COLLIER GAVE End of Colorado Strike In Not Yet in Sight Union Not Viewed as Trust in Clayton Rill Denver—Definite settlement of the Washington, D. C. Trail« unions | strike in the Colorado coal fields, and farmers’ unions would be l«igallze<l where the miner» have been out since In their exlatence and declare«! not to September 23, 1913, and where 1707 be combinations in restraint of trade United State» troop* are now guarding by a paragraph which the house Incor the mining properties, apparently are porated in the (Jayton bill to supple no nearer realization than they were ment the anti-trust law». week» ago, according to statements Although it is designed only to clar by both unoin officials and mine opera ify exi»ling law, organiz«"«! labor lead tors. | en, assert the final passage of thia Sixty-six [»ersons are known to have < amendment will mark th«; culmination St. Lawrence Disaster l/nder In No Clearance Papern for Steamer been killed in the disorders and the | of a fight waged by them for 14 year» ventigation Danish Ship's Made Mexican ('untarne known wounded lint totals 48. Clasai- since the passage of the Sherman Captain Hlained. I mus Violated. field, the death list as a result of the anti trust law for exemption from strike since last September show« 18 ! prosecution under the law» against strikers, 10 mine guards, 19 mine , monopolies and restraints of trade. On Rimouskl, Quebec While final tab a vote to perfect the labor provision Vera Cruz The German steamer employes, two militiamen, three male i ulations of the casualtlea in the sink ! the house was rccordeil 207 for an«i Bavaria haa been held here on her ar non-«*ombatants, two women and 12 ing of the ill-fate«l »learner Empress of none against. rival without manifest at Brigadier children. The cost of the eight months indus As ndopte«! the prov»ion sets forth General Funston'» order. Irelaixl were taring made Monday, The Ba showing that 4<K1 of her passengers ! that “nothing in the anti-trust law varia recently landed a large quantity trial conflict is variously estimated at from $10,000,000 to $13,000,000. and crew hail la>en rescued anti 961 hail »hall be construed to forbid, the exist* of ammunition on Mexican soil. Figures by James Dalrymple, state perisinsl, Captain Henry George Ken : ence or operations” of lalx»r unions or It is estimated that the Bavaria put dall, of the liner, was telling his story ! farmers’ co-operative associations or ashore 1,800,000 rounds of ammuni coal mine inspector, show there were of the disaster al an inquiry coiMlucte«! * to forbid or restrain members of such tion. The cargo was destined for employed in the coal mines of Colorado . organization» from "carrying out the Vera Cruz, but was diverted to Puerto for the first throe months of 1914 an by (’«»roner Pinault here. Captain Kendall in substanc«- «In ' legktimato objects thereof.” Mexico. The steamer reached here average of 10,149 miners, as compare«! Supplemental to this provision the Sunday. i'I are« I that he had taken all jsiasible The captain could not pro with 14,035 for the same period in ; house adopted an amendment pr<i|»oaed precautions against a collision. His duce a manifest, declaring to the cap 1913. The total production for the first ' ship hail been stoppl'd, he gave the by Representative Webb, in charge of tain of the port that it had been taken nquisito signals when the Danish col i the biil, and agreed on by the adminis- away from him by the American au- three month» of 1914 was 2,915,665 lier Storstad, which dealt the blow ; trillion, which would provide that such thorities. 1 Later he admitted landing . tons, against 3,638,463 tons for the which sunt the Empress to the bottom, organizations and their member» shall the cargo, which included also 3000' xame peri<»d a year ago. From the same source it is learne«! was still two miles away, but the col not be “held or construed to be illegal rolls of barbed wire. lier had kept on through the fog which or conspiracies In restraint of trail« The captain of the Bavaria is liable there were 12,364 men working in the settled down soon sfter the two vessels under the anti-trust law».” to a fine under the Mexican laws, I mines last September, when the strike Although the provision was passed which are being administered by the wax called; 7096 in October, the first sighted each other, and hail rammed th«) Empress of Ireland when the latter without a dissenting vote, there was collector of the j»ort, Captain Herman full month following the »trike, an«! considerable debate ax to just what the O. Stickney. The shipment of arms, 10,146 in March, 1914. Against