiner, drainage,
tration of almost all of their func-
tons in a public domain board of
three members is provided in a bill
introduced in the Minnesota house
of representatives by the house com
mittee on reorganization of state de-
partments.
One board member would have
charge of lands, forests and timber,
one of mineral land and the other OF
game and fish and public parks. Each
would receive $4,000 a year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
Authorities Seize DRUGS.

iMinot-Narcotics valued at between
$4,000 and $4,000 were seized by Pa.
trolman Lee Brundage and Earl Bron-
SON of the Minot police when they ar
rested Della March. 80, Negro, and
Edward Tuepker, both of this city.
The pair was arrested few minutes
after the woman alighted from train
Brundage and Bronson saw the Negro
woman hand Tuepker package and
the action excited suspicion.
Trailing the two the patrolmen halt.
ed them on the yiaduct leading to the
depot.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
BLACKHAND BOMBS KILL TWO
Apartment Dweiler Innocent Victim
of Biast-Gunmen Stay italian.

Apartment OWeiier Innocent Victim
of siast-Gunmen Stay italian.
Chicago-Two men were killed and
three buildings bombed in blackhand
reign of terror here.
Stanley King, pianist, believed to
have been an innocent victim, was
killed when bomb was hurled from
an automobile at the apartment build
ing in which he lived, as he was about
to enter.
Kings bride, who was waiting up
for her husband to return from work,
ran to the street as the neighborhood
was shaken, crying Il knew it," and
collapsed.
Joseph Polumba, aged 40, an Italian,
was shot to death on the streets of
Little Italy. Two men walked up
to him and fired three shots each into
his body and fed Police blame black
handlers for the shooting, as well as
the bombings.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
BILL PROVIDES DAY OF REST
Workers in Certain Industries Affect
ed by Senate Measure.

st. Paul-The state senate amended
the bill providing for one day rest in
seven for certain classes of employees
to the point where it was made al
most innocuous and then passed it by
a vote of 81 to 10.
So many changes were made in the
original bill that its real teeth had
been extracted. AS now framed the
bill states that there shall be one day
rest in seven for employees in ANY
mechanical or mercantile establish
ment, factory, laundry, power plant"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
SLEEPER is SHOT TO DEATH
ST. Paul Shoemaker Slain Beside Wife
and ChId-Wife Being Held.


and ChiId-Wife Being Held.
st. Paul-Eouis f. Rottach, aged
As, an Italian shoemaker, st. Paul.
was murdered in bed as he lay with
his wife and 3 year old child at his
side.
Two hours later, Minneapolis de-
tectives arrested Frank Retano, aged
40, an Italian. In a signed confession,
as given out by police, Retano de-
clared he did the shooting, that Mrs.
Rottach gave him the money to buy
a pistol, examined it after it's pur.
chase to be sure it worked properly,
and, when he entered the sleeping
apartment, ordered him to proceed
with the killing as she lay beside her
husband, according to the alleged
confession.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
LEGISLATIVE SIDELIGH1S

