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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
.EXONERATE OIL Co.
PUBLISHER OF HAMPToN's MAcA.
ZINE RETRAcTs ACCUSATION
AGAINST STANDARD.
ARTICLE CAUSED LIBEL SUIT
Hampton's and Moffett Declare Upon
investigation Oil Company Is Not
Connected With Sale OF a.
Impure Candies.

New York.-In the matter Of the
libel suits brought by the Standard Oil
company for $250,000 damages against
Hampton's Magazine and for 100000
damages against Cleveland Moffett,
the former the publisher, and the lat
ter the writer, of an article in the Feb
ruary issue of the magazine which de-
famed the company in connection
with the sale of glucose and candy in
Philadelphia, the following retractions
have been signed in the Office Of
Sherman G. Sterling, the Standard
Oil company's lawyers in the case,
and have been issued from the COM
pany's offices at No. rs Broad
way:
"Hamptons Magazine, sc West
Thirty-fifth ST., New York, "A,
Jan. 81, 1911.
STANDARD Oil Company, 26 Broadway.
New York f
Dear Sirs: In the February issue
of Hampton's Magazine there was
published an article written by me,
entitled, Cassidy and the Food Pois-
oners.' In that article referred to
the investigation of Mr.. Cassidy, with
respect to the manufacture and sale
of impure candies In Philadelphia, and
made the statement that your COM
pany manufactured and sold impure
material which went into these can
dies and that, when the various deal
ers were arrested and fined, at the in
stance of Mr.. Cassidy, your company
paid the fines.
upon investigation I have ascer-
tanned that your company was in no
way concerned with the transactions
referred to and hasten to retract in
the fullest manner all charges made
against your company and to express
my sincere regret that should have
fallen into this serious error. Yours
truly, Cleveland Moffett." s
"Jan 81, 1911.
STANDARD Oil Company, New York
City.
Dear Sirs: Referring to foregoing
letter of Mr.. Cleveland Moffett to
you, we beg to state that we are con-
WINGED that Mr. Moffett was in error
in his statements with reference to
your company. We greatly regret that
these errors should have been made.
It is the desire of Hamptons Maya
zine to be accurate and fair in all
things. In our March number we will
publish this letter and the foregoing
letter of Mr. Moffett. Yours truly,
Benz B. Hampton, President, Broad
way Magazine, Inc"
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N7ZZRC4N- COZ OIYI- CIT/ @mX/CO

scattered throughout the republic and
American plants manufacture paper,
flour, soap and hundred other COM
modities that are consumed within the
country. One American shoe factory
in Mexico City turns out 5000 pairs
Of shoes a day. It's capital is $1,000
900.
Electric plants of great power
have been installed at many Mexican
waterfalls. German and English pro-
moters have constructed the greater
number of these, but some of the most
important are purely American enter
.prises.
A Florida orange grower who had
been ruined by the great frost" OF
Is years ago, went to Mexico and
bought few acres in the foothills
near Tampico, on the gulf coast. When
he told his neighbors that he meant
to raise oranges there they laughed at
him. Today the Tampico district ex-
ports it's oranges, lemons and grape
fruit to England and America. The
Floridian who introduced citrus fruit
culture is now millionaire. He was
quick to see the possibilities of a
fruit nursery and has practically a
monopoly of the sale of young trees
in the republic.
Progress of Agriculture.
In all the agricultural awakenings"
of Mexico, Americans have played the
alarm clock The investment in lands
and irrigation schemes is not so heavy
as that in the mines, but 1t is growing
at remarkable rate. Only few
months ago Texas ranchman leased
100000 acres of land in the state of
Chiapas, on which to raise cattle and
horses-a farm three-fourths as large
as the state of Rhode Island. The
Palomas ranch, which stretches along
the border for 1859 miles, contains O.,
100000 acres-one and one-half times
the area of Maryland. 1t is owned by
Los Angeles capitalists.
An American project, backed by a
New York syndicate, for adding to the
great irrigated lands in the valley OF
the Nazas river, is described as 1.-THE
greatest agricultural undertaking in
the hemisphere" 1t is now building
a large dam of a new pattern, main
canal rs miles in length, and 800 miles
of smaller branches 1t will water
nearly $4,000 acres of the finest cotton
lands in Mexico. The output from the
irrigated land in successful season
is said to be one bale to an acre,
which would make the product of
$4,000 acres worth $4,000 in the
New York market
In recent years the purchases of
sugar plantations and sugar lands by
Americans have been enormous. A
whole district in the sugar region is
covered with American plantations,
varying in size from 10000 to 100000
acres The smallest of them repre-.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
Harvard to Play Tigers.

