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IfexXX, NO. 141. weather today Fair. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY MORNING-, MARCH 4, 1910. 12 PAGES FIVE CENTS, H
IP I THE SNOW
i -
'Spree Days' Entombment
'! Wellington, More Slide
ictims Are Rescued.
lIsTILL REMAIN'S
JgHAT OTHERS MAY LIVE
it '
Wnf Those Dug From Liv-
Grave Ntarly Crazed
-by Experience.
(TTLE. Wash.. March !J. A
rl , to the Post-Jntclligcncer f
If VcnrltS,Uic Wellington slide
Ii fihn cxeantcd and ton persons r
jfotmd In it alive. f
V is report that J rainmnslcr A. v
; uckburn's body was lost i:i a
fd- slide is denied tonight, v
kburn and Superintendent
4H' private secretary wcro -r
!fln his private car when it went v
TO That car has not boon found
"(there Is a hope that the oceu- v
jfelmav he alive. One man. en- -:-'.leu
for sixty hours, has been -j-foalf
demented, from the snow."
jiUCGTOX Wash.. March 3.
jfsT'- of dead and missing pas
jlftrainiiioii and postal employees
erc carried down bv the ava
jjtFat destroyed two Great North
' if s Ttiesdav morning, now eon
I ielity-six names. Statements of
t iucr of laborers engaged in fight-
ffstiow and who were sleeping
) r-ill'fafed trains varies from
'Mb t In rt3". Couseauunllv au
i)f 100 dead is conservative.
i lead all were residents of the
st. Of the injured onh- one,
a tf- ibsliop. "Wingct of Chicago,
I least erncr.
iflWorst Type of Slide.
Hyjalanelie of drv snow might
"fvcred its iet'urs alive, but the
Jit -Wellington is packed liirht
fret buow. iee. huge trees 'and
loulders of enormous weight,
he bodies recovered were those
crtriciaus who were living in
it the edge of Wellington and
3' carried with their home 300
u," the s'ope.
J a stream of men. packs
Jto I heir backs, wound' about
if Bin path from Skvkouiish tu
Til Yclliriglon, reminding Alas
Rlic caravans that crossed I ho
trail in Kloadik'c days. The
nod food and supplies for tho,
laud sine weut uii to dig for'
Jfcs of f Heads or relatives. A
f(MglilH'crs and they were told
,i jj,wre not wanted. A .laboror
3 iclit taking trinkets from a
is man's bodv ami v,as cuinpellt'd
S 7dowu I lie trail at once. One
? 'Jand lifl lyen dug for bodies
ynlji lji-bi dobvis yesterday.
ci Horc Bodies Recovered.
L' the brdics found Jodav were
i V.f"iniei f'rosot-uting Atlor'ncy
lafnluirt of .'-'pokane. Conduetor
cttit, who. after a trip on foot
Psom'sb. went back, to his post,
js. M. . Coi)jgtrn of Olympia.
Jft Spokane to celebrate -in Se
ipllay her golden wedding mini-
i !j If the searchers locate the
ii iu cars intatM in rim snow, they
v "ke out iriiuv bodies in a short
T ml' it is likelv (hat . I he dead
I ijyn all through the debris. Al
;scnt rate of progress it would
j qcks tn recover all the bodies.
? he track is opened, engines and'
3 will lifi the huge trees and
: There are no i-offine at Wel
' .Jiind the dead, wrapped in blan
JwJon the snow, well preserved.
Pinions and wrecking trains
Iige.'ist from Skvkomish made
tfiMcrcss lodav. The weaiher is
kjiil fn oral.de to caving of wet
JJ8i
krintcndeii'. O'Xeill of the (Treat
jern s;nd tonit;hl he expected tho
o,he in operation alioul April
olbrcat Nurtliern's cysllv experi.
livith f.irw in the Casea.lcs this
j!. caused renewal of the pro
itfthnilding a luunel al a level 1000
lower than the pres-ui 0llil an,j
portal would be al Scenic
fcpringc. the tunnel was timirod
mg ago and pnsso, on ;is fe.,si.
