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Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-25
BLAST STRIKES EVERY PORTION
OF PENNSYLVANIA SHAFT AT
SAME TIME.
ONLY FEW REACH SURFACE.
Those Who Escape Are Burned and
Blackened and Unable to Give ANY
Details of Accident
FEAR MANY HAVE BEEN KILLED

WEHRUM, Pa, June 23.-As re-
suit of an explosion i'll mine No. of
the Lackawanna Coal and Coke COM
pany here today, three miners are
known to be dead, six fatally injured,
twenty-five seriously hurt, while 1t IS
feared that sixty-fve men, believed to
be still III the mine, may be burned to
death.
The mine is burning fercely at sew
eral places. and deadly black damp is
pouring from the mouth, effectually pre-
venting systematic rescue work. Large
quantities of oxygen and many oxygen
tanks have been requested from the
Cambria Steel company of Johnstown,
Pa, and the United States government
mining and testing station, Pittsburg.
Just what caused the explosion has
not been ascertained, but it probably re-
suited from an accumulation of gas.
The scenes around the mines this after
noon are extremely pathetic. Relatives
and friends of the victims are hysterical-
ly weeping and retarding greatly the
work of rescue.
Two hours after the accident it was
believed that a large number of men
were killed and many injured. Definite
information was lacking, however, owing
to the isolation of the place.
Few Reach Surface.
Over one hundred men are known tC
have entered the mine shortly before the
catastrophe happened, and at 10 o'clock
when only a few of them had reached
the surface. the greatest fears were eX
pressed that the accident was a seriOu!
one.
The few men who escaped from the
mine were burned and blackened, indi
eating that the force Of the explosion
was heavy. None of them were in con
dltion to give details, but from one i
was learned that the explosion seemed
to strike every portion of the mine sim
ultaneOusly.
Rescuing parties made little headway
owing to the great confusion at the mine
the pit mouth and traces of the deadly
| afterdamp.
Shortly after 10 o'clock the dead bod!
of one man, a foreigner, had been re
covered The body, badly mutilated
was found at the entrance of the mine
Three men, seriously burned, who sue
cessfully succeeded in reaching the sur
| face, are:
! Al Johnson, son of the superintendent o
| the mine.
Patrick Burns.
William Burns.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-25
DR.. Wiley Is Endorsed.

Resolutions were adopted condemning
the use of benzoate Of soda as Il pre-.
sentative in food products; endorsing the
efforts of DR.. Harvey w. Wiley to pre-
vent the use of this drug in the prepara-
ton Of food products; urging the con-
gressiOnal conference committee to retain
the clause in the census bill providing
for the enumeration of ruptured. crippled
and defOrmed children under the age OF
16, and endorsing the standard of medi-
cal education as outlined in the report
PENNSYLVANIA
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-25

-Vladivostok, the principal Russian
port in the far east, possesses Fl well
protected, land-locked harbor, with from
80 to 90 feet of water over a wide area.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-25
WOMEN SUFFER NEEDLESSLY.
Many Mysterious Aches and Pains
Are Easily Cured.

Backache, pain through the hips,
dizzy spells, headaches, nervousness,
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-25
WARD PRESIDENT
OF H0ME0PHTHS
SAN FRANCISCO DOCTOR HEADS
AMERICAN INSTITUTE AT AN
NUAL ELECTION.
DELEGATES ENDORSE WILEY.
Condemn Use of Benzoate of Soda as
Food Preservative and Praise Gov
eminent Chemists Work.
TO TAKE CENSUS OF CRIPPLES.

DETROIT. Mich, June 24.-At the
convention of the American Institute of
Homeopathy today, the election of the
following officers was announced:
President-Dr. James W. Ward. San Fran
cisco.
Trcasurer-Dr. T. Franklin Smith, New
York
Censor-Dr J. f. Garrison. New York.
The ballot on registrar resulted in no
decision. Another election was declared
necessary.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-25
Great Excitement Prevails.


