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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
DELAY IN HAYWOOD TRIAL
ANOTHER VENIRE OF TALESMEN
MAY HAVE TO BE CALLED.
Several Important Witnesses for the
State Have Arrived at Boise
The City Is Quiet.

Boise, Idaho, May 21-It seems in.
evitable that the Steunenberg murder
trial must be halted again to permit
the gathering of another special venire
of talesmen. When the session Mon
DAY ended only II out of 20 peremp-
tory challenges had been used and
only nine of the ten veniremen gath
cred week ago renamed uncalled
The remaining nine will hardly fur
nish grist for days work. Judge
Wood will probably adjourn the trial
for at least a full day and send Sher-
iff Shad Hodgin forth in quest of so
additional talesmen
Several of the more important wit
nesses summoned in behalf of the
state in the trial of Haywood arrived
at Boise Sunday. The prosecution had
hoped by this time that a trial jury
would have been impanelled, but it is
now evident that all II seats in the
jury box will not be satisfactorily
filled for several days.
When court adjourned Saturday af-
ternoon the attorneys for the prosecu-
ton and defense were trying to fill a
vacancy caused by the exercise of the
states fifth peremptory challenge
The defense still has six of it's ten
arbitrary challenges available and the
state, under the new Idaho law, has
five more challenges to its credit
Formerly the prosecution was allowed
only one-half the number of per-
empty challenges granted the de-
Tense.
Boise continues quiet and unruf1ed.
There is nothing in the aspect of the
city to indicate that the long awaited
trial is under way.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
PUT BLAME ON NEGROES.
Witnesses Swear CoIored Soldiers
Shot Up Brownsville.

Washington, May 1.-TWO wit
nesses in the Brownsville investiga-
ton before the senate committee on
military affairs Thursday testified
they saw negro soldiers shooting up
the Texas town on the night of Au-
gust Is. One of these was Lieut.. Do
minguez, Of the Brownsville police,
and another was Policeman Padron,
who described a busy quarter OF an
hour lodging bullets. He also was
positive the men doing the shooting
were negro soldiers. DR.. Charles
Thorn, a dentist, testified that he
heard a group of men firing at the rear
of his house and shouting commands
to each other. He gave as his judg
ment that the voices were those OF
negroes.
Policeman Padron was cross-eXam-
ined by Senator Foraker at some
length without affecting his story.
Dominguez also was cross-examined
by Senator Foraker, but his story was
not changed in the least.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
MRS. GOULD BRINGS SUIT.
Asks for Divorce and AImony from
Her Husband.

New York, May 20.--Differences of
long standing between Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Gould eliminated Saturday in
the service of a summons and COM
plant in suit begun by Mrs Gould in
the supreme court for limited di-
vorce. Mrs. Gould seeks a decree OF
separation on the ground of abandon
ment, and does not make any sensa-
tional allegations in her complaint.
1t is probable that the main legal
contest will be on the question of ali.
mony. Since Mr.. Gould has lived apart
from his wife he has given her $4,000
a month for her maintenance. She
asserts that this sum is inadequate,
and that her husbands income is suf-
ficient to justify him in paying her
twice as much. 1t is said that mem
bers of the Gould family held a coun-
Gil to discuss the question whether
Howard Gould should pay her $4,000
or even 100000 year and that their
decision was that her demands were
excessive.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
THE Smith REPORT
Flags OIL Combine
METHODS OF THE STANDARD
COMPANY GIVEN TO PUBLIC
BY oMMISSIoNER.
Tells of Discrimination-Th and
Other "UnIawfuI Devices" Said to
Be the Basis of the Petroleum
Monopoly in This Country.

Washington, May 20.-That the his
tory and present operation of the
Standard Oil interests shows through
out the past 35 years a substantial
monopolization of the petroleum in
dustry of the country, a deliberate
destruction of competition and con-
sequent control of that industry by
less than dozen men, who have
reaped enormous profits therefrom,"
largely through abuse of transporta-
ton facilities, is charged in a report
just submitted to President Roosevelt
by Commissioner of Corporations
Herbert Knox Smith
The report contains the net results
of study of the petroleum business
during the year 1904.
1t is the first official statement of
the operations and methods of the
Standard Oil company, by which, the
report states, through ''scandalous
railway determinations, and other I'm.
lawful devices, they have secured and
maintained an exclusive domination
of the petroleum industry"
1t is stated that in 1904 the Standard
and affiliated concerns refined over "a
per cent. of the crude oil run through
refineries; produced more than sc per
cent of the country's total output of
Illuminating oil; and transported
through pipe lines nearly nine-tenths
of the crude oil of the older fields and
SO per cent of the crude oil of the
mid-continent field
The report points out the monopoly
enjoyed by the company does not rest
on the ownership of the source of the
oil supply, which amounts to about
only one-sixth of the total, but that
it's growth and present power rest
primarily on the control of the trans.
portation facilities"
After the railroad rebate was abap.
doned, the Company, the report con
tinues, was able to establish a sys
tenn of secret, or open determinations
of rates in its favor throughout practi.
cally the entire country Having es.
tablished its monopoly of the pipe line
business, the company substantially
refuses to act as common carrier"
In conclusion, the report says it is
apparent that the dominating position
of the Standard Oil company in the
oil industry has largely been secured
by the abuse of transportation facili
ties, first, by fragrant determinations
obtained from railroads; second, by
refusal to operate it's pipe line system
so as to extend to Independent inter,
ests the benefits to which they were
both morally and legally entitled,
while at the same time the Standard
has prevented such independent inter
ests from constructing lines of their
own.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
FIVE DIE IN MINE FIRE.
Victims Burned or Suffocated in a Col
orado Shaft.

