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The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. XXXVII NO. 32. OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, .TULA" 23, 1907 TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. FEW MORE ARE FOUND Lilt of Kisning; in Columbia Diiuter Decreaiei Slowly. NINETY-THREE UNACCOUNTED FOB Company Arrangei to Send Bodiet of Yictimi Home. DR. AND MBS. PAUL ABE SAFE Columbus Dentist and Wife Notify Friends of Arrival at 'Frisco. STEAMER ELDER AT ASTORIA rthrlle and Curious Scenes ttt th Dock as lUirard Prraont Aft l.sade-d List of the SAN FRANCISCO, July M.-But few changes have been made In the lists of loat and aaved of the steamer Columbia published yesterday. The steamer of ficials hare been Informed that Chew Mock of Oakland, a Chinese first class traveler, reported missing-, was among the saved. The company has announced that the bodies of the Victims were being; held by the coroner at Eureka pending orders from friends and relatives to have them shipped to this city and Portland. The bodies of eastern passengers will be sent by both routes. A revised list of the passengers shows 108 saved and seventy-seven missing. Of the officers and crew forty were saved and sixteen are missing. This makes a total of ninety-three unaccounted for. Survivors at Astoria. ASTORIA. Ore., July 24. All night long an eager throng awaited on the docks for the arrival of the steamer Oeortre W. Elder, which had on board many of the surtvlvors of the Ill-fated Columbia, which was sunk In a collision with the steamer schooner Sun Pedro near Shelter Cove, Cel., early Sunday morning. Hundreds of people, relatives, friends of the survivors, came from Portland and various towns In Oregon and Washington to greet their loved ones. Patiently they waited on the docks through, out the night, huddled In groups, with their faces Illumined with happiness and chatting happily of the reunion of the morrow. The scene, however, was not without Its sorrow. Here and there an expectant wife, a loving father, a brother or a sister, hoping against hope, sat huddled and dis consolate. They were awaiting news of the missing, perhaps of the dead. It was the presence of the bereaved that held the throngs In check, and here and there some man or woman more thoughtful of the rest, endeavored to console the poor folk, whose eyes scanned the sea so anxiously f for a glimpse of the Elder. At last me looKout at Hammond tele- phoned In that the Elder was off the bar and at 4:45 o'clock another message earn that the watchers began to pace up and down the pier, nervously scanning the harbor to eaten a glimpse of the steamer. Cheers Greet Boat. . - When at last the Elder Anally was dis cerned In the glow of early morning there was cheer after cheer. Hundreds of peo ple from all parts of the city were addod to the expectant crowds. Long before" the Elder was within ear shot people on the locks began a fusillade of questions, but It was useless. It was not long, however, before people on the dock recognised, or thought they could recognise, thulr loved ones and the ixcltement grew more tense and demon itrative. The scene on the Elder was per haps more animated. Crowds of eager peo ple were gathered on the docks and a long row of happy faces shown over the rail. Hats were waved and the cheers of the resoued mingled with the watchers on shore. Shouts of greeting went back and forth as the Elder came to Its dock and cries of "How are you?" and "Are you all right?" tnd punctuated now and then with the cry f a mother or father appealing for new of loved one. There were pitiful scenes when It wss learned that the Elder had picked up none of the Columbia's lifeboats or rafts. All hope bad departed for some and they lipped away from the merry-makers to hide their sorrow as beat they might. It waa only too true the Elder had not tghted any of the missing rafts or boats and had picked up none of the victims after leaving Eureka. Cartons r wt Came Aahoro. A the gangplank of the Elder was swung out on the dock there was a mad rush to get on board the vessel, but Cap tain Jessen, reluctant aa he was to re strain the union of the passengers and friends and relatives on shore, waa obliged to maintain discipline. When an was ready the survivors were permitted to go ashore. It was a curious crowd that thronged down the gang plank. Attired In all sorts of misfit garments, the passen ger presented an odd appearance. There were some who had fitted out in Eureka, but It waa hot difficult to recognise the survivors of the Columbia disaster. The scene upon the dock was almost beyond words. Every possible demonstration of Joy waa spent and the hugging and kiss ing continued for many minutes. Some few were overcome by the exoltement of the meeting and some fainted, but were soon revived. Some of the rescued were car ried off their feet by friends. They were taken care of by others and made welcome by the good people of As toria. Flowers were distributed and hot coffee and other good things were there for those who needed them. List ( Sarrivora oa Elder. Following Is a list of the survivors of the steamer Columbia who were taken on board the steyner Elder on Sunday after tbe Columbia had been struck by the learner Ean Pedro at Shelter Cove, CaL Tbe Rider arrived this morning: K. W. H. Truesdale. Rlchtleld. III.; H. It Ewart. Oklahoma City. Okl.; R. Robin son. Alameda; William Plnney, Chicago; J B. Myers, San Francisco; Frank Mario, fan Himun'o, Ij. E. Hill, Santa Ant; Fred Knspp, Buffalo, N. T.; A. C. Wood ward. Oakland. Cal.; Miss Minnie Buxton, Portland; Mies Florence Thompson. Yuungmown, O.; Prod Rogers, Enid, Okl.; C K. May hew. EnlJ Okl.; Phil Uoslltsky. Sun Francisco; Joe Rumlev. Portland; F. MauMtu, Astoria; Olaf iTtereon, pnknne; Pearl Ueebe, Portland; Wight I'asner. 