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HANNAH ELIAS GOES FREE.
New York Negress Acquitted on Grim
inal Charge of Blackmail-
ing John r. Plat.

New York, June 13-With the free
ing of Mrs. Hannah Elias Friday after
noon on the criminal charge of having
obtained nearly $700, 900 from aged John
R. Plat by threats of blackmail, the
first stage Of the sensational case comes
to an end.
Immediately after her dismissal in the
criminal case Mrs. Elias was rearrested
on writ in the civil suit originally
brought against her by Mr. Platt to re-
cover $6S5,OO0, by threats Of blackmail,
the first stage in $4,000 bail.
Utterly and pitifully the aged man col
lapsed when the time came for him
to substantiate the charges he made
against the negress. His memory was
faulty on nearly every vital point in
the case, and again and again he con-
tradicted himself when, to uphold his
case, it was necessary he should firm
ly stand upon the charges made in the
affidavit on which the negress' arrest
was ordered. The assistant district at
torney recommended the woman's dis
charge.
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MINNESOTA NEWS.
Farmers Institutes.

A new schedule of farmers Institutes
has been prepared for the next two
months by Supt. Hoverstad of the state
experimental station. 1t will call for
institutes to be held in Pelan June z;
Badger, June 80; Roseau, June 10;
Hallock, June 81; Stephen, June %;
Argyle, June %; Warren, June "a; Ada,
June %; Halstad, June %; Fisher, July
L; Bemidji, July 2. There will be a
number of prominent Minnesota agri-
culturists at the institutes to assist in
the W ork, and great benefit is expected
to be derived from them. Among those
who will take part in conducting them
are Prof. Kaufman of Fargo agricult-
ural college; James A. Wilson OF the
pure food commission at ST. Paul and
Col R. A. Wilkinson of ST. Paul Mr..
Hoverstad has been fortunate in secur-
ing the consent of these men to act as
assistants, and he hopes to secure one
or two others before the Institutes are
closed.
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News Notes.

