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Show + ae REE nea GIVES UP SHEEPMEN WANT DAMAGES CHINESE RUSHING SLAVERY WW THE ΠΗΡΕ NORTHWEST NOTES LE STORY ΓΗ[ΐ NEW MEXICO FlGhT FCR STATENDOD FROM SMELTER COMPANIES SAIS ΠΠ] ΠΗ͂Ι 2watstas INTO KOREA THE DARK AGES Territory Which Has Been Seeking Admission Half Clairn That Animals Were Killed as Result of Eating Food Which Had Been Poisoned by Smoke, a With on Monday. and also for damages to their land by reason of deposits thereon of poison- Many of the Native Koreans Are edge of slavery in the islands. The) for seats for 14000 romna t Leaving Their Country to Become | debate was made pertinently on the | convention hall. ᾿ ” si & Russian Subjects, Says M. | sections of the bill revising the crimi-| resoluti: ΄ sed the Shipoff, Former Minister |,“ on the me Geel thelypresi|| mal. code of the United States, which | house 22ndwee requesting of Finance, | provide penalties for dealing in slaves. | dent to submit to congress a copy of Mexico nex! summer after the na-| Pontiac, I!|—Members of the board which for fifty years had been seeking admission to the Union as a state is entitled to that benefit and ought of managers of the Illinois reform.tory in this city on Tuesday heurd stories from the lips of officers of the Anstitution themselves of to have it. brutality have raised a storm of criticism, Admissions were wrung from ficers of the institution that of- Young Hamlin was chained to the bars of the “solitary,” his wrists held by handcuffs to a point even with the top of his head for twenty-two hours the first day of his punishment, and for sixteen hours the second day. ed, in addition to $10,000 punitive jamages. The plaintiffs in both pases are Charles J. Shoup and Frederick up, his endurance gave out after five —— hours, and after he revived from a | ‘Frisco Men Must Answer for Wreck He fainted the first day of his torture and the third night, and for long San Francisco—Judge Frank Dunne on Wednesday morning over- The “cold water cure” was applied, quart after quart of ice water being thrown over him to make him “quit shamming,” and once it was poured down his throat until he enoked. After he was injured he was leit lying on the concrete floor of the “solitary’ with only a blanket under him and the tion. three places and his body paralyzed, all but the arms, for twelve hours be- was POLICE SYSTEM FOR NEVADA. M. Shipoff was greatly | was thereupon drawn up and signed Washington—Senator Cullom has | by leaders of the two Tongs and word | 8 as gone out to all of the fighting men reported from the senate committee to desist. It is expected that before on foreign relations a bill providing this treaty is over a new one, which Reno, Nev.—The Nevada legisiature has passed the police bill, giving rushing thousands of settlers into that country and are displaying the greatest energy in developing busi- ness opportunities, opening and planning railroads. mines This tide of colonization, he said, has offered an inspiring example to Russia, which is confronted by a similar task in the development of Siberia. Many of the native Koreans, however, are leaving the country to become Russian subjects, rather than remain under Japanese sovereignty. — M. Shipoff carefully avoided comment on Japanese activity in Man- churia, but it was his opinion that for participation by the United States | | | in the Japanese international exposition at Tokio in 1912. The bill author izes the president to appoint a com missioner general at $6,000 a yoar ‘forecasts the future of the Filipinos Title Sells for Good Figure. in an exhaustive report transmitted to New York.—In the famous Vander congress by the president, with a and assistant at $5,000 and a secre tary at $4,000, the commissioner general to have power to make rule? concerning contributions from the ‘ture contingency that may arise. Several members who were devout to the bill, while the conservative members have made a forcible issue Congressmen that the men who voted for it were daughter of ed, generous, manly man, that Thy kingdom may come and Thy will be particular person in view, he asserted that “women are sacrificing their done, on earth as it is in Heaven, for Christ's sake, Amen.” souls and their honor on the altar of EDICT OF MINE OWNERS. snobbery and vice.” He asserted that almost every day is a bargain day in New York, “where you can buy anything from a yard of ribbon to a pound of flesh.” Settlers Not Tied to Homesteads Unti! Water is Turned Into Canals. Democratic representatives and many outsiders chatted with him. Asked by some one to name his choice for a the Heinze Files Demurrer to Indictment. at all mines in the distriet to the ef- | fect that the mines would be worked| New York.