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The Kusko times., 1929-08-17
TACOMA FUR AUCTION.

Alaska fur valued at $75D00 was bought at the July auc- tion of the West Coast Fur Sales, Inc.
 Mink of inferior grade was offered at from $8 to $11.
 A good selection of lynx brought from $66. to SIT.
 Better quality w1lves brought from S17 to S22.
 Wcacal brought from $1.85 to $2.50-
 An ordinary grade of cross fox sold at from $75 to. $10O,, and the darker skins up to $165.
 Otter brought from $28 to $55, and bear from $5 to $7.5O.
 Timber wolves generally were high, selling up t. $55 for palo sorts.
 Good lots of red for feteEed from $50 to $55, and medium gradcs from $35 to $40.
 Only about half off collection of 45,0OO muskrats was sold, at prices ranging from 95 centts to $1.08.
The Kusko times., 1929-08-17

terday in the apartment with Ceril Street, 25-year-old employee of the Benefit Association, and Marie Raney, 1d.eStreet is held, although no charge has been placed against him.
 Mrs. Scraper, who is the mother of a seyen-year-old daughter, has not been living with her husband for sev- eral months.
The Kusko times., 1929-08-17
CONTRACT LET FOR FED
 ERA BUILDING. JUNEAU

WASHINGTON- agate Suth- land was informed by the Treasury Department that N. F. .,everin 6 Co. of Chicago was the lowest of fifteen bidders for the new federal building at Juneau. The company's bid was $712,OOO, with $25,O0o additional if Alaska marble is used. The contract will be let within few days, Dele. gate Sutherland. said.
The Kusko times., 1929-08-17

Gunnar Wickstrom, young min ing man of the Fairbanks district, and Archibald Summers, elderly plo- neer from the Circle country, were recently adjudged insane at Fair banks, and will be sent to Morning de Sanitarium for treatment.
The Kusko times., 1929-08-17
WOMAN CONFESSES BANK
 ROBBERY; LOOT RECOVERED

TOPEKA, Kas.-Mrs. Vivian Scra- per, 25, confessed holding up and robbing two employees of the Security Benefit Association of approximately $14,000 on June 28.
 She took officers to her apartment, where all but $40 or $5 0of the loot was recovered. She was arrested yes
The Kusko times., 1929-08-17
OLDTIMER SEES MERIT IN
 DAHANNI PLACER DISTRICT
fFa:rbenks News ssaIii;s:er.}

tFlzrb2nkS fNctsss-isii.eSi.t
 A malignant case of stampede fever is wracking the bones of Stan dish. O'Sullivan, oldtimg prospectoc of this district, who in a letter to Andy Mckenzie, written from Mayo, on the upper Yukon, late in May, spreads the merits of the DahannI aud. the upper Liard, in Northwest Territory. In his letter Standish says:
 Everything here is going along at it's usual pace. A good many are quitting work here to go prospect on their own. A few of the young fel- lows are getting ready to go to the new strike on the South DaEanni" river, but they have SO far Eeen un- successful in getting planes to take them.
 "The strike was made last summer by a party who went there from Ed monton. In order to reah the strike you go up the Dahannil 40 miles, where the Flat river comes in on the left, up that river for 50 miles to the waterfalls. The creeks entering on the left bank as you poceed above the falls are said to carry the pay. The third creek up is the one the MdI I4eod rothers were on when they were were killed by Indians in 1904. The McLeods took out about 5000. Their brother Charlie escaped the massacre and has tried often since to get a party to go back with him. He is no wat Edmonton on his way in by plane.
 "The story of the strike reads like an airplane stampede. And yet there are three men here who put in two years on the Lizard river tributaries and ranges overlooking the creek where. the McLeods were killed, all though miles away from the Dahanni. One of them, Bob Miller, sits next to me at the table. He says there is no doubt but that the McLeans took the money out.
 "Mayo and Keno are the nearest camps to the strike. 1t is about 200. miles east by south of Mayo, and Pelly Banks post on the Pelly river is the nearest grub pile. From this post you can pole up to the .Pelly lakes, a distance of 80 miles, and from the lakes it is about 70 miles to. the creeks on Flat river. The Da- hanni is tributary of the Lizard, and the Liard flows into the Mackenzie.
 "There is no, doubt but that it is a big country to prospect in, and by far the most difficult to get into with SUD- plies, as I see it. Were it not that l have. that ground on Galena Hill, I'd be- on my way next week. l don't know the mining laws pertaining to that district, as it is in the Northwest Territory, about 750 miles northwest of Edmonton.
The Kusko times., 1929-08-17
OPINION PREVAILS IN THIRD DIVISION THAT ORPHANAGE
 WAS SET AFIRE BY DESIGN

