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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13
A Big Haul.

The biggest haul ever made by the
state against railroad tie-cutting tres
passers has just been made in Cook
county. Il. E. Mcclellan and S. f.
Fullerton, of the state auditors de-
partment, have just returned from
that section, and it is learned they
have seized in the neighborhood of
10000 cedar ties, which were cut on
school lands. The 10000 ties are worth
nearly $4,000 delivered at the lake
shore, and all of them are near the
shore. The state demands from tres
passers a sum equal to double or ire
bic the amount Of timber in its orig
inal form on land.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13
He DEFIES ENGLAND.
Russia has No Fear of Queen Vic
toria's Armed Forces.
Count Mouravieff. the Cxnr's Minister
of Foreign Affairs. Objects to Lord
SaliSbury's Protest Against
RaSxia's Advances.

II reply TO communication. asking
him for his opinion concerning the
Russian advance into Afghanistan
and Persia, Count Mouravieff, Russian
minister of foreign affairs, returned
the following answer TO the Chicago
Tribune:
Why should England protest or
make a fuss because Russia has
massed troops at Kushk and taken a
foothold in Persia? We are at home.
England has nothing TO say about
what we are doing within the limits
of our own domain.
As for Persia, she is not, SO far
as ! know. vassal state of Great
Britain. She is free TO grant conces-
-sions for railroads TO whomsoever it
seems good TO her, and TO contract
loans with whomsoever she pleases.
Nothing in all that concerns the Eng
ish.
But had not England been uncom-
fortably engaged in South Africa she
might not have let these things pass
without saying something, for she is
u great talker.
-Unhappily, or happily, as you pre-
fer, Russia is a power devoted entire
~ 10 works Of peace. Our emperor is
pacific. our people are pacific. We are
all pacific. The puissant monarch
who took the initiative in The Hague
conference owes IL to himself, owes
ii TO Europe and TO the world, not to
let loose war without extreme ne
cessity.
The question that every one here
is asking himself is: Can we passive
" assist at the complete crushing of
the Dutch population of South Afri-
ca? And il will be necessary to an
swer il. For above the interest Of
peace lies the interest of humanity.
1t is impossible TO disguise it; the war
which the English are making against
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13
GUAM's NEW GOVERNOR.
Commands Seafon Schroeder APP
pointed by the Secretary of the
Navy TO Succeed Leary.

The interest with which the islet OF
Guam has been favored since the Span
ish war has appeared TO be due rath-
er to Capt. Leary, its picturesque
naval governor, than TO any claim that
the bit of sand itself has been able TO
make 10 fame. Now the dispatches tell
us that the natives are to be entrusted
to new governor. Commander Seaton
Schroeder. Capt. Leary is coming
home al his own request, and ii is said
20 be due TO his energy in putting the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13

the Beers is essentially war against
humanity. In this regard what our
emperor viii decide 1 cannot say, or
even know, at present. But he will
decide something, for his heart bleeds
at the sight of what is happening in
South Africa. If he takes his time in
deciding it is because his decision viii
be Of great weight for Europe and for
the world.
Whatever the emperor decides, Rus
STA viii carry ii out-and without fear
Of the English feet, even admitting
that ii be what the English proclaim
IL to be, invincible, than which moth
ing is less certain, because nothing is
less proved. And we have even less
fear of the British army.
This army, commanded by the
most famous chiefs. cannot. whip the
Beers, who are only peasants imp-o-
vlsed into soldiers, and three times
less numerous than their foe. The
easy reputation it has acquired in the
course Of wars undertaken against
half savage populations has suddenly
vanished when it found itself before
white soldiers and commanded in En-
ropean style
IF England were TO have a war
with Russia she would be irrevocably
lost. There is not a shadow of doubt
about that. o. we shall not go to
seek her out in her island. where, any
way, she is sitting. But we shall
know enough TO strike her where she
is most vulnerable, in India-within
our reach
Il believe she viii surely defend
herself with all her strength, but
that she viii no less surely succumb.
The day the Russian avalanche, roll
ing from the heights Of the Pamire,
crashes down upon India with daedal
force. Britannia domination in the
vast empire of the east viii be at an
end"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13
Coal DiscoYer.

