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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
STRIKERS ARE
BEING EVICTED
Great Excitement in West Vir-
ginia Coal District.
coNSTABLES FIRED UPON
BATTLE ENSUED BETWEEN THE
OFFICERS AND THE MOB.

TT INTON, W. Va, Aug. 27.-Great
II excitement exists in the vicinity
of Red Ash and Beury today,
caused by the constable removing the
striking families from the company
houses. About forty families who were
notified to leave the houses Of the
Red Ash Coal company refused to va
cate, and when the eopstables began
to remove their household goods, vol
ley of shots was fired at the officers
from the opposite side of the river
They returned the fire with rifles II
is estimated that 500 shots were fired.
The shooting was all at long range,
and no one of the Red Ash side was
hurt.
About forty deputies who have been
stationed at Thurmond and other
points in the striking district were
rushed 20 the scene of the shooting,
and a late report now states that the
men who opened the fire are now sur
rounded The officers are removing the
household goods, and the houses viii
be occupied by other miners who are
willing to work.
The coal output is steadily increas-
ing. Yesterday 10 cars OF coal and
twenty-three cars of coke were loaded
in the New River field.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
JUNIOR ORDER is SHUT OUT.
Failed to Pass Muster in FraternaI
Congress.

Denver, Colo. Aug. 27.-The forenoon
session of the National Fraternal con-
gress was taken UP in hearing reports
of officers and committees. The presi-
dent, DIR. H A Warner, announced
that assurances have been received
from individual fraternities which
practically guarantee S100.O00 for a
fraternal building at the worlds fair
in St Louis and that from present
prospects there is no doubt the full
amount of 500, 900, estimated TO be
necessary to erect, equip and maintain
the building, viii be raised
Colonel John J. Martin Of St Louis
extended to the congress the courte-
sizes of the worlds fair temple OF fra,
ternity for the annual meeting Of the
congress in 1894. Resolutions cordially
commencing the plan for temple OF
fraternity were adopted
The application of the Junior Order
United American Mechanics for ad-
mission to the congress was refused on
the ground that the order had failed
to present required Information re-
garding it's insurance methods
The legal section reelected its Off
GERS as follows: President, ]. G. John
son of Peabody. kan; vice president,
NJ W. Stevens of Flint. Mich; secre-
tary, c. s. Hardy of Chicago; chair
man of the executive committee. Z G.
stevenson Of Detroit. Mich.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
IDAHO SUPREME COURT.
Decision in the Case of Sweet VS..
Ballentine.
Especial to The Herald.)


Boise. Ida. Aug. ia decision was
handed down today by the supreme
court in the. case OF Z. Sweet VS.. Sam
uel Ballentine, which emanated from
Boise county.
This case. which has been known as
the sheep" case, was tried in the
Boise county district court some time
ago. the details being pretty thorough
ly told at the time. Ballentine, against
whom a verdict was rendered and dam
ages assessed. asked through his at
torneys for a rehearing some time ago.
He claimed that he law was setting
aside certain portions OF the public
domain for the benefit of settlers and
ranchers having other classes of live
stock than sheep at the sheepmen's ex-
pense. Also that another band of
sheep had caused the damage alleged
IN the case. The court turned down
the latter claim because of insufficient
evidence. and as to the former took
the ground that legal damages are in
the nature of a penalty and are not to
be considered as an injury TO the vested
property rights of any settler. The
petition for a rehearing was denied.
Justice Sullivan rendered the opinion.
Chief Justice Quarles concurring and
Justice Stockslayer dissenting.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
MORE MURDERS IN BEAUMONT
Texas Town Again Startled by &
Series of Crimes.

