THE MORNING OREGON! AN, SATURDAY, DECE3IBER 5. 1914.
OWNER SAYS UNION
TRIES TO RUN MINE
Coal Operator Tells of Dis
charge of Men for Attend
ing Funeral of "Scab."
FINES CAUSE OBJECTION
Colorado District President of Mine
workers Says Companies Rule
Towns and Exclude Op
position Stores.
DENVER, Dec. 4. "I am theoretical
ly in favor of union labor; practically
I have no use for it," Walter A. Cur
tis, president of the Hapson Coal Com
pany, an employer, of union labor,
testified before th3 Federal Commis
sion on Industrial Relations today.
"Just now I have a controversy with
the pit committee of one of my mines."
If the union does not stand back of
mo in disciplining the committee by
discharging it, I am going; to get rid
of union labor. I am going to see who
is running- our mines, the pit commit
tee or the company."
The pit committee, he said, had de
creed that' certain men who had at
tended the funeral of a non-union
miner at a neighboring: non-union mine
should be discharged for attending: the
funeral of a "scab."
Arbitrary Fines Opposed.
Mr. Curtis testified he signed a con
tract with the United Mine Workers of
America 10 years ago and then went
back to non-union labor because of,
arbitrary and excessive fines placed on
men by the union mine committees,
which, as president of the company, he
was expected to collect for the union.
J. F. Welborn. president of the Colo
rado Fuel & Iron Company, followed
Mr. Curtis In his testimony with a sta
tistical review of ail the strikes in Colo
rado since 1890. The total employes of
the company when working to full ca
pacity before the present strike, was
6000. About 40 per cent went on strike.
Some left before the strike became ef
fective and some Just after. In each
case they were Intimidated, he alleged.
Wages Increased Voluntarily.
Without demands, he said, there had
been three successive Increases of
wages of 5 cents a ton since 1902, the
last being made on April 1, 1912. The
policy of the company had been to
anticipate demands by increases of
wages.
In completing his testimony of the
morning, at the beginning of the after
noon session. President McLennan, of
District 15. United Mine Workers of
America, declared that the Mayor and
officials of incorporated towns in the
mining district were usually officials
of the companies. None but the com
pany stores were allowed In. such
towns.
In cases of accidental deaths the
Coroner, he said, used the same Jury
during his entire term. The Jury in
one county had. been working 20 years.
Companies Usually Exonerated.
"With one or two exceptions, the
verdicts they render have always ex
onerated the companies from any
blame," he asserted.
By a system of placing men of dif
ferent nationalities to work together,
he said, the companies prevented dis
cussion of their grievances. There were
from 22 to 26 tongues spoken in each
mine.
"There has been no law n Southern
Colorado for ten years but that of the
operators and that of the mine super
intendent's gun," he declared.
Miners, Sot Operators, Prosecuted.
The witness related that the union
men had taken up the 'enforcement of
the eight-hour law with Governor
Shafroth, who explained that he was
helpless without the aid of the civil
authorities in the southern part of the
state.
"Since then a decision of the Supreme
Court authorized the Attorney-General
to prosecute in any county," he said.
"Has he prosecuted?"
"He has prosecuted miners, not oper
ators," said McLennan.
The Attorney-General was asked to
prosecute mine officials at Walsenburg
for assaulting a union organizer, after
the District Attorney of Walsenburg,
McLennan said, had said the man had
no right to be there.
In his testimony, Mr. Curtis told the
commission, that a year ago "from ne
cessity" he had signed up again with
the union. The necessity was that one
of the mines of the company was about
to run out and he did not believe it
would be worth while to engage with
the other operators in a costly light
with the union.
Profit Krom l nl Labor Admitted.
He admitted that he had onAmtMl
profitably with union labor. Most of
nis aimcuities came from the nit com
mittee in a. mine where the degree of
illiteracy was greatest.
"I am going to lire that pit commit'
tee and everyone connected with it,"
he said.
In addition, although the men In the
mine in question chose their own rherk-
weighmen and presidents of the pit
committee, none of them wanted these
positions Because of the charges by
other miners that they were cheating
or unfair.
"Don't you think the arbitrary IH.
tude of the pit committeemen, who have
been working ten years under nonunion
conditions, is the result of intoxication
by their first success in winning union
conditions?" asked Commissioner Gar
retson. "True," said the witness, "anrl T thinW
discipline by the discharging of that
pit committee would De good for them."
