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The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1904-07-22
TELEGRAPHIc NEWS.

PLYMOUTH, July 16.-The body of
Kent Loomis, a brother to the Amer
lean assistant secretary of state who
disappeared from an ocean liner while
carrying state department papers to
Abyssinia was washed ashore near
here today, Identification is as pos
tive as circumstances will permit
Loomis was manager of the Parkers'
burg, w. Va, News and was highly
connected socially.
WASHINGTON, July 16.-Being in
formed Of the finding of his brothers
body, Assistant Secretary of State
Loomis cabled the number of his
brothers. watch to Consul Evans and
asked particularly that the corpse be
inspected for signs of violence.
The mission of Loomis was very
important one, and his brother, who is
Secretary Hays assistant, would not
believe until today that any harm had
happened to the bearer of the import
ant dispatches, When the body was
found this morning by laborer- it
was in a state of considerable decom
position. Young Loomis was charged
by the authorities at Washington to
convey to Abyssinia the treaty OF
commerce concluded between the
United States and Emperor Menelik.
He started on the Kaiser Wilhelm
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The Packing House Strike Are
Good---Both Sides Willing
to Arbitrate.

yards, but barred the men. This Gre
3ted the trouble which occurred later
in the day.
OMAHA, July 1S.-The strike sit
uation remains unchanged. Union
leaders threaten to call out all crafts.
men.
SOUTH ST. PAUL, Mimi, July 10.
President Willis and Business Agent
Steep were deposed from office today
by the butchers union for ordering
the pickets off duty, a special com.
mittee putting the pickets back today.
The police had an encounter with
strikers this morning. Mayor Lytle
of South st. Paul ordered Gen. Flower,
president Of the stockyards company,
to leave town, charging him with be-
ing an agitator. Flower refused to 60
Lytle says he will not proceed against
the strikers While Flower is here. Bus
mess Agent Steep says the strikers
are beyond control.
CHICAGO, July 19.-The packers
increased their forces again today and
expect to do the largest days killing
since the strike. The union leaders
are less confident, but p'edict victory.
Several labor leaders met this fore
noon to draw up another paper for the
packers. Another conference with
the employers is desired, and in case
they agree to yield one point it will
pave the way to arbitration, namely,
that all strikers be re-employed i'm
mediately. Donnelly hopes this con-
cession will be made and a general
strike of mercantile trades averted,
Six national organizations, embracing
the engineers, firemen, steam filters,
coopers and others have already lau-
thorlzed a strike order The police
in the packing district were again in
creased today.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, July 19.-Sev-
eral hundred strikers stopped packing
house employees on their way to work
this morning, and persuaded several
by peaceful means not tctreport today.
KANSAS CITY, July 19-All pack.
ers are killing cattle and hogs today.
Desertions from the ranks of strike
breakers have been Offset by the en-.
gagement of new men. Quiet pre-.
walls.
OMAHA, July 19.-The packers are
increasing their forces slightly today.
rhe situation remains generally un.
changed.
KANSAS CITY, July 2O.-The pack
ers purchased stock heavily today and
said they were running 10 TO 20 per
cent of their full capacity. Union Of
fcials announced that eighty-fve men
had been initiated before a. m, max.
ing a total of sixteen hundred who had
Joined since the strike.
Two union men were fined $50 each
for throwing stones at employees Of the
Fowler plant.
WI uullulGu Cdl pCHlCio D NulhCu Ou'
Of Cudahy's today, saying. they had
been ordered on cattle beds,
CHICAGO, July 2O-Two trainloads
of strike breakers reached the pack
ers' plants today. They were jeered
by union men and union sympathizers
but no violence was attempted. There
is more activity in the plants than al
any time since the strike began.
The packers, acting on the request
of the allied trades, decided to meet
the strikers representatives. with
view of giving the allied trades an op
portunity to. effect a settlement,
ST. PAUL, July 2O.-Strike pickets
are not on duty today at Swift's plant
Peace prevailed. Swift claims to be
in operation to one-third Of the plants
capacity.
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CHICAGO, July 18.-The second
week of the packing strike opened
with evidence Of a determination on
both sides to fight to the bitter end.
PRESIDENT Donnelly arrived from ST.
Louis today and resumed charge. Ar
mour brought in about 200 hundred
strike breakers under police protec-
ton, and the packers claim that they
have employed about a thousand new
men so far. Six hundred police are
now guarding the packing district ow-
ing to the violence of yesterday.
Donneily said that no further con.
ferences would be asked and said that
all plants and stockyards were par.
aly2ed. The day was put in by Mr..
Donnelly in comforting with otherSun-
ion leaders regarding further sympa-
thetlc strikes.
CHICAGO, July 1S.--The strike sit
uation grows more serious hourly.
Among the packers here and other
cities fifty thousand men have been
Idle for the week, and 1t has COMPEL.
ed thirty-fve thousand more to quit.
The packers are steadily importing
men, but the test of strength in the
big strike Is very near at hand. II
will come this week, for with the new
men taken or in the last five days the
packers expect to add many thou
sand in the next few days and are
eQuipping their plants in western cen
ters with full crews. They say today
that within the present week the
plants of Kansas City, Omaha and
East st. Louis will be turning out
train loads of supplies. They are GER
tainly and steadily increasing their
products. Donnelly and the tsrikers,
however, are quite firm and seem sure
of ultimate victory.
KANSAS CITY, July 1S.--Buyers
fUp rhv p. ihins PLANTS bought no caC-
tie or sheep when the market opened
today, and took few hogs. News re-
ceived by strikers at their headquar-
ters is confirming the claim that the
packers were merely bluffing when
they purchased heavily last week.
Commission men say that Armour's
private pens are full of cattle and that
there are more than he is able to
slaughter.
Armour and Fowler have asked the
mayor Of Kansas City, Kan, for ad-
ditional uniformed police, fearing trou-
be from strikers gathered about their
plants The unions have established
temporary Offices within the shadow
of Armour's plant to accommodate ap'
nlicatons for membership by desert
ers from the packers forces, hundreds
having been initiated so far. The
packers bought but 400 cattle all day.
Nine thousand were here.
ST. LOUIS, July 1S.-The st. Clair
Inl) county court issued an injunc.
ton last night on the application of
managers of Armour's and Swift's
plants restraining the strikers from
interfering with the operation of their
plants or from preventing non-union-
lists from going to and coming from
their work
ST. PAUL, July 1S.-Foreman Lasa-
cot, while in charge of a non-union
gang, had an argument with strikers
pickets this morning, which ended
with mob of strikers beating him
badly.
Sheriff Griscomb of Dakota county
has notified Gov. Van SAINT that the
strike situation is beyond his con
troll. The governor called the attor-
ney general into conference regarding
the use of the militia.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, July 1S.-Strikers
today allowed the women employed in
the offices of Swift Il Co. to enter the
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Notice

