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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-06-12
Gymnastic Honors.

DR.. L. j. Cooke, gymnastic director
of the University of Minnesota, receiv
ed letter from Professor d. A. Sar-
gent, gymnastic director at Hazard,
aid head of the national association
of gymnasium directors, saying that
Minnesota took first place in the in
tercollegiate strength contest by
big margin. Minnesotas' total this
year was 77,722.2, 1926 points better
than the best privious record, made
by Harvard year ago. This year the
crimson failed to come up to last
years figures. Columbus, which took
eecond last year, increased her total,
but was still 4,13O below Minnesota.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-06-12
Arrested for Robbery.

S. Joriski, supposed to be the man
who held up and robbed the rural
mail carrier near Morris, was arrest
ed at Moorhead. Joriski drove into
the city and had mail sack under
the blanket on the seat of his cart.
He was arrested and the mail sack
was turned over to Postmaster Biork-
quist. The sack had been cut open
and-some of the letters opened. Joris-
XII is a Russian and speaks very little
English. From his broken language
he appears to claim that he found the
mail sack along the roadside. Joriski
will be held for the United States au-
thorities
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-06-12
State Capitol.

The construction of the new capitol
at present is mostly in the shops.
where the parts are being made. The
board of capitol commissioners has
awarded contracts amounting to near
ly million dollars since the close of
the last legislature, and thus far near
ly everything is in the process of man.
ufacture. The active work upon the
building itself now consists of finish
ing the arches about the dome for the
support of the floors, and the placing
of conduits for the electric wiring.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-06-12
School Land Sales.

State Auditor 5. q. lverSOn an
nounces that no school land will be
sold until next October. Mr.. Iverson
believes that the land is a good invest
ment and should not be forced on the
people. His plan is to offer it for sale
only where actual settlement is con-
templated.
The law makes the state auditor ex-
officio- land commissioner and pro-
hibits him from disposing of more
than 100000 acres year. The state
has about 100000 acres of school
land unsold situated mainly in Itasca,
Cass, Aitkin, Beltrami, Grow Wing,
Mill Laos, Hubbard and other moth
ern counties.
Last year 100000 acres were sold at,
an average of $9.7S an acre, 1854
above the average price which had
been obtained for the previous 40.
years.
The permanent'fund resulting from
the sales amounts to about $15,500,00O.
Mr.. Iverson estimates the value of the
unsold lands at $3,O00,O0O.
Old Settlers.
The annual reunion of the Old Set
tiers association was held at the.
rooms of the historical society in the
capitol, St. Paul. Only nineteen Of
Minnesota's pioneers were able to az
tend the meeting. Although all Of
them have battled against the conc
tions of new country since 1049
they are all in good health. A re-
quest from the Territorial Pioneers.
was read that the Old Settlers hold
their annual meeting on June 1 with
the Pioneers. The matter was dis
cussed at length and was finally laid
on the table until the next annual
meeting.
The following officers were elected
for the coming year: President, d.
A. j. Baker; vice presidents, James.
McMullen and E. w. Durant; secreta-
ry, A. L. Larpenteur; treasurer, j. d.
Ludden.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-06-12
LATER.

LATER.
were found at Topeka, making II
known dead
August w. Machen, former superin-
tendent of the free delivery system,
has been indicted on bribery chal &c.
The Indictment was returned in open
court at Washington, d. c.
President Roosevelt reached Wasa-
| ington the 5th from his trip through
out the west
Mrs. Robert Sector was chloroformed
and robbed of about $1,000 in her
apartments in Seattle.
Two men are dead and another is
dying as the result of fight at Eagle
Lake, Texas, where City Marshal Ri
nard and William C. Mellow shot each
other to death, and Pierce Hammond, a
bystander, received a mortal wound.
In the province of Wong of Kwang-
ST, over million Chinese are starving
to death.
Three blind pigs were raided at
Willmar, Mimi, and large stock of
liquors captured. Four men were ar
rested.
Samuel Montgomery, alleged muir
derer of his wife, escaped lynching at
the hands of an angry mob at Tomah,
Wis.,, through the strategy of Sheriff
Castles, of Monroe county, and the
protection of score of deputized citi-
zens with leveled rifles.
A hurricane has swept over the Phi
lippine islands and great damage has
been done to shipping. The United
States transport Samshui is reported
to have been wrecked. This however,
has not been confirmed.
The Associated Press has perfected
arrangements for the use of the Mar
conf wireless telegraph system in con-
nection with the trial races between
the Reliance, Constitution and Column
bia off Sandy Hook.
A perpetual injunction, preventing
any combination of certain coal opera
tors in Illinois and Indiana to sell their
wares through one distributing agency
and repu1ate pricas was isSued h1,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-06-12

