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aily Bee THE OMAHA DEE goe to tha homps la read by thf women cells goods for advertiser. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebranfca Threnterilrj;. For Iowa Partly cloudy, colder. For weather report nr page J. VOL. XXXIX NO. 176. if' OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1910 TWELVE PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. The Omaha SUBSTITUTE FOR TWO LAND BILLS Senate Committee, After Spirited Ses sion, Drafts Short Measure Con- ferinj Needed Authority. EIGHT TO WITHDRAW LANDS Power Specifically Conferred on Pres ident in Few Brief Sentences. MUST EEPORT TO CONGRESS Reservation to Stand Until With drawn by President or Congress. POSTAL BILL IN SENATE Battle. Make Unus, X Records fo .Jicicncy SIXTY RAILROADS REJECTDEMANDS Locomotive Firemen" Are Notified that Proposed Scale Cannot Be Accepted. , MINE TRAGEDY IN OLD MEXICO Larg-e Number of Men Reported Killed by an Explosion in Las Esperanzas District Seven Fighting Machines Exceed Contract Speed in Recent Ma- . neuvers at Sea, WILL ARBITRATE WAGE RATE DETAILS OF TRAGEDY WITHHELD I Mr. Htrkirn Condemn Hnuirt II nM He Think it Will Hare Effect of Lowering; Rat) . f Interest. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1-That there ahall be n question as to the power of the pres ident to withdraw pu,blto lands for conser vation purposes and continue the with drawal In force until revoked by him or by act of congress, the senate committee on public landa today reported a substitute for two of the administration bills. The decision to report such a measure was reached after several hearings had been held In which the necessity for the legislation waa attacked and defended In spirited controversy. United action was Impossible today when the question of reporting a. bill was taken up. A three ntrirA ?J"d been carried 0" In tha committee for some time, the fac tions were made up of senators, who be lieve that the president under existing law has authority to withdraw lands from publla entry; senators who were In favor of giving him suah power, but who have contended that numerous acta of former President Roosevelt were Illegal and sen ators who have taken a decided stand against any such authority being con ferred on the executive. , In order that acts of Mr. Roosevelt should be validated beyond any question, those senators who were In favor of ad vanced fnnRffrvatlnn lrlsl atlnn. hut whA have questioned tha legality of many of the withdrawals already made, joined with the supporters of the administration bills sent to the committee by Secretary Ball Inger and agreed to report a substitution. This action still left a minority, com posed of Senators Heyburn and Clark (Wyoming) who Insist that the right to withdraw from entry ahould rest In con gress. Tha senator may present a minority report - , The measure aa reported by Senator Nelson. Is one of the simplest pieces of legislation ever proposed on tha subject of land laws, but It la said It will ac complish al) of the purposes of the two bills of several section each, which were aent to tha epmmtt,ye',ron - the Interior depaarmWt. ' As perfected, tha bill follow: "That the president may, at any time In his discration, withdraw from aattle ment, location, sale or entry, any of the public landa Of (he United States and reserve the same for forestry, water power, irrigation, classification or other public purposes to be specified In with drawal and auch withdrawal and reserva tlon shall remain In force until revoked by him or by an act of congress. The secretary of the Interior ahall report all auoh withdrawals hereafter to congress at tha beginning of Its next regular ses sion." HEYDrnJT ATTACKS POSTAL BILL ' Bar It Will Hirt Effect of I.ovrrrln Ilata of Interest, WA BHINOTON, Feb. 2. Should the postal savings bank bill become a law, .It would greatly endanger, If not destroy In come to lhe amount of hundreds of millions of dollars, declared Senator Heyburn to day. The Idaho Senator waa engaged In a general discussion of the bill In con nection with an amendment presented by Senator Smoot for the regulation of tha removal of postal savings deposits from banks. Ho contended that inasmuch aa the fund under the bill would reach fully 700.000.000, It would enable tha Board of Trustees to dictate tha rata of Interest throughout tha country. "In other words, tha government pur posea to go Into the loaning business," he said, "and Intends to fix the rate of Inter est at 24 