davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09
ORE SHIPMENTS.

Duluth.-It is now certain that the
ore shipments from the Lake Superior
region for 1906 will be approximately
100000 tons, and with a favorable
month of November, as far as weather
is concerned, the total may reach 81
100000. The total under any reason
able conditions of weather for the
balance of the season is likely to be
over rather than under 100000 tons.
The position Of Minnesota in the iron
ore industry is one of pre-eminence in
the United States, and is rivaled in the
world only by the German empire. The
Mesaba range is expected to ship about
23,000,000 tons of the 100000 tons to
be shipped this season, and the Yer
million range will come in for close
to 100000 tons, making the total for
Minnesota as near as can be estimated
at present, about 25,OOO,000 tons. leav-
ing 100000 tons to be shipped from
other states bordering on Lake Su-
perior. Minnesota last season shipped
about two thirds of all the ore for
warded from Lake Superior, and the
proportion, it is expected, will be about
the same this year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09
FOOD LAW.

nneapolis.-With the beginning OF
1907 the law putting the dairy and food
commission under civil service will go
into effect. The law will apply to all
inspectors employed by the department.
No one thereafter is to be appointed
to those positions without passing an
examination as to his general qualifi-
cations and special fitness for the po-
sition and satisfying the board as to
his moral, mental and physical fitness.
No inspector is to be removed except
for cause. This will take the depart
ment out of politics, as far as the in
spectors are concerned, although the
commissioner and clerical force still
will be subject to change when a
change is made in the governorship.
The law was passed by the last legis-
lature, but it does not go into effect
until the week after the governor is
inaugurated next January.
The law makes the dairy and food
commissioner, the attorney general and
the dean of the agricultural college the
examining board.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09
ARCTIC EXPLORER
near NORTH Pole
ROBERT e. PEARY AND HIS
PARTY REACH BEYOND 81
DEGREES.
Compelled to Subsist on Dog Meat
and Musk Oxen When Caches Are
Swept Away by Ice Thrown Up
by Gale.

New York, Nov. 3.-The United
States now holds the record of fur
therest NORTH" 81 degrees six min
utes.
This feat was accomplished by Com
mander Robert E. Peary, of the Unit
ed States navy.
The intrepid arctic explorer failed
to reach the north pole, as he had
confidently hoped to do with his spe-
cially constructed vessel, the Roose-
welt, but he penetrated nearer to the
pole than the duke of the Abruzzi's
expedition, which had held the arctic
record, sc degrees "a minutes. What
Commander Peary did and his ex-
periences during the past year in the
frozen north are rather briefly, but
certainly wildly, summarized in a
communication received Friday night
from Peary by Herbert L. Bridgeman,
secretary of the Peary Arctic club.
This communication follows:
Peary's Dispatch.
''Hopedale, Labrador, via Twillin-
gate, N. E., Nov. 2.-Roosevelt win
tered north coast Grant Land some
what north Alert winter quarters.
Went north with sledges February
via Hecla and Columbia. Delayed by
open water between "a and IS de-
grees. Beyond IS six days. Gale dis
rupted ice destroyed caches, cut off
communication with supporting bod
les and drifted due east. Reach 81
degrees six minutes, north latitude
over ice, drifting steadily eastward.
Returning ate eight dogs. Drifted
eastward delayed by open water,
reached north coast Greenland in
Strengthened conditions. Killed musk
oxen and returned along Greenland
coast to ship. Two supporting par
ties driven on north coast Greenland.
One rescued by me in starving con-
dition After one week recupera-
ton on Roosevelt sledged west, COM
pleting north coast Grant Land and
reached other land, near one hun
dredth meridian Homeward voyage
incessant battle with ice, storms and
headwinds Roosevelt magnificent
ice fighter and sea boat. No deaths
or illness ON expedition"
Receipt of News Surprises.
After furnishing press the contents
of Commander Peary's report, Mr..
Bridgeman said that the receipt OF
any news from the explorer now was
quite a surprise to him, because he
had supposed it had become too late
in the season for Commander Peary
to send news of his venture. Mr..
Bridgeman added that the message
spoke for itself and that since he
did not know more of the results of
Commander Peary's effort to reach
the pole than the public did, he could
hardly comment upon the dispatch.
There was little doubt, however, he
said, that Commander Peary was
coming home. This seems to be
borne out by the routing of the dis
patch Hopedale or Hoffenthal is a
Moravian mission station on the east
coast of Labrador Twillingate is a
port on the east coast of New Found
land. Mr. Bridgeman said the mes
sage was probably mailed by Com
mander Peary from Hopedale to the
most accessible cable point.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09

