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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
THAW, VICTORIOUS,
TAKEN TO CONCORD
WINS VICTORY IN U. S. COURT
HEARING AT LlTTLETON.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
MAY BE SUCCESSIVE APPEALS
Fugitive's Lawyers Plan to Carry
Case to Supreme Court If Find
ings Are Adverse-Prisoner
Predicts He Will Win.

Littleton, N. H., Sept Hilary
Kendall Thaw has just won one of
the most notable court victories in
the United States or Canada since
his escape from the asylum for the
criminal insane at Matteawan, N. Y.
Thaw's counsel have since laid the
foundation for plans to carry his
case to the supreme court of the
United States.
The Situation.
When the governor of New Hamp-
shire passes on the matter of the ex-
tradition of Thaw to New York, at
the hearing to be held at Concord
on Tuesday, next, the findings, if ad-
verse to Thaw, will be reviewed by
the United States district court and,
should a decision against him then
be rendered, successive appeals will
be taken until the case reaches the
highest court in the land.
This is the announcement by the
Thaw lawyers. 1t was made after a
hearing on federal writ of habeas
corpus, obtained in Thaw's behalf,
| and invoking the fourteenth amend
ment to the constitution, had been
Indefinitely suspended until such
time as counsel saw fit to begin ar
guments after the extradition matter
had been decided by the governor.
Holds Writ in Allegiance.
United States Judge Aldrich, for
the district of New Hampshire, in de-
| niHin0 fhot Thoxu hod tho ri0hf n
effect, to hold his habeas corpus writ
in allegiance, explained in his rescript
| that this was the petitioners privi-
lege in that should he be ordered ex-
| tradited it would still be open to fed
| eral authority to afford such protec-
ton as the constitution and the laws
of the United States require.
Thaw, accordingly has been taken
| to Concord. He predicts that the
gates of Matteawan will never close
| behind him again.
Mr. Jerome had little or nothing to
say.
''Thaw is tied up now with a fed
eral writ" he said, land there is no
getting around it. But the questions
to be decided by the governor are
simple and We hope for victory" 4a
| interesting Procedure.
Concluding his rescript Judge Al
| drich engaged Mr. Jerome in infor-
NAL colloquy as regards Thaw's
status as an insane man or a crimi-
| nal. 1t was perhaps the most inter
esting part of the brief court proceed
ure. ...> ......
For the first time since his return
to the United States, after his sudden
deportation from Canada, Thaw was
openly cheered. Arriving here from
Colebrook, near where he was ar
rested last week, enthusiastic and
sympathetic crowds greeted him at
the station and when he descended to
Main street, after his court victory,
and was taken to his hotel for din
ner, hurrahs greeted him as he
| passed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
TRIAL OF AUTOIST BEGINS
State at Red Wing Said to Have De-
cIined Settlement on Basis of
No Prison Term.

Red Wing.-Ralph H. Babcock of
Minneapolis must stand trial for man.
slaughter in the second degree for
running over and killing Mrs. Alfred
Anderson with his auto. 1t was ru-
mored that he had agreed to make a
settlement of $4,000 with the Ander-
son family and would plead guilty if
assurances were given he would es-
cape a prison sentence by paying a
fine of $1,000.
But County Attorney Thomas Mohn
would not sanction the disposition of
the case in this way.
1t will be difficult to secure jury
owing to the publicity given the case
last June. ....
Babcock is represented by F. d.
Larabee of Minneapolis, F. M. Wilson
of Red Wing, and A. J. Rockne of
Zumbrota. Attorneys Thomas and AL
bert Mohn are conducting the prose.
cution. The young mans father,
mother and sister accompanied him
to the courthouse.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
|. O. o. F. HOLDS CONVENTION
Delegates to Big Meeting Represent
2,121, 921 Members Through
out United States.