—Counsel for F. Augustus Heinze on Monday withdrew temunder the open shop policy and that | any interference with their operation, porarily the plea of not guilty entered intimidation or soliciting for member. | by Mr. Heinze to the charge of overship in any labor organization would | certifying checks to the amount of Washington, D. C.—The senate on Tuesday passed Senator Heyburn’s bill granting leave of absence to set tlers on government irrigation pro- jects who have made substantial improvements in their land but are unable to get water for irrigation, such not be tolerated and that the time of| $436,000 on the Mercantile National be | bank of this city, of which he former| ly was president The case came tp in the criminal pranch of the United States circuit court. His eounsel filed Jury Fixes the Blame. every employee while on duty longed to the mine owners. leave to last until water is turned into main cunals. The senate also passed Heyburn's bill appropriating $25,000 to resurvey the Washington-idaho boundary. a demurrer to the indictment, and Boyertown, Pa—The jury ‘which | February 11 was fixed as the date for has been investigating the disastrous an argument on the demurrer. fire at Rhoade’s opera house, in | κεγρεζεαμκώκάέκόόθεεἓ which 169 persons lost their lives, | Minnesota Banker With Too Many has returned the following verdict: | Irons in the Fire Ends Life. Oil Tank Struck by Lightning. fire which was started Monday afternoon in an oil tank belonging to the Union “We are of the opinion that Mrs. | Monroe and the deputy factory in| spector are largely responsible for | the disaster on account of negligence. | We request the prosecuting attorney | | of Berks county to arrest and if possible conviet Mrs. Monroe, owner of the stereopticon machine, and Harry| McC. Bechel, the deputy factory ipspector, on the charge of criminal | negligence.” Oil company at Port Huron by a stroke of lightning, consumed, with their contents, the tank which was first set on fire and three others belonging to the Standard Oil company. No other damage was done, although it was thought at one time that nothing could save the Marre hotel, the Port Harford wharf and several cottages belonging to workmen around the oi] tanks. Banker Makes Brave Promises. Big Packing Plant Burned. through these nine years, and asserts triumphantly that there is no brighter page in history than that dealing with the relations between the strong and the weak in these islands. Appleton, Minn—A. L. Sloss, cashier have been thrown out of work. The contractors having this charge οἳ Mr. Hennessy came to Montana in| their ranch near Flat Willow, Montana 1879 and engaged in business in Hel- | a rancher named Nordell has been arena, with E. L. Bonner & Co., a pio- | rested. He lives two miles from the He adds that the ΕΠ. | pinos “have yet a long way to travel Three years later he es-| scene of the crime. It is said he was then a) in love with Mrs. Schleuter’s 15-year. small camp. This place was burned | old daughter. out in 1889, but out of the ruins grew | The Mine Operators’ association neer firm. before they will be fit for complete | tablished a store in Butte, | self-government.” obstructive attitude of the majorityIn the senate, through non-attendance, get nor other legislation could nas abolished the card system, which requires all employes to sign an agree ment renouncing the Western Federa tion of Miners, and declared an open shop policy. This action was because of the fact that the agreement which | the men were required to sign is in conflict with the statutes of Nevada, Lisbon.—The government issued a statement on Saturday that the conspirators in the recent plot to over- with the result that neither the budbe Jewelry, heirlooms and costly cloth ing to the value of $4,000 were stolen from the home of James Douglas in Portland, last week. Included among dealt with, the government being left throw the state had procured revol- the stolen articles were the sword and jeweled belt given to Sir James Doug vers and bombs and other weapons powerless to meet ordinary expenses. and had unsuccessfully tried to win Scheoner Lost in Storm. over the officers and soldiers of the New York.—Fears that an unknown army, so that they might bring a mut- | three-masted schooner and her crew)iny at the psychological moment. | | have been lost in the storm off the | Continuing, the statement says: Delaware capes, are expressed by of- | “The government has taken all! ficials of the steamer Mannahata, measures necessary to guarantee | las, grandfather of Mr. Douglas, by Queen Victoria, when Sir James Doug las became first governor of Britisk Columbia. The senate judiciary committee has favorably reported the bill of Senatoi which limped into harbor Sunday from Clark, Wyoming, increasing the fees o | public order and secure the mainten-| Baltimore. The schooner was seen | witnesses and jurors in the Unitee ance of obedience and loyalty in the} struggling in the trough of the sea States courts and before commission off the Delaware capes, and when the | army.” ers’ courts, to $3 per day with mile Advices received here tend to show| Mannahata, which had been blown off age at 15 cents per mile by stage and her course, neared the locality where that all Portugal is calm at present. 