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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
INDIAN SCANDAL TO OPEN.
Federal Officials Prepare to Investi-
gate Charges of Graft.

Muskogee, Okla, Aug. 3.-Govern-
ment and Indian officials are busy
preparing for the investigation of the
charges made by Senator Gore relative
to the ]. F. McMurray contracts to
sell the coal lands of the Choctaw ma
ton The local officials have been in
structed to furnish the committee with
all available information.
The first witness will be Senator
Gore c. E. Creager, congressman
who is alleged to have been sounded
in the same manner as Senator Gore,
said he will also appear before the
committee.
The contract of M. l.. Mott, the at
torney for the Creeks who sarted the
Muskogee town lot sites, also is to be
investigated, it is said. Motifs present
contract was signed by President
Roosevelt for a term of four years, al
most a year before his original con-
tract expired
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05

A FTER losing four positions within
IA year just because of her beauty,
Mary Todd has left Washington and
will try her fortune elsewhere. Miss
Todd set out to be a stenographer.
Her employer got mixed up in his die
tation and included phrases that could
not have been part of the correspond
ence AS a shopgirl the floorwalkers
strolled too often near her counter. AS
a milliner she aroused the envy and
jealousy of customers.
Miss Todd has been living in George
town for little more than a year.
She came here from small Pennsyl-
vania town, well equipped to work,
with money enough to wait until a
reasonably good position was open to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
Chinese Take to Smoking Cigarettes

growing enterprises, Consul General
James T. Dubois at Singapore, cited
as follows an instance to show how
the investing public is sometimes ta-
ken in in the exploitation of the rub
Der industry there:
An estate was sold to promoters for
$150,000. The syndicate got an old
planter who knew the estate to put
a fiotation value on it. He named
$3.50, 700. The promoters were not sat-
isfied. Another expert examined and
reported. His price was $350,OOO.
British and American gold was pour
ing into the country and the get-rich-
quick spirit was born. Another expert
was called in. He was told of the for
mer valuations and that they were I'M
satisfactory. He valued the estate at
| 100000.
Just at this time, rubber took big
jump in the. London and New York
markets and another expert was asked
| to report and he placed the flotation
price at $750,0O0 and the syndicate in
order to have it in round numbers
made it an even $SOO,UO and floated it
at this price.
| People fought for the stock, the
share issue was oversubscribed and
many Of them Immediately sold at a
good advance. All this was done with
in a few months without the slightest
improvement on the property except
the natural growth of the few hundred
acres of Para plants which had re-
Gently been planted.
Trained white supervisors on the
rubber estates are in demand, the con-
sui general reports, and there is a
scarcity of labor and consequent high
wages.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
HAPPENINGS
OF A WEEK
Latest News Told
in BricfeSt and
Best Form.
PERSONAL.

John G. Carlisle, secretary of the
treasury in President Cleveland's cab
met, who had been critically i'll for the
past two days, died at his apartments
In New York of heart failure, accompa-
MED by oedema of the lungs.
Reuben Todd of Drybrook, Ulster
county, N. Y, better known as RIP
Van Wrinkle to photographers and art
lists the country over, is dead. He
was found drowned in Dry Brook
stream.
George Westinghouse, inventor and
capitalist, for many years prominent
in the world of electrical invention
and of finance, was deposed from the
presidency of the great corporation
which bears his name. Edwin r. AT
kins of Boston was elected to succeed
Mr.. Westinghouse.
May Yohe, formerly Lady Francis
Hope and later wife of Captain Put
nam Bradlee Strong, is going on the
stage again.
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury John
G. Carlisle, who for several years has
been practising law in New York
city, is seriously i'll at the Hotel VOL
colt.
Theodore Douglas Robinson. nephew
of former President Roosevelt, who
two weeks ago announced his candl-
dacy for the Republican congressional
nomination in the Oneida-Herkimer
On. W district, was beaten by the
regular Republican organization.
DR.. Frederick L. Graves, eminent
physician of Bridgeport, Conn, COM
mitted suicide by drinking a COM
pound of every poison contained In his
medicine case.
George Westinghouse, president OF
the Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring company. resigned his posi-
ton because, he claims, he was being
frozen OUT of the firms business.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
AFTER PURE MILK
IMPORTANT DECISION RETURNED
BY THE MINNEAPOLIS sU-
PREME COURT.
TUBERCULAR TEST HELD GOOD
Cities Are Given Unlimited Power to
Regulate Their Milk Supply in the
Interest of Public
Health.

