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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
DUMAS sENTENCEIN JULY
Says IL Sent to Prison He "Wili Take
Medicine Lake a Man."

Bemidji. = DR.. Delbert F.. Du-
mas, former mayer of Cass Lake,
whose conviction On a charge of at-
tempted arson. was last week upheId
by the state supreme court will not
be sent to Saltwater to begin his pris-
on term until July 8. Judge w. s. Nc
Clenehan before whom Dr. Dumas was
tried and convicted last October told
K. e. Mcdonald special county attor-
ney who assisted in the prosecution of
DR.. Dumas that he plans to call a
special session of the Beltfami dis
trict court for the purpose of impos-
ing sentence on the Cass Lake physi-
clan.
1t also becomes known that Judge
Marshall A. Spooner who with A. A.
Andrews of this city and Freeman P.
Lane of Minneapolis, conducted the
defense of Dr. Dumas has completely
withdrawn from the case and Geo.
Spear of the Grand Rapids law firm
of Spear & Stone is now looking
after the interests of Dr. Dumas DR..
Dumas is at liberty on bail bond to-
falling $22, 900. He was here and ad.
mitted that he did not know what his
next move would be but still hopes to
avoid being sent to Saltwater He
said, IF the worst comes to the worst
/ will take my medicine like man"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
VICTIM HAD IT COMING
Swansland Declares He Just Had to
Kill His Neighbor Vickstrom.

Bemidji Charles Swansland, ar
rested at Beaudette on the charge of
having murdered his n4ghbor, Avid
Vickstrom, on May Is, has been
brought to Bemidji. Swansland says
he escaped pursuit after he had shot
and killed Vickstrom by hiding in the
woods and that at one time the sher-
ifs posse passed so close to him he
counted the number of guns they had.
He also watched them put out a camp
fire he had burning when he heard
them coming. After this he made his
way to the north end of the Upper
Red lake and waded for eight miles
through the bog, water often COM
ing up to his waist.
Swansland says he shot Vickstrom
because The had it coming" AL
though apparently rational on all
other lines, the prisoner is haZy when
he talks of the shooting.
81 had to kill him. he says. "He
was the queerest man / ever saw. He
could make himself resemble any of
the animals of the forest-a bear, a
wolf, a deer. When / shot him he
was looking like a woodchuck."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
COIN TURNST|LES
HEREAFTER SLOT MACHINE DE
VICE WILL BE USED AT
THE STATE FAIR.
BALLOONS AND PLANES
Women's Federation of Minnesota
Will Install Model Kitchen in
the School Exhibit
Building.

Hamline.-There will be no tickets
sold at the State fair grounds during
the fair this year. The fair board de.
cided to adopt the coin system entirely
and the work of installing machine
turnstiles at each entrance to the
grounds, grand stands and bleachers
will begin at once.
These turnstiles are so fixed that
unless the proper coin is dropped in
the slot it will not turn. The stile
turns just far enough to allow one per-
son to enter. Change booths will be
placed at each entrance in order that
those who have not the exact change
may get it. This is expected to do
away with disputes over change, to
expedite the entrance of visitors and
decrease clerical work.
The fair board also closed a con-
tract with the National Aeroplane
Company of Chicago. The contract
calls for three aeroplanes and five
balloons, each with an operator. The
company will furnish one Wright ma.
chane, one Curtis biplane and one
Newport monoplane. There will be
six aeroplane flights daily and five
balloon ascensions with parachute
drops.
The making of the new contract
follows the death of Parmalee and the
retirement of Turpin, the two men
who had been engaged for the fair.
The Woman's Federation made ar
rangements with the board for Install
ing model kitchen In the school ex-
hibit building. The kitchen will be
equipped with the latest labor-saving
devices for the housewife. An exhibit.
ton of fax working also will be given
in the school exhibit building.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
ACCEPTS JOINT OFFER.
Rochester to Employ Health Official,
State to Pay Part of Salary.