There will be a meeting of the
San Juan County Fair association
at Green's hall Monday evening
at 1890 sharp. All officers and
members are specially requested
to attend.
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BOILER BLAST KILLS SIX
Injuries Four Others Who May All Die,
and Wrecks u Saw Will at Hicks
Lake, Mich.

Tustin. Mich. Jan 12.-The boiler
in the saw mill owned by IL. w. Marsh,
of ManiStee located at Hicks lake.
in OSceOla county. exploded. wrecked
the mill and killed six men. injuring
four others. perhaps fatally. The dead
are: Bert Lester. Len Chase. Mark
Bradley, +. l.. Morris. Len Dalton and
+. Powers. All were married men and
lived at DightOn.
The injured are: William Ward.
DightOn: Horton Father. NIillbrook,
fracture of skull. right arm broken
Albert Douglass. Dighton. scalp wound
and one arm broken: Philip Laske. sew
cral ribs broken.
The explosion occurred just as the
men were preparing to start up for
the afternoon. and the force of the eX-
plOding boiler tore the mill i'm pieces.
hurting the men in all directions. Por.
tions of the mill were thrown hundreds
OF feet 1t is believed the explosion
was due To low water in the boiler
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ENGINEER IS BLAMED
For the Wreck on the Rock Island That
Has Cost Seventeen Human
IiNas

