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The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
OLD PIPE KILLS BOY BABY
Nicotine Sucked From the Discarded
Meerscaum Proved Fatal In
an Hour.

South Norwalk, Gonna discarded
pipe was given as plaything to
child here and an hour later he was
was dead of nicotine poisoning.
The victim was the two-year-old SON
of Nathan Thornf1eld of New York,
who had been spending a few days
with Mrs Thornfield's brother, Harry
A. November, in this cisy. While Mrs.
Thornfield and Mrs. November were
rummaging among keepsakes in the
attick, an old meerschaum pipe was
found. Little Harold cried for 1t. and
the mother, having no suspicion of
danger, gave 1t to him.
Sitting on the floor and slappfng
his hands the child initiated his father.
inserting the pipe in his mouth and
putting out imaginary smoke. With
in ten minutes he toppled over in con-
vulsions, which shortly gave way to
coma.
After the baby died Coroner Phalen
investigated, but found no official ao-
tion necessary.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
STATE LANDS ORE RECORDS
123,555 Tons of Smelling Iron Shipped
in One Week-$225,00 900 in Roy
alties Expected.

st. Paul.-Thirteen mines on state
lands shipped 123,555 tons Of iron ore
during the week ending Saturday, ac-
cording to figures given out by State
Auditor Samuel G. Iverson He said
this was the heaviest tonnage ever
shipped during like period in the
history of mining in Minnesota
There are seventy mines on state
lands, but only thirteen reported hav-
ing made shipments. Heaviest ship.
ments were made from the Grant, Le-
onidas, Scranton and Missabi Noun
tain mines.
Auditor Iverson said he believed
that during 1913 AL records for ore
shipments will be broken. Since the
first of the year, he reported, there
have been 1,046,402 tons of ore ship
ped from Minnesota mines Mr.. Iver-
son said today he expected quarterly
reports from the mining companies
soon, giving the state $225,O00 in roy
alties.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
DASH LEADS TO ARRESTS
Wyoming, Minn., Citizens Play Deteo
tives and Secure Arrest of Alleged
Swindler.

st. Paul.-Amateur detective worx
by two citizens of Wyoming, Mimi,
resulted In the arrest of three men al
the Union depot. They are alleged
to have swindled a 13-year-old boy in
that town of $58. The three men, l.
Kerr, G. Kerr and j. Claus. were ar.
rested by Patrolman Paynsley as they
stepped from Northern Pacific pass.
enger train, on complaint of A. Rich.
ner and w. G. Ward, employees of the
Crex Carpet company at Wyoming.
They will be held at Central police
station awaiting a formal complaint.
The three men had decided to quit
work at the Crex Carpet company
plant, according to the story the two
others told the police here, and went
to the Office while Mr. Richner and
his assistant were absent and pre-
sented pay check for 81 cents
Robert, 13-year-old son of Mr.. Rich
ner, asked for information.
They told the boy, it ia alleged
that the sum due was $5S.52, Mr.
Richner said, reading the number Of
the pay check, printed beside the sum
due, as the full amount called for
The boy paid them and they disap
peared, he said.
Richner and Ward traced them tO
the railway station, where they had
purchased tickets for Oshkosh, Wis.
and had taken a train. The two men
sped to st. Paul in an automobile. ar
irving ahead of the train, and con
fronted the three at the Union depot
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
ENTOMBED MINERS RESCUED
Prisoners in EveIeth, Mimi, Shaft
Stand in Water That Part of Time
Is Neck Deep.

EVeleth, Mimi, July 19-The five
men who were entombed at the Spruce
mine here Wednesday as a result of
a cloudburst were rescued SO hours
later, and much of that time had stood
in water waist deep and at times netk
deep.
They were almost famished, and
were crazed from the dreadful strain
of the darkness and vitiated air in
their small quarters $50 feet below
the surface and with the prospect of
starving or suffocating.
The miners were located by rescu-
ers by means of tapping on a pipe
which had been drilled 40 feet into
the mine. After the first signals were
heard, the work of excavating was
resumed with double energy and the
men were soon located and brought
to the surface.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Horse and Girl Escape.

