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EVIDENCE on THE BENCH.

Magistrate Barlow swears and Testlies
In an Auto Speed Hearing.
When Magistrate Barlow held up his
hand In jefferson Market police court yes
terday and administered the witness oath
to himself the court owd gave a gasp.
Before they had time to recover from their
amazement the Magistrate had given his
evidence against an accused au~tomobilist.
The accused was Maxwell S. Names of
2 West Ninth street. Policeman Presley
said that he had arrested him on Sunday
for speeding down Fifth avenue at the rate
Of seventeen miles an hour. After timing
the machine between Thirty-third and
Thirty second streets, Presley said he fol-
lowed it to Twenty-fourth street before
he was able to stop the car and arrest
Mr.. Names,
Magistrate Barlow then asked the de-
PENDANT If he had any statement he cared
TO make.
'Yes," was the answer, Il would like to
say that my arrest was absolutely uncalled
for. l had TO get out Of line in front Of the
Holland House yesterday in order to avoid
an accident and 1t was necessary to hit up
speed for a moment or two. But it was only
temporary. Among the ladies in my car
was my sister. She has been under a doc
tors care for several months and is in such a
nervous state that / would not dare speed
with her in my car.
Besides look at my record; I have handled
high speed cars since 1908, and this lie the
first time l have ever been In trouble"
Magistrate Barlow made no comment
on this statement. Turning to the cop
he said,
"Oficer, this defendants car is a large
white machine, isn't it' And it contained
four persons?"
yes, SIR answered Presley.
Then the Magistrate took the oath, and
as Peter T. Barlow gave the following
statement TO the stenographer:
Il was walking down Fifth avenue on
Sunday afternoon with a friend when I
when l saw a large white automobile going
at least fifteen miles an hour. 1t contained
four people, and 1 recognize this defendant
as its driver. 1 said to my friend: He is
violating the speed law in the most out
rageous manner / saw the policeman
start after him and then lost sight Of them
in the crowd. T.
"Mr. Names, I hold you in $500 bail for
trial" r
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COPS TO STAY IN COURTS.
But They'll BE Changed Every Year-Gen,
Bingham and Magistrates Agree.

But They'll BE Changed Every Year-Gen.
Bingham n Magistrates Agree.
The Board Of City Magistrates held a
special meeting yesterday afternoon to
take action on the report Of the committee
which conferred with Police Commissioner
Bingham last Thursday concerning police
details . in the Magistrates courts, A
letter from Commissions Bingham setting
forth in detail the agreement reached by
the committee and the Commissioner wal
read.
The Commissioner promised not to dis
turb the court details at present, it being
understood that the personnel of the de-
tail was to be changed at least once q year.
Sc as to cause the least confusion a part
OF the detail in each court will be changed
every three or our months
Regarding the retaining OF four men
In the courts where they have served on
the bridge for some time (Brennis in Har-
lem, Harris in Essex Market. Foley in
Jefferson Market and Kavanaugh in York
ville). a point insisted upon by the Magis;
that they should remain indefinitely, on
consideration that the Magistrates should
not bring pressure TO bear upon him to
have any other particular men detailed
to court duty.
beers that Commissioner Bingham had
told him over the telephone that he must
decline to retransfer Harris to the Essex
Market court from the East Fifty-frst
street station house. He said that, he
had received information which convinced
him that Harris should not have a court
detail. Brennis, the only other one Of
the four special policemen who had been
transferred, had already been returned,
tho president said. "
The Magistrates discussed at length a
request Of Commissioners Bingham hat
they provide for the payment Of men de-
tailed to the courts. They all held that
they should do nothing more than assist
Commissioner Bingham in obtaining the
funds necessary.
Magistrate Whitman introduced a reso-
luton setting forth that since it was the
sense Of the board hat the proper and
orderly conduct Of the courts required
the continuance Of the present system OF
police court details they would indorse
the application for funds to pay the men
made BY the Police Commissioner to the
propef authorities. The motion was not
opposed, and President Wahle wa given
authority 70, appear with the Commissioned
before the Board Of Estimate TO aid him
In recurring the necessary funds.
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JACK O'BRIEN IN PAJAMAS.
Light Heavyweight Champi on Gives Broad
way a Treat when wires Cross.

