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CONGRESS OF MINING.
United States Congress Asked to Establish
department of Mines and Mining with
Representative In the Cabinet

Lead, S. D., Sept. 12.-The adoption
OF constitution and bylaws; adoption
CT resolution asking the United States
congress to pass lawfor the establish.
meHt of a department of mines and
mining with representative in the
presidents cabinet, and the reading oil
letter from Senator Morgan, of Ala
bama, in response to an invitation from
Secretary Mahon to attend and address
the congress, were the principal feat.
ures Of yesterdays proceedings of tbs
American mining congress.
The first matter before the congress
yesterday afternoon was the report oil
the committee on resolutions. Among
those favorably reported and adopted
In addition to the one concerning a de-
partment Of mines and mining were:
Relating to the collection of mineral
statistics and asking that the work
remain in the hands of the United
States geological survey; asking aid oil
the government in the establishment OF
good roads; condemning the subversior
of the timber and stone act; approving
the purchase by the government OF
silver in the open market. and CO.
operation with the. committees ap-
pointed by the Mexican and other gov
ernments with relation to fixing the
ratio of silver and gold; protesting
against any legislation tending to
further restrict the use of silver as
real money or depress it's value upon
the market; that a committee of five
active members of the congress be Sc
lected by the chairman to devise means
by which suitable men may be en-
ployed to visit all mining camps and
organize local mining bodies and solicit
cooperation with this congress and OBJ
tain paid members; against fake min
ing companies and exploitation of
mining stocks used solely on options
for the purchase or leases of mining
properties, and calling upon the several
states and territories to pass such legis-
lation as will remedy the evil and pro-
tect organizers Of and investors in
legitimate mining companies.
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KEEPING UP THE SLAUGHTER.
Albanian and Turkish Troops Burning Vii
lagos and Massacreing Inhabitants
In the ylayet of Adrianople.

Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 12.-The revo
lutionary headquarters here has re.
ceived from Burgas news of fearful
atrocities committed by the Turkish
and Albanian soldiers in the vilayet OF
Adrianople. A squadron of Turkish
cavalry intercepted and slaughtered
fugitives attempting to cross into Bull
garia- Sixty Bulgarians were killed
within three kilometers of the frontier.
The whole district of Losengrad is
filed with Albanian troops, who ara
burning villages and massacreing the
inhabitants. They have killed SO per.
sens and have slain Is others in the
village of Kula, % old people in the
village of Evekleer, IS families at Tas
peta and 20 families at Asmadgik
Eighty families fleeing from varioW
villages toward the frontier have beer
literally cut to pieces by Turkish
soldiers during the last few days
Hundreds of old men, women and chill.
Gren of the district of Losengrad have
crossed the frontier.
A large body of infantry and cavalry
with three mountain batteries, attacked
an insurgent band in the mountains
above Vasiliko. The insurgents awaited
the near approach of the troops anc
then hurled bombs at them. After two
hours fighting the Turks were forced
to retire with the loss of 20 men killed
and many wounded. The losses of tn,
insurgent force were slight.
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Soldiers Would Hinder Farm Work.

junction City, Kan, Sept. ia pc
:ition signed by more than so land
owners of Milford township, Geary
suanty, and Ogden township, Riley
county, whose land lies north and
northwest of the Fort Riley reServa-
ton, has been forwarded to the war
department as protest against the
Laneuver army going on land belong
ing to citizens in those two townships
this fall, because of the hindrance the
large army would be to them in their
EorG
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BASEBALL FOR CONVICTS.
The Game Is Found to Improve tho
Conduct of Prisoners in
Massachusetts.

