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Webb Company In Chares FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1903. THE BULGE IN WHEAT. When the price of wheat soars the Northwest rarely has rooro for complaint. As a general thing we accept a gift horse of that sort without looking at the animal's teeth. But when the Juty option is forced up in the market it is worth while inquiring into the causes which prompt it.

Yesterday there was a considerable rise in the price of the cereal for the July option The reason assigned for the sudden price was that the dry weather had so long in the Northwest that there was und for the assumption that the crop would be light. The facts scarcely justify the action of the market. There is nothing like a menacing drought prevalent in the northern wheat growing states. The ground was in excellent condition when the seed was put in. The spring precipitation was equal to the normal, perhaps a trifle above the average.

When the snow went off the ground was moist. A very protracted of dry weather would be needed to overcome the natural conditions during the period of germination. The seed had an excellent chance and the grain stooled well. That should carry the growing grain well into the summer. And it will.

There has not been sufficient moisture to worry the farmer, neither has there been such a protracted dry spell as to alarm the Northwestern farmer knows what the soil and the wheat will stand. It will take some weeks of drought yet to make the Minnesota or North Dakota farmer worry about his crops. The behavior of the market suggests speculative manipulation. The July option closed Tuesday at cents and at the close yesterday the price was. cents.

"Drought," said the speculators. But the farmer is inclined to be more optimistic. There is nothing in the railroad crop reports to justify anything like lalatui. Since Rostand was made an immortal it is said that he shuns Paris, where people are anxious to fete him, for the country where he is almost unknown. Another case of preferring to serve in heaven rather than elsewhere.

BEER BRED COLLEGIANS. The leader of the party of German agriculturists that lias been touring this country looking into our methods of agriculture and education is credited with having said that he could not understand how the college boys of the United States get along without beer. Says he: "The students can't have the enthusiasm we have in our German schools by drinking water, It is beer that inspires them." Our German friend cannot have gone far in the study of the American collegian if he believes that he lacks enthusiasm. Unhappily, the German farmers toured this country in the close season for football. Had it been given him to observe a gang of college men announcing their satisfaction over the successful outcome of a ball game he must have had a very different idea of their capacity to enthuse.

But aside from this, he leaves himself open to a quarrel over the proposition that beer is more inspiring than mere water. It is a notable fact that those students in American colleges who are given to the drinking of beer, who are prone to sit about nights testifying that, ''It is always fair weather when good fellows get together. With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear," are not the ones wear blue ribbons at commence- ment time. The drinking of beer is not generally conducive to the development of those qualities that fit the young man of today for the strenuous that is the life most of the college boys have to live after they have forgotten their classics and given over looking for a chance to peddle classic knowledge. Things may be different in Germany.

Perhaps the beer is different, too. There is no doubt about the thoroughness of the German university training. But the inspiration and the beer that carry the German student through the dueling days o-f his career do not much help in his earnest after studies. The American student is ordinarily turned loose on the world before he grows whiskers; the German student carries deep drinking and high thinking well into his thirty's. The German visitor's complaint about the lack of beer will not be taken too seriously.

The boy who drinks water and shrieks inharmonious things in the form of college yells by way of letting off his excess enthusiasm is much more likely to get along in life than the chap who is envied of his class because he can empty a four-liter stein at a draught and who knows the code duello to that extent that he is entitled to a hearing when he discusses Schopenhauer. Scientists have discovered that Romulus did not found Rome. It's only a question of time before somebody finds out that Noah did not build the ark and that Croesus lived in an almshouse. CLAUDE DUVAL UP TO DATE. The other day in Colorado highwaymen escaping from prison carried with them the wife of the warden that they might use her as a target for stray bullets intended for themselves.

Less recently a highwayman breaking into a house was discovered by the inmates and treated kindly by them. One of the women of the house labored earnestly to bring about his moral regeneration and he departed apparently converted. The next day, however, not only were the family spoons missing, but many of the kind-hearted missionary's most precious keepsakes as well. We are progressing in many things, but not in the matter of highwaymen. Time was when to be a highwayman was to be a gallant.

