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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-08-23
RRIEE NOTES.

st. Paul-The Ryan hotel has been
robbed systematically of silverware
during several days. Property to the
value of $500 is missing. The police
are on the lookout for two former EN-.
ployees.
st. Paul--William L. Qualey, 405
Dayton avenue, manager of the st.
Paul Marble and Granite Works, 178
West Fourth street, fell in front OF
his place of business mortally wounded
from a pistol bullet in his abdomen.
He died at the city hospital an hour
later.
st. Paul-There is no intention on
the part Of the health department to
make any changes in the rules to pre-.
vent the spread Of smallpox or other
infectious diseases. This means that
the smallpox patients will be quaran-
tined as before and that the Dale street
infirmary will continue to be used in
such cases.
White Bear-Carl Gausewitz, "a
years old, son of the Rev. Carl Cause
witt, former pastor of st. Johns Ger.
man Evangelical church, Margaret and
Hope streets, and now of Milwaukee.
died while he was bathing at Mahto.
medi. His death is thought to have
been caused by heart trouble, resulting
from shock.
st. Cloud-Two more bold attempts
at HOUSEKEEPING have been reported
to the police. The residence Of
Charles Michaelson at East st. Cloud
was entered by a man through q
raised window. Mr.. Michaelson was
aroused, and securing club, made
for the intruder. The man dove head
first out of the window and escaped in
the darkness.
Crookston-After piling a wagon.
load of hay against the front of the
building to deaden the noise, robbers
last night broke through the rear door
Of the Farmers State Bank, at New.
folden, blew open the safe and stole
$4,000.
st. Paul-State immigration com.
missioners begin to secure data about
Minnesota to carry on advertising
campaign.
Crookston-Higk water above >the
great dam in the Red river at this
place has become serious menaee
to the city.
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happy and all were working hard.
We travelled without a guard over a
country that ten years ago was the
most dangerous in the islands. On
one of the trains, now used by Fill
pino farmers to take produce from
Isabella into Cagayan, the Spaniards
had three heavy outposts. Nothing Of
the kind is found there now and the
trail is perfectly safe.
Il do not believe there is anything
in the world that can equal the man
ner in which the people of the noun
tains have made their country produc-
tive. 1t certainly surpasses anything
1 have ever seen. The terraces in
Japan are pygmies compared with it..
The earth and stone were brought for
miles and the most wonderful part
about it is that the terraces are as
solid and substantial as if they were
part of the mountain itself.
Some of them are 70 or 100 fset
high and remain undisturbed through
all sorts of weather and landslides.
And at the time these terraces were
made the people were under arms,
working with their knives and shields
close at hand and with sentries on
every high point of land and noun
tain top"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-08-23
Worden Reaches Goal

Inside Cape Henry, at Hampton
roads, were ten battleships of Admiral
Evans feet. This was the goal of the
destroyers. 1t was near nightfall when
long streak of olive green came in
by Cape Henry, slashing through to-
ward the fleet of big fighters. Her
sharp PROV cut the waters with the
hiss of a razor cleaving a sheet of
paper as she swished along like an ex-
press train, still going so fast that the
rush of wind she created whirled the
four streams of smoke into one and
flattened it out on the waters astern.
1t was the Worden, the winner, going
easy and strong, Is miles an hour, as
she had from $3.50 o'clock in the morn
ing until 1880 in the evening.
The Hull, short-handed, came in Sec
ond. No other vessel came in up to
midnight.
In the morning hours of the second
day in came the flagship Whipple, with
the story of disaster to the Hopkins.
the indicated. The unbeaten had
nearly foundered in an effort to keen
up.
During the night the Truxtun had
fought her way down the coast with
all the speed that was in her and had
passed the Hopkins, the Whipple and
the Stewart. The Hopkins had fought
SO gamely that the officers had be.
come accustomed to the culver of her
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-08-23
Camping on the Fair Grounds.

