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NINE MEN KILLED.
Result of a Conflict Between Miners
and Gendarmes.

and GendarmeS.
TRoPHAUX (Austria), May 9.-Miners
made a desperate attack to-day upon
detachment of gendarmes guarding the
colliery in Polish Ostau, with the object
of driving away the men at work. TIE
rioters were warned to disperse. but in
stead of doing so began pelting the police
men with stones, wounding many. FL
nally the leaders persuaded the strikers
TO rush upon the police. The gendarmes,
after a last warning, opened fire on the
rioters, killing nine and wounding
twenty others. The mob then fled in all
directions, threatening, however, to re-
turn in larger mum bers and avenge the
death of their comrades.
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Thrown from a Window.

Los ANGELES, May 9.-Laura Chesley,
a young colored woman, was badly
butchered by colored man named John
Williams, and then thrown out of sec
ond story window of the Jeanette House
this afternoon. She was picked up and
brought to the Receiving Hospital, where
her injuries were pronounced fatal.
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Vast NIhiIist Conspiracy.

LONDON, May 9.-The Exchange Tele-
graph Company has advices from st.
Petersburg that the Russian police have
discovered a vast nihiiist conspiracy.
One hundred people have already been
arrested.
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Hotel Blown Up.

ALGIERs, May "a hotel was blown
up here to-day. One person was killed
and three injured. Torti, the landlord,
recently testified against some anarchists
at I,oulon
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orders ready to march. and have since
held themselves in readiness to move. y
Deputy, Marshal read the order to the
men. When the train was ready 10 move
this evening they climbed aboard the
rear cars. These were detached. and the
rest of the train proceed eastward.
CoXEY'S CAMP NUISANCE.
WASHINGTON, May 9-The District
Commissioners have decided that Coxey
is maintaining a nuisance by keeping his
men in their present camp, and have
given him forty-eight hours to abate the
nuisance. The action was taken on the
advice of S. T. Thomas, attorney for the
District, and was the result of a confer
ence between the Commissioners, Health
Officer Hammett and Chief of Police
Moore to-day. The advisability of ap-
plying to the courts for an injunction
against Coxey was considered, but the
attorney said that proceedings were un-
necessary, as he could be prosecuted in
the Police Court for violating the health
ordinances. The forty-eight hours no.
tice dates from o'clock. 1t is likely
Coxey can comply with the law by NOV
ing his camp from the square. He ex-
pressed his intention to move when the
notice was served, and limited that he
might secure an abandoned baseball
park near the Capitol, known as Capitol
Park, where Congress could have an
oversight of the army. CoXey expressed
surprise at the orders, and said he had
just engaged landscape gardener to
mark out bitches for sewers in the old
place,
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Confirmed by the Senate.

WASHINGTON, May 9.-The Senate to-
day made public the following contirma-
tions of Postmasters: California = An
drew I. Culbertson at Placerville; Cyrus
b. Elkins at Lompoc; Fred NJ. Robinson
at Orange; f. E. Trask at Ontario.
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Foul Play suspected.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9.-B. NJ. Fleish-
man, a produce merchant, was found
dead in the bay, at East Oakland wharf
to-day. Foul play is suspected. He left
home yesterday as usual. lie has four
children in Phoenix, Arizona.
Young Boy Accidentally Drowned.
CoTToNwoop, May 9.--Willie WisweH.
Is years old, was accidentally drowned
to-day while bathing in the Sacramento
River near here.
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TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE.
Ten Thousand People Believed to Have
PeriShed in Venezuela.

Ten Thousand People Believed TO Have
Perished in Venezuela.
New York, May GA Herald's Ca
racas dispatch says: A terrible earth
quake took place IN Venezuela April
2Sth. Reports from districts affected tell
of terrible loss of life and destruction of
property. The cities of Merida, La Gunas,
Chiguara and San Juan, situated in the
northwest of the republic are reported de-
stroyed. Many villages were wrecked.
but details are not yet to be bad. The
convulsion extended to Columbia. Full
details will come slowly, but it is proba-
bic that ten thousand people have per-
ished, and it is certain that the greatest
suffering prevails in the places visited by
the earthquake.
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RAIN AND HAIL.
Destructive Storm at Saltwater. Min
neSOta.

