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, VOL. XLVI. NO. 14,486. PORTLAND, OREGON, .MONDAY, MAY 13, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. I' THIRTY-TWO TOTAL DEAD Id WRECK Details Honda Disaster Are Orewsome in the Extreme GARS PILED INTO A HEAP Shriners and Their Wives Are Crushed and Mangled Be neath Tons of Debris. ' MEN FAINT AT RESCUE WORK Steam Cooks Living Victims Pinned Under Wreckage. DINING-CAR A DEATH-TRAP Few of the Victims, Mostly Read ing Residents, Therein Escape, Entertainment Committees Are hammedan Propaganda. 1 MESSAGE TO NOBILITY. LOS ANGELES. Cal., May 12. The Associated Press today received the following messAg'rmnf Tmjmr--al Potentate Frank C. Roundy, sent from the depot at Paso Robles, Cal., where Mr. Roundy Is en route to his home In Chicago from the Los An geles conclave: To the Jfoblllty of JCorth America: It is with profound regret I an nounce that a horrible disaster has saldened the homeward journey of many of our noblea from our Im perial Council session at Los Angeles, and I hereby express my great sym pathy and sorrow for the Irreparable loss of life sustained by Ishmaell and Rajah Temples In the wreck of their special train. Signed FRANK C. ROUNDY, Imperial Potentate. SANTA BARBARA, Cal., May 12. While hurrying northward over the Coast line, of the Southern Pacific railroad yes terday afternoon, homeward-bound, after a. week of fraternizing and fiesta in Los Angeles, 145 Shriners of Ishmaell Temple, of Buffalo, and Rajah Temple, of Read ing, Pa., with their families and friends were hurled Into the midst of death when their special train, running 50 miles an hour struck a defective switch at Honda, a lonely station on the sand wastes of the Pacific 'beach, derailing the train, smashing the coaches Into flinders, ;k!lling 33 almost Instantly and Injuring more than a score of others. . The bodies of 31 lie in the morgues of Santa Bar bara, this evening, and 10 more are at San Luis Obispo. The injured, many of whom are terribly hurt and will probably die, are in two sanitariums at San Luis Obis po. Dead In Santa Barbara Morgue. Following are the names of the dead: J. DOUGLAS HIPPLE. Reading. Pa. H. K. OITTLEMAN, Reading, Pa. ; A. L. ROTH, Heading." Pa. C. GILBERT STEFK, Reading. Pa. A. D. WASSON, Buffalo. N. T. CHARLES S. HENRY. Lebanon. Pa. . J. W. CUTTER, Binghamton, N. Y. CHARLES M. LOWING. Pullman con ductor. Buffalo. C. W. AUSTIN, New York, agent for Mc Cann's Tourist Company, New York. JOHN LAOEY. negro dining-car waiter. R. W. SWEENEY. negro dining-car waiter. MRS. W. W. ESS1CK, Reading. Pa. MRS. JOHN W. CUTTER, Binghamton, Jf. Y. MRS. HENRY J. FISHER. Cleveland, O, MISS CORA YOUNG. Cleveland. O. MRS. BRUMBACH. Reading. Pa. GKORGli N. HAGANM AN. Reading, Pa. BENJAMIN STOI.TZ. Reading. Pa. HARRISON R. HENDEL, Reading, Pa. OLIVER F. KAUFFMAN. Reading. Pa. HARRY MILLER. Reading. Pa. Dead at San Luis Obispo. F. S. SNYDER. Reading. Pa. RICHARD ESSICK. Reading. Pa. MISS STOLTZ. Reading. Pa. THOMAS J. PRUNLAQICH. Reading. Pa. L. N. ELLENBOGEN. Allentown. Pa. MRS. L. N. ELLENBOGEN. Allentown, Pa. HOWARD MOYER. Haxelton. Pa. ALONZO B. ROGERS, St. Paul, Minn., Pullman conductor. , UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, probably Mrs. Mary C. Ivans. Reading. Pa. S. A. Blckford. brakeman, of San Fran ClBCO. Injured at San Luis Opispo. R. Fountain, brakeman; missing last night; waa brougkt to thla city thia morn ing. His back la Injured and the lower part of hla body- paralysed. Fountain crawled a hundred -yards to flag the second section. and later waa picked up and conveyed to this city this morning. w. H. Boyd, of Reading, Pa.; badly scalded. Martin L. Henry. Shamokln, Pa,; Injured pin and severely scalded. H. H. Lee. Orwigaburg. Pa..; face lacer ated, both hips cut and fractured leg. J. Logan, Buffalo, N. Y. ; leg fractured and three ribs broken. H. A. Hartxel, Eastern, Pa. ; scalded and fractured leg. Charles McKinney, Binghamton, N. T.; back injured. Mrs. jMcKJnney, severely bvulsed about the body. Mrs. Fred Grummond, Bingham ton, N. T.; ankle broken. A. W. Roppole. of Bennis Point, N. T.; severely bruised about neck. Engineer Champtalne, badly scalded. Fireman Glen Thompson, face, arms and internal injuries. Mrs. Hendel and daughter, Helen, Read ing. Pa.; not serious. J. Galvln Hoffeditz, Reading, Pa.; left let fractured, scalp wound. Speed of Train Was Terrific. The wreck occurred at exactly 2:35 o'clock, one hour and 45 minutes after the conclave visitors, forming a merry party, had apent all the morning sightseeing in Santa Barbara. The statement that the train was making a terrific speed when it struck the