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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
IN GRASP OF BEEF TRUST.
Morris, Swift and Armour Interests
Gathering in Every Plant
and Yard.

Chicago, Oct. 1s.-Three leading
packing interests, Morris & Co., Swift
& Co. and Armour & Co., are said to be
seeking control of all the packing hou-
ses and stockyards in the west, through
the medium of the National Packing
company. Except in Kansas City and
Chicago, these interests are already I'M
der control of this combination and its
efforts are now being directed toward
these two cities.
According TO current rumors at the
Union stockyards, the Swift interests
constitute the leading factor in the
National Packing company. The fact
that Edward Tilden became president
some time ago, with A. 7. Fuller's ele-
walton to the vice presidency, seems to
be the foundation for these rumors
There is also report that G. f. Swift
will become an officer in the near fu-
ture.
1t appears that in the consolidation
of these vast properties the National
Packing company is in most instances
the nominal purchaser, but in some
cases the packers are working as indi-
viduals. A short time ago the Plank
linton plant at Milwaukee was taken
over by the Swift interests. And so it
goes all along the line, with chances
that huge com bination will soon be
in absolute control of these immense
business enterprises throughout the
west and northwest.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
TRAFFIC IN GIRLS DISCOVERED
AM ERICAN AGENTS CON DUCT A
WHOLESALE SLAVE TRADE.
Facts Ara Startling Authorities
- Seek Method of Furnishing
the Ringleaders.

Chicago, Oct 1S-Wholesale traffic
in American girls and women, lured
frcm Tome and friends under various
pretexts, to supply the harems OF the
Orient, has been found to center in
Chicago. Forty-nine Chicago girls are
known to have been delivered into the
hands of Chinese masters. The names
OF two women engaged in this slave
traffic are in the hands of federal Off.
Gals, who are seeking some mothod OF
Furnishing the offenders and bringing
to an end this most terrible slave trade;
Aside from the two woman about
whom a web of evidence has been wo-
ven, trace has been secured of several
others whomak annual pilgrimages
from the Far East as recruiting agents
for wealthy Chinese merchants, traders
and officials. Not only those who have
ventured on the thorny paths Of disso-
lutte life are gathered upunder various
pretexts, but immature and inexperi-
enced girls are employed as ''secretar-
les" and travelling companies" with
promises of big wages and the pay
ment of all travelling expenses.
Once within China they are delivered
to those who have paid in advance for
them, only to be hurried to the in.
terror, beyond the reach of civilization,
to pass their lives in hopeless dispair,
the absolute slaves of merciless mas
tiers free from restraint of all law.
The chief of police has been asked by
Washington officials to investigate the
situation and attempt to find remedy,
as such an offense is not contemplated
in the federal laws and there is no
provision for legal advice as to his
powers in the premises and direction
as to the course to pursue.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
Library Books.
Kidnapped.

Mankato.-A sensational kidnap-
ping was committed by a tramp here,
the victim being Ormond Kusche, the
six-year-old son of Charles Kuche, a
real estate dealer. The lad was en-
ticad from his companions by offerings
of sweetmeats and was not missed un-
til late in the evening. A search all
night proved fruitless, but the boy was
found early in the morning, lying hid
in a thicket of tall grass. with head and
face Scared and gashed and his body
giving signs of horrible maltreatment.
No trace of the tramp has been discov-
cred.
The Kusche boy, with number OF
playmates, was at Broad and Walnut
streets shortly after o'clock in the
evening, when a man dressed in
tramp's clothes approached the young
sters. According to the story told by
companion of the Kusche boy, the
tramp picked Ormond up and carried
him in his arms short distance down
the street
Early the next morning George Kim
ball of Prospect avenue, while on his
way to work, noticed a boy lying in a
thicket close to the road On APP
preaching the lad he recognized him as
the Kusche lad The lads father was
at once notified and took the lad home.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
SIR HENRY IRVING.

and 1.-THE Bells and seemed to be in
excellent health, taking the exhausting
part of Matthias in the latter play with
all the vigor of youth. Friday night,
before an enthusiastic audience, he por-
trayed one of his most characteristical-
ly intellectual parts, the title role in
his own stage adaptation of Lord Ten
nyson's Beckett" with marked sue
cess
After the performance Sir Henry re-
turned to his hotel, reaching his rooms
at 1870 O'Clock, when it was observed
that he was in great pain. Physicians
were Immediately summoned, but be-
fore they could arrive, Sir Henry was
seized with an attack of syncope and
expired without word.
London, Oct. 1.-THE dean of West
minister, Very Rev Joseph Armitage
Robinson, announced Monday evening,
that, having received request signed
by leading members of the dramatic pro-
fession and other persons of distinction
he had consented to the interment of the
body of Sir Henry Irving in Westminster
abbey.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
TRAIN IS WRECKED.
nois-Five Men Lose Their
Lives.

