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ELKINS PLEADS TO
FORTIFY MEASURE
West Virginian Approves Presi
dent's Plan, but Wants
Stricter Provisions.
Congress Mnst Arrange for All
Cannot Rely on the
States.
FAMOUS SENATORS
SUPPORT RATE BILL
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Washington, April 6.As soon as
routine business was disposed of by the
senate today, Senator Stephen B. JU
kins presented his views on the rail
road-rate bill. xM+
Mr. Elkms announced at the outset
his desire to secure legislation that
would seoure to the people a prompt
and adequate remedy for the evils, m
ustices, abuses and wrongs of every
practiced by railroads, or in any
way growing out of their operation,"
but he said that, while he favors the
pending bill, he wanted to make it
'better and stronger,"
He said that he was in hearty accord
with the president on the subject of
rate regulation, and then indicated the
respects in which, according to his
opinion, the bill falls short in accom
plishing all that should be accom
plished by railroad legislation. Among
these were the following:
A prohibition against railroads pro
ducing, selling or shipping their own
coal and other like articles in competi
tion with other owners.
A requirement that switches shall
be built where needed to accommodate
business.
A requirement compelling inter
state roads to make connections with
connecting lines.
A requirement for the fair and just
distribution of cars among shippers."
Cannot Rely on States.
Commenting on these omissions, Mr.
Elkins made reply to the contention
that they would be covered by state
legislation. He said:
"In the state of West Virginia, and
nearly all the states, there Has been
legislation on these subjects, but for
many reasons the law is not invoked.
In the first place, a shipper, single
handed ana alone, cannot afford to sue
a great interstate railroad in doing
so he is bound to incur large expense,
gostilitdelay,
reat and is sure to incur the
or the great thru line, whiq&.
may work irreparable injury-to "his In-"
terests. T"
"The most important of these," he
said, "is the one providing the Inter-,
s^ate lines shall make prompt connec
tions with connecting branch or lateral
lines, and fair, just and reasonable pro
rating arrangements with them."
Small Lines Important.
He then spoke of the great improb
ability that additional trunk lines will
ecure admission to the great cities.
"The people must, therefore, the
future, depend largely tor the further
development of the country and con
tinued increase in business upon short
lines of railroad reaching rich sec
tions."
Illustrating his point by citing the
condition in his own state, Mr. Elkins
said:
"In the state of West Virginia and
other states, there are many men who
have made large investments in agri
cultural, coal, timber, iron-ore and oth
er lands, who are able and desirous of
building short lines from ten to 100
miles long to reach these lands and find
a market for their products, but they
will not build them under present con
ditions because of the difficulties in the
way of getting switches and connec
tions with the interstate lines, and when
they do get them, securing fair treat
ment.
Big Reads in Power.
"Men cannot afford to take this risk
without the law guarantees them protec
tion, and the people look to congress to
provide this protection in the Dill un
der consideration. As matters now
Stand, it is in the power of the great
thru lines to largely prevent the build
ing of branch or lateral lines, or to
utterly crush them out when built or
make them unprofitable.
"If there is not a provision in this
bill compelling connections and fair
treatment to short lines, the certain re
sult will be that people who have made
investments in lands will lose their
money, fewer railroads will be built
and there will be less business and less
development of the resources of the
country.'
Should Be Definite Bates.
He expressed the conviction that
"there should be a definite provision
in the bill denying the power to a com
mission to fix rates between localities
on divergent lines."
After considering the question of
court review at some length, Mr. El
kins announced his conclusion that any
legislation attempting to confer upon
the interstate commerce commission
the power to fix rates will be unconsti
tutional unless it prescribes "the stand
ard of charges which shall control,"
and requires the committee to conform
thereto in fixing rates that any legis
lation attempting to fix rates would be
unconstitutional whose practical effect
is to deny to common carriers *he right
to invoke and obtain in due time the
protection of the courts from being
compelled to transport persons or prop
erty at rates whici violate the ear
ner's constitutional rights. He de
clared that the pending bill works a
dear delegation of the congressional
powear to fix rates, andnecessarily added- "It ul
seem therefore to
follow that the provisions of the' bill
conferring rate-fixing power upon the
commission are unconstitutional."
