iTtDMWtWORKERS |
REJECT WAGE OFFER
INDICATIONS ARE FOR A GREAT
COAL STRIKE.
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Convention Provide* tor Raising $6,
500.000 Strike Fund and Only One
Hope for Settlement Remains.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—The rejection
of the counter proposition offered by
the coal operators of the central com
petitive district by an almost unani
mous vote of the national convention of
United Mine Workers and the adop
tion of a resolution offered by Secre
tary W. D. Ryan of Illinois placing the
miners on record as a unit in refusing
to sign an agreement for any district
until an agreement was signed for all
districts under the jurisdiction of the
United Mine Workers has created a
situation which in the opinion of the
officials of the miners' organization
-will result in a disruption of the joint
agreement and possibly one of the
greatest strikes of organized labor the
country hag ever known, beginning
April 1.
The action was taken during a called
session of the mine workers’ national
convention, which was called to order
immediately following a short session
of the joint conference of the operators
and miners, during which the joint
scale committee reported that it had
been unable to,reach an agreement on
any of the principal questions involved
and after F. L. Robbins of Pittsburg,
floor leader of the operators, has re
plied to President Mitchell’s question
that the operators had no further prop
osition to lay before the miners, con
cluding his remarks with the state
ment that if there was to be an inter
ruption of the joint agreement he
wished the responsibility for such a
severance of relations to be placed
upon the miners.
The counter proposition submitted
by the operators, which was said to
he their ultimatum, provided for the
signing for another year of the present
wage scale with certain modifications
to reimburse the Illinois operators for
expense incurred under the “shot fir
ers’’ bill now effective in that state.
Immediately following the rejection
of the operators’ proposal the conven
tion set about to provide means for ac
cumulating a strike fund of $6,500,000
in addition to a like amount now on de
posit in the international, district and
sub-district treasuries of the miners’
organizations.
io provide ror an emergency, secre
tary Wilson moved that a per capita
tax of $1 a week be voted and that all
districts take care of the dependent
miners within their jurisdictions, for
at least six weeks. He said after that
time he believed the international
would be in a position to take care of
the miners. After the motion had
been amended to substitute ten weeks
for the six suggested as the time dur
ing which the districts should take
care of their dependents, the matter
was referred to the interntftional exec
jtive board with power to act.
ROBERTS SOUNDS NEW WARNING
Defenses of Great Britain Declared to
Be Inadequate.
LONDON—With the opening of the
new parliamentary regime, Field Mar
shal Lord Roberts renews his cam
paign of w uing to the country re
garding tb< uadequacy of its defenses.
Addressing the members of the Liver
pool chamber of commerce, he again
affirmed that the nation was as abso
lutely unprepared for war as it was in
1899. He urged the adoption of a mil
lion men as the military standard, half
of which would be needed for the de
fense of India and the other half to fit
the nation to maintain an European
struggle.
ESTATE OF MARSHALL FIELD.
Portion cf It That Is in Illinois Esti
mated at $75,000,000.
CHICAGO. 111.—The petition of the
executors of the estate of Marshal!
Field asking that his will be admitted
to probate was filed with the clerk of
the probate court. In the petition the
executors declare that they are unable
at the present time to state in full the
amount of the property owned in Illi
nois by Mr. Field, hut feel warranted in
saying that the personal estate is
worth about $50,000,000 and the real
estate about $25,000,000.
FRANCE PLANNING .BOYCOTT.
Devising Simple Scheme for Bringing
. Venezuela to Time.
WASHINGTON—As a preliminary
to a naval demonstration. France is
now considering the initiation of a boy
cott of all Venezuelan products of
which she is the largest foreign pur
chaser.
No plan of action has been finally j
determined upon, but the apparently
complicated situation at Algeciras has
caused a suspension in the programme
for the immediate dispatch of warships
to I-a Guaira.
Harris is Made President.
CHICAGO—Abram W. Harris, pres
ident of the Jacob Tome institute. Port
Deposit, Md., has been unanimously
elected by the board of trustees as
president of Northwestern university,
to succeed Edward Janes James, who
resigned two years ago to become
head of the University of Illinois. The
new president will begin his duties
July 1. The board chose Professor
Arthur C. L«. Brown of the University
of Wisconsin to be head of the Eng
lish literature department at North
western university.
