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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
HILL ON THE STAND.
EMPIRE BUILDER TELLS PROB.
ERS HE DID IT FOR BENE-
FIT OF STOCKHOLDERS.
IN STEEL INVESTIGATION.
Tells of Lease of Ore Lands to Steel
Corporation and Freight Rates.
Estimated 500, Tons
of Ore in Ground.

Washington, d. G. James j..
Hill. chairman of the board of direc-
tors Of the Great Northern Railroad
company, was subpoenaed to appear
before the Stanley Steel committee
to testify regarding the leasing of his
ore properties in the Mesaba range
by the steel corporation.
He taxed principally of the crea-
ton of the Lake Superior company,
which, as he declares, he brought into
existence for the sole benefit Of the
shareholders of the Great Northern
Railway company. He told of the
great number of mine properties, dock
ing companies, elevator concerns and
other commercial organizations which
he combined to make the Lake SUI
perior company, which, according to
his testimony, was done solely by
himself and later presented to the
Great Northern stockholders after he
had been repaid his actual outlay of
cash, amounting to something over
100000. with per cent interest for
the time necessary to get the concern
on its feet. He declared that the
$4,000,000 repaid to him was entirely
from the profits of the concern and
was not in any sense paid to him by
the eventual owners, the Great North
ern stockholders.
He said that various conflicting
state laws, governing the properties
constituting the Lake Superior COM
pany, had made it impossible for the
stockholders to invest in and operate
under the name of the Great Northern.
He said that when the Lake Superior
company had refunded him for his
original investment, it's shares were
distributed pro-rata among the Great
Northern stockholders, large block
going to him in that capacity.
The railroad magnate was ques-
toned at length regarding the lease
of those ore lands to the United
States Steel corporation for develop
ment, lease which the corporation
recently decided to cancel on Jan. 1,
1915. In this land there are estimated
to be about 500,O00,CrO tons of ore
which the steel corporation values at
81 ton.
Il wouldn't take 81 a ton for the
ore," said Mr.. Hill.
The ore freight rates from the
Lake Superior region to the Pittsburg
district, which the United States
Steel corporation recently reduced to
so cents ton, Mr.. Hill declared to
be the cheaDeSt in the country
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
Turning the Tables.

Having done his best, by every fair
and unfair means, during the last cleo
ton to catch the candidate tripping,
the heckler grew extensively personal.
us it true that your mother
washes" he began, but before he
could add the word Clothes" the wit
ty candidate called out smartIy:
''Of course she does. Why, don't
your"
This raised loud laugh at the heck
ler's expense; but, still undaunted, he
returned to the attack.
You can't deny" he said, that your
father was a rag-and-bone man.
bought some clothes of him thirty
years ago."
And / see you're still wearing
them!" was the candidates lightning
retort.
There was no more heckling that
night.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
S0UTHS7ATE UNH'ES.
BODY SIMILAR TO NORTHERN
MINNESOTA DEVELOPMENT
LEAGUE is LAUNCHED AT
ST. PETER.
LEGISLATURE ROASTED
Funds for More Practical Schools,
Less for State University, Is
Substance of Criti-
cism.

st. Peter.-Improvem of South
ern Minnesota will be the purpose
OF an association which will be form
ed within the next thirty days. 1t
will be patterned after the Northern
Minnesota Development association,
and one of it's chief purposes will be
to correct conditions which have re-
suited in a decrease of population in
this part of the state.
Tentative plans for the organization
OF the association were discussed at
joint meeting of the st. Peter and
North Mankato Commercial clubs
held in this city. More than hun
dred members of the North Mankato
club came to ST. Peter in a chartered
car to attend the meeting and to be
present at a banquet given in their
honor.
Judge Lorin Cray of Mankato was
the principal speaker. The last cen
sus, he said, had shown that Southern
Minnesota, one of the richest agri-
cultural regions in the West, had suf-
fered loss in population. He criti-
c1Zed the state Legislature for be-
slowing fabulous appropriations upon
the University of Minnesota, and ad-
vocated wider distribution of schools
Offering practical courses of instrrc-
ton.
w. E. Stewart of North Mankato
advocated the organization of an i'm
provement association patterned af-
ter that in the northern part of the
state. He wanted league to give
publicity to the opportunities offered
by Southern Minnesota to stimulate
its development and to look after leg
islation affecting it. A resolution he
introduced provided that commercial
bodies throughout the southern tier of
counties be invited to send represent
atives to meeting to be held in
Mankato, and after it had been adopt
ed, the st. Peter club voted to appoint
a committee of three to meet with
similar committees from the Mankato
and North Mankato clubs to fix
date for the meeting.
A. M. Jensen, president of the st.
Peter club, has appointed Clerk of
Court William Mallgren, County Com
missioner Al. j. Potts and o. ].
Duane as the representative of this
city
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
HE TOOK TWO LIVES.
Jacob DoeffIer, Jr., Admits He Killed
Couple Near Red Wing.

