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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-08-26
London Still LARGEST CITY.

Londoh-The population of London,
according to the new census, shows
that it is still the largest city in the
world, with a population of 7,476,16S.
New York City's population is $500,
04S
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-08-26
Thronos See KIno Peter Buried.

Belgrade-The funeral Of late King
Peter took place Monday in the pre-
sence of vast throngs. Perfect order
was maintained throughout the city
during the ceremonies.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-08-26

Oakland, Calif-Major General Hen
ry A. Greene, U. S. A., retired, dropped
dead in the Alameda county court
house here.
Hoboken, N. 1.-THE army transport
Wheaton arrived from Antwerp with
the bodies of more than 5000 Amer
lean soldiers.
Macon, Ga-City and county prison.
ers here set to work to search the
ruins of the Brown hotel where II per-
sons are believed to have lost their
lives in fire.
Chicago-A nationwide investiga-
ton into profiteering by undertakers
and an alleged coffin trust" has been
announced through the offices Of
Charles F. Clyne, district attorney.
Monroe, Mich.-Mary Soupski, aged
4, is dead, and her mother, young
brother and sister are seriously i'll at
their home near here from eating toad
stools. believing they were mush.
rooms
Chicago-One bandit was killed and
two others captured after one had
been wounded by policeman. They
had held up and robbed pedestrian.
Joseph Pavloe of Chicago is the dead
bandit
New Postmaster General
Will Hays escaped injury when an au-
tomobile, in which he was riding with
some friends collided with motorcab
here. No one was hurt. Mr.. Hays
automobile was unchanged.
Hugo, Okla.-A st. Louis & San
Francisco passenger train, going from
Hugo to Hope, Ark, collided with a
westbound freight train at Sawyer,
Okla. Three persons were seriously
injured and SO others cut and bruised.
New York-Final revision of the
census figures of the Presbyterian
church in the United States, shows a
total communicate membership of
3,722,361, the Presbyterian publicity
bureau announces, net increase of
S5,265 over last year.
Baltimore-Fourm months after Harry
Roy Wilson, aged 80, mail clerk on the
U. S. S. Black Hawk, mother ship of
destroyer fiotilla at Guantanamo bay,
Cuba, is alleged to have absconded
with $4,000, he walked into the police
station here and surrendered
Chicago Smith Hamon, who
attracted national attention following
her shooting and killing of Jake L. Ha-
mon, millionaire Oklahoma politician
and oil man, was married in Los An
geles, to John W. German, who was
directing her appearance in a feature
moving picture which portrays her life
story
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-08-26
Relief campaion TO Be Launched.

ReIIef Campaign to Be Launched.
Philadelphia nationwide emer.
gency campaign to raise $5,000,000 for
the relief of starving children in the
famine areas of the Russian Volga dis
trict was announced by the American
Friends Service committee.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-08-26

ing committee of IL, which is to for
mulate plans for national co-opera-
tive milk marketing system.
Washington-Postm appoint
ed. by the president include the fol-
lowing: Minnesota, Mabel L. Mark
ham Clear Lake; William E. Murphy,
Holdingford; Lee NJ Bennett, Pilla-
ger; Charles B. McLain, st. Paul
Park; Pearl M. Hall, State Sanitor-
ium; Geneva Restvedt, Hanley Falls;
August w. Pietrich, Vernon Center.
Acknowledgment for settlement
of a part of the Red Lake reservation
in Clearwater and Beltrami counties,
with full protection of the rights Of
Indians, is asked in resolution
adopted by the Clearbrook Commercial
club and communicated to Congress
man Halvor Stevenson.
Winona-A. j. Deckert, aged SIS, was
cut about the head and had two ribs
broken and a shoulder wrenched by
being thrown to the ground when a
truck he was driving was struck by a
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul rail-
way passenger train a. SiouO SiooS-
ing.
Montevideo-The Chippewa County
State bank, recently closed because of
the shortage of cash reserve on hand,
will be reopened. A deputy state bank
examiner has been in charge of the
bank. which has been opened for GER
tain kinds of business, including the
collecting of money on notes and per-
hitting patrons to have access to their
safety deposit boxes.
st. Peter-St. Peters two days OF
historical pageantry is concluded.
Fully 1000 persons witnessed the stag
ing of the episodes that depicted the
city's history from the time it was an
Indian village site to the present day
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24

CTO BE CONTINUED
HOW ASIATlCS TAME EAGLES
Spirits of Fierce Birds Are Broken by
Deprivation Of Sleep for. Long
Periods.