reason Lena VOLTS brain was dull
and inactive was because the blood
was not feeding it as it should
One of the principal duties of the
pancreas, situated just behind the
stomach, is to superintend the regular
feeding of the brain with good blood,
according to the theory OF the Ger
man surgeon. In the case of Lena
Wolff he believed the pancreas was
minus one very important digestive
essential, without which it could not
do its work properly. That very i'm
portant essential had to be supplied
by grating a portion of ductless
gland from another living person.
The child's mother readily offered
herself as sacrifice. She was per-
pectly willing to undergo the neces-
sarily painful and tedious operation of
having part of her throat grated on
the body of her little daughter IL only
il would give Lena her reason.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09
NEWS NOTES.

Duluth.-Raymond Witty and Will
lam Williams, the Aurora (Minn.) boys
of fourteen and fifteen years who went
hunting and got lost, were found by
one of five searching parties at 4
o'clock in the morning They were
within five miles of town and had a
fire.
LIE Sueur.-George Item, of LIE Sueur,
Fl years of age, son Of Gus Item, was
instantly killed Saturday by the acct
dental discharge of his own rifle Just
as he was drawing up on shore a boat
in which he had been hunting.
ST. Cloud.-Rev. H. F. Parshall, for
twelve years rector of st. Johns Epis-
copal church in this city, has been
promoted by Bishop Morrison to the
position of archdeacon with headquar-
tiers at Cass Lake
Alexandria.-Hog cholera is cpl
demic is the southern part of Hudson
township. More than 200 hogs have
died since last July and as many more
ana suffering from the disease
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09

boy nationality. The child was born
with normal mental and physical en-
dowments and began to show, when
year old, signs of general deficiency
in all his senses. 1t was finally deter
mined by the surgeons interested in
the case to explore the child's skull.
DR.. J. T. Higgins, Of New York, as
sisted by Drs. Whitehorn and Hogan,
of New York, and Howell and Loeb,
of Stamford, performed the operation
at Stamford Hospital a few months
ago. They removed strip of bone
from the skull three inches long and
one-half inch wide, to give the brain a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09
DEDICATED.

Hamline.-With impressive ceremon-
les the 150-foot flag pole on the campus
of the University of Minnesota was
dedicated and the flag for the first
time was raised. The university cadet
corps, drawn up in a hollow square
around the pole, stood at attention
while to the strains Of the Star
Spangled Banner" from the university
band the flag was slowly raised.
Professor Henry Nachtrieb spoke in
behalf of the donors, who were unable
to be present, and the speech Of ac-
ceptance was made by J. T. Wyman,
president of the university regents.
The gigantic staff was the gift to
the university by Louis Schwager and
Walter Nettleton, university alumni
residing in Seattle. The forty-foot flag
was given by George H. Partridge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09
NAME ROYAL ARcANUM HEADS
Supreme Regent Appoints Boston Man
to Succeed w. o. Robson.

Boston, Nov. 3.-At special
meeting of the supreme council Of the
Royal Arcanum held here Friday the
following appointments were made by
Supreme Regent H. c. Wiggin, of
Rome, N. Y, to fill the vacancy occas-
toned by the death of Supreme Secre-
tary w. o. Robson: Supreme secre-
tary, A. T. Turner, Boston; supreme
auditor, W. F. Mcconnell, New York;
supreme trustee, F. w. Dickinson,
Springfield, Mass.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09
NEW ACHIEVEMENTS
OF GREAT SURGEONS
Operations That Almost Seem Incredible Now Sue
cessfuly Performed as Matter of Course.
Most Recent the Work Of Dr. Karl Care of Berlin in Which
Devoted Mother Gave Part of Her Own Throat to Convert
Her Idiot Daughter Into Bright Little Girl.

