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VOL. XX COUNCIL REFUSED Two Thousand Labor Unionists in Spokane Parade on the CHy Hall, Headed by Band. ENDED IN NEARLY A RIOT f Labor Lender Seized by Jie Police and Dragged From tlie Council Accompanied by Hics mid Oat Ciills From Unionists. Spokane-, Wash., riot of 2,00) labor March 9. A unionists was narrowly averted in and about the city hall last night as a result of the city council's refusal to concede tho request of labor for increased wages of teamsters and common la borers on city work and for tho ap pointment of three jail matrons. D. C. Coates, ono of the editors .of tho Labor World, organized labor's official organ, who acted as spokes man, demanded that the matter' be given consideration then and not to night, as tho council declared it had decided to do. Ho was seized by tho SPRING Of the latest and newest merchandise at prices that will make customers of the keenest buyers , Graod Display of Ladies' Qoaks, Suits and Millinery At prices so low that selling will be easy, Wonderful Values in Goods and Silks Thousands of yards to select from of the very latest and newest goods, Our Motto: Quick Sales and Small. Profits, A Wonderful Showing of Wash Fabrics 1910 newest styles and weaves, 10,000 yards now ready for your inspection, The Chicago Store always for the lowest prices, Ch icago btore SALEM, OREGON "The Store That Saves You Money" Lit H 0 HI H MEN IRE K S, 1,200 VL v -rch Philadelphia, y -fell 0. Twelve hundred workmen em- ployed by tho Baldwin locomo- tivo works struck this afternoon. The company employs 12,000 men. The union leaders here are elated over the walkout, as they were conducted on "open shop" principles. Tho leaders dcclaro that by nightfall they will succeed in having every man leave tho works. The Baldwin officials, howev- er, denied this assertion. police and dragged from the council chambers, accompanied by hisses and cat calls from tho unionists. Coates was later allowed to return to the hall. It was then agreed that the city council meet In adjourned ses sion tonight for tho consideration of tho demands both for increased wages and for the matrons. Some members attempted to have the council meet as a committee of the whole, so nothing could be done Tho parade on tho city hall was led by a band and stretched out nearly a mile in length. Unionists carried placards and banners bear Ing inscriptions: (Continued on Page 8) Dress KOUT OPENING REFUSED DEMANDS Mine Owners Will Not Grant the Request of an Increase of Wages. WAS A COMPLETE SURPRISE Looks ns if There Would Soon 11c Another Big Strike In the Coal Re gions of the Eastern and Middle States. UNITED TRESS LEASED WWE.1 Cincinnati, O., March 9. Tho mine operators of tho Eastern and Middle state today refused to grant demands of the United Mlno Work ers of America for an increase of wages and the establishment of an eight-hour work day. The decision was reached at the opening of a joint conference of mine operators and leading mlno workers. Tho decision of tho operators camo as a complete surprise' to the mlno workers' representatives, who had hoped for and had prayed for an amicable settlement of tho ques tions at stake. Should tho conferences bo unable to agree, it is probable that every union miner In the bltulltblc coal regions of tho Eastern and Mlddls states will soon be on strike. ml.- 1 o t . 1 . minors' representatives. Tho llrst i. m 1 j -vi. i rrn. n . e was at iuicuu, wmu. xuui ence ended when tho operators re- fused to receive a delegation of 111!- nols miners, declaring that tho mine "u,wra "'" .p.uBcIUu by delegates from Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Whether the difficulty will spread to tho Western Federation of miners cannot bo predicted 'at this time. Both tho Western Federation and the United Mlno Workers have com, mlttees appointed for tho purpose of conferring on a plan for amalgama tion of tho organizations-or at least for tho establishment of a "fighting" agreement. MBITION MAY PREVENT SEPARATION I UNITED FHEH8 LEASED WlnK.1 London, March -9. It Is common gossip hero today that Premier As qulth and bis wlfo aro to seek a sep aration. Mrs. Asqulth has gone to Europe, where. It is said, the llrst step toward separation will be made. It