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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
Survives Severe Electric Shock.

Baltimore.-Though current of
1000 volts passed through his body
while he was at work on top of an
electric pole, Webb Barnes, twenty
eight, survived the shock. Barnes, who
is lineman, was sitting on a crcss-arm
adjusting high voltage wires In a
switchbox. One of the wires became
'short-circuited, there was a flash from
the box, and the lineman received the
full 1000 volts. With loud cry he
was seen to sway for an instant and
toppled over the cross arm. He did
not fall, but hung Imply over the dOu-
BILE cross arm. Fellow workmen hast
ened to his aid and lowered the I'M
conscious man to the street. While
awaiting the arrival Of the pulmctor
and ambulance they gave first aid
treatment and the injured man was
revived.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
BURNQUIST OPENS CAMPAIGN
Endorses Hughes and Kellogg in
Speech at Brainerd.

Brainerd. = Indorsing the candida
cies of Charles E. Hughes for the pres
idency and Frank B. kellogg for the
United States senatorship from Min
nesota, Governor Burnquist made his
first formal address of the fall cam
paign here. A torch light parade was
feature of his visit.
The governor assailed Democratic
tariffs as having always been fail
ures." He said that lust prior to the
beginning of the European war and
during the second year of the present
Democratic administration and under
a Democratic tariff hundreds of thou
sands of men were out of employ
ment."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
SCHOOL BOYS SERVE AS
STOCK JUDGES AT SHOW
Perform Task at Saltwater Which Is
Usually Assigned to University
Students.

Stillwater-High school boys served
as judges at the Saltwater Horse and
Cattle show. Heretofore state univer-
sity students have acted in this ca
pacity. The entries included many
animals that have won prizes at the
state fair.
A new feature of the exposition was
a demonstration of the testing work
of COW associations, in charge of Louis
Hageman, tester of the Saltwater or
ganization, and William Curley of the
Scandal association.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
The DELIGHTS of Life

What seems to grow fairest to m,
as life goes by is the love and peac,
and tenderness of it; not its wit an(
cleverness and grandeur of knowl
edge, grand as knowledge is, but JUS
the laughter of little children, and thu
friendship ct friends, and the coz,
talk by the fireside, and the sight q
flowers, and the sound of music.-J
r. Green.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
EXPERTS PLAN TO
RECLAIM BIG AREA
TO MAKE GENERAL SURVEY OF
ENTIRE STATE TO OBTAIN DATA
FOR LEGISLATURE.
TO SAVE MILLIONS OF ACRES
Chairman of AII-Minnesota Develop
ment Association Says Plan Is to
Reclaim at Least Half of
State Land.

International Falls. = A. l.. Croker
of Minneapolis, chairman of the ALL
Minnesota Development association,
who, with Dr. F. w. Sardeson, Federal
expert geologist, and Frank Leverett
Of Ann Arbor, Mich, specialist on
drainage, who has been working under
the direction of the University of Min
nesota, were in International Falls to
make surveys and inspect some
bitches From there they were to go
to Bemidji and Brainerd.
To Increase Wealth and Population.
These experts are making a general
survey of the entire state for the pur.
pose of obtaining comprehensive data
on foods, drainage and the peopling
of 100000 acres of Minnesota land,
which will be presented to the state
legislature at the coming session. The
total area of Minnesota includes 81.
749, 120 acres. The plowed land aggre.
gates 100000, and there is consid.
cradle percentage of lakes. The plan
which the All-Minnesota Development
association has in mind is to reclaim
all of the land that is now idle and put
it under cultivation, thus increasing
both the wealth and the population OF
the state
Mr.. Crocker stated the plan con
ceived by the association will reclaim
at least half of the state land.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
Indorses serum.onIy Treatment.