Destructive Storm at saltwater, Min
neSOta.
SALTWATER (Minn.), May 9.-The
heaviest storm of rain and hail ever
known in this vicinity prevailed this
evening for over an hour. Several build
ings were undermined. One hundred
feet of the Third-street fill, forty feet
deep, was washed into a ravine. carrying
sidewalks and street-car tracks along
with it. The loss is not less than $50,
A small shoe shop was foated away. A
man who happened to be in the building
was carried away and tloated almost to
Lake Croix. He was caught just as he
was about to plunge into the lake. He
was probably fatally injured. The street
cars will not be moving for week.
There are no electric lights tonight and
the streets are in darkness. Washouts
are reported on all railroads and no
trains are running into the city.
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Forest Fires in wisconsin.

MARINETTE wis.,, May 9. = Forest
fires are raging along the line of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul, be-
tween here and Ellis junction, caused by
the recent high winds. The flames are
particularly fierce around Porterfield,
and much damage will follow unless the
wind goes down. The town is threat
auad
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SECRETARY HERBERT
Taking in the Sights About salt LAX
CITY.

Taking in the Sights About salt Lake
City.
SALT LAKE, May 9.-This afternoon
Secretary Herbert and party attended a
special organ recital which had been spe-
cially arranged for them in the Taber-'
nacle.7 They then visited Fort Douglas
in company with Governor West and
other prominent citizens. Luncheon was
taken at the Temple Hotel, where the
party was joined by Henry Watterson,
who arrived here this morning from
Helena. This afternoon they went out to
Salt Air Beach on a special train. The
Secretary says he is on his way to visit
the Navy Yard at Mare Island, where he
will spend two or three days inspecting
the work of overhauling and repairing
vessels of the Pacific squadron. From
California he will go to the Government
navy and dock-yards on Puget Sound.
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San Pete valley Railroad.

SALT LAKE, May 9.-Rumors are cur
rent in railroad circles that the San Pete
Valley Railroad will be extended, and
that work will be pushed this season.
The road is a narrow gauge now. and ex-
tends from Nephi to Manti, Utah, dis
tance of about 1orty miles. The intention
is to extend the road north to Salt Lake
and south 10 the Nevada line, to connect
with a road proposed from Los Angeles.
President Burbank of the San Pete VAL
ley says the road will be changed to a
standard gauge, and that a meeting OF the
stockholders has already been called to
take action on the extension. This road
has heretofore been in the hands OF Eng
lish capitalists, but recently the control
has gone into other hands, and il is said
that plenty Of money is available for the
aytousiOn.
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President Huntington Eastward Bound.

SAN FRANCISCO, May &C. p. Hunt
ington and party started for New York
this afternoon. Messrs. Ii. T.. Hunting
ton, A. n. Towne and Mr.. Requa ac-
companied them, and will go as far as
Ogden. 1t is expected that MIR. Hunting
ton will return to the coast next fall.
During his visit here affairs of the South
ern Pacific Company have been system
atically canvassed, and it is believed that
the President OF the company carries East
with him assurances that the outlook Tor
the future is not a bad nna
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Ticket Brokers' convention.

WASHINGTON, May 9.-The sixteenth
annual Convention of the American
Ticket Brokers' Association was called to
order to-day by President H. A. Gunz-
I berg of st. Louis, about 100 delegates be-
ing in attendance. George j. Mack kenzie
of Chicago delivered an address severely
denouncing the decision OF the Illinois
Supreme Court in upholding the consti-
tutionality of the State law prohibiting
ticket brokerage. A resolution author
izing the retention of Richard Prender-
gast of Chicago as counsel to fight the de-
cision was adopted,
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Youths Engaged in Prize Fight.

