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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-27
Seized by the Japs.

Toxic, Feb. 26.-The German steamer
Ronnulus bound for Vladivostok with Il
cargo of Cardiff coal, was seized on the
night of Feb. p.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-27
WERE DECEIVED
WHEN EMPLOYED
Laborers Expected to Find Quarters
on Canal Zone.
Discomfort DOWN THERE
LONG COMMUNICATION FROM
GOVERNOR DAVIS.

lAI ASHINGTON, Feb 26.-Writing
wv on the general topic Of wages
and the discomfort of employees
on the isthmus, General Davis, gov
ernOr Of the Panama canal zone, has
addressed a long communication to the
Panama canal commission His OBJ
servations are confined to employees of
the commission on the iSthmus who
were hired in the United States.
Discussing the yellow fever situation,
General Davis says:
''Of canal employees and their families
coming here from the United States
only four out of some 400 or 500 have
been sick from yellow fever. and of
this number one terminated fatally"
Discussing the lack of accommoda-
tionS, the governor observed:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-27
POLICE SUSPECTED.
New Danger Threatens the Public
at Warsaw.

Warsaw. Feb. 26.-Every policeman
on duty here today is accompanied BY
a soldier The authorities. fearing A
strike by the police, ordered this pre-
caution so that in the event of an officer
leaving his TOst il will not be unpro-
tected- The measure is further intend
cd to guard policemen from possible at
tack by strikers The police demand
$3.50 per month. the same scale that
is paid at St Petersburg. The present
pay here is Sc per month.
The private coachmen and livery sta
blemen here struck today. The strike
OF street railway employees continues
some $4,000 strikers from the big iron
mills will return to work. all their de-
mdndS having been granted. These in
clude A nine-hour day instead of ten
and half hours. and an increase i'm
wages from to % per cent.
II is announced that all the railways
will be placed under martial law i'm or
der to prevent the extension of the
strikes.
Prelude to Strike.
The employees of the warsaw-St
demands for presentation to the man.
agement. This action is regarded as a
prelude to the beginning of the strike
The Vistula strike continues. The d.
rectors will meet tomorrow to receive
the workmen'S demands which will he
referred to st. Petersburg for approval
The Vienna railway service having
been resumed. the station here was
crowded all day and trains were over
crowded with passengers. who fought
10 obtain seats.
The tension in the Warsaw railway
situation has been greatly relieved bv
the settlement of this strike. Direct
communication with Warsaw is thus
opened but traffic is entirely disIocatel
at Warsaw The st. Petersburg road is
sim open on direct line and passen
gers for Moscow and Odessa are com
PEELED to travel by circuitous routes
In NOvollipki street at 9 O'Clock 70.
night, an unknown mar fired a revolver
al a patrol, killing two policemen and
severely wounding a SERGEANT. The
murderer. escaped.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-27
Men Are Not Unreasonable.

Concluding, General Davis says:
Casting up the matter in all it's
phases, 1 would say that while this dis
content exists, and certainly will exist
probably for a long time, with respect
to some of the employees yer yne larger
number are not unreasona BILE and ac-
cept the situa ton; they know Jnat the
government is doing everything posi-
bic to make their lot pleasanJer, and
they are loyalty working and carrying
out their contracts"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-27
Were MisIed.

The number OF employees who have
arrived on the isthmus under appoint
ments made in the United States who
assert that they were told by members
of the commission or by its employees
i'm Washington that they all would
have quarters or residences and excel
lent accommodations. are so large and
the assertions are SO positive, that
cannot but believe there is some basis
for the statements made. and if any
such assurances were given it was a
great mistake, l think. The picture
ought to have been painted worse than
it is, rather than otherwise. so that the
men arriving here could not possibly
find the real condition to be worse than
they expected to find it"
He continues: ''As land can be Sc
cured in the way provided by treaty
and by statute, it will be taken, and
there will be no delay In erecting the
necessary houses for all the employees
in the city of Panama"
No Place For Families.
Until quarters are available he said.
it is not advisable for married men TO
take their families TO Panama. Misery
for all concerned has resulted I'm cases
where this has been done
Governor Davis US the wages paid
to the employees who come here from
home and to others of the same class
hired or the isthmus, are i'm many cases
% per cent higher than they were dur
ing the busiest period of the French
canal work. and in no case are they
less
No suggested remedy for the lack of
amusement is made.
The barroom and gambling bells are
the principal attractions now. and in
the city of Panama lottery tickets are
everywhere offered for sale on the
street corners
Because Of the increased price of
merchandise of all kinds, the report
says the canal commission has Just di-
rected that the material and supplies
department has been made a commits
sary, where goods will be kept for sale
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
'IROhQUILl" TALKS BACK
Former Pension Commissioner Ware
Replies to Commissioner Warner.
ceived a Pension Wrongfuiiy
Publish His Name.

