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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-09-29

of his followers. ship was quickly
manned to check O'Neil's career. The
vessels met amid the gloom and storm
Of a December night, and hideous was
the din and dreadful the clamor which
arose from their opposing decks.
"At length the band of O,Neil gave
way. and their leader lay lifeless in
the arms of his victorious enemy. But
brief time was allowed for sorrow or
the shout of victory.
"In this moment of dread and anx-
:ety l was particularly struck by the
appearance of one of the unhappy sail
ors. who. needless of the unsteadiness
of the masts, and the promptitude re-
ouired to reach the cliff, bore in his
arms the body of female with which
he reached the shore just as the vessel
sank beneath his feet, dragging with
1t the mast to which he had so lately
chung
"The horror of awaiting destruction
had been too much for the feeble spirit
of the maiden, and as she sank into
his arms when the vessel struck
against that dreadful rock the silver
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-09-29
SEQUoYAH THE NEW STATE
Why This Name Was Chosen to Des-
ignate the Former Indian
Territory.

In selecting the name Sequoyah for
the new state of what has hitherto been
the Indian territory, the statehood con-
stitutional committee has conferred
fitting and very proper honor upon one
of the leading members of the Cherokee
nation, who did NOR ethan anyone else
to advance the cause OF education and
civilization among his tribe.
The name Sequoyah to-day Is chiefly
associated with the big trees of Califor-
mia, but when used as botanical name
the word is spelled Sequoia, says the
New York Times. Probably few per-
sons, however, know that Sequoyah,
from whom the mammoth trees were
named, and who is now to be honored in
the name of a state, was the inventor OF
the Cherokee alphabet. This famous In-
dian, whose memory deserves to be bet
ter known, was born about 1760, and his
early life was spent in the village OF
Tuskegee. Tenn. Among the white men
he bore the name of George Guess, and
as young man was noted as success
full hunter and trapper. He possessed an
inventive turn of mind and was skill
fu: worker in silver ornaments.
On one of his hunting expeditions. he
broke his leg, and during his enforced
idleness Sequoyah's attention was d.
rected toward devising an alphabet for
the Cherokee language. He realized the
Importance of written characters among
the white men, and after months of hard
work he submitted to the leading men
of his tribe his alphabet, consisting of
So characters.
Sequoyah was laughed at, and even
his wife called him fool for spending
so much time in making queer charac-
tiers. He succeeded, however, in formu-
lating list of characters expressing
every sound in the Cherokee tongue It
was put to severe test. The mission
aries among the Indians were quick TO
appreciate its value, and about 1921
Sequoyah had the supreme satisfaction
Of seeing his alphabet adopted by tho
Cherokees With minor changes, Sc
quoyah's characters are in use to-day,
and educators have called his alphabet
one Of the most perfect ever devised to
express any written language. Sc
quoyah died in 1843.
The first printing press to use Sc
quoyan's alphabet was set up at New
Echota, in the Indian territory, and its
first issue was a copy of the Cherokee
Phoenix, published in February, 1928.
Within five years of the acceptance of
the alphabet, over 100000 pages of
Cherokee literature were printed in the
territory. Sequoyah lived to see many
beneficial results accrue from his inven-
ton, if such it can be called. He was
made a chief of his tribe and received
many high honors from the red men be-
fore his death His remains are buried
in the future state that will bear bis
name.
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sovereignty. The sturdy ruler took
the matter to parliament and produced
the original deeds. The lawmakers of
England had to acknowledge that the
Calf Of Man was free and independent.
To-day there is no cloud on the title of
w. L. D. Cary's kingship.
He alone can levy taxes, make laws.
pass judgment and rule generally.
When King Cary got there he found
things were being done on a verbal
basis. Laws went by word of mouth.
Leases were not written, but the ten
ants word was his bond.
"Cut it out" announced his mai
esty, in his breezy California WY.
I'VE want to do business here"
Because l say So" announced the
king.
Valuable Treasure Trove" Privileges
The king of Great Britain and Ireland
has his treasure trove" privilege
granted him by the constitution. lie
can claim wreckage, money from gal
Icons and pots of gold wherever dug
UP. So can His Majesty William /.