1m. 8. IX; Mre. J. A. Johnson. uih brodnrick; C. R. Johnson. South lii'odertik; Ethel Johnson. South Hrodertck; J. Grant Kilns and wife. Sanger. Cal.; Mrs. C A. tinnun. San Francisco: Helen l hurchley. Portland; Ut-orge tiuodenpyl. McM'nnvllle. Tenn.; P. levers. Portland: Al Blcgol. Portland; A. W. Crader. Port Und; Muyb.Ha Vtataon. Berkeley, Cal; A 8cliob.-r. Denver; J W. Klxgs and wife, ulouiuiiigton. 111.; Hanry kunst. ; (Continued oa tlecoud Pagai SUMMARY OF TllE BEE Thursday, July 25, 1BOT. 1907 JULY 1907 US) MOM TU mom rut wis m ni sat I 2 3 4 5 6 8 0 10 II 12 Id 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24 26 27 29 30 3. 7 T V'. 7 14 21 THE WE AT Bit. FORECAST FOR NRRRASK Temperature at Omaha yestet Hour. Deg. Hour. 6 a. m 71 1 p. m 6 a. m 72 2 p. m 7 a. m "i 8 p. m 8 a. m 73 4 p. m a. m 73 5 p. m DO a. m 74 6 p. ni go 11 a. m 72 7 p. m 78 12 m 74 8 p. m 77 9 p. m 79 DOKXSTIO. Clarence Darrow denounces the testi mony of Harry Orchard in the Haywood trial and pays his respects also to Prose cutor J. H. Hawley. Page 1 Stea,..r Elder reaches Astoria with many of the rescued passengers from the Columbia. rage X Secretary Cellarlus of the United States League of Building and Loan associations in his annual report shows a tremendous increase In business for the year. Page 1 '. Thirteen men only out of list of thirty eight passed the consular examination at Washington. Fags X Japanese submit plans for the govern ment of Corea that are revolutionary In character, though the throne is not mo lested. Vage X Strike of miners in the ore industry Is likely to have serious consequences If it Is not stopped. rage X Japanese warships arrive at Brest and treat Americans with cordiality. Page X Carmen on the Rock Island road are making all possible trouble for the road during strike. rage X Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul official return from first trip over the new Pierre line. rage x roKEiazr Russians fear that Japanese are plan ning an antl-dynastlc revolution that will involve China. rag X XfXBKASXA. State Board of Assessment Is making. a comparative table of the valuations placed on property in the various counties. rag 3 LOCAL Judge Redlck of the district court de cides slot machines are gambling devices and refuses to enjoin the ordinance pro hibiting them. rage a Commissioner Guild of the Commercial club returns from Charlevoix with asser tion that Missouri river Jobbers were fav ored at the hands of the western classi fication committee. ' page a Basil Mullen, second of the trio of youths, suspected of murder of Han Pak, says his pals led and he followed. Page T Four Omaha ticket brokers are cited before Judge W. H. Munger pf the federal court to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of court In the violation of order against scalping. rage 7 Society improves ita opportunity for out-of-door enjoyment with many dinner parties at the various rural clubs. Paga WYOMING WANTS IMMIGRANTS Coal Miners or Farm Laborers Most la Demand, According; to Governor. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, July 24. (Special Tele gram.) On July 1 there was Installed a new division of the Department of Commerce and Labor to be known, according to the Immigration law signed February 20 of this year, a sthe division of Information In the bureau of lmmlgrtton and naturalization, with a chief and such other clerical assist ance as may be necessary, the duty of such division being to promote the bene ficial distribution of aliens admitted Into the United States among the several states and territories desiring Immigration." Aa chVef of this division T. V. Powderly, formerly chief of bureau of Immigration, has been appointed and one of the first things Mr. Powderly did was to direct letter to the governors of statu and terri tories asking them a series of questions relating to the needs of the several states as to laborers and what nationalities were most desired. Among the answers received was one from Governor Brooks of Wyo ming, who states taht the demand for work men In his state Is most urgent, particu larly in the coal fields, all of which are short-handed. The agricultural sections are also in need of laborers, ranch owners being at their wits end to know how to harvest their crops. "The class of laborers needed," said Governor Brooks, "Is skilled miners and unskilled common laborers. We could use many Finn miners to great ad vantage. Mechanics are needed in all our cities and In every trade. In our coal mines both single men and heads of famil ies could be worked to advantage, but heads of families are preferred. Two thou sand ooal miners are required at present and more can be used next fall. Farm wages range from $' to M0 per month with board. Coal miners get S3 per day for ordi nary work and