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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
DAIRYMEM HOLD BIG MEET
Red River Valley Buttermakers Re.
elect President After a Most
Successful Convention.

Crookston. - Concluding a memor.
able convention, with more than 500
dairymen and buttermakers registered,
the Red River Valley Dairymen's as.
ISOLATION adjourned after electing of.
ficers. President C.. G.. Selvig, super
intendent of the Crookston school of
agriculture, and Treasurer G. M. Da-
wilson were reelected. Others are:
Secretary, L. Houske of Halstead:
first vice president, A. J. He'd of st.
Hilaire; second vice president, l.. Jen-
son of Clear Brook. The keynote of
the convention was better grade Of
butter and increased production.
An effective address was that of
Rev. DR.. ]. M. Walters of Fargo on
Microbes That Attack the Farmer"
showing the necessity of sanitation.
The closing speakers were S. Currie,
Park River, N. D.; A. F. Cronquist,
Mcintosh, N. D.; J. d. Bacon of Grand
Forks, N. D., and Prof Berg of the
Crookston school of agriculture
The butter scoring contest, in which
the winners were awarded a gold, sill
yer and nickel trophy, respectively, re-
suited: First, J. j. Harms, Dent; Sec
ond, NJ. Sorenson, Pelican Rapids;
third, o. o. Heggenes, Lengthy.
Federal Inspector Sondergaard, IN
his address, suggested community de-
livery" by the association of seven
farmers or more, one to make the trip
to the creamery each day gathering
the cream from the rest of the farms,
each making his daily trip in turn.
Thus no old cream would be delivered,
and the standard would be raised He
also recommended the three or five
gallon can instead of the ten-gallon
can, because it is more easily cleaned,
handled and loaded
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
TRI-COUNTY BREEDERS UNION
Lyon, Redwood and Murray County
Farmers Organize to Buy
More Stock.

Tracy-A tri-county stock breeders
association has been organized at Ira.
cy Saturday. The counties in the or.
ganization are Lyon, Redwood and
Murray, of which Tracy is a center.
The object is to promote the coop
erative breeding and marketing OF
stock. Farmers around Tracy have, in
a year, brought in almost 200 head OF
pure-bred and high-grade Holsteir
dairy stock. To improve the stock
of the three counties and to further
development is the object of the asso
citation.
Professor A. d. Wilson and Mr.. Nc.
Kerrow of the extension division OF
the agricultural college addressed the
farmers. Officiels elected were: e
Kruger, president, Tracy: J. T. An.
drews, Tracy, vice president; Johr
Walz, Jr., Tracy, secretary. There is
an executive committee composed OF
these officers and S. V. Fielding, Red
wood Falls; Mr. Grim, Slayton, and
P Fl. Nelson, Tracy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
EXPERIMENT WITH WHEAT
Earlier Minnesota Grains Is the Aim
of Agricultural College
Experts.

st. Paul.-Experimen intended to
develop earlier varieties of wheat and
corn, suited to the climate of Mime
sofa, are expected to be carried on
at the agricultural college with better
results next year, when the new green
house will be available for the work.
With the greenhouse it will be posi-
BILE to raise two crops of these GER
calls in a year, and the experiments
can be carried on much more rapidly.
1--WE expect to do a good deal of
work in the way of breeding corn for
earliness," said T. B. Hutcheson, asso.
clate professor in plant breeding
THE ordinary way to get varieties
that mature early is by selecting in
the field the ears that mature earli-
est and using them for seed. With
the new greenhouse we will be able
to do more experimental work in the
way of breeding up early varieties.
Wheat will be another cereal that
we will work on. If we could get
wheat acclimated so that lot of win
ter wheat could be sown it would be
an advantage to the farmers in that
they wouldn't have so much work to
do in the spring"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
After Struggle, Moran Was Able to
Reach the Coffin.

