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CHE DIHPATCH FOUNDED ?60.
1 HE TIMES FOUNDED 1586.
WHOLE NUMBER 18,940.
RICHMOND, VA., SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1912.
rats wGATiiuH to-day?KAin. PRICE TWO CENTS.
HOSTILE SPIRIT
CLEARLY SHOWN
Bf COMMITTEE
School Board's Requests
at Inquiry Are Utterly
Ignored.
SHARP DEMAND
FOR ALL PAPERS
Little That Was Relevant and
Nothing That Was Derogatory
to Public Schools Brought
Out at First Hearing.
Many Old Grievances
Are Aired.
Little Ilia I was relevant an<i nothing'
that, wa.v derogatory to the public
h hool system of Richmond W is
'?rought out at the first session of the;
ripsclal Council committee appointed to]
Investigate the methods of conducting 1
sho schools, which was In session for j
nearly four hours yesterday afternoon.]
Several dissatisfied patrons expressed j
their grievances, the glM being that
?<ie time of their children w;-s taken
Up with manual training, music und]
physical exercises, to tho detriment of ,
the essential elementary branches. All
?>: these had come as the Irbtids of
the elementary teachers, and the wholu
? oursa of the Investigation served to
draw more and more shurply the line-,
between the White' Lhmenta.-y Teach?
ers' Association, nn the otic hand, and
the City Bchooi Board, on the other,
iho commit tie in every instance stand?
ing with the teachers anJ showing lib
antagonism to the School Hoard.
Fighting llenrsny Evidence.
Chairman Charles Ilutzlcr, of the
Sciiool Board, fought hard to Iti en out
hearsay evidence and to prevent the
various witnesses from at going their j
casee. When his points of order were
raised. Chairman Pollock ruled with
judicial fairness, but at all other times]
tin widest latitude was allowed to the
elementary tcnchors and their friends,
nid the school Hoard and superintend?
ent were cut short with uquai tegular
lly. The three 'Siemen ts of the Inves
tlgatlon wcro ntnted to be: First, the
charge that certain supervising teach?
ers and special Instructors are being
paid In exet?? of the value of their,scr- j
vices; second, that the coutse In the
?lenientarj- grades la not practical and (
cfllclent, and, third, that there is fric?
tion beiwe.'ii the teachers and the
school authorities.
The committee determined to go first
lato the second count?the charge that'
the course of elementary training Is
not prnettcal and 'ifuclcnt, be.rig too
much Interrupted by frills and side
issues, to the detriment of the essen?
tials.
Council Has No Henl Authority.
Assistant City Attorney George
Wayne Anderson advised the commit
t >o that the Council had no real author?
ity to Investigate the schools or to
' 'impel the production of books and
papers, the appeal from any decision
? if the local School Board lying to tho ,
?State Superintendent of Public Ihstrtlc
tloh, and from him 10 the State Hoard
of Education. Any recommendations'
of the committee, therefore, or action
of the Council, could only#bo advisory, ;
School Hoard's Requests.
At the opening of the session. Chair?
man Ilutzler present id, on behalf ol
the City School Hoard, the following
resolution submitting nine ^requests
bearing on tho conduct of the Investi?
gation, as follows:
I, The School Board 'respectfully]
requests the appointment of an official
stenographer, whose notes in dupli?
cate shall be. at all times, equally
uvallablo for the use. ol the commit-1
tee and the School Hoard. After each
hearing, notes shall be transcribed,
ono copy going to the committee and'
one to the School Board, without pre?
ference to either.
The School Board requests that
it may have the privilege of
securing the attosdanco of wit?
nesses necessary to establish or
controvert any proposition or charge,
brought forth during tho Investiga?
tion; and that It may have tho privi?
lege of cross-examining all witnesses.
:;. Cor the purpose of bringing out
the full value of the curriculum of
tho schools, the School Hoard requests1
the privilege of .summoning recogniz?
ed educators from different localities,
whose testimony shall no directed to
it criticism Of th0 methods employed
in the Richmond school3, 11 ooBtparl
slon of these methods and teachers'
?work In our city schools with- tho.;
methods and teachers' work elsewhere,
and collaterally all other topics hav-l
lug relation to the curriculum.
I. Tho committee in earnestly re?
quested to visit with the School Boara
not less than six school buildings,
? while In session. In order to sco the;
Work In practical operation.
