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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
IS ACCUSED
CHARGES THAT CASS LAKE MAY.
OR HELPED PLAN PUPOSKY
ROBBERY.
BOUND OVER TO GRAND JURY
Graphic Tale Told of Events Leading
Up to Gun Fight-"Mike"
Davis Declared
Implicated.

Bemidji, In a very graphic re,
cital of how he and Mike Davis
planned with DR.. Dumas, mayor of
Cass Lake, for the robbery and burn,
ing Of the postoffice building in Pu,
posky, Martin Behan, the robber
wounded in the fight, at the doctors
preliminary hearing struck a sting
ing blow to the defense.
Behan, although weak from the
shots received at the time of his cap,
ture early on the morning of June II,
following the battle of Puposky, told
an interesting story, anu evidence.
flowed from his lips that sent the
color to the face of the Cass Lake
mayor, who during all the dramatic
recital leaned far forward in his
chair. When Behan told of the saloon
meeting, which he said was called by
DR.. Dumas for the purpose of crack
ing the pastoffice safe with dynamite
and burning the building with turpen-
tine and oil, the doctors face lost its
smile for the first time since his ar
rest. Behan's open court confession
was a vindication of the detectives
story Of the holdup and confirms their
oft repeated assertion that it was
Mike" Davis who assisted him in the
Puposky affair.
Behan identified a photograph Of
fered by Alexander A. James, state as
sistant attorney general, who is con.
Quoting the case with Attorney Thay.
er Bailey for the state, as that OF
Davis and also identified big Colts
revolver as one which DR.. Dumas left
the saloon conference to purchase for
Davis.
Behan implicated R. E. Smyth as
one of the prime movers with DR.. Du-
mas Of the Puposky attempted rob-
berry. and it was he, said Behan, who
furnished the key to the Puposky
store and that he was to supply the
turpentine and oil with which the
building was to be saturated, after
the safe was blown.
Following a preliminary examind-
ton, DR.. Dumas, mayor of Cass Lake,
held on charges of attempted arson
and robbery in connection with plot
to burn the postoffice building at Pu-
posky, 10 miles north of here, en-
June II, was bound over by Court
Commissioner H. A. Simons to await
the action Of the grand jury. HIS
bail bond was fixed at $4,000, which
was furnished by Fred Dumas, of
Minneapolis, his father. The grand
jury does not meet until the second
Tuesday in September.
The states star witness of the day
was Martin Behan, caught at Puposky
while in the act of robbing the store
ton detectives.
Five Witnesses Examined.
Only five witnesses were examined.
Behan was the first and he was fol
lowed by John Larson, owner of the
saloon where 1t is supposed that tic
robbery plans were made.
C. Battles, Bemidji hardware man,
told of selling DR.. Dumas revolver.
Carl Swedberg. clerk in the Puposky
store, identified Behan as one of the
men who came to the store on tie
afternoon of the robbery, and William
Munhall closed the testimony by tell
ing of a conversation over the tele.
Phone with DR.. Dumas, in which Du-
mas asked as to the whereabouts of
Behan.
II think there is no question but
that a crime has been committed"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
WILL REMAIN AT ST. PAUL.
Army Supplies Still to be Purchased
at Minnesota Capital.

Washington, D. c. = Representa-
tive Stevens was told at the war de
partment that formal orders would be
issued permanently re-establishing tho
independent purchasing commissary
of the army at st. Paul. 1t was re
Gently decided to move this Office tt
Chicago, but this determination ha:
been changed, with the result that nj
move will be made.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
TO OPEN PUBLIC LANDS.
Forty-five Thousand Acres at Cass
Lake Are Available.

Washington, D. c. - The general
land Office has informed Representa-
tive Stevenson that within few days
forty-five thousand acres of land in the
vicinity of Cass Lake will be opened
to homestead entry. The lands are
located in townships 157 and 159, and
ranges % and 20, respectively, and are
covered over with pine lands.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
POSTPONE CARLTON TRIAL.
Couple Accused of Murder Near Be.
midi Not to Be Tried Until July 8.

Bemidji.-The trial of Lloyd Carl
ton and his wife, Gena Carlton, on the
charge of numbering Peter o. Nestle,
father of Mrs. Carlton, which was to
have commenced Wednesday at Park
Rapids, has been postponed until July
8 at the request of E. E. Mcdonald,
attorney for the Cartons.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Lead In Salt Industry.

