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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25
Sig Sum Paid for PLAYERS.

According to statement OF Secre-
tary John e. Bruce of the national
baseball commission there has passed
through his hands this fall for play
ers drafted $47,550; for players pur-
chased outright, $6S,50O, making to-
tai of $116,050 sent through the ma
tional commission for minor league
players during the past two months.
This amount does not include num-
Der of transactions that were made
directly between clubs, the money not
being sent through the commission
clearing house.
"At fair estimate" said Secretary
Bruce, II should say that to date there
has been spent for players by the 16
big league clubs $150,000 in round
numbers. There will be more sales
between now and the end of the draft
ing season, October Is, that probably
will swell the sum to $175,00O."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25
LAWYER NOT YET A BELIEVER.
SpirituaIistic Friend Failed to Keep
His Appointment.

A Cleveland man sentenced to be
electrocuted on a murder charge was
a strong believer in spiritualism.
Whenever he talked with his lawyer
he was either abusing him for not
getting him acquitted or else arguing
with him about spiritualism.
The lawyer never had believed in
spiritualism, but he was open to con-
viction. The day before his client was
to go to the death chair the lawyer
made proposition to him: "By this
time tomorrow" he said, ''you will
have crossed the mysterious river.
You say it is possible for spirits to re-
turn. If you think you're so smart,
just return and then I'll be con-
vinced."
The client was a matter of fact sort
of man. He readily agreed to the
lawyers plan. eff there is any way
can appear to you," he said, you can
bet your neck I'll do it. If I'm not ON
hand at the appointed time you can
just make up your mind it's. because
there's nothing in spiritualism. But
I'll come around all right
The two decided on time and
place for the meeting.
II broke another engagement in or.
der to be there" said the lawyer in
telling of the experiment, ''and waited
around for more than an hour on the
fellow, but the cuss never showed up"
New York Press.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25
PITTSBURGER HAS PLAN TO
CHANGE FOUL STRIKE RULE
Would Not Penalize Batters for Balls
Hit Near Foul Lines Back of
First and Third Bases.

Claiming that the foul strike rule
as interpreted to-day is interfering
with good batters of both leagues,
George L. Moreland, the baseball sta
tistician of Pittsburg, will appear be-
fore the committee on rules of the
major leagues the coming winter and
submit an amendment to the rule
which, if adopted, he thinks will
go far toward improving batting.
His idea is to have line drawn par
allel with the foul lines just six feet
outside and drive which lands be-
tween these two lines shall not be
scored as strike against the bats
man. The second line shall be drawn
only from the first and third bases out.
Moreland said in explaining his di-
agram:
1.-THE foul strike rule was male for
the purpose Of preventing scientific
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25
JOHN HEkR1
i ON
OBESITY
CURES
ON
OBESB Z
By GEO. v. HOBART, C"EueH M'HUeH.")

and that she would have to stay there
in a foreign land alone, among utter
strangers, unless he sent cab for
her.
When Aunt Martha got home that
night she found that all the flesh she
had lost was her pocketbook with ten
dollars in it, and Uncle Peter lost
about ten dollars for cab hire, making
a total of four pounds, English money.
A. day or two later Mrs. Carruth-
ers told Aunt Martha that the only
sure cure for obesity was to take cleo
trio baths, so Uncle Peter had ono
rugged up which was great shock to
his pocketbook.
AS soon as it was up Aunt Martha
went inside of the framework and sat
among the electric lamps with only
her head out in the atmosphere for
about two hours.
Then she came out smiling, and said
she felt fine and that she must have
lost ten pounds.
Uncle Peter peeped inside to look
the bath over, and found that she had
forgotten to turn the current on.
Next morning when Aunt Martha
went after the electric bath Uncle
Peter turned the current on himself
to make sure, and when Auntie
stepped in it she accidentally put her
foot on an ohm or something, which
tickled her so that she let a blood
curdling yell out of her that could be
heard for 27 miles as the crow flies.
Then she put her other foot down,
and that landed on volt or an am
pere or some foolish dingus which
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25

