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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-09-04
MINNESOTA NEWS.
A Negro Fiend.

Struggling in the cruel grasp Of a
burly colored man, Ruby Steele, 13
years old, was carried from her home
in Minneapolis at an early hour in the
morning and released only when her
abductor was forced by pursuers to
abandon his intent.
Awakening from sound sleep at
o'clock in the morning by a strong
pressure over her face the young girl
whose home is at 1414 Sixth street Sc.
Minneapolis was terrified by the sight
of negro sitting in the window.
She cried out in terror, and the in
truder leaped to her bed and bearing
her i'll his arms, ran to the window,
striking down in his fight the girls
mother, who had rushed to the room,
aroused by her daughters cry.
A strong odor of i. chloroform perme-
mated the atmosphere.
Hurting now the half conscious child
to the balcony, the negro leaped from
the room. He seized the girl and,
gaining the ground, made off in the
darkness.
The girl by this time had gained a
better control of her senses, and
screamed in terror, the negro striving,
she says, to choke her into silence.
Neighbors were attracted to the
scene by the child's crys, and her as
sailant abandoned her, disappearing in
the night.
He was soon arrested and is sharply
guarded
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-09-04
News In Brief.

Ole Peterson, 435 Adams street north
east, Minneapolis, was found dead in
bed.
During storm lightning struck the
barn of B. Fuchs, south of Perham.
The building was destroyed, together
with three stacks of grain and four
head of cattle. The loss is partially
covered by insurance.
Mrs. Hendrina Voorbeck of LIE Sueur
eighty years old, has been arrested and
held under 5000 bonds for chopping
down a line fence near her residence.
Some one fired shot which broke a
plate glass window in the American
National band, Sixth and Minnesota
streets st. Paul.
Wisconsin rifemen will not take
part in the interstate competition of
militiamen to be held at Lake City,
Mimi, next month.
Knute Nelson died at the age of 81
at Grand Meadow. He was one of the
first white men who came TO the Bear
Creek settlement in 1852.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-09-04

yiIayets of Kossova and Monastir; thus
bordering on eastern Roumelia, Bull
garia, Servia and Montenegro; a con-
siderable territory. The mass OF the
population to the south is Greek in Its
sympathies, while to the north the peo-
pie are "Slav in language, manners, Gus
toms, names and aspirations. The Bull
garians, who live in the north, are large
ly engaged in agriculture; in the cities
the ruling Turks and the Greeks form
the commercial class, though the Bull
garians are beginning to GUST the lat-
ter. At the foot of the mountains are
clustered various Albanian villages, and
the Albanians inhabit almost exclusive
ly part of the northwest territory.
When one calls to mind that the Mo-
hammedan brigand, cruel rather than
picturesque outlaw, preys upon travel
er and villager, one realizes there are
disturbing elements a plenty in this
land. SQuabbles in regard to religion
and schools have been numerous among
these different folk, but do not consti-
tute the whole of the Macedonian prob
lem, as is believed by not few. The Bull
garian church separated from the Greek
church in 1870, and since that time the
question of religion has divided Greek
and Bulgarian. Add to this religious
incompatibility the fanaticism of the
Mussulman and one gets further idea
of the state of affairs in unquiet Mace
donia.
Macedonia, with its magnificent for
ests, wild mountains, and beautiful
streams is land of grand picturesque
ness. Much of Macedonia is fertile,
fruit and grain richly rewarding the Gull
tiyator, but wars ravages interfere ter
ribly with the development of the coun-
try's resources.
The Bulgarians have been great mix
ers in the Macedonian troubles, if nCS
instigators of it all. Their ideas, and
the methods employed and directed by
them to attain the freedom of Mace
donna. seem to the world at large some
what peculiar, to say the least. This is
the plan, as again understood by the
laymen-by going themselves into
Macedonia and numbering bands of
Turks to stir the Turks to retaliate by
cruel massacres of Christian Mace
domains; and then for the powers to in
teryene in behalf of the prosecuted
Christians. 1t is a little hard on the
Christians, to be sure, but, according to
the reasoning of the Bulgarian reyolu-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-09-04

