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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14

An Amsterdam dispatch says there
are 30 dead and more than hundred
wounded in Bremen hospitals as re-
suit of the recent fighting there.
A Melbourne dispatch says the Aus
traiian government has just concluded
the sale of 10000 tons of wheat to
India. The agreed price was $1.31 per
bushel, f. o. b. port of lading.
Friedrich Ebert, the German chancel.
lor, opened the first session of the re-
Gently elected German national assem-
bly, at Weimar at three o'clock Thurs
day afternoon.
Stockholm dispatch says an ex-
hortation from Premier Lenine. adj
dressed to all anarchist committees I'm
Germany, Austria, Poland and Baltic
provinces and Finland to convoke a
communist conference intended to
eclipse both the peace conference at
Paris and the socialist conference at
Bern is published by the PetrOgrad
newspapers. Lenine declares that the
anarchy alone will have the right to
take the initiative in che proposed
conference.
Heavy losses were inflicted on the
anarchists by the American forces and
the enemy was driven back in disorder
from the village of Vistavka, on the
Vaga, says a dispatch from Archangei.
Russia. The American casualties were
five killed and several wounded. Many
anarchist soldiers were taken prison.
ers by the Americans.
An armistice between the Polish and
CzechO-Slovak forces which have been
fighting on the Silesian front was
signed on February g according to ad-
vices received at Basle
Because they were not allowed by
their socialist schoolmaster to cele-
brate the ex-kaiser's birthday. hum
dreds Of school boys at Neu Ceeln.
suburb of Berlin, formed q soviet, re-
fused to attend their classes and de-
clared holiday.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14
Plumbers Paid More Than Educators

Duluth, Feb. 9.-Declaring that
plumbers and mechanics are better
paid than university professors and
that many of the members of the
aching profession "felt that their
souls were scraping," President Mari
on L. Burton of the University of Min
nesota spoke to members of the North
ern Minnesota Alumni association here
and declared that if the university is
to hold its place, the Legislature must
adopt different attitude toward the
teaching force.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14
Peace Notes

Announcement was made at Paris
that the Italians and Jugo-Slavs have
made favorable progress toward q
compromise on their territorial dis
putes.
The United States, Great Britain,
France and Italy have agreed, accord.
ing to the Paris L'Intransigeant, upor
$1,000, 100000 indemnity due to Bel
GUM, the first installment to be pai(
Immediately.
A Paris special says a supreme al
lied blockade council has been organ
lied to arrange for a reduction of EN-
bargoes upon imports into enemy
countries. Vance Mccormick, the
American member, has been chosen
chairman.
A London dispatch says the Russian
soviet government, in wireless mes
sage announcing that it is willing to
begin conversations with the entente
with the object of bringing about
cessation of military activities, de-
clared 1t is willing to acknowledge fl
nancial obligations regarding the cred
itors Of Russia of entente nationality.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14
soIons Return to Paris.

Paris, Feb. g. Representatives
George White of Ohio, G. T. Helver.
ing of Kansas and P. D. Norton OF
North Dakota have returned to Paris
after visit to the French and Bel.
gian battlefields and into Germany as
far as Coblenz. They talked with
American soldiers and expect to com.
municate the results Of their observa.
lions to President Wilson. The rep
resentatives indicated that they hoped
to be able to show the wisdom of
speeding up the return Of the Ameri
trrops.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14
State Insurance for settlers.

st. Paul-Senator Bessettes bill tc
provide state insurance for settlers in
the fire-swept regions, where old line
insurance companies have refused pol
icies was introduced yesterday and re-
ferred to the committee on insurance
Another measure dealing with settle
ment problems in Northern Minnesota
was bill introduced by Senator Fred
Vibert of Cloquet to provide for the
erection of school houses on state
forestry parks of more than 5000
acres in extent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14
U.S.-TeutOnic War News

A Paris dispatch says Marshal Foch
estimates that 100000 American troops
are required to keep the watch on
the Rhine" until peace is signed. The
French army is prepared to furnish
contingent double that number, while
the British army, considering the con-
tinuance of its service elsewhere, will
be let off with 100000. Belgium is
asked 100000 men modified along the
Rhine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14
MOST IMPORTANT
news OF WORLD
BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS
Kernels CuIIed From Events Of Mo-
nent In All Parts of the World
OF Interest to All the
People Everywhere.
Washington

