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The Washington times., 1904-06-08
Cripple Creek Now in the Control of
General Bell and COlOTadO'S Militia

who are going through the lists check
Ing up the men. The purpose is to de-
port hundreds Of union men within the
next twenty-four hours.
Business Is paralyzed; banks. saloons.
and all classes OF business houses are
closed The situation in the district,
suggests a rumblinE volcano
Great surprises are being found by tho
mine owners in searching the records OF
the unions The mines. il appears wero
being worked b. about 80 per cent Of
union men, majority Of them not being
known as such TO the operators.
Filling Up the $Bull Pens"
Two hundred men are in the various
bull pens awaiting action BY the citi-
zens. That action viii probably be to
mobilize tonight and march the men be
yOnd the boundaries Of the district
where they VIII be sent on their way
with the admonition not TO return a
the peril OF their lives.
The State armOry in Victor has been
turned into "a bull pen" and contains
80 union men and sympathlzers. includ-
ing former Marshal O'Connell who was
dcpOsed, and Ar Miller. who is
charged with firing the first shot in the
trouble.
These men escaped lynching. II is said.
because the WOuld-be lynChers were
waiting until they could get Thomas
leadership IS attributed.
Bull Pen No. z.
The second bull PEN is IN Horbin's
drug store. at Independence which was
seized early this morning 10y order Of
Sheriff Bell. Of Teller county who Is In
command of the citizens and troops VIII,
are now patrOlling the district and ar
resting union miners as fast rs found
There fifteen men await the coming Of
the mob hat is said TO be bent only on
deporting them.
In saloon I'm GOldheld twenty union
turned into a bull PEN despite the pro
test OF the owners The books of the
unions are now at the mine owners
headquarters IN Cripple Creek where
they are being inspected, and the union
men who have been working IN the g1lise
OF nOu-uniOnlStS are singled out for i'm
mediate deportation.
All office holders whose designations
have been demanded have furnished
them when threatened with hanging
Citizens Committee.
A Citizens Committee. composed Of f.
A. Newcomb, cashier Of the First Ma
tional Bank: DIT T. l. Funk. II. /.
Shepherd. broker; W. II. Griffith.
editor Of the Cripple Creek Times" and
John Sharpe. leaser. allied on w J.
Graham, city marshal Of Cripple Creek
and demanded his resignation as pre-
pared by the committee.
The city council I'm special session, ap-
The Washington times., 1904-06-08
BOY KILLED BY TRAIN.

YONKERS. June S-Charles Arthur
Butler. thirteen years old. IS dead due
TO a fractured skull. The boy was re-
turning to his home late IN the after
noon from a swim in the Hudson River.
and while walking along the Hudson
River Railroad track near the Glenwood
Station he was struck by the 5:09 ex-
press train sOuthbOund-
The Washington times., 1904-06-08
CLERICAL CHANGES
IN NAVY DEPARTMENT

Changes in the clerical force at the
Navy Department have been announced
as follows:
AppOintments--Sher P Allen. clerk
at $500 per annum, Secretary's Office.
for duty as private secretary to Assist
ant Secretary; Robert j. Service. copy
list at $40 per annum. Bureau OF Naviga-
ton.
PrOmotions-Grego Noetzei. from lith-
Ogra pher. at 81. 600 per annum. to chief
photographer. at 81. 500 per annum. Hy-
drOgra phic Office.
The Washington times., 1904-06-08
roy CANNON IN COOK STOVE.

LAUREL, Del, June s.-Howafd Mar
tin. ten years old. made a cannon out
OF an umbrella handle, loaded it with
gunpowder and threw It IN his mothers
cook stove In the terrible explosion
which followed. the stove was blown 10
pieces, the kitchen wrecked and the boy
so frightfully burned that he died an
hour later in agony.
The Washington times., 1904-06-08
BABES BODY IN WOODS.

TOMS RIVER. y. J.. June S.-The
body Of an infant has been found partly
buried in the woods near Lakewood
Prosecutor Brown and Coroner Haga-
man. of Ocean county, have started an
Invests CAT ton. a woman suspected of the
child's murder IS under suspicion.
The Washington times., 1904-06-08
Contagious Diseases.

