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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-03-13
MINNESOTA NEWS
Interesting items Gathered in the
Gopher State
Railroad Earnings.

st. Paul-The gross earnings taxes
of all of the railroads operating in
Minnesota during 1907 aggregate 3d.
55,557.S4, an increase of $165, 676.71
over the gross earnings taxes paid
for 1906. The combined gross earn
ings of all the roads in 1907 was $685.
8S8,946, an increase of $4,137, 09S.14
over 1906, when the gross earnings
were ,751,S47.S6.
That the increase in the gross earn
ings taxes in 1907 over 1906 was not
so great as the increase in 1906 over
1905 is accounted for by the fact that
during the last half of 1907 the 2-cent
passenger fare and reduced schedule
of merchandise freight rates were in
effect The financial furry of last fall
also had the effect of reducing some
what the volume of business. The
gain Of $165, 676.71, under all of the cir
cumstances, is considered strong in
dication of the prosperous condition Of
the state generally.
In the amount of taxes paid, the
Great Northern heads the list with
S918,11588, followed by the Northern
Pacific with $577,462.53, the Duluth,
Missabe & Northern with $477,210.49,
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
with 1895, 76S.20 and the Duluth & Iron
Range with 1921, 908.81.
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Republican Conventions.

st. Paul-William H. Taft, secretary
Of war, was endorsed for the Republi-
can nomination for the presidency, by
the Minnesota Republican State Gen.
trail committee which met here.
The committee named the dates of
the two conventions to select delegates
to the national convention and to
nominate candidates for state Offices.
1t also fixed the apportionment of
delegates. April Is was fixed as the
date of the convention to select dele
gates to the national convention and
Minneapolis was chosen as the place
of holding. April was set as the
date for holding the county conven-
ton to name delegates to this state
convention.
After considerable debate, July 1
was decided upon as the date of the
convention to nominate candidates
for state offices and the county con-
ventions to select delegates to this
convention will be held Thursday,
June %. st. Paul was selected as the
convention city.
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were authorized to and expected to
control the action of the Turkish au-
thorities. They were expected to
shadow the inspector general, to indi-
cate to him the reforms which they
thought would prove helpful, and to
listen attentively to the complaints
of the Christian inhabitants. They
were ordered and authorized to inves-
tigate all complaints that were
brought to their attention, but unfor-
tunately the investigation had always
to be held in the presence Of a Turk
ish functionary-in other words under
circumstances where no Christian
peasant, after 600 years of Turkish SUI
premacy, would dare to tell the truth.
Something more than moral support
was required to make the slave of Gen.
turtles stand up and defend himself.
In addition to the restraint of the
civil agents, there were appointed a
large number Of foreign officers to
serve with the Turkish constabulary.
An Italian general was placed in COM
mand of the constabulary reorganiza-
ton scheme, and to him were attached
many of the foreign officers. The
scheme proved Intellectual from the
beginning. Instead of commanding the
gendarmerie in the field, the sultan
held, and imposed his view upon the
powers, that the foreign officers were
merely to act as instructors in schools
for aspirant constables. Six months,
delay of tragic Importance to the
hunted Christian peasantry of the
Macedonian highlands, was spent in
discussing the question whether the
European officers should wear Chris
tian caps or the Turkish fez.
In the meanwhile the willy sultan
was more than friendly. Those of the
foreign officers who could be reached
in that way were loaded with rich
presents. Some of these presents
were undeaiably of kind that could
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JUDGING BY THE RESULTS.
Villagers Conversion Had Not Been Of
Great Avail.

'1n our business we get many doubt
full compliments" said Col. John F.
Bishop, deputy surveyor of the port,
the other day, "but do not think I
ever received compliment such as
my grandfather got down in my native
state of Tennessee. My grandfather
was minister and I was very small
boy when we both strolled down the
road one day. One of our fellow vii
layers came along toward US.
"'Good morning. said the villager,
who apparently had looked upon the
cup. T-sh conver-hic-ted, parson,'
he stammered with difficulty. An
twashyou- hic-that con-hic-con-
verted-hic-me'
THAT must be so,' replied my
grandfather, for it's certain the Al
mighty had nothing to do with your
conversion New York Evening
Telegram.
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THE DOCTORS GIFT.
Food Worth Its Weight in Gold.

