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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-15
TORCH LAKE NEWS
MAN IS KILLED
ON COPPER RANGE
SOME MYSTERY SURROUNDS
DEATH OF MAN SUPPOSED
TO BE NlkALAI JAKI-
TESTIMONY TAKEN.

Some mystery surrounds the killing
or man supposed TO be Nlkalai
Jaka' who was accidentally run over
this morning by an engine and ca
boose on the Copper Range railroad
on which Chester Raymond was the
engineer; John Reynolds, fireman;
and Nick Steinmetz, conductor. The
accident occurred about $3.50 o'clock.
between the Grove station and the
South Lake Linden station, and near
the curve a little north of the latter
place. Justice Il. +. Prince was no
titled of the accident and accompan-
led by number of others visited the
scene.
The following men were impanelled
as jury to investigate the case: H.
Il. Penninger. George Filion, John
Hermann. A. +. Gallipeau, VIII Hopf
and John Franks. The members of the
train crew gave what information
they could in the matter
Mr.. Raymond stated that he was
bringing down the train from Hough-
ton with the crew who were working
on the new bridge near Lake Linden.
The morning was very foggy and 1t
was impossible to see but a short dis
lance ahead. He thought he dis
covered an object in the track and
slowed his engine, which was going
ut fair speed at the time, and as he
got nearer the object he could see
n ChnnC 10 mn oil Ia FOL 80.
to bring the heavy engine to a
standstill but this was impossible ow-
ing to the speed IL was making at the
time. The body of man was run
over. The body was between the rails
with the face downward and the back
of the mans head was completely Off
Mr.. Raymond further stated that
he felt of the dead mans hands and
when he did so they were cold. giving
him the impression that il was not
his engine that had killed him, but
that he met death I'm some other man
ner, probably by another train.
Marshal Kline looked through the
pockets of the dead man after the
body had been removed to the side of
the tracks. A pocketbook, contain
ing few Finnish coins, n pipe and
some papers were found in the peck
cts and in the purse a Copper Range
ticket from Houghton to Mass, bear
ing the station agents date stamp Of
August 10. but the ticket had not
been used as it was not punched. The
members of the jury were satisfied to
have the body removed TO the local
station OF the Copper Range. A suit
case had been left at the depot by a
man yesterday, and a suitcase key
was found in the dead mans pockets
The officers tried the key on the sun-
case and it was the information found
that led the authorities to believe that
the dead man was Nikalai Jalli, as sew
eral letters and postal cards were adj
dressed to that name.
Worked at Chassell.
The decedent had receipt for a
money order which was obtained at
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-15
KARL KEMP, Shoemaker
44o Pine Street. Calumet, Mich

- f4U zine street. Caiumet, Mich. :.
:: Every kind of hoe-repairing :.
= work done. Boots and shoes re- :.
= paired with the greatest care and :.
= skill All work given special at :.
= tention and when repaired. 1t :.
= looks like new--and wears like it. ::
:. too. :.
:. The only first class place in the !:
= county. Everything up-to- date. :.
:. All the latest machinery. Our :.
= work Is high grade and our prices I:
:. are very reasonable. !.
= Come and give us a trial. :.
= = J. (. + = + r + 4. 4. + r r : I
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-15

In State Of Partial Employment.
Women write all their articles on
how to manage husbands before they
get any-Quincy Qll) Herald.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-15

Indianapolis. Ind, Aug. IA
strenuous fight is expected in the con-
vention of the United Mine Workers.
which takes place here, over the
presidency. President Lewis confid-
emily expects a recollection, but there
has grown up a strong factor in the
organization opposed to Lewis and
his methods.
Those who backed John Mitchell,
the former president. in his long and
bitter contention with Lewis over
policies TO be pursued by the organi-
zation. are among those opposed to
the present incumbent. Mr.. Mitchell
himself is taking no active part in the
election and absolutely refuses to al
low his name to be mentioned for an
other term.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
expect a large crowd down from Calu-
met and Allouez aud the day will be
spent at White City. An orchestra
has been engaged and pleasant time
is expected.
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Worked at ChasseII.