Mft.nropean eugincer.1;.
Traced by Blood staius.
jfters .searehinjr fnr bodies frc
yx hnd Aicinnp by followiu Mood
through he snow. Tho nic ' iS
jjP.il the boifnm of ti,c !,,,,.
dih hlinvolH, upon liu,ljni.
&S0.1 p;1. stnrl afthoe.ll '
and tunnel through Hip 10 w
liET,,V,,.0,,'vor;' vi;'S
&L slK,vl01' oement and
.-s lial were not ,anulot bvil.o
f?ii,? lhV,l,yis woro rushed bv
fer'it o I he h-v inas.
Sd Thi'-V ,,0,,it'S 1vi" ,,c
s preri. Hip warm weather and
Hasl three days have Uu "
M i U,", ,l0 'n-ougl, he
H & f i' nr'0frs 11,0 and
n S wK 0 th,."Vfi-iM being
a j, m by the Mv-if(i curmiL
S Slory f Disaster.
'Pro i"S!'-'ll'M;,5;11 3--Wnl has
'8f.nl " , 11,0 1Sli,"k'nn .Mining
iioi UV . 'V' :'" fvalanelie
IfeC n 0,-,,u: "I'H'i. men
RJ0XI) OK $15,000
?c torn ti,aU;slM.1 !,y nn,ao".
s &rK" "on,u0 c,,y ,w
"on io n,TV ,HHr withdrew
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TWEMTT-TKHEE W
EXPLOSION VICTIMS
Disaster Occurs in the Mexi
can Mine1 of flic Treadwell
Gold Properties.
MOST OF DEAD FOREIGNERS
AND WITHOUT FAMILIES
Mine Not Much Damaged: Bod
ies of All Hie Dead Have
Been Recovered.
JUNJ3AU, Alaska. March 3. Twenty
three miners were killed at midnight
last night by an explosion of a powder
magazine in the 1100-foot level of the
Mexican mine, one of the group of
Treadwell gold properties on Douglas
island. ISight nien were seriously in
.inrcd, of whom it is feared four will
die.
Tho last shots had been fired by the
shift of men tvcut.y minutes before the
explosion look place, and the men had
assembled at the landing of the skip
and were wailing to cuter it and go on
top. Thu magazine, which contained
27') pounds of powder, was thirty feet
from tho place where the men wcro
standing, and every man was killed or
injured-
Victims Foreigners.
Most of the miners '.ere. foreigners
and only three had families on the
island. y
Tho man in charge of the niagaziue.
who had locked the door and was sland
ing with the shift wailing to go up, was
among those killed.
Two horses in the mine were standing
side by side. One was killed by the
shock and the other when found was
munching oats, undisturbed.
The mine was little damaged.
The bodies were recovered.
Seven miners at work on the same
level, but at some distance from the
magazine, were not iniured.
taft and uncle j0k
in dancing Contest
WASHINGTON-. Mauii While inor.
than ilfty giieslt! looked un lauhlnKlv
and applauded. .Speaker Cannon tempted
President Taft tonight to a lest of lerp
Hiehoiean agility in tho east rVxjin of the
Uhlte House. Hotli .stopped, panting,
when the trial was ended, hut tho opin
ion wus unanimous that honor wore
even. JJniiefVii; , followod n dinner plven
by tho president to "Uncle Joe." said to
be the first formal uPair ever accorded
a speaker of the house of ieiieseiita
tlvos by a president.
