The Ely miner., 1934-05-11
MINNESOTA NEWS

kiester-Local business firms re-
port a substantial increase in this
years business, compared with like
period in 1888.
st. CIoud-Walter H. Hornstein, 22-
year-old transient, is held in jail after
admitting the fatal shooting of Fred
w. Nolan, st. Cloud policeman.
Hastings-John P. Hanson, 81, who
with his brother Charles Hanson, had
operated a grocery store here So
years, died as a result of stroke.
Red Wing-John Landers, 65 year
old bachelor, living in a small home
near Goodhue village, burned to death
in fire which destroyed his home.
Minneapolis - Postmaster General
Farley will attend ceremonies to be
held in connection with dedication of
the new Minneapolis postoffice early
in September
Isle-Two boys, Burton Russell, IT
and Roger Weitnauer, Is, were stuck
on a reef two miles out In Mile Laos
lake, and spent 80 hours in their boat
before helo came.
Red Wins-An appropriation of
$500 to pay the salary and expenses
of Goodhue county All club leader
has been made by the board of coun-
ty commissioners.
Rice Lake-Three thousand dele
gates from 16 states will attend the
annual convention of eastern United
States Luther Leagues here, June %
to July /, church officials have an
nounced.
carleton-A warehouse and $4,000
feet of lumber, as well as boarding
house here were destroyed by fire,
causing loss of $4,000. High winds
swept the flames and it required 100
men to save the rest of the com.
munity.
st. Paul-An additional 100000 of
federal funds has been allocated for
drouth relief in Al Minnesota coun-
ties. The amount was considered
sufficient to keep starving farm ami
mails alive until farmers can grow
their own feed
FaribauIt-Major William Milligan,
SO, only survivor of the sixty-second
New York regiment and one of the
few remaining members of the Loyal
Legion in Minnesota, composed of
Civil war officers, died at the home
of his son, William.
BriceIyn-C Chicken raisers report a
new disease among baby chicks which
is battling veterinarians. From a
flock of 500, Donald Greenfield, living
east Of here, has lost all but 100
chicks. Many other hatchery men re-
port similar experiences.
Observation-Disclosures Minnesota
lodge No. 1, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, observed the eighty-fifth an.
niversary of its founding with a spe-
cially arranged program. The lodge
charter was issued in 1S49, just after
Minnesota territory was established
and nine years before its statehood.
st. PauI-Ten cheese factaries will
ke kept busy three months filling a
government order given Land O.
Lakes Creameries, a report from
Washington states. The order is for
$4,000 pounds of cheese to be- used
by the Federal Surplus Relief Cor
poration for relief distribution. The
cheese is to be delivered during May,
June and July.
st. Paul-Next week will see the
actual changing of the numbers on
Minneosta's trunk highways in accord
ance with the renumbering system re-
Gently adopted by the state highway
department. The REMEMBERING of
routes to eliminate duplication OF
numbers on state and U. S. highways
and to tie in the 4,3O0 miles Of new
trunks with the $500 miles of old
trunks was worked out by highway
engineers during the winter.
Warroad-The United States Su-
preme Court has ruled against the
landowners along the southern shore
of Lake of the Woods-ending bat
tie between the power interests and
the landowners that has been waged
for nearly half century. The court
decreed that the land bordering on the
lake, up to 1,064 feet above sea level,
often flooded by water when the
power dams at Kenora, Canada, are
closed, may be valued only as agri-
cultural property and not as reser-
voir property.
Minneapolis-The state executive
council approved the purchase by the
state conservation commission of 49,
6S5 acres of land in the areas of
eight state forests officially author
lied by the 1888 legislature. The ac-
QUESTION will cost approximately $780,
900 and will be acquired in the White
Earth forest in Mahnomen, Clearwa-
ter and Becker counties, Beltrami
Island forest in Lake of the Woods
and Roseau counties, Third River
forest In Itasca county; Finland for
est in Lake county; George Washing
ton forest in Itasca and st. Louis
counties; Savannah forest it Aitkin
county, Grand Portage forest in Cook
county and Cloquet Valley forest in
st. Louis county.
onamia-The rain aided corps of
100 men in gaining control of brush
and forest fires which for time
threatened the village of Onamia,
near Milaca. About 80 or 40 fires
which were burning in scattered Sec
tions of Mile Laos, Kanabec and Nor
rison counties were put under con-
troll. The largest fire, near Page,