New York.-Medical men here and
abroad are awaiting with considera-
BILE interest a report from Berlin CIV
ing complete details of a most daring
and unusual surgical operation per-
formed there a few weeks ago.
An idiot child, the six-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Louis Wolff, resi-
dent of Berlin, has been converted
into an intelligent being by the proc
ess of grating part of the mothers
thyroid gland upon the child's pan
creas. Reduced to palmer language,
this means that part of the mothers
throat has been transferred by the
grating process to gland, or tissue,
lying directly at the back of the stom
ach. By this operation the dull, in
active brain of little Lena Wolff has
been awakened so that it is now per-
forming the duties for which it was
intended.
This, in the history of medical
science, is without parallel, not only
because such an operation was never
attempted before, but also because
vi ITO oCCIIihS fdSuChCoS hC loCo
of grating part of the throat of
mother to the pancreas gland of her
child with the expectation of convert
ing the child from idiocy to a normal,
mental condition would seem at first
glance unworthy of serious consider
alton. But DR.. Karl Care, professor
of surgery in the medical faculty of
Broslau university, to whom the oper-
alton is credited, did exactly what has
bean described above, and recent de-
spatches from Berlin declare that the
operation has been pronounced COM
plete success.
Professor Care is an eminent Ger
man surgeon whose success in the
transplanting of organs from one ami
NAL to another and even from the
lower animals to human beings, has
attracted the attention and admira-
ton of surgical men all over the
world. When his report of how he
changed Lena Wolff from an idiot into
a bright and intelligent little girl is
completed it will form a valuable ad-
dition to the list of modern miracles
of surgery.
An Idiot From Birth.
From the details of the case al
ready received from Germany it APP
pears that Lena Wolff was born an
idiot six years ago. says the New
York World. Reason never dawned
for her as in other babies. She had
come into the world without one ap-
parent spark of intelligence and
seemed doomed to pass her whole life
without knowing the joys and sorrows
of living.
Her case was called to the attention
of Professor Care, who was inter
ested from the very beginning, be-
cause in 1t he saw possibility of be-
ing able to prove the correctness of
theory on which he had been at work.
This involved the probable action or
influence that certain substances or
secretions found in the ductless
glands of the human body have upon
the blood.
1t is the blood, as everybody knows,
that feeds the brain, keeping it active
and clear and in good working order.
If the blood is thin or sluggish the
brain is first to record that fact. The
great German surgeon knew that the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09

an incision IN the cornea made at the
top. Pushing the points down through
the pupil, with the sharp blade he
punctured the Opaque membrane Of
the lens capsule and cut it squarely
in two. The task of the surgeon was
to cut so delicately and precisely as
to divide the obstruction and let the
light into the eye again.
The operation was entirely success
full. The dead lens matter remains in
the eye and on either side of the pupil
a speck of the Opaque substance can
yet be seen. This in time may be alb
sorbed.
Some Surgical MarveIs.
Philadelphia and Toledo, Ohio, have
recently contributed to the list of
marvels of surgery through operations
on the brains of incorrigible and men,
tally defective boys. A still more re-
cent case is that of Carl Fredericks,
aged nine years, of No. 200 Clinton
street, Hoboken. He is under observa-
ton at the Railway Reformatory prep
aratory to the practical reconstruction
of his brain.
The doctors say the boys brain is
so peculiarly constructed that it pre-
vents him from being good for more
than an hour at time. The head is
Of abnormal shape, the skull coming
to point. The ears are small and
protruding, and the eyes are as sharp
as ferret'S.
Tests made a few days ago showed
that the boy had no sense of right or
wrong. This is attributed to an alb
normal brain growth. AS a result of
the operation, which includes the cut
ting out of certain parts of the brain,
it is expected to relieve the boy of his
wicked tendencies and transform him
into a model youth.
Scientific surgery is gradually solv-
ing the problem of making us over
piecemeal. Raymond Moore, aged 20,
of Baltimore, lost the sixth and sew
enth ribs on the right side. DIR. Ham
ilton Brown replaced them with ar
tificial ribs of hard rubber tubing.
BY an operation at Fordham Hos
pital, Joseph Reicher was supplied
with a silver windpipe to replace the
original, which had been damaged be-
yond repair by hard fall.
DR.. Kaintsky, the famous Russian
surgeon, recently astonished the medi-
cal world by furnishing man with
artificial arteries. The operation took
place in Dr.. Kaintsky's private lab
oratory at st. Petersburg. The pa
tent, a very rich farmer and cattle
raiser, Ivan Poitinkask by name, had
collided violently with stump while
driving in sleigh. He was hurled
out and impaled upon broken branch.
The jagged piece of wood struck him
below the hip joint and ranged down
for about four inches. The wound
was an exceedingly ugly one. 1t was
directly over and in line with the fe-
moral artery, which supplies the en-
tire leg with blood. DR.. Kaintsky
saved Poitinkask's life by removing
the injured part of the femoral artery
and replacing it with an artificial one.
The Berlin surgeon, DR.. Seyfried,
has succeeded in giving a man a new
top for his skull, made from the skull
of an OK.
Restored to Nationality.
At Stamford, Conn, unique opera
ton on the skull of the two-year-old
son of Michael Gunther has given the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09
MINNESOTA NEWS
Interesting items Gathered In the
Gopher State
ALICE SHEvLlN HALL.