The Harvard athletic committee, in
an official announcement the other
night, stated that the Crimson foot
ball team will play Princeton at
Princeton on Saturday, November 4,
two weeks before the Tigers game
with Yale.
It was further announced that ar.
rangements have been made for a
game with Dartmouth at Cambridge
November 10 and that the annual
game with Yale would be played on
the Stadium on the 25th. While the
full schedule was not given out, it
was explained that since the Prince
ton the game would be played at
princeton the regular game with
West Point would be dropped for this
wear because of the teams inability
to play more than one game away
from home 1t is expected also that
a game with Cornell will be ar.
ranged for November IL, although a
definite conclusion with the Ithacans
has not been reached.
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VIRGINIA Farms and Homes
FREE CATALOGUE OF SPLENDID BARGAINS
Il. b CHAFFIN g CO., Inc, Richmond, Va.
OPINION NOT ALWAYS FINAL
Pretty Safe to Say That Doctors
Diagnosis Was away Off"
in This Case.

The pretty daughter of a physician
is engaged to a college student of
whom her father does not altogether
approve. His daughter is too young
to think of marriage, the doctor as
serts; the college student Is too
young to think of it, likewise. 1t ia
out of the question.
She explained all this to her lover
the other night.
Father says" she summed 1t up;
father says, dear. that I will have to
give you up"
The young man sighed. Then it's
all over?" he murmured, with gloomy
Interrogation. And the girl laughed
and blushed.
WELL" she said, "well, you-you-
know that when the doctor gives you
up that's just the time for you to take
more hope. Isn't it sometimes that
way?"-Reboboth Sunday Herald.
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Mexico without being Inconvenience
by their ignorance of Spanish. The
pullman car conductors are Ameri-
cans, and so are many Of the railroad
conductors, brakemen and engine driv-
ers. The new merger of the Mexican
National railways represents some
American capital as well as strong
leaven of American officials.
The American investment is essen
tally American railroads is a heavy
one. Yet our railroad investments are
only a small part Of the American in
terests in Mexico. Probably the great
er part of the total of $4O0,O00,0O0 has
gone into mining and the industries al
lied with mining. Mexico's produc-
ton of gold last year was $22, 100000,
United States currency, and of silver
35.4OO,OOO. Americas share Of this
was not far from one-half.
In 1875 Mexico was lighted by tallow
candles. Neither gas nor electric
light had been introduced and there
was hardly a pint of kerosene in the
republic. A weIl-established American
company began an INDUSTRIAL invasion,
which meant that it must import q
liking for lamp light as well as Tampa
for oil. The invasion was successful.
One of the earlier American VEN
lures was cotton mill. Cotton cloth
is product that is in demand every
where and there were plantations
which already raised limited supply
Of ostton. The American investment
in Mexican cotton mills today amounts
to millions.
Development of Manufactures.
Manufactures intended for use with
in the country are naturally of slower
growth than those devoted to prepar-
ing important staples for export. Yet
American capital has entered this
field. too. American textile mills are
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
WORRY OVER THEIR COACHES
Question of Professionals Coming Up
at Yale and Harvard-BiIIy
Lush at Yale.