these vessel was virtually motionless. Then, despite his plea to the master effects of the legislation would be. con»igne«l for Vera Cruz, but landed at figures star»«! the assertions of John R. of the collier that he run his engines D<*m«»cr«tic leaders say that the pro I’uerta Mexico, forms a violation of Lawson, international executive board full s|H<«si ahead to keep the hole in vision would give labor the exemption the laws, and the absence of a mani member of the United States Mine Workers of America, that approxi-1 the liner's side plugged with the Stor- it desired, and asserted that officials of fest a second violation. »tail's bow, said Captain Kendall, the organized l»lx»r ha«i indorx«-«! the Brigadier General Funston said the mately 11,000 men quit work in re-I Danish vessel backed away, the water phraseology. Progressive Leader Mur- question of fines was entirely in Cap- i »ponse to the strike call last Septem dock an«l others assert«! that it woul<l I tain Stickney's hands, but the collec ber and that about 8500 men are still rushi'l in and the Empress sank. “After passing Rock Point gas finally define just how far the exemp- | tor said that he had not actually levied on strike. At the headquarters of the operators buoy, I sighted the steamer Storstad, ■ tion went and what it meant. them. A clause to legalize such confer- it then being clear,” said Captain The Bavaria is held here only be this statement was given out: “It has been impossible to obtain an : cnees and agreements among railroads cause clearance will be refused until Kendall. “Th«‘ Strostad wax then about one as are now ¡subject to the control of the issue of fines is adjusted. The; accurate census of the men on strike, point 12 di'grees on my starlaiard bow. I the Interstate Commerce commission, customs officials assert that so far as | but a fair approximation places the: Many The they know the arms shipment on the number at 2000 at this time. At that time 1 saw a xilght fog bank also wax passed by the house. coming gradually from the land and section confirm» anil protects the juris i Ypiranga of the same line, which pre- of the men accounted strikers never i Not knew it was going to pass between the diction of the commission over such i cipitated the seizure of Vera Cruz by worked in the Colorado mines. Storstiul and myself. The Störs ~ tad agreements and confirms {existing laws . the American forces, was still aboard all who went out last September Many went to the states was about two miles away at that against joint agreements to maintain I when that vessel left here for Puerto struck. time. Then the fog came and the rates. I Mexico. They assume here that there where there was no strike. Estimates Storstad'» light» disappear«*«!. is no possibility that the 250 machine made by the railroads and based on “At the same time I blew three Oil Land Withdrawal guns, 15,000,000 rounds of ammuni- tickets sold to miners indicate that number was between 1500 and short blasts on the steamer's whistle, by Taft Is Held Void 1 tion and other war material aboard the this 2000. The number of mines in oper- meaning, *1 am going full »J>ee<l as j Ypiranga would be landed. Loa Angeles The conservation or ation now is 141, as compared with- tern. ' The Storstail answerwl with der of ex-l’ro»ident William H. Taft Jacob Riis, Noted Author, 148 last September. the whistle, giving me one prolonged withdrawing from entry nearly 3,000,- Holding that the chief demands blast. After Long 1 lines. Is Dead of “ the United Mine Workers, with the “I then looketj over the side of my 000 acres of oil lands in California Barre, Mass.—Jacob A. Riis, auth exception of union recognition, are ship into the water and I saw my ship wax declared invalid in a decision ren was stopped. 1 stopped my engine» dered by Judge M. T. Dooling, of the or, honored by his intimate friend, guaranteed by statute the operators an«l blew two long blasts, meaning, I Unit«xl State» court, and placed on file Theodore Roosevelt, as “the most use maintain their original position, name The court held that the Pres ful citizen,” is no more. Death, after ly, refusal to treat with representa 'My ship was under way, but stopped her«'. ident of the United States ha«i no pow a lingering illness, came here at his tives of the United Mine Workers or and has no way on her.’ He answered summer home a little before noon recognize the union. They maintain me again with one prolonge«! blaut, er to withdraw lands from entry. Th«* question, however, of whether Wednesday. a willingness to meet actual employes The sound was then about four joint» the vast area affecte«l by the order of Mr. Riis was brought home about for the adjustment of grievances, on my starboard bow. the former President shall revert to two weeks ago from a sanitarium in “it was still foggy. 