skilled miners and work men make from $3.50 to 6 per day. All na. tlonalltles can be used to advantage." Governor Sheldon of Nebraska and Gov ernor Cummins of Iowa have not answered Mr. Powderly's lnterropgatorles, but their replies are expected dally. There Is a humorous side to the creation of this bureau of information, which prom ises much for the space writer and the "funny man" of the dally newspapers. Peo ple throughout the country have an Idea that whatever their wants all they have to do is to write Powderly for information and they will get It forthwith. Aletter from Ingham, Neb., was received today, atatlng that the writer was a citizen of Lincoln county and he wanted to open a saloon near that town. He desired to know who he should write to or see to get a government license and how much the license would be, and also If he Could se cure a license for six months or one year "and all about them." The application of Hamilton Wllcom, James Boiler, P. L. Arraamlth. A. G. Arra smlth and M. C. Wfloom to organize the Grurwold National bank of Giiswold. Ia., with tKO.OOO capital for bond approved by the comptroller of the currency. Iowa postmasters appointed: Hanley, Madison county, Jennie Howard, vice W. C. Montgomery. resigned; Marysvllle. Marion county. John it. Watts, vita John Mats, resigns MANY CHANGES IN SEOUL Japanese Suggest Reyolutionary Flans for Core a. THRONE REMAINS UNMOLESTED Corea ii Ministers Reeelre Them with Consternation Wholesale Ax reats Arc Now Being; Made. TOKIO, July 24. According to a dls patch received here from Seoul this morn ing Marquis Ito received a long message yesterday, July 23, from the Imperial gnv ernment In this city and opened nrttotla- j tlons with the Corean government the amr i venlng. The Corean ministry la now ..ldlng a meeetlng with closed doors. Marquis Ito's official newspaper express'.! satisfaction with the views of some of tho foreign papers regarding the situation In Corea, but says It Is surprised at the Im pression which appears to prevail abroad that Japan has taken action In Corea, In sisting that Japan has not done so. Proposed Plans Make Great Chance. SEOUL, July 24. It Is understood that the proposals of Japan with which Vis count Hayashi was charged were presented by Marquis Ito to the Corean cabinet which met at 10 o'clock this morning under j a japaneae guard. The meeting waa held In, the temporary quarters of the minister of agriculture In the Japanese section of the city. The ministers deliberated until 4 o'clock In the afternoon, when Premier Iwan Hung, together with the minister of war, presented the new plan of governing the stale to the emperor in the palace, re turning to the cabinet meeting within two hours. It is understood that the Japanese pro posals though they do not molest the se curity of the throne are revolutionary and the fact that the audience of the cabinet members with the emperor was brief, la believed to be evidence of the consterna tion of the court. Many Agitators -Arrested. Many agitators from the province are arriving here. They are not permitted to assemble in the city and therefore are meeting In suburban towns, where loo soldiers were yesterday detailed to dis perse them. On account of the prevailing heat and disquiet the financial archives of the gov ernment, and also the correspondence of the various government department have been removed to the Japanese city to insure their safety from destruction by fire. Wholesale arrests of subordinates leav ing the palace began at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the object being to Intercept pos sible communications from the former emperor which might throw light on al leged plots. A messago from Chemulpo states that the Japanese war vessels Kasagt, Nltaka and Tsushima arrived there from Gensan at 9 o'clock this morning with many blue Jackets and provincial troops on board. The troops will proceed to Seoul. FEAR CHINA WILL BE NEXT Russians Believe Japan Is Planning; to Gain Hotel la Celes tial Empire. ST. PETERSBURG, July 24. The Novoe Vremya publishes details of an alleged onti-dynastlc movement in southern China, ascribing it to Japanese Instigators who, the paper says, are busily preparing for the Manchu dynasty In China the same fate which has Just overtaken the emperor ' of Corea. ! Continuing, the paper says, that in con travention to the supplementary provisions of the China-Japanese treaty of 1 defin ing the regions where foreigners, including Japanese, shall be permitted to reside, Jarane agents, have worked their way Into the most remote corners of the empire. The note of Japanese Intrigue consists in assuring the Chinese that Japan is their I protector against the nations of the west ! and at the same time reassuring the west I erners that Japan Is their vanguard against the Chinese peril. I The apprehensions of the Novoe Vremya regarding the reopening of the far eastern question are fully shared In Russian mili tary circles, where the steady armament of China and Japan is viewed with alarm. This movement la regarded as primarily menacing to the remnant of Russian posses sions on the Pacific. j TOKIO, July 24. It la understood that the terms of the Russo-Japanese entente were I finally agreed upon at the meeting of the j elder statemen yesterday. The entente t probably will be published