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Show bi ube rAuira Attended Ev u Seek Federal Injunc tion to Prevent Picketing in Goid ὁ of the Miners’ da 275 jegisiature to adopt new laws looking to the organization of a body of state to preserve rangers or police law and order in case of trouble over the outcome of the dispute which now threatens to be long-irawp out Should the extra session’ be called and laws passed permitting the or ganization of state militin, or police force, the men, it is claimed, would be sent to Goldfield as soon as pos sible, and kept there on police duty until the present conflict between the mine owners and the miners has been settled On Thursday the officials of the miners’ union and ©, E Mahoney, vice president of the Western Feder ation, who is here to effect a settle mentof the strike, learned of the plan of the mine owners of Goldfield to obtain an injunction through the fed. a courts preventing picketing and ringing about the dissolution of the Goldfield miners’ union. Mahoney, speaking of this latest move of the mine owners, said: “An fnjunction of this kind, if issued, wil! mean that there is nothing left for of Had the petition been for @ writ restraining the miners from picketing or boycotting, | have been surprised, would not In the bill of complaint, however, as it, there are two new I understand points: One, the prayer for an order of the federal court prohibiting the miners from continuing their organization on the ground that it is a nuisance; the other point that is new is that Goldeld miners’ union be dissolved. Any badge and set of men who fancy that the Goldfield miners will temely submit to such procedure, are’ greatly mistaken. I would favor ignoring any such order from any court in ex: istence. Injunctions have come to be a mere joke to the American people, and this one would be the biggest joke of all. We shall fight it with every weapon at our disposal. There would be nothing else for us to do.” Vessel Brought “inte Port After Terrific Battle With Sea. Francisco.—Leaking at the rate of eighteen inches a day, and with her men exhausted after a long battle at the pumps to keep the ves sel afloat, the American ship Erskine M. Phelps, bound from Seattle for Karlui, sought refuge from the storm off this port Thursday morning and arrived in the harbor stortly before noon. So desperate was the struggle waged by the members of the ship's crew to make San Francisco test their vessel founder at sea that all arriving were on the verge of collapse. The Phelps left Seattle many days ago, bound for Karlui, in balfast, in command of Captain Graham While off Cape Flattery nine days ago the vessel sprung a leak. Penalty for Using the With Intent to Mails Defraud. Denver, Colo.—Promoters, mining engineers and other persons convicted of using the mails with intent to de- fraud in connection with the sale of stock in the Spanish Bullion Mines company, were sentenced by Judge R. E. Lewis in the United States district court here, as follows: 8. Dubois, Lee Dubois Blackwell, thirty days George and in ©. jail 1. and $1,000 fine each; William H. Wilson, W. B. Cameron, A. E. Keables and Arthur Lawrence, fifteen days’ imprisonment and $500 fine each; Arthur Levan and E. W. Sebben, $100 fine, and costs amounting to $200; R Hunt and Danton and $150 costs. Pircus, $50 fine Financial Worries Leads to Death. New York.—Ernest G. Stedman, vice president and director of the J. C. Lyons Building & Operating com pany, for which receivers were appointed, committed suicide by jumping in front of a subway train at the Fourteenth street station. ity precipitated & panic The fatalamong the hundreds of waiting passengers. Women became hysterical and it was with difficulty that the crowd was controlled by the subway police. <A valuation of over $7,000,000 is placed upon the real estate owned by the Lyons φρΦ' Fight Between Strikers. and Police Results in 210 Deaths. Valparaiso.—According to ficial statement, the recent an of encoun- tera at Iquique between nitrate strikers and the police, resulted in the killing of 210 men and the wounding of fifty. During one of the engagements, the troops fired particularly at the leaders of the strikers, but their aim was poor and the men were not hurt. The president and vice presidént of tve strike organization, who are Spanish, anarchists, have disappeared. Colorado, One Passenger Being la Captain Goldfield, Nev.