Show 4 At H HOME M AND J ABROAD P B I MEMPHIS Tenn Sept 2 Criminal 2 Court JUdge Cooper I li is determined to punish the mob who lynched six alleged negro incendiaries neat near Mill Millington Ington Friday night Four more men were arrested on bench warrants warrant today charged with complicity in the lynch lynch- lynching Ing From facts fact brought out today it ap- ap appears ap appear pears pearl Detective Richardson knew an attempt would be made to lynch the prisoners and dell deliberately led them Into the hands bands of the mob SHAN HAl Sept 4 The 4 4 The Chinese having claimed control over the Jap- Jap Jap Japanese anese anele re residents ident in China asserting that Japan claims control over OTer the Chinese residents In Japan the American con COD consul consul sul luJ acting under instructions Instruction from Washington only to intervene with friendly offices office yesterday delivered to outside the settlement limits two Japanese recently arrested ac- ac accused ac accused of being spies aples and who have been under the protection of the United States The Chinese authorIties authorities authorities ties pled pledged ed themselves not to torture the prisoners Pa Sept The 5 little mining town of Scotch Valley near this place was wal wa wallowed swallowed up tonight in one of ot the most complete mine ins Ins cave ever eer known in this region The scene cene of ot the disaster is on the slope lope of Mount Lookout the score CON ot of houses boule comprising the hamlet being at atthe atthe the mouth of the shaft abaft of the Mount atI I Lookout colliery The wildest wildcat excite excite- excitement excitement ment prevails prevail I throughout the region and details detail are fragmentary It Is II known bowe however er that the dozen houses bouses on each sloe side of the principal street of the hamlet bamlet are completely swallowed up in the gaping hole bole and anu nothing can be seen Men of ot th the other buildings of the the town but the root roof gables and chimneys i Up to 9 o'clock tonight all aU the per per- persons per persons sons Ions who could be found had bad been taken from the ruins DB DENVER Colo Sept In 5 5 In the Na- Na Na National National l Irrigation Congress Co Direr today ex ex- ex Governor x-Governor Governor Prince of New Mexico chairman of at the committee on resolutions announced that the committee would be ready to rep rt tomorrow W W Follett civil engineer or of Denver read a paper on the under under- underflow flow Bow of the waters of the great plains He graphically described S the under under- underflow underflow underflow flow of Colorado and Kansas KanIa and antl gave lae the opinion that it wa was not sup sup- piled tup-piled piled by the melting snow Inow In the moun moun- mountains mountain tain so 10 o much as from streams tream and anu rainfall geologist of Kansas read a paper piper on waters water of ot the He Be described bed the Irrigation system of 01 his bis state tate and prophesied that before the end of the next decade every acre in iD western Kansas would be under cultivation and the state population would be two million Mrs Mr M W Hamm-Fales Hamm wife of the American consul to Amoy China read a paper OB on ancient and modern Irrigation of China and Japan The system in those countries she he said was wal over oer years year old but was wai very ery crude The congress elected the following national executive committee Wm E 8 y Smythe he of California chairman Fred L Alles Allee of 01 California secretary Prof Proto Edwin M Boggs Arizona Alvin Alln M West California M B Goff Idaho Idabo J W Gregory Kansas ansa j J E Belt Minnesota Samuel D Robbins Montana A Ford N Nebraska Ewood Elwood Mead Wyoming Chas Chae E Ford Rhode I Co Col Max Frost Fro t New Mexico W H Taylor Nevada I P Baker North Dakota John H Okla Okla- Oklahoma Oklahoma homa boma F H Brigham Oregon S M Clark Texas Judge L Ij W Utah J P Graves Washington J E Wisconsin Wm A Pearce Canada Don Ramon J Mexico Tho Missouri D A Misner South Dakota A L Kellogg Colorado Judge Emery of California was wal continued ai as national lecturer DENVER Sept 5 5 an H HH H Colleen of Wyoming addressed the congress Oil or National methods method of 01 reclamation of 01 arid lands landi versus venua ces- ces cession sion He objected to the Introduction introduction tion of foreign capital into a state tate for forthe forthe the purpose ot of securing large landed estates He Be favored the ownership of small mall farms Instead of land laad syndicates securing possession of large tracts tract and leasing to the farmers farmer He favored government reclamation and if necessary necessary sary ary to accomplish this thie purpose bonds or treasury ury notes should be issued which could be redeemed by the Ie sale ale of the theland theland land Senator J M Carey of Wyoming replied to Congressman He believed the tb nearer you get to an In- In Individual individual In Individual the better belter you can oan do business and that the states can construct and conduct these Irrigation canals canal cheaper and better than can the manager managers o of the government who live Jive in Washing Washing- Washington ton ton taD Rec Recess was wai taken until 7 o'clock At the evening session ion of 01 the con oon congress grew con gress the following Cities