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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-24

Jolly Zeb" will be at the Bijou
next week beginning Monday night.
Jolly Zeb" is known as that hap
Ply tramp and has appeared with
success in all of the cities and range
towns. Manager Mil1och of the
Bijou now gives his entertainments
in the Opera House and Jolly
Zeb" and his wife will be there all
week. 10, Is and 25c.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-24
Railroad to 80

Duluth & Iron Range surveyors
have been here this week surveying
line of road to the Shagawa mine
at section 80. Nothing definite as
to the intentions of the company
could be ascertained, but it is the
opinion that the survey is being
made for the purpose of determin-
ing the cost of the construction.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-24

Miss 10. Van Blarcom spent sew
eral days at Aurora and at Tower
and Soudan this week securing
votes for the News-Tribune prize
contest. She reports having done
very well.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-07-24
SCHOOL MEETING
Annual Affair Quite Inter
esting.
Ely, Mimi, July IS, 1908.

The annual school meeting of
district No. II, St. Louis County
Minnesota, was convened at the
Central School building at Ely,
Minnesota on the above date at 7
O'Clock in the afternoon of said day
Geo. 7. Ayres was chosen chair
man of said meeting after which
the following proceedings were had.
Presentation and reading of the
report of the treasurer after which
the same was approved.
It was moved and carried that
the school term for the next ensu-
ing year be ten months.
The clerk then presented a state
ment of the estimated amount ne
cessary to be levied for school pur-
poses for the next school year,
which was approved by the follow
ing resolution which was carried.
Resolved that the taxes voted for
the year ending August 1st, 1909,
to be raised for school district No.
IL, is $62, 10000, that said amount
be certified to the Auditor of said
county to be assessed against the
taxable property of the school dis
trict, and for the following purposes
in the following sums viz:
Teacher S wages--...-.-$27000.0 90
For fuel------------ 100000
For furniture-.-.. 100000
Apparatus, etc.--.----- 100000
Repairs on bui1dings-.---- 100000
New school buildings 10000 90
Text books and library 10000
Jan1tors ages-------------- 1000 90
On motion made and seconded it
was carried that the compensation
of the Clerk and Treasurer of this
district for the year ending July
31st, 1908, be the same as paid
last year or the sum of five hun
dred dollars each.
1t was also voted that the next
annual meeting of the school dis
trict be convened at the hour of
trhee o'clock in the afternoon and
that said meeting remain open for
the purpose of voting for officers
until eight O'Clock of said day.
1t was also voted that all min
utes of school board meeting of the
district be published in the Ely
Miner the next ensuing year.
After the appointment of A..
Humble and John Cosgrove as as
sistant judge and clerk respectively
for the election of officers, the
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18
SOLOMON AVERY JR.
LOSES COMMISSION
President Orders Dismissal
From Army of Officer Con-
victed as EmbeZzler

Captain Solomon Avery Jr. has been
dismissed from the United States army
by order of President Roosevelt not
withstanding all the political and army
influence that was used in his behalf.
Avery's case has been held in allegiance
by the war department for three
months, and during this time the as
sistance of Secretary of War Luke K.
Wright and others prominent in official
circles has been invoked to secure a
young officer by two court martials that
tried him at the Presidio.
Avery was first tried for misappro-
fpriation of the funds of the Army club
at the Presidio, and the judgment was
dismissal from the army. At his second
trial Avery was charged with misap-
preparation of the company's fund. On
this charge he was also found guilty
and the courts judgment was dismissal.
Avery had expected to get out with
the loss of a number of files, and his
opinion seems to have had some back
ing at the Presidio, but the powers
that supported Avery evidently had no
weight with President Roosevelt.
The Averys have for the last three
years been very prominent in the So
eial element at the Preside. Mrs.
Avery, who is connected with one of the
wealthiest families in ST. Louis, left
for that city when the first trial began.
No court martial at this post ever
caused greater interest in army circles.
and the final decision, which reached
the post yesterday, caused a veritable
sensation.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18
DOWNTOWN firms
MAKE BIG PLANS
Market and Other Thorough
fares in Shopping District
Lighted at Night