Exposition in 1911.
TOPEKA, Kas.—Kansas will hold a
semi-centennial exposition in 1911 to
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the
state’s admission into the union and
the exposition will be in Topeka. These
two questions were finally settled yes
terday when the convention, composed
of nearly 800 delegates from all ror
tions of the state, adopted the report of
the committee on resolutions. The
work of arrangements will be left to
a committee made up of a representa
tive from every county in the state. ,
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STOCKMEN CONCLUDE MEETING
Endorse Hepburn Bill and President’s
Forest Reserve Plan.
DEN . ER — (frganization of the
American national live stock associa
tion. was completed Friday by the
election of the following officers,
named by the executive committee:
Secretary, T. W. Tomlinson, Den
ver; treasurer, W. E. Hughes, Den
ver; attorney, Sam H. Cowan, Fort
Worth. Tex.
; After adopting several resolutions,
including one endorsing the Hepburn
rate bill and another pledging the as
sociation’s support to President Roos
evelt in his forestry reserve plan, and
listening to speeches on railroad rate
legislation, the convention adjourned.
The text of the resolution on the
public land question follows:
“Whereas, The president of the
United States has made the forest re
serve policy a permanent and fixed
function of the government, and such
reserves are now in practical opera
tion in various sections of the country
under the administration of the sec
retary of agriculture, and bureau of
forestry; therefore, be It
"Resolved. That we thoroughly ap
preciate the efforts of President Roose
velt, Secretary Wilson and Forester
Pineliot, and hereby pledge perfection
of the forest reserve policy and ad
ministration. in the belief that ulti
mately such a pylicy will, if conserva
tively handled, lead to a betterment
of conditions not only of the grazing
area, but of the grazing interests of
the west.”
THE HAGUE CONFERENCE.
Resolution Providing for the Instruct
tion of Delegates.
WASHINGTON — Representative
Bartholdt of Missouri introduced a
joint resolution providing for the in
struction of delegates for the United
States to the second Hague conference.
It authorizes the president to direct
■ delegates to support the action of the
interparliamentary union conference at
St. Louis in 1904 to the end that arbi
tration treaties conferring jurisdiction
on the high court at The Hague in all
controversies specified in such treaties
may be concluded between all the na
tions representd at the St. Ixiuis con
ference and that the second Hague
conference may be organized as a per
manent body.
Care fof Life Savers.
WASHINGTON—The senate con-1
mittee on commerce agreed to report
favorably a bill for the retirement on
three-fourths pay of all lighthouse j
keepers and surf men in the livesaving
service who have served thirty years
or reached the age of 64 years, or have
been disabled in the service.
RATE BILL IN THE SENATE. |
Question of Appeal to Courts Basis of
Division.
WASHINGTON.—The division in the
senate over the railroad rate bill
seems now to hang upon a question of
appeal to the courts from the decision
of the interstate commerce commis
sion when it fixes a maximum rate.
The house bill and the Dolliver-Clapp
bill in the senate provide for no ap
peal. leaving it to the railroad com
panies to take any case into the courts
under the present laws. The oppo
nents of the house and similar bills in
sist that the right of the railroads to
an appeal in every case of which the
commission fixes a rate must be given.
A review of the action of the commis
sion by the courts is the main conten
tion. and it appears that the rate fight
is to be made on these lines.
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JAPAN’S POLICY IN KOREA.
Marquis Ito Takes Newspaper Men
Into His Confidence.
TOKIO.—The Marquis Ito, the Jap
anese resident general in Korea, in
vited the newspaper men to his offi
cial residence and outlined the policy
of Japan in Korea, which includes en
tire national defense of the country by
Japan. Every step involving interna
tional reform and matters of diplo
macy between the two countries will
be taken into careful consideration by
the Japanese emperor and his minis
ters. and every possible effort to look
into Ihe mineral, agricultural and for
estry development of Korea. The edu
_cational system of Korea will receive
the closest attention.
CONDITION OF CROPS.
The Outlook Generally Quite Satisfac
tory.
WASHINGTON—The weather bu
reau's general summary of crop con
ditions for January says that rains
interfered with farm work in eentral
and notheastern Texas and in Louis
ana. As a whole, however, the month
was exceptionally mild and free from
severe weather conditions, affording
excellent opportunity for midwinter
farm work.