defective track, is borne out TE. I.. Smith, Who Returns From Representing Oregon at Jamestown Exposition. by the fact that it covered the 61 miles of curves and crooked track between here and Honda In exactly 100 minutes. There was no warning of the Impending calamity. The special plunged upon the defective switch, and In an instant the big locomotive, baggage car, diner and Pullman, coupled with it, were hurled to gether In a huge heap of wreckage. The engine "shot forward on the broken track tearing up the rails and ties and twisting the huge iron spans into fishhooks. The baggage car half burled itself in the sand on the right side of the locomotive. It was smashed almost to kindling wood. Dinlng-Car- a. Death-Trap. The dining-car, in which were 32 peo ple eating their noonday repast, leaped Into the air and was thrown directly on top of the demolished locomotive. Near ly every person In this coach waa in stantly killed. Scores were scalded by steam escaping from disconnected pipes in the kitchen of the diner. The terror and turmoil of the scene were indescrib able. Many of thftse who escaped instant death by the first impact were crushed by the rear coaches hurled upon tha wreckage. Others, pinioned in the debris, were roasted alive. The wreckage caught fire from the coals of the engine, but was extinguished In a few minutes by the passengers who escaped Injury. Engineer Frank Champlain was pitched with his cap 25 feet beyond the engine and got up and ran three-quarters of a mile, seeking help, before he discovered that his arm was broken and that he was severely scalded. A man standing behind his wife in the baggage car was hurled through a huge rent In the roof and alighted in soft and yielding sand, almost uninjured. The woman was forced through the floors and wreckers had to lift tons of baggage to get her body out. Diner Filled With Reading Folk But the unfortunates who occupied every seat. In the dining-car were caught in' a veritable death-trap. Only two of the nine men of the diner crew are num bered among the dead. - The remainder, though cooped up in the narrow kitchen and pantry, sustained but a few cuts and bruises. . A last call for luncheon had just sound ed a- few minutes before the disaster. Rajah Temple, of Reading, Pa., occupied the last car on the train and' was the last ones to go forward to the diner. The car was. filled almost entirely with Read ing people when the wreck occurred. An instant after the smash, those who were not rendered insensible or otherwise in capacitated by the terrific impact, jumped from the train to render assistance, but the gruesome scene unfitted many for the work they had sought to do before relief arrived. Men Faint at Work or Rescue. Frightened women, peering through the -windows of the undamaged sleeper, faint ed when they saw the bodies of their friends strewn along the roadside, blood from the gaping wounds staining the sand-drifts all about. Men who tolled hard at the task of rescue collapsed com pletely, many of them, before the work was finished. Mrs. John W. Cutler, of Binghamton, New York,, whose husband is also among; the killed, was In the baggage- car at the time of the crash, where she had gone to rearrange her trunk. Her body was driven literally through the floor, and the wrecked car had to be jacked up before it could be re leased. Mrs. Fred Grummond, of Bing hamton, was with her, and also went down under the tons of baggage and broken timber. When rescuers bur rowed their way to where the two women lay the living one reached out and grasped the feet of one of the men, and shouted: "I'll not let go until you get me out!" Then a gust of scalding steam en veloped her. and she was terribly burned. She was rescued alive, how ever, and was among those taken to San Luis Obispo. When Miss Cora Young, of Cleveland, ..Continued, en Page-;- CALM HANGS LIKE PALL OVER BOISE In Sharp Contrast to Tragedy on Today ORCHARD CLOSELY GUARDED Interest Centers in Story He Will Tell of the Murder. HAYWOOD WITH HIS FAMILY Watches His Little'. Child. Playing With Spitz Puppies on Court House Lawn Men in the. Jury Room Are Restless. BOI9B. Idaho, May. 12. The summon ing of the special venire of talesmen in the Haywood case will be finally complet ed tomorrow, and the 100 men who have been called by Sheriff Hodgin will pre sent -themselves in Judge Wood's court when at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon the case will be resumed. General expec tation Is that not more than' two of the regular venire already examined will be .retained in 'he jury-box, and that the bulk of the Jiry. will come from the quota now being culled by the