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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
NON-PARTISAN CONFERENCE
Opens at st. Paul to Consider Price
Regulation.

Opens at ST. Paul to Consider Price
Regulation.
st. Paul, Sept. 18.-With predicted
attendance of several thousand, the
high cost Of living conference called
by the National Nonpartisan league
opened in the ST. Paul Auditorium for
three days deliberation on problems of
the producer and the consumer
The purpose of the meeting was
outlined in speech by President A. c..
Townley of the Nonpartisan league, is
ito urge further price regulation, to
eliminate profiteering, to place heavy
war taxes on wealth." and probably to
urge application of the leagues pro-
gram of government ownership for
natural monopolies, transportation sys-
TENS, flour mills, farm machinery fac
tories and similar activities
Senator A. J. Gronna of North Da-
kota, an antiwar senator, is scheduled
to address the conference Governor
Lynn ]. Frazier of North Dakota spoke
at the first session.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
German PIotters in PhjIIppines,

Washington, Sept. 19.-That German
intrigue has stretched out its talops
into the Philippine islands and sought
to create instruction there is learned
by the United States. Conrad Andre,
German vice-consul for Cebu and other
islands, was detained on a charge Of
trying to create disturbance"
which was in reality an insurrection.
Taken to Manila to escape an angry
mob, Andre was held there for some
time and then released for want of
positive evidence, though he is stu
under careful government watch.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21

The conditions of GOV. james +.
Goodrich of Indiana, who is confined
to hospital in Indianapolis with ty-
phoid fever, is improved.
Six automobile bandits drove into
the town of Climax, Mich, held up the
villagers and blew the safe at the
State bank. They got away with ST.
600.
A United States submarine sank q.
her dock at an Atlantic port, the navy
department announced at Washington.
There was no loss of life. The cause
has not yet been determined.
Police and agents of the federal gov
eminent broke up meeting of the
Peoples Peace council at Hartford,
Conn. They arrested several of the
speakers after alleged seditiOus utter
anceS.-
Two highwaymen entered the office
of Frank L. Plon, diamond broker In
The Heyworth building at Chicago. and
at the point of revolvers bound ana
gagged him and escaped with more
than $4,000 worth of uncut gems.
Mrs Mildred Mclean Dewey OF
Washington, widow of Admiral Dewey,
has accepted an invitation to serve as
H. H. - fINn
committee of the Navy league.
Five of the six officers of the Phila-
delphia Tageblatt were held under
$4,000 bail each by United States
Commissioner Long to await the &C
ton of the grand jury on charges OF
violating the espionage act.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
Less Costly Than Lobbyists.

Madison, Wis.,, Sept. Is. - More
money was spent in lobbyists fees
by private interests during the last
session of the Wisconsin legislature
than was spent by the state in sal
aries for members of the Badger law
making body. Reports on file in the
Office of Secretary of State Merlin Hull
show lobbyists were paid $90,545 dur
ing the last session. Assemblymn
and state senators receive $500 each,
which for 1873 members of both houses
would total $66.500. Expenses of irdi.
yidual lobbyists were over $4,000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
WILL NOT CLAIM BELGIUM
Germany Abandons Original Purpose
Is Report.

Germany Abandons Original Purpose
Is Report.
Amsterdam, Sept. 18.-In connection
with the report published in the Tages
Zeitung that Germany had decided to
abandon all claims to Belgium, the
Koelnische Volkes Zeitung says:
1--WE, too, have received similar in
formation from which it may be con-
cluded that last week decision about
Belgium was reached in conformity
with the English views"
Matthias Erzberger, a Clerical Gen.
ter member of the reichstag, speaking
at Biberach, said:
"The foundation of peace must be
no conquests of any kind. We are ad-
vancing with long strides towards
such piece-peace built upon the
basis of the reichstag peace resolu.
tion."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
GOMPERS WARNS UNION LABOR
Must Not Cripple U. S. In War Crisis,
He Says.

