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SEVENTEENARE D EAD Explosion In Pennsylvania Coal Mine Disastrous. A? LEAST 16 MORE ARE INJURED Bare Lamp Touches Off Pocket ol Gas Black Damp Prevents Rescue Work. Wehrum, Pa., June 24. As the re sult of an explosion of gas in mine No. 4 of the Lackawanna Coal & Coke com pany early today, 17 miners were kill ed and 16 injured. With the exception of one, those killed were foreigners. With few exceptions the injured were Americans. Inspector Joseph Williams with a party entered the mine today to ascer tain if there were any more victims. Superintendent A. M. Johns stated that while the mine has always been regarded as non-gaseous, the explosion was caused by a miner's open lamp ig niting a pocket or gas. The mine is burning fiercely in seve ral places and deadly black damp is pouring from the mouth, effectively preventing systematic rescue work. Large quantities of oxygen and many oxygen tanks have been requested from the Cambria Steel company of Johns town, Fa., and the United States gov ernment mining and testing station at Pittsburg. Three men, seriously burned, suc ceeded in reaching the surface. They said that following the explosion there seemed to be a flash and then all was darkness. Calls for help and groans were heard by them as they made their way to the entrance, staggering over the bodies of comrades, who had fallen with the first shock. WOMEN ARE SAVAGES. Famous Scientist Causes Stir at Chi cago by Declaration. Chicago, June 24. "Woman, the eternal savage, whose only salvation lies in the fact that she always has been and always will be 'a savage," has ' been flayed again by the lash of Pro fessor Frederick Starr, the famous scientist and ethnological explorer of the university of Chicago. "Women are not civilizeJ," accord ing to the astute investigator. "Fur thermore, they should not be civilized. What is more, they can t be," he con tinues, "for the fundamental nature of woman is barbaric, and it is better so, since the posterity, even the continu ance of . the race, depends upon the rigid assertion of a fundamental differ ence between man and woman. "Woman's religion is also notably that of lower culture," he asserts. "She is always seeing signs in every. thing; she avoids having 13 at her table and starting on a journey on Fri day; she is the chief supporter of spiritual mediums. She is the founder of new sects, in which the religous attitude of savgery is given high' sounding names and maintained by most select individuals; she dabbles constantly in the occult." OFFICE CLERK SUSPECTED. Theft of $30,000 From Mails Laid to Los Angeles Postal Employe. Los Angeles, Cal., June 24. The Federal grand jury today returned an indictment against an unnamed person in connection with the recent robbing of a registered mail sack, at the local postoffice, of 230,000 in currency. It is . said upon good authority to be di rected against one of the clerks in the registry division of the postofnce. The arrest may not be made for sev eral days. Fifteen thousand dollars of the stol en money was recently found bidden behind the postoffice safe in the main building. The money was shipped originally in four packages by the First National bank of Los Angeles to the bank of Bisbee, Arizona. Rive Floods Big Tunnel. Grand Junction, Colo., June 24 The Denver & Rio Grande tunnel at Tunnel station. 20 miles east of here, was flooded by the Grand river at 3 o'clock this morning and traffic in both directions is effectually blocked. The tunnel is more than a quarter of a mile long, and is flooded to a depth-ol foot The water is still rising. The track at other points also is in danger, Two trains are isolated, with the flood ed tunnel behind and a burned-out bridsre ahead. All eastbound trains are being held here. Menelik's Death Again Reported Rome, June 24. Reports from Abys sinia state that King Menelik is dead and that Empress Taitu is in charge of the government. The messages say the king's death is being kept secret while the empress is organizing the new regime, and making her position secure. Officials here are not inclined to believe the report until it is verified, but it is generally believed that Mene lik is in very poor health if not yet dead. Russians Fear Cholera. Rr Potorahiirir. June 24. Because of the prevalence of cholera in this city the cabinet has decided that the gov ernment will undertake the drainage of st Potorohnrif and the reorganization of the water supply. Fifty million rinltara must be realized by a loan for the work, which it is estimated will be completed in 15 years. DRIVE JAPS OFF. Planters Propose Drastic Measures to Prevent Repeated Strikes. Honolulu, June 23. The work of getting a jury to try five of the Jap anese strike leaders charged with con spiracy in connection with the strike of laborers on the sugar plantations be gan today. Seveial of the leaders stated today the strike would be resumed on the Ewa and Waialua plantations July 1, when they would again call out 8,000 Japanese who have returned to work. They declared that all the Japanese in tne islands are affiliated in one large organization. Representatives of !the Dlanters de clare that, if the threatened plan of intermittent strikes on alternate plan tations, enabling those working to sup port the large number on strike, is car ried out, the strikers will be ordered off the plantations. This would mean that the Japanese would have to va cate the homes furnished by the plant ers and would