Jacob DoeffIer, Jr., Admits He Killed
Couple Near Red Wing.
Red Wing. = Jacob Doeffler, IT.,
Doeffler, Jr., % years old, is the
self-confessed murderer of Anton
Schill and his wife, Theresa Schill.
Doeffler on Feb. II, in the presence
of Sheriff P. J. Lundquist, County
Attorney VIM. M. Ericsson, Coroner
r. L. c. Geib, Chief of Police Sever
son and Deputy Sheriff John Ander-
son, made a full and complete con-
fession. He says he committed the
crimes all alone, and that Victor Artz
and Karl Kehren, now under arrest
charged with stealing Schilps cattle,
are not implicated in the double muir
der.
After sending a rifle ball crashing
through Anton Schilrs brain, in the
barn, Doeffler went into the house and
took Mrs. Schills life in a similar
manner. The woman's body was
dragged into the cellar of the house
and was covered with her husbands
coat.
Schills body was buried in ..e
ground underneath a manure pile. All
efforts to locate his body having prov
ed futile until Sunday. 1t was FOUND
in the place described by Doeffier
In his confession to the officers.
The confession unravels The most
fiendish and mysterious murder ever
committed in this county. The autAor-
tiles, since the finding of Mrs. SchilIs
body, worked diligently on the case
against Doeffler, who at the inquest
of Mrs. Schill testified as to purchas-
ing Schill's horse. cattle, and chick
ems, and having taken them to his
farm in Pierce county, Wisconsin,
about eight miles from Red Wing.
Doeffler claimed that he had pur-
chased the hay and fodder from Schill
and on Jan. II he defied the order of
Coroner Geib. and removed the prop
erty from the farm He was i'm
mediately placed under arrest, and
Victor Artz. who also assisted him in
the work, was held. Since that time
both meu and Karl Kehren, arrested
later on similar charge, have been
sweated for hours at "a time.
Doeffler's confession which is in
writing, according to the authorities.
will not be made public until his trial
begins.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
FIRE AT INDIAN DANCE
Roof of Nett Lake Hall Catches Fire.
Chief Prevents Panic.

Duluth. Word has just been re-
ceived from Nett Lake that the long
anticipated dance between the White
Earth, Fond du Lac and Nett Lake
bands of Indians at Nett Lake was in
terrupted by the roof of the dance hall
taking fire and the dancers, bedecked
in all their finery of beads and head
feathers, got out and formed bucket
brigade and extinguished the flames
The dance was just getting good
when the Chief Mahjiskung discovered
the fire. His manner of notifying the
party of the fact was to tell them that
the dance was at an end and every
body should Immediately go outside
Then he uttered a warwhoop and it
was the signal to fight the fire.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
GIRL NOT TO BE DENIED
Chooses a Second Guardian and Wins
His Consent to Marriages.

Litchfield. = Clerk Of Court c. H.
Atkinson last week issued marriage
license to Gerhard Thedar and Mary
Dank, both of Forest Prairie. The
bride-elect is an orphan between 16
and II years of age, and in order for
her to be granted license to wed 1t
was necessary that the consent of her
guardian be obtained. The guardian
was a Forest Prairie farmer, and he
refused permission. There is a law,
however, that helped to solve the diff
Guilty. This provides that after
minor arrives at the age of IA he or
she may dismiss the guardian appoint
ed previously and select another.
Acting under this law, Miss Dank
applied to the probate court to have
Michael Ryan of this city appointed
her guardian, which was done. She
then asked and obtained his consent
to her marriage to Mr.. Thedar and
the license was issued
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
COOP. PLANT THRIVES.
Pennington Creamery Association
Hears Reports and Holds Election.