tan. The Macedonians have also had
the example of Crete for encourage
ment; but Macedonia is not an island,
and the Macedonians have the fate of
both the Armenians and Thessalians to
warn them that on the mainland the
Turk cannot be resisted by half-drilled
forces"
Put Greeks, Bulgarians and Turks to-
getaer, and it goes without saying that
peace will depart from their joint abode.
The fiery Greek, the willy Turk, the rev.
dictionary Bulgarian. none of them are
wont to turn the other cheek to the
smiter. Broils within, egged on by
broilers without, thus to the layman ap-
pears the situation in Macedonia.
Macedonia, just where is it? We all
know more or less about old classic
Macedonia and her vaguely outlined ter
ritory; but modern Macedonia? Her
limits, people, government?
Macedonia, part of European Tur-
key, lies between Bulgaria and the
Aegean sea, and comprises the vilayet
(province) of Salonika, and parts of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-09-04
Not Compulsory.

For the first time in many years the
public schools of Minnesota will open
this fall to all children without ques-
ton regarding vaccination. The new
statute which received Gov. Van SAINTS
signature in April last expressly for
bids the compulsory vaccination of any
child or the requirement of vaccination
as a qualification for school attendance.
Only in case smallpox becomes cpl
demic can vaccination of school chill
dren be required, and then only when
a board of health and school board
acting jointly enact such rule. This
bill was compromise measure after
the defeat of a bill prohibiting all
compulsory vaccination which last
spring passed the house and was re-
jected by the efforts of medical mem
bers in the senate
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-09-04

close season, and the need of nets with
larger meshes. Special attention was
called to the danger of everlasting and
to the necessity of compelling fishermen
to return to the water alive all fish that
are too small for market. But appa-
rently nothing definite has yet been &C
complished along the lines indicated
although it is not improbable that good
will ultimately result from the investi-
cation.
With proper and uniform regulations
and strict enforcement thereof there is
no reason why the lake fisheries will
not furnish the millions on both sides of
the line with fresh fish for all time to
come and remain one of the most i'm
portant of our food reserves.
Probably $4,000 fishermen find en-
ployment in taking the annual catch
which comes from the great lakes, and
which amounts to several millions of
pounds. Their work is picturesque and
they are quite as hardy race as the
fishermen of the grand banks and are
exposed quite as frequently to the perils
of death in the storm. Writing of Lake
Superior, Mr.. w. S. Harwood says:
Should pound boat or smack be
overturned in a sudden squall in-shore,
even within sight of the fisherman's
wife, it might be within a dozen boat
lengths of the steep, sheer shore, it is
good-by forever to the dead. So cold
and deep, so very cold and deep, is this
greatest lake on the globe, that no
corpse comes back from it's green blue
depths. Many a tale you hear as you
pass up and down this lake, in what
soever kind of craft you sail, of this
relentless prison house of the dead.
And you need not be surprised
that not man of the crew who makes
his livelihood on this immense body OF
water can swim. Winter and summer
so cold is it that no bathing is possible
and the boys grow into men along its
rocky north coast without ever having
an opportunity to learn to swim. II
would be of scant avail, however. il
they should know how, for no man
could live in these icy waters even in
midsummer. If you hold your head
above water in Lake Superior half an
hour or even fifteen minutes, without
something to cling to, you may be sure
you have sterling powers of endur.
ance."
In these icy waters the fish of the
lake are taken by means of pound nets
and gill nets. The former is set close
to shore, lead or guide net LEADING
lakeward to 'pot" or Crib" The
whitefish or trout swim >shoreward
encounter the net and, attempting tc
avoid it, run themselves at last into the
pot and there, unable to escape, await
the advent of the fishermen's boat. The
gill net is a long single net hanging
upon floats. The fish swimmine
against it catch their gills in the mesh
and are unable to free themselves
This net is often employed in winter
A row of holes at short intervals in the
ice makes it possible to extend the net
to any length by means of an endless
rope, first carefully thrust from hole tic
hole under the ice.
MIL TON MARKS.
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bors was assuredly postponed when the
Anglo-American Joint Commission,
which in 1898 tried to settle existing
disputes, parted in disgust, without hav-
ing accomplished anything. While the
foremost disputes that were up for set
Element at that time were the Atlantic
fisheries, and the Alaska boundary
trouble, ETC., the various questions at
issue concerning the lake fisheries are
matters that were to have been def
nitely decided, and they now suffer by
reason of the failure of the general de-
alterations.
The present condition and the prob
able future of the Canadian-American
lake fisheries should be matter of
deep concern. These fisheries are of
an importance that can scarcely be
overestimated. They must be depended
upon to feed both Canada and the
United States with the toothsome white
fish and lake trout which have come to
be, particularly in city homes, hotels
and restaurants, an almost indispensa-
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tier pashaws have had IN their hands
donia. The pashaw appoints the OFF,
GERS, and the nominees send sums of
money to their patrons in payment for
their places. Which does not minister
to the purity of politics, or insure wise
governing-a murderer can buy pardon.
If he have few hundred pounds with
which to purchase it; Mussulman goes
uncondemned, a Christian is treated
with severity; tortures are common; an
officer INDUCES freely in carrying on
prosecutions, if it be his within, or he
takes to himself any villagers wife he
may happen to covet; he tries to crush
out all spirit of independence, has al
most unbridled power over those below
him.
The powers have been appealed to
from time to time; the porte has ap-
pealed, complaining of Bulgarians CIV
ing refuge to Macedonian rebels. Bull
garia has addressed the powers, asking
their influence to bring about reforms in
the Turks rule of Macedonia. Ger
many, Great Britain and France not
long ago Joined with Russia and Aus
tria-Hungary in calling the porte's at
tention to the necessity for reforms
there, and the willy Turk replied that
certain improvements should be forth
coming. But the revolt has gone on:
the Macedonians saying the projected
reforms were the same as existing reg
ulations and never would be enforced.
One cannot but feel sympathy for
struggling Macedonia, living under the
rule of "Pashaws from whom no mans
life and no woman's honor Is safe for
IL hours together; and yet what would
the country do If it were to obtain the
freedom for which it so vehemently
calls? The Macedonians do not want
to be either Austrian or Russian.
Whilst asking aid of Greece year after
year, they failed to give Greece aid in
her time of need, when their assistance
would hav been of determining value.
They ask Bulgaria to be on their side.
but refuse to ally themselves with Bull
garia and thus strengthen both her and
their interests. And yet if Macedonia
were to become separate principality,
it is quite to be expected Slayo-Mace-
domains and Graeco- Macedonian would
at once set to work to try which were
the stronger, better fitted to dominate.
We can scarce expect of Macedonia that
union which makes for strength.
KATHERINE POPE.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-09-04
Killed in Collision.