Joseph II. O'Hagan Of Philadelphia,
better known as Philadelphia Jack o'Brien,
the light heavyweight champion. Is stopping
at the Hotel Marlborough at Broadway
and Thirty sixth street. He was taking
a nap about Q o'clock last evening with
his sparring partner, Joe Murray. when
they, we're awakened by smoke pouring in
from the windows on the Broadly way side.
O'Brien wasted no time in getting out
on a fire escape and for a few minutes ex-
hibited himself in paiamas to an interested
crowd in Broadway. The fire was caused
by crossed wires leading to an electric
sign placed Immediately under the win
dows of O'Brien's rooms.
Some Of his clothes were spoiled by hand
extinguishers, but the fire did little damage.
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MANY DEAD LEFT IN MINES.
Fresh Fires Stop the Work OF Taking Out
the Victims.
Special cable Despatch to TIE suN.
Special Gable Dispatches 10 THE Sun.

Special Gable Dispatches 10 THE sun.
PARIS, March 12.-The work Of placing
in cofins the bodies of the men who were
killed in the Courrieres colliery disaster on
Saturday-now estimated to number 200
was continued to-day. A special train
took from Paris yesterday several hundred
collins. They are Of white wood. each
bearing a cross in black. Soldiers quickly
unloaded them and carried them TO the
shops and houses which had been turned
into improvised mortuaries.
Most OF the bodies are in such a condition
that Identification is impossible. While
engaged in recovering them many miners
tainted. Three priests stood by and en-.
oouraged the men in their work. The
Watching crowd saw piled up hundreds OF
collins containing the bodies Of unknown
dead. The grief Of those who had lost
relatives and had been deprived of the
mournful satisfaction Of a last look was
terrible to witness.
Fresh fires have broken out in the pits,
thus preventing further investigation for
probably three days. The last Of the rescue
workers to leave the pits report that they
saw 100 bodies which they were unable to
reach on account Of the mephitic vapors.
It is said that the widows Of victims will
receive from the mining company a pension
Of Sl4o a year. The cost of repairing the
works is estimated at $50, 0o0.
Some Of the Paris newspapers, notably
the Adtin. appear to-day with mourning
borders. A meeting of representatives OF
various newspapers will be held tomorrow
TO devise means for the relief Of the widows
and orphans.
Amessage Of sympathy from the German
Emperor was received by President Fallieres
Similar messages had already
from the Kings Of Italy and Portugal
and the President of Switzerland.
The Chamber Of Deputies voted $1,000 o
to-day for the relief Of the sufferers by the
disaster. The Chamber then adjourned
till Wednesday as a token Of sorrow.
BERLIN, March IA party Of German
engineers have left Essen to help in the
work of rescue at the Courrieres mines
In Pas de Calais. France. The TdoeblaH
has opened a subscription oil behalf Of
the sufferers, urging that humanity is
above patriotism. IL says this is a good
occasion to show that political differences
do not count in the face of a great calamity.
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THE UPTOWN POSTOFFICE.
Controversy as to the Kind OF Building
May Delay Action by Congress.


May Delay Action by Congress.
WASHINGTON, March l?.-From present
indications Congress will not be called
upon to make an appropriation at this
session for the building which the Govern
ment contemplates erecting at the Penn
~sylvania tegminal in New York for postal
PURPOSES. The controversy between the
railroad company and the Post Office De-
partment as to the kind Of a building that
shall be erected at the terminal will prob
ably not be brought to an end In time to
permit Of legislative action this winter.
All L. chaos in connection with the ter
minal project, Postmaster General Cor
telyou appears TO be master Of the situation.
He has secured an opinion from the law
officer OF the Department, in which 1t Is
held that the law authorizing the purchase
Of the land and the erection Of q post office
building al the Pennsylvania terminal In
New York is permissire and not mandatory.
AT the same time the railroad authorities
are holding out against the Department
and insisting that tho building they have
planned Is the n the Government should
desire,
The Postmaster General has replied that
he wants an uninterrupted floor space,
that the court proposed for the building
should be eliminated, and that the building
should be flush with the streets, AT present
the plans provide that the space set apart
for post Office purposes shall be surrounded
by. airphafts, to be bridged In order to
permit Of ingress and egrees.
II, was said to-day that a conference
will soon be- held al the Department In
which members OF Congress from Man
haitian will 60 over the matter at length
with Postmaster General Cortelyou and
First Assistant Hitchcock. In the mean
time Postmaster Wilcox has been in
structed to continue his inquiries and re-
port to the Department.
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BY SUBWAY TO KINGSBRIDGE.
Shuttle Trains Running From lBSth TO
2ISth Street on II Minutes Headway.

