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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15

The word was passed around
among amateur flrefghters of the gov
eminent printing Office one afternoon
recently. The fire brigade is said to
consist of about dozen laborers.
Really there was no fire about the
big printing Office, save in the engine
room furnaces and under the smelling
pots.
Some one high In authority at the
printery had read a newspaper &C.
count Of disastrous conflagration in
the west. The story of the blaze put
the notion in his head to resurrect a
general order" of several years
standing which provides for fire drill
at intervals.
1t was near to the hour for closing
down "the works." 4:3O o'clock, when
the edict went forth that the fire bri-
gade was to assemble quickly and
from the new building attack an i'm.
aginary conf1agration in the old struc.
ture across the alley, which separates
the new from the old.
Upon the receipt Of the order from
the front Office the amateur firemen
got busy without delay. There was a
dragging forth of hose and other ap-
paratus for fighting "the red demon
A tall man, who seemed to be in SUI
preme command of the firemen, gave
the orders in cool, confident tones.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
BOOSTERS WILL START WORK.
Headquarters For National Gathering
Opened In State Capitol.

Headquarters For National Gathering
Opened In State Capitol.
st. Paul, carbohydrates have
been opened and work actually COM
menced in preparation for the nation
al conservation congress to be held
in st. Paul, Sept 6.
Thomas R. Shipp, executive secre-
tary, has established offices at the
lieutenant governors Office at the
state capitol. A meeting of the local
board of managers was held at the
governors Office. Those present were
Governor Eberhart, Frank B. Kellogg,
George H. Prince, Paul Doty, ]. H.
Beck, Ralph w. Wheelock and Thomas
r. Shipp. Plans for the raising of
the necessary $4,000 were drawn up.
The business men of the Twin Cities
will be appealed to. Stenographers
have been employed and the work of
sending out the invitations will be
started Immediately.
Frank B. Kellogg was appointed
vice-chairman of the local board OF
managers. The governor is the chair
man. George H. Prince was selected
as treasurer. Major w. G. Handy was
appointed secretary to the local board.
He will have active charge of all the
routine work in connection with the
preparation of the congress.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
CARS CRUSH AUTOMOBILE.
Driver Has Narrow Escape From
Death When Machine Crumbles.

Driver has Narrow Escape From
Death When Machine crumbles.
Observation-Disclosures up to his neck
in writing mass of cracking, crush
ing, bending wreckage, Louis J. New
mann, 10 years old, 924 Goodrich ave-
nue., st. Paul, miraculously escaped
death or injury when his automobile
was caught between two street cars
coming in opposite directions and lit
orally crumbled to pieces.
The accident occurred at Forty-sev-
enth street and Nicollet avenue New
man escaped being seriously hurt by
standing high on the front seat while
the large machine was rolled and
flattened out beneath him. He re-
ceived only slight cut on the chin.
Newman, driving large car, at
tempted to pass to the left of out
bound Washburn Park and Columbia
Heights car which was going in the
same direction. 1t was necessary to
cross one track and to the other, on
which an inbound car was approach
ing. Newman had almost succeeded
in passing ahead of the first car and
"sneaking" between the two when
the crash came.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
TO SELL TIMBER AT AUCTION.
Involves About s75,ooo,ooo Feet on
Coded Indian Lands.

Washington, ID. C.-The interior
department announced that all the
remaining pine timber on the coded
Chippewa Indian lands in Minnesota
will be offered for sale to the highest
bidder. This involves about 375,O00,-
900 feet, covering 152,S40 acres, To-
Gated in the former Pigeon river, or
Grand Portage, Fond du Lac, Boise
Fort, Chippewa of the Mississippi.
Winnibigoshhish, Leech Lake, Red
Lake and White Earth reservation.
The greater portion of the timber
stands in the Minnesota national for
est. 1t will be the largest sale of
Chippewa timber yet held, and the
sealed bids under which it will be
sold will be opened at the district land
office in Cass Lake, Mimi, on Sept.
Is.
Under the law and rules governing
the sale, the timber will be cut and
logged by the purchaser, but the log
ging will be supervised and the seal
ing will be done by the superintendent
of logging and his assistants appoint
ed by the interior department. The
purchaser will be allowed four years
to remove the timber which is outside
the national forest and five years to
remove that which stands inside.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
A STORY told at police headquarters