Oskaloosa, Ia, Oct. 17.-Five train
men were killed Sunday at
Seaton, ILL.,, when a heavy, dou-
ble-header freight train, easS
bound, on the Iowa Central railroad
ran into cow on the track at a
speed of 20 miles an hour. Both locomo-
tives and II freight cars loaded with
grain and lumber were piled in heap
beside the track. The dead are: George
A. Caffal, engineer; Harry Summers,
engineer; Harry Barr, fireman, L. H.
Briley, fireman; P. T. Morgan, brake
man. All the men killed lived in Oska-
loosa except Briley, whose home was in
Monmouth, Ill. Brakeman Morgan was
driven into the earth beneath the end of
a box car. Fireman Briley was found
dead, but apparently unwounded beside
the tangled steel of the locomotives.
Engineer Summers was caught in the
cab of his locomotive and cooked by
steam and water from the boiler. He
lived several hours although large
pieces of cooked flesh fell from-the bone.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
VESSEL GOES DOWN.
Schooner Beaten to Pieces off Coast of
South Carolina-Six Lives
Are Lost.

Boston, Oct. ia story of a North
Atlantic shipwreck, in which eight
seamen suffered so fearfully from. ex ].
posture, hunger and thirst that six of
them either died outright, were washed
away, or, crazed by their fearful ex-
perience, threw themselves into the
sea, was told Monday by the two sur
vivors of the coasting schooner Van
Name and King, of New Haven, Which
was beaten to pieces by a gale off the
South Carolina coast on October j.
The two men who lived through the
five days and were rescued by the
schooner Stillman F. Kelly, which ar
rived here late Monday, are William
Thomas and William G. Warnoek, both
about 20 years old, six feet, three
inches tall, and hail from Antigua,
British West Indies. The six who,
one by one, succumbed were: Capt
William A. Maxwell, of New Jersey;
Mate E. A. Chase, home unknown; en-
gineer, German, name unknown; col
ored steward, name unknown; colored
seamen, William Grizell and Alfred
Arthur, both of Jamaica
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
Letters Furnish Glue.

Helena, Mont, Oct. 1S.-As a result OF
discriminating letters found upon no.
-torious horse thief recently killed in
Valley City by deputy sheriffs and
Stock Inspectors Hall and Teal,
George Case, for many years employed
by Northern Montana cattlemen, is I'M
der arrest at Glasgow.
He is alleged to have been the ring
leader of a gang of horse thieves that
have stolen at least /, ZOO horses.
Letters found on the dead horse
thief also led to a recent arrest of par
ties for robbing Mayor Dennison of
Williston, N. D., and Arthur McGahey
of the same place.
Peace officers have written to Presi-
dent Roosevelt demanding the removal
of certain federal official of North
Dakota alleged to have admitted act
ing as agent for the sale of stole n
horses A man named Ryan, also al.
legged to be implicated in horse steal
ing, is being searched for.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
TAGGART GIVEN DIVORCE.
Judge at Wooster, o., Renders De-
cision in Case Which Attracted
Much Attention.

Wooster, o., Oct. 16.-Judge Eason
Saturday decided that ''Tiddles," the
youngest child of the Taggarts, should
be left in the care of his mother at
Wooster. The elder boy may go with
his father, who is now located at the
Columbus barracks. Judge Eason
added that both children would, how
ever, remain under the jurisdiction
of the court, and that the above ar
rangement might be changed later.
In the decision of Judge Eason, rem
dered Friday, Maj. Taggart was grant
ed divorce. The trial lasted seven
weeks. The case went to the court
month ago. The suit was first
started in July, 1904, by Maj. Tag
CART, who filed petition for di-
vorce, charging his wife with conduct
excessive use of intoXicants. Mrs. Tag
CART heard of the proceedings in San
Francisco several weeks later and i'm
mediately started for Wooster, the
home of the Taggarts, where she filed
counter petition for divorce against
Maj. Taggart on the grounds of cruelty
and neglect. The case has been of ex-
ceptional interest because of state
ments during the trial by Maj. Tag
CART that the use Of intoxicants in the
army officers were named in Maj. Tag
the custom. A number of prominent
army officers were named in Capt. Tag
CARTS petition as having been more or
less the cause of the domestic troubles
between Maj. and Mrs. Taggart.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
A Young Forger.

