PRES, ROOSEVELT’S
FORMAL ACCEPTANCE
Replies to the Announcement
of the Committee on His
Nomination.
°ARTY’S ACHIEVEMENTS
Chief Executive Briefly Reviews the
Works of His and Previous Ad
ministrations—Points to Re
sults, Not Promises.
. Oyster Bay, July 27.—In reply to hjs
(notification of his nomination for presi
'dent, Mr. Roosevelt said:
ifu i I am deeply sensible of the high honor
M ’conferred upon me by the representatives
^ 'pf the republiena party assembled in con
vention and I accept the nomination for
'the presidency with solemn realization
of the obligations I assume. 1 heartily
.approve the declaration of principles
'which the republican national convention
‘has adopted, and at some future day I
•shall communicate to you. Mr. Chairman,
■more at length and In detail a formal
written acceptance of the nomination.
Three years ago I became president
because of the death of my lamented
ipredecessor. I then stated that it was
‘my purpose to carry out his principles
and policies for the honor and the inter
. / jest of the country. To the best of my
}S ability i have kept the promise thus made.
V * I f next November my countrymen con
firm at the polls the action of the con
vention you represent, I shall, under Prov
dence, continue to work with an eye
single to the welfare of all our people.
The Claims of a Party.
A party is of worth only in so far as
it promotes the national interest, and
every official high or low, can serve his
(party best by rendering to the people
•the best service of which lie is capable.
Effective government comes only as the
result of the loyal co-operation of many
different persons. The members of a
legislative majority, the oflicers in the
various departments of the administra
tion. and the legislative and executive
branches as towards each other, must
work together with subordination of self
to the common end of successful govern
ment. We who have been entrusted with
power as public servants during the past
seven years of administration and legis
lation now come before the people content
,to be judged by our record of achieve
ment. In the years that have gone by ;
we have made the deed square with the
word; and If we are continued in power!
* we shall unswervingly follow' out the \
• great lines of public policy which the rc- :
publican party has already laid down- a!
public policy to which vve are giving, and
shall give, a united, and therefore an j
;efficient support.
I no L/cmw^iaii'w i u ji uuiii
In all of this we are more fortunate
than our opponents, who now appeal for
'confidence on the ground, which, some
express and some seek to have con
fidentially understood, that if triumphant
•they may be trusted to prove false to every
principle which in the last eight years
■they have laid down as vital, and to leave
■undisturbed those very acts of the ad
iminstration because of which they ask
jthat the administration itself be driven
(from power. Seemingly their present at
Atilde as to their past record is that some
>>r them were mistaken and others in
sincere. We make our appeal in a wholly
•different spirit. WTe are not constrained
to keep silent on any vital question; we
•are. divided on no vital question; our pol
iicy is continuous, and is the same for all
sections and localities. There is nothing
experimental about the government we
ask the people to continue in power, for
our performance in the past, our proved
governmental efficiency, is a guarantee
as to our promises for the future. Our
opponents, either openly or secretly, ac
cording to their several temperaments,
now ask the people to trust their pres
ent promises in consideration of the fact
that they intend to treat their past prom
ises as null and void. We know our own
minds and we have kept of the same
mind for a sufficient length of time to give
■i'\ our policy coherence and sanity. In
Mgrh a fundamental matter as the en
w ement of the law we do not have to
rVjypend upon promises, but merely to ask
that our record be taken as an earnest of
what we shall continue to do.
Enforcement of Trust Laws.
Tn dealing with the great organizations
.known as trusts, wo do not have to ex
plain why the laws were not enforced,
but to point out that they actually have
been enforced and that legislation has
’.been enacted to increase the effectiveness
iof their enforcement. We do not have
do propose to “turn the rascals out,” for
we have shown in very deed that when
ever by diligent investigation a public
official can b« found who has betrayed
'his trust, he will be punished to the full
extent of the law without regard to
whether he was appointed under a re
publican or a democratic administration.
This is the efficient way to turn the ras
jcala out and to keep them out, and it has
1 the merit of sincerity. Moreover the he
ir trayals of trust in the last seven years
JL have, been insignificant in number when
* compared with the extent of the public
service. Never has the administration of
the government been on a cleaner and
'higher level; never has the public work of
•the nation been done more honestly and
•efficiently.
