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Show a apvektise IN examiner r; L FULL ASSOCIATED? PRESS THE IT FEICE IT CHARGES, It THE AS WELL .iACHEt THE COUNTY CITY. OUE SUB8CRIP-f.OMOKE ABE OPEN TO VOL 111 NO- - INDICATIONS ABE THAT THE WEATHER WILL BE FAIR SATURDAY EXCEPT TREME m 03DEN Has Not Been Seen Since an Hour. After the Did I Not Ask for a Clear SO. The nun of Lynchburg. Sot. awful wrack near Lawyer au tl0. ten m:la south of thla city, yesterday morning la which Prealdeut faia party of gIBiaai Spencer and New York aad Baltimore aiea lout their llva. la UU ahaolutaly at the door of C. D. Mattoax, the operator, . Vbe wu la charge of the block tele-Mattoax at tattoo Rangoon. nrnph ho disappeared after being rellered Icm than an Boar after the accident, hu nut been found, despite the lect that railway detective haTe acuured the country. by an Aaaodated An examination prew iwpreaentatlve of the telegraph heeta kept at Rangoon and Lawyer block office ahow that Mattoax allowed train No. S3, the Jacksonville g prra, upon the block, the train hi nation getting a clear tarck from him at 6:00 oclock. The operaaution tor at Lawyer, the next ahead, declared that Mattoax did not him a dear track" for No. S3 and he therefore did not know thla train had pawed Rangoon. The block aheet at Lawyers bear out thla claim. If Mattoax had reported train No. 33 m the block to Lswyera. there would have been no accident, beenute the operator at Lawyer would 'bate kal4 thp nuthwest-erlimited at Ranguoa until the the Jacksonville- - train had cleared Dm considerable opposition to the enactment of thla legislation, but shifted their ground owing to fear that the labor movement would again enter a revolutionary phase If the conceasiona were not granted. . TILb BY STRIKE The Objsct of Which Is to Sscura the Rslsass of Rsitx, Now a Prisoner. pa-lo- ai-- a block tr Lawyer. SupeNntendent W. 8. Andrews jf the Danville dltriatun. late thla afternoon expUae that the report that the engine of the forward train had gone ome distance ahead of lu train when It became detached was erroneous and the fact la that the engine did not leave the train more than twenty feet, the airbrakes applying Immediately on the engine as well an the .train. The trouble was the breaking ot a knuckle of Gw frswhe&d oe thw front end' of ' the forward car. The trainmen were repairing thla when the collision oc- Tucson, Aria., Nov. 30. The Bonoro railroad, which is the southern extension of the Southern Pacific system from Nogales, Arisona, to Qua'ymus, state of Sonora, Mexico, la completely tied up aa a result of a strike which has aa Its object the securing of the release of Jesse M. eKitx, now held at Hermoaillo an a charge of manslaughter. Relti was the engineer of n passenger train which kl.led a Ya-qIndian while the latter waa walking on the track near Hermoaillo, Saturday. Kelt waa arrested and, at a preliminary hearing Tuesday, was held for trial In default of IS.bOO ball. By preconcerted arrangement all tralna on the road were pulled Into Hermoaillo yesterday and abandoned by the crews, who refuse to move the trains until eRlu la released. No trainmen can be Induced te cross the line from Nogales to help break the trike. American CnnaqI Brick wood of Nogales and Vice Consul H os tetter of Hermoaillo are working on the mdt-ter- ,, Bepteaentaflons have 'been, made lo the authorities at Wbshlngfun and the City of Mexico. ul .. Auiatant General Superintendent SOCIAL EDUCATION. Cnapman stated today there 1 not the ' alight et doubt that the flagman made David Starr Jordan Speaks of Twentievery possible effort to protect (he eth Century aa Strenuous and rear of the train, but he could not Demecratic. get around a aahrp eurve in time to prevent the collision. Boston, Nov. 30. The Social education congress, which alma to draw wider attention to the need of training MINISTER GlIRCO 1ND youth to meet the new demands arising from the complexities of modern THE FAMINE SCANDAL life, opened here today. Many eminent specialists are here to discuss the new needs. What waa expected bo be one of the Involved In th Purchase of Grain features of the congress waa the mass Intended for Thoee Buffering meeting at Tremont temple on the From