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Show DETROIT CONFERENCE. Delegates Arriving in the City on Almost Every Train. Detroit, Oct. 8. Delegates to the interstate inter-state conference on the coal situation called by Mayor Maybury and a special committee of the common council are arriving tonight on almost every train. 1 One of the first was ex-Congressman W. C. P. Breckinridge of Lexington, Ky., from which city he is a delegate. The conference will be called to order tomorrow tomor-row morning in the Masonic temple by ( Mayor Maybury. No plan of action for the conference will be presented by the local committee. This matter was dis- : cussed and it was decided to leave all plans and propositions to originate in ; the conference. Any person bearing ere- j dentials from the governor of a state, the mayor of a city or a recognized body is qualified to sit. It is expected that by tomorrow noon there will be 500 delegates present. In the hotel lobbies large signs are posted requesting the delegates to proceed to the common council chamber j and register as soon as they arrive. j Letter Not Received. j Washington, Oct 8. The answer of i President John Mitchell of the United . Mine Workers to the letter of President Roosevelt requesting that the anthra- , cite coal miners be asked to return to work immediately had not been re- ! ceived at the temporary White House j up to 11 o'clock tonight. Secretary Cor- telyou expects that the letter will be j in the regular morning mail. Secretary j Root was in consultation with the pres- ident or more than two hours, and it j Is thought that the strike situation received re-ceived much attention. President Nich- olas Murray Butler of Columbia, N. Y., I also called, but declined to indicate the ! object of his visit to the White House. Early in the evening Attorney General Gen-eral Knox was at the White House for an hour. ; |