Secretary c. N. Cosgrove, of the Min.
nesota State Fair, has laid plans for
most delightful camping ground at this
years state fair. He will utilize a
handsome grove on the new part of
the fair grounds-the forty acres pur-
chased this spring northeast of the
main part of the grounds. There are
some very fine trees on this forty and
tho tents will be set up among the
trees and in location which will be
especially convenient TO the new dairy
and poultry buildings and the agricul-
tural machinery division of the fair
A tent can be rented for about 50 for
the week. and season ticket emitting
the holder to remain on the grounds
during the entire week may be pur-
chased for 50. A family tenting in
this way can either do it's own cook.
ing in camping out style or buy meals
at some of the restaurants on the
grounds. The camp will be entirely
sanitary, as there will be an abundant
supply of pure water, and the new
sewer system will reach the camp
ground some time before the opening
CT the fair. This years fair will be
held in the week OF September to 7.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-08-23
Barely Kept ARoat

Lieut.. Howe gave the alarm, and the
after watertight doors were closed, but
not before the wardroom had been
flooded. AS the wide compartments
near the center of the vessels filled
she sank until her decks were awash,
and preparations were made to aban-
don ship. A distress rocket was sent
up that was seen by the Whipple and
the Stewart. They gave up the race
for honors and went hard about to aid
the Hopkins.
The Hopkins lifeboats had been I'M
dashed and swung out on the davits
All the steam and hand pumps were
put to work. 1t was question of
whether the craft would live or
founder 1t was nip and tuck between
the pumps and the onrushing waters.
The Whipple and Stewart closed in
on the Hopkins. Then the Whipples
wireless operator called on Newport
News for help. At daybreak the navy
tugs Washneto and Hercules came out
and dashed themselves alongside the
cripple and towed her into Newport
News, where no time was lost in get
ting the Hopkins into dry dock
But all that is but bit of the price
of an efficient navy.
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Ind black on the horizon ahead.

and black on the horizon ahead.
To the rear and off to the left flank
the Hull was riding into the seas
and showering the spray over every
thing forward.
Then came the Stewart, hanging on
to the Hull and then the Hopkins, all
going like race horses, plunging and
mingling steam and smoke, with the
spume flying about them. The Hop
kins was making desperate plunges to
get away from the tail of the process
sion of flyers. She gradually crawled
up to forward the Hull. The Hull was
handicapped by being short-handed,
but she, too, took on squirt and over
hauled the disabled Truxtun. She set
a pace that kept the Hopkins strain
ing every nerve to maintain every
inch she had gained.
Thus the long, narrow, olive green
fighters were strung out from horizon
to horizon. They flew past sailing YES
sells as if the schooners were at an
Choir. Crews and passengers on coast
wise liners strung alongside the rails
of steamers to watch the contest.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-08-23
The Race Begins

Lieutenant Commander Anderson
was holding the starters flag over the
contestants until they got in straight
line abreast. At $3.50 a. m. the signal
Make the best of your way" was run
up and the race was on.
Each PROV pitched forward. The
sterns squatted to the suction of the
speed and the waves rolled I'D to
level with the deck aft and swept
astern, as if eager to escape the gath
ering speed. The Whipple took the
lead, hugging the shore. Next came
the Worden, to port, with the Truxtun
hanging on to her. 1t was at least So
miles an hour from the start. and a.
gap opened between the trio in the
lead, as the Hull, Hopkins and Stewart
dropped back, making a second trio
hghtlng it out among themselves.
After two hours the Worden had
taken the lead, with the Truxtun sec.
ond and the Whipple third. The Sec
ond trio scattered astern. The spume
flew in showers over bows and bridges
and spluttered against the tunnels.
The sterns, built fiat as a floor to
counteract the powerful downward
suction of the propellers, squatted low,
while seas rolled up aft higher than
the decks. 1t seemed that they would
tumble in over the sterns and flood
the decks, but the swift-moying craft
were always just beyond reach as the
chaldron f1attened out and rushed
away in white foam.
Men with big brass syringes stood
beside the cans of oil and squirted it
over the engines. The machinery
churned the oil into yellow butter
and then sprayed everything a golden
hue. 1t stung the eyes of engineroom
crews
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MINNESOTA NEWS
I'D Interesting Items Gathered In the eoD
~ Gopher State ~
Settled.


st. Paul-The old controversy over
the title to land included in a grant
to the old Hastings & Dakota railroad
has been closed by the delivery by
State Auditor S. G. Iverson of deeds
to 20,904.E acres of land to the trus'
tees of the road. The title to this
land has been involved in litigation
twelve years, and the termination of
the controversy was made possible by
an act of the legislature passed last
winter.
The land grant was made by an act
of congress, and the list of lands in.
Guided were certified to the state for
the benefit of the company. Later
complication arose, however, and In
1895 the Minnesota legislature de.
clared the land grant forfeited. The
grant having originated in an act of
congress, however, the federal authori-
ties refused to pay any attention to
the legislative act, and the company
took the matter into the courts, with
the result that it's title to the land was
confirmed.
Ever since the passage of the act OF
1895, however, the state officials have
refused to issue deeds for the land, in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-08-23
BRIEF NOTES.

