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The San Francisco call., 1904-07-11
SENATORS
IN AN AUTO
ACCIDENT
Bailey and Tillman
Barely Escape
Death.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

ST. LOUIS, July Ex-senator Tillman
of North Carolina and Senator Bailey
Of Texas had narrow escape from
death at Jefferson avenue and Chest
nut street this afternoon. An automo-
bile in which they were riding coliided
with Jefferson avenue car. The auto
mobile was wrecked and the occupants
were unceremoniously spilled out on
the avenue. Tillman sustained a
sprained ankle and Bailey was bruised
about the body. Neither was seriously
hurt and a few minutes after the acci-
dent they boarded car for the Jeffer-
son Hotel.
The Senators had been at the World s
Fair grounds, and after luncheon were
returning to the city in an automobile
The automobile was sailing down the
smooth paved street when, it collided
with a car on cross street. The au-
tomobile was demolished and it's Sena-
torial occupants and the chauffeur were
violently hurled to the pavement.
Bailey picked himself up apparently
unhurt, but Tillman limped as he
walked away. 81.
Neither Tillman nor Bailey would be
taken to the city hospital. but boarded
a Pine street car and went direct to
their hotel.
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Appears as Counsel
for an Alleged
Trust.
Defends Corporation Being
Sued Under the Sher-
man Law.
Attorney General Moody Calls Upon
ChilderS of New Mexico for
an Explanation.
Special pIspsteb to The call.

CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON,
WASHINGTON, July 1O.-The case of
William 3. Childers, United States
District Attorney for New Mexico, who
was appointed by Cleveland and re-
tanned in office by Mckinley and
Roosevelt. and who has been charged
with acting as attorney for the Colo
rado Fuel and Iron Company, which
was sued in New Mexico for violating
the Sherman antitrust law, has at
tracted much attention in the Depart
ment of Justice.
Childers. whose sworn duty it is to
prosecute violators of the Sherman
antitrust law. not only failed TO per-
form his duty, it is alleged. but actually
went into court and boldly appeared
as champion of the trust and as counsel
for the defendant in a suit brought to
punish violations of the law.
Among Childers' political hackers are
the officers of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company. including Paul Morton.
its president: the Rockefeller influence:
officers Of the Atchison. Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad and other powerful
financiers. Childers' most ardent sup
pot NElS dIc the OLltGIS OF the COLORADO
Fuel and Iron Company.
In April last the Independent Coal
Company OF Gallup, N NJ, began
damage suit against the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company charging that cor
poratiOn. in connection with the Atchi-
son.. Topeka and Santa Fe Railway,
with conspiring TO suppress competi-
tion and violating the Sherman anti
trust law. United States District At
torney Childers appeared as accredited
counsel for the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company. Plaintiffs counsel immedi-
ately notified Attorney General Knox
and requested Childers' immediate dis
missai from office. Attorney General
Knox postponed action and the Inde-
pendent Company's counsel filed fresh
charges with Attorney General Moody,
nclosing a copy of Childers' pleadings,
written on stationery of the Depart
ment of Justice.
Attorney General Moody has de-
manded a fdll explanation, but
Childers has not yet replied.
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FEVER GERM
SURRENDERS
TO SCIENCE.
Texas Forever Free
OF the Yellow
Plague.
Special Dispatch to The can.

= CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON,
WASHINGTON. July 1O,-Because of
the unusual success attending the re-
cent efforts to prevent the annual out
break of yellow fever in Texas and
Mexico, DR.. Walter Wyman. surgeon
general of the marine hospital service,
confidently hopes the disease will be
forever stamped out Of North America.
Since the dangerous outbreak last
year along the border between Texas
and Mexico systematic work of pre-
ventive sort has been going on. and
up to to-day not a single case of yellow
fever can be found in the regions where
it was rife last August. DR.. Wyman
best sort of cooperation from the au-
thorities in Texas and Mexico, and was
gratitied by the outlook.
We're not making any unqualified
claims YETI DR.. Wyman said. THE
worst season for yellow fever is August
and September, but if there was to be
a dangerous epidemic it would very
likely begin to show itself by this
time"
The principal work of the health au-
thorities consists in destroying the dis
ease e-carryifig mosquito. DR.. Wyman
said 1t was first rather, hard to awaken
people to the vital Importance of the
work, but of late public sentiment has
been aroused to the desired point The
Governor of Texas issued a proclama-
ton on the subject, and in Mexico the
Government authorities are carefully
cooperating with the work being done
on this side of the border.
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TONG WAR AVERTED BY
PROMPTNESS OF POLICE
Gambling Affair in PortIand's China
town Almost Ends In High
binder Outbreak.

PORTLAND. Ore, July 1o.-Prompt
action by the police prevented a tong
war in Chinatown at an early hour
this morning. Cursing. muttering Chi
nese, armed with revolvers and knives,
were hustled back to their dens with
difficulty.
over Bow Wo's store. at the corner
of Second and Oak streets, a number
of convivial spirits were enjoying a
Celestial game. They created so much
noise that a complaint was sent to a
nearby police station and soon officers
appeared demanding silence The
sportive heather inferred that Bow
Wo. of a different tong, had made
the complaint. Epithets in Chinese
and mongrel English were hurled
from the windows. Then the Japa-
nese women guests. alarmed, departed
and their hosts followed, to return
with arms.
The streets swarmed with Celestials
in a few moments and the police were
compelled to shut up all the stores
to restore quiet and order.
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MARROW ESCAPE FROM
DEATH IN CLOUDBURST
Aged Woman Blown Into Stream
Floats Half Mile Before
She is Saved.

TACOMA July 1O.-Blown off her
feet and thrown into a stream caused
by a sudden clOudburst, Mrs. Jane
Waddel, who resides three miles south
Of Prescott foated nearly half a mile
before she managed to escape the
floods and she is none the worse be-
cause Of her experience.
Mrs Waddel is over so years old.
= heavy rainstorm caused her to 20
out 10 look after her poultry. While
trying 10 save her chickens she was
swept of her feet and thrown into
rae water. She climbed aboard q
uoaung section Of fence. After reach
Ing q place Of safety Mrs. WaddeI
walked back TO her home unassisted.
] ne high water carried away fences.
5esuoyed a large acreage of crops
ana drowned hundreds OF chickens
and turkeys.
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HORSETHIEVES MAKE
SUCCESSFUL ESCAPE
Prisoners Believed to Be the Notorious
BidweII Brothers Break Out OF
Nevada Jail,

RENO. New, July 10.-Ed Arm
strong and H. 7. Thomas made a sue
cessful escape from the White Pine
County Jail at Ely last night. A posse,
consisting of two Indian trailers and a
dozen deputy sheriffs, is now securing
the hills of Eastern Nevada searching
for the fugitives, who are known to
be mounted and are thought to be
armed.
The men were charged with high
way robbery and are also believed to
be horsethieves. This is their second
attempt. The first time they over
powered a deputy sheriff and were
gagging him when he got hold of a
revolver and compelled them to sur
render They are the men who were
suspected of being the BidwelI brothers,
the noted California bandits, and there
are those who believe the suspicion is
we'll founded.
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AMERICANS PAY TRI6UTE
TO SPANISH ADMIRAL
Present Cervera With Engrossed Mes
sage Expressing Gratitude for His
Treatment of Captured Sailors.

MEDINA. Spain. July 1O--As
demonstration Of gratitude regarding
his conduct at Santiago and his care
OF captured American sailors, Admiral
Cervera was presented here with an
engrossed message bearing the sigma
lures Of q number of eminent Ameri-
cans, besides letters from the subscrib-
ers, bound in a volume. The preSen-
tauon Vas made by Mr.. Bird of Wen
IA. IN behalf of his fellow-Americans
The admiral in returning thanks
Tor this manifestation of American
good wills said that his conduct to-
ward Lieutenant Hobson and the
American sailors after the sinking of
The Merrimac had been inspired by
superior orders.
Admiral Cervera had repeatedly re-
fused 10 permit his American admir-
ers 10 so honor him. but. notwith-
standing these refusals, the plan to
make the presentation was carried out.
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Rains Flood Liaoyang's Streets.