shortly, and j simultaneously In both countries. This step j will precede the publication of the com merclal treaty between Russia and Japan. GYPSIES PROVING PROBLEM Many Outraares Chara-ed to Them la Hungary, Where They Are Numerous. BUDAPEST, July 24. -A long list of mur ders and other outrages committed recently I by nomad Gypsy bands at Pussta and else- where In Hungary has brought the question ! of controlling the Gypsies, a problem that has confronted the Hungarian government for a century or more, again to the front. There Is a powerful movement on foot to compel the government to solve the problem of the disposition of the BO.000 wanderers. London Laughs at Punch. LONDON, July 24 A cartoon In Punch Is attracting much attention from thoso who are of the belief that the United States Is responsible morally for the action of Venezuela to refusing to pay debts that have been passed upon aa Just by The Hague conference. It portrays the South American republic in the shape of a mon key perched In a tree holding In its hand a satchel. The tree Is labeled "Monroe doctrine." Standing beneath Is Uncle Sam and a Belgian boy. the latter pointing up at the monkey, saying: "Please sir. your monkey has taken my bag." "That's so," replies the genial and entil ing Uncle Sam. "Ain't he cuter Plna Fossil Remains. BAOGS, Wyo., July 24.-(Bpeclal.V-A ore- hlstorlo relic of the lizard variety has ': been found near here. The skeleton meaa- ' ures $14 feet m length. One Vertebrae weighs more than half a ton. It is esti mated that the animal in the flesh weighed 1O0.000 pounds. The find will be sold to some museum. Taft Guest of Canada. OTTAWA. Ont., July 24 Secretary Tsft Is expected to pay a visit soon to the St. Lawrence river and guh". Hon. R. W. Scott, the Canadian secretary of state, la in communication with him regarding the visit. The government. It Is expected, will place on of the Dominion cruisers at his disposal FIRST TRIP OVER NEW LINE I Officials of Milwaukee Road Return from Inspection In South Dakota. MITCH ELL. S. D.. July 34.-Speelal.) -The head officials of tho Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad have Just made their first trip over their line from Chicago to the Black Hills country, this being the first through train from the east to the west side of the Mississippi river, which the train crossed on Its own bridge. Among the officials on the train when It went through Mitchell were second Vice President McKenna, third Vice President Hlland, General Manager Ooodnow. General Pas senger Agent Miller. General Freight Agent Plerpont and A. E. Manchester, superin tendent of motive power. The trip was made out to Rapid CHy to Inspect the con dition of the roadbed and arrive at some conclusion as to when through trains could bo established from Chicago. The officials found the roadbed in poor condition, owing to the heavy rams that have fallen through the reservation In the past ten days and they were unable to make any definite statement when the road would be open to through business. At the present time the company Is hauling Im mense quantities of gravel from the bed near Oacoma and graveling the roadbed using forty to fifty cars per day. This work Is accomplished nearly to Murdo, a distance of seventy miles from Chamberlain. Por tions of the roadbed are stink in the soft gumbo soil and it cannot be depended upon until the gravel Is substituted. The com pany will have to arrange this fall to handle the big crop that is being raised out on the reservation this season, as the heavy rains during the season hss made the grain grow very rapidly and a very heavy yield is re ported all along Hhe line. To haul this to market will retire a good roadbed and the company will arrange to put the road In the best possible shape. It was reported that the United States government had condemned the bridge across the Missouri river as being unsafe to haul passenger trains across, but the officials declare that no such order was ever Issued, and they would be the first to close the bridge to trains If It were not absolutely safe. The bridge has been out of repair for several weeks, but was put In good condition Friday. BUILDING AND LOAN MEETING Secretary Cellarlus Reports on Won. derful Increase) In Opera tlons In Country. CHICAGO, July 24. The fifteenth an nual meeting of the United States League of Local Building and Loan association opened today with a large attendance. Sec retary Cellarlus of Cincinnati and other officers sumbltted their reports. In the commencement of his report Secre tary Cellarlus declared that the local build ing and loan associations In the United States are showing wonderful prosperity. During the last year, he declared that they gained In assets 243,784.900, and increased the amount of their annual receipts nearly 246.000,000. The report then declared: The year 1906 made a remarkably good showing, with a gain In assets of i.'9,000.000, but last year exceeded theso figures mora than $14,0(0,0(10, so that In the lata two years the building associations of the local type have gained In assets nearly $73.000,OnO. The net gain In membership tor the year was SMfB. . - There are now In the United States 5.S16 local building and loan associations, having a membership of 1,I9,714, and assets amounting to StiX3,?f, The receipts and disbursements of the local building and loan associations for last year show an Increase In volume of nearly 10 per cent over the preceding year. There was an Increase In the weekly dus receipts of $14. 