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Show N PRIEST SHI SOI IS III III TOE mm FiSil CAUGHT GRAND JUST NET IN AFTER MINES AND MINING ENGLAND HANDLING RAILROAD. OF InLeading Offcials of Several Life surance Companies Summoned by Jerome to Appear Before Court. Buildings of the Catholic Mission at Kanchowfu, China, Destroyed and One Life Sacrificed. Hepburn Says United States Could ' Profitably Adopt English System of Control of Stock and Bond Issue. Congressman Disastrous Floods Ravage Japan, Over Six Hundred Lives Being officials of New York. Leading Lost in One Town. several of the large life insurance Washington. Representative Hep burn of the Eighth Iowa district, chairman of the house committee on Interstate and foreign commerce, who has returned from a trip to Europe, in the course of which he looked Into the English railroads, said that he believed this country could profitably adopt the English system of control of stock and bond Issue of roads. He said he expected legislation along this line at the coming Bession of congress, though there would be opposition based or the idea that congress has no control over the instrumentalities of commerce. He said there was no speculation in English railroad He found English investsecurities. ors concerned over American railroad He himself did not see securities. how any one had the courage to invest in American railroad stocks, and laid much of the blame at Hardman's companies were summoned by District Attorney Jerome on Tuesday to appear before the criminal branch of Other Missionaries, the the state supreme court to plead to Including Americans and Their Families, indictments found against them by the Are Safe Troops Now on grand jury. Among the officials summoned were Charles 8. Fairchild, forHand to Protect Lives and Property of the merly secretary of the United States treasury and formerly trustee of tho Missionaries. New York Life Insurance company; George W. Perkins, of the firm of J. Morgan & Co formerly vice Shanghai. The news has been re- Picrpont of the same company, both president of ceived here of another outbreak of whom are accused of forgery; John Boxerism, as a result of which at R. liegeman, president of the MetroDetails lost. been one life has least Insurance company, acpolitan are lacking, but the story Is that an cused onLife counts of forgery and seven outbreak of Boxerism occurred at Fred A. Burnham, of three perjury; Kanchowfu, province of Klngal, and A. Burnham, and George president, Catholic of the the that buildings A. Eldredge, .vice formerly George mission located at that place were president, all of the Mutual Reserve totally destroyed. Insurance company, Life against A French priest was killed, but the whom collectively are pending fifteen other missionaries, Including the Indictments alleging forgery and perand their families, are Americans safe. Troops were sent to restore or- jury; Walter R. Gillette, formerly vice president of the Mutual Life comder and protect missionaries. The station of the China Inland pany, charged with forgery and perof jury; Robert A. Granule, of the same mission at Kanchowfu consisted two missionaries residences, a chapel company, charged with forgery, and and two schools In charge of Mr. and Thomas D. Jordan former comptroller Mrs. V. M. Horne of Hamilton, Ont.; of the Equitable Life Assurance soMr. and Mrs. George Marshall of Chi- ciety, against whom there are eighcounts alleging forgery and one cago, Mr. and Mrs. Hall of England, teen and R, W. Porteous and J. L. Rowe of of perjury. England. AFFIDAVIT MAKERS INDICTED. The American headquarters of the China mission In Philadelphia has no Attack Upon District Attorney Acted news of the trouble. The mission Is as a Boomerang. Boise, Idaho. The Borah trial was mckinley mausoleum. Interrupted for a time on Tuesday to allow the special giund jury which has Tribute of a Nation to the Memory of been Investigating charges of misconthe Martyred President. duct against District Attorney Ruick Canton, Ohio. The McKinley mauto report. The grand jury declared soleum, the tribute and gift of a the charges were not a true bill," to the memory of the martyred and returned indictments against two Monday aft- of the men who filed affidavits against j president, was dedicated ernoon In the presence of hundreds of Mr. Ruick. In connection with this Inquiry the distinguished men from all part9 of the United States and representatives grand jury has had before it an affof foreign countries, and a crowd of idavit mnde by George Y. Wallace, Jr., of Salt Lake City. Wallace swore approximately 50,000 people. A feature of the dedication was the that he met Fred Miller