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TIMBER LAND, ACT JUNE 3, 1873.
Notice for Publication.
United States Land Office, Duluth
Mimi

Sept. both, 1907.
Notice is hereby given that in COM
Dliance with the provisions of the act
of Congress of June 3. 1873. entitled can
act for the sale of timber lands in the
states of California. Oregon. Nevada
and Washington Territory" as extent
ed to all the Public Land States by act
of August 4. 1892.
August SIREN of Minneapolis. county of
Hennepin. State of Iowa has this day
fled in this office his sworn statement No.
127O8 for the purchase of the Lots 1915 of
Sec. 81 in township G3 N. range 10 w of 4th
m and Lot Sec. in township 81 N. range
10 w 4th p. M.
And will offer proof to show that the
land sought is more valuable for it's tim
Der or stone than for agricultural pur-
poses, and to establish his claim to said
land before the Register and Receiver
of this office at Duluth, Minnesota, on
Monday the 18th day of July. 1905
III names as witnesses: Henry Nissen and
Trygye Hegge of Minneapolis, Mimi, Olof
Waale of Superior, Wis, Peter 0 Lee of Du-
lutb. MINI.
ANY and all persons claiming adverse
ly the above described lands are re-
ouested to file their claims in this
office on or before said 18th day of July. 1908.
j. C. HERMAN ENGEL4,
Register.
H. L. SHEPHERD,
ATTORNEY.
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land sought is more valuable for its
timber or stone than for agricultural
purposes, and to establish his claim to
said land before the Register and Re-
ceiver at Duluth, MINI. on Monday, the
Sth day of June, 1908.
He names as witnesses: Nick ON
son of Lengthy, Mimi. Frank johnson
of Duluth, Mimi. Gust Carlson of Su-
perior, Wis. John Peterson of Superior,
Wis.
Any and all persons claiming ad-
versely the above described lands are
requested to file their claims in this
office on or before said Sth day of
June, 1908.
w. II. SMALLWOOD, Attorney.
]. G. HERMAN ENGEL
5-2' 5-22 Register
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MANY friends of Capt. w. H.
Harvey regret his retirement from
the position of mining inspector.
He has filled the position most sat
isfactory and he retires only to ac-
cept much better position. 1t is
claimed that in the appointment OF
Capt. Webb worthy successor has
been named.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-04-17
TIMBER LAND, ACT JUNE 3, 1873.
Notice for Publication.
United States Land Office

Duluth. Mimi. Apr. .. 1905.
Notice is hereby given that in COM
Dliance with the provisions of the act
of Congress of June 3. 1873. entitled 'An
act for the sale of timber lands in the
states of California. Oregon. Nevada
and Washington Territory" as extend
ed to all the Public Land States by act
of August 4. 1892.
Johannes Sonninen, of Ely, county of St.
Louis. State of Minnesota. has this day Fl ed
in this office his sworn statement No. 1904,
for the purchase OF the n VIVA of SWA of sec
tiOn 81 i'll township I'll N, range II w.
And will offer proof to show that the
land sought is more valuable for its
timber or stone than for agricultural
purposes, and to establish his claim
to said land before Albert Thomas, S.
Commissioner at his Office in Ety. Mimi, on
Friday. the 9th day of June. 1908.
He names as Witnesses: Jacob Untinen.
Andrew Esterberg. Charles iemi and Au-
gust Hendrickson, all of Ely, MINI.
Any and all persons claiming adverse
ly the above-described lands are re-
auested to file their claims in this office
on or before said 5th day of June 1908.
4-3 by J, q. HERMAN ENGEL. Regis ter
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Notice

All persons wishing to plant a
garden lot on sections rs and 26,
township 63, range IL, known as
the Silverman property, must OBJ
tain leases from the undersigned
before so doing.
S. S. CHILDERs, Ely, MINI.
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TIMBER LAND. AC- JUNE 3. 1878.
Notice for Publication.
United States Land Office, Duluth MINI.

March both, 1908.
Notice is hereby given that in compliance
with the provisions of the act of Congress
of June 3, 1878, entitled IAN act for the
sale of timber lands in the States of Cali
fornia. Oregon, Nevada and Washington
Territory" as extended to ali the public
land States by act of August 4. 1892.
Matti Miettunens of Ely. county of ST.
