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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

What is that?" he said TO himself.
1t is little hard to say, but the mat
ter is worth looking into. Just the
color of a deer! Just where deer
would rest! We must work up the
wind little closer, for some men are
so foolish as to wear those duns and
browns: but that!-that Is a deer's
coat 1t won't do to jump him and
trust shot as he goes-those frs will
hide him at the first leap. A long shot
at a standing target-there: He
moved, There's not a second to lose!
A long shot, truly; but that graceful
rifle thinks nothing of half mile.
There are many intervening bushes
and saplings; but the steel-Jacketed
bullet would kill on the farther side
of the thickest pine, and even soft
nosed one will cut clearly to this
mark The colonel's practised left
hand immovably supported the barrel;
the coloners keen eye through the
carefully adjusted sights saw plainly
the blotch of deerskin down the little
glade; and the coloners steady fore
finger confidently pressed the lightly
set trigger. Spat! The colSnel felt
the rifleman's delicious gertrude that
his bullet had found its mark, threw
in another shell, and stood tensely
ready to try the bisecting Of the smit-
ten deer's first agonized bound-but
the blur of fur just stirred little, and
| clinnod I0up ont of sight
Painting in the killers frenzy, Loree
struggled over the debris to reach his
game. How oddly the deer had fallen!
Heart, or brain, likely; as 1t went
down like log. Here was the thick
ct, and on the other side-yes, a
patch of Redeemed snow, and the body
ONO, not a deer, but man, dead,
it seemed, clad in deerskin jacket, a
rifle by his side, and In his hand a
notebook full of figures, its pages
all stained and crumpled!
There was a shout in the far dis
lance, but Loree heard 1t not. He
knew his solitude, and never looked
for aid. The white strangeness of the
|
the sense of something familiar in it;
and the colonel, after a moments
scrutiny, addressed himself frantic
ally to the stanching of the blood. A
deep groan seemed to warrant hope;
and STOPPING beneoth the body, Loree
took it up and began bearing it toward
the camp. He had an overwhelming
consciousness of the terrible task be-
fore him; but the realization of the hui
man life dashed out. some home blast
ed, some infinity of woe, and the bare
chance of rescue rolled sickeningly
over him, and he set his teeth and at
tackled the task like an incarnate
will.
! Logs and boughs and dead-wood
held him back; countless obstacles
exhausted him. He felt like crying
out in agony as he realized that his
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

age was telling against him. He felt
strangely tender at this meeting with
death in its simple and most merci-
full form. He clenched his teeth hard,
felt his heart swell as if to burst, his
lungs labor in agonized heavings-and
when Trudeau the guide overlook him,
he found him a frenzied man, covered
with dark streaks and splashes of
blood. unconquerably hurting upon his
impossible task his last reserves of
strength. with all that iron resolution
with which he had beaten down re-
sistance in his long battle with re-
lentless world.
For Gods sake he painted hoarse-
ly, help me get him to camp! We've
got doctor there!"
'How's the colonel?' said the doc
tor, when he had done all he could for
the colonel's victim.
Knocked all to pieces answered
young man. Wants to know if
we've found out who the man is"
Colonel Loree was interrogating
Trudeau: surprised that he did not
know the name of the wounded man
Non" answered Trudeau, she tell
me his name, and give me carte, but
lose heem an forgets frs day. Ee-
member wood, remember trail, re-
member face YER well-but name;
she | forget. She write lettaire an
cry, an all time put fig in book. Zis
is neem; mebbe she tell name!"
he smutched names were strange
to the colonel; but on another page
were some inexplicable references to
Kosmos Chemical affairs; and on the
cover were dim initials that looked
it, Colonel"
Il know something is wrong" went
on Trudeau; for i tell her it ben tres
dangereuse to wear deerskin zhaquette
in Zese wood in shooting seasone.
turn zhaquqette red out She go to-
ward your camp. / watch. 1 see her
turn heem hair out. l tell you, mes
sieurs, Eat man want to go home in
wooden ove'-coat She have hungaire
to die"
Here's a letter We found in his
pocket" said the young man. Look at
it, colonel"
The colonel looked, saw his daugh-
ters name, remembered the familiar
look in the white, agonized, pitiful
face; and saw the whole situation as
by some baleful fash-light.
Good Cod! Good God!" he cried.
Its Van Dorm! Get things ready to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

