INCREASE IN FORCES
Railroads Must Fut On Large
Forces ot Laborers.
6 VE AMERICANS FIRST CHOICE
At Leastl 250,000
Man Needed to
Repair Ravages o f Winter —
Labor la Cheap.
Chicago, March 31.— In the next 60
<iaye the railroads of the United States
will have to find between 250,000 and
300,000 men to mend their trackg and
roadbeds and another large army to go
into their shops and repair their cars
and their locomotives.
The railroadg centering in Chicago
alone will, between April I and Jane 1,
require more than 100,000 laborers,
who will be employed in remedying the
ravages of the winter months, which,
with their frosts and their snows, have
made many miles of shaky track and as
many more of softened roadbed.
The past winter has not been as hard
as the season usually is on roadbed and
track, and physical conditions are not
as bad as usual for the further reason
that the traffic has not been so heavy.
No renewal work, however, is being
done this winter, and after the frost
comes out of the ground in the spring
there is bound to be settling of the
roadbed, gagging of bridges and a score
of things which go to prevent efficiency
of operation.
In the employment of labor the rail
roads seek to procure Americans when
they can get them at the price which is
offered for labor. As a rule, however,
the railroads are glad to get men wher
ever it is poesible, the only stipulation
with the labor employing agencies be
ing that the men shall be competent to
do the work lor which they are em
ployed.
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M AN Y M INER8 Q U IT.
Men Lay Down Their Tools Although
No Strike.
E X PLO S IO N IN MINE.
HELD FOR MURDER.
Man Figntlrg Fire Caught in Under
ground Workings.
Butte, Mont., March 30.— A special
to the Miner from Hanna, Wyo., says:
This camp was visited by another big
holocaust Saturday afternoon and the
livee of 20 men were snuffed out by an
explosion of gas in Mina No. 1, of the
Union Pacific Coal company .
A fits had been raging below the 10th
level since last Ha'u’day, and the force
of 200 miners bad been laid off for tbe
day as a precaution.
Superintendent Alexander Briggs and
Foremen Joseph Burton, Alfred Dodds,
James Knox, o ' Mines 1, 2, and 3, with
a crew of 16 or 17 men, ail experienced
minors, with gas men and fire-fighters,
went down into the workings early in
tbe norning to fight the conflagration,
which was rapidly eating its way
through the workings.
At 2 o’clock tbe men above the work
ings, tbe idle men in tbe homes and
the townapsople wire startled by an
awfnl roar, followed by a heavy boom
and the shaking of earth and trembling
of buildings.
A ll knew what hail happened, and
there was a rush to the mine.
Both
entrances had caved in. and the mine
timtiers had been blown gieat distances
about the outside workings.
The second explosion was more severe
than the first, being felt in all parts of
the town, and it is fpared that 50 to 60
names have been added to the death list.
Formal Charge Filed Against Slayer
o f 8tevens.
BOMB FOR W ELLS.
Attempt Made to Blow Up Manager
o f Tellurlde Mine.
Teiluride, Colo., March 30.— Eluding
the night guard stationed at the Smug
gler-Union mine, at Pandora, two miles
south of Tellnride, and the eearchight
which Is constantly thrown about the
premises during the night from the
high tower of the m ill as a precautionary
measure, an unknown person gained ac
cess to the residence of General Bnlkley
Wells, genera) manager of the Smug
gler-Union Mining company, Saturday
night and planted dynamite under his
bed. The dynamite waa exploded by
lighting a fuse on the outside of the
bnildiDg about 2 o’clock 8unday morn
ing when the intended victim wag
asleep. He was hurled against the
ceiling and alighted under a mass of
debris, but escaped with gome scratches
and bruises and impaired hearing.
Although a systematic search has
been made by Sheriff Fitzpatrick and
deputies, aided by hundreds of citizens,
no cl le hag been found to the perpe
trator of the deed.
One man who is
charged with having said that Wells
would be killer! has been arrested.