stout, and the old lady promptly fell
for every obesity cure known to mod
ern science.
Even at top weight Aunt Martha
doesn't go over 154 pounds, but she
got the idea in her head that COM
pared with her Barnum's original fat
lady was a pikerette, so she decided to
go after that obesity thing with an TX.
We tried to flag her and talk her
out of it, but she waved us all back,
and said she'd made up her mind she
wasn't going through this world lead
ing double chin. ....
Well, Bunch, Aunt Martha started in
to put the sabots to the fatty tissue,
and for week Uncle Peters peace
full home across the road looked
like moving picture entitled 1.-THE
Original Rough House."
First flop out of the box Mrs. Grim
shaw, who weighs 27S in her war
paint, told Aunt Martha that exercise
was the only thing to keep down the
weight, so Uncle Peter was chased off
to town for rowing machine, set
of Indian clubs and proud assert
ment of deaf and dumb bells.
Presently the muscle goods arrived,
and next morning about daylight Aunt
Martha jumped on board the rowing
machine and bore away to the north
west, with a strong ebb tide on the
port bow.
She was about four miles up the
river and going hard when strap
broke, whereupon Aunt Martha went
overheard with a splash that upset
most of the furniture in the room and
knocked her manicure set down be-
hind the bureau.
One of the oars went up in the air
and landed on the bridge of Uncle
Peters nose, because his face hap
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25
TURTLE SEXES GIRLS
TOE; DRAGS Her UNDER
PULLS HER ALONG BOTTOM OF
WHITE RIVER IN INDIANA
is RESCUED.

Eiwood, Ind.-Gwendolyn Wash.
Durn, pretty 1S-year-old girl, had a
narrow escape from drowning in
White river, south of Omega. The
girl, with a party of campers, was en-
deavoring to escape the intense heat
by spending the afternoon in the
water. In trying to emulate Mahar
and Dollihar, who took several hun
dred pounds of carp from the river by
feeling around logs with their feet,
the girl was working about the sunk
en- stump, in water that reached al
most to her shoulder.
Suddenly one of Miss Washburns
companions noticed that the large sun
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25

"one of the Rubber Strings Broke"
pened to be in the way when the oar
came down.
When loving hands finally pulled
Aunt Martha out of the interior of her
rocking chair, she found that, with the
help of the rowing machine, she had
lost nearly two pounds, mostly off the
end of her elbow.
The next day Mrs. Cooper, who
weighs about 246, told Aunt Martha
that she wasn't using the best kind
of physical torture, so Uncle Peter
was once more chased off to the store,
where he bought one of those rubber
contrivances you fasten on the wall
and then try to pull it off again with
the handles.
Bright and early the next morning
Aunt Martha grabbed the handles,
and was getting away from her obes-
ity at the rate of an ounce an hour,
when suddenly one of the rubber
strings broke and something kicked
Aunt Martha just where good singer
gets her coloratura.
When Aunt Martha fell wounded on
the field of battle every picture on
the walls fell with her, and there
was such crash that the cook thought
the end of the world was coming, so
she ran screaming in the direction of
Paterson, N. J.
They had to pour about a bucket
Of water over Aunt Martha's map be-
fore she came to, and then she found
that all she had lost by this now proc
ess was her breath and a couple of
side combs.
Mrs. Gaddings dropped in that day
and told Aunt Martha that the only
way to reduce the flesh is to take a
long walk; SO Auntie picked out a
long walk and took it.
After she was gone about six hours,
and II was getting dark, she called
Uncle Peter up on the long distance
telephone and broke the news to him
that she had walked Is miles, and that
she had been so extravagant she had
used I'D ali the walk that was In her.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25
CLUBS ARE NOT PUNISHED
National Commission Says There Was
No Intent to Deceive.

