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Show DROPPED MATCH CAUSED OH FEARFUL FLOOR The Appropriation Bill, at Agree Upon by the Committeemen, a $101,000,000 for the Naval Establiahment for the Car-rie- Next Fiscal Year. Washington By a vote of 13 to 5, one member absent and not voting, tbe house committee on naval affairs on Monday rejected the president's urgent recommendation that congress authorize at this session the building of four battleships at a total cost of $38,000,000, and by a unanimous vote there was included in the navy appropriation bill an authorization fo tbe construction of two, to cost $9, 500,000, each to be of the Delaware type. These representatives voted In accordance with the president's recommendations: Lilley, of Connecticut. (Republican); Thomas, Ohio, (Republican); Mycr, Louisiana, (Democrat); Talbott, Maryland, (Democrat); and Hobson, Alabama, (Democrat). Representative Ilobson announced after tbe committee meeting that he intended to make a minority report recommending authorization for four battleships. The naval appropriation bill as amended and agreed upon by tbe coin mlttp, carries a total appropriation of $101,000,000 for the navy establishment for the next fiscal year, about $24,000,000 less than was asked for In the department estimates. Under the head of new authorizations for whose fulfillment congress la hound to appropriate money at the next session if tbe bill as recommended passes the house and senate, the committee Included two battleships to cost $19,000,000; ten destroyers, eight submarine torpedo touts. $3,040,000; total, $30,540,000, or $8,730,000 less thsn the total for new authorizations asked for the navy de- partment. TAFT GIVES WARM WSELCOME. Missourians Pay $2.50 Each for Attending Banquet With Secretary of War. Kansas City. William H. Taft, secretary of war. was given a memorable ovation by 15,000 people in Convention ball Monday night, when ha was the guest of honor and principal speaker at the most elaborate banquet ever attempted In this city, given by the Association of Young Republicans of Missouri, and attended by 1200 persons, many of whom came from Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and distant Missouri cities. The demonstration accorded Secretary Taft when he entered tbe great banquet hall and again when he rose to speak has never been surpassed by the welcome given any man in the history of this city. Each of the 1200 banqueters paid $2.50 for the privilege of attehdlng, but the balconies of the hall were free to the public. Ml WHILE EXPLOSION GUARD House Committee Rejects Recommendations of President That Four Ships be Built. DYNAMITE SOLDIERS SET TB HOUSES MEN ARE EATING GAT THRONE IS TOTTERING MIRERS Mexican Miners Attempt to Kill Every American at the Sants Rosa Mine, in Sonora, Old Mexico. Accident in Richest Asphaltum Mins in the United States Causes Two Deaths and $100,000 Damage. Leiders Are Jubilant Over ProapecS of Downfall of tho Monarchy-Finan- cial Criaia an Import- Company of Infantry Will Attempt Fflemive Speculation on Bourse of to Preierve Order at Fairbanks, Copenhagen and Tight Money , Colo. In an exploTucson, Ariz. An aiteuipl to kill Grand Strike. Market the Cause. Alaska, During sion of dust in the mine of the Gilson Ajnericun at tiie Santa Rosa mine, in Konnra. twenty miles Miuth Avphaltuni Mix company at Dragon, ant Factor. Juiu-lion- cvi-r- Utuh, morning, two Wednesday Greeks were instantly killed, and the mine, one of the richest of Its kind in the United States, was damaged to the extent uf $100. non. The explosion was caused, it is believed, by one of the Greek miners dropping a match on tho floor and igniting the gilsonlte dust. The bodies of the two men have nut been recovered, and it is not believed that they will ever be, as they are probably cremated. Water thrown on the flames seem to add to the fury of the fire, nnd there is no hope of saving the mine In that way. More than 100 men are now working, trying to smother the flames, but art- - meeting with indifferent success. There are 200 men employed in the mine. The night shift of 103 men had just got out of the mine, and the last of them were but I'm yards distant when The miners an explosion occurred. rushed to the entrance, and there were two more explosions, more violent than the first. Windows in the cabins about the mine were broken, and there was consternation in the camp. Trouble is Outcome of Demand for There Has Been a Run on a Number if Banks and Two Have Been Higher Wages and Shorter Hours, Forced to Suspend Payment-Govern- ment and Attempt to Operate Mines Western Will Aid