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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

tie bay marked "Eid's Fiord" on s.er.
drup's chart; then southwest to He;l's
Gate and Simmons peninsula.
Here for the first time during the
entire journey, except as already
noted off Cape Thomas H. Hubbard,
they encountered open water On this
point the boys were clear, emphatic,
and unshakable. They spent a good
deal of time in this region, and finally
abandoned their dogs and one sledge,
took to their boat. crossed Hell's Gate
to North Kent, up into Norfolk Inlet
then back along the north coast of
Colin Archer Peninsula to Cape Vera,
where they obtained fresh elder duck
eggs. Here they cut the remaining
sledge off, that IL shortened it, as it
was awkward to transport with the
boat, and near here they killed wal
rus.
The statement in regard to the fresh
elder duck eggs permits the approx
mate determination of the date at this
time as about the first of July. (This
statement also serves, If indeed any
thing more than the inherent straight
forwardness and detail of their nara
tive were needed, to substantiate the
accuracy and truthfulness of the boys
statement. This location of Cape Vera
Is mentioned In Sverdrup's narrative
as the place where during his stay in
that region he obtained elder duck
eggs)
From Cape Vera they went on down
into the southwest angle of Jones
Sound. where they killed a seal;
thence east along the south coast Of
the sound. killing three bears at the
point noted on the map, to the PENN
sula known as Cape Sparbo on the
map, about midway on the south side
of Jones Sound. Here they killed
some musk-oxen and, continuing east,
killed four more at the place indi-
Gated on the chart, and were finally
stopped by the pack ice at the mouth
of Jones Sound. From here they
turned back to Cape Sparbo, where
they wintered.
After the sun returned in 1909 they
started, pushing their sledge, across
Jones Sound to Cape Tennyson; thence
along the coast to Clarence Head;
(passing inside of two small islands
not shown on the chart, but drawn on
it by the boys), where they killed q
bear; thence across the broad blight
in the coast to Cadogan Fiord; thence
around Cape Isabella and up to Com
mandef Peary's old house in Payer
Harbor near Cape Sabine, where they
found a seal cached for them by Pan
ikpah, I-took-a-shoo's father. Fron
here they crossed Smith Sound on the
ice, arriving at Anoratok.
(Signed) r. E. PEARY. u. s. N,
ROBERT A. BARTLETT
Master S. S. Roosevelt
D. B. MMILLAN,
GEORGE BORUP,
MATTHEW A. HENSON.
(s45O d.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
Gramophone Safe Lock.

The Yankees latest is the gramo.
phone lock for safes. Fitted in the
door of the safe, in place of keyhole,
is a mouthpiece; and to open the safe
it is necessary for the owner to press
a spring which sets monograph cyl
inder in motion and then speak into
the mouthpiece the keyphrases re-
corded on that cylinder. But this is
not all, for the vibrations of the voice
speaking the keyphrases must coin
eide exactly with the voice vibrations
recorded on the cylinder, Daily
Grahpic.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

months use OF them. Mrs. s. A.
WILLIAMS, r. F. D. No. IA, Box 80,
Gardiner, Me.
No woman should submit to a surgi.
cal operation, which may mean death,
until she has given Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made exclusive
ly from roots and herbs, fair trial.
This famous medicine for women
has for thirty years proved to be the
most valuable tonic and renewer Of
the female organism. Women resid-
ing in almost every city and town in
the United States bear willing testi-
mony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
1t cures female ills, and creates radi-
ant, buoyant female health. If you
are ill, for your own sake as well as
those you love, give it trial.
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
invites all sick women to write
her for advice. Her advice is free
and always helpful.
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NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION
Ely, Minnesota, October 5th, 1909.