Assuredly it is unwise to fhange the
policies which have worked so well and
[which are now working so well. Pros
perity has come at homo. The national
lionor and interest have been upheld
abroad. We have placed the finances of
•the nation upon a sound gold basis. We
have done this with the aid of many who
were formerly our opponents, but who
would neither openly support nor silently
acquiesce In the heresy of unsound
finance; and we have done it against the
convinced and violent opposition of the
mass of our present opponents who still
refuse to recant the unsound opinions
which for the moment they think it in
expedient to reassert. We know what we
mean when we speak of an honest and
stable currency. We moan the same thing
from year to year. We do not have to
• avoid a definite and conclusive committal
on the most important issue which has
.recently been before the people, and whieh
may at any time in the near future be
before them again. Upon the principles
which underlie this issue the convictions
of half of our number do not clash with
•those of the other half. So long as the
•republican party Is in power the gold
istandard is settled, not as a matter of
.‘temporary political expediency, not be
yjf cause of shifting conditions in the pro
auction of gold in certain mining centers,
'^i"it in accordance with what we regard as
'the fundamental principles of national
morality and wisdom.
Under the financial legislation which we
“have enacted there is now ample circu
lation for every busines need; and every
dollfir of this circulation is worth a dollar
in gold. We have reduced the interest
hearing debt and in still larger measure
the interest on that debt. All of the war
raxes imposed during the Spanish war
have been removed with a view to relieve
the people and to prevent the accum
ulation of an unnecessary surplus. The
resuU, is that hardly ever before have the
expe ditures and income of the govern
mei^tjjgp closely corresponded. In the fiscal
yea/^Vtat has just closed the excess of
.income over the ordinary expenditures
was nine millions of dollars. This does
not take account of the fifty millions ex
pended out of the accumulated surplus
for the purchase of the Isthmian canal.
It is an extraordinary proof of the sound
financial condition of the nation that in
stead of following the usual course In
such matters and throwing the burden
upon posterity by an issue of bonds, we
were able to make the payment outright
and yet after it to have in the treasury
a surplus of one hundred and sixty-one
millions. Moreover, we were able to pay
.this fifty'millions of dollars out of hand!
•without causing tho slightest disturbance j
to business conditions.
The Tariff Law.
have enacted a tariff law under'
which during tho past few years the coun
try has attained a height or material well
being never before reached. Wages are
higher than ever before. That whenever
the need arises there should he a read
justment of the tariff schedules is un
doubted; but such changes can with safety
be made only by those whose devotion
to the principle of a protective tariff is be
yond question: for otherwise the changes
would amount not to readjustment,
but to repeal. The readjustment when
made must maintain and not de
stroy the protective principle. To the
farmer, the merchant, and manufacturer
this is vital: but perhaps no other man is
so much interested as the wage-worker in
the maintenance of our present economic
system, troth as regards the finances and
the tariff. The standard of living of our
wage-workers is higher than that of any
other country, and it can not so remain
unless we have a protective tariff which
shall always keep as a .minimum a rate of
duty sufficient to cover the difference be
tween the labor cost here ami abroad.
Those who. like our opponents, “denounce
protection as a robbery” thereby explicitly
commit themselves to the proposition that
if they were to revise the tariff no heed
would he paid to the necessity of meeting
this difference between the standards of
living for wage-workers here and in other
countries; and therefore on this point their
antagonism to our position is fundamen
tal. Here again we ask that their prom
ises and ours be judged by what has been
done in the immediate past. Wo ask that
sober and sensible men compare the work
ings of the present tariff law, and the
conditions which obtain under it. with the
workings of the proceeding tariff law of
1893 and the conditions which tho tariff of
1903 helped to bring about.
McKinley’s Kind of Reciprocity.
We believe in reciprocity with foreign
nations on the terms outlined in President
McKinley’s last speech, which urged tin*
extension of our foreign markets by reci
procal agreements whenever they could be
made wdthout injury to American industry
and labor. It is a singular fact that the
only great reciprocity treaty recently
adopted—that with Cuba—was finally ojv.
posed almost alone by the representatives
of the very party which now states that it
favors reciprocity. And here again we ask
that the worth of our words be judged by
comparing their deeds with ours. On this
Cuban reciprocity treaty there were at the
outset grave differences of opinion among
ourselves; anti the notable thing in the
negotiation and ratification of the treaty,
and in the legislation which carried it into
effect, was the highly practical manner in
which without sacrifice of principle these
differences of opinion were reconciled.
There was no rupture of a great party,
but an excellent practical outcome, the
result of the harmonious co-operation of
tw'o successive presidents and two suces
sive congresses. This is an illustration of
the governing capacity which entitles us
to the confidence of the people not only in
our purposes but in our practical ability to
achieve those purposes. Judging by the
history of the Iasi twelve years, down to
this very month. Is there justification for
believing that und-'r similar circumstan
ces and with similar initial differences of
opinion, our opponents would have
achieved any practical result?
