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Petition« have been drafted for the i
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recall of Mayor Gill, of Seattle.
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Sil were killed and 12 injured in a
trolley rar wreck at Tipton. Ind.
Governor, Jay Bowerman.
Representative«
in
Congress.
First district, W. C. Hawley; Second
district, A. W. Ijsfferty.
Judge« of the Supreme court, four-
year term. H. J. Bean, and T. A.
Mr Ur ide. six-year term, G. II. Bur-
nett and F. A. Moore.
Mors is Strictly Non-Partisan, and
Secretary of State, F. W. Benson
Intended Solely to Bstlsr
State Treasurer, T. B. Key.
Workers' Condition.
Attorney General, A. M. Craw-
ford
School Superintendent, L. R. Al-
derman.
New York For the first time in the
State Printer, W. S. lEuniway.
history of railway unions, members
Labor Commissioner, O. P. Hoff.
and delegates representing 81,005 men
Railroad Commissioner Frank J.
of the f ur great divisions of railway
Miller.
employe« In the East, voted unani
State Engineer, John H. lewis. ! mously at a meeting here to take con
The Sultan of Sulu has arrived in
Water Superintendent, division I, i certed action in national and state
New York to study American customs.
J. T. Chinnoek.
politics.
Bobby Lynch, of Niagara Falls. Ont.,
“The proper place to settle Ques
successfully ran the rapids in a barrel. |
tions affecting lalmr is at the ballot
box,” said W. 8. Slone, of Cleveland,
Forester Pinchot captured a giant
CHOLERA SPREADS.
O., grand chief of the Brotherhood of
swordfish at Avalon, off the California
Locomotive Engineers.
coast.
Victims Taken From Crowded Train
"Whatever y«ir political affiliations,
The village of Flippin, Ky., was
Fifty Deaths.
do not let party lines blind you to your
wiped off the map by a terrific wind
Naplea, Italy- -The epidemic of chol interest or prevent you from doing
and rain storm.
era here has attained moat alarming what you think Is beat and right. Ser
A strike has been begun In New
that the men you vote for stand for the
proportions, and energetic measure*
right principles, regardless of party,
York City which will affect 125,000
bricklayers and workers in kindred are to be taken by government health and support thsoe men who meet the
officiate to combat the disease.
More requirements and you will not only be
trail«-*.
A womar. claiming to be the legal than 100 new esses were reported to doing the liest thing for yourselves,
widow of "Lucky” Baldwin.
haa the authorities Sunday. Fifty deaths but for the public.
"This is not a political move nt all,
brought suit to break the will of th«* occurred within 24 hours.
as is generell)
I a MN
deceased millionaire.
The government, which up to the to grt away from the old lines.of parti
A French count«-sa haa arrived In present has |>ersistently declined to san politics.”
New York to Ix-stow an estate of many recognise the existence of the cholera,
In pursuance of this plan, the meet
millions upon her American grand has now admitted that the disease ing voted to send out a series of eight
daughter, whom she has just discover which haa caused such havoc within questions to state and national candi
the last two weeks is cholera of the dates, particularly to candidates for
ed living in Pittsburg.
violent Asiatic tyjie.
An official tele the legislature and congress, asking
A veteran of the Boer war, unable
gram was sent to Rome stating that a fur a definition of their attitude on
to sup|K>rt his wife and baby, attempt
shoemaker named Ernesto Vigilante the universal adoptier -T safety appli
ed suicide with the same r< •
was suffering from that disease.
ances and an employer's liability law
which had saved hie life in battle, but
' Many other cases are described by where such does not already exist,
the bullets failed to make a mortal
the health officials as g astro enteritis, company pensions for superannuated
wound.
but thia diagnosis is not generally ac employes, hours of labor arid other
It Is ssid the Illinois Republican cepted.
Two persona, a stonemason matters of kindred intereeL
convention will endorse Taft and ig and a sailor, were taken from the
train ■ its wav from Naples
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nore Ix>rimer.
CHEAP SODA DANGEROUS.
