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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Miss Amy Westcott entertained
the young people with cards and
dancing at her home last evening.
Miss Florence Carey and Lewis White
carried off the honors and prizes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Miss Bailey who has been employed
as bookkeeper at Brownell's meat
market for some time left Monday fol
for her home near Minneapolis.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Mrs. II. j. Lockhart entertains a
few friends this evening in honor of
her sister, Mrs. Hegemen who is on a
visit from Saltwater.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Miss Mamie Murphy was up from
Tower several days this week and
visited with friends in this city and
Winton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

The chances are strongly that Olaf
A. Hammerberg, convicted in Lake
county of murder In the first degree
will be given the extreme penalty.
If that is the case, Lake county will
enjoy its first legal execution at no
great distant date.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

John Slattery who has been spend
ing the time since leaving Ely a year
ago in Kansas and Missouri arrived
Home Friday evening for visit with
parents.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Thos. Williams and wife of Sparta
were up over Sunday on visit to
Mrs. Williams parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John COwling.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30
The Shortest Day.

According to the almanac, .Wednes-
day, Dec. 81. was the shortest day Of
the year, and from that time on the
days have gradually heightened and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Trebilcock al
rived from Grand Rapids, Mimi,
last week for a holiday visit with re-
latiYes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Richard Hodge went to Duluth
Monday for few days after which he
goes to Chisholm to spend the open
ing of the new year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Capt. and Mrs. Harry Thomas
came up from TIibbing Friday even
ing for "a Christmas VISIT with re-
latiyeS.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

BritOn Prout and son were up from
Eveleth oyer Sunday for visit with
his parents Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. PrOut.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Fred Childers arrived home from
the Duluth Business University Fri
day for a holiday visit with relatives.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

The city of Virginia has passed an
ordinance assessing transient traders
$50 per month. All the range towns
are taking active measures to sup
press this nuisance. Ely has had an
ordinance to this effect for several
years but the attention paid to it has
been rather slim. 1t is much easier
to make ordinances in small cities
than it is to enforce them.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Miss Sigma Stream returned Il
Mountain Iron Monday after Christ
mas spent with friends In this city.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Mrs. Ilegemen, of Saltwater arriv
ed Saturday for a visit with hel
sister, Mrs. ii. j. Lockhart.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

The MINER is in receipt of Il letter
from Thos. Cowling at Port Arthur,
in which he says himself and family
are enjoying the best of health and a
fair degree of prosperity. Mr.. Cowl-
ing is railroading in the Canadian
city.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

NJ. j. Murphy leaves tomorrow
morning for a two weeks visit with
relatives in IrOnwood, Mich.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

John aud Stuart Dennis returned
Monday from a visit in Biwabik.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Jos. Cowling and family were up
from Hibblng over Christmas on
visit with relatives and friends.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

AL. Kolstad will clean your chin
ney. Telephone No. 43.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Thos. Quayle and Paul Uren came
up from Hibb!ng Saturday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Oscar Aubin arrived home from
Sault Ste Marie Friday for visit
with parents.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

J. Driscoll spent a few days In Du-
luth and Two HarborS this week re-
turning Tuesday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

r. J. Whiteside was up from SkibO
evening returning Sunday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry A. Chinn spent
Christmas with relatives in Eyeleth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

FOR SALE-A good sOft.coal stove.
INQUIRE of Geo. Westcott.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Mrs. F. L. Cowen is entertaining
the ladies this afternoon.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Cord wood In carload lots. Green
and dry birch, and green and dry
tamarack. Enquire of Ed. Skantze.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Christmas passed off very quietly
here nothing happening to mar the
peaceful celebration of the day. The
weather was such that the majority
staid in doors. Saturday evening
party Of carol singers serenaded some
of our people according to the old
English custom. and some very good
music was given. The merchants re-
port an excellent holiday trade con-
sidering the circumstances.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

w. r. James spent Christmas
with relatives in Duluth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Monday afternoon Chief Weinberg
took W. w. Eaton, night operator at
Allen Junction, from the train here
on request of the chief of police of
Duluth. Eaton was enroute home
from visit in Duluth. While there
he went into jewelry store in the
Spalding Hotel block, and purchased
a ring. After he left the rings were
counted, and it is claimed that a
valuable diamond ring was missing.
He was taken to the lookup and
searched, but the ring was not found
on him, and he was allowed to GO
He disclaimed any knowledge of it.
and promised to make it warm for
his accusers.-Two Harbofs News.
Eaton was employed as operator
here for some time before going to
Allen Junction.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

j. i. Shannon returned Tuesday
from visit in Duluth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

