The Ely miner., 1909-12-24

known that the attitude of this gov
ernment toward Nicaragua would not
be changed by the election of Madrl2
to the presidency as the successor OF
Zelaya. Madriz will have to show that
he is capable of directing a RESPONSE
BILE government which is prepared To
make reparation for the wrongs which
it is claimed have been done to Amerl
can citizens.
Capt. B. S. Osbon of New York, sec
retary of the Arctic club, announced
that Capt. August w. Loose's story
that he had faxed polar records for
DR.. Cook was concocted for sale with
out regard to the truth. Capt. Osbon
declared Capt. Loose has admitted
his affidavit as published in New
York newspaper had no foundation IN
fact. Capt. Loose denies this alleged
verbal confession with the statement
that he was offered $4,000 if he would
contradict his affidavit. He says he
spurned the offer and stands by his
original story that he supplied fake
records to DR.. Cook.
The bonded debt of New York city
has reached $1,OO0.OO0,0OO, according
| to a report issued by the comptroller.
This amount, however, includes more
than $2OO,OOO,0OO held by the city
sinking fund.
Leopold H., king of the Belgians, is
dead. The end came as a surprise
even to the physicians in attendance.
The aged and wasted body of the mon
arch was unable to stand the great
strain to which it was subjected.
The fishing tug Penelope of Cleve-
land burned four miles off Lorraine,
o. The crew of three escaped, after
a battle with ice foes in bitter cold.
which almost cost them their lives.
Some of the most prominent women
in Managua have sent a petition to
Henry Caldera, the acting consul OF
the United States there. Their names
are signed to the petition, which sets
forth the tortures to which Zelaya's
prisoners have been subjected, and
pitifully requests the Intervention OF
the American government.
A negro highwayman shot and
killed the motorman and fatally
wounded the conductor of an Alta
Sta street car near Fireworks station
in the southeastern section OF East
st. Louis, Ill. The car bearing the
bodies of the dead motorman and the
unconscious conductor ran wild at
high speed for more than four miles
into the heart of the business district
after the highwayman escaped from it.
Engineer Tom Walker and Fireman
P. w. Bauer, both of Tucson, were
killed, ten persons were seriously in
jured and 13 others cut and bruised
when the east-bound Golden State
Limited, a Rock Island train running
over the Southern Pacific tracks west
of Ell Paso, was wrecked three miles
west of Benson.
The general belief is held at Copen-
hagen that the commission having
charge of the investigation of DIR.
Frederick A Cooks polar records
will report that Dr. Cooks papers do
not provide a basis for any we'll
founded scientific judgment
Emulating his brilliant brother.
Lamar Harris, whose suicide in High
land Park, ILL.,, after robbing a bank
several months ago, caused a ma
tional sensation, Leslie Harris, at
torney and mining man, was caught
in the act of robbing the safe of the
MacFarland Shirt Company, at Los
Angeles, Cal, in broad daylight.
Nelson county, Kentucky, went
wet in a local option election by
653 majority.
]. w. Bridge, superintendent of the
Pittsburg. Monongahela & Washing
ton Railway Company, fired bullet
into his left side just below the heart
at Monongahela, and is dying at hos
pital.
A telegram was received at the
Anchor Line office in Buffalo stating
that the crew of the propeller Wis
sahicken had been rescued from the
outer Duck Island, Lake Huron, and
are en- route to Sault Ste. Marie.
Three sisters now occupy separate
cells at East Orange, N. j., charged
with the murder of Osey Snead, who
was found dead in a bathtub Her
mother is one of the accused, her two
aunts are the others.
After celebrating for nearly twen-
ty-four hours the jury in the case of
Garrett Johnson and Arthur Clear,
the alleged leaders of the night riders,
charged with the murder of Capt.
Quentin Rankin at Union City, Tenn,
is apparently hopelessly disagreed.
The end of Cleveland's eight-year
traction fight is in sight, through Fed
eral Judge Tayler's determination of
the Cleveland railways property and
franchise values, rate of fare and
liability for the redemption of guar
anteed stock. The city council pledged
itself to abide by his decision, and
unanimously passed a 25-year fran
chise based on the judges decision.
Before beginning his nine-year SEN
tence in the penitentiary for the kill
ing of Joseph E. Richeson, a farm
hand, Ernest S. Stout of Grand Is
land, Neb., voluntarily settled $1,000
on the children of the man he killed.
Stout was convicted of manslaughter.
Head hunters of the Solomon islands
are on the warpath because of mar
riages between their women and
white men, according to news from
the antipodes, brought by the Royal