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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-06-14
THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL.
DIR. Shortlidge Says That Expected Support
Was Withdrawn.

Dfs SuOrtliuSe says Ihat Expected support
Was Withdrawn.
In his speech at the High School
Alumni dinner Thursday, President
E.'G. Shortlidge of the Board of Edu-
cation referred to the problem of the
new high school building. Just as he
began his remarks, one of the diners
asked: Have you got the $50, 1000
yetf'' and this served as cue to the
speaker. The doctor said he was
ashamed that the new building had to
stand idle; not that any damage would
result to the structure, but from the
unhappy shock TO civic pride due to
allowing the work to stop.
When arrangements were being made
to build the school, DR.. Shortlidge
said, they had the assurance from
moneyed people of the city that the
money would be provided, under an
agreement similar to that under which
other schools had been built. The
board had saved about 500, 900 for that
special purpose, and when that was
spent on the new building, and the first
certificate of Indebtedness, for sc, 800,
was given, then came trouble. Those
who were to put up the money did moi
| do it.
In this situation. DIR. Shortlidge saw
a lack of civic pride and he hoped the
boys now growing up would cultivate
and display such pride in tLeir city
as would prevent repetition of such 0
thing.
In spite of the difficulties, DR.. Short
| lidge announced that the board in
tended to Keep on with its project fol
the new school and expected to resume
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-06-14

The women 10 charge of the West
Chester Public Library and their mas
culine assistants have. decided to ac-
cept the protfered $1,000 asythe annual
help from the borough s purse, through
the hands of the Council, who once
gave it ST. then shut 1t off entirely,
and now decides to heal over the
Trouble by giving 81 900. The library
has Econ closed for several months
because Of want Of cash,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-06-14
ADDICKS CONFIDENT.
Says the Union Republican Delegates Will
BE Seated AT the Convention With Full

Says the Union Republican Delegates Will
BE Seated AT the Convention With Full
Force.
j. Edward Addioks was in the city
Friday and in conversation with
reporter Of The Gazette made the
positive assertion that the Union Re-
publicatis will win In the contest for
seats in the National Republican
Convention in Philadelphia.
Our delegation" ne said, sis going
to be seated with whole vote. If we
are not We will not take our seats Mt
all. But you can say fol mo that our
delegation is going to DO seated, with
a whole vote, and we are going to show
who is fighting the Democrats. He
declined to give the ground for has
assertion. He was in his usual good
humor and appear ed very much pleased
over the outlook.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-06-14
WRECK AT STANTON.
Breaking of journal on a Freight Car
Causes Trouble.

brehkihg OF journal on freight Car
Causes Trouble.
The breaking of journal on a freight
car on the F., W. & b. railroad near
Stanton, shortly before II o'clock Thurs
day, caused wreck in which a mum
Der Of cars were piled up, both tracks
blocked and travel delayed. Nobody
was injured.
Two southbound trains were run over
the Delaware railroad as far as Porter g
station, where they were transferred to
the Delaware City and Newark road
and taken to Newark, and there shifted
to tho main line and proceeded TO Bal
timore.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-06-14

Robert O, Dickson, aged 60 years,
of Brandywine hundred, died on Tues
day week. The body was taken to Phi'a-
delphia, where intelment was made
tomorrow.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-06-14

In its advanced and chronic form cold in
recognized source of other diseases, Having
stood the test of continued successful use, Eys
Cream Balm Is recognized MS specific for mem
branal diseases in the nasal passages. md you
should resort to this treatment In your own case.
II Is not drying, does not produce sneezng Price,
70 cents at druggists or by mail Ely Brothers,
and try it.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-06-14
THE ELEPHANT WAS HANGED
Sports Sufferlnss Ended by a
Moose and Derrick.
THE EXECUTION WAS A SUCCESS
Huge Beast Pronounced Dead
In Nine Minutes.

He Struggled Desperately, But the Doctor
Said That After -Four Minutes He Ceased
to sufrer-weighed Nearly Two Tons, But
Was Drawn From His Car by a Three
Inch Rope. A
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-11-30
FORTUNE IN ONE OIL WELL.
Three Old Irish People in West Vir-
ginia Who Are Getting
$1,000 a Day.

