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KILLING THE HEADHUNTERS

THE PHILIPPINE CONSTABULARY ENGAGE A BAND OF
FILIPINO HEADHUNTERS IN NUEVA VISCAYA AND
POT FIFTY-THREE OF THEM-TWO OF THE CON-
STABULARY ARE KILLED
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ON BONDS

CARTER CABLES THAT IT HAS BEEN FIXED
AT FOUR AND A HALF PER CENT-BIDS RECEIVABLE
NOVEMBER I8-WILL RETURN TO HONOLULU ON
THE SIBRIA
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INDIANS AND WHISKEY

Associated Gable
BROWNING, Montana, October 2-Fahead Indians nlamed
with whkey murdered white persons in their beds
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Continued on page 6ve.)
SURE OF ELECTION.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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Suppose we call it an audience.
Wore Theatre "Reminiscences.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Who
can forget the old Olympia. with Miss Mary
Cannon sharing the honors with Miss Mary
TAYLOR Mitchell and Holland as Mr.. and Mrs.
Guide in the Curtain Lectures" and the
operate burlesques such as the "Bohea
Mans Girl" and after the performance. tho
visit to the old oyster house on Broadway
and Howard street. and big oyster stew
for a York shilling?
As to the Old Bowery. Philomel is right;
T. Hambln was manager. and brought out
Mrs. Shaw, j. r. Scott. 4. l.. Davenport.
The latter sang and danced a sailors horn;
nine in "Black-Eyed Susan" Who would
have thought at that time that ne would
become the great tragedian he did In after
Does any of your old readers reoolect the
old cry In the Bowery pit. when oolOred
man or boy would get in? The cry was i'm
mediately raised: Niger in the pit; put him
out" The colorad person was seized ny
half dozen or more tossed over the heads
of those in the rear, and thrown out in the
Are there any of your old readers who
remember that in winding up balls or dane
Ing parties on the West Side we used to sing
I danced with girl with hole in her stocking. a
hole in her stocking hole In her stocking:
danced with girl with a hole In her stocking
shs was the handsomest girl in the room.
Those were the days when young mon
Thoroughly enjoyed life. and lived up to the
old song:
Go Il while you're young.
For when you're old you can't:
And bid dull care avauntl
W. II. HoopEK.
BROOKLYN. Sept. 80
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Government in England in the war in
South Africa; but he must know that
any intervention by the British Govern
ment in Turkey at the present moment,
except with the support Of other Gov
ernments ready to use force, would be
futile. and as likely as not to hasten a
crisis which every European Government
is anxious to avert
Mr.. BALFoUR's lately published letter
made it plain enough that he, at all
events, meant to be no party to the up
setting of the present equilibrium in
TurEay by force, now or in the future;
and how to bring the Sultan to reason
by any other method than force has yet
to be discovered 1t is doubtful whether
even Mr. BRYCE, We're he in Lord LANs-
DowNE's place tomorrow, would pro-
pose any other than diplomatic means
and pressure to right matters
As to discussing reforms, and schemes,
and plans for putting them in execution,
the Sultan is ready to meet Great Britain
and all Europe combined, and go on dis
cussing till the crack of doom. Mean
time the devastation of Macedonia and
Thrace and the murder of their people
continue.
As at the time of the Armenian mas
sacres, the good people in England are
meeting and passing resolutions that
will lead to nothing.
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Needs or the Coast Artillery.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-SI: Tho
annual report of the commander of the De-
partment OF the East, Major Gen. Adna r.
Chafree, calls attention to the duties imposed
upon the coast artillery in the department.
These duties. he says, are very enormous
now, so great. indeed as to require that atten-
ton be invited TO the necessity OF an increase
in its strength as a measure OF relief and to
meet fairly new development Of dsfences
made year by year. At present less than
10000 men are available in this department,
while over, $1,000 are required to constitute
one relief"
considering the ACCESSIBILITY OF increasing the
strength OF the coast artillery companies
from 100 enlisted men to 1870: but. while this
question fully. Many OF the companies are
now short Of oricers--due IN part to the fact
that the officers necessarily detailed away
from their companies are greater III number
than the number allowed on the unassigned
list-so thar companies have only one officer
here three are supposed TO be present
plete, or even satisfactory. unless the num-
Der OF officers is also increased
This increase is absolutely essential at the
present moment. in order to have the expen-
cared for. "and as more fortflcations are be;
ing completed s as, year the ce demand
tillery troops have been inadequate in NUM-
Der for q year or two and within that time
the new fOrtlficatlons completed nave prac-
tically doubled the armament In mo st of the
artillery districts. 40 that in very, short
time the coast artillery will be compelled to
devote all its time and attention merely. to
keeping the material in serviceable condition
and will have no time or men to spare for
proper training.
In regard to the new uniform. the depart
ment commander believes that 1t gives gem
eral satisfa ction: but he very properly objects
TO the straps. on the bottom of the dress trou-
sers as Serving no useful or ornamental pur..
pose" and considers two full dress hats and
shoulder ornaments for general officers USE
less.
The new militia law has already had its
effect on the State troops. The reports of the
Officers making the inspection Of the National
Guard indicate that In the important items
of discipline mobilization and target prao-
tice the National Guard shows commendable
progress, that the Government supervision
10 the extent defined by law will produce bene:.
ficiai results and that within the time fixed
five years from the date Of the approval OF
the act the organization and armament of
the National Guard will conform to the or
ganizaton and armament prescribed for the
Regular and Volunteer armies Of the United
States Under the stimulus of the law and
these inspections there has been hearty CO.
operation between the National Guard and
the Regular army in this department.
Fort PREBLF. Sept. Is. ARTILLERY.
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Conference. Interview. or Audience?

