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1 Ms he Sunday Journal Is the northwest's greatest Sun -day Newspaper. fflTGBELL LOOKS FOR GOAL STRIKE President of Mine Workers Says Men Will Quit, "As Far as lie Knows." HESITANCY MARKS HIS WORDS, HOWEVER Leader Is in Pittsburg to Settle Trouble in That District. Pittsbmg, Feb. 2L-"As far as I knim now, there willoe a strike." President Mitchell of the "United Mine Workers of America, who arrived here todayfrom New York, made the foregoing statement today at the Hotel Henry. I am not here to have any confer ence with the bituminous operators,'' he said. "My visit to Pittsburg is to investigate the trouble existing among the officers and delegates tff the Pittsburg district organization. I will announce myself later in the dav re garding the" Pittsburg situation. "Will it be necessary to reconvene the national convention before a set tlement can be made between the min ers and coal operators under the Ryan resolution adopted at the national con vention at Indianapolis?" President Supreme. "The national president interprets the laws o the miners' union," re plied Mitchell. You mean by that, then, that you can effect a settlement anv dis trict.''' \sk Secretarv Wilson," said Mr. Mitchel. "And the secretarv is not discussing the Evan resolution at this time," Secretarv Wilson immediately replied. "Will there be a strike on April 1?" President Mitchell was asked. As far as I know now,'' answered President Mitchell, with considerable hesitanev, there will be a strike.'' "In both the bituminous and an thracite fields?" he was asked. I will positivelv sav nothing more.'' Will See Bobbins. "Notwithstanding the denials from YOU and E. L. Bobbins, leader of the bit i. nnous operators, reports are still ififctent that you will hold a con ferenee with Bobbins." Mr. Mitchell was told. "Ther.6 "s nothing in the reports," replied Micv.ri-11. "Bei ng in Pittsburg, of course. I will see Mr. Bobbins, prob ably some time today." President Mitchell field a conference with the special committee represent ing the delegates of the Pittsburg dis trict miners" convention this morning. He announced at the noon adjournment that he would confer with the attor neys of the delegates, after which he would likelv be a position to make a statement. GAPON MOVEMENT BACKED BY WITTE Russian Priest a Mere Figurehead in Secretly Subsidized Organization. St. Petersburg, Feb. 21.Thru the disappearance of a iournalist, Matu shensky, the press agent au'd real brains of the Father Gapon movement, the dis closure has been made that the Moder ate Labor organization which Gapon es tablished in St. Petersburg after the -publication of the imperial manifesto of Oct. 30, 1904, was subsidized by the government, which supplied the funds for the rent of its clubhouse and litera ture. Badical circles are elated, over the revelation, which was made in an open letter bv the president of the Putiloff section of the organization, complain-, _,.,,-. ing that $12,000 of the funds furnished thiu M. Timiriazeff, until reeentlv min ister of commerce, had not reached the treasury. The socialists claim that this spells the downfall of the conservative oppo sition to the full revolutionary program among the workmen. It is now shown that Gapon really plaved a minor role in the formidable movement of Jannaiv, 1903, and that Matushensky was the director of the campaign which mvstified both the police and the old-time revolutionists, and that Matushensky was the author of the great petition Ayith which the workingmen were marching to the Win ter Palace Sunday, Jan. _22. 1905,^0 present to the emperor when the troops fired on them. A curious,.commentary. o,n- government furnished the- money, when novo has no permitted assemblies of conservativ*tworkmen, whicA arie dinsf persed, as rigorously as those of the socialists. Troops Flog Women. up to the present Interior Minister Dur- ing in the district of Weden is operat ing vigorously. The troops nave cap tured many revolutionists, of whom five were tried by drum-head courtmartial and shot, and thirty, including women, were flogged with knots. Seventy rifles were seized. Two prominent residents of Eeval, Vicepresident Paetz and an attorney named Tamant, have been sentenced to death for participation iu the TCVOIU tionarj* movement. OLDEST YAHKEES PASSING. Southinfjtou. Conn Feb 21 Mrs. SiKia Tiangdon Dunham the second oldest person this state, died today, acred 3or. ^ear^ The