WILL AID HUSBAND
TEO HE WRONGED HER
New York, April 6."I don't care
what my husband has done I am his
wife and it is my duty to help him all
t~ I can^"
Qj This is what ,Mrs. Joseph A. Turney.
the wife of the confessed embezzler or
gjgg the Bank of North America, said as
she left the Tombs this
afternoonr
a lengthy conversation with
after
he hus
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DOLLIYER RISES T.0
PRESIDEjrSAID
Iowa Senator Defends Interest of
Chief Executive in the
Bate Bill.
Special to The Journal.
Washington, April 6."I thought
it just as respectable and in line with
my public duty to hold counsel with
the president of the United States as
for my colleagues here to hold counsel
with the presidents of the railroads of
the United States on this question.''
This declarations from Senator Dolh
ver made during a defense of President
Roosevelt against a charge of interfer
ing with legislation created a commo
tion in the senate late yesterday. Sen
ators Bailey and Foraker promptly in
sisted that Mr. Dolliver name the sen
ators who have been oonferring with
railroad presidents, while Mr. Aldrich
protested against the classification of
senators, declaring that he is not under
railroad influence.
In the course of his speech on the
Hepburn bill, Senator Stone sharply
criticized the president for interfer
ence, saying that he had surrendered to
corporations, the Long amendment be
ing evidence of that fact.
Defends President.
At its conclusion Mr. Dolliver de
fended the president. He began by
saying the Hepburn bill is so framed
that it gives the courts the jurisdiction
conferred upon them by the constitu
tion. The Long amendment, he said,
Continued on 2d Page, 5th Column.
lANnlMUNl TY
DECISION TESTED
Officials Seek Plan to Get Poser
Into the Supreme
Court.
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Special to The Journal.
Chicago, April 6.A Washington spe
cial to the Chicago Tribute says:
Judge. Humphrey's celebrated immu
^takTsUciston in the beef-trust cases,
altho* it* has not beep aceepted yet. by
the gov*nme'iit as final, is rapidly work
ing a deep change in the opinions of
administrative officers and legislators
alike.
The attorney general, the president
and others all have been more or less
concerned in determining once and tor
all whether there is any way in which
Judge Humphrey's decision can be
brought before the supreme court. Pres
ent opinion inclines to the belief that
there can be no appeal in this particu
lar case. There are other similar cases
coming on, however, and it may be pos
sible to arrange for a court's holding
for the government, thus permitting an
appeal to be taken by the defendant.
Besides that, there probably are many
federal -judges outside of Chicago who
might not agree with Judge Humphrey,
and in case a decision for the govern
ment is reached under any conditions,
the defendants, of course, will appeal.
Assuming Judge Humphrey's decision
to be good law, and many men in con
gress say it is, it will be necessary tor
the government either to abandon its
old antitrust program and make use of
the bureau of corporations only to gath
er information for congress or else there
must be legislation of a new and rad
ical character. The result is the ad
ministration officers and thoughtful men
of congress are turning toward the
project of national incorporation or
iicense for companies engaged in in
terstate commerce.
POPE FOR A ONION
OF THE CHURCHES
Pius Asks Month's Prayer
Razing of Barriers Be
tween Christians.
for
New York, April 6.It is recom
mended by His Holiness, Pius X, that
the general intention used in the morn
ing prayers by the millions of members
of the League of the Sacred Heart dur
ing this month be: "The union of Chris
tion churches."
This league has a large membership
in every Catholic church in all parts'
of the world. The prayers are accom
panied by various good works, and last
month the assistants in the United
States performed over 16,000,000 of
good works.
This intention of
the union of
Christian churches'' so devoutly wished
for by the Catholic churches shows how
earnestly the pope desires all the bar
riers that now stand for unity^ thrown
down.