Famino. of Bducation for Cltisenahip," subject wh'- scheduled for the afternoon At thla gathering Governor Guild, MaySi. ePterxliurg, Nov. 80. As n re- or Fitzgerald, President Charles W. sult of the Investigation which the Eliot of Harvard university, George prew campaign and public Indignation H. Martin, state secretary of educahave compelled the ministry to make tion, aad President David Starr JorInto the JJdval contract fur the pur- dan of Leland Stanford university on chase of grain Intended for famine relThe Young Man of the Twentieth ief, In which Assistant Minister of Century, were announced aa the the Interior Gurko is alleged to be peakera. involved, the Bufferings of the strickAt the afternoon session President en population of t..e Volga provinces David Starr Jordan of Stanford unihave been greatly acaugmented. On versity described the twentieth cencount. of the dlHippearance of Lidval, tury aa strenuous, complex and demiie chief grain buyer. In the face of ocratic." He said that there never threatened proceedings, the purchase had been such an age for young men anil shipment of the aorely needed who could do anything, and that there grain have been suspended and con- was room for every young man who siderable time must elapse before could rise to the opportunities of the new rontract can be drawn lime." One-thir-d of the young men up. Further disclosures Increase ' the are not wanted, he said, because of gravity if m. Gurko's action In award-"- their bsblts, but trained, loyal, cheerthe contract to Lidval. Gor. ful, d young men were In Alexandrovsky of Pena province, who demand. has been mentioned aa one of Udvmls kponaora. says be never beard of the OKALAHOMA CONSTITUTION. man until he received orders through M Gurko's department to purchase Plank Bears Upon Railway Legsrain only through Lidval. It alio First islation. " v cbiped that the of the deal were even area ted proflu than at first supGuthrie, Okie., Nov. 3D. The actual posed. a of a constitution for formation The convention of the was Inaugurated this afternoon neiehiioring province of Tula waa able when propositions were Introduced in to purchase grain fur 61-- 8 cenu per the constitutional convention for two t,;ihe below Udval's contract price, providing respectively for raillu.valent to over 400,000 on tne planks and separate coached way regulation whole contract for whites and negroes. The railway regulation bill, introindustrial reforms. duced by Delegate Glint Graham, Is summarised a follows: Railroad, Limiting Hours for Clerks and Comsleeping car and oil pipe line mercial Employs. companies shall be declared common for stock InspecPt. Petersburg, Nov. 30. An Import-lt!,- t carriers: to provide tion. to prevent consolidation and proI1-"f the administrations pro-rs!- n free passes. for Industrial reform, designed hibiting The Jim Crow resolution was ofapp-H- l to the voters of the n.wu of clerks and commercial great fered by Judge I ed better of Ardmore, I. T. Both propositions were referred st the coming election! was to the committee on railroads. rrmiuigteri today In a law providing The rules were adopted in toto nr the normal repose of commercial A feature of this 'tshlishinents. which was signed bv this afternoon. mornings session was the address of lie emperor last night. Delegate Ledbetter, who opposed the in addition to a of a resolution recognizing day for In stores, offices and so on, adoption :iipi..y constitution paramount "M fifteen hour day for those who the federal Mr. rk In restaurants, saloons and almlL to that of the state nf Oklahoma. Led lie iter denounced the press, but " s'shiishntents which are allowed reiterated hia views that state sover' be open, the law embodies the k should be strictly observed. eignty "ranling Sunday closing, prol.nir for closing xtnrea'and cessation ACCUSED OF FRAUD. 'r' facto:. ort ,' except in the of industries where continuous tty I Warrants Issued For the Arrest of 'rorcries and mpai market! will he Goldfield Promoter. jT. !Jl'!d to a. pen for a few hours on in addition to two hours at Goldfield. Nov. 30. Dr. J. G. Lyman, n- employes under seventeen years a promoter, lately operating under the J1 name of the Union Securitiee company to three hours "''"d tune. The proviiloo daily for of Goldfield, Chicago. New York and tearing extends also to the elsewhere, is being sought by the sher. holldsia in the Rusalan iff's office of Esmeralda county. Nev.. eral cf fraud brought i.'