Winter wheat escaped serious in
jury and at the close of the month
was generally in very promising con
dition/
Carnegie Makes Donation.
SWARTHMORE, Pa. — President
Swann of Swarthmore - college an
nounced that Andrew Carnegie has of
fered to donate' $50,000 for a new li
brary building on condition that the
college shall raise $50,000 for the
maintenance of the building.
Pope Will Be Represented.
ROME—The pope has decided to
send a representative to the marriage
of King Alfonso to Princess Ena of
Battenberg.
Russian Landlords Killed.
TUKUM, Courland—Count Frederick
Lamsdorff and Baron Koenne. two of
the most prominent land owners of this
district, while out driving were at
tacked by a band of revolutionists and
were pulled from their sleighs and
murdered.
More Money for Militia.
WASHINGTON—The house commit
tee on militia decided to make a favor
able report on the Morrill bill increas
ing the annual appropriation for the
militia from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000.
A FORECAST
FOR (OGRESS
.WHAT THE SENATE AND HOUSE
WILL DO THIS WEEK.
Di« cuuion of the Rate Bill Will Oc
cupy at Least First Three Days
of the Week.
—
WASHINGTON — Chairman Hem
burg, in charge of the railroad rate
bill in the national house of represen
tives, is unable to see the end of the
discussion of that measure. Under
special order it has the right-of-way
until disposed of. The very first day
of the debate which began last Tues
daq, developed the desire of many
members to make speeches. An extra
hour was added to each day and still
the list of applicants for time grew
larger. Mr. Hepburn has a long list
of republicans who are anxious to be
heard, and Mr. Adamson, controlling
the time on the minority side, says
there are fifty democrats who wish to
be heard in favor of the^measure.
Speaker Cannon is inclined to let
the debate run and estimates that it
will be Wednesday or Thursday be
fore the last speech is delivered and
the vote recorded on the measure. As
soon as this is accomplished, the pen
sion appropriation bill, reported from
committee last week, will be taken uu.
This bill carries a total of $140,245,500
to pay the pensions of veterans for the
year. It is generally disposed of in the
shortest time of any of the annual
supply measures, but this year it con
tains provisions which virtually make
a statue of the president’s order of
last year, making age an evidence of
disability.
There is said to be decided opposi
tion to enacting this executive order
into law. As the provision is without
question “new legislation’’ and subject
to a point of order under the rules of
the house, it is not unlikely that a rule
will be brought in when te bill is taken
up which will provide that the amend
ment shall be in order.
The fortification appropriation bill
will be reported to the house from the
appropriations committee today. It
will be considered as soon as the pen
sion bill is out of the way. This bill
is a short measifte and carries this
year between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000.
There are said to be no matters incor
porated in it which will c^use serious
discussion.
The friends in the senate of the
shipping bill are hopeful of eectxtng
some time during the week an agree- i
ment to vote on that measure and the
understanding is that so soon ,as it is
disposed of the statehood bill will suc
ceed it as the unfinished business.
There are no more set speeches on the
shipping bill in sight, but the expecta
tion is that the running debate which
has characterized the recent consider
ation of the bill will be continued for
some davs.
Senator Gallinger. who. as the chair
man of the merchant marine commit
tee has charge of the bill, ^ays he will
be satisfied with the setting of any
tinv within reason for the taking of
a voie. knowing that with a unanimous
consent to vote arrived at there will
be no doubt that the vote will be se
cured. The bill will be amended
somewnat before a vote is taken.
SHE WANTS A DIVORCE.
American Wife Asks for it Through
London Courts.
I.ONDON—General- Fitzgerald, the
wealthy nephew of the author of the
"Rubayat of Omar Khaiyam,” ap
pealed to the courts in connection with
a suit for divorce brought, by his
American wife, and asked for a dec
laration that his domicile was in Ire
land. not England.
His w'lfe was formerly Lida Nicholls
of California.
Fitzgerald testified that he owned
the land on which the Fayatte Coal
and Iron company has its works at
Uniontown, Pa. He maintained that
all his American friends knew that
his real home was Ireland, though he
might have called himself an English
man while in America. The case was
adjourned.
Vast Forest Fires.
