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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01

w ASHINGTON.-T of the Unit
W ed States army are in readiness
to be rushed to Cuba to maintain
peace and protect American and other
foreign interests.
Officials of the war department look
Tor a crisis in the affairs of the island
republic. The last time, 1906, that
the United States interviewed in Cuba
the then president of the United
states, Theodore Roosevelt, and the
secretary OF war, William H. Taft, de-
clared that if this country was again
called in to settle disputes between
factions of the Cuban government and
maintain peace throughout the island
the Stars and Stripes would remain
there.
Omc1als OF the state and war de.
partments have been kept in close
touch with affairs in Cuba ever since
the evacuation by American troops
less than three years ago. Within the
last six months reports and informal
ton received from American reDre-
sentatives in the island have indicat-
ed that the Cuban government was
not substantial and could exist but a
few months longer. Within the last
three weeks the reports have been so
dlscouraging that the war department
has felt the necessity of keeping 5000
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01

w HILE trying to cooperate with
w China for the suppression of traf-
tic In Illicit opium, our government Is
having troubles of its own in dealing
with the problem in the United States.
Under the new law the drug is not
admitted at our ports unless intended
solely for medicinal use; yet there is
no question of the fact that something
like three-fourths of the $4,000 pounds
of opium imported annually is con-
sumed by the unfortunates known pop
ularly as 'dope fiends."
OF such dope fiends there are a
number Of species, which is one rea-
son why the opium problem is so hard
to tackle successfully. There are, to
begin with, the smokers of opium.
who are said to compose an army of
about 10000 of our citizens. These.
however, are minority in the total
number of victims, most of whom pur-
sue the destructive habit in it's more
highly specialized forms, particularly
the taking Of morphine in pills or by
hypodermic injection.
AS fast as a stop is put to one
method of procuring or using the
drug, another springs up in response
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
A PLAN to bring together the O

A PLAN to bring together the op-
"a posing advocates of federal regu-
lation of water power and those who
stand for state regulation on a water
power policy on which both can agree,
is being considered by the executive
committee of the National Conserva-
ton association.
The object of the plan is to afford
a water power platform on which both
sides of the water power controversy
may unite to protect the public in
terest and at the same time encour.
age the development of the many mill
ions Of horse power now going to
waste in the mountain streams of the
far west and the great rivers of the
central and eastern parts of the coun-
try.
The proposed plan, which Is the re-
suit OF long and careful study of the
water power question, has been laid
before competent engineers Of wide
experience in water power develop
1nent and officers and managers OF
hydro-electric power companies, who
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
Reno Divorce Colony Is Threatened

fashionable people OF the east come
out here because they like the climate.
scenery or residents. They come be-
cause it offers the shortest route by
half of any that leads from matri.
mony.
In any other state years resi-.
dence is required and Reno is pre-
ferred by those in a hurry to Nv-
ing year under more congenial. sur.
roundings. -.
1t Is expected that an effort will be
made to effect a compromise with
those who insist upon this action az
retaliation for driving tho gambling
houses out of the state.
Southern counties are clamorinx for
the raising Of the gambling lid and say
they cannot get along without the
gambling houses to attract men ia
town. Reno and Carson City. where
the divorce business is liveliest. are
determined there shall be no tinker.
ing with the divorce laws. The hotel
men, livery men and lawyers ere pan.
ic-stricken at the prospect of losing
business from the colony of women
and men who have nothing to do dur.
Ing the six months they are here but
spend mnnev-
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
Doctors Want National Leprosaria

treatment In New York and vicinity.
Many Of these patients, it is said;
make occasional visits to the shopping
district, to banks, or to hospitals, rid
ing openly in trains, street cars and
ferry boats
Six physicians from different parts
Of the United States and the American
colonial possessions discussed leprosy;
at the meeting, and all agreed that in
New York city there Is no likelihood
of infection. They declare in favor Of
national leprosaria, with stations in
Florida and San Francisco, urging in
favor of such az institution that it
was tmpracticable for the states to
take action on account of the small
number of cases in each state and it
was unfair from 8 national standpoint
to allow one state to drive it's lepers
across the border into other states.
There are now on record. it was as
serted, 278 cases III the United States,
176 Of them being men and 1O2
women. Five seaboard states contain
almost all of the recorded cases, New;
York, South Carolina, Florida, Cali
fornia and Massachusetts, leading in
the order named.
DIR. Charles w. Duval of Tulane
university, New Orleans, described his
experiments in segregating the bacilli
of the diseasS and his final success in
propagating the germs outside of the
human body.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
MThe Mine'a Blown Uo.