243. 236, and of mortgage loans made of $23,32.300. The total receipts were S4ft4.286.996, and the total dlabusements $470,000,484, leaving a total of cash on hand on January 1, 1907, of $24,286,512. GREAT SINGER DIES"HERMIT Once Friend of Mendelssohn, He Meets Death In Allentown Poor House. ALLENTOWN, Pa., July 24. Once a great song genius of Europe, but in this country only a character made unique by disappointment, Charles Weiss died in the poor house yesterday. Before becoming a ward of the county Weiss had lived the life of a hermit on the Lehigh mountains for years. Born in Germany seventy-nine years ago, Welsss came of a prominent family, and he associated with the most brilliant musi cal geniuses of that country. He was a personal friend of Mendelssohn. He had a fine tenor voice and he sang In grand opera in all the principal cltlea of Europe. Among his Intimates were Standlgl, the basso, who sang the part of "Elijah" when that ora torio was first produced in England; Joanna Wagner, In her day the greatest alto In Germany, and Herr Steger, the great German tenor. Weiss came to this country to seek his fortune. He never found It and, disappointed, he retired to the mountains of Lehigh and became a hermit. CARDINAL HAS ANNIVERSARY Seventy-Three Years Old, Dee la res Life of Usefulness Beat to Live. WESTMINSTER, Md., July 24. Cardinal Gibbons, who was 71 years old yesterday, celebrated the event quietly at the home of friends here. The cardinal said he was in splendid health. In commenting on his long life and his work, the cardinal said that a life of usefulness and help fulness to one's fellow men la the only life worth living and with the glorious hope of immortality the measure of one's years was not bounded by time, but endured forever. ARMENIAN RECEIVES WARNING Wealthy Boston Merchant Informed that Ho Is Marked for Death. BOSTON. July 24. Moses H. Gueslan, wealthy Armenian merchant, asserted to day tnat yesterday he received a postal card bearing a New York postmark. In forming him that he was to be killed. The card read: My Brother: We today killed P. S. Tav shanjian (the New York rug Importer) and next Monday will kill you. You are a millionaire and you slve nothing to our party. Relieve me, you die. Committee of Revolution. The message was written in English. ADMITS SETTING DEATH TRAP Colllnsvllla Miner Says Ha Brougrht About Death of Hia Own Cousin. BELLEVILLE, 111.. July 24.-Joseph Qenettl, In Jail here, confessed today to setting a death trap In the Consolidated coal mine at Colllnsvllle, 111., July 1. The trap killed his cousin, August Qenettl, and also killed Louis Cologne, He Implicates another coal miner who Is not under arrest. MINERS' STRIKE IS SERIOUS Steel Corporation Expects to Fight Without Compromise. SAY AGITATORS CAUSE TROUBLE President Corey Haa Matter Under Personal Supervision Seven teen Thousand Are Af fected. NEW TORK, July 24 The strike of the workmen In the ore mines In the Lake Superior fields Is receiving the serious at tention of the officials of the United States Steel corporation. William E. Corey, tho president, has the strike under his su pervision and his lieutenant, Thomas Cole, president of the Oliver Mining company, is on the lookout at Duluth and Two Harbors. Announcement is made that the corporation will stand out for what the officials consider common Justice in its fight with the Western Federation of Miners. - The organization haa outlawed Iteelf, the officers of the corporation hold, In disregarding the terms of Its own reso lutions before they had been In the hands of President Cole thtrty-slx hours. It Is stated that the program udopted 's to fight without compromise what Is termed the small percentage of men in the ore fields, who are members of the western federation. The Western Steel corporation does not believe that the men have any grievance and point to the fact that only last January an Increase of wages was voluntarily granted to the men'. Since then, It Is stated, there has been no com plaint from the men and no trouble was anticipated until the demands of the com pany were received. The whole trouble has been stirred up from the outside by professional organizers, according to the steel officials, who also say that less than 10 per cent of the men became members of the union. These, however, they say have succeeded In In timidating the rest by marching through the Iron country with red flags, burning property and beating men who tried to remain at work. According to the stenl corporation's, latest figures there were 14,393 men employed at the Lake Superior properties. The shutting down of the mines has already been felt by the men along the lines of the ore railroads and on the lake docks. There are nearly 17,000 men employed on the transportation lines of the corporation, who may be affected by the strike. Just what effect the strike will have on the steel and Iron Industry the trade has not yet figured out. The company has large ore supplies tor, Its present needs but If the strike were prolonged much embarrassment might be caused after the closing down of navigation. PITTSBURG. July 24.