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Show t v. - Conference Called Which Is likely Demands. Engineers Make ' t I I I ! j trUiSIFEQ, Manitoba. Aug. IS. J. entire T llcVey. strike manager for the mePacific Canadian the wet for Otchanics. left today hurriedly for Sir with Thomag conference a tawa for endghanybneaay. looking toward the In addition to the atrlke. the of ing mechanics demand thoee of the locomotive engineers are the moat pressing. If they should Join the atrlke, it is believed that the company must inThe railroad continues evitably lose. on the moving of all grain and to inelt other important traffics on schedule time. TO CUT Bryan 1 FIGURE IBackfcr Thinks Forfeited Taft Has All "Claim to Christian Support CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 15. Chairman John H. Atwood of tho ts on speakers was at Democratic anHe In thin city today. nounced that 'William H. Taft'a Unitarian views deprived him of tho right to expect Christian votes in his suptee bead-quarte- port !R Chairman Atwood In tho same connection declared that Bryan's devotion to his William J. church furnished sn appeal to every, believer in the Christian doctrines. Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock and his aide spent the jnomlng in a secret session arranging details for the distribution of literature and speakers. 5. utkf fake A rk y Lag m detfcl ft ni milk fiCH' u4to Irno- - m undi 1 i Ml Mi ktlMl rdM COMES FOR A NEW YORK. HE 11. Sir Gentile the cowboy baronet, arrived In the steerage en route, he ays to marry Mary, "The flower of the West," t Denver girl, On hla left wrist he wore a chain bracelet with two padlocks, to one of which ho has the key and the other, he says, la held l7 hla girl. He said: "My sweet heart will return to England with me s my wife and ah, will fitly grace my anceitra halls.' He sayS he took steerage passaage to avoid notoriety. TO Aug. TELL THE PULSE J i SOI U0 lilt ttpon 10 -- .15c Co ,Cd YtM Harry T. Loper, the prourietor of the restaurant which was destroyed and who loaned the automobile to the negro to enable his escape, said: I was, through a riot in Cincinnati In '81. the greatest of this country when 100 negroes were killed. It was to avoid loss that I took those men out of town. I didn't want to favor the negro. I have no interest In him whatever. I would' do juat as far to punish him as to punish any other man, hut after going through the Cincinnati riot, and knowing the sheriff as I do, I knew the negro would be killed before he could be taken to JalL I thought I would aqve a life by the removal of the negro. I'd not shoot a single man to protect my place. I only, shot Into the crowd aa long as I was In personal danger myself. Several auto owners who had fast cars were aaked to remove the negro, but they refused. Governor Charles 8 . Deneen ordered the entire First Regiment of the Illinois National Guard, composed exclusively of Chicago companies, and the oFurth Regiment composed of southern Illinois companies to Spring-fielThe remaining companies of th Fifth Regiment which had been held In readiness are en route. Sheriff Werner feared that there might be a shortage of troops Saturday and Sunday and wished to be prepared. No more trouble la expected. During the demolition of hie restaurant Loper sat at the far end amoklng a cigar with a rifle across hla knee. He didn't shoot until the more venturesome started to enter. The crowd cried, "Loper, the Nigger Lover." Plana were outlined today by Governor Deneen to provide for the negroes homes whose were flestroyed. to state arsenal The utilised and tents are provided for the homeless. The marched troops double quick on their arrival in the burned district They quickly restored order. The troops are quartered in Camp Lincoln nearby. Thomas Foley, aged forty, shot In the abdomen and an unknown white man, are dying at the hospital here. The unknown men to shot 'above the heart. . Death ef Hunter. Lopera loss to estimated at 850,04)6. The lynching of Hunter was the most atrocious act of the night Earlier In the evening Hunter had been accused of shooting Hayes, but he d. reasonableness of the rates ordered by its Ysrf ..Si P Pn PfW prid IADE Pv'r 15 that has been yean in Nebraa- - of we Republican Heyward, chairman state committee. Mr. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. James who has bdeome known Wilson, 1,00011 Places great dependence the character of among his friends as the "secretary information. perpetual" of the department of agriculture, will tomorrow celebrate hto 7!rd anniversary. Despite his egg, the venerable cabinet representative of REMAIN THE SAME the great agricultural Interests of the nation is still os active, mentally and physically, as when he first assumed the portfolio on March 5, 1857. There FRANCISCO. Au. 15. Lum-Paclf- la la little doubt that. If Toft to elected, earring railroads of the continue will he at the hood of tha which wer ordered by the in department of agriculture until such Uw!t.rTnTnerce Won to re time as he voluntarily expresses a rates on lumber anj Ite desire to retire, fit until death overffect,ve irrantJ have been takes him. an extension of time until Oc Secretary Wilson to a Scotchman, run w 11 wa hown by the car having been born In Ayshlte, August ,twn,d be lm 14. 