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The evening world., 1905-10-13
BLACK HAND
CHIEF IN JAIL,
POLICE DECLARE
Filioi Pitira Held for Evidence
Which They Say Will
Convict Him.

In tho arrest Of Filioi Pitira, a saloon
Keeper, thirty. three years old, OF No, 90
Elizabeth street, the police believe they
have the kins of Italian blackmailers
and chief Of the BLACK Hand" gang
in and about Greater New York.
Charged VITA impl cation In the muir
der Of Spechano De Luiro, Of No. 33i
East SlXty-thirl street, who died on
the night Of oct. . from a stab wound
received during the afternoon, Piira
was held on a short affidavit by MagIs-
tratc Wqlsh N Yorkyi.le Court to-day
until Detective ~Sergcants Bcnnoil and
Fetros.ni Dan secure further evidence,
which they told the Magistrate would
be sufficient TO warrant the prisoners
being held for many other crimes per-
petrated by the bands OF ltaltn out
laws who operate 10 this vicinity.
by ,O-morrow morning the detectives
promised to nave the required evidence.
According to the detectives during a
whispered conversation with the Mag
istrate while Pitira was being arraigu.
ell, they spent eighteen months on the
trdll Of the prisoner and until tho
crime for completely IN which he was
urIust-d was committed, he slipped
Though their fingers WIKI consummatc
cunning.
Both officers declared that the prls-
onor is rac u..d OF the CaIaDriln gang
OF blackmalers and real cl'ef Of the
'lA.NLI IN.-|. nLF.
The evening world., 1905-10-13
Boys Break from Homs.

Joseph Lapscy and Herbert Kings.
Mnd escaped early yesterday from IN,
newark City Home, In the oranp,
Mountains' near Verona, N. ]. III,
snnaEays wore inmates Of Cottage No
ard wnSro tne bigger boys are Housed
BrIegS. " MI and Mrs, Elmer
sumed dlrecton. KlhgsiSnd and us,
maoe their way to a window
Jumped ~ tho ground. 1'heir eScSno
wee AIDED BY me darkness, ~
The evening world., 1905-10-13
Scalped by Train,

John Allen, twenty-5ne years old. OF
No. 1921 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, AZ.
tempted Yesterday TO board a moving
freight tram at Waysrly n j. He was
thrown to ne ground, He was scalped,
was taken 70 81, Barnabas's Hosnitai
The evening world., 1905-10-13
MULE TEAM IN THIS STRIKE.
six Hundred Mine Workers Quit
In snarI over Drivers Pay.

HAZLETON, Pa, Oct. l3-Claiming
that a driver va compelled to take
charge Of a mule team at wages below
the standard, the drivers at the Jeddo
Collisry Of @, Il. Markle struck to-
day.
Oyer six hundred men and boys are
Idle In consequence.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
thursday Evening, = -

ically applied to arithmetic. It is not
applied to arithmetic. 1t is applied to
grammar. Why's Largely because there
are no teachers Of grammar, while
teachers of arithmetic are plentiful
and skillful.
We ought to have first a gramnarlan
to write book on grammar which
would fulfill the conditions of success
fully imparting knowledge of the sci
ence of language, and that teachers who
would make that book their own props
erty. Then, there is the further duty
laid upon the teachers Of using correct
English themselves. Not 10 per cent
of the teachers in the public schools
talk as correctly before the children az
they know how, and for that matter,
not per cent Of the parents. So far
as good reading is concerned. the chill
dren in the schools are well supplied.
The reading for the grades never was
so good as it is today. The efforts made
by the teacher to have the children use
written language were never more
strenuous nor more successful. But
technical instruction in the making OF
sentences having been practically aban-
doned, some wonderful results ensue
from the imbibing process. "
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
FREE "wRlTE-UP" FOR EB

