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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
FEROCIOUS TIGER
ATTACKS SURVEYORS
Animal Makes Two Visits Their Camp the First Time Doing
Small Damage, But Comes Again, Woundng Several and
Badly Frightening All Of Party in the Hills Of India

third attempt to provide itself with q
meal was frustrated in the same way
as the others had been, and fortu-
nately, it only succeeded in infiicting
slight injuries. The whole party
then spent the rest of the night sur
rounded by fires and keeping I'D
continuous hullabaloo.
At daybreak they moved off to a
Lushai village carrying two of the
wounded men and their maps. but
leaving their tents and everything
else behind them. On their way they
were met by the camp officer. l.. Will
Jams, who had somehow received
news, of the desperate straits the men
were in and hurried off to their as
sistance. He did what he could for
the injured men, but one of them was
in such woeful condition that he
died almost Immediately. They were
all sent into Silchar, however. and q
band of armed Lushai was dispatched
to the abandoned camp to collect and
bring away all the kit that had been
left there. They found the tents,
bedding and blankets and bags OF
rice torn and dragged about and q
sight rule and plane table stand bear
ing marks of fangs. Probably they
had been utilized in beating it off.
When Mr.. Williams met the party
all the men were so profoundly af-
fected that not one of them could
speak above whisper and begged
not to be sent back to the same To-
cality, but to be allowed to work for
the rest of the field season in open
cultivated country, which they have
been permitted to do.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
PERSONAL

Monsig. Falconio, apostolic delegate
to the United States, was received by
the pope, who praised his work in this
country.
Miss Marion Lawson, daughter OF
Thomas w. Lawson, and James Fuller
Lord of Chicago were married under
the largest American flag ever made
and in the center of IL acres Of roses
at Scituate, Mass.
Miss Marry Hartman, daughter OF
the railroad magnate, is director OF
the National Association for the Pro-
melton of kindergarten Education, or
ganized in New York.
Judge Ray S. Reid of La Crosse,
waterways commissioner for Wiscon-
sin, has been commissioned by Sena-
tor Burton to go to Europe to lay out
the route for the congressional party
which will study European water
ways.
President Taft attended the COM
mencement exercises at Yale college
and participated in the closing festivi-
ties of his alma mater.
Prince Won Buelow, chancellor OF
Germany, announced that he will re-
sign when the finance reform measure
has been passed by the reichstag.
James Hamilton Lewis of Chicago
reached New York after tour Of the
world. AS a result Of his study of
oriental conditions for this govern
ment. Mr.. Lewis declares an Ameri-
can-Chinese commercial alliance Is
necessary
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
WASTE OF WATER
IS TO Be STOPPED
SURVEY WILL SHOW VALUE OF
CONSERVING LAKE AND
RIVER RESOURCES.
TOPUSH WORK TO COMPLETION
Engineer Ralph Points Out the Need
of Comprehensive Plan
Drawbacks in Drainage.

st. Paul.-The government engin-
GERS, who are cooperating with the
state drainage board in making topo-
graphical survey of the state, are at
work in Otter Tail and Pope counties,
where they started making a topo-
graphical map of the whole state. The
Pope and Otter Tail region was select
ed on account of its many lakes and
streams.
eve desire to impress upon the peo-
pie the Importance of preserving our
lakes and water resources" said
George Ralph, state engineer. "These
maps will show up the lakes and their
storage capacity. In some places the
people try to drain some of our beau
tiful lakes"
Push Work to Completion.
A Typographical survey of the coun-
try surrounding the Twin Cities and
also the country around Duluth was
made some time ago by the govern
ment, so that work will not be gone
over again. The work now started in
the lake region will be continued as
IoSt dS pOSSiUlG So JudL USlOT0 very
long a complete survey of the whole
state will be made.
1--WE are trying to work for the fu-
ture as much as possible" said Mr..
Ralph.
Need Comprehensive Plan.
I'VE are giving as much of our time
and resources as possible to helping
out the regions of the state which are
settled or which will be settled in the
immediate future. We are doing all
we can toward getting surveys which
will show where the reservoirs, en-
pounding dams and the like can be
built.
"The great overfows in the Mime
sofa valley show the results of build
ing bitches without any general plan.
1t the channel had been improved and
reservoirs built great deal of those
foods would have been averted. We
needed just that kind Of an object les
SON"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
PORK BARREL LAW:UP TO COURT
Injunction Suit Is Argued Before the
Supreme Court.

