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The Omaha Daily Bee WEATHFJt FORECAST. For Nebraska Fair. For lowa--Knlr nnl wnrmor. o For we-B.th.r-r report see pnpp THE OMAHA DEE ro to the home. It read by the women sell foods for advertlsera. OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, SFJTEMBKR 2S, ' lOW-TEN PAOES. sixdLE rorv two cents. VOL. XXXLX-NO. 89. TAFT 1IAS liUSY DAY INMONTANA Effect of Water Competition on Railroad Rates PALISADES PARK IS NOW SECURE New Interstate Preserve Along Lower Hudson is Imposing Monument to Discoverer. STRIKERS SPURN WATTLES' OFFER Carmen Declare Proposal of Company is Worse Than Conditions Complained Against. He Sees Giant Drill at Work on High Grade Ore Twelve Hundred Feet Under Ground. NEW RECORD FOR PRESIDENT No Other Chief Executive Has Been So Far Below Surface. Tetimony it Taken on This Point in Hearing at Salt Lake City. FOURTEEN MILES OF SCENERY SCORE MAYORS AND COUNCILMEN DA fir Visit to Copper District Full t w Experience!. MAKES ADDRESS AT STATE rronil In Street at nif I, a, Hp Has Seen Since Leavln Chicago A ato Ride Over Mouatalna. HELENA. Mont., Sept. JT.-Attiied In a linen duster, an old black slouch hat and twinging an electric lantern at hla aide. President Taft wu locked In a narrow Iron cane, and dropped 1.2U0 feet through mid night blackness Into the depth of the famous old Leonard copper mine at Butte today. He had the rare experience of seeing miners at work with a giant drill In a vein of high grade ore that sparkled green wtlh Its wealth of mineral. When he had ascended with a whiz, after ialf 'an hour underground the president, Vllnklng in the glare of the noonday sun, wYm cheered to the echo by the crowd of curious people gathered at the hoist. He declared enthusiastically: "I would not have missed It for the world." It was the president's first visit to the Montana copper dlstrlot and between the smelters at Ancondan and the mine at Butte, he had a serle of Interesting ex periences. Not the least of these was a thrilling automobile ride over the moun tains from Butte to tha mouth of the Leonard mine. The grade were Bleep and winding, but the chauffeur were experi enced men and while there was apparently no lgn of danger at any tage of the trip there wa a high or reuer wnen air. Taft had once more been placed safely aboard tha Mayflower for the run to Helena. . speech mt Stat Fair. Arriving here, he went directly to the state fair grounds, where, after viewing ' a portion of the exhlblta he made an open-air address and witnessed a race of cowboy. Returning to the city Mr. Taft reviewed a parade of school children. leaving here thl evening he headed direct for Spokane, where he la expected tomorrow to deliver hi formal speech on the subject which hold supreme Interest to all the west the conservation of the . nataral reeource and the reclamation of arid lands. President Tift walked with a limp when 'ha flrat got . off the train this morning at Anauonfla. the result of a sprained ten i bob In hla right foot. The sprain ocoorred at Beverly, but he suffered little inconveni ence from It until today when his foot was considerably swollen. There la nothing seri ous about the sprain and Mr. Taft did not Jet it interfere In any way with hi plans. Great t row at Batte. The president made a flying trip through the Washoe smelter of the Amalgamated Copper company at Anaconda, then pro ceeded Into the city and after a brief ad dress, took the train for.Butte. The crowds w hich greeted him on I the streets there were the largest he had seen since leaving Chicago. , The pollee had their hands full In open ing a way for the automobile procession and after tha president's car had passed the crowd swarmed In Its wake, Speak ing at the court house the president looked out upon a mas) of humanity that blocked the square nd spread far down tha con verging streets. Ha made a decided bit with tha great throng when he told of the wonderful Impression tha western country was making upon him, and ended by say ing: "I am Ilk tha old Dutohman who said: 'The mora you live tha more you find, by roily, out.' " k The president disappeared down the shaft t the Leooard mine today with a hearty 'Good bye, everybody," shouted to the waving group at the entrance, he carried with him Into the depths of the earth two if his cabinet officers and won the presi dential record for the furthermost under ground. President Roosevelt entered some of the Butte mines during hi term, but did not get down to the LSOO foot level. Postmaster General Hitchcock, w ho Joined tha president today at Anaconda, and Secretary Bellinger accompanied the president in the picturesque trip down the dark chute and through the cross cuts and drifts of the deep level. The elevator used by the president and his party consisted of small steel doored square cage in three decks. The lowest of these was loaded first, then the second and lastly the president got into the top most one, accompanied by John Hays Ham mond and others. There was a sheer drop of lM feet before the first level wu reached. Fast Trip to Lower Regions. The electric lights at this gallery leuding away from the shaft were but a blur. After this the levels came at Interval of 100 feet. Despite the assurances of tha mine officials that they made from twenty o thirty trip a Jay down the shaft at a spe.