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made fast about his neck and he is
actually strung up, when the leader,
who is rather kind-hearted," decides
on a council of war; and orders
Sutherland hauled down. 1t is while
this council is in progress that Suth-
erland escapes.
Sutherland joins his pals a short
distance away. The vigilance COM
mittee pursues them, and Nellie Err
rington, learning of the committees
movements, jumps on a horse and
goes to warn the robbers. She is mis-
taken for one of them and killed.
Free-for-all shooting followed, several
Of the committee were wounded, but
the desperadoes got away.
Did Honest Work for a Time.
Sutherland then worked for a time
as delivery clerk in the Creek Ma
ton, after which he committed more
robberies and was arrested for the
first and only time in his life by the
sheriff Of Lamar, Mo. He spent some
nine months in reformatory, escaped
and joined the army as musician
under the name of Jack Ames. He was
ambitious to become an army officer,
but Errington bobbed up again, and,
knowing that he would be found out
sooner or later, Sutherland went back
to the old life.
Going to Los Angeles Sutherland
and his pals planned several crimes,
among them the kidnapping of mil
lionaire and holding of him for $780,
900 ransom. This was spoiled, he
wrote, because the selected victim
suddenly went abroad.
The autobiography tells of numer-
Gus car hold-ups in San Francisco; of
several murders, and then of the time
when he married and determined to
reform for good" Sutherland contin-
ued: 81 longed, oh, how much, for a
clean name, home, friends and to be
somebody"
Sutherland was now clerk in the
University club at Los Angeles His
wife had been a telephone operator.
She knew nothing of his duplicity-his
double life-and she was happy. They
decided to buy ranch in Oklahoma
out of their savings, and were well on
the way to achieving the one desire
they had so longed and planned for
when the panic came and all went to
smash. Sutherland lost his job; with
it went the ranch in Oklahoma. He
pondered over his plight. He could
see no way but the old way. That
was the easiest; he would follow it for
a time, then when he got enough
money together he and his wife would
go to Oklahoma, buy back the ranch
and live happily ever after.
So it was, Sutherland found another
pal. They robbed and pillaged; the
Los Angeles police found them out,
and-the rest of the story has been
told-New York World.
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sAMPLE.oF BRITISH RED TAPE.
May or May Not Be True, but 1t
Makes a Good Story.

At a dinner in New York during his
disastrous American visit, Henri Far
man, the aviator, complained of the
American customs regulations.
With their affidavits, declarations,
examinations and what not" said Mr..
Farman, there is too much red tape
about your customs. A man gets lost
in all this red tape, as they say for
eigner was once lost in the red tape
of the British post Office.
"This foreigner stood, one luckless
evening, before the newspaper box in
the London post Office. The box has a
huge mouth. Newspapers are thrust
into it in bales. AS the inquisitive
foreigner bent over it a bale of news
papers struck his shoulder, and with
dull thud he fell into the box.
His friends ran around to the coun-
tiers to rescue him. The clerks, how
ever, paid no attention to their de-
mands. The foreigner was in the mail
box. Accordingly they would treat
him as mail matter.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
CHASE AWAY THE "BLUEs."
Laughter Is the Enemy of Dyspepsia
and Kindred Evils.

l know family with whom it is a
perfect joy to dine. The members of
this famil vie with one another in
seeing who can say the brightest, wit
test, funniest things and tell the best
stories during dinner. Dyspepsia and
nagging were unknown there.
The announcement of dinner should
be the signal for jolly good time.
Make the dinner hour the brightest,
cheerfulest, most sunshiny hour of the
whole day. Fine all knockers and
everyone who appears with long
face Laughter and fun are the enc
mics of dyspepsia and the blues"
The home ought to be sort of thea
ter for fun and all sorts Of sports-a
place where the children should take
the active parts, although the parents
should come in for share, too. Don't
Mr.. Business Man or Mr.. Professional
Man, cast a gloom over your home
just because things have gone wrong
during the day! Your wife and chill
drep have troubles Of their own. They
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
pitcher Who shuns Shit Ball.

