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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
EMPHASIZED HIS LAST WILL.
How an Old Steamboat Captain Tried
to Prevent a Contest in
Court.

Il am free to admit this story sounds
a trife fishy," said New Orleans law
yer, chatting over an after-dinner
cigar, "but 1 happen to know it is abb
solutely true. Last summer local
business man, whom it isn't necessary
to name, made a new will of rather an
elaborate and peculiar character. lam
bound to say to you, remarked his at
torney, when the document was COM
pleted, that I think it more than likely
your children will make a contest if
this will is ever probated.' I'm going
to have a talk with them on that very
subject retorted his client. Yes re-
piled the attorney, but when your voice
is stilled forever they may think diff
ferently about it.
''That remark set the old man to pom
dering, and he finally hit on very pic
turesque expedient. He had phono-
graph at his Office, and, putting on
fresh cylinder, he roared his last injunc-
tions into the receiver, in his most i'm
pressive style. Then he carefully re-
moved the record, swathed it in cot
ton wool, and filed it away with the will.
Next day he sent for the lawyer and
gave him specific directions what to do
after the demise. L want you to call
the family together he said, and read
the will carefully from beginning to
end. As soon as you get through and
before they have time to talk about it,
start the photograph going and let 'em
hear my last message. Be sure TO have
good, big horn on the machine and
see that everything is in frst-class
working order. You had better keep
the thing in your office he continued,
and any time a contest is mentioned
just turn it loose
''The old gentleman was a steamboat
captain in his early days and he has
way of giving an order that makes one
jump TO hear it. 1 am inclined to be-
lieve that his scheme is good one, and
that his parting adjuration, coming as
it were from the grave, viii have high
ly-discouraging effect on itigatiou."-
n. o. Times-Denocrat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

Sailed whale meat is a japanese
delicacy.
THE number of Buddhists is comput.
ed to be 455. 900, 900.
CUBAN farmers want protection
against American corn.
LAND in England is so times as val
liable now as it was 200 years ago.
Mrs JEFFERSON DAVIS is to make
her permanent home in New Orleans.
THERE are $50, 900 men in the world
who make livlihood chiefly by fish
ing.
WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs lives in almost
complete seclusion at his home in New
York.
ERAsTUs LArHRoP. of Westfeld.
Mass, in his will left SIS, oOG to D. L.
Moody.
IN France the bread is baked in rolls
about the size of mans arm and four
feet long.
A NEW public school in St Louis is
to be named in honor of the late Eu-
gene Field.
THERE are scores Of places in this
country where only one mail comes ev-
cry IA days.
AMONG professional women hospital
nurses, it is said, head the list of mar
rying women.
MORE than half of the phosphate in
the world is now supplied by the
United States
AT meetings of the British cabinet
no official record of any kind is kept of
the proceedings.
AT Olympia, Wash. oysters sell at
81. so gallon and So. IS a sack for the
oysters in shells.
GERMAN pianoforte manufacturers
have virtually secured monopoly Of
the Australasian trade.
MEXICAN dollars are current ali over
China, and when they can not be had
uncoined silver is used.
OVER half million dollars worth of
cocoanuts We're imported into the
United States last year.
CoTToN manufacturing in Mexico
continues to incease. Each year finds
more looms in operation.
The Philippine islands now produce
considerable Indigo. The exports for
1897 were 446. 500 pounds.
SIR REDvERs BULLER bought SIS
worth of the latest books just before
starting for South Africa.
TRAINED nurses in German hospitals
get from S75 to $500 year, with board,
lodging and all their clothes
NAVAL experts are endorsing strong
II the project of a national naval re-
serve, with four-year terms of service.
AT Woonsochet, R. l., the River
Spinning Co. is to run its mill night
and day, as soon as necessary help can
be hired.
The social democrats in Germany
now boast 20 newspaper organs. The
largest, Vorwarts, has a circulation of
SO, 600 copies
A GROWING Vermont industry is the
canning of corn, this seasons output
in the southeastern part of the state
being 5000, 600 cans.
IT is estimated that Missouri farm
ers received over IS, 600. 600 for their
mules last year. The number shipped
from ST. Louis was III, 60S
The next portrait to be hung in the
treasury department will be that OF
the present secretary, Mr.. Gage. The
portrait is now being painted.
For 500 years Mexico has produced
one-third of all the silver that was
mined The production at present il
more than 500. 600. 900 annually.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
Worked on Sunday.

