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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-15

Nearly all the members Of Troop A
are now back At work again and with
the exception Of SUI burned arms and
faces are looking the same as eyer.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-15

Nothing Of public interest was
transacted by the town council across
the way Monday evening. in the alb
sence Of the mayor from town.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-15

The Century Gun club has moved lie
traps from North Grand emu 10 u
point east II the power house.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-15

Don't forget the Grand Mexican
Supper at BARRIERS opera house, west.
side, Thursday evening, the 10th inst.
Supper served from 9 to IL o'clock.
5000
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-15

The Hub will be open until 10 p. m.
tonight. sss
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-15

Florentino Seldaeo has been dis.
charged from the asylum as cured and
Albert Russell was admitted from Res.
well yesterday.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-15

There are plenty Of Benjamin win
ter weight suits included In the 1886
| suit sale at The Hub. 500
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-15

Sheep are TENS dipped IN large
lots Nc the dipping Plant below town.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-15

They are going fast. those suits al
1886 Ut The Hub. So
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-15

There YER four applicants for mem,
bership In the Retail Clerks union
last night.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-15
PASSING DAY

Today Is pay day on the Santa
Re.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11

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. 9'|'
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 25, 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.
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 well.
This much the police believe:
That the victims were leaders of the
rebellion and fled to this country and
| that their murderers were agents of
the Turkish government. The idea is
that they fed here, well 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. -
But those whose appointed task was
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
JOD OF kllIlHS.. lucy Diueu tHcii IAmo
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 thai
there was a struggle before the mer
e,ao hAd been aroused from thet: sleeI
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11

Robbery" said the police, as first
guess, but that was knocked in THE
head when money belt was found in
plain sight, containing $500. 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 a party of six foreigners a week
before the murder. That these were
the six murderers, one for each of the
intended victims, there can now be no
doubt. &c.. .t-,- It's
Plainly the dead six had been
marked for vengeance. al. <
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-
apolis they were hunted still.
Had Fled Far to Find Safety.
Adding 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
fled halfway around the world to es-
cape their mysterious pursuers.
Passports proved this without doubt
The papers bore the earmarks OF
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
Macedonian Refugees in Minneapolis
Slaughtered in HoveI They
Called Home.
ROBBERY CLEARLY NOT MOTIVE FOR CRIME
Fact That Currency and Valuables Were
Is Found with Bodies Proves This-Inter-
national Politics at Bottom. Is Theory
of Police Officials.

little roms on the upper floor. They
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. 1t 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 a 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 fy!" 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
hacked. In all, the six bodies between
them bore more than 100 wounds, al
most any one of them sufficient to kill
any able-bodied man. There were great
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11

to go to their death had not given In
without whimper. Every body bore
wounds enough to kill dozen men.
Imagine it, then-tlle semi-darkness,
lighted dimly by one feeble kerosene
lamp at the window, the silent en-
trance CT 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, the
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 1.s e .g g.-
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. q.
Evidences of Conflict.
It 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 I'M
of his enemy to receive his coup.
! After satisfactory Identification had
| been made, and the authorities had
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
PERNICIOUS NATIVE HABIT
People of Northern India Much
Given to "Earthing" or Clay
Eating.

Efforts are being made 20 stamp out
the habit of eartning which is preva
lent among natives over almost al
India.
In northern India the fayorite form
shale This is excavated mostly at
Meth, in Bilkanir, and is exported ia
the Punjaub at the rate of 1000 camel
loads year.
, In different districts different vari
cites of clay are eaten, but IL the ma
tives have at one time taste for a
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. .r
The reasons given for INDUCING in
the habit are, classified under the fol-
lowing heads: First, peculiar fas.
cinating odor and taste in the clay rem
dering it a delicacy; secondly, an un
natural craving due to disease; third
ly, to satisfy hunger; fourthly, force
Of example; filthy, supposed medic
! inal virtues.
A university student confessed to q
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 preyi
ously parched earth.
The effects of the habit are disas
trous. Those women addicted to i
very soon complain first of pain ant
weakness in the limbs, palpitation ant
difficulty in walking a little distanc,
uphill. After some time all the othel
| symptoms of anaemia are fully estah
| lished; sallow and pale complexion
tongue and gums bloodless and genera
| debility. Very often dropsy super
vasss.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11