Walter Johnson, the wonderful
young pitcher of the Washington
team, is one of the big league twirlers
who has never f1irted with the spit
ball. According to Manager Cantil-
lon, he warned Johnson against its
use just as soon as he saw the won
dreful speed and fast breaking curve
Of the kid from the west. Johnson
always obeys instructions, and the
mystery of the splitter is deep, dark
secret to him. ANY pitcher with as
much stuff as Johnson is crazy to
dabble with the spit ball." is the way
Cantillon puts it.
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have right to expect that you will
contribute something besides vinegar
to the dinner hour and the evening.
Did not Lycurgus set up the god Of
laughter in the Spartan eating halls
because he thought there was no
sauce like laughter at meals?
The constantly increasing success
of the vaudeville playhouses and other
places of amusement all over this
country shows the tremendous demand
in the human economy for fun. Most
people do not appreciate that this de-
mand must be met in some form or
the character will be warped and de-
fective.
Laugh until come back" was
noted clergyman's ''good-by' saluta-
ton. 1t is a good one for us ALL
Orison SWEET Marden, in Success
Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
PUTTING TUP TO BILLIE.
Logical Reason Why He Should Be
the One to Ask Favor.

The wagons Of the greatest show
on earth" passed up the avenue at
daybreak Their incessant rumble
soon awakened ten-year-old Billie and
his five-year-old brother, Robert. Their
mother feigned sleep as the two white
robed figures crept past her bed into
the hall, on the way to investigate.
Robert struggled manfully with the
unaccustomed task of putting on his
clothes. wait for me, Billie" his
mother heard him beg. You'll get
ahead of me-"
Get mother to help you,' counseled
Billie, who was having troubles of his
own.
Mother started to the rescue, anG
then paused as she heard the voice
of her younger, guarded but anxious
and insistent:
"You ask her, Billie. You've known
her longer than I have" -Everybody's
Magazine.
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Plaque Taxicab Drivers.

London taxicab drivers have suf-
fered considerable losses recently
through the mischievous pranks Of
street arabs. The young mischief ma
kers pull down the red flag of the tax
imeter cab when the driver is not look
ing, and within a few seconds 16 cents
is registered against the driver. Some
of the chauffeurs declare that cabmen
are responsible in many cases for the
mischief The cabmen fear that the
taxicab drivers will eventually take
away all their patronage. One taxi
cab driver had SIS registered against
him in one day by a boy lowering and
raising the red flag.
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will be taken dead, and I leave you
this and l beg you to do the best you
can with it and if you can make any
money out of it l beg you to see that
my poor little sick wife gets a third
or fourth of it. l know 1 can trust
you to do this, for believe you to be
honorable and it is not more than
right, for my wife Is good, true, hon.
est and Woodworking little woman;
good old southern and Kentucky fam
lily. She deserved far better man
than I.
when it is known that I am an
outlaw, and have been most of my life,
most every one will say: He's bad
one,' and that's all. 1 wish the world
to know the truth, for there are GER
tain few whom I want to know that /
was not as bad as they are sure to
paint me. If l am killed 1 am sure to
become notorious, as much of my past
is sure to crop out and my name is
disgraced, and as that is the case
may as we'll have the truth told as
just part, and maybe a whole jugful of
lies added to it,
After giving the place of his birth
as Lamar, Barton county, Mo-, and the
date September 20, 1882, this remark
able autobiography of Sutherland deals
with his family. 1t speaks of his ia
Their being fire marshal of Pittsburg,
Kan, then deputy sheriff, and of his
relatives having fought in every war
this country has been engaged in
from IT'S to the present time, except
the Spanish-American war;"
Black Sheep of Family.
"All have been honest-too honest,
in fact, but 1" wrote the young bandit.
Il am the last of my race and the one
black sheep. From a delicate, timid
and refined boy l grew into a desper-
ate young rascal, ready to shoot any
man."
Next is the account of his meeting
with Joe Palmer, alias Jack Wells, the
notorious train robber. 1t was the
turning point in Sutherland's young
life; he chose the blacker side. Be-
cause Palmer had taken his part
against "a big bully On a farm in Kan
sas" Sutherland believed he owed
Palmer debt of gratitude. So, when
Palmer and his pal, Frank Errington,
tried to hold up a depot and a rich
horseman at Oswego, Kan, and later
shot deputy sheriff and were cor
nered" Sutherland stole boat and
under cover of darkness slipped by the
camp of the posse that held the two
men on the banks of the Nesho river,
got Palmer and Errington and carried
them on down the stream to freedom.
Events followed swiftly after that.
Sutherland and Palmer robbed IAN old
miser' on lonely road near Cherry
vale, Kan. Joining the other men,
bers OF the gang later, they held up an
M. K. & K. train near Denison, Tex.
Then came the robbery of the depot at
Lamar, Mo. Here Walter Craig be-
came one of the band. When he tried
to pull off second robbery at the
Lamar depot, Sutherlands autobiog-
raphy says, my old schoolmate, who
was night operator, put bullet into
Craig's lungs, from which he died"
Hiding Place for Gang.
After reciting the details of half a
dozen other bold and daring crimes.
the story shifts to Pittsburg, Kan,
where pretty Nellie Errington was
keeping a cottage, under an assumed
name, for the gang to run in and rest
up, if necessary"
Next we find Sutherland in the
hands of a vigilance committee which
is about to hang him. The rope is
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16