?. The. School Board requests per-!
mission to present and have put In
the record of this Investigation, tho'
authenticated record of those grnn-,
uatoB of our high Rchool who have,!
within the past six years, entered col?
leges and universities for tho purpose
of taking a higher education, and to
present and have placed In the record
the average percentage .*f promotion's
In the elementary anil \\\y,\\ schools of
Richmond aa compare.1 with schools
of the same character in other cities
of the same class.
6. Tho School Board requests per?
mission to present and have printed
in the record a comparative cost per
rnplla of each pupil, and us per each
Inhabitant, so as to show the relation
of these facta to the cost In other
communities; and any, ether statistics
bearing upon the cose- of schools, nno
the maintenance of tho curriculum.
7. While the School Board realizes
1h?t the law of evidence, which pre?
vails In courts of Justice, should not
govern In tho conduct bf this Inves?
tigation, it. earnestly requests that
hearsay evidence.- ho not 'admitted.
fi. The School Board requests that
, all sessions of this Investigation shall
' ' (Continued on Second Page.)
i'
ANOTHER PLANK ADDED
Colonel Itoosevelt Will Fight (or "Wel?
fare of tho Farmer."'
St. Paul, Minn., March 20.?Another
plank In the platform upon which
Colonel Roosevelt In to light out his
campaign was brought forth In it
speech here to-night on "Tho Welfare
of the Farmer."
Colonel Kooaovolt aald tho move?
ment for conaervlng tho country's nat?
ural resources and for bettering coun?
try life had not been carried forward
sine* his ad ministration. He allo?
cated n policy of governmental activity
In lhIs direction.
Colonel Roosevelt's address was de?
livered toward tho close of d day 'n
which ho traveled across Iowa and
part of Minnesota and mode a dozen
speeches. On reaching St. l'aul bo
conferred with political auportcrs and
In the evening went to the audito?
rium, where he mudo his pr'nolpal
speech of tho day. Ho thou went to
Minneapolis, to make a short upeoch
before stating for Chicago.
At Cedar Uaplds. Vlnton, Waterloo,
Cedar Falls and Itoekford. In Iowa, and
rpwatonna, Farlhault and Northilcld, 'n
Minnesota. Colonel Itoosevelt apoke
from the train platform.
At Albert Lea, Minn., ho left his
train to address an open-air mooting 1
or such niz" that many people were
unable to get within earshot of tho
speaker.
Tho Impromptu meetings at railroad
Stations to-day wero among the larg?
est of Colonel P.oosevelt's tour through
the Middle West, ami on no previous
day did he find the crowds more dem
onstrative. in these speeches ho re?
peated ills arguments in favor of con?
trol or the governthent by the people
Instead of by "a representative part of
the people/' which he said always
meant the bosses.
A delegation from St. Paul and Min- I
neapolis met Colonel Roosevelt at AI-I
pert Lea, Minn, and escorted him to !
the Twin Cities. j
Colonel Itoosevelt goes to Chicago
to-morrow from St. Paul, from whehcoi
he will travel to Octroi*.
RACE WAR IS FEARED
Aegrnen Snld lo lie Prepnrlng lo In
vnile Torrn a.
Blacksburg, S. C . March 2D.?As tho
aftermath of the lynching of two ne?
groes her" some time la-st night,
charged with attacking a whit-- man.
the city to-night was patrolled by
armed posses a ?.calling a threatened
negro invasion. The blacks are said
to be forming r.t Hopewell Church,
near tho city. Posse.? from Caff hey,
and oth?r nearby towns arrived to- I
night. At midnight it was staled there j
wits not it negro in Blacksburg,
Frunk Whasonaht and .loo Brlnson, |
the negroes against whom a young
white man lodged a serious charge;
were lynched last nlghi some time
between midnight and dawn. Who
composed 1 he mob is a mystery tho
authorities have been unable so far
to KOlVC.
The bodies of tho negroes were dls
covcred early to-day swinging from
rafters In a deserted blacksmith shop
within a stone's throw <>f the guard?
house from which they had been taken.
