A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO
Vol. 18. No. 933.
ARISING FROM ITS ASHES
San Francisco to be Greater, Grander
and Larger Than Before Rebuild
in Six Months the General Cry
Oakland, Calif San Francisco is
being - rehabilitated. Already thou
sands of laborers are employed clear
ing away the ruins. Aided by sol
diers, they are dynamating the sway
in g walls left after the earthquake
and fire. .
All the wagons that can be spared
from the work of distributing sup
plies are being used tc cart away the
debris. Steel buildings which suf
fered only supeficial harm are being
inspected, and orders are being sent
out for woodwork to replace that
which went up in smoke.
San Francisco does not intend to
sit supinely in the midst of its ruins.
-It intends to be larger and grander
than before the disaster, and to this
end all classes are co-operating.
Rebuilding to Be Rushed
''Rebuild the city in six months,"
is the general cry. While such a task
is imDossible. it is certain that long
before that time' has expired the
homeless will be housed, the artisan
will find work and the new commer
cial city will be rising on solid foun
dations. E. H. Harriman is here directing
all the energies of the Southern Pa
cific railroad toward a quick recupera
tion. He spent, the morning in San
Francisco with General Superintendent
E. E. Calvin, and announced after the
conference that the work of restoring
thtt property of the road already had
been begun. It will be rushed to the
utmdal.
New government buildings, better
than those destroyed, are to rise upon
the old site, and the $7,000,000 city
hall will be replaced.
Financial San Francisco, stunned
for a time by the catastrophe, is on
its feet again. The clearing house
committee met today an d made plans
for the reopening of the banks at the
earliest possible date. The bankers
received word from Washington that
they would be aided with government
funds.
BLOOD SHED FEARED
The Roads Prepared for Bitter Strug
gle. Colleries are Fortified Citadels
. Wilkesbarre, Pa. John Mitchell,
president, of the Miners' Union, will
arrive this afternoon to confer with
the district presidents on the strike
situation. The general scale commit
tee will meet tomorrow to consider
the refusal of the operators to their
last proposal of arbitration.
Three roads, the Delaware, the Hud
son and the Erie, will attempt to
resume operation of their colleries in
forty-eight hours alter the strike is
called. The roads are prepared for
a bitter struggle and they have made
the colleries veritable fortified ' clta
ripls. One stockade is five miles,.in
circumference'. The region is swarm-J
ins with detectives who are watching!
POLITICS, AGRICULTURE AND HOME
Lincoln, Nebraska, April 26, 1906
the miners. If a strike comes all
agree it will be attended with unusual
bloodshed and violence.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION
State Convention Will Be Held in
Lincoln, August 15.
The democratic state convenllon
will be held in the auditorium at Lin
coln on August 15, the hour not yet
being fixed.
The date and ' place was decided
upon by Chairman Allen and Secre
tary Maguire this afternoon; the state
committee having given these two
authority to issue the call.
This is the first time for years the
democrats have decided to hold their
convention prior to the republican
state convention.
The republican convention meets
on tho 22nd.
AMERICAN GIRL VEDS A COUNT
Miss Gfcorgine Wilde of New York Be
V ' comes Bride of Italian.
Loudon Count Carlo Dentice de
Frasso of Rome and Georgine R.
Wilde, daughter of Mrs. Henry Siegel
of New York, were married at the
Oratory, Brompton, today. The church,
which was prettily decorated with
flowers, was crowded with guests,
including many members of the dip
lomatic corps and prominent Italians
and American residents in London.
Among them were Ambassador Reid
and Mrs. Reid and Signor Tittoni, the
Italian ambassador. After the cere
mony Mr. and " Mrs. Siegel gave a
wedding breakfast to 100 guests.
NEW PLANT FOR EXAMINER
Hearst Ships New Outfit from Chicago
for San Francisco.
Several cars containing material
for a modern newspaper plant have
been sent from Chicago by W. R.
Hearst to San Francisco for the Ex
aminer plant, which is in ruins. The
train left Chicago last night and is
running on express time.
There are ten experts with the ma
chinery for the new newspaper plant.
A corps of electricians, machinists
and general newspaper men passed
through Omaha this morning en route
to San Francisco. They were headed
by W. P. Leach, one of the business
managers of the Chicago American.
Demented Man Missing
Omaha, Neb. James Timmons, the
demented man who escaped from his
guardians in Omaha a week ago last
Saturday, is still on the missing list,
although it was thought he had been
located at Springfield. John Tim
mons, a brother, is in the city and is
anxiously awaiting news of the lost
man.
