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Show HEW RAISE THOUSANDS It WATTS TO FIGHT TIT National Wool Crow cm in Earnest About Opposing tbe Policies of the Administration. At Maating at Halana Provision Wao for Publicity Bureau to Wago Fight Against Fodaral Regulation of Public Rango. Mad Hlrna, Mont cessful meeting After tho moat sucof Ita In tho history annual Organization, tho forty-fourtinvention of the National Wool Erowers' association on Thursday 111 bight adjourned to meet nest year IHicatello. Ida. Before adjournment a fuud of 110.000 was autixrrlhed by the various state delegations for the establishment of a publicity bureau to wage a light against tbe administration's policy for federal regulation of the public range. Despite the fact that he was elected president of the National association by a unanimous vote. Dr. J. M. Wilson of Douglas, Wyu., declined to accept tbe honor, because of bis perfor son nt and political friendship United State Senator Francis E. Warren, whom the convention rebefused to consider for cause of tho fact that the Wyoming senator has gone on record as favoring the forestry and range policies of President Koosevolt After l)r. Wilson's declination of the presidency, Fred W. Gooding of Idaho was chosen as Senator Warren's successor. Pocatello, Ida., has been chosen as the place for holding the neat annual convention In January, 1909. HARRIMAN MUST ANSWER. King Commanded by Court to Reply to Questions. New York. Judge Hough of the United States circuit rourt bonded down on Thursday an opinion directing Otto B. Kuhn, a member of the L Co., to banking firm of Kuhn, answer all questions propounded to blm by tho Interstate commerce commission. K II. Ilarrlmsn was directed to answer all questions except those relative to the purchase of Union and Southern Pacific stocks In connection with the dividend of Au- Railroad gust, 1909. While the exceptions wwre regard-b- , 'niyorttm ywutwu liy the government lawyers who were Investigating the Chicago k Alton railroad organisation, they constituted only a small proportion of those that Harri-marefused to answer. n LIFE CONGRESSMAN Introduces Mcasurs to Establish a Central Covsrnment Institution With Capital of 9100,000X00. Washington. Tho establishment of the Tolled States National Bank of America" Is provided for In a hill Introduced In the house by Mr. Forties (He in.) of New York. The bank as conceived Is to be located In Washington and Is to have a capital stuck of Il0fl.0u0.hti0, divided Into lOO.noO l.si0. shares of the sr value of Three-fifth-s of these shares are to be purchased by the Iuited Stales treasurer at par. the purchase money to be raised by tbe sale of S'XMhio.iumi bonds, A payable in fifty years and bearing Ik? desto the cent sain Interest, per s ignated "IT, S. currency bonds. of the shares are to lie offered at not less than ar to the national banks of the country, to In paid for lu gold coin. Tbe I'nltcd States National lluuk of America Is to oieii for business to I. 1&UK, uud to eease Sentenih.-exist September 1. 1958, unless irs life be extended by congress. Branches are to be established In New York. Chicago, New Orleans, Boston, Denver, St. Isuiis, Sau Francisco. Cincinnati and Cortland, Ore. The hank shall lie governed by a board of twenty-five directors, elected by the stockholders. and the seertdary of the treasury shall be the chairman. The hank of tho muy issue additional notes I'nited Slates N'utlonal Bank of America In amounts not exceeding IIO.tMin,-00- 0 uud such notes shall be available for general national hank circulation tism dcNSiil of proper Four per cent dividends may lie on the bsnk paid to stockholders earnings. Two-fifth- BUTTE BANK MAY REOPEN. Heinas Secures His Debt to the State Savinge Bank. Mont. State Bank Examiner Butte, T. E. Collins, In chargo of the State Savings bank, reports to Judge Hour-qulthat F. Augustus Deluxe, who owned 63 per cent of the stock of that Institution when It susiicntled a few mouths ago, liaa turned over to him securities to secure the debt he owei the bank. On December 27 last. District Judge Bourquln, at a hearing Incident to the proceedings growing out of thb application of creditors to have a receiver appointed for the bank, announced that if by January 18 Mr. Heinxe had deposited 1250,000 In cash or market able securities to the credit of the bank,' and M. 8. large?, president ot the hank, had deposited 175,000, he would give the bank until March 2, II necessary, to reopen. If by that tlma It was not prepared to reopen, liquidation, the court said, must follow. Lai gey haa deposited tho 975,000, all In n President Approves Widening