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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06

Lake Street elevated railway and the
Northwest yn elevated and the ele-
waited downtown loop for another
$5,000,000.
1t had taken Yerkes Is years to
work out his well-defined plan, all
based on the problematical value of an
act of the Illinois legislature which
was construed publicly by Yerkes to
be a 99-year franchise, but whia he
probably knew-for he sold all his
holdings!-to be the mere extension
of the charter Of the company to which
was granted the franchise.
Carefully he had inflated the bai-
loon marked North Chicago Street
Railway" until he sold his stock at
1855 per share. 1t was quoted on the
stock exchange the other day at $32 a
share.
He filled the balloon labeled 'West
Chicago Street Railway Co." until he
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06

witty woman describes it as shade of
rusty iron with strong dash of helio-
trope in 1t.
We are glad 10 chronicle there is q
tendency to fasten dress skirts at one
side of the back, not directly in the
middle. The unfastened placket has
been as much of worry as the hiatus
between skirt and waist, and needed
solution by an expert. With the fast
eners little to the side there Is not
so much strain and less liability to
open at an inopportune moment.
Keeping the Eat straight is also an
other of the numerous frets that dis
turb a woman's serenity, and the man
ufacturers have been at work on this
problem. A while ago they gave us
enormous gilt safetypins, but we did
not think very much of them. Recent
ly we saw better contrivance and one
that can be recommended over the hat
pin, which is hard on the hair and, in
very windy weather, not to be depend
ed on. The one we refer to is a strong
smooth hairpin of silver, wider and
longer than the ordinary hairpin; it
fits in a silver catch sewed on either
side the hat, and is simply pushed
through this and into the hair.
With the present millinery styles the
hair must be fiuffed out considerably,
smooth, neat tresses do not obtain as a
few years ago. Loose waves are much
better than stiff crinkling, and one
should avoid trying to look like mod
ell in a hair dresser's window. The
fashion for the loose arrangement of
the hair may not last long; many are
exaggerating it to such an extent, pill
ing puffs up mountain high; with re-
lief we may fee to the fiat mode again
ELLEN OSMONDE
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06

to be for the betterment of the street
car service, and the advent of the Ell
kins-Widener syndicate into the street
car operation in Chicago was well
coined from every hand. Even the
newspapers, who had been fighting
Yerkes, served to aid him by their
publicity in the flotation of the trac-
ton stocks. No conditions could be
more suspicious.
Early in the day it was learned that
the entire issue of preferred and COM
mon stock had been underwritten;
that Chicago and New York had been
allotted $7,000,000 of the preferred and
Philadelphia 100000. On the stock
exchange North Chicago and West
Chicago both moved up on the strength
of the general enthusiasm over the
Union Traction deal. No one seemed
disposed to delve very far into the in
nerworkings and inner secrets of the
traction situation. For several days
this continued, and Yerkes' brokers
had little difficulty in supporting the
market for the short period necessary
to get Yerkes we'll out of cover.
1t was but month or two after the
flotation that prices of the traction
stocks on the stock exchange began to
sag. To the public this was unaccount-
able; the insiders evidently had be-
gun to realize the untenable founda-
ton for the big issue of securities.
The 99-year statute was already in
litigation, and had been for 80 years,
and the possibility that the courts
might rule adversely to the contention
of Yerkes and his attorneys served to
drive the stocks downward day after
day. Six months after the flotation
the prices were not much more than so
per cent. of those at which Yerkes had
sold his North Chicago and West Chi
cago street railways.
Everyone who crosses Chicago from
one depot to another in Frank Parm-
alec bus, or who sends his baggage
across in a Parmalee transfer wagon,
would be interested to know that
Parmalee was the man who secured
enactment of the 99-year statute which
has been so important. He was the
original street car man in Chicago
back in the days when Lincoln and
Douglas were debating slavery ques-
tions and mutterings of war were
heard. The guns of the civil war were
not yet silent when the measure was
framed which served Yerkes so well
and other multi-millionaires so i'll.
''Uncle Dick" Oglesby was governor
of Illinois, and he evidently saw the
evils in it, for he vetoed the bill, but
it was passed over his vet~.
Yefkes loved to fight, but things
were getting too hot for him in Chi
cago in 1898. when he began the final
balloon blowing process. There was
open talk of lynching the aldermen if
they made concessions to Yerkes, and
more than once Yerk7s himself was
threatened. He BACKED the eye of one
prominent business man and called ths
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06
Cattle Cnarmers