In the Massachusetts state prison at
Charleston Warden Bridges has intro
duced ball playing as a means of dis
cipline among the convicts and is much
gratified with the results, says a recent
report.
Not only has the game given the
prisoners relaxation from cell life and
the workshop, but 1t has afforded d.
version for their minds, a breath of
fresh air and look at the blue heav-
ems above. And not the least result of
all Is the improvement in the disci-
pline. No unruly prisoner can partic-
ipate in the game and many a man nat
urally fractions has been good" just
for the chance to go out in the prison
yard and play game Of baseball.
Next to pardon OF an expiration Of
sentence, permission to play ball or see
ball game Is the greatest boon that
can be conferred upon any prisoner
To be deprived of the privilege of being
player or spectator is the greatest pun
ishment prisoner can receive. He had
much rather go into SOLITARY" than
lose a game of ball.
The inmates have two mines, called
this year the Resolutes and the Hust-
lers, and they play every fair weather
Saturday from May to October. Every
player is prisoner and the umpires are
likewise inmates. The league rules are
followed strictly and the umpire Il
obeyed. In fact, the absence OF kick
ing" among the Charleston prisoners
shows them In an enviable light in COM
parison with some Of the players seen
on the league grounds. The two teams
play for championship honors, and
every game is written up" for the
prison paper, the Mentor.
Ground rules naturally prevail, owing
to the smallness Of the prison yard, bat
there is room enough for 200 spectators,
all prisoners. Some have seats and
others who stand are called the
bleachers." The games are played with
just as much zeal, earnestness, en-
thusiasm and cheers as any profession
al game, and some of the playing is
really professional in its quality. In
fact, one Of the leading pitchers Is an
old Boston league pitcher.
The experiment has proved so sue
cessful that Gen. Bridges will maintain
it. This is one of the many sensible
things that he has introduced into pris-
on life, and he deserves credit for It.
Gen. Bridges work at Charlestown Is
attracting attention beyond this state,
and it is practical, sensible innovations
such as this which make him an ideal
man for such place.
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COLLEGE BOY HARVESTER.
Biz from BiE-Handed
MiIkmaid.

One Oh the COlleSe boys VINO went 10
the western Kansas harvest fields writes
to friend an account of his experiences.
says the Kansas City Journal.
We'll, it isn't what it Is cracked up
to be, and Harold would have confessed
himself all in and come home to NAM
ma inside of two days after starting If
he hadn't been worse afraid of the JOSH
ing of you fellows than of the blistered
paws. Speaking of blistered paws, it's
no joke. Before night the first day
had puffs all over my hands, and that
night the fat dame of the household
stuck needles into 'em, and tapped me
until l ran water like hydrant. But
the old boy was good to me, and for
two days he kept me choring around,
hauling water, helping the fat dame
cook and playing the baby generally.
Then 1 tackled the header boxes again
for ten days straight and really got to
liking it. But say, Willie, don't you be-
lieve that story about shortage in the
worlds bread crop. I know better.
for pitched enough of the blamed stuff
to make two crops of worlds bread
stuff.
And, Willie, there's another thing
you can disabuse your fostering intel
lect of. You can't spoon with these
country girls with the joyous freedom
that you read about. We have roly
poly girl here who doesn't wear corsets
and who don't care how much sock she
displays when she kicks at the cat. 1
kissed her the other night. 1 won't do
it any more. If want exercise of rap
i'd kind l will go out and ground an
electric light wire through my handsome
person. She whacked me on the side
of the head with fist like ham, and
don't you doubt 1t, Willie, she meant
every word Of 1t.
81 get 81 a day and found Found
means that the old man comes to your
downy couch at three o'clock in the
morning and, finding you asleep, whoops
you out to feed the horses. By the time
the horses are fed we are called to
breakfast. Did you ever eat pie at break
fast? Well. we have pie for breakfast
every other morning. 1t SENS to be the
idea out here il you have pie you can't
complain at any other indignity. And
every pie we have had so far is made
out of raisins. Now don't get 1t into
your head that raisins won't make good
pie. They do.
after breakfast we HE us away to
the field and cut wheat until the fat
dame waves tablecloth out of the win
dow to. tell US that dinner is ready.
Then we eat and go out and cut more
wheat, and the old boy keeps us at 1t
until it gets too dark to see. But, Will
lie, the way you can sleep after you
have had q day like that! You can go
dead-that's all about 1t.
81 figure that Z will get home with
about $50 to the clear. The old boy says
that he will give nae $25 month to stay
and pillow, and q thrasher man offers
$3.50 a day and found II will work
for him. But $50 Is capital enough for
Harold. I am not graspfng or sordid!
"P. ST. had heart-to-heart talk
with the roly-poly girl last evening.
She said I ought to be ashamed of my
self for kissing her IN the house where
the fat dame might see. II 1t wasn't for
school taking up believe I'd tackle that
job Of plowing.)"
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The single eyeglass is Injurious. 1t
throws all the work on one eye. 1t de-
stroys the harmony of the optic muscles
and nerves. A certain Englishman has
worn, for myopic affection. monocle
In his left eye f9.' IL years. The left eye
is all right, but with the other the man
tan see practically nothing. Joseph
Chamberlain wears his monocle In either
eye, alternately, and his SON does the
same thing, The habit Of the monocle
continues to live among the English
xweils. paia Record.
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CANNOT LONG DELAY.
The Powers Must Find a Solution
of the Balkan Peril.
turkish Troops Continue to Devastate with
Sword and Torch and Excuses Among
Them Are Notorious and Revolt
Ing In the Extreme.