We have already shown in actual fact
that our policy is to do fair and equal Jus
tice to all men, paying no heed to whether
a man is rich or poor; paying no heed to
his race, his creed, or his birthplace.
The Right to Organize.
We recognize the organization of capital
and the organization of labor as natural
outcomes of our industrial system. Each
kind of organization Is to be favored so
long as it acts in a spirit of Justice and of
regard for the rights of others. Each is to
be granted the full protection of the law,
and each in turn is to he held to a strict
obedience to the law; for no man is above
it and no man below It. The humblest
individual ks to have his rights safe
guarded as scrupulously as those of tho
strongest organizatization, for each is to
receive justice, no more and no less. The
problems with which we have to deal in
our modern industrial and social life aro
manifold; hut the spirit in which it is
necessary to approach their solution is
simply the spirit of honesty, of courage*
and of common sense.
Ever since this continent was discovered
the need of an isthmian canal to connect
the Pacific and the Atlantic has been rec
ognized; and over since the birth of our
nation such a canal has been planned. At
last the dream has become a reality. The
isthmian canal is now oeing built by tho
government of the United States. We
conducted the negotiation for its con
struction with the nicest and most scrup
ulous honor and in a spirit of tho largest
generosity toward those through whoso
territory it was to run. Every sinister ef
fort which could he devised by the spirit
of faction or the spirit of self-interest was
made in order to defeat the treaty with
Panama and thereby prevent the consum
mation of this work. The construction of
the canal is now an assured fact; hut
most certainly it is unwise to intrust the
carrying out of so momentous a policy
to those who have endeavored to defeat,
the whole undertaking.
Foreign Policy.
Our foreign policy has been so conducted
thai, while not one of our just claims has
been sacrificed, our relations with all for
eign nations are now of the most peaceful
kind; there is not a cloud on the horizon.
The last cause of Irritation between us
and any other nation was removed by
tho settlement of the Alaska boundary.
In the Caribbean sea we have made good
our promises of independence to Cuba and
have proved our assertion that our mis
sion in the island was one of justice and
not of self-aggrandizormnit; and thereby
no less than by our action in Venezuela
and Panama we have shown that the
Monroe doctrine is a living reality, de
signed for the hurt of no nation, hut for
th<‘ protection of civilization on the west
ern continent and fcr the peace of the
world. Our steady growth in power has
gone hand in hand with a strengthening
disposition to use this power with strict
regard for the lights of others, and for
the cause of international justice and
good-will.
America in me r'aciric.
American interests in the Pacific have
rapidly grown. American enterprise has
laid a cable across this, the greatest of
oceans. We have proved in effective fash
ion that we wish the Chinese empire well
and desire ltS integrity and independence.
Our foothold in (in Philippines greatly
strengthens our position in the competi
tion for the trade of the east; but we are
governing the Philippines in the interest
of the Philippine people themselves. We
have already given them a large share in
their government, and our purpose it to
increase this share as rapidly as they
give evidence of increasing fitness for the
task. The great majority of the officials
of the islands, whether elective or ap
pointive, are already native Filipinos. We
are now providing for a legislative as
sembly. This is the first step to be taken
in the future; and it would be eminently
unwise to declare what our next step will
be until this first step has been taken ana
the results are manifest. To have gone
faster than we have already gone in giv
ing riie islanders a constantly increasing
measure of self-government would have
been disastrous. At the present moment
to give politcal independence to the islands
would result in the immediate loss of civil
rights, personal liberty and public order,
as regards the mass of th<* Filipinos, for
the majority of the islanders have been
given these great boons by ns, and only
keep them because we vigilantly safe
guard and guarantee them. To withdraw
our government from the islands at tills
time would mean to the average native
the loss of his barely-won civil freedom.
We have established in the islands a gov
ernment by Americans assisted by Fili
pinos. We are steadily striving to trans
form this into self-government by the Fili
pinos assisted by Americans.
Party's Lofty Aim.
The principles which wo uphold should
appeal to all our countrymen, in all por
tions of our country. Above all they
should give us strength with the men and
women who are the spiritual heirs of those
who upheld the hands of Abraham Lin
coln; for we are striving to <lo our work in
the spirit with which Lincoln approached
his. During the seven years that have
just passed there is no duty, domestic or
foreign, which we have shirked; no nec
essary task which we have, feared to un* ,
dertake, or which we have not perform* d
with reasonable efficiency. We have nev
er pleaded Impotence. We have never
sought refuge in criticism and complaint
instead of action. We face the future
with our past and our present as guar
antors of our promises; and we are eon- i
tent to stand or to fall by the record
which we have made and are making.