Washington, Sept Warning that
organized labor must not take advan-
tage of the present crisis to abuse it's
powers, was sounded by President
Samuel Gompers of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor at meeting of fed
eral employees unions.
Lack Of wisdom in directing it's
forces might result in the collapse of
the great labor structure, Gompers
said, "just as the great military Prus-
STA must fall and as the car already
has, been tumbled from his throne"
Miss Jeanette Rankin, member of
Congress from Montana, and Frank
Morrison, secretary Of the American
Federation of Labor, also addressed
the convention.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
European War News

Ten thousand atrocities committed
on a 3OO-mile front by the kaiser's SOL
diers have been recorded in photo
graphs and refugees testimony by
trained men following in the wake OF
the German armies, according to Rev
Newell Dwight Hills of New York
delegated by the American Bankers
association to conduct, an investiga'
ton of German outrages in eastern
France.
The reply of the central powers to
the peace note of Pope Benedict, says
Vienna dispatch to the Amsterdam
Tijd, begins by declaring that they re.
gard the papal proposals as suitable
basis for peace negotiations.
General Krymoff, commander OF
the troops of General Korniloff
sent to attack Petrograd, the off.
cial news agency announces has sue
cumbed to the wounds he inflicted upon
himself after an interview with Pre-
mler hereuSky.
Italian troops have taken from the
Austro-H ungarians the fortified hill OF
Dol and the Gargere basin and now oc
cupy the slope and top of Mount San
Gabrielle after severe fighting, says q
dispatch to Washington.
Stories of some recent successes OF
the British navy against German sub
marines were given to the public by
the war Office in London in series OF
brief descriptions of eight encounters
in which eight, and possibly nine
U-boats were accounted for.
"The Italian losses in the eleventh
Isonzo battle" says an official state
ment issued by the Austrian war Of
fee at Vienna, ''have reached almost g
quarter of a million, including 10000
prisoners"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
U. s. Business Men Meet.

Atlantic City, N, j., Sept. 19.-Plans
for the cooperation of virtually the
entire industrial and commercial in
terests Of the country in the conduct
of the war are to be discussed at a
special war convention of the Cham
Der of Commerce of the United States
in session here. John H. Fahey Of
Boston, former president of the organ
ization. was the principal speaker at
the preliminary meeting. Secretary of
War Baker is to deliver the keynote
address at the first regular session
and will be followed by other speakers
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
German Bombs Found in NORWAY

German Bombs Found in Norway.
Christiania, Sept. Is. Two big
bombs of German manufacture have
been found at Narvik, Northern Nor
way. They were wrapped in Swed-
ish newspaper dated August 4 and
were enclosed in carrying bags made
of canvas. The bombs are similar
to those sent some time ago from
Germany to- Christiania and there
found in possession of Baron Rauten-
fels, German courier, and which, 1t
was said were to be used in Finland
Rautenfels at one time had helpers OPP
Grating at Narvik.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
Seven Die In Train Collision.

Aurora, ILL.,, Sept. 18.-Seven Iowa
stock men have been killed In a rear
end collision on the Burlington rail.
road near Earlville, Ill.,, IS miles west
of Aurora. Ten were injured. The
men who were killed and most of
those injured were in two sleeping
cars and way car attached to the
rear of the stock train. The mer.
chandise train plowed through. The
identified dead are: w. D. Dixon,
Hamilton; Otis McCauley, Kellerton;
T. Bender, Fairfield, w. Foulks, Char
ton, and ]. Walker, Milo.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
Foreign

Mexican Independence day was cele-
brated in northern Mexico without any
disturbance.
Russia has been proclaimed a repub-
lie. The provisional government is
sued the proclamation at Petrograd.
The provisional government announced
that all the affairs of state had been
intrusted to five members Of the cab
met. 81
1t is understood negotiations are In
progress to provide credit of $75,.
100000 for imperial government pur-
chases of meats, bacon, etc., in Canada.
The Argentine government sent to
the German legation passports to be
delivered to Count Luxburg, the Ger
man minister in Buenos Aires.
President Menocal Of Cuba, by spe.
cial decree, has removed the war rev.
enue tax recently imposed by act OF
congress on exports of copper and iron
from Cuba.
Uruguayan marines boarded all the
German ships In the Montevideo har-
Dor, the government having heard Of
plans to sink the vessels. The crews
Of the eight interned German steam.
ers were landed.
a
Priests Of religious orders in Mexico
have neither been expelled nor are
they threatened with expulsion. The
new constitution provides that nc
priests or ministers who are not Mex
lean born, may discharge the duties OF
church or hold a church position In
Mexico.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
SWEDEN is NOT SATISFIED
Says Berlin Dodges the Issue in TeIe.
gram Incident.