st. Paul. = The Minnesota State
supreme court has handed down de-
cision sustaining the right of cities to
demand pure milk.
The decision is that in the case OF
Ole B. Nelson, who represented the
Seven Corners Milk Company, the
Northeast Milk company, the North
Minneapolis Milk company, the Bloom
ington Milk company, the Flour
City Creamery company and the Star
Creamery company. The case was
brought by Nelson to determine
whether an ordinance requiring herds
supplying milk to the city creameries
should be required to undergo the tu
berculin test. At the trial in March
an order was made declaring the or
dinance valid, and an appeal was taken
by Nelson to the sGpreme court,
Cities Given Vast Power.
The decision of the court was
sweeping, declaring, in effect, that a
city possesses power to adept any
means it deems expedient to safeguard
it's milk supply. The text of the opin
ion follows:
AN ordinance of the city of Min
neapolis prescribing as test of purity
and wholesomeness of milk brought
into the city for sale, that drawn from
cows previously subjected to the tuber
cumn test and found free from disease
held not in conflict with the statutes
of the state, and valid police regu
lation. Following State VS.. Nelson, &C
Mimi, 166.
1.-The methods to be adopted to in
sure supply of pure milk, and the
standard by which the same shall be
determined, is a legislative, and not a
judicial question.
AN ordinance authorizing the sum
mary seizure and destruction of milk
not conforming to the standard fixed
by law, is not violative of the consti
tutional rights of the citizen, nor a
taking of property without due process
of law
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
QUARREL ENDS IN SHOOTING.
Farmer Shoots His Neighbor When He
Crosses His Land.

Willmar. Dennis Wheeler, a
farmer residing twelve miles east of
this city, was shot through the right
foot by August Messenger, neighbor.
The shooting was the outcome of a
number of quarrels between the two.
1t happened when Wheeler attempt
ed to cross Messengers land without
his permission.
After having his wound dressed,
Wheeler came to Willmar and swore
out a warrant for Maschger's arrest.
When the sheriff and his deputies ar
rived at the farm they found Mesch-
ger armed with shotgun, rife and
revolver, but he was disarmed before
he had time to shoot.
He was bound over to the grand
jury, bail being fixed at 5000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
Girls Good Looks Are a. Bar to Work

uST.
"Yes," she said, half-angry and half
amused, 81 have been overwhelmed
with offers of marriage as well as of
employment. But these offers do not
appeal to me. Most men forget that I
have my own sweetheart, and if I
were inclined to consider a second
time it seems that mine should be
the privilege of inviting his attentions
without having them thrust upon me.
cat first l did not take such things
seriously, but since then have known
other girls who have shared the same
fate, merely because they are more
beautiful than their colleagues.
II have worked in offices where
there were II girls, and by the end
Of the third week l was embarrassed
by repeated offers of company, pleas
ures and the like by various men in
the office. This gave rise to some
bitter passes between some of the
other girls and myself
II hope to be married by the autumn
of next year, but until then l wish to
do something"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
Message for Satan.

In ray dream" said the dusky
story teller, Satan had me an wuz
shown me over all de place what he
has specially reserved fer sinners, an
it sho' wuz a sight ter behol'. Dur
wuz griddle here, an griddle dar,
an lots er my OF friends wuz fryin' on
'em an maxim de bigges' sorrer hol-
lerin' 1 thoughted every minute dat
my time wuz comm next, an I'd done
give up in despair wen Satan turned
round an said: Go back ter de worl'
an tell yo' folks bout what you seen;
but e3 fer po'se'f, you is too good a
man ter roast Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
DEBS IN HOSPITAL.
One Time Candidate for Presidency
Ill at Rochester.

Rochester, Mimi. Hon. Eugene
V. Debs, Socialist leader and at one
time candidate for president of the
United States, is in Rochester seek
ing medical treatment from the Mayo
brothers. 1t is reported that his condi-
ton is serious, although the cause of
his trouble cannot be learned and no
one is allowed to see him. Mrs. Debs
is with her husband
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
National Shoot at Camp Perry.