"And the clerks gravely stamped
him on the stomach and threw him in
a compartment along with the provin-
cial newspapers.
1.-THE unfortunate mans friends
went to the chief. The chief listened
calmly to their tale. Then he said:
Was your friend addressed?'
No., they replied.
Very WELL said the chief. The
matter is simple. He will remain for
six months in the bureau. At the end
of that time, if no one applies for him,
he will be burnt as a dead letter."
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Life Saving a la Mode.

The Victim-Help! Help! I'm
drowning.
Would-Be Courage, my brave
man! Just wait until l get a rope. a
measuring rod, Carnegie medal ap-
plication blank, two witnesses and q
notary public.-The Bohemian.
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Used to Them.

Ida-There goes the pretty blonde.
She is going to dabble in the stock
market this fall.
May-Gracious, isn't she afraid Of
squeeZes?
Ida-Afraid of squeezes? Well,
guess not. She's been a summer girl
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16
Hard WORK,

Patience-That Miss Fussenfeather
holds her head quite high since her
father got an automobile.
Patrice-Yes; she's trying to keep
her nose above range of the smell of
the gasoline.
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Want Chinese Steamship Line.

Chinese residents at Pacific coast
ports are subscribing to Chinese ma
tional steamship company to enter into
the trans-Pacific carrying trade with
q Line to San Francisco or Seattle.
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Instant Relief for All Eyes,

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A woman says that all men may be
equal. but none are superior.

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FARMS FOR RENT or sale on crop pay
ments. j. MULHALL. Sioux City, La.
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The love of money is the easiest OF
all roots to cultivate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16

The wise man who has good opin-
ion of himself keeps it to himself
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16

SAvEYOUR MONEY. BUY GOLD SEAL
Overshoes and Rubber Boots-Cheapest
because wear longest. Ask your dealer.
Not sold by mail order houses.
Goodyear Rubber Co., st. Paul, Makers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16

Occasionally a listener hears good
of himself-after talking into phono-
graph.
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An occasional failure doesn't dis
courage hustler.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-16

OS ANGELES.-"Red Dew
il" Sutherland, the late
outlaw, was one of those
stranger-than-fiction char
acters that Byron would
have put into a Corsair
mann ond around whom
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A Common Regard.

