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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-24
W1ZLMAR, A THR/VLNG.=7OWK
WITH PUSHING BUSINESS MEN


is susceptible of beings converted to
human uses. t1ii
The division headquarters of the
Great Northern railway are located
here, and every day. at noon, four
passenger trains from as many lines
stand at the depot while the passegers
are taking dinner. The yard facilities
of the railway are very extensive, and
being on the direct line of the trans
continental service, an enormous traf-
fic sweeps through the city.
The city owns it's electric light
plant and water works system and
rates are at the minimum. There is
an excellent sewerage system many
miles of good sidewalks and graded
streets, an excellent volunteer fire de-
partment, a public park, a band and
baseball grounds, with grand stand
and bleachers.
There are ten churches represent
ing the leading denominations, four
school buildings, a seminary and no
saloons. The plans for a Carnegie Ii
brary are being prepared and in a
short time the city will have another
institution of which it can well be
proud. All of the leading secret and
fraternal societies are represented.
Business Well Distributed.
The visitor to Wiilmar will not find
business confined to one large street,
but we'll distributed along several
streets, with more structures than are
usually found in Western towns The
writer was pleased to see the sign
Commercial club" in front of one of
the handsome buildings, and to his de-
light on being invited to visit it's
rooms and make himself at. home,
found quarters which in elegance,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-24

four commodious brick buildings, in
Guiding high school, well equipped
with library and laboratory, and three
ward buildings, named, respectively,
Lincoln, Lafayette and Garfield. The
citizens are justly proud of their pub
lie school system, as they are of the
Willmar seminary, Incorporated in
1882 as the Minnesota Lutheran Semi
nary and Institute" the work of which
has broadened with each succeeding
year, until it's graduates are now found
occupying high places in all walks of
| life. The next term opens in Sep
TENDER with over $50 names already
enrolled.
To relieve an embarrassing indebted
ness, President Hill, of the Great
| Northern, was one of several who re-
Gently subscribed $1,000 to place the
seminary fully on it's feet All depart
ments are in the hands of thoroughly
competent instructors. In another
column is shown cut of one of the
| buildings. The early history of the
schol was one of constant struggle but
it is now on the highway to prosperity
and success.
Has Two Excellent Newspapers.
Another method of judging a city is
! by its newspapers. Willmar has two
very excellent papers, both enjoying a
! high standing among the publications
of a state with many good papers.
/ The oldest journal is the Republican,
Gazette, established in 1871, now owned
and edited by Alton Crosby, who be-
! gan work in the office as a boy. Some
| time ago it absorbed the Argus, after
the editor, C. A. Birch, was appointed
postmaster Mr. Crosby, associated
with William I. Markhus, also owns
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-24

with 300 houses, and Rakoro, 200
houses, situated in the vilayet of Mon
astir, have also been burned by Turk
ish troops. Two hundred women and
children from these villages are now
begging in the streets of Monastir.
Want President to Interfere.
CHICAGO, Aug. +, 23.-Sympathizers
with Macedonia held meeting at the
Hull house today and framed resolu-
lions denunciatory of the Turkish gov
eminent which they will send to Pres
ident Roosevelt. The memorial to the
president asks that a note be sent from
the United States to all the Europeai
powers expressing horror and abhor.
renee at the recent events in Macedo.
MIA and asking the powers to inter
vene for the sake of humanity
Grand Vizier WiIIeInvestigste.
SALONICA, Turkey, Aug. 23.-Ferid
Pasha the grand vizier, is coming to
Macedonia to, inspect the vilayets. 1t
is stated that the palace has tele-
graphed strict orders to the Turkish
commanders to avoid excuses. 1t is
further reported that the military COM
mission at .Oonstantinople has decided
to call out sixty fresh battalions Of
Redifs from Asia Minor.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-24
INSURGENTS WIN IN FIGHTING.
An Entire Turkish Regiment Is Said
to Be DESTROYED by Insurrectionists.