—With fifty men at work underground, the Mohawk mine { d a voyage of the was B } another fated wife, ] at v i by the Peterson, the drown craf iptain and mutiny on bound its Passenger Train on the Colorado @ Southern Blown From the Track and Lands in the Ditch With Disastrous Results to owr rew the Atlas Viking from Han burg to Calalo. Both were badly dam aged oy the contact, but 136 bar fared worse In the terror of the night thirteen of the crew of the Nor wegian boarded the American ship crawling over tangled shrouds an¢ dangling booms. But Captain Peter sop and his wife were not among those who made the dangerous tran sit But it was too dark to render aid, though the Atlas stood by during the night, and next morning the Vik ing had disappeared The Atlas put into Rio de Janeiro for repairs, leaking badly. On the way to this port the mutiny took place among the crew, over some trouble with the mate, but it was easily quelled. Before the collision off Cape Horn three of the ship's company met death On May 23, J. Siumacher and Charles Nelan, seamen, fell from the jib boom and were drowned. On June 16 John Hook, sail maker, died and was buried at sea. When the ship arrived the captain's son and the third officer were ill and the vessel was congue into quarantine, MEETING OF WOOL GROWERS. National Association Will Assemble at Helena January 14. Helena, Mont.—All arrangements have been made for the forty-fourth annual meeting of the National Wool Growers’ association in this city January 14,15 and 16. Advices have been received indicating that upward of 2,000 persons wil be present. Simultaneously a sheep show will be held, at which the leading wool and sheep interests of the country have stated they will make exhibits. The questions to be considered at the wool growers’ meeting will be the public land questions and the attitude of the national administration thereon. The twenty-eight-hour law, relative to livestock shipments, will also be considered, as well as a number of minor questions pertaining to the in- dustry. Passengers. Denver.—The baggage car and first passenger coach of train No. 25, northbound on the Colorado & Southern railroad which left Denver at 10 o'clock a. m. Tuesday, was blown from the track and Overt urned in the ditch, a quarter of a mile north of Marshall, Boulder, about ten miles south of noon, J. A Ganet, ex-justice of the Minneapolis.—Flour shipments from Mineapolis for 1907 will fall short of the totals shipped during 1906 by nearly a million barrels, This decrease apparently has not been entirely due to the financial flurry, as the figures for each month show that only in three months of the entire year have the shipments for 1907 exceeded those for the same months in 1906. The number of barrels of flour sent out from Minneapolis by the various mills so far this year have been 13,825,375, while for a corresponding period in 1906 there were 14,573,123 barrels shipped, a deficit of a, 743 barrels. IMPORTANT FIND. Documents Taken from General Pike in 1806 Discovered in Mexico. Mexico City.—What is considered a very important historical discovery has resulted from the efforts of Dr. Herbert E. Belton, the American historlan, who is here engaged in re. search work under the auspices of the Carnegie institution of Washing ton. The discovery consists in the unearthing in this elty of eighteen 51 twenty-one documents taken from the possession of Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike of the United States army by Spanish soldiers in 1806, when he was captured while making his famous trip up the Arkansas and Missouri rivers, visiting the Osage and Co manche Indians at the instance of General James Wilkinson, then ΒΟΥernor of Louisiana. W. J, Bryan, Senator From Florida. Jacksonville, Fla.—Governor Broward on Christmas day appointed William James Bryan of this city tu be United States senator, vice Stephen Russell Mallory, deceased. for the remainder of the term expiring March 4, 1909. Mr. Bryan is a prominent attorney and now holds the position of county solieftor for this county... He was born in Orange county, Florida, October 10, 1876; was reared in the vicinity of his birthplace. Mr. Bryan is a prominent lawyer of this city, and a member of ithe Democratic executive committee. state being shut down for over three weeks, The Consolidated mill and the NevadaGoldfield reduction works are running Sheriff Ingalls added a large number of deputies to his force, the men being paid by the Mine Owners’ association to dct as guards and patrolmen. The Mine Owners’ association asserts that during the week a large number of strike-breakers will be brought in. Very few of the strikers have returned to work. NIXON BITTER AGAINST MINERS. Predicts That This is Last Fight of RESPITE FOR SAILOR BOYS. Mombers of the Battleship Fleet Rest in Port of Spain. Port officers tleship proved of Spain.