AS soon as it was known that an ac-
cident had occurred the greatest excite
ment prevailed both at the mine and in
the little hamlet, a short distance away.
Wives, mothers, sisters and brothers
rushed to the month of the mine fearful
~ implorlng some news as to the fate
of their loved ones. A number of the
foreign women, screaming and crying,
tried to rush into the dark pit.
The company officials Immediately en-
gagged the services of all the men they
could find and the work of restraining
the hysterical relatives was undertaken.
Meanwhile calls for help were quickly
sent broadcast throughout the surround
ing country, while the task of reaching
the unfortunate men in the mine was
pushed forward as rapidly as possible.
Hope Ends in Disappointment.
The first report that came to the anx-
iOus watchers at the mouth of the mine
was that two or three men had been in
jured and that the accident might not
turn out so seriously as such accidents
generally do This buOyed up the rela-
tives and friends of the miners for a
short time, but, as the minutes sped by
and only a few of the men reached the
surface, burned and seriously injured
despair began to settle on the watchers.
When Johnson and the Burns brothers
succeeded in escaping from the pit they
stated brokenly. while suffering the
greatest agony from burns, that the eX-
plosiOn was a bad one. 1t appel red to
them that the explosion had taken place
throughout the entire mine and that ev-
cry one at work in the mine, seemed for
moment or two to be paralyzed.
Following the explosion there was a
flash and then all was darkness. Pitt
full calls for help and groans were
heard as the three men made their way
to the entrance staggering and falling
over the bodies of comrades who had
succumbed with the first shock.
Superintendent Makes Statement.
Supt w. n. Johnson of the mine
said: Il do not want any eXaggeration
of reports published, as to the facts,
which in themselves will be bad enough
The explosion, from some unknown
cause. occurred a little before s o'clock
this morning, and seems to have been
worst in a portion of the mine that was
recently opened up. We do not vet
know the extent of the accident. but we
think the death list will be Il long one
and that the list of those injured will be
much larger. Owing to the excitement
prevailing we have been unable to get
details as yet, but we are doing our
best.
Several injured men have been
brought out and two or three bodies. but
no attempt had been made at Identified
ton. In a little time we shall have
matters in good shape, however, to han
die the accident"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
NEW TINE SCHEDULE
ON HARTMAN LINES
More Trains for Accommodation
of Exposition Visitors; Ef-
fectiye May 16.

On Nav Is new time schedules will
go into effect on the Oregon Short Line,
Southern Pacific. Union Pacific and the
Oregon Railroad e. Navigation COM
pany's lines This will entail changes
in the running schedule of the Overland
Limited between Chicago and San
Francisco, as we'll as affecting other
trains all over the system. a feature
of the new schedule will be the placing
in service OF new train III each dlrcc"
tion between Salt Lake City and Poca-
tello and new train in each direction
between Granger and Huntington.
These new trains Will be put on IN
order to connect with and handle the
business OF the through trains from the
east and the west for the Alaska u
kon. Pacific exposition. The new tram
between salt Lake and Pocatcllo Will
leave Salt Lake about 9 a. IN. for the
north, connecting with a train leaving
Green River the night before at Poca-
tcllo. The new schedule may necessl-
tate changes in the time cards of both
the Denver & Rio Grande and the Salt
Lake Route. in order that connections
may be properly made.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
SERIOUS CHARGES ARE
MADE IN AN ANSWER

c. T., Murphy fled an answer TO Frank
lin Lawrance's suit in the third district
court Tuesday 10 quiet title TO lots S. 9
and 10 in Grandview subdivision OF block
III, plat D. Salt Lake City survey. IN
which he says that Lawrancc Is not the
real party In interest. but that lie Is
acting In behalf OF and for Addison Cain.
Lawrancc's claim. Murphy alleges. is
based upon @ aeed pmMrp2r,unE to have
Cain as his attorney In fact to the plain
tin OH about May /. 1907. This deed.
Murphy asserts. is wholly void and was
executed and recorded at Gains Instance
for the purpose of clouding Murphys
title TO the property and TO cheat and de-
fraud him out OF the ground IN contro-
vorsy Murphy further alleges that the
deed is fictitious and colorado and with
out consideration and that Lawrancc' 8
name grantee Is used only as a matter
OF convenience, 10 enable Cain 10 cloud
his title to the property.
Murphy asks that LaWrancn take moth
ing by his complaint and that title To the
property be quietcd In him permanently.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
WORLO-FAMOUS WRIGHTS NOT
INCLINED TO TALK OF EXPLOITS