Farmington.-At the annual meet
ing of the Pennington Cooperative
Creamery association the following Of
ficers were elected: George S. Balch,
president; r. Peterson, vice presi-
dent; Joseph Weisbrich, secretary and
treasurer; H. G. Otte, T. H. Lintnef,
William Kimler, Thomas McGrath di-
rectors.
The association is in a prosperous
condition as the report shows. The
average number of patrons for the
year was 1872 Cream purchased
amounted to 711,675 pounds. Farmers
secured an average of 81 cents
pound, which amounted to $4,000.
Butter amounted to 236,6S7 pounds.
All patrons delivering cream for six
months or longer were paid dividend
according to the number of pounds of
butter fate delivered.
j. B. Keachie, the butter maker, was
hired for the coming year. A new 20
horse power boiler and two 400-gallon
cream ripeners and pasteurizers were
added to. the creamery.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
HOME GAS PLANT BLOWN up
TWO GIRLS KILLED IN ACCIDENT
NEAR ROCHESTER.
Six Others Injured and a Little Boy
May Die-Farm Home
Wrecked.

Rochester. - Two dead and six
badly injured is the result of the ex-
plosion of an acetylene gas plant at
the home of Charles POSTER, seven
miles northwest of this city. The
house was blown to pieces.
The dead are. easily Wading, aged
IL years, and Violet POSTER, aged II
years. The injured are Mrs. Charles
POSTER, left leg fractured, the bone
protruding above the ankle; Leon
POSTER, 5 years old, left leg and left
arm broken and splinter Of wood ex-
tracted from the neck; Earl POSTER, 2
years old, skull fractured and burned;
Ray POSTER, aged Is, face and head
burned; Fred Glein, hired man, badly
burned on face; William Moody, hired
man, burned about the face and
shoulders.
Glein, Moody and young Pcstier
were in the cellar filling tank when
the accident occurred. There was no
fire after the explosion and the cause
OF it is not known.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
100 new BRIDGES
sUMMER's PLANS OF COUNTY
BOARDS MOST EXTENSIVE
SINCE WORK BEGAN.
MANY ASK FOR STATE AID
100000 For Distrbution-Structu
Proposed one-haif as Many Built
With State Aid Since
1907.

ST. Paul.-One hundred bridges, half
as many as have been constructed
with state aid since 1907, will be built
on state roads in Minnesota during
1912, If the applications for this pur-
pose from the county boards pending
with the State Highway commission
are allowed when the commission
makes it's annual allotment of state
aid at its next meeting, February 81.
Because they will be larger, these
hundred bridges will cost practically
the same as did the two hundred pre-
viously constructed, or $4,000, accord
ing to Carl E. Nagel, bridge engineer
for the commission. In former years
it has been the custom of the county
boards not to ask for state aid on the
larger bridges they intended to build,
because the annual allotment of ST 900
was not large enough to take care of
the road work they desired done.
Average Cost Is Higher.
Where it had $4,000 to distribute in
1911, the commission will apportion
100000 this year, and this great in
crease in the funds is responsible for
the unusual amount of bridge work
planned for 1912. Some of the bridges
are the small, short beam span across
creeks, while others run as long as a
160-foot beam structure. Where it is
cheaper to use steel, it will be used,
but in as many cases as possible &C.
ment will be used.
The average cost of the bridges
built during the last four years has
been $4,000, according to Mr.. Nagel
the cost ranging from $1,000 for the
smallest to $4,000 for the largest. The
average cost of those to be built dur.
ing 1912 will be about $4,000
The commissions engineers prepare
the plans and specifications for all of
bridges built at the expense of the
townships or counties, for which ap.
plications are received. During the
last four years, the commissions en-
gineers have investigated and planned
two hundred other bridges than those
on state roads, to which the state
contributed no aid.
The law of the last Legislature,
saying a county is not liable for the
cost of bridge unless it is approved
by the commission, has resulted in
bringing in more Sof these applica-
lions, instead of the former requests
for the engineers to pass upon bridges
after they have been constructed on
plans not prepared by the commission,
ais department has ruled that to gain
the benefit of the law, the counties or
townships must have the bridges con-
structed On plans prepared by the
commission.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
A TROUBLE MAKER
Coffee Poison Breeds Variety of Ills.