The decedent had receipt for a
money order which was obtained at
the Chassell postoffice last week and
during the day Justice Prince found
out from the office at Chassell that
JaN had purchased the order and
gon. Word is being awaited from
Ontonagon as to what will be done
with the body. II was taken to the
Pearce morgue to be prepared for
burial. The jurymen will meet this
evening at the office of Justice Prince
when they will try and reach a YER
diet.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-15
II Is Just About Time

The people Houghton stock of their condition
We live community where PLENTIFUL hence
easy i'm the world
month million in cash circulated among u.s.
Everybody of IL should have plenty of ready
Instead, everybody hard up" Many
in debt and WE have been
acting drunken sailors mon
things did lost II in the stock mar
all kinds reckless living We indebt-
the goods merchant What
$ a financial Ills
YOUR MONEY PAY CASH. EXCHANGE YOUR PASS
BOOK FOR A BANK GET WISE.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-15

Misses Jean and Anna Leary of
Laurium have returned from a ten
days lake trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-28
PICTURESQUE GRAFT.

The Interpreters House, in the
January American Magazine contains
some very disconcerting truths regard
ing the newspaper-reading public. The
writer claims that we not only admire
graft. but We like to read about it. He
asserts that the space the dailies de-
vote to the subject proves his point
He says:
There are all shades of graft, in
business, politics, even religion. Most
of it keeps within the law And some
of it has your approval No? How
about David Harum?' That book was
refused by eight publishers. Then
somebody had a bright idea. He took
the horse trade story out of the mid
die of the book, put it right at the start
where it's trickery could catch your
eye. And the book sold into the hum
dreds of thousands.
"But you may say, there was a cer-
tain quaint humor in David Harum.
Quite true. There is also a certain
quaint humor in Graft. And you like
| that and we know you do, and so we
| play it up. In New York how long you
chucl1led over the things Bill Devery
saidl Poor old Bill! There came a
| time when even his quaint humor could
no longer hold him up. But Big Tim
| is still doing nicely, Iningling fun with
| heart breaking pathos in the same old
| cities all the time there is some one
stout politician whose live and let live
drolleries make a place for themselves
even on the front page. And, to take
| it on a national scale, humor was ona
| of Mark Hanna's strong points. Turn
back the files, read the ininlitabIe
| things he said, and remember how
you chuckled-as the tariff bill slipped
| through.
| There is generosity in graft. And
| that's human and you like it, and sc
| we give it space. It makes things
kindlier, pleasanter. more Christmasy
all around. acts as a sort a sedative or
that troublesome Puritan conscience OF
yours.
''There is the gamble element in
| graft. And that you find thrilling, full
| of suspense. A man taking chances
making decisions like a flash. What 3
yarn that was about young Joe Letter
! There was nothing illegal in what he
4 did; the idea was simply to grab al
| the wheat and then let the demand for
bread do the rest. And yet I suppose
you would call it graft And what u
yarn!
ITO turn to a pleasanter aspect
| there is fertile imagination and daz-
zling inpudence in graft. Turn back
| the files to Dowie. Shrill, emotional
stout old boy, his story. is dead as 8
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doornail now, but for some months
you followed it close. Why? Did you
believe what he said, that out OF some
hundreds of millions of living men ne
alone, Alexander Dowie, ex-crook. had
been chosen by Almighty God to rule
and enlighten all mankind? Or did
you read and chuckle over the mans
consummate nerve, his rich imagina-
ton. the astounding force he showed
in spreading his great lie?
And take the case of Cook. Through
all that controversy, deep. down in your
mind weren't you sure all the time that
the man was a fake? But what fake.
"To turn solemn again, there is ire
mendous gripping power in graft
When the panic of 1907 broke loose,
you read hour by hour the latest edit
tons still damp from the press You
read without d clluclxle, thinking OF
your business, your salaries, your jobs,
of homes and wives and children; thou
sands of you read standing in long
anxious lines before the doors of banks.
And you read of q certain Big Man sit
ting all night in his library, with other
men around him, but none so big as he.
And as you saw all at once the power
that this one man had over your money
and your life, you may have said
harsh, bitter things. But can't you re-
member beneath it all some thrill of
admiration for the keen, hard-gripp1ng
mind of this man, as you stood in line
through those long nights and read the
latest news about hin?" ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-28
Airship REEVES Romance.