It was about an hour later when I
reached my room, for l had stopped
in the way to chat with the gateman.
I was sitting an the edge Of the bed,
loosening the ;2eel Of one of my rub
Der boots with the toe Of the other,
when suddenly through the stiffness
Of the sleeping town, from the power
house half mile away came low
and rising note, the great siren whis-
tie in the power house Almost fasci-
mated, listened as the seat note rose
higher and more shrill and died away
again. One blast meant fire In the
town; two blasts, fire in the buildings
at the mine; and three blasts, the
most terrible of all, disaster or
trouble in the mine. Once more, after
an interminable pause, the sound came
again; and once more rose and died
away. I did not move, but there was a
sudden GOODNESS that came over me as
once more, for the third time, the deep
note broke out on the quiet air. Al
most instantaneously the loud Jingle
of my telephone brought me to my
feet. took down the receiver: The
mines blown up said woman's
~voice.-Joseph Husband, in the At
lantic.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
Trouble in Dealing With Drug Evil

to an unfailing and always profitable
demand. For instance. the average
apothecary nowadays finds a large
and unprecedented demand for co.
deine'' of the alkaloids, or active
principles, of opium. It is only about
one-third as powerful as morphine, but
acts similarly. The sale of morphine
is forbidden by law nearly every
where at the present time, except on
prescription by a physician, but in
most of the states there is no such
restriction in regard to codeine-
whence the growing popularity of the
latter.
The sale of "heroin" also has great
ly increased since the enforcement Of
restrictions on opium and morphine
This is what chemists would term a
morphine derivative' '-that is to say,
a substance derived from morphine by
certain monkeyings in the laboratory.
It acts just like morphine, and the
habit formed by taking 1T is not less
destructive. Yet at the present time
there is nowhere any law or ordi-
nance against the sale of "heroin,"
and the only 'charge that can be
brought against a druggist who sup
plies it is that he deals in a danger.
Gus poison.
But what is the use? Where opium
itself is taken as habit, it is in most
instances consumed in the form of a
tincture-that is to say, as laudanum
The sale of laudanum, save on pre-
scription, is forbidden in most of the
states; yet the "fends" manage to get
it in one way or another.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01

rH1CAGO.-When the gentleman
~ from the rural districts arrives in
the city and gazes in amazement at
the high buildings and looks with awe
into the subway he is Immediately set
down as a RUDE with hayseed in his
hair and given the merry laugh by
the wise city guy, who will then pro-
coed down the street and stand for
half an hour on curbstone to watch
an automobilist initiate q punctured
tire, or proceed to murder perfectly
good quarter of an hour watching a
COOK browning the wheats in a res
taurant window.
But for absolutely pure and undi.
luted inquisitiveness you've got to
hand it to the city man, for he is right
there with the research stuff. He will
poke fun at his wife for her know1.
edge on the subject o. the neighbours
dolngs, but he can show more genuine
interest In absolutely nothing that you
can imagine, and nothing out of the
ordinary run Of things in city streets
Is too small to claim his attention.
He will let his dinner get cold any
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01

n EW YORK.-Nine lepers, inmates
~ OF institutions in the vicinity of
this city, were exhibited the other
night for public examination at gath
ering of physicians in the Academy of
Medicine. One Of the patients, a China
man, was from Paterson, N. J.; two
were from Brooklyn, two fron> the
city hospital, three from the skin and
cancer hospital. The purpose OF TX.
hfbfting the lepers is stated to be thu
beginning of an effort ito educate the
public away from the historical atti.
ture 1t has heretofore shown when
ever the presence of leper becomes
matter of general knowledge"
1t was declared that the attitude Of
the people in general toward lepers
has not in the least advanced since
the middle ages, and that, as a re-
suit, many lepers, In fear and terror.
conceal the fact that they aer suffer-
Ing from the disease instead of ap-
plying for and receiving humane and
Intelligent treatment There are at
present 80 cases of leprosy under
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
Experts Work on Water Power POLICY