Yale and Harvard have delayed TIE
announcement of their baseball coach
ing plans for next season, not because
of difficulties in selecting their
coaches, but because they have been
engaged in thrashing out the problem
of professional coaching. Agitation
arose over the question after the
Yale-Harvard series last season, and
the two universities have been in cor
respondence relative to the question
of returning to system of graduate
coaching in baseball, as now obtains
in football
Extreme secrecy has prevailed at
Yale, but it is believed that an agree
ment has been reached, and that the
appointment of professional coaches
will be made as usual. The delay has
been occasioned because President
Hadley of Yale has been in Europe,
and no settlement could be reached
until his return.
1t is understood that Harvard is
willing to return to graduate coaching
in baseball, but that Yale had quite
enough of the experiment two years
ago.
It is expected that Billy Lush will
be elected coach at Yale, although
Capt. Corey of the nine says that
nothing is settled.
Lush, who was i'll with typhoid
fever during the fall, is now at work
coaching the basketball team. He
had charge of the nine last spring
which defeated Harvard, but lost the
series to Princeton.
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lily, but I tell them of my good friend,
your Vegetable Compound, and that
there will be no backache and bearing
down pains for them if they will take
it as I have. I am scarcely ever with
out it in the house.
II will say also that think there is
no better medicine to be found for
young girls to build them up and make
them strong and well. My eldest
daughter has taken Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound for pain,
full periods and irregularity, and it has
always helped her.
81 am always ready and willing to
speak good word for the Lydia E..
Pinkham's Remedies. tell every one
/ meet that I owe my health and hap
piness to these wonderful medicines"
Mrs. ]. G. JOHNSON, Scottville, Mich,
RID. 8.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm
full drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number Of actual cures
of female diseases.
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Favor New Rules.

That the new football rules have
lessened the number of injuries was
the statement by Dr.. Frederick w.
Marvel, physical director at Brown
University, as the result of canvass
made in New England colleges.
Thirteen are unanimous in this de-
claration. Six did not send replies.
Yale was not included in the list.
but replies were received from Har.
ward, Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams,
Wesleyan, Massachusetts, Institute OF
Technology, and others. Five others
attested that the number Of injuries
had decreased, and six were of the
opinion that the quota was about the
same
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lucidlv EXPRESSED,

An old Pennsylvania German living
in the mountains had a hard three
hours dusty walk to accomplish one
morning and he rose very early to
make his start. He had gone but a
little way when he was overtaken by
an automobile, which was probably
the first that had passed along that
way. The driver picked up the old
man and they were at his destination
In about 20 minutes.
banks so much awfully NIT de
ride. If I had known myself to be
here already two hours in front of de
clock yet l vud be at home fast asleep
already to start unless I knew you
vud not have picked me up since"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
Mavor Busse Out of the Race.

Chicago, Illinois.-Mayor Fred A.
Busse announced he would not be a
cadidate for reelection. Alderman
Charles E. Merriam, the Chicago uni.
versity professor, who headed the Mer.
RAM investigating committee, and
John R. Thompson, former county
treasurer, are the leading aspirants
for nomination on the Republican tick.
ct. There are three Democratic aspir.
ants for the nomination at the prim.
aries-Former Mayors Edward F,
Dunno and Carter H.. Harrison, and
Ancrew ]. Graham, banker.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
VOLCANOES TOLL is 700
Five Thousand Families In Philippines
Have Been Wholly Ruined
BY Disaster.

Washington.-The eruption of Taal
volcano and the accompanying dis.
turbances in the Philippines killed
700 people in the town of Talisay, &C.
cording to the report of the governor
of Batangas province, which was ca
bled to the war department by Gov
ernor General Forbes of the Philippine
Islands.
The earthquake shocks continue, the
governor general added. Five thousand
families have been ruined by the dis
aster.
The Philippine authorities are face
to face with the absolute necessity Of
adopting relief measures in order tt
avoid suffering, as the falling mud
and lava destroyed the crops within q
considerable radius of the volcano.
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~Q HERE are nearly as many
Americans who live in Mexico
as there were in Nevada be-
fore the fight-between 10000
and $4,000. There are about
5000 of them in Mexico City alone.
Between 1886 and 1908, according to
an official report, the total investment
in Mexico from all sources was $685.
100000. This in Mexican currency.
The equivalent in American money Is
1864, 900, 900. Mexico herself contrib
uted $295OOO,OOO (gold), the United
States 1855, 900, 900, and all other coun-
tries 1904, 900. Thus our invest:
ment is greater than that Of either
Mexico herself or of all other foreign
nations. OF course, Americans invest
ed in Mexico before 1886 and after
1908. American property in the neigh
Dor republic is worth probably $780,
100000 at the least. 1t should be re-
membered that the Mexican dollar or
peso" is worth, roughly, SO cents
gold or in American money. Figures
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
rhrouqh the Stomach First.