COMMISSION MEN ACCUSED
Complaints Charge Five Firms With
Failure to Get License.-
Five complaints wero issued yester
day from District Attorney Evans'
ottice charging Portland commission
merchants with violation of the state
law of 1913 requiring (all such houses
to procure state licenses at a cost of
J5 each per annum. The law also safe
guards producers dealing with licensed
commission men in that-they are re
quired to put up a bond for fair deal
tug. Those charged with laxity In failure
to procure licenses are B. H. Levy.
J. J. Cole. W. M. Derthick, Pearson
Page Company. Frank Templeton and
McEwen & Kosky. The accused firms
will fight the law. It is said.
CZAR LOSES 33,000 AIDES
Heavy Orrieer Loss Given Out in
Fetrograd, Says Berlin.,
BERLIN, Dec. 4. CBy wireless.)
Among tne items or news given out by
the German. official press bureau today
la the following:
"The Russian military newspaper.
Husky Invalid, says tne number of
Russian officers killed, wounded or
taaen prisoners now totals 33.000."
Oregon Legislators, Nos. 74, 76, 76, 77
W. P. Elmore, Representative-Elect of Linn; George Nraner, Jr., Hold
over Senator of Douglas; Wesley O. Smith, Re-Elected Representative
of Crook, Grant, Klamath and Lake; W. H. Hollis, Holdover Senator
of Lincoln, Tillamook, Washington and YamhilL
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ALBANY. Or, Deo. 4. (Special.)
His name written tn by voters of
three different parties, of none of
which he was a member, when , he was
not a candidate on the ballot ! of any
of them, W. P. Elmore, of Browns
ville, was nominated for the Legisla
ture from Linn County last May and
was elected In the recent election.
Mr. Elmore is a registered Prohibi
tionist. In the primaries his name was
written in on the ballot by Republican,
Democratic and Progressive voters,
none of the parties having a full com
plement of candidates on the. printed
ballot. He received the Democratic
nomination, tied for the Progressive,
and. lacked but a few votes of securing
a. Republican nomination. In the gen
eral election he won with a high vote.
Mr.- Elmore came to Oregon 36 years
ago from his native state of Tennessee
and engaged in farming near Browns
ville for four years. He then spent six
years in the sheep business in Eastern
Oregon and two years more farming
near Brownsville. In 1890 he entered
the Bank of Brownsville, and for the
past 16 years has been president of the
bank.
Mayor of the old town of South
Brownsville when the towns on the
two sides of the Calapooia River con
solidated Into the present City of
Brownsville, he became the new city's
first Mayor and has served one terra
since. Altogether he has served ten
years In the City Council of Browns
ville and is a member of the Council
now. .This will be his second term in
the Legislature, as he represented Linn
County In the House in the session of
1S93.
Mr. Elmore has been active for vears
in prohibition work, his home city of
Brownsville oecoming the first "dry"
town in the state 18 years ago. He has
been the Prohibition nominee for Rep
resentative in Congress three times and
for Representative from Linn County
three times. He has served for many
years as a trustee of McMinnville Col
lege. EOSEBURG, Or., Deo. 4. (Special.)
ueorge JNeuner, Jr., of Koseburg, who
will serve Douglas County in the State
Senate during the next session of the
legislature, is a native of Germany,
and is about 36 years of age. Mr.
Neuner came to the United States with
his parents when a mere lad and lo
cated In California. He' later came to
Oregon and settled in the vicinity of
Riddle. In the year 1901 Mr. Neuner
entered the employ of the United States
Government, and later spent several
years in Alaska, where he assisted in
the Government geological survey.
Upon his return to Douglas County
he attended the Central Oregon Normal
School, later graduating from the law
department or the Willamette Uni'
versity. He was elected Reoresenta
tive from Douglas County in the year
isio and served in that capacity dur
ing the legislative session of 1911. A
year later he was chosen State Senator
from this county. During the last ses
SEED MEN ATTRACT
WOSIEX A.L CIIII.DRESr ATTEND
IDAHO MEETING.
Caldwell Seeks t Kntertala Growers'
Association Next Year J. AV, Ses
sions Cnoscn President.
TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Dec 4. (Spe
cial.) The fourth annual gathering of
the Idaho State Seed Growers' Asso
ciation closed, after a three days" ses
sion here, with a big banquet Thursday
evening. Widespread Interest has been
taken in this convention, which, with
an unusually large exhibit, has at
tracted not only business men ' and
farmers, but women and school chil
dren also.
The subjects of irrigation and seed
production were discussed by J. S.
Welsh, superintendent of the Gooding
experimental station. Dr. FVank B.