Diphtheria and scarlet fever cases re-
main unchanged from last week as re-
CARDS the number. OF the former dis
ease there were four new cases report
ed and 4 discharged, which leaves 9
cases on hand. Scarlet fever shows s
new cases reported and the same num-
Der discharged. leaving q cases now in
quarantine in Is different premises.
Typhoid fever shows 1 less in number
than at last report. Fourteen new cases
were reported and Is discharged. 3 OF
which were by death. This leaves 50
cases in all now under treat ment. as
against "a cases in the corresponding
period OF last year.
Two new cases Of smallpox were re-
ported and none discharged. which In
creases the total number now ct the
hospital 70 Z.
The Washington times., 1904-06-08
DEATHS WERE II2
FOR LAST WEEK
Fifty-eight We're White
and Fifty-fOur Negroes.
BIRTH LIST NUMBERS IA
Consumption, Heart Disease, and Pneu-
monia Were the Most Potent
Causes Of Mortality.

The Health Department reports today
that 112 persons died IN the District dur
ing the week ended last Saturday, and
Of these IS were white and 81 negroes.
This total Of deaths exceeded the total
OF the preceding week by 10.
The births last week were ia. Of which
number 81 were white infants and 6
negroes.
The most fatal diseases during this
period, with the number Of deaths re-
sulting from them, were as follows:
Consumption. IS; diseases Of the heart,
"A; pneumonia, Il; apoplexy. 6; diseases
of the kidneys, 6; malignant growths, s.
There were suicides and 4 accidental
deaths.
The Washington times., 1904-06-08
DR.. CHARLES
FLESH FOOD

should be used by every woman who has the
least desire 10 be attractive II is the only
preparation that will round out followed, tim
cheeks or sCrawny neck with FIRM, HEALTHY
FLESH and REMOVE WRINKLES from the
face and hands. matter how deep the fur
The Washington times., 1904-06-08
REAL ESTATE NOTES

Another recent sale OF r Street prop
erty, which has thus far escaped no.
tice. shows the constantly increasing
value Of property on that thOroughfare
Mary J. Baldwin has bought from the
S.mms estate premises 1919 + Street
paying $751; for the same The lot IS
"a by 1886. The house IS an old-time
brick dwelling, three stories IN height
and now arranged for offices. The price
per square foot, including the improve
mentg. is about SO
Herman w. Smith. a clerk in the
Weather Bureau. will build a three-story
and cellar dwelling on Sixteenth Street
extended, near Howard Avenue. from
plans drawn by Architect 3. +. Myers.
The house VIII contain twelve rooms and
Two baths and be provided with every
mooern convenience. The front will be
OF hght brick and stone. in Colonial
style. The first floor will be finished m
hardwood; the upper floors in pine
treated with hard OIL
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-12-06
JUSTICE MARKLEY's FEE.

Justice of the Peace Edward A. Mark
ley, of Henderson street, is in the habit
of treating witnesses to marriage cere-
monies which he performs, to cigars and
at least fifty cent piece. Last night
a well-dressed couple drove up in a coach
in front of his office. They said they
wanted to get married. The Judge hus-
tied about for couple of witnesses and
secured them. The couple hailed from
Bulls Ferry Road. The bridegroom
handed the Justice an envelope and the
Justice anticipating good fee invited
the two witnesses out and after treating
them to cigars handed each a fifty cent
silver piece. When he opened the en-
yelope containing the wedding fee and
found a dollar bill he said nothing at
first. But when he figured out that he
was out the treat for the cigars as well
as the money he paid to the witnesses he
was by no means in an amiable frame
of mind
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-12-06
new JERSEY
RIFLEMEN
Inspector General Bird W..
Spencer Issues His An
j nual Report.
- Il
FIFTH REGIMENT LEADS
Fourth Stands Five Points
Below the Figure OF
Merit.

eSpeclal TO The Jersey City News.''(
TRENTON, Dec. 6, 19O4.-Decided
improvements in Workmanship among
members of the New Jersey National
Guard is shown in the annual report of
General Bird W. Spencer, Inspector of
Rifle Practise. The State figure of mer-
it is shown to be 35 for 1904, as compar-
ed with .29 for 1903. About the same
number of men reported for practise this
year as last, but the results were from
thirty to fifty per cent. better than on
the previous occasion.
The report, which is the twenty-fourth
annual one of the present Inspector Cen
eral of Rife Practice, gives a very COM
plete view of the work done at the camp
of instruction from May to September
30
The State figure of merit for 1904 is
.39, as compared with 20 for 1903. In
comparison of organizations, the Fifth
Regiment leads with 40, while every
other regiment showed Improvement.
Tie table of comparison is as follows:--
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-12-06
MURDERER TAKEN
detectives Lee and Larkins
Capture Frank Chakow-
ski Accused Of Kill
ing Diango at
Belleport.