The weather clerk during this week
has dished out some remarkable con-
coctions. He opened Monday with a
rapid snow fall and Tuesday present
ed us blizzard of rare quality but of
quantity sufficient to satisfy the
most hungry blizzardites. This was
general throughout the northwest.
Since then the weather has again
gotten down to business until today
when it is like summer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Alex Power returned Tuesday from
visit i'm Duluth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Polydore Aubin is up from Duluth
spending the week..
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30

Get your chimney cleaned by AL.
Kolstad.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-30
LOCAL HAPPENINGS,

Louis Eisenach was in Duluth
Monday.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-10

still Bob" Wynne, and just as genial
and accessible as when he was one Of
the leading spirits on newspaper row.
It seemed to do him good to throw
of the dignity of his position and
mingle with the crowd in dairy
lunch room, eating his sandwich or
piece of pie where his elbows were
joggled by the humble department
clerk, the business man, the contractor
and others of the busy, common
everyday hustlers. Now that he is
postmaster general he has been COM
PEELED to yield little to- the official
amenities, and takes his lunch in his
Office. He cannot keep away from the
old haunts on newspaper row, how
ever, and this habit of mingling with
the people he likes, and who like him,
is not at all Objectionable to his chief,
President Roosevelt, who himself
would be glad to patronize a dairy
lunch room if the proprieties would
permit. The day Wynne was appoint
ed he drove around town until he
found his old mentor, Gen. Henry v.
Boynton, the dean of the corps of
Washington correspondents, and car
ried him with him to the department.
in order that his old friend might wit
ness him taking the oath. 1t was
hard to tell who was the more pleased.
Gen. Boynton or his boy"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-10
ENGLISH HOTEL BRUSHES.
Manufacturer Provides Them by the
Year and Renovates Them
Every Week.

!. A statement Of the business practice
of q Birmingham manufacturer Of
line of high-grade brushes, hair and
nail, in dealing with English hotels,
may serve as a useful suggestion to
American manufacturers and dealers
in that line. This manufacturer con-
tracts with English hotels for nominal
sums, probably just about or nearly pay
ing his actual expenses, to furnish the
hotels with hair, nail and clothes
brushes. The hotel pay fixed sum by
the year, and also pay for lost brushes,
which often means stolen ones. The
brush manufacturer furnishes double
set of brushes for each washstand and
at the end of each week takes away
the brushes which have been in use
and gives them thorough sanitary
cleaning. The bristles, which have
been softened by the lavatory attend
ants daily washing them, are replaced,
and the brushes are generally repaired.
refinished or revarnished, second set
being left in the place of those undergo
ing repair. The manufacturer places on
them with very neat wire-tack letter.
ing his name and address and the name
of the hotel.
The result is that the hotel is always
able to provide its patrons with hair and
nail brushes which are credit to the
establishment, and the manufacturer
brushes are. so admirable that he OBJ
tains splendid advertisement. 1t has
been surprise to me- however, that a
manufacturer who was clever enough
to Introduce this advertising system
should not have made an arrangement
with the hotels or retail dealers by
which a glass case containing brushes,
ETC., would be placed in the lavatories
and the attendant allowed to sell them.
Occasionally this manufacturer sells
his advertising rights" on the brushes,
and in one case the proprietor Of a we'll
known hair restorer had a neat adyer-
tisement on them.
MARSHAL, HAI.STEAD
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-10

Ought AlonZo B. Cornell, who died
the other day in his fathers home iii
Ithaca, to ne SO regarded? He was only
70. but seems already a character Of
years ago. 1t is "a years since he was
elected for one term governor of New
York. BY an irony of fate, his candidacy
was opposed by practically the first in
dependent movement of New York re-
publicans. though he was the son Of the
founder of Cornell university. 1t was
easy to sneer at the independents as
them litt'ry fellers," and they were
badly beaten; but two years afterward
Grover Clevland followed Cornell by the
largest majority ever cast for a New
York governor. And what q lot has
happened since; and is happening!
Mr.. Cornell's death was preceded q
few days by that of Willard Fiske,
former professor in Cornell, whose legal
squabble with the university over the
millions of his wife. Jennie McGraw
Fiske, had agitated Cornell for gener-
alton, but did not prevent him from
leaving it his treasures Of art and lit
erature and much money. Cornell in
it's brief existence has been the center
of more than its share of moving and
dramatic occurrences that make
news" Mr.. Cornell Of late years had
figured but slightly in it's affairs or in
any save his own fight with illness.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-10

