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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-11
WAIT WALKING ORDERS
NEW YORK MEN READY FOR A
CALL OUT.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, August 1O-Percy Thomas
a member of New York Local No 16, Com
merclal Telegraphers, who was today ap-
pointed by President Samuel Small of the
national body deputy president to repre-
sent him in this city, said tonight that on
Monday morning general strike Of all the
union commercial telegraphers in the coun-
try would be called. This order was di-
rectly from the president AMI executive
committee of the national body OF union
telegraphers. said M. Thomas, and it in
cluded newspaper and stock market te,eg-
raphers
If the order OF President Small is car
ried out by the union every wire except
those operated by the railroad te!egraphers
will be deserted by the union men, and a
paralysis in the stock reports of the coun-
try will ensue. The newspapers of the
country will be thrown back upon long
distance telephone for the transmission Of
news.
Inc general order for a walkout fol-
io"ed ahother day of independent strikes
among various locals in the large Relay CEN
'ers throushout the country and indicates
that President Small and the executive hoard
OF the national body have been forced in
line by the unapproved walkouts of tho
locals in Chicago. New Orleans and o,har
cities. In addition to these union locals ~,
deserted their keys on Friday reports nm
to late hour tonight showed thar Western
Union employees quit work at 81. Paul 81
Louis, MilYatkee. Omaha, Mime apolis.
Knoxville, Nashville, Columbus, Ohio and
Fargo y. Oak.
On the Postal Telegraph Company's lines
walkouts were put into effect at Bjrming-
Gouiiuued ON Second Paral
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HoOSIER MILITIA OUT.
Under Arms to Prevent Disorder of
Striking Furniture Makers.

TELL CITY. Ind, August 10.-At the re-
quest OF Sheriff Wilmer. Adjt. Gen.
Parry, with the Evansville and Munt Yer
non companies of the Indiana National
Guard arrived here today to prevent disor-
der growing out of strike of workers in a
furniture factory.
The Vincennes and Washington compa-
niesahave been ordered to stand in readiness
to move here If there are serious outbreaks.
For more than a week Tell City has wit
messed nightly lawlesSness on the part of
strike sympathiZers. and as the result of an
attack on the town marshal he shot and ia
tally wounded one of the strikers
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DYNAMITED HOUSE.
Then Shot at Owner as He Came to
Window

NEW YORK. August 10.-A desperate at
tempt was made to take the Eft of Vincent
Zavatt. an Italian banker, early today by
dynamiting his home, at Mineoa, l.. l.,
and shooting at him when he appeared at a
window after the explosion. Mr. Zavatt
escaped injury. The front If the house
was practically wrecked.
Mr.. Zavatt has recently aided the county
officials in The prosecution of Italian Grim
nals, and the attack is thought to have
been made in revenge
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PHILIPPINES TO SUE.
Standard Oil to Be Asked for $4,000
Import DutV

MANILA, August 10.-The Attorney Gem
erai has been instructed by the Department
of Justice at Was 1ington TO file suit against
the Standard Oil Company to recover $40 600
import duty on an old claim dating back to
the time when the military turned over the
government to the civil authorities. The
amount represents the difference between
the ingey rate and the present tariff.
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RAILWAY FINED $4,000.
Wisconsin Central Mulcted by Judge
Morris for Relating.

MINNEAPOLIS, August 10-Judge Page
Morris, in the United States district court
this afternoon, fined the Wisconsin Central
Railway Company $1,000 for rebating, of
which it was convicted last April. Burton
johnson and G. T. Huey, freight officials of
the road were fined $1,000 and $1,000
spectively. fGS paying rebates to shippers.
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Part Three.

THE STATUE. BY EDEN PHILPOTTS
AND ARNOLD BENNETT. ............ 10
Strike-out Sawyer. BY George William Daley. 2
Getting Through the Summer. By Hartley
Davis Observation-Disclosures. 3
Intercession Of the Sea. By Roy Norton 8
Royal Influence Fashion. By F. Cunlne-
owen .'.......... Z
Problem Of the Vanishing Man. BY Jacques
Lord BrouSham's Ghost. BY H. Addison Bruce IL
Herrick Of the Highways. By Elliott Flower. -
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EXPLOSION AT BOULDER.
Suspected 1t Was of Willful
Origin.