5 cents by rail in Montana, Wyoming the schooner was last sighted riding| No further arrests have been made! out the storm, many pieces of a wrecked vessel and quantities of rail: | road ties were seen floating in the water. Ga.—John D. ho, New Mexico and Arizona. As a result of correspondence which has passed between President Roose westerr the. velt, Clifford Pinchot and lawmakers, following suggestions oi SUTHERLAND WINS OUT. Senate Passes Bill John D. Rockefeller Listens to Negro | Preacher and Makes Donation. Augusta, Utah, Oregon, Colorado, Nevada, Ida Lisbon. Regarding Mining Exposition. Washington.—The Rockefeller senate : on J. A. MeGuire, editor of the Outdoor Mon- | Life, it is likely that an immense game preserve will be established by the government on the Mapiti fork of the occupied his first Sunday morning in | - ro aanot ο an | this winter in listening to a| ‘778 of the First National bank of Apple- Augusta sermon in the Tabernacle Baptist | Place ‘Be Secretary of the interior to ton, committed snicide on Monday by blowing out his brains with a shotgun. No reason is known for his action, but it is believed that he became an exhibit of the mineral re-| North fork of the Shoshone river in church (colored) by Rev. ς,. T,| Sources of the United States at the | Wyoming. Walker. Walker got out of a sick bed International Mining exposition, to be Henrietta M. Johnson was run down to preach when informed that Rocke held at Madison Square Garden, New and killed in Seattle by an automobile demented, not being strong enough to bear the strain of the amount of business he was carrying on. He was interested in banks in several towns, including Waseca, Springfield, Ivan- ler held a corierence with Walker in| pended shall not exceed $5,000, and the latter's study, when he “made a) }¢ yseq exclusively for the transpor- | hoe, Arlington and Elkton, 8. D. Spokane.—C. C. May, former!y | president of the Big Bend National stopped temporarily on account of shortage of funds. About 200 men Mercantile work state that work will be resumed o’clock Monday morning, of heart dis- | by February 10. ease. He was born at Fredericktown, | In connection with the murder and Ν. Β., in 1854. A widow and three | partial incineration of Mrs. Fred children survive. Schleuter and her four children at icy toward the Philippines than that outlined by William M:Kinley and earried forward Hennessy The Buenos Ayres Way. the present store, the largest between Buenos Ayres.—Great excitement St. Paul and Portland. Mr. Hennessy Nebraskan is Satisfied to Let Conven- prevails here owing to the issuance was many times a millionaire. tion Select Him. of an executive decree closing the exALL QUIET IN PORTUGAL, Washington.—W. J. Bryan on Mon- traordinary sessions of congress ana day held an impromptu reception in putting into effect for the current fis, | the rooms of the house committee on cal year the 1907 budget. This eX| House of Braganza Holds the Throne for the Present. ways and means, where a number of treme measure was occasioned by the | running mate, in the event of his nomination at Denver, Mr. Bryan laughingly replied: joldfield, Nev—The Mine Opera | “ shan’t tell. That is too bold a tors’ association on Wednesday adopt: | question.” ed a set of rules which will be posted | Goldficid Operators Declare for Open Shop Policy. BUTTE PIONEER DROPS DEAD. BRYAN’S RUNNING MATE, triot, the statesman, the broad-mind- European Cal.—The youngest of the richest of American heiresses, Chaplain’s Declaring that he had no San Luis, Obispo, Gladys, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, cousin of the Duchess of Marlborough, and one citizens, and give us instead, the pa- {Π|.