ITOn or the D1lllnSnam OTpnanage, were not translated into an indict- ment by the Third division grand jury which recently sat at Seward, but the belief persists among those who in vestigated the case that the fire at the orphanage last winter which caused the death of Ann Woods was set intentionally. The case Is ex- piained in a recent issue of the Cor deva Times as follows:
 "This case was of peculiar interest, due to the unusual circumstance sur- rounding tht. charges, and also.d dde to the fact that the case involved the death # Ann Woods, who died mar- tyr to save the lives of so orphan children, early in the morning of De- eember 22, 1928.
 Murder charges against Mrs. Caldwell followed the incarceration of her husband, government school teacher, who is now under indictment for alleged attacks OH a number of the orphanage girls.
 "In filing charges of murder against Mrs. Caldwell the authorities acted on. the deduction that Mrs. Caldwell had planned the firing of the orphanage in order to destroy evil dence against her husband. The find ings of the grand jury exonerated her on this charge.
 ''The salient facts brought out by the Department of Justice investiga- tion were as follows.
 About 5 o'clock in the morning of December 22, 1928, an accident at the orphanage building. of the Kanananak industrial school caused the death of one of the inmates, Ann Yukluk Woods.
 "The accident was due: to the girl attempting to fill a kerosene lamp. with what she thought. was coal oil, ,,but what Was-p presumably some other. liquid, highly explosive, possibly gas sine with ether mixed in it. None of ais liquid was kept in, the: kitchen of the orphanage, but had been placed there. Miss Gertrude Greer, nurse matron, testified that the can was not in the room at midnight December, December 21.
 "On the strength of considerable evidence, purely circumstantial, which was unearthed, Mrs. Caldwell was ar rested and her room searched. The U. s. commissioner at Dillingham; tes- tifed that he found can of the same liquid which caused the explosion, in the woman's room. The other evil dence was that Mrs. Caldwell was en- tirely dressed, with her long hair done up neatly, when she arrived among the. first at the fire, and that tracks were found in the snow lead- ing from her room to the orphanage and back to her domiciIe in the. staff house.
 However, the findings of the X of the attempt to fire the orphanage. And it was entirely possible. very probable, that the explosive liquid was "planted'' i'll her room, but it seems certain that someone had a di- abolical plan to set fire tos the struce lure and burn the inmates to death.
 "Who that person isa nassy never be known, and the. reason f5r such an attempt may; never be known. The fact remains, however, that Ann Woods, ittle~orphan girl. paid the su- preme sacrifice to save he lives of her companions, and thu. her tragic heroism was the toll of. one of the most fendish. criminals in the world CONTRACT LET FOR FED
 ERA BUILDING, JUNEAU
The Kusko times., 1929-08-17

During the past school year the States of Arkansas, California, h. diana, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon and Washing ton were represented in the student body of the. Ala >.. Agricultural Col lege and School of Mines.
The Kusko times., 1929-08-17

Mrs. Ivar Chilstrom and Miss Mary Mclean, after visit of several days at McGrath, returned here yesterday. coming up with Ralph Dulac-
The Kusko times., 1929-08-17

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The Kusko times., 1929-08-17

Charlie O'Halloran left yesterday on a business trip to McGrath, travel ing with Ralph Dulac.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-04-26
SERVICE MEMS INSURANCE
STILL AVAILABLE

Minnesota Legionnaires thru their
500 local post service officers, are par
ticipating in nationwide Legion
campaign to inform world war veter-
ans that they may still obtain United
States government insurance if they
carried wartime government protec-
ton; according to Edwin L. Lindell
department adjutant who says:
From $1,000 to $1,000 policies in
multiples Of $500 is available, not to
exceed the amount veteran carried
during his world war service. Any Le-
gion post win furnish application
blanks and instructions or they may be
had from United States Veterans Bur-
eau, Fort Smelling.
Ordinary life, 20 payment life, 80
payment life, 20 years endowment, 80
year endowment, or endowment at 81
are available, as is a temporary policy
which during the next years may be
converted to any of the policies above
mentioned. ANY person, firm, cor
poration or legal entity, either indi-
vidually or as trustee, may be designa-
ted as beneficiary. Uncle Sans in
surance, available only to healthy
world war veterans, is free from the
usual restrictions as to residence
modes of transportation, occupation
or active wartime activities"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-04-26
BIC FIGHT CARD
At DULUTH