The ideal side of man-his heart
may be starved for years, but the ma
terial side-his stomach-must be
looked after Immediately. Mans heart
may pine and hunger-even wither
away for month, but his stomach
will not stand for the pine and hunger
and wither away act single day with
out rebellion-it knows what it wants
and it wants it when it sees it, quick.
A bouquet of lilacs can be overlooked
in shuff1e-a frantic desire to grab
a cluster of doughnuts is ever para
mount: Doughnuts bud and bloom
every day whereas lilacs blossom and
bloom but once a year. 1t is rather
tough on sweethearts and wives, but.
after all, the only way to touch a
mans heart is through his stomach.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
DEcIES HONEYMOON IN EGYPT
Vivien Gould, After Wedding to eng
lish Lord, Will Take Trip
to Africa.

New York = 1t is announced that
Lord and Lady Decies, the latter
now Miss Vivien Gould, who are to be
married February z, will spend their
honeymoon in Egypt. They will leave
America February Is by the Cunard
liner Carmania. In Egypt they will
spend a few days in Cairo and then
visit notable points In upper Egypt
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sents hundreds of thousands of dol
lars; the larger-and many run above
10000 acres-count for $1,000,000 or
more. In a good season sugar land
has paid as high as SIS an acre of
clear profit.
In mere commerce, of course, the
United States has great deal at
stake in Mexico. The imports of the
republic last year were $98,000,0 900
american money!, and of that trace
s57 100000 came from the United
States.
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Would Raise Indian Fund.

Washington, d. C.-Senator Owen
of Oklahoma called on President Taft
to urge him to send to congress
a special message urging legislation
providing for the immediate sale of
100000 acres of coal and asphalt lands
in Oklahoma belonging to the Choctaw
Indians. For eight years efforts have
been made, the senator said, to secure
for the Indians the money which
should come to them from the sale of
these lands. The president told him
he would consider the matter.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
CRAWLEY HAS QUIT MARoONS
Former Football Captain and Track
Star Leaves Chicago School to
Learn Spanish Abroad.

Capt. "Bill' Crawley of last falls
Maroon football team and star per-
former In Midway track meets, an
nounced the other day that he would
not wear the Maroon colors during
the coming season. He has quit his
studies and will go abroad until next
fall, when he will return to the Mid
way. He has planned to travel in
Spain and other European countries
for a commercial house as a means
Of learning Spanish.
Crawley intends to finish his col
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
ATHLETE KILLS HIMSELF.
Milwaukee Suicide Was Well Known
Referee.

Milwaukee, Wis.-Charles F. Davies,
one of the best known basket
ball referees and team managers
in the Northwest, who refereed the
Observation-Disclosures game Saturday
last, fatally shot himself in the head
at his home. He was attended by
DIR. William Jobst at his home and
taken to Trinity hospital, where he
died.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
Kansas Athletes Immodest?

The authorities at the University Of
Kansas are on the warpath. They
have started a crusade against i'm
modesty, and, as result, the basket
ball players in the future must cover
up their bare legs when appearing in
public. They claim that the short
pantaloons will not be tolerated. and
a rupture between the students and
the regents is threatened.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
Wife Beaten TO Be whinned.

Baltimore, Md. = Five lashes on
his back and two months in Jail was
the sentence imposed by Judge Duffy
in the criminal court here on George
E. Wooden for assaulting his wife and
terribly mutilating her face with
knife.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
Saws Hornet Was Unsrmed.