Gov. Van SAINT files an order re-
moving Greeley Carr, county attorney
of Marshall county.
Edwin Ashlank, of st. Paul, has
been appointed a clerk in the depart
ment of commerce.
The Brainerd high school graduated
the largest class in its history. Tween
ty received diplomas.
Teachers deficient in music and
drawing are barred from st. Paul
schools by new rule.
The present year is the banner one
in the history of new companies in
corporated in the state.
1t is thought that seven-year-old
Frances Fitzgerald, daughter of James
Fitzgerald, of Minneapolis, has been
kidnapped.
An s-year-old girl of Perham was
seriously wounded while playing with
a revolver. She snapped the trigger,
not knowing the weapon was loaded.
Percy r. Ross, living at 2110 Six
teenth avenue south, an employe OF
the Minneapolis postoffie for the last
eight years, is in the county Jail on
charge of robbing the mails.
Efforts are being made by the OIL
GERS and members of the Minnesota
State Poultry Association to secure
the next annual meeting of the M
tional association. The meeting will
be held Jan. 10, 1905, at place to be
| decided upon later.
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were refused. Mr.. Perdicaris is 70
years old, and in poor health.
2aisuli is the same bandit that last
year kept captive Mr.. Walter B. Harris,
correspondent of the London times, and
foreigners in Morocco attribute the pres
ent bold act of brigandage to the indif-
ference shown by the government at the
offense. the bandits then going unpun-
ished. But it should be understood, be-
fore quick judgment is passed upon the
laxness of the powers that be, that brig
andage prevails to such an extent in
Morocco arrests and punishment of indi-
yiduals might easily lead to general
civil war, and the overthrow of the gov
eminent.
And who is this Raisuli that he dare
steal citizens of great nations, dictate
terms to great nations? One of the
Oldest and most influential of the
Skereefian families, therefore not in
awe of any nation, any people; brig
and that can flee to the mountains so far
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the bad feeling then engendered, piracy
on the Riff coast has increased. 1t may
be of interest to readers to glance at a
few words from an article written for
an English magazine by Mr.. Perdicaris
on PIRACY in Morocco" the author
doubtless not dreaming at the time Of
writing that some day he himself was to
fall victim to this very piracy. "Rif-
fan mountaineers, men of race which
has, alone, succeeded, alike in the past
and present, in maintaining their indie
pendence; men who were neither utter
ly quelled in bygone times by Carthage,
Rome nor Goth, and who, to-day, defy
the sultan of Morocco as they do the
greatest of the European states, not one
of whose subjects has penetrated that
territory except as slaves or captives
held as ransom, although the Bocoya
country is situated in the very sight of
Gibraltar"
The strife between the sultan of Mo
rocco and the pretender continues.
When the excitement was at it's height
last year, the London Times CORE
spondent, Mr.. Harris, spent three weeks
of captivity with the mountain rebels,
of whom Raisuli is the leader, in the
region about Tangier Raisuli has laid
to his account highway robbery, black
mail and murder, and it may be some
of the cruelty of which he has been
guilty has been dealt out in payment for
the years he spent in one of the worst
of Morocco's VIGOROUSLY bad prisons.
Mr.. Harris describes the brigand, Rails
uli, as still young, quite handsome, with
no appearance of the ferocity of which
he has proved himself capable Mr..
Harris says his captors Indignantly re-
fused all offers of ransom for his re-
lease, declaring their motive in holding
him being not robbery, but their idea
| that the retention of a foreigner
might get them from the government
certain much-desired concessions. one
| of these concessions the liberation of
imprisoned brigands. Mr.. Harris free
| dom was finally purchased by means of
a 16 to one ratio, 16 men from the Tan
gier prison being exchanged for the
| British subject. The Englishman said
| the liberated prisoners were in deplor-
able condition, Morocco's prison meth
DDS being the most inhuman, while he
himself came from under the brigands
hands in the fine state of health.
AS to present-day piracy in the land
Mr.. Perdicaris writes that the Bocoyas
| of Morocco weaken the boasted security
of Gibraltar by waylaying the smaller
sailing vessels that are unluckily driver
their way; shoot down those on boarc
that resist, and carry off captive officer.
and men remaining. Italian, Portu.
Suese, French, Spanish, all have had tt
make acquaintance with the tender
mercy of the up-to-date Moorish pi
rate.
KATHERINE POPE
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er, Raisuli, seized the two men and fed
with them to the mountains. Mr.. Perdi-
carts is of Greek origin, but is a
naturalized citizen of the United States.
He is very wealthy, has been resident
of Tangier for years, is married to an
Englishwoman, and his stepson is a
British subject-which latter face brings
down upon the sultan's head now the
wrath of two nations. 1t is in accord
ance with the oriental custom. that our
consul at Tangier has asked the sultan
that he advance money for the ransom
demanded, the consulS immediate con-
Germ being the safety of the lives of the
captives. 1t is reported the brigand
chief more than once has enjoyed the
hospitality of Mr.. Perdicaris in Tangier,
where the American is owner of one of
the sultan's palaces; but that the brig
ands mean business, and death doubtless
would overtake the captives if the terms
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entered only by tribesmen and captive.
a place of intrenchment far from coast
and battleship. a retreat most difficult
for outsiders to reach in safety.
Morocco has an area of about 2l9,OOO
square miles, but all except SO, 800 miles
is desert. Across the country, from east
to west, extend the Atlas mountains.
In the plains and mountains dwell the
turbulent Berber tribes; in the north
the Riffian tribes. The leading races
are the Moors, Jews and Berbers; the
latter styled "the free people superior
to authority, folk that do not pay OBJ
servance to, seem scarcely to be con-
scious of the existence of, that gentle
man of supposedly autocratic power, the
sultan of Morocco. Constantly they are
getting the sovereign into trouble by
reason of their hig h-handed deeds or
robbery and kidnapping, and the sultan
is ever mixed up in international broils,
is very often called upon to pour into
the Golfers of the offended goodly thou
sands. No one nation, however, APP
pears ready to interfere to the extent OF
assuming control of Morocco's internal
affairs. and the country confines land
of political unrest, of lawlessness and
also of oppression.
Recently the brigands have been espe-
cially bold in their depredations. They
cross into the spheres of French and
of Spanish influence. seize upon any
Christian" that may come within
their reach. In 1893 the Riffian tribes
came in collision with Spain, and the
government was forced to pay large in
demnity to the Spanish nation; since
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-06-17
Burned to Death.