Observation-Disclosures S. Ems, was
brought from Spokane, Wash, on
charge of forging postal money orders.
He SONY seventeen years of age and
is son OF John F. Ems, the postmas-
ter here. The government officials
charge that Ems started 10 visit the
ney orders from the postoffics at But
terrified. Stopping at various points
along the Great Northern line these
money ord,rs were made out and in
dorsed in the name of James Coroett.
When the orders began to show up the
postal officials were notifi d and the
search for Corbett led to the arrest of
Ems at Spokane.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
WILL. QUIT HIS PLACE.
Luke E. Wright Said to Have Decided
to Give Up High Position
in Philippines.

Washington, Oct. Is. = BY reason of
what appears to be dissatisfaction with
the situation in the Philippines, Luke E.
Wright, governor general of the Phil
ippines and president of the Philippine
commission, will retire from that posi-
ton about the first of December. Gen.
Wright is expected to arrive in the
United States during that month and is
entitled to six months leave of absence
prior to the formal REIMBURSEMENT of
his labors as governor general. 1t is
understood that he expects to return to
Nashville, Tenn, to resume the practice
of law. President Roosevelt and Sec
rotary Taft, it is believed, practically
have decided upon the successor to Gen.
Wright, but no intimation has been
permitted to become public as to his
identity. 1t can be stated reasonably
definitely that Gen. Wright's successor
will not be man now connected with
the commission.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
MALFEASANGE is CHARGED
LATEST DEVELOPMENT IN THE
PEORIA SCANDAL.
o. j. Bailey, Bank President and
School Official Is
Indicted.

Peoria, ILL.,, Oct. 1.-THE grand
jury returned final report Friday
with a true bill against Oliver ].
Bailey, chairman of the finance COM
mittee of the Peoria school board, and
holding him on the charge of malfea-
sance of Office.
Failing and neglecting to perform
his duties as such public officer and
suffering and permitting one Newton
c. Dougherty to misappropriate and
unlawfully convert to his own use
the school moneys to large amount,
and neglecting and failing to perform
his duties as such public officer by
permitting the payment of school
moneys and funds for school purposes
to Newton c. Dougherty, the said
Dougherty, being person not legally
authorized to receive the same"
This is the way the indictment reads
and the returning of the document
has caused big sensation in Peoria.
The fact that Bailey is president of
the Dime Savings and Trust bank and
O. director and heavy stakeholder in
the Central bank has caused more un-
easiness in the banking world, and
fears that the public may be aroused
are entertained.
In addition to the Bailey indictment
the jury censured the entire board
for criminal negligence in admins
tering the affairs of the city schools. "
Forty-three additional indictments
were also returned against Dougherty
for embezzlement and forgery. The
jury was discharged formally.
Mr.. Bailey has been prominent fig
ure in Peoria for more than 20 years.
He has been connected with many
large business interests in this city.
Nelson G. Durham, stakeholder in
the defunct Peoria national bank and
one of the most prominent and wealthy
citizens of Peoria, died Friday night as
the result of shock brought on by the
news of the defalcations of Newton C.
Dougherty.- president of the bank.
Peoria, Ill.,, Oct. II. - To investigate
charges of corruption in the Peoria ma
tional bank, Judge Bethea, of the Unit
ed States district court, and Assistant
District Attorney Robert Childs came
to Peoria from Chicago Monday N c.
Dougherty, who stole 100000 from the
Peoria school fund, was president of the
bank.
A special grand jury is planned to
probe charges affecting officials of the
bank. These allegations have been
turned over to the federal authorities by
States Attorney Robert Scholes, who be-
lieves that the national banking laws
have been violated.
Rumors that several prominent men
hitherto untouched by scandal would be
involved in charges connected with ir-
regularities in the bank were circulated.
The approach of the federal investiga-
ton caused the city to tremble to it's
financial foundations
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
Mortality.