Rome, Ca, Dec. 16.-J. P. Eaton, a
Seventh Day Adventist, was convicted
here Friday of misdemeanor. He was
cbofged with cultivating a truck gar
den on Sunday. On trial he stated that
the Scriptures make it sinful to labor
on what is usually known as Satur-
day" Eaton challenged anyone TO
prove the legal Sabbath is Sunday. Sen
tence was suspended until January 1
and Eaton was permitted to give bond.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
Awards.

the contracts for supplying necessary
machinery was awarded to the Troy
Laundry company of Chicago, whose
bid was SSH. A. NJ. Halstead was Civ
en- the contract to supply curtains for
the new ward building. The award
ing of contracts for supplying furni-
ture, crockery, etc. was postponed to
to the January meeting. The new
ward building will be ready for occu-
pancy in January.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
All Are Satisfied.

A number of farmers about Gardner.
organized, incorporated and erected
an elevator to handle their crops. Mark
Shepard was placed in charge and the
farmers say they can get cent more a
bushel than the market and save in
weights and grade. The farmers are
pretty generally interested, and others
besides the stockholders patronize it.
1t is said they will clear Is per cent
on the investment this year, besides
getting whole lot of satisfaction.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
Gopher Tails Make Trouble.

Gopher tails are creating much
trouble in Sargent county. There is a
bounty for killing gophers in this state.
The tails are presented to the clerks,
for which certificates are issued. These
are taken to the auditor and warrants
are issued on the treasury. 1t is al
legged that certain Sargent county peo-
pie discovered way to beat the county
to the extent of $4,000. Such a row
was kicked up over the charges that
special session of the grand jury was
called to investigate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
Will Prosecute.

The fondness of the farmers in
the sparsely settled region of the west
ern part of the state for the lumber
belonging to the Northern Pacific rail-
way has often been remarked. This
year it is reported the company has
been having a hard time to keep track
of the material left on the prairie for
snow fences. A successful detective is
said to have recently found ranch
man and his family comfortably es-
tablished in house built from North
ern Pacific lumber; another man had
fair consignment under his haystacks,
while ranchman Is miles away had
accumulated job lot, and another
confding farmer displayed keg of
nails that had rolled his way. Vigor-
Gus prosecution will follow.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
Pleads Guilty.

Osceola, Ia, Dec. 16.-Mrs. Julia Cros-
by was called for trial Friday on the
charge of numbering her husband. Mich
olas Crosby, at their home at Wood
bine by shooting him. She pleaded
guilty. The shooting resulted from
family differences and the case attract
ed wide attention. She will be SEN
fenced, it is understood, to 20 years
Imprisonment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
Given a Life Term.

Saratoga. n. Y. Dec. Il. = Irving
Shaw. Il years of age, of Providence,
Saratoga county, was convicted Of MUIR
deriDg his playmate. Jesse Blanche, at
Providence last October. Justice Slower
sentenced Shaw TO life imprisonment t
Dannemora prison. He is believed to
be the youngest life prisoner in the
state.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
VIII Boycott.

The knights of the grip in this state
threaten to strike. This time it is not
against cruel taskmaster nor for an
increase in wages, but against the
landlords in the smaller towns of the
state. In many of the smaller places
the hotels are not exactly what Del
monico's place was once. The travling
men have reached the limit of forbear-
ance, and declare that an improvement
in the bill of fare and the service must
be evident, or a boycott will be inau-
gurated in the towns whose bonifaces
are considered the greatest offenders.
There are a number of the objection
able list.
The plan is to pass up the regular
hotels and make arrangements with
some of the better class boarding houses
or private houses at which all the trav-
cling men will stop.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
To Meet in Chicago.

Chicago, Dec. 1.-THE prohibition ma
tional convention will be held in the
new Coliseum building in Chicago June
81, 1900. The newly-elected national
chairman, Oliver W. Stewart, of the ma
tional committee, will issue the call for
the convention about the first of the
new year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
Criminals Hanged.