We usually expect the doctor to put
US on some kind of penance and give
us bitter medicines.
A Penn. doctor brought a patient
something entirely different and the
results are truly interesting.
1.-TWO years ago." writes this pa
tient, II was frequent victim of
acute indigestion and biliousness, be-
ing allowed to eat very few things.
One day our family doctor brought me
a small package, saying he had found
something for me to eat, at last.
"He said it was a food called Grape
Nuts, and even as its golden color
might suggest, it was worth its weight
in gold. was sick and tired, trying
one thing after another to no avail.
but at last consented to try this new
food.
well! it surpassed my doctors
fondest anticipation and every day
since then 1 have blessed the good
doctor and the inventor of Grape
Nuts.
Il noticed improvement at once and
In months time my former spells of
indigestion had disappeared. In two
months felt like new man. My
brain was much clearer and keener,
my body took on the vitality of youth,
and this condition has continued"
There's Reason" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read
"The Road to Wellyille." in pkgs.
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Nine New Companies.

st. Paul-Adjt. Gen. F. B. Wood has
selected the towns in which the nine
new companies of the Minnesota ma
tional guard will be organized, this
number of additional companies being
required to bring the militia up to the
standard of the Dick law and to Sc
cure the largest possible federal aid
for it's maintenance.
The new companies will be located
at st. Peter, Madison, Bemidji, Thief
River Falls, Redwood Falls, Duluth,
Eveleth, st. Paul and Minneapolis.
The st. Peter company, which will
be known as Company K of the Sec
ond regiment, was mustered into the
service Feb. 28th.
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BALKAN CRISIS
PROVOKED BY
POWERS GREED
NATIONS NOT in ACCORD
Alliance to Press Reforms Upon the Porte Crippled
by Inability of Christian Governments to Agree
Quarrel Among Themselves Over Loot and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the World Imperiled.

and If she had the intention, she has
not the money. This road would cost
millions, and goes through a difficult
and what railway men call very
lean" country. 1t would never pay;
that is, not within the ken of the
present generation, and could only
serve political purpose which Russia
will be unable to pursue for many
years to come.
On the other hand, Austria has the
right to build her railway, or rather
the gaps in the present system. 1t is
right that was granted by an article
of the Berlin treaty, and it has not
lapsed simply because the Austrian
government has allowed the matter
to lie in allegiance for so many years.
The other rumored Austrian project of
building a road from her Bosnian
Herzegovina system to the Adriatic,
and then down the coast to Montene-
gro, and ultimately to Greece, is a
sound idea, and one that would pay
for itself handsomely, at least so far
as Cattaro, and probably there is no
idea of pushing the road much fur
Their in the immediate future
Ready for Roads.
Under the fostering care of Herr
Won Kallay, the provinces of Bosnia,
of Herzegovina, and in measure, too,
Dalmatia have flourished under Aus
trian rule and development. They are
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ing that, raises the question whether
the time has not come for the appoint.
ment of Christian governor for
Macedonia. The sultan may be ex.
pected to resist such an appointment,
for he would see in It the prelude to
the loss of the province. Turkish his
tory has taught him that.
The secretary for foreign affairs
says the concert of powers must either
justify or stultify itself. That is, it
must either demand further conces-
sions Of Turkey or split up. If it shall
do the latter, then Turkey will be OBJ
durate and the peace of Europe may
be imperiled once more. Whether
any power is prepared to side with
Turkey and block reform in Mace
donna remains to be seen. There have
been rumors that one or another
power would do this, but as yet moth
ing is certain
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THREE CURES OF ECZEMA.
Woman Tells of Her Brothers Terrible
Suffering-Two Babies Also Cured
-Cuticura Invaluable.