No penalty was imposed on the
Cleveland, Akron, Nashville, Colum-
bus, Toledo and Portland clubs for ir-
regularities in transferring players,
the national baseball commission in q
decision promulgated the other day
excusing the offenses because there
was no intent to deceive the commits
sion. The decision states:
Several weeks ago the commission
promulgated a notice setting aside GER
tain agreements that had been filed
by the Cleveland American league
club pertaining to players who had
been sold by that club to Akron, Nash.
vile, Columbus, Toledo and Portland,
because the transactions were consid-
cred irregular and not in accordance
with the rules Of the commission.
"a further examination of this case
clearly shows that there was no intent
on the part of either of the clubs in
volved to deceive the commission or
to enter into any collision to cover I'D
the players 1t is evident that the
clubs interested believed these agree
ments would be approved for the rea.
son that year ago agreements of
similar character were permitted to
stand because the irregularities there
In had not been brought to the atten-
ton of the commission.
For this reason no penalty will be
inflicted against any one of the clubs
involved in these transactions It is
further ordered that the title to all
of the players involved who have not
again been purchased by the Cleve-
land club shall revert to that club at
the end of the playing season of the
particular leagues in which such play
ers are now playing, unless the clubs
to whom they had been sold by the
Cleveland club make suitable arrange.
ments with the latter club"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25

There is, indeed, great deal of ro-
nance in the tale of the Roman wall
of England, the remarkable piece of
engineering, now nearly seventeen
centuries old; and the remains of the
wall are we'll worth visiting. To see
them is to realize how furious must
have been the onslaughts of the Picts
and Scots, and how ceaselesS the vigi-
lance Of the egionaries-Gauls or
Brittons by birth, but by nature more
Roman than the Romans. The making
of the wall is a striking illustration of
the pertinacity of the Roman charac-
ter and the strength of the imperial
idea. This pride of empire is clearly
shown by Mr.. Kipling in his story of
the old wall in Puck of Pooks HILL"
where he makes his Roman-BTitish
soldier give voice to sentiments like
the following:
Ny fathers father saw it not,
And 1, belize, shall never come
To look on that so holy spot
The very Rome.
When we see how the great ram
in spite of every obstacle, over hill
and dale, through marsh and moor
land, we have no difficulty in under
standing that this spirit of devotion to
what was even then ''the Holy City"
must have animated all who worked
at it. julius Caesar was, of course,
the first Roman conqueror of Britain,
hn i. 70 ;ch ho
natives for having joined the Gauls
in fighting against him. Caesar never
penetrated very far north. With his
overpowering army of $4,000 men he
paid his flying visits conquering and
subduing, but in each case withdrew
his legions at the first approach of
winter. For nearly 100 years Britain
A. d. rs the Roman general, Agricola,
was sent as governor to Britain. The
historian, Tacitus, son-in-law of Agri-
cola, writes much of his relatives con-
quests. Agricola's forts seem to have
suggested to Hadrian at later date
the value of such barrier in hostile
county, which, though completely sub
from the inhabitants of the mountain
districts of Caledonia. The emperor
in A. d. 100 drove back once again
these fierce neighbors and the tribes
of the Maetae, and, finding it impos-
sible to keep possession Of Valentia,
gave up the attempt.
To keep the land south of the Tyne,
he built the stone rampant from the
Tyne to the Solway, known as the
Picts or Roman wall. The wall
served not only as a barrier against
the foe, but as a base of operation and
standing ground for the main army of
Rome Reaching from sea to sea
across the narrowest part of the is
land, it followed an almost straight
line for 70 miles, no height proving
too inaccessible and no river or morass
too impracticable. In was so built
that no foe could approach within
dangerous distance without being seen.
1t is said that the rampant as raised
by Hadrian was an earthen vallum
on a stone foundation, and that the
stone wall was the work of Severus.
Other writer's declare it all to be the
work of one, Hadrian, who was we'll
known as builder and architect. 1t
is supposed that about 10000 men
were employed in building the entire
line of defense. The earth vallum is
visible still, and on the south of the
stone wall, and north of the wall
again, may be traced the big ditch.
The wall apparently was about eight
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25

caused Aunt Martha to become short.
circuited.
Bunch, she was the shortest circuit
that ever happened.
For couple of minutes that room
looked like a thunderstorm, with
Aunt Martha playing the thunder.
When Uncle Peter finally got the
current turned off and all the live
wires out of her hair, Aunt Martha
collapsed on the sofa, screaming !
Take it away! Take it away! Now
1 know what a hard life the third rail
must lead!"
1 think the electric treatment has
cured Aunt Martha.
At any rate all the exercising par
aphernalia has been thrown out in the
back yard, and I think that now she
will be perfectly satisfied to go
through life leading double chin as
nature intended.
Yours in the current of friendship,
JOHN.
Copyright 1908, by G. W. Dillingham; Coz
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25
Woman's Limitations.