Louis, state of Minnesota. has this day filed
in this office his sworn statement No. 1858,
for the purchase of the NE14 of SEA and
SEA of NEA and lots2 and 8 of section 9 in
township 62 NJ, range 10 w,
And will offer proof to show that the
land sought is more valuable for it's tim
Der or stone than for agricultural pur-
poses, and to establish his claim to- said
land before Albert ]. Thomas, U. S. Commits
sioner. at his office in Ely, Minnesota. on
Friday the 9Th day of June, 1905.
He names as witnesses: Jacob Niemi.
Oscar Maxi Emil Lieno and Andrew Kyl-
mala. all of Ely. MINI.
Any and all persons claiming adj
versely the above described lands are
requested to file their claims in this
Office on or before said 5th day of June
1908,
J. C. HERMAN ENGEL,
Register.
4-3 500
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TIMBER LAND, AIT JUNE 3, 1878.
Notice for Publication.
United States Land Office. Duluth
MINI.


Notice is hereby given that in com
Sliance with the provisions of the act
of Congress of June 8. 1878. entitled
IAN act for the sale of timber lands in
the states of California, Oregon, Ne
Rada and Washington Territory" as
Extended to all the Public Land States
by act of August 4. 1892.
B. Erick Erickson of Milaca. county of Mile
Laos. state of Minnesota. has this day ii ed
in this office his sworn statement No 1888.
for the purchase of the SEA Of section IL in
township 62 NJ. range II w. 4th p. m.
And will offer proof to show that the
land sought is more valuable for it's tim
Der and stone than for agricultural pur-
poses, and to establish his claim to said
land before the Register and Receiver
of this office at Duluth. Minnesota, on
Wednesday, the oath Gay of June 1908.
He names as witnesses: G. Erlck Erickson
of Milaca, Mimi, John Corners. Thomas Rob-
inson and Andrew Toutloff OF Ely. MINI. and
Emil johnson of Minneapolis, Mimi.
Any and all persons claiming adverse
ly the above described lands are re-
ouested to file their claims in this
Office on or before said oath day of June, 1908.
]. c. HERMAN ENGEL,
Register.
H. L. SHEPHERD. Attorney.
800 5-15
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THE State convention at Mime
apolis Wednesday did business on
a large scale when it named Frank
B. Kellogg of ST. Paul, =. B.
Hawkins of Duluth, W w. Hef-
felfnger Of Minneapolis and F. E,
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THE Evening Herald has again
started on its campaign of strong"
men for the legislature. 1t is to be
hoped its advice will be needed.
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THE ELY MINER.
PETER SCHAEFER. Editor & Prop.
ELY. MINNESOTA.
Published Every Friday.
Subscription $2per Year.

Entered at the post Office at Ely, Mime
sofa as second class matter.
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4-3 500
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in 20 minutes. Before half that time
had elapsed, Dolores Laura had learned
how to open and close the throttle, of
which operation she was no sooner
mistress than she drew a revolver from
her bosom and shot the unsuspecting
engineer in the back of the head, kill
ing him instantly. She also fired at
the back of the peon fireman as he
leaped in terror from the cab, inflicting
a wound from which, with the injuries
he received from striking the earth,
he died the next day in the railroad
hospital at Montevideo, but not before
he had furnished a description of Ia
muchacha diabla" and the particulars
of her actions as far as he had OBJ
served them
No whit daunted by this hitch in
her plans, the resolute young woman
let the train run on until 1t was but a
little over a mile from the burning
bridge Here, with a Judgment most
amazing in an absolute novice, she
slowed down to six or eight miles an
hour. threw the throttle wide open and
jumped from the engine before its
speed had begun to increase.
While these things were taking
place, parties on the San Jose side
had discovered the fire, and word
flashed from that office to Martes had
arrived but a minute after the Ill
fated train had pulled out. A plucky
gaucho had also endeavored to make
MS way down the precipice, ford the
stream and Chamber up the other side
In time to meet and flag the train
before 1T reached the chasm. No at
tempt was made to save the bridge, as
available water was not at hand, and
the fire had been so thoroughly started
and had made such headway on the
we'll seasoned timbers that the middle
OF the. structure had fallen in before
word reached San Jose
The gallant effort of the gaucho
would have been crowned with sue
cess had there been any one on the
engine to heed his signals. for in spite
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of the exhaustion of his hard climb
he had covered three-quarters of a
mile of the track toward Mertes when
the runaway train almost knocked him
over and rushed on to its doom.
