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Show PROSPECTS OF EXDIXG 1 MIXERS' STRIKE DELAYED t I KANSAS CITV. April 7. Prospects of ! an earl settlement of the strike of tho I 35.000 Southwestern coal miners was pot off toduy .when the operators made certain cer-tain demands, which tho minors Imnic-I Imnic-I dlately rejected. The conference, of th , opera toi f and miners wan not ended, however, how-ever, and It Is hoped thai with the arrival ar-rival of President Lewis from Indianapolis Indianapo-lis tomorrow the two sldea may be brought closer together. The operators this morning made their first formal proposition to the minors. In It they declared positively that thev would not sign a one-year scale. Thev asked the miners to nb:og;i(e the action of the l ulted MIno- Workors' convention at Indianapolis, which voted for a one-yoar one-yoar contract, arid lo nign up for three ycaiy. The operators lusiatod that iheV could not operatv with piotll on so short a con (: act- - . i. .t "m , |