Ely Minnesota, October 5th, 1909.
Notice hereby that the board of freeolde comprising
the Charter Commission of the City of Ely Minnesota has filed with
the Mayor OF said proposed amendments the City Charter
the form OF Revision of the said charter and the petition of
number of the legal of said city which
sented to said board that the revised charter
by the be submitted the electors
OF the city OF Ely for their action adoption.
Ihat pursuant the such made and provided
special election will be held in City Ely Minnesota,
on the 23rd day November 1909 which and place the
OF the said proposed revised charter amended
will be submitted to the voters of the City Ely Minnesota be
voted upon.
The election will be held the respective wards where the last
preceding election held the polls will
said election from the hour of O o'clock until
six co. o'clock in the afternoon.
BY order of the City Council of City Ety.
5th day of October, 1909.
L. ]. WHITE City Clerk,
City of Ely, Minnesota.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

a letter from DR.. Cook to Franclle,
dated the seventeenth of March. The
two men rejoined the other four men
who had been left behind, and the six
returned to Anoratok. arriving May Z.
This information was obtained not
from the two Eskimo boys, but from
the six men who returned and from
Francke himself, and was known to
us in the summer of 1908, when the
Roosevelt first arrived at Etah. The
information is inserted here as supple
mentary to the narrative of the two
boysl.
After sleeping at the camp where
the last two Eskimos turned back, DIR.
Cook and the two boys went in a
northerly or northwesterly direction
with two sledges and twenty-odd dogs,
one or more march, when they en-
countered rough ice and lead of open
water. They did not enter this rough
ice, nor cross TIA lead, but turned
westward or southSvstward a short
distance and returned to Heiberg Land
at point west of where t1ey had leat
the cache and where the four men had
turned back.
Here they remained four or five
sleeps, and during that time I-took-a-
shoe went back to the cache and got
his gun, which he had left there, and
a few items of supplies.
When asked why only a few sup
plies were taken from the cache, the
boys replied that only small amount
of provisions had been used in the
few days since they left the cache,
and that their sledges still had all
they could carry, so that they could
not take more.
After being informed of the boys
narrative thus far, Commander Peary
suggested series of questions to be
put to the boys in regard to this trip
from the land out and back to it.
These questions and answers were
as follows:
Did they cross many open leads or
much open water during this time?
Ans None.
Did they make any caches out on
the ice? Ans. No.
Did they kill any bear or seal while
out on the ice north of Cape Thomas
Hubbard? Ans. No.
Did they kill or lose any of their
dogs while out on the ice? Ans. No.
With how many sledges did they
start? Ans. Two.
How many dogs did they have? Ans.
Do not remember exactly, but some
thing over twenty.
How many sledges did they have
when they got back to land? Ans.
Two.
Did they have any provisions left on
their sledges when they came back to
land? Ans. Yes; the sledges still had
about all they could carry, SO they
were able to take but few things
from the cache.
From here they went southwest
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
The Soft Answer.

At dinner in Bar Harbor Boston
woman praised the wit of the late Ed.
ward Everett Hale.
Walking on the outskirts of Boston
one day." she said, she and inadvert
emily entered a field that had No
Trespassing' sign nailed to tree.
Soon farmer appeared.
Trespassers in this field are prose
cuted,' he said in grim tone.
"Dr. Hale smiled blandly.
but we are not trespassers, my
good man. he said.
what are you them asked the
amazed farmer.
"'We're Unitarians,' said DR.. Hale"
Washington Star.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
A WALKING Hotel.

After visit to a famous entomolo-
gist, whose wonderful microscopes
have proved that there is always some
living being to be found preying on
the least of the minutest creature last
seen, an English writer turned to him
and said: II came here, believing my
self to be an individual. leave.
knowing myself to be community"
Youths Companion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
Pre.eminent Distinction.

If there be no nobility of descent,
all the more indispensable is it that
there should be nobility of ascent
a character in them that bear rule so
fine and high and pure that as men
come within the circle of its influence,
they involuntarily pay homage to that
which is the one pre-eminent distinc.
tion-the royalty Of virtue.-Henry
G. Potter.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
Expensive Silence.

Little four-year-old Alice was lying
on the floor whining and crying stead
lily one afternoon, until, her fathers
patience exhausted, he called out to
her: "Oh, stop, Alice, and I'll give
you penny"
Alice stopped only long enough to
answer: 81 can't stop for less than a
nickel Boohoo! Boohooi"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
Prison for obstreperous Tramps.

