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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-09

Railroads entering the yards reported receipts
for the day by loads follows: Chicago Great
Western, 4; Chicago Milwaukee & ST. Paul, II;
minneapolis 4 st. Louis, 3; Chicago, st. Paul.
| minneapolis & Omaha, 5; Great Northern. TO-
Horthern Pacific, s; Chicago Rock Island &
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No., haxseed, 500 bu, to arrive. ........ 1.40la
Rejected faxseed l cur. ................ 1.3SA
Durum Wheat.
No. durum wheat, l car. ............. .92
No. durum wheat. cars. ............. 80
PUTS AND CALLS. a.
Puts-May wheat, $1.09B.
Calls-Nlay wheat. $1.1lA as.
Curb-Aay wheat, Sill Is.
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KANSAS CITY GRAIN Maroh O.
WINNIPEG GRAIN.

WINNIPEG GRAIN, March e.-openine-
May, S57sc; July, 95Hc. Close-March, 92%c;
Nay Nay, a y July ssAc Cash,No. northern,
s4c; No. 4 extra, 76hc; No. T., 75Ac; No g.,
62hc; feed, 56Rc. Puts, $3.50; calls, 95Mc;
curb, 94Ac. Receipts lib cars; year ago. g.
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Kansas will make no crop report this month.
1t will axe it's first official report on wheat in
ADr
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MISCELLANEOUS

NEW YORK COTTON, March s-The cotton
market opened steady at an advance of 2@3
for rather better weather and large receipts and
there was considerable selling early by wire
houses who had bought yesterday, but there was
a fair scattering demand from local shorts, and
with some bull support the market ruled general
~ steady, with prices ranging about to 4
points over last nights closing.
Cotton futures opened steady; March offered at
7.4sc; May. 7.54c; June. 7.49c; July, 7.5Oc; Au-
gust 7.53c; September offered at 1850; October,
7.6Oc; November offered at 7.64c; December,
7.6Sc; January, 7.72c.
Spot closed quiet; niddling uplands, 1900;
middling gulf, S15c. Sales 40 bales.
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| CHICAGO PRODUCE, March 9.-Butter, weak
| firm; at mark, cases included, 1s@1ehc Cheese,
firm; daisies; 1s@131ke; twins: 12a12Ac; Young
lac; chickens, 12c; springs 12c. Potatoes, easy;
Burbanks, 2sM3Oc; Kurals, 2S@3oc. Veal easy;
SO to 60-lb weights 5@5Rc; IS to 75-lb weights,
6Q7c; so to 125-lb weights, 7h@Shc.
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took Wednesday. March 8:
Totals ............1,198
"HHc