my brother had eczema three diff.
ferent summers. Each summer it came
out between his shoulders and down
his back, and he said his suffering
was terrible. When it came on the
third summer, he bought a box of
Cuticura Ointment and gave it faith
full trial. Soon he began to feel better
and he cured himself entirely of &C.
zema with Cuticura. A lady in In
diana heard of how my daughter,
Mrs. Miller, had cured her little son
Of terrible eczema by the Cuticura
Remedies. This lady's little one had
the eczema so badly that they thought
they would lose it. She used Cuti-
cura Remedies and they cured her
child entirely, and the disease never
came back. Mrs. Sarah E. Lusk, Cold.
water, Mich, Aug. Is and Sept. 2, 1907"
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be easily converted into cash. Others
were given brilliant decorations and
honeyed speeches. 1t was quite no
ticeable that many of the foreign Off.
GERS soon began to exhibit very little
interest in the people whom they
were sent to protect. "a vermin-
stricken, NANCY lot" is the way one
of the officers was reported to have
described the Christian peasants at
concert in Yildiz Kiosk, and shortly
afterward his wife appeared with a d.
amond tiara, which Pera gossips
averred she had never been seen to
wear before.
Making No Progress.
So much time was taken in negotfa.
ton and discussions, and, above all, in
entertainments, that few of the for
eign officers reached their respective
posts until the fall of 1905. The
French were sent to Sores, the Eng
lish to Drama, the Austrians to Uskub,
the Italians to Monastir and the Rus
slams to Salonica. The Germans held
back even at this early date in the
reform era. They only sent one off,
Ger, and he was instructed to refuse
to enter the disturbed districts. He
contented himself with teaching Turk
ish recruits the goose-step in the bar
racks yards of Salonica.
AS it has well been said, every one
of the powers wishes to modify the
present situation, but, unhappily, 1t
would appear that each one wished
to modify it for its personal advan-
tage, and, alas, profit. In word the
news from Macedonia Is that the
champions of Christendom have come
to blows, not with the assassins of the
sultan, who are seeking to destroy the
remnants of the congregation that ST.
Paul loved, but among themselves
over a sordid question of political loot
Worlds Peace ImperiIed.
However, the statements made in
the British parliament recently by
government officials in regard to the
Macedonian question go to show that
there was something in the reports
telegraphed some days ago about the
possible disruption of the concert Of
the European powers and subsequent
trouble in the near east. The secre-
tary for foreign affairs said emphat-
ically that if Macedonia continued to
be neglected a catastrophe would
follow.
1t is, indeed, time that effective re-
form measures should be put in force
in Macedonia for the good of the
Christian Inhabitants of the province.
A foreign general officer has been
in charge of the Macedonian
gendarmerie with other foreign off,
GERS under him, but supreme control
has remained in the hands of Turkish
officials. AS long as that is the case
real reform is out of the question.
The British government, recognize
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Assessments Must Stand.