-d which relegated the president's drop to a miall's pace in comparison, the descent through the first Wtt feet of Inky darkness held its nerve-shaking possibilities to the novices In tha party. The descent occupied two and one-hair minutes and during the Journey there wus nothing but blackness and silence. At the l.2w-f!Ht level the two lower cages dropped by the opening to allow the presi dent to step out first. It was still mighty dark and gruesome to those below when at last there came Che cheery voice of the president from the level, calling to some ot the newspaper men who were accompany ing him on the trip. "How are you fellows down there?" he 4 Inquired. I There was still eft) feet of blackness be- low the rage and "Wed kind o' like to get out," came the reply. "Well. I don't know so much about that," I railed the president. "I think I got you F safe where I want you at last." i i The opening of the level had been deco- I'att-d with bunting and along the gallery K ordinary Incandescent bulbs lighting the Jftentlnued an Second Pag) SEES SMELTER AT Al HALT LAKE CITY. Sept. 27 -Water com petition for railroads was considered at I the freight rate hearing today before Inter- 1 state Commerce Commissioner E. E. Clark. Testimony was taken regarding the rail roads' contention that freight ran be car ried so much cheaper by steamer to the Pacific coast than the transcontinental rail road rate to the cnast points must bo much lower than the rate to Salt Lake City and Keno, Nev., if the latter rate Is to be re munerative. O. W. Ltice. general freight scent of the Southern pacific railroad, the first wltnees called, said the entire water route tonnage originating nt the Atlantic ses.boe.rd to Cal ifornia point amounted to 226.140 tons, while the railroad delivery amounted to 205.231 tons. Chairman Bartine of the Nevada rail road commission tried to bring on that 94 per rent of the westbound traffic through the Ogden gateway goe to the const. Mr. Luce thought that only nbout fiO per cent of the business went through to the ter minal point. I.. J. Spenr.e, penerat freight agent of the steamship lines of the Southern Pacific company, gave figures on the tonnage car ried by way of the Straits of Magellan, the Isthmus of Panama and Tehuantepec, and enumerated among the Advantages of the steamship agents the absence of Interstate commerce restrictions. Mr. Rpenre admitted that there was no actual competition between the Southern Pacific and It own steamship line. Explosion in Polish School at Jersey City Fifteen Children Are Injured as Re sult of Fireworks Near Pa rochial School. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Sept. 27. A panic among the 1.000 pupils of the St. Anthony' Polish parochial school at Monmouth and Sixth street caused by the explosion of fire work In the street nearby, resulted today In the severe Injury of fifteen chil dren. Only one Is believed to be fatally hurt. Keports that some of the Jersey City schools would be dynamited had been circulated for several days and when the fire works were exploded In the street in celebration of a festival, children thought their school building was being blown up. In the scramble to escape many of the children were knocked down and tramplrd upon until pressure forced the doors opei,. Then the frightened children ran among the exploding fire works and soma of tbein were burred. -. . . - .