The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-02-23
MINNESOTA NEWS

ed in 1856.
Pine lsland-The largest druggist
in the country is located here. He
is E. M. Marsh, who tips the scales
at 404 pounds.
cambridse-A $4,000 bond issue
will be decided at an election and if
approved the money would be used
to construct an addition to the school
house.
st. PauI-Thousands waited until
the last day to purchase their IL
cense plates, but many more have
failed to send in their applications,
making a penalty due.
Rosewood-A flock of about SO
ducks moved northward through Mar
shall county, and, owing to the early
season, is believed by old-timers to
be an indication of an early spring.
FuIda-Game Warden Dudley Brady
of Window escaped an icy bath
when his car plunged through the
ice of lake near here at a spot
where the water was only few feet
deep.
st. Peter-Leaders of secondary
education in 40 southern counties of
the state attended a conference of
the Association of Central Minnesota
School Men at Gustavus Adolphus Col
lege here.
caIedonia-Moving pictures, dis
cussions of alfalfa, soil and poultry
and entertainment will occupy visit
ors at four farmers and homemakers
Institutes at Spring Grove February
81, Houston February %, Hokah
March 1 and Caledonia March 2.
Baudette-Two of three cow elk
placed in the Red Lake game pre-
serve last spring were shot by Alfred
Scifres, who pleaded guilty to a
charge of hunting illegally. He was
fined 500. The hides and $50 pounds
of meat were found in his possession.
Minneapolis-Hop of continuing
air mail service on the Twin Cities
run faded when the postoffice de-
partment turned down an offer Of
the Northwest Anyways to fly the
mail without compensation. The
army took over the routes in the
U. S.
st. PauI-Official Washington has
branded the Twin Cities as breeding
| grounds for criminals and as the
two cities in the country which real
ly need cleaning up. This came
after the Bremen family was cri-
ticized for falling to cooperate with
authorities.
cass Lake-Terming the treaty
with Chippewa Indians prohibiting
sale of liquor in the area covered by
the treaty in 1855 as obsolete, resi-
dents in this vicinity have petitioned
| Congressman Knutson to use his in.
| fiuence to amend the bill passed at
the last congressional session which
opened part of the territory to liquor
sales and left the remainder dry.
Faribault-The entire district sur.
rounding Faribault, where Walter Ma.
| gee paid the 100000 ransom for Ed
ward Bremen is being combed for
traces Of the abductors. All residents
in the vicinity Of the place where
the ransom was turned over and in
| the district where Bremen was re-
| leased from a small sedan were ques-
toned in the hope that some eyewit-
ness could be located.
Observation-Disclosures will become
the foremost refuge for wild life in
the nation If the report OF President
Roosevelt's committee on conserva-
ton is adopted. Under the recon-
mendations in the committees report,
| $756,O0O would be allocated to Mime
| sofa for the purchase of lands to be
| used in the preservation of game.
| This is more money than is recon-
mended for any other state in the
| union.
MinneapoIis-Neil M. Cronin, chair
man of the Minneapolis-St. Paul re-
gional labor board was appointed la
Dor compliance officer for Minnesota
| by Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, national re-
covery administrator. His new post,
salaried position, will not interfere
with his duties as head of the labor
| board, he said. His work will be to
investigate complaints of violations
of labor provisions Of the NRA codes
in an attempt to settle them before
they develop into labor disputes.
Minneapolis-Liquor drinkers may
continue to consume prune juice and
bathtub gin out of fancy bottles, but
after March z they will know, at
| least, that they are not drinking good
liquor, David R. Arundel, state liquor
control commissioner, said after
studying the new regulations ap-
proved by the federal alcohol control
administration earlier this week. The
| new federal regulations require that
every bottle of distilled spirits bear
a label describing the kind, type, ma
ture and general standard of the con.
| tents, and the label shall be worded
so as not to create misleading i'm
preston by being untrue in any par
| ticular.
WiIImar-Work has been complet-
ed on the new highway bridge span
ming the Great Northern tracks south
of Spicer on trunk highway No. 4.
Approximately $4,000 was expended
| in it's construction.
Moorhead-Two Minneapolis men
who shot and wounded Deputy Sheriff
Peter Jesten during an attempted Jail
break here will face charges of as
sault with intent to kill. The two
are Fred Jewell and Kenneth AL
bright, both 90. They had been held