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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15
The Editors.

| Next Monday evening the Minnesota
State Editorial Association annual ex-
cursion will visit this city, and about
one hundred of the best people of the
state will be with us.
Ely has never been visited heretofore
| by such a representative body of citi-
zens as this represents and everyone
should try and make it as pleasant as
possible for our guests. The program
as arranged is as follows:
Meeting of the train in the evening
by Mayor N. e. Gleason and reception
committee.
Supper at the Vail hotel and gen
eral meeting of visitors, after which all
will be furnished rooms.
Breakfast at the Vail in the morn
ing, after which trip about the mines.
| The excursionists will leave Tuesday
forenoon for Eveleth, where they will
have dinner and a visit to the Eveleth
mines. Then the return to Duluth with
a banquet i'll the evening.
The work of securing sleeping accom-
modations for such a large influx will be
the hardest matter for the committees to
fovercome However, it will be arranged
so that the larger part will be housed
in private residences and all our citizens
have signified their willingness to help
by furnishing sleeping accommodations
for one or more people.
| The management of the mines have
signified their intention of acting as es-
corts for the trip about the various prop
critics and rigs will be provided so thar
all may ride. Those who will be our
guests as far as known are:
Chris Murphy, Grand Marais Herald;
DR.. J. C. Mcnamara and wife, Broadaxe,
st. Paul; z. e. Bowling, Star, Eveleth:
M. J. Aldrich and wife, FairmOnt Sen
tinel: Kenneth D. Bennett and sister,
lGranite Falls Journal; r. w. higgins,
st. Paul Pioneer Press; Mrs. X. M.
Bumford, ST. Paul Pioneer Press; Mrs.
1C. S. Bartram, Minneapolis Cigar and
Tobacco Journal; John Brandtjen, wife
and daughter, American Type Founders
company; John f. Breckenridge, Rush
City Post; III. e. Boon, Fergus Falls
Globe; P. V. Collins and wife, Minneapo-
| lis, Northwestern Agriculturist; c. B.
Cheney and wife, Minneapolis Journal;
Neil Currie, son and daughter, Currie
Pioneer; George A. Doran and wife, st.
Paul Dispatch; Ward Day and sisters,
Hutchinson Times; Mrs Frank A. Day
and daughter Fairmont Sentinel; w. r.
Easton and wife, Saltwater Gazette.
Mrs. C. H. Elliott and daughter, Roches-
ter Bulletin; j. NJ. Freeman and wife,
Olivia Times; J. J. Green and wife, New
Ulm Times; A. p. Cove, Rochester Bull
letin: w. p. Gottry, Pine City Pioneer;
w. r. Hodges. Sleepy Eye Herald; A.
f. Howard and wife, Wells Advocate;
Miss B. c. Harnisch, Hastings Gazette;
III. e. Ives, st. Hilaire Times; Z. Il.
Johnson, Lindstrom Courier; K. f. Jou-
bert and wife, Wheaton Reporter; A. ID.
Langum, Preston Times; Joseph Leicht
and wife, Winona Westlicher Herald;
Mrs. +. w. Lee and daughter, Rush City
Post; d. C. Lightbourne, wife and two
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15

ance thus:
Il have just been obliged to call for
the resignation of United States mar
shall, who, beginning a political CAM
paign with speech-making, ended by
shooting and is now under indictment
for murder From the tone and tenn
per of your letter it would not be sur
prising to find you in a like predica-
ment, should you undertake to be a po-
litical worker and United States mar
shall az tie same time. Undue excite
ment and recklessness are almost inevi-
table when to ordinary political parti-
sanship is added the personal interest
;nsaparable from officeholding."
From what can be learned here, Bede
appears to have turned Republican and
joined the "Knownothings and mounte-
banks and ..dogs" in fighting the Dem
ocratic party and its candidate in the
Duluth district.
w. F. CHASE.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15

The latest putty-head to rock the
boat got just what he deserved and
went to the bottom.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15

a Bushman or HOttentot is just about
as competent to teach school as some
parents i'll this town are to rear chill
dreD.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15