VaIdosta, Ga, Dec. 14.-Jim God
ding and Wash Powell were hanged
here for the murder of a country
storekeeper named Vickers about two
months ago. Both protested to the
last that they were innocent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22

ton at once ana assuming the duties OF
his Office.
Omaha, Neb.. Dec. 16.-Tie fact that
the late NJ. L. Hayward never took the
oath of Office as United States senator
gives rise TO the question whether VIII
liam V. Allen, commissioned to fill the
vacancy from Nebraska, is entitled to
take his seat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
Freight Trains Bump.

Two eastbound freights on the Great
Northern came together in a tail-end
collision at Michinan City. The first
extra was standing on the main track
and the second extra bumped into it,
smashing and burning the caboose and
one car. Several other cars were de-
rallied and the engine of the rear extra
was considerably damaged.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
Hanged.

Paris, KY, Dec. 12.-Clarenee Williams
(colored) was hanged in the Jail yard
here Monday morning. On March 20
last Williams, while intoxicated, shot
and killed Josie Tillman, woman with
whom he had quarreled.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
A Novel Plan.

Baltimore, Nd, Dec. 1.-THE union
reform party has decided not to hold
a national convention next year to
name candidates for president and
vice president, but viii select their
candidates by a direct mail vote of
party members.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
Elected President of Switzerland.

Berne, Dec. 15.-The federal assem-
bly, has elected Walther Hauser, rad
ical, of Wadensweil. Zurich, to be
president of Switzerland for 1900. He
was vice president during 1890.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
APPOINTED SENATOR.
Gov. Poynter. of Nebraska. Names Ex-
Senator Allen to FIJI Out Unexpired
Term of Senator Hayward.

Omaha, Neb., Dec. 14.-Gov. Poynter
has appointed ex-senator Allen to fill
the senatorial vacancy caused by the
death of Hayward. His commission will
be made out as speedily as possible, and
the newly appointed senator announced
his intention of proceeding to Washing
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
DON'T sting the Birf..

An eminent naturalist tells how
blackbird will stand at the side of
hanging wasp's nest and deliberately
tear it to pieces, in order to get at the
larvae, apparently undisturbed by the
swarms of angry insects.-Cincinnati
enquirer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
Consul Hay Sails.

New York, Dec. 14.-Adelbert S. Hay.
the contemporaries United States coz
sui at Pretoria, sailed Wednesday on the
st. Louis.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
SEVERE BLOW TO british.
Gen. Methuen Reports a Defeat at
Magersfontein and the Loss
of Officers and Men.
MOST DISASTROUS EVENT OF The WAR.
british Army, Reports n Serious
Reverse at Tugela River-His
Troops Compelled to Retreat
Eleven Guns Lost.

London, Dec. 1.-THE British public
has been startled by reports from
Gen. Methuen telling of serious re-
verse at Magersfontein. The losses
are great and include Gen. Wauchope,
the marquis of Winchester and other
well-known officers
Most Serious Event of the War.
London. Dec. leach important
battle seems to bring a worse reverse
for the British, and the papers sorrow
fully admit that Lord Methuen's check
at Magersfontein is the most serious
event the war has yet produced.
1t is estimated here that Lord Me-
thuen's forces amounted TO 1000 men,
and perhaps TO more. No reliable esti-
mate OF his losses has yet been received.
They are believed to have been at least
t50
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
London Discouraged.

London. Dec. 14.-Methuen's defeat,
Gatacre's great danger. Mafeking's lack
of rations, Ladysmith's investment
without sign of relief, threatened ris-
ing of Cape Dutch and 1000 British pris-
oners al Pretoria discourage London.
The London Times says at least 10000
more soldiers are needed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
Reports Untrue.

London. Dec. Is. : Reports of great
British victory at Ladysmith, which
seem 10 have been without a basis of
truth, were evidently put in circulation
by spectators with view to infiuenc-
ing the stock markets. Further details
of the battle at Magersfontein but add
TO the seriousness of the British re-
verse. A revised list of the total cas-
ualties 10 the British troops places the
number at S32. The Boer loss is said 70
b, 6ll
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-12-22
Butler Is Beaten.