Minneapolis. = Endorsement of the
serum-only method OF treatment for
hog cholera, as distif suished from the
serum-virus method, is made in the
current issue of the University Farm
Bulletin. The Endorsement is based
on a series of tests of the former treat
ment, and includes particular common
dalton of this system both for treat.
ment of actual cases of the disease and
as preventive measure in exposed
herds-those in which nc disease has
appeared. but which are near sick
herds.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27

and not only does all her troubles come
back on her, but she thinks she is also
developing peculiar pain in her side"
Maybe the advertisement give it to
her." Birsky suggested.
"Sure it did," Zapp replied. "This
here firSt-to-laSt-the-truth advertise
ing is driving women to moving pic
lures, Birsky. Another thing is the
way drygOods stores is acting nova
days. Former times a woman buys a
dress at drygoOds store on April End
and wears it up to and including July
18th, when she brings it back with
symptoms of beefsteak supper, two
weddings and chocolate nut sundae
on the front panel, Birsky, and for the
next six months she has the time of
her life trying to get credit check
for it. 1t gives her fresh interest in
things. Her eyes get bright and her
cheeks is got fresh color in them the
same like an advertisement for a COM
pleXion cream before the enactment of
Section 31416, Subsection A, of the
Penal Code in relations to False and
L
nowadays, Birsky? A crepe de chine
dress could have enough soup spilled
on it to make it look like MORE We
lour, Birsky, and when a woman re-
turns it with the pleasant expecta-
tons of never being so inSulted in her
life, Birsky, before, she could even
open her mouth to say Listen!' yum
credit check on her"
"And / suppose" Birsky commented,
'.for the next few days she walks
around looking so dOwnhearted that
whenever her lady-friends see her they
go home and practically throw the
meals at their husbands and gives as
an explanation that they'd like to see
themselves worrying themselves to
death over any man."
swell, I'll tell you," Zapp said, ''may-
be the drygOods stores is getting done
on their money back guarantees,
Birsky, but that's because they are suf-
fering from the fact that people amt
acquainted with up-tO-date advertising
ideeS. Their customers still thinks
that when drygOods store says:
If anything you buy here proves un-
satisfactory 1t will be exchanged or
your money will be refunded
Birsky, it must be understood that
such guarantee means:
If anything you buy here proves u>.
satisfactory by the evidence of si~
uninteresting witnesses which a crack
er jack A-number-one trial LAWYER
couldn't rattle on cross-examination.
1t will be exchanged or your money
viii be refunded when so ordered nv
the Supreme Court Of the United
States or Justice thereof after the
last appeal gets taken and judgment
Is confirmed in an action brought for
hat purpose, it being understood and
agreed that nothing in this guaran
tee shall apply to or bind the party
making the same his heirs, executors
administrators and assigns.
Before newspaper accepts an adver-
tisement nowadays, it is censured the
same as an interview with General Jof-
fer, and if an advertisement comes in
from a shoe manufacturer with his
picture on it, they send a reporter to
make sure that the Teller Is bald like
his photograph claims he is, and If he
isn't they wouldn't print the advertise
ment till the manufacturer comes down
and signs his name In the presence of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
Climbed All Over a Man He Disliked.

away. The conductor delivered him
self of an grafton that wouldn't have
served as an eulOgium at the monkeys
funeral
AS climax he got mixed up scram-
ble-egged fashion, with a man named
Mr.. Monk, and scratched his face Sc
verely. The two-legged Mr.. Monk OBJ
jected, and when he could find a gun
he pumped shot into the four-legged
monk until he resembled a sieve and
ceased to breathe. His mistress is dis
consulate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
Foolish Rabbits.

A hare will dart in the path of I.
giant locomotive at night and run a
the rate of sixty miles an hour in TIN
full glare of the headlight and finalh
drop exhausted. 1t will never lee,
from between the rails to a place q
safety. The hare pursues the sam
tactics on the highway when autos an
speeding.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
The Pilots Skill

The pilots skill is by no mean
equally proved in calm as in storm
In the former case he tamely enter,
the port, unnoticed and unapplauded,
but when the cordage creaks, the mas
bends and the rudder groans, then il
is that he shines out in all his glory
Pliny the Younger.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
CHAROSES SIX ROADSTER

understand, it's all 1 can do to hold
myself back from ringing up the New
York agent and asking him would he
prefer cash oder certified check"
'Yes, Zapp," Birsky commented,
there's just enough of the rube in
each and every Teller so that sooner or
later, NIT kidney pills or oitermobiles.
the fake advertiser will get him if he
don't look out"
"Or if the newspaper proprietor
don't look for him." Zapp concluded.
Copyright, New York Tribune)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
Land Once Swamp Now Valuable

Thief River Falls. = From a section
of land that twelve years ago was a
swampy Indian reservation, farm pro-
duce valued at $433, SS6.37 was brought
to Thief River Falls for trans-shipment
during the year ending Sept 80, 1916,
according to report issued by the
Minnesota Northwestern Electric rail
road. Eight years ago the bulk OF the
territory furnishing these products was
a morass. Four years ago only part
of it had been redeemed by drainage
and that part was producing grain
exclusively.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27