Weston, w. Va, is the center of the
most wonderful oil field that has been
opened in the United States in years.
Three old Irish people of Weston, as
poor as the farm on which they lived,
have become suddenly possessed,
through no effort of their own, of an
income of over $1,000 a day, says the
Philadelphia Record.
That income of 81 900 day is all from
one oil well. There are three other
wells nearing completion within few
hundred yards of this one, each of
which is sure to pour out as much
money. And the end is not yet. The
land is so unproductive of vegetation
that only very poor people would own
it, so the Copley heirs, being poor, have
big acreage, room enough for 200
more wells to be sunk.
No one knows in what direction that
lake of oil, away down 1900 feet below
the surface, extends. Such pools are OF
varying size and shape; sometimes only
few hundred yards wide and miles
in length; sometimes circular and
way of finding QUITO drill holes down
below that lead.
To-day the Copley well is the only
one tapping the pool. Everybody wants
to risk his money in an effort to get
hole into the pool, To that end thou
sands of people are buying, begging,
bulldozing and badgering farmers for
miles around the big gusher for the
privilege of sinking wells.
The Copley well, which has wrought
all this change to Lewis county, came
in from the Gordon oil sand at depth
of 1900 feet on September "a. 1t was
unexpected, and, like shot from ten
inch gun, blew away the oil saver and
casing head and sent a solid stream of
top of the s0-foot derrick, nearly drown
ing the workmen.
1t flows continually, but, like the
geysers, has certain hours out of every
"a to put forth its greatest force.
When the oil came 200 $50 barrel tanks
were put up. They were filled in lit
tie more than an hour.
nICC ddhlS "ClC III OdHu OTh
creek bed. which, thanks to drought
was dry, the lower dam two miles from
the well. These hold pond of oil two
miles long. averaging 60 feet wide and
six feet deep. A two-inch pipe line has
been carrying away 60 barrels an hour
all this time. A four-inch and six
inch line have been completed. Be-
sides what the pipe line has carried off,
and what is in the dam, the well has
produced enough to fill 6S 250-barrel
tanks, one 1,2O0-barrel tank and one
S00-barrel tank, all erected since the
we'll was struck.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-11-30
LORD MAYORS DAY.
A Day of Feasting and Dancing in
the City of London.
The Insignia of His once Give the
Chief Magistrate Great Dignity,
But Cost Him Heavily in
Care and Ready Cash.

November 9 was Lord Mayors day
in the city of London and the suburbs
thereof. The suburbs of London, in
GLIDING Westminster, Kensington,
Bloomsbury, all the quarters known
as the places of residence of society,
with the capital S; the borough of
Southwark, and the quarters on the
east and north known emphatically as
not being the places of residence of
the "hupper classes" make large
settlement with a population of not
far short of 100000. The city itself
has a population that by day is be-
yond calculation, being in an inces-
SAINT state of f1ux, and at night con-
Sists of little more than a company
of the guards at the bank of England,
another at the Tower, few hundred
night watchmen and some platoons of
police. This is the realm of the lord
mayor; within it he is chief magis-
trate and, by right, takes precedence
of the queen herself. But this power
and dignity remain vested in the same
individual for only one year, says the
New York Tribune, being assumed by
the new lord mayor-elect on each No
yember 9.
Like other potentates of the old
world, the lord mayor of London main
tains his dignity before the masses
by display of great pomp and cere-
mony, all of it regulated by imme-
mortal precedent. On all occasions of
state, the greatest of which is when
he proceeds from the Mansion house,
in the city, to the palace of Westmin-
ster, to take the oath of Office before
the judges of the royal exchequer,
the lord mayor is preceded by the
mace of the city and two swords. The
mace, an emblem of sovereignty
which can be traced back in history
to the ivory scepter of Agamemnon,
has developed from mere wand to
massive pillar of silver and gold.
five feet three inches in length and
amply thick in proportion. That now
in use was made by John White in
1875. Of the two swords. the longer
is known as the sword of state, which.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-11-30
THEY NOW KNOW BETTER.
Biologists Have of Late Discarded
the Old Notion About Gla-
cial Movements.

