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THE NEGRos ISLAND FIGHT.
ictory Of Our Soldiers Creator Than
Was First Reported.

WASHINGTON, July 23.-The War
Department to-day received from Gen
eral 9th another dispatch giving ad-
ditionaI particulars of the fight between
Captain Byrne with seventy mep of the
Sixth Infantry and robber bands in the
Island of Negros. 1t shows that the
victory of the soldiers was greater than
that reported in General Otis dispatch
of July 21st, and that the loss suffered
by the robbers was considerably larger
than before stated
Much satisfaction is felt by General
Otis over the result of this preliminary
effort in dealing with this disturbing
element in the island. He reports it al
ready as having a salutary effect on
other bands infesting the locality.
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Serious Trouble Feared.

STORM LAKE (Ia.). July 23.-Start-
ling developments are highly probable
in the big railway fight between the
Minneapolis and st. Louis and Milwau-
kee here, where the Milwaukee Is now
in forcible possession Of the right Of
way Of the Minneapolis and ST. Louis
across which they have relaid their
tracks in the face of an injunction. All
to-day the Sheriff of Buena Vista Coun>
ty., with posse. remained in posses
sion of the tracks. not permitting in
reference from either force. The Mil.
waukee men have been reinforced and
both sides are watching each other An
attempt is to be made Monday to ar
rest the Milwaukee. workmen for con,
tempt of court. They say they win
resist, and serious trouble is feared.
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Nineteenth Infantry.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 23.--The
Nineteenth United States Infantry ar
rived to-day from the East The reg
iment came in detachments, and as
each marched off the ferry it was led
down to the Government dock and
was sent at once on board the trans
port Tartar, which will take the regl-
ment to Manila. The regiment came
through in good condition until it
reached Suisun, where a misplaced
switch caused the derailment Of two
coaches and delay of several hours
to part of the regiment. No one was
injured in the accident.
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out any clothes whatever. half an hour
or an hour, according to the season,
either reading or writing. This prac-
tice is not in the least painful, but, on
the contrary agreeable; and If return
ta bed afterward. before dress myself,
as sometimes happens, make a sup
plement to my nights rest of one or
two hours of the most pleasing sleep
that can be imagined. find no III con-
sequences whatever resulting from it,
and that at least it does not inJure my
health, If 1t does not. in fact. contribute
much to it's preservation. I shall
therefore, call it for the future, brac.
ing or tonic bath"
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Air Power Combine.

NEW YORK, July 23.-The World
tomorrow will say: 1t is stated on
good authority that there is to be as
complete consolidation of the various
compressed air power companies and
affiliated concerns, and that they are
all to be merged into one central cor
poration, with Harry Payne Whitney
son of William c. Whitney, as Presi-
dent of the new company. The capital
ization Of the central company, it is
said. will be in the neighborhood of
$500, 100000
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Brought Wealth From Klondike.

VANCOUVER. (B. c., July 23.-The
steamer Rosalie arrived to-day from
Skaguay with 200passengers and S110,-
600 in gold dust aboard. William
Braid, local merchant, brought $50
600, and Seattle men owned the re-
mainder of the gold. Braid, who is
conversant with the Government af-
fairs, said that nearly $1,000,000 had
been collected in royalties, and he
placed the total output of the country
at S20,000000. Ell Dorado, Dominion
and Bonanza Creeks We're supplying
nearly all of the gold.
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No Slave Of Custom.

You will not refuse my last re-
inal
NO" replied the jailer. "What is
it?"
Il want to be photographed in the act
of eating my last meal. so that when
it is written of me. On the morning Of
his execution day he ate hearty
breakfast of ham and eggs, coffee and
fried potatoes the proof will be at
hand to show that I am not the base
slave of custom!"
His request was granted, and the
hardened wretch, implacable to the
last, made his farewell breakfast of pie
and whisky.-Chicago Tribune
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Trinity Episcopal Church.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 23.-With
the conservation of commemorative
bronze tablet. the reading of an inter-
esting historical account of its founda-
ton and the singing of beautiful music,
Trinity Episcopal Church to-day ceie-
brated its fiftieth anniversary. 1t was
the first church of its denomination IN
California. c. V. 8. Gibbs, the sole
survivor of the forty odd founders
was present to-day and made an ad-
dress
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Shooting ARRAY in Marin County.