.'.r, ' hn In ihe district chiefly- because of charge the papultigainst him by H. E. SheRels of ChioT.r Jays of corresponding cago. Dr. Lyman's office la in possession of tbe authorities and hia secre'( substituted. ""t extend to the fsc- - tary. F. H. lattimer. la under arrest. an j iuduetrial Shttftela In his complaint alleges that establishment curred N K sober-minde- Okla-nom- s, f. ten-ho- 11 Im-T"- DECEMBER MORNING. PRICE i. HEAVY WESTWARD SUNDAY, EXIN SNOW SOUTH PORTION. FIVE CENTS MOVEMENT. Travel te California Has Not Abated Since Colonist Rates. San Francisco. Nov OPERATOR FROM HaJl TK ;io F. F. Booth (f tlu Iuiou Iarihc ra.lsvail. DISAPPEARED Juhi return, from lb cast, who lia is mult oritv for the kiatoiiient that l in flux of people to California is unuxiuil large aud that capital is srefong SCENE. T 1 iuiekimeni here. Sau Francisco it, attracting more attention than any city In ihe Initeil Sftiici, or for that matter, in the 1 have ha.l wor.d." declared Booth. talk with the pasxenger traffic ntan-age- . of the Chicitgu. Milwaukee ft Lynchburg. Ya., iov. 30. An investigation is being n ule today into the Si. Paul, the Chicago Northwestern the I'nlon Pacific, aud they all circumstances vhl I led to the wreck and told me of the heavy trawl (hat waa wav traiua i of the two Bouthi n rail viti.ng In for California here yesterday, retiring in the death They told me tha: emigration to from the east waa starting of the road and the l President Spencer j prevseveral other passqugers and the in- in ari:er this year than In any offices ious year and that in all their juring of several fihera The death inquiry was directed to San Francis j of William Pollard he porter In Pres- ro. The person making these inquiries were not poor people looking for ' ident Spencers carf and J. W. Shaw, the negro fireman, Both nf whom died homes, but wealthy people, who were of investing in the city and in the city hospital here Ism night, thinking were asking to tlie best lines of Ret as seven in all. swelled the death they should put money Into. . The travel to the roast" he said, The latest word Vom the hospital reI ha not abated since the colonist rate ' garding the Injured Indicated that all of them are doing nicely and probably was discontinued and the lines arc now doing as big a business toward will recover. Tbe scene of the wreck is ten miles California a they did when the cheap j south of Lynch bur and to It many rate was In effect. persona have wended their way out of curiosity to aee'the effects of tht-d- l sailer. The work of clearing the TRIAL OF GILLETTE debris Is being carried on and some of the wreck already has been removed. DRAWING TO CLOSE CYrnnty Coroner j. W. Davis la expected to take some action u the accident today. Ha arrived at the scene Defendant Goes Through THRLE BANKS CLOSE of the wreck yesterday but. finding Without Wavering in had been reOF CASH that thebelodlea iady Slightest Degree. LACK FOR as to until . moved, today defenpd deciding what Btsjphe should take in 4 the matter. IlnrkimiT, N. Y., Nov. 30. The trial Their Assets Are Ample, but They The escape of E..A. Merrill of New Need Time tc Convert Property York, private secretary to Mr. Spen- of thexier Gillette for the murder of Into Cash. cer, the ouly survivor in the party on his sweetheart, Grace Hrown, practitM private car, agiw for a porter, waa cally rants to a close today, so far aa miraculous. Tiro juries he sustained the taking of evhleure la concerned e will be able to The defense, while reserving the Ight Peoria, III., Nov. 80. Three bank- are not serious anjl-bhere probably to swear one wlineaa tomorrow, reeled the lesvw counInkoftK.! city Institutions McDonough ing this afiernuon. The remainder of the off the k. fire! the of V. C. by Chandler conducted by ty, Identlflcatloa&.'emad today of the afternoon waa spent by the district atMacomb closed their door today. NoIn recalling several witnesses tices to the eeffet that the banks were negro who wasAtjed and his body torney