STRIKE REACHES
[ THE ALLIED TRADES
_
Stock Handlers, Teamsters, Ma
chinists and Other Work
ers Go Out.
PLACES OF MANY FILLED
Efforts in the Direction of Peace Still
Continue, the Labor Organizations
Still Inclining to Be Con
servative.
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Chicago, July 27. —With all the peace
negotiations broken oft, and with all
the allied trades union men employed
at the different plants, with the excep
tion of the teamsters and the station
ary engineers, out on strike in sym
pathy with the butcher workmen who
quit work two weeks ago, the stock,
yards strike had settled down to what
promises to be one of the bitterest
fights between capital and labor in the
history of America.
As has been threatened for some
time, the allied trades employed in the
packing industry quit work when called
out to assist the striking butchers in
their efforts to bring the packers to
terms. In several instances the men
did not wait for the official notification
from their leaders to go on strike, but
threw down their tools and quit work
of their own volition.
The statement was made by Michael
J. Donnelly, president of the butchers'
union, that every union man employed
at the stock yards, with the exception
of the teamsters and engineers, had re
sponded to orders for a general sympa
thetic strike. The engineers, he de
clared. would Join the strikers and un
less there was a speedy settlement of
the difficulty he said the teamsters
would undoubtedly Join their brother
workmen in their struggle for suprem
acy. According to Mr. Donnelly, the
strike swelled the number of men who
have quit at the stock yards In Chicago
alone nearly 30,000 persons.
Both sides to the controversy declared
that they were perfectly satisfied with
the present state of affairs, and that
they were willing to make It a fight to
a finish to determine who shall dictate
the terms of a settlement.
Chicago, July 27.—The long threat
ened strike of the miscellaneous trades
at the stock yards, called to assist the
butcher workmen, began at 10 o'clock
Monday, with the walkout of nearly all
the teamsters, machinists, can workers
and 150 millwrights and helpers em
ployed by the seven big packers.
Every live stock handler in the yards
quit this morning. The packers’ team
sters are still at work, but the steam
fitters, electricians, plumbers, box
maker*. engineers and firemen have
joined in the general strike. Thousands
of men carrying lunch baskets left the
yards. No disorder was reported.
The teamsters and cattle handlers as
a whole refused to join in the precon
ference movement so much desired and
urged by President Donnelly, but at
that a large number of them quit quiet
ly and left the yards to attend the big
mass meeting called for the benefit of
all who had refused to await the result
of further conferences. While these
walkouts were taking place, confer
ences between the strike representa
tives and the packers were held at the
offices of Nelson Morris & Co., and dele
gates representing the allied trades
were in session.
More Peace Efforts Possible.
Despite the strongest efforts made by
President Donnelly of the Amalga
mated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen, the threatened strike, in
volving not only till the packers at the
stock yards, but the Union Stock Yards
and Transit company itself, was not
called this morning, find developments
indicated that further efforts to estab
lish peace might prove successful.
The teamsters’ governing committee
met early today and decided to make
arrangements to meet the chiefs of the
packing houses, and there was another
conference between the delegates and
chiefs of the allied trades. Both these
conferences were visited by President
Donnelly, who demanded that the al
lied trades order a general strike at
once and let further negotiations come
afterwards.
The first big defection in the great
strike came when 705 men, including
the scalers and pen cleaners employed
by the Union Stock Yards and Transit
company, refused to work further. The
first to go were the handlers, fol
lowed by the teamsters. As they
passed out of the big gate they were
greeted with cheers by the thousands
of strikers gathered in the vicinity.
Prior to this large exodus came small
strikes in the various plants among the
mechanical employes, but these did not
have the effect of tieing up the plants.
As soon as the union man stepped out,
a nonunion man, or a union man who
had deserted the organization, was
there to take his place.
I ne udy s vumoi ciii/c.
Earlier In the day the allied trades
and a committee of eight teamsters
chosen last night to seek peace anew
before permitting the teamsters to
strike, had been urged by President
Donnelly to declare a general strike
and then to seek a further conference
with the packers. There was a lively
debate, President Golden for the team
sters' governing body declaring his be
lief that a common sense campaign
would end in peace. He pointed out the
danger of cessation of business at the
stock yards, which he said would be
detrimental to the strikers' friends, the
independent packers, who were doing
the big packers almost as much dam
age as anybody else.
But his argument had no weight
with Donnelly, who said: “The time to
strike is right now. Let us talk about
the independent concerns and about a
settlement later.”