The financial committee Of the Down
town association in charge Of the New
Years eve celebration made it's report
yesterday and from present indications
there will be no trouble in raising the
$4,000 necessary for the affair. This
large sum Of money viii be spent in
lighting and decorating and for the
provision Of spectacular novelties that
viii be introduced on that night.
Market street is at present lighted
from the Ferry to Sixth and viii be in
creased several blocks in the next few
days Kearny street, Grant avenue,
Chinatown. and, in fact, all the per-
every evening. Much of the success
TO Robert A. ROos, chairman of the
lighting and decorating committee
George c. Holberton and Otto Schiller
The finances have been in the hands OF
Andrew g. Mccarthy and he has as
sured the other members of the as
sociation that ample funds have been
pledged. Rollin c. Ayres is chairman OF
the publicity committee. Vincent Whit
Bey is one Of the enthusiastic workers
of the association and has been busy
Increasing its membership.
James Woods, manager of the Hotel
81. Francis, was cIoseteds with the heads
OF the various departments yesterday
afternoon designing and developing
ideas for New Years eve celebration
within the doors of that big hostelry
He will have vaudeville show and
undoubtedly numerous other entertain
ments for that evening.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18
Rncrs AGENT Guilty

Thomas Norris. alias Coburn. a recent
arrival from seattle. pleaded guilty in
Police Judge Conians court yesterday
10 charges of conducting an employ
npnt agency without license and OBJ
tanning money by false pretenses. He
was ordered TO appear for sentence this
morning Norris inserted an advertise
menf for laborers and teamsters, and
two or three hundred men appeared at
The Franklin hotel Wednesday in an
s.ver TO the advertisement. Norris in
formed them that he represented the
southern construction company, who
,s-ansed ,rrrn on construction work al
SAN Luis Obispo at $3.50 a day. TWO
men n n. Cooper and NJ. Gettier gave
Wilson $3.50 Wilson sneaked out OF
the hotel. but was followed by crowd
and ~ Fourth and Market streets he
was pointed out TO Policeman p j.
Foley.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18
INDICTMENT STANDS
AGAINST j. c. TOMALTY
Judge LawIor Denies Motion to
Set Aside True Bill Against
Book Keeper

Judge Lawlor yesterday morning de-
MED the motion of the attorneys for
James c. Tomalty TO set aside the in
dictment against the former book
keeper Of the city treasurer's Office. and
continued the case until tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock to allow time
for the drawing up of a demurrer.
Tomalty is charged with Justification
of public records. Seven grand jurors
were called TO the stand yesterday
morning by the defense and examined
regarding any bias or prejudice they
might have had at the time the indict-
fnenf against Tomalty was returned.
Those who We're examined We're: John
Al TIan4lnersmftb, c. H. Westphal, J. S.
f;odeau Garrett NJ. Goldberg, Alonzo
q. Mcfarland M. Merigan and Michael
Farrell. All denied any bias or preju-
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18
The Paragraph Pulpit
UNITARIAN
Salvation by Character

There can be no salvation save that
wrought by good life. Whatever may
be the theory of supernatural interven-
tion and the acceptance of proffered
pardon, it is plainly manifest to all
that it is only the kind deed and the
pure thought and the love-life that i'm
part to us power and peace. The only
salvation that saves is that which is
based upon the development of char
acter by the wise choice of the right
action. Salvation is not celestial
elevator; it is a ladder up which a
man must climb rung by rung. There
is no other way to reach the top.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18