Though thieves from choice, they were gentlemen by instinct, and while frequently they found it necessary to relieve a lady of her purse or her jewels, they did it with all the grace of a Raleigh laying his coat before a queen. To, do a gallant deed gallantly is a mark of caste; but to do an ungallant deed gallantly was the mark of the highwayman of long ago. In Chicago it is the fashion for high-vaymen, making' a tour of Chicago highways for the looting, to ride in automobiles. But this is no proof tlratSfac Chicago iighwayman is of a superior class. no evidence of inward refinement.

Those Windy City highwaymen have openly insulted the residents of the houses they visited by applying the-acid test to the family silver. Of course, everybody knows that all is not gold or silver either that glitters in Chicago, but the highwaymen of earlier days would have carried both the solid and the plated ware away rather than expose the owners to tWe mortification of the acid test, though to be sure this little device saved those citizens enough knives, forks and spoons to eat the next morning. But it all proves conclusively that highway, robbery is no longer regarded as a fine art in this country, at any rate. There may be honor among thieves, but there's no gallantry. The man who robs nowadays has no time to compose a sonnet to the eyebrows of the lady who is the victim.

If he stops for any little attention, indeed, it is to black her eyes or something of that sort. Perhaps the world does not regret the courteous highwayman, though he was a joy forever to the comic opera librettist. But surely if highwaymen are necessary evils, it is much better to have the polite varie'y than the kind that uses defenseless women as targets or that listens to their kindly admonitions and then decamps with their precious heirlooms. Count de Montesquiou says the poet is a philanthropist. There is this difference, however, between the poet and Carnegie.

People are glad to keep what Andy gives but the poet's contribution is nearly always returned. COURTESIES AT KIEL. Whether there is method in Emperor William's courtesy or not, the fact remains that the. habit he lias acquired of going out- Of his way to say pleasant things to the American people impels Yankees to look upon him as a good fellow. The effort he has made to make the visit of our European squadron at Kiel a pleasant one is only the most recent in a long train of events by which the emperor has sought to establish cordial relations between this nation and his own.

It's a fact worthy of comment, however, that what William professes to admire most in this country, he strives most zealously to suppress in his own. He is loud in his assertions that the American woman, because of her dash and daring, is the most fascinating of all women. But he limits the German housewife's sphere to the church, the nursery and the kitchen. "American men are the best kind of men," he remarked the other day in commenting on the readiness of the American to assume the initiative. But in a speech delivered later, he assured his people that his ideal man was the soldier, trained to perfect obedience by the rigid rules oj the military service.

He frankly avows his admiration for some of our most democratic institutions, but he never loses an opportunity to impress on his subjects his absolute faith in the divine right of the Hohenzollerns to rule. It is difficult to be consistent and a king. Kafser William may admire what he professes to admire in us, while realizing that for reasons geographical these same things would not do for his own country. Or he may. inwardly contemn what he openly admires.

At any rate, whether it is conviction and policy together, or policy, he gives his actions the impress of the which is, after all, the main thing. When in his German fashion he tells us he admires us immensely we inclined to believe him, even though we know that the minute we turn our backs, he will warn his subjects to be as unlike us as possible. But courtesies between kings nowadays or between an emperor and the president of a republic are only important when they open the eyes of a people of the two nations to points of resemblance between themselves and awaken between the two sympathy and an honest liking. Emperor William's policy and Uncle Sam's cordial acceptance of it are accomplishing this. Americans have grown to have a cordial liking for the fatherland which has furnished to this country some of its best citizens.