..LIAOYANG, July 10. - Nothwith-
standing the proximity of the Japanese
the Chinese inhabitants are calm and
are following their usual occupations.
The heavy rains of the last ten days
Hooded the streets and squares, and
the roads are like swamps. Traffic is
greatly impeded
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KILLED BY A TRAIN
IN PRESENCE OF FAMILY
Noise of Rushing Waters browns
Sound of Warming Whistle Until
II Is Too Late.

MEDFORD, Or, July 10.-The rush
OF water pouring over dam in the
Rogue River drowned the warning
whistle of a Southern Pacific freight
train this afternoon and Will Belts
was struck by the engine and fatally
injured, while his wife and child
looked on.
Belts, who was formerly employed
on the Gold Ray dam, was walking
with his family on the track near this
dam this afternoon. The engineer
whistled, but the sound of the warn
ing never reached Belts ears. He re-
'ceived a terrible injury to his right
side and died on the way to Grants
Pass. An inquest will be held.
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MYSTERY OF THE DEAD
CLEARED BY LIGHTNING
Bolt Strikes Hearsc. Woman Investi.
gates and Finds the Body of
Missing Husband.

UTE, Iowa, July 10.-A bolt of
lightning which struck the hearse in
which the body. of Fidesta NJ. Haskins
was being borne to the cemetery here
was the means of clearing up a
mystery.
nent merchant of Clinton. Iowa, went
to Cedar Rapids to visit relatives. say
ing he would return in two weeks. He
did not return. Years went by and
finally his wife gave him up for lost.
She read that lightning had struck a
hearse and investigation revealed that
the body was that of her husband.
Ute is only twenty miles from ~Clin-
ton. and yet for fifteen years the hus-
band had lived here.
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REACHES POET WITH
MURDERER IN IRONS
Quarrel Between Sailors on the Peru.
Wan Schooner Corona Ends {.
i'm Tragedy.
PORT TOWNSEND. Wash.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, July
10.-The Peruvian schooner Corona
arrived here this morning, seventy
two days from San Buenaventura,
with one man in irons in her lazaretto
and one missing. On June a quar-
rel arose between two of the hands.
The officers apparently quelled the dis
turbance, but two hours later it was
renewed and before it was stopped a
sailor named Simons had been stabbed
70 death by a man named Bufino. The
prisoner was brought ashore here this
afternoon and lodged in Jail
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AWAIT BALTIC SQUADRON.

SUEZ. July 1O.-The Russian volun-
teer fleet steamship Smolensk. which
passed through the Bosphorus, from
Sebastopol, on July s. has sailed south
ward from here. The vessel took two
Red Sea pilots, one for herself and the
other for the volunteer fleet steamship
st. Petersburg, which passed the Bos-
phorus on July ;, coal laden. and which
was reported at Port Said on Satur-
day.
It is runlored here that the trans
ports intend awaiting the arrival Of
the Russian Baltic squadron IN the
Red Sea
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WILL, SEEK KNOWLEDGE
OF WAR IN FOREIGN LANDS
Commander of Troops of Panama to
Spend Year in Europe Studying
Military Systems.