MILAN—A forest fire started three
days ago by a spark from a'locomotive’ ■
on the St. Gothard railway is still
burning and now covers twelve square
miles. Several hundred workmen are
endeavoring to save the signal posts
along the track and peasants are
working to preserve their homes from
destruction. A number of factories
and a chapel already have been de
stroyed. The big electric station at
Ancasca is surrounded by fire and sev
eral trains are without the qsual
light.
Denver Mint Begins Coining.
DENVER. Col.—With thirty million
dollars’ worth of gold bars on hand
awaiting coinage, the new Denver mint
began operations Feb. 1. About 100
persons are employed.
Live Stock in Transit Bill.
WASHINGTON—The senate commit
tee on Interstate commerce on Friday
decided”after a-conference to .ask to
have referred to that committee the
bill of Senator Hepburn, providing
tha't, on request of the owner, live
stock may be in transit thirty-six
hours instead of twenty-eight, as now
provided by law, without unloading.
The measure had been sent to the com
mittee on agriculture and forestry, but
the question was one with which the
interstate .commerce committee desir
ed to deal.
Attacks Custom House Sale.
WASHINTGO N—Representative ,
Sulzer introduced a resolution in the
house calling on the attorney genera!
for information as to when the gov
ernment executed the deed for the cus
tom house property in Wall street,
where the deed is and why it has never
been recorded in the county of New'
York, and other facts , in connection
with the sale of the custom house
property to the National City bank.
In explanation of the purpose of the
resolution Mr. Snlzer said the bank
was dodging taxes.
THEY WILL VOTE FEBRUARY 16
Senate Committee Will Choose Which
Railroad Bill to Favor.
WASHINGTON — Railroad legisla
tion will be voted on by the senate
committee on interstate commerce
February 16. An agreement to take
final action at that time on all the
meaures pending Friday. The differ
ences of the opposing factions have
narrowed down to the court features
of fhe bills, but these present a va
riance admitted to be fatal to a har
monious committee report,. They may
be summarized in this proposition:
Whether there shall be a specific pro
vision for review by the United States
courts of orders of the interstate com
merce commission establishing rates
before such orders become operative.
On this question rests the fate of the
favorite issue of the president as sub
mitted to congress in his annual mes
sage to congress. The Hepburn bill
before the house does not contain this
provision in direct terms. This bill
meets with the approval of the admin
istration. The supporters of the meas
ure as well as of the Dalliver-Clapp
bill, which is built on similar lines,
contend that common carriers, have
the same rights as other persons and
can go into the courts and secure an
injunction against an order of . the
commission and that there is no occa
sion to enact into law something that
is already provided for by existing
statutes.
The opposition forces, which call
themselves the conservative element,
hold that without the specific informa
tion demanded by them the interstate
commerce commission will be all pow
erful. They take the position that a
common carrier should not be com
pelled to go into court to have a
wrongful rate righted or, in other
words, that a rate the common carrier
believes to be unjust should be regu
lated without compelling recourse to
injunction.
Members of the senate committee
insist that there is no significance in
the reaching of an agreement to vote j
on February 16. The arrangement J
carries with it an agreement to meet i
on February 9 and daily thereafter j
and consider the various bills before
the committee.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS
ARE SATISFACTORY ;
WASHINGTON — The monthly j
statement of the government receipts
and expenditures received Friday
shows a condition of the treasury
which is eminently satisfactory to the
oft-ials. One year ago there was a
deficit of over $28,500,000, which has
now been reduced to less than $3.
40,000 with the prospect that this
amount will be entirely wiped out
within the next thirty days. This im
proved condition is due almost en
tirely to the large increases in cus
toms and internal revenue receipts.
The monthly circulation statement
issued by the comptroller of the cur
rency shows that at the close of busi
ness January 31, 1906. the total circu
lation of national bank notes was
$548,230,080. which is an increase for
the year of $75,807,227, and an in
crease for the month of $2,313,733.
BRINGS SOLDIERS FROM MANILA.
Transport Logan Arrives at San Fran
cisco.
SAN FRANCISCO — The United
States transport t.ogan arrived here
from Manila. On board were the First
squadron of the Second cavalry, head
quarters and hand %nd a full comple
ment of casuals. The cavalry came
in command of Colonel F. K. Ward.
After a few days’ rest here they will
go on to Fort. Assinniboine, Mont.