A Washington dispatch says Presi-
dent Wilson has been asked to name
committee of industrial leaders and
government representatives which will
have the power to investigate and sug'
gest a scale of prices for basic COM
modities at which the government will
buy during the postwar period. Sec
rotary of Commerce Redfield an
nounced.
American visitors and tourists, ex-
cept those engaged strictly on bust
ness, were warned to avoid Egypt at
the present time, in an announcement
by the state department at Washing
ton. based upon dispatch received
from Cairo telling of congestion OF
shipping and lack of hotel accommo-
dations.
The house foreign affairs committee
at Washington ordered favorably re-
ported resolution expressing the hope
that the peace conference would "fa-
vorably consider the claims of Ire
land to the right of self-detefmina-
ton"
No extension of the time for filing
income and profits returns beyond
March 10 will be made by the treas
ury, Secretary Glass said at Washing
ton.
With the submission to congress OF
the conferees' agreement on the long
delayed war revenue bill, the Ameri-
can people were presented with their
prospective federal tax budget for
1919 and ensuing years-something
over $6,OOO,OOO,OOO this year and $4.-
000, 100000 the year after, subject to
the revision of future rates expected
to be undertaken by the next congress.
The bill gives every soldier, sailor and
marine and all woman nurses in the
American forces bonus of $50.
Letters read at the senate agrfcul-
tural committees hearing on meat in
dustry legislation disclosed that Presi-
dent Wilson made O personal investiga-
ton last February of protests against
the federal trade commissions con-
duct Of its packing inquiry and in
formed Louis F. Swift that he was con-
WINGED that s'there would be no war
rant for his interfering with the judg-
ment and action Of the commission"
Urging the house rules committee TO
give the right of way for passage of
legislation prohibiting immigration for
four years, Frank Morrison, secretary
Of the American Federation of Labor,
said that 100000 men in the United
States now were without employment.
"Every soldier who put on the uni
form of the United States, who fought,
or trained to fight, will have job If
he wants one," Secretary Baker de-
clared in delivering the opening adj
dress at the fourteenth annual conven-
ton of the national rivers and harbors
congress at Washington. !
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14
European War News

With total population of only s.
100000 the commonwealth of Austria
liza, for the fiscal year of 1918 spent
total expenditures amounting to $685.
675,410, according to official figures
given out at Melbourne. EXpendi-
lures for the year exceeded revenue by
S424, 800 ,995.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14
"oress pecently," women's Slogan.

New York, Feb. 9.-Assterting that
designers of women's evening gowns
"have led fashion to the extreme limit
of indecency," which is having "a most
demoralizing influence upon the youth
of the country" the New York City
Federation of Women's clubs at a
meeting here adopted resolution call
ing on women ito dress modestly" and
on designers and shopkeepers Ito con-
troll indecency in dress" A committee
was appointed to push the war on
scanty evening gowns.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14
Domestic

With more than 5000 delegates reg,
istered, the Atlantic congress for
league of nations began q two-day
session in New York.
Twelve enlisted men of the army,
who had arrived at Newport News, Va,
on transports as stowaways and had
been held as prisoners, were sent back
TO France on the steamer Aeolus.
Three men were burned to death in
fire which swept the upper floors of
a lodging house at Hoboken, N. J.
A mo beer, no work" slogan was an
nounced by representatives of 10000
building trades workers at Newark, N.
J., who condemned nationwide pro-
hibition.
Exclusion Of German immigrants
from the United States for 80 years
was urged in resolution introduced
in the lower house of the legislature
at Austin, Tex. The Texas delegation
in congress is urged to lend support.
United States troops from Camp
Lewis are quartered in Seattle to
"stand ready for any emergency," as
army officers said, resulting from the
general strike Thursday of 25,OO0
shipyard workers who walked out JAM
uary 81 to enforce demands for In
creased pay.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14

