The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-01-11
MINNESOTA NEWS

Shevlin-Fre caused $500 damage to
the Shevlin schoolhouse.
Lester Prairle-The East Camden
creamery, near here, was destroyed
by fire. The loss was estimated at
$500.
Ruthton-Thieves raided the local
Farmers Creamery company, carrying
away two 65-pound tubs of butter and
~ pounds of cheese.
Fergus FalIs-A $4,000 blaze des-
troyed downtown building here as
firemen braved below zero weather to
keep the flames from spreading to
nearby buildings.
st. Paula net profit Of $7,387.76
for the Minnesota State fair last Sep
TENDER was revealed by the state
agricultural society in it's annual re-
port to Gov. Floyd B. Olson.
Belle PIaine--Mr. and Mrs. Carl E.
Thompson, operators Of mite club
eight miles south, shot two bandits
and captured the third as they at
tempted to hold up the tavern.
Minneapolis-The year 1884 came to
close with total of "a traffic fata-
lities on records of the police depart
ment, four less than occurred during
the year 1888, department records dis.
closed.
Badoura-More than 100000 tree
seedlings were transplanted to state
forests and parks from the state nur-
sery during 1888 and 1884, Grover
M. Comet, Minnesota director of for
estry, announced.
St. Paul-Taxation Of Wisconsin
trucks and buses for gasoline pur-
chased in Minnesota but used in Wis
consin does not exempt the purchaser
from the Minnesota tax, Attorney Gen.
eral Harry H. Peterson ruled.
st. Cloud-Ending the year 1884
without traffic fatality, st. Cloud po-
lice embarked on another years effort
to keep this city of 10000 free from
auto deaths with an appeal to the pub
lie to help maintain the good record.
GIencoe-After So years as clerk Of
District Court here, John Luiten be-
gan to take life easy. He retired from
public life on completion of his term
of office, having been defeated in the
last election by Heston Benson of
Glencoe.
st. Paula state trunk highway
system of 10000 to $4,000 miles cost
ing s66,5O0,000 and constructed over
a 10-year period was recommended by
the state planning board in legisla-
tive report opposing reduction of auto
mobile license taxes.
Mnneapolis-A reduction in electric
rates which will mean a saving of
$3.50, 900 a year to residential users Of
electric power was announced by the
president of the Northern States Pow
er company on behalf Of the Mime
apolis General Electric company.
DuIuth-The state of Minnesota has
2,055,446 acres Of unsold land, all that
is left Of it's original domain, the rec
ords in the office of State Auditor Stat
ford King show. The majority Of this,
1,362,858 acres, is classified as swamp
land. The largest holdings are in
Koochiching county.
st. Paul-Minnesota is definitely on
the map, economically speaking, by
virtue of the 81 airports that are vir-
tually completed in various parts of
the state through activity Of the
SERA Estate Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration) Major Ray Miller, chair
man Of the Minnesota aeronautical
commission, said.
Anoka-Free nurseries have been
established at Anoka and Marshall as
the first steps in the Minnesota ex-
tension of the federal shelter belt,
which is to extend from the Canadian
border to the Texas border. Planting
operations in the state are to start
next spring after drouth-killed wood
lots have been cleared Of dead timber.
ST. Paul-Thousands of forms have
been mailed to owners of money and
credits throughout the state in an ef-
fort by the state tax commission to
obtain payment Of taxes back to 1929.
Large increases in money and credits
taxes which have resulted from a
campaign conducted by the commits
sion for the last two years, prompted
the commission to begin an investi-
cation covering prior years.
New UIm-Purchase Of S5S,000
worth Of land for the Cottonwood riv-
er conservation project in Brown coun-
ty was authorized by the state execu-
tive council. The flood control-lake
project is financed through emergency
relief funds. Through the project a
lake will be created near here. The
council also approved purchase of g.
600 acres south Of Window from the
conservation department funds for a
game refuge project.
Little FaIIs-Two projects costing
| S213,000 and supplying employment to
| 227 men now on relief rolls were ap-
proved by Walter F. MacGregor, state
| engineer and director of the works
division, Minnesota SERA. The pro-
jects are a s175.00O addition to the
Little Falls high school, which will
| provide work for all available labor
in the vicinity, and construction OF a
$4,000 dam and dyke at Mankato,
providing employment for 81 men.
| Work will start Immediately on these
| projects.
Roseau-Three hundred households
will be transferred from isolated
farmsteads in Roseau and Lake of the
Woods counties to fertile lands n the
state, under plan announced in st.
Paul. The fertile lands will be Sc
lected by the rural rehabilitation d.
vision of the Minnesota state emer-
gency relief administration in a move