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The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
Check Muskrat Conditions
to Determine Season.

A study of muSkrat population in the
state together with other conditions
affecting this valuable furbearer is
being made by state game wardens at
the instigation of Erling Swenson, di-
rector of the division of game and fish.
Game wardens are asked to report
whether there has been an increase or
decrease in their respective districts
in muskrat population over the previous
two years. Conditions of sloughS and
marshes are also to be reported upon
with particular reference to water levels.
WardenS will make individual recon-
mendatiOns and when an open season
this spring is included. dates recon-
mended will be listed Contact with
SportSmen's Organizations and individ-
uals interested in wild life conservation
will be made to determine as far as
possible the attitude of the public re-
garding an open 1885 muskrat trapping
season.
Data obtained from this survey viii
be presented to members of the Mime
sofa Conservation Commission who viii
determine time and length of season
for muskrat trapping providing an open
season this spring is deemed advisable" /"
Mr.. Swenson said.
The muskrat season was closed in
1894.
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
HOCKEY
Ely North Stars Win and Lose.

In edging out the Virginia V-8's in
the semi-finals of the district hockey
tournament, held at the Eveleth Hip
podrome last Friday and Saturday, the
North Stars advanced to the finals
where the Eveleth Merchants defeated
them by 4 to 2 count in a fast and
well played game. 1t was the first
time in three years that the North
Stars were able to win from the V-8's
the score being to l.
Glenn Isaacson, Ely center, registered
both goals in the game for the
locals and Suominen of Virginia tailed
the lone goal for the V-8'S.
With the count tied at one all, at
the beginning of the final period, the
V-8's resorted to a five man offense to
break the tie, but brilliant work by
Goalie Lekatz, who turned back try
after try, kept the V-8's from getting
the winning point In the meantime
Isaacson slipped through the defense
of the V-8'S and in an assist smacked
in the winning tally. Meantime, Soudan
was losing to the Eveleth Merchants.
In the finals held on the afternoon
of the same day, the Ely North Stars
displayed a fine brand of hockey but
were out-pointed by the clever, fast
scoring plays of the Eveleth team and
lost by score of 3 to l. Play was
fairly even during the first period
neither team scoring. Early in the
second period, F. Kosir cleverly eluded
the Eveleth defense and in an assist by
Markovich tailed the first goal Roz-
ina of Eveleth tied the count on a pass
from Probonich as the bell sounded
ending the second period Both teams
resorted to offensive hockey as the
final period got under way Pete Mark
ovich, Ely defense, was sent to the
penalty box when caught tripping. Eve
leth using a five man offense tailed
twice to win 8 to 1. Goalie Lekatz made
over 25 sensational stops in the fina
period, turning in an excellent game
The Stars were minus the services o1
Porky and Helmer Lepisto.
The Eveleth team by virtue of its
win over Ely in the finals will enter
the Regional meet at Eveleth on Feb
ruary End. The winner will then repre-
sent this region in the state amateur
hockey league in Minneapolis, Feb. 9
The League is operated in conjunction
with the SERA officials throughout the
state. I. T. Martell is in charge here
for the SERA. Peter Moroni has done
excellent work in his first year oil
coaching the North Stars. Games viii
be scheduled for the balance of the
season.
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
Candidate for Mayor.

The Christian Century magazine of
Chicago has the following concerning
Dr. Bradley, well known in this city.
The magazine says:
Following a series of conferences
participated in by members of the
Hamilton club, Chicago, by Frank j
LoeSch and other civic leaders, DR..
Preston Bradley, of Peoples church, has
consented to lead a movement for civic
betterment, including race for the
mayoralty as an Independent candidate
If necessary. DR.. Bradley refused to
run on the republican ticket. It is
planned to have DR.. Bradley present his
views on what is needed for Chicago at
a public mass meeting at which his
candidacy will be finally determined "
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
SPORTS
BASKETBALL
Win Gold Brick.

