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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-07-05

The government deficit for the fiscal
year is only S8S,S75, $50. This is a
remarkably good showing considering
the condition of affairs.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-07-05

WILL some one inform Us what
political aspirations the Hon. j. w.
4seynolds has?
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
CHRISTIAN WORKERS CONFER
Celebrated English and American
Clergymen Are Given Places
on the Program.

EAST N~ORTHFIELD, Mass, Aug. 1.-The
general conference. of Christian workers, the
largest Of the three conferences which are
held here every summer was opened here
this evening and will continue until August
81. AS is usual no definite plan Of meetings
has been decided but there will be morning,
afternoon and evening meetings in the au-
ditorium and twilight services on Round
Top. Able ministers from England, who
are already popular will Mortified au-
diences. have been secured by Mr.. Moody,
including Rev. f. B. Mayer Of London, Rev.
G. F. Campbell Morgan, who except Mr..
Moody, has been considered the most popu-
lar speaker at Mortified the last two years;
Rev. S. A. Selwyn of Bournemouth, Eng
land. and Rev. DR.. G. F. Cunningham OF
Edinburgh.
Among the American speakers will be A.
P. Pierson, Rev. DR.. H. c. Mabie of Boston
and Rev. r. A. Torrey Of Chicago. John
Willis Baer, secretary of the Young Peo-
pies Society OF Christian Endeavor, will
conduct a Christian Endeavor conference at
which Rev. DR.. Francis E. Clark and Rev.
Sheldon, author of I'm His Steps" will
speak.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
Missouri md Missourinns.

The Higginsville Leader now issues a
daily.
Gilman City wants a canning factory and
wants 1t bad.
Carrollton saloons will be closed on sun
days hereafter,
Columbia's new railroad will be com
plete by August 10.
Old settlers OF Boone county will meet at
Columbia August 10.
There will be a Grand Army OF the Repub-
lie reunion at Wellsyille August o.
Maitland and Fillmore are now connected
by telephone, the Hanamo line having been
extended.
The Sunday schools of Dayiess county
will hold their annual convention August
"a and %.
An Odessa man is said to be so frugal
that he makes his wife pay for all the dishes
she breaks.
Elihu Root. the new secretary Of war, is
related by marriage TO the family OF Wei
lington Gordon OF Columbia.
A new fair association has been formed
at Mexico and a fouT-days' fair will be held
this year, beginning August 22.
A fruit experimental station will be estab-
lished in southwest Missouri. Governor
Stevens has appointed a committee TO locate
It.
Two thousand dollars In round numbers
is the sum that has been raised to be ex-
pended In improving the Bigelow road be-
tween Bigelow and Mound City, The county
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
News of the Far West.

Eastern Colorado has the best crop pros
pect in ten years.
Salt Lake expects to dedicate the salt
palace on August u.
Gunnison, Utah, expects TO have a beet
sugar factory by another year,
Oregon is congratulating itself on the com
ing of a large number of new settlers.
The bricklayers Of Vancouver have struck
against the employment of Chinese as mason
tenders.
The bribery charges growing out OF tho
Montana senatorial election are having an
other airing in the supreme court.
The Montana State Board OF Equalization
and the railroads are having a struggle over
the assessment Of railroad property in that
state.
At the Industrial fair which is to be held
at Spokane a prize Is to be offered to the
most beautiful woman In the city, the re-
cipient to be selected by barlot.
Owing to a shortage of pigiron the rail
mill at the Pueblo steel works has been
shut down and will not reopen for two
weeks. Sufficient orders are on hand 10
keep the plant running as fast as pigirOn
can be produced.
The hulr Of the oldest steam vessel on the
Pacific coast and the second tugboat built in
the United States was made a bonfire OF on
the West Seattle beach to the delight OF a
large number OF eXcursionists, The vessel
was the Goliah, built in New York in 1913
by W. II, Webb.
A salmon hatchery is now being built at
Chiwaukum, on the Wenatchee river, about
thirty-three miles from Wenatchee. Wash.
The hatchery at Chiwaukum Is forty feet
wide by 100 feet long and il is supposed Will
hatch millions Of fish each year. II Will
cost about 5000 when completed and will
give employment 10 from FIVE TO ten men
the year round.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
INGERSOLL LEAVES NO WILL
Believed the Machinery of the Law
Ample to Secure Justice to
All Concerned.