Devotion to her children cost the
life of Mrs A. L. Hauser, Minneapolis.
Mrs. Hauser was heating a can OF var
nish on her cook stove preparatory TO
applying it to the floor. The fire from
the stove ignited the varnish and it be-
gan to blaze.
Mrs. Hauser, having a mothers
thought for her two children who were
asleep upstairs, attempted to throw
the burning can outdoors, but in doing
so her clothing took fire and soon she
was living torch.
Her cries brought the neighbors, but
before they could smother the fire the
woman was burned so badly that moth
ing could be done to save her.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-06-17

Cecil Rhodes said:
Every one supposes that the railway
is being built with the only object that a
human being may be able to get in at
Cairo apd get out at Cape Town. This is,
of course, ridiculous. The object is to
cut Africa through the center, and the
railway will pick up trade all along the
route. The functions to the east and
west coasts which will occur in the flu
ture will be outlets of the line as it passes
through the center of Africa. At any
rate, up to Buluwayo, where am now, 1t
has been a payable undertaking, and
still think it will continue to be so as we
advance into the far interior. We pro-
pose now to go on and cross the Zambesi
just below the Victoria falls. l should
like to have the spray Of the water over
the carriages"
If Cecil Rhodes were still alive he
would soon see this last wish realised
for the railway from the south has been
carried from Buluwayo through the
valuable coal region known as the Wan
kie coalfields right up to the edge of
those wonderful falls which are twice the
height and more than double the width
of the falls of Niagara, while bridge
consisting of single span of 500 feet is
now being constructed over the gorge
below the falls, and will be completed
by the end of the year.
Starting from the south, therefore, the
railway is now completed from Cape
town to Victoria falls, a total distance
Of 1885 miles, and further stretch OF
$50 miles In northeasterly direction to
Broken Hill mine, 100 miles beyond the
Kafue river, will be commenced at an
early date, the contract having already
been let. This section, which is to be
completed by the end of March, 1905
will tap a district extraordinarily rich
in copper, lead and zinc deposits, beyond
which is a region with vast supplies OF
rubber. There will then remain only a
section of $50 miles to complete the con-
Of Lake Tanganyika, where the Char
tered cOmpany's sway terminates. Sur
vey work here is now in progress, and
there is no doubt that within the next
few years this link will be made From
this point onward, however, Rhodes
scheme has had to be modified as the ma
ture of the country around the chain OF
lakes stretching from the Zambesi to the
Nile came t., be known. AS Grogar
pointed out, on the one hand Lake Tan
ganyika is Lemmed in by steep noun
tains offerins well-nigh insurmountable
diniculties tn railway construction
while, on the other hand, the lake itsel
offers a magnificent waterway for 40(
miles on the direct line between the Cape
and Cairo. 1t may be taken as granted
therefore. that this part of the journey
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-06-17
Farmers Wife Held Up.

While Peter Schaust, who lives about
one and half miles north of Delano,
was attending church masked robber
entered his home and compelled Mrs.
Schaust to give up what money was in
the house. At first she refused, but he
drew a revolver and fred couple OF
shots, one of which just passed her
head and frightened her so much that
she gave him the money on hand.
amounting to nearly $500. The con-
stable and sheriff were at once notified
and are working on the brief descrip-
ton Mrs. Schaust could give of the
robber, who they think was no stran-
ger in that vicinity.
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miners DUMPED
ON THE PRAIRIE
COLORADO EXILES LEFT AT DE.
SERTED SPOT FAR FROM
RAILWAY STATION.
ORDERED TO RETURN
BY KANSAS SHERIFF
Are Offered Food by Salvation Army
at Holly, Col.-Employers at Grip
pie Creek Compel the Men to Drop
Union or Leave District.

