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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-29
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The New York democratic state con-
vention selected delegates to the ma
tional convention. The delegates were
Alton B. Parker as the states candi-
date for president. The unit rule was
adopted.
Delegates to the democratic national
convention from Pennsylvania will go
uninstructed with reference to presi-
Dental candidate. The state conven-
ton at Harrisburg refused to instruct.
Congressman Joseph w. Fordney was
renominated at Saginaw. Mich. by accla-
nation by the Eighth congressional dis
trict republican convention.
In an uninteresting general election
the democrats swept the state of Louisi-
ana, electing their tickets headed by
former Justice N. C. Blanchard for gov
ernor and practically solid repre-
sentation in both houses of the legisla-
ture.
Elections were held in many Illinois
towns for minor officials and the ques-
ton of license or no license. Municipal
ownership carried in Columbia and
Cairo.
Judge H. c. Ewart was nominated by
the republicans for congress from the
Tenth North Carolina district.
Emperor William made the ascent
of Mount Etna
The republican convention of the
Eleventh Missouri congressional district
nominated Henry S. Garfield for con-
gress.
At Grand Rapids the Fifth Michigan
district republican convention unani-
mously renominated Congressman Will
liam Alden Smith. ..-.... .-...
Ralph D. Cole was nominated at
Findlay, O., for congress by the eighth
republican congressional convention on
the six hundred and sixty-fourth ballot.
Robert B. Roosevelt an uncle of Pres
ident Roosevelt, who was nominated as
an elector by the New York democratic
state convention at Albany last week.
has declined to accept such nomination
because of his relationship to the presi-
dent.
Delegates to the democratic national
convention were instructed TO cast the
vote of Massachusetts for Richard Olney
for the presidential nomination.
Congressman James H. Davidson, of
Oshkosh, was renominated by the repub-
licans of the Eighth Wisconsin congress
sional district
]. N. Abeel, who imposed upon Miss
Anderson by impersonating ]. Ogden
Goelet, Jr::, has been convicted of for
gerry in New York.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-29
INDIAN LAND is OPENED.
President Signs Bill for Settlement
of Rosebud Reservation in
South Dakota.

Washington, April 25.-President
Roosevelt Saturday signed the bill
opening 416,000 acres of the Rosebud
Indian reservation in Gregory county,
S. d.
The plans for the opening of the
Rosebud reservation are not yet COM
pleted, but it is expected that ar
ments will be made SO that the open
ing will take place by July l next. 1t
is likely that the plan to be followed
will be the same as that carried out at
the Kiowa and Comanche opening in
Oklahoma in 1901, when the claimants
were registered and the order in which
the entries were to be made deter
mined by a drawing of the names
This method as carried out in Okla
homa by Commissioner Richards, of
the general land Office, is generally
commended at the interior depart
ment, where it is desired to prevent
such wild scenes as transpired at
previous openings. There are 2,40O
quarter sections of public domain en-
braced in the tract to be thrown open
and the indications point to a large
number of prospective settlers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-29
DOMESTIC.

Judge Andrew Harrison Ward died
in Cynthiana, KY, aged 80 years He
represented that district in congress
Immediately after the war
Edgar Copeland. aged 90 was con-
victed at Hillsboro, ILL.,, of the murder
of Henry Green, aged 60, and the pen
atty fixed at death.
Edward Griffith, son of the postmas-
ter at Great Bend, Kan, and who stole
a registered package containing $1,000
en- route from Kansas City to Great
Bend, pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to two years in prison.
Two bodies were found in the ruins
of the Occidental hotel at Indianapolis
One was identified as that of Stephen
Metz, and the other is thought to be
Steve Walters. Both were colored en-
ployes of the hotel
Arrangements are practically COM
pleted for the president to open the
fair at st. Louis. A wire will be run
into the east room at the white house,
and promptly at noon April 80 the
president will press a button which
will start the machinery at st. Louis
The Ohio house passed the senate bill
for state hospital for the treatment of
tuberculosis and it will become law
as soon as it is signed by the governor
The cornerstone of the Memorial Con-
tinental hall, which the Daughters of
the American Revolution are to build in
memory of the heroes of that war, was
laid in Washington with impressive
ceremonies.
Prof. Thomas R. Vickroy, aged II
years, well known among educators as
an advocate of phonetic spelling, died
at his home in st. Louis from heart dis
ease.
The federal court at ST. Paul decided
In favor of James J. Hill in a suit
brought by the Hartman interests to
forestall the plan of distributing the
merger stock.
The town of Marramec. Okla, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire, with total loss
of $4,000; no insurance.
State Senator David Burns was ac-
quilted at Grand Rapids of a charge of
bribery in connection with the Lake
Michigan water scandal.
The American Baseball association
opened it's season
During October, November and De-
cember last the total number of railroad
casualties in the United States aggre-
gated 14,485, decrease of 7O2. as COM
pared with the preceding quarter. There
were killed IT'S passengers and 991 en-
ployes, and 1887 passengers and II 1882
employees were injured.
Frank Hayes and Richard Barcoe,
miners, were instantly killed in the Oro-
hondo mine at Lead, S. D., by the falling
of cage in which they were being low
cred. The men fell 600 feet.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-29

