The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-02-23

gated an order at Washington. signed
by the president. permitting ex-
changes between city letter carriers
and rural letter carriers. provided the
rural carriers pass the examination re-
CURED for appointment to the position
of city carrier.
w. H. Kennard Of Appleton. Wis,
Forest county abstractor, was SEN
fenced on plea of guilty to Waupun
prison for Ave years for forgery.
Settlement of the Springfield, H.,
claims in the graft cases will be eff
fected next week. 1t is said former
municipal employees will pay the
claims. totaling $4,000.
White Lake villa, fine summer re-
sort. near Muskegon, Mich, was de.
stroyed by fire Of incendiary origin,
The damage was $4,000.
John w. Irwin, former recording
secretary Of the Peoria (nl.) local,
structural iron workers, and one OF
the most widely sought labor men in.
dicted by the Indianapolis federal
grand jury in the dynamite plots, was
arrested at Chicago by Deputy United
States Marshal William Crowley.
Former State Senator Frank J.
Gardner of Brooklyn, N. Y, of race
track legislation fame. who was ar
rested charged with conspiracy to gain
control of the 100000 estate of Sam.
uel e. Hastlett. an aged recluse, occu-
pant of Brooklyn's House of Mys,
terry" through a power of attorney
which Haslett is alleged to have re-
pudiated, was released on $4,000 bail
after pleading mot guilty" to the
charge.
The Mount Vernon Antifee associa-
ton, organized to fight the practice
OF charging admission to the home
and tomb Of Washington, has ap-
pealed to the interstate commerce
commission for a reduction In the
electric railway fare between Wash
lngton and Mount Vernon.
Edward l.. Brown, who conducted
banks at Paige. Elkhart and ElHnger,
recently involved in bankruptcy pro-
ceedings, is under arrest at Houston,
Tex, on the charge that as president
of the Paige State bank he substituted
questionable papers for $19. 900 in good
securities placed to secure a loan.
An appeal for votes for women was
made to the senate woman suffrage
committee. Mrs. James Bennett of
Richmond, KY, chairman OF the con-
gressional committee of the Equal
Rights association of Kentucky, was
the speaker. She urged a constitu-
tfonal amendment.
The setting of Clarence 8. Darrow's
trial on the indictment charging jury
bribery. has been continued at Los
Angeles until February %.
In a bitter fight at the stockholders
meeting in St. Louis Henry Clay
Pierce and his associates checkmated
the effort of John d. Rockefeller and
the Standard oil interests to take alb
solute control of the Waters-Pierce
company by refusing to allow the
Standard people to vote their stock
Foreign
The London Pail Mall Gazette in a
special article declares that an agita-
ton hostile to the United States is
taking place in Japan and that Japan
and China soon will unite to resent
the exclusion of Orientals from Amer
lea.
Many persons and thousands of cat
tie have persisted in Portugaps foods
The damage is $4,000.
The Russian cabinet has prepared
for submission to the douma a bill
calling for an appropriation of SITS, 200
for the extension of the growth OF
cotton in Turkestan and the replacing
of American agricultural machinery
with implements made In Russia or
other countries.
Yuan Shi Kali has been unanimously
elected president of the Chinese re-
public. DR.. Sun Vat Sen resigned the
office in favor Of Yuan, who he says
Is more familiar with the details OF
government than himself
Sporting
Clarence Ferns of Kansas City
knocked out Dave Deshler of Boston in
the ninth round of a scheduled ten
round fight before the Grand Avenue
athletic club at Kansas City.
Johnny Coulon of Chicago is still
the bantamweight king. The champion
successfully defended his title against
frankie Burns Of Jersey City In a
hard-fought twenty-round battle be.
fore the West Side Athletic club in
New Orleans. Coulon was given a
justly earned decision over the east
ern crack by Referee Harry Stout at
the end of an hours hard fighting.
Personal
Z. G. Dunn, former secretary of the
Iowa Farmers and Frain Dealers as
ISOLATION. announced his candidacy for