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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04
Potteries ProsperInq.

The output of the pottery industry
of the United States had a value of
$34,51S,560 in 1911, according to the
United States geological survey chart
Of clay products production, by states.
compiled by Jefferson Middletown.
The pottery collection for 1911 was
greater than for 1910, when the output
was valued at s33,7S4,67S, the increase
being $733,SS2. OF the total produc-
ton, Ohio was first, with an output
valued at $14,775,265; New Jersey Sec
ond, with $S,401,941; West Virginia
third, with $2,SSO,2O2; New York
fourth. With $2,17S.364; Pennsylvania
fifth, with $2,156,S17, and Indiana
sixth, with s1,O04,737. The output of
no other state had value in excess
of million dollars.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04
Near Riot at Des Moines.

Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 2.-Demon.
STATIONS against strikebreakers in
one instance resulting in serious in
juries to victim marked the second
day of the teamsters' strike here. Pc.
lice interference prevented what pro-
missed to become a riot when transfer
companies attempted to man their
wagons with non-union men early yes
terday. Strike sympathizers held up
a driver in downtown alley and after
dragging him off his wagon handled
him so roughly that he was sent to
q hospital.
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Picks the Buds Until August.

Faribault.-P. H. Volstad, farmer,
brought an exhibit of fresh strawber-
ries to the county fair here recently
and caused a sensation among nurs-
erymen and lovers of the berries. He
has three acres of berries which he
has just harvested and says the frost
will get lots of the blossoms which
are still plentiful. The berries are
of an early variety known as the Sem
ator Dunlap. Mr.. Volstad's method Of
raising late strawberries is simple
He says: "As soon as the vines start
to blossom in the spring we go out
and pick the buds"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04
Girl STRANGELY Disappears.

police spent the greater part of the
night trying to solve the mysterious
daylight disappearance of Miss Ruth
Burns, Is years old, stenographer for
the state board Of health, the Offices
of which are on the university cam
she left the offices Of her dentist.
She told him she was going to the
office. She had notified the office that
she would be little late. Some
where during the two and a half
squares from the dentists Office the
girl disappeared.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04
JUDGE COLLINS
PASSES AWAY
WAS ON THE MINNESOTA su-
PREME BENCH FOR SEVEN
TEEN YEARS. '....
PROMINENT IN WAR TIM
Man of National Note in G. A. r..
CircIes-Stricken Returning
From Meet at Los ~ 81
Angelica.

nneapolis.-Judge Loren w. Col.
Inns, who had resigned as a justice
Of the Minnesota state supreme court
in 1904 after seventeen years service
and who was one of the best-known
members of the Minnesota bar and a
man Of national note in G.. A. r. mat
tiers, is dead at his home here, fol-
lowing an attack of heart trouble with
which he was seized at San Francisco,
Sept. IS, while returning home from
the national encampment of the G. A.
r. at Los Angeles.
Judge Collins was "a years of age
and had been leading figure in Min
nesota public life for many years. He
was candidate for the republican
nomination for governor In 1904. He
declined an appointment to the United
States senate to succeed the late G.
X. Davis. Before his appointment to
the supreme bench he served as dis
trict Judge in the seventh district. He
was mayor of St. Cloud, Mimi, for
four years and was member of the
legislature thirty years ago. He had
enlisted as a private in the Seventh
Minnesota volunteers and came out of
the army brevet captain at the close
of the war. He served as military
chief-of-police of st. Louis during the
troublous times when the Missouri
metropolis was under military rule.
G. A. r. Leader Many Years.
Judge Collins had been for many
years active in the affairs of the Loyal
Legion and G. A. R. From June, 1908,
to June, 1909, he was commander of
the state G. A. r. and at the time of
his death he was a member of the ma
tional executive committee Of the G.
A. R., body of seven men that guides
the commander-in-chief in his duties,
and had served on the committee I'M
der six ommanders-in-chief. r.l....
In this capacity he took an impor-
tant part in the work Of the recent ma
tional encampment at Los Angeles
He left Minneapolis for the coast city
Sept 2 with former Commander-in-
chief Ell Torrance and other leading
Grand Army men of Minnesota. On
his way home he visited, San Fran
cisco, and it was there that he was
stricken on Sept. Is with the heart at
tack which ultimately proved fatal.
Judge Collins had a similar attack
of illness in January, 1911. At that
time his life was despaired of, but a
rugged constitution, iron will and good
care enabled him to resume his bust
ness in apparently good health.
Judge Collins married Ella NJ. Stew
art at Berlin, Wis, Sept. 4. 1878. His
wife died in 1894.
Was "a Years Old.
Judge Collins was born Aug. 7, 1888,
at Lowell, Mass, and was able to trace
his ancestry back to the beginnings of
New England In 1854 his father
moved with his family to Eden Prairie,
MINI. The young man for time was
a school teacher. He began to study
law in 1859, and in 1861 enlisted in
Company F, Seventh Minnesota volun-
teers. Until the fall of 1863 the regi-
ment took part in tie Minnesota In
dian campaigns and then was ordered
south, where Judge Collins saw serv-
ice in the battles Of Nashville, Span
ish Fort, Tupelo aid others.
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Suit to AnnuI Started.