Among the passengers was General
Butler T>. Prince. General Prince re
tired from the army at his own re
quest, having seen forty-two years of
service.
During the voyage W. M. Kamloge
died of tumor on the brain. He be
longed to the insular service and was
ill when he started for home. Major
H. L. Scott, governor of Jolo. was also
a passenger. He comes home on a
month’s leave.
The Logan brought 122 cabin pas
sengers, 316 enlisted men of the United
States army, marine corps and navy,
twenty-seven discharged soldiers of
the navy and marine corps, fifty-one
miscellaneous and'foflr general prison
ers.
DEFICIT IS DISAPPEARING.
Government Ran Only $3,400,000 Be
hind in January.
WASHINGTON—The monthly stale
ment of the government receipts and
expenditures shows a condition of the
treasury which is eminently satisfac
tory to the officials. One year ago
taere was a.deficit-of.over $28,500,000,
which has now been reduced to less
than $3,400,000. with the prospect that
this amount will be entirely wiped out
within the next thirty days. This
improved condition is due almost en
tirely to large Increases In customs
and internal revenue receipts.
National Quarantine Bill.
WASHINGTON—The special com
mittee named by the caucus of south
ern* senators . and representatives to
rrame a national quarantine bill met
and agreed upon a bill which will be
submitted to the southern delegation.
Visit of German Squadron.
BERLIN—The Lokai Anzeiger prints
a report to the effect that the German
cruiser Panther of the Caribbean sea
squadron will be instructed to ascend
the Parana and Paraguay rivers to
Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay.
' Figures on Unginned Cotton.
1 WASHINGTON—The house passed
the Simms resolution instructing the
director of the census to make public
the figures on unginned cotton as
shown by the data that he has colleet
sd fot the period ending January 16,
1906.
Orders Leasing of Lands.
WASHINGTON—The secretary of
the interior has ordered the leasing of
141,000 acres of the Kiowa, Comraan
che and Apache lands in OklahoM for
agricultural purposes.
THE PRESIDENT
DOES NOT THREATEN
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NO ULTIMATUM TO EITHER
HOUSE OF CONGRESS.
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The Chief Executive, However, la
Deeply Interested in Rate Legisla
tion and Wants Something Done.
WASHINGTON — President Roose
velt is not trying to dictate to congress
what it shall do or not do regarding
railroad rate legislation or any other
problem of legislation. He has not
delivered to the senate or to the house
any sort of the “ultimatum” on sul>
jects of legislation and has not held
over the heads of congress ^.he threat
of an extraordinary session” if he does
not obtain the legislation for which
he is hoping. This statement is made
by authority, also that suggestions of
a compromise of any sort on rate
regulation which do not embody the
substance of the president's message
on the subject have not appealed to
the president. It can also be said that
he doubtless would refuse to accept
a compromise which would affect any
essential feature of the proposed leg
islation.
What is known as the Hepburn bill
now under discussion by the house
embodies substantially the president’s
views ^ set forth in his last annual
message. In the early days of the
present session he thought the meas
ure proposed by the Interstate Com
merce commission was the most prac-.
ticable offered; but after mature con
sideration it seemed to him that the
Hepburn bill was better.
Will Keport Hepburn Bill.
Members of the senate committee or
interstate commerce have assured the
president that either the Hepburn bill
or a measure resembling it in essen
tial features will be reported to the
senate. The senate committee will not
be unanimous, but it will represent
the views of a majority of the mem
bers. The report will be supported, it
is expected, by Senators Cullom, Dolli
ver and Clapp and possibly by other
republicans and by the democratic
members of the 'committee. It can be
stated that while the president desires
that such rate legislation shall be
established as he has recommended he
is firm in his attitude that the rail
roads as well as the shippers will be
dealt with entirely justly. He wants
nothing in the law that would affect
unfairly the rights or the property of
the railroads. He is confident that
legislation to he framed substantially
on the lines of the Hepburn measures
will prove fair alik^ to the railroads
and to the-peole. He is not trying to
dictate matters of detail and of course,
will preserve an open mind as to the
proposed amendments which do not af
fect the material and substantial feat
ures of the bill. Senators Dolliver !
and Clapp had another talk with the
president on the rate regulation ques
tion following a meeting of the senate
committee at which the subject was
under consideration.