Trinidad, Col, May 21-Five min
ers, including Superintendent Alexan-
der Jacobs, were burned or suffocated
in the Engleyille mine at Engleville,
Col.
The men went to work Sunday
night, and when they did not come
out Monday morning an investigation
was started. 1t was discovered that
fire, which broke out in the mine a
year ago and was still burning in
some sections, had suddenly spread
and swept ACROSS the incline tunnel,
cutting the men off and preventing
them from reaching the outside.
The point from where the flames
crossed the tunnel is three miles from
the opening, and it was necessary to
dig temporary tunnel around the
fire in order to reach the bodies of
the Inflated miners
The Engleville mine is one OF the
oldest coal-producing mines in Colo
RADIO, having been operated for 80
years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
CAR RIOTS IN EVANSVILLE, IND
Police Dispense Strikers Who Attack
Nonunion Employees.

Evansville, Ind, May PA dis
turbance between street railway
strikers and nonunion employees &C.
Cured Monday at Main and Louisiana
streets. A crowd surrounded a car
manned by strike breakers and began
jeering. A riot call brought police Of
ficers on bicycles, who dispersed the
crowd.
State Labor Commissioner Woer-
ner Monday arranged conference
between the strikers and representa-
tives of the company, the men to ap-
pear as individual employees and not
as members of an organization. A
number of cots have been placed in
the building belonging to the street
railway company.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24

Many writer's on esthetics and art
have dwelt upon the close relation be.
tween religion and poetry. Some of
the great poets have been creators of
religious thoughts, and others the me-
diums of making religion appear
beautiful. 1t is interesting that the
first organization to take formal notice
of Whittiers centenary, which falls on
December II next, is the American
Missionary association. 1t will invite
the Congregational churches to unite
in the celebration. Whittier was a
missionary himself, fighting the good
fight for justice and liberty. AID in
his early manhood a poet who ex.
pressed minority opinions as vigorous
ly as he did was in danger of mob
violence. There is no finer image
in our literature than that of the calm,
gentle Quaker blazing into passionate
devotion to freedom and ringing
pleas for right.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
JUDGE ENJoINs PICKETING.
Sweeping Decision Against Unions
Rendered at Milwaukee.

Milwaukee, May PA sweeping
decision against union picketing was
rendered Monday by Judge A. l..
Sanborn of the United States district
court in the case of the AIlis-C Chalmers
company against the striking union
mOlders. The strike began about a
year ago and last fall Judge Quarles
issued temporary Injunction re-
straining the unions from Interfering
with nonunion workmen and with the
business of the company. Later Judge
Sanborn convicted several union men
for contempt in violating the injunc-
ton, and suspended sentence as to
the greater number of them, 20 OF
more. Now he makes the injunction
permanent and so sweeping in its pro-
visions that concerted picketing will
be practically impossible.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
BOMB KILLS Three
PERSONS At Odessa
CHIEF OF POLICE AND TWO DE-
TEcTIVEs VICTIMS OF AN
INTERNAL MACHINE.
Two Perpetrators of Plot Arrested
Girl Aid Makes Her Escape-Plot
to Stay Gar, Grand Duke and
Premier Discovered.

