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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-10-21
Retreta

Programa de las pleas que tocara
mafiana domingo en- la retreta la ban
da de la Policia InSular.
I. Marcia (Estreno) "El teniente
Iturrondo" Vif1olo.
2. Dal 'Segno Polka (Estreno)
Woods.
3. Sinfonfa de la zarzuela GEL Re-
loj de Lucerna" Marquee.
4. "El Ferro Carril" icon todo ell
aparato) Aruti.
S. Vals "El Pitirre" (Variaciones
de Requinto) obligado por ell
Director, Duef1o.
6. Little Johnny Jones Yntro "The
Yankee Doodle Boy Ia peticion)
Cohan.
7. Miserere de la opera "Trova =
dor" Verdi.
8. Danza "Volvere" Cruz Verar.
Star Spangled Banner.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-10-21
Las libertadeS ruSaS

Mr.. Reussner, catedr5tico de dere.
cho p1blico en- la Universidad de
Tomsk es una de las personalidades
mas sehaladas del partido liberal russo.
Sus ideas EN- ancipadoras lie valier
un llamamiento inesperado urgente
a San Petersburgo. y POGO Tranquil
lizador, ademas, porque quien solici.
taba su presencia en- la capital era ell
terrible ministro Plehve. Algunos
dias despues de comparecer Mr.. Reuss-
ner, consegufa trasladarse Berlin,
a fin de evitar nueva y peligrosas en-
treviStas.
Interrogado ell catedratico ruso So
bre ell porvenir que aguarda las H.
bertades p1blicas de su nacion ha
hecho declaraciones tan pesimistas
como antorizadas sobre los aconteci-
mientos probables de que sera teatro
ell gran imperio.
La fausta nueva de la paz no ha
producido en- Russia ningtn genero de
entusiasmo, y este no porque las con-
dlclones de ella hayan parecido
nadie humillantes. Aun cuando ell
tratado incluyera algt1na clausula Sc
creta por virtud de la cual Russia Sc
comprometiera pagar indemnizaci6n
de guerra, la cosa a nadie interesarfa.
Lo que hay es que ell pesimismo Sc
cierne en- ell am mbiente nacional, ense-
fIoreandose de los hombres mas pre-
visores, a causa del recelo. 8 mas bien
del tenor de los acontecimientos del
mahana. Es caSi SECURE, juicio del
professor Reussner, que Sc aprovecha-
ra la paz para ahogar Ell movimiento
liberal; tOdo invita- al menos creerlo.
sabese va entire otras cosas, cien-
cia cierta, que los soldados actual
mente en- la Manchuria recibir&n or
den de pasar Siberia, por tenor
que una vez licenciados no vayan
engrosar las flas revolucionarias,
a referir los sufrimientos humilla-
clones pasados, juntamente con la in
curia G incapacidad de aquellos bajo
cuyas 6rdenes estaban. Aun cuando
estos infelices tengan familia hogar,
no volveran a yer los suyos. Con-
ira esta medida monstruosa Sc dispe-
ne protestar el partido liberal ruso.
ST ell poder Sc con6ara Mr.. Witte,
dice ell professor Reussner, habr1a una
tregua de escasa durac1on, pero la
lucha seguira de todos modos. La
propaganda revolucionaria prospera
principalmente en- los cuarteles, como
10 testimonial el hecho de que, habien-
do sido preso en- Odessa uno de los
mas temibes propagandistas del te-
rrorismo luego para magyar seguri-
dad trasladado de la prision civil a la
militar, consigui6 huir a los tres dias
en- union de cnantos lie custodiaban
En- el palacio del Car l. a vida nor
NAL persiste; cortesanos servidores
viven la existencia del pasado. la
burocracia ejerce sus funciones como
una maquina .inconseiente y ben mon
tada; pero la anarqufa de arriba NAL
dice de la de abajo, y la repression de
esta cuenta encomendarse tan solo
la fuerza de las bayonetas.
Las palabras de Mr.. Rensner in
terpretan ell sentimiento de los HON.
b1es que ejercen mayor inhujo sobre
las masas rusas, y de aquf su impor-
tancia capital
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-10-21
Reunion de tip6grafos

