The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-04-13
MINNESOTA NEWS

oI SoU,OUU Tor construction or an ad-
dition to the school building here lost
by three votes.
Minneapolis-More than 800 drivers,
helpers and yardmen of ice COM
panies went out on strike, demanding
more pay and better hours.
Angus-Maddened at the surging
throngs at public auction sale. a
cow being sold broke loose and in
jured little jeanette Hendrickson
severely.
Hibbins-The Minneapolis hockey
team won the third straight game and
the title in the playoff for the Cen.
trail League championship here by a
score of to 3.
st. Paul-Time for obtaining fed
eral loans on ear corn stored and
sealed in farm cribs has Jeen extend.
ed by the Commodities Credit Cor.
poration to May /.
st. Paul-April first was the dead.
line for purchasing car and drivers
licenses in Minnesota and heavy pen
alties will be levied on all those oper-
ating a car without them.
Barry-Fire caused damage estimat-
ed at $4,000 to three business estab-
lishments in the heart of Barry. Fire
departments from Beardsley and
Graceville aided in fighting the flames.
st. Paul-The legal sale of liquor
in Minnesota has brought $660,000 to
the state treasury in licenses and
taxes in the first 70 days of the opera
ton OF the state liquor control law.
Lake Crystal-Through aid extend
ed by the debt adjustment board of
Blue Earth county, several farmers
and their families will be able to re-
main on their farms for another year.
ExceIsior-Captain George B. Hop
kins, for more than so years a steam
boat captain on Lake Minnetonka and
one OF the states most colorful char
acters, died at the home of his sister
here.
Oakland-Mr. and Mrs. Ole B. Bird
ley, who will celebrate their seventy
third wedding anniversary June 8, are
the Oldest residents of Freedom coun-
ty and possibly the oldest couple in
the state.
Owatonna-Mrs. Katherine Pike, 80
year-old recluse who died here March
10, left an estate valued at $4,000.
She had lived in self-imposed poverty
here for 30 years, coming from New
York after her husband died.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS thousand
warrants directed against Hennepin
county residents who are delinquent
in payment of their 1888 personal
property taxes were placed in the
hands Of the sheriff for service.
Minneapolis-The Northwest Ban
corporation lost it's fight to halt the
investigation of it's affairs by the Min
nesota state commerce commission.
Its plea for temporary Injunction
was denied in an opinion handed
down in federal district court.
st. Paul-Through an emergency
plan advocated by Gov. Floyd B. o.
son, Minnesota will advance seed
grain, feed and gasoline fuel to thou
sands of farmers in the drouth re-
gions of the state so there will be no
delay in spring planting of crops.
st. Paul-Minnesota's law placing a
10-cent a pound tax on butter substi-
tutes containing less than IS per cent
Of animal fat or oil is fully sustained
as result of decision of the United
States supreme court upholding the
Washington oleomargarine tax law
st. Paui-John Dillinger, escaped
desperate, shot 1t out with police who
attempted to capture him in an apart
ment here. Machine-gun bullets
whistled past the law as the gangster
made his escape. John Hamilton, vet
eran member of the gang and wo-
man companion were with the out
law.
MinneapoIis-Police received hum
dreds of telephone calls on April list in
regard to a form hanging from one
Of the railroad bridges over the Mis-
sissippi river. Squad cars, fire trucks,
ambulances and the morgue wagon
rushed to the scene to find that a
prankster had stuffed a suit with
straw and hung it from the bridge.
Due to ice and snow it was impossible
to remove it and calls continued to
pour in all day from passing motor
lists.
Hastngs-Judge Albert Schaller, a
member of the Minnesota bar for
more than half century, former JUS
tice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
and state senator for more than 20
years, died here at the age of IS
years. Active in democratic circles
of this state throughout his career,
Judge Schaller was a resident of Min
nesota since this section was still a
northwest territory. Born in Chicago,
he came with his parents to Hastings
on July 4, 1855. Judge Schaller grew
up in Hastings, attended school there
and later received training in France
and Germany. He was a graduate of
the st. Louis Law School, and was
admitted to the bar in Minnesota in
1879. That same year he began pub
lie service, first as Dakota county at
torney. Later he became Hastings
city attorney, and subsequently was
sent to the state senate 20 consecu-
tive terms.
Minneapois-Ten young men, Uni
veristy of Minnesota students who
have been living comfortably on s25 a