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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
Macedonian Refugees in Minneapolis
Slaughtered in HoveI They
Called Home.
ROBBERY CLEARLY NOT MOTIVE FOR CRIME
Fact That Currency and Valuables We're
Found with Bodies Proves This-Inter.
national Politics at Bottom. Is Theory
of Police Officials.

little roms on the upper floor. They
never drank liquor and were appar-
emily of the most peaceable disposition.
They went out regularly every day
and returned with equal promptitude
in the evening.
Even the people who lived below
heard nothing on the night Of the MUIR
der. It was only guessed at because
the men didn't appear on the second
morning after the murder. Some one
notified the landlord and he summoned
the police. They broke in.
Peter Stuyanoff knew the dead men.
He was arrested as suspect at first,
but there was nothing to prove against
him. In fact, he gave the police all the
little they do know. He said the men
never had quarrel in their lives and
never carried weapons. He said they
were all men who had come over here
to make their fortunes, and had no
thought of anything else but of max.
ing money and of sending for their
loved ones on the other side of the
world.
Pathetic Sight at Morgue.
1t was pitiful sight at the morgue
when poor Stuyanoff went there to
identify his dead friends. The sight
of the gaping wounds moved him to
tears. He knelt before each body and
made the sign of the cross as he
breathed prayer.
Then he arose to his feet and kissed
each dead man on the brow. When he
finally came to the body of his cousin,
young Yovke, he was completely over
come. Great tears rolled down his
swarthy cheeks; his big red handker-
chief was soon soaked with them. He
took the head of the murdered boy in
his arms and kissed the still face
again and again. Then he left the
room shaking with grief.
"They would not hurt a fly; would
not hurt a fly" he moaned over and
over.
Fought Hard for Life.
When the house of slaughter was
searched lamp was found burning in
the rear room upstair. A light had
been seen there the night before. 1t
looked, however, as if the bodies found
in the cellar had ben dead longer than
the others. This only added to the
mystery.
Both bodies were terribly hewed and
~
them bore more than 100 wounds, al
most any one of them sufficient to kill
any able-bodied man. There were great
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to 60 to their death had not given N
without whimper. Every body bore
wounds enough to kill dozen men.
Imagine 1t, then-the semi-darkness,
lighted dimly by one feeble kerosene
lamp at the window, the silent en-
trance of the murderers into the
gloom; the sudden awakening of some
one of the doomed when his wound did
not kill him at the first blow; his cries
to the others, their sudden awakening,
too; the clash of the steel, the cries of
the unarmed victims as they vainly
tried to fight off the the knives, ths
graphing, wrestling, biting, scratching
of men fighting weapons with only
their hands; the thrust at head and
heart; the death rattle of one after
another until there was none left to
die.
Then the dragging of two Of the
bodies to the mouth Of the black pit
that passed for a cellar, the dumping
of them down into the hole, and fin.
ally the fight into the murky dark.
ness of the dawn.
Evidences Of Conflict.
1t was a sight to terrify when the
police broke in. The six were stone
dead, but there was plenty of evidence
that every one had fought for his life
till, weak from loss of blood in the un.
equal contest, he had fallen at the feet
Of his enemy to receive his coup.
After satisfactory Identification had
been ms1 lie, and the authorities had
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

Robbery" said the police, as first
guess. but that was knocked In the
head when a money belt was found in
plain sight, containing $502, besides
many other articles of value.
Finally the knives were traced by
trade marks upon them. Thomas Will
son, clerk of the Kelley Hardware
Company, in Duluth, identified them
as having been bought at the store
by party Of six foreigners week
before the murder. That these were
the six murderers. one for each of the
intended victims, there can now be no
doubt.
Plainly the dead six had been
marked for vengeance
Their trail has been followed from
far across the seas to the hidden fast
ness of the far Northwest by men who
evidently had sworn to kill. They had
traced their quarry to Albion, Mimi,
a tiny town, and from thence to Du-
luth. When the six came to Mime
apohs they were hunted still.
Had Fled Far to Find Safety.
Aiding to the mystery, the vest
ments of some order, religious or Sc
cret were found in the house. What
had these to do with the strange
deaths? But most remarkable Of all
was the plain proof that the six had
fed halfway around the world to es-
cape their mysterious pursuers.
Passports proved this without doubt.
The papers bore the earmarks Of
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