Canal Locks Cost a Million Dollars to Carry Coal Roosevelt for Float's Voyags. Washington. President has approved the recommendation of Washington. Rear Admiral Cow'cs, the Isthmian canal commission In- chief of the bureau of equipment, apdorsed by Secretary Taft, increasing peared on Wednesday before the house the width of 'he locks of the canal committee on naval affairs In the heapfrom one hundred to one hundred and ing Incident to consideration of the ten feeL The president simply ap- tiaval appropriation Admiral bill. proves the recommendation for the Cowles Informed the committee that of the width In the locks, but the cost of transportation of coal for In a the fleet now sailing to San Francisco (makes no comment thereon. memorandum to Secretary Taft the will be fl.000,000. Without making commission says the cost of all the any corrective recommendations, he locks at erne hundred feet wide Is esti- called attention to the fact that, with mated at 152.630.011. while a width a single exception, the colliers charof 110 feet will cost I57.C90.8S0, a dif- tered to accompany the fleet are forference ton email to be considered, eign bottoms, American owners havto give charters even si assuming the necessity for the In- ing declined creased width to be as stated by the the 60 per rent advance over foreign quotations which the government ofnavy. fered. The reason for their refusal was that American vessels could make Objects te Land Donations. more money by plying In the coastof Carter Washington. Senator wise trade. Montana on Thursday annouheed that SEVERE QUAKE IN HAYTI. he would object to the passage of all bllla looking to tbe donation of public land for various purposes. He de- A Few Homes Destroyed But No Lives Were Lost. clared that such donations. If allowed, Port Au l'rlnce, Ilaytl. A serious would make It necessary for senators from all states having public land to earthquake has occurred at Gonalves, miles northwest of this city. we that they receive as large dona- sixty-fivtions of land as other states. Sena- A few houses have destroyed and tor Carters objection was made to a others were damaged. No loss of life Communication bill granting to the state of North Da- has been reported. the town Is broken. The shocks kota 30.IHIO acres of land to aid In with continue. The first was followed by tho maintenance of a school of for a tBlal wave. Among the buildings estry. destroyed are the commercial houses e Is-e- n Railroad Contractors Fail. Denver A petition In bankruptcy hue lieen filed with the clerk of the United Slates court by Orman & Cook, railroad contractors, this city. This firm had the routrsrt for the on part of the Moffat nuid. I .labilities given as 71l.12.r,, and newts ns f!,2S2.771. Of the assets. 9549.958 consists of debts still due, and $200,000 of this amount Is considered not good. The firm places tho value of Its machinery and tools nt 9172.701). its horses at $52,050, and Its itock and bonds at $125,000. Mum nwii LEAVE COLDFIELD cash. Officer a Poor Shot. S. WhitaNew Orleans. Edward ker. inspector of police, entered the offlea of the Morning World here Thursday night and fired two shuts at Joseph M. Ijeveqiie. the editor. Neither shot took effect. The slutting followed several attacks upon Whitaker In the editorial and news columns of the World. The head of the New Orleans police department was criticised for "attending the races dally while drawing a salary of fS.OHil a year from the pimple," and was reand a ferred to as "a blarkguard bully." sau SANK GOVERNMENT of Herrmann, Adder & JnJlbert. President of Brazil Entertains Officers of American Fleet. Rio Janeiro. Tbe president of the republic, Dr. Pcnna, entertained tlio admirals and some of the higher officials of the American fleet at a breakfast on Wednesday at Petropolls. loiter In the dny then was a garden party at the American embassy In the same suburb. The fleet was well of the presiThe dent was given at the palace, which was besutlfully decorated with flowers and greens, and the Ilraxlllan and American flags. There was u warm interchange of fraternal greetings. Democrats Pay Tribute to Bryan. Lincoln, Neb. Nearly 1.300 jmlltl-ca- l Mends and personal admirers of William J. Bryan attended In the capacity of diners nnd speakers at the dollar dinner at the Lincoln auditorium Wednesday night. Half ns many more occupied seats ns applauded spectators, and tbe good things said shout Democracy and Mr. Bryan himself. It was the larecst and one of the most successful functions of the kind held In Lincoln since Mr. Bryan became an Inllueu-- ' tlal factor In the politics of Nebraska. SDtTEEH IN THEATRE FIRE Governor