The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-10-22


Pittsburg National league baseball
team won the worlds championship
when they defeated the Detroit Ameri
can pennant winners in the seventh
and deciding game by a score Of
| to 0.
President Taft laid the cornerstone
of memorial chapel at Fort San
Houston. The structure is gift from
the citizens of San Antonio, Tex, fol
place of recreation for the soldiers
Yorktown, Va, is celebrating the
one hundred and twenty-eighth ami
versary of the surrender of the British
forces under Lord CORVALLIS to Gen
George Washington, October 10, 1881
in fitting and patriotic manner.
Willie Boy" the Piute Indian muir
derer, for whom posses have been fol
weeks seeking, killed himself by
shooting on the summit of Bullion
mountain, California.
Jack Johnson still retains the title
of heavyweight chamuion of the world
because he knocked Stanley Ketchel
out in the twelfth round in their fistic
battle at Colma arena, San Francisco
The fight was furious and bloody. The
colored man was too heavy and strong
for his lighter opponent
George M. Verify of Middletown, O.
Mill Company, announced that the COM
pany has decided on plans for a new
plant, to cost 100000.
Twenty-seven bombs have been
thrown In Barcelona, Spain, within
four days, and five persons have been
killed and over score wounded.
The New York Globe publishes a
copy of affidavit made by Edwin N.
Barrill, who accompanied DR.. Fred
erick A. Cook at the time he an
nounced reaching the summit of
Mount Mckinley in which Barrill
summit and charges the explorer with
forcing him to change dates and fig
ures in his diary. DR.. Cook. at AT.
lantic City. N. j.. emphatically denies
the charge and says proofs of his
climb are buried on the summit of the
mountain.
A high-salaried appointment soon to
be made by President Taft will be
Panama canal commissioner to sue
coed ex-senator Blackburn of Ken
lucky, whose resignation is expected
The position pays $4,000 year.
OF the 2S5 county reporters who re-
port crop conditions to the bureau Of
statistics of the department of agricul.
ture. 1874 have served in that capacity
more than twenty years. according to
the official crop reporter.
George Shima, the Japanese potato
king of Stockton, CAL, gave his sec.
ond annual banquet to potato buyers
Shima sent his launch, the Shima
Maru, for his guests. He has the
largest potato patch in the world. a..
900 acres.
Civil war is impending in Spain
Several bombs have been exploded
near the royal palace in which King
Alfonzo is practically a prisoner, be;
ing guarded by a double Gordon Of
troops.
of Mexico exchanged visits at Ell Paso,
Tex, and Ciudad, Juraez, both execu
tives leaving their native countries for
the first time in an official capacity.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, refuting the
charges that he did not ascend Mount
Mckinley, will organize an expedition
to ascend the mountain and procure
the records he left there. He asserts
Guide Barrill has perjured himself
Thirty-seven persons are dead, many
injured, and property damaged to
about $1,000,000, as a result of the
storm which swept Tennessee. Ala
bama, Georgia, Arkansas and South
Carolina.
The National Purity congress opened
in Burlington, Ia, with President B. s.
Steadwell in the chair and about 500
reformers and social workers present
Many well known men and women
were on the program.
Plans for campaign for the pas
sage of an act to enable Illinois mu.
inequalities to adopt the commission
form OF government were discussed at
the annual meeting of the Illinois
Mayors association in Elgin.
The Portola festival, celebrating the
discovery of San Francisco bay,
opened in the Golden Gate city.
The National Spiritualists' associa.
ton began their seventeenth conven-
ton in Rochester, N. Y.
A convention of employing printers
met in Chicago to adopt uniform
methods that would end the price war
Mrs. George Ferguson, associate
pastor of the Peoples church in Wash
ington. says her sex would obtain the
ballot if they adopted the method sug
gested by Samuel Adams in revolu
tionary days-elect state committees
study conditions and adopt state
platforms.
Marines from the cruiser Idzuma
were landed in San Francisco to ai(
in fighting a fire. The visitors thought
the city was threatened. They were
not needed.
In an interview at Buffalo. Explorer
SOOh lCltCIdlCu tudt uC WOulu
the Eskimos who accompanied him to
the north pole to this country in order
to disprove alleged distorted declara
tons in Commander Peary's state
| ment.
In the sixth game for the world!
championship Detroit defeated Pitts
burg to 4.
Edward Singer, aged 35, of Chicago
has been arrested for rifling merchan
| disc mail pouches.
Detroit defeated Pittsburg 5 to 0 II
| the fourth game of the worlds cham
pionship series.
An unnamed honor has pledged
$4,000 to the proposed 100000 en-
| dowment fund for Wooster CO., uni
yersity according to the Announce