Minneapolis the old saying
that murder will out" bids fair to be
disproved.
In the heart of Minneapolis, busy
city of the great Northwest, six ap-
parently inoffensive men have been
cruelty put to death, and all the efforts
of men bred to the unraveling OF
CHASTITY mysteries have been unavail-
ing, either to find the murderers or to
discover a motive for the crime.
The slayers have disappeared as COM
pletely as If, indeed, they wore the
tabled invisible cloaks. .o
.,r,irfA ",
Revsngs- .....*, I - ! b.
. At the bidding Of secret order
Because the Turkish government
wanted them out Of the way.
These are the various theories
formed by the police. And at theories
they stop.
All that is positively known is that
six men, marked for murder, lie in
their graves in Minneapolis-all six
killed by orders of some one while
they slept.
Motives Apparently Absent.
Everything SENS to point to poll
tics. 1t was not money, because the
mems money and other valuables were
all found intact. 1t was not revenge,
because they knew no one in Mime
apolis. 1t was not love, because they
had no women, either as wives or
sweethearts, in this country.
There is but one explanation-they
were put out of the way by order of
some high political power on the other
side of the water. This is what the
police believe. What were the intri-
cacies abroad no one dares surmise.
And dead men tell no tales.
The six were found lying quite dead
In ramshackle old wooden house, No.
245 South Tenth avenue, Minneapolis.
So little known were they thereahouts
that the police had hard time In find
ing out the names of the six. Finally
1t was found that two were father and
son, Nicolo and Kirle Demetri, and
that the other foud were Kerstan
Yovke, Krivie Metie, Nukola Jaless
and Andri Jaless.
Bodies Not All Together.
The knives, the blood-stained
Ratchet, the splashes of blood every
where, the disorder, the signs of a
struggle, told the story as plainly as
words could tell it. Four Of the bodies
lay about the front room on the second
floor; the other two-those of the De-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
FRENCH INDUSTRIAL ARTS.
The Application Of Higher Training
to Trade Is Everywhere
Apparent.

Consul Goldschmidt, of Nantes, con-
tributes an extended article on indus
trial art education in France and its
influence upon French industries. He
says in part:
''There are at present in France,
aside from the national art schools,
300 provincial and municipal schools
of fine arts, which are free to young
men and women. While leaving to
each school the development of the
line of art suited to local needs, the
state gives direction by annual visits
Of inspectors of drawing. The applica-
ton to trade is practical and complete.
The administration of fine arts Sc
lects and sends the greater part Of the
models useful to instruction, gives
prizes, scholarships, purses and en-
couragement to pupils who have dis
tinguished themselves during their
course of studies. The influence Of ar
tistic training upon the industries Of
France Is paramount, and the ordinary
observer Is struck at once when ex-
aiming an article in the French shops
Of home manufacture Of its superiority
over similar goods made in other coun-
tries. II one visits an art gallery or a
museum in France on Sunday, the
great interest Of the working people
may be witnessed in the arts and
sciences. A conversation with these
workers reveals a general interest Of
the masses in matters Of art and Its
general application"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

Turkey, Greece, Italy and the Balkan
States. Their money, their foreign
coins Of gold, several checks and
money orders were all found intact
! They had not been pursued to be
robbed.
What was it, then?
There had been no drinking bout.
Neither wine nor spirits, or empty
bottles or glasses were found. There
was no love affair, apparently, at the
bottom of it. The men knew no wo.
men in this country. 1t may have been
the vendetta, who knows? But every
thing to-day points to politics.
And now comes the story told by the
passports, that seems to point to polit-
cal murder. There were two pass
ports found among the belongings of
the murdered men. One was issued to
young Demetri on January rs, 1905.
This was a passport from Macedonia,
issued by the Turkish government. 1t
bore the seal of the sultan. Half Of
the document was in French, the other
half in Turkish.
It described him as smooth-shaven,
about 33 years of age, medium size, a
native of Macedonia and a subject Of
His Imperial Majesty the Sultan. The
other passports were old and indie
chiperable.
Strengthens Theory Of Politics.
And this pointed to the politics of the
case. The Macedonian rebellion took
place about two years ago. The police
at once accepted this theory and went
to work on it. But the murderers had
covered their tracks too we'll.
This much the police believe:
That the victims were leaders of the
rebellion and fed to this country and
that their murderers were agents Of
the Turkish government. The idea Is
that they fled here, we'll knowing they
would be followed, but hoping to escape
into the far Northwest, where perhaps
they might be safe. They went West
in the guise of railway laborers to es-
cape pursuit.
to kill were cleverer than they and
were always close behind. Though the
chase led half way around the world,
the Turkish agents found their quarry
in an obscure corner of Minneapolis
and then went deliberately about the
job of killing. They bided their time.
When all six were rounded up together
and asleep, and when all was quiet
and deserted without, they stole inside
and upstairs to finish the job for which
they had come so far.
The dead men were not caught en-
tirely by surprise. There are plenty of
signs that they struggled desperately
against overwhelming odds. All the
furniture was upset, showing that
there was struggle before the men
who had been aroused from their sleep
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
PERNICIOUS NATIVE HABIT.
People of Northern India Much
Given to "Earthing" or Clay
Eating.