..TAe-IIiMioT--ftHlrfh-ihf "eoinpahv went
to the i-.ist room, which boasts an ample
and smooth dnnclnp floor- Au orchestra
played a gen tit- waltz and the pr-Mlddil
led Off with Mia. Joseph II. (JnltiCM. wife
or the reprouentatlvc from West Vir
ginia. When tli orchestra struck Up a-Hvelv
tune. "I'nel.: Joe" slopped briskly Into
the middle of the room and hroushl his
hoilg together sharply. There was a
patting of gloved hands and voices called
Miruiiruslnuly to Hie guest of honor. In
a moment the speaker's heels wore twink
ling iu a brilliant highland Ming.
'ICxeellrnt. eh 7" he called exullingly
lo Mr. Taft. '.'I was something of" a
dancer when I was a youngster."
BOOM IX INSURANCE
BUSINESS PHENOMENAL
Special to The Tribune.
NKW YORK. .March '. The promotion
of iusiiraiico companies, all kinds, tin-,
life and casually, has reached proportions
upver before attained. There are a I pres
ent under way or proposed, since Janu
ai 1. schemes calling for capital of
ii'jii.iiOO for lire Insurance companies.
S"0.S7j,000 for casually and surely com
panies and 57.S7O.O00 for life Insurance
companies. The western contingent shows
up. as follows:
Companies proposed. Including those
whose Motatlon commenced in 1J0D: Mis
souri valley of Omaha, capital 5100.000:
Western P'ire of Ogden. capital $fi0.n00;
Woodmen Fire of I'.lncoln. capital $100.
o(ii; surplus. .00.000. In Increases of
capital the western companies are also
prominent. The Aegis ii'o and the t'Jer
ninu Life of I'enver are among the pro
posed now companies with a large capi
DR. FRITCH CONVICTED
ON MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
DETROIT. Mteb.. March n. Dr.
George A. Frlteh. found gulliy today of
manslaughter in connection wlih the
death last Miinuior of Mnyboll Millmaii of
Ann Arbor, was Incited up In the county
jail ponding efforts to obtain a slay of
proceedings. .
The case will be taken to the supreme
court.
Dr. Fritch took the. verdict of the Jury
calmly, but his wife fainted. She was
In a eeml -conscious condition for several
hours.
' It took (lie jury Ilfty minutes to agree
that Maybcll .Mlllman met her death
while ir. Frlteh was performing, or at
tempting to perform, a criminal opera
tion on her.
MORGAN AND ASSOCIATES
TO MUTUALIZE EQUITABLE
NKW YilUlC. .March :'.. plan Is be
Inir forniolale.i loiluy hv J. u. Morgan
and his re.preseiilatlves to make absolute
provision for the. future of the Imputa
ble jfn Assurance society and Us policy
holders, it was learned today. The Inten
tion Is to establish the society on a dis
tinctly mutual basis.
P.y virtue of his purchase of 502 shares
of i lie r-Joullablo. slock, representing a
majority Interest Mr. Morgan controls
the society and bus H In his power to
say what Mho future policy of tho tequila -blc
shall lie.
Announcement uf tho plan is expected
shortly.
WIFE RESTORES PORTION
OF HUSBAND'S CAPITAL
MP:.MPUIS. Tenn.. March Ii Mrs. An
nie Sols today gave per.niisal.on.. to her
husband', a merchant of Greenville. Miss.,
to withdraw 1000 on deposit to her
credit In a local hank.
Solz alleges thai Ids uMfo "and Abra
ham ;ia-s)naii. an acquaintance, disap
peared from Greenville several months
ago slmnliancously with Ihn disappear
ance of 52000 of ids capital, as well as
Jewels and other portions of his personal
property, tjlassninn and Mrs Solz were
arrested In cJrookhn. Mrs. Solz's restor
ation of the money Is the result of a suit
iu chancery.
THE RIVAL BENEFACTORS
F 11 ; "
. "A Disgrace to Die Rich."
Federal Investigation Ordered
by Court After Hearing Con
fessions of Dealers.
THREE PLEAD GUI LTV
TO VIOLATION OF LA'W
Buy While Product. Color It
and Sell Without Ray
ing the TaN.