Minneapolis figures for
the first eight months of 1905 show
1,627 deaths in Minneapolis This il
fourteen less than for the correspond
ing period of last year and although
the decrease is not great, it is encoura-
ging from the fact that the popula-
ton has increased considerably. st.
Paul, which advertises itself as the
healthiest city in the world, shows an
increase of 68 deaths for the CORE
spending period. The number of
deaths for the first eight months in
that city was 1859, as compared with
1908 for like period in 1904 In view
of the fact that the city is believed to
have slightly smaller population
than last year, as indicated by the
school enrolment, the record is some
what dubious.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
News Notes.

st. Paul-Frank 7. Williams of Buff
falo is appointed superintendent of
the st. Paul weather bureau.
Hamline-F. G. Mcmillan of Mime
apolis has been given the contract to
put in the foundation for the
new main building at the university.
The c,ntrsct has been let by the state
board of control. the contract price not
being announced
Winona-The present prospect ia
that one of 1Winona's handsome public
school buildings may before long be
vacated on account Of the reduced at
tendance, and it being no longer pos
sible to operate it economically.
Mankato-The first meeting of the
state normal board ever held in Man
kato took place recently. 1t is believed
that hereafter the board will hold its
meetings in cities where normal
schools are located.
Wing-The Lake City hirh
school football team was defeated in
this city by the Red Wing high scaopl
team, by scorc of As too
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20

Are the Japanese the lost ten tribes
of Israel? The Jewish World revives
this old theory, remarking that it was
probably inevitable that they should
be sought in the japanese in view of
the fact that the museums of Japan
contain numerous engravings purpor.
ing to show the landing OF Jews in
Nippon. One of the pictures cited is
said to show a procession in which the
ark is discernible and in which the
priests wear hats Of Biblical pattern.
Another depicts Solomon in the act OF
receiving gifts from the queen of
Sheba.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
EXPOSITION Ended.

Portland, Ore, Oct. 16.-The Lewis
and Clark Centennial exposition came
to close Saturday with Officers and
Stockholders day. The work of wreck
ing the immense exhibit palaces and
state buildings will commence and in a
few months all that will remain of the
exposition will be a memory of its sue
cess-success as expositions go, for
President Goode has made public an
nouncement that stockholders will re-
ceive dividend of from 80 to 40 per
cent. on their stock, record said to ex.
eel any exposition of like character ever
held in the world.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
Conferences Without Results.

Washington, Oct 1s.-An important
conference was held at the interior de-
partment relative to the proposed sale
of timber on the White Earth reserva-
tion in Minnesota. Secretary Hitch
cock, Indian Commissioner Leupp, and
Inspector Mclaughlin participated.
The latter, who has just made an in
vestigation at White Earth, reported
the exact conditions. No influence
could be observed, as to the reasons
made by Maj. Mclaughlin on the
question as to whether the sale should
be indefinitely postponed, All the off,
Gals would say was that no definite con-
c.usion had been reached at the con.
ference.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
New Record.

Duluth, Oct 16-The Mountain Iron
mine on the Meseba range has set a
new record for the world for shipment
of an individual mine in a single sea-
son. BY Sunday night the mine had
forwarded 100000 gross tons, with
from two to four weeks of activity
still ahead on the present season. No
other iron mine in the history of the
world has ever made like record
The Fayal mine at Evelssh has here
tofore held the record, with a move
ment of 1,91s,ooo gross tons in round
numbers in 1902.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20

Living across the Willamette from
Corvallis, Ore, at distance of a mile
or so, is boy who, in the past six
months, has shown such abnormal
growth that he has doubled in weight
In this period of only half year he
has made the transition from a boy
OF IL to the stature and weight OF
manhood. The beginnings of a growth
of beard complete the sudden and swift
change in which this lad, though still
a boy in years, is man in everything
else. The case is said to be without
parallel in medical annals.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
SEVERELY PUNISHED.
Congressman Williamson, of Oregon,
Convicted of Land Frauds,
Sent to Prison.

