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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-02-10
TIE OLDEST Man in AMERICA
Tells How He Escaped the Terrors OF Many
Winters by Using Peruna.

Isssc Brock, Q cifisss Of McLe1nas
County, Texas, has Lived m yssss.
No now lives with bis son.in-isw sf
Valley Afiils, Tsxs&
In speaking Of MS good health and
extreme old age. M. Brock ssyss
"Aher a man has lived Ia tho
world as long as I have. H. clghf
to have found out q great many
things by experience.
zone of the things 4 have found
QUITO mylenfire satisfaction Is tho
proper remedy for ailments that
,sre due directly 10 the effects Of
the climate.
During my long life 4 have
known q great many remedies for
coughs, colds, cafsrrh and disr.
rhea. I had always supposed
these affections 10 be different
diseases, but In reading Dr. Hart.
man S books fhsve found oaf thar
these affections are ire same and
that they are properly called ca
farrh. 4f2f1
/. ~ had several long sieges with
the gri,. Al first Ibid NOT know
that Pernns was q remedy for this
disease. When I heard that Ia
grippe was epidemic osfarrh. 4
tried Peruns for Ia grippe snd
found II to be jnsf the thing.
"As for DR.. Hsrfman,s remedy
Peruna, have found II 10 be tho
best, n NOT the only, reliable rem
edy for fhese affections. Ii has
been my standby for many years,
and ! attribute my good health and
extreme old sgs 0.fhis remedy.
avery truly yours,
5y"J asAf
FIR q free book on catssnh, address
The Peruns Medicine Co., Columbus
nhfo
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-02-10

You must behave yourself II you hope
to avoid worry; no guilty man can avoid
worry over his miaieeds. -Atchison Globe.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-02-10

A man seldom tells the truth about his
business; he exaggerates 1t one way or the
other.-Atchison Globe.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-02-10
Nervous
Women

ars aiLlRg women. Wren
q woman has some female
trouble she Is certain to
b nervous and wrefched.
WIN many women tho
lzsonfhly suffering Is 50
great. that they are for
Days positively insane
and fibe most dliiDsnf 0f-
forts Of ordinary f''eaf-
nsenf are zRava5ings
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-02-10
Tayio- Has M. Own Operators.

Frankfort, KY, Feb. 4.-Gov. Tay-
lor has proved against the delay and
inconvenience of receiving and send
ing kilograms in his present exclusion
quarters. by means of messengers. lie
has had two wires run into his Office
and has his own operators within the
office.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-02-10
Taylor Offers $500 Reward.

Frankfort, KY, Feb. 4.--Gov.. Tay-
lor has personally offered reward
of $500 for the arrest and conviction
Of the man who shot Gov. Goebel. Gov.
Taylor said the authorities Of Frank
lin county, in which the crime was
committed, have not requested him to
offer n reward officially, and he there
fore offers $500 Us an individual.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
PEOPLE WE KNOW.

Admiral Dewey has received from a
resident of Atlanta letter written
many years ago by Admiral Farragut,
which contains the following sentence:
THAT young Dewey is a very promising
chap"
Queen Victoria's autograph book has
been carefully preserved during the 81
years of her reign. and contains re-
markably rich collection of autographs,
including those of the pope, four czars
and several German kings and en-
perors.
Senator Bate, of Tennessee, like the
late Senator Harris, refuses to tell his
age. He must, hawever, be nearly 70,
for he was soldier in the Mexican war.
Altogether II members of the senate
have passed the Scriptural limit, while
three or four are within easy approach
of it.
The originator of the story that Gen.
Joubert, the Boer commander, is ma
tive of Louisiana, and an ex-confederate
officer, confused him with another Col.
Joubert. who was in the confederate
army, and u native of Louisiana. He
was creole, and lived and died in Lou
isiana.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
PeculiarAcc

John Little and Louis Werth were
severely injured in an accident in Min
neapolis. The mishap was a very pc
culiar and unusual one, and to all APP
pearances unavoidable.
Shortly after o'clock, Fourth av-
enue car was moving along near Fifth
street, when it struck the outstretched
pole of fuel wagon. The wagon was
backed up against the curb, and the
horses were unhitched. 1t was dark
and the motorman was unable to see
the danger. AS the pole struck the
front vestibule, it was pushed aside,
and then, with considerable force, it
swept through the windows in line
with the heads of the passengers.
Mr.. Titles head was struck by the
pole, and he was knocked insensible.
A cash four inches in length was cut
in his scalp, laying bare the skull. Mr..
Werth was injured in the same man.
ner, but not so severely. Both men
were removed to their homes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
VIII Look Into the Matter.

