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BROOKLYN.
OAS MAIN AT BOTTOM OF DEEP
PIT IGNITES AND STREET
IS BLOWN UP.
Thoroughfare was crowded witn
School Children and Several of Them
a Hurled Into Pit Two Blocks
Long and From House to House.
NEW U)RK, November 20. Twon
irfivp prions are believed to havo lost
their 1im in an explosion of gas which
tore up a great section of Gold street,
,a Brooklyn, today. It is definitely
lEOwn that fifteen persons were buried
under hundreds tf tons of earth and
timber thrown into the, air, and ten
men are reported missing.
The exact number of dead cannot be
determined until tomorrow, for those
who are working to recover the on-
'onbed bodies must dig through fifty
el of dirt and rock( and tangled -pipes
and timbers
The explosion occurred in a fifty-foot
aMp excavation that had been made in
wld street, between York and Front
treeK where a water main was being
aid A gas pipe sprang a leak reccnt
v, and, in a manner unknown, a spark
rase into coniaci wim me escaping
jij. Immediately there was a loud
rplouon which lifted the eurth for a
bhxk in each direction 'and shot dirt,
raring stones and debris into tho aif.
when the smoke and dust had clear
ed awav, it was seen that tho street
tad been opened from doorstep to door
.ep icr an area of nearly a block.
Tha loosened earth and debris had fall
fa -at the excavation, burying a score
f laborers who were at work when
be accident occurred .
Great tongues of flame shot put of
Utences, and beside them, geysers. of
water leaped into tho air from the
itateT main that had been shattered.
Two bodies were sticking- out of the
wreckage.
Oold street was crowded with school
-Biidren when the explosion occurred,
and that scores were not killed or in-
rared was remarkable.
A woman and three children were al
most over the excavation when tho
earth crumbled 'under, thoir feet, and
her were swept down into the nolo
under tons of wreckage. Two other
'hudern were on the opposite side of
he street when tho sidownlk caved in,
and the ylost their lives.
Samuel Trout, foreman of a gang of
laborers, was near tho woman and threo
hiWren who lost their lives. He rush-
M forward in an endeavor to'savo
hem, but he, too, was drawn into the
leath hole His bodv was tho first
"covered. It had been roasted almost
o a under
GRASS FIRE BURNS RANCHMEN. 1
EL PSO, November 20. An area
r 500 acres of grazing land lying!
torts of Howell, N. M., is on fire andi
he ran- omen, in the burning country!
e nght.Dg with back fires to .save
heir homes. No loss of life has been
'"ported as vet
LA VALLEY IRE
EIGHTY ACRES OF NEW LAND
NEAR THATCHER SELLS
FOR $1500.
X W pace Gives Glowing Description
. venditions Along tho Gila, Where
. Joseph Stake Is Building Ono of
" Best Schools in the Territory.
- V Pace, manaecr of tho Big 0
,("e ,n Thatcher, democratic council
ttan from Grnlmm nn,i n. nf t,n nsin
WOStPM,
.U ... IHJ.ilM'.VM.
't this morning for homo
alter
Tending yesterday in the city
wnrart-nii business,
-ho enMre valley is
Tu nd promis
a moro
condition
jl V"r bpforo in its -"Story," 8aid
r aee IMt ni(,ht Thero ia a aily
?0wlDg demand for nTont-A in this
"aver. f,t
rod section and prices arc
Padua!
y adancing. The other day fa
Pieo 0f land eighty acres in all
"'Ween Tk.i.i B , . . - . . .
aJi . Thi9 land -8 not undor tho ditch'
.... -"an-uer nnn i.-ontrni-Hnifi tor
-V una nftti . . ' ... " . .mi
ultimo II I-
ifli
1SPER0US
THAN
i-t oeen cultivated, too
CATTLE DISEASE AFFECTS
CHILDREN IN INDIANA
"WASHINGTON,. November 20.
Alarming results following the out
break of a contagious foot and mouth
disease in NoYork and Pennsylvania,
causing those states to bo quarantined
against tho interstate shipments of cat
tle, etc., were shown today iu a dis
patch which reached Secretary- of Agri
culture Wilson, stating that "four chil
dren in Danville, Ind., had contracted
tho disease.
A rigid investigation is in progress
to determine whether others havo been
affected similarly. Oflicials believe that
tho spread of tho contagion will bo
checked, although they admit that the
situation is grave.