Of the Kingdom of the Calf of Man
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dishonest man or woman in Holland,
except one. There was one woman
that played it on dad in Amsterdam,
but think she only played him for a
joke, for she laughed all the time. Dad
was much struck at seeing the women
selling milk from little carts, hauled
by teams OF big dogs, and he negotiated
with woman for dog team and cart,
and all one day dad and put on wooden
shoes and Dutch clothes and drove the
dog team around town, and so we had
the time of our lives, more fun than /
ever had outside of a circus, but the
shoes skinned our feet, and when the
dogs laid down to rest and dad couldn'I
talk dog language to make them get up
and go ahead, he kicked the off dog with
his wooden shoe, and the dog got up and
grabbed a mouthful of dads ample
pants and shook dad till his teeth were
loose, and woman driving another
mess of dogs had to come and choke the
off dog so he wouldn't swallow dad,
pants and all. Dad gave her dollar for
rescuing him, and what do you think?
Say, she pulled an old stocking of money
out of her bosom and counted out SO
cents in change and gave it back to dad,
and only charged four cents for saving
his life, and that couldn't occur in any
other country, cause in most places
they would take the dollar and strike
him for more.
Dad wanted to take the dog team
and cart to Milwaukee to give it to a
friend who sells red hot weiners, and
SO we arranged to have the team load
ed on the boat, but just before the boat
sailed the dog team was lying down
on the dock, sleeping and scratching
fieas. when the woman dad bought the
team Of came along and spoke to the
dogs in Dutch, and, say, those dogs
woke up and started on a regular run
away down the deck, after the laugh.
ing woman, and disappeared up the
street, just as the boat whistled to pull
in the gang planks. Dad and I stood
on deck and saw the team disappear,
and dad said "Buncoed again, and it
is all your fault. Why didn't you
hang on to that off dog?"
Well, we lost our dog team, but we
got the worth of our money, for we
saw people who do not eat much be-
side cabbage and milk, snd they are
the strongest in the world, and there
never was case of dyspepsia in their
country. We saw people with stone.
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PAPER MILK BOTTLES NOW
Our Mountain Forests to Furnish
Pulp for the Making of Recep-
tacIee for the Milk Dealer.

Another raid has been organized on
our mountain forests, states the
Brooklyn Eagle. AS If the pulp
mills were not already devastating the
hillsides and drying up our water sup
ply rapidly enough, a genius in Phila-
delphia has patented a paper milk bottle,
and has ten machines which can
manufacture 10000 of these bottles each
in day. The paper milk bottle is to be
made from spruce pulp and spruces
grow at the top Of the mountains, the
very sources of our streams. The argu-
ment for the paper milk bottle is that
as each bottle will be used but once the
milk will run less danger of contamina
ton from germs in glass bottles, which
may or may not be washed clean after
using. No doubt there are chances for
germs in the glass bottles in every day
use, although in comparison with the
lack of cleanliness of the ordinary dair-
les from which milk comes Directing to
the reuse of milk bottles is like the
Scriptural straining at gnat and swal
lowing camel. The sides of the paper
milk bottle are to be held together with
glue, and glue has as many possibilities
of infection as would come from hastily
washed bottles.
The fact is that the Philadelphia man
probably believes that he can make pa
per bottles cheaply enough to replace
the glass ones and that he merely uses
hygienic arguments to bolster up Dusl-
ness proposition. This is the age or pa
per as unmistakable as other ages were
of bronze or gold The making use of
paper pulp are being extended contin-
ually and the addition of milk bottles
would be only one item of increase in the
consumption. AS long as newspapers
continue to grow in popularity new ma
terials for paper will have to be found
The use of wood pulp has gone far
enough to show the urgent necessity CT
a reaching and effective plan for re-
foresting hillsides stripped to feed pulp
mills.
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death of an older brother. He, in
tors who lived when England was but
u eoiaaction of warning shires, and the
great nation Of to-day nothing but a
promise in the dim future. A long
line of Carys has bossed the Calf of
Man ever since history began to be
made in that section of the world.
Just how the Californian came to be
king is interesting history. Way back
In the cloudy past an ancestor of the
Carys held his own shield over The
head of the king of England during n
desperate battle. The king escaped
him was desperately wounded. In
recognition of his fealty and bravery
The king of England gave this Cary
The Isle of Man to be his to rule over
forever. There w. L. D. Cary was
born.