PROMOTING PERJURY. The oath that foreigners desiring to become naturalized in the United States will have to subscribe to in the future will contain this clause: "That I do not advocate or teach the duty, necessity or propriety of the unlawful.assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the government of the United States or of any other organized government, because of his or their official character." What is the use of it? Would a man who held human life so cheap that he would scruple to take it to promote his own ideas of government be hindered in the carrying out of his nefarious designs by the mere imposition of the necessity for taking an oath? It is hardly likely. There have been anarchists and nihilists who held their word sacred, but they were not of the bloody kind; they were of the school of theoretical anarchs. As well tether a wild beast with a thread as try to restrain the anarchist with an oath to refrain from anarchy. At a dinner which she attended the other day Sarah Bernhardt soaked her head with wine.

Had the dramatic critics made the suggestion to her, she would have been furious. Parisians have gone crazy, it is said, over "lopeing; the lope." We get even with Paris for sending us her fashions by sending her our diversions. Ambassador White says that President Roosevelt and Emperor William look alike. Who is Mr. White trying to knock? EDITORIAL EXPRESSIONS.

Yachts Are Nearing the Limit. It is worthy of note that very little improvement has taken place in either the general construction or the qualities of the large class of yachts in recent years. Take the three Shamrocks, for instance. It would take an expert to tell them apart, and it is an admitted fact that the superiority of the last and newest Shamrock over the first of the name is rather in handiness and maneuvering qualities than in speed. Even some of this superiority may be due to the hand at the tiller rather to the better qualities of the newest boat.

Among the American boats much the same conditions are noticeable. While the Reliance has shown superiority, it is so slight that in several trial races She came near being beaten by her predecessors, particularly by the Constitution, which was considered inferior to the old cup defender Columbia at the time of the last cup Orleans Picayune. Rottenness Is of Long Growth. Through long and persistent sway of the spoils system in the past and flagrant violations of the civil service law by the spoilsmen who have been appointed to use the service to reward party henchmen the postoffite department has become honeycombed with rottenness and official rascality. The spirit of grab and graft has become rampant.

Successful in negotiating for "rake-offs" on a small scale without detection minor officials appear to have become bolder in their projects for lining their pockets with tribute levied upon contractors for furnish ing supplies. The entire department should be probed to the bot- Herald branch the Record- His Luck to Strike the Wrong Official. A cashier of a private bank in New York is in Havin read in the newspapers of the "accessibility of government officials, he wrote to the treasury department informing an official that he had a piece of land which he desired to sell to the government, and that if this official would aid him in the sale he would give to him one-half the profits. As the government was tryinjr to secure the land for a postoffice.ske, he was arrested Having read the papers the unfortunate man now sees that his mistake was in directing the letter to thr wrong News. tO tbc THE ST.

PAUL GLOBE, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1903. The Ferris Stock company, in "Worn-, an Against Woman," will close its presentation of this play with a performance tonight, tomorrow night, and a popular price tnatinee tomorrow afternoon. The bill for next week, beginning Sunday night, with the usual Wednesday and Saturday matinees, will be a production of "Sapho." Seats for this engagement are now selling at the box office. What the Editors Say Gov. Van Sant has appointed the Minnesota state art commission, which exists by virtue of an enactment of the late legislature.

The new board is a sort of Twin City trust so far, but after Minneapolis and St. Paul have been made artistic, the rest of us will come in for a little polishing, and in the course of time may win a place on the Times. The renewed reports of Pope Leo's failing health call attention to the fact that his pontificate has already been longer than any other in the history of the papacy except that of his predecessor, Pius who was elected in 1846 and died In 1878. According to tradition the longest pontificate prior to Pius IX. was that of Saint Peter, the first of the Roman bishops.

Besides these two occupants of the papal chair, only eight of the 259 popes prior to Leo XIII. reigned more than twentyone years, the average being a little over seven Free Press. A New Brunswick clergyman says there are no female angels.and the Phoenix (Arizona) Democrat very forcibly reminds him that they are in every household and beside every sick bed in Arizona. And we beg to remind him that they are also to be found in other states. God bless Belle Herald.

1 We prefer to hold down the humble position of pencil pusher on the Independent than be king of Servia. Cambridge Independent. Ex-Senator John A. Johnson, editor of the St. Peter Herald, is one of the ablest and most honest men In the Democratc party of Minnesota.