James Timmons is described as be
ing forty years of age, six feet in
height, 160 pounds, medium com
plexion, sandy mustache, dark hair,
slightly mixed with gray;-thin face;
third right finger has large joint;
wore striped gray suit, black soft hat
and heavy wollen socks. The last
report of Timmcns' whereabouts came
from Gibson the day he escaped in
Omaha. As Timmons has spell when
he imagines he is to be hanged, it is
feared he may have been drowned
in the river near Gibson or taken his
life in some other out-of-the-way place.
He was being taken home to Jask
son, Mich., from Salem, Ore., when
he made his escape.
Frame Primary Bill
Springfield, 111. A primary bill was
reported to the senate committee to
day. It provides for a popular vote
for United States senator, a direct
vote for congressmen, state board of
equalization, county judge, county
clerk, probate judge and clerk, re
corder, treasurer, superintendent of
schools, surveyor, "sheriff, county and
states attorney. Governor, Dineen's
efforts to secure a direct vote on gov
ernor was ignored.
Balk Plot to Escape
Fort- Worth, Tex. At attempt of
prisoners confined in the state prison
at Rusk to escape from a work train
yesterday near the prison was frus
trated by guards, who killed the lead
er, Oliver Woodward, a murderer
and cattle thief, and fatally wounded
George Smalley, a burglar. Joe Wil
kcrson, a guard, was killed. Will
Boyd, another guard, was wounded.
None of the convicts escaped.
Miners Confident of Victory
The miners arc not worried about
the outcome in the bituminous fields.
The number of operators who -have
signed the 1903 scale exceed the
number that have not signed. Na
tional Secretary-Treasurer Wilson has
gone to district No. 2 in the bitumi
nous field in central Pennsylvania to
complete negotiations with operators
there, as he has assurance that they
will sign the scale.
Church War
Vienna Reports today state that at
Lesmo, near Warsaw, 3,000 orthodox
Catholics, led by three priests and a
Capuchian monk, attempted to take
a church which had been seized by
the Marienaie sectarians. The latter,
numbering 4,000, defended the church
and defeated the Catholics, killing
twelve and wounding fifty.
Opening of Douma
St. Petersburg - The czar is to open
the new national douma and council
of the empire in person on May 20.
The ceremony will probably be held
at Fanrido palace. This is the first
public appearance of the czar in St.
Petersburg since "bloody Sunday,"
January 22, 1903.
Loubet Barely Escapes
ParisFormer President Loubet
had an almost miraculous escape to
day from death at the hands of a
man with a bomb. Loubet. was work
ing in his study, when an officer dis
covered a bomb smoking near the
window. By quick action he ex
tinguished the fuse. An analysis of
the contents proved that it was a
bomb of fearful explosive force.
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OLD LEADERS DISMAYED
Roosevelt's Latest Utterances and La
Follette's Speech Alarm the
Conservative Republicans
Washington, D. C, April 25. (Spe
cial.) -The rate bill was temporarily
obscured during the past week on ac
count of the San Francisco horror,
and a number of other minor occur
rences that served to occupy the at
tention of the people. But, neverthe
less the generals on both sides were
busy working with might and main
to line up their forces for the final
encounter, which can not now be long
delayed. The president's inheritance
tax views expressed at the laying of
the corner stone at the Capital Annex
some time ago is the source of a
great deal of worry to his political
friends, as well as others that fear
that he is ready to go to a length in
antagonizing the rich and powerful,
that they can not follow, and many of
them fear that before his term ex
pires the republican party will be bad
ly damaged if not utterly wrecked.
While suffering from doubts and fears
lest tho president might spring some
other new fangled notion, the friends
of the president were again surprised
at the vigorous manner in which he
brought his big slick down on the
head of Judge Humphrey in his mes
sage to congress, a3king that the law
be amended so that the government
would have a right of appeal in crimi
nal cases, the same as the accused.
But the most important occurrences
of the week, and the one that brought
consternation to the hearts of Vice
President Fairbanks, Speaker Can
non, Secretaries Taft, Shaw, Root, and
other republican aspirants for the
presidency was the remarkable speech
of Senator La Follette who slated the
railroad question from the people's
standpoint with boldness, clearness
and in detail such as shows the Bad
ger senator to be a master of the
subject. They realize that the people
of the country feel that the railroads
are in a large measure responsible
for the existence of trusts and monop
olies in all of the different branches
of industry, and that they have per- ,
fected a combination among tnem
selves and practically eliminates com
petition in the transportation business,
and that their power must be curbed
and their monopoly broken up, and
that the time to do this has arrived.
The senators and congressmen gen
erally regard Senator La Follette as
a menace to the success of either of
the old time republican leaders, be
cause of their corporation affiliation
in the first place, and in the second
place because it would take either of
them a long time to acquire the abil
ity to present the people's side of the
question with that force and positlve
ness which Senator La Follette dis
plays when treating his favorite
theme. Again it was quite noticeable,
the lively interests that such demo
cratic leaders as Tillman, Bailey and
others have taken in Senator La Fol-