Through the clever detective work of
Detective Sergeants Dan Lee and James
Larkin, a man who the police are sure
murdered Michael Diango, wealthy
Italian junk dealer of Belleport, L. l.,
on November 8, last has been arrested in
this city. The prisoner is Frank Cha
kowski, twenty-one years old, who halls
from Bellepert The body of the MUIR
dered man was found about fifty feet off
road near Belleport by two school girls.
On Saturday last Deputy Sheriff A. HI.
Bumstead of Hampstead, L. l., came to
this city and told Chief Murphy that a
friend of Chakowski, had received let
ter from Chakowski the same day that
Diango was murdered. The letter was
postmarked "Jersey City"
Chakowski's description was furnished
as follows. Polish, five feet eight inches,
weight 140 pounds, smooth shaven, light
complexion, sore on right leg, bruise on
forehead
Detective sergeants Lee and Larkins
were put upon Chakowski's trail. They
have been working on the case night and
day since. This morning they arrested
Chakowsl1i on Brunswick street. IN his
possession was found sand bag that's
had been carried by him for some time
He also had in his possession long
barrelled Smith & Wesson revolver of
38-calibre.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-12-06
RECORDS REPLY.

Corporation Counsel Record took up
all this morning in his reply to the rail
road lawyers arguments before the
Equal Taxation Commission lie made
charge that the Martin Act Commits
sion had failed TO make It's final report.
He said that a year ago one of the Com
missioners had promised that the Com
mission would wind up its affairs and
ask the Court to discharge it. Mr.. Rec
ord stated that this Commissioner had
given him an informal pledge to this
effect. A year had since elapsed. said
Mr.. Record, and vet the Commission had
made no move to be discharged. Mr..
Record said he did not understand this
until recently when light was thrown
upon tlae situation by the discovery that
valuable riparian PENNSYLVANIA Railroad
property was in the hands of the Com
mission awaiting adjudication.
i am anxious to have the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad Company join me in Sc
curing 4 final report said Mr. Record
"Will it do its"
Counsellor yredenburgh interrupted
with:
@Yonr enarge is groundless. l will go
with yoai and apply for the discharge of
the Commission.
Former Senator Edwards. counsel for
the Delaware. Laekawanna and Western
Railroad, said:-
This charge is infamous"
don't care what you call it," said
Mr.. Record, but I'll take your offer, Mr..
Eredenburgh and go with you to e. F.
G. Young and Major James Love and
see if they will consent to a final report"
Mr.. Record in the course of his argu-
ment said that the Central Railroad
Company was getting away with half a
million dollars from the city, when it
really owed the city a million and half
dollars.
Mr. Record is proceeding with his ar
gHlneif this afternoon.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-12-06
MRS. BENSON
BURIED TODAY
Impressive Services at Grace
P. E. Church GreenviIle
Last Night.
BISHOP LINES'S EULOGY
Good Works Which Will Be
Memorials of the De-
eeassd--Church Crowded
BISHOP LINEs'S EULOGY

&runerai services were held last night
ever the body of Mrs. Mary L. Hud-
speth Benson at Grace Protestant
Episcopal Church. Pearsall and Ocean
avenues The Rev. j. c. Jerolomen
led mournful procession into the
church. The casket containing the re-
mains of Jersey City's Grand Old
Woman" was covered with black velvet.
The Rev. Elmer S. Forbes, of ST. Johns
Protestant Episcopal Church, read
lesson from the fifteenth verse of the
first chapter of Corinthians. Bishop
Lines delivered an eulogy Hers was
noble life, he said. He recalled the
fact that almost eight wears had elapsed
since Mrs. Hudspeth- Benson came to
him and expressed a desire that a,
Protestant Episcopal church be built in
the town of Aillington, where she was
then living. He said he met number
of persons interested in the church pro-
jeet, and among them no one was more
prayerful and energetic than Mrs. Ben
son. The Bishop announced that the
church that Mrs Benson asked should
be built would be built. Il shall al
ways associate the church with the
memory of her." said the Bishop.
The Bishop said he was not in posi-
,fion to speak of her local works of char
ity in this city, but said that from all
he had heard she was ever a noble
woman. He briefly alluded to her eff
forts in behalf of the trolley men for
whom she established reading rooms in
the Greenville section and the Bergen
Square section to entice them away from
the saloons in the neighborhood of the
car barns, about which they loitered
while waiting to go on duty. He also
spoke of her successful efforts to create
park for the poor women of the Little
Italy section, and which park is now
known as the Mary Benson Park.
The church was crowded with mourn
ers. Robert Davis and Mayor Pagan
were prominent in the congregation.
City Collector Fry and Winfield c. Dunn
were ushers. The body was buried this
morning in New York Bay Cemetery.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-12-06
JAPS BOMDARD
Two Russian Ships Burned
By Shot at Port Arthur
--Rojestvensky Ad-
mits Blunder.

