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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
HORRIBLE METHOD OF TORTURE.
Mexcans Banquet Lizards and Ants
with Body of Living Man.

Kelvin, Ariz.-With lizards, ants,
and other crawling, creeping things
making play ground of his body and
a feast of his flesh, James Martze, a
prospector, 20 years old, the other
day remained five hours in baked
dessert a few miles from here spread
eagled" by stakes in the sands.
With a broiling sun pouring down
upon him and his tongue swollen and
his lips cracked from thirst, he faced
a can of water placed before his eyes
and just out of his reach.
Martze was the victim Of pair OF
Mexican highwaymen, who practiced
their Apache method of torture after
having robbed and beaten the old man
in excessively brutal fashion.
The prospector was held up while
on his way to this town, a mining
camp, and was robbed of his kit, weap-
ons, and a small amount of money.
He then escaped from the robbers,
but was recaptured and tied to the
stakes as described.
Martze finally loosened himself from
his bonds and staggered into this
camp.
Posses were organized here without
delay and the search for the perpe-
traitors of the outrage was begun.
If caught, the men will probably be
summarily executed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
MUCH DEPENDS ON COACH
In THE NEW FOOTBALL
Success or Failure of Team Is "Up
To" Its Teacher More Than
Ever Before.

Football under the new rules which
will be more used this season will de-
pend more upon the ability Of the
coach to win the games than upon the
individual player, for success can only
come by careful studying out of the
merits of each player who presents
himself on the field and the proper
preliminary coaching which will en-
able him to meet certain individual
responsibilities which may come dur
ing the progress of each game Under
these conditions success on the grid
iron this season offers more to the
coach than ever before, and it is for
this reason that every college is seek
ing talent in this direction.
The old game, with it's fixed sig
nails for each play, was easy to drill
into the mind of the man, for many
had learned it all at the preparatory
schools. Under the revised rules, how
ever, the coach must adopt plans to
suit his team. There will be the
open game for the fast and shifty
back field, an average line, and good
quarterback, but for the reverse con-
ditfons the line plunging and mass
plays might be more effective.
The development of the kicker and
those who can pass the ball accurate
ly will cause the coaches the hardest
study, and the faculty of inventiveness
by the player to meet all emergencies
will commend that player to the coach
more than any other faculty. The
ability to recover the ball on a for
ward pass, provided it does not touch
an opponent,' according to new rules,
will give a player plenty of study for
accuracy, while the new defense re-
quires the team to be on its tiptoes
all the time to meet the exigencies
which coach could not prearrange.
Although the preliminary training
season has started, it is as yet too
early to figure out the comparative
merits of any team. The schedules,
as a rule, are harder this season and
their arrangement such that interest
awakened by the opening games will
be carried GU throughout the season.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
GETS READY FOR BIG SERIES
National Commission Adds New Rule
to Worlds Championship Games.

In order to facilitate arrangements
for the worlds championship series of
baseball games the national baseball
commission has announced an addi-
tional detailed rule to govern the con-
tests as follows:
Rule 18-In order to facilitate the
arrangements for all of the games DUR
ing the worlds series the national
commission will furnish to the contest.
ing clubs all of the general admission
tickets, consisting of two sets each
game, one set to be at the rate of one
dollar admission and the other for the
rate of $3.50 admission. All Of the
said tickets to have rain checks at
tached for all games played and the
following regulations with regard to
the sale of tickets and the settlement
therefor shall govern:
mo tickets, excepting reserved seat
coupon tickets, shall be sold before the
gates are opened, and all tickets other
than reserved seat tickets shall be
sold only at ball park ticket offices.
I'm order to furnish an accurate
CuSCh vi tuluSIllcS Tic uOII0 CluD, De-
fore each game, shall furnish the bust
ness representatives of the commits
sion with list of the tickets given
each ticket-seller. The count of the
number of tickets sold shal3 be taken
each day and compared with the turn
stile registers, the larger amount to
be taken as the official count.
"The contesting clubs On the day
prior to the first game in the respec-
tive cities shall furnish to the repre-
sentatives of the commission a dia,
gram or list of all reserved seats, set.
Element to be made by the difference
between the reserved seats not sold
and the number listed
Each club shall set aside daily two
reserved seats for each eligible player
of the visiting club, same to be deliv.
cred to the secretary Of the Waiting
club and to be paid for by that clab."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09