Minneapolis.-Ag 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.
Love
Revenge
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. It 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 a ramshackle old wooden house, No.
245 South Tenth avenue, Minneapolis.
So little known were they Whereabouts
that the police had hard time in find
ing out the names of the six. Finally
It 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 wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11

made their preliminary inquiries. the
bodies were buried together, A Mime,
apolis medical college attempted to get
them for dissection, by right of a law
allowing them the bodies of a.! 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 a 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 wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11

center before being set to the lining
the fronts are also tucked from the
shoulders to the bust. The left front
wraps the right, and is ornamented
with tiny velvet buttons. The collar
is faced with velvet, and fans of
cream soft lace fall from under the
ends in, front. Leg-of-mutton sleeves
with velvet cuffs, above which are
sewn tiny buttons on the outside Of
arm The shaped waistband is Of
material. Materials required: Two
yards 46 inches wide, two yards lin
ing one-quarter yard lace, and one
half yard velvet.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
more stubborn it probably IS in main.
faininor ito Ground - -.

more stubborn it probably Is In main
tanning its ground.
1 wish 1 could persuade girls to imi-
tate Penelope and be fair to the I'M
popular teacher in whose interest l
am holding a brief. She may not
be happy and at ease in her home
life. In the background there may
be an ailing father or mother whose
welfare is a matter of deep anxiety
to her, and whose care robs her OF
sleep. For instance, know a teacher
rather unpopular in the classroom, who
for several years lost half of her
nights rest. in sitting up with and
ministering to an invalid sister. There
was no one else to take her place.
and in consequence she brought with
! her to school an atmosphere Of ia
tigue which made itself felt without
her knowledge. lrritability is often
born OF WEAKNESS: -
Girls are by the way OF worship
ing teachers because of little externals
that have not very much to do with
the teachers efficiency. A teacher who
has lovely eyes and beautiful hair, and
the suspicion of a dimple when she
smiles, or who wears pretty things
and is very attractive as to waists and
stocks, has great advantage over her
palmer associate, who is Indifferent to
dress. 4s4stF r..
I On the whole, sympathize with
girls in admiring the teacher who Is
invariably immaculate and tidy, and
who has about her the bright attract
iveness of perfect health and the
beauty that is typical Of womanly
goodness. It is our duty whether we
are girls in teens or women be-
yond them always to look charm
ing and to behave as amiable We
can. When the unpopular teacher for
gets this fact or ignores it, when
she is willfully eccentric or lapses int)
mannerisms that are awkward and un-
calmly, she sacrifices part of her cap
ital and makes it a foregone conclu-
sion that she will not succeed as sh3
ought.
But i put it to every one Of you. Is
it fair to start new work with new
teacher without being a. least willing
to give her your confidence? Or IL
you are already in class and do
not. like your teacher, is it never worth
while TO be honest and candid and in
ouire if you are not just little bit
to blame for the state CT things your
selves? In this world lot OF trouble
springs from misunderstanding that
might as well never come to ths
front, and people who should be good
friends stand aloof and never get ac
quainted because they let a trifiing and
essential thing keep them apart.
+ A very thoughtful writer has sail
that in every human soul there is ar
innermost room, and that If we could
discover 1t we should learn secrets
that we never find out when we are
only in the outer courts. This may
be too philosophical for you, dear
girls, but 1 want you to believe that
there is something very sweet about
the most unpopular teacher, you haFe
ever had, If you win take pains to
search for it.
! There's 50 much good in the worst
+ OF us, ,
And SO much bad in the best, Of u.s.,
That it i'll behooves any of us III,
To talk about the rest of u.s." *
L Copy right, 1906, by Joseph b Bowles.)
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11

splashes Of blood all over the walls
and floors, and 1t seemed as if the
dead, aroused from their sleep, had
made a desperate fight for life, but in
vain.
Two big bowie knives were found in
the room with the four. Two more lay
in another room. A fifth, in it's sheath,
lay in the basement beside the De-
metris. Then there was the hatchet
and not another clew.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
~. (. sssf
A SIMPLE PRETTY BODICE.
Full Directions for Making and About
the Kinds and Quantity Of
Materials Required.

Here is a simple and pretty bodice
for making to dress Of wooden ma
terial. It has a tight-fitting lining.
fastening down the center front; ito
this the lace vest is attached. It is
sewn to the right front and made to
hook over to the left. The material
back Is tucked three times down the
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
When introduced.

Just say: Il am pleased to meet
you" 1t is considered correct and cer-
tainly cordial to shake hands with
friends on meeting or taking leave.
but it is not necessary when meeting
and taking leave of mere acQuaint-
ances.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11
TO THE SCHOOLGIRLS.
GIVE THE UNPOPULAR TEACHER
*% A CHANCE.