were put In as a the place for tor holding the next session El EI Reno Beno O 0 T r San Antonio Tex Albuquerque N M Spokane Wash and Atlanta Ga Albuquerque was waa made the unanimous moui moul choice of ot the congress con rel Congress u adjourned until Friday morning PUEBLO Colo Sept Pande 5 5 Pande Pandemonium broke loose in the Populist state tate convention almost almo t as aa soon oon as a a it was wal called to order at today The majority report of the committee on OD credentials favored the seating of ot the Waite delegates delegate from Denver and the Barela delegates from Los Loi Animas county Waite and Barela have reached an understanding and Sen Sen- Senator Senator ator Barela Barels who has bas already been nominated for lor state tate treasurer by the Democrats will also alie receive the Populist Ji list t nomination Thomas M Patterson leader of the opposition to Waite endeavored to speak peak speak The convention refused to bear him bim until the majority report of the committee had been adopt adopt- adopted adopted adopted ed with a hurrah burrah The motion was wa wathen then carried allowing Patterson five minutes to address addrell the convention Patterson said laid nothing that be could say lay ay in five minutes would make any Impression on the delegates and he would therefore ore simply imply ma make mal e is N protest te kon on on behalf of the mIuor minority ty t l E-l Loi B site to peak but was wai howled bowled down Tt There Thereupon upon the Patterson delegation left the Je hall followed by about a dozen other deJ delegates Go Gov Waite was wal wa on OD the first ballot receiving all but eight votes otell which were given to Congress Congress- Congressman Congressman Congressman man Pence The nomination w was amade made unanimous Franck France Sept 6 The 6 Tb p people ople of ot Andora are In a state tate or of great excitement One bishop of Urgel has baa issued a pastoral letter claiming that he Is 18 the sole lole ole ruler and will wUl no longer admit the suzerainty of ot France An- An An dora Andora Is ii a neutral country with the name of cl a republic situated on the south slope of ot the Pyrenees between the French department Arlego Ariego and the Spanish province Lorida The government t consists consist of four twenty tour consuls elected by the people The Inhabitants are mostly shepherds who speak the Catalan language NEW YORK Sept 6 After 6 After a slon tn slon sion of nearly fl 11 ve e years work I is to be resumed on the colossal Panama canal project some some time next month LONDON Sept A 6 6 A dispatch to the limes from Shanghai today says saYI the he war wr operations are making slow pro pro- gress grels progress pro s It is Ie reported report d that the Japanese have threatened to 0 withdraw theIr j pro Wee ulse no not to molest Shanghai if It the be arsenal there is il not closed This threat is supposed to be indicative of the indirect motive mothe w which bleb may possibly provoke the interference of Great Britain n as the arsenal is pro pro- pronounced an important establishment ST LOUIS Mo Sept 7 Eugene T DICkson swallowed a green fly Tues Tues- Tuesday day afternoon and aud lied Hed yesterday He was playing in the kitchen and aad laughing heartily at some lome incident which bad happened swallowed the fly About an hour afterward he be b be- be became became came oame su ou ill III that it was wal necessary to ta call calla a physician Notwithstanding the tb efforts of the medical attendant the child obUd grew worse very rapidly and aid died in terrIble agony NEW YORK A Sept A 7 7 A mass mall meet meet- Ing meetIng meet of strikers was held beld in iD Cooper r runion union It was a demonstration made by operatives vea in the he clothing trade against th tb the sweating system The hall was wal crowded and the deter deter- determination determination determination expressed not to return to work until the system was wal abolished Samuel Gompers denounced the sweating system as a damnable and accursed system We must have victory or we will die for tor It U said Mr Gompers excitedly Resolutions were passed expressing the determination of the strikers to 0 continue the struggle until they se- se secured se secured cured more wages wage less lell hours hourI of lobor Ibor 1 and better factory accommodations The clothing contractors met to night to-night n night and decided to form fonn an trop llOD SAN BAN FRANCISCO Sept Special B 8 Agent H B Martin of ot the United States land office Washington ha has re re- re turned returned from Death Valley VaHey after alter four and aDd a half halt months absence He wen went In information to do some lome surveying and for tor in- in in formation regarding claims of 01 private citizens on a portion of the country Mr Martin and hi his bis party entered the valley by way of Tule canyon f and examined the country for lor sixty or seventy enty miles to the south Bouth They were at Townsend and camped for some ome time timeD tim D near ner r creek Sandstorms pre pre- prevailed almost dally daily and the heat beat was intense Part of ot the time they could not lite get water and they had to bring it tram from a distance oo on pack horses borsu Our ma main stock of ot meat wal was bacon bacon said Agent Martin We could not get a particle of meat that was fresh tresh We