—Thefirst day of the and men of the American batfleet at this port (Tuesday) to be an enjoyable one. Bright sunshine favored the visitors, and after everything was made shipshape on board the battleships, two thousand men were permitted to come ashore. The officers of the fleet, to the num- ber of a hundred or more, attended a garden party, at which they had the opportunity of meeting many of the prominent public men of Port au Spain. Sir Henry Moore Jackson, governor of Trinidad, accompanied by his staff, returned the visit of Rear Admiral Evans, which the American commander had made in the morning, and extended to himand some fifty of the superior officers an invitation to luncheon. All through the day the great American ships, as well as those who manned them, were objects of special interest to the entire populace, who gala one. The town put on its best attire, and pleasing decorations greet ed the eye at every turn. CHARGED WITH HIGH TREASON. Trial of 160 Members of the First Russian Duma. St. Petersburg. —Thetrial of 160 members of the first duma whosigned the Viborg manifesto about eighteen months ago, calling upon the citizens of Russia to stand up for their rights for popular representation and for an imperial parliament, has begun. The defendants are charged with high treason. The verdict of guilty is anticipated, as the gist of the accusation is established by the text of the manifesto, and only a technical defense can be interposed. But there is no reason to anticipate the infliction of the maximum penalty, which is death. ‘the majority of the defendants have abandoned all hope of acquittal, but are looking forward to a light sentence, such as a year’s im prisonment or some similar punish “and that is that the Western Federation of Miners will not be known in Goldfield when this trouble has concluded.” Smelter Smoke Case Decided in Favor of Salt Lake Valley Residents. : Washington.—The supreme court of the United States on Monday denied application for a writ of certiorari filed in behalf of the Utah Consolidated Mining company, which sought a rehearing with a view to setting aside an injunction obtained in the United States district court for Utah by James Godfrey and 408 other farmers in Salt Lake valley. The injunc- tion restrained the Utah Consolidated Mining company, the United States Representatives Wil January 6, When the Real Work of Present Session Form of Government. Will Demand Abdication of King Car. los on the Ground That He is Morally Incapable of Governing the Portuguese. Lisbon.—The result of the present | political crisis here may. not only de- termine whether a new and better or- | der of public administration is to prevail in Portugal, but remote as such a | ehange appears to the ordinary ob- | server, whether the whole monarchial regime shall not give way to a ΠΗ; lican form of government. Western Federation. and Present Political Crisis in Portugal May Result in a Republican morning, after Washington.—After a consultation Long Mountain, Colo., was fa- with President Roosevelt on Monday, peace tally injured, dying a few hours later, Senator Nixon of Nevada expressed it Five persons wer seriously injured as his opinion that the president could and a number of others slightly hurt not very wel! modify his order directA gale had been blowing over north- ing the withdrawal of the troops. The ern Colorado throughout the day, the) question of having the state take some wind at times attaining a velocity of active part in protecting the interforty-five to sixty miles an hour, and ests at Goldfield, the senator said, is caused much damage by blowing under active consideration. Just what down smal! farm buildings, trees, tele- would be the result or what measures graph poles, etc. A large plate-glass are being eonsidered, he said, it would window was blown in at the Daniels be impossible to discuss. “One thing is certain,” he asserted, & Fisher department store in this city. found time to make the occasion a Minneapolis Mills Send Out 1,000,000 Barrels Less Than Last Season. started up Monday ators — Until Guard the Strike-Breakers. | Unusual Result of a Windstorm in SHORT FLOUR SHIPMENT. KEPT LEARYone AFLOAT. San Among decks and death among it Ou June 6, at 6 p, m., struck the Norwegian bar he miners to do but to jump into @ sea. Death Crew lision off Cape Horn, ing Goldfield, Nevada.—Residenis 0 Goldfield are expecting to hear at any moment that Governor Sparks has de cided to call an extra session of the nd the , CROWN OF RING IS THE STARE Deputy Sheriffs, Paid by the Goidfie'd Mine Owners’ Association, Will Fatally Injured. i the captain's Union. Tragic Craf I At nking field and Desire a Dissolution Many | ended Owners by nking of Another ] Nevada Legislature Will be Asked | to Adopt Law Creating State Rangers for Police Duty Mine SLOWS TRAM FROM Tit TRACK ΠΤΤΥΤΤΊΤΧΙΙΝ GADSOME HOLOAY ‘THE MOHAWK MINE BEGIKS WORK WITH NON-UNION MEN publicans, small as is The Re | the influence | Will Begin. Washington.