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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-11-26

idea that the Brtsher is the most ready and willing Of
all men to part with his money thing gamester
but when it comes to competition against all the
average American hits the 5ulseye.
The thing of to-day (incorporated) know this
and build upon it, One of the biggest of them claimed
not long ago that if he given time he could sell
worthless stock to three Americans out of every ve
vided the guble three had the money could raise it.
He actually counts upon victim for every SO circu-
lars sent out through the mails The common as
the postal officials tell is dupe for hundred
circulars Not bad considering the cheapness of print
ing and postage.
There is a firm in New York that collects and sells
addresses people who buy things through the mails or
who have time evinced desire to do So These
addresses sold at SIS thousand They are assorted
under various headings IT, for example 10000 men have
sent in applications wives to New York matrimonial
bureau that list worth Sc to So diamond ring concern
that is setting up circular mill
The sure thing operator has passed through various
stages of progress The unsafe shell game, gold
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-11-26
WANTS HER
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills

Minneapolis, Mimi was great
sufferer from female troubles which
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-11-26

EFFORT b e i n &
made to pick
men who by
reason of train
ing or tempera-
ment may be
expected to de-
velop into gen.
uine specialists
in the work.
Much of the
work which the
men of the aer-
oplane detach-
ment are doing
at College Park
r e p r Z S e n t s
brand new ex-
p e r j e n ce to
them. Several
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-11-26

brick and green goods swindles
which he operated with such profit
able results in the eighties and the
early nineties made way for the
half-interest game, which fiourished
10 years ago, and the employment
game, which is still going on.
though not to it's former extent.
The half-interest advertiser sold
you a partnership in anything from
a peanut stand to piano factory
When you had bought it the next
thing was to find it, or if you found
it you discovered that it belonged
to somebody else who knew moth
ing about the men who sold 1t to
you.
The employment game consists
of an opportunity to sell on high
salary the goods or the stock OF
company in which you must first
buy shares. Then when you have
paid over your money you are as
signed a territory. generally long
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-11-26


more than year past a balloon squad
or balloon detachment made up of en-
listed men of the signal corps, who
devote their entire time to aeronaut-
lcal work, but the new organization is
separate and quite apart from this.
indeed, 1t is generally considered to
represent a higher development of
military specialization, in the same
proportion that the aeroplane marks
an advance over the balloon as an in
strument for use in warfare.
Inc new aeroplane detachment,
which at the outset numbers only IL
men, or rather corporal and 10 pri-
Yates, is further notable from the fact
that it is the first organization of the
knd In the world. The American
war department has been severely
crltlclsed for being behind the mill
tary departments of certain foreign
governments, particularly France and
germany, in aeronautical inyestiea.
tlon and experiment, but it has now
In some degree, made up for lost pres.
tlse by inaugurating the first fuII.
neoged aeroplane corps. The federal
governments new aviation field is
1or the time being, as much a school
OF instruction for the men of the aero.
plane squad as it is for the two lion.
tenants who are to qualify as the ar.
mys pioneer aviators. There is tbis
olHerence, however, that the men. in
erect have to work out their own sal
walton as aeroplane mechanicians
and aerodrome keepers, while Lieut
Lahm and Lieut.. HUMPHREYS had a
competent Instructor in the person of
Wilbur Wright to teach them the al.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-11-26

ITH the establishment of
a United States govern
ment aviation field at Col
lege Park, Md, a brand
new branch of the regular
army. has come into its
own. This latest innova-
ton in Uncle Sans mill
tary establishment is an
aeroplane squad, or, as it
is designated officially, the
aeroplane detachment of
the United States signal
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21
TO TAX COAL FOR
INJURED MINERS