Washington, Jan. 6.-Secretary Hay
has received a cablegram from Ambas-
sador Choate at London, stating that he
had an eminently satisfactory interview
with Lord Salisbury relative to the seiz-
ures of American goods by British war
ships. Lord Salisbury listened intent
ly to the representations on this sub
ject made by Mr.. Choate by direction
Of the state department and took them
under consideration, promising volun-
tarily to give the matter immediate at
tention and to return a speedy deci-
sion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
COMMANCHE CAPTURED.
Insurgent Stronghold on Mount
Arayat Taken by Americans
and Burned.

Manila, Jan. 6.-Advices from Maya
lang, province of Pampanga, report that
Capt. Conhauser, with three companies
of the Twenty-ifth regiment, captured
the insurgent stronghold Commanche,
on Mount Arayat, Friday. Three Amer
leans were wounded, but the enemy's
loss is not known. Three members of
the Ninth and two of the Twelfth regi
ment, whom the insurgents held as
prisoners, were shot and horribly mu-
tilated. Three of them are dead and
the other two are recovering. Capt.
Conhauser set fire to the barracks and
the town.
Manila, Jan. Cool. Luther r. Hare,
of the Thirty-third infantry, and
Lieut.. Col. Robert L. Howe, of the
Thirty fourth infantry, with all the
Gilmore, have arrived at Vigan, prov
ince of South Ilocos.
Washington, Jan. 6.-The United
States navy has taken possession of
another island in the east. The news
of the seizure was contained in the
following dispatch:
"Cavite, Jan. 5, 19OO-On December q,
Wentzbaugh, commanding the Albay "a
little gunboaD, hosted the flag on Sibutu
island and the chief Dato provided and
raised the pole. Natives and North Borneo
authorities pleased.
(SigneD WATSON"
The island lies at the southwest
angle of the boundary line of the
quadrangle inclosing the Philippine
group. 1t is probably, but not pos
itively, outside the line, and lies very
near the coast of Borneo, command
ing the principal channel between
that island and the Philippines.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
CANNOT PASS LOCKPORT.
Gates Will Not Be Opened to Let Wa
ter of Drainage Canal Pass Into
the River Below.

Peoria, ILL.,, Jan. 5. = Col. Isaac Tay-
lor, chairman of the drainage canal
commission, said Thursday that the
commission had no objection whatever
to the turning of the water into the
drainage basin, provided that it is con-
fined to the channel, and was not per-
mitted to pass through the controlling
works at Lockport. He says that any
attempt to turn it down the river will
be the signal for legal proceedings.
Jefferson City, Mo-, Jan. 5.-Attorney
General Crow is preparing to institute
proceedings in the supreme court of the
United States to forbid the people of
Chicago from polluting the waters Of
the Mississippi river by means of the
sanitary canal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
A Suicide.

The body of Knute Larson, farm
er living in the town of Queen, a few
miles northeast of Crookston, was dis
covered hanging by rope attached
to the limb of spruce tree, half
mile from his home.
Deceased was bachelor, about As
years old, and lived alone, a brother
occupying an adjoining farm. Larson
had been melancholy during the win,
ter, and particularly so of late.
People passing his place noticed his
absence and an investigation showed
his stock was uncared for. His broth.
er was notified, and he summoned the
neighbors, who aided him in a search
of the premises, finding the body as
stated
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Not Anxious.

Minneapolis members of the old
First Regiment of the National Guard
and of the Thirteenth Minnesota Regi.'
ment, do not seem to be very greatly
interested in the orders issued by Adj
jutant-General Lambert, Saturday,
which indicate desire on the gener-
ais part to reorganize the old Nation
al Guard regiment from among the
members of the Thirteenth, wedding
out those members of the old regiment
who did not respond to the call for
troops for service in the Spanish
American war.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Work of the Mint.