In Chicago jury returned a verdict of
guilty in the trial of Emil Roeski, the
JUNIOR member of the car barn bandit
gang. He was sentenced to life inn
prisonment for the murder of Otto Ban
der during an attempt at robbery in a
saloon July 9, 1903.
David Rothschild, former president of
the failed Federal bank in New York,
was held to the grand jury and locked
up in Jail in default of $25 900 bail.
Judge Kirkpatrick, at Trenton, N. j.,
issued temporary order restraining the
distribution of Northern Securities as
sets as arranged by the directors.
An April blizzard, with six inches of
snow, upset the plans of the world fair
managers in st. Louis, but the work will
be rushed to have the opening on time.
The storm covers the east and south
The Farmers and Merchants bank at
Clay City, Ind, was entered by burglars,
who blew open the safe and escaped with
$4,000. The front of the building was
blown across the street
Dr. Ignatz Friedman, prominent ply
stefan of Cleveland, O., was killed as the
result of a collision between his car
riage, in which he was riding, and a
street car.
John E. Pound United States COM
missioner, and former supreme regent
of the Royal Arcanum, died at Lockport,
N. Y, aged 62 years.
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COMPLAINT OF BAD WEATHER
CHIEF DRAWBACK TO BUSINESS
IMPROVEMENT.
Distribution of Merchandise Affected,
and Collections Are Made
More Difficult.

New York, April 25.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
Unreasonable weather is still the chief
drawback to Improvement in business,
complaints being received from every
section of the country and slower collec-
lions are also attributed to this factor.
Not only is current distribution of mer-
chandise, particularly dry goods, affect
ed by the thermometer, but future COM
mitments are undertaken most conserv-
atlvely on account of the possible in
jury to crops. There is much confidence
regarding the future despite the fact
that at many points supplies of mer-
cnandlse are burdensome With the ex-
ceptlon or wearing apparel, manufac-
turing plants are increasingly active.
and structural work is gradually resum-
ing normal proportions for the season.
May is usually the date fixed for many
labor controversies, but this year there
is little prospect of serious disturbance
While no further Improvement can be
dlscerned in the iron and steel industry,
it is gratifying to find no distinct evil
dence of setback.
Failures this week numbered 241 in
the united States, against 166 last year.
and IL in Canada, compared with Is a
year ago."
Bradstreets says: "Unseasonably
cold weather all over the country inter-
feres with plant preparations and
growth and interrupts outdoor activi-
ties in many lines, notably building.
Dlstributive trade, both wholesale and
retail, has practically marked time"
during the week. The effects of this and
OF past unfavorable weather are reflected
In reports of slow business in shoe manu-
featuring and building, while in cotton
manufacturing high prices of raw and
manufactured goods continue a bar to
activity. AT the south, cold weather is
complained OF as interfering with farm
ing preparations and with plant growth.
Those causes have combined to give an
air OF unwonted quiet to spring bust
ness and have unquestionably retarded
collections. Back of weather and price
conditions, too, there looms I'D the no.
lltical outlook, which in most presiden-
tial years has induced tendency toward
conservatism. While fall trade has
opened up measurably well in some Sec
lions, there is natural tendency to
await future developments affecting
crop and other conditions. The Door
trade IN Hour was depressing feature
this week, the mills refusing much bust
ness at the lower rates. Some export
business was reported done at the declines
IN wheat and corn. Hog products de-
cllned again, though receipts are smaller
and prices of animals higher"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-29
LATER