old est person In the state, Mrs. Deborah Silliman ot Ka-*ton. Ttbo is 106 years old todav is sen onsh ill as the result*! shock caused bv the death of her ton, which oecuned yesterday dur ing a hie at his home. Honolulu-Feb 21J A Laing died ester day at'Qneen's hospital Lalng was a Scotch man. fflLjears old and had been emploe here several vears as a se.ircher of recoids. He is said to have been a fellow of the Ro^al Geo Kiaphteal society and to have conve\ed the re mains of Livingstone from Zanzibai to London and Is alsc said to h.ive been a member of IP711V AT St^nlev's Nieer expedition tea&5M: CHICAGO WOMAN IS TtfUG'S VICTIM Unsafe City of America Has An other Instance of Crime's Reign. Journal Special fll~ the condi tions prevailing is the cabinet's action jn opening clubhouses, for which the i for. months, have been of making their* victims, added an other chapter to the reign of terror last night when Mrs. Josephine T. Loomis of Marquette terrace was beaten and choked brutally by a bandit with in a few yards of her home and was robbed of $10 and diamond rings val ued at $250. When her face had been covered with blood from gashes in flicted by the highwayman's fists, Mrs. Loomis was ordered to take on5 Mystery in Man's Death. Chicago, Feb. 21.The body of a man apparently about 45 years old was found today in the gutter at Twenty first street and Calumet avenue, a fash ionable residence district. There was a bullet hole above the right ear, and a cheap revolver lay near the corpse, but the police are unable to state whether it is a case of murder or of suicide. The man was well dressed and had every appearance of being a prosperous business man. The only clues to his identity are the initials "A.' E." stamped on the sweatband of a hat found near him. The hat bears the name of the sellers, "B. K. & Co., Mil waukee." There was a bullet hole in the hat, but the police were unable to .,-e ^rfn..t.innn ^a upo th head so as to bring le he gtra i fro he mn-L-A Voc rov ,tfori hiD foo gav PRICE TWO CENTS. WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2i, 1906. X. FIRST PHOTO IN THE WEST OF WHITE HOUSE BRIDE MRS. NICHOLAS LONGWORTH. The Bride trr Her Wedding Gown and Veil. Photo copyright, 1906, by B. S. Curtis, Now York. w0 Service." ve Io-i" HOCH MUST HANG, DECLARESDENEEN Bluebeard Will Be Executed Fri day, His Last Plea Having Failed. acting on the recommendation of the ru:~ v\. 4.-U o-1 i i Chicago, Feb. 21.Governor Deneen, ?^f' N a S i eb 1 "-vro c7_imewomen __^ho state boar her rings, which she did, handing them to the robber. He also seized her purse and escaped. Mrs. Loomis, who is a member of several Sheridan Park women's organ izations, fainted after the attack, and was fchind on the sidewalk by friends, who helped her to her home. She is a daughter of an official of the First Na tional bank. dirfiftt.lv nvev th bullet the perforatio directly over the bullet wound. The hat was also very small for the man. The police believe the man may have been slain by robbers and his body brought from a distance. GIRL FLOORS MASHER KICKS HIM TO SLEEP Journal Special Service. Chicago, Feb. 21."You ought not to be out at night flone. You have brought this on yourself." That is what a masher said to Miss Bertha Plath in South Chicago, as he 4. -seized her while she was on her way hom lag ht Mis a plat right flst fl out th gfcoulder for replv and a mus ular kick. wen "Riga, Livonia, Eussia, Feb. 21.The home. The girl today the af- expedition sent to crush the second ris- he moralizing masher witho a crash andC a look of pained amazement on his face. Then his pun ishment continued. Miss Plath kicked him until he was insensible and then, fearing that she had killed him, ran -reportedii i: ::n fair to the police timidly asking of they had found the man's body. Friends of Miss Plath say she is an expert at the punching bag. GANNYHIRD MADE THE GHURGH GIVE ALL Journal Special Service. New York, Feb. 21.A church of .New Rochelle, which asked Andrew \Carnegie for. money to buy a new organ, has $500 raised for that purpose. Mr. Carnegie did not give it, tho. When a committee from the church asked the steel king for a contribution he recom mended that $500 be raised and then he "would see what he could do." Greatly elated, the committee quickly succeeded in raising the motfev. Re porting their success to Mr. Carnegie the members were astounded when he told them that if they hadx$500 that was a~ great plenty and that therefore