Stockholm, Sept. 19.-The action of
the German minister in expressing in
a general way Germany's keen re.
greet for the embarrassments caused
Sweden through the Buenos Aires tel.
egram affair" but abstaining from
any explanations seems to be regard.
ed here as rather inadequate and un.
satisfying. 1t is felt that Germany,
In view Of the predicament in which
her indiscreet diplomats have placed
Sweden, might have gone much fur.
Their to help Sweden out of the EN-.
barrassment and might have acted
without waiting an entire week after
the publication of the disclosures.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
Allies Buttina In, Says Swedish Pape

NIIIes buttIng IN, Says SWedIsh Paper.
Stockholm, Sept. 1.-the losses of
the Conservatives In the election ap-
parently are not affecting the Conserv-
alive press. The Aftenblad asks II 1t
is impossible to unite the Swedish peo-
PIE, so as to give resolute mo" to
the Allies. who, it says, seeks to inter
fere in Swedish affairs. The news
paper opposes change In the min
istry, saying that in such an event
Sweden would soon suffer the fate of
Greece by becoming mere messen-
ger boy for foreign powers" The ar.
ticle is causing much comment
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
SOCIALIST GETS NINETY DAYS
Broms Sentenced to Workhouse for
Seditious Utterances.

Minneapolis, Sept. 18.-Allan S.
Broms, orator and state organizer of
the Socialist party, was found guilty
In municipal court of disorderly con.
duct and was sentenced by Judge c. L.
Smith to serve 80 days in the work
house.
The specific charge against Broms
was that while he was making a
speech he uttered seditious statements
which caused disturbance and neces
STATED the interference of the mill
,tary authorities.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
CANADA TO CALL 100000 MEN
Single Men and childIess Widowers
To Be Included.

Ottawa, Ont, Sept. 19.-Unmarried
men and childless widowers from 20
to 81 years old will be called to the
colors under the military service act
during the first week of October, it is
believed here.
One hundred thousand will be Sc
lected from those reporting and OF
them $4,000 will go into training i'm
mediately. The remaining $4,000 will
be called up in groups Of 10000 to
$4,000 as they are needed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
MUST ANSWER
CRIES OF ALLIES
America Must Respond Heartily
In Fight Against Prussianism,
Baker Asserts.
BUSINESS MUST HELP
Secretary of War Addresses National
Convention at Atlantic City and
Warns Against Cry for Heavy
War Profits.

Entire reorganization of the gov
eminent purchasing system was
urged by speakers before the war
Z convention of American business
men. The War Industries board,
recently created, has failed to
meet the situation, it was declar-
ed, by the lack of complete author
ity under the law.
Formation of new government
department similar to the Brit
ish ministry of munitions was sug-
gested by WaddiII Catchings of
New York, and others.
Atlantic City, N. j., Sept. 20.-Sec.
rotary of War Baker, addressing lead
ers of American business, in the war
convention Of the United States Cham
Der of Commerce, here, said: There
must be no ifs nor butts, no crying for
profits in the patriotic war program of
American business"
''The waves breaking along this
board walk bring messages from
affair."" he continued. Il seem to hear
In their chords and strains the cries
Of drowning children, the means of
dying mothers, and detect in their
watery voice the tales of bombs drop
ped on innocents from the air-of
lives snuffed out in the mad battle of
q monarch for territorial aggrandize-
ment.
Must Respond to Allies.
1--WE must answer the cries of Eng
land and France and Russia that
come to us on the waves. The waves
must. carry back our reply-'Yes, ye
free people of Europe, we are march
Ing millions strong; our soldiers, our
business, our Industries, ALL WE
HAVE, is pledged in this great bur-
den you have been bearing
THAT is the message we must send
We are too close to the cradle of lib
erty to say anything otherwise. 1t
is message that cannot be effective
unless you, of American business,
join in the sending of it."
Lane Also Speaks.
In scathing Indictment of a Ger
many that seeks to master the world
with high explosives and low in
trigue," Secretary of Interior Lane de-
clared that America was making full
steam ahead in the war;" and would
continue fighting until the world had
no cause to fear kaiserism.
Lane spoke at the opening session
Of the war convention of the Chamber
Of Commerce of the United States.
1--WE are determined on war. That
Is settled" he said.
"The American people have deter
mined to resist the aggression of a
Germany that broke her word with us,
Germany that sought to start revo
luton inside our own borders, Ger.
many that sought to bring enemies
upon us from the outside while we
were at peace with her, a Germany
that in violation of her own word sank
the ships that we sent to feed the
starving Belgians, Germany whose
national policy was to teach each ma.
ton to distrust every other nation,
whose military policy was to spread
terror, whose naval policy was to prey
upon neutrals."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
Labor Commission to Russia.