$40 of 300 Benzo-boracid acid and
GIL of 1919 somethingate of soda and
40 alcohol by weight and 1870 by vol
ume.' Also 1 never fall for advertise.
ments of cheap clothing, cheap straw
hats, cut price furniture or specials in
watches and jewelry, but when l see
in a newspaper:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
What They Say,

1t was the first day of her first term
of school, and the new teacher called
up the class and asked a large girl to
tell of Columbus voyage. "Well," said
the girl, columbus started out and
sailed around dot" 'What?" said
the astOnished teacher. HE sailed
around dot" repeated the girl.
Pressed for her authority, she pointed
triumphantly to the page in the book
and the teacher read: about this
period Columbus sailed
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
Mines Yield s475,ooo in ROYALTIES.

MITES YIeId $4Io,UUU IN Royalties.
st. Paul. = Royalties of nearly S475,-
900 under leases of state owned
mines on the iron ranges, was an
nounced by State Auditor Preus for
the quarter just ended, representing a
new high record. The total averages
$4,000 for each working day. It also
bears out the prediction that the
states royalties on iron ore this year
will exceed $1,000,000. Ore shipments
total 100000 tons to date this year,
according to ]. P. Funk, mineral lands
clerk, and if navigation remains open
the 100000 ton estimate is assured.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
SEEKS SENTIMENT AS TO
CALLING EXTRA SESSION
Governor Sounds Legislators on Cues
ton of Giving Vote to State
Troops on Border.

st. Paul, Oct. 24.-Advised by Attor-
ney General Smith that the state con-
stitution does not preclude legislation
to give the right of franchise to the
Minnesota guardsmen on the Mexican
border, Governor Burnquist directed
telegraphic inquiries to all senators
and representatives to sound their dis
tricts on the proposed extra SESSION
to pass the required law.
The governor also asked military
authorities whether there is a posi-
bility of the Minnesota troops being
returned before the election, Novem-
Der Z.
No Extra Session Is Prediction.
In spite of these moves, however,
men close to the governor reiterated
predictions that there will be no ex.
ira session. One official asserted that
the majority of $500 or 1000 Mime
sofa guardsmen now in Texas are
minors and that the proposed voting
of the remaining number would be a
very complicated matter.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
DULUTH WHEEL TAX UPHELD
Ordinance Sustained on All Points by
Supreme Court.

Duluth. - The validity of the Du-
luth wheelage tax ordinance is sus-
tanned on all points raised in an appeal
decided by the State Supreme court.
The appeal was taken by James D.
Park against the City of Duluth and
others to test the ordinance after it
had been upheld by the lower court.
The power of the legislature to tax is
plenary, the opinion states, and there
is no constitutional limitation which
forbids this tax. 1t is held equally
clear that the Duluth city council may
impose such a tax if it has legisla-
tive authority therefor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
No Extra Session Is Prediction.
SPENDS BIG SUM FOR ROADS
Minnesota Stands Twelfth in United
States, Figures Show.

minnesota STANDS TWeIfth in United
States, Figures Show.
st. Paul. = Minnesota spent five
times as much for better roads last
year as in 1904, year before any law
providing state aid in road building
was passed, according to figures pre-
pared by the state highway commits
sion. The expenditure in 1904 was
$780, All and that in 1915 was $685.
600. OF the latter figures, state funds
spent under the direction of the high
way commission amounted to $780,
900.
The same statistics show that Min
nesota is twelfth in the list of states
in the amount of funds spent in roads.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
Turkeys for Gopher Guards.

Llano Grande. = Turkey and cram
berry sauce will be served to every
Minnesota boy on the Mexican border
Thanksgiving day, if he is here, and
on Christmas with the same 'if.''
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
AlnLnomLaI III. | IIsuUn5lU
WILL BE Benefit TO STATE, OF
FICIALS SAY.
Provides Revolving Fund Of $3.50, o0o
for Purpose Of Clearing State
Lands.