But he got tired of the limits of 500
acres when he was only boy, and he
came west. In California he made a
fortune, and in Oakland he chose to
make his permanent home, despite the
call Of the scepter from the Calf of
Man. His older brother died, and the
cry "The king is dead, long live the
king!" summoned him from Madison
street, Oakland, CAL, to his ancestral
inheritance. He looked it over. Then
he turned up his nose. What was the
use Of living there in royal splendor
over Al subjects, when a hotel in San
Francisco could put him up over night
for three dollars in far better style
than picknickers are cared for on the
Calf of Man?
Sell it," ordered the king, laying
down his scepter, and noting by his
watch that he could catch a boat which
would allow him to make the first
steamer for the United States and Oak
land, Cal
Orders American Flag Raised.
And then, being a naturalized Amer
lean citizen, he did just what any good
American would have done-he or.
6ereG the American flag hoisted over
his domain.
He knew they couldn't stop him, for
that had been tried before. When his
father was king Great Britain had
made the attempt to tax the island.
thereby putting it under the Kingdoms
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country. 1t Is country where you get
the right change back, and the cows
give 1S-carat milk, and the hens have
not learned to lay small, cold storage
eggs. 1t is the country for me, if the
women would wear corsets, and not be
the same size all the way down, so that
if you Rugged a girl you wouldn't
make dent in her that would not
come out until she got her breath.
And we left such country and such
people to come here to Cuba, where
the population now comprises the
meanest features of the desperate and
wicked Spaniards, beaten at their own
game of loot, the thickness of the ma
tive Cuban, flushed with pride because
his big American brother helped him
to drive away the Spaniard that he
| could never have gotten rid of alone,
and with no respect for the American
who helped, and only meets him re-
spectfully because he is afraid Of be-
ing thrown into the ocean if he is i'm
pudent, and the worst class of Yankee
grafters and highway robbers that
have ever been allowed to stray away
from the land Of the free. That is
what Cuba is to-day.
Soulless Yankee corporations have
got hold Of most of the branches of
business that there is any money in,
and the things that do not pay and
never can be made to pay are for sale
to tenderfeet. The Cuban hates the
Yankee, the Yankee hates the Cuban,
and the Spaniard hates both, and both
hate him. In Havana your hotel,
owr ed by Cuban, run by Yankee,
with Spanish or Portuguese cashier,
will take all the money you bring into
it for bed at night, and hold your
baggage till you can cable for money
to buy breakfast.
1t is "free country" of course, run
by men who will fly high as long as
they can borrow money for some one
else to pay, after they are dead, but
within ten years the taxes will eat the
people so they will be head over heels
in debt to the Yankee and the Span
lard, the German and the Englishman,
the Frenchman and the Italian, and
some day warships will sail into Ha-
vana harbor, over the submerged bones
of the Maine" and there will be a
fight for juicy morsels of the Cuban
dead horse, by the congregated buzz
yards Of strange nayies, or perhaps
they will shake dice for the carcass,
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William Cary, of Oakland, Cal, Is Abso-
lutte Monarch of the Isle of
the Calf of Man.
POPULATION OF THE DOMAIN IS FORTY-oNE
Remarkable Story of Royal Sovereign and His
Country-Prefers Native State TO His Is
lard and Is Ready and Willing
to Sell Latter. nj

New York.-Would you be a king?
Wop3S. YOU, like Robinson Crusoe, be
monarch of all you srirpey9" Not
an imaginary ruler such as you see in
the comic operas of the day, but tbs
real thing, with the lives of your sub
jects at your command. If so, com
municate with William L. D. Cary, -ol
Oakland, Cal, king of the Isle of this
Calf OF Man, who is tired of his domain
and iswilling to dispose of it to anybody
who will meet his price. The kingdom
comprises just 900 acres. .&.
The king came to New York the
other day. There was no visiting del
egation down the bay to grant the
freedom of the city to the royal visitor,
but he didn't mind that bit He anu
his queen conSort went to a hotel, out
no flag was hung out in their honor
as there was for the Japanese and
Russian ENJOYS. "W. L. D. Cary end
wife" was~on the hotel register, and
nothing more. There weren't any senes-
chals or chamberlains or gentlemen
in-waiting or equerries or secretaries
or even masters of the robes, much less
E. common or garden valet.
Only Real American Monarch.