- , Kinkaid's Clerk Admits Forgery Cashes Bogus Orders on the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. (Special Tel egram.) Robert I Harris, formerly em ployed hk clerk by Representative M. P. Kir.Kaid of Ncbiasa. today pleaded guilty to tha charge ct lorglng the name of his omployer to three orders on the sergeant at arms of the house. Harris was ar raigned before Chief Justice Clabaugli In criminal court No. 1. The Indictment charged that Harris cashed one of the orders for $23 and had In his possession two other orders, one for $23 and one for 120. He was remanded to Jail to await sentence. Miss I' Is M. Sanders of Holdrege, Neb., a graduate of the New England Conserva tory of Music and a post-graduate st Silent of Carl Faelson and Llfbllng, has arrived in Washington to take charge of the In strumental music at Leo Jean college,' NATIONAL GUARD OFFICERS AT SCHOOL Reanlar Armr Men Go Through the Whole Science of War Practice at Lob Angeles. LOS ANGELES, Sept. iff. Regular army experts detailed by the War department to attend the eleventh annual session o the National Guard association, whl a opened here today, began series of lec tures, which, In the space of three days, will take the military delegates over the entire art of war. There are about 200 delegates In attendan -e, repirsrrtlng nearly every state in the union. Governor Gillette welcomed them this morning and Senator Chart Dick. pi-ri-dent of tha association, opened th) sessiin. Lieutenant Colonel W. E. Weave.-, of tha army general staff and chief of the JivUIJn of military affairs, heads the detail of army experts who will discuss every prase of war practice, fioin iha way to prepaie and Issue orders to the prepiation of army rations, the tiansportatl i of troop and hygienic arrangements of camps. Great Grand Nieces of Robert Fulton in Omaha Two Omaha great-grandnleces of Kohei t Fulton are reading of the Fulton-Hudson pageant at New York with the added In terest which a family affair gives. They are lira Albert W. Klhsman and Miss Helen Cooke, sisters living at 112 South Twenty-fifth avenue. They are th great-great-grandchildren of Isabella Fulton, sister of the man who built the Clermont, and have been resi dent of Omaha sine IMS, when their father moved her from Cincinnati. "We were expecting to attend the cele bration," said Mrs. Kinsman, "but war prevented. Naturally we are deeply In terested In It." Mr. Kinsman and Mlaa Cooke are th daughter of Peyton B- W. Cooke, who waa tha son of Robert Fulton Cook. Rob Picturesque Cliffs Saved from Stone cutters by Two States. HUGHES AND FORT SPEAK Both Governors Urge Further Co operation in Conservation. CORNERSTONE OF MONUMENT tatne of Fiplorer Will Be Placed on Towerlns; Marble Shaft Near Spot of Hla Plrat Larding. NEW YORK. Sept. 27. Although rain today forced the larger part of the Hudson-Fulton crowds to make the day one of rest within doors and necessitated the postponement of the aeroplane flight and the balloon race to Albany, the more for mal part of the morning and afternoon program. Including the notable dedication of palisades park, the new Interstate pre serve along the lower Hudson; the dedica tion of an Imposing monument to Henry Hudson In the upper part of New York City, and the afernoon reception to the naval visitor on Governor Island, went off without a hitch, marking the day an Important and significant one In the week's festivities. The exercises at Pali sades park celebrated the saving of these picturesque cliffs near the city from the vandal hand of the stone cutter and the turning over to the people of New York and New Jersey of a strip of beautiful park, stretching for fourteen mile up the weBt bank of the river. Speeches by two governor proved a drawing; card, which attracted many thousand New Yorker and Jerseymen to the spot. Hughes and Fort Speak. Governor Hughes found the occasion a fit one for urging upon the people of the two states the conservation of their rivers and forests. "I hope that this Is only the beginning," he said, "of efforts which may Jointly be made by these two commonwealths to safe guard the Highlands and waters In which they are both deeply Interested. The en tire watershed of the Hudson should be conserved, to become the people's country side for common recreation." Governor Fort, speaking for New Jersey, declared that the 500 acres of this Palisade park are destined to become the most Im portant public preserve In the United States. "The work here is only begun," he said. "The unsurpassed beauty of this park must be made easily accessible by means of boulevard and roadways, and the thous and and one Important historical spots . along Its fourteen miles stretch, must be marked by suitable Inscription and monu ments. "There. Is a great opportunity here, too, j to aid In the study of geology. Every man, I woman and child who visits this spot Bhould go away with a new realisation of the meaning of the wonderful strata and rock formations of these 30-milllon-year-old rocks." Monument for Hudson. The cornerstone of the monument to Henry Hudson on Spuyten Duyvll Hill was laid later In the day In a drizzling rain. The storm kept down the attendance, but did not bother Governor Hughes, who had come over from Palisades Park to deliver a eulogy on the discoverer of the Hudson. The governor stood bareheaded in the open and declined all offers of umbrellas. The monument