in rebuttal. was The Mt burned. vim Benjamin on were short of ready cash posted Gillette went through the ordeal n Ohio, a dining car Boswell, of Tola the door of all the hanks. Thla without wavering In talft waa who man, an waa reached yesterday upon the Slight eat degree in his testimony examination of the. aa 4o the actual death scene on Big Chandler himself. The bank's are Moose Jake. He apparently haj made FORCED TO HIB DEATH. the Bank of Macomb, conducted by C. tip bis mind to take hia time ill anV. Chandler ft Co., deposits of 450,-00the district attorneys quesand capitalised at (30.UUU; the Operator Davia Did Net Want to Ge swering tions. Gillette withstood Ihe Chandler ft Imea bauk at Colchestei, on tht Trip. at the hands of the discapitalised at IXS.UUO, and deposits of trict attorney astonishingly well. 30. bodies The 6200.000, and the Chandler ft Bmlth Nov. Washington, he finally stepped down from bank of Bardnlph, capitalized at 626c of James D. Fisher aud Prank T. Red- theMiron box he was a ralin and unrufOuO. with 660.000 deposits. were wood, both of Baltimore, who fled a he waa a week ago, when he The money of the depositors in all killed In the coliiion at Lawyers, Ve., as! Indifferently all through the court has been Invested when President Samuel Spencer, of three banks swure that Gillette proceedings. Id life, many of the things hetoday through Mr. Chandler, the senior the Southern Railway, lost and wrote said member of the private banking firms. were eent to Baltimore earlv today. which Ihe prosecution look aa the In McDonough county real estate, and for the Yuneral of and Arrangement It In chain of evidence were the Immediate cause of the suspen- President Spencer hitve not been com- links falsehoods, concocted for one sion of the three inetitutlone is given pleted, burial probably will be In simply or another, and that that many as a lack of ready cash. The Macomb Washington. After a conference to- reason jf the things lie had done were merebank guaranteed the payments of the day with the family. Second Vice Presly acta of cowardice. .bonds of the Macomb and Western ident Finley will announce arrangeIllinois electric railway and when the ments. THERE WAS A LYNCHING bondholders made a demand for thel, D. W. Davis, the telegraph operator, money they absorbed all the ready who waa killed, was frequently detailWhen a Native Attacked a Woodman's cash of the three institutions. ed to accompany tbe higher official The following notice appeared on of the road on uch trips aa the one Wife. the doors of all three banka, signed that ended so disastrously yesterday. New York. Nov, SO. A World specby C. V. Chandler and the other mem- It la said that when he waa notified y bers of the firm in the respective that he would be expected to ial from Albany saya a party of huntand President Spencer towns: party ers, returning front the North Woods This bank la closed pending nego- on this occasion, he asked to be re- last night, brought from there the reIt waa the desire port of a lynching which was said tiations subject, to the conversion of lieved, stating that the property Into ready cash. There of his wife and himself to spend to have taken place about 40 miles parents in from I eke Tupper Junction. The rela ample property to meat all obliga- Thanksgiving with her tions, and all that la necessary Is a Alexandria, taut it could not be ar- port is thst a native attempted to reasonable amount of time to convert ranged. mistreat the wife of one of the woodthe holding Into money. Superintendent of Transportation men and that her sereams and cries C. V. Chandler has been In the Taylor said today that all elf arts of for help brought to tbe scene several tH locale Ojrorator hanking business In Macomb for a the company a Adirondack gulden, who are aald to . quarter of a century, and In addition Mattox, who was iterating tbe Mock have taken the culprit to the nearest to his private holdings is treasurer of signal tower at the entrance of the tree and strung him up. the Western Illinois State normal block in which the accident occurred, Efforts are being made to ascertain school of Macomb and treasurer of had failed. Mattox la a native of Ihe truth or falsity of the report. Tho and