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.s,xTY-s SEVEN MINERS ENToMsEn
At EccLEa. ". VA, TAKEN
OUT ALIVE.
EIGHT sop,es REcovEREp;
m MEN sI,LL ENromsEo
ggss;ssS pggse8ssess soSi0isr
No More u IN Imprisoned Men viii
es Taksr out Alivs-ExpIosiep En-
tonbs 2os4 Men il Two Shafts Of New
River coilisriss Company.

Eccles, w. Va, April 29-Eight bod
les have been recovered from shaft No.
IS Of the New River Collieries Company
which with shaft No. 5. was wrecked
by an explosion yesterday. Sixty-sev-
en- men were taken out alive. There
are no more men in No. 8. One hum
dred and seventy eight are buried in
No. 5 and officers Of the company ex-
press the opinion this morning that
none would escape.
Rsscusrs Work All Night.
The blast occurred when a full force
of men was ut work in the shafts and
could be heard in this town.
A rescue crew was organized at once
and succeeded in dropping down one
shaft to the bottom. where four men
VI ere found dead. Another rescue party
was formed and ATTEMPTED TO penetrate
the mine, but was balked by the gas
fumes Later attempts resulted in tho
rescue Of the nifty nine injured.
Women in Panic.
This little mining community OF 1900
persons was shaken by the muffied
rumblinE OF the explosion, which
brought women from their cottages In
d panic and started the entire popula-
ton not at work to the tipples Of the NJ
fated mines. At first there was no
smoke, but men on the tipples knew
that far underground the toll OF death
was being taken.
superintendent Thomas Donaldson
OF mine No. 8, another operation OF the
company: Local Superintendent M. r.
Kent and General Superintendent +.
b. Bayles Of the New River Collieries
Company were at the scene Of the dis
aster within short time. Superintend-
ent Donaldson, an experienced miner.
with an expert rescue crew. went
down the shaft Of No. 6 mine.
For q time the steadily growing
crowd Of frightened women and chill
dren waited in suspense. but soon the
signal came to hoist away and the cage
appeared. It bore two men badly hurt.
. few Of the rescue party and two bod
ies.
Il Other trips were made ~ rapidly an
possible and each time blackened and
burned miners were brought to the SUR
face until sixty-three men had been
brought up at midnight. four Of whom
were dead.
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REFUGEES MlsrREATep.

Pitiful Tales Of Hsrbship Told by
Americans From Cordoba.
Washington. April ga late report
from Consul Canada q Vera Cruz says
the refugees arriving from Cordoba
told pitiful tales OF hardships inflicted
on them during their Imprisonment
there. After their arrest they were
herded together like cattle and marched
thru the public streets to small and
unsanitery Jail. Meanwhile angry mobs
on all sides threw decayed fruit, stones
and other missiles at them and threat
ened their lives. On arriving at the
Jail they were crowded into small
rooms, forty OF the prisoners being in
the same apartment. 4
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Regular. 10 Replace Militia.

Denver, April 29.-"The militia will
be withdrawn as the federal troops
occupy the strike districts. We will
cooperate In every way to restore or
der"
This statement was made today by
Governor E. NJ. Ammons when asked
what action was contemplated by state
officials in connection with the Colo
RADIO Industrial conflict.
sq1,nonIu, XIlsIsusS peIIBAaId 1sIno
coal strike region today. according to
reports received by state and union Of
ticails here. One exception was at
Forbes, where the governors advices
said the boarding house had been
burned during brief engagement. the
strikers retiring toward Berwind and
Tabasco. upon the approach Of militia :
men from Ludlow. The other was at
Walsenburg. State reports were that
guards and militia were defending the
Walsen mine from an attack by strik-
ers. while union headquarters claimed
strikers ceased firing during the night.
Await Arrival Of Troops.
Trinidad and the immediate vicinity
awaited expectantly the arrival OF the
second squadron, Fifth cavalry. from
Fort Leavenworth. early tomorrow.
! uc SltuhktOus tlueIc 6HOWcu uSliS
change today.
Citizens OF Boulder county continued
activities In perfecting the organization
Of volunteers for protective duty In the
coal fields. pending adyices whether
federal troops would occupy the north
ern Colorado coal camps.
Horace n. Hawkins. counsel for the
United Mine Workers' OF America, re-
!tesated his statement OF yesterday that
strike leaders Will yield to the federal
troops and do everything In their
power to restore order.
Forbes Boarding House ournsd.
Reports were received by Gen. John
Chase Today that in two hho;::. aght
which began at o'clock nj Forbes. in
Lay AnimAs county, the boarding house
had burned. At 1850 he was advised
that the strikers were retreatinK over
the hills In the direction OF Berwin
Canyon.
Companies f and H, Twelfth cav
airy, were expected to reach the Free
mont county mines during the fore-
noon Order were issued by General
Chase To the seventy -one militiamen In
that district when relieved. to entrain
at once for Walsenburg 70 aid the
troops there In cleaning up that dis
trtct." after which. ne said. atseatlcn
would be given the Ludlow region un-
til the arrival OF federal troops from
Fort Leavenworth. w
Col. w. a. bavis reported tho sitna-
tion quiet AZ Louisville in northern
Colorado, early To-Day. 81 = 5-siszf - y
rishtirs st WAlsenburg, which
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'ARMISTICE IS PROPOSED
HuERrA WANTS MvcH.
Dictator Said 80 De Preparing 20 Make
Unreasonable Dom ands.

