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VOL. XXVI.—NO. 229.
BULGARIA INDICTS
TURK FOR CRUELTY
Presents Formar Memorandum to the Powers Setting
Forth a Detailed Statement of the Atrocities Which
Have Led Up to the Uprising in Macedonia—Docu
ment Is a Strong Defense of the Revolutionists and a
Practical Declaration of Allegiance to Their Cause.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 16. —The Bul
garian government has presented a
memorandum to the powers setting
out at great length the condition of
affairs during the past three months in
Macedonia since the Turkish govern
ment undertook to inaugurate the
promised reforms. The most precise
details, dates, places and names of per
sons are given in the memorandum,
the whole constituting a terrible cate
gory of murder, torture, incendiarism,
pillage and general oppression com
mitted by the Ottoman soldiers and
officials. These particulars were ob
tained entirely from official sources,
such as reports of the Bulgarian con
suls and agents of the Bulgarian gov
ernment, and, in many instances, the
reports made by Turkish authorities.
The Bulgarian government guarantees
the absolute truth of every statement
and challenges the porte to disprove a
single charge made in the memoran
dum.
The memorandum begins by stating
that during the past three months, the
Ottoman government has taken a series
MATRIMONY IS HIS CURE-ALL
Mayor of Hammond, md., Issues Proclamation Asking Manu
facturers to Employ Oniy Married Men.
Special to The Globe.
HAMMOND, Ind., Aug. 16.—Mayor
Knotts, who recently offered free mar
riage to single men and later advocated
municipal cleaning-up days, and who
himself, with hoe and pick ax, led
gangs of men to remove debris from
the city, has again leaked into the lime
light with a new idea in municipal
encomonics. He alvocates the employ
ment of married men only by Ham
mond manufacturers for encomonic
reasons, which he explain in a lengthy
letter, copies of which were sent to the
heads of various industries v >«r"..
Domesticity and married life are the
mayor's hobby, and his wits are always
working to get the young men of the
city to take wives to themselves and
VETERANS REACH
GOLDEN (ATE CITY
Fifty Thousand Expected in
San Francisco When Day
of Parade Arrives.
Veterans Reach San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 16 —
While the formal exercises of the na
tional reunion of the Grand Army of the
Republic do not begin until tomorrow,
the encampment was to all intent and
purposes opened today with the ar
rival of Gen. Thomas Stewart, com
mander-in-chief, on a special train
bearing 365 members of the different
Pennsylvania posts. Other distin
guished arrivals today were: Gen. Nel
son A. Miles and Gen. John C. Black,
who is most prominently spoken of
as the next commander-in-chief of the
G. A. R. Trains arrived all day and
late tonight bringing many members
and veterans. The registration bureau
and information booths were thronged
all day.
It will be Tuesday before all incom
ing trains will have arrived and on
Wednesday, the day set for the parade,
It Is estimated that there will be fully
80,000 visitors in the city. Tomorrow
night the local posts will inaugurate
the encampment with receptions to the
veterans.
ALLISON AND CANNON
CONFER IN CHICAGO
Profound Secrecy Is Observed as to
Reason for Meeting.
CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—Senator Wil
liam B. Allison, of lowa, and Con
gressman Joseph G. Cannon, of Illi
nois, elated as speaker of the next
house, held a conference at the Au
ditorium Annex tonight, but neither
statesman would discuess the meet-
Ing.
"I saw Senator Allison," said Con
gressman Cannon, "but there is nothing
I can say about our meeting. lam on
my way to Nebraska."
Senator Allison remained but a short
time In Chicago and as he did not see
any other politician during his visit
It is surmised that he came especially
for the conference with Congressman
Cannon.
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE.
of measures with the alleged intention
of .inaugurating the era of promised re
form and of assuring peace and tran
puility to the Bulgarian population of
European Turkey, but which have had
the contrary effect of further exasper
ating this population and reviving the
revolutionary movement. Instead of
proceeding solely against persons guilty
of breaches of the public order, the
civil and military authorities have
sought every possible pretext to perse
cute, terrorize and ruin the Bulgarian
inhabitants, alike in the large cities and
in the small villages.