Then it was arranged that Presi
dent Schardt, representing the Chica
go Federation of Labor, and Barney
Cohen, representing the butchers' un
ion, should Jolft the teamsters’ union
committee, to which had been added
John Sheridan, business agent of the
ice wagon drivers. There are 200 Ice
wagon drivers employed by the pack
ers, and with their striking it Is ad
mitted the packers would have much
difficulty in getting ice to their re
frigerator cars.
Committee Meets the Packers.
The foregoing met the packers, and
the committee of the teamsters had a
Joint conference with the allied trades
representatives, and then, with Schardt
and Cohen, went to meet the packets
at the offices of Morris & Co. While
this latter conference was in progress
the allied trades meeting was con
tinued, the delegates being anxious to
learn the result of the latest effort to
bring about a settlement.
At the conference at the office of Mor
rls & Co. representatives of labc, un-1
der instructions, told the packers they
could not waive their demand for rein- j
statement within forty-eight hours of
the butchers and meat i utters, and
within ten days for all others, and foi
Individual arbitration In all cases of ak
leged discrimination.
The conference was secret and lasted
several hours. While the peace confer
ence was in session news came of the
strike of live stock handlers. Most o;
the men quit promptly, but many werq
allowed until 2 o'clock this afternoon tq
finish delivering cattle outside the
yards.
Strike Not Authorized.
The strike, although general, was
conducted without official authoriza
tion, by the heads of the various un
ions. but solely upon the order of thq
business agents, who refused to await
the action of the peace conference,
which ended about noon without mak
ing much, If any, progress.
The packers demanded that the un
ion men come to them with a definite
proposition. The union committee re
turned to headquarters to confer with
the butchers and allied trades In the
hope, it was said, that something In the
way of a new proposal could be decided
upon.
General Strike Authorized.
After the adjournment of the peace
conference the fact developed that the
sympathetic strike had been declared
officially authorized by the proper
boards of alt the allied trades at tlie
stock yards, with the exception of the
packing house teamsters. The en
gineers and firemen were allowed to
stay at their posts until 6 p. ni. In all
the other departments the strike was
actually in effect for two hours or
more before the official sanction was
made public.
It developed that, learning the tip
parent hopelessness of an agreement,
the representatives of the allied
trades, urged by President Donnelly,
adopted resolutions commanding the
chiefs of all the affected unions to en
ter the yards and call upon every or
ganization of tnen to quit and join in
a general strike. It was this condi
tion that the teamsters’ committee
found when Its members returned from
the Nelson Morris & Co.’s offices at
noon. Immediately there was another
conference between the committee of
eight, the allied trades body and tha
representatives of the butchers’ union.
It was still hoped that arrangements
could he made for another meeting
with the packers.
Packers Not Disconcerted.
The precipitation of a sympathetic
strike which involves S.955 men outside
the butchers seemingly caused no con
sternation among the packers. For
days they have been bringing Into the
city hundreds of skilled men, many of
whom have been put to work; others
are being held In reserve. Armour <S
Co. announced this afternoon that they
will receive from New York tomorrow1
fifty more skilled butchers and meat
cutters. All are nonunion men.
A novel feature of the strike Is that
the live stock handlers are to receive
part of their pay while they continue
on strike. To retain the good will of
the striking employes, and possibly to
guard against destruction of property,
the Union Stock Yards and Transit
company, it is said, today decided up
on this course.
Up to 2 p. m. advices from St. Dovils,
St. Jbseph, Kansas City, Omaha and
St. Paul state that little or no change
has taken place In the packing house
strike, arid no orders for a sympathetic
strike of the allied trades have been
received. Tire men, however, In most
cases are holding themselves In readi
ness to go out when the order comes.
No Change at South St. Paul.
St. Paul, Minn., July 25.—The situa
tion at the South St. Paul stock yards
shows little change today. The allied
trades have as yet received no instruc
tions to go upon a svinpathetic strike.
COTTON STRIKE ON.
The Employes in Thirty-Seven Fal.
River, Mass., Textile Mills
Leave Their Looms.
Fal! River, Mass., July 27.—The
strike order Issued by the Fall River
Textile council calling for upwards of
30.000 operatives to remain away
from the mills tills morning in
protest against the reduction of 12%
per cent. In wages, became effective to
day and the response was general.
There are thirty-seven mills involved,
ami with the exception of one, every
mill is shut down completely.
The companies involved In the strike
operate eighty-one mills with about
3.250.000 spindles.
MR. BRYAfTcANT GO.