have criticised it and approved it.
The basis of the plan is develop
ment without delay of water power
sites. The plan holds that private
capital must be aided by the state or
nation through corporate franchises,
condemnation of private property, and
licenses to use public lands and OBJ.
struct public waters, etc. Under the
plan, the power companies would have
certainty of tenure for a reasonable
time, and chance for generous
profits on their actual investment. For
the public, the plan attempts to pro.
vide for good service, fair prices, full
publicity as to cost, honest capitaliza-
ton and fair rentals for public prop.
erty used by the companies.
The plan comedies that the federal
government has no jurisdiction in
dealing with the problem of power
sites unless its land is to be occupied,
or navigable rivers affected. It is pro.
posed that the regulation of service
and prices is to be function of the
state, leaving to the national govern.
ment the duty of obtaining prompt,
full and orderly development, a rea.
sonable time limit for the leases. pub.
licity as to financiering and fair rent.
ais for federal property used, perhaps
paying part of the proceeds to the
state. The associations plan was
submitted to the proper committees
in congress-.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
Millions Are Saved in Mail CARVING

Sc per cent more than the appropria-
ton for the current fiscal year. -
In every instance possible the mol.
icy Of equalizing the rate of pay for
the transportation of mail by railroad
routes on the basis of lowest cost has
been followed. The department has
saved $12,274,4SS by the operation of
the new method of adjusting nay. to
and including the present fiscal year
Sixteen railroad companies have filed
suit against the United States attack.
ing the validity of the order Of the
postmaster general In readjustinR the
rate Of pay.
Particular diligence has been mani.
tested by the department in it's in.
quiry into the cost to railroad comma.
MES Of carrying the mail.
During the year there were 446 rail.
road accidents in which postal clerks
were either killed or injured or in
which mail matter was lost or dam
aged. Twenty clerks, four substitutes
and three mail weighers were killed.
SO seriously and GIT slightly injured
The year was more disastrous in thu
number Of clerks killed on the rail.
roads than any in tho history OF the
service. 8,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
Mules Run Away With Blazing Cotton

negroes. was captured, the others a..
Gaping. r} :
News Of the arrest was telepbonea
to the sheriff, who got out OF bed and
started for the scene. The two fupi.
tives had returned with wagon and
were loading in the cotton when thev
were surprised and arrested by the
sheriff. The other officers came IN
and the three captives were hand.
cuffed and put into their wagons. IN
the way to town one of the negroes
stepped on his gun. concealed at tho
bottom of the wagon. and It exploded
the bullet narrowly missing one IT
the -sales ahead. and the mules ran
away.
BY the time they were STONED +ha
bale of cotton was on fire, and :
strong wind was blowing, with mn
water near. It was decided to maka
fast drive to town, and call out the
fire department. The faster the mules
ran the higher 3urned the blazine
cotton, scorching one Of the negroes.
The wagon next caught fire. The f1re
department put out the flames. but the
cotton was destroyed and the wagon
ruined.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
xsIi@|B|j;;;i;;;:: u: u! ]! T.;
A CONSIDERABLE saving was ef-
II fected during the wear nv the hi.

A CONSIDERABLE saving was ef-
IL fected during the year by the bu.
reau of the second assistant postmas-
ter general, which Is charged with
the authorization and direction Of the
transportation Of both domestic and
foreign mails. The aggregate cost of
the transportation of domestic me1ls
during the year was $81,709, 43S.6S
while the cost Of foreign mails was
$3,112,302.46. Notwithstanding the in
creased amount of mail handled the
percentage Of increase In the cost was
only LIS per cent.
During the year 1875 mail routes
were in operation, covering distance
of 220,730 miles. The distance tray
eled by the mail Of the United States
was 426,923, 109.55 miles. The amount
Of money necessary for railroad trans.
portation for the fiscal year ending
June 30. 1912. is ,$%4S.9S3.000L being
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
Potatoes and Their WAYS,