TRANSFER OF THE PRISON.
War Department Assumes Control of
Leavenworth Penitentiary.
LEAVENWORTH. Kas. — The offi
cial transfer of tne old militafy mason
property at Fort T^eavenworth trom
the department of justice to the War
department took place Friday. R. W.
MeClaughry. warden of the United
States penitentiary, and Maj. George
S. young, commandant of the military
prison, represented their respective
departnmets. The proceedings con
sisted of the sending of telegrams to
the war department and department
of Justice announcing the transfer.
In 1875 the military prison was es
tablished at Fort Leavenworth and in
1895 the buildings were turned over
to the department of justice for prison
purposes.
GREET A NEW KING.
Frederick the Eighth Now Rules Over
Denmark.
COPENHAGEN. — The new king,
Frederick the Eighth, now reigns over
Denmark. His accession has been
hailed with al appropriate enthusiasm
and ceremony, but sorrow for the
death of Christian the Ninth is the
predominant sentiment. The over
whelming grief of the immediate mem
bers of this remarkably united family
is reflected in only a slightly lesser
degree in every home in Copenhagen,
from the richest to the poorest, and
only words of kindness are heard
when the dead monarch is spoken of.
Romanian King is III.
VIENNA—King Charles of Rouma
nia is seriously ill, but it is believed
that he is in no immediate danger. He
is suffering from calcification of the
arteries of the heart.
Togo is Coming in April.
TOKIO—It is announced sn reliable
authority that Admiral Togo will visit
America in April with two armored
cruisers.
New York Life Investigated.
NEW YORK—Examiners and ac
countants representing the insurance
departments of the states of Wiscon
sin, Minnesota, Kentucky, Tennessee
and Nebraska, who four months ago
began a joint investigation into the af
fairs of the New York Life Insurance
company, on Friday completed their
task. They are expected to report at
an early day to their respective state
departments. To defray the expenses
of this joint examination by the states
named herein the New York Life has
had to pay $35,000.
French Bridle to Be Adopted.
WASHINGTON—As a result of the
visit of General Chaffee and the party
of American officers to France last
summer, where they viewed the
French maneuvers, the .general staff
has decided to adopt the bit and brid
doon principle for cavalry bridles.
This contemplates the use of both a
straight and a curb hit with two sets
of reins. General Chaffee was im
pressed with the perfect control which
the French troops had over their
horses in cavalry drills.
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STRIKE TO COMB
Osuntry Face to Face With Big Labor
Revolt.
INDIANAPOLIS—During an inter
view President John Mitchell discussed
some of the phases of the strike sit
'uation.
"Never in the history of this coun
try has a strike of such far reaching
effect been threatened,” said Mr.
Mitchell. “It means a national suspen
sion of mining if the strike comes on
at the expiration of our mining con
tracts, March 31, and it includes the
anthracite districts.’’
“Will this action of the miners, in
cluding the anthracite districts, in or
der that no contracts shall be signed
until all obtain agreements, have any
effect on the meeting of the anthracite
miners and operators on February 15?”
“I don’t know at this time,” he said.
“Will you meet the*anthracite oper
ators at that time?”
“Yes.” he replied, “that is the plan
at this time and no changes have been
made in the plans.”
According to the figures given out
by the national officers of the miners
organization they expect this strike to
bring out over 600,000 men, about
150,000 non-union miners in West Vir
ginia and Pennsylvania with the 450,
000 union miners. Of this number
about 150,000 will be out of the anthra
cite districts, 85.000 in the Pennsyl
vania bituminous districts, 38,000 in
Ohio, 17,000 in Indiana. 50,000 in Illi
nois, 16,000 in Iowa. 37,000 in West
Virginia, 7,000 in Michigan and approx
imately sixty thousand in Kansas,
Missouri, Texas, Indian Territory and
Arkansas. The states enumerated will
be the scene of the greater part of the
battle.
WABASH CUTS GRAIN RATES.
Corn from Missouri River to New
York But 23 Cents.
