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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
DRAINAGE WORK
BOOSTERS NAMED
ARE APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR
eURNQUisT TO BEGIN PRELIM-
MARY SURVEY AT ONCE.
EXPECT TO ACCOMPLISH MUCH
Committee Of All Minnesota Develop.
ment Association Organizes-To
Prepare Reports for Presenta-
ton to Public at Large.

st. Paul. - Under appointment by
Gov. Burnquist, committee of the
All Minnesota Development associa.
ton, on state reclamation, floods and
drainage, has been organized. The
committee consists of A. L. Croker,
chairman; D. E. Willard, state drain.
age engineer; Senator John O'Neill
of Thief River Falls; A. B. Kaercher
of Ortonville; DR.. John Morley, presi-
dent of the Window Institute at Mon.
tevideo; w. H. Gemmel, general man
ager of the Minnesota and Interna-
tional railway, and Governor Burn
quist. The governors participation in
the committee Is on action by the de-
velopment association.
Expect to Accomplish Much.
This committees work, as well as
its creation, will be an outgrowth of
the presentation of this subject by
A. L. Crocker of Minneapolis at the
recent meeting of the All-Minnesota
Development association. 1t is expect
ed the committee will shortly begin
it's preliminary survey of it's field and
that much will be accomplished for
presentation to the public at large and
to the legislature at it's next session.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
t-COJ Wa,Eno CASE is
DECIDED BY HIGH COURT
Dam Owner Cannot Escape Obligation
by Citing Act of Consress-Dis-
trict Court Reversed.

st. Paul. In suit involving floods
alleged to have resulted from dams in
international waters, the supreme
court gave an opinion establishing i'm
portant presidents.
The court holds that "the owner Of
land abutting on a lake or stream is
entitled to have the water maintained
at the natural and ordinary level at ali
times; that authority granted by Con-
gress for raising a water level does
not relieve the dam owner from liza
bility since the legislation provided
does not relieve against liability for
damage to private property; and that
the act of Congress did not grant any
right Of fowage on privately owned
land"
The court reverses the order Of the
Koochiching county district court dis
missing the case Of Algot Erickson
against the Minnesota and Ontario
Power company and grants . new
trial.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
fWO ITRICT MANAGERS
Castigations Given Players Are
Like Fathers Reproofs.
Nothing They Resent So Much ~
Newspaper Criticism Of Boys Play
ina for Them-Wili Not
Tolerate Interference.

McGraw, manager of the New York
National league baseball club, Is very
strict with his players, but they all
swear by him, for they know that he is
ION the leveP' with them. The same
thing is true of McGraw's old side
partner, Hughie Jennings. They may
"call" their players numerically, In
the heat of a diamond battle for some
bad mistake, but such castigations are
like fathers reproofs to his sons, and
bear no I'LL will. Let someone else offer
criticism, and these two managers will
fight back just Ike q parent would
were his sons attacked.
There is nothing they resent so deep
ly as newspaper criticism Of their play
ers. They assume that they can con-
duct their own baseball households
without outside Interference, and as
they are the parties responsible for the
showing Of the teams, they propose to
do 1t.
Both are very hotheaded, and for this
reason their seats on the bench are
Isolated and shiny-the former condi.
ton due to discretion on the part of
the players, and the latter to nervous
hitching about, melted by the manag.
erial view Of various plays. If some
unlucky wight out on the diamond
happens to err, colleague roosting
close to the manager is likely to be the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
TIMBER FIRES STARTED
TO COVER FRAUD, CHARGE
Assistant State Forester Seeks Advice
on Contemplated Prosecutions
Rangers Gather Evidence.

st. Paul. = D. P. Tierney, assistant
state forester, arrived from the forest
fire region and conferred with the at
torney generals department to ask
legal aid for prosecutions under regu-
lations regarding slash and brush dis
posal.
Mr.. Tierney said he will urge fur
Their actions to recover damages on
losses of state timber.
Prosecutions are planned at Ray
and Ericsburg, he said, and rangers
in adjacent districts are trying to OBJ
tain evidence for others.
Suspicious have been raised of in
cendiarism and fraud in connection
with the fires on state timber lands"
Mr.. Tierney said "but before any
specific charges are made. I want to
check records to see exactly which
state tracts have burned.
'The state auditor is investigating
the damage suffered by the state"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
State to Sen Pipestone Lots.