Sheriff. The 11 men confined since; Thursday last in jury-houses will be very glad to see the case resumed tomorrow. .A .majority of them know that they are not to serve on the jury, and while they have been com fortably housed and well fed, they have gTOwn very restless under confinement, Interest Focused on Orchrd. Interest in the trial continues to center In the personality and testimony of Harry Orchard, who killed Governor Steunen berg and upon whose confession William Haywood and his associates in the direc torate of the Western Federation of Min ers were indicted. ItB culmination .will come when he is brought into court to relate his story. Speculation as to the time of his ap pearance is idle until the jury is formed, but It is said he will be called, after the death of Steunenberg has been proved, and that his testimony will be the main foundation upon which the prosecution will build. Meantime Orchard Is a close ly guarded prisoner in the state peniten tiary, a castle-like structure built and walled with stone that stands in the eastern suburb of the city. Various re ports as to attempts to kill Orchard are n circulation, the last being a tale from Lewiston of a plot alleged to have been formed months ago to shoot Orchard from the hillsl back of the prison. Orchard Keeps in, Good Health. Reports from the prison say that Or chard is in good health and condition; that he continues his reading along re ligious lines; that he will unquestionably repeat his confession In court, and that he is ready for the fate made certain by his confession. Boise, calm in ordinary times, sleeps to day under a new Sunday-rest law, op erative for the first time. Baseball, one of the few; exceptions of the new moral close season, attracted many of the par ticipants in the case. Haywood received his family under the trees on the Courthouse lawn and for an hour watched his youngest child play with a litter of little Spitz puppies that looked like animated powder-puffs. Pet- tlbone looked on from a barred window. and in the group on the lawn Sheriff Hodgin strolled with a few of his depu ties. Attorneys Richardson and Darrow came later and talked for a time with their client. Tonight Clarence Darrow, of counsel for the defense, lectured at the Unitarian Church, his theme being "Walt Whitman, Poet." Calm Precedes Opening Acts. It requires imagination to construct and realize the great tragedy that moves forward here tomorrow. The grass-car peted prison yard, the streets, the scenes, the people who moved in .the Sunday palm, would contradict the idea, but the coming and going of counsel, wit nesses, deputies and detectives at the offices of attorneys for the prosecution and defense proves the activity of those interested on either side. Governor Gooding, who spent the last few days on his extensive sheep ranch. near Shoshone, returned to Boise this morning. FOIL PLOT TO KILL ORCHARD Detectives Learn of Clever Scheme and Closer Precautions , Follow. LEWISTON, Idaho. May 11. (Special.) To one or two citizens of -Lewiston the newspaper stories from Boise to the ef fect that extra precautions are being thrown around Harry Orchard, probably the most important witness for the prose cution in the William D. Haywood trial. to prevent any attempts upon his life, do not cause surprise. The comment is that it is surprising how long It has taken for the fact to leak out that the friends of the Federation of Miners, defendants. are and have been for weeks and months plotting and trying to assassinate Or chard. It is stated here to be a fact that for some time past there have been detec tives in disguise both .on the inside.-and outside of the penitentiary whose sole duty it was to keep an eye upon Orchard and sip, in tha bu4 anx. atemct to sul EVENTS OF COMING WEEK Celebrate TsmHiny t Jaunestmrn. The 800th anniversary of the land ing at Jamestown Island of the first permanent Ensllsh settlers will be celebrated at Jamestown Monday, Virginia Day. Marines and sailors from the American and other war ships will be landed at the exposi tion grounds for a review by Gen eral KurokL, the Duke DuBrusal and the foreign admirals and officers. Ambassador Bryce will deliver an address in commemoration of the anniversary. - Japanese and American sailors will , row four races on the Hampton Roads on the same day. Busy Week for Kurokl. "Wednesday, General Kurokl is ex pected to attend a dinner In New York given by Japanese merchants. On Thursday he will visit the Mili tary Academy at West Point, and attend another dinner there at night. On Friday night he will be the guest at a big subscription dinner at the Hotel As tor, and on Saturday