Gin CA'GO. - March .'5. Federal inves
tigation of the olebinargavineiiidistry
hero was ordered by .Judge Land is in
tho United States district court, this af
ternoon, after the court had listened to
the testimony of thrco men who had
pleaded guilty to charges of violating
liic international revenue law rclatiug
to t lie coloring of oleomargarine.
The name of William .1, Moxley, con
gressman from the Sixth Illinois district,
figured in the hearing.
Testimony lodav was given by Samuel
Driosbach, Daniel Borl. aud .William
Broadwell, dealers ' ih oleomargarine.
Hroadwoll was sentenced to six years in
the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth
and lined .-rlo.UUO by Judge. Landis on
Monday, but after lieariug Iho siory of
the three men the court directed United
States Marshal Hoy not -to execute the
sentence mil il furlher notice. Tho sen
tence of Driosbach and Boris was de
ferred. Uroadwcll appeared as a witness' on
his own account and ackuowledged-that
ho did so without anv hone of leniency.
JTo told of purchasing the white "oleo
ma rga riue from ma mi fa e hirers,, who. he
said, furnished him wilh tho coloring,
and of selling the illegally colored prod
uct to reslauranls hospilals and hotels.
More than half the total output, of the
oleomargarine, factories in Chicago is
sold to ''moonshiners.'' according lo the
testimony of Broadwell.
How Gniiio' Wa,; Worked.
Samuel Driosbach told the court in
dejnil the course pursued' by him nnd
others in mixing and selling" 'oleomjir
garine. 1
lT.e declared -that in. .1.906 . ho- mixed
oleomnrgarijio in different, places. on the
west, side of the city, principally in
barns, lie said that he went -tinder: the
name of the Jersey Creamery company
and mixed' about leu lubs a day.
-llc-told-of-being-in a' bam inixing'1 he
product when the place was raided and
lie escaped by a. secret stairway. Dries
bach said that. Iho oleomargarine
" moonshiners" had an organization lo
mil i ii t .-tin high prices and thai one of the
members had been 'slugged'' .because
he cut prices. The witness complained
that he had paid the sluggers and had
not been able to gel reimbursement
from the "moonshiners'" association.
The witness declared that, in the last
year he had assisted in disposing of
about -10(10 pounds of unlawfully-colored
oleomargarine.
"Dodgiun" Collectors.'
William Mroadwell, afler telling how
ho happened to get into the business
of coloring oleomargarine, described
melhods used to "dodge" revenue col
lectors. At one time he said ho had fifteen
lubs of oleomargarine stored at tho
"Moxley plant" and when the revenue
collector made a raid on his plaeo.hc
had the stuff shifted from place lo plaee.i
The witness said ho. was president of
tho Association of Olcnpiargariuo Moon
shiners, which was organized in 1907.
They kept books concerning their deal
ings, but iitiallv the members decided
to hnve the books burned.
Broadwell testified that an emploj-ce
of tho Moxley plant showed, him how
to use the eolorimr nnd that John Da
die, son-in-law of Moxley, always took
care of a bond for him when' he was
arrested.
It is expecledtthe grand jurj investi
gation will begin on Monday,
1
Index to Today's Tribune
'
I- Departments. Page v
r Editorial I
v Society 5 -1-
-I- Mines 6 ;
: Markets 7
r Railroads S
v Intermountaln 10 v
v Domestic.
v Twenty-three killed by explosion
v In one of tho Treadwell mines.. 1
Death list in Wellington disaster v
- now placed at hundred 1 r
v Nog'ro taken from' courtroom In -J-
v . Dallas and lynched by mob 1
-r Judge Luudls. gets after the -
I- "Oloo" indjistry K 1 :-
Y Senate spends day debating post-
; al .-savings bank' .hill. '.-....X'l-
I- Young Rockefeller will manage
i' Foundation plati 2
v !
