The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-02-26
Neu1t BrietrMw
All h State
Condensed Storie. Of Happeaings
Of the Week In Minnesota

st. PAUL.. G. Hodgson, st. Paul,
commissioner of finance, announced
that he will be candidate for may
or Of st. Paul.
ortonvlIIe-Henry Pafrath Of Clin-
ton has been advised that big ship
ment OF seed corn he sent to Illinois
has been sold at $40 bushel.
MarshaII-The Minnesota Hereford
Breeders Association will conduct its
annual sale and outing here May 26
at the Lyon county fair grounds.
st. charles-Mrs. Sophia Ann Pick.
ert, q direct descendant Of General
George A. Custer, Indian fighter and
hero Of Clusters last charge" OBJ
served her 1O2d birthday anniversary
here.
MInneapolIs-Roy Brockman, who
escaped from Hennepin county jail
January %, was brought back to his
cell by Sheriff Earle Brown who led
a posse which captured the fugitive
in cabin near Hayward, Wis. Mrs.
Brockman also was held, but no
charge has been placed against her.
MinneapoIis-Two hundred and fifty
county agents in four northwest
states, enlisted in an army fighting to
save $8,O00,00O for farmers of Mime
sofa, North and South Dakota and
Montana, were "in the front lines"
taking the lead in northwest wide
grain smut prevention campaign.
Fergus Falls-An eventful career
as a gentleman adventurer, physf
clan, soldier, sheriff and hangman,
ended here with the burial of DR..
e. M. Conyngham of Underwood
DR.. Conyngham's papers reveal that
he came of an old baronial Scottish
family and probably could have
claimed the title of baronet, had he
desired.
ST. PauI-Fred d. Sherman, former
state immigration commissioner, died
at his home in St. Paul. Mr.. Sher
man was 4S years old. In 1920 he
filed for the republican nomination
for secretary of state. In 1913 he
was appointed state immigration com
missioner by Governor Eberhart, q
position he filed until 1920, when he
bought the st. Paul Herald, a weekly
paper, of which he was editor and
publisher at the time of his death.
st. PauI-The Minnesota railroad
and warehouse commission charted
new course in the fight to establish
its Jurisdiction over intrastate freight
rates. A new action will be started
as soon as possible against the rail-
roads as a civil suit, which will per.
NIT 1t to be appealed to the state gu
preme court, Ivan Bowen, chairman
Of the commission said. This will
be done by getting shipper to file
the suit, charging discrimination in
rates.
MlnneapoIIs-A directed verdict of
not guilty was ordered by Judge
Matthias Baldwin in district court In
the trial of the states Indictment
charging the Northern Pacific rail-
road with establishing discriminatory
freight rates in Minnesota. The rul-
ing of the court leaves the position
of the state untenable in all but one
of the remaining indictments against
the railroads, as far as the state
courts are concerned, Floyd B. Olson,
county attorney, said.
Crookston-Actual cost Of produc-
ing crops on Red River valley farms
near here will be determined in a
survey of rs farms by group Of
farm experts headed by Professor
George A. Pond Of the University Of
Minnesota. The survey, which is ex-
pected to give valuable data regard
ing production cost of everything
raised on the farms, will be conduct
ed by the United States department
of agriculture and the University of
Minnesota.
Mlnneapolis-"Dip htheria will be
virtually wiped out in Minnesota If
plans now being completed by the
state board of health are carried out"
DR.. A. j. Chesley, executive officer Of
the board, said. 1--WE can wipe out
diphtheria in Minnesota If we can get
immunization," DR.. Chesley continued,
"for we have already, by the use of
antitoxin, reduced the death rate from
70 per 100000 population in 1888 to
81 per 100000 in 1920. At present the
average number of deaths in the state
from the disease is 200 year.
st. PauI-Application Of nine rail
roads operating in Minnesota for in
creased freight rates to remove dis
elimination existing in various COM
munities were dismissed by the state
railroad and warehouse commission
with the comment that "this commits
sion cannot be coerced into any sur
render of state sovereignty" This
dismissal is the latest move in legal
contest over intrastate freight rates
in Minnesota which involves the prin-
ciple of whether the state or the fed
eral commission is to hold the power
of making these rates.
MlnneapoIIs-Geo E. Leach, may
or of Minneapolis, filed as a candi-
date for the Republican nomination
for governor of Minnesota, at the
June 81 primary election. Mayor
Leach, who was candidate at the
1924 election, is the first candidate to
take the field for this years governor
ship contest
Mlnneapolis-John F. Gustafson of
Window was reelected president, and
all other OFFICERS OF the Minnesota
Farmers Elevator association were
reelected at the final session of the
associations nineteenth annual con-
vention.