The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-01-25
MINNESOTA NEWS

Kies observed their sixty-hrst we'd
ding anniversary here.
Windom-Records of the Window
fire department disclose that not a
single dollar was lost through fire IN
this city in 1884.
FaribauIt-With the spring term, the
st. James school completes its thirty
fourth year as a school for the train
ing If the young boy.
Detroit Lakes-City officials viii be
named at an election February 10.
They include mayor, municipal judge,
clerk, assessor and three alderman
from each ward
lie Sueur - Concentrating the
trading post days of LIE Sueur, the
state highway department will place
a marker on the SPOT where the first
store and hotel was erected
Worthington-Lee n. Shell Of
Worthington was elected president of
the State Agricultural Society at the
closing session of the seventy-sixth
annual convention of the society in
Minneapolis.
Minneapolis-Harry Burgoyne, II
year-old North Side youth, was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment at Still
water penitentiary by Judge W. W.
Bardwell for the murder Of Ole c.
Johnson, street car motorman, during
an attempted holdup Oct. 6.
ST. Paul-More than a billion fish
were distributed by the state game
and fish department in 1888 and 1884
in the effort to keep lakes and streams
of the state viii stocked for game
fishermen, Erling Swenson, commits
sioner of the department, says.
Two Misunderstanding his thirty
sixth year in office, Sheriff Emil Nell
son claims the title of oldest sheriff
in point Of service in Minnesota. In
winter months snow shoes and dog
teams have become necessary helps
in his trips through the woods to iso-
lated places TO bring in prisoners.
LakeheId-Gunmen raided a filing
station here, shot the proprietor in
the head and arm, and escaped with
the receipts Of the day +. E. Folsom
was the victim. The arm wound was
from a pistol bullet, and the head
wounds from shotgun slugs. Doctors
removed IL slugs from ,Folsom's
scalp.
st. cioud-Approval of a project for
mattress manufacturing plant in st.
Cloud was announced by L. H. Jacob
son, industrial engineer Of the Mime
sofa ERA work division. Output OF
the plant has been tentatively set at
$50 mattresses weekly and an aver
age Of so persons from relief rolls win
be employed.
Aurora-Mrs. Frances Nash, who
turned states evidence in the trial Of
four men convicted Of conspiracy In
connection with the Kansas City
Union station massacre in which her
husband was slain June IL, 1888, is
back in Aurora to make her home
with her parents. She is known here
as Mrs. Frances Miller
Duluth-Building of dams on the
Pigeon river along the Canadian bor-
der for developing additional water
power will be opposed in Washington
by the Minnesota conservation COM
mission. Most Of the lands In Min
nesota adjacent to the Pigeon river
are located within the Grand Portage
state forest or the Superior national
forest
RobbinsdaIe-Fire which for a time
threatened an entire block of build
ings, including the Security State
bank, in the heart Of Robbinsdale, was
brought under control by village fire
men with the aid Of the Minneapolis
fire department after threehour
battle in sub-zero weather. A gro
Gerry store and cafe were destroyed
with a loss estimated at $4,000.
Dassel-James Osborne of Dassel
Is going to buy new pipe. He lost
his old favorite after a friend had
given him some small-caliber car
tridges which he put into a pocket
and forgot. Filling his pipe from
loose tobacco in the pocket, Osborne
accidentally stuck one of the car
tridges in his pipe. When the smoke
cleared, only the stem Of the pipe re-
manned in Osborne's mouth.
MISUNDERSTANDING as its ultimate
objective a reduced rate structure in
volving contemplated refunds to
northwest telephone users that may
reach maximum of $4,000, 900 a
mandamus action was launched in
Hennepin county district court to
compel Attorney General Harry Fl.
Peterson to Investigate the corporate
structure of the Northwestern Bell
Telephone Co. and is relationship to
the American Telephone & Telegraph
Company.
ST. PauI-A total of s49, 00o, 900 was
spent for relief in Minnesota for the
II month period ended October 81,
1884, report by the state emergency
relief administration to the stats
planning board reveals. The federal
government contributed the greater
part. the federal emergency relief
act making s23.7oo,ooo available anu
the civil works administration SIS.
100000 Approximately $1,000, 600
was contributed by the state and To-
cal governments.
Waiker-Dams have been complet-
ed by the state division Of game and
fish at Bass lake, in Itasca county,
and Big Thunder lake, in Cass coun-
ty, E. W. Youngdale, division engi-
neer, announced. Work on a dam at
the outlet Of Loon lake in Jackson
has been started. The pNpose Of
the dams, is conservation of water
and improvement of fish lakes. Work