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ERED HERE AND THERE.
BEET MEN HOLDING THE SACK
Secwrinq of Acreage for This Year
Making Slow Progress Claimants
of Coal Reward A Bank Man at
Beemer in the Toils.
Growers Want Their Money.
NORTH PLATTFv Neb Up to the
present time beet growers have not re
ceived checks from the Standard com
pany for the last shipments of beets.
This payment was due February 15,
but growers were notified that payment
would be deferred for thirty days. This
time expired last week and still no
checks have appeared. It is said that
the total amount due the growers from
the company is about fGO.000. At last
accounts Mr. Leavitt was still in the
cast.
Reports and statements to the con
trary, the two sugar factories are hav
ing considerable trouble in securing
the beet acreage they desire in Lin
coln county. This is due to two causes,
one is tne reduction in price made by
the American company, the. other e
Standard company's deferred payment
on the last shipment of beets. Field
Agent Ewell of the American company
is 1,500 acres short of the amount he
desires and has written the general
manager for concessions that will en
able him to practically offer a flat rate
of $4.75 per ton to growers of the
Hershey and Sutherland sections, in
stead of $4.50. He has not yet received
a reply.
Two Claim Coal Reward.
LINCOLN As a result of the dis
covery of coal near Peru a lively con
test is liable to be waged over the re
ward offered by the state to the person
making the discovery. F. M. Medley
of Peru found the vein, after first se
curing a lease for coal privileges on
the farm owned by A. M. Vorst, on
whose land the coal was located. Now
it is reported, because he owns the
land, Vorst claims the reward as well
as the coal. The legislature approp
riated $5,000 as a reward for the dis
covery, but that appropriation, of
course, has lapsed, though the law is
still on the statutes. Under the law
the auditor, it seems, according to law
yers, would have to issue the war
rant, though the man to whom it is is
sued may have to wait until another
legislature appropriations more money
before it can be cashed.
Will Investigate a Murder.
PLATTSMOUTH Judge A. N. Sul
livan is in receipt of a telegram from
his sister, Mrs. Addie McVicar. con
veying the sad news of the murder
of her son, Albert N. McVicar. whose
lifeless body was found in a trunk at
the Southern Pacific railway station at
Stockton, Cal., last Saturday night.
The investigations made by the Stock
ton police have brought to light some
startling facts, and have resulted in
the arrest of a woman who passed as
McVicar's wife but whose real name
is Mrs. Emma Ledoux. Judge Sulli
van expects to leave for California,
where he will make an investigation
of the case, and if necessary, render
assistance in the prosecution of the
murderer of young McVicar.
Boom on at Indianola.
INDIANOLA A deal was closed
.whereby Mrs. McNulty of Fairbury be
comes owner of the new brick build
ing of Day and Day. brokers. Mr. Mc
Nulty will remodel it and put in a new
bank. City property is changing hands
rapidly here, prices having nearly
doubled in a year. Houses to rent a're
not obtainable.
Controversy Over Reward.
LINCOLN A controversy exists
over the discovers' of coal at Peru.
The coal was discovered by F. M. Med
ley on the farm of A. M. Vorst. The
former leased the ground, it is
claimed, but the farmer declares that
nothing was said about the $5,000 re
ward and it belongs to the owner of
the soil.
Getting the Women Interested.
Secretary Mellor of the State Fair
Board is'anxious to get the women in
terested in the textile and fine art dis
play and contest to be held at the
State fair tbis fall. He has prepared
his copy for the annual premium list
and it is now in the hands of the
printer.
Brings Back Remains of Son.
YORK The remains of Edmund V.
flarlan who died some time ago at
Alaska, arrived here accompanied by
bis father. Judge W. V. Harlan.
Agent Found to Be Short.
BEATRICE Joseph Schuck, dis
trict agent for the National Benevo
lent society, has turned up missing at
this place, and since his departure he
has been found short in his accounts.
q?Yfl.iwm Dn..oh fl hau ah ah ah m
Disease Like Smallpox.
AUBURN Several new cases of
what is supposed to be smallpox de
veloped within the past twenty-four
hours, and there is considerable fear
expressed that there will be an epi
demic of the disease. The schools
have not been closed as reported, but
all pupils known to have been ex
posed are excluded from attending
until all danger is past. A number
of families are quarantined, but the
disease, if it be smallpox, is in a very
mild form. The physicians of the city
hesitate about pronouncing it as such.