Northfield-Rev. F. M. Garland, OF
Sank Center, has accepted the call Of
All Saints Episcopal church of this
city and will take immediate charge
of the pastorate.
st. Paul-The 500 Line has issued
call for men to assist in harvesting
the crop in the territory tributary to
that road. It is estimated that more
than 5000 men will be needed.
Ellsworth-John A. Valley, an al
legged deserter from the Eleventh cav.
airy two years ago, was arrested here
by City Marshal Reddy and immedi-
ately will be taken to the military
prison at Fort Smelling. The reward
of $50 offered for his capture will go
to Mr.. Reddy.
Shawano-Herman Zernicke, one Of
the best known young farmers of this
part of the county, died suddenly after
but two days sickness. He was liter
ally choked to death by a malignant
growth in his throat which caused the
entire closing of his windpipe. About
two years ago he married the young
widow of Gustav Klebesadel. She and
two children survive. Her first hus-
band was struck and killed by light
ming in the spring Of 1908.
Washington-Minnie v. Hines is ap-
pointed postmistress at Roosevelt, Ro-
seau county, MINI.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-08-23
Worden Takes Lead

The Worden, going steadily and
easily, gradually hauled away from
the rest at about noon. Her clean
bottom was in her favor. The cham
pion Truxtun was beginning to lose
her grip in the wake of the leader
whereat there were loud words and
much perspiration down in the on.
gineroom.
Four streams of smoke had been
coming from the. Truxtun, but sudden
ly the smoke ceased to belch from her
two forward tunnels. She slowed
down to half speed. Something had
gone wrong in the boiler room.
The Whipple, running third. was
still hugging the shore to cut corners
Inc Worden was forging steadily
ahead, her four columns of smoka
merging into one as she appeared low
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-08-23
Good Receipts.

st. Paul-The state board of con,
troll transmitted to State Auditor Iver-
son the report of the receipts at the
various state institutions for the
month of July, with checks for the
amounts.
The total receipts at all the
Institutions was $25,OO0.17, dis,
tributed as follows: Anoka asy-
lum, 81; Hastings asylum, $62.25;
Fergus Falls hospital, $499.35;
Rochester hospital, $616.66; st. Peter
hospital, $4,1S9.45; Faribault, $5s.55;
school for the deaf, Faribault, $527.S6;
school for the feeble minded, Fari'
bault, s2,497.S9; state public school at
Owatonna, $500; state training school,
Red Wing, $17452; reformatory at st.
Cloud, j$6;7O4.95; prison at Saltwater,
s9.276.09.
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frame. But even steel gives way
sometimes. This time it was not in
the engine, but in totally unexpected
quarter on the outside of the craft.
Projecting out from the underbody
of the stern is a steel sleeve envelop,
ing the propeller shaft. This shaft is
held to the hull by an upright as thick
as mans arm. The vibration caused
this shirt to break, and the steel
bludgeon, swinging around and around
with the shaft, tore a hole in the hull
before the engines could be stopped
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-08-23
HIGH STATE OF CULTIVATION.
People of Northern Luzon Have Made
Country Productive.

Gov. Gen. Smith Of the Philippines
recently made a tour of the mountain
provinces of northern Luzon, chiefly
inhabited by pagan tribes. On his re-
turn to Manila he said: 'The journey
through the mountain country was a
revelation. l have never seen such
cultivation. as we saw in the noun
tains. Those people have terraced the
mountains in some instances 1000
feet high, and every bit of the land
is under cultivation. The people are
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-08-23
SWIFTEST AND
MOST STIRRING
SEA SPRINT
UNITED States Torpedo
Boat Destr0yers i'm
Contest for Championship

New York.-It was a gruelling race
when six 30-knot torpedo-boat destroy
ers recently made the 240-mile dash at
sea from off this city to the mouth of
the Chesapeake bay. The fighters for
supremacy were sisters, built in the
same year-long, low, olive-colored
craft, four tunnels raking aft, the
power of 5000 horses in each hull and
n men working each. 1t was the
swiftest and longest competition of
war craft on any seas.
The fleet and their dimensions fol-
low.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-08-23
Under Escort.