Philadelphia, Jan. AT the United
States mint in this city, 122,79O, 52S
coins were made during the year 1899,
representing value of little more than
S65, 900. In addition TO the coinage
for this country, work was done for
Costa Rica and San Domingo. The total
number of gold coins executed for the
United States was 4,669,76S, valued at
$54,632,75 The silver pieces coined
numbered 3s,O75,3S4, representing a
value of $S,214,565. The coins of the
baser metals, nickel and copper, were
issued in abundance. Five-cent pieces
to the value of 81, 301, 451 $3.50, O29 ,O31
pieces-and $536,OOO.31 worth of cents
SO, 6OO,O31 pieces-were minted.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Gift for the Governor.

Governor and Mrs. Lind were pre-
scented with silver tea set by the gov
ernor's friends in the state govern
ment. The ceremony took place at the
state capitol, and the presentation
speech was made by James F. Jack
son, secretary of the state board of
correction and charities. A large
number of state officials and poll
ticians was present.
The set, which is solid, includes a
large tray and six pieces. The gov
ernor's monogram and the state
flower, the moccasin, are to be en-
graved in the various pieces.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
MINNESOTA NEWS.
The State Capitol.

The new state capitol has reached
point up to the roof beams. It's cost
to the present time has been $1,O94,-
960.9S. This was one development of
the recent meeting of the commission.
Architect Gilbert in his regular report
informed the members that the mark
set for the contractors had been
reached, and that all the work con-
templated thus far had been complet-
ed with the exception of two small
portions, the rotunda piers and the
arches of the front wall of the south
pavilion over the main entrance.
Mr.. Gilbert reported that the roof
beams were largely set, the roof truss
es over the chamber of the house of
representatives are mostly in place,
and practically all the iron and steel
work involved in the present contract
is either in place or delivered on the
grounds.
During the past year 65,Os6 cubic
feet of marble have been set; of gran
lite, 800 feet; of Kettle River sand
stone, 2S,592 feet; there are now O.
833,919 common brick in the wall and
1,159,969 sewer brick; 69S,599 pounds
of iron and steel work have been
placed, and 8S0,2S9 pounds have been
delivered.
The commission is already to com
mence preparations looking toward
the letting of the contract for the
marble dome.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
heath of Gen. Drentzer

Frankfort, Tenn, Jan. 5.-Gen. o. E..
Drentzer, ex-consul of the United States
to Norway during Grants administra-
ton, died Thursday, aged "a. Gen.
Drentzer came to this country from
Sweden in 1914, served as an officer in
the Florida war, and was brigadier gen.
eral of the Wisconsin militia. He has
been in active practice as lawyer while
in America.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Mont Go Bnck.

Washington, Jan. a. President
Schurman will not return to the Phil
ippines with the other members of the
Philippine commission when the body
goes back to Manila, on account of his
duties at Cornell. Admiral Dewey's
return is also more than doubtful.
Mr.. DENLY and Prof. Worcester will
remain on the commission after it
completes the report upon which it is
now engaged and will return to Ma
Mia to aid in the establishment of
civil government
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Army of Otis.

Washington, Jan. 5.-With the ar
rival at Manila of the transport Grant.
which left San Francisco on the 21st
ult. with the Forty-eighth volunteer in
fantry (colored), Gen. Otis will have
command of an effective force of about
$4,000 men. The army in the Philip
pines aggregates $4,000 men, of which
$1,000 are regular troops and 31,5OO are
volunteers. With the arrival of the
Grant the entire volunteer strength of
$4,000 men will be in the Philippines.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
The Pullman Estate.

Chicago, Jan. 6.-Robert T. Lincoln
and Norman B. Ream, executors of the
estate of George NJ. Pullman, were al
lotted as compensation for services
S425,OOO. This is said to be the largest
amount in fees ever allowed the exec
utors of any estate handled by the pro-
bate court here. 1t is said the estate,
which listed about $S,OOO,O0O when the
will was probated, now figures up near
w S14O 600 600
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Soldiers, Relief Bill Passed.

Lansing, Mich, Jan. Gov. Pin
gree sent a special message to the
house, recommending the passage of
bill for the relief of the sick and
INDECENT soldiers of the Spanish
American war, the $1S4,OO0 which had
been appropriated for this purpose
having been exhausted. A bill appro-
priating $4,000 for the purpose was
Immediately passed. The bill lacked
enc vote of the two-thirds necessary
to give it immediate effect.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
WATER TURNED IN.
Great Drainage Canal Is Opened at
ChicagO-NO Formal Cerc-
mOny Held.

