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The . Omaha Daily Bee NEWS SECTION WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Fair and warmer. Kor Iowa Fair and warmer. For weather report ee page 3. PAGES 1 TO I VOL. XXX LX NO. lfiG. OMAIIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1910-SIXTEEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. MINE WORKERS CH00SEOPFI0ERS Report of Teller ii Approved by , Convention Protests Are Not Pressed. PRESIDENT LEWIS MAXES SPEECH He Say "Obstructionists" Are Only Playing Into Handi of Operators. Beef Trust Will Be Attacked by Attorney General Proceedings Will Soon Be Instituted by Department of Justice Under Sherman Law. CZAR AND MIKADO REPLY TO KN0V "Hog on Ice" MEAT BOYCOTT IS SPREADING Both Nations Reject Movement to Combat Hi?h Prices is for Neutralize' Assuming a National Character. in xtfv JAPAN HAS M. ..i OBJECTIONS MANY THOUSANDS ARE ENR0LLEI CHANGE IN MEETING PLACE Operators Are Asked to Come to Indianapolis for Joint Session. DEFINITE PLAN FOR MERGER Special Committee ! Appointed to Draft Agreement for Consid eration with Metal Miners. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Jan. 21. At the close of today's session of the convention of the United Mine Workers of North America the report of the tellers of the balloting for international officers was de clared to be final.' Protests by the oppon ents of Thomas Lewis, re-elected presi dent, that the votes of certain local unions might be shown to be of questionable valid ity were not pressed. The new set of officers, which will take charge of the administration on April . 1, follows: ' President Thomas L. Lewis, Uridgport, Ohio. Vice President Frank J. Hayes, Spring field, 111. Secretary-Treasurer Kdwin Perry, Oska loosa, la. President Lewis, in accepting re-eleotton, deolared that his political enemies within the organization were succeeding only In supplying ammunition to the operators, whom the bituminous coal miners are to meet on February 1 to negotiate a new wage contract. The "obstructionists," he said, by delaying the proceedings, were piling useless expense upon the local unions, which support the delegates In the conven tion. Operators Asked to Indianapolis. President Lewis opposed a motion, put by his rival in the election for the presidency,' William Oreen of Coshocton, O., that tho operators of the bituminous coal fields of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana should be Invited to come to Indianapolis fori the tri-state Joint conference with the miners, Instead of meeting them at Toledo, as arranged. The motion, however,- was - carried and the international officers and the presi dents of the districts Included. In the tri state agreement, with the addition of the Illinois district, were appointed' a 'commit tee to ask the operator to ohangs the meeting place to this city. The report of the tellers of the balloting was read In the convention of the organisa tion In this Vlty today, but the anti-Lewis party succeeded in postponing a vote on its adoption until afternoon.- The convention was In a tumult before and after the report. "Insurgents" sup porting William Oreen attempted to delay the report. After noisy demonstrations on both sides and cries of "put him, out," directed against the speakers, it was de termined to hear, the report first and the protests afterward. After the report was read, Green de manded the vote by districts In the anthra cite region of Pennsllvanla and district No. 26 of Nova Scotia. The tellers had in hand .only the totals and,' in the uproar, the ichalrman adjourned the convention until afternoon. Alleired Spy Riles Convention. A man of the name of HI vers of Alabama stirred the convention of the United' Mine Workers of American to a high pitch of excitement today, though he was not pres ent. If he had not left the city. President Lewis said, ho probably "would go now," for he was " a secret age'nt of the oper ators of Alabama." j 'iClll him!" shouted a delegate. , There was a laugh at thin, but no laugh when there were general cries of "Throw blin out!" "He has vamoosed," suld President Lewis. W. R. Falrley, executive board member for Alabama, said Rivers attended last year's convention as a delegate and had with him a deputy sheriff from Alabama, K"tn officer that has no business In a min ers' meeting." Rivers was a member of the local union at Carbondale, Ala., before the great strike in that state, Falrley said, and since then has heen, he declared, at Intervals In the employment of the operators ot the state aa a confidential