New Orleans. = That the gunboat
Hornet, seized recently by the Unit
ed States from Honduran revolu-
tionists, has never been mounted with
guns, is the statement made here by
Otto Ahlborn, former chief engineer
of the Hornet
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
The Selfish View.

do you want cheaper postage?"
IT don't know" replied the man who
considers only his own interests. 81
don't write many letters myself, and
don't see why I should be eager to
make it easier for the men who send
me bills"
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residence OF freSioent Dldz.
used in this article are reduced to the
American standard.
There are few lines of industry into
which this enormous investment has
not worked its way. The hardware
stores of Mexico are managed almost
wholly by Germans; street railways
and meat packing are largely controll-
ed by English or Canadian corpora
lions, which, however, number many
Americans among their officers and
stockholders. The tobacco trade is
largely Mexican. In almost every
other field of development American
capital is either the principal invest
ment or one of the most important.
American Money in Railroads.
Tourists are surprised to learn that
they can ride from end to end of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10
Refuse to Move Capita

Carson, New. = By tie vote, 20
to 20, the lower house of the Ne
vada legislature defeated resolu-
ton to remove the capital from Can.
son on Winnemucca.
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Dorothy Arnold Is Found,

New York, N. Y.-Dorothy Arnold
has been found. She is patient in a
private sanitarium, but for reasons of
their own the Arnold family do not
wish to make her whereabouts known.
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v eye Ia D lie COM
pound and Sanative
Wash have done me.
I live on a farm and
have worked very
hard. I am forty
five years old, and
am the mother OF
thirteen children.
Many people think
lit strange that I am
not broken down
with hard work and
tho ooro Of NV foDo
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Work | ess-Earn More

On a FIVE acre truck farm in the Pen
sacola District of Florida Our lands are
rich and fertile. Nine miles from city.
Two railroads through property. Can
haul or commission house trouble. Terms
$1,000 cash-s5.00 a month. Write for our
descriptive literature.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10

KTDNEV Is deceptive disease
thousands have it and
IL. don't know it. II you
want good results you
can make no mistake by using DR.. Kill
mer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney rem
edy. At druggists in fifty cent and dol
lar sizes. Sample bottle by mail free,
also pamphlet telling you how to find out
If you have kidney trouble.
Address, DR.. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
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"steam-Heated" Flat

Wifey-I believe Willie's fingers are
frost-bitten.
Hubby-Well, I've told him not to
touch the steam pipes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-02-10

Boosting of saying what you think
is often an excuse for not thinking
what you say.
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Not for Him.

do you dine la carter" NJ
who? Me? I should say not.
never ct at lunch wagon in my life!"
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st. Paul, Feb. 2.Spooner's inland wa.
terways bill which covers the Mer-
schon plan of canalization in Mime,
sofa was recommended for passage by
the general legislation committee of
the house.
Strict regulations for automobile
drivers are embodied in a bill present
ed by Senator Dwinnell.
In the first place it provides that
no person under 16 years may operate
an automobile under any Circumstance
es, and that persons between 16 and
81 years of age must have written in
dorsements from parents or guardian
when applying for licenses. The bill
provides that no person DE permitted
to operate an auto without license.
On applying for licenses applicants
must tell the license inspectors wheth-
er or not they have ever been convict
ed of violating any auto ordinance,
and if so, relate the circumstances.
On subsequent conviction, the license
maye be suspended for period for six
months or less.
The house committee on state fair
recommended for adoption the con-
current resolution introduced by Sen
ator Dwinnell which calls for legis-
lative investigation of the manage
ment of the state fair under the Un-
derwood- Cosgrove regime. The COM
mittee recommended, however, that
the committee should be made up of
five instead of nine members.
Senator Dale introduced bill which
provides that on complaint that any
school building is unsanitary or I'M
safe, the state board of health shall
investigate and if the building is found
so it shall order it closed.
Senator Nelson introduced and had
passed under suspended rules a bill
directing that 100000 of state surplus
money be devoted to the redeeming
of school certificates.
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OWES
HER
HEALTH
To Lydia e. Pinkl1am' 8
Vegetable Compound

Scottville, Mich.-"I want to tell
you how much good Lydia E. Pinkham's
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lege course at the, university next
year. His loss leaves the Maroon
track team with dearth of point win
ners in the high jump, shot put and
hurdles. He will be eligible for the
team next winter and spring.