The six leading states in the salt
industry are Michigan, New York,
Ohio, Kansas, Louisiana and Cali
fornia, and in 1909 these six states
produced salt valued at $7,714,557.
The salt from these states is obtained
from rock salt, sea water and natural
brine-in other words, from all the
known sources of salt.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
SOCIALISTS ARE FINED.

Duluth objects To Speaking on the
Street.
Duluth.-Tom Lewis and David Rob-
ertsol, the two Socialists arrested for
obstructing the street, were fined $40
and costs each in the municipal court.
Their attorney requested stay of
judgment of ten days, and it is likely
an appeal will be made to the higher
court. The Socialists asserted they
would make this test case to deter
mine their rights to speak on the
streets,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Work BEGUN on BOYS School.

Work Begun on Boys School.
Winona.-Work has begun on Bish
Of Heffron's new 100000 Catholi,
boys high school here In anothe:
week the force on the job will b,
well into the excavation work and tn,
laying of the foundation will be be
o11n
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07

Orchard and Garden valley land $3.50
60 5000 per acre, 20 minutes from city
of $4,000 population by trolley. Sew
eral railroads; irrigation; all modern
conveniences. Your money back if it
don It pay for itself in three years, guar
antee becomes part Of deed. Guaranteed
average small fruits, $500; apples, $500
per acre. You can't lose. Terms easy.
71S Hutton building, Spokane, Wash. }
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Navy Officer Ends Iife.

Washington, D. C.-Lieut. Thos. L.
Ozburn, of the United States navy,
ended his life on board the gunboat
Tacoma, at the New York navy yard.
Lieutenant Ozburn was senior engin-
Ger of the Tacoma
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Wyoming Troops Ordered Home.

Washington, d. C.-TAe Fourth
were detached to Fort D. A. Russell,
Wyoming, their home post. They will
leave San Antonio in a few days.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
in Eden.

The Serpent-What's Adam SO
grouchy about today?
The Ape-Oh, he says that the ar
rival of woman means that all his
plans for universal peace have been
knocked in the head for good.-Puck.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07

Municipal Court at Fergus Falls.
Fergus Fails.-The city council ha;
voted to establish municipal cour
in this city. The Judge will be az
pointed by the Governor until thu
regular election occurs in the sDrins
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Ely, Minn., Explosion Fatal.

Ely, Minnesota. = An explosion
and fire in a boathouse on Long lake,
near here, resulted in the death of
two young men, while three compan-
ions were badly burned.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Muskrat Bites Policeman.

Brainerd. AS Patrolman 8. w.
Quinn was walking his beat large
muskrat sprang from the shadows OF
basement and bit him in the leg
and tore his trousers. The policeman
dubbed it to death.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Hibbino Girl Declared Insane.

Hibbing Girl Declared Insane.
Duluth.-Informatio of insanity has
been filed against Alice Graft, the
17-year-old girl who disappeared some
time ago from her home near Hib-
bling and was in the woods five days
and five nights before she was found.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Steamer Sinks; Fifty-Six Lost.

Christiana, Norway.-A cutter which
has just arrived here from Rolfsoe-
haven, Hammerfest, Norway, reports
that the Norwegian steamer Eclipse
has foundered off Iceland. The
steamer had fifty-six persons on board,
and it is believed all were lost.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Washington

The full certified records of the leg
islative investigation Of the election OF
United States Senator Isaac Stephen
son of Wisconsin were received by the
vice-president, laid before the United
States senate and referred to the COM
mittee investigating the Lorimer case.
President Taft departed from the
national capital for his new cottage at
Beverly, Mass. Mrs. Taft, Charlie
Taft, Miss Della Torrey, the presi-
dents aunt, of Millbury, Mass, and
Maj. A. w. Butt accompanied him.
The long expected report from the
bureau Of corporations on the United
States Steel corporation, recently SUBJ
mitted to President Taft, was made
public at Washington. The report
makes no recommendations and Is al
most wholly narrative in form. Com
missioner Smith declares that re-
striction of competition was prime
object of the organizers Of the steel
corporation, or so-called trust"
Immediate discharge of United
States Consul William H. Michael, at
Calcutta, and Thomas Morrison, dis
bursting clerk Of the state department,
is the result of recent investigation Of
the Day portrait fraud, is recommend
ed in a report which subcommittee
of the house committee on Expenditures
in the state department will present
to the full committee.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Senator Lea and Wife Better.