A STORY told at police headquarters
"a by Clarence Davis of Glenallen,
Va, recalled to older members Of the
force the day when confidence men
had full sway here. The Virginian
related that three men had inveigled
him into matching twenty-five-cent
pieces in room at the Raleigh hotel,
and that they had disappeared, one of
them taking $45S belonging to him.
When Davis reached the city and
he registered at a hotel near John
Marshall place and Pennsylvania ave-
nue., he was seated on the coping at
the northwest corner Of Pennsylvania
avenue and 7th street when a strang-
er spoke to him. He did not hesitate
to tell the stranger he was from near
Richmond, and the latter said he was
acquainted with people in Richmond
The Virginian informed the strang-
er that he was thinking of going to
New York, and that he was a brick
layer by trade.
$50 am I bricklayer," the stranger
said, land I'm out of work"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15

THE lone policeman who stands
/ guard by the District building in
Washington was making his rounds
placidly when there dawned upon his
Mortified mind the fact that horse
was standing with his fore feet upon
the District buildings own sidewalk.
The horse was hitched to a two
seated surrey. Upon a seat of the
surrey sat gentleman with a broad
black hat.
Get that horse off the sidewalk .
said the policeman.
eff you want this horse to get off
that sidewalk you put him off your
self, you" The remainder of the
sentence was more in the way Of ex-
pletive than explanation.
you better shut up and get that
horse where it belongs" the police
man pursued.
And then there followed contro-
versy. 1t was heated, to use we'll
worn but perfectly good phrase, and
in the end the policeman hoped into
the buggy and took the broad-hatted
gentleman around to police station
No. /, where it became evident that
the prisoner was q southerner and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
ASKS FOR 4 PROBE.
&. ARMITAGE, ONE OF NORTH
STAR CO. CREDITORS, SEES
COUNTY PROSECUTOR.
WANTS A FULL SETTLEMENT
He Declares That Investigation Has
Only Scratched the Surface-Seeks
To Learn If Stockholders Can
Be Compelled To Pay.

Minneapolis, MIMI. Armitage,
general merchant at Waterville,
Mimi, creditor of the defunct North
Star Shoe Company to the amount Of
$4,000, announced that he would lay
the matter of the Heffelfinger failures
before County Attorney Al Smith and
ask that the grand jury investigate.
Mr. Armitage called on the county
attorney for this purpose several days
hear the complaint and it was agreed
to take it up later.
Each hearing of the Heffelfnger
cases before the referee in bankruptcy
has found Mr.. Armitage one of the
first to arrive and the last to leave.
He has had to depend upon the news
papers, he says, for information as to
dates of hearings, and declares that
the whole conduct Of the investigation
and efforts at settlement has caused
him to take this step toward grand
jury probe.
when the hearings were started
we had reason to believe that the
whole thing would be probed to the
very bottom" said he, "but, as a
matter of fact, just about the net re-
suit of the hearings is that w. w. Hef-
felfinger has been produced in court.
81, along with numerous other cred
itors, want to know who the stockhold-
ers of the Heffelfnger Shoe Manufac-
turing Company are and just how
many stockholders of the North Star
were protected by having their stock
transferred to the manufacturing COM
pany just before the North Star fail
ure, when it was we'll known that the
North Star was insolvent.
Sees Dollar-for-DoIIar Settlement.
eve have information from a for
mer employe of the North Star that
the stockholders of the North Star
who were protected in this way could
pay the North Star creditors dollar
for dollar. Also we have legal advice
that they could be made to pay.
''This offer of 40 or SO cents on the
dollar as settlement with creditors
does not suit me at all. I do not be-
lieve there are any philanthropists en-
gagged in the business of settling bank
rupt estates. The stock in trade of
the North Star should have brought
100000 instead of $147, 800. The St..
Louis concern paid the latter amount
for the stock, patents, copyrights,
right to the use of the name, and SUBJ
sequently sold the whole thing with a
handsome profit. Why couldn't the
creditors, instead of the st. Louis con-
Germ, have received what the property
was worth and what it brought at
final sale?
There are many more matters of
a similar nature which many creditors
would like to have explained and
which there is no prospect of under
existing conditions"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
HAPPENINGS
Of A WEEK
Latest News Told
in Briefest and
Best Form.
PERSONAL