Schoolgirls Often Prejudice Them
selves Unreasonably Against a
Teacher - The Native DiMdence
and Shyness of Some Teachers
Make Them Appear Stiff and
Stern - Unprepossessing Teachers
Often Heroines-Girls Have Way
of Worshiping the Teacher with
the Lovely Eyes-Charm Is Capital
Give New Teacher Your Conf
deuce. i4
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-11

metris-lay in q dirty, muddy base
ment, where they had been dumped
by the murderers.
Not thing was found on any of the
men to give absolute proof of their
identities. Even the landlord, H. Mag
nusson, didn't know their nanes. All
he cared about was that the men had
paid four months rent in advance
when they came there a week before.
The men ate, slept and lived in ths
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-02
TWO STORY AUTO FOR TRAVEL.
French MOtOrIst who Has Mad Himself
lndeDendent Of Hotels.

By e~quipping it with a couple OF tentlike
attachments a French automobilist has
converted his machine into a commodious
house on wheels.
The auto is constructed in the first place
with an omnibus body in which there is
considerable storage room. The engines
are of 10 horsepower so that the weight
TO be carried offers no difficulties.
The sleeping accommodations are pro-
vided by stretching over a light metal
frame fixed to the roof Of the car a cover of
canvas, waterproof and made to fit tightly.
The dining and sitting room is a tent having
The body Of the automobile for one wall.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-02

The tent ropes are fastened to the roof
Of the auto and stretched over poles in the
usual fashion. There is room for four
persons to dine under the shelter, which
has also a tarpaulin carpet for Use in wet
weather.
The kitchen is similarly arranged. The
car Is equipped with fire e~xtinguishers, a
dynamo TO furnish light and an artificial ice
machine. It has a folding bath.
1t carries a plate chest, china closet, linen
drawers, a miniature wine cellar, a ladder
to reach the roof bedroom. folding chairs
and tables, in short, everything necessary
to comfort without reliance on hotels or
restaurants.
The originator OF the car intends to Use
il for long distance touring in summer in
regions where good accommodations are
not to be had.
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~ fun
Organized A. d. 1905,

has given to, the Children's Christmas F.ni
a sum which would otherwise havs bought
some other remembrance for you.
II has been suggested that the card 20
yellow in color and oval in shape, but the
suggestion has not yet been accepted. "
a member remarked Yesterday:
Those who receire LiAs cards may think
at first they arc getting 4 lemon. Bu' We
are going 10 send OF ouI circular With
each card to explain the plan
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-02
THE CHRISTMAS GIFT PROBLEM.
Glen Ridge Has . Plan-Suggestion OF .
Yellow Hue and an Oval Shape.

AMPERK, N. j., Dec. THE Christmas
present problem has been solved at last.
At least the Grex Club Of Glen Ridge thinks
it has solved IL, and the inhabitants OF that
and neighboring happy New Jersey towns
are the first to profit by the new idea.
The Grex Club, a social and philanthropio
association of Glen Ridge. is distributing
circular that outlines a plan offered as "A
substitute for indiscriminate and wasteful
interchange OF Christmas presents
Nothing. y says the circular. ought 10 be
said against the practice OF exchanging
presents In the home, of giving lavishly 10
children, Of giving to any for whom your
gifts la intrinsic value. But the fast
growing custom of exchanging gifts with
acquaintance who do not need the little
that you can afford TO give to each of them,
to whom o gift has lone but sentimental
value as a token OF remembrance, to some
OF whom, perhaps, IL is positively unwelcoms
as imposing al obligation thai must he re-
~paid-that custom Is what the plan is de-
signed to supplant."
This 10 the plan: II you are in the habit
Of giving Christmas presents to friends who
do not need them merely to show that the
friends were in our mind at Christmastide,
don't do it any more. Send the money 10
the children's Christmas Juno COMMITTEES
Of the Grex Club.
How much LOO not matter, il il be nos
less than so cents. With you money send
US the name and address of the friend whom
you wish TO remember, or send az many
names and addresses as you please. AT Tho
rate Of so cents or more there is no maxi
mum limit a name. 1t is assumed that
you will send the same amount that YOU
would otherwise spend for the friend IN
question. Do this nov 30 hat your money
NAV be used this coming Christmas"
Shortly before Christmas there will hs
sent TO each address furnished and paid for
a card with the following Inscription and
the name of the subscriber written on he
blank line:
The CHTLDREN's CHRISTMAS fun
Organized A. d. 1905,
Bu the Grcr Club Of Glen Ridge, N.L
Believing that 1t will give you greater
pleasure to know that something has been
done. in your name, for the honor NJ our
Sa viour. to brighten Christmas Day for fhe
children Of the poor, than To receive p s't
whose greatest value would consist in the
greeting that il implied. evidencing that yNI
were In the giver's thou ghts at the season
Of love and good fellowship. a value "tlrl
this message. too. possesSes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-02
John Dough and The Cherub

ut 1. PRANK sAUN. Author Of The Wizard Of o.