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Clerk for the month ending March 81,
1889, was read.
Moved by Alderman Spreitzer, sup
ported by Alderman Vranesich, that the
report be accepted and filed. Carried
unanimously.
The City Clerk reported the Mime
sofa State Board of Investment had de-
cided that the city is qualified and
eligible for loan to fund and pay off
outstanding warrants and interest
thereon.
acquisitions from various depart
ments were read.
Moved by Alderman Zgonc, supported
by Alderman Debeltz, that the City
Clerk be directed to advertise for bids
for carloads, more or less, Portland
Cement, and 500 GU. yds, more or less,
Course Aggregate, said bids to be opened
and considered at the next regular
meeting, and all other items in the
acquisitions be referred to the Sales
and Purchasing Committee with power
to act. Carried unanimously.
Applications from the following for
employment were read:
John A. Skube, park watchman;
Frank j. Vidmar, half-time at tourist
park or more work elsewhere;
Charles L. Novak, tourist park;
John w. Somrock, city engineers
helper;
Leslie Nicholas, city engineers helper;
John Pusaari, city engineers helper;
Anton Godec, Jr., days per month
in the Street Commissioners depart
ment;
John Moravitz, asking to be employed
in a sheltered place on account OF
physical condition.
by Alderman Hedloff, that the applica-
Carried unanimously.
Moved by Alderman Vranesich, sup
ported by Alderman Hedloff, that al
future applications for employment ID
referred directly to the Labor Board
Vote as follows:
Yes: Aldermen Debeltz, Milkovich
Spreitzer, VraneSich, Hedloff, Mayor
Lambert Co.
No: Alderman zgonc ID.
Motion carried.
Frank Povhe appeared before the
council asking for more work.
Moved by Alderman Spreitzer, sup
ported by Alderman Debeltz, that the
local Board of Education, County Com.
missioner, and the local officials of the
several mining companies be invited Il
meet with the City Council as soon a.
possible, to discuss the labor problem
now existing in the city of Ely. Carried
Unanimously
Mrs Helen Olson appeared and asked
for work.
Moved by Alderman Hedloff, sup
ported by Alderman Milkovich, tina
Mrs. Olson's request be referred to tn,
Labor Board. Carried unanimously.
i Petition from Michael Rom ant
others, was read, asking for sidewall
construction and street improvement OF
Chapman Street from LIST Avenue Yves
to Bird Avenue West, First Avenue Yves
from Harvey Street to Sheridan Street
lSecond Avenue West from Harve,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-27
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
CITY COUNCIL
CITY OF ELY.
Council Chambers, Ely, Minnesota.
Tuesday, April Is, 1899.
DEGIuAP MEETING

Council Chambers, Ely, Minnesota.
Tuesday, April Is, 1899.
REGULAR MEETING.
Regular meeting of the City Council
was called to order at 1888 o'clock P. M,
by Mayor B. M Lambert.
Present: Aldermen Debeltz, Milkovich,
Spreitzer, Vranesich, zgonc, Hedloft,
Mayor Lambert Cd.
Absent: (None).
Consideration of minutes.
Moved by Alderman Vraneslch, sup
ported by Alderman Milkovich, that the
minutes of the regular meeting held
April 4, 1898, be approved. Carried I'M
animouSly.
Communication from Mayor Lambert,
notifying the council of the appointment
of Mrs. Frances Zorman as Police
Matron on half-time to succeed Mrs.
Mary Smrekar, resigned, was read.
Moved by Alderman zgonc, supported
by Alderman Milkovich, that the
Mayors police matron appointment be
approved and confirmed. Vote as fol-
lows:
Yes: Aldermen Debeltz, Milkovich
Spreitzer, Vranesich, zgonc, Mayor
Lambert (6).
No: Alderman Hedloff, for the reason
that he believes the city should moi
have any police matrons ID.
Motion carried.
Moved by Alderman Vranesich, sup
ported by Alderman Zgonc, that suit
able steel flag pole be erected on the
northwest corner of the Community
Center grounds. Carried unanimously.
Moved by Alderman Vranesich, sup.
ported by Alderman Milkovich, that thu
city do not sell its old type ''V'' snow
pillow. Carried unanimously.
Moved by Alderman Spreitzer, sup.
ported by Alderman Milkovich, that {
higher fence be erected around the
grounds in front of the Communit!
Center. Carried unanimously.
Moved by Alderman Spreitzer, sup.
ported by Alderman Hedloff, that al
business establishments be notified tt
provide proper storage containers t.
store paper and rubbish until the cit.
can haul it away. Vote as follows:
Yes: Aldermen Debeltz, Milkovich
Spreitzer, Vranesich, Hedloff, Mayo
Lambert 90.
No: Alderman Zgonc %.
Alderman Zgonc stated that in hi
opinion additional containers will no
help the situation because paper ana
rubbish are scattered by boys and tn,
merchants are not to blame.
Motion carried.
Financial statement from the Cit,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-04-27