Washington, April 2S.--A plan to
stage the mediation OF the difficulties
between the United States and Mexico.
entirely without this government being
represented In the negotiations, ID one
Of the persistent reports emanating
from the secret conferences OF the
three appointed South American me-
diators.
whKe the progress Of the conferences
il kept absolutely secret, SO much 30
that even Secretary Bryan Is not kept
informed OF its details, this report was
SO generally heard here as to cause
considerable comment in Official
circles.
It Is Sven asserted that the plan COM
prehends q request to Huerta to cali
a conference OF all the Mexican fac
tional leaders in Mexico City. which
would also be attended by the three
Intermediates, who would talk the
matter over with General Huerta face
to face.
In addition to these Developments
others of larger significance are re-
ported. as follows:
Husrta Still Unwilling.
!. Hperta's acceptance of the oner
OF mediation was made unwillingly, and
he now threatens to add to it limita :
tions and qualifications which may end
the negotiations.
2. Mediators are likely to agree
upon the rules for good offices and
mediation of The Hague convention
of 1899 as the basis for their under
taking.
g. Reported that Huerta wants
Great Britain, France and Spain to
participate in the mediation. but this
can not be OFFICIALLY confirmed.
4. Reported that II Huerta can be
induced to resign a provisional presi-
dent will be selected by the diplomats
Of the powers who have recognized the
Huer.a government t. act until an
election can be held. This, however, is
declared to be idle gossip" in diplo-
matte circles.
War Far From Past.
Altho Washington is exceedingly
hopeful that the mediation will bring
about peace. that result is far from
certain. Sir Cecil A. Spring Rice. the
British ambassador here, called upon
Secretary Bryan yesterday and is 70
ported to have said that Huerta had
told Sir Lionel Garden, the British
minister at Mexico City, that he
yielded most unwillingly to, the medi-
ton offer and that there was every
likelihood that ,Huerta would insist
upon important CONCESSIONS.
In the meantime, however. there Is
no denying that the negotiations have
relieved the tension in. Mexico itself.
and that the antt -Amerncan feeling
which had endangered American lives
here has leseened Nefuxeea are xtfil
hurryinf to the ports and they are
.lhselns taken array. ~ fast sas the navy
M aYth horit:es tan Charter ships.
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EFFORT OF hUERTA TO SECURE
AID OF ISLAND EMPIRE
FAILS.
REQUEST TO ACT FOR
POLITELY DECLINED
Husrta Attempted to Engineer shrsw5
Diplomatic streks-Japan's Refusal
Evidence Of Friendly Feeling To.
wards United statss-Psaes Envoys
Ask Aid Of European Powers.

