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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-07-13
APPOINTMENT
OF M. W|TTE
As Chief Russian Peace Pleni-
potentiary is Signed by
Emperor Nicholas.
WITH PLENARY POWERS
Famous Statesman Will Not Be Simply
aFigurehead But Has Been In.
vested With Real Authority.

st. Petersburg, July 13.-Emperol
Nicholas has signed the appointment
of NJ. Witte, president of the commit
tee of ministers, to be the chief pleni
potentiary representing the Russian
government in the peace negotiations
to be conducted next month in the
United States. The appointment
which was signed after midnight
clothes NJ. Witte with plenary pow
ers. The official notification of the
designation of M. Witte to be head OF
the mission was forwarded to Wash,
ington this morning.
Sergius Witte, Russia's plenipotenti-
ary, may be regarded as the leading
liberal statesman of Russia. For the
last thirteen years he has been one of
the strongest personalities in the Rus
sian bureaucracy. although his polite
al fortunes received a setback when he
was compelled to resign the portfolio
of minister of finance in August, 1908;
and again when, after being appointed
president of the council of ministers in
the same month, his office gradually
lost its importance until rumors of his
intention to resign and go abroad had
been persistently circulated. NJ. Witte
is Sc years old and has steadily
worked himself up from the position
of an underpaid railroad clerk who
occasionally acted as a porter to that
as the leading statesman of Russia.
He was created count in 1901. M.
Witte is thoroughly familiar with the
far eastern question in all of its bear
ings. He understands the Japanese
position and fully realized before the
war that an aggressive policy was be.
ing pushed under the lead of Viceroy
AleXieff. AT one time Mr. Witte talk.
ed over the situation with Marquis Ito,
president of the Japanese privy coun-
Gil and one of the leading statesmen
of Japan. Practically, it was NJ
Whites disapproval of Russia's far
eastern policy and the creation of
viceroyalty in the far east which
caused his downfall.
Real Powers Probably Conferred.
Paris, July 13.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent of the Echo de Paris
states that the declination of NJ Muir
avieff to head the Russian Peace mis-
sion was based partly on the state of
his health and partly on the fact that
his allowance for expense to cover the
period of his sojourn in America was
only $4,000 roubIes, which amount he
considered insufficient owing to the |
great cost of living in the United
States. NJ. Witte twice refused to be-
come the successor to Muravieff on
the mission on the ground that he did
not wish to be a mere figurehead in |
the transmission to Emperor Nicholas |
of the peace terms offered by the Jap. |
anese. Hi selection, therefore, is
taken to mean that the Emperor has |
yielded to his insistance that real
powers of plenipotentiary be con-
ferred upon Russia's principal repre-
sentative on the peace mission.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-07-13
AN INJUNCTION SECURED.
Humphreys Milling Company OF
crede Must Cease Emptyine Tall
ings Into the Rio Grande.

Wagon Wheel Gap. Colo, July 13.-
An event that will be hailed with de-
light by fishermen occurred last
night when Antoine Frank of Creede
secured an injunction against the
Humphreys Milling Company of that
place wherein they are enjoined from
emptying tailings into the Rio Grande.
The injunction proceedings took ef-
feet last night, and today the Rio Gran
de is as clear and sparkling as a
mountain stream.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-07-13
CLOSING SESSIONS TODAY.
the American Institute of In
struction at Portland.

Portland, Maine, July 13.-Today
will see the closing of the 18th annual
convention of the American Institute
of Instruction. The formal program
will be completed this evening with a
general session at which President
Carroll ID, Wright, of Clark College,
and Professor Herbert e. Mills of Vas.
sar College will make speeches. A
number of addresses were made dur,
ing the afternoon.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-07-13
ENTHUSIASTIC
CONVENTION
Delegates From Oklahoma and
Indian Territory Pass
Resolutions.
IMMEDIATE STATEHOOD
Wanted Without Reference to Any Right
or Claim of Other Territories
Seskng Admission.