MILL VALLEY, July 23.-George
Hansen, a saloonkeeper Of this place,
was shot through the stomach this
afternoon by Henry Collins, a Sausa-
Tito plumber. Collins rode up to Han
sens saloon and had several friendly
drinks, finally provoking a quarrel
with Hansen, who elected him from
the place. In the encounter Collins
drew a revolver and shot Hansen
through the body. Collins was ar
rested and taken to San Rafael. Jeal-
ousy is said to be at the bottom of the
trouble between the two men.
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Crisis in the Transvaal.

LONDON. July 24.-The Times"
Pretoria correspondent says the Tit
landers have been given to understand
that no abatement of the demands
made by Sir Alfred Milner, Governor
of Cape Colony and British High Com
missioner for South Africa, will be
acceptable to the imperial authorities.
A crisis, therefore. is now held to be
In sight W
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CAVALRY FOR PHILIPPINES.
Three Thousand Horses to be Pur-
chased for Use Of Troops,

chased foT Use or troops,
CHICAGO, July 23.-War Department
orders were received at Fort Sheridan
to place L Troop. Third Cavalry, in
immediate readiness for active service
In the Philippines. The dispatch an
nounces the ADMINISTRATORS purpose to
use cavalry more freely in the fall CAM
paign. Major James B. Ayleshire. who
purchased the Government cavalry
horses for the SpanishAmerican war,
has instructions to buy 5000 animals.
He will look to the Chicago market
first, and then, it Is said, selection
will be made of Texas ponies, calculat-
ed to endure tropical climate. The
drove will be shipped to Seattle and
embarked on fleet of sixteen trans.
ports, which will sail for Manila via the
Aleutian Islands, Alaska and Nagasak!,
Japan. The idea of the round about trip
is to give the horses intervals Of res,
Commanders at Fort Sheridan state
that the chosen route solves the prob
lem of successful transit Of horses to
the Eastern hemisphere.
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H. Weinstock at San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 23.-Henry
Weinstock of Sacramento, who created
a sensation in Hebrew circles by de-
livering a sermon in the Jewish Syna-
gogue at the State capital recently on
Jesus the Jew" repeated it yester-
day afternoon before one of the most
brilliant gatherings ever assembled in
the auditorium of the Young Mems
Christian Association. The audience
embraced men of all professions and
religious belief and in the company
were many Of our leading business
men, club members and professional
men, with quite number Of Jewish
ladies and gentlemen.
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Good score. at the Trap.

SAN FRANCISCO, July %. The
closing inanimate target shoot OF the
Olympic Club was held to-day. The
shooting was spirited and good scores
were made throughout. The total scores
of the day out of fifty birds We're:
Championship class-A- J. Webb At,
Slade As. Glass All. c. Gofcher 81
H. H. White 80, F.. F., Feudner 40,
Glass BE. P. Matteson 40, L. D. Ow--.
ems SO, H. L. Miller 35. Class CIV
Hirschfield 8.
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Company G's Scores.

These scores were made by Company
G's men yesterday:
Company G 600 yards)-Lieutenant
De Finnis 33. Sergeant Milliken so, Ser
geant Petedidier 81. Sergeant Klees SO,
Sergeant Klein 35. Corporal Bates "a.
Corporal Schardan Al, Corporal Brown
SO, Privates Larrabee "a. Morley 35,
Wackford A..
Pool shooting-Captain Kay 80, C.
Marty 30. P. c. Brown 80. C. Mouser
&c, ]. C. Clark %.
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Accidental Death.

SANTA. BARBARA.&Ju1y %. - The
Coroner'si jury in the case Of Henry
Page, killed last night by a Southern
Pacific train. found a, verdict of acci-
dental death and .exonerated the rail-
road employees.
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A Steamer Disabled.

SEATTLE (Wash.), July 23.-The
steamer Humboldt from Skaguay
Alaska, reports the steamer Clutch dis
abled in Safety Cove, this side of Hat
terton Island The quadrant on her
reversing gear is broken, and she is
lying at anchor awaiting assistance
from Vancouver. She has sixty pas
sengers aboard, but is in no danger.
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Franco-Amerdcan Treaty.

PARIS, July 23.-The Temps" be-
lieves the United States will grant
France reduction of 20 per cent in
the existing duties and the favored
nation treatment and says: "If this is
SO, France will be able to compete on
equal terms in America against other
foreign states" With reference to the
fears expressed by the French agricul-
turist the '"Temps' says: Agriculture
will also have reason to rejoice, for to
mention only one figure, we remind
our readers that we sold to the United
States 100000 francs WORTH
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Sierra Railway.