In had been Va., Bandr Level, of Macomb. the city It la not thought place where the lynrhing fa said to that either the state or city will lose the employ of tbe company for throe have ocrurrt-- Is sn outoMhe-wa- ) by the failure of the banks. The state years. point and communication with It Is Is protected by a trust company bond slow. and the citys deposits, in the bank CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT. are amall at this time of the year. MONEY FOR ENTERTAINMENT. Block Mr. Chandler made a statement to- Operator Allows Train on a Rulaa. the day setting forth in effect what was Against Should Be Allowed Naval Officers in stated In the notices posted on the Foreign Water. 30. doors nf the banka. The liabilities acciThe Lynchburg, Va.. Xiv. are more than 6700.000, with unin- dent yesterday morning near Lawyer's will cumbered real estate worth over 8hi,-000- . depot on the Southern Railway, In Washington. Nov. The mortgages are mostly on which President Samuel Spencer and lm asked by the bureau of navigation Central Illinois farms and are consid- Ms partv lost th'-i- Uvea, Is declared nf the cavy department to make an ered good. hy a Southern Railway official to be appropriation for ofllrial entertainThere was little show of excitement due to the Work telegraph rules be- ments on board naval vessels when over the closing of the banks. In ing disregarded by Operator O. I). Mat- sent to foreign shore. Ii will lie arColchester the major part of the de- toax, who was In charge at night at gued l.hnt. in their duty of showing friendly and positors are miners. the block station at Rangoon, four the flsg and cultivating' diplomatic relations in foreign counmiles from Lawiern depot CONTRIBUTES 6100,000 Assistant General Superintendent E. tries. It la for the honor nf their counHEINZE A. C'&pniiin, of the company, today try to spend an appreciable amount, of their pay for entertainment whose Te Help Out Oepoeitore Who Have gave out the following statement: : so far made of the expense should be borne hy Ihe govLoot Tchir Money. Investigation I accident develops the fact that Opera- ernment. In other countries ampin Butte. Mont, CCov. 3u. Receiver tor Mattoax at RanKrn let train No. 33 preparation Is made for such expense, seldom Wilson of the wrecked Aetna bank of Into tbe Mock and. disregarding the while in ours such provision Butte today announced that be had rules, failed to notify the operator at made, and only on extrsordlnmy occareceived a check from F. Augustus Lawyers depot of this fact. When the sions. Heinze fur RIM, ODD. Mr. Helnze was first section of train Na. 37, the WashEDMUND FISKE DEAD. formerly president of the bank, but ington ft Southwestern vestibuled limwithdrew in 1903. Believing, however, ited, approached Rangoon, Operator Providence, R. I.. Nov. 30. Edmund that manv depositors bad not known Mattoax asked the operator at Lawyer of his withdrawal, although It waa for the bkick on No. 37. This was Flake, a traveling klcmin of Chiwas found dead in his room at widely advertised at the time, and given by the operator at Lawyers who cago. today and it Is believed that through confidence In hia repu- did not know that No. 33 had gone in a hotel here that he committed suicide, lu the tation many of his friends may have upon the blork. No. 33 broke down at the south end mans possession were a dozen lost their money. Mr. Heinze saya. In j apparently from Mi wife in hia letter to Mr. Wilson, he contributes ! of a curve and. as roon as the train Linroln. Neb., and th police say 6100,000 towards the bank'e assets, stopped, the flagman ran back to proand forwards his check for that tect Ms train. As far aa we lenrn, the telegrams would seem to indicate that about 300 Flake took hi life because of xotr e amount. The contribution should In- (lawman had crease the bank's asset thirty per yards when Xo. 37 was in view on the family estrangemen:. curve. Engineer McKinley saw the cent. OTTO YOUNG DEAD. signal and applied the emergency MRS. GONZALES ARRESTED. brakes but he did not have time to tto Young, a Chicago. Nov. leave his seat tiefure the collision took millionaire real ix'sc owner of this El Psaa. Texas. Nov. 30. Mrs. Marla place. at Lake An Inspection