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HARRIMAN LINES REJECT DEMANDS Absolutely Refuse to Recognize Federation of Employes. Kline, for Men, Makee Plea on Eco- nomlc Grounds Official! Say .Duty To Public Prevent!. San Franciaco The Southern Pacific company, through Juliui Kruttaehnitt, vice preaident und director of mainte nance of the Harriman lines, abaolute- ly rejected a demand for recognition of the Federation of Railway Em ployee, composing five ahop trade! and 25,000 men. Thia would hamper the compuny in performing ila duty to the public, waa the ¡xtsition taken by the official!. Union leaders aaked for it on grounds of economy and exjiedition and admittedly Itecause of a feeling that greater centralization of capital and (lower made corresponding cen tralization among varioua unions de sirable. The uniona involved hud aaked per- mission of their general otficera to atrike in event of the refusal of rec ognition. A conference laxtirig three hours and 20 minutes waa terminated by Mr. Kruttaehnitt*! final answer and fol lowing It the union repreaentativea. sober- f seed, went into aeaaion them selves, to consider the atrike vote, which they may accept as binding, or may reject, rcfuiing to aanction a atrike. •'Our mealing with Mr. Krutt- achnitt waa without reault," aaid J. W. Kline. “Neither aide would con cede anything. The demand that he recognize the Federation waa present- ed to Mr. Kruttaehnitt, but he refuaed to grant it. However, we atill have ho|>e of avoiding a atrike.** Mr. Kline aaid later: “Owing to the deadlock between the committee and Mr Kruttaehnitt, it ia practically certain that the offi cers and membera of the uniona in volved will be called to San Franciaco immediately for consultation. “The international ofiieera now here have not receded from their demand that the Federation be recognized. “The railroada recognize and deal with collective transportation organiz ation!. They ahould receive the ihop tradea on the same basis," Mr. Kline added. “Joint action ia recognized on 14 railroad systems with entire aucceaa, and the Harriman linea will have to | i- MM lO It.” ' FRANCE IS NERVOUS. Bulinati Interests Feel Tenaion of War Situation. Paria—The nervousness of the busi ness world over the unsettled Franco- German negotiation! relative to Mo rocco reacted Saturday on the Bourse. Transaction» were limited, nearly the whole liat being weak. Much uncertainty has been caused in official circle! here by the action of the Spaniah government in chooaing the preaent time to occupy Sainte Croix la Mineur. on the Moroccan coaat, 58 mile! south of Agadir, under the terma of the treaty of 1860 with Morocco. The French foreign office continuea to assert confidence in an early settle ment, because of the extent of the compensation» offered to Germany, but the real difficulty in the way of an early settlement, it ia believed, liea in the special commercial and mining guarantee» which Germany may aeek in Morocco, aa nothing can be given Germany in Morocco which Great Brit ain doea not poaaeaa. Besides. any thing like apecial privilege» would afford endleaa occasions for the re opening of the controveray on ques- tiona of interpretation. Cough Permit Granted. Denver—Ole Skinden, a victim of asthma, who enme here for hia health from New York, appeared before the health officer and requested a permit to cough in Denver street». He aaid that when he aita on the curb and be- gina to cough the firaat policeman who cornea along arrests him and aenda him to jail in the ambulance, charging him with diaturbing the peace. The health officer issued an order authoriz ing him to cough in the atreet and told him to have the captain of police O. K. it. Maxicans Shout Fraud. Mexico City—Joae Pino Suarez had 615 votes aa a reault of the progrea- live convention’s first ballot for a vice presidential candidate. Dr. F. V. Gomez received 600, Fernando Iglesias Caldron, 321, and Alfredo Dominguez 319. Shouting charges of corruption and yelling that the sup porters of Suarez had bought votes, the supporters of Gomez marched out of the convention, stopping the ballot ing for the time. New Revolt Breaks Out. El Paso, Texas— According to a ape cial from Hermosilla, the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, ia in rebellion against the Mexican government, (levemor Juan Banderez heads the re volt, declaring for an independent state. THAIN AUDITORS GO. Southern Pacific Dispenses Much Extra Help, With San Francisco When the Southern Pacific offices closed for the day Au gust 31, several hundred employee lev ered their connection! with the com pany. The retrenchment order, re- oenUy made, affects all department! eicept the operating department. The biggest cut to be made ia in the number of train