Pennsylvania, who was a delegate to
the mining congress, is the author of
a resolution recommending that the
legislatures of the coal mining states
pass appropriate laws putting this
plan into effect. 1t has been Endorsed
by many of the large coal operators
of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and of
West Virginia; by John Mitchell, ex-
president and by Thos L. Lewis, pres
ident of the United Mine Workers.
The mining congress has appointed
as a committee to determine upon
suitable statute, and present the same
to the legislatures; Congressman ]. G.
McHenry of Pennsylvania, chairman;
Ex- Governor A. B. Fleming of West
Virginia; Glenn w. Traer, ex-Presi
dent of the Illinois Coal Operators
association; Alexander Dempster of
Co, Of Pitsburg; and Thomas L. Lew
is, president of the United Mine Work
ers of America, of Indianapolis. Mean
while the mining congress, the coal
operators, the miners organizations,
etc, are urging congress to create a
bureau of mines to collect data and de-
wise methods of economical mining
and prevention of waste; to continue
the search into the causes of coal min
ing disasters, and means for their
prevention and to increase the annual
appropriations of congress for this
kind of work.
1t is expected that a basis will be
reached so that definite action may be
taken by the mining congress at its
next annual session. which convenes at
Goldfield, Nevada, September q,
when the matter will be further dis
cussed.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21
EAST AND WEST ARE
AGAINST THE MIDDLE
Political Wise.acres See Combination
Whereby the Central States Will
Be Opposed by Both
Seaboards.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May I'll
Some pontcal wiseacres profess to see
in the present situation in the senate
a combination of the east and far west
against the middle west.
In support of the idea, the compost
ton of the republican membership of
the finance committee is pointed to,
where Aldrich, of Rhode Island; Pen
rose, of Pennsylvania; Hale, of Maine;
Lodge, of Massachusetts; Smoot, of
Utah; and Flint, of California, far
outweigh in number and influence
Burrows, of Michigan; Cullom, of Him
OILS; and McCumber, of North Dakota.
The latter three might be supposed to
represent the interests of the central
west, but it is complained by these
critics that at least two of them, Bur-
rows and Cullom, have been in the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21
Gambling Devices To Go.

NORTH YAKIMA, May 21.-All slot
and gambling machines in the city
of North Yakima must go. This is the
announcement made today by Mayor
P. M. Armbruster. He has issued such
an order before, but little attention
was paid to it, He has now given
strict instructions to the police that
every machine must be cleaned out.
All places where these machines have
been operated have been notified and a
day or two will be given them to COM
ply with the orders. At the end of the
period allowed the police will start
around with a wagon and every gambl-
ing machine will be confscated. The
mayor says that slot machines put
more young fellows to the bad than
any other influence and he intends to
put a stop to them in this city.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21
Anacortes Carnival.

ANACORTES, May 21.-This city is
wearing its gala dress this week while
enjoying the sweet sounds of Scotch
bagpfpes and Egyptian flies and drums
all playing at the same time. The Pol
low amusements. with twelve attrac-
tons, are holding high carnival under
the auspices of the Anacortes Marine
band. From Monday, the opening day.
till Anacortes day on Saturday next.
each day is being devoted to one of
the principal towns in the county So
far the attendance has been much bet
ter than expected. On Saturday, in ad-
dition to the carnival attractions a
committee composed of Mrs. Gus
Hensler, Mrs. Flora Reilly, Mrs Z. L.
Mclean and Messrs. G. L. Judd, H. c.
Barney and Frank G.. Teck, chairman,
appointed by Mayor w. V. Wells, have
arranged for the annual celebration of
rhododendron day on Cypress island,
just across from the city. Boats will
leave every hour. A band will be III at
tendance. while the committe have
arranged to supply the guests with
coffee, cream and sugar, the balance
being supplied by the picnickers.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21

Of hunting in the east. He and Chow
went together to Africa after big game
two years ago. They expect to devote
six months to the expedition, and are
taking with them from London, guns,
ammunition, and tents, but will get the
remainder of the equipment at fash
kend Pack mules will be used for
transportation over mountain wastes
and the hunters will be provided
against great and sudden changes of
temperature characteristic of that re-
gion. Chew hopes on his return to
America to have valuable geological
specimens to present to the academy
of natural science in Philadelphia, and
is most enthusiastic about the pros
poets of the exposition.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21
MORE THAN 5000 MEN WERE SAC
RIFICED IN COAL MINES
LAST YEAR.
American Mining Congress Proposes to
Make Industry Responsible for Its
Accidents.