to Be Destroyed by Insurrectionists.
SOFIA, Aug. 23.-From Eastern
Adrianople come reports of more fight
ing which SO far appears to be result
ing chiefly in favor of the revolution
lists. Many villages have been burned
and their inhabitants have taken ref
uge across the Bulgarian frontier.
After a long fight at Stoiloro the in
surgents defeated a detachment of
Turkish troops, which lost twenty kill
ed and wounded.
At Chanagasko, near SurovicoYo, the
insurgents are reported to have ami
hilated an entire Turkish regiment.
At Bulankzera, near Ternovo, sew
enty-five revolutionists are credited
with defeating a Turkish battalion.
The villages of Amdermis and Enrik,
near Vasiliko, have beeA burned to
ashes.
The Turks have bombarded and de-
stroyed the monastery of Constantine,
near Losengrad, where fifty insur-
gents had fortified themselves. The
villages of Bakdgik, Konakara Evren,
'Dingisco and Brusheva. have all been
burned and their inhabitants have
fled. The large village of Drumbegle,
near Losengrad has been burned by
Bashi BaZouks. The villages of Buch,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-24
DOG FULL OF DYNAMITE
HAS RIGHT OF WAY
Yellow Cur Swallows Explosive, and Mo-
body. VIII Kick Him..
- 20 anllsyss,. 4 npl,s

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Aug. %. - Look
out for a small yellow dog with a white
tipped tail. He's full of dynamite. Don't
kick him." Such We're general orders is
sued to the entire police force of the city
tonight.
Not knowing the terrific risks he was
taking. and little dreaming the possible re-
suits of his act, the canine in question late
this afternoon picked up and swallowed a
small stick of explosive. left carelessly in
a vacant lot by workmen blasting out a
cellar.
Tonight the city is excited. Every
ed, and man seen kicking one stands a
fair chance of being mobhed, provided of
course. that his kick doesn't cut short
his earthly career before the mob can
get hold of him. f .-..,,t
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-24
TURK CRAWLS AND
RUSSIA CALLS HALT
Continued From First Page.

authorities attended the ceremony.
The Teretz sailed for Odessa immedi-
atelV
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-24

county continues to fill in with new
people there will be openings for other
enterprises.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-24

Iombia is wise. And IL is seen to be all the
wiser when one hears of the great pressure
upon him to select this. that or the other
man for the places. The more time re mas
TO look the field over and guard against
the nomination of inefficient men, the bet
ter. Perhaps he does not need to be warned
against that ever-present and very hungry
parsonage whom the late Mr.. Ingalls, de-
scribed as statesman out of job. There
are several OF that sort looking for lucra-
tive positions, with practically life tenure,
upon the canal commission. The country
does not need their services, and does not
want them. What is required Is nigh
class body Of men, specialists In their sew
eral lines of managerial, engineering, COM
mercial and sanitary activity, who are
capable of building a canal in the most
economical way, in the shortest possible
time, with the least possible sacrif1ce OF
life among laborers. The ability of the gov
eminent to run a gigantic business enter
prise is to be tested in the construction OF
the Panama canal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-24
AN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.

1t Is probable that no mechanical inven-
ton Of recent times has worked so COM
plete a revolution in important manu-
featuring industry or caused as great a re-
duction in the price OF an article Of prime
necessity the introduction of glass-blow-
ing machines will do for that industry. The
American Window Glass Company an
nounces its intention Of equipping all of its
ten plants. six of which are in this State.
with the new machines. A dispatch in the
Sunday Journal from Hartford City, where
one of the plants is located said:
The trust claims that the cost of operat-
ing hfty-four-blower tank-plant like the
go for the blowers and their assistants To
operate the eight machines at Alexandria
Will cost $40 week, saving of $500
week. IL viii require sixteen machines to
operate the South Side factory, of los pots
In this city. resulting in saving of 81 200
week. The cost of production by machine
Is one-fifth OF that by hand and reduces the
los blowers, los gatherers and los snappers
at the South Side factory here were to
work for $50 a day their wages would ag-
gregate 1856 per diem, against $240 per diem
for the sixteen machines. so that the manu-
facturer employing skilled hand labor at
sl-5o per diem would lose s2fs daily on every
1oS-biower tank concern operated
A reduction Of 30 per cent. in the cost of
producing window glass will mean q large
reduction In the price to consumers In the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-24
PORTO RIcAN SENSATION.