RINGLEADER OF BARING
BANK ROBBERS CAUGHT
Zurich, Switzerland, April 6.The
ringleader of the band which robbed
the Mutual Credit bank of Moscow of
$437,500 March 20, has been arrested
here. He is a young Russian who ar
rived in Zurich Apru 3 and had been
drinking heavily. The police took him
into custody on the charge of intoxica
tion and found among his belongings a
wallet filled with "Russian banknotes.
When the prisoner became sober he vol
untarilv confessed that he had headed
the band of nineteen men who had
robbed the bank.
BEGGAB, REFUSES AID, SLAYS."'
St Joseph, Mo, April 6 Simon Stern was
assaulted by a mun to whom he had refused
assistance today and will die of Ms Injuries.
SttwTa aesaUapt-jM-wigpoaed to b^fxmaxiig^^Ji a
KtSH 608X7,
Stuulaa Emancipator Who Is Coming: to 5
United States to Inoite Against
Autocracy. jg
SPIES DOG GORKY
COMING TO D. S.
Czar's Agents Follow Emanci
pator Who Will Incite
Against Autocracy.
Journal Special Service.
Cherbourg, April 6.Maxim Gorky,
the great Russian emancipator, is on
his way to the United States, whither
he has gone to arouse an agitation
among Russians and sympathizers in an
effort to start a movement to overthrow
the autocratic government of the czar.
It was learned he had sailed last night
under an assumed name on the Wilhelm
der Grosse.
It is reported that several Russian
secret service agents, who have been
dogging his footsteps since he 0it St.
Petersburg, sailed on the same steamer
with Gorky.
The propagandy which Gorky is about
to begin in America will enlist the co
operation of a number of famous polit
ical exiles, both in New York and Chi
cago. AUSTRO-HDNGARY
AGAIN AT PEACE
Parliamentary -Orisis Is Over
Hungary Will Have Con
ciliatory Cabinet.
Vienna, April 6.Peace between the
crown and the Hungarians has been
concluded and the parliamentary erisis
is over. Premier Feiervary has re
signed and Alexander Wekerle has been
appointed premier with a mandate to
form a conciliatory cabinet for Hun
gary.
SECRECY ABOUT PATTISON.
Columbus, April 6Governor Pattison was
taken to Cincinnati last night on a special train
and will be cared for temporarily In that city
The plans for the removal of the governor were
kept secret.
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FRIDAY^EVENING, :APRIL
DOWIE TO PACIFY
vf LOCMITH GOLD
$10,000,00O.Miraole Said to Be
"Aposie Plan to Stem
Bavoltr
Meanwhile Zionists Reveal Alleged
Plans o% "Elijah II" to
Become Polygamist.
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Chicago/ April 6.The Chicago'
Daily N*W says today that John Al
exander Ofowle has announced in a
private telegram to one of his dea
cons that he will return to Zion
City late ^Monday night and "per
form a miracle."
He promises, among other things,
to bring to "the faithful" In Zlon
$10,000,000 In gold, and several
scrolls of parchment upon which are
written the five books of Moses.
In the message, which was sent
from the City of Mexico, Dowie de
clared that he is "now greater than
he ever was believed to be.
Journal Speoial Service.
Chicago, April 6.Charges that John
Alexander Dowie seriously contemplates
polygamy, and that his plans tor a
Mexican colony, of which he should be
the head, were inspired by "his desire
to marry seven women, who had already
been selected and of whom Miss Ruth
Hofar, the Swiss heiress, was one, were
made at a meeting of 250 of the offi
cials of the Chmstian Catholic church,
held at the Zionf City college to discuss
the accusations] against the deposed
leader. The conference was secret, but
the evidence which was placed before
it will be conveyed to the people at a
mass meeting to be held Sunday after
noon.
Mrs. Dowie appeared as one of the
accusers of her deposed husband, de
claring that her home life had been
happy until polygamous tendencies de
veloped in the^mmd of the first apos
tle. She resented his arguments, she
said, and because of this he threatened
her with divorce and even resorted to
personal violence. It is believed that
the greater portion of the information
which was presented to the officials
in opposition to "Dr. Dowie was secured
from nis wife aajd son, Gladstone Dowie.