1815. He cams to the United up rates and flle hew States at the age of IT. and after three tarts, i n ,chet'k me to become effective to- years In Connecticut removed to Iowa, l,r we me given th commie-th- at which state be bee since called home. , After engaging In forming for some 01 th carr,r If the years, hs entered politics, and after lumber rates r1 Xt ZZ' Panted they would not serving in the lows legislature, end 'as was strain the state railroad commissioner, order from becoming ef elected to he For six congress. years Prawt hoey- - the ex wee a professor of Iowa Agricultural wain th. right to test the College, ,nJunrt,n to Men Re- SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Aug. 15. Tli: , ;uv dead and over fifty are Injured, many of them seriously, aa r v; t of lust night'a rate riotrs arrived at 2:30 tills ing In this city. All to quiet today. The morning and quelled tho trouble. The soldiers protected tlie firemen and they immediately extinguished the flumes in the negro quarters. At 4 o'clock this morning conditions in H.e , iiy rre normal. All saloons will be kept closed today. In addition to the Lupes rcstaurani thirty-fiv- e places of business occupied by negroes were torn to -i s The negro quarters this morning gave the Impression that an explosion had occurred there, or that a cyclone had passed over It. The tnoi uus starting to Invade the colony occupied by the more respet table negroes when the rampage was stopped by tbs troops. Two volleys were fired In the air, but the mob refused to disperse. The third volley was fired directly at the ro d and five men fell. Most of these will die. ' At 2 o'clock this morning Charles Hunter, a colored porter at the St. Nicholas hotel, shot Jim Hayes, a white man, who was watching the fire. The mob seised Hunter and strung him up to a tree. The Firemen wetv Informed that if they at- mob's work was systematic. in the negro houses their hose flames to the extinguished tempted would be cut. The firemen were unmolested in extinguishing the flames in the houses of white men. ' l- . reached Into his hip p.n-ke- t us though to draw a revolver. For this he was siruek on the side of the head with a brickbat. The negro finally eeeaped after slushing several white inn with a knife. Cause of tho Troublo. The riot Is the result of an attack made Thursday night about midnight on Mrs. Earl llallam. wife of a motor-ma- n living within a mile of the court house 111 one of the thickly settled and most respectable sections of the city, lira. liallatn had retired and wag awakened by twine one in the room. She thought' It was her husband and called hla name. A negro grabbed her and choked her before eho could scream. Then 5 he picked her up and dragged her to an Aa soon as she dared, f she outbuilding. called for help. The city was 6 scoured and about noon George Richardson, a negro with a bad record, waa arrested. day to Oppose Meets To- Sale of School Lands. OKLAHOMA CITY, OkU, Aug. 15 the sale of Oklahoma's three million acres of Mhiol lands, a state iiiivcnt(nu waa called here today to a movement of protest organise measure indorsed by Govlust the apt ernor Haskell and "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, speaker of the (kluhnina House. At a recent niaaa nueting of school kind IcHMi'f. railed by Governor Haskell, a bill was agreed upon which provides for the sale of the public school lauds. Under the Initiative provision of the siate constitution, this measure will be voted upon by the people at Um general election In November. It must receive a majority of all the votes cast at that election. For several To oppose weeks the recent state legislature tried to pass a bill for the school land lessees. Gov. Iloakell Issued hla convention call advocating tlie Initiating of a bill to sell the lands. It to alleged by the delegates at today's convention that the Interests of the state and the school children of the present and future generations will best be protected by the holding of tho school lands. Resolutions were adopted that call for a state-wid- e organisation bf those In harmony with tlie view of holding tlie lunda end tliat pray to the qualified voters of tho elate' to Join in the battle for the arrurily of the property on which d jends tho education of the young. Tlie convention will map out plana to defeat the "Murray Initiative bill," by which title the bill to be voted upon by the people to designated. William 11. Murray, speaker of the Oklahoma House, elded in drawing tlie Mil, and to In charge of the necessary preparations for Initiating the measure. To Initiate thla, or any other measure, a petition of 21,000 resident quail-efi- d voters of the slate to net easary, and the securing of this petition woe completed, a total of something over 22,000 names being obtained. Fearing that the bill, to be Initiated, will not get more than one-ha- lf of all he votes cant at the November election, the school land lessees ara not as jubilant over tha prospects of tho bill as might be expected, although the bill gives the lessee the preference right to purchase hla leastd land at the highest bid offered at public auction. i Mrs. Tlallam went to the court house end Identified him. A mob cot lected outside, end Sheriff Werner armed hie deputies and escorted the prisoner to the Jail two blocks away. In the afternoon crowds gathered end the situation looked bad. Four weeks ago a negro