of Spokane, presence of the president of the Unit- one of the federation attorneys, in Salt ed States, Vice President Fairbanks, Lake last April, and that Miller demembers of the presidents cabinet, clared the miners organization had United States senators and gover- spent $91,000 of its defense fund up , nors of several states. to that time a month before the trial. Addresses were delivered by PresiWallace, It Is stated, also said that dent Roosevelt, Justice William R. Miller told him $15,000 of this amount Day, McKinleys secretary of state, was spent in securing the Indictment and Governor Harris of Ohio, who of Borah. acted as president of the day. Miller was called before the grand The programme ended with the Jury, and, It Is said, denied the story benediction America and of singing in all Its details, saying he had made by Bishop Hortsman of Cleveland. no such assertion at any time or place, President Roosevelt and party then that any such assertion would visited the Interior of the tomb. Tho and invited guests and the general public have been false. did likewise. TOWN BUILT IN A DA. Thousands passed through the tomb. The tomb, built at a cost of over $600,000, is the donation of over Jerome, the New Idaho Town, Starts Off With Population of 500. a million Americans to the memory of William McKinley. Shoshone, Idaho. Tuesday saw a new town launched In .Idaho. During DARK DEED OF DYNAMITERS. the day town lots of a total value of Home of Former Sheriff Blown Up upwards of $100,000 were sold in the new town of Jerome, which starts off With Bomb. with a permanent population of more Baker City, Ore. An attempt was than 500, with a bank opened for bust made at 10:30 oclock Monday to as- ness, with electric lights and many sassinate former Sheriff Harvey K. other conveniences that do not ordiBrown at his home In this city by narily come until after a town is four blowing him up with a dynamite or fiv years old at least, and accombomb. Mr. Brown Is at the hospital panying the founding of a town was in a critical condition. One of his the greatest sale of land ever accomlegs was blown off, one of his arms plished lu the west, perhaps the greatbadly mutilated, besides internal in- est the nation has ever witnessed. juries caused by the concussion. The There were 1,796 names registered for outrage was similar lu manner of exe- the drawing of land when the first cution to that which resulted in the cube was drawn from the great barrel g death of former Governor Frank that did duty for the wheel of fortune. at Caldwell, Ida. CONTRACTS NOT SIGNED. Russians Sent on. Practice Cruise. St Petersburg. The chief of the But Japan Has Been Negotiating With naval staff denies the report that muKrupps for New Guns. tiny occurred on board the Russian Berlin. A member of the board of fleet at Sebastopol. The official managers .of the Krupp works in all added, however, that In view of the interview denies the current report excitement caused by the sensational the Japanese government had orincident at the Sebastopol barracks, that about thirty naval twelve-inc- h dered when the three terrorists, disguised as officers, entered into the barracks guns of the Krupp works. Japan, he in an attempt to provoke a mutiny said, had been negotiating for months among the troops, and the disclosure on the subject of these guns, but no contract had yet been signed. There Is of the fact that the revolutionary propaganda was In progress among no urgency in the matter and Japan the crews of the warships. It had may decide to wait until her orders been deemed wise to send the fleet to can be filled at the English gun works. sea on a practice cruise. Report on State Guards. May Wood Still After Platt. Washington. Of the greatest InNew York. May Catherine Wood, terest to the friends of the National the former government clerk, who Guard throughout the country is the has been suing United States Senator annual report of Adjutant General Thomas C. Platt for several years, on Ainsworth, dealing with the militia. Monday brought action In the su- The strength of the organized militia, preme court for absolute divorce from at the end of the last calendar year the senator, alleging she had been as reported by the state adjutants married to him In the Fifth Avenue general, is placed at ll0,99o, out of a hotel. New York, In 1901. J. D. Lee total of 13,821,696 males available for representing the plaintiff, announced military duty; but the reports of the United the action as Platt against Platt, States officers inspecting and he said the motion was for the places the total organized militia at 105,213. purpose of framing an issue. Minister Russell on Revision