OEMLICH WINS BY TWO VOTES.
ST. LOUIS, November, 20. Jacob F.
Gemlich, republican, defeated Win.
Painter, democrat, for tho oflice of lieu
tenant governor of Mitisouii by tho
narrow margin o ftwo votes, according
to a special dispatch to the Post-Dispatch
from Jefferson City. The result
purports to be the result of tho re
vision count.
HICKS PROMOTED.
WASHINGTON. November 20.
Lieutenant Colonel James II. Hicks has
been promoted to the grade of colonel
and assigned to the command of tho
Fourteenth eavalrv, stationel nt Fort
Walla Walla.
CAP LIGHTS IGNITED GASES AND
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION
FOLLOWED.
Thrco Known to Be Dead and Six More
Are Missing Many Dragged Out in
Half Dead Conditions Score of Men
Entombed in Burning Depths.
BUTTE, Mont.. 'November 20. Fire
this morning in the Northwestern Im
provement company's mine at Hod
Lodge, has caused the death of six min
ers and probably the death of many
more. About twenty miners are en
tombed with but a faint chance for the
escape of any of them. Tho known
dead:
ANDREW JOKALA.
SAMUEL GASPERS.
JOHN WATSON.
Seven men were taken from tho
workings at 1 p. m., in a half-dead
condition and are now in the hospital,
The fire department members and fitfy
volunteers then started tho work of
fescue and within half an hour, skips
were running with rapidity down the
fourth entry and a hundred men w.ere
loaded on cars and brought to the sur
face, many of them completely exhaust
ed and others lifeless.
Those rescued declared that then is
little hope for the greater number of
those who are still entombed, but this
belief is not shared by th'o mine of-
finals,
Tho pit boss, Wm.
Haggerty, when
carried up in ono of tho skips, was al
most overcome, but was restored by
the physicians. He remained bravely
to his post until tho very last, in an
endeavor to save his men, and after
recupreating. made frantic efforts to
gu back into the mine. '
Everything within tho vicinity of
tho mine was in the wildest confusion
and it was" an impossibility at first
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lO get CUCtA. Ull IHV lulllL-3 wvm nil (
payroll. Tho firo is terrific, judging j
from tho immense volumo of smoko and'
firo which is being emitted from tho
second entry.
A careful check of the miners to
night shows that three men are dead
and six missing. Tho missing miners
attempted to cscapo by No. 2 entry,
and it is stated that there is not a
chance that they havo escaped, as in
that portion of tho mine tho firo is
raging fiercely. Tho fire was started by
the lights on tho qnps'of tho miners,
and tbnight it was still unchecked. The
damago will bo very heavy.
prico may seem high, but tho land will
soon pay for itself undor cultivation,
"Alfalfa is now soiling in tho valley
at $13 per ton, which is $2 highor than
at this time last ypar. The producer
has but littlo hay left; however. Tho
Beason has been unusually good, tho
price never falling below $8.
"Tho ncwncademy being erected by
Si Joseph stako at Thatcher is going
up rapidly and will bo completed and
ready for occupancy by March 1. The
building will be thrco stories high, with
basement. Tho workmen arc now up
to -'tho -third floor. When completed,
this building will mako Thatcher1' tho
homo of ono of tho finest educational
institutions in tho territory."
M NEBURNS
MINERS
PERISH
GLOBE, GILA COUNTY, AKIZONA, SATURDAY,
ROCKEFELLER
10WS NOTHING
ABOUT REBATES
CRUELLINO CROSS EXAMINATION
FAILS TO ELICIT MUCH
FROM MAGNATE.
ILAST YEAR'S DIVIDENDS WERE
FORTY MDLLION, AND AS
' MUCH WAS EARNED.
Witness Continues Bland and Imper
turbable, Answering Readily, Except
When Ho Says That Ho Cannot Re
member After Thirty-five Years.
NEW YORK, November 20. For
over five hours today, John D. Rocke
feller, a witness for the defense in .the
government suit to dissolvo the Stand
ard Oil company, faced an unceasing
fire of questions from federal counsel,
Frank IS. Kellogg, and1 when adjourn
ment was taken until Monday, the head
of the oil combine was still being cross
examined on the charge that the com
pany in its early days accepted rebates
t6 tho disadvantage of its' rivals,
Itockcfeller's cross examination will
probably not be concluded until late
Tuesday, as Kellogg has made it known
that he would question Rockefeller on
every detail of the company's busi
ness. Tho enormous earning ower of the
oil combination was sharply brought
out iu today's hearing, when Mr.