NEW YORK, March S.-The sensation OF
the week in social circles. and particularly
among army and navy officers. says the
Herald's San Juan porto Rico) CORES
pondent. has been the departure of Mrs.
Broome. wife OF Captain Broome, of the
Porto Rico regiment stationed at Cayey.
Mrs Broome took with her their little girl,
and is said to have proceeded directly to
her home In Washington after reaching
New York She was accompanied by her
friend. Miss Fuller, a daughter of Chief
Justice Fuller, of the United States SUI
preme Court.
Mrs. Broome had been visiting friends for
several weeks in the army barracks at
Moro Castle She and her husband disa-
greed, ii is said, over her refusal TO return
to Cayey She declared she would go 10
the United States rather than accede to his
request, and take their daughter with her.
Captain Broome returned alone to Cayey.
He heard of his wife's intended departure
on the steamer Philadelphia and tele-
graphed to San Juan and procured a war
rant for her arrest on the charge Of kid
mapping the child. The judge who issued
the warrant, with two policemen, started
I'm pursuit, but the ship had raised its
Choir when the men arrived, and, as she
was in quarantine, the captain refused TO
stop for the officers OF the law to serve their
papers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-24
RELEASED FROM PRISON
RECALCITRANT NEWSPAPER MAN
AND CLERK OF SENATE.
Missourians Who Declined to Say
Where They Got 81 900 Each-Bood-
ling Stories to Be Investigated.

JEFFERSON CITY, March 81 L.
Page, newspaper correspondent, and Cole
Hickox, senate clerk, who were committed
to jail last week for contempt of the
House Of Representatives for refusing to
answer questions as to where and for what
purpose they came into possession of $1,000
each. were released by the Supreme Court
to-day on writ of habeas corpus. The
investigation in the House grew out of
charges Of bribery In connection with the
enactment Of certain legislation. Page and
Hickox, who refused to answer questions
put to them by the investigating commit
tee were sent to jail. A writ Of habeas
corpus was applied for last week and to-
day after brief arguments Chief Justice
Robinson and Justice Gam ordered the
release Of the prisoners without retiring
for consultation.
Before the Legislature adjourned sine die
at noon to-day Judge Hartzell. of the Cole
county Circuit Court, convened the grand
jury in special session to investigate the
charges Of boodling which have been openly
made against the Legislature. The in
structions cover twenty typewriter
pages. In part, they follow:
You are summoned in extraordinary ses-
sion that you may investigate matters
which have been brought to the attention
of the public through recent DEVELOPMENTS
in the House of Representatives OF the
State of Missouri. 1t has been charged
upon the House Of Representatives that
there were being practiced dishonest meth
DDS in securing certain legis- alton pending
before that body and these matters will be
taken up by you and carefully investigated
You gentlemen will not be deferred from
performing that duty because there is a
threat hanging over the citizens OF Jeffer-
son City and Cole county in reference to
the removal Of the capital from your midst
The best people residing in Missouri will
not permit the capital 10 be removed from
your city and county simply because Won
have done your duty in investigating the
charges made against the legislators or
bring them to the bar of public Justice. IL
you should find that they are guilty of any
wrong doing"
The Legislature was in session YESTERDAY.
closing up its business preparatory to adj
Journing sine die. In the course of that
part Of the charge relating to Sabbath
dissertation the judge said: $50, take into
consideration whether the LEGISLATURE is
doing its work on Sunday. is compelled TO
perform such labor as a work OF necessity
or charity, and II is very essential as we
will emphasize In this charge TO the grand
jury that the Sabbath I'm a Christian land
like this should be observed and that bad
examples In high quarters are detrimental
TO good government and beget ideas and
notions that are at variance with our ideas
or liberty and good government"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-24
WOOD PULP CASE DECIDED.