Bank Man Transgresses.
BEEMER C. E. Mead, who has been
for several years the trusted assistant
cashier of the Beemer State bank, was
found $8,000 short in his accounts.
Mead says he owes his misfortune to
board of trade speculations.
Churches Seek Control.
LINCOLN A petition was circu
lated In the Lincoln churches asking
that the attorney general start an ac
tion to dissolve the articles of Incor
poration of Tabitha home. Several
caurckM aeek control of the property.
OVER THE STATE.
Efforts will be made at Beatrice for
the organization of a Commercial club.
A large 'wolf was caught in a trap
on the farm of C. H. Lane a mile
above Table Rock.
Burglars entered the store of- T. J.
Frew, Tecumseh, and stole some
goods, but overlooked a pocketbook
containing ?8U in cash.
John N. Kirby, a member of the
Grand Island soldiers' home, died re
cently at Stockville, Frontier county.
The largest single shipment of live
stock which ever went out of Hum
boldt station was sent last week,
twenty-eight cars of cattle, sheep and
hogs.
The home of William E. Griffith, a
Burlington conductor, at Nebraska
City, was burned, entailing a loss of
$3,000, with only $800 insurance
thereon.
Two strangers assaulted the night
watchman in the Northwestern yards
at Chadron. One man struck him with
a club, broke his jaw and otherwise
beat him. They were arrested.
George Woods and Secretary Whit
ten of the Lincoln Commercial club
are negotiating with an eastern starch
factory and are seeking to have the
promoters locate in Lincoln.
An epidemic of measles which has
been prevailing for a couple of weeks
still continues unabated and is inter
fering considerably with the. attend
ance at the city schools in Humboldt.
York wants an overall and shirt fac
tory, and its Commercial club is trying
to secure a branch of a company al
ready established, and if it cannot do
that Mill try to organize a local com
pany. The Holdrege Automobile company
has filed articles of incorporation with
the secretary of state. The capital
stock is $10,000 and the incorporators
are W. H. Paddock, A. F. Lawson and
W. A. Shreck.
Comparatively no progress has been
made during the last three weeks to
ward the organizaton of the district
fair association at Hastings, and it is
believed now that the project will
have to be abandoned.
The funeral of Dr. S. F. Hunt, who
was killed in the railroad yards at
O'Neill, was held at Stuart and was
the largest ever seen in the county.
Special trains were run for the accom
modation of nearby towns.
A. D. Sage of Glenover, Gage county,
was exhibiting an orange which he
raised in a green house near his home.
The orange is of the Japanese variety
and is small with a very thick skin.
The orange was one of thirteen which
grew on a bush eighteen inches high..
The body of Joseph Shipley was
brought hero from Grand Rapids,
Minn., where he died last week. The
deceased was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Shipley, who have lived in
Battle Creek since 1892. &bout seven
years ago, when he was 23 years of
age. he left his home in a rather pe
culiar manner.
Henry Egelback, living near Brock,
met with a serious accident while out
hunting ducks. He was shooting a
No. 8 shot gun and one of the shells
seemed to be heavier loaded than com
mon. When he fired it exploded, blow
ins: the stock of the gun completely
off, breaking Mr. Egelback's right arm
in two places and left a bad flesh
wound.
Samuel Parker of Thurston county,
who was sentenced to the penitentiary
for murder, has appealed his case to
the supreme court. Parker is an In
dian and his attorneys allege the court
refused to allow Indians to serve on
the jury and that the jury panel was
made up by the county commissioners,
of which one member serving was not
ever a resident of Thurston county.
At Lincoln. Mrs. Thomas Breckel
hymer had a narrow escape from death
during a storm. Lightning struck and
shattered the iron bed in which she
was sleeping, but did not injure her
in the least. The lightning struck the
roof of the house, tore off a few
shingles, smashed a couple of windows
and then struck the iron bedpost. The
bed was torn all to pieces, but the oc
cupant was not even shaken up.
A report has been received from
Wilbur recently that the effort of the
National Guard company stationed
there to raise money for the erection
of an armory is meeting with success.
It is unlikely the Grand Army of the
Republic will participate in the erec
tion of this army. The report states
$2,000 has been promised by the bus
iness men and a lot has been donated.