be homeless. The Japanese training squadron is expected here tomorrow. The Planters' association has receiv ed from its agents at Washington, D. u., encouraging reports regarding a plan to import efficient labor from Europe through immigration channels. sugar planters here resent the state ments of a number of Spaniards who departed from the islands some time since and are reported stranded in San Francisco, where they complained of unfair treatment. The planters de clare that the men were given houses, lands, wages and other perquisites usually granted to plantation laborers, and that they left against the advice of the Spanish consul to go to Mexico, lured by false promises. HIS SEAT RICKETY. Reichstag May Force Chancellor Von Buelow to Resign. Berlin, June 23. The political situ ation for the crown is extremely con' fused by today's events. The reichs- tag's adoption of a quotation tax, which Chancellor von Buelow declared the government would never accept, and the finance committee a rejection of an inheritance tax, which he de dared to be an essential part of the central scheme of finance reform and which the Conservatives and Clericals are determined to defeat, leaves the chancellor s position precarious. Many politicians think the chancellor will be compelled to resign, unless he has the courage to dissolve the reichs tag and appeal to the country. Dissolution can take place only on joint action by the emperor and- the Federal council. The proposal to impose a yearly tax on bonds and stocks was adopted by 203 votes against 155. The tax is to be calculated on the basis of the aver age quotation for the preceding year and the rate of interest on this amount which the current dividend yields. The tax will then be deducted by the com panies from the dividends before pay ment. WHEAT DOES WELL. Colorado Farmer Pays Debts on h gated Land From Dry Farm. Longmont, Colo., June 23. Twelve hundred bushels of wheat harvested from 60 acres of dry farm land and sold for 11.32 a bushel. This is the result of dry farming on George F. Givens' farm near here. He bought the land from the railroad at $4.60 an acre. In 1907 he got 2,990 bushels of wheat from 60 acres. Last year, which was the driest in many years in that vicinity, he threshed the 1,200 bushels mentioned above. Now he is building a fine barn and paying off the debts be contracted on his irri gated quarter section with the proceeds of his dry farm wheat Samples of the grains raised under similar conditions in all parts of Colo rado will be exhibited at the Interna tional Exposition of Dry Farm Pro ducts, which will be held at Billings, Montana, next October 25 to 29, in connection with the Fourth Dry Farm ing congrees. Search for Treasure Ship. San Francisco, June 23. Officers of the United States mine planter Armis- tead are planning to make a final effort to locate the sunken hull of the steam er Rio de Janeiro, which was wrecked in the Golden Gate February 11, 1901. The Rio was entering the. harbor from an Oriental trip and carried to the bot tom with her scores of passengers and $200,000 worth of treasure. During the last eight years many attempts have been made to locate the wreck It is thought it has been carried far to ae a by the tides and currents. Treasure Ship is Found. Chester. Pa., June 23. bilver was found today by the crew of the govern ment boat Cataract which has been working in the vicinity of Fort Mifflin in an endeavor to raise the contents of the supposed . English treasure boat that was sunk during the Rerolutionsry war. The dredger Hellgate will be sent to Fort Mifflin to raise the sunken boat It is believed that the hold of the vessel contains rriany thousands of dol lars in gold sent to to pay soldiers. Masked Men Rob Messenger. Green Bay, Wis., June 23. Two masked men held up Night Messenger Kade, of the United States Express company last night securing $5,000 and making their escape. Kade was counting the money in the transfer room' here when the holdup took place. There is no clue to the identity of the bandits. WASHINGTON LEADS' Banner State In Lumber Industry Witb Oregon Elgbtb. LOUISIANA HOLDS SECOND PLACE United States Produced 17 Per Cent Less in 1908 as Result of Financial Panic. Washington, June 22. During the year 1908 31,231 sawmills in the United States manufactured 33,239,369,000 feet of lumber, according to a prelim inary report just issued by the bureau of the census. These mills also cut 12,106,483,000 shingles and 2,986,684,- 000 lath. Lumber manufacturing, like every other industry, felt the effects of tne business depression wnicn Degan in October, 1907. Consequently the pro duction in 1908 was below that for the previous year. In 1907 the cut of 28, 850 sawmills was 40,256,154,000 feet, the highest production ever recorded. Notwithstanding, therefore, that in 1908 reports were received from 8 per cent more mills than in 1907, the de crease in lumber cut reported by them was slightly over 17 per cent Washington, as for several years past, still ranks first among the states in lumber production, its cut in 1908 being 2.915,928,000 feet a decrease of 22.8 per cent from the cut in 1907. Louisiana ranks second, with 2,722, 421, 0C0 feet, a decrease of 250,000,000 feet, or 8.4 per cent from the cut in 1907. Mississippi was the third state in lumber production in 1908, with a total of 1,861,016,000 feet a decrease of 11 per cent from the cut in ld07. Arkansas ranked fourth, with 1,656,- 991,000 feet a decrease of nearly 17 per