Beaumont, Tex, Aug. Git seems
that Beaumont is to pass through an
other series of murder mysteries SINH
lar to that which originated so much
excitement several months ago, when
five or six edies were taken from the
river in a short space of time. Sun
day the body of a white man was
found floating in the Nechez river
about half mile below the draw
bridge of the Kansas City Southern
railroad. and at noon yesterday an
other body was found in that vicinity.
The foater found yesterday was buried
without identified ton, but from ap-
pearances il was the body of a Mex
lean Iaborer between 80 and 40 years
of age. The body had evidently been
in the water about two days. and when
found was among some bushes and
logs in such a way as to make it nee
essary to tow it up the river a short
distance before il was removed. There
was a slight wound over the left eye.
This wound might have been caused by
a small calibre bullet.
The body of the man found Sunday
was exhumed this morning by two
men who identified ii as that of Jim
Broderick, an English bricklayer. 1t
is presumed Broderick attempted to
walk across and fell from the bridge
while intoxicated Mystery surrounds
the death of the Mexican whose body
was found yesterday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
Ben Who Recently Escaped From the Montana Penten
tlary Sends Letter, in Which He Threatens
TO Kill the Officer

DUTTE, Mont. Aug. 27.-With off,
n GERS of the state penitentiary
upon his trail, assisted by blood
hounds, Convict Tom O'Brien, who
last Friday made a daring escape
from the state prison. has sent COM
munication to the Miner pleading for
a public statement of his alleged crime
and vowing the death of Under Sheriff
Dave Morgan, whose alleged perjured
testimony the convict declares sent
him to prison and wrecked his home.
The document received by the Miner
bears the postmark of Anaconda. The
writer dates his communication from
a mountain in the surrounding hills of
Anaconda, and says that he wrote his
story behind a rock, dividing his time
between. his Winchester and his pen.
The communication is literary freak,
and no question exists as to its anthem
ITCHY, as the handwriting has been
fully identified by the warden of the
penitentiary and others acquainted
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28

with the criminal. O'Brien declares
his sole object in escaping from the
prison is to kill Deputy Sheriff Nor
gan. and after that is accomplished he
will surrender to the officers and take
the consequences.
In describing his escape from the
penitentiary, O'Brien, who is a grad
lated veterinary surgeon and a trusty
and worked in the stables of the pris-
on, says he gave the bloodhounds
opium so that they would be unable to
trace him. He also fed the warden
horse a week previous that the animal
would be in condition for his escape.
O'Brien dashed by the guards,
mounted on a favorite race horse be-
longing to the warden.
Posses are now securing the coun-
try for the fugitive, but with the ex-
eeption Of the letter received by the
Miner and another by the warden tell
ing that official where his horse can be
found. nothing has been heard of the
escaped convict O'Brien was sent up
for robbery in 1901.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28

Freight Steamer Punges Into Big Liner With LOO Souls on
Board-vesseis Damaged But No
Lives We're Lost.

Of the Liguria and carried away the
companion ladder. The bow of the Pc
comic on the port side was stove in
and the stem turned to starboard
On board the liner all was confusion
for few minutes. but Captain Mon
tano restored order promptly and
forced the steerage passengers over 10
the starboard side in order to bring the
hole cut by the PecOnic above the
water. This effort was so successful
that little water entered the liner.
The Peconic was so damaged that
she returned for repairs. The Liguria,
after the inspection of passengers at
quarantine, proceeded to her dock
On board the Italian liner were TWEEN
ty-one saloon, twenty-nine second cab
in and 9S5 steerage passengers. Among
the saloon passengers was Father Rod
riguez, vicar general Of the Augustin-
ians- He viii proceed 6iI4etly TO Wash
ington.
There were no casualties on board
the Liguria or on the Peconic. The
latter vessel was deeply laden
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
FORGED C0NSTABLE'S NAME,
Criminal Charge Arising Over the
Killing of Tracy.

Seattle, Wash, Aug. IA special to
the Times from Davenport. Wash,
says: Criminal charges arising from
the celebrated Tracy case have been
preferred against Floyd Johnson, the
telegraph operator at Creston. He has
been arrested upon A charge of forgery,
the complaining witness being Consta-
bic Charles Straub of Crest0n.
About the time that the Oregon ban
dit was killed near Creston, the New
York World teiegraphed to that place
to Sheriff Gardner. asking him to send
a dispatch describing the end of the
famous hunt and to draw a sight draft
upon them for $50. Johnson, it is al
legged, suppressed the message and sent
a dispatch to the World over the name
of Charles Straub, ~one of the Creston
posse of five. He then. it is charged.
forged Straub's name to a sight draft
for $50, payable by the New York
World. He was arrested upon the
charge of forgery and placed under a
81 900 bond.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28