agent. Definite Plan for Merger. A definite plan for the projected merger of Uie organised metal and coal miners of the United Statoa and Canada will be laid before the convention by a committee representing the coal miners here as sembled and a visiting committee sent by the metal miners of the Western Federa tion of Miners. President Lewis of the United Mine Workers today named Its conference com mittee as follows: T. L. Lewis, president; John II. Walker, district 12; J. R. Lawson, district 16; E. S. MoCullough, district Hi C. P. Ollday, district 7; Jacob Rltter. dis trict 13; Patrick Gilday. district t The conference committee of the Western Federation of Mlnqrs Is as follows: Charles II. Mover, president; C. E. Mahoney, vice president ; William David son, executive 'board member; James Devlin, Daniel Holland, M. J. O'Connor and J. D. Cannon. The two committee immediately will take up the work of framing a coalatlon con tract that will bring about either an - amalgamation with one set of interna tional .officers and one treasury, or an of fensive and defensive working agreement that wilt yet permit the Independent exist ence of the metal and coal miners' organi sations. NEMAHA. Neb.. Jan. 21 (SpecJal.-After being suspended for a period of five months, the Nebraska Advertiser, one of the oldest. If not the oldest, papers In the stute. will be revived again. The latest moulder of public opinion halls from th western part of the state. No change will take place, except the politics, which will be nonpartisan. Nemahans are showing by actions, aa well as words, that they want 'Jiiewn -rag, vspaper, and the new man will be en- raged lit every way possible- xovExxaTB or cobajt -rzAMaxxra. Arrlvaa, alla4. SorTH MI-TON. . .Adriatic BHIMKW Jat.r. eauuwi .. WASHINGTON, Jan. It Proceeding will soon be instituted' by the Department of Justice against the no-called beef trust, with headquarters at Chicago. Complaint of aliened operations of the trust In re straint of trade have been investigated by the department. Suit probably will be brought under the Sherman anti-trust law. I Lovctt Allowed to File Views President of Union Pacific Will Give His Views of Merger Dismissal to Wickersham. WASHINGTON. Jan. 21. Judge' R. S. Lovett, president of the Union Pacific rail road, has been given leave to file with thu attorney general a written memorandum of bis views on the request made of the gov ernment to dismiss the suit Instituted by it to dissolve the' merger of the Union Pa cific and Southern Pacific railroads. . This decision was reached , at the confer ence yesterday between Attorney General Wickersham, Frank D. Kellogg and C. A. Severance, representing the government, on the one -hand, and President Lovett, Maxwell Evarts sounsel of the Union Pa olfic, and one or two other officials of the road, on the other. ' Th suit' was brOugnt ' under the Sher man anti-trust law on the ground that the merger of the new road was in restraint of trade. The following statement regarding the conference was made today at the Depart ment of Justice: "Judge Lovett and his counsel .and asso ciates, submitted to the attorney general their contention that the government had failed in the suit against the Union Paciflo Railroad company and the Union Pacific railroad to establish the fact that the trans action therein questioned constituted a vio lation of the Sherman act. and, therefore, that the suit should be dismissed. Upon the adjournment, of the meeting leave was given to Judge Lovett to file a written memorandum of his views, which the attorney general will take under con sideration before reporting to the president his recommendations respecting the request to dismiss the suit." ' - Paid Money to - . Black-Handers Several. Victims of Ohio Blackmailers Testify, ia Trial t Toledo. TOLEDO, O., Jan. St. A threat to kidnap ome of his ten children induced Fabiano Chinoola, a fruit dealer of Cincinnati, to give up- $1,600, according to his testimony In the trial of the fourteen alleged Black Hand conspirators here today. Chlncola said the payment was made In a room over the saloon of Francesco Spedara, in Cin cinnati, October 13, 1906, Spedara and Sal vator Arrlgo, whom he knew, received the money. The threatening letter demanded 13,000, he said, but he' could not raise that much. He received a letter telling him how to pay the money, and he drew It from the bank. Francesco Canot of Cincinnati said he Journeyed to Pittsburg and paid $400 to same man whom he could not identify. Baptists Marcurlo of Columbus. O., testified that he received four letters from Valley City, N. D., each demanding 16.000. He paid $SO0 through a third person, but could not tell to whom the money went. Ignazlo and Augustine Anarlno of Colum bus, O., testified that they fled to Sicily after dynamite was exploded under their house in the spring of 1908. They received another Black Hand letter in Italy. E. F. Weber, a banker of Meadville, Identified the signature on a letter to Sal vatore Lima as being that of Pepplne Oalbo. DENIES WORSE IS FAVORED Warden of Atlanta Penitentiary Asserts lea Kins; la Employed . In Library. WASHINGTON, Jan. Sl.