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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 16.-The Bull
garian government has presented a
memorandum to the powers setting
out at great length the condition of
affairs during the past three months in
Macedonia since the Turkish govern
ment undertook to inaugurate the
promised reforms. The most precise
details, dates, places and names of per-
sons are given in the memorandum,
the whole constituting a terrible cate
CORY of murder, torture, incendiarism,
pillage and general oppression COM
mitted by the Ottoman soldiers and
officials. These particulars were OBJ
tained entirely from official sources,
such as reports Of the Bulgarian con-
suls and agents of the Bulgarian gov
ernment, and, in many instances, the
reports made by Turkish authorities.
The Bulgarian government guarantees
the absolute truth of every statement
and challenges the porte to disprove a
single charge made in the memoran-
DUN.
The memorandum begins by stating
that during the past three months, the
Ottoman government has taken series
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
TAMS SAYS THERE
IS NOTHING TOT
Chairman Bixby. of the Dawes Commission, Says He
Does Not Believe There Is Foundation for Suspicion
OF Improper Conduct in Handling Indian Lands
Declares He Never Was Interested in the Purchase of
Indian Holdings.

cials involved in these seemingly SEN
sational reports from Washington, in
my opinion there is absolutely no foun-
dation for suspicion of improper con-
duct respecting the handling of these
lands on the part of any federal en-
ploye In the territory.-Tams Bixby."
Jones Says 1t Was Bad Taste.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 16.-
Speaking of the charges made affect
Ing Indian department officials, Indian
Commissioner Jones said
1T is impossible for any government
official connected with land company
dealing in Indian lands to be entirely
impartial in his decisions when he is
deciding questions which may affect his
own welfare. I do not think any Off
cials whose names appear as stock
holders or directors in the Indian ter
ritory land companies had any inten-
ton of acting dishonesty, but I must
say that l think 1t was in extremely
bad taste for them to allow themselves
to be connected with the companies.
II believe the Indian office should at
once undertake a thorough investiga-
ton of the conditions in the Indian ter
ritory and prepare report, and then,
if congress considers further investiga-
tion desirable, there will be material
upon which to work. An investigation
will he long and tedious and will have
most extensive ramifications, but 1t
should be begun Immediately hy force
of competent men and should continue
until we have reached the bottom.
Twenty million acres of land are in
volved and millions of dollars in mon
ey to say nothing of the interests OF
some 100000 Indians"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
VETERANS REACH
GOLDEN GATE CITY
Fifty Thousand Expected in
San Francisco When Day
of Parade Arrives.
Veterans Reach San Francisco.


SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 10
While the formal exercises of the ma
tional reunion of the Grand Army of the
Republic do not begin until tomorrow,
the encampment was to all intent and
purposes opened today with the ar
rival of Gen. Thomas Stewart, COM
mander-in-c chief, on a special train
bearing 365 members of the different
Pennsylvania posts. Other distin-
guished arrivals today were: Gen. Nell
son A. Miles and Gen. John c. Black
who is most prominently spoken Of
as the next commander in chief Of the
G. A R. Trains arrived all day and
late tonight bringing many members
and veterans. The registration bureau
and information booths were thronged
all day.
1t will be Tuesday before all incom-
ing trains will have arrived and on
Wednesday, the day set for the parade,
1t is estimated that there will be fully
$4,000 visitors in the city. Tomorrow
night the local posts will inaugurate
the encampment with receptions to the
veterans.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
MONEY IS SENT
BY WIRELESS"
Passenger on Campania Bor.
rows Money From One
on Lucania.

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-The Cam
pania, which arrived today, claims the
honor of having established the first
wireless telegraph money order office
in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. In
the "Marconigrabns" of the Cunard
bulletin it is boasted that Marconi
money orders can be obtained at any
hour of the day or night, and this story
is told in it to illustrate the working
of the innovation:
"a saloon passenger named Henry
Robertson, after we had left Queens
town, found to his dismay that he had
insufficient money to pay the customs
duties on articles he had purchased
abroad. Having no friends on board,
he was at his wits end as to what to
do. Remembering that his mother
was a passenger on the Lucania, which
left New York on the same day we
sailed. from Liverpool. the following
Mareonigram was arranged by the
ships officials:
on the Lucania: Pay to the purser on
the Lucania $50 asking him to advise
the purser of the Campania to pay me.
- Henry
Communication was established
with the Lucania at 12:45 a.. M, fifty
miles distant, both ships then being
in the Atlantic, and service in
Structions were sent to call the purser
and also the woman on board the Lu-
eania, they of course being asleep at
that hour This was done and at 1:45
a. m. our own purser was awakened
and handed the following Marconi-
gram:
Graham, purser of the Campania:
Pay to Henry Robertson $50. Have
collected the amount from his mother
on board the Lucania- - 'Milliken.'
"As soon as Robertson awoke the
money was paid over to him. Needless
to say he was much delighted"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17