night the Nippon Club of New York expects to have him as Its guest. The annual banquet of the Cana dian Club of New York will be held r the Hotel Astoria Thursday even when Leslie M. Shaw will de liver an address on "Reciprocity." The general assembly of the Pres byterian Church In he United States will' convene at Columbus,- O., next Thursday, when reports of Its mis sionary and other work will be re ceived. Christen Spanish Prince. Tuesday. , Public Interest in Spain during the doming week will be centered In the christening on Tuesday of the royal child at the famous baptismal forit of Santo Domingo de Guzam. The Russian lower house of Par liament, which adjourned April 30 for the Russian Easter recess, will assemble May 13. The Constitution al Democrats, with a view of pre venting "an early dissolution of the Douma, are planning to break with the radical Left, and form a work ing majority with the Octobertsta, Moderates, Monarchists, Poles and members of the Group of Toll. World Sunday-School Convention. Upwards of 1 0,000 delegates, rep resenting 3,000,000 persons through out the world, will attend the world's fifth . Sunday-School convention at Rome, May IS to 23. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, will be the hon orary president of the convention. him out of the way. The reports from Boise yesterday to the effect that one guard had been dismissed from the state's service is taken here as proof of the assertion that Orchard would not live 24 hours were the vigilance placed over him relaxed for the instant. It Is stated for a fact that, last Winter 1 detectives unearthed a plot to shoot Or chard down as he exercised within, the walls that surround the penitentiary. Ac cording to the story, which comes from a source so reliable that it might be termed official, men supposed to have been in the employ of the Federation or, friends of that body, had secured a position which overlooked the walls of the peni tentiary. The distance was so great that spyglasses had to be used to watch what was going on within the walls, learn the habits of the guards, prisoners, and as certain Just what hours of the morning or afternoon Orchard was in the habit of taking his customary out-of-door ex ercise. The position selected by those suspected of desiring to kill Orchard was such that they could shoot and kill the man with ease. The distance was not so far but that a rifle could easily carry its mis sile of death, but probably sufficiently far to prevent the report of the gun be ing heard within the. walls of the peni tentiary. It was probably hoped that when the time , was propitious Orchard would be shot, would drop in his tracks and no one would, know from which di rection the bullet came. But the -detectives got wind of the scheme dust how is not known, or If it is, the person acquainted with the facts will not tell and after that Orchard's recreation grounds were changed. If he was permitted to use the exposed piece of ground he was so s'urrounded that it (Concluded on Page Pour.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER Tbe Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 62 degrees; minimum, 48 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northerly winds. Miners' Federation Cases. Sunday in Boise calm in contrast to big event to begin today. Page 1. Reported plot to kill Orchard Is affirmed by penitentiary, warden. Page 1. Foreign. Turkey, not willing to grant Japan same recognition as other powers. Page 3. Birth of Prince Alfonso la officially reg istered. Page 3. Rational. Foraker repudiates peace scheme of Boss Cox and declares he will fight Taft to a finish. Page 1. European hordes pouring into New York: at rate of 5000 a day. Page 2. New era promised for Cuba. Page 4. Domestic Great wheat shortage; prices in Chicago pit expected to reach dollar mark. Page 2. Haskin writes on perfumery and Us manu facture. Page 2. . ' Sport. Portland breaks even with Oakland. Page 5. Ex-Champion Lightweight Wrestler Christol recuperating aC Hood River. Page 5. " Pacific Coast. Death list in wreck of Bhriners' excursion now numbers 32. Page 1. E. I- Smith back from Jamestown, Page 4. Two men perish in surf at Ocean Beach before gase of 8000 people. Page 3. Idaho land-fraud trials will be resumed to day. Page 4. Quiet day In San Francisco. Page 3. ' Portland and Vicinity. Veterans of two wars prepare to- observe Memorial Day. Page Eight lumber carriers cross Columbia' bar In one day. Page 13. Rev. A. R. Vosburgh lectures to large audi ence In HelUg theater on Christian Science. Page 9. - - One new case of meningltia develops;. physi cians discuss tbe disease.. Page 