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Nettune.
They
are
believed
to
John F. Gilman was elected com
mander-in chief of the Grand Army for be suffering from cholera and were Alcohol, Coal Tar Dye and Ether
sent to a lazaretto.
the ensuing year.
Compound Menace to Health
itoings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
Roosevelt predicts a complete r<«ut
of the "Old Guard” at the Republican
state convention, at Saratoga, N. Y.
During the recent forest fires in
Washington a photograpeh was picked
up by the wind and carried ail mi lea.
An International Conciliation board
haa been organised in San Francisco
and in future it will decide all labor
differences.
John B. Rysn. a New York multi
millionaire, offers to build al hia own
expense a fleet of 1,000 aeroplanes for
war purposes.
The steamer Mnrama, on route from
Australia to Vancouver. B. C., re
reived messages by wireless from an
Alaska station 2,500 miles distant.
The steamer Olaon 4 Mahoney and
the bark McLaurin collided off Point
Arena, and the bark was badly dam
aged. The steamer towed her into
port at San Francisco.
Testimony before the Interstate
Commerce commission elicited the in
formation that the Northwest eaten-
aion of the Milwaukee road earned 29,-
000,000 the first eighteen months.
Will Take a Solid Stand in Na
tional and State Politics
CHINESE IN EVENING DRESS
Pekin Banquet to Secretary of War
is Notable.
Pekin The visit of Jacob M. Dick
inson, the American secretary of war;
Brigadier General Clarence H. Ed-
warts, chief of the bureau of insular
affairs, and party to Pekin will end
Tuesday. It has been marked by a
round of entertainments and a display
of Western innovations never before
known m China.
The prince regent, on learning that
neither Secretary Dickinson nor Gen
eral Edwards was able to accept decor
ations, sent to Mrs. Dickinson a pair
i of cloisonne vases uf the Chien Tung
' period. The regent also sent a pair of
red lacquer boxes, of similar antiquity,
to Mrs. Dickinson and Mrs. Edwards.
A banquet was given in honor of the
. secretray and the other visitors by
Chinese students who have returned
from America.
Many ladies were present and a con
siderable number of Chinese apfieared
without queues and in evening clothes,
to which they had apparently been ac
customed while residing in the United
States.
The Electric Bond & Share corpora
tion haa sbsorlwd the Hartford Irriga
tion 4 Power company of Washington,
MINE CAVES UNDER CITY.
and now owna pro|>erty of thia kind in
the Northwest amounting to 235,000,-
Lead, S. 0.. Boarding House Hang«
ooo.
A cat perched in a tree waiting for
birds at lies Monica, |x»unccd upon a
chanticleer hat worn by a woman who
passed underneath. The woman’s face
was badly lacerated by the eat before
he discovered hia miatake.
Exporters are again buying wheat
for shipment from Coast ports.
Statewide prohibition will l>c the
slogan of the Idaho Republicana.
The Southern Pacific haa advanced
the rate on lumlwr to San Francisco.
Sever meat dealers at Lawrence,
Maas., were Indicted for giving short
weight.
Representative Tawney was defeat
ed for renoraination at the Minnesota
primaries.
Over Edge of Abyss.
Deadwood. S. D.— The firing of a
blast at the 3< hi foot level of the
Homeetake mine at Lead, S. D., start
ed a eave-in which continued to the
surface, making a hole in the heart of
the city 15 feet wide and 40 feet long
When the dust had * cleared away the
Bertolero boarding house was seen
hanging over the edge of the crevasse,
and the Campbell hotel’s back steps
lead into it.
Fright among the residents of Lead,
moot of whom live abive similar cav
erns, was allayed somewhat by assur
ance from mining officials that there
was no danger of further caving.
America Held in Right.
Paris- -Th« Temp« admits the right
of the Uni toil States to fortify the
The resignation of Senator IxJrimer Panama canal.
After pointing out
from the Hamilton club, of Chicago, that the treaty of 1903 reaffirmed the
haa been accepted.