per cent." In view of this fact, he asked what the effect would be on Incomes . derived from funds invested at 5 and 6 per cent. "Should we," he then asked, "so forget our duty to the widows and orphans whose funds ara thus invested aa to disturb the earning capacity of their Investments?" Ha declared that the bill ahould b nominated. "An act to conatltuta the government a collection, agency for the banks," and added that under the bill it had tha power to convert the government Into a general loaning agency. Mr. Heyburn also asserted that with th money once deposited there was no ade quate means of obtaining it return to the dopoaltor. Benator Carter called attention to tha fact that in time of emergency savings banka generally require a notloe of thirty to sixty days for the withdrawal of funda. Ona amendment by Senator Davis, pro viding for tha deposit of postal funds in banka under state Inspection, aa well aa In those under federal supervision. waa adopted. Senator Smoot proposed an amendment providing for tha withdrawal of funda from bank, which were not willing to pay i par cent Interest and It waa under dis cussion whan the senate adjourned. LAND FOR LARCH HOMESTEADS Secretary Bnlllaaier Designate Tracts la YYoniluar aad Montana. WASHINGTON. Feb. S.-Approximately V'ffiUST acre of land Were designated today by Secretary Balllnger of the Interior de partment as open under the enlarged home stead act. Of this amount 672,TtO acres are In Wyoming, 34,50 In Montana and C1.TCT In Naw Msxioo. In aid of proposed legislation affecting th disposal of water power aites th sec rctary today withdrew from all forms of entry or disposal 1,661 acres along Clark Fork In Montana and Idaho. Propound legislation affecting the use and deposition of petroleum deposits on the PPtlto domain caused Mr. ' Balllnger alao wlthdrav temporarily IIS. Qui) acrts of lvd ta California, making the total area of petroleum withdrawals in California to vt taNittl acrea. WASHINGTON, Feb. I A remsrkabl exhibition of naval efficiency la disclosed in the report from Admiral Bchroeder of tha speed trials of tha vessels of tha At lantic fleet up to January tt last. . A naval vessel in the past rarely haa equaled Ita contract speed after Its acceptance trial, which la always conducted under tha most favorable conditions with specially trained crewe. But, according to Admiral Schroeder'a report, no lesa than seven of tha battleships In their recent trials ex ceeded their contract apeeda. although some of them had been commissioned for several years. These ships were the Connecticut, Minnesota, New Hampshire. Kanaas, Geor gia, Nebraaka and Mississippi. Not gunnery alone, but general all-around seamanship engineering. signaling and other qualifications are hereafter to form lhe basis of the award of naval trophies tor battle efficiency. ' Secretary Meyer today made this announcement In connec tion with the award of tha pennant for gunnery to tha -battleship Vermont, aa the result of the competition held In the open sea at unfixed ranges and speeds. The Tennessee and the Maryland ara rated high, having made more than S5 per cent of the total score of the Vermont. The officers of these ships all hava re ceived commendatory letters. State Authorities Await Swope Inquest Belief Prevails that Radical Action Will Not Be Taken at ,0nce. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 1 Virgil Conkllng, cduity prosecutor; J. G. Paxton, executor of the Swope estate, and James A. Reed, an attorney, who have been In Chioago conferring Tilth the specialists relative to the Swope myatery, arrived home thta morning.' Their return waa awaited with a certain degree of expectancy. Immediately they entered into conferences with mem bers of the Swope family and others In treated In th case, but nothing developed to Indicate that radical action waa Immi nent. : At the prosecutor's office It waa reiter ated that no action by the state waa prob able before the inquest over tha body of Colonel Swope, to be held next week, had finished Ita work. ' " Depositions will be taken tomorrow in the suits brought by Dr. B. C. Hyda in which he asks (700,000 damages for alleged Blander, M iss D ray t6 n We3s f 2f an American Granddaughter of William Aitor Becomes Bride of Legation ' ' Secretary. LONDON, Feb. 2. Miss Caroline Astor Drayton of New York, only daughter of J: Coleman Drayton and granddaughter of tha lata William Astor, today became the wife of William Phillips, secretary of the American embassy. Parish church at Rogate, Sussex, waa