cent, and Wisconsin fifth, with 1,- 633,315,000 feet against 2,003,279,000 feet in 1907. In Texas, where the lumber indus try is confined almost exclusively mto yellow pine, the falling off was very heavy. The total cut of the state in 1908 was 1,524,008,000 feet a de crease of 31.6 per cent from the cut in 1907. Eight other states manufactured more than 1,000,000,000 feet each of lumber last year. In the order of im portance they were : Michigan, Ore gon, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Virgin la, Alabama, North Carolina and West Virginia. California and Maine, other states which reported more than 1,000, 000,000 feet each in 1907, went just below that figure in 1908. DRY FARM EXPERIMENTS. Nevada Will Have Exhibit for Coming Dry Farming Congress. Billings, Mont, June 22. Dry farm ing experiments will be carried on under the supervision of the state au thorities in the northeastern part of Nevada and when the Fourth Dry Farming congress meets at Billings next October 26-28 it is expected that the delegates will hear of great ad vances in the reclamation of non-irri gable lands in that state. A commission just appointed by the governor has just selected a site for a dry farm experiment station in Pleasant valley, 16 or 18 miles south of Elko, where the ranch of John W Thompson, containing 160 acres, has been secured by the state. The quar ter is fenced and about 30 acres are under cultivation. There is an or chard of about 150 trees, including apples, pears, plums and cherries, and a two acre patch of berries are on the place. The soil is rich and of great depth and is considered excellently adapted to dry farming operations. It is reported that Mr. Thompson last year raised 1,000 sacks of potatoes, and that all kinds of vegetables gave good returns, cabbage heads running as high as 18 pounds. It is the purpose of the Nevada bx perimental association to demonstrate on this farm that dry farming methods can be applied on the millions of acres of bench lands in the state. Taft and Diaz May Meet. Mexico City, June 22. The Medical Herald says : Replying to a communi cation from the White House at Wash ington, through the Mexican ambassa dor today, President Diaz has express ed his desire to meet President Taft for a personal interview, which will take place at one of the points on the boundary line between Mexico and the United States some time during the latter part of the year. The announce ment of the preliminary negotiations looking toward this interview were made yesterday. Yale Teach js Immoral. ty. New York, June 22. Harvard, Princeton and Yale are teaching im morality and disrespect for all man kind is being taught at these colleges, said Bishop James A. McGaul, Trenton, N. J., in his address tonight to the graduating class of St. Francis Xavier college. He condemned what he said was the desire of Catholic par ents to get their children into society through their associates in the great non-sectarian universities. Strikebreakers Go Far. New Orleans. June 22. Seventy-five laborers from sugar plantations of Por- to Rico passed through New Orleans highway. The necessity of good roads today en route to Hawaii, where they Is obvious, as it would enhance the will take the places of striking planta- value of each section of land about tion laborers. Similar parties, it is f 5,760, or more than double the eati said, will follow. ( ma 'd cost of two miles of improved GIGANTIC UNDERTAKING. frrigation Congress Will Ask for Im provement of National Resources. Arthur Hooker, secretary of the board of control of the National Irriga tion congress, will present a resolution for approval by that organization at its seventeenth session in Spokane August 9 to 14, memorializing congress to issue 3 per'cent gold bonds, running 100 years, to the amount of $5,000, 000,000, or as much thereof as may be necessary for the following specific purposes : One billion dollars for drainage of overflowed and swamp lands, thus re claiming an area equal to 100,000 square miles. One billion dollars for the reclama tion by irrigation of 40,000,000 acres of arid and semi-arid lands now partly or wholly waste. One billion dollars to construct and improve deep waterways, to develop thousands- of miles of territory now without adequate transportation facili ties. One billion dollars for .good roads and national highways, for the lack of which the loss to the farm area of the United States is approximately $500,- U00,0U0 annually. One billion dollars for forest protec tion, reforestation and conservation of the forest resources, thus assuring tim ber and lumber supplies for centuries to come. "Five billions of dollars is an enor mous sum, but it is no more than is actually required to carry out the gi gantic scheme in developing millions of acres of lands in various parts of the United States now absolutely worth less," Baid Mr. Hooker in explaining the plan. "Congress will not be asked to appropriate a penny. The returns from the improvements would pay off the bonds. The government would simply act as a banker, as it does now for the various irrigation projects. The bond issue would provide ample funds as required to carry out the work in the several divisions, at the same time giving the best possible collateral to those investing in these securities. "Government figures bear out the statement that there is enough good land overflowed' in Minnesota, Wiscon sin, Kansas, Nebraska, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi to make an