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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
High Water Causes Apprehension.

Winona. - The promise of unusual
ly high water along the upper Missis-
sippi river this spring has caused APP
prehension among residents and
property holders along the river front
in many cities and at the same time
is the cause Of jubilation on the part
of steamboat owners who see an ideal
stage of water in which to launch the
seasons traffic.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
Hioh Dam to Resist Floods.

Minneapolis. - The high dam in
the Mississippi river, the completion
of which is to make Minneapolis the
head of navigation, win weather the
spring floods unless unprecedented
high water comes, Captain George w.
Freeman says. Last spring the dam
gave way in the center and the work
was set back for many months.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
Woman Races Wolves 5 Miles; Win

Woman Races Wolves 5 Miles; Wins.
Duluth. = After thrilling five-mile
race with a pack of wolves, while
skiing from her country school to
Paupore, Mimi, where she took a
train for Duluth, Miss Olga Lakela,
a school teacher, listened calmly to
addresses at the annual meeting of
the Northeastern Minnesota Educa-
tional association here. The thaw,
which made the roads slippery, aid
ed the teacher in making record time
On the skis, while it handicapped the
wolves. The animals abandoned the
chase near Paupore.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25

These prices on Manila Irvine We're
made by the board in the face OF
recent advance in the price of Manila
hemp of from 5 to cents a pound.
The prison plant will turn out about
22,O00,00O pounds of Irvine this year.
A stock of raw material purchased
when the prices were low enabled the
board to make the low prices.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
Washington

A petition asking the Impeachment
of Judge George A. Carpenter of the
United States court at Chicago has
been filed with the house judiciary
committee at Washington. Represen-
tative Tinkham of Massachusetts, filed
the petition at the request of &. F.
Sweeney of Boston, who charged
Judge Carpenter with improper rrac-
tice in connection with the Rock Is
land railroad receivership.
The senate at Washington by q
vote of 55 to Is ratified the long pend
ing and persistently opposed Nicara-
guam treaty, whereby the United
States would acquire 99-year option
on the Nicaraguan Canal route and a
naval base in the Gulf of Fonseca for
$3,00O,0O0.
Increase Of the regular army to $780,
600 men was provided in bill intro
duced in the senate at Washington by
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia. 1t
was Immediately referred to the SEN
ate military affairs committee, now
engaged in re-drafting the Chamber
lain omnibus army bill.
The United States has rejected a
proposal from Sweden that the United
States call together a conference Of
neutral powers for the purpose Of
joint protest against the violations Of
international law by Great Britain.
Lansing announcer at Washington
that the U. S. would act alone.
Part Of the state departments data
on the Mexican situation, asked for
by Senator Fall, were transmitted to
the senate at Washington by Presi-
| dent Wilson. In a letter from Secre-
tary Lansing accompanying the report
1t is said that LAG American citizens
were killed in Mexico in the last six
years.
A full-grown American eagle sew
eral feet high is on exhibition at the
| White House at Washington and at
~A@SeSu SohoAuOidOiC dllSullOu. IL Is
the gift of Judge G. F. Patrick of Colo
RADIO to President Wilson.
Two pension bills passed the house
at Washington proposing in all the
addition of more than $2,5O0,OO0 an
nually to pension expenditures. One
would grant pensions to the widows
of Spanish war veterans and the 9TH
er bill would give $50 month to sur
vivors of Indian wars.
Sidney w. Wirslow, president of the
United Shoe Machinery company of
Boston, admitted at the senate hear
ing at Washington that he has been
actively hostile to Louis D. Brandeis
for years.
The Lusitania case is held ND and
the entire question of submarine war
fare reopened as a result of the Ger
man and Austrian declarations that
armed merchantmen shall be sunk
without warning. 1t was declared by
high official of the state department
at Washington.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
AQed Sleiuh Still in Use.