Tams Bixby, chairman of the Dawes
Commission, wired the following COM
munication to T h e Globe yesterday:
Red Wing, Mimi, Aug. 16.-'1
have never been interested directly or
indirectly in the purchase of an acre
of Indian land and never expect to be.
Neither am interested as a stockhold-
er or officer in any firm or corporation
organized for the purpose of buying
or selling such lands. It is true that
I am president of one trust company,
director of another trust company and
a director of a National bank at
Muskogee, but each of these institu-
tions is purely banking and loan
ing company. Up to the day when
was last in the territory neither Of
these companies, so far as I am adj
vised, had purchased a single piece of
Indian property.
But If such were the case I take
II the transaction would be perfectly
legitimate. No Indian lands can now
be sold in Indian Territory except upon
approval of the deed by the secretary
of the interior and, while this business
is something that our commission has
no connection with, 1 am informed that
all sales have been make by open public
BIDS.
'"The secretary maintains III Mus!yo-
gee a special personal representative
with many assistants especially charg-
ed with the duty of supervising all
sales of lands by Indians. If these
duties are honestly administered, which
have no doubt is the case, there can
be no possible opportunity for fraud.
"As to the other government Off
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
VALCOTT INYADES
THE HOLY OF HOLES
CoIored Prize Fighter Buys
Home in. Aristocratic Part
of Maiden.

Special to The Globe.
MAIDEN, Mass, Aug. 16.-Joe Wal
colt, the colored prize f1ghter, has
bought the house In Belmont street
next door to that of E. S. Converse, the
wealthiest man in the city, and moved
in. His family consists of mulatto
wife, four young children, twelve
year-old sister and his white mother
in-law. Walcott paid $4,000 for the
house.
Col. Harry Converse, son of e. S.
Converse. who also lives in the neigh
borhood, has tried to buy the property,
but Walcott would not sell for a rea-
sonable price walcott says that if his
neighbors do not like a colored
family so near, they may move or they
can buy him out.
Asked what he would sell for, he
said: Il will sell for a nice advance ON
what the place cost me-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
CHICAGO AIMS TO
CONTROL WORLDS
DIAMOND OUTPUT
Organizes Big Holding Com
pany and Secures Possion of
immense Concessionsin Bra
Claim Probable Dividends
of 100000 Per Year.
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe.
CHICAGO, Aug. 16.-If the plans of
local capitalists go through Chicago
may gain control of the diamond out
put of Brazil as London has control
of that of South Africa. For this pur-.
pose the Brazilian Diamond and Gold
Development company has been organ
lied and accredited representatives left
Chicago today for Brazil to put the
enterprise in motion. The president Of
the company is Nicolay A. Grevstad,
editor of the Scandinavian newspaper
here. Associated with him are An
ton Peterson, S. J. Christianson, DR.. S.
Dahl and other prominent Scandina-
vians Of Chicago.
Contracts have been closed which
give the company control of 100000
acres of the richest diamond fields in
Brazil the Diamentia in the state Of
Minas Geraes. Included In this conces-
sion is the exclusive dredge mining
right on seventy miles of the river
Jiquitinhenha. F. Million Johnson,
mining engineer of wide experience,
and A. M. c.. Brant, states attorney of
Minas Garaes, are the men who left
today to take active charge Of opera
tions. Basing the estimates Of the
productiveness of contiguous territory
in the diamond field the company ex-
poets to make a profit of 100000 to
100000 a year. The officers figure
that the concessions will become more
valuable as the diamond fields of South
Africa decrease in productiveness. 1t
was from a diamond mining expert Of
South Africa that the Chicago men
conceived the idea of getting control
of the Brazilian fields. This man has
made a study of the gold and diamond
territories of the world. He was a vic
tim of the war in South Africa, had
been one of Cecil Rhodes followers in
Somaliland, lost his money, collected
damages from Great Britain, came to
Chicago, laid his project before inter-
ested men here and succeeded in hav-
ing the development company organ
lied with the huge concessions assured.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
CATHOLICS LAY
A CORNER STONE
One More of the University of America
Buildings Is Begun.

