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The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
MINISTER'S RECALL ORDERED
Won 6ERNsToRFF SUMMONED TO
BERLIN, SAYS DISPATCH.
Failure to Create a Sympathetic or
pro-German Atmos .shere in
America Alleged Cause.

London, Feb. 17-An Exchange dis
patch from Amsterdam says it is ru-
mored In Berlin that Count yon Bern
storm, German ambassador at Wash
ington, has been summoned to Berlin.
The dispatch adds that it is not known
whether the summons entails temper
ary absence from his post or means
his disgrace.
Ihere has been much intrigue late
ly IN Wllhelmstrasse against Count
Won Bernstorff, who it is acknowledg-
ed, has completely failed to create a
sympathetic Or pro-German atmos.
phere in America.
The Countess Won Bernstorff, who
had engaged passage aboard the
steamship Rotterdam for New York,
cancelled her reservation just a few
hours before the ship sailed on Satur-
day.
Denies Ambassadors Recall.
Washington, Feb. 16.-At the Ger.
man embassy it was denied that
Count Won Bernstorff has received a
summons to return to Berlin. The
formal denial of the report was the
only comment the embassy would
make.
In semi-official German circles, how.
ever, the report was characterized as
ridiculous on its face. The question
was asked:
How would it De possible for Count
Won BernStorff to get to Berlin with
out risk of capture by the British?"
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
WOULD BE MADE HARDLY
MORE THAN AN ADvlS-
DRY BODY.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
WOULD PLAN STATE ROADS
Working Out Road Taxes In Labor
Abolished by Dunn Law, Is Re-
stored by Making rs per Cent
of Such Taxes Payable
In Work.

St Paul.-Denaturing of the r. c.
Dunn road law is proposed in i
bill introduced in the house with the
names of six authors They are Ivor
j. Lee, L. o. Teigen, P. F. Frye, H. A
Putnam, c. E. Southwick and George
p. Latin.
The measure makes the state high
way commission hardly more than an
advisory body, as it gives county com
missioners authority to designate an6
make plans for state roads. The high.
way commission and county boards arc
to act together in appointing road su.
pervisors.
Working out road taxes in labor
abolished by the Dunn law, is restored
by making IS per cent of such taxes
payable in work.
The bill increases in various ways
the percentages which the state may
pay of the cost of road work. 1t re
duces the minimum which county
may draw from the state fund from !,
per cent to eight-tenths of / per cent
The senate made J. A. Vernilyas
bill to repeal the Elwell law a specia.
order for Wednesday at II a. m.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
ANTi-SUFF FRAGiSTS OPPOSE
SUBMITTING QUESTION NOW

st. Paul, Feb. 13.-The Minnesota
Association Opposed to Woman Suf
frage have issued a statement as to
why the organization was opposed to
submitting the question of woman
suffrage ito the electorate at this time.
They set forth that they are in favor
Of submitting to the people cousti.
.ional amendment as the only demo
cratic way OF settling the question, but
express the belief that longer time
should be given to present to the vot
.ers of the state the arguments, both
for and against the amendment, in
order that public sentiment may be
aroused, SO the result of the election
Will be intelligent-a consensus of
public opinion and not the apathetic
sction which has so far given woman
uffrage it's victory.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
VOTE ON WoMAN's SUFFRAGE
BILL IN SENATE is DELAYED

st. Paula vote on the woman s
suffrage bill in the senate was
delayed again when Senator Ole
o. Sageng, its author, asked to be ex
cused from the senate session for onc
week. Illness was given as the cause
The bill probably will not be called ur
for vote until he has returned to his
seat.
Senator ]. w. Andrews, one of the
senators whose absence was partly re,
sponsible for the postponement of the
vote, has returned.
Senator w. s. Dwinnell, a supporte:
o. the bill, left for Florida last weel
on account of the illness of his daugh
ter and is not expected to return t.
the senate before Feb. %.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
CHURCHILL DECLARES BRITAIN
WILL USE GREAT PRESSURE
TO CHOKE OFF GER.
MANY'S PROVISIONS.
YEAR OF WAR TO COST
ALLIES $4,000, 900
Lloyd George Asserts Great Britain
Has Resources Which Will Last
Five Years, and France Suf.
ficient for Three Years
IT War Lasts.