General W ells took a leading part. In
tbe suppression of labor troubles in
this state in 1904 snd 1905, and was
prominently identified with the recent
prosecution of the officers of the West
ern Federation of Miners at Boise on
the charge of complicity in the assass
ination of ex-Governor Fiank Steunen-
berg, of Idaho.
Indianapolis, March 31.— The union
miners of the Fields company w ill lay
down picks and shovels tonight.
A l
most 250,000 of them w ill stop work in
Western I ’ennsylvania Missouri, Iowa,
Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, Michigan,
West Virginia and Kentucky.
The
conditions under which they are work
ing expires tonight and, except in Cen
tral Pennsylvania and Indiana block
district, no conditions have been made,
nor have the miners entered into dis
trict agreements providing for the oper
ation pending the April 1 agreement.
Technically the miners will not go
out on strike, but in reality they stop
work because the operators, except in
Indiana and Illinois, show no real in
HAS M ODIFIED IT S R ULING .
tention of meeting and treating with
them, though no question of wages or
Interstate Commission Will Re open
principle is at stake.
Portland Gateway
A L W A Y S LIKED HIM.
San Francisco, March 30.— A tele
gram was received at the general office
Kaiser Says Gossip Greatly Exagger of the Southern Pacific company in this
city today from Charles 8. Fee, passen
ated Hill Incident.
ger traffic manager, who is at present
Washington, March 31.— W ith a in Chicago, announcing that the recent
view to bringing to a close the gossip action of the Interstate Commerce com
connected with the reported disapproval mission, which was interpreted as clos
in Beilin of the appointment of Dr. ing the Portland gateway and necessi
David Jayne H ill as ambassador, and tating a higher passenger rate by the
terminating the incident. Baron von Southern Pacific to Seattle and other
Sternberg, the German ambaseador, Northern points, via Portland, has been
called at the White House today by modified. The objection of the com-
appointment to see President Roose mirsion, it appears, related only to the
velt and Secretary Root. Assistant mam er of publishing through rates,
Secretary Bacon was also present
At and revised tariffs conforming to the
the conclusion of the conference tbe commission's wishes w ill be issued as
following statement was given out:
soon as poesible.
“ In addition to tbe communication
This new ruling w ill be’received with
already made publio from the Foreign great srtisfaction in Portland, which
office, the German ambassador has also was being adversely affected by the
conveyed to the American government higher passenger rates charged from the
the assurances of the emperor that there East toJSeattle via Portland than were
baa never been any change in his atti charged to Seattle over the Great North
tude toward Mr. H ill, and hie cordial ern. The Southern Pacicfl is equally
willingness to welcome Mr. H ill to pleased, for it has been known that its
Berlin. The emperor’ s favorable opin earnings and prestige have suffered by
ion of Mr. H ill was communicated to the raling whiah has now been modi
the Washington administration last fled.
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November, and his attitude has never
changed since."
Evans' Illness Causes Alarm
San Diego, Cal., March 30.— The
Defraud United States.
news that the flagship Connecticut had
Helena, March 31.— W hat promises been detached from the fleet at Magda
to be the most sensational case tried lena bay to bring Admiral Evans to
here in many years was begun today in San Francisco for a course of treatment
the Federal court, when- Oliver C. Dal at San Lnis Obisno was received here
las, John D. McLeod and A. S. Hovey with considerable apprehension. Re
were placed on trial on a charge of assuring reports have been coming from
conspiring to defraud the United States. Magdalena bay during the past ten
Three overt actions are alleged In each days, but the fact that it is deemed ne
of the two counts— that falsified notes cessary to bring him north two weeks
wereferged; that affidavits purporting in advance of the fleet is taken to indi
to be that of deputy mineral surveyors cate that his condition is not all that
were forged, and that the Ohtes and could be wished for.
affidavits were presented to the sur
veyor general for official approval.
English Honmen Protest.