With seven jurors already sworn to
try Peter Claudianes for the attempt
TO assassinate James l.. Gallagher with
dynamite in Oakland, it is probab BILE
that the actual taking of testimony in
the case will begin Monday morning.
No session of the trial will be held to-
day. because the pressure of other bust
ness in Judge Wastes department of
the superior court of Alameda county
and because the regular jury venire
has been exhausted.
Twenty ght veniremen were exam
ined yesterday, and finally four were
selected and sworn TO serve. while two
others were added to the list subject
10 the exercise of peremptory chal-
lenges. Judge Waste made an order
for the return of special panel of
so names Monday morning at Q o'clock,
specifying particularly that the MEM
bers of the panel should be summoned
from the country districts of Alameda
county. instead of from any of the
larger bay cities. Emphasis was placed
on this point for the reason that the
majority of all venirement who have
been excused from the regular panel
admitted that they had visited the
Gallagher house, in Nineteenth ave-
nue., after the explosion and had ex-
amined the wrecked dwelling.
0O0h1lAlN Nh JOAN SSO4l
Nat c. Coghlan, now engaged in the
defense of I. w. Chang, on trial in
San Francisco for the murder of Dur
ham White Stevens, may take hand
with ]. w. Scott in the defense of Peter
Claudianes next week if the Chang
case is concluded He appeared for
the Claudianes brothers during the pre-
liminary hearings after their arrest,
and is still an attorney of record in
their cases
F. NJ Donahue and John Barnet. the
former a brother in law of the district
attorney of Alameda county and the
latter the father of the sheriff of the
county, were among the veniremen
whose names We're drawn. from the
jury box yesterday Both were ex-
cused on account of their relationship
TO the officials active in the case.
The four jurors who We're accepted
for service were Thomas E. MCGUIRE
of Oakland, a retired railroad engineer;
Richard Fiege of Oakland, a retired
furniture dealer; c. J. Augusta of Cen
terville, an undertaken, and G. r. r,
Ainsworth of Oakland, a merchant.
FIVE MEN ARE CHALLENGED
The Jury box was filled for the sec
ond time shortly after noon yesterday,
but five of the men temporarily
passed were excused on peremptory
challenge. The prosecution challenged
only one man, James A. Powell. an Ala
media contractor. The defense excused
J. L. Champlin, William Fl. Farris, f.
A. Piexanto and William Sears. The
prosecution has still six peremptories
left, and the defense has 10.
Joseph Damn, retired dairyman of
Melrose, and w. A. Culp, farmer liv-
ing in the Niles road, a mile out of
Hayward, were passed yesterday SUBJ
| ject TO peremptory challenge.
The veniremen who were examined
yesterday and excused on legal
grounds were: Victor Mockel. William
Stack, L. n. Hager, Reimer Stevens. S,
F. Brown, Charles E. Matheson. Fritz
Hahn, Fred Tusher, b. S. Tower,
George f. Fox. Stephen Burke. F. NJ
Donahue, F. ]. Garcia, S. H. Lingard
John Barnet, c.. L. Trow, James King
and w. A. McCutchen.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18

the burglaries were committed in the
Mission and the fourth at the candy
store of r. S. Lomax, 1176 Market
street Plunder taken from the four
places was found in his room. which
has been identified by the owners. 1t
was suspected that Hagen had COM
mitted the safe cracking jobs at some
of the interior postofficeS. The forged
checks were passed on a saloon keep
er at Fourteenth and Market streets
and wine importer in Market street
near Castro. The name Harrison
Barto" was forged to the checks.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18
DANGEROUS CROOK is
TO BE BOOKED TODAY
Fred Hagen Will Be Charged
With Four Burglaries and
Two FOrgerieS

Fred Hagen will be booked at the
city prison today on four charges of
burglary and two charges of forgery.
He was arrested a week ago by De-
tectives Burke and Armstrong in Mar
ket street. He had two valises con-
tanning one of the most complete sets
of apparatus for safe cracking ever
seen by the police. Hagen came from
Minneapolis. Mimi, recently. Three of
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18
Meade Is ExoNERArEn

William NJ Meade, official stenog-
rapher of Police Judge ShortalFs court.
produced the transcript of testimony in
the l-azarlne Gfocome case yesterday
of arrest issued by Judge Cook Meade
explained that he had not intended to
disobey Judge Cooks subpoena. Judge
Cook exonerated Meade from blame.
The habeas corpus application on be-
half of Giacome was taken under sub
mission
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18
CALIFORNIA woMAN,s HOSPITAL

Matron days are to be held Friday
and Saturday at Messrs. Goldberg,
Bowen & Co.'S stores in aid of the free
ward clinic and medical charities of the
California woman's hospital This
charity is one of the Oldest and most
deserving in the state: Poor women
patients are admitted irrespective of
color, creed or nationality. Donations
will be thankfully received at the above
stores by the lady managers
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18
woMAN DRINKS ACID

Mrs. Cora Lewis, of 1926 Fifteenth
street yesterday ended her life by swa1-
lowing the contents of a bottle of car
bolic acid. Mrs. Lewis, who was about
80 years of age, had been suffering for
some time from melancholia and had
been confined to her bed for several
days. Shortly after noon yesterday
the nurse IN attendance. Miss Caroline
Sealy, left her bedside to prepare some
medicine for her patient. Returning q
few moments later the nurse found her
writhing in agony.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18
SEVEN MEN SWORN
TO TRY CLAUDIANFS
Counsel for Peter Uses Four
PeremptOry Challenges and
Prosecution Only One
Hearing of Evidence in Dyna'
mite Case Likely to Com
mence in Oakland Monday
Jurors Sworn to Try
Peter ClaudianeS