Efforts are being made to stamp out
the habit of earthing which is preva-
lent among natives over almost all
India.
In northern India the favorite form
of earth Is gray or drab-colOred
shale. This is excavated mostly at
Meth, in Bilkanir, and is exported to
the Punjaub at the rate Of 1000 camel
loads year.
In different districts different varl-
cites of clay are eaten, but if the na-
tives have at one time taste for
special kind of mud, as the habit in
creases the depraved appetite soon be.
comes satified with bricks and broken
pots. White ant soil with the nests
and ants themselves Is a great deli.
cacy.
The reasons given for INDUCING in
the habit are classified under the fol.
lowing heads: First, a peculiar fas.
cinating odor and taste in the clay rem.
dering it a delicacy; secondly, an I'm.
natural craving due to disease; third.
ly, to satisfy hunger; fourthly, force
of example; filthy, supposed medic
inal virtues.
A university student confessed to
friend that the bland, earthly odor was
a great temptation to him and the
thought of it made his mouth water.
He always enjoyed the odor, he said,
when April showers fell upon previ.
ously parched earth.
The effects of the habit are disas.
trous. Those women addicted to it
very soon complain first of pain and
weakness in the limbs, palpitation and
difficulty in walking a little distance
uphill. After some time all the other
symptoms Of anaemia are fully estab.
lished; sallow and pale complexion,
tongue and gums boodless and general
debility. Very often dropsy super
venea
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
TRANSFORMATIONS.
Curious Results When Coffee Drink
ing Is Abandoned,

Curious Results When Coffee Drink
ing Is Abandoned.
It Is almost as hard for an old coffee
topper to quit the use of coffee as it is for
a whisky or tobacco fiend to break of,
except that the coffee user can quit cof-
fee and take up Postum Food Coffee
without any feeling Of loss Of the
morning beverage, for when Postum IL
well boiled and served with cream, 1t
ts really better in point of flavor than
most of the coffee served nowadays,
and to the taste Of the connoisseur 1t
Is like the flavor of fine Java.
A great transformation takes place In
the body within ten days or two weeks
after coffee is left off and Postum Food
Coffee used, for the reason that the pol
son to the nerves has been discontinued
and in its place is taken liquid that
contains the most powerful elements OF
nourishment.
It is easy to make this test and prove
these statements by changing from cof-
,fee to Postum Food Coffee.
aThero's q reason"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
On Tipping the Hat.

New Workers still cling to the an
Client custom of tipping their hats
when greeting a male friend or &C
Quaintance. 1t is a common sight to
4 staid. prosperous looking business
man as he passes an acquaintance tip
ping his hat, although the other is
alone, and unaccompanied by a wom-
an. It is the same after a party has
been together somewhere, at dinner
probably, or at the theater. You will
notice that as one separates himself
from the others he will say good
night. or au revoir, and then tip his
hat. Also, when one man Is intro
duced to another, 1t is dollars to a
subway ticket that he will lift his
chapeau. Wonder why 1t Is? They
don't do 1t in Pittsburg?-Pittsburg
Di0Datch,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
BOYS HEAD ONE SOLID SORE.
Hair All Came Out-Under Doctor
Three Months and No Better
Cuticura Works Wonders.


Cuticura Works Wonders.
Mr.. A. c. Barnett, proprietor Of a
general store in Award, Oklahoma,
tells in the following grateful letter
how Cuticura cured his son Of ter
rible eczema. my little boy had &C.
zema. His head was one solid sore,
all over his scalp; his hair all came
out, and he suffered very much. I
had a physician treat him, but at the
end Of three months he was no bet
ter, I remembered that the Cuticura
Remedies had cured me, and after
giving him two bottles OF Cudcura
Resolvent, according to directions,
and using Cuticura Soap and ONT
ment on him daily, his eczema left
him, his hair grew again, and he has
never had any eczema since. We
use the Cuticura Soap and Ointment,
and they keep our skin soft and
healthy. I cheerfully recommend the
Cuticura Remedies for all cases Of
eczema. A. G. Barnett, Mar. 30,
1906"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
Noted Frenchman.