WASHINGTON, D. C.,Aug. 16.-Mgr
Falconio, apostolic delegate to the
United States, today laid the corner
stone of the Dominican House of Stud
les at Brookland, District of Colum-
bia, and formally launched the con-
struction of another adjunct to the
Catholic University of America. The
services were marked by pomp and
beauty and were attended by high
church dignitaries and clergy from
various parts of the country. The Holy
Name societies, who owe their origin
to the Order of ST. Dominick, the
Knights of Columbus and the Ancient
Order of Hibernians, assisted in the
ceremonies. The Rt Rev. William
O'Connell, bishop of Portland, Me, de-
livered the sermon, which was fer
vent exposition of the mission and val
ue to the Catholic church of the re-
ligious orders.
The monastery will be beautiful
building Of pure Gothic style. The
higher studies for Dominican students
will be transferred from st. Josephs
house of studies, at Somerset Ohio, to
the new monastery, when completed,
and the latter will be the post graduate
school of the order.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
PANAMA TOWNS
DEMAND THE CANAL
Congress atBogota Plainly Told
That Hay-Herran Treaty
Must Be Approved.

PANAMA, Aug. 16i-The following
cablegram in favor of the Panama ca
nal treaty was forwarded this after
noon:
The Vice President of Colombia, Bo-
gotta: The municipalities of David,
Aqua Dulce, Santiago de Veraguas,
Soma la Mesa, Montejo, Chepo, Chame,
Ghorrerora. San Carlos, Emperador
and numerous others request congress
to approve the Hay-Herran treaty,
which signifies the salvation of the
isthmus. l am sending by mail the
original petitions. Inform the house
of representatives and the senate and
publish. -Demetrio Bird,
President of the Municipality of
Panama"
Nearly all the municipalities Of the
isthmus have already answered fa-
vorably the request of the municipal
council here to send a petition to con-
gress in favor of the ratification of the
canal treaty.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
.LAUNDRYMEN FAIL
TO DEMONSTRATE
Cooperative Experiment in
Chicago Is a Dismal
Disaster.
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe.
CHICAGO, Aug. 16.-Farewell to
the cooperative laundry of the Laun-
business was closed out at foreclosure
SALE Debts, it is said, have accumu-
lated against the business; the books
are declared muddled, and the whole
venture a failure. In quiet way the
collapse of the cooperative laundry is
one of the hardest blows given recently
to immature unionism. The plant was
bought by the workers in the thick of
their strike last May. With loud proc
lamations it was announced that they
were going to demonstrate that the
owners could pay the scale of wages
demanded and still make a handsome
profit. The new union scale was ad-
hered to only two weeks. Since then
discomfort has been manifest and the
business has gone steadily down hill.
While it is impossible to give exactly
the losses of the promoters of the CO.
operative venture. they can be stated
approximately. The committee bought
the place for $4,000. paying down nearly
$2,50O, all the money in the treasury of
the organization. The move was ex-
pected to be vindication of the strike,
and nothing was held back. A mort
gage for $4,000 was given for the ball
ance of the purchase price. The ex-
ecutive committee has since paid one
500 note of the series secured by the
mortgage. Even wages were not reg
l1larlU Maid
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
D[ATHOF ORTOFF At
BUTTEIS CHARGED
TO PRISON DEPUTIES
Western Union Operator Gives
Detailed Account of Brutal
Beating of Prisoner Which
He Claims to Have Wit
messed.