Pipestone. Minnesota is arrang-
ing to close out it's real estate holdings
in Pipestone. September is the date
fixed by the state auditor for sale of
lots A to j inclusive-11 in all, and
appraised at $50 to SIS each-owned
by the state. The lots were secured
in 1913. bid in on a tax Judgment sale
against piano company. Under the
sale terms the buyer has to pay down
only 10 per cent of the purchase price
and the first years interest and the
balance may be deferred for 20 years.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Parrots and Flag Cause Divorce.

Winona, Mimi, July 31.-Two talk
ing parrots and huge British flag
brought into his family life by his
sister-in-law are named as causes
for a divorce action by the Rev.
Frederick Kempster of St. Charles,
who seeks divorce from his wife on
grounds Of cruel and inhuman treat
ment. Mr.. Kempster alleges in his
complaint that his wife and her sister
insisted upon displaying the British
flag on the Fourth of July, other ma
tiQpal holidays and public occasions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
SWEET Towns Growing Wetter."

St. Paul. - Increased revenue from
the state tax on liquor licenses and
decrease of the wet territory made a
paradox discovered by George La
Fond, chief clerk in the Treasures
Office. Despite reports of more cities
and counties going dry during the
year, the state received $41,909.0S
liquor license taxes, compared with
$3S,975.56 during the fiscal year pre-
ceding. "The only explanation offered
thus far is that wet places must be
getting wetter."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
REsENTs J0SHING ABOUT AGE
Speaker Says Doesn't Matter II Hair
Is Getting Gray, So Long as He
Continues at Top Speed.

Iris Speaker resents being joshed
about his age. He says that just so
long as he continues to go at top
speed it really does not matter how
much the fans ride" him because his
hair is gray, but that it hurts when
he is going bad. Speaker refuses to
divulge his exact age, but declares that
he has been gray since he was seven
teen years of age, and that he Is not
yet thirty. Few fans will believe that
Iris is as young as he would like to
have people believe, but. after all,
what does it matter? He is playing
the greatest game Of his career, and
until he starts to slip the fans in Cleve-
land will not worry about his gray
hair
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Eiqhteen Bands Play at Waconia.

Waconia, Mimi, village Sc miles
southwest of Minneapolis, entertained
eighteen brass bands at an annual
band musicians contest. The Water
town Ladies' band was one of the
principal competitors for the $50
purse offered as first prize. For 10
years southern Minnesota has held
these contests to stimulate interest in
band playing. A big picnic was held
in the afternoon, at which the musical
contest between the different bands
furnished the entertainment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
CITIZENS ROHT |. w. w. ARMY
OrtonviIIe Resents Invasion by Unde.
sirables-Shots Fired.

Ortonville.-Ortonvill citizens took
up arms against an invasion of more
than 800 Industrial Workers of the
World, and before the latter had been
put to rout and driven from town, a
number Of shots had been fired by
both sides, but apparently without in
juring anyone.
Down in the "tungles" Of the city
the idlers had been accommodating for
days-virtually all protested I. w. w.
adherents. There had been some min
or difficulties experienced because Of
their presence, but the trouble did not
become serious until the arrest of one
of their number for begging.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Washington