ment in America And the naughty
diners on their way TO spend eight dol
lars per head for modest meals in its
Renaissance dining-room. have to sneak
in at a side door on account of it.
When Col Astor planned the St.
Regis it never occurred to him that any
one could object to such a high-class
place. But the question of a liquor
license soon began to trouble him. The
law requires that he consent of two
thirds of the properly owners within 200
feet shall be obtained. Also, church
within that distance is held to block
action. Mr.. Aston could not get the
two-thirds consent of property owners,
and it was claimed that the Fifth Ave-
nue. Presbyterian church was within
200 feet of his front door as planned.
side door while fighting the matter in
the courts. Meanwhile he found that
Mr.. Rockefeller was his chief opponent.
Mr. Rockefeller himself lives on the next
corner, less than 200 feet from the front
entrance of the St. Regis, but more than
200 feet from the side entrance. In a
bee line the bar is perhaps 120 feet from
Mr.. Rockefeller's parlors. Besides the
Fifth avenue house. Mr.. Rockefeller has
now bought the dwelling No. 7 East
Fifty-fourth street, mainly to protect
his holdings and strengthen his two
third. To protect his holdings, in turn,
Mr.. Aston has now bought the Everard
house on Fifth avenue, the only one be-
tween his hotel and the Rockefeller
mansion. Paying something like $780,
900 for house is rather expensive
way of bolstering up liquor license ap-
plication.
Even at that, Mr.. Rockefeller has the
better of it. The st. Regis may yet have
to shut up; and that would mean in
fashionable circles a drought compare
BILE to that on Tenth avenue in the
famous wood alcohol" district
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-10

then, 1t is asked, should she
have confined her choice to girl
hood friends? Why not?-any Ameri-
can girl would be inclined to ask. This
is not the first evidence of independence
that the new Mrs Clay has given. There
are piquant possibilities of unusual
character in the young lady.
The two Misses Paul, OF Philadelphia,
who arrived from their steamer just IN
time for the wedding, are Philadelphia
relatives of the Astors. Miss Drayton,
another bridesmaid Is the daughter OF
J. Coleman Drayton and Of his now d.
vorced wife, born an Astor. Miss Clay
is the bridegroom's sister. Hon. Miss
Fellows is the niece of the duke OF
Marlborough. Miss Lawson represents
the Jewish element in finance and poll
tics, from which the Astors themselves
more remotely derive. Grandpa Law
son is proprietor of the London Tele-
graph and the butt of that old witticism
about Sir Edwin Arnold, editor OF that
great paper. Eve keeps poet on the
premises" Mr.. Lawson was repre-
sented as saying. Then there is Miss
Muriel White; and her name must cause
William Waldorf Astor pangs, for she
is not only an American, like the Pauls
and Miss Coleman, but the daughter OF
the American secretary of legation. A
French schoolgirl friend of the bride.
Mile. Lejeune. and a daughter OF the
British minister to Roumania add a
cosmopolitan touch. And the bride, to
carry on the note of wide lands and far
interest. spent the last few days OF her
single blessedness in Bucharest, the
Roumanian capital.
1t is indeed a curious irony offate that
w. w. Astor's daughter should make
love match with a handsome young
man who is not even little bit OF
lord. or likely to be- She is one OF the
worlds great heiresses. The Aston for
tunes have grown steadily. They have
never been subdivided among many
children. as with the Gould and Wander
bilt fortunes. In the present generation
of Astors of direct line there are but
three young people; one of these, the
son of Col. John Jacob Astor. is not over
strong.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-10

once holders as q
rule maintain voting residence in the
states they come from, and have the
right OF franchise. The bona fide resi-
dents of the district, however, can
only show their political preferences
by little shouting, some red fire and
stump speaking.
Political organizations are main
tanned which get into quadrennial con-
tests over the election of delegates to
national conventions, and then do
their best to show their loyalty to
their respective parties by political
fireworks during the campaign. About
the only thing that inspires their en-
thusiasm is the hope that if their
party is victorious some cognizance
may be taken of the miles they
tramped in torchlight parades and the
number OF meetings they attended
during the campaign. They are always
ready for recognition in the way of
Office, and these political demonstra-
tons are supposed to give them some
title to 1t. Both democrats and re-
publicans have organized clubs this
year, and have strung their banners
across the wide streets of the capital
city. 1t is probable that they have
contributed their little mite to the
campaign funds of the two parties,
but their efforts in arousing interest
and ENTHUSIASM in the District of COL
umbia have not been highly success
full. The national managers of both
parties quietly smile at these efforts,
and, while they do nothing to discour-
age them, it cannot be said that they
lend much encouragement.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-10

reasoned thus reckoned without Tenth
avenue hosts. They had pleasing way
in saloons down there of mixing little
real whisky with coloring matter and
tiavoring extracts and water, giving tine
whole mixture bite" with a dash of
fervent wood alcohol. One green bar
keep overdid the economy, and after a
dozen or more people had been killed by
the stuff the coroner and the police got
busy. They found wood alcohol in
samples of demon rum in several differ
ent places, and the people came and
smashed the windows Of the worst Of
fender. Temperance now rules on
Tenth avenue, though since the dis
closures the purest whisky in the city is
sold there. 1t is too late. can for
tunately give the oIt-of-town reader a
concrete proof of the sincerity of the
reform. A red hot local campaign for
assembly had broken out in that region.
Under the new order of things it has
undergone change into something new
and, strange in New York.
The candidates are treating incor-
ruptible voters to lemonade from fresh
lemons, milk and soda water. The more
reckless indulge in beer. What do you
think of that?
OWEN LANGDON
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-10