London. Dec. 16.-Gen. Butler, in
dispatch 10 the war office, tells of seri-
Gus reverse near Colenso while attempt
ing to cross the Tugela river, which is
looked upon as the worst event that has
transpired in the South African cam
paign. The British troops were again
led into a trap. Unable to withs tana
the furious raining of bullets from
Boer rifles. the British were forced to
retreat, and besides heavy losses in
killed and wounded, II big guns were
left behind.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-28
AGREE ON ONE POINT.
Committee of Miners and Operators
Decide on the Eight Hour
Day for 1880.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Jan. 2l.-The Post
says: Eight hours work for one day
shall be the rule in the coal mines of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Ili-
nois during The next year, beginning
April !, 1890. This was agreed after
midnight by he subscale committee Of
operators and miners who are to- dis
pose of the wage question for the next
year. The sessions Of the committee
were secret and every member was put
under an obligation not to give any
thing out for publication. This con-
clusion was arrived at after the mem
bers of the committee had recedcd
from their position of demanding Il
reduction of ten cents in the rate of
mining. The arguments on both sides
were strong. The miners members of
the committee argued that the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, with which
they were affiliated, are at their back,
and it would not do to recede from the
concession granted by the operators
at Chicago one year ago.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-28
TO USE ELECTRICITY.
Wisconsin Towns Preparing to Sc
cure Better Transportation
Facilities.

Appleton, Wis, Jan. 23.-The work OF
the farmers who reside between this
city and Seymour for an electric street
car line to connect the two cities has
taken the novel turn of the building of
a freight line. Itappears that the farm
ers who are out looking for capital to
build the line are not after purely pas
senger service, but expect to have some
thing in the line of freight trains to
ship their grain to the Appleton eleva-
tors. If this plan be adopted it will be
an innovation in the problem of cleo
trical transit. At first it was proposed
to run cars which would accommodate
the farmers with small amount of
baggage, such as baskets and other
light articles, a trailer or combination
coach being run. Now the plan has de-
veloped into the proposition to run
train of freight cars daily for the trans
fer of the produce
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-28
RllEY,S FOLKS.

sometimes, when things don't seem to go
jes right about the place.
When bein' pore seems jes' as bad as bein'
in disgrace.
When everything goes wrong. you know
as sometimes they will do,
And the blue that should be in the sky is
all penned up in you
It's then like TO jess sit down all by my
self somewheres
With one o. Riley's books. to sort o. bright
en- up affairs.
Them people Riley writes about has red
blood In their veins.
They're folks that lives and breat hes
they've got their joys and aches and
pains;
Each one of 'em has got heart-you al
most feel II beat:
They're not imaginary folks. they're peo-
pie that we meet
And when they stand before me as he
paints 'em I'm inclined
To feel sort of proudness that I'm one o.
Kiley's kind.
] mind how kind of choked was when my
boy went away
Tears wouldn't come and seemed as If the
load grew ev'ry day;
i couldn't bear to hear folks tell how bad
they felt fer me,
Until, one day, l got a book that Riley'd
wrote and see
That pome on Little Wesley! Well, the
tears come freely then,
And so | took the burden up and pushed
ahead agen.
Some people want to live in towns and put
on lots o. style.
They'd like 20 roll in money and do nothin'
ali the while,
But I'm not one O. them, they amt the sort
o. stuff, you bet,
That made this land the gloriousest the
sun has shone on yet!
! want TO stay where nature planned it
best fer me TO be-
To love and live with Riley's folks, that's
good enough fer me.
IS. Il. kiser, in Cleveland Leader.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-28
ROME OF OLD.
The City as 1t A, penred to the Hero OF
n story of the Twelfth
Century.