DENVER, Col. August lO-''We have
proof that the fire in the depot of the Colo
RADIO and Southern at Boulder last night was
of incendiary origin" said a. ID. Parker. vice
today.
The miscreants may not have looked for
the awful results that followed through the
explosion of the dynamite. but upon their
heads the blame of the catastrophe must
rest. l will not say whom we suspect"
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Part Four.


To Protect New Hampshire Forests.
Testing Air Strata. Observation-Disclosures. /
Practical Aid for Artistic Needewomen. )
Mr.. Dooley. MISREPRESENTATION. 4
Practical Housekeerer's Own Corner. .........
With King Grape in the Midi ...............
Snakes at Close Range. ......................
Anecdotes Told BY and About Well-known
Tue lhperSOlatOE
Kaiser Wilhelm in Business. ................. 8
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VENEZUELAN CABINET.
New officials in Place of Ministry Re-
signed in June.

CARACAS, Venezuela August Q, via Will
lemstad, August 1O.-The new cabinet,
formed yesterday in succession to the min
iStry which resigned June %, is composed as
follows: Secretary general, Dr. r. Garbiras
Guzman; minister! of the interior. Lopez
Baralt: minister of foreign affairs, Jose de
Jesus Paul; minister of finance, DR.. Arnodo
Morales, minister of war. Gen. Diego Fer
rer; minister of development. ]. NJ. Herrera
1rgoyen; minister of public works, Juan
Casanova; minister of education, DR.. Baldo
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Wholesale Arkansas Fire.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, August 10.-The en-
tire business section of Portland, Ark, was
destroyed by fire today Twelve stores and
eight residences were burned. There is no
fire department at Portland and the flames
burned themselves out.
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WRECK INJURIES FIFTEEN.
Diner and Day Coach on Great
Northern Jump Track.

SPOKANE. Wash, August 1O-Great
Northern passenger train No 4. the st.
Paul mail eastbound, was wrecked near
Milan station this afternoon
The engine, day coach and diner left the
track. Fifteen persons were injured some
seriously.
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Officials Speak Confidently.

General Superintendent Cook of the West
ern Union said today that his company will
absolutely refuse to treat with the strikers
Ihey are no longer our employees" he
said We do not know them"
The check boys in the Postal offices Joined
IN she strike today, all but two out of the
force of thirty-fve refusing to remain at
their posts. The boys are not organized
put the spirit of unrest was too strong for
them TO resist They sent delegation to
union headquarters, where it was received
with cheer. National Secretary Russell
SAID today that he had received no word
from either the Western Union or Postal
looking to peace negotiations, neither had
United States Labor Commissioner NeilI
sent any communication
All attention is being conferred on the at
tltude or the private wire men, who il is
confidently asserted will not strike till
uehEtelS ordered by the union. To protect
themselves, the various wire houses are
equipped with telegraph wires over the sys-
tenn OF the Bell phone. Railway managers
IN Chicago do not think their operators will
take any part in the strike of the men of
the Western Union and Postal At nlaces
where neither of the big companies main
tain a local office the railroad men handle
commercial messages under the contracts
between the roads and Western Union and
Postal companies.
All the railroad operators arc on tho nov,
roll IF the roads. II do not think We viii
nave any trouble said a president of one
OF the big western roads ut is not likely
the railroad men will be asked to aid the
stlhe py refusing to handle commercial
messages. Should our men refuse to do
SO nope we won't find 1t out / also
nope our operators will not Inconvenience
the western Union or Postal companies by
opening tlelr keys or otherwise interfer-
SageS.'
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Persia Rises to Explain.

