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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
CHAPTER ".

Then Abbie Rice consented. To-
gether they went to pawnshop and
purchased pistol. They had planned
first to do the deed in the Office of the
doctor, but he was afraid that she
would not be able to get away, SO they
went to the apartment where he had
installed her. He loaded the pistol,
cooked it, but in his eagerness drew
the hammer so far back that he broke
the spring. There was no other way
of dying at hand. The killing had to
be postponed.
She had given her consent, so there
was no drawing back. Together, late
at night, they went to his Office. He
showed her where he wanted her to
fire the bullet into him.
when l have fallen he said, you
must slip away from the house. Get
on car, go to the end of the line,
take out the empty cartridge from the
pistol and throw it away. Then put in
a fresh cartridge and shoot yourself"
81 cannot" she sobbed. II cannot.
1 love you and l cannot kill YOU"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
MANY STARS PICKED UP
BY AMERICAN LEAGUE
Several Players Taken from Minors
Who Have Won Places of Veter-
ans in Major Organizations.

Minor league players are devel-
oped slowly for the major organiza-
tions, yet tho American league has
been very fortunate during the season
in picking up star players in the
minors.
The Ohio and Pennsylvania league
has given two unusually promising
youngsters to Ban BIS organization.
The players in question are Schwei
ger of the Browns and Goode of the
Maps. The former is a fixture on the
ST. Louis team. The man with the
cheese name has beaten out such vet
Grams as Charley Jones and Danny
Hoffman by his all around work. He
has played in only about one-third OF
the games this year, due to bad leg.
It's pretty good bet that had he
been in the game regularly st. Louis
would now have several games in the
won column that are on the wrong
side. Goode has not shown his real
speed, but his batting and running
stamp him as a most likely looking
youngster.
In Steele and Arrelanes it seems
Boston has two young twirlers who
are destined to be stars. Steele was
secured from the New England
league, while Arrelanes was picked
up in the Outlaw league of Califor-
MIA. While Steel has lost quite a
few games, practically all of them
have been by one run, due to weak
hitting on the part of his teammates.
Arrelanes' best feat of the season
was performed in recent game with
Philadelphia, when he let down the
Athletics with only one bingle, q
home run by Nicholas in the ninth.
In Purtell, Chicago has picked ur
a wonderful fielding third baseman
but weak hitter. McAleer has de-
veloped Bailey and Graham into eff
fective southpaws.
In Milan, Cantillon has one of the
greatest outfielders in the business
AS a catcher Street has won place
as the Senator's leading backstop, al
though this is his first year.
Pitcher Summers, a product of this
season, has been of great aid to Jen-
nings.
These are q few of the promising
youngsters picked up by the American
league during the last year, and all of
them bid fair to press the veteran
stars for their high position in the
world of baseball.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
IMPROVE THE COACHING
Rules in Need of Thorough Overhaul
ing, Says Writer.

This is what a Detroit baseball
writer has to say regarding coaching
as conducted at present:
The coaching rules are in need of
heroic overhauling.
Clearly the coacher was never
meant to be anything but a guide to
the base runner. And if the plain in
tent of the rules were to be strictly
observed, the men in the coachers'
boxes would be instantly banished for
any effort, real or implied, to disturb
the composure of the pitcher, or to
give false direction to any fielder.
Indeed, so honorable has the game
become of late that the hour is at hand
when there should be a heroic refor-
nation in coaching.
1t ought to be regarded as distinctly
dishonorable nowadays to attempt to
put the pitcher ''in the air. by any
remarks hurled across from one coach
er's box to the other
1t ought to be punishable with n pen
atty that would be felt for the coach
ers of one team to shout false direc-
tons to fielder who is making hur-
ried play.
The game has grown beyond the
methods of the sand lots and the back
alleys, and the ball players who do not
realize this should be taught a lesson.
To call a balk on the pitcher Or to
send base runner back base-much
as football team is penalized for side
line coaching-would soon put stop
to nuisance that has long been pa
tiently endured.
Many people who might be taught to
love the game and to become the most
loyal of fans are kept away from the
games by that old-style system of
coaching that-instead of telling the
base runner what to do-trails along
on the Kerry-Patch system that seeks
to rattle the opposition.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
WHO MAY SECURE A HOMESTEAD
Laws That Govern Settlement of the
Public Lands.

Under the homestead laws of the
United States, person who is not the
owner of more than 160 acres of land
in any state or territory, who is a ma
tive born citizen of the United States,
or has been naturalized, or declared
his intention to become naturalized
citizen of the United States, who is
over the age of 81 years or the head
of a family, may make homestead
entry of not exceeding 160 acres of
any of the unoccUpied public lands Of
the United States.
A single woman 81 years of age or
over has the right to make a home
stead entry. Marriage after filing does
not invalidate her claim, provided she
continues to reside on it and makes
proper improvements. A widow may
make entry, but married woman
cannot enter land unless she has been
deserted by her husband.
Soldiers and sailors, or, If dead, their
widows and orphans, have the privi-
lege of filing through an agent. All
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
Swans Officially Marked.