Oklahoma City, Okla, July 13.-
When c. G. Jones, of Oklahoma City
called the statehood convention to
order yesterday he was accorded a
tremendous ovation, the delegates
cheering until almost exhausted. Ev.
cry county in Oklahoma and every re-
cording district of Indian Territory,
was represented by full delegation,
while hundreds of statehood enthus.
lasts crowded all remaining space in
the building.
After the evening recess the com
mittee on resolutions announced that
its report was ready, signed by every
member of the committee. The read.
ing of the report was frequently in
terrupted by applause, particularly
the reference in the preamble to the
desire that Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory be disconnected from any con.
action relating to New Mex
leo and Arizona, which was a de.
of the disapproval of this
feature of the bill in the last congress
known as the Hamilton bill.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-07-13
GIANT POWDERS EXPLODES.
In Mixing House of California Dyna.
mite Works-Eight Persons Lose
Their Lives as Result.

Oakland, California, July 13-Will.
lam Dwyer and seven Chinese labor
ers were killed this morning by an ex.
plosion at the giant powder works ten
miles from here. Fire broke out after
the explosion and other explosions
may occur. The first explosion oc-
Cured in the mixing house
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-07-13
COTTON LEAK CASE
INVESTIGATION BEGINS.

Washington, d. c., July 13.-The in
vestigation by the U. s. district at
torney into the cotton leak case with
a view of evolving sufficient evidence
upon which to secure an Indictment or
indictments, will begin today or to-
morrow.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-07-13
A PRIVATE BANKING
INSTITUTION CLOSES.

Springfield, Ohio, July 13.-The Citi-
zens' Bank of Yellow Springs, a pri-
vate institution, failed to open its
doors today. 1t is thought to owe de-
positors between $4,000 and $50, 1000
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-07-13
HEAT PR0STRATI0NS CONTINUE.
This Morning and No Relief Can
Be Looked For.

New York, July 13.-Five deaths
from heat were reported up to II
o'clock today The temperature was
95 degrees. The weather bureau re-
ported that no relief was in sight.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-07-13
TO BLOW UP
THE EMPEROR
Plot to Kill the Entire Imperial
Family at Moscow is
Unearthed.
DYNAMITE DISCOVERED
In Cellar Connected With PaIase Which
the Royal Group Would Have 0c-
cupied... ..Maay Arrests Made.

London, July 13.-The following is
from the correspondent of the Tele-
graph at Vienna:
Private letters from st. Petersburg
state that the police have discovered
elaborate preparations for blowing up
the castle OF Ilinskoje, near Moscow,
where the Car with the imperial fami-
ly intended to take up a brief resi-
dence. Beneath the apartments des-
tined for his majesty's use, subter-
ranean passage is said to have been
found leading to cellar where 250
pounds of dynamite lay concealed.
The police have made many arrests,
apprehending among others two en-
gineers who conducted the cleaning
and decorating of the apartments at
the castle. Car Nicholas has given
up all idea of staying at Ilinskoje."
General Trepoff Expects Assassination
st. Petersburg, July 13.-The resig-
nation of NJ. Bouligin as minister of
the interior is expected daily. General
Trepoff, the assistant minister of the
interior, WI. probably be his success
sor. The terrorists have renewed their
warnings against General Trepoff with
ominous persistence. The general is
receiving letters, signed
by the executive committee of the
fighting organization, informing him
that his hour has come. These letters
say your sentence will be executed
in your room. You will die in your
bed Moreover General Trepoff |
knows enough of the desperateness of
the organization to firmly believe that |
the terrorists are able to execute their |
threat. He makes no concealment of |
the fact that he expects to be killed, |
but his nerve is mistaken. q will at
least die at my post of duty" he said
Privately General Trepoff takes
gloomy view of the future of the au-
ocracy in which he believes. He is
power he could restore the old status
n year, but the present vacillating
policy, he thinks, will end only in evil.
Regiments Mutiny at Moscow
St Petersburg, July 13.-Rumors are
that four grenadier regiments
It Moscow have mutinied and that at
Warsaw yesterday certain officers re.
used to give a command to their men
o fire on the people who were making
demonstrations. There is not the
slightest confirmation, however.
Executions BY the Wholesale.
Odessa, July 13.-Twenty-four lead
rs of the recent disturbances here
we're hanged today in the various
PRISONS. Another bunch of seventeen
will be publicly executed upon the ar
ival of General Tgnatieff, the presi-
lent of the special conference for the
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-07-13
The Resolutions.
he resolutions follow:

The resolutions follow:
I'VE, the one thousand delegates
representing the million and a half
American citizens who reside in Okla.
homa and Indian Territory, do hereby
declare in convention assembled that
said territories are entitled to and
of right ought to be Immediately ad
mitted into the American Union as one
free and Independent state, on terms
of equality as between themselves,
and on an equal footing with other
states. We have but one petition and
one request to be sent to the American
congress, and that is that immediate
joint statehood be granted to Oklaho
ma and Indian Territories on their
own merits, and without reference to
any right or claim of other territories
seeking admission to the American
Union"
The resolutions were adopted with
out dissenting vote amid great en-.
thusiasm and almost Immediately a
motion was made and carried to ad.
journ.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-07-13
Executions BY the Wholesale.

Odessa, July 13.-Twenty-four lead
ers of the recent disturbances here
were hanged today in the various
prisons. Another bunch of seventeen
will be publicly executed upon the ar
rival of General Ignatieff, the presi-
dent of the special conference for the
revision of the exceptional laws de-
signed for the safeguarding of public
order.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-12
Chinese Worship Of Stone Animals.

Francis III. Nichols in his Journey
through the Chinese province Of
Shensl saw temple where stone ami.
mails were worshipped. He says: I'm
rows OF heavily barred brick cages
are stone images Of animals. They
are all life-size and are remarkably
we'll executed. Among them are ele-
phants, tigers, and monkeys, whose
sculptors must have secured their
models long distance from Shensi.
where the originals are not found.
The stone animals stand for the
Buddhist idea of reincarnation. They
are worshipped as sacred and are
supposed, in a vague way to be en-
dowed with life. 1t is to prevent
them from escaping and running away
from their worshippers that the cages
have wooden bars in front of them.
Between the two temples was pond
where fish were fonged, or set at lib
erty. In its workings the system
OF fonging animals has very much the
effect of a humane society on the
western side Of the world. On the
theory that any OF the brute creation
may be the dwelling place OF the soul
OF a former human being, lame and
sick animals become the care OF the
priests; in some Of the larger tenn
pies special provision is made for
caring for the sick cats and dogs.
To fong an animal Of any kind Is
considered an act OF supreme virtue.
To obtain good luck pious China
man will sometimes purchase a live
fish and have priest fong it. This is
done by placing it in the pond re.
served for the purpose near the tenn.
pie"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-12
STATE IN THE FROG BUSINESS.
Pennsylvania Shipped 100000 From
One Of It's Hatcherics.

The largest lot OF frogs ever
grown In captivity in Pennsylvania
were distributed from the Pleasant
Mount hatchery, in Wayne County.
Fish Commissioner Meehan decided
last year to add frog culture to the
service rendered by the fish commits
sion, and few were raised at the
Cory and the Erie hatcheries and
distributed. The experiment was
successful, and frog raising, 1t was
decided, should also be tried at the
new Pleasant Mount station. There
the frog crop was entirely successful,
and the 100000 were raised and sent
out.
The process of raising young frogs
Is exceedingly interesting. When
four or five days old they are ready
to ship and are from u to 2 inches
long. When twelve days old they are
worth 2 cents apiece for bass bait, so
there is money in raising frogs If one
knows how, since 1t is possible to
grow 100000 Of them to the acre.
The frogs are shipped in cans of
four hundred each, packed simply
In wet moss.
The raising OF frogs is easier than
the raising OF poultry A frog a week
old planted now will be fit for the
table next year, and In two years will
be a monster"
Two kinds OF frogs, the greenheads
and the western, were raised at the
hatchery, but the greenhead is pre-
ferred by epicures. The market price
of edible frogs is from $3.50 to 50 q
dozen. epublican-Advance.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-12
Tailor's Life Saving Cont,

A London tailor has invented q
new life saving coat and CATERS, with
which 1t is possible for a person
clothed therein to maintain an up
right position when immersed In the
water, even If not possessing any
knowledge OF swimming.
The coat resembles in appearance
an ordinary pilot coat. but 1t is fitted
with an air belt, which Is inflated
with air through tube. The CATERS
each weigh two pounds and are fitted
with two brass wings or blades fas-
tened to the back Of the heel. AS
the wearer moves his feet In the
water these wings open and shut, and
not only propel the wearer along like
oars but enable him to maintain an
upright position from the waist up
ward in the water.
A practical demonstration Of the
utility of the invention was recently
undertaken in the River Thames By
the inventor and Its efficiency and
life saving qualities clearly shown,
even when moving against the tide.
Scientific American.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-12
New Sugar for Diabetes,