In the senate on the 22d the general
deficiency bill was discussed. Senator
Gallinger spoke on the tariff policy of
the republican party, and Senator Cuk
| lom delivered a speech on the house
Chinese exclusion rider In the house
Mr.. Kitchen IN. CO. delivered a scath-
ing address in which he bitterly as
sailed President Roosevelt. He de-
clared the president had insulted the
south, and charged him with being an
advocate of lynch law, unfit to hold Of
fee, and dangerous man.
Frank Rose. a wife murderer. was
shot to death in the yard of the state
penitentiary in Salt Lake City, Utah,
at 10:09 Friday morning. Death was
instantaneous, four bullets lodging in
or very close to his heart.
Arbor day was observed generally
throughout Nebraska, especial signifi-
canoe being given to the occasion by
the public schools and other educa-
tional institutions.
The wife of Gen. Strandman was
murdered in st. Petersburg. A valet
was also murdered. The motive was
robbery. Thousands of roubles in
bonds and securities were taken by
the perpetrators of the crime.
President Palma sent a message to
the Cuban senate announcing the con-
cluson of an extraditionary treaty with
the United States
During the placing of mines in Port
Arthur harbor by some steam launches
Lieut.. Pell and 20 men were killed
through mine exploding prematurely
under the stern of one of the launches.
Niedermeier, Marx and Van Dine,
the car barn bandits, were hanged sep
arately in Chicago. The latter two
met death bravely. Niedermeier was
too weak to walk and was carried to
the scaffold. In addition to the rob-
bling of the Chicago City Railway COM
pany's car barns when two men were
killed, one wounded, and $500 in
cash taken, the gang during the past
year robbed five saloons. killed six
men and wounded three others.
Three Japanese armies are ready to
invade Manchuria; one will attack Port
Arthur, one Liaoyang, and one An
tung.
Russians were repulsed in skirmish
on an island in the Yalu river opposite
Wiju. Three were killed, and an officer
and II wounded.
Rumors at st. Petersburg declare the
Japanese army has crossed the Yalu.
Port Arthur reports the defeat of 1900
Japanese soldiers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-29

hardly able to stand. When the col
lapse came the other firemen stopped
fighting the flames and rushed to the
aid of their comrades who were buried
in the wreck. The rescuers worked
with desperate energy and in a short
time all the firemen were taken out
and hurried to the hospitals.
Some of the injured men are very
badly hurt and may not recover. An
investigation showed that the wreck
was caused by an explosion of naphtha.
Of the injured Firemen Leo Ross is
the worst hurt and the doctors say
that he cannot recover. Frederic A
Reiff is internally injured and may
not recover. The loss of Wiener &
Co. is placed at $4,000, partly COW
cred by insurance. The Empire Gear
and Top company loses $4,000, in
Sured
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-29
FOREIGN.

The British operations against the
Mad Mullah of Somaliland ended with
the Mullah's escape into Italian terri
tory recently.
Maj. Gen. Plug, chief of the military
staff at Port Arthur, telegraphs that
all statements regarding "a siege and
fall of Port Arthur are unfounded.
Vice Admiral Makaroff's widow has
been granted an annual pension of $10,-
900.
Serious fighting has taken place be-
tween Turks and Bulgarians at Lipa,
near Demir Kapu "a valley of the Var
dar, 62 miles from Salonica). Many
were killed on both sides.
Viceroy Alexieff applied by telegraph
to the car to be relieved of his position
as viceroy in the far east. The selection
of Vice Admiral Skrydloff to command
the Port Arthur fleet is the cause for the
step, as Alexieff opposed him. The resig-
nation marks the downfall of the last of
the promoters of war in Russia.
Japanese transports are moving
troops north of Port Arthur without
fear of molestation from the Russian
fleet, which is effectually bottled up.
An avalanche from the Spitzhorn
swept the hamlet of Muehlback, Switzer-
land. The inhabitants were asleep at
the time and 13 were killed.
The population of Vladivostok is in
want of the most necessary kinds of pro-
visions and in consequence of flooded
rivers, which interrupt communications
it is impossible to furnish them sup
plies. There is also scarcity of money.
The SAlondike will produce at least
$10,000,000 in gold this season.
The wholesale district of Toronto,
Can, was swept by conflagration that
destroyed $10,000,00O worth of property.
Thirty large buildings were wrecked,
and the fire was stopped only when it
reached the water front, where it burn ed
itself out
About 100 miners have been buried by
an immense avalanche near the village
of Pragelato. Italy.
The total loss by the fire which de-
stroyed the wholesale district of Toronto
will reach $12,O00,0O0; the total insur-
ance is $8,360,000 The area swept by
the fire embraces IA acres. Nearly $50
firms were put out of business, and 122
buildings were burned.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-29
Powers AGAIN
ON THE STAND
JUDGE CONTINUES TESTIMONY
BEFORE SMooT INvEsTIGA-
TON COMMITTEE.
CHURCH INTERFERENCE
IN POLITICAL AFFAIRS
Witness Declares That Female Leg
islator Votes for Smoot-Young
Men of Church Now Opposed to
Practice of Polygamy.

