The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-05-15
On This
Occasion
Just a few thoughts by the Editor
on things Material and Immaterial.

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Cattle running at large in the city
limits are already beginning to poster
lawns and bouleyards. There Is a
state law against the running at large
OF cattle and horses and while there Is
no city ordinance or pound, the state
law would cover these cases, if brought
to trial For years past the city has
had force of men employed as cow
police" whose duty it was to see that
cattle kept out of town unless being
driven to and from pasture. If We
have the figures correct the cow
police" cost the city last year in the
neighborhood of $1,000. Just few
more than a hundred cattle were
enumerated, fifty or more of which
were herded and driven to pasture OUT
side the city limits by the owners.
This shows that it cost the city some
thing like S46 to police each animal
here last summer.
Some of the owners of these beasts
damage done by their cattle to your
garden or lawn and Indignantly de-
mand why don't you build fence?"
It is estimated that there are some
thing like 760 homes in this city. Each
owner builds fence to keep out other
peoples cattle which the law plainly
states shall not run at large. These
oil r.
$500, according to their material and
construction For example let us
average them at $50 each 760 at $50
totals $4,000. All this enormous out
lay is required to keep cattle-which
by the greatest stretch Of imagination
cannot be valued at over s7,0O0-from
eating your garden and destroying
your property
Add the outlay for fences, cost of
maintaining clean alleys; the health
menace by reason of the barns which
propagate flies, rats and other vermin;
destroyed gardens and boulevards. etc,
to the cost Of cow police" and a few
other incidentals and it will be seer
that the taxpayer is maintaining some
what Of a high-priced luxury in al
lowing fifty or less cattle owners to
dictate the policy Of making pasture
OF the city boulevards and the neigh
boris garden for the other 6l00 in
habitants
It is true, there are some who need
the money secured from the sale of
milk. At the high cost necessary to
allow them TO maintain this revenue,
it would seem much cheaper for the
city to furnish these people with milk
free and get rid of the cows. Besides,
those selling milk are doing so con-
trary to the laws of the land which re-
strcts the milk peddler to certain
health meaSures-the ordinary COW
owner cannot fulfill.
So much for the cattle owner. Then
there is the matter of back yard pigs,
sheep and goats, all detrimental to the
health machinery of the city. These
are maintained on private property, it
Is true, but laws are such as TO make
this impossible. Children are shooed of
the streets at certain hours at night
Dances are closed at Il o'clock and
human activities all have their Enita-
tons. When it comes to live stock
things are different.
Through the inSistent demands Of
Lake County authorities who were of
the opinion that the Ely Municipal
Court as established in 1891 was slip
ping something over on them when
trying cases originating in their county
the act as given in another place in
this paper was passed. The court still
has jurisdiction over cases arising in
Fall Lake Township and other town
ships bordering on st. Louis County
near Ely. The underlying motive for
demanding a curtailment of juriSdic-
ton Of the Ely Municipal Court was
the loss of revenue where cases were
tried here.
As we see it, Lake County had
nothing coming. They had no mach
inery for court purposes, no jail, nor
any method Of feeding and keeping
prisoners this side of Two Harbors and
Ely was given jurisdiction over cases
arising in this vicinity as a matter of
assistance to Lake County and also the
utigants The election Of a justice of
the peace in Fall Lake Township
would have cured these minor defects
and saved money for both the litigantS
and the Municipal Court of Ely.
Don j. MacIver, news editor Of the
Virginia Daily Enterprise, has our
heartfelt sympathy and the sympathy
Of host of friends in the tragic and
untinely death OF his wife Monday.
Mrs MacIver was electrocuted at her
home n Virginia when she ATTEMPTED
to recover an electric heater which had
fallen into the filled bath tub. She
was g years of age. Virginia has the
sympathy Of neighboring towns in its
Surfiet of deaths of prominent resi-
dents the past month.
"Sooners" viii be able to get in their
work under the new laws setting back
the duck season TO October /. The
galinule and the rail are the only birds
that can be taken by hunters on Sept
Is in this and following years. Soon
ers" viii pretend they are hunting
those birds and incidentally gather in
ducks as well. The shooting on the
lakes of the lowly rail and galinule will