Anew years ago biologists confident
~ asserted that at one period of the
worlds history great Ice cap came
moving down from the polar regions
and swept over North America as far
south IS latitude 3s, carrying with it
great bovlders-wh lie about on
slopes and hilltops to this aay to
prove it-and scratching the record of
its movement upon cliffs and lodges.
Then this ice cap kindly melted and
disappeared. This was taught in the
schools, and to doubt it was heresy;
for science, when it takes up with a
theory, is dogmatic, and all biologists
said: Behold, how wonderful is our
knowledge; what secrets we can
wrest from the past!" After awhile
science rather gave up the polar ice
cap theory and lald down a new dog
ma-that of single continental ice
sheet for North America.
The recent Investigations of officers
of the Canadian geological survey
prove that the scientists evolved their
glacial theory out of vivid magma
ton. 1t has been found that in
northern Alaska there is no evidence
that that part of the country was
ever covered by glacier-in fact,
conclusive evidence exists that it was
not. At the mouth of the Mckenzie
river is plenty of evidence OF glacial
which left it's records came from the
south. On the western SHORES of Hud-
son bay are marks of a glacier which
came from the west, and on the east
ern shores of one which came from
the east. East of the Canadian Rock
les is a long belt which shows no evil
dence of ever having been exposed to
glacial action.
These and similar discoveries have
put the biologists "all at sea-" and
they now have evolved new theory
regarding the glacial period. 1t is
that one big glacier did not at one
time cover all the North American
continent, but that several glaciers,
moving at different times from diff
ferent centers of distribution, made
their way in different directions and
left the glacial records which are now
found. They have cen given names
to these glaciers, such as the "Cor-
dilleran glacier" the "Labradorian
glacier" and the "Keewatin glacier"
Prof Lawson, of the University of Cal
ifornia, in writing on the subject in
the international Monthly, says that
as yet it cannot be said that the sue
cession of these great glaciers in time
has been established well enough to
warrant an unqualified acceptance,
but he seems to have little hesitation
in accepting the theory of different
glaciers moving from different points.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-11-30
SIR WILFRID LAURIER.
Canadian Premier Returned to Power
by the Victory of the Liberals
in the Dominion.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who has just
been returned to power by the victory
of the liberals in Canada, has been
the leader of his party since 1887.
Four years ago he led the liberals to
triumph at the polls and was sworn
into Office as president of the privy
council on July 9, 1896. His record
since that time has been evidently
pleasing to the people. He settled the
vexed school question in Manitoba so
as to take it out of politics altogether,
and his administration in other re-
spects has been satisfactory to the
electorate. On his visit to England
in 1897 he received almost regal honor.
In the same year he was the recip-
lent of unusual honors from the pope
and the president of France. Sir Will
frid on his return was met with ac-
claim in numerous cities of Canada,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-11-30
STABBED TO DEATH.
Leonard Day Een Known in Minneapolis
was Killed in the West Hotel---
Frank HI. Hamilton Is
Under Arrest

Minneapolis, Nov. 26.-Leonard A.
Day, son of Leonard Day, the late
millionaire 1umberman, and young
man we'll known about town, was
stabbed to death in the West Hotel
billiard hall, about 2 o'clock Sunday
morning.
Frank Hamilton, Minneapolis
Times reporter, with whom he was
engaged in an alteration just previ-
Gus to the time when the fatal blow
was struch, is locked up at the Gen.
trail police station, charged with MUIR
der.
ALI witnesses, and men who partici-
pated in general row that resulted
from the differences between the two
men, agree that the men engaged in
two scuffies. They were separated by
friends in the first, and shook hands,
and it was believed the trouble was
over. About five minutes later they
resumed quarreling and friends made
another attempt to seperate them.
During the general melee the fatal
blow was struck and almost without
word, Day fell to the floor.
One scene marked the death of Day
who was unable to talk to those about
him from the moment he fell bleeding
on the billiard room floor until the end
came, 80 minutes later, which to say
the least, was strange one if Hamil-
ton committed the murder. The lat
ter it was who tried to revive the dy.
ing man, and who after assisting in
this work, knelt by the side of his al
legged victim and prayed fervently.
Day was stabbed in the neck and
bled to death.
A knife was found near Days body
covered which undoubtedly caused the
death. Hamilton disclaims ownership
of the weapon.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-11-30
Sold Much Land,

