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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
A GOOD man
For Judge of Probate is Mr.,
A. E. Pfremmer
Eveleth Star Gives Him
High Words of Praise

The Probate Judge contest goes
merrilyr on. Duluth at the one
end, the Iron Ranges at the other.
Judge Middlecoff, of Duluth, A. E.
Pfremmer, of Hibbing. The Judge
of Probate office is the best in the
county, and the least difficult to
operate. The Judge of Probate
office pays the handsome sum OF
800 each and every year.
The present incumbent has held
this office at least six if not eight
wears. This means that the coun-
ty has given to Judge Middlecoff a
good sized meal ticket of from
$27, 900 to $4,000. The spirit of
the land in which we live is not to
give life tenure of Office except in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
WILD IGORROTES
Famous Head Hunting Fill
pinOs at State Fair

The flower of the fighting men
of the warlike Bontoc Igorrotes,
with their women folk and a cute
! boy baby, from the remote noun
tain fastness of the Philippine Is
lands, are to be seen living in ty-
pical native village at the great
Minnesota State Fair, Hamline,
and fine opportunity will be offer
ed to visitors to study at close
range the most remarkable print
tive agricultural people in the
world.
For generations untold the Igor
rotes have lived their simple tribal
life, untouched by outside culture,
and are today as wild as weed.
Fierce hunters of human heads and
constantly at war with their neigh
bors in surrounding towns, they
are true children of nature. They
are of Malay origin, and have sup
erb physiques which their scant at
tire displays to fine advantage.
They are gifted with a great sense
of humor, unusual intelligence, are
highly industrious and generally of
excellent moral and physical fibre.
They are pagan, who have grasped
the idea of one God, and are agri-
culturalists from necessity, terrac-
ing the mountain sides and grow
ing their rice under irrigation.
The village will be complete with
all the various types of houses, and
all their crude industries, will be in
operation. There will be a spirited
exhibition of their war dances, tri-
bal songs, spear throwing, mock
battles, and other sports and pas
times.
| The village comes to Harnline
with the high endorsement of the
press where it has been shown, as
well as of exposition and public
officials, and is an educational exhib-
it of so high character that every
man, woman and child should visit
it and learn at close hand of one of
the hundreds of problems which the
Spanish-American war laid on our
shoulders.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
SAM HI. OWENS
Some Facts About a Leading
Candidate for Sheriff

Some of the new corners in St.
Louis County are asking, who is
Sam H. Owens?"
Sam H. Owens not only is a pio-
neer citizen of the best county in
Minnesota, but he is a candidate
for the Republican nomination for
sheriff.
Mr.. Owens has lived in St. Louis
County for nearly 26 years. He
was born and raised on a farm near
Oshkosh, Wis. In time he quit
the soil and went into railroad work.
January 2, 1888, he came to Du-
luth. Four days later he started
for the iron mines at Tower. He
walked over the old Vermilion trail
and arrived at Lake Vermilion Jan.
II, the trip taking six days. That
winter he was engineer in the saw
mill there, and later dressed all the
lumber for the first twenty-five
houses erected for miners in the new
iron mining camp.
During the 10 years that Mr..
Owens lived at Tower he was Chief
of Police and Deputy Sheriff nearly
7 years and Municipal Judge three
years. He has had, therefore, act
ual and practical experience in the
duties that go with the sheriff S
office and feels unusually well fitted
for that place.
Mr.. Owens came to St. Louis
County a newly married man. He
has practically opposed race suicide
by raising a family of six children,
with the help of Mrs. Owens, three
boys and three girls. He always
has been property owner and tax
payer in ST. Louis County, in fact
his interests are confined to ST..
Louis County. He buys where he
votes and pays taxes, instead of
patronizing Minneapolis merchants
and Chicago mail order houses.
He believes in home trade as well
as home rule, principles that every
resident of the Iron Ranges should
practice and preach.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
Mr.. Owens cast his first vote for