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Reports from every section in North
ern Maine confirm the first reports OF
tremendous loss to numbering and 9TH
er interests from forest fires. In adj
addition town hos been destroyed
and hundreds of buildings burned.
Hugh j. Cannon, Mormon mission
airy, and his wife, have been expelled
from Germany.
Two men were killed and two fatally
injured on a handcar that was run
down by a stock train near Genoa,
Neb.
VIM. Hardee, a condemned murderer,
killed Charles Williams, his death
watch, with a rifle he secured from
the Jail kitchen, at Anaconda, Mont.
McChesrey, the vests greatest thor
oughbred horse, won the Harlem han
idicap at Chicago.
The strike of the brickmakers of
Cleveland ties up more than S., 900, 600
worth of building operations.
The steamers Insulaire and Liban
met in collision near Marseilles, France.
The Liban sank and over 100 of her
passengers and crew persisted.
Torrential rains visited Spartanburg
S. c., and caused twenty-five deaths.
many injuries and great loss. All the
bridges and trestles on the main line
of the Southern railway were washed
away.
Estimates by lumbermen place the
loss from fires and drouth in Aroostook
county, Maine, at more than ST., 600. 900.
and for northern and eastern Maine at
So 100000
w. T. Wyatt, colored school teach
er, was lynched at Belleville, ILL.,, for
probably mortally wounding County
School Superintendent Charles Hertel
of st. Clair county. Hertel had re-
fused to renew the teaching certificate
of Wyatt and was shot. Two hours la
ter mob lynched Wyatt.
Two hundred persons in the VILLAGE
of Black Walnut, on the north bank Of
the Missouri, eighty-five miles north
west of ST. Louis, are surrounded bv
rapidly rising water and all means of
escape are cut Off
Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of
Emperor william of GERMANY. will
visit the United States again in 1904.
and will be visitor at the World :
Fair of St. Louis.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-11-28
Revslutisn Continues.

New York, Nov. 21.--Guelito Bacha--
do has been appointed commander In
chief Of the Evolutionary forces which
are bssieging San Domingo. says =
Herald dispatch from Puerto Plata.
President OIL has 1000 soldiers defend
ing the capital.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-11-28

Hello, Ribs, he amt on this train!"
Thus brakeman or baggagemaster
greets big black-and-white dog which
every evening trots down to the sta
ton in a small Pennsylvania town to
meet the rain on which his master
used to come home.
Ribs master has not come on the
train for many months. He was the
conductor of a train which was
wrecked and was killed. But Ribs has
never missed train. He stands on
the platform wagging his tail, his
tongue hanging out, an expression OF
anxious hope in his big eyes, waiting
for his master.
When one Of the trainmen explains.
HE amt on this train" the red tongue
goes slowly back into the big mouth,
the strong jaws close, the shaggy tail
drops and Ribs turns and walks back
to his kennel. But on the following
day he appears promptly in time for
his masters usual train and waits I'M
til some one OF the plying train hands
tells him, HE amt come In yet."-In-
dianapolis Sentinel.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-11-28
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