Rochester.-While the buggy in
which she was riding was smashed to
pieces when struck by moving
train, Miss Julia Boiler, of this city,
was miraculously saved from instant
death by being hurled to the top of
the carriage. She was about to drive
across the tracks of the Great West
ern in this city, when she noticed a
freight backing. In an instant she
turned her horse in a frantic endeav-
or to avoid a collision, but the ap-
preaching cars struck the buggy, toss
ing Miss Boiler into the top of the bug
gy and grinding the wheels of the
rig into kindling. Before the train
could be stopped the shattered rig
and it's occupant were carried forty
feet, when the breaking of the har-
ness released the horse and the wreck
fell clear of the rails. Neither Miss
Boiler nor the horse received any in,
jury.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Low FARE RATES
PUT into EFFECT
e-CENT MILE CHARGE NOW IN
FORCE ALL OVER MIN
NESOTA.
REFUNDS ARE BEING MADE
Drafts Are Made Out in Blank to be
Sent to Claimants Making Proper
Affidavits-Some Voluntary Re-
ductions Made.

Minneapolis. - Promptly at mid
night Sunday night ticket agents in
Minnesota discarded their old passen-
ger tariffs. When the ticket office
opened Monday the new 2-cent rate
was In effect. With the passenger
rate reduced by one-third, the rial
way representatives have prepared to
handle an increase in traffic within
the state.
Claims Being Refunded.
In the auditing departments of the
several railroads preparations have
been made to refund claims, and the
first drafts have already been sent
out. Application for this refund must
be made by affidavit, and a regular
form of affidavit has been decided up
on by the roads interested.
c. w. Tilton, auditor of passenger
receipts, Great Northern Railway,
said:
The blank drafts are low ready to
be mailed upon receipt of affidavit
showing the applicant is entitled to
a refund. Already we have about
1000 applications"
A uniform method of handling the
freight claims also was decided upon
by the railroads. This part of the
work is being handled through the
freight claim department.
Dissolve lnjunctions.
The Federal courts completed their
part of the Minnesota rate case battle
at 10 g. m. Monday, when Judge Will
lard, acting on the motion of Attorney
General l.. A. Smith, dismissed the in
functions against the state, which
have prevented them since 1911, from
enforcing the 2-cent rate law against
the railroads. This is in accordance
with the mandate of the United States
Supreme Court, filed Saturday.
Voluntary Reductions Made.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis quoted
rates meeting those Of other roads at
competitive points, but as the COM
pany is exempted from obligation to
obey the state laws that have been
in controversy, it does not make the
2-cent rate to strickly local points.
Rates to local points are reduced,
however, so that in no case will they
be higher than to competitive point
farther on. For instance, the Albert
Lea rate is $2.04, reduced from SO by
reason of Rock Island competition.
The $2.04 cent rate is ''blanketed"
back to the stations of Manchester,
Hartland, New Richland and Otisco,
while Waseca, which had 1927 rate
is reduced to $1.S7 because of the
Northwestern competition. The
Montgomery rate is reduced to $1.0S
because of Milwaukee competition,
and New Prague, this side of Mont
gomery, also gets the S10S rate. The
Minneapolis & st. Louis meets North
Western competition to New Ulm
with a reduction from $2.63 to $216,
and Omaha competition to st. James
is met by cut from 1886 to $2.38
Because Moorhead is just across
the river from Fargo, with 2-cent
fare of $3.50 from Minneapolis, the
Fargo rate is reduced from $685. to
S465,
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Rochester Is Imnrovino CITY.

Rochester.-Rocheste remarkable
record for municipal improvement the
past two years, which has trans
formed the city from country town
to a metropolitan city, promises to be
equaled again this year, the city coun-
Gil having let contracts for more than
a mile of paving on College, Glencoe
and Dakotah streets. East College
blocks, while the rest of the paving
will be asphaltic concrete. Contracts
have also been let for more cluster
lighting.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
WRECKS 8 WAGONS
AND AN AUTOMOBILE
Horse Breaks An0ther's Jaw i'm
Runaway, but Ends Wild
Race Unhurt.