a Common HegdrU.
"Just back from your vacation?"
"Yes."
"How was it?"
Zine. l haven't but one regret"
whats that?"
81 wish l had waited until next
month to take it."
"Why?"
$50 I would have it to take.s
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poem, and around whom
Robert Louis Stevenson would have
woven thrilling romance. The young
bandit himself made dash at both
these literary bids for fame, but fate
was closing in on him too fast. A
man who really means business about
killing others and then shakes hands
With death itself can better express
himself IN deeds than in poetic num-
berS
The strange, inscrutable, battling
truth remains that this same despera-
do was of the stuff that genuine he
roes are made of-that his very
crimes traced their inception to qua
lities which, when developed instead
of perverted, cause other men to be
honored, knighted, sainted and sung
about. He had heart, courage, graft
tude, loyalty to friends and chivalry
toward women. His debut as bandit
was made out of boyish admiration
for the train-robber who had taken his
part against bully. His last thought
was to provide for the wife whose
love and trust he had never for
feited.
Yes, Carl was bad man, and de-
served to die. But he owned up to it
without SWIVEL, and took his medi-
cine more bravely than some better
men might have DONE
An amazing story of crime that re-
calls the daring escapades of Jesse
James and the coterie of bandits who
terrorized the whole country a quar-
ter of century ago has just been re-
vealed in Los Angeles, after the MUIR
der of a brave police captain, in the
cold handwriting Of the murderer
himself, who died suicide rather
than be taken prisoner:
Stirred by Recital of Crime.
Not since the old days, when there
were no railroads and men seeking
their fortunes in the far west were
compelled to cross the plains in prai-
rie wagons and stage coaches, has
the entire stretch of country west of
the Mississippi been so stirred as by
this astounding recital of crime by
one who, in the closing chapter of his
desperate career, penned his own cpl
taph in the following words:
The last fatal moment is just ahead, and
the bandit knows he will soon be
dead;
How lonesome you must be, when your
finish you see. and you know you
must meet
A violent end Your past life before you
flies, and voice within you cries,
"Oh, for another chance to mend" But
you grit your teeth hard, and to
some distant friend
Bid "Good-by, Pard,' and your enemies
you try to rend, while they are fill
ing you with lead.
TOO LATE" By Carl.
How wise we are when tits too late, and
a glance we backward cast;
We know just what we should have done,
when the time for doing is past
While an entire city was mourning
the loss of lone of it's bravest and
most devoted defenders of clean citi-
zenship," a woma1-the wife of the
self-slain bandit-lay i'll and helpless
on a cot in a rude cottage by the sea-
shore extolling what appeared to her
to be the virtues of the man who by
his own admission was the perpetrator
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ALL HIS OWN.

"My! What a big figure you are
getting!"
well, what does that matter?
haven't taken yours. have II"
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It's pity some people can't marry
for brains instead of money.
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A successful man isn't necessarily .
contented man.
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Asks Aid for His v

LIDerty IS Tar more dear to me
han life, and if am ever taken l
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Ground has been broken at Union
City. Tenn, on what is said to be in
tended by Joe Cantillon, manager OF
the Washington Baseball club, as the
greatest winter home for tired ball
players" ever built. The structure is
located near the great fishing and
hunting grounds of Reelfoot Lake, in
the Sunken Lands district, noted for
it's dig and little game. Scores of ma
jor and minor league ball players will
assemble there in cold months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-21
A CORRECTION.

The following corrected statement of the number Of
columns of paid advertising printed last Sunday by all the
local Sunday compared with the corresponding
Sunday last YEAR
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-21