Edward Berry of West Pittsfeld
drives a sleigh which he asserts is 1874
years old. He says it was bought by
the West Pittsfield Shakers in 1851
and was supposed to have been thirty
years old then. 1t is now owned by
Irving Weller and has been in his
family forty-fve years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
Personal

DR.. Henry B. Favill of Chicago, one
of the most prominent physicians of
Chicago, is dead at Springfield, Mass,
the victim Of pneumonia
Maurice Vignaux, French billiardist
of international fame, died at Monte
Carlo, according to cable advices re-
ceived at New York. Challenged by
George Sutton, Vignaux won, 500 to
496, at the Grand hotel, Paris, January
20, 1904.
The engagement of Miss Irene Lang
horne Gibson, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, and George
B. Post, Jr., of New York, was an
nounced at New York.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
MANY Leap Years in Century.

The modern woman, supposedly an
adjunct Of the twentieth century, will
have ample opportunity along enc GER
tain line as this hundred years will
contain the greatest possible number
of leap years, "a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
Set Irvine Price.

The farmers of Minnesota, despite
the fact that prices of raw sisal have
advanced about 3 cents a pound in
the last few months, will pay but Ia
cents more this year for the best
grade of sisal binder Irvine made at
Saltwater prison than they were COM
PEELED to pay last year. The prices Of
Irvine for 1916 have been set by the
state board of control.
The comparative prices for 1915 and
1916 follow:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25

Nearly $2,900,000 has been sent from
the United States for the relief of Jew
ish sufferers in the war zones, it was
announced at New York by the joint
distribution committee of the Jewish
Relief fund.
John Bergman, leading stockman of
st. Joseph, Mo-, and prominent for
some years, was shot and killed by
William B. Richardson, an employee.
The two men quarreled over bust
ness deal.
w. H. Hull, president Of the st. Jo-
seph- Chicago Steamship company; G.
T. Arnold, manager; H. Petersen, cap
tain; ]. M. Erickson, engineer, and K.
Reid and C. c. Eckliff, federal inspec-
tors, charged by the government with
responsibility for the Eastland disas-
ter at Chicago, do not have to go there
to stand trial. This decision was hand
ed down by Federal Judge Clarence
w. Sessions at Grand Rapids, Mich.
The greatest disorder prevailed in
the house of representatives at Okla
homa City, Okla, when the lie was
passed between two representatives
during a debate. Legislators hurled
several inkwells across the hall and
Arthur H. Geissler, chairman Of the
Republican state central committee,
was knocked insensible.
The Seaboard Air Line Florida Spe-
cial No. 10 northbound. was wrecked
between Richmond, Va, and Chester.
Forty persons were injured.
The secret marriage two weeks ago.
after a three-day courtship of Miss
Louise Lansing Of Jacksonville, Fla,
niece of Secretary of State Lansing,
and Louis G. Logsdon of Greensboro.
KY. was revealed at St. Louis.
Hans Schmidt, the unfrocked priest
who murdered his sweetheart, Anna
Aumueller, was put to death in the
electric chair in Sing Sing prison at
Ossining, N. Y.
John P White, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, and
"a other members of the wage scale
committee of the 100000 anthracite
miners arrived in New York to partic-
ipate in the conference with the an
thracite operators.
John E. Hartenbower Of Chicago
president of the Tonica Exchange
bank. and George d. Hiltabrand, the
cashier. were found guilty at Ottawa
ing the bank was insolvent Each was
sentenced to three years in prison.
Miss Catherine A. Bliss, a daughter
of Cornelius N. Bliss of New York,
left an estate estimated in a state tax
appraisers report at S1,674,054 She
possessed collection of jewels worth
almost $4,000. Miss Bliss died in
March, 1915.
The superdreadnaught PENNSYLVANIA,
the largest battleship yet built for the
United States navy, left the plant o.
the Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Docks company for Rockland, Me-,
to run the official government speed
and endurance trials.
William Lorimer, former United
States senator from Illinois and presi-
dent of the Inflated LaSalle Street
Trust and Savings bank, went alone to
the criminal court building at Chicago
to begin his fight against the charges
OF conspiracy to wreck the bank.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
Hears Wife starves in Poland.

Duluth. = Dr. Aidon Civil of this
city has received a communication
from Secretary of State Lansing stat
ing that his wife had died of starva-
ton in Poland and that his three chill
dren are facing a similar fate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
Foreign

1t became known in Rome that Pope
Benedict for the last two weeks has
been suffering from slight attack of
grippe. The pontiff continues his audi
enceS.
Theodore Roosevelt arrived at st.
Thomas, D. w. l., from New York on
the steamship Guiana. In the absence
OF the governor, who is at St. Croix, he
was welcomed by the governors secre-
tary.
Millions of dollars damage has been
done by the gale which swept over
the British Isles, the North sea and
the coast of Holland.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
Safe Bet.