Washington, d. C.-Both Senator
Lea of Tennessee and Mrs. Lea, who
are patients at the Georgetown Uni
versity hospital, were reported to be
much improved. The senator is able
to take short walks.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Sporting

Harvard won the annual boat race
from Yale at New London, Conn, by
liberal margin. At one point the
Crimson boat was nine lengths ahead
Of the Blue craft. Yale pulled out a
victory in the freshmen Fights while
the Harvard substitute varsity tours
defeated Yale by two lengths.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
In the Future.

How did you get your start in
life?"
81 got a flying start; I was born in
an airship."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Domestic

Two earthquake shocks, the heavi-
est since the big shake in 1906 and
separated by only a few seconds,
Jared the central part Of California
and western Nevada. Only slight dam
age was reported from any section,
but in San Francisco, Oakland and
other cities in the affected area, panic
seized upon crowds and there was q
pell nell exodus from the large build
ings.
The Norwegian steamship Eclipse
foundered north Of Iceland and sc
persons persisted.
Provisional variants have been is
sued in London far David H. Kaplan
and NJ A. Schmidt, wanted in con-
nection with the Los Angeles Times
dynamiting. The men have not been
found.
A sweeping investigation of all the
express companies doing business in
the United States was formally or
dered by the interstate commerce COM
mission. This action follows close on
a remarkable move made by the ex-
press companies In filing with the COM
mission new schedules of tariffs in all
parts of the country.
Tomaso Birardi seventeen years
old, who came to this country on the
steamship Duca Deglia Abruzzi on
June 20, died at Auburn, N. Y, from
what authorities diagnosed as Asiatic
cholera.
The Supreme Council Of the United
Commercial Travellers of America
concluded its twenty-fourth annual
session at Columbus, O., with the
election of Counsellor B. Griffith of
Denver, Colo.
The forced resignation of DR.. John
w. Abercrombis as president of the
University of Alabama, which was
accepted unanimously by the board of
trustees, is attributed to the displeas-
ure Of the alumni on the stand taken
by Doctor Abercrombie against pro-
fessionalism in college athletics.
Hoke Smith was inaugurated gov
ernor of Georgia for the second time
in his life. He was the immediate
predecessor Of Gov. Joseph NJ Brown,
who in turn was relieved by Smith.
The Bethlehem Steel company,
which was fined $4,000 for accepting
unlawful concessions on demurrage
charges on freight cars, paid the fine
In the United States court at Phila-
delphia.
Judge Denison in the United States
circuit court adjudged the American
Fuse company of Muskegon, Mich, a
bankrupt. This is the concern of which
Frank G. Jones, in Jail on a charge of
forgery, was president. Liabilities are
placed at 100000.
Robert Swazey, a Canadian, was
burned at the stake by Mexican BAN
dts near Fort Sumner, N. M, June Is.
because he refused to reveal the
hiding place Of large amount of
money that had been left in his care
by a Mexican railroad.
Polygamy no longer is practiced by
Mormons and the man who is caught
taking a plural wife is promptly ex.
communicated, said Joseph Smith
venerable president Of the Mormon
church, in an interview in Washing.
ton.
Seven workmen were crushed to
death and seven others seriously in.
jured in the collapse OF the roof and
other portions of the Buffalo IN. W
water departments new pumping sta
ton at the foot Of Porter avenue, on
the lake front.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07