Curious tales are told of the Nasal.
enc Of the most warlike of the native
African tribes. They have been attack.
ing the natives in the German protec-
torate with great daring, driving on
great herds of cattle with singular ease.
Half the attacking force will sweep
down on a peaceful village, engaging in
a bloody fight with the inhabitants.
while the other half will drive away the
herds. The Nasal have a wonderful
knack in the management of cattle. A
German writer says that single Nasal
is often able to coax behind him whole
herd of cattle by lightly whistling and
tapping with his spear against his huge
shield.
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Declines Good Offer.

Minneapolis-The United States de-
partment of agriculture has been try
ing to steal E. K. Slater, state dairy
and food commissioner, from the Min
nesota service, but Mr.. Slater stated
today that he had declined the posi-
ton offered, and would stick to the
ship"
The department under Secretary
Wilson is about to install an inspec-
ton and grading bureau at New York
for butter received there. The idea
is to grade butter If desired by the
trade, and to conduct an educational
bureau, noting the faults in butter re-
ceived, and notifying the shipper how
to correct them. Mr.. Slater was want
ed as the head of this new service,
and the position was rendered by E.
w. Webster, chief Of the dairy divi-
sion. No salary was named, except
to say that the salary would be made
an inducement
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06

guaranty fund proved almost a joke,
and Union Traction stockholders were
paid only one dividend. Finally re-
ceivers were appointed. The Union
Traction and West Chicago companies
are in receivership now. This was by
no means all. Stockholders of the
West Chicago company sued the North
Chicago company. The city of Chi
cago sued the Union Traction COM
pany for $2,000,0OO and finally poor
car service drove the people to elect
mayor pledged to immediate mu-
nicipaf ownership"
This was in the face of the certainty
that corrupt politics and the spoils
system would be made worse by put
ting into politics the hundred thousand
street car employees, certain means
for machine control.
The street car service never was
good during Yerkes' reign, but has
constantly grown worse in most sec.
lions of the city by the deterioration
of cars while litigation on every hand
absorbed the big companies. The
hopes of the public were raised by the
purchase last year of two-thirds con-
troll of the $1S,OOO,OOO of the Chicago
City railway stock at 5000 share by
the Morgan-Field-Armour syndicate.
But the decision of the supreme court
has depressed City railway securities
nearly $10,000,0O0 and thrown the
Morgan-Field syndicate into panic
of CONSERVATION for the City Railway
company's franchises are about to ex-
pire and the 99-year hope has been
blighted.
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news OF minnesota.
Kindness Rewarded.

st. Paul-Kindness has proved to be
good business policy in the case Of F.
p. ingalls,, night clerk at the Ryan
hotel, who expects to recove $4,000 in
return for loan of $25 made to a
hardup friend more than ten years ago.
David Noble, a mining prospector
who was frequent patron of the hotel
years ago, told ingalls, one night that
he was broke" and asked for small
loan. Ingalls, promptly handed over
SIS without any request for security,
bHt Noble passed 1000 shares of min
ing stock over to him, telling him that
he might hold it as security.
ingalls, has not seen Noble since.
but tw weeks ago he received letter
from a butte firm of brokers offering
him SIT a share for his stock in the
Noble Mining company Of Cook City,
Mont. He hunted up the old certifi-
Gates and last night telegraphed that
he would sell at $40.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06
The Fashions in General