hoping that his affection might be lost
in a mining camp or on a prairie
ranch. For several years he lived
near Kansas City, but finally he came
east and returned to his mother near
Middletown.
Loves flame had not died out, but
he was a far different ben" Lands
than the one who went away a few
years before. Relatives declared that
''he became queer while he was in the
west" but neighbors and friends say
sit was the girl"
Withal, Lands confessed that the
untoward elimination of his love af-
fair had disheartened him. 1t was at
this time in his life that he took the
VOW never again to hold converse
ton with any one throughout the
length of his life.
imposed mo talk for life" sentence un-
fiinchingly for 80 years. Now and then
he mumbles short sentence, but his
mother, Mrs Catherine Lands, ven.
cradle woman of "a years, with whom
he has lived since he swore off talk
ing, says he never speaks to her.
Lands is picturesque in dress and
features. He wears his hair a foot
long and binds it under his coat. He
never shaves and his beard extends
half way to his belt. 1t has been 80
years since the hair or beard has been
cut.
His only recreation is skating and
he is a prominent figure on Swatara
creek almost any winter day.
Fanny Gingerich, the woman whom
Lands wooed, is a widow. Her hus-
band, Harry Snively, was killed on a
railroad 16 years ago. She lives with
her parents near the Lands home,
but ben" never speaks to her.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
WHIPPING POST AND STOCKS.
Stood in the Raleigh Courthouse Land
Until End of Civil War.

Up until the end of the war and q
little while after the whipping post
and stocks stood not far from the
northwest corner of the courthouse
and between that building and the
present post office, and there the last
whipping took place, though as it be-
gan it was sought to be stopped by a
federal officer The sheriff was, how
ever, simply carrying out the mandate
of the old court of pleas and quarter
sessions.
In those days the stocks and the
whipping post too were special attrac-
lions, notably to boys. The latter
were allowed to ridicule people who
sat in the stocks, which held their
hands and feet, but not to throw any
thing at them.
OF course this deprived the boys Of
some degree Of pleasure, yet they
contrived to get good deal of fun
out of the thing anyway. 1t seems odd
now even to think of such scenes as
these must have been. Figure to your
self passing by the courthouse green
at Charlotte or Raleigh and seeing a
gentleman held by the ankles and
wrists by wooden bars, sitting there
in the sunshine for all the world to
look at.
Those were the days of the brand.
ing iron too. A set of gives Of iron,
in use for holding the ankles or
wrists, are on exhibition here. but of
branding irons there are none. These
were used here in January, 1865. for
the last time.-Raleigh correspond
ence Charlotte Observer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09

and barks and tries to bite while
those who hang around on straps turn
over then turn white. 1t signs for
those and cries for those who in the
coaches ride, and makes them wish
they did not live far out at Morning
side.
Where does the fat director ride
who owns the iron road? With human
sardines does he hide while homeward
he is towed? Not on your life!
squeeze like that would surely hurt
his pride; he takes the benzine buggy
when he goes to Morningside.
The cars will crowded be tonight;
thereIl be another crush; for hunger
waits on appetite and all must home
ward rush, and stand like men to pay
the debt monopolies provide on any
road, on every Notwithstanding Morn
ingside!
How about 1t!
Copyright, 1905 by G. w. Dillingham; Coz
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09

get out, because you hate to disturb
the strange gentleman that is using
your knee to lean over.
Between the seats there is q space
Of two feet, but in that space you will
always find four feet, and their own
ers, unless one of them happens to
have a wooden leg.
Under ordinary circumstances four
into two won't go, but the squeezer
cars defy the laws Of gravitation
A squeezer conductor can put 26
into nine and still have four to carry.
The ladies of New York have start
ed rebellion against the squeezer
cars, but every time they start it the
conductor pulls the bell, and leaves
the rebellious standing on the corner.
We are very nervous and careless
people in New York. To prove how
careless we are, I will cite the fact
that Manhattan island is called after a
cocktail.
This nervousness is our undoing
because We are always in such a hurry
to get somewhere that we would
rather take the first car and get
squeezed into breathlessness than wait
for the next, which would likely
squeeze us into insensibility.
Breathlessness can be cured, but
insensibility is dangerous without an
alarm-clock.
For man with small dining-room,
the squeezer car has its advantage,
but when stout man rides in them,
he finds himself supporting a lot of
strangers he never met before.
One ,vening jumped on one of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
Doctor Imagined Spanish Phrase Con
tanned Dire Threat.