UIt seldom happens that an cleo
ton in any state results In SO expansive
a victory as that which the republicans
in Ohio have Just achieved. 1t is q
triple victory-a triumph for the repub-
lican party. for genuine democracy and
for the country. 1t Is the knell OF Bry-
anism, and in that fact 1t bodies nothing
but good to the democratic party
Washington Post.
DThe fact that Senator Hanna or
any other prominent republican
achieves great personal triumph in his
own state, due In part to the popularity
of the administration. is no reason why
nearly q score Of states already pledged
to the support Of President Roosevelt
In 1904 should go back on him. Senator
Hanna has done himself credit by de-
clining to give II any encouragement.
BY so doing he has enhanced the al
ready high regard In which he Is held by
republicans generally. but for the pres
emit, at least. they will continue to re-
gard President Roosevelt as the logical
candidate In 1904.-Indianapolis Jour
nal.
OSilver Is back to 5sh, and the gov
eminent has resumed its purchases
Somebody must have explained to the
silver men that they can really make
moro money by not trying to make II
in too big lunches. Indianapolis News
(IndJ
rysrh. r,hso a.r,ocrsts n IN. L.,
previous election had ignored Bryan
and his fads. They got soundly whipped
Bryan and his friends maintainel that
Il was because Of the despIts done TO hi
brand Of politics. This campaign va
planned TO show the world that Bryan
ism and Johnsonism were yet winnlaG
docIrinsa Boston Herald.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-11-28

Bret Harte was once asked in Lon
don II he did not exaggerate some Of
his western character creations. He
declared that he did not and told this
as true story, which he had always
feared to put into print: A we'll
known desperate came into saloon
and, of course, those who knew him
had business elsewhere at once. An
English tenderfoot remained and the
bad man invited him to drink. The
Britisher innocently said he did not
care to do 90. dangerous remark to
make in those days, whereupon the
desperate YEARLY reached for his gun
and said in tired sort of way: Good
Lord. can't ever have drink without
killing q man?"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-11-28
NOT POLITICAL.
The Panama natter Does Net Enter
Into the Presidential Campaign
In This Country.


Recognition OF the de facto govern
menu OF the republic Of Panama does
not constitute a basis for political
issue In the United States. Circum-
stances have put the United States. "a
the agent OF peace and protection ON
the isthmus, In such q position that
IL Is bound to forestall any injury 70
American citizens. and to recognize =
provisional administration. It has not
only kept within its rights SO far. but
has done no more than its duty. says the
St. Louis Republic (dem.).
The revolt against the Colombian
government will probably signify the
success of the/ canal project, whether
Panama should remain independent or
whether 1t should again unite with Co
lombia. II Panama should continue as
q free republic there should be no diff
ficulty In arranging a canal treaty. II
an unforeseen cause should once more
combine Panama and Colombia. har-
mony would not prevail unless Colon
bia would acquiesce in the plans for an
interoceanic shipway.
Colombia melted the revolution by
dallying with the isthmian canal treaty.
Panama considered the canal necessary
for its welfare, and the attitude of the
central government forced the trouble.
The opinion was generally held that
Colombia did not accede to the plans
because some of its public officers had
excessive itchiness of palm. The Unit
ed States government was not operat-
ing as a Legislative agent" or a finan-
cial-salve physician and 1t did not re-
alize the Colombian dreams. Colombia
then disregarded the interests of Pana-
ma, and Panama revolted.
The United States has large rights
and great authority, as well as grave
responsibility, in isthmian affairs. 1t
conformed to recognize duty in taking
steps for the maintenance of peace and
order and the protection of life and
property. While the canal affair, in
which the United States is probably
the most interested party, was the cause
Of the revolt. and while 1t is a matter
Of international Importance, it is.
theoretically, only an incident. Should
the revolution be beneficial to the Unit
ed States, as 1t will. there will be still
no reason for blaming this government
unless 1t proceeds to take offensive
steps beyond its recognized policy.
Any effort to make political issue Of
the Panama matter would have to be
founded on not only the proceedings
connected with the revolution. but also
on the merits and benefits of the pro-
posed canal. There is no dissent from
the view that canal would be good
for the southern, middle and western
states, and that 1t would do no injury
to the eastern and northern states. The
canal project seems to have the favor of
nearly all of the states and of most
foreign governments. How the affair
could be made political issue by either
party is hard to perceive. The only
ground could be some unreasonable ex-
IRENE of interference not yet developed
by our state department.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-11-28
THEM THAT GIVES, GIFTS"