A IOky0 QlSpdtcn says the Japanese
public appears to accept President
Wilson's principle that German colo
MES shall be controlled by an interna-
tional arrangement.
President Wilson has been forced to
abandon his proposed visit to Belgium,
Paris dispatch says. 1t is understood
if he returns to Europe he will accept
the Belgian invitation.
Two divisions of anarchists have
been virtually annihilated by Serbian
troops under General Gaida at Kungur,
so miles southeast of Perm, according
to an official statement issued at Omsk.
The city of Perm is now declared to
be safe from anarchist attack.
Industrial Workers of the World
voted to strike against the, wage re-
duction put into effect by the mines of
the Butte (Mont.) district 1t was said
an attempt will be made to make the
strike general.
The governments victory at Bre-
men was achieved only after bitter
lighting with all arms of modern war
fare. CannOns, mine throwers, tanks
and armored cars were used against
the Sparticans.
A Copenhagen dispatch says Bremen
Is completely in the hands Of govern
ment troops. Many people were killed
by the bombardment. The anarchists
have proclaimed republic in Duessel-
dorff. Rioting and plundering are
rampant in Holstein and throughout
the Industrial region vof the River
Ruhr.
Four British and American cruisers
have entered the Elbe, en- route to
Hamburg, to protect steamers loaded
with foodstuffs, 1t was reported at
Berlin.
The whole city of Dusseldorf, Ger
many, has walked out" Officials,
clerks and other employees in the sery-
Ice of railways, posts, telegraph, tele-
phone service line, bankers, lawyers,
physicians, school-teachers and other
persons engaged in professions have
quit work.
An Amsterdam special says a pro
vfsional government, composed of FIVE
majority socialists, has been proclaim
ed in Bremen. 1t takes the place of
the Bremen government, composed of
peoples mandatOries."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14
Personal

The duke of Santo Mauro, master of
the queens household, is dead, accord
ing to an announcement at Madrid.
The Turkish terror is a thing of the
past. Turkey in Europe" will be no
more, the near East" will be divided
into several Independent states and
the outlook for mo more wars in the
world" is good, in the opinion of DR..
Harry Pratt Judson, president of the
University Of Chicago, who arrived in
Chicago after an absence of several
months in Turkey.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14
Foreign

A Tokyo dispatch says the Japanese
public appears to accept President
Wilson's principle that German colo
MES shall be controlled by an interna-
tional arrangement.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14

President Wilson has been forced to
Paris dispatch says. 1t is understood
if he returns to Europe he will accept
the Belgian invitation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14


show an increase of $4,000, the mum
Der estimated at 100000, with a to
tai farm value of S54,672,000. Sheer
show quite an increase, $4,000. The
total number being $4,000, whose
farm value is $8,474,O00 Swine show
an increase of $4,000 over a year ago
the number on farms January / being
2,.784,O0O, with a value of $79,344 900
Crookston.-If fair weather prevails
Crookston will be visited by an air
plane from the Twin Cities according
to advices received from st. Paul il
response to the request for an all
flight to Crookston during the farm
crops show. The flight will be made
by an aviator of the Minnesota Home
Guard Motor corps.
Winona-William J. Jackson, II
years old, operator Of the first flour
mills in southeastern Minnesota, diet
here. He came here from his home il
New York as youth and operated
mills at Money Creek, Houston ant
Rushford.
Hibbing.-Charles Lundgren plead
ed guilty to allowing gambling in hi
place of business in Alice, befor,
Judge Thomas Brady, and was fined
$50 and costs. Lundgren, according
to C. E. Everett, range probation of
ficer, who made the complaint, al
lowed youngsters to play card game
| in his place of business. for money
Wincna-H. nj. Bierce, attorney
has been appointed referee in bank
ruptcy for this district by Judge VIII
bur F. Booth. He succeeds W. T. Val
| entine, who died last month. The dis
trict embraces the counties In south
eastern Minnesota
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-14

An Amsterdam special says a pro
vfsional government, composed of FIVE
majority socialists, has been proclaim
ed in Bremen. 1t takes the place of
the Bremen government, composed of
peoples manufactures"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-20
MT. I. KnOWitt

Some foods are usefiu on account of their nourishur1nt. like potatoes, wile others are populer on account of their taist, like pie under ice creem. If 1t waSent for food the stummick would be useliss.
 Cows pervide us with milk and roast beef and would proberly be more sat isfied if they jest ony had to pervide us with milk. Lambs pervide us with lamb. being how they got their name.
 ChiCkins pervide us with eggs, but on the other hand eggs pervide us with chicldns. For this reason the str~DAJ will never be ixhausted. Young chicldns and young eggs are the best for food. Hard berled eggs are the best for picknicbs and fellows have bin known to eat meny as 10 of them without feeling like stopping.
 Some foods always go together, sutch as bred and butter and corn beef and cabbidge, vile o1h ,rs never do. sutch as pickels and rice pudding or water melon and mash potatoes
 Ostriches can eat enything without getting indigestion or feeling they have made a mistake.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-20
GOOD 100 TO 1 SHOT.