Rochester-The city council mas ac-
copied the offer of the State Board of
Health and the women of the Civic
league to employ permanent health
officer for one year, the State Board
of Health to pay 1000 and the Civic
league and the city $1,000 each to
defray the expenses of the health de-
partment.
A few weeks ago the state board
made it's offer of 81 1000, and the Civic
league offered to assume the entire re-
sponsibility of the balance of the eX-
pense if the city would appoint a
health officer to be named by the state
board. The proposition was rejected
by the council In the face of an i'm
pending epidemic shortly after DR. c..
H. Mayo was appointed health officer
and a member of the Mayo staff has
given his entire time to the health
work-a practical demonstration Of
what a health officer can do in an i'm
pending crisis.
The offer of the state board having
been turned down by other cities in
the state, again was offered to Roch-
ester, although the city must now
stand 81, 900 of the financial burden. A
public health officer will be engaged as
an assistant to DR.. c. H. Mayo, who
continues as health officer, and the
entire time of the assistant will be
devoted to health matters. The result
of his work will be used in bringing
pressure to bear upon the next legis-
lature to offer state aid to any city or
community which will engage a spe-
cialist on public health as perma-
nent health officer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
SONGALAGET Ar OWATONNA
TWO THOUSAND NORWEGIAN VS.
iToRS ON FIRST DAY.
Outdoor Program of Song and Story
Held in Mineral Spring
Park

Owatonna. Amid bands playing,
flags waving and choruses singing the
national songs of America and Nor.
way, the big sognalaget opened its
first day of real work and pleasure
combined and the city has all the
gala day appearance of Roman holi.
day. ~f
Automobiles met the guests and es-
corted them to their rooming places
and the hotels were gaily decorated
Every man and woman in the city
wears the Norwegian colors and caps
and the business section is mass of
waving pennants and flags. Albert
Lea sent special train with 300 del
egates, There are nearly two thou
sand now in the city and more are
coming.
The big banquet was held in the
National Guard armory and tables
were arranged for five hundred. The
women of Norway served and admidst
jolification and merriment the ban
quet was held. Norwegian songs
were sung and folk lore stories were
told
At Mineral Springs park an out of
door festival of song and music was
held and the sons and daughters of
Sogu made merry while thousands of
visitors from the city and surround
ing country Joined in the celebra-
ton and paid homage to the descend
ants of the Mortimer.
0. E. Williamson introduced Mayor
S. r. Nelson who spoke briefly and
welcomed the guests. r, N. Nelson
of Madison, Wis, then spoke. The
speeches were made by Rev. Urnes,
of Usage, Iowa; l.. c. Grundeland, of
Chicago; S. S. Tveit, of Albert Lea,
and Prof A. A Veblin, of Saltwater.
The greeting "Er Du Sogning" is
heard on every side. Thursday was
a day of music and festive sports in
honor of Norway and it's sons.
Minnesota had of course, the larg-
est contingent present, but Iowa and
Wisconsin were not far behind in
their number of delegates, while
North and South Dakota have a
large quota. The society was organ
lied in 1908 and is confined to Scan
dinavians who come from Sogu, Nor
way, or their descendants. Meetings
of the society have previously been
held in Minneapolis, Madison, Wis.
Albert Lea and Sioux Falls, S. D.
DR.. Joakime Arneson of Minneapolis
spoke during the convention, deliver
ing an illustrated lecture in the form
of a travelogue Some of the most
prominent Scandinavian -vocalists in
the country will be present during the
sessions of the songalaget and will
take part in the program which will
for the greater part be grand festi-
val of song and music.
SognaIaget Officers Named.
Owatonna, Officers for the
Norwegian Sognalaget for the en-
suing year were chosen as fol-
lows: President foreman, Rev.
Vrness of Usage, Ia; vice foreman,
B. r. Hopperstad of Albert Lea;
treasurer, j. ]. Howl of Hayward; sec
rotary, Prof. Rennie of Sioux City;
corresponding secretary, John Dyber-
TX of Oxfordville, Wis; historian,
Prof. G. Blom of Urbana; directors,
j. 3. Thompson of Albert Lea, B. N.
Nelson of Madison, Wis; Secretary
o. f. Williamson declined reelection.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
Urey Woodson's Story.

