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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-09-07
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A. j. Thomas is in Duluth today.
Clyde Bender was in the city today
from Sparta.
Alois Ebener, of Duluth, was in the
city last week.
Miss Whalen Monday morning for a
visit to st. Paul.
Amos. Sheppard spent Friday in
the city from Duluth.
VIM. Harvey was a south bound
passenger Monday morning.
Mrs. G. 6. Shipman was a south
bound passenger this morning.
Alderman and Mrs. Kotchevar re-
port the birth of a son last Friday.
Emil Hartman and son Of Duluth
were in the city few days last week.
NJ. J. Segal. the Tower cigar maker
was in the city the first OF the week.
Mrs Jas. Sheridan, departed MN
day morning for Forth Smelling to
visit her son, Philip, who is with the
18th.
HIT. Dinham, the Duluth cigar
manufacturer, was in the city last
week.
Mrs. a. L, Giles is improving rapid
~ now after an illness of three
months.
o. G. Korb returned Saturday from
his two weeks trip in the eastern
markets.
Ice cream soda, egg flip, lemonade
and other refreshing drinks at Sam
Rapson's.
VIM. LaBeau departed Monday
morning for visit with friends in
Michigan.
Jas. Tippet was up from Tower
few days this week looking up some
business matters.
II. S. Clark, representing the Kelly
Shirt Co. was in the city few days
the forepart Of the week.
John Johnson left Monday morning
for Fort Smelling to visit his son
Johnnie, who is in the 18th.
Sam Rapson can serve you with
cool drinks in the shape of ice cream
soda, egg flip and lemonade.
Bert Bartholomew returned Satur
day evening from his extended visit
to his old home in Michigan.
The Misses NesSeIl and Fry arrived
Saturday evening to be in READINGS:
for the opening of school Tuesday.
Miss Maggie Morton came up from
Tower Monday evening for visit al
the residence Of Capt. VIM. Cowling
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-09-07

The editor and wife are away for a
two weeks trip to the State Fair,
Chicago, and Wisconsin towns. Dur
ing the absence: Sam Aspegren will
attend to the MINER partons in a
straightforward manner. Sam will
get out good paper and the Office
will continue to do good Job work.
The Hodge hunting party who visit
ed the north country in search Of
ducks, returned Friday with load of
of four birds. At close calculations,
leaving narrow margin, the four
ducks aggregated in cost about $40.
The scarcity of rice is conceded to be
the explanation for the scarcity OF
| ducks.
c. A. Rothoff, Mrs, Osterberg, and
daughter, Ed. Polkinghorn, Abe Col
Inns, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Crossman, Mrs
G. McMahan and son, Albert, w. B.
Goldsworthy, Ed. Mcintosh, and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Jock Brown John
Goard, Jno. Kinsman, 2. r. Vail, I'll.
B. SJurteyant and and A. KoGchey ar.
visited Duluth Monday and took in
the Labor day excuses.
Sheriff ". c. Sargent, accompanied
by his son, was in the city from
Thursday to Saturday on a visiting
trip. Friday Mr.. Sargent visited
Burnside lake and enjoyed very
pleasant visit with Mr.. PattisC and
his party who are at Leisure Lodge
for few DAYS. The sheriff was well
pleased with the appearance Of this
popular outing place and expressed
the opinion that the proposed road
would be of much benefit.
"a very quiet but pretty home wed
ding occurred at the home of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
ander McCurdy, Wednesday, when
their daughter, Flora Mae McCurdy,
was married TO Harry L. Barncard.
None but the immediate friends and
relatives of the bride and groom were
present. The house was pretGily
decorated with flowers. The presents
were many and beautiful" The
above from the Herald relates to a
former Ely girl. The many friends
Of the bride wish her much hap
piness.
Elkton Record reports that "a man
named Rouse married girl named
NiXcom, in Missouri, and now the
wife brings suit for divorce. She
alleges that it was hard enough to
have the papers announce the we'd
ding as the Nixcom-Rouse nuptials,
| but it was more than she could bear
| to have her husband insist on naming
her son 'NiXcom a Rouse That's d
parallel case with one we have in
Luverne. Some years ago James
Jack was married TO Mrs. Jerusha
Jump, and about year after, the
cruel father chrlstened his first child
jumping jack
P. E. Bowling, the republican
editor Of the EYeleth Star, was in the
city Saturday. In conversation with
some of his fusion friends. Mr. Dowl-
ing is reported as having said that
while he was now a republican he
chad not changed his opinion upon
the money question one iota." Will
Mr.. Bowling then. for the benefit of a
suffering public, kindly state what
portion of the republican faith lie
agreed to support in his deal with the
Duluth politicians and with some of
the politicians nearer home? Please
define your position, that your new
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1898-09-07
Excursion Rates To Omaha, Neb. Via
Saint Paul & Duluth Railroad.

