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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
ON TRIAL FOR MURDER.
That Fatal Shooting Was An Accident
Will Be the Defense. o.

Hibbing.-The trial of John Backa
on the charge of numbering his wife
on their homestead, eighteen miles
south of this city, last fall is expected
to begin in district court at Virginia
this week. Backa returned home from
Hibbing on the day of the shooting in
an intoxicated condition. His wife up
braided him, and the testimony of the
hired man is that Backa threatened to
strike her. Then the enraged man be-
gan pumping shells into shotgun and
in some manner the gun was dis
charged The bullet shattered the wo-
mans knees, and after lingering two
weeks she died from the effects OF
the wounds Backa contends that the
shooting was accidental, while his wife
asserted it was deliberate. The most
important witness is 1O-year-old son.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
POSTAL BANKS GROW.
Seventy-six More Will Be Started in
Minnesota Next June.

Washington.-Pos in Mime
sofa designated postal bank deposit
tories, effective in June, follow:
Beaver Creek, Bigelow, Bingham
Lake, Brewster, Butterfield, Ceylon,
Clark's Grove, Cleveland, Conger, Cur
rie, Darfur, Dayton, Delavan, Denni-
son, Dovray, Dundee, Dunnell, Easton,
Glendale, EIysian, Emmons, Freedom,
Frost, Chenille, Gordonsville, Ora
NADIA, Hammond, Hardwick, Hartland,
Hayward, Holland, Ihlen, Iona, LETTERS,
Kenneth, Kiester, Kilkenny, Kinbrae,
Lake Elmo, Lakeville, Lake Wilson,
La Sale, Lewisville, Lismore, London,
Lonsdale, Madison Lake, Magnolia,
Manchester, Maple Plain, Millville,
Monterey, Myrtle, Nerstrand, Oakland,
Ormsby, Prior Lake, Reading, Rob-
binsdale. Rosemount, Round Lake,
Rushmore Ruthton, st. Clair, Steen,
Storden, Theilman, Vernon Center,
Walters, Wanamingo, Welcome, West
Brook, Wilder, Wilmont, Woodstock,
Zumbro Falls. asT
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
NO MORE OF THAT MEDICINE
Mary Had Her Mind Made Up as to
Further Doses Of 'Unquenchabls
Compound.

A Yonkers IN. y physician had
negro cook who was chronic COM
palmer. One day she came In groan-
ing with misery in her side and the
doctor offered to prescribe for her.
He went to the dining room, poured
out spoonful of game sauce, stirred
In some English mustard, and sprin-
killed. on some cayenne pepper, and
handed the dose to the sufferer, telling
her to take 1t down at one swallow.
1t was two weeks or more before
Mary turned up with new pain. This
time 1t was in her other side. Her
employer offered to mix her another
dose of medicine.
mo, subj" said Mary, firmly. I'm
much obliged to you, doctor; but Use
done got my mind made up never agin
to drink nothin' what water won't
squench! "-Saturday Evening Post
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
Walden. County Ships Corn.

Wadena. - Carload shipments of
Wadena county grown corn are being
made to the Minneapolis market for
the first time in the county's history.
There was a bumper corn crop last
season. Four farmers have bought
automobiles this week. Aside from
the pleasure feature the autos will be
used by the farmers to haul cream to
the creameries. The prevailing high
price of tested seed corn was striking
" set forth at the Karl auction sale
when I'VE bushels Of seed sold for
$11.20 q bushei.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10

ness in each side, could not stand tight
clothing, and was irregular. was COM
pletely run down. On advice / took
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and am enjoying good health. 1t
Is now more than two years and have
not had an ache or pain since. do all
my own work, washing and everything,
and never have backache any more. I
think your medicine is grand and praise
it to all my.neighbors. If you think my
testimony will help others you may pub
fish it. Mrs. OLLIE WooDALL, Nor
tons Gap, Kentucky.
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound will help you, write
to Lydia E.Pinkham Medicine Co.
(confidentiaD Lynn, Mass, for adj
vice. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by a woman,
and held in strict confidence.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES OF A WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
e.. OVER TOLD IN lTEMIZED
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into q Few Lines for the
PerusaI Of the Busy Man.
Latest Personal In
formation.
Washington