Gilbert had reached Paris in the train
of Duke Godfrey in September; the
Christmas bells were ringing when he
first caught sight of the walls and tow
ers of Rome. AS he drew rein on the
crest of a low HILL the desolate brown
waste of the Campagna stretched be-
hind him mile upon mile to nortLward,
Niterbo, and Rome was at last before
him. Before him rose the huge, half
ruined walls of Aurelian, battered by
Goth and Saracen and imperial Greek;
before him lowered the fortress Of Ha-
drian's tomb, vast, impregnable, fero-
cious. Here and there above the
broken cancellations of the city's bat
Elements rose dark and slender towers,
square and round, marking the places
where strong robbers had fortified
themselves within the city. But from
the point where Gilbert halted Rome
seemed but long brown ruin, with
portions standing whole, as brown as
the rest under the bright depths of
vaulted blue, unlocked by the leas.
fleece of cloud in the matchless
clearness of the winters morning
Profound disappointment came upon
him as he looked. With little knowl-
edge and hardly any information from
others who had journeyed by the same
road, he had built himself an imaginary
city of unspeakable beauty, wherein
graceful churches rose out of the sunlit
streets and fair open places planted
with lordly avenues of trees. There,
in his thoughts, walked companies Of
men with faces like the face OF the
great Bernard, splendid with inno-
cence, radiant with the hope of life.
Thither, in his fancy, came the true
knights of the earth, purified of sin by
vigils in the holy places of the east, to
renew unbroken vows of chastity and
charity and faith. There. in his dream,
dweit the venerable father of bishops,
the vicar of Christ, the successor OF
Peter, the spotless head of the Holy
Roman Catholic and Apostolic. church.
There, in his heart, he had made the
dwelling of whatsoever things are up
right and just and perfect in Heaven,
and pure and beautiful on earth. That
was the city of God, OF which his soul
was the architect, and in which he was
to be a dweller, in peace that should
pass understanding. : Marion Craw-
ford, in Century.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-28
PRESS OPINIONS.

uTCroker has come out in favor OF
expansion and against sixteen to one.
There is another strange bedfellow for
somebody Leader.
GyThe silverite who contends that
gold bullion has no intrinsic value has
never been known TO throw away any
of il as worthless.--Sound Money.
EyThe latest device of the democratic
campaign managers TO raise funds IS
to place a cigar on the market. Why
not try the d-oNsterwith-every-
subscription plan?-Washington Post.
rIThey say Col. Bryan has dropped
one of his little oratorica' jokes. He
no longer opens his remarks by asking
his audience il they have seen anything
of Gen. Prosperity. This joke has been
pocryphal.-Boston Herald.
yIf Col. Bryan is hopelessly en-
amored OF a decadent theory let him
fondly linger amidst the scenes Of the
political past. But the country finds
new issues pressing 1t forward and 1t
will not wait for hm.--Detroit Frea
Press (Dem.).
"uy NC ~ having SOn-
Guided that there is not presidency i'm
tie sixteen-to-one issue, and being
shrewd enough, let it be hoped, to dis
cover that there is not presidency in
the anti-expansion issue, may flush
winning issue in the question wheth
the twentieth century begins with the
year 1900 or 1001.-Louisville Courier
Journal (Dem,). o
DWhile Hon. William J. Bryan was
vociferously denouncing the golJ
standard and protection in his Jackson
day speech in Chicago the savings
banks OF the city were figuring up the
largest first week of January deposits
on record. Thus do the hard facts OF
American business continue to pune
tuate the jersmiads of the professional
calamity howlers.-Boston Journal.
DThe suspicion Of some Of Col.
Bryan's real friends that his daily
speechmaking or other public utter
ance Is pursuant to the advice of pro-
fessed friends who are secret foes Is
well grounded. There are plenty OF
democrats who hail Col. BIZ yam with APP
parent enthusiasm, but who hope 10 see
him out Of the way before the next ma
tional Observation-Disclosures Jour-
nal
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-28
Accu.es Grant.

Sacramento, Cal, Jan. 1o.-When the
committee appointed to investigate
the charges against Speaker Wrigh.
met Wednesday MiltonJ. Green, who ac-
knowledges that he is the manager Of
U. S. Grants campaign for the senator
ship, was recalled. lie testified that he
had absolute authority to spend money
in Grants fight from Grant himself.
He stated that he had used money in
many ssenbly and senatorial districts,
but had kept no record of his expendi-
lures, nor could he tell,the full num-
Der of candidates whom he assisted.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-28

Victoria, b. C., Jan. 20.-The steamer
Danube, which arrived from the north
Thursday, brought about 60 men from
in gold dust. The Dawson men say the
Upper Dominion creek is panning out
well, running from $3.50 to four dollaCs
a pan. There are still Is tons of Can
adian and American mail at Tagish
awaiting to be forwarded. a great deal
of typhoid fever is reported at Daw-
son--some say fully 500 eases. Seven
men have been frozen to death in the
Klondike this winter.