Syracuse, Kan, June 13.-Seventy-
six deported Victor (Col) miners, sent
out from their state on special train
in charge of half hundred Colorado
militiamen, were literally dumped into
Kansas Saturday, and left destitute
upon the prairie.
The miners had been placed on the
train, which was a special made up
by the authorities in control in the
disturbed Colorado town, and in
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will be made by water, and that passen-
gers will be carried by steamboat from
Kituta to Usambara, at the north end or
the lake From here to Lake KiVu is a
distance of 80 miles, offering no serious
obstacle to a railway beyond rise in
level of 1000 feet. Lake Kivu is so miles
in length, and this sheet of water also is
surrounded by high and precipitous
mountains, so that another break in the
line will have to be made and the water
way utilised.
From Lake Kivu to the Albert Edward
lake is another 60 miles, with further
rise of 1000 feet to the highest point on
the whole route The country to the east
of Albert Edward lake is so fiat that Mr..
Grogan thinks it unnecessary to use this
fine stretch of water (75 miles long,, and
suggests carrying a railway from Lake
Kivu, through rich, healthy and dense
ly populated country, past the Albert
Edward lake and down the Semliki val
ley to the southern shore of the Albert
Lake-a distance of about 220 miles.
The Semliki valley is in Congo territory,
but he maintains that this is the obvious
route for the railway, with no engineer
| ing difficulty but drop of ], 800 feet be-
| fore reaching the level of the Albert lake.
while the alternative route through
British territory would involve climb
of 1000 feet, and a sudden descent OF
5000 feet. Once the Albert lake is reached
| there is a navigable waterway right
! away to the Mediterranean by way of
| cfr otOh
tween Dufile and Rejaf, where the river
is broken by about 100 miles of rapids.
which would have to be spanned by an
other length of railway. An alterna-
tive route via Abyssinia offers itself.
the emperor Of Abyssinia, under the
frontier agreement of May, 1902, having
agreed to allow the construction of
railway through Abyssinian territory
from the Soudan to Uganda. However.
now that the dense tangled mass OF vege-
tation known as "sudd, which obstruct-
ed the river between Fashoda and Lake
Albert, has been broken up, the Nile
route will probably be preferred to any
other. Since the commencement of this
year a regular service of steamers is
plying between Rejaf and Khartum, a
distance of 1000 miles, and Khartum is
now connected with Cairo by railway.
except for the short stretch of the Nile
between Wady Halfa and Assuan.
Thus, as Mr.. Grogan points out, when
once the railway reaches the southern
end of Tanganyika, a further construc-
ton of 410 miles of railway is all that
will be necessary to render steam COM
munication by combined rail and water
way between the Cape and Cairo an &C
complished fact, and, be it noted, the
whole route will lie through territory
belonging to Great Britain or under Brit
ish influence, save for the short stretch
through the Congo Free State. When
these 410 miles of railway are construct
, ed Rhodes dream will have been realised
If not in it's entirety, at least as far as
the object which he had in view, for 1T is
evident from what he wrote to Mr. Grog-
an, that it was not as through line"
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Killed in Elevator.

Nick Reinart, was buried in bin OF
screenings at Elevator K, Twenty
ninth street and Garfield avenue, Min
neapolls, and his body was not recov-
cred for three hours.
1t was thought that when he was re-
covered that the spark of life had not
been entirely smothered, but after
working over him for some minutes it
was discovered that he was dead.
The accident was due to the fact that
the chute leading from the bin was
alogged up, and when Reinert entered
the bin to ascertain the cause the
screenings started and sucked Reinart
to the bottom of the bin. He leaves a
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DTOuRnl 10 uS bolOS
of enslaved American yoyagers, of gal
liant liberating Decatur; but, in our ig-
norance, we had thought Moorish piracy
a thing of the past, not in existence in
these modern days of telegraph and rail-
way. However, we are. to learn the
Moorish pirate and Drigand is still a
creature of vitality, seemingly as I'M
conquerable as the Berber race itself.
At present, news is flashing round the
world concerning the captivity of an
American citizen, Mr.. Ion Perdicaris, in
a mountain stronghold in Morocco, and
the danger threatening our citizen If the
demanded ransom is not forthcoming,
the demanded stipulations observed.
It is not improbable that America may
again take up arms against Barbary
state; at least we have begun making
show of disapproval, our war vessels
now lowering about that bold and
treacherous African coast.
The story of the capture of Mr.. Perdi-
carts and his stepson, Mr.. Cromwell
Marley, reads like romance, and we
may be pardoned for reviewing 1t.
About half past eight in the evening Mr..
Perdicaris was at home with his family
in a villa about three miles from Tan
gier, the diplomatic capital of Mo-
rocco, when suddenly the house was
surrounded by body of armed Arabs.
who, acting under order of their lead
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-06-17
Girl Disappears.

