Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-03

matters like this Is not generally real
lied or bills 10 prohibit the future con
tracts under their rules would find
few hackers. for such laws would
cripple II not endanger the life OF
the exchanges and on grain
.~raisers, In the mntter Of railroad
rates Canadian competition was
guarded against successfully by the
the defeat Of the Mississippi pro-rate.
which enabled buyers 10 purchase
grain IN Minnesota on the same
through rate as prevails via the o
line and It's gateway to Montreal.
The Turks are blamed for the
bloody Persian riots by a Catholic
Persian priest. Rev. Peter Elyah, who
has just come from Persia To minister
to the 100 Catholics of his coo
trymen in this cosmopolitan city, be-
cause they couldn't be understood by
any OF the Cathotic priests In the city.
All Catholics Persians IN the United
States will be his p~arishioners. The
Kurds, who are causing the ~bloodshed
in Teheran are Mohammedans. but of
a different sect than the Persian Mo-
hammedans. M of the same sect as
the Turks he said. Through them
the Turkish government has caused
the killing of Persians, whatever their
faith may be. The Kurds are noun
%taineers, wild and trained TO arms.
hey have no mercy. They are ter
rible. / can him of nothing but my
poor city. surrounded by those say
ages. The Persian government al
ways has treated the Catholic Per
slams as well as any other citizens.
Why should they not? We have been
good Catholics and good Persians for
nineteen centuries and are on good
terms with our Mohammedan fellow
citizens"
A German colony Of over 100000 in
habitants, riValling In size all but the
three largest cities in the water
land" now forms a part OF Chicago.
According to figures recently COM
piled this community has been grow
ing so rapidly during the past few
years hat there are now more per-
sons of German birth or %parentage in
Chicago than in any city in Germany
itself, with the exception Of Berlin,
Hamburg and Munich. The only
other city which approaches these
figures is Leipsig, with g population
Of nearly half a million. The Ger
man-Americans In Chicago are of
cours scattered throughout the city,
but the center of the community Is the
North side. This German speaking
province lies in the region bounded
by Division ana Clark streets and the
river. and here the curious visitor
may any day hear the language and
fsee the customs of old Deutschland
not to mention smelling the odors Of
every favorite German dish from
sauer-kraut To wienerwurst. As If
the busting, roaring city were a thous
and miles away instead Of all about
them, the citizens of his community
live their lives of peace and content
and seldom. if ever. do they venture
far from their place Of satisfaction.
one old w~hite-capped man, with his
typical mOustache, has not left the
sanctitude Of the colony but once, and
that was when the lure OF the Worlds
Columbian Exposition drew him
across the city 10 the fair grounds in
1898. The houses In this American
German utopia are picturesque and
above all comfortable, homelike and
foreign. The houses are frame, set
in narrow lots with tiny gardens, con-
tanning old fashioned flowers and big
easy chairs with an occasional has
sock to assure of more solid comfort.
The girls on Menominee street are not
girls" but "Maechen," and after the
days work Is over they sit and gaze
down the street, While the old grand
father changes, with his thoughts, the
street from Menominee in Chicago TO
"Untcr den Linden" In Berlin, and
quietly puffs away the hours with
the same ~obliviousness to surround
ings as is evidenced by the sleek-coat-
cd, much petted cat, which purs in
soft German accents on the porch by
ta AfI