The railway track just before reach
ing the bridge runs along the brink
of the Arroyo Blanca for a quarter
of mile, and for few awful moments
the unfortunate immigrants. who had
been celebrating with mirth and song
the last hour of their journey to their
new home, saw a vision of their fate
in the serried black stumps of the
burned timbers looming among the
granite boulders of the river bottom
like rows of pail bearers ranged among
the gravestones at a funeral service
Then the train shot out over the edge
of the chasm and the little group of
spectators. budding in helpless horror
on the farther rim, saw the seven
cars pile up one after another upon
the engine. to almost Immediately take
fire and begin to burn up.
This wreck of the Puente del Ar,
royo Blanca. as they speak of it in
Uruguay, takes rank as one of the
worst in the annals of railway dis
asters; for, out of 200 passengers, $50
were killed outright or burned to
death, half of the survivors died in
the hospital and every one of the 10
remaining was manned Tor life. The
wreckage burned for days in the bot
tom of the rocky gorge, and of all
the victims only a small box of
charred bone ends could be collected
for burial. This has been placed under
a single massive pyramid of Tyrolean
granite, imported and erected in the
San Jose cemeterio by the friends and
relatives of the young victims
The Fireman Tells
But for the fact that the wounded
fireman retained consciousness long
enough to tell his part of the story. no
clew as to the real cause of the acci-
dent would ever have been discovered.
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Violet for Illinois

Nj EARLY $4,000 scheoI children OF
~ Illinois voted recently to decide
upon q state flower. anG they chose
the meadow violet. Second in favor
was the wild rose. The decision is fnai.
Illinois, like several other states. DOW
ing to the decree of the little ones.
Who that has come from the middle
west, or. for that matter, the central
states and the east. does not know that
most exquisite and modest of all wild
flowers, the meadow violet? In some
states. particularly In the northern part
of Ohio. IL is known as the Johnny
Jump<Up-" In the belt between the
Mississippi river and the mountain
ranges near the Atlantic slope IL grows
in greatest profusion.
The petals are long and violet blue in
color Now and then. in freakish
mood, nature paints one with a creamy
white or stripes 1t alternately in white
and blue. These are the rare excep-
tions. As a rule the blossoms are OF
the richest shade of the family livery.
velvety in appearance. and while not
possessed of overpowering fragrance
are gratefully odorOus OF the freshness
of the open and the vigor of outdoor
life
The wild blossom is not so large as
that of the cultivated violet nor is ~ so
broad and round. 1t is more the shape
OF hood.
Perhaps most charming of all is the
fondness In which il is held by west
ern children. The little ones tram
long distances. with their treasured
punches of blossoms grasped tightly in
their hands, to bestow them upon their
companions or elders who are dearest
in their thoughts. Favored indeed
the school teacher whose desk in the
SnrfnQ iu
blossoms that are brought as a tribute
or love
Rhode Island is the only state fn the
union save Illinois. that has adopted
the violet an it's floral ernsssAil. The
golden rod with it's waving stalks. of
yellow. is the most common ce all state
flowers In Alabama. Kentucky. Marv-
land and Nebraska II was made the
choice of the little ones. In Arkansas
and Michigan the apple blossom. with
its CHEEKY petals ana sweet spring
fragrance. was selected above all other
iowers.
California. with its exuberane. a.
floral growth and dazzling beauty a.
well. chosn the California poppy. while
Delawsr"- smothered crriasS ths How-
er1ng season with the pink metals of
the peach tree. made that blossom the
=tate flower.
Colorado selected the colunlbine. ana
connecticut, rock ribbed and stern.
Favored the mountain laurel The
syrlnga. with its almost overpowering
perfume, is the state flower of Idaho.
and Indiana. with its acres and acres
or rich bottom land. voted for the corn.
The children did not vote for the
state flower in Iowa. but the legisla-
ture named the wild rose while in
North Dakota. where the choice was
LETT to the children, they, too. decided
upon the wild rose.
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Occurring, as it chanced to, in the
midst of an incipient revolution. the
general impression of the public at
the time was that il was the work of
insurgents. In fact, the cabled accounts
of the wreck sent to Europe and
the States attributed it to this
cause, and the real truth only came
to be known so gradually that this
erroneous impression has never been
eradicated abroad.