Phil Terk, Duluth's hustling boxing
promoter, announces what he calls the
greatest match in my matchmaking
career, match between Mel Coleman
undefeated st. Paul boxer, and Chef
Mcintyre of Superior, also undefeated.
For weeks, Superior and Duluth have
been clamoring for this fight and
finally, Terk has cinched it for We'd
nesday night, May LIST, at the Duluth
Amphitheatre.
The fight cannot go the scheduled
four rounds" said Terk Both boys
are hard punchers and can pull a
fight out of the fire with a single
punch, so predict the greatest slug
ging event ever staged in Duluth"
Besides this sensational match,
Manager Phil Terk has arranged to
get punch by punch, round by round
reports from the ringside of the Billy
Petrolle-Ray Miller bout at Detroit,
for the lightweight championship
bout. The returns will come by tele-
graph from the ringside and since
everybody in the northwest is con-
cerned about the outcome of the fight,
this will be great news for those who
would Ike to but can't make the trip.
Angelo Puglisi and Charley Retz-
lac are also on the card at Detroit
and blow by blow accounts of their
fights will also be delivered to the
crowd at the Amphitheatre Wednes-
day night.
Besides the Coleman and Mcintyre
match, Terk is planning to show
Mickey Mack and Steve Wosiak
against two of the best amateurs from
the Twin Cities and viii hold the
semi finals of the 100 pound boys
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-04-26

stances. If he keeps within these
speeds, the burden of proof is on the
prosecution.
It is well, also, to remember an
other paragraph in the traffic law,
which says:
mo person shall operate or halt any
vehicle upon highway carelessly or
heedleSsly in disregard of the rights
of others or in manner so as to en-
danger or be likely to endanger any
person or property.
ANY person who drives any vehicle
upon highway in wilful and wanton
disregard of the rights or safety of
others and in manner so as to en-
danger or be likely to endanger any
person shall be guilty of gross mis-
demanor."
The recent amendment win protect
motorists from being fined for driv-
ing 40 miles an hour when such speed
endangered no one. But reading the
other provisions in the law, it is clear
that it gives no one a license to drive
at dangerous speed. After all, the
one safe rule, although it is not in the
law, is this: keep your car under
control SO you can stop in the clear
space ahead"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-04-26

Governor Christensen applied the
axe to the asked for appropriations
for state institutions and in justifica-
ton for his veto makes the following
statement:
During the present administration
a substantial increase has been made
in provision for the institutions and
activities under the Board of Control.
Whereas the appropriations made for
these institutions and activities ag-
gregated $4,000, 429 in 1925, they were
increased to S8,947, 800 in 1927; and
the measure approved today carries
a total of S9.8l9, 400. During the pre-
vious six-year period there was an in
crease of 1851, $50. During this six
year period, there has been an in
crease of S1,818,871.
During the SiX-year period next
preceding the present administration,
the capacity of institutions for the
feebleminded and epileptic was in
creased 212. During the six years Of
the present administration the in
crease in capacity will be 400. There
has been no executive veto of any
item providing for increased capacity
at institutions, for feeble minded and
epileptic.
During the four-year period next
preceding the period of the present
administration there was an increase
of 500 in the capacity of institutions
for the insane. During the first four
years of the present administration
the increase was SOC. The present bill
makes provision for a further increase
of 80.
The crowded condition in the State
Public School at Owatonna has result
ed from an increase of admittances
of orphans over requirements during
the last two years. Undoubtedly econ
omic conditions are responsible for
this unanticipated increase. At this
session, the first since the condition
arose, it is being corrected by the
erection of an additional building
1T is interesting to note in connec-
ton with appropriations for the fee
ble-minded and insane that budget
recommendations at the last session
were more liberal than legislative ap-
preparations. The Budget Commits
sion recommended an increase capaci-
ty Of los at Cambridge, while the leg
islature appropriated money for TO-
The commission recommended in
creased capacity of los at Willmar
The legislature allowed go
Minnesota has always treated its
wards ligerally. During the last six
years there has been a conspicuous
advance even over the excellent stand
ards previously attained"
The Scenic Anyways Company has
been organized for this city and
Robin" airplane will arrive the early
part of next month and be ready for
business as soon as the lakes open up
to furnish landing fields for the pom
toon fitted machine. Herb Kurvinen
and Toby Somero are the organizers
of the company and Curtis plane
has been ordered. The machine will
be used for scenic trips of which there
are thousands in this section of the
country and will carry passengers
A licensed pilot has been engaged to
fly the airplane and the machine will
carry two besides the pilot. It is ex-
pected that the plane will fill want
for rapid transportation to the num-
erous lakes in this vicinity and MesSrs
Kurvinen and Somero are to be con-
graduated on their progressiveness.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-04-26
READ TRAFFIC LAW
BEFORE SPEEDING