of Independently Banks. Federation. By direction of the Washington on president, Acting Secretaiy Oliver inThursday ordered a company of fantry from Furl Gibbon, in Alaska, to Fairbanks, in that territory, to preserve order during the mining strike in that section. Telegrams from Fair banks to the attorney general stated that open air mass meetings are to mg held by the striking miners, and that threats of violence have been made. The distance from Fort Gibbon to Fairbanks is lf5 miles, and the troops over the will be carried by sleds a be said very good is lo which route, oue. if there is urgent neceBBity for the presence of the soldiers at Fair bunks they can get there in four or five days. But under ordinary condl-tion- s the trip takes six or seven days. Fairbanks is in the center of a mining country, with a population of WANTS UNCLE SAM TO LEAD. or 8,000. Persons in Washington Member of English Parliament Advo- familiar with the conditiona existing at Fairbanks say tbe trouble Is the cates Use of 8ilver Bullion. outcome of a strike a year or more Frewcn of ago for higher wages and shorter Washington. Morton member of parliament, tourB for miners. This the operators, England, on however, refused, and their determicommittee house before the spoke to operate their mines Indebanking and currency on Wednesday, nation pendently of tbe Western Federation In explanation of the old Goshen sysMiners may, it is feared, lead to tem which provides a reserve of sil- cf trouble. ver bullion to be held as security against trade silver paper, issued in EXPRE8S COMPANY IN TROUBLE. denominations of $2.50 up to $10, not redeemable in gold, but in silver. Mr. Accused of Carrying Mail in Violation Frewen said that all hope of Internaof the Postal Laws. tional bimetallism had disappeared, Cincinnati, O. Violation of the posand that the Goshen plan could be al- tal laws first-clamall lied In this country without disrupt- matter wasby carrying the Amercharged against ing the present currency system. He ican Express company in a suit filed declared that It would be more applic- in the United States district court able here than In England now than It would have been years ago. His here Wednesday by District Attorney Idea was to have the United States McPherson. This suit was the first gun in s adopt It first, and then let England campaign which the government protake It up. poses to wage against common carmatter Pacific Fleet to Search for Missing riers for carrying first-clas- s contrary to law. In the Information Man. which Attorney McPherson filed he Washington. A man by the name alleged that tbe American Express of Jeffs, and whose home Is said to company on January 6 carried a lethave been in Connecticut, is believed ter from Belton, Texan, to Cincinnati. to be stranded on one of the Galapa- The letter was from Mrs. Will Brown, gos or Tortoise Islands situated off of Belton, and in It she ordered from the west coast of South America. A a glove company twelve pairs of and enclosed an express order prominent person from Connecticut gloves for $2.47 In payment. Attorney McIn has Jeffs' case, Interested written Pherson claims the letter did iiot reto the department asking that one of late to the business of the express the vessels of Admiral Evans' fleet company, and that the envelope did stop at the lslanm on their way from not bear a postage stamp, as required Clalloa, Peru, to Magdalena bay and by law. make a search for him. Tbe request will be complied with. LIABILITY OF RAIROAD8. 0 ss Child is Dead aa Result of Eating Poisoned Candy. Kansas City. Ruth Miller, the daughter of Charles Miller of Kansas City, Kas., is dead from Western Pacific Begins Operations. eeffeta of eating candy from a the Reno, Nev. Within the next thirty box of cheap bonbons sent through days through trains on the Western the mail to an elder sister, Ella Miller. Lake Pacific railroad, between Salt The candy is believed to have conCity and Ely, will be In operation. For tained strychnine, and Ruth Miller the past several weeka the road has died in agony ten minutes after eatbeen handling ore cars, but not until of the bonbons. Four other some Monday did the ofllrlala in charge of ing of the family were affected children waa line tbe work announce that the but they suffered only the candy, by neuring completion to handle all the The Western Pa- temporary distress. There is no known traffic obtainable. cific connects with the Ely Northern motive for the sending of the candy. about forty miles from Ely. Says Public Servants Should Not Act as Attorneys Against Government. Imports Into the United States From of