—The senate on Saturday passed a bil!) suspending during the year 1907 the requirement that miners shall do at least $100 of work annually during the period in which their claims are being perfected Senator Cullom introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution limiting the terms of the president and vice president to six years and prohibiting a re-election for a second term. A number of other bills and reso After being lutions were introduced. in session forty-five minutes the senate adjourned until January 6. After being in session about twenty minutes the house of representatives adjourned until January 6. The proceedings were enlivened by a brief but they exercise at present underthe re- | fierce speech by Mr. Gaines of Ten- nessee, who stricted suffrage which the people enjoy, believe that Franco, by exposing its inaction long recess the practices of the monarchist par- | should have ties, has administered a blow to the criticised the house for and for taking such a at a time “when we gone to Wall street and prestige of the king and the monarchy throttled the thieves and turned back to the honest people their hard earnfrom which it can never recover, and ings.” Mr. Gaines was preceded by made a republic a near possibility. | Mr. Hepburn of lowa, who protested Certainly Franco, by his revelaagainst what he said was the indistions, has placed powerful weapons in criminate way in which committees the hands of the republican leaders, were given authority to sit during the which they intend to use to the best session of the house, thereby causing advantage. To conjure with they have members to be immune from arrest Franco's own avowal that the country in case it became necessary to secure for years has been the football of the @ quorum, monarchist parties, with the sole object of distributing graft to their clients, the scandal of the “advances” made surreptitiously from the public treasury to the royal family, the arbitrary manner in which these advances have been “liquidated” by decree, and lastly, the alleged “repression” of the “dictatorship.” Their plan is to push the issue as soon as the restoration of “legality” permits them to open a campaign in the newspapers, and later, when the cortes again assembles, to play their trump card. This will be nothing less than a motion to impeach Franco for his action in “liquidating” the king’s debts to the treasury, and as a logical. corol- WILL WELCOME FLEET. People of Rio Janeiro Will Giad Hand Extena to Americans. Rio Janeiro.—When the American fleet of warships reaches this port it will be accorded a royal welcome. It is not inteded, however, that the welcome shall be demonstrative, but that all courtesy shall be paid the visitors as though the visit were expressly made to Brazil. The fleet is expected here about January 11, and it will remain at Rio Janeiro for about ten days. Admiral Alencar, the minister of marine, has Smelting company and the Bingham Consolidated Mining company from operating smelters in Salt Lake county and from permitting the escape lary thereof to demand the abdication of King Carlos for abetting this “crime,” under a clause of the Portu- therefrom of fumes, gases, etc., al- abdication of the monarch when he is posed of the cruisers Barroso and Tamandare and the gunboats Tymbera, Tamoyo and Tiradentes, to hold them- adjudged “morally incapable” of gov- selves in readiness to meet the Amer- erning. ican fleet on the high seas and accompany it into the harbor. A number of fetes are being arranged, among which are dances, picnics and leged to be injurious to crops, animals and complainants themselves. The effect of Monday’s decision is to con- guese constitution which compels the AN ERA OF PEACE. tinue In effect the permanent injunction granted by lower courts. Arizona Man Attempts to Shoot Hat off Friend’s Head. Imperial, Cal—‘I bet you can’t shoot my hat off my head,” daringly exclaimed E. O. Sturgill to his companion, Jim Owens, at Brawler, as the latter stood with a heavy caliber prts- tol in his hand and waved it about in braggadocio manner. The men, with a party of friends, had been drinking. No sooner had Sturgill uttered his boast than Owens leveled the weapon, took deliberate aim at his friend's hat and fired at a distance of six feet. The bullet struck Sturgill in the forehead and he is in a precarious condition. Owens is in jail. banquets. The finance minister will give a ball on Fisal island, in the bay of Rio Janeiro, Washington.