It is the hope of the young men to
raise $2,000 more, which will be suffi
cient to pay for the building.
James Dowie. the night foreman of
the Union Pacific round bouse at
Grand Island, died as a result of in
ternal injuries sustained by being
crushed between an engine and the
door of the round house. He was en
tering the door to shut off the engine
which was making for the pit and for
got the proximity of the door. He was
caught between the engine and the
door, both shoulders were broken and
his ribs caved in, penetrating the
lungs.
Herald Bedient of Arborville, is
likely to lose the sight of one eye
through the use of a curling iron. In
school, another boy tried to use a curl
ing iron on Bedient. when a third
scholar ran against the instrument, in
flicting a wound in the eye which may
cost the boy his sight.
At the local declamatory contest for
the purpose of deciding upon the rep
resentative of the Grand Island
schools in the district contest of the
state high school association. Miss Ida
Rouse won first honors and v. ill repre
sent the local school in the Hastings
contest soon to take place.
While the mother was out on a shop
ping expedition, the little 4-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Bone
bright, living at Cortland, poured ker
osene on the cook stove and was
burned to death.
Miss Eva Cooper, daughter of O. A.
Cooper and a well known and popular
young woman of Humboldt and vicin
ity, has resigned her place as assist
ant principal of the city schools with
the announced intention of leaving
next month for the Philippine islands,
where she will spend three years
in teaching In the native schools under
the direction of the government.
GOULD NOT AGREE
THEREFORE HALF OF A MILLION
MINERS WILL STRIKE.
CONFERENCE WITHOUT SUCCESS
Miners' Proposition for Two- Year Con
tract is Rejected Bituminous Min
ers Affected by the Disruption Num
ber 384,500.
INDIANAPOLIS The joint meet
ings of the bituminous coal operators
and miners of the central competitive
district, composed of western Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, end
of the southwestern district, composed
of Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas,
Oklahoma and Indian Territory,
reached a final disagreement Thursday
on the wage scale to go into effect
at the expiration of the present scale
on April 1, and the conference of the
central district adjourned sine die
while the joint scale committee of the
southwestern district decided to report
a disagreement to the joint conference
of that district tomorrow. It is ex
pected that this conference will at
once adjourn sine die without an agree
ment The action of the two confer
ences will directly cause the suspen
sion from work after Saturday of 178,
000 miners unless something unfor
seen, like 'submission of the differences
to arbitration, should intervene; and
indirectly will affect 206,500 more min
ers not including its effect on 150,000
miners in the antrracite field, who to
night were ordered to suspend work
Monday.
A national convention of the miners
will be held Friday to decide whether
miners will be allowed to sign the ad
vance scale demanded by them and
today refused by all the operators
with a few exceptions, and go to work
where the advance is offered. Operat
ors employing 25,000 miners in the
central competitive field have openly
offered to pay the advance during the
joint conference sessions. The wage
scales of all miners, both anthracite
and bituminous, will expire Saturday,
except those in Tennessee and Ala
bama, where the scale will expire in
September. A national official of the
United Mine Workers said: "It is a
foregone conclusion that all the miners
whose scales expire Saturday will
cease work until officially notified by
the national and district officials that
contract arrangements have been made
governing their scales."
The bituminous miners affected di
rectly and indirectly by the disruption
of the conferences number 384.500, dis
tributed as follows: Pennsylvania,
160,000; Maryland, 5.00o; West Vir
ginia, 15.000; Ohio. 40,000; Indiana. 15,
000; Illinois. 53,000; Iowa. 14,000;
Michigan. 3.500; Kentucky, 4 000, and
the southwestern states, 40.000. Of
these 120,000 are unorganized.
JUSTICE HARLAN MAY
LEAVE THE BENCH
WASHINGTON The Post says that
Associate Justice John M. Harlan of ,
the United States supreme court an-1
nounced to the officials of the New
York Avenne and the Assembly Pres- j
byterian church if the latter would i
consolidate with the former, the As
sembly church giving $25,000 for the
sale of its present property as a nu
cleus for a fund to build a new build
ing for the two consolidated chuches,
he would resign his position on the su
preme bench to take personal charge
of the work and see that it is success
ful. FOR 2-CENT RAILROAD FARE.