named James entered the home of Clergy man Ballard In the north side and when Ballard caught him the burglar rut him to rleces. The feeling has been intensified by the outrage at the llallam horn last night. Both negroes were In the county Jell. Shortly before 6 oclock Sheriff Werner called the fire department to a far corner to attract the crowd awav, The ruse succeeded. Harry .Loper, In hla automobile, dashed up to the Jail. Officers hustled the two prisoners out the back way and drove with great speed to Sherman, the nearest station on the Alton road north of the city. There the northbound passenger train from this city to Bloomington was Intercepted end the prisoners taken to Bloomington, This set of Loper aroused the wrs.h of the rough element. During an attack on the negro quarters In the eon? One of the side early in the evening. leaden shouted: "On to Leper's." And the crowd started. Lopes's automobile LOS ANGELES waa standing in front of his restanrant and they wrecked It completely. Then IS GROWING OLD they hurled brirka through the big plste-gla- n windows. The interior was raided and every table knocked over and all the furniture end china .broken. LOB ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 15. The The entire front of the three-etn- ry of the founding of Los anniversary building wae broken In. Angelas by Spanish padres 127 yexs ego wee celebrated today In the cusneys, end aa they have not been dis- tomary manner by the Society la missed, it to expected that litigation Relna de Los Angeles. will follow tha boards action. Los Angeles had Its origin on AnProf. Cloyd made tho statement that gus! 15, 1781, when Felipe de Neve, he would carry the case to the high- governor of Alta California, arrived on est dourts, If the board saw fit to affirm the site of tho present city," then Ita previous dismissal. Members of the marked by a collection of Indian hut board aay they regret the publicity and gave to the redskin village the' imwhich has been given the school scan- posing name of El Pueblo de Neus-tr-a dal, but claim that there woe no escape Scnora, Ln Relna de Loe Angeles from it, after the matter became known the Town of Our- - Lady, the Queen of to the newspapers through persona on the Angeles. For many years the Spanthe outside. ish padres controlled the1 destiny of Held Behind Closed At Which Late It to said that there are eeveral ap- the town, and todaya celebration cenplicants for the poeltlon. The time to tered about the Church of Our Lady Given short however, for the appointment of of the Angeles, on the Plasa which was High a principal. Professor D. II. Adams, once" the heart of tho village; In tho for many years principal of the Madi- old days of tha vacquero and the guiHeld At Which son school, to mentioned as a possible tar. successor. Too tote for publication this afterAction Affirmed. noon, Prof. Cloyd Issued a statement THOUSANDS GO BACK In which he characterised hto hearing . by the board last night a farce. He TO WORK AGAIN By unanimous vote, the Board of tions regarding tho action within the maintains that he has been grossly chamber. i mistreated and asserts that the boards Education, with all members present The result of the meeting wee shown acion waa agreed upon before the hearexcept T. H. Carr, affirmed Its previous in the resolution adopted today. While NEW YORK, Aug. 15. Prosperity ing last night. action, moving David E. Cloyd from the resolution had a ring of harshness to also said, that as a result of the day In the metropolis was marked by hto official position os principal of the It to It, this woe so memHigh school. The acton was taken bers of the boardnecessitated,In order to agitation, a committtee, from the sec- the employment of hundreds of men claimed. of a resolution tho ond ward, called upon Mayor A.. L. upon presentation end women who have been out of make tho resolution legal. The removal Brewer requesting that ho fill the signed by every member of the board of Professor Cloyd to the direct result work for months, and It 1s expected as a committee of tho whole, removal of Dr. cauaed by the of charges which were made against vacancy R. 8. Joyce. It to said that the may- that many more will be taken back mending that Prof. Cloyd be removed. Inasmuch as the board, after careful him, during hto absence in Idaho, It or will submit on appointment for on Monday. The delegatee to the Travconsideration and a thorough Investiga- being alleged that ho bad Issued a cer- approval, to the council at next Mon- eling Men's Prosperity Congress will tificate to Dr. Pldeock without proper spend the day at the beach, and tha tion, claimed to have found sufficient and that ho had held con- day's meeting. authority meeting will conclude tonight with a grounds for the principals dismissal. PROBE LUMBER TRUST. Lost night, with the members oil In ferences wlh certain architects regardprosperity banquet for the new high school Wholesale houses report that busiattendance, a secret session at which ing plane building with a view to hto own finanST. LOUIS, Aug. 15. A hearing on ness to now almost normal and that all those not directly connected with cial benefit the restraining order secured by 100 the prospects are good for a heavy fall the proceedings were refused admitAll of these chargee Prof. Cloyd delumber companies capitalised et 8800,' trade. Thousands