will be a towering marble shaft crowned with a statue of Hudson. Its location Is close to the spot where legend places the first landing of the dis coverer on his trip up the river. The me morial will be made more impressive by a stone approach and bridge over Spuyten Duyvll creek. The cornerstone contained, besides the usual current mementoes, a complete record of the Hudson-Fulton cel ebration. Historical Parade Today. Preparation for the great historical pa rade which will start early tomorrow aft ernoon went on unhindered by the rain. The weather forecaster stilled the appre hensions of many by assuring the public tonight that the rain would not continue and that fine, fair autumn weather could bo counted on for tomorrow. The line of march of the parade waa tonight a mass of waving color nnd brlKht lights. The cost of the decorations along Central park west on Fifth avenue amounts Into the tens ot thousands; while even a greater sum has been spent In the erection of the grand stands which have been built Into every available nook and cranny. Bis; Demand for Seats. In preparation for the largest crowd which the city has even seen, shopkeepers along the route have shuttered their plate glass windows with boards and house holders have barricaded themselves behind strong picket fences, which the crowds will he unable to scale. Grandstand tickets sold tonight at prices running from t8 to i25 a piece. Hotel rooms fronting on the line of parade are worth $75 to $100 each. Four hundred officers of vlstlng war ships were entertained on Governors island this afternoon by Major General and Mr;. Leonard Wood. ert Fulton Cooke was the son of Isabella Fulton, who married Dr. Cooke, prominent as a pioneer of Cincinnati. "Robert Fulton' collateral descendant have, of course, taken pride in their con nection with the inventor ot the steam boat," said Mrs. Kinsman, "and th Cooke, though not our immediate line, have most of the mementoes and heir loom which h left." A Fulton did at first, th original Cooke lived In Pennsylvania, and Fulton left hi alster there three lot In near Alleghany city. Mr. Kinsman and Miss Cook are de scended from an old Huguenot family on their mother's side, the Falalses. who fled to the island of Guernsey from Franc during the persecution following tha revo cation of the edict ot Nantsa, sViO From the Philadelphia North American. EARTHQUAKE SEASON BEGINS Tomorrow is Date Most Favorable for Seismic Disturbances. EARTH, SUN AND MOON IN LINE Gravity Conditions Throw Great Strain on Thin Parts of Crust Several Shock Reported Yesterday. MESSINA, Sept. 27. -Frank A. Perret, the American volcanolnglst, who arrived here today, believes from hla scientific deductions that this part of Sicily will again be the scene of seismic disturbances Mr. Perret said: "Wednesday, September W, Is the date most favorable for earthquakes or erup tions. At that time the sun, earth and moon are in line with each other nnd the moon also Is at its nearest approach to tiie earth. The combination occurs frequently tending to produce gravitational distortion of the earth's form, namely to change the earth 'from a sphere to an ellipse. This extra strain often acts upfw the weak spots In the earth's crust, causing them to give way and thus producing earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. "On Wednesday it happens that the planet Mars also is nearest to the earth and almost directly In line with the earth, sun and moon, while Saturn Is not far from the same line. Jupiter, althoush far on the other side of the sun. Is also in a line with the earth. It Is true that the effect of these planets Is very much less thHn that of the sun and the moon, but when their effect is added the strain will be greater than usual. Thus T consider that Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next will be very dimgerous. Possibly no earthquake will occur, but this will simply mean that the earth has resisted the danger that nevertheless existed." Slight Shoeks Reported. PT. LOUIS, Sept. 17. A slight earthquake which was felt through southeastern Mis souri and In southern and central Illinois and Indiana, occurred early today. In St. Louis the tremor came at 3:47 o'clock. So far has been learned little or no damage resulted. The general direction of the shock was west to east and It was felt more clearly In thinly settled districts. Villages west of St. Louis reported the destruction of a few chimneys and In the west end, the resi dence district, many were awakened. The quake was scarcely in evidence In the downtown districts, only a few of the many guests in the larger hotels being dls turbed. Reports of the phenomenon were received from all stations on the Mobile & Ohio railway as far south as Cairo, III. In De catur, Mattoon and other towns In central Illinois there were shocks at practically the same time. A settling of the earth's crust, with the seat ot disturbance many miles distant, Is the generally accepted cause of the quake. The possibilities of a renewal of the shocks are negatived by local scientists. WASHINGTON. Sept. 27. Neither instru ments of the weather bureau nor the coast and geodetic survey recorded the disturb ance reported In the middle west. The of ficials regard the shocks aa covering only a very small area. LOl'ISVILLE. Ky., Sept. 27. Ulspatchss from 1'aducah, Henderson, Owensboro, Hopklnsvliie and Mayfleld report a very perceptible shock over the western section of Kentucky, but no damage was done. Are you looking r tor a room: An easy way is not to wear out 6hoe leather but to look through the list of rooms of fered for rent on the want ad pages of The Bee. There you will find practically a com plete directory of the desir able rooms with sufficient in formation to enable you to judge which will meet your requirements. Then, by in specting these, you will be sure to find what you want. Hav you ra4 tb want id. yt COLD WAVE COMING! Spaniards Burn Moorish Towns Along the Coast Maneuvers Successful and Prospect is War Will Soon Be Brought to End. ALHl'CKMAS, Morocco, Sept. 27. The entire coast line here is Illuminated with the fires of burning Moorish villages. After the Spanish batteries In the fighting of yesterday had silenced the Moors the In fantry advanced and drove the Moors from their positions. MADRID, Sept. 27 -The War office today announces the complete success of the maneuvers. Both Nadoro and Zeluan have been occupied. At the latter town there was bloody righting with large bodies of Moors. The ring around Mount Gueruga Is now considered almost closed and the position of the Moors Is desperate. - Kald Amas appeared before General Marina, the commander of the Spanish forces, yesterday and asked terms ot sur render for the tribes entrenched on Mt. Gueruga. The results of this conference are not known, but It Is believed the Moors are ready to submit without conditions. The immedlale successful termination of Spain's war against the Moors, which has been going on since July, would be of In estimable advantage to the government of Premier Maura, against which the cam paign In Spain Is dally becoming more In tense among the lower classes. A large section of the upper classes, however, are manifesting warm support of the govern ment. The minister of the Interior Is being de luged with letters begging him to continue the work of maintaining public order. Following the satisfactory news of Span Ish successes In Morocco the cabinet has decided to restore the constitutional guar an tees, except In the provinces of Barce lona and Gerona, and to summon the Cortes on October 16. FOUR ARE KILLED BY TRAIN Freight Rons Down Family Party on Way Home from Church at Edarar. WU. WAI'HAU, Wis., Sept. 27. Four persons were killed and three others Injured at 8:4i o'clock last night In a collision be tween a freight train and a hand car one mile west of Edgar, this county. A party of nine persons was returning from church at Ponlatwaskl and had reached a rocky cut on the road when the freight train crashed into them, throwing them against the rocks. The dead Include Joseph Kaul and his two young children and Victor Literskl. Mrs. Kaul wa badly Injured. Wind and Rain Flights NEW TORK. Pept. 27. If the wind doe not exceed five or six miles an hour and the weather otherwise Is propitious, both Wilbur Wright and Glenn H. Curtlss will make flights in their aeroplanes at Gov ernors Island tomorrow morning. Their machines have been thoroughly overhauled and the gasoline tanks filled, leaving noth ing unprepared in the event of good weather. Flights today were made impossible on account of an eighteen-mile wind which gave way to a steady rain In the afternoon. After waiting several hours for the wind to fall, Wright crossed to the city from the Island and obtained a canoe to attach to the underpart of his machine as a safe Kurd against sinking if the aeroplane should alight on the water. The Cuiilss flyer Is a counterpart of the machine Curtis used in the recent record-making flights at Rhelms and Brescia. But It is equipped with a four-cylinder water-cooled motor instead of the eight-cylinder motor used abroad. Curtiss will arrive here early tomorrow and will go direct to Governors Island. If weather conditions are right he may make a flight before 10 o'chck. Wilbur Wright was not very sanguine tonight over the outlook for tomorrow. "It looks to me as though this weather will continue for a day or two," he