The past summer has seen more
changes in the buildings upon the uni
yersity campus than any previous per-
1od in the history of the University of
Minnesota. The new Alice Shevlin hall,
to the women of the university, pro-
vides beautiful building which has
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09
Two Burned to Death.

Dundee, Mich, Nov. 5.-James
Chase and Dewitt Van Wormer were
burned to death when the residence
of Mr.. Chase was destroyed by fire.
The two men were asleep on the Sec
ond floor of the house. Mrs. Chase
was rescued by the town night watch
man, who discovered the fire.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09
To Keep Alive coronado,s March.

Several thousand dollars have been
raised by public subscription for a
monument to commemorate the march
of Coronado into New Mexico. 1t will
consist of huge granite bowlder
from the Glorieta mountains, to be
polished on four sides and suitably in
scribed. 1t will be erected at Las
Vegas
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09

in existence, among the colleges Of the
country.
The main floor provides rooms for
the social and religious life of the wo-
men of the university and includes as
sembly rooms and club rooms for the
women's societies. The second floor
provides for the studious and tired W9-
men. This floor has a room with ff-
teen couches where it is possible for
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09

At the Harper Hospital, Detroit, DR..
H. o. Walker has succeeded in giving
12-year-old boy a new shin bone
taken from the leg of dog.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09
Sight Restored to Child.

Equally remarkable and interesting
is the operation by which sight has
been restored to the blind eyes of lit
tie Margaret Huber, aged ten years,
Of No. 524 East Eighty-fourth street,
New York city. She has become the
subject of widespread interest among
opthalmologists by reason of her pin
hole camera" eyes. Eye surgeons
who have followed the case at the
German Poliklinik declare it to be, so
far as their observations have gone,
without an exact parallel.
Nobody knows exactly how Mar
garet became blind. The liquid mat
ter constituting the lens of the eyes
became atrophied and was entirely
absorbed, leaving the lens thick
apaque, fibrous cap, which shut out
every glimmer of light This was
three years ago, when the little girl
was only seven.
Several operations were tried, but
with no good results. The membranes
of the eyes were punctured, but they
Immediately closed again over the
openings like sheet rubber when a.
hole is made in It,
DR.. John A. Price, chief surgeon of
the ophthalmic department of the
German Poliklinik, took charge of the
case, performing three operations in
February, March and April, 1894. The
third one restored the sight to the left
eye. The right eye remained stone
blind until two weeks ago, when he
performed most unusual and sue
cessful operation upon it.
He first made peculiarly shaped
pair Of scissors, the under blade
pointed and the upper blade blunt.
This instrument he inserted through
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-11-09

