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THE SUN AND NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL
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MINERS' LEADER 3 '
TIES ALTERS PLEA
tfownt First Defies Court,
Then Admits Guilt anil later
Demands Trial.
EAST OHIO MINUS OPEN
Soft Coal Trices Quoted Navy
Show Hip: Increase Action
Is Delayed.
Siwlol to Tiiu Hun ash Xr.w Ionic Ilmw
1,'ittsui-ii.j, Kan., April 7. Alexander
)lottat, president ot the Kansas dis
trict miners, brought Into court for
contempt to-day, llrft l;ild down tho
ffauntlet of ileflnnco to the court, tm.n
twiked down, idetidlnc (,'ullty, changed
mind again and concluded finally to
Uand trial.
When llowat was brought Into court
Tlth Aiuruct Dort-hy. vice-president, and
ThomiiH Harvey. (vrntiiry-Uvamiier r.r
the mitierx' union. Juilita Curran et tn
hearlriR of the case for l'rld.iy. Howiit.
Ihroush his attorney, announced that Mo
had no d, tenoo to make and that tlic
licarlns mlslit as well proofed.
Judge Cunnit then hosan to mal.e
his flndlngH In the uho, committing
Ilownt to jail, when III attorney an
nounced that "ulnre looking over tn
chargeH in the case" hi clients had
decided to make a defence and asked
for a .onlliuiitnco until Friday. The
lequcut was granted. llowat and Ms as
sociates wen- allowed their freedom on
bonds of $500 each. ,,.
Jtnwut's coum ha pet all tils frlcruIS
wrt,n Iia rtnrtpil his de-
llance it va believed ho hnd In mind
a general strike. Mut In elmnglnc his
mind at the last minute he .Impelled that
belief. The general feeling In the .llntrl.-t
Is that llowat is playing for position
M the miners. The talk hero Is that
ho I In (lenperate straltfi with the rank
rind tile, of the miners and that he In
facing a revolt, which threaten to toss
him overboard, and that he H looking
for fonio chance to restore himself to
lavor.
WtiKttUKO, W. Vn . April 7. Day m'lt
employed In the majority of the bitumi
nous coal mines In the Hint Ohio field
returned to work to-day, under an agree
ment with "the operators that their
grievance would he taken up at a
conference to be held here April 19.
and without tho sanction ot tho union
official.
Tho strike has caused serious Inter
ruption In tho freight urvlco of tho ter
ritory, and will affect traffic moving be
tween tho East and Went
William a. Loe, president ot the
brotherhood of Hallway Trainmen, Is
sued a statement to-night In which ho
reiterated hla previous declarations that
the Chlmco strike was Illegal, and that
the union would do all In JU power to
end tho trouble and carry out Its con
tracts with tho railroads,
Kansas Citt. Mo.. April ".All switch
ing crews In the Kansus City Southern
yards hern and part of tlioso In tho
Wabash yards otruck to-night In sym
pathy with tho Chicago strike.
ARREST 4 IN U.S. IN
VILLA MEXICO PLOT
Agents in America Charged
"With Aiding: Move to Over-,
throw Government.
WASHINGTON. April 7. Uitumlnous
coal prices quoted the Navy department
In bids opened tn-d.i i-howed Increases
ranging up to .tl.12 a ton over th C.ov
ernment maximum price In otTect until
April 1. - The bids coven d less than ons
lifth of the 2.300,000 ton requested ror
delivery during the year ending next
March 31. Action on the bids, was do
ferred. . ,
The navy for the la-t year hRB been
commandeering its coal under authority
of the Lever act.
HUGHES TO DEFEND
MINERS' OFFICERS
43 Indicted Men Will Plead
Not Guilty, Says Lewis.
Tho forty-three other rs ot the I'nltcd
Mine, Workers of meri i under Indict
ment in Indianapolis on charges of con
spiracy to ral?e coal l '! will bo de
fended In court by Clia.lus E. Hughes,
former United States Supreme Court
justice, according to a i-Utement made
last night by John 1- Lewis. Interna
tional president of the miner, after tho
meeting of the anthrn-lte wage scale
Committee In the Union League Club.
,Mr. Hughes will have complete charge
of the defence when the indictments are
leturnable In Indianapjlis May 4, and
will be assisted by the attorneys for the
Mine Workers. It wni not announced
whether tho caao would be argued with
the cooperation of comm.- I for tho oper
ators or would bo handled Independently,
although miners and operitnrs face sim
ilar Indictments m 'he federal court.
The Indicted union officers will plead not
guilty, Mr. Lewis said.
El Tafo, Texas, April 7. A wide
spread revolutionary plot fostered by
Villa agents In the United .states to
overthrow the government In Mexico Is
being Investigated by the tlrand Jury
hero. It became known to-day. Three
persons aro In jail In this country, while
a fourth aws arrested by Mexican Fed
eral authorities at Mexican, Lower
California, while attempting to smuggle
munitions of war to the rt!olutlonlstn.