Washington, Sept. 19.-President
Wilson soon will sanction dispatch of
labor commission to Russia to clar-
ify this country's attitude toward the
war. The delegation will include rep
resentatives from various unions, min
ers, munitions makers and others.
Each class will go out among Russian
workers engaged in similar work and
spread the gospel of unanimity and a
common cause to fight the war to a
successful conclusion.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
Deputies Act On Treason Case.

Paris, Sept. 18.-Announcement has
oeen made that Paul Deschanel, pres
ldent of the Chamberc of Deputies
and 1nquaresters of the Chamber
would meet to decide what action
should be taken regarding the Turmel
affair. French officials have decided
that 1t is under the jurisdiction of the
Chamber, inasmuch as M. Tunnel is a
deputy. and enjoys immunity from
legal prosecution while parliament is
In session, except in the case of flag
rant dereliction of duty. He is sus-
pected of treason.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
German Proclaimed y. 8. Patriot.

Chicago, Sept. 19.-Gottlieb Traub,
born In Germany, now an invalid on
his farm near Elgin, ILL.,, is proclaimed
by District Appeal Board No. 3 to be
genuine American patriot. Four of
his sons, the only ones in family
OF Is children who are able to care
for their fathers farm, were drafted
for the army. Traub urged them all
to claim no exemption, but friends re-
quested the appeal board to allow one
son to remain at home to help. The
request was granted over the protest
Of the father.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
Brotherhood Men in Valuation Protes

5rotherhood Men IN Valuation Protest
Washington, Sept. 19.-Protests
against the valuation by the Interstate
Commerce Commission on several rail-
roads were Joined by the four chief
railroad brotherhoods. In brief filed
In the Texas Midland Railroad valua-
ton proceedings the brotherhood as
serts that without report showing
the original cost to date "all the la
bors of the commission will have been
In vain and the great expense of the
undertaking will have been idly vast
ed. Public confidence in the result of
the investigation will be destroyed"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21

Mexicans Exempt from Draft Law.
Washington, Sept. -. -Mexicans
working in this country are not SUBJ
ject to draft unless they have applied
for naturalization and taken out their
first papers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
2s2 Plague Cases In Illinois.

Springfield, ILL.,, Sept 19.-Between
January l and September is of the
present year, 292 genuine cases of in
fantile paralysis have been reported In
Illinois, of which Al were fatal, a re-
port issued by the state department OF
health says.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
SEVEN BILLION VOTED
BY HOUSE FOR ARMY

: Washington, Sept. 19.-The ST.
= 00O,O00,0O0 war deficiency bill,
carrying huge. appropriations for
: the army, Notifications sand ship
ping board has passed the House
by a unanimous vote.
X 4
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
NOT TO SEIZE CANNED FOOD
Denial of Report Believed Started by
Enemies.

Washington, Sept. 19.-The untrace.
able rumor that the government in
tends to take canned and dried foods
from homes has spread to such an ex.
tent that the Department Of Agricul.
ture today placed an explicit and off.
cial denial In the hands of every coun.
ty agent with instructions to give it
widest publicity.
The persistency of the rumor leads
officials to believe its basis probably
may be found in propaganda to hinde,
food conservation and thereby continue
high prices.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
News of the
Week Cut
Down for
Busy Readers
U.S.-Teutonic War News