Had Been Paving Way?
According to* statements made by
those who claimed to possess indisputa
ble facts, Dr. Dowie had been labor
ing for the past twb years to prepare
the minds o the people for polygamous
practices off the part of himself, and
that, as a part of, Jh^ plan, iie had at
one time prop os^a|io ma overseer that
he be permitted tepdivorce Jane DowAe*
The opposition to this proiect, which
was led by Overseer Speieher, is said
to have been the real reason for the
order deposing that official.
Overseer Voliva has declared, because
of the dethronement of Dowie there will
be no change in the fundamental prin
ciples of the church. The same rules
would govern, and while in the future
the faithful would refuse to recognize
Dr. Dowie as "The First Apostle" and
"Eliiah the Restorer," they would
continue to believe in the cure of dis
ease by prayer and the laying on of
hands.'
Attorney H. L. Burnett, acting for
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, acting general
overseer, has filed a bill of Sale trans
ferring, for the consideration of $1, the
property of the church, its institutions
Continued on 2d "Page, 6th Column.
Standpatter-Wartime Hht, Mr. American Watch?
WATCHING THE TAKIJT
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TH0KA8 JT. WADTWaiGHT,
I Clover Crook Who Filched PJnanlt ij
I Treason.
WAINWRIGHT DSED
DRILL ONTMLT
Police Discover How Clever Thief
Secured Access to Pinault
Treasures.
Thomas J. Wainwright, the .confessed
looter of the Dr. J. N. Pinault resi
dence, was well schooled in his special
branch of criminal work and evidence
of his cleverness is turning up almost
every hour.
Police Superintendent Doyle has re
cently learned how Wainwright opened
the safe and the means he took to con
ceal the job. It was at first thought
that the safe had not been harmed in
any way and that the robber obtained
the combination of the safe from some
outside source.
The safe was drilled. A small hole
was bored just above the combination
to make it possible for him to hear the
tumblers fall. He may have worked
days before his ear became accustomed
to the delicate sound of the lock, but
he kept at it until the doors swung
open for him.
Plugs Hole with Wax.
After he had looted the vault and
taken everything of value to him, he
repaired the slight damage so that the
detectives were deceived for some time.
He filled the small hole with wax and
then enameled the surface so tha,t it
appeared unbroken. As the lock i? an
intricate one, the Icieieej&ws knew that
it ould 94Q&Lhav$ ibeen worked ip^.t^s
ordinary way, and they began a search
whic^rmflte ^IseOvertng the hole.
Governor Higgins of New York has
honored the requisition papers pre
sented to him by Detective James
Howard, and Wainwright will be
brought before a magistrate tomorrow
and turned over to the Minneapolis
officers if the papers are made out ac
cording to law. The officers and pris
oner will probably start for Minne
apolis tomorrow night and will arrive
here Tuesday morning.
Thief Stays Too Long.
Had Thomas J. Wainwright gone im
mediately to New York after looting
Dr. J. N. Pinault's Mount Curve resi
dence, he might never have been ar
rested. His attempt to sell some of
Continued on 2d Page, 5th Column.
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abroad and sell for $10 less on aaay return than if 1 had not gone abroad.
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TOWNS IN PERIL
OFJ AD YESUYIDS
Thousands Leave Homes as Huge
Volcano Belches Lava
and Fire,
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ERUPTION BECOMES VIOLENT
Naples, April 6.The eruption
of Mount Vesuvius is now most vio
lent. On the Pompeii side the main
stream of lava has divided into
two, one threatening Ottajano, a
commune of 20,000 inhabitants,
and the other threatening Torre
del Greco, with a population of"
30,000.
The danger is becoming serious
and calls for the immediate evacu
ation of Boscotrecaz, the nearest
village to the crater, which has a
population of 9,000.
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?ound
A
Si
ta
has won that the 190 4 state board or.
qualization and its acts have been
legal, and judgments for the full
amount of the 1908 tax will be entered
up against the defendants. There may
be an appeal to the supreme court.
Taxpayers Refuse to Settle.