Prices steady. Recefpta light. Average malf.
t. naFsl o as s sas: PE 1e Rfss
light hogs quotable from Les to Sass; light
mixed and butchers from 81 10 to $3.50 and
heavy from $475 to S.. Sales:
! Hogs-37, 243 lbs, $4e5; Is, 224 lbs, $780,
lbs, $4.s2h; 81, 1855 lbs, $3.50; "a, 1877 lbs,
$4.75; "a, 14s lbs, $4.75 II. $50 lbs, S4.75.
E1 S ans so SS ire lbs 81 g.
butcher cattle steady. Two loads of hay fed
Bulls less active but holding steady. Veals.
| unchanged. Good stockers and feeders holding
Others au aeoa sh fair
:, Butcher Steers~16; 1,2a3 lbs, $435; 70, 1884
8. !. 2ss ibs 81; 7, 1926 Lbs. s.,
4 i, is lbs. $3.50; l. il,2so lbs Ss:2s; i,es5
Ds 81 and a?5s ss ~
lbs. $40; Z, $50 lbs, 81; 3. s26 lbs, SCI 2. COS
lbs, $i:eS; n1 l, 900 lbs o $ 81 ,o oo H.
1saS lbs s2IS lbs 10 les s2 "a hi.
s stccE and Feeding steerra 800 lbs, 50. so; ?,
915 lbs, 1925; s. 772 lbs, $40; L. 100 lbs, So;
IS, 600 lbs, So; IA, 1876 lbs, $3.50; 1. $50 lbs,
Tag lbs, $500
s5os1 and 6s Fsssdns sul lax 1s9 lbs s2sS
soS' COW 324' cow ana ear o go; COW
ana ear, $25 COW ano l calf, $22
sa ssa:i. were again very light and
11 ms 10 test the trade Prices here quoted
avc 10 1oc rover IN sympaIny WIN heaVy &C.
medium-quality lambs Of local feeding sold at
S0;5 9e;,
Killing Sheep and Lambs-2 lambs Is lbs, 81;
las lambs, 16 lbs, $3.50; I76 western ewes, 123
aSs II, s5s5 % lambs, IS lbs; s.; Gull ewes,
Ds The as 1s sb 81 lbs sbs 81
". Hines, Hancock; q. Schwartz, Lester Prairie;
A. Mattison,. New Germany; II. Hegerle, st:
Wing; A. J. Graves Prior Lake; W. S. Erwin,
| Belgrade, Mont; O. D. Shumway Castle Rock
| D. j. Schillng, Delano; w. P. Tillman, Mime.
| ota; J. Il. Steele Candy; G. Sorrol, LIE Sueur.
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK, March 9.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts g. 900; steady: good to prime steers S5G
feeders. $25oa4 60; cows $275@ 50; heifers,
calves, $3G6.75.
Hogs-Receipts %, 900; tomorrow, 10000;
steady at yesterdays average; mixed and
| butchers, $490Q5.121a; good to choice heavy, So
| 15.15; rough heavy. $4.S5 GAGS; light, $4.75@
| sos; bulk Of sales, $4.95a5 .12h.
| Sheep-Receipts, 1s,ooO; sheep and lambs,
| steady; good to ,choice wethers S5.6OM6; fair to
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OTHER GRAIN MARKETS

DULUTH GRAIN, March g. The decline was
stopped this morning BY big buying. orders that
cleaned c Up the loose May wheat. May strength
cal business was dull and fluctuations were mar
rover than at Chicago. Flax was very strong
and and got beyond $40 for everything. septem-
corn, !; oats, 5; rye, /. Shipments: Wheat
1'5 @oa bu' Cars Cars on n track, 90. oo
northern, 81 OPS to $1o5%; May, 81 .o9M July.
$1.osA September, ssAc; fax, cash, $1.f0A; to
arrive and May, $1.4Oh; oats, 3obc; rye, 75hc.
NEW YORK CRAM AND FLOUR, March 8.
Flour receipts. 22,742 brls; sales, 600; dull
6.so; Minnesota bakers, S4.1o@4.5o; winter pat
ents, $5.5o95 So winter traights, $5.25@5.35.
Cables and cold Weather
ne put and gna %h Nay
81. ii Is @1.12 1916; July. os@ssze; September,
9o@90@c Rye. nominal Corn receipts, 1872, 800
bbu: dull ana featureless. Oats receipts $4,000
Close-Wheut May. $11s; July, es1ac; Sep.
TENDER, 9O1ac. Corn. May and July. 541sc.
MILWAUKEE FLOUR AND GRAIN, March o.
wilogr l Joe lower Wheat, weak; No; north
rm No. puts ST. Bari e1ls o $o bid
4sEs asked; puts 4s94s%c bid; calls, 4sssst
KANSAS CITY GRAIN, March s.-close-
has sTi 5k ~ Sshf g. e ss
@1;o4; No. 4. 95c@$1 ;o2. Corn steady; May,
4oMc; July, 45Ac; cash No. mixed, 46c; No
| 3, 454 @146c; No. 2 white, 47c; No. 3. 46hc.
Oats steady; No. white, 3sc; No. 2 mixed
! 321ac.
WINNIPEG GRAIN, March e-opening-
May, 94%c; July, seAc. Cash-No. i northern tn I'm
92&c; No. northern, s9Ac; No. 3 northern
84c; No. 4 extra, 7612c; No. T.. 75Ac; No. g.
62hc; feed, 56hc. Puts, 93%c; calls, 95Mc;
curb, 94&c. Receipts, lib cars year ago. 81.
CHICAGO COARSE GRAIN AND SEEDS
March e.--Rye, March. 7Shc; May, roc. Flax
cash. NORTHWESTERN, 81 80; southwestern 81 261a
n March Ge L$l2sH; Nay .2sA Timothy, March
$780,, Barley, cash, 4O0l49c.
LIVERPOOL GRAIN, March e-wheat. spo
nominal no futures steady; March, nominal; May
American mixed new, Is ,2A d; American mixed
old, Is lid; futures steady; March, Is 21ad; May
| 41hd
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HIDES, PELTs, FuRs. ETC.