A California woman who didn't
know for twenty years what kept her
ill, writes to tell how she won back her
health by quitting coffee:
Il am 81 years DID," she says, ''have
used coffee all my life, and for 20
years suffered from Indigestion and
insomnia. Life was burden and a
drag to me all the time, and about
once year my ailments got such hold
upon me that was regularly sick in
bed for several weeks each time.
Il was reluctant to conclude that
coffee was the cause of my trouble, but
am thankful that / found out the
truth.
Then I determined to use Postum
exclusively-for week at firsr-for I
doubted my ability to do without cof-
fee for any length of time. made
the Postum carefully, as directed, and
before the week expired had my re-
ward in a perceptible increase in
strength and spirits.
Seeing the good that my short ex-
pertinent had accomplished, resolved
to continue the use of Postum, cutting
out the coffee. entirely. This l did for
nine months, finding, daily, increased
cause for qualification at my steadily
improving health. My indigestion grad
ually left me, my sleep returned, :.
gained 26 pounds in weight, my color
changed from sallow to a fresh, rosy
hue and life became a blessing.
Then / thought 1 would try coffee
again, and did SO for few weeks. The
punishment for deserving my good
friend, Postum, was return of my old
troubles.
THAT taught me wisdom. and I am
now and shall be all my life hereafter
using Postum exclusively and enjoy
Ing the benefits it brings me-" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
There's reason" and it is explain.
ed in the little book, The Road to
MELVILLE" In pkgs.
Ever read the above letferf new
enc appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true and full q k~Wss
interest.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
NEW IRON RANGE LINE
Proposed lnterurban Road Will Serve
Six Towns

proposed lnterurban Road Will Serve
Six Towns.
Boston. Boston and New York
York capitalists have organized the
Mesaba railway company, to build
high-speed interurban road on the
Mesaba Range, Minnesota, between
Hibbing and Gilbert. Six towns to be
served by this new road are now with
out traction facilities. The new COM
pany will have an initial issue of
$1,000,000, first mortgage, five per
cent bonds. 100000 preferred stock,
and $1,500.000 common stock
The underwriting has been under
taken by syndicate headed by Tuck.
err, Anthony & Co., of Boston, with
whom are associated Charles D. Bar
ney & Co., of New York. The work
of construction to be started in the
near future is to be under the super
vision of an advisory committee, COM
prising Robert w. Watson of New
York, vice president of the Great
Northern Power company of Duluth;
Oscar Mitchell, Duluth attorney, and
Chauncey Eldridge of Tucker, An
thony & Co., Boston.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
ANOTHER SHORT COURSE
Outline of Program for the Week Be-
ginning Feb. 19 at Little Falls.

Little Falls.-Final arrangements
have been made for the farmers short
course to be held the week of Feb. Is.
Prizes are to be offered for the judging
of seeds and stock and several local
men will tell of their own experiences
in farming. The program for the
week is as follows: Monday, corn;
Tuesday, dairying; Wednesday, horses
and hogs; Thursday, potatoes and
clover; Friday forenoon, silos and sill
age; afternoon, visiting neighboring
farms; Saturday forenoon, poultry;
afternoon, talks on organization.
Each day will be divided into six
periods and the subject under discus
sion into as many parts.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
RUN TO TRAIN FATAL.
Hoffman Resident Drops Dead At
Fairmount, NJ. D., Depot.

Paramount, n. Dole Gund of fIoff-
man. Mimi, dropped dead at the 500
depot at this place. He had been
with his wife and daughter to Orion
vile on a visit ard was returning
home He had gone to a restaurant
for breakfast. Tie whistle of the
train was heard and Grund ran to
reach it, The excitement and the .io-
lent exercise proved fatal
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
FINAL RESULT OF
IMPURE BLOOD
The System Is Left Weak, Ron
Down and Helpless Against
the Attacks of Disease.