KINGSTON. Jamaica, July 10
General Huertas, commander-in-chief
of the troops of the Republic of Pan
anna, with his staff, arrived here to-
day on the steamer La Plata. General
Huertas is going to Europe to study
the military systems of Great Britain
and Germany and will remain abroad
for twelve months. The Panama Gov
ernment voted $4,000 for the pur-
pose.
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HOSPITAL PATIENT ENDS
HIS LIFE BY HANGING
Young Man Is Allowed Temporary
Leave and Immediately
Kills Himself.
REDDING, july 10

REDDiAG, July 1O.-George Mel
son, q young man of Weed. Siskivou
County. who entered a private hospita I
in this city on July for medical
treatment asked the matron to be ex-
cuseo THIS evening, went to the wood
shed and hanged himself with a
clothes line He was dead when
found a few minutes later. his neck
having been broken. He had become
respondent over his condition.
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GENERAL ToRAL is DEAD.
Spaniard WHO Commanded at Santiago
Dies il Asylum for Insane.

MADRID, July 10.-General Toral,
who commanded the Spanish garrison
at Santiago when that place surren-
dered to the United States forces. died
to-day at an asylum for the insane
near here. The general became in
sane brooding over his capitulation.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-11
POLICEMEN CANNOT CHEW
TOOTHPICKS WHILE ON DUTY
Sight of After-Dinner Luxuries in
Officers Mouths Jars Washington
Chiefs Sense of Propriety.
WASHINGTON, July

WASHINGTON. July 10.-In de-
creeing that Washington policemen
must give up the use of toothpicks
while on duty. Major Sylvester.
Chief of the Capitol police force, has
established a new record in rules gov
erning men. The frequent observa-
ton of the use of toothpicks by po-
Iicemen on duty has grated on Major
Sylvester's sense of propriety to no
little extent.
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RUSSIANS admit LOSS OF II THOUSAND
MEN KILLED IN RECENT ENGAGEMENT
LDI7H THE BEJEGERS OF PORT ARTHUR

ia Eur h
rh % %H 81 lingo ~ % % n IN tld pa
IN nj ed ab u 300 ar ave arrived
a "a rpntd m rwu ec
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Utah Republicans TO Mec,

SALT LAKE. July 10.-The State
convention Of the Republican party to
nominate candidates for all State Of
Ices Wlu be held in this city August
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LONDON. July IL. = Special dis
patches to the Daily Telegraph and the
Daily Mail from Toxic assert that the
Japanese captured eight guns during
the fighting around Port Arthur on
July and that they reconnoitered from
a war balloon.
TOXIC, July 10.-On Friday night,
July s, during a storm. fiotilla of tor
pedo-boats of Admiral Togos fleet ap-
preached Port Arthur. On the following
morning one of the torpedo-b boats found
and attacked the Russian cruiser
Askold, but the result of the attack is
unknown. The Askold fired upon the
torpedo~boat, two petty officers being
severely wounded.
CHEFU, July 10.-A fair wind brought
a feet of junks from Port Arthur to-
day. carrying both Chinese and Euro
peans. Reports which they bring of
conditions at Port Arthur are contra
dictory, but they all say that a Japa-
nese division from the nOrthward is in
trenching seven miles from the marine
camp, while another division from the
eastward as fighting continuously. and
with the aid of the feet is endeavoring
to gain position commanding the town
and the naval basin.
A Russian says that the japanese oc-
CuDlcQ IIlc SuIilIlill VI Ldh0cldn 21Oun-
tain, which Is about three miles from
Port Arthur. on the night Of July s
with a mounted battery of artillery
on July the Russian cruiser Novik
and four gunboats went out under pro-
lection of the guns on Golden Hill and
shelled Japanese battery, which was
surrounded and captured finally by
Russian infantry.
HEAVY FIGHTING EASTWARD.
The fighting to the eastward of Port
Arthur has been very heavy since July
l. The Japanese ships along the shore
are shelling the Russian positions on the
hills from daylight until dark, while
the artillery is just as busy from the
hills. The smoke from the artillery on
the hills around Port Arthur is seen al
most continuously. Dead and wounded
are being brought in at all hours, and
many private houses have been turned
into hospitals.
Only skirmishes have occurred to the
northward. The main Japanese force is
ten miles away, but japanese scouts
have been seen in the vicinity of the
marine camp. which commands the
principal pass through the hills directly
back of Port Arthur.
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BODIES RECOVERED.

