The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-12-16

DAY anu StOCkIucu VI Cculi al lliiuoio Oh e
concerned over the difficulty in supply
| ing water for their stock. Water has 10
be hauled man, miles in some instances.
| The Vermont house of representatives
refused to pass to third reading bill
| to commute to life Imprisonment the
sentence of hanging imposed upon Mrs,
Mary NJ Rogers, who was convicted Of
numbering her husband.
BY an order of the court women will
be excluded from the second trial of Nan
Patterson.
An official statement given out by the
| interior department announces the gov
ernment's purpose to prosecute every
guilty man in the public land frauds to
the full extent of the law, regardless of
position in life.
Messenger Evan Roberts, of the Wells
Fargo company, who was shot recently
| by a train robber while en- route to Los
Angeles over the Santa Fe railroad near
the Needles, is dead.
Mai. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles is head
| ing a movement for the erection of a
monument on the site of the famous An
| az <AhdSi INV,
Ga.
! According to the annual report OF
| Herbert Putnam, librarian of congress,
the total number of printed books and
pamphlets in the library is 1,179,713, q
gain of 1871 for the past fiscal year.
+ A bold robbery was committed at the
Office of the waterworks department, in
| IA Ao1 Ahnut 60 0l0
in currency and checks was taken from
the desk of Cashier G. A. Patterson
while he had stepped aside for mo-
mept.
Ralph Adams, aged 16; Frank Bay
less, aged 16, and Burdett Bleet, aged IL,
were drowned while skating on the Lake
of the Woods, near Decatur, Mich.
The annual report of Secretary of the
Interior Hitchcock tells of protection of
public domain, reclamation of arid lands
by irrigation and decrease in timber
frauds.
The president has decided to appoint
a special attorney to investigate opera
tons of the tobacco trust"
Hugh Mclaughlin, leader of the King
County Democracy, died suddenly in
Brooklyn from heart disease.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, in his
annual report, points out that nonelas-
ITCHY in the monetary system is weak
ness, and advocates remedial legisla-
ton. He also urges law to place the big
trust companies under federal supervi-
sion.
Richard A. Garfield and David w.
Bucklin furnished the evidence to con-
Wet themselves of keeping a gambling
house in New York. and after being in
dicted paid fine of 81 600 each.
The water of the reservoir of the Es-
peranza mine in Mexico broke its bounds
and rushed with roar down the noun
tain. Five natives were drowned.
Benjamin Franklin, president of the
Peoples national bank, and one of the
best known bankers in central Ohio
died at Newark of heart trouble.
A majority of the Vermont house jul.
dietary committee reported favorably
on bill committing the death sentence
to life imprisonment. Mrs. Rogers was
convicted of the murder of her husband.
The expense of conveying the votes OF
electors for president and vice president
to Washington amounts to $12,500, &C
cOrding to an estimate for an apprOpria-
tion submitted to congress by Secretary
Shaw
Thirteen valuable racing horses in
winter quarters were burned to death in
fire which destroyed large new stable
at the fair grounds at Columbus juno
ton, Ia.
DR.. G. R. Koch was arrested at New
Ulm. MINI, for the murder Of Dentist
Gebhardt.
Jenkins Ferguson, a negro who killed
Willis Hampton over a 25-cent debt, was
hanged at Lake Charles, La.
A New York artist sued Mrs. Howard
Gould for $4,000 for portrait he painted
and which she would not accept.
Indictment of the slayers of Russias
minister of the Interior Won Plehve, re-
vealed revolving lot against the en-
pire.
John Allen, who in July, 1903, shot and
killed his wife near Luther, Okla, was
found guilty and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment
A nurse in Chicago went for a walk
and her body was found in the lake. The
police are unable to tell whether it is a
case of suicide, murder or accident.
Miss Martha Rutherford, of Chicago
sed her brother-in-law, Attorney A. d
Cash, for $2,8S7, alleging he owes hel
that SIN for acting as servant for IL
years.
Members of the Illinois Coal Opera.
tors association have decided to bow
to the law which prohibits the employ
ment of boys under 16 years old in the
mines.
Mrs. Frank Jerzewski, farmers wife
who lived two miles from Manitowoc
Wis, is dead from burns, the result of ar
explosion when she attempted to star
a fire with kerosene.
The coming report of the commission
er of education will show the wonderful
growth of ooeducation in this country
80 per cent. of those attending college!
being in mixed classes.
Oliver Picket, prisoner from tn,
Hutchinson (Kan.) reformatory, leapet
from Santa Fe passenger near Topeka
, Kan, while the train was running at