Worcester, England, March 30 — A
Harriman to Resume Work.
largely attended meeting of bopgrowers
Ogden, Utah, March 31.— The Utah was held in this city this afternoon and
Construction company has been in- a resolntion was passed pinteating in
strucetd by the Harriman officials to dignantly against what was described
resume grading a line from Huntington ss the “ dumping of America's snrplns
to Homestead, Baker county, Or. This hops in this coontry. ” Enormcns quan
work was halted last fall st the begin tities of hops are said to be due to ar
ning of the financial flurry, and the rive here in a few davs. They are be
erder to commence activity is looked ing offered at from 18t{ to 25 shillings
upon as an encouraging sign of return a hundred weight, whioh is lees that
ing confidence in railroad quarters. half the English price.
The road to Homestead is the firtt link
in a cutoff into Lewiston, Idaho.
Alabama Law it Killed.
Montgomery, Ala., March 30.— Judge
Cut In 00,000 Milibands' Wages.
Thomas G. Jones, of the United Statee
Boston, March 31.— The general re court, today held the Alabama penalty
duction of 10 per cent in the wages of railroad laws unconstitutional; also
New England cotton mill operatives that the snita brought by the railroads
which was recently decided upon, be are not in violation of the eleventh
came effective yesterday in mills em constitutional amendment, not being
ploying 60,000 persons. Next Monday suits against the state. Several of the
the movement w ill apply to the pay of nrnor claims were also declared to be
many mors.
invalid.
Sah Francisco, March 27.— In. Whan
Chang and Ming Wan Chun, the Co-
rean patriots who elected to kill Dur
seed or grain.
Wednetday, April I.
ham W. Stevens (or what they believed
The clause of the section providing I to be treachery to the Hermit Kingdom,
Washington, April 1.— Senator Hey-
bnrn’ i thiee-day filibuster to defeat that the reports made as result of such weie this morning charged w ith mur
Representative Jones’ bill authorizing laboratories) examinations “ shall serve der. They muBt face trial for their
the Benton Water company to dam as a basis for the fixing of definite deed in the courta of this city. Held
Snake river at Three-Mile rapids ended grades, suen grades to become the offi in detention pending the struggle for
in alter root this afternoon, the senate cial standards for the grading of grains” life which the courageous diplomat
turning him down by a vote ol 47 to 4. was stricken out on a point of order made, the two men were charged on
The passage of thia bill and the con after a lively debate.
the police blotter as soon as news of tbe
The section waa then adopted as end was oonveyed to police headquar
sideration of a measure for adjudicating
amended.
the claims of states against tbe govern
ters.
ment on account of the disposition of
In Whan Chang, the Corean who
the proceeds of public lands occupied
Friday, March 27.
fired the shots which proved fatal to
nearly the entire session of the Benate
Washington, March 27.— The Ald- Stevens, when informed last night
today.
rroh bill was passed by the senate to at the jail of his victim's death, re
day by a vote of 42 to 16, in the main ceived the news without surprise and
Washington, April 1.— Debate on the a party vote.
Previous to the taking with manifest delight. Since the day
agricultural appropriation bill was de of tbe vote on the Aldrioh bill, a vote of the shooting Chang has been ex
void of tbe ciiargea and imputations was taken on tbe Bailey subetiute au- pressing the hope that Stevens' wounds
which marked its consideration on authorizing the government, instead of might prove fatal. Last night, when
Monday and Tuesday.
Mure progress the national banks, to issue the emer asked if he was sorry for what he bad
was made with the measure than on gency circulation for which the bill done, Chang said: “ No; I am glad.
any previous day, and the indication! provides.
The vote on the substitute He was no friend of Corea, and he is
are that it will finally get through to stood 42 to 13, and this vote was en better dead.”
morrow.
There is a movement on foot among
tirely partisan, even La Follette cast
Today’ s discussion dwelt on a propo ing his vote with the Republicans. The the Japanese to erect a monument to
sition for an increased appropriation for b ill has been before tire senate since Stevens.