CHICAGO, May 8. = Two 10-year-old
prize fighters, with their fathers and sec
onds, were arrested to-day for fighting a
ring battle. The boys-James Kittley and
John Dewey-fought thirteen hot rounds
in grove at Vincennes and Eighty sec
ond streets. before good-sized crowd,
last night, and were seconded and urged
on by their fathers. The principals aud
their paternal seconds were heavily
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BOISE Qdaho), May "a squad of
Common wealers came into Caldwell to-
day, forty in number. They had possess
sion, but Union Pacific engineer was in
charge. The train was side-tracked, and
the United States court, which had issued
restraining orders, was appealed to. The
troops at the barracks were put under
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Consul Braida Reinstated.

WASHINGTON, May 9.-General Guz-
man, the Nicaraguan Minister, has re-
ceived information from his Government
that United States Consul Braida, whose
exeauatur was withdrawn on account OF
the part ne took in the effort to organize a
Provisional Government at Bluehelds,
has been temporarily reinstated.
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high passes of a snow capped range of
mountains, that had heretofore seemed
to bar the direct way eastward from
California'S sunny valleys. Across
these mountains and an almost I'M
known inhospitable desert lay the trail
These pioneer riders were demonstra-
ting an unsolved problem. For this
reason the names of the hardy men
who made the first ride of the pony
express from Sacramento to Salt Lake
have been embalmed in the history of
the west At noon April 81, 1860, Harry
Rolf got the word go" and was soon
hidden in a cloud of dust his Cay
use'' was raising with his flying hoofs.
twenty miles, and covered the distance
in f1fty-nine minutes. At the end Of
sixty miles, at Placerville, he turned
his dispatches over to a man called
Boston"
"Boston's route lay up and over the
SierraS. He made the schedule time
and at Friday station was relieved by
Sam Hamilton, who pushed on with all
speed to Fort Churchill. Both Boston
and Hamilton encountered very deep
snow on the Sierras, yet the 1876 miles
from Sacramento to Fort Churchill
was covered in fifteen hours, speed
of over twelve miles per hour over the
hardest trail on the route, and by
many thought to be wholly impass-
able.
At Fort Churchill Robert Haslam,
C'Pony Bob'O who afterwards became
one of the most noted of the pony
riders. took the saddle for a dash of
120 miles to SnLthcreek. This trail lay
through a hostile Indian country.
From Smithcreek to Ruby valley ]. G..
K civ was in the saddle From RubV
valley to Deep Crek, H. Richardson
was the mount. From Deep Creek to
Salt Lake the ride was made by George
Thatcher. This was the eastern ter
minus of the western division, and was
under the superintendent of Bolivar
Roberts Salt Lake was reached on
schedule time as was also st. Joe,
Missouri.
The pony express was operated for
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selves safe and the ruse successful, gave
derisive cheer at the fort under whose
guns they had passed. In avoiding Fort
McHenry. however, they had fallen under
the guns of the fort at the Lazaretto, on
the opposite side of the channel This
tort, opening fire. so crippled the daring
vessels that some of them had to be
towed out1n their hasty retreat.
From midnight till morning, Key
could know nothing of the fortunes of
the fight. At SO close quarters, dense
smoke enveloped both the ships and the
fort, and added to the blackness of the
night.
After the failure to ascend the north
branch of the Patapsco, the firing slack
ened. Now and then sullen and spite
full gun shot its flame from the side of a
the cartel ship, to which he had been
transferred. could not guess the cause
of this. The slackened fire might mean
the success of the land attack, in which
case it would not have been necessary to
waste any more powder on the fort.
Again, it might be that the Internal rain
of shells had dlsmantled the little fort
itself, and the enemy was only keeping
up a precautionary fire until daylight en-
abled him to take possession.
1.-The long hours were nearly unbear-
able. Key had seen the fate of Wash
ington, and anticipated the fate of Balti-
more.
eat the suspense was unrelaxed. The
firing from the fleet ceased. The large
ships doomed indistinct and silent in the
mist. To the west lay the silent fort,
the white vapor heavy upon it. With
eager eyes Key watched the distant
Shore till in a rift over the fort he
dimly discerned the flag still proudly de
fiant. In that supreme moment was writ
ten The Star Spangled Banner
1.-The British ships slowly dropped down
to North Point. DR.. Beanes went home
to Upper Marlborough. very thankful as
he saw the yard arm of the Surprise melt
