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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

The board of control is issuing
bulletins in convenient form for
newspaper use describing its work
so that the public may have a
better idea of what it does. The
bulletins are written in excellent
temper and will give anyone who
reads them a clear picture of the
important duties and response
bilities of the board.
The first bulletin lays special
emphasis on the diversity of duties
imposed on this board. Unless it
may be the auditor. says the bulle-
tin, no other branch of the govern
ment has such diverse response
bilities.
The board of control believes
that is the reason why three men,
rather than a single executive,
should be continued in this depart
ment. The efficiency commission
believes it is a reason why the
duties should be so distributed that
there would be less diversity.
Certainly no one will argue that
because the auditors duties are so
diverse we should have board of
three auditors.
There are two ways to reconcile
a diversity of duties. One is to
lump them together and give them
to three men; the other is to sort
them out so that each man can
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

SHERIFF John R. Meining was
indicted by the grand jury which
reported the end of last week on
four counts for presenting fraudu-
lent claims to the county COM
missioners. The fraudulent claims
on the four counts dated back to
1912 and totaled $42.6S and were
charged in the feeding prisoners"
account. The feeling is general
that the charges against Mr.. Mein-
ing are the outcome of political
activity on the part of his opponents
and that they can be satisfactorily
explained by him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

DR.. BRAcKEN of the State Board
of Health in his address before the
Charities and Correction Conven:
ton last week laid great stress on
the fact that the last legislature
thought more of hog than of a
man. Last year." said DR..
Bracken, there were 2,436 deaths
in Minnesota from tuberculosis.
The number of deaths from all
causes was $4,000. Half of that
number were caused by preventable
diseases. You will remember that
the state also had an epidemic of
hog cholera. The legislature ap-
propriated $1O,O for hog-cholera
serum and SIS, 200 additional has
been drawn from the contingent
fund. The board of health asked
from the legislature that it appro-
pirate money for anti-toxin for
diphtheria, but the request was
denied. The moral apparently is:
be hog. They say the loss from
hog cholera was So, 100000. That
is awful, and l deplore it, but
venture the assertion that the
money loss in the death of human
beings for the same period of time
was more than 500, OOO,O 900.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02
sail under false colors as a booster.
Patronize your home printer.

sail under false colors as booster.
Patronize your home printer.
Let the carpenter be the only
man in your town to use a hammer.
1t takes crew to sail a ship; it
takes cooperation to make town.
A dollar is no carrier pigeon;
send it away and it won't come
back.
The farther man gets from his
home the nearer it gets to his heart.
If you are looking for an invest
ment home never misses divi-
dend.
The interest you earn on a home
depends on the interest you take in
it.
Money talks, but if you send it
far away don't complain if you
can't hear it.
The author who said CLOTHES
make the man., didn't mean mail
order clothes.
The great question after all is,
whether this is community or a
freight station.
Don't be satisfied to praise public
spirit where it is deserved; deserve
little yourself.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02
RANDOM THOUGHTS

Save for a home.
If you are going to live here,
give here.
Don't paint the town, paint your
house.
Only a blind man needs to buy
sight unseen.
The smaller the town the bigger
the possibilities.
Don't be a hairtrigger knocker
and slow fuse booster.
Don't be a fellow who never runs
to anything but fire.
Do not think you can prosper
whether the town does or not.
Any man who has feet can kick,
but it takes brains to boost.
Think we'll of your town and
your town will think we'll of you.
Buying at home is an investment;
buying away in a speculation.
Somebody started this town; it is
up to you to keep it moving.
A penny's worth of paint will
save dollars worth of damage.
Keeping your house in repair
keeps its value in the same condi-
ton.
If you are merchant, don t send
away for your printing and then
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