OF the swans on the upper Thames
the London Times says: ''Mr. T. Alb
nett of East Molesey, the kings swan
master, on Saturday completed the
marking of the young swans ON the
Thames between Southwark bridge
and Henley. There are between 500
and 600 swans on the Thames and in
the course of the swan marking about
200 cygnets were discovered, each of
which had mark placed on it's beak
to denote ownership. Those belong
ing to the king, who owns about a
third of the swans on the Thames,
have a acknowledged mark scratched
on the upper beak with knife. Those
belonging to the Winners and the
Dyers companies, who own the other
two-thirds, have been respectively
marked. In November a number of
these cygnets will be fattened for the
kings table at Christmas"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
CHAPTER VII.

Three days later when Abbie Rice
saw DR.. Rustin he greeted her gaily.
Il have found the man to do it," he
said. His name is Charles Edward
Davis and he wants to die. too He
will kill me if will give him drugs
with which he can kill himself Come
down to the office to meet him.
Abbie Rice accompanied the doctor
to his office. A shaky, nervous wreck
of a man was there waiting them. 1t
was evident that he was on the verge
of lunacy from shattered nerves. He
could scarcely speak coherently. And
there between these three the
strangest suicide pact in the history
of American crime was arranged
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Omaha, Neb.--Most cooliy and calm
ly Mrs. Abbie B. Rice, the woman
in the case" in the Rustin murder mys-
terry, said that DR.. Rustin had trained
her up to the point of killing him, first
familiarizing her with hospital scenes
and then by working on the hero wor-
ship and sympathy in her nature had
gradually worked toward the point
where she could fire the shot which
would kill him. Books of fiction in
which one man died for another, and
books in which great sacrifices were
made for friendships sake were read
by DIR. Rustin to Mrs. Rice and COM
mented upon by him until the woman
saw the killing of Rustin by herself in
kind of a halo.
For weeks and weeks DR.. Rustin
trained me to murder him." said Mrs
Rice. First, he trained me to the sight
of bloodshed. He used to take me
around with him when he performed
operations, On these trips I dressed
as nurse in clothing he furnished me.
Gradually l got used to seeing the OPP
erations, and there was no more nau-
sea on my part. In time an operation
did not affect me in the least.
"NobleEess and Self Sacrifice"
After l became we'll advanced In
that portion of his plan, Dr. Rustin be-
gan talking to me about the nobleness
of self sacrifice. Books in which one
friend sacrificed his life for another
were read to me by the doctor, and
their beauties pointed out to me. "A
Tale of Two Cities" was one of his
favorites, and he read that to me a
number of times. The character of
Sydney Carton was eulogized and
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conner, all right. He is good fellow,
you bet
And so he was. Almost anybody in
Omaha asked casually that night
would have told the questioner that
DR.. Frederick I. Rustin, ex-Yale ath-
lete, good fellow and one of the rising
young surgeons in the west, was
man of whom Omaha was proud. And
they were glad to see him marry
leading society girl. 1t insured him a
fine practice, and if he would only
stick to business in a few years he
would be rich.
A few years after that night DR..
Rustin, established with his wife in a
little home of their own, had started
in to justify the expectations of his
friends. Two children were born, and
by that time the young surgeon had
become known as one of the best men
in his profession throughout the entire
west. Only "a years old, happily mar
ried and rapidly becoming wealthy,
the young doctor apparently had every
thing to live for. Q
And then, suddenly, his friends be-
gan to notice a slight change.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02

In an address to the Royal Society
at London it was pointed out by Prof.
Crookes that in our continued acquisi-
ton of knowledge as to electrical phe-
nomena some marvellous possibilities
are apparent. For instance, man is
constantly searching for new and
cheaper sources of energy by which he
may drive his engines and carry on,
in its fast multiplying forms, the work
that civilization demands to have DONE
But men of science like Crookes have
said that in a single cubic foot of the
ether in which the earth is submerged
10000 foot tons of energy-that is,
force enough to lift 10000 tons one
foot, lie imprisoned, only awaiting the
magic touch Of science to be loosed
for the service of man.
They tell us, also, that the latest re-
searches give us reason to hope that
these stores of power may actually be
opened and drawn upon.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
CHAPTER w,