Governor Preus signed the Gislason-
Teigen bill repeating the pre-primary
convention law, enacted by the state
legislature two years ago. The gov
ernor also signed the bill authorizing
the issuance of 100000 in bonds for
the construction of the bridge across
the Mississippi river near the pro-
posed Ford plant, and the filled" milk
bill.
With only one dissenting vote, the
house passed the bill providing for the
establishment of a state insurance
fund. Representative o. ]. Swenson
cast the only dissenting vote. The bill
provides that all the fees taken in by
the insurance commissioner shall be
invested and re-invested under the
name of the "state insurance fund,
from which fire losses to public build
ings will be paid. There was no op-
position to the BILL
Senator William Tickling of LIE
Sueur Center, celebrated his seven
tieth birthday at the State Capitol. Mr..
Tickling, who for 66 years OF his life
has lived on the same farm in LIE
Sueur county, was elected to the Sen
ate when he was 50 years old. Lieuten-
ant Governor l.. L. Collins called upon
Senator A. ]. Furlow, the youngest
member of the body, to congratulate
| Senator Tickling, oldest member, on
behalf of the Senate. Governor Preus
sent letter of congratulation to Sena-
tor Flickling and the Senate, in addi-
| ton to paying their verbal respects.
| The Senate passed the bin reducing
the membership of the Board of Con-
| troll from five to three. The bill, I'M
troduced by Senators ]. A. Carley,
Fred w. Bassette and A. L. Thwing,
provides that the present vacancy on
the board shall not be filled. The board
would continue with four members
until the term of another member ex-
nired Since one member of the board
must be a woman, Ralph W. Wheelock
would be the member of the present
hoard to go out under the bill.
The Welch-Green bill, which embrac-
es the ideal cooperative marketing leg
| islation favored by Aaron Sapiro, lead
| ing marketing authority, was passed
unanimously. The Wilkinson-Norton
bill. amending the Cooperative law
of 1919, to broaden the SCOPE of COM
panies operating under its p:oVisions,
received one negative vote.
The Minnesota state senate passed
the anti-Ku Klux Khan bill. The bill
passed unanimously in the senate. fol-
lowing a hearing before the senate
general legislation committee.
A bill which a great many people
/ think is sensible failed the other day
/ to get enough votes in the house to
pass. 1t is the bill for a constitutional
amendment to shorten legislative ses
sions from 80 to 70 days with conse'
auent reduction of legislative expense
and speeding up of the legislative pro
gram every two years, which nov
drags out longer than in most states
j A few states, like Wisconsin. have
longer sessions than Minnesota, but
a great many states get along fully
as we'll as Minnesota or Wisconsin
with 60-day sessions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
PROPOSED LEGISLATION

Another investigation was author
lied by the senate when it adopted
reuort of the rules committee recon-
mending a legislative inquiry OF the
public examiners office. Garfield
Brown, public examiner, requested the
investigation following an attack by
Senator Michael Boyfan. Lieutenant
Governor Louis L. Collins has not yet
named the committee.
The rural credits bill, authorizing
100000 in state loans to Minnesota
farmers during the next two years,
will be ready for the approval OF Gov
ernor Preus, according to indications,
when the house concurred in several
minor amendments to the bill and the
senate conference committee agreed
to drop a senate amendment which
would give special privileges to dis
abled ex-service men who are now
farming. The house concurrence in
the conference report is expected to
be followed by senate concurrence
when the bill will go to the governor
for his signature.
The helping teacher" bill, which
would have authorized appointment by
county boards of a teacher to assist
in elementary schools, was defeated,
43 to II.
The House of Representatives killed
the so-called part-time school bill, pro
yiding school hours for employed chill
dren. The vote was "a to So. The
House first really killed the bill by
amendments. The first one adopted
called for a referendum in the school
districts where it was proposed to put
the part-time plan into effect.
Jumping off the train as he returned
from Florida without first going to his
home, former Senator j. T. Elwell
Minneapolis, dashed into the state
capitol and began working for high
way legislation. Mr.. Elwell is GOOD
| roads enthusiast and is author of the
| Elwell road law.
| Salaries of Ramsey county commits
sioners will be raised from $1,000 t.
$1,000, il an amended bill introduced
by Representative Albin E. Pearson
| and reported favorably by the HOUSE
/ committee on cities. becomes law.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
Foreign