CHICAGO. — Announcement was
made by the Wabash railroad that,
commencing February I. that road
would put into effect a carload rate for
export corn of 23 cents from the Mis
souri river to Boston and New York
and 22 cents to Philadelphia, through
Chicago and St. Ixwis, with transit
privileges. These figures will include
the cost of loading on vessels. For
several months the rate has been 27
cents, with an added loading charge,
despite the efforts of the Chicago and
St. Louis grain merchants to bring
about a settlement of the rate diffi
culty which developed between the
eastern and western railroads last
year. The eastern roads all along
have refused to join with the western
roads in dividing the difference be
tween the local rate as an expert
rate. .
MORE CATTLEMEN PINCHED.
Manager for Richards and Comstock
Arrested for Illegal Filings.
ALLIANCE, Neb.—Charles C. Jame
son of Ellsworth appeared in Alliance,
accompanied by Deputy United States
Marshal John F. Sides of Dakota City,
Neb. The charge against Mr. Jameson
is that of securing illegal homestead
filings and the various other charges
incident thereto.
It is understood from unofficial
sources that warrants are also issued
for W. G. Comstock and Bartlett Rich
ards, and that suits will also be
brought against them and the Ne
braska Land and Feeding company.
Mr. Jameson has been confidential
manager many years for the various
interests mentioned, but maintains
his innocence of wrongdoing.
Mr. Jameson was taken before Unit
ed States Court Commissioner T. J.
O’Keefe in this city and bail fixed for
his appearance at the next term of the
federal court at Omaha in the sum of
$5,000, which was furnished.
SURVEYING A NEW RAILROAD.
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Line from Orin Junction to Sheridan,
Wyoming.
CHEYENNE, Wyo.—A Colorado &
Southern railway engineering party
will start out February 1 for the pur
pose of surveying a new line of rail
road from Orin Junction to Sheridan,
Wyo., to form an extension of the Col
orado & Southern. The new road will i
pass from Buffalo and will connect j
with the Burlington at Sheridan.
Weather Good for Farmers.
WASHINGTON—The weather bu
reau’s general summary of crop condi
tions for January says that rains in
terfered with farm work in Cental and
Northeastern Texas and in Louisiana.
As a whole, however, the month was
excptionally mild and free from severe
weather conditions, affording excellent
opportunity for midwinter farm work.
Winter wheat escaped serious injury
and at the close of the month was ga?
erally in very promising condition.
Army Aopropriation.
WASHINGTON—The house com
mittee on military affairs concluded
its consideration of the army appro
priation bill today and on Monday will
report a measure carrying an appro
priation of about $70,000,000.
Revolution in Columbia.
PANAMA—Private advices received
here from Cartagena are to the effect
that General Gonzales Valencia, for
mer vice president of Columbia, and
General Neiospina have started a rev
olution.
Paul Dresser Dead.
NEW YORK—Paul Dresser, a song
writer, whose "Banks of the Wabtsh,”
and ‘"The Blue and the Grey” brought
his name into public notice, died Tues
day at the home of his sister in this
city. Mr. Dresser was 47 years old.
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Seek Leniency for Ware.
LEAD. S. D.—Petitions are being cir
culated here among the different
churches of this city and Deadwood
asking that Federal Judge Munger of
Omaha, he lenient with Rev. George Cf.
Ware, convicted of conspiracy to se
cure public lands.
Goss is Confirmed.
WASHINGTON—The senate in exec
utive session Monday confirmed the
nomination of Charles A. Goss, Neb.,
U. S. Attorney for the district of Neb
raska.
FACED AWFUL DEATH
ro ESCAPE FROM ILL TREAT
MENT ON SHIP.
British Sailor, Manacled and Heavily
Clothed, Plunged Into Shark-Infest
ed Water* in the Harbor of Hono
lulu—Finally Rescued.
B. Meiuell was a sailor in the
ship's company of the British ship
Brenda until yesterday noon. But
rather than endure the treatment he
feared he would be sure to receive
once the ship was out of sight of
land he preferred to trust himself
to the mercy of the sea. So. just as
the ship was clearing the channel
and the officers and all ht.nds were
busy making all sail to catch the .
least breath of wind, he jumped over
board. He was manacled with hand
cuffs, or, more properly, heavy iron
bracelets fastened together with a
chain, but he preferred death in the
bright daylight to the life he had en
dured aboard ship as well as to pos
sible death in the brig after abuse
and slow starvation. At least that
was the impression his story gave.