BUTTE, Mont, Aug. ia sensa-
ton was caused here by the signed
statement of Edward Dorval, chief op-
orator of the Western Union, to the
effect that he was an eye witness to
the beating administered to Frank Or
toff. the prisoner who leti the sensa-
tional escape of six prisoners here II
week ago, in an effort to compel the
prisoner to tell where he got the gun
he used in the break.
Ortoff's body was found hanging to
the end of tassel cord attached to the
grating in his cell and an apparently
fictitious letter purporting to have been
written by Ortoff just before he is sup
posed to have taken his life caused
ugly rumorS to the effect that the priS-
oner had been driven to take his life
through terrible injuries received at
the hands of the jailers.
Above his signature Norval declares
that while delivering message to the
Jail at l o'clock in the morning he
saw deputy sheriff. whose name he
does not know but says he can recog-
nize, press down his knees "a Ortoff,
who lay on the floor bound hand and
foot, and kick him repeatedly in the
stomach. To the prisoners crying:
For Gods sake, please stop!" the dep
uty sheriff kicked the PROSTATE pris-
oner in the face until his groans ceased
and the man was insensible. Dorval
declares the deputy sheriff was in a
frenzy and kicked the man until an
other officer. who was putting on an
Oregon boot, pulled the deputy off to
save Ortoff's life.
Coroner Egan tonight ordered the
body to be held and an autopsy will be
performed tomorrow morning. Dor
val's statement caused a sensation and
is the talk of Butte. The face of the
corpse is badly bruised. Ortoff was
the prisoner who confessed to holding
ap single handed two Wyoming stage
peaches
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
MATRlMONY IS HIS CURE-ALL
Mayor of Hammond Ind. Issues Proclamation Asking Manu-
facturers to Employ Only Married Men.

build up homes. During the recent Ia
Dor troubles in Hammond he noticed
that the unmarried men were the first
to express dissatisfaction between the
employer and enploye. He says that
they are the hardest to control in time
of disturbances, and when misfortune
comes as a result of their agitation
and Indifference they leave the city
without loss to themselves, having
nothing to take with them but reck-
less and restless disposition, and moth
ing to leave behind them but unpaid
bills and community the worse for
them having lived in it.
So Mayor Knots wants the manu-
facturers to tie. to the married men,
and begs them in his proclamation to
do so.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
THE NEWS INDExED.

PAGE /.
Panama Towns Demand Canal.
Sensation in Butte Prison.
Britain Gives Porte a Hint.
Cooperative Laundry Fails.
WaIcott Buys Home.
Money Sent by Wireless.
Bulgaria Appeals to Powers.
Matrimony as Cure All.
Chicago Buys Diamond Field.
Crazy Fad Drives Burke Crazy.
PAGE II.
Balmy Weather Filled Outing Places.
New Ward Still Open to Public.
PAGE III.
News of the Northwest.
Rosebud Sioux Turn Down Treaty..
PAGE w.
Editorial Comment.
PAGE v.
s St. Paul -TodeIo Game.
PAGE vi.
Globe Popular Wants.
PAGE VII.
Markets.
PAGE Viii.
What the Book Writers Are Doina.
Chicago 100 Years Old.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
ST. PAUL MAN STOPS
AN OFFICERS BULLET
Row on Excursion Train Results Seri-
ousIy for Frank konshalI.

DANvILLE, Ill. Aug. 16.-Frank
Konshan, of st. Paul, Mimi, employed
on the Frisco road, near Sidney, ILL.,,
was probably fatally shot this evening
at $3.50 o'clock by Special Officer
Briggs, of the Wabash Railway COM
pany. Both were on a Decatur excur-
sion train which left this city at $50.
Between Danville and Tilton drunken
row occurred in one of the coaches and
Officer Briggs attempted to quiet the
combatants, when, 1t is claimed. Kon-
shall drew a knife and threatened TO
cut him. Briggs fired twice, one bull
let striking Konshall in the neck and
the other passing through his body
near the navel Konshall is In hos
pitai and is thought to be mortally
wounded.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
SEELEY'S ASSAILANTS
ARE UNDER ARREST
Attack on Millionaire Was for Purpose
of Robbery.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Aug. 1e.-
James H. Farrell and Fred LIE Clair,
the self-confessed assailants of Isaac
B. Seeley, the New York manufacturer,
were captured here today. They said
that they entered Mr.. Seeley's office
on Friday morning on pretense of Sc
curing the work Of washing windows,
attacked him and beat him into un-
consciousness and robbed him of about
$50 in cash and gold watch. In the
course of the struggle an Office boy,
who came to the old gentleman's as
sistance, was also assaulted. Later the
men were taken to New York.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
ST. LOUIS SHAKEN
BY AN EARTHQUAKE
Shock Was Severe and Was Also Felt
at Alton, I'll.