-A long drawn out dispute between the local operators and miners over the Pate steam dump, a labor saving device, which threatened to close the mines of the Pittsburg district with a general strike, has been aettled favorable to the miners. Laborers Leaving; tho Ranaje. SUPERIOR, Wis., July 24,-As a result of the strike at the Iron mines laborers are leaving the range In large numbers, many of them buying tickets for their homes In Italy. Hungary, Finland and other parts of Europe. Three hundred passed through here yesterday on their way east. HIBBING, Minn., July 24.-Speakers at a mass meeting of citizens last night de nounced the action of the Western Federa tion of Miners in connection with the strike here. They Insisted on the right of the men to work if the wished and to be protected In working. J. J. Cox, president of the town supervisors, presided, and a resolution was unanimously adopted that the city take measures to protect the men at work. The result was that many of the men went back to work today, especially in the Hlbblng district, and scores of con stables and special policemen are petroling the streets and the locations. Organizer Pettyella of the federation said he had advices from Denver today that the or ganization would support the strike cor dially and effectively. FIGURES ON SUCCESS OF STRIKES Industrie of Country Suffered Less In 1005 Than Since 1802. WASHINGTON. July 24. The Industries of the United States suffered less from strikes during 1805 than in any year since 1392, if the number of employes thrown out of work by strikes and the duration of the strikes be taken aa a measure. According to the twenty-lirst annual report of the bureau of labor of the Department of Com merce and Labor, In 19o6 there were 221,688 employes thrown out of work by 2,077 strikes undertaken by 176.337 strikers in 8,2 establishments, and lantlng an aver age of twenty-three days In each establish ment involved. The report In part says: The year 1894 stands out In the history of the country as the year most notable for the number of workers thrown out of work by strikes, over 660,OX employes being thrown out of work by 1.84K strikes, under taken hv hklfKU BtPlLur, In e I:. 1. ments, and lasting an average of forty two days in each establishment involved. Htatistica for a twenty-live-year period shows strikes In the United States num bered 6,757 and lockouts l.Wti. The number of persons who went out on strike during the twenty-five years was ,7,tMa. and locked out 716,231. The dependence of one. occupation on another In the same estab lishment swells the aggregate of employes affected during the period to 9 529,434. Tha average duration of strikes per establish ment WSS IWflnlV.Av, Hava nn.l I , . eighty-four days. The gieatest number of on, nr. in m,,y una muumry was In the building tradis, which had over 26 per cent of the strikes and 'in per cent of all the establishments Involved In strikes The Importance of the part that organ ised labor plays lo strikes, the report says is Indicated by the fact that of the total number i f U t M L In tu..i.r., . ... ... .... j-m r ytar practically 69 per cent were ordered by o urceeued In winning all the demands for which the strike a'ere iiniturtu L .n in jc - . - - - . . . ., ... ii i 1 u () the establishments, succeeded partly In over iu per cent, ana in only 3i per cent of tbe establishments did they fall entirely to win T lu'lmnt u rbuiilt.H i. 1 1 . . I ! i. I .. . . . ,,, (, u em- ployes In 47 per cent of the establishments "'"""i lunrruou purijy in ii per cent and failed entirely in '42 per cent. Strikes ordered by labor organizations were wholly successful In practically 50 per cent of the establishments Involved, partly success ful In almost 16 per cent and failed entirely In only 3o per cent of the establishments During the quarter century period men tioned, 41 per cent of all strikes were un dertaken for Increase of wages alone, or In combination with other causes; over 23 per cent wholly or paitially by disputes con cerning the recognition of union and union rules, practically 12 pr cent caused by re duction in wages, almost 10 per cent were to enforce demands for a reduction of hours and only a little less than 4 per tent were sympathetic. Btrlkes for Increased wages have been more successful than those for any other cause.- B'rlkes concerning recognition of union and union rules entirely failed In 43 per cent of the extabllshments Involved and sympathetic strikes (the most unsuccessful of all), entirely failed in ',6 per cent of the rHtabllini"nta Involved. During 1&01-1'.C. 6 per cent of all strikes and 12 per cent of all lockouts were set tled by a Joint agreement, and less than t per cent of the strikes and a little over 2 r r cent nf tim IjwUrtut - -. . i.. UrUtraUoa : " FACTS CONCERNING TRIAL OF HAYWOOD. Trial bPRRii May 9. Veniremen examlqcd, 248. Jury completed Jube 3. State's direct evidence finished June 21. Defense finished July 12. State's rebuttal finished July 19. Number of witnesses tor the state, .89. Number of witnesses for the de fense, 87. Cost of trial to the etate, $9 Of 000. Cost to the county of Canyon, $25,000. Cost to the Western Federation, $160,000. Estimate of combined argu ments to the Jury by the state, lBft.000 words. Estimate of combined argu ments to the Jury by defense, 260, 000 words. Case will be submitted to the Jury July 26. SEAMEN'S CONDITION GOOD Only One of Georgia Victims Critically 111 Aaother la Inder As. uiued Name. BOSTON. July I4.