CONSTANTINOPLE, August TO- - The
Persian ambassador here was referred to
in dispatch from Constantinople yester
day as saying that the Persians who were
attacked on the frontier Of Persia by de-
tachment of Turkish troops were trying to
capture the murderers of j. c. Larabee. the
American missionary who killed in
March, 1904 but an investigation shows
that the murdered missionary referred to
was Mr.. Laird, possibly of the Urumiah
Mission, which was under the supervision
of the late DR.. Larabee.
The books available in regard to mission
work ir the near east do not mention an
American missionary named Laird.
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MR.. DowNEY'S VIEWS.

Saws His Position on Labor Situation
Has Been Wrongly Interpreted.
To the Editor Of The Star;
notice that in Fridays edition OF TIL.
Star you quote extracts from a letter ad.
dressed by M to the Employers Associa-
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The Message Which Gave Signal for
Great Strike of Telegraphers In 1888


the from Maine California and
southwark everglades brought about the egra
thousands of deserted their keys
and egraph throughout the United States
Daravz The message been previously agreed and
that the startling character OF
the telegram would widespread attention and thus the
tng great wakout every nook and corner OF this land
VIII similar message the network throughout
the country teup the world of quick
oma the National
Telepraphe and the tick OF the instruments
cevc vii Union Postal and
commercial close their Keys ana wal" out OF the ocs
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SULTAN ADMONISHED.
Leishman Warns Him Not to Injure
American Mission

CONSTANT1NOPLE, August 1O.-Ambas-
sador Leishman has drawn the porte's at
tention to the danger threatening the
American mission at Uruniah from the
mixed Turkish and Kurdish incursion across
the Persian frontier. The ambassador en-
phasized the consequences which were likely
to ensue should the American missionaries
or their establishments suffer.
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THE STAR TODAY.
The Star today consists of six parts. as
Part One.

Page.
Telegraphers Strike General. ................
Gas Companies to Pay More Tax.......... l
Leaders in Local Trouble Ready for Fray. /
How Telegraphers' Strike VIII Affect This
Sity e
Handbook War to Be Continued. .........:...
Bad Stock Stump Mid Many Rumors. ........
Prof. Skinner Gives Up Work.
Alexandria Affairs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Internatcna, Court. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
River improvements. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
In Ffhe Old Dominion.
Maryland Fight for Senate.
DR.. W. l.. White to Celebrate. .............-.
Financial Page. ..................- IL
Summer Resorts. IL
News of the Local National GuardSmen. ID
ClaSStneu Aus IT
Classified Ads Observation-Disclosures. Is
Turning OH Redmond. ........................ 10
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Part Two.

THgt
Society. Observation-Disclosures.
Alexandria Society. .................
In the Realm of Higher Things. ............
AS the Cartoonists See the News .......
The SIuaw Man. Observation-Disclosures.
News OF Interest to Automobiles.
The Thea;er. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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Part Five.

Cleveland Noses Out Nationals ............... l
Empire City Races. !
keenes Colt Remains Unbea en.............. 1
PotCmacs Cndt c; ded ..................... /
Potomac Eight Makes Hit l
Batting and Fielding Averages Of the Ma
Early Base Ball Days at Annapolis. ........s
Young Stowaway's Rare Good Fortune. ......
Little Stories of Base Ball Players. ..........
The Man Who Famed Casey ................
Activities iii Light Harness c relies ......-...
The American and English Stroke. ...........
Racing on the Grand Circuit.
Duke of Guttenbergs Turf Career. ...........
How Handbooks Followed ST. Asaph's Fall.
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the day chiefs have gone out. and all the
night chiefs except two. The significant
part of this is that the fourteen day chiefs
with the exception of three, are not MEM
bers of the union. In fact, the strike has
extended right up to the chief operators
desk"
Striking operators today said they de-
tected the employees of the Western Union
getting piled-up messages out of Chicago
by the special delivery malls. One man
said he kilograms being mailed by
bushel basketfuls.
Another method Of the company to relieve
the telegram congestion was revealed to the
men when they received today a novel offer
of aid. 1t came from the long distance tele-
phone girls. The girls are employed by the
Chicago Telephone Company. These girls
are not organized into any union but they
told the union officials that the Western
Union was sending its kilograms to nearby
towns by long distance telephone, to be
wired from these towns by operators who
had not struck. The girls got indignant over
their being made to handle such messages
they said, and decided that If the officials
cared for their assistance they would refuse
to handle these kilograms. The men consid-
cred this aid so seriously as to bring 1t I'D
In a meeting of the executive board early
in the dav
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WIRE STRIKE MAY REACH
EVERY LINE IN THE LAND
CHICAGO THE STORM CENTER

Telephone and Railroad Operators, Canadian Teleg
raphers and Even the Cable Men May Become
Involved - Western Teamsters Threaten
Sympathetic Strike.
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Confirmed by the Assessor.

