davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28
A Statue for Ra mseY.

A statue for Alexander Ramsey, the
first governor of the territory of Min
nesota, and its governor during the
civil war, will be placed in national
statuary hall in the capitol at Wash
ington.
The house passed Senator McGill's
bill naming commission.
The senate concurred in the house
amendment to Senator A. r. McGill's
bill providing for a statue of Former
Governor Alexander Ramsey to be
placed in the statuary hall at the ma
tional capitol The house amendment
was the elimination of the SIS O)O ap-
preparation. The bill creates COM
mission consisting of James J. Hill of
st. Paul, T. B. Walker Of Minneapolis
and Congressman James L, McCleary
of Mankato to secure the statue.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28
New Guns.

The artillery division OF the nation
guard soon will be made more forsnid-
able from a military standpoint by the
receipt of an entirely new set of field
equipment The new guns will be
four in number and will be accompan-
led by all the paraphernalia and
equipment for field service.
The issuance of the new guns will
be made simultaneously with the ship
ment of the same class of equipment
to all the national guard headquar-
tiers. Congress at its last session APP
propriated 81, 500, 900 for this purpose.
The shipment to the st. Paul and Min
neapolis batteries will be made from
the Rock Island arsenal
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28

river and flood service, which yearly
saves from destruction millions of dol
lars worth of property and saves the
lives of hundreds of people.
A writer in the Philadelphia Press,
who speaks in detail of the splendid
work done by this branch, paints in
graphic words picture of the ruin by
flood that so frequently falls upon vari-
Gus portions of the United States. He
says the great American floods are be-
coming as famous and as tragic as
American billiards.
The unusual SHOWS of last winter,
the numberless ice-gorges in streams
and rivers, awaken apprehension of
what may happen if spring rains sud-
denly food everything. Floods occur
in the different localities at widely diff
ferent periods. Those in the lower
Mississippi generally begin along the
last of March; the upper Mississippi
the latter part of April or in May; the
Mississippi river floods come somewhat
later than in the upper river; Ohio
floods may happen anywhere from Feb.
ruary to June; the eastern and south
eastern river may overflow any time
of the year save in August, generally
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28
Would Waive Claim for s22, ooo, 900

Washington, April Pat is said that
President Roosevelt has promised the
Chinese government to recommend to
congress in his next annual message that
the United States formally relinquish it's
right to the 100000 900 balance due on
the claim for indemnity allowed as a re-
suit of the boxer outrages in 1900. On it's
part the Chinese government has agreed
to set aside the sum which it had agreed
to pay annually until the debt is salts
fed for the education of the youth of the
empire.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28
well-Known River Man Dead

Cincinnati, April 24.-Capt. R. G.. S.
Hinkle, for 80 years secretary of the
Pilots association and known among
river men from Pittsburg to New Or
leans, died at his home in Bellevue.
KY, OF cancer of the throat. For near
ly month he had not tasted food.
He was prominent in Kentucky politics
as a democrat. Realizing that death
was near he had made all arrange
ments for his funeral, even to the
selection of pallbearers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28
THE MARKETS.
Grain, Provisions, Etc.

Chicago, April 90.
FLOUR-Steady. Spring wheat, special
brands. $6OO@6.20; Minneapolis. hard win
ter wheat, jute, S.. 20a5.40; Minnesota. hard
spring, straight export bags, $4.S0d4G0;
clear export bags, $3.70d3.s0.
WHEAT.-Lower. July. S6s4mS6Bc.
CORN-Firm. May. 471kd47Bc.
OATS-Firm. May, 29as9295sc.
BUTTER--Steady. Creameries, per h..
E932kc; dairy, 12d2S1ac.
EGGS-Higher. Fresh eggs at mark, new
cases included, 15@15Ac per dozen; prime
firsts, 1614c; extras, 1719c.
POTATOES-Unchang Car lots, on
track, per bu.. 24d30c.
LIVE POULTRY-Unchanged Turkeys,
per lb, lac; chickens, fowls, per h., 124 13c.
New York, April %.
FLOUR-Quiet ard unchanged. Minne-
sofa patents, s5.6Oa6OO; winter straights.
81 SOd5OO; Minnesota bakers, s3.75G4.15; win
ter extras, So 5Od4.0O; winter patents, $5109
$50; winter low grades, S340q3.90.
WHEAT-Steady. May, $1.M1d1 .0S% !;
July, 919s@92Sc; September, 861sqS614c.
RYE-Nominal.
CORN-Dull and featureless.
OATS-Nominal. .......
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28
Live Stock.
Chicago, April 60.