DR.. A. w. Parsons, the oldest Amer
lean physician, in point of practice,
in the City of Mexico, tells good
story of his first experience in that
country. AS young man he had been
knocking about western mining camps
in the days when gun plays were COM
mon.
He had just landed at one of the
gulf ports of Mexico, and was eating
II o'clock breakfast at the only hotel
in town. He was seated at the table
with several other Americans, all
rough railroad construction men.
Their knowledge of Spanish was rath-
er limited, and their pronunciation
atrocious. At the meal one of the
men said to the waiter angrily:
Dame la montequilla" (Give me the
butter). In good Castilian it would
sound thus: Dame la man-te-keel-
va" with broad as and long es. Pro-
nounced by the American it sounded:
"Dam-me la man-te-kill.ye."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
BY GEO. v. HOBART. c'HUeH M'HueH.)

those squeezers feeling just like a
two-year-old, full of health and happi-
ness.
The thought of it makes mo feel
quite Tennysonsque!
From Cortland street he proudly
strobe at suppertime that day to take
the elevated road which goes up Har-
lem way. He shook and shivered like
the deuce, and then he sadly sighed,
because the path was long and loose
which led to Morningside.
He kissed the downtown girl he
rushed, and said: Il know you'll
miss me! but don't start weeping il
I'm crushed; just kiss me, sweet!
heart; kiss me! TITS miles to go,
long miles to go to where do reside.
and boogie men are in the cars that
run to Morningside!v
Her eyes were like two stars that
shine and sparkle through tho rain ::
she sobbed: "Good-by, sweetheart Of
mine!"-he kissed his love again.
"And should I not return some day to
claim my blushing BRIDE you'll find me
on the right of way twixt here and
Morningside! aaF
"Oh, Phyllis, must pull up stakes
| this awful trip to make-hark! do you
hear the broken brakes refuse to make
a brake? Good-by, my love; good-by,
my dove! on this / do decide; when
airships come in use I'll take you up
to Morningside."
He found a car well loaded down
with so souls or more to take the
pathway through the town he'd taken
oft before. The guari unto his voice
gave vent: Observation-Disclosures"
then closed the gates and off they
went, bound for Morningside.
Fat men sat down in ladies' laps
they'd never met before; and sad and
solemn-looking chaps exploded some
and swore. Some used the air to stand
upon, the floor was occupied by $1,000
feet bound out for Morningside.
81 want my hat!" a small man cried
in accents full of heat; and when to
reach for it he tried, somebody swiped
his seat. Ten thousand souls hung
onto straps and did the slide-the-
slide; the human laundry which at
night hangs out for Morningside.
Beneath the car the third rail snaps
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09

Dear Bunch: Every time I hop into
one of those roomy, comfortable street
cars in a city of the second, third or
even fourth class, l Immediately con.
trast it with the wood boxes we use in
New York, and l find myself growing
red in the face and biting my nails.
Those squeezer cars that prowl the
streets of New York are surely the
GREATNESS limit, aren't they?"
The squeeZer car is the best gen.
teel imitation of a rough-house that
has ever been invented
The are called sQueezers because
the conductor has to let the passen-
gers out with a can-opener.
Brave and strong men climb into a
street car, and they are full Of health
and life and vigor, but a few blocks
up the road they fall out backward
and inquire feebly for a sanitarium.
10 ride on a Broadway street car,
for instance, about eight o'clock of an
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09