London, Feb. 1.-THE countries
lighting against Germany, Austria and
Turkey up to the present time have
thrown only third of their strength
into the field. To maintain this force
and to bring the remaining two-thirds
into action will cost 100000, 900
pounds sterling ($1O,OOO,OOO O,OOO) dur
ing the current year.
This announcement was made in
the house Of commons by 'David-Lloyd
George, chancellor of the exchequer,
who with Winston Spencer Churchill,
first lord of the admiralty, gave the
British public perhaps a closer view
Of the machinery behind the great
struggle than any that has been af-
forded since the outbreak of the war.
England Decides to Act.
Mr.. Churchill declared amid cheer
Ing that Great Britain finally had de-
cided to clamp on every ounce of sea
pressure to choke Off Germany's food
supply in retaliation for the German
submarine policy, while Mr.. Lloyd
George drew additional cheering by
4 reference to loans to countries which
he said he expected to throw in their
ot with the allies.
These countries the chancellor did
oot name. 1t was the first time that
l reference was made in parliament
If such expectations.
The announcement of the govern
ment's decision with relation to Ger
nany's food supplies came almost CO.
incidentally with the receipt of two
dispatches from the United States.
One said that Count Won Bernstorff,
The German ambassador, had informed
he Washington government that Ger
many was willing to abandon her sub
marine policy provided Great Britain
ceased interfering with cargoes of
toodstuffs, and the other declared that
ne again had advised neutral shipping
% avoid those waters which Germany
had declared would become a danger
,us area three days hence.
Resources to Lart Five Years.
Mr.. Lloyd George gave the details
sf the financial arrangements of the
allies as they were decided on at the
Paris conference of the British,
srench and Russian ministers OF fin
,nce, and put into round figures what
heretofore had been guessed-the re-
narkable increase in the productivity
and efficiency of the Russian people by
:he prohibition of tle sale of vodka.
This productivity and efficiency he
placed as high as so per cent.
Great Britain, the chancellor of the
sxchequer said, had resources which
would last five years, and France
perhaps sufficient for three years.
Mr.. Lloyd George paid tribute to
he burden that France at present is
bearing, and gave pledge that the
allies would stand by Belgium finan.
:ially until the time for the settlement
zane.
Mr.. Churchill disclosed for the first
.ime the total naval losses as the re-
suit of the war. These, he said, were
upwards of 5000 officers and men. a
majority of them victims of SUBJ
marines.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Bill Would Abolish ViiiaQe.

st. Paul, Feb. 13.-A bill to abolish
the village of Banning, Pine county,
so as to. put lone saloon out of busi-
ness was on the house calendar. but
action was deferred. The measure is
general in form, terminating all viEag-
es of less than 200 inhabitants, cut
Banning is the only one in the state.
The Banning saloon is unpopular in
Sandstone, dry city only two miles
away. The bill was placed on the cal
endar after a hard fight, having first
been defeated in committee of the
whole and this action later reversed.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Holland Protests War Zone,

The Hague. via London, Feb. 16.-
The Netherlands has maintained the
strictest neutrality by presenting
notes of protest at the same moment
% Germany and Great Britain regard
,ng the acts of these governments in
respectively declaring a war zone of
he waters around the British Isles
md in using neutral flags.
Diplomats here have been awaiting
action Of this kind, and their expecta-
tons were fulfilled when it was an
nounced that the Dutch minister a,
Berlin had been instructed to hand
the note to the German foreign Of
ice, the other note being communi
Gated to Great Britain at the same
time
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
To Protect Railroad Laborers,

s. Paul-Railroad companies will
be compelled to maintain build.
ngs to protect laborers from in.
clement weather while working ir iso-
ted districts, if bill introduced in
the house by Representative w. L. Ber-
nard of Duluth becomes a law.
The house Insurance committee ia
troduced bill for an appropriation Of
S70,800 for the maintainance of the
state insurance department for two
years.
Two thousand dollars is allowed for
the maintenance for two years of the
Minnesota department Of the Grand
Army of she Republic in q bin intro
ducad. ...'..
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
U. s. Anxious About Mexico.