carry him in his bed to the carr
quick, Johnson! And get the wire
as soon as you can. Have Tabba,-
bring Gwennie-Mrs Van Dorm
to Duluth Wire the hospital there!
You know what's needed-look after
things right, Johnson, for / think
think-Pm going mad, old mani"
Mrs. Van Dorm ran into her fathers
arms In the hospital anteroom.
Through mazes of frenzied anxiety she
| felt an epoch open tn her life with
that embrace from the father who had
put her out of his life forever, as they
! thought
Dear, dear papa!" she whispered,
"let me go to Foster, quick!"
mot just now, Gwennie, little girl
he said, patting her shoulder. He's
asleep. Did you bring the-the baby?'
mo, no! l thought-but Foster?'
cried Gwendolyn. "Will he-will
| he"
He'll live, by heaven!" cried the
colonel. Il fired one fool for limiting
that he wouldn't; and now they're all
sure he'll pull through. Why, he's got
to live, Gwennie!"
The colonel reached for his hand,
kerchief, much hampered by Gwendo,
| lyn's arms.
"And when he's WELL" said he, 81
want your help-in bushes way I'm
too old to fight a man like Foster.
He's got me down, Gwennie-beaten
me to earth. If he won't come in
with me, it's all up with the Solar
He's a fine fellow, Gwen-I-like him
you know-but he doesn't know ho-'
hard he hits. You'll help your old
dad, won't you, Gwennie?'
To this point had the appeal of con
crete piteous need brought Colonel
Loree, the ferocious, whose heart had
never once softened while he did SC
much more cruel things than the mere
shooting of Van Dorm. 1t broke Gwen.
dolyn's heart afresh.
"Oh, don't, papa!" she cried. 81
can't sta-stand It! He sha'n't use his
strength against you! I'll be on your
side. He's generous, papa-he wanted
to name baby Loree-and, oh, l must
go to him, papa! l can't watt"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26
Propacatind Erocs.

Frog legs may become as ordinary a
dish as bacon and eggs if the United
States bureau of fisheries succeeds in
the propagating plan with which it
has just started to experiment. AT
the bureaus hatchery at Edenton,
near the western end of Albermarle
Sound, North Carolina, efforts are be-
ing made this spring for the first
time to discover how frogs may be
propagated rapidly. There is much
territory in North Carolina, Virginia
and Maryland, as well as in Indiana
and some other states, where, in the
opinion of fish experts, frogs should
thrive and become so plentiful in the
course of few years that they would
become articles of common diet
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

ed to be able to say only that he loved
her better than life, that she must try
to love his memory, and to train up
the baby to respect his name, that the
right thing is not always easy to dis
Germ, that sometimes one has only a
choice of evils, that when a man has
made a mess of it which he can
straighten out by stepping off the
stage, he might as well do it--and that
he had had his share of happiness
since she had been with him. anyhow,
and was far ahead of the game! Tru-
deau could not know what a foolish,
silly, tragic letter it was, this product
of insane comnercialism. He thought
life and the woods enough, and Won
dered at the shaking of the mans
shoulders, and was amazed to see the
tears dropping through his fingers as
he bowed his head upon his hands
man with fifty-dollar sleeping
bag!
Ovs- at the Loree headquarters
there were roaring fires, fresh ven
ison, skilful chef, jolly companions,
and the perfection of camp life The
storm cleared. That strong old hunt
er, Loree, declaring that his business
solitary quest which is the only thing
that brings the haunch to the spit in
the Minnesota cutover forest. He was
briskly bearded, keen of eye and Wig
orous, handled his gun cannily, and
craftily negotiated the fallen and tan
every open vista for game There
was no time to think of anything but
the making of his way. and of the
chase Troubles and triunphs retired
to the outer verge OF Consciousness.
Primeval problems claimed his
thoughts, and the 9simeval man rose
to meet them. I: was in this ancient
and effectiro wise that he had sharp
ened his weapons, set his snares, and
hunted down Foster Van Dorm = and
left him in the money-jungle, appar-
emily unhurt, but really smitten to the
heart and staggering to his fall. 1t
was the Loree way. AS an old hunter.
he knew just where his shaft had
struck, and how long the quarry could
endure the hemorrhage Had he not
said that the fellow should be made
to rue the Loree displeasure?.
Like flash these half-thoughts be-
came no thoughts, as a dark blotch
caught his eye, far off on the snow,
beyond a little thicket
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