Odessa, May 21.-The superintend-
ent of police of Odessa and the two
chief detectives of this city were killed
and seven other persons were serious
ly injured by the explosion of an in
fernal machine in the central police
bureau Monday morning. The ma
chine was deposited in the bureau just
before it exploded by two men and a
girl.
The police pursued, wounded and
captured the men, but the girl escaped.
The leader of the trio turned out to be
a terrorist named Tchertkoff. Two
of the victims, the detectives, were
bitterly hated by the terrorists, one of
them for participation in melting the
outbreak in 1905 here, and the other,
who was nicknamed The Hangman,'
because he had tortured political pris-
oners.
Odessa, on the Black sea, has been
a center of Russian revolutionary ac-
tivity for two years. The citylitself is
a hotbed of revolution.
Announces Plot to Kill Gar.
st. Petersburg, May 81. = Before
Mondays session of the lower houses
of parliament, from which all the radi-
cal representatives were conspicuous
ly absent, Premier Stolypin made a
formal announcement of the discov-
cry of a plot to kill the emperor, Grand
Duke Nicholas and himself, and res
olution expressing the great joy of the
house at his majesty's escape from the
danger and the deepest indignation
that the criminal conspiracy so for
tunateIy frustrated was unanimously
adopted. The Social Democrats, So
cial revolutionists, part of the group
of toll and others were absent from
the house when the resolution was
presented and adopted.
Will Arrest Nikolsi Lenin.
A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Nikolai Lenin, leader of the
majority faction now attending the So
cial Democratic congress in London,
on the charge of high treason. He
will be taken into custody if he re-
turns to Russia. The warrant is
against vladimir Ulianoff, alias Len
in," and it is said that the police have
identified him as a noted radical lead
er of the early COS and brother of
the UIianoff who, with four comrades,
all armed with bombs, was arrested
in 1887 while lying in wait for the car
riage of Emperor Alexander H., and
who was condemned to death and exc
cuted.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
JUDGE FINES DESK TRUST
COMBINE PUNISHED FOR CRUSH
ING COMPETITION.
Sum of $4,000 Assessed by Lands at
Chicago for Alleged Violation
of Law.

Chicago, May 21.-Fines aggregat-
trust were used by Judge K. M. Lam
dis in the United States district court
Monday, when Frederick A. Holbrook
and Is church and school furniture
companies were punished for sitting
competition. The court action was a
bomb in the government antitrust
crusade and brought CONSERVATION to
the trust officials. 1t is believed to
forecast similar vigorous methods
upon the part of the government to-
ward other trusts and trade combina-
lions.
Holbrook, who was indicted as the
moving spirit of the furniture trust,
was fined $4,000, the maximum penal
ty. The American Seating company
and the A. H. Andrews company,
which were the principal corporations
in the combine, were fined $4,000 each,
while the other nine companies were
given fines of from $500 to $4,000.
In imposing the fines Judge Lands
scored the officials of the companies
for the methods they used and de-
clared the legal punishment is made
quate. He delivered scathing denun-
citation of the trade conspiracy by
which, it was shown in the grand jury
proceedings, churches, schools and
theaters were mulcted by the trust
prices for furniture to the extent of
thousands of dollars annually.
The American Seating company and
the A. H. Andrews company are Chi
cago corporations, and were the
largest companies in the combine.
Through the conspiracy, operated as
the Prudential club, the price for fur
niture was maintained, straw bids
were made to insure distribution of
the business and the profits were di-
vided among the corporations in the
trust Holbrook was the agent of the
combine, and was indicted by the gov
eminent as the chief conspirator.
Pleas of poverty by the smaller cor
porations resulted in leniency by the
court.
Judge Lands imposed the fines af-
ter hearing the pleas of guilty of the
companies and testimony of some OF
the principal officials. The E. H. Stat
ford company, of Chicago, has filed a
demurrer to the indictment and is the
only company which will fight the
case in court
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
URGE BAPTISTS TO GIVE.
Plea Made for One-Tenth of income
fcr Church.

Washington, May 1.-THE adoption
of resolutions in favor of the move
ment to ask the Baptists of the coun-
try to give one-tenth toward the adj
vancement of the work of Christ and
urging the president to inquire into
the reasons why the Kongo question
has not been settled, were the fea-
lures of the fourth session of the
American Baptist Missionary Union
Thursday. More than 1000 delegates
were in attendance.
The action regarding the giving of
one-tenth of incomes followed num-
Der of spirited addresses in advocacy
of a decided increase in the income
of the missionary union in order to
meet the pressing needs of the work
and to enable the union to enter fields
urgently inviting occupation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24

Those familiar with the results OF
American exploration have known for
a few years that there are three ma
tural bridges in southeastern Utah az
much larger than the natural bridge
in Virginia as Pixies peak is than
Mount Washington. 1t is only within
a short time, however, that much &C.
curate information about these Utah
wonders has been accessible. In 1905
an expedition of Salt Lake City men
visited them in company with an art
list and surveyor. Pictures of the
bridges have lately been published.
The Augusta bridge, with span Of
800 feet and height of 265 feet, is
the largest, and so far as known there
is none larger in the world. The Car.
oline bridge has a greater span, $50
feet, but is smaller in other ways; and
the third, the Edwin bridge, although
not so high as the bridge in Virginia,
has span several tines as large. AS
one has to travel a huLdr miles over
barren country to reach these mar.
wells of nature, the summer tourist
will not visit them very frequently.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
Excellent Form of Mental Diet.