Starting slowly and developing speed
and accuracy at the hoop the remainder
OF the contest, the Ely High school
basketball team handed the Biwabik
high cagers their first set back of the
season in thrilling game played at the
Memorial gym on Saturday, by score
of % to Is, and for the first time
winning the gold brick" a trophy
among the range teams.
To win the gold brick, team must
defeat the team having it in their pos
session. The rivalry is traced back a
number of years when the Gilbert and
Virginia teams fought for the trophy.
In later years, competition for the
trophy was extended to include all
towns in the range high school basket
ball league
Ely started slow in the game and was
held to lone free throw while Biwabik,
led by Kajala who was outstanding on
the floor all evening, Gagged six points.
Ely had the edge during the second
period with Golob, Starkovich and
Nicholas registering shots which placed
Ely on top as the half ended with the
score. Ely IL, Biwabik 9. Play was
rather even during the third period,
Excellent team work combined with
passing and sharpshooting kept the
Biwabik team on the lower end of a
10 to Is score. The final period was
filled with thrills as Golob, Stukel and
Nicholas peppered the basket to enjoy
a 10 point lead With but a few
minutes left in the final stanza, Kajala
and Talus combined to cut the lead to
% to 25
Golob, Starkovich and Nicholas led
the Ely scoring attack with eleven, eight
and six points. Stukel, center, and
Miklaucich, forward, played great de-
fensive game. Kajala and Talus were
outstanding for Biwabik. The score:
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
Cannot Open Local
Roads Says ELsberg.

Hundreds of pleas that the state
highway department operate snow plows
over county and township roads have
been received by the department in the
past two weeks, but it is impossible to
grant such requests, according to an
announcement by N. w. Elsberg, high
way commissioner.
During the recent heavy SHOWS" said
MIR. Elsberg, I'VE received letters tele-
grams and telephone calls from all parts
of the state asking that we open up
particular stretches of local roads The
department would be glad to do this,
but legal restriction of our operations
to the trunk system, coupled with lack
of funds, makes it impossible.
cit has taxed the highway depart
ment's equipment to keep the trunks
open and if we were to undertake plow-
ing operations on local roads as well
the situation could not be handled.
Farmers also have complained that
snow plows have dismantled their mail
boxes along the trunk highways. While
our crews are instructed to use as much
caution as possible about such things,
the roads have to be kept clear. With
day and night plowing in heavy snow,
it is often impossible to avoid striking
mail box. The benefits to the farmer
of having his main highway opened up
in all weather should compensate for
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
COMMUNICATED
ADULT EDUCATION FORUM

what is the Adult Education
Forum?"
Judging from the attendance of the
four meetings already held by the Adult
Education Forum, the idea of having a
public forum at which to discuss living
issues of public interest, has been well
received and has taken firm root. A
number of inquiries have been received
from persons interested in knowing
more about the nature and the idea
back of the Forum
The Forum began with a recognition
of some of the members of the local
school system, Frank Bourgin. Supt. w.
E. Englund and Principal G. G. Haugen,
that if we are to emerge from the
troubled waters of the depression upon
a more enlightened policy, the public
must be far better informed than it is
on current public affairs. Our schools
have made it part of their policy to give
courses in the social sciences for the
instruction of the youth. Thus far,
little or nothing has been done to offer
adults the same advantages of re-
ceiving broad training in the social
studies.
AS an experimental effort to solve
this problem locally, the Adult Educa-
ton Forum was conceived and organ
lied. 1t is not conducted as class; no
registration is necessary nor are there
any assignments or text books. Instead
of giving a cut and dried course on any
one of the social science subjects, the
group in charge has drawn up series
of subjects of wide current interest
dealing with fundamental social prob
lems Some of these at present are:
Democracy, Fascism, Communism, the
Challenge of Liberty, War, Peace, Dis
armament, Munitions and Economic
National f-sufficiency.
Later, if enough interest continues to
be shown, to include other topics as
The nature of our economic order;
business cycles and depressions; ma
tional planning; the New Deal; the N
r. A. etc, Frank Bourgin has thus fa1
delivered the lectures in the Forum on
the subjects of Democracy and Fascism
Each lecture is followed by an open
discussion from the floor in which all
are invited to- join. 1t is hoped that
larger number will attend.
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
new FORESTS
AUTHORIZED
Fifteen New Forest Purchase
Units Established in the
National Forests.