ST. LOUIS, Mo.,-Aug. 16.-An earth
quake shock which lasted for several
seconds was distinctly felt in all parts
of ST. Louis early hits morning SO
marked was the seismic disturbance
that many slumbering residents of the
city jumped from their beds in fright
and waited tremblingly for other and
greater shocks, but they did not ma
terialize. According to those who felt
the disturbance the shock took place at
$50. All agree that it was jar
rather than trembling of the earth.
but so violent was it's nature that
houses shook at their foundations as
If they would moment3rily totter and
fall. No damage has been reported.
ALTON, H., Aug. 16.-An earth
quake shock was felt here at 8: "a
o'clock this morning. The majority
of the residents Of Alton were awaken
ed. The shock shook a quantity Of
plasterfng loose in the main auditorium
of the M. 3. church.
At East Alton bricks were shaken
from several chimneys and glass bro
ken in several windows. The shock.
lasted nearly eight seconds.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
POPE GIVES AUDIENCE
TO BISHOP HARTY
New Head of Church in Philippines Is
Cordially Received.

ROME, Aug. 1e.-The pope at s
o'clock this afternoon received at a
private audience in his apartment
Archbishop Harty, who was yesterday
consecrated archbishop of Manila by
Cardinal Satoli, with whom he spoke
at length about. the situation in the
Philippine island, showing himself fully
conversant with the state of affairs
there. Plus X said the efforts OF the
clergy towards the pacifcation of the
archipelago and the triumph of Cathol-
icism would always receiye the warm
est support at Rome. He presented
to Archbishop Harty beautiful
episcopal pastorals cross. Archbishop
Harty then presented to the pontiff his
secretary, Mgr. W. Fowler, and Father
Donohue, of Alabama, to both of whom
the pope addressed very kind words.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
Special to The Globe.


HAMMOND, Ind, Aug. 16.-Mayor
Knots, who recently offered free mar
riage to single men and later advocated
municipal cleaning-up days, and who
himself, with hoe and pick ak, led
gangs of men to remove debris from
the city, has again leaked into the lime
light with a new idea in municipal
encomonics. He advocates the employ
ment of married men only by Ham
mond manufacturers for encomonic
reasons, which he explain in a lengthy
letter, copies of which were sent to the
heads of various industries here.
Domesticity and married life are the
mayors hobby, and his wits are always
working to get the young men of the
city to take wives to themselves and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17

, of measures with the alleged intention
of inaugurating the era Of promised re-
form and of assuring peace and tran
puility to the Bulgarian population of
European Turkey, but which have had
the contrary effect of further exasper-
ating this population and reviving the
revolutionary movement. Instead of
proceeding solely against persons guilty
of breaches of the public order, the
civil and military authorities have
sought every possible pretext to perse-
cute, terrorize and ruin the Bulgarian
inhabitants, alike in the large cities and
in the small villages.
Wholesale massacres, individual mur-
ders, the destruction of villages, the
pillaging and setting fire to houses, the
arrests, i'll treatment, tortures, arbi-
trary imprisonment and banishment,
the closing and disorganizing of
churches and schools, the running of
merchants, the collection of taxes for
many years in advance-such, proceeds
the memorandum, are among the acts
of the Ottoman administration of the
vilayets of Salonica, Monastir, Uskub
and Adrianopole.
Gives Details of Massacres.
The memorandum next relates in
detail a number of such cases in each
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
Mills Continue Closed.

Burlington, Winooski and Colchester
mills of the American Woolen company
will not resume operations tomorrow,
orders having been received for two
weeks suspension. In addition to the
Washington mills at Lawrence, Mass,
and the Assabot mills at Maynard,
Mass, the company has also decided
to close the Lebanon and Mascona
mills, and Baltic mills, Of Enfield, in
the Mascoma valley, N. H., for sim
liar period. These mills employ total
of about 10000 hands.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-17
ALLISON AND CANNON
CONFER IN CHICAGO
Profound Secrecy Is Observed as to
Reason for Meeting.

CHICAGO, Aug. 16.-senator VIII
liam B. Allison, of Iowa, and Con-
gressman Joseph G. Cannon, of uli-
nois, slated as speaker of the next
house, held conference at the Au-
ditorium Annex tonight, but neither
statesman would discuess the meet
Ing.
Il saw Senator Allison said Con-
gresham Cannon, but there is nothing
/ can say about our meeting I am on
my way to Nebraska
Senator Allison remained but a short
time in Chicago and as he did not see
any other politician during his visit
1t is surmised that ne came especially
for the conference with Congressman
Cannon.