The officer who had !>? en left to guard
th<- prisoners say he left his post at
m'dnlght, there bring no Indication
thnl nn attempt would be made to
lynch the men. although there hnd
been considerable mik of violence; in
the afternoon and earlier part of the!
evening. At one time yesterday i'
was suggested that the negroes ho
taken from Blacksburg lo Oaffney. the
county srat, for aafekeeping, but after
conferring with authorities here the
sh< rift agreed that the men should re?
main In Blacksburg' to answer to a i
minor charge.
Solicitor 1. C. Otts, of this circuit,
who resides at Spartanburg, hus or- |
dered an Investigation.
CONVICT LABOR INDORSED
Assoclnllon Would Hnvr Them Work
on Public Hood*.
Spartanburg. S. C, March 29.?After
hearing ah address by I>. II. WInsl?w, i
of tho United states onic, of public j
Bonds. th? Southern Appalachian (Vooil
Bonds Association this afternoon in
the tlnal session of the spring con?
vention, adopted lesolutions urging
more liberal appropriations to tii^ Fed?
eral dfllcQ "f public roads so that en?
gine-ring assistance may he more gen?
erally glv.-n to Co.- States in highway
undertakings.
The association indorsed tho measure 1
Introduced In Congress looking to Fed?
eral aid for the construction and
maintenance Of :?. system ol national
.public highways under the "post j
roads" clause of the Constitution. It j
was decided to request the various I
Stnt? Legislatures" to pass laws re-,
quiring all able-bodied convict.- to
lie employed In constructing and re?
pairing tho public roads.
Resolutions wore adopted emphasis?
ing the necessity for the enactment
of speed laws and their strict enforce?
ment.
I>r. .losoph Hyde Pratt, president of
the association, snid the convention ,
had been successful in accomplishing
what It had set out to do und that
the construction of the three roa-ls
Which were the subject ot discussion
was assured. The next meeting oi the
association is to be held in Atlanta in
the fall.
ROAD WILL BE EXTENDED
Carolina, Ollncbflcld and Ohio to Have
Connection With Chesapeake and tiblo.
Spartanburg, S. C. March 29,?A spe?
cial from Now Vork to-nii;lil says the
I'likhorn division of the Carolina, |
Ollnchtlcld and Ohio Railroad from
Dante, Vu.. to Blkhorn, Ky.. win he
built immediately, according '" an?
nouncement made to-day following a
meeting of the directors of that road, j
This extension is to be forty mil"* In
length through a most dllllruli mouii- >
tain country, und will give the Clinch- j
Held Koad connection with the Chesh-j
peako and iiiiio. affording Ii the out-I
lei to the Middle West contemplated ,
in the original plans ot llm promo
ters, The extension will cost approx- ?,
I mutely J4.000.000 or $100,000 per mile.'
The Clluchfleld Bond Is now in opera- |
tion from Spartanburg to Dante; n
distance of hourly lim? miles. Its prin?
cipal tonnage is coal from the Vir- |
glnla fields to the Southeastern mnuii- j
facturlng centres, and to deep water
at Charleston. That portion of tli?|
road now In operation was built at a
cost of jr.o.nno.ooo.
PASTOR SURRENDERS
Bev. J. Frnnk. Norrt? Will Be Triebt on I
Arson Clmrge.
Fort Worth. Tex., March 2ft?Bev. J. j
Frank Norrls returned to b'ort Worth
to-day, surrendered to the Hhcr'fr, for- I
mally pleaded not guilty to "a chargeI
of arson and was released on n bond
or $1,00?.
Mr. Norrls was indicted yesterday.
Specifically, it is charged thnl lie was I
responsible, for the fire which dum-,
aged tire First Baptist Church, of|
Which bo was pastor, to the extent
or $s,ono on ihe night or January li.i
1912. A second fire in February prac?
tically destroyed the church.
All Indictment charging perjury alsc
Is pending it gainst the minister.
Klxty-Nlne Bodies Recovered.
Welch. W. V?., March 20.?Sixty-nine
bodies have been taken out of the
?led mine, in which eighty-four wore
killed on Tuesday by nil evplosioji. Fif?
teen bodies have been located,
WARLIKE RUMORS
SUR WASHINGTON
Capital Hears That In?
tervention in Mexico
Is Imminent.
OFFICIALS DENY
ALL SUCH STORIES
They Point to Fact That Army
Is in No Condition for Mexican
Campaign, While Atlantic
Fleet Has Sailed From
Southern Waters for
Drill Grounds.