In the absence of the assessors official
force yesterday afternoon, owing to the
half holiday, the details of the foregoing
statement were furnished by one of the
assistant assessors. He, however, has
been away from the city. and. he stated,
was not thoroughly familiar with the case.
Assessor Griffin was communicated with at
his home, and he confirmed the facts and
figures that have been given.
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Part Six

Sambo and His Funny Noises. ..............
Nioodemus Napoleon James Crow, Esq .....
Uncle Geo. Washington Bings, the Village
Bub-Hes Always to Blame. ................
Wacs-The Dog That Adopted a Man.
Brownie Clown OF Brownietown .......
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SUBSCRIBERS COPY.
WEATHER.

Fair and warmer today. Mon
day fair.
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Continued on Second Page.)
The Ordway new era., 1907-09-20
Union Pacific Cutoff a Certainty.

Denver.-The long rumored cutoff
TO be constructed by the Union Pasific
between Denver and Cheyenne at n
cost OF about 81 100000 has at last been
decided upon and camps are now being
established with the expectation OF
having the new line completed before
the first of the year. The cutoff will
be seventeen miles long, starting near
Carr and running northeast to Borie.
Wyo.. three miles south OF Corlett. con-
Meeting with the Wyoming division
four and one-half miles west OF Chey-
enne. 1t will eliminate the principal
curves and heavy grades between Den
yer and Cheyenne.
The work In some sections will be
unusually heavy. There will be 22O,-
900 cubic yards Of roadbed excavation
necessary and there will be 10000 Gu
bic yards Of solid rock to be removed
In addition to this there Will be 100000
cubic yards OF embankment. The larg-
est I'LL will be 2.70O feet long and As
feet high. When completed three new
stations will be established on the new
line. The cutoff will enable the COM
pany to operate between Denver and
the west Mt considerable saving over
former cost on account of the heavy
grade over Athol hill.
The Ordway new era., 1907-09-20
Hold up a Cashier.

Goldfield, Nev.-Herbert E. Riggs,
bookkeeper and cashier for E. H. New
land, a broker. was found unconscious
on the floor of the office. The door
Of the safe was open and cash amount
ing to 81, 800 had been taken. Two big
Jumps ON Riggs forehead showed that
he had been struck with some blunt
instrument.
Riggs says he was working over his
books when stranger appeared at the
cashiers window av- tked for money.
There was 4 stack @ .old or on the the ,ims, dess
Riggs says he kneN nothing more un-
til hs recovered cohsoiou1aess. When
he was found BY Harry 0feye, 2
nsphsw Of Newland. : hsev9 asnmss
~ picked up from ~ nnQk 1aer
TSSre he iay. II Ii 1k3s n that IN
.MspS n - Sissd he halaI M y!etiI.- !.
q .:ss y; I |: !! : s.ss ( ~ !
The Ordway new era., 1907-09-20
rEaR'sLe DEEDS OF oavMKAnps
shssphsrdsrs in Wyoming Hold vp
Boys, Indians and R.nehsre