he would gne nothing. ^mmjM- irflSk -pf- te~ pardons, has denied Johann Hoch 's petition for commutation of sentence to imprisonment for life. Hoch is under sentence to hang Friday. Hoch had been confident that he would be granted either tt pardon or a new trial, and the news that a com mutation of sentenced had been denied him came as a great surprise. He winced perceptibly when the news was told him, but recovered his com posure immediately and remarked qui etly: "All right. I have nothing to say about it." DECLARE GROSVENOR BEATEN. Lancaster, Ohio, Feb. 21.Opponents' of General Charles H. Grosvenor declared last night that the veteran representative of the eleventh district in congress will not be renominated. The delegation from his home county (Athens) decided not to cast a single vote, for Grosvenor. HAGUE MAIJND M0RW DISPUTE -rV&- i**v International Tribunal Likely to Be Charged with'Deciding in Case. War Between Germany and France Is Regarded Unlikely. Madrid, Feb. ,21.An important Spanish statesman is authority for the statement that the question is now mooted of charging The Hague arbitra tion tribunal with the settlement of the Moroccan controversy owing to the ap parent inability of the delegates at Algeciras to secure an accord. The newspapers say that while war is not likely the Franco-German contro versy keeps Europe in a state of con stant uneasiness. At a Standstill. Paris, Feb. 21,-yThe foreign office considers that the Franco-German situ ation is stationary and does not expect notable developments until the proposed Moroccan reforms srre discussed in open conference. The steadiness of prices on the bourse, it is claimed, indicates that operators are able to resist the war scare. Public sentiment continues calm and apparently the people are tiring of the prolonged controversy. Unconfirmed reports are circulated Washington, Vienna, St. Petersburg and Borne are co-operating toward securing an accord on Morocco. -*r PLACE HUNTERS BLOCK REFORMS Consular Reorganization Bill Passes Senate but Halts in House. Journal Special 8ervio. Washington, Feb. 21.The consular reform bill, which, when emasculated, lided thru the senate, has come upon ard times -in the house. The place hunters in the lower branch of con gress want to* provide additional offices lor their constituents and object to any "reduction"* in. ssfysrieB" ate ^heir friends post* alrVady ar Ideatedwhere I Secretary Root would agree to have the salary of every consul increased and enlarge the service sa congressmen coiuld have vacancies to fill," tfre bill would go thru with a rush. As it is, here is a measure absolutely needed in the interest of American prestige generally and American trade relations particularly, yet for purely personal reasons and without any ref erence to its merits it is subjected to opposition on the part of members of the lower house. Men who especially are culpable are members of the foreign affairs committee, who might be ex pected to understand something about the importance of improving the con sular service. They are not opposed apparently to consular reform in the abstract, but they are in the concrete. They want their friends who are in office taken care of first then they are willing to talk reform. CONGRESS HAS A RIDER. House of RepresentativesSay, Mr. Root, do you think your horse would carry double?, -vvvvvvvvvvvvww**wnYvmwwwwwwwwrww*'www*ww'wwWiT^l*/*nmmwwmtmt '_f/T7f MFIRST PHOTO IN THE WEST MR. AND MRS. LONGWORTH Lancaster, Ohio, Feb. 21.Alter a service of more than twenty years in congress, General Charles H. Grosvenor, the "Sage of Athens" was defeated ior fenomination today on the first bal lot by Albert Douglass, of Chillicothe, the vote being 78 to 20. Early today the friends of General Grosvenor were claiming his nomina tion on the promise of John F. White, of Hocking county, that he would throw the vote of that county to Grosvenor. The man who defeated General Gros venoi is 53 years of age and a lawyer of Chillicothe. He was a presidential elector at large and president of the Ohio electoral college in 1896 and was Oftfeated for the republican nomination for governor in 1899. He is a fine oi^tor and has dominated the politics of Boss county for years. THE NEWLY WEDD ED PAIR. DEWEY DRYDOCK IS SAFE. Gibraltar, Feb. 21.The Dewey drydock has arrived at Las Palmas, Canary islands, and is ex pected here in ten days. From a Photo Taken Immediately After the Wedding Breakfast. Photo copyright, 