When the Senorita Dolores Laura
was arrested in her home in San Jose
she was in the company of her lover,
and the two are said to have been
planning wedding trip to Brazil. Con-
fronted with the affidavits OF the fire.
man she made no attempt at denial.
and in the course of her short i'm
prisonment confessed in full the facts
as I have related them here. Her last
words, uttered just before her eXecu-
tion, were to reiterate her satisfaction
al the success of the blow she had
struck for her sisters in disgrace and
sorrow" as well as for herself
Dolores lover was pointed out to
me in small town in the lower val
ley of the Arroyo Blanca. and his ap-
pearance is certainly that of a man
bearing a great grief The story goes
that he was most devotedly in love
with Dolores Laura all the time. and
that he has vowed to remain single all
his days in loyalty to her memory.
Another case in point. and a most
admirably finessed piece of work. was
the revenge of Uruguayan girl
am not setting down her name because
she is still alive and at liberty-whose
lover had deserted her and married
one of the fatally fascinating Tyrolean
beauties. This undeniably clever young
person hid her sorrow and hatred un-
der a most specious show of friend
illness to the bride. and after dancing
at the wedding began making that un-
suspecting creature a cumulative Sc
ries of presents in token of her pro-
fessed admiration and esteem. First
there was splendid thoroughbred
very beautiful but very wild: follow
ing this highly ornate saddle girth.
secretly provided with a defective
girth; then silver mounted bride
with cruel Spanish curb bit fairly
covered with bristles and cogwheels:
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THREM IYIE THROTTLE VIDE OPEN
AND JUmPED TROpI
THE ENGINE.

common through the ages to the dis.
appointed heart seeking expression.
have been resorted to. supplemented
by plots of the most ingenious fresh
ness, specially evolved and executed to
suit peculiar exigencies
Thus the pushing of one Tyrolean
bride into a well on her wedding day..
Uruguayan husband with vitriol as
they emerged from the church, and the
wholesale poisoning of some dozens
of others with arsenic in the mate
pots at a post nuptial supper, cannot
claim the distinction of originality,
however well they may have been
carried out. But no one can justly
accuse the Senorita Dolores Laura Au-
gusta Pitta BerZera of going back to
the middle ages for the scheme of the
comprehensive coup by which she
ridded herself of some nine score of
possible rivals, and from the conse-
quences of which deed. but for slight
slip in her plans. she would have gone
scot free, instead of paying the penalty
of her life, she did in Montevideo
some time ago. | am setting down the
particulars of this affair with some
detail, as l find that practically moth
ing is known abroad of the true cause
of the great Puente del Arroyo Blanca
railway wreck
The Senorita Dolores Laura had been
wooed by wealthy young estanciero
of the San Jose district for some years,
when she fancied one day that she
detected coldness in his manner toward
her, and promptly diagnosed it as in
difference induced by exposure to the
fulsome praises that were being sung
anent the beauty of a fresh consign-
ment of Tyrolean girls that had just
arrived at Montevideo. She said moth
ing of her suspicious to any one, but
by pretending to take a friendly in
terest in the new comers, learned from
their friends by what train they were
expected. Then she bought a five gall
lon can of coal oil--good Yankee oil
1t must have been, for no other is sold
in Uruguay-and drove in her light
trap TO high wooden trestle spanning
the chasm of the Arroyo Blanca 10
miles from San Jose.
Arranging the Wreck
She tied her horses on arriving at
the bridge and, after applying the
where it would best serve her pur-
pose. set fire to the lofty structure
in a dozen places. Then she drove
east and forded the stream in the
open valley, four miles below the
bridge, and continued on cross country
to the little station of Martes, reach
ing there in time for half an hours
rest before the express puiled up for
its regular watering stop.
On the arrival of the train she at
once ascertained that the Tyrolean i'm
migrants were aboard and then pro-
ceeded to the engine where, with a 10
peso note and the plea that she wanted
a new experience; she induced the
good natured driver. an Irishman to
disregard the rules and take her izto
the cab.
The distance from Martes to tae
Puente del Arroyo Blanca is about l2
miles. usually covered by the express
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own cCuntrywomen can play upon; hence
the movement in the home product Ian
guishes lin the face of the unnatural
and unreasonable demand for the
choicely assorted and carefully culled
imported article.