The romance of battle, which SEEM
ed over with the passing of its cavalry
charge-no- longer possible against
machine-gun fire-returnS on wings.
Individualism of exploit returns. An
army ceases to be simply an aggrega-
ton of units in khaki with no one
counting more than another. One
mans daring initiative may be worth
regiments as in the old days.
The next great war promises Hob
sons by the hundreds-and there will
be no convenient liferaft to take them
back to kisses and public applause.
Once his plane is out of action the
aviator scout drops to death. It is
probable that a general will send out
first a feinting fotilla of planes to
draw the enemy's planes in chase, be-
fore he sends out the one on which he
depends for information. Or he may
dispatch a flock scattered at wide
intervals of distance, knowing that
if all of them except one are destroy
ed, the return of that one will be
enough.
What news that lucky one will
bring-news which will make war, to
the commander-in-chie game of
chess in which he knows all the moves
in his opponents Misunderstanding
Palmer, in Hampton's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[Fronn- the Atchison Globe.


There is an auditor in every mans
life to check him up.
You hear of great many more
things than you ever see-
There is nothing people remark SO
quickly as stinginess in others.
The man who suggests a compromise
has usually been whipped
We often declare we never force our
selves on people, but many of us do.
A good salesman makes you think
he is helping you, instead of working
you.
When people say you have funny
ways, they mean you have foolish
ways.
No man has such a good friend that
he will not try to work him to invest
in his schemes.
A man is afraid to express his hon
est opinions on fully half the questions
Of the day.
Those who are actually in society
are not as ridiculous as those who are
trying to get in.
A story on a married man isn't really
interesting unless his wife caught him
at It.
When a man is as busy every day
as barber is on Saturday. he soon has
nervous prostration.
Some men are so mean that when
they attend ball game, they want to
see the home team beaten.
There are a lot of men who can't
look for anything better from public
opinion than something like a hung
jury.
A woman always tells her lover that
she wishes she could hear all his aches
and pains; because she knows she can't
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Beasts Hold court Martial.

REWARD for information or return of
iBoston terrier; no questions. HOEY.
This advertised confession that man
who keeps lions, rhdnoceroses, and tigers
among the 1enizens of the Central park
jungle yesterday.
SO great was the Indignation over Hoey' S
loss that even the elephant was suspected.
And the circumstantial evidence against
the tiger was SO strong that the king of
beasts ordered a court-nartiaI.
Why did you eat the Boston pup
asked Prosecutor Fox.
The indicted tiger cracked the first smile
ton.
~ 7 did not eat the pup" he declared;
Is it not true that you spent two sea-
sons at Goney Island7,
Yes, sir growled the prisoner.
-4And while there you never ate a dog?''
.sNeyeri' roared the witness.
Answer stricken out as ridiculous
said the lion.
went on the prosecutor.
well, have worn stripes" confessed
the tiger.
For eating dog?"
mo, sir; merely a keeper
.tAhar' cried the fox, didn't you just
say you were vegetarian"
THE keeper was ounce" explained
the imperturbable tiger.
Prisoner discharged ruled the lion.
The rhino was led trembling to the
stand.
why, are you so fat?" demanded the
prosecutor.
IL do not recall answered the wit
ness.
did you not eat a portion of that dog?'
It ate some bark yesterday" admitted
the witness.
He is a wag; cut short his tale" order
ed the lion.
The fox flew into rage. st suspect the
court" he whined. Everybody knows
the lion ate that pup
.ssir,' thundered the lion. ST am king -
$50 was Manuel" snarled the prose-
cutor "Gibraltar for yours"
And Hoey, still mourning his missing
pet came around just In time to prevent
another mysterious disappearance from
the park zoo.-New York American.
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NYHAWKER JOTy