Maflana a la una de la tarde Sc We
rificara en- los salones de la Federation
Libre una reunion por los miembros
de la Union tipografca mum 47S afi-
liada la International de los Esta-
dos Unidos', fn de tratar asuntos de
inte res para Sus asociadoS.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-10-21

maOa en- las atlas reR1OneS con-
ira la Liga de los municipios, a
juzgar por Ell silencio Observable
sobre ell asunto. durante algu-
nos dias.
En- esas alturas sc hace todo a
cencerros tapados y de una ma
nera secreta, como 81 el ObjetO
perseguido fuera causar efecto,
por sorpresa y de improviso, sin
atender a las reglas de la leal-
tad, nj tomar en- cuenta los res
petos al contrario.
Era de temer a'gun nuevo
complot contra la Liga de los
municipios. y en- efecto, va Sc
ha descubierto la alevosa trama.
Es un informe de tres aboga-
dos puertorriquefios, tres aboga-
dos prominentes que han dado
un dictamen favorab BILE al critic
rio sosten1do tercamente, obse-
cadamente por ell gobierno.
Este debe ser ell ultimo es-
fuerzo que realice el gobierno,
ell t1ltimo obstaculo que suscite.
Esta parece la jugarreta final,
que en- todas las cosas y en- to-
das las ocasiones ha utilizado
siempre Ell gobierno redentoris
ia, para echar las responsible
dades que lie correspondent ex.
clusivamente, sobre los HON
bres del pals.
Ell procedimiento es harto CO.
nocido para que nos pudiera CO.
ger de sorpresa. Es un juego
demasiado visto para que impre-
stone a la multitud. La tram
pa ha sido descubierta, Y en- va
no Sc esfuerzan los vulgares
prestidigitadores en- parecer
taumaturgOs maravillOsos.
Solicitando ese informe que
sera una prueba de habilidad
professional, pero que no ha de
convencer a una sola persona,
ha perdido ell tempo lastimosa-
mente la reverenda congrega.
cion.
Contra 10 que sostengan esos
elocuentes letrados. llegados en-
OCCASION de sumarse al grupo,
NADIA compacto de las personals
discretas. esta la opinion valicsi-
sina y autorizada de los seflo-
res Acufla, Lopez Landron y
otros eminenses abogados que
apoyan resueita y. defnitiva-
mente la legalidad de la Liga
de los Municipios.
lCree el gobierpo que ha
puesto una plea en- Flandes, ha-
ciendose de ese informe que ha
de servir de estimulante a los
deseos generates de sostener la
Liga?
ST ESQ cree, 81 ESQ Sc fgura,
vive en- un complete limbo del
que ha de sacarle, bien a su pc
sar y mas pronto de 10 que Sc
fgura. la realidad con. sus ener.
gicas sacudidas.
Esta vez, y no es sorprenden.
te nj raro. ell gobierno ha estado
muy torpe.
Ell informe de esos tres 1etra-
dos, fue pedido muy tarde, cuan.
do va sabe todo el mundo que
en- las esferas ofciales sc lie ha
puesto la proa a la Liga de los
Municipios; cuando va nadie ig.
nora que el mas sola pado adver-
sario de la Liga' es ell Secretario
Mr.. Post, y lie consta a la pobla-
cion entera de la Isla que la
congregation reverenda, ha Wis :
to en- la constitution de la Liga,
una gran fuerza puertorriq ue1a
alzada en- actitud gallarda y re-
clamadora contra Ell coloniaje
feudal, que explotan en- su pro-
veCho los burocratas.
Por ESQ es que nadie sc extra.
ia de 10 que esta pasando, nj de
que los funcionarios traten de
parapetar su egoismo y su en-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-10-21