. article In the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
On account of danger from hydro of 190! to facilitate the construction of
phobia, General Funaton has ordered the canal, guaranteeing that the canal
all cats removed from th« post at Fort shell be free and open ami that no act
Leavenworth and all dogs kept se of hostility be committed within it.
The Temps drawn attention to the sig-
curely tied.
nificant ommisaion from the treaty of
Germany has discarded dirigible bal the words, "The canal remaining open
loons for army use. on account of the in time of war, even to ships of the
many accidents that have befallen the ' belligerents.”
Zeppelin airships. Aeroplanes will be
used exclusively.
Gaynor Loses Fine Bam.
Stockholders of th« O. R. 4 N. at
their annual meeting al Salt Lake
City October 12 will be asked to in
crease the capital stock by many mil
lions, the money to be used in con
structing a line scrota Oregon from
east to west.
SL James. L. I. — Mayor Gaynor
stood by Sunday and watched hie hand-
. some and practically new main bam
with its crops go up in smoke.
The
loss is estimated at 110,000. The fire
is believed to have started through
spontaneous combustion.
GRAND ARMY CONSERVATIVE.
Postpones Action on L»« Statue
Would Increase Pensions.
Atlantic City, N. J. After a warm
I debate of more than three hours, the
national encampment Grand Army
of the Republic, at its final session
. here, indefinitely |«wtpor.cd action on
! the controversy over the placing of the
■ statue of Robert E. l^e in Statuary
Hall. The vote was 133 to 102, a
I small total compared with the vote of
H87 east for commander-in-chief.
The encampment rejected the prop
osition recommending that congress t>e
asked to grant each Union veteran a
' pension of SI a day for life, but in-
I doraed lite McCumber bill now pending
relating to widows’ pensions.
It was recommended that the pen-
I sions for veterans 66 years old be in
creased from 212 to 416 a month; 70
’years old from 115 to 22". and 75
- years of age from 120 to 125 a month.
The question of the Grand Army's
attitude on the l^-c statue matter was
■ >ne of the moat important the encamp
ment has to deal with in years. The
conservative rlement controlled the
encampment and won the day on the
argument that the bitterness engend
ered in the Civil war was disappearing
and that sectional hatred should not be
revived; that action adverse to the ,
1^-e statue would do monjharm than
good, especially to the Grand Army of
the Rcjiublic, and last, but not least,
that the state of Virginia, under the
act of congress in 1854, had the right
to place in Statuary Hall the image of
any man from that state whose mem
ory it chose to perpetuate.
SIXTEEN DEAD IN WRECK
Rock Island Train Runs Into Wash
out in Kansas.
Denver Fifteen persons lost their
lives and 11 others sustained more or
less severe injuries in the wreck, two
mile« east of Clayton, Kan., of west
bound Rock Island passenger train No.
27, which was due in Denver at 8:25
Saturday morning from Kansas City.
The wreck was the result of a cloud-
burta which carried out 1,00« feet of a
fill at what is normally almost a dry
l<ed, turning the latter into a torrent
many yards wide and 20 feet deep.
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New York The cheap soda water straight stretch of track
which is retailed on street corners to I the first intimation that the engineer
school children and passers by at • had of any danger came when he real
penny or two » glass is, in most cases, ised that the forward portion of the i
an alcoholic beverage with a larger train was running in water which had
percentage of spirits than ordinary spread out over the tracks near the fill.
beer, according to an analysis made by Reversing the engine, the «[wed of the
Professor M. 8. Allyn, of the Massa train was checked, but not enough to
prevent the engine, baggage car and
chusetta State Normal school.
"The syrups with which these cheap Smoker going over into the depression.
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sk I ks are flavored frequently contain
10 I <-r < < nt Ilf al -'hoi." said Professor tilled on the earth bank and the chair '
Allyn. "Thia is twiee as much as car ripjied its way into the smoker,
there is in beer.
Take, for instance, smashing it to pieces and killing or in
a "strawberry* flavoring which I juring many of the |>aaacngers.