said. "If I was to take the machine out In this rain It would be weighted down with the dampness In a short time." AinocK thus who visited tho aeroplane PEARY PREPARING HIS CASE He Lays Alleged Evidence Against Cook Before General Hubbard. WHITNEY'S STORY RIDICULED Commander Say that After He Talked with Eskimos He Could Not Credit Story that Itlval Benched role. BAR HARBOR, Me., Sept. 27 Com mander Robert E. Peary, accompanied by his wife reached here tonight from Port land and within half an hour was In con ference with General Thomas H. Hubbard, president of the Peary Arctic club, con cerning the statement which will soon he made public by Commander Teary In sup port of his contention that Dr. Cook did not reach the pole. The conference was still. In progress late tonight. 'There Is nothing to say." said Oeneral Hubbard tonight. "Commander Peary Is here and we are looking over the data he has on the Cook controversy, but there Is no statement to be made at this time. "No date has been set for the meeting of the officers of the Peary Arctic club and I shall not determine that until my return to New York next week." The conference will be continued tomor row and late In the day Commander Peary will probably return to Eagle Island. It Is generally believed that he and Gen eral Hubbard will go to New York to gether. From what can be learned of the con ference tonight, Peary went over every portion of his alleged evidence against Dr. Cook, dating from the time the Brooklyn ; community ni nes your honor to make im . , ,. , , mediate Investigation us to the street rail- explorer began his preparations to go wav t.on,rov,., hV I1W n in lhg cily tttl(1 north, more than two years ago, una until after Peary's Interviews with Dr. Cook's Eskimos at Etah. General Hubbard has been arranging this material In order as personal counsel for Peary. Whitney Story Ridiculed. During the trip to Bar Harbor, Peary spoke frequently of Harry Whitney. "There might have been some strange reasons why Whitney did not go hack to Etan in me jeanie ior nr. look b siuii, he said. "I cannot understand how any one could let such records get out of his hands. I would not give my records to my dearest relative. 1 say again, I don't see how Cook could have turned his sjuff over j to Whitney or anyobdy else. 1 secured ' my Instruments In a bag and the flag I """" r. clothes ana i wore n until i reacnea iiat- lle Harbor. "I Jiept my records under watch day and night and I was prepared In case the (Continued on Second rage ) Prevents of Aeroplanes today wa Russell A. Alger, son of the former secretary of war, of Detroit, the first purchaser of a Wright aeroplane In this country. Wright told Alger that he did not think It was likely that he would take any one up with him during his flights here, but if he did, Alger would be the man to go. Curtlss, on account of thu small size of his machine, and the small motor, willllkely not take up a passenger. An Interesting sidelight on aviation came up today when Jefferson De.Mont Thompson, representing tho Aero Club of America, which will defend the Interna tional trophy won by Curtlss at Rhelms, called on Collector Loeb to Inquire what duty, If any, would have to be paid by the owners of foreign machines brought here for the International contest. He was told unofficially that any aeroplanes brought over solely for exhibitions or racing probably would be admitted fiee under bond. In the event of the machines remaining here either for private use or sale they may be dutiable at t-'i per cent under the tariff clause covering manufac tures of metal for unenumerated articles not otherwise provided for. If composed of wood the atroplai ea may be dutiable at 30 per cent. The adverse wind mad It necessary to postpone for a day the race of dirigi ble balloon from New Yoik to Albany for the J10.0U0 prize offered by a New York newspaper. Th airships of both Cap tain Thomas 8. Baldwin and George L. Tomllnson were ready tor tha race. Speakers Roast Dahlman and Others for Signing Report. ASK GOVERNOR TO INTERVENE President of Central Labor Union Sends Message to Lincoln. COUNCIL FAVORS ARBITRATION Keentiimenda fur I'linMsr Itesolntlnii Asking Company to Settle Dif ferences Through 1 nnrrjn rilced Hoard. DAY'S BTRIJCE DEVELOPMENTS. President Wattles falls to send a copy of hi proposal to the striker to the mass meeting at Lubor tempi and th msetlng ignore it. Strikers denounce the mayor and mem bers of the councllinanlo committee for signing th conference rsport. President Ford of the Central Labor union asks Governor Bhallenbsrger to make an official investigation of the strike conditions. The city council recommends for pas sage a resolution asking the street railway