of the lads coat and hung on for dear
life.
In the struggle to release himself
from the dogs grip Samuel and dog
both tumbled into the water The dog
released his hold and swan ashore,
but Samuel, being unable to swim, was
carried by the swift current down to-
ward One Hundred and Nineteenth
street.
Attracted by the other boys shouts
for help, Moran, who was standing on
the morgue pier, between One Hun
dred and Twentieth and One Hundred
and Nineteenth streets, Owed into
the river and swan after the lad. On
account of the strong current at this
point of the Harlem river Moran did
not overtake him until near One Hun
dred and Nineteenth street. He got
Samuel to put his arms around his
neck, and started to swim back
Caught in a swirl of cross currents
as they approached the morgue pier,
rescuer and rescued came near being
carried beyond aid, when some work
men at the morgue slid an empty cot
fin, such as are in use at the morgue,
into the water. After hard struggle
Moran was able to reach it and held
on until line was thrown him.
DR.. Kahn of Harlem hospital pump
ed the water out of Samuers lungs.
While he was working over the lad,
Samuel suddenly got free and ran
home, with the physician and Moran
after him. He was caught in the YES
thule of his home and found to be
all right.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
VETERANS OPPOSE
EDUCATORS PLAN
PROTEST MOVE TO "BOlL DOWN.
HISTORY OF CIVIL WAR FOR
SCHOOL USE.
SOME EXPRESS DISAPPROVAL
Mistaken Plan to PIacate South Says
Levi LongfelIow, Patriotic lnstruc-
tor-Not Compulsory, Says
State Superintendent.

Minneapolis.-Min civil war
veterans will not see the school his
tories boiled down" in their accounts
Of the great conflict, as proposed by
4 committee of the Minnesota Educa-
:ional association without protest.
The Recommend alton.
The committee, which is headed by
). A. Challman, state graded school
Inspector has reported a course of
study in United States history for
elementary grades, which omits men
ion of all battles of the civil war
except that of Gettysburg, and the
light between the Monitor and the Mer-
'imac. This course is not to be made
compulsory, State Superintendent c..
:. Schulz said, but is merely to be
recommended ...
Opposition of the veterans was eX-
pressed by Levi Longfellow, who is
rational patriotic instructor of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
That's all wrong" said Mr.. Long
elbow. "That would be a great his
DRY, wouldn't it? l believe this is
'art of the movement to eliminate the
Evil war from our school histories, a
movement which has originated in the
Iouth, and has been favored by some
northern people. Four or five years
!go the secretary of the Chicago
school board proposed that the civil
var be cut out of the histories used
school, in order to placate the south
ind lead to better feeling. That is
Wholly wrong idea.
Would Teach Truth.
There is nothing offensive in the
eaching of the civil war story to the
'oung people as We advocate it. The
eaching is in the interest of truth, to
lave the facts of history understood
~ our younger generation The peo-
DE OF the south thought they were
light and waged good fight, but the
var is over, and it is for us today to
lpply it's lessons. If we forget the
,ast, we ignore the greatest teacher
We can ever have. Even now, the
histories We have in schools deal
neagerly with the facts of that period"
Former Governor S. R. Van SAINT,
whose civil war service was in the
southwest, declared it serious mis-
axe to omit several important battles
vest of the Alleghenies. 1.-The cap
Mre of Vicksburg was quite as de-
:isive as Gettysburg" said he, land
here were several other battles that
should not be omitted from any his
DRY, such as that of Nashville, which
broke Hoods army and cleared the
way for the march to the sea. In the
Early years of the war the only union
successes were in the west, and but
or them the northern people would
have had no good news for years."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
PLAN DEMOCRATIC JUBILEE
May Select Jackson Day for Big Love
Feast and Get-together
Celebration,

st. Paul.-Minnesota democrats will
have get-together dinner this winter,
and the date selected may be Jack
son day, Jan. Z, conforming with the
late chosen by the national heads of
The party for nationwide celebra-
lion. The achievements of the Wilson
administration are to be the topics for
congratulation. I'VE have had the
subject under consideration for some
time," said Fred B. Lynch of ST. Paul,
democratic national committeeman.
we will undoubtedly have a demo-
cratic dinner during the winter which
will be rally for the state democracy.
We may decide to have it on Jackson
lay" -
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
CAT ENDS HAWKS F0RAYS
Pounces on the Big Bird and Sticks
as Passenger on Last
Flight.

Plainfield, Conn.-John Walker, a
farmer near here, has been bothered
for months by hawks, which have
swooped down and robbed him of poul
try Complicated traps and ponderous
scarecrows had no effect upon the
bold hawks, which even pulled the
derby hat off one particularly ferocious
dummy. The other day, however. the
cloud of gloom that has enveloped the
Walker hen yard was lifted when Nc
Kinley, the family cat, captured one
of the biggest hawks ever seen in this
section. 1t measured four feet six
inches.
While Mr.. Walker and his family
were at breakfast they heard com
motion in the hen yard. Members OF
the family hurried out and saw the Cal
volplaning to earth on the back of the
hawk. The bird had attempted to fly,
but found Mckinley too heavy a pas
senger A shotgun ended the hawks
career. The cat received a three
course meal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
II YEAR OLD HEN WINS OUT
Fowl Which Won Prize As a Pullet
Features in Exhibit at
Rochester.