view past a thicket-a noble buck
with many pointed antlers, moving with
great deliberate leaps among the gil
ants spillikns. The delicate glossy
hoofs, the slender brittle limbs and
horns, fragile as china, seemed court
ing destruction in these terrible en-
tanglements. Yet the beautiful ami
NAL, as if by some magic levitation,
rose lightly from a perllous crevice
between two logs, turned smoothly in
mid-leap, struck the four pipe-stem
limbs into the only safe landing place,
shot thence with arrewy spring be-
tween bayonet-like branches to anoth-
er foothold, and so on and on. every
rod Of progress a miracle.
He stepped, shutting the air. In
stinctively the hunter leveled his
rifle; and then came into view the
bucks retinue, two does, one large
and matronly, the other last sum-
mer's fawn. The sleep-walker's eyes
softened, the rifle swung downward
from the point-blank aim, swapping a
twig in its descent, and with swift
mighty bounds, the deer vanished,
putting a clump of bushes between
themselves and the foe with unerring
strategy.
Toward the lake." said the hunter.
I'll follow
Then came the report of distant
rifle from the direction Of the deer's
flight, then another and another. Some
one was working a repeater rapidly.
The hunter stopped, took off his deer
skin jacket, turned its hair side out,
and like soldier making for the fir
INCLINE. pressed forward after the
deer.
Trudeau saw his man halt on the
edge Of the freight that evening, turn
his jacket, and come YEARLY into
camp. Trudeau sat and thought that
night, while the other slept heavily.
Next morning there was raging
storm, and the guide was puzzled that
the hunter refused to brave it's dan
gers. 1t was not sure then that the
monsieur desired the wooden over
coat? He told Van Dorm many stories
of death in these storms, and watch
ed for the effect.
Wen man is lost in blizzard" said
Trudeau, re widow mus wait an
wait, an mebbe nevaire know if he is
widow or not"
1T would be BETTER" said the other
refectively, Ito have the proof ample
-ample!"
Trudeau. bordering over this, watch
ed his charge putting names in a
book opposite amounts in figures; but
he did not know that here was the lost
fortune of an old aunt, there the saw
ings of college chum. Van Dorm
looked them over calmly as if it had
been a bills-payable sheet to be paid
in the morning. Then the strange
pleasure-hunter began writing a let
ter to a sweetheart to whom he seem.
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Poor Colonel Sibert collapsed.

Nobody now lives where once stood
the proud city of Old Panama-that
is, nobody except one old native wom-
an who has little shack by the beach
and sells liquid refreshment to the
thirsty tourist. Her stock includes
various soft drinks, beer and, hang
ing from the walls by strings, bottles
of imported champagne. These last
look as though they had been hang
ing there since the day when Nor
gan and his buccaneers departed
from the ruined city.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26
Horizontal Wireless.

Surprisingly successful results have
been attained in making use of hori.
zontal antenna for the purpose OF
wireless telegraphy. One thousand
feet Of wire stretched across the
ground at height Of three feet was
found to equal an antenna forty feet
in height, and messages were very
satisfactorily received from several
stations located in various directions
The wire consisted of several lengths
stretched out in different directions
and crossing in the center, at which
point connection was made with ths
receiving instrument
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