Toronto-Thirty new freighters.
most of them built in Great Britain,
will be placed in service on the Great
Lakes.
Essen-Bismarck' statue before the
railway administration building had
rope around his neck, the iron chan
cellor's birthday. The French rail-
road authorities and the troops who
guard the statue deny all knowledge
of it. The population is divided be
tween bitter anger and faint degree
of amusement.
Budapest-Fifty persons are report
ed to have been killed in a pogrom
| 900 in northeastern Rumania, has had
a number of organized riots in recent
years.
Toulouse, France-Barbot, famous
French aviator, made four flights here
in an airplane driven by a motor of
only 10 horsepower. On one flight
he remained aloft at height of $50
feet for Is minutes.
| Roubain, France-Thirty persons
were injured in street fighting between
police and two hostile groups of work.
men. One group was conducting an
open air meeting to commemorate the
50th anniversary of the textile syndi
cate, and communists tried to hold an
opposition meeting nearby. Trouble
started when the respective groups
tried to drown out the others speakers
London-A dispatch to the Central
News from Rome says Admiral Biscar
ETH was killed and the project and
mayor of Spezia were injured by the
overturning of their motorcar while
returning from Levanto to Spezia.
Sofa-M. Raroslavoff, M. Pescheff
NJ Tuncheff, NJ Popoff, NJ Dintchof
and M. Petkoff, all formerly minister!
of the Radoslavoff cabinet, were con
demned to life Imprisonment, and Gen
eral Naydenoff, Christie Popoff and
General Jekoff and General Boyadjef
were sentenced to from 5 to 10 years
All were charged with treason in con
nection with the recent agrarian up
rising.
London-A dispatch to The Time!
from Constantinople says Turkish cir
Giles have learned that former SultaI
Mohammed vi, who is guest of Kini
Husseim at Mecca, soon will issue {
proclamation to the Moslem world de
claring that he has not abdicated eth
er the caliphate or the sultanate. Thu
proclamation will announce the An
CORA government and claim allegiance
for Hussein of all the faithful.
Paris-Midinettes here went OF
strike for the first time since June
1917, when the arrival of General
j. Pershing in Paris and the genera
outburst of enthusiasm over the Unit
ed States participation in the war ex
ploded the strike. The Midinette
, walked out in sympathy with othe
: workers employed at clothes making
II London-The Lausanne will prob
: ably be resumed April Is in accordanc
with the Turkish appeal. Lord Cul
zon, head of the previous British dele
CATION, will not participate, Sir Hol
3 ace Humboldt, British commissions
in Constantinople, taking his place.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13
Sporting

Paris-Athletes representing Russia
as country will be allowed to COM
pete in the 1924 Olympic games to be
held in Paris. This decision has been
reached by a majority of the Olympic
committee and will be ratified at Rome
by the Olympic Congress.
Milwaukee-Jack Dempsey, worlds
champion heavyweight pugilist, has
been made bonafide offer of 100000
to meet Tommy Gibbons of st. Paul
in a 15-round bout to a decision, at
Shelby, Mont, on July 4, according
to Mike Collins, Minneapolis boxing
promoter, and Eddie Kane, Gibbons
manager. who are in Milwaukee. Ac-
cording to Collins and Kane, $150,O00
is already in a bank in Montana.
Dempsey has been informed that $780,.
600 will be turned over to him upon
his signing of the articles; another
$4,000 would be deposited in Mon
tana bank to be paid Dempsey in case
the fight does not go through.
and that the champion would be paid
100000 "a hours prior to his entering
the ring for the contest.
Chicago champions of Ohio,
defeated Aurora, Minnesota cham
pions, % to "a, in a see-saw battle
in the University of Chicago national
basketball tournament. One of the
chief reasons for the Aurora defeat
was the failure of Matthew Turk to
make free throws, his six straight
misses being enough to swing the
game. Turk, however, played fine
basketball. Aurora jumped off to a
to 0 lead at the start of the game,
and it looked as if the game was cinch-
ed. However, when Aurora slowed up,
Lorain suddenly spurted and tied up
the score. From then On the game
was close, with never more than four
points between the two teams. The
score was tied all the way from to
to Is to Is.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13

The Minnesota state senate passed
the anti-Ku Klux Khan bill. The bill
passed unanimously in the senate, fol-
lowing a hearing before the senate
general legislation committee.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13

Salaries of Ramsey county commits
sioners will be raised from $1,000 to
$1,000, if an amended bill introduced
by Representative Albin E. Pearson
and reported favorably by the House
committee on cities. becomes law.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-04-13

The helping teacher" bill, which
would have authorized appointment by
county boards of teacher to assist
in elementary schools, was defeated,
43 to II.
The Washington times., 1923-02-09