auditors employed on the Pacific system. Seventy-five per cent of these have l>een dismissed, and fully I5o auditors will erase taking tickets on the trains leaving thia city. For many years ticket collecting was left to conductors, but the rail road decided that they ahould give their entire attention to o|>erating trains. A large force of auditors was employed and they supplanted the con ductors insofar as dealing directly with passengers was concerned. When the necessity for economy waa felt, however, the railroad com pany decided that auditors were some thing of a luxury and so they were cut 6ff, aa are several persona work ing in the auditing department. Railroad officials contend that busi ness is not so rushing that it requires a large force to keep track of its in come. There will be no reduction of train crews or equipment for the pres ent. STANDARD IS DISSOLVED. “Trust** Non-Exlstsnt; Stock Distributed. to Be New York The Standard Oil com pany of New Jersey, parent of all the Standard Oil companies, has cessed to exist aa the bolding company of the vast interests that in the past it has managed aa a trust. The books clou d August 31. and the stock in the subsid iary companies will be distributed among the stockholders pro rata. It will take at least three months to ¡ter form the clerical work of distribution. Standard Oil waa traded in a the last day at about (625 a share, transactions being restricted to cash dealings. A bid <>f S31o a share for Standard 0U “ex-subsidiaries, ” or without rights U> participation in the distribution of subsidiaries, was made by a venture some trader on the “curb,“ but as no intelligent appraisal can yet be made of the worth of the atock when divest ed of its outside holdings, the offer waa not accepted. MELON SEED KILLS CHILD. Casa Diagnosed as Diphtheria Provas Mortal. Logansport, Ind.—While the par ents, who had diagnosed the case aa diphtheria, administered anti-toxin, ¡»ending the arrival of physicians, Dorothy Vickers, 6 years old. died from strangulation, which proved to have been caused by a watermelon seed. The little girl at tendril a children's party at a neighbor's house, and among other refreshments watermel ons were served. When the little girl returned home she complained of a soreness in her throat. Her mother made an examination and the inflamed condition of the child's throat led the mother to believe that she had con tracted a heavy cold. The child was very ill next morning and physicians were hurriedly sum moned, and ¡tending their arrival anti toxin was ordered from a drugstore and administered. A ¡«1st mortem examination was held and it was found that a small watermelon seed had lodged in the child's throat and had slowly strangled her to death. Fire is Beyond Control. Grass Valley, Cal. — Fire which started on a Placer county ranch four miles from Auburn, ia now beyond control. Fanned by high winds, it has jumped the Bear river and swept into Nevada county, threatening brid ges, destroying timber belts and sweeping homesteads from the clear ings. Millions of feet of pine and many farms are in its path. The fire is thought to have started from an aban doned camp fire. Vessel Burns. Crew Gone. New York—Wireless reports re ceived here Friday from the steamer Oklahoma, bound from New York to Port Arthur, Tex., tell of the burning of an unidentified schooner at sea. Only the mizzenmast of the schooner was standing when the Oklahoma passed her 15 miles southeast of Fry ingpan shoals. The Oklahoma tried vainly to make out the name of the vessel and search ed the rough seas in the vicinity in an equally vain endeavor to locate the crew. Woman Curea Snakebite. Pierre, S. I). —When Myrtle Olaon, a 9-year-old girl, waa bitten by a rattlesnake her mother, after tying a ligature about the wound, slashed with a table knife the place where the fangs had entered and washed out the cut with kerosene. Later she covered the wound with salt, then waited for a physician. As a result of thia treat ment there was little swelling from the bite, and the child waa walking about next day. Franca Feels Suspense. Paria—France remains in a state of suspense over the outcome of the ne gotiations between France and Ger many relative to Morocco. While in official circles the attitude i| main tained that the negotiations to be re sumed shortly will lead to a satisfac tory settlement, there ia a certain anxiety among the people because of the possibility of a rupture. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST MAINE WORK HALTS. PERFECTS NEW GUN. KIND OF GIRL WE ALL LIKE « Car Passengers Rejoice In Shining Ex ample of Beauty and Devotion to Parents. POPULATION IS MOVING WEST I Father and mother, both elderly, and daughter—they were evidently re Congress Falls to Provide Fund to i Army Makee Rifle With Which to Des- turning from a bit of an outing at Raise All of Wreck, troy Airships. Riverside park. The mother was Washington, D. C. Aa much of the Washington, D. C.