NEW YORK, Aug. IA man who is
closely connected with the late Robert G,
Ingersolls family says that no will OF
Colonel Ingersoll has been found and that
nobody who knew the colonel thought there
was one.
THE colonel did not believe in Wills" he
said. "All who knew him well have heard
him say So frequently. His theory was
that a mans estate should be settled and
distributed by the machinery of the law
constructed for that purpose"
do you know whether he ever ex-
pressed any wishes about the disposition OF
his estate?"
mo; it is very improbable that he did
| don't think he ever thought much about
that subject. He considered the law fail
and was willing to trust it,"
As to what Colonel Iugersoll left, the
man said he did not believe anybody knew
yet. He thought it extremely unlikely that
the family had made any Investigations.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
OME DAMAGE FROM THE Hail
Windstorm in NOrthvestern Iowa In
furnI tho Standfup CrOna,

SIOUX CITY, Aug. 1.-(Special Telegram.)
With the exception of such narrow areas
as were stricken by hah, the storm at an
early hour this morning in this vicinity did
not do anywhere near the damage 1t was
feared might be the case, and the declara-
ton is made that the benefit enjoyed from
the moisture by the corn will very much
more than counterbalance the damage done
to the unharvested smalr grain. So far as
heard from, the principal hail region was in
the southern tier of townships in Plymouth
county, and it is estimated that the loss there
will be about 25 per cent. That section seems
to be doomed to more than its share Of such
visitations, but the loss this time is not so
great as has occurred in previous seasons.
The sections that suffered most from the
wind, so far as knocking the crops is con-
cerned, appear to have been along the Yank-
ton line from Burbank to the Sioux river,
and along the Northwestern east from Ha-
warden, through Sioux and o'Brien counties,
and south of Sioux City in the vicinity of
Sergeant Bluffs.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
Kansas Notes and Comment.

Lawrence will prospect for natural gas.
Rulo now has phone connection with Falls
City.
Broo mcorn is scarce in Mcpherson county
this year.
The wheat yield in Nehama county is
lighter than was expected.
Experimental gas wells will be put down
just west of Abilene.
knights of Pythias grand lodge meets
at Arkansas City August 1-3.
Army worms are damaging corn in the
eastern portion Of Coffey county.
Emporia has sent Will White to Chicago to
make a selection Of attractions for it's Mid
way.
Prairie chickens are reported to be more
plentiful in western Kansas than for many
years.
The first load of new wheat marketed at
Russell tested fifty pounds and brought AZ
cents a bushel.
The rental of Kansas school lands under
the new law brings SIS, 900 to 500, 900 in an
nuaf revenue to the state treasury.
First Lieutenant ]. f. Hall of the Tween
tieth Kansas writes to his folks that every
member of the regiment has shot away more
lead than would balance him on the scales.
]. c.. Douglass of Leavenworth, still liv-
ing, was the first pension agent in Kansas.
When he took charge of the department
there were but two names on the pension
roll in what is now the largest district. in
point of money paid out, in the United
States.
About two months ago Charles Newborn
and Mrs. J.W. Alsup were married in Kansas.
About the same time j. w. Alsup and Mrs.
Charles Newbern were married in Texas.
The two men, who are citizens of Woodward
county, Okl., snapped wives. In procuring
divorces each woman testified against the
other. After the swap was fully consum-
mated by the two marriages noted all the
parties returned to Woodward county, where
they are now neighbors.
The State Livestock Sanitary commission
has extended the quarantine against all Of
the states east Of the Mississippi river and
Minnesota, Iowa, Louisiana and Arkansas
west of the river. This is a continuation of
the recent quarantine against Illinois on
| account of tuberculosis. This new order of
the board is far-reaching and without a
precedent in the state. No other commission
has taken the precaution to look out for
tuberculosis which might be imported from
other states.
Since Bailie Waggener became the edieor
of the Athison Champion that paper has been
skinning the ward politicians alive and
roasting the tax dodgers to a brown. Mr..
| Waggener says through the Champion: THE
tax dodger' in this city Is more numerous
than the ward politician An eXamina-
ton Of the personal tax roll OF this city pre-
sents a revelation and d~iscloses the fact
that more than 80 per cent of those who pre-
tend to pay the tax at air are tax dodgers
| The personal property of this city of air
| kinds for taxation is less than $500 900. The
fire insurance on personal property alone
| exceeds SO, 900, 900 and this does not include
money. stock, bonds or mortgages. There are
two firms in the city who carry stocks worth
more than the valuation of all the personal
property for taxation. There is more than
$500. 900 loaned out by residents or this city
and secured by mortgages on Atchison
county farms"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
NEWS OF INTEREST FROM IOWA..

landing in New York April 8, 1857. He
remained there but a short time and then
went to Wisconsin, where he taught music
for two years. He first came to Council
Bluffs in 1859 and remained here two years.
He went from here to Maquoketa, but re-
turned to this city after two years and has
ever since made it his home, For a long num-
Der of years Mr.. Mueller has been closely
Identified with the musical interests Of this
city and Omaha. No arrangements have
been made as vet for the funeral.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
No Lnbor Trouble ut Frn.er, Ia.