Jokn Hart, Berkeley, retired
gardener.
John Mortensen, San Leandro,
retired farmer.
James Potts, Alameda, retired
cement worker.
Thomas E. Mcclure, Oakland,
retired railroad engineer.
Richard Ffegc. Oakland, retired
furniture dealer.
c. j. Augusta, Centerville, un-
dertaker.
G. r.. r.. Ainsworth, Oakland,
merchant.
ACCEPTED SUBJECT TO PER-
EMPTORY CHALLENGE
Joseph Damn, Melrose, retired.
dairyman.
W. A. CuIp, Hayward. farmer
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18
s0LDIER STEALS PISTOLS

The police have been asked to locate
William Hodges, a private in the Sixty
eighth coast artillery, who left Fort
Baker Wednesday with six Colt re-
volvers. According to Sergeant Patrick
Flaherty of the SiXty-eighth, Hodges
secured the pistols by burglarizing a
locked storehouse.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18
1NcENp1AR1sM suspEcr1

INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED fire was dis
covered about O'Clock Wednesday night under
a pile of lumber in the yards of the Santa Fe
lumber company, Seventeenth and Carolina
streets, which was speedily extinguished. 1t is
believed TO have been the work of an incendiarx-
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18

In check and striped eff
fects-man tailored-cor-
rect in style.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18
Coats at $3.50 Sailor Suits at 1915

Girls Sailor Suits in blue
unfinished serge, neatly
trimmed in white braid
and flowing bows.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18

In plain colors and mixed
materials Single and
double breasted. Man
nishly fashioned.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-18

watches diamonds. jewelry, on weeAg "a, Bss
,,r,fs- rricee no higher than cash stores Brll-
Lent Jewelry Co, 704 Market room olz
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-01-24

NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Tragedy Ends Maynard Career.

News of a tragedy in Western
Pennsylvania that ended the hayward
existence of Mrs. Jennie Stuart Little
has shocked the community at Had
donfield, where the woman formerly
lived. Dispatches from Bradford
state that the woman had been liv-
ing in that town for three years os-
tensibly as the wife of A. M. Cham
berlain; an electrician. Chamberlain
had deserted his wife and children in
New Richmond, Pa. Recently he
learned that Mrs. Little was carrying
on a firtatioii with another man, and
was about to join him. He became
insanely jealous. Aiming himself,
Chamberlain called the woman into
their bedroom and accused her of being
unfaithful to him. She coolly admit
ted it, and asked him what he pro-
posed to do about it. Chamberlain
then fired, killing her, and killed him
self. 1t was eleven years ago that
Mrs. Little went to Haddonfield a
bride. She came of d good family of
Burlington County. Frank Little,
Jr., of H~addonfield, met the girl, then
Jennie Stuart, in Atlantic City, and
married her at once. Young Little's
wife was petite and stylish. The
couple went to live with old Captain
Little and his wife and Frank Little,
Jr., acquired an interest in the prin-
cipal drug store of the town. He had
to work late at night. Gossip about
Mrs. Little began soon after she came
to town as a bride, but her husband
did not hear of it until after they
had three children. Suddenly his
eyes were opened and the wife moved
out of their home.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-01-24
A Builder of Character.

Difficulties determine our charac-
ter. The great battles of life are not
contests of body against body, but
spirit against body, thought against
materialism.
There is a great difference between
truth and fiction. 1t is one thing to
state facts, it is another thing to
state those facts SO that our view
will not be perverted. The evil spies
looked only at those things which
were material. If you look only at
dirt you will be sure to get dust in
your eyes. The evil spies could see
nothing but stone walls and giants.
The man who goes out trusting in
himself will Don run amuck on the
rocks. The man who goes out know
ing that he is sent of God will sur
mount all difficulties. With this
thought before him he will leap over
the wall, as did the Psalmist, and
the giants will fall before him.
1t is a bad plan to exaggerate the
strength of the enemy. Fear and
tinsidity always magnify the foe. Let
us be careful, o Christian friend, that
we do not magnify the material
above the spiritual. Keep the spir-
itual sight clear by faith. Keep rea-
son and Imagination at a distance.
There is reaso that it is not faith,
but true faith is always reasonable.
Faith never exaggerates the enemies
strength.-Detroit News-Tribune.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-01-24
Found Guilty of Murder.