The seventeen dead were soon laid
beside the track and the injured car
ried to the nearby houses.
While physicians were being sent for
women of Midvale brought bandages
and other articles that could be used
in caring for the injured.
An engine and cars were sent from
Little Falls to the scene of the wreck
and as rapidly as possible the most
seriously hurt were prepared for
transportation by train to Little Falls
and thence to Jersey City or .Hoboken
All those hurt were eventually taken
either to their homes or to hospitals.
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ARE KILLED
IN WRECK
EXCurSiOniStS Meet
Death in New
Jersey.
Passenger Train Crashes
Into a Special on the
Erie Road.
Disaster Said to Have Ben Due to Haste
Of Tower 0pera,Or in Lower
ing Signal

NEW YORK, July 10.-Seventeen per-
sons were killed and about fifty injured
in collision which occurred at Mid
vale, n. j., just before noon to-day.
when a regular passenger train on the
| Greenwood Lake branch of the Erie
Railroad ran into an excursion train
that had been stopped to take wafer.
All the dead and injured lived in Hobo
ken, Jersey City and New York. The
dead:
HENRY OTTERSTEDT, Hoboken.
WILLIAM WEIDEMEYER JR.. Ho-
boken.
WILLIAM REM. New York.
MRS. ANNA LEMKOHL. New York.
WILLIAM LANE. Hoboken.
HENRY BECKER, Hoboken
WILLIAM ROHFING, Hoboken.
WILLIAM WINDERKNECHT, Ho-
boken.
GEORGE SCHEER, Hoboken.
HENRY KOCH. Hoboken.
ISIDORE MANSER, Hoboken.
FRANK HOLNWEDTELL Child,
Hoboken.
GEORGE McDERMOTT. Hoboken.
WILLIAM WISTOW. West Hoboken.
+. X. KELLEY. Jersey City
AGNES LEMKOHL Child. New
York
BOY. name supposed to be Patterson.
OPERATOR BLAMED.
The accident is believed to have re-
suited from a tower operator having
lowered his signal too SOON The train
which was run into was special car
rying most of the Plattdeutscher Asso-
citation of Hoboken on their annual
outing. II consisted of twelve cars
and two engines. The first engine had
taken water and the train had moved
up and stopped with the second engine
beside the tank. when the regular
train drew near The fagman of the
special signaIed the engineer of the on
coming train; but. owing to curve in
the road, his flag was not seen until
too late 1t is claimed that the engineer
of the regular train had slowed down
to about ten miles an hour before he
crashed into the special, but his en-
gine tore through the rear car and
drove the forward end of that car
into the ear ahead. The killed and in
jured were IN these two cars.
The wreckage did not catch fire, and
the work of taking out the dead and
MANNED was accomplished quickly
The passengers from the uninjured
coaches ran back and joined in the
work, and the residents of Midvale,
many of whom had heard the crash,
assisted them.
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War News Continued on Page 2.
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TEE wzATEEz-

Forecast made st San rrsn-
cisco for thirty hours ending
midnight July 11E
san Francisco and vicinity
Pair Monday; fresh northwest
wind. @. II. WILSON.
Local Porecaster.
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A1cazar-"Eeartsease."
California-"Ths Honorable John
North"
Centra1-"AlonE the Mohawk"
Chutes-Vaudevi11e.
CoIulnbta-"Coustn Kate"
Fischer's-"A Lucky stone"
orand-"1Kr. Barnes OF view
York"
Orpheum-Vaudevi1le.
Tivoli-"Robin HOOD"
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FOURTEEN DIE
IN PARIS FIRE
Explosion of Gas in a CellulOid
Factory Starts Blaze That
Soon Envelops the Building