He is more than likely to receive the gubernatorial nomination from his party in 1904. He certainly will if his party is seeking the beat man. Earth Post. The acquittal of Kohler in St. Paul Is one of the events that tend to keep the people guessing as to what a petit jury will Gazette.

Example of Veregin Is Having Good Effect. WINNIPEG, June 25. Peter Veregin, the former Siberian convict and present leader of the Canadian Doukhobors, has brought peace to the troubled communities at Yorktown and at Rosthern, and has made good progress in his self-imposed task of converting the fanatical Doukhobors into Canada farmers. One of the most difficult features of the Doukhobor settlement with which the immigration authorities have had to deal was the refusal of the members to homestead the land. Their opinions have within the past few months undergone a decided change in this respect.

Every male Doukhobor over the age of eighteen years has applied for a quarter section, and 1,743 homestead entries have been made since Veregin's arrival in this country. It is significant that the name of Nicoli Zebroff, who was the prime leader of the last two pilgrimages, appears as the attorney of 500 of the settlers who made application during the last month. Although seemingly a little thing, Veregin made one change during'hiar visit to Winnipeg which is destined to have a great effect on the Doukhobor communities. Wfaile in the office of the commissioner of immigration he had expressed the wish to become a good Canadian, and suggestion was made that he should begin by dressing in the clothes of the country. The Doukhobor leader said nothing, but when he reappeared at the immigration office the following day a wonderful transformation in his appearance had taken place.

His hair was cut short, the long, sweeping beard had completely disappeared, and in place of the Russiah blouse "and trousers Veregin was attired in a suit of "store clothes," with jail the accessories of starched linen and neat cravat. Veregin was a little I uncomfortable, was proud of the fact that he had sacrificed his personal feelings to his loyalty to his adopted country. The costumes of the followers will not be long in undergoing a similar change. Veregin has set another and more important example. He has begun the study of English, and knows enough of it now "to pronounce familiar words and to write his name in English characters; CHICAGO, June steps toward the erection of a $3,000,000 art museum in Chicago has been taken.

The trustees of the National Art museum have selected the Illinois Trust and Savings bank as a repository. The subscription books will be opened and the task of collecting the funds commenced. One of the trustees who will receive the funds subscribed is Brooks, of St. Paul. Minnesota and fair Friday and Saturday; variable winds.

Upper Friday, wanner in west portion; Saturday fair; variable winds. North Friday and Saturday. South warmer Friday- Saturday fair. Friday; Saturday warmer in central and east portions Friday, warmer in northwestern portion; Faturday fair. St.

temperatures taken by the United States weather bureau, St. Paul, W. E. Oliver, observer, for the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock last corrected for temperature and elevation. Highest temperature, 79; lowest temperature, 66; average temperature, 64; daily range, 23; barometer 29.98; humidity, 53; precipitation p.

m. temperature, 78; 7 p. m. wind, east; weather, Yesterday's Alpena 74 74 Battleford ....70 78 Huron 72 76 Bismarck 80 88 Buffalo 66 62' Los Angeles .70 78 Boston 54 ...60 62 Calgary 62 68 78 Chicago 62 64 Medicine Hat 70 80 Cincinnati 78Milwaukee ...60 68 Cleveland 68 70 Minnedosa ...74 74' Denver 72 74 New Orleans .84 92 Dcs Moines ..76 76 New York 60 64 Detroit 66 74 Oklahoma 78 80 Duluth 78 80 Philadelphia .66 72 El Paso 90 90 San Francisco 66 62 Edmonton ....64 Louis 80 80 Galveaton 80 Lake 84 86 Grand Haven .6:2 GSSte. Marie ...62 66 Green Bay ....68 78Washington ..68 72 Havre 74 76 84 time (7 p.

m. St. Paul) River Danger Gauge Change In Line. Reading. 24 Hours.

St. Paul 14 3.9 La Crosae 6.1 0 4 Davenport 15 6.4 0 4 St. Louia 30 26.1 0.5 The Mississippi will continue to fall slowly in the vicinity of St. Paul during next thirty-six hours. At st.

