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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
Youthful Criminals.

One of the most distressing cases
he has ever had to deal with faced a
Liverpool (England) magistrate re-
Gently, and one cannot wonder at his
exclamation: What can l do with
these babies" as he gazed upon five
tiny prisoners in the dock. The
youngest was only seven years old,
and the eldest eleven, yet the quintet
for two months have carried out
thefts and other depredations with
such skill and cunning that for two
months the police and detectives have
been trying in vain to find out who
were the thieves. No fewer than 40
charges were brought against the
children. The 7-year-old child was
the ringleader, and quite an adept at
thieving and planning thefts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
e MINERS KILLED
MEN ARE ENTOMBED IN WEST
VIRGINIA COAL WORKINGS
FAR FROM ENTRY.
VICTIMS ARE ALL AMERICANS
Cut Off BY Tons of Debris and Hope
of Rescue is SIight-Acc-
dent Occurs Under
Town.

Elk Garden, West Virginia. - TWEEN
ty-three miners are entombed in OFT
Mine No. of the Davis Coal and
Coke company here, the result of an
explosion, and little chance is held out
for the rescue of any of them alive be-
cause of the tons of debris that has
thus far impeded the progress of res
cuers. 1t cannot be learned yet wheth-
er the explosion was caused by dust
or gas. Officials of the company say
they never have known their mines to
be gaseous.
The rescue parties had not advanced
far into the workings before they dis
covered it would take several days to
dig through the heaps of roof coal
and slate that had been loosened by
the explosion. 1t then was decided
to effect an entrance nearer the prob
able point of the explosion by cutting
through the wall of an adjoining mine
owned by the same company. The
rescuers penetrated to the Number 2
mine at point about 1000 feet from
the outside entry. There still remains
about an equal distance to go before
reaching the buried miners.
The OFT Mine Number is almost
directly under the town of Elk Gar
den, which is on a bill. The mouth
of the mine is about half mile from
the town.
In striking contrast to the usual
mine explosions, the victims in this
case, with one exception, are Ameri-
cans.
The mine usually employs 20 men
on the day shift and about the same
number at night. Owing to a tenn
porary suspension of work however,
fewer men were required in the mines,
else the casualty might have been
greater. Two engines with rescue
crews and equipment were sent here
from Thomas, w. Va, Is miles away.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
FERGUS FALLS WINS DAM SUIT.
Jury Decides City Was Not Respon
sibIe for Flood.

Fergus Falls. = The damage suit
brought by E. T. Barnard against this
city for losses incurred in the wash
out of the municipal electric dam in
1909, was won by the city. The case
was test suit and was stubbornly
contested. The city admitted that it
had no theory to account for the
washout, but took the ground that an
engineer of recognized standing wau
employed to draw the plans and speci-
fications; that the two inspectors were
employed to watch the work and see
that everything was done properly;
that the contract was let as provided
by law, and that every reasonable
precaution was taken to insure the
safety of the dam. 1t held that the
washout was simply an unavoidable
accident for which it should not be
held responsible.
The plaintiff claimed first that the
washout was probably due to the clos
ing of spring underneath the dam,
the theory being that this spring had
forced an outlet and gradually under
mined the structure, and held that the
city had closed this spring.
Mr.. Barnard's basement was flooded
and he lost about $500 worth of goods.
The jurors held to the city's theory
that no one knew what caused the
washout, although some of them were
of the opinion that some one had
thrown in quicksilver above it, a
theory advanced some time ago by
former Congressman and former AL
derman Harold E. Boen. In any
event, they did not feel that tho city
should be held responsible.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
SIMPSON WINS TWO SUITS.
Minnesta Attorney General Gets Quick
Action in Supreme Court.

Washington.-Attorney General Geo.
T. Simpson got quick action in the SUI
preme court in the lumber cases he ar
gued last week and in both there is a
victory for the tsate.
Both involved timber trespass on
school lands, one by the Rat Portage
Lumber company and the other by the
LIE Sueur Lumber company. The court
below awarded damages at $500 to
the state in the Rat Portage case and
$4,000 in the LIE Sueur case.
Chief Justice White announced that
both were dismissed for want of juris-
diction, which confirms the decision of
the lower court. The announcement
was verbal and was not accompanied
by written opinion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
WOULD NOT EAT BEANS.
Northern Minnesota Woodsman Says
Foreman Beat Him for Refusal.

