The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-12-14
MINNESOTA NEWS

snow.
Austin-Fourteen contractors en-
tered bids here for construction of A
homes in federal subsistence home
stead project here.
Bird lsIand-John Lafontaine, local
farmer, received a check for $1,504.14
for the sale of 472 turkeys. He still
has 800 more to sell.
Glencoe-The new parochial school
of the First Evangelical Lutheran
parish here, erected at cost of more
than $4,000, was dedicated.
St PauI-Every county in Mime
sofa IL now accredited as a bovine tu-
berculosis-free county. DR.. c. E. Cot
ton, livestock sanitary commissioner,
announced.
litchfieId-The foundations of the
new postoffice building here has been
completed and work started on the
first floor. The construction will con-
tinue through the winter.
Minneapolis-Glen Seidel, quarter
back On the Gopher football team this
season, was named captain for 1885,
succeeding Pug Lund. Bill Bevan,
guard, was chosen alternate captain.
eapols-Captain Pug Lund,
Phil Bengston and Frank Larson have
accepted an invitation to play in the
annual East-West charity football
game at San Francisco New Years
day.
Observation-Disclosures feathered
population will suffer from the heavy
snowfall unless food is made avail
able to them, DR.. Oliver R. Bryant,
president of the Game Feeders Club,
warned.
st. Paul-Frank B. Kellogg, world
court justice and former secretary of
state, left the hospital after having
been ill there for 10 weeks. Mr.. Kel-
logg underwent two major operations
during his stay there.
st. Paul-More than 600 villages in
the state elected mayors, councilmen,
recorders and other officers. The
vote in that area Of the state gripped
by snow and cold was one Of the
lightest in recent years.
st. PauI-The state highway patrol
has been instrumental in adding $149,-
872 to the state auto vehicle license
receipts in 10 months this year, high
way department officials revealed.
Most of the money came from truck
owners with improper plates.
Granite FalIs-August Pesch, %,
farmer, living nine miles west of here,
is held in the county Jail without
charge in connection with the fatal
shooting of his 23-year-old wife at their
farm home. Authorities claim Pesch
shot his wife, Hilda, in fit of jea-
lousy.
MinneapoIis-Leon G1eckman, st.
Paul political figure, was found guilty
on charges of evading his federal in
come taxes. He was sentenced to
serve term of Is months in the fed
eral penitentiary upon each of the
two counts which the jury held
against him, and was fined $4,000 on
each of those counts.
apoIis-Looking forward to
spending the Christmas holidays in
Norway, Sweden and Denmark, large
group of men and women from the
Twin Cities and cities and towns in
Minnesota, North and South Dakota,
Wisconsin and Montana, left Mime
apolis on the first lap of an annual
tour to the Scandinavian countries.
Sleepy Eye-The federal govern
ment will ultimately establish $4,000
acre migratory wild fowl nesting and
breeding grounds in the Mud Lake
area in Marshall county under plan
which won the APPROVAL of the state
executive council. The project is one
of the largest sponsored by the Uni
ted States Biological Survey, headed
by j. E. Darling.
DuIuth-Increases in rates on grain
and grain products, from most points
in Minnesota and North Dakota 20
Minneapolis and Duluth-Superior are
in prospect as result of an interstate
commerce commission order for tariff
revisions. This order was handed
down as the commissions final deci-
sion in its nine-year investigation of
grain, flour and feed rates.
st. PauI-Minnesota's COWS and
creameries, in spite of drouth and
other difficulties, carried on the dairy
industry to new high records in 1888,
according to the annual bulletin on
creameries and cheese factories.
They rolled up the largest butter pro-
duction in the history of the state
more than 300,OO0,00O pounds-which
sold for 10 per cent more than the
1882 output.
Little s-Construction of a
$1S0,000 addition to the high school,
will provide employment for all per-
sons on relief rolls here this winter,
FERA officials, announced. Start of
work waits only approval of plans
and specifications. Relief funds, and
$4,000 Little Falls bond issue, will
finance the work. In addition. Keli-
her soon may start city hall, costing
$4,000, half paid by the municipality.
Rochester-Five hundred county
and township officers from IL south
eastern Minnesota counties opposed
inclusion Of town and county roads
in state high system at a hearing
before the state interim highway COM
mittee here.
ST. Paul-Minnesota led Is report
Ing states in purchase of federal mi
gratory-bird hunting stamps for the