Safe Bet.
Shelf fashion makes our dresses
any Shorter / don't know what well
do.
Hell do; you'll wear them.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
NornnaI School Heads Confer.

Normal SCHOOL FeduS COnIer.
Winona. = President G. E. Maxwell
of the Winona normal school has
gone to Chicago to attend the annual
meeting of the Northwestern council
of normal school superintendent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25

iSA...s.~S .-A-ioo.A-, - .--~4 -'A ~
ish parliament member and famous
international spy, again fell into the
hands of the federal authorities at
New York after eluding capture for
more than a month.
Twenty persons were injured, sew
eral probably fatally, and nearly forty
more were badly shaken up, cut and
bruised when a Sixty-third street car,
in Chicago, struck an open switch,
leaped across the street and rammed
it's nose upward into the front OF a
building.
Five persons were killed and six
injured, three seriously, when North
ern Pacific passenger train No. 2,
known as the North Coast Limited,
crashed into the rear end Of Northern
Pacific Burlington train No. AZ, at
South Cheney, Wash.
Mrs. Rose Wood, a young married
woman, was shot and instantly killed
on a crowded interurban car at Hunt
ington. w. Va, by Mrs. Leonard De-
foe, who declared Mrs. Wood had
alienated her husbands affections.
Four persons were killed, at least q
dozen others injured and heavy prop
erty damage was caused by an ex-
plosion in the split rock plant of the
Semet-Solvay company at Syracuse,
N. Y. The plant engaged in the manu-
facture of picric acid, which is used
in explosives.
An American lawyer OF Manila
named Kelly has been sentenced by
the supreme court to six months i'm
prisonment for the publication Of a
book which says that General Noriel,
who was put to death, was innocent
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
important to Mother.
What Did She Mean?

What Did She Mean?
Miss Modern-Do you suppose that
one should catch disease from kisses?
Mrs. Wise-Well. l caught hus-
band.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
Sees Abundance of Seed Corn.

The seed corn situation in Mime
sofa is not so serious as predictions
last fall held it would be at this time,
according to A. C. Army, agronomist at
University farm In fact, he says there
is an abundance of seed corn, such as
it is" so far as seed supply goes, Min
nesota's corn acreage the coming sea-
son should not be up to normal.
There is plenty of good germinat
ing corn in South Dakota to furnish
Minnesota farmers with Seed" Mr..
Army said, "in varieties that will ma
ture here, though not of the kind that
we'd like most to plant. Minnesota
No. 13 and No. %, varieties develop
ed in this state and proved profitable,
are little more scarce; the situation
as to them is rather acute, | should
say.
Bracken Called to Washington.
DR.. H. M. Bracken, secretary Of the
Minnesota Board of health, has been
called to Washington to give his views
on the proposed establishment of a ma
tional asylum for lepers, before the
senate committee on public health, of
which Senator j. E. Ransdell of Louisi-
ana is chairman. DIR. Bracken is con-
sidered an authority on leprosy, hav-
ing had more than 100 cases under his
observation in Minnesota at various
times.
X X X
Would Sell Foreign Bonds.
The State Board of Investment held
a meeting in the offices of Governor
Burnquist to hear offers by brokers for
all or a part of the s2,127,0O worth of
foreign bonds owned by the state. The
board is anxious to dispose of the
bonds SO that the money realized from
them may be lent to Minnesota NUM-
cipalities and school districts
X X X
IL Bushei Yield Pays Cost.
Minnesota wheat growers must
produce more than IL bushels to the
acre to make profit, according to fig
ures obtained at University farm as
a result of study of five-year average
VI COStS anu lCIui Id Oh OO'CioA ioA Abo'
F. w. Peck, farm management spe-
cialist, says yield of IL bushels OF
wheat is necessary to pay the cost of
cultivation, and that to way such cost
in growing corn a 3O-DHahel yield is
necessary; in oats, "a bushels; barley,
- bushels; potatoes, 10 bushels; hay,
one tone to the acre.
X X
For Merchandising instructions.
Implying that the agricultural inter-
ests Of the state are getting more at
,ention from the university thai de-
served in proportion to other interests,
resolutions asking for a broadening Of
the university instruction in retail
merchandising have been presented to
the regents. The regents met as the
executive committee in the absence of
a quorum of the board. The resolution
came from the Minnesota Retail Fur
niture Dealers association. They ap.
proved of the merchandising instruo.
tons thus far given.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25
Domestic