—A new six- quite feeble and It waa well worth wrecked battleship Maine as the avail pounder gun, equipped with specially seeing the gentleness and care with able funds will permit will be removed which the daughter aided her waver adapted high explosive projectiles and or prepared for the removal from ing footsteps as she helped the moth Rapid 8attlamant of Wait Overbal Havana harbor, and the mammoth shrapnel shells, to demolish aeroplanes er on the car. ances Increase of East—First cofferdam surrounding the ruins will and balloons in battle, has been per "Now for you, pop,” said the young Calculation Error. be refilled with water to await an ad fected by the United States army. It girl, as she took bold of the father s ditional appropriation by congress to hand and pulled him on the car, can be elevated at any angle, and finish the raising operations. laughing gayly as she did so. The fa Congress failed to act on the presi possesses a maximum effective range ther wore a bronze button at his Washngton, D. C.—The center of dent's recommendation for an addi of seven miles. coat lapel, showing that be was a population of the United States is an tional 1250,000 and the War depart- The construction of the new rifle veteran who had fought for his coun nounced by Director of the Census merit has mapped out its plana for the has just been completed at the Rock try. He was somewhat deaf, too. as Durand to be in the western part of ex|>en>iiture of the money on hand, i Island, III., arsenal. Experiments could be seen, for be put bls hand to Bloomington, Monroe county, Indiana. which probably will be ,,.h...«r-,t exhausted l.v by with it Will be begun at Sandy Hook his right ear as the girl spoke to him. wktxt. This is eight miles west of the loca the time congress convenes in Decem proving grounds within a fortnight. She seated herself between the two tion announced July 17, when Director ber. The army thus is in advance of the and took off her hat. It must be ad Durand placed it four and a quarter Because of the lack of funds, even navy toward the solution of the prob mitted that, though plain and feather- miles south of Unionville, in the same funeral services over the recovered lem of defense against ariships. The I b-sB, It was big enough to be in style, county. remains of the dead and the erection navy only a few days ago conducted and she took it off that mother and Ten years ago the center of popula in Arlington National cemetery of the its first teats with the carriage of a father might sit nearer to her. And tion was six miles southeast of Colum mast of the ill-fated vessel, as a mon one-pounder gun. she talked and talked, better than a bus, Ind., 39 miles east of its new lo ument to them, must be postponed. The shells which this army gun will paid entertainer, and the old people cation. The remains and the mast will be sent hurl into the skies are described as looked so proud and so bappy. The change in the center of popula to the cemetery to be stored there un remarkable devices. They will be The daughter's hair, caught by the tion since July 17 is due to the discov til congress acts. loaded with dunnite, or other high ex breeze, curled about ber face most ery of an error made in the census The terribly-wrecked forward part plosives, and on bursting will send charmingly and It was no trouble at office. Two clerks worked separately of the vessel, or about two-thirds of ( forth a shower of shot in a cone-like all to see, though she was dressed in computing the geographical point, it, will be cut down to the levels area, similar to the performance of a plainly, all in white, that she «as a but both made the same error, and the already reached by the pumpage, then skyrocket, almost certain to strike an very pretty girl; a alight figure, grace- wrong result was published taken out and dumped into deep water airship if aimed with any degree of ful and tall, bending ber well-poised census office’s determination outside Havana harbor. accuracy, bead first to one side then to the oth spot A small cofferdam will be built in Other projectiles which have been er as she spoke to mother or to fa The movement of the center of pop- side the main cofferdam to a depth of j designed for the new gun contain only ulation 39 miles westward is due to ther. What a clear complexion she about 4<I feet around the forward part | a high explosive, which, on exploding, bad, with just a blush in each cheek. the increase of population on the Pa to extricate the rest of it later. One- would wreck any airship nearby. About