Injunction Suit Is Argued Before the
Supreme Court.
The question whether the 100000
appropriated by the last legislature
for the building of roads and bridges,
in the so-called pork barrel bill, held
unconstitutional by Judge Brill, OF
Ramsey county, can legally be ex-
pended and whether future legisla-
lures can make similar appropriations,
is now before the supreme court. w.
B. Douglas made the argument for the
plaintiff, Senator l.. o. Cooke, who as
a taxpayer brought the suit to enjoin
the state officers from paying out any
of this money.
Attorney General George T. Simp-
son and Assistant Lyndon A. Smith
made the arguments for the bill.
II brought this suit on my own ac-
cord, and am nobody's tool" said
Senator Cooke to reporter after the
hearing. 81 am not doing it for spite,
as several members will testify that
I spoke Of starting such a suit two
years ago and would have done so but
for my absence from the state.
started the suit because the law is
wrong in principle.
1T amused me to see the senators
meet here last week. Their statement
then was an admission that they had
traded votes on other bills for the
sake Of getting something in the pork
barrel. The great evil of the bill is
that the members do not put the
money for roads where it is most
needed, but in the district where they
get the most votes. We have all
taken an oath to support the consti-
tuition, and l cannot see why so many
of the members are opposed to suit
to determine whether one of the acts
we passed is constitutional"
Two questions were considered in
the suit, whether state officer can
be enjoined and whether the bill is
constitutional The attorney general
cites number of rulings of the SUI
preme court to the effect that the
state auditor, as such, is not subject
to suit of any nature.
T. Young, in which the federal SUI
preme court held that state official
could be enjoined because there was
no other way he could be kept from
doing thing that was not legal. He
also cited number of cases In this
state prior to the Young case, in which
the right to enjoin state officers had
been sustained.
The attorney general answered that
If the action can be maintained
against the state auditor, similar ac-
tons can be brought against any state
officer who is attempting to obey .
law which some taxpayer and lower
court may deem to be unconstitu-
tional.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
Burial in Labrador

DR.. Wilfred T. Grenfell, the Labra-'
dor medical missionary, in an article
written for the Century relates that
to the Eskimo mind everything ami
mate or inanimate possesses a soul.
In the graves they invariably place
every cherished possession. that their
spirits might serve the departed spirit
in the same capacities in the life to
come. There is little room for burial
beneath the scanty earth in Labrador.
even if the frost would permit it. So
the grave consists of upright stones.
with long, fiat ones laid across. These
not only serve to keep the wolves
from the body, but wide chinks also
afford The spirits free passage in and
ont
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
BALANCE is 67,247.26.
State Treasurer Reports Financial Con.
dition of Minnesota.

State Treasurer Reports Financial Con.
dition of Minnesota.
st. Paul.-The cash balance in the
Minnesota state treasury at the close
of business, June 80, was $780,, 247.26,
compared with $2,579,68804 year
ago. The items to the credit of diff
ferent funds follows:
Revenue fund, $1,103, 60S58; SOL
diers' relief fund, $45,O52.72; funding
tax fund, $55,488.17; state road and
bridge fund, $69,615.64; university
campus fund, $2Os,021.06; permanent
school fund, $2O0,616.66; general
school fund, $4SO,43366; permanent
university fund, $5,935.50; general
university fund, $53,824.64; internal
improvement fund, $fS,O27.47; internal
improvement land fund, $5,992.52; in
ternal improvement land fund inter-
est, $6,875.95; swamp land fund, $780,
1856; swamp land fund interest, $751;
2S1.75; hay inspection fund, $1,721.55;
grain inspection fund, s50,O35.39.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
Sunday School Presentations.

Red Wing.-One Of the pleasant
features of the closing session Of the
jubilee meeting of the Goodhue Coun-
ty Sunday School Association was the
presentation by DR.. A. T. Conley, Of
Cannon Falls. on behalf Of the asso-
citation, of cane to Lewis Johnson
and a chair to M. B. Lewis. Both
these venerable gentlemen were char
ter members of the association so
years ago and each responded to these
tokens of esteem in fitting words.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
-FOUR ARE MURDERED.
FAMILY OF THREE AND LAD
FROM ABERDEEN KILLED IN =
THEIR TRACKS.
BELIEVE ROBBERY THE MOTIVE
ers the Bodies When He Goes to
Visit His Boy, and Reports
Gruesome Tragedy.

