The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-02-24


EllsWorth-Local schools vera
closed during the cold wave.
Crookston-An extensive agricul-
tural and livestock display was held
here.
MinneapoIis-The annual Shrine
circus will be held in the Auditorium
the week beginning March 6.
Wadena-One of the worst storms
in recent years, drifted snow and
blocked highways near here.
Warren-Highway expenditures in
Marshall county's state aid and coun-
ty systems totaled $116,O01.46 in 1882.
HanIey FaIIs-Members of the local
chapter, Izaak Walton Leauge, are
feeding game birds north of the state
game refuge.
Windom-Thousands Of pheasants
froze to death in Cottonwood county.
1t is estimated that one third of the
birds were dead.
Cross Lake-Twenty-fve resort and
lakeshore owner of this section have
organized branch of the Minnesota
Game Protective League.
Worthington-Sixty men are EN-.
ployed here on an ice harvest from
which $500 tons already have been
shipped to storage points.
St. Paul-The radio commission au-
thorized station KSTP to increase its
| daytime power from 10 to % kilowatts
| on any experimental basis.
Emmons-A special election will be
held to fill the vacancy in the legis-
| lature caused by the death of P. H.
Peterson, house member from Free
| born county.
st. Paul-The grasshopper menace
that threatened crops, especially along
the western border of Minnesota, for
| the last two seasons is over, A. G..
Ruggles, reports.
MorristoWn-Estimat of the loss
entailed in the destruction by fire of
the Big Diamond Mill, Morristown's
largest structure, were placed at from
| 100000 to S250,000.
Duluth-Sixty-five nurses of st. Ma.
rvs hospital, many of them scantilly
clad, were forced to fee from the hos
pital nurses home when fire broke out.
Loss amounted to $4,000.
st. PauI-Dr. Clarence H. Eckles,
So, chief of the University Of Mime
sofa dairy husbandry, and selected as
one of the 10 leading dairying author
tiles in the country, died here.
Red Wing-A two-day hog cholera
school will be conducted here Febru-
airy % and "a under direction of DR..
w. A. Billings, veterinarian of the ex-
tension service, University Farm, St.
Paul.
Caledonia-An unidentified youth,
| 20 years of age, apparently one of the
nations wandering army of unem-
ployed men and boys, was found dead
in the bunker of a railway refrigera-
tor car.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Godfrey
G. Goodwin of Minneapolis fell from
window of his room at hotel near
the Capitol in Washington, D. c., and
broke his back, dying almost in
stantly.
Mnneota-As a special feature of
the corn show and farmers institute
here, the Minnesota's Business Mems
| Association, sponsors of the event, Of
fered prizes for corn meal mush or
other corn dishes.
Minneapolis-Th city council was
directed to provide $4,000 for new
and modern police equipment includ-
ing armored cars, faster patrol cars,
| machine and tear gas guns and i'm
proved radio facilities.
st. PauI-Gov. Floyd B. Olson will
attend governors conference in
Washington, March and 6, called by
President-elect Franklin d. Roosevelt
to discuss problems of agriculture, un-
employment and other matters. He
also will attend the inaugural March 4
EImore-An organized gang of mail
robbers, operating in southern and
central Minnesota, has burglarized
postoffices in IL small towns within
the last month and escaped with
cash, money order blanks and postal
saving receipts, averaging 5000 to
$500 profit with each robbery. This
community was visited last.
st. William E. McEwen, vet
eran leader in labor and political
circles of Minnesota, died unexpected
ly in the Lowry hotel. He was SIS
years old His name is linked to one
of the greatest tasks in constructive
legislation in the history of the state
the workmen's compensation law. In
framing this plan and getting Il
through the legislature, Mr.. McEwer
spent the better part of four years
Rochester-Five men, accused Of
being torture bandits who attacked
two elderly southern Minnesota farm
couples and two women named as &C
cessories after the fact, are under ar
rest here. Four of the men, Hugh
Smith, Herbert Miller, Ernest Taylor
all of Rochester, Arthur SCHNEIDER
berg of Chatfield, Elmer Anderson o
Spring Valley, and the woman, Mrs
Schmiedeberg and Alice Smattrum o
Rochester, are being held. All Of the
men, Hayes Dansinburg. Olmsteat
county attorney said, have confesset
to beating and robbing William Koe
mig, farmer near Rochester, Jan. 4.
Pipestone-Many residents of Pipe
stone and Murray counties have sign
ed petitions asking that those coun
ties be retained as part of the sec
ond congressional district instead o
being made a part of the seventh dis
| triof