A patent has recently been taken
out in England for the commercial
manufacture OF laevulose, or fruit
sugar. This substance has hitherto
been so expensive (s1.50 pound)
as to preclude its general use. The
inventor of the new process claims
that he can furnish laevulose at u
price which Will enable 1t to compete
with glucose.
Laevulose is OF special Importance
because 1t can be taken by persons
suffering from diabetes, who cannot
eat cane sugar or ordinary starchy
foods. 1t Ia further claimed that the
inulin, a starchy substance from
which the laevulose is made, is free
from the deleterious effects of ordi-
nary starch when taken by diabetes.
Chicory roots and dahlia tubers are,
It seems, very rich in inulin, and 1t is
from these sources that the inulin is
obtained for the manufacture Of lac
yulose. These plants can be cult
waited cheaply on n large scale. A
portion OF the inulin will be used for
the manufacture OF bread for dia-
bette patients. The plants can be
found In most OF the States.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-12

Il agree" writes a correspondent.
that your contributor was justified
in saying in yesterdays Chronicle
that there is nothing majestic about
Berlin. On the other hand it is GER
tainly handsome and imposing 1t is
the only modern city | know of that
has managed to escape looking artif-
cal. The labor of building Greater
Berlin has been most deXterously hid
den. There is very little OF the deadly
uniformity, the Euclidian lines the
prooaic precision one notices in New
York. Berlin is something considera-
bly, better than a mere chessboard of
brick and stone and mortar. The
streets have a curved and enticing
spaciousnecs; they are shaded with
avenues of trees. faultlessly asphalted
and clean with a cleanliness surpass-
ing that of Paris. The architecture
Is rather too forid for English tastes;
but for all that decidedly effective,
and a drive from Inter der Linden
to Charlottenburg will take one past
a finer succession of houses than
either London or New York can show.
And even the official architecture in
spite OF the Kaser's directing patron
age, has its points. There are no
statues in the Siegesallee quite so un.
forglveable as those in Central Park
and the streets OF London. London
Chronicle.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-12
FRANCE AND EGYPT.
Almost as Many French as English
In Egypt.

In view OF the new Anglo-French
agreement, it may not be out of place
TO note the extent of French interests
In the valley of the Nile. These are
enumerated in the Paris Temps. by
M. Villiers, who maintains that, until
now, France has preserved all her
privileges, those she holds from the
capitulations as well as those secured
by the conventions of 1876 and 1879,
VIZ, personal liberty, inviolability of
domicile, exemption from taxation ex-
cept custom dues, house tax, and tho
municipal tax at Alexandria, and a
special jurisdiction. AS to the more
recent interests of the French they
are, says M. Villiers, guaranteed by
the Caisse re la Dette, and the agree.
ment which created the mixed tribun.
ais. There are in Egypt, according to
the census of 1897, no fewer than
14.155 French subjects, as against
1850 English, Of whom 1000 are sol.
diers and $500 Maltese speaking Ital.
ian. OF the 2,340,000,O00 francs OF
the Egyptian Dette, 1890 900
francs are held by Frenchmen. The
majority OF the shareholders and
bondholders OF the Credit Foncier
Egypten are French. The trade OF
France with Egypt amounts to be-
tween 60,00O,0O0 and 70,000.OOO francs.
There are 10S French commercial es.
tablishments, and the landed property
belonging to Frenchmen amounts in
value to about 53,000.0O0 francs.
Three-ffths Of the directors of the
Suez canal are French. French mis-.
sionaries have $1,000 pupils speaking
French In their schools. The French
law school at Cairo, the French hos.
pitals, and the French clubs continue
to exist, while the French department
for the study OF Egyptian antiquities.
upholds, says NJ. Villiers, "the tradi-
tions OF our science in the road opened
up for it by Bonaparte in 1898"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-12