the large hospitals in Berlin, and by
the grating process one end of the
mothers thyroid gland was released
and stretched over to the exposed pam
crease of her idiot daughter.
For days neither motherr nor child
was permitted to move. To insure a
successful grating operation they
had been tightly bound together, the
childs body against her mothers neck,
and there they remained until the
severed end of the thyroid gland had
knit firmly to the pancreas, forming a
living, pulsating link between mother
and daughter Then the link was cut,
leaving portion of the thyroid gland
grated successfully to the childs
pancreas 1t is believed now that
both mother and child will recover.
The complete success of the opera
ton, cannot, however, be announced
yet, as too short a time has elapsed
since the operation was performed.
First Dawn of Reason.
But it is known that the dawn of
reason came to little Lena Wolf al
most Immediately after the thyroid
gland began to knit. For the very
first time the idiotic stare gave place
to a look of intelligence. She may
grow up to be a very bright young
woman.
DR.. Swale Vincent, professor of
physiology in the University of Mani
toba, at Winnipeg, Canada, has pre-
pared an extremely interesting article
on the duties of the thyroid gland, the
pancreas and other ductless glands,
which appeared in recent issue Of
the London Lancet.
'It is believed" he says, that these
ductless glands manufacture and pour
directly or indirectly into the blood
stream some substance or substances
which are of service to the economy,
either by supplying a need or by de-
stroying other substances which are
needless or positively harmful. This
last function is usually prescribed to
the thyroid and parathyroid glands.
'It is obvious that, in the broadcast
sense of the expression, all tissues
and organs of the body may be said
to have an internal secretion. e.,
the blood which leaves by their veins
contains different chemical substances
from that which enters by their ar.
teries.
1.-THE most usually quoted example,
however, of a gland which has both
an external and an internal secretion
is the pancreas. A relation between
diseases of the pancreas and diabetes
has long been suspected, but Minkow-
ski and Mehring first definitely
showed that complete removal of the
pancreas in the dog, cat and pig is
followed by diabetes, having the usual
symptoms of that disease in man.
That this is caused by the absence Of
an internal secretion is proved by the
fact that 1t does not occur IL the gland
be left in stu and the duct tied, nor
does it occur If portion of the pam
creas be grated in some situation re-
mote from it's normal position. How
the internal secretion of the pancreas
normally prevents glycosuria is not
clear We can only say that 1t exerts
some influence upon the carbohydrate
metabolism, either by favoring the
formation of glycogen in the liver
from the dextrose taken to it by the
portal vein or by furthering the oxida-
ton of dextrose in the tissues gener-
ally"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-03
THANK YOU.

The State Journal appreciates. more
deeply than it can express it. the
handsome action of the council last
night in selecting the official paper Of
the city.
It is doubly an honor to be proud
of because IN open council the first
and only vote on the question was
unanimous and because it came to he
State Journal absolutely without So
licitation. That naturally makes it a
matter of greater pride to both the
aldermen and the newspaper. There
are things that come to one unasked
with a higher sense of appreciation
than when they come following strife
and this is one of them.
Thank you. gentlemen, each and
all. and here's hoping that we will all
again pull together for the growth,
progress and welfare of the city we
are all proud TO represent officially and
as citizens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-03
DEADLY CHOLERA.
Asiatic Plague of Most Violent
Type Breaks Out
Among Natives of ManiIa and
s :.s.sz Surrounding Provinces.

Manila, July 4.-Cholera Of a viru-
lent type has broken out among the
natives of Manila and surrounding
provinces. Four Americans in Manila
have been stricken to date and there
has been one death Of an American,
that of Charles Sheehan
Twenty cases and sixteen deaths
We're reported today. The provinces
report 26 cases and % deaths. The
disease is one Of the most deadly type.
The suburbs near Fort Mckinley have
been quarantined. There has been one
death from cholera among the soldiers
that of q cook. Christian bright of
Company G. Sixteenth infantry The
health bureau is taking every precau-
ton to prevent the spread of the dis
ease.
among citizens warning them of the
danger and requiring that precautions
be taken While the situation is seri-
Gus, the health officials do not look
for an epidemic of great proportions.
The greatest difficulty is experienced
sickness. THE Filipinos fear the health
officials and conceal cases from them.
To this cause is assigned the spread of
the disease.
The last outbreak of cholera in the
Philippine Islands occurred in Au-
gust, 1905, when, from August %, to
October IA. 5713 cases and $50 deaths
were reported, distributed as follows:
Province Of Rial 449 cases, 327
deaths; province of Cavite, IL cases and
II deaths; province of Pampanga. two
cases and one death; province of Bula-
can, two cases and two deaths; prov
ince of LaGuana, "a cases and. "a
Deaths Malina, Americans II cases
and six deaths; Filipinos $50 cases.
1872 deaths; foreigners. 10 cases. j s
deaths: Chinese. 4 cases and 4 deaths
But the outbreak of 1906 WAS in
significant when compared with that
of 1902. when a total of 40. sos cases
We're reported and S2,955 deaths were
known to have occurred. But it was
stated at the time that the actual
number of deaths was probably 20 per
cent grea ter