With tears streaming down his
cheeks and his voice breaking with
emotion, President Taft paid his trib-
ute of love and esteem to his friend
and aide, the late Major Archibald w.
Butt, at the memorial services held in
his honor at the National theater In
Washington under the auspices of the
Masons.
President Taft informed the U. ..
senate that the department OF state
has no evidence whatever adequate to
show any acquisition OF land or any
intention or desire to acquire land.
whether directly or indirectly, In Mex
leo by or on the part OF the imperial
Japanese government
The perfected post Office appropria-
ton bill nc agreed upon by the house
at Washington abrogates the rule
which prevented federal employees In
the postal service from complaining to
congress of their treatment
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
Game Warden Active.

Hibbing-Game Warden George
Wood of this city has broken all rec
ords in securing convictions of viola
tors of the game laws. From April
10 to the 21st, inclusive, he secured
nineteen convictions. Over 2,20O feet
of netting, five guns. 800 pounds of fish
two row boats and other hunting
paraphernalia were confiscated. One
conviction was brought about for kill.
ing deer out of season.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
OFFERS TO SELL PLANT.
Edison Electric Company Makes
Proposition to Duluth.

Duluth.-The Edison Electric COM
pany, which furnishes electric light
for Duluth, offers to sell its plant to
the city. 1t is proposed by the cleo
trio company that board of apprais-
ers be selected to fix the price. The
Edison Electric company will select
one man, the city will select another,
and the third man will be selected by
the two appraisers already named. At
the last municipal election the people
voted to buy the present electric
plant, or to build a new one. The
proposition of the electric company
was sent to the Common Council to-
night. and probably will be accepted.
If was referred to a committee.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
Murder Trial At Virginia.

Virginia.-The trial of John Wrexler
on the charge of numbering Axel PAX
kala attracts many to the courtroom.
A feature of the trial Monday was the
presence in court of the widow and
three children OF the murdered man.
Gus Makela testified that after the
firing of several shots in a saloon,
Telling several men, Drexler tarned
the gun on himself and snapped it
several times, intending to commit
suicide, but failed because the cham
beers were empty.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10

use Doan's Kidney
Pills, which have
cured thousands.
L. Bonney, Eu-
gene, Ore, says:
Il contracted Sc
we're kidney trou-
BILE through heavy
lifting. There was
a dull ache across
my hips and pains
like knife-thrusts
shot through me.
Doan's Kidney
Pills cured after
doctors had failed
and my back Is
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
Barclay. Death Accidental.

Omaha, Neb. = H. H. Dallam, of
Warsaw, ILL.,, who has been under ar
rest in Omaha pending an investiga-
tion into the death of A. L. Barclay,
of Minneapolis, was set at liberty by
the coroner's jury which returned q
verdict that Barclay met death acct
dentally while examining a pistol
Barclays body was taken to Mime.
apolis. Dallam was subjected to a
gruelling cross examination by the
prosecutor but never wavered in his
story, Dallam left Omaha for his
home IN Illinois.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
Freeborn to Vote on President.

Albert Lea.-The republican county
committee has issued call for the
county convention to elect fourteen
delegates to the state convention and
the same number to the first district
convention. The county convention
will be held on Monday, May 10, the
caucuses to be held on Saturday, May
IL, from 5 to o'clock. A motion by
H. II. Dunn to adopt the Caswell plan
for a preferential primary for the pur.
pose of allowing the voters to express
their choice for candidate for presi-
dent was adopted.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
T.R. GETS MARYLAND
GAINS 66 DELEGATES TO PRESl-
DENTS So IN THE STATE
CONVENTION.
BALTIMOREFOR LEADERS
Clark Beat Wilson Nearly Two &c
Observation-Disclosures Recount
Favors Who Are Pledged
To Roosevelt.