Sparka, it la Said, Will Endeavor to Have Law Passed Pro- vldlng for State Rengers. President Believes State of NenJa IS TRAMPLED OUT OF Mi IH PINK Wars Crushed to Death by Frenzied Mob at Amusement Halt Forty Others Injured. Victims Were Attending Benefit for Sunday School When Flumes Carson, Nev. The special session Barnsley, England. Sixteen chilof ths Mevada legislature, called by Cunsed Wild Punic. dren were trampled to death, and Governs? Sparks, met at noon on others, several of whom cannot forty Tuesday. After organization, Gov-were Injured In s mad rush for live, ernor Sparks message was read. In Soldiers Will Be Ordered te Leeve Ne- the senate the appropriation bill for In Addition to tho Heavy Loss of Lift, better seats nt an entertainment given In the public ball here Saturday aftervada Soon After Assembling of the session was passed. The only lm-Three Score Were Injured, Many noon. There was a great erush to action was taken txutant the passage Special Session of Legislature, of tho Unfortunate Ones Besecure admittance to the entertainof a resolution referring all bills that Regardless of Governors Members of Loading ing and when the doors opened ment, be Introduced relative to state may Request. Families was taken- and the gallery of Town. tho seat every rangers, constabulary or military, to was literally packed with children, a special Joint committee consisting who filled the aisle and who were nt the judiciary committee, with Sen Roosevelt Washington. President Boyertown, Pi. As tbe result of a dangerously massed against the lower atom Oddie, Campbell, Okane, Boyd nae determined to withdraw the fed- uud Pine; the committee of With a view to relieving this military fire, which threw the audience at- railing. In the gadlery the attendants eral troops from Goldfield, Nevada, uud Indian affairs, a Rhoad's crowding the at Sen-J performance tending of consisting shortly after the legislature begins its a lorn Oddie, Martin and Locklin, and opera house, Monday night, into a decided to transfer some of the chilspecial session. This Intention wax (he relations committee, with panic, 167 people are knows to have dren to the body at the house, and made known at the White House un Senators lliossiner, Easton and Hun-tr- lost their Uvea, while scores are suf- one usher called out, Some ot you Huuday when the report of the special fering from burns or broken bones children come down- stairs. Immediately the- rush started, and Investigating commission was made Thu governor will from day to day and the death list will undoubtedly public, together with e letter from the .send any special message that be- grow larger as a result of tbe awful within a few seconds hundreds of children were being trampled under experience. president to Governor Sparks, dated comes nptessary. The population of the place la about foot. Even those who had teats In January 4. The president soya he There vas no attempt to Introduce shall be governed by tbe recommenda- atty measures In the assembly, and 2.600, and the disaster paralyzed tbe the gallery, doubtless being tions la the report unless the gov- front this action it seems that the town and the people are going about by the' screams and struggles ernor can show that the statement! renatp will take the lead In the mat-te-r dazed. It is safe to say that every- of the crowds fighting to reach thb of attempting to regulate the af- body In the In the report are not In accordance place either lost one or staircase, joined In the stampede. be seen miners and the unions. more fairs The scene was a terrible one, the or was Intimately acwith the facta. relatives, Governor Sparka, It Is thought, will of the Injured' and moans of the cries those The report says: with died who in the quainted of endeavor to influence the "Thd conditions do not support the a state ranger law similar passage to that of fire. In several coses whole families dying causing the greatest excitement general allegations In the governori Texas, as he has the Texas law at were wlppd out. among those gathered In the body of request for troops, nor were his ape hand, and it has been read to a numWhile the "Scottish Reformation" the hall Police and1 ushers rushed to el do statements established to any ber of the members. It la likely to was being reproduced in Rhoade'a the head of the staircases, which wc e such extent as to Justify his use ot meet with strong opposition In the opera house by Mrs. Monroe of Wash- literally strewn with dead and dying, these statements fur tbe purpose o! lower house, where the labor union a tank used In a moving pic- and by the most desperate efforts ington, getting