Washington. March 23.?A Scries oil
minor? concerning- the Mexican situa?
tion, covering every possible phase of
activity on tin part of the American
government, from actual Intervention
and the assemblage of great military
forces on the border down to the dis?
patch of an embassy guard to the Mex?
ican cnpltal, surged through official
Washington to-day.
All <if the alarmist stories appeared
to have had their Inception at points
that would be naturally little Informed
of the plans of the two governments.
It Is quite cortuln that they did no",
originate In Washington, and as the
Mexican capital has b'.eu cut ort from
telegraphic communication with the
outside world since 7 o'clock last night,
they were attributed to the Insurgent
press agents. Officials were kept busy
to-day denying storiis or tempering
them with additions of fact that de?
prived them wholly of scnsulinual fea?
tures.
It was declared by one government
official and denied by another, however,
that the l."nltc,| .States had permitted
a shipment bf arms and ammunition to
go" through to the Madero government.
.No Ground for Intervention.
President Taft believes there is no
ground for Intervention In Mexico, and
has not changed that b-llef as the re?
sult of any of the military engage?
ments In Mexico within the last few
I days. Consequently It can be stated
positively that no steps hive ben
taken within that time to strengthen
tho American mlllta'ry force on the
border nor to prepare any expedition?
ary force for operations In Mexican ter?
ritory. Tho supposition that anything
of Importance could be done In that
direction without tarns knowledge jn
the part of the country at large and a
direct appeal to Congress Is declared
by the military authorities to be ab?
surd upon it mere inspection of the
conditions bf the army within the
Cnlted Stales at this lime.
Admitting that the brunt of a cam?
paign would be borne by the Infantry,
It is apparent that very little of that
arm of the service is available for a
Mexican campaign. There are tri the
Hast only four full regiments bf in?
fantry and two battalions. In the Cen
I tral Division there aro three infantry
' regiments, and oh the Pacific coasts
I after the sailing the next troop ship
j for Honolulu on April ?'. but one in?
fantry regiment will r?maln. The total
Infantry fore- that could now be gath
I end for Mexican service without a re.;
! sort to Congress and a call for the N'a
, tlonal Guard Would he actually smaller
l than the manoeuvre division which was
assembled In Texas under General Cnr
' ter last year. Tho general stiff, as a
I matter of course, long ago made In?
quiries of what could be dond In an
emergency. The adjutants-general u(
[some >>f tho states with strong militia
forces were called upon to inform Gen?
eral Evans, chief of the mllltla division,
what proportion of their men could be
depended upon to. nspend to the sum?
mons of the national government.
Officers at the large supply depots were,
ordered to report what military stores
were on hand, their condition and th>
number of cars that would be rcqulrct
for their transportation. Some of th->
coastwise steamship stations were
asked how many troop.- they could
convey by water to a Gulf purl from
tha North.
only Precautionary Measures,
ft was stich an Inquiry as tills, though
made several weeks ago. that appears
to Just have leaked out to-day. Tram
managers of railroads were consulted
as to the ntlmhcr of cars they could
assemble it certain specliisd oolnis.
All this sounded warlike In Iho ag?
gregate, hut It is solemnly declared
by tho military officials, and oven by i
higher authorities, that thest were*
nothing more than pnreiv precaution?
ary measures, und were not to he re?
garded in any sense as Indicating the
purpose on the part of th> administra?
tion to become involved in the strug?
gle in Mexico.
Confirmatory of those declarations:
is tho disposition of naval vessels. The
powerful Atlantic fleet, which would
piny an Important part in any Inter*
Vntlon campaign, was allowed to,
steam north from Cuba, from where
Ina Mexican coast would have been
.of convenient access. There were left
(n the Gulf ami the Car rib can Sea I
only eight vessels all told, nothing
more than llttlo gunboats and colliers,
with the exception of the cruiser
Washington, and nil incapable of safe?
ly confronting in hostile attitude ova'h
such ancient fortifications fls guard
the Mexican porls.
In tact, the only action on the part
of the government which might he
regarded as in any way connected
with tho Mexican situation was th:
dispatch of I.OOil standard Krag rifles
from New York to arm the American
colony In tho City of Mexico. Kvon
Ibis was done upon the recommenda?
tion of Ambassador Wilson, with th.<
1 full consent of the Mexican govern
1 ment, and with .the asstiranee tliat the
American residents were to act sim?
ply as a police force and are not to
Support either Bide !n the present
struggle.