Cokeville. Wyo.-Inaamed nv bad
whisky. Joe and Sam Bates. sheep
herders. who had been sent here for
supplies by their employer. determined
to become bad men.
Mounting their horses and each car.
rying n revolver, they departed for
the north and mile from town held
up u seVenteen'year-old boy, whom
they shot through the stomach and
robbed of $l.5O.
"nen they realized the dangerous
character OF the boys wound they re-
turned MS money and started away,
An indian and his squaw who had
seen the shooting helped the boy to
mount horse and started him for
town.
Ihis act enraged the Bates brothers,
VINO returned and held up the Indian,
robbing him of his horse. AS they
rode away they fired several shots at
the squaw, but did not hit her.
Few miles further on they met and
heid up wagon load OF land seekers,
including c. Il. Cotton, Union Pacific
agent at Cheyenne, but decided not to
rob them
Thirty miles north OF town they Wis
lied the ranch Of J. S. Branson, held
up Branson, who is an old man and
an ex-Missouri marshal. and com.
PEELED him to give them new horses.
AS they were transferring their sad.
dies. Branson grabbed Sam Bates six.
shooter. Joe Bates drew his revolver.
whereupon Branson shot him through
the heart.
Branson then held Sam Bates at
bay until assistance arrived from the
ranch house. when the young outlaw
was overpowered and bound.
Bates Is now in Jail here. and may
be lynched II the boy who was shot
dies. The dead brother was deserter
from the navy.
The Ordway new era., 1907-09-20
Japs Try to Steal Indian Wives.

San Francisco.-Employes of the
Alaska Packers Association who re-
turned here upon the ship Star OF
Chile bring the report that a number
of Japanese cannery hands at Egegk
made a raid upon an Indian village
near that camp last June and attempt.
ed to carry of several Of the native
women.
The Japanese evidently believed the
men of the settlement were out fish
ing, but in this they were mistaken.
for after the raiders had caught and
gagged two or three OF the women they
were discovered by number OF bucks.
who set up loud howl and at once
proceeded to repel the Japanese.
In attempting to get away with the
captives the Japanese are said to have
run between two hills where the snow
was deep and rapid travel was impos-
sible.
This proved their undoing. for the
Indians descended upon them with
guns and clubs and would have killed
the six or eight raiders II the latter
had not deserted their victims and
hurried of. The Indians later, 1t Is
said, made complaint to the men In
charge of the cannery camp.
The Ordway new era., 1907-09-20
Is "Fishtins Bob" a Pirste7

Newport.-Has Fighting Bob" Ev-
ans turned pirate?
Newporters are asking each other
this aeastion. as a result of the dis
appearance on Wednesday night OF
the wreck of the big two-masted
schooner Henry NJ. Whitney, which
has lain buried in the mud in the
south part of the harbor for more than
four years. Coal laden, the Whitney
was driven ashore one night after hav-
ing sprung leak. She was emptied
and then abandoned.
For four years she lay there. pic
turesque relic Of her former greatness.
and, suddenly. in the dark Of Wednes-
day night, vessel whose cleaning
whiteness shone out in the gloom.
stole into the harbor, made fast to the
wreck and dragged 1t out to sea- A
hole in the mud was all that greeted
the fishing folk when they viewed the
harbor next morning.
Those who saw the white ship come
in declare that she re.embled in ev-
cry particular a man-of-war. Now. Ad-
miral Evans warships are not far
away from Newport, engaging In tar
get practice, and no better target
could be found for the boys behind the
guns than the wreck of the Henry M
Whitney.
Has Fighting Bob" turned pirate7
The Ordway new era., 1907-09-20
Mother Of Nine Works In Field.

Cheyenne, Wyo.-Mrs. Sarah Jane
Shepherd, in a divorce suit which she
filed against Joseph Shepherd, asserts
that she and the defendant were mar
ried at Seward. Nebraska, September
"a, 1887, and that nine children, from
three to nineteen years Of age. have re.
suited from the union. Mrs. Shepherd
charges that for a period OF more than
three years Shepherd has failed to pro-
vide for her support; that he com,
pelled her to clothe herself ana
children, and to do the work OF farm
hand In the fields, cutting corn ana
stacking hay, grain and cane; that IN
March, 1908, when she was Ill and
about to become mother, he refused
to employ physician, although com
petent physician was less than mile
away. as a result Of which neglect her
child was still-born that she, by hard
labor. accumulated twenty-five head OF
cattle and seven head of horses. which
the defendant took from her and di'
yerted to his own use. and that the de-
fendant sold their Joint homestead IN
Nebraska for $500 and retained all OF
the money.