The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-04-09
Neu1t BrietrMw
All M State
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
of the Week in Minnesota

from his private car when he became
ill.
MinneapoIis-Daily air mail service
between the Twin Cities and Chicago
by way of Milwaukee and La Crosse
has been promised for not later than
May 1.
Austin-One of the largest financial
deals in southern Minnesota for a
number of years was completed here
when the George A. HORNED Packing
Co. purchased the Austin National
bank.
Hibbing-Special potatoes are bring.
ing the highest price of the year at
the municipal market, according to
the manager, who states that sales OF
potatoes at S2.25 and $500 a bushel
is not uncommon.
st. Paul-Walter c. Martin, former
deputy state treasurer, entered the
state penitentiary at Saltwater to
serve an eight-year term of imprison-
ment. He pleaded guilty to charge
OF second degree larceny in connec-
tion with the theft of state funds
st. Paula Minnesota girl, Marion
Daley of Manchester college, is win.
ner of the women's extempore speak.
ing contest held in connection with
the convention of the Pi Kappa Delta,
national debating fraternity, at Estes
Park, Colo.
Faribault-Chicken thieves, armed
with pistols, surprised George DON
kers as he got up at midnight and
went downstairs, marched him into
the yard, tied him to a post with
binder Irvine and looted the farm of
chickens.
StilIwater-Two young girls pursued
bouncing rubber ball onto thin ice
on the river here and were drowned
when it broke under their weight. The
girls were Irene, 9 years old, daughter
of Frank Tullo, and Ollie, 8, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. James Latturall.
st. Paul-Next fall may go down as
the year of the big deer hunt, accord
ing to A. e. Pimley, state chief of fire
suppression, recently returned from
the north woods, who reports deer
and moose running in such numbers
that they are actually a nuisance.
ST. PauI-The Minnesota Supreme
Court gave the state highway depart
ment blanket order controlling traf-
fc, signal systems and conduct of
trunk highways within the cities and
villages Of the state. including the
right to say why and where a stop
and go sign is to be maintained.
neapoIis-Magnus Johnson, for
mer United States senator, who ar
rived in Minneapolis from his home
at Kimball, said that kilograms are
being sent to the senate subcommit-
tee in Washington, asking for per-
mission to present additional evidence
in the Schall-Johnson election contest.
MinneapoIis-600 boys and girls
from all parts Of the state attending
an agricultural short course at the
University farm, gathered in the
dining hall to tell their own expert
ences as producers of prize-winning
farm products and to hear represen-
tatives of the leading business organ
izations of the Twin Cities discuss
their achievements.
Observation-Disclosures broke open
a safe in the office of the University
of Minnesota dental clinic and rifled
it of 1929 in gold and platinum plate,
$500 cash and 500 in checks. The
precious metals were in leaf form, one
sixty-fourth to one thirty-second Of an
inch thick, for use in dental work at
the clinic.
StiIIwater-One more chair will be
draped in black and turned with its
back to the table when the Last Mans
club of Saltwater holds it annual
meeting this summer. Now there are
left only three of that group of "a Civil
veterans who formed the club on July
81, 1885. Emil Graft, IS years old, was
the thirty-frst man to have his name
engrossed on the rolls among those
who have died. His death occurred at
st. Cloud, Fla.
international FalIs-An $4,000, 900
expansion program involving Backus-
Brooks Company interests at Interna-
tional Falls and Fort Francis, Ontario,
was announced by George Mclean,
resident director of the company at
International Falls. Construction now
is under way at plants of the Mime
sofa and Ontario Paper Company here
and the Fort Francis Pulp and Paper
Company, Ltd, at Fort Francis.
st. PauI-W. T. Goddard, attorney,
became trustee of the bankrupt estate
of Larry O'Keefe, packing house en-
ployee, who won nationwide fame
when he announced that he had in
herited an Irish estate. fortune and
the earlship. O'Keefe filed voluntary
petition in bankruptcy and told Gi-
deon S. Ives, referee, that his total
assets amounted to s67.50-one weeks
back pay and $25 in cash.
Anoka-Judge Orie Wyman of Ano-
ka, the only woman municipal judge
in Minnesota, ordered Minneapolis
patrolman and his companion held to
the District Court, under $500 bond
each, after their arrest in an automo-
bile chase in which deputy sheriff
fired several shots at them. The men
were charged with transporting liquor.
Mankato--A reduction of IL from
the corresponding period of 1925, So
individuals and firms of 81 southwest
ern Minnesota counties, flied petitions
in bankruptcy in United States court
here during the three months ending
March 81.