Paul Theaters DOUKHOBORS PROGRESS. Art Museum for Chicago. TODAY'S WEATHER. Men, Women and Things With all the rapid advance of the ages, now and then one comes across some time-honored institution that has stood perfectly still. This is the case with the Sunday school.

All the discoveries of science and the latest inventions, such as automobiles and flying machines do help the Sunday school even a little. So apparent are these facts, and so deep the rut that the Sunday school has fallen into, that it has been a subject of discussion even in Chicago, where, It was supposed, Sunday schools were not regarded as vital. But, says some of the Sunday school workers, something must be done to bring that institution up to date and keep it abreast of the times. The fact that there is no Scriptural warrant for Sunday schools may worry some persons very much, but it cannot be denied that it has the stamp of age and approval in high places. It is asserted that the children recognize the difference between the advanced methods used in their weekday school and the antiquated notions taught in the Sunday school, and of course this reflects upon the church, which should lead to progress, not lag behind.

So the Sunday school is to be reformed, and the latest ideas in ethics Introduced. One cannot but fear that we are going to lose our only Dowie. He has been challenged to a prayer duel, something entirely new in religious stunts, and the terms laid down by the challenger make it look exceedinly shaky for the Zion leader. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is the man who desires to endeavor to pray Dowie to a standstill, and he says that they shall "petition the Almighty that of us two whoever is the liar shall perish first." Every patriotic American who knows anything of Dowie will not fail to put his money on the Zionist. The latter has not yet sent his acceptance, and it is supposed that he wants time to settle up his affairs.

In Parkersburg, W. there is a young man who falls into a trance every now and then, and is, to all appearances, dead, and is prepared for burial by his sorrowing relatives. This has happened to him seven times, and he has only two more such experiences to give him as many lives as the proverbial cat. Seven times already he has awakened to find an undertaker in his room, and once it occurred in the dead of night and one undertaker went permanently out of the business. This youth who dies so frequently says, when in the trance, he has beautiful dreams, when he thinks he is in heaven, but once or twice he dreamed he was somewhere else, and when he awakened even the presence of the undertaker was comforting.

The Virginia youth might be the hero of. Ibsen's last dramatic offering, "When the Dead Awaken." A very large women went out to White Bear the other day, accompanied by a thin woman, and the two hired a boat and started out to enjoy thmselves. After a pleasant afternoon they rowed toward shore, just as a St. Paul man who had been fishing was making for the same dock. The man put down his oars and decided to let the two women land first, and he sat watching their operations.

The fat woman sat in the stern and the thin woman lumped out as they reached the shore and was about to pull the boat up, when suddenly the fat woman stood up. There being no weight at the other end, she turned a back somersault and sat down in the water, which was not very deep. Her head was above water, and she glared about with an indignation too deep for words. The man in the other boat managed to keep his face straight, but he never moved a finger. The fat woman stared at him.

"Why don't you do something?" she asked him angrily. "Because, madame," he answered blandly, "these is nothing for me to do. If you get upon your feet you can walk ashore." The woman rose majestically, leaving a large dent in the lake, and walked Into the hotel nesr by, making a trail of water behind her. She told the proprietor of the hotel that she never saw such a rude man in her life as one she had just encountered in a boat Many persons are wondering what novelty Newport will offer to the weary four hundred this summer to distract their minds from the monotony of their lives. For to spend money unceasingly, and yet never to get to the bottom of the barrel, must become tiresome.

As the latest fad in New York seems to be performing animals, it is supposed that Newporters may be amused by something in this line. One of the roof gardens is showing nightly a horse that appears in a dress suit and undresses and goes to bed before the audience. This is highly diverting, and may give an idea to Harry Lehr, who is usually Newport's ringmaster. It is rumored that the redoubtable Harry is training a parrot which is going to astonish the smart set later by its conversation. With the trainer it has the parrot is not likely to talk over the heads of its audience.