Special protection for the German
merchant submarine Deutschland
when it starts out of American terri
torial waters was asked of the Ameri-
can government, with the intimatiOn
that the boat would leave Baltimore
soon. Treasury and navy department
officials at Washington, ruled that no
extraordinary precautions could be Or
dered.
Declining to any arbitrary regulation
of trade laws not already established
by international law, the United States
has informed Great Britain that it can
not consent to the apparent rulings of
the British blacklist. London is in
formed that the United States believes
Great Britain has too lightly and too
frequently disregarded well defined
international practices"
British boycott now is in the hands Of
the British foreign Office, says Wash
ington dispatch. The protest, it is I'M
derstood, as announced by the Brit
| ish government, is in direct opposition
to the trade treaties between the two
governments.
President Wilson has signed the RVS
err and harbors bill, carrying an appro-
priation of $42 ,SS6,OS5.
|
| To weed out" the disgruntled mill
tiamen along the border. Maj. Gen,
Tasker H. Bliss will recommend to
the war department that most liberal
construction be placed on it's policy of
releasing guardsmen with dependents
relatives, according to an Ell Paso dis,
patch.
| Nearly S7OO,OOO,OO0 for national de,
Tense in the fiscal year 1917 is the
aggregate of proposed appropriations
reached in the senate at Washington
with the passage of the army apprO'
! priatiOn bill, carrying in round mum,
bers $314,OOO.OOO.
| Inc senate foreign TeldIlOnS cOlnIlltt
tee at Washington voted to make an
adverse report to the senate on Sent
ator Martins resolution and all sub
stitutes providing for the president &c
intercede in Sir Roger Easements be
half.
More than S12,OOO,OOv was added to
the appropriation for the pay of Off
GERS and men in the United States
army and National Guard as. the result
Of the adoption of an amendment In
the senate at Washington to give eV'
eryone serving along the Mexican Dor
der foreign pay"
!. The agreement of the United States
to the proposal Of General Carranza
for a settlement of the border prob
lem was announced by Acting Secre
tary Of State Frank L. Polk at Wash
ington.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Labor COMMITTEES Protests.

st. Paul. = Members of the commit
tee from the State Federation Of La
Dor which presented complaints
against Sheriff John Meining of St.
Louis county to Governor Burnquist,
alleging that the sheriff had exceeded
his authority in attacking people in
the labor troubles at Hibbing, denied
that they would confer with Lab\r
Commissioner Houk concerning the
matter. when we presented the mat
ter to Governor Burnquist we fulfilled
the purpose for which we were ap-
pointed" ]. F. Emme said.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04

| u never believed ii possible that
/, could do 1t, hut slowly by degrees
have come to think that 1t was hest
for all concerned that The South was
defeated" said Senator Tlllman of
South Carolina. urging passage of a
/ bill In the senate at Washington
dealing with Arlington National Gene
terry.
The business office of the Italian
newspaper II PrOgressO In New York
was wrecked by mob which demand
ed that the paper begin a campaign
| to obtain freedom for Carlo Tresca.
who is imprisoned in Minnesota await
ing trial, 1t is said, in connection with
the killing of deputy sheriff.
In a sweeping decision rendered by
Federal Judge Bledson at San Fran
cisco the government RECEIVERS quar-
ter section Of developed oil lands in
Kern county valued at more than $1O-
100000. The decision was handed
down under the Taft oil lands with
drawal order.
Mrs. William Richie of st. Louis
killed herself and two babies when
her husband failed to return home
He had been out drinking and slept
on the rear porch.
Seventy-two thousand cats and 5000
dogs have been put to death in New
York by the S. p. G. A. since July in
the fight against infantile paralysis.
Unable to stand criticism which he
felt the public directed at him because
Of his connection with the disbarment
proceedings against Attorney J. II.
Thompson on an alleged tax title
Oaud, Henry M. Gardner. probate
judge Of Ingham county, Michigan.
threw himself into Grand river and
was drowned.
Junk men in the United States col
lected $114,OOO,OOO worth of scrap iron
and other metals last year. the geo.
logical survey at Washington an
nounces.
The building of the Salmondsport
Vintage company ut Penn Yam, N. Y.
was destroyed by fire. The loss is
$4,000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
WORK AT NIGHT; AVOID HEAT
Minnesota Farmers Adopt Unique
Hours-Lose Many Horses.

Winona = With the terrific heat
forcing crops to maturity with great
rapidity, farmers throughout Southern
Minnesota have been meeting new
condition. To meet the new situation
farmers ordered their crews into the
fields at daybreak They continued
work until the heat became too Sc
we're. Then the horses and the men
rested until late in the afternoon,
when the work was resumed.
The situation is probably unparallel-
ed. To gather the crop under the
burning sunshine and to do it quickly
is the great problem. Horses and men
have been unable to withstand the
temperature while at work in fields.
Reports came of prostrations in this
district. Scores of horses have been
lost, 1t is declared.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Job for MulIanev.