Is strongly Intimated ttoday by those who stand in a position to know that tho premier will resign tho lead ership of tho Liberal forces, and re tire from the premiership. According to the general under standing, King Edward will elevate Asqulth to the peerage, provided tho present program Is carried through. This, it is assorted, will probably de lay actual separation; as it Is known that Mrs. Asqulth is too ambitious to throw over an opportunity to bo- come a peress. Nomination!. (TNiTHii vnm iKAtsun wiuk.) Washlngtqn, March 9. Prosldent Taft today uomlnatod Captain John II. Milton, of the navy, for the rank of rear-admiral. The nomination h i forwarded to tho senate far oon- iii niailoii. iU pruL 1-uiuu.ouni ' ymor reached the office of District ond to bo held by tho operators and Attorney McNary and wna what WILL HOL D UEST INQ Mysterious Circumstances Sur rounding Death of Nettie Rhodes Last Night. CORONER TO INVESTIGATE Tho Doctor's Certificate Is to the Kflect That Sho'Dled From Mer curial Poison Administered b Her Own Hand With Sulciilul In tent. , Because of tho facts which camo to light today concerning the circum stances surrounding the death of Nettie Goodo Tthodes, who died last night at tho homo of her father, J. P. Goode, Bellevuo and Commercial streets, Coroner Clough this after noon decided to hold an Inquest over the remains for tho purpose of ascer taining tho true cause of her death, and tho circumstances attendant up on It, and the hearing will be held at 10 o'clock in tho morning. District Attorney McNary, owing to the conflicting stories which reached his office this-morning con cerning the girl's death, took tho Ini tiative steps for tho calling of tho in quest. After an investigation of tho matter ho came to the conclusion that tho true cuuse of death and the cir cumstances surrjoundlng It could not be ascertained without an inquest and looking to that end ho commu nicated with Coroner Clough and re quested that It bo held. Coroner Clough, after an Investigation of tho matter decided that It was a case tot a coroners jury, and at a late hour this aftornoon advised tho district at torney that he had decided to hold the Inquest. Certificate Shows Suicide. During all of tho forenoon tho ru mor was provalent upon tho streets that Nettle Rhodes had committed sulcldo by taking poison. This ru caused hlm t0 u f an lnvestlga. Uon mjt t V(UJ nQt unU, ft ,ato hour thls aftornoon that the offlc0 was ab,0 to vedfy u Tno verlflca. t,Qn camQ whon A8aistanfc Dl8trjct Attorney Charles McNary learned that Dr. It. D. Byrd was tho physi cian who attended tho girl, and when ho was given . an opportunity of making an examination of tho death certificate made out by him. Dr, Bvrd's certificate Is to tho effect tnat NoUlo nhodo dlod (rom mer. Cllr,al voiBoa admIn,8terei by ner own hand with suicidal Indent. Disappointed In Love. While none of tho relatives or friends of tho girl have made any statement as to tho cause of tho girl's rash act, It is learned from good au thority that it was duo to being dis appointed in a lovo affair. It is learned that she was engaged to mar ry C. K. Trippe, a telegraph operator of this city, and that tho othor day sho was made aware of tho fact that ho was a married man and had a wife living In tho East, and that It was therefore Impossible for him to mar ry her. Tho disappointment occa sioned by this dlscovory Is said to have been so great that sho was un- ablo to bear up under It, and decided to ond all by committing suicide. It Is also stated that this was tho second attempt, tho llrst being mado about a weok ago, but this could not bo verified this afternoon. Wus Well Known. Nettlo Rhodes was the daughter of J. F, Goodo, of this city, and was 35 years of ago. 8ho was well known In tho city and had many friends who will deeply mourn her death. C. K. Trippe was also well known In tho city and tho two wero often seen together. During his residence hero, ho stayed at tho Eldrldgo lib tel. but an Inquiry at that place to day disclosed tho fact that ho had departed from tho city yostorday aftornoon. His destination was not loarnod. TKcluilkovNky Acipilllcd. St. Petersburg, March 9. Nicholas Tschaikovsky was acquitted today on charge of criminal revolutionary ac tivity, growing