Topeka, Kas., April 29.-Eugene F.
Ware, former commissioner of pen
sions. in repuly to charges made by the
present commissioner, Warner, of al
legged violation of order No. IS, thereby
causing an extra expense Of three
quarters of a million dollars, said: Il
do not know to what particular cases
the commissioner refers. A soldier
might have a right to a pension, and
thousands of them had. but under the
aid law and under Order No. Is,
known as the old age order, and hence
it would make no difference under
which issued.
ut is not a question of whether,
technically, order No. IS was violated,
but whether some old soldier got a
pension or an increase to which he was
not entitled. l know nothing about
what the commissioner has found, but
in Justice to the reputation of the
honest and capable men, who are his
subordinates in the bureau, he ought
before making the charge examine and
see whether any old soldier has got a
pension orincrease who vas not entitled
to it. and ought the publish the names
of such pensioners, giving the indlVld'
ual names and instances. | think ne
| owes it now to the public to print the
names and the company, regiment ane
state, and give facts, not generalitles.'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
THIRTEEN MINERS KILLED.
Entombed by a Gas Explosion in
Missouri, KANSAS IL Texas Coal
Co.'s Nine No. 10.

Wilburton, l. T., May Thirteen
miners were er tombed and probably
killed by an explosion at 1880 Sunday
morning in the Missouri, Kansas & Tex
as Coal Co. mine No. 10. four miles west
of here. There is little prospect Of
their bodies being recovered for several
days. They are:
B. F. Steiner, foreman; Mike Wynne.
Ralph Fisher. Ben Smith, VIM. Atlin-
son, o. Golden, Joe Morino, all white.
Gus Phillips, Knox Lynch, J. D,
Byrd, Mike Duvall, R. F. Gales, VIM.
Edwards, colored.
The men went into the shaft at mid.
night. Foreman William Ray Of the
shift that left the mine at that houS'
states that the mine was in good con
dition and a gas explosion was hardly
probable. His shift left a shot hang
ing, which the new shift may have
fired. 1t is suggested, from the force
of the explosion, which could be heard
for miles around, and which tore heavy
timbers aside and piled tons of dirt
into the shaft, that a bad shot had sci
off some dynamite which had beer
stored conveniently for work in push
ing the entries. The shaft is $50 fee
deep, and it was 800 feet to the plane
where the men were working.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
THE PRESIDENTS SUNDAY.
The Hunting Party Attended Serv-
ices at the Old Blue SchoOlhOuse
A western Welcome.

Glenwood Springs, Col, May l.
Unique in the history of Colorado was
the church service held at the Old
Blue school house on West Divide
creek, Sunday, attended by President
Roosevelt and his hunting party and
all the ranchmen and their families
for miles around. The little district
school building was not a tenth part
large enough to accommodate the on
gregation, and as a result the organ
was moved to the platform in front.
On this platform seats were provided
for the president and his party, Rev.
Horace Mann, of Rife, Col, who
preached the sermon; the choir and the
trustees of the church. The members
of the congregation stood or sat on the
ground or in their c~onveyances, which
were grouped around the building.
The sermon by Rev. Mann was OF
an unusual kind. 1t began with a
0lOly lCCillllS Win olaAo VI Az WSn'
ern favor, and was full Of advice suited
to a congregation inuring itself to the
hardships Of mountain life. 1t touched
upon the responsibilities of the position
of president as we'll as the charteristics
of some of the men who have occu-
pied that exalted place. After her had
concluded, the president spoke for
about ten minutes. He was received
with great enthusiasm.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
TRAGEDY AT FORT DOUGLAS.
Can't. w, A. RaibOrne, Twenty-Ninth
Infantry, Wounds Lieut.. w. ii.
Point and Commits Suicide.