As near as can be learned here all
bought at a stand on the lower East
Side. The re<i color in the syrup is of the paasengi-rs killed were occupants
obtained from a coal tar dye and the of the smoker.
flavor is given by an ether compound."
500 CADETS ARRESTED.
Disrespect to Tactics Officer and In
subordination Chargee Made.
West Point, N. Y. The entire cadet
corps is under arrest end facing a gen
eral court martial for gross disrespect
to Captain Rufus E. Ixmgan, instruc
tor in tactics, and
insubordination.
Major General Richard H. Barry, su
perintendent of the military academy,
sent the four classes of 500 young men
to their quarters after mesa and a
board of officers is endeavoring to find
out why the cadets "silenced" Captain
Longan.
They won’t tell.
The whole corps
haa stood out against General Barry's
insistence; first clam men with almost
perfect records in scholarship and con
duct have remained as stubborn as tail-
enJcrs whose demerits run up into the
hundreds. All that General Barry and
the loan! have got out of them in reply
to questions as to why they refused to
eat in Captain Longan’e presence or
refused to apeak when he was among
them is the statement: "We have
formed a dislike for this officer."
The penalty provided by law for thia
degree of insubordination is dismissal
from the military academy.
Two Confess to Robbery.
Seattle J. F. Warren, special gov
ernment agent for the Second judicial
district of Alaska, received a cable
gram saying that two men now in jail
at Nome have confessed to complicity
in the theft of 114,345 from the sluice
boxee of the Pioneer Mining company.
Mr. Warren haa not yet learned wheth
er the reported confession has impli
cated Manus Johansen, or John Ty-
berg. who were arrested recently In
thia city on a charge of being implica
ted in the robbery but believes they
also are guilty.
700,000 Men Msy Strike.
Berlin -Germany industry is seri
ously disturbed by strikes and lockouts.
Unless the disputes can be ended with
in the next few days. 700,000 men will
become idle.
The 40,000 striking
shipbuilders show no signs of weaken
ing. The managing committee of the
Socialist party is aiding in the support
of th« idle men.
AEROPLANE CROSSES AU’S
HI T PRIZE IS LOST.
ADDED TRAFFIC;
ADDED EXPENSES
Figures Show Kailroad’s Kates
Are Not Too High.
Labor Is Blamed for Increased Cost
of Operation Regulation Can
not Change Conditions.
Chicago William Ellis, interstate
commerce attorney for the St. Paul
road, presented a formidable array of
figures in the freight rate hearing be
fore the Interstate Commerce commis
sion.
Mr. Ellin hail columns of figures, the
bulk of which almost staggered the
representative« of the shippers, which
showed that for the past 10 years the
coat of
conducting transportation,
apart from the ailmlnistration cost,
had steadily increased in a proportion
out of line with the increase in net
revenue. In other words, the coat of
furnishing a given unit of service to
the people had steadily risen instead of
decreasing, as it should, with an in
crease in the volume of traffic.
"There is a gradual growing coat of
operation that is getting worse each
year, and is worse the more business
a railroad does,” he said.
To illustrate this cost. Mr. Ellis took
as his unit of service 1,000 tons of
freight moved one mile. Th»v cost of
moving this in 19ol was 22.20 on the
St. Paul road, and the cost of making
the aame movement in 1910 hail risen
to 12.96, which meant an increase of
rimre than 84,000,000 to the St. Paul
road. Showing how the consumer was
«fTe<-ted, the witness presented a table
giving the increase in the cost to the
shipper on many articles if the new
commodity rates should be permitted
to go into effect.
Mr. Ellis took the valuation marie by
several railroad commissions of the
property of the St. Paul within their
states ami declared that the road is
worth, according to that basis, at
least 1293,000,000. Th« cspitalixation
of the property thus valued is little
more than 2285,000,000. The average
net return since 1906 had been about ♦>
per cent.
The remarkable financial returns of
the Chicago Hi Northweetem railroad
during the last ten yeaini’were brought
out by attorneys for the shippers.