Chicago, Jan. 3.-At nine o'clock
Tuesday morning water was turned
into the $33,OOo,0O drainage canal and
began to flow toward Lockport, where
it will fall into the Desplaines river,
and thence, through the Illinois and
Mississippi rivers, to the Gulf of Mex
leo. What is termed by the canal en-
gineers the collateral channel has been
for some time completed from the Chi
cago river in the southwestern part of
the city to within Is feet of the main
channel of the canal. This 15-foot wall
of earth with two sluice gates behind
it has been all that has kept the Chicago
river and Lake Michigan out of the
canal. At ten o'clock Monday night
steam dredge began to cut away this
wall OF earth and a few minutes be-
fore nine O'clock the water in the col
lateral channel was against the sluice
gates, and only a few inches of tim
Der remained to be removed before
Chicago was to realize her dream of
years and see the great canal in actual
operation. When the water began to
back up against the sluice gates the
timbers were knocked away and the
first water from the Chicago river ran
into the canal. The engineers of the
sanitary district have cut a channel to
carry 100000 cubic feet of water a
minute, but Tuesday the water was al
lowed to flow into the canal at the rate
of only $4,000 cubic feet a minute. The
effect of turning 100000 cubic feet of
water a minute into the empty canal
would be like the bursting of a reser-
voir and would tear away every bridge
over the canal and wreck the control
ing works at Lockport. Therefore the
water will be turned in gradually.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
HanEinGs.


The number of legal executions in 1899
was 131, as compared with 100 in 1898, 1928 in
1897, 122 in 1885, 1872 in 1895, 1872 in 1894, 126 in
1893 and 107 in 1892. There were 100 hanged
in the south and 81 in the north, of whom
So were whites, II blacks and Indian. The
crimes for which they were executed were:
Murder, 113; rape, II; highway robbery, l.
Lynchings.
1t is gratifying to note that the criminal
work of the mob murderers, notwithstand-
ing some instances of special barbarity in
Georgia, Louisiana and Kentucky, has de-
creased during 1899, being much smaller
than in any year since 1885, Judge Lynch
executed 107 persons during the year. OF
these lynchings 1O3 occurred in the south
and in the north. OF the total number "a
were negroes and % whites.
Embezzle ments.
The record of embezzling, forgery, de-
faulting and bank wreckage for 1899 is the
smallest ever known in any year in the
history of business since statistics were
kept, which embraces a period of q years.
The total is but $2,21S,373, as compared with
5S51, 1858 in 1898 ans. $11, 24S,0S4 in 1897. The
losses are distributed as follows:
Stolen by public officials ............ 1854, 457
from banks o4O, 5OU
By agents 1oS go
From loan associations ................. 1886
BY postmasterS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 25134
Miscellaneous stealings ................ Co., PAL
Fire Losses.
The losses by fire in the United States
during 1899 aggregate $3.50, 537, sos, as COM
pared with 49,, 1884, 67 in 1885, $12O001,7 1877 in
1897 Sill 067 in 1895 and $31, 57S 2O6 in 1855
Those where the loss in each case was
100000 and upwards amounted to $71,21e
900 and the losses by smaller fires to sS4,-
725, 1865.
Bright Spot.
Among all the records of the year 1899
not one stands out so conspicuously as that
of the donations and requests made for re-
ligion, educationa institutions, charity, Ii
braries, museums and galleries and to
cities for popular benefit and entertain
ment. No year in the history of the coun
try has ever equaled it, The aggregate thus
bestowed is the immense sum of 1856,
as compared with $23, 1884, 900 in 1898, 1913, ST.
S14 in 1897 1913, 129 in 1885, $2S in 1895
and $40, 1861, 116 in 1894. OF the total amount
stated above there has been given to educa-
tional institutions the extraordinary sum
of 500, 1851, 817; to charities, $13,206676: to
churches, $2,992,593; to museums and ar.
galleries, 81, CSC, 500, and to libraries. s5O12-
400.
Meath Of n Famous COmnoxer
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
News in Brief.