May I ask how old you are?' said the vacationist to the old villager.
 ''I be just a hundred"
 Really? Will. I doubt if you'll see another hundred years" said the other, trying to make a conversa- ton.
 Wall, I don't know so much about that" was the ready response. 'I be
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-20

Dogs will eat enything that enbody elts will eat and ony stop wen there's nuthing elts left. never knowing wen they have enuff, proberly because they never have.
 One of the Advantages of being poor is that you are less libel to eat too hutch and spoil your stummick. but it is not a very injoyable idvantage.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-20
SEE-SAW STUFF.

My wife watches the sugar mar ket closely"
 "Speculating?"
 'In a small way. She borrows- when it's night and pays back when it's low"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-20

stronger now than when I started on the first hundred"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-11-06
AT THE DELUXE

The absorbing story of THE Miracle
Man which was staged by George
~ Conan to the delight of thousands
Of New York theatre socrs. has been
adapted u the screen and VIII continue
t. PLAY At the peIuxe theatre all this
week III is Paramount
picture of the finest class.
The central figure in the story IS a
patriarch in little village who pos
sesses the power 70 heal the sick and
MANNED. Tom Burke a New York
gangster. and his pals scheme to use
him As q means 81 enriching them
selves With this view. they visit him
and are astonished To discover that his
power 10 heal is absolutely bona-fde
How the good that lies latent in the
crooks IS brought out. is the theme Of
he drama, which i one 81 the most
striking Yet produced. Prominent in
the strong cast. are Thomas Meighan
Elinor Fair. Joseph i. Bowling and
Eotrt- Co-1nsr1,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-11-06
SOLDIERS
IN GARY WILL
CELEBRATE

Members &c the Fourth division now
doins guard duty during thc steel strike
in Gary are To participate in tho ARMS
tice Day celebration IA this city ucNt
Tuesday While the hour has not been
SCI. they viii give am exhibition driu
IroadWay
THIS Il tile announcement tlat was
siyen ont By Col. Mapos al the military
headquarters this morning Arrange
ments are also being made to bfns the
Fourth division moving pictures 10 Gaty
I'm Armistice Day. The picture shows
the men In real action against the Roche.
how thes lived in the trenches and other
interesting scenes If a soldiers hfe
In preparation for the exhibition the
soldiers are drilling every morning Res
idents sc This city viii have an oppor-
iunlt3 rs witnessing the regulars in
action fer the FIRST time. Other features
arc being planned for the DAYS eeiebra-
tion.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-11-06
NEW CASES FILED
IN CIRCUIT COURT

GROWN POINT. Ind Nov TIE
following new cases have been aIed
IN the Lake Circuit Court
l2945-Divorce. Pauline Schelfo vs. Jos
eph Sehelfo-Atty. August
Rremmer
1895 Mandamus. state 81 indiana IN
Relation Of stanley Nasprzvk IS
Emil Maly. ct al. election conn
missioners OF the town OF New
chicago.
2sf7-Aecount. !. 4 Iddings " WIZ
liam Johnson u Vi Belshaw
Battle-Ground Injury. Lynn F SEN
ton and Joseph r. winzey vs.
Arthur G. Savage. doing husi-
ness under name OF Savage Auto
sales Co. D. NJ. kinder
l2s49-Personal Injury. John Hcrp -
Walker p Hines. Director Cen
eral OF Railroads United states
Railway administration. " h
Roberts.
l295o-Personal Injury Arthur @. Car
penter VS. Walker p. Hines. etc.
n X Roberts
295l- Quiet Title, George 7. Foster
rs Benjamin Fuller and Mrs.
Benjamin Fuller. ct al. y. K.
Roberts.
le95e-Petltion. In the Petition az the
Hammond MaleahIe Iron a.
corporation 10 change its
name Jessie Z wilson
2953--Personal Injury. Mary Z. Cal
yin vs. Gary and Southern Trac-
ton Co. George z. Hershman.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-11-06
MAHATMA FOR
THE LADIES

