The Ely miner., 1929-07-26


And now another Minnesota boy has
proven himself leader in the flying
world. Dale Jackson of Faribault is
the young man who has added laurels
to the great state of Minnesota from
which Lindberg, Kellogg and several IN
the cabinet and prominent affairs at
at Washington hail jackson is one Of
the fliers who is up in the st. LOUIS
robin" and going good after the
twelfth day in the air when this was
written
And. further we wish to state that
the Robin is a brother or sister Of
our own Robin" Of the Scenic AirwayS,
doing excellent work in this neighbo~-
hood in rapid transportation Yester-
day a message arrived appraising a
tourist on a canoe trip in Canadian
waters of the death of his father. Pint
Davidson delivered the message after
finding the man in Canada and secur-
ing permission from the Canadian ran
ger 10 land. He returned with his
party in lS minutes in time to catch
transportation for home. Formerly a
day would have been required to deiv-
er a message and another day TO re-
turn
The subject of the need of the air
port. was most forcibly brought home
this week when the first tourist plane
arrived from Chicago. This plane is
only the fore-runner Of many others
who viii arrive providing we have a
landing field. A field near the lake
where both wheel and pontoon equip
ped planes could land would be the
most advisable but any place will do
providing it is suitable for the run
ways required. Ely is the logical tour
iSt ground and the landing field is i
necessity to add to our conveniences.
In less than three years there will
be hundreds of planes in the air at
all times.
Following closely on the death Of
r. B. Mclean in this city two weeks
ago comes. the announcement of the
death in Virginia this week of w. w.
Brown, another st. Louis County road
engineer Both of these were old and
respected employees of the road de-
partment and their death is a distinct
loss.
Over in China robbers have been
pilfering the jewels from tombs. The
tomb of one Empress has been robbed
of 500, ,00o, 900 Of precious stones The
tomb itself cost $4,000, ,OO0. As a news
item this is of no value whatever and
anyone foolish enough to bury that
much wealth with a corpse-and es-
pecially with Chinese corpse e-shouid
be robbed. The item that the store
Of Tom, Dick or Harry was touched
because Tom, Dick or Harry could
not afford to lose it while the tomb
robbery did not mean any more than
even the home of the dead was not
sacred. The dead Empress did not
need the jewels. Besides. the Chinese
tax payers footed the bill.
In carefully reading the Twin City
papers, one would suspect that all the
blind pigs, piggers and speakeasies
were on the ranges It now develops
that st. Paul alone has over a thou
sand speakeasies. As all the fancied
ills Of the state have been the out
come of building school houses on
the range" it is rather hard to charge
this up to the school houses or their
construction. Neither can they charge
the Commissioner graft cases of st.
Paul and the Aldermanic pilferings
of Minneapolis to the range school
houses.
The Saturday Evening Herald of
Duluth weekly has reproductions of
pen and, pencil drawings made by
members of the Fair Play Club. Satur-
days paper had the customary list
and all six were by young Ely artist,
Mae Supaatic, is years of age. Hers
were the only ones deserving mention
for the week and the young lady is
to be congratulated The work done
was neat and elected many compl-
ments. We congratulate the young
Miss.
A granite shaft commemorating the
fire in October 1918 in which two thou
sand people lost their lives viii be
unveiled at Moose Lake next October.
The shaft viii be q feet in height set
on a teraced cement base. Later
monument viii be erected to those
who so valiantly assisted in rescuing
people from the conhagration and in
which many Of the reScuers also lost
their lives. An Ely girl, who was
teaching at Kettle River, was among
those who perished in the greatest
of forest fires that ever visited that
section of the country.
After vexing the tired soul with the
perplexing question where do flies go
in the winter time" without receiving
satisfactory answer, comes the equally
faceteous query what on earth be-
comes of all the old autos?" The COM
mon mortal is not prepared to say.
We have cars go and and come, new
ones of the latest model and others
not so new The very old ones are
still also on the go and we know Of
one here in town that was among the
first six cars coming to the city.
The National Automobile Chamber
of Commerce has come forth with the
answer to- the last question 1t SAYS
they get tossed into a scrap heap"
1t says, every year the United States
scraps 2.45oO00 automobiles, one tenth
of the entire number in the country,
or one-third as many as are in use in
all the rest of the world. The Cham
her also gives the average life of an