Urey Woodson, secretary Of the
Democratic national committee, is tell
ing story which has what he claims
is a moral
you Republicans says Mr. Wood
son, remind me Of old Colonel Gun.
fire, who, although Democrat, lived
in a stronghold Of Republicanism. One
winter he blew in and asked to be
sworn in as member of the Demo
cratic legislature.
Colonel did you sure enough beat
a Republican,"
Sub, / beat three of 'em at once. y
Nov that is what we are going to
do in less numbers. Get together and
scrap, but after 1t Is over watch us
Democrats beat two of you, Taft and
Teddy, all at once"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
Borah's Bushy Hair.

Senator Borah of Idaho is one Of the
few big men of the convention who
cannot be called picturesque, unless
his bushy hair entities him to that de-
scription. 1t is said his only reason
for wearing so much hair is to con-
ceal a bad scar on the back of his
head received in an accident in his
youth.
Mr. Borah, like Jonah X. Kalaria-
naole, Hawaiian delegate, has a round,
chubby, Buster Brown type Of physi-
ognamy. His dignity, however, is
such that none would think of calling
him Cupid that is the brown
skinned islanders nickname in con-
gress.
Has His Name on SIS Bill.
A southern delegate was much ex-
cited over the appearance of a tall
negro at the Coliseum annex who
figured in several conferences.
Have you SIS bill?" asked friend.
When the currency was produced
the friend called attention to the sig
nature of the registrar Of the treasury,
Judson Lyon.
That same dark person over there
is Judson Lyon, delegate from Geor-
gia," was the explanation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
Importance of the Bell Boys.

The bell boys of the big hotels have
been pressed into service for all sorts
of duties. They not only carry ice
water and life preservers to the vari-
GUS headquarters and rooms of dele
gates, but also serve in the capacity
of page, state house messenger"
marshal of delegations, Office boy, in
PRODUCER, and general headquarters at
tache.
There are hundreds of different doc
uments to be exchanged between head
quarters, with verbal explanations to
go to the men In charge.
Here's the list of delegates from
Alabama with the Twenty-third dis
trict left out" delegation chief ex-
plains to the boy in buttons. Take
it up to Senator Blank with my COM
pliments, and inform him l will send
the rest to him in half an hour"
When hop was dispatched with a
copy of the recommendations of the
rules committee, to be submitted to
the national committee, a senator re-
marked:
THAT young man has a mission OF
more widespread influence than that
of any other boy in America"
"Whoo-ee," sighed bell boy. He
was counting change. mine hours on
the hop and only $1.60 in tips. am
going to vote the Democratic ticket
straight"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
Masons Honor Duluth Man.

Duluth. = By official letter of APP
pointment from James d. Richardson
sovereign grand commander of the SUI
preme council of the Scottish rite OF
Free Masory, to former mayor. T. w.
Hugo of Duluth, he is advanced from
a local Masonic celebrity to one whose
jurisdiction is statewide as he has
been appointed deputy of the supreme
council for the state of Minnesota.
with authority and powers similar to
that of the grand master of Masons OF
the state.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14

that girl can mix the best mint julep
In the world, but wouldn't drink one
Along the same policy she says she
will move out of any state that ever
goes prohibition. One day while she
was visiting in Colorado she read in
the paper that l was going to change
my politics. She Immediately wrote
me that IL did that it was up to me.
but that she and the maid and the
cook and the men on the ranch would
all be 'agin' me, and quietly limited
that the best thing could do wac %
vote for Teddy as long az I've"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
Think Epidemic is Checked.

st. Paul-Belief that the typhoid
fever epidemic at Anoka has been
checked was expressed by DR.. A. T..
Game, health officer, with the qualifi-
cation that some secondary cases may
develop. There are thirty-four cases
in the town, two reported yesterday.
besides several suspected cases, and
FIVE deaths have occurred since the
outbreak of the disease. The source
of infection of the epidemic is still a
question, according to Dr. A. ]. Ches-
ley of che state board of health.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
BOY DROWNED IN DITCH