H. G. Neville of Trenton, N. j.; hi!
| wife and son, aged sixteen, were
| instantly killed when the automobile
in which they were riding was STRUCK
by Boston & Albany passenger trair
at crossing about twenty miles cas-
! of Albany, N. Y. A daughter, Marion
is in critical condition from injuries
received.
Mrs. Theodore P. Shonts, wife Of
the president of the Interborough Rap
i'd Transit company Of New York city
and of other railways, now in Paris
has caused papers to be served or
her husband in a separation suit, ac
>cording to G. Archibald. an attorney.
-
The experimental postal savings
banks having proved successful. tho
post office department opened Others
in the largest cities Of the country, In
GLIDING New York, Chicago, Philadel
phia, St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore
Pittsburg, Cleveland, New Orleans
Kansas City and San Francisco.
President Taft would have been pre-
scented with an $1,000 roll Of yellow
backs" by Andrew Tomaso of McKees
Rocks, Pa, If the capitol police had
not arrested him and sent him to the
Washington Asylum hospital.
A fast mail passenger train on the
Philadelphia & Erie railroad was held
up five miles from Erie, Pa, by band
Of dozen masked men. The mail and
express cars were rifled and three of
the crew. C. H. Block of Erie, mail
clerk; c. F. Bemis, brakeman, and
H. D. Rooney, Erie, conductor, were in
jured.
Members of the Interstate commerce
commission at Washington were sur
prised when packages were delivered
to them containing new tariffs from
all the express companies in the
United States, except the Long Island.
The tariffs call for large reduction
in express rates beginning August 1.
Two hundred and fifty feet above
ground, suspended by a rope that was
burning and his clothes blazing from
naphtha and carbon oil. Chris Sinkas,
a stack painter, thirty-six years old,
made his way down, hand under hand,
to earth, while a crowd Of men stood
Mortified at the Westinghouse Electric
company's plant in East Pittsburg,
Residents Of Kearney, N. J., are ex-
perimenting with dynamite for tho ex-
termination Of mosquitoes.
dorado Taft's heroic statue of Black
Hawk was unveiled on Eagles Nest
Bluff near Oregon, Ill.
DR.. Arthur r. Tiel went into the cell
lar Of his home at Matteawan, N. Y.
and found in an old vault some $40,-
600 in money and securities. The
treasure is believed to have been
placed there by William H. Badeau,
who died several months ago.
According to a report at Newcastle,
Pa. $500 engineers on the entire Bal
timore & Ohio railroad system will re-
cetve an advance in pay July 1.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Personal

There was notable alliance of
church and stage at New York city
when Rt Rev. Bishop Samuel Fallows
of Chicago performed the marriage
ceremony uniting his youngest son,
Charles Samuel Fallows, a lawyer,
and Eda Leska Bruna, until recently
an actress in "The Fortune Hunter"
The board Of regents of the Univer-
city Of Michigan appointed Robert
Campbell, Port Huron, Mich, treas
urer of the university in place of
George Baker, resigned.
Mrs. John Laughmar, widow of a
Civil war veteran and former populist
candidate for congress, was killed by a
street car at Rister park, a suburb of
South Bend, Ind.
George Clinton Paine of Elmira, N.
Y, who will be one hundred years old
July 9, is in Montclair, N. j., can
wasting for subscriptions for books.
He boasts he in the oldest book agent
| in the world.
United States Senator Francis War
rem of Wyoming was married to Miss
Clara LIE Baron Morgan in the little
ball room of the Hotel Gotham in New
York city. Senator Warren is sixty
seven years old and his bride thirty
| five.
John w. Ga*es, who had arranged to
sail for America with Mrs. Gates and
Lord Cowdrsy, has been obliged to
| postpone his departure owing to his
serious illness. He has submitted to
seven slight surgical operations in as
many days for an abscess in his
| throat.
Paul de Lengpre, the noted painter
| Of flowers, &ed in his home at Holly
| wood. Cal.
Eugene r. Ware, poet, jurist and
United States pension commissioner
under Roosevelt, died at Cascade,
Colo, of angina pectoris.
Foreign
Germany finally has taken direct
action in Morocco and ordered the
gunboat Panther to Agadir, the most
southern point Of Morocco.
Governor General Gondatti of Viadi.
vostok has Instructed the governors of
the maritime province to submit to
him full particulars regarding the
Jews living in their jurisdictions.
Those subject to expulsion will be
given four weeks to close up their
affairs.
King George has issued a message
of thanks to his subjects throughout
the British empire for the loyalty ex.
nrezsed during the coronation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
loodS
SarsapariIIa

Cures all blood humors, all
eruptions, clears the complex
ion, creates an appetite, aids
digestion, relieves that tired
feeling, gives vigor and vim.
Get it today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
TAFT TALKS PEACE
DELIVERS SEVERAL ADDRESSES
WHILE lTRAvERSING OHIO AND
INDIANA.
VISITS VETERANS NATIONAL HOME
Says Arbitration Treaties Are De-
signed as Step ForWard-Ex-
plains Reciprocity to Old
Soldiers.