the scene of tha wedding ceremony, which was witnessed by a large party of relatives and friends. Rev. Edgar Bhephard, sub dean of tha Chapels Royal, officiated. Mr. Phillip waa third assistant secre tary of state during the administration of President Roosevelt and outside of his of ficial duties waa a nienltber of the famous "tennis cabinet." He was appointed to his present post September IS, 1MB. His home is in Boston. Court Overrules Mrs. Ford's? Motion Trial of Alleged Blackmailer Will Go On Despite Action of Prosecutor. CINCINNATI. Feb. t Th trial of Mra. Taanalta t at a- WrrA 11 tTwt Hl&rk mall waa continued here today. Judge James B. Swing declining to atop the pro ceedings on th motion of the defense to dismiss, because Prosecuting" Attorney Hunt refused to obey a court order and furnish tha defense with a transorlpt of the grand 3ury testimony of Charles L. War- rlner. Tha decision 1 not final, Judge Swing atatlng that th point at Ifsus Is Involved In a case pending' before tha supreme court of tha state and until that I decided he would hold tha matter in abeyance. H. Winter Burn Shifts His Name to Suit the Season Away back In th summer of 1870, Henry Winter Burn, then m .aubject of Queen Victoria, filed hla original papere declaring hi intention to become a cttlaen -of the United Bt'atee. H waa then a mer boy, just of the naturalisation age, and a America, and Omaha particularly, looked good to him, h4 decided ha would locate her. It wa a hot summer day, July S3, when he filed his first papers before th United Btate circuit clerk. Th clerk joeosaly suggested to him to drop th name "Burn," just as a matter of form, on account of tha weather, a the name "Winter" sounded extremely good Just then. Henry Winter Burn acceded to th propo sition and ao signed' his declaration, and had his friend, John- Oeorg Frost, sign his name to the declaration as a witness. In the meanwhile. Mr Burn appeared on the naturallxatlon rolls aa Henry Winter, and h had forgotten all about It until Tuesday morning, when he went to the Other . Concessions Asked Flatly Refused. Are AFFECTS TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND Machinists on Twenty -Seven Roads to Present Demands. MINERS FOR TEMPERANCE Coaatltatlon Now Prohibit Officers anal Delegate from Drumli( . Intoxicated While u Dnty. NEW TORK, Feb. 1 Sixty railroads In the country have notified the representa tive of 22,000 firemen of th rejection of their demands for a 20 to 25 per cent wage tncreaae and other concessions. News of tha rejection was contained in a private dis patch from Chicago today. . . Tha roads express a willingness to arbi trate tha question of wages, but flatly re fused other demands. CHICAGO. Feb., . W. 8. Carter, an official of , the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Firemen and Englnemen, said today that the report that the railroad had re jected tha demands of his organisation for an lncr In wages and other con cessions waa trua In part. WASHINGTON. Feb. 1 Demands for Increases In the wagea of machinists and ahop workers on twenty-seven railroads of tha southwest will follow a meeting of the general executive board of the Inter national Association of Machinists, which went Into session here today. President O'Connell of the machinists' organization will meet the general man agers of the southwestern roads In Chi cago next week to open negotiations. INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 2.-Reports of committees occupied tha attention of the United Mine Workers today. The leaders hoped to b able to complete their work and leave for Toledo' tonight. The con vention voted $S,000 for the families of tha men killed at tha mine explosion at Drakesboro, Ky. A temperance wave swept over the con vention and a clause was Inserted In the constitution providing for the dismissal of any officer - or delegate who should be Intoxicated on duty. TOLEDO, O., Feb. 1. At an executive session of tha operator of the Ohio, In diana and Pennsylvania mining districts, lasting until noon today, J. C. Kolsem, manager of the Jackson Hill Coal and, Coke company of Terre Hauta, Ind.,' waa agreed upon for chairman of tha. Joint eonferenee within miner. ' Another meeting will be held tonight . 1 ' ' ' . 