Sonia. Bulgaria, Sept. 1.-THE AL
bantam and Turkish troops collected in
the vilayet Of Adrianople appear to be
pursuing their usual tactics of burning
and plundering the villages and killing
the peasants instead. of making an at
tempt to break up the insurgent bands.
Very little news is filtering through
from Monastir, but all reports agree
that the position Of the Christians is
desperate. The Turks are making a
clean sweep Of the whole Bulgarian
slement. The Albanian soldiers in the
E1layet Of Adrianople are stated to be
entirely beyond control. At Kostursco
the influential beys complained to the
officers of the excuses committed by
the troops. The officers resented the
criticism and told the soldiers that the
beys were friends of the revolution
aries, whereupon the soldiers burned
the beys' farms. The Turks have burned
the villages of Almagik and Orikler.
IN the district of Losengrad. They
beheaded % Bulgarians at Almagik in
the presence of their families.
A Solution Cannot Long Be Delayed.
London, Sept. 14.-Rumor from
Vienna and elsewhere is very busy
this morning regarding the Balkan
crisis and, while it is impossible to
confirm the more sensational state
ments, there Is accumulation Of evil
dence that some violent solution can
not long be delayed.
The Sofia correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph sends under Sundays date
smother long dispatch warmly defend
Ing Bulgarias patient and quixotic at
titude of loyalty toward the porte and
the powers and denouncing Europe's
Indifference to the wiping out of a
large Christian community.
Says 10000 Persons Have Been Killed.
Sofia, Sept: 13.-The council of min
listers is said to have decided to mo-
biliZe the first and second army d.
visions, whose headquarters are at
Sofa and Philippopolis. Alarming
fumors are current of further whole
sale massacres of Bulgarians in ths
vilayet of Monastir. One report says
that 10000 persons have been slaugh-
tered in the district of Leren alone,
which is purely Bulgarian.
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Find the Archer's Companion.

An Ant going to river to drink fell in, and along
the stream.
Dove, observing the accident and plying her condition.
INTO the small boug which she hastily pcked friendly
growing by the brink of the
Ant gained the shore.
The Ant another OCCASION seeing hunter owing
the Dove who had
ung the man in the foot sharply and made HIM
saved the Doves life.
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Ouieter Feeling at Beirut.

Washington, Sept 12.-Admfral Cot
ton telegraphs from Beirut Sept. 10
that Nazim Pasha, governor general Of
Damascus, has been appointed acting
governor general at Beirut, and has ex-
pressed a desire to settle the case OF
the American vice consul satisfactory
to the United States government
Beirut quiet, business improving, con-
fidence increasing.
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Row. Confess tn yyreckiop a Train.