Baltimore, Md MaryIand's 16
votes in the national convention will
be cast for Theodore Roosevelt and
Speaker Champ Clark unless the few
election districts still to be heard
from change the result in the states
first presidential primaries. Although
the election was close Colonel Roose-
welt on the face of the returns. had
more than enough votes necessary to
control the state convention.
The primaries divided the delegates
to the state convention as follows:
Result of the Vote.
northumberland, Sc; Taft,
63.
Democratic Clark, 70; Wilson, A;
Harmon, 4; in doubt, 9.
Majority necessary to control the
convention, So.
The state delegates elected are
bound to choose delegation to the
national convention favorable to the
presidential candidates for whom the
people expressed their preference.
Although the popular preference
vote of the state as whole did not
determine the result, it favored Roose-
welt and Clark by pluralities more con-
elusive than the division of state del
egates based on the county preference
vote should. This was due largely to
the sweep which both successful can
didates made in the city of Baltimore
Speaker Clark led steadily from the
time the first returns arrived from
the Baltimore wards. Early in the
evening it looked as if Colonel Roose-
welt would win by an equally big ma
jority, but shortly before midnight re-
turns from the strong Taft counties in
eastern and southern Maryland put
the president suddenly ahead with SO
delegates to his opponents 81. 1t
was Prince Georges county that de-
cided. Both sides claimed it's five
votes until conclusive returns short
ly after midnight placed it in the
Roosevelt column. -.s.
The Taft leaders claim that the five
Taft delegates chosen in Baltimore
city, although obliged by their instruc-
lions to vote for Roosevelt, may give
the Taft sympathiZers control of the
state convention and enable them to
elect delegates to the national conven-
ton who would be ready to abandon
Roosevelt as soon as released from
the obligations imposed by the law.
Such situation might arise at the ma
tional convention, they say, if several
hundred ballots failed to result in a
choice. ....
Roosevelt Delegates Gain.
Boston.-Recounts of the vote for
delegates at large pledged to Presi.
dent Taft, cast at the presidential
primaries last Tuesday were complet-
ed and reported from nine cities, in
Guiding Boston and one town. The
returns showed a falling off of 1877
votes over the figures as announced
at the close of the polls and a conse-
quencs gain for the Roosevelt dele
gates. In Boston the leader of the
Taft group, Senator Crane, sustained
a net loss of 81 votes.
In Boston, Lynn, Maiden, Taunton,
Lowell, Gloucester. North Adam, Sa-
lem and Northampton and the town
Of North Bridge, 2,947 ballots were
spoilted by the voters marking nine
delegates instead of eight, the num-
Der in Boston being 1,450, or about
Is per cent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
Taft Relative is Called.

Rochester. - The Reverend Mr..
Reed Taft Bayne has accepted the in
vitation to become the pastor of the
Congregational church of this city.
For three years he has been at Nc
Cook, Neb., where he took a promi-
nent part in civic affairs, being a
member of the library board, as well
as being appointed by the mayor of
McCook as censor of moving picture
shows. He refused the Republican
nomination for member of the school
board. Rev. Mr.. Bayne is second
cousin of President Taft.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10

didacy for the Republican nomination
as representative to congress from the
Second district.
Mr.. Ellsworth ran two years ago
for the position, being beaten at that
time by w. s. Hammond, the only
ton.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
stranoIes Self in Cell.

ST. Cloud.-Using a stationary
chain that was attached to an iron
cot Chas. Nelsof "a prisoner from
Kanabec county, strangled himself in
the county Jail in this city, death
resulting before the authorities reach.
ed his CELL Nelson was brought to the
city. having been bound over to the
grand jury on the charge of man.
slaughter, resulting from the death OF
Mrs. Johanna J. Anderson of 1santl
as the result of an illegal operation
said to have been performed by a
physician in this part of the state.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
Retirement Of j. j. Hill,

Chicago. Ill. Reports arising in
New York and coming from a SEEM
confirm a rumor published short
time ago that James ]. Hill would re-
tire as an officer of the Great North
ern. Mr.. Hill will relinQuish May
10 and will be succeeded as chairman
of the board of directors by Louis w.
Hill. Carl r. Gray. president of the
Spokane, Portland and Seattle rail-
way, it is rumored, will succeed l..
w. Hill as president of the Great
Northern line.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
TROOPS TO THE BORDER.
Preparing to Move Soldiers From Fort
Russell to Texas.