federal troops; baa a strong representation. ture scene exploded, and immediately managed to drag scores of the strugIt concludes with this recommendathere was a wild rush for the exits gling children to the corridors below. tion: SEVERE ON CORPORATIONS. of the building. Men of mature years It was with the greatest difficulty But we most firmly believe that endeavored to still the panic, but their that a panic among the children In upon the assembling of the legists Corcoran Would Increase Fine of Of- voices could not be heard above the the lower part of the bouse was ture, or within a few days thereafter, ficers Who Violate the Law. shrieks and screams of the terrified averted, all of these eventually being the troops should be removed, regardWashington. The amount of the women and children, who composed taken to the street In safety. less of any request for their retenand the length of the tenn of the greater part of the audience. fine bn tion that may made by .either tin FARMERS MAY LOSE SUIT, It seemed as though nearly the enlegislature or the governor of N Imprisonment to be meted out to ofvada, it being essential that the state ficers and directors of corporations tire audience made a mad rush for May Fall tc Secure Permanent Injuncof Nevada shall understand this situ- for violating the law with respect to the exits the moment the explosion tion Against Anaconda Smelter. ation completely; shall recognise the money contributions for political pur occurred. fact that there will, at that date. In poses foniizhed material for a lengthy Mont Master In Chancery Butte, In their attempt to quiet the great thrown niton It, and It alone, the pri debate In the house on Tuesday, in crowd those persons who were on the Crane filed findings in the famous niary reaitonslblllty of keeping order, connection with the consideration of Deer Lodge valley smoke case in the stage accidentally upaet the coal-oi- l and that, recognizing thla responslbll All amendments code bill. the penal at used the The federal ccurt on Saturday, and, If aplamps footlights. Ity, It may take such action as Is the to increase the penalty or enlarge the burning oil scattered In all directions, proved by Judge Hunt, It Is not likely duty of the state, and as will be suf- scope of the law, however, were voted that a permanent Injunction asked for ficient In the premises. dona. These amendments, without and the lamps which were used to by farmers residing close to the the house throwlight opera exploded, Demoexception, emanated from the Washoe smelter at Anaconda DUEL TO THE DEATH. cratic side, but the one that brought ing the blazing oil over the who were fighting will be granted. Besides the signififorth the most discussion was by Mr. people, Man Used Big Knlfs and the Woman Corcoran of New York, who wanted frantically to gain the exits. In the cant views expressed by the master in Wielded a Razor. tbe fine fixed at $10,000, Instead of mad rush a section of the floor gave his appended statement, an Important Oakland. Pietro Sarochl, an Iron- not more than 91.000, and the Impris- way, precipitating scores of persons feature la the manner In which the onment at ten yean Instead of not to the basement findings relating to the effect of arworker, and hit wife, Relna, fought more than one year. duel to the death Saturday mornlni It was scarcely five minutes from senic upon the animals In the alleged the time of the explosion of the tanka smoke zone have been amended. The In their little cottage In Uu CUBANS TO GO IT ALONE. until the entire heart of the structure original finding now Is made to state Montgomery tract He was annjri There was that ne deatha were found to haTe ocwith a large butcher knife and' she! Islands Will bs Turned Over to Them seemed a a mad scramble to the stairway, and curred from arsenical poisoning. with a razor. After battling for Before February, 1909. scores of women and children were It is held that sickness only resultteen or twenty minutes the huiband knocked down and trampled upon, ed. It was on the allegation to that the In transmitting Washington. finally slew the wife and cut his own many of them doubtless being crushed of animals had occurred from throat from ear to ear, explrlxi on senate on Tuesday the report of Pro- to death. At least fifty persons, real- deaths such poisoning that the request for a her dead body. Worry over money, visional Governor Magoon on condi- izing that exit by the stairway meant permanent injunction was largely said: In the Cuba, president almost certain death, risked their based. which. It Is said, was deposited la the tions "I am glad to be- able to soy that lives by Jumping