There is a coal discovery excitement
at Torah, twenty miles west OF St
Cloud on the Willmar branch of the
Great Northern The fact has found
its way into the Stearns county court
house, in the shape of mining leases
for tracts of land aggregating $50
acres in the townships of Munson and
Farming. The lessons are business
men of Torah TO the number of six
and the grantors are seven owners of
farms. The leases cover a period Of
forty years and give the owners of
the lands per cent Of all soft coal
and per cent of all hard coal taken
from the lands
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13
HERO OF SPIoN KoP.
Gen. Louis Bothn, the New Com mand-
er of the Transvaal and Free
State Forces.

A New York World correspondent,
writing from Pretoria, says:
The Boer hero of tie first four
months of the war is Louis Botha,
the victor of Colenso and Spion kop
and the youngest general in the re-
publican armies The Beers are too
stoical to have many popular heroes.
but the name Botha is on every
tongue in the two republics, and al
ready he is being mentioned as pos.
sible candidate for the presidency. Il
reminds one of the days in America,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13


Dust Appointed Naval Governor of the
Island of Guam)
islands affairs into good condition that
the navy department now entrusts the
post to an officer of lower rank The
Washington correspondent of the As
ISOLATED Press says:
The navy department expects a
great future for Guam in a commercial
way. Besides being naval station, all
the Pacific army transports are ex-
pected hereafter TO touch at the island
on the voyage to and from Manila, the
projected Pacific cable viii have sta
ton there, a mercantile coaling sta
ton viii, ii is thought, soon be estab-
hshed, and this viii attract merchant
vessels, so that Guam viii become a
regular port of call for the shipping in
the eastern seas. Commander Schroe-
der expects TO sail on the Solace from
San Francisco for Guam about the
middle of May, and viii relieve Capt.
Leary before July"
During the war with Spain Com
mander Schroeder was executive off,
Ger of the battleship Massachusetts. He
was appointed to Annapolis by Presi-
den Lincoln in 1864, at the age Of Is, en-
tering al the same time as Command
er Wainwright, the present superin-
tendent of the academy, who was also
one of President Lincoln's appointees.
Wainwright and Schroeder were close
i
Schroeder married Wainwrigh1's sis
ter Commander Schroeder viii take
his wife and children TO Guam with
him, it is said, and they expect TO re-
main there at least two years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13
Is Sentenced.

New Orleans, April Julius Moyse,
alias Capt. Clark, who during Mar1i
Gras week married Miss Bertha
Narnken, under the false representa-
ton that he was commander of the
battleship Texas, then in port. and
who was convicted Wednesday On the
charge of inpersonating a United
States officer and with having OBJ
tanned money under false pretenses.
was sentenced Friday to three years,
IMPRISONMENT.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13
Qufck Trip by Balloon.

Three Prussian army officers have
made quick trip from Berlin to Prague
in balloon. They left at two o'clock in
the afternoon and came down at five
o'clock, having risen to an altitude Of
10000 feet for a part of the journey.
The fastest express train takes seven
hours % cover the distance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13
A GROWING INDUSTRY.
Ostrich Raising Now Is on a Paying
Basis in California, Arizona
and Florida.

The occupation Of ostrich raising has
within the last Is years reached re-
markable dimensions in California.
IRON the four dozen ostriches brought
over from Africa by Edwin Cawston,
and other docks, an attraction has been
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13
Found Chilly.

Lansing, Mich, April 6. = Arthur T.
Marsh. of AIlegan, late inspector gen.
eral of the Michigan national guard,
has been convicted of having felonious-
~ conspired with certain Of his official
associates to defraud the state. The
statutory penalty is 14years' imPrison-
ment or less.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13
Given q Life Term

Detroit, Mich, April Ga murder
trial which developed an extraordinary
contest over the issue Of the mental
responsibility Of the perpetrator end
ed IN the recorders court with the
conviction of Henry E Hamburger, a
youth of % years He was at once SEN
fenced by Judge Murphy to life in
prisonment IN the penitentiary at
Jackson.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13
To Light Soldiers Pipes.

A Birmingham firm has put in the
pockets of each member of the Wor-
cestershire yeomanry neat little burn
ing glass, protected by tortoise-shell
covers and inclosed in khaki case
The directions are: Focus glass in the
sun and light your pipe
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13
oIdesf CRY I'm the World

Damascus is said to be the Oldest city
in the world, dating back 1000 years.
Its present population is 100000. a
tenth beng Christians. The mosques
are numerous, there being more
than 50.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-04-13
Searching for Danger.