A wrecking car on the Seventh street
line in st. Paul collided with truck No.
of the st. Paul fire department.
Tillerman Patrick Fleming was fatal
ly hurt, dying at noon, and Lieute-
nent Henry Langevin, Truckman Os-
car Peterson and John Costello were
painfully hurt. Captain J. j. Nnlcrone
and the other members of the truck
company were more or less bruised
and the truck was completely demol-
ished. Louis Hoffman, the moterman,
is under arrest.
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oldest IIIinoisan Dead.

Bennington, ILL.,, Aug. 31.-Francis
Anthony, the oldes, man in Illinois, died
Saturday morning after two weeks
illness with heart failure. He was born
May 8, 1900, in Ireland. He emigrated
to Canada in 1920, and was a captain in
the Canadian army during the French
rebellion Of 1887. For 80 years he has
been resident of Bloomington town
ship, and his vitality was remarkable.
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ACEDONIA has been in a
state of ferment these many
years past, has been active
ly encouraged by Bulgaria
and Greece to rebel against
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-06-18
COAL OPERATORS GIVE IN.
Cancellation Board MuddIe Is Ended, and
There VIII Be No Strike.

Scranton, Pa, June 1S.-There will
be no strike in the anthracite region
growing out Of the refusal of the op-
orators to recognize the credentials
of District Presidents Nichols, Fahey
and Detery, elected by the joint exec
utive board of the United Minework-
ers as the miners representatives on
the board of conciliation.
The convention of the United Nine
workers today elected the three pres
idents by districts as their represent
atives, and the operators, through
President Baer, of the Reading Com
pany, announced that this action was
satisfactory. There was burst of
loud and long applause when Presi-
dent Mitchell announced that the op-
orators, through President Baer, Of
the Reading Company, had authorized
the statement that the action of the
convention was satisfactory.
The convention elected President
Mitchell as the legal representative of
the miners at the head of the concil-
iation board. The operators are unan-
imously agreed on the acceptance of
the selected miners representatives.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-06-18
Coming Events.