1--WE are at war and there shall be
no more oppression, no more kings, no
more war on this earth. This is our
answer to the hiss of the copperhead."
Charles Edward Russell, the noted
Socialist and writer, member Of the
mission to Russia, thus defined the at
titude of Americas workers toward
the war on Germany at great loyalty
mass meeting of Philadelphia labor or
CARNATIONS.
Lafayette escadrille was killed while
flying over the lines, somewhere in
France, when the engine of his air
plane stalled.
A large contingent of American ar
tillery has Joined the expeditionary
army at the American training camp in
France, and is well along with its In
tensive training unders French super
viSory instructions.
The material aid given Germany by
Sweden was not confined to transmits
sion of naval secrets by code from Ar
gentina to Berlin. A copy of an Off
cial letter from Herr Won Eckhardt,
German minister in Mexico, to his
home office, given out by Secretary
Lansing at Washington, makes the
startling revelation that Folke Chon-
holm, Swedish charge d'affaires In
Mexico City, was an active agent OF
the German government.
Word reached Paris that Corporal
Andrew Courtney Campbell, Jr., of
Chicago, ILL.,, flying with the French
squadrilla No. 65, had vanquished two
German machines in aerial engage
ments.
The Liberty motor, the airplane en-
CINE on which the United States is
relying to establish definite air SUI
periority over the Germans, has passed
its final test and is a complete and
gratifying success, Secretary Baker
announced at Washington.
Drafting all aliens in the United
States except Germans, others exempt
by treaty, and those of countries al
lied with Germany who have resided
In this country one year, is proposed
In a joint resolution passed by the
senate at Washington and sent to the
house.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
Domestic

Before $4,000 persons gathered at
the war mass meeting in the Coliseum
at Chicago Elihu Root defined the word
traitor as it applies in this, crisis.
Arguments against the war, since we
have entered the war, are enemy argu-
ments," he declared, while the great
crowd shouted it's approval.
Packing house district in Kansas
City, Kan, is quiet after the rioting,
when one striker was dangerously in
jured, two received minor injuries and
an onlooker was badly bruised.
Grievance chairmen of the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen presented
requests to seven railroads at Chicago
for an increase of $40 month to pas
senger trainmen dating from Septem-
Der 1.
Pro-German propagandists are the
prime movers in the violence and riot
ing at Springfield, ILL.,, according to the
belief of Governor Lowden. Governor
Lowden said that the organizations
whose chief interest is at stake, name
ly the conductors and motOrmen, who
are on strike, have taken no part in the
recent rioting.
A troop train on the Pennsylvania
railroad was fired on at MingO juno
ton, o. Four soldiers were wounded.
Foreigners employed in the steel mills
are suspected.
Pro-German propaganda is RESPONSE
BILE for the refusal of farmers to sell
their wheat crop at the price fixed by
the government was the statement is
sued at Washington by the food admin
istration.
The Netherlands minister to the
United States, Chevalier w. L. F. G.
van Rappard, has been recalled by
his government. Van Royen has been
named to succeed him.
Switchmen of two railroads in Kan
sas City, Mo-, quit their engines and
announced that they would not handle
any more cars to be loaded or unload
ed by non-uniOn freight handlers. The
roads affected were the st. Louis and
San Francisco and the Missouri Pa
ciflc.
''There are three times as many ships
In sc,c;n In hn q
there were six months ago." This reve-
ation was made at Annapolis, Md, by
Secretary Of the Navy Daniels in adj
dressing the graduation class of 1872
ensigns Of the naval reserve.
In ability to obtain sufficient wheat
FOR grinding has forced several -four
mills at Minneapolis, MIMI, to close
temporarily. The situation is expected
to be relieved, however, by the release
soon of considerable amount Of wheat
held in country elevators.
A riot in which it is estimated more
than 1000 striking packing house EN-.
ployees and their sympathizers partici
pated took place at Armour & Co.'S
plant in Kansas City, Kan, with the
result that one man was fatally injured
and two others were sent to hospitals
suffering from injuries.
The plant Of the Standard Screw
company at Detroit, Mich, was de
stroyed by fire. The loss, estimated
at 100000, is said to be covered by in
surance. The plant was working or
war orders.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
NEW RUSSIAN REPUBLIC
WELCOMED BY ARGENTINA

= Buenos Aires, Sept. OAR
: gentina has recognized the new :
*republic of Russia. President
= Irigoyen has signed a decree to
that effect
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-09-21
DRAFT ARMY is MODELLING
100000 Civilians Start Journey to
Cantonments.

Washington, Sept 0.-Marshalled
for the last time as civilians. and un-
der civilian authority, more than 3O0,.
600 men of the National Army will go
forward to the sixteen cantonments
{ The whole nation will be astir with
the movement of the selective forces.
The men represent approximately 45
per cent of the total quota under the
first call from each of nearly 5000
local boards.