Trinidad, Col, Sept. Paul Muir
ply and Ernest Smith, boys, of
Ration, N. NJ, have been arrested by
Special Agent Rudd, of the Santa Fe
road, charged with wrecking a train.
Last Sunday evening No. passenger
train ran across rail which had been
placed across the track near Hillside,
just below the Raten tunnel, derailing
both engines. The boys have confessed
that they placed the rail on the track.
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Kew Manarer FOR Copeland Hotel.

Topeka, Kan, Sept '12.-The Cope
land hotel here will change hands. j
C. Gordon, a hotel keeper in Topeka
for 40 years, who has run the Cope
land for 25 years, has leased the prop
erty to James Chapel, manager o
the McClintock restaurants in Kansa!
City. Mr.. Chapel will purchase tht
furniture in the hotel and pay $400 q
month rent. Mr.. Gordon retires or
account of poor health.
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Right to Be Tried Where Captured.

indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 12.-Judg,
Baker, of the United States circui
court sustained the petition for wri
of habeas corpus filed by the attorne.
for James Lynchehaun, Irish fugitiv
arrested here. The court granted tn
petition on the ground that Unite,
States Marshal Petit cannot make al
arrest here on a warrant issued in New
York. He said the prisoner had RICH
to be tried where captured.
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Miners Want Pay for brushing"

Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. 1.-THE
striking coal miners at Novinger voted.
in mass meeting yesterday afternoon.
not to return to work in the mines
until they receive assurances that they
will be paid for brushing" President
Mitchell received message to this
effect about five o'clock from the COM
mittee which went to Novinger Thurs
day night to urge the men to resume
work.
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Selection Postponed Until December 3.
Milwaukee, Sept. 12.-The board of
trustees of national homes closed its
meeting here without selecting a gov
ernor for the Leavenworth home. It
had been expected that the board would
pick the successor at its Milwaukee
meeting, but the number of applicants
for the place was so large that a de-
cision was postponed until December
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Cannot Use Battlefields.

London, Sept 13.-Mr. Carnegie, re-
spending to an inquiry concerning the
report that he intended to purchase
the battlefield at Bannockburn in order
to keep it from being cut up into build
ing lots, has telegraphed, saying that
the story is absurd He adds that he
has no use for battleields.
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conv,cts Made Rad Money

Philadelphia, Sept 14.-Followins
closely upon the exposure of gross ir-
ces llarities in the cigar department OF
Il. eastern state penitentiary came
til public announcement last night
TIT the Illegal coinage of minor sill
Sc; pieces has been carried on by con-
e. IS in the big institution.
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Want to Boom olney for President.

Boston, Sept 14.-There is a move
ment on foot to get the state to sup
port Olney for the nomination for
president. A general mass meeting is
to be held on the Boston commons
and he is to be Endorsed, and this is
the start of the Olney boom. This
meeting is to be held in few weeks,
and an effort will be made to get all
kinds of democrats and citizens to at
tend and join in the boom.
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Novinser Miners Must Go to Work.

Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. 1.-THE
Novinger miners must resume work
pending discussion CT the wage scale
A convention of district No. 25, held
here yesterday, so decided and a COM
mittee CT Novinger miners and scale
men is now on the way to tell the min
erS this fact.
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Two EARTHQUAKES Felt at Portland. Ore.
Portland, Ore, Sept. 1.-TWO earth
quake shocks were felt in this city at
AS o'clock yesterday afternoon. There
was no damage done as far as known.
although the largest brick buildings
:. ere shaken quite severely.
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WIN Fight Freight Rates.