Minneapolis.-On the same ground
where Twenty-Five years ago dele
gates to the session of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge, |. o. o. F., met in Min
neapolis to represent membership
of 505,S71, grand lodge representatives
came pouring into Minneapolis to as
semble and legislate for 2,121,921
members, including 1852 who are
enrolled in the affiliated order of the
Rebekahs.
When Chairman F. Fl. Cashier of
the executive committee stepped on
the stage of the Unique theater at
10:36 a. m, where Grand Sire c. A..
Keller of San Antoine. Tex, sat, and
introduced Governor A. o. Eberhart
and Mayor w. G. Nye, he opened the
most important annual the Odd Eel
lows ever held, from the standpoint
of attendance and representation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
SWEDISH BAPTISTS ADJOURN
Business Session of General Confer.
ence at Duluth Ends and Selects
st. Paul.

Duluth.-The next annual meeting
of the general conference of the Swed-
ish Baptists of the United States and
Canada will be held at st. Paul, Mimi.
Reports from Bethel academy, ST..
Paul, show that it reduced it's debt
$4,000 and met current expenses for
the past year and that its financial
condition is excellent.
The conference continued through
out last week, the program being
mostly devotional and social. Sever
al reports on missions were submit
ted, however.
Saturday saw the windup of all
the business before the conference
and Sunday was the last day of the
meeting. On Sunday ministers in at.
tendance preached from various pull.
pits throughout the city.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
PANTHER SEEN BY CHILDREN
Fugitive From Circus Sighted b,
School Children Near Bemidji,
Minnesota.

Bemidji-The panther which took
French leave of a circus at Crooks,
ton four weeks ago and of which il
was feared that Beulah Ganzhorn, g..
year-old daughter of an Erskine farm,
er, had fallen victim until the child
was found after four days search,
has now frightened children of the
Swanson Lake school, four miles east
of Bemidji.
The panther, with a rabbit in its
mouth, ran across the road in front
of dozen girls and boys and disap.
peared in a cornfield on the farm OF
j. E. Swenson.
Gladys johnson, 16 years old; Celia
Hantz, IA years, and Marvin Hecker'
son, 9 years, were among the children
who reported seeing the beast.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
BLACK D0BBM DIZZY
ON A HIGH TRESTLE
Falls Wedged Between the Ties,
and Holds Up a Fast Pas
senger Train.

Minneapolis, Minn.-The manner in
which big black horse from lum-
Der camp, on pleasure bent, tied up
the through Canadian Northern train
between Fort Francis and Duluth, was
narrated by passengers who arrived
from Duluth. Frank p Sheldon OF
Minneapolis, who has banking and
lumber interests in northern Mime
sofa, returning from International
Falls, was of the rescue party.
Sunday off had made black Dobbin
festive. AS the moon rose he saun-
tered out of camp and went eastward
along the ties The Kinmont trestle
did not daunt his high spirits. He
picked his way out over the ties fifty
or sixty feet, when, CHANGING to look
down, he realized he was high above
the ground
He grew dizzy, made false step
and fell wedged between the ties,
The wise cid lumber horse did not
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF
MOVEMENT TO START OCT. 13
Better Farming and Good Roads
School of Instruction to Move
Across Southern Minnesota.