Japanese commenced going
the farmers' bulletins, which, however, January 2. Tbe vote was not reported about among their fellow conntrymen
was refused, and the subject of inquir until after 6 p. m. and the galleries tills morning broaching the idea and
ies into road-building, etc., by tbe de were practically empty.
suggesting that subscriptions be forth
partment, the trend of opinion being
As passed, the bill provides for not coming. The proposition is still in
that such work should be encouraged.
more than $500,000.000 of emergency the tentative stage, but, judging from
currency to be issued to national banks the feeling the Japanse-e show toward
Tuesday, March 31
upon tbe deposit by them of state, the dead American, there w ill be no
Washington, March 31.— The alleged county and municipal bonds to be ap difficulty in bringing it to accomplith-
tendency of the general government to proved by the secretary of the treasury. ment. Whether the monument shall
override tbe powers ol the states of the The currency is to be issued with a be elected in this city, in Tokio or in
Union and to ignore the restrictions of view of securing au equitable distribu Seoul, the theater of Stevens’ services
tbe constitution was the subject of re tion of the currency over the United to Japan, has not yet been decided.
marks by Teller, of Colorado, in the States, and in accordance with tbe un
senate today. He declared that there impaired capital and eurplus of banks
C IT Y ROBBED W H O LESALE.
bad grown up a practice of attempting in each state.
Banks are to pay for
to justify any act by the Federal author this emergency circulation one-half of Immense Frauds Discovered in Chi
ities, whether there was autnority for one per cent a month during the first
cago Water Department.
it or not, so long as it was ascribed to four months it is circulated and after
Chicago, March 27.— An amazing
the public interest.
ward three-quarters of one per cent a
system ot robbery snd graft, involving
Tbe remainder of tbe day was devot month.
ed to discussion of the Benton dam bill
The b ill provides that national banks city employes and big business firms,
on its merits.
Heyburn and Borah, shall not pay less thaa 1 per cent on and extending back through several
both of Idaho, took opposing sides. government funds deposited with them. years, has been discovered in the water
Heyburn opposing and Borah favoring.
As amended today, the bill carries department. Two employes, including
Heyburn declared he would maintain an important change in banking laws a division bead, were removed, and 38
hie position, even if satisfied that by so relating to bank reserves. This amend subordinate employes will be dis
doing he would imperil his seat in the ment provides that of tbe 15 per cent charged. Some of them may be in
Benate.
No vote had been reached reeerve required to be kept by banks dicted.
Through tampering with meters and
when the senate adjourned.
not in reeerve cities, fonr-fifths is to be
kept in the vaults of the banks, and of the connivance of city employes, seve
Washington, March 31.— After hav that amount one-third can be in the ral large corporations have defrauded
ing undergone many changee, the )>ara- form of securities of the kind required. the city of hundreds of thousands of
dollars in water taxes. City employes
graph of the agricultural appropriation
bill relating to the bureau of forestry
Wahington, March 27.— The honee have sold meters to junk dealers and
was finally passed by the bouse of rep passed 360 private pension bills, at the bartered materials for drinks in sa
loons
resentatives.
rate of ten a minute.
supplies never used by the city were
An amendment by Humphreys, of
An urgent deficiency appropriation
Wisconsin, to increase by (163,460 the b ill appropriating $3,000,000 for carry purchased ostensibly for the water de
apppropriation for soil investigations ing on the work of tho Washington partment and then used by plumbers
in private bnsinesse.
provoked a long debate.
After many naval gun factory was passed.
The payrolls were padded with idlers
five-minute speeches had l>een made for
and incompetents. The force, which
and against the proposition,-it wsb car
Thursday, March 26.
originally numbered 200 men, was re
ried, 100 to 88.