speed limit raised to As miles an
hour" the headlines informed us re-
Gently. But before we step on it." it
might be well to read the rest of the
traffic law. A Highway bulletin calls
attention to this paragraph, the most
important in the section relative to
speed:
ANY person driving vehicle on a
highway shall drive the same at a
speed not greater than is reasonable
and proper, having due regard to the
traffic, the surface and width of the
highway, and of any other conditions
then existing"
The next paragraph was amended
by changing "35" to "45' in the last
line, but otherwise was not changed.
As it stands now, it is declared prima
facie evidence that a driver is going
at speed greater than is reasonable
and proper, if he goes more than
Fifteen miles an hour when ap-
preaching within fifty feet Of steam
o. electric railway crossing where the
view is INSTRUCTED, within fifty feet of
a highway intersection where the view
is INSTRUCTED, when passing school
house during recess or when children
are coming or going to school, or in go
ing around curves where the view is
INSTRUCTED;
Twenty miles an hour in the closely
built up or congeSted portions of a
municipality. where traffic is con-
trolled by traffic officers or traffic con-
troll devices;
Fifteen miles an hour on other
streets in the closely built-up or con-
gested districts;
Twenty miles an hour in the resi-
dence districts of a municipality.
Forty-flve miles an hour under al
other conditions.
The first paragraph clearly puts ths
| responsibility on the driver to see tina
he maintains safe speed. The sec.
ond is merely rule Of evidence. I
a person goes faster than these speeds
the burden of proof is on him, in cas-
| OF accident or arrest, to show that i
was a safe speed under the circum
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-04-26
SYMPHONY TICKETS
BEING GIVEN OUT

Music lovers wishing to attend the
annual event of the Range Symphony
Orchestra appearance in Ely, Sunday,
May 5th, may apply for compliment
tary tickets to any of the local bust
ness men sponsoring the concert.
1t is well to remind that the tick
cts now available are good for adults
only. Children who desire to attend
the concert must either be accompan-
led by sponsor or get admission thru
the local Superintendent Of Schools.
A program of real distinction is in
store for the Ely music lovers who will
attend Professor LombardfS SYM
phony concert. The Range Symphony
Orchestra will have the privilege this
season to play before large critical
and selected audience, when they will
make their first stage appearance in
Minneapolis, in the University
Armory, next Sunday night, April g.
Such is the esteem in which the
Range Symphony and its conductor
are held by the general public that a
large group of schools, institutions,
and associations of the state OF Min
nesota are backing and sponsoring
this appearance of the Range Sym
phony in Minneapolis.
Conductor lombard has planned to
give the Ely audience the very same
high-claSs and interesting program
that he is giving in Minneapolis next
Sunday.
Following is the list of local spon-
sors from whom tickets may be OBJ
tanned:
Drs. Ayres and Parker, Ely Finnish
Stock Co., The Miller Store Co., Saw
olainen Co., John Zupancich, Slogan
Bros, Laing Hardware Co., American
Clothing Co., William Mills, The Ely
Miner, Ely Hardware Co., Ely Table
Supply, Vermillion Electric Co., Gust
Maxi, McMa!lan Lumber Co., w. E.
Englund, Ely Hotel Jas. Moonan, M.
j. Murphy, Chocolate Shop, Lindbeck
Garage, Frank Pengal, James Drug
Store, Thomas Harri, Veranth Hotel,
Peoples Department Store, Forest
Hotel, First National Bank, Frank
Skala, First State Bank, Nannie's
Style Shoppe, Central Garage, Range
Dry Cleaners, Pete'S Garage, Ray
Harmon, and Al. Hamel.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-04-26
BAND CONCERT
NEXT SUNDAY