MI w YORK, Aug. PIN broad day.
~ light and bright sunshine, col
lision which might have resulted
in dreadful calamity occurred in
New York harbor this afternoon be-
tween an incoming passenger liner AMI
an outbound freight steamer. The
Steamship Liguria of the italian Royal
Mail Steamship company, with over
LOO persons on board, was run down
in the narrows by the British steamer
Peconic of the Mediterranean & New
York Steamship company, bound out
for points in the Mediterranean A
succession of whistle blasts, Just how
blown could not be learned. was fol-
lowed by a tremendous crash and the
Ffesinic's bows smashed into the hull
Of the Llguria just forward or the
foremast. The Italians hun was cut
TO the waters edge and water poured
into the aperture. The Peconic, as she
drifted away, scraped the white hull
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
WILL ESCAPE PROSECUTION.
Scheme of a Chicago Real Estate
Broker to Raise the Wind.

Chicago, Aug. 27.-The mystery sur
rounding the supposed death of Phil
titus Jones. q '.miHionaire of Boston. -
whose death notice recently appeared
in Chicago newspapers, was cleared up
today by the confession of John A /
Lee. a local rea1 estate broker, that
he had invented Mr.. Jones' in order
to secure real estate commissions. A
ruse was planned by Lee whereby
Mr.. Jones" was to buy extensively of
Chicago property for hotel purposes.
An agreement was drawn up between
the supposed Jones and a real estate
owner and commissions were promised.
These promised commissions were Of
fered as security for a loan. Suspicion
was cast On Lee when the death no.
tice appeared In explanation. Lee.
who is an old man, said he felt sure
he could have sold the property to
some one If he had time. 1t is said no
prosecution viii result
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
FRIGHTFUL EPIDEMIC OF
CHOLERA IN THE ORIENT
Dread Disease Being Contracted by Europeans as
Well as Natives Hundreds Die Daily.
Collins Long Since Exhausted and Bodies Wrapped in Mating
Are Hurriedy Put Out of Sight.

rrCTORIA, B. c., Aug. 27.-The cpl
Y demic of cholera is reaching
alarming proportions on the other
side of the Pacific. the outbreak ex-
tending further and having more VIC
tins than ever before reported. 1t
extends from the island of Java to
Japan. and almost every city on
the coast and many from the in
tsrior are affected The disease,
no Is being contracted by Eu-
ropeans as we'll as natives. In Hong
kong. from the first of the outbreak to
Aug. 8, there had been 523 cases, six
Of the patients being Europeans, and
81 deaths, of whom four were Euro
peans.
In Tien Tsin the last report placed
rhe number of cases for the year at
lO49 and deaths 764 within the city
walls. and LOIS cases and 500 deaths
outside the city walls. In other places
in China the proportion of cases and
deaths Is just as great A dispatch
says hundreds have died in Java.
A writer from kuelin, Kwansi prov
ince. says:
Dying by Hundreds.
IT write from a city stricken with
a violent epidemic of cholera. People
are dying by hundreds daily. Outside
the city over 1000 have died. Whole
families are reported to have died. The
beggars are by this time extinct
Among such people few can have sur
vived. They are to be seen dying
everywhere and numbers more are put
out to die. The top of the wall is a
favorite place for such, as is also the
city square in front of the examina ton
halls. There any number can be seen
in all stages, dying and dead 1t is
most pitiable to see and be powerless
TO do anything 10 help. The supply
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
Vote Being Taken.

Cleveland, o., Aug. 27.-Assistant
Grand Master Lee of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen said today:
1T is true that a concerted move
ment has been inaugurated by train
men and conductors employed on the
railroads west of the Mississippi river
to secure uniform rules and compen-
sation. A vote of the men, which viii
probably result in the officers of the
two organizations being authorized to
present requests of the various roads
for these concessions, is now being
taken. 1t will, however, be at least
ninety days before the vote has been
completed There is absolutely no talk
of a strike, and the possibility of such
a movement is extremely remote"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
DETAINED ON THE GAELIC.
Chinese Crew of the Korea Not AL
lowed to Land

San Francisco. Cal. Aug. H. The $50
Chinese intended for the crew of the
Pacific Mail steamer Korea arrived
here on the steamer Gaelic. Collector
OF Customs StrattOn has again noti-
fed the steamship companies that the
Chinese must be detained on the Gaelic
and not even be allowed to go into
the detention shed. pending a final de-
cision in the case by the secretary of
the treasury and the commissioner
general of immigration
The Sailors union of the Pacific has
entered a strong protest against the
transfer of these Chinese to the Ko-
rea. The union contends that the Chi
nese cannot be transferred to the Ko-
rea without bringing them ashore to
be signed before the United States
shipping commissioner, and that the
act of bringing them ASHFORD would
constitute a violation of the Chinese
exclusion act,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
JAPS ALLOWED TO REMAIN.
No Trouble Over the Sovereignty of
Wake Island.

