The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-02-11
Attorney General o'Malley of New

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eight years defied a state supreme
court Injunction against their prevent
| ing competition, fixing prices and 9TH
erwise violating the anti-monopoly law
and the meat trust officials are now
confronted with fine and imprison-
ment or both for contempt of court.
The long anticipated federal incor-
poration bill, to embody the recon-
mendations made in his special mes
! sage by President Taft was introduced
in congress by Senator Clark of Wyo'
ming and Representative Parker OF
New Jersey, chairman respectively OF
the senate and house committees on
judiciary.
Three unidentified men held up and
robbed the passengers on an east
bound Missouri Pacific passenger train
| five miles east of Pittsburg, Kan. They
were unmasked. About $500 and a
small amount of jewelry was taken
from the passengers.
Needless of the warning of fore
man in charge of excavations along
the line of the private motor road
from Kelvin, Ariz., to the Ray copper
mines, the chauffeur of gasoline car
containing six passengers ran the ma
chine close to suffering fuse of a
heavy charge of dynamite and the
auto and it's seven occupants were
blown to pieces.
Gen. Mena, commanding a force of
Nicaraguan revolutionists inflicted a
crush defeat on Gen. Vasquez, the
government commander. Two engage
ments were fought, the first at Las
Garitas, near the heights of Santo To-
maso, where the government army
was routed from a strong position
with the loss of 500 men, and the Sec
ond at Santa Clara, where the gov
eminent troops attempted to make
another stand, losing 600 men. The
insurgent losses were small.
An attack on the report of the Chi
cago chemists in the Swope poison
mystery is predicted when the coro-
ners jury hears the evidence in the
case at independence, Mo-, this week.
There was a break in the ranks of
the striking machinists at the Bethle-
hem (Pa.) steel works One hundred
and fifty men returned to work, while
1,500 are still out.
Contracts were signed in London
for the construction in this country by
the Fore River Shipbuiding Company
of two dreadnoughts for the Argentine
republic. They will cost $22,000,000.
The state of Michigan has agreed to
stop suit against the Michigan Central
rAilroad for 100000 back taxes and
the road has promised to drop its
100000 suit against the state for
revocation of its three-cent fare char
ter.
Mrs. Mary Blair Brokaw was grant
ed separation from her husband, w.
Gould Brokaw, a millionaire, at New
$4,000 a year.
John ]. Vertrees of Nashville. Tenn.
and Carl Rasch, formerly United
States district attorney for Montana,
will represent Secretary Ballinger,
Land Commissioner bennett and
Field Agent Schwartz in the Ballinger-
Pinchot investigation.
Once more the wireless has result
ed in the saving of lives-this tins an
entire ships crew-at a moment when
those in peril had all but given up
hope of reaching land. The steam
ship Kentucky lies at the bottom of
the Atlantic ocean more than 800
miles off the coast of South Carolina,
but her crew, numbering 46 men, alive
and we'll, are on board the Mallory
Line steamer Alamo making for Key
West.
At the opening session of the inves-
tigation conducted by the interstate
commerce commission into the eX-
press business as conducted by the
four largest companies in the United
States-the American, Adams, Wells
Fargo and the United States COM
panies-it was alleged that the pay
rolls of the United States Company
have been padded continually and
that it's salary list is 80 times that
of the Great Northern railroad.
Senator McCumber of North Da-
kota, in speech in the senate dis
cussing the increased price of food
stuffs, declared that the farmer gets
an inadequate return for his products.
At last the st. Paul mine at Cherry,
ILL.,, yielded the first of it's dead since
last November, when the shafts were
sealed to extinguish the fire that
Ii 81 hoI W
of Maestro Llirio, Is years old, whose
corpse was found on Wednesday near
the air shaft. was removed from the
mine
Boston is paying 100000 a year
more than it should pay for lighting
its streets by electricity, and has paid
at least $1,3c0,000 more than was just
during the last ten years, according to
report to the common council.
Evidence from various parts of the
countdy showing that surprising un-
iformity Of prices on any given date
is maintained by all the Chicago meat
packers will be submitted by the fed
eral grand jury at Chicago which is
making an investigation to determine
if meat trust exists. Witnesses from
New York. Boston, Buffalo, Des
Moines, Denver, Detroit and Omaha,
it is said, will be summoned to testify
regarding the prices quoted in their
localities ~ the different companies
on certain dates.
Sensational charges that the $780,
600 which the Chicago & Western In
diana railroad is attempting to re-
cover was "slush fund" used for the
bribing of state and Chicago city Off