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The Ely miner., 1909-07-09

A household once supplied with Ham,
lins Wizard Oil is seldom allowed to be
without it. In case of sudden mishap or
accident. Wizard Oil takes the place of
The Ely miner., 1909-07-09
Nobleman, Probably.

Howell see that the heiress has
put her money into the lumber busi-
ness.
Powell-That so?
Howell-Yes, she has married a
wooden man.
The Ely miner., 1909-07-09

Criticism should never exasperate
us; on the contrary, it should bene-
fit us, and even occasionally amuse
us.-Max O'Rell.
The Ely miner., 1909-07-09

In the matters of conscience. first
thoughts are best; In matters Of pru-
deAce last thoughts are best.-VeInole
The Ely miner., 1909-07-09

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums reduces In
dammaton. allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c bottle.
The Ely miner., 1909-07-09

Men owe their resolution, and most
of their success, to the opposition they
meet with.-Renan.
The Ely miner., 1909-07-09
NATURE STUDIES.

The Phunnibeak Bird-Hello, who
are you?
The Other Bird-Don't you know
me? Why, I'm "The harp that once
through Tara's Halls"
The Phunnibeak Bird (shortly)-Oh,
tut; tut! You're Tyre! That's what
you are.
The Ely miner., 1909-07-09

ton. Last year he was one of the
few 800 hitters in the American
league, batting for 1903 and standing
fifth in the league besides leading his
club He was among the leading
batters in the American association
in 1907, playing in 1875 games and
batting for 1926. Gessler was made
captain this spring by Manager Lake.
He is dentist by profession. and ia
% years old.
The Ely miner., 1909-07-09

PERRY DAVIS PAINKILLER
draws the pain and Inflammation from bee-stings
and insect bites Soothes and aays the awful Gtch-
Ing of mosquito bites 25c. $50 and 50c botsRes.
The Ely miner., 1909-07-09

A doctor of divinity should believe
in the faith cure.
The Ely miner., 1909-07-09

Coal is an accumulation of vege-
table matter which has decayed under
water where oxygen could not get ac-
cess to the carbon to consume it and
transform it into carbonic acid gas, as
1t does in the open air. The condi-
tions of the coal fields, therefore, dur
ing the accumulation of the coal must
have been that of vast swampy re-
The Ely miner., 1909-07-09

But, for mans use, it was necessary
not only to have coal accumulate; it
must be preserved for distant ages and
brought within his reach. If the Mis-
sissippi basin had remained forever
below the ocean level, its stores of ac-
cumulated coal would have been un-
available. But, through causes which
we can but dimly comprehend, at the
close of the coal period the land all
over that area, which had up to that
time been slowly sinking, reversed it's
movement and began to rise. The ele-
vation was produced by lateral pres
sure, which folded up the Allegheny
mountains and produced a number of
diminutive waves, so to speak, in the
surface of the land extending to the
center of the Mississippi basin.
But no sooner was this land ele-
waited above the sea than erosive agen-
cies went to work to dissect it and
to remove its more elevated portions.
Consequently it is estimated that more
than nine-tenths of the coal which was
originally deposited over central and
eastern Pennsylvania, has been car
ried away by the rivers, and hopeless
ly scattered over the bottom of the
sea, while the one-tenth which remains
is so folded up in the rocks that it
is obtained with great difficulty. In
the more central portions of the Mis-
sissippi valley. however, the disturb
ance of the strata has been less, and it
is a comparatively simple matter to
obtain the rich deposits.
The Ely miner., 1909-07-09

The fossil plants of the coal period
seem to indicate that the climate was
at that time warm and moist and uni
form, while the amount of coal accu-
mulated shows that the air was much
more fully charged with carbonic acid
gas than it is at the present time. OF
the coal plants of Great Britain about
half were ferns, many of them grow
ing to the size of trees, the most of
which are tropical species. Indeed,
during the coal period in Great Britain
the proportion of ferns there to the
other plants was far greater than it
is in the tropics at the present day,
while tree ferns are now wholly con-
fined to tropical regions. Abundant
tropical forms of vegetation are found
in the coal seams in Greenland and on
Melville island as far north as the
seventy-fifth degree of latitude; in
deed, everywhere during the coal Pc
riod the climatic conditions not only
of the temperate zone, but of the arc
tic lands, were closely similar to those
OF the present torrid zone.
The Ely miner., 1909-07-09

w. N. u, Minneapolis, No. 2s-1sos.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
WILL LOSE LIMBS.
Two Men Lost in Nevada Shows
Rrouqht to Reno.