Este grado de conocimiento|
mutuo a que hemos llegado
aqui todos, en- virtud de las cir.
cunstancias v de la gente que
nos rodea, difculta en- gran ma
|nera el logro de los planes de
los funcionarios en- contra de la
sociedad de las municipalida~
des.
va nadie Sc deja convencer
nj fascinar por informe mas 8
menos, cuando 10 que en- ellos
Sc dice no corresponds a el ge-
neral anhelo y a la publica as
piracion.
Laepoca de los Oraculos ha
pasado. liable quien liable, y
escriba quien escriba, no sc pue,
de volver 10 blanco negro.
'Iodavia resuena la carcajada
con que respondio el pueblo a la
excomunion del Oraculo of
cial.
Por ese camino van muy NAL
dirigidos los funcionarios. Van
al mas ridiculo de los bataca-
ZoS.
Lo que deben hacer de una
vez, va que tienen tanto empe-
no en- acabar con la Liga, Y an.
dan que sc las pelan, buscando
supuestas autoridades que les
presten auxilio; para que sal
gan de esa penosa incertidum-
bre, para que no pierdan mas Ell
tempo en- teptativas agresoras,
deben someter su pleito a una
verdadera autoridad; deben de-
nunciar la Liga de los Munich
pios, ante los tribunales de jus.
t1c1a, como una sociedad Illegal
v subverSiva.
De ese modo pueden sa1ir de
dudas.
Lleven ell case a los tribuna-
les, den1ncienlo en- forma; de-
|clarese de una vez la buro cracia
|contumaZ en- pleito contra Ell
pueblo que la sostiene; y de esa
manera acabara la guerra sor-
da. las agresiones traicioneras,
las murmuraciones en- voz baja
v ese llevar V traer de Mr.. Post,
que sc las pasa dando malos con-
sejos los cOntadores y tesore-
|ros municipales, para llevar al
propio seno de los ayuntamien-
tos una guerra intestina y peli-
grOsa.
va es hora de acabar con los
trabajos de zapa.
Este pleito ruidoso promovido
IA instancias del explotador: Ell
gobierno. contra el explotado:
ell pueblo, debe ventilarse en- los
tribunales de justicia.
I'm 10 que digan los funcio.
narios y los cllentes del presu-
|puesto no pone ell p1blico la mas
leve credulidad.
En- una question en- que Ell 60
bierno esta interesado tan di-
rectamente, debe quedarse a un
lado con sus amigos y relacio
nados, guardandose muy bien
de quererla ventilar entire COM
lpadres.
Resuelvanse los funcionarios
q dar TN espectaculo serio, va
que han dado tantos del genera
bufo.
Y siquiera una vez en- toda la
historic del coloniaje, Y aunque
sea en- contra del pueblo, cum
plan con la ley, denunciando 10
que ellos deben juzgar contra
rio a Ia misma, cuando tantos
resortes uneven y tantos me-
diOs rebuscan para contagiar
con sus recelos suspicaces y en-.
fermizos, ell estado de la con-
ciencia p1blica sana y robusta.
No pierda ell tempo ell 60
| h1ernO dandO 4 Ia M h1icidad ese
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-09-07
AT DIZZY HEIGHT
Steeplejack on Courthouse Flagpole At
tracts All Eyes.