Salt Lake, Utah, May Capt. W. A
Raiborne, Twenty-ninth infantry, U. s,
A., committed suicide at Fort Douglas
Sunday morning, after making a MUIR
derous assault on Lieut.. William H,
Point, also of the Twenty-ninth infan-
try. Point was shot twict by his SUI
rerior officer, one bullet penetrating MS
left thigh and another inflicting g. deep
flesh wound in his right leg. After
Lieut.. Point had fallen, Capt. Raiborne
turned his revolver upon himself, send
ing a bullet into his head about three
inches behind his right ear. He dleo
almost instantly.
Capt. Raiborne had been drinking
heavily, and the tragedy was an out
growth Of his arrest, on Tuesday last
on a charge of drunkenness.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
STARTLING REVELATIONS
Bankers Staggered by Revelations
in the Bigelow Case.
The D%efamlting Bank President Now
C0nfesses to Indebtedness OF
Three Millions.

Milwaukee, Wis, April 2S.-The rev.
Citations as to the system of Frank q.
Bigelow in conducting large affairs are
such as to stagger the belief OF bank
ers, to whom method in such transac-
lions is as a second nature.
The defaulting bank president has
confessed an Indebtedness to banks,
commercial institutions and estates OF
which he had charge which will aggre-
gate between 50, 900, 900 and $4,000, 900,
and, based on his confession, a yolun-
tary petition in bankruptcy has been
filed in the United States district court
which contains the names ut is many
of B~igelow's creditors as he can re-
member, together with a list of assets
on which Bigelow's valuation is ST.
419. 900.
By his own admission his creditors
extend all over the United States. n
estate has been looted, his indebted
ness to the Broadhead heirs being
500, 900. The debt is unsecured. 1t IS
also believed other trusts held by the
former banker have suffered.
Those familiar with the situation and
with what information they can CLEAN
from the former banker, fear his liza
bilities will run up 20 considerably
more than his present estimate, as they
, believe subsequent revelations viii
uncover transactions of even a more
startling nature.
The revised schedules show a tota,
liability on the part of Mr.. Bigelow o
$3,277, 900, of which 81, 1915, 900 is wholly
or in part secured. Of the remainder
81, 100, 900 is a secondary liability or
notes and bills, discounts in which
Bigelow figures as indorser. 1t is re
ported that Bigelow is heavily indebt'
ed to several well-known Milwaukee
ans, whose names do not appear in the
schedules.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
STORM PLAYS SAD HAVOC.
Bridges Swept Away at Hannibal
Serious Damage at Points
in Illinois.

St. Louis, April 29.-Among the ne
ports received of Friday afternoons
storm~wera the following:
AT Hannibal, Mo-, bridges and cul-
verts were carried away by torrents OF
water, and the damage from hailstones
is reported to be heavy. A number of
barns and outbuildings were leveled by
the wind or fired by lightning at Mex
leo. New Cambria was the center Of
a record breaking hail storm.
Kinmundy, ILL.,, was swept by o tor
nado, which wrecked a number OF
houses and leveled telephone and cleo
trio light wires. A storm of similar
intensity visited Patoka, Ill. Peoria
reports heavy damage from a wind
which swept the city at a velocity OF
40 miles an hour. At Beardstown an
| especially destructive wind storm pre-
| vailed, o%verturning river craft.
Hail, varying from the size of a hazel
nut to one inch in diameter, fell at
many points, and fruit trees were
| stripped of their buds. Early vegeta-
bles also were badly damaged by the
hail, and strawberries suffered extern
sivelv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
TWO LAREDOS STORM SWEPT
Tornado Wrought Havoc to Buildings
and Twenty-one Were Killed
Storm Lasted an Hour.

Laredo, Tex, April 30.-SiXteen peo-
pie were killed and scores injured here,
and five killed across the river at New
Laredo, Mex, by a tornado. The prop
erty damage vas large, not one of the
magnificent buildings which go to
make up Laredo seminary escaping
damage. 81.
When the storm struck the city the
huts occupied by the poorer classes
were the first to be leveled to the
ground, but as the wind increased in
force the more substantially-construct-
ed buildings were unroofed, and in
many cases were demolished. The
lightning flashed wildly and continu-
ously, adding to the fears of the peo-
pie. The storm lasted one hour.
Physicians are busy attending to the
| injured, and it is thought no deaths
will result. DR.. H. J. Hamilton, of the
| United States marine hospital service
has placed $50 tents, with bedding, ETC..
at the disposal of the homeless.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
COMMERCIAL CONDITIONS.
Summary of Bradstreet's Weekly
Review of the Conditions OF
Trade and Industry.