} attacked the custom of Amerimarrying ident of the secretary's conclusions. The presi- company, a pioneer of Montana. and | dent declares that ruin would have the richest merchant in the northwest, | followed the adoption of another pol- dropped dead on the street at ἃ | | the bigot and all other undesirable McGavin ber company. This is believed to be preliminary to like pleadings on the the suggestion made. commending in the highest terms the “Good Lord, deliver us, we beseech Thee, from the jingo, the demagogue, on Former United States Commissioner H. H. Hendricks, of Portland, last Miss ran: Congressman Attacks Custom of Heir esses Marrying Titles. found. letter written by the chief executive lineage and comfortable fortune, Last cident of aplauding the prayer of summer Miss Vanderbilt became of the chaplain occurred in the house of age and, under the provision of her representatives on Wednesday. The | father’s will, entered into possession chaplain barely had concluded when | of her share of his great fortune, estihandelapping and laughter were heard | mated at from $12,000,000 to $15,000, from various directions. The prayer 000. digging their political graves. heiresses Applaud Prayer. Nordell be held for the crime. Very strong evidence against him has been dilt mansion at Fifth avenue and Fit ty-seventh street, at noon Monday, became the bride of Count Laszie Jeno Maria Henrik Simon Szechenyl, Washington—The most unusual in | a young Hungarian noble of ancient and won the law. Speaker Skaggs, who has been taking a most active part for the union men, left his chair and voted. Skaggs denounced the measure as pernicious, unconstitutional and eczar-like, and predicted noblemen. by Presi-| part of other persons connected with the land case. Head of the Hennessee Mercantile All Western Pacifie construction work between the California-Nevada Company Falls Dead in the Street. Butte, Mont.—D. J. Hennessy, pres- fine and Palisade, Nev., has been United States. union men, made a fight in opposition an It is stated by the committee of local bankers having charge of the bank| ing operations of the Portland banks | sented a request that in executing | during the recent depression, that all | what is known as the comity amendof the $1,000,000 of clearing house |ment of the railroad rate law bill, one| certificates issued during that time | case be brought against the roads by | have been redeemed. | the government, this case to be fin-| ally disposed of by the supreme court | C. Mathis, absconding cashier of the defunct Exchange bank of Blaine, of the United States. This, if agreed | Washington, which suspended two | to by the government, would mean | weeks ago, has been arrested in Ash| that the railroads owning coal pro- creft, B. C. He agrees to waive exducing properties would not sell them tradition and return and try to by May 1 next, as required by the straighten out the bank's affairs. law, but could operate them as hereThe verdict of the coroner's inquest tofore until the disposal of the test ever the remains of Mrs. Fred Sluter cases. The law in question is regardand her four children whose charred ed by the roads as unconstitutional in | bodies were found in the ruins of their that it requires the disposal of prop- | little ranch home on the Musselshell, erty at what would necessarily be a in Montana, recommends that Ole the country were received | battle of Manila bay, Secretary Taft for a system of policing in time of riots, which, it is believed, will quell all trouble in the Goldfield section at the present time and place the state in position to handle any fu- Representative as of yore, only that the prosecution Natives Not Yet Fit for Complete Self- | question will be fully discussed and a_ week pleaded guilty to his share in the Government. report made to the president as to) alleged illegal fencing of land in the Washington.—Nine years after the the legai possibility of carrying out Butte Creek Livestock, Land and Lum- this state a measure that provides "Tuesday, ROOSEVELT. tion of the province, the Chinese are | dent Roosevelt on Monday and pre- will be lasting, will be framed and records the results of the American , | occupation of the archipelago and signed by the Tong leaders. house’ CASE BEFORE Roads Owning Coal Property. im- by the prospect of Japanese occupa- Sam's Participation. it is Now Believed That Trouble at Goldfield Will End. the Mr. Lodge made a statementto dis in Denver, went on record as opposed warring Tongs, the Hop Sings and the China would have to submit to the Bing Kongs, and threatened to expose objections offered by Japanese to the as the gun fighters among them to the. construction of a new railroad, bank. police and to drive them out of the Japan is fully prepared to support her | sacrifice, The law is also questioned | on other grounds. country and make them known demands. JAPANESE EXPOSITION. The president referred the railroaa | throughout China unless a treaty of peace was signed at once. A truce, TAFT REPORTS ON PHILIPPINES. | men to the interstate commerce com- | Bill in the Senate Providing for Uncle | which takes in all of the Pacific coast, mission, where, it is understood, the | another over him, his back broken iu Washingion.—In |_ is of the land grafters has made them pressed by Chinese activity in the Washington.