8. . St. Johns baseball " team defeats Brews on homo grounds. .Page 5. Pastor denounces waits from pulpit of White T.mnin. Page. B. FORAKER UPSETS ALL PEACE PLANS Means to Fight Taft to a Finish GUTS BRIDGES BEHIND HIM War to End Unless Secretary Offers Compromise. HE HAS MADE NO DEAL Repudiates Boss Cox's Overture and Schemes to Make Columbus Con ference a Frost His Chances Weakened, It Is. Believed. WASHINGTON-, May 12. (Special.) Senator Foraker' tonight Issued a state ment declaring war against Secretary Taft. He will fight to the bitter end, unless the Secretary agrees to a compro mise. AH the overtures for a truce made In his behalf by "Boss" Cox he repudi ates, and calls Upon his friends to make the Columbus conference ' next Wednes day "a frost." In digging up the hatchet, Senator For. aker reissues his challenge to combat with Secretary Taft before the people of the state, and announces his willingness to abide by the decision of the people as expressed at primaries to be held at date to be fixed by the state committee next Pall, after the November elections. The resumption of open warfare is charged by Senator Foraker's friends to the political ambitions of Representative Burton and Harry A. Daugherty, of Co lumbus. It is asserted that Mr. Burton opposed peace because he wants to be United States Senator to succeed Mr. For aker, and that Mr. Daugherty could 'not see his hope of capturing the Governor ship realized by an arrangement which would permit the Foraker-Dick-Cox fac tion to control the nomination. ' Foraker Faces Crisis. Senator Foraker will make his first attack upon the Columbus conference. His friends will accept his instructions and stay away from the meeting. Secretary Taft's friends say he will gladly accept the challenge of an appeal to the people. Wednesday's conference at Columbus, which was called by Senator Dick after Mr. Cox made the overtures which Sen ator Foraker says he did not approve, but through desire for party harmony was willing to accept as a compromise, may give a test of Secretary Taft's strength. If a majority of those attend ing indorse Secretary Taft for the Pres idency without taking further action, it will be a demonstration that Mr. Foraker has ceased to be an Important political factor in Ohio. If, on the other hand, Mr. Foraker can prevent any considerable number of those invited from attending or produce an ef fective barrier to the Taft programme, his friends will claim first blood for him and insist that he has a following in the state strong enough to give the Secretary some trouble. Should it be disclosed by the conference that Foraker has lost the power to make, trouble, the Taft man agers probably will ignore him as an in fluence in the state and devote their at-tention-to work in other states. Everything All "Balled Up." Senator Foraker has by his statement placed himself in a position where it is survive or perish. He has politically de stroyed the bridges behind him, and un less he can defeat the Indorsement of Sec retary Taft for the Presidency he must retire from the Senate. Senator Foraker has succeeded in com plicating the situation. To say that he has blundered probably would be accu rate. He has not only further embar rassed an already embarrassing situation of his own creation, but he has placed his former allies in such a delicate posi tion that to survive themselves they may have to thraw Mr. Foraker overboard. Not only has he transformed what was intended as a jollification conference into a measure of his own strength, but he has done it in such a way that he has nothing to win and all to lose. Should he fall to control the conference his po litical prospects will receive a blow from which he will not likely be able to recov er when tha Legislature In 1909 votes to select his successor in the United States Senate. What is by far the most Important de velopment, so far as Mr. Foraker is con cerned, is the issue which he has precip itated upon his allies. Senator Dick, "Boss" Cox and Walter Brown. . Cox and Brown must attend the conference and vote to indorse Secretary Taft for Presi dent or face the full strength of the op position of Secretary. Taft's friends in the Fall municipal elections. Should the vote be for Taft, Senator Foraker'g down fall would seem sealed. Troubles for Senator Dick. Senator Dick has been placed in . an extremely embarrassing position by Mr. Foraker. Should he bolt the con ference, which he called, and the con ference shows the Taft supporters to be in control, there promptly must be a new state chairman in the place of Senator Dick in the person of Arthur I. Voorys. Senator Dick has the al