The Asiat!c eagle is the golden
eagle. 1t is a big bird. many pounds
in weight, and exceedingly swift in
flight, as well as fierce when attacked.
Indeed, TO see the natives on horse
back carrying golden eagles on their
arms is a strange sight, for the birds
are usually tame. when n considers
how they act when free.
The eagle faacier has a problem
In tanning, much less training, a gold
IN eagle. The eagle hunter finds
where an eagle frequently rests dur
ing the day. He climbs to this place
and ties a live fox there, trailing the
rope into some heaped-up stones to
form a cavern in which he hides, firm
ly grasping the rope.
When the attention of the soaring
eagle is attracted by the fox, the eagle
drops down and kills 1t. So intent
is the greedy bird on tearing his prey
that he doesn't notice the dead fox
Is slowly being drawn along the
rocks. When it Is within easy reach
'hc huhiei NdSio "a mt oNei NV S"eie
and secures him.
Kept absolutely in darkness, and
with drums beating night and day
SO it cannot sleep, the spirit of the
eagle is broken. When he shows signs
Of submission the trainer feeds him a
little at a time and gradually wins
his respect. If not his affection. With
the passage of months the eagle at
taches itself to the man who feeds
and trains him.-Detroit News.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24
DISAGREE Over Famous Vine.

On Roanoke island, off the North
Carolina coast, stands an ancient
Scuppernong vine. 1t is near the
grave of Virginia Dare and the site of
the lost Colony" Nobody knows the
age of hat vine, but many nearby
vines, which seem more youthful by
comparison, actually are known I o be
more than n hundred years old.
A regional contribution to Ameri-
can mythology credits Sir Walter
Raleigh with having planted the vine
where II now stands, and further
claims are that it is the original Soup
pernong. Unimaginative investigators.
however, say that the original Soup
pernong grew wild in Tyrrell county,
North Carolina, along the Scupper-
nong river. well before 1760. and that
from this county the species I, md its
way to Roanoke island.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24
Monkeys Mourned comrade.

Monkeys are very human In their
desire to help one another. and quite
skillful in their rude surgery. An AZ
rican explorer tells a story of a fe-
male monkey that was shot by one of
a campaign party that he was with.
Several of the tribe of which she was
a member came as close to the tent
where her body was lying as they
dared. holding out their arms and
making mournful cries, as if begging
hat she should be given back to them.
Then a gray old man monkey, prob
ably the chief. came still closer, chat
tering and one could imagine almost
weeping. When given the body. he
took it in his arms, examined the
wound, then walked away. the others
trailing him In single file, thus form
ing a regular funeral procession.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24
DIRT HIGHWAYS ARE EASIEST
Unpaved Country Roads Cause Least
Wear on Tires, While Stag 10
Most Destructive.

The much maligned dirt road finds
q champion In a Denver tire manufac.
turer, who asserts that exhaustive
tests show that the unpaved country
road causes the least tire wear. But
the road must be In good condition.
with no ruts to wear against the side
walls Of the tire. When properly
dragged, the unpaved country road Is
found to generate less heat In the tire
than any other type of road.
Stag roads were found to be most
destructive to tires, the sharp points
soon pitting the tread with my holes.
With the test cars wheels a fraction
of an inch out of alignment, the tires
looked as IL their tread had been sand.
papered after only a few hours travel.
Asphalt pavement was found to de-
velop much heat, but little external
wear. Macadam roads in good condi.
ton we're found to be better than Stag.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24

l should tell you that the idea Is moi
mine?" be said. after a little pause.
"Not yoursf"
No; it, or at least the germ OF II,
was given to me by a woman; a wo-
man who knows no more about bust
ness details than you do about driving
white elephants"
"Td like to be made acquainted with
the lady," said Ripley. with a tired
little smile. "Such gems are too
valuable to be wasted Oh mere lumber
yards and fruit packeries and grain
elevators and the like"
You'll meet her some day." laughed
the boss, with a sort of happy Tilt in
his voice that fairly made me sick
knowing what | did and knowing that
he didn't know it. Then he switched
the subject abruptly: About the
other matter, Ripley: l know you've
been pretty busy, but you've had Tar
bell nearly a week. What have you
found out?'
Ripley briefed the general situation
as it stood on the night of the engine
theft in a few terse sentences. Aside
from the fight on Red Tower Con-
solidated. the new railroad policies
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24
CHAPTER VIII
A Close Call