HIDES, PELTS, FURS, ETC.
g. 9. cured steer hides, over 60 lbs. 10
G. S. heavy cow hides over 80 lbs. . 8 3
G. S. light hides, under 60 lbs. ....... 9
G. S. bull, stays, oxen and work
G. S. iong-haired kip. to rs lbs =: s3s ga
! Veal kip, 10 to % lbs ............. lO8I az
Veal calves, 8 to 10 lbs ..............13 liz
Deacons, under lbs. each ..........60 so
Green frozen, lie less than G. S. cured
Horse and mule hide large, EACH 1925 235
Horse and mule hides, medium .....L $50 175
Horse and mule hides, small, each... 1.6O Ito
Dry horse and mule hides, each. ..... $50 100
Indian handled, over IS lbs :....17h
Montana butcher hides. short trim.
Montana butcher hides, short trim.
Montana butcher hides, long trim rim.
Montana mehYy butcher hides, long trim. ioh
Indian stretched .....................13
Montana calf, under lbs ...........1S
Montana kip. to IL lbs .............16
| Iowa. Minnesota, Dakota and Wiscon-
Dry bull hides ..................12
Dakota and Wisconsin calf, under
lbs e. % Inc ''''.'.''''.''.. 1 49,
Dry orys; salted hides, all weights 70
Unwashed fine ......................15 ali
Unwashed fine, medium ....17 M19
Unwashed medium, y to A-blood. 10 AL
| Unwaslied coarse ........... Ills ago
| Unwashed, bury, seedy. chafy, me
Unwashed, broken lots. medium and
Pelts large, each ................. 81 .Oo0f1 30
Pelts, medium. each ............... 500 90
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NEW YORK SUGAR AND COFFEE, March 9.
Sugar, raw quiet fair refining, 9-16c; centrif-
ugal, 96 test, 11-16c; molasses sugar, 516c;
refined, quiet; crushed 675e; powdered 6l5c
Molasses, firm; New Orleans, 29@35c
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LIVERPOOL GRAIN, March e.-wheat spot
Is 91ad; July, 6s 95sd. Corn, spot. steady:
American mixed new, IS 2%d; American mixed
old, Is lid; futures steady; March, 4s 21ad; May,
a. Aid.
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OMAHA LIVESTOCK, March e.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts, 5000; market steady to strong; native
steers, $3.7595.75; COWS and heifers, $3@4.25;
lights. $435@4; s5; pigs, ss.75@4.5o; bulk Of
Sheep-Receipts, $500: market 1oc lower;
wethers. $5Q5.7O; lambs, S3.5OQ7.40.
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DAILY WHEAT MOVEMENT, MARCH 8.
The following are the receipts and shipments
at the principal primary wheat markets. 10
-. Racaints Shinnents
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SIOUX CITY LIVESTOCK,