Marion, Indiana.-With the tenn.
perature in his private car up above
the 100 mark for hours at a time,
President Taft hurried through Ohio
and Indiana. He began speaking from
the rear platform of his car at Cleve-
land just after breakfast, and did not
get through until o'clock. He ended
strenuous and sticky day with two
addresses at the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers here. The
president spoke of war-but more Of
peace and arbitration-to the veterans.
To the bankers and editors of the Elev.
enth congressional district he talked
At indianapolis he talked of the third
most important measure" of the adj
ministration, reciprocity with Canada.
On the way over from Cleveland, in
spite of the heat and the dust. the
president made nine rear platform
talks. Sometimes he talked about the
heat and at others he argued for
safe and sane Fourth" and once in
a while he turned to prosperity and
Canadian reciprocity, which, he said,
would bring more prosperity. In the
speech to the old soldiers the president
declared that all of the foreign wars
waged by this country, except the war
of the revolution, and possibly even
the civil war, could have been settled
without bloodsheG, through arbitra-
ton. No fewer than five times, said
the president, has the United States
interviewed between South and Central
American countries that felt belliger-
ent and by peaceful persuasion averted
war.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Discusses Anglican Pact.

For the further securing of peace
aned as an example to all the world of
the possibilities of the use of arbitra-
ton, we have invited England, France
and Germany to make treaty for the
arbitrament of all difference of an
international character that in their
nature can be adjudicated, and we
have lift out in this treaty those ex-
ceptions which heretofore always have
been excluded from arbitratal contro-
versies, to wit, questions of a nations
honor and of it's vital interest. OF
course, 1 cannot say with positiveness
that these treaties will all be made
and confirmed. can only say that the
prospect of an agreement with the eX-
ecutive of one of the countries is rea-
sonably sure, and we have every hope
as to the other two, and that these
three treaties will be followed by
many of the same tenor with other
countries If the original three are
agreed upon and confirmed"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Treaties Only a Step.

IT am not wild enthusiast or q
blind optimist," said the president
II do not look forward to a complete
restoration of peace which cannot be
disturbed in the world even if these
treaties of arbitration are adopted.
Morality of nations improves only step
by step, and so the making and con-
firming of these treaties must be re-
garded as step, but as very long
step, toward the securing of peace in
the world"
The speech to the bankers and ed
itors was in the nature of reitera-
ton of his address to the New York
state bankers at Manhattan Beach.
81 do not know any function" said
the president, Of greater Importance
to the wage Garner, the farmer, the
business man, the manufacturer, the
banker and the capitalist, exercised by
the government, after the preservation
of law and order and the maintenance
of liberty and rights of property, than
the duty of government to furnish
to the people banking and currency
system which shall give them con-
slant and unvaryinG medium for the
measurement of values and the inter-
change of products that shall enable
business to proceed in a normal way"
Mr. Taft is the first president to
visit Marion after his assumption of
office, and thousands of people turned
out to see him.
In his speech to the veterans the
president said in mart:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07
Foreign

King George has issued a message
of thanks to his subjects throughout
the British empire for the loyalty ex-
messed during the coronation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07

Members of the Interstate commerce
commission at Washington were sur
prised when packages were delivered
to them containing new tariffs from
all the express companies in the
United States, except the Long Island.
The tariffs call for large reduction
in express rates beginning August 1.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07

The board Of regents of the Univer-
city of Michigan appointed Robert
Campbell, Port Huron, Mich, treas
urer of the university in place of
George Baker, resigned.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07

Tomaso Birardi seventeen years
old, who came to this country on the
steamship Duca Deglia Abruzzi on
June 20, died at Auburn, N. Y, from
what authorities diagnosed as Asiatic
cholera.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07

The Supreme Council Of the United
Commercial Travellers of America
concluded its twenty-fourth annual
session at Columbus, o., with the
election Of Counsellor B. Griffith of
Denver, Colo.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07

Provisional variants have been is
sued in London far David H. Kaplan
and NJ A. Schmidt, wanted in con-
nection with the Los Angeles Times
dynamiting. The men have not been
found.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-07-07

The forced resignation of DR.. John
w. Abercrombis as president of the
University of Alabama, which was
accepted unanimously by the board OF
trustees, is attributed to the displeas
ure of the alumni on the stand taken
by Doctor Abercrombie against pro
fessionalism in college athletics.