-Captaln Wil liam H. Moyer, warden of the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., was at the Department of Justice today and entered an Indignant denial of the published stories that special privileges were being accorded to Charles W. Morse, the New York banker. Captain Moyer said it is true that, after having been removed, the mustache of Mr. Morse has been allowed to grow again. Mr. Morse, he said, was employed in the library and was being treated precisely as any other prisoner in the Institution. Hottlahan to M., K. A T. FORT WORTH, Tex., Jan. 21.-Reports are current in railroad circles here today mai mwin nawiey win place 1 . it Huulahau at the head of the ODeratinar de partment of the Missouri, Kansas Texas railroad as general manager. Mr. Houlahan Is now general manager ot the Chicago & Alton railroad. Father Rigge is Doubtful About Alleged New Comet Father William J. RiTge, professor of astronomy of Crelghton university, Is dis posed to question the appearanoe of a genuine comet in the southwest Thursday evening. "I thiuk It must have been a peculiarly formed cloud." said Father Rigge. "and. not a comet. While It Is true that Halley's eoraet la now due, and Is visible under favorable conditions through powerful tele scopes, yet It could bardly be identified as a oumet by unskilled observer In. any event Its appearance through a telescope would be that ot a small star, and could only bt seen at present in the southwest In the evening aud early In the morning only under the conditions named. Note is Friendly in Tone, but Conclu sions Are Not Qualified. BASIS OF RUSSIAN OPPOSITION Proposition is Held to Be Without Intrinsic Merit. , M-mmnmn AMERICANS. ARE DISAPPOINTED General Feellnic that Adoption of Scheme Wosld Have Had Effect of Minimising Proa pert of War. ' TOKIO, Jan. 2t The reply of the Japa nese government to the United States pro posal for the neutralisation of the Man churlan railways was handed to Amerlcnn Ambassador O'Brien this afternoon. It la a polite declination. No Intimation of the contents of tha memorandum of reply Is given, but the best information obtainable Indicates that the communication is brief and that the declination to accept the neutralisation proposition is based on several errounds. the chief of which are: The American plan would be of no ad vantage whatever to Japan. it would afford no advantage to China. It would not change the commercial situa tion in Manchuria, where Japan Is adher ing strictly to Its pledges of an ODen door and eqal opportunity. It is understood that the reDlv Is In terms of friendly appreciation of the American purpose, but It is not of an argu mentative character and its' conclusions are not qualified. Ituasla Opposes Plan. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 21.-Russla's reply to Secretary Knox's note proposing the neutralization of the Manchurian rail roads was delivered to Ambassador Rock hill today. The Russian communication rot. w proposal for the neutralisation of existing lauroaos. u states also that the Russian government coldertf the alternative prop osition for its Darticlnation In an i ....... tional syndicate for the construction of me enm Chow-Algn line acceptable In principle, but because of the Dolltica.1 strategical importance of the enterprise ana its Deanng on the East Chinese rail road Russia will defer a final' answer on this subject oendlna- the receipt nf infnrma. tton as to the principles of the American project. Russia reserves the rteht tri 'haft nnnn all such projects as affecting Its political. strategic and economic Interests. - me note Of reDlv 'throughout u : in a friendly lone and the America n nrnnnalt Inn Is criticised strongly on its Intrinsic merits. American Officials Disappointed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Press telegrams from Tokio and St. Petersburg recuived this morning statej that the proposal of the United States for the neutralisation of the Manchurian railroads had been rejected by both Japan and Russia, were read with great