To THE EDITOR OF THE Sun Sir: Refer
ring to my communication of Sept. %, re-
garding the matter of conference" between
the President and representatives OF organ
lied labor in the matter OF the Miller case.
i would respectfully ask your Interpretation
of the meeting at the White House on the
evening of Sept. 20. Was ii conference
or hearing"
Ihave reviewed with care number of news
paper accounts OF the incident. l note that
all refer to it az conference" They re-
port that the conference" lasted from 0
p. NJ to ll:3O p. NJ. For concrete iliustra-
ton quote the report given in the Tribune
Of Sept 30 That paper states that the
conference at the White House broke up
about 1880 p. NJ" 1t further refers to an
interview" at which various subjects of
interest to labor were discussed" Three
times more the word conference" appears.
the word interview" once more. and dis
cussion" once.
In Mr.. Gompers's letter 10 the President
asking for an interview he refers TO the
controversy" presumably abiding to the
difference between the President and the
unions. He also cooly requests the Presi-
dent to adjust his arrangements to suit the
convenience of the engagements OF Mr.. John
Mitchell. In the statement given by Mr.
GDmperS to the me lnDeTS OF tne press lHlJ
gentleman twice uses the word conference. "
and also states that the Miller case was dis
cussed" in all of its bearings. ! am Mt no
little loss to understand whether the Presi-
dent has merely given hearing. or whether
he has held conference" with prolon ged
discussion" Of controversy between
himself and labor unionism.
also note that the President. in his OPEN
ing com munication to the delegates. confined
himself with great care to the issue Of the
open shop" in its relation to Government
establishments. OF course he was entirely
right in so doing 1t was the only issue
with which he was directly and officially
concerned His letter Of July IA, to Secre-
tary Cortelyou, took much broader ground
that of the underlying principle in its relation
to all establishments, public or private. To
have raised the point so broadly in hear
ing" or conference" would have been
futile. of course. and perhaps impoltic, The
real issue at stake is undoubtedly the right
of Mr.. Miller to hold his job. so far as MIR.
Roosevelt is concerned. that question now
appears to be closed. Miller stays. The
only question which remains is the nature
of the meeting at the White House between
Mr.. Roosevelt and Messrs. Gompers Mitchell
& Co.; and upon that question. ! ask TO be
enlightened. WELL WisHER'
WASHINGTON, Sept 30
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Unanimity for Good Candidates.