Winona.-There has been a new
development in connection with the
construction of the three state high
ways in Winona county, the contracts
for which we're let to the Carlson &
Prinz company. An application has
been made to the district court for a
writ of mandamus against County Au.
ditor Winczewski and the company for
an annulment of the contract on the
ground that in submitting its bond the
company furnished a bidders bond.
whereas the advertisement for bids
called for a certified check.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04
Tobacco Crop Harvested.

Caledonia.-The harvesting of the
tobacco crop is well along in this coun-
ty. The price is the best in years and
the success of the tobacco planters
will encourage others to go into the
industry. Miss Georgina Lommen, for
eight years superintendent of schools
of this county, has entered the con-
test for the November election, al
though defeated at the primaries. At
a meeting of the stockholders of the
new Caledonia State bank new direct
ors were elected.
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DAILY MARKET REPORT.
Twin CITY Markets.

Minneapolis, oct. q = Wheat. Dec,
ssSS%c: May 9$hc: No; ! northern,
i0 dnrum SIC; No. corn s8@ sSSISSMc No
white oats. s0kc; barley mailing, SIC;
No , 2 rye &c sde; No l fax, s1.12. a.
durum. sic.
South st. Paul, Oct 2. = Cattle -
Steers. 1925 a 500; cows, $40; calves.
$3.50 a 80; hogs, 1915 1855; sheep and
lambs $3.50 "a 800
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BAD WAREHOUSE FIRE.
The Damage is Estimated at Over
.--t a3-.f1 .s.y 100000.

.--y 10 ..s.J 100000.
nneapolis.-Flying sparks from
passing locomotive are supposed to
have started fire in the warehouse
of McKulloch-K hun-Atkinson Co., Sew
enth street and Second avenue north
east, causing damage estimated at
more than 100000 on the building and
contents, which consisted mostly of
doors, sash frames, mouldings and
other material of similar nature.
The fire started in the loading shed,
near the railroad tracks, and spread
rapidly. The alarms brought IL en-
CINE companies to the scene. But even
with such force in action, practically
nothing could be done to stop the blaze,
the firemen combining their efforts to
preventing the fire from spreading to
nearby mills and lumber yards, in
which they were successful.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04

Minneapolis. - Portraits of the
Indians who took leading parts in the
Sioux outbreak of 1862 will be dis
played in Hutchinson, Mimi, Monday
and Tuesday, when the fiftieth ami
versary of the Indian attack on that
village will be observed. The por-
traits are from the collection painted
by H. H. Cross, which are owned by
T. B. Walker
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1912 Campaign Fund.

Washington, Oct. 2.-The total ex.
penditures of William Finn of Pitts
burg in the 1912 Progressive campaign
have been $144,30S.29, according to a
statement he gave to the senate cam
paign expenditures committee. The
total Roosevelt expenditures" cover
ing Mr.. Films personal activity as
leader of the Roosevelt forces in Penn
sylvania, $99.384.1S. But the state
nlent showed an additional sum of
5000, expended by John s. Weller.
treasurer Of the Roosevelt league"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04

Rose Pastor Phelps Stokes, in an
address on behalf of New York coun-
try week charity, told quaint story.
"a little slum girl" she said, stood
for the first time in her life in barn
yard-a genuine, old-fashioned barn.
yard with it's ricks, its lazy cows, its
plows and harrows, and what-not.
THE slum child drank it all in de-
ightedly, then gasped half to herself:
IAN jest look at the chickens
all runnin' around raw!"-Washingt
Star
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04
Sweeping Statement.