Dominick Mullaney, former Ameri.
can league umpire, has been appointed
superintendent of new public play
ground at Jacksonville, Fla. He will
lay out the diamonds and have charge
of amateur games under the auspices
Of a municipal commission.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Domestic

fire of unexplained origin on the
munitions pier of the Lehigh Valley
railroad in Jersey City was followed
by an explosion that rocked the metro
pOlitan district for miles around,
caused detonatiOns felt in five states,
and did property damage estimated at
more than $30,O0O.O0O. Several per-
sons were killed and many more in
jured.
Ralph Evans, his wife, Harry Bal
low and another woman were arrest
ed at Kansas City. Mo-. and con-
fessed to rObbing the Bank of Lin.
wood, Kan. recently.
The Interstate commerce commits
sion at Washington found proposed in
creased rates % bituminous coal from
Illinois and Indiana, Wisconsin and
Michigan points justified. The .sus.
pended rates are effective Septem.
Der 1.
Three bombs exploded beneath the
floor of the Menace publishing plan,
at Aurora. Mo-. slightly damaged the
plant and set fire to mass of copies
of the Menace, an anti-CathOlic pub
lication, just off the press. The flames
were soon eXtinguished.
The Nebraska State bank at Sunol
Neb., was robbed of $1,000 by two rob
bers, who locked Cashier w. G.. Smith
in the vault and in escaping killed Ir,
Paup and Paul Vacik, farmers, who
tried to stop them. Later the bandit.
were captured by posse.
The total assets of the estate of 7
Pierpont Morgan, who died March n
1913, are fixed at SIS, 9,O24, exclusiv,
of the property outside New Yorl
state. in a report which will be filet
with the state comptroller by Transfe
Tax Appraiser Lyons of New York.
New York health experts now SCI
some connection between the plague
of infantile paralysis and the plagu
of mosquitoes. Never since the mod
ern methods Of sanitation were adopt
ed have there been so many mosQui
toes In and around New York city.
E -
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Undertakes Meet and Elect.

Duluth. : Delegates to the twenty
sixth annual convention Of the Mime
sofa Funeral Directors association
closed their meeting with the election
of the following officers: L. w. An
drist of West Concord, president;
Martin Benson of Fergus Falls, first
vice president; E. c. Schroeder of St.
Paul, second vice president; w. j..
Ryder of Hibbing, third vice presi-
dent, and Vincent NJ. Grady of Duluth
and S. H. Pfaff of Waseca, reelected
secretary and treasurer, respectively.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
STATE FARM ANNEX PLANNED
Would Relieve Congestion in Other
Institutions, Is Belief.

st. Paul. = Provision for early es-
Establishments of large industrial and
custodial institution to serve as an
adjunct to practically all the state
penal, correctional and charitable in
situations, may be recommended to
the next Legislature by the state board
of control
Ralph w. Wheelock is the board
member offering the proposal. 1t will
relieve state institutions now over
taxed, notably the hospitals for the
insane and school for feeble-minded,
Mr.. Wheelock said, and be step in
the direction of Capitalization of state
institutions in one locality.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Loneshoremen Demand Increase.

COngSnoremen OeHIdhu IHCredSe.
Duluth. - Formal demand for 5
cents more an hour or from 35 to 40
cents, has been made upon the North
ern Pacific, which controls the bulk
of the Duluth docks. This is for day
work A night rate of As cents is ask
ed and SO cents an hour for loading
cement w. B. Jobes, Of Detroit, ma
tional vice president Of he longshore-
men, joined in the demand. 1t is as
sumed the longshoremen of Superior
will support the movement. A num-
Der of other railroads and many whole
sale firms of this city and Superior
will be affected.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
GOVERNOR BLAMES MAYORS
Says Appeal for Federal Probe Caused
New Range Troubles.