out of his visit to the PnHed State In 1907. AFFAIRS HAVE HAVE A HARD iOW TO HOE The Refusal of Conservative Unions to Violate Trade Con tracts Put a Kibosh on the General Strike. OPEN SHOP ALSO FACTOR Tho Action of tho Strike-Breakers Firing on Crowd Made Jlany Friends for tho Strikers Further Trouble Is Anticipated by the Unionists. Philadelphia, Pa., March 9. On ly tho most radical union leaders and followers today will not concede that tho great general strike hero Is a failure. Throughout tho city U la popularly acknowledged that tho sympathotlo strike designed to force the Rapid Transit Co. to arbitrate Its differences with Its striking car men, has not proved successful. Tho primary causes for failure aro attributed to tho . disinclination of conservative unions to vlolato trade contracts and to tho prevalence of the open shop system here. Labor organizations llko tho typo graphical unions Insisted that their members should not protect iron clad contracts. Many of tho largest plants here, such as tho Cramp Ship Yards and tho Baldwin Locomotive Works aro not unionized and these wero not af fected by tho general Btrlke. Moreover It Is conceded that many union men struck simply as a pro test against tho city administration over Its attitude toward tho car strike and tho labor question gonor ally. Theso men, it is said, now havo returned to work satisfied that they had dono all that could bo ex pected of them. Many special police wero with drawn I from duty today. This Indi cates that tho city officials bolleve tho crisis has passed. Certain union leaders still maintain that 125,000 men aro on strike, but they refuse to give any figures to support their claim, A careful canvass Indicates that 30,000 Is tho correct number today of thoso who walked out. In spite of a riot started by strike. breakers last night In which five men and a girl woro shot, tho au thorities today do not oxpect any further sorjous dlsordor. Unionists, howovor, aro not 30 sure that trouble can bo avoldod. They point to tho fact that tho per-1 sons shot woro members of tho crowd that was hooting and Jeering tho non-unionists. Tho fact that tho strlkobroakcra shot over the heuds of tho crowd and injured non combatants, aroused Intense anger. Many persons intimato that tho strikebreakers and tho majority of tho polfco havo fired tholrrovo!vors Indiscriminately and aro responsible for tho clashes, A dozen strikebreakers, angered at an atack on ono of thotr comrades, manned a car, ,ran It from a barn and sped down tho street firing right and loft. After proceeding for sov eral blocks' thoy switched back and returned to tho barn. Tho act aroused bitter resentment and further trouble may bo tho re sult. PRESIDENT MADE CANNON SORE Washington, D. C, March 9. - Member of President Tuft's official MILITIA TH Saratoga, N. Y., March 9, Two companies of state militia wero dispatched to Corinth to- day, for strlko duty. General strlko orders wero Is- sued by tho labor union leaders. Theso affect 82 mills of tho In- ternatlonal Papor Compay. y Strike-breakers wero taken to tho Corinth plant by company ofllciuls to replaco striking union men, who, according to union lcadei's, number 10,000. -', family aro still tittering today ovor a slight misunderstanding bctweqn Taft and Speaker Cannon over nn engagement to go for a rldo In tho Whlto Houso auto yesterday aftern noon. Shortly boforo tho Houso ad journed tho president called Cannon ovor tho tolephono and told Cannon that ho would pass tho capltol building in "about 10 mlnues" to tako tho speaker for a spin. Cannon was on tho stops at tho appointed time. Ho was thoro twonty-flvo min utes lator, but the president had not mado an appearance. Tho speaker then became slightly poeved. Ho hurled a hllf smoked stogto on tho steps and climbed into his own machine Ho then left after Instructing a messongor to tell tho president that ho had waited as long as ho could. Taft did not put In an appearance. o TILL DOING BUIS The "Meat Strike" a Busted Boom and the Leaders Are Wow Paying the Freight. Now York, March 9. An investl gation by tho United Press today re voalnd that tho "meat strlko" has gono tho routo of many noblo cm sadefl, whllo tho object of Its attack tho moat trust, Is still doing busl ness at tho old