Rockefeller, 1 after stating that the
Standard paid dividends amounting to
forty millions in 1907, .said it had earn
ed as much more and that this was add
ed to the company's surplus, which was
stated by government's counsel to be
three hundred million dollars.
It was further declared by Kellogg
that the company, within the last eight
years, had earned nearly half a bil
lion dollars.
The. course of Rockefeller's testi-
.v.j .,, ...v ultimo il K" VI llllll-llt
counsel ran not so smoothlyjis yester
day, when he told his story under the
direction of friendly counsel, but the
rapid lire of interrogations by the
prosecutor were always met with un
shaken imperturbability and readiness
to answer, except when, as he explain
ed: "It is quite impossible for me to re
member after thirty-five years. X do
not recall."
Mr. Rockefeller was questioned close
ly regarding the rcbatps which the
Standard was accused of accepting, but
with the exception of the agreement
with the Pennsylvania railroad, which,
Rockefeller explained, gae the com
pany a rebate in order to cqrtalizc oil
rates, lie could not recall any other
rebate.
Tho president of tho Stnndard Oil
company, when ho learned that gov
ernment's counsel would not bo able
to conclude his cross examination b
tomorrow night, suggested an adjourn
ment tint if Monday, which was agreed
to.
TO
ON PIECE OF REEF
SYLVANITE MINER AFTER NEAR
LY STARVING TO DEATH, DIES
IN BOLTING PART OF HIS FIRST
MEAL IN MANY DAYS.
,
.
DOFULAS, November 20. News has
been received from Sylvanite of the
i -.
pitiful death of one of tho first pros
pectors who arrived in the 'camp. His
name is W. A. Rand and for thirty
years he had, been a prospector, Tho
store of his' death is that Rand had
been out in the mountains for several
days prospecting; that he had become
lost and wandered around in a dazed
and starving condition until finally ho
sighted tho camp of Sylvanite. As ho
did ho hastened with all speed possi
ble to the little busy camp and being
almost starved to death, rushed info a
restaurant, snatched up a piece of meat
and began ravenously to devour it.
In tho condition that ho was he fail
ed 'to properly masticate it and it
lodged in his throat, choking him to
death in view, of several customers of
tho littlo restaurant.
Tho piece of meat when extracted
was threo inches long and two inches
thick. The body was buried at Syl
vanite. ,
TAFT'S MISSOURI PLURALITY.
JEFFERSON CITY, November 20.
Wm, If. Taft carried Missouri by a'plu
rality of 1,020, according to tho,, tabula
tion of the official returns made by Gov
.ernor Folk today. '
Cage With 3 Cars
Falls 1,200 Feet;
Nobody is Hurt
Five or six men working at tho
bottom of A shaft of the Old Do
minion company had a narrow es
capo from being crushed into a pulp
yesterday morning,' on graveyard
shift, wheir tho cage, hoisting, three
cars of ore, gavo way when near
the top of tho shaft, crashed through
two bulkheads and was stopped only
by tho third bulkhead, below tho
11th level.
The shievo wheel gavo wav under
the strain, tho sudden shock caus-""
ing tho cable to snap, nnd the heavy
load went down with such forco
that tho safety ratchet at tho sides
of tho compartment was torn out
all tho way to where tho cage was
stopped, causing damage that will
require two weoks' work in the rd
pairing. Fivo or six men ero at work at
the bottom of tho shaft, which is
being sunk to tho 10th level. They
were about 1C0 feet below the bulk
head that stopped tho cage after its
plunge of about J200 feet, and but
for the third bulkhead withstanding
the shock, would have been smashed
into jelly. As it is, about twenty
four men will bo idle until Mondav.
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"UNCLE JOE" CANNON,
CANNON WILL LEAVE
IT ALL TO CAUCUS
OF ROUSE
DISCREDITS STORY THAT
WILL OPPOSE HIM FOR
SPEAKERSHIP.
Uncle Joe Says Ho Docs Not Believe
That President Will Undertake to Or
ganize tho House "I Endorso the
Republican Platform."