Mr.. Owens cast his first vote for
the Republican party and ever since
has been a loyal, CONSTANT sup
porter of that party and its princi-
pies. He believes too, that a pub
lie office is a public trust and not a
private snap. If nominated and
elected to the Office of Sheriff of ST..
Louis Comfy he guarantees always
to remember and follow that belief.
He further promises to give his
time and attention exclusively to
the office and its duties. His de-
puties will be selected for fitness,
and each and everyone connected
with the office will be considered a
servant of the public.
For nearly eight years Mr..
Owens has been a resident of Eve1-
eth. At present he is yard master
for the D. & I. R. at Eveleth. He
believes that the great Iron Ranges
should have reasonable representa-
ton in the county offices. He
most respectfully solicits the sup
port of the voters at the primaries
Sept 18th.
This city is we'll acquainted with
Mr.. Owens and his estimable FAM
lily and the feeling is that he is able
to fill high office and that those Civ
ing him support will have no cause
to regret it. mn
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28

a very few instances and the office
of Judge of Probate is not one of
these instances. Pass the good
things around and give someone
else who is equally qualified and
fitted for the place a chance to pur-
chase meal ticket for himself and
family.
Mr.. Pfremmer, of Hibbing, is a
clean, bright, capable republican,
and one we'll and peculiarly fitted
for the place he seeks. He has
been a resident of St. Louis county
and the Iron Ranges IL years. He
has never held an office except that
of justice of the peace. He is by
all the rules of evidence and all the
signs on the political horizon, going
to receive the nomination for the
office of Probate Judge. He GER
tain1y will if the people of the
ranges support their home man.
Every voter on this range should
see to it that Pfrenmer gets there
and that the ranges get there.
Ely, we believe, will do the right
thing by Mr.. Pfremmer and every
other town on the ranges should do
likewise. 1t has come to the time
when the ranges must stand for
their candidates and stand united. NV
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28


was that none of the men had nerve
enough to carry this emblem of an
archy.
The police interfered, and took
the red flag away from the woman
who bore it in spite of vigorous
protest. The woman who bore the
United States flag then refused to
carry it and trampled it in the dust.
Many of those in the procession
left the parade after this demon
stration.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
WOOdman Ball

The Degree team of Ely Lodge
4o49, M. w. A., will entertain
Friday evening, Sept. II, with a
ball at the Turf Hall at which La
Brosse of Duluth will furnish the
music. The Woodmar1 have arep-
utation for the nature of their
amusements and the dance promis-
es to be one of the most enjoyable
events of the season. Everyone is
invited to purchase ticket and at
tend. Tickets are 81, supper extra.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
DOWned the Red Flag

Sunday the Finnish Socialists of
Eveleth and Virginia had a picnic
at Eveleth and before the picnic in
dulged in parade at the head of
which Haunted the red flag carried
by a woman. The reason given
for the woman carrying the flag
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
Killed in Camp

Mike Vedich, a Montenegrin en-
ployed in one of the lumber CAMPS
on Stony River, was struck by a
falling tree and seriously injured
Monday. He was brought to the
city but died before reaching here.
He was man "a years of age and
left relatives in the old country.
The funeral occurred Wednesday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28
Odd Fellows Picnic

The Odd Fellows in Range Asso-
citation meeting a few days age
at Hibbing decided, because nc
rates could be had from the rail
roads, the Mesaba range lodges will
picnic at Ely Lake Park, Eveleth,
and the Vermilion range lodges
will have an excursion on Vermil-
ion Lake. The day set for the pic.
mic is labor day. The excursion is
to be a public affair and all that
wish to take in the trip will be wei.
come.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-08-28

REPRESENTATIVES, WANTED-We
want a representative to handle
FORD automobiles in Ely and
vicinity. Live hustler, with OF
without previous experience, can
easily clear 100000 in season.
Write with references at once.
FORD MoToR COMPANY,
Dept. H. Detroit, Mich
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30

ways been a keen student of political
affairs and candidates. He not only
stands in the foremost rank OF his
profession as a surgeon and an au-
thor, but he has culture and is keen
ly sympathetic with the sufferings
of the people in the poorer sections
of the city. Despite the insistent
calls upon him from wealthy patients
who are willing to pay handsomely
for his services, he insists upon de-
voting a large part of each day to
hospitals operating upon the poor
who have not money to pay for deli
cate operations that alone can save
their lives. There are hundreds of
his countrymen in the city who speak
gratefully Of him as the saver of their
lives and are ready to do anything in
return at his slightest request. DR..
Gerster, however, always has been
content in the thought of having re-
lieved them from suffering.
DR.. Gerster's friends, who are
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
NEW YORK'S LEADING
SURGEON, A STANCH
DEMOCRAT, SUPPORTS TAFT