Saint Paul & Duluth Railroad.
On account of the Trans-Mississippi
Exposition, the Saint Paul, & Duluth
Railroad will sell excursion tickets to
Omaha, Neb. and return. Tickets on
sale June Ist to October Both. 1898.
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An appeal from the decision was promptly made to the Supreme Court. In May, 1875, the judgment was af- firmed.
 True to his boast, the judgment did not hold Geiger. The decision of the court was made in Sacramento about 4 o'clock by MT. Justice Crockett. At ' o'clock Geiger had his affairs and plans so arranged that he walked out the Santa Rosa jail without opposition So cleverly was the plan handled that no one suspected his escape till T. B. Reese, ex-County Clerk of Modoc. then a law student. reported to the author ities that he had just seen Geiger on the outskirts of town. He was the last man who saw the condemned mur- derer.
 That was in May, 1875, and from that day. although the officers of the law have hunted high and low for Geiger. nothing has been seen of him till last September, when F.. M. Bailey who was an officer of the court during the trial ran plump into him in a dark cave in Fresno County.
 MT. Bailey lives in Berkeley. He was a boy and resided in Mendocino County at the time Mrs. Strong was murdered He frequently saw Geiger and Alex ander and knew them very we'll MT. Bailey is the man who has furnished the facts for the second chapter in Geigers s remarkable history-that part that followed the time when he disappeared as completely as though swept from the surface of the earth.
 Bailey says that Geiger is living with another escaped convict in a nicely fitted up mountain cave, that they have
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entity saw the body of horse. The horse, like the dog, had been shot to death. The mysterious trail the track CT was following ended beside the dead horse.
 The Indian knew now that the will dernesS was about to disclose the mys- tery connected with the dead dog the dead horse and to reveal the strange purpose that had led unknown per- sons into this wild and brush-covered spot among the mountains.
 Through a nearby canyon flowed creek. Instinct led the Indian to scrutinize the banks of the creek A little way off he saw a pile of stones close to the edge of the creek. He went forward wondering more and more, and stood beside the stones.
 At once he perceived that the stones before It was evident that unknown persons had buried something under meath those stones.
 The Indian looked about him and thought bit.
 As his gaze moved over the scene his eye was caught by some object moving in the icy stream, something white that moved constantly up and down, up and down, where the stream brawled it's loudest over it's stony bed.
 Several of the stones had fallen from about the pile, and that white some thing had been laid bare by the run ming stream.
 The Indian stepped nearer, and, bending down, saw a human foot en- tirely naked and a human ankle. The water gave the foot constant motion;
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as If the dead person who slept under the stones were struggling vainly and impotently to get away from this hor rible cairn.
 The foot was that of a woman.
 The Indian, trembling with his hor- rible discovery, ran back to Sherwood Valley and told what he had seen. A posse of armed men quickly organ iZed and followed the Indian back to the secret grave. They reached the cairn, uncovered the body and found all that remained of Catherine Strong
 The discovery of the body started anew the threads of vengeance and lynch law, and when the names of D. H. Geiger and James Alexander were used strong paths followed Several of the most headstrong broke away from the group and spurred back to Sherwood Valley, carrying the story that Catherine Strong had been taken from her bed at night and foully shot to death.
 The regular officers of the law real ized it was time for quick action at once and lodged in jail, where the mob could not get at them so readily.
 Geiger and Alexander were partners in the sheep and cattle business. The Strongs occupied quarter section of land, which cut into one of the Geiger and Alexander sheep ranges. The sheep ran upon the land of the Strongs and the Strong dog, in driving them off. bit some of the sheep. There were the usual quarrels.
 Geiger and Alexander did their best to get the Strongs to sell their land,
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der to w. T. Blair, alluding to Mrs. Strong, than it would be to kill a dog"
 This remark was remembered when Mrs. Strong's body was discovered buried under the stones far from her home.
 Had not Deputy Sheriff Joe Stanley, who served the warrants on Geiger and Alexander, played sharp trick there undoubtedly would have been a lynching. With his prisoners he elud- ed the pursuing parties and landed them In jail. The two prisoners deemed their refuge so dangerous that they urged their lawyers to use every effort to have them transferred to the So- noma County Jail.
