The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-03-26
BrietrMw
All Me State
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
Of the Week in Minnesota

in Washington.
Deerwood-O. NJ Vanwig, Of the
First National Bank here, has received
word that his cousin, Ivar X. Lykke,
Of Oslo, has been chosen premier Of
Norway.
ChatfieId-D. E. Farrell, 70 years
old, territorial pioneer, and for
long time known as the cattle king
of southern Minnesota" died here
from heart attack.
Minneapolis-Almond L. Kruger,
president Of the A. L. Kruger Lum-
Der Company and leading wholesaler
OF cedar posts and poles in the north
west, died suddenly at Northwestern
hospital.
Duuth-With a crash heard over
most of the west end, $50 tons of rock,
loosed by a dynamite blast, fell 70
feet from the top of the point of rocks
here at Fourteenth avenue west and
Superior tsreet.
acknowledgements Henry L. Fuqua
signed extradition papers ordering
Tom Concord, Leo Salmey and John
Petersgon brought back to Anoka to
face trial on charge Of robbing the
Anoka National bank at Anoka.
ST. Paul-One thousand miles of
notorious routes in Minnesota were
tied up as the result of the spring
breakup, causing the most serious
tieup of highway transportation in the
history of the state.
ST. Paul-Competitive bids on the
construction and the Improvement of
nearly $1,000,O00 Of added trunk high.
way throughout the state of Mime
sofa for 1926, were opened by Charles
M. Babcock, state highway commits
sioner.
kenyon-Cost of transportation,
taxation and the low buying power
Of the dollar are greatly responsible
for the farm problem, Governor
Theodore Christianson declared here
before the Kenyon and South Central
Minnesota corn show. v
ST. PauI-Four bandits, arrested re-
Gently in Menomonie, Wis, on suspi
cion that they were slayers of the
two st. Paul policemen, were sen.
fenced to the state penitentiary at
Saltwater on highway robbery charg
es.
ST. PauI-Snow has blocked 900
miles of trunk highway in the state,
the highway department reported in
it's weekly condition report. The de-
partment has had $500 men, so snow
plows and 1000 teams at work open
ing the roads.
|. neapoIis-Minnesota has ap
proximately 200 women in public Of
fee including mayors, sheriffs, con.
stables, justices of the peace, game
wardens and even an excellent
smoke scout" in the forest fire SER
vice-a survey made under the aus
pices of the Minnesota League of
Women Voters has revealed.
st. PauI-While the death rate from
tuberculosis and cancer is showing
decline in Minnesota, heart disease is
taking more lives than ever before
and now has the highest death rate
in the state, DR.. A. ]. Chesley, execu-
tive officer on the state board of
health said. Last year 1929 Mime
sotans died from heart disease. Can
Ger was fatal to 2,427 and tubercu-
losis to 1856.
ST. PauI-Purchasers of stock in
the q. S. l. Realty company, by con-
tract, are not obliged to fulfill the con-
tract of purchase, the state supreme
court held in affirming the actions Of
Mile Laos, Olmsted, Stearns, and
Polk county district courts. The de-
cision does not affect actual stock
holders. The action of the high court
is far reaching and involves payment
of from 100000 to 100000 by 600
persons.
ST. Paul-Although the total num-
Der of fatal automobile accidents in
the United States increased from IT,
S27 in 1924 to 1898 in 1925, Mime
sofa had fewer fatal accidents last
year than in the year previous, ac-
cording to figures made public by the
National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce. The total for Minnesota
last year was 345, as compared with
361 the year before. Minnesota, New
York and Oregon are the only states
that show reduction.
ST. PauI-The house passed bill
granting consent of congress to the
highway department of Minnesota to
reconstruct bridge across the Mis-
sissippi river between the city of An
Okla, and Champlin. A measure CIV
ing federal authority to the board of
county commissioners of Aitkin coun-
ty, Minnesota, to construct a bridge
across the Mississippi river also was
passed
ST. Paul-Oscar Arneson, At years
old, chief clerk of the Minnesota
house of representatives, for Is years,
fell dead short distance from his
home.
ST. PauI-Laurence c. 'Larry-Ho"
Hodgson lead the field OF three can
didates in the st. Paul primary cleo
ton for mayor. His opponent on the
ticket at the final election May will
be the Rev. Howard Y. Williams, pas
tor of the Peoples church, the Pro-
gressive-Labor candidate.
Minneapolis "a gunman, who
chased his victim block after fatally
shooting him sent dozens of pedes-
trians on Hennepin avenue between
Sixth and Seventh streets scurrying to
shelter behind parked automobiles
and into doorways. During the chase
a bystandsr was wounded.