A black goat may be seen almost
every day wandering along the streets
OF Leeds, England. To all appearances
it is unattended, but closer observa-
ton reveals the fact that there is al.
ways black dog in it's immediate vi
entity If any attempt is made to mo-
lest the goat, one bleat is sufficient to
bring the dog to the scene ready to de-
fend it's protege.
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pions of the navy under wartime con-
ditions. 1t lasted a day and a night.
A hitherto undefeated winner came to
grief, and another craft, on which the
bluejackets bet their money, nearly
foundered. Two others also had mis-
haps.
Locked in steel hull only quarter
of an inch thick while plunging
through a rolling sea on black night
is creepy" business.
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the west-southwest, with lnmpy sea
rolling off shore. AS they neared the
post the fleet closed in on one another,
jockeying for position. All had records
of about 35 miles. They cut across
one another's stems with the swiftness
of an arrow or curved in circles with
the gracefulness of swallow.
The line glided out past Sandy Hook
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-08-23

began to shine, and night glasses
showed haze along the shore that
might have been mistaken for break
ers. Then the Truxtun, having re-
paired her boiler, jumped forward
again, anxious to get back in the run
ming
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coming
exhibition building the world and
maximum of light and air and floor
building being 1877 feet and con~
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Diamond Robbery in Appleton, Wis

Diamond Robbery in Appleton, Wis.
Appleton, Wis, Aug. 2O.-Two
thieves took $1,000 worth of diamonds
from Henry Ramps jewelry store
Monday while two clerks and several
the thieves was detected pocketing
diamonds from one of two trays that
were placed on the counter before
them as supposed customers. He
turned the act off as a joke. About
that time the second thief pocketed
the diamonds from another tray, and
walled out of the store with his com.
panion before the loss was discovered.
The police have no clue to the thieves.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-03
Pure FOOD LAW.
Government to Commence
Its Enforcement,
Plans to Begin Prosecutions at
An Early Date.
Offending Establishments Are Gen.
orally Located.

Washington, April 2-The depart
ment of agriculture is making prepare
tons to begin prosecutions under the
pure food law at an early date and Dr..
Wiley, under whose directions as chief
OF the bureau of chemistry the work
will be conducted, has given -instruc-
tons to his inspectors to secure as
soon as possible the samples on which
the accusations will be based.
The offending establishments h ave
generally been located and nothing re-
mains to prepare a basis for the pro-
Ceedings except to obtain specimens OF
the articles alleged to be adultcratetl
or impure.
When these are procured charges will
be formulated and supplied to the
Unitde States district attorneys in
whose districts the offenders may re-
side, whercupon they will be required
to begin criminal proceedings.
There will be soon 40 or 80 inspectors
in the field and DR.. Wiley expresses
the opinion that many prosecutions will
result from their Investigations.
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President Simply Says That Mr. Hartman Has
STOPPED to deliberate and Wilful In
truth" and Then Proves It,
Harrnan's Statement That President Wanted Cam
paign Funds and Promised Certain Things
In Return Is Laughed AT.