One of the New York papers laughs at the report industriously circulated by Atlantic City hotels that the Duchess of Marlborough had been ordered there by her physicians. Ordinary folk have a physician, but titled ones have physicians. The paper in question regards this rumor as "preposterous," and almost sacrilegious for such an ordinary place as Atlantic City to take the name of Marlborough in vain. Hotel keepers have the most amazing affrontery thus to trifle with the names of the great. Among the picnics of this week were those of the grocers and the butchers and it is surprising to learn that it was the grocers instead of the butchers who went to Carver.

The grocers should have gone to Sugar Loaf and the druggists to Medicine Hat. The Dispatch states that the eighteen-months-old boy that was run over the other day was "residing with his parents." One would suppose that he would be stopping at the Ryan. Mr. Sucker, of Sioux City, is mourning the departure of his bride and his money. At times there seems to be something in a name.

The homeliest man in the country has been arrested for eloping with a Denver girl. She should have been locked up instead on suspicion of insanity. When the Servians shouted "Lone live the king," Peter said amen softly to himself. St. Paul, June 25, 1903.

NEGROES WANT TO REMOVE TO AFRICA Congress Is Asked to Appropriate a Million for Emigration. MONTGOMERY June Colored National Emigration Aid commission today adopted a resolution favoring the chartering of ships in 1904 to carry colonies of negroes to Liberia, Africa A petition to the president and congress was adopted citing the wrongs from which the rS CJi AUI Ali? nd an appropriation of $1,000,000 to transport negroes to Liberia. This petition, it was explained did not mean that this should be a wholesale deportation or compulsory emigration. Where Tiliman Will Be Tried. COLUMBIA, S.

June Townsend today announced that the trial of James H. Tillman, charged with the murder of N. G. Gonzales, would be heard in Lexington county in September. Crist of the Political MUI Although Congressman Tawney was as usual a model of discretion, his visit to St.

Paul this week renewed the Interest in the First district situation and the young man, who has represented that bailiwick of solid Republicanism in congress for ten years. 8 8 Tawney never talks much for publication. Bitter experience has taught him it is good form to give out interviews in typewritten and carefully examined manuscript, but he was unusually reticent upon the occasion of his last St. Paul visit He expressed no views on the postal scandal or the probability of his becoming the chairman of the house postoffiee committee. 8 8 The gossip connecting Tawney's name with the chairmanship of the postoffice committee is extremely gratifying to his friends in more than one particular.

And, incidentally, the belief that the Winona man may land in that not altogether enviable chairmanship is not at all unreasonable. 0 Tawney has made himself felt in congress. During the life of President McKinley, the Winona man was especially strong at the White house and became a recognized administration whip. While it is probably true that he does not now occupy the same exalted altitude at the executive mansion, he is far from an insignificant quantity with the president and he is undoubtedly very close to Joe Cannon, who will rule the next house. Cannon is quite as much the man who "does things" as is the president.

His ideas of governmental economy are so strait-laced that he has again and again been accused of niggardly tendencies. It is considered an almost foregone conclusion that Cannon will want to head the postal committee a man who is not alone strong but who is a friend and confidant of the speaker. 0 The congressman who secures this chairmanship will have ample opportunity to distinguish himself, even if at the expense of a selected scapegoat. Tawney is considered justly enough as not a bit averse to adding laurels to his congressional crown and the chairmanship of the postofnce committee need not impair his chances on the committee on ways and means. a The committee on ways and means is considered by many of Tawney's friends as the block from which the Winona man will mount to the speaker's gavel.

A spectacular success with a postoffice investigation might do quite as well or better. But if the selection materializes it will have another and quite as important value for Tawney. 0 Cannon picks the- Winona man to head the postoffice committee' the First district congressional situation is sewed up indefinitely unless the committee manages to fall down shamefully. The prestige of such a choice would effectually relieve Tawney of the opposition he encountered a year ago and which is bound to come to Minnesota man re-elected four times unless something like Providence intervenes. 0 The Republican majority is so big in the First district that it is difficult to impress with any particular degree of permanency the necessity of sending valuable men back to congress as long as the valuable men will consent to have their value enhanced by prolonged service.