Washington, March 26.— Although
The bill was laid aside less than half the senate met today with the Inten duced by Superintendent W . J. Mc-
Court, of the water bureau, to 50.
completed, and the house adjourned.
tion of devoting the entire time of the
session to the cnrrency bill, the cre
T R O O P S ORDERED O U T .
Monday, March 30.
dentials of Senator-elect John Walter
Washington. March 30.— The objec Smith, of Maryland, early became the
tion of tbe president to the construc subject of a discussion that consumed Striking Alaska Miners May Destroy
Property.
tion of dams across navigable rivers by nearly four hours and destroyed all
Seattle, Wash., Match 27.— Troops
private companies, except when the hepe of disposing of tbe currency bill
have been ordered from Fort Seward,
public interest is fnlly guaranteed, fig before adjournment today.
ured in the consideration of a house
The result of tbe debate on the pro at Haines, Alaska, to preserve order at
bill in the senate today. Thie bill pro priety of swearing in Mr. Smith was a the Treadwell mines, on Douglass
poses to authorze the Benton Water vote of 34 to 39 in favor of receiving Island, where 800 miners have gone on
company to conatruot a dam across his credentials and leaving the regu a strike. The troops are due to arrive
Sr.ake river, in the state of Washing larity of bis election to be considered at Treadwell early tomorrow morning,
ton.
by the committee on privileges and and serious trouble is anticipated.
United States Marshal Shoup, who has
The urgent deficiency bill, appropri elections, and by the senate later.
just returned from Washington, left
ating $2,900,000 for armor, etc., for
Washington, March 26.— More shafts for the scene of the trouble, on receipt
vessels heretofore
authorized,
was
passed. On motion of Warren, $50,000 of sarcasm and Invective were aimed at of dispatches from his chief deputy.
D e miners have threatened to blow
was added for mileage of officers and President Rooaevelt in the house of
contract surgeons of the army when au representatives today. In one of the up the works if troops are landed on
They stole 10 kegs of dy
most scathing arraignments of a public the island
thorized by law.
A bill regulating the sale of liquor in officer ever heard in that chamber, namite today from the mine stores.
Colonel Green, in command of one
licensed taverns in Alaska was passed. Beall, of Texas, charged tbe president
It forbids gambling in places in which with having been guilty of “ a disgust company of the Tenth infantry, left
liquor is sold.
Perkins said that in ing usurpation of power,” not only Haines tonight with a gatling gun, and
the da}a of prohibition in Alaska there toward tire national legislature, but should reach the mines at an early hour
this morning.
Fhe other companies
was much smuggling and illicit selling the judiciary as well.
When the agricultural appropriation stationed at Fort Seward have been or
of liquor.
bill was read for amendment today, dered to be in readiness to reinforce the
Washington, March 30.— Charges of Macon, of Arkansas, endeavored to first company if needed.
Just before his departnre for Juneau
a serious nature against Gifford Pin- have inserted as a new provision his
ohot, chief of the forestry bureau, were bill prohibiting the dealing in futures at 9 o’clock last night, Marshal Shoup
made today in the house by Smith, of in agricultural products, but the chair received a message from his chief depu
California, and Mondell, of Wyoming, sustained a point of order against it. ty that no serious distnrbances have oc
during consideration of the agricultural 8cott, of Kansas, in charge of the bill, curred, but trouble of a serious Datum
bill. 8mith accused him of entering expressed his entire sympathy with the is anticipated when thetioopgare land
into a secret understanding with the proposition which, however, he insist ed on tbe island in the morning.
city of Loa Angelea, with a view to se ed should be fceted on independently.
curing to the city valuable water rights
Bribery la Charged.
On a point of order the several new
in the Owens river valley, as against stations were stricken from the bill.
Sen Francisco, March 27.— Tonight
the interests of private parties having These stations were proposed to be lo it was learned that the new grand jniy
prior claims.