DIX Ill HINSUIdShcts 0Idl0 -
One Of the strong characters of our
western civilization visited Lincoln last
week, but for only a, few hours. Thirty
four years ago Eb Hunting, an ambi-
tious printer with small capital and large
ideas, landed at Window, Mimi, and
began the publication Of a weekly news
paper called the Reporter. For several
years it, was an uphill job to make a
living, and he declares now that it wasn't
much Of a living after he got it. But he
TOUCHED it out, and is glad that he did it,
for he has one of the very best country
newspaper plants in the state, besides a
good home and two or three farms that
he gathered ION subscription during
grasshopper times. In point Of continu-
Gus service in the newspaper harness he
is third man high in the state of Mime
sofa, which is largely due to a tough and
rugged constitution land the moderate
price of seasoned hardwood. The influ-
ence Of his newspaper is felt thruout the
entire state, for he is quoted scopiousy
on all topics Of public concern. His paper
is always republican,, but not of4the yel-
loW-dog variety, and stands for the square
deal all the time. His optimism is sub
lime, and one can't be in his presence a
minute without feeling refreshed and COM
fOrted.
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the general public in the market there
would already have been not merely q
loosening up, but a wholesale price
slaughter and great declines.
That the rise in rates is in some de-
gree manipulative and artificial can
scarcely be doubted. Yet no one out
side the inner ring Of New York high
finance could trace the process Of man
ipulation to it's primary source. 1t rs
clear, however, that the country has
enough money for it's legitimate busl-
ness, and is getting along very we'll. a
Speculatively the action Of the mar
ket indicates the strong belief of pro-
fessional Wall street in a greater bull
market to come. The public, it is be-
lieved, will one day come in. Such is
the history of the street. Foreign wars,
bad scares and scandals have kept the
people out and delayed the big boom,
but always, it given time. the public
comes in and buys stocks, too often at
the very top. Wall street profession
ais are hanging to their stocks against
depressing influences, while such out.
siders as are in are being shaken out by
high money. The professionals are con-
fident that some time in the coming
year the public will appear, a big boom
will be on, and then will be the time
for them quietly to let the public take
the lead.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
CALYE THE PEERLESS
WILL SING THIS TIME

for the northwest, and this time with
the strong hope that she may be permit
ted by the fates to fill the engagement
here which was prevented a short time
ago by a severe cold. Nine. Calve al
Carmen, and that the Minneapolis pub
lie was deprived Of seeing and hearing
the great singer as well as actress was
to be deeply regretted. Since she has
been at Hot Springs, however, she is
much recuperated and rested, and will
be in the best of condition to sing here
Jan. 3. She will be heard in Chicago
Monday evening, Jan. |, and will then
come Immediately to Minneapolis to be
ditorium on Wednesday, as part Of the
"All-Star' course.
A misrepresentation seems to have
existed regarding the Calve tour which
should be corrected. AS originally
planned it was divided into two parts,
the first to close Dec. l6 and the second
part to. commence after the new year.
date after leaving Minneapolis. During
the interim, Nine. iCalve and the com.
pany were to have rested as originally
planned, and this has been the program
followed.
On this tour Nine. Calve has a group
Of celebrated artists in her company
including M. Bouxmann, the basso OF
the French opera at New Orleans. and
who later sang with different opera or,
CARNATIONS in France. The company
has planned distinctly new program
entirely different from the impromptu
one rendered on the occasion Of the
diva's illness.
The sale of seats for the Calve con
cert will open Saturday morning at
CLOCK at the Metropolitan Music com
pany's store. Holders of seat checks
for the original date may exchange
them tomorrow for tickets for Jan. 3.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
THE CHRISTMAS STORY
Miss Sara Cone Bryant VIII Tell 1t Sat-
urday.

Miss Sara Cone Bryant Of Boston,
who will give Christmas story hour
Saturday afternoon in the Unitarian
church, is assisting at number OF the
church celebrations this week. She told
the Bible story of Christmas at the Plym-
outh church, Hennepin Avenue M. E.
church and the First Baptist church
gatherings Saturday at 2:30 pm. she
will also tell the legendary story and give
some jolly Christmas tales as well, weav-
ing them into one complete story with
her own narrative This evening Miss
Bryant will speak before the Minnesota
Educational association in st. Paul, and
will share with Miss Jane Adams Of
Hull House, the honors at the reception
after, the program. Tomorrow afternoon
Miss Bryant will tell Christmas stories
al Miss Ioomis school In ST. Paul.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
The Milling Record.

