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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29

DURING the last fiscal year more
y fish and fish eggs were distributed
by the bureau of fisheries of the De-
partment Of Commerce and Labor in
Washington than ever before in it's
history. For the first time the total
OF fish and eggs distributed passed
the three billion mark. The exact
number was 7.301.525.
Last year the total amount of the
distribution was S71.456.28O. and al
though Commissioner George M.
Bowers suggested early in the year
that he hoped to pass the three BIZ
lion mark. small hope was entertained
that he would be able to do it
In addition to the increased distribu-
ton. careful estimate has shown
that the cost of distribution has been
reduced to about $152 million of fish
and eggs distributed, which is lower
average est than has ever before
been attained. The cost during the
previous fiscal year was $160.25. In
1907 it was $172.2S. 1906 s216.80.
When the bureau was established,
in 1904, the cost Of distribution was
$403.51 million. while in 1897. the
year before Commissioner Bowers
took charge of the work. the annual
output was 568,l44.O42 and the cost
was $397.76 a million.
Ten years ago the number of appli.
cations for the stocking of rivers and
streams with fish of various kinds was
less than 1000. During the last fiscal
year, the applications increased to
nearly 1000 and the bureau respond.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
DR.. WI Seeks Light on Spirit World

When Mrs. Hennen. regarded as q
first-class medium by the spiritnaiists.
took the floor and asked whether any
one was present who had never re-
ceived a message from the spirit
world. DR.. WI signified that he was
such. The medium declared that she
saw standing by the Chinese minis
ter's side n woman of his country with
two children. She said she had not
been given their names, but described
them to him and remarked that II dur
ing the evening the names were given
her by the spirit she would make them
known to him.
While she gave spirit messages.
names and descriptions OF spirits to
persons in the room DR.. WI watched
and listened with the keenest atten-
ton. To his companion another me-
dunn gave long reading" informing
Mr.. Chang he was going away shortly.
but would return.
DR.. WI returned a few nights later
and had private sitting" during
which he was told that the spirit Of
William Mckinley. martyred presi.
dent OF the United States. urged him
to use his efforts for peace. The
spirit OF the Chinese ENJOYS mother
also talked to him.
why Is 1t cannot see the spirits?"
was DR.. Wu's question The mediums
explanation has not been made public.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
EDUCATORS JUNKET
TWENTY IN DELEGATION TIA 7
WILL INSPECT SCHOOL
SYSTEMS.
SUPERINTENDENTS OF u STATES
University Of Minnesota Engages At
tention of the Party, Which is
Investigating Rural School
Conditions.

Minneapolis.-The city. of Mime
apolis was host to 20 OF the most
prominent educators of the country,
including the state superintendent OF
IL Southern states, besides Dr. WIN
ship, of Boston, and Rolla Z. Ogden'
of New York, who made the trip pos
sible for the others.
The party is on tour OF the leading
educational institutions of the west,
and northwest. Rural school condl-
lions are also being carefully studied.
The two special cars are carrying the
visitors.
In the morning some little time was
given to the st. Paul public school
system. Most of the day, however,
was spent in Minneapolis. The visit
ing educators were escorted by Prof.
j. l.. Coulter, of the University of
Minnesota, with the state agricultural
college as the first objective point.
The forenoon was spent in a thorough
inspection of this institution and the
visitors were taken to the university
campus in the afternoon.
Late in the day all were taken on
sightseeing trip of Minneapolis in au-
tomobiles furnished by the CONNER
cial club.
Friday was spent at Menominee.
Wis, on an inspection of the Trinity
Stout Industrial school. The Univer-
sity of Wisconsin at Madison will
claim their attention on the day fol-
lowing. After that the party will start
south again.
In the party are:
DR.. Wickliffe Rose. Nashville, agent
Peabody fund; DR.. p. p. Claxton, Uni
verysit of Tennessee. Knoxville; r. c.
Stearns, Richmond. representing the
Virginia state superintendent; Luther
Holloway. representing his father, Will
liam M. Holloway, state superintend-
ent of Florida, and the following state
superintendent: H. C. Gunnels, Ala
bama; George B. Cook. Arkansas;
Jere NJ. Pound, Georgia; J. &. Crabbe,
Kentucky; T. H. Harris, Louisiana; j.
N. Powers, Mississippi; J. Y. Joyner,
North Carolina; ]. T.. Swearingen.
Soupth Carolina: R. l.. Jones, Tennes-
see: r. b. Cousins, Texas.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
ERERHART is HONOR GUEST.
Governor Speaks at Northwestern Ag.
ricultural Society Fair.