Toledo, Ohio, - For the fourth
time the annual matches of the Ma.
tional Board for the Promotion of Rifle
Practice are being held at Camp Perry,
the rifle range of the state. In addi.
ton the twenty-eighth annual matches
of the National Rifle association, those
of the Ohio State Rifle association and
the annual competition of the Ohio
National Guard are on the program of
the big meeting of marksmen which
began here. The contests continue
for three weeks, with large number
of contestants.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
ENJOY A TRIP ON RAINY LAKE.
State Drainage Board Is Entertained
by International Falls.

Fort Frances, Ontario. - Ditch
es which drain $4,000 acres of swamp
and marsh lands were inspected by the
state drainage board at an early hour
Sunday morning. After the inspection
the board and it's guests went to In
ternational Falls where day of en-
tertainment was provided by the bust
ness men of that city.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
Sad Red Men Must Ride on the Wagon

at Brighton, where we sat at table
and looked at the ocean," he asked,
We'll, when you all went away I
walked around to the bar and got one
for five. A shame to charge you five
cents more just to sit down and look
at the ocean, isn't it?"
ooh, l don't know" she said. I'D
rather pay the extra five than have to
stand by the bar and look at the bar
tender if he was anything like some
I have yeen."-New York Press.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
BRIDEGROOM RIVER VICTIM.
Former Wiona Ticket Agent browns
in Mississippi.

Winona. Oscar Batallia, %, I'M
til recently Burlington ticket agent
in Winona, was drowned in the Mis-
sissippi at Homer, summer resort
just below here. He come with his
bride from North Yakima, his late
home, and went into camp at Homer
with party of friends. They were in
bathing when he was seized with a
cramp.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
The Kind Needed

Dear me-" said the first young won.
an, taking her initial lesson in golf,
what shall do now? This ball is in
hole!"
We'll, let me see," said her compan-
ion, rapidly turning the leaves of
book of instructions, Il presume you
will have to take a stick of right
shape to get 1t out"
"Oh, yes, Of course" was the some
what cynical reply. well, see II you
can find one shaped like a dustpan and
brush.-The Sunday Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
DAILY MARKET REPORT.
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, Aug. -Cattle-Market
slow and steady: beeves, $4.65@S.10;
western steers, $4@6.50; stockers and
feeders, $4@615; cows and heifers,
S2.5O@6.25; calves, $6.50@S.75.
Hogs-Market sc higher; light, So 20
@S.75; mixed, $7.S0@8.40; heavy, $40
@8.20; pigs, $8.10@S.75.
Sheep-Market steady; native. $3.50
@4.5O; western, $2.70@4.50; yearlings.
s4.5O@5.75; lambs, native, $4.50@7.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
GENERAL NEWS.

The annual international convention
of the Knights of Columbus began in
Quebec, Canada, and at its close
number of members will start on pill
grimage to Rome and Genoa.
Eminent lawyers, statesmen and
others, from all over the civilized
world. gathered in London to attend
the twenty-sixth conference of the In
ternational Law association.
Following a pitched battle between
negro farmers in the vicinity OF Pal
estine, Tex, in which at least 300
blacks took part and three companies
of state militia from Houston and
Galveston and a detachment OF state
rangers fought for hours, 1t is
said, that IS negroes have been killed
and three white men.
Upon the arrival of the steamer
Montrose at Father Point, Canada, DR..
Hawley Harvey Crippen and Ethel
Clare Leneve, wanted in England for
the murder of the actress, Belle Ell
more, were arrested by provincial Of
ficers and taken to Quebec for hear
ing.
Even though the city of Columbus,
O.. is under guard of 1000 members
of the Ohio National guard, the 300
striking street railway conductors and
motormen continue to cause trouble
for the Columbus Railway & Light
company. Cars were stoned and Is
persons injured.
With a big hammer concealed about
him, John George Stemson Schubell, a
religious crank, tried to see President
Taft at the Burgess Point cottage.
James Sloan, Jr., the secret service
operative. saw the man first and hand
ed him over to the Beverly police,
who have him locked up awaiting ex-
animation as to his sanity.
A new bread, trust, suspected of
having close relations with the Ma
tional Biscuit company, was launched
under the laws Of Delaware. The
name of the new concern will be the
Federal Bakeries company. 1t will
start with a capitalization of $30,000,-
000
hangings or other scenes calculated to
influence the morals of youth are pro-
hibited in law passed by the lower
house of the Texas legislature in ex
traordinary session at Austin.
Theodore Douglas Robinson
nephew of former President Roose
welt. who announced his candidacy for
the Republican congressional nomina
ton in the Observation-Disclosures district
of New York against Congressman
Charles S. Wilmington, has been de
feated in Herkimer county primaries.
Mob attacks on freight train, end
ing with the ditching of the entire
train of six cars, and an unsuccessful
effort to kidnap the non-union mem
hers of a passenger crew were the
chief happenings at South Bend, Ind.
in the strike on the Grand Trunk rail
road.
August Ropke, assistant secretar,
and bookkeeper of the Fidelity Trust
company of Louisville. KY, is believed
in ten years to have embezzled 81.
100000, the entire surplus of the con
Germ. according to a statement made
by John w. Barr. president of the
trust company.
A roof garden for cats is the lates
novelty In New York. 1t is being bull
as part of the equipment of the Bide
ia-Wee Home, where $50 animals ar,
now being housed.
The Aurora (Ill.) health department
Iorders residents to battle at least ono,
week under penalty of the law.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
Forest Open to Grazers.