Interest at the State department. There Is no doubt that this result of Secretary Knox's effort to eliminate the Manchurian railways from the policies of the far east, thus mlmlmlslng tha danger of war, Is a keen disappointment to the officials. Whether the matter will end with the action of Japan and Russia, la problematical. It is believed to-be quite possible that with the rejection of the proposition to neutralise the. railroads In Manchuria owned by Russia and Japan the United States may urge Its attention to the ques tion of financing In conjunction with Great Britain and other European nations the con struction of . the proposed railroad, which will run from Chin Chow Fu to Tsiuhar. This road will tap the Russian Trans slberian road at Tsitshar. This proposi tion formed a part of Secretary Knox's alternative neutralization plan and it seems probable that all of the powers, including Russia and Japan, may signify their will ingness to co-operate with the United States In neutralising thia . WEDS. IN HOSPITAL CHAIR German Takes This Means of Savln Fortune Left Condi, tlonally. IOWA CITY, la.. Jan. 21.-Speclal.)-Propped up In an Invalid chair, Fred Harde cup of Relnbeck. Ia.. a victim e ...... senility, was married yesterday afternoon ... university nospital to Miss Anna Holb, to save an estate of $15,000. Hardecup was recently left $15,000 in a German estate upon the condition that he marry. On the point of death for almost a,month, he rallied upon receipt of the news, and yesterday afternoon hf senior medical class he was married bv r... it - . , , itoenein. Hardecup Is 62 years of age. He has been in the hospital for a year and It Is prac tically his home. However n hi. wife will take him to Relnbeck. where they ins. in onae is ot years of age. The wedding took place In the reception room of the university hospital. The In ternes rolled Hardecup Into the room in the invalid chair and two nurses stood near at hand, ready to administer stimulants should the patient show fatigue from the ceremony. "I have not yet heard of any official ob seivatlon of the alleged comet of last even ing, and if such a celustlal visitor Is pres ent In the southwest, and particularly of the sise stated by a number who claim to have seen It, Its sudden appearance la un precedented, i "1 do not wish to question the fact that an object of comet-like appearance was seen by many last evening, yet I am of the opinion that it was but a peculiar cloud. "We shall make a careful observation of the alleged comet visitor this evening, and will then be able. If the conditions are favorablle, to report more fully upon It to morrow. Personally, I did Cot see it last vening." From the St. Paul Pioneer Press. CANNON RULES FOR LLOYD Speaker Hilda that Democrat Has Right to Resign from Committee. DEMOCRATS WELL HOLD CAUCUS Chairman Clayton Announces a Com ml t tee of Seven to Outline Course to Be ' Pursued by the . . : Minority. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-The rlght of Representative Lloyd, of Missouri to tender his resignation as a member of the Bal-llnger-Plnchot Investigating committee was today announced lri the house in a ruling made by Speaker Cannon, Mr." Lloyd ten dering his resignation, A vacancy upon that committee was made and it probably will be filled. when the bouse assembles next Monday. Bills (o relieve William Boldenweck, as sistant treasurer of the United States at Chicago, from responsibility In the loss of $173,000 stolen from his office and to pay registers of land offices back fees col lected by them were passed by the house. The day was largely devoted to a discus slon of various prlvato claim measures. At 6:08 o'clock p. m. the house ad journed until Monday. The senate was not In session. The Joint congressional committee ap pointed to Investigate the Ballinger-Pln-chot controversy will hold a preliminary meeting tomorrow.. Chairman Clayton Of the democratic caucus announced the ap pointment of the following committee to consider the course to be pursued by the deocrats in the matter of the composition of tho investigating committee: Messrs. Slsson (Miss.), Hitchcock (Neb.), Dixon (Ind.), Palmer (Pa.). Ralney (111.), Rucker (Mo.), Kltchln (N. C). Guggenheims Grip Soft Coal Fields Secure Options on Eighty Per Cent of New River Fields in West ' Virginia. . CHARLESTON, W. Va., Jan. 2I-Local representatives of the Guggenheim Inter ests have secured 'options on 80 per cent of the New river coal field, which com prises 200,000 acres, as part of a plan to combine the entire bituminous coal Inter ests of southern West Virginia, the