Minneapolis-The fact that prop
erty is generally assessed at one-half
of it's true value in this state is not
a sufficient ground for disturbing an
assessment which does not exceed the
fair value of the property, even
though the assessors valuation has
been increased both by the city and
the state board of equalization. A
decision to this effect was handed
down in the supreme court yesterday
in the case of the state against the
Cudahy Packing company. The opin-
ion was written by Justice Jaggard.
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peninsula. He visited Sofia and Bel
grade, and advised the Servians as
well as the Bulgarians to cultivate
the more peaceful and above all more
lawabiding methods in their Mace
DOMAIN propaganda.
Count Lamsdorff then proceeded to
Vienna, where he had many confer
ences with Count Goluchowski, the
Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign
affairs. Together they drew up an.
other program of reforms, which
was, of course, Immediately accepted
by the porte in February, 1903. The
details of the proposed reforms are
unimportant here and now. They
never passed beyond the paper stage.
The integrity Of the sultan's domin-
ions and his unimpaired sovereignty
were safeguarded by them, and in
their proposals the powers remained
well within the limits of policy de-
fined by that important article % Of
the treaty of Berlin.
A Bloody Insurrection.
The result of the application of
these paper reforms did not remain in
doubt for more than a week. Instead
of the pacification and a peace ap-
preaching that of paradise, which the
bureaucratic Russian count prophe-
sled would descend upon the blood
drenched land, came the most bloody
and formidable instruction that the
rebellion-ridden country had ever
seen. It required 100000 of the best
troops of the Ottoman forces to up
hold Turkish authority, and even with
this tremendous display of force, the
Turks made but little Roadway against
the insurrection until the fall, when
many of the Bulgarian bands, yielding
rather before the onset of winter than
of the Turks, withdrew across the
frontier.
To bolster up their shattered pres
tige in the Balkans, in consequence
of the summers bloody work, the
car of Russia and the emperor of
Austria met at Muerzsteg in October.
AS result Of this imperial conference
IhO lhIOl NCuIlOu VI III mdCC-
DOMAIN affairs became for the first
time direct, but the results Of the
new course fell far short of expecta-
tons, in the first place because of the
wonderful ability Of Hilmi Pasha to
checkmate every move made by the
agents of the powers, and in the sec
ond because of the well-nigh insupera-
BILE difficulty that was experienced in
bringing the agents of the powers to
act with unanimity or even in good
faith
Buffers-on Paper.
However, at least, the Muerzsteg pro-
gram created two organs of control,
or buffers between the Turkish au-
thorities and the Christian peasants
of Macedonia. Two civil agents, one
Mons. Demerik, a Russian, and the
other Herr Won Muller, an Austrian,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-03-13
Such a Clever Waiter.

Two gentlemen dining in New
York restaurant were surprised to find
on the bill-of-fare the item, green
bluefish."
Waiter" one asked, what sort Of
fish are green bluefish?"
"Fresh-right out of the water"
said the waiter, offhand.
Nonsense" said the man. "You
know well enough that they do not
take bluefish at this season"
The waiter came up and looked at
the disputed item.
"Oh, that, sir" he said, with an
air Of enlightenment, that's hot
house blueflsh, sir."-Youth's Com
panion.
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ready for railways, and many more of
them. Ten years ago the complaint of
little Servia and the veto of Russia
would, of course, have brought these
projects to an untimely end, but to-
day the balance of power in the near
east has changed as greatly as it has
in the far east, and the protests are
more likely to fall to the ground than
are the projected railways.
The story of the so-called reforms
in Macedonia is sad and a sordid
one. Officially, at least, all Christen-
dom with a long pull and a pull alto
gether," has been unequal to the task
of making the sick man of Europe" sit
up, or of bringing the "unspeakable
Turk" to book. In England alone Of
all the great powers interested, and,
indeed, morally responsible for the
horrors of daily and hourly occurrence
in the luckless vilayets, is there any
appreciation of the dreadful situation.
Almost weekly the Macedonian COM
mittee, of which Lord Newton and Mr..
Quincy are the most active members,
publish statistics setting forth as
plainly as cold figures can make them,
that the present laissez faire policy
of the powers has only served to repro
duce tableau of what in the iron age
the world must have been.
England Hampered.
The English humanitarians are ham
pered in their work by the undeniable
fact that through the action of the
earl of Beaconsfield and Lord Sails
bury at the Berlin congress, when they
thwarted Ignatieff's plan of a greater
Bulgaria, including a free Macedonia,
England is primarily responsible for
the present status of affairs. They
are further hampered by the presence
in Constantinople of an incompetent
ambassador, who has given undeniable
proofs of his want of capacity in such
important posts as he has occupied in
Sofia, in Pekin and in st. Petersburg.
The first whisper of reform-in
what we call Macedonia-came in vir-
tue of the accord of 1879 between Aus
tria and Russia, and their recognition
by other European states as the pow
ers most directly concerned. The adj
vice Of the powers was accepted
gracefully-it always is-by the sui
tan, and with the purpose of forestall-
ing any possible drastic action the
sultan himself drew up a program of
reforms, and appointed that adroit
diplomatist and profound student of
human nature, Hussein Hilmi Pasha,
inspector general of the disturbed
provinces.
Drawing Up Programs.
The moment Hilmi Pasha arrived at
Salonica to assume his herculeap. task
the late Count Lamsdorff, the Russian
minister for foreign affairs, set out
for visit to the capitals OF the Balkan
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Not Born There.