Unanimity for Good Candidates.
Let us suppose that the yearning of Mr..
CHARLES F. MURPHY for good municipal
government led him one step further,
that is, to the Endorsement of Mr.. Low
along with Mr.. CIRCUIT and Mr.. FoRNEs.
Is it said that this is impossible, Tam
many being Democratic organization
and Mr.. Low being Republican?
Well, it has been said at times that
Mr.. Low was no Republican.
We invite the superstition, not because
any such thing is likely to occur, but
because it may serve to throw light
on the question of moral propriety or
moral turpitude.
Why, on Sept. rs, 1901, the Citizens
Union nominated for Justice Of the Su-
preme Court the Hon. MORGAN j.
O'BRIEN. On Oct. 1, 1901, the Repub-
ican County Convention nominated the
same candidate. Did Tammany blight
and disqualify Judge O'BRIEN when it
put him on it's ticket nine days later?
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SIM Parks as BDSS,

From The Ne,r Haren Erening Register,
As for the results OF Parks and Park sish he
next few months will tell. Its first result has
been to put an end to building operations in
Manhattan. This means the idleness of nil
lions of dollars, an untold amount Of actual
misery and the danger of lawlessness bred by
biting want 1t means this and something
more. II is not possible for this to happen
without its effect being imposed upon trade
everywhere. TO have partial idleness thus
forced in the iron and steel business and in
those producing trades which compete for
furnishings is to cripple general confidence
and bring about stagnation. From just such
small beginnings big periods of depression
grow. But what is to be especially feared
by those upon whom such a misfortune would
fall with its heaviest weight, and who have
the power 10 avert 1t II they gather the cour-
age to throw over Parks and Pafksism. is the
possibility OF allied capital determining to
meet the question now and fight IL out to
hnish--not ga yly and in a spirit of entertain
ment, but reluctantly and in IA spirit Of neces
sity. That Is the present danger which
threatens the world of commerce to-day.
Wall Street is already passing through its
season of liquidation and great fortunes are
being reduced thereby. 1t would be most
unfortunate II organized labor should be
forced through a season of like liquidation
a. result OF Sam Parks and his brutal phil
osophy. Now Is the time for those who pos
sess the power to avert a storm to Use it. 1t
may be too late In another six months.
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The Walking Delegates and the
Schools.

The Board of Walking Delegates of
Brooklyn and Queens boroughs has
served notice ON the Board Of Education
that unless the contractors at work on
new school buildings and repairs in the
Long Island divisions OF New York city
discharge the non-union men who are
now employed by them, a strike will be
called which will tie up all Of the work
now in progress. Should the threat of q
strike be carried out, work will be stopped
on seventeen new buildings which are
needed urgently to relieve the crowded
conditions in the existing school build
ings, in which it is probable accommoda-
ton cannot be found for full-time in
struction of some Of the children OF
members of the unions represented in
the board of walking delegates.
Under these conditions, the reasons
that have impelled the walking dele
gates to call a strike are interesting. In
their utimatum TO the superintendent of
school buildings the walking delegates
said that they had thus far kept their
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or mental improvement OF men or
women or for religious, charitable and
educational purposes: yet, enormous as il
the aggregate cost Of their maintenance,
they flourish here more than in countries
where State and Church are united.
The practical question, after all, 80 far
as concerns religious education in the
public schools, is az to the possibility OF
getting rid of this prohibition Of the Con-
stitution of New York, in principle SINH
lar to that Of the States generally. and
the expediency Of raising an agitation
for its exoision:
Article TX, section 1. Neither the State nor
any subdivision thereof shall use Its property or
credit or any public money. or authorize or permit
either to be used. directly Indirectly, In aid or
maintenance, other than for examination and in
specton, of any school or institution of learning
wholly In part under the control or direction OF
any religious denomination. or In which any de-
nomlnatlonal tenet or doctrine Is taught"
As to the point made by DR.. GEER,
that the absence of religious education
is responsible for social and political
evils from which we suffer grievously
and that those evils would be prevented
by such education, there is room for
wide disagreement, as our own corre-
spondence has demonstrated so con-
spicuously. Practically, are the gradu-
ates of religious schools better morally
than the graduates Of the public schools!
Infidelity is widespread, undoubtedly,
but is it not among those who received
a religious education in as great a ratio
as among those whose education was in
the schools conducted under the pro-
hibition of the Constitution we have
quoted? This is question which can
only be answered by statistics which it
is difficult. if not impossible, to obtain.
There is a tone in DR.. GEERs letter
to which we object very decidedly, but
his presentation of the question is able,
eloquent and sincere and is the express
sion of truly and deeply religious
mind.
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hands OF the school work in Brooklyn,
but a. 1t had been intimated to them that
public opinion was so strong thatit would
not admit Of any interference with
schools. it was practically imperative
upon them to show that their unions
stood together"
1t is well always at the beginning OF
such controversy to have the cause OF
it set forth exactly.
II there is strike on the public school
buildings Of Brooklyn and Queens it
will not be to obtain more wages, shorter
hours, or greater privileges for the work.
ers. Its sole object will be to demon
strate the power and strength of the
board OF walking delegates.
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England and the Macedonian Ques-
~ tiOn.