There was no time to get into bath
ing trunks or even to peel off his
heavy boots or even his coat. There
was but time to get a friend to
break a single link in his chain, and
then to jump into the sea and possi
bly into the waiting jaws of a shark.
If the ship or his comrades missed
the man, there was no boat lowered
to save him. The ship went on her
course apparently unmindful of the
possible fate of one of her crew.
When the Brenda was standing off
some three or four miles to sea, a
pleasure craft from the French "ship
Ernest Reyer, a whaleboat rigged
with a sail and manned by two of her
common sailors, found Meineil with ,
lungs half filled with salt water des
perately hugging the spar buoy.
The Frenchmen were returning
from a Sunday sail when they spied
the British sailor. They hove to and
asked him if he wanted to come
ashore, and half by signs—for his
lungs were so full of water that he
could hardly talk—and half by words
he made them understand that he did
so. So the Frenchmen hauled him
aboard and sailed into the harbor to
their ship, landing him on Sorenson
wharf, where a captain of police took
him in charge and led him to the po
lice station, a willing prisoner on
lauu, out not at sea.
His ship arrived in Honolulu Oct.
5. and almost immediately he tried to
desert, but was roped in by the U.
S. marshal and taken before U. S.
Commissioner Maling, who sent him
to the Teef. About a week ago he
was denvered to his captain on or
ders of the British authorities and
taken back aboard ship. As the time
of departure approached, the captain,
fearing he would again desert, put
him in the brig on a bread and wa
ter diet. Just how he got out of the
brig or who broke his manacles is
not known. In order to show cause
for a sane man to take the risks he
did it must be a fearful tale he has to
tell.—Honolulu Commercial Adver
tiser.
Douglas Wilson’s Woodchuck.
Douglas Wilson, who used to he at
Berlin. N. H., was known to be quite a
hunter. He was also known to be “a
stranger to the truth.” In one of his
favorite stories he relates how he had
been tramping abound the woods con
siderably and had found no game until
at last he espied a woodchuck sitting
right at the mouth of its hole. He
knew that if he just wounded it it
would manage to crawl into its hole,
so he decided to get as close as he
could, fire, and see if he couldn’t get
it before it got "to its hole, if only
wounded. He fired, dropped his gun
and rushed toward the woodchuck.
, In concluding, he says: ‘‘Perhaps
you won't believe me, boys, but just
as I grabbed that woodchuck the
charge of shot hit me in the back."
The Light Over There.
Forevermore when Sorrow came thorny
crowned an' gay—
When the black storms hid the heavens.
an', the light along the way,
We hear him singing—singing in valleys
of despair;
“The bells—the bells are ringing—the
light is over there!"
The deep voiced Dark walled around us,
and not a star unfurled;
Like a lost soul sent from heaven back
to a homeless world!
But still that singing—singing, sweet as
a love thrilled prayer;
“The bells—the hells are ringing—the
light Is over there!”
And the weary world now list'nlng took
heart and courage strong.
And blest him for that ray of light that
glimmered in his song.
And an echo to his singing came from
dim vales and drear;
"The bells—the bells are ringing—the
light Is over there!”
—Flank L. Stanton.
Channel Tunnel Scheme.
According to the London Graphic,
the present year will witness a re
vival, on the part of French engineers
and commercial men of the channel
tunnel scheme. The engineers and
their scientific friends in the Institute
of France have just given the first
symptom of it, in celebrating the
memory of M. Potier, the engineer
who initiated the -project, now more
than thirty years ago.
Alaskan Exposition.
Godfrey Chealander, the author of
the proposition to hold an Alaskan
exposition in Seattle in 1907, to cele
brate the fortieth anniversary of Alas
ka’s annexation, was born in Sweden
thirty-seven years ago and came to
this country when seventeen years of
age. He has traveled widely* in Alas
ka, knows the resources of this vast
and rich province and has taken an
active part in the building of the far
Northwest.
Places Family First.
It is important that the recent in
ter-church conference placed “the
family” as the first of its council's
five spheres of action, the others be
ing “social condition,” “education,”
“religious activities” and “interna
tional affairs.”
Electric Cathedral.
Berlin’s new cathedral is not only
lighted throughout by electricity, but
the same power is used for ringing
the peal of bells, and the, organ is
operated by a nine-horse power mo*
tor.