ternative of repudiating Foraker. ' ' In ending the truce. Senator Foraker "" , v'" ' ,V ' ' I has, temporarily at least, again placed jiunarta at mo. new yt. a numi didates. but he has done it in such .a way as to weaken himself. He has gi ven his former allies an incentive for deserting; his banner, but he has done absolutely nothing to ' -weaken Secretary Taft. FORAKER ISSUES STATEMENT Declares Emphatically He Made No Overtures for a Compromise. WASHINGTON, May 12. Senator Foaker. of Ohio, tonight Issued a state ment on the Ohio situation, in reply to Representative Burton, saying that so far as he (Mr. Foraker) was con cerned, no effort whatever had been made to make a deal, bargain or com promise with anybody about any thing; that the statement issued by George B. Cox, of Cincinnati, was not in Mr. Foraker's interest or with his approval, but that Mr. Cox was striv ing for party harmony and he (Mr. Foraker) was willing to accept the re sults if the convention should act fa vorably on Mr. Cox's recommendations. The Senator says all Questions of in dorsement and nominations should be t : ? Al. : I- x . l- - AS- 4 Senator Foraker. Who Smashes Boss Cox's Peace Plans and Bids De fiance to Taft. deferred until the next state conven tion, and he will not regard as binding; any action taken meanwhile by any in dividual or committee not authorized to settle these questions for Ohio Re publicans. The Senator reiterates that he will request that the call for the next state convention provide that the delegate be elected from the va rious counties at primaries. . Has Offered No Compromise. ' In answer to the statement in to day's papers, given out at Cleveland by Mr. Burton. Senator Foraker airt: "Mr. Burton's statement is likely to create a taise impression. So far as I am concerned, no effort whatever has been made to make a deal or a bargain or a compromise with anybody, about any thing. The statement put out by Mr. Cox was nis own, and he made it on his own motion, and certamly not in my interest nor with my approval. Atithe same time I thought he was striving for party har mony, and that his purpose was a laud able one, and I was willing to accept the results if the convention should act fa vorably upon his recommendations, not because I was included in his plan of compromise, but because I was willing to conform to anything reasonable that party good might seem to require. . Leave It to Convention. "I think it is the first duty of any man who believes in Republican principles and aspires to represent them, to contribute all he can to party union, strength and victory. In saying what I did in response to Mr. Cox's recommendation I went as far, however, as I can go consistently with self-respect. It would have been very gratifying to me if all strife and contention could be avoided, not on my own account, but for party good; but, in asmuch as that seems impossible judg ing by what I learn from the newspapers and otherwise as to the attitude of tne friends of Secretary Taft I think it due to my friends and to the whole body of the Republican party in the state to an nounce that all questions of indorsement and nomination should in my opinion be deferred until the next state convention can act upon them. That is the only body that has power to authoritatively speak on such subjects. "I shall not, tnereiore, regara blndlnir unon me or on any of my friends any action that may be taken in the meanwhile by any individual or committee or committees not specui eallv authorized to settle these ques tions for the Republicans of Ohio. "After the November elections are out of the way I shall, accordingly, as heretofore announced, request the State Central Committee, in issuing its call for the next state convention, to nrovide that tne delegates snail De elected from the various counties at primaries duly held under statute in such case applicable, to the end that the voters themselves may have an onnnrtnnitv to determine, as tney should, what is to be done as to all matters in which they will at that time be interested. T take advantage or tnis opportunity to Bay that all nominations and indorse ments that can be properly and authori tatively made only by the state conven tion should be left for that body to deal with. Efforts to settle them in advance by unofficial, Individual announcement or committee action, no matter now wen in tended, usually do more harm than good. The party will be stronger and can act more intelligently if It will always wait for Its duly chosen representatives to sneak on such questions and to loyally abide by the action so taken. I make this last statement because of the newspapers' announcements that a call has been Issued for a meeting of the Republican state central and execu tive committees with the county chairmen and the Republican members of Congress to be held in Columbus May 15, at which it is proposed to confer about the polit ical situation In Ohio and possibly take some action with reference thereto. 