of the Ponce de Gonzales, a prominent wotelegraph city, died today i hi home of about man of Juarez, haz been arretted In sheets in each of the block stations Geneva, Witt., ufier an illness Jus res charged with harboring revolu- substantiates this belief. The sheet one month. that No. 83 was givtionists. Her hutband was recentlv at Rangoon arrcfrted as a revolutionist and she la en tbe block hy Operator Mattoax aa- - THREE YEARS IN PENITENTIARY. accused of putting the police on the the sheet at Lawyers show that Mattoax bad not iwified the operator Conshoco.n. O. Nov 30. Mrs. Mary wrong track when they were smirchare now forty al- there that No. 33 wax on the block and J. charged with wrerking ing the city. There In Jail In Chihua- entitled to i. the Newark hank, war sentenced toleged revolutionists "A fuller Investigation will he made il ty to the iionlien ;.r for three yetus hua. arrested In Juarez and other Mexas speedily as possible, but we do Lot fur lot ican cities In this state. Miraculous Escape tof PreaMsnt Spencers Private Secretary Clearing Away tne Wreckage. San Francisco. Npv. ' 3u. Stefflua and Wyman were sentenced to flvg years imprisonment for stuffing the ballot boxes at the local primaries held a short time before the last election of Mayor Bcbmjtx. Through the result of this primary election Alio Ruef secured control of the county Republican convention. Charges wen made that Steffins and Wyman, who were acting as electlou officials, ha-stuffed the ballot .box in favor of cer- tain delegates. They were tried be- fore Judge Lawlor and convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. When Judge lrawlor came up for November Ilh, last. Kuef and Ms ud- herents made a bitter and strong fight against him. and It was the noiu- lnation of two men aa candidates for superior Judge on both the Republlcsn and Democrstic tickets In order to make I aw tors defeat certain, thai brought the present prosecutions for graft to n focus. Lawlor wu elected. Judge and already some of the cases of some of the men indicted have been assigned to him for trial. Wyman was n municipal employe and Btefflna was employed bv F. A. Maestreitt, then president t the board of public works. l OaD IP SATURDAY AND expect to develop additional fact The company has a uuiuber of n.ru scouring the country in the hope of locating Operator Mattoax. but up to a late hour this forenoon we have breu able to ascertain absolutely uotblug as to his w li cahuuie '' Five Years' Imprisonment for Stuffing Ballot 3oxcs. which will be covered by a law to be issued later. At the outset tne industrial and commercial latere la offered SCNORA RAIL. UTAH. SEVERE SENTENCE. Track for Number 33. i CITY, he was induced to buy a Urge ain.wtn of suck in the oaton and Urecnwa.er Mining company through mtsrepresea-Utkm- . the amount of money named In the affidavits being 19.950. l.ynian I now supposed to be in Pasadena. Cnl . and a warrant ha been eut there Uw service. Lattimer. who waa arrested here today and placed under kl.otX' bond, say that he is an lunoreut party as he was employed In the office aim-pl- y In n clerical capacity aud although aecreury of the company acted a such only lu a perfunctory 'rapacity. TOR THE AWFUL WRECK Disaster WEATHER FORECAST UTAH HE Vest advertising medium EXAMINEE THE CITY DISPATCHES . bus-inea- a I ' ; , n dc-alil- - 0, aocom-compan- -- fr r j 1 tele-gram- pror-eede- .in.-O- Has no Interest Whatever in Coal Further Than Ambition to Have the People Get Plenty of Coal. Washington, Nov, 30. Senator War-rvof Wyoming, who arrived in the slate-lueu- i eilv today, maue the in cunt radio ion of the affidavit of Special Ageut Meycndorff of the general h.itd nftiii-- , made Weduceduy at Salt (it), in which Mr. Warren and Ms colleague, Senator Clark, were charged with conspiring with oi tiers tu pul a slop to investigations into charge made in cuiiuccUuti with the cuiry of coal lands ownud hy thj 1'num Pacific Railway company. If Meycndorff made sucu an affidavit he must have been indulging in that pipe dreams. 