The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-05
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Washington

Washington
The chief signal officer of the United
cruits to fill the ten vacancies in the
aerial squad. Bachelors not over thir.
ty years old are preferred.
In a reply to Secretary Daniels the
naval board of inspection points out
that tack of berthing slips and dry
docks is the distinctly important
north of Cape Hatteras." The board
recommends the purchase Of Jamaica
island and Clark's island at the Ports
mouth navy yard as sites for dry
docks.
Representative ]. T. McDermott of
Illinois, who testified before the house
lobby committee at Washington, put
in a categorical denial of the charges
against him by NJ. M. Mulhall, former
lobbyist for the National Association
of Manufacturers. and l. H. McMichael,
former chief page of the house.
Investigation of charges against
Judge Emory Speer Of Georgia was
postponed by the house judiciary COM
mittee at Washington until late au-
tumn.
Senator Miles Poindexter Of Wash
ington rose to a question Of personal
privilege to deny charges made In a
Seattle newspaper that he had OBJ
tanned federal positions for eleven
relatives.
]. A. Emery, counsel for the N. A.
NJ association, testified before the
senate lobby committee that all the
Mulhall letters were genuine.
Democratic senators at Washington!
that threatened to break party lines
on the income tax was headed off by
the leaders by an agreement to revise
the tariff bill so as to levy a heavier
tax on the incomes from large for
tunes.
The administration currency BILL.
after nearly three weeks of discussion,
was finally approved by the house
Democratic caucus at Washington by
a vote of 1913 to 9.
Twelve thousand acres of oil lands
in the Usage Indian reservation in
Oklahoma were offered for lease by
the interior department through Cato
Sells, Indian commissioner. The bids,
opened September 2, at the Usage In
dian Office at Powhuska, Okla.
President Wilson sent to the senate
at Washington the name of Henry E..
Morgenthau of New York city to be
ambassador to Turkey.
Domestic
Three persons were killed and thir7
ty-five hurt in a wreck on the Rock
Island railroad near Maynard, la.
Dr. E. E. Gordon of Cairo, ILL.,. was
shot and killed here by Harvey r.
Fields. Gordon operated on Fields
mother Her subsequent death, the
slayer declared, was caused by care
lessness. 1t was in return for her
life that he took that Of the doctor,
he said.
Ten thousand persons cheered them
selves hoarse when Ralph De Palma
in his Mercer swept across the finish
line as winner of the Chicago Auto
mobile clubs trophy at the Elgin, ILL.,,
race course. Joe Dawson took second
place in his Deltal, while Chandler in
a Mason was awarded third place.
races ever staged in the west, the
Oregon Kid won the Webb trophy, a
$1,000 cash prize and the champion
ship of the Mississippi valley at the
sixth annual regatta of the Mississippi
Valley Power Boat association at
Keokuk, la.
c. A. Smith company at Bay Point,
Cal, caused damage estimated at
S1,000,000. 1t was subdued by dyna-
mite and by change of wind. s-
Because of misunderstanding
over the contract for an amusement
park where picnic was held, the
parade of $4,000 workingmen at St.
Louis, Mo-, ended in disorder. Police
were rushed to the scene to quell the
riot
ons, the last in the postal service on
Manhattan island, were forced out of
service at midnight by the substitution
for them under a new mail contract
of 80 three-ton and 20 two-ton auto
trucks.
A woman and child were killed and
the father severely injured when an
automobile in which they were riding
was struck by a passenger train near
Grand Island, Neb. The dead are
Mrs. Henry Hagerman and infant son
OF St Paul, Neb.
Delegates to the international con-
gress at Buffalo, N. Y, on school ny.
giene expressed divergent views on
the amount of exercise, mental and
physical, that a growing boy or girl