DENVER, Col, May PA page in
the last report of the United States
geological survey, on the mineral re-
sources of the United States, contains
the surprising statement that during
the year 1907, the lives of 1926 men
were sacrificed in the coal mines of
the United States, while an additional
1916 men were more or less seriously
injured, many Of them perhaps result
ing fatally. This was an average of
ii men killed and 23 injured for each
day the mines were worked.
West Virginia holds the unenviable
record for greatest death rate, being
1926 per thousand men employed
Then follow New Mexico with 1145;
Alabama with 72O; Colorado with 6.96;
Washington with sos; and Montana
with 439. The average for the whole
country was 4.S6 deaths per 1000 men
where natural conditions have always
been considered the safest, the aver
age death rate is much higher than in
the eastern states.
One-third of the deaths result from
precise causes of which are not def
ritely known, and can hardly be pre-
vented, until after further investfga-
tons are made. A little more than
one third result from falls of roof ana
COAL which, with the exercise of great
er care could perhaps be largely pre-
vented. The remainder results from
blown-out shots, and miscellaneous
causes.
In the early months or 1903 congress
appropriated $15O,OOO.0O with which to
carry en- experiments and investiga
tons for the purpose of ascertaintng
the causes of, and means to prevent
such terrible loss of life, but at best
this can result only in lessening the
number and extent of the fatalities.
1t has been proposed by the Ameri-
can Mining congress, which held it's
session at Pittsburg, last December.
where the subject of coal mine acct
dents was fully discussed, that in or
der to mitigate the disastrous results,
and to tighten the burden which some
times falls heavily upon the distressed
family of the dead or injured miner
that a small tax be levied upon all
coal produced, to create a fund which
could be equitably disbursed among
those distressed by the accident. A tax
of one-half cent per ton, it is thought
would be ample. and would be CT great
relief to the families of dependents of
the unfortunate victims
Congressman J. G.. McHenry OF
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21
OFF On AN ASIAT|C
EXPLORATION TRIP
George Harrison and Benjamin Chew,
Prominent PhiIade.ph,ans, Leave
ST. Petersburg for Unknown
Land.

ST. PETERSBURG, May 21.-Gcorge
Harrison and Benjamin Chew. promi-
nent Philadelphians. will leave the
Russian capital today for a hunting
EXPEDITION in the hitherto little known
wiIds of Central Asia.
Their objective point is the Thins-
han mountain country, near the Rus
so-Chinese border Their base of sup
plies in fact will be Tashkend, IN Rus
sian Turkestan, and they will hunt a
species of mountain sheep scientifical-
ly known as Ovuspoil, which bears a
close resemblance to it's brother of
Montana, which practically is identi-
fed with elk, ibeX and deer.
Harrison has already done great deal
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21
Municipal Research.

WASHINGTON, May 21.-Men and
women interested in civic affairs from
all over the land were present when
the national conference on city plan
ming was called to order here today.
President Taft delivered an address,
commencing the purposes of the gath
ering at the opening session. An in
teresting exhibition of the best feat
ures of city planning is a feature of
the convention.
The objects of the conference are to
obtain the benefit Cf study and investi-
gagatiOn by civic bodies and city plan
ners, to discuss methods of city plan
ming as practiced abroad, and to find
some solution for ameliOration Of the
present congestion and a means OF
preventing it's recurrence in the newer
districts of the rapidly growing cities
of the country.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21
BUTTON, BUTTON
WHO HAS BUTTON

time to research in the realm 80
fee, which is on the free list W,
it comes in it costs from I to Co.,.
a pound and when it has been roo...,
and passed to the consumer j.
trebled IN value.
The question whether these ammo.
entity exorbirant profits are what th
seem promises to be the subject -.
much discussion hereafter.
Senators Gore and McIaurin ar,,.-
Others, have already made vigorous 10
Tense of the retailers, DECLARING tho,
they are being used by the trusts %
a shield to ward off public condenna
ton and that. all expenses considered
the profits of the little dealers are NOT
excessive.
Meantime, NeWlands has come in
with the suggestion that a governments
tribunal be created to keep the paonIa
posted on all prices, manufacturing
wholesale and retail.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21
WANTS
TO SEE THE POLE