Cheyenne, Wyoming. Orders
were received by the Colorado and
Southern railway to seize all empty
fiat, box and stock cars, no matter to
Fort d. A. Russell for shipping of the
horses and equipment of the Ninth
cavalry. which is expecting orders to
move to the Mexican border at any
hour Tbirty-five stock cars have been
delivered ALREADY
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
Schools 10 Fight Flies.

Virginia. crusade for the exter-
mination of the housefy has been
started in the city schools. The school
board has procured 200 illustrated
charts, which can be read and under
stood even by these who do not under
stand the language. These Illustrate
how disease and filth are carried by
the common hy. About 500 school
children will have home gardens. This
is q big increase over last year. The
board of education has purchased
seed which will be distributed free.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10

The Marion tO.) Daily Mirror was
purchased by Brooks Fletcher and L.
L. Lamborn of Cleveland. H. r. Sny-
der, the former owner, will give his
attention to a paper owned by him in
Gary, Ind.
Eight lives were lost when the Mis-
sissippi river broke through the levee
at Morgansea, 20 miles above Baton
Rouge, La. The flood waters are
sweeping over the rich sugar planta-
tons and will do great property DAM
age in Point Coupee. West sBaton
Rouge, Iberville, and in the parishes
to the southwark.
Twenty thousand suffragettes par
AIDED in New York city, the features of
the procession being a company OF
cavalry women and bands OF negresses
and Chinese.
Chicago Is without newspapers with
the exception OF the Daily Socialist.
which publishes little or no news orr
ginating outside of the city. The union
stereotypers and drivers OF the deliv-
cry wagons have joined the pressmen
in their strike against all the dailies
which make up the Publishers asso,
citation, and the printers are reported
ready to go out at a moments notice.
Excitement ran high at the Meth.
odist general conference when repre-
sentatives from Missouri offered q
resolution, which was adopted, severe.
ly denouncing President Taft and Sec,
rotary Wilson because the latter, in
his official capacity, Endorsed the
Brewers congress lately held in Chi
cago.
A two-masted schooner, apparently
a yacht, with all sails set, is on Poili1
reef, near Bridgeport, Conn. partly
submerged. Local tugboats have gone
to her relief
Colored representatives from south
ern states threw the Methodist gen
into a whirl of excitement by demand,
ing the appointment of a colored
bishop.
Locomotive firemen on fifty eastern
roads have made demand for higher
wages and it is said if their request Is
met 1t will cost the roads 25,OoO.O0C
year.
Negotiations for settlement of the
strike of the anthracite miners were
broken off in New York when the com.
mittee Of ten of the miners refused to
approve the agreement reached by the
subcommittee.
Union pressmen on al Chicago
daily newspapers are on strike. One
edition of each paper is being printed
by aid of nonunionists.
The torpedo boat destroyer Beale
was launched at the Cramp shipyard.
Philadelphia. The vessel was chris
tened by Mrs. John R. Mclean OF
Washington.
Milwaukee street cars are running.
despite the strike of several motor
men and conductors on the lines.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
"The Hidden Handu at MinneapoIis

Following VIM. Jossey's The End
of the Trail" at the Bijou, will be
seen a complete production of Mrs.
E. ID. E. n. Southworth's great New
York Ledger" prize story, The Hid
den Hand" a mystery play of Old
Virginia, one of those natural dramas
that leaves strong and favorable i'm
preston. so
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
600 REBELS KILLED.
Mexican insurgents and Federal
Forces In Clash.