1 looked out to Atout the status of a domain of free exploit Michigan, where he had been taken Anti-Suffragists Pass where the sound came from. It two minutes afterwards 1 saw his red ation depends upon the decision of the for treatment for heart trouble. United States Supreme court in the was apparent that death was near, Some Tart Resolutions and green lights. He would then be Washington, D. C.—The headquar alsiut one ship’s length away from me. Midwest Oil company case, which in that the patient was beyond medical I shouted to him through the mega volves 17,000 acres of oil land in Wy assistance, and it was Mr. Riis' desire ters of the National Association Op posed to Woman Suffrage issued a phone to go full speed astern, as I saw oming. This case has been before the to die here. Mr. Riis, who was 65 years of age, statement which charges that the suf the danger of collision was inevitable. Supreme court for some time and a 1“ shouted to the Storstad to keep final adjudication is expected this ha<! given practically his whole life to fragists called the antis "polecats” in bettering the condition of the poor of a resolution adopted by the 47th an full speed ahead to fill the hole he had ■ month. I The decision of Judge Dooling was New York. He had worked unceas nual meeting of the New England made. He then bncked away. The In their retort ship beagn to fill and listed rapidly. the climax of what had become famous ingly for their benefit, physicially and Suffrage association. When he struck me I hail »topjad my in Western court annals as the “billion financially had he given of his bounty the antis call the suffragists “social ¡dollar case. ” In September, 1909, to aid the wretched condition of New revolutionists” and declare there is engines. I then rang full speed again, nothing in common between the suf when 1 saw the danger was so great, President Taft issued an executive or York's slumdon. Riis was the 13th child of a Latin fragist and true feminist. with the object of running her ashore.” der withdrawing from entry 3,041,000 acres of oil lands in the West. Of this teacher in Ribe, Jutland, Denmark. The antis say the New England suf I 2,871,000 acres comprised the Midway He was born in 1849. Young Riis be fragists passed a resolution at their j field of California. The rest was in came a carpenter’s apprentice. The annual meeting saying: California Ruilding at vocation he had chosen did not prevent “W’e denounce as a gross slander 1905 Pair Grounds Hums Wyoming. him, however, from falling in love the charge of the anti-suffragists that Portland The California State 55,000 Enginemen Will with Elizabeth Nielson, daugther of i equal suffrage means loose morals. building at the Lewis and Clark fair one of the richest men in his native an<1 we protest especially against their Take Vote On Strike ground*« wax burned at 1 o'clock Mon town. But she refused him, and when attrjbutjng to prominent t women state day morning in a spectacular fire that Chicago -A strike vote of 55,000 Rus was 21 years old, having learned mpnts whi,.h thpsp ments which these worn« women have em threatened for n time to destroy the engineers and firemen, on 98 railways his trade, he embarked for New York phatically disclaimed. Forestry building, the Oriental build west of Chicago, will be taken as the with only $40 in his pocket. “These are the antics of the pole ing, and houses in the Willamette result of the breaking off of all nego- Riis built miner's huts in a Penn cats when badly frightened.” Heights district. Sparks from the tintions for increased wages. sylvania construction camp, mined Mrs. A N. George, of Brookline, The negotiations have been in prog- coal, made bricks, drove a team and Mass., a leading platform speaker blazing structure were carried by a I ’ rac- west wind over the northern part of ress for nearly three months, peddled flat irons and books. At 27 among the antis, said: the city. Had the wind not been light tically every railway in the Unite«] he spent his last cent in reaching New “This is perhaps the most extraor many other blazes would almost cer States west of Chicago, including the York and was forced to accept a be dinary resolution ever adpoted by a tainly have resulted. Illinois Central and all lines in Canada ginners’ place as a reporter. At the public assemblage.” Two patrolmen who were the first west of Fort Williams, with the ex very first he made his most conspic to