Visits of congressional investigating
committees are no novelty to the peo-
pie who are making the canal. Neither
are they any pleasure. 1t is the gen.
eral belief down there that these are
mere iunkets, and it must be admitted
that the visitors often show colossal
ignorance concerning the canal. Col
onel Sibert, engineer in charge of the
Atlantic division, one day spent hours
showing a congressman over the Ga
tun locks and explaining it all to him.
When the colonel concluded his little
lecture the lawmaker clasped his
hands behind him, gazed about and re-
marked ponderously: We'll! So this
is the famous Culebra cut! I'm glad
I've seen 1t and learned more about
it,"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

The asylum for the insane On Ancon
from Jamaica and Barbados. These
cofored folk seem to go crazy In large
numbers, and l asked a doctor there
the reason. Rum and religion" WAS
his terse reply. They use a lot OF
both, and not much is needed to throw
them off their mental balance"
One of the Jamaicans in the asylum
spends every evening sending vocal
wireless messages" to the governor
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

Charlie Ying. moon-faced celestial,
had prospered on the isthmus and de-
cided not long ago to open an "Ameri-
can bar" He knew some English for
he used to work on the docks at Can
ton. but when it came to the impor-
tant matter of wording his sign he
thought best to consult another China
man, who formerly lived in Chicago.
This was the result of their joint ef-
fort:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

Speaking of the blasting reminds me
that one of the very high up engineers
on the canal job is exceedingly afraid
of dynamite. He is also a strict dis
ciplinarian and does not allow the
workmen to loaf. Whenever one of
the frequent dolby shots" or small
blasts is to be fired, the nearest steam
shovel emits series of short, quick
toots and the men scurry to cover. AS
soon as Mr.. Engineer appears in the
cut to see that the laborers are losing
heard from steam shovels all along the
way and he speedily returns to ais of-
fee on the hill, leaving the unprodded
workmen to resume their leisurely
gait.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

Tourists flocked to the canal zone
in such increasing numbers that the
Panama Railway company-which
means the United States government
decided to erect new Washington
hotel in Colon to supplant the old hos
telry of that name. The architect de-
signed a handsome four-story struc-
ture Of concrete and, to take full ad-
vantage of the cool breezes from the
Atlantic, provided in his plans for
large roof garden and two dumb wait
ers running up to it. The builders made
the roof all right, and put in the dumb
walters, but when the hotel was near
ing completion some one discovered
there was no opening in the roof for
the aforesaid dumb walters. The nee
essary changes would cost several hun
dred dollars, and the government Of
fetal who passed upon the expendi-
lures decided against making them as
the hotel already had cost more than
had been expected. Consequently
those two dumb walters run up to the
ceiling of the fourth story and there
stop, while the roof garden, having no
service, remains unopened.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26
AMERICAN BAR
WE SERVE WHISKY COOKIES
AND GIN RICKTAILS.

Close to the shore of Taboga island,
so close, in fact, that they are con-
nected at low tide, lies little, rocky,
wooded islet known as MORO. For
many, many years it was owned by a
Spanish family, the present repre-.
sentative of which is widow of
small means. On MORO is a flowing
spring of excellent water, and one of
the Pacific navigation companies de.
sired to acquire the islet as a water
ing station for it's vessels. The widow
was paid fair price, and as a bonus
was given life passes for herself and
her children on the boats of the COM
pany. No sooner had the deal been
consummated than the estimable lady
packed up her buds, stored her house
hold belongings and with her family
boarded one of the steamships for a
trip. The journey was SO pleasant
that they have been travelling contin,
uaily On the company's ships ever
since, and the man who engineered
the purchase Of MORO is wondering
who got the best of it.
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of his home island, telling him how
badly his compatriots are being treat
ed on the isthmus. He utters the
words of the messages with a sputter-
ing explosiveness that is curiously like
the sound of the wireless sender.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

Panama City's water supply is de-
rived from the Rio Grande reservoir,
little lake quite close to the canal.
For obvious reasons bathing or wad-
ing in it is forbidden, and all around it
are signs stating that fact. Recently
the wife of member of the canal
commission was entertaining friends
from the states, and in the course Of
their wanderings one day they came
upon the reservoir. They were tired
and dusty and the cool water looked
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