Higgins for governor of New York Mr.
Hartman being immensely interested
in the success of Mr.. Higgins because
he regarded the attack on Higgins as
being really an attack on him. MI
Hartman. and on his friend. Governor
odcll. and nc was concerned only in
getting me to tell Mr.. Cortclyou to aid
Mr. Higgins So far as he could, which
| GLADLY did.
"He also U think more than oncc)
urged mo to make Senator DepeW am
assador to France, giving me i'll de-
tell the reasons why this would help
GOV. OdeIl by pleasing certain biz fl
nanCial interests. | Informed him that
l did not believe it would be possible
Tor me- to appoint Mr.. DepeW and fur
thormorr expressed my surprise at his
saying that the mon representing the
big financial interests of New York,
wished tnut appointment made. mas
much a:i 4 number Of them had written
IA ne asking that the same place DC
ciycn to Mi. IIvti,. IHI that rs 4 mat
tut Nj fact. while | was mo- prepared
IN announce any decision, | doubted
whcth. + | could appoint either MI
Dcpcw or Mr.. Hyde to- The place. As
soon as Mr.. Hartman heard thaf MI
HYDE was candidate and had the
names Of his hackers. he hastily said
that he did not wish to be understood
as antagonizng AIR. Hyde and would
be quite willing to support him; and
though [ understood that he still pre-
ftrrcd Mir DcEcW he left me strongly
under the impression that he would pc
almost W. well satisfied with MI. Hyde
ana waS much discontinued at my in
forming him 50 positively, not once,
nut rc1catedIy. that | did not think
that | should DO able to appoint either.
His and my letters row before me o.
tic. fan Of 1901 run as follows:
ION his return from spending the sum
M in Europe. on Sept. %, h. wrote me
statin;; that if ! thought vt desirable H.
would cone to sec me at any tim", cithcf
then 1r later. He had been. as you 4"
r,rmhcr. a delegate to tie Republican M
tional convention, having voted f,r my
nomiuation on sept. -3I severed this
letter. sayilg:
lat present there is nothing for NJ:
to src You lbcuA, although there cic un"
Or two points in my Letter Of accept tnt"
which should have liked 70 discuss will
YOU before putting it cut
October 10th / wrote him:
IN view of the trouble over ga" stat"
ticket in New York, l should much like
to lave few words with you. u" You
think YOU can get down here within Il
few days and take either lunch or dinner
with mo-
The trouble I SPOKE Of had r"f,rcrc"
10 tie bolt against Higgins, that i in
reality against Mr.. Hartman ana MIR.
IIarYiman's friend, Gov. Odell.
IA reference 70 the files Of the New
York papers at that time will show that
Continued on Page Two.)
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HARRIMAN'S LETTER.

New York, April "a sensation was
created here today by the publication
of letter written in December, 1865.
amt addressed to Mr.. Sidney Webster
VI New York, and signed Re. H. Harri-
man"
Sidney Webster is a lawyer and u
writer on political subjects His wife
is 4 sister Of Stuyvcstant Fish who
lost the presidency Of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad a few months ago after
antug9nizing Mr.. Hartman. Follow
ing is the letter:
Mr.. Sidney Webster,
mo. s.. East Seventeenth street.
New York.
Dear Sir: I am glad to see that you
arc in town and hope to soon have an
opportunity of talking matters over
with YOU.
/ had printed CORES Of the testimony
sent yru in nor"s that You would, after
reading item, give me some idea OF
where / stand, for ! confess that l fell
somewhat IL sea in the whole insur-
"ncc matter. The trouble originated
in my allowing myself to be drawn
into other peoples affairs, and partly
from a desire to help them and at their
request I seemed to be like the fellow
who got i'll between the man and his
wife in their quarrel.
AS TO my political instincts to which
you refer in your letter of Dec 10, l am
quite sure [ have none, and my being
made at all prominent in the political
situation is entirely due to President
Roosevelt ana because Of my taking
an active part in the aut umn Of 1904,
1t his request, ana his taking advan-
tlgc OF conditions then created to fur
Their his own interests. If it had been
premeditated plot it could not have
been better started or carried out.
about L week before the election in
the autumn of 1901, W;len it looked GER
tain That the state ticket would go
Democratic and was doubtful as to
Roosevelt himself, he. the President,
sent nc 4 request to 80 to Washington
10 confer upon the political conditions
in New York State. I complied and lie
tolu me he understood the campaign
could not 10 successfully carried on
without sufficient money, and asked if
! would hclp them in raising the neceS-
Nary funds. rs the national committee
under control of Chairman Cortelyou
had utterly failed of obtaining them
and there was a large amount due from
them To The Now York state committee.
II explained to him that 1 under
stood the difficulty here was mainly
caused bv the upstate leaders being
unwilling II support Depew for re
election as United States senator; that
If he. Dcpew, could be taken care Of in
some other way, / thought matters
could be adjusted and the different con-
tending elements in the party brought
Continued on Page Three.)
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Conditions and General Forecast.

Washington, April 2-'rhc force Of
the cold spell IN the East is about
broken ana TIM temperature to the
westward Il rising. especially over the
southwestern Rocky Mountain slope
A disturbance mow central i'll cast
Colorado viii probably move east
northeast during The next as hours
ard cause 4 general rise in tcmpera-
ture in the Atlantic coast districts
The winds along the Now England and
middle Atlantic coast will he light to
flesh north; south A;l@ntic coast.
fresh north to northeast.