Ruling Of the United States General
Apprafsers' Classification Board.
NEW YORK, March 23-The board of
classification of the United States general
appraisers has decided the consolidated
wood pulp case, which attracted much at
tention not only from manufacturers of
both pulp and paper, but from newspaper
publishers as well. There were two prot
estants in the case. F.. w. Meyers & Co.,
acting for Hollingsworth, Whitney & Co.,
of Boston, and the Sault Ste. Marie Pulp
and Paper Company, of Michigan. Two dis
tinct questions were presented to the board
One related to pulp imported from Quebec
and the other to pulp from Ontario. In
each case the pulp is made from wood cut
on ''crown lands" Under the law of Que
bee the commissioners of crown lands is au-
thorized to grant licenses to cut timber on
the ungranted lands of the crown subject
to the payment of a tax Of 65 cents a cord
for pulp wood cut, rebate of Is cents A
cord being allowed on timber manufac-
tured into paper pulp in the Dominion OF
Canada"
The United States customs officers levied
an additional duty equal to the % cents re-
bate allowed. The board of classification
now overrules the protest relating to the
pulp from Quebec, and the action of the col
lector in that particular place is sustained
Precisely the same additional duty had
been imposed upon the pulp from Ontario
An appeal to the federal courts probably
will be taken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-24
What Judge Adams Enjoined.

Nebraska State Journal.
To read the frantic appeals Of some of
the newspapers to the heavens above, the
earth beneath and the waters under the
earth to do something to stop Judge Adams
In his mad career, one would think that the
Federal Court at st. Louis had issued an
injunction commanding the railroad men
not to go out on strike without the fur
ther permission of the court on pain of inn
prisonment for contempt. But as a matter
of fact the court has not laid straw I'm the
path of any man. who works on a railroad
He can quit work any hou. of any Cay he
chooses, and the court will not do a thing
with him. What the Adams Injunction did
was to prohibit sundry and divers gentle
men who do not work on the Wabash or
any other railroad from ordering out" on
strike the men who were really engineering
and firing the trains on that system. until
the court could look into their title to do
the ordering out. These nonemployes had
undertaken to tell the Wabash managers
what they must do on pain of punishment
by them, and the managers simply asked
the court to tell them to attend to their
own business IL they had any. If they can
establish to the court their right to dictate
TO the Wabash concerning the manage
ment Of the road, doubtless the Injunction
will be dissolved after the hearing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-24
THE NATION rs SAFE.


Golfers Weekly.
mysterious murder. such as that at
Buffalo. fills columns of the newspapers.
occupies in the total perhaps centuries of
the publics time, wasted in reading, think
Ing and talking about it. And there is
much viewing with alarm the 'deplora-
bic public taste for news of crime.' But
is this altogether just? Man is fondest of
that which is most alien to his personal ex-
perience. The poor like to read about the
rich. the rich about the poor. The girl who
has neither looks nor lovers likes to read
about the girl who has both The mild
natured linger with fascinated minds over
deeds OF desperation and derring -do-and
even depravity- If this were Macedonia
could an editor get up any excitement or
circulation by printing the details OF sin
gle mysterious murder? Wouldn't the Mac
edonians wonder whether he was sane or
not as the Londoners wondered about the
imported American editor of one of their
papers when he published a page account
or a commonplace fog? In like manner
isn't the American public's appetite for
the highly spiced sensation rather an indi-
cation OF the humdrum and conventional
daily life and thought? Are not the classes
that read the most sensational newspapers
the class that lead the least sensational
lives? The next time You so to the theater
and md that YOU have been lnred into see-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-24
RAILROAD TAX DODGING.