Ralph Hill Thomas, assistant treas
urer of the American Sugar Refining
company, and Mrs. Helen Kelly Gould
wlo was divorced from Frank Gould
August 25, 1909, obtained a marriage
license at New York city.
Col John s. Mosby, confederate
guerilla chieftain, has lost his job in
the department of justice at Washing
ton. Mosby is about seventy-three
years of age. He got his first job from
President Grant.
Mrs. James 8. Sherman, wife OF the
vice president, left John Hopkins hos
pital, and with the vice-president and
her sister, Mrs. De Long, started for
Zig Moose lake, N. Y. Mrs. Sherman
was brought to Baltimore for treat
ment for nervous attack.
L. A. Coromilas, the minister from
Greece, and Miss Anna e. Cockrell,
daughter of former Senator Cockrell
of Missouri. were married in Washing
ton.
Professor Schiaparelli, former chief
astronomer and director of the Milan
observatory. who discovered the
canal-Iike markings on the planet
Mars in 1877, is dead at Milan, Italy.
President Taft designated George
Otis Smith, director of the geological
survey, as acting chief of the new bu-
reau of mines recently authorized by
congress.
w. ]. Bryan returned to Lincoln.
Neb., from his six weeks trip to Eu-
rope. He will remain ten days in Ne
braska, devoting his time to state poll
tics. Just what form his political &C
tivity will take Mr.. Bryan is not pre-
pared to say.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
SALTWATER HAS BIG FIRE.
Only Hardest Kind Of Work Saves
Business Section.


Saltwater, Minn.-Stillwater was
visited by very destructive fire in the
business part of the city. The fire
started, it is supposed, from locomo-
tive spark in the second story of the
farm implement warehouse of Burtz-
laff brothers. This frame structure
was rapidly destroyed, with the con-
tents. The brick building and granite
establishment of P. N. Peterson was
also destroyed. The coal sheds of
Fred Luchsinger and J. J. Kitty, were
partly burned. The boat houses of
G.. S. Welshons and Peder Gaalan's.
with their gasoline launches, were de-
stroyed. Several freight cars loaded
with hay and merchandise were partly
burned.
The total loss will reach $4,000,
with about third of the loss covered
by insurance.
The property scorched and saved by
hard work of several hundreds of reg
ular and volunteer firemen were the
Saltwater equity market, feed mill
and elevator, the Mcclellan and COM
pany carriage and wagon factory and
a number of other buildings.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
Fire Drill in the Big Printing Shop

Innumerable hose lines were con-
nected with fire plugs in the new
building. MOBILES were aimed at the
venerable structure across Jackson al
ley. AS the streams of water began
to play and the spray was rising in
clouds, like the mist from Niagara
Falls, the printers, bookbinders, wo-
man folders and other workers began
to file out of the buildings.
There is an order that the exit of
the workmen and workwomen must be
through the side doors along the al
ley and G street. Consequently, as
the head of the line of workers reach
ed the doors on the alley and wit.
messed the deluge of water crashing
against the walls of the old building
and flying back in foaming masses,
they tried to force thier way back in
to the new structure.
Hundreds of toilers behind, not
aware of the conditions in front.
pressed forward and forced the front
rank out into the alley and into the
torrents of flying water. The ensued
scene of excitement.
More than 100 employees, drenched
to the skin and looking like drowning
rats, yelled and fled precipitately from
the. merciless streams. The wet ones
were naturally indignant at being
thrown overheard in such ruthless
manner, as compositor expressed it.,
and hurried home to shed their wet
garments.
In the summing up of the fire drill
it was noted that about 500 worth of
paper was so badly damaged by water
that it cannot be used for printing pur-
poses; approximately 100 employees
were drenched with water, and twelve
or such like amateur firefighters had
some experience and considerable fun
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
M. MULLEN OF NEW ULM DIES.
Prominent Old Settler, Long Identified

Prominent Old Settler, Long Identified
With Banking Business.
New Ulm. = M. Mullen, seventy-one
years old, prominent old settler Of
this city, died of paralysis at this
home here. In March Mr.. Mullen
sought to benefit his health by trip
to Texas, but the journey benefited
him but little and he began to fail
upon his arrival home.
Mr.. Mullen was born in Vermont
and came to st. Peter in the early
days and to New Ulm as early as
49, He was long identified with the
Citizens bank here, which bank be-
came state bank and then national
bank. He was president of the Min
nesota & Dakota Cattle company.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
DAN PATCH AIR LINE is OPENED.