area as large as the state of Missouri, or more than 44,000,000 acres, while in the Eastern, Central and Western states there is more than as much more, or about 100,000,000 acres in all. At a conservative esti mate of $25 an acre, the sale of this reclaimed land would justify the ex penditure of $2,500,000,000, or about 150 per cent more than is required to drain it This . land would support from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 popula tion. . "Approximately 40,000,000 acres of lads in Western and Southwestern states are adapted to irrigation, which, if reclaimed at an average cost of $25 an acre, would be worth not less than $200 an acre, or a total of $8,000,000, 000, and provide homes for more than 8,000,000 peraons. The economic value pf irrigation car not be measured in dollars and cents, but crops of from $buu to l,uuu an acre are not rare in the irrigated districts. There are al ready 14,000,000 acres under irriga tion and the Reclamation service esti mates it will have reclaimed 2,000,000 acres, at a cost not exceeding $70,000,- 000, before the close of 1911 "The construction and improvement of the deep waterways required to pro vide better and cheaper transportation facilities is, I believe, a 100 per cent investment from the fact that two- thirds of the bulky freight could be shipped by water routes, at a cost to the shipper of not more than one-sixth of the present rail rates. The import ance of this becomes apparent when it is remembered that the food question is becoming a world problem. "The state of New York is expend ing $101,000,000 to enlarge the Erie canal, and $100,000,000 is the amount required to improve the Missouri river from a point about 40 miles west of Yellowstone park to where it meets the Mississippi river, 2.547 miles. Then there is the projected waterway from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico and scores of others necessary to cheap and better transportation facilities, Millions ol dollars will be saved annu ally to the people of the United States by the completion of these works. The maintenance of the greatest water way in the world, composed of the Great Lakes, on which the govern ment of the United States has expend ed more than $90,000,000 for harbors and connecting channels, presents an argument in favor of the scheme to de velop thousands of miles of territory in the Missouri and other valleys. Th other projects outlined in the foregoing are of equal if not greater importance. and with proper backing they can be carried out successfully. "No one questions the statement that good roads have a high money value to the farmers of the nation, and it may be said that this alone is suffi cient to justify the cost of their con struction as rapidly as practicable un der an efficient economical and equit able system of highway improvement The big points in favor of this expend iture is the economy of time and force in transportation between farm and market enabling the growers to take advantage of fluctuations in buying and selling, as well as enhancing the value of real estate. "It is estimated that the average annual loss from poor road is 76 cents an acre, while the estimated average increase resulting from improving all the public roads is $9. The losses in five years would aggregate $2,432 for every section of land, or more than enough to improve two miles of publi highway, which constitutes the quota for 640 acres of land. "The value of our forests was never better appreciated than today. Within the arid and semi-arid portions of the Western states nearly 124,000,000 acres are covered with woodland, of value for fuel, fence posts and other purposes essential to the success of the farmers. There are also 97,000,000 acres covered with heavy forests hav ing commercial value for timber and logs for sawmills, also hundreds of thousands of acres of timber lands in other parts of the United States. Re forestation and conservation of the vast resources are necessary to provide future generations with timber and lumber supplies. The government is expending large amounts of money every year to protect its forests from fires, yet expert lumbermen say that more standing timber is destroyed by flames annually than is converted into merchantable lumber by the sawmills." Mr. Hooker Baid it is likely that his resolution will be presented to the var ious interests of the irrigation con gress for discussion and will afterward be incorporated in a memorial to the United Sttes congress. It is also pur posed to have a large delegation, com posed of representatives of every state and territory in the Union, push the measure for adoption. The work of enlisting the support of the people in terested in the various projects will be taken up immediately after the close of the irrigation congress with the view to concerted action. During; the Spat. Her Husband Well, It takes two to make a quarrel, so I'll shut un. His Wife That's just like a con temptible man! You'll sit there and think mean things! Even Exchange, Angry Patron That's the third time you've given me the wrong number. You must have what they call the telephone ear. Girl in Central Office I beg your par don, sir, but that isn't the trouble.. You have what we rail the cornmeal musb voice. Chicago Tribune. Disappointing-, The Bachelor Here's a magazine 1 fulr wo- poet who likens ''hope" to man." The Born-diet Huh! No wonder; It so dlsuppolnllntf. Catchlnn; Un. 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