Harris, of the Utah Agricultural Col
lege, spoke on clover and alfalfa sed
production. Two illustrated addresses
were given on methods of crop Im
provement and horticulture by Profes
sor O. D. Center, of Boise, and Profes
sor "W. L. Shattuck. of Idaho Falls.
The closing address, given by Pro
fessor J. W. Jones, of Boise, director
of exhibits, on Idaho's opportunity at
the Panama-Pacific Exposition, was es
pecially well received.
Invitations by A. E. Gipson, of Cald
well, for the association to meet next
year at Caldwell, were favorably re
ceived, although it is to be determined
later by the executive committee.
The following officers were elected:
President,-' J. Wyley Sessions. Poca
tello; vice-president L. L. Young, Nam
pa; secretary-treasurer, O. D. Center,
Bntse.
Directors Tiro-year term, M. A.
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si on of the Legislature Mr. Neuner was
chairman of the committee on the re
vision of laws; also was a member of
the committees on agriculture "and
forestry, assessments and taxation,
elections and irrigation. " He is at pres
ent chairman of the legislative com
mittee on taxation.
Mr. Neuner is & lawyer by profes
sion and for several years served as
City Attorney of Roseburg. He has
been school clerk af the local school
district for several years. Mr. Neuner
Is prominent locally and takes an
active Interest in all matters of public
moment. He has been prominently
mentioned of late for the office of
District Attorney of Douglas County
to succeed George M. Brown, Attorney-General-elect.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or., Dec. 4.
especial.) Wesley O. Smith, Repre
sentative of the Twenty-first District,
comprising Crook, Grant, Klamath and
Lake counties, has been a resident of
Klamath Falls for the past 12 years,
during which time he has been engaged
in the newspaper business. He was
born in New Brunswick, Canada, in
1877. and moved to 'the United States
when eight years of age.
This is Mr. Smith's second term in
the Oregon Legislature, he having been
nominated and elected both times
without opposition in his party. He
has served as chairman of the county
Republican central committee, and has
always taken an active part In Re
publican politics in the county.
As a member of the ways and means
committee at the last session, Mr.
Smith saw the srreat need of the in
troduction of business methods in the
handling of state and county affairs
and secured the passage of the budget
bill and the uniform accounting sys
tem law. He Is a strong advocate of
economy in tne Handling of public
business, but believes that lack of sys
tem and the present haphazard way of
conducting such business is the real
cause of the waste and extravagance
in pudiic ari&irs.
FOREST GROVE. Or.. Dec. 4. (Sdb
cial.) W. H. Hollis, State Senator from
the Lincoln, Tillamook. Washington
and Yamhill Joint district, is a former
memDer or the lower house. He served
in that body in the 1911 session and
was elected to the Senate In the Fall
of 191Z.
Mr. Hollis is 61 years of age and a
native or Illinois. Thirty years aeo he
moved to Kansas, where he remained
ror three years. He came then to th
Northwest, locating first in Pierce
county, Washington. He remnlnort
there for ten years,, whereupon he
moved to Michigan. In 1903 he came to
Oregon, locating at Forest Grove.
Mr. Hollis received a common school
education in Illinois and studied law
in Kansas. He was admitted to the
bar in Washington. While
Pierce County he was elected County
A-uditor, and also held other public
positions. He is a pioneer advocate of
good roads, and has done much ef
fective work in that direction.
Thometz, Twin Falls; T. H. Hopkins,
Springfield; C. C. Tobias. Caldwell;
one-year term, A. J. Snyder, Spring,
field, and O. E. Scott. Pocatello.
CZAR GETS FINANCIAL AID
Great Britain Agrees to Arrange
Pay for Supplies.
LONDON, Dec. 4. Great Britain has
reached an agreement with the Rua
sian government whereby Russia, in
consideration of a shipment of 8.000 -
000 sterling ($40,000,000) from Russia
to England, will arrange with the
Bank of England to discount under
guarantee of the British government a
iurtaer amount of 12,000,000 in Rus
sian treasury bills. The rate discount
will be on the basis of the rate at
which Great Britain has been able to
borrow for her own needs.
The 8,000,000 will be aDDlied bv
Russia to providing exchange for Anglo-Russian
trade. The 12,000,000 will
be used to pay coupons on the Russian
external debts which are payable in
London and for financing Russian pur
chases in England, or where Great
amain is unable to supply the article
required and orders consequently have
10 oe piacea in Canada or the United
States.
Uhlans in German Army.
New York Evening 'Post.