Aberdeen, S. D., July Gan entire
family of three and a lad from Aber-
deed were murdered at farm home
in the town of Rudolph, ten miles
south of here. The dead:
]. w. Christy, aged Sc. grain buyer,
shot while milking and then his skull
crushed with a hammer.
Mrs. Christy, his wife, aged 60, shot
after she ran out upon the porch of
the house at the sound of the other
shooting, bullet entering her breast
from a gun held against her body.
Mildred Christy, aged 10, attacked
as she came from her bedroom. Her
night-dress was torn from her and she
was shot in the head and thrown back
upon her bed.
Michael Roanaye, aged IA, was shot
in the barn beside Mr.. Christy and
his skull crushed with hammer.
Robbery was evidently the motive.
Mr. Christy was grain buyer for
the Van Dusen Elevator Company, of
Minneapolis, and at times had as
much as $1,000 in the house. The
murdered ransacked the house, but
is not known to have gained any
thing.
1t is supposed that the murderer
sneaked upon the farm from bor-
dering wheat field, intending to rob
Christy, but when he found the boy
present he had to kill him to hide his
guilt and then, the men out of the
way, he made his attack on the house.
In the house he reloaded his re-
volver, dropping the shells of IL
caliber gun on the floor and leaving
the hammer in the barn. These are
the only clues.
Christy had no known enemies and
has lived here for many years. The
family was highly regarded and were
people of culture. Sheriff Anderson
has armed men patrolling the coun-
try.
Emil Victor was arrested in North
vile, 20 miles south of the scene of
the murder and brought to Aberdeen.
He worked in Rudolph from October
until week ago, when he quit. He
had printed in the Aberdeen Amer.
lean story telling of a proposed trip
to see his father, proprietor of
large department store in Buffalo.
He had often boosted to fellow work
men of how easy it would be to rob
Christy. He had a watch, knives and
ladies' pins and $13 in small bills,
which were partially identified as the
Christy family's.
At the inquest over the bodies the
Jury returned verdict finding cause
to believe that Victor, who is now in
the county Jail, is implicated in the
affair, though the verdict does not
directly accuse him with the murder.
A number of witnesses were exam
ined, the testimony of John T. Ron
ayne, the father of the murdered boy,
being most affecting. He told of driv.
ing from Aberdeen to the Christy
place and the finding of the bodies.
The evidence against Victor, though
circumstantial, is quite strong. He
had upon his person when arrested at
Worthwhile large amount of women's
jewelry and a gold watch which is
believed to have belonged to Christy.
He protests his innocence and says
he can prove he was at Condo, S. D.,
when the murders were committed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09

of burden in that, instead OF the fiddle
head and long ears of his commoner
brethren, he possesses the small, fine
chiseled countenance and delicate.
shapely legs BETTING mule who is
gift from sultan to lord.
Another foreign importation in the
Abingdon fold is family of milk-white
Angora goats, whose chief beauty Is
their long, silky, luxuriant hair, which
is carefully combed out and washed
each day.
Less striking, but more useful. are
Wharfdale and Policy, a pair of ideal
pigs. Not pink pigs, but white pigs.
with plenty of hair to keep them warm
and thriving, with legs not long
enough to permit them to run over
much, and with bodies giving such
promise of future pork and bacons and
hams as to cause the very sight Of
them to make negro's mouth water.
And then, of course, the farm at
Crichel contains many animals which.
like the Angora goat, are kept more
to fill out the collection than for any
unitarian purposes. Among these
are the little white guinea-pigs. looking
like so many animated powder puffs
as they fit about with their bright
eyes glowing like searchlights in q
fog; also a number of white rabbits
anc flock of snowy pigeons, which
circles round and round the. house
top in such clusters that, from dis
lance, one would believe midsummer
snowstorm was raging there. And
there are Russian geese, too; strange
little creatures, with stealthy gray
eyes and hair all curled and RULED
like wet feather boa. These do not
compare in beauty with the "silkie"
fowls, the snowy whiteness of whose
feathers is enhanced by their shining
purple combs and turquoise ear lobes.
But aside from the fine specimens
represented, it is the careful attention,
the never-fagging care which Is ex-
pended upon them, and the large grass
runs and portable washtubs. enabling
them to live as they should, which
keeps the Abingdon collection in con-
dition and renders it easily the finest
of it's sort in the world.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09