Norman Kings Had Game Preserves
Game preserves are not modern:
they were established by the early
Norman kings of England.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-01
100, 900 Expected at
Townsend Convention;
Speakers Announced

Several of Americas most promi-
nent leaders, including senators,
congressman and other public Off
Gals, will address advocates of DR..
Francis E. Townsend's plan for ma
tional recovery, when they gather
in their fourth national convention
June % to Is in Indianapolis.
Senators Gerald P. Nye of North
Dakota, Claude Pepper of Florida
and Sheridan Downey of California,
Congressman James Van Zandt of
Pennsylvania and Joseph Hendricks
of Florida, Gov. M. Clifford Town
send of Indiana and Mayor Reginald
H. Sullivan of Indianapolis are
among those scheduled. to speak. An
nouncement of their participation in
the conclave was made by Baxter
G. Rankine, chairman of the con-
vention arrangements committee.
More than $4,000 voting delegates
are expected to attend the Indianap-
oils convention. Visiting, non-voting
Townsendites are expected to swell
the total attendance to more than
100000. Pioneers in a movement
designed to introduce a dramatic
new social and economic plan in
the United States, they will pour in
from all sections of the country to
lend their support to DR.. Townsend
program for national stability
through old age security and elirni-
nation of unemployment.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-01

MANTEO, N. C.-Sir Walter Raj
eigh didn't discover tobacco-con-
trary to the popular historical no
tion-but he did prevent young Will
Shakespeare from joining the Lost
Colony expedition to Roanoke island
and thus saved him for literature
and the theater.
This fact is revealed in a scene
from Paul Green's historical drama,
'The Lost Colony" to be presented
here this summer from July l to
September 4, in connection with the
352nd anniversary celebration of the
founding of the first English settle
ment in America and of the birth of
Virginia Dare, first English child
born in the New world.
Fresh from Stratford and bored
with holding horses at James Bur-
bage's old Globe theater, Shake
speare was anxious to leave Eng
land. Yet he was making a better
living at holding horses than he
could ever hope to make out of
poetry. Exciting tales of the New
World had fired his imagination and
appealed to Sir Walter to take
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-01
THREE Shattered HOUSES
BEN AMEs WILLIAMS

the fire. There were two or three
scores of people here, reused by
the alarm or Weakened by the glare
of the flames against the rainy sky,
and come to watch the conflagra-
ton to its end. Tope moved among
them quietly, listening to the frag-
mentary conversations here and
there.
Then he saw Asa Tame, in the
shadows by the old barn, talking to
someone-Lissa Thayer.
Her countenance was in darkness,
since Asa stood between her and the
fire, so Tope could not see her ex-
preston; but he saw Asa bend near
er her, his arms encircling her in a
swift embrace, his face close to hers.
Then someone called TOPICS
name, and the old man saw LISA
slip away into the darkness as Heale
and Clint came to his side. At the
same time Asa recognized Clint, and
he approached them.
"Hullo, Jervies," he said,. in a
friendly tone. what have you done
with June?" Heale and Tope were a
little to one side.
"I took her home," Clint ex-
planned. 81 thought she ought to get
away from here"
Asa nodded approvingly. ''It's
been hard on her here, even before
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United States without treaty, ces-
sion, purchase or other formal pro-
ceedings at the beginning.
This quirk in national develop
ment grew out of the hastily drawn
Louisiana purchase from France in
1903, which stated that the United
States should get lands in the drain
age basin of the Mississippi river.
Later, when the treaty for annexa-
ton of Texas was negotiated in 1845,
the east boundary of that area was
set at the Sabine river.
Between these two boundaries
lay some $4,000 square miles of the
southwestern corner of Louisiana,
east of the Sabine and not part of
the Mississippi drainage basin.
Spain contested inclusion of this
area into the Union, the controversy
being settled by a treaty in 1919.
This story is shown on Mr.. John
sons map.
These, however, are mere histori-
cal details, which-once chronicled
need never be changed. Land of
flee workmen have far more trou-
BILE watching Mother Natures con-
structive and destructive tasks, an
unceasing process which is the ma
jor reason new maps are necessary
every two years.
Sometimes man conspires with
Nature to complicate matters, and
no more fascinating chapter of land
office history has ever been written
than that concerning Lake Michigan
and Chicago, where changes in the
shore line precipitated a lengthy
battle before the United States Su-
preme court.
Streeterville's History.
This was the stirring, though un-
successful battle of "Cap'n" George
Wellington Streeter and MA" his
wife, to secure title to tracts of land
built up by the restless waves of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-01
CHAPTER XII