President Rosenthal, N. C. T.. to Or
ganize Topeka "Drummers."
TOPEKA R. A. Rosenthal, presi
dent of the National Commercial
Travelers' League, is here to organize
branch among traveling men who
make Topeka his headquarters. The
object of the league is to arouse sen
timent in favor of a 2-cent fare and a
law requiring railroads to carry 250
pounds of oaggage free.
HE SWALLOWED THE WATCH.
Two Pottawatomie Indians Quarreled
Over the Timepiece.
HOLTON, Kas. Two Indians named
Dear Head and Swift Horse had a fight
on the Pottawatomie reservation
about a small silver watch. Dear Head,
who had the watch put it in his
mouth for convenience, and swallowed
it. Swift Horse claims the watch, and
has had Dear Head arrested. The
defendant still has the watch.
United States Stands Firm.
CONSTANTINOPLE In reply to
.further representations made by the
porte on the subject of the proposed
increase in the customs duties the
American legation has reiterated that
the government at Washington can
make no concessions until the
American demands for a settlement of
the schools and other questions are
granted.
Relic for War Department.
WASHINGTON President Roose
velt has presented to the war depart
ment for its historical collection a sec
tion of a log from the cabin which
Gen. U. S. Grant built for his family
near St. Louis after his resignation
from the regular army before the
opening of the war of 1861. The sec
tion is from a log which was used in
making a frame presented to Andrew
Carnegie acknowledging his gift of
one million dollars to the library asso
ciation. Attempt to Mob Preacher.
LA JUNTA, Colo. Rev. W. Gouley
Connell, former pastor of the Presby
terian church at Lamar, who is held
for trial on a charge of Immoral con
duct, was safely landed In jail here
Tuesday night, after having been
hastily removed from Lamar to prevent
a lynching. Connel left Lamar hur
riedly two weeks ago. He was arrested
at Waxachie, Tex., and was brought
back to Lamar on Monday night Sev
eral hundred men thronged the stretsJ
threatened to fcaag the minister.
COMPROMISE ON STATEHOOD.
Indications that the Senate and Houso
Will Get Together.
WASHINGTON That the senate
and house will reach a compromise on
the statehood bill which will permit
Arizona and New Mexico each to de
cide for itself the question of their
admission as one state seems a cor
rect conclusion from present indica
tions. Inquiry among the senators who op
posed the original house bill indicates
that they wil accept this compromise.
The senate amendment defining the
limits of the prohibition territory in
Oklahoma is regarded as the result
of a general agreement between all
parties interested and is acceptable.
Likewise there seems little objection to
the senate provision allowing lien
schools lands to be selected in "place of
school lands found to be mineral
lands. Other senate amendments are
to be considered Friday.
NOTORIOUS BENDER FAMILY
ALL UNOER GROUND
ror'EKA, Kas. The question as to
what became of the notorious Bender
family has been revived. Most people
for years have believed that the Bend
ers escaped from Kansas and are still
living somewhere. But Dr. James A.
DeMoss, of Thayer, declares that
the Benders were all laid to rest in
unmarked graves near Thayer, and
that he knows the exact spot. "I have
in my possession," said he. "the names
of eight living persons who can tell
the public, if they would, where the
Benders are buried, and who identi
fied their bodies before their buriaL
STATISTICS OF FAMINE.
Over a Million Persons Suffering
as
Result of Crop Failure.
TOKIO Tue latest statistics procur
able from L.e three prefectures most
heavily ahected by the famine are a3
follows:
Kukusshima Complete failure of
the crops over two-thirds of the whole
cultivated area. The sufferers number
483.588 out of a total population of 1,
170,598. luiyagi A complete crop failure, af
fects nearly the whole cultivated area.
The sufferers number 190,422 out of a
population of 749,927.
MAGOON HIS CHOICE.
Taft Said to Favor Him as His Own
Successor.
WASHINGTON The belief con
tinues to prevail that Secretary Taft
will go upon the supreme bench in
the next few months and the slate
makers proceed to fill the war port
folio with Charles Magocn. governor
general of the isthmus of Panama. Ho
was identified with the war depart
ment for a long time, first as law offi
cer of the bureau of insular affairs.
Secretary Taft is said to have a high
regard for him and will recommend
him as his own successor in the de
partment. CASTELLAN E CASE
POSTPONED.