out of sight, unburdened.
"Of all national airs, it breathes the
purest patriotism. Those of England,
Russia and Austria are based upon a
sentimental loyalty long outgrown by, by
'Marseillaise' is stirring call to arms,
and upholds only the worst-the passion
ate military-side of a nations character.
The Star Spangled Banner while it is
animated, patriotic. defiant, neither
cringes nor boasts; it is as national in
it's spirit as it is adequate in its express
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sion of that spirit.
1.-The tune of 'Anacreon in Heaven has
been objected to as foreign; but in truth
it is an estray, and Keys and the Amer
lean peoples by adoption. 1t is at least
American enough now to be known to
every schoolboy; to have preceded Burr
to New Orleans, and Fremont to the
Pacific; to have been the inspira ton of
3 the soldiers of three wars; and to have
cheered the hearts of American sailors
in peril of enemies of the sea from AL
glers TO Apla harbor. If the cheering of
the Calliope by the crew of the Trenton
binds closer together today the citizens
of the two English-speaking nations.
should its companion scene, no less
thrilling, be forgotten-when ;he Trenton
bore down upon the stranded Vandalia
to her almost certain destruction. and
the encouraging cheers of the flagship
was answered by response, faint, un-
certain, and despairing? +"
&c Darkness hid the ships As those on
shore listened for the crash. another
sound came up from the deep. 1t was a
wild burst of music in defiance of the
storm. The Trentons band was playing
THE Star Spangled Banner" The feel
ings of the Americans on the beach were
indescribable Men who on that awful
day had exhausted every means of rem
dering some assistance to their COM
rades now seemed inspired to greater eff
forts. They dashed at the surf like wild
creatures; but they were powerless.'
mo- it is too late to divorce words and
music.
1.-The song is generally accorded it's de-
served honor; the man who wrote it has
been allowed to remain in unmerited ob7
security. The Pacific coast alone. in one3
of the most beautiful of per-
sonal monuments, has acknowledged
his service to his coupntry-a SER
vice which will terminate only with that
country's life: for he who gives a nation
IT'S popular air, endows posterity with an
inalienable gift. Yet Key was the close
personal friend of Jackson, Taney.-who
was the brother-in-law,-John Randolph
of Roanoke. and William Wilberforce.
He it was, in all probability, who first
thought out the scheme of the African
Colonization society; the first, on his
estate in Frederick county, to open, in
1906 a Sunday school for slaves: who set
free his own slaves; and who was,
throughout his whole career, the highest
contemporary type of a modest Christian
gentleman"
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800 yards in our arms, and the mos
quitos would pile on to us until you
could not tell whether the man was
white or black. They had no hesitancy
about presenting their bills either.
AT the sink of the Carson we built
a fort. There were no rocks nor logs
within miles. We took mud from the
shores of the lake and made adobes
(sun-dried brickS) To get the mud
into the proper consistency, we tramp
ed for hours with our bare feet. The
mud was strongly impregnated with
alkali. You can imagine the condition
of our feet at the end of a week of this
mortar mining. They swelled to twice
their normal size. Before that I had
always worn 2 number six boot, but
since, number mines are a snug fit"
THE FIRST DASH.
On April 3, 1860 at high noon, the
St. Joe, Mo, and went swiftly across
the rolling prairie toward the setting
sun. No record has been left of the
name of the rider who made the initial
dash, carried news that had come tick
ticking over the wires from the east,
and was then borne as swiftly as flying
hoofs could carry it across two thou
sand miles Of plain, mountain and des-
ert, desert, mountain and plain, on-on
on, day and night, with only halts of
two minutes each for the rider to
throw himself and his precious pouch
from the tired pony at the end of his
dash to a fresh one.
Each rider had six to ten relays of
ponies, making his ride sixty to 100
miles, according as the country trav-
ersed was rough or smooth. Day and
night the mad race went on, until at
the end of ten days a foam-fecked
pony dashed up to the telegraph office
in far off Sacramento, where the news
was again put onto the wires and
flashed down to the ocean at San Fran
cisco. Truly it was great enterprise,
grand in conception and heroically
carried out.
THE VALUE OF THE EXPRESS.
To the people who had only a decade
before begun life on the far off Pacific
coast, the pony express meant more
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Copyright, 1894 by S. S. Mcclure. Linn
tied. BY John Henry MARTINI