It was with the greatest indignation.
writes correspondent, that the lady
who rules In the household read the
announcement that, according to Prof.
Sem, there are only four English
ways Of cooking potatoes. Why" she
cried. III he had every day to satisfy
such confirmed grumbler as have"
"grumbler" was her caluminous word
he'd soon know that four ways
would never suffice. don't know how
many ways you don't have them"
Then she enumerated them boiled In
their Jackets and out Of them, steamed
in their Jackets and out of them.
baked, baked under the meat, stew
ed Gin Irish stew, plain mashed.
brown mashed, saute (the objection
that this was French was swept away.
fried, dubbed, and squeaked, and potar
to rissoletes. The suggestion that this
last also was French was dismissed
with "NonsepAath call them pota-
to balls IN my country" Finally, she
declared that tere were several otheF
ways-f sh1 could but rsmsmbs1
them. s..=z s$.s;
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01

GUTHRIE, OKLA.-With lint cot
u ton ssllins; at SIS a bale, thefts of
cotton 3rs frequent in Oklahoma. A
bale fs rolled from a car into the
weeds, qT taken from farmers barn
into his 3eld. and at night the thieves
return With a wagon and team and
haul the cotton to nearby town,
where it dnds ready sale.
Two bales t cotton were found in
a ravine at the roadside near Guthrie.
The fact was reported to the sheriff,
who placed night guards to arrest the
persons that came for the cotton.
Shortly after midnight three men
approached bale and began rolling
it down the highway. When the
thieves were commanded to halt. un-
der arrest, they fed and the officers
opened fire. One Of the thieves, all
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
IzE CWI a. HS,ISI {.

of st.. Francis. But it is on the 9Th
that the country people pour into the
city to attend the great annual Cat
tie Fair. Many of them come from
afar and start overnight, snatching
an hour Of rest and sleep by the road
side Nearly all the houses at Assist
have balconies overlooking the plain,
and it is thrilling to stand at an open
window long before dawn and to lis
ten for the distant murmur that tells
of an approaching multitude. as yet
invisible in the morning mists. By
degrees, as the light strengthens, one
can make out the long white ribbon
like roads that cross the level plain
and mount the hill from various d.
rections. Strings of figures are NOV
ing along these roads, all with one OBJ
jective- the field outside the walls,
where from time immemorial the fair
has been held. The men and women
are mostly on foot or on mule-back;
but there are also carts with creaking
wheels drawn by, oxen, which contain
whole families Of fifteen or twenty
souls. Smaller carts are harnessed
to donkeys and little hand-carts are
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01

D EMO, NEV.-One of Nevada's chief
IL industries-the granting of d.
vorce while you waits in danger of
destruction because the gamblers of
the state have been put out Of bust.
ness. The legislature will be asked
to repeal the law that makes the gam
blers go to work, and, il this cannot
be accomplished, a bill will be intro
duced amending the present divorce
law and making it as hard to get a
divorce here as it is in other states.
Under the present law six months
residence Is all that Is required, and
the divorce colony, all OF them good
spenders and unemployed while here
waiting for the time to tell the court
about matrimonial troubles. are fine
source of income.
Not even the most enthusiastic Ne
vadan believes that these well-to-do,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01

outsider usually acting as go-between,
When the price is agreed upon. ha
SEXES hand of each OF the contract,
ing parties and, claspinE them to,
gether, shakes them violently up and
down.
By midday the fair & over and the
peasants start homewards, driving the
cattle before them. Tho sheep and
pigs have mostly been sold to butch
ers from the neighboring towns, and
are treated with little consideration,
being expedited on their war with
many cruel blows and kicks. A pig
that is thoroughly refractory is seized
by the tall and one ear, stuffed into
a sack and slung over a mans back.
head downwards, es giving less trou-
BILE in that position. Turkeys and
ducks, painting for water, are packed
into hampers SO small that one won
ders how many Of them will survive
the journey.
On the way through the town q
good deal Of the money taken at the
fair is laid out at the booths. |
Carts that have come filed with
calves and pigs return laden with
terra-cotta pots for oil and wicker
covered bottles for wine. It is the
chief holiday and merrymaking Of
the year to many Of these simple
minded, hard-working peasants; but so
unwilling are they to lose an I'M
necessary hour that the moment the
business is done they turn their backs
upon the delights Of the city.
r. r. MAXWEIL-IYTE.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
9ART or EzF GAT1ZE E4W