DANVILLE. November 20.---Spoakcr
Cannon's attention was today called to
a story sent out from Hot Springs, Va.,
to the cliect that Tan would oppose
Cannon's re-election to tho speakership
on tho ground that "Uncle .Tod" would
not undertake in good faith a revision
of tho tariff. Cannon said:
"I don't believe that tho president
elect will undertake to organize tho
house. In common with the president.
I endorso the republican national plat
form and am entirely willing to ubido
by tho action of a republican caucus
to determine the organization of the
liotise."
NO SLATE, SAYS TAFT.
HOT SPRINGS, Va., November 20.
" I wish you would say that my cabinet
is not made up or slated. No ono has
been decided upon for any place in it,
and no offcrA of any cabinet position
has been mndo to any one."
This was the response that President
elect Taft mado today to a statement
from Minneapolis, that Frank B. Kel
logg had been invited to become at
torney general in the T,aft cabinet.
RUSSIANS MOURN ALEXIS.
ST. PETERSBURG, November 20.
St. Petersburg has assumed tho garb of
mourning for tho funeral of Grand
Duko Alexis, which will take platje to
morrow. Seven inches of snow tfell today and
the streots will be in bad condition to
morrow in case of a thaw, but arrange
ments will doubtless be mado to clean
tho route.
LATHAM REQUISITION HONORED.
PORTLAND, Ore., November 20.
Governor Chamberlain tonight honored
tho requisition of Govornor Gillett of
California, for tho return o'f Alexander
Latham to that statewhero, ho is
wanted in connection Tyitk tho bribcryt
graft enses.
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NOVEMBER 21, 1908
OF FORESTS AND
TARIFF REVISION
CHAMP CLARK OF MISSOURI IS
FOR FREE TRADE TO HELP
SAVE FORESTS.
TIMBER MEN ARGUE THAT THEY
NEED PROTECTION FOR
INDUSTRY.
'Universal Grab Game," Says Clark
"They Havo Not Heard Me Talk,"
Says Lumber Manufacturer When
Told of Attitude of Roosevelt.
WASHINGTON, November 20.
"Wo havo already crossed the verge
of a timber famine, so severe a blight
that it will bo felt in every hamlet
in the land," said Theodore M. Knap
pen, a real cstato dealer of Minneap
olis, at today's hearing oh tariff revi
sion before the ways and means com
mittee, and he added: "In five years
every saw mill in Minnesota will bo
abandoned. Yet this industry in its
prime' employed 10,000 men."
He spoke for the repeal of the duty
on timber, saying that A'mcrican labor
had nothing to fear from free trad.e,
as Canadian labor was as high as labor
in thi founty.
That protection was needed was as
serted by J; B. White, a lumber manu
facturer of Kansas City, in asking that
the present rate of duty on lumber be
retained, if not increased. Ho argued
that a protective tariff would tend to
conserve the forests of tho country, on
the theory that every stray log in the
forests would be used in manufacture.
"JIow about President Rooseyclt,
Gifford Pinchot and these other gen
tlemen who are arguing for froo'trade
in lumber in order to conserve tho
forests of the country?" asked Champ
Clark.
"They have not heard me talk," was
tho ready reply.
Champ Clark claimed that the high
price of lumbqr was duo to speculation
on tho pnrt Of Jumber producers.
The witness argued that the prico of
stumpage, one of the principal cost
items In procuring lumber, was too
high.
J. A. Freeman of St. Louis, M. E.
Skinner of San Francisco and C. W.
Nibley of Oregon, added their voices
to the appeal for a continuation of a
j protctive tariff on lumber. Nibley ad
( niitted that profits were 10 to 1.1 per
j cent under a protective tariff.
The committee took a reces until
7 o'clock, resuming the hearing an hour
later, when several lumbermen and wit
TAFT'nesse interested in reeds and rattan
appeared in favor of a protective tariff.
"The Universal grab game'," was
the appellation given the tariff by Rep
resentative Clark of Missouri at the
hearing.
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Arizona: Fair in south; snow or rain
in t'he north Saturday night and Sun
ilav. TOMBSTONE MAN
ALLEGED THAT TRAVELING MAN
MADE HIMSELF OBJECTION
ABLE TO MEMBERS OF THEAT
RICAL TROUPE IN TOMBSTONE.