They are going to take an inven-
tory of the state capitol in order
that the new governor will know
what he is assuming control of
when he takes the oath of Office
next January. Now, if we had
had governor in the capitol during
the last few years. who was attend
ing to business, it wouldn't be
necessary to take inventory
Deerwood Times.
This is the first time anyone even
suspected that the governor was
also supposed to be supply clerk
and keep an inventory of the
cuspidors, ink wells, etc. about the
capitol.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02
ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY
ewnlw
hG dwiIP
BYJOHN S. PARDEE, Sec.

cover more ground. 1t is evident
that one man can't know every
thing. 1t is equally evident that
one man can know pretty near
everything about single subject.
Minnesota adopted a board of
control because there was until
then no single control over its
institutions. 1t added to its duties
all sorts of things because there
was no administration under which
these duties could be parceled out.
In Illinois they have a similar
board called for the same reason a
ard of administration. !"
Apparently they needed board of
administration in Illinois because
there was not any administration.
When they provide an administra-
tion-they are moving in that
direction the same as Minnesota
board of administration will be
superfuous.
The same thing-with all
respect to the board of control and
with due appreciation of its devo-
ton and steadfastness-is true, as
the efficiency commission believes,
in Minnesota.
The board of control-an admirable
device when there was no business
organization, becomes unnecessary
when a business organization is
adopted.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

central and trying to please a
thousand unreasonable and irri-
table patrons. That is why we
try to coo into the telephone trans
mitter rather than bray. That is
why we try to be patient when we
ask for the parsonage and get the
brewery, when we ask for 1925 and
get 700. When we find ourselves
talking blandly into Disconnected
transmitter with our party raging
wildly at the other end of the line,
we strive to be meek and calm.
The life of central is not one
joyous round of bliss. -Anoka
Herald
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

A FELLOW in Duluth last week
pestered the officials for admission
to the poor farm. He said he had
little money and showed up about
81, 500. He probably had par
taken of a meal on one of the
dining cars running into Duluth
and he figured his 1900 bones
would last him just about a week.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

A ST. PAUL doctor when asked
through the health talks in the
Pioneer Press, answered the ques-
ton, from what age is it advisable
for girls to begin wearing corsents?"
and he thought 81 would be about
the right age as at that time it did
not matter so much how the girl
INJURIES her efficiency.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

THE smiling countenances of
various politicians on the front
pages of the press of the country
have made way for the grim visag-
ed commanders in the European
unpleasantness with the coughy-
SneeZy names.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02
Monday
kissing Cup
reels.

aggregate amount collected. Money
paid merely for salaries of officers
of a dead and non-progressive
county organization never comes
back in any form. Good roads are
the arteries of trade, the promoters
of value and the basis of prosperity,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

Occasionally man can be
judged by the company he keeps
away from.
To stop an advertisement to save
money is like stopping a watch to
save time.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02
Subscription So per Year.
Entered at the post Office at Ely. Mime
sofa as second class matter.

The columns of the MINER are open to the
public for the dicussion of affairs of a public
nature. Anything tending towards the personal
or slanderous will not be published under any
condition. We invite communications of
public nature and only request that you sign
your name-not necessarily for publication but
as a guarantee of good faith. Write and get it to
this Office not later than Thursday noon.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