ber neck wax a string of small cific Coaat. third of the after portion of the ves- Following in the wake of these pow beads A small gilt cross hung from "The great increase in the popula sei, it is believed, can be floated. It erful projectiles will be tracers, which ' the strand and lay on her bosom. tion of New York, Pennsylvania and will be pumped out and bulkheaded, will aid in aiming the gun on the center states north of the thirty-ninth When the car stopped she helped but not moved, ¡tending the appro- course of a hostile airship. The trac parallel has balanced the increase in her father and mother to allghL using priation of more money. ers to be used in daylight will be of Texas, Oklahoma. Indian Territory I tbe same care and gentleness that she smoke, while sparks will show the and Southern California,” aaid Di- had used in helping them to get on, WILL INSIST ON REVISION. path of tbe shell at night,. rector Durand. and walking between them gave an In the coming experiment the army “The greater advance toward the arm to each on their way to the slde- West ia to a large extent due to the Taft to Compal Scientific Considera will shoot at balloons and box kites, walk. and possibly a real airship will be increase in population of the Pacific tion of Tariff. see that girl?" said a "Did yez used for the purpose of sighting at Coaat states, their distance from the Washington, D. C. —If congress ser workingman on the rear seat. "Did center giving them much greater great distance. iously intends to revise the tariff at yez see that colleen? That's the kind weight than the populous states east the regular session next winter, it we have in Ireland, in County Clare.' of the center. REAL WAR SIMULATED. will have to base its reviaion on the "I hope," said a quiet man nearby, “For instance, San Francisco, Port findings of the tariff board, or its "that we may have many more like land, Seattle and Sacramento, with a work will go for naught. Naval Battle Practice Under Adverse her In this country.”—Indianapolis population of 906,016, have aa great President Taft has made it plain Conditions.) News. an influence on the center of popula that he will not approve harum-scarum tion aa Philadelphia, Boaton and Bal Washington, D. C.—The Atlantic tariff revision, nor will he approve timore with a population of 2,778,- fleet, the real power of the American Love's Supreme Test. any tariff bill that does not have due navy, will begin its spectacular sun out a woman's 078.” "Nobody will set regard for the protective system. mer practice off the che sapeaks garbage can for her but her servant This means two things: First, that capes, under simulated battle condi- her husband or her lover.’’ This Is any tariff bills, to become laws, must tions. •> t not the persiflage of a vaudevlllist or conform strictly to the findings of the Realizing that future combats will the epigram of a philosopher or the tariff board, and second, they cannot be fought at great distances, not a mockery of a cynic. It is the grave be Democratic tariff-for-revenue bils. shot will be fired during the two declaration of a referee In a divorce Beverly—So far have plans for That the president can enforce hia weeks of the practice at a range leas case where it waa proved that the de President Taft's Western trip ad mandate was made plain by the failure than 9,000 yards. The maximum fendant husband had not only carried vanced that L. C. Wheeler, the ad- of congress to pass any of the make ranges of the practice will be 16,000 home groceries for the co-respondent, vance guard of the secret service, will shift bills of the special session over yards, or more than nine miles. but had looked after the garbage pall. start out next week to make prepara his veto, for it is certain this same Instead of bolding the practice for Shakespeare classed the lover along tions for the presidents’s appearance. congress in the regular session will two or three days, as has been the with the poet and the lunatic, because Mr. Wheeler will visit all towns and vote to sustain the presidential veto custom, the Navy department has ex they "are of Imagination all compact." cities where the president is to stop, just as it did a few days ago on the tended the program over two weeks, The referee in this case classes him make arrangements for the meetings wool and free list bills. that the battleships may be sure to with the husband and the servant be- and dinners in which the president encounter rough weather It is argued cause of a servitude absolute, The will figure, and see that the police are HUGE PAYMENTS FALL DUE. that the sailor cannot choose hia time argument of the referee In support of ready to guard the chief executive. or conditions of battle, and for that his conclusion