'My public duties make it impossible for me to attend if I desired to do so. but, without meaning to be disrespectful. in view of the fact that such a meeting would have no authority to bind any one on such matters, I would not attend it if I could." FOR TAFT WITHOUT FORAKER Friends of Secretary Will Demand an Umttrammeled Indorsement. CLEVELAND, O.. May 12. No political gathering held in this state in many Concluded on Page ? i NINETY MEN DIE E Holocaust in Mexican Copper Fields RESCUERS FIND 35 BODIES Cigarette Smoker Starts Fire in Vacant Shaft. PERISH PENNED INSIDE PIT Flames Gain Great Headway Before Discovery, and Only II Work men Escape) Heroic Efforts at Kescue Prove of No ATall. , CITY OF MEXICO, May li. Ninety men are supposed to have lost their lives in a fire which started in tha Tenares copper mine at Velerdena,, in the State of Durango, last Friday night. The fire is still raging-, and is said to be beyond control. - Thirty-five bodies have been recov ered up to this time. Seventeen miners are known to have escaped. This in formation has been conveyed in a dis patch to the Associated Press offices in Mexico City. The burning mine be longs to the Guggenhelms. The origin of the fire is supposed to have been due to the carelessness of a miner, who was smoking a cigarette in an abandoned shaft. The fire had gained great headway before it waa discovered by the men in the near vicinity. They found that all avenues of escape to the surface had been cut off. Seventeen, however, were in a good position, and made a dash and reached the outer air. Rescuing parties have been working heroically, but only charred and un recognizable remains have thus far re warded their efforts. SMELTER TO BE REOPENED Salt Lake- Plant Is to Be Fully Protected. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 12. Hav ing been promised ample police protection, the American Smelting & Refining Com pany has decided to reopen its plant at Murray tomorrow morning. At the meet ing of the smelting officials today the Mayor of Murray and county officials agreed to furnish 75 special officers and to guarantee the safety of all who ap plied for work. It is believed that a majority - of the 1200 men who quit the plant last Thursday will apply for their old positions and that no serious trouble will occur. An advance of approxlmatey 10 per cent in wages will be made by the company, this being the raise which was offered and rejected by the men before the -strike. It was said today that the ores diverted to the Montana and Colorado plants of the company had been ordered back to Utah. EXPLODE SUNKEN MINE Japanese Steamer Brings News of Bad Disaster. VICTORIA. B. C. May 12. Advices were received by the steamer Rlojun Maru from Yokohama that as a result of the recent increases In duty on matting entering the United States, the guild which controlled the bulk of exports ot Japanese matting has been broken up. ' News of the destruction of a Japanese boat with loss of 13 lives as a result of the explosion of a derelect mine off To yama was brought by the Bio Ju Maru. The fishermen mistook the mine for an oil drum and were trying to pick it up when it exploded, smashing their schooner, and of the 14 on board only one escaped and was rescued by another fish ing crew. The Rio Ju Maru reports that tea shipments to the United States to com7 mence on the next inward steamer will be larger this year than during any .pre vious season. WILL BE BRYAN'S GUESTS Former Russian Political Leaders to . . Be Entertained at Lincoln. LINCOLN, Neb., May 12. M. M. Alla din and T. Tschkovsky, former leaders i,A Ivmin nt Tri In th Invpr bnnsA of Parliament, will be the guests of William J. sryan in Liiiicuiu, a jjau ul the present week. FIRE SMITES RUSH CITY Entire Business Section Wiped Out, With Loss of $200,000. ST. PAUL, Minn., May 12. Word reached here early this morning that the business portion of Rush City had been totally destroyed by fire. Loss $200,000. Will Let Fight Go On. DENVER, May 12. Petitioned by the Christian Citizenship Union of Denver to prevent the fight between Harry Lewla and Jimmy Gardner from being held in this city on May 21, Governor Henry A. Buchtel has announced that he will not Interfere in affairs of this kind, which the city authorities have' ample power to control, BUHG Mlfj