Perched like a tiny gnat upon the
fagpole Of the courthouse, the figure of
a man attracted the gaze of thousands
yesterday upon the busy streets below.
The speck outlined against the clear
sky was A. F. Wiggins of New York
city, veteran steeplejack and painter
of hagpoles, and his situation was by
no means novel one for him.
How is he fastened?' was the uni
versal query. To the man in the street
the climber appeared unaided by mechan-
/" Shining up" in the good old.
fashioned way Of boyhood. Two slen-
der straps which held him were imper-
ceptible. Fastening one about the pole,
he draws himself up to it's level, where
he fastens the second strap and loosens
the first, placing it in turn above the
other.
Mr.: Wiggins started upon the task
of gliding the ball. l6 inches in diam
eter. which surmounts the fortv-foot
pole. This done, he began to paint the
pole black. His perilous perch is over
300 feet above the pavement, vet he
says. he feels no fear, nor even any
dizziness.
Mr.. Virgins wife, who travels with
him, shares her husband s unconcern,
but will never watch him at his work,
Last week the steepleiack had an easy
task in painting the two flagpoles which
surmount tho residence Of James J,
Hill in ST. Paul.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-09-07
MAY CHANGE SHORT LINE
COUNCIL COMMITTEE FAvoRs
RETURN OF FOURTH AVENUE
CARS TO THIRD STREET.

The advocates of the return of the
Fourth avenue car line to Third street
S scored partial victory yesterday,
when the council committed on rail
roads passed a resolution instructing
the street railway company to restore
the Fourth avenue short-line service to
the former route to and up Third
street.
John M. Rees, president of the Min
neapohs Bar association, spoke in op-
position to the return Of the cars to
Third street, stating that not over 25
per cent of the morning patrons Of
the line alight on Fourth avenue, while
not over IL per cent board the cars
there In the evening, which he cited
to show that the greater number OF
the line s patrons seek the retail dis
trlct In the center of the city and are
saved fully five minutes by the new
route. George P. Flannery also pro-
tested against the change, while Viii
liam Henry Eustis, B. L. Sacre and F.
w. Root urged that the short line at
least be returned to the old route. The
resolution to this effect was introduced
by Alderman Holmes and seconded by
Alderman Rand. It passed unanimously
Bids for street lighting for next yeal
will be advertised for and submitted
at the last meeting in October of the
committee on gas. This was decided
yesterday at meeting Of the commit
tee, when G. Patterson, manager OF
the Cleveland Vapor Lighting compa
ny, which holds the present contracts
with the city, urged that the bids be
not asked for until after Oct. 10. Al
derman Hertig, chairman of the com
mittee, advised advertising for bids al
once, but the motion made by Alderman
Schoonmaker and seconded by Alder
man Chatfeld was carried.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-09-07
BIG SALOON FIGHT ON.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT ORDERS
SALE OF LIQUOR STOPPED ON
ALL INDIAN LANDS.

-Four hundred saloons in northern
Minnesota may be closed by the federal
authorities as the result of an order
issued by the interior department..
The order has gone to Major Scott,
acting Indian agent at Walker, to close
all saloons and confscate all LIQUOR
found in the Indian country The
United States district attorney for Min
nesota. 1t seems the law under which
the order is issued relates to all terri
tory covered in the Indian treaty of
1856. Much of the land then owned by
the Indians has since been sold and is
owned by whites. Strictly interpreted
on the 1856 treaty basis, the anti
saloon order would affect Crookston,
Bemidji, Walker, and some forty smaller
towns. ...
Paul Ewert, assistant United States
attorney, says:
"The question which has arisen, un-
der this law for the acquisition of
large tracts Of the land in tie Indian
country by white men, is whether such
purchase exempts the land from the
provisions Of the law forbidding the
INTRODUCTION Of Intoxicating liquors into
the Indian country.
This question was raised in the case
of Hugh Funk, arrested for selling
liquor on land acquired from the heirs
OF an Indian allottee at Bali Club, a
small town on the 500 road in the Chip
peWa Indian reservation. Funk was
indicted, tried and convicted at Duluth,
and it was expected that the case would
be appealed to the court of appeals, or
that writ of habeas corpus would be
sued out in the United States supreme
court. For some reason, probably be-
cause of the lack of funds, this case
.,
adjudication Of the question has been
Obtained.''
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-09-07
Public Print Scandal.