Tramps who spend the weekend at
Salisbury (England) workhouse are
deprived of their clothes on Sundays
and are compelled to remain all day
in the cells in shirt provided by the
guardians. One tramp named Thomas
demanded his clothes, and because he
could not get them assaulted the por-
ter and smashed the windows. The
Salisbury magistrates sent him to
prison for 81 days
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
Radical Cure for Inebriety.

A radical cure for inebriety is at.
tributed to Zaleucus, who flourished
about 500 B. C. He ordered that any
invalid who took wine in contraven.
ton Of his physicians orders should
be put to death. This story is interest
ing as showing an attitude toward al.
coholic beverages supposed to be ultra
modern.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
Joke Medicine.

He is a very practical, serious
minded man of business. The other
day he met friend, and related to
him an alleged joke, and at it's con-
clusion laughed long and heartily.
The friend looked awkward for a
moment, and then said:
You'll have to excuse me, old man.
but l don't see the point"
why, to tell you the truth, 1 don't
just see the point myself. But I've
made it rule to laugh at all jokes;
! think it's good for the health"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
Wireless on Balloon.

The Aero club of New England is
fitting the dirigible balloon Massachu-
sets with a wireless telegraph plant
so that 1t can communicate with a
land station located in the city.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
Electric Glue Heater.

An electric glue heater has been
put upon the market which is claimed
to melt glue in 80 minutes, and to
keep it at a temperature of $50 deg.
for several hours after the current
has been switched off.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
The Philosopher of Folly.

"a young married man soon gets
used to referring to my wife," says
the Philosopher of Folly. but it takes
him a long time to be able to intro
duce unblushingly a. young woman
he's rather afraid of as my sister-in-
law" or
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

aQua severe I6mal6
weakness. T b 9
doctor saidI would
have to 60 to the
hospital for an
operation, but I
could not bear to
think of it. / de.
cided to try Lydia
E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
andSanative Wash
and was entirely
$1,000 -fka. AI.44
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
The Worlds Cotton spindIes.

In the number of cotton spindles,
Great Britain, with nearly 52,0OO,OO0.
and the United States with 100000,
are far ahead of other countries. Ger
many comes next, with 9,592,855, fol-
lowed by France, with 7,006,42S.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
Daily Thought.

No one can fail to see that the con-
tinuous and answering tendency of
human development is towards peace
and the love of mankind.-Elihu Root
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

New York, Oct. 1.-THE following
statement of Commander Robert E.
Peary, which he submitted, together
with the accompanying map, to the
Peary Arctic club in support Of his
contention that DR.. Cook did not reach
the north pole, is now made public for
the first time. The statement and
map have been copyrighted by the
Peary Arctic club.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

Germans Fond Of Champagne.
Germany produces 100000 bottles
of champagne a year. She imports
100000 from France.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

In some English warehouses; pau
pers have golf outfits given them and
use of grounds for playing the game.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
The PHILOSOPHER of Folly.

About the funniest thing" says the
Philosopher of Folly, 'is the motherly
advice a young married woman gives
to her old beaux"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

Quite often you'll Ind a hard-head-
ed individual weariR' soft hat."-Los
Angeles Express.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

Another Martyr to Science.
Lightning which struck his kite ro
Gently killed a Norwegian scientis
who was emulating Franklin
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
Leads Them All.

Teacher-Who is the greatest In
ventor?
Shaggy-Haired Pupil-Pat. Pending,
I guess. 1 see his name on more in
ventions than I do any other mans.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

Trees bearing sour oranges have
grown wild along Florida swamDs for
hundreds Of years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
ANOTHER
WOMAN
CURED
ByLydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Gardiner, Maine.-"I have been q
great sufferer from organic troubles
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22