In view of the fact that everv din-
patch in regarn to the operations of
me German cavalry speaks of them as
uhlans, it is . interesting to know that
there are only twenty-six regiments of
unians in the entire army, whereas
there are twenty-eight regiments of
dragoons and twenty-one of hussars.
inirteen ot mounted jagers (hunters),
four of heavy riders (Schwere Rieters),
eight Bavarian chevauxlegers, and ten
of cuirassiers. It appears, however,
that whenever a mounted German
heaves in sight he Is described as a
uhlan.
CHOLERA FOLLOWS
IH TRAIL OF WAR
TeH-Ta!e Evidence Seen by
Correspondent in Poland
on Way to Przemysl.
WHOLE COUNTRY UNCLEAN
Robert Dunn Says Country Is One
That 3Cak.es for Iconoclasm Re
' garding Immigration Laws.
Time Moves Backward.
(Continued From First Page.)
following the white trail of the scourge.
All along the ties and rails It lay, livid,
in the tons of lime scattered there to
destroy infection dropped by returning
sick and wounded.
Wounded Moved In Masses.
Next day here and there a hospital
car bore in white chalk the fateful
legend. Cholera verdachtig. We may
land in one of these yet. That night
we moved our blankets from the stuffy
carriage to sleep in the open air on one
of the natcars that carried our motors.
We woke in the morning to find hang
ing, one on the foot of my navy cot.
one on the radiator of the machine, two
pairs of undergarments flung from a
passing train.
By 3 o'clock in the afternoon we had
passed seven trains. In one I counted
27 cars, with but a single surgeon
aboard. From the battlefields in this
region alone there are at least three
lines of rail open. Ever since the
opening of the war one may have been
haunted with the thought that no hu
man agencies could, with justice to
modern humanltarianism and science.
cope with the immense masses of
wounded. Here, for the first time, the
truth of such a speculation hit me
concretely. As the jammed cars ground
westward, the great -red crosses on
them, with Kranke in black letters un
derneath, began to dance in tne back
of my mind. Vanished, they still flew
over the weeping willows of the road
sides, over the high thatchings, green
with moss of the peasants' log hovels.
You knew that on the Russian side,
with their far greater numbers, now
in retreat before the victorious Aus
trians. the same pitiful cargoes should
be trundling eastward.
Procession Seems Endless.
Still they passed us. Arms were
thrust 'out from bandages, holding
caps, which we showered with cigar
ettes. They shouted and scrambled
for them. Tied to the button on each
man's right shoulder was a small
white tag, noting the nature and loca
tion of his hurt. Occasionally at a halt
some grimed and hairy fellow would
step off for a moment upon th lime
of the white trail, dragging after him
a bandaged foot. Your one thought
was: It all cannot last long it never,
never can last. The while the famous
Vienna caricaturist in our party, which
included the several degrees from a
real Hungarian nobleman to a "sob
sister" from Newark, N. J., sketched
us into roars of laughter.
Then the Russian prisoners. Mostly
they peered from tiny gratings in the
tops of their wheeled prisons, the
round-brimmed, - khaki - colored caps
looking ironically English above their
snub ' Slav noses and corn-colored
beards. To my greeting in their lan
guage, "Drashtite! Kak posheviate?"
those crowded in the doorways around
the bayonets of the guards returned
the hail, and held out brass buttons
from their uniforms in exchange for
cigarettes. Once, in his eagerness dur
ing a halt, one tumbled out, to be
fiercely prodded back Into the ;oop.
Cigarettes and Matches Gone.
The shift into the motors was at
some tongue-twisting village. In the
sunless and bluish Galician haze we
headed for Sanok, among the quilted
cabbage and vivid green Winter rye
fields, . along the stucco roadside
shrines. The town, held for three
weeks by the Russians, showed no
more sign of it than one heavy cornice,
in the usual pale stuco style of Poland,
split by a shell, two bullet holes in the
etappencommando's window, und that
utter dearth of cigarettes and matches
which is the unvarying mark of every
captured town in Europe. But Sanok
was not otherwise conventional, ex
cept for Galicia. When I say that, de
spite its horde ,of soldiery, its thrifty
Jews, in their curled peikas and black
coats, it is filthier than the meanest
Chinese village and without China's
lamp-lit gayety no careless superla
tive is meant. There was more mud
on the sidewalks than In the roadways.