Owatonna. The decomposed body
of Clarence Shadbolt, IL years old,
an inmate of the State Public school
in this city. who has been missing
since the afternoon of May 80, was
found in a ditch about a mile west of
here by some section men. The body
had apparently been in the water for
several days.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
Phone Company Loses Decision

st. Paul. The heretofore I'M
questioned right to telephone CON-
panies to enter private property and
street boulevards to set poles and
string wires received setback when
the supreme court handed down a
decision holding the Northwestern
Telephone Exchange Company liable
for injuries inflicted on Marjorie A.
Souther when she was attempting to
prevent a force of men from planting
pole on the boulevard in front OF
her house She had won decision
for 500 damages in the lower court.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
sseesesseeesss
SU N MARY !
Of A :
WEEKS EVENTS /:
Latest News of Interest 3
Boiled Down for the 3
Busy Man. :
Washington

The report of the Stanley commit
tee, which made an exhaustive investi-
cation into the United States Steel
Pierpont Morgan of being the arch
enemy of the Sherman antitrust law
and Of the independent steel business
in the United States and demand the
dissolution OF the big concern.
The United States senate will vote
on the Lorimer case July unless the
present session is ended before that
date. The agreement for date for
the vote was reached without any op-
position.
BY unanimous vote the house in
Washington ordered the resolution in
troduced by Representative Berger
proposing to impeach Judge Cornelius
Ranford Of Seattle, sent to the judici-
airy committee for immediate action.
A hard blow was given the new
commerce court by the Supreme court
of the United States, which upheld the
exclusive jurisdiction of the interstate
commerce commission over the ad-
ministrative machinery Of the federal
rate laws.
The Columbus memorial on the
Union station plaza in Washington
was unveiled by the Italian ambassa-
dor, President Taft delivering an ad-
dress and 100000 men taking part In
the parade.
Representative Berger introduced a
resolution in the house at Washington
demanding the impeachment Of Fed
eral Judge Hanford Of Seattle, Wash,
whom Berger accuses of drunkenness
and other improprieties on the bench,
The resolution was referred to the Jul
dietary committee.
Senator George s. Nixon of Nevada
died at Washington from cerebro-spin-
al meningitis following an operation
for the removal of an abscess on his
nose. He was fifty-two years of age.
The vote of the u. 8. senate on the
resolution declaring the election OF
Senator Lorimer invalid will not be Ia
ken until after the national conven-
lions, If negotiations now in progress
between his supporters and opponents
in the senate prove successful.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
Cuban ReUOIf

The general staff of the army at
Washington has issued preparatory or.
ders for the dispatch of military ex-
petition of 5000 troops to Cuba. The
four big army transports at Newport
News were ordered to be put in COM
mission, provisioned and supplied. Or
ders also were sent to the army posts
from which the troops will be drawn
to have them in readiness for the
movement.
So alarming Is the situation in Cuba
that the fourth division of the battle
ships, including the Minnesota, Missis-
sippi. Missouri and Ohio, under COM
mand of Rear Admiral Usher, was or
dered from Key West to Guantanamo.
the key to the affected district. with
all possible speed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
Colonel Lyons Bride.

Colonel Lyon Of Texas asked Mrs.
Lyon to pose for newspaper photog,
raphers. She did 1t with reluctance.
and after it was all over the colonel
said softly, with wink at the report
ers: Dear, don't let those fellows
know you are bride"
The colonel and Mrs. Lyon have
been married several years and have
one presidential possibility.
II like TO Rid her, you see," ex-
planned the colonel. but she knows
joke when she ssss h - the way.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
LICENSE CANCELLED.
o. M. Lynch, Fargo Insurance Man
Loses Rights in Minnesota.

st. Paul.-State Insurance Commits
sioner Preus has notified d. M. Lynch,
general agent of the Pennsylvania Mu-
tual Life Insurance company. at Fargo,
n. D., that his brokers' license in this
state has been cancelled. The check
sent by Lynch to pay for the license
was returned, on account of INSULT
cient funds
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
Many See School Exhibits.

Ely.-Between 5000 and 1000 per-
sons gathered at the high school to
view the work done by the different
departments of the schools during the
past year. The exhibit has come to
be an annual affair. Every department
of the schools and every grade from
the kindergartens up was represented.
This fall De Witt Adkins, who for the
past year has been principal of the
high school, viii leave to become SUI
perintendent of schools at Aurora,
hir-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
HOLDS MILLION HERE
Standard Oil Has Much Property In
Minnesota.