copyright, 1894 by S. S. Mcclure, Linn
tied. BY John Henry Martin)
Written for the Salt Lake Herald
In the winter of 1890, Senator
Gwinn, Of California, several money
magnates Of New York, and Alexander
Majors, one Of firm who We're at that
time the transportation kings on the
plains west of the Missouri river, met
In Washington, d. c.
The result OF that meeting was the
inception of one of the most daring
and romantic business ventures this
country has ever known, the Pony Ex-
press, by which the time of transmit
ting news across the continent was
reduced from twenty-one days to ten
days.
1t is $500 miles by our most direct
railway route from New York to San
Francisco, and it takes seven days,
three hours and forty-five minutes, ac-
tual time, to cover the distance on our
fastest express trains. In 1850 there
was not mile Of railway west of the
Missouri river. st. Joseph, Mo-. was
the western terminus of railway COM
munication, and between that city and
the young city of the Golden Gate in
tervened 1000 miles of wild uninhab-
tied country invested by warlike In
dams Through this uninviting region
led the trails over which it was pro-
posed to ride the flying ponies.
Majors, Russell and Waddell estab-
lished and maintained for a number of
years, a fourteen days schedule by rail
and pony express between New York
and San Francisco, making the trip on
the running ponies from st. Joseph to
Sacramento, which requires five days
by rail today, as exactly upon the
schedule time as do our mails today.
BY using the telegraph TO st. Joe and
the pony express beyond, news was
carried from ocean to ocean in ten
days. In 1860 President James Buchan-
ans last message was carried into San
Francisco in eight days and five hours
But even this time was bettered with
President Lincolns inaugural address,
which reached the Golden Gate in
seven days and fourteen hours.
THE ORGANIZATION.
Five hundred f1eet-footed horses of
the tough and tireless "broncho" In
dian and "cayuse" breeds We're Sc
cured. Two hundred men were en-
gagged for the service, and eighty of
them were selected as riders These
latter We're chosen because of their ex-
pertness in the saddle, and having the
hardihOod to Withstand the fatigue of
q galop that at times extended into
hundreds of miles straight away. They
had to possess too the bravery to face
the dangers that beset their lonely
routes and the Judgment that would
enable them to get all the speed out of
their horses there was in them, and
yet not oveTtaX them. Finally they
must be of a weight of 100 pounds or
less. They were paid S125 per month
for their hard and dangerous service.
MAKING A WAY.
Majors Russell and WadeIl were at
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than it did to the people of the east.
To them it meant the shortening of the
time of transit Of tagging news from
their old homes, over eleven days. 1t
meant demonstration of the practi-
cability of year-round route across the
continent, many miles shorter than any
then in existence. 1t was the forerun-
ner of the telegraph and the railroad
they so longed for, and both Of these
followed on the route of the pony eX-
press within less than a decade.
The rider who dashed out of Sacra-
mento, April 81, 1860, toward the east,
to meet the rider who had left st. Joe
the same day, was followed with more
interest, and his mission was more i'm
portant to the people on the coast than
that of the lonely rider flying westward
to the people he was leaving behind.
The train of the rider coming eastward
lay, nearly from the start, through the
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this time already operating stage
lire from st. Joseph to Salt Lake city,
and this enabled them to use the same
relay stations for the pony express
that served for the stage line. But be-
yond Salt Lake lay over 500 miles of
the most desolate and difficult section
of desert and mountains on this CONT
nent Here relay stations had to be
built and trails made, and this was en-
tirely in the country of hostile Indians.
AS showing the difficulties attending
the establishment of this line, / will
quote from an experience told by j.
G.. Kelly, now mining engineer To-
Gated at Denver Col:
Il was a pony express rider in
1862" says Mr.. Kelly, and 1 can as
sure you that business was not a pic
mic We had to build roads along the
Carson river; we used willow brush
laid crossways or corduroy fashion.
We had to carry these willows 200 and