1 Auld Wrestles with Dr. Cowlcs Paymaster Tells of Encounter with Physician at Navy. Yard Dance. BOSTON. ' Feb. 2. Apparently with the hope of hearing Paymaster George P. Auld testfy In his own. defense a very large crowd of spectators filled the seats when the naval court-martial convened for Ita third day's session at the Charles town Navy yard today. The testimony of Miss Heeler of Evan aton. III., and Miss Swift waa strongly In favor, of the paymaster, but Mrs. Cowles testified directly against him. She ad mitted that it waa aha who went to Wash ington and had the charges pressed after they had been apparently dropped follow lug t reprimand to Paymaster Auld and Surgeon Robnett. Paymaster Auld took tha stand as the last witness. . Auld said ha was surprised to sea Dr. Cowles at the dance and considered it an affront to the committee In charge of tha affair. Auld said ha Interviewed tha physi cian in the dance hall and said to him, "We wish you would not attend dancea at the navy yard." . Auld admitted be followed Dr. Cowles down stairs, where tha latter' language became violent. Then came the clash. Auld said he took hold of Dr. Cowlea by the shoulders and the two had a wrestling j bout. In which Dr. Cowles waa thrown. Autd denied emphatically that he struck Dr. Cowle. Tha court then adjourned until tomorrow, when argumenta will begin. ' Society Women Forret Striker. . PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 2. Thre were no society women on hand today to furnish ball or pay fines for fifteen girl ahirt waist striken who were arraigned before a magistrate on minor charges, and as a result soma of the young women were sent tOi the county prison for ten daya. office of the United States circuit clerk to complete hla naturalization and take out bis final papers. It looked for a while as If he might lose out because of tha climatic change In his name from forty years ago. But Jack (Q.) Frost was still on deck and he was ready to prove that aa ha and Burn came from tlw same bailiwick In England, he knew hla real nam to be Burn, and that he Just dropped the nam Burn aa a Joke at tha: time on account of the weather, and let them get a much winter Into that hot summer aa possible, aa Colonel Welsh had not arrived in this territory then with his weather bureau and fixings. So Henry Winter Bum. recognizing th eternal fitness of things, haa now become a full-fledged American cltlxen during this winter under the name of Burn, as he be came a preparatory cltlsen forty years ago under the refreshing name of Winter dur ing an extremely hot summer. AND JACK FROST haa helped him out now, aa ha did then. All VHILWntKOPlST From the Philadelphia North American. PACKING COMPANY FAILS New Jersey Corporation Doing Busi ness in Mexico Bankrupt. STOCK OWNED EI' ENGLAND Compear Which. Holds Valuable Con. eeailea Ha Large' Sam on Deposit la Bank Which Saaacnded, NEW TORlC Feb. J.f-The Mexican Na tional Packing company, a New . Jersey corporation, controlled by English In vestors, and operating slaughter house and packing house In Mexico under conces sions from tha Mexican government, failed today, with liabilities, Including stock, of $37,000,000. The assets wera hot given, but It is announced ; that tiioT ' aro In excess of the liabilities. ThiHtomnpany; will con tinue to operate its plants a usual. Henry De Kay waa appointed receiver by Judge Lannlng of the. circuit court uT, New Jer sey thle afternoon. "... , The appointment of a receiver waa i not brought about by any condition . Ip the live stock market, but by the tlelng up of Vs part of the company's funds . In tha United State Banking company in Mexico City, which suspended recently. Samuel Untermeyer, a counsel repre senting English banker and other In vestors in the property, said tonight: t Deposits la, Defunct Bank. While we have no definite figures show ing the position between the packing, com pany and the bank at the time of the sus pension of the bank we are advised thft the packing company had upwards of 0), 000 gold to Us credit In the United Stales Banking company at the time of tha bank' suspension. , , "The tying up o fthe packing company's Immediate resources and the uncertainty as to the possible action that might . be taken to the appointment of a receiver to conserve .the assets until a setled course can be pursued. Tha company continue operations and all Its plants ' are main taining its volume and supplying people of Mexico with their meat products. It is not expected that those operations will be interfered with in any way. Ar rangements Were under way in England for furnlshlifg the company wtlh a large amount of additional capital .at the time of the suspension of the bank. These ar rangements wll proceed without Intar ruptlon." Valuable Concession. Among the concessions held by the. com pany Is an exclusive right to slaughter cattle In Mexico City until 1926. Us share capital Is secured by a mortgage of about $13,500,000 and a floating debt In the neigh borhood of 12,000.000, of which, however, only about $300,000 is due. The bonds, stock and debts ara held mainly In England and the Brltluh and Mexican Trust, Limited, of London pro cured the receiver as the holder of about HI, 0(0,000 of the bonds, approximately " two thirds of the stock and as the owner of $300,000 of floating debt. Iaternrban Promoter Basy.' YANKTON, 8. D.. Feb. 2.