European military powers had asked
them to demonstrate that their flyers
can be driven safely out of range of
rife fire. They gave no information
as TO whether contracts had been made
with France, Italy, Germany or Eng
land.
A big reception and welcome here
planned by the Aero Climb of America
and other societies WAS called off at the
request of the Wrights, They passed
the evening quietly and consented to
Just one public appearanre-at the
luncheon arranged for tomorrow By the
Aero club In the afternoon they will
start home, where a reception awaits
them. The Wrights probably will re-
turn to Europe lato in August, This
arrangement will prevent their taking
part in any exhibitions on this side in
the autumn snch as New York and Chi
cago admirers have been planning for
them. Their unwillingness to consider
any proposal to remain here is cited AS
strengthening the rnmors that they
have important engagements with Ger
MANY and Russia.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12

duty on tea would not increase the
price, he would join him In voting for
a 10-cent duty on tea.
"Wc have an infant tea industry
down in South Carolins.N continued
Mr.. Tillman. "and we want to know
il the senator from Maine will Join me
TO protect it7 l will assist because I
want protection for that infant indus
try in South Carolina
"If the senator viii be a little less
boistcrous,'' interrupted Mr.. Hale, 81
will try to answer him,
"Whv should you ask me to he less
boisterous7' retorted Mr.. Tillman,
"when some other senators have been
high -horsing around here as if they
were in a circus
Mr. MeLaurin chided the Republicans
with having abandoned the theory that
the foreigner pays the tax and asked
TO know who did pay the tax, if the.
duty did not raise the price. =
Mr.. Lodge insisted that the destrucr
tion Of American manufacturing would
result in the destruction of a CORE.
spending portion Of the world s compe-
tition,
Mr.. Cummins offered several amend
ments to the window glass schedule,
saying they were intended to prevent
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
HARTMAN HEARING
FULL Of INTEREST
Attempt to Show That Competi-
ton Ceased After FOrma-
ton OF Merger.

san FRANCISCO, May ia mum
bcr of witnesses were questioned today
by Special Assistant Attorney General
{. ;. Severance. before Examiner Syl-
vester c. Williams. in an attempt to
show that all competition between the
western railroads practically ceased
after l.. II. Hartman secured control
Of the Southern Pacific, Oregon Rail
way & Navigation and Oregon Short
Line, in connection with the Union Pa
cific.
a. l.. Scott, president OF the Pacific
Hardware and Steel company. stated
that his company formerly shipped 10
southern Idaho via Ogden. but that
after the combine the tariT by that
route was cancelled aud n tariff via
Portland substituted. Including a sea
and rail shipNent, since when ali ship,
ments had gone that way.
Before the combine was effected the
Southern Pacific and Union Pacific
were rival bidders for his company S
westbound freight. but aftcrward the
business was virtually all given 10 the
Southern Pacific. The witness told of
the increase of rates since opposition
had ceased, and severely condemned the
vessels of the Pacific Mail line running
between this city and Panama.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
OIFfERENT|ALS TO
Be ESTABLISHED
Complaints Against Railroads
Win i'll Decisions of Com
merce Commission.

WASHINGTON, MAY 1.-Two dc.
cisions of notable importance to the
RAILWAYS and lumber interests of the
northwest were handed down today by
the interstate commerce commissions
the complainapts against the railroad
being victorious in each instance, Many
months ago the Kalispell Lumber com
puny ct al and the Big Blackfoot Mill
ing company and others engaged IN the
lumber manufacturing business in Mon
tam. instituted complaints against the
Great Northern railway and other
lines. asking that they he accorded
diffcrcn.ials on the rates established
in the Spokane case.
The dIfferentials requested were an
average of about 2le cents a hundred
pounds In the opinions announced to-
day the committee sustarns the con
tcntions of the complainants and issues
orders that the differentials are to be
established by the railroads not later
than August ] next, The orders have
the effect of lowering rates on all lum'
Der and forest products from the Mon.
tana mills both east and west aud Will
afford them an advantage OF approx
imatelv cents hundred pounds over
the mills in the Spokane group on east
ern shipments.
The rates established are required
TO be maintained by the railroads for
at least two years.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
CHICAGO JOURNALS SENSATION
OF LOST ARCt1DUkE NOT VERIFIED