There has just passed away in the
person of M. Desprecher one Of the
pioneers of France in ocean cables. M.
Desprecher collaborated with Sir John
Fender, Cyrus w. Field, George Elliott
and others in laying the first cables
between Europe and America. He was
one of the promoters of the Corsican
cable, which was laid in 1861. In
1894 he bought the island Of Anticost,
which now belongs to M. Menier. He
has reached the age of SO.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

made their preliminary inquiries, the
bodies were buried together. A Mime.
apolis medical college attempted to get
them for dissection, by right of law
allowing them the bodies of all paup'
ers without kith or kin, but when the
$500 was shown the college had to give
in.
The police have worked hard, but
nothing turned up. They have been
to Chicago and to Duluth, where there
are other Macedonians, but not single
clew has come to anything.
And now, "Who killed the six?"
seems to bid fair to go down into his
tory as one of the greatest murder
mysteries of the century.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
"Rote Of Waves.O

1t Is a favorite theory with fishing
and sea-faring people that in a storm
three waves are strong and violent,
while the fourth is comparatively weak
and less dangerous. This succession
they call 'rote of waves" Fishermen
returning from their fishing ground
often prove by experience the truth Of
their theory, and hang back as they
come near the shore to take advantage
OF the lull that follows three big
breakers.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
Reduced Rates East for School
Teachers.

And the general public, via A. T. &
s. F. Ry. One fare plus 50 for the
round trip from Utah, Wyoming and
other territories to Missouri river, st.
Louis, Memphis, Chicago, St. Paul and
intermediate points. Dates of sale,
May 26th and 2Sth, June LIST, 3rd and
10th. Return limit, Oct 31st, 1906.
Stop-overs allowed. For further in
formation apply to c. F. Warren, Gen.
eral Agent, All Dooly Block, Salt
Lake City, Utah.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
Benehcient Work.

The New York kitchen association,
in its fight against consumption and
for the reduction of infantile mortali-
ty, distributed from its six kitchens
in the congested district last year
23S,515 quarts of pure milk and 49,.
271 eggs to 2S,S97 patients.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
In London Courts.

Some Of the London local courts have
adopted the method Of drawing jurors
names from box, in the American
style. The London Mail says the
method has distinctly novel, not to
say sporting character, about it."
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
HoW's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
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We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney
Tor the last Is years, and believe him perfectly HON
orable in all business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made by his firm.
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~ Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Hairs Catarrh Cure 10 taken Internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces Of the
system. Testimonials sent free. Price Is cents per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
Mutual Aid.

At a banquet given to the delegates
Of mutual aid societies in Paris last
week $4,000 bottles Of red wine, $4,000
bottles of white wine, $4,000 bottles
Of beer and 10000 bottles of cham
payne were provided, yet every dele
gate reached his home in safety.
That shows what mutual aid can do
San Francisco News Letter.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

In a Pinch, Use ALIENS FooT.EAsE.
A powder. 1t cures painful, smart
ing. nervous feet and ingrowing nails.
It's the greatest comfort discovery Of
the age. Makes new shoes easy. A
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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

metris-lay in a dirty, muddy base
ment, where they had been dumped
by tho murderers.
Not thing was found on any of the
men to give absolute proof Of their
Identities. Even the landlord, H. Mag
nusso2, didn't know their names. All
he cared about was that the men had
paid four months rent in advance
when they came there week before.
The men ate. slept and lived in the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
Fatal Salute.

Firing q revolver as salute to
wedding party. in accordance with an
old Bavarian custom, schoolmaster
at Wuremburg used ball cartridges by
mistake and killed one of the brides
maids.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
Only One Awake.

The pastor paused in his discourse
and looked over his congregation. sis
ter Smith," he said, will you kindly
come up close to the pulpit? can
save my voice by repeating the rest
of this sermon to you in converse
tional tone, and it will not disturb the
slumbers of the others. cleveland
Leader.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
Breaking Up Ships.

Norwegians have primitive way Of
breaking up old, WORKOUT wooden
ships. They take them to exposed
rocky parts Of the coast, and, after
anchoring them, leave the breakers Of
the next storm to smash them to pieces.
After the storm the floating fragments
are picked up and sold for flrewood.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18

splashes of blood all over the walls
and floors, and it seemed as if the
dead, aroused from their sleep, had
made desperate fight for life, but in
vain.
Two big bowie knives were found in
the room with the four Two more Law
in another room. A fifth, in its sheath,
lay in the basement beside the De-
metris. Then there was the Ratchet
and not another clew.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-05-18
Cancer from Smoking.

AS the result of official inquiry in
Jamaica, 1t is stated that cancer of
the tongue and lip is curiously I'M
common in a country in which smok
ing ia almost universal among both
sexes,