FRASER, Ia, Aug. Ito the Editor of
The Bee: We notice an article in The Daily
Bee of July &c, stating that a "bloody race
war was likely at Boone and that the white
miners were incensed over the employment
of negro miners. That article is absolutely
false in every particular and intended to in
jure the mining interests of Fraser. We
ask you to please insert in your next issue
a correction of the malicious statements
contained in the article referred to-.
This and similar reports concerning
affairs at Fraser are sent out for the OBJ
vious purpose of creating a belief among
the miners Of Iowa that Fraser is an I'M
safe place to go to for employment and
that serious trouble exists between the
miners and this company. There is no
trouble at Fraser. Our mines are in opera
ton and no more peaceful or orderly place
can be found in Iowa than Fraser IL today.
We discharged about thirty miners last
month, because of their attempting TO re-
pudiate their uneXpired contract of employ
ment with this company. At the same time
an effort was made by those discharged
miners to organize a Miners union and
with partial success. Possibly one-tenth OF
the men joined the union and through meth
DDS peculiar to miners unions have intimi-
dated the balance of the white miners from
working since that time. The colored miners
remained at work and WI have added to
their number by hiring some sixty addi-
tional colored miners.
There is no disorder or violence in any
respect occurring at Fraser and will not be
unless 1t is brought on by these discharged
miners. There is no drilling or arming
going on by the colored miners and Will not
be. There are probably less than two
l.,o. G,oarDnc NJ all kinds in the town.
No murders have occurred and not even an
ordinary scrap is of record among our col
ored people since the day the white men
were discharged,
BOONE VALLEY COAL & RAILWAY COM
PANY.
BY HAMILTON BROWNE,
President.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02

FORT DODGE, Ia, Aug. 1-(Special Tele-
gram WEBSTER county was last night Wis
tied by one of the severest wind and cleo
trical storms Of the year. The heavy wind
IN many parts of the county assumed the
nature and severity OF a cyclone. Many
sheds and outbuildings were blown down.
At Manson the severity OF the wind was
sufficient to blow down several barns and
some houses were injured. All through the
county the crops have been greatly dam
aged and the corn is lying fiat. The small
grain is mostly in the shock with the excep-
tion of the wheat, which is badly lodged.
The cornstalks are very heavy and this may
prevent its rising enough to give it it's full
development. Farmers believe the damage
throughout all this section of Iowa will be
heavy. In the city most of the damage was
done by lightning. The residence OF Hon. j.
F. D~uucombe, president OF the Fort Dodge &
Omaha, was struck by lightning and consid-
erably damaged. The telegraph and tele-
phone wires were also badly damaged.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02

BOSTON, Aug. 1.-The striking messen-
gers of the Boston District Messenger COM
pany assert the company has but six boys
at work today. Two of these boys were as
saulted during the forenoon, one of them
being so roughly handled that he was taken
in an ambulance to a hospital. One of the
assailants was arrested. The strikers pre-
scented a bill of grievances to the company
today demanding 21a cents per message, that
ten hours shall constitute a days work and
that they be permitted to buy their uni
forms instead of renting them from the COM
many
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
BY HAMILTON BROWNE,
President.
Min a

OCHEYEDAN, la, Aug. 1.-(Special.) y
On July 2S the Bank OF Ocheyedan received
a letter written by one Fred Schultz, alias
August Reuter-, apparently a boot peddler,
which contained a note purporting to be
signed by John T.. johnson for $3.50, which
he wished to sell, w. f. Aldred, the
cashier, at once suspected that the note
was a forgery and Immediately called on
Mr.. Johnscu, who pronounced 1t a forgery
and at once swore out a warrant for the
mans arrest and the bank mailed a regis,
tered letter to Harris, Ia, where Schultz
had ordered his mail. Sheriff Desmond was
in waiting Saturday evening at the postoffice
at Harris when Schultz called for and e.
ceived the registered letter, which had been
sent as a decoy, and as he tore the letter
omen Sheriff Desmond arrested him.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
MunicIpnI LIghting plant.