JAMESTOWN, July 23.-General
Manager Bullock of the Sierra Rail-
way, in an interview to-day, stated
that the contract for grading the
branch line from jamestown to Angels
has been let the contract providing
for the-completion of the work in five
months The line, which follows the
mother lode for the entire distance,
will be nineteen miles long, crossing
Table Mountain in deep cut near the
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President Borda's Slayer Acquitted

NEW YORK, July 23.-A dispatch to
the Herald" from Montevideo says: A
jury for the second time acquitted Avo.
lima Arredondo. the murderer Of Presi-
dent Idarte Borda. Among the argu-
ments brought forward in the prison.
er's behalf was one that it was not
proved that the Presidents death was
caused directly by the shot, as no au-
topsy had been held on the body.
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Good Scores at the Target.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 23.-At the
target practice to-day at the Shell
Mound range some extraordinary scores
were made. j. E. German made an
average of 90 with the pistol at fifty
yards, in. seven strings of ten shots
each. The following are his scores:
90, 81. 95, 95. 81, SO, 81 Total, 651.
F. P. Schuster scored eighteen bulls
eyes in twenty shots. which is con-
sidered the highest score on this coast.
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The New secretary Of War.

WASHINGTON. July 23.-Hon. Elihu
Root, who is to succeed Secretary AL
ger at the head of the War Department.
has telegraphed the President that he
will be here tomorrow.
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Grain Fire Near stockton.

STOCKTON, July pa fire on the
Weber tract, two miles west Of Stock
ton, resulted in the destruction Of 16O
acres of wheat to-day By heroic ef-
forts another field was saved.
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Raw4aide mine, passing through Tuttle-
ton, thence to Robinson's Ferry. where
the Stanislaus will be crossed by
bridge, and continue up Carson Greek
to Angels. -
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Drexfua Court-MartiaI.

PARIS, July 23.-It is announced
that the Dreyfus court-martial at
Rennes will open on August 7th.
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ILLINOIS GOVERNOR.
Violates the Game Laws Of Colo
ra5o Int EscanAs Arreat.

CHICAGO, July 23-A special to the
Tribune from Denver says Governor
Tanner of Illinois is safely out of the
State, despite the efforts of the Game
Warden to detain him for violation of
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Colorado Smelter Strike.

s DENVER, July 23.-Of the seven
men who responded to- the advertise
ment for help at the Globe smelter
Saturday only five appeared for duty
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Out.

Caller-I have here several bills which
are long overdue and"
Harduppe (desperately)-I am sorry
to say that our cashier is out to-day
Caller-Oh. well. it doesn't make
much difference; I'll call and pay them
at some future date. Good day, SIR
Philadelphia Record.
The electric light Is about the only
thing that can be brilliant to order.
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Another Earthquake at Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, July %. Another
slight earthquake shock was expert
enced at $40 a. m. in this city ana
vicinity. The vibrations We're from
north to south.
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A Former Californian Drowned.

SEATTLE (Wash.), July 23.-H. E.
Hutcherson, former resident of San
Francisco. was drowned to-day near
Ballard while in swimming.
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COSTLY BLAZE
At TOLEDO, OHIO.
A Big Wheat Elevator Totally De-
stroyed Last Night,
EhtaIIlng a Loss Estimated at Nearly a
Million Of Dollars.

Nine Hundred thousand Bushels Of
Wheat Go Up in Smoke-The
Big Building q Mass Of Ruins
Half an Hour After the First
Blaze Was Noticed.
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BAXTER COMMITTEE.
Hears Evidence ON Gambling and
Alleged IRREGULARITIES.

CHICAGO, June 23.--The Baxter In
vestigating Committee adjourned to-day
subject to the call of the Chairman,
after hearing evidence on gambling in
Chicago and listening to testimony re-
garding charges of alleged Irregularities
in the City Attorneys office. The COM
mittee will probably not meet again un-
til fall.
Chief of Police Ripley testified that
there were no gambling houses in Chi
cago. In nearly every prominent club
in Chicago there is more or less gam
bling he said, .but those clubs oper-
ate under State charters, and 1 would
hesitate a long time before backing a
blue wagon up to their doors and arr
resting the club members"
What about the games in the back
rooms of cigar stores?" he was asked.
"Oh, / consider them merely private
social clubs" replied the Chief.
Taking UP the City Attorneys office
tie committee heard Miss Kate Piper.
She testified that Mrs. H. A. Russell, q
former boarding house partner of hers,
had recovered $1,000 from the city on
what Miss Piper claimed was fake"
damage suit and in which she had re-
fused to testify when requested to by
Mrs Russell. The records of the City
Attorneys Office, however it was as
serted, show that judgment had been
rendered for $500.
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LEAGUE ISLAND DRY DOCK.
Navy Department Advertises for
Bids FOR It's Erection.