stand. Tho prices of all moat products today uro higher than boforo tho "meat strlko" was declared. Moanwhllo tho meat trust Is bus! ly making tho crusadors "pay tho frolght of their crusado." Soon after tho strlko began tho prices of moat products woro low- ored slightly In somo cities, for a few days. Then started a steady rlso In tho retail, prices, until now. beef, lamb, mutton and poultry aro selling from 3 to 9 cents hlghor per pound than last Docombor. Pork and pork products havo almost dou bled In prlco. From Malno to Florida; from Now York to tho Pacific coast, tho toudoncy has been toward hlghor prlvcs. MABEL IS DISSATISFIED Mabel Poo has commenced a suit of divorce in the circuit court against Arnold Poo, Sho alleges that they wero married In Frazler, Iowa, In tho year 1901, and alleges cruol and In human treatment as a ground for tho dissolution of tho marriage bond ex isting between thorn. In support of her allegation In this respect sho ullogos that her husband compolled her, while In the statu of Iowa, to perform, manual labor, and that he was abusive to her. Sho also cites v numbor of instances of cruel and Inhuman treatment towards her. after thoy took up tholr rosldonco in the town of Albany. In this state. ERE So. 58 - LDEN OPPORTUNITY Organized Labor Must Take Drastic Action or Lose the Ground Already Gained.. , PASS STRONG RESOLUTIONS Tho Action of Strlko-Breakcrs In Openly Attacking and Firing Into tho Crowds In Philadelphia Is Said to Be. tho Cause of tho Decision. ONITED ritBSS LBASID WIBB.l New Castlo, Pa.,March, 9. Tha State Federation of Labor In session here today ndoptod a resolution fa voring a natlon-wldo strike of all union lnbqr In sympathy with, the Philadelphia strikers. Tho adoption of tho resolution practically amounts to a declaration fby tho Pennsylvania organization of Its belief that tho affairs of organ ized labor In America hayo reached a. groat crisis. - .It was expected' tibnta statewide!' strike would bo proposed but the resolution in favor of f a national strike camo as a surprise to those not within tho councils of the fed eration. It is bolloved that the action of strlko breakers In oponly attacking and faring Into tho crowds In Phila delphia last night ls In a great measuro tho causo of tho decision to tako Immediate action on tho larg est possible scale. Tho labor leaders stato that union labor nover had a hotter caso to pre sent to tho world. f Thoy assort that tho union mom havo conducted themselves peaceful ly and with respect for the law Blnce tho strlko was declared In Philadel phia. They point to tho acts of the strike-breakers and ecraro that tho violent measures adopted by tho po Hco and tho authorities havo won tho sympathy of the national public for tho strikers. Tho apparent failure of tho Phil adelphia strlko with tho -anti-union-lots gaining ground dally, also mado Immodlato and drastic action neces sary, according to tho union leaders. Aftor tho resolution was adopted it was decided that a committoo nf nlno dologates bo appointed for tho purpose of carrying tho plan em bodied In It, Tho resolution was adopted after President Mahon, of tho national or ganization of street railway em ployes had nppoarod at tho conven tion and declared that a national strlko would bo tho only remedy for labor If arbitration fnlled. Ho represented to tho convention that as tho Philadelphia Itapid Transit Co. had positively refused to arbitrate thoro was llttlo hope of rollof for tho striking railway em ployes in that direction. His statements woro taken by tho dologates to mean that tho striking carmon had reachod, the point where they were practically forcod to ask for aid. Tho fact that Mahon stands high In tho American Federation of La bor unquestionably had weight with tho dologates hero. (tampers W1H Take Charge. f DNITWJ PBHHfl UUWCD WIM.J Washington, March ft was loarnod this aftornoon that Samuel Gompors, president of tho American Federation of Labor, will go to Phil adelphia upon his return from Chica go. Whether ho will tako charge of the strike In Philadelphia depends upon tho dovelopmonts. Thoro Is a per'slst- ont rumor that the federation olll- clals havo decided to call strikes of street oar oinployos in four or Ave big Itlea, but this cannot bo confirmed.