ST. Louis, Mo.-Three wagons and
an automobile were wrecked the other
day and one horse suffered a broken
Jaw in runaway which kept vehicles
and pedestrians along Grand avenue
on the jump for a time.
The horse and wagon which started
the trouble are owned by Emil Ferris,
a dairyman. The animal was lest un--
tied in front of 1858 Mcdonald ave-
nue. by William p Nauman, the driv-
er. The horse became frightened
while Nauman was in a house deliv-
ering goods. 1t ran three blocks,
along Mcdonald to Grand without
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Man Blows His Head Off,

Grand Rapids.-John Aho, a farm
hand 80 years of age, committed sui
eide by blowing his head off with
dynamite. In a memorandum book
found upon his person after the deed
he stated that he did not wish anyone
to feel sorry because of his act In
plain sight of several men making
hay he placed a stick of dynamite on
top of his head and lit the short piece
OF fuse. His head was blown COM
pletely OF No relatives reside in
America, his mother living in Fin
land.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Fleeing Greek CAPTURED,

Pipestone.-A Greek named George
Nickels, wanted for attempted murder
at Flandreau, was arrested here.
Nickels, in company with another
Greek, Peter GILES, operated a con-
fectionery store at Flandreau. A few
days ago the two had an argument
over business affairs and Nickels pro-
cured a gun and, while walking to
their sleeping apartments, dropped
few steps behind Giles and opened
fire upon him. One Of the bullets
took effect in Giles back, and, seeing
his victim fall and believing him to
be mortally wounded, Nickels fed
from Flandreau.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Body Hurled AGAINST siunaI,

Winona.-Michael Kotlaba, As years
old, while returning from a fishing
trip, was struck and killed by an east
bound Burlington passenger train near
East Winona, across the river His
body was thrown into the outlying
equipment of the signal system and
the operator in the tower made the
discovery when he attempted to
throw the levers.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Bomb Wrecks Silk Mill.

Paterson, N. j.. July 23.-The explo-
sion of a bomb partly wrecked the
Helvetia silk mill here, the resulting
excitement bringing hundreds of work
ers, who have recently been on strike,
from their beds to the streets. Great
damage was done to the machinery
and other fittings of the factory, many
windows were broken and one wall
was crushed in. The police began at
once to conduct a rigid examination,
but no arrests have been made up to
this time
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Bemidii Socialists Lose.

Bemidji.-Bemidji socialists were
showed under at the city of Bemidji
school board election Saturday even
ing, when all the old members of the
board were reelected, being K. K.
Roe, merchant, Edward Jackson, con-
tractor, and NJ. ]. Brown, attorney.
The socialists were defeated by a
vote of 326 to go. One hundred and
women voted.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Help Up on Business Street.

Minneapolis, July %. = H. w.
Springer, who operates a confection-
cry store at 1903 Nicollet avenue,
was held up in the approved Wild
West style by a masked man with a
large revolver. Springer was closing
his store at 11:15 o'clock when the
man walked in the front door, pointed
the revolver at Springer and said:
"Back up against the wall, stick your
hands up and keep them there. Don't
move and don't try to telephone the
police after I'm gone.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Big Boom at Bemidii.

Bemidji.- real estate has
taken jump since the location of the
sixth normal school. Lots in the vi
cinity of the proposed site have been
raised in price from twenty-five to
forty per cent A run" was made
on the local Office of the Bemidji
Townsite & Improvement company
and many purchased lots adjoining
the site. Thayer c. Bailey, who rep
resents the company, received word
to take all lots in that vicinity off the
market for the time being.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Personal

Charles S. Mellen of New York ten
dered his resignation as president of
the New York, New Haven & Hart.
ford Railroad company and all its al
lied or subsidiary lines, including the
various railways, trolley lines and
water lines which have become parts
of the New Haven system under his
management
Truman Chapman, twenty-five years
old, of Hamilton, Ont, was rescued
from the brink of the American falls
by four men, one of whom took a
desperate chance to reach him. Chap
man was sitting on the iron railing
just above Prospect Point and was
seen suddenly to topple backwards in
to the stream.
Unable to bear longer the suffer-
ings from cancer of the stomach,
Professor Lobello Of Doyen university,
at Naples, Italy. one of the best
known educators in Italy, committed
suicide by cutting his throat.
Rath Duff, the second legislator on
trial for bribery, was convicted at
Webster Springs, w. Va.
Word received at Montreal Que,
from Ayers Cliff. Ore, near North
Hatley, told Of the sudden death there
of the nineteen-year-old son OF Alton
B. Parker. The young man died from
bullet wound accidentally inflicted
by companion.
Former Congressman Marlin e.
Olmstead of Harrisburg, Pa, died at
New York in the Eye and Ear hos
pital, where he was undergoing treat
ment. He was a Republican and was
in congress sixten years.
DIR. Lauro Muller, Brazilian minis
ter for foreign affairs, upon departing
for home sent Secretary Bryan an ex-
preston Of his appreciation Of the
courtesies shown him during his tour
of the United States.
Alonzo Hornby, cereal and "toffee"
manufacturer OF Redlands, CAL, who
disappeared in 1909 at the time that
Mrs. Mabel ]. Watson also disap-
peared. was located through a suit he
filed to collect $4,000 on a note over
due. Hornby, according to his attor!
1 neY. Is somewhere in Europe.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Ten Per Cent Dividend Declared.