1 am Informed Senator Clark never saw the man and never had any connection with him, oral or written. The lues of Senator Clark needing MeyendorlT'a assistance in hia Ik absurd, as Wyoming was practically solid for him ami no candidal uppualug. A for myaell, I never knew that such a man as bpecial Agent Meyen-dorl- f eiiKied until some lime late In 19i3 or in 1904. when I received a letter from him saying that he wlahed tu aee me; that he had had heard that somebody had been writing me to hia discredit, end nuking If L would not let hint know wlien I was in Cheyenne or lienver no that he might rail; that we were brother soldier of the Civil war, etc., etc. First Met Meyenderff. 'In accordance with the request, I some months afterward informed him that 1 caper ted to be In Denver a few days later, sending him tha dale. He railed at my ntel, askiug my neip to get him promotion to me position nf special ageut In charge of a place In the consular service, because neither his work nor the rltmate nf Colorado entirely agreed with him; that the altitude there made him nervous, etc. He based his request to me on the ground of hia Civil war record, hia friendship for my- friends. Math HannM, Elmer Dover and olhers. He appealed strongly tu my sympathy, and I eon uented to mention his rase to his superior!. He then volunteered the information that ho had a lot of Irregular and Illegal coal claim eaaea made by parties In Colorado for land In Wyoming, aald to he In the Interest nf the Union I'aclfic Coal company, lie acked my advice how to proceed I aupggeated that he follow the law and Ids Inatrurtlnna. I nevtr read Meycndorff any private letters of hia to Commlsalnner Richards and have no knowledge that such ever existed. Mtytndorff Called Again. On the later occasion, when I hap peue.l to he In Denver on business. Meyendnrff again railed on me and again solicited my assistance. I think he called on me once afterward at my committee room In Washington, bui 1 lmd no conversation with him salutation I beyond the customary would extend to any visitor of my acquaintance. Rom time afterward I read In the Itenrer newspapers of McyrndoriTs sensational attemiita to commit suicide an.l later on that be had left Denver, and so I do not know whether be ever received a promotion. "As to the subject matter of the tea. limony referred to, I have no connection with coal or other land entries of the Union TaeUlr or other railroad or any other company, and no Interest whatever In coal further than umtil tlon to have the people of my country get plenty f coal, nf good quality and at reasonable prices, and that the world might know of the vast deposit:, of coal un lerlytng the soli. And further than this 1 desire to say that any one who accuses me nth erwlae speak talorly, no matter who, when or where. foil-iwm- was to he divided between Hunting-to- n and Janies Hull, a brother of the witness. g Hull's Testimony. Hull testified to meeting Hunting-to- n at Norfolk about the middle of June. 19o4. lie said: We talked aluiut securing old soli dlcra tu tile on govern incut land, lie wanted me tu get nil I could uud havu the men on the laud tbe iluy the Kin-lai- d law went lulu effect. He sukl arrangements hud been made whereby lie could place ell the tilings be could get. lie prcferied soldiers who had ihe longest service In the army because they could prove nip soonest, lie said he had s talk with my brother, Janies C, Hull, a few Jays before and 1 being an old soldier, he thought 1 could get old soldiers to file better that be. tie said a man named Com-stoThe nnild place the filings. agreement was that the soldiers were to go out to thFlund, make a lesue of and when It waa made out he would pay RB'rt, the filing expenses to be taken out of the lease money and the balance of the proceeds of the Fluff would gu to Huntington and my brother. Tbe leasee were to put the Improvements on the land. I waa to tell our men that when they proved up they were to get 63uff for the laud. There waa a perfect understanding that when they proved up they weiw to sell the land for 6300. Huntington Hid that be had aeon Comstock and made arrangement a for rhea filings, and would take all he could get and we would make kit of money out oC the deal. Brought Men From Iowa, I then went to Iowa and got all the declaratory stet amenta 1 euuld at Isigau, Missouri Valley and Magnolia, twenty in number, end mil them l