Topeka. Kan, Jan. Z. - Seventeen
persons were killed and thirty seven
injured in the Rock Island passenger
wreck at Willard. Most of the injured
are in hospitals in Topeka. The doe
tors announce that they will recover
with few exceptions. The dead are:
Mrs. j. IL. Hill. Greensburg. Kan;
Mrs. w. S. Martin, st. Joseph, Mo-;
Mrs. Mary Harvaillc. Chillicothe, Mo. :;
Ben Harvaile. son Of Mrs. Harvaille.
aged 13; Tot IIarvaille. daughter Of
Mrs. Ilarvaille. aged ,; Mrs Susan
Reed, sister Of Mrs Ilarvaille; James
Griffin, Claremont, Mo. T.. +. Myer,
Buffalo ~ Y; Raymond \. Martin.
Chillicothe, Mo-; w. :. Martin st. 10
seph, Mo-; T.. Il. Rankins. DeKalb,
Mo-; William j. Wells, Jacksonville.
ILL.,; Mrs. Mary Kaiser. Russian adj
dress unknown; Gale Fuller. aged Z,
Brockton, Ia; Grace Reed. and Denora
Reed. Chillicothe. Mo-; unidentified
boy. aged years
CareleSsneSS Of trainmen caused the
wreck. Instructed TO meet a special
liNlSiiA AldlI at w lldlh the fllSllttl
and conductor of the Inflated passen-
ger, noting that freight train stood
on the side track at Willard, rushed
through. thinking that the cars they
had seen were the ones which they
had been instructed to pass. Failure
TO scrutiniZe the number of the en-
CINE was directly responsible for the
collision.
Upon seeing at Willard freight
train on the siding Engineer Benja-
min threw open the throttle, and un-
der the impetus of full steam the pas
senger train leaped into the darkness
and crashed along at n rate which
the passengers declare 10 have been
fully siXty-tive miles an hour. Gen
eral superintendent Gruber. of the
Rock Island. makes statement TO
the Associated Press which lays the
entire blame on the engineer Of the
passenger train
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Probate Order.

state of Mchigan-County of Van Buren.-ss
At sessions Of the probate court for said count!
held at the probate office, In the village of Paw
Paw, on the sth day OF January, in the year one
thousand nine hundred and four.
Present Hon. James II. Johnson, Judge Of
Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Niles Rees,
deceased,
On reading and fling the petition, duly verified, Of
T.. II. Rees brother of said deceased, praying for
reasons therein stated that administration of said
estate may be granted to Norton Bates, or some
other suitable person.
Thereupon It is ordered, that Monday, the Sth
day of February, A. ID. 1904 next, at ten
O'Clock in the forenoon, be assigned for
the hearing of said petition, and that the
heirs at law of said deceased, and all
other persons interested in said estate Tequir
ed to appear at session of said court then TO hold
en- at the probate Office in the village of Paw Paw,
and show cause, If any there be- why the prayer of
the petitioner should not be granted
And IL il further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate
of the tendency of said petition, and the hearing
thereof by causing copy of this order to be pub
lshed in the True Northerner, newspaper printed
and circulating In said county of Van Buren,, for
three successive weeks at least previous said day
of hearing.
JAMES II. JOHNSON
JudUe % Probate.
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Order for Hearing Final Account,

State Of Michigan, county of Van Buren,-ss.
Probate court for said county.
At session of the probate court for said county,
held at the probate office. in the village of Paw Paw
Monday, the 2sth day of December in the year OF
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three.
Present, Hon. ames Ii. Johnson, judge of pro-
bate.
In the matter of the estate of Willis n. Brooks,
deceased.
Lorenzo K. Brooks, administrator of said estate,
comes into court and represents that he is now
prepared TO render his final account such admin
istrator and files the same.
Thereupon it is ordered that Monday, the 25th day
OF anuary next at ten O'Clock in the forenoon, be
assigned for examining and allowing such account,
and that the heirs at law of said deceased and all Their
persons interested in said estate required TO APP
pear at session of said court then to be holden at
the probate Office in the village of Paw Paw in said
county, and show cause, If any there be, why the
said account should not be allowed.
And it - further ordered, that said administrator
give notice to the persons interested in said
estate, of the tendency of said account, and
the hearing thereof, by causing a copy of
this order TO be published in Tue True
Northerner, newspaper printed and cir
culating in said county, three successive weeks at
lea ST. previous to said day of hearing
JAMES II. JOHNSON,
Judge OF Probate.
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SIherin,s Sale.

