The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-10-03

There is a tempest in Virginia, Min
nesota, and it is not tempest of the
teapot variety.
It's all over the proposed new hos
pital for the insane which has not been
located at Virginia-or anywhere else
in the go-getting iron ranges of Mime
sofa. Virginia is pretty mad about 1t;
it wants to break something all to
Smithereens, and that something ap-
pears to be Floyd B. Olson.
The way Virginia felt about it be-
fore the site of the new hospital was
announced, and when disquieting
rumors began to get around that some
other place than the great Mesaba Iron
Range, which has consistently rolled up
humping majorities for Governor Oh
son, would get the plum, may be in
ferred from the following telegram
which Richard R. Bailey, heap big tim
Der operator and lumberman and men,
Der of the State Conservation Com
mission, sent sizzling over the wires to
his Excellency:
Governor Floyd B. Olson, State Capt.
toll, st. Paul, Minnesota. If you don't
use your influence to locate state hos
pital on MeSaba range there will be
battle that will make World War look
like game of ping pong. r. r. Bailey
Judging from the explosions heard at
Virginia and vicinity the battle has be-
gun. So far as Virginia is concerned,
MuSsolini is peewee, Ethiopia Is some
thing that the cat dragged in and the
navies of the world ffddling around the
Mediterranean just child's play. The
war that really matters is seething in
every Virginia breast.
Certainly Virginia and the Mesaba
Iron Range has piled up votes mountain
high for Governor Olson, and if there
is anything he can do for the boys uI
there he ought to do, it, but just why
Virginia should be so mad at him about
the hospital is somewhat difficult te
understand. -
OF course, the Farmer-Labor faithful
in Virginia and the Range firmly be-
lieve that the sun rises and sets when
and where Floyd Olson pleases; 1t Is
admitted. also, that the Governor Is 9
blonde bomber and packs wicked
blow; he might have put in more hcks
for Virginia than he did.
But after all the Governor appointed
only two members of the Hospital site
Commission. and those two were min
ority of the Commission.
Nevertheless, Virginia Is mad through
and through; it is fairly purple with
rage and recrimination; the brute
frankness of the Bailey telegram before
the event is polite, pink tea courtesy
compared to the sulphurious sweai
words that explode with violent re-
percussionS in Virginia and the Range
now that the coveted hospital is de.
finitely planted elsewhere.
Mike Holm, registrar of motor We.
hicles, has certified to the clerks o.
court in the 81 counties Of the state h..
600 delinquent car owners. The distric'
court and the sheriff will do the rest
Delinquencies have increased this yea
from the $4,000 mark of last year bu
are about the same as in 1888.
More motor cars had been registered
in Minnesota up to September LIST thi
wear than in all 1894 when the tota
registration reached 724,110. The regis
tration for 1885 to September LIST wa!
726,88O, or 28,268 more than at tn
same time year ago.
Mike Holm still holds the blue rib
bon for the lowest cost for issuin'
motor vehicle licenses in the Units'
States. In addition. the genial Secre
tary of State has organized the mos
varied and most complete service t
motor car owners In the way OF IN