Annual meeting of Pioneers, Sons
and Daughters, Portland, June II.
Western Oregon Division, Oregon
State Teachers Association, Port.
land, June 24-29.
Christian camp meeting, Turner,
June 1928.
Sixth annual reunion of Lane Coun-
ty veterans, Eugene, June 1913.
Carnivals-Grants Pass, June 1920;
Ashland, June 1920; Roseburg, June
22-27; Cottage Grove, June 24-27;
Salem, June 29-July 4; Albany, June
29-July 4.
Ninth annual regatta, Astoria, Au-
gust 1921.
Willamette Valley Chautauqua,
Gladstone, July 1926.
Encampment of the Grand Army OF
the Republic, Portland, June 24-27.
First Oregon Cavalry and First
Oregon Infantry reunion, Portland,
June 27.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-06-18
ACTION ON CANAL TREATY URGED.
President Gives Colombia to Understand
That DalIYinN Must Cease.

Washington, June 16.--The Presi-
dent today sent for William Nelson
Cromwell, attorney for the Panama
Canal Company, to confer with him
on the canal situation. Mr.. Cromwell
spent half an hour with the President
in the forenoon, and the conference
was resumed by appointment at 3
P. M.
It is understood that the President
is much concerned over the canal out
look The Administration Is not in
the least disposed to be impatient
with Colombia, and is willing to allow
the Bogota government reasonable
time to execute its obligations to the
United States At the same time, the
Washington authorities regard these
obligations as more binding than
those of an ordinary treaty and cannot
admit the right of the Colombian gov
ernment to recede from them. II not
carried out by ratification of the canal
treaty, which comes before the Colon
bian Congress at its meeting this
month, the United States hopes Col
ombia will find some other means OF
executing its obligations to this coun-
try as regards the Panama Canal. Mr..
Cromwell declined to see callers after
his conference with the President.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-06-18
A CITY OF DEATH.
Grim Days Of Sorrow in tieppner-Deat
Roll Is 800.

Heppner, June H. via. Lexington
Houses crushed and telescoped be-
yond recognition, buildings twisted
from their foundations, deposited in
streets or on alien property, one
fourth, or one-half, or one mile away;
household goods strewn in every di-
rection in reeking mud; trees two
feet in diameter uprooted and woven
in impeded drift into all Kinds of
awful fantastic shapes, bodies of men
and horses and cattle and pigs all
cast in indiscriminate ruin--such is
Heppner of today.
All persons say that the crest of
the flood was upon the town within
three or four minutes after the dan
ger was perceived. Most of the people
were in their houses. The day being
Sunday, the hour being dinner time,
and heavy rain falling, all
caused them to pen themselves with
in doors. Most of the dwellings were
near the bank of the stream. The
people were therefore caught like rats
in a trap, and so sudden was the
warning that comparatively few
could reach places of safety. The
whole row of houses next the creek
was swept away. Spectators of the
calamity describe the structures as
falling like card houses. The dwellings
were tossed about like bobbins, and
most of them fell completely to
pieces. The town had perhaps over
$50 houses, nearly 200 of which were
demolished. The whole business part
If town would have been swept away
had not the Palace hotel, heavy
brick structure, diverted the current.
Houses on brick foundations Jared
better than others because the food
could not so easily wash under them.
Identification of the dead has been
easy.
Most of the bodies show the effects
If drowning rather than of vital in
Jury, though all Of them are more or
ess bruised. Only few of those
Who escaped the food were severely
injured.
An army of men and horses is sift-
1g great wastes Of debris. Three
Nundred bodies have been found an6
here are men who say the work is
luly half begun. An army of women
AXE charge of the bodies as they are
horne out of the wreckage by the
strainin1 arma of men An arm a
leg, toe, finger, lock of hair,
tuft of clothing-these are harbingers
of horror beneath the mud. Babies
and little children lie there buried,
with many cash or bruise on their
tender bodies. Forms of women fire.
quently come to light bereft of all
save where a corset shields
them from the gaze Of anxious search
ers. Clothing of men is less frequent
ly torn away. The bodies are borne
to Roberts hall to be washed and
dressed by women, to be shrouded in
coarse white cloth, and to be laid In
rough wood boxes. There is no time
for ceremony. It's the grim reality
of death. And women who would
faint at scenes one-thousandth part as
awful obey the mandate of necessity
without a finch. The floor swims
with the half diluted mud that drips
from the victims, but the living pat
ter through it or sweep 1t out when
it gets too deep. The rough boxes go
to the cemeteries, not singly in
hearses, but many at a time, piled
high in wagons
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-06-18
LANE LoooERs WANT RAIN.
Millions Of Feet Of Logs In the Small
Streams.