familiar with his political views, say
that be has admired Judge Taft and
has the highest admiration for the
candidates ability and determina-
tion to do what is right at all cost.
They think that admiration for Taft
caused him to swing from the Demo-
cratic to the Republican party.
DR.. Gerster, who was born in Kas-
sa, Austria, fifty years ago, is a grad
uate of the University Of Vienna, and
was assistant surgeon in the Austrian
army before he came to this country.
He now is surgeon in the German
Hospital and the Mount Sinai
Hospital in this city. He is professor
of surgery in the New York Poly
clinic and has written several books,
now quoted as authorities on surgery.
His "Antiseptic Surgery is consulted
by every surgeon. Because of his
services to the surgical science he
has been made knight of the Order
of st. Joseph.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
ORGANIZED
LABOR FOR TAFT
All That the Law Abiding WaSe-Earner
Asks For is a Square Deal, and He Is
Sure Of II From President TAFT.

Organized labor has declared itself
for Taft and Sherman and for Impair
tial enforcement of and loyal ODE
dience to law. "There is no doubt
that the railroad employees of the
East will support Judge Taft united
ly," said Benjamin Il. Chaplin, of
New York, of the Order of Railway
Conductors.
"They believe in him. The great
railroad brotherhoods are unalter-
ably opposed to Mr.. Bryan's personal
views on government ownership Of
railroads, and our men are with
Judge Taft in his opposition to that
theory.
I'VE believe, furthermore, that
Judge Taft was right In his injunc-
tion record. The principles he laid
down in his decisions have been In
corporated in the constitution OF the
Order of Locomotive Engineers and
in the constitutions of all the other
large railroad train serving organi-
Zations."
Mr.. Chaplin who, with other well
known and estimable leaders of union
labor; F. +. Vickery, also of the Or
der of Railway Conductors; j. s.
buChlcgp VI Ln6 EGuHSglN glNduld Iui-
ployers Association; A. f.. Stack
house, of the Order of Railroad Con-
ductors on the Lackawanna Railroad,
and ]. f. Conway, chairman of the
legislative board of the Order of Lo-
comotive Engineers, boarded Mr..
Taft's train and assured him Of the
support of the organizations they rep
resented, undoubtedly voiced the
judgment of skilled and intelligent
union labor throughout the United
States.
The great mass of union labor is
with Mr.. Taft because its members
recognize him as capable and impair
tial in his administration of the law,
because they feel that he is in genu-
inc sympathy with labor, and because
they know that Mr.. Taft means ex-
actly what he says, and will do just
what he says he will do.> All that
law abiding, self respecting labor
asks for is a square deal within the
law and according to law, and that II
is certain to get at the hands of Pres
ident Taft.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
SUPPLEMENT TO
The Mountain Advocate

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Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
GRATITUDE OF RELIGIOUS
SECTS TO TAFT