company to arbitrate. Failure on the part of the striking car men to accept the proposition of the street railway company left the status of the strike In practically the condition It was In before ingot hit Ions for peace were be gun through the five mayors. Instead of giving serious consideration to the over tures for a settlement the men ridiculed the proposals of Mr. Wattles nnd scored the five mayors and the members of the city council for attaching their names to the document. , The next step, say the strikers, I the n pp. ul to Governor ShallenherKer to take a hand In his cupacity as state Inbor com- , inlssioner ami a telegram requesting him to make an lnvestliatlon was sent to him yesterday afternoon. The city council at a meeting of the com mittee of tlie whole nt the earnest request of a committee from the Central Labor union rcconimemh d to pass a resolution asking the cotnpuny to arbitrate and put a Kpecdy end to the trouble. This resolu tion will come up at the meeting ot the council toniKht. Striker Get o Statement. Ieclaring that they had received no statement of any proposition from the I street railw ay company, the leaders of the striking car men announced at a gathering held at the Labor Temple Monday after noon that there was nothing to consider. lt"luul been announced that at this meet ing the strikers would receive and act upon the strec t car company's proposition of settlement. About 400 attended the meet ing. Addresses wero made by a number of labor leaders and Rev. J. L. Fisher, pastor of the Saratoga Congregational chuich. Patilck Ford, president of the Central I-abor union, recited what he said was some unwritten political history, denouncing the city administration for the stand taken In relation to t lie strike. An appeal to the governor for an investigation of the strike In the following telegram was forwarded during the meeting. Governor Shulleuberger. Lincoln, Neb.: The uni 1 liihor movement of this entire niaae Known your rinciiiiKs P. FORD. President C. L. U. Commons Srnrra Five Mayors. "The five mayors have put themselves In a false light, " said Ben Commons. They sign and endorse a proposition which they have not the courag to submit to a body of those who toil for a living. They have given their report to the newspapers, but not to us. "The company Is diplomatic The reason i jt has not submitted anything to this meeting today Is that in doing so It would admit that it knous there is a union here. "Our appeal H now to the people and to the governor to use his good offires to settle this i ins t inn, to make an Investiga tion us the law provides. "WP h: Vt nitu' i.iiiirntAit th nhMtn from tho gouts." declared the speaker In discussing the return of some of the old men to work. He Insisted that th men who had returned were hired by tho com pany to go out and then return to work for effect on the public. C. o. Pratt also denounced the conference of niHyors as being In hud faith. "They didn't have the manhood to call In representative working men Interested In this controversy for a suggestion," ho exclaimed bitterly. "I want to tell you men that If you will stund togethter to wipe some of these political skates out of existence you can have my assistance." He encouraged the strikers, saying tnat there was no question of ample financial assistance for those, who might need It. Ho also suggested that It was time for & demonsti tilmi by the laboring people, Preneher M:ikn Fiery Speech. Rev. J. L Fisher, pastor of the Saratoga Congn gat lonnl church, took up the ques tion of municipal politics in relation to tha strike. Referring to Mayor Dahlman no said : "Tile blislne: men le him what to do. Yet lie can 1 1 t go another step politically unless you men let lilin. "You men want to l t some one to rep resent yon at l.iii' oln. Let him b the light man and when he gets Dure let him aland up ..t.il dem. trul a state hoard of arbitra tion to handle these labor trouble." Rev. Mi . I'lsle r implied In his speech that the fight was against all of the capital of Omaha, lie tolviscd die men that a boy cott would bo one v;iliiahle weapon In the fight. "Let yoiir wives wenr that old hat an other season. Jx-t her ret along with that old coat. When you buy shoes buy them in Chicago. It Is ou w ho buy the good from the.e pe..pit- here, pni who wear the cloilus. you are i!ie consumer. Let them keep their goods, then they will ap preciate you. "Don't worry; the s-rlke will be settled. Settlid will out r I . I I hop. Don't fight mil-K- you h ,v. 'o I i s la, if you luivt(, fight I, ,ne yon.' ones t, tin, very core. Don't start trouble, but If they force you tu It, remember that your homes and your fireside ar as good a theirs. Let theut