Tn outside circles thc.iv was' talk
I of the establishment of a small. Amer?
ican military force as an embassy
guard in Mexico, like that now main?
tained In Peking by the American
marines, hut Ambassador Wilson has
"(Continued on Third Page.) 7
Sherwood Bill Defeated
and Smoot's Plan
Approved.
ADDS $20,000,000 TO
ANNUAL EXPENSE
Southern Democrats Only Ones
Who Vote in Negative, and
They Arc 3erated by Smith,
of Michigan, for Lack of
Generous Feeling To?
ward Former Foes.
Washington. March '_'?.?Thc Sonate
to-night by n vote or '.'1 to 46 reject
oil the Sherwood dollar-a-day pension
hill, which had passed lh< House, and
then adopteil, -,r, to lft. tho Sinoot gen?
eral- age and service pension bill, un?
der which the pension roll would be
Increased by $20,000,000 annually dur?
ing the next Jivt. years
During the debate Senator over?
man's reference Id tho burdens of the
j S inthern people because of pension
legislation, brought u i.trt reply front
Senator William Aldcn Smith, ot
Michigan:
"J remind the Senator that this en?
tire pension burden could hav? been
avoided by the Sou i it it It hud been
loyal to the Union,'.' said he.
"I cannot remain silent ami hear
Senators from the South complain of
burdens our government has been call?
ed upon to bear because of your un
Iwillingness to live with us under the
Hani- Hag and in a united country.
I "Distinguished Southern men Who
{served in wars prior to the Civil War
I not only received with evident satis?
faction, but asked the government to
reward them for their military ser?
vices. That list Includes among oth?
ers men no less conspl uous than Ro?
bert 15, lee and Stonewall Jackson,
who were not above asking this gov?
ernment to reward them for sacrifices
made in the war with Mexico. For
several years I occupied a seat In the
House of Representatives next to gal?
lant Joe Wheeler, of Alabama, and 1
never heard his vote >-st against a
worthy pension bill.
"You have taken care of your own
soldiers In the South, but the record
of Senators In war ".i cither side
would br more luminous and credit?
able If the> could treat their foes with
the same gonernsi'y and kindness."
Provision? of Hill.
The bill requires heuetlolarles lo
have sei veil ninety days and provides
pensions ranging from $13 to J3o a
month, instead of a sixty-day mini?
mum and sir, to $?n pension, as in the
House, measure. Tho bill now goes lo
conference with the House. Tho
shadow of a possible ptesldontial veto
hangs over the moasure.
The Senat. added provisions that
would prohibit attorney's lees and
that would grant $.10 u month to for?
mer soldiers disabled by service,
wounds or disoiiHo, the latter being
estimated to add $2,500.000 to the nn
] nual outlay under the bill.
The entire negative vote on tho final
I passage of the bill was cast by Heino
crntic Senators from Southern Stales.
The Northern Democrats voted with
the Republicans for tho bill.
Tb. twenty-Ollti Senators whose vote
rejected Ihn llpuse Sherwood bill, the
real contest of the day, were Chiltun,
West Virginia: Culburson, Texas;
Foster mid Thornton, Louisiana;
Hitchcock, Nebraska; Johnson and
Gardner, Maine; Johnat.'it, Alabama,
Kern and Shlvcly, Indiana; lea, Ten?
nessee; Martine, New Jersey; Overman
and Simmons, North Carolina; Owen;
Oklahoma; Percy and Williams, Mis?
sissippi; Rayner, Maryland; Swanson,
Virginia; Smith, Georgia, and Smith,
South Carolina.
On tills vol.-. the Northern Democrats
voted in the negative, because they
preferred the Sniout bill, and the
Southern Democrats hecuuso they op?
posed both the House bill ami the
j Senate measure
Attacks ills Colleague.
Washington. March ^0.?Tll.i debate
on the wool train' revision bill In the
House to-day "as enlivened by Repre?
sentative Rellly, of Connecticut, Dem?
ocrat, who sharply attacked his Repub?
lican colleague. Representative Hill,
author of the minority.wool tariff meas?
ure. Mr. Rellly declared that Mr. Hill
was unlit to have any hand In the frr.ni
> lug of such legislation because lie was
nn officer In the Norwalk Woolen Mill.-:
Company and had been for years. Mr.