Washington, Aug. 27.-The statement
that the United States is about to dis
patch waTship to Wake island for the
purpose of ejecting the japanese is err
rOneous. Some time ago an American
ship which touched at Wake island re-
ported that g number of japanese were
living on the island. and this led to
more or less confused reports concern
ing an alleged claim supposed to have
been set up by Japan to sovereignty
over the island. Several conferences
between state department officials here
and Mr.. Takahiri. the Japanese minis
ter. followed, and were concluded by a
definite admission on the part of the
japanese minister that his government
made no claim to sovereignty over the
island. Later the navy department or
dered the commander of the training
ship Adams, which will leave about
Sept for her regular cruise of the Pa
cific, to touch at Wake island and re-
port upon conditions there There is
not even suggestion in these orders
looking to the ejectment of such Japan
csc as may be found on the island
American sovereignty over the island
is not questioned by Japan.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
DEMAND MORE WAGES
Railway Employees Will endeavor
to Obtain Greater Compensa-
ton For Their Labor.

Milwaukee. Aug. 27-The Sentinel
this morning says:
by Sept. Is the large railway sys-
TENS of the country will be confronted
with a demand by 100000 members Of
the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
for an increase in wages, which will
mean an additional outlay of 81 .000.-
600 a month for wages by railroads in
the country or the alternative of a
strike which will eclipse in its extent
all previous strikes, including the dem
onstration of the American Railway
union in 1894. The demands, which
have been formulated, but not yet pre-
sented. are for an increase of 20 per
cent in wages"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
In q State of Turmoil

Shenandoah. Pa. Aug. 27.-The gov
ernor's troop left here at 7:3O o'clock
tonight for the Panther creek valley
The second city troop Of Phl@ielphia
has been ordered by Governor Stone to
Colonel Clement, who is in command
here during the absence of General
Goblin.
Major Gearhart, who is in command
of a battalion at Manila park, reported
to Colonel Clement today that things
have been in such a state of turmoil
in the Panther creek region during the
last few days that he has been IN
able to cover the disturbed district with
the force at his command, and asked
for reinforcements.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
EARTHQUAKE ON ISLAND OF MINDANAO

IVAsHINGToN 27The pday received
W at
a of on
were greatly disturbed done This is the first
philippines previous seismic disturbance in Min
OF the
followed the a volcano
andun
eight days
Manila EFT has beens shaker by
Of which
American
ndnao earthquake shocks
Mndan
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
SOLDIERS HooTED.
Situation Serious in the Vicinity Of
Summit Hill.

Tamaqua, Pa, Aug. 27.-Several oples
of the trolley line which runs from this
place to Summit hill were chopped
down today, and the wires cut. This
probably was done to prevent the
troops from being taken from Manila
park where they are encamped, to
Lansford and Summit Hill. Major
Gearhardt outwitted the strikers, how
ever, by taking two companies of SOL
diers to Summit Hill an hour before
they were expected
In Lansford, Summit Hill and Coal
dale the attachments of soldiers were
hoOted by large crowds of strikers. At
COaldale the soldiers were compelled to
get OF the cars and force the mob back
from the tracks In Lansford a crowd
of women Joined in hoOting the guards
men. Major Gearhardt admitted that
the situation is serious.
The situation in the Panther Greek
valley tonight is serious At 8 O'Clock
the streets OF LanSford and Summs
Hill were thropged with strikers. Early
in the evening two companies Of the
Twelfth regiment were sent through
the valley on trolley car. Ali along
the line the soldiers were booted and
jeered, and il was not deemed pru-
dent to take them off the cars. While
Mary Markley was carrying supper to
her brother, who is employed at a col
liery near Lansford, she was set upon
and severely beaten by a crowd of wo-
men. Late tonight the crowds on the
streets have dwindled and order has
been partially restored. The civil au-
thorities express the belief that there
will be no serious disturbances during
the night. They are fearful, however,
that a serious clash will occur between
the troops and the strikers in the morn
ing. The fact that the Lehigh Coal
& Navigation company is hosting coal
at it's No. 4 coIliery has greatly in
censed the mine workers, especially
the foreigners. and they are determined
not to allow non-union men to go TO
work tomorrow
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
JAIL DELIVERY FRUSTRATED.