of Steamship Company Award. Caracas, Venezuela. The Venezuela government has published part oi bethe correspondence exchanged tween the American legation here and the foreign office on the subject oi the American claims against this republic. Minister Russell, writing under date of Sept. 20, said: "In accepting the first installment of the awards of the mixed commission, my government Insists on a revision of the Orinoco Steamship company award and pending a final settlement no money which Venezuela pays will be considered to be on account or applicable to that award. Tbe Venezuelan government. In answering this note, Sept. 21, made the This govern following statement: ment will not accept the pretension that it shall revise the arbitration awards, thus definitely closing the disVenezuela has no concern cussion. regarding the disposition which the American government makes of the moneys already received and to be Bookbinders Want Eight Hours. Strike at New Orleans. New York. The demand for an New Orleans. About 500 'longshoremen and teamsters went on eight-hou- r day by the bookbinders, Btrike here on the river front on Mon- members of the International Brotherday, when the crews of the Leland hood of Bookbinders, has been gener-allline steamers acceded to by employees throughand started stowing cotton In vessels. out the city, and the strike order IsTheh strike was expected, the steam- sued to the bookbinders on Tuesday ship agents having failed to make an affected only four shops, which deagreement with the cotton crew men. clined to meet the demand. President of the Other union laborers besides the crew Glockling, International men, longshoremen and teamsters are Brotherhood, said that employers In interested and it is probable that 8,00!' thirty-twcities had granted the demen, representing practically every mand for an eight-hou- r day, but that class of labor along the river, will be- strikes had been called in Chicago, come Involved. Philadelphia and Boston.' Patrol Wagon Struck by Street Car. San Francisco. Crashing into the Hundreds of Houses Burned and Great rear end of a patrol wagon loaded Loss of Life. with prisoners, as it was crossing the of houses and car tracks on Polk street, a street car Hongkong. Hundreds two many boats were destroyed Friday by overturned the wagon, throwing and into the street, fatally policemen is Wa Chow. feared It a fire at tnat the loss of life was heavy. The con- injuring George Bourdeau, one of the John Morflagration is said to have been due to prisoners. The policemen, were both InG. R. and Skain, Incendiarism growing out of the re gan Bourdeau cent establishment of a new Interior jured, but not seriously. custom station at Wa Chew. The in- received a fracture of fhe skull and habitants of this place are bitterly op- died on the operating table at the Five of the gprisoaers hospital. posed to an extra taxation. na-tlo- n Steu-nenber- y Austro-America- n . o Houses Bamboo Away by the Raging the Helpless People Like Rats in a Frail Were Swept Waters and Drowned Trap. Victoria, B. C. Advices of a terrible disaster due to the great floods prevailing in Japan have been received. The overflew of the river Otonashigawa, running through the town of Fukuchiyama, near Kyoto, caused the logs of more than 600 lives. In this river the water rose more than flrty feet (50 shaku) and swept over the whole town of Fukuchiyama, drowning over 600 inhabitants and sweeping awiiy a large number of the frail bamboo and thatch houses of the Japanese townspeople. The barracks of the Twentieth regiment and Tenth engineers battalion, situated on heights near the town, escaped damage, when the town was overwhelmed, and the troops were hurried out to render what assistance could be given to the survivors and to rescue drowning people. The population of the town was over 12,000 people. Hurriedly fifty or more sailing junks were secured and despatenea to the scene, being sailed over what was formerly a thickly settled town, soldiers manning the junks, saving large numbers. The police have recovered G00 bodies and others are believed to have been lost. The water subsided next morning, August 27th, and great damage was of the town was revealed. One-hal- f entirely swept away and the remainder had large numbers or collapsed buildings. The whole town was practically destroyed, the scene being teri rible beyond compaiison. General and Governor Omori of Kyoto Fu were in the city, the former being engaged In Inspecting the troops, and is said to have narrowly escaped thfe danger. Ku-rok- CHARGED WITH CUTTING RATES. Indictments Against the Southern Pacific and Pacific Mall, federal San Francisco, Cal. ThG