Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-02

 ular function of furnishing market in which the grain producers are brought in touch with the buying de mand of the civilized world and made 10 benefit by the consequent stability in prices. The importance of such exchanges in matters like this Is not generally realized or bills to prohib- it the future contracts under their rules would find few packers, for such laws would cripple if not en- danger the life of the exchanges and react on grain raisers. In the matter Of railroad rates Canadian competi- tion was guarded against successfully by the defeat of the Mississippi pro rate, which enabled buyers to pur- chase grain in Minnesota on the same through rate as prevails via the Soo line and it's gateway to Montreal
 The Turks are blamed for the bloody Persian riots by a Catholic Persian priest. Reverend Peter Elyah, Iwho has just come from Persia to minister to the 100 Catholics of his 500 cOuntrymen in this cosmopolitan city, because they couldn't be under stood by any of the Catholic priests in the city. All Catholic Persians in the United States will be his parish toners. The Kurds, w1o are caus- ing the bloodshed in .Teheran are Mohammedans. but of a different sect than the Persian Mohammedans and of the same sect as the Turks he said. Through them the Turkish government has caused the killing Of PeTsians, whatever their faith may be The Kurds are mountaineers. wild and trained to arms. They have no mercy. They are terrible. I can think of nothing but my poor city, surrounded by those savagss. The Persian government always has treated the Catholic Persians as well as any other citizenes. Why should they not? We have been good Cath olics and good PersianS for nineteen centuries and are on good terms with our Mohammedan fellow citizens
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 A German colony of over 800, 900 in habitants. rivaling 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 that there are now more per sons of German birth or parentage in Chicago than in any city in Ger many itself. with the exception of Berlin. Hamburg and Munich. The only other city which approaches these figures is Leipsig, with popu- lation of nearly half a million. The German-AmeriCans in Chicago are of course scattered throughout the city, but the center Of the community has been found in a special district on the north side This German speaking | province lies in the region bounded i by Division and Clark streets and 1 the river. and here the curious visitor may any day hear the language and ] see the customs of old "Deutsch- land" not to mention smelling the odOrs of every favorite German dish from sauer-kraut to wienerwurst. As 1 if the bustling, roaring city were a thousand miles away instead of all about them, the citizens of this com munity live their lives of peace and content and seldom, if ever. do they venture far from their place of sat | isfaction One old white-capped man. ! W llN HIS lA pltul lilAlSAtAA-LlSr AAol' -lOG left the sanctitude of the colony but once. and that was when the lure of ] Columbian Exposition drew him 1 across the city to the fair grounds in 1893 The houses in this American German Utopia are picturesque and i above all comfortable. honlslike and foreign. The houses are frame. set in narrow lots with tiny gardens, containing old fashioned flowers and big easy chairs with an occas sional Ihassock to assure of more solid com fort. The girls on MenOminee street are not girls" but
 "Maedchen." and after the days
 work is over they sit and gaze down
 the street. while the old grandfather changes. with his thoughts, the street from Menominee in Chicago to "Un- lter den Linden" in Berlin. and quiet fly puffs away the hours with tthe same obliviOusness to surroundings as is evidenced by the sleek-coated, much petted cat which purrs in soft Herman accents on the porch by his
 side.