Most travelers have put up with foul
sanitation, but Sanok, where we spent
the night, had absolutely none. Our
inn had only an open yard behind, but
the proprietor's wife wore an elegant
wig and had her face powdered. So,
"incidentally, if Auotria has mver been
able to clean Galicia the sequence is
obvious. But perhaps one is un.iust,
and the filth 'was made by the Rus
sians, though it is the same in Neu
Sandeo, and here is where they have
never been. The point is that no at
tempt is made to clean anything any'
where. A sanitary service, in our
army's sense, appears not to exist.
Vera Cruz, before we started to scour
it, was a spotles town compared with
any in Galicia. Sometimes one wonders
why cholera haunts Eastern Europe.
Naturalised Americans Anxious to Leave
Thus the next morning It .was hard
to show sympathy with my two natur
alized fellow citizens who tackled me
on the eternal question of how to get
back to America. They had their fare
and their papers, but neither the ini
tiatlve to start, nor even to write to
our Embassy in Vienna to the serv
ants they employed for the very pur
pose of helping them. Stated so, they
gaped at the fact. Neither had ever
been west of the Hudson or north of
Fourteenth street. They were of that
mass of 'Americans whose money
orders support those Galician villages
and half Southern Italy. One was a
little woman in black with a sharp
chin and gold teeth of a Grand-street
hallmark: the man wore a "sealskin
coat of the same locality,, and greeted
me over the top of a fence on the main
street, behind which he was making
such a toilet as one can in Galicia.
Decidedly it is a country with a peo
pie which makes you an iconoclast re
garding our immigration laws. This
mine for the melting-pot and after
the war probably we shall be deluged
with its product fills one at once with
understandings for the ideal yearnings
expressed by a Mary An tin, and at the
same time makes you cynical toward
the pathetic realism of -Slav literature.
It omits the essence of life here its
filth and stench.
We followed the route of the Rus
sian retreat. By 10 o clock we had
overtaken and passed three trains of
supply wagons headed for the front.
in all 469 vehicles by count, and not
one motor truck. You were in a dif
ferent world, a different age. from
those of the war in France. Long and
narrow, on small wheels, with in-slop
ing sides of woven willow withes,- the
soiled hooded coverings of these carts
first raised the aforesaid mirage of, our
Civil war.
From every hilltop a train wound
mm
knickers at $6.50, $7.50, $8.50, $10 and $12.50.
There's not a boy in Portland who doesn't want an Over
coat or Balmacaan made like father's. You'll
find Balmacaans
$8.50, $10, $12.50
$5, $6, $6.50, $7.50,
Boys' Flannel Shirts, sizes
12VS to 14y2. In blue, gray,
tan and olive. $1, $1.50, $2.
Globe Union Suits for boys
in sizes 6 to 18 years. 75c,
$1, $1.50, $2, $2.50.
BEN SELLING
Morrison
forward, an endless coil of evenly
spaced, whitish dots along the road.
Abreast of it, with the heap of hay
high , from each tailboard; the vacant
peasant faces under their round sheep
wool caps stole cowed and wondering
stares at you, as . they urged on the
bony horses to the creak of countless
little wheels in the glut of mud. You
felt the amazing, searching force of
organization that war demands; ability
in administration against grim, far-
flung odds, beside which the most com
plex commercial enterprises must be
child's play. No. It could never, never
last, what of the wives, daughters.
mothers, of those sturdy drivers? Bare
foot in the sodden fields they hoed over
the muck for potatoes no bigger than
walnuts. O, for one good Winter bliz
zard in this grim land! The Spring
planting, the war, for the moment as
sumed an equal precarlousness.
Where these great ..outfits had
camped, or still were parked in serried
ranks, suggested, but on an enormous
scale, the Klondike trek in 1898. Fires
twinkled among the heaps of fodder;
gray, straggling privates boiled soup in
their aluminum pots. There were parks
of artillery caissons, wagons also
heaped with hay; at a railroad station
where we crossed the line, mountains
of shrapnel and machine-gun ammuni
tion; a field bakery of a dozen oblong,
low mud-ovens, belching smoke from
stovepipes. At one crossroads, where
plainly a stand in the retreat was made,
an artillery cover of pine branches
stuck in the hillside, dismembered
wheels prone in the mud before it, a
wrecked mass of wagons yes, some
marked with red crosses behind.
Search for Bodies Goes Ob.
But the smaller trains returning down
the road bore the grimmest flavor. In
most sat mute beings with bandaged
beads, or grasping their canteen with
the arm not cased in a sling or splint.