St Paul.-The Standard Oil COM
pany yesterday filed with the secre-
tary of state a statement valuing its
holdings in Minnesota at s1,242,000.
Foreign articles of incorporation were
filed for which the company paid fee
of s5S2.70. The company which is
an Indiana concern is capitalized at
s30.000.000 and Ala per cent of the
amount is credited to Minnesota.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
All Taft Types.

1t has been noticed that a great
part of the delegates that have arrived
are robust men. "All Taft types" com.
Chief among the heavyweights Is A.
NJ. Stevenson, Colorado national COM
mitteeman, who halls from Denver.
Mr.. Stevenson weighs more than 300
pounds.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
Domestic

Six persons were injured seven
miles south of Bloomington. Ill, In q
wreck on the Alton limited of the Chi
cago & Alton railroad, when broken
running gear on the baggage car sent
the mail and baggage cars, the smoker
and a crowded passenger coach into
the ditch.
Owing to the recent death of Wilbur
Wright, the aviator, the suit brought
against the Curtiss-Herring company
and Glen H. Curtiss by the Wright
brothers for alleged infringement of
patent has been indefinitely postponed.
The case was scheduled for hearing
in the United States court at Buffalo,
N. Y, but upon request of attorneys
Judge Hazel granted the adjournment.
Casper Markus, sugar beet weeder,
fired twice at his seventeen-year-old
wife and then killed himself in Saga
nav, Mich. He had been jealous of
his wife since the marriage three
months ago. He asked her to go to
the courthouse and start divorce pro-
ceedings, but she put off the trip.
-
Henry Cross of Evanston, H., Yale
student, and six of his college mates.
on the way from New Haven to Prince
ton, were arrested while speeding in
an automobile. Cross paid $40 fine,
which the students considered so rea-
sonable that they gave a cheer for
Magistrate Freschi.
The visiting German fleet arrived at
New York and the officers and men
were given an official welcome and
varied entertainments by the munich
pal authorities.
The Chicago & Alton Limited was
wrecked eight miles south of Bloom
ington, Ill. Twenty persons were in.
jured. four of them badly. 1t is feared
that NJ H. Hamilton, banker, of
Bloomington, may die.
NC power WiSiuSO NY Tue
New York Clearing House association
over the banks of the country's finan-
cial center and arbitrarily lodged in
the hands of five men should be
placed under judicial regulation. This
was conceded by William Sherer
Freight tariffs have been prepared
and are in the hands Of the printers
providing for reduced rates on carload
lots from St. Paul and eastern points
which railroad officials estinNte will
effect an annual reduction of $1,000,
600 in revenue.
Delegates to congress of the Play
ground and Recreation Association Of
America, in session in Cleveland, o.
favor the establishment of an annual
holiday known as Fairgrounds day or
October IL. now observed in some
states Is Columbus day.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
INCIDENTS BEFORE THE BIG REPUBLICAN
CONTEST IN THE COLISEUM AT CHICAGO

Chicago, June 10.-The chief duty
Of the Chicago hotel clerk just now is
20 point out the political celebrities. IL
has been necessary to describe big
men of the convention for persons
seeking them so many times that john
Burk, head clerk of the Annex, can
give finest identifying details of attire
ment.
A great part of the population of the
hotel consists of newspaper, magazine,
and free lance photographers. Twelve
snapshotters were in an arc about Sen
ator ]. NJ Dixon of Montana, Colonel
Roosevelt's manager, when he con-
scented to be photographed on his ar
rival.
Before the senotor reached the hotel
on Wednesday two men had been led
out on Michigan avenue by the camera
squad in the belief that each of the
accommodating strangers was the Mon
tanan. One photographer would be
tipped off" that the tall, white hair
ed man In the Panama is Senator Dix
on"
The stranger at once would be invit-
ed out in the street for different poses
In the sun. OF the two cases of mis-
taken identity one was A. B. Butler
Of Washington, Taft camp aid. 1t is
said the other was Boston linen
salesman. He did not deny he was
Senator Dixon, and posed graciously
with and without his hat and facing in
different advantageous angles.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-06-14
Treasurx Official Resians.

Washington, D. c. = James Knox
Taylor supervising architect of the
treasury department, rendered his re-
signation to the secretary of the treas
ury. to take effect June Is.