Reno. New. Jan. 14.-George Campbell
and William PaTnell. who were rescued
from death by Sheriff Terrell and his dep
uty yesterday in the deep snow thirty
miles north of here. tell terrible tales of
their sufferings for four days from cold.
hunger and thirst. The men are in the
city hospital and will probably have to
have their legs removed.
Campbell and Parnsll are from Los An
zeles and had been working for the Utah
CONSTRUCTION company at Red Rock and
Spring Garden tunnels and were dis
charged five DAYS ago They started to
walk to Reno. but got lost in the terrible
blizzard which has "a ged for several days
in the mountains.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
DRIVEN OUT IN SH0WSTORM
Five Mormon Elders Compelled to
Leave Huntington, W. Va,
BY Citizens.

Z: Central City. w. Va, Jan. 14.-In -
{: a binding storm of sleet and snow, =
{: FIVE Mormon elders walked four =
:. miles from here to Huntington to- =
:. day, after receiving notice at mid :.
:. night to leave town before day :.
:. light. =
:. A dozen citizens. presumably act =
= ing on authority from various Sc =
:. cret organizations, visited the no. =
:, tel where the elders had been max :.
:. ing their headquarters the last two =
!: months. and delivered the warning. :.
:. Several days ago the elders were :.
: notified by a secret society to leave =
:. town before the end of the week. :.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
MINES sHUT DOWN.

Butte. Mont. Jan. 14-The cold
weather still necessitates the stopping
of work in the Boston & Montana
mines of the Amalgamated Copper
company so far as the hosting Of ore
is concerned Word from Great Falls
today is to the effect that it is very
cold there today and that the smelleT
is being operated with difficulty. It
now looks as if it will be the first of
the week before the hosting Of ore is
rae Cd
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
TRACK WASHED OUT.

Reno. New, Jan. Ii.-About 200 feet
Of track of the Virginia & Truckee
railroad, near Frankstown, seven miles
west of Carson City, was washed out
early this morning. A large force Of
men are at work repairing the break
Passengers. express and mail are being
transferred, but no through traffic will
be Operated before Friday noon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
MINE HORROR IN HUNGARY
Two Hundred and Forty Men En-
tombed-Forty-five Bodies Taken
Ont and Sixteen Living.

:: Vesseperim, Hungary, Jan. A. =
!. In an explosion Of fire damp in the :
:. Auska coal mine here today, which :.
!. vas followed later by dust explo- ::
- sion and fire, go men were en- :
- tombed- =
e Sixteen living miners and the =.
I. bodies Of forty-five dead persons :
:. thus far have been brought out of :
= the pit. =
:. The fire has been held to one To- :
= cality. and It is hoped that the re- :
I. mainder Of the entOmbed miners :
j. will be rescued alive. :
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
Uh|ONISTS STRIKE
At UTAH COPPER
MaChiniStS Called Out as Re-
suit of Employment of Duck
worth as Foreman.
fsneeial TO The HeraId.l


Garfield Jan. fs.-As a-resuIt OF Ere EN-
ployment Of c. H Duekworth as foreman
of the shops at the Utah Copper COM
pany's milling plant here, the union ma
chinists pipefftters boilermakers ana
helpers, to the number of 1l5. were called
out this morning About one-hah OF the
number cashed their checks and went to
town, the rest being still here. No trouble
is anticipated. though a committee OF the
union men went to the station this evening
to help keep anybody frcm going to work
in their places pending an attempt TO reach
an agreement with the company.
Duckworth was foreman Of the Rio
Grande boiler shops when the strike was
called last March He did not go out with
the strikers and when settlement of that
difficulty was reached a few days ago,
Dt!ckWorth. it is said. was discharged by
;he company as part of the agreement
with the men in the settlement of the dill
ficulty. He then secured employment with
the Utah Copper company and the union
men refused to work urGer him.
General Manager d. c. lacking of the
Utah Copper company was asked for his
version of the trouble last evening. and
he stated there was no trouble worth men
tioniDg. A number of the men, he said,
had become dissatisfied and they had been
released: that was all there was to it.
The number that had been let out, he said,
would not interfere with the company S
business in the least.
I'VE have nothing to do with the rec
ignition of unions out at Garfield said
Mr. JacklinE. We never question a man
as to whether he belongs to a union or not
and we don't care All we ask for is eff
ficiency in the line OF work for which a
man is employed. When a man fails OF re-
fuses to do his work as required in the po-
sitfon he occupies, he is discharged a
number of men were given their time yes
terday. That is all there is to it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15