TOMBSTONE, Nov. 20. A drummer
by the name "of Cobbins is alleged to
havo inado himself objectionable here
today with tomb of the Earl Burgess
company, whp reported to the manage
ment that he' had insulted thtfrn,
A young man by tho name of Copp
ing proceeded to beat him up unmerci
fully. Ho knocked him down boveral
times and blacked both of his eyes. The
druhimor is alleged to have drawn a
knjfo and ntemptedto stab Copping in
tho buck, but did no further injury than
cutting his cont. He was arrested on
tho spot, and as tho company did not
wish to return to appear beforo tho
grand jury, he received a fine and some
good whoJesomo advice.
INDIVIDUAL BETTING LEGAL.
NEW YORK, November 20. That
personal, or. what has been termed "in
dividual betting," is legal at race
tracks in this state, was the opinion
of' tho judges of the appollatc division
of tho Supremo court, made public in
a decision in tno caso urougnt oy As
sistant District Attorney Elder, to de
termine iho application of tho Agnow
Hart bill on this point. Tho decision
'is "in favor of the Brooklyn Jockey
club. '
I
MI
VAN VLIS8ENGEN FORGERIES
AMOUNT TO 51,539,423
CHICAGO, November 20. After an
examination of the various documents
in tho ofilco of Peter Van Vlissengen,
tho convicted forger of mortgages,
notes nnd trust deeds, on his own con
fession, William C. Niblack, vice pres
ident of the Chicago Titlo & Trust com
pany, receiver for the van Vlissengen
properties declared today the forgeries
amounted to $1,539,123.
ESPEE BUSHES WORK.
RENO. Nov., November 20. Tho
Southern Pacific has established a nine
hour day in the railroad shops nt
Sparks, after operating for years on an
eight-hour basis. Tho move was neces
sary because of. the increased business
over tho company's lines, which puts
extra work in the shops. It is esti
mated that $10,000 will be added
monthly to the circulation in this vicin-
"y.
COURT MARTIAL ON LOUISIANA.
MANILA, November 20. A court
martial with Rear Admiral Scaton
Schroeder as president, and Major Wil
liams as judge advocate, convened on
tho battleship Louisiana today, for he
purposo of trying Lieutenant Command
er Jewell, of tho Louisiana and Lieu
tenant Bowers of the Rhode Island, on
charges of pergonal misconduct during
the visit of the fleet to Japan.
JUDGE NAVE INSTRUCTS FOR
JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT
IN RUNAWAY CASE.
J. W. Hamm Asked for 512,000 Dam
ages for Personal Injuries to His
Wife By Garbage Wagon in Runaway
on July i of Last Year.
At the direction of Judge Nave, prtj
siding in the district court, the jury in"
the case of J. W. Hamm vst the City
of Globe, returned a verdict for thp de
fendant, dismissing the plaintiff's
claim of $12,000 damages for personal
injuries to his wife, July 4, 1907, when
she was run over by a garbage wagon
in a runaway alleged to have been
caused by fireworks on the street. One
of Hamm 's children received injuries
from which she died some time later,
at the same time, and on that cause
he has also filed a suit for $13,000,
whicfT has not yet been tried.
When trial of the case was resumed
yesterday, the plaintiff called to the
stand Sheriff J. II. Thompson, Donald
Haverley, Tip Henderson, J. H. Welch,
Charles L. Baker, Mary A. Blake, Sam
uel May, Mrs. Hamm, II. II. Bru and
Dr. A. F. Maisch. At the conclusion of
their testimony, City Attorney Allrcd
moved that the case be dismissed, as
there was nothing to show that the gar
bage wagon which was held to have in
jured the plaintiff's wife was tho prop
erty of the city. The court ruled ac
cordingly. Frank Williams, charged ith assault
to commit murder, was discharged on
motion of the district attorney.
Thomas Harris, charged with shoot
ing with intent to murjler Mrs. Woods,
a colored woman, was allowed to with
draw his plea of not guilty and to plead
to a c liar go of assault with a deadly
weapon. He will be sentenced Monday.
LILLER EXPLAINS PLANS.