W ssiisvs tass ceastitatisns1
Ansndnsnt ~, - Be voted upon At the
Hovsnssr general siset1on. vti1 Be .
great benefit - the entire STATE Of
H1nnsssta a.a - give - eur hearty
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27

Teachers Name Owatonna Educator.
Mankato. = w. B. Thornburg, su-
perintendent of Owatonna public
schools, was elected president of the
Southern Minnesota Teachers associa-
ton at the final meeting of the Goth
annual convention.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27

r"<HERE is no more pleasure in
reading advertisements now
adays," said Barnett Zapp,
the waist manufa cturer, to Louis Bir-
sky, the real estater.
"Why not?" Birsky said.
"Well," Zapp said, what fun is it TO
read in paper:
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
First in Care Of Detectives.

DR.. Hastings H. Hart, New York
city, secretary of the Minnesota Chart.
ties and Corrections when that organi.
zation existed, and now in charge OF
the child welfare division of the Rus.
sell Sage foundation, placed his obser.
vations and conclusions of years OF
experience before the commission re.
Gently appointed by Governor Burn.
Quist to revise Minnesota laws relat.
ing to children. He rated Minesonta
The most advanced state with regard
to the care of defective children.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27

understand, and right away she for
gets that she is going to take dinner
Friday night with her husbands folks
out in Borough Park; that the doctor
says that people with her trouble could
live for years already.
''But what is it nowadays for such a
woman? She reads
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
Commutes Three Sentences.

The board Of pardons has committed
the sentences of three prisoners at
Saltwater, denied three pardon appli-
cations and has taken the remaining
eight cases heard under advisement I'M
til November 9, to which date the board
adjourned. Fred Wagner, Jr., 'lifer";
Christ l. Lucken and Earl Scrafield,
serving indeterminate sentences, were
voted combinations.
Denials were voted on the petitions
of Mike Lab, Petro Bacani and Jim
Francisetti, a trio serving reformatory
sentences for assault.
The pardon pleas of kid" Scully,
sentenced at Minneapolis in March,
and that of Harry T. Robinson, under
20 years sentence for burglary of the
Shubert theater in st. Paul, were
among those taken under advisement.
Vincent Wood is in the state prison
for life because he tried to play prac-
cal joke on his best friends. his at
torney told the pardon board in an ap-
peal for pardon of sentence commu-
tation for his client.
Wood, whose practical joke cost a
mans life, went to prison for the rest
of his days with his lips sealed on a
story that might have won him acqui:.
tai, said his attorney.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
Soldiers Plan Carnival.

OUTLETS Ran SdFnlVdI.
Minnesota soldiers in camp at Llano
Grande, Texas, will have an outdoor
sports carnival of their own. They ex,
pext to be denied the pleasure of par.
ticipating in the st. Paul Outdoor
affair to take place early next month
They will be aided by the home folk
in supplying some of the articles
necessary for the carnival for letter
from Rev. L. R. S. Ferguson, chap
lain OF the First Field artillery, met
with prompt response.
X X X
Hearing on Adjustments.
The State Tax Commission has held
hearings looking toward adjustments
of assessments of mineral lands in
Minnesota. Representatives, of abou:
fifteen mining companies and other
owners of mineral properties appeared
a small number in comparison to those
i'll past years.
Cavalry Troop for "U."
A cavalry troop may be established
at the University of Minnesota during
the next college year, according to
Major George w. Moses, new com.
mandant of the cadet corps and in
structor in military science. Three
branches of instruction in colleges
are provided in the new army law and
next year we expect to see the infan.
try, artillery and cavalry all at the uni.
versity," said the commandant. Three
more regular army officers will be sent
to the university to give instruction,
he said.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-27
Citizens Camp at Fort.


Fort Smelling has been designated
as military training camp for bust
ness men similar to the camp at
Plattsburg, N. Y. Major-General Barry
commanding the Central department of
the army, authorized the maintenance
of two such camps of 80 days each
during August and September, 1917, at
Fort Smelling, civic workers announc-
ed.
All of Minnesota, North and South
Dakota, Wisconsin and Montana will
be asked to cooperate in making this
camp success. Fully 1000 men will
be necessary to make the camp a sue.
cess, but the general interest in the
eastern training camps, shown by bust,
ness and professional men, warrants
the belief that at least 1900 will train
at Fort Smelling next year."
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1916-02-16
OBSERVANCE OF
PAY-UP WEEK
Cards, remnants, Poster Stamps
Circulars, ETC., Will Be Used
In Large Numbers.