I- Local. :
; Creamery business in Utah re- -I
I- viewed ..; ., 12-1-
Ogden dairymen to be prosecuted. 12 ;
Sale of meat-from diseased aulnials !-
-I- dlscus,fied .12 v
-I- Will insist upon up-to-date wiring. 12 j-
i- Sporting New?. v
I Indoor records not correct 0 !,
Weston Is making fast time 0 ;-
I- lllglv school will have new. campus y -I-I-Viirsliy
students commence train- v
ing 9
'f Y. M. C. A. wins amateur basket-
ball championship .'' '.
c Salt Lake claims light once more. 0
-I- -I- I-"I- -I -I I IrI- I- -r -II- -I- "I -I- "i-
NHT STILL
FIGHTS SUM TRUST
Grand Jury Hands Presentment;
for Contempt for Failure to
Produce Books.
NEW YOriK-: March Not satisfied
with the millions received in payment
of duty ended by short weights involv
ing the Indictment of Charles-K. Ileike,
tho company's secretary, and the con
viction of minor employes, the United.
Stales government is sill! llghtln;; hard
to convict tho American fc? igar IMining
company under the Sherman anii-irnst
act.
Such action was contompl-n ?d vher. I lie
company was. Indicted lor putting Ihe
Pennsylvania Sugar Helming company
out of business, hut the .-tt)i inont of that
sidt.out of court nnd the interfet epe(5 of
the statuto of limitations necessitated
another legal allack and 'he matter was
laid before -bo fvdcnil giMicl j-uy m New
York early in January. Not until lo
day.. -however. .dii),tlr-.soope of-iho -inquiry
become pnldic wh oi the rand jury
hauileit--up a presentment' for contempt
against the company, (or th: latter'.' f.ijl
urc in produce certain book and papers
in response to subpoena.
After tho Books.
Tills presentment In Itself Is but a
"mnvc of tho government to infjcert.iin its
right io ih'e books in question, but inci
dentally, disclosed tho n.uuro of .iho pa
pers demanded and alTordod i key to the
scope of the government -procedure.
It has been -alleged that .the ..Vinci lean
Sugar Holloing company controls ninety
per ,cenl of tho sugar business Hi -ihls
cou n i ry.
Among ihc papers demanded are' the
following:
Agreement between the company and
the sugar syndicate of 'Mexico; coin'rads
with the Sugar I-'a-'.-iries coninnny. lim-Iti-d
of Hawaii: ngreeincnt In ll07 with
John P. Sproekolo for Ihe purchase of au
Interest In the Western lteet Sugar com
pany; contract made with Hawaii ami
planters in laOT; contracts with the Chi no
I'qet Sugar company; contracts with Ihe
American Coffoe company; agency agree
ment with the Alameda Sugar company;
contract to purchase slock of the Great
Western Sugar company: communications
concerning the consolidation if the Utah
and Idaho Sugar company; aud agree
ments with the following companies (be
tween January 1, 1002, and January 1,
1006). I
Utah Company Involved.
Also of tho American T3eot Sugar com
pany: Croat Western Sugar company of
Colorado: Kort Collins. Colo., Sugar com
pany: Utah Sugar company: Western Ida
ho "Sugar company; Continental Sugar
company; Suako Hlvcr Valley Sugar coin
panv; Michigan Sugar company; Iowa
Sugar company; Day City, MIUi., Sugar
Aged Negro Meets Quick Death
a Ilandb of Five Thou
sand Men.
CHARGED, WITH ASSAULT
UPON 1V(VVEAR-0LD GIRL
Dallas. Texas. Where Lynching
Occurred. Under Mob Rule
for Honrs.
DALLAS. Texas. March 3. From the
ivcry grasp .of the law. Alien Brooks, an
.aged negro charged with criminally as
saulting a 2-year-old while- ' child, was
lorn by fifteen members of a mob of
5000 men today and hanged.
llrouks was seized in tho cour: room
where he was to be tried and tossed
ihiough a -window to the main body of
the mob which wailed In tho slroet be
low. His broken body was dragged
through the streets and he was hanged
near Ihe Ellis' arch. Tho Miob was led by
an old negro.