Signed Statement of Peary, Bartlett,
Mcmillan, Borup and Henson, in Re-
gard to Testimony of Cooks Two
Eskimo Boys.
The two Eskimo boys, I-took-a-shoo
and Ah-pe-lah, who accompanied DR..
Cook while he was away from Anora-
tok in zoos and 1909, were questioned
separately and independently, and
were cgrroborated by Panikpah, the
father of one of them U-took-a-shoo)
who was personally familiar with the
first third and the last third of their
journey, and who said that the route
for the remaining third as shown by
them, was as described to him by his
son after his return with Dr. Cook.
The narrative of these Eskimos Is
as follows:
They, with DR.. Cook, Francke and
nine other Eskimos, left Anoratok,
crossed Smiths Sound to Cape Sabine,
slept in Commander Peary's old house
in Payer Harbor, then went through
Rice strait to Buchanan bay. After a
few marches Francke and three Eski-
mos returned to Anoratok.
DR.. Cook, with the others, then pro-
ceeded up Flagler bay, branch of
Buchanan bay, and crossed Files.
mere Land through the valley pass at
the head OF Flagler bay, indicated by
Commander Peary in 1898, and utilized
by 'Sverdrup in 1899, to the head OF
Sverdrups bay Ford on the west
side of Ellesmere Land.
Their route then lay out through
this ford, thence north through Sver.
drup's "Heuerka Sound" and Nansen
strait.
On their way they killed musk oxen
and bear, and made caches, arriving
eventually at point on the west side
Of hansen strait (shore of Axel Hell
berg Land of Sverdrup), south OF
Cape Thomas Hubbard.
A cache was formed here and the
four Eskimos did not go beyond this
point. Two others, Koolootingwah and
Inughito, went on one more march
with DR.. Cook and the two boys,
helpsd to build the snow igloo, then
returned without sleeping.
lThese two Eskimos brought back
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
COOK NOT
AT POLE,
--PEARY
Naval Commander
SternIy Refutes
Claims Made by
the Doctor.
TESTIMONY OF THE ESKIMOS

Long and Carefully Prepared State.
ment Given to the Public Amounts
to Direct Questioning of Or. Cooks
veracity-Is Signed by All the
Principals of the Roosevelt Party.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22
Commander Peary's Introduction.

Commander Peary's Introduction.
Some of my reasons for saying that
DR.. Cook did not go to the north pole
will be understood by those who read
the following statements of the two
Eskimo boys who went with him, and
who told me and others of my party
where he did go. Several Eskimos
who started with DR.. Cook from An
oratok in February, 1908, were at
Etah when arrived there in August,
1908. They told me that DIR. Cook had
with him, after they left, two Eskimo
boys, or young men, two sledges and
some twenty dogs. The boys were
I-took-a-shoo and Ah-pe-lah. I had
known them from their childhood.
One was about eighteen and the other
about nineteen years of age.
On my return from Cape Sheridan
and at the very first settlement I
touched (Nerke, near Cape Chalon) in
August, 1909, and nine days before
reaching Etah, the Eskimos told me,
in general way, where DR.. Cook had
been; that he had wintered in Jones
Sound, and that he had told the white
men at Etah that he had been a long
way north, but that the boys who were
with him, I-took-a-shoo and A-pe-lah,
said that this was not so. The Eski-
mos laughed at DR.. Cooks story. On
reaching Etah, talked with the Es-
kimes there and with the two boys
and asked them to describe DR.. Cooks
journey to members of my party and
myself This they did in the manner
stated below.
(Signed) r. E. PEARY.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-07-30
Marriage in Scotland.

From the London Daily Mall.
Civil marriages are greatly on the In
crease In Scotland. and their arrange
ment provides a lucrative business for
a certain class Of solicitors in Glasgow
and other large towns.
All the newspapers, particularly those
circulating In the country districts.
contain many advertisements. OF which
the following is an example:
Marriages privately completed, 10
shillings. Particulars sent free; exper-
fenced law agents; convenient To all
stations"
That is 10 say, for the modest sum OF
10 shiIlings these men are prepared to
secure the tying of the nuptial knot for
any couple according to the law OF
Scotland. The extent OF this business
Is shown by the figures for last year..
when 1868 couple in Glasgow were mar
rled before the sheridan increase of
121 over 1907 and an increase Of 3O4
over 1906. s.
The ceremony is Of the simplest
form. The couple go before the regist-
rar or marriages and declare that they
accept each other as man and wife.
On reaching the sheriff they are simply
asked IL they are the persons whose
names are given. On two witnesses,
however, devolye the real part of the
ceremony, which is to swear that n
OF the parties has lived In Scotland for
II days previous to marriage and that
they have accepted each other as man
and wife of their own free Will and
while I'm their sound and sober senses.
Generally speaking. sheriffs look up
on these marriages with disfavor, some
even treating them contemptuously.
One sheriff has been known TO marry
n dozen couples in succession. The late
Sheriff Principal Guthrie. a most relig-
ious man, always gave such couples
the parting advice to go and get decent
~ married by a minister.
During the last year representatives
Of every trade and profession presented
themselves before the sheriff at Glas-
gov, these including doctors. lawyers.
music hall managers, teachers, students
and commercial travellers.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-07-30
From the Atlantic.