Over $500, 600 was realized by State
Auditor r. C. Dunn from his auction
sale of timber lands. AS the law pro-
vides that 25 per cent of the purchase
price must be paid in cash, the treas
ury was enriched by 100000. The
bidding was very lively and the prices
realized made the old timers open
their eyes in establishment. The
average paid for stumpage was $5.25,
or over twice the average secured at
the last sale and choice sections went
as high as SO per thousand. c. A.
Smith of Minneapolis paid this for
section 16, township 145, range SO, con-
tanning $500, 1000 feet. The mills at
Akely. Mimi, bought several tracts
aggregating over $50, 900.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-11-30
CURIOUS TYPE OF CRANK.
The One Who Confesses Crimes He
Never Committed Annoys
the Police.

'The most curious type of crank
in the world, in my humble opinion"
said an old police officer, according to
the New Orleans Times Democrat, sis
the fellow who makes fake confess
sion. The outside public has no idea
how frequently that sort of thing oc-
ours. Whenever we have a murder
mystery the authorities are absolutely
certain to hear from one or more
persons who assert positively that
they have committed the crime, and
dent fabrications. As a rule the con-
fession crank writes letter, and now
and then communications are so plaus-
ible and circumstantial that the po-
lice would be thrown completely off
the track were it not for the fact
that they are always on their guard
at just that kind of false leads. 1t is
very strange, and there seems to be
absolutely no motive beyond an in
sane passion for meddling.N Occa-
sionally the crank will present him
self in person and insist upon being
locked up, but his first few words
will usually betray him, and unless
he is violent, he is quietly escorted
to the door. A ve.y singular incident
of that kind took place seven or eight
years ago in connection with a mys-
terious murder in the sTenderloin' dis
tflct.
Zone evening young man who be-
longed to an excellent family of this
city called at headquarters and aston
ished everybody by declaring he had
committed the crime. A little ques-
tioning showed that his story could
not possibly be true, AID finally he
admitted that he was lying. My Curl
osity was highly excited, and, taking
him to one side I tried to draw from
him the reason that had prompted
such an extraordinary and danger
Gus piece of folly. He told me, with
hysterical tears, that he had brooded
about the case and found a strange
and pleasurable excitement in max
ing believe that he was the man who
had done the deed. That grew upon
him until, [ suppose, it became next
door to an hallucination. At any rate
he could give no other explanation.
Of course, such man should have
been placed under restraint as dan
gerous monomaniac, but the police
have no facilities for handling cases
of this kind and the family were averse
to sending him to an asylum. 1 see
him frequently on the streets. Some
few false confessions are made for the
deliberate purpose of misleading the
authorities, and, again, they are some
times made b. prisoners solely to Sc
cure transfer to another city. 1t
is brand of crankiness that might
we'll interest specialist
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-11-30
Babe. Convicted Of sedition.

I In Austria they arrest babes TO.
high crimes and misdemeanors. The
court in Parenzo, a town in Austria s
Italian province of Istria, recently af
forded the spectacle of two baby broth,
ers, three and five years old, Pao and
Leo Franco, being charged with sedi.
ton, in that they did cry SYLVIA Istria,
Italiana." A day or two before fes-
tival was celebrated, in the course OF
which this cry was raised. The two
infants heard it, and the next day,
while playing near the police bar
racks they babbled the cry. There.
upon they were arrested, imprisoned
tried formally, adjudged guilty and
sentenced to be severely reprimanded
And so the high crime and misde
meanor was dealt with properly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-11-30
News In Brief.