They went ashore ut Cusavana. q small
port on the Rio dc III Plata. II was
planned that they should meet the ship
al Valparaiso, but the craft sank en-
route.
The romantic couple drifted all over
the world, finally taking up a plunta-
tinn on the island OF Martinique. In
the Mount Pelce catastrophe his Wife
aud their two children were killed.
Salvador, according to thr Journal, was
rescued and camo to the United states.
PAYNESVILLE, O.. May lL-As
suddenly AS he came into public notice
when he proclaimed himself the miss.
ing Arcbduke Jobap Salvador of Aus
tria, John Salvador a machinist, who
has been working here in foundry for
the last four weeks, disappeared to-
night Finding upon his return 10 his
boarding house the published story Of
his supposed noble birth, his renuncia"
tion OF his imperial title for the love
OF Ludmilli Stubel, the opera singer.
and his subsequent fall into poverty
and obscurify. Salvador. supperless and
dressed in his working clothes. hurried
away
Fellow. workmen of Salvador said he
told them Just before quitting work to-
night that he intended to leave at once
for some western state.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12

Indignantly. "and I never knew Of such
contract TO maintain the price,
He added that "we should not be too
hard - on the lobbcr and retailer. He
said there was great breakage in glass
ware, charges for packing, etc, which
ran the price up.
''Prices can be produced here TO
show said Mr.. Flint, "that the re
tail merchants make larger percent.
age of profit than in any other line Of
business / undertake to say that if
there we're no duty on HavIland china
that article would sell no cheaper than
it does today
Mr.. McLaurin defended the retail
dealers against the charge of extortion,
saying retailers would lose their trade
if they undertook to charge too much.
He said the high prices resulted from
the tariff.
Mr.. Lodge said that tea selling at
wholesale at l6 cents a pound is re-
tailed throughout the land for go cents
a pound.
Mr.. McLaurin insisted that tariff
of 10 cents a pound on tea would in
crease the price of tea to that extent.
Mr.. Tillman, addressing Senator Hale,
asked whether, if he believed that the
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12

CHICAGO. May 1.-THE journal to-.
day devotes it's entire front page 10 the
elaboration OF an uuequivocal state
mcnt that il has discovered the "Iost
John Ortiz, otherwise Archduke .johan
Salvador of Austria, prince of the house
of Hapsburg. who disappeared thirteen
years ago after marrying Lndmilli Stu"
bel, an opera singer. Briefly skctcbed,
the Journal story says;
",Tobn Orth' - was discovered at
gainesville, o., working as n machinist
at SIS per week, Previously be had
followed this occupation AT Grand
Rapids, Mich. and Cleveland, O. His
reason for making his identity known
at this time, the Journal says, was due
10 his advancing age and his desire that
he might be buried in Austria.
Johan Salvador, as the alleged arch
dUlc has always been known since he
left the court at Vienna, was married
in London, and he and his wife after.
ward sailed for South America in the
Santa Margucrita. schooner which he
had chartered Ii has always been be-
licved that the archdukc lost his life
when the schooner sank off the coast
Of Chile.
According TO the story Of the
Painesville machinist, he and his beau"
tiful wife were not aboard the ship.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12

NEW YORK, May 1l,-Wilbur and
Orvjlle Wright, the American aero
planists, returned from the scenes of
their European triumphs today. They
were about the shyest and most retiring
heroes that New York has witnessed
in many day, They were almost as
unwilling to talk of their work as when
they first came to New York from their
homes IN Dayton, O,
Both the brothers looked we'll and ap"
pearod to he glad to get back, They
were accompanied by their sister, Miss
Katherine Wright. who made three
flights at Pau recently and said that
she was not scared bit by her expert
cncc,
The brothers had little new to say,
Summed up in fow words, they told
those who talked with them this after
noon that they had signed contracts
enough to keep them busy until they
could get back TO Europe and sign
more; that about sixty of their aero
planes were now in process of CON
struction, and that officials of certain
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
WESTERN PACIFIC GOING
FORWARD AT GOOD RATE

arrived in the city Tuesday morning
from Nevada on a short business trip.
He announces that track laying on the
new Western Pacific railroad is pro-
crossing at the rate Of mile and n
half a day, with Il force of 5000 men
employed.
This rate Will. according 10 Mr. Skill
iris, be increased 10 almost two miles
day within the next week or So The
work is DOW in progress AT Battle
Mountain and Winnemucca, New, and
at several various points in California.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
RAILROAD NOTES