chicago, April -.
CATTLE-Good to choice steers, $3.50
CTS; common to medium steers, $5.40a6. 25:
inferior to common steers, $4.90d5.40; good
to fancy cows and heifers, A.G045.50; fair
to good cows and heifers, $3.41n460; good
to choice feeders, 81 25G515; fair to choice
stockers. $3.10G4.40; good cutting and fair
beef cows, 81 50d3.40; common to good can
ming cows, $1.60G245; bulls, poor to choice,
$500. so; calves common to fancy, 5000
600
HOG+Good to choice shipping, s5.421sD
5.571h; fair to good butcher weight, $3.50
$50; fair to good heavy mixed, $685.. 471a;
fair to good heavy packing, $5.S71z05 80;
light mixed, $5.4O@5.57R; good to choice,
S. 45@5 571a; fair to good pigs, $4.50a5.4O
SHEEP-Export wethers, shorn, $1,000
5.15; fair to prime wethers, $475Q5.25; fair
to prime ewes, $4.50q5.00.
Omaha, Neb., April q.
CATTLE-Unchanged Native steers,
81 45d6. 40; cows and heifers, $3.50a5. rs; west
ern steers, $3.75d535; Gamers, s2,0Oq35O;
stockers and feeders. $2.75a5.O0; calves, $40
az. Is; bulls and stays, $2.5Og4.75.
HOGS-Lower. Heavy, S.. 3Gd5.35; mixed.
S. 3OG5 321k light, $5.27a5.32h; pigs, $3.50
5.25: bulk of sales, $53Od5.321R
SHEEP-Unchanged Western yearlings.
S.. S0@6 so; wethers. $o00Q5.S5; ewes, $f.7o9
500; lambs, $6.75Q7.5c.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28
Husbands Death Kills Wife.

Coshocton, o., April 24-George
Ashcroft, wealthy farmer, fell dead
across the foot of his bed Saturday
when he arose to put extra covering
over his wife, who had been ill. In
less than thr,s hours she too died
from the shock. Both were borp on
the same day.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28
Moros Making Trouble.

Manila, April 24.-The walled city
of Jolo was attacked by Moros on
April 9. They fired into the Officers
club and dispersed those present at a
ball which was in progress. On April
10 the secretary of Gov. Scott was
ambushed and killed within range of
the SentrieS
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28
Capt. Streeter WEEDS.

Chicago, April 24.-Capt. George Wei
lington Streeter, hero of many battles in
the District of Lake Michigan whose
faithful spouse, Maria, died while he was
in prison. has been married to young
woman, 10 years old, in Montrose,
Mich
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28
Earl of Chichester Dead.

London, April 24.-The Earl of Chi
chester (Rev. Francis Godolphin Pei
ham) is dead. He was born October
IS, 1874.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28

Years ago when floods threatened, all
the people could do was to flee with
what goods they could carry away, and
wait to return to their homes, to plant
crops and carry on their work when the
waters had fallen. Then gradually pri-
vate enterprise began building levee
here and there; next communities took
it upon themselves to provide this pro-
lection; later the state carried the bur-
den, and now the federal government
looks after repairs AID even undertakes
to build up new works. To-day there
are 1900 miles of levees below the mouth
of the Ohio, contrast to that first levee
built in New Orleans in 1717, one mile
long.
In addition to the river gauges, the
service has lately begun tc make use of
the snow gauge. A tube measures
depth of snow deposits, and the snow in
the tube is melted down, this water
measured and compared with the depth
of snow. Estimates are rlade of the
quantity of water there will be when
the spring thaws melt the snow crusta
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28