The various supplies to be used
in promoting the Pay-Up Week
which will be observed here have
arrived and Mr.. John s. frazer
Secretary of the Business Mems
Club, who has the matter in charge,
has been busy distributing same.
There are all sorts Of PROPOSE
tions to enlist public interest and
concert of action in the line Of the
common good, but we have not
heard of better one for everybody
than one now being barked by an
association devoted 20 the business
interests Of the country, which pro-
poses to try TO establish on a coun-
try-wide basis what it term ''Na-
tional Pay-Up Week" Of course,
the observance Of such a week
would be voluntary and in no sense
compulsory, and its success would
depend upon enlisting cooperation
in every section by advertising and
agitation to arouse the people Of
any given section to the benefits to
be derived from week of general
paying up of bills and standing ac-
counts.
No matter what week should be
designated for Pay-Up Week, al
lowing bills could not, if they would,
join in its observance, but if it had
the result of overcoming the inertia
of any considerable percentage Of
those owing bills, payment of which
is delayed by mere neglect and in
difference, the debt paying obser-
vance would make Pay-Up Week
the most blessed week of the year
in the benefits it would bring debtor
as well as creditor. 1t is very sell
dom that a man owes bills to others
and has none due to him, and, if all
who could, would pay during Pay
Up Week it would operate to break
business deadlock in the debt and
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1916-02-16
MORE foRD's SOLD

The Strother Motors Co. have
sold for spring delivery Ford cars
to the following: DIR. c. B. Duer-
son, a runabout; DIR. W. r. Thomp-
son, runabout, This second one) ;
Mr.. II. !. Coleman, the hustling
special agent of the State Mutual
Life Assurance Co., runabout; Mr..
w. A. Mason, touring car. Last
year Mr.. Strother had considerable
trouble in securing cars for his Gus
toners but this year he is prepared
as he has several cars already in
stock and can make delivery at
present without any delay. There
are more Ford cars in this city and
county than any other make.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1916-02-16
SUCCUMBS TO
LONG ILLNESS
Mrs. Julia Ewing 0wings, Wife Of
Mr.. Joshua 0wIngs, ST., Passed
Away Saturday.

After an illness of several weeks
duration Mrs. Julia Ewing 0wingS,
aged ~ years, wife of Mr.. Joshua
0wings, died at the family home, on
the Owingsville pike Saturday night,
of lobar pneumonia.
She was a daughter of the late A.
J. Ewing, of Bath county, and a
member of one of the most promi-
nent families in this section of the
State. She is survived by her hus-
band and six children, Mrs. j.
Lawrence White, Mrs. G. R. Prewitt,
Miss Hattie 0wings, Jack, Rein
and Joshua, Jr., all of this county.
Five sisters also survive Mrs.
Owings, as follows: Mrs. Nettie
Poyntz, of Richmond; Mrs. Jesse
Turney, of Paris; Mrs. Edward
Gaitskill, of Winchester; Mrs. Elva
Catlett, of Owingsville, and Mrs.
James W. Gatewood, of the county.
She had been member of the
Springfield Presbyterian church for
many years and was greatly inter
ested in church work, and her many
acts of kindness and charity to
those in sickness and distress will
live long in their memories. Those
who have gone down into the valley
of suffering and stood for months
by the side of loved one, as hope
after hope dropped away as the pc
tails fall from a fading flower,
know that such anguish cannot find
solace in the tenderest words. She
who has gone forth could not be
supported on her solitary path by
any earthly friend.
Well may her children cherish
her memory as precious legacy
and we fain would say word for
comfort to the stricken ones; we
can but let our tears flow in sym
pathy with theirs and point them
to the promise, "At eventide it shall
be light"
Funeral services conducted by
Rev. M. V. p. Yeaman, we're held
Monday morning at ten o'clock
with burial in Machpelah cemetery.
The Advocate tenders sympathy
to the bereaved family.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1916-02-16
FARM SELLS CHEAP

Mr.. and Mrs. j. Walter Rice sold
their farm Friday at public auction
for $3.50 per acre. There is 9s
acres in the tract and is improved.
The farm, which lies in the Side
view neighborhood, is a fine one and
is considered a rare bargain at the
price. DR.. L. Henry, of North Mid
dletown, was the purchaser. We
are informed that Mr.. and Mrs. Rice
are contemplating locating in the
South. They are well known here
where they have many relatives and
friends who will regret to see them
leave.