John r. Mott, secretary of the In
ternational Committee of the Young
Mems Christian Association, a stanch
Methodist and n worker who, by his
energy and ability, has accomplished
wonders for his association in many
parts of the world, praised highly
to-day the aid which Judge Taft gave
to religious organizations In the
Philippines. He was aided greatly,
he said, by a letter of introduction
which Taft, as Secretary of War, gave
him when he went to the Philippines
to raise money with which to help
in constructing Y. M. c. A. building
in Manila. The committee furnished
more than 100000, while Manila
citizens gave $4,000.
1T is difficult to exaggerate," said
Mr.. Mott, 'the Importance of the SER
vice Aendered by Judge Taft to the
Y. NJ. G. A. and to the cause of Chris
tian faissions in the Far East. His
fair-mlndedness and his generous
sympathy have won the hearts and
minds IF all persons, of all religions
or no rnligion, who know what he has
accomplished there.
Anyone who may, like myself.
have questioned the wisdom of the
United States continuing to occupy
the Philippine Islands, would most
certainly entertain an entirely diff
ferent oi'tnion were he to visit these
islands tt5-day and note the changes
which have beeu wrought as direct
result OF American occupation and
achievement. Within less than ten
years thera has been built up stable
governmenv-insular provincial and
municipal. A body of laws has been
enacted which challenges favorable
comparison with the statutes of any
country. LalroDism, the curse OF the
islands, has bean suppressed, and
peace, orde, and justice prevail.
Sanitary regulations have been in
troduced and enforced to such an ex-
tent that Manila bids fair soon to be-
come the most healthful city In the
tropics, notwithstanding its unfav-
orable location. MILLIONS of dollars
have boen inveeieL in substantial ma
terial improvements, especially In
Manila. improved pohtal aud tele-
graphic commu aication have been in
troduced, ana railway and govern
ment read extinsion Is In progress.
As a result of .he marvellous educa-
tional developm eIts involving the ac-
tivities of nearly one thousand Amer
lean teachers, Ne are now educating
fully 100000 OF the youth of the ISL
ands, and even fnore remarkable than
this has been the raising up and
training of ovef 5000 Filipino teach
ers. The logs, Visayans, Iloca-
nos and the mtny other tribes and
peoples scattered throughout over
1000 islands ai0 being unified and
are developing the consciousness of
community of race and the latent
sense of nationality. The dominant
impression madb in the mind of any
one who has visSsed different Colonial
possessions is that in the Philippines
the altruistic motive has thus far
had right OF %ay. and that work
has been acc o. plished OF which we
need not be ASHAMED. The ideal en-
phasized by Mckinley, Roosevelt,
Root. Schurman, and especially Judge
Taft, that our purpose In the Phil
ippines is not to exploit them, but to
develop, civilize. educate and train
on unselfish lines. has been kept in
mind and Is still the great motive
power"
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
FARMERS AND RURAL
FREE DELIVERY
Ihls Admirable Feature Of the Postal System
Is a Creation Of the Republican Party
and to Groat Degree Explains
Why the Country People A.
ways Vote II Back
In Power

The Republican principle that the
benefits of the public service should,
as far as possible, be extended to all
classes and all communities without
discrimination, Is conspicuously ex-
'empli6ed in the rural free delivery
system instituted by the Postoffice
Department during the administra-
tion of President Mckinley. That
system was established in recognition
of the plain fact that the farmer, liv-
Ing remote from the nearest post
Office, Is entitled to the free delivery
,oI his mail equally with the business
man residing in the city, and the
success which has attended its OPP
Grafton affords conclusive evidence
of its wisdom and utility.
The development of the rural free
delivery service is one of the most
remarkable achievements of the Post
office Department. Beginning In
1897 as an experiment with deliver
ies on eighty-three routes, 1t has
been extended rapidly year by year,
the service on June 80, 1908, covering
1920 routes and providing free de-
livery for more than 100000 per-
sons. That is to say, that in the
short space of eleven years, the free
Indll utllNtIN SN Sltiu DCCl GA
tended to something like twenty
per cent. of the total population OF
the United States. Could there be
any more striking testimony to the
efficiency and practical business
methods of Republican administra-
ton?
The value of this service 20 the
farmers Is almost incalculable. II
has not only relieved them of the
discomfort of frequent Journeys to
distant postoffices, but has placed
them in close reach with market con-
ditions, thus enabling them to dis
pose of their products to the best ad-
vantage, and done much to promote
the neighborhood and relieve farm
life of the sense OF isolation which
has been one of its greatest hardships
Moreover, I'm scores of farming com
munities the rural free delivery SER
vice has given = powerful impetus tc
the good roads movement" with
the result that many thousands oi
miles OF improved highway have beer
constructed. These modern roads
affording the farmer easier acces:
TO market, have increased the value
of his land, thus enabling him tC
build better buildings, better fences
and purchase better implements. II
every community to which the rura
free delivery service has been extend
ed the farmer has profited by 1t. HI
Is more distinctly a business mar
than ever before and life is far more
attractive and less laborious for him
self and his family.
The farmers know that the rura
free delivery service Is creation o
Republican policy. They are per
fectly aware that II was devised b,
and in accordance with the Republi
can craftsmanship which has provid
ed cheap postage, encouraged tn
spread of education and enacted
every measure of existing law T.
maintain the dignity anC advance tn
interests of agricultural industry
No single branch of the public servic
appeals more strongly to the farmer
of the country In behalf OF continues
Republican administration than thi
admirable feature of the postal sys
TEN.
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30
Presidential
Candidates
Compared