At the "Y" siding we stOpped-with-
out going on to the gravel track where
Gorcher had seen the lost 10l6-and
Kirgan and I got off with a lantern.
This was because, on the way down.
I had managed to tell the big master
mechanic about the Cantrell talk.
though ] hadn't succeeded in making
him believe that it accounted for Mr..
Norcross' drop-out. Just the same he
humored me by having Billy Gorcher
stop. and now he was trying to make
me take il sort of slow and easy as
we stumbled u toward the stem of
the ~" That was Kirgan's way. lie
was as hard as nails with a gang of
men. but he could be as soft-hearted
as any woman when a fellow was all
in. And he knew | wasn't half al
myself yet, physically.
Don't get too much hope up. Jim
mic" he was saying, as we bumped
along around the crooking track of
the "Y." I'VE amt goin' to find any
thing out yonder but a rusty loggin'
track and that broken rail con-
nection. You see. I've been here be-
fore. and / know"
He was as right as could be. When
we reached the end of the "Y" there
was the broken connection. just as
he'd said. The old saw-mill track was
still there, leading off in the dark up
the gulch. but the two switch rails
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24

just one here and there. But that was
enough. After | had knelt TO hold
the lantern close to the rails of the
rusty timber track | kpnw my bunch
was all right.
Come here, MART" I called. and
when he came, | showed MIN the new
holes and new wheel-merk on the
old rusty rails of the timber track
that proved ms clear as daylight that
an engine or n train had been over
them away this side of the rains and
the SHOWS that had rusted them.
Kirgan didn't say "A word-not to
me. lie just took one look at the
rubbed rails and then yelled back TO
Gorcher to run out on the "Y." What
followed went like c~lockwork. There
were tools, a splke-pIller and a driv-
ing-maul. on the light engines tender,
and while the two firemen were throw
ing them off. Kirgan made a couple
of swift measurements with his pocket
tape.
These two. right here. boys" he
ordered, indicating a pair of rails In
the other leg Of the "Y," and in less
than no time the two rails were I'D
and relald to bridge the gap of the
broken connection.
| suppose we poked along into the
black heart of the Timber range for
as much as five or six miles before
the engine headlight showed us the
remains of the old saw-mill camp ly-
ing in a little pocket-like valley from
the sides of which all the mill timber
had been cut. The camp had been
long deserted. There were perhaps a
dozen shacks of all sizes and shapes,
and with a single exception they were
all dilapidated and dismantled, some
with the roofs falling in.
The one exception was the stout log
building which had probably served as
the mill-gang commissary and store.
The ties at this end of the line were
50 rotten with age that our engine
was grinding a good half of them to
powder as she edged up. and a little
below the switch that had formerly
led in to the mill. Kirgan gave Gorcher
the stop signal.
After We had piled off, there wasn't
any question raised as to what we
should do. Kirgan had taken a ham
mer from Gorcher's tOOl-bOx, and he
was the n who led the way straight
across the little creek and up the hill
to the commissary.
When we reached the building we
found the windows all boarded I'D and
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24

had been taken out and the switch
Itself was as rusty as If it hadn't been
used in years.
What you heard from Mr.. Cantrell
may have been all true enough" kir-
al said, while | stood swallowing
hard and staring down at the broken
rail connection, "only it didn't have
anything to do with the big boss. Them
thugs was probably p~lannin' to wreck
the Mail, all right, and they came
down here to do it. The Lord only
knows why they didn't do il; p'raps
there wasn't time enough, after they'd
got the Sixteen in on the gravel
track"
| only just about half heard what
he was saying. He had the lantern,
and its Hight fell squarely upon a
croSS-tie a foot or two beyond where
we were standing. 1t was the last
tie in the empty string from which
the two rails had been taken up Ia
break the connection with the lighter
saW-mill track steel, and what | was
looking at was Il fresh spike hole
fresh beyond ali question Of doubt
because there was n clean new splinter
Of the wood sticking up beside it-a
splinter that had been broken out
when the spike was pulled,
! took the lantern from Kirgan In
my one good hand, and he stood there
waiting for me while walked on
ont to the c%hopped-of end of the saw
mill track, examining the loose ties
as | went along. There were fresh
spike holes in some of the others f;
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24
CHAPTER Vll.-Continued.'