Chas. Parker killed monster moose
near Blackduck. The animal was
ugly, and charged on Mr.. Parker, who
had to put thirteen bullets into him
before he fell. The head weighed 6
pounds. One of the horns contained
eleven, and the other ten prongs.
An explosion of gas in the basement
of the millinery establishment of E. L..
Schultz, in st. Paul, caused loss.of
about $40, 600 to the building and Its
contents.
Moorhead is preparing for its
annual city election.
Over near Langor, Elijah Golf killed
buck weighing 900 pounds.
Bonnie Amundson, the 16-year-old
son of Mrs. George Amundson. who
while hunting near Mora, accidently
discharged his rifle through the palm
of his hand. The hand may have to
be amputated.
The Central Minnesota Land COM
pany, with F. M. Gunner, president,
George M. Palmer, treasurer, and S. d.
Works, secretary and manager, has
been organized in Mankato. The
company has secured control of 36, 900
acres in Cass county, 10000 of which
have been paid for. and the balance is
held on an option.
Burglars broke into the California
Wine house in Faribault and supplied
themselves with a quantity of liquor
and cigars, rifed the till of its con-
tents and made good their escape.
After brooding over family troubles
and financial difficulties for long
time, Mrs. Lizzie Sommers, wife of
Perry Sommers, an actor, tried to COM
NIT suicide at Duluth.
A practical joke was played
at the Winona high school by
the removal of the banner won for
punctuality and attendance. The
banner was inscribed, Excelsior. I"
In its place was substituted bunch of
excelsior.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-11-30

80 volumes of his reports, with their
invincible logic, their facility of ex-
preston and their clarity of thought,
still constitute the standard author
ity on constitutional questions, and
have impaired life and vigor to the
national body polite.
Inasmuch as Marshall's services
were in the highest sense services to
the nation, it is designed to make the
observation of "John Marshall day"
national in scope and character. The
president has expressed warm inter
est in the plan, and has promised to
mention the matter in his message to
congress in December. There will be
exercises in the hall of the house of
representatives at Washington. the
courts all over the land Will be closed,
and the public schools and academies,
it is hoped, will be devoted to the
great lawyers memory. Most of the
states have already given assurances
of their sympathy with the plan and
begun preparations for suitable OBJ
servation of the day.
John Marshall was man of peace,
but, says the Youths Companion, his
services to his country were not less
real or less enduring than those of
many of the military or naval heroes
whose names are household words.
The plan of the Bar association to
honor his memory deserves the most
cordial commentator.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-11-30


like the ak and fasces of the Roman
curule magistrates, symbolizes the
power of life and death. Whenever
the queen visits the city of London
she is met at the city limits gener-
ally Temple Bar-by the lord mayor,
who there presents to her the sword
of state, point downward, as well as
the golden keys of the city. Except
in the presence of the sovereign of
England, the sword of state is always
carried before the lord mayor with
the point up. The other sword, car
the pearl sword. from the seed pearl
embroidery on it's scabbard: it ap-
pears to be a superauous adjunct to
the pomp and circumstance of lord
mayoralty, and is retained probably
for no other reason than that Queen
Elizabeth gave it to the city more
than 300 years ago. In addition to
these two swords. there is the black
sword, used in public ceremonies on
occasions of mourning. and the sword
of justice. which is placed on a shelf
over the lord mayors head when he
attends the opening of the central
criminal court sessions.
Besides being temporarily response
BILE for the care of these intrinsically
and historically valuable articles,
every lord mayor on assuming office
has to wear round his neck golden
collar to which is attached a diamond
mounted jewel estimated as being
worth 10000 ($6O0 ,O0O), and for the
safekeeping of which he is obliged
to give substantial bond before being
sworn in. The city plate which adorns
the sideboard of the Mansion house
at the great inaugural and many other
occasional banquets must also be
taken care of. and not only that, but
each lord mayor is expected to add
to the collection to the value of not
less than 6 500. In this way. and by
gifts from visiting monarchs and
Others, this remarkable display of the
precious metals has increased in bulk
and magnifcence until, from being
valued at about e12,000 in 1883, when
the present Mansion house was
opened, it has now reached market
value Of probably 90 times that sum.