Washington, April 2s.-The Japanese
government. it has developed, was
asked and has declined to act for the
Huerta administration thru its diplo-
matte representatives in Washington
and its consuls in the United States
prior tc Mexico's application to SPAN
- perform this mission, which was ac-
cepteo.
While the Japanese embassy de-
clines to confirm the report, 1t Is
known to be well founded and to have
given great satisfaction to President
Wilson's administration as signt-
ficant expression of Japan's good will
and friendliness toward the United
States.
Keeping Hands on.
The purpose of Japan's action is un-
derstood to have been desire to pre-
serve the strictest neutrality between
the United States and Mexico as out
lined in the recent declaration OF
Count Okuma, the new Japanese
premier, made at Toxic. The under
taking on the part of Japan to act in
the interest of either party was felt to
be open to the construction OF being
an expression Of favoritism, which 1t
was desired TO avoid by an attitude OF
strict neutrality.
Sly Movs on Husrta's Part.
Among those informed of General
Huerta's first choice Of japan to repre-
sent Mexico In the United States the
move was construed a. an attempt on
his part to align one Of the Sfeat
worta powers with Ms administr ton
and thnssso aecaa lpitshsn satessel
Of diplomacy. q
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Fighting Near waissnburs.

Denver, April es.--Advices received
at the governors Office at o'clock was
that sharp engagement between
strikers and mine guards and militia
was In progress near Walsenburg. One
militiaman. Private o. l.. wilmoth,
known to have been wounded, but re-
port that five had been killed was un-
confirmed.
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R,ovlsr. Leave For Strike Zone.
pr..id ent Seek. Mediation.

washington. April es.--Prcstdent
Wilson has asked the president of the
Kentucky Mine Operators Association
and the Alabama Mine Operative Or
ganlzation TO come to Washington i'm
medlately for a conference with the
view to further attempt mt mediation
OF the Colorado min. strike.
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SEEK AID or EUROPE.

South American ENJOYS Ask Power 30
Hold Wilson in Check.
Berlin, April 29.-The South Amer-
ican mediators have approached the
European powers. 1t was learned In
diplomatic circles today, with the re-
quest that those nations exert infiu-.
ence on President Wilson to have him
make conditions which would render
the success Of the negotiations possi-
hlo -
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REPoRTs FALL o. El pAso.
Msxico City Newspaper Prints inspired
Story Of Robal vteAorw

msH1co City NeWspap0P PrintS inspired
Story Of Rebel Victory.
Ell Paso. Tex. April ga copy Of
the Mexico City newspaper. Ell Impair
'cial received here, tells OF the cap
ture' OF Ell Paso by the combined forces
OF General Velasco. the federal leader.
and General Villa.
The story under date Of last Thurs
day says that the. Americans were sur
prised and overwhelmed and that Villa
and velaseo established headquarters
In the leading hotel
Negotiations ensued, says the in
spfred story. as result OF which the
frightened Americans ceded the south
ern half Of the city back to Mexico
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-29
REsELs MAY BLOCK MEDIATION
Must es Recorded With in Dslivsra
tiona With Maxina. lts

washington Anri, % IMed,atio IN
ter..t nnw c.uYer. a. (.h,huah,,. .t.t.
~ rh,huah ms Msxico r. ~. h.sn
sh,s,.d 1ron, ~. c,tr <, M.~,na -, :
ror.rs,v us,,,,. c.rranxs vii. Ans.,..
spa nth.r rnnr.,i,,,,ian.,,., ,s.der. :.
disc,,ssin. the nrono.it,nn ,ooLin. ~ :
ee1tlDment of mater. thru tha Snod
nW,cs. ~ ~ A q - now.r.
Wsshinston await. word from car
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-29

lOWA-f9lr, Win COOier m east por-
ton tonight; probably frost tonight:
Thursday increasing oloudlinsss.
PAGE ONE.
Tslsoraphie News,
Peace Envoys Suggest ArmiDt1cA,
Hostilities to Cease Pending Peace
Farley.
Japan Refuses TO Act F'qr Huerts.
Dead In Mine Disaster May Number
1855.
Militiamen to Leave Colorado Strike
Zone.
Upton Sinclair and Women Arrested.
PAGES TWO AND THREE.
Iowa and General News.
Boosters Plan For Iowa Campaign.
Rockefeller. Jr.. Attacks Union.
Judge Lee Az a Lobbyist.
Affinities End Lives Together.
PAGE FOUR.
Editorial,
Just Common Story.
Supreme Judges. Voters and Law.
yers.
PAGE FIVE.
Iowa News,
Woman Sues Merchants For SLAM
Prohibitlonists Barred From Voting.
PAGE SEVEN.
Story:
Where There's VIII.
PAGES SIX, EIGHT AND NINE.
City News;
Fiji Old Cistern: Clog Big Sewer.
Working Hard to Clear Channel.
Binford to Build New Block.
Splendid Village Schools Planned.
Dedicate New Church May 10.
DIR. Choate President Twentieth CSs
tury Club.
City Caucuses Held.
General and Brief City News.
PAGE TEN.
Markets and General:
Freezing Weather Lifts Wheat
Crop Losses in Argentina Boosts
Crops.
slump in Hogs Continues
Cattle Slightly Lower.
United States Owns Mexican Indus
tries.
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ceased late last night. had resumed AT
Q today. guards and militia defending
the Walsen mine against a consider
able body of strikers who were hrlns
at long range.
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Troops Not All l.nded.