from the windows. California bank, and the fact tbit hla wife has left him seveial times re- we can now definitely announce that Limbs were broken and skulls were FLEET REACHES RIO JANEIRO. or before February 1, 1909, we crushed by this daring method of escently are believed to have been among by to Island cape. the causes that led up to the fatal shall have turned over the American Battleships Come te Anchor the president and congress to be electquarrel. in Brazilian Waters, ed next December by the people at Union 8tatlon Annex of Kansas City turn Island word to Our the Cuba. RIe do Janeiro. The American fleet CIVIL WAR THREATENS Destroyed by Fir. over to Its own people will be scrupuKansas City. Tbe Union station of sixteen battleships entered the port Fanatical Fssllng is Directed Against lously regarded. y annex In Union avenue, adjoining the of RIe de Janeiro at 3 o'clock France. a from after passage afternoon, Union railway station, was destroyed Bandits Beaten Off by Guards. fire early Monday. The Union sta- Port of Spain, Trinidad, more than Tarls. The French government Is Tashlzend, Asiatic Russia. Railway by accigreatly embarrassed at the unexpect- guards recently repulsed an attack by tion proper, one of Kansas Citys land- fc,000 miles, unmarred by serious Inciwith was saved Interesting dent, firemen the replete ed turn of events in Morocco. The a band of twenty marks, after by brigands upon a welproclaiming of Mulal Hand, sultan at train carrying a large shipment of a hard fight The burned building dents and ending with a royal Fes, was coincident with the arrival gold. The brigands, displaying a red contained the receiving offices of the come from the thousands that had Wells Fargo and Pacific Ex- gathered to greet the visitors. In Paris of Mohammed Sldl el llok-hrlantern, caused the engineer to slow Adams, The fleet weighed anchor at 4 a branch mailing who came here as finance mini- down. press companies, They boarded the train and room of the postofflee, the offices of oclock In the afternoon of December ster to Abd el Aziz to negotiate a loan after detaching the engine drove It of 130.000.000. and the march on Ra backward, smashing several cars. the Fred Harvey Eating House com- 29 at Port of Spain, and exactly at 4 bat of General d'Armadi. commandei They threw bombs right and left to pany, the Pullman Palace Car com- o'clock, January 12. the vessels were of the French forces In Morocco, with create a panic, but the guards, who panys linen room and the Railway-men'- s winging at their anchors In this beauY. M. C. A. rooms. The loss is tiful harbor. The fleet has now cov4.000 men. In s twinkling the entire were outnumbered, held their ground rltua'.ton has become changed, anq bravely and shot down two of the estimated at close to a quarter of a ered about 4,600 miles, about a third the whole country Is threatened with bandits, their comrades, however, car- million dollars. of the distance of the voyage to San a civil war. Francisco. rying off the bodies to prevent Iden- Kansas Law Upheld by tification. Halt's Naval Bill, Supreme Court Bugling Work of 8uregons. Washington. The supreme court of Washington. Senator Hale's bill Mysterious Theft of Powder at GoldRed Lodge, Mont. A local surgeon field. the United States on Monday upheld who has performed an operation on will receive Its first attention at the The powder tunnel the Nev. law of Kansas by af- Charles Joakinen, a young Finnish hands of the senate committee on Goldfield, naval affairs during (he present week, of the Palace Hardware company was firming the decisions of the supreme miner, for the removal of the cause but it will probably be some time be- broken Into some tlmo Monday night court of that state In a number of of pain n hla chest, found In the cavfore the measure can he reported to and 200 pounds of Hercules dynamite cases. Including that of Frits Durien ity left by a previous operation two the senate. There Is little doubt that and five boxes of raitridges were of Shawnee county, convicted of vio- pieces of rubber tubing, four and five hearings will be ordered. It will be stolen. A wagon was used to haul lating the law. Durien appealed to Inches long respectively. To one was but aa the ground the federal supreme court on a writ attached to a safety pin, badly rusted. quite Impossible to avoid touching away the booty, snow when the of with covered was Admlrai on the ground that the stat- The rubber tubing was nearly a half the retirement of uion It was impos- ute eiror Inch In diameter. The foreign subcontravenes the federal Brownaon. and If the sulifoct Is once theft was discovered. to trace It. No fuse was kept tion becam-- it gives discretionconstitustances had been left In the wound sible to is no there ti pro when New York opened, lling to what In tbe tnnnel, and the powder cannot surgeons sewed lc In bate tie extent It may judges granting permits. purmied. Tbs genwithout Rise. The officials several up following an operation eral question of tbe reorganization of veaveused no tangible! clew to tbe thieves. Charged With Murder Committed months ago. the nnvy is a very important one. Should Handle Situation With-oFederal Interference. at . 