grand Jury has returned five Indictments of 124 counts against the Southern Pacific company and the Pacific Mail Steamship company, charging violations of the interstate commerce law. These Indictments, if followed by convictions, are sufficient to render the corporations liable to fines aggregating $124,000 to $2,480,000, the minimum' fines prescribed by law on each count being $1,000 and the maximum fine $20,000. Tbe defendant corporations are accused of secretly cutting to $1 tne published rate of $1.25 on through shipments of matting from Kobe, Japan, to San Francisco, and thence throughout the United States. FERRY BOAT CAPSIZED. One White Boy and Thirten Negroes Are Drowned. A ferry boat crossing Ala. Mobile, the Tombigbee river at the government works at McGrew shoals near Jackson, Ala., capsized, drowning one white boy and thirteen negroes. The boy was Leslie Vernuille, 16 years of age, residing in Oaksdale, a suburb of this city. The scene of the accident has long been regarded as a very dangerous place by navigators of the river, on account of the rapid and treacherous current and the rocky shoals there. VENEZUELA STANDS PAT. DISASTROUS FIRE IN CHINA. HUTU Three Generals Placed Under Arrest, Charged With Conspiracy Against Public Welfare. Hatched in New York City by Americans Whose Names Are in the Possession of the ' Government. Havana. The secret police have ar rested General Maso Para. General Juan Ducassi and General Lara Miret, charged with conspiring against public order. General Para Is the alleged leader of the conspiracy to start a revolution against the Americans in Cuba, with the use of funds supplied through some firm In New York. Simultaneously with the arrival of Para at Hawell vana, three Santo Domingans, known on account of their previous door. revolutionary records, also arrived. In this connection Mr. Hepburn conIt is known that the conspiracy was demned the treasury practice of put- hatched In. New York by Americans ting money into the banks to prevent whose names, It Is said, are in the said He alleged money stringencies. of the United States govthis money went to aid New York possession and It Is stated that the ernment, speculators, and it was nonsense to leaders here were professional revolutalk about the west needing money to tionists, hired for the job, which, it move crops. There Is no longer a is believed, will result In a fiasco. crop moving period in the west, said Governo Magoon, however, is amply There used to be before farmhe. with 5,000 American soldiers Now crops prepared ers were so prosperous. and 5,000 rural guards to crush any are moved all the year round. movement. STRANGLED BY THEIR GUARDS. A MYSTERIOUS CABLEGRAM. t Fate of Servian Officers Who Became Revolutionists Attempted to Use New Weary of Prison Life. York World to Further Designs. Belgrade, Servia. An extraordinarj New York. Cuban conspirators, occurrence In the government prison whose plot to overthrow the provisIn ol the death here Sunday resulted ional government has been thwarted two former officers and free streel by Governor Magoon in Havana, atwhe two The officers, army rioting. tempted apparently to use the World were appointments of regito further their designs. in detained were cide regiments An unsigned cable of 182 words was prison on a trivial charge. Being received by the newspaper several driven to despair by the delay and hours the plot bame public, before oi illegal obstacles put In the way that a meeting of prominent stating two to cases the their trial, bringing merchants of Havana had been held prisoners, while exercising In the cornight and a resolution adoptridor, wrested guns from the prison Monday ed to inform the World of the true in themselves guards and, barricading a room, fired through the windows state of Cuban affairs. The message into the street. The commandant ol then said that there would be a general uprising Thursday and Friday. the prison ordered the guards to seizs In language of alarm the message them and a desperate fight followed. told of credit Impaired, property in acTwo guards were wounded, and, and general anarchistic demdanger two the' official 'to cording Recount, to follow, all for the puronstration with suicide former officers committed their last cartridges. Other accounts, pose of causing an embarrassing situation a$ Washington." It added that however, say that the two officers were strang ?rt by the guards, who if American troops shed Cuban blood, then emptied their revolvers into the a general uprising and open war lifeless bodies of the men. against the United States will be inevitable. RIOTOUS SCENES ENACTED. leaders, the cable Revolutionary were known