knotted on the high bandeau at the
back, the ribbon the same shade as
the flowers. At one side, the right,
where the hat turns up pertly, a couple
of pale pink roses are tucked in among
the harebells. 1t sounds as though 1t
might be fussy, but in reality is not,
just suits the fortunate woman whose
property 1t is. The other hat, the SIM
pie one, is blue horsehair turban,
one OF the long sort. The crown Is
put on smoothly over the frame, the
brim covered with neat folds. Where
brim and crown join there is piping
of soft-toned blue and red plaid, and
at one side near the front large knot
OF the plaid. The only other trim
ming is single quill which stands off
perkily at one side with sharp up
ward slant. Every other woman on
the street this spring will remind one
of an Indian chief, so many feathers
and quilts are 70 be worn. In theory
it is ridiculous, in fact quite smart.
To turn from heedgear to gowns,
what graceful and becoming princess
dresses have been evolved. Every
body must have at least one ons-piece
gown in her wardrobe, and more II
possible. The model here shown is
excellent style, and by means OF the
trimming used may be made 10 suit
almost any figure. 1t is of softest
pale-blue crepe de chine made over
chite China silk. A fichu arrange
ment at the shoulders relieves the Sc
verify of close-fitting waist, and the
crossed bands may be placed at any
point desired, depending on whether
the person is long or short wasted,
stout or thin. Hand embroidery adorns
the front Of the skirt, the shades tady
tones of pink AID olive; but this elab-
grafton may be dispensed with or
braiding Of narrow gallon substituted.
The sleeves are mere puffs. very be-
coming to the woman with a pretty
arm.
Another lovely princess was brought
to our notice, one Of pavement gray
velvet absolutely untrimmed. There
was no break from neck to train, but
the long lines now considered desira-
BILE. A square yoke of Irish crochet
lace quite deep, relieved the grayness,
and passing over the shoulders were
suspenders Of black velvet fastening
with silver buckles. It was charm
ing combination-the gray velvet, rich
creamy lace. black velvet lightened
with the touch of silver, a picture in
itself. 1t would be beautiful for wo-
man with white hair or for a dark
haired woman OF clear pallor.
This really is season where one
may take an old-fashioned frock and
make 1t over with little trouble and
satisfactory result. Study carefully the
lines approved as fashionable, and then
go to work; have reasonably short
shoulder, the sleeves mere puffs and
standing out pretty we'll at the Shout
der, the waist line at the most becom'
ing length for your particular figure,
the skirt at least touching, if the dress
is for evening. And use any little
scraps of good lace and ribbon you
may have, for trimming to-day seems
collected from the scrap basket-a bit
of this, dash OF that.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06

old-rose velvet, ornaments In the Golf
:ure being now the proper thing.
Wells are to play their part in dress
the present season, and there is needed
a word about what not to get. Large
dots lavishly sprinkled over\ the face
are seldom becoming, but two or three
big dots are good, just mere beauty
patches. A very Frenchy veil is a
brown cobwebby net worn over a pale
blue tulle and two or three black vel
vet dos on the outer veil, just enough
to enhance the complexion, but not
many as to give leopard appearanf
And, by the way, We would mention
that the touch OF black is the thing on
costumes generally, and that brown is
In highest fashion for wells, robes,
iaces for the coats, etc. A new color
goes by the nans CT AUTOMOBILES; q
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was paid on basis of s127 per share.
The stock is now selling at about $50

was paid on a basis of s127 per share.
The stock is now selling at about $50
a share.
Then came the miscellaneous collec.
tion marked Consolidated Traction"
and the sale of the well-watered
panies, payment in bonds which he
sold at 80 cents on the dollar. In
each case he sold no real value, and
took in payment something substan-
tial.
When the balloons all were sold,
Yerkes cared not at all how soon the
public discovered that the talk about
the 99-year franchise was but a four
flush bluff which he had expected
would be called" some day.
The bluff got past Judge Grosscup on
the federal court circuit bench, but
the United States supreme court
called" it, and did It in plain terms.
The 99-year franchise was the wind
which had filled all the balloons; the
sand on which had been builded the
house of cards marked with Yerkes'
fanciful millions.
The day when Union Traction was
fioated was a great day in Chicago.
The event was much heralded from La
Sale street and from the financial in
situations of the city, who had various
interests in the success Of Yerkes'
great scheme and combination. The
public accepted it as the dawning of
a day when they would be released
from hated bondage of Charles T.
Yerkes. The uniting of the North
and West traction interests promised
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06