Hibbing. - Renewal of demonstra.
lions in the iron range strike zone in
Northern Minnesota were attributed
by Governor J. A. A. Burnquist to the
arrival at Hibbing of agents to begin
an investigation of labor troubles in
the region.
The governor was inclined to place
the direct responsibility for the new
outbreak upon Victor L. Powers, E. E.
Weber and M. J. Boylan, mayors of
Hibbing, Chisholm and Virginia, re-
spectively, those officials having join
ed in a petition asking federal in
Quiry. -.--
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04

recipient of a spontaneous and I'M
thinking 'broadside for something not
his fault, simply because the mana.
gers mind must be freed. The actual
offender generally escapes, because 50
many things happen before he gets
back to the bench that his slip is for
gotten.
baseball knowledge into the brains Of
his players. The thing he most abhors
ls q "bonehead" play. 1t is for such
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
STAPLES TO REMOVE HILL
WHICH DELAYS TOURISTS

Wadena. - The tourists in the JEFF.
ferson highway sociability run arrived
here five minutes ahead of their SEIZED.
ule, although they were delayed by a
bad hill between Little Falls and Sta.
plies for more than three minutes. On
their arrival here a message from Sta.
Pies was awaiting the officials, which
advised the hill will not cause furtheT
difficulty to tourists. The business
men of Staples have pledged $4,000
to be expended in properly grading
the hill.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Funeral Starts is Plague Cases.

st. Paul. - One death and Is newly
listed cases of infantile paralysis, re-
sulting, in the opinion of DR.. w. P.
Greene, staff physician for the state
board of health, from a public funeral
for little Leonard Stinke, who died of
the disease July 1, in Milwood town
ship, Stearns county, have been re-
ported to state health authorities.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04

that he chides his Giants, not for the
sort of errors that go into the box
scores. If his team should play ortho-
dOx baseball, and yet lose the entire
154 games Of q schedule. he would not
whimper. But If single game Is lost
through mental inability to grasp a
situation, he raves. He cannot stand
that.-Popular Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Frank Chance In Luck.

Frank Chance is meeting with some
luck In the Pacific Coast league race
His Los Angeles team is fighting right
around the top and the Peerless Lead
or Is feeling much better.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Carries Record Cargo of Wheat.

Duluth. = The big steamer w.
Grant Morden, which held the previ.
Gus record, passed the 500 with 14,4O4
bushels of wheat more than ever had
been carried and cleared from Port
Arthur, Ont, with 49O,720 bushels OF
wheat for Port McNicoll, on Georgian
bay. -..g
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Held on Arson Charge at Wabasha

Held on Arson Chdrge at Wdpdshd.
Wabasha. = On evidence gathered
by R. w. Hargadine, state fire mar
shall, and his assistants, Robert l..
Carr of Wabasha has been arrested
and arraigned before Justice Jewell II
Wabasha on a charge Of third degree
arson. He waived hearing and was
bound over to the grand jury on $4,000
bond.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Mexican War. NezvS

Col. Jesus RiuZ Velasco, former
officer under "Pancho" Villa, was ar
rested at Columbus, N. NJ, when he
attempted to pass down the line of
communication to General Pershing's
base.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Foreign

Reports received from northern On
tario state that the towns of COch-
rane, Matheson, NOshka Station and
Timmons have been wiped out by dis
astrOus bush fires. One hundred per-
sons persisted. Fifty-seven bodies
were found at Noshka Station and %
at MatheSOn.
Reports Of great cOnf1agratiOn at
PetrOgrad. in which a bridge across
the River Neva, II large steamers.
including several Transatlantic liners.
and the Putiloff gun works and other
establishments were destroyed. are
printed in the Lokal Anzeiger at
Berlin.
Sir Roger Easement. convicted Of
treason because of his part in the re-
belliOn in Ireland, will be executed pub
licly, according to the London Daily
Chronicle.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-08-04
Fresh Forest Fires Are Reported

Fresh Forest Fires Are Reported.
Ely. = Fresh forest fires raging in
Northern Minnesota have been report
ed by A. B. Gibbs, state ranger the
Tower district, telegraphing from Ely
to the state forestry Office at the Capt.
toll