. One annual comparison that Mlnneap-
oils will make will not do her full JUS
tice, unless there runs, as an accompanl-
ment of the figures, some explanatory
note. The flour mills produced in 1904,
l3,652,735 barrels of -four. So far in
1905 they have turned out over l4,OOO,-
900. When the output for the few re-
naming days of the year is figured in,
there will be gain shown of approx
mately 100000 barrels. 1t may run to
100000 provided the mills now closed
for the regular holiday season, open
before the first of the year. In any
case there will be favorable COMPARE
son, vet the reader unfamiliar with con-
ditions here, who bases his Judgment
solely on the gross figures, will have no
correct idea of the present state of the
industry, or of the enormous business
done here thru the fall season, In which
period all high records for daily, weekly
and monthly productions were broken.
The year 1904 was bad one for
northwest milling, for the wheat crop
was cut down somewhat, and the quail
ity of the crop was also lower, more
wheat being required to make a barrel
of flour than ordinarily. This abnormal
condition with reference to the raw ma
terial supply, and extremely high prices
for wheat, due partly to the small total
part also to speculation and price manip-
ulation, bore hard against the millers.
But the point that the ordinary observer
will overlook is that fact that these adj
verse influences caused by the crop turn
out of 1904 were felt not so much in
that year, as in the early part of the
present year, 1905.
Thus, thru several months Of 1905, the
Minneapolis flour business was far be.
low normal. AS soon as conditions got
back again to former basis and better
crop was raised, wheat prices went to
levels where -four could be made with
some profit and the mills began to pick
up the former business that had beer
lost to them. Despite the light produc
tion of this early part Of 1905 the veal
runs we'll over 1904. All this gain was
made within the past few months.
It is likely that after the passing Of
the present annual dullness, the mills
will again grind heavily. With a fail
crop. again in 1906, they will keep it up
The point is, that the comparison O.
this years results with last year doe
not olive anv adeo11ate idea of the husi
ness recently done here, or of the pres
ent good condition Of the industry
When the crop year comparisons ar
made-when the season Of 1904-05, i
compared with the season Of 1905-06
much more favorable figures will appea
than are found in the calendar yea
comparisons.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
COOKING CONTEST
PRIZES AWARDED
MAY IRWIN SAYS JUDGING WAS
HARD WORK.
Mere Man Wins Prize for Best Recipe
f for Boiling Ham Kittie CT Sent
Sample Of Her Chocolate Fudge and
Won Prize-seats May Be Had at
Journal Office.
THE PRIZE WINNERS

p
Best essay on the servant problem,
prize, private box at May Irwin per-
formance, won by Anonymous"
How to boil ham. two orchestra
seats, Erhardt Fuerbringer, 2o1o Cir
ard avenue NJ.
How to make WEIGH rareblt, two
orchestra seats, Mrs. w. s. Thorn
son, 1929 kenwood parkway.
WaffIes, two orchestra seats. Mrs.
e. G. Brown. 31o4 First avenue S.
Cream tomato soup, two orchestra
seats, Ella Larson, 1908 Adams street
NE. ~
Winter punch, two orchestra seats,
Mrs. Hattie Ethner. POI Sixth street
Sc.
Chocolate fudge, two orchestra
seats, "klttie c." 1905 University
avenue Sc. ~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
Teachers and Grammar.

The Pioneer Press says the State Edu-
cational association is to be congratu-
lated on having awakened to the desir-
ability of teaching English in the
schools rather than English grammar.
The amount of teaching Of English
grammar that has been done in the
public schools recently has not bur
dened the teachers. If the Pioneer
Press had counseled the teachers that,
having abandoned the teaching of tech
nical grammar, they would do well to
begin the teaching of English, it's re-
mark would be more to the point.
F. There is considerable to be learned
about English from English grammar
It's abandonment in the educational sys,
tenn is not so much the fault of the
grammar as of those who taught it. If
they could not teach it understanding
ly, of course, they did well to give it
up. But really grammar should be nc
harder to teach than arithmetic. It is
the science of language based upon the
analysis of concrete examples, just al
arithmetic is the science of numbers
based upon the analysis Of concrete ex
amples. Why is it so many people
nowadays do not know the relation o.
subjects to their predicates9 Because
they have not been taught. They hav,
imbibed. Language comes because i
has to come. Numbers would come ii
the same way if we did not have
science of numbers. The half-civil
lied man notched his stick, and ever
the Indian succeeds in keeping som
sort Of accounts, not from choice bu
from necessity.
The point is that good deal of tn
objection to grammar could be as log
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
SAYS FOOTBALL HARM
PROFESSOR A. E. HAYNES OF UNI
vERsITY FACULTY DECLARE:'
GAME rs OF NO BENEFIT.