There's a quaint and homely saying
That Is trite. though Ill expressed,
And you'll find upon the weighing.
That II measures all the rest
Them that gives. gits.''
rs 1t wealth you're seeking after?
DO not tightly close your palms,
But with love and happy laughter
Olive your brother needing aims
Them that gives, gits.''
rs II fame for which you're longingf
Follow still the Godlike plan,
Help the needs forever thronging
Round your struggling fellow man
Them that gives gits.'
Is 1t knowledge you would fetter?
It's within your earnest reach.
But you'll get II quicker. better,
II another you will teach
Them that gives. gifts"
is II love, earth's dearest treasure.
You would gather for your store?
Give of love, nor stint the measure,
Twill return to you the morc-
Them that gives. gifts
.--Eleanorc s. Inslee. in N. Y. Sun.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-11-28
HORN IS HAN GED.
Goes To His Death Denying HIS
Guilt and All Con fessions.

Cheyenne. Wyo.. Nov. 21.-Tom Horn
was hanged at IL O'Clock Friday for the
murder Of Willie Nickel. the 14-year-
old son OF Kels p. Nickel. an Iron
Mountain ranchman. No attempt at
rescue was made and the execution
passed on quietly. The governor re-
fused to interfere. -.
Horn made no confession and NO
speech on the scaffold. He never lost
his nerve.
With almost his last words. Spoken
to his intimate friend. Charles Irwin.
q spectator at the execution. Horn de-
MED that he had confessed. to the muir
der for which he was to die.
The execution was witnessed by -
persons. including the guards. frienda
Of Horn and Newspaper men. The spec
tators were admitted to the Jail at 1o:45.
one by one. and searched for firearms.
Men armed with Wholesalers stood 1t
the door watching Horns friends.
Horns neck was broken BY the fall
ing Of the trap and death was instanta-
neous.
Horn spent nearly all the morning.
sitter eating hearty breakfast. writ
ing letters.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-11-28


DMr. Bryan should have faith In the
country's prosperity when he finds him
self able to give up $4,000 without a
Observation-Disclosures Star.
UWhot does Mr.. Bryan mean by
going abroad on steamer named the
Majestic? Has he become an imperial
ist?-N. Y. World (Dem.)
DThe democratic party has wiser
and stronger men than Bryan and John
son, and its old principles were At least
better than those It borrowed in 1896. Its
defeat in 1904 seems certain In any case.
but It need not add all the follies Of
crankdom to its burdens Of error and
incompetency. Nor shall II Inevitably
happen that two new absurdities must
sprput 1t the spot where Tom Johnson
was Topped off.-St Louis Globe Demo
crat
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-11-28
THE FAULT-FINDERS.
Republicans Do the Work and the
Democrats Raise All the
Objections.

The democratic leaders in the house
have been full OF sympathy for the woes
of Cuba. They have constantly found
fault with the republican majority for
not making greater speed toward estab-
fishing those trade relations with Cuba
SO evidently demanded by her interests
and our own, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Yet when the bill to do these very
things came up in the house the demo-
Gratis sought to kill 1t with an amend
ment to remove the differential duty on
refined sugar. The direct effect Of such
amendment would be to transfer large
part of the sugar-refining industry from
the United States to Europe. Indirectly
II would destroy the sugar growing in
dustry of democratic Louisiana, Missis-
sippi and Texas by depriving it Of a
nearby market of refineries.
OF course that was not what the dem
ocrats really wanted to do. Had the
republicans accepted their proposal
they would have run crying to the SEN
ate to save leading industry of three
democratic states from the destructive
folly of their own democratic repre-
sentatives. What they really wanted to
do was merely to put the republicans
in hole" by killing the Cuban treaty,
so they could denounce the republican
administration for failing to carry out
great national policy.
Eve do the work and you find the
fault" was the phrase in which Speaker
Cannon at the close OF the fifty-seventh
congress described the attitude Of the
two great parties toward questions OF
national interest and honor. The accu-
racy Of the description was again proved
by the course Of the house democrats.
And yet there are thousands of we'll
meaning democrats who cannot under
stand why the American people refuse
to trust their party with the great bust
ness Of government.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-11-28

Chicago. Nov. 3l.--Ths railroads a
tho United States killed asa persoae
and injured ls.e77 during The pear en6-
ING June 20. 1908. The total number O.
cnsualitjea lo,Ss1. cot IL raiIBoo1s
>o.6oe ~ property loss. g compared
Win e1.Sls. ~ fer the pssvious ysnA
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-10
Its Strategic Value
post Intelligencer.)

