The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-08-30

they be. Sherwood in looks showed
the blood of his Iriquois ancestors,
Oren D. Kinney not at all,-but back
to the story.
The next morning the murderer,
Dan Trump, the Dan Trump of the
canoe trip of some two years earlier,
and mentioned in my last article was
brought before the Justice of Peace.
A number of witnesses were called. 1t
was shown by all of these eye wit
neSSeS that a public dance hall,
tough place, that Trump got ugly and
quarrelsome, and finally said, by
God, I am going to shoot some one
tonight if they bother me-" Then
without cause went up to an innocent
and inotfensive hack driver by the
name of Doyle, killed-one shot. ALI
this proved nothing to the contrary.
Yet the Justice of Peace discharged
the prisoner. The County Attorney
protested, and insisted that the pris-
oner be held to the Grand Jury, all
without avail. The Justice could not
see it that way, and Trump walked
out a free man.
Sherwood was stunned and greatly
excited, but could do nothing until he
secured an indictment from the Grand
Jury, but Trump lost no time. He at
once left Ely, and no one saw him as
far as I know, knew where he fed 70,
but he went, and went quick, that was
all fixed. have completely forgotten
the name of the Justice of the Peace
who turned Trump free.
There were considerable number
of tough citizens in Ely them days.
They began drifting in as early as
1886. Most of them came from Hurley
and Ironwood, at that time two of the
most laWleSS towns in the United
States. Most of them were at Ely q
year or two before Ely had a railroad;
but the killing of Tom Doyle and his
discharge by corrupt Justice of
Peace, who was one of the gang, was
more than the people would stand for.
Public opinion was aroused. 1t be-
came real farce, and the crooks
thought it best to get out, so left, and
since that time, now near forty one
years ago, I doubt if there has been
or now is a more law abiding little
city, mining and numbering town it
has been. The numbering is gone, but
Ely has active iron mines that will
last for generations. There are other
large untouched iron formations in its
immediate vicinity, that will in the
future be active, some of them, at
least all of them eventually. Ely is a
nice little mining town the best on
the three iron ranges in Minnesota.
Ely has long, long future in the
mining of the best iron ore in the
world. 1t is the gateway to a vast
virgin lakes region, amounting to
hundred of miles, where fishing and
hunting is unexcelled. To the man or
woman tired or in poor health, I say
go to Ely, get a small boat, or two,
spend the whole summer, camp out,
catch fish, and eat them; take a guide
if you wish but learn to do goodly
part of your own work; idly wander
carefree along through lakes and
waters that flow to artic seas.
A little more about Dan Trump
(their finis) who fled from Justice In
1888. Some fifteen years rolled by. The
writer and Allen Mcdonald, a Du-
luthian then, dead now, one hot sum-
mer day tired, hot, and thirsty,
walked into the little hamlet of VIII
ton, Wisconsin. It looked to me as
perhaps it had a population of thirty.
My companion, Mcdonald, pointed to
a sign. The sign read 1.-THE beer that
made Milwaukee famous" Without q
word we headed for the shack that
had that sign by the door. Went in.
Called for beer. While we were drink
ing, for the first time took notice of
the man that waited on u.s. He was
watching me. He was Dan Trump.
He knew me, and he knew that I
knew him. No word was spoken. We
drank and walked out. So much for
Dan Trump.