was quite simple. "A Banks and Treasury Must Finance reason the elementary exercise of the man's affection for a woman,” he »8,000,000 POWER PLANT. • 94,000,000 Next Month. past has been abandoned for two great said, "Is shown by his willingness to Washington, D. C. — The treasury battle practices in the open sea each take trouble on her behalf, to do lit Massachusetts Syndicate to Develop and the banks will be calleci upon to year. tle services for her. to do with a will Kootenai Falls, Montana. finance no less than |94,(><Jo,OOO in Features of the exercises will be ing hand that which a man not in dividend and interest payments in tests with box kites, representing Spokane —Six million dollars is to love would deem tiresome, trouble September. Of that aum, 155,000,000 aeroplanes, and experinaenal work in be expended by a Massachusetts syn some and disgusting.” will be in dividends. The great bur repelling night attacks by torpedo ves dicate in deveolping 80,000 horse Then It Is not the champagne dln- den of all the financing will fall on the sels and submarines. power electrical energy at Kootenai ner nor the lobster supper nor the New York banks and the sub-treasury Before the practice closes the auto ride nor the diamond ring nor Falls. Mont., for distribution in west there. Dreadnaught Delaware will make a even the sonnet nor the offer of mar ern Montana, northern Idaho and The government will have no im second attempt to demolish the San northeasten Washington, according to riage that constitutes the supreme portant payments to make until Octo Marcos—the old Texas—and end this J. A. Coran of Boston, who is in of love. test ber, when the interest on the $600,- ship's existence. Spokane with his son, Chester D. Only a few days 000,000 consolidation loan of 1900 ago she was almost shattered by the Coran, and Chandler M. Wood, counsel Colony Lives as in the Past. falls due and the first interest on the Delaware's 12-inch rifles a ranges of for the corporation. The plant will Wrapped in the dark superstition recent $50,000,000 issue of 3 per cent 15.000 and 16,000 yards. be located at a point about seven of the middle ages, a colony of Rus Panama bonds will be paid. miles east of Troy, Idaho, and 11 sian Cossacks still endeavors to bide miles west of Libby, Mont., the mile POOR AIM SAVES PANTHER. itself away in Anatolia. Asia Minor, pipe line from the Kootenai river di Army Seriously Crippled. affording a rare field for research for verting 6000 cubic second feet at 150 Washington, D. C.—In his annual Delaware Fires at Repair-Ship By the student of the historical. * About feet head. Mr. Coran estimated that report to the War department for the Mistake and Misses. 3.000 of the forefathers of these Cos two years will be required to complete fiscal year just ended as commander Norfolk, Va.—According to a report sacks left Russia for voluntary exile the works, adding that it is planned to of the department of the East, Gene 350 years ago. Their departure was deliver power to the mining camps in ral F. D. Grant says that if all. the which has caused intense interest in Admiral Osterhaus, occasioned by an attempt to enroll Idaho, Montana and Washington and troops in his command had been or naval cricles. their names for census purposes in factories in Spokane and other cities dered out in connection with the mo commanding the Atlantic fleet, has de writing. According to the creed of at less cost than the present schedule. manded that the captain of the battle bilization in the South during the these peasants, the writing down of The principal power transmission lines Mexican revolution, or if the first field ship Delaware explain bow it was their names Jeopardizes their chances will be as follows: Kalispell, Mont., army had been mobilized, the defi that the repair ship Panther, with of salvation, for it Involves the curse 100 miles; Spokane, 90 miles; Wal ciency in the medical department 500 men on board, was three times endangered on Monday last by shells of Antichrist, enabling him to set his lace. Idaho, 60 miles; Sandpoint. would have caused a breakdown. seal upon them During the whole of Idaho, 38 miles; and Republic, Wash., from the Delaware. Cash for Crops in S ight. The Delaware had fired on the sunk this time the Cossacks have kept the new gold camp, 140 miles. their Identity absolutely intact. They Washington. D. C. —For the first en San Marcos in Tangier sound, and speak a Russian dialect bearing the it is declared that seven miles away Boy Dies By Coal Damp. time in many seasons the Federal treasury is making no preparations to the Panther’s rig made her look like same relation to the language of the Seattle—While picking hackberries The gun present day as does our modern Eng- near Newcastle. 