J. ne OluD is DONG SOOQ WOIk
and many poor families are being
provided~for.
Listen daughter. Don't cry
and don't make your mother think
that her little lamb has been
abused. Yes, know that the stran-
ger spoke to you. Disrespectfully,
you say? Called you 'Kiddo"
Well daughter, perhaps the man
thought you answered to the name
of Kiddo. You see, he only ar
rived here last evening. He hap
pened to notice you at the depot
when he got off the train. Yes, /
know you only went to the depot to
see if any of the girls had gotten
back from the city. And then you
say he happened to be standing on
the hotel porch this afternoon when
you went to the postofice. know,
of course, you could hardly help
glancing in his direction when you
went by and when you and Flossy
Fay passed that way later, it wasn't
your fault that Floss asked you,
loudly enough for him to hear, if
you weren't sick and tired of living
in this poky old town? So when
you took walk this evening he
saw you, sauntered after you and
at the corner near the drug store
he overlook you and raising his hat
asked Whats your hurry,
Kiddo?" And you ran home in
tears, to tell your mother how you
were insulted. Thank God for
that. Your Dads girl yet. But
don't blame the man. He knows
there are kiddos i'll every town.
He meets them at the depots.
He notices them passing and re-
passing the hotels and going to and
from the postofices and he always
sees them with Flossies. But
those men will never speak to the
small-town girls who mind their
own business and keep off the
streets. Now tomorrow if you
help mother with the preserving,
not soul will harm you. So dry
your eyes not the powder
g.-use cold water and a soft
towel. That's right, smile.
Money invested judiciously in
roads adds so much to the value
of the property in a community
that every dollar invested comes
back to the treasury in the form of
additional taxation. Good roads
attract new settlers, encourage i'm
provement and enrich community.
They bring in more people to help
pay the taxes, and reduce that rate
&c foyokio,, x,,l,:1o a.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

This paper is on file al 39-South 3rd street.
Minneapolis. MINI. at the exhibit room of The
Immigration Commission, of The Northern
Minnesota Development Association"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

The appeal of President Wilson
to buy a bale of cotton so as to
help the Southern cotton dealers
out of a financial predicament, is
fine-for the owners of the cotton.
Why. not appeal to the country in
the interest of the lumbermen who
have immense stocks of lumber on
hand, to buy a thousand feet or
more, so as to enable the mill
owners to again resume operations
and give the discharged employees
work. Or buy railroad tickets and
start a boom in that direction so
the thousands of employees can
come back and earn their daily
bread. There are hundreds of
industries that could be assisted,
not including the newspapers and
printers, if the president would
look the country over.-Stillwater
Gazette.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02
WHAT OTHERS SAY

We have never read anything
about the dum-dum bullets that
impressed us with the idea that
war was pleasant pastime to
engage in. But we presume that
if man is to be killed by a bullet
pushed into his frame with speed
and force. it really dosen't make
much difference how you spell it
it wouldn't be any more painful if
the u" in the name of the bullet
was an a. ''-Stillwater Gazette.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

]. D. Murphy. pioneer resident
of the Mesaba and Vermilion
ranges, who was a cruiser in this
section before iron was discovered
on either the Mesaba or Vermilion
ranges. and we'll known resident of
Tower, who claims the distinction
of having raised the first Murphy"
on the Vermilion range, is a Vir-
ginia visitor this morning. Mr..
Murphy has just returned from the
country north of Cook where he
has been acting as one of the ap-
praisers of County Ditch No. 8, de-
signed to reclaim a low-1ying
swamp land. The ditch traverses
township 62-17, Is, 10, 20 and Fl
and completed will reclaim approx
mately AZ, 795 acres of land in the
northern section of St. Louis
county. Mr.. Murphy is one of the
ardent democrats of his home town
and thinks the prospects for demo
cratic success this fall is better
than for years. Virginia Enter
prise.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02


Chisholm's new all glass enclos-
ed conservatory is the first of its
kind on the range. 1t serves the
purpose of sort of glorified green
house, and student florists will
have an excellent opportunity to
study the plant life displayed.
Botanical investigation can be car
ried on to excellent advantage here.
The idea is a new one, and is
adapted to local purposes for the
first time here. 1t has no dupli-
cate on the range, and is one of
the many innovations peculiar to
the Chisholm schools, at least so
far as the range is concerned
Chisholm Tribune Herald.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

If the price of one battle ship was
given to Grant McMahan to be
spent on county roads in his dis
trict, they could all be cemented
and have nickel-plated curb-lines
to 'em. And what a lot of good
would come from the money
Tower News.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02
Mothers Club

The Mothers Club wishes to an
nounce that it has considerable
clothing on hand and that those in
need of the same will report to the
club.
The next meeting of the club
will be held at the Lincoln school
on Oct. at 3:45 p. m.
The Club is doing good work
and many poor families are being
provided~for.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1914-10-02