zlStl DtFett Ou H IuinuttS fitbuW ~.
The Kingsbridge branch Of the subway
was opened to the public yesterday morn
ing. The first regular train left the 18TH
street terminal at 5.5s A. NJ, with about
fifty passengers on board. A train also
left the 21sth street station at the same
time and the two passed each other about
18ist street, under full Roadway.
No stop was made at the i'7th, islst or
2O7th street stations, al they are unoorn-
pietsd. They will not be ready for a couple
Of weeks. After the northbound train
pulls out Of l57th street it does not stop
until it reaches Dyokman street. The
trains run under an eleven minute head
way from both ends.
It is now possible to ride from the Battery
to Kingsbridge for a nickel with change Of
oars at 157th street. After the trains leave
the underground section at Tooth street
they pass out onto the elevated structure,
which runs through Inwood Valley clear
to KinRsbridge.
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COAL MEN HERE UNEASY.
Begin to Fear That There May BE n Strike
Operators Meet To-day.

The presidents az the coal carrying COM
panies will meet this afternoon at las Liberty
street, when President Baer Of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Ceal and Iron Company
will be in town. They may give out a
anthracite operators committee had only
this to say:
Mr.. Baer received this morning Mr..
Mitchell's acknowledgment OF the answer
made by the operators committee to the
propositions made by the committee on
behalf Of the anthracite mine workers with
advice that the same would be submitted
to the miners committee as soon as posi-
ble,"
None Of the anthracite operators would
talk personally as to the possibility Of fur
Their negotiations. The original idea was
that the miners committee Of seven should
send It's demands to the operators, after
which the anthracite operators COMMITTEES
Of seven was to meet the miners committee
In joint session. The sending Of the answer
by the operators upsets this programme
more or less.
1t lie contended, however, that as all the
demands have been absolutely refused no
compromise is possible, and therefore a
Joint conference would not result in any
thing unless-the miners backed down.
This explanation Of the employers posi-
ton was made last night:
Tho operators consider that they. are
taking long chances in even offering 70
continue the present conditions for three
years longer. This offer was based on the
possibility that the business prosperity
which characterized the last three years
will continue. There Is no certainty Of this,
as any time within the next three years q
depression In business may take place
which may lessen the demand for coal, and
in carrying out this contract place the
operators at a serious disadvantage
The coal merchants In tits city were
beginning TO be uneasy yesterday. Some
OF their customers have begun 10 lay in
extra supplies Of coal. they said, and they
expect that this tendency win increase,
Allison Dodd, vice-president OF Burns
Bros, 20 Cortlendt street, with which Is
Incorporated the Communipaw Coal Com.
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ANOTHER HITCH AT ALGECIRAS.
Settlement OF Moroccan Bank and Police
Questions Hangs Fire.
sp.eta Gable Despatch 10 TIE sun.

SpeefH Cable Despatch to n SUN.
ALdEcIRAs, March 12.-The settlement OF
the details of the Moroccan bank and police
questions is hanging fire. Each side main
tains its position. Germany will not yield
her demand regarding ~Casablanca, which
France stin refuses to grant.
There is no real reason for pessimism, but
German correspondents here take the view
hat France is obstinate, imperilling an
agreement. On the other aide there are
accusations that Germany is increasing her
demands and is trying to win the support
Of neutral Powers. The truth seems to be
that matters are awaiting the completion
of the French Ministry, and it lie expected
that the temporary check TO progress will
be removed without ~prejudicing the ulti-
mate result Of the conference.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-13
PLOT JEWISH DIFFERENTIATION
DR. NATHAN,S CHARGE AGAINST
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.
Convinced by TOu Of the Country That
MasSacres Are Organized-Prediets
That NTOrc Of Them win OCcur-He 10
TO Take Charge OF the Relief Funds.

