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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-11-18
OUTLOOK LESS THREATENING
General Strike at ST. Petersburg Like.
iy to Collapse.


st. Petersburg, Nov. 17.-The out
look is much less threatening, the gen.
eral strike promising to collapse with
in few days. The appeal made to the
country to join in the movement met
with no response and the dissensions
in the workmen's council are increas-
ing. ~ t2lA
1t is now apparent that extremists
took the decision to order a general
political strike hastily and without due
preparation in the belief that the
whole country would rise at their bio
ding and continue the revolutionary
movement. Having once demonstrate
ed the power of general strike as a
weapon with which to terrorize the
government the leaders believed they
could invoke it at moments notice
but popular sympathy failed to re-
spond and the leaders are reluctantly
compelled to admit that they cannot
force a last ditch fight but must con-
tent themselves with calling the pres
ent strike a demonstration While
the organized workmen of st. Peters
burg obeyed the order to strike many
did SO grumblingly. In the face OF
winter and the necessity of providing
for their families many of them did
not want to stop work. At the Russo
American rubber works anti-strikers
beat off and drove away a strike depu.
tation which came to order the work
men out.
None of the newspapers except the
Of1cial Messenger appeared during the
but the printers of each
themselves published fly
sheets announcing that the strike was
for the purpose of abolishing the state
OF siege, the death penalty and mar.
tial law throughout Poland.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13

REJO|NDER
The Official Reply to
Atty. Generals
Statement.

The following statement was made
last night by the officials of the Rapid
Transit Company;
The leading article in yesterday
morning 5 Advertiser on Andrews
and the Rarld Transit Difficulty" is
said by the officials of the company to
be so full of glaring inaccuracies as
to merit special denial. In the first
place, they say that the insinuation of
Mr.. Andrews that immense revenues
are pouring into the Golfers of the cor
poration which should be divided with
the Territory is not only misleading,
but is a gross misstatement of fact. In
the first place. the net income of the
company Tor 1904. after deducting ex-
penses and fixed charges from the re
ceipts, amounted to about $4,000. of
which the stockholders received about
$52, 900, the balance being applied on
the purchase of new, large ears for the
greater comfort ana convenience OF the
travelling public OF the gross earn
ings for the wear. Sl5,473.3I was paid
into the Territorial Treasury in taxes
and ear licenses, an amount about
equal to 80 per cent of the profits 10
the stockholders for the same period.
The franchise granted to the com
panv Is contract under which, at The
present stage of the development of
the traffic OF the city, no part Of the
surplus earnings is vet due the govern
meIs. and any statement TO the con
trarv IS idle and misleading. being en-
tireIv inconsistent with the faers.
The next contention Of the Attorney
General stated balaly. eliminating its
personal abuse Of the management. is
that the company is violating the speed
statute and using smaller number OF
cars at q high rate OF speed in order
to make its connections. IN consequence
Of which he would have the public in
fer that ten deaths have resulted since /
the system was installed four wears
ago. and large number Of persons /
MANNED and otherwise disabled. As I
matter OF fact, excessive speed above ,
the legal limit did not contribute TO /
CONTINUED on page -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13

Seattle for the Oriental Trading Com
psuy, which has. presuma bly,. already
found work for them on northern rail
roads The Olympia is scheduled TO
sail from Seattle on April 5th. and IL
is reported that she will make several
trips to the coast with the eager brown
men. Their brethren. who have pre-
ceded them hither have promised them
good jobs. and there is little doubt
that the promises viii be fulfilled. even
al the expense of the native bread
winners In this country
The Oceanic Company's liner Ala
media. plying between this city and
Honolulu Is also TO have a share Of
the Japanese eraigrant business. As
is well known. the Alameda mas beeu
bringing about 200 japanese IN her
steerage quarters on every trip from
the islands. but greater numbers have
lately applied for passage, and when
the Alameda was last in port part Of
her cargo space was arranged 50 as
Continued on page T.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13
JAPANESE RUSH
BY SHIPLOADS