Building improvements in Long
Prairie for 1899 foot up $4,000.
State Treasurer Koerner has called
in all the bonds of state repositories
and is having them renewed.
The members of Company l of the
Thirteenth, have rejoined the National
guard.
Admiral Dewey and wife were in
vited to attend the st. Paul winter
carnival, but were unable to accept.
Otto Fitzbauer was found dying in
an old howell in Minneapolis. Nothing
is known about him except that he
came from Germany six months ago.
The supreme court decides the hack
ordinance passed by the legislature to
be illegal.
M. Madison and N. M. Pierson, %
Minneapolis, were fined $25 for selling
worked-over butter without labelling
the same.
The plant of the Minnesota Cereal
Milling company at Waterville was
destroyed by fire.
The state railroad and warehouse
commission has issued a circular letter
TO grain commission men, asking them
what they wish to have done with
grain inspection samples.
Mai. Bowler, of the state dairy and
food department, has decided not to
prosecute grocers for selling their
present stock of baking powder bought
in good faith. though it does not COM
ply with the law.
The grocers of st. Cloud have re-
solved not to sell baking powders made
by the trust.
Building Inspector Hass has con-
demned the Ramsey county Jail
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Exp1osion Kills Three Men.

Anna, ILL.,, Jan. 5.-Nelson McGinnis,
Mat McGinnis and John Adams, the en-
gineer, were scalded to death Thursday
afternoon by boiler explosion at the
sawmill of Oscar Stout, eight miles east
of here. Mr.. Stout's skull was crushed
and he will probably die. The boiler
was secondhand affair and the en-
pineer was inexperienced,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Big Price for a Colt.

New York, Jan. &c. j. Hamlin has
bought from his trainer, E. F. Geers,
the black four-year-old pacing colt Di-
rect Hal for $4,000. This is probably
the largest sum ever paid for PAGER
without a record. The colt worked a
mile in Eli last fall at Louisville, hav
ing been trained only few weeks.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Honor for Naval Omcer..

Washington, Jan. 4.-The Venezu-
elan government has conferred the or
der of the "Bust of Bolivar" on Adj
miral Sampson, Capts. Taylor, Cook,
Sigsbee, Chadwick, Goodrich, and Com
manders Mead, Dayton, Symonds and
Todd, of the navy, and Representative
Hit has introduced a bill authorizing
the acceptance of the decorations.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Blackburn Nominated.

Frankfort, KY, Jan. 3.-After four
years of retirement, former Senator
Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn was
chosen Tuesday night by the joint
caucus of the democratic members of
the legislature as the successor of
Senator William Lindsay in the Unit
ed States senate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
A New Commandant,

Lafayette, Ind, Jan. 5.-Gilbert S.
Stormont, editor of the Princeton Clar-
ion, has been elected commandant of
the Indiana state soldiers home at this
place. Capt. Stormont served in the
Fifty-eighth Indiana regiment during
the civil war and is past department
commander of the Indiana G. A. r.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Tramps burned in Barn

Hamilton, o., Jan. GA barn on the
Fox farm, two miles south of Hamil-
Eight tramps were sleeping in the barn.
Only six have been found since the fire.
Of these John Burgers and Charles Gray
are fearfully burned and may die.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Twenty-Five Sailors Lost.

London, Jan. 4. = A dispatch from
Bristol announces that the British
steamer Borghese, of Glasgow, foun--
dered off Cape Finister last Friday
during hurricane. Twenty-Five of
the crew were drowned
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Shot tn Death

Newport News, Va, Jan. CIV. W.
Watt was taken from the station
house by mob Friday morning and
shot to death for criminally assaulting
Mrs. 7. NJ. Simpson, wife of an employee
of the shipyard.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
DIR. Hammond Dead.

Washington, Jan. Cdr. William A
Hammond, formerly surgeon general OF
the army, died at his residence in this
city Friday night from an attack of
heart failure, brought ON by hurriedly
ascending a fight of stairs. -
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Frenchmen Sentenced.

Paris, Jan. 5.-The high court (sen-
ate), in secret session Thursday con-
demned MN. Buffet and Deroulede to
ten years Punishment. M. Guerin was
sentenced to ten years confinement in
a fortified place. M. Saluces was SEN
fenced to ten years. Punishment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Steamer Sunk.

London, Jan. 6.-The Great West
ern line mail steamer hex struck on
Black Rock, off st. Simpsons, Island
of Guernsey, at five o'clock Friday
morning, and sank. The 80 passeE-
gers on board were saved, but one
sailor was drowned.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-01-12
Killed by the Cars.

Lewisburg, Pa, Jan. 3.-An express
Wensel and Fremont Wolf, truck farm
ers, who were crossing the track in a
wagon.