Wholesale massacres, Individual mur
ders, the destruction of villages, the
pillaging and setting fire to houses, the
arrests, ill treatment, tortures, arbi
trary imprisonment and banishment,
the closing and disorganizing of
churches and schools, the ruining of
merchants, the collection of taxes for
many years in advance—^-such, proceeds
the memorandum, are among the acts
of the Ottoman administration of the
vilayets of Salonica, Monastir, Uskub
and Adrianopole.
Gives Details of Massacres.
The memorandum next relates In
detail a number of such cases in each
Continued on Fourth Page.
build up homes. During the recent la
bor troubles in Hammond he noticed
that the unmarried men were the first
to express dissatisfaction between the
employer and employe. He says that
they are the hardest to control in time
of disturbances, and when misfortune
comes as a result of their agitation
and indifference they leave the city
without loss to themselves, having
nothing to take with them but a reck
less and restless disposition, and noth
ing to leave behind them but unpaid
bills and a community the worse for
them having lived in it.
So Mayor Knotts wants the manu
facturers to tie to the married, men,
and begs them in his proclamation to
do so.
CATHOLICS LAY
A CORNER STONE
One More of the University of America
Buildings Is Begun.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 16.—Mgr.
Falconio, apostolic delegate to the
United States, today laid the corner
stone of the Dominican House of Stud
ies at Brookland, District of Colum
bia, and formally launched the con
struction of another adjunct to the
Catholic University of America. The
services were marked by pomp and
beauty and were attended by high
church dignitaries and clergy from
various parts of the country. The Holy
Name societies, who owe their origin
to the Order of St. Dominick, the
Knights of Columbus and the Ancient
Order of Hibernians, assisted in the
ceremonies. The Rt. Rev. William
O'Connell, bishop of Portland, Me., de
livered the sermon, which was a fer
vent exposition of the mission and val
ue to the Catholic church of the re
ligious orders.
The monastery will be a beautiful
building of pure Gothic style. The
higher studies for Dominican students
will be transferred from St. Joseph's
house of studies, at Somerset, Ohio, to
the new monastery, when completed,
and the latter will be the post graduate
school of the order.
Repairing the Massachusetts.
BAR HARBOR, Me., Aug. 16.—The
temporary repairs to the battleship
Massachusetts were continued today
under the supervision of Naval Con
structor Gilmore, and it is expected
that the ship will be ready to sail
Thursday for Brooklyn, where she will
be dry docked at the navy yard.
THE NEWS INDEXED. .
PAGE L
Panama Towns Demand Canal.
Sensation in Butte Prison.
Britain Gives Porte a Hint.
Co-operative Laundry Fails.
Walcott Buys Home.
Money Sent by Wireless.
Bulgaria Appeals to Powers.
Matrimony as a Cure-Ail.
Chicago Buys Diamond Field.
Crazy Fad Drives Burke Crazy,
PAGE 11.
Balmy Weather Filled Outing Places.
New Ward Still Open to Public.
PAGE 111.
News of the Northwest. *>
Rosebud Sioux Turn Down Treaty...
PAGE IV.
Editorial Comment.
PAGE V.
St. Paul-Todelo Game.
Baseball.
PAGE VI.
Globe Popular Wants.
PAGE VII.
Markets.
PAGE VIII.
What the Book Writers Are Doing.
Chicago 100 Year* Old.
MONDAY MORNIX3, AUGUST 17, 1903.
CHICAGO AIMS TO
CONTROL WORLD'S
DIAMOND OUTPUT
Organizes Big Holding Com
pany and Secures Possion of
Immense Concessions in Bra
zil—Claim Probable Dividends
of $600,000 Per Year.
Special to The Globe.
CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—1f the plans of
local capitalists go through Chicago
may gain control of the diamond out
put of Brazil as London has control
of that of South Africa. For this pur
pose the Brazilian Diamond and Gold
Development company has been organ
ized and accredited representatives left
Chicago today for Brazil to put the
enterprise in motion. Th»e president of
the company is Nicolay A. Grevstad,
editor of the Scandinavian newspaper
here. Associated with him are An
ton Peterson, S. J. Christianson, Dr. S.
Dahl and other prominent Scandina
vians of Chicago.