The Emporia Gazette thinks that the
Missonrian, who was married for sew
enty-five years and never gave his wife
a cross word, must have had some i'm
pediment in his speech.
Noting that all raff1es, including
Church raff1es,'' are to be prohibited
in Kansas City, the Hutchinson News
remarks that Kansas City will get SO
good that Kansas people will quit
wanting to go there.
Says the Salina Journal: The
Youths Companion has come out with
pie should wash their hands before
eating. These violent, undertaking as
sertions should be stopped.
The new postal savings banks are to
be open for business next month. And
the Hutchinson News calls attention to
deposit with the government by going
to Pittsburg, which has been made the
Kansas office to try it out.
There is nothing more amusing
these frosty mornings to the man who
is too poor to own rotor car than
the sight of a freezing plutocrat trying
to give the frozen carburetor to his
ba1ky buzz wagon a hypod ernie injec-
ton of gasoline in order TO get the
machine from his home to his Office
Ottawa Herald
They tell it on a young man in
w
studied his piece well. When he went
to "Pa" to ask the great question it
was like this: Sir said the young
man as he entered the library, 81 am
in love with your daughter. Have you
any objection to my su1t?'' The old
man looked the young man over
from head to foot. 81 sure have" he
replied. why, wouldn't wear a mis-
fit suit like that to a dog fight. Why
don't you try some other tailor?'
Ruth People wrote as follows in the
Erie Record of recent date: A lady
of my acquaintance thinks the next
wise move to make will be in taking
steps toward putting the Insane
Christmas in the same bag with the
Insane Fourth and drown 'em both
together, and after once watching a
over a ten cent counter in a notion
store, or seeing a worn out woman
sewing until midnight on dust caps
and slippers, it would seem as if there
would be as much wisdom as truth in
the idea.
A gentleman from the country
came into the office the other day
and took US to task for the manner
in which the town folks are always
urging the farmer to drag the roads
"a mile or two before breakfast
when they can't even get out and
shovel four inches of snow off a
walk four feet wide in front of a
sixty foot lot, but let it lie all win
ter or until it me1ts. How can you
expect a farmer to drag the roads.
when there is no law compelling him
the town people clean their walks
with an ordinance compelling them
| to do it? We give it up. Had us
beat.-Holton Signal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-28
HUNOR OF THE DAY

Have you anything to declare?" asked
the customs inspector. Yes replied the
unhesitatingly declare that it is an out
rage the way this government permits
things to be muSSed up in ones trunk
Chicago Record-Herald.
Prometheus had just stolen the fire from
a last mateil?" we cried. Thus he re- e.
allied his feat was little.-New York Sun
apples and ten oranges, and gave nine
tenths Of them to some other little. boys.
me head examinef.-Tit-Bits.
I've. called my new song Failing
popular It is too strongly Successive of
household bills and commercial notes So
Boston Transcript.
Mrs Hubbubs-I see you still have your
cook thought she was going to leave.
new set of dishes and / don't think she
will go till they are broken.-Philadelph
Record.
I'VE keep our own cow explained the
hostess, proudly. 80 were sure of our
milk WELL interrupted the small son
of the guest, setting down his cup.
somebody's stung you with sour cow
How do you know when your husband
forgets to mail the letters you give himT''
among 'em. If I don't get it the next day
know And it only costs a cent
Cleveland Leader.
Mrs. XII despise that woman: she tries
to make a cloak of religion. Mrs "
Yes: and she hasn't enough of it to make
her decent bathing suit.-Boston Trans
cript.
We just got big dictionary" said
Uncle Henry. You don't need one in your
business, do you?" asked the owner of the
general store. YEP said uncle. ITS
pretty near time for summer boarders
and amt goin' to have 'em askin' me
to spell words when they're writin let
ters."-Buffalo Express.
Mrs. Jawback-pm always ready to lis
ten to reason Mr.. Jawback-Huis. Mrs
JaWback-But insist on deciding for my
self what is and what is not reason
Cleveland Leader.
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as II throwing with them, then jerked
on an invisible rod. The gestures
were eloquent; the youngster was tell
ing about fishing.
When he had finished, the girl and
ne washed the dishes. She madeI all
toy with charming little air of
houseWlfery, and turned out the light.
Wues sighed. He spent the night at
the observatory. determined to locate
that kitchen window
When the mists rolled avav early
next morning and the sun began to
GID the plain to the east, Wiles
looked into his telescope again. He
was oVerJoyed to find that he could
plck out the window easily. He
possibility of mistake. There was a
WIDE, Wen shaded street in front of
the mouse to which it belonged He
IolioWed the street until a gap in the
| trees betokened an intersection.
IL was an achievement to read the
name on the lamppost at that cor
ner. but he did it. spelling it out
Slowly while his eyes blurred with
the strain: Locust. But the name OF
the cross street was effectively hid
den.
After breakfast at his boarding
mouse, Wiles plunged into a series OF
abstruse calculations, in which the
height of Tower HILL the mag aifying
power of his telescope, and the dis
tance OF Oak Harbor above the sea
level all had a part.
Just before dusk that day Wiles
AL dressed up like broken ARM
as he admitted humorously to him.
| self, strolled down Locust street to the
spot where his calculations indi-
Gated his search should begin. With
in half an hour he came to q girl hang
ing over an OLD fashioned front gate
and he stopped with amazement and
pleasure.
why, Coralie Fleeti'' he cried: 81
haven't seen you for years.
The girl, who had dark hair and
gray eyes, in which the joy of living
was alight, shook hands warmly
| Nor l you,'' she smiled; land
wouldn't have seen you now, only
I'm waiting for my little brother He's
late for supper, as usual. That boy
is crazy about fishing Won't yol
come up on the porch and sit down p
Il WILL" said Hooper Wiles, with
solemn joy.
| That was four years ago. Now a
bedtime every night Hoover WiIes Jr.
a chunky boy, with his mothers gray
eyes and his fathers sturdy shoulders
waves "Bye-bye" from a lighted kitch.
in window toward Tower HILL Mrs
Wiles throws kiss, for she know.
her husband is seated at his telescope
waiting for their MESA ges.
| But the pretty little custom will
soon be discontinued. WiIes has ad
vanced; he has just. been appointed
chief of the forces at Tower Hill ano
| is going to move his family to the
residence adjoining the observatory =
| copyrighted 1910 by the Associated
Literary Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-28
QUAKER MEDTTATTONs.