NEW YORK, November 20. Colonel
William C. Liller, chairman of the na
tional league pf democratic clubs, in a.
statement issued tonight regarding his
call for a meeting of the representatives
of all Bryan clubs and democratic or
ganizations throughout the country, to
be held at Washington on December 8,
9 and 10, next, said that it was tho
purposo of the lcaguo to maintain in
tact the organization now existing and
to strengthen the leaguo so as to elim
inate the work of re-organization at
tho beginning of each campaign.
TO HELP IMMIGRANTS.
WASHINGTON, November 20. AH
tho members of tho cabinet attended
the regular meeting todny, except Sec
retaries Meyer, Garfield and Wilson.
Secretary Straus of the department of
commorco and l.bor, developed a com
prehensive plan for aiding thp unem
ployed of tho country. This plan ho
will announce and explain in his annual
report to bc-mado public in a few days
It partakes of tho principles underly
ing an organization bureau of informa
tion in tho immigration service. Tho
bureau gathors information from those
who seek to cngago labo'r and furnishes
information to immigrants.
C TT WINS!
RANCHER
LOSES
PRICE FIVE CENTS
IS-
T TO ELECT
E
FEDERATION PRESENTS GOMPERS
WITH SILVER LOVING CUP,
RING TO HIS WIFE.
PROBABILITY IS THAT ' EVEN
DAN KEEFE WILL BE
EE-ELEOTED.
Socialists Lose Out in Long Debate
Over Course of Federationist, Which
They Condemned and Aro Voted
Down by Convention.
DENVER, November 20.' At no
time sinco the opening of the conven
tion of the American Federation of La
bor has there been any doubt 'that
President Gompers was in complete
control, but it was .thought possible
that part of his rcpor might bo materi
ally amended, or his political course'
condemned.
The Tcport was before the convention
for a day and a half, and, although for
a while there wag vigorous discussion
over some of its contents, it was adopt
ed this afternoon and Gompers there
by fully endorsed.
Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, the
election of officers will be the special
order of business. All of. the old of
ficers will probably be elected with tho
exception of Vice President Daniel J.
Kcefe, and even ho may be again voted
into oflice. It is reported that the min
ers have decided to support Mr. Keefc
for re-election, and they have tho
largest vote of any union in the con
vention. It is also reported that Gom-
pers will not oppose Keefe, but this'
cannot bo confirmed, as the president
refuses to bo interviewed on tho sub
ject. In the report of the committee on tho
president's report, there was a section
commending the course of tho American
Federationist, the official organ. Ob
jection to this was made by the leading
socialists jirescnt. They wanted the
report .amended so that a committeo
would be appointed to investigate tho
sources of the income of tho socialist
party in tho recent campaign. This
information was desired because of an
attack upon Eugene V. Debs, that ap
peared in the Federationist. '
An amendment was offered to ask
the socialists if they were responsible
for attacks on Federationist officials in
the socialist press. The amendment
was adopted and precipitated a debate
in which a number ofo delegates took
part, including President Gompers.
J. M. Barnes colsed the discussion
nnd.
in the course of his remarks, de
nied several charges made by Gompers.
Gompers desired to speak a second
time, but Barnes objected. By this ob
jection the socialists lost all they had
gained by .thcif eloquence, and tho
convention promptly vote"d down their
amendment and adopted tho debated
section.
At this.pdiht, Delegate T. L. Lewis
of the miners, interrupted the proceed
ings, and, in an eloquent speech, pre
sented, on behalf of tho convention, to
President Gompers a handsome silver
loving cup, and to Mrs. Gompers a dia
mond ring. Mr. Gompers was overcome
by thp good will of tho delegates.
PEKIN, November 20. It is becom
ing evident that Prince Chun, tho
regent, is taking the matters of gov
ernment into his own hands and that he
resents interference from th6 Dowager
Empress Ychonala, or members of the
grand council. A vigorously worded
edict, issued by tho regent today, in
tho name of tho emperor, sets forth
that his authority was received from
tho lato dowager empress and that" it
commands obedience to him. It says
in part:
"All imperial clansmen aro ordered
to give a greater degreo of obedienco
than others; this is for the effect' of the
example. Disobeying princes and offi
cials will bo dealt with without leni
ency. Our purposo in this isto fulfill
the command of tho lato dowager em
press and to satisfy tho people."
Tho wording of this edict indicates
tho existenco of dissension in tho im
perial family, and a disposition to take-'
matters into his own hands is indi
cated by other reports from the palace'
regarding tho princo, regent.
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