-Speclal Tele gram.) C. A. Magee, a wealthy electric line promoter of Pittsburg, is In Yankton. He says he will In March start work on an extensive system of electric lines to Yankton from Centervllle, Freeman, Park ston, etc., and aecuring the Yankton-Norfolk line from Yuell and Or all am of Chi cago. He says he will build a bridge here and extend the Una into Kansas. Let us help you fiqd the room you want. On the want ad. pages of. The Bee you will find a list of practically every vacant room in Omaha. The people who have rooms to rent are learning that the way to se cure tenants is to advertise the rooms in The Bee. . Hava you read th want ads. today? Plenty of Investigating, Anyway. Bond Shrinkage Caused Failure of Big Brokers Fisk & Bobinson, Declared Bankrupt Tuesday, Are Suspended from btock Exchange. . NEW YORK, Feb. $. The suspension of Fisk & Robinson, the bond and banking house, whosa failure came yesterday when an involuntary petition In bankruptcy was filed, waa announced at the opening of tha stock exchange today. Aa a result of the unexpected new after tha close of yesterday's business on the exchange,' the marktt today opened .with decline running from substantial fraction to a point or ao with a considerable volume of - liquidation by speculators Who had not recovered from nervousness caused by the market break . of a couple of weeks ago. The failure was due to the shrinkage In the market value of certain bonds which the firm had underwritten. That caused the banka which had. loaned money on .the securities to demand additional collateral, which tha firm waa unable to supply. , The receiver estimates that tha secured obligations of tha firm will . amount- to about $5,000,000 and the unsecured obliga tion to more than $1,000,000. ' BOSTON Feb. 2. The liabilities of Fisk A Robinson, brokers of New York, Boston, Chicago and Worcester, who failed yester day, amount to nearly $7,000,000. Manager W. A. Tracy, of the Boston office today issued the following statement of the firm' condition, as ascertained last Friday: Asset Cash,. . $61,1)15; leans receivable, $1,132,353; securities, $4,428,444; accounts re ceivable, $225,200; furniture and fixtures, $10,000; total, $6,847,967. Liabilities Loans payable, " $5,276,670; de posits', ' $1,212,349; accounts payable, $246,405; balance In excess of assets,' $112,643; total, $6,847,967.. Iowa School Gets - Rockefeller Money Cornell College at Mount Vernon is Given $50,000 hy General ' Education Board. . NEW YORK, Feb. 2. Five colleges and two universities were the recipient-of con ditional gifts and appropriations made by the Rockefeller fund of the general edu cation board, which held Its seventh' an nual meeting today. The following are among the favored Institutions: Williams college, Wllllamstown, Mass., $100,000; Wesleyan university, Mtddletown, Conn., $100,000; Cornell college, Mount Ver non, la.. $50,000. Requests were received from forty-two Institutions of learning in the United States for a share In the appropriations, the ag gregate amount of the requests being In excess of $4,000,000. RULES FIGHT NOT ENDED IIoum .lasara-eata Announce Will Move on Knemy at Once. They WASHINGTON, Feb. t The house "In surgents" made It known today that they had . no intention of abandoning or post poning their fight on the rules of the house cr.d that they proposed to continue It with out cessation. Respectable When Sober, , Busy Thief When Drunk PONTIAC, Mich., Feb.