Duluth-Charles Kills, a woodsman
who has worked for the Johnson.
Wentworth Lumber company this win.
ter has brought suit against the com.
pany and James Chisholm, one of it's
foremen, for $500 as balm for beat
ing which he alleges was given him
by Chisholm.
Kills says that the foreman beat him
because he ate too much bread and
neglected the pork and beans. Kills
did not understand when the foreman
told him to devote less attention to
bread and certain other articles OF
food, and eat more beans, and that led
to the attack.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
TOWNS ARE GRANTED CANNON.

Chaska and jackson Will Be Given
Guns For Decorating Purposes.
Washington.-The secretary of war
has notified Representatives Davis and
Hammond that the requests Of the
cities of Chaska and Jackson for the
use of one or more obsolete cannon to
be used for decorating purposes will
be granted. A 3.5 Boehm gun at Wa
terville arsenal is available for Chaska,
while a number of guns at various
navyyards have been offered to Jack
son for use on the courthouse grounds.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

Chicago, April 25.-Cattle- mostly
10c lower; beeves, s5.10@6.6O; west
ern steers, $4.4O@5.75; stockers and
feeders, $4@5.65; COWS and heifers.
s2.55@5.75; calves, $4.75@6.50.
Hogs-market slow, generally 15c
lower; light, $5.S5@620; mixed, $5.40
@6.20; heavy, $5.65@6.15; rough,
$6.65@5.40; good to choice heavy.
$5.S0@615; pigs, S5.S0@6.15.
Sheep-steady; native, $3@475;
western, $3.25@4.SO; yearlings, $3.50
@5.25; lambs, native, $4.5O@6.25.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
BLAST Is FATAL TO MINER.
Delayed Explosion Results in Death Of
Chisholm, Mimi, Man.

Chisholm.-Nicholas Sonich, a min
er at the Shenango iron mine at CHS
holm, was killed by a delayed blast
He fired several simultaneously, as
was his custom, and went to examine
the result as usual. One of the charges
was slow and Sonich arrived at the
scene of the blasting just at the time
that it exploded. He was 80 years
old and unmarried.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
Injured In Fiqht With a Bear.

Duluth Word has reached Du-
luth from Knife River, near Two
Harbors, that George Blackman, an
employe of Alger-Smith & Co., at
Camp No. 5, on the Duluth & North
ern Minnesota road, is expected to die
from injuries that he received in a
fight with bear. Blackman and a
campmate named Jack Scanlon were
walking to spring near camp when
they suddenly came upon a bear
They thought to brighten the animal
but it would not scare, but attacked
them instead.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
Foreign

The owner of large Munich beer.
house was sentenced to six weeks in
jail and to pay fine of $3.50 and five
of his walters to terms of from one TO
three weeks in Jail, for serving too
much foam on beer.
Dispatches received at Vienna re-.
port severe fight in Montenegro in
which Turkish regulars were worsted
by Albanians. 1t is said that 600
were killed
General Madero in behalf of the In.
surrectos, and General Navarro. act.
ing for President Diaz, have signed an
armistice to continue for five DAYS. at
Juarez, Mexico, during which period
peace terms will be discussed.
Because Mrs. Joseph Bourdan did
not have the necessary three dollars
required as fee for warrant of ar
rest at Montreal, she is a widow. Mrs.
Bourdan was refused the warrant at
the recorders Office and her husband
hanged himself,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
MINNEAPOLIS MAN SLAIN.
Murphy, Foreman of Log Drive, Shot
Through the Body.

Duluth. = V. Murphy, a Mime
apolis man, 35 years of age, who
was in charge of the Namaka log drive
on the Minneapolis & Rainy River
river, was murdered by some per-
son who shot him through the body.
The crime occurred eighteen miles
north of Deer River, between Writ,
on the Minneapolis & Rainy River
road and the Mississippi river.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28

ED GEERS, "The grand old man." he
is called for he is so honest handling
horses in races He says: 81 have used
SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE for II
years, always with best success. 1t is the
only remedy I know to cure all forms of
distemper and prevent horses in same sta
BILE having the disease" SOC and 81 bot
tie. All druggists, or manufacturers. Spohn
Medical Co., Chemists, Goshen, Ind.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
CAN BAR VETERANS.
Law Giving Preference to Army Men
Held Unconstitutional.