The owners have turned over to Mr..
"ellman, free of charge, the airship,
plant, building and machinery of Mr..
Weilmans former enterprise. The
America is the second largest airship,
being about three -fifths the size of the
zeppelin. 1t has a lifting capacity of
nearly ten tons.
If the America is able to start next
August upon her voyage of 700 miles
through the air to the pole, she will
carry crew of three men, 5000 pounds
of gasoline for the engines, food for a
year, sledges, dogs, life boat and all
the requisites of leeping party. One
member of the crew will be Chief En-
was in charge of the ships engines
during her trial voyage in 1907. The
third member has not been selected.
'The difficulty of getting fair
start with an airship designed to go to
the pole is of course very great said
Mr.. WelIman. ION account of the con-
ditions it is impracticable to reach
the coast and start effective work by
fore the early days of June. The sea-
son is at an end in the last days of
August Actually the period of effec-
tive work is confined to about ten
weeks If delay or accident happens from
any cause it may be necessary to post
pone the voyage till another year.
1--WE have no seated conviction as
to whether success is or is not await
ing us in case we are able to make a
start this year If this were an easy
thing to do it would have been done
long ago.
I'VE have from the first fully realized
the magnitude of the task and have
known that there We're more chances
for failure than for success in any
given year, which is true of all polar
efforts by any plan We have had and
still have faith that our method is
practicable and more promising of re-
suits than any other"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21
ARCTIC EXPLORER STARTS TODAY
FOR ANOTHER DASH TO
THE NORTH.
Will Attempt to Get Earths AXIS o.
Means of Drigible Balloon
From Spitzenberg.
From Spitzenberg.

CHRISTINA, May -21.-With the
SAILING from Christiansand, Norway.
today of the new motor ship Arctic, the
first move has been made by Walter
Wellman for another attempt to
dash" to the north pole in a dirlg1b!e
balloon. The vessel. which was
launched only this spring, is bound for
Dane. Island. Spitzbergen, which is to
be the rendezvous of the Wellman eX~
pIoration party. Besides a crew of
dozen men, the Arctic carried score
of foremen and mechanics and all the
materials necessary for equipping the
gas plant and supply post to be es-
tablished on the bleak and barren
coast of Spitzbergen.
1t is said that the Chicago newspa-
per which financed Mr.. Wellmans
earlier pole dashing expeditions, which
expedited only in the newspapers has
tired of the game and the coming dash
will be under Mr.. Wellman's individual
direction. The sinews of flight have
been supplied by Americans Who be
lieve that the project is feasible and
are backing the former journalist with
all the necessary money. Mr.. Wellman
will spend some time in Norway be-
fore sailing for the rendezvous.
The balloon will start from Danes
Island Spitzbergen, in August II the
weather conditions are favorable. The
airship will be the America which
had a trial in a voyage of about twenty
miles at Spitzbergen a year ago last
September.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21
Lambs Will Gambo!.

WASHINGTON, May 21.-An auc-
ton sale of seats for the all-star
gambol of the lambs will be held
today and the great event itself will
take place at the New National theater
next Thursday afternoon. Hundreds Of
will come bleating into the capital on
that day and will parade up Pennsyl-
vania avenue to music furnished by
Victor Herberts band.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21