Messrs. McKebben and Lovett were not
ready to make their report on an electric
light plant for the city last night, so no
meeting of the committee of the whole of
the city council was held. They stated,
however, that they expected to have It pre-
pared today and the committee will meet
tonight. The report. it is said, will be some
what of a surprise to the aldermen. From
the statements made by President Draffen
Of the Municipal Construction company of
Chicago the city fathers who favor municipal
ownership were led to believe that an cleo
trio light plant adequate for the needs OF
this city could be erected for between $4,000
and $50. 900. The report of Messrs. Mckeb-
ben and Lovett, it is said. will place the
cost of the construction of such a plant al
not less than 800, 900 and possibly more,
The general feeling among the aldermen
now is that the scheme as proposed by the
Chicago concern will fall through.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
Light on AInsknn poundnrv.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. John zachert,
a mining expert of this city. claims to pos
sess Information which he believes will have
an important bearing on the Alaskan boun-
day dispute. Zachcrt declares that the
old Russian boundary is defined by monu-
ments placed at short intervals, and that
enclosed in each is a chart OF the Russian
possess ions. He is of the belief that the
duplicates OF the charts are on file at st.
Petersburg. Zachert says that an expedition
would have little trouble in finding and fol-
lowing up this boundary line OF monuments
and that the charts would prove of inestim-
able value in settling the dispute between
this country and Canada.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02

ESTHERVILLE, Ia, Aug. 1.-(Special.)-
The grading on the Missouri & st. Louis
road has been progressing nicely dur
ing the summer. The work north
of town is almost completed and
the work south is being rapidly
pushed forward. The heavy grades and
cuts are in the hills below the city and the
contractor has imported several carloads
OF negroes for the work. The last two cars,
containing about sixty, came in Friday might
on the regular passenger. This is some
thing new for Estherville, for we had but
one family of colored people before, The
camps are quiet and orderly and except the
novelty there is no difference in the
camps.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
Davis sells the best hammocks.
DdVT5 btTTb InT D65t Hdr1T1oUK5.
Welsbach burners at Bixby's. Tel. 1873
JEFFERsONIAN CLUB BANQUET
Sandwiches, Pickles, Lfquid Refresh-
ments and Speeches Are Served.

Sandwiches, Pickles, Liquid Refresh
ments and Speeches Are Served.
The banquet last night celebrating the
formal opening of the Jeffersonian club,
while attended by a goodly number OF the
democrats of Pottawattamie county, was car
ried out with true Jeffersonian simplicity.
There were no frills and furbelows. except
possibly those that adorned the aprons of
James Nicol and Jefferson R. Dietrich, City
Treasurer Brooks Reeds henchmen, who
served the liquid refreshment that was
drawn from a suspicious looking key sta
toned in a small ante-room off the main
hall.
The hall in the Brown block, where the
club has its headquarters. was tastefully
decorated with the national colors and pre-
scented quite a gala appearance. President
Brooks Reed occupied the seat of honor and
introduced the speakers. The members OF
the club and their guests, among whom were
many Of the delegates from the country
districts to the county convention to be
held today, were seated at small tables
scattered through the hall after the man
ner of the roof garden theaters.
The leading feature on the program was
Rev. J. R. Speck, who read from manu-
script a life OF Thomas Jefferson. Then
| the banquet" consisting of sandwiches and
pickles, was served, accompanied by a fresh
installment OF liquid refreshment.
Some more speeches followed, short talks
| on true democracy being made by eX-Sherift
| John p. Hazen and eX-County Attorney
John p. Organ. Between speeches the pro-
ceeding were enlivened with music by the
BOYS band from Crescent City.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
N. Y. PLUMBING company. Tel. $50.


The funeral of the late overseer Of the
poor for Kane township, T.. c. Jackson, was
held yesterday afternoon from the family
residence on Twelfth avenue. 1t was at
tended by the Board OF County Supervisors
in a body and many of the other county
officers. The services were conducted by
Rev. Myron C. Waddell, pastor of the Broad
way church. The remains were followed to
their last resting place in Fairview ceme-
terry by a long ~cortege, The following acted
as pallbearers: Sheriff John Morgan, City
Treasurer Brooks Reed, Supervisor John NJ,
Matthews, George T. Miller, Pat Gunnoude
and h, Toller.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02

Joseph Mueller, one Of the few remaining
pioneer residents OF this city, died at his
home. 722 Willow avenue, about / O'Clock
Yesterday morning. His demise came as a
great shock to his family and friends, as, al
though he had been i'll for the last ten
days, his condition was not known to be
serious. He had been ailing from catarrhal
pneumonia and was believed TO be conya-
lescent when a bloodclot formed on the
lungs that caused developments which re-
suited fatally. lie leaves a widow and
eight children. Mr., Mueller was born in
Lobendose, Bohemia, September %, 1887
and came TO America when a young man
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
stupp by an Insect.