Tope and Clint arrived at Kene-
saw Hill toward four in the morn
ing, to find the house all collapsed
into a mass of timbers through
which like rats the little flames still
played. And all about, in a thin cir
Gle, curious folk were standing by.
Clint pulled up beside the road, and
Inspector Heale saw their arrival
and came across to meet them.
That you, Topper" he asked
"Young Jervies with you? Where's
the girl?" He was peering into the
car.
Inspector Tope said: "Mrs. Tope
put her to bed. She was tired out.
Clint here can tell you all there is
to tell"
Heale nodded. "You spotted the
fire, didn't you, Jervies?" he asked.
So Clint told his story, briefly,
the Inspector listening without in
terruption till the young man was
done. Then Inspector Heale began
to question him; and Tope left them
together and walked over toward
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ter is based upon historical fact.
Green did many years of research
in preparing the script of ''The Lost
Colony" and he discovered this in
cident purely by accident.
Had Sir Walter permitted Shake.
speare to leave with the 121 colo
nists in 1887, this would have been
his fate: The colony landed and set
tied at Fort Raleigh, Roanoke is
land, but it completely disappeared
two years later. Gov. John White
went to England for supplies and
when he returned, there wasn't a
single trace of the colonists except
for the cryptic word "Croatoan''
carved upon tree.
According to a previous agree
ment, if the colonists left Roanoke
island for any reason whatsoever,
they were to write the name of their
new home on a tree. Governor White
attempted to 60 to Croatoan but
storms forced him off the right
course and he was compelled to
drop the search for the Lost Col
ony. He was Virginia Dare's grand
father.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-01

STEP NO. Amounting the map
is last. Assembled on a background
of cloth, the t,oo halues are
matched tUith meticulous care to
insure accuracy in every detail.
Lake Michigan subsequent to early
general land Office surveys of the
area. It was an episode in Chica-
COS early history fully as colorful
as the legend of Mrs. O'Leary's COW.
Moving onto the lands sometime
in the early 1905, these two pic
turesque characters sought-some.
times at the point of rifie-to re-
tain possession in spite of high wa
ter and the efforts of Chicago police,
state and federal officials to GUST
them from their sef-created autono.
NOUS principally which they named
"Deestrict of Lake Michigan" II
comprised rs acres of land near Chi.
cago's business district, and alleg.
edly started when the "Cap'n" found
his boat stranded on a shallow reef.
Sand drifted around, formed an is
land and eventually joined the main.
land. To this day the lake front
area is referred to as "Streeter
VILE"
neIea eed nv wasfarr Nauso,1.r rrr.,-.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-01
Franklin's Nephew