Minneapolis new Dan Patch
Air Line began it's first regular
scheduled service between Minneapo-
lis and Savage, a distance of 12h
miles, when the first motor car left
the Washburn park hill at the end of
the Nicollet avenue street car line.
Two cars were in service, one which
was used on the inspection trip, and
the other, the 'Irene," which has lust
arrived. The cars carried capacity
loads and to each were attached two
trailers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
FIREMEN HOLD RACES.

tournament Of Northern Minnesota
Association Arouses Interest.
Bemidji.- second day of the
Northern Minnesota firemen's tourna-
ment passed without friction of any
kind among the firemen participating
in the races and contests. There was
fair crowd in attendance and intense
interest was shown in the program.
All visiting firemen are loud in their
praise of the hospitality extended by
the Bemidji firemen and the Bemidji
people generally.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
TROLLEY CAR RAMS TRAIN.
Eiqht Passengers May Die AS ResuI.
Of Head-On Collision.

Detroit, Mich. = Eight passengers
are believed to have been fatally in
jured and 81 were cut and bruised
when a special car on the Detroit
United railway, Detroit-Flint electric
line. was split in two by work train.
The collision occurred on sharp
curve. Both the car and work train
were running full speed, it is said.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
CHICAGO Live Stock.

Chicago, July 13.-Cattle- Market
steady; beeves, $5.25@8.40; western
steers, $5.10@7; stockers and feeders,
$3.OO@5.70; COWS and heifers, $2.75@
6.S5; calves, $6.50@8.25.
Hogs-Market steady; light, $3.50
@9.15; mixed, $4,000; heavy, $500
$3.50; rough, $S.2O@S.4O; good to
choice, heavy, $S.40@S.S0; pigs, $685.
@9.2O; bulk of sales, $8.50@S.S0.
Sheep-Market 10c lower; native,
$265@4.40; western, $2.50@4.35;
yearlings, $4.40@5.25; lambs, native,
$4.5O@7.25; western, $4.60@7.15.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
LUMBER is BURNED.

Virginia Fire Set From Forest 6faze
Sparks Is Costly.
Virginia.-Fire at the Virginia and
Rainy Lake Lumber Company's mill
destroyed between $4,000 and $4,000
of lumber, which was insured.
The quick work of the company's
fire department, combined with that
of the city department, subdued the
fire within fifty feet of the new planer.
The wind favored the fighters. The
origin was possibly from sparks OF
nearby burning forests.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
DAILY MARKET REPORT.
Twin City Markets.

Minneapolis. July 13.-Wheat, Sept.
Sill; Dec, $1.093s; No. 1 northern
$118ss; No. 2 northern, $116; No
1 Durum, S21ac; No. corn, SIC; No
white oats, 44c; barley, Gle; No.
rye, 72c; No. 1 fax, $2.19.
Duluth, July 13.-Wheat, Sept.
$1.13as; Dec, $1.101s; No. 1 northern
$1.17h.
South st. Paul, July 13.-Cattle-
Steers, $5.25@660; COWS, fair, $4,000
500; calves, 5.00@6.60. Hogs, sS.25
@S75; sheep, yearlings, sS.00@8.25;
lambs, $7.00@8.50.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
BRACE ACCUSED OF ROBBERY.

st. Paul.-Fred Miller and John
Burk were arrested at the Union
Depot on complaint of John Huss, who
said they had taken $40 from him.
using the good old-fashioned Queens
berry rules.
The cries of Huss attracted the at.
tention of Detective Mike Sweeney and
Officer Mcmahon, and they found the
three in a dark alley by the side OF
the depot. Huss had black eye, and
gave other evidences Of rough han
ding.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
Train Wrecked; No One Hurt

Faribault-A Chicago Great West
ern passenger train was wrecked
at Brtdgewater, six, miles north of
here. The front wheels of the engine
broke, causing the wreck. No one
was hurt. The wrecking crew brought
the wrecked train in this morning.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
WOMAN SHOOTS NEIGHBoR.