them. That fact Is the ordering OF the
court-martfal to try Maj. Penrose and
Capt. Macklin on the charge of neglect
Of duty In reference to the Brownsville
affray.
Change OF Feeling.
."rhe court-martial Of the commanding
officers and Capt. Maclim produced a
change Of feeling an the part, Of these
officers, and that the esprit de corps Of
the regiment has affected the other on
Gers 50 that ali those officers look eagerly
to any circumstance to exculpate the men
Of their command. there 10 no doubt. This
spirit is to be taken into consideration in
Weighing their evidences.
The contention he added, that the
saloon keepers of Brownsville shot up the
town finds no support in their evidence
In fact, the claim that the saloon keep
ers, in order to get rid Of the colored
troops, fired into the homes Of their
friends with q reckless disregard Of their
lives while they were careful OF the lives
of the soldiers, ID too great q tax on ones
credulity It is inconceivable that in
order to rid the town of the negro sol
diers the saloon keepers should attack
their friends and sympathizers."
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having ordered the negro troops to
Brownsville. He had .endeavored he said.
to weigh the evidence In this case with a
view of doing even-handed justice. and, he
said, guided by this rule I am driven to
the conclusion that members of those
companies whose identity has not been
shown made the midnight assault on the
sleeping and helpless citizens of Browns
vile"
He pointed to the concurrence by Maj
Penrose with the view of the citizens
committee at Brownsville as to the guilt
OF the negro soldiers.
Maj. Penrose's Opinion.
Nor did he.'' added Mr. Warner. lat
any time before his court martial. seven
months after the ARRAY. express a doubt
as to their guilt"
Discussing the theory of a possible plot
ON the part of the citizens Of Brownsville
against the negro soldiers, Mr. Warner
said:
After a thorough examination of the
evidence am convinced that the attitude
OF the Brownsville people toward the col
ored troops was unjust. and that the
feeling of deep resentment against the
citizens which the soldiers had was but
natural: yet such resentment. however
just. could furnish no excuse for the at
tack which was made by soldiers. but the
records of troops at other army posts in
the south an" west, whether the troops
were white or colored shows such an out
break and shooting up of town to be O
methods of revenge that naturally sug.
gests itself to men who have arms at
r. nd have been trained In the use
of them.
That the negroes strongly resented the
treatment received there is abundant evil
dence.
I'm connection with the change of opin-
ion on the part OF the officers there is one
fact which, IN my Judgment. had an in
huence-if not a controlling infiuence-on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-21
MANILA PAPER PROBE.
Federal Grand Jury to Look Into
Another Allexed Trust.

NEW YORK, April Cit became
known today that federal grand jury
is about to begin an Investigation Of sew
eral Of the largest concerns manufacturing
Manila wrapping paper in this state The
purpose Of the inquiry is to ascertain
whether or not the manufacturers are
conducting their business under an agree
ment in restraint Of trade aud in violation
of the Sherman antitrust law. -
The officers Of some manufacturers who
are not AFFILIATED with the International
Paper Company have been subpoenaed to
appear before the federal grand jury in
this city tomorrow.
THIS investigation is believed to have no
connection with the governments In
quiry into the affairs of the so-caIled
paper trust and. it is understood. does
not involve those companies which make
q speciality of the manufacture Of white
print paper for newspapers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-21
AUSTRALIAN WRECK.
lorty-Two Bodies Already Re.
covered.

MELBOURNE, Australia, Apr.I IL
Forty-two bodies have been taken out of
the wreckaGe caused by the collision April
ID OF two trains from Ballarat and Ben
dtgo. respectively. at Braybrt ok Junction
about eight miles from Melbourne 1t is
believed that several others are still bur-
ted under the debris. The nurnber OF per-
sons injured Is placed at eighty-eight.
Many Of the victims had entered the
Ballarat train at Braybrook and were Just
about settling IN the seats when the
crash came. The conductor had sfsYaIed
20 the engineer TO start the train, and was
In the act OF stepping into the car when
he saw the approaching Bendigo train
He sprang aside in time to save himself
The station was In darkness and a scene
Of indescribable horror followed the colli-
sion.
Three Of the cars took fire Many OF
the victims were burned beyond recogni-
tion. A member OF the fire brigade found
the bodies of his two sisters buried in
the wreckage. An eyewitness to the dis
aster says the scene was one of carnage
and resembled that OF d battlefield. Sew
eral Of the victims died as they were be-
ing lifted from the wreckage.
The driver of the Bendigo train says
that he saw the signals, and when the
brakes failed to act he reversed the en-
gine. but was unable to check the train.