Mankato.-The better Farming and
Good Roads School of Instruction.
which is To move across southern Min
nesota in charge of Secretary John F.
Deets of the Southern Minnesota Bet
ter Development league, is arousing a
great deal of interest in the southern
tier of counties, through which IL is
to pass. 1t will start at Caledonia,
Oct. Is, and close at St. James, Oct,
IL, after having gone as far west as
Pipestone and Luverne. Mr.. Deets is
receiving reports that show how much
interest is being aroused.
At Austin, the County Agents as
ISOLATION and the Farmers Grain asso-
citation are cooperating with the Com
mercial club in arranging plans for
the entertainment of the party, which
will comprise several automobile
loads. A company of Austin autoists
will meet the expedition at Preston
and pilot it into Austin, and a similar
courtesy will be extended by Albert
mercial club is making extensive
plans, and Fulda, which is on the
route, but is not marked as a. STOP
ping point, has a special request that
the party take dinner there Oct. II,
which is the date that the boosters
are scheduled to pass through.
Secretary Deets has received COM
munications from Professor Lewis,
the well-known agronomist, and D. A.
Wallace, editor of the Farmer, stat
ing that they will join the party max
ing the trip. Twin City papers are
to be represented. ..
The tour will embrace thirteen
counties, and some good takers will
address the farmers at the various
towns on the itinerary. Mr.. Deets
will speak on the different phases of
farming. Letters have been sent to
commercial clubs and others interest
ed along the route, urging that they
stir up interest.
Secretary Deets spoke at st. Charles
today, at the county fair, on the sub
ject of better farming and better de-
velopment. On Thursday he will adj
dress the farmers at the Plainview
fair, and on Friday at Westbrook He
will speak at Winona, Sept. IS; Farm
ington, Sept 10; Northfield, Sept. q.
and Arlington, Sept. %. He will ap-
! pear at all of the principal fairs.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
STATE BusHEL TAX
ADDS TO REVENUE
AFFECTS 24o ,427 1902 BUSHELS OF
GRAIN IN VARIOUS
ELEVATORS.
INTERESTING FACTS SHOWN
1907 Elevators in Minnesota and
Nine Counties Without Any
Polk County Has
Most, 60.

st. Paul.-Minnesotas special grain
tax, usually known as the bushel tax,
will bring 24O,427 1902 bushels of grain
under taxation this year. This is a
great increase over the quantity so
listed last year, but how much greater
is not known, as the tax commissions
figures show only the amount of taxes
collected. The special grain tax of
1912 produced a revenue of $35, 059.56,
but this years lists will produce ST.
41S.8S. ....
Purpose of Tax. s
The bushel tax was devised as q
means of taxing grain in public eleva-
tors. 1t was apparent to the taxing
officials that to impose personal
property tax on all grain in elevators
May l was unjust, for only those who
had grain in elevators on that day
would be taxed and others would es.
cape.
The old method also interfered with
the grain trade as many refused to
ship grain to terminal points or even
Minnesota points until they knew that
it was safe from the tax collector
The elevator men themselves were in
hot water all the time, because they
objected to paying any tax on the
grain stored with them and also OBJ
jected to divulging the names of the
owners. Often as matter Of fact
they could not give the information as
to ownership because of the transfer
of elevator receipts in the ordinary
course of business.
The Basis of 1t.
So the special grain tax was devised
on the basis that all grain passing
through public elevator should pay
a tax, but the rate should be so small
rs to not prove burdensome. The stat
utory rate was fixed at one-fourth of
mill for wheat and fax and one
eighth of a mill for coarse grains.
The figures of the tax commission
show that 13S,923,541 bushels of
wheat and fax and 1O1 ,5O3,541 bushels
of coarse grains will come under the
provisions of the bushel tax this year.
These figures naturally bear no rela-
llOH WudISNcE W TIC ylSIu VI
Minnesota, as much of it, is used at
home and much gees direct to mills to
be ground into flour and feed and does
not get to an elevator at all.
There are 1907 elevators in the
state which the tax commission has
under it's special Jurisdiction and one
of the curious facts of their distribu-
ton is that there are nine counties in
the state of Minnesota without public
elevators. Another curious fact is
that Hennepin county does not lead
in the number of elevators, for Polk
county with sixty-three stands alone
in this respect, while Renville has
one more than Hennepin.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
Wrestle SwIndle Disposed of.

Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sept. 17.-Jo-
seph E. Wright of San Antonio, Tex,
entered plea of guilty in the United
States district court of swindling T.
E. George of the same city out of
$15,5S0 on a fake wrestling match and
was glen fine of three hundred dol
lars, which he paid. Wright is the last
of the principals in the larger opera
lions of j. c. Maybray and his asso-
ciates, whose swindling schemes ag-
gregated a million dollars, to be con-
victed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
Back Broken; Going 5000 Miles.

st. Paula St. Paul boy with a
broken back started on 6,000-mile
journey to his home in Poland to see
his mother before he dies. Train
schedules were altered and the gov
ernor of the state wrote letter of
introduction to assist the crippled
traveller on his long journey. He is
Marion ("Mike'O Wascuk, 10 years
old, who for Is months has lain at
the Cobb hospital unable to sit up.
He lies on a pneumatic pillow in a
hammock and in that carriage will
make the long journey home.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
Fire Truck and Car Collide.