to have taken stated, Old World Quarrel Breaks Out in New into their service arms and ammuniYork City. tion which never had been taken over New York. Alleged socialists Sun- by the provisional government. Give this the widest publicity and day night made the most riotous demonstration ever seen In Cooper Union, save the situation," the dispatch in a determined effort to break up a meeting of the Federation of Italian RUMORED RAILWAY AGREEMENT Societies, called to protest against the recent action of the Italian govern- Hill, Moffat and Clark Said to Have ment against the clergy, and the atFixed Up a Deal. tacks to which Cardinal Merry del Mass. It Is reported here Boston, Val, the papal secretary of state, had been subjected during the agitation. that agreements have been reached minutes the disturb- between James J. Hill for the BurlingFor twenty-fiv- e ers, who were Italians, held the po- ton; D. H. Moffat, who has built 20C lice at bay, and it was not until a miles of a line over the Rockies to ward Salt Lake, and Senator Clark police captain with reinforcements hurried to the rescue of Lieutenant for the use of the Moffat and Clark Powers and eight men detailed to the lines by the Burlington In a direct the meeting that order was restored through route to the Pacific in alliance and the meeting permitted to con- with the Rock Island. This will make tinue. Nine men, supposed ringlead- Denver a point on the shortest direct ers, were arrested, and a hundred line from Chicago to the coast and enmore beaten by the police and thrown ter into competition with the Harri-maout into the street. system for through business. Girl Foully Murdered. Presidents Opinion of Oklahoma Miss May Sclpp, the Kan. Iola, Not Fit for Publication. daughter of John W. Sclpp, a President Roosevelt Washington. well-to-dfarmer, was found mur- announced on he would that Thursday of the dered in the back yard Sclpp Oklahoma the constitution. approve home at Moran, Saturday night. Her The president said he had examined throat had been cut, evidently with a the document with Attorney General razor that was found close by. A and that he felt that the Bonaparte not been has murder motive for the question of his approval ought not to Miss Sclpp, after dinner, be found. based on his personal opinion of She had into out the yard. stepped the document, but upon whether it been gone but a few minutes when came within the terms of the enabshe screamed for her mother. Mrs. ling act. His personal opinion of the Sclpp rushed into the yard and found document, the president laughingly her daughter unconscious, lying In a said, was not fit for publication. pool of blood. Attempted to Bribe Juror. Lumber Trust is Next. Findlay, O. L. B. Williamson has SL Paul, Min. The federal grand been arrested on an Indictment chargjury will soon begin an investigation ing him with attempting to bribe Chas. lumber trust, which is Thompson, a juror in the case of the of the understood to have its headquarters State of Ohio against the Standard in Minneapolis. Fifty witnesses have Oil company, which was tried here been summoned to testify before the last June. Mrs-- Chas. Thompson said grand Jury. It is understood that the that Williamson approached her ana government has been collecting the asked her to persuade her husband tc testimony to show that the lumber disagree and hang the jury In the trust has been using the mails for un- Standard Oil case. The final vote ol to the jury was 8 to 4 for conviction. in its crusade lawful purposes squeeze the Independent companies to Williamson, it is said, admits making the proposition to Mrs. Thompson. exhaustion. o .Voliva is Down and Out Chicago. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who successfully grasped the reins of government of Zion City from the hands of John Alexander Dowie, and expected to reign in his stead after the death of Dowie, Thursday night announced to 1,000 of his followers in that city, torn by many factions, that he had given up the fight there. At the same time he anounced that he had lost the options upon the land In New Mexico where he expected to found a new colony, but would buy property adjacent to Zion City and found a colony there. There is enough ore in sight in the mines in the Seven Devils to keep a. 1.000-to- n smelter in constant operation. , The miners in the Yerington, Nev., camp have notified the operating companies that they have no intention of asking for a raise in the wage schedule.' They claim to be happv and contented as they are. It may be noted that more than 96 per cent of the worlds production of coal is mined in countries lying north of the "equator, the countries