1 I I : j j panic-stricke-n 00 terror-stricke- n four-roo- roaring-furnac- Of-- 1 - Snn-da- l, Anti-Liqu- anti-liqu- e Bandit Killed by Conductor. Loo Angeles, fat- .- Charles Gray, armed with two revolvers, attempted to hold up a Redondo ear near 3!au-eoand was shot and killed by J. I. Given, tnnd.iri.ir of the car. A. O. Williams or Mom .i. a driver for the Standard 0:1 eonipany, who assisted Green In repi'slng the high waynmn. was shot through the hand by the same bullet (!:.it ended the robber's life. The dead man proved to be Charles Gray, mm ft. formerly employed as a bridge carpenter. 1 Mining Stampede Searchlight. miners arc Hock:. is to reported of Manvel the Santa new sr:k. in Nevada. Bundies o Srt.ne r :ir mile , and ;hrei mj:t;s M .v IV tiack. T!ic 1UV jtr N In San neraanlluo eiuinir ne.,r Nevada stale In- -. Kvery i chicle lias Ivi n atn orv pr,-s.t-- t . from autonuiMli-bruken-dwagons. tr:iiis;m-!!t- :. Itx.pfo re Searchlight. .M.nv,t. r- -, ron. , o.lier points. Tout an- springing over night, and a i, :.ltr ha, j laid out. with o v at, r doM the railroad. a c Will Campaign Urge Sheepmen Against Roosevelt's Policies. Helena, Mont If Tuesday's session annual convention of the forty-fourtIs to be accepted as reflecting the views of the stockmen and sheepmen of the west, a bitter campaign Is to be waged against the announced policies of President Roosevelt and his advisers for the federal control of the public range. The woolgrowert will send a delegation to Washington to oppose any legislation by this congress In carrying out the president's recommendations. Years Ago. Wash. Three years ago the liody of Frederick Dames, an Elk street butcher, was found In his shop. He had been beaten to death and an Iron spike driven through his hear, pinning It to the floor. The safe and money drawer had been robbed and the murderer left no clue. On Mlonday Charles Weatherford of Wash., was arrested, charged with the rrlnie and lodged In Jail here. It Is alleged that he admitted to several friends that he committed the crime for both revenge nnd money. Denver's Big 8tock Show. Denver. Entries for the livestock show, to be held In Denver during the week beginning January 20, comprise some of tbe best studs, herds and flocks from the middle west and the east. Trains are booked from Chicago, Omaha and Kansas to bring the stockmen at special rates. Mr. W. F. Skinner, authority on livestock exhibits and who created the International livestock how at Chicago, will conduct the exhibition1 to be given annually In Denver on the same linen. Beg for Honest Employment. St Louis. Hungry and out of work. S00 thinly clad men marched through tbe snow and cold to the city hall Tuesday, seeking Mayor Wells In order to make application for his assistance In securing employment. James Eads How. philanthropist and scion of a prominent family, who proudly styles himself s "hobo. led the procession, nnd the Welfare association, of which hels tbe founder and benefactor. formed tic nucleus of the army. The mayor assured the men ho would do all In his power to help them. Smoked Cigarette on 8caffold. Doming. N. M. Martin Amador was hanged In the county jail here on Monday for the murder of Conception Mendoza, with whom he was In lore. He went to Ills doom without the least evidence of fear, smoking a cigarette until the sheriff was ready to adjust the black cap. fagdaleno Sabolloz. who was to have been hanged at the same time as Amador for killing a child In an attempt to shoot the man he thought bad won his sweetheart, had his rvntence commuted to life Imprisonment. Fight In the House on Penal Laws Revision. Washington. A rigorous fight was waged In tbe house of representatives on Saturday over the bill to codify and revise the penal laws of the United States, with particular reference to section 19, affecting conspiracies against the civil rights of citizens. Messrs. Smith of Missouri and Hughes ot New Jersey offered amendments having for their object the exemption of labor unions from the operation of the section whenever such nlcns declare strikes or boycotts. h Rellinghnm, Su-ma- nt ' |