Misunderstanding very quick
ly to an alarm on the South Side
Winona's auto fire truck and a street
car collided, wrecking the two con
veyances and possibly fatally injur
ing one of two firemen who are now
in the hospital. Chief Norton, on the
seat with the driver, was hurled
through a window of the car head
foremost, but the heavy rubber hat
he was wearing saved him. The driv
er, John Monahan, fell to the street
while Herman Bentz, was crushed
between the car and the auto.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
Winona Library Is Robbed.

Winona. - Burglars attempted to
make haul at the public library here
and also at the Y. NJ. c. A. Little
of any value was secured. The Ii
brary vault lock was so damaged by
the use of chisels and an axe that
it cannot be opened until an expert
is secured.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
Fire Damages Buffalo Buildings.

Buffalo, d. Y, Sept. 1.-Two hun
dred and fifty guests of the Hotel
Broezel were routed out of bed by
a fire that swept through an adjoin-
ing building and set the upper floors
of the hotel ablaze. The building in
which the fire started was occupied
by the Dirnberger Popcorn company.
The loss on the Dirnberger building
was 100000. The loss to the hotel
is estimated at 100000. The flames
spread to six-story building adjoin.
ing the Dirnberger building, also.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19

Duluth.-A fatal stumble, with
his pockets filled with dynamite, is
believed to have caused the death of
Eric Hanson, aged 35, near Lester
Park. Fragments of his body were
recovered from among the stumps
which he h0d been blasting.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
Boldly Hold Up a Saloon.

Crool.ston, Mimi, Sept. 1.-TWO
highwaymen forced IL men in the sa-
loon of Bert Cochran here to line up
against the wall with their hands
above their heads while they demand
ed that the bartender turn over all
the money he had in the cash regis
ter The robbers got SIS. The rob.
bers, who were armed, entered from
the front and rear of the saloon. The
customers, aside from being told not
to interfere, were unmolested. The
highwaymen escaped.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
Road Convention in October.

Winona.-In order to better &C.
commodate the speakers at the Amer.
lean road congress at Detroit, who
are to be brought directly from there
to Winona, the dates for the gooc
roads convention here have been ad
vanced one day and it will be hello
Oct. and Z. Delegates will attend
from states along the black and vel.
low trail between Chicago and Vel
lowStone Park.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
Personal

Frank l.. Hough, for many years
sporting editor of the Inquirer of Phil
adelphia, Pa, died at his home there.
A public funeral for Mayor Gaynor
will take place in old Trinity church
in lower Broadway at II o'clock In the
morning of Monday, September %,
with Bishop Greer of the New York
diocese of the Protestant Episcopal
church officiating. His body will be
laid to rest in Greenwood cemetery in
Brooklyn.
Max Lille, Chicago aviator, met
quick death when, the, right wing
of his aeroplane crumbled and he fell
400 feet at the Galesburg district
fair grounds. Mrs. Lille saw the
accident from box in the grand
stand and tainted.
Thomas Mccarthy, freight handler
for st. Louis, Mo-, transfer com
pany. who generally was supposed to
be poor, made will disposing Of S..
600, mostly to Catholic charities, short
ly before his death in the city hospital
President Wilson sat in grove OF
pine trees at Meriden, N. H., and saw
his youngest daughter, Miss Eleanor
play the star role in a pastoral
masque symbolizing the protest OF
the naturalist against the slaughter
of birds for millinery purposes.
The Will OF the late DR.. Oliver Liv
ingston Jones of Mineola, N. T.. faith
er of Gen" Rosalie Gardiner Jones
the suffragist leader, leaves an estate
valued at $10,000.000 to his widow
Doctor Jones shot himself with q pis
toll and died August 8.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
NEWS NOTES OF
GENERAL INTEREST
KERNELS cUlLED FROM The
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS.
STORIES FROM OVER GLOBE
items From Happenings Of World
Arranged in Their Briefest and
Most Succinct Form for the
Busy Reader.
Washington