Duluth.-Judge Dibell declared un-
constitutional the state law which
provides that old soldiers shall be
given the preference in state ap-
pointments where they can qualify for
the situation.
The decision was in the suit of AL
bert Woolson against Gov. Eberhart.
Mr.. Woolson sought the Office of dep
uty boiler inspector.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
DAILY MARKET REPORTS.
Twin City Markets.

Minneapolis, Apr. 25.-Wheat, May,
97%c; July, 97%c; No. 1 northern,
99A; No. 2 northern, 1914; No. 1
durum, S5B; No. corn, SIC; No. 8
white oats, 311ac; barley, mailing,
$1.O9; No. rye, 91kc; No. 1 flax.
$261.
Duluth, April 25-Wheat, May,
975sc; July, 9S1sc; No. 1 northern,
98kc.
South st. Paul, April 25.-Cattle-
Steers, $5.40@5.50; COWS, $3.75@5.00;
calves, $3.75@6.25; hogs, $5.65@6.10;
sheep, yearlings, $2.OO@5.OO.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
Monster Diamond Found.

New York, n. Y. = Maiden Lane
importers of diamonds have just
learned of the finding of diamond
weighing 244 carats in johannesburg
South Africa. 1t will rank as one of
the half dozen largest il the world.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28

| Immigrant women on an average
bear nearly twice as many children
| as do American women of native pa.
rentage, according to statistics com.
piled from the twelfth census, which
also show that as the races become
Americanized the number of children
is lowered, the first generation OF
| the foreign stock almost invariably
| showing a greater number than the
second.
The Colorado house Of representa-
tives has passed drastic anti-ciga-
rette bill which at the time 1t was In
troduced was considered joke. The
bill makes 1t a misdemeanor to buy,
sell, give away or have in ones pos
session cigarettes or cigarette papers.
Gianna Alongi, accused Of sending
threatening letters through the mails,
was fined $1,000 in the United States
district court at Chicago and taken to
the federal prison at Leavenworth.
Kan, to serve a five-year sentence.
Gold watch cases, said to be valued
at $4,000, were stolen from an ex-
press wagon of the Parmelee Trans
fer company at Chicago when the
driver left the wagon standing in an
alley. No trace of the perpetrators
of the bold daylight robbery has been
found by the police.
The last word In Insurance was
sprung at Dallas, Tex, when the Tenn
perance Insurance company was or
ganized. The company will insure in
ebriates at SO per cent. less than the
regular sober patrons.
Citizens of New Orleans, friends Of
Cardinal Gibbons, have taken steps to
assist the movement started in Balu-
more to raise fund for the erection
of a Cardinal Gibbons memorial hall.
Joseph Clancy, son of an Oswego
IN. " merchant, fell dead on the
brink of newly-dug grave In st.
Peters cemetery. He was talking
with the grave digger, who had just
finished his work, when heart disease
ended his life.
That the agreement entered into
by 16 manufacturers of sanitary
enameled ware. charged by the gov
eminent with violating the Sherman
MI ~ 20 10
tobbers and consumers was testified
to by prominent manufacturers from
various parts of the country at the
bathtub trust hearing.
The report that Booker T. Wash
negroes would try to gain control OF
the International & Great Northern
railroad was denied by Emmett J.
Scott, private secretary to the negro
educator.
Will Potter, a negro, was the CEN
trail figure in a bloody drama staged
at Livermore, KY, when 50 citizens
dragged him upon the opera house
stage and after stringing him up rid
died his body with bullets. He shot
and killed Frank Mitchell. twenty
two years old. white, in a quarrel.
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott Of Bloom
fngton, ILL.,, was reelected president
general Of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution at Washington, D. c..
by large majority over Mrs. William
s. Storey Of New York.
New Jersey police are searching for
clues to the principals in an Ontario
& Western express car robbery which
resulted in the loss of over $1,000 in
cash and the disappearance Of $4,000
worth Of valuables at Weehawken.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
Trapped by Forest Fire.