It is something more than twenty
years since James G. Blaine published
q solemn warning against the eXtraV-
agances of the public printing office,
but he placed the responsibility for the
excuses of this bureau where they be-
long, with congress. The work of ), the
government printing office comes, near
ly all of it, directly or indirectly from
congress-direetly where congress or
ders matter which has been brought up
In debate to be printed immediately, or
indirectly when congress commands an
executive department to put some docu-
ment or other in type.
The president can never reform the
public printing office without the CO.
operation of congress, and the CO.
operation Of congress will be hard to
get so long as the office pampers the
vanity Of the congressman. 1t enables
him to print long, dreary documents
which, when received (franked) by his
constituents, by their very weight con-
vince that he must be very prOml-
nent man, else he would not have been
able to write all that stuff and get it
printed. It does not matter that he did
not write and probably has never read
1t. He knows that it is good, as the
member did who printed Henry
Georges "Progress and Poverty in
the Record, and that other member who
secured the publication of Thomas JEFF
ferson's Testament. These bits of
printing have been inveighed against,
but it should not be so. They had the
merit of being readable, which is more
than can be said for nine-tenths of the
stuff that Uncle Sam laboriously puts
in type.
So far as the conduct of the office
is concerned. the president probably can
do something by changing public print
. ers, by enforcing the rule in regard to
hours of work and by generally '':iack-
ing up'' the force, but any substantial
reduction of the expenses of this bureau u
must come thru congress.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-09-07
THE PROSPEROUS SOUTHWEST
Chicago Inter Ocean, Sept. 2, 1908.
Tl,a eto,.u Of Okla hana,s ira Storm a ito

Chicago Inter Ocean, Sept. 2, 1908.
The story of Oklahoma's transformation
from an empty cattle range into land
of blossoming farms and thriving towns
was enacted in such a startling man
ner that it forced public attention. The
beginning of the development-for only
a beginning has been made, even In
Okahoma-of other parts of the central
southwest was made in a less sensational
manner, and has not received the public
notice that it deserves.
Thus it was with surprise that the ma
ton at large learned, when the 'state-
hood agitation became strong few
years ago, that there were really more
than twice as many white people as In
dams in the Indian territory, and that
these. and the Indians with them, were
doing all the things in the way of indus
tries, schools and churches that are done
by thriving communities in other states.
1t was with further surprise that peo-
pie who in youth had been accustomed
to think of Texas as a land largely mac
cessible save on horseback or by wagon
learned this year that Texas was leading
all the states of the union in railway
mileage, and had pushed Illinois from the
primacy held for forty years.
These two facts illustrate how the
southwest is growing, and has been
growing, almost unseen and unheard by
the nation at large.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-09-07
SEMI HOMES.

New York has Home club corporation,
which proposes to civilize and homify the
flat by re-esta ablishing the home principle.
1t proposes united ownership of a fiat, but
a fiat whereof each family will use its
own floor, decorating it after its own
taste, and having permanency of resi-
dence.
There are seven members of the Home
club Each expects to secure for himself
and family all the advantages and none of
the drawbacks Of the apartment house,
the hotel and the private house.
There will be little necessary house
keeping. Meals may be taken in the club
dining room or may be sent to the dwell
er's own dining room. To this extent and
in the use of the driveway, garden and
billiard rooms the venture will be Coop
erative. -~-..-
This experiment will be watched with
interest If seven families can co-ope-
rate in this way without quarreling, many
people who are now forced to be homeless
might acquire a semi-home.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-09-07
The State Fair Accident.

