The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-03

Inc lead mines have formed combi-
nation with capital stock of $25OOO,COo.
large per cent of the lead mines Of
TINS country are included and the balance
are expected to come into the deal. This
is certainly lead pipe cinch.
The treasury department will stand on
us dignity and Irefuse to refund the
money Illegally collected from Porto RI
can commerce before the Foraker act.
The money will be held in the treasury
until an act of congress provides for its
return.
The Chaffee-Taft combination will be
in working order today before the sun is
down. Those Filipinos have the start
of US by something over twelve hours.
Great is this nation of ours. The Fourth
of July will be celebrated continuously
for two whole days.
Famine is threatened in Persia and
Prussia on account of the partial failure
Of the wheat and rye crops. If the
weather will only hold favorable for a
month longer We will have enough to
tide them over for at least year. That
market will be open to US anyway.
A party Of silver men of national repu-
tation are en- route to the gold fields of
Alaska No set Of men know the power
Of gold better than these men who have
been fighting it for six years. 1t is an
ways good policy to get on the right side
of power that you cannot control.
The hot wave Of the Southwest is
broken and the corn crop is saved for the
present at least. There never will be a
reasonable assurance Of full crop until
1t has passed the stage at which it can
be damaged by hot winds. Uneasy lies
the head Of the Western corn grower.
That South American republic congress
question is still fostering. The silver
that is causing the irritation is Chile
A Pdn-American congress without Chile
would be the proper thing. Let that
narrow strip of treaty-breaking Span
iards feel the inconvenience Of national
isolation for a time. 1t would do them a
world of good
Commissioner of Navigation Chamber
lain reports that there was built and
placed in commissioner on the great lakes
l05 vessels during the last fiscal year
ending with June 30. This is greater
number and a greater tonnage than was
built for the entire Atlantic and Gulf
trade. There are no navigation laws TO
hamper the growth of commerce on the
lakes. This is a lesson printed in type
SO large that he who runs may read.
Those who have revenue stamps left
over in smaller amounts than 81 must
either keep them or trade them to some
one who can use them. The government
will not redeem them If the amount
is larger it will, take man his lifetime
and .necessitate. the employment of
lawyer to secure the redemption and
then they must be turned in within two
days after The purchase The govern
ment has evidently determined that the
stamps sold shall stick. go s,9h"-~' .
Kansas comes to the front again with
a sensation. A minister of the Gospel
appeared in the pulpit clad in a divine
smile and a shirt waist. The pious Jay
hawkers were thUnderstruck, or words
to that effect. The awful silence which
followed the appearance of the minister
was broken by the rustling of a billed
shirt" as an ancient deacon arose and
peeled his coat and vest This act was
copied by the entire male part of the
congregation This peeiing process was
intended as a rebuke to the shirt-waist
man, and now there is trouble-great
trouble. -.Hr ,
The waiting settlers on the borders OF
the promised land, down in the Indian
Territory, do not propose to be robbed
Of the fun of rushing in to occupy the
land. The department OF the interior pro-
poses to issue each applicant at the land
office a number. When the numbers are
all taken a drawing is to be Instituted.
the lucky ones getting first .eho ce.soThis
method of allotting land, the settlers pro-
pose to resist, on the theory that the law
provided for just two methods for ssecur-
ing a homestead One method is to file
on the land and then occupy it, the other
is to occupy it and then file. The first
date Of fling or of occupanY standing
against all others. This method gives
rise to much litigation, but that helps out
the land lawyers and furnishes gossip
and entertainment for the settlers. AS it
stands the settlers propose to make the
rush for the land and fight the rule Of
the department