Topsfield, Massachusetts. = Trapped
in the center of a forest fire in Box
ford, near here, Frank Simmons, Jr.,
aged Is, Of Bedford and Albert Nor
gan of Beverly, were burned to death.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
RECIPROCITY BILL IN SENATE.
Cannot Be Taken Up Until Organiza-
ton Is Completed.

Washington, D. c. = The Cana
dian reciprocity bill was conveyed
from the house to the senate, and
without comment was referred to the
committee on finance. 1t cannot be
taken up until the organization of the
committee is completed.
William S. Kenyon, of Iowa, and
Nathan P Bryan, of Florida, took the
oath of office as senators from their
respective states.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
Personal

A new post will be created at
DR.. Henry Van Dyke. Should Dr. Van
Dyke decide to remain it is said that
he will be made dean of religious in
struction and worship.
Victor Morawetz of New York and
Miss Violet Westcott of Syracuse, a
daughter of the late Edward Noyes
Westcott, author of David Harum,"
were married at Mayfair, London.
The engagement is announced at
Akron, O., of Mrs. Burke Roche,
daughter of the late Frank Work, and
fourth cousin of B. G. Work of Akron,
to Robert Seton Beresford. brother of
Lord Decies, who married Miss
Vivien Gould.
William A. Day was elected presi.
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
society by the board of trustees at
New York city.
DR.. C. G. Abbott, director of as
trophysical observation in the Smith.
sonian institution, was presented with
the Draper medal in Washington fol-
making the discovery that the sun is
variable body and that its heat and
light vary.
Setting forth her own experiences
in the divorce court and creating q
character like that of her former hus
band, it is said, Edna Goodrich, who
until her recent divorce was the fourth
Mrs. Nat Goodwin, has written a book
called "The Deynard Divorce"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
AGED PAIR TO WEST.
Minnesota Sisters Have First Train

Minnesota SISTERS Have FIrst Tram
Ride in Fifty Years.
Stanwood.-On their first train ride
in so years and the second of the
their lives, Miss Annie Nielsen, SO
years old, and her sister, Mrs. Sarah
Larson, 95, arrived here at the Jose
phine Old Peoples home, maintained
by Northwestern Norwegians. The
trip was made from Christiania, Mimi,
in four days, and the nonagenarians
were gleeful over the many sights
they had seen.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
Domestic

John J. Mcnamara, secretary of the
International Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers union of Indianapolis;
James W. Mcnamara, his brother,
and Otie E. MECHANICAL of Chicago are
unde arrest and en- route for Los An
geles, Cal, charged with blowing up
the Los Angeles Times building last
October.
DR.. Austin O'Malley, noted as a
scholar and scientist throughout the
world, for years head of the depart
ment of English at Notre Dame uni
versity, has applied at Philadelphia for
divorce from his beautiful young
wife. DR.. O'Malley charges his wife
with having endeavored to poison him,
and declares she robbed his brother
of jewels.
Captain John NJ Bowyer, U. s. NJ,
superintendent of the naval academy
at Annapolis, will formally apologize
TO Prof. Henry A. Beers of Yale uni
versity and Miss Katherine Beers, his
uduShlCly lol luC lCSSuI luClucht dt
Annapolis, in which Miss Beers was
involved.
President Taft made a defense of
the Unitarian faith at the services in
All Souls church, in Washington, of
which he is a communicate "The
Unitarian church, said he, Stands
for the broadcast principles of Chris
tianity, the brotherhood of men and
the fatherhood of God"
Five human skulls uncovered in
quick succession by workmen exca-
waiting beneath the foundation of an
old building in Pearl street in down
town New York may furnish the po-
lice with material for the investiga-
ton of a mysterious crime of ten
years ago.
An explosion of a tank car filled
with gasoline at st. Louis killed four
persons and injured ten others, four
of them perhaps fatally. The car was
standing on the Wabash tracks at the
plant of the Bell Oil company.
An unidentified negro entered the
home of John Marshall, an aged citi-
zen at Bristol, Tenn, and, going from
bed to bed, slashed the sleeping occu-
pants so that one or more may die.
1t is understood he obtained a large
sum of money.
The National Civic federation,
through committee of nine promi-
nent lawyers, will undertake the task
of making a digest Of all the trust
laws of the United States and the va.
rious court decisions bearing upon
them.
The Ohio Democratic delegation in
congress after scanning the political
horizon to the east and to the west
decided to "shuck" coats and go to
work in earnest for Gov. Judson Har
mon, their candidate for the presiden
tial nomination in 1912.
Will Potter, a negro, was the cen
trail figure in tragedy at Livermore
KY, when so men dragged him upon
the opera-house stage and, after hang.
ing him, riddled his body with bullets.
Potter had shot and killed Frank
Mitchell in a quarrel.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
AT HOME AND ABROAD
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered From All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
Washington