—To a telegram sent by President Luis Anderson of the Exempted From Mining Assessments, Central American peace conference, which has just brought its sessions to a close in this city, to the presi- dents of the five Central American republics, a reply has been received from the heads of three of those governments—Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Salvador--showing that those govern- Omaha.—J. Frank Carpenter, secretary of the Carpenter Paper company, one of the largest paper houses in the west, committed suicide Monday night by shooting. Mr. Carpenter was 47 years old. While the members of his family were at dinner he went to his room unnoticed. A pistol shot took his wife to the room, where she found Mr. Carpenter lying on the bed with He died Nervous prostration, causing a complete break- Waetifigton—Senator’ Teller οὔ- tained unanimous consent in the sen ate on Saturday for consideration of his bill, which was set aside Thursday through a filibuster of Senator Carter, exempting entrymen of mining claims of assessments for from payment ments are in complete accord with the action of the conference. Prompt 1907. No objection was raised by Senator Carter or the Utah senators, who and favorable replies are expected from the presidents of Honduras and Guatemala. previously opposed the measure, and@ it passed the senate. As adopted, the measure applies only to the states of Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, California, The Philippines Tariff Bill. Health Broke Down. a bullet wound in his head. as she reached the room. Central American Republics Tire ev Constant Scrapping. issued an order for a division com- Washington.—The Philippines tariff bill, on which hearing will be begun by the house committee on ways and means during the first week after the reconvening of congress after the holidays, is similar to the measur introduced by Representative Payne and passed by the house during the last congress and which admits to the United States free of duty articles wholly the product of the Philippine islands except sugar, tobacco and rice, on which a duty amounting to 25 per cent of the present rate is provided and South Dakota. Murdered While They Slept. Maryville, Mo.—Mrs. William Ο. Boatright and her grown daughter were fatally shot while asleep by a young farmer, on a farm near Maryville Saturday night. The women were sleeping together, and the hus- band and father knew nothing of the outrage until his daughter staggered into his room and fell on his bed. Bert O. Tolbert, a young farmer who was in love with Miss Boatright, was ar- rested on the charge of doing the shooting, and has confessed the crime. ment. down, undoubtedly led to the deed. Federation Objects to Court's Prohibition of the Boycott. Two Score Killed and industrial Inactivity Brings Suffering Crime of Insane Farmer. Blame. to School Children. Washington.-Attorneys for the American Federation of Labor have filed objections against the scope of the temporary injunction of the district court prohibiting the boycotting of the Buck Stove & Range company of St. Louis. They have moved that the order be amended, and hearing on the motion probably will be held on January 8. Counsel for the defense desire to have the injunction run until the further order of the court, instead of until the final decree, Washington——A verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury Monday night in the case of Engineer Hildebrand, Conductor Hoffmeyer, Fireman McClellan and Brakeman Rudder, the train crew who wereindicted for manslaughter in connection with the wreck at Terra Cotta, D. C., on {1.6 Baltimore & Ohio railroad on December 30, 1906, in which forty-three persons were killed and upwards of three score injured.. The trial had been in Berlin.—The municipality is face to face with a very serious problem in connection with the supply of food to thousands of virtually starving children attending the primary schools in consequence of the industrial inactivity. Hitherto the Children’s Canteen society has been able to cope with the task in a very satisfactory way by means Of subscriptions from private sources, but the calls on its funds are Cameron, Mo.—Albert Filley, a farmer living southeast of here, killed progress for three weeks. able to supply many of the children. Will Preserve Voices for a Century Subway Accident in Paris. cere Paris.—There was a unique mony Tuesday afternoon in the sub terranean passages of the opera house. It consited of depositing in a specially prepared vault a talking ma chine and a number of discs bearing records of the voices of the greatest singers of the twentieth century. Tamagno, Caruso, Scotti, Plancon, Patti, Melba, Calve and others are represented in the selection. At the end of 100 years they will be opened and the people of that age will have the opportunity of hearing voices of this era. Teddy Bear Craze Dying Out. Howard onathe Stand. New York.