People had begun to say what
pity it is about young Rustin." His
actions were common gossip and his
reputation as a surgeon was black
ened. People did not want man who
might come to them with shaking
hands and unsteady nerves. And
again the idea which had led him to
inoculate himself with typhoid and
tetanus germs forced itself into his
mind. But his two attempts had
failed-and still there was the clause
in his insurance policy forbidding sui
eide He must die by the hand of
some one else. Into the half-crazed
mind of the physician there slipped as
shrewd and diabolical an idea as any
one had ever known.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
CHAPTER III,

Mrs. Rustin was heart-broken, but
she knew what to do. The idea that
the cause of her husbands troubles
might be himself never entered her
head. Day and night she nursed him.
and even when his brother physicians
gave. up hope the wife held on.
He shall not die" she told the doc
tors. Il will save him."
Once well, for a while he tried to
work and get back his practice, but
the effort seemed to do little good. He
made money, but the good-fellow in
stinct was too strongly developed. All
that he had went, and more, too, in the
gay life about town and with evil com.
Partnerships.
And just at this stage there came
into his life the other woman.
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is away ana DeSILS " letu q QOup.e Ike
Davis was to do the killing, and for
this service the doctor was to give
him bottle of chloride of gold and
bottle of morphine tablets After
shooting the doctor he was to take the
morphine, and then next day when she
heard the others attempt had been
successful Abbie Rice was to kill her
self
Ten minutes after the time that DR..
Rustin had left Abbie Rice at the cor
ner Mrs. Rustin in her own room was
awakened by a shot She hurried
downstairs to find her husband lying
on the porch. He had been shot
through the stomach.
"a man shot me- he said, and that
was all the information they got.
In half an hour he was dead.
The next morning when it was
learned that DR.. RuStin had been
killed there was tremendous excite
ment in Omaha.
And following the first excitement
came the news that one of DR.. Rus
tins patients, Charles Edward Davis,
brother Of one of the leading bankers
in the city, had attempted suicide.
The police arrested the woman with
whom it was known Rustin had been
friendly, Abbie Rice. She had no
chance to carry out her part of the
agreement, for they caught her early
in the morning following the shooting.
For three days the police We're in
the air. Then somebody remarked so
Abbie Rice could hear:
"The doctors wife, gets her insur.
ance, anyhow"
And then the full story came out.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
CHAPTER vi.

A wave of rage swept over Rustin.
He stepped forward, caught the wo.
man and shook her.
You have got to do it. You said
you would, and you have got to do it,"
he cried fiercely.
She tried to plead, to argue, but it
was no use.
Il have got to die for the sake of
my wife and children. You have
agreed to kill me. Now you must do
it"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
Too Rouuh for the Cows.

Mrs. Rorer, of cookbook fame, tells
If seeing a maid drop and break a
beautiful platter at dinner recent
ly, says Everybody's Magazine. The
host did not permit trifle like this
to ruffie him in the least
These little accidents happen most
every day." he said, alphabetically.
You see, she isn't a trained waitress.
she had to abandon that occupation
IN account of her inability to handle
he cows without breaking their
norns."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
CHAPTER Viii.

Charles E. Davis was leaving the po-
lice station where "the woman in the
CASE had told her tragic story-the
story of the triple death pact. He
looked gaunt and pale, and there were
hollOws under his eyes.
A policeman's hand fell upon his
shoulder.
you are arrested for murder in the
first degree" were the words that met
his ears.
DR.. J. p. Lord had named him be-
fore all the world as the man who was
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
praised and seemed to be his favorite

praised and seemed to be his favorite
character in fiction.
THE doctor had determined to die.
He had told me that so often that |
had begun to look upon his death as a
matter Of course and the fact that he
could not commit suicide without his
family losing his life insurance was
also impressed upon me.
u guess I'll have to get some one
to kill me- said DIR. Rustin one night
after we had been talking about his
death
THAT was all he said then. Some
time later he made the same state
ment-T guess I'll have to get some
one to kill me-
IF you die, I'll die, too said
That seemed to please him, and
still again he said to me, L guess I'll
have to get some one to kill me-
But at the last minute / found that
/ could not do it, The training had
not been complete, and failed him."
Here is the story told in detail:
CHAPTER !.
A mansion on the fashionable street
in Omaha was ablaze with lights. The
street in front was crowded with car
riages. Others were dashing up and
leaving. Handsomely dressed women
were being assisted up the steps. The
sound of the music and the gay con-
versation fioated out to the street.
big doings," said one cabby to an
other.
BET your life," agreed his friend,
but I'm glad to see it, DOC Rustin's
a fine fellow. He'll make good hus-
band for any girl. That fellow is a
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"Rube" oidring Easily DISCOURAGED.

eff 'Rube' Oldring only thought that
he was great ball player he would
be one of the best in the country"
That is COMFY Mack's opinion of
the man who has been playing center
field for the Athletics off and on for
the last couple of seasons.
Oldring is a hard-luck player in the
spring. He lost a chance to break in
at third base through being injured in
an exhibition game one spring. This
year, when he was slated to hold
down center field regularly Oldring
was taken i'll.
At times Oldring gives flashes Of
wonderful ability in the field and at
bat. He appears to be easily discour.
aged, and Manager Mack's opinion
that he is too modest seems to fit the
"Rube" and acts as drawback to
his natural ability
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
CHAPTER u.