The establishment of Is new Ma
tional Forest Purchase Units with a
gross area of over five million acres, and
the approval Of the purchase of 193.36O
acres in existing National Forests, was
announced by E. w. Tinker, Regional
Forester of the North Central Region,
after he had received telegraphic con-
firmation of action taken by the Ma
tional Forest Reservation Commission
meeting in Washington
The 1913, 800 acres approved for pur-
chase brings the net total of Govern
ment owned or optioned land in the
Region to over five million acres. The
new units established increases the
gross area within National Forest boun-
daries to nearly seventeen million acres
in the North Central Region, which is
composed Of Minnesota, Michigan, Wis
consin, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Ohio,
Indiana and North Dakota.
In Wisconsin, the purchase of 1880
dSICo WltAii4 tiIC p1CoCIit INdIlOildl TOIcSt
boundaries was approved, at a cost of
49,670. $3.50 acres were approved for
purchase in Michigan, costing $287, ,130;
in Minnesota IS, AT acres were approved
at cost of $92, 800; in Missouri $3.50
acres were approved at a total of
$50, ,402, and in Illinois $3.50 acres were
approved at a cost of $57,993.
The action taken by the National
Forest Reservation Commission auth
orizes the Forest Service to proceed with
the purchase of idle timbered lands and
waste lands in the forest areas, to set
up administrative and protective organ
izations, and to set about to reforest
the denuded areas and protect whatever
forest resources still remain on the
land, and to provide recreational facili-
ties and protect and regulate wild life
resources.
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
Commercial Club
Annual Banquet
CONTINUED from Page One.)

many bankruptcy cases in Ely.
Sponsored the Ely Community Fair
in which there were a total of 1905
entries.
Put on the outing exhibit in the St
Louis County Building during the State
Fair.
Put on an Outing exhibit in the head
quarters of the American Legion state
convention in Duluth.
Helped with the registration of plac-
ing of Ely men in N. r. A. work.
Arranged for an investigation from
the State Emergency Relief Offices OF
Relief and unemployment situation in
Ely. Also had county officers come to
Ely on same matter.
Sent delegates to meeting of the state
department of conservation in Duluth
Protested the use of firearms by CCC
workers in killing off of rabbits.
Protested the present opening date
of duck season in Minnesota and tried
to secure an earlier opening date.
Secured write-ups and copies Of pic
lures of scenes near Ely in several mid
west newspapers and magazines.
/. Sent Ely booklets to several schools
asking for same.
Arranged with the U. s. Forest Ser
vice for the harvesting of wild rice seec
and secured about thousand pounds
of same for planting in lakes near Ely
Worked with Ely grocers and meat
dealers on N. r. A. Code and secured
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
Neglect to File Game
Report Bars License

Thursday, January 81, marks the
final day for the filing of game re-
ports, Minnesota hunters were warned
by Erling Swenson, director of the di-
vision of game and fish. Neglect to file
report of game taken on both small
and big game licenses bars issuance OF
hunting licenses for the year 1885, Mr.
SwenSon said.
1--WE have received thousands of re-
ports of game taken and work is pro-
crossing rapidly in compiling results,
the director stated There are many
hunters who have to date failed to file
their returns. We urge that this in
formation be forwarded to the division
so that as complete a record as possible
may be obtained relative to the amount
of game taken in the state last fall
during the open hunting seasons"
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
Junior College Game.

Completing triple-header bill and
making clean sweep of all games
played on Saturday evening, the Ely
Junior College quint staged last period
assault on the Hibbing basket
to insure 33 to 81 victory. Both teams
started fast in the first period with Ely
holding the upper hand, to Z, as the
period ended. The tall, rangy Hibbing
peds spurted in the second canto to
lead 16 to 13 at the half Ely tailed in
the third period to draw within point
of the fast stepping Hibbing boys with
the score standing, % to 81. With but
a few minutes of play remaining in the
final period, Riikola, Ely guard, and
Harri, forward, peppered the Hibbing
basket to gain the decisive win. The
victory was sweet one as it avenged
an early season defeat at the hands of
Hibbbing. Golobich and Brownell
showed exceptionally well for Ely. The
score:
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
MUCH DAMAGE
DONE BY GAME
Legislature is Having a Heck of
a Time Listening to Game
Damage Requests.