—The operating vice | colonization of Korea, Although faced | presidents of the large railroads of | more careful in their operations, to put an end to the strife, got together with the head men of the two dicted on the charge of embezzlement in connection with loans made to themselves from the funds of the man slavery is still maintained in the ¢onvention of the Colorado Horse & Philippine islands. | Cattle Growers’ association, in session Francis J. Heney, in an interview in Portland, declares that jand frauds are being perpetrated in Oregon today Japan at present are out of the ques- | Railroad Men Want Test Case Against | indict James Treadwell, a director, were in- He traffic in white slaves, but that coolie | @riven to the city by the closing of labor in the form of practical lavery | mins and camps. does exist, and added that actual hu- | By a vote of 178 to 116, the annual tilities between the United States and ments in the Chinese Tong war, which affects the entire Pacific coast. ments against J. Dalzell Brown, for The present treaty is only temporary, mer general manager, and Walter J. | | however, and expires on February 15. Bartnett, former vice president of the The local Chinese consul and repreCalifornia Safe Deposit & Trust comsentatives of the Chinese Six company, which is now in the hands of panies in this city, who made an una receiver. The institution failed last successful expedition to San Jose and November, owing depositors about Sacramento last week in an attempt $9,000,000. The two bank officials and ruled the demurrers to war. ,; ed to the mayor's office in Seattle one bill, de- | day last week to ask for work. Most | clared that not only is there immoral | of them are lumbermen who have been he has had with prominent menofall | shades of opinion in Tokio that hos- LAY San Francisco.—A truce has been Η. ‘signed between the opposing ele- periods during these fainting spells he hung by his wrists suspended from a bar of his cell, the legs too limp to support his weight. following the Heyburn, in charge of the | | Prove the charges of slavery in the | to the federal administration’s policy convineed from conversations which Philippines.. of public land control. Warring Chinese of San Francisco Agree to Bury the Hatchet. of Safe Deposit Company. provis-| the report of the special commission fons should be stricken out, as he re sent by him to investigate the labor St. Petersburg.—M. Shipoff, former garded slavery as obsolete in thé | troubles at Goldfield. minister of finance, returned here United States and he could see πο! About 3,000 unemployed men marchSunday after a five months’ trip in | reason for referring to it. Senator pression TONG WAR OVER. INDICTMENTS HELD VALID. faint, he either tried to commit suicide or escape. Being chained up again, he climbed up the bars of his cell, probably while in a delirium, | Mr. Hale asserted that such the far east. He visited Japan, China and Siberia on a special government D. Jaynes, doing business under the ‘mission, the result of which he has firm name of Shoup & Jaynes. The embodied in a report to the emperor defendant in one case is the United M. Shipoff expressed himself optimis States Smelting company, and in the> tically regarding conditions in the ex |other the Utah Consolidated Mining treme Orient, which he said is rapid. company, It is alleged that in the fall ly recovering from the period of deand winter of 1906-07 the plaintiffs the short session, but the delegation | has been damaged to the extent of | $5,000. has hopes of such action. On the third evening when he was fore the reformatory physician called, amount ef damages of $10,850 is ask- It is understood that Governor Curry’s invitation, following the suggestion to him by Speaker Cannon a few days ago, that it would not be wise to press the issue on the eve of a presidential campaign, signifies a truce for the winter. It is posi-) lost 300 head of sheep, of a value of tively denied that in consideration of | $1,250, by reason of the poison neglithis relinquishment the house com- gently permitted to be deposited on mittee on territories or its chairman, | the land, and in 1908 there died 1,000 The (Mr. Hamilton, Mich.) has agreed to |sheep of the value of $4,500. report favorably the statehood bill at | land, it is claimed in each complaint, and torture inflicted upon William Hamlin, an inmate, whose death and thereof the conflicting explanations Secretary Taft was di-| 4) arrangements for the national com- rectly charged with having & knowi| wention to be held in Denver, provide ing food on the range which had been poisoned by smelter smoke and fumes, committee of the senate to visit New | ous matter. The two actions are brought by the | tional conventions and see and judgq! same plaint®fs, but against separate for themselves whether the territory | defendants. In each case a total Back Broken, Sam Davis, an officer at McGill, Ne- vada, was shot and seriously injured by a Greek who was resisting arrest. The Greek was later shot by a member of a posse, and died from his Washington.