I'm sorry that I laughed and
called you funny.
"Pshaw! That's all right" re-.
piled the bird, good-naturedly.
Mama Fla1ningo and I never
would take the beauty prize. Our
necks and legs are too long" s
well, I guess they would be
long If. you din't need them that
way" Peggy said.
you're right there" sighed
Mr.. Flamingo. 1--WE need our
long legs for wading. See my
feet?" And he held up one foot
for Peggy to see. Its webbed
like a ducks. That helps me in
swimming, and my long neck
helps. me to get my food from
the bottom Of the lake. But If
you want a good laugh you
should see Mama Flamingo sit
ting on her eggs. When she tries
to get off it's the funniest sight
you ever sawi OF course. she's
touchy about her long legs. so If
The Washington times., 1923-02-09

One Of the Worlds Greatest NoyeEsts
Weaves Wonder Wartime
Tale of Monte Carlo.

fering because of his death made
me look about for consolation. For
what would become Of 'usaif we did
not have the power Of deceiving
yourselves by making new illusions!
And had a second son. = son
whom I invented, sad, condemned
to die, but young like the other,
unfortunate like the other, and
lacking a mother to bring. joy to
his last days. I wanted to be that
mother. And you took away this
last, consolation
Michael began to understand.
Alicia was talking about Martinez,
and he felt once more the sting Of
jealousy.
"1He was so tiFaid, satisfied with
everything" Alicia went on. HE
venerated me like a being de-
scended from an upper world. I
was his mother. His words and
looks breathed "a feeling OF deep
respect. I wasn't woman for him;
/ was something like the angels.
And you. with your crazy inter
ference, has spoiled 1T all. He is
no longer my son; my dream has
ended. -
ST am obliged to get along with
out his companionship now, and it
is only at rare intervals that he
finds open to him a. house which i
taught him to consider his owa.
Through your fault, this boy, in
whom saw q son, is now merely
a man, and I, hissmother, have be-
come once more a woman"
Lubimoff's features grew dark
with that same earthly cast that
had marked them, on 4thes after
noon Of the duel. He was begin
ming to understand. -
do you realize what you did:
Michael?" Alicia continued in a
fearful voice. You aroused the
poor boy by your madness. On
fighting you, he imagined he was
fighting for me-. was a woman.
HE saw me suddenly, in a new
light, as though he had been
asleep until then. A few. weeks
ago he used to laugh in my pres
ence with schildlike simplicity,
and look at me p1acidly. without
the shadow Of an evil thought in
his eyes. He was happy, and SO
was 1; while now!"
Go be Continued Tomorrow
Copyright. 1928. by King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1923-02-09
GOOD NIGHT STORIES
Be SURE TO READ THEM TO YOUR CHILDREN

you happen to see her on the
nest be careful not to let her
see you laugh.
"And she won't object IL you take
me home with your" Peggy asked.
I'D love to go. Do you suppose
she'd mind my peeking into her
nest?"
mo, indeed" replied Daddy
F1amingo. "Just don't laugh out
loud or you'll hurt her feelings.
Hop up on my back and well be
there before you know it,
He stopped down so Peggy could
climb up on his back. She held
tightly to his long neck, and away
they scooted through the air like a
great white ship.
They found Mama Flaningo sit
ting on her nest. It was all that
Peggy could do to keep her face
straight when she saw how she had
to fix her long legs to be comfort
able. They were stretched straight
out behind her like two yellow
sticks.
Mama, this is Peggy" said
Daddy Flamingo. "She wants to
peek into our nest if It's vonven-
tent.
Mama F1amingo looked e1nbar-
raised, but after much awkward
scrambling, she finally got up on
her long legs. Peggy had to keep
her eyes on the nest Of eggs for
fear she might laugh and hurt
Mama Flamingos feelings. 49,
"I'd just love to see the babies
when they hatch, Peggy said. 81
do think you're such interesting
BIRDS" =.
"Then by all means come back
when they are out Of their shells.
I'd love to have ,you," said Mama
Flamingo, crawling back on her
nest once more. 81 don't mind
folks visiting me If they don't
laugh at me-"
Peggy promised to return. and
patting the pretty white head OF
Mama Flamingo, she ran home to
tell her Aunt Bell what she had
seen. ~ ~~ y
Copyright. 1923. by Newspaper Fea-
ture Syndicate. 1nc.) :. -.r
(Another Interesting Story To-
morrow