The Call says: Apparently aware of
the growing opposition TO the flooding
OF this country with japanese emf
grants, and fearful that the agitation
VIII result in early action toward put
ting up the bars. the japanese are
making hurried arrangements TO come
here in greater numbers than ever be
fore. and in this movement they are
aided by steamship companies, who
realize the profits that are 10 be made
BY transporting whole cargoes Of the
emisrants from Japan and Honolulu
to this coast
The American steamer Olympia. now
on Puget sound. has seen chartered TO
carry 500 japanese from Honolulu 10
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13
ROWLAND
ON GRILL
Personal Features OF
the Wharf
Case.

With the examination Of Superin-
tendent of Public Works Holloway and
of Assistant Superintendent Howland.
the Brewers wharf contract investiga-
ton came to a close last night. after a
session which developed the important
information that Assistant superin-
tendent Howland had had an unusual
amount of enmity toward the Amer
Iican-Hawafian Engineering & Con-
struction Company. which eventually
lost the contract to build the wharf. by
court proceedings.
The examination of Mr. Rowland
was conducted mainly by Mr.. Thurs
ton. although some pertinent questions
We're asked by Mr. wilmington. which
gave an angle to the inimical feeling.
These We're:
In whose house do you live. Mr..
Howland:''
Jack Lucass. since January"
He is the plaintiff in this case
against the Hawaiian En-
gineering & Construction Company. is
he not?''
Yes. sir"
Mr. Thurston cross-examined Mr.
Rowland with view 10 developing his
competency to supervise the building
OF wharves. such as Honolulu requires.
and this went into Mr. HowIand's pro
fessional career very thoroughly. How
land worked for a Mr.. Freeman for
some years before he attended the Bos-
ton Tech" school. which he left in
1897 before graduation. going back 10
Mr. Freeman. under whom he surveyed
factories for FIRE insurance
concerns Then he was with Mr.. Lea
vltt Of the CaIumet-HecIa Mining COM
pany at Cambridgeport. drawing de
signs for mining machinery. Then he
was with a concern building water
works. He went 10 Hilo ard there con.
structed fumes for OIaa and surveyed
ands and did some surveying for The
Puma railroad He had never had any
experience in building wharves before
CONTINUED on Page -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13

I intend to go to Honolulu for a visit
of inspection.
Mr.. Sarpeant was asked whether he
would look into labor conditions on the
Islands during his stay there.
II am not going for that purpose, "
he replied, 9 but wherever [ go | am
always looking about for any informaz
tion touching upon the situation of la
horers -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13
AUSTRALIA INVITES TAFT PARTY.

April 13The Governor of Australia has invited the
party visit the commonwealth
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13
ROOsEVELT'S MOVEMENTS.

FREDERICK, Okla, April 1s-Presdent Roosevelt will
turn from his hunting today go % Colorado.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13
NO NEWS OF
ANY BATTLE
Admiral Togo Divides His Fleet Into
Three Divisions For the Work
Now In Hand.

cABLEeRAss3
TOXIC, April 13.-Adnral Togo has divided
three squadrons, flying, and reserve
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13
A CENSUS OF CHINESE.

The Commissioner General said that
a census of the Chinese in Hawaii
would, as far as possible, be taken Just
as it is being taken here in the United
States and It's Territories on the main
land. He had on his desk big bunch
of manuscript, which was a census of
the Chinese in the Territories of New
Mexico and Arizona. The Commission
er General AID not indicate that his
officials would be able to secure a com
plete census of the Chinese either in
Hawaii or on the mainland, but that
they would secure the names and resi-
dences of all the Cinnamon possible,
with a view to assisting them hereafter
in telling better when a Chinaman has
been smuggled into the country. He
has made up a record of the disposi-
tion of Chinese seeking admission TO
this country during the four weeks
ending February % last. This shows
that I22 were admitted. of whom 81
were admitteu at San Francisco. Twen-
ty-three were deported, of whom fifteen
were deported from San Francisco. Of
the I22 admitted, - were United States
citizens; "A returning laborers, So re-
turning merchants, other merchants,
II members of merchants families, and
Is We're other exempt classes. The
23 deported included the following
classes: Five United States citizens,
two returning laborers, seven return
two members of merchants families,
four other exempt persons.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13
TRAVELLING MONARCHS.