NHOSl lHleulSenC6r.)
The concessions which the United
States has obtained by the treaty with
the republic of Panama are the more
important because. the value of the
canal to the United States Is more
strategic than commercial. CONNER
cially the isthmian canal will be of less
immediate value to the United States
than to either Germany or Great Brit
ain. Under present conditions twenty
British ships and four or five German
vessels will pass through the canal to
every single American ship which will
true, will carry American goods to mar
ket. but many more foreign ships, car
rying foreign goods to markets where
they will compete with American goods
will pass through the isthmian canal
than will American ships carrying
American goods
The one perfectly sound and logical
reason why the United States should
cut the isthmian canal is the value such
a canal will have in our scheme of ma
tional defense. With the canal open
our naval vessels can go from the At
lantic to the Pacific. or conversely, in
a fraction of the time which they con-
sumo at present. With the canal
smaller navy can do the work required.
Under ordinary conditions, in time of
peace. this is not a matter of over
whelming Importance. The strategic
value of the canal will be demonstrated
only when war is on us. If the canal
were in neutral territory and If the
United States were without power to
protect the entrances to the canal. how
long would this country be permitted
to enjoy these strategic advantages
given us by the canal in case of war
with a great power? If the canal were
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-10
City Council Met

The city council met last night in ad-
journed session and considered matters
of various import relation to the i'm
portance of city work.
The matter of the Lewiston Light
company was referred to the committee
on lights.
The work of compilation of a book
containing the city ordinances. which
is being prepared by Attorneys S. L.
Mcfarland and c. L. Mcdonald was
reported to be progressing rapidly.
The council allowed ,$59S6.35 to Nay
lor & Norlin, contractors to apply on
account of work performed on the
Normal Hill sewer contract.
The matter relating to the North
ern Pacific warehouse which is now be-
ing built, and which City Engineer
Maxon staes encroaches on "B" street
eight and one-half feet was discussed
at length and referred to the committee
on streets
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-10

in Colombian territory or in that of
Nicaragua, for example, would any
great power hesitate to invade the neu-
trality of those feeble imitation states,
if by so doing they could deprive the
United States of the use of the canal
as a highway through which it could
reinforce it's fleet on either ocean?
Under the treaty which has just been
negotiated the Panama canal will be
a water channel of the United States,
constructed entirely in it's own terri
tory, as much so as is the Erie canal
We can fortify it and protect It as we
Will and in the event of war can re-
strict it's use to the warships of our
own country and absolutely close the
canal to the war vessels of any country
with which we may be involved in war
1t is this theory and this alone which
really justifies the United States in
going to the enormous expense involved
in cutting the canal. Without the con-
cession of absolute sovereignty over the
route of the canal and the right of pro-
tecting it, the policy of the United
States in constructing the isthmian
canal was always doubtful propriety.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-10
Patriotic Words
Seattle Times.l


The presidents message. delivered IN
the congress of the United States yes
terday at. high noon, contained these
words: (
Whenever either corporation, labor
union or individual disregards the law
or acts in spirit of arbitrary or ty-
rannous interference with the rights of
others. whether corporations or indi-
viduals, then, where the federal gov
eminent has jurisdiction, it will see to
it that the misconduct is stopped, pay
ing not the slightest heed to the posi-
ton or power of the corporation, the
union or the individual, but only to one
vital fact-that is the question whether
or not the conduct of the individual or
aggregate of individuals is in accord
ance with the law of the land Every
man must be guaranteed his liberty
and his right to do as he likes with his
property or his labor, so long as he
does not infringe the rights of others.
No man is above the law and no man
is below it; nor de we ask any mans
permission when we ask him to obey
it, Obedience to the law is demanded
as right; not asked as a favor.
Every American citizen who cares
about his liberties guaranteed
by the constitution of the United States
ought to cut those words out and paste
them in his hat.