The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-09
What the Editors Say

The first thing Uncle Sam will have
to do in Panama is to make it healthy,
or he will have to send a fresh COM
mission there every year to fill Vacan
cleS. During the last year there were
1870 deaths from all causes in the city
of Panama, total which makes the
death rate for population of $4,000
70.5 per thousand. About the same
condition existed in Manila when the
Americans took possession but they
soon brought about a change by en-
forcing sanitary measures. The same
was also true of Havana and Santiago,
but the two cities are now compare
lively clean and healthy cities. Pana-
ma will be revolutionized by American
methods of doing things.-Perham
Bulletin.
Today is the anniversary of the
Fargo fire-when the city was swept
clean by fire from Front street through
the business portion clear to the edge
OF the prairie on the north. Anyone
gazing over the ruins of the city on
the morning of June 8, 1898, would
hardly have thought it possible that
few years hence there would be raised
over those ruins one of the handsomest
| and busiest cities in the Northwest. It
was at that time that the people Of
Fargo showed of what sort of stuff
they were made; and out of the ashes
of the old wooden buildings has grown
city which is the pride Of all it's
citizens and a credit to the state of
which it is the center of trade.-Fargo
Call.
The salary of the Winnebago City
postmaster has been cut from $4,000 to
81, 700. This means we are third in
stead OF second class Office. We got
position in the second class, the same
as Mankato during the boom days
when Winnebago had hail, oil, copper,
fuDDer, iron chain, fish and lumber
companies to burn. And these concerns
bought and Cancelled lots of postage
stamps, their long suit being CORE
spondence. We were threatened then
with having several millionaires on our
hands. but the danger has been avert
ed and We are again back to old time
days, when all, financially speaking,
meet on level.-Winnebag Press
News.
Congressman Halvor Stevenson is
to be adopted into the White Earth
band of Chippewa Indians at the thir-
ty-stxth anniversary celebration of the
tribe, to be held at White Earth June
Ia and IS. The big white chief is
greatly beloved by the red men OF
the band, and as a marked token of
their affection he has been invited to
address the assembly and to be in
ltlated into fellowship and enjoy all of
the privileges of a full-fledged brave.
one emolument pertaining to the hon.
or will be section of fine land, such
tract being granted to anyone ad-
mitted as blood brother of the Chip
pewas.-Thief River Falls.
Owatonna PAYERS have gone UP
against property owners, and the result
will be that no paving will be done
there this year. Waseca is the only
city in this part of the country where
there was enterprise enough to carry
paving through and make that i'm
provement reality.-Albert Lea Trib-
une.
The governors of Iowa and Nebras-
ka are kept busy these days consider
ing extraditiOn cases from one state to
the other. By the time all the cases
are disposed of it is probable the popu-
lation of the two states will not be
materially hanged.-Aberdeen Daily
News.
Trail county Republicans gave E. Y.
Sarles the honor of naming his own
delegation to the Grand Forks state
convention, which dispelS all fears re-
garding the position of Trail county
on the political map.-Fargo Forum.
1t is an honor to the state to have
the degree of LII. D. bestowed on Gov
White by the University of Illinois,
the institution he graduated from a
quarter of century ago.-Fargo
Forum.