any Of the major opportunities that he eoVets are
known TO all the world.
Il is notorious that his first nomination TO the
presidency came to him not because OF his ability
IN public affairs, but only because he happened
to make happy phrase m an oratorical outourst,
which swept him into q position for which he had
never before and has never since proved his ht'
ness.
In the interval, between his unsuccessful cam.
paigns he has sunk into comparative obseurity.
Not one act in all that time gave any indication
to the world that he was really awake 10 the needs
Of the hour.
Consider all thisl Are no, all the facts here
set down about him incontestably true! III they
arc not true, name one thing that has been Said
amss or that has been left unsad, and let It stand
TO his credit.
II. however, these things are true. then how
great Is their significance How great Is your re-
sponsibilty II your vote should help to seat this
honest erring, incompetent man IN the preSi'
Dental chair Of this nationi
Turn now to William Howard Tafti Lay his
life before you as his picture lies before you
here.
His life Is known 70 all men.
Consider i'll Weigh il in the balance OF YOU
ealmest and most candid Judgment
Think il you choose, only OF those two notable
and splendid performances that stand before tn
world to-day as monuments OF his wisdom and hi
abity-his civil goyernorship OF the Philippines
and his establishment as Secretary OF war, o.
that vast governmental work now being dom
upon the Panama Canal
Say nothing of his brilliant diplomatic sue
cesses in the Philippines. al Rome IN Cuba. II
Japan-say nothing Of these, but dwell only OF
those two monumental performance.
Consider how vast must be the iundamenia
abilities Of man who, emerging Comparatively
unknown citizen from a relative obseurity, wa
suddenly called upon, FIRST. 70 reconcile peopl
Jealous and suspicious OF the United States. am
TO convert that people from passive enmiiy Il
trusting friendship; next, TO build up for poo
and helpless nation a government that shouh
control but should not hsrass, and that shou
serve as a foundation for future self-govsrnmen
and advancement into the ranks OF the free AM
enlightened nations OF the earth.
This was a great and momenlous task Tor an
man. however experienced. 10 undertake. IL va
undertaken BY circuit Judge from Ohio.
Did that eireui, Judge make good his unds'
taking!
Mountain advocate., 1908-10-30

JyERE are the pictures Of two men
RI One or the other will, in lew Gays, DC
chosen President of the United States,
He who aspires to that exalted place should
have done much TO show his htness Tor the sta
ton he would occupy. By wisdom or BY ability
he should have demonstrated his right to that
supreme and priceless honor.
Consider these two pictured eountenaneesl
Compare them in the most minute particular
and, when you have thus considered ana com
pared them take the life OF each man and set the
two records side by side, as their faces are here
before you, side by side.
Scrutinire those two lives Measure the one
by the other and then Judge within your heart
not impulsively. not with partisan bias, but calmly,
worthily and a patriotic eitizen-whieh OF
these two men is the worthier 20 be honored BY
your vote and 10 be crowned with the glory OF the
greatest gift in the possession Of the citizens oi
this nationl
Search frs, the life Of William Jennings
Bryanl II lies before you for your inspection
to occupy that great post to which he now. Tor
the third time, aspiresi
Has he in the whole course Of his life ever
done one solitary thing TO benefit the nation OF
which he is citizen. or to advance the eiVilza-
tion and enlightenment Of mankind'
Search your memory to its uttermost depths.
and il you find that he has done one single thing
either BY word or deed. that has proved OF ever
down to his credit.
Think Is there one such single. solitary
lhingi
Twelve years ago he advocated the free coinage
OF silver, urging IL upon the nation with all the
strenuosiiy OF his feyerish and vehement nature.
This idea he no longer advocates.
But has he abandoned ii?
A little more than a year ago he advocated
with equal npetuosity the government ownership
Of railways-an ownership that would have en-,
tailed upon the United States rational debt oil
more than FIVE thousand million dollars.
This idea, also he no longer advocates
But has he abandoned 1t?
Twice he has advocated aud twice he has ceased
10 advocate a dangerous and mistaken policy
What assurance have you that he does not third
time advocate policy equally dangerous TO the
welfare Of the nation'
And il you elect hun to the presidency. wha
assurance have you that he will not attempt &C
put that dangerous policy into disastrous effect
His ineompeiency and his inadeQuaey to hi