Contracts have been closed which
give the company control of 400,000
acres of the richest diamond fields in
Brazil, the Diamentia in the state of
Minas Geraes. Included In this conces
sion is the exclusive dredge mining
right on seventy miles of the river
Jiquitinhenha. F. Millon Johnson, a
mining engineer of wide experience,
and A. M. C. Brant, state's attorney of
Minas Garaes, are the men who left
today to take active charge of opera
tions. Basing the estimates of the
productiveness of contiguous "territory
in the diamond field the company ex
pects to make a profit of $400,000 to
$600,000 a year. The officers figure
that the concessions will become more
valuable as the diamond fields of South
Africa decrease in productiveness. It
was from a diamond mining expert of
South Africa that the Chicago men
conceived the idea of getting control
of the Brazilian fields. This man has
made a study of the gold and diamond
territories of the world. He was a vic
tim of the war in South Africa, had
been one of Cecil Rhodes' followers in
Somaliland, lost his money, collected
damages from Great Britain, came to
Chicago, laid his project before inter
ested men here and succeeded in hav
ing the development company organ
ized with the huge concessions assured.
LAUNDRYMEN FAIL -
TO DEMONSTRATE
Co-operative Experiment in
Chicago Is a Dismal
Disaster.
Special to The Globe.
CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—Farewell to
the co-operative laundry of the Laun
dry Workers' union was said when th>i
business was closed out at foreclosure
sale. Debts, it is said, have accumu
lated against the business; the books
are declared muddled, and the whole
venture a failure. In a quiet way the
collapse of the co-operative laundry is
one of the hardest blows given recently
to immature unionism. The plant was
bought by the workers in the thick of
their strike last May. With loud proc
lamations it was announced that they
were going to demonstrate that the
owners could pay the scale of wages
demanded and still make a handsome
profit. The new union scale was ad
hered to only two weeks. Since then
discontent has been manifest and the
business has gone steadily down hill.
While it is impossible to give exactly
the losses of the promoters of the co
operative venture, they can be stated
approximately. The committee bought
the place for $6,500, paying down nearly
$2,500, all the money in the treasury of
the organization. The move was ex
pected to be a vindication of the strike,
and nothing was held back. A mort
gage for $4,000 was given for the bal
ance of the purchase price. The ex
ecutive committee has since paid one
$100 note of the series secured by the
mortgage. Even wages were not reg
ularly paid.
SEELEY'S ASSAILANTS
ARE UNDER ARREST
Attack on Millionaire Was for Purpose
of Robbery.
PROVIDENCE, R. L, -Aug. 16.—
James H. Farrell and Fred Le Clair,
the self-confessed assailants of Isaac
B. Seeley, the New York manufacturer,
were captured here today. They said
that they entered Mr. Seeley's office
on Friday morning on a pretense of se
curing the work of washing windows,
attacked him and beat him into un
consciousness and robbed him of about
$60 in cash and a gold watch. In the
course of the struggle an office boy,
who came to the old gentleman's as
sistance, was also assaulted. Later the
men were taken to New York,
WALCOTT INVADES
THE HOLY OP HOLIES
Colored Prize Fighter Buys
Home in Aristocratic Part
of Maiden.
Special to The Globe.
MALDEN, Mass., Aug. 16.—Joe Wal
cott, the colored prize fighter, has
bought the house in Belmont street
next door to that of E. S. Converse, the
wealthiest man in the city, and moved
in. His family consists of a mulatto
wife, four young -children, a twelve
year-old sister and his white mother
in-law. Walcott paid $5,W0 for the
house.
Col. Harry Converse, son of E. S.
Converse, who alsa lives in the neigh
borhood, has tried io buy the property,
but Walcott would not sell for a rea
sonable price. Walcott says that if his
neighbors do not like a colored
family so near, they may move or they
can buy him out.
Asked what he would sell for, he
said: "I will sell for a nice advance on
what the place cost me."
POPE GIVES AUDIENCE
TO BISHOP HARTY
New Head of Church in Philippines Is
Cordially Received.
ROME, Aug. 16.—The pope at 5
o'clock this afternoon received at a
private audience In his apartment
Archb^hop Harty, who* was yesterday
consecrated archbishop of Manila by
Cardinal Satoli, with whom he spoke i
at length about. the situation in the
Philippine island, showing himself fully
conversant with the state of affairs
there. Pius X. said the efforts of the
clergy towards the pacification of the
archipelago and the tritfmph of Cathol
icism would always receive the warm
est support at Rome. He presented
to Archbishop Harty a beautiful
episcopal pastoral^ croas. Archbishop
Harty then presented to the pontiff his
secretary, Mgr. W. Fowler, and Father
Donohue, of Alabama, to both of whom
the pope addressed very kind words.