Another Adjournment Taken
in Di-
vorce Proceedings.
PARIS The adjourned hearing of
the Castellane divorce proceedings
set for March 31 has been postponed
until April 28. owing to the absence
of Countess Anna at Bierritz. and to
1 the fact that Count Boni is engaged
in a political campaign. The delay
is really due to the desire of the
parties to determine on the future bus
iness and domestic phases of the case
before the court proceeds with tho
final hearing.
MAKES NO SECRET OF
OF HIS BUSINESS HERE
NEW YORK Under a red banner
bearing the inscription. "The Rus
sian Revoluntionary Party," several
thousand men and women of Russian
origin gathered in Grand Central pal
ace to honor and listen to Nicholas
Tchaykowsky, a Russian revolution
ists, wao recently arrived here. One
of the speakers of the evening aroused
much enthusiasm when he declared:
"Tchaykowsky comes to this coun
try not as an angel of peace, but the
angel of war. He comes openly with
money to buy arms. There is no con
cealment of the object of his visit."
GIVES TWO MILLIONS MORE.
Andrew Carnegie Further Endows
Technical Schools.
PITTSBURG, Pa. It was announced
In this city, that Andrew Carnegie
had given two million dollars in addi
tion to previous gifts for the main
tenance of the Carnegie technical
schools. Mr. Carnegie has already
given upwards of a million. It was
also announced that Mr. Carnegie
expressed a desire that the Margaret
Morrison Carnegie school for women
meet the expense. It is expected tho
technical schools will cost about $5,
000,000 when completed.'
Demurrer By Judge Deuel.
NEW YORK Justice Joseph M.
Deuel filed his answer to the specifica
tions of the application by which it is
sought to remove him from his posi
tion as justice of the court of special
sessions. This application followed
closely upon the Hapgood libel trial
and was made jointly by the attorneys
on both sides in that case, including
District Attorney Jerome. Justice
Deuel, who was a stockholder in tho
publication Town Topics, brought the
action for libel against Norman Hap
good, editor of Collier's Weekly.
Man's Proper Place.
There was a time when I liked to
"join the ladies" in dancing, but since
I have reached the years of discretion
I incline to the view of the Orientals
and the Ancients, that the proper
place of man is among the spectators.
Truth.
Spirit of Investigation.
When a friend turns around and up
side down the piece of silverware you
save, it is not so much to get the ef
fect of different views as to see if
it ia marked sterling. Atchison Globe.
OPERATORS SIGN
SOME OF THEM READY
1903 SCALE.
TO PAY
THE OUTLOOK NOT SO SERIOUS
Reports from Johnstown that Miners
Will Make a Demonstration Little
Change Reported in the Pittsburgh
District
PITTSBURG Dispatches from the
soft coal fields indicate almost a gen
iral announcement from the operators
of Western Pennsylvania to pay the
miners the advance of 5.55 per ton
called for in the restoration 'of the
scale of 1903. With notices posted at
the majority of the mines announcing
the granting of the scale the strike in
the soft coal field has lost the threat
ening aspect that has surrounded it
since last January.
Despite these notices it is an
nounced from Johnstown that 1,000 or
more union miners would make a de
monstration at the mines of the Ber-wing-White
company mines at Wind
ber Monday in an effort to get the non
union miners to come into the union.
At Dubois the men met today and de
cided to remain out with the excep
tion of pumpmen, engineers and fire
men until after the district convention
which begins Tuesday. Of the 40.000
In West Virginia but 5.000 are affil
iated with the United Mine Workers.
About 1,500 are in the Panhandle sec
tion and these have ceased work.
Announcement was made from
Greensburg that the scale had been
granted by the operators of fifteen
mines in Westmoreland county.
In the Pittsburg district there has
been little change in the past twenty
four hours. While the scale agree
ment expired last night at midnight
there had been no steps taken that
would indicate a general suspension of
work. Tomorrow is a holiday, being
Mitchell day, the anniversary of the
granting of the eight hour day to the
miners, and all mines will be closed.
On Tuesday, however, the district
convention's scale committee will
have in readiness the new scale and it
is expected most of the operators will
sign it. It is expected that among the
first signers will be Francis L. Hob
bins, of the Pittsburg Coal company,
who has been the leader of the operat
ors in granting the advance. What
ever suspensions may follow on the
part of the independent operators in
the district, it is not expected that
over 5,000 of the 6,000 men in the dis
trict will go out. The operators op
posed to an advance will hold a meet
ing Tuesday" to confer on what course
to pursue.