Mr.. Cary is the only real Amer
lean king. Although a section of the
constitution distinctly says that no
title of nobility shall be granted BY
the United States, and that no person
holding any Office of prOfit or truSt
under them shall, without the consent
OF congress, accept any present, Office
or title from any king, prince or for
eign state, King William, who is an
American citizen, as well as SOW
erigr, may snap his fingers thereat.
The parliament of Great Britain has
established the status of Mr.. Cary.
He doesn't hold any "office of profit
or trust" under our government, and
he hasn't accepted" any from for
eign power.
Kings Power Absolute.
King Williams title to his demesne
is from the same source of warranty
as Edward Wis, king of Great Brit
ain and the isles. emperor of India, de-
fender of the faith. His power is even
more absolute. for King Edward mas
no say in making the laws of Great
Britain, while King Cary. of Oakland,
Cal, makes all the laws of the Calf
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Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, Former Ed
itor of Peck's Sun, Author of "Peck's
Bad Boy" etc.
Copyright. 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
Havana, Cuba.-My Dear Old Greas-
er: We stopped in Holland for couple
of days after we left Belgium, and it
was the most disappointing country we
visited on our whole trip. We expected
to be walked on with wooden shoes, and
from what we had heard of that duke
that married Queen Wilhelmina we
thought we were going to a country
where men were cruel to their wives,
things didn't go right, but when we saw
the queen riding with her husband, as
free from ostentation as department
store clerk would ride out with his cash
girl wife, and saw happiness beaming on
the face of the queen and her husband,
and saw them squeeze hands and look
lovingly into each others eyes, we made
UP our minds that you couldn't believe
these newspaper scandals.
And when we saw the broad-shoul-
dered, broad-chested and broad-every-
where women Of Holland, we concluded
that it would be brave or reckless hus-
band who would be unkind to one OF
them, and mighty dangerous, because
the women are stronger than the men.
and any woman could whip four men at
the drop of the hat, because she could
take off her wooden shoes and strike out
and man would think he had been hit
by railroad tie.
do not know what makes Hollanders
wear wooden shoes, unless they are SEN
fenced to do it, or that they are unruly
and have to be hobbled to keep them
from jumping fences, but the people are
so good and honest that after you have
met them you forget the vaudeville
feature of their costumes, and love
them, and wish the people of other
countries were as honest as they.
For two or three days we were not
robbed. and do not believe there is a
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purer air, and the Isle of Pines, which
has more tropical scenery and less
yellow fever
But now the island of Cuba Is a joy,
and Havana is like Heaven-until you
come to pay your bill. Streets so wide
side, pavements as smooth as the road
to perdition, and tropical trees, plants
and flowers, with birds of rare plumage,
you feel like sitting on cold bench in
the shade and wishing all your friends
were here to enjoy taste of what will
come to those who are truly good, in
the hereafter, when suddenly you are
taken with chill up tn spinal col
umn, and cold sweat comes out on
the forehead, and the internal arrange
ments go on strike because Of tbs
cold, perspiring cucumber you had for
lunch, and you go to a doctor, who
does not do thing to you, but scare
you out of your boots by talking chol-
era, and giving you the card Of his
partner, the undertaken, telling you
never to think of dying in a tropical
country without being embalmed, be-
cause you look so much better when
you are delivered at your home by the
express company, and then he gives
you pills and bill, and an alarm clock
that goes off every hour to take pill
by, and furnishes you an officer to go
home to your hotel with you to collect
his bill, and you pawn your watch and
sleeve buttons for a steerage ticket to
New York.
Dad has not been much good in Ha-
vana, cause he wanted to see the
whole business in one day. He got
rowboat and went out in the harbor
to where the backbone of the MAINE"
acts as monument to the fellows who
yet sleep in the mud of the bottom,
and after tying little American flag
on the rigging that sticks above the
water, and damning the villains who
blew up the good ship, we went back
to town and drove out to the cemetery
where several hundred of our boys are
buried, where we left flowers on the
graves and cuss in the balmy air
for the guilty wretches who fred the
bomb, and then we went back to the
city and walked the beautiful streets
until dad began to have cramps from
trying to eat all the fruit he could
hold. Then it was all off, and
was going to call a carriage to take
him to the hotel, when dad saw a ne
gro astride a single OK, hitched to
cart, who had come in from the coun-
try, and dad said he wanted to ride in
that cart, If it was the last act of his
life, and as dad was beginning to swell
up from the fruit he had eaten !
thought he better ride in an open cart,
cause in carriage he might swell up
so we couldn't get him out of the door
when we got to the hotel.