WASHINGTON, June 23.-The Navy
Department to-day advertised for bids
for the erection of the drydock at the
League Island Navy Yard, which was
authorized by the Act of May 4, 1893.
The specifications for the dock are very
similar to those of the Mare Island
dock for which bids were opened two
weeks ago. The drydock is to be of
timber, the entire structure to be
founded on piles, unless during the
progress of the work it is found better
to substitute concrete for piling. The
general dimensions of the dock as to
be as follows: Length on coping from
head to outer gatesill, 100 feet; length
on floor, III; width on coping in body,
IA; width on floor, 80; width on coping
at abutment, 104; width at entrance on
mean high water level, 1O1; depth from
coping to mean high water, 66; depth
from coping to floor, 40; draft over sill
at mean high water, 80. The main
pumps, three in number, are to be Of
the centrifugal type, the generating
sets consisting of vertical compound
engines with dynamos, directly con-
nected to each engine. There are to
be eight steel boilers. The caisson is
to be a floating gate of boat form con-
structed of steel. There are to be cleo
trio power capstans. The bids must
cover everything to render the dock
complete and in efficient working or
der. The advertisements provide that
the dock must be completed within
thirty calendar months after the letting
of the contract.
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BELGICA EXPEDITION.
DR.. Cook Tells Of the Experiences
Of the Party.

Of the Party.
NEW YORK, June 23.-Among the
passengers who arrived to-day on the
steamer Buffen from Rio Janeiro was
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, of the Belgica
Antarctic expedition. DR.. Cook said:
THE Belgic expedition was organ
lied in part by the, Belgian Govern
ment and in part by private subscrip-
ton. accompanied the expedition as
surgeon and anthropologist. Briefly,
our itinerary was as follows:
Leaving Staten Island, land of the
Southern Seas January, 1898, we pro-
ceeded directly for Cape Hope, taking
soundings directly south from this
point to the South Sea Islands. Pass
ing through this group to Palmer
Land. we entered Palmer Land through
Huges Gulf which we found was not
gulf but a strait as long as Magel-
Ian and somewhat wider. We spent
about two weeks surveying Huges Gulf
and finally emerged into the Pacific and
proceeded along the west border or
coast of Graham's Land, until we en-
tered the main body of the Pacific,
west of Alexander Island. We passed
through the pack ice about nine miles
south until we were frozen in. The
vessel thus frozen in the pack ice,
remained fast for thirteen months,
during which we drifted two thousand
miles to and from and finally emerged
into clear water at 1O3 degrees west
longitude We returned then directly
to Punta Arenas"
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MISSOURI MINERS.
A Train Brings Them to the Stand
ard Mine in Idaho.

WALLACE, June 23-A special
train conveying Ill Missourians from
Joplin reached the Standard mine last
night. Besides them about twenty
came on regular trains, showing about
thirty deserters out of 100 who start
ed. Everything was orderly when they
reached the>mine and no demonstration
occurred.
Deputies went to the mine to-day to
issue permits. The defense to-day
moved to quash the indictments on the
ground that ]. H. Forney had no right
to be present while the witnesses were
being examined by the Grand Jury;
that Acting Sheriff France was an ex-
IRENE partisan. drawing Grand Jurors,
all of whom were prejudiced against
the defendants. The objection to For
ney was that he was not resident Of
the county and that he received re-
ward other than that allowed by the
statutes
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NOT OF SOUND MIND.
That Is What DR.. Niles Says Of
Young Chase.

DETROIT (Mich). June 23.-The
question of issuing acquisitions upon the
Governor of New York for Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Duhme of Cincinnati. upon the
charge of abducting their alleged men
tally incompetent nephew, Moses Fow-
Ter Chase from this city, was taken up
to-day before Governor Pingree and
Attorney General Orne.
DR. H R. Niles, who had charge Of the
young man when he was in the sani-
tarium at Flint was examined. DR..
Niles most important statement was
that when the youth left the sanitarium
with his father, at which time the al
legged kidnapping occurred, he was men
tally incapable of forming an intention.
This was brought out to combat the
statement of the Duhmes' attorney to
the effect that the young man had left
his father and gone to his aunt of his
own volition Dr.. Niles stated that
tire young man could not now be of
sound mind as Duhme's attorneys claim
he is.
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All Dealings With the Strikers Are at an
End.
Their Rejection Of the Terms Of
Settlement Unanimously APP
proved by the Committee Has
Changed Affairs-Mayor Farley
Will Permit No More Rioting,
if All the Available Troops in
the State Are Necessary to
Prevent It.