A woman may soon cease to mourn
the loss of her first husband, but her sec
ond husband hardly ever does.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15

A Bushman or HOttentot is just about
as competent to teach school as some
parents i'll this town are to rear chill
dreD.
The latest putty-head to rock the
boat got just what he deserved and
went to the bottom.
A woman may soon cease to mourn
the loss of her first husband, but her sec
ond husband hardly ever does.
We once had a friend who permitted
us to loan him FIVE dollars and he has
never forgiven us for that act. Anyway
he has lodged our presence ever since.
Poverty is bad enough when a man is
down. but it is a great deal worse when
he is up.
Pampering and candyfeeding boy
puts him in poor condition for fighting
the battle of life.
The man who caught that bug which
eats one hundred mosquitoes at every
meal ought to take it to the Arkansas
swamps and make fortune hiring 1t
cut.
Occasionally you see some member OF
a family who dates back and resembles
some one of his ancestors who lived cell
turtles ago. This accounts for so many
apes ir society today.
If all the so-called beautifiers were
what they are recommended to be there.
would not be single homely female
living.
Thirty years ago a Superior girl put
n needle between her lips while she
hunted some thread, preparatory to
threading it. Just then she sneezed anu
the needle was gone. She searched dill
gently without results. Yesterday she
felt a tingling sensation at the end or
one of her fingers. Upon examination
she discovered the point of small OBJ
iect lust above the surface of the skin.
Procuring a pair of tweezers she with
drew thorn she had accidently run into
her finger the day before while pruning
rose bush.
-
An eastern scientist has made the
assertion that dyspepsia causes man
to lie If that is the case lot of the
citizens Of this town were born dys-
naDtjcs
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15

When man is always throwing up to
his wife that she does not cook to suit
him like his mother used to, he needs
her to fan the base of his pants like bis
mother used to.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15

An eastern scientist has made the
assertion that dyspepsia causes man
to lie. If that is the case lot OF the
citizens Of this town were born dys-
peptics.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15

We once had friend who permitted
us to loan him FIVE dollars and he has
never forgiven us for that act. Anyway
he has lodged our presence ever since.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15

down, but it is a great deal worse when
he is up.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15

Pampering and candy-feeding boy
puts him in poor condition for fighting
the battle of life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15

If all the so-called beautifiers were
what they are recommended to be there
would not be single homely female
living.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15

The man who caught that bug which
eats one hundred mosquitoes at every
meal ought to take it to the Arkansas
swamps and make fortune hiring 1t
cut.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-08-15

Occasionally you see some member OF
a family who dates back and resembles
some one of his ancestors who lived cen
turtles ago. This accounts for so many
apes IT. society today.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-02-06
SWEET, SUFFERING SUGAR.

The following stereotyped letter
received by the Signal clearly shows
the efforts and methods of the sugar
trust to further It's financial inter-
ests at the expense of the American
agriculturlsts. 1t reads as follows:
Dear Sir: There is no more competent
judge of the Cuban situation than Gen
eral Leonard Wood, military governor of
Cuba, and we enclose brief but most
interesting article recently contributed
by General Wood to the columns of the
Independent. No disinlerested person
can read this without feeling that ''the
greatest good to the greatest number"
both in this country and in Cuba will be
served by a liberal. treaty of reciprocity
between the two countries If YOU think
so won't you exert your influence to this
end? Respectfully yours,
U. S. EXPORT COMPANY,
f. r. Thurber, President.
About the first noticeable point in
the circular is the fact that among
other benefits Cuba has received at
the expense of the American people
is the presence in that island of of a
military governor. The next sug-
gests that it would only be disinter-
ested persons who could see in
the tariff changes proposed anything
but gain to the sugar trust and
eastern holders of Cuban property, at
the expense of important and strug-
CLING American agricultural interests.
During the troublesome times, before,
and during the war with Spain, spec
ulators obtained holdings in Cuban
properties at prices satisfactory to
MISUNDERSTANDING advantage of the
necessities of the people caused by
the unsettled condition of affairs.
The claim is made that eighty mil
lions of American capital has been
invested there. If the truth were
known probably ten millions, actual
cash, would more than cover the
speculative interests, and the balance
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-02-06