7 tola hnr ghout tho vrecl, and said
va. afraid ba HADN'T oot hock vet.
7 hoard .,u,athinr TINT sounded like
. uuyl,j and boIfimuatient. ooh,
dror.r, and tban sba won't on 81 have
iusi boj , ,,Lono message from Mr..
Conirau tLn editor of the Noun
taire.r n. celrd the house TO try
ia find Af,f,r Hendricks lie has heard
eoutntbb,o which may nyplaiu about
Mr. Nor.rn.. II. sand lie didn't want
,o NM il am RI. ,tirr"
That was .paIoI for me "Ill 20
r,qht n,,r to tna lIouutoiuepr Office"
| told her. and i'm lust about two
sbukps of a dead lambs tail. | was
stonatuo O., Nh CuutrrlVs elbow in
his lifrlp den On the third tloor Of the
uewspuprr building across the avenue.
Mrs Niacrae t|rleuhoned youf" he
asked. pushing his bunch of copy pa
per aside.
"Yes; just a minute ago"
"Tll give YOU what | have, and you
MAY do what YOU please with it. One
of our young OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
dlscovcrrd-in some way that he didn't
care To explain over the phOnc-that
there was "A plot of some kind con
cocted in the back room of a dive on
lower Nevada ven on the night
Mr.. Norcruss disappeared. From what
Branderby says, | take it that the
plot was overheard, in part, mt least,
by some habitue of the place who was
too drunk to get it entirely straight
and ineligible. The plotters were
four Of Clanahan's men, and as
Branderhy got 1t, they were planning
10 steal a locomotive, Do you know
anything about thatY'
81 do. The engine was stolen all
right, that very night, kirgan, our
master-mcchanic, has known II was
gone, but he has been keeping quiet
In hopes he'd be able TO find the en-
CINE without making any public stir
about It,"
"The story, MS II has been handed
on to Brandcrhy, is pretty badly mud
died" the editor went IN. There
was something in II about an attempt
10 wreck and rob the Fast Mail, and
something else about sending a note
10 somebody at the Bullard-a note
that would do the business was the
way II was put"
THAT note was sent to Mr.. Nor
cross" | broke In eXcitedly, taking a
running Jump at the guess.
IF YOU will wait unit! Branderby
comes in. he may be able to give you
more Of the particulars" Cantrell was
beginning 10 say; but good gosh =
/ couldn't wait. | was scared stlff
for fear | shouldn't be able TO get
back 10 the rouud-house before Klrgan
started out on that engine-rescuing
trin.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24

and federal sources for road and
bridge expenditure are: Alabama, &c.
10000; Arizona, $S,OOO,0OO; Arkan-
sas, $12,OOO,OOO; California, $4,000
600; Colorado, S7,OO0,OOO; Connecticut,
$S,OOO,OOO; Delaware, $3,5OO,OOO; Flor
ida, S7,725,OOO; Georgia, $1O,OOO,OOO;
Idaho. $4,5OO,OOO; Illinois, $20,0OO.OOO;
Indiana, S9,5OO,OOO; Iowa, S37,OOO,-
600; Kansas, S20.OO0.OO0; Kentucky,
SS,OOO,000; Louisiana, 100000;
Maine, $7,5OO,OOO; Maryland, $4,SOO,-
900; Massachusetts. $S,OOO,OOO; Mich.
gan, $20,OOO,OOO; Minnesota, $4,000.
900; Mississippi, $~11,0OO,0OO; Mis-
souri,, S15,OOO,OO0; Montana. $780,.
600; Nebraska, S6,OOO,OO0; Nevada.
$3,5OO,OO0; New Hampshire, $780,
600; New Jersey, ,~$16,OOO,OOO; New
Mexico, S4,OOO,OOO; New York, $751;
100000; North Carolina; $780,.
900; North Dakota. $7,OOO,OOO;
Ohio, $35,OOO,OO; Oklahoma. $780,.
600; Oregon, SlO,OOO,OOO; Pennsyl.
vanla, $3O,OOO,OOO; Rhode Island, ST.
100000; South Carolina $6,0Oo,OoO;
South Dakota, $7,OO0,O00; Tennessee,
s1O.275,OOO; Texas, %s60,OOO,OO0; Utah,
S6,OOO,OOO; Vermont, $2,0OO,0OO; Vir'
ginia, SlO,OOO,OOO; Washington. S14,-
100000; West Virginia, SS,000,WoO;
Wisconsin, $19,5OO,OOO; Wyoming, 49,
100000.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24
Bar Tractor From Roads.

