The Ely miner., 1926-05-07
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Willmar-Willmar has decreed that
there will be no licenses granted for
carnivals to exhibit in this city this
! year.
Oakland, Calf. - -Four workmen
We're killed at the Giant Powder Co.
works at Siege, north of here, when
the contents of dynamite cartridge
Minneapois-Rain, which fell over
| southwestern and central Minnesota
and portions of South Dakota, prac-
tically assured prospects for proper
development of seed crops, according
to reports received in Minneapolis.
neapois-Edmund Pennington,
chairman of the board of directors
and former president of the 500 Line,
died of heart disease at his home. He
was n years old and had been ac-
tivey connected with railroads for So
| years.
Shakopee-Plans for combining the
celebration of the seventy-fifth ami
versary Of the settlement Of Scott
county and the foundation of Shako-
| pee and the annual farm bureau pic
mic have been announced.
Duluth-In addition to six volunteer,
unpaid special commissioned patrol.
men and the sir members of his paid
staff, District Ranger Carl S. Lind, of
the state forest service, has announc-
ed that 81 township patrolmen have
been appointed in district two, which
is the north shore district.
virginia-Planting of 100000 trees
In Minnesota this year is one of the
principal goals of the Minnesota Fed.
Grafton of Women's Clubs, Mrs. Will
lard Bayliss, Chisholm, told delegates
to the Eighth District Federation Of
Women's Clubs convention here.
ST. Paul-Because of crowded con-
ditions prevailing at the st. Cloud
reformatory, which means that there
are too many men to do the limited
amount Of work available, the state
board of visitors has requested that
additional means of employment be
provided.
Rush City-Three men, two of whom
had just completed voyages across the
Atlantic, were drowned in Rush lake,
it was revealed after the finding of
the third body. The dead, Minnesota's
first fishing victims Of the year, are:
John Kruger, 23, Graham. Mimi: Will
helm Backhus, %, of Germany; Barth-
olemews Bruinaars, 10, of Holland.
Minneapolis-With delegation of
200 Minneapolis persoss planning on
attending the Norwegian national in
dependence celebration at Oslo May
II, and with steamship lines booking
many more for midsummer sailings,
group of at least 100 from Mime
sofa were aboard the "Gripsholm,"
first motor ship to leave New York,
when it sailed for Sweden.
MISUNDERSTANDING lively legal
battle, punctuated at frequent inter-
walls by clashes between government
and defense attorneys, United States
Commissioner Howard S. Abbott or
dered seven Of eight Minneapolis men
charged with completely in the alleged
$140,000,0O0 alcohol syndicate conspir-
acy to appear for trial in the federal
court at Cleveland, Ohio, May II.
ST. PauI-Declaring that the low
water levels Of the Leech lake district
threaten extinction of the fish in the
lake chain emptying into the Missis-
sippi river at Federal Dam, J. f.
Gould, Minnesota game and fish COM
missioner, telegraphed the Minnesota
delegation in congress urging gov
ernmental action to reduce the flow
Of water through the dam.
Red Wing-Bethesda hospital, Dea-
conness home, st. Paul, and Bethesda
Invalid home at Lake Cervais, will be
disposed of, it was decided by the Min
nesota conference Of the Augustana
Lutheran synod here. The institution
will be centered with other invalid
and deaconness homes and works of
mercy on one site. A new hospital
also will be built.
MarshaII-Tons of dirt and silt, fine
as powder, churned up from newly
plowed fields by 50-mile wind, and
sent swirling into the air like great
black clouds, covered a dozen coun-
ties in southwestern Minnesota in one
of the strangest dust storms in the
state for many years. The air was
so heavily laden with dust during the
storm that motorists had to drive with
headlights burning. Drifts of dust
buried fence posts to within two feet
of the top near Marshall.
MinneapoIis-The steamer General
Allen, sternwheeler, pushing four steel
barges that glided all the way from
st. Louis, arriving at the Washington
avenue terminal. The trip from st.
Louis, covering nine days, was made
to. demonstrate the practicability of
the operation of steel barges on the
upper river and to afford naval en-
gineers, Inland Waterways corpora
ton officials and pilots and river
operators a chance to study the chan
mel conditions.
ST. Paul-The cost of running the
state of Minnesota was S31, 1,500,S34
during the fiscal year ending June 80,
1925, according to statistics announc-
ed by the department of commerce at
Washington. The per capita cost of
maintaining and operating the general
departments of the state was $12.37.
Red Wing-The Red Wing CONNER
cial Club was arranging to lend its !
full support to barge line activities on ,
the upper Mississippi river by sub
scribing $4,000 to the Upper Missis- |
sippi River Barge Line Company, as !
its allotment of common stock in the
organization.