pound, the quotation of that brand of
copper on the last day of the year 1901
was thirteen cents The price of seven
teen cents was maintained for about
eleven months. and when the slump came,
it came with great swiftness. 1t has
been said that this cut in price is due
TO the desire of the Amalgamated Copper
Company to make things unpleasant for
those not in the combine. This. in our
opinion, is paying poor compliment to
the business qualifications of the men at
the head of the Amalgamated Copper
Company's affairs. IL they have gotten
even with the people who are their com
pelitors, they have done so at fearful
| cost to themselves, and we do not believe
for moment that the undoubted business
ability of the managers of the Amalg-
amated Copper Company would allow
them to slaughter the price they receive
for their metal and the price quoted for
their stock, simply for the purpose of get
ting even with other parties. The situa-
ton in brief is as follows: From the
beginning of the year the exports of cop
per steadily fell in volume until by the
end OF the year the decline of exports
amounted to no less than $50, 900. 900
The Industries consuming copper in this
country could not absorb this tremendous
surplus. Since last March metal brokers
and consuming came to the conclusion
that copper stocks were becoming very
unwieldv. They anticipated, therefore.
that the time must come when the price
of copper would have to be out. unless
OF course, unforeseen circumstances should
arise to mitigate the situation. They
consequently stood off simply buying
the copper actually needed in their
everyday business. The more the pur-
chasers stood off. the more rapidly the
stocks increased. In the meantime the
copper companies outside the Amalg-
amated Copper Company were, it is
alleged, selling copper below the rates
quoted by that concern, and finally it was
Obliged to come out and cut its own
prices in the scramble for a market for
its enormous stocks of copper. All
students of economics foretold these
events, and the old law that supply and
demand control the price of commodities
mas again demonstrated its supremacy
in spite of the new school of economics
which casts doubt upon it,
Now in order to make this view
OF the situation of real force it would
seem that some valid reason should
be given to account for the immense
falling off of exports. Thirty millions
falling off In one lea( ing commodity
can certainly be explained, concIu-
slvely if it is so. If this cannot be
done, it is very safe conclusion to
arrive at that our local interests are
being held up and paralyzed by the
jobbing intrigues of protected and
soulless trust com bination.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-02-06

trade with the islands would not
pay to exceed one per cent. So far
the war has certainly been a most
miserable failure considered as a
matter of dollars and cents-except
always the private snaps received by
contractors for supplies and trans
portation. And this miserable con-
6ict is with a people in whose affairs
We never had the least excuse to
meddle with, and in measure it
is is carried on by a studied system
of deception that calls for continued
apologies and appeals to national
patriotism; whereas, if 1t had sem
blance of correct policy or principle,
the voice of the American nation
would be heard without any soicita-
ton from political Pharisees who so
relentlessly advocate the subjugatlon
of the people of these islands, and
look forward confidently to the time
when, under the protection of suit,
able tariff, and incidentally under the
American flag, they can transfer a
certain class of American industries
there, and with the emi-slave labor
of oriental hordes produce manufac-
tured products at prices that will
drive the American operatives out of
trade and fairly off the face of the
earth. Then where?
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-02-06
REVIEWING THE. REVIEW

However local papers might color
the situation through selfish inter
ests, one would scarcely expect a
great paper like the Spokesman. Re
view, of Spokane, to descend from
the dignity of its position and in
dulge in cheap misrepresentation
in order to favor aspiring local
tiles where the Review circulates ex.
tensively- We can only believe that
the Review was entirely misled and
deceived when it was induced to in
sert, in its editorial department above
all places, the following in its issue
of January Both.
Inere are TWO gateways to the new
district. One is Weiser on the Oregon
Short Line railroad in southern Idaho.
the other is by the way of Spokane and
Lewiston. The Oregon Short Line is try
ing to push the southern rout in the face
OF many obstacles. To reach the new
camp by Weiser, one must penetrate the
Wild Sawtooth range, traverse longer dis
tances than by the Spokane Lewiston
route, and overcome much greater eleva-
tions. This route is now entirely blocked
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-02-06
OUTLOOK FOR COPPER.