College football was condemned a
the meeting of the college section o
the association yesterday afternoon b..
Professor A. E. Haynes of the stat
university. In his address as presiden
of the section, Professor Haynes sail
that football did not provide needed T
physical training for students, but Sc
gave them overdevelopment physically
He did not believe that intercollegiate
football had added anything of endur
ing worth to the higher educational
institutions. 81 believe,' he said
q that the things that seem to be 6
necessary accompaniment of the camel
if not the game itself, are debasins
rather than elevatlng.
Eric Ericsson, superintendent of Rem
vile county schools and president OF
the county superintendent section, de
clared in his address in favor OF com
pulsory consolidation of rural schools
to be brought about by easy stages. He
also favored a review of all the com
mon branches in the high schools.
Governor John A. Johnson and Pres
ident Cyrus Northrop of the university
spoke before the high school section
yesterday ta so afternoon: The g9yern nor ia
and resources of Minnesota, for incu1-
eating state and local pride. President
Northrop spoke of the problem OF
teaching English, and said the best way
was to teach young peop.e to read the
best things He urged the teaching OF
patriotism by example, by citing the
lives and deeds Of Washington, Lin
coin and other great men Of America
| He declared his belief that President
Roosevelt has actually lifted the whole
American people, inspiring men every
where with determination to stand fol-
right things.
Vertical versus slant writing was the
subject Of debate in the graded schoo
section, and the vote favored the slant
system, tho there was strong sentiment
in favor of vertical writing in ths
| lower grades. An address on self-edu
cation was given before the rural schoo
section by Professor Maria Sanford.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
\ Remarkable Money Market.

No greater exhibition of stock, mar
ket stubbornness was ever witnessed
than that now afforded. For weeks call
money rates in New York have aver
aged we'll above the level where, ordi-
narily, prices are adversely affected.
Yesterday and today the strength that
has been shown byleading issues against
an advancing money market was most
extraordinary. True, the entire list
was down, but, except for declines in
five or six points in the most manipu-
lated stocks that had recently been
doomed in advance of the general mar
ket and were due for reactions, there
was an early loss of only a point or two
all around. This with money at 40 and
As per cent. - ,ss.>.
Thru the calling in Of millions Of
funds, and steadily rising interest
rate following new loans or applications
for renewals, stocks showed surprising
resiliency, and some leaders even
turned back up for fractional recoveries
whenever the pressure was off moment
arily. Not until the call rate jumped
thru so to 10 per cent, to 80, to IS, to
80 and finally to IS asked, did material
general decline follow in stocks. To
day the rate went to $l.25 before noon
without serious disturbance in the stock
market.
The history of Wall street does not
afford an exact parallel. On May 8
1901, the last extreme call rates were
seen, Is per cent being the maximum
Stocks had heavy fall, as they have
always had when rates rose abnormally
The speculative explanation Of the
present comparative stability lies in the
absence of. the public from the market
Most Of the active speculative stocks
are controlled by strong pools and spec
ulative cliques. Presumably these pro
fessionals fortified themselves will
long time money, at lower rates, in an
tieipation of high call money, or the.
would not now be able to stand tn
| strain. Indeed they may not be abb
to stand it, and continued high rate
may mean a loosening up, but, Wer
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
Harmony in Minnesota.