The Survey of India Notes pub
fishes the following graphic account
of an attack on a party of survey
Ors:
An interesting report is given by
an officer in charge of survey par
ty in the Lushai hills, adjoining the
Cachar district Of Assam, dealing
with a series of ferocious attacks by
a tiger on two of his surveyors.
The tiger made his first appear
ance on February Is at the camp Of
Surveyor Gopal Singh, when 1t is said
to have sprung upon the surveyor and
one of his khalasis, who were seated
evening meal was being cooked. For
some reason not known the tiger did
not touch either of the men and dis
appeared as suddenly as 1t had come,
but the men were so alarmed that
after spending a sleepless night they
moved their camp to that of Surveyor
Amar Singh, about four miles off. On
February 81, however, the same tiger,
presumably. attacked the camp again,
Selling a khalasi who was washing
his cooking pots in a stream not 20
yards from the camp.
One of the tindals, by name Nandu,
armed with only stick, very pluck
lily rushed at the tiger and tried to
beat it off the unfortunate khalasi,
but 1t was not until the rest of the
two squads came up that the tiger
dropped his prey and disappeared,
only to return few minutes later.
and in spite of the frantic shouting
of the men seized Nandu by the arm.
1t was again driven off. but again re-
turned, and seized third khalasi. Its
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09

advanced stage of civilization. From
being American wards and helpless
children they are now citizens and
owners of the land, with deeds duly
signed with their own signatures prov.
ing their claims.
Even to this year the days OF June
Is and 16 are celebrated instead OF
July 4; though 1t is possible that here
after the Americans independence
day will be accepted as their own
time of rejoicing.-Fur News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
SEIZURE ILLEGAL.

Was Drawing United States Mail and
the Attachment Was Raised.
Sioux Falls, S. D., July 6.-Judge
Garland of the United States court
yesterday discharged the levy under
which a deputy United States mar
shall on Saturday took possession Of
a locomotive belonging to the Chica-
go, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
Company, to satisfy judgment
awarded Mrs. Marie Westby, of Madi-
son, by the federal jury for a little
more than $4,000, for the death of her
husband while in the employ of the
railroad company.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
EDITORS AT REMIDJI.
Great Northern Editorial Association
to Gather July is for Outing.

Wadena.-The Great Northern Edi-
torial Association will hold their an
nual outing at Bemidji July Is, 16, II
and Is. The Commercial Club of Be-
midi has charge of the arrangements.
Besides the regular program of speak
ing and "shop talks" there will be a
boat trip on the lake. This meeting
will be an outing and the ladies are
expected to attend. The regular
meeting was held in this city last
year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
General Bobleter Buried.

New Ulm, Mimi, July 6.-Brigadier
General Joseph Bobleter, of the Min
nesota National Guard, was buried
yesterday afternoon with full military
honors due his rank. 1t was one of
the most impressive obsequies ever
held in this city.
The body lay in state at his former
home and during the day hundreds
view the remains. The uniform,
which he had used on many occasions,
viewing the various regiments of the
state, enshrouded the body Of the cit.
izen and soldier.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
REVENUES ARE HALF MILLION.

st. Paul-Customs receipts for the
port of Minneapolis amounted to $685.
4S7.15 in the fiscal year ended today.
This is drop Of sol 1886 as COM
pared with 1908.
Clayton R. Cooley, collector, cannot
account for the deficiency, except that
last year was an unusual one Not
withstanding the decrease in receipts
there were 102 more separate entries
for Immediate withdrawal than in
1908, or total of 1892.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
CROP CONDITIONS EXCELLENT.
Red River Valley Will Make a Big
Showing This Year.