1906, by B. S Curtjb, Naw York. OHIO WILL DROP BIG CAPITALISTS GEN. GROSVENOR Veteran Congressman and Party Prophet Is Defeated for Eenomination. tAJBL AND WARMER TONIGHT THURSDAY, PABTLY OLOUDT. INNESdTA" 8T0RIC4L, VIEWING THE CITY Trolley to Duluth or Cheap Indus trial Power Are Under Consideration. _oKerair president of the Northern Development company of Du luth and a party of eastern capitalists are in Minneapolis today and spent some time under the guidance of C. C. Goodrich, vice president of the Twin City Rapid Transit company, in going over the lines and inspecting the plant of the Minneapolis Street Railway com pany. Mr. Cokefair is the head of the enter prise which is 'developing the water power of the St. Louis river at Fond du Lac, near Duluth. This, when har nessed, will be 300,000 horsepower, which is much greater than can be used immediately in the vicinity of Duluth. The twin cities are the logical market for the surplus power, and the presence of Mr. Cokefair and his party of finan ciers in this city today is doubtless with a view to investigating the oppor* tunities of using the power in Minne apolis. It is also hinted there is a project in view to get the Twin City Rapid Transit people interested in the trolley line between Duluth and Minneapolis with Mr. Cokefair and his eastern friends. Another proposition under considera tion is a pole lead to be built from the source of the power to Minneapolis and here sell the power to small industries desiring it. This might be done thru interesting the General Electric compa ny, with which Mr. Cokefair is asso ciated, or thru a new individual com pany. The eastern capitalists who are with Mr. Cokefair today are J. I. Buchanan, Henry Buhl, G. W. C. Johnson, Charles H. Hays, Otef Ussing, all of Pittsburg G. G. Olmstead and Wallace Johnson ot Chicago. Mr. Cokefair and his friends decline to discuss their plans until they have completed their present investigations. NO DDAL TARIFF NOW, DECLARES McCLEARY By W. W. Jermane. Washington, Feb. 21.Representa- tive McCleary is inclined to believe that the German tension has now been re lieved and that it will not be necessary for congress to consider his maximum and minimum tariff bill at this session. He is satisfied with the action of the German chancellor in proposing to the reiehstag that American goods enter ing Germany shall have for a time the lowest rates under the new tariff, which which goes into effect March 1. If the reiehstag passes this bill, American goods will not be discriminated against for the present. Representative Stevens today re ceived a large number of petitions from German-Americans of Minnesota urging the negotiation of a trade agreement with Germany. Mr. Stevens is asked to present the matter to the president, and he will do so at the first oppor tunity. INDIANA IS NOW IN LINE WITH MINNESOTA Journal Special Service. Michigan City, Xnd., Feb. 21.The binder twipe factory recently installed in the state prison' was put in opera tion yesterday. The plant starts wit! a force of forty hands, which number will be increased to seventy as the de mand requires. The plant is intended to compete with the binder twine trust, whose plants are not conducted by or anizetf labor, and^the product of the ocal plant will be disposed of to In diana farmers at a low price. Appointed as rikil carrier commencing March 1. George W. Ti^jlwrth, route 1, Faulk t*m, S. D. Read the Wants. METZGER ESTATE IS JUST A MYTH United States Minister at The Hague Exposes It as a Fraud. HOPES OF HUNDREDS ^i MUST COME TO NAUGHT Estate, if There Ever Was Any, Was Forfeited Long Ago. No less thah five presumptive Minne- a apolis heirs to greaet tune ins But One of Many. 1 Pag* Wan ys something interesting on Journa ETV' 16 PAGESFIVE O'CLOCK.' '^Vej "With regard to imaginary estates in Holland, it may be added that as early as 1878 the United States minister at The Hague made a report in which the fraudulent character of the publications soliciting subscriptions in money from parties in the United States was fully set forth. The Holland estates include the following: The 'Anneke-Jans,' the 'Cronkheit,' or 'Cronckheit,' the 'Van Cot,' the 'Van Dussen,' the 'Webber,' the 'Brandt' and the 'Metzger,' which are supposed to represent millions of money} but which actually represent nothing. As stated 1h a report of Ed ward Downes, consul at Amsterdam, dated March 24, 1896: 'These estates do not exist they are myths, will-o'-the-wisps, fakes. The "Bank of Holland," in which the "unclaimed millions" are alleged to be deposited, does not exist. Careful in vestigation induces the belief that thesft estates originated in the brain of some rascally speculator or speculators, who. imposing on human credulity, found many victims and fleeced them most profitably. 