PARIS, Feb. 20.--Fourteen en-
pIoyes of a celluloid factory at the
Boulevard Sebastopol and the Rue
Etienne Mariel lost their lives to-day
in a fire which started by an explosion
of gas. Twenty others were injured.
The explosion, which occurred in a
room on the fourth story. drove bricks
and pieces of glass against house on
the other side of the street and inn
mense jets Of flame followed imme-
diately. Soon the entire structure was
on fire.
simultaneously with the appearance
of the flames q number of men and
women employed on the upper stories
and who had been eating their lunch
con appeared at the windows and
shrieked for assistance. Three men
attempted to drop from a window to
a balcony beneath but missed it, fell
to the pavement and were killed. The
firemen arrived shortly afterward and
devoted themselves first to saving as
many of the endangered persons as
possible. Several were Sescued.
One couple showed great presence of
mind, occasionally opening a window
for air and closing it to prevent the
spread of the fire.
1t was not long before the flames
were under control and then a search
for the dead was made. In a corridor
leading to the street five of the vic
TINS were found against the wall. They
had been asphyxiated and incinerated.
Tn oil fourteen bodies Wera convaved
to the Morgue, where they await iden-
tification. Five persons We're taken
from the building badly burned. Two
of them Will die. The damage to the
building will not exceed $4,000.
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GRAPE-NUTs.
FOUND AT 20
The Power Of Food.

An Illinois lady who never knew
" hat health WIS until she reached her
-eth year. presents an unusually con-
vincine case Of the power OF proper
food She SAYS:
81 an a years old this fall and
rever had good health that ] can re-
member since ] was child until l COM
rnerced 10 use Grape-Nuts four years
aEo.
From the very first I could feel a
vast improvement and now In four
wears I have gained so that ] do all my
own work. ard feel ] cannot say too
much IN favor Of Grape-Nuts and what
Ibis grand food has done for me as
cid as 7 am.
II have recommended Grape-Nuts TO
several a1d they all have been ben
Gifted bv H." Name given by Postum
Co. Battle Greek, Mich.
The power Of proper food (Which
means food that The stomach viii ci-
rest and at the same time yields the
aIl-nccesssry nutrimen) is almost un-
limited 2 nd that's the reason ten days
trial ~ Grape-NUts often works won
der
Look FOR the famous little book. The
Road TO Wellville. in each package.
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HASH AROUSES
IRE OF SAILORS
Two Score Men on the Govern
ment's Big Dredge Chinook
Off Astoria Quit Their Jobs
Special Dispatch to The Call.

ASTORIA, Or, Feb. 20.-Because of
the fact that hash had been fed them
for seven consecutive days forty-one
men employed upon the big dredge
Chinook formerly the transport Grant,
have quit their places and come ashore.
For six days hash had been given
them for breakfast, and they caucused
and determined to complain if it was
again furnished for the morning meal.
On the seventh day hash adorned the
breakfast table One of the men was
sent aft to file a complaint with Cap
tain Dunbar, and he was discharged.
The others quit upon learning of the
discharge of their mate. The number of
strikers is one-half the strength of the
vessels complement.
The French bark La Bruyere, long
overdue from Port Los Angeles, reached
port late this evening. She should have
made the run in fifteen or eighteen
days, and was thirty-six days on the
trip. Fifteen per cent reinsurance had
been offered on her at San Francisco.
The bark frst ran into calm weather,
and then met with storms, which drove
her north as far as Cape Flattery.
Before reaching Port Los Angeles the
bark had lost her fore topgallant mast
off the Horn, and hole was stove in a
forward plate. Repairs were not made
at the California port. but the damage
did not interfere with the vessels run
UP the coast She was never sighted
after leaving Port Los Angeles, and
the fear was growing that she had been
lost
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COLORADO LABOR TROUBLES.

Government VIII Prat t. Miners
Side OF the Controversy.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-At the
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request of Senator Patterson the Sen
ate to-day ordered the printing of a
statement by the Western Federation
of Miners relative to the labor trou-
bles in Colorado and in re ply to the
statement of the mine operators of
that State, which has already been
printed The document also was re-
ferred to the Committee on judiciary
having under consideration Patter-
sons resolution looking TO an investi-
cation of the Colorado troubles.