"Scriblets is going to quit be:2g q
did he tell you that?"
press humorist." ..... .s.
mo, but he said he was not going to
write any more jokes about mothers
ln-law, bald-headed men, women's
hats, intoxicated husbands and family
fights"
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Drifts Three Feet Deep.

Fergus Falls, Mimi, Sept. 27.-The
snow here was accompanied by high
northwest wind, and conductor on
the local branch of the Northern Pa
cific road said that he saw drifts
three feet deep on the prairies to the
westward.
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SuffraaIsts Seek Signature.

Pierre, S. D., Oct. 2.-Suffragists are
making an organized effort to obtain
$4,000 signatures to legislative petit
ton asking that a woman suffrage
mandment be submitted at the next
general election.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04

The selection of Upton, Ia, as the
next meeting place, and the reception
of the fourth year class for ordination
were features of the Upper Iowa Meth
odist conference at Marshalltown. It
Is now generally understood that
there will be no reduction In the num-
Der Of districts following the retire
ment of DR.. E. T. Gruwell, superin-
tendent of the Cedar Rapids district.
The men of that district presented
Doctor Gruwell with q handsome gold
watch.
The military court of inquiry at
Lansing, Mich, that investigated the
killing of John Eisy by soldiers of the
National Guard who were doing guard
duty during the recent prison riots,
exonerated Capt. Frank L. Blackman,
Lieut.. B. F. Smith and Privates How
ard Jackson and Clare McArdle from
legal responsibility for Eisy's death.
Violence marked the beginning of
the twenty-four-hour strike demonstra
ton which the Industrial Workers of
the World called in four Massachu-
sets manufacturing cities as a pro-
test against the Imprisonment of two
of their leaders. Demonstrations rang
ing from parades to serious rictirg
took place in Lawrence, Lynn, Haver-
hill and Quincy. 1t is estimated that
16 600 workers were ont
A plan, which the late Henry o.
Havemeyer formulated in 1887 for the
consolidation of most of the then eX-
listing independent sugar companies Of
the east, is outlined in a letter Mr..
Hayemeyer wrote at the time, which
was made part of the evidence in tho
continued hearing of the governments
suit to dissolve the so-called sugar
trust in New York.
An indictment for conspiracy was
found by the District of Columbia
grand jury against Samuel J. Masters
and John B. Kinnear of the Modern
Workmen of the World. 1t is charged
the defendants conspired to defraud
the policy holders of the fraternal con-
Germ out Of $42,138.44. ...s
Two more men died in the effort of
the United States army to conquer the
air. They were Second Lieut.. L. c.
Rockwell and Corporal F. S. Scott of
the signal corps. The men were ma
king fight at the College Park
(Md) aviation field when their aero
plane collapsed.
Judge J. N. Brown denied the ha-
beas corpus petition of J. Beal Sneed,
charged with killing Al G. Boyce, Jr..
in Amarillo, Tex, September IA, and
Sneed was remanded to Jail to await
trial. Attorneys for Sneed, 1t was an
nounced, will take the case to the
court of criminal appeals.
The twentieth National Irrigation
congress opened in the Mormon taber-
nacle at Salt Lake, Utah, with large
attendance, Senator Francis G. New
lands presiding.
Charles w. Mclaughlin of Port.
land, Ind, on behalf of himself and
$4,000 other members of the Bank.
ers' Life association of Des Moines,
Ia, has filed suit in the superior court
at Indianapolis for an accounting.
Judgment and immediate appointment
of a receiver for the association and
for the possession and control of $1S.,
100000 assets Is asked.
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One advertiser offers to send a dol
lar package free. 1t is the concen-
trated wisdom of the ages that no
package worth a dollar is free.
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Domestic