He Says He Isn’t Able to Be Present
at Esopus When Judge Parker
Learns About It.
Columbus, O., July 27.—William J.
Bryan was in the city today en route
to the Delaware Springs Chautauqua,
where he will make an address tonight
on nonpartisan topics. Mr. Bryan lu
an interview said:
"It will be impossible for me to be
at Esopus on the day Judge Parker is
officially notified. Neither can I be
present at the Chicago meeting, for I
am billed to deliver a lecture that even
ing. The statement attributed to me
that 1 would support Parker is true in
every particular.”
ARE EXCOMMUNICATED
Rome’s Answer to Two Priests Who
Listened to the French Gov
ernment.
Paris, July 25.—For their refusal to an
swer the summons of the vailcfen, the
French bishops of Laval and Dijon have
been cut off from the church. The papal
order to this effect is found in the fol
lowing letter of tho papal secretary ofi
state, Cardinal Merry Del Val:
“Unless you present yourself before the
sacred congregation in Rome prior to
July 20 you are, thereby, through the sole
effect of your absentation, deprived of
all episcopal powers.’'
The thundering of the Vatican did jiot
cease there. The bishops who were sum
moned appeared to the French ministry
as to what course they should adopt. The
minister of education instructed them to
remain at their posts. They then re
ceived the following letter from Merry
Del Val, directing the bishops’ attention
to the apostolic bull relative to sedition:
“You will find therein an enunciation
of the penalty you have incurred in ap
pealing to the cfvil branch in order to
prevent the execution of the sentences of
the church.”
The penalty referred to is excommuni
cation. The government's controversy
with Rome continues to be th«* chief sub
ject of public Interest. The various moves
are generally considered to be leading up
to a termination of th concordat, air 1
tho separation of church and state. The
immediate issue is narrowed to the pppe s
right to dismiss the French bishop., of
Laval and Dijon.
FIGHT AT BONESTEEL,
The Better Element of Citizens
Round Up and Drive the
Grafters From Town.
Bonesteel, S. D„ July 26. A peacefu.
Sunday was passed, no Incident worthy
of mention occurring to disturb the
nuietude that enveloped the town. A
keeling of confidence that Bonesteel has
Anally been delivered from the reign
of terror that has prevailed from the
re'.gn of terror that has prevailed dur
ing the past week Is spreading, and the
citizens and few remaining visitors
Me now breathing more naturally.
A considerable number of police
and armed citizens, however, patrolled
the city last night and their services
likely will be continued as a safe
guard.
Nearly everybody except the resi
dents of the town has left, either for
their homes or for Chamberlain to wit
ness the drawing.
John McPhaui, who has had charge
of the local registration, departed
for chamberlain, where he will remain
until after the drawing. Thence he
will go to Washington to resume his
duties there.
Two rumors were rife today. One
that the dead body of a man supposed
to have been wounded here during the
rioting had been found a few miles
east of 1.,,nested, and another that a
hian hud died in Geddes from wounds
also received here.
Bonesteel, S. D., July 26.—As a re
sult of a wild night ot snooting and
rounding up of grafters by the vigil
ance committee, troops have been asked
tor by Bonesteel Saturday. The re
quest was forwarded to Private Secre
tary Warner of Governor Herreid. by
Clerk in Charge McPhaui.
It tvas a night of terror In Bonesteel.
(To a gambler now wounded is due
much of the credit for the determined
stand taken by the citizens. Patsy
(viagner. the gambling concessionaire,
Is the hero of the hour. The plucky
little Sioux City man, who owns the
gambling concession in Bonesteel and
whose word is recognized In his pro
fession as big and good as law, is now
suffering from a dangerous wound in
the foot, accidentally inflicted by him
Two policemen, with serious wounds,
nre In the hospital, and several graft
ers have been slightly wounded. Mag
ner promised Clerk In Charge McPhaul
last night that he would preserve order
and he risked his own life in doing so.
A special surgeon from Sioux City has
been summoned to attend him.
The trouble started shortly after 2
o'clock, when Policemen Ell Stanburg
and C. H. Harris were shot In front of
the "Pike” saloon. A gang came out of
the saloon, and one of them asked the
group of officers "what In h— they
were doing there?”
Then one of them struck an officer
over the head and the shooting com
menced. Stanburg received a scalp
wound and Harris was shot through
the right leg Scarcely any time had
elapsed when Magner, Bob Callahan
and others, who had been patrolling
the town, appeared on the scene. No
one seemed to know what had hap
pened. One policeman said a slim man
with a brown mustache had run
through the saloon and that he was the
man who had done the firing.