Because of its tendency to damage
roads, the tractor is barred from many
state, county and private highways.
In spite OF being thus in disrepute,
however, it II considered i~ndispens-
able in many communities for build
ing, repairing and maintaining roads.
Many a fine dirt road owes its smooth
ness and state of good repair to fire.
quent use of the drag or grader, pulled
~ a husky tractor.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24

you will put up, Mr.. Dismuke, and I'm
sure you will find II entirely at your
service. If you have anything further
to say to me I hope IT will keep until
after this Office opens in the morning.
l am very busy. just now"
I mighty nearly gasped. This Dis
nuke was the new general manager.
appointed. doubtless in all good faith,
By the president and sent out to take
charge of things. And here was the
boss practically ordering him out of
the efHce-teIling him that his room
was better than his company
The portly man got out of his chair.
putting like a steam-engine.
We'll see about thisi" be threat
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24
BETTER
ROADS
FUNDS FOR BUILDING ROADS
Sum Of 1922, o0o, 900 Available for
Highway and Bridge Construction
and Maintenance.

prepared by the U. 8. Department of
Agriculture)
approximately $622,OOO,0OO is nov
known to be available for road and
bridge construction and maintenance
during the year 1921, according to in
formation sent to the bureau of public
roads, United States Department Of
Agriculture, by the several state high
way departments. Should pending
legislation be passed by congress and
additional appropriations be made for
federal aid, this sum would be in
creased by the amount of the federal
appropriation.
The approximate amounts available
to each of the states from local, state,
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24
THE BOSS is BACK ON THE JOB.

synopss-Grahnm Norcross railroad manager, AM his secretary, Jimmy
Doids are uarooncd at sand Creek siding with a young lady, Shela Macrae,
nd her small cousin, Maise Ann U3e cen, hey witness a peculiar train hold
up, in which a special car is carried off. Norcross recognizes the "a Is that
Of John Chadwick. financial magnate. whom he was o meet at Portal City.
He and Doids rescue Chadwick The latter offers Norcross the management
of the Pioneer Short Line, which is in the hands OF eastern Spectators headed
by Breckenridge Dunton, president o tbs line Norcross,. learning that Shena
Mlorae Is stopping at Portal city, accepts. Dodds overhears conversation be-
tween Rufus Hatch and Gustave IIenckel Portal City hnanciers. in which
hey admit completely in ChadwIcks kidnapping, heir object being to keep
Chadwick from attending a meeting o directors to eOrganize the Pioneer
Short Line. WMHh would eOpardize their interests. To curbt the monopoly on
tobd by Hatch and IenckeL. the Red Tower corporation Norcross forms the
Citizens storage and Warehouse company, He begins to manifest a deep
interest in Shana MaCrae Iloldsh learns that Sheua is married.. but living
apart from Ter husband. Norcross does not know this The Boss disappears;
report has 1t tina he has resigned and on east
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24

were threatening to upset all the time
honored political traditions of the
machine-gOverned state, An election
was approaching, and the railroad
vote and influence must be whipped
into line. AS the grafters viewed 1t,
the threatened revolution was a one
man government, and if that man
could be removed the danger would
vanish.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24
DEMAND FOR GOOD HIGHWAYS
Nothing So Vital to Transportation
System and Future Of Automo-
tive Power.

Lets Preach 1t, Teach 1t and De-
mand Good Roads," says Orville d.
Coppock, sales manager of the Com
merce Motor Car company, Detroit.
Nothing is so vital to the transpor-
tation system of our country, and the
future of the automotive industry as
good roads,"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24
ADVANTAGES OF GOOD ROADS
Means Release to Farmer and City
Man From Bondage Of Rail-
road Discomforts.

To both city man and farmer he
good road means release from bond
age-bondage to electric, steam car
schedules and Observation-Disclosures
to distance-bondage to time. Coun-
ties and states where good roads have
become a steady part Of a progressive
program of legislation have seen val
ues shoot up In most surprising fash
ion, and this again has brought home
the fact that good roads pay for them
selves.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-06-24

Keep out all weeds before they get
started. It u easier and cheaper.