ceipts: Cattle, 400; hogs, $500.
Hoss-Steady. Sales: 49, 16O lbs, $3.50; SO
$50 lbs, $4.75; 80, 800 lbs $3.50.
Cattle-Steady: Beeyes, p 1,1o4 lbs, s4.15
IT, 1,136 lbs, $40; II, 1,342 lbs. So; COWS
and heifers, 10, s46 lbs, $2.25; IL, SOL lbs, IS
TO- 19s4 lbs, 81 s5o toe and feeders, 10. ~
yearlings, Is, 592 lbs, So; Ii, 366 lbs, $3.25
! Ii. 81 lbs $3.50,
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CHICAGO COARSE GRAIN AND SEEDS,
March 9-Rye, March. 7Shc; May, roc. Flax,
cash. northwestern, $1.39; southwestern, 81. 26S
March, 81 .26A; May, 81 .261@. Timothy, March,
$3O5; April $500; May, $3.15. Glover, March
$780,, Barley cash, 4Ol49c
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MIMI, March 9.-Estimated
ZION Stock Yards today: Cat
90; hogs, 1875; sheep, %;
able shows the receipts from
date, as compared with the
u:
Calves. Hogs. Sheep. Cars.
4,49O 2O9, sos 161, 74O 4,64G
3,9SS 232, OILS 209.S41 4,716
0OZ ...... ....... ......
....... 22,513 1910 go
able shows the receipts thus
IS compared with the same
Calves. Hogs. Sheep. Oars.
S48 p, 66I 4,1S2 52e
1853 22,991 25,042 $50
SI
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NEW YORK PRODUCE, March 9.-Butte

weak; receipts 5,s9s packages; official prices,
creamery common to extra, 2o@25c; held COM
mon to extra, 20@25c; state dairy, common to
extra 19@23c; renovated, common to extra 1S
@23c; western factory, common to extra. 1870
23c; western imitation creamery common to eN-
ira, 20@23c. Cheese firm, unchanged; receipts,
4,640 boxes. Eggs finn. unchanged; receipts,
"a casea
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THE DAYS REPORTS
CLOSING CASH PRICES

On TrackNo hard $780, No northern s1 No. northern
8 yellow 44ssc: barley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
The Speed Craze

Score a great triumph for the automo-
bile. The International cup race, the chief
event of the motoring year. has just been
run in France without a fatality True a
motorist was killed while going to the
race, but ne was mere spectator. and does
not count. In the race itself eighteen cars
were started the run of 341 miles, and
all the operators are alive, with their as
sistants, to tell the tale of minor accidents,
delays disappointments and achievements
This Is really notable record.
What Is demonstrated by this competi-
ton? Chiefly that the motor car is capa-
bic of enduring terrific strain while being
rushf d at railroad speed over a highway
with many twists and turns and dangerous
declvities, race course passing through
many towns and villages. Another fact
shown is that the French people are wildly
enthusiastic over these exhibitions of speed
mania; another. that the government is en-
tirely willing that the roads should be
given over to the use of the motorists for
the better part of an entire day, checking
all traffic and endangering llfe and finally
that the entire enterprise is a scheme to
advertise the different makes of motor
cars, whose builders go to great expense
TO secure representation in the contests.
1IlIS speed mama IS beyond analysis
Where Will it end? The mile-a-minute car
will soon be too slow for the motormaniac
lie must have 4 two-mile-a-minute ma
chine He must beat the eighteen-hou
New York-Chicago trains He must beat
the wind. If possible. He must be the fast
est known means of propulsion, short of a
ride on a cannon-ball, la Munchausen
In this country he is somewhat hampered
by a stubborn public sentiment against
scorching on the public roads, and by the
lack of private race courses covering long
distances. He does, indeed, laugh at laws,
and pays his petty fines with a cheerful
heart when he let's out his machine for a
squirt and Is identified and caught But he
keeps on experimenting with new cars,
and seems to hope eventually to break
down opposition and gain command of the
highways for HIS crazy sport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
Secretary Root.