w. II. Bancroft, vice president and gem
eral manager Of the Oregon Short Line.
and William Ashton. chief engineer OF
the same road, left Tuesday morning on
an inspection trip oyer the Idaho and
Montana branches of the road.
Fred a. Wann. traffic manager of The
Salt Lake Route. with headquarters in
Los Angeles, arrived in the city Tuesday
morning on one OF his regular business
trips.
w. A. Randall. travelling freight agent
of the Rock IslandF Frisco lines. with
headquarters in this city, has gone south
on short business trip.
d. L. Buricy, general passenger agent
pf the Oregon Short Line. left Tuesday
FOR Chicago on a short business trip.
r. s. Rawlins. superintendent OF tclc-
graph on the Southern Pacific railroad, is
in Salt Lake on n short business trip.
Camping in the Rockics." a guide Ia
the most desirable hunting. fishing and
outing places in Colorado. Utah aud New
Mexico. Is the title Of an attractive little
booklet which is being distributed by tho
passenger department OF the Denver 6;
Rio Grande railroad.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
THINKS HE IS WEALTHY,
BUT GOES TO ASYLUM

In Judge Lewis S division of the
Third district court, Tuesday, before
an insanity commission composed of
Drs. +. n. Kirtley. assistant county
physician, and h. q. Smedley, Robert
f.. Pence Of 302 East Second South
street was adjudgcd insane and ordered
committed to the state mental hospital
at Provo.
Pence s hallucination * that he is
immensely wealthy and that he owns
valuable property on Seventh East and
Brigham streets, upon which. with
some of his money, he purposes to rival
Samuel Newhouse and erect twenty
fve-story business block and a twenty
fourstory apartment house.
Pence is about ID years old
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
Railway Changes Hands.

ROCKFORD, ILL.,. May 1.-THE
Rockford & Intcrurban Railway COM
pany, operating the local system and
lines to nearby towns, has been sold
10 an eastern syndicate which OWES the
street railways of Portland. Ore. and.
other cities. The change Of ownership
Is TO take effect July /.
The new owners will take over tho
entire property and assume the bonded
lndcbtedness of $2.72j. 900.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
Low RATES TO THE EAST
OVER SALT LAKE ROUTE

Special rates TO tho east from va
rious points south Of Salt Lake City
on the Salt Lake Routc Will go into
effect on May 20. These rates are
very low and are being made especial
" for the benefit OF school teachers
and others wishing TO spend their va
to all Missouri river and Chicago
points. The tickets will be good re-
turning until October 81. The sell
ing dates follow:
May %; June 4, >, 10, 16 and %;
July 23 and "a; August - and a. Sep
iembcr 10 and H.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
ALCOHOL IN MEDICINES.

Alcohol is the best known prcserva-
tive of medical compounds, and the
average proprietary medicine contains
from - per cent TO 90 per cent, which
is the smallest possible amount to pre-
serve the ingredients, while the aver
age doctor S prescription contains from
% per cent to 30 per cent.
Such standard preparations as LYDIA
f. pinkham Vegetable Compound
contain but Is per cent. aud they even
put the Compound up in tablet form,
which the over -srrupulous woman, who
objects 10 alcohol in any degree, may
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
Gases Disposed OF.

Three cases were temporarily disposed
of In the supreme court Tuesday. a & fol-
lows; state against Joseph Barker. re-
spondent from the second district. con-
tinued for term; Julia Murphy respond
ent. against Il. L.. Booth. from this coin-
.ty. argued. and submitted. Fillmore City,
respondent, against the Fillmore Roller
MIL company, from the NTH district, sub
mittcd on briefs.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
Assist Nature.

You have been told to "hitch your
wagon to a star that nature, will as
sjst YOU. That IS all right, There are
times, however, when you should assist
nature, and the spring is one of these
times.
Nature is now undertaking to cleanse
YOUR svstem-if you take Hood IS Sarsa"
pariIla the undertaking will be success
full, and your complexion bright and
clear.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
CALIFORNIA EXCURSIONS
VIA q. 6. L, and s, P.

May 6 to Is, inclusive. San Fran.
cisco and return. $3.50. To San Fran,
cisco and return Zone way via
Portlaud), $46.50. To Los Angeles and
return, $3575. To Los Angeles and
return Zone way via Portland(, $3.50.
Tickets limited to October 81. Stop
overs. City ticket office, 2ol Main
airpct
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12
G. A R NotiCR.

There will he n meeting of the G. a,
r memorial committee Thursday even
ing. May Is, at s O'Clock sharp at the
rooms in the Commercial Club build
ing All members of the committee
are requested to he present, as bust
ness OF importance will be transacted.