of buyer from all tance, was held. Prof. Cloyd was nied In statements. He reiter- 000,000, alleged to bo Interested In the over the country are now. In city and present and offered , hto explanations. ated hla public defense and argued the formation of a yellow public The session was a stormy one, but pine lumber are buying almost os liberally aa ever. case before the board members at last will be beld Monday. Actions Another merchants' excursion period, trust; everyone present eras apparently sworn to secrecy and with sphinxlike faces night's secret session. have been brought against the con allowing reduced rates from the West Net Yet Through. and southwest, commences today, and corns under the Sherman anti-tru- st and sealed Ups, the board members is of Mis- the local Jobber ore preparing to enand others passed from the meeting Prof. Cloyd has retained W. L. act by the attorney-gener- al and Joseph Ches as bis, ettor- - souri, Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma. tost night, carefully avoiding all ques tertain thousands of buyer next week. escaped. He waa found at hie home. Bowe is expected to die. A bysander, says a white man. said Following e number of robberies a Hunter end deliberately fired upon the delegation of eltisens this morning apnegro who fell Into his own house. pealed to the governin' for more troops. Three more shots were fired. A crowd Governor Deneen Informed them that gathered and removed Hunter who wae he had already ordered additional still alive. He was taken Into the troops to the scone. Tlie city has been yard. Hie misery was ended by no quiet all day. Business la paralyse.!. more shots. A rope was tied about his The authorities are preiwrlng to punneck and he waa dragged while dead ish the mob leaders, all of whom sn to a tree around the corner from his unknown. There will be no martial law. home and swung up. Hunters fpce was covered with BLOOMINGTON, Ills., Au. 15. blood. Boys played v with the corpse George Richardson and Joe James, colwere spirited away last night swinging It back and forth against a ored. from .Springfield, and are now In the building. W. H. Bowe, a young clerk In the coumy Jell here closely guarded. Seto maintained by the sheriff and county treasurers office, to dying at crecy and all assert that the negroes Jailor of as St. John's hospital the result have been sent to Peoria. It was shooting by a gang of negroes who purthat the negroea are kept in sued him early this mornng. After cells, it Is feared that If separate the down Bowe, negroes , shooting their presence here becomes known robbed him of a diamond ring, a diaa mob from Springfield will corns to mond stud and all hla money. wreck vengeance upon them, The Dead and Dying. Chafin Hit With Brick. At noon today the Uet of the dead Eugene W. Chafin, the Prohibition Included Louie Johnson, white, from a candidate for president, la not suffer' gun shot wound. He was found In the Ing much tojey se the result of being basement of a barroom. The negro hit on the head with a brickbat, hurled lynched thin morning wae Identified as by a member of the mob last night Scott Burton, a saloon porter, and not While th mob waa at Ita height Mr. Charles Hunter. John Caldwell, white, Chafin waa addressing a meeting l.i shot in the stomach, died at 11:50. the court house yard. A negro, The seriously wounded are: V. J. chased by the mob, broke through the Scott, aged 70, who wee reported deed crowd and threw himself upon the plat this morning. He to dying In the hos- form back of the speaker. Mr. Chafin pital. Jim Hayes, who wee shot bv shouted at the mob: "Stand back, gentlemen, or I'll shout Burton. Is a coal miner. Thomas 'FoHe ley .aged 40, la expected to die. William anyone who touche this man. Session A t. - ACRES OF L Eu- sponsible (or Trouble Make Sensational Escape From Mob. method fr eeveral by William rnp'oy'd Victim-T- wo ij W' Called Out in Large Fiend-Mi- litia Quarter of City Demolished Order-Ne- gro gene W. Chafin, Prohibition Candidate for President, a may devolop out of reparation claims Republican mode by shippers who have been shipfampgn headquarters were opened in ping under the advanced rates. Chicago today and will serve sue a cenThis does not Include the case Inter of the Taft and Sherman volving rates from the Wllltomette campaign ta the central west It la expected Valley to San Francisco In which the a general conference will be held Southern Pacific Co., has already filed boriy, to outline campaign pinna a petition at(8an Francisco asking for 7 Preparations are now going forward an injunction against tho commis for a poll of voters of each state, giv- sion's order. ing necessary data as to the nativity, religion, politics and other important In relation to every man. The SECRETARY WILSON I101 o be followed in gathering information was adopted at the HAS A BIRTHDAY Springe conference, and to Aug. o( Attempt to Lynch Negro Numbers to Suppress Violence and Restore OF ALL THE VOTERS the commission in a suit to be brought for that purpose, or In suite which CHICAGO, as Result 196 , Oklahoma Convention Many Are Dead and Dying Settlement to Result in - NO. CIVIL WAR FOLLOWS RACE RIOT IN CAPITAL CITY OF ILLINOIS STRIKERS HAY hi.- vl'vl; Ogden, Utah, August 15, 190S. VOL XII. Doors School Principal Is Second Meeting Previous Hearing and Today Is - Ms-glnn- si |