w HEN Benjamin Franklin sent
" his 19-year-old nephew, Benja-
min Mecom, to Antigua in the Lee
ward islands in 1852 to run the
newspaper he had established there
four years earlier, he wrote to his
sister, Jane Franklin Mecom: THAT
island is reckoned one of the health
lest in the West Indies. My late
partner there enjoyed perfect health
for four years until he grew care
less and got to sitting up late in
taverns which have cautioned Ben
ny against"
Presumably Benny followed his
uncle's advice but he was too much
of a Franklin not to be restless. He
soon became dissatisfied, even
though Franklin increased his share
of the profits, and wanted to Ego il
on his own" So Franklin sold him
the press which he moved to Bos-
ton. There in 1853 he issued the
first separate edition of Franklin's
Father Abraham's Speech" later
famous under the title of 1.-THE Way
to Wealth"
Unfortunately Benny didn't apply
its lessons to himself. He became
something of fop, strutting around
in fine clothes instead of sticking
to work. Failing to prosper, he
moved the press to New York in
1853 but had no better success there.
Then he went to New Haven where
he rented press from Postmaster
Parker, whose deputy he became.
But he failed to make good there,
as he did later in Philadelphia and
Burlington, N. j.
Benny Mecom had inherited his
uncle's name but none of his genius
for making a success. Finally,
about 1776, he went mad.
g Western Newspaper Union
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Master Map
Is Record of
U.S.Growth
Land Office Completes Bien.
NAL Revision; Pains
taking Job.
By NOAH JOHNSON