The Baloonmen knew nothing about it.
"We have made every train,” said
Magner with tears in his eyes, "and
we were just, a little too late."
One “rat," as the tough element Is
termed by the more law abiding gam
blers. was rounded up and told to
"blow” at the point of several re
volvers.
Later Magner looked around the cor
ner expecting trouble. Ho cocked his
revolver and shot himself through the
foot. Now thoroughly aroused, gam
blers and citizens combined to round up
all the tough characters in the town.
Shooting was general and a wild night
ensued. Near the railroad train a
hunch of tough ones were essembled
and told to run. A fusillade of bullets
followed. They were rounded up all
over the town and several of the graft
ers were slightly wounded.
A short time ago a long rope was
purchased at Gaumpen's store. The
purpose of the purchase was not made
ktrown.
Citizens armed with shotguns were |
out along the tracks shooting freely
and rounding up the grafters like a lot
of cattle. The roundup was slutted
by the regular gamblers and was fin
ished by the citizens.
Chief O'Brien characterized his first
appearance at daylight by arresting
Jack Keefe of Sioux City, one of the
men who has assisted in quelling the
(llsturbanee. The night had been quiet
lip to the time of the shooting, but the
still evening was suddenly turned in
fo a pandemonium In the early morn
ing hours. A police court is now in
session trying the prisoners. They will
protjably be run out of town.
The chief effort is being directed to
the detection of the men who shot the
policemen. People are thorough^
scared away from Bonesteel, only nfl
passengers arrived here last night.
There Is much talk of hanging the men
who shot the policemen and the cool
headed citizens will have much to do
to prevent violence of this kind if they
are desirous.
106,296 REGISTERED.
Yankton Signed More for the Rosebud
Land Than All the Other
Places Combined.
Yankton .
Bonesteel .
Fairfax .
Chamberlain .
Total.lou.iae
Bonesteel. S. D., July 26.—The regis
tration at Bonesteel closed with a total
of 34,034. Monroe Cornlck, of Butte,
Neb., was the last man to register,
coming In under the wire just as the
office closed.
The registration has been greatly cut
down because of the lawlessness that
has existed and which the authorities
seemed helpless to stop.
The government officials will leave
here for Chamberlain, where they will
remain until after the drawing.
Yankton, S. D., July 25.—The regis
tration has closed. The city remained
In perfect order to the close. Visitors
are rapidly leaving. Yankton regis
tered more than all the other places
combined.
HOMESTEADER DROWNED.
Young Man From Kansas Lost His Life
in the Missouri.
Vermillion.S. D., July23.—While bath
ing at Springfield, Clarion S. Fleming,
jot Soldier, Kan., was drowned in the
Missouri river. The body was recovered
'yesterday south of Meckling by a fish
erman. The young man's home is at
ISoldler. Kan., and the body was taken
there today by the father. He came to
.South Dakota to register for a home
stead. '
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HOKUF IS DEAD.
Murderer of Peter JcVinson Accom
plished His Purpose to Take
His Own Life.
Sibley. Ia.. July 27.—The funeral of
Fred Hokuf. the murderer of Peter
Johnson, was held this afternoon at the
Jail and the remains Interred In the
local cemetery by the relatives of
Hokuf. The man died early yesterday
morning, the result of a bullet fired
•by his own hand Friday afternoon.
• From the time of the operation to
jthe moment that Hokuf breathed his
last, his wife and relatives were with
him at the Jail. All others were ex
cluded. The Services were held this
.afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. W. A,
rWasser, pasior of the Methodist ehurcty
•officiating.
Hokuf was very weak when he cams
from under the Influence of ether. Ha
called feebly for his wife and relatives
bind word was sent them Immediately;
Hokufs wife who hasn't been near him
(since the day he confessed to the mur
der, came at once, carrying their child,
pi mere babe. The meeting between the
murderer and Ills wife was affecting.
Hokuf cried and his wife, throwing
herself beside his cot. sobbed bitterly
and hold the babe toward him to kiss.
, The attendants withdrew and the
couple was left together for some time.
What was said will never be known,
but Hokuf appeared resigned to his
Jate after the interview. His father,
mother, brothers and sisters visited
'him during the evening and he bade
them all farewell and declared his
[willingness to die.
Sheriff Stevens has not yet discov
ered where Hokuf got the gun with
which he killed himself. The sheriff
Is of the opinion that the murderer
may have secured the weapon from two
tramps who were locked up shortly af
ter his arrest. To the last Hokul
claimed that he carried the gun Into the
Jail with him.