The seventh and last indoor band
concert viii be given at the Washing
ton Auditorium next Sunday after
noon at 2:30. An elegant program has
been arranged as follows:
Overture, ........' Morning, Noon and
Night in Vienna
Auxiliary Chorus, (a) when Song is
Sweet
(b) "The Piper S
Song
Mrs. Sarah Gordon, Mrs. Inez Norby,
Mrs. Anna Slabodnik, Mrs. Cora Hill
man, Mrs Arthur Imhoff, Mrs. Marie
Nelson, Mrs Ruth LaBeau, Mrs.
Adelaide Knutson, Mrs. Anna Novak,
Mrs. Mary Spreitzer, Mrs. Anna An
derson, Mrs. Ida Erickson.
Director-MrS. Ethel Haynes.
Piano-Miss Florence Nichols.
Violins- Mary Louise White, Lucille
Childers, and Mildred Carlson.
Novelty, Dance OF The Teddy Bears
Tamburitza Orchestra, (a) Gypsy
Dance, (Slavian Folk Song, (b)
'tSolomio", (c) Home Town Band"
1.-THE Six Cosacks" Smrekar,
George Barosetz Matt Msrolt. Tony
Antoncich, Frank Gouze and Mathew
Gouze.
Grand operate Selection, .....
............-..... "Wagnerian
Introducing Mariana
Invitation to Dance" and Ermine"
Xylophone Sole, $500. Liberty Bell
March, ................L Liberty Bell
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-04-26
HER MONUMENT is ONLY ONE
ERECTED ENTIRELY BY WOMEN

Although she was but little known
to the public at time when her son
was the idol of the hour, later genera
tons of Americans have paid her
honor and in Virginia a tall, stately
shaft Of enduring stone-said to be
the only monument to women erect
ed entirely by the efforts of women
marks her last resting place. And the
simple inscription on this stone speaks
eloquently of the reason for that dis
tinction- It reads, MARY, the Mother
of Washington"
AS Americans prepare to celebrate
Mothers Day on May II, it is fitting
that they should recall the story of
the mother who gave to this nation
its greatest man. That story is told
in an illustrated feature article by
Elmo Scott Watson in this issue of
The Ely Miner. Be sure to read
"Washington'S Mother" in this issue
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-04-26
Don't Build Too Close.


The season when new filing sta
tons and refreshment stands will be
springing up along the highways is
at hand A bulletin issued by the
State Highway department this week
makes several suggestions for the
guidance of persons planning roadside
stations
The department will not permit any
stands to encroach upon the highway
right-of-way. Beyond that the de-
partment has no power of control, but
the bulletin suggests that if stands,
pumps and other structures are placed
at least twenty-five feet back of the
right-of-way line, it will provide park
ing and turning space which will be a
convenience to customers and increase
business.
On many routes the Highway de-
partment is acquiring additional right
ofway to allow for widening the
roadway at some future time. In such
cases buildings, stands and pumps
must be moved back While property
owners are reimbursed for the value
of the land and damage to structures
the owner of the business faces the
inconvenience of moving and the loss
of business during the moving opera
tons. If stands are placed farther
back, business will not be interrupted
in case it becomes necessary to widen
the highway.
Stands which are right up to the
highway right-of-way often constitute
an actual traffic hazard due to cars
stopping in front of them. Many
drivers hesitate to stop at stands
where there is not ample parking
place to insure safety.
Driveways to establishments near
the highway must be sloped so that
they will drain away from the high
Way
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-04-26
SU'' SELECTS MAY IITH
FOR MOTHERS DAY

The University of Minnesota this
week renewed its annual invitation to
all mothers of university students to
attend Mothers Day, which will be
held on both the main and agricultural
campuses Saturday, May IL.
President Coffman is mailing letters
this week asking all mothers of stu
dents to come to the university on
that day and take part in the special
exercises that are being arranged.
For four years past Mothers Day
has been one of the principal events
of the year at the university. Tt is
an affair which has the unique quality
of being equally interesting to all
students, in that the relationship be-
tween mother and son or daughter is
practically unvarying, no matter what
the college, age or other interests OF
the student may be.
The program to be followed viii be
similar to those that have gone be-
fore. Inasmuch as one Of the princi-
pal purposes of the day is to give
mothers an opportunity to see just
exactly what the university is like,
and to ask questions freely about any
activities that may not be evident to
the eye during days visit, class
rooms will be open for visitors in the
morning. Mothers viii be taken to
lunch at various places by their
daughters or sons. During the after
noon a series of teas and entertain
ments has been scheduled
The principal affair of the day, the
annual Mothers Day banquet in the
Minnesota Union. VIII be served al
$50. As in past years, there win be
a speaker representing the university
probably President Coffman, and re-
Spouse by a representative of the visit
ing mothers.