TOXIC, Dec. 6, 1904, 10 A. Mt is
reported that the Japanese bombardment
against the feet at Port Arthur is pro-
ceeding to the satisfaction of the at
lacking forces.In-the evening Of the
18th instant Sunday two or three Rus
sian ships were fred by shot and burned
in half hour
Their names and the extent Of the
damage done are not known. 1t is gen
orally believed that the Russian feet
must either make an early sortie or
suffer irreparable damage.
LONDON. Dec. 6. 1904-A despatch
from Chefoo to the "Daily Telegraph
Heavy firing continues at Port
Arthur today. The Japanese are max
ing most determined and persistent ef-
forts to capture the northern forts"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-12-06
FREEHOLDERS TO APPEAL
At Supervisor Wittpenn's Sug-
gestion the Bayonne Cross
ing Case Will Go to the
Court of Errors.

County Supervisor H. Otto Wittpenn
at the organization of the Board of Free
holders yesterday submitted a commune
cation in which he deplored the fact that
a railroad track is to be laid across the
Boulevard at Second street, Bayonne.
The Boulevard, he said, had been con-
structed at great cost and it was pity
to allow railroad tracks to cross it, He
said that it was against public policy and
a constant menace to people having oc-
casion to use the splendid thoroughfare.
He questioned the authority of the
Bayonne council to grant uchfpermission
and referring to the decision of Vice
Chancellor Garretson sustaining the or
dinance, urged the Freeholders to direct
Counsellor Griffin TO carry the matter to
the Court of Errors and Appeals.
Supervisor Wittpenn's suggestion was
adopted.
In addition to electing Freeholder Luke
Clark, director and re-electing John p.
Egan, clerk. John w. Griffin, county
counsel, Christopher P. Smith, county
superintendent. Stephen Egan, county
collector, Robert Ryan, warden of the
county insane asylum. Col. Grimes war
den of the county penitentiary and DR..
King, medical superintendent of the in
sane asylum the following chair1nanships
of committees were announced
New buildings dncluding New Court
Treeholder Richard Fallahee.
Public Grounds and Buildings-Wil-
liam Pairson.
Public Roads-Alex. Clewents.
Stationary Peter Ehrhart.
The Boulevard Commission also or
ganized yesterday afternoon. Louis
Diehm, was elected president, and Com
missioner Magner, secretary Frank La
Pointe, of Hoboken, was elected clerk to
fill the vacancy caused By the death of
the late John Fl. Cable. The salary is
$500 a year. Walter O'Nara was ap-
pointed assistant clerk at a yearly salary
Of 1000.
The Commissioners adopted resolutions
requesting the Board Of Freeholders to
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-12-06
SECOND WARDERs PROTEST

The Second Ward Improvement Assoc
citation will meet at Hawkes. Hall, Thir-
teenth and Erie streets, tomorrow night,
to protest against the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western railroad in holding up
the progress of the Division street sewer.
The sewer is greatly needed and the res
idents of the Horseshoe section are clam
.oring for it. It is necessary for the
sewer to go through the ID. Il. & w.
property. The railroad company refuses
to let the improvement go on unless the
city yacates Nineteenth street, between
Grove and Erie streets. The residents
Of the Shoe feel that the railroad COM
pany is asking too much and tomorrow
nights meeting Of the ward Improvement
association promises to be exceedingly
lively.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-12-06
RIGHT-FIHLDERs.

members has been trying to create
trouble by announcing that the club is
being re-organized for the purpose of fur
thering the. political aspirations of one
of its most trusted and honored mem
bers.'
The meeting next Thursday evening it
over hundred members. and after the
election of officers, committee will be
appointed to make arrangements for a
grand reception to be held in Elks' Hall.
A committee will also be appointed to
secure permanent headquarters. and in
short time it is expected that the old
time club will be as famous as It was
only a few years ago.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-12-06
FIRED ON HIS OWN SHIPS