The British government keeps II ves-
sells at work sounding and charting the
ocean beds TO find out where dangers
Turk. Last year 10000 square miles
were carefully chartered in different
parts OF the wordld-Asia, Africa and
the South Pacific.
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-23
DISCHARGED FOR CAUSE.
Typewriter's Letter Got Mixed Up with
the Old Mans.

From the Detroit Free Press
mo, that young man isn't working here
any mOrer' snapped Dodson. what did |
discharge him for? For inattention to
business. DO you suppose that | want
any one around here wasting his time
writing letters to Darling Tootsie' and
Precious Darling?
when my wife went away for her va
cation l promised her faithfully to write
every day under penalty of buying her
a new gown if 1 skipped a day. Well, /
Old for three days, and then / commence
ed debating them TO my private secretary,
who wrote them out for me on his type
writer. The second week | told him to
go ahead and write them himself. as he
knew what to say as well as | did. |
believe / promised to raise his salary il
he succeeded in making them models of
the letter-writing art. / looked the first
few over and found them TO be better
than II l had written them myself, so
shook hands with him and told him to
keep liz up.
After a few days l had so much con-
fidence in his letter-writing abilities that
| got in the habit of signing them and
sending them to Mrs DOdson without
taking the trouble TO read them. There
was where / made a mistake, but IL
wouldn't have happened If that youny
fool had been attending 10 his business.
The Internal idiot has a Darling loot
sic to whom he writes every day, and he
made mistake and handed me the
wrong letter, which / promptly signed
and sent 10 my wife
That explains why she suddenly cut
her vacation short and returned TO town.
II also explains why that young man no
longer works here, and why the office cat
has been under the safe for three DAYS
and still refuses 10 come out"
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-23
A shattered Illusion.

From the Detroit free Press.
"'Reen back 10 the old home place" sail
Brown. For forty years I've been
dreaming Of the fishing that / used %
have In the little creek that runs through
that place. II was there that / caught
the famous big fellow / have said 80
much about. Well. / could hardly wal.
when / arrived at the old home. and, Gs
soon as the greetings with old friends
were over i started for the creek 70 try
my luck
The first days fishing resulted in M
catching exactly two, and they were 70
small that l threw them back. / whipped
that stream FOR a week and never caught
a trout that was worth saving I had 10
admit At last that the fishing was not
what II used to be, and fell 10 DREAMING
OF the good old DAYS and the monster
that | cauVht when was a boy I have
told the story Of its capture a good many
times, ard ] never tired Of telling d. az
a trout eighteen inches long IS somethIg.
70 talk about when you know It 10 b. a
fact
Suddenly while lay under a ire
signing for the good Old fishing days o.
yore.lt flashed uDOn me that when / landed
that celebrated fish ! had placed him
against the smooth bark OF a poplar tree.
and after tracing the outlines 7 had cut
them into the bark with my tack-knlfe.
Curious 10 see If IL was stu there, an
fully resolved 10 have a photograph taken
or u II II was. so ! could show 10 20 my
doubling friends who have never received
the story with the respect that I thought
was due me, l started for the tree The
outlines were still there with my nan.
underneath. But what a shock I had.
could cover the whole thing. name and
all. With my hand. ard another Illusion o.
childhood was gone"
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-23
BAD Boys UNCLE BILL,
He Served as Model for IrrepressibIe In
Sunday-scho0l.

From the Baltimore American.
Said a Sunday-sehOol teacher TO her
class in a Madison avenue church last
Sunday: "Collis p. HuntingtOn's life"
"He amt got any. He's dead" inter
rupted the bad red-headed boy. my Tn
Gle Bill
Never mind your Uncle Bill" said the
teacher, "and never mind the fact that
Mr.. Huntington IS dead. What / want to
tell you about is his life and the beautiful
lesson il teaches. Now, boys, attention.
Mr.. Huntington died immensely rich. and
yet ne started out as poor boy. He
earned his first dollar in piling wood for a
neighbor"
HE got a dollar for that, did he?' Tut
in the red-headed boy. Why, my Uncle
Bill"
Never mind that uncle Of yours, John
ME" interrupted the teacher. I'm talk
ing OF great man. Now, attention Mr.
Huntington went 70 work on a farm as a
young man al s. a month and his board.
Now. which little bog can tell me how
much he saved the first year? How?
Can none OF you tell Inc? He saved every
cent Of wages he earned the first year ="
Inereduious looks went around. and
every boy except the bad red-headed boy
looked his polite but certain doubts
Why, cerIny," said he That's easy.
Why. my Uncle Bill Is a conductor on a
trolley car and he saves every cent OF his
wages. he knocks down enough"
Never mind Johnnie, leave Uncle Bill
out or this please.
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-23