New York, April 29.-Bradstreet's
weekly review says:
Ir%regularity still characterizes dis
tributive trade, while industry is active
and outdoor construction is of unpre-
cedented volume. The weather has
been rather too cool for the best of
crop preparation or termination. La
Dor is we'll employed, and with the one
conspicuous exception-Chicago-
where the teamsters' strike affects
trade and shipments, disputes are be-
low the average. Prices of many sta
pies have been weak and unsettled, and
cereals, cotton, some kinds of pig iron,
copper and country produce have
moved lower. Railway earnings are
good, and bank clearings this week,
owing to holidays, are smaller than
| last weeks, but heavily exceed a year
| ago. Collections generally are rather
tardy, especially at the south. Crop
conditions, though the season is back
| ward, promise well as regards the
cereals. A heavy wheat yield Is IN
| prospect.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
RETURNED WITHOUT A PELT.
The Presidents Party Returned to
Camp, Monday Evening, With
. out Even n BObcat.

Glenwood Springs, Col, May g.
President Roosevelt and members Of
his hunting party were in the sa,..ile
f.,,il S u. N. until 4:30 o'clock Monday,
'eturnlre without a pelt of any kind or
evcl sighting game. Loeb reached the
camp at 2 p. M, and expects to return
to-day. The hunters win not occupy
their old camp on East Divide creek
until to-day, as the president desired to
await Mr.. Loeb's arrival in the pres
ent quarters on the West Divide. New
bear tracks in great number have been
reported near the Penny ranch on the
East Divide, where luck went against
the hunters when they started out.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
He BEGAN AT THE BOTTOM.
Henry Miller. New General Manager
of wabash. Started as Boiler
makers Apprentice.

st. Louis, April 27.-Beginning next
Monday, May /, Henry Miller, at pres
ent general superintendent of the Bur-
lington lines in Missouri, is to become
general manager of the Wabash road.
His headquarters will be in st. Louis.
Mr.. Miller will be the successor of
Joseph Ramsey, who is now both pres
ident and general manager of the Wa
bash. 1t is said to be the plan OF the
directors to elect George Gould to the
presidency, though the active work
of management will fall on Mr.. Miller.
Mr.. Miller is AZ years old and a native
of Hannibal, Mo. He has been in the
railroad business for q years, having
been first employed as q boiler-maker's
apprentice with the Hannibal & st.
Joseph road.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
AN AGGRAVATED OFFENSE.
The Reasons For Calling Minister
Bowen Home From
Diplomatic Changes.

Washington, May 1.-Secretary
Taft has received instructions from the
president to call Minister Bowen, TO-
at Caracas, to Washington; also to
send Mr.. Russell, now minister to CO.
lombia, to Caracas, and Mr.. Barrett,
now minister at Panama, to Colombia.
1t is thought that Mr.. Bowen has
been recalled to explain first, why he
furnished the LOOMS charges for pub
LEGATION, and second. what grounds he
has for believing them to rest upon
any other foundation that the malev-
olence of President Castro.
Bowen's alleged furnishing of the
charges to the New York Herald is
held to be an aggravated ~offense, be-
cause when he mentioned to Secretary
Hay some time ago the fact that sto-
ries affecting the integrity of his pre-
| decessor as minister at Caracas were
in circulation at the Venezuelan cap
| ital, he was admonished to beware OF
| the stories, as they had already been
| injured into and found untrue.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
MOB BREAKS INTO THE JAIL.
Dick C~raisshead, an Alleged Double
Murderer, Probably Fatally Shot
by a Mob at Homer, La.