Lass n ght closed the two-day engage.
ment of Nahatma. the Mystery Girl
AZ the orpheum theater but from th;
crowds which had been attending TIA
shows and the number Of people whe
necessarily were turned away with
their questions unanswered. Manage
Michelstetter decided 10 hold her over
for three more days. She Will continue
on the program today. Thursday and
Friday
t special Mahatma session FOR ladies
oniy VIII lee held ar the last perform
ance friday evening Men may at
TEND the show MP 70 the last act. which
is Nahatma's. when they will have ia
clear the hall and permit the women
to ask questions, which they might
hesitate to ask in the presence Of the
men
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-11-06
Then Came the Desire for Better Thin

7 on can't drain land when the mouth of the sew
ers empty below the level Of the river You can't raise
anything but sandbws and Aeas this soil No trees
but poplars will grow here. No use building good
houses when you can't have cellars and heating plants
You can never make hammond high grade residential
district SO don'ttry
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-11-06

Take The Tunes and keep i
touch with the whole world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-11
The Funniest Men That Euer Liued Intimate Sketches Worlds Humorists Their Eccenc
 Their Folles and Their FoibIes
Their Eccentrici-

ceeded 10 dust the furniture As they supposed he must he a kind of sub jsnitor, they whistled and stamped with great fury He went on dustins unperturbed for some minutes more after which he turned to the assembled multitude. and drawled solemnly--he was always solemn as an owl when cracking jokes before an audience Now, having dusted the furniture, I will begin my lecture
 The lecture was invariably a hoax. He would call it Africa or The Babes in the Woods" or My Seven Grardmothers. and no matter wha. the subject announced. he talked about everything but that
 Right in the midst of lecture he liked to stop and say. We will now have an intermission of 15 minutes" adding. after -pause sufficiently long for the audience to register profound dismay and apprehension. "But during the intermission l will go on with my lecture"
 He had always heen like that. In his boyhood days back in Maine he would write letters to strangers ne read of in the papers. and say for ex ample. Dear Sir-Thank you very much for your kind invitation, but I am unable 10 come
 He used 10 return to Maine on vaca- tion and whenever possible brought hts actor friend along one day the pair went for long drive and ArtemLs conceived the happy idea of tying rope around the actor and passing him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-11

for sartin that the tiger serisly injurea any of them, but as he was seen few days after, sum miles distant, with a large and well selected assortment of seats of trowsis in his mouth, rather guess he did.''
 On another occasion the snowman had a pitched battle with "Secesher' in town where his train had stopped. Says Artemus:
 "A powerful large Secesher came up and embraced me. l returned the com plment by placing my stummich agin his right foot. We then vilintly bunted our heads together for a few minits, danced around little, and sat down in a mud puddle. We rig to our feet agin & by sudden and adroit movement placed my left eye again the Ceceshers fist. We then rushed into each others arms and fell under a two-hoss wagon.
 T was very much exhaustid and didn't care about gettin up agin, but the man said he reckoned I'd better and I con clooded would. I hadn't bin on my feet more'n two seconds when the ground flew up and hit me in the he'd. The crowd sed it was high old sport, but couldn't zackly see where the lafture cum in rig and we embraced agin. We careered madly to steep bank, when I got the upper hands of my antaggernist and threw him into the raveen. He fell about 40 feet striking grindstone pretty hard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-11

continered drinkin their healths until my own became affected. Conseken5 was, presented myself al Bettys bedside late at night with constable flicker con. cealed about my person.
 T had somehow got perseshun of a hosswhip on my way home, and remem- berin sum cranky observations of Mrs Wards in the mornin. l snapt the whip putty lively and in a loud voice said, Betsy, you need reorganizini I have cum Betsy, l continneredAcrackin the whip over the bed-I have cum to yreorganize you. Ha-ave you perayed tonight? "I dreamed that night that sumhody had laid q hosswhip over me severa. conseckodive times; and when I woks up I found she had
 ''There's varis ways of managin wife, frend Wales, but the best and only safe way is to let her do just about as she wants to: Remember me kindly to Mrs Wales, and good luck to you both. Re- specks to St. George & the Dragon.
 Ever be happy.
 "A. WARD" A wonderful chap was Artemus. 'ekalled by few 6o exceld by none." In his own merry words, peas to his ashesi" Copyright, 1919, by the Bell Syndicate
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