senate so long, and are such thorough
going party men, that they should real
ly be classed with the eastern element
despite the geographical location of
their states.
In further elucidation of the propo-
sition the recent vote upon the lead
schedule is cited. In the demand that
there should be no higher protection
given to lead in pigs or bullion than on
the ore despite its advanced stage of
manufacture. Bristow, of Kansas, and
Cummins, of Iowa, led the fight When
the vote was taken on the question as
to whether the rate on pig lead should
be five eighths of cent higher than
on the ore. as recommended by the
committee, or only three-eighths as
suggested by Cummins, the result
showed the following republicans vot-
ing for the reduction:
Reveridge. Indiana; Bristow, Kan
sas; Brown. and Burkett, Nebraska;
Clapp, Minnesota; Dolliver, Iowa;
Gamble, South Dakota; LaFollette,
Wisconsin, and Nelson of Minnesota.
Note the geographical location of
all the democrats, with the exception of
McEnery, of Louisiana, could only
muster 80 votes against the "A who
supported the higher rate of the
finance committee
1t would seem that all the eastern
and all the western republicans
had voted against the middle western
senators. But it is also true that among
those "A the following were found
voting: Burrows, Michigan; Burton
and Dick, Ohio; Curtis, Kansas; John
son. North Dakota; Smith. Michigan;
Stephenson, Wisconsin,; and Warner
Missouri, who constitute pretty fair
representation of the middle west
who also hail from that section, did
not vote because they were paired,
otherwise they would have been with
the committee, too.
So the alleged geographical align
ment in the senate was not de-
monstrated on that vote and it is be-
lieved that it will be still further dis
xE-h hn 70 M
other schedules, like hides, lumber, etc
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21
Abo..ishes Custom.

OLYMPIA. May 21.-Secretary of
State L. NJ. Howell today gave orders
after be permitted to do any work for
private compensation either within or
outside of office hours. This stops the
old custom under which the employees
furnished lists Of auto licenses, corpor-
alton filings and other data to inter
ested persons.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21
WHO MAKES THE BIG PROFIT
THAT COMES IN BETWEEN
IMPORTER AND BUYER.
Tea Comes in at is Cents and Goes
Out at 60-Razors go up From
1895 to SO Per Dozen.

WASHINGTON, May PA novel
feature of the senate debate on the
AIdrich bill is the effort made to shift
the blame for high prices from the
much-abused tariff to the wholesalers
and retailers.
The advocates of protected lumber
were the discoveries of that line of
reasoning. They found that associa-
tions of retail lumber dealers in widely
separated states sold lumber at prices
fixed by schedules that were alike in
every detail 1t made no difference
whether the wholesale price of lum-
Der rose or fell, the retail prices were
as unmOvable as Gibraltar. The point
in this argument was that the amount
of the duty made no difference to the
consumer. The tariff was swallowed
up in the profits of the middlemsn. and
the unfortunate consumer would pay
the same under a high or low tariff.
But low tariff, it was claimed, would
put the manufacturer out of business.
Along, then, came Senator Scott,
glass manufacturer of West Virginia,
with his industrial exhibit. This glass
pitcher, fellow senator's" he said, rs
sold by the manufacturer at 90 cents a
dozen. The retailer sells it at 40 to
so cents for single pitcher"
Somebody with a mathematical mind
figured that in changing hands the
pitchers rose from 80 cents to $3.50 q
dozen and that the tariff on glass
pitchers was fly speck compared with
the huge profits of the dealers.
Lodge then called attention to the
fact that tea, which is on the free list
jumped mysteriously from cost price
to 60 cents a pound when Mr. House
holder desires to take a little of it
is sold in Canada at 40 cents a pound
which ciphers out that the American
consumer is stung so per cent worse
than his Canadian brother.
Flint next contributed the 1OO-piece
French dinner set that costs the i'm
porter, duty paid, $1OS9 and is sold to
the guileless ultimate consumer in
Washington for $50. Also the cute lit
tie Japanese tea set that comes in at
a valuation of 81 cents and is sold for
$3.50.
SmoOt trailed in with the sad story
of the razor. The manufacturer sells
it at 1896 a Dozen the wholesale dealer
at SO and the retailer at 50 apiece, or
$24 a dozen. Ladies gloves, averred
the Utah statesman. cost the dealer
$40 a dozen and are sold to the femi-
nine bargain hunters at 50 per pair
or $24 a dozen. Then there s the his
tory of the little pane of glass. Smoot
had it looked up in New York. The
pane costs the importer cents, duty
paid the picture frame man charges
25 cents
Tillman had deovted considerable
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-21
$4,000 for New Ro ad.

BRIDGEPORT, May 21.-State High
way Commissioner Snow has com
menced work on the state aid ROAD
from Brewster to Bridgeport; $4,000
will be expended.