rebels were killed and the remainder
of force of 1900 were sent scurry-
ing to Cuatro Cienegas during fight
with 600 federals under Colonel Pablo
Gonzales. according to reports re-
ceived by President Madero. The bat
tie was the second engagement within
four days and probably will be fol-
lowed by third within a short time.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10

health was very bad
and / had a continual
backache which was
simply awful. l could
not stand on my feet
long enough to cook
a meals victuals
with out my back
nearly killing me,
and / would have
such dragging sensa-
tons I could hardly
bear it. I had sore
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
Foreign

Emilio Vasquez Gomez, lawyer,
was proclaimed provisional president
of Mexico. The proclamation was is
sued by Gen. Pascual Orozco, who is
at the front with the rebel troops
threatening the federal base at Tor
reon. Juarez is the provisional capt.
tai, but this probably will be shifted
to Chihuahua.
The condition OF the czarina's health
1s causing. grave anxiety in st. Peters
burg. She is suffering from acute mel
ancholia, and 1t was reported that she
had to be kept under constant serveil-
ance.
One hundred and forty persons
killed, sixty more injured and hun.
dred more had narrow escapes from
death. when the steamship Texas. fly
ing the Turkish flag. struck floating
mine at the entrance TO the harbor at
Smyrna. Asiatic Turkey. The heavy
loss of life on the ship is the result
OF the Turkish-Italian war.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
Politics

Colonel Roosevelt renounced his
claim to the eight delegates-at-large to
the Republican national convention
elected for him in Massachusetts. He
telegraphed them from Oyster Bay
that he would expect them to vote for
President Taft because of the fact that
Taft carried the state on the presiden-
tial preferential vote.
Taft and Roosevelt each won Is OF
the SO delegates of Massachusetts
Foss gets the eight Democratic dele
gates-at-large and Champ Clark the
Twenty-eighth district delegates. In
both parties the candidate who won
the presidential preference contest
failed to secure the delegates-at-large
owing to an unforeseen turn in the
primary law. With the returns from
1,040 of the voting precincts at hand
Mr.. Taft had a margin OF nearly 5,4OU
votes, but the eight delegates-at-large
supporting the Roosevelt candidacy
were victorious by plurality OF 1852.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
BACKACHE
NOT A DISEASE
But a Symptom, a Danger Sig
nal Which Every Woman
Should Heed.

Backache is symptom of organic
weakness or arrangement. If you have
backache DOM neglect it. To get per-
manent relief you must reach the root
of the trouble. Read about Mrs. Wood
all's experience.
Morton's Gap, Kentucky 81 suffered
two years with female disorders, my
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
An Ananias.

&c. w. Smith says he loves to live
In the suburbs in winter"
'Humph! And the rascal was born
On Washington's birthday and named
after him, too''-Judge.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10

stronger than before in years"
when your Back is Lame, Remem-
Der the Name-DOAN'S." 50c all stores.
Foster-Milburn> Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
Children Being Defrauded.

The trouble is that they are teach
ing them things that are going to be
of no benefit to them in real life. The
pupils are spending the only years of
their life being taught stuff that they
can't use, and so far as the children
are concerned it is fraud upon them
l said to the auditor in our auditing
department the other day, where
about 900 young people are employed,
What percentage are high school
graduates and he said he didn't
know, but that there never was an
over-supply, for the first thing he did
with an applicant was to give them
a simple problem in division, and that
most of them failed on it. Why, the
little red school house could do bet
ter than that" - .-gs'
Mr.. Hill urged the construction of
a road around Lake Bemidji and con-
graduated northern Minnesota upon
her enterprise in developing the farm
ing industry. ISL
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10

Perhaps the surest thing in this life
is the friend you can't depend on
when you really need him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-05-10
DOES YOUR BACK ACHE?

Aches and Twinges Point to Hidden
Kidney Trouble.
Have you a lame back, aching day
and night? Do you feel sharp pain
after bending over? When the kidneys
seem sore and the action irregular,