Hill's son. Mr. U illy added, was treas?
urer of the company.
"His case lf> typlc.il of that policy
of the Republican party of putting
friends of the interests on the commit?
tees having charge of legislation nf
fectlng those interests." said Mr. i; -ill;.-.
"I have tho highest respect lor my
colleague, and I du not condemn him
for holding slock in or for being r.n
ofTlcur of a woolen mill company. 'I
hope ho owns st.. Is in many, I do con1
fcitd. how :\er. that he Is not the man
to draw a woolen tariff bill. Truly lilt
case exemplifies tho Republican appeal,
?let tho tariff be revised only by Its
f riends.' "
Mr. Rellly sal-l the Norwalk mills
hail be mi shut down by the American
Woolen Company, which he said was
belter known r.s the ?'woolen trust.'
He intimated thnl the Norwalk Com?
pany had b.-en absorbed by the "trust"
and tluit Its officers "had been taken
car3 of."
Mr. Hill, sealed across the aisle from
Mr. Rellly, smiled throughout the at?
tack, but made no reply.
? A vigorous assault on Urn Tariff
Hoard was delivered in tho House to?
day by Chairman Underwood, ot the
Ways ' and Mentis Coininltlic, who
opeiietl the debate on the wool bill, lie
said that in three yearn tho Tariff
Hoard had cost the country $510,000,
ii nil in that lime bad produced three
unsatisfactory reports?thosj on wood
Ptlip and paper, wool nnd cotton, .Ml*.
Underwood said lhal four of the board
had ben sent abroad In 1010 r.nd thaf
they broup-'-t back With them as evl
?r>'iiiued on Third Pn^e.)
FREEL ALLEN SURRENDERS;
FOUND AT HIS FATHER'S HOME
KU KM? AliXiKV.
OPERATORS YIELD
Compromise Offer Accepted at
Meeting Held in
Cleveland.
! DANGER OF STRIKE PASSES
-
Another Conference Will Be
Held in Hope of Settling
Anthracite Trouble.
Cleveland, Ohio, March 29.?Settle
ment of tho bituminous coal miners']
wage dispute on a basis satisfactory
to both tides was announced into to?
night as having been practically ar?
ranged.
A subcommittee, to wh/th the opera?
tors and miners' conference had refer?
red a compromise offer by tho miners,
said It had agreed to tho settlement
and the terms wore being drawn up.
Tlii' terms as given out provide for
Increases in pay to the miners as |
follows;
Five cents a ton for mining lump
cool. 3 cents a Ion for mining all oth?
er coal, c.-'J per cent, increase for men
paid by lite day.
K. A. Cole, representing the Ohio
operators, and II. M. Taylor, repre?
sent inn tlie Illinois operators, said
shortly before midnight thtit all the
operators of Western Pennsylvania,
Ohio. Indiana and Illinois had agreed
to grant the demands: They said the
agreement -would be the basis for
ma hing new wugo scales of bitumin?
ous mines in other Stale". A short
suspension in the bituminous iields,
however, wus thought not Improbable,
as the miners will have to .submit the
coinproinisn agreement co a referendum
vote of the union, pending which. It
was said. It was unlikely the men
would work without an agreement.
President White, of the union, :it|
midnight salfi a meeting between the
anthracite miners und operators had
been definitely decided oh.
The members of the operators' com
, mi I tee of ten. of which Ocorgc
liner Is chairman, will me.-t wlt.i the
Anthracite miner.-' committee in New
York, hi> said, at a date which prob?
ably will bo fixed to-morrow.
The first sto.p toward a stoppage in
coal production in the CnitM States
as a result of the miners' wage dis?
putes was taken to-day. when do
lirflon dtdered 170.000 miners In the
anthracite regions of Pennsylvania to
quit work next Sunday at midnight.
The suspension was ordered because
of the operators' refusal to grant the
union demands for Incret.sed pay.
Tim shutting down of the mines,
i union Officials say. will cause a loss
In the coal production of the count.-;
of 7.0SS.Ofin bushels of anthracite coal
a month, and will entail a loss of pay
lo miners of not 1 than $:t:,n,.j
for every day they remain out.
QUIET IN ROCK ISLAND
Disturbance Vbnted. but (he Mint In
si ni on Guard.