Red River Valley Will Make a Big
Showing This Year.
Barnesville.-The crop conditions in
Clay county and this part Of the Red
River Valley exceed anything in years.
twenty-five per cent more of grain
has been sown than in 1908. Mustard
is plentiful and has not hurt the
grain. The light rains and the warm
weather of the past two weeks have
been a great lift to the crops. Barley
cutting will be general by the end of
the week. Wheat and oats stand eight
cen inches high, bear COOL color and
are about ready to head. Potatoes are
in an excellent condition. Corn is
showing up we'll and the hot weather
is sending it skyward. New hay is on
the market and sells from three to
four dollars ton. New potatoes will
be on the market by the Fourth Of
July.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
bitches in WiIkin County.

Barnesville.-W. R. Hoag, of Mime.
apolis, is surveying bitches in the
northern part of Wilkin county. At
least thirty bitches will be put in this
summer. The steam ditching machine
is expected to arrive this week and
will be put to work at once. The
bitches will drain many acres of land
that have been regarded as worthless.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
GEN ERAI NEWS.

The committee which investigated
charges against meat inspection at
East st. Louis reported to Secretary
Wilson that they were unfounded.
H. F. jain, president; E. T. Larson,
cashier, and George H. Meadow, as
sistant cashier of the First National
bank, Ironwood, Mich, were held to
the grand jury following charges that
100000 of the banks funds are mis-
sing.
The Wright aeroplane was badly
damaged in landing at Fort Myer after
Orville Wright had made sensational
fight. The aviator was not hurt.
Cornell crews won the varsity four,
cup and shell races, defeating SYRIA.
cuse, Columbia, Pennsylvania and Wis.
consin with ease.
Charles Carr was arrested in St
Louis and taken to Carmi, ILL.,, where
he was charged with bigamy by Miss
Verne Wood, who found after her mar.
riage with him that he had wife.
Bertram R. Graves of BOWS, Ia, a
student at the University of Iowa. was
drowned at iowa City.
The schooner John Schuette of To
ledo was sunk in collision with the
steamer Alfred Mitchell of Duluth at
Detroit.
An employee of the Hotel Ruisseau.
mont at Lake Placid, N. Y, was burned
to death, but all guests escaped when
the hostelry was destroyed by fire
causing loss of 100000
The Congregationalists of the
United States have just announced
the raising of more than 100000 OF
fund of 100000 to iquidate the
Indebtedness of the American Board
of Foreign Missions and other mis-
sionary agencies.
Twenty men were killed by a land.
slide at the new docks at Newport
England.
The gold output of the Fairbanks
district in Alaska from the opening OF
spring to June is estimated at $4,75O,
900.
An operation for appendicitis was
performed on Mayor Fred A. Busse oil
Chicago and for more than "a hours
his condition was critical.
While driving bis harvester through
his fields near Ural, Okla, John Mich
OILS ran over and killed his little daugh
ter, who was asleep.
Orville Wright, after three unsuc
cessful attempts, assembled in the new
aeroplane and circled the aerodrome
at Fort Myer.
Bloodhounds trailed two of the ban
dts who held up a Canadian Pacific
train at Red Gulch, to an abandoned
coal mine.
The New York police began work
ing on new theory in the Sigel muir
der case which is that Leon Ling alss
was slain and was not her murderer
Pending decision in the check-of
dispute 5000 miners have quit worl
in the north end of the Pittsburf
coal field.
A ferryboat, fitted for the care o
victims of tuberculosis and donated
by Miss Mary Hartman, was turned
over to the Brooklyn Red Cross SO
ciety.
Five persons died and more than
score were FRUSTRATED by the heat II
Minneapolis and st. Paul.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
Industry Rapidly Growing.

Last year was banner year for
sugar beets, but the estimate Is made
by the United States department OF
agriculture that the present year will
eclipse all records, as 1t is expected
that over half a million short tons
of beet sugar will be made.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
DEATH CALLS AUsTIhs MAYOR.

George Sutton Dies In Hospital at
Omaha From ApopIexy.
Austin.-George Sutton, the mayor
of this city, and one of the most promi-
nent men in this part of the state,
died at Omaha, where he had been in
a hospital for several weeks for nerv-
GUS prostration, which developed into
apoplexy. He was serving his second
term as mayor and was one of the
city's most progressive citizens, many
improvements having been made un-
der his administration.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-07-09
The Day They Celebrate.

Ojibways of the Mississippi band
have regularly each year since 1868
celebrated their acceptance of the
White Earth reservation in western
Minnesota.
Within the limits of its boundaries
in northern Minnesota these people