We have probably done as much
campaigning as any man in the
state yet we never believed it, but
we were compelled. or thought we
were, compelled to do so, because
others did it. We have always
believed and still believe that voters
of the state are intelligent enough
to vote right without instructions
from spellbinders or lurid articles
in newspapers. We believe that if
not one campaign speech was made
the result would not be changed
and we are considerable of wind
TANNER at that IS uk Center
Herald.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-24
EVERY FOOL" LETTER
NOT MUENSTERBERG'S
Harvard Professor Denies lie
Wrote to the Cologne
"GaZettp."
no CRITICISM OF THE L. :

BosToN. oct e3-Prof Hugo Muen-
sterberg Of Harvard donl,d emphatically
to-day that he is the author Of letter
attributed to him by the Cologne Gasctfc
in which the attitude OF the United states
In the present war is severely criticised.
Gable dispatches received in this coun-
try from Amsterdam gave the first news
of the letter. which read as follows
Every fool outside Germany IL pro.
foundlv convinced that Germany is 500
years behind the civilization of the other
western nations; that a breach Of aru-
trality il tho worst crime in the world
and that the Germans in Belgium arc
acting like vandals.
I'VE [thc newspaper presumes this 10
refer to the Germans in the Unltoi
Statesl have hard battle 10 fight and
| think many = battlefield IN compari.
son Is health resort. This would. OF
course. not hc important II American
public opinion had not such weight in thu
diplomatic situation IN the world. My
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-24

only hope lies in the reciprocal Jealousy
between Germany's enemies"
The cable dispatches add this comment
on the letter by the Cologne Gazette:
I'VE must continue to send our friends
In America reports dealing with the gcn-
cral situation in Germany, not merely
narrating our battlefield successes"
The letter Is an absolute fake" Prof
Muensterberg said to-day. Il have never
written any such letter to the Cologne
gazette or To any other paper or person
IN Germany or America. 7 have not
written any letter 20 the Cologne Gd:Cts
on questions Of the war or any other
matters. certainly within the past year.
and never in my recollection. I have not
written to or for any newspaper published
in Germany In the past three months.
! have written one letter to the editor
Of the Frankfort gazette. but on quite
another matter"
Tho closing sentence Of the Cologne
GdcCtt,'S letter. quoting Prof Mueustcr-
berg as saying that his only hope lies
lin the reciprocal Jealousy between Ger
many's enemies" was particularly objcc-
tionahlo to the professor.
1.-THE latter part OF the letter" he said.
"ls particularly absurd. You may mako
denial as strong as YOU like"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-24

IT. reply to questions Mrs. Carmau then
went ON TO say that She had had the u,.
most confidence In her husband up 20 las,
year She said that Notwithstanding hrr
suspicion, SHE SIN continued To- believe
That her husband was truthful. although
when the question Was repeated she 81 4
she dldh Know whether or not she did
believe him truthful. Then she admitted
that In spite o. the fact tnat she believed
%" was truthful she had never zone TO
him and asked him about his relations
with other women, even after her SUE
PIGEONS were aroused. She believed that
her husbands relations with some OF these
women were improper. that he was man
susceptible to such relations.
.. And you believed that other women
were more attractive 10 him than you
were? A. Yes.
Q. And you believed that with respect
TO many women? a 40. That was
what was trying to find out
@ You had no particular woman IN
mind? a. No.
q, SO you suspected that there were
many Of them? \ Yes
Coming then TO Mrs variance the
nurse whose face Mrs. Carman slammed
when she saw her husband giving her
money. Mrs. Carman declared she didn't
believe this Woman was more attractive
10 her husband than She herself. She
said she had no suspicion OF this woman
hut that she went out Of the house and
around 20 the window of her husbands
office just 20 sec what she could see
She said she knew II was not propcr
for her 70 do this. The first thing that
excited her was seeing her husband give
the woman Sl1 iu three s. bills
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-24
Cross-Exn m,nRtion Higgins.