Borah Decrease. Washington. Senator Germany Show Heavy Berlin. The exports to the United Idaho created the first spirited debate States invoiced by Alexander II. in the senate on the bill to revise Thackara, the American consul gen- and codify the federal laws by offereral. wince the beginning of the finan- ing an amendment making It a penal cial disturbance in America, are from offense for any United States senator 20 to 40 per cent less each month or congressman to appear in court when compared with the correspond- ns an attorney in any case in which ing month of the preceding year. In the government may be interested. December, 1907. they amounted to Borah took care of the debate alone while $849,133, an compared with $1,077,479 In support of his resolution, in r,cember of 1900. For January, Senators McLaurin. Clay, Teller. Iley-br.r- n and Sutherland opposed It. 190S. the figures are $813,880, as compared with $1.2G5.354 for January. Indian Outwits Posse. 1907. from the Butte. Mont. Advices Attempt to Wreck Trains. the Mosney, north state that Butte. Mont. After two attempts fugitive whom the officers lo wreck two Oregon Short Line ex- are looking for In connection with the presses Monday night, train wreckers murder of Robert Holmes, has comsucceeded in derailing a freight. Two pletely outwitted the officers under suspects are in custody. Tbe north- Sheriff Shoemaker of Helena and has bound express from Salt Lake, pulling effected his getaway. The posse men out of Silver Bow at night, hit a pile have lost every clew of the Indian out-law-, of ties. Tbe engine remained on the who Is believed to have made his later the way into civilization. There Is a susrails. A few moments southbound train hit another bunch of picion that a man seen riding on the beams. An hour later a southbound cowcatcher of an engine into Cascade freight was derailed by a switch flung was Mosney. while the train was passing over it. Oenies Immunity Contract. Nine Miners Killed by Gas. Francisco. That there was not San Central City. Ky. Nine miners Allegation of fact In the afa were single (two white and seven negroes), Abraham Ruef with referof fidavit kdlad and one other fatally Injured his to ence understanding with the mine In the of gii hy an explosion for South immunity, was the at prosecution of the Moody Coal company Carrollton, three miles from thh city declaration of Assistant District AtThe mine Is Monday qfternoon. torney Francis J. Heney on Wednessmall one, and only thirteen met day after Henry Ach, counsel for were at work In the diggings at the Ruef. had occupied the entire morntime of the explosion. The accident ing with argument and the citation of was caused by a alow blast setting off authorities In support of bis motion the gas. which had evidently accumu- for a vacation of Ruef's arraignment lated In considerable quantity, as tbo on the United Railrrtda' trolley Iran-cbia- e Interior of the mins ws wrecked and Indictments. the cages smashed. half-bree- New Bill Introduced in Congress by La Folletto and Sterling. Washington. A comprehensive employers' liability bill waa Introduced in tbe senate and house on Thursday by Senator La Follette of Wisconsin and Representative Sterling of Illinois. Tbe authors say the bill has the endorsement of tbe Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brother hood of Locomotive Firemen and and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and la intended to meet the recent decision of the supreme court by which the employers' liability act of June 11, 1905, was declared unconstitutional. Farmers Are the Springfield, O. The operating Harvesting America, a corporation Victims. Farmers' Co company nt organized by William N. Whltely, known as thf Reaper King, has gone Into tbe hands of a receiver. C. S. Ollnger of this city has been named In that capacity by the court. The concern was Incorporated five years ago, following the binder organization of the trust, known as the International Harvester company. Large amounts of stock were sold by Whltely's agents all over the United Stales, principally among farmers. d A financial panic has hero on account of a tight Mni y market and extensive speculate mi the bourse. Two small bank Xae bei-- affected and oue of these faced to suspend payment. There lU been a run on several of the basks. Thu minister of finance on Sunday conferred with the officials of the principal banks here, and It Was decided Hint the government, in Conjunction with the leading banks, guarantee all the risks for the banks taffected by placing the necessary Iliads at their disposal, which will satisfy all the Danish