One year ago the price of copper
in the metal markets of the east was
L. cents and better, today it is down
to IL. 90 and it is almost a patent
fact that the supply and demand
proposition can not be relied on to
account for the ruinous falling off in
value. But the fact is there, and
the outlook for our local producers
OF ore is not encouraging by any
means, and less so for holders of
copper stocks acquired at top prices.
No doubt the real reason could be
found in the manipulations by the
managers of the Amalgamated Cop
per, Go. to run down the stock, and
that of other companies in the same
business, to freeze out proposition
and then take in the whole business
and have full control of both stocks
and product. The field seems too
large for any considerable MONOPOLY
or trust combination to fence in.
even IN these days OF billion dollar
combinations; yet this is more than
likely what Is being ATTEMPTED. Final
success may simply mean the proper
combination of factors not strictly
IN harmony at present, for in this
era of such pronounced prosperity.
the ordinary fluctuations in the mar
ket can not produce present condi-
tons of depression in this special
product; bringing the most promis-
ing and reliable industry in the min
ing world to its present deplorable
condition. Hecla and Calumet are
as yet out of the combine and rumor
has it that the present war is to bring
them in. The fact that present prices
are SO low does not bv anv
means prove that the Amalgamated
Co. is selling the product below cost
but may give an idea of what past
profits have been and probably will
be again.
In commenting on the situation
the Mining Reporter Denver) has
this to say:
The copper situation once more teaches |
the oft learned lesson of the impossibility |
OF any group of individuals maintaining |
the price OF natural commodities, in view |
OF diminishing demand. The year saw
at the commencement the price of Lake
Superior copper at seventeen cents a
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-02-06
A TARIFF LESSON.

The announcement at the quar-.
tsrly meeting Of the board OF directors
OF the United States Steel Corpora
ton last week that the earnings for
the first nine months of its existence
amount to $94, 779, 298 arouses con-
siderable remark The New York
World, for instance, wonders if these
"plethoric profits" might not move
the steel combine "to be as generous
to American as to British buyers of
its products. y 1t says:
1t is now selling steel rails, for exam
pie in England at 1922. 80 per ton after
paying the railroad and ocean freights.
The ocean freight alone is S511 per ton
SO that American steel rails are really
being sold in England at SIT per ton net
The American price is $2S per ton
Sll higher than the English price. AS
1000, 600 tons of steel rails are consumed
IN this country every year the steel
trust is collecting ut least S22, 900, 600 a
year from its American customers in ex-
cess OF what IL would eagerly accept from
its foreign customers for the same guam
THY of rails.
In view of those SS5, 90, 900 net earn
ings in nine months would it not be rea-
sonabe to take off the Dingey duty of
1874 per ton on steel rails? That would
bring the American price down to 500
per ton, which would sill be So ton
more than the trust is selling them for in
England,
Railway corporations have been
known to take the cost of construc-
ton into consideration as one of the
factors in making up rate sheets, so
in this instance the evil effects come
home directly to the man who pays
the transportation charges, and that
man is the producer, be he farmer,
miner, wool grower or stock grower.
just that much more money pulled
out OF the country that ought to have
remained in it for the honest earners
to work with. Did it ever occur to
you?
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-02-06