There can be only one verdict from the
country in the matter of President Roose-
velt's choice for the vacant Secretaryship.
Elihu Root. already demonstrated as an
able cabinet minister. will fill with strength
the vacancy left by Mr.. Hays death. His
success as Secretary of State may be con-
sidered as fore-ordained. He has the grasp
OF great affairs necessary for a distinguished
career III the first cabinet office. He Is
known in every capital brilliant lawyer,
with constructive capacities proved by his
great work in the reorganization of the
army. He has never had. it Is true, any
sO-called diplomatic experience. But in this
respect he merely follows many eminent
Secretaries of State. indeed the majority
of his predecessors. The list of cabinet
premiers who have not served the country
abroad is a long one and embraces some
of the greatest successes in the country
history. of the thirty-four men who have
served as Secretary of State-apart from
the holders of that office strictly ad in
terim-no less than twenty-three have been
without previous diplomatic experience.
John jay. Thomas Jefferson John Mar
shall. James Monroe. John Quincy Adams.
Louis McLane. John Forsyth. James Blu
chanan. Edward Everett. John W. Foster
the rule The Secretaries who had not rep
resented the country abroad prior to their
service in the State Department or who
never went abroad as ENJOYS, are Timothy
Pickering. James Madison. Robert Smith,
Henry Clay-who however. was one of the
peace commissioners in 1Sli-Martin Van
Buren,. Edward Livingston, Daniel Webster
A. 2. Upshur. John c. Calhoun. John
NJ. Clayton, William l.. Marcy. jeremiah S
Black. William II. Seward f. b Wash
burne Hamilton Fish. William NJ Evarts,
James G. Blaine, Frederick T. Freling-
huysen. Thomas F. Bayard. William Q.
Gresham. Richard Olney. John Sherman and
William r. Day.
Thus there is the amplest precedent for
the choice of a Secretary who is without
actual experience in negotiation abroad.
The post calls for peculiar qualities. which
may be lacking in man ideally fitted for
diplomacy at a foreign capital. Mr.. Root,
1t is believed possesses those qualities in an
eminent degree. He Is an able administra
tor. He is close to the President In a per-
sonal sense. He is in hearty sympathy with
the present policies of the administration.
So distinctly fitted is he. indeed. for this
work that there was but one question in
the public mind prior to the announcement
of his selection, and that related to his
willingness TO enter the cabinet soon
after his retirement for private and more
lucrative labors. That he has consented to
serve once more, in this important juncture
of world politics. is a mark of his patriotic
sense of duty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06

inches between o'clock in the evening and
8 O'Clock in the morning established rec
ord for recent years in this vicinity. Re-
ports of damage done by the water are be-
ing today received not only from all parts
of the capital neighborhood, but from diff
ferent sections of the country. Wash-outs
on electric and steam roads, foundations
undermined. bridges carried away. outdoor
construction work seriously damaged. these
are some of the ways In which the playful
elements have wrought havoc with mans
enterprises.
The farmers do not like the heavy down.
pours any better than do the city people,
when the limit of moderation is passed.
These severe storms beat down the crops,
wash out the plants. sometimes even shift
ing entire fields and gardens into the hol-
lows. Fruit trees are broken and buildings
are destroyed July indeed, holds many
terrors for the country folks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
Jerome and the Equita BILE.

Greater interest than ever will attach to
the Equitable Life Assurance Company's af-
fairs now that the attention of the New
York grand jury has been called to them.
District Attorney Jerome is in charge of
matters and that means an earnest effort
to get at the bottom of the charges made
against certain officials of the company.
Earnest as he is. however, and able. 1t Is
clear that he has the task of his official life
on hand The men under accusation are in
fiuential in both financial and social life,
and moreover. touch elbows with many
prominent politicians; the community has
rather free notions about the employment
of capital. and If indictments are found the
trial juries will be drawn from that yicl-
mage. And then-always an important fac
tor where men of large means are accused
the pick of the local bar will appear for the
defendants. The states case, therefore, Will
require the most vigorous presentation.
1t may be- however, and it should be-
that the state will get the benefit of the
aroused public sentiment which just now is
widely manifesting itself on the subject OF
graft and grafters. The eyes of the people
have been opened seldom before to the
appalling freedom with which the rules OF
honest conduct IN the transaction of both
public and private business have been vio-
lated by men who had sought and obtained
public confidence. Exposures have been
numerous and wherever convictions have
followed they have been applauded. Meme
sis. indeed. has been a busy old girl of late.
She has overtaken and settled old scores
with men high up in the world and appar
emily safe from detraction or punishment.
But they are down today. and the public
believes in the verdicts that have been rem
dered.
Mr.. Jerome is a young, able and an
ambitious man. bent upon doing his duty
and supported in his efforts by the men
who put him in Office. All lawbreakers look
alike TO him. With equal vigor he has gone
after the man at the top as after the man
at the bottom. He has bagged not a few OF
both kinds. and both kinds fear him. Much
power TO his elbow. and if he continues his
successes in his present office he may, and
should, go higher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
King Edward and Mr.. Hay.