Shreveport, La, April 27.-After
working three hours with sledge ham
mers and pick axes, a mob of rs men
broke into the parish Jail at Homer,
La. rs miles northeast of Shreveport,
Wednesday, and shot Dick Craighesd,
inficting wounds which will prove fl
tai. Craighesd was charged with the
murder of Mrs. Ike Mckee, the wife Of
his h~alf-brother, and her little son.
The authorities were unaware Of the
design upon the prisoner until it was
too late to protect him. Every tele-
phone and telegraph wire out of Ho-
mer was cut, and the rifles of the Clai-
borne guards, the local military COM
pany, were seized before the move was
made on the Jail.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
THE MISSOURI SUNDAY LAW
Its Enforcement as at Present, 10
st. Louis, to be Assailed.
u is Claimed That h Only Law
Applicable Permits the Sale
of Beer and Wine.

st. Louis, May 2.-Only the whisky
drinkers will be barred from their IA
yorite tipple on future Sundays if the
contention of attorneys for the local
brewers and saloonkeepers is sustained
by the courts.
These attorneys attack the validity
of the present Sunday closing law, and
claim that the only law applicable to
st. Louis is that of 1867, which per-
mits the sale of beer and wine on Sum
day, but forbids the sale Of distilled
liquors.
Preparations for the appeal to the
courts are now being made by Judge
G.. A. Finkelnburg and ex-Att'y.-Gen.
e. G. Grow for the brewing interests.
and former City Counselor Benjamin
Schumacher and Judge Leo Rassieur
for the Liquor Dealers Protective as
ISOLATION.
The eases of the saloonkeepers who
were arrested for violating the Sunday
closing law will come up in the court
of criminal correction within a few
days and the attorneys for the liquor
interests expect that the court will hold
that the law of 1867 is still in force.
The right of the excise commission
, err to revoke a license for violation Of
the Sunday law without giving the sa-
loonkeeper a trial by jury, or before
! jury, has passed upon his case in 9
/ criminal court, is also challenged by
the attorneys.
They expect to apply within a few
days to the supreme court of Missouri
for a writ of certiorari against Excise
Commissioner Mulvihill on the GROUND
that he is exceeding his authority BY
revoking licenses without a jury trial
They contend that the commissioner!
power is similar to that of a count.
court, which, they claim, can revoke
licenses without a jury trial for al
causes except violation of the Suni!a.
law.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
NARROWLY ESCAPED DEATH.
Fire i'm the Colorado Fuel Iron Co.'S
Mine at PictOn, C~ol,-Seyerni
Men Overcome.

Trinidad, Col, April 28.-Fire broke
out in the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.'S
mines at Picton, shortly before noo
Thursday. A number of miners mar
rowly escaped death, several being
overcome by smoke. The fire is still
burning fiercely. General Superintend-
emit ]. T. Kebler has gone to Picton.
The mine employs $50 men, and the
output of coal is 800 Ions daily.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
ANOTHER CHARGED TO H0CH.
The Nodern "B1ucheard" Said to
Have Married Justine LOHler
In Chicago in 100

Chicago, April 27.-One more name
may be added to the long list of matri-
mouial dupes of Johann Hoch, now on
trial here charged with murder, IL the
accusations made by Karl Frederick
Loffier, of Durlach, Germany, are
true. In a letter receiver here by the
police, Loffler declares he has identl-
fed a picture of Hoch as that of a man
who married Loffler's niece, Justine
Loffler, in Chicago, in 1902. Loffler
declares his niece, after going to New
York with Hoch, married the alleged
"Bluebeard," whose assumed name was
Richard Schmidt. The woman then
disappeared, and Loffler says he be-
lieves she was murdered by the self
confessed bigamist.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04

Domestic cats running wild with
their descendants born in the timber
threaten to overrun the forests of the
nothern part of Minnesota. Several
years ago a lumber company distrib-
uted about fifty cats among his camps
and at the headquarters for supplies
to kill off the rats. When the camps
broke up most of the cats were left
to shift for themselves, and the re-
suit has been that they are now run
ming wild with their thousands Of de-
scendants, and the feline population
of the county has already reached
astonishing proportions.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-05-04
HONORS FOR GEN. PORTER.
FOREIGN Minister Delcasse VIII
Give Him II Dinner, and Amer
lean Colony Will Also.

Paris, May 2.-Fereign Minister Del
cassc will give a dinner to Gen. Porter,
May -, and the American colony will
give him an elaborate reception and
dinner May II. After that Gen. Porter
will make an automobile tour Of
Switzerland, returning here for the ex-
tensive military and naval honors
which the French government will ac-
cord the remains of Paul Jones when
the body is taken to America.
Gen. Porter is now preparing his Of
fetal report of the recovery OF the
body. Gen. Porter's talks with King
Edward during the Loubet dinner, Sun
Gay night, ere particularly cordial.