Garment Workers Elect.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 16.—The
United Garment Workers of America,
in national convention this afternoon,
elected officers and selected Buffalo, N.
V., for next year's convention. There
was no opposition to the positions of
president and secretary and B. A. Lar
ger, of Cincinnati, and, Henry White, of
New York, were re-elected to those
positions by unanimous vote. T. J.
Crossley, of Brooklyn, was elected au
ditor and Henry Waxman, of New
York, treasurer.
PANAIIA TOWNS
DEMAND THE (M
Congress at Bogota Plainly Told
That Hay-Herran Treaty
Must Be Approved.
PANAMA, Aug. 16.—The following
cablegram in favor of tfee Panama ca
nal treaty was forwarded this after
noon:
"The Vice President of Colombia, Bo
gota: The municipalities of David,
Aqua Dulce, Santiago de Veraguas,
Sona la Mesa, Montejo, Chepo, Chamej
Ghorrerora. San Carlos, Emperador
and numerous others request congress
to approve the Hay-Herran treaty,
which signifies the s-alvation of the
isthmus. I am sending by mail the
original petitions. Inform the house
of representatives and the senate and
publish. —Demetrio Brid,
"President of the - Municipality of
Panama."
Nearly all the municipalities of the
isthmus have already answered fa
vorably the request of the municipal
council here to send a petition to con
gress in favor of the ratification of the
canal treaty.
ST. LOUIS SHAKEN
BY AN EARTHQUAKE
Shock Was Severe and Was Also Felt
at Alton, 111.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.^Aug. 16.—An earth
quake shock which lasted for several
seconds was distinctly felt In all parts
of St. Louis early-' htis morning. So
marked was the seismic disturbance
that many slumbering residents of the
city jumped from their bees in fright
and waited tremblingly for other and
greater shocks, but they did not ma
terialize. According to those who felt
the disturbance the shock took place at
3:53. -All agree that it was a jar
rather than a trembling of the earth,
but so violent w.as ita nature that
houses shook at their foundations as
If they would momentarily totter and
fall. No damage has been reported.
ALTON, HI., Aug. 16.—An earth
quake shock was felt here at 3:54
o'clock this morning. The majority
of the residents of Altcm were awaken
edr The shock shook a quantity of
plastering loose in the main auditorium
of the M. E. church. 5
At East Alton bricks were shaken
from several chimneys and glass bro
ken in several windows. The shock
lasted nearly eight seconds.
Made New Cycling Record."
PARIS, Aug. 16.—Anew cycling record
for one hour was made at the Pare dcs
Princes today. M. Dungla covering 8f
kilometers,. 108 meters (50.398 miles), in
that time.' . .
DEATH OF ORTOFf AT
BUTTEIS CHARGED
TO PRISON DEPUTIES
Western Union Operator Gives
Detailed Account of Brutal
Beating of Prisoner Which
He Claims to Have Wit-'
nessed.
-. BUTTE, • Mont.,- \ Aug. 16.—A sensa
tion was caused here .: by - the . signed
statement of Edward Dorval, chief op-.