a
Nearly 500 union teamsters went on
strike at Des Moines, Ia, following a
failure of the employers and union o.
ficials to sign contracts. ats. ..--..
Investigation Of the killing of three
citizens by members of the Georgia
state militia-an outgrowth Of the
strike at Augusta of street railway EN-
pioyes-was started. The three men
killed trespassed or "dead-lins" terri
tory established by the militia TO pro-
tect the railway company's power
plant.
That Ray Pfanschmidt murdered his
father, Charles Ffanschmidt, his moth
er and sister, Blanche, and the school
teacher, Miss Emma Kaempen, at the
home of his parents near Quincy, ILL.,,
last Friday night and then burned the
home to conceal the crime, has prac-
tically peen proven according to
States Attorney Tony Gilmer. He said
that Ray Pfanschmidt's arrest prob
ably would be made.
The program of the American Road
congress, which opened In Atlantic
City. gave especial prominence to the
legislative and engineering questions
in the crusade for better highways.
The United States Mausoleum cor
poration has been incorporated to
build a skyscraper mausoleum ten
stories In height in New York. on a
plot of ground containing the equiva-
lent of thirty-two city lots. The edi-
flee is to be of steel skeleton con-
struction.
Visitors to the southern Illinois con-
ference of the Methodist church at
Cairo, ILL.,. were given an outing on the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers followed
by picnic supper on the lawn at the
residence of Mayor Parsons. Seven
elders have been elected.
Many prominent men and women Of
America and Europe were present
when the fourth annual conservation
congress opened in Indianapolis. Pres
ident j. B. White Of Kansas City was
In the chair.
Prominent iron and steel manufac-
turers from all parts Of the country
are gathering in Milwaukee to attend
the cooperative safety congress, I'M
der the auspices of the Association of
Iron and Steel Electrical Engineers.
John MCGUIRE, discharged butler of
Serene II. Starrett of New York, was
arrested at New Rochelle on a charge
of having shot Mr.. Starrett The lat.
ter is not expected to live and is said
to have identified Mcclure as bis as
sailant
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Washington

The state department at Washing
ton gave permission to President Ma
dero to transport a brigade of his
troops from Ell Paso to point near
Del Rio on the Mexican frontier. The
Madero government was informed that
the rebels had massed at that point
notwithstanding the frequent reports
that the northern half Of Mexico had
been pacified."
% c. c. Tegethoff, former private Sec
rotary to the late e. H. Hartman, tee.
titled before the senate committee in
vestigating campaign fund donations
Mr.. Tegethoff produced a series of pa
pers from the Hartman estate files
The first was a receipt signed by G. N.
Bliss as treasurer of the national Re-
publican committee, dated 1904. 1t
was for $4,000. which Mr.. Tegethof
said was Mr.. Harriman's contribution
to the Republican campaign fund OF
1904. Q
Charges that both the spirit and let
ter of the decree dissolving the Stand
ard Oil company Of New jersey are
being violated were sent to Che head
quarters of the department. Of justice
at Washington by ]. w. Fordyce. Jr.,
of counsel for the Waters-Pierce Oil
company. "A
The United States subcommittee APP
pointed to investigate relations with
Mexico completed It's work on Satur-
day. The report. it is believed, will
hold that the evidence adduced points
to the necessity for the United States
to intervene in Mexico in order that
Americans and American interests re-
ceive proper protection. .ss5as. ngl.3
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The cigar industry in Manila is prac
tically suspended. Fifteen thousand
men are on strike and fewer thar
1000 are at work. The cigarmaker
object to the scheme of governments
registration.
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RIgIKYIIRY11J3IN

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The question Of freight rates II
view of the opening of the Panama
canal is under discussion at a secret
conference in Berlin of representa-
tives of German and British shipping
lines engaged in South American
traffic.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04
Raw Chickens,

Not every fortune hunter is a good
shot.
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BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY MAN !.
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK, TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest From All Parts of
the GIobe-Latest Home and For
eign Items.
Politics