The witness for the road was W. A.
Gardner, vice president in charge of
operations and maintenance of that
road.
His testimony elicited on cross-ex
amination by Attorney Frank Lyon for
the commission, was, in short, that the
company thought itself justified in
raising freight charges, in spit« of the
fact that In ten year« it had returned
to its stockholders in direct dividends
and in unappropriated surplus more
than the amount of the capital stock.
SI Bl RBAN CARS CRASH;
FORB-ONE ARE DEAD
DomiMSoaaola. Italy- The great feat
of creasing the snow-capped Alpine
barrier between Switzerland and Italy
in a heavitff-than-air machine was ac
Fort Wayne, Ind.—Forty-one persona
complished by Georges Chaves, the
I were killed and seven were seriously
young Peruvian aviator.
The plucky Ewro of the exploit, how j injured in a head-on collision between
ever, lies in the Domodoesola hospital, two traction cars on the Fort Wayne-
badly injured as the result of an acci Bluffton division of the Fort Wayne
dent that happened just as he had com 4 Wabash Valley line.
The wreck occurred one and one-half
pleted tEw most arduous and nerve-
racking portion of the task. Both his miles north of Kingsland, at a sharp
The cars in collision were a
legs are broken, his left thigh is frac curve.
tured and his body is badly contused, northbound local, crowded to the steps,
but physicians arc of the opinion that which left Bluffton at 11:15 o'clock
and a southt-iund extra car from Fort
these hurts will not prove fatal.
They met while both were
The accident hapjw-ned as Chaves j Wayne.
was trying to make a landing here. running at high speed.
T*'«- motormen of the two care had
The Alps had been cressed eucei wafully
and the aviator was descending with ¡ no time to set the brakes when they
the power of lias machine shut off. sighted each other. The heavily-load
When about 30 feet above the ground ed northb.und car was crushed and the
a sudden gust of wind seemed to catch bodies of the dead and injured were
the monoplane, which turned over and strewn on either side of th« track amid
fell. When the crowds that had been the wreckage. The screams of th« in
watching the descent ran up, they jured men and women following the
found Chaves lying bleeding and un crash of tl»e cars brought the neigh
conscious beneath the twisted wreck boring farmers to tlie scene.
age. Willing hands lifted the aviator
from the ground and lore him to the
*250.000 Graft Admitted.
hospital.
New York The admission that the
Metnipolltsn Street Railway company
"Black Hand” Indicated.
not only made contributions to the
Spokane Murder, bearing the marks campaign fund* of both the Republican
of a Black Hand mystery, was commit «ml Democratic state organisations,
ted near Fourteenth and Wall streets but that it* president had Iw-en called
at 8:55 Saturday morning.
Following ■ in repeatedly to take up stock accounts
the sound of. three revolver shots the ..f ttn.QQO and 230.000 carried by cer-
body of an unknown, well-dressed Aus ' tain individuals, inferentially legisla
trian was found lying face downwards tors, was made by H. H. Vreeland. ex-
in a clump of trees.
The slayer had president of the company.
Mr. Vree
disappeared, but the prints of hie hob land tliought he had taken up in this
nailed sEuwe were traced for more than fashion account* aggregating 2250.-
a block. No papers could be found on ' 000.
the body bearing the man’s name, but ‘
the discovery of 24 precludes the idea
Bxck Dividsnds Ar* Paid.
of robbery.
New York The Westinghouse Elec
tric 4 Manufacturing company de
’Quake Felt in Amons,
clared a regular quarterly dividend of
PE»oenix. Arisons -Private dispstch- 1»« per cent on Ito first preferred
ea from Winslow, Arisons, report a stock, and back dividends of 8 \ per
severe eartEtquake in that section of cent on the )>ame shares, payable as
Arisons.
No details were
given. follows: Three and one-half per cent
Message from Williams say the shock with the regular dividend on October
was felt there, but no one was hurt, 15; 3 per cent on January 15. and Ik
nor was there any damage.
per eent on April 15 nexL
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