Nearly $2,9O0,O0O has been sent from
the United States for the relief of Jew
ish sufferers in the war zones, it was
announced at New York by the joint
distribution committee of the Jewish
Relief fund.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25

Increase of the regular army to ESQ.,
900 men was provided in a bill intro
duced in the senate at Washington by
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia. 1t
was Immediately referred to the SEN
ate military affairs committee. now
engaged in re-drafting the Chamber
lain omnibus army bill.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25

William Lorimer, former United
States senator from Illinois and presi-
dent of the Inflated LaSalle Street
Trust and Savings bank, went alone to
the criminal court building at Chicago
to begin his fight against the charges
OF conspiracy to wreck the bank.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25

The Lusitania case is held up and
the entire question of submarine war
fare reopened as result of the Ger
man and Austrian declarations that
armed merchantmen shall be sunk
without warning. it was declared by
a high official of the state department
at Washington.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-02-25

Sidney w. Wirslow, president of the
United Shoe Machinery company of
Boston, admitted at the senate hear
ing at Washington that he has been
actively hostile to Louis D. Brandeis
for years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-18

Easily. P4eDaFea- Costs ve1y
Little. but q Prompt, Sufo -
' and Elective

! By making this pint of old.time cough
syrup ct home YOU not only save about
81, e compared with the ready-made
kind, but you will also have much more
prompt and positive remedy in every way.
It overcomes the usual coughs, throat and
chest colds in "a hours-relieves even
Whooping cough quickly-and is excellent,
too, for bronchitis, bronchial asthma,
hoarseness and spasmodic Group.
Get from any drug store 2k ounces of
Pinex. $50 cents WORTH, pour it into a
pint bottle and fiji the bottle with plain
1ranulated sugar syrup. Full directions
with Pinex. Keeps perfectly and tastes
good,
You can feel this take hold of cough
or cold in way that means business. 1t
quickly loosens the dry, hoarse or pain
full cough and heals the infiamed mem.
branes. It also has remarkable effect
in overcoming the persistent loose cough
by stopping the formation of phlegm in
the throat and bronchial tubes.
The effect of Pine on the membranes is
known by almost every one. Pinex is a
most valuable concentrated compound Of
genuine Norway pine extract combined
with guaiacol and other natural healing
pine elements.
There are MANY worthless limitations
OF this famous mixture. To avoid dis
appointment. ask your druggist for "2h
ounces of Pinex," and do not accept any.
thing else.
A guarantee of absolute satisfaction,
or money promptly refunded. goes with
this preparation. The Pinex Co., Fl
Wayne. Ind.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-18

Of 1913, which brought in $s,A2N7. the
1912 crop cashed up 0,04S. while the
crop of 1914 shipped out over the b. q A.
realized but fraction over $i,00O,OOo.
For the last three years. namely. 1875
1914 and 1915, there was shipped over the
B. & A. to Dec. 81 as follows: 1913 crop,
S073,711 bushels; 1914. 6,004. 14s; 1915, 4.6'o'-
GIT. 1t will be seen that from the begin
ming of the season to the end of the year
there were shipped in 1913 nearly twice as
many as had gone this season up to same
date, while there is big falling on from
1914.
Guesses are plenty as to the approx
mate size of the crop of this year. Many
think the crop half shipped out, some
good judges reckon the shipments to Jan.
LIST at around 40 per cent. Mr.. Snow, Gen
eral Agent of the B. & A.. who keeps as
close tabs as any man in the county on
potato statistics and conditions, thinks
there will be around 100000 bushels
shipped over the b. & A. Railroad TINS
season. If this proves to be the case the
chances are that the different crops III
Aroostook will bring in as much money
as in any previous year.
1t may not be as evenly distributed. put
it is big thing to get $lO,ooe,ooo to $4,000
600 into the county. Even if unequaiiy
distributed, it will find it's way into the
banks in increased deposits. tend 70
stimulate business greatly by the I'M
provements and expenditures that Will De
made, and will put the county on good'
even keel.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-18
MADISON