From the Philadelphia Record
1t doesn't take pugilist to strike
an attitude.
None are so blind as those who are
visionary. -
Some people are almost as easily
ratified as dice.
The miikman isn't the only person
lies. - T" A1A'e
They became acquainted ar
a church fair Belle-"Met bn
chance, eh?''
As for those who speak in ringing
telephone girl?
Wigg--Have you known Harduppe
lons Wagg-"No. he's been short
ever since I've known him"
A man doesn't necessarilv marry
for money just because he excbanpess
ms bachelor quarters for a better half
MRS; Dashaway-"She's a rather.
SenslDie sort of girl. isn't she ?" Mrs
Gnaggs-.1 fancy she must he. AZ an :,
RATE she has never married.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

May your Christmas tree be fruitful
A few more hours and we'll know
what is what.
Santa Claus won't get any more let
tiers for whole year.
Thanksgiving is past. but the
Christmas present is coming
Just before Christmas word to the
wise isn't always sufficient.
Poor old dad! Will it be pair of
carpet slippers for him, as usual?
But the gifted girl doesn't neces-
sarily get the most Christmas pres
ents.
Still. a man gets some of his money
back if his wife hands him a Christ
mas gift.
Slight pretexts are used by men for
getting out of Christmas giving-and
by women for getting into it.
The man with nine children and
thirty-three grandchildren would also
like to see sane 25th of December.
The Christmas problem with some
people is how to make the presents
they received last year do for others
this year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most people have high ideals but the
trouble is they don't try to live up to
them.
y T.
Question for debate: Can there be
true love without more or less jealousy
mixed I'D with it?
X = y
The worse a woman looks in a hat
the more her "dear friends commend
it as being particularly becoming.
X \ =
This is also the season OF the year
when fathers get rid of the cigars,
given them by their families, with
astonishing rapidity.
= X
Nearly all of this week will be pass
ed by any number of folk in finding
out the cost of the Christmas presents
they received.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-28
THE LoONY LIMERICK.


In the manufacture of limericks. it is
also considered good form to strain and
mlstreat words to make them rhyme
with the name of some town. For in
stance:
There was an old cook in Wamego
Who frequently did to K C. go;
once he hollered: POLICE.
someone pinched my valise-
On, where in the heck did my 'skee'
go?''
The limerick is also useful for en-
tertalnment purposes, among a gang OF
haH-baked ones who are easily enter
tanned. The system is for each MEM
Der or the bunch to sing-preferably
through his nose-the words of some
limerick he remembers. Then all the
others come in strong with the highly
Intelligent chorus which starts<and
continues-thus:
Fol-de-roI-dol, fol-de-rol-dol,
Foi-de-rol-do dunn dido.
Words ending in highly colored syl-
liable are also easy picking for the linn
ericklst Take for instance the case
OF the INDECENT Sioux who had little or
nothing to chioux. or a word ending in
que" thus:
A negro from far Mozambique
Got job at two dollars d wiq1e;
His employer was thrifty
| And made it one-fifty
Because the poor simp was SO mique.