Rochester. - The most successful
show ever held by the Southern Min
nesota Poultry association was that
of last week. The exhibit was fea-
tured by the entry of a Brown Leg,
horn hen which won first prize as a
pullet at the Minneapolis show eleven
years ago.
Over 500 birds were exhibited this
year, and the entries of Rhode Island
Reds were the largest ever known in
the state. Judge Ralph Whitney de-
clared that it was the best exhibit
ever seen in this section of the state,
the quality of the birds being far SUI
perior to previous years.
At the meeting of the association,
J. A. Gates was elected president D.
L. Williams, vice president G. A.
Boyd, cecretary J. w. Fathers, treas
urer; w. ]. Snellinger, superintendent;
E. Pomroy, assistant superintendent;
A. B. Williams, W. N Williams, A. F.
Kilbourne, Meyers, Jorgenson and
John Robertson, directors.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
REPUBLICANS BLOCK MOVE
G. o. p. Members of Senate Object to
Majority Quitting 13-Hour
Session.

Washington, Dec. 11.-An attempt to
begin preliminary consideration of
President Wilson's antitrust program
by the senate interstate commerce
committee during the currency debate
in the senate was blocked by the Re-
publicans.
Chairman Newlands of the commit
tee asked permission to hold sessions
of the committee while the senate was
meeting. Senators Bristow and Town
send strenuously objected
''If we have to stay here thirteen
hours a day to consider this banking
and currency bill, the members of the
interstate committee ought to stay
here, too" declared Senator Bristow,
emphatically.
Senator Townsend. who is a men,
Der of the committee, said if the SEN
ate would proceed with the currency
bill in normal way the committee
would have plenty of time to meet
without encroaching on the time of the
senate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
CONGRESS UPHOLDS
POSITION OF HUERTA
VOTE THAT RECENT ELECTION
Is VOID AND SET ANOTHER
FOR JULY.
WANT DICTATOR IN INTERIM
Would Hold Over Till September
at least-U. S. Boat Is Searched
BY Mexican, Sailors.

| Mexico City, Dec 1.-THE Mexican
congress has nullified the presidential
elections. New elections are called
for next July.
Expect Huerta to Hold.
Congress, according to this action,
expects General Huerta to remain in
the presidency for at least seven
months more and If the time neces-
sary for the selection and installation
Of his successor is taken into consid-
GRAFTON, it will be well towards the
end of September next year before
he yields his power
In voting the recent presidential
election was null the deputies decided
to fix the first Sunday in July, 1914,
also confirmed the position of Gen
eral Huerta as provisional president
until then. The action of the depu-
ties was accompanied by no debate.
No Dissenting Votes.
The committees report was ap.
proved without a dissenting vote. 1t
was not until the last clause was
read referring to General Huerta as
provisional president that the cham
Der gave evidence other than that of
a we'll trained organization. When
the reading clerk stopped some one
began applauding and then instantly
the deputies were shouting vivas for
Huerta
The presiding officer was finally
able to remind them that enthusiasm
was all very well, but that it was nee
essary to ratify the enthusiasm by
votes. The measures taken also pro-
vide for the election of new con-
gress, which will have to be chosen
also.
Search U. S. Fishing Schooner.
Pensacola, Fla.-Captain Peterson
of the American fishing schooner Dor
othy, just arrived, reported to her
owners that a Mexican gunboat re-
Gently overhauled and searched his
vessel in the gulf, near Cont island,
in the vicinity of the snapper banks.
The gunboat chased the schooner
and with leveled guns made forcible
AlIcI DuS seal IuO
schooner was allowed to proceed. The
Mexicans, it is stated, were looking
for a shipment of arms supposed to
be for the rebel army.
FederaIs Threaten to Desert.
Preside, Texas.-A crowd of fed
eral troops standing on the banks Of
the river, shouted over to the Amer
lean side that they would desert if
attacked by rebels.
1t was reported that the rebels
around Ojinaga were rapidly increas-
ing and that force of three or four
thousand was expected soon. AS the
rebels appeared more numerous, the
federal troops showed increasing dis
inclination to remain at Ojinaga.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
Lauds Cooperative Community Clubs