and Copenhagen liK-- forelgu s. of Douglas, was made recently, when Mexican employes placed slicks of dyuumite under a boarding house, the company store mid the foreman's and Thu residences. superintendent's luxes attached lo the dynamite were timed for ihe explosions to follow The i ach other in quick succession. hour seleeted was during the evening meal, when all ihe American miuera were in the Itoarding house aud the foreman and the superintendent in their ivsiee(ive residences. The first explosion was at the hoarding house. It. was demolished. men eating, weie blown Fifteen through tile rixd, sustaining broken legs und arms, but there were no faThe store wus completely talities. demolished. Tom Fagin, the foreman, aud his wife were in their home, but the dynamite failed to ignite. The superintendent's office was demolished, but he was out of the building and escaped. Governor Torres has been notified ami ruralcs under Commander are already on the scene. Eighteen Mexicans are under arrest at the mini. The attempt to destroy the Americans is believed to be tho work of sympathizers with the revolutionists under anest at law Angeles, who believe the prisoners are being persecuted by Americans. T.iere had been no trouble at the mine previously, und no other cause is conceivable. Kox-lerlis- ROOSEVELT SAYS CRITICS LIED. Answers Statements Made Regarding Uue of Federal Patronage for Taft. Washington. President Roosevelt on 8unduy made answer to the recent public statements that he has mads use of federal patronage to further tbs presidential interests of Secretary Taft The answer is in form of a letter addressed to William Dudley Foulke of Richmond, Ind., and includes a letter from Mr. Foulkc to the president suggesting tbe need of such a statement. Tbe president begins by characterizing the charges as false and malicious. lie follows this with an analysis of all appointments vent by him to the senate fur Its action to show that in no esse has the proximity of a presidential contest Influenced bla action. CAN'T SUSPEND LAW. Interstate Commerce Commission swers Query of Railroads. Lisbon. Ihe republican leaders in Portugal are in extremely high spir-itThey assert confidently that a republic is now a matter of mouths, not of year. One of the republican leaders is quoted as saying: The end of the monarchy is near. It will come as unexpectedly as did tho murder u the king and the rrewu prince, aud-tbworld will wake up one morning to find a republic in Portugal. Wo are convinced that the revolution will be a peaceful one. It la a mistake for foreigner to Inrigine that the people of Portugal are not awake. There is a republican organization In every town, and doctors, lawyers and even village priests are sending in notice of their adherence by the score, amt there are avowed republican officers it. ihe army. "King Manuel Is a boy. He starts his regime with fair words and the restoration of political liberty, but it is Inevitable that b-- . should fall Into the hands of the manipulators of the two old parties whose bankruptcy was proclaimed by King Carlos and Premier Franco. The men about the throne know that thu end Is near, und when the time conics that they realize that they cannot fight they will surrender as did Hunt Pedro In Brazil. 1 don't tltink a shot will he fired. King Carlos knew b was tusking his last fight. He had transferred every dollar he had lo England. The financial situation Is viewed with great alarm. The country Is staggering under its foreign debt, and rommerce is almost paralyzed by tho fluctuations In the gold premium. Conservative bankers consider the financial situation to be more critical than the political. An- anYubhlngton.--- An Important nouncement was made on Tuesday by the Interstate commerce commission respecting its attitude toward the request recently made by the operating vice presidents of the railroads of the nine-hou- r United States that the RIFLED BANK'8 VAULTS. law, relating to the employment of train dispatchers, tclegiaph operaBetween $40,000 and $50,000 Mysteritors and tower men, be suspended by commission temporarily'. The the ously Disappears from 8alt commission holds, in brier, that It Lake Bank. to extend the time Salt Lake City. It baa Juat been has no authority or suspend the operation of the law, discovered that some time during the except In a particular case or cases in mouth of January, some one, presumwhich a bearing has been held and ably sn employe, abstracted between good cause shown for the extension 4(lio00 and $50,000 from the vaults of asked. , . wmeUtah National bank of this city. There la a theory that