This line from the story of the burial Of
Mr.. Hay conveys a good deal of inteIli-
gence:
King Edward VII, wreath Of Orchids
1t was at once tribute of the English
king to a citizen of a republic and of one
personal friend to the memory Of another
The king had in mind not only the services
that Mr.. Hay had rendered to the cause
Of good feeling between Great Britain and
the United States, but the personal quail
tiles Of a man he had known and admired.
When they met-as several times they did
the last time when Mr.. Hay passed through
London in May on his way home-they
must have greatly enjoyed each other s
company. possessing. as both did. the club
able nature and the finished art of CONVEX
sation. The wreath at Cleveland. therefore,
expressed something far beyond the or
binary. and is but another evidence of the
unusual career that Mr.. Hay had run.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
July Storms.

City dwellers dearly love midsummer
evening thunder storms. They rejoice in
me swift gathering of the clouds, the on
rush of the rain. the crackle of lightning,
the quick clearing. with the air vftalized
and purified, the streets cleaned and the
temperature moderated to permit comfort
able sleep. Such storms make life endur-
able during the days of extreme heat and
keep the sick rate low
But there should be moderation in all
things. even in thunder storms. There is
a point at which nature can become too
active in trying to overcome the evil eff
fects of the SUMS rays. There is such o
thing as too much water. and wind. and
lightning. And that excess was felt here
yesterday. with leftover surplus of rain
today to show that the skies had not
reached their maximum in the overnight
performance.
The weather bureau confesses itself to be
astounded by last nights enterprise of the
clouds. A total rainfall of nearly four
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
Star Chamber Inquiry.

1t is difficult to understand the reasons
for the course of secrecy and mystery being
pursued by the commission that is investi-
eating the scandal at the government print
ing office concerning the purchase of type
setting machines. The public has always
taken a deep interest in the probing of al
legged official corruption, and that interest
has generally been the result of a healthy
public opinion that always makes for good
government. The administration has ia
vored publicity in the affairs of corporations
in order to promote honesty in financial in
situations.
There seems to be no reason that would
apply to the corporation that does not ap-
ply even more forcibly in the case of the
government in which all citizens are sup
posed to be owners of preferred stock.
The mystery that surrounds the investi-
cation being carried on at the government
printing office does not tend to reassure the
public as to its effectiveness. The doors
OF the committees room might well be
thrown open so that the public may know
the facts in relation to serious charges
that have been made against the integrity
OF The administration of that great depart
ment of the government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-06
Black Sea Pirates.

FROM the New York Tribune.
The mutinous Russian sailors in the RIacIx
sea must probably be regarded as pirates
Ihey are chartered by no government and
are In open revolt against the only govern
ment that would have right to charter
them In even less aggravated circum-
stances other vessels of other nations have
been captured or destroyed as pirates, and
there is little question that the Prince Po-
temkin is worthy of such treatment and
would receive 1t if there were any power at
hand capable of infiicting it. There Is. how
ever, no such power. Russia herself appar-
entity cannot trust any of the other vessels
OF her navy. Turkey is not likely to inter-
fere further than to protect her own ship
ping and ports and indeed she has no yes
sells that could hopefully cope with the Po-
temkin. Roumania has only a few light
cruisers and torpedo boats, and no inclina-
ton to use them in behalf of the power
which she fears and distrusts. All other
powers are barred out Of the Black sea-
and, as Mr. Balfour has said there seems
to be as yet no adequate cause for breaking
the prohibition of the Dardanelles. There
will be no such cause unless foreign ship
ping or other interests in those waters need
more protection than appears to be called
for at this time.