Miner's officials are coufldent Rob
bins' competitors will yield after the
meeting.
BEEF. TRUST TRIALS SET.
Non-Immune Corporations to Be Tried
in September.
CHICAGO Judge Humphrey set the
trial of the packing corporations which
were denied immunity at the hearing
ended last week for the second Mon
day in September.
Early in the day a conference was
held between Judge Humphrey Dis
trict Attorney Morrison and Attorney
Miller, representing the packers, re
garding the date of the trial of the
corporations. The district attorney
asked that the trial be immediate, and
the judge and Mr. Miller favored a
date in September. The conference
was adjourned without action to per
mit the district attorney to consult
the authorities in Washington. Later,
vhen the conference was resumed.
District Attorney Mcrrisno entered a
formal motion asking for a new trial
tl the immunity pleas. It was denied,
as was a similar motion made by Mr.
Miller relative to the corporations.
The court then set the date for the
trial.
Will Work For Scale.
INDIANAPOLIS The aational con
vention of the United Mine Workers of
America adjourned after authorizing
the national and district officers to sign
a wage agreement with any coal ope
rator who would agree to pay the scale
of 1903 or its equivalent for a period of
two years. This is an advance of 5.55
per cent in wages in Illinois. Indiana.
Ohio and western Pennsylvania and all
other districts except the southwest.
composed of Missouri Kansas. Texas, ;
Arkansas and Indian Territory-
Dowie is Repudiated.
CHICAGO At a meeting of 5.000
adherents of the Christian Catholic
fhurch at Zion City, of which John ,
Alexander Dowie is the founder and
first apostle, Dowie's authority was
repudiated and Wilbur ilenn Vbliva.
the new leader, who for some time has
been conducting the affairs of the t
church, elected in his stead. Mrs.
Dowie also repudiated her husband
and their son, Gladstone Dowie. cast
his lot with his mother and the new
leader, Voliva. Most of the officials
of the church were present.
Suit Aoainst Ex-Auditor.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind For the sfate
of Indiana Warren J. Bigier, auditor
of state, through Attorney General
Miller, brought suit, in the superior
jourt to collect $110,000 from John O.
Henderson, who was auditor of state
from January 17, 1891. until January
24, 1895. It Is charged that Hender
son "is indebted to the state in the
sum of $100,000 for insurance state
taxes received by him. wrongfully re
tained and not paid into the treasury
of the state and on account of ether
irregularities."
Good "Wireless" Record.
WASHINGTON Under the direction
of Rear Admiral Cowles, chief of the
bureau of equipment, Navy depart
ment, careiul experiments were made
recently for ten days in sending gov
ernment wireless dispatches between
the stations at Guantanamo, Cuba. Key
West and Pensacola. Fla., and Colon,
Panama. It was found that about 75
per cent of the messages were entirely
successful and the rate of success was
mucn higher with the night messages
than witu those sent in the daytime.
OTH CLAIM JURISDICTION.
Controversy Betwen Two Committees
of the House.
WASHINGTON The controversy
between the house committees on
rivers and harbors and interstate and
foreign commerce over the jurisdic
tion of dams over navigable streams
is considered with a view to an
amicable settlement at a joint meet
ing of five members of each commit
tee, including Chairman Hepburn. The
prediction is made that the conten
tion of Mr. Burton that his committee
should take complete jurisdiction over
a navigable stream will be conceded. !
The controversy arose over a pending
proposition before the commerce
committee to take a quantity of water
out of the Sacramento .iver In Cali
fornia for irrigation purposes. Targe
sums have been spent to make this
river navigable under the recommen
dation of the rivers and -harbors com
mittee and jts members claim to allow
the irrigation project to go through
would render the stream non-navigable.
The legislation prompted by the
recent wreck of the steamship Valen
cia off the straits of Fuca was author
ized to be reported favorably by the
house committee on interstate and for
eign commerce today. The bill report
ed has passed the senate. It approp
riates 1200.000 for an ocean-going life
savin? tug and for the establishment
of a life station at Neap bay.