From Lesiie's Weekly.
The interesting disclosure Is made .ha,
the cost Of living Il less in the CulIsi
States to-day than II was IN is50. Care
fully complied statistics show that article
costing 500 then. cost only 30 now II IS
true that a few things are more expeg.
siVe. but commodities consumed generally
BY families. such as bFeadstuns. sugar
rice, salt, wooden and cotton goods boots
ana shoes, and silk and rubber gOUd1. are
considerably cheaper now than they w.Tr
thlTty years ago All manufactured sgo-a.
with hardly an exception, are cheaper
mainly because Of improved processes u
manufacture, which enable the maker %
reduce the cost 70 the lowest point The
development Of oar vast arabic tn-7iiCiy
IN the West. Northwest. and sO4thN --r
and the striking results OF irrigation. when
applied 70 what were formerly cousi1cfet
desert lands. nave increased our crop sup
plies more rapidly than the increase Of
population. Despite the dire predictiJus
thai prices % wheat, corn, and cotton
must inevitably advance because little
land remained 20 be cultivated IN thu
% acres are SIN awaiting Village IN
Texas alone. an area almost as extensive
as that OF the original thirteen States u
virgin soil The efnlgrant may 1avs a.
20 farther and work harder 20 establish
4 homestead in the United states. bul
Uncle Sam Il stu rich enough 20 gave
every able-bOdied industrious newcomer
q chance 20 own farm.
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-23

turn 20 the northwest is crowned h. .
sheer eiin OF bare rock which slopes Z, J.
point like the nose Of some mopsfrog,
animal, On the back % this rocky sp,,-
Is the Serpent Itself. opening lis hIge
Jaws as II to swallow the great ho,Ig,v
oval or egg before IL. The body yln8s n.
broad graceful curves down 10 the COLI
tail at the end. There have been fevy a.
servers who have not been impressed ygi--
the remarkable grandeur OF tire mount
and the rude bat strong art w-.rE
stretched IL along the level Of this strls-
ing prOmontOry 10 be a monument -
prehistoric man on this continent. as mss
now be hoped, for al ages 90 come Ths
State Of ohio may well be proud That b.
possesses it and grateful to the dis.atar.
tsted efforts OF the scientists who were
the means Of preserving It,
The Lenze.t snake In America.
II seems to be generally agreed By arch
aeologists that the mound vas erected Tor
ceremonial and symbolic purposes. and
was not connected with the idea OF ssgaf.
ture. In the center Of the egg-shaD-I
oval is a heap of stones showing the Ell.
feet OF fire This altar OF such 10 $50 was
once much larger than now. having been
broken up some sixty years ago On a
search for buried treasure. The oval e.
80 feet long by 80 feet wide and about.
1 feet high. From the end Of the oval u
the tip OF the tail IS distance OF AZ f.at
in an air line. but .34S feet II measlr.E
from the end OF the oval 10 the neck u
the Serpent and then along all the con
yolutions OF the body. From the t'y u
the upper Jaw 20 the end OF the tail III.
Serpent itself measures i254 feet The
average width Of the body Is about 20 fr.r
and its height along the head and BODY
from TO feet. From the beginning ~
the tail II gradually decreases in width
and height until II terminates in a bank
about a foot high and not more than .
feet wide. Prof. Putnam's excavation
have disclosed the fact that the SERPENT
was erected with great care. Where IL.
slope of the ground indicated possible In
security in the outlines. the work W.
strengthened with stones. or with elay
mixed with ashes.
The Peabody Museum I'm Cambridge p
tains a memorial Of its now terminated
connection with this great monument az
the past In the shape of very beautifully
executed model Of the park which "a form.
erly owned done by Wards natural s.l-
ence establishment In Rochester. \ Y
under the supervision of Prot Putnam
from surveys by Mr.. G. Cowen II mo >
ures feet high by feet inches. Tn.
contour of the land is shown most infar-
estingly I'm green. with its forests o,-4
cliffs and cultivated land and Brush
Creek flowing through the whole. a an
plicate of this model has also been mr.
cured for the Field Columbian Museum IN
Chicago.
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-23
SHOULD HAVE SHOT WOLCOTT.
Narrow Escape of the Colorado Senator In
the Civil War.