CORFU, April I3.-The Kaiser has sailed for Italy.
PALMA, April I3-King Edward and Queen Alexandra
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13
AMENDMENTS TO IMMIGRATION
LAWS.

Tt is coming to be generally under
stood here that a big effort win be
made next winter TO secure extensive
amendments to the immigration laws.
Two years ago, when the immigration
laws were extensively revised, it was
supposed that the revision would stand
for ten years at least. It may, but If
that proves the case it will be only af-
ter some very serious contests. The in
crease of immigration this year has
broken all records. For the six months
ending February 2S last, it amounted
TO 405. 500. as against 334. 764 for the
SIX months ending February %, 1904,
and 306.42S for the six months ending
February 2S, 1903 The immigration
is of a pretty good class. The increase
is attributed to no specific cause, fur
ther than the desire of European peo-
pie to make a better living, which they
think they can do in America. Many
of the immigrants are coming from
Russia. The number of Russian immi-
grants for the six months that ended
February 2S iast was S4,766, as against
40. loo for the six months of the SINH
lar period two years previously. rhs
was an increase of - per cent. where
the increase n immigration generally,
large as it was. exceeded that of 1903
by only % per cent. The Russians
who entered this country in February
of this wear were II ,99S out OF a total
immigration for the month of 67,II7.
1t is. of course, TOO early yet to say
what the outcome of the agitation for
a revision of the immigration laws viii
come 10. There VIII be strong forces
for revision and likewise strong forces /
against revision The demand for la
borers Is still very large in many sec
tions of the country. This IS notable /
in the South. where the planting OF
foreign colonies is proceeding exten-
sivelv for the first time in the history
Of the government The industrlai de \
OF that section has inereas |
ed the demand for labor. The railroads
are doing a GREAT work IN overcoming |
Continued on page - /
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13
A REBUFF TO GERMANY.

PARIS, April I3.-Germanys efforts international
powers
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13
ASIATlCS FOR CANAL.

WASHINGTON, April rc-It has been decided expert
mentally employ Japanese and Chinese
car work.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13
RUSSIAN LAWYERS ARE
FOR "A DEMOCRACY

ST PETERSBURG, April I3The Congress of
decided league professional
democratic form OF government Russia
Prince Orktomskys demand for courmarta has been
granted.
United States Minister Meyer has his credentials
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13
PERILS OF THE RAIL.

VICKSBURG April IA passenger train rolled an
errbankrnent therey yesterday Sixty-seven injured
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13
CHURCH SEPARATION Bill

PARIS April 13The Chamber of Deputies by of
as adopted church separation bill
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
How olive Oil is Made.

The olives, stones and all, are first
crushed in a stone mill run by OK
power. The mass of pulp is then
transferred in fiat wicker baskets to
the 'torchio," or oaken press, from
which the oil oozes into a vat beneath.
The presses at Dieyolo are very old,
deliberately carved with the arms and
devices of some early pardone. Ire
mendous pressure is applied through
a primitive capstan arrangement,
which the men work by heavy wood
en- levers, walking round and round
on tue stone floor in a track much
worn by the tread of laboring genera
tons. There are commonly two or
three squeezings of the pulp, the pro-
duct of the first being of the finest
quality. But the process, once be-
gun, must be carried forward contin-
uously, lest the oil should spoil in the
making. 1t is finally drawn off into
huge earthen jars of immemorial pat
tern, like those in which the Forty
Thieves of the Arabian tale concealed
themselves for nefarious purposes.
And it stands thus for a week in the
adjoining clearing-room, called the
"chiaratoio," after which it is ready
for the marker -Scribner's
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
OUR TONIC AIR.
One Reason Why We Have the Best