Of bells that heralds the approach OF
day. The whole hillside awakens into
life, and in the freshening breeze the
white, the vines and poplars are gold
en-. Under the dark archways and
up the steep paved streets climb the
carts with their heavy loads, and
there Is much shouting and shutting
as the oxen and mules struggle and
slip in their efforts to gain a firm
foothold. They must hurry on, for
the fair opens at six, and already the
peddlers have set up their booths IN
the open spaces IN front of the
churches and in the Piazza.
Passing out of the road by the Spell
10 Gate, the animated scene on the
field below comes into view, and,
looking over the seething mass Of
people and animals, one is strongly
struck by the bright effect of color
prevalent everywhere. The simmer
ing mass of hundreds Of milk white
oxen waiting patiently to be sold.
their heads gay with scarlet fllets and
tassels, the women in blue skirts,
white linen shirts and gay handker-
chiefs, the children in crimson or
scarlet petticoats with white sleeves
and headgear and large green and red
umbrellas, all help to make veritable
feast of color.
Besides the huge horned oxen so
priced for farm work, there are milk
white cows, and calves with large,
pathetic eyes, whole docks of noun
tain sheep, under the care of an old,
gray-bearded herdsman in goat-skin
coat and buskins, leaning patriarchal-
~ on long staff. There are black
and white goats tethered to stakes
and necessarily butting one another,
while shy little girls try in vain to
keep refractory pigs in order. Hard
bargains are driven on "scudi," an
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
Diamond In q cIuar.

Diamond In q Cigar.
Citizens Of Hubbard stopping at q
local hotel here and attending district
court tell strange stdry Of suddenly
acquired wealth. Will Kyle a few days
ago bought a cigar from dealer at
that place. The cigar giving poor serv-
Ice on account of some impeachment in
the drapptng, an examination was
made with q penknife and diamond
was found: The sparkler is valued at
1926. Hillsboro Correspondence
Houston Post, .,,i 81
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
Americas Bio Sixteen-inch Gun.

No battleship yet built could stand
up for half an hour against the fire Of
the latest United States garrison ar
tillery sixteen-inch gun, let alone
their fourteen-inch. The sixteen-inch
gun, though slow in firing, can hurl a
projectile weighing twenty-four hun.
dred pounds distance of twenty
miles or more. The latest naval gun
thirteen and a half inch, which has
not yet been placed aboard any ship
III commission, can only throw pro.
jectile weighing twelve hundred and
fifty pounds. and the twelve-inch guns
with which the Dreadnoughts are
armed, a projectile weighing eight
hundred and fifty pounds.-Ale1ander
G. Mcclellan. in the Atlantic.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-02-01
H1 DOIKGs {zaEz
cs i !; Il us !
Uncle Sam May Yet Intervene in Cuba

troops within q So hours embarka-
ton point.
When Secretary of War Dickinson
and Brig.-Gen. Clarence Edwards,
chief of the bureau of insular affairs
of the war department. visited Cuba
in November, last year, they were
startled and amazed by the disrupted
and corrupt conditions which they
found existing there.
1t was on the strength of their re-
port and those of John B. Jackson,
minister to Cuba, that the admins
tration deemed it advisable to have
troops and munitions of war in readi-
ness for immediate use. Leading off,
GERS of the army do not believe shat
the American flag can be planted In
Cuba without bloodshed. -
According to reports in the war and
state departments, it has been the
practise" of the United States pro.
tege president in Cuba, Jose Miguel
Gomez, that has led to the undoing OF
all that Gen. Leonard Wood, Presi.
dent Taft and Governor Magoon did
to put the government on substan'
| tial basis. These reports state that
many measures have been pushed
through the Cuban legislature for the
benefit of special interests.
Officers of the army familiar with
| conditions in Cuba liken them to
those in Corea, saying the only differ
| ence is that the factions in Cuba have
not reached the poisoning stage and
| that they would rather have a revolu
| ton than proceed along the same
! lines as did Corea before being an
! nexed by Japan. These officers say
they look for final intervention by the
United States within three months.