s.-:'.:,.,-. {. :: :: :: :
: Sacramento. Cal. Jan. 14.-0ne =
= hundred and sixty feet of the =
= Southern Pacific bridge over the =
Z American river has gone out. (:
San Francisco. Cal, Jan. 14-While
considerable damage from flood waters
has been reported tonight from the
Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys,
following the unprecedented rainstorm
which has deluged the state for the last
two days, it is feared that serious dam
age may have resulted at Stock
ton Visalia and other pointes when
the water pound into the rivers
during the heavy downpour in
the foothills last night and today
reached those cities. Above Stockton
breaks occurred in the levees. relieving
the pressure to some extent without
doing harm. and the same is true at Vi
salia, though at both places the water
has covered the streets in lOw-lying sec
tions.
Rain stiH continues at Truckee on
the east slope Of the Sierras, and the
Southern Pacific company has an army
of men on guard against landslides. So
far traffic has not been delayed over
city the rain is falling heavily, and
the prediction of the district forecaster
for a large part of the state is for more
rain.
Fresno. Cal. Jan 1.-THE ievee sur
rounding Visalia broke this afternoon
and flood waters swept into the town.
At 2:30 O'Clock. at the time Of the last
report, the northeastern part of town
was being flooded. School children were
dismissed at noon.~
At an carly hour this morning Por-
terviIle was Hooded. Twenty-Five fam
lilies living in the lower part of the
town were rescued by citizens with
RATS. A woman and child are reported
to have been drowned.
Sacramento, Cal. Jan. 1f.-Following
the downpour from midnight to noon
today. the river poured a flood into the
valley that probably has never before
been eoualled. The trains are leaving
Sacramento for the east or north The
American river bridge at Flevas, three
miles from this city. IS out Of plumb,
and cars laden with sand have been
run out on the structure to anchor If
in place
Bakersfield. Cal. Jan. IA food is
nenacfng Bakersfield tonight. During
the dav both the north and south levees
which protect Bakersfield and the sur
rounding country from the overflow of
the Kern river, gave way. More than
POO men are fighting to close the break,
and unless rain falls tonight and to-
morrow it is believed they viii be sue
cessful.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
POSTAL SAVINGS BILL


on deposits
cent
session
Af realize . , .
in
$
genera
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
TWELVE BODIES BELOW.

Bluefield. ". Va, Jan. 14.-Beside the
fifty-three miners already taken from
the Lick branch colliery, twelve bodies
are still in the pit, making the total
loss of life sixty-fve.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
FATE IN JURY'S HANDS

N q he
Indictment
IT. il
about hy minutes when dinner the
had completed had charged the
said
the all night
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
NAODEHED MAN
MURDERS WOMAN
IN COLD BLOOD
Miss Matilda EckIund Shot to
Death While Reading Her
Bible at Sandy.
VICTIM WAS STRANGER
TO INSANE ASSASSIN
MURDERER GLoRlES IN HIS
FIENDISH cRIME-HAD WILD
IDEA OF REVENGE.
t+E%%t**t*+*%*++%%++++*+++