some employe Jury Failed to Convict Woman of of the bank, who had accesa to the Murder. unsealed envelope, got the combinaMrs. Dora McDonald, who Chicago. tion to the reserve money chest, and here since January at a time that waa favorable worked has been on trial Webthe combination and made tne biggest 20 on the charge of murdering a was Jury by acquitted ster Guerin, haul that Is known to local banking circles. Tbe directors have made In the crimnal court on Tuesday. The are verdict was reached after six and one-ha- lf good the loss, and detectives on case. the working hours of deliberation, the jury, dehaving retired at 1 o'clock. The GRUESOME FIND IN OAKLAND fendant, who is the widow of Michael G. McDonald, the former millionaire Body of Woman, 8acked and Burled, gambling king and political leader In Unearthed by Workmen. Chicago, received tbe verdict without trial Oakland, Cal. Workmen, making apparent emotion. During the an excavation for a sewer at the cor- bhe had frequently collapsed. ner of Gibson and Kimball avenues In Robbers Loot Missouri Bank. Elmhurst, discovered the dead body Mo The Bank of Willard Willard, of a woman In a sack, buried about three feet under ground. A quantity was looted of $10,000 by five robbers of quick lime was also In the sack, parly Tuesday morning, after the safe and the remains were so badly decom- had been blown open with The posed as to be unrecognizable. The explosion aroused the body was found not far from the home citizeus and a street battle followed, of A. Wilkins, who is now In the Alaamid a fusillade of meda county jail, charged with the but the robbers, their way to a hand caf murder of Mrs. Verna Carmen, for- shots, made A posse comrail. by and escaped merly of Kansas City, with whom he men and anoihcr business of lived, and whom body was dug up In- posed of side a shed back of their residence. headed by the sheriff and composed Wilkins admits that he burled this uepiities quickly formed and started were shot durwoman, but asserts that she com- in pursuit. No citizens mitted suicide. ing the battle. In BurnHorse Race From Denver to Ogden. Saved the Cows and Left Son Barn. ing Ogden, Utah Particulars have been Oxford. Pa. While his son wss bereceived rengrding the horse race to be run from Ogden to Denver from F. ing cremated In a burning barn at and a numG. Bonfils, publisher of the Denver I leasant Grove, the father their were risking of ber neighbors Post The race will be more of an endurance test between eastern and lives to save horses and cows which w extern horses. Six prizes will lie could not get out. of the stable. The given by tbe Post, aggregating $1,000. l.oy, Joel L. Pusey. eight years old. for the successful contestants. The bad kindled s fire In the burn. The winner of the first prize will receive hay caught fire and the lad was soon $540. Cavalry horses from the United surrounded by flames. Tbe father and Stales army will be entered in the '.icighlmrs hurried to rescue the catcontest. The judges will be selected tle. Not. until the flantes had been from Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. xtfngulsbed was the boy missed. nitro-gly-rerin- e. AS8A6SIS VICTIMS AT REST. WWWM Funeral of King Carlos and Prlnco Lulz an Imposing Spoctacls. Lisbon. With the church bells tol'-ln- g continually, the bodies of the murdered king and crown prince. In two golden chariots shrouded In black velvet and 'drawn by eight hooded horses, were escorted by a glittering funeral pageant on Saturday across Lisbon to tbe Portuguese pantheon and laid at a rest beside tlielr ancestors of tbs dynasty. Seven hours elapsed from tbe time tbe Ibrsfga prince aad the1 special ambassadors " of an the' powers gathered at the palace for tbe ceremony there until three salvos of twenty-onguns and three volleys of musketry, reverberating over the terraced Hnd hills sad answered by the British warships In the harbor, announced that the last ri.es were over. Bra-ganz- e sun-bathe- d ATTORNEY HALL FOUND GUILTY. Convicted of Conspiracy in Big Land Frauda of Oregon. United Ore. Former Portland, States District Attorney John H. Hall, indicted for conspiracy with the Butte Greek Land, Livestock & Lumber company to maintain an Illegal fence which enclosed 20,000 acres of public has been land In Wheeler county, found guilty. The trial has been In progress since January 13, and has been bitterly fought on both aides. The offense Is punishable by a fine not exceeding $10,000, or by Imprisonment not exceeding 1 wo years. Sentence has been eiwpended for the present, and Judge Lionel R. Webster has taken sixty days In which' to file notice