Bemidji.-D. B. Jewell, county agri
cultural agent of Koochiching county
believes in cooperative community
clubs. At the annual meeting of the
Northern Minnesota Development as
ISOLATION here he pointed out thai
such clubs can do many simple things
which would not be done were the
people not brought together occasion
ally for a common purpose. Such
clubs" he said, give communities G
chance to get acquainted with the
needs, problems and successes"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
Children Trv .. Pouob IL

Minneapolis.-Vague boyish castles
Of adventure, faint girlish instincts of
home-making, translated to definite
plan in childish minds by a moving
picture film, sent Donald Norton, 10,
and his sister, Viola, II, stealthily
from home Monday evening to pio-
neer alone in little cottage in the
woods for two days, till, romance
gone, they came trudging home.
They are the children of Innes H.
Norton. The children packed a lit
tie kit OF food Monday night and dis
appeared.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
USE EMPTY COFFIN
AS LIFE PRESERvER
Morgue Keeper and Boy Strug-
Cling in Strong River Current
Saved From Drowning.

New York.-An empty coffin was
the means of saving the lives of Sam
uel kessler, six years old, of 532 East
One Hundred and Twentieth street,
and his rescuer, John Moran, keeper
OF the Harlem morgue, late the other
afternoon, when the boy fell into the
Harlem river at the foot of East One
Hundred and Twentieth street.
Samuel, with some of his playmates,
was playing on the pier with a dog,
throwing sticks into the water for the
animal to retrieve. The dog got tired
Of leaping into the water after time,
so Samuel seized him and tried to
throw him in. The dog caught hold
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
Finds Potatoes Are Unframed.

Crookston.-Robins and woodpeck-
ers are back and practically all of
the spring birds are here. Fish are
reported to be spawning in the rivers
and similar reports are received from
fishermen at Lake of the Woods and
Rainy lake. Motor boats are running
on the river and an excursion was run
Sunday to the new dam. While plow-
ing up potato field that he supposed
had been ruined by frost, Andrew
Spokely of Climax discovered that only
a few of the tubers closest to the
surface had been damaged.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
Mrs. John A. johnson to Wed.

st. Paul.-Mrs. John A. Johnson,
widow of the late Governor Johnson,
will on Christmas day become the
bride of William Alley Smith, former
ly of Minneapolis, who now lives in
Pittsburgh. The announcement caused
little surprise among the friends of
Mrs. Johnson, who have known of the
couples engagement for some time.
Mr.. Smith is well known among Ium-
bermen of Minneapolis and was for a
number of years engaged in business
there.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
Safety Conference Omen

New York, Dec. 10.-That the world
now regards human life as more valu-
able than it did decade ago, and
that great strides have been made in
the direction of greater safety for
workers in shops, but that much still
remains to be done were the prin-
cipal points brought out at the meet
ing Of the Safety and Sanitation con-
ference here today. The morning ses-
sion closed with moving pictures sup
piled by the United States bureau of
mines, showing the methods of rescue
work in coal mines.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
f65 Dead in Floods.

Houston, Tex, Dec. 1.-THE crest
of the Brazos river flood is passing
Richmond, town of 1,2OO, and threat
ems to overtop the bluff which here
tofore has protected the little city
from all floods. A further rise would
cause heavy damage. Surrounding
low lands, 80 miles from the gulf of
Mexico, are inundated. Reports OF
additional life loss throughout the
flood district have brought the total
to 165. Of this number, the majority
are negroes. Rescue work is contin
upd
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12