BY virtue of a writ of feri facas, issued ont Of
and under the seal of the Circuit Court for the
County of Van Buren,, and State of Michigan, TO
directed and delivered, in favor of Maxwell ID.
Rogers, as administrator etc, against the goods
and chattels, lands and tenements of George NJ
Nelson, did on the Both day of November, A. d.
1908 levy upon and take all the right title and in
teTest of said George NJ. Nelson, in and TO the
following described real estate situated in the
County OF Van Buren, and State of Michigan, to-
wit: All those certain pieces and parcels of land
situated g. the township of South Haven, County
of Van Buren, and state of Michigan known and
described as follows, to-wit; The south ten (lO)
of the east half "a of the east half "a of the
northeast quarter ~ of section fifteen 49,, town
one q south, range seventeen (l7) west, and also
the north five - of the east half 20 of the
southeast quarter 20 Of said section fifteen (l5l
in said township and range, containing in all
fifteen 49, of land, all of which shall expose
for sale at public auction, TO the highest bidder, az
the law directs at the north front door of the Court
House. i'm the village of Paw Paw, (that being the
building I'm which the Circuit Court for said County
of Van Buren,, State OF Michigan, is heidi on Satur-
day, the 9TH day of February, 1904 at ten O'Clock
in the forenoon of said day.
CHARLES @. CHAPPELI., Under Sheriff.
LINCOLN H. TITUS,
Attorney for Plaintiff
Business address, Paw Paw, Mich.
Dated January 9Th, 1904.
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Mortgage sale.

Whereas, default has been made in the payment
of the money secured by mortgage dated the 27th
day of September, 1899, executed by Lucretia A.
Barron, of the village of Grand Junction, Van Blu
rem county Michigan, TO Ruth s. Dickinson, of the
City of Kalamazoo, Michigan, which mortgage was
recorded IN the office OF the register of deeds for
the county Of Van Buren, in Liber SO of Mortgages,
on page 6O8, on the 18th day of October, 1899, at
eight O'Clock a. M, and
Whereas, the amount claimed to be due said
mortgage at the date of this notice Is the sum Of
four hundred twenty five dollars and htty-four
cents sf25.54l and which is the whole amount
claimed to be unpaid on said mortgage and no suit
or proceeding having been instituted at law TO re-
cover the @ebt now remaining secured by said mort
gage, orany part thereof whereby the power Of sale
contained i'm said mortgage has become operative.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given, that by
virtue of the said power of sale and in pursuance of
the statute in such made and provided, the
said mortgage will be foreclosed by sale OF the
premises therein described at public auction to the
highest bidder at the front door of the court house.
in the vii age of Paw Paw in said county of Van
Buren, on the 29th day of January 1904 next at ten
O'Clock IN the forenoon of that day, TO satisfy the
amount due on said mortgage and the legal costs OF
foreclosure. Which said premises are described in
said mortgage follows namely:
All those certain pieces parcels OF land situated
in the township of Columbia in the county Of Van
Buren, and state of Michigan, known 224 acres
of land of from the east one-half y of the south
east quarter 4 , of section hve 3 in township
one south of range fifteen 10 west, lying west
of the Chicago Il West Michigan railroad, now
known the Pere Marquette Railway, and outside
anu hOINh VI INC NhaRt piat VI uhSiOu' oc
ing the same parcel of laud conveyed by Samuel
Rogers by deed recorded in Liber AZ Of deeds, on
page 3l9. Also lots two (2, three (3l five g. and
six 81, in block twenty-one l2), in the village of
Grand Junction, according to the recorded plat
thereof.
Notice il further given, that the said land will be
offered for sale IN parcels at the time and place
aforesaid.
Dated, October 81 1903.
RUTH :. DICKINSON,
OSBORN MILLS, Mortgage.
Att'ys for MoTtgagee
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Orner of Publication.