He said that the day lie was arrested
by Stevens, he went into the barn and
dropped the revolver between his un
derwear and Ids skin. The gun was
stopped by his shoe. When the sheriff
searched him at the Jail he found noth
ing In his pockets. After he was locked
(up Hokuf claimed that he hid the
weapon In his bunk, keeping it with
the Intention of taking his life if th#
body of Johnson was discovered.
IMITATED BANDIT.
Four Youths Confess Extraordinar.
Crimes in Chicago.
Chicago, July 27.—Emulators of th«
exploits of tlie car barn bandits, fom
youths, arrested yesterday, confessed
to killing one man in a saloon holdup
nnd robbing a scope of others at differ
ent (lines. The murder was that ot
John Lane, stage carpenter of the Illi
nois theater, who was shot In an at
tempt to hold up (iustuv Rlegel's saloon
on the morning of July 4. The proprie
tor also was shot. The prisoners are
I’oler Dulfer, James and William
Fnrmby and David Kelly.
All declare they are less than 20 years
old.
The robbing of a freight car of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul lino
at Fairfield, III., last week, led to ths
arrest of the quartet. Besides the
freight, car robbery, the young bandits
confessed to many robberies prior to
July 4, most of which were saloons.
The police believe the young men hnvs
not confessed to all their crimes and
expect at least two other murders will
be admitted by them.
CAMPAIGN IN IOWA.
doth Shaw and Cannon Will Speak in
Hawkeye State.
Washington, D. C\, July 27.—Secre
tary Shaw and Speaker Catlnon will he
peard In Iowa during the presidential
(a mpnign.
Speaker Cannon who Is one of the
piost Interesting campaigners in the
country, will have an itinerary pre
pared for Mm which will cover $ ma
jority of the northern states, and It la
possible the national committee will ar
fange for two speeches for the speaker
n Iowa.
Secretary Shaw will remain In Wash
ington until after the cabinet meeting
pn Friday, and then will start on a tour
that will take him to the Pacific coast.
RED CROSS LOOTED.
Berlin Hears That $4,120,000 Is Missin.
From Treasury Guarded by
Nobles.
Berlin, July 23.—Fresh scandals of
enormous proportions have arisen In con
nection with the management of the Rus
sian national Red Cross funds. Eight mil
lion rubles ($4,120,000) Is missing from thf
central treasury, practically sweeping
away all the cash available for the need!
of Kuropatkin's army. The loss came t(
light 111 consequence of the demand oi
the province of Cherson for an ocknowl.
edgment of Its contribution of 100,000 ru
bles ($81,500). An investigation of tht
books In St. Petersburg and Moscow re
vealed the discrepancy, which seems tc
be part of a system of thievery practiced
since the beginning of the war.
Emperor Nicholas is reported tc
bo outraged at the existence o(
such corruption among the Red Cross
aristocratic classes Intrusted with the Req
Cross arrangements. He Insists that thq
culprits must be punished, no matter who
they may be.
One of tho most flagrant Instances o$
.Russian rapacity, which Is notorious Iq
this country, occurred a few weeks ago
when tho czarina sent tho Prussian regi
ment, of which she is honorary colonel,
a set of magnificent drumclothes em
broidered in gold and precious stones,
vfhen the drumclothes reached Germany
they were mere rags, having been entirely
despoiled of tlielr gems and costly decor
ations.
Condensed Telegrams.
Reports tha,t Mrs. Maybrlck has gon*
from Rouen to Paris are denied.
Eastern democrats pretty unanimously
believe now that Thomas Taggart of In
diana will be the national chairman.
St. l/ouis republicans have declared for
Cyrus 1’. Walhrldge for tho party’s nomin
ation for governor against Joseph W.
Folk.
Colonel Younghusband, commanding tho
British Thibetan expedition, declined to
make peace terms till he should have en
tered I.hassa.
It is announced In Denver that by the
close of the present week all troops will
lx- withdrawn from the Cripple Creek dis
trict and civil administration restored.
Secretary Shaw spoke at College Point,
N. Y\, Saturday, the opening of the re
publican campaign In that state. He de
voted himself to the money question.
The St. I,ouis fair management has de
cided to admit children under fifteen free,
there being a requirement that one adult
must accompany every five children so
admitted.
Eight hundred men working on the
Pennsylvania railroad tunnel at New
Y'ork or the New York Central Improve
ments on Manhattan have struck for eight
hours and union wages.
President Roosevelt wilt be notified
formally of his nomination on Wednesday
at Sagamore Hill, Speaker Cannon mak
ing the address. There will be only a
small attendance, probably Including no
member of the cabinet.