KOTE BANK TELLER
ISAM EMBEZZLER
NEW YORK.- Joseph P. Turney.
note teller at the National Bank of
North America, was arrested and ar
raigned in police court here on a
charge of stealing $34,000.
The alleged peculationg it i3
charged in an affiidavit presented to
the court, have been going on for
twenty-five years. Officials of the
bank apeared in court to press the
case.
LAUGH AT WAR MINISTER.
Declaration in Reichstag Against
Duelling Causes Mirth.
BERLIN la the reichstag. during
the debate on the army estimates, the
war minister. General von Einera. read
a statement concerning duelling, say
ing that vue imperial orders against
duelling remained in force. Their aim
was to abolish duelling entirely. 'he
minister's statement was received with
laughter by the members of the center
party and the radicals.
The announcement made by the
war minister modifies considerably
Chancellor von Buelow's declaration
of January 15, in which he said:
"Nevertheless so long as duelling
Is widely regarded as a means of re
dress for injured honor officers cannot
tolerate the presence in their ranks of
anyone who is not prepared to defend
his honor with his sword."
Tillman Will Oppose Amendment.
WASHINGTON Senator Tillman,
who has charge of the railway rate
bill in the senate, said that he was
not satisfied with the court review
amendment to the measure which was
agreed on Saturday at a conference be
tween President Rosevelt. several re
publican senators and members of the
interstate commerce commission. Tho
senator said he would oppose it on the
floor of the senate and he expressed
the opinion that not half a dozen of
his colleagues would support the
amendment.
Plan far Devlin Estate.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. A plan for tak
ing the C. J. Devlin estate out of the
bankruptcy courts and reorganizing
the various interests which comprise it
was discussed today at a meeting in
this city of the creditors reorganiza
tion committee and several of the
principal creditors. No course of pro
cedure was agreed upon, however.
Teller Surr-nds Himself.
PITTSBURG Thomas W. Harver.
former paying teller of the defunct En
terprise i ional bank of Allegheny,
for whom a warrant was issued jointly
with five others, alleging eonspiracy
to defraud in connection with the fail
ure of the bank, surrendered himself
today.
Morris Buck Will Be Hanged.
LOS ANGELES Morris Buck, who
cTint nml L-illrwl Xtl-u Cnnfiolil tho urtfo
of the oI, mimonaire was scntenced to
be hanged June 1.
Send $25,000 More to Japan. ;
WASHINGTON. D. C The Chris-I
tian Herald on Friday sent in another
check for $25,000 to the state depart-
nient through the Red Cross, for trans
mittal to Japan for the relief of fam
ine sufferers.
To Pasture 600 Elk.
WASHINGTON That a herd of GQ0
elk "nay be properly pastured, legis
lation is finding favor at the capitol.
which will set aside a large portion of ,
the Olympic forest reserve in the state
of Washington for this purpose.
Florida Wants an Exposition.
velt was asked Friday to give his in
terest and support to another interna
tional exposition. It is the desire of
the people of Florida that such an
. exposition be held in Tampa in Jan
uary. February, March, April and May
I of 1908. to commemorate the begin
: ning of the digging of the Panama
' canal. The president was not enthu
siastic over the proposition, as he said
he had about all the work on hand
concerning expositions that he well
! could stand.
Public Improvements in , Hawaii.
WASHINGTON The house com
mittee on territories authorized a
favorable report on a bill setting aside
for five years 75 per cent of the cus
toms and internal revenues of the
Hawaiian islands for public improve
ments. ST. PETERSBURG Most horrible
accounts are reaching St. Petersburg
of cannibalism and starvation among
tribes inhabiting the frozen Arctic
plain of the Chuckchis peninsula, at
the extremity of Asia.
SURVIVED ON HAY
VICTIMS OF THE MINE DISASTER
IN FRANCE RESCUED.
ALL HOPE HAD BEEN ABANDONED
Sudden Appearance of Emaciated Men
Frightens Salvage Corps Hay ano
Horse Flesh Sustained Life for
Nearly Three Weeks.