Tawney really is a valuable man to district, but a spectacular chairmanship would go much farther to impress that on his constituency than the, advancement of one or two places on the ways and means committee. 0 V'WV "District Attorney Folk, who prosecuted the St. Louis boodlers, was offered a $15,000 residence as a gift of appreciation by his friends and de- clined it. He is a good Democrat and there are others." Lea Standard: All of which; does not necessarily mean that the Standard will urge the necessity of nominating Mr. Folk for president.

The Lake Crystal Union plays the following suggestive futurity stakes: "Senator Hanna is for Roosevelt. A wise course. Hanna next term." That's very nice and, of course, complimentary to our old friend, Mark, in a degree which all Minnesota Republicans would heartily indorse if we did not need that presidential job for Van Sant when Roosevelt gets through with it. A. VanSmlth.

COAL MINERS ARE GETTING THEIR DUE Receive Increased Pay Under Commission Scale Before They Expected it. WILKESBARRE. June Delaware, Lackawanna Western Coal company for the first time began paying: its employes today the they are entitled to under the sliding scale provided for by the strike commission. The is 2 per cent, which the men did not expect to receive so soon. The Plymouth Coal company announced today that it would pay the sliding scale of 2 per cent beginning on Saturday next.

The board of conciliation met here today for organization. The personnel of the board is: W. L. Connoll, individual operator of Scranton; R. C.

Luther, general superintendent of the Philadelphia Reading colliery; S. D. Warriner. general superintendent of the Lehigh Valley company's mines; T. D.

Nichols, president of District No. 1. U. M. W.

of William Dettrey, president of District No. 7. and John Fahey, president of District No. 9. The board was organized by the selection of W.

L. Connell as president and T. D. Nlcholls secretary. The board has adopted rules to govern the presentation and settlement of differences.

LYNCHINGS IN ALABAMA ARE IMPROBABLE Gov. Jelks' Conclusions on the Affair at Wilmington. MONTGOMERY, June response to a telegraphic inquiry as to his opinion of the failure thus far to arrest the members of the Wilmington (Del.) mob which burned at the stake George White, a negro. Gov. Jelks replied: "Such a gruesome affair has always been impossible in any populous section of this state and lynchings of any kind are very improbable now tn either the smaller or the larger communities of Alabama.

That murderers should be punished in Delaware as in Alabama rational persons must agree." Panama Treaty Looking Up. WASHINGTON D. C. June in Washington of the Panama Canal company have received cable dispatches from Bogota to the effect that the sentiment in Colombia of intense opposition to the ratification of the Panama canal treaty has undergone considerable change. While there is still much opposition, the dispatches say the prospects are for early ratification of the treaty, without amendment, earlier than was expected.

PRESIDENT INVITES SNUB FROM RUSSIA He Decides to Forward the American Jews' Petition to the Czar. WASHINGTON, D. June president has decided to transmit to the Russian government the petition presented to him by the executive council of B'nai B'rlth regarding the treatment of the Jews in Russia. At first it-was decided that the petition should not be presented because it might be resented by Russia and cause a break in the relations of the two countries. However, the first conclusion has been reconsidered, and the petition will now go forward.

A note from Secretary Hay to Simon Wolf says: "The matter which he (the president) had to consider most seriously was whether or not such a proceeding would be to the advantage of your persecuted and outraged co-religionists in Russia. On this point he has decided to accept your opinion and that of the numerous a)id Intelligent groups of American citizens of the Jewish faith whom you represent. He requests that you will send him the petition in due form at your earliest convenience." The petition is the one which the executive council of the B'Nai B'rith handed to the president as a tentative document to be signed by leading citizens of the United States outside cf federal officeholders. It will take about two weeks to secure these signatures. Count Cassini went to the state department and consulted with Secretary Hay.