Vera Cruz. April 29-No American
troops were landed from the transports
here during the night
The transport MORO Castle, with
900 marines aboard. arrived here early
this morning.
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ou;.A a. LouisviIIe Today.

Nlut0A AZ IOulOVIuO 'oNNy.
Boulder. Colo. April 2s.--Quiet pre-
vailed early today at Louisville. Where
Yesterday was fought one Of the most
sanguinary battles of Colorado's IN
dustrial war. Other camps In the
northern Colorado field were reported
orderly.
Upon receipt OF advtces from tho
governor that he Was uncertain how
long the militia would be kept IN the
tield and In the absence OF advices
whether federal troops we're 20 pc scns
Ia that district, District Attorney {. a.
Carlson ana sherin Busser. continued q
perfecting the organisation OF eNixen
volunteers for protective duty. Specia!
civilian officers were named today to
have. charge OF equipment. ammunition
and other supplies.
Deputies were busy notifying mem
bers OF the grand jury, which Will be
convened at o'clock. to investigate
strike disturbances.
A close check of casualties In yesser-
days conflict showed six wounded. one
probably fatally and two seriously.
Peter Stamoff, who was shot In the
head yesterday and reported dead. to-
day Is at the University hospital un-
conscious and In a dying condition.
REGULARS Leave For Strike Zone.
Leavenworth. Kan. April 29--The
second squadron Of the Fifth United
States cavalry, ordered to the Colorado
strike zone, entrained at Fort Leaven :
worth for Trinidad at o'clock this
morning.
The troops, 900 strong. under COM
mand OF Capt. C. c. smith, travelled
without mounts. This squadron should
arrive in Trinidad early tomorrow
morning.
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NEWS OF THE DAY
T.-R. BULLETIN
The Weather.

The Weather.
Sun rises April 80 at s, sets at s:S6.
lowa-Fair. with cooler in east por-
tion tonight; probably frost tonight:
Thursday increasing oloudllnsss.
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| COULD NOT INTELLIGENTLY SEE THAT
| WHICH WAS BEFORE THEIR EYES.
| ~ tn Company. Create

will disappear You see the remaining
Indians cooped up like helpless children,
and soon they will disappear.
If they had learned the lesson that
the beaver could teach them, if thev
had been really able to SEE HIM as
well as to watch him, Indians and pan
theirs might have learned the lesson that
would have saved them from distruc-
ton.
But they could not see that it is bet
ter to build than to murder, better to
help than destroy. And they are on
their way to extinction with the other
animals, the other races and the other
individuals THAT CANNOT LEARN.
y q y q
1t is just as well that the Indian
should go, good thing that the MUIR
derous four-footed panther should go.
They are hopelessly out of place in
world civilized.
1hlS picture is not intended for red
men or mountain lions, but for the mil
lions Of white men and women and
boys and girls who can find lesson in
it, if they will.
Show this picture to your children
and say:
1.-THE beaver used the brain in his lit
tie round skull and did wonders with
it. He and his friends combined to cut
down great trees. They damned up
rivers, cutting down the trees in such
way that they would fall across the
stream, filling in the spaces with small
er branches, making a wall of tree
trunks, branches and mud, plastering
the mud with their broad, flat tails,
which they used almost as skillfully as
mason uses his troWel.
Stopping the rapid current of the
stream, they created above the dam
peaceful, smooth, wide water in which
they could establish their little houses
safe from molestation. They lived con-
tented, peaceable, and where cruelty or
greed does not destroy them they still
live happy and prosperous. For they
help each other instead of killing each
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-C see a thing clearly and de-
b scribe it simply"-that is the
task Of the writer.
To see life clearly and