We made a round of the shops the
other day and set to serious study OF
the modes that promise to be the pre-
vailing ones; and were made reason
ably sure of one thing, that there
will be less exaggeration, less striving
after the unique, than last year. At
the milliners especially is this true. To
be sure, we find the bowl shaped
crowns, but the trimming of these is
disposed In such a manner eccentricity
gives place to pleasing effect.
Our thoughts are so full Of color we
feel as though moving in kaleido-
scope. veritable rainbow, atmosphere.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06

newspapers blackmail sheets. When
the banks called loan to him Of
So, 100000, he told them to loan him
as much more. When the banks
scornfully demanded security for the
extra 100000, he produced $8,O00.-
900 of registered government bonds,
and got the money.
He then called loan he had made
to Moore Brothers, the promoters Of
Diamond Match and Rock Island con.
solidation fame, and their suspension
caused panic which closed the Chi
cago stock exchange.
Necessarily, the story of the smash
of the values of Chicago Traction Sc
curities is the story of Charles T..
Yerkes, who died December 20, last,
in New York, deserted by his second
wife, as he had been many years be-
fore in Philadelphia, by his first wife
when he was sent to the penitentiary
on a charge of which he later was ac-
Quilted. He was a broker at 81 and
banker, as his father before him,
before he was go. He spent a few
years in Fargo, N. D., and st. Paul,
Mimi, before going to Chicago as a
broker in 1883.
But when Yerkes has sold his "bal.
looms" the interest shifts to ''the boys"
who bought and held them and who
played with them contentedly at first.
Soon troubles began, and troubles
thickened with each month. The
North Chicago and West Chicago COM
panies were not paid the respective II
and six per cent. rental moneys re-
quired by the leases, the $4,000, 900
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06
Mistaken for Wolf.

Crookston-While walking along the
east branch of the Roseau river, near
Pencer, Martin Larson had his left
arm shot off and narrowly escaped
death, being mistaken for wolf. Ed
win Severson, Larson's uncle, did the
shooting.
Larson was walking along the bank
of the river, hidden by the heavy
growth of underbrush. Suddenly two
shots rang out and Larson fell to the
ground agonized by a painful wound
in his wrist and forearm. Severson
rushed to the spot and was Mortified
to see his nephew weltering in blood.
instead of the wolf at which he sup
posed he had shot.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06
News Notes.

st. Paul.-Experts tell the state
commissioners how the railway COM
panies figure freight rates.
st. Paul.-The property owners and
merchants are arranging elaborate
plans for the illumination of Sixth
street.
Cass L.ake-The new village coun-
Gil was organized and started the mu-
nicipal machinery for the ensuing
year.
Minneapolis.-The attorney general
holds that trolley lines are not under
the jurisdiction of the state railway
and warehouse commission.
Hastings.-At the Democratic city
convention Mayor Charles Gall was
renominated. III. M. DUR was nomi-
mated for clerk and A. T. Johnson for
police justice.
st. Paul.-Bernard Johnson, 1s years
old, living. at S35 Hardenberg Place.
was dragged n block by runaway
team.
st. Paul.-Thc annual report of the
fire board, filed with Mayor Smith.
shows that in 1905 there were S37
alarms. The fire loss lor the year
was $46S,959. covered 3y insurance
amounting in the aggregate to $1,9SS.-
O29.
Stillwater.-Frank Palmstein is hov.
ering between life and death at his
home in this city from the effects OF
a wound in the temple inflicted WITH
q screw driver said to have been
thrown by Lawrence Sundberg.
St Paul-E X Slater otota datrxy
and food commissioner, has ordered
the state chemist to investigate the use
of personalities in beer
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06
Verv Polite,

He-What would you say if | kissed
you?
She-You don't sEspose I'd be i'm
polite enough to Interrupt you, do your
-Yonkers Statesman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06
II Takes TrCo

why don't you ask her to marry
you? You can surely afford to marry
on your salary"
That's what / told her, but she said
that she couldn't. Houston Post.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06
Selfish Thing

The Rejected-Do you refuse me on
account of my poverty or on account
Of myself?
The Rejectress-Neither- whoIly
on my own account Cleveland
Leader.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06
Bio Banquet.