arrive at the fire, think it of ception of the Grand Trunk Pacific, uous success in the study of conditions “Death March” Ignored. incendiary origin, They were a dis- are invovl««d. on the East Side of New York. Later The strike vote will affect workers he bought a paper and sold it at a Chicago—A "death march” of boys, tance of only a few block» away when it started. When they reached the on 140,000 miles of railway, who re profit, return«*«! to Denmark and mar organized by Upton Sinclair, who scene the entire building was burning. ceive about $67,750,000 yearly in ried the girl who had refused him marched up and down past the Stand The Califonia building ivas one of wages. when he was a carpenter's apprentice. ard Oil Company’s offices here proved the notable landmarks of the Lewis Warren S. Stone, gran«! chief En a failure. The boys were pledged to Uniform Act In Favored. and Clark ex|>osition. It was con- gineer of the Brotherhood of Locomo silence and on the arm of each was structed along mission architectural tive Engineers, who, with W. S. Car Salem, Or.—In letters sent to the crepe in memory of the strikers killed ter, president of the Brotherhood of secretaries of state throughout the in the Colorado mining struggle. lines. Carrying out the mission idea still Locomotive Firemen, has heade«! a Sinclair arrived here Sunday and in further, three small belfry towers, committee of employes in th«» negotia country, Ralph Watson, corporation announcing the plan said that “some commissioner, urges the necessity of each containing a chime bell, were tions, said that 30 days woulii be re- thing must be done to keep the Colo on the front end of the building. As quir<*«l to take the strike vote and that drafting a uniform “Blue Sky Law. ” rado situation before the public.” the walls fell, the tumbling chimes in the meantime no new proposals He suggests that a convention of com The police ignored the demonstra missioners having duties similar to his tolled as they dropped to the ground. would be submitted. lie held for the purpose of drafting and tion. discussing the proposed measure. “I Men Hie to Save Girin. Lahor Men Ank Clemency. Munition Vesneln Are Held. understand that some 32 states have Philadelphia — Three young men Washintgon, D. C.—A delegation enacted blue sky laws,” he says in his Vera Cruz—The Hamburg-American jumped from a leaking rowl>oat sink of labor representatives, headed by letter, “anti that similar bills are to be steamer Ypiranga was still at her dock ing in the Delaware river late Sunday Representatives Gorman and Sabbath, presented in many additional states. Monday, the collector of customs hav and were drowned. Their four com of Illinois, have presented to President Such legislation, should be uniform.” ing refused to accept the bond for the vessel and the Bavaria because it was panions, rescued by a motorlxwd after Wilson a petition signed by 1,000,000, drawn on Sunday. The Ypiranga asking executive Mercy to Criminate Hit. their own craft had capsized, said that laboring men, The the trio, none of whom could swim, clemency for Thomas M. Ryan, ex- Chicago—Society is too ready to in probably will sail for Havana. took to the water, hoping the lightened president of the Structural Ironwork- tervene in behalf of the criminals, ac- fines levied by Collector Stickney on boat could reach shore. Raymond Tin res, and 29 others convicted in the cordinng to John B. Winslow, former the vessels amount to more than 1,- ney was the first to jump. His fiancee, dynamite conspiracy. E. N. Zoline, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 000,000 pesos. Consul Canada was ex Sarah German, was one of the girls of Chicago, attorney for the convicted Wisconsin, in an address to the Illi pecting the arrival from the capital of rescued. The others who jumped with men, presented the case to the Presi nois Bar association. “The unwritten the Filipino boy of the battleship Flor Tinney were John Mouchoch and John dent, who listened carefully, but did law, or sentimental nonsense, is invok ida, having received assurances from not say whether he would interfere Murphy. ed to prevent adequate punishment,” Huerta that the boy had been released. he said. “Our present system oper Ship On High Sean Hunted. hunnton Hare Rebel Peno. Radium Curve One Man. ates to defeat justice, and mercy to Washington, D. C. Captain Wil Vera Cruz—Brigadier General Funs the criminal is cruelty to the state.” Baltimore—It was announced here liam S. Sims, commanding the torpedo ton began plans to prevent an attempt that radium had effected a complete Shoot King'n Horne Plot. flotilla, returning