Any woman thinks she's capable OF
reforming man, but when it comes
to reforming herself she employs
dressmaker.-St. Louis Globe DEMO
crat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25
Giants Best Base stealers.

New York has the best record of
stolen bases in the two major leagues.
The Giants have purloined 1873, while
the Highlanders have figured 172
thefta.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25
Woman Wild for Ten Years.

Galveston, Textile capture OF a
wild woman in Gregg county, northern
Texas, by a posse of citizens, clears
a mystery of ten years standing, for
the woman has been identified as the
wife of a prominent farmer who dis
appeared from her home in Sabine
county ten years ago. Her name is
Mrs. Martha Wilkes. She was %
years of age when she left her hus-
bands farm, suffering from religious
mania, and was supposed to have met
her death in the Sabine river.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-09-25

Church Built from Single Tree.
A large Baptist church at Santa
Rosa, Cal, was built from the wood OF
q single California redwood tree
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-05
THE INTEREST BILL
II was Killed by Reform Votes at a
Cost 10 the State Of S60,OO0
In -Four Years

- The taxpayers of tie state should
be@1nterested in the question of re-
tafhing as treasurer of the state a
=. man who, If he is elected another
term, will by the end of that term
have drawn fss0;sOO of interest on the
sstate funds-mopey which is a clear
pickup for him and which should
;, rightfully go"tos, the state =
The stalwaftss.made & strong effort
to have this interest money go into the
state treasury. ASH does in most other
states, but were baked at every point
by the insurgents. Mr. Bra3rId the
: stalwart member from Minnehaha
county, iRtroduced bill to.give the
estate the: interest on its own .fAnds
It-swas opposed by state Trsasurer
%Eassill, Mr.: Erawford.a .and 6ther in
surgents, ana, after bstag hold up in
= committees as long as, possible, it
1commendation' Mr.. Bsatrua moved
ito amend the report and Recommend
sthe passage of: the hill, and this
motion was defeated by a vateisof so
TO 81. The insurgents voted against
the motion and the stafEarts' for it.
q: Thus the reform legislature :voted
for a grafs which will cost the state
$4,000, in the two years of CassilP s
term, and $50, 1000 if he bs elected
TO andther term; lt9
that he will turn au.thisF Interest
money over to the state whether such
a law is passed or not sWill the voters
sof :fhe state be willing.,to longer in
.dulse in the ;IuNary Of such ia costly
treasurer as Mr.Cassip? Il -
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-05
oAMpAIGS.oF ErrJHETs.

=
A correspondent writes to know
where 1T was that Mr.. Crawford used
the term "toads and RATS from foul
cellar in referring to the stalwarts.
This was alta meeting i'm Huronshort-
ly before the legislature met. The gov
ernor was Very angry and intemperate
in his remarks and his defense of the
Gamble graft was the, beginning OF
his slide down the political tobog-
gan. 1t was at Oacoma that the gov
ernor called the Arsus-Leader "a
liar" and he was roundly hissed by
the audience. for it. The governor in
addition faasscaa1ed the stalwarts simps
of hell and yellow corporation
curs,'' but it was the lieutenant gov
ernor who coined the expression ma
chine whelps." The people of the
state never: heard such abusive and
extreme language as that used by otE
talkative governor ,np to about ten
days ago, HE has suddenly taken q
tumble and in recent speeches is
tame enough 10 eat out of your hand.
He has discovered that Senator Kilt
redge's style of campaigning is a win
ner, and he, Is trying to copy. it, only
he can't because he lacks two es-
sential qualities; he.lacks the brains,
and he lacks the poise.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-05
ssssssssss .--s 8 sf~.ss :s.ssaes.rss