-Developments following a raid of the Clinton hotel yss Uiday bid fair to reveal th source of nearly half a hundred burglaries In Pon tiac In the last three years, rames Monroe, proprietor- of th Clinton hotel and, when sober, a roepectable citizen, admits, th polic declare, most of the burglaries and ha told th officer thing that will lead to discovering tha rest of the' robbers. Monroe Is said to hav been shot by Patrolman P. A. Knight last Wednesday night, but escaped and went to Windsor, REGENTS GET FARM LAND Secretary of War Consents to Lease ' Tract Near Valentine. EXPERIMENT STATION IN VIEW Over . Thousand Acres on Fort Niobrara Military Reaervatioa - ' Senate) . Confirms New Postmasters. . (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. Feb. . (Special Tele gram.) Senator Brown today had a con ference with Secretary of War Dickinaon with tha result the secretary baa agreed that th regents of the University of Ne braska may lease some 1.09Q acres of land now In Fort Niobrara military 'reservation near alen line 'Neb'., pending the passga of.thtf'BfoViirh11. -whKyh provides for the cession to ..the.. Btat university . of thl land. Th desire of the regent la t6 ac quire It for , tha '.purpose of establishing an experimental farm In connection with the university..,..,'..1 ' ' John Baptlate and John Harrison of the Omaha Wlnnebagos are In Washington aa delegate to confer With the Indian com missioner nd the Wlnnebagoa of Minne sota and Wisconsin with reference to the ultimate distribution of tribal funds. Senator Brown ' wa today adlvsed by the Postoffice department that there would ba no change in the achedule of rural free delivery between Philtppsburg and Sargent In Custer county.. A. E.. Cady of Bt Paul, Neb., and John McOrew ,of Omaha-are in Washington to day enroute to. New York. The . army appropriation bill which passed the senate today carries an ap propriation of $40,000 for the completion of tha rifle range at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo. '. ' ew Postmasters. Congressman.. Hlnshaw haa recommended tha appointment of Miss Edith Isaackson a postmaster at Malmo vice Agne Holmes, resigned, also Charles W. Slaugh ter as postmaster at Endlcott, vice Loren I.. R.- Whitney, resigned. Tha senate today confirmed the nomina tion of the following poetmasters: Charles Miner, Ravenna; William A. McCool, In dianola,' Neb. ' Wyoming George W. Hoyt, Cheyenne. , The president sent to the senate today nomination of the following postmasters In Nebraska: , Harvard, Griffith J. Thomaa; Bethany; Clarence O. Turner; Niobrara, George W,' Draper. Iowa Creaton, . Ccott (Skinner; Fort Madi son, Thomas P. Hollowell, Jr.; Keokuk, Bamu'ei W. Moorrhead; Sibley, Harold E. Scott; Washington, John M. Lytle. NobraSkar Postmasters have been ap pointed aa ofllows: Carter, Harlan county, John O. Anderson, vice E. Johnson, re signed; RVrert, Brown county, Andrew Johnson, vice G. J. Steinar, resigned. Rural carriers appointed: Iowa Bagley, route 1, John M. Mulr, carrier; no substi tute, , South Dakota Burbank, route 1 John I Kyte, carrier; B. M. Kyte, substitute. Re vlllo. route 1 and 2, David II. Derr, car rier; no substitute. The First National bank of Morrill, Neb., has been authorised to berln business with $28,000 capital. H. S. Clarke, Jr.. Is presi dent; C. W, Hcovllle, vice president; and L.. M. Eastman, canhler. Zrluya Piaua Revolatlon. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. . That Zelaya, lhe deposed president of Nicaragua. Is going to Europe to foment a revolution aKalnst Estrada Cabrera, president of Guatemala, Is the assertion of General Alfonso Gallardo, formerly of the Hon duran army, who la In New Orleans. Ze laya sailed from Vera Crus for. Belgium yesterday. Ont., where his wound was cared for. To the sisters who nursed him Monro Is re ported to have confessed. Ha says he re turned to Pontiac with tha Idea of giving himself up, but th officers made the ar rest brfore he had can led out his inten tions. George Hicks . and Richard 1 licks, brothers-in-law of Monroe, and William Brown hava been arrested on th stories told by , Monroe. . Monroe declare that every time he had a few drinks of whisky th Impulse to steal became Irresistible. Nothing- is Given Out Pending Action of the Governor. ' MINE OAS KILLS THIBTY-ITVE Thirty-Three Bodies Recovered from Disaster at Drakesboro, Ky. LAMP SETS OFF EXPLOSIVE Force of Conrossloa Wa Enoigk t KIM All Men la East Wing; of the Mine Resene Party ' Work All NlBt. nUIXETIIf . SAN ANTONIO. Tex., Feb. t.