Considerable excitement has been
caused at Crookston by the disappear
ance of the 14-year-old grandchild OF
Mr. and Mrs. Edward O'Neal from
their farm, a few miles from there.
She has been absent several days
and no trace of her has been found.
She disappeared Saturday evening, and
the following morning buggy tracks
were found at one corner of a pasture
fence not far from the house.
The entire neighborhood has been
searched and the grandparents are dis
tracted.
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Passports Cause ANNOYANCE.

The passport system in Russia often
causes much annoyance. An American
wished to change from one hotel in st.
Petersburg to smaller one around the
corner. He came down with his bag
packed ready to go. Sorry" said the
manager, but you cannot leave this
hotel or register at another hotel, until
we get your passport from the police.
and that will take day and a night.
You must go through exactly the same
procedure as if you were leaving the
country"
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Arrested by Hackdrivers.

Through the persevering efforts OF
four st. Paul hackdrivers, young man
who calls himself Donald Stewart was
was arrested there after long chase
early Sunday morning.
Stewart is accused of having stolen
se4, 900 in certificates of deposit from
J. e. Hall of Duluth formerly rail-
conductor.
1t was afterward found to be mis-
take and Stewart was released.
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Want Bandit for EXPOSITION,

New York, June 13.-A representative
in Morocco of the st. Louis exposition
is reported in World dispatch from
Tangier to have started for the noun
tains in the hope of securing R2isuli
the hrigand chief, as an attraction at
the fair.
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Suicide.

Mrs. Frank DeBilson of Foley, age %,
committed suicide by taking carbolic
acid because she had a little difference
with her husband About the last
words she said to him were: kiss me,
Frank; it will be the last time"
She formerly lived in Minneapolis.
Her parents reside at New Ulm, and
the be taken there for burial.
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TORlA FALLS.
the Cape to Cairo railway appealed to his
imagination, but as feeder line to
branch railways running east and west,
so that the breaking bulk" necessitated
by the changes from land to water car
riage is no drawback to the general
utility of the scheme. Two such branch
lines are already in existence-from
Beira to Buluwayo via Salisbury, and
from Mombasa to the Victoria Nyanza,
and others are projected both on the east
side in German East Africa and on the
west side in the Congo Free State. A
line about 243 miles in length is also in
course of construction between the
southern end Of Lake Nyasa and
M'Tombi on the Shire river, whence
there is a steamer service to the sea via
the Zambesi
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Bubonic Plague in Peru.

Guayaquil, Ecuador, June 13.-News
has reached here of an outbreak Of bu-
bonic plague at Paita, Peru ION the
border of Ecuador and PERU, and is
causing a great panic. Ten persons
died of the plague within three hours
on June 10. The disease is rapidly
spreading,
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A Cry from Fashiondom.

Doesn't man have more than one
vermiform appendix, doctor?"
isn't that enough?"
"But it's getting SO common to have
Just one removed. Town Topics.
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DRIFTING in 1900 to Mr.. Ewart
\ S. Grogan, the plucky young
traveller who had then just
completed his unique and ad-
venturous journey from the
Cape to Cairo, the late Mr..
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OROCCO and piracy have
been associated in our
minds ever since school
days taught us a little of the
history of the Barbary states.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-27
MUSLIN UNDERWEAR.

Our special lot sale Of Muslin I'm
derwear will again be repeated during
this Sale; everything shown before
will be shown this time excepting the
25-cent gowns; &c, Csc, SOC, ACC, TIC,
&c.. To see them means to buy.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-27
CORSETS.

Last Cleanup in the reconstruction
of our Corset department. There are
II 7-12 dozen in the assortment worth
$1.OO, $3.50 and $500. Choice as
long as they last, Soc. Coutile, Ba-
tiste and Net. They are all we'll and
favorably known makes. Full line of
sizes.
Lot 5O-cent Corsets .19c
Twenty-Five Misses Corset Waists,
regular 50-cent goods 49,. .19c