Although the corporation tax for
this year is not due before June 1,
payments are beginning to reach the
treasury at Washington. About $685.
600 was paid during March. The es-
timated total receipts from that source
for the year are $25,000,000.
BY a vote of 265 to SO the Canadian
reciprocity agreement was passed py
the house Of representatives. No
amendments were allowed to the bill,
which was very similar to the one
passed last session, except that 1t car
ried an added section which author
ICES and requests" President Taft to
obtain further reciprocal trade rela-
tons with Canada. Ten of the OPP
posing votes were cast by the Demo
Gratis and the other 70 by Republicans.
Formal demands made by fnsurgent
Republican senators that they be rec
ognized as an organization distinct
from the, Republican majority In the
United States senate and that they be
given one-fourth of all the majority
memberships of the committee and
control of these assignments were re-
jected by a vote of to 4 at meet
ing of the senate committee on COM
mittees.
Representative Berger, Socialist. OF
Wisconsin. wants congress to have
power to call constitutional conven-
ton. He introduced a resolution pro-
posing an amendment to the Consti-
tuition granting that authority and
characterized the Constitution as
Anticipated and obsolete"
Action in the United States senate
indicates that the direct vote for SEN
ators bill is going to have stormy
time Of it. An effort was made to re-
fer the house measure to the judiciary
committee and the plan failed. at least
temporarily.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28

Natures laxative, Garfield Tea, over
comes constipation and is ideally suited to
tone up the system in the Spring.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28

Constipation causes and aggravates many
serious diseases. 1t is thoroughly cured by
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. The favor
lite family laxative.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28

There is nothing so easy but that it
becomes difficult when you do it with
reluctance-Terence
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28
Not Possible.

els there a good parting scene in
that play?"
mo; the hero's bald.''
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28

It is not necessarily true that the
worst Is yet to coma.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28

Will Potter, a negro, was the CEN
trail figure in a tragedy at Livermore,
KY, when so men dragged him upon
the opera-house stage and, after hang
ing him, riddled his body with bullets.
Potter had shot and killed Frank
Mitchell in a quarrel.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28

The Ohio Democratic delegation in
congress after scanning the political
horizon to the east and to the west,
decided to "shuck" coats and go to
work in earnest for Gov. Judson Har-
mon, their candidate for the presiden-
tial nomination in 1912.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-04-28

The National Civic federation,
through a committee of nine promi-
nent lawyers, will undertake the task
of making a digest Of all the trust
laws of the United States and the va
rious court decisions bearing upon
them
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-03-22
ELECTION NEXT MONDAY.

The city election will be held on
Monday, March 9th. AT the union
caucus held in the court house. last
Tuesday evening the following candi-
dates for city offices and ward coun-
cilmen We're, nominated:
Mayor. .... 49,. I'm. f. Leroy
Assessor. -. .... Thos. Wilson
Treasurer. ..... ..Chas. ]. Seeds
Aldermen at large-Ds F. Hennessey
and Chas. A.. Peterson.
Alderman First Ward-A. H. C,eve-
Alderman Second Ward-J. ]. Goen.
Alderman Third Ward-John Hether-
ington. s
These are the only candidates in
the field and they will doubtless be
elected without opposition. If all
osse iSf6an inat ss6fse IRE eiectad the
letty swil, shave new mayor and coun-
ell composed, with one exception, en-
tirely new members, owing to the re-
fusal of the retiring officials to al
low their names to be used again
The question of granting an cleo
trio Light franchise to Jos. Hutchin-
son will also he voted on at the cleo
ton Monday.