Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-04-19


 ! chinists of the Santa Fe has arrived
 here. He claims the machinists hay, } spent upwards of S3JO, GOO in tho strike against the Santa Fe during tho past year. The announcement now is made at strikers headquarters that unless the demands of the machinists and boilermakers are adjusted imne- diately the blacksmiths will next be called out. If this fails it is asserted the car repairers VII be called to quit work. General Manager Nudge of the Santa Fe, states that put 137 boiler makers of the entire system are out and the road is not affected.
 FLEETWOOD SPRINGS, Colo, April l7.-Before President Roosevelt penetrates the wilds so far that com munication with outside world will be next to impossible, Secretary Loeb, with the aid ot courier daily expect ed from the camp, will get on the presidents trail and visit him in the mountains. The visit will be for the purpose of taking up with the presi- dent number of important matters that have come to headquarters here since Saturday. Tbere are a mum Der of commissions to be signed as we'll as departmental business that has been forwarded. Many invitations have come to Loeb and the members of the official party staying here to take ex- cursions into surrounding territory in order to view points of interest All these have been declined or postponed until the arrival of the first courier from the president Loeb expects to return to the president camp with the courier and may spend the night in camp. Wild stories of the hunt, most of them obviously false, have been re- ceived. Loeb does not credit them.
 SIOUX CITY, Ia., April 17.-John NJ. Thurston, former United States senator from Nebraska, has been re- tained to press the claims for indem- pity on account of the massacre of several Americans by Indians in Sonora, Mexico, in January. The claims will aggregate s45O, GOO, or SlO0,- coo each for the four men killed and S25, 900 each for the two survivors, c. E. Terrington and H. F.. Miller.
 
 WASHINGTON, April r. - The senate interstate commerce committee met today to begin the hearing on the railway rate legislation. The com mittee will meet at II o'clock daily and the sessions will continue until , o'clock. The power to fix the rates of private car lines and terminal facil- ities and other cognate matters will be considered. It is expected the hearings will close by June l.
 NEW YORK, April 17.-Secretary | Taft and the members of Panama can al commission are in session today at | the offices of the Panama railroad i company. Following were elected as the new board: President, T. P. vice president and general manager, John F. Wallace; secretary treasurer, E. 4. Dralle. The board the double tracking and the re-equiping of the railroad and made aD appropriation of sl, 25O, 900 for that purpose.
 WEST PALM, Fla, April 1.-The condition of Joseph Jefferson, the vet eIan actor has undergone a change for the worse. Tonight the outlook for his recovery is not so hopeful. Pby- .Icians have been in constant atten- adance at his bedside today and report him weak.
 NEW YORK, April r. There were two developments in the Nan Platter son case today. Another postnonement of the trial until tomorrow and the by the district attorneys Otfice of letters and other effects whose recent seizure from trunk of Mrs. J. Morgan Smith, Nan Patter- sons sister, aroused widespread in tarest {