30 miles from Seat meet the autumnal demands for money the sunken San Marcos. for moving the crops. Neither do crew of the Delaware, it is charged, 'Ish to that of Chaucer. They wear tle, Victor Newman, aged 9, was over treasury officials expect the usual fired their 31st, 32d and 33d shots at the Russian dress of three centuries come with coal damp and fell, strik crop moving season demand for bills the Panther by mistake, the first ago, and even grow herbs, uncultivat ing his head on a pile of rocks and of small denominations. Prospects striking within 125 yards, the second ed elsewhere in Anatolia, to make the dying almost instantly. The boy left for medium-sized crops, easy money within 100 yards, the third within 75 dishes that were the food of mediae the house early in the morning and val Russia. and the strong cash position of nearly yards of the repair ship. with his pail went into the vicinity of This made things so interesting for all the country banks are the reasons Coal creek looking for blackberries. A Tragedy. the Panther that its wireless was put ascribed for this condition. Going near a cave leading to an aban All was excitement tn the Stmperly doned mine, he was stretching over in operation and the firing suddenly household, chortles the Philadelphia the cliff above the cave when he was ceased. Many States to See Taft. Times. Ferdle Flnklewlx was coming overcome with the-gas and fell to the Beverly — Twenty-four states will from far-off Samoa to claim pretty bottom, 50 feet below. Shoot Won By N ivy Tsam. be visited by President Taft on the Camp Perry, Ohio—The navy team Sallie Simperly as his bride. “swing around the circle,” according Carefully, and with the light of un Three at Kiel Thought Spies. to his partly completed schedule. He of 20 emerged victors from the final will start September 15, and will pass contest of the annual National rifle dying love In her eyes. Sallie Simper Kiel—Two Engishmen and a Dane, through these states: Massachusetts, shoot in the United States service ly took Ferdle's seven photographs who for several days have been cruis Close behind from the left band bureau drawer and ing in the neighborhood of Kiel, were New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mich match held recently, igan, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, the navy's total of 4,263 points was arranged them on the piano In the arrested by the harbor police on the Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyo the National guard team, with 4,217. parlor. Tanned by the Samoa trade suspicion of spying. The suspects de ming, Utah, Nevada, California, Ore The army team finished third with 4,- wlnda. Ferdle strode Into the parlor clared their innocence and after un gon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, 109, and the marine corps fourth with to take hia beloved In hia arms. dergoing a searching examination at "And my seven pictures have been the hands of the authorities, were re South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin 3,961. This finishes one of the msst ever a source of Inspiration to you successful meetings in the history of and Maryland. leased. The Englishmen said they while you let your Angers stray over were a professor and a teacher of a the National matches. the keys In some melody of love!" he high school, one of them also being Army Eludes Typhoid, cried, as the simpering seven met his commander of a company of boy scouts. Pos toffies to Aid Fair. ’ Washington, D. C. — Vaccination Washington, D. £C.—The Poetoffice gaze. against typhoid fever was made com At that moment little Susie Simper Republic Sees Trouble. pulsory for every officer and enlisted department has decided to allow the man in the United States army under San Francisco poatoffice to use a can ly entered the room. Panama— Advices from Colombia "O-o-o!” she exclaimed In her Inno report that the army in that republic 45 years old. The only exceptions cellation stamp advertising the Pana Other cent childish way. "1 observe seven had been increased 30,000 men on are those who have had the disease ma-Pacific exposition in 1915. or who have already been vaccinated. offices on the Pacific Coast also wished likenesses on the piano which I can- account of the difficulties arising with The army physicians are enthusiastic to use the stamp, to help along the ex n«t recall having hitherto noticed.” Peru. It is rumored that a secret de "Good night and good-by!” said Fer fensive and offensive alliance has been over the efficacy of the anti-typhoid position, but the privilege was denied die Flnklewlx. to any but the San Francisco office. inoculation. signed with Chile. Center is Found to Have Moved 39 Miles in 10 Years. SECRET SERVICE MAN GOES TO PREPARE WAY