If the republican party OF Mlnneso'a
Is not harmonious next year 1t Will not
be the fault Of the Minneapolis III
bune. It has laid down the conditions
of success clearly in a number OF artl-
cles eliminating in one on Wednesday,
in which it stated it's hope that no can
didate Is going to be unfairly noml-
mated or defeated next year. Inc use
of the qualifying phrase may be slgnlh-
cant of an admission Of defects IN the
nominating methods of some other
years. -
The Tribune finds three candidates IN
the field, each of whom has presented
himself with "singular modesty and
good taste.'' Not one Of them, the
Tribune says, the people need to refuse
to support. Having given them such
a good sendoff, the Tribune proceeds to
state some reasons why they need not
be supported. First Mr.. Lindeke sat
above the salt at the late railroad ban
ouetn and the Tribune doubts if there
is time between now; and election Ito
remove from the minds Of Minnesota
farmers the persistent delusion that
st. Paul iobbers have grown rich on
railroad rebates at their expense.
This would seem to dispose Of Mr.. Lin
deke Notwithstanding the modesty and
singular good taste of his entrance
upon the field. Then again: "In spite
of the delicacy with which Mr.. Block is
conducting his campaign it is impossl
BILE not to be reminded by it Of pre-
vious machine campaigns conducted
from the capitol whose methods ane
results made the judicious grieve.'
Down goes Mr.. Block. Lastly. the
Tribune is in' painful doubt how far Mr.
Lord g candidacy is mixed up with thu
"senatorial group It. is pretty
hard on these men who have presented
themselves so carefully and modestly tt
have their armor pierced first by tn
authority which commends: their unob
iectionable personality.
But the point is probably that tn
Tribune prefers Jacobson to any othe
candidate. There are some occult re
marks at the bottom of the articl
which might support such conclusion
While jacobson has not come out wit
becoming modesty nor in any othe
way he will perhaps be stirred to actlv
ity on learning that the Tribune is TO
him even to the extent Of saying tina
the state has had far worse governors
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
CIVIC ACTIVITIES

The American Contractor reports upon
the Richmond, Va, gas plant against
public ownership. It declares that the
experts employed to trace why the plant
was producing poorer and poorer light
while there was nothing doing in the way
Of reduced rates Of taxation figure that
the plant, originally worth a million dol
lars, now needs three-quarters of a mil
lion in repairs to bring it up to the
standard required by the city. They re-
port that while more labor has been en-
ployed and at higher wages than a pri-
waite company would have been obliged to
pay, there is. no suspicion Of graft. 1t
seems to be largely case Of where there
was no self-1nterest to hold down the ex-
penses and keep up the plant.
The committee Of twenty-on Of the
National Civic federation on Nov. II
passed upon the plan for the investigation
of public ownership Of certain utilities
and appointed a committee of five to
elaborate it. This committee Is composed
Of Professor Frank J. Goodnow of Column
bla; Walter Clark Of the United Gas I'M
provement company; Edward Nv. Bemis,
superintendent Of the Cleveland water
works; j. w. Sullivan, editor Of the
Garment Workers Journal and Milo r.
Maltbie, franchise expert.
Without a dissenting vote the retiring
council Of Providence, r. T., approved q
contract for six years with the Narragan-
sett Electric Lighting company at slightly
reduced rates. 1t was estimated that the
city would save $4,000 from present rates
during the time Of the contract.
Mayor Johnson Of Cleveland has come
forward and shouldered the responsibility
for getting Dalrymple to this country a,
the expense of Chicago. Mayor johnson
admits that he did not know who he was
sending for but believed it was mar
named Young. Young is the man who
planned the Glasgow street railway com.
pany. He had been succeeded by Dal.
rymple before the Chicago invitation tt
the manager Of the Glasgow street rail.
ways was sent. The Ownership may.
ors did not know they had been gold.
bricked until later. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-28
Pastors Wife Surprised.

The Ladies' Aid society Of the First
M. E. church held its holiday session
Mrs. W. 81. Jordan, COS Sixth street
Sc. It was an unusually interesting
meeting and sixty-eight ladies were
present. The reports of the different
sections showed that over 200 calls had
been. made, during the month, In the
interests of the church. A pleasing
feature of the gathering was surprise
for the hostess, the pastor s wife. Each
lady brought a jar of home,canned
program enlivened the afternoon Miss
Hazel Eddy played a piano solo, Mrs.
I. E. Burgan and Martin L. Jordan
sang and Miss Maud Mathews gave two
readings. This society has been most
important factor in the church the past