President Cosgrove says the Agricul-
tural society is not responsible for the
accident yesterday. Legally this is
probably true; morally it is not. AS
we understand it, the State Fair asso-
citation cannot be held in suit for
damages, but we are quite sure that
public sentiment will hold the state
fair management responsible in moral
sense for the deplorable fatality yes
terday afternoon. -....
Suppose the grand stand had fallen
down. Would not the State Fair asso-
citation be responsible, morally at
least7. What difference is there in an
accident on any amusement contrivance
which the state fair allows to operate
on the grounds and to which it invites
the public9 The public has right
to assume, and does assume, that the
management Of the state fair takes
interest enough in matter of this
kind to know that no amusement cor
trivance such as the Ferris wheel is
allowed to operate unless it is safe.
that implied assurance. =
We are not disposed to judge the
management too harshly, because, sc
far as we know, this is the first serious
accident of this kind since the society
was organized; but it does not seem
right that it's immunity from legal dam
ages should lead it to carelessness OF
Indifference as to it's moral RESPONSE
bility, and we feel quite sure that IL
the future more care will be taken bJ
the management to see that contrlv
ances of this sort are what the public
has right to expect them. to be
carefully constructed, strong enough
for the. strain imposed upon them ane
carefully managed. Even under sucl
conditions accidents may happen, bu
then they will not be in the class 0:
accidents easily preventable, as this on
was.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-09-07
LANDMARK BURNS
Old Stryker Seminary, Unused for Ter
Years, Destroyed.

After standing unoccupied, save for
the caretaker and his wife, for ten
years, years the he old old ! building a at St. Anthony
day afternoon. The building had but
recently been purchased and was about
to be repaired and modernized.
Sixteen years ago Stryker seminary
was one of the well-known educational
institutions of Minneapolis. 1t was
founded by Rev. Peter Stryker, DID,,
then pastor of Andrew Presbyterian
New York city, and was conducted by
him and his two daughters.
The loss on the building is estimated
at $4,000, with insurance of $4,000.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-09-07
RAILROADS
IS NOT CHANGING HANDS
SYNDICATE BUYING WISCONSIN
CENTRAL IS IN HARMONY WITH
PRESENT MANAGEMENT.

New York, Sept. THE mystery
which has for some weeks past sur
rounded the movement of the stock of
the Wisconsin Central Railway COM
pany, giving rise to rumors of deals
with various other railroad companies,
as well as to reports OF the passing OF
control from the present management,
has. been finally cleared up.
1t is authoritatively stated that the
control of the company will not be
transferred from the present manage
ment. In fact, the developments which
have taken place simply assure per-
manency of control. New interests
have entered the property, however,
and purchased a large amount of the
stock, and they will act in harmony
with the present management. A syn
dicate, composed of w. L. Bull, chair
man of the board; Newman Erb and
other prominent capitalists, has pur-
chased enough stock to insure the car
rying out of the policy of those now
actively identified with the road.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-09-07
CUMMINS VS.. SHAW
Tom Way Expects to See Both Ri
walls for 1908 Nomination.

That Governor Cummins of Iowa
and Leslie M. Shaw, former governor
OF that state and present secretary of
the treasury, may be rivals for the
presidential nomination in the next ma
tlonal convention is the opinion of
Tom Way, manager of the two
Cummins campaigns in Iowa. Mr.. Way.
who is registered at the Hotel Nicollet.
regards Cummins and Shaw as the
logical rivals for the leadership of the
republican party, the former represent
ing. of course, his policy of reel procity.
tariff revision, the latter at the head
OF the standpatters.
:" For my part, - said Mr.. Way to-
day, do not think standpatism' a
winner. 1t does not contain the prin-
ciples of American push and it doesn t
sound ri ght to the average man. Reel
proclty is a popular idea and Governor
Cummins stands for that
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-09-07

The busy bee in the act of improving
each shining hour has been a favorite ex-
away from hockey when there were les
sons unlearned lying about. Now what
is the astonishment and grief Of the world
to learn that the bee does not improve
each shining hour, but lays off in winter
like farmer. Moreover the bees per-
him. He gets drunk on the juice Of the
grape and lies down to sleep off his jag
Just like a mortal. Next we shall learn
that when the sluggard finally went to
the ant he found him sitting on a cracker
box whiting a stick.