—Greatly to the sur- wounds. prise of every one, the subject of | : slavery was introduced in the senate ee Despite Japanese Occupation. mals were killed as the result of eat- ernor L. B. Prince before the house committee on territories, invited that committee and the corresponding the Unfortunate Victim is Left Secretary Taft is Directly Charged With Having Knowledge of Slavery in the Islands. Are Displaying Great Energy Deτἰ.. .Όημω ἂν iti Salt Lake City.—Two actions were begun on Mondayin the United States court against smelting companies by sheepmen, who claim that their ani- Woshineton.—New Mexico on Wednesday practically gave up its efforts to obtain statehood at this session of the Sixtieth congress when Governor GovCurry, appearing with former After Being Chained Up for Hours, and Given the Cold Water Cure, Floor for Year. Tortured to Death by Inhuman Prison Officials. Concrete Union Century Will Wait Another An Inmate of Illinois Reformatory on to unknown mulatto in the red-light district of Butte and has since died from his wounds. Opposes Bond-Secured Currency. feller would be one of his congregza | York, May 25 to June 20 next, with | driven by Guy C. Stratton, secretary After the sermon Mr. Rockefel: the proviso that the total amount ex- | of the Aeme Shingle company. J. F Ives, vice president of the Stimson Mill company, who was in the auto tion. ae κ Grnation Moors Meet Defeat. Tangier—Advices received to the | tation of minerals and mining appar-| mobile, and Mr. Stratton gave $1,50¢ | atus. | Nee! | bail. "ais : πον; ᾽ It is not unlikely that the Goldfiel¢ here Criminal Information Filed Against branch. of the Western: Federation οἱ Colorado Financiers. Washington.—The street railway state that the Zenatia and Ouled Ali | Miners will disband, and the mem hank of Davenport, Wash., who was | systems of the District of Columbia tribes attacked the French troops on Durango, Colo.—Criminal informa- bers join the independent organization on the second floor of one of the twin | reported to have absconded, writes and the financial question occupied January 23, but were repulsed with tions were filed on Monday by the jaunched b:- Thomas O’Brien. It is befrom Boston, under date of January | the time of the house of representa- severe loss after four hours’ fighting. | district. attorney against Charles E.! lieved the new organization will re main buildings of the $2,000,000 pack21, and declares he is coming home tives on Monday. The latter subjeet ing plant of Nelson Morris & Co., near The French Littoral and Mediouma | McConnell, president of the defunct | ceive full recognition and the old wage the Kaw river in Kansas City, Kan. | in a few days, “I am no quitter,” de- | was discussed by Mr. Fowler, chair columns had just effected a junction Smelter City bank of Durango, and B, | S¢ale will be restored. Monday night, threatened destruction clares May, “and will continue till | man of the committee on banking and Crazed by drink and maddened over when the tribesmen, in battle array, |N. Freeman, Frank Eldredge, W. C. | of the entire plant and caused a loss | every depositor is paid every cent, | due him.” May was sentenced to five | Currency, in an exhaustive speech in covering a front of about four miles, | Chapman and E. M. Hampton, direct- | @ trivial difference, S. Oneda, a Japestimated at $750,000 before it was for improper | Which he opposed bond-secured cur swept down in crescent formation. ors of the defunct Colorado State | anese laborer, shot and instantly controlled. All efforts to save the years’ imprisonment The Spahis bore the brunt of the at- | bank of Durango, all being charged | killed M. Kosnka, at Butte. Oneda, east. main building, in which the fire | management of the bank's affairs. | rency and the pronosition looking to tack, making several gallant charges, j with receiving deposits after they| when he realized his act, placed the started, and the box factory, was | Since the United States circuit court|| the establishment of a central bank. which, however, interfered to some ex kaew their banks were insolvent. The| muzzle of the gun in his own mouth abandoned within a hulf hour after ' of appeals upheld his sentence he was | Mr. Fowler favors bank redemption tent with the work of the artillery. | accused men gave bonds for their and fired, sending a bullet through his districts, which he argues would meet reported to have vanished. te flames were discovered. Kansas City.—Fire of unknown origin started in the canning department | national emergencies. appearance for trial. brain and dying instantly. |