Wichita, Kan, Sept. IA meeting
.; the cattlemen of southern Kansas
tas been called in this city for Sep
TENDER 80. to form a permanent or
ganization for fighting freight rates
and for compelling the railroads to
give them better service in the ship
uent of cattle.
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Mn, Clear the scnool of De

Oskaloosa, Ia. Sept 13.-Thirt,
thousand. five hundred dollars was
taised by the Iowa City meeting Of
The Quakers in session in this city fol
he benefit of Penn college. This sun
Is sufficient to liquidate the indebted
aess of the school.
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Don,t like Roosevelt.s Action,

st. Louis, Sept 14.-After lengthy
discussion the Central Trades and La
tor union at its meeting yesterday
voted unanimously to protest to Presi-
dent Roosevelt against his action in
Ieinstating w. A. Miller in the gov
eminent printing Office.
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Peary Granted Three Years Leave

Washington, Sept 12.-Orders grant
ing three years leave Of absence tc
Commander Peary, Of the navy, be-
ginning April next, were issued yes
terday. He is now on duty at the bu-
reau of yards and docks. He will start
on his dash for the north pole July 1
next
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Raided n Pbxsictap,. Once

oiathe, Kan, Sept. 1.-THE sheriff
entered with search and seizure war
rant the Office of DR.. S. B. S. Wilson
here and captured 40 gallons of whisky
and other intoxicants. He was ar
rested on Ii counts Saturday for SELL
ngsiiquor in violation of the law.
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The Discoura~er.

Jack-I wonder what there is about
this time OF year to always male .
fellow feel es though he wanted In
get married.
JIM don't know. But Tvs a sura
cure Tor that matrimonial feeling.
Tell it to me, IL you want to save
q fellow mortal"
Go out and watch a man push, ng Z
baby carriage."-N. Y. Times.
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Cannot Account for This.

Rene, Sept. 14.-Josephine Marti-
oeNi. of Ferrara, has just given birth
to twin girls. One Of them Is white,
with blond hair; the o,her is COM
oletely black, with all the distinctive
signs of the negro race. The doctors
srd anthropologists are unable to &C
cGunt for this phenomenon.
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Burned Twelve Buildings.

Mineville, Ia, Sept. 13.-Han the
public square was burned to the ground
by fire which started in bowling al
ley. Twelve frame buildings. business
houses and dwellings burned. The loss
Is s25 200. with $4,000 insurance.
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NoInsurance to Hi. Wife.

Lawrence, Kan, Sept. 13.-It has de-
veloped that Malcolm Conn, proprietor
of the Eldridge house, who committed
suicide a week ago, did not make his
wife the direct beneficiary of any of his
life insurance. He carried about $780,
600 in Insurance.
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John A. sterrett Removed.

Washington, Sept. 12.-Secretary
Hitchcock has announced the removal
of John A. Stefrett. of Ohio, as town
site commissioner for the Cherokee
Indian nation in Indian territory, and
the appointment of Dwight Tuttle OF
Connecticut, as his successor. The re-
moval is the result of charges against
Sterrett's administration of his Office.
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raeeart to Succeed Jones.

Chicago, Sept. 12.-There has beef
much activity among members Of the
national democratic committee and
many conferences have been held or
the matter of selecting chairman te
succeed Jones. A majority has
agreed, and Taggart, Of Indianapolis
Is the man.
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Half the Public Square Burned.

Mineville, Ia, Sept. 12.-Half tho
public square was burned to the ground
yesterday by a fire which started in
bowling alley about three o'clock.
Twelve frame buildings, business
houses and dwellings burned. The
loss is 5000. with s12. 1000 insurance.
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Rear ADMIRAL Casey Retired.

Washington. Sept 12.-Rear Admiral
Casey, recently detached from COM
mand of the Pacific squadron. was re-
tired yesterday on account OF age, after
neasiy ~ veas5 active service.
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CHARGED with Embezziement in Texas.

Oklahoma City, Ok, Sept IA. A.
Bowers, a well-known attorney Of this
city, was placed under arrest and taken
to Cleburne, Tex, where he is wanted
on a charge of embezzlement.
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A woman Drowned Mt Kansas City.

Kansas City. Mo-, Sept. 14.-Mrs.
Hattie Bear-Skinner was drowned in
.he Missouri river at the foot of Main
street Saturday night The circum-
stances OF the drowning are mystic
fIons