evening, brings out all that is in q
man, including lot of loud words he
didn't know he had.
The last census shows us that the
street cars of New York have more
ways Of producing nervous prostration
and palpitation of the brain to the
square inch than the combined popu-
lation of Amsterdam, Rotterdam,
Tinkersdam and Gotterdammerung.
To get in some of the street cars
about six o'clock is a problem, and to
get out again is an assassination.
One evening I rode from Forty-sec-
ond street to Fifty-ninth without once
touching the floor with my feet.
Part of the time 1 used the out
posts Of a stout gentleman to come
between me and the ground, and dur
ing the rest of the occasion l hung
from strap and swung out wild and
free, like a Japanese flag on q windy
day.
Some of the New York street cars
lead a double life, because they are
used all winter to act the part of a
refrigerator.
1t is a cold day when we cannot
find it colder in the street cars.
In Germany we find Germans in the
cars, but in America we find germs
That is because this country is
young and impulsive.
The germs in the street cars are
extremely sociable, and will follow q
stranger all the way home.
Often while riding in the New York
street cars I have felt germ rubbing
against my ankle like a kitten, but,
being a gentleman, I did not reach
down and kick it away because the
law says we must not be disrespectful
to the dumb brutes of the field.
Many Of those street cars are built
on the same general plan as a can of
condensed milk.
The only difference is that the
street cars have a sour taste, like a
lemon-squeeZer.
When, you get out you cannot get
in, and when you get in you cannot
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
Cold Comfort for the Minors.

Only five of the Is minor league pro-
tests against the drafting of players
were allowed, according to finding of
the national baseball commission. The
protests allowed are the draft made by
the Boston National league club from
the Paris Qll.) club of Infielder
Staley; New York National league
club from Savanna of Player Kieber,
Cleveland American league club from
the Gulfport club Of Player Lively,
Cleveland American league club from
the Houston club of Player Truesdale,
and New York American league club
from the Austin club Of Catcher
Killifer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
SOUGHT PLACE OF SAFETY

The young medico promptly stiff
ened his legs and slid under the table.
His astonished table mates looked at
each other and then peered beneath
the board to see what allied him.
as the trouble over?" he asked one
of them.
Trouble? What trouble?"
why, whatever it was"
"You must be daft. There is no
trouble, and there has been none"
Reassured, the doctor crawled out
rather sheepishly. "The drinks are on
me-" he said. 81 understood the man
next to me to say to that waiter:
Damn We. I'm go'n' t. kill YET and I
didn't intend to stop any stray bull
let's. Sunday Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
Dishonest Heroines.

The steady increase of crime among
stage heroines is beginning to get
serious. 1t used to be the men who
did all, or most of the dreadful things
in plays-I mean the picking and steal
ing, the forging and embezzling, and
offenses Of that kind. Now it is the
women-and it is all the fault of the
late Henrik Ihsen. Heaven rest his
soul, Notwithstanding L. p.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
TILTED MAN DUMB
FOR THIRTY YEARS
PENNSYLVANIA TAKES vow
NEVER TO SPEAK AGAIN TO
ANYONE AND KEEPS IT.

Middletown, Pa.-For 80 years Ben
jamin Lands, who lives with his
mother in a modest little home two
miles outside of this town, has not
because, it is said, he was Tilted by
girl whom he loved devotedly when
youth.
More than thirty years ago ben"
Lands wooed Miss Fanny Gingerich,
who was then the belle of the coun-
tryside, and who married Henry Snive-
ly. Lands was about eighteen years
old. Apparently Tilted, he tried to for
get that there ever lived such girl
as Fanny Gingerich and he went west,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
EXPRESSING Contempt.

One of the deputy clerks over at
the courthouse was angry with the
page of his courtroom the other day
and wanted to express contempt OF
the pages mental capabilities. you
are a wooden head" declared the
clerk. ''Why, if your brain was made
of dynamite and some one should set
1t off the conclusion wouldn't muss
your ir."-Indianapolis Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
Prep School for umpires.

Umpires have this season beer
abused by players, managers, owners
the press and the fans more than was
ever known in the history of the
game. This, in view of the time and
thought given to the business by the
executives of the different leagues,
makes it plain that there should be a
prep school for all aspirants before
they are allowed to appear on thu
field with credentials. :.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
Financial Relationship.

EYES," answered Mr.. Dustin Stax,
eff 1 keep on multiplying my enor,
nous interests l shall have every citi-
zen practically paying me interest on
my invested money"
"And you will have good security.
Of course?" asked Miss Cayenne.
"Of course"
"Then you do not seek to be the ia
Their of your country. You merely
want to be the uncle. Washington
Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
Conditional.