Crookston. - Governor AdOlph O.
Eberhart was the guest or nonor at the
first annual fair of the Northwestern
Minnesota Agricultural society, and
he proved an attraction which brought
10000 people to this city.
At noon he reviewed a procession
of $500 school children who then es-
corted him to the fair grounds where
he delivered an address which was en-
Enthusiastically received.
Among the other speakers were:
George Welch, commissioner of immi-
grafton; j. j. Furlong, vice president
of the state fair association, and Sec
rotary Cosgrove.
The event proved to be ono of the
most. enthusiastic demonstrations Of
an agricultural nature that has been
held in this section for years. There
were many entries in the different
classes and the exhibits were uniform
ly excellent.
The event was the first fair that
been held in Crookston for many years
and it proved a winner and a success
in every particular.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29

Aberdeen.-Calvin Bowdry, colored,
scored in his first attempt to NEEDLE
with the wheels of high finance when
he drew number in the Cheyenne
and Standing Rock lottery. Incident
ally, in his leap from poverty to
wealth, Bowdry set new mark in
government annals, for according to
Judge Witten, this is the first time
in history that negro has taken a
leaders prize.
Bowdry is a porter employed by M.
w. Webert in Bismarck, N. D. The
news Of his good fortune came to him
so suddenly that he could scarcely
appreciate what it meant He is 25
years old.
William J. Engel, winner of first
prize, is farmer residing four or five
miles west of Butte, Neb. He is en-
ployed on his brothers farm, is un-
married and is worth about $4,000 be-
fore the drawing.
The drawing started off very auspi-
ciously and Is progressing in quiet
manner. The little girls have given
away " VI ivy uC lO yCdiS
former Minneapolis lad, residing in
West Minnehaha.
The drawings will undoubtedly be
disposed of by Saturday.
Lottery Drawing Begins.
When little Josephine Burke, daugh-
ter OF Congressman Burke of Pierre,
s. D., who fathered the bill opening
the Cheyenne and Indian Rock lands
to settlement, demurely thrust two
tiny pink hands into the huge pile of
envelopes, little did she realize that
she was giving a cool $4,000 to some
one.
The crowd did, however, and as the
tot walked to the center of the huge
arena in the south end of the Auditor
ium strange hush fell over the
throng. Then, as Judge Witten, gov
eminent man in charge of the lottery,
read out the name of the first winner,
remarkable transformation took
place. Pandemonium reigned for a
few minutes. Nerves, already strained
to the breaking point, gave way, and
women wept on the shoulders of their
escorts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29

r HE postofflce department in Wash
i ington has just solved a problem
that of several years standing, and
which for long time they feared they
neved would be able to solve. Since
as far back as August, 1904, at regu-
lar intervals, the Boston postmaster
has been sending with his consignment
of dead letters to the dead letter Office
a number of small envelopes. all ad-
dressed with lead pencil in the same
handwriting to the same person,
street and number in Boston. with no
postage paid upon them.
When in time 1t. became necessary
to open these letters at the dead let
ter office each was found to contain a
81 bill, wrapped in scrap of brown
paper or old newspaper, without the
least sign or mark by which the SEN
der might be identified.
The number of these letters sent
to the dead letter Office having reached
LAG. Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral De Graw concluded to send out
his inspectors to run down the mys-
terry, for mystery he felt there must
be.
After a long search the postoffice in
spectors found that the name upon
the envelope and the addresses were
correct for the years 1904 to 1907.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
ARBoGAsT MURDER TRIAL.
Making Slow Progress in the st. Paul
Courts.

st. Paul, Minn.-After three days,
the trial of Mrs. Louis Arbogast for
the murder of her husband has made
little progress.
An important witness for the state
was sprung when Isidore Abraham
son, the first outsider to reach the
Arbogast home after the actual MUIR
der. told straightforward story,
showing that members of the family
knew Louis Arbogast had been hurt
when he arrived, very soon after
o'clock. and gave detailed facts, lock-
ing the door, it is said, against any
possible theory Of an outside assassin.
The witness stated that Arbogast
was stark naked in bed; that the fire
was fresh and that a bunch of feathers
was burning on the back steps. He
also testified that he met Mrs. Arbo-
CAST coming down stairs alone, dress
ed in a nightgown.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
Solve Post Office Department Mvsterv