WASHINGTON. Down
Louisiana way someone dis
covered a few years ago that
East Timbalier island, IS miles
off New Orleans in the Gulf of
Mexico, had moved approx
mately two and one fourth
miles during the past hundred
years.
Natives-like you and me
shook their heads and said
wasn't that strange. They
forgot about it, but Uncle
Sam had to remember because
someone might ask him about East
Timbalier island.
About the same time government
surveyors discovered the Missouri
river had jumped its tracks around
Bismarck, N. D., just natural phe-
nomenon to the folks at Bismarck
but a minor crisis to Uncle Sam.
1t messed up his land records some
thing awful.
Log Jam and Earthquake.
Meanwhile, back in Louisiana
again, great log jam formed in
the Red river, growing until it OBJ
structed the stream and forced hur-
ried waters to drain off into bayous.
That was another headache for gov
eminent surveyors, who had just
returned from Arkansas where they
found that an earthquake in 1903
had left lakes where no lakes were
supposed to be.
Every two years since 1882 this
headache has been boiled down into
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him on the 1887 expedition to Roam
oke island.
Bard Wanted an Ak.
II fear you'd find no time for
poetry there" Raleigh is said to
have replied.
IT'S well. No one likes my poor
verses here. Give me an ak, can
cut trees" rejoined the poet.
You're wrong" Raleigh said.
"Sir Philip Sidney has spoken to me
of your talents. At the tavern he
heard you and your ale mug recit-
ing ballads. You have the gift of
words. Cherish that gift. / will
commend you to a friend, Master
Shakespeare-on with money"
Shakespeare: "Then / am your
debtor forever" But Raleigh replied
with flourish, Rather let history
say that / am yours"
Colonists DISAPPEARED.
History does not reveal the name
OF Shakespeare's benefactor, accord
ing to Paul Green, who is a Pulitzer
prize dramatist. However, the scene
between the young poet and Sir Wal
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cial records, hundreds of thousands
of drawings and years of wearisome
trudging by hundreds of government
surveyors over more than ], 800, 000,-
600 acres of public lands.
The newest map, prepared by or
der of congress, is just now COM
ing off the press.
Most Perfect Map Made.
When you know the details, there's
something terrifyingly grandiose
about this map. It carries a key to
the Identification of original titles
to approximately 5000, 900 parcels
of land transferred to private own
ership by federal patent during the
past century. 1t shows outlines of
the national rectangular survey sys-
tenn upon which such land disposal
was based. AS if that were not
enough, it presents a 1899 picture
of the United States from A to z,
including state boundaries, cities,
towns, rivers, railroads, national
parks and reservations, outlying ter
rltorleS and possessions.
To compile it workmen had to ex-
anime 100000 constantly changing
drawings, called township plats, on
file in the land office. Every minute
change had to be inscribed back
wards by hand on 20 permanent COP
per plates from which the maps are
autographed, obliterating old details
and substituting the new. When en-
craving was complete, artists added
color, affording easy identification
of major features. Then workmen
could lean back and relax, watching
their finished baby" roll off color
presses of the geological survey at
the rate of 1000 sheets an hour.
History Chronicled on Map.
Commissioner Johnson will tell
you that many strange chapter in
American history can be read from
his map. One of them concerns
three large tracts of mo Mans
Land" later parts of Minnesota, the
two Dakotas, Colorado and Louisi-
ana. which were acquired by the
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tonight" he assented. "But if you
don't bring her back, you'll have a
hornets nest around your head.
They won't let her get away" He
grinned encouragingly. stick to
her, Jervies. Hang on to her. Don't
let them scare you"
''I'm keeping June" Clint told
him stoutly. He spoke to Tope, I'M
easily. ''I'm pretty tired" he said.
"I'll go home, if you don't mind.
Be with them there"
Tope nodded; and Asa turned and
saw the Inspector. "Hullo!" he ex-
claimed in surprise. Inspector
Tope, eh?" He looked past Tope at
Heale, a swift conjecture in his
eyes.
Clint departed, and a fireman
joined them. Water dripped from
the rim of his white helmet, and his
rubber coat was glistening. He said
to Inspector Heale: ''We can't do a
thing for hours yet. Too hot"
Asa demanded: ''Do what? What
do you mean?"
Inspector Heale hesitated. "This
is Chief Mason, Tope," he ex-
planned; and then to Asa: "Why,
Mr.. Taine, we think this fire was
set"
''Set?" Asa was rigid. Tope,
watching him, thought the man used
an effort to control his voice.
"Why?"
''To kill Mr.. and Mrs. Hurder,"
said Inspector Heale harshly.
For long moment there was ST.
lence. Chief Mason moved away,
back to the fire. Asa stood thought
full, with bowed head. Then his eyes
shifted, and he looked past Inspec-
tor Heale, and called in low tone:
"Rab!"
Inspector Tope swung around in
time to see Rab Tame coming to-
ward them from the direction of the
old barn.
''Hullo," he said in a level mono
tone. Whats the matter, Asa?"
And Asa told his brother: "This
is Inspector Heale. He thinks the
fire was set, to. kill Grandma and
Grandpa Hurder."
Tope watched Rab intently.
"Set?" the young man exclaimed.
xiii? For heavens sake, why
should anyone He stared from
one to another. "Why should any,
one do that?" he demanded.
Same reason someone killed
Mrs. Leaford," said Heale implaca-
bly,; and Rab cried:
"Aunt Kitty? Why, she took an
overdose"
But Heale said grimly: "Oh, she
was killed, all right" There was
something like harsh triumphant
relish in his words. Murdered.
Tainel And so were these old folks
tonight. Or Mrs. Hurder, anyway.
Mr.. Hurder may get we'll"
"For heavens sake" Rab pro-
tested, eff you thought that about
Aunt Kitty, why haven't you done
something before now? Why haven't
you said so before? You might have
prevented this tonight"
Inspector Heale confessed: SCI fig
ured there'd be better chance of
finding out"
''Blast it'll" Rab cried. you've
fiddled around with your figuring;
and now You're as bad as"
But Asa interposed reasonably:
STEADY, Rab. I guess Inspector
Heale used his best judgment. After
all, he couldn't be sure Kitty was
poisoned. Maybe her heart cracked.
let CO."
He added: Sand this tonight NAV
have been an accident. You can't
tell"
Inspector Heale asked Asa:
Where were you, tonight?"
Asa looked at him slowly, then
grinned. "You cross-examined me
once before. Inspector" he re-
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STEP NO. 2-Engraued back.
yards by hand on copper plate,
euery detail in the nei0 map is pre-
pared in operations like this. More
than 20 copper plates are used in
assembling the completed map. 1t
requires one year to make the add.
tions and changes for each publ
cation.
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a picture seven feet long and five
feet high, known as the official mas
ter map of the United States. In
the office of Land Commissioner
Fred w. Johnson, part of the U. S.
department of the interior, work
men figurately condense on the nee
dle-sharp point of an engraving in
strument millions of pages of off,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-01
Friendship

A friend rejoices at seeing his
friend and expands with joy. He
is knit to him with a union of soul
that affords unspeakable pleasure.
And if he only calls him to remem-
brance, he is reused in mind and
transported.-St. Chrysostom.
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From the Greek

Arctic is from the Greek word
arctos, meaning a bear, the refer
ence being to the northern constel-
lation of the Great Bear. Antarctic
means opposed to Arctic"