Duluth-Eignt hundred attended the
sixth annual banquet of the Garfield
Republican club at the Masonic Tenn
pie hall. More than 200 guests came
from the ranges and Two Harbors sent
a large delegation. The hall was not
large enough to accommodate every
body and an overflow banquet was held
at a cafe.
The event was the most successful in
the clubs history. A feature Of the
evening was the strong patriotic senti-
ment that prevailed. 1t was vented
when patriotic songs were sung, or
some particularly striking remark was
made that appealed to the assembled
multitude
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06
Girls Raise Money.

Mankato-The Southern Minnesota
High School Field and Track associa-
ton will hold it's annual meet in this
city the latter part Of May. The ath-
letic association of the local high
school Is anxious to present a good
showing, and being without funds,
the high school girls undertook to as
sist them. A supper was served, pat
ronized by over two hundred people,
the girls having entire charge of the
kitchen, and ten Of the club members
acting as walters. In the evening an
athletic entertainment was given at
the high school building by the club.
with musical selections interspersed.
The club cleared about $50 as a result
of the supper and entertainment and
has enough funds to carry 1t through
the spring.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06
Fell to Death.

apolis-While cropping his way
to his room in the darkness early Sun
day morning, Patrick O'Laughlin, I'll
Nicollet street, Nicollet island, made
a false step and fell down the steep
stairway, fracturing, his skull and
breaking his neck in the fall. He was
dead when picked up.
O'Laughlin owned the house in which
he lived. He occupied two rooms on
the second floor, while the first floor
was occupied by tenants. He returned
between l and o'clock Sunday morn
ing, and it appears that he had Just
reached the top of the stairway when
the accident occurred.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06

The pyramid of fictitious values in
detail is a confusing tangle of bond
and stock issues of many companies,
but its general structure is simply
this:
With $1,500,00O Yerkes in 1886
bought the North and the West side
street car lines, then horse car lines,
and made contract with himself to
reconstruct them, with grSat profit in
the reconstruction. Many new lines
were built by Yerkes through many
new companies. Each company was
stocked and bonded for double or more
its value
Finally YerRes had the North Chi
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-04-06
Of THE CHICAGO TRACTION SECURITIES
BY CLYDE ALISON MANN.

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Flotaon values shrink
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-10-25
TEN LIVES LOST IN FIRE
BOARDING HOUSE A SETTLING
FURNACE WHILE THEY SLEPT.
Flames Reared Out of Doors and
Windows and Made Rescue
impossible.

Birmingham, Ala.--Ten men were
burned to death in a boarding house
fire here. Two were perhaps fatally
injured and a third was slightly hurt
in a jump from a second-story win
dow. The house burned was occupied
by Mrs. E. E. Mattley, 1881 Third
avenue.
The dead:
W. N. Nichols, streetcar conductor.
D. B. Neal, conductor.
w. B. Taylor, motorman.
G. C. Preston, n Htt'rman.
Edward Caldwell, Al, yurman.
E. B. Henshaw, conductor.
G. D. Burns, motorman.
William T. Hall, conductor.
w. B. Livingston, roller-mill mar
Ollie H. Hines, employed by Bir-
mingham Paint and Glass Co.
The injured:
G. K. Hentch, conductor.
G. w. Troutman, motorman.
time the fire broke out. The frame
building was a seethlng furnace be-
fore they we're awakened by the cries
Of the crowd which had gathered about
the building. Entrance to the build
ing was prevented. The flames roared
out of the doors and windows of the
lower story in a fury that made ap-
proach impossible. The first story
was a mass of fire before the victims
on the second story awakened.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-10-25
FELT IN THE UNITED STATES.
Bank Of France Comes to the Aid Of
Bank of England.

New York-The financial and bank.
ing centers have been relieved great
ly by cable information that after
negotiations between the Bank of
France and the Bank of England, the
Bank of France released ESQ, 600, 900
francs $3.50. 1000, OO0) as an aid to the
Egyptian crop movement, which has
called heavily on England's gold sup.
ply, causing increase in Bank of Eng.
land discount rate last Friday.
The Information greatly relieves the
situation in this country and will be
felt especially in the stock market,
where a vast volume of liquidation
followed the announcement made last
Friday by the Bank Of England.
There is great confidence that the
Bank Of France could really afford to
do this, and the conservative safe.
guarding of its gold holdings by that
institution is attributed largely to
precautions against possible eventual.
eits in Russia rather than to any de-
fined requirement to be met.