learn what it means-that is the task
Of every human being.
He who looks on and sees, but fails
to see THE MEANING, is the failure,
the disappointed man, the one that goes
downs the red Indian and the noun
tain lion have failed and gone down in
the struggle for existence.
For long thousands of years before
white men came to this country the bea-
yer, the Indian and the panther, or
mountain lion, lived close together.
Sometimes the panther killed the In
dian and ate. him Sometimes the In
dian killed the panther, swore his hide
and made ornaments of his teeth.
Mountain lion and Indian both kill
ed the beaver.
Through many centuries the Indians
painted face looked through the bush
es at the beaver working, and the pan
theirs body crouched ready to spring as
the beaver came ashore from his water
village.
Indian and panther watched the
beaver but did not really SEE HIM.
They learned no lesson from him.
Their idea was bloodshed, conquest,
cruelty. They saw in the wonderfully
intelligent little beaver cutting down
trees, building dams, stopping the
stream, constructing his water village,
only something that could be killed and
eaten, something to furnish flesh for
the stomach, fur for the Indians back
in the winter.
Neither savage beast nor two-legged
savage saw that the beaver WAS A
BUILDER, planner, one understand
ing cooperation and mutual aid.
They saw the busy little creature,
but did not learn the lesson he taught.
So to-day you see the panther only
IN the most distant places, and soon he
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other, they build instead of tearing
down.
And through ages SO long that we
cannot grasp them, through tens of
thousands of years, long before the red
man or any other man was on the EARTH
these little creatures and their ances-
tors WATCHED AND UNDERSTOOD
WHAT THEY SAW, and SO learned to
make dams and build villages and pro-
fit by the forces of cooperation, organ
ization and union.
Because they could so understand
and profit by their understanding the
beavers thrived. Because they could
not see or reason or learn the lesson Of
brotherhood, the panthers and red men
led life Of butchery and hatred, and
failed"
How many Of us, old and young, look
at life and it's possibilities as the two
creatures in this picture look at the
working beaver, without knowing what
we see?
A man is succeeding under our eyes,
and there is no secret about his sue
cess, no mystery. Ten or twenty years
from now a majority of those that are
watching him will be talking about ''his
luck" and the fact that THEY never
had a chance.
Right beside you there is some young
man Or older man to whom you will
look up in few years, joining in
chorus of mingled praise and envy con-
corning his success.
Yet he will get his success BY THE
THINGS THAT HE IS DOING NOW.
and that you can see.
And YOU might be doing now the
things that he is doing, and ten years
OF twenty years from now YOU might
be enjoying success, usefulness, peace
OF mind, instead of simply envying
those possessions in some other man.
y n n a
The panther in this picture has sharp.
Ell, stronger teeth, bigger muscles, than
the beaver, He has the strength to do
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everything that the beaver does-if he
had the will and the intelligence.
He could build himself in the noun
tains barricade that would keep out
his enemies or prevent the escape of his
prey.
AS for the Indian, if he could have
learned building and cooperation from
that beaver, he might have built up for
himself a civilization greater than that
which Columbus represented when he
arrived in this country.
For the Indians had great CONT
nent to themselves, they had not back
of them the history of horrible oppres-
sion, injustice, fanaticism, religious
bigotry, torture and the other dreadful
things that Columbus represented
If the Indian could have seen in the
beaver something besides a creature to
be murdered and eaten he might have
faced Columbus with civilization and
power far above his own.
The Indian and the wild beast could
watch but could not SEE, examine, but
not learn, and they failed.
y u y y u
And the white man, the white bow or
girl or woman who ends as a failure
may truly say, except in cases of mis-
fortune and accident, that failure is
due to INABILITY TO LEARN BY
WATCHING SUCCESS.
You know that near you, in the same
village or city, in the same school or at
the next office desk, there sits the sue
cess Of few years hence.
Like you, he has two eyes, two ears,
one pair of feet and hands.
He is not performing any miracles.
But, like the beaver, HE is WORK
ING, and he is working on definite
plan, he knows what he means to build
in the way of a career and success.
We don't say that any healthy young
man by any possibility whatever, by
any amount of observation, hard work
or self-denial, could make himself the
equal of exceptional greatness.