-The condition of tlia survivors of the accident on board the bat tleship Oeorgla a week ago Monday, who I are confined In the Chelsea naval hospital, j was reported today as being without change. Seaman Fonc, who Is regarded I as the most critically 111, passed a good ! night. Seamen Gilbert, Hurch, Meese and Thomas, who are also regarded as being In i a critical condition, although showing no improvement, are nevertheless not losing any ground they have gained. PROVIDENCE, Ft. I., July 24. It wai learned here last night that the survivor I of the battleship Georgia accident who Is at the Chelsea naval hospital under the '. name of John A. Durch, Is the son of i Manuel George Sllva of this city. Tim I boy's real name Is Lawrence Arthur Sllva. i Young Sllva Is not yet of age. He en j listed In the navy In New York under an i assumed name against his father's wishes. and has two brothers who are also In the navy. He was a gun pointer in the Ill fated turret crew. His relatives in this city are aware of his condition, and dally visits are paid him at the hospital. He has a chance to recover. STRIKE BREAKERS IN CLOVER Living; In Lnxtirlone Quarters In Fltchhnra-, Mass., with French Chef to Provide. FITCHBURQ, Mass., July 4. Strike breakers who have been brought here In an attempt to break the strike of 800 machinists are living In clover. They are quartered In the $50,000 Fltchburg athletic gymnasium and have all manner of luxuries. The kitchen is provided over by a French" chef. They have the free run of the place and al night the billiard and card rooms are In constant use by them. The striking machinists want better pay and shorter hours. . The master mechanics have determined to resist the demands. PUSHING CONSPIRACY CASES Washington Authorities Will Hasten Suits Involving; Timber Lands. WASHINGTON, July 24.-It was , an nounced today that an effort would be made In January to take up the cases against Dlmond, Hyde and Denson, In volving a charge of conspiracy to defraud the government by cutting public timber, the delay being due to a crowded criminal oalendar and to the lack of funds for wit nesses. It wfti oe necessary to bring about seventy-five witnesses from the Pacific coast and an effort will be made to seoure an additional appropriation from congress before the trials. CARMEN ARE MAKING TROUBLE Order Workmen Out on Rock Island as They Are ClearlngT Wreck. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 24 -The car men of the Rock Island railroad at this point went on strike today. Today there was a wreck at Devalls Bluff and the wrecker waa ordered to that point. When the wreck train reached Lonoke the car men received orders from He1 Carman Gray to abandon the wreck and return to Little Rack, which they did. Fifteen bo cars are piled on the track at Devalls Bluff. There Is a freight wreck also at Bauxite and this had not been cleared at noon. ONLY THIRTEENMEN PASSED Out of Thlrty-Flvht Reek In- to Bo Consuls This Number Haa (tuallned. WASHINGTON, July 24. In the recent examination of the candidates for appoint ment for-the consular service, for which fifty-four men were designated, thirty-eight presented themselves for examination and only thirteen passed, receiving the required majority of eight. The successful candi dates Include Thomas W. Voetter, New Mexico; Rea Hanna, California; Jacob E. Conner, Iowa, and Henry D. Baker, Illinois. LARGEST STRIPPING OF COAL Lehlajh Valley Company Opens C What la Record One In World. HAZELTON, Pa.. July 24-The Lehigh Valley Coal company has opened what Is believed to be the largest stripping In the world. It Is located at Lattlmer and the coal ia a solid belt, 1,300 feet wide, thirty feet in thickness, and extends from Lattl mer to Drifton, at least six miles. It Is estimated that were the company to take out 600 tons dally It would require 250 years to exhaust the supply. LIFT FOR AMERICAN MEAT French Government for a Time Will Not Demand Mlcroaeople Examination. I PARIS, July 24. The government has I notified Ambassadot White that American I meat may be brought into France on Amer- lean certificates and that microscopic ex t amlnatlon will not be Insisted upon. This ruling, however, is only temporary. New Postmaster for 'labor. OYSTKR BAY. July 24. -The president to day appointed the following postmasters: U. Q. Mauk, Tabor, la.; Perry C. Hughes Elk City, Okl.j LucUu R. i'arrls, Rauilsri DARROW IS CAUSTIC Chicago Attorney Beyins Address in Behalf of Haywood. SAVAGE ATTACK UPON ORCHARD Assassin of Steunenberg" Denounced at a Craven, Lying Coward. STATE'S ATTORNEY ALSO ABUSED Two Honrs of Bitter Vituperation and Angry Denunciation. RINGS CHANGES ON TESTIMONY Declares that Shonld Jary Haaa; Haywood Banner of Liberty Would lie elsed by Open Grave. HOISE, Idaho. July 24. Clnrenco Darrow of Chicago, for two hours and a half of the morning session of the Haywood trial today proclaimed the Innocence of his client and the Impossibility of his convic tion upon the uncorroborated evidence of Harry Orchard. J. H. Hawley, lcadlnn counsel for the state, and Orchard were the figures around whom most of the storm