When the state board made the ar
bitrary raise on Hennepin county prop
erty, the local taxpayers were much
incensed and many of them refused to
pay the tax. They contended that there
had been discrimination that the as
sessment had been properly made and
fixed by the county boards, and they
were willing to pay that assessment,
but would not pay the increase made
by the state board. The legality of
the state board was attacked and it was
argued that there had been many ir
regularities in its organization and
conduct, including an unwarranted trip
to St. Louis.
Upon these grounds Benjamin R. Cop
page, backed by other taxpayers, se
cured a writ of certiorari in the district
court ordering the state board of equal
ization to show cause why its actions
should not be reviewed by the local
court. Upon argument before the full
bench the writ was discharged.
Decision Oomes Soon.
Suits were then begun by the county
attorney against the C. A. Smith Lum
ber company, Harlow S. Gale, the West
ern Scrap Iron company, Benjamin R.
Coppage, the New England Furniture
company and W. L. Harris, to collect
the full amount of the 1903 tax. These
parties, as their defense, set up the
same allegations as urged in the appli
cation for a writ of certiorari, and in
the hearing of the cases argued the
illegality of the state board of equali
zation's acts at great length.
Judge D. I Simpson has had the
cases under advisement for several
asions
onths, but will undoubtedly file de
soon.
SOLDIERS PURSUE
THE ZULU REBELS
Expedition Defies Difficulties and
Starts After Insurgent
"Leader Rn.mhn^tft,
Durban, Natal, April 6.A punitive
expedition started from Greytown this
morning in pursuit of Bambaata, the
insurgent chief and deposed regent of
the Greytown district. The country hi
which the troops are operating is dif
ficult to traverse, consisting of vast
tracts of dense bush necessitating con
tinual scouting in order to avoid am
bushers.
Bambaata is reported to have com
pelled a number of loyal natives to
join him, but the report that he has
2,000 followers is not believed here.
EVIDENCE OF CRIMES
STRIKES JDROR BLIND
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MOVES FOR PEACE:
IN MINERS' FIGHT
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Naples, April 6.Streams of lava
which are diffusing great heat are pro
gressing with considerable rapidity in
the direction of Pompeii.
From the new crater, which is twenty
feet in circumference, the lava has al
ready gone two miles and a half. Hot
mud, ashes and black sand are also
ejected, which mixed with rain, pro
duce the so-called caustic rain, which is
most damaging to vegetation.
Altho the showers of cinders here
have diminished, people can be seen
holding up umbrellas as protection
against the falling ashes.
TAXPAYERS LOSE
ASSESSMENT FIGHT
Arbitrary Increase in Hennepin
Valuations Made in 1904
Will Stand.
Hennepin taxpayers who have made
a strenuous fight against the arbitrary
increase in valuation ordered by the
1904 state board of equalization, have
gone down to defeat, findings in-sev
eral suits brought by the state to col
lect the-foU-taar^ar* 4sij^4|a*ftfc
the county attorney's office, ana from
ts^
Evansville, Ind., April 6.Addison
N. Thomas of Jasper, Ind., foreman of
the Dubois grand jury, suddenlv be
came blind yesterday and it is stated
his blindness is the result of listening
to harrowing evidence of crime. These
I nervous system so as to effect the
iaervee regulating the flow of blood to
[the* eyes.
ARBITRATION MAY
END COAL STRIKES
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Operator Suggests a Referee
-Board to Settle the Bitu
ruinous Strike.
The Anthracite Miners Propose
Arbitration of Their Dif
ferences to Operators.
Columbus, Ohio, April 6.John H.
Winder, president of the bituminous op
erators or. Ohio has proposed arbitration
for the settlement of the strike in the
bituminous district, ^including Ohio,
western Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illi
nois. The following is Mr. Winder '$
telegram sent today from Charleston,
W. va., to President Roosevelt and
President Mitchell of the miners'
union:
"I propose that, subject to the ap
proval of a convention of the bitumin
ous operators of western Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, which shall
be called at the earliest date possibly
the differences between us be referrea
for determination and settlement, to a
board of arbitration composed of the
^members of the present board of concili
ation provided for in the award of the
anthracite coal strike commission, with
Judge Gray or any person he may ap
point as chairman and umpire.