of appeal, and was granted until May 1 In which to prepare a bill of exceptions. PREPARING FOR FRUIT BUSINESS Railroads Making Preparatlona for Handling the California Crop. Ogden. Owing to the fruit crop or California being the heaviest in many yearn, the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and San Pedro roads are making preparatlona to handle the large shipments which will heln in a few weeka. All of the- - fast freight, ensiles in the local yards are heir put ii. s shape anil refriecr icir and fruit cars are being rushed to tho const to receive the perishable freight Unit-clas- for the eastern markets. Fighting Bob Evans in Better Health, Washington. The navy department has received the following from Admiral Simpson of the Chilean navy, on board the cruiser Chacabuco, whic'i piloted Admiral Evans fleet partially through the Strait of Magellan: Talcahuano, Chile, Feb. 12. Admiral Evans requests me to Inform the department from the fleet, at sea, Tuesday, 4 p. m., bound for Callao vis Valparaiso: 'Everything going on well. Ad mlral Evans much better in health.' " Land Fraud Sleuth is Dead. Portland, Ore. Frank Michael special agent of the department of the interior, died in this city on Sunday of Bright's disease. who was of noble Polish birth, achieved a splendid reputation for his work in connection with the investigation of coal land frauds in Utah. Wyoming and Colorado in 19nti. and it waa through his knowledge of the situation that enabled the Interstate commerce commission to bring the offenders to justice. MeyendorIT was 58 years of age. Bomb Placed for King. Lisbon. It has been learned that a bomb waa found under the landing stage where King Carlos landed on the day of the assassination. It had failed to. explode because of a deferi In the fuse. A number of persons have called at the late home of Buies, one of the dead assassins, to give fur the money to hln mother-in-lasupport of hla children. Tbe proprietor of a department store has opened 9 subscription for them with $1,000, also giving them free use of their house. Kill Robins for Food. Franco Wants to be Left Alone. Crops on Minidoka Project. New Orleans. The announcement Joao Franco, the former Bordeaux. Washington. Crop reports for the hat about one million robins have of Portugal, who arrived here premier Minidoka Irrigation project, southern killed by hunters this winter in on Saturday with his family from MaIdaho, for the first year show grati- ' ,fen Is made by Frank M. Mil--- drid. oiiislsna. tbe day In hla room at a The total area on the fying returns. or tbe Loitislaiia Audu-vu- i hotel spent president railroad station. Hie near the side was of 14,233 north the river society. Following this announce- only answer to repeated requests (or acres, and 5,507 acres produced good ment George E. Hutell, a government Information as to his future movecrops aud G.798 fair. On the south :.pcit here to investigate the habits ments was that he bad abandoned polside ike acreage wns C29. of which 84 t tire robins, said that the govern-cen- t itics. and he prayed all questioners to per cent gave a fair yield. On the may prove that tbe eastward leave him alone with his great sornorth aide of the river C48 farms were movement of the boll weevil had been Franco did not leave the hotel row. cultivated and nenrly a third had good .intituled by ihe reckless destruc- cither during the day or night, and recrops. The remainder, or over hnlf. tion of tbe robins. The birds are ceived no one except the Portuguese had a flr yield, ond the tailures were .ll.ed for food. vice consul. M ver cent only Mey-endoif- Mey-endorf- Won't Be Caught Napping Again. St. Petersburg. The ministry of r.ar is preparing plans for Ihe speedy roiivenlon of Vladivostok into a first-clas- s fortress. Involving expenditures uf about $0,004,440. Completion of tbe work within three years Is held to be imperative in order that Russia may not be caught napping as at Port Ar- -' l.ii r in case of future trouble with fuJapan. Russian strategy in any ll rc war with Japan will depend upon ihe ability of Vladivostok to hold out tnr a year without assistance. r. Lands Withdrawn From Entry. Washington Certain lands, 22,500 acres, withdrawn sub-- , ject only to homestead entry in conIrrinection with the Truckce-Carao- n gation project, Nevada, have been segregated under the forest form of withdrawal, which provides that they shall not be subject to any form of disposition whatever under the public land laws. These lands lie In townships 17. 18 and 19, range 25 and 2G east. Mount Diablo meridian. They are required for the Carson reservoir. |