II was so subtle at first that his
friends did not know what to make of
it. They first noticed the difference
after he had lost a particularly trying
case. The doctor could not explain.
He became depressed.
''Freds losing his nerve" his friends
said, and in a few weeks the secret
was out. Not only was the young doc
tor losing his nerve, but he had taken
to drink.
Rustin saw his practice go; he saw
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
MAKING THE DEATH COMPACT.

seen staggering away from the Ruskin
home, half an hour after the fatal shot
was fired.
Make the bail as high as you wish.
We will meet it," said he.
He was admitted to bail and left the
court with staggering footsteps.
What will be the outcome of the
strange triple murder pact? No man
can tell
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02

back himself for the barn. The woman
started around toward the back, but
when she reached the alleyway a man
ran out of it, and again she lost her
nerve Jumping on a car, she started
downtown.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02

81 cannot" she sobbed II would
only lose my nerve again"
The doctor thought. "All right" he
said Il will go out to the barn. You
come around the back way. 1 will
stand up and you will shoot me, and
they will think that was killed by a
burglar"
Still protesting and half crying, he
put her out of the house and started
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The wife to whom he owed allegi-
ance was forgotten. The new woman
held him in wise. And then the
money went faster than ever and the
debts piled higher.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02

do you love me?" he asked Abbie
Rice.
You know do" she responded.
"Then if you love me, kill me-"
calmly suggested the physician.
The woman pleaded with him, but
he was obdurate. He was drinking
heavily and taking drugs, too, so he
was not responsible for what he did.
I'm going to kill myself" he de-
clared bluntly, ''but / have to have
some one to do it. Now it Is you or
some one else"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
Volcano Not Extinct.

Mount Cameron, on the west coast
of Africa long regarded as an extinct
volcano, was found by party of Ger
man explorers recently to be still
alive and in danger of eruption.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
TRAGIC STORY
OF DIR. RUSTIN
Happening in Modern Life That
Pales the Widest Fiction EUer
EUolUed from Brain of
Novelist

All the werdnss
OF Dr.
a
which
mosc cunning mi
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Muggins-"When your wife sings I
suppose you forget all your troubles"
Buggins "Um all my other
troubles"
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other applicants must make their
filings in person. The period of serv-
ice in the army up to four years is de-
Quoted from the required five years
residence.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
Stranoe Execution.

A Staffordshire (England) watering
place has been advertised in the news
papers: Ideal place of picnics, strict.
~ temperance. Sunday excepted"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02

FARMS FOR RENT or sale on crop pay
ments. j. MULHALL, Sioux City, Ia
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MILTON DAIRY CO., ST. PAUL, MIMI.
Are heavy cream buyers. Get their prices
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II you have anything to do, do 1t;
don't leaf on the job.
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Many a man is buried in oblivion
long before he is dead.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02

One cannot quarrel If the other will
not.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
For children teethng softens the gums reduces In
fammation sllays palm wind collie 25c bottle
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financial ruin staring him in the face.
+ Long the doctor thought, and then
he took mysterious trip to Chicago
Professional business, he pleaded. But
on his return he showed to several in
innate friends two little walls and he
told them in deepest confidence that
one vial contained the germs of ty-
phoid fever and the other germs Of
tetanus.
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A few days after that the doctor
complained to his wife that he had
been bitten by dog while on a night
visit to patient. He told her that
he had cauterized the wound, but bad
results might follow. The next day. to
make matters worse, he was taken
down with typhoid fever.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
Weary of Life.

DR.. Rustin becomes morbid from brood
ing over mis- troubles and takes to drink.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-02
The Forbidden Guest.

Mrs. Rice, entertains her while his wife
is away and begins to lead double life.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-10-29
Business Philosophy

Play Is a work that you don't have
to do.
Never hire travelling man whose
waistcoat is more insistent than his
personality.
Don't rise so high in your calling
that you see only one side of your
fellows.
It's true that marble statue has
no faults but then it has no
friends, either.
There are plenty of doors labelled
s'Pull," but the majority, after all,
bear the legend push
There are self-made MEN in this
world who ought to be suffering
from remorse.
Warwick James Price in N0rember
Nppincotts