The local plant of the American
Wooden Co is being pushed to It's fuii
capacity and night crews are busy IN
nearly all departments. The mill IN
common with other mills of the COM
panY is at work on war orders ana at
the present time is making over-coat-
ing for the Russian army Inc ciotn
is shipped direct to the Imperial Rus
sian government at Archangel Satur-
day two inspectors representing the
Russian government were at the miii.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Leonard. VINO
were called a week ago to Northern
Maine Junction by the death of Mr..
Lecnard's father, returned home Mon
day.
Owing TO the illness of Rev. F. n.
Means the usual evening service was
omitted at the Congregational church
Sunday evening.
Fred Adams left town Monday morn
ing for Camden, where he has posi-
ton as overseer in the weaving de-
partment of one of the wooden mills.
Mrs. Moses Wentworth. who has
been the guest of her son, S. f. Rem
ick for few days, returned Saturday
afternoon to her home in Sanford.
Arthur Hilton is critically i'll with
an attack of the grip at his residence
on Brook street in Arson.
The annual report of the Methodist
Sunday school given Sunday. showed
an average attendance of lis for the
year. The school has an enrolment of
263 persons including the cradle roll
and home department.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-18
GRIPPE NOW EPIDEMIC
PUBLIC TAKE WARNING
KEEP AWAY FROM SNEEzEas
AND COUGHERS AND MAKE
THROAT GERM PROOF WITH
OXIDAZE.

People everywhere are commenting On
the epidemic of grippe. lneumonia,
coughs and colds that has struck Au.
gusta, just as it has attacked Chicago
Philadelphia, milwaukee,, Detroit am
other cities. A warning is issued to IN.
public by the Health authorities to 'keer
away from those who are sneezing and
coughing and to keep out of crowds as
much as possible as the air is filed with
infectious germs of disease
One of the simplest and best ways to
avoid contracting or to quickly stop
coughs and colds which may lead 10
Grippe or Pneumonia is to breathe deeply
through the nose. walk in the fresh air
as much as possible and keep the throat
clean, antiseptic and germ-proof by dis
solving in the mouth two or three times
daily little Oxidaze, in tablet form
These OXidaze tablets are made from a
physicians prescription and wifi knock
out the average cough or cold inside Of
twenty-four hours. A few tablets taken
in time will almost invariably prevent
the cold becoming grippe, pneumonia or
something worse. Bowditch & Webster
and most of the best druggists have these
Oxidaze tablets and sell them on the pc 81.
tive guarantee that they will break UP a
cold and stop a cough or money back
Be sure to insist on OXidaZe tablet form,
and take nothing in their place. They
are easy and convenient to take. contain
no habit forming drugs and. unlike crai.
nary cough drops and cough Remedies
are guaranteed to stop your cold o.
money back.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-18

when the grip set in and she lived but
q short time. In her weakened state
she could not combat the dread dis
ease.
Mrs. Boston was born in Canaan in
August, 1873: daughter of Sanford w.
and Mary J. .Burrill. She was educat-
ed in the public schools and in the
High school in her native town. She
prepared for the vocation of teacher
and successfully taught in the town
schools until her marriage to Wilton
Boston in August, 1897. The yeaO of
their married life they passed at their
pretty country place south of the viii
lage. Resides the husband, a daughter
and little son, the mother, Mrs. Mary
Burrill. and two sisters, Mrs. Vesta
Holt and Miss Lucie Burrill, both of
Canaan mourn their loss. Much SYM
PATTY is felt-for the bereaved family.
Mrs. Boston was an honored member
of Canaan Grange and after the funer-
al services, which were held at F. M.
Sunday in the village church, the
Changers held their beautiful and i'm
pressive burial service over the re-
mains. Many were the floral offerings
brought, mute testimonials of the at
lection in which she was held by ev-
eryone.
or gentle nature, with quiet tastes,
happy her home and family, she en-
deared herself to all with whom she
came in contact. Strong and beautiful
are the ties of affection formed by one
like, her. who gave love without stint.
They will outlast time and stretch into
eternity.