Washington, April 25.-When the in
vestigation of the Smoot case opened
Saturday Judge w. O. Powers was
again called to the stand He read
petition prepared by supports of Moses
Thatcher for senator, addressed to
the senate of the United States, alleg-
ing that church influence had been
used in the election and asking for an
investigation. Another instance of
church interference had been shown.
said he, in a mayoralty contest at
Provo, when Reed Smoot favored the
candidacy of George Sutherland. The
witness said Smoot was held in dis
favor with the church and charged
with going to the liberal party.
Women in Politics.
Senator Overman asked if women
were elected to the legislature in
Utah. The witness answered in the
Affirmative, and said a woman was
chairman of the judiciary committee
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Aged Seaman Dead.

Boston, April 25.-Capt. James Hall,
for many years commodore of the Pa
cific Mail company's fleet of steamers,
is dead at his home in Braintree.
Capt. Hall began his sea career when
he was IL years old In 1861 he en-
tered the service of the Paeific Mail
company and in 1876 was appointed
commodore of the fleet He retired in
1881.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-29
SENATE PASSES MANN BILL.
Measure Ordering Lowering of Chi
cago River Tunnels Goes Through
Without Objection.

Washington, April 25.-The Mann hill,
10 compel the lowering of the Chicago
river tunnels was reported to the SEN
ate by Senator Alger Saturday and was
Immediately passed by a unanimous
vlVa-Voce vote. The bill will become
law upon receiving the signature of the
president.
The bill was unanimously ordered re-
ported out, with the Recommendation
that it pass, by the senate committee on
commerce. Senator Alger, formerly
secretary of war, a member of the com
mittee, made the motion to report il
out after explaining that the tunnels in
the Chicago river must be removed in
the interest of commerce and to assist
the drainage system of the city,
Senator Quarles, of Wisconsin, with
drew his opposition to the bill, stating
that he had become convinced that the
removal of distractions in the Monon-
gahela river at Pittsburg and the Chi
cagO river were two distinct PROPOSE
lions. The government in the former
case did not take possession of the river
and the structures erected were put in
by authority of congress.
Among those who attended the COM
mittee meeting were Mr.. Mann, SEN
ators Cullom and Hopkins and Louis A.
Seeberger and w. w. Baird, of Chicago
The senate also adopted the Cullom
amendment, striking out all of the house
Chinese exclusion provision of the gen.
the first section, reaffirming the act of
1902 and the other Chinese exclusion
laws in effect when the law was enacted
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of the house in the legislature which
elected Mr. SmoOt as senator.
Did she vote for Smooth" asked
Senator Overman.
81 understand she did"
Senator Dubois-Judge Powers, what
do you regard the chief exhibition of
church domination over political af
fairs that has come to your notice?
1T occurred at the April 1S96) con-
ference, when the political rule that
is the manifesto against Mormons en-
tering politics without consent of
church authorities was adopted. This
rule was adopted without dissenting
vote and at the same conference Moses
Thatcher's name was dropped from
the rolls as an apostle, and no ex-
PLANTATION of any character was made"
Senator McComas-How do the
young men in the Mormon church re-
gard the practice of polygamy?
81 think the young Mormon men, and
women too, are opposed to the prac-
tice-strongly opposed, although / con-
TESS that l cannot understand The pow
er the church is able to exert over
them. l believe, however, that if the
church authorities should attempt to
reestablish polygamy-by revelation or
otherwise-there would be trouble"
In regard to the continuation of
polygamous cohabitation Judge Pow
ers said that some look upon this con-
dition with tolerance and others with
open hostility.
Several senators engaged in the dis
cussion of the future of polygamy and
Judge Powers said he believed the
practice could not last any more than
could slavery.
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Die WHILE FIGHTING BLAZE
TWO FIREMEN KILLED AND FIF-
TEEN ARE INJURED.
Some of Latter May Succumb-Ex-
plosion of Naphtha at Newark,
N. j., Causes Disaster.

