The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-06-27
MINNESOTA NEWS

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Legion Field, public park.
Austin - Twelve head Of cattle
persisted in a fire when lightning
struck barn on the Frank Baum
CARTEL farm in Lyle township.
Mountain Lake-A $4,000 grant
for labor by state executive council
will provide Mountain Lake with a
lake, adjoining the village limits.
MarshaII-Twelye national guard
and army airplanes roared over Mar
shalls new municipal airport as more
than 5000 persons attended ceremo-
MES dedicating the field.
Whiskered residens Of
Onamia and eight surrounding towns
formally opened the gate to the Paul
Bunyan playground with program Of
outdoor sports, boxing and concerts.
Lake city-A permanent CCC camp
will open in July at Lake City, in
volving expenditure of approximate
ly $4,000. 1t will house 200. Tents
will be used until buildings are
erected.
Little Falls Motor caravans
brought two regiments Of national
guardsmen to Fort Ripley, opening
the first of series of two-weeks
training periods which will continue
until late September.
Mlnneapolis-Flood conditions pre-
vailed in the Twin Cities as the city
was drenched by 2:19 inches of rain
fall in day The rain extended over
wide area, but this region was the
center Of the downpour.
StilIwater-Steps will be launched
Immediately to rebuild the dam and
hydro-plant at the mouth Of the Will
low river at Hudson, to replace the
power-house and south embankment
of the dam, washed away last Janu-
airy.
Notwithstanding Of Agriculture
Henry c. Wallace and other high ad-
ministration officials have been in
vited to participate in the dedication
of the new $4,000 All Club commun-
ity building at Lake Eschquaguma in
August.
Duluth-President Roosevelt was
invited to visit the rehabiliatated
American Fur Co., trading post at
Fond Du Lac, for a celebration Oc-
tober 5. Senator Shipstead and
George Crosby of Duluth, extended
the invitation.
Winona-Edward c. Johnson, 25,
coach at Preston high school last
year, escaped sentence on postal
law violation charge here, but will be
on probation for two years. Johnson
was recently indicted on a charge Of
promoting a chain letter scheme.
Red Wine-Bids for the construc-
tion of lock No. on the Mississippi
river at Red Wing, first of the esti-
mated s11,SO0,000 upper Mississippi
Improvement projects in Minnesota,
will be opened about July % with
work scheduled to start soon after
wards, Maj. D. F. Johns, district army
engineer at st. Paul, said.
SIaytoa-Autopsies on pheasants
disproved assertions of farmers that
birds were guilty of cornfield depre-
dations, says William Munich Of the
state game and fish department.
Only one kernel of corn was found
in six pheasants, Munich told officials
here in investigating complaints. In
the same birds, he said, were found
more than 60 dandelion heads, 20
June bugs and thousands of wild
seeds.
Minneapolis - Minnesota motorists
are warned against hitch-hikers ex-
pected to take to the roads this sum-
mer, in special bulletin issued by
the Automobile Club of Minneapolis.
Although the majority Of hitch-hik-
ers are perfectly harmless people
merely seeking free ride, kind
hearted motorists have been taken
advantage of and in some instances
brutality beaten and robbed, the bull
letin warned.
Detroit Lakes-Discovery of the
skeleton of Indian quintuplets is
claimed here. Authorities said they
are convinced that a group of five
skeletons of infants, uncovered by
road crews represented quintuplets
in some Indian family. Identical 81
milarities in bones were pointed out
in the theory these were Sioux or
Chippewa quints. The Indian mound
was opened in the path of a new road
along Detroit Lakes.
St. PauI-The custer suit aimed at
Governor Olson was thrown out of
court by Judge H. d. Dickinson. The
action came after four days of testi-
mony which revolved largely about
the sentiments and background of
the 20 signers Of the petition asking
the removal of the governor on
charges that he had violated the cor
rupt practices act. A crowded court
room broke into cheers and applause
when Judge Dickinson announced his
verdict from the bench. His deci-
sion sustained a motion for dismis-
sal, made by attorneys for the COVER
nor, who declared that the testimony
had not established a cause for ac-
| ton.
St. Cloud-Work-relief funds to-
falling $24,100 to be used for improve
ments at the Veterans hospital, st.
Cloud, were asked by the Veterans
administration from the division of
applications and information.
GayIord-American sportsmen must
surrender waterfowl hunting this
year, or all but three species will
join the extinct ranks of the dodo
and passenger pigeon, Irving Brant,
st. Louis, told members of the Min
nesota Game PROTECTIVE league at
their twentieth annual three-day con-
| ference here