A Washington man, whose business
had brought him to New York, took a
run not long ago into Connecticut,
where he had lived in his childhood.
In the place where he was born he
accosted a venerable old chap, Of
some 80 years, who proved to be the
very person the Washingtonian sought
to answer certain inquiries concern
ing the place. AS the conversation
proceeded the Washington man said:
81 suppose you have always lived
around here?"
ooh, no." said the native. II was
born two good miles from here"
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Marquis Of Argenson, Louis XV.'s
great minister, wrote: The first
great change that will take place in
Europe will probably be the conquest
of Turkey. This empire grows weak
er because Of it's bad government, and
because it is impossible that this gov
eminent should become better, and
quite sure that it will grow worse.
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They are rising in the Ottoman en-
pire. Every day feather falls from
the wings of the Turkish eagle"
So it seemed to this far-sighted man
several centuries ago, but to-day there
is only one fact of the Balkan situa-
ton upon which all sane westerners
agree, and that is the growing
strength of the Turkish military re-
sources, writes Stephen Bonsal in the
Philadelphia Ledger. That is formid-
able body of trained and fanatical
men, some 100000 strong, that tram
pies the Christian peasants of Mace
donna under foot, and, after looking
the situation over, the intervening
powers of Christianity have not fallen
on this rugged host, but have fallen
out among themselves on a question
of railway concessions.
Thirst for Advantage.
The car of holy Russia and EN-
peror Joseph, who was called to rule
the holy Roman empire, are exchang-
ing letters, which, while the diplomat
ic forms are still observed, recall the
wordy wars of railway kings. The al
lance or entente between the powers
which was to press reforms upon the
porte that would make it possible for
the Christian subjects of the porte
to live in peace and yet live Christian
lives, has been disrupted by the greed
of gain and the thirst for political ad-
vantage experienced by the powers,
which have in the last decade plumed
themselves upon exercising mandate
in Macedonia which they had received
from outraged humanity.
1t is a pitiful end of the reform
decade, and the best that can be said
of the situation is that to-day the
Christian peasants are not much worse
off than they were before, and that
those who have survived their hard
experiences are probably much wiser
than they we,s when they began their
political schooling under such august
patronage. Taking the optimistic
view, the Turkish soldier is not al
ways brute and the Turkish effendi
not always thief. Looking backward
now, the more than decimated peas
antry of the Macedonian highlands
doubtless recall the pleasant days of
before the uprising, the days when
they had not heard of Pan-Slav or a
Pan-Hellenic propaganda, when they
didn't know whether they were Servi-
ans, Roumanians, Bulgarians or
Greeks, and didn't much care.
The Railway Row.
The railway row is clearly pretext
for and not the cause of the split in
the joint Macedonian policy of Russia
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Worldwide Distribution of the Mostem Faith.

a
followed
is a
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The Railway Row.

The railway row is clearly pretext
for and not the cause of the split in
the joint Macedonian policy of Russia
and Austria. Russia has not even the
remotest intention of building a rail
way from the Danube to the Adriatic,
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Drawing Up Programs.

The moment Hilmi Pasha arrived at
Salonica to assume his herculeap task
the late Count Lamsdorff, the Russian
minister for foreign affairs, set out
for visit to the capitals OF the Balkan