a clear velvet margin, added by rea-
son of improved conditions, and
reasonable hopes of benefits to &C
crue from special legislative favors,
and to accomplish which all the influ-
ence of sympathetic trusts, transpor-
tation companies, and export associ-
atoms would be confidently relied
upon. The country has actually ar
rived at that point when republican
majority in Congress can be relied
upon to increase the tariff on one
commodity and reduce it on another,
always in the interests of incorpor-
ated trusts But never move in
the interests of the agricultural, stock
or mining industries. So, being
somewhat impressed with the idea
that patriotism, like correct charity,
begins at home, the Signal will put
forth its best efforts for all local
interests and, so far as possible, give
due notice of attempts to cripple or
destroy any of our industries. And
this so called, tReciprocity, Greatest
good to the greatest number, " is only
subterfuge put forward by inter-
ested designers in the sugar refining
business and whereby they are to re-
ceive positive and assured financial
benefit at the expense of tue beet
sugar industry of American farmers
and make the people pay more for
the sugar they consume In return
for this special legislation, and as
an Offset, the American producer is
consoled by the alluring argument
that it will possibly be largely to his
advantage, by reason of an increased
demand in Cuba for certain other
products of his toll. This is the
usual method adopted to excuse venal
legislation and get votes, and on the
material points secure a mortal fnan-
cial cinch, giving in return hazy,
impalpable and very improbable ben
eft. When the sky falls we can
catch larks. Cuban soil Is just as
fertile, the climate fully as salubri-
GUS, now as it has been IN past years,
and there is no reason to think that
former conditions are changed; Meth
er are they; but the rapaclous sugar
trust, an example of all the other
robblng systems that exist by tariff
nursing, sees an opportunity for
more blood, and comes confidently
to the front asking for more of the
class legislation that has been in
order for a generation past, and has
bestowed benefits on a few at the ex-
pense of the many.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-02-06
FACTS ONLY.

The real facts regarding the war
in the Fillipines as compiled from
official and reliable data, and Invested
of all partisan embellishments, makes
rather sorry reading for the average
American citizen. The facts given
here are made up from the official
reports from May, 1900, to July |,
1901, and show 245 u. S. soldiers
killed, wounded 400. During same
period the Fillipinos lost killed 3,
854, wounded 1913. The esti-
mated cost of the war for the year
1901 is ninety millions of dollars,
and the report from which the above
is taken makes no account of sick
ness or the other multitude of hor-
rors that necessarily follow in the
wake of war. The financial features
are of the most unsatisfactory char
acter, and show that the TOTAL
FOREIGN TRADE of the islands
would not pay sixty per cent of the
cost of the war, and the total trade
with the United States would not pay
six per cent and the profits on our
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-02-06

by snow. Thus the northern route which
is the only one now open. is seen to pos
sess all the natural advantages"
1t seems most unlikely that the
Spokane journal can have any
grudge against Weiser, to lead it into
so false position-one in which it's
words are sure to be brought to bar
and the truth shown up sooner or
later, and to its own discredlt AS
a wise journal, it undoubtedly will,
when Its unworthy utterance is made
plain to 1t, give as much prominence
to the fact as it has to the fiction
and the fact will be that, the Oregon
Short Line is diligently at work to
show the advantages of all routes
that will in any way add to it's tusi-
ness. The Review lays great stress
on the assertion that the Weiser
route penetrates the wilds of the
Saw Tooth range AS the route via
Lewiston forms junction with the
Weiser route at Warm Springs, and
is common to both from that point.
this statement is of no value. But
the fact is the Saw Tooth range DOES
not intervene. One hundred miles
of the Weiser route is on watt r
grade, and 60 miles of this is rail
road in full operation. Again the
Review states ''that this (the Wei
SER route is entirely blocked by
snow Not a day has passed for
The last month that the arrivals from
Thunder Mountain in Weser did not
average from three to ten. and on
The morning of the 9Th inst. a party
OF ten started from here on the
morning train and six of them
came from the mines within
the last ten days. Toboggan
trains pass over the road beyond
Meadows daily, loaded with freight
mall and conveying passengers
one woman was a passenger last
"trip Some idea of the condition o+
the trail may be gained from the
lact that the butcher at Warren
drove eight head of beef cattle over
IL last week and that in the worst
weather of the season. AS to greater
elevations, there are none on either
route mentioned of any remarkable
altitude, and Elk summit is the
highest and is common to both rontes
Inc most practicable route from
Lewiston today is via GranoevilIa
thence to Golf on Salmon up LITTLE
Salmon to Meadows on the Weiser
route. This is correct statement
Vi the condition, other assertions 70
Tue contrary Notwithstanding.