Washington, D. G. = The Beartooth
national forest in Montana has been
opened to the grazing of 1900 addi-
tional head of sheep. The original
limit was $4,000 head and was taken
in response to an appeal of the stock
men that the government throw open
the reserve to their herds on account
Of drought conditions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
Twin CITY Markets.

+ Minneapolis, Aug. 3.-Wheat, Sept,
s1.1Oh; Dec $1O93s; No. 1 Northern,
s1.163s; No. 2 Northern, $1.14as; No
1 Durum, 901sc; No. 3 corn, 611sc; No
8 white oats, 39c; barley, CSC; No
2 rye, 73c; No. 1 fax, s2.41k.
Duluth, Aug. 3-Wheat, Sept
$1.123s; Dec. $1.10as; No. 1 Northern
$1.17k.
South ST. Paul, Aug. 3.-Cattle-
Steers, $5.50@6.50; cows fair, $4,000
$50; calves, $5.00@6.O0; hogs, STAG
$500; sheep, yearlings, $4.OO@4.25;
lambs, $5.5006.50.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
MELON RATES ARE ATTACKED.
Gamble-Robinson Co. Appeals to Com
mission to Lower Tariff.

1dIIptC-nOpinSOn 70. SHPPCdtS " SOfTi.
mission to Lower Tariff.
Washington, d. C. = Freight rates
on melons shipped from southwestern
points by way of East ST. Louis, ILL.,,
to points to Minnesota, were attacked
IN a complaint filed with the inter-
state commerce commission by the
Gamble-Robinson Commission COM
pany of Minneapolis. The rates are
alleged to be excessive and discrimin-
atory and the commission is asked ma
terially to reduce them.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05
ocear VS.. Bartender.

do you remember where they stung
US ton cents for beer on the pavilion
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-08-05

This scheme in transportation involves
over 10000 miles of railroad and total
capital aggregating $3.OoO,O0O,00o.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melville Brooks and
Mrs. c. H. Thoring were killed mile
east of Etna Green, Ind, when fast
Pennsylvania freight train, east-bound,
struck the automobile in which they
were riding. Mr.. Thoring was severe
ly, but not dangerously, hurt.
Not single complaint by the police
Of the illegal sale of liquor in New
York city on Sunday was recorded
during the twenty-four hours ending
at midnight This condition Is unpre.
cedented and is the climax to three
months of the operation of Mayor
Gaynor's plan for enforcement of the
excise law.
Rioting by Grand Trunk strike sym.
pathizers at South Bend, Ind. waa
resumed when a crowd of from 1900
to 1000 men and boys attempted to
burn freight car. After the car had
been burning 20 minutes the fire de-
partment extinguished the flames.
The keystone party was formed at
Philadelphia to oppose the nominees
of both the Republican and Democrat
ic parties in Pennsylvania. The con-
vention, composed of lit delegates
from 81 counties, denounced both the
old parties as being under the domino
ton of the liquor industries. William
H. Berry was nominated for governor.
Chief of Police Steward has placed
the Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures un.
der the official ban in sweeping or
der, which hit at all moving picture
houses in Chicago and may bar many
plays from the melodramatlc and even
! first-class theaters.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-04-15
Test Case Decided in Lower Court