Men at Premium
And right here is the pity of it; fol
Uruguay. because of the destruction o.
the flower of its .ranhood" in its
countless revolutions. is second only
among the nations OF the world to its
sister republic, Paraguay. in the pre-
dominance of females over males in its
population. In tho latter country this
disproportion was as great as 20 to in
1873. the year of the ending of the de-
struct:ve war waged against it by Bra
zil Argentina and Uruguay. and the
balance is still so far on the wrong
side thai the women do practically all
of the work and most of the wooing
In Uruguay the conditions are not
quite so aggravated as in Paraguay
but the excess of women-really fine
young women, too, some of them-is
very great. Which makes it only ma
turai that the sex" should feel itself
Ill treated in being forced to compete
on equal terms with specially selected,
admitted duty free foreign girls. when
the very least il had q right to expect
under the circumstances was a pro-
hibitive customs rate on imported
women, reciprocity on imported men
and a domestic tax on bachelors.
Now the Spanish American woman is
ever jealous creature. even in the
little love affairs she INDUCES in to re-
lieve the tension on her high strung
nerves. and where only her own coun-
trywomen are in the lists So when
she had to swallow the loss of home
and husband, with fortuitous spin
sterhood and heartache to keep them
down, and all at the hands of a TO-
eign mink imported for no other pur-
pose. the effect on her can hardly be
imagined.
Hell knows no fury like unto a
woman scorned" may stand unchaI-
lenged unless there chances to be pres
ent another victim of similar neglect.
and central Uruguay had and still has,
10000 of them. Not that such a great
number of the men of that country
have married Tyrolean wives-rather
it is an approximate estimate of the
unmarried women of marriageable age
in that section. Each of these by a
characteristic process of feminine rea-
soning not confined to the limits of
the national boundaries of Uruguay
attributes her inglorious ana hateful
state to the appropriation of her would
have been husband by an artful Tyrol-
ienne. quite forgetting to allow for the
fact that there would not have been
men enough to have gone around in
any case Therefore, treated as the
women of the country feel they have
been, ii is not surprising that in a
land where blood has always flowed as
easily and naturally as water the vic
torious invaders should not have been
left in peaceful possession of their
spoils. All the conventional modes OF
procedure. from poison to poniard.
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ana lastly, mdSnlHcEht CIltlSoH Aiu-
ing habit
Gored by the Bulls
The first day that the absence of the
husband gave her free rein. the artful %
pIotter assembled the parts of her COM
hination and dropped them into place
by getting the Crimson habit on the
bride. the bride on the side saddle. the
side saddle and the bristle bitted bride
on the horse, and the horse on a gallOp
across the range where graZed the
widest of. the estancia's cattle herds.
sharp pull at the bristle bit by the
bride. an angry lunge by the outraged
thoroughbred. a parting of the defec-
tive giTth, and a vivid crimson riding
habit and all IL contained the sport OF
the sharp hoofs and horns Of the fierce
criolIa bulls completed the play.
of course the senOrita could not be
held criminally responsible for the
grewsome tragedy. but,the fact remains
that her name today is anathema In the
Tyrolean colonies, while among her
sisters there l. none other TO whom
more honor is accorded. Which last
may be in part due 70 the fact that she
is still single, while her quOndam lover
is the husband Of another Tyrohenne-
The domestic life of the principals in
these Tyrol- Uruguayan alliances ap-
pears to be all that could be desired,
and il is a notable fact that the hus-
Dand is far less prone to exercise his
predatory and other trouble making
instincts than when married to a.
woman of his own blood. The children
are a fine race. strong. healthy and
vigorous. and rather inclined to favor
their fathers in appearance. Few OF
the girls that / saw were as beautiful
or as winsome as their mothers. and a
certain apprehensive distrustfulness to
be noted in the bearing OF nearly
every one of them is directly traceable
TO the persecution to which they have
been subjected from their childhood ar.
the hands OF the UTuguayan girls
unmixed blood.
One of the most interesting results
of this mixture of races has been their
music. The average 'Uruguayan Is a
veritable skiufTl of melody. which lat
ter usually finds it's way out upon the
twilight air through the medium OF
guitar while as every one who hs-J
climbed the Alps. or been regular az
tendant at a vaudeville theatCr knows.
the shrek OF the escaping steam from
the safety valve of TIC Tyroiean's in
ternal music pressure cylinder is called
'yOdeling," form OF music which
miSE- 5c described as a refining or a
humanizinS. or a reducing 10 it's low
est terms the music Of the steam ca!
liope. The new music IS a cross Or
blend of the two methods. and consists
of yodeling to a suitarfor gultarsnz to
a yOdel