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ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1004. PAGE SIX. MANY CRIMINAL CASES. of Colorado Court Will Have Long Cal endar in November. Cripple Creek. Colo, Sept. 29. No vember 20 has been Bet by the district court of Teller county for beginning the trial of criminal cases. On that day Will come for trial SS members of the Western Federation of Miners now out on bonds and as many of the 12 tor Whom warrants are now out as the sheriff may be alie to arrest In the meantime. There are 132 cast's of this charac ter prepared for the hearing of the court. All of the cuses grew out of crimes committed during the recent strike In Cripple Creek or the uprising Of the people in Indignation over their perpetration on June 6. They were all committed to one end the Intimlda lion of mine owners and their noiv union workmen for the purpose compelling the employment of nne but union men in the operation of the mines. The 132 cases are for murder and conspiracy to commit murder of at tendants at the Victor mass meeting In Victor on June 6 and the attempt to murder Secretary C. C. Hamlin of the mine' owners' association at the same time. Other cases are being prepared . for the murder of Martin Gleason. su perintendent of the Wild Horse mine In December. 1901, and yet others for murders at the Vindicator mine and the Independence depot When the law element of the com munity gained control of Teller county over the lawless Western Federation of Miners which had dominated courts and peace officers all through the year of the strike, one of the first actions taken after the lesser criminals of the organization had been forcibly deport ed under the unwritten law of exit, was to set the legal machinery at work on a systematic, legal basis, with a view to apprehending the greater criminals and bringing them to Justice for the acts they had committed all through the strike . period without check or hin drance from the officers of the law. The county commissioners appropriated $10,000 for the employment of special prosecutors and promised the new sher iff of the county all financial assistance necessary to run down the criminals who had taken alarm and fled the" coun try as soon as it became apparent to them that the laws were to be enforced. Through the months that have elapsed much work has been done to ward this end. Warrants made out , early were served on the heads of the federation, Moyer and Haywood, and they were placed under $20,000 bonds each. Less prominent but equally act Jve agents had fled the country, going, some into other states, hiding under aliases in out of the way sections, some to the republic of Mexico, some to British Columbia, out of the reach of American officers. Many wanted by the sheriff were the known active agents of the federation in blowing up the Independence depot on the morning of June 6 by which 13 men were mur dered and seven maimed for life. Oth ers had been in' the plot to blow up a cage load of miners on the Vindica tor mine and kill 1& a plot that par tially miscarried and murdered but two instead of the number it was fixed to kill. Many are charged with murders resulting from the firing of union forces from union hall In Victor upon a mass meeting of citizens being held on a vacant lot to protest against union out rages. There are dozens of other lesser crimes for which men are wanted but on these the fight of the peace officers for convictions will be made. states. Tht four each having 75,000 negroes are District of Columbia, ea extensive with Washington; Shelby county, Tennessee, containing Mem phis; Baltimore city, Md., and Orleans parish, Louisiana, co-extenslve with New Orleans. The negroes form one third of the population of the entire south and 4S.6 per cent of them urc reckoned among bread-winners, as against 46.9 per cent of the southern whites, but these figures apparently ii favor of the southern black men are accounted for by the prevalence of fe male labor among the negroes. Among females at lea.st 10 years of age 4 per cent of the negroes and only 1 1.8 per cent of the southern whites report money-getting occupations. Kansas City Journal. Soap Man It Down. An Oregon soap salesman has dlscov ered that there are certain limitations within which It Is best to confine ef forts at securing an order. George Beenbrooke undertook to sell D. F Jasoman, a Salem grocer, a bill of that highly essential but pleblan commodi ty, and was turned down. Then he un dertook to lick the merchant and was knocked down. He was hauled up be fora a justice of the peace and let down for $25, failing to pay which he was sent down to the city Jail, where he now has time to reflect upon the intimate relations of the drummer and the re taller. Exchange. New Commander Coming. General Constant Williams, the new commander of the department of the Columbia, is expected to arrive in Port land this morning from San Francisco and will be welcomed to his hew com mand by the adjutant general of the department and staff. It is probable that Major General Arthur MacArthur will accompany General Williams. A THOUGHT SAVER The Astorian Provides the House keeper With Daily Helps. iMENU L . STATISTICS OF THE NEGRO. v . - Census Bulletin Gives Enormous Com parative Death Rate. The final census bulletin on the negro population shows that there are 9,204, 631 negroes in the United States, in cluding Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Klco. Half of this great number are under 19 years of age and 11 to 16 per cent of them have white blood In their veins. The center of this black popu lation is De Ka'lb county, Alabama, it having moved from Dinwiddle county, Virginia, northeast 476 miles, since 1790. Thus the negro population consti tutes about one-fifteenth of the city population of continental United States. This proportion, although still large, is the result of a steady decline during the 19th century. The death rate of negroes approximates 30 per cent, while that of the whites is 17 per cent. At present fully 90 per cent of the ne groes live in the southern states and 77 per cent of them reside upon farms. But the northern migration to the big cities has been noticeable during she last two decades and is in a large measure responsible for the excessive death rate among them. Bad hlbits poverty and disease make terrible in roads upon negroes Hying In the big cities. 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