Huntington by registered letter, I paid tin expenses of the rnlrymcn out to Gordon, but the hotel expenses were paid by some one else, 1 waa afuirwarda reimbursed for tbe expense 1 had advanced. I took a number of soldiers down from Gordon to file. Gn croBB4xuinlnailoa tho defense tried to develop a motive for Hull testimony. James C, Hull of Gordon, Neb followed, hia testimony in the man that of bti orotner. Ho aid he was associated with Thomas M. Huntington In securing homatead-er- s under the Klnkald law. Ho old eoldteis from brought twenty-twDunlap, Iowa. The filing papers were filled out in Huntington's office at Gordon. The old soldiers were taken out to the Overton end Bpade ranches and shown what waa Mid tu be the lands filed on. The expense were paid by Huntington and himself. Three old kohltera comitiorated tbe preceding testimony. rk APPROVE PRESIDENT'S COURSE. Many Letters Received Commending Him for He Action. Washington, Nov. 30. Scores of telegrams and let.UTa have been received by President ltooxevelt commending bis course in dismissing without honor the ntrnilM'rs of the three cominfantry. panies of the Twenty-fiftHome of whom wen- engaged In the Tcxna. trouble at Brownsville, They cone mostly from the north and Include many persons who served as officers and private during the Civil war, and who have served with negro It Is expected that as a retroops. sult of the rrltlrtsms of the president which have been made, s resolution will he Introdurej In congress calling for all the information In the w.r department, together with the president's action In the rase. Meanwhile any further statement from the president. on the rHhe is said at the White House to lie very unllkejv. h - EFTORI TO DISCREDIT DENIES TENNE8SEE HILLS TESTIMONY MEETING. Washington, Nv. 3t. Paymaster O'ly-arethe pgr officer of the It Is Claimed That His Evidence It Charles cruiser Tennessee which actermoird Given Under Promise of ed as a convoy for the laniislana on Immunity. it trip io Iftinsma with President Roosevelt, canto to Washington from Newport News tislsr and entered an Omaha. Nov. 36. An effort wan emphatic denial of tilt: stories that the mad touay hy the defeuw: In the stokers of Ihe Tennessee mutineer Klrhuruti-fonistocland fraud trial in making it neri'sssrv to put sixty of the fnitfd Hlstf'K dlKtnct court to tbe men in the brig. Mr. O'Learev nno of 111, government wllnesM-ea- , saya all rnmora of trouble on the Tennessee are absolutely unfounded and Irving li. Hull of Mirage, who himself as a professional only a few inen are now In confineland locator. It wax claimed by tbe ment for minor offense. defense that Hulls tvx'iiuony was given in consideration of hix Immunity FATHER OF AUSTEN HARRISON. from prosecution on charges in connection with the land fraud (uxex. Columbus. Oio. Nov. 3n. Adjutant Hull admitted having been arreHed On era I rrliclifleld is In receipt of a and bound over tu the grand Jury by letter front Mrs. Austen Harrison of a United States romm.sxioncr. but Ltvtler. Ohio, in which she writes that Hid no indictment wax found againxt the hermit s.iidb-r- , John Harr I Min, him and that he whs not promised who is reported dead lit the state of Immunity. boning a la: g estate, la, Hulls testimony developed an ligtet'-men- Wwshtngton. the ta:her of her hushb between Mniol and Thorn x M. band.believes, kIkis- have been fi serum to soldier' ingx. Huntington vetirs. He as unknown for thlriy-siThe soldier a were to be given $"b soldier, mlii ilng ciMr at Tifflu or for their land after they ha l proved aGreen Spiins. to final up. Preparatory proof they were To lease the land to Comstock ELECET COMMITTE. and Huntington was to get 6 Id for STUDENTS each lease, and out of this Il'iO the Moscow. Vjv. 3". Tile student of expenses and Improvements weto to be paid. When final proof was com- Moscow have elected to the central pleted the consideration of each sec- commit roc of the university twelve Social Ik'utocTHic. tion we to be Itii'U. igi t Conxti'.uti.'n-a- i Three hundred dollars of this wax Democrats, seven Sot 11 Rfvulr-tlonis- ts. two members of the laho ti go to the soldiers and the other FiS'.'O, wbiob Included the lease mcne. party, ;n y ludcptndeni and cue io.e. lt t s x |