One Reason Why We Have the Best
Weather Service in the World.
When the amazed European asks
us what makes the sluggish mind of
the immigrant to stir and waken in
the United States, and then to climb,
at first hesitaingly but soon with
vigor and confidence, to the top round
of the ladder Of success, we are ac-
customed to reply, tits in the air.
and we are right. The spirit which
fired our fathers to cross the wide At
lantic, and which in less or equal de-
gree still animatas the thousands an
nually seeking our shores, is fed and
famed by the cold wind from the
northwest.
The cold wave is born in the heav-
ems miles above our heads, usually
over the Rocky Mountain plateau.
Suddenly a mass of bitterly cold air
will tumble down upon Montana. 1t
rushes down as though poured
through an enormous funnel. AS it
falls it gains momentum, and, reach
Ing the 6dTJu, SpI6du5 over the MIS-
sissippi Valley and then over the At
lantic States covering them like a
blanket. 1t scatters the foul, logy,
breath-soaked atmosphere in our
towns and cities, and puts ginger into
the air. We fill our lungs with it and
live. New waves are always coming,
following each other in regular pro-
cession like the waves on a sea shore.
1t is fitting, then, that meteorOlOgy,
the science of the weather, should be
a distinctly American product, and
that the people Of the United States
should have the best weather service
in the world The United States gov
eminent spends $1,5C0,0O0 a year on
its Weather Bureau, which is more
money than all the governments of
Europe combined spend for similar
service 1t has a staff of many hun
dred skilled experts and trained OBJ
servers who in all parts of the cOdn-
try are constantly on the watch to
see what the heavens will bring forth.
Century
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
the kind used for centuries under the
older civilization Of Japan by those to
whom disgrace or defeat had come
the hari-kari knife.
Burned Their Flags.

A dramatic incident which occurred
Mt Port Arthur on the day after the
surrender was reported by a party of
officers from the Russian stronghold
who crossed America after the fall on
their way home.
The word of surrender had gone
round the garrison, said one of them.
We received orders that morning to
mass in the afternoon in the new town
before General StoessePs Headquarters
The regiments formed there, and NOV
ed into a square.
IN the middle of the open space fire
was built, and Stoessel came from his
headquarters with a band of mourning
on his arm
He ordered the regimental command
ers to mass the colors of their troops.
Colonel Khilkoff, who had been
wounded some days before, limped for
ward, leaning on the arms Of two of
his men, kissed the colors of his regi-
ment and threw them into the fire. He
ripped off his shoulder-straps and
thew them in also.
One by one the other commanders
followed his lead, and for three hours
the line Of them was in motion, burn
ing their colors. 1t was the funeral
pyre Of Russia's eastern empire
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
LOCUsTS RAvAGE THE WHEAT.
pMany Fields Swarm with I7-Year De-
stroyers of Vegetation.


The 17-year locust has appeared in
some parts of the country and is doing
great deal of damage to the wheat
fields, orchards and forest trees Ac-
cording to their peculiar habit they come
in the night to the surface Cf the ground
from their subterranean caverns, where
they have been maturing and slumbering
for the last seventeen years. The ground
beneath the trees is perforated like an
immense colander with the holes from
which they emerged.
Soon after emerging from the ground
the lOcusts shed their underground over
coats, leaving the trunks of the trees
studded with the dry and brittle garment
OF yellowish hue. Scientists say the eggs
from which this brood was Matched were
laid on the leaves of the trees seventeen
years ago. The eggs remained where
they were deposited for three years, when
the cicadas were Matched and the new
born insect burrOwed downward into the
ground. Here, beside the roots of trees,
the insects dwelt until this year. when
they sailed forth in numberless quanti-
ties, driving the farmer almost to ruin
in their ravages.
The locusts after flying about for a
few days, feeding on the vegetation, at
tach themselves to the under side of the
leaves on the trees. Here the female
deposits her eggs.
The cicadas have three deadly enc
mics in this countryside despised Eng
lish sparrow, digger wasp and the ants.
At present the innumerable locusts are
filling the air with their sonorOus, monot-
onous and doleful song. The farmers
are spraying their orchards with prepar-
ed mixture of kerosene. Out on the prai-
RE farms the insects threaten destruc-
ton to the growing crop.
The sparrows have come in countless
thousands to the aid of the farmer. Rob
ms and wild birds find the locust palat-
able eating. The sparrows' method of
attracting the locust is to wait on this
ground for the locust to appear above
the ground, when he greedily gobDles him
up before he gets time to sing his dying
song.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
The Russian Secret Press.