From the Atlantic.
While great fortunes have put Ii in
the power Of mar to acquire and in
great tracts, nature has placed a limit
on the ability OF ever the most capable
to manage it properly If II exceed the
dimensions which reason n common
sense would dictate. 1t might easily
happen, for instance, that one OF our
modern millionaires should purchase a
tract as large as one OF our smaller
states; and yet the man does not live
who could manage a farm the size Of
the smallest county in the smallest
state, in such q way as to get even
moderately good results from the whole
OF 1t. BY a farm is, OF course, meant
q tract OF land suitable for general ag-
riculture, and not a pasture range,
which Is rightly held in much larger
areas. But be the land tillage. pasture.
or woodland, the standard of conduct
for him who assumes its ownership
and management IL precisely the same.
Let the earth bring forth grass, the
herb yielding seed and the tree yielding
fruit" see that you do not hinder 1t:
do not take the Ian out of commits
sion: this law is written large In the
evident OF nature and the
needs of the world. and 1t lays upon
the landowner an obligation so sa-
cred and SO imperative that 1t not only
demands his best powers of mind and
body, but forbids him to undertake
more than he can carry out. For he has
assumed the kingship OF a portion OF
the universe; he is dealing directly
with the forces OF nature and OF evolu-
ton. *
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-07-30

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81 want this letter made public to
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Compound Mrs. JOHN G.. MOLDAN,
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MINI.
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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-07-30
CHAPTER XIX.

THE LAST OF THE HARTSwICKs.
Ii seems to be a rule Of nature that
like shall seek like, and that they shall
nov together in swarms. Henc a
variety OF proverbs: Birds OF a
feather" and TT never rains but 1t
pours." and 'Misfortunes never come
singly.'f Life drones on for a mans
age without jar or change. when, all
u~nheralded. the break comes, and
shocks and horrors crowd one upon the
heels OF the other.
Thus the little valley stagnating
nor the hills, with no change In a
year save the weather and the season
and the loon. all Of q sudden crowded
into twenty-four hours a lifetime of
sensations. The robbery, the discover
les at the barn. the mob, III vanish
Ing OF the fugitives, the tragedy of
Iona. the cave, the solution OF the CEN
tury-old Heller mystery. the strange
captive-all damned into q matter of
hours. and the end not yet.
Squire Hartswick, however. vas not
pllilosophising. His capacity Was one
idea at d time, and no drove the trag-
edy on with rr,entless precision. BY
daybrexk lie hk0 Jim and the stranger
safely imprisoned in the Hartswick
mansion, and was driving arrange
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-07-30
The Latest COLLEGE.

Senator Depew says that a man can OBJ
tain a very liberal education IL he will
read the best books while his wife Is get
ting ready to accompany him.-News item.
Pas versed In Greek and Latin,
He can speak In German. too;
He knows some Esperanto,
And Is up In "parley-voo."
Though he never went to college,
He Is wise In spite OF that,
For he studied Greek while mother
Was putting on her hat.
Though he never heard a lecture,
The philosophers he knows;
All the ''ologies' he's mastered
And there's nothing, / suppose.
In the sciences he hasn't
Read about, while sitting there
Waiting patiently for mother
To adjust her wealth of hair.
He's familiar with the poets,
All the sages he can quote.
He Is up on Aristotle.
He has read all Darwin wrote.
He is up in mathematics
And he earne 1t all, / guess,
Waiting patiently while mother
Went upstairs to change her dress.
Detroit Free Press