Mondell denounced him cated in Texas, Ksnsas,
Virginia, which today heard the testimonv of
for, as he charged, illegally paying the Michigan, Vermont, Missouri and Indi many of the witnesses who appeared
expenses of forest officials in attending ana.
before the Oliver grand jury, when Pat
conventions in tbe West, in which tbe
rick Calhoun, Tirey L. Ford,'George M.
government had no part, and also for
Continue Work in Valley.
Abbott, ex-Mayor E. E. Schmitz and
spending government money to booet
Washington, March 31.— Tbe agri Abraham Ruet were indicted on many
his bureau in the newspapers.
Mr. cultural appropriation bill reported to counts for bribery in the granting of
Pinchot waa defended by Pollard, of the house on March 11 contains an the United railroads trolley franchise,
Nebraska, and 8cott, of Kansas.
item qf $150,000 for irrigation and have voted to bring three joint indict
Smith, of California, denounced the drainage investigations, to be carried ments for the same offenses against Cal-
forestry service for attempting to ac on by the office of experiment stations, bonn. Ford and Rnef. Schmitz is left
quire the Owens valley in California.
nnder Dr. A. C. True, director of that ont of the new indictments. *
office. During the past year a large
Saturday, March 28.
Does Not Want Hill.
part of thia appropriations ha» been
Washington, March 28 — But little spent in Oregon, the work carried on
Berlin, March 27.— The German gov
progress was made in the house today heing in the Willam ette valley, nnder ernment has informer! President Roose
in coneideringg the agricultural bill. the direction of A. P. Stover, whhse velt that Dr. David J. H ill, at present
| American minister at The Hague, is
Tbe discussion dwelt mainly upon the .beadquarters have been in Portland,
proposed esahlishment of Federal stand
j not acceptable to it as ambassador at
Abolish
Capital
Punishment
ards of cotton grades and Federal in
| Berlin. Charlemagne Tower, the pres
spection of grains.
Mr. Crumpscker
Washington, March 31.— A bill to ent ambassador, declined today to eith-
and others opposed a section providing abolish capital punishment in the Dis ler confirm or d e r » this statement.
for the establishment of Federal labor-1 trict of Colombia has been introduced From other sources .t wss learned that
the grounds are that Dr. H ill is not rep-
atories for examination of samples of in the hoose by Mr. Scotf, of Ksnsas.
| reeentative enough for the United States
to send to Germany.
Spencer for tho Netherlands.
Test Commodity Clause.
Washington, April 2.— Spencer Ed
Washington, April 1.— The govern
M ore Warships to Haytl.
dy, the the Chicago man who has for ment w ill not prosecute for failure to
many months been an attache of the comply with the “ commodity clause”
Washington, March 27.— Two addi
American legation in London and who of the railroad rate law, pending a de tio n a l war vessels were ordered to H a i
recently married Miaa Spreckela, daugh cision of the Supreme court. The pres ti today following s conference of offi
ter of John D. Sprockets, waa today ident has directed the Department of cials of the Ststeand Navy departments.
nominated by President Roosevelt for Justice to bring a test esse ss soon as The Des Moines already had been sent
minister to the Netherlands. His head possible after it become effective, the to the scene of the recent outbreak.
quarters w ill be in Lnxembonrg. Eddy law forbidding any railroad to transport The two vessels dispatched today are
is a brother-in-law of Senator Bever sny article or commodity other than the gunboats Marietta ami Padncah-
idge, of Indiana, who married hia sis- timber produced by such road, or in hoth of which have been at Guantana,
ter.
which it ia interested.
mo, Cuba, preparing lor target practice.
CITY IS DESTROYED
Heavy Earlhquake Followed by
Fire I d Mexico.
NO LOSS OF LIFE IS REPORTED
Thirty-four Shocks Recorded Within
Twenty-four Hours at Mexican
National Observatory.
Mexico, City, March 28.— Chilapa, a
town of 15,000 inhabitants in tbe state
of Guerrero, has been shaken by an
earthquake and burned.