Becker, Minn., Victim of Accident Is
Seriously Wounded.
st. Cloud.-Mrs. Martha Nader,
the wife of prominent farmer, living
near Becker, Sherburne county, was
brought to the hospital in this city
suffering from bullet wound received
on the Fourth of July. A neighbor
woman was toying with 32-calibre
revolver, which accidentally was dis
charged. The bullet struck Mrs Mad
den squarely on the chin, SCATTERING
the jaw bone, passed around her
throat and lodging near the spine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15
MinneanoIis Is Wealth

minneapolis Is wealthy.
Minneapolis. = The Minneapolis
polls assessment for 1910 will prob
ably reach $195.0oo,O00. Last year It
was $179.000.000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-07-15

church, was dynamlted and Mrs. Fish
er was injured. Rev. Mr.. Fisher has
been leading crusade against boot
leggers."
The New York court Of appeals Sc
verely scores Arthur p Heinze, whose
sentence of ten days to Blackwell's
island for obstructing the court in the
United Copper company proceedings
in New York, it confirms.
At a joint meeting of representa-
tives of the state railroad commits
sions of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana,
at Indianapolis, a petition was pre-
sented to the Interstate Commerce
commission requesting the suspension
of the operation of the new freight
rates submitted by roads in the Gen.
trail Freight association territory until
thorough investigation of the cause
| could be made
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young of Chicago
/ was elected president of the National
Education association, after contest
in which she and her supporters de.
l4feated the nominating committee.
| About so tons of armor plate, so de,
| fective as to be worthless, was fitted
to the two American Dreadnaughts,
the North Dakota and the Utah. The
value of the plate was $4,000. News
of this startling discovery became
public as the result of protracted
conference held at the navy depart
ment
! Woodrow Wilson. president of
Princeton university, will be the Dem
ocratic candidate for president of the
United States in 1912 IL combination
Of Wall street and political interests
can make him So Preliminary y,aEA
] are already under way.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-08
FINAL OF SHEEP
SHOW AWARDS MADE
Fastest Sheep Shearers in the
World to Compete This
Afternoon.
(Isy a staH Correspondent,

OGDEN. Jan. (satu rday W Shortly
'er ,ht inianishi the Judging Of prize pens
ended. and the. last of the awards were
made The prizes run from $50 down
ward, beginning WITH lot in each class.
This, This afternoon. between and 3
world viii compete for cash prizes and
trophies of great value. They Will shear
4 flock OF long wool sheep belonging Ia
the Buttcrfcld Livestock company near
Weser. Ida Some OF the animals in
this los have flecces almost tHo feet
long
This. afternoon, also Will be held the
contest between the sheep dogs, The
dogs will work docks Of sheep on city
Following is the result OF the awards;
Glass ]. Co,swolds:
Lot i-Fiye rams, ]. r. Allcn, Eros
n. Gooding, third
Cooper q Nephews, second; \. Il. Allen,
arsI: G cooper Ee sesona is%S Ffmy A!an Gd t1iSd
Lot 4-Five owe Iar.bS. ]. r. Alien,
first. Cooper. second: a; W Allen. third,
Lot 5-Champion limbs. Cooper, 0rsi
J. Il. Allen. second.
Lot s-Champion eve. j. r.. Allen,
first. Cooper. second
Class No. ., Lincol2s.
Lot Five rams. ButterHcld first.
r. s. Robson second
Lot 2-Ewes Futtsrfield. first; .. W,
Patrick second: Robson. third.
Lot 3-Fiye ram lambs. Butterfield.
FIRST Robson, second.
Lot Alive eve lambs, Gutterdcld.
first; Robson. second.
Lot 5-Champion ram. Butlerhcid.
first: Cooper. second.
Lot S-Champiou eve, Patrick. first
Butte eificId. second.
National Woolgr overs cup 10. host
exhibit for coarse wool iloclSs-J, r. al
len Eros.
The Knollin Sheep Commission cup ior
same exhibit +. -AIl5o Bros,
For the best fitted up eXhil>t in the
entire sbow--~Cooper * Ncpnews.
Champion Scotch collie Charles Van
Der Nlcis first: i W Bishop second.
Ogden Woolgrowers' cup for best ez-
hibit-Cooper G. Neph:wa
National Woolero %crs' cup FOR long
wool fIockS-RuttcTficl6.