Washington, Feb. 15.-The admins
tration is confronted by serious and
perplexing difficulties in Mexico. Car
ranza's sudden removal of the Span
ish minister at Mexico City and his
constant manifest efforts to embroil
or embarrass this government caused
the administration serious anxiety. A
message just forwarded, informed
Carranza sharply that any further
trouble and that score might bring
upon him serious difficulties with the
United States.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
County Option in House.

st. Paul.-County option likely
will come to a vote in the house
this week, perhaps Thursday or FRI
day. Both sides now are anxious that
the vote be cast, result announced and
option out of the way for this session
or forever.
The county optionists live in con
forces will steal a few of those pledg.
ed to option away from them. No man
is considered to be entirely safe.
On the other hand the anti-county
optionists do not appreciate the man
ner in which men known to be against
ters and petitions to vote for option.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Germany Warns scandinavians.

Copenhagen, via London, Feb. 15.-
Germany has informed the Scandin-
avian governments that no foreign
vessels or coasting ships will be per-
mitted until further notice within &
certain area off the coast of Schles-
wig-Holstein or off the German North
Sea coast westward of the Elbe and
Weser rivers, and the East Frisian is
lands. Scandinavian coasting vessels
plying between ports in the Baltic and
between Scandinavia and Holland
henceforth will give wide berth to
German territorial waters.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
DELEGATION SPLIT OVER
CIVIL SERVICE PROPOSAL

The proposed repeal Of the law
which created the Minneapolis civil
service commission with consequent
lbolishment of civil service in local
government has torn the Eennepin
delegation as has no other pending
-:lslatlOn.
James Dwyer, author of the repeal
bill, threatens that if Mayor Nye does
not cease to oppose the repeal he will
introduce bill providing election ma
chinery for the recall of mayors in
cities of the first class mot having a
home rule charter"-which means
minneapolis.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Introduce Land Bill.

st. Paul, Feb. 12.-At the request
of ]. A. o. Preus, state auditor, there
was introduced in the house by Repre-
sentative Charles Warner, bill which
is calculated to prevent large sections
of state lands falling into the hands
of spectators. The bill would pro-
hibit any person or corporation from
buying more than 160 acres of state
lands, would prohibit purchase by
proxy excepting under rigid condi-
tions and provides that certain i'm
proyements must be made within
seven years
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Money for BeTgians by Mail.

New York, Feb. 16.-It is now pos
sible to send money direct from the
United States 10 individuals in Bel
GUM, according to announcement
made by Lindon w. Bates, vice chair
man of the commission for relief i'm
Belgium. Heretofore the commission
could not handle funds.
Arrangements now have been per-
fected with local banks in Belgium
whereby drafts may be sent through
the London Office Of the commission
and paid in any town in Belgium.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Uraes Glasses for Deaf.

st. Paula bill permitting any
school district or independent or
public school to establish classes for
House of Representatives by Repre-.
sentative W. j. North of Duluth. Mr..
North is a member of the special com.
mittee appointed to investigate the
affairs of the state school for mutes at
Faribault.
The object of the bill is to give to
children of a tender age who are
threatened will deafness closer
medical attention.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Mexican Revolt

General Felipe Angeles reported
that his troops operating In north
western Mexico had repulsed the COM
bined Carranzista army in two sep
arate attacks on Monterey.
1t became known officially at the
state department at Washington that
Carranza had ordered Senor Olivares.
the Spanish minister at Mexico, out OF
the country. The expulsion became
effective on February 10, and Olivares
is already in Havana.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
FIRST BAYONET
CHARGE ON SKIS

Geneva, via Paris, Feb. 49,
What is said to be the first bay
onet charge on skis during the
present war was made in the vos-
ges mountains near Col du Bon
homme. Forty Alpine chasseurs
with two officers were cut off by
the Germans and were ordered to
surrender. They refused and
charged down the snow covered
y slope on their skis into the Ger
man trenches WFere terrible
struggle took place before the
French soldiers were overcome.
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The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Introduce Bill to Abolish Rures1.