Kork Island, ill.. March 29.?Tho
city, which hurt been so widely dis?
turbed, was tranquil to-day. The mi?
litia performed the usual guard duty,
hut found no occasion through the
morning lo make arrest i.
The Circuit Court directed the grand
jury to proceed with its investigation,
and the coroner held the Inquest over
the body of llnymond Swingle, who
died last night, this afternoon. Tho
Inquest Into tho death of Krank lt.
Kellogg tvin bo held to-morrow.
Towns people speculated on whether
Keillor r?oo.noy. would be permitted to
issue his paper to-morrow. Should
any Inflammatory statements be nhule
In the paper which attacked the May?
or, stern measures, It la believed,
would have- to be, rcsortod to by tb"
military authorities.
RESIST TO DEATH
Sidna Alien and Wesley Edwards
Determined Never to
Surrender.
THEIR ULTIMATUM GIVEN
Murderers bf judge and Com?
monwealth's Attorney Prepared
to Fight /or Their Lives.
[By Associated Press.]
illllsvlll ?. Vu., Mnrch 29.?Frccl Al?
len, u blue-eyed stripling or seventeen,
youngest or ttie eight of the Allen
gong, each indicted for the five mur?
ders in th - Carroll county courthouse
a fortnight ago. was taken lato to?
day in a carriage shed at the home of
his father, ??.Faek" Allen, eight miles
from here. Me cheerfully submitted to
arrest, and to-night occtlplss a cell In
tho liillSVilfC jail with Ills cousin,
j Claude Swanson Allen, who surrenden dl
without resistance to the detectives
yesterday.
Only Sidiia Allen, a man of middle
ag?, and his young nephew. Wesley
Kd words, both bold mountaineers ol
reckless daring. are fugitives to-night. I
They are tho last of tho outlaw hind
whoso fusillade killed a Judge, sheriff,
prosecutor, juror and bystander on
March 11.
win Iti-Mpu L'atll Death.
Frccl Allen two days ago deserted
the two men still at large and brought
buck to-night lliolr uUimaum of de?
lta tue-. Bt<lh are prepared to resist
until death.
A flithii-'s anxiety 10 have his young?
est son .spared a terrible death In the
mountains is assumed to he lie- causa
? it" Free! Allen's capture. "Jack" Allen
was not Involved In the courthouse
siiboting, but It is known that since. hia I
j son Frccl joined the outlaws he lias
been endeavoring to advise him to sub.
' mil lo, the mercy pf the law. .lust how
the puren; communicated with inc boy
Ibas not tie n disclosed.
IflUsylllc had hardly digested Iii? cx
rltchieht incident to Claude. Allah's
I bloodless capture yesterday wilt n Fl'OC(
gulloptd 'nto town late to-night, the
prisoner ,.t Detective Thomas i. Kelts,
leader of tho mountain cmnpaig:. {
against tlic outlaws, and Detective K
C. Payne, wlio together imido the Hi?
res;. Th.- young mountaineer .,r sUn'
,dcr build and boyish face was unlinhd
cuffed, and cantered into town with
smiles and nods to those who recog?
nised him. He showed, however, the :
ill effects of two wojks with little food
or shelter. *
The young prisoner talked glibly of
his conversatInns with Sidna Allen and
j Weste) Bd wards. Th.-. iornicr, he said,
admitted killing .ludgo Thornton I.
Musstc, whll i the latter acknowledged
Shooting Commonwealth's Attorney
William M. Foster. Ills own pari in
the tragedy lie discreetly evaded dis?
cussing. He brought, however, first?
hand Information of the desperate
straits of Sidna All in, leader of the
band, and his consciousness of .guilt.
In the dialect of the mountains he told
his story, beetling Interruptions aim
answering all questions.
lie Wns Tired nnil Hungry,
"t'nelo Sidna told me," related tbt
boy with unrestrnlnjd frankness, "that
he never expected to see his fnml)>
again, lie hopes tho detectives will
get discouraged so that he can get
away, but If they keep after hint. 1
think ho will he shot killing them. He
will never surrender. 11 - did not like
it when I left hliit, He told mo I wa?
making a mistake, but I was Urcd and
hungry.
"Slilnn said he shot his pistol empty
three times. II" was always angry
' ~(t7o"n1lnued ~on Fifth Page.)