At the White house conference on the 15th inst. the Jews had made the point that the czar was kept from a knowledge of the truth as to the condition of the Jews in his empire by the bureaucrats who hedged him about, and they were sure that if the president would only once assist them in laying their case before the czar himself he would at once adopt measures to alleviate their condition. The president promised to do what he could. It was at once perceived that to do what was asked involved the danger of a short reply, and a disposition developed to regard the full publicity which had been given to the White house conference as sufficient to meet the needs of the case. The Jews, however, were not satisfied with this passive attitude and the president decided to adopt the bold course of sending their petition directly to the czar through the United States embassy.

Officially, it is expected that this will be received, but privately there have been intimations from informed sources that the czar will never be permitted to see the petition, as the Russian prime minister will not receive it for transmission. If there is to be a refusal on the part of the Russian government to receive the Jewish petition then upon Mr. Ridley, United Statcti charge at St. Petersburg, will fall the mortification, for Ambassador McCormick has not yet returned to his post from Chicago, and it is therefore possible that whatever happens at St. Petersburg when Mr.

Ridley undertakes his disagreeable task may delay the ambassador's return to St. Petersburg indefinitely. Of course, in such case Count Cassini, who is sailing a week from today for Russia, might make a correspondingly long stay at home. Upon the departure of Count Cassini, Theodore Hansen, the first secretary of the embassy, will act as charge. Count Cassini's plans contemplated a return to the United States in September.

WOMAN SEEKS DIVORCE IN STILLWATER Mrs. Riley Says Her Husband Has Given Her Only $30 in Three Years. Judge Williston has taken under consideration an application for divorce made by Mrs. Annie W. Riley.

who seeks separation from Joseph G. Riley on the grounds of non-support and abuse. They were married in Minneapolis three years ago, and during that time Riley has not contributed more than $30 toward the support of his wife, she says. Witness testified to ill treatment. Mrs.

Riley's first husband was the late W. W. Holcombe, for many years a well known resident of Stillwater. M. H.

Murray was buried yesterday in the Catholic cemetery at South Stillwater. Frank G. Peterson, proprietor of the St. Paur house, yesterday purchased an additional piece of ground adjoining his property from William MeKusiek. trustee of the estate of the late John McKusick.

Chief of Police McOree was advised early yesterday morning that robbers had entered the postoffiee at Boardman, during the night and blown the safe Into pieces. The robbers secured $40 belonging to the postmaster, some money belonging to the government and a quantity of stamps. The little son of John Placier. of Oneka. brought to the city hospital to be operated upon for appendicitis, is very low with peritonitis.

KANSAS CITY MUST DO WITHOUT "THE FOURTH" Use of Fireworks Prohibited Because of Scant Water Supply. KANSAS CITY. June first train over the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul bridge since the flood crossed the Missouri river on the restored bridge today. Street car service to Kansas City.

on ono of the three lines will be resumed Sunday. Owing to the inadequate water supply the police have forbidden the use of fireworks and tire arms. This will prevent the usual celebration of the Fourth of July. LOSES ARM IN MILL. Brainerd Young Man Is Horribly Mangled.

BRAINERD, June 25. Small, a young man seventeen years of age, was horribly mangled at the Brainerd Lumber company's mill. The young man was cleaning some gearing in the vicinity of the machinery where the refuse from the mill goes. He had a small stick in his hand, and, was trying to brush back some of the refuse. The stick got caught in the gearing, and in trying to get it out the left hand of the young man also got caught and the entire arm was dragged in.

An alarm was given and the machinery of the mill had to be stopped, and it took fully fifteen minutes to extricate the young man from his painful position. He was removed to St. Joseph's hospital, and it was found necessary to amputate his left arm at the shoulder. The boy is a son of Mrs. William Onstine, and is well known in this city.

It is thought that he will pull through. insurance Company Quits. CHICAGO. June underwriters of the Scottish American Fire association, the Lloyds of this city, have decided to liquidate the institution, pay return premiums and go out of business..