St. Paul.-The public accounts
and expenditures and the immi-
grafton committees bill to abolish
the state immigration department was
to be introduced in the house on a
Joint report from the two committees.
The bill discontinues the present $685..
900 annual appropriation for the de-
partment and provides that the state
auditor have charge of immigration
affairs until the legislature maker
other ARRANGEMENTS.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
U S. Has Powerful Radio Plant

Washington, Feb. 15.-Although the
entire plant has not been completed
and the station, as yet, is equipped
onl- to receive messages, such excell-
ent results are being daily obtained
from the radio towers at Darien, on
the Isthmus of Panama, that officials
feel that the United States is now in
possession of most powerful military
naval adjunct. With two out of the
three great 600-foot towers completed
messages are being received without
difficulty from San Francisco and Ar
lington.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Foreign

The Spanish government at Madrid
has made applications to the powers
in order to obtain joint action to emo
what is termed to be state of an
archy in Mexico. Jose Caro-, the min
lister of Spain in Mexico, Is an in
voluntary fugitive on board the Ameri-
can battleship Delaware, in the har-
Dor of Vera Cruz Expelled from the
country by General Carranza.
Italian government at Rome appro-
priated 17O,O0O.00O francs ($34.O00,OOO)
for further military expenses up to
July, 1915.
Not only a hurricane, but with it an
earthquake and tidal wave. swept NO
Mans island of the Samoan group. and
three persons were killed. Entire vii
lagos disappeared.
Rulers of three scandinavian king
doms will hold another conference on
questions of floating mines. Germany's
declaration CT sea war zone and Brit
ish admiralty's views as to use of neu-
tral flags.
Mauna islands were swept by hur-
ricane. Not a house is standing. No
deaths have been reported. Population
lost everything. The food situation
serious and help is needed.
a
The Chinese government has par
doned DR.. Sun Vat Sen, father OF the
revolution which resulted in making
China a republic. and other rebel lead
ers.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Russians Meet Disaster.

Berlin, by wireless to London, Feb.
16.-The following announcement was
made by the Overseas News Agency:
third battle of the Mazurian lakes will
prove more disastrous to the Russians
that the other two, from present indi-
cations. 1t is believed that 10000
Russians were captured.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Orders Rate inquiry,

st. Paul-The senate passed
house resolution giving the rail-
road and warehouse commission per-
mission to join with other central wes-
tern states in making an investigation
of freight and passenger rates in west
ern classification territory. The reso-
luton permits the commission to eX-
end not to exceed $4,000 in making
The investigation. State commissions
)f Nebraska, South Dakota and North
Dakota are expected to act with the
Minnesota commission.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
100000 Fire at Cleveland.

Cleveland, O., Feb. 16.-One person
was severely hurt and three others
we're slightly injured when fire which
followed an explosion, believed to
havs been of natural gas, destroyed
the four-story building of Aldrich
Howey and Company, furniture deal
ers. Five other buildings in the re-
tail district were damaged by the
flames. The cgn,aye exceeds 100000.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Would Double Jurors Pay.

st. Paul-Representative Theodore
Christianson of Dawson has come
forward as the friend of the poor
unfortunates who are drawn to serve
on justice court and coroners' juries
The law now allows such jurors 81
without mileage regardless of how
long the case lasts. Mr.. Christian
son will introduce bill this weef
to give them 81 day and mileage,
the same as district court jurors.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Resume Hearing on Efficiency.

st. Paul = Public hearings on
The efficiency and economy bill have
been resumed. The joint committee
COX up the labor and commerce Sec
lion of the bill in the senate chamber.
Another hearing is set on the subject
If agriculture, and the final hearing OF
The series on the civil service, is to be
Saturday.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Switzerland Raises Taxes.

Basel, Feb. 16.-The taxes for tele-
phone and postage in Switzerland have
been increased, owing to the precar-
ious position of the Swiss federal
finances. A considerable number of
subscribers to the telephone have
withdrawn.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Funston Succeeds Bliss.

San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 16-Major
General Frederick Funston, who viii
succeed General Tasker H. Bliss as
commander of the department Of the
south, arrived here from San Fran
cisco. Formal transfer of the depart
nent will take place at once.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
To Repeal National Primary.

st. Paul, Feb. 13.-Repeal Of the
presidential preferential primary law
of 1913 is proposed in house bill in
troduced by Knut Knutson. Mr. Knut-
son would wipe it off the books before
1t is given its first trial, which would
be in 1916.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Cermans Active in AIsace.