From the New York Mail and EXPRESS
i ought 10 have shot Ed Wolcott v,y
back in g." said the veteran, remIDfs-
Gently. as he chewed the end of his stool.
There is no doubt about il. / ought 10
nave shot him, and no court on earth
would have held me responsible for XIII.
ing him, because / would only have bee,
doing my duty.
"On the whole, I'm glad I didn't. be-
cause I'D was a good boy. and. ANYWAY
they need men like him out in Colorado
these days to kind Of leaven up that
pesky Bryan and silver crowd. But about
my shooting him, or rather not shooting
him.
II was one Of the 100 davs' volunteers
in 81, and my regiment the 10th Ohio
was stationed at Fort Saratoga. outsid.
of Washington. We weren't doing much
In the line of fighting. but we young faI.
lows thought we were the real thing and
took our guard duty very seriously for
awhile. Then we fell off a little ana got
a Dill sllpshod. When the guard was re-
ileVed, OF course. the whole relief detail
should have marched around to each
post, the relieved men falling in in order
we DID that at first. but after a time. es-
pecially when the nights were bad. we
sort OF dropped it. and the corporais of
the guard used To send out the men alone
TO their posts and have a quiet smoke
themselves.
81 was corporal OF the guard one night
and, as usual, sent out a man to relieve
I'D. Pretty soon / could hear some one
coming back. Now I knew that il was
I'D. Could have sworn TO H. There wasn't
possible chance that IL was any one
else, but when | challenged him there
was no answer and he kept coming along
Then | challenged again. and still there
was no answer, but, on the contrary he
brought his gun down as though prepar-
ing to fire. | could see the CLINT OF the
moon rays on his rifle barrel Now there's
where / ought to have shot him dead
Instead, | thought 10 myself in about
second: Here. you don't want 10 kin
that fool kid ed. was only seventeen.
because he doesn't know any better. Any
way. you and he were brought up IN
Cleveland together, and thered be lots Of
trouble If you hurt him. SO I Just dodg-
ed out of his range and hailed again,
That time he recognized my voice and an
swered. But wasn't IT just like Ed VOL
colt not TO answer just because he didn't
know who challenged him? Eds all right
/ should like TO have seen him in that
Roosevelt riot out In Victor the other
day. But really ought TO have shot him
way back in 1884"
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-23
4 Convenient Bon yaynge Gif

FTOm The PlttsblTg Dispatch
If YOU have ever noticed the state OF
worry and fuss some people get into when
packing their travelling bags. You will
appreciate d little gift made by a quick
witted damsel 10 her aunt. II was simply
card, about four inches long by Three
wide, and on il was a neatly written list
or things which should go into the bag.
Besides full list of toilet instruments
II included soap, court plaster. button
hook, shoe laces. needles and cotton. small
mirror, clothes brush, scissors, pencil. and
a few other things which her own experi-
once had taught her were often useful or
a journey The card was meant 10 be
kept In one OF the pockets OF the travelling
bag, so as TO be ready Tor reference when
again required.
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-23
Mrs. shepard. Gifts TO Her Daughters

From TIE Chicago Tribune
Mrs Margaret L. Shepard transferred To
her daughter Edith s, the wife of En-
nesto Fabbri, the new fiye-story marble
front mansion, 10 East Sixty-secOnd street
Ii is valued at S250,000. This handsome
structure and a similar house In East Six
ty-siXth street were built by Mrs Shepard
as gifts for her two daughters, Mrs. Fab
bTi and Mis-. William Jay SChieffelin The
SiXty-siNth street mansion, adjoining the
home of President Henry HaVemeyer OF
the sugar trust, on the Fifth avenue ear
ner, was transferred to Mrs. Schieffelin
last spring. Each of the mansions has a
frontage Of forty-five and six-tenths feet.
They are regarded among the finest archi-
tectural works of the current boom in the
milliOnairPS' row
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-23
Rode Iii. tricycle. In Iii. .leep.

Prom The Pan NaH bazstte.
Police Constable Johnson, Of Spalding.
while on his beat al half past 2 o'clock
yesterday morning saw something white
approaching him. Turning the light OF
his lantern on the figure. he was surprised
10 find II was that Of a local Free Netho-
dist minister who was riding mis- tricycle.
and was dressed only Ia his shirt and
black coat, The reverend gentleman Was
evidently In a dazed condition ana gave
the officer the impression that ne Vas a
somnambuIist. On realizing his posIfioo
the tricyclist apolOgized 70 the eonstabIe
and wheeled his machine home