Job E. Hedges of New York was
nominated as Republican candidate
for governor of New York at the state
convention at Saratoga.
The Democratic national committee
needs $750,000 to defray the expenses
during the remainder of the cam
paign. Henry Morgenthau, chairman
of the finance committee, so declared
In a formal statement issued at New
York. l
Connecticut Progressives nominated
Henry Knox Smith for lieutenant gov
ernor. Mr.. Smith resigned his office
In Washington last July to cast his
fortunes with the Progressive party.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04

A CURE FOR PILES
Coles Carbolisalve stops itching and pain
and cures piles. All druggists. Is and SOC. Adv.
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Personal

Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the famous
dying in London. She has been i'll two
weeks, but at the end of the first five
days it was announced that che could
not recover.
While assisting his son, Rev. w. L.
H. Benton, rector of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the Nativity at
Grafton, Pa, in celebrating commu.
Mon, Rev. Angelo Ames Benton, seven.
ty-five years old, dropped dead.
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and
Mrs. Reid sailed from Liverpool, Eng
for the United States on board the
Lusitania. They intend to remain
three weeks in America.
Gen. Daniel e. Sickles, whose wife
raised $4,000 by pawning her jewels
to present a sale of the generals
household possessions under fore
closure, has issued bitter attack upon
his wife and their son, Stanton
Sickles, and says Mrs. Sickles had
enough money so that she did not
need to pawn the jewels.
Rev. Father Edward McGonigal, rec
tor of Epiphany Roman Catholic
church. one of the most important in
Pittsburg, was removed to the Munich
pal hospital suffering from smallpox.
Foreign
Charles Voisin, the constructor of
aeroplanes, was killed and Baroness
de la Roche, the noted woman avia-
tor, was seriously injured in an auto
mobile accident at Lyons, France.
Cuban government has just paid its
installment on the Havana sewer and
paving contract, amounting to about
$4,000 The government defaulted
September l on this payment.
Turkey is making elaborate military
preparations to meet any hostile dem
onstrations in the Balkans, according
to a semi-official statement published
here. The Bulgarians are modelling
troops on the frontier.
The volcano Stromboli, in Italy.
again is in eruption. Cinders, ashes
and incandescent sand are being
elected from nine craters and dust
is falling in quantities over the sur
rounding country and the outlying
islands. Vineyards and crops gen,
orally are suffering heavily.
The question Of freight rates II
view of the opening of the Panama
canal is under discussion at a secret
conferences in Berlin of representa-
tives of German and British shipping
lines engaged in South American
traffic.
The cigar industry in Manila is prac
tically suspended. Fifteen thousand
men are on strike and fewer thar
1000 are at work. The cigarmaker
object to the scheme of governments
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Foreign

The volcano Stromboli, in Italy.
again is in eruption. Cinders, ashes
and incandescent sand are being
elected from nine craters and dust
is falling in quantities over the sur.
rounding country and the outlying
islands. Vineyards and crops gen,
orally are suffering heavily.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04

Many prominent men and women Of
America and Europe were present
when the fourth annual conservation
congress opened in Indianapolis. Pres
ident ]. B. White of Kansas City was
in the chair.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04

John Mcclure, discharged butler of
Serene H. Starrett of New York. was
arrested at New Rochelle on charge
of having shot Mr.. Starrett The lat
ter is not expected to live and is said
to have identified MCGUIRE as bis as
sailant
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04

Prominent iron and steel manufac-
turers from all parts Of the country
are gathering in Milwaukee to attend
the cooperative safety congress, I'M
der the auspices Of the Association of
Iron and Steel Electrical Engineers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04

Judge ]. N. Brown denied the ha-
beas corpus petition Of j. Beal Sneed,
charged with killing Al G.. Boyce, Jr..
in Amarillo, Tex, September IA, and
Sneed was remanded to Jail to await
trial. Attorneys for Sneed, 1t was an
nounced, will take the case to the
court of criminal appeals.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04

Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the famous
emotional actress, is reported to be
dying in London. She has been i'll two
weeks, but at the end of the first five
days it was announced that she could
not recover.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-10-04

Visitors to the southern Illinois con-
ference of the Methodist church at
Cairo, H.. were given an outing on the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers followed
by picnic supper on the lawn at the
residence of Mayor Parsons. Seven
elders have been elected.