Comfrey.-At the annual meeting
of the Dotson Farmers Elevator COM
pany j. Callahan and j. Gotzlaff were
elected directors. A 10 per cent div
idend was declared. The company
has been in business one year. C. M.
Erickson has purchased the controll-
ing stock in the State bank of Willow
River, Pine county, and has also been
elected cashier. Farmers are harvest
ing rye and early oats.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Winona-With the handle of a

WinOna.-With the handle of a
buttonhook protruding from her
mouth, 2-year-old Jennie Jamison,
screaming in her mothers arms, was
carried through the crowded down
town streets to physicians Office
When the frightened mother reached
the stairway leading to the physicians
office, the child coughed up the but
tonhook. The physician said it had
caught on one of her tonsils. The
babe was not seriously injured.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Postmasters Meet In Convention.

Long Prairie.-The st. Cloud Dis
trict League of Postmasters held it's
convention here. The delegates say
this was the most interesting conven-
tion in the history of the league The
newly elected officers are: w. T.
Callahan, Long Prairie, president; Y.
Dyson, Recker, secretary. The next
convention will be held at Akeley. The
resolutions recommend that third and
second class postmasters come un-
der the civil service system.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Worried as to Son.

Winona-Winona authorities are
in receipt of letter from Mrs. Thom-
as Gillingham, of Oshkosh, making
anxious inquiries concerning her SON,
John, age 18, who is said to have
joined the company of Melrose, the
hypnotist, when he was in Winona
in May. The peculiar death at Cole
raine on May 81 of Roy Clark, a Wi
mona boy who was travelling with this
company, has given her some anxiety.
Clark died as the result of an over
dose Of a drug.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Sheriff Raids Alleged Liquor Join

ST. Cloud.-Charged with selling
liquor without a license in Benton
county, Frank Skiba and wife ap-
peared before a justice and entered
pleas of not guilty. They were arrest
ed at Gilman, fifteen miles north of
here. The sheriff raided the place
and attached a wagonload of para
phernalia necessary to the dispensing
of booze" 1t is likely other arrests
on the same charge will follow. The
hearing of Skiba and his wife will oc-
cur within a few days.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25

Mankato.-Alexander Thompson, Of
Lamberton, was buried in this city,
having dropped dead on a North
Western passenger train just as he
was leaving his home. Death was due
to heart failure. He lived in Mankato
most of his Life.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25

Faribault.-Edward Brewster, a
farmer, was seriously injured when
he stepped in front of sickle and his
team started. One of his legs was
cut from the knee to his foot, sever
ing a bone and the tendons and ar
teries.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
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Washington

Progressive Republican opposition
to the Underwood-Simmo tariff bill
was expressed in the senate at Wash
ington by Senator Cummins of Iowa,
who analyzed and condemned many
of its provisions. The senator devoted
considerable attention to the tariff
schedules and announced himself in
favor of the income tax amendment,
substantially as written by the Dem
ocrats, "if it could not be changed to
better suit the exigencies of the situ-
alton"
a new American policy toward Mic
aragua, involving virtual control Of
the affairs of that republic by the
United States through trust pro-
tectorate similar to that exercised
over Cuba, was outlined by Secretary
Bryan, at a private conference with
members of the senate foreign rela-
tions committee at Washington.
Duluth, Mimi, won a substantial
portion Of its freight rate fight before
the interstate commerce commission
in Washington when a reduction of
class rate to that city from eastern
points was ordered and the present
rates were held to be discriminatory
Secretary Bryan's policy Of lectur-
ing in his vacation time involved the
senate at Washington in a bitter con-
troversy. 1t began when SenatSr
Bristow, ignoring the defeat of his
resolution directed at Mr.. Bryan's ac-
tion, insisted upon being heard in
severe criticism of the cabinet officer.
S. Wood McClave, Republican candi-
date for congress in the Sixth New
Jersey district, told the senate lobby
Investigating committee that Martin
M. Mulhall had perjured himself in
his testimony before the committee.
He denied that Mulhau had raised or
spent money for him.
United States Consul Luther Ellis
worth at Piedras Negras, Mexico, has
reported to Washington the discovery
VI q piOI " Luc AucIlCdu
consulate and that his life is in i'm
ninert danger.
Formal DEGREES of the United States
Supreme court in the Minnesota and
Missouri rate cases have been issued
to the federal courts in those states.
In the cases won by the states the
railroads were ordered to reimburse
the state governments for the cost of
litigation.
So acute has the Mexican situation
become; so insistent are the demands
from outside forces that the admin
istration do something to check the
anarchy prevailing throughout the
Mexican republic, that President Will
son instructed Ambassador Henry
Lane Wilson at Mexico City to come
to Washington at once for a confer
ence.
The American reply to the last two
Jap notes on the California anti-alien
land law was delivered by Secretary
Bryan to Ambassador Chinda at Wash
ington, who at once cabled it to To-
kyo. AS in the case of the preced-
ing note, the contents were withheld
from publication.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Fire Less of $500, 900.