Wants Work Besomed. ^jj|
"The decision of this tribunal or the
majority of members thereof, insofar
as it influences wages, to be effective
from April 1, 1906, and to continue in
force until March 31, 1908, which de
cision is to be final and binding on all
parties in interest. The employees of
the bituminous mines in the territory'
named, to resume work immediately and
to continue at work pending the de
cision of said board." ^f
"Interesting," Says Mitchell.
New York, April 6.President Mitch*
ell of the miners was shown the bulle
tin from Columbus announcing that
President Winder had telegraphed
President Roosevelt and Mr. Mitchell
proposing that the strike in the bitumi
nous field be settled in the same terms
which the minors proposed to the an
thracite operators yesterday.
garded the move as
'very interesting,^**^-ereH
p?. Said, but in the absence- of official
&<h3 could say no^'--
ers' scale eontmittee with regard to ar
e^boteS^ bitration is that conditions In the an
.thracite
i
_,-,Anis I
Al^a
and bituminou fields are wide
ly different.
Mr. Mitchell said that he entertains
hopo that the anthracite operators will
accept the miners' offer to arbitrate and
that he would not have submitted the
proposition if he had not expected them
seriously to consider it.
In reply to a query with reference to
the conditions in the bituminous fields
Mr. Mitchell said that the situation in
the soft coal region is steadily improv
ing and that matters there are proceed
ing satisfactorily to him.
MINERS WAIT FOB ANSWER I
Anthracite Diggers Will Wait Till Arbi
tration Move Is Decided.
New York, April 6.Pending the con'
sideration by the anthracite operators
the offer of the mine workers of
eastern Pennsylvania to arbitrate the
differences existing between them the
coal workers will make no move and
will simply wait until Monday for the
mine owners' reply.
The operators are busily engaged on
the miners' proposition. While they
have practically agreed as ^o how they
shall meet the offer, they will not draw
up a formal answer until the members
of the subcommittee have consulted all
interests involved.
The sentiment of the subcommittee
of the operators is distinctly' against
the acceptance of the miners' offer, at
least in its present shape.
The scale committee of the miners
held a brief session today and took up
the situation in the anthracite fields.
After the meeting most of the members
of the committee returned to their
homes, where they will meet the presi
dents ot the local unions in their re
spective districts to receive reports of
local conditions.
President Mitchell will remain here
while the operators axe considering the
miners' arbitration offer and will at*
tempt to catch up on the routine work!
of his office.. The meeting of the inter-!
national executive board of the miners'
union, which had been set for
Tuesday at Indianapolis, has been post
poned, for a week because of Mr. Mitch
ell's inability to be present.
WOMEN I N BATTLE
Miners'
Wives and Children
Fierce Club Struggle.
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Lethbridge. Can., April 6.Serious
disturbances nave occurred between the
striking ooalminers and the police. A
wrangle occurred between non-union
and union men. The mounted police 7
attempted to restore order. They ar-j.
rested one man, but were immediately 1
surrounded by 300 sympathizers, in
eluding women and children.
A hand-to-hand encounter raged, in
which sticks and stones were used. The
prisoner was taken from the police^
and one of the latter was seriously in
jured by a stone. 1
Later the house of a non-union miners
was dynamited. The house was com
pletely wrecked but no one was serious
ly hurt.
About an hour later an explosion oc
curred at another house, but little dam
age was done. About 1 o'clock this
morning the second house was discov
ered on fire and the police found the
premises saturated with coal oil.
The feeling is very bitter and the
police have sent for reinforcements,
a---. Twelve Sign Scale.
Pittsburg, Kan., April 6.Another
small operator signed the 1903 scale
here today making thirteen operators
employing'a total if 1,500 men to sign
within twenty-fcur hours.
Applications have been received from
other small operators in the district who
are ready to sign the scale and will do
so bofore Monday nexi. The big opera
tors will meet here with the mine work
ers next Monday to confer on the scale.