CLEVELAND, June 23.-The rejec-
ton by the street railway strikers
mass meeting last night of the terms
of settlement unanimously approved by
the committee has put new face on
the situation. The city authorities are
now openly preparing for trouble and
the Board of Control is considering
means of protecting the companys
property and preserving the peace.
President Everett says that the COM
pany will run it's cars and have no
more dealings with the strikers
Police Director Barrett said: 1--WE
are not going to wait for anything to
happen, but prepare ourselves to meet
any emergency. Whether or not it will
be found necessary to call for militia
other than what the city contains,
cannot say.
I'VE cannot depend upon the police
force We have. Every possible thing
will be done to prevent the recurrence
of such affairs as have taken place fire.
quently on the streets of Cleveland
since the strike began
At a stormy meeting of the peace
conference of the. City Council to-day
Messrs. Reynolds and Carpenter, coun-
sci for the strikers, were bitterly de-
nounced for not urging the men to ac-
cept terms agreed upon yesterday.
President Everett of the railway COM
pany announced at noon that he would
give the men until o'clock this after
noon to accept the conditions laid down
yesterday, namely the reinsta tement. of
80 per cent. of the strikers and the
placing Of the rest on the waiting
list. Mayor Farley has determined the
time has come when decisive action
must be taken. He will, it is announced,
permit no more rioting if all the avail
able troops in the State are necessary
to prevent it. The Mayor and Chief
Barrett have agreed on a plan OF
action and no time will be lost in rails
ing sufficient force to prevent further
outbreaks
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Of Proposing Reduction Of Amamsnts At
Present.
Was Of Opinion That If q Stand
still Could be Agreed ON the Re-
duction Would Soon Come Of
Itself-Count Golinski Moved
That the Powers Agree Not to
Increase the Effectiveness Of the
Peace Footing for Five Years.

THE HAGUE, June 23.-M. De Staal,
President of the Peace Conference, at
a meeting of the committee to-day in
troduced the Russian proposals looking
to the arrest of ornaments and read a
declaration disclaiming all intention Of
proposing reduction of the arma-
ment at present But, he added, he was
Of the opinion that if a.sstandstill could
be agreed upon reduction would soon
come of itself. All the powers. he ex-
planned, had conferred with the Car
relative to the immense evils of armed
peace and he, M. De Staal, now APP
pealed to them to devote their energies
toward the arrest of the continual in
crease in the cost Of armed peace,
which, he asserted, cost more than a
ten years war.
Count GolinSl5i, of the Russian dele
cation, moved that the powers should
enter into an understanding for term
of say five years, not to increase the
effectiveness of the peace footing OF
their forces with the exception of the
colonial troops and not to increase
the amount of their military budgets
beyond their present figure.
The speeches and the resolutions
were ordered to be printed and circu-
lated and the discussion was adjourned
until Monday.
A naval standstin resolution will be
introduced later.
In spite of the refusal of Achmed
Reza Bey, Of the Young Turks party,
to fight a duel with Rechin Bey, Sec
rotary of the Turkhan Pasha, head of
the Turkish delegation at the Peace
Conference, Ammoghian, an Armenian,
who was to have been one of the speak,
ers at the meeting of the Young
Turks party, has written a letter to
the "Vaterland," denying remarks at
tributed to him, but nevertheless ac-
cepting the challenge, which Reza Bey
declined on the ground that dueling
was unlawful in Holland The incident
has aroused extraordinary interest
among all classes
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TO CONTROL FRUIT TRADE.
Statement That Armour Is at the
Head Of the Movement.

NEW YORK, June BIT is reported
that p. d. Armour is at the head of a
movement to attempt to control the
fruit and vegetable trade. j. w. Coup
land, manager of the California Fruit
Transportation Company, is authority
for the statement Mr.. COPELAND has
just returned from a meeting Of the
fruit growers of the South, held at Will
mington. N. c., at which he said an Or
ganization was effected to fight Mr..
Armour's plan. 1t was said that Mr..
Armour, assisted by others, has secured
control of the fruit trade of the Pacific
Coast and he is now endeavoring to get
control of the fruit and vegetable trade
of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina,
North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia,
Delaware, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missis-
sippi and Texas Mr.. Coupland said
that the combination included the Por-
ter Brothers Fruit Company, the Con-
tinental Fruit Express and the Earl
Fruit Company.