Y
= WILD STATEMENT :
y OF MURDERER =
= Il feel happier tonight than ] ever 4
y did before =
= Spies have chased me for years, =
y and the union men. too. ana the rail- =
e roads have been after me. =
y Somebody had to ole and I thought =
= it was better for her than for me. y
When I felt that she ought to die y
y / went up to where she was living <
? and I looked through the window. =
= She was sitting reading a Bible. 1 4
= fired shot at her and it struck her =
= in the temple. I didn't think it killed =
= her, and / didn't want to see her SUI =
= fer, so I went around TO another win =
= dow and fired two shots into her =
= back. That finished her, and then I y
y went down town to saloon and had =
y two or three drinks. / didn't ike to y
y think of her lying there on the floor. y
4 She wasn't any good to anybody, but =
y / thought she ought to be buried, so y
/ went and got pick and shovel and :
y was going to take her out and bury =
= her when you fellows came and took :
me away. She ought to be buried. =
y though" =
+ The foregoing were the rambling Z
y statements made by Axel Carlson this I
y morning while being brought to the :
y county jail after he had murdered \
\ Matilda Ecklund. I
l. = ! = = = . L = + L l. - 49, Z
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
WOOL GROWERS
IN CONVENTION
One Thousand Sheep Men in
Attendance at Opening SeS-
sion at POcatelIo.
MIDWINTER SHEEP SHOW
SOME RUDE JoLTs FOR THE FOR
EsTRY BUREAU.

Pocatello. Ida. Jan. 1i.-one thousand
sheepmen attended the opening session
of the National Wool Growers convention
in this city today and listened attentvely
to a bitter arraignment of the federal
forestry bureau by President Fred ".
Cooling of Shoshone. Declaring that the
government in it's administration of the
national forests and of the reclamation
service has failed wOefully, President
GOoding urged that the congress be asked
to name a committee of western men to
investigate and report any needed changes
in the rules and regulations governing
these two bureaus
In support of his contention that evils
exist in federal control of. the unappro-
priated public domain, President GOodins
compared the results attained under the
operation of the Carey act by the west
eTn states with what he asserted was a
miserable failure, the part of the gov
ernment in reclaiming the arid west by
the reclamation service.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
Discovered By Porter.

Henry Wells. the eolored porter. was
the first to learn of the fire moment
later William Jenkins, the night watch.
man. and Wells began a systematic trip
through the house. waking the guests.
Men, women and children, scantily clad
were soon crOwding tie upper halls
About half of the $50 guests managed
to get to the loweI@floor and out through
the front and side doors before the stair
way was cut off. Half a dozen were
forced to jump from windows. while thu
others were rescue Fl by fiTemen from the
windows of the hotel from the tops Of
adjoining buildings. to which thew hal
jumped, and from fire escape landings
But few of the guests had time to collect
their personal belongings and most of the
guests got out Of the building only in their
night clothes The ground was covered
with snow and the refugees tTamped bars-
footed and scantily clad to the Y. NJ G. 4.
building and nearby drug stores, where
the injured were cared for.
Within an hour after the fire started,
the hotel was a mass Of ruins only the
walls remaining.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
Thrilling Escapes.

There were many thrilling escapes. A.
W. Smith of Mcpherson. former depart
ment commander of the Grand Army of
;he Republic for Kansas, and once a can
didate for governor on the Republican
ticket. and H W. Rowland, also Of Nc
Pherson, were sleeping In a room on the
fourth floor. The two made "A ladder of
their bed clothing and suspended it from
the window. Each in tuEs descended as
far as possible on the rope ladder and
dropped to the ground. Smith crashed into
an arChway. striking on railing. He sus-
tanned a broken ankle and internal IN
juries. Rowland followed Smith down the
ladder and also fell. He was picked up
unconscious and both were taken to the
hospital There IL was found that Smiths
condition was serious. Rowland suffered
three ribe broken.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
Escape of Webb MeNaII.

Webb McNall of Smith county, former
state superintendent of insurance likewise
made a sensa tionai escape McNaU was
sleeping in a room on the third floor in
the front part of the building In the
Continued on Page 2.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15

customer know that a per-
Let you..-szf attaches to him-a real
sanai " y Ss1terest that is not measured
PERSONA ~ his orders and his dollars
Flelll y u-iIl win in return that close
sd association and active support
gslsoIb@ piids up business.-Georse H
barbour
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
Totally Destroyed.