north from Vera to place in circulation here 300,000 cure of cancer of the throat, for which Crux, has been ordered by the Navy peso« in constitutionalist banknotes. London — The Daily Express says A. L. Glass, a railroad official of department to search for the missing It is conceded generally by business that the police have been notified of a Gainsville, Fla., came here for treat Hteamer F. J. Luckenbach. The nine men that the constitutionalist printed plot to shoot Brakespear, King ment two months ago. Last January destroyers and the tenders Birmingham money will lie refused, but, should it George’s entry in the Derby, which is Mr. Glass experienced an irritation of and Dixie will form in an extended get into circulation, it would seriously to be run at Epsom Downs The Daily the throat which gradually grew line about 70 miles long as they pro disturb the ratio of exchange, which Express adds that at a meeting of mil worse. After an unsuccessful opera ceed northward to search for the miss at the present time is about $2.75 itant suffragettes, success to the plot tion the trouble was pronounced to be Mexican for $1. ing ship. was drunk in champagne. an incurable case of cancer. Skipper of Empress Shouted in Vain for Full Speed. Ammunition and Wire Landed for President Huerta. ADES Is built Just under the od thick grass mats, and spread them Persian gulf, and keeps its wa about the burning deck, beneath the ters hot, Arabs will tell you. scorching canvas awning. Heat apo To prove their claim they plexy kills men quickly on such days point to the luminous, phos of suffering; onezllves each day in phorescent balls which lazily float fear be of the heat. Our dizzy heads and neath the waters at night, and Bay they dry skins warned us of danger as we are fragments of the everlasting walked with shaky steps about the flames. boat, seeking some spot sheltered from Maskat, the picturesque pirates’ re the soul-destroying sun. At 6 p. m. the treat on the rocky Oman coast. Is glass still showed 11-8, but we felt called the hottest place in the world some slight relief. Tales cf Marine Monsters. The sailors say a man who has spent The morning of the third day from a summer in this blistering cove may walk barefoot into Hades—and feel a Maskat we anchored tn the delta of chill. It was 124 degrees Fahrenheit the Shat-el-Arab, or River of the Arabi in the shade of our awnings when we This is the name _ given to the Tigris dropp«sd anchor In Maskat harbor, five ' and Euphrates rivers, after they unite days out of Bombay. Lord Curzon, who ■ on their way to the gulf. A few miles visited Maskat, said: “In the heats be ' upstream lay the Persian town of Mo Braving dangers from tween June and August the ordinary ■ hammereh. thermometer bursts; those graded sharks, stingrays and other pests to high enough have placed the solar ra white men swimming In the gulf, we diation at 189 Fahrenheit The rain-! bathed long and luxuriously in the fall is only three and one-half inches, | cooler waters of the great stream and this all comes within a period cf . which comes all the way from Armenia. two or three weeks.” Marine monsters of many sorts swim A new American consul to Maskat I in the hot Persian gulf, and the lur.d got in the same day I did, writes Fred-1 talcs Arabs tell of them would fill an erick Simpich in the Los Angeles! Atlantic City reporter with honest Times. In the silent, quivering heat j envy. One writer says: "Our dhow of noonday the old muzzle-loading guns ' passed through shoals of giant garfis.i, of the sultan's fortress, perched high dozens of which, attracted by our lan on the red rocks aboye the baking tern, leaped aboard. They had long, town, crashed forth a salute. The pointed noses and one of our party Stars and Stripes, in honor of the new was nearly blinded, the point just miss consul, appeared for an instant above ing his eye." At Mohammereh I quit the Kola— the picturesque old fort, built by the adventurous Portuguese when they joyfully. Redolent of horses, reeking with filth, rats and roaches, she went held this boiling inlet ages ago. her way. On the mudbank of the Aspect Is Uncanny. Gibraltar looks tame beside the Shat-el-Arab. 50 miles below the Turk wild, scowling cliffs of Maskat Sharp, ish river town of Bassorah. I found splintered rocks rise hundreds of feet myself, facing a day s quarantine in high, straight up from the hot sea. the Persian station at Mohamtnereh. From the north a narrow bay opens Back of me. on either bank of the into this mass of peaks and crags, at Karun—which comes down from the whose feet clings Maskat. The whole Persian hills at this