The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-13
INTERESTED IN COAL.
A Young Man Arrested for Trying to
See the President.

Oyster Bay, L. l., Sept. 13.-Isaac
Schamus, a Russian Jew, 20 years old,
has been arrested here and after an ex-
animation before justice of the peace
was sent to Mineola, L. l., to be ex-
amined as to his sanity. The arrest was
made by a secret service officer, one of
the personal guards of President Roose-
welt.
Schamus, who resides in New York
city, came here from New York and
soon afterward had an interview with
Mr.. Barnes, assistant secretary to the
president. He desired to see the presi-
dent and talk with him about the price
of coal. He said he was the general coal
agent of Greater New York. There was
imminent danger, in his opinion, of
general strike among the miners in the
anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania,
and the strike, he was assured, would
result in great hardships for the people
of the country. He wanted ten minutes
with the president to- tell him to appoint
commission of three men who would
regulate the output of the coal supply
so as to provide the poor with fuel at
reasonable prices, even in the event of
a strike.
Had Wired the President.
Secretary Barnes recognized at once
that Schamus was the man who recent
1y had written one, letter and sent two
kilograms to the president on the sub
ject of the price of coal, and he inform
ed him that it would not be possible to
dITdUSS al lutSINlSW 4OI l1lIIl dL liiS
moment.
Later the secret service agent found
Schamus in his rooms at a hotel and
placed him under arrest. He made
no objection to accompanying the Sc
cret service man to the office of JUS
tice Franklin. The Justice questioned
him at length in the presence of a
throng of people who had assembled
out of curiosity. Schamus answered
all questions intelligently and RATIONAL
w 1Tlff mentioned Then he
began to make an address on the ques-
ton of the alleged oppression of the
people by the coal magnates He re-
viewed his plan to have the president
declared that had President Roosevelt
not settled the coal strike three years
ago more blood would have been shed
than the world ever saw. ss@
Liberty Without Law.
In the course of his remarks he
turned to a bystander who had asked
him question about anarchy and de-
c1ared the time would come when the
people would have liberty without the
restraint of law. as laws would be un-
necessary He pointed to President
Roosevelt, as an example of what
man could accomplish by individual ef-
fort, and said every man could do as
the president had done
When Schamus was searcehd at
Mineola a permit to carry a revolver
signed by Captain Lantry of the New
York police force and Commissioner
of Police McAdoo was found on him.
No pistol was discovered, however, and
Schamus said he had not carried one.
Son of a Butcher.
New York, Sept 13.-Isaac
Schamus, who was arrested at Oyster
Bay after attempting to see the presi-
dent is the son of Samuel Schamus, a
well to do butcher living in East
Fifty-second street, who was notified
of the young mans arrest.
Isaac told me the other day that he
was going to see the president about
the price of coal for the poor" said
his father HE has been talking
about seeing the president for a long
time He is a good boy and loves the
poor. He studies hard all the time
HE was graduated from the gram
mar school and went to work for
Joseph Gordon & Co., coal merchants
| in Forty-second street. He was book
keeper and then collector and agent.
'sIt was as collector for the firm
that he applied for a revolver permit.
| for he carried a large amount OF
money at times