Weymouth, Mass, July 24.-The
main building of the American Agri-
cultural Chemical company's plant at
North Weymouth, and IL cottages oc-
cupied by employees were burned, the
loss exceeding $500,000.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
ChatfieId Man Murdered.

Chatf1eld.-Dennis Lynch, who was
reported to have been accidently kill
ed at Judith Gap, Mont, Monday, July
IA, was murdered. The remains were
brought to his home here, and the
funeral was held early Monday.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Waseca Robber pleads Guilty

Waseca.-The residence of Rev. Mr..
Mccormick, Methodist minister, was
robbed Friday evening. A large
amount of silverware and a suit of
clothes were taken. John Conway
was later arrested and plead guilty.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
District w. c. Z. U. Meets,

Fergus Falls.-The eighteenth ans
ual convention of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union of the Thir-
teenth district was held here Mrs.
C. C. Machler, Of Campbell, was elect
ed president for the succeeding year.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
LittIe Falls, Modern Rrickvard.

Little Falls.-This city will be the
first in the northwest to have a brick
yard equipped with modern machin-
cry and continuous kilns. The daily
output OF the yards will be $4,000
brick.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Domestic

Seemingly satisfied with the sacking
of the /. w. w. and Socialist headQuar-
ters at Seattle, Wash, the rioting sail
ors and soldiers attempted no further
violence during the closing hours of
the Potlatch OF his failure, owing to
court injunctions, to suppess the Daily
Times and close the saloons, Mayor
Cotterill said: 81 tried in every le-
gal and legitimate way to prevent a
recurrence of Friday nights rioting"
Big Four passenger train No. u
plowed into the Lake Shore & Michi-
gan Southern passenger train, be-
tween Perry and Madison, O., while
the Lake Shore train was held UP by
a freight. 1t splintered the dining
car to pieces and telescoped the next
car, Pullman, injuring IL persons.
James Kelly is in the county Jail OF
international Falls, Mimi, on a charge
of murder and Mayor Edeke Of Rainier
is out on bail, charged with being an
accessory to the crime, as the result
VI ll0 uSdtu Ol J. Oh the
same city.
Negligence of the superintendent of
public property, John o. Battershill,
was responsible primarily for the
accident at the public bathhouse at
Lawrence, Mass, June 80. when
eleven boys were drowned, according
to the verdict of the inquest.
Eight persons were drowned while
bathing at Chicago beaches. Several
others were rescued with difficulty,
and life savers, both professional and
amateur, were given the hardest
days work of the season.
Blossom Browning paid a s25 fine
in Judge Crutchfield's court at Rich.
mond, Va, for wearing a slit skirt
and declared she intended to go to
New York at once where people are
not prudish." She was charged with
indecent exposure.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25
Falls On Pitchford: Dies.

Fond du Lac, Wis. July 24.-Peter
Keifenhein, farmer, died here from
injuries received when he fell on
pitchfork in descending from a hay.
NOW, three days ago.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25

The efforts of Louis F. Post, assist
ant secretary of the federal depart.
ment of labor, to bring about settle
ment of the strike at the two Hyde
Park manufacturing plants at Boston
controlled by Governor Foss have de.
veloped no changes in the attitude of
either side.
The Ely miner., 1913-07-25

What is said to be the largest sin.
gle gift ever made to the Young
Mems Christian association in this
country was announced by the Brook.
lyn association. 1t is gift of $4,000
by Mrs. Roxy NJ Smith, widow OF
William Van Rensselaer, Smith, re-
tired sugar and coffee merchant.