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 5. 1901
The Naval Staff has issued supple
mentary report from Admiral Rojestven-
sky commander of the Baltic fleet,
which, although cautiously worded can
only be interpreted as an official admis-
sion that the damage to the Russian
cruiser Aurora on the Dogger Bank was
caused by other Russian warships firing
on her through mistake.
The Aurora was struck by five shells
Her chaplain was seriously wounded
and subsequently died in the French
Hospital at Tangier, where he was
landed for treatment. A petty officer
was slightly wounded.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-12-06
JACS ALL SOCIAL
Famous Downtown Club
Bars Politics From It's
Constitution.
REORGANIZATION THURSDAY
Large Attendance Expected
Somewhere But One Per-
son Won't Be Notified
REORGANIZATION THURSDAY

Another effort to reorganize the Jag
gerowski Club will be made next Thurs
day evening. For reasons well known to
the members, the place of meeting will
not be announced to the general public.
This precaution has been taken by the
committee in order to prevent certain
alleged Democratic worker from an up
town ward from trying to use the same
tactics he attempted at a previous meet
ing of the club. The meeting referred to
had to he called off because itWas
packed through the efforts Of this same
Democrat who, although he received
postal card to attend, took it upon him.
self to go to several prominent Republi-
can leaders in the lower section of the
city and ask them to send as many men
as they could to attend the meeting upon
the assurance that good time would
be given after the session. This indi-
yidual who, it is said, processes to be
good and loyal Democrat, took it upon
himself to invite those who had not re-
eeived postals. He did not appear at
the meeting himself, but stood a short
distance away during the meeting. His
purpose, it is said, was to upset the plans
of the reorganizers who wanted to make
the club non-political and purely social.
The club will be reorganized, however,
so it is said, next Thursday evening, and
all those who received postals to attend
the last meeting will be invited once
more. There will be one person, how
ever. who will not receive an invitation.
The club will be reorganized under its
old name. In former years it had on its
membership roll the names of some of
the most prominent Democrats and Re
publicans in the city. Every former
member of the club has received postal
card notifying him of the reorganization
of the club, and favorable replies have
been received from all. A prominent
member Of the old club, who is very
much interested in its reorganization,
said last evening"
Il am one of the Oldest members of
this club and as long as l have been a
member of it, 1 never knew politics to
enter into it. The club has always been
a social one, and as | now understand it,
it will be reorganized on the same prin-
ciple. | remember when it disbanded
few years ago. The cause of that dis
bandment was, as know well, due
to the efforts of certain few to inject
politics into it, despite the fact that its
bylaws positively stated that politics
should not be discussed at any of it's
meetings. have been informed by those
who have started the reorganization of
the club that it will be re-organized un-
der its old principles and that is why
have decided to become an active mem-
Der again. / will use my best efforts to
make it as successful as it was in for
mer years, and I have no doubt that it
will in "a short time be much larger than
it was a few years ago. I am extremely
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-12-06
CORPORATION NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that on the Fifth
day Of December. 1904, the Commissioners
of Assessment filed in the ofice Of tho
Clerk OF the Board OF Street and Water Com
missioners their final assessment map and re-
port for the
IMPROVEMENT OF HARMON STREET,
between point about 1S5 feet west OF Arllns-
ton avenue and Crescent avenue 10 accordancs
with petition previously presented TO said
Board on the Eighteenth day OF August. 1893.
and conformably % the provisions Of Chapter
2i7 OF the Laws Of 1885, and the salne Is now
open % public inspection in the office Of ths
Clerk Of said Beard
And notice is also given that the following
streets avenues. or particular sections
thereof, are included in said assessment,
namely
HARMON STREET,
from point about 1s5 feet west OF Arlington
avenue to Crescent avenue.
CRESCENT AVENUE.
the east side from Harmon street to points
20 feet north and 23.9T feet south thereof
And that in accordance with the provisions
OF the act above cited. the 12fh day Of De-
cember, 1904. at two O'Clock p. NJ. and tho
Assembly Chamber Of the City Hall. are here-
by fixed as the time and place when and
where the Board of Street and Water Com
nllssioners win meet to hear, consider and ad-
judfcate upon all objections to the osnfrnae<
ton Of said final assessment map and report
that may be presented IN writing.
BY order Of the Board Of Street and WateN
GEO 7. BoUroN.
DATED. Jersey December 5sn. 1aQS. Z