ate the lizards which the Digger Indians eat and are known as Cba Cba- Cba They tasted a good deal like fish alb All AU our potatoes rotted almost almot a as soon lOOn as al we got in the desert and nd we bad no O vegetables of any sort The one thing that helped us out was canned fruit The ordeal was wal so rough that each man Dlan lost from 15 to 20 pounds of flesh b and aDd all grew weak Before 1 I would go 10 into Ino anything like that again I think I would resign There are many strange insects things there things I never saw law before There are many borne horned rattlesnakes or sidewinders W We e killed fourteen of them There are also many poisonous scorpions in the At At a lonely place in Mosquito Mesquite val val- valley valley valley ley we found an old wagon bed a tire tile and several Beveral old irons relics of ot the famous lamous emigrant train of or 1854 forty people of which lost their lives It IL was a trip to try the nerves nervel anu anI strength of the average man maaR I will never forget it and I never want to traverse that tract again agaID f LONDON Sept A 8 8 A dispatch from the capital of ot Finland tells the story of dreadful sufferings experienced a law lew days ago by men employed in the Baltic fi fisheries hedel The fishing fleet were at sea lea when a terrific gale gaJe sprang up Some of the boats boate reached harbors ot of refuge safely of them however lost loet their bearings and ran on oo to an island where the tremendous seas soon lIoon pounded them to piece washing overboard and drowning fifteen fisher fisher- fishermen fishermen men Th Those se remaining managed to reach the I small laU island Illand For three days the storm torm raged with unabated fury ory and the men who were without food lood were exposed to its full tull force foroe Atthe At Atthe Atthe the end of the third day when several of them hail had become unconscious they were rescued by a passing steamer NEW ORLEANS Sept George 8 8 From an employs of or the Crescent City railroad is 18 perhaps the father of 01 the smallest living baby in the world The child is a male perfect in form with regular features feature Its weight is 11 nine Dine ounces From the crown of ot its tiny tiDY head to It Its soles loles of its feet Is II about ten inches Its arms are not larger larler than a man mans man's thumb and its Ita legs Jegl in ID proportion The child is in the best bet ot of health and its mother says saYI he can oan cry as vigorously as any other child Mr From the father is a man of 45 weighing pounds pounds and is hale and hearty bearty The mother is 44 and weighs The couple have bad had seventeen children all of whom besides the baby are Lilliputian Lilliputians One of them Is Frank 16 years of age weight forty pounds who I is with a circus company The other l is a youngster of 12 who is l with his parents here bere ana weighs a little over fifteen pounds DENVER Sept The 8 National Irrigation Congre Congress resumed consider consider- consideration lOD of the reports of the committee on OD resolutions e today Elwood Mead ri of Wyoming spoke poke in favor of the majority report which advocates th tb reclamation of the arid lands land under I g governmental control William Hall of California advocating advocating advocating cating the minority report argued that with the slow policy of the govern government meat ment in prosecuting public work and the necessary preliminaries the present generation would be dead and forgotten before the canals canall were completed He was opposed to the Federal govern govern- government government ment having anything to 0 say lay regard regard- regarding regarding ing the reclamation of ot the arid lands landl except to control and distribute the th tb I waters of Interstate and International streams The minority report was wal voted down The majority r report port was wae then taken up u p por or discussion eJon section by section The resolutions were amended and changed to read as follows and unanimously unanimously adopted ad opted The national executive committee of the irrigation congress is hereby in instructed to prepare a series of bills bUll for tor presentation to the Congress of ot the United States embodying the follow tollow- follow 1 1 Repeal the desert dellert land law Jaw 2 W Whereas the public land states are already vested vetted power u under the Carey law to undertake the reola- reola mation and settlement of one million acres each and whereas there is wide diversity of opinion concerning the best belt policy to pursue with relation to the remaining irrigable land lands there therefore fore be it Resolved that the proposition con con- contained contained contained in sections 4 and 5 of the report of the majority of 01 the committee on resolutions is II reported back to the several sev sev- several several eral state irrigation commissions with wish instructions to endeavor to tu report to the fourth national congre congress e a more definite and satisfactory plan for the reclamation of or arid public lands the operation co of or national and state authorities 3 That there shall be appointed a national irrigation commission vested with the be supervision ion of 01 such irrigation works as may be constructed by the Federal government The 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