Only one company issues fywheel
insurance because only one man can
write 1t. He Is monarch OF all his
none to dispute. Two years ago he
was a professor In a small engineer
ing college with some theories and
fgures OF his own about hywheels.
His success Is largely due to his
own formula. for hywheel insurance
is almost pure mathematics. When
wheel is revolved at high enough
speed the centrifugal force exceeds
the centripetal and the wheel flies
apart. Solid cast iron explodes when
the speed at the rim Is, roughly,
three miles minute. A thick rim
explodes Just as easily as a thin one
OF the same material. Wood explodes
at a greater speed. jointed iron at q
less.
The underwater allows rim
speed OF a mile a minute, one third
the explosion rate, as a safe limit for
solid iron wheels. This permits a two
foot pulley wheel sixteen revolutions
second, while It keeps a sixteen
foot fywheel down to two. A jointed
wheel Is allowed still less. The un-
derwriter has only to name the num-
Der OF revolutions he authorizes, and
to proportion his premium to the size
OF the wheel. The larger the wheel,
OF course, the more destructive Its
explosion.-Leslie's Magazine.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-12
Hartman, Pierce, Sugarloaf.
Sitter, Sylvester, Centre.
Ianer, VIM. p, Main.
Want Shorter Hours
Railroad Employees Will Make a Concerted
Move 10 Secure Them

Preparations are under way for a
concerted movement OH the part of
the big railroad brotherhoods to
secure reduction of the present
working hours for railway employ
ees all over the country. The move
ment already has been discussed
in the grand councils Of the order.
1t is said that it will assume def
mite form within the next two
months. The grievance committee
of many western roads will gather
in Chicago i'll December at the
same time the schedules govern
wages and hours will expire on at
least three western roads, the
North. western, the Burlington and
the St. Paul. According to plans
now laid the opportunity will lie
seized to broach the proposed de-
mands of the employees. The pres
ent hours Of work OH the railroads
range from ten to fourteen, but in
no case are they fixed. This is due
to the ralure of the employ meut.
The bro! herhoods, it is said, have
no intention of appealing for
limited work day. They have
planned TO seek general reduction
which shall be propor,ionate III all
b anches Of the railroad service.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-12
Criers at the Paris HaIIes.

The position of crier at the Paris
Halles. or Central Markets, is one
which, In view Of recent revelations
In case before the law courts, ought
not to be despised. The men who
cry Gatinais fowls for sale earn $50
q month; those who sell Brittany
fowls get Gle q month, and those
who dispose of ducks only receive
R1o per month. Rabbits bring the
crier only pittance. for &c month
is all he gets. Not everybody can be
a crier, for unless you have sound
vocal chords and a passable voice
you will not be engaged. 1t also re-
Quires a man with a strong constitu-
tion, for the crier ia at work from 8
o'clock in the morning till in the
evening, and on an average he should
sell 1000 fowls per hour.-London
Globe,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-12
TEN MILE ARTIFICIAL LAKE.
One of the Results of the Govern
ment's Great Irrigation Plans.

Uent IS Gfcat irrigation i'lans.
When the National Irrigation Con-
gress met in Portland II heard a re-
port on the irrigation work carried
on at Belle Fourche, S. ID. There are
larger undertakings upon which
parts of the s25,000,000 appropria-
ted by Congress are being spent, but
at no place are the possibilities for
reclaiming land greater. In the tract
segregated for irrigation there are
465,000 acres, on both sides OF the
Belle Fourche River.
Tho project has under way the
construction OF two immense dams.
The first will be more than 400 feet
In length and Will serve to divert the
waters OF the Belle Fourche River,
Grow, Owl, Indian Horse, and Willow
creeks into canal leading to the
main reservoir This canal will be
six and a half miles long, forty feet
wide at the bottom and flfty-eight
feet wide at the waterline. The dam
to hold back the water in the main
reservoir will be between 1000 and
5000 feet In length, 125 feet high,
500 feet thick at the base and 100
feet wide on top. Tho total cost will
be 100000.
This obstruction will impound q
lake ten miles long and three miles
wide at It's broadest point. The coun-
try which will surround this artificial
lake Is most picturesque, being
among the foothills OF tho famOus
Black Hills.