. erator •of . the "Western Union, -to the
effect = that he was /an eye witness to
the beating administered^ to Frank Or
toff. the prisoner who lc|l'the sensa
tional : escape of ; " six prisoners I here _ a
week ago, in an effort to compel th 3
prisoner -to tell where he got the gun
he used in the break. : :-; . -
Ortoff's ? body was : found hanging -to
the end of tassel cord attached to the
grating in his cell and an apparently
fictitious letter purporting to have been
written by Ortoff just before he is sup
posed to have taken hie. life ; caused
ugly rumors to the effect that the pris
oner * had '? been ; driven Vto :. take his t life
through :■; ■ terrible ' injuries :: received at
the hands of the jailers. "';
'■;■ Above his I signature Norval declares
that .while delivering ;a ; message ■ to ~ the
-jail -at^l- o'clock ir in the r morning he
saw a = deputy sheriff, .whose •; name ;he
does I not know but says he can " ; recog
;nize, : press :^d6wn7-his j knees r/i Prtof?/
who lay } on ; the : floor j bound ! hand I and
foot, and kick him repeatedly In the
stomach. : To the prisoner's . crying:
"For God's sake, please stop!" the dep
uty sheriff kicked the .prostrate pris
oner in the face until his groans ceased
and .} the man : was. insensible. .. Dorval
declares the deputy sheriff i was ?in a
frenzy and kicked the man until ;-; an
other officer. who was putting on an
\ Oregon • boot, pulled . the ; deputy off to
save Ortoff's life:"'/-; ":;;;:; -: i
r.:sCoroner Egan .:, tonight ordered the
body to >be held and an autopsy will be
performed tomorrow- ■ morning. -: ; Dor
vails statement caused a sensation and
'is i the talk of Butte. -- The ' face -of the
■ corpse *■ is :- badly : bruised.. Ortoff was
the; prisoner who confessed to holding
up single-handed two Wyoming stage
coaches. j * ; . . -
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■ - •.-■■• •. Mills Continue Closed. . fX :,
BURLINGTON, Vt., . Aug. 16.—The
Burlington, Winooski and Colchester
mills of the American Woolen company
will notrresume; operations '■ tomorrow,
orders having been received' for two
-weeks' suspension. : In addition to 'the
Washington mills ats Lawrence, Mass.,
and the Assabot mills Cat Maynard,
Mass., * the company has . also v decided
■to v; close v the Lebanon . and Mascoma
mills, and Baltic mills, of Enfteld, In
the ; Mascoma valley, N. ; H., for a sim- :
ilar period. ? These mills employ a total
L of about 10,000 hands. ; -.-■".;;-".;•:
MONEY IS SENT
B» "WIRELESS"
Passenger on Campania Bor
rows Money From One
on Lucania.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—The Cam
pania, which arrived today, claims the
honor of having established the first
wireless telegraph money order office
in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. In
the '•Marconigraims" of the Cunard
bulletin it is boasted that Marconi
money orders can be obtained at any
hour of the day or night, and this story
is told In it to illustrate the working
of the innovation:
"A saloon passenger named Henry
Robertson, after we had left Queens
town, found to his dismay that he had
insufficient money to pay the customs
duties on articles he had purchased
abroad. Having no friends on board,
he was at his wits' end as to what to
do. Remembering that his mother
was a passenger on the Lucania, which
left New York on the same day we
sailed from Liverpool, the following
Marconigram was arranged by the
ship's officials:
" 'Mrs> J. L. Robertson, passenger
on the Lucania: Pay to the purser on
the Lucania $50 asking him to advise
the purser of the Campania to pay me.
—" 'Henry.'
"Communication was established
with the Lucania at 12:45 a. m., fifty
miles distant, both ships tWfen being
in the mid-Atlantic, and 'service' in
structions were sent to call the purser
and also the woman on board the Lu
cania, they of course being asleep at
that hour. This was done and at 1:45
a. m. our own purser was awakened
and handed the following Marconi
gram:
" 'Graham, purser of the Campania:
Pay to Henry Robertson 550. Have
collected the amount from his mother
on board the Lucania. —" 'Milliken.'
"As soon as Robertson awoke the
money was paid over to him. Needless
to say he was much delighted."
TREE CRASHES UPON HIM.
Lumberman Is Instantly Killed by
Falling Pine.
Special to The Globe.
DULUT«, Minn., Aug. 16.—A falling
pine tree struck and instantly killed
Nels Hanson, a woodsman working
with a gang of sawyers in Hedican's
camp of the Alger, Smith & Co.'s sys
tem on its line near the Gooseberry
river. Save for the crashing of the pine
through the limbs above his head,
Hanson was. unwarned of the terrible
death in-store for him. When he saw
the tree it was but a few feet above
him, and although he quickly jumped
aside, its topmost limbs struck nim to
the earth. His skull was crushed and
his spine fractured in several places.
PRICE TWO CENTS.
TAMS SAYS THERE
IS NOTHING TO IT
Chairman Bixby, of the Dawes Commission, Says He
Does Not Believe There Is Foundation for Suspicion
of Improper Conduct in Handling Indian Lands-
Declares He Never Was Interested in the Purchase of
Indian Holdings.
Tarns Bixby, chairman of the Dawes
Commission, wired the following com
munication to The Globe yesterday:
Red Wing, Minn., Aug. 16. —"I
have never been interested directly or
indirectly in the purchase of an acre
of Indian land and never expect to be.