In one respect at least, Panama is
like no other Latin-American city that
i have seen. 1t has no distinctivefy
residence quarter. Now that we have
seen where the people do business.
let's see where they i've" said to my
amateur guide.
You have been seeing that too"
was the reply. ''The people live over
the shops in all parts of the city-ali
the people, including the wealthy ones
The latter, however, also have beauti-
full country places in the savanna lands
a few miles away, and spend much OF
the year there"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

so inviting that they all took off their
shoes and stockings and went in wad-
ing. Unfortunately for them, one Of
the efficient zone policemen came upon
them and arrested the whole party
They were taken before the nearest
magistrate, and despite the pleading
of the commissioner, who had been
hastily called to the rescue, each one
was compelled to pay a fine and listen
| to sharp lecture on law-breaking and
sanitation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

Colon, C. Z-Frequently the Off
Gals of the Republic of Panama
the minor ones-have been ridi-
culed for the combination of stu,
pidity and pomposity that governs
their conduct: Sometimes the rid
icule is not deserved, but often 1t is.
Some months ago an American resi-
lent of the city Of Panama imported a
pair of riding boots from the states,
and in his manifest submitted to the
native customs authorities he SO listed
them, with the price, $3.50. The paper
was returned to him with curt instruc-
lions to correct It. Not knowing how
he had erred, he consulted the customs
man and was told the boots must be
listed as two separate articles, thus !:
"One riding boot, value S4.75; one rid.
ing boot, value $475." Mr.. American
complied silently, and received hi
boots.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-09-26

The Isthmus of Panama does not
belong to the English, never did, and
there are not many real Englishmel
there. Yet the presence of a large
number of British subjects-the ia
maican negroes-has forced on the in
habitants an English custom, that of
vehicles taking the left side of the
road. Probably this is due to the fact
that most of the cab drivers are ia
maicans. All the people of that island
are intensely proud of being subjects
of King George, and they are tenacious
OF such British customs as they know
Every cabby in Panama and Colon
and their number is legion-carries
either bicycle gong or an automobile
horn with which to warn other We
hicles and pedestrians of his approach,
and on a busy day the noise is more
unpleasant than that of the blasting
In the Culebra cut.
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Copyright by the Bobbs- Merrill Company

HIS story has been blamed
for it's lack of a moral.
People seem to expect
one so put to the rack the
facts in the case that they
will shrek out some we'll
tried message. SO m e
have behaved as if they
thought the moral here,
but faulty. Colonel Loree
of tho Solar Selling Com
Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-25

he knew something of MT. lgo's abill- ty as a Spanish talker himself, and that if they could understand their own language they must have under ctSod lgO.
 Thomas P. Cowan. who was arraign- cd a few days ago upon the charge Of insanity. but was discharged by Judge lockwood, it having been shown to the court that Cowan had simply been drunk for about a week, was brought into court again to show cause why his son. John Cowan. should not be appointed guardian of his estate, on a petition filed by Mayor Kuckenbeck- er The court appointed his son. John as guardian of the old mans estate and fixed his bond at Sl0,0O0. lt was alleged in the petition for the appoint msnt of a guardian of the estate oi CCwan that he had something over 8. 900 in the bank in Tombstone and was writing cheeks against the ac' count rather promiscuously.
 Of the 50 jurors summoned as trial jurors all answered rollcaH iI the Superior court except one. 4 bench warrant was ordered by the court and issued by the clerk for him Tut he was later excused, good caus' { for being absent having been shown This jurors was W. Edwards, of Bis bee.
Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-25
INDIANA LABOR MEN MEET

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 2i.- With a larger attendance thar ever before fn it's history the Indiana State Federation of Labor opened it's twenty-ninth annual convention here today. The convention will continue through Wednesday and Thursday and intense interest is manifested in
 inc work before t. One of the
 many matters of interest that will come up for consideration before the
 convention will be a report on the
 action of the last State legislature
 on various bills in which organized labor is especially interested. There will be many mstters concerning the management and activity Of the var long labor organizations in the state to be discussed. A great deal of interest lis also manifested in the election ot officers for the ensuing year and there are several tickets fin the field.