The bank at Primrose, Neb., was
robbed of $4,000 in currency by a
highwayman, who terrorized the cash
Ter. compelling him to hand over all
the cash, and made his escape
Radicals ruled the Republican state
conference in New York and forced
the approval of a direct, statewide
primary law. State Chairman William
Barnes motion to reaffirm the more
conservative primary plank in the last
Republican platform was defeated by
1872 to 1877.
By a unanimous vote the striking
coal miners in the southern Colorado
fields formally rejected the strike set
Element proposition made to them by
Governor Ammons.
Thomas Duncan, chairman of the
Indiana public service commission,
when told that street employees could
not live on $s4 a month, declared
that many lawyers in Indianapolis had
incomes of less than $50 a month. The
commissioner is the judge of arbitra-
ton in the dispute between the trac-
ton company and its employees, who
recently were on strike.
Five gray-haired women of Volo,
Ill, were found guilty of having rid
den Mrs. John Richardson on q rail
because rumors in the village accused
her of misconduct with a brother-in-
law of her crippled husband. The YER
dict was brought in the Lake county
circuit court at Waukegan, Ill.
With the filing in federal court at
New Orleans of SO suits against the
American Sugar Refining company.
asking $33,S79,397 damages under the
Sherman law, the total number of
cases brought within the last two
weeks against the big sugar corpora
ton was increased to 100, seeking
damages aggregating more than $780,
100000.
The recent order of the advisory
board of the Pennsylvania department
of health, banishing the common
drinking cup from all public places,
including Sunday schools, has raised
question regarding the use Of a
common communion cup in church
services,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
Hunters Kill 1908 Rats.

Findlay, ON an organized hunt,
lasting six weeks, 1908 rats were kill
ed in Aminda township, district near
here. In the hunt, during which ev-
cry corner of the township was ex-
plored, two sides of 600 men and boys
opposed each other. The end of the
slaughter was celebrated with ban
Quet.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
WALLACE-FOSSEEN LAW VALE
District Court Holds Abatement Ac'
Is Wholly Constitu-
tionaI.

MinneapoliS.-Ev provision o.!
the Wallace osseen abatement Law
was upheld and declared constitution
al by Judge Joseph w. Molyneaux ir
the district court, who, after passing
on the laws validity, issued tempo
rary injunction against Emma lie Roy
16 Washington avenue N, second floor
preventing her from moving her fur
nishings until an abatement action i.
tried.
A temporary order with similar pro
v'isions was already in force.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
Two Accidents at Lake CITY,

Lake City.-John Busch, young
farmer living at Hay creek, near here,
while alighting from the fast mail
train at the st. Paul depot here, fell
beneath the wheels. His right leg
was severed just above the ankle. He
was removed to the Wabasha hospital.
In the afternoon, Leo Neumann, a
brakeman employed by the st. Paul,
had his right arm crushed while max
ing coupling. The wound was dressed
and he was taken to his home at Wi
mona.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
New Strauss Opera in u. s.

New York, Dec. 1.-THE Metropoli.
tan Opera House was the scene Of
the great event of the season in the
opera world-the first performance in
America of Richard Strauss opera
Der Rosenkavalier," first produced in
Dresden in January, 1911, and last
year the most frequently performed
opera in the reportory of German and
Austrian opera houses. A notable au.
dience witnessed the performance.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
Loses Show on Election Bet.

New York.-Dave Marion, owner
and producer of several burlesque
shows, bet one of his shows against
box of cigars that John Purrey Mitchell
would defeat Edward E. Mccall In
the mayoralty election here A hotel
clerk was on the small end of the
wager.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
Queer charae in Divorce Suit.

Paterson, n. jim her suit for di-
vorce filed here Mrs. Minnie Hender-
son charges that her husband made
her stay in the house on Labor day
and warned her mot to go near the
window while the Labor day parade
of the Butler, n. j., firemen, the sea
sons event, was in progress.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
Name PuaiIist Dance Censor

Patchogue, N. Y.-Sailor Brooks,
heavyweight pugilist, was appointed
official censor of dancing at the Pat
chogue auditorium by the local aui
thorities. His business is to eject
those who insist upon dancing the
turkey trot and tango.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12

Winona, Mimi, Dec. 9.-Southerr
Minnesota is in the grip of the mos
severe weather of the season will
a 45-mile an hour gale sweeping GU
of the north. The mercury has beeI
falling steadily and near zero TEN
peratures prevail.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
Albert Lea Business Men Active.

Albert Lea-Business men held a
meeting for the purpose of organizing
and Rising a fund for Y. M. c. A.
building. E. W. Peck of the state as
ISOLATION addressed the meeting.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
New Stock Association Elects.

Fergus Falls.-The newly organized
Holstein-Friedsan Breeders associa-
ton of Otter Tail county held meet
ing at Pelican Rapids and elected A.
r. Knutson, Pelican Rapids, president.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-12-12
Wells Host TO Ministers

Wells-The Methodist ministers of
the Mankato district met in this city
on Monday and Tuesday. Addresses
were made by many of the pastors.
Rev. G. A. Cahoon, district superin-
tendent, presided.