II anything can bring the Sultan to
reason in his dealings with his Mace
DOMAIN subjects and his Bulgarian vassal,
it ought to be the notification which he
and the Bulgarian Government have re-
ceived that they will not be allowed to
settle the differences between them either
by war or negotiation.
A palmer hint that neither Turkey nor
Bulgaria is any longer regarded as an in
dependent factor, it would be impossible
to give. 1t confirms the suspicious that
have been entertained in so many quar-
tiers that the ultimate design OF the Euro
pean Powers is the settlement Of the Near
Eastern question by the partition Of the
Balkan country into spheres Of control,
Austria and Russia being the constituting
Powers under more or less-probably
less effective supervision by the others.
The surprising thing is that there
should be a party in England so oblivious
Of the fact that the British Government
by its concessions to Austria and Russia,
and indirectly to Germany, is paying in
kind for the abstention Of the European
Governments from Intervention in the
late Boer War, that it goes to the trouble
Of organizing demonstrations and hold
ing meetings Of protest against the Sui
tan's rule and the doings Of his soldiers
in Macedonia.
Mr.. JAMES BRYCE, who presided ut
the meeting in London on Tuesday, is no
doubt entitled to urge more effective
Intervention by Great Britain, for he
was among those who never ceased to
protest against the policy Of the present
N
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Can MIR. GrOut and Mr.. FOrnes BE
Elected?

The expressed Discrimination of certain
influential members of the Republican
city committee to put the names of
Comptroller EDWARD NJ CIRCUIT and
President CHARLES V. FoRNEs of the
Board of Aldermen on their ticket for
reelection this fall is entirely sincere. At
the same time it is difficult to see how
those two Democrats can be prevented
from running under the ballot-box en-
blem without violation of the law.
The Republican city convention was
held in accordance with the statute gov
erning primaries enacted in 1890. Mr.
CIRCUIT and Mr.. FoRNEs were nominated
by the city convention, whose officers
are charged with the duty of filing the
certificates of nomination with the Board
of Elections before midnight of Oct. O.
The law provides that each certificate
must be accompanied by sworn declara-
ton that the statements contained there
in are true. The Penal Code, in Section
49, provides that misconduct in rela-
ton to certificates of nomination shall
be punishable by Imprisonment Of not
less than one and not more than five
years.
The nominations were made by the
casting of one ballot for each nominee
by the secretary of the convention,
under authority Of the convention, and
not on roll calls. Whether nominations
thus made are legal under the primary
law, whose object was to give each
delegation opportunity to be heard, is
question the courts have not passed
on yet 1t may be that in this procedure
an excuse may be found to undo the
work of the convention, and to recon-
vene it.
Unless this is done, it seems that the
certificate of Mr.. CIRCUITS and Mr..
FoRNEs's nomination by the Republi-
can city convention must be filed by
the officers of The convention. If the
officers fail to do so they may be liable
to prosecution. Certainly the courts
could issue an appropriate writ COM
polling them to file the certificates, on
complaint Of Mr.. CIRCUIT and Mr.. FoRNEs
that the officers Of the convention were
negleoting their duty.
We're it not for this power of the courts,
the officers of the convention might file
only the certificate Of Mayor Lows NOM
ination. They might leave two places
blank on the ballot, and instruct all the
members Of the party to vote under the
Citizens Union emblem for the city ticket,
and under the ballOt-box emblem for
borough, county and other candidates.
Such solution, besides being clearly
illegal, is also impracticable.
The Citizens Union does not nominate
by convention, but by petition, and it
has until Oct. IA to file it's nominating
petitions 1t may place any names on
it's petitions that it wishes to, and, on get
ting the signatures of 1000 electors to
each petition, it's candidates will be en-
titled to place on the ballot. The action
of the Citizens Union convention in
nominating Mr.. Low, Mr., CIRCUIT and
Mr.. FcRNEs had no legal effect, and was,
in fact, only ali instruction to the officers
of the Union
Mr.. CIRCUIT and Mr.. FoRNEs are on the
Republican ticket, and to get them of
against their own wishes requires very
ingenious longitudinal dissection OF
hairs.
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The opening of the football season has
inspired scsptical comments to the effect
that the new rules designed to abolish
heavy mass plays, or at least to confine
them to the last twenty-five yards Of the
advance, have not altered the nature Of
the game. The season is young yet and
the leading teams have not met in fierce
conflict. The lists Of casualties at the end
of the series will tell the tale
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Theodore Roosevelt and the "Open
Shop"