Claims for damages for losses suf-
fered through depredations by state
protected wild animals and birds are a
feature of the bill offerings in the
house and senate of the state and men,
bers are puzzled as to their disposal.
The northern part of the state leads
in the number of claims submitted.
The amounts of damages involved run
in big figures. Large amounts are al
ready involved and more bills are COM
ing in.
A Duluth legislator has submitted two
claims of $12 each for two pigs killed
by bears and another claim has been
submitted for LOIS because of damages
suffered by beaver dams. One man lost
an eye suffered by a pheasant flying
through the glass of car; damages by
quail, pheaSants and other wild fowl;
accidental poisoning of cattle from
paris green used in the destruction Of
grasshoppers. $66 are asked because
of a collision between an automobile
and a deer.
At previous sessions all such damages
have been denied and it is supposed
that the bills now before the legislature
will meet the same fate.
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
Marriage of Ely Girl
TO Trenton, ". J. Man.

Mr.. and Mrs. David L. Childers an.
nounce the marriage of their daughter
Lucille, to Mr. Volney o. Riser on Fri.
day, January 18, at Trenton, N. j.
Before the ceremony the couple were
guests at dinner arranged in theil
honor in the private dining room oi
the Y. M. C. A. The room was at
tractively decorated for the occasion
Table decorations were in yellow, with
chrysanthemums, snapdragons an6
candles. The couple was presented, or
behalf of the boys, with silverware te
match a pattern previously selected by
Miss Childers
Following the banquet, Miss Childers
and Mr.. Riser were escorted to the
chapel of the Second Presbyterian
church where the wedding was per-
formed in the evening at seven O'Clock
the Rev. William Denny officiating. The
altar was appropriately decorated for
the occasion.
The bride was gowned in black chiffon
velvet with a corsage of white sweet
peas and her attendant in brown chif-
fon and wearing Talisman roses.
Mr.. and Mrs. Riser enjoyed a brief
honeymoon trip to New York City and
are now at home at 401 Greenwood Ave.
at Trenton.
Mrs. Riser is a graduate of the Ely
schools and from the Milwaukee County
General Hospital school of nursing.
Mr. Riser is graduate of the Louisiana
Polytechnical Institute and is now en-
ployed with the Westinghouse Electric
COmDanV in Trenton
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01

The columns of the Miner are at the
disposal of anyone desiring to discuss
public affairs. We must insist, how
ever, that you sign your name to your
communication. The name will not he
printed If you so request but we must
have 1T as guarantee of good faith on
your part. We also desire to inform
the reading public that articles ap-
pearing under this head are not neces-
sarily the editorial opinions OF the
paper. Under no condition win we print
ibelous articles. Express your opinions
in language that will not hurt the
feelings of the reader. Use the Golden
Rule as model and write accordingly
The Editor.
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
tional tuberculosis Association.

tional Tuberculosis Association.
A standardized tuberculin affords q
reliable means of finding the people
who are harboring the germ in their
bodies long before they show any sign
Of illness and so by proper measures
prevent the Illness according to the
doctors. AS long as we have no actual
"cure," that is. drug or process that
will actually kill one germ in the human
body and heal its ravages, the use OF
the tuberculin test as a matter OF
routine on all children whether they are
suspected of having been in contact
with tuberculosis or not will help us to
recognize the disease at time when
normal resistance of the body can COM
bat the infection.
Parents are especially urged in this
bulletin to see that their children are
tested to find out this important fact
and then promptly placed in anti
tuberculosis regime if the test shows
they have been infected.
tuberculosis should be regarded as a
preventable disease, according to the
medical authorities, and the tuberculin
test is the most valuable means at hand
to find infected individuals. 1t will not
prevent the disease as does vaccination
against small pox and immunization
against diphtheria, but gives us the op-
portunity to start preventive measures
at time when they will prevent the
further development of the disease.
The Christmas Seal program OF
bringing the test to Minnesota schools
is especially lauded by the doctors as
the first step in the education OF
parents in the prevention of tuber-
culosis. Christmas Seal purchasers who
have not yet paid for the Christmas
Seals that finance this work are urged
to send in their pennies as soon as
possible so that the program may be
continued without curtailment this
year.
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
Editor Ely Miner:

Editor Ely Miner:
Kindly print the following in your
columns:
Because of the misunderstanding pre-
vailing amongst the people of the range
that the precedent of alternating the
craftsmanship between Duluth and the
Range was due to the vote of MIR. Elk
lund, 1st Dist. Comm, wish to state in
fairness to Mr. Eklund who has always
been fair to labor and the Range that
it was Mr.. Veranth's vote and not Mr.
Eklunds which gave the chairmanship
to Duluth instead of the Range where
it should have been according to the
'gentlemen's agreement" prevalent the
last eight years.
j. w. PASICH.
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
RAINFALL DATA.

Rainfall statistics for Minnesota and
the northwest were given by DR.. George
A. Thiel of the University OF Mime
sofas geology department in recent
lecture.
Minnesota receives on an average
about 10 inches more precipitation in
the eastern part of the state than in
northwestern counties, he said.
In the Twin City region the average
rainfall for the crop season alone, from
May to August inclusive for the past
81 years has been 11.55 inches. In an
nual precipitation the greatest fluctua-
ton has been from 11.59 inches in 1910
to 40 inches in the following year, 1911.
There has been decreasing trend in
precipitation over the 40 years prior to
1893, in the northern tier of states, and
a rising trend in the south.
In Minnesota, for example, the aver
age for 10 years ending in 1908 was ap-
proximately 295 inches, and for the
decade ending with 1888 the average is
lust a little more than 25 inches. In
other words the former ten-year period
had nearly 80 per cent more rainfall
than the latter.
An examination of the long time
record for the Twin City area shows
that conditions similar to those now
being experienced have occurred twice
before in the last 100 years. Plotted as
a trend line, it would show three low
points, the decades ending in 1848, 1894
and 1888. The averages for those years
are practically the same. Thus, our
recent drought was no more severe
than those of 40 and 80 years ago.
Dr.. Thiel said there is no evidence
whatever that man can accomplish any
thing by efforts to create rain artifi-
cially.
The total annual fall of water from
the skies on the earth'S entire land
area, he said, is about 26,600 cubic miles.
In polar regions the snowfall represents
only from eight to fifteen inches OF
water, whereas on the southern slopes
of the Himalaya mountains the rain
fall may be as much as 500 inches a
year. In deserts only few inches fall
per year, and three years have been
known to pass in the Canary Islands
without any rainfall.
An amount of water equal to the
whole volume of the oceans is taken
up by the atmosphere and poured back
over the land about once in $4,000 years,
and during the course of geologic time it
is estimated that this cycle has been
completed some 10000 times. On the
other hand, one-fifth Of the evaporation
over the earth's surface comes from the
land, while four-fifths come from the
oceans. But much of the water evap-
Grated over the oceans fall back into
the sea. OF its total amount only about
seven per cent is carried over the land
and precipitated there.
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
ON THIS OCCASION
Continued from Page OneO

several of the old age pension
schemes now before the people
and being generally discussed
when he said: "It is over
whelmingly important to avoid
any danger of permanently
discrediting the sound and
necessary policy of federal
legislation for economic Sc
curity by attempting to apply
it on too ambitious a scale be-
fore actual experience has pro-
vided guidance for the per-
manently safe direction of such
efforts. The place of such a
fundamental in our future civil
ization is too precious to be
jeopardized now by extrava-
giant action. It is a sound idea
"a sound ideal"
The Ely miner., 1935-02-01
Clowns and Rangers.

The basketball contest between the
travelling aggregation known as the
Circus Clowns and the Ely Rangers
on Tuesday evening at the Memorial
Gym drew a large crowd The clowns
lived up to their reputation as enter
tainerS and their humorous tacticts on
the floor were aided very materially by
Jimmy Maddern of the Rangers The
Ranger team was composed of Shorty"
Marolt, James Maddern, John Evanish,
Floyd Dunstan and John Smrekar.
The clowns were declared the winners.
The preliminary game between the
colored boys of CCC Camp 704 and the
Kay Jays was won by the Kay Jays
very handily. This game produced some