with this Mr. Levy said THAT is all"
ana sat down. The District Attorney i'm
mediatsly arose and began his cross
examination.
o You have hid great many patients
since YOU have been practising, haven't
YOU. Or. Carman' \. Yes, q good many
u And you have had a great many
women patients. haven't YOU y. Well
/ don't know Perhaps more women
Most Of my work has been with children.
@. Isn't IL true that YOU have done r
.,i.at deal ~ surgical work for women =
\. No not great deal
@ Well isn't II true, DR.. Carman, that
while YOU were health officer you were re-
moved from office \. No.
O. As you were standing nv the door
with Mrs Bailey when the window was
broken. didn't you have your hand on her
shoulder A. No. had my hand on
her elbow.
q 30 YOU mean TO tell me that you
didn't testify at the Coroners inquest
that YOU had your hand on her shoulder?
\ No. I didn't.
O What time was II when the shot was
fred \. I had just looked at my watch
and it said & 30.
Here Mr.. smith read from the testimony
nj the CoroneT's inquest a reply from pr
Carmau I'm which he said that he had had
his hand on Mrs Bailey's shoulder.
@. Don't YOU remember Dr. Carman
that when YOU testified to this ! asked
,ou. DO YOU always get SO familiar with
stranre women" And Are you In the
habit OF kissing women whom you don't
lnow very we'll \ No, | don't think
| remember that.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-24

revolver? 4. No; have always said II
was masculine hand
Here Mr.. Smith asked Mr. Quinn 10
stand w, and the doctor admitted that he
knew him.
G. Now. will you swear, Or. Carman.
that you didn't tr. him that 1t was a
womans hand? A. why. | don't see why
| should have told him that
a. IT he says that YOU ala. will you
deny II? No because ! don't know why
he should tell an untruth about IT,
Justice kelby took u part in the exam
nation here by asking the doctor to ex-
plain why he had thought i; was u left
hand, and pr Carman said that he had
reached this conclusion because when the
revolver was held through the window he
saw only the first two fingers, while II
II had been right hand from the posi-
tlon IN which he was standing he would
have seen the back Of the hand
Mr. Smith droaped the examination
here and Mr.. Levy asked Dr. Carman IL
n" had slept alone the night of the MUIR
der.
NO" said the doctor, - slept with
Mrs. Carman."
Tho defence later called Ferdinand @.
Morton. negro attorney who interviewed
Celia Coleman IN the 1891 street boarding
house for the District Attorney. and
brought out from him the Information
'nil transcript OF IclitS statement at
that time was offered to Mr. Weeks of
the District Attorneys Office and declined
by him as being Of no use
\ few moments after Morton had left
the stand, ten minute recess was an
nounccd, and the District Attorney had
some very hot words with MIR Morton.
Morton was nut out of the court room
by constable ana the report went
around that the District Attorney was
going to make good his threat to have
Morton indicted for suhoruation of per-
jury.
nr. Runcie was called by the defence
and testified that ON the night of the
murder Mrs Carman called him aside and
said that she wanted to tell him some
thing which she wished he wouldn't re-
peat TO pr Cdrman She then told DR.
ltuncie Of the photograph. aud he prom
ised not to tell Dr. CaTman about IT, on
croSs-eNamination Mr.. Smith wanted to
know why Dr Runcie had not divulgod
such an Important bit Of information
earlier But Dr. Ruucie stuck 20 The as
sertion that he had no right to tell any
one about u.
Two OF tho dcfenco's witnesses were
Charles Adams and Percy Smith. Young
negroes ~ Frveport. Adams testified that
ho had passed ia" Carmln house ON the
night uf the murder at u little after \
O'Clock and had heard something that
sounded like revolver shot y few sec
onds later he saw a man run across the
'armnu lawn and jump over n picket
fence. This man continued on running
down the Nerr OK road until H. passed
out e sight.