Portland, Ore, Oct. 16.-Convicted Of
conspiracy to suborn perjury, and to &C
quire government lands fraudulently,
Congressman ]. N. Williamson was de-
MED new trial by Federal Judge Hunt,
sentenced to Imprisonment for ten
months and fined $500. Marion r. Biggs,
Pineville, was sentenced to ten months
and fined $500. DR.. Vangesner, Will
liamson's partner in the sheep business,
was given a five-month Imprisonment
and assessed 81 900 fine Execution was
stayed until the defendants can perfect
an appeal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20

A halt is to be called in the mar
rage procession in Nebraska, if the
Nebraska Homeopathic association
has it's way, and all applicants for
marriage licenses, either man or wom-
an, must undergo thorough physical
examination before they will be per-
mitted to wed. A bill to this effect
will be introduced into the next state
legislature, and the homeopaths of the
state will use every effort to have it
passed. The homeopaths believe that
the spread of disease is due, more
than to any other cause, to diseased
persons who marry.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20

A project is under consideration in
Vienna for the construction of rail-
road system connecting European
cities with the Far East and rivaling
the greet Siberian railway. BY this
new route Vienna would be brought
within eight days of Picking and
Shanghai instead Of Is days by the
present Siberian route. The chief pro-
moter of the new scheme seems to be
one DR.. Spatzer, of Vienna, who has as
ISOLATED with him some prominent
capitalists and financiers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20

Uncle Sam is preparing to go into
the lumber business. Secretary Will
son will see to it that his interests are
protected. Congress will be asked to
organize on a permanent basis the for
est service which has taken charge of
the numerous reservations that have
heretofore been controlled by the Sec
retary Of the interior. Since the first
of July the forest reservations have
passed to the department of agricul-
ture
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20

Old mining men and prospectors in
this region did not need to be told by
DR.. Ami, of the geological survey, that
great diamond wealth lay hidden in
that part of Canada between the Great
Lakes and Hudson bay. In the Rainy
river district and in the auriferous
valley Of the Seine many diamonds
have been obtained from Indians and
French-Canadians voyagers, who had
picked them up in their wandering
without any idea Of their character
and value.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20

A lake 20 miles long and from three
to five miles wide has suddenly sprung
into existence in the sand hills of Gen.
trail Nebraska. Where six months ago
there were wastes Of mud is now a
body of water 10 to 80 feet deep and
constantly rising. The overflow has
found an outlet and started down the
valley toward the Missouri river, form
ing a stream the length of which no
one can imagine. 1t has been known
for years that almost the whole of the
central. If not the entire western,
part Of the state had an underflow Of
water.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
Double Tragedy

Norfolk, Va, Oct. 16.-John d. Daw-
ley, % years of age, shot and. killed
William H. Davis, 80 years old, then
hid himself in and set fire to his ia.
theirs barn. He is seriously burned.
The shooting occurred in Pungo dis.
trict of Princess Ann county.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
Five .Swent Overheard.

New York, Oct 16.-Five lives are
known to have been lost and more than
30 persons injured, one of them fatal
ly, on the Cunard Line Steamer
Campania last Wednesday when a
gigantic wave rolled over the steamer
and swept across a deck thick with
steerage passengers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20

Under a treaty negotiated in 1908,
the United States agreed to relinquish
its claim to the Isle of Pines, off the
Cuban coast in the Caribbean sea, in
consideration of grant of coaling and
naval stations in Cuba. More than
two years Lave elapsed since the
treaty was drafted, but it still re-
mains unratified.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
SIR HENRY IRVING DEAD.
Famous Actor Suffers Attack of Syn
cope and Expires Suddenly
in England.

London, Oct. 1.-THE English speak
ing world has suffered an irreparable
loss by the sudden death Friday night
of Sir Henry Irving, who was univer-
sally regarded as the most representa-
times. Sir Henry died literally in har-
ness. He was giving series of fare
well performances in the English prov
inces and this week was playing an en-
gagement at Bradford, appearing in
several favorite roles. Thursday he
presented King Rene's Daughter -
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20
Must Appear as Witness.

Milwaukee, Oct. 17.-Judge Quarles
decided that Frank G. Bigelow, default
ing ex-president of the First national
bank of this city. must be brought back
from Fort Leavenworth penitentiary as
a witness at the trial of Henry G. Coll,
formerly assistant cashier of the bank.
Bigelow is serving a ten-years' SEN
tence. The formal order for his appear
ance November 20, was signed