south of the line contributing less than 20,000,000 tons anDqzRy. The Rickard Ely, of Ely, Nevada, ia operating a churn drill at a depth ol 950 feet. The slum from the drill hole indicates a good showing of copper ore in the bottom. The hole will be -driven to a depth of 1,000 feet Considerable development work is being done at this time in the Cumoia and Olympia mines, located southeast of Burley, fourteen miles from Albion, Idaho. The company has several cao loads of ore on the dump that assays $150 to the ton in gold. Orders have been given for the closing down of the Honerine mine at Stockton, just as soon as the present supply of coal is exhausted. A directors meeting will be held October 21st, at which a decision will be reached regarding future operations. On the Ely mining stock exchange on the 26th, during a call of exactly seventeen minutes, 14,500 shares of stock were sold of the aggregate value The selling was brisk of $3,003.25. and snappy from the stait, continuing so to the end of the- call. The National Development company Is fathering an oil company that will undertake the development of about 1,500 acres of land in the Virgen City field. It Is announced that a first-clas- s drilling rig will be landed in the field at the earliest possible moment Balakalala copper stock has been under selling pressure all the way down to $10 from $16, the selling originating largely from New York. Some of the largest stockholders have let go, though the Guggenheims claim to have their 750,000 shares Intact. More salt was produced lu the United States in 1906 than in any previous year, and the value of the product was greater than in any year since 1890. The quantity was 3,944,133 short tons, or 28,172,380 barrels, valued at $6,- - , 658,350, a gain Of 308,876 tons, or barrels, over the production in 1906. The worlds production of copper in 1902 was 542,293 long tons, of which 294,423 tons, or 54.3 per cent, was con- tributed by the United States. Compared with the previous year tho worlds output showed an increase, notwithstanding lower prices for the metal, of 31,014 tons, or about 6 per cent. Coal has been mined at more than a dozen places along the Yukon, and at some of these places the mining has been profitable; but no extensive development of the coal fields in the interior has been undertaken and no work was bing done on the coal claims of this region during the past summer. It is stated that on the 100-folevel of the Old Peacock mine in the Seven Devils district in Idaho, the ore body has widened out until there is now more than million dollars in sight. The ore is more than 150 feet wide and will average eight per cent copper, in addition to the gold and silver values it carries. What is considered an important phase in the copper situation i3 the fact that China is again in the market for a large volume of copper, deliveries to extnd over the next twelve months. Already European agents for the Mandarins back of the currency buying movement have secured some hundreds of tons for shipment toj Shanghai. After a full investigation of mine conditions and after going over the ground at the mine, and, finally, after having completed exhaustive tests on the ores, Engineer Ernest Gayford of the General Engineering company has given his stamp of approval to the methods employed at the Jennie Gold Mining companys properties in the treatment of the mines product. A Geneva newspaper states that Professor Joly has completed a geological examination of the specimens of the strata collected in the borings for the Simplon tunnel. He found rich traces of radium, indicating larger deposits than any hitherto discovered in Europe. He believes that the presence of these deposits caused the abnormal heat experienced in building the tunnel. More than 50 per cent of the total production of coal in the United States from 1814 to the close of 1906, or 3,540,000,000 tons, was mined in The anthracite produc-tio-n Pennsylvania. in that state amounted to tons, and the bituminous output was 1,695,926,082 tons. Illinois ranks second, with a total production of 594,551,163 tons, and Ohio third, with 460,626,939 tons. A strike, vhich affects only the Daly West, Ontario and Daly Mining companies of Park City, was declared last week, 300 miners going out. The cause of the strike, as stated by union officials, is unjust discrimination against the members of the union. The promise for a brilliant future for the Nevada Wonder, of Wonder, Nevada, is increased by the recent . showings on the adjoining Hidden Treasure, where, at a depth of 135 feet, a ledge carrying values all the way across has recently been uncovered. 1,854,-906,0- s 45-fo- |