point and flows aspect of the place is unctanny and into the Shat-el-Arab—lay the flat, weird—like Dore’s pictures of Dante's mud-hut town of Mohammereh itself, a “Inferno.” Not a trace of vegetation monotonous, sun-baked village blown exists. Food is largely brought from to fragments by British guns in their war on Persia a generation ago. Near India. Near the beach stands the sultan’s by, halfbidden in the changing mud pala.ee, a pretentious structure for this banks, I observed an old wreck. Later part of the world. A huge lion from the I learned her history; she was the Arabian desert is kept In an iron cage famous old Fox, once a blockade run near the entrance to the palace. When ner in the American Civil war. But Lord Curzon was in Maskat he saw a how she got to Mohammereh. 15,000 woman, who was accused of murder, miles away by sea. I do not know. confined in a similar cage very near the lion. ASHES TO FILL OLD MINES In the narrow, crowded bazaar, every Arab 1 met carried a long curved City of Scrantcn, Pa., Believes It Has knife, and a firearm of some pattern. Plan That Will Accomplish Their rifles were often inlaid with sil Two Purposes. ver. and had the stocks wrapped with deerskin. Slavery was abolished—offi Scranton, Pa., has struck upon a cially—by treaty with the British some I plan which it is believed will solve years ago, but so many blacks had I two of the most difficult problems that been previously brought tn that they have faced the city for years. Sev have left their impress on the people eral abandoned mine workings have of Maskat, with whom they have caved in recently near the city, mixed. The Maskat Arabs appear causing damage to property and en much darker than those farther north. dangering the safety of persons living Scores of thick-lipped, woolly-headed near them. It is the intention of the blacks from Abyssinia and Zanzibar officials to fill the old workings with were mingled with the market throng: ashes collected tn the city, thereby many of these were slaves belonging making the surface about the city to wealthy Arabs. The bazaar trade safe and solving the ash-disposal prob itself, which seemed to consist largely lem at the same time. of guns and ammunition, besides of In a paper read at a conference In course the usual articles of cloth, city hall J. G. Hayes, director of pub skins and food, is in the hands of Hin lic works of Scranton, deviated for a du t riders. Guns of every description moment from the subject under dis were for sale, and It is from this traf cusslon to tell of the new plans, ile fic that the sultan derives much of his said: “To eliminate entirely the pos income. Camel caravans take the guns sihllities of surface disturbances ant inland from Maskat, and carry them subsidences in Scranton many plans around by land to Koweit, and even have been tried and all have failed. across to Baluchistan. All the tribes Commissioners have been appointed of the Interior of Arabia secure arms and attempts made to have the mine through this source, which they after laws changed so as to hold the mining ward use against one another, the companies responsible for damage to Turks or the English In Baluchistan, the surface, but without success. At as the case may be. the present time, however, we are Maskat is above all a city of song contemplating the flushing of 75,000 and dance, of good times and high life tons of ashes, which our city collects —as Arabs know it. In all Arabia, it annually. Into the old mine workings, Is said, no maids are so fair as those under hydraulic pressure. By thia of Maskat Here, too, flourish the method the etty will be beautified ex- black arts and superstitious sorceries teriorally and rendered safer interior- which are openly avowed and prac ally. If our plan is a success, in the tised. “Baled-ee-Soharah" the natives near future we will have the surface call Oman, which mean» “The I-and of Scranton as safe as any city In of th«»»Enchanters." The water front the country." is alive with weird yarns of fancy magic and occult mysteries. Half the Of Course Not. fiction of the Arabian Nights could "1 can't find my wrench, bawlM have been lined bodily from any of the the plumber. same sort of stories which are told "You waste a good deal of timq and retold tn the coffee shops of Mas- looking for your tools,” criticised the kat any night, when the blazing sun la bookkeeper of the establishment. set "Ncrv, I always know where to find From Maskat north the heat by day my pen." aboard the Kola became more Intense, "Well, a fellow can't stick bls monk reaching 126. Sailors slopped sea water ey wrench behind his e*r " H