 of the case that Constable Hughes, now living in Ukiah. had received from Mrs Strong some time before the mur- der a letter asking protection from both Geiger and Alexander.
 Barclay Henley was employed by the Supervisors of Mendocino County to specially prosecute the defendants. Geiger. after his arrest, made the boast, T have a million dollars back of me, I'm all right
 He was the only one convicted. He was defended by a great combination of legal talent-Judge Terry. w. w. Pendergast, Judge Lamar and Judge McGarvey. Their united ability could not save him.
 Alexander, his partner, was acquitted. Geiger was found guilty of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to Imprisonment during his natural life. The trial took place at Santa Rosa.
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1 was positive of my identification. Then 1 began to wonder what had brought the old man to that spot
 He remained about the camp some time, but went away before the other men in our party returned.
 l had noticed that he had a com rade. This second man tried his best to watch us and to remain cut of sight behind the trunk of a fallen tree some distance from the camp Evidently he thought that l had not caught a glimpse of him. Considering that he apparently wished to remain unnoticed and also knowing the character of Geiger. 1 felt that I had better keep my suspicious to myself. and this l did strictly.
 T naturally thought that that would De the last of Geiger, but, strange to say, it was not.
 "A few days after this visit our party crossed the river and went into camp in the Minarette Mountains. Soon afterward several of our pack mules wandered off and I started out to find them. I took my bearings from a high peak some distance from the camp. I had gone some distance through a canyon. the walls of which were of solid rocks, when in turning a little cave It looked so inviting and inter- it. l had barely passed the entrance of two Winchesters.
 |" Hands upi' shouted a voice.
 T was stunned with surprise, but
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On the traveller reporting these thlngs to the nearest village the citizens gath cred at the Strong ranch and thof- ough search was made to discover some clew that would throw light on the matter. It was known that very bitter feeling existed between Mrs. Strong and her rich neighbors, Gelger and Alexander, because Mrs. strong would not sell them her land. Several of the mounted men left to question and watch Geiger and Alexander, while the rest of the party continued the search for the missing Mrs. strong. For several days the search was con tinued without any direct result. Pup- lie excitement grew the while ana the suspicion against Geiger and Alex ander grew stronger. An armed com n1ittee was appointed by the citizens to watch them and prevent them leaV- ing the county.
 An Indian following up a slight clew of the murder in a rough, almost m accessible, corner of the county, picked up piece of comb, such as women use to hold their back hair in place A little farther along the trail he came upon the body of dog. A bullet hole told the story of the dogs death
 The trail he was following became rougher, but, rough as it was, the In- dian discerned that a horse with q load had been driven or led that way. The path was so rough that it appeared ex- traordinary that any rider should have attempted to traverse it. The Indian struggled forward hurriedly and pres
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was seeking. Mrs. Strong" added Geiger with a show of bitter feeling. ought to be where Strong isl"
 With her husband in jail Mrs Strong was left alone to fight her own battle against her wealthy and powerful neighbors. She kept little inn, at which there were occasional guests as the house was on the main road. There was no question that she was brave and obstinate She flung back just as taunting remarks as were made by Geiger and Alexander
 As the time for strong s release and return home drew nearer the feud be- came more bitter.
 T do not think that it would be any more harm to kill her, said Alexan-
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but they steadfastly refused. During this warfare Strong was accused of some of the Geiger and Alex ander stock, and was sent to jail After this, as was testified later on, Geiger told Fl. T. Hatch that Strong would never be able to get the new trial he @ 5 Q Q @ Q Q @ z . 6 Q 2 Q Q 6 g 9 @
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dCQuAlnIeu WlIh the pIace and he recognized instantly that something was wrong. He pushed open the door and found everything in disorder. There were signs that Mrs. Strong had been preparing to retire for the night but nowhere could be found any trace of Mrs Strong herself. The watch dog, too, was gone and every thing about the place betokened that some crime had been committed.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-07
Salt Lick.