The man named upon the envelope
had finally been discharged. and is
now an object Of charity. The pro-
prietor of the hat establishment
where the man used to work stated
to the postoffice inspectors that the
man had formerly worked for him,
and that he had in the past received a
number of anonymous letters. Then
the inspectors started out to chase the
old man down, finally finding him, and
when they told him that $146 were in
the custody of the dead letter office
for him he was overjoyed.
The old gentleman was somewhat
dubious about taking the money, as
he said that there was not anybody on
earth who owed him anything. Then
he made an exception to this state.
ment by saying that a great many
years ago he had made a silk hat for
man who had promised to pay for
1t. but never had. and he thought very
likely that this man was trying to get
even with his conscience by sending
this small sum every month.
The $146 helped to put the old man
on his feet and get him out OF the
poorhouse.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
Uncle Sam Plants Fish by Billion

ed by planting fish in nearly that
number of rivers. streams. lakes aud
ponds.
OF the entire amount planted, So
per cent. was for market fisheries,
only two per cent. being for the use
of sportsmen.
In summing up the conditions for
the fiscal year, Commissioner Bowers
has come face to face with the con-
tingency that in the near future the
Pacific coast may be called upon to
restock the Potomac river and it's
tributaries with shad. Only few
ycars ago shad were taken from the
Potomac and planted in the Sacra.
mento river, where they are now more
plentiful than on the Atlantic coast.
The commissioner is having pre-.
pared maps showing the extent to
which nets are planted along the Po-
tomac and its tributaries for catching
the shad as they return from the salt
water of the Chesapeake Bay to the
fresh water in which they spawn. So
great has been the onslaught on the
fish as they attempt to reach their
spawning ground. that in spite Of all
the efforts of the bureau to plant
eggs, the catch is constantly decreas-
ing.
seen to return soon, however, and he
stood near Ammon as If enjoying the
proceedings.
Sergt. Irwin told two or three of his
men TO pretend they were assaulting
him and when he started to cry for
help half-dozen of the Officers"
grabbed them and started to take
them before Ammon.
AS the Judge" was about to ask
what the complaint was, Irwin said
softly: Now" and his signal was
heard by all his men. Ammon went
to the floor with punch in the face
that .nearly took away his senses, and
the policemen seized II of their self
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
ARBOGAST MURDER TRIAL.
Making Slow Progress in the St. Paul
Courts.

st. Paul, Oct. 25.-After three days,
the trial of Mrs. Louis Arbogast for
the number of her husband has made
little progress.
An important witness for the state
was sprung when Isidore Abraham
son, the first outsider to reach the
Arbogast home after the actual MUIR
der, told a Straightforward story,
showing that members of the family
knew Louis Arbogast had been hurt
when he arrived, very soon after 4
o'clock, and gave detailed facts, lock-
ing the door, it is said, against any
possible theory of an outside assassin.
The witness stated that Arbogast
was stark naked in bed; that the fire
was fresh and that bunch of feathers
was burning on the back steps. He
also testified that he met Mrs. ArbO-
CAST coming down stairs alone, dress
ed in nightgown.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
Woman's Mouth Was a Speakeasv Ii

Annie Tubman's jaw was swollen
enormously. Lieut. Fathers asked her
what was the matter.
Gum boil" was her laconic reply.
"Ahem," said the lieutenant. Then
he began to massage Annie's face.
Out came dime.
ANY more?" he asked. and Annie
shook her head.
The lieutenant gave the face a
pinch. Out came two quarters.
marked money. Another massage, and
Annie disgorged five nickels.
More pinching. more money. until
about 81 were In the lieutenant's
hands. Telling about it in court AS
sistant Corporation Counsel Pugh had
the nerve to say to Judge Aukum
that the woman was forced to cough
up!
Annie and George Tubman were dis
missed, and Charles Norman was held
for further examination.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
PERSONAL.