—The Teddy hear craze is dying out, according to the toy dealers in New York. When the stores closed late Tuesday night, most o the toy departments were pretty well cleared ont, except for Teddy ears During the holiday rush, just over, thousands of dogs, elephants, mon keys, and rabbits, made of furry clot and stuffed as are the Teddy bears were sold, but very few of the great numbers of bears that went into the toy shops early in the season have left the shelves Georgetown, Ky —James Howard was on the witness stand on Tuesday fn the Caleb Powers trial. Howard most emphatically denied that he was on the state house square at any time during the morning of January 30, when Goebel was shot; said that he was noi. inside the executive building that morning; that he never saw Gevernor Taylor or Youtsey, and declared that he had absolutely nothing to do with the assassination. The witness admitted that lat. in the afternoon of the day Goebel was shot, he, with others, visited capital square. No One to Paris—Five persons were killed Monday night by an explosion of compressed air in the uncompleted Metropolitan subway tunnel! under the river Seine near Notre Dame. The accident was caused by a sudden sinking of a caisson fitty feet below the surface of the water wnich forced out of position one of the great head shields. The resulting rush of air suddenly released hurled five of the workmen against the concrete wall, killing them out: right. Other men became panic stricken, but ali succeeded in getting out. Change Rooms for Cripple Creek. Colorado Springs, Colo—aA_ special from Cripple Creek to the Telegraph says: The “change room” in the larger of the mines of Cripple Creek district will again be adopted, the new rule to go into effect the first day of January. This decision has been reached by a number of the larger mines, and it is expected that the system will be placed in effect in all of the mines where high grade ore is found. The readoption of the change room, say mine owfers, is directly due to “high grading.” for. this year so great that it will be un- his wife and daughter and his brother by shooting them. to be insane. Filley is supposed The dead are Mrs. Fil- ley, their 7-year-old daughter, and Filley’s brother, Clay Filley. Clay Filley’s wife also was attacked by the murderer, but managed to escape from the house and given the alarm, When J. L. Smith, the marshal of Cameron, arrived at the Filley house he found the murderer seated in the room where the bodies of his victims lay, Girl Killed by Fool With Pistol. Ashville, N. C—Miss Athena Green, San Francisco.—The legal holidays 16 years old, daughter of J. A. Green, declared by Governor Gillette for the a prominent citizen of Buena Vista, was accidentally killed by a bullet from the revolver of Joe Lance, a mountaineer, who with several companions was passing Buena Vista station on a Southern railway passenge: train. Lance pulled his revolver, saying he wanted “to hear it sound,” and fired it from the moving train. The train was stopped and lance placed under arrest and rushed to Hendersonville to prevent a mob from lynching him. Whaler Wrecked, But All on Board Were Saved. Buenos Ayres.—The whaling steam- er Austral, which was recently an Argentina naval transpoit and prior to tha? was the Francais, on which the explorer M. Charcot, in 1903-4, made his southern expedition, has been totally wrecked in a fierce gale on the Uruguayan coast. The Austral carried twenty-six persons, including the members of the meteorological observa- tory for the Wandel islands. All were paved, however, by the Messageries maratime steam:hip Amazone. California Bank Holidays Over. purpose of aiding the banks in their financial stringency was ended Saturday night. In speaking of the situation Homer S. King, president of the clearing house, said: “During the pas. two weeks everything in banking cir- cles has been normal. The need os the holiday is passed. Gold is plentiful on demand. The clearing house certificates have served a useful purpose, but they are gradually being retired.” Mexican Revolutionists Wifl Be Tried. Los Angeles, Cal—The three Mextcan revolutionists, Ricardo Flores, Magon, Antonio Villareal and Librado Riverda, who have been in jai} here since August 23, were on Saturday held by United States Commissioner Von Dyke to answer to the territorial court at Tombstone, Ariz., on the charge of instigating a military movemeni against the government of Mexico in violation of the neutrality laws of the United States. Each was held in bail of $5,099, vhich was not furnished, and they were remanded to Sail. oe SPARKS MAY CALL AN EXTRA SESSION LL-FATES Sta? RcAtnts PORT ON CHRISTMAS DAY |