Abe Josselson was in Cincinnati
last week.
Prof. Bowman commenced school
here Monday.
John Green and wife spent Sun.
day at Farmers.
Charlie Cheap and Miss Matte
Clark are on the sick list.
Miss Helen Martin has returned
home, after a weeks visit with her
aunt, Mrs. John Dickerson.
Henry Hopkins, of Lexington,
spent few days with his grand
parents, DR.. and Mrs. Lewis.
Frank Cooper enssktai t. num-
Der of his friends at xbe home of
Mrs. Will Dlckerson last Saturday
evening.
Mr.. Sturgeon, who has been en-
ployed by the Sterling Lumber Co.
for the past year, has moved his
family to Virginia.
Ladies' Aid Society will give
Graphophone entertainment at the
Christian Church Saturday night,
April 9th. Everybody invited to
come.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson, of Olym-
pia, Jim Barnes and Mrs. Gault, of
Owingsville, were called to the bed
side Of Mr.. Cook, who is very low
at present.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-07
sRespcctfully,
JOHN A. RAMSEY & CO., OwINGsv1LLE.

James McClain and Miss Ollid
Wills were married Thursday.
There is more work, more busi-
ness, more money in eastern Bath
than ever before.
James Kendall was elected Presi-
dent of the Cob Pipe factory by
the stockholders.
We know a man who walks one
and J miles every week to borrow
his neighbor's OUTLOOK.
We have a great many people
here who know better how to run
this Government than the present
officials.
We were shown a quilt made by
Miss Ethel Robertson, only IL years
old, that eclipses anything of the
kind We ever saw.
A gentleman, one of the officials
Of Illinois, said the other day !:
Your Co. paper The OUTLOOK is
the best county paper i ever saw"
Jessie Caudill is going into the
poultry business. Mr.. Caudill has
been here ten days. He came in
the second day after his arrival and
reported to his / that hen had
"gone to setting" He rode 2 miles
to get eggs and, 10, when he went
to place the eggs in the nest the
hen was dead. Boys, don't play
tricks on Jess.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-07
Grange CITY.

Henry Gray returned to Bath
Co. last week.
Thos. Ratliif returned from Gin
cinnatl last week.
Misses Jessie Myers and Rosa
johnson were in Flemingsburg last
week. =
Mrs. Susan Rawlings, of Helena,
visited her brother, r. X. Walton,
Sunday.
Anew store was opened at Grange
City last week, with Thos. Ratliff
as clerk.
Bruce Snedegar and wife, of Wy
oming, visited at W. A. Bradley's
Sunday.
Oscar COnyers and wife, of Bath
Co., visited relatives here Saturday
and Sunday.
Cu9 Snedegar and wife, of Wy.
oming, visited David Royse and
family Sunday.
FAINT johnson returned from
Flemingsburg College Friday with
= case of mumps.
Chas. Hornback and family have
moved back to the home of Thos
Gregory and family.
A. l.. Eden began painting the
interior of the school, house last
week, something it has long needed
Thos. Bradley, of Olympia, Wis.
tied his parents here last week
Tom SAID he was married, but We
somewhat doubt it.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-07
Knob Lick.

There has been no blowing done
for several days.
Samuel Smelling has two very
sick children. They have pneu-
monia.
+. NJ. Ewing has shut off the
promiscuous taking of wood and
other timber.
The r. r. Iron Co. turned over
TO the c. 4 o. r. X. Co. the road
to the mines Friday.
Ben Maze, who has been working
near Sharpsburg, is at his fathers
running foxes and having a good
time.
We had two considerable freezes
and it looked as though peaches
and plums would be killed, but
they do not seem to be.
The R9e's Run Iron Co. are
moving Nhite a quantity of ore
from 10 N 10 carloads per day.
They EXPECT 5000 tons this month.
Moving still goes on. Tom Nc
Glothin moved to property on the
iron company's land. Jack Bow
ling moved to the old Bohannon
place, owned by VIM. Otis and wife.
Mrs. Levi Bohannon moved to her
sisters near Sharpsburg.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-07