It was stated.
The threo arrested In tWs country, It
wan said, are accused of violating tho
neutrality laws by conspiring to foster
u revolution against a t'lovernment
iccognlzed by the United States.
According to Information obtained
here, the plot becamo known after United
f tales Army authorities in the Dig Ilend
district had arrested Andreas 11. Villa
ges, a Mexican boy, and Conception
I'crez, a niece of Francisco Villa, when
they attempted to cross into Mexico.
Military authorities seized from the
pair much correspondence fro: Villa
agents in this country, addressed to
Villa.
Federal authorities said the corre
spondence revealed a plot of Vllllstas
and other revolutionists to cross Into
Lower California, seize that titate and
the arms and ammunition available
there and then attack the States of
Sonera nn I Sliiahi, Mexico, while Villa
was to open a revolutionary campaign
In Chihuahua.
Several political leaders in Sonora
also were linked with the movement,
according to the correspondence.
Lamberto C'h.nez, a Colonel in Villa's
arm,,, was arr-'sted at Los Angeles.
Pal., through Information contained In
tho correspondence, and ho is said to
have confessed.
16,000 RAIL MEN
STRIKE IN CHICAGO
Conllntied from First Page.
In the event that the union odlclals fall
Is not known, but It I? likely that they
will Import strike brcakors and try to
end the trobulo In any way possible.
B. n. Orecr, vice-president of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St, Paul, sent
word to tho strikers to-day that unless
they returned to work by Thursday their
positions would Do filled.
It. V. Miller, organizer of the new
union the National Engineers Associa
tion, said to-day: ",Wo nro organizing
to protest against tho dilatory tactics of
tho national olllcers of tho brother
hoods. Wo aro hot 'outlawR.' Wo
nrn tho real organization, We have
the mon behind us. Tho brothel hoods
luxvn only their charters,
"Wo have madn no demands on the
companies yet nnd will make none until
wo are fully organized. Then they will
be presented In the regular way. We
nro not promising to back any organ
ization In Its strike. What we want Is
reformation In tho brotherhoods' poli
cies '
MENDEN DEFENDS DEMPSEY.
Shoulders Ileponlbllltr In Mnl-
lione Street Tunnel Wreck Cnse.
William S, Mcnden, general manager
of the n. H. T testifying at MlneoU
yesterday In behalf of John J. Dompsey,
Bhouldered cntlro responsibility and
completely exonerated Deinpsoy of re
sponsibility in connctlon with the Mai
bono street tunnel wreck of Novem
ber, tow.
Mcnden, who like Dempscy was In
dicted for manslaughter, won a dis
missal of his caso In the Supremo Court.
He testified that ho alnno was responsi
ble for Installation of safety dovlcen,
though he sometimes consulted Dompsey
for advice.
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of the Sunday edition, will be resumed next Sun
day, April 1 1 . Important work of fiction, history,
biography, books of travel, books for the young are
treated each week in the Review of Books from
the viewpoint of news.
Champ Clark's Reminiscences
In the New York Times Review of
Books next Sunday will be pub
lished a review of Champ Clark's
book "Reminiscences of the Last
Twenty-five Years of American
Politics," by Dr. Maurice Francis
Egan.
Another Arthurian Poem
"Launcelot," another Arthurian
poem, by Edwin A. Robinson, is
reviewed by Marguerite Wilkinson,
from advanced sheets. This poem
won the prize of $500 offered by
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The Rotogravure-Picture Section will tell, in wonderfully repro
duced photographs, the stories of recent happenings throughout
the world.
German Revolution
First photographs from the revolu
tionary district of Ruhr, Germany,
showing civilians fleeing before the
red menace, with Allied troops
patrolling the streets.
Burroughs, the Octogenarian
Series of interesting pictures of John
Burroughs, the well-known nat
uralist, celebrating his eighty-third
birthday at Ellenville, N. Y.
Kapp's Downfall
A page of scenes of the temporary
reign and sudden downfall of the
counter-revolutionary troops of Dr.
Kapp and General Baron von Lu
ettwitz. "Beautiful Boozy Bimini"
Bimini, 50 miles from Miami, Florida,
where prohibition is unknown, and
to which thirsty Americans may
ferry by seaplane.
Roosevelt's Bedroom
Restored bedroom of rosewood and
satinwood . furniture in the New
York City home of the Colonel,
where he was born and spent his
boyhood.
Dreadnoughts' Target Practice
Target practice of turret and anti
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dreadnoughts of f Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba.
Superdreadnou'ght Tennessee
Newest, largest and most powerful
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ready to go into commission.
College Regatta
Finish of Yale-Pennsylvania Boat
Races over the American Henley
course on the Schuylkill River,
viewed from the banks by tens of
thousands.
New German Monoplane
Wreck of the new German monoplane,
built entirely of duralumin, recently
sent to this country a total loss on
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Caproni Hydro-Triplane
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An article by a famous mountain
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