State of Mchigau: The Circuit Court for the
county of Van Buren, In Chancery.
Clifford Rhodus, Ida Rhodus and Mary +. Rho
dus, complainants, Frank ID. Humphrey, Alma
Humphrey, Mortimer b. Humphrey, Minnie Hum
phrey, May Benedict Pearl Ravens and George w.
Merriman, executor OF the last will and tesla
ment of Charlotte Humphrey, defendants.
Suit pending in the circuit court for the county of
Van Buren,, in chancery at the village of Paw Paw,
in said county, on the 18th day of January, A. ID.
1904.
In this cause it appearing from affidavit on file,
that the defendants, Frank u. Humphrey, Alma
Humphrey, Mortimer b Humphrey, Minnie Hum
phrey and May Benedict are non. residents of the
state of Michigan, that the said Frank ID. Humphrey
aud Alma Humphrey reside at Grand Rapids, in the
state of Wisconsin, the said Mortimer Il. Hum
phrey ana Minnie Humphrey reside at the city of
Chicago in the state of Illinois, and the said May
Benedict resides at Chandler in the state of South
Dakota,
On motion of Lincoln II. Titus, complainant
solicitor, II is ordered that the said defendants,
Frank ID. Humphrey, Alma Humphrey Mortimer
b. Humphrey, Minnie Humphrey and May Bene-
dict, cause their appearance TO be entered here
in, within four months from the date OF this
order aud in case of their appearance that they
cause their answer TO the cOmplainant's bill of
complaint to be filed, and copy thereof TO be
ed on said compliments solicitor within twenty
days after service on them OF copy OF said bill
and notice of this order aud that IN default there
of, said bill be taken confessed by the said
non resident defendants.
And il il further ordered that within twenty days
the said complainants notice of this order TO
be published in The True Northerner, newspaper
printed, published and circulating in said county,
and that such publication he continued therein at
least once in each week for SIX weeks in succession,
or that they cause copy of this order to be per-
sonally served said nonresident defendants at
least twenty days before the time above prescribed
for their appearance
LINcoLS II. TITUS, Circuit Judge.
Complauants' Solicitor,
Business address. Paw Paw, Mich.
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Order OF Publication.

state OF Michigan:-rhe circuit court for TN,
county OF Van Buren,, S. In Chancery Charles q
Chamberlain, complainant, VS. Lena Curtis Cham
be rlain. defendant
Suit pendiug Ia the circuit court for the county Of
Van Buren,, Ina chancery, AT the village OF Paw Paw,
in said county, on the lith day OF December, A.
ID. 1903.
In this cause II appearing from affidavit on file,
that the residence OF defendant, Lena Curtis Cham
berlain, is unknown to complainant, and II cannot
be ascereained I'm what state country she lives.
Gu motion of David Anderson, complainant +
solicitor, il il ordered that the said defendant,
Lena Curtis Chamberlain, cause her appearance t.
be entered herein within five months from the
date of this order; aud in case OF her appearance
that she cause her answer 10 the complanants
bill of complaint TO be led and copy thereof to be
served said complanants solicitor with
in twenty days after service on her of a copy
of said bill and notice Of this order; and that In
default thereof said bill be taken as confessed by
the said nonresident defendant.
And IL Is further ordered, That within twenty days
the said complainant cause a notice of this order to
be published in the True Northerner, a newspaper
printed, published and circulating In said county,
and that such publication be- continued therein at
least once In each week for six weeks in succession
or that ne causea copy of this order TO be person
ally served said nonresident defendant at least
twenty days before the time above prescribed for
her appearance.
JOHN II. CARR,
Circuit Judge.
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CHICAGO ruEArER ORDNANCE.
Will Make tile piayhouses as Near Fire
proof "a They Can Be Made.

Will Make tile Piayhouses as Near Fire
proof "a They Can Be Made.
Chicago. Jan. 1.-THE special com
mission Of aldermen and building ex-
perts appointed by Mayor Harrison TO
revise the ordinances regulating the
construction and operation of play
houses as result of the Iroquos thea
ter fire, has completed new theater
ordnace. The report will be- submitted
10 the city council this evening. The
theaterS that agree 10 conform to the
new regulations will be permitted to
open under certain restrictions.
The new ordinances will require
that every stage be made absolutely
fireprOOf back of the proscenium arch
by requiring tircproof walls, steel cur
tains, steel gridiron and rigging lofts,
steel frames for the stage and the in
stallatiOn of automatic sprinkling sys-
TENS. The seats will have TO be put
eight inches farther apart. thereby re-
ducing the seating capacity, and every
floor will have To have II separate exit
on the street. Theaters allowed 10 open
under certain restrictions will be re-
quired to comply with the letter Of the
ordinance by Oct. |. 1904.