VERY one in the country
knows of the weather bu-
reau, that great and grow
ing institution" but only a
few are at all familiar with
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-04-28

property was moved at the instance OF
the weather forecasts. Yet the total cost
of the river and flood service Of the
United States was that year only $15,-
900, the one-thousandth of this saving
to the people. So this particular enter
prise of the government certainly more
than pays for itself, to put it very
feebly."
The people do not by any means al
ways regard the service warnings as a
prophecy worth needing; often there Is
heard the cry that the weather bureau
needlessly alarms. When the bureau
sends word that without doubt houses
along certain city streets will soon be
submerged, and are told the inhabitants
must move, often the residents persist
in waiting until their houses are deep in
water; they themselves can escape only
at the expense of good deal of trouble
and no small danger. And after the
flood subsidies, they go back and build
on the very same spots.
We give below list of some of the
worst floods that have occurred in this
country:
Lives lost in the flood at Johns
town, Pa, in 1889. 2,14a
Lives lost in flood in Galveston.
Tex, in 1900. Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Lives lost in Topeka, Kansas City
and other cities in flood of 1903.... 231
Loss of crop in Kansas in 1903. 80. SO 900, 900
Loss in Topeka alone. ............. LOCO, 600
Loss in Kansas to railroads. 100000
in June, 1903. ....................... s.5eO,OOO
Persons left stitute................ 5000
Mills which were destroyed.
Persons who were missing .......... 100
Persons who were drowned......... so
Cost of bridges which were swept
years. observation-disclosures. 81, OO0, 900
Loss to Pittsburg river coal COM
panieS in 1904. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ], 600
Loss from Susquehanna flood in
lSU4 L,VVV,VVU
1903 49,. ....................... LOoOOOo
Valley, Pa, in 1908. ................ 100000
Loss of life in this flood. 80
Loss of life in New Mexico in 1904... IL
Loss of life in Texas in 1903. ........- 20
Loss of property in Michigan In
Loss of property in Wyoming in
I9U4 Z,VVV'VvV
Loss of property in Colorado in
lSV4 4'oVV,oVV
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-05-26

Every housekeeper should know
that if they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because it
never sticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 16 ozone full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in M-pound pack
ages, and the price is the same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem.
icals. If your grocer tries to sell you
a 1907. package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts in Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
tiers and figures "16 ozs." Demand De
fiance and save much time and money
and the annoyance of the iron stick
ing. Defiance ' sticks.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-05-26
"Fashion" Notes.

Don't wear thin-soled shoes at any
season. of the year. One may take
cold from chilling of the feet as the
result of wearing thin-soled shoes in
walking over a cold pavement, even
when the pavement is perfectly dry.
Don't adjust the clothing to suit the
season of the year only, but adapt it
to the weather conditions of each par
ticular day.
Don't wear high-heeled shoes, nor
pointed shoes, nor narrow-soled shoes,
nor tight shoes, nor low shoes. Don't
wear slippers, except in the house.
Shoes must have broad, reasonably
thick soles, plenty of room for the
toes, low heels. Rubber heels are a
great comfort.
Don't support the clothing by bands
tight about the waist.
Don't construct the limbs by means
of elastic bands to support the stock
ings. Support all clothing from the
shoulders, not by bands, but by a
properly constructed waist free from
bones, on the union" plan.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-05-26
A sIauohterhouse Victim.

The papers recently reported the
death at Cripple Creek, Colo, of a
woman who, three years ago, while
visiting the slaughterhouse of the Ar
mour Packing company in Chicago,
was completely paralyzed on one side
as a result of the shock produced by
the sight of the terrible tragedies
which are constantly being enacted IN
that great killing establishment. This
victim of slaughterhouse horrors is
only one of many thousands who meet
their death through the slaughter
houses every year. 1t may not be
said, indeed, that the death can be
traced so directly and Immediately to
the slaughterhouse as in this case, but
the multitudes of lei and women
who die of equity disorders, rheuma-
tism and other maladies resulting
from uric-acid poisoning might enjoy
many years of life were it not for the
deadly dose OF uric acid and other poi
sons derived from the products OF the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES eaters dlsor'
ders. among which must be included
trichina and tapeworm, tuberculosis
and possibly cance as well as those
which have been traced directly to
uric acid.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-05-26