Minneapolis Journal.
Minnesota has had a railroad gross
earning law for thirty years. Under that
law the railroads have made their own re-
ports OF gross earnings. These reports
have never been checked up till within the
last year. At the special session in 1902, at
the instance of Mr.. Johnson. the public ex
aminer, he was authorized to check these
reports, to examine the accounts of the
railroads and see whether they were MAX
ing proper return of gross earnings for
taxation purposes.
He made the examination and claims
that the railroad companies owe the State
$275,oOo Of back taxes for the years 1896 to
1901, inclusive. How much more they owe
the State for evaded taxes prior to 1896 will
probably never be computed in detail, for
the state OF Minnesota has statute of
limitations running against itself by which
1t is barred from attempting to collect un-
paid gross earnings taxes more than six
years old.
1t was no easy matter to figure out how
mucn Minnesota Tad lost, even for the past
six years, through incomplete returns of
gross earnings, but 1t has been done so well
that the railroads have already acknowl-
edged the States claim to $4,000 and have
paio over already nearly that amount to
the State
Another fact accomplished is that, as a
result OF TINS examination and public show
ing or the amounts due the State, the &C
counts OF the railroads will hereafter be SO
kept, so long as the public examiner is
autnorized to review them, at least, that
the State Will secure about 100000 annually
more than 1t would otherwise have re-
ceived.
The public examiner also holds that under
the constitution taxes should be levied on
heretofore escaped taxation altogether but
which make up part OF the gross earn
lngs or the railroad companies. From these
sources 1t is estimated the revenues of the
State should now be about $4,000 annually.
Now, let's see how this thing stands
Here Is $4,000 of back taxes in the treas
ury, or is as good as there.
There is the balance Of the $275,000 which
will probably get there in time, i'm whole or
in part.
There is reform in railroad bookkeep-
State.
There Is the discovery, which ought to be
worth something to the Legislature, that
other property belonging to railroads is es-
Gaping taxation through loosely drawn
laws to the amount of $4,000.
And yet here is a proposition before the
Legislature to repeal the act Of 1902 author
lzlng the public examiner to examine rail-
road accounts, put a stop to his further
Investigations in that direction, and in eff
rect administer rebuke to him for having
oone this work, which has resulted in such
enormous gains in revenues to the State
AND, as II that were not enough, 1T Is
even proposed to reduce the compensation,
already too small for the work of this inn
of the present officer than it has ever been
before In the history of the State
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-24

year 1900 the output OF window glass ia the
United States amounted to s10.s7s.s55, of
which s4.17s.5s7 worth was produced in Indi-
ana The Indiana plants are capable of
turning out 100000 of fifty-foot boxes Of
glass a year. Heretofore every foot Of this
has been blown by human lung power, and
the blowers were the highest-pald skilled
worl1men in any industry. The new ma
chimes viii do all this work and displace
about 5000 blowers. The United States
census report for 1900 says:
One feature of the manufacture or win
DOW glass during the year was the notable
scarcity OF skilled workmen. This scarcity,
together with the increase in the capacity
or the plants, made the total capacity
greatly exceed the supply OF skilled work.
men available for its operation. The sup
ply of workmen was about sufficient to OPP
crate 1000 pots, and owing TO the strong
organization of the men and their strict
rules OF admission no considerable relief
was possible. The result was that the
skilled workmen dominated the industry as
seldom before in the history of the trade.
The wage scales were the highest in years
fered in addition by manufacturers to Sc
cure men for their plants. The
question Of machinery is beginning to agi-
tate the window glass industry. So far prac-
tically the entire process Of manufacture
requires skilled hand labor. The growing
scarcity of workmen has stimulated efforts
to perfect a mechnical process which will
do the work now done by the gatherer and
blower, and il Is probable that eventually
the smaller sizes of window glass will be
successfully manufactured by machinery.
The success of these inventive efforts has
come sooner than was expected. The intro
duction of blowing machines will revolu-
tionize the industry. The average normal
consumption of window glass in the United
States is estimated at 100000 boxes a year,
OF which about 100000 boxes year are i'm
ported. The introduction of blowing ma
chimes will so cheaper the cost of produc-
ton that the American manufacturer can
undersell the foreign manufacturer in all
the markets of the world. The displace-
ment of several thousand skilled laborers
will be only temporary. The manufacture
Of the machines will give new employment
to labor and Industrial progress will open
other avenues. Experience proves that,
notwithstanding the constant introduction
of labor-saving machinery, the number OF
wage earners in all industries increases
every year. The coming revolution in the
glass industry will not furnish any excep-
ton to the general rule.