notice some one-I think it was a
cotton broker, of all people-malling
a plea for bound magazines. In this
day of numerous and cheap magazines
we no longer bind them-at least not
TO the extent that our forefathers did.
We have more reading; and we are
like the true human beings that we
are-wasteful with it. Yet we lose a
great deal in not binding our good
magazines. 1t is not that We will
want to read them again ourselves so
much-though that will occur-but a
few bound volumes of magazine are
a God-send to the man or woman who
is laid aside by illness, and must
spend a few days or weeks within
doors. The varied richness of such
provided a good magazine
be chosen-supplies style of mental
fodder which is not to be rivaled by
any book, says National Herald. One
may be too mind-weary to face the be-
ginning of long novel; but the bound
year" of magazine offers a tit-bit
of poetry here, a few flashes of humor
there, then short story or SO; and
finally we are led on to try the serial
that is running through all the mum
bers. 1t is the ideal dainty mental
luncheon for the invalid.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
Wheat AGAIN Up to One Dollar.

Chicago, May 21.-Dollar wheat
again graced the boards in the wheat
market Monday, but traders, Injured
to the sight by last weeks unprece-
denied strenuosities, failed to go into
the raptures and tantrums of the six
sensational sessions which dwarfed
five-eighths to three and one-half
cents, the market showed symptoms
of bull fever at the outset, the whole
operation taking but five minutes, but
radical treatment in the way of profit
taking soon reduced the markets tenn
perature. Prices reacted 1as OF cents
and the trade came out of its early
delirium
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
Kills Dauqhter's Sweetheart.

Joplin, Mo-, May 21.-At Southwest
City, a small town in Mcdonald coun-
ty, A. A. McGehee shot and killed
George Oyler, aged 81, son of promi-
nent merchant. Oyler had been keep
ing company with McGehee's daugh-
ter against the fathers wishes. The
girl left home to meet Oyler, the ia
Their following, and when Oyler and
the girl met the father shot him
through the head.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
Limit of the Inventor.

A machine to shuttle cards Is an
nounced in a list of recent inventions.
1t is claimed that the new mechanism
will in an instant change the posi-
ton of nine out of every ten cards In
a pack" Convenient accessories to
sport, like this and the pitching ma
chine which some ball-nines use in
practice continue to appear from time
to time, but inventors seem to have
given UP the notion of inventing ma
chimes capable of actually playing
game. How long is it since the last
automatic chess player" was fabri-
Gated? asks the Troy Times. Men
and women who impersonate automata
Rre popular vaudeville features, but
few persons pretend to take them Sc
riously. But the famous automatic
chess-player, in the form of Turkish
figure seated before box which pur-
ported to contain machinery, imposed
upon as many learned persons as the
Cardiff giant Poe turned his talent
to the elucidation of the mystery, pro-
pounding the thesis that if it were pos
sible to build a machine capable of
playing any game of chess, it was
possible to make it win every time,
while this pretended mechanism fire.
quently lost to good players. 1t is
possibly no harder to conduct a pub
lie deception now, but it certainly re-
Quires different methods.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
superman Takes Handicap.

New York. May 21.-Superman, the
three-year-oh colt of James r. Keene's
stable, won the Brooklyn Handicap
Monday afternoon on track fetlock
deep in mud. Superman covered the
distance of one mile and a quarter in
2:09, beating Beacon Light, who was
second, by length. c. E. Durnells
five-year-old Nealon took third money.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
STEPHENSON is THE CHOICE.
Named by Wisconsin Republicans to
Succeed Spooner.

Madison, Wis, May 1S.-The nomi-
nation of Isaac Stephenson of Mari
nette in Republican caucus Thursday
night as United States senator to sue
coed John c. ,Spooner, resigned, was
Friday formally ratified in joint as
scmbly. Mr.. Stephenson received 81
votes. State Senator George W. Bird
received the complimentary vote of
the Democrats and State Senator
Jacob Rummel was accorded similar
honor from the Social Democrats.
There were 25 absentees.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
Plea for Uniform Laws.

Washington, May IA meeting
was held Thursday at the bureau of
standards of the department of com
merce and labor, attended by dele
gates from most of the states, to con
slider the drafting of uniform laws
providing for the supervision of all
weights and measures used in trade
The enactment of such laws will be
urged upon congress and upon the
legislatures of the various states.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-05-24
Starts Suit Against Oil Trust.

st. Paul, Mimi, May 21.-J. c. Bar
ties, president of the Bartles Oil com
pany, of st. Paul, and two merchants
said to be from Saltwater and ST
James respectively, Monday took steps
preliminary to formal proceedings
against the Standard Oil company on
charges of violating the law passed by
the last legislature prohibiting dis
elimination in the price of oil sold in
the state.