which figured so ~conspicuously in the
Fitz-John Porter case, is standing.
Mrs. Dogan, through whose farm
runs the railroad cut where Porter,
Sigel, Reynolds and King fought to
dislodge Jackson on Aug. 80, 1852, IS
still living at Groveton. She is 81
years old and hearty. She likes moth
ing better than to tell of the red, grim
scenes of war.
The fields in that bloody square
bounded by Centerville on the east
Groveton and Gainesville on the west,
Sudley on the north and Manassas on
the south, are as a rule, still titled by
the families who worked them when
Prince William and Fairfax counties
shook under the tread of armies and
the crash of guns.
II is believed that most of the n
of the men slain at Blackburn's ford,
.July IS. 1851; Bull Run, July q, 1851;
Stone bridge and Gainesville, Aug. q
and %. 1862, and Groveton and Sud
lev. Aug. 20 and 80, 1862, have been
eXhumed.
Those recovered from the Federal
nositions we're removed to Arlington,
where many hundreds are heaped IN
der the monument to the Unknown"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-05-26
BATTLEFIELDS LITTLE CHANGED
Country Over Which Ragged Conflicts That Made History Remains To-Day
Much as 1t Was In Civil War Days

near the cut" the place Of greatest
slaughter, were not given sufficient
burial. Earth was simply shoveled
over the poor corpses where they lay.
The first heavy rain washed away the
earth and exposed the remains. This
statement is made on authority OF
Mrs. Dogan, who, ordered from the
field by Jackson's men as the fighting
began. returned to her farm before the
removal of all the wounded or the
burial of the dead.
Reminders of the fighting are ever
coming to light. Hunters often come
upon skeletons in woods far from the
field. These are the bones OF men
who, wounded, struggled off and died.
With each spring blowing n OF
men and horses, buckles, canteens'
bayonets, gun barrels and buttons are
u~pturned. Around some of the farm
houses are big piles of solid shot and
broken shell. Tons OF this D~attleneid
iron have been collected and sold as
scrap-iron. Nearly every farmer IN
the ne%ighborhood has a collection OF
swords. guns and bayonets gathered
from the field
When the Groveton was
dedicated three years after the last
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-05-26
Its Mind.

AS mamma was preparing her boy
for breakfast she said: How many
cakes can Eugene eat for his break
fast this morning?"
81 can eat four, Mamma
Seated at the table, his appetite
seemed to have materially diminished,
for he ate only one of the cakes.
Mamma thought you were going to
eat four cakes this morning. What is
the matter?"
WELL" said the five-year-old, my
stomach changed its mind"
1t occurs to us that the wise mans
stomach often Changes it's mind" as
in this case, but too often that much
abused organ is so pressed upon as to
be convinced against its will, though
of the same opinion still, and, yield
ing to the demands of an abnormal
appetite, finds itself wishing the real
man had been master over the lust OF
the flesh.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-05-26

The battlefelds of Bull Run have
undergone little change since the civil
war.
Catharpin creek, Young's branch,
Cub run and Rocky ford are still pour
ing into Bull run, and that historic
stream rolls sluggishly from the noun
tains to Aqua creek.
There are the same open fields and
stretches of woods shown on the topo-
graphic maps used in 1861 and so.
Sudley Springs and Groveton are no
bigger hamlets than at the time of the
battles; Centerville has rather shrunk
than grown, and Haymarket, on the
Sudley road, which was a group OF
three or four houses. has disappeared.
Manassas, from a mere hamlet at
the junction of the Orange & Alexan-
dria railroad and the Manassas Gap
railroad, has become a small village
and is the seat of Prince William
county, whereas Brentville had that
distinction in Americas heroic age.
The bells of Sudley meeting house
and Centerville church ring out every
Sunday, and old men pray there who
listened to the firing, saw glimpses OF
the struggles, carried water to the
wounded and helped bury the dead.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-05-26
GRIPS UGLY SEQUEL
KNEES STIFF, HANDS HELPLESS,
RHEUMATISM NEAR HEART.
Mrs. Van Scoy Experiences Dangerous
A~fter-Ehrects from Grip and Learns
Value of u Blood Remedy.