The Russian clandestine press is
clandestine in everything. 1t is the
most secretly conducted press in the
world. There is no editorial Office,
with an editor in snug inner cham
Der, receiving the visits of his con-
tributors, discussing the articles for
the next issue. A mystery and in
violable secrecy govern the whole
working of the affair The editor
mechanical production of the paper;
he seldom, if ever, knows the place at
which it is produced.
A confidential messenger comes to
q given spot on given day 10 re-
ceive manuscripts from the EDITORS
hand; he comes again to deliver the
proofs, and the rendezvous are
known probably to none except the
editor. In word, precautions, the
most minute and extraordinary, must
be observed if the secret press is to
baffie the everlasting efforts of the
police to unmask it.
SeDniak tells US that during the
time he was one Of the editors Of
Land and Liberty he was taken once.
and once Only, to the printing office.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
BEES IN PARLoR.
London Woman's Latest Fad, if You
Please.

Bees in a London drawing roomi
One does not at first believe in the
possibility of it. Yet to Miss Baden
Powell, sister of the General of South
African fame. belongs the credit of
having introduced at Princes Gate
their culture under conditions which
10 the outsider appear abnormal.
This enterprising lady bee keeper
was recently kind enough to show her
wonderful hive, designed by herself, to
a representative OF the Daily News,
and a remarkable invention it is.
It is not strange that its ingenuity
should nave won the clever inventor
a prize, but most strange is it that
the bees should live in this unac-
customed milieu.
Through a little aperture co1trived
in the wall the bees find their way
outside and so for honey, Miss
Baden-Powell thinks, very far out;
some that She had purposely marked
for recognition were seen as far afield
as Hampstead. Moreover, these in
telligent roamers, it is said, take their
bearings so accurately they have
been known to fly round in circles
before quitting Princes Gate, as IN
thoroughly to familiarize themselves
with their surroundings.
They always know their way
home and return at sunset" said
Miss Baden-Powen. What do they
live on? do you ask. oh. largely on
fruit tree blossoms just now, think.
provide a store of honey for them
through the winter. This one hive
produced sixty pounds last year"
And she showed me the booklike
formation of the comb compartments.
Their clever owner also traces comb
shapes, which the bees fill up, follow
ing her outline of red paint, as in a
honey comb bicycle shape she had
designed-now full of honey.
You see they prefer this dark cor
| ner," pursued the owner; 'the first
swarm l had were sent up from the
country and had only been patched a
week. However, they soon became
acclimated, and now one can swatch
the queen laying eggs and the
rearing of the young bees. l have,
moreover, had them now for years
and find no difficulty whatever in
managing them"
But Miss Baden-POwell evidently
has q genius for managing" winged
creatures, for presently she led the
way to sight more strange than the
bees-a large fir on the staircase,
where a large and happy family Of
/ perfectly tame canaries were nest
| ing, the mother bird still brood1ng
! over her eggs and fully 1edged
| youngsters fitting about.
80 tame they are" said the mis-
tress, whose winning voice and man
ner well qualify her to deal with
these shy songsters. they seem to
know all ! say &C them, and though
they have the range of the house
! they never want to leave it, and i'm
mediately fly out of the room on my
telling them they are not wanted"
One would only cordially wish the
| owners of Gagged birds could see this
ideal aviary, with the tit-bits spread
! for the canaries, as we'll as a minia-
ture bath under the tree.-LondOn
News.