That More Of Them VIII OCcur-He 10
to Take Charge of the RELIEF Funds.
Special cable Despatch to TIE SUN.
BERLIN, March 12.-Dr. Paul Nathan, q
we'll known publicist, who has returned
from a tour Of Russia, has undertaken on
behalf Of American, British, German and
jewish philanthropists to arrange for the
distribution Of funds for the relief Of Rus
eian Jews.
He declares that the position OF Jews In
Russia is horrible. Massacres exceeding
those that have occurred in the past may be
renewed at any hour. Notwithstanding
the personal assurances Of Premier WHITE
and Minister Of the Interior Durnovo that
the Jews would be protected further out
breaks are to be feared.
DR.. Nathan is convinced that the Gov
ernment's policy for solving the Jewish
question is systematic determination. he
says he found indisputable evidence that
the October massacres were organized
They occurred in 400 cities and towns stimuli
~taneously and were identical in char
aoter. In every case the Jewish quarters
were raided and plundered, and women
and children were outraged by armed
roughs while the police looked on. When
the Jews foroibly resisted they were shot
by the soldiers as rioters.
DR.. Nathan procured at Odessa a copy
Of q circular issued to the garrison last
week, urging the soldiers to rise and crush
the traitors who were plotting to over
throw the Government and substitute a
Jewish regime. The circular was printed
at the office Of the Imperial General Stan
and was passed by the censor.
DR.. Nathan earnestly appeals to Jewish
fnanciers to arrest Russia's borrowing
power. She is about to seek anothak loan,
he says, and everybody who helps her to
obtain 1t will be al accomplish inthe carnival
Of rape, robbery and murder. There are
also other practical reasons against aiding
Russia financially, he adds, for her bank
ruptoy is an established fact.
ST. PETERZBURo, March 12.-The Noioe
'remva and the Zar q, both anti-Semitic
papers, print the text Of a pamphlet melting
murder Of the Jews on the ground that
they are the authors OF Russia's troubles.
The pamphlet is also selling separately.
1t was printed at h Prefecture Of Police
and bears the censor's Enforcement. The
Government prosecutor has made no at
tempt to prevent it's sale OF to interfere
with the authors, although the pamphlet
incidentally accuses Premier Witte of being
the lie ader of a Jewish conspiracy to ruin
Russia. The Union OF Russian People,
which claims the auth orship is openly
enrolling 80 called patriots and distribut-
ing revolvers to them.
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ITALIANS ACCUSER MISSING.
sixteen.Year.OId Bronx Girl Not Seer
since March y.

The disappearance OF Lilly Hansen, a
sixteen-year-old girl who lives at the corner
Of Morris Park avenue and Graham street,
was reported at the fremont police station
last night by the girls mother. Mrs.
Hansen said that she had not seen her
daughter since the afternoon OF March 7,
when the girl went on an GRAND.
On that day Lilly Hansen had appeared
in the Morrisania Police Cour to complain
of the actions to two Italians who had been
annoying her on her way to and from work
in a dressmaking place In Yonkers. The
Italians were sentenced by Magistrate
Crane to six months on the Island.
Mrs. Hansen fears that her daughter has
been kidnapped by friends Of the men she
accused.
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INDIANS TRAP US. MARSHALS.
THREE OF A PARTY OF SIX MUIR
DERED BY WTCKLIFFE GANG.
Indian Territory the Scene OF an Outbreak
by FullbioOd RedsI<ins-POsse Forming
to Run Down and Punish Assassins
In iii Humor Over Lack OF supplies.