Loggers in Lane County are having
more difficulty this season than usual
trying to get logs down the mountain
streams The spring has been SO dry
that millions of feet Of logs that were
cut oh the streams tributary to the
Mckenzie and the willamette during
the winter have hung up and cannot
be driven out in the usual way. Us
ually in the month Of April there are
rains that raise these creeks so that
the logs can be driven out, but this
year there have been no rains of con-
sequence and the streams have not
had since February sufficient water to
run logs.
On Lost Creek, Winberry, Big and
Little Fall Creeks, the Booth-Kelly
Company has millions of feet of logs
that they are badly in need of at the
Springfield mill. For weeks they
kept men ready and had the logs in
the creek, intending that the moment
the water was sufficient they would
start them to deeper water. But the
rains that were hoped for did not
come.
Finally giving up hope of running
the logs in the usual way, they began
constructing dams to aid the work by
artificial means. Thousands of dol
lars were expended in building food
dams in these small streams. These
have been of some assistance, and the
logs are being slowly worked down to-
wards the river, but it is a slow and
expensive process. AS yet 1t has been
impossible to supply the big mill at
Springfield with sufficient logs to keep
the saws at work.
The logging business Is very i'm
portant in this county, and greater
this year than ever before. There
are at the present time no less than
35,0O0,OO0 feet of logs in the water to
supply the various mills In the coun.
ty. The Booth-Kelly Company alone
has $4,000, 900 feet afloat, while others
have no less than 100000 feet.
The mills all have greater difficulty
getting logs than they have getting
orders.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-06-18
Another Contract Finished.

Major W. c. Langfitt has completed
an inspection at the Cascade Locks,
where the contract of H. w. Taylor
had just been finished. This contract
included the riprapping of the north
wall Of the upper lock, at a cost Of
$26,000 which has taken about six
months to carry out. A large number
of stone cutters and laborers were
employed. These locks, which have
cost the government s3,750,000, are
not yet finished, and an appropriation
of $150,000 will be necessary before
the final details will have been at
tended to. At the present stage of the
water the locks are out of commits
sion and boats will have to wait on
each side until the freshet is over.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-06-18
PORTLAND MARKETS.

Wheat-Walla Walla, 70@74c; val
ley, 77c.
Barley-Feed, $1,000 per ton; brew
ing, t21.
Flour-Best grades, 1896 q 4.S0;
graham, $3.45@3.S5.
Millstuffs-Brsn, s23 per ton: mid
dlings, t27; shorts, 12S; chop, SIS.
Oats-No. l white, tl.10 q LIS;
gray, 81 05 per cental.
Hay-Timothy, s2O@2I; clover,
nominal; cheat, sl5@l6 per ton.
Potatoes-Best Bu>panks, 5O@75c
per sack; ordinary, S5@45c per Genital,
growers prices; Merced sweets, aS@
$50 per Genital.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, l1@I2c;
young, 1S@l4c; hens, l2c; turkeys,
live, l6@17c; dressed, 20@22c; ducks,
t7.OO@7.5O per dozen; geese, t6.OOa
$50.
Cheese-Full cream, twins, I5K@
Ice; Young America, 15@l5Kc; fact.
ory prices, l@l &c less.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 20@26c
per pound; extras, 22e; dairy, 2O0
22kc; store, l6c@ls.
Eggs-l7@20c per dozen.
Hops-Choice, ls@2Oc per pound.
Wool-Valley, ,I2k@17c Eastern Or.
egon, s@l4c; mohair, 35@S7ke.
Beef-Gross, cows, 3k@4c, per
pound; steers, 5@51c; dressed, sI6c.
veal-7k@sc.
Mutton-Gross, $3.50 per pound
dressed, 6@6kc.
Lambs-Gross. 4c per pound
dressed, 7kc.
HOgs-GrOss, 6@6<e per pound
dressed, 7@Se.