Newark, N. j., April 25.-Two fire.
men were killed and Is others injured
Saturday at a fire in a six-story brick
building in Mechanic street, occupied
by Wiener & Co.. saddlery, hardware
manufacturers. While the fire was at
its height score of firemen were on
the roof of the building of the Empire
Gear and Top company, a one-story
brick structure adjoining the Wiener
building. An explosion occurred in
the Wiener building which blew out
the wall of that building and three
stories of the side wall of the Wiener
structure crashed down ON the fire.
men. The building, on the roof of
which they were standing, was
smashed like an egg shell, and the
men were buried under huge mass of
brick and timber Three of the fire.
men were in a dying condition when
taken out. Two died on the way to the
hospital.
The dead are:
William B. Crane,
Jacob Bleyle.
Among the injured firemen were the
chief of the department, Robert F.
Kierstead, Battalion Chief Robert F.
Morgan and Capts. Theodore Wolf and
Russell Bercaugh. Chief Kierstead
was knocked down by the conclusion
and was hit by falling bricks and
other debris. He insisted on staying
to direct the work of rescue, although
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Returns to Answer Charge.

st. Louis, April 25.-Charles Kratz,
former member of the city council, now
under $4,000 bond to answer to an in
dictment charging him with bribery
while councilman has returned from
Guadalajara, Mex. Kratz says he will
appear at Butler, Mo-, at the opening
of the May term of the Bates county cir
cult court to answer the bribery charge
against him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-29
May Reorganize Company.

New York, April 25.-Passage by the
Canadian parliament of a bill grant
ing in effect a credit of 100000 to
one of the subsidiary concerns of the
Consolidated Lake Superior companies
is expected to make possible the reor-
ganization of the company under the
Notify plan announced some months
ago, but which failed because the
stockholders would not supply the
cash needed
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-29
Suicide of an Official.

San Juan, Porto Rico, April 25.-Fred-
erick v. Martin, of Indiana, commission
er of immigration for Porto Rico, killed
himself Friday night by cutting his
throat. His body was discovered Satur-
day morning. The cause of Mr. Martins
act was brooding over private financial
matters. The affairs of his Office are
believed to be in good shape.
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Opposes Decoration of Flag.

Washington, April 25.-At Satur-
days session of the congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, it was decided to compile di-
rectory of the members and resolu-
ton was passed urging legislation to
prohibit the dissertation of the United
States flag.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-29
Texas Editor Dead.

Austin, Tex, April 25.-Julion Schultz,
editor of the Texas Voorwaerts, died
Saturday. He was the national pres
ident of the Sons of Herman
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-29
Refuses to- ACCENT RESERVATIONS

Lima, Peru, April 25.-Vice President
Calderon, the acting president, Saturday
signed decree setting forth his non
acceptance of the resignation of the cab
met, which was announced Friday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-04-29
RUMOR OF Severe
Defeat FOR JAPS
RUSSIAN REPORT SAYS MIKADO
LOSES 1000 MEN ON THE
YALU RIVER.
CHINA is TAKING A
PRO-JAPANESE STAND
Russians Suffer from Another Mine
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Begun on a
Large Scale Around wiju-Fresh
Disaster at Port Arthur.

st. Petersburg, April ga rumor
is current in this city that the Jap
anese sustained heavy loss while at
tempting landing near the mouth of
the Yalu river. According to the re-
port, which is said to be based upon
private dispatch from Port Arthur,
the japanese lost 1000 men. The
story has not yet been confirmed.