Richard Killing, a 9-yearLold boy, who was
visiting in the family OF officer George
Wilson Monday night, was stung on the
forehead by an insect supposed to be a
kissing bug. The forehead commenced to
swell rapidly and yesterday the boys left
eye was completely closed. The young lad
also suffered considerable pain. An insect
answering the published description of the
kissing bug was found on the screen of
the window inside the room in which young
Killing was sitting when stung. 1t was
killed and placed in spirits and is now on
exhibition at the police station. The insect
resembles in appearance a large horsefy
and appears to be a species of gadfy.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
cutting Array nj quarry.

QUARRY, Ia, Aug. l-(Special)-The
sc. S. p. S." a Bohemian social society,
made up OF members from Marshalltown,
Quarry and lie Grand, held a picnic and
dance in the grove north Of town Sunday,
The dance broke up in a fight and Tim
Breckley, a Bohemian, was severely injured
by a club in the hands of one Ed Inman,
both OF this place. He received sew
eral bad bruises on the head and a cash
in the neck, cut by a knot in the club.
Breckley was taken to lie Grand, where
several stitches were taken in his scalp and
neck by the local physicians.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02

GLENWOOD. Ia, Aug. 1,-(Special.)-
George N, Shamblin died at the residence
of Mrs. Mcdonald in Glenwood last night
from the effects of morphine and strychnine
taken with suicidal intent. He was Al
years of age and unmarried. He left a note
stating that he intended poisoning himself,
He bought laudanum at A. j. Harris
pharmacy on July 22, signing the a%pplica-
ton G. N. Williams, and made an unsuccess-
full attempt to end his life on the following
night. He loved a Glenwood woman, who
has a husband in Missouri.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02

the gunboat cut through the ferryboat into
the engine room, breaking the main shaft
and damaging considerable machinery. The
gunboat's bow was bent and several feet OF
the rail torn away. The New York was in
the center of the river when the Dolphin,
which was coming up stream. s~ignared that
II would cross its bow. The New York's
engines were stopped. but the strong cur
rent carried it directly in the path of the
Dolphin and the gunboat's bow struck the
ferryboat Just ahead of the paddle box. The
ferryboat, with the aid Of tugs, reached the
slip at Broadway, Williamsburg. The
Dolphin proceeded UP the river.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
RUN ON MONTREAL BANKS
People Anxious to Get Their Money
Ont of the French Banks-
Paying Out in Gold.

MONTREAL, Que, Aug. las a re-
suit of the run on the Jacques Cartier bank
yesterday, occasioning a suspension for
thirty days, there is a great run on the
other French banks today. The Banaue de
Hochela. capitalized at 81, $50 900, which is
paid up. is feeling the run more than the
others, but the directors claim they can
withstand it. They are paying out gold and
Dominion bills. Their liabilities, according
to their last statements, were over IS, 900, 900.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02

MARSHALLTOWN, Ia, Aug. 1.-Reports
received from all parts of the county today
indicate that many thousands of dollars
damage was done to crops by a heavy rain
and windstorm of this morning. Corn
was leveled to the ground, unharvested
wheat flattened, barns and other buildings
blown down and windmills wrecked. The
new school house at st. Anthony was
wrecked and crops in all sections badly in
jured,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
Harvest rs in Progress.

SIOUX CITY. la, Aug. 1.-(special.)-
Along the Milwaukee railroad from Sioux
City to Running Water, S. D., harvest is in
full blast and the farmers are rushing their
work, as grain has ripened very fast in the
last few days. While considerable Of the
wheat is crinkling down SO 1t will be i'm
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
HAIL STORM IN MINNESOTA
Fifty sIunre Miles of Crops Destroyed
in Polk and Neighbour
ing Counties.

CROOKSTON, MINI, Aug. Fifty square
miles OF crops were destroyed in Polk county
by last nights hailstorm. The storm fol-
lowed Red Lake river from Mallory to
Crookston.
At Gary, S. D., a strip of grain land twelve
miles long and four miles wide was de-
stroyed, At Stephen. Mimi, the storm de-
stroyed 900 acres OF grain.