Neither am I interested as a stockhold
er or officer in any firm or corporation
organized for the purpose of buying
or selling such lands. It is true that
I am president of one trust company,
director of another trust company and
a director of a National bank at
Muskogee, but each of these institu
tions is purely a banking and loan
ing company. Up to the day when I
was last in the territory neither of
these companies, so far as I am ad
vised, had purchased a single piece of
Indian property.
"But if such were the case I take
it the transaction would be perfectly
legitimate. No Indian lands can now
be Bold in Indian Territory except upon
approval of the <J?ed by the secretary
of the interior and, while this business
is something that our commission has
no connection wtth, I am informed that
all sales have been make by open public
bids.
"The secretary maintains in Musko
gee a special personal representative
with many assistants especially charg
ed with the duty of supervising all
sales of lands by Indians. If these
duties are honestly administered, which
I have no doubt is the case, there can
be no possible opportunity for fraud.
"As to the other government offi-
BURKES FAD DRIVES HIM CRAZY
Promoter of a Freak Society Qualifies for His Office as
Chief Crank.
Special to The Globe.
POTTSVILLE, Pa., Aug. 16.—Prof.
Jabez Burke, who in a moment of ec
centricity and out of a spirit of fun
started a "crazy society," has become
unbalanced by the success of the ven
ture. Burke advertised his scheme ex
tensively in newspapers and received
GENERAL JOHN C BLACK.
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He Will Very Likely Be Selected Commander-ln-Chief of the
G. A. R. This Week.
ST. PAUL MAN STOPS
AN OFFICER'S BULLET
Row on Excursion Train Results Seri
ously for Frank Konshall.
DANVILLE, 111. Aug. 16.—Frank
Konshall, of St. Paul, Minn., employed
on the 'Frisco road, near Sidney, 111.,
was probably fatally shot this evening
at 6:30 o'clock by Special Officer
Briggs, of the Wabaish Railway com
pany. Both were on a Decatur excur
sion train which left this city at 6:30.
Between Danville and Tilton a drunken
row occurred In one of the coaches and
Officer Briggs attempted to quiet the
combatants, when, it is claimed, Kon-
Bhall drew a knife and threatened to
cut him. Briggs fired twice, one bul
let striking Konshall in the neck and
the other passing through his body
near the navel. Konshall is In a hos
pital and is thought to be mortally
wounded.
The Housewife is the Furerasitig Agent.
for the Home. She buys her supplies
DURING THE DAY. She finds out
where the Best* Bargains are to b; had by
reading the Advertisements in ths
MORNING PAPER. :::::::::::
cials involved in these scMningly sen
sational reports from Washington, In
my opinion there is absolutely no foun
dation for suspicion of improper con
duct respecting the handling of these
lands on the part of any federal em
ploye In the territory.—Tarns Bixby."
Jones Says It Was Bad Taste.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 16.—
Speaking of the charges made affect
ing Indian department officials, Indian
Commissioner Jones said:
"It is impossible for any government
official connected with a land company
dealing in Indian lands to be entirely
impartial in his decisions when he is
' deciding questions which may affect his
own welfare. I do not think any offi
cials whose names appear as stock
holders or directors in the Indian ter
ritory land companies had any inten
tion of acting dishonestly, but I must
say that I think It was in extremely
bad taste for them to allow themselv«3
to be connected with the companies.
"I believe the Indian office should at
once undertake a thorough investiga
tion of the conditions in the Indian ter
ritory and prepare a report, and then,
if congress considers further investiga
tion desirable, there will be material
upon which to work. An investigation
■"•ill he long and tedious and will have
most extensive ramifications, but it
should be begun immediaiel;, by a force
of competent men and should connnfle
until we have reached the bottom.
Twenty million acres of land are In
volved and millions of dollars in mon
ey, to say nothing of the interests of
some 400,000 Indians."
many applications for membership.
The wide notoriety he attained in a few
weeks completely turned his head and
he insisted on making speeches, sing
ing songs and dancing at Inopportune
times and places. Owing to these pe
culiar eccentricities the police have
been obliged to arrest him and he Is
now in the county jaiL
BRITAIN GIVES THE
PORTE A HINT
Ambassador Calls Attention to
Serious Situation In
Macedonia.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 16.—The
British ambassador has called the at
tention of the porte to the serious situ
ation in Macedonia. He pointed out
that grave consequences may attend
fresh murders of consuls or foreign
subjects.
The ambassador had an audience
with the sultan on Friday.