Joseph P. Musto1, tried on an in
dictment charging him with being the
slayer of Michael Monachino, whose
body was found under a pile of brush
on Garrett Mountain last June, was
found guilty of murder in the second
degree and he was Immediately sem
fenced by Judge Bergen, at Paterson,
to thirty years in the State prison,
the extreme penalty. In passing sen
tence Justice Bergen said that the
jury would have been justified in
finding a verdict of murder in the
first degree. At the beginning of the
trial Mustol and his lawyers were
ready to offer a plea of guilty of MUIR
der in the second degree, but the
prosecutor declined to accept this
verdict. Mustol is also under in
iictment for the murder of Robert
Cortez, a Justice of the peace, who
was slain in his Office by the explo-
sion of an Internal machine sent to
him by express from Newark. The
motive for the murder of Monachino,
it was commended, was fear on the
part of Mustol that Monachino
would betray him as the murderer of
COrteZ.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-01-24
FORT STANDS FIRM
FOR BISHOPS LAW
Jerseys New Governor at Trenton
Asks For More Power.
HOME RULE IN ALL TAXATION
Against the spoiis System and For
the Regulation of Corporations
and Franchise Control-Father,
Eighty Years Old, Present.


Trenton, N. Gov. John Franklin
Fort was indicted into Office in Tay-
lor's Opera House. Chief Justice
Gummere administered the oath of
office; and Governor Stokes at once
delivered the seal of the State into
the keeping of the new Governor and
stepped back.
An incident connected with the
Inauguration was the presence of four
generations of the Fort family in the
Opera House. The Oldest member,
Andrew Fort, father of the Governor,
is eighty years old, and he made the
trip from Mount Holly in an automo-
bile, a physician accompanying him..
Although he is deaf, he Joined in the
applause he saw the rest of his audi
ence give to his son when he made
some telling hit in his speech.
Governor Fort, in his inaugural,
spoke emphatically on the excise
question. He asserted that the peo-
pie at the late election declared for
the enforcement of the Bishops law.
He said: During nay term | shall
regard it as an obligation cast upon
me by the people to veto any measure
suggesting any modification of exist
ing law on the question of the sale of
liquor on Sunday" He said that it
is the duty of the Executive, the
courts, and every Prosecutor, Mayor
and Magistrate to enforce the closing
of all places where intoXicants are
sold on Sunday.
Governor Fort urges the abolition
of the County Boards of Taxation.
He points out the great cost of these
boards on the State and counties,
questions If there was ever any rea-
son for their creation, and then says
if the reason was for the equalization
of taxes, then the two years they have
been established is a long enough
time to accomplish this end, and
their further existence is unneces-
sary.
The Governor said it is self-evi-
dent the boards have. by increasing
the value of the property of the in
dividual taxpayer, so reduced the
average rate of taxation throughout
the State that the tax on the main
stem and other property of the rail-
roads has been largely reduced. The
Governor urged a return not only to
the local assessment of property, but
to the review of assessments by local
boards of appeal.
Governor Fort said he would sign
any fair bill intended to abolish the
spoils system in State, counties and
municipalities.
He declared that there should be
but one commission in the State for
the regulation of railroads and all
public utilities companies. Proper
control would tend to give the pub
lie confidence in the securities of
these co~rporations.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-01-24
COY DIES FROM FEAR OF KNIFE.
Did Not Tell Parents, of Detroit, of
Operation He Expected.

Detroit, Mich.-Anxious to save
his parents worry, Charles Frank
Watson, sixteen, went to the office
of a physician recently to undergo
a surgical operation without telling
them of the nature of his errand.
Within an hour he was dead, and the
first hint that he was to go under the
knife reached the father and mother
when his body was brought home.
When he left his home to go to
the physicians he bade them good
by as carelessly as if only going out
for a walk; but n of the most
curious features of the case was that
the operation was not performed,
even though it cost the boy his life.
Young Watson suddenly lost con-
seriousness while his cousin and a
brother physician were occupied with
their preparations.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-01-24
Didn't Know 1t.

Patience-"Do you know anything
about this Esperanto we see so much
about in the p%apers?"
Patrice-"No, I really do not.
There are so many of these new
breakfast foods being advertised that
it is hard for one to keep up With
them ."-Yonkers Statesman.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-01-24
To Save King of Trees.

The State Forestry Commission has
asked the assistance of the Glouces-
ter Historical Society in securing the
right of way to and possession of the
ground occupied by the large eta
tum Oak" near Mt. Royal, three miles
from Woodbury., so that the old tree
can be preserved. There are several
large trees in South Jersey, but this is
raid to be king OF them ALL" and said
to be the largest within a radius of
$50 miles from Philadelphia. In
1910 this tree was spoken of as a
very large one" 1t is now ninety
feet high and it's girth at the ground
is forty feet and the spread of shade
in the summer is nearly half an acre.