"Esmerelda, when are you and Geof-
frey going to be married."
Gust as soon as l say the word.
when are you going to say the
word?"
"Just as soon as he asks me."-Ohi.
cago Tribune.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
New York's Numerous Schools.

New York city has 20 more school
buildings for the opening of the new
school year than there were last fall,
and they will accommodate $4,000
children. Soon there will be four
more schools for $3.50 pupils. The
total enrolment this year is $4,000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09
erin Wants Bison Team.

The Buffalo baseball club is on the
market, and it is evident that the
Bisous will be under different manage
ment and ownership next season.
Clark Griffith is said to be negotiating
for the franchise.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-09

Joe Cantillon is counting on Frank
Roth of Milwaukee to strengthen his
catching department next season.
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14

gauze. which seems to enlarge. while
shedding a halo over the contents be-
low. That red gauze has caused
many a sale to hurried passers-by.
who found. after examining with
leisure. that they had been deceived
into purchasing very Inferior arti-
Gle of fruit. They got worse from
the top row down. the last ending in
an abomination of scrawny perverts,
The purchaser who bought felt that
he had been sold. This scheme, al
though dishonest. at least has the
merit of showing how much may be
added to the value of fruit by neat
netting. The same remark is true
of vegetables and other products that
go to the provision markets. Celery.
potatoes and every product of field
and garden may be made attractive.
and hence more valuable If the ship
per will attend to the necessary orna-
mental details and artificial aids to
beauty.
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14
GRAND VALLEY FRUIT
IS TAKEN FOR A TExT
Interesting Editorial From the In
dianapolis American Farmer
Finest Packed Fruit Ever
Seen.

j. The following deserved COM +
j. pliment paid Grand Valley ap- i
i. pies is taken from the editor !
+ iai columns of that great ag- i
j. ricultural paper. the American +
i. Farmer, published at Indianap- +
j. oils, Ind. and 1t gives a good !
j. idea of what a pronounced i'm i
i. preston the unequalled meth i
j. cd OF packing employed by the i
j. local fruit growers makes i
i. throughout the country: i
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14

Wa-Neata and Palisade coal-thc
best coal In the market Prompt de-
livery. Phone junction 4O.-Thc
Grand Junction Electric, Gas = Mfg.
Co.
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14

Do you expect to attend the Live
Stock Show In Denver the goth to
-25th. Purchase your tickets via the
Colorado Midland. the shortest line
with the best service.
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14
Notice of Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Grand Valley National
Bank of Grand Junction. Colorado.
will be held on Tuesday, January Il.
1908. at 10 o'clock am. In the
banking rooms of said bank. for the
transaction of such business as may
legally come before said meeting.
". c. TALBERT. Cashier.
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14

One fare for the round trip to
Denver the 18th and goth via the
Colorado Midland. account National
Live Stock Show.
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14

Coal-Juanita or Pnlisade-you
will like IL II you try II. Prompt de-
livery. Phone Junction 4O.-Thc
Grand Junction Electric, Gas = Mfg.
Co.
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14

Attend the big auction at 101s
Colorado avenue Wednesday. Janu'
ary 15.
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14

We've gotten into the habit Of do
ing high plumbing at low grade pri-
ces. Call and see. J. e. Mckenzie,
645 Colorado avenue; phone Red
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14

Lady floor managers at the leap
year ball at the Auditorium. weines-
day. January %.
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14

C. NJ. Keck. the genial passenger
agent for the Colorado Midland at
Glenwocd Springs. is in the city to-
day.
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14

The Ladies' Auxiliary to the d q
L. r. Z =. guarantees Tie msrEassl
time Of the season It Tie leap ysas
ball. wednesday. January n
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14

Attorney Straud NJ. Logan went to
Denver yesterday.
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14

If your horse interferes. try Hiatt
on your next shoeing.
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14

We want your sewer connections.
!. r. Mckenzie
The daily sentinel., 1908-01-14

We are prepared TO 90 an Kiads Of
fancy metal. cornice and sheet iron
work In the shortest possible time.
J. H. Lane. 127 South Fifth street.