In a few, gray blankets outlined hidden
shapes from which you turned your
eyes, because they did not brace against
tne jolting. still riding across the
fields, emerging or vanishing along the
lines or wooas, lone horsemen kept up
the search which the instinct of all
flesh to hide in its final hour makes
necessary.
On the long hill of switchbacks, lead
ing to the divide I mentioned, nieces
of lint and bandages were scattered
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Boys' School Suits
with extra knickers, made to withstand
every test that a resourceful boy and his
ally give themstrong cheviots and cassi
meres, nicely tailored in full Norfolk styles
with attached belts.
These are the regular $6 Suits I offer
in tnis sale
,boys at only
Other s pi en- J 1
didNorfolks if
with the extra
here in great array
and $15; Overcoats
$8.50, $10 and $12.50
Boys' Unijamas (Pajamas)
in ages 4 to 16. $1.00 and
$1.50.
Waterproof Rubberized
Raincoats in ages 4 to 16
yeats. $3.00.
at Fourth
among the alders. Everywhere were
empty ghoulash cans, ghoulash nat
urally being ration in this army quite
as seriously as is tea for the Briton;
and, maybe, too, it has paprika trans
ports. On the height of land, marked
by a cross, we met the only motor of
the day, and it was hitched to and
being dragged by a team of horses.
Down the other side, the road was be
ing graded, and that by women, mind
you, barefoot, with their scanty skirts
hitched above the knees and hooded
heads bent low on the long shovels.
Pnemysi Reached at Last.
One had to pause and convince him
self of the calendar year. For be
side such a triumph of feminism as
that last, the next instant you were
jerked back a century or so. A beg
gar, in his garb, tumbled straight out
of medieval allegory, sat waving on
high a gleaming brass crucifix. Under
the stone arch of a roadside shrine
knelt a gray infantryman, with bowed
head and rifle leaned against the robe
of Christ. And on the doors of the
Ruthenians cabins the Little Rus
sians were whitewashed holy crosses,
as a token to their Invading brothers,
modern angels of death, to pass them
by in peace.
War, yon wondered, war again in the
old blood-stained arena of ail the races
of Europe. And this was but the
spoor and fringe of it. Shall any one
ever see the gasp and seethe of it, who
has the eyes and heart to tell the
truth?
It was thus we descended through
the darkness, until the lamps of
Przemysl looped upward in even lines
from that river-bed where 70.000 men
have. Just fallen within their shadows.
Fortress Seems Impregnable.
At the present writing, it is hard to
believe that the Russians will take it.
They have not powerful enough artil
lery. The Austrian is taught that
Przemysl and Belfort are the two first
fortresses of Europe. Still, as the world
knows, the first lesson of this war
has been the answer to, "What is a for
tress?" Just march around It. Liege,
Namur, Maubeuge, an army may march
around, but not here, through the mud
and forests of Galicia.
One judges as much from facts ob
tainable, and by the seeming atmo
sphere and spirit of the Inhabitants
and garrison. But you hear no boasts;
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instead, if one pries, he gets a generous
recognition of the Russian strength.
It is the best of spirits. Across tne
street, the Cafe Stieber is full of them
the cafe of the dual empire being
the best expression of all military
genius It solves the problem of how
to kill the soldier's woret enemy, time.
It is midnight. If I listen as I write,
there can be heard the fitful, droning
detonations of the mortarp in the outer
cincture of forts, only one of which
has yet been destroyed.
AMERICA ASKS TO PROBE
Inspection of Germans in Siberian
Camps Is Desired.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. American
Minister Reinsch at Pekin has boen au
thorized to confer with the Russian
Minister there with a view to having
American missionaries in Siberia in
vestigate the condition of German pris
oners in Siberia, reported to bo suffer
ing great hardships and privations. The
State Department acted at the request
of the German government.
A colony of German merchants and
sympathizers in China inaugurated the
movement for the relief of tbese prison
ers, addressing an appeal to Berlin. It
is supposed that the prisoners arc some
of the German civilians who were scat
tered throughout Siberia when the war
broke out, and who have been rounded
up and placed in detention camps.
ACCUSED WOMAN IS FREE
Seattle Banker Fails to Convict
Companion, in Elopement.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 4. Mrs. Iva
May Henry, arrested yesterday on a
warrant secured by S. Foster Kelley on
a charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses, was dismissed in Police
Court today after Kelley. the only wit
ness called, had concluded his testi
mony. Motion for dismissal was made
by the Prosecuting Attorney.
Kelley. who is a Seattle banker, and
Mrs. Henry were participants in an
elopement from Seattle to San Fran
cisco in 1910.
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