- sye y -
inaqe " show that Senator Kstt-
s renamed 81 the resident agent
~. ~ tne Mliwaukee read. after, he was
- .ilat 4oaG n.tfyeral OF his &peeclfs
:, = pulntsu senasHr, and after be &c
.,s M 90 take any more CASTS Tor
elie Iast week, the senator has maze
0onipieIe ,n answer to this charge
,... n IhursdayS July II, 190fs~ Akr.
fAr.eTeoge was appointed a UnffRd
onieeu states = seHator by Gov
ernor Hefreld. oIt, the next Sat-
uIudy, ME, kttEedge ..was in ST. Paul
ana hotined the. Great Northern tfo-
ple tnat ne c0t5Q take no more eases
from them. He agreed 10 complete
Two OF three cases. then nendings pfo-
yideu the litigation could be finished
py. the nfst OF October, as. he did mot
axe ms seat .inSt the ss6nate until the
nlst MosotG IN sDsjet'mber,s A few days
! iillet, the same arrangefpen mt was made
win the fsiiiwankee people, and Mr.
hl1treuge has sfaithfully and literally
Aept snls promise gsinoe, to take. no
eases Tor railroad Or other public ssEr-
'VISe cefporations 1~sl
Wnen Mr. kdttredge was trying
cases Tor fhe .MjlwaulS eel 'he was ap-
pplnleo "a resident agent of the COM
pany, and The appointment was filed
at Pierre. This was required hy law,
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-05
WILL CASSIIL EXPLAIN?

We have been much interested in
an interview given by State Treasurer
Cassill to the effect that when Mr..
Crawford became governor he Inherit
ed a deficiency of $32SOOo, IN round
numbers. We have caused the books
of the state treasurer to be sinvesti-
gated, and we want to. ask the state
treasurer If the following statements
taken from his b., ,ks., are not facts:
=: On January L, 1907 when CraW-
ford became governor, revenue war
rants were outstanding to the amount
of s25O.0O0. and on general funds to the
amount of $4,000. This made to-
raj of $467 900 as the total debt of the
state at that time. There was in cash
in the treasury to meet this the sum of
s2b5. 900 This made the net debt due
when Crawford took, charge of S212,-
600. These are all given in round
numbers. the hundreds and all below
being omitted for convenience sake!
ON the first of January, 1908. after
Crawford had been governor for one
year, the s250,000 OF revenue war
rants were still outstanding. Not Q
cent of them had been paid. In addi-
tion the outstanding warrants against
the general fund had increased to
s3O0. 900. The cash on hand had di-
minished to $4,000. in the general
fund. Thus there was outstanding a
total of S550,000 in warrants, with
$4,000 off for cash, which left a
net debt Of $524,000.
Thus the outstanding warrant in
debtedness on January 4, 1907, was
s2i2.Oo0 and on January 1, 1908, 1t
was s524,000-an increase for the
year of ,$312,000.
Does the state treasurer have two
sets of books or is the statement above
given correct. as shown by the DOCKS
in the office at Pierre.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-05
REFORM HOLD:UP OF TEN PERCENT MADE

in the fight than the -etalwarts will
sspe nd diiring fhe entire campaign,
which ends III June. They are send
ing, free, papers to any who will
, take. them from the postoffice.
They have horde. OF paid speak
ers on the stump. attacking Senator
,Kittredge, and praising reform meth
DDS. They are flooding the state
with circulars and ,feaders prepared
at great expense by the Crawford
news" bureau. 1t should not be
hard to guess whence most of the
money is coming. but the Argus
Lea|ier as yet lacks the proof which
/. Every zstate officer is scnrrying
over the state. The state house is
neglected., The state Is paying the
mileage of these men. and even their
hotel bills at the places where they.
stop: At any, rate. several of them
have beer seen to take state
places which, they visited only:
:on political mission. The
pure food commissioner is going over
the state at the expense of the peo-
pile of South Dakota distributing
campaign literature and making
Speeches for Crawford. He is not
worrying about pure food. The ap-
Il pTOpT1dtlOu tIllS 10 Sc,1VV
more than 1t was under Sherwood,
and the work Is not done half so well.
The need of the big appropriation
now becomes. manifest The plain
and undisputed fact is that the tax
payers of South Dakota are being
compelled to pay a large part OF the
speaking campaign in behalf of the
rcformers The insurance commits
sfoner is so busy collecting money
and writing campaign literature that
he is paying no attention whatever
to the duties of his Office. The state
house is run by clerks. while those
who were elected to do the work are
travelling over the state on
state mileage trying to induce the
people to perpetuate this miserable
regime
| fooled again?