DR.. E. B. Morgan, an eye and ear
specialist of Paterson, N. j., has come
into possession of s1,000,000 through
the generosity of brother who made
$7,OO0,000 in stock deals and shared
his fortune.
Cardinal Gibbons says he pities the
friendless rich. Millions" he says,
avail nothing to man if he have
no one to give him solace in sorrow. y
Richard Cookers trip to the United
States this fall is not in response to
call for aid from Charles w. Morse,
according to statement by Mr..
Morse, who is a prisoner In the
Tombs at New York
Emperor of Russia was accorded a
cordial and gracious reception on his
arrival at Racconigi, Italy. His meet
ing with King Victor Emmanuel was
signalized with booming of cannon
and cheers of the multitude.
Privy Councillor Albert Meissner.
secretary to Emperor William, died in
Berlin. He was in public life over
80 years.
Senator Patrick McCarren. the New
York Democratic leader, died as re-
suit of an operation for appendicitis.
DR.. James H. Carlisle, president
emeritus of Wofford college and one
south's best-known educators, died at
his home in Spartanburg. N. c. He
was 81 years old.
Prof. Irving Fisher Of Yale univer-
sity says the normal span Of human
life is $50 years, and declares the
longevity of man increases as science
and medicine make advances.
Mrs. Josephine Floyd Jones, who
was member of one of the oldest
families on Long Island, in her will
left SIC, 900 and her personal wardrobe
to her faithful servant, Hannah Dav-
export, who is to have a grave in the
family burial plot.
Bernhard Dernburg, German colonial
secretary. who is at Kansas City, de-
rides the suggestion of war between
Germany and England.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29

7 IEUT. FATHER Of the Washing
l. ton police gave away one of the
secrets of the third degree" when he
told Judge Aukan how he extracted
about two dollars in small change
from the mouth of a cclored woman
who pretended that she had a gum
boil.
Policemen Russell, Looper and Har-
ney had made raid on a house on
G street southwest that was thought
to be "speak-easy." or. in legal
terms, an unlicensed bar.
The police sent into tbs Eouse two
or three people with marked coins.
When the raid was made George Tub
man, Annie Tubman and Charles Nor
man were gathered in. together with
a lot of evidence In the shape of
whiaky and beer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
Local Option at Albert Lea.

Albert Lea. Hereafter the peo-
pie of Albert Lea will decide by
popular vote as to whether or not
they desire saloon licenses, as an
amendment to the home-rule charter
was adopted by majority of fourteen
more than the necessary three-fifths
vote. An amendment also permits the
city council to create revolving fund
for permanent improvements and per-
mits the collection of special assess
ments in installments at low rate of
interest. The several measures are
being well received.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
GENERAL NOTES.

Robert E. Peary has advised some
of his friends that it was impossible
for knud Rasmussen, the Danish ex-
plorer, to have seen any member of
the Cook expedition and that informa-
ton which Rasmussen received there
fore was not at first hand.
Revolutionists in Nicaragua were VIC
torious in their first battle with Pres
ident Zelaya's troops. The latter had
100 men killed and 800 wounded while
the insurgents loss was small.
At the request of both prosecution
and defense in the Tensleep murder
cases, in which seven cattlemen are
charged with the murder of three
sheep men, Judge Parmalee at Basin,
Wyo., has ordered an investigation. It
is charged that SO names were erased
fraudulently from the jury list and alb
stracted from the jury box.
The custer suit of the attorney gen.
eral of Missouri against the railroads
of the state for alleged violation of
the antitrust laws was continued at
Jefferson City to January.
The fourth dry farming exposition
and congress opened at Billings,
Mont, with a great crowd present and
a program that included addresses by
many well-known men of this and
other countries.
Charles N. Fowler, congressman
from New Jersey and former chairman
of the house committee on banking
has challenged Senator Aldrich to a
Joint debate on the subject of a CEN
trail bank.
Five hundred cigarmakers, mostly
Hungarian girls, who are on a strike
at New Brunswick, N. j., fought a
furious battle with 40 American girls
who wished to go to work A mum
Der of the latter were badly hurt by
being scratched with finger nails and
punctured with hatpins.
The Association of Collegiate Alum
nae began a five-days' meeting at Gin
cinnati, the president, Miss Laura
Drake Gill, in the chair.
Earth shocks felt near Mount Etna
with the renewed activity of Mount
, Vesuvius has caused alarm at Mes
sina, Sicily.
Six indictments against E. G. Lewis
originator of the Peoples bank
and widely known as magazine pub
Usher, were dropped in the United
States district court at st. Louis
These were the last of a series OF
charges made against Lewis by the
postal authorities several years ago.
Commander Robert e. Peary's rec
ords and observations to show that be
reached the north pole April 6, 1909
have been submitted to the Nationa
Geographic society at Washington
and the board of managers of thai
body has referred them to sub-com
mittee of three experts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
BETRAYED BY PARoLED CONVICT
Men Who Escaped from st. Cloud Re-
formatory Captured.

st. Cloud.-Anderson, Johnson and
Rankin, the three men who escaped
from the state reformatory Friday
morning, were captured on the Hol-
lern farm about 16 miles north of this
city. A paroled inmate of the farm
knew the men and told Mr.. Hollern
who they were. He communicated
with guards and the men offered no
resistance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
WlNONA MAN SWlNDLED.
Loaned $4,000 to Stranger in a
Forged Dead to a Farm.