Fair mont field and the holdings of the Pitts burg Coal ' company. This will give the Guggenhelms control of about 75 per cent of the soft coal of the country. ERIE REJECTS WAGE DEMANDS Forty-One Other Railroads Will Take Similar Artlon in Short Time. , NEW TORK, Jan. 21. The Erie railroad this afternoon formally rejected the de mands of their trainmen and conductors for increased wages. The rejection fol lowed a friendly conference of the road's officials and a committee of employes. Forty-one railroads have yet to act on the demands of their men, but by an un derstood agreement they will reject them. Conferences will follow the rejection. Please bring your Sunday Want-Ads in as early as pos sible Saturday. They are received for Sunday as late aa 8:30 p. m. Saturday, but It la beat to get them In early to Insure proper classification. If you cannot come down town use the telephone. Call Douglas 238 and ask for the Want-Ad. Department ... . Tusk Hunters Slaughtering Wyoming Elk File of Nine Dead Animals Found in Jackson's Hole Vigilance Com . mittee Organized. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. f 11. Game Warden Sorenson reports 'that a gang of tusk, hutiters lias been slaughtering wild elk... In Jackson's Hole he found nine dead In one. pile. ' , - ' ' A report from Jackson, Wyo., says the citizens theer have appointed a vigilance committee ' and have warned' the tusk hunters to leave the state, within forty-eight hours. - ; " Citizens of Uintah county are circulating a petition In opposition to the Gros Ventre winter, elk . reserve requested by congress. Willing to Make Place for Roosevelt Representative Cocks of Oyster Bay District Will Retire if Ex President Will Run- WASHINGTON. Jan. 21. Confirming the story of his readiness to retire from con gress In favor of former President Roose velt, Representative Cocks of New Tork, who represents the Oyster Bay district, where the Roosevelt home is located, added today that he had Informally talked over the subject with Mr. Roosevelt. , . Representative Braldley, according to Mr. Cocks,. Is likewise willing to give way In the house of Mr. Roosevelt In the event the ex-president should desire to enter con gress. . The, conversation took place one night last February. "The talk was entirely In formal,", said Mr. Cocks, "and the presi dent's expressions were given In a tentative way. Incidentally the faot that John Qulncy Adams had ocoupled a seat In con gress subsequent to his presidential term was brought up. . "Mr. Roosevelt believed that the holding of a presidential office did not bar -any man from later taking up other public duties. There was a reference to the pos: elblllty of his again re-entering a presi dential contest, but It was Just passing chat "I want to say to you that the Roosevelt friends are loyal supporters of President Taft. I do not think that Mr. RooBevelt has made up his mind yet what to do." POWER SITES TO "STATES Senator Carter Will 'Introduce Bill Providing: for Cession by Fed eral Government. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Senator Carter will Introduce a bill which. In effect, will j turn over to the state any government land chiefly valuable for use In the development nf water-power. The plan Js the reseult of a conference between Senator Carter and! western governors. ' Bar Scores Abuse of Habeas Corpus in the Thaw Case ROCHESTER, N. T., Jan. a.-In a re port which scathingly rebuked the efforts to liberate Harry K. Thaw from the Mattes an asylum, the special committee on ' the commitment and discharge of the criminal insane recommended to the thirty third annual meeting of the New lfrk State Bar association the amendment of the habeas corpus law. It Is suggested that the) law be so amended that a person confined In a private asylum may ask for a writ of habeas corpus at any time and without supporting affidavits, but that a person confined In any state hospital for the Insane or a state hospital for Insane criminals, or a state hospital for Insane convicts, may make an application for a writ of habeas corpus only upon a written i verified petition accompanied by a cer- Itlfleate made under oath by two qualified medical examiners In lunacy. The report continues; CfLLEGE MERGER PLAN OFF Bellevue Trustees Make Formal Declaration of Independence. CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED FOR MONEY With Consolidation Scheme Blocked, Effort Will Be Made to Secure $160,000 to Insure Perma- nenee of Old School. ! . , - ' " ' . Trustees of , Bellevue ' college,.' In session Friday afternoon at the Toung ; Men's Christian association building, formally and finally voted to reject the proposition to merge with Hastings college as ordered by the Presbyterian synod at its last ses sion. By taking this action the trustees have made a declaration of Independences from the synod and will endeavor to rehabilitate the finances of the school and place It on a sound financial basis. Plans. were made for an immediate campaign to be launched at once to raise funds to Insure the future life of the school. The following resolutions were adopted by the trustees after the merger proposi tion had been coldly turned down: "Resolved, That the board of trustees recognises that Bellevue college is a trust committed to It for maintenance, protec tion and development at Bellevue, and we hereby express our determination to main tain the college in Its Integrity at Belle vue with all Its present functions unim paired; that we recognize the necessity for an immediate and aggres'lve financial cam paign along the lines suggested by the executive committee in October, and that we take up and unremittingly prosecute a campaign for the sepurlng of funds to the amount of $150,000 at least. $50,000 of this nmount'to be applied to current expenses and $100,000 to be Invested as endowment, and we, the trustees, pledge our individual and collective active support In this en deavor, and We Invite the frends of Chris tian education throughout the state of Ne braska and the east to Join In this work, so that while the permanence of Bellevue college Is assured, Its effectiveness may be kppt up to a standard .of assured compe tence." Hastings college has already given out the impression that it. a weary of the whole matter and wl-W nothing to coerce or dissuade Bellevue. from Its position. The legal action filed by Bellevue to en Jcln the merger- probably will be dropped now In view of the formal action ot Bellevue and Hastings' attitude. Those present at the conference were Dr. Edwin Hart Jenks, H. E. Maxwell, Robert Dempster, Judge A. L. Sutton and Henry T. Clarke of Omaha, Dr. W. A. Kearns of Beatrice, Dr. R. H; Braden and Mr. Btirtch of Bellevue, Dr. W. If. Bets of South Omaha and Dr. McClure of Council Bluffs. Omaha Boys to riny St. Joseph. Oniaha H!eh school sent six of the mem bers of Its basket ball snuad to St. Joseph to play St. Joseph Hifth school tonlgrit. Omaha experts to find the St. Joseph team one of Its hardest opponents during the season, as the Missouri lads have made a fine showing so far. The Omaha boys have been practicing their passing and throwing In the last week and hope to take In an other victory. The sriuad consists of Eur dick, captain; F(nely. Trimble, Dodds, Rec tor and Patton. rqCh Cams accompanied uhe team on Its trip. "To emphasise the need for ttils remedy reference should be made to a well known case which has been .In the public eye for a long time, where a murderer, hav ing escaped the consequences of his crime by the plea of insanity, Is trying to escape the consequences of his plea by means of a continuous performance In habeas corpus. "A youthful debauchee of great wealth, trained to believe that his money gave him a right of freedom from ail restraints. In heriting an abnormality of mind likely to develop Into homicidal acts, reading a de based and Ignoble life, without a thought ot the responsibilities which wealth Im poses upon Its owner, commits a foul and cowardly murder In a public resort. He is sent to the asylum for the Insane. From this he plans to get free upon successive writs of habeas corpus, which he purposes to apply for so long as his purse will enable him to pay sealous counsel and unscrupu lous experts." Kansas City and Cleveland Art Taking the Lead. LOWER PRICES ARE LOOKED FOB Packing Houses in Western Citiei Expected to Make Reductions. DES MOINES RETAILERS MAKE CUT Prices Will Be liaised Aarnln ns Soon aa Storks on Hand Are Gone Lower Prices mi Mil. waakee. CHICAGO, Jan. 21. The movement to combat the high prices of meat spread rapidly today and Is assuming a national charnct?r. Coincident with the growth of the movement camo announcements from Milwaukeo and Cleveland that the price ot meat had dropped. In Milwaukee . two retail butchers quoted porterhouse steak at 10 cents a pound, sirloin at the same price and other meats In proportion. The wholesale price of beef fell oft IB cents a hundred pounds In Cleveland. From Denver came tho report that Samuel Dutton, president cf the Wcstcrti Hotel Men's Protective association, an nounced that the proposition of cutting down the consumption of meat would be brought