Paris, Feb. i6.-Refugees who have
been expelled from Alsace-Lorraine.
declare that the Germans are making
extraordinary preparations to resume
tie offensive in that region.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19

Roswell F. Smith was hanged at
Chicago for the murder Of four-ycar'
old Hazel Weinstein.
Two rolls of banknotes. each con-
tanning $4,000, were stolen from the
paying teller's cage of the Dime Saw
ings bank in Brooklyn.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
LEGISLATORS Receive Salaries.

ST. Paul.-Senate and house en-
ployes had their fourth payday. The
senate emplo-es received $3,075 and
the house $4,420.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
European War Neips

The German emperor has summoned
James w. Gerard, the United States
ambassador. to conference at the inn
perial headquarters in the eastern war
zone. Mr. Gerard will go az once.
Doctor Won Bethmann-Hollweg, the
German chancellor. will accompany
him. MIR. Gerard has been equipped
with the proper instructions approved
by the president
According to the Budapest Daily
AZest, the Austro- Hungarian troops en-
tered Radautz. Bukowina, so uneX-
pectedly that they captured the en-
tire Russian general staff for the
Bukowina campaign. The commanding
suicide.
Refugees who have been expelled
from Alsace-Lorraine declare that the
Germans are making extraordinary
preparations to resume the offensive
fn that region.
Italy made virtually the same repre-
sentations to Germany as did the
United States concerning neutral
shipping in the sea war zone created
by the recent German proclamation, it
was made known.
Thirty-four British and French aero
planes and seaplanes dropped bombs
on Zeebrugge. Ostend. Middelkerke
and Blankenburgh. infiicting heavy
damage on these German bases. Claude
Grahame-White. q world-famous avi-
ator, fell into the sea off Nieuport. but
was rescued by French warship.
The new cargo steamer TorQuay OF
Dartmouth was towed into Scar
borough harbor in a sinking cOndi-
ton after either striking a mine or
having been torpedoed off the English
coast. One man killed and two in
iured.
An official statement given out at
the Paris war Office announced the col
lapse of the German offensive in Po-
land. Losses of Germans reported un.
precedented.
James W. Gerard. the American am
bassador, called on Gottlieb Won ia
gov, the German foreign secretary
at Berlin, and presented him the Amer.
,can governments note concerning the
German sea war zone proclamation.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
passe. semi-monthiy Pay Bill.

st. Paul, Feb. 13.-The house of rep
resentatives by a vote of SO to 33,
passed the bill compelling public SER
vie corporations to pay their employ
ss at least twice q month.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Digest Of WORLDS
IMPORTANT NEWS
EpiToME OF THE BIG HAPPEN.
lNGs OF THE WEEK.
TO Be READ At A GLANCE

items, Both Foreign and Domestic,
That Have Interest for Busy Read.
ers, Arranged and Classified
for Their Convenience.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19
Not a Reply to U. S. Note.

It was stated that the note received
by the ambassador from his foreign
office and carried by him personally
to the state department was not re-
ply to the recent American note to
Germany in regard to the war zone
decree. A more comprehensive and
detailed reply to that communication
is expected soon, although it was not
known officially here when il might
be looked for.
The note from Germany, is was
pointed out, constitutes a sort of in
termediary reply possibly presented
to this government because Of the
fact that the date when the war zone
decree goes into effect, Feb. 1S, is so
close at hand.
America is playing what state de-
partment officials call humanitari-
an role toward Great Britain and Ger.
many, in efforts to straighten out the
food shipments .tangle arising from
Germans vow of vengeance on Eng
land and incidental threat that Ameri-
can commerce would become invoi-
we'd.
If the United States does take
hand, 1t will be on the ground that
British detention of American food
cargoes, Germany-bound, lays Amerf-
can shipping open to German SUBJ
marine peril. But behind this, officials
limited, will be the humanitarian idea
of saving both Britain and Germany
from themselves.
The Ely miner., 1915-02-19

Francis ]. Heney, who became ia
nous through his prosecution of the
San Francisco graft cases, married
Mrs. Edna Van Wrinkle in Los Angeles
CAL Mrs. Van Winkle was campaign
manager for Mr.. Heney during his
senatorial race.