st. Louis. Mo-, Aug. IA Jail deliv-
cry at the guard house at jefferson
barracks, south of this city. by which
twelve long term prisoners would have
gained their liberty, was frustrated last
night by Lieutenant a Zurich. jr-.
Fourteenth cavalry. officer of the guard.
Six men were caught in the act of
saving through the roof of the guard
house. In ten or fifteen minutes more
they would have been on the roof,
ready TO lower themselves with ropes
at the first opportunity
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28

of coffins has long since been ex-
hausted. Now all the tub and bucket
makers and the carpenters are MAX
ing any sort of collins to try to meet
the great demand. But still this is
not enough, for 1 hear that numbers
are being buried. merely wrapped up
in mating, often two and three to-
gether.'
Ravages in Japan.
A dispatch from Java says hun
dreds have died there. The Japanese
papers publish no statistics of the
cases in that country but here is
sample report which shows how prev
alent the disease is:
Reports from cholera stricken
towns grow more serious. Ninety new
cases and twenty three deaths were
reported from Okayama yesterday. To-
days dispatches state that there were
nineteen new cases and thirty-two
deaths there on Sunday. Six cases are
reported from Osaka today. The total
number of cases there up to the pres
ent is given as forty-eight. of which
thirty have been Asiatic cholera. Two
cases are reported from Kioto today.
The cases at Takomotsu exceeded
thirty on the 10th. A telegram says
the residents are panic-stricken."
In Okayanla tnc disease is very Ddd.
The total number of cases in the week
ended the 4th inst was 262. out of
which 1873 deaths occurred. There were
seventy new cases on the Sd and twen-
ty-eight deaths occurred on the same
date Dysentery threatens to spread
to Nagoya and the neighborhOOd. The
total number of cases on the 31st ult-
was seventeen in Nagoya and Isl in
the surrounding district. The num-
Der of cases since the first outbreak
this year up to the same date was $50.
of which fifty-six cases have proved
fatal
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
WARRANT WAS REVOKED

PORTLAND. Ore. Aug. 27.-CharIes L. FAY
= vel known insurance man of this city
hNo was being taken to Waupaca coun-
", Wisconsin. by Sheriff Hess on
.narge Of obtaining money by false pre-
lenses lenses; was released last night at Man
eau. n. n Governor Geer of OREGON
evoked the warrant bv virtue of which
dy was arrested. il having been alleged
~ ray attorney that the warrant was
Iocured by misrerrAsen finn
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
ONE DEAD, THE OTHER DYING.
Two Men Went IntEs the Whitecap-
ping Business fn Montana.

a farmer living south of Lewiston,
took fearful revenge upon George
Fredericks and Jacob STANCE, neigh
oors. who were endeavoring to handle
him in whitecap style. He shot and
instantly killed Fredericks and fatally
wounded STANCE. They had prepared
tar and feathers. but he managed to
reach his gun before they could act.
STANCE was shot in the back and Reit
has been held for his death.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-28
SUICIDE AT SAN FRANCISCO.
Manager Reynolds of Western Union
Takes Leap in the Dark.

San Francisco. Aug. 27.-ThOmas H.
Reynolds, for twenty-three years in the
employ of the Western Union Tele-
graph company. and for several years
past business manager of the company
IN this city. shot and killed himself this
morning in the offices of the company.
General Lamb. general superintendent
OF the Pacific coast division, stated
mat he was of the opinion that Rey-
holds' act was due to temporary insan-
Nv so far as the officers of the COM
laAy know. Reynolds accounts are in
-iSt-ciass condition. Reynolds leaves
widow and several children