The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-05-24
MINNESOTA NEWS

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rapidly during the past week.
Waseca-Nineteen Waseca county
World war veterans received their
Purple Heart medals, denoting bra
very in action which brought them
wounds, at a community assembly.
lie Sueur-Harold Murphy was
killed and Russell Johan and John
O'Malley, all LIE Sueur youths, were
Injured when their car plunged down
a 20-foot embankment and overturned.
Duluth-Rains of the past two
months have raised levels of Mime
sofas lakes and streams from sew
eral inches to two feet above the rec
ord low levels of last summer, state
and federal officials report.
owatonna - Spelling champions
from so school districts of Steele
county competed here in the fifth ar
nual county rural school day. More
than 1,4O0 pupils attended the event,
and participated in the parade.
Grand Rapids-The state conserva-
ton commission authorized the for
estry division to buy $4,000 acres of
land at from so cents to So an acre
for addition to the George Washing
ton forest near Grand Rapids, Save
nah crest near Aitkin, White Earth
forest near Itasca park and Cloquet
Valley forest near Two Harbors.
HaIIock-The Rev. Oscar o. Gus
tafson of Alexandria was elected pre-
sident for his fourteenth term by the
Red River Valley conference of Luz
theran churches. Other officers
chosen were the Rev. Walfred Erick-
son, Iallock, vice president: the Rev.
Elmer Dahlgren, Mcintosh, secretary,
and Emil Gallon, Alexandria, treas
| urer.
| Staples-Edward C. johnson of
Staples, high school teacher at
Preston, is the first person to be ar
rested by postal inspectors in Min
| nesota in connection with chain let
ter activities. Pleading guilty to lot
terry charges growing out of a dime
letter scheme, Johnson was released
on personal bond Of $1,000 and or
dered to report in federal court at
Winona June IS.
International Falls-Indications Of
| heavy resort business this season in
northern Minnesota has prompted the
Northern Pacific to establish daily
sleeping car service between st. Paul
Minneapolis and International Falls,
E. E. Nelson, passenger traffic man.
ager of that railroad, announced
Northbound service from the Twin
Cities will begin on May %, and
southbound from International Falls
an May 20.
Roseau-Sales of state-owned trust
lands this spring reveal a marked
tendency to return to the land, ac-
cording to report completed by F.
A. Wildes, director of the division of
lands and minerals, state department
Of conservation. Sales in 81 coun-
ties, chiefly in northern Minnesota,
amounted to 21,92O acres, Mr.. Wildes
reported. The total compares with
sales of 1900 acres year ago and
2,940 acres in the spring of 1888.
MinneapoIis-An increase of 149
per cent in alcoholic indulgence as a
cause of uninsurability among per-
sons under 80 years of age is indi-
Gated in the expendience records of
the Northwestern National Life In
surance company just made public
Increases in the use of liquors are
also shown by the records, which
state that "a per cent more persons
testify to personal use of intoxicating
beverages than in pre-repeal days.
St. Paul-Five hundred applications
for scaling down of mortgages of the
state rural credit bureau have been
filed, and the first of long series
of mortgage reductions will be sub
mited to district courts for approval
in two. weeks, Theodore H. Arens,
| conservator, announced. This pro-
ceeding is under one of the acts of
the recent legislative session, author
| izing the conservator of the depart
ment to arrange for reducing the
amount of mortgages outstanding.
st. PauI-The Edward G. Bremen
kidnap-conspiracy case may reach
the jury with only six of the IL de-
PENDANTS with which it started re-
naming. Close on the heels Of the
announcement that Elmer Farmer,
charged with arranging the hideout
in Bensenville, ILL.,, where Bremen was
held captive % days, would plead
guilty before the defense rests, came
The revelation that Harold Aiderton,
whose home served as the hideout,
probably will take the same course.
Both men have admitted participation
in the abduction in lengthy state
ments to federal agents which were
introduced in evidence as part of the
! government case. Originally the two
men were slated to take the witness
stand in their own defense, but as the
evidence piled up against them, they
decided to throw themselves on the
mercy of the court, it was said.
| kimbalI-Former Senator Magnus
Johnson of Kimball, sent 90-word
telegram to President Roosevelt urg-
ing the chief executive to sign the
Patman bonus bill which will distrib-
ute more than s2,oO0,ooO,OO0 to World
war veterans.
Notwithstanding new mayor,
w. w. Cook, pursued caravan of
| gypsies 10 miles to arrest two women