The "Mulhan lobby Investigation"
of the house of representatives at
Washington reached it's climax in the
bitter denunciation of Mulhall with
which James A. Emery wound up the
case against the former n. A. M. en-
ploye of these organizations whose
confession" caused the inquisition.
The president sent to the senate, at
Washington the nomination of Will
lam Hayne Leavell of Mississippi to
be minister to Guatemala.
The navy yard at New Orleans, now
closed, is the best site along the Gulf
of Mexico for any army concentration
camp, says Maj. Samuel A. Kephart
of the coast artillery corps, who made
a special investigation and reported
the result to officials at Washington.
Former Representative James E.
Watson of Indiana made before the
house lobby investigating committee
at Washington a general denial OF
Martin NJ Mulhall's charge that he
was one of the active friends of the
National Association Of Manufacture
ers in congress for years.
Democratic conferees of the senate
and the house at Washington made
rapid progress on the tariff bill, ap-
proving the earthenware and glass
schedules, with slight changes, the
sugar schedule with its free sugar
provision and the date for the new
rates extended to March 1, 1914, and
all of the agricultural schedule, with
the exception of the proposed banana
tax and the countervailing duty on
wheat
Postmaster General Burleson has
under consideration the abandonment
of the present practice of forwarding
magazines by fast freight. Under a
decision of the comptroller Of the
treasury, he has authority to return to
the former method of handling period
ical publications by mail trains.
AS the climax Of the vigorous Re-
publican condemnation of Democratic
legislative methods which has marked
the currency debate, Representative
Sidney Anderson of Minnesota, Repub-
lican, resigned as a member of the
powerful ways and means committee
of the house at Washington.
The senate at Washington passed a
bill authorizing the free entrance into
this country of exhibits for the Pana-
ma-Pacific exposition in San Francis
co in 1915. The bill has passed the
house
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
StanchfieId Man Found Dead.

Cambridge.-Erick Coley, so years
old, wealthy farmer residing at
Stanchfield. was found dead in some
brush about half mile from his
home He disappeared Aug. %. He
had a wife and seven children.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
Youths Select Seed Corn.

Hutehinson.-The first corn judging
contest of the Hutchinson high school
was held last week on the r. G. Ben
jamin farm, which has been used this
year as a demonstration farm by the
university.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
Specialist for Sick poa.

Newport, r. I.-Suffering from nerv-
Gus shock, "Metoo," Mrs. William Car
ter's "Perkinese," had the services Of
three dog doctors. specialist
trained nurse and the solicitations OF
the smart set.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
MEXICAN Revolt

T. ]. Johan and Tom Heifrin Of
the United States customs and immi-
grafton service were acquitted in the
district court at Ell Paso, Tex, on tie
charge of having murdered Capt. F..
Acosta of the Juarez garrison on Sep
TENDER 6.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
Has Miraculous Escape.

Bemidji.-In a motorcycle race at
the fair grounds, Eugene Holmes was
thrown while going sixty miles an
hour. He was hurled forty feet and
sustained sprained knee and
wrenched shoulder.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
Tremendous Rain Storm

Fergus Falls.-This locality had a
tremendous rainstorm last week, the
fall in this city being officially report
ed as 1926 inches. This is the heavi-
est here in years. The rain did but
little damage in the country.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19

One hundred Americans, including a
number of women and children re-
fugees from Torreon, Mex, are off!
cially reported to have fallen into the
hands of rebels while proceeding over
land to Saltillo. The authorities at
Saltillo decline to take the RESPONSE
bility of sending force to their req
cue, fearing, they say, that the rebels
might commit atrocities upon the re-
fugees, which otherwise would pos.
sibly be avoided.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-19
Sues Brewery for SANDER.

Albert Lea-An action for $4,000
damages against the Schmidt Brew
ing company of st. Paul for SANDER
has been started by l.. ]. Romer Of
this city, formerly local manager of
the branch house.