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY's message
to Congress declaring his views of
what should be done in regard to
Cuba was expected Wednesday. All
negotiations with the Spanish gov
eminent ceased last week. The U.
5. Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee has decided to report res
olution recognizing the independ-
ence Of Cuba, recommending armed
intervention if necessary, and
charging Spain with responsibility
for the destruction of the Maine
and her sailors. The consuls in
Cuba have been ordered to Havana /;
also those in Spain to be prepared
for a call home. The Navy already
has its opening work in wal cut
out for it.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-07
WuAr Uncle Ga I'M will do IN

WHAT Uncle Sam will do to Gar
lie Puddin': "Consarn yer onary
picter, l hated to have to do this,
but you fotch it on yerseif by yer
internal meanness to everybody you
had in yer power and capped the
climax by treacherously murderin'
a big shipful of my brave sailor
boys. and now I'm goin' to pound
ninety three kinds of concentrated
deviltry out o. We. (Whack That's
fur yer scaly treatment of Kit
Columbus, whose genius provided
you opportunity to become great,
and you shackled him like a CON-
mon criminal! (Chug!) That's to
remind you that you drove in his
dying days to the cloister for food
and shelter Mig Cervantes, yer SOL
dier hero ard greatest literary gen.
iue; him you starved and he made
you illustrious! (ThumpD Dye
mind the awful atrocities of yer
agents Cortez in Mexico and Pizarro
in Peru? (Smash Blast yer mis-
able kyarcass, i read the story of
yer diabolical Inquisition ev'ry
winter and il makes my blood bile
so that / don't sca'cely need any
fire to keep warm! (SIap! crack I!
crash y"
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-07
TIE game of d,plomacv betwe

The game of diplomacy between
the United States and Spain being
about through, it is in order to re-
mark that Uncle Sam played it
somewhat like a truly rural bump
kin against a circus sharper. The
ponderous integrity of the normal
Anglo Saxon character fares i'll in
q contest Of subtlety and cunning
with the crafty and treacherous
Latin. The Teuton generally wins
the substahtials in the end, but he
does it less by foxy diplomacy than
by praiseworthy means that can
stand the test in the worlds open
court. The wise shoemaker sticks
to his last, and Uncle Sam should
trust to the righteousness of bis
cause, backed by an efficient and
sufficient navy and army.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-07

Sam Shultz has seven ewes that
have ten lambs.
Willie Atchison attended the Old
Maids Convention at Owingsvllle
Friday night.
Mrs. Butler Toy and son Robert
attended the funeral of 10 Wells
last Wednesday. Brother Tinsley
preached IA good funeral sermon.
Little Maggie Hutchinson, a step
daughter of Bob Varbel. died last
week; inierment on the Conner
farm at the mouth of Prickly Ash.
Nearly everybody from this
neighborhood attended the funeral
of Fount Jones at the Wright bury
ing ground Sunday. Brother Tins
ley conducted the services. Mr..
Jones had been a sufferer for many
years and his death was hourly ex-
pected.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-07
HillSbOrO.

Capt. J. NJ. Gray is quite sick.
II. A. Day went to Cincinnati
Monday.
Mrs. Lizzie Shy and Lewis Mark
well were in Cincinnati last week.
Mrs. 10 Whitaker returned last
week from a visit in Harrison Co.
Elder Degman, of Springdale,
preached at the Christian Church
Saturday night and Sunday.
Mrs. Matte Hunter and daugh-
ter. Miss Ethel, left last week to
visit relatives in Maysville and
Cincinnati.
Mrs. VIM. Busby, who was con-
veyed to the Asylum at Lexington
from here some few weeks ago, died
there Thursday and was sent here
for burial; was inferred at the
cemetery Saturday.
Lewis p Grain died at his home
near here last Sunday and was in
tered at Eden's Chapel Tuesday
of last week. He leaves a wife and
several children and host of
friends to mourn his loss. Aged
about go years. The community
has lost noble hearted, honest
farmer.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-07


WILLIE Mason, the U. S. Senator
ial end minstrel from the Eelinoy,
has been running mp a fearful ac-
count on the debit side of the
American peoples ledger, and it is
gratifying to be able to enter a
substantial credit in his favor. In
answer to one of his eruptions, the
Marquis de Alta Villa, Spanish
journalist, challenged Senator Ma
son to fight sword duel. Senator
Mason says if he accepts the chal-
lenge, being the challenged party,
he will name submarine mines as
weapons. Now. that is a mighty
neat joke for U. S. Senator to
get off.