The hotel was a four-story brick struc-
ture located at the southeast corner of
Ninth and Kansas avenues. and owned
by J. c Gordon 1t was totally destroyed.
The loss is estimated at 100000; issur-
snce about $500. The origin of the fire
Is thought to have been due to a de-
fective electric light wire in the storc
room.
The building was situated one block
from the state capitol and was one Of
the oldest hotels in Kansas
It had n TOomy lobby and wide hall
ways. and was plentifully supplied with
fire escapes. The main stairway how
ever. was built around the elevator, and
the flames, shooting up the shaft soon
shut off tins means Of escape. The fire
started shortly after { o'clock. The flames
had gained great Roadway when discov-
cred. and when the fire apparatus ar
rived the rear stairway had been cut off
as a means of escape.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
LOGAN ". PAGE
ENTHUSIASTIC
FOR GOOD ROADS
Government Expert Addresses
Meeting on Improving
Highways of Utah.
EVERY DELEGATE IS
AN ACTIVE WORKER
REMEDIAL LEGISLATION is Al
MOST SURE TO COME AS THE
RESULT OF CONVENTION.

For many years / have been attending
good roads conventions. ] have attended
these meetings in all parts Of the coun-
try and IN England. France and Germany,
but ] want to say that never have ] at
tended a convention on the subject Of
good roads where there seemed less fric-
ton among the delegates or more evil
dences that the delegates 70. the conven-
ton were honest and sincere in their de-
sires to learn all possible about to how
to make and maintain good roads than l
have seen today in this convention in Salt
Lake. The people OF Utah are evidently
alive to the needs of good roads and GER
tainly hope their wants viii be realized
So said l.. W Page last evening after
attending the first days sessions Of the
Utah Good Roads convention in the arm
DRY in this city
He made the assertion with swapping
eyes, enthusiastically and emphatically.
Good roads is a question 20 which Mr.
Page, at the head of the government high
way bureau of the agricultural depart
ment in Washington. has devoted his lie,
and the enthusiasm manifested here at
the present convention caused him the
pleasure that only an expert on the sub
ject could experience
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-15
City Crowded.

4 crowded city marked the opening day
of the convention. Up to noon Loco dele
gates and visitors had registered at head
quartz rs.
From nearly every western state dele
gates are present. The biggest single del
egation arrived this morning from Boise,
coming direct from the adjourned ses-
sions Of the Idaho State Wool Growers
association Accompanying the Idaho
party were Governor Brady and delega-
ton of state officials. also about half
the members of both houses of the state
legislature.
was devoted entirely to the midwinter
sheen show 1t is the united opinion of
delegates to the Pocatello gathering that
the 1909 show is the biggest and best
straight sheep show ever held in America.
over 600 sheep are Entered From the
opening hour of until noon the exhibit
hall was crowded.
Bucks are on exhibition which cost as
high as s., 500 In the thoroughbred classes
there are some of the winners of blue rib
bons at the international show at Chi
eago. the Derby event of the live stock
world.
Addresses of Welcome.
At o'clock the opening business ses-
sion of the convention was held. Cover
nor J. II. Brady in an address of well
come in behalf Of the state. said he firmly
believed in the maintenance of a protec-
tive tariff on raw materials and provoked
laughter when he said he would like to
invite the wool men to the cooling shade
of trees in IdanO's forests were it not
for the fact that the reserves are bare
of trees.
In behalf Of the city. Mayor Loux well
coined the delegates. and Colonel E. J.
Ball of Laramie in responding, sounded
the keynote of the convention, when he
said:
Shot at Pinchot.
Clifford Pinchot has had control Of
something like 100000 acres of land. He
failed to get control Of 500.00oee0 acres.
which was fortunate for the western peo-
ple. Where I live we were all afraid to
own land and tried 20 get rid of what we
possessed
zone man there who owned a vast tract
was held up to the public as a bad citizen
and dangerous. Last year ne divided his
holdings and sold the property to 800 farm
ers Of the east, representing about 1000
persons. This We have ascertained is more
than the forestry bureau has done for the
home in more than five years with leo
eG0.oG0 acres at their command
President Fred ". GoOdinE delivered his
annual address.
Joseph E. Wing of Merchandising, o..
eastern vice president. was unable TO be
present and his address was read by W.
w Burch Of Chicago
At 5 o'clock the convention adjourned
until tomorrow morning at ] o'clock.
Denver Ogden and Albuquerque are in
the race for the 1910 meeting.