The shocks, two in number, occurred
early last evening and were followed
bykflre, which originating in a dozen
places among the tumbling buildings,
joined in a,con flag rat ion that ewept the
town.
Governor Damian Flores, chief exec
utive of the state of Guerrero, who is
st present in this city, had at 9 o'clock
this evening just received the first offi
cial advices from Chilapa.
The mes
sage says that, although a number of
the buildings of the town were leveled
to tbe ground, no lives were lost. The
police quarters and the mayor’s office
were destroyed and the jail badly dam
aged.
Great fissures were made in the
etreete and open fields.
In the neighboring town of Ometepec
the jail was destroyed and 30 prlaonera
made their escape. Troops are guard
ing the public buildings that are stand
ing in Chilapa, but perfect order pre-
vai Is.
Later returns from Chilapa show,
however, that the dispatch received by
Governor FTores was ultra conservative.
The town was practically destroyed,
though no lives were lost. Most of the
buildings that were leveled were roei-
ienees.
Thirty-four shocks have been record
ed during the past 24 honrs by the seis
mograph,at the national observatory at
Tabuyaca. Most of these shocks, how
ever, were imperceptible except to the
delicat needle of the instrument.
N O R TH PO LE 18 SH IFTIN G .
Making America Warmer and Siberia
Colder.
Victoria, B. C., March 28.— That the
north pole is shifting and tbe climate
b changing, making the Northern terri
tories of this continent warmer and
Norther Asia colder, is the theory to
support which Mose B. Cotworth, of
York, England, has been gathering evi
dence in Alaska, from where he has re
turned on hie way to England.
A carious effect of this change, it is
said, may be a number of boundary
difficulties between Canada and the
United States, especially in the Eastern
port'on.
This boundary is fixed by
latitude, and if the north pole iB really
moving, the latitudes rhangealso, ren
dering it advisable that the boundary
be speedily marked everywhere by
permanent monuments, where it has
not yet been so marked already.
The movement, Cotworth says, ia
caused by the immense accumulations
cf ice along the Canadian shore of the
Arctic ocean, and especially in Baffin’s
land and Greenland.
M INERS HELD IN C H EC K .
Peace Committee Restraint Strikers
From Rioting.
Juneau, Alaska,March 28.— Although
there has been no violence as yet at the
Treadwell mines, the 800 men on a
strike are only prevented from making
an outbreak by the commission of 20
men from the union who have been
called the peace committee.
The tension is so high that the least
word w ill bring about trouble.
The
union leaders have asked the men to
refrain from drinking, but idleness ia
irksome and the men are chafing nnder
the delay of a settlement, especially in
view of the tact that the company has
declared that never again w ill there he
any of the present leaders employed by
the company.
Find M ore Gold in Alaska.
Seattle, Wash., March 28.— A special
cable to the Times from Valdez, Alas
ka, states that men just in from the
Qnlkana diggings, towards which the
latest stampede is directed, report an
other big strike there. The claim own
ers have been working a tnnnel all
winter, and they are now in ground
said to be running $20 to the pan. On
the strength of thia news, Peter Mona
han, original locator of the New Gol-
conda, and owner of its best claims,
spent $1,500 for wine, treating, when
he heard the report.
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Tourist Rates to the Coast.
St. Pan), Minn., March 28.— The
paseenger officials of the Northern and
Pacific and 8oo mads will make special
snmrner tourist rates of $60 for the reg
ular trip from the Twin Cities to Seat
tle, Tacoma, Portland and other North
Pacific Coast points.
This puts the
northern lines on a par with the south
ern liDes, which have granted special
rates to California points. The regular
trip from Chicago to North Coast cities
via the Twin Cities will he $72.50.
Great 8trike ia Ordered.
Kansas City. March 28.— Thirty five
thousand members of the United Mine-
workers of America, employed in dis
tricts Noe. 4, 21 and 25, comprising
Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas, will go on strike April 1,
following a derision reached at meet
ings of division vice presidents held
here today.