vMITA; /. T., March 12.--Six deputy
United States marshals were ambushed
yesterday near Kansas, /. T., by the Wick
life gang Of desperadoes and three of the
officers were killed outright.
The ambuscade was laid on Saline Creek,
in the Spavinaw Hills. The deputies who
we're killed were /. L. Gilstrap,, Oris Little
and Dick Carey.
The Wickliffes, who are full blood In
dams, are only three in number, but &C.
cordlng to the report OF the affair received
here by telephone to-day they were assisted
by practically the entire full blood popula-
ton OF the district.
The region where the killing took place
is mountainous. and the officers were
caught in a trap from which escape appeared
impossible, but they fought desperately.
Three of their number quickly went down
and all six of their horses were killed.
The surviving officers, replying as best
they could to the fire Of the desperadoes,
ran to the shelter Of trees and rocks. One
of them made his way to the town of Kansas,
nine miles away, and sent word to-day to
United States Marshal w. H. Darrough.
who began preparations for running the In
dams down.
A message was sent TO the Department
Of Justice in Washington asking permission
to raise a posse Of 100 men, and in anticipa-,
ton Of this permission posses are being
gathered in Vinita, Pryor Creek, Grove and
T~ahlequah.
Marshal Darrough will 60 to Kansas
and conduct the campaign in person, the
different posses concentrating there and
acting under his direction.
Marshal Darrough has asked the authori-
ties to offer Il 900 reward for death or
capture Of each of the Wickliffes. They
are brothers and sons of John Wickliffe,
ex-Judge of the Supreme Court OF the
Cherokee Nation. Charles Wickliffe, the
oldest of the boys, has been tried twice
for murder, once for killing his own brother;
but he was acquitted each time.
Five years ago he stabbed another In.
dian at a Cherokee dance Inc took to the
hills. His younger brothers, John and
Thomas, joined him there. At the time
they killed Deputy Vier their home was
surrounded by deputies, but they fought
heir way out.
The Wickliffes constitute what is probably
the last band Of outlaws in Indian Territory.
The other full bloods assist them because
all the Indians are out of money and are
suffering, Government regulations having
tied up their supplies.
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PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINA DEAD.
Dr. Manuel Quintana was Elected I'm 1904
for Six Year. Term.

WASHINGTON, March I2.-The State De-
partment was informed to-day Of the
death Of DR.. Manuel Quintena, President
Of Argentina. The news came from Min
lister Beaupre, at Buenos Ayres.
Yesterday a mail report from Mr.. Beau
pre-, dated January 20, came to the State
Department and in it was a reference to
President Quintana, who, Mr.. Beaupre
said, was not at all we'll and had sought
the higher altitude Of a suburb Of Buenos
Ayres on account Of the excessive heat in
the capital. MIR. \Beaupre said nothing
to indicate immediate danger OF the death
Of the President.
DR.. Quintana was serving a six year
term, having been elected In 1904.
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$4,000 A YEAR FOR THE QUEEN.
Provision In Bill Concerning King Al.
fonso's Marriage Contract.


MADRID, March 1.-THE Government
presented a bill in the Chamber of Deputies
to-day dealing with the marriage con-
tract between King Alfonso and Princess
Ena. 1t iusures the future Queen 450, 900
pesetas annually, and Provides that she
shall receive $50, 900 pesetss yearly In the
event Of her becoming p widow. The
Clericals raised some opposition to the
measure. The House appointed a COM
mittee to report on the matter.
Prime Minister Moret communicated
King Alfonso's formal announcement of
his forthcoming marriage to both houses.
1t was read aloud, The Senate was par
ticularly demonstrative in approving it.
The Senators cheered and repeatedly cried
Long live the King and future Queenl"
1t is understood that after Easter King
Alfonso will visit Princess Ena on the Isle
OF Wight, Of which the Princess's mother
IA Cover
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STORM HITS THE MINNETONKA.
Atlantic Transport Liner Has q Hard Night
or Newfoundland.

The Atlantic Transport liner Mime
tonka. which arrived yesterday from Lon
don with nine circus people and forty horses
on board, encountered heavy weather on
Friday night when the ship was between
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
AS the Minnetonka did not have much OF a
cargo on board she offered a good target for
the wind, and it was hard work to keep her
in her course. Several big waves broke on
board, drenching the decks. The passen-
gers were confined to the cabin. Toward
midnight the storm became 80 severe that
Capt. Leyland gave orders for the ship to
proceed at half speed.
The horses were badly frightened. They
began tugging at their halters and stamping
about trying to break loose. In the morning
the storm died down, Very little damage
was done to the ship.
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INJURED MAN SAVED TRAINS.
L~ackawanns Towerman Set All Signals
Before Seeking Help for Himself.

DOVER, N. j., March l2.-Train No. 454
on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad was halted near the tower house
at the Denville station to-day because the
signals were set against it. Conductor
Thompson went into the tower house, found
it vacant and the floor covered with blood.
Railroad detectives were put on the case
and learned that the towerman, John Scales,
early this morning had fallen down the steps
of the tower house and was badly bruised.
He crawled back into the tower and set
signals against ali trains before starting
for his home, three miles away.
At present he is at his home in a serious
condition and DR.. Arthur w. Condict, who
is in attendance, says that he is badly in
jured internally. He WAS bleeding at the
mouth and nose when the doctor reached
him,