before his organization at a meet ing to be hold here on January 23. Dis patches from Baltimore, Kansas City, Mil waukee, Memphis, I'lttsburgand other cities told cf the rapid growth of the move ment. Cleveland, credited with being the originator of the scheme, now has 30,000 names enrolled in the crusade, while Kan sas City reports' 80,000. The heads of tho loading packing houses of Kansas City and Chicago refused to discuss the effect of the movement upon their buslnesst NEW YORK. Jan. 21 New Tork to-' day Joined forces with Us sister cities In making a fight on the nigh prices of meats. Scores of laboring men and others are making pledges to abstain from using meat for thirty days, while many others are only eating meat once a day. Mrs. Anita Comfort, prominent in club circles, has come, forward with a suggestion that 1,000,000 housewives unite to force prices down. , s . ' ' Cleveland Experts Lower Prices...' the meat boycotting move which started here this week as a remedy for the in creased cost tf moat Fs--c6ine general local , packers - and dealers expect lower prices in the Kansas , City and .Chicago wholesale markets. While the number of pledges of ab stainers la ot, great 'compared to the total population the movement is grow ing. The wholesale prloe of beef fell off IB cents a hundred pounds here today. Hog prioes are steady. There has .been a slight decrease in the price of eggs fol lowng the boycott on eggs started yes terday. The city council will investigate the high food prices. Meat Prices Reduced. DES MOIMKS, Jan. 21. (Special Tele-' gram.) The price of meat dropped Z cents la the retail shops of Des Moines, due to cS created demand. Dealers claim It will tfe raised again as soon as the supply In the hand ot local dealers Is exhausted. Petitions which were circulated in Des Moines today were signed by (cores of men and women, who agreed to eat no meat for thirty days. The' unions hava not as yet taken any official notice of tha crusade. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 21. Porter house steak, 10 cents a pound; sirloin steak, 10 cents f pound; pork steak, 14 cents a pound; veal steak, T cents a pound. These are some of the prices quoted In advertise ments In Milwaukee newspapers this aft ernoon by two retail butchers who have responded to the agitation of a most strike in Milwaukee. One advertisement Is headed "Meat Is Coming Down," and the prices are far below those quoted for months past. ElsTbtr Thousnnd Dieters. KANSAS CITY, Mo.; Jan. 21. That 80 000 people In Kansas City will Join the anti meat eating crusnde during the next ten days is freely predicted by labor leaders here todav. The building trades council, with a mem bership of 5,000, representing eighteen crafts and thirty local lodges, will meet to night, when it is practically assured a reso lution will be passed pledging the mem bers to refrain from eating moat for thirty days. N Tho Industrial Trades' council, which has 13,000 members and represents ninety-nine crafts, will meet Sunday to take similar action. The Building Trades' council and the In dustrial Traces' council hold the balance of power In the labor organizations of the city. The Carmen's unions are enthuslastlo supporters of the crusado and have voted today to refrain from meat eating. The Allied Printing Trades' council, which has 5. M0 members, has called a meeting to take action on tho matter. Hotel Men Are Stirred. DENVER, Colo.. Jan. 21.-S0methlng of a national character Is to be given the re cently Inaugurated boycott, according to Samuel Dutton, president of the Western Hotel Men's Protective association. The proposition of cutting down the consump tion of meat will be brought before that mody at a meeting to be held In Chicago, January $1, when tho association will.be made national. i "Unless something is done to curtail the consumption of meat," said Mr. Dutton to day, "the time Is coming when the poor of this country will be no better off than the peasants of Europe. "When the people learn they con llva Just as well and feel much better end cut i dowsi their household expenses by eating more vegetables the condition ot the work ins class will be greatly Improved." "liar No Meat" Buttons. BALTIMORE, Jan. 2L Buttons bearing the Inscription "I don't buy meat. Do you?" appeared on the Streets here In Urge numbers today following the action of local Federation of Labor, which adopted a reso lution calling on labor unionism and their sympathisers to abstain from eating meat for one month. The demand for buttons Is not confined to laboring men, mora than half tha ra-