of the morning centered. ThrouKhout the ten weeks of testimony tnklng, Hawley and Darrow have clashed almost dally and there have been frequent exchanges of angry words until, during Hawley'a arnument, the He was passed. This morning Darrow vented his accumulated wrath. There was no at temept at refinement of attack, it waa straight vituperation and angry denuncla tlon. For two hours and a half Darrow rang the changes on Orchard's past, his present and his future, and on Orchard he heaped every word of abuse and contempt that the least possible show of respect for the court would permit. The court room was crowded to Its limit, was hot and the atmosphere heavy, but the Chicago lawyer held his audience to close attention throuRhout the morning. Ho pleaded with voice and gesture. Not quies cent for a moment, he paced to and fro before the box, addressing each of the Jurymen In turn and always pleading that an Idaho Jury should never And a verdict against Haywood on the testimony of Orchard, who, he said, was corroborated only by a dog, a wall-eye horse and J. H. Hawley. " Darroni Plea to Jory. Mr. Darrow, In closing the argument of the morning session, said If the Jury should hang Bill Haywood, "one million willing hands wilt seise the bnnner of liberty by the open grave and bear it on to Vic tory. " The court room was crowded to its ca pacity. In opening Mr. Darrow impressed the chief case upon the twelve men In the box and declared the defendant Is In Idaho as an alien, brought 1.500 miles from home into a community and before a Jury which does not view life and Industry aa tha men accused of the murder of former Governor Steunenberg have been taught to look at It. "The defendant m this case and tha men In the Jail below," declared Mr. Darrow, "have been brought to trial In the home of a man who was killed Jn the moat cowardly, the most brutal way that any man waa ever sent to death. Many of you men on this Jury voted for Governor Steunenberg. One of you had business relations with him, while In the house of another of you he made his home for two years. You are almost the family circle of the murdered man and none of you has ever had any community of in terest with these defendants. Under these circumstances I can but ask you to lay aside as much of the passion and prejudice as you can and look at us as If wa were one of you. Give us the fair and im partial trial you would give If you had not know the deceased. You men for more than a year past have had your minds poisoned by lies in the local news papers, but now that you have sat here for more than two montha and have heard the testimony, you know you have been fed upon poison and lies. Lay aside as much as you can of this poisonous stuff; try to get your minds free and be guided' only by the evidence. I Circumstantial Evidence. "The prosecution In this case knows ft cannot convict on the exact evidence, but it rellea upon the strained, forced clrcum. stances, to get a verdict from you. Thl defendant was taken by force from his home, brought 1,600 miles, and set down be fore a hostile Jury to be tried for his Ufa, "Imagine yourselves, men. taken from your farms and set down before a Jury In Chicago to be tried for your lives, and then you can in some way feel as this man does in this case. I believe that under these circumstances you would hesitate to act on the rotten testimony given In this case to take away the life of a fellow citizen. "But some of you will say, perhaps, that while there Is not enough here to warrant sending a man to death, there Is perhaps enough of evidence as to crimes having been committed In the western country to vote to put Bill Haywood In Jail to com promise on a verdict for manslaughter or murder In the second degree. You have that right, gentlemen of the Jury, but I want to say that whatever else you are, I do not believe you are cowards. And I want to say that whatever ele Hill Hay wood may be, he Is not a cnSvaid. I would not thank this Jury If it returned a verdict of assault and battery and assessed a fine of 66 against this defendant. lllna-es on Orchard's Story. "This murder was cold-blooded, deliberate and cowardly In the extreme. If this man, sitting In his office In Denver, 1,600 miles away, employed an assaasln to do this cowardly act, then you ought to hang him by the neck until he is dead. For Uod'a sake, men, do not compromise. If you be lieve the story that has been told against this man beyond all reasonable douU, then take him and hang him. He has fought many a fluht against the persecutors who are hounding him into this court. He has fought tnem on the open battlefield and ho Is not a coward. If he has to die, he w!l die as he has lived, with his face to the foe. Hill lUywood Is cither Innocent or guilty. If he be guilty I have nothing to say. But, men, this case Is a case of Orchard from beginning to end. There Is nothing at all left in the evidence without him." Vituperation, for Hawley, Mr. Darrow here launched ln'o a lengthy, bitter, vituperative denunciation of At torney James H. Hawley, the ft if counsel for the state. He snuilort hir. . u hired man actuated by no oticr iimtld thsn to get the money of t lit- stui,, of Idaho that he might build another addition to his house; he denounced him aa "bug house," and said he had been ft Irieud 4 t