BOISE.-A buffet conducted in con-
nection with club which has not
taken the precaution to secure city
or state license is unlawful in Idaho
under the existing laws. Judge w.
w. Woods, of Wallace, has handed
down decision to this effect in the
case of the City of Boise VS.. the Boise
Commercial Club, declaring that the
latter must pay the required license
or abolish it's sideboard The club
has appealed to the Supreme Court
No so-called liquor case ever taken
into the courts of Idaho has attracted
more interest. Mayor J. r. Pence,
who was determined to force his re-
form program, took action against the
cI ganization, which is considered the
most powerful in the state, selecting
it as the proper one against which to
institute a test case.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-04-15
WOMAN LURED TO
DEATH BY LETTER
MRS. HENRY SCHULZ BODY is
FOUND.
LIES NEAR HOME OF SISTER
Charles J. Weller, Her Son-in.Law,
Thought to Be the Woman's
Assassin

TACOMA, Wash, April 12.-An un-
known assassin, shortly before noon
Monday, April 4, waylaid Mrs. Henry
Schulz, a Tacoma woman, and shot
her to death with a .38 Caliber re.
volver, on the unfrequented Artondale
road, Gig Harbor. While her frail
body lay Quivering, the fiend silenced
his victim with club. Mrs. Schulz
had been decoyed to her death by a
fake letter that told of the serious
illness of her sister, Mrs. F. Habericht
of Gig Harbor
1 Strong circumstantial evidence i'm
plicates Chas. ]. Weller, the dead
woman's son-in-law, against whom d.
rect information has been sworn out
charging murder in the first degree.
Willie Burrell, the 15-year-old boy
who delivered the message, says the
description of the man VINO hired him
tallies exactly with the description
OF Charles ]. Weller, as given to
Sheriff Morris, except that the man
wore silver-bowed spectacles.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-04-15
SETTLERS WARNED OF SUIT

SPOKANE, April 13-Sec'y. of In
terror Ballinger has notified the local
land office at Spokane to warn all
settlers on the Spokane Indian reser-
vatlon that the Northern Pacific
Railway intends to bring suit to se-
cure title to the odd-numbered sec
tions on that reservation. Warning
is to be given settlers locating on the
odd sections and they are to be made
fully aware they are likely to be in
volved in lawsuit with the railroad
company.
Secretary Ballinger in a recent de-
cision held the railway company was
not entitled to the odd sections on
the Spokane reservations, contending
the reservation was established
about month before the line of the
railroad was definitely located in that
vicinity. 1t is from this decision the
railroad will appeal to the courts.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-04-15
WASHINGTON

WALLA WALLA.-Rural mail de-
livery out of Walla Walla is seriously
threatened by the small remuneration
given the employees of Uncle Sam,
and unless there is an increase in
salary soon it looks as if there would
be discrimination of several of the
routes leading out from the city.
DAYTON.-In an effort to stop
"bootlegging," which it is assured is
being carried on extensively in "dry"
Dayton, the council may adopt unique
and drastic measures. At a meeting
the council agitated the proposal of
offering a reward of $50 or more for
evidence leading to the arrest and
conviction of the bootleggers.
SPOKANE. = The Federal grand
Jury indicted Charles D. Howell and
Thomas Gordon, his alleged accom-
plice, on the charges of conspiracy to
commit crime against the United
States. Howell. 1t is charged. boarded
Great Northern train on March Is,
1908, at Bonners Ferry, and while the
train was running entered the mail
car and assaulted the railway mail
clerks, John F. Nystum and BENJAMIN
L. Stumpf. with revolver, after
which he cut open the registered mail
bag and took the contents.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-04-15
CANNON IS JOLTED AGAIN
Automobile for Vice-President and
Speaker Voted Down.

Automobile for vice-President and
Speaker Voted Down.
WASHINGTON, April 12.-AImost
the entire "insurgent" strength of the
House was joined with the Democrats
in what was generally acknowledged
to be an additional rebuke to Speaker
Cannon.
A conference report on the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial appropri-
sation bill contained an agreement to
appropriate for the expenses of auto
mobiles previously provided for Can
non and Vice-President Sherman. The
House reiterated it's disapproval of
these expenditures and by a vote of
III to 1872 refused to agree to the
resolution, sending it back to confer
ence for further consideration.
After this action had been taken,
Mr.. Cannon, leaving the chair, went
to the Republican side of the House
and there delivered speech that con-
tanned much of sarcasm and invec-
tive. He again defied the "insur-
gents" and intimated they lacked the
courage to join with the solid min
ority to depose him.