preme bench for "a years, and Henry M.
Field, editor, author and preacher, still
living at 81 in the family home in Stock
bridge, Mass.
Greatest of all in the popular estima-
ton was Cyrus, who laid the cable. One
of his sons, Edwin M. Field, after many
adventures as tramp and rounder, was
twice recently arrested in New York,
first as drunk and next as the larcen-
coat. Upon the latter occasion he re-
marked to an old-time friend: "Try to
get bail, but don't worry if you don't,
because three meals will be a godsend
to me-"
On the same day Stephen Dudley
Field. Edwin's cousin, was demonstrate
ing in Stockbridge the '.amplifier' that
he has invented to simplify Atlantic
cabling. Two days earlier the Andre
monument, erected by Cyrus Field upon
the exact spot where Andre, the unfoT-
tunate British spy, was arrested in the
revolution, was sold by the Rockland
county officials because the taxes upon
the hundred feet square of roadside land
on which it stands had not been paid.
Andre was hanged on October 2, $780,
In 1882 his body was taken to England
and buried in Westminster abbey. Dean
Stanley, of Westminster, was friend Of
Cyrus Field. Visiting him in 1873 he
spoke of the interest surrounding the
fate of Andre, and of the many who
pause at his tomb; together the two
famous men traced the exact spot of
Andres death. and Mr.. Field undertook
to erect a monument; this was done on
the one hundredth anniversary Of the
execution-as the inscription says, mot
to perpetuate the record of strife, but
in token Of those better feelings which
have since united two nations. etc. +"
Two years later the stone was dyna-
mited by some English hater. Mr.
Field put up better one. That was
also blown up. but replaced, since which
1t has not been disturbed. This is the
second time it has been sold for taxes.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-10


the White Lot, on the property occu-
pied by the wealthy New York con-
gresham, Van Ness. in the early part
of the last century. 1t is within q
block of the new Corcoran art gallery,
and adjoining the remainder of the
Van Ness property, on which are to
be located the buildings of the George
Washington university, as the old
Columbia college is now called.
The spot is an historic one, as it was
there that David Burns, the owner of
a great part Of the land on which the
capital city is now built, resided when
the city was laid out according to the
plans Of George Washington and Maj.
L'Enfant. Burns was rather stubborn
in holding on to his land, and checked
for while the progress of the nation
al capital. Van Ness was married to
his daughter and, in a mansion of un-
usual magnifcence for that day, he en-
tertained in a style that won him ma
tional notoriety. This old mansion
has been removed to make way for the
Memorial Hall and the college build
ings.
This magnificent memorial of the
revolution will stand at the entrance
to the proposed memorial avenue and
bridge, which are to run from the
white house, span the Potomac and
connect Washington with the old Lee
homestead, on the Virginia shore, now
the Arlington National cemetery. This
grand Improvement is the dream of
the commission that, under President
Mckinley, formulated plans for the
Identification Of Washington. The
bridge is to be great memorial to
the bravery and patriotism of Ameri-
can soldiers, and is to be tie between
the north and the south. The idea is
not likely to be carried out immedi-
ately, but earnest men and women are
advocating it, and will keep appealing
to congress until some day it will be
accomplished.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-11-10

under the table
at which President Roosevelt and
Booker T. Washington sat no great
harm would have been done. Col.
Mosby called his fellow southerner to
account in the most emphatic manner,
protesting against such indecent refer
ence to the assassination of President
Mckinley and the melting of anarchis-
tic passions.
Col. Mosby is now in the employ of
the department of justice, and is one
of the very interesting characters in
Washington. He is ~ years of age,
but looks the part of the character he
played in the terrible war of the SOS.
His sharp, high-bred features suggest
the eagle, and are those of an ideal
cavalry leader. He is about medium
height, with hair little scanty, but
bristling and pure white. His grim
mouth and set jaw reveal a determine
ton seldom equalled. He lost one eye
during the war, but the other is as
bright and piercing as when he headed
his raiders in their forays along the
union line.
Recently he has received his old cav
airy hat, which he lost when shot
down and seriously wounded in the
last year Of the war. 1t was sent to
him by a lady in New York, who ex-
planned that it had been given her by
her father, Lieut.. Con. Cole, who COM
manded the Thirteenth New York
cavalry when II came 40 near captur-
ing the famous guerrilla.