So hired the negro, got dad in the
cart, and we started, but the OK walked
so slow 1 was afraid we would never
get dad there alive. so told the negro
dad had the cholera and that settled
it, for he kicked the OK with his heels.
and the OK beloved and run away, and
the negro turned pale from fright, and
/ guess the runaway ride on the cob
blestone pavement was what saved
dads life, for the swelling in dads in
side began to go down, and when we
got to the hotel he got out of the cart
alone, and / knew he was better, for
he shook himself, gulluped and said,
You think you are smart, don't your"
So will close. Yours,
HENNERY.
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only 500 yards to the Isle of Man, and
ferry runs with as prosaic regularity
as do the iron steamboats, or the Flat
bush trains. A syndicate has leased
the island for five years, and is paying
most comfortable dividends.
The summer girl is the chief point
of interest. The legend which they
buy for sixpence and read when they
get back to King Edwards larger do
mInion was written in 1926. Here is
a bit of 1t:
History of the Kingdom.
Many years before these enlight-
ened days, during that period of time
which. may truly be called the dalk
ages of the Calf, when rats and rab-
bits enjoyed undisputed possession of
It, and man had not yet sought a resi-
dence on its barren shores, a circum-
stance occurred which caused a great
sensation among the inhabitants of
the little village which crowns the op-
posite shore. The portly matrons of
this retired hamlet were reused from
their accustomed state of torpor by
the unusual appearance of a human
figure upon the highest summit of the
neighboring isle, apparently engaged
in some laborious employment.
"Bushell, for such was the name OF
this solitary being, was the possessor OF
a small domain on the neighboring
coast of Ireland. Close to his little
patrimony lay the princely castle of
the great O'Neil, whose only sister had
been the object of Bushels childish
affections, and was the sole possessor
OF his more matured devotion. With
O'Neil he had always lived on terms
OF the greatest friendship, now join
ing in the fatigues Of the chase, now
uniting in the skillful navigation Of
the wintry seas. But no sooner did
O'Neil discover the object Of his
friends affection, than all their init
macy was destroyed.
Eat first he contented himself with
withdrawing from his society and for
bidding him to approach his castle,
but when he found his precautions in
sufficient, that the lovers still met, and
that the affection of Bushell was re-
turned, he commenced a series of per-
solutions, which in those days were
sufficient to drive Bushell from his
peaceful home, to become an outcast
from the haunts of men. Having thus
removed the object of her affections, he
hoped that his sister would soon cease
to remember him. But when many
months had elapsed, and Mary's sad
ness still remained unchanged, he de-
termined to watch her more narrowly.
ard soon discovered that the inter-
course, though rendered more difficult
by his tyranny, was not destroyed. hut
that Bushell was still lurking about the
neighborhood, and found means Of
communication with his sister.
Bushell Rescues His Sweetheart.
''Incensed at this discovery, he COM
manded her to prepare to embark with
him in a few days for distant con-
vent. there to bid adieu to the van
tiles of the world, and conceal her err
rors under the sanctity of the veil
Intelligence of this cruel determine
ton was quickly conveyed to the out
lawed Bushell, who resolved upon the
bold design of attacking the vessel of
O'Neil and rescuing his beloved Mary
from the horrors of living tomb.
The design once formed, was quickly
executed. and calling together a few
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and by carefully loading the dice saw
the whole thing off onto Uncle Sam,
and make him pay the debts of the de-
ceased republic, and act as administra-
tor Tor the benefit of the children of
the sawed off republic, whose only as
set now is climate that feels good, but
contains germs of all diseases, and
tobacco that smells good when it is in
confagration under your nose, and
does not kill instantly if it is pasted up
in Wisconsin wrapper that is the
pure goods. If tobacco ever ceases to
be fad with the rich consumer of so
cent cigars, and beet sugar is found
to contain no first aid to Bright's dis
ease, Cuba will amount to about as
much as DrS Tortugas. which has