Winona.-Jacob Stirneman, of Wi
mona, was cleverly swindled out of
$4,000 by fellow giving the name of
Henry Schneider, who worked a bogus
mortgage loan game, being really Hen
ry Hoover, who has operated all over
the country.
The man forged deed to the farm
of Theodore Vail in Fremont, and Sc
cured $4,000 loan from Stirneman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
MARKETS..
Twin City Markets.

Minneapolis, Oct. 27.-Wheat, No. I
northern, $1.051s, No. 2 northern,
$1.031A; Dec, SLOPPY; May, $1.04% /;
durum, No. 1, S7% cts. Corn-No. 3,
58Ac. No. white oats, 37%c. Bar,
ley-60c. Rye-No. 2, 6S%c. Flax
No. /, $1.6SH.
Duluth, Oct. 27.-No. 1 northern,
$1.05; Dec, $1.02, May, $1.O4as.
South st. Paul, Oct. 27-Cattle-
Steers, $5.O0@5.75; cows, fair, SO ESQ
$4.25; calves, $3.50@5.50. Hogs, $7.35
@7.45; sheep, yearlings, $5.00@5.25:
lambs, $500@$6.0O.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
Saves Car and Employer.

st. Paul.-But for the quick work
of a porter on the private car of
o. Cornelisen, general superintendent
of the Great Western railway, the car
would have been destroyed by gas
explosion and Mr.. Cornelisen and his
party of railroad officials either badly
injured or killed in the st. Paul union
station yards. The porter had entered
"a small closet in the car to see what
was wrong with the lights. He struck
match and was blinded by flash.
He grabbed a patent extinguisher and
succeeded in putting out the blaze.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
Predicts a Revolution.

Minneapolis, Minn.-Carl NJ. Me-
lom, instructor in Spanish at the uni
versity, predicts the downfall of Al
fonso, the present incumbent of the
throne of Spain, and says he is sur
prised that the socialist party had not
already taken the country by storm.
Mr. Melon went through Spain four
years ago and devoted his time to a
study of social conditions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, Oct. 27.-Cattle-M Market
steady; steers, $6.50@$9; COWS, $3.50
@$5.25; heifers, s3.5O@6.OO; bulls,
$3@$4.SO; calves, $3@$9.75; stockers
and feeders, $3.75@$5.50.
Hogs-Market sc to 10 cts. lower;
choice to heavy, $7.90@8.0O; butchers,
$7.85@$7.95; light mixed, $7.5O@765;
choice light, $7.7O@$7.SO; packing,
$775@$785.
Sheep-Market steady; sheep, $500
@5.25; lambs, $6.O0@7.OO; yearlings,
$4.50@$5.50.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
WANTS WALSH IMPRISONED
District Attorney Sims Fears Convict.
ed Banker Might Flee.

Chicago.-A petition requesting that
John R. Walsh, the former banker
and railroad owner, convicted Of
wrecking the Chicago National bank,
be committed at once to prison to be-
gin the term to which he was SEN
fenced by Federal Judge Anderson,
was filed in the United States circuit
court of appeals by United States Dis
trict ATTORNEY Edwin w. Sims.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest from All Parts Of
the GIobe-Latest Home and For.
eign Items.
TOUR OF THE PRESIDENT.

President Taft and party left St
Louis for a four-days' trip down the
Mississippi. At New Orleans they
will attend the fourth annual conven-
ton of the Lakes and the Gulf Deep
Waterways association.
President Taft had the time of his
life on his brothers ranch in Texas.
He rode a balky cayuse. saw wild
steers roped by cowboys and wit
messed the rounding up of herd OF
cattle. together with many other in
teresting things connected with ranch
life.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-29
Governor OFFERS Athletic Cup.

ST. Peter. Governor A. o. Eber-
hart has stimulated interest in ath-
letics at Gustavus Adolphus col
lege by offering a silver cup which
will be competed for by the basket
ball teams. Intercollegiate athletic
contests were. suspended three years
ago as the result of action taken by
the Augustana synod, but football,
baseball and basketball games be-
tween class teams are permitted. Gov
ernor Eberhart, himself an alumnus
of Gustavus Adolphus, counsels obser-
vance of the synodical order.