Mrs Van scoy Experiences Dangerous
After-Effects from Grip and Learns
Value of n Blood Remedy.
The grip leaves behind it weakened
vital powers, thin blood, impaired di-
gestion and over-sensitive nerves-a
condition that makes the system an easy
prey to pneumonia, bronchitis, rheuma-
tism. nervous prostration, and even con-
sumption.
The story told by scores Of victims OF
the grin is substantially the same. One
was tortured by terrible pains at the
base of the skull; another was left tired,
faint and in every way wretched from
anemia or scantiness of blood; another
had horrible headaches, was nervous and
couldn't sleep; another was left with
weak lungs, difficulty in breathing and
acute neuralgia. In every case reller
was sought in vain until the great blood
builder and n~erve-tonic, DR.. Williams
Pink Pills, was used. For quickness and
thoroughness of action nothing IS known
that will approach it.
Mrs. Van Scoy makes a statement that
supports this claim. She says:
81 had q severe attack of grip and, be-
fore I had fully recovered, rheumatism
set in and tormented me for three
months. I was in a badly rundown
state. Soon after it began l was so lame
for a week that 1 could hardly walk. 1t
kept growing steadily worse and at last
1 had to give up completely and for
three weeks / was obliged to keep my
bed. My knees were so stiff 1 couldn't
bend them, ard my hands were perfectly
helpless. Then the pains began to
threaten ny heart and thoroughly
alarmed me.
"While I was suffering in this way 1
CHANGED to run across a little book that
told about the merits of DR.. Williams
Pink Pills. The statements III it i'm
pressed me and led me to buy box. These
pills proved the very thing l needed.
Improvement set in as soon as l began
to take them, and it was very marked by
the time I had finished the first box.
Four boxes made me a well woman"
Mrs. Laura NJ. Van Scoy lives at No.
20 Thorpe street, Danbury, Conn. DR..
Williams Pink Pills are equally well
adapted for any other of the diseases that
follow i'll the train of grip. They are
sold by all druggists.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-05-26

Since the attention of the Chicago
authorities was so forcibly called to
the conditions present in the peniten-
tiary other states have been investi-
eating.
The rapid growth of tuberculosis
among prisoners in the Joliet, ILL.,, pen
itentiary, attended by a marked in
crease in the prison death rate, has
aroused the officials to action. An in
vestigation and reform is to be insti-
tuted by the State Board of Health.
The members of this board do not
deny that under the present conditions
all efforts to combat the disease are
hopeless. Better general sanitary n
ditions must be established or it will
be impossible to prevent the spread OF
tuberculosis to all the present prison
ers and to all who may be so unfortu-
nate as to be sentenced later.
This is another instance of the state
forcing its citizens to live under con-
ditions which mean almost sure death.
1t is surprising in this day of enlight-
eminent that the state should allow its
citizens to live, voluntarily, in unsan1-
tary homes. Yet it does. The resi-
dents of the slum and tenement dis
tricts are dying from faulty santa
ton and bad hygiene. But more the
state forces some others to spend
from one to ten years in a dark cell
from which they so often come, strick-
en- by the great white plague
wrecks of their former selves and a
continual expense to the community.
With the message of prevention
and cure" of consumption in every
paper let the state not forget its pris-
oners who must silently suffer what
ever fate is decreed for them.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-05-26

battle, the fields were still thickly
strewn with weapons and articles OF
soldiers equipment.
The line of railroad bed (the road
was never inished) along which Jack
son formed from GAINESVILLE to Sudley
is well preserved, though oyergroWn
with pine and cedar.
Earthworks around Manassas and
CenterVille clearly mark the camps of
Beauregard and Mcdowell. There are
no e~arthworks on the fighting groUad.
None was built.
On the Henry farm stakes have
been driven to mark where Col. Cam,
eron of the 10Th New York and Gen.
Bee were killed, where Ricketts, bat.
terry was cut to pieces and where
Wade Hampton was wounded. In a
dense woodland off the field two bits
of board tell that Gems. Wilcox and
Kirby Smith were shot there.
A rail fence stands just where the
rail fence stood along which Jackson's
brigade was drawn up when Gen. Bee
gave Jackson the soubriquet of
"~Stonewall."
Tie place on the Chinn hill where
Col. Fletcher Webster, son of Daniel
Webster, was killed in the second bat
tie is pointed out by the people who
live there.