LENS, France The disaster at the
Courrieres coal mines had a startling
seuqel Friday when thirteen miners
were taken out alive after having en
dured unspeakable horrors during the
twenty days of entombment. The story
of the survivors, so far as it has been
told, discloses that they lived for many
days on putrid horse meat amid total
darkness and the stench from scores
of decaying corpses. The presence of
human flesh would speedily have
forced the starving men to resort to
the last desperate extremity,
if they had not been rescued. The
survivors were sturdy young miners
from 17 to 25 years of age. except their
leader, Henri Nemy, who is 38 years
old. All show the terrible effects of
their experiences, being emaciated and"
blinded. Their rescue caused a tem
porary nervous lucidity, during whichj
they greeted their relatives and graph
ically related their sufferings. Tho
doctors then forced quiet upon them..
fearing the results of fever and pois
oning from their having eaten decayed
horseflesh.
There were touching scenes as wives
and mothers greeted those whom they
had long given up as dead. Crowds
beseiged the hospitals to which the
men were taken, cheering the survivors
and imprecating the ineffective nature
of the salvage work that followed im
mediately after the disaster.
The rescue of these thirteen men
revived hope in many families that
others are alive, and the relatives of
those whose bodies have not been re
covered clamorously demanded that ef
forts be redoubled to bring out any
possible survivors.
There is a report that in addition to
the thirteen men who were brought up
out of the mine, there were five others
who came with them almost to the
bottom of the pit, but were unable to
come further on account of exhaustion.
The total number of men missing;
after the catastrophe was 1.212. Thei
bodies recovered approximately
nura-
bered 500. and there are still
counted for. approximately. 700.
The engineers explain that
unac-
som
smoldering fires prevented them from
exploring remote passages of the mine,
where it was thought there could, be
no survivors. The mine owners also
say that the strike of miners reduced
the number of rescuers available.
Many engineers and scientists agree
that all in the mine died Ion? ago. En
gineer Laur. however, dissents, assert
ing the salvage work has beee dn
plorably ineffective and he believes
that scores died of exhaustion owing
to the poor work of the salvage com
panies. MRS. LEAVITT WRITES PLAY.
Daughter of W. J. Bryan Has Made a
Success of It.
DENVER. Colo. Ruth Bryan-Lea-vitt.
daughter of William Jennings
Bryan, has written a play which looks
so good to dramatic critics and
friends that she has refused to sell
the rights. It is a one-act sketch
written just to show some members
of a box party that the Nebraska girl
could keep her word to write a better
play than the one they were witness
ing when the "dare" was made.
That was six months ago in Den
ver. The work was undertaken at
once. The piece is now beins: re
hearsed here for the Orpheum circuit
and will be nut on for the first time
in Salt Lake City. April 16.
The title of the sketch is "Mrs. S.
Holmes. Detective."
A PUBLIC BUILDING BILL.
House Committee Agrees to One Car
rying Twenty Millions.
WASHINGTON The house com
mittee on public buildings and
grounds agreed to report a public
building b.il carrying appropriations
aggregating twenty million dollars.
The details of the bill are not fully
completed, and the committee voted to
refrain from disclosing the projects to
be included in the measure until the
report is finally completed, which will
be in about ten days.
Mrs. Rosevelt at Havana.
HAVANA Mrs. Roosevelt, accompa
nied by her children. Ethel. Archie
and Quentin. arrived here Sunday on
board the Mayflower.
English View of Situation.
LONDON The London papers in
, their editorial articles welcome the
semement or me points on contro-
Versv bet
ween France and Germanv
over Morocco as removing the
chlcal conditions in Morocco.
anar-
I Delay in Shoshone Opening.
WASHINGTON The joint resolu
tion extending the time for opening of
the Shoshone or Wind River Indian
reservation to white settlement has
passed both houses and become a law.
The extension is made purely because '
in early June the weather in this sec
tion of Wyoming is unsettled and for
the additional reason that two railroads
are now building branches to connect
with the borders of the new white
man's country, which will, when com
pleted, greatly facilitate the handling
of the great number of settlers.
General Bell to Be Promoted
WASHINGTON An order Issued-at
the War department directs Brigadier
General Franklin Bell. In charge of the
staff college at Fort Leavenworth, to
repair to this city not later than Ajril
9 and report to Lieutenant General
Bates, chief of staff, for assignment to
duty. April 14 is the date fixed for tho
retirement of Lieutenant General
Bates, the promotion of Major General
Corbin to the rank of lieutenant gen
eral and the installation of Brigadier
General Bell as chief of staff by presf
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