-A dispatch to the Express from Eagle Pass, Tex., says: At nlirhtfall sixty-eight bodies had' been recovered from the Pallau mine of tha Coahulla Coal company In ' th tte of Coahulla, Mex., in which an explosion oc curred today. Beside , the dead, eight wounded have been brought to tha surface. Bl LLETIJt. LAREDO, Tex., Feb. 1 Word haa reached thle city of a terrtflo explosion In a mine at Las Espcransas, Mex. Many, no cumber stated, ar reported killed. A de tailed report of tha explosion ha been wired to the governor of the stat and pending his action nothing 1 being given " out. ' 1 ' ' ', ' Las Esperanaaa Is exclusively a ooal min ing district and employ Mexican and Japanese operatora. , - t i' DRAKESBORO, Ky., Feb. ! Thlrty thre miners are known to hava been killed, two are mls3tng and fifteen are in Jurod a a result of the explosion In tha Browder coal mine, . near her, yesterday. There were 100 men In the two wings of the mine at the. time of th explosion, but the fifty In th west wing were Uninjured and escaped. Those n th east wing folt the full force of the explosion. ', On or two of the Injured are In a critical condi tion. Of the dead about half were white, all Americana, and th remainder negroes. The explosion Is believe to hav been caused by a miner's lamp Igniting ga in an unused room. The force of tha explosion wa - apparently sufficient to onus In stant death to all tha men In the eastern wing, where Is occured. Care and heavy timber: were blown about Ilka kindling; woauV '.. ,'Jj,". ' i A . - -. nntki. - . I .... . Ax . V. A ftM -mm V 1 LI! 11! Vk lull'" V 1 . ' -J III'. of th- explosion tno innaoiiania o me little mining town were crowding about the shart. , Women and children, erased with grief, pleaded with those In charge for newa of th entombed men. They were spared one of the horrora of the other recent disaatera, namely, long suspense. Within a few minutes after the explosion the fans hod sucked the working almost clear of deadly gases and rescue parties were able to dewend and begin ,to dig through the wreckage. No fire followed the explosion and the ventilating apparatus waa fortunately unharmed by tha shock. The first bodies recovered were In fairly good condition, the men having been smothered and pot mangled by the explo sion, but a the party pushed on they found bodies ao mutilated that they wera unrecognisable. . ; Will Reno, colored, who was In, charge of the cage, waa found dead at tha bottom of the shaft. General Manager ' Hogg of .the mine worked with the rescuer all night. 8tata Mine Inspector. Prof. C, J. Norwood said the Bowder mine had given the Inspector some uneaslnaas on account of Ita pe culiar gasy condition and therefore had been inspected oftener than required by law. The mine has been visited at least once a month. ' , . ' ONE BODY FOiriVD AT CHERRY j Explorer Are Search lngr Shaft Sealed After Disaster. CHERRY, 111.. Fb. 2. -The body of on miner and the carcasses of sixty-four mules were found 860 feet deep in the SU Paul mine, today, by the relay partte of repairer and explorers, who began , work In the burned paasagea last night. It la probable the corpse of the miner will be brought to the surface aome time today. The explorera during last night stopped up all dangerous break in the walla of th main runway to the west of the main shaft on the second level. The work waa extended to the south aa far aa the air shaft, thus opening a passageway between the two shafts of the mine where It wa at the edge of the air shaft that the body was found. It lay sprawled along 'the runway with hands extended toward the escape pIL Safety could not have been found in the air shaft, however, for It waa in thl well that the hay biased so fiercely, caus ing flames to leap through the fan and melt the ateel rivet. . , It waa discovered today that tha third level, 600 feet below the surface, is not full of water, as had been thought. A atona dropped down the elevator shaft hit th top of the cage that ran from the third level to the second. As thl car now rest on the bottom of the third level, th water cannot be mora than five feet deep, prob ably less. Pump were Installed today to draw tha water from th mine. . BODIES BLOW TO FRAUMENTI Awfnl Force of Explosion In Mine at Primer. PH1MERO, Colo., Fb. 1-The awful force of the explosion In the Prlmero coal mine, which exacted a toll of seventy-nine lives Monday afternoon waa shown thl morning a th explorer penetrated deeper Into the working. 8even mora bojies wer recovered during the night, making a total of forty-nine. But It is extremely inprob able that all the dad will be recovered for conditions In the deeper workings in dicate that many of tha victims wer lit erally blown to piece. Shreds of human flesh with these Jagged fragments of lamps wer found by the explo. ' thl morning as they reached th ape: wher th ex plosion occurred. Fresh air haa been forced Into the work Inge for nearly a mile. Tha bodies hav all been taken from entries A 7, a, S and If,