'If these estates ever had a r3bna fide existence, then they came clearly within the purview of the statute of limitations passed by the Dutch parlia ment in 1852, by which all unclaimed in-!j heritances irrevocably escheated after a 2 lapse of five years to the state. Every?! dollar spent in reference to these et-*s tates is so much money wasted.' ZION CITY PAYS UP 4 INTEREST ON MORTGAGE Journal Special Sarv.ce. 4X Chicago, Feb. 21.Announcement wa made today bv Mrs. Joseph Durkin that Zion had paid all interest due on the extensive mortgage she owns on the Zion City site. The amount wag $3',800. Hiram Ferry, the second largest mortgagee, also received his final pay ment of interest. His amount was near ly as large as Mrs. Durkin's. The interest paid covers the mort- gages up to April 1 next in both cases. The interest to both was due a year afeo and failure of payment is what threatened recently to precipitate fore closure proceedings on Zion. RICHEST WOMAN TO $ LIVE OVER A STORE Jcurn&l Special Service. Philadelphia, Feb. 21.In line witk her ideas of unostentatiousness and fru gality, Mrs. Anne Weightman Walker. the richest woman in America, will live over a store. She intends to con vert the old Weightman mansion, at 1336 and 1338 Walnut street, into a paying proposition, and from rentals to add to the $50,000,000 left her by" her father, the chemist. The fact that Mra. Walker will make this use of the horaa 'stead property has disposed of the story that she wishes to become social leader., ^Zx^ -A&' 1 Metzger for- $j& Hollandthe are du to*, experience *m more or less severe disappointment over the announcement that the whole thing |f| is only another "European estate"^Jf fraud. This particular estate was sup- jf posed to be that of the Baron Theobold*"l Metzger, which had been held by the government of HoHand" for over 100^ years, and with compounded interest-IS had grown to many millions of dollars. *M David Jayne Hill, former assistant^ secretary of 3tate, and now minister at*J The Hague, has been asked about the^sf estate and writes that the number ofJ|| communications received at The Hague"*^ from various parts of the United States**"/ has multiplied* within the past few months, and therefore the matter is again brought to the attention of the department. In speaking of this trading upon the credulity of unsuspecting persons, Mr. Hill savs: Estates Disposed of. "The law provides for the final dis posal of all estates that were in the hands of the commission beginning with the date of its establishment with in five years and some months after 1852, when the Jaw went "into effect. From this it is evident that all such ancient estates, even if they had ever existed, would now under the present law have irrevocably escheated to th state. It may not, however, be amiss to add that so far investigation has shown that these estates never did exist except in imagination. A recent letter from Gresham, Ore., written by a G. W. Metzger, secretary of the Oregon Society United Descend ants of Baron Theobald Metzger von Weibnom, shows that in that state an organization of the supposed heirs has been formed for the joint prosecution of their claims. The writer asks, on be half of his society and 'several others in the United States,' whether the le gation would 'consider any proposition relative to-an Investigation of the case.' "Similar letters are being,constantly -ived^BMB^Coloradij, -Pennsylvania,' Illinois and other states. The value of the property is stated variously to be some $28,000,000 to $100,000,000. A clipping from the Gazette, of York, Pa., of Nov. 24, 1905, recently in closed, describes a meeting of seventy five heirs in that place under the lead ership of 'Attorney W. E. Bradley and MrB. Mary V. McDonald,' both, of Phil adelphia. This article also states that each individual was allowed to con tribute what he thought prqper toward the prosecution of his claim. As this matter has assumed such large propor tions, it seems reasonable to suppose that a large number of unsuspecting people are contributing money to an en terprise in which there is absolutely no hope of return. i- i jeL