shop"
President ROOSEVELT has called a
halt upon the pretensions of the labor
agitators, and his action will be OF in
calculable benefit to the country. And
not the least gamers by it will be labor
itself, both union and non-union.
The leaders of organized labor de-
manded that man should be dismissed
from the service of the United States
because he was a non-union man. Presl-
dent ROOSEVELT refused to comply, on
the ground that he was sworn to admin
lister the laws of the land, which were
enacted for the benefit of the whole
people and which cannot and must not
be construed as permitting discrimina-
ton against some of the people
This is as sound as the Constitution
of the United States. 1t will have the
hearty approval of the public and
none the less because it was widely
feared that Mr.. ROOSEVELT might act
differently. The Sun had little appre-
hension on the subject. 1t warned the
labor agitators that they were in danger
of waking up another Mr.. ROOSEVELT
than the one with whom they had estab-
lished such excellent, if profoundly dis
turbing relations, and that when they
did wake him up they would burn their
fingers. This is what THE sun said:
win dispense with the whole vote of organized
labor and all the jals full of walking delegates be
fore he will bulge an inch. When he sees his duty
clear before him he wIl stick to It, no matter what
costs him. and no personal sacrifce will deter
him or sway him for moment"
Mr.. ROOSEVELT ought to feel like
man who has cast off a grievous burden.
His dalliance with the professional labor
agitators had for it's open and undis-
guised object the vote Of labor in his
coming campaign for the Presidency.
He had every reason to believe that he
had achieved his purpose. He had
made no miscalculation, but the labor
Leaders had They thought that Mr..
ROOSEVELT was theirs and that his
great power, the power Of the United
States Government, was invocable at
their pleasure and for their own ends.
They were mistaken in their man. Now
they know better, and a great part Of
the people Of this country knows better,
too.
Labor, that is, the professional, walk
ing delegate form of it, now denounces
Mr.. ROOSEVELT and passes resolutions
condemning him. Let us reflect a mo-
ment. Suppose that Mr.. ROOSEVELT
had complied with labors demand and
had dismissed the man from the public
service because he was non-union man.
What would labor have thought of him
then? 1t would have applauded him.
True; but what would have been the
real nature OF its applause and how
long would it have lasted? 1t will not
do to forget that labor, the mas Of it, is
sound in the head, honest in the heart
and, first of all things, American. This
being true, how long would its laudation
have lasted and what sort of ring would
it have had-for the man who had done
its bidding?
We need say no more; but we hold that
the denunciations now destined for Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT will rebound to his per-
sonal advantage and that the American
public and all men who toll be they
union or non-union, will think none the
less of him than they did before
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II amending the New Jersey Constitu-
ton is in order, what about an amendment
which shall permit the enactment Of school
law that classifes districts according to the
needs of modern school system?
Two such general school laws have been
declared unconstitutional within four years,
IL we are not mistaken.