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thin, your digestion disordered, it will
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strong, healthy, hungry men and
women.
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Dakota after several months of suffering
finally found the right tonic in DR..
Williams Pink Pills. She says:
"For months after the birth of my
baby, suffered terribly from a general
breakdown in health. Twas in bed for
three months and after that was able to
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thin. My appetite was gone and my
head ached most of the time. Often
times there seemed to be rush of blood
to my head and 1 would faint away. l
was very nervous and was not strong
enough to do any work.
GAS the treatment / was taking did
not help me, began to take DIR. Will
liams' Pink Pills, which a friend said
had helped her. After taking a few
boxes, 1 began to get well rapidly. [
continued using them for a time and
am now as well and strong as ever in
my life.'
The value of DR.. Williams Pink Pills
in general debility lies in their direct re-
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work is to make new blood. That they
do this well is shown by the gradual
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For the same reason these pills have
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A valuable booklet, Diseases of the
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about rheumatism and other diseases of
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DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by
all druggists, or sent, postpaid, on re-
ceipt of price, so cents per box; six
boxes for $3.50. by the DIR. Williams
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
Duluth Man TO Farm liz Canada.

Duluth.-Sanford F. Mcleod of Du-
in Central Saskatchewan, and be-
tween April / and May he will break
and seed to fax 1000 acres. Five
traction engines and gang plows will
work twenty hours day, with two
ten-hour shifts Pulverizers will fol-
low the plows and the seeders will fol-
low the puverizers. The breaking will
occupy twenty-seyen days and the
seeding eight.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
WARFARE ON WEEDS
Grand Jury Makes Recommendation
Which Meets With Hearty Response.

Thief River Falls.-The Pennington
county grand jury at it's recent ses-
sion adopted resolution calling at
tention to the provisions of law rela-
tive to the suppression of noxious
weeds, and suggested that each town
be divided into three districts, one of
which shall be assigned to each men,
Der of the town board and over which
he, shall have general supervision for
the purpose of aiding in the enforce
ment of the noxious weed laws. The
farmers hive taken up the proposition
Of clean seed and are determined in
future to avoid the heavy loss to
which they are subjected by reason
of the heavy percentage of weed seeds
in their grains.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
r. G.. WALTHER KILLED
st. Paul Man Has Fatal Fall From
Street Car in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, Calf. - Forty minutes
after his arrival in Los Angeles T. G.
Walther, aged GO years, of st. Paul,
fell from a street car, suffering
fractured skull. He died an hour
later Walther's anxiety to help his
wife alight from the car probably cost
him his life. He stood on the lower
step of the rear end of the car to be
ready to assist her. Before the car
slowed up, he fell off.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
LAKE MoToRIsT RETURNS
Ahandons Trip From Port Arthur to
Duluth, Fearing Ice Cracks.

Port Arthur, Ontario. d. Bou-
reau of this city, who started across
Lake Superior for Duluth in an auto
mobile, returned, having temporarily
abandoned the attempt. He proposes
to make another effort, but will or
ganiZe party of dozen men. The
greatest difficulty encountered by
Boureau, he says, were the great
cracks in the'ice and the snow banks.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
Election Results At Virginia,

Virginia.-M. A. Murphy, municipal
ownership candidate for mayor, won
over H. o. Johnson, the administration
candidate, by 200. r. J. McGhee, F.
L. Johnson and Dan Coffey, candidates
for aldermen at large, were also elect
ed. Johnson and MCGEE We're on the
municipal ownership ticket Judge
J. p. Carey was reelected municipal
judge by a small plurality. The total
vote was 1,400 and the result is re-
garded as victory for the advocates
of municipal ownership of the wafer
and light plant.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
SUSPECT Is HELD
Charles Anderson, Accusted of Becker
Murder. Is Found.

Elk R!ver.-Charles p Anderson.
the former caretaker of the Jacobson
farm near Becker. who is charged by
the officials of the state fire warden's
Office with the murder of Ole Jacob
son, his employer, and with the burn
ing of his victims home, was arrest
ed near Becker by Deputy John Bith-
er. He is now in custody in this city.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
Beer Flows Through Streets.

Fergus Falls.-Beer soyed in the
streets here when Sheriff Billings dis
posed of the stock he had seized in the
blind pigs operated by Tom Wilson
and George Munson at Vining, this
county. Something like fifteen cases
of twnety-four quarts each were confis-
Gated when the, places were raided.
The beer was poured into the street
and the bottles were then offered 1T
auction. Mr.. Munson, one of the men
from whom they had been taken, was
the highest bidder.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-16
Gem Importation Grows.

New York, n. Y-The value of
the January gem imports was s3.115,-
900. a decided increase over the same
month year ago. During 1911 the
value of the gems which came in at
the port of New York reached $40. 000,-
600. exceeding all other years with the
exception of 1906.