Hardly a word was .spoken and not a
shot was lircd. Tho loudest sound was
the aged negro's shrieks for mercy.
Mob Rules, the City,.
After Brooks was hanged the mob look
possession of Dallas for nearly three
hours. Tho Jail was stormed and death
was threatened lo l-irc.j olhe- negroes
held on charges of murder. They had
been taken away, however, and after a
vain search the mob disperse.!.
The alleged victim of Brooks was Ihe
daughter of Mr. mid .Mrs. M. J. Buven.
Immediately after his arrest last week
the negro twas taken out of lhj city foi
safe keeping. He was returned cany
tills morning and taken u the court houte
lo awall his trial In the criinhi-il couit.
A great crowd gathered -and when al
torivys for the.- deiVnse. who had been
appointed by the court, .began '.ngiinicitts
for a -postponement ; until tomorrow,
rumors slnrlcd through tho crowd that a
change of venue had been granted.'
.'This statement . eahsed a demonstra
tion, and IhOji-ourt hquse was ca.i.rgeij hy
thc 'mob. Scores of oTTI'certi, hastily sum
moned, were overpowered, the 'looked
doors of the courtroom were wrecked and
the negro, crouching in tho corner, pray
ing. 03 seized by the leaders of the
mob.
Vain Fight for Life. -
This "was In the soi oml story of ih
building. Outside the main body .of the
mob was waiting. A rope was ready and
when it was announced from 'the vlndow
that the negro .had been taken. Uio rope
was thrown into the room. The noosu
was ploeed-about -Ihc prisoner's neck and
he was thrown from the building, lighting
like a tiger for his life. H'c struck Ihe
pavement on his forehead and It wok be
lieved fractured his skull hi the fall.
Inslanlly dozens of men jumped on him
and tils face was kicked Into a pulp and
ho Was bruised all over, probably dying
within a few minutes. A score of men
seized the rope and at tho bond of the
mob. drugged the negro's body twelve
blocks up Main street to the halts' arch,
which was orecicd during the Klks' ra
tional convention in 100S. There the
body, was suspended from a telephone
pole, Tho police cut the body down al
once.
Afler the lynching the mob ma relied to
ih county Jail. The sheriff allowed
coininltti.es selected by the molt to earch
Ihe prison- The three negroes wanted
could not he found and Dually the mob
moved away.
company: Saginaw Sugar company: Sag
inaw Valley Sugar company; Ccueral Dis
tributing company of West Virginia: Se
bewalng Sugar company: Creat Western
Sugar company of New Jersey; Amal
gamated Sugar company: Ogden Sugar
company: Oregon Sugar company; Long
niont Sugar company: Millings Sugar com
pany: Jduho Sugar company; I'lnh-Jdaho
Sugar company: Menominee Sugar com
pany: SpreeUels Sugar company: Agri
cultural Investment company: Northern
Construction company: Sanpete Sevier
Sugar company: Bay City Sugar com
pany. The order to show cau.o why the trust
should not he adjudged in contempt will
be jlgncd next week.
SEHATESPERDS DM
Recess Taken Until Friday,
Without Completion of De
flate on Measure.
PAGE AMENDMENT
IS FIRST CONSIDERED
Cummins Amendment to This
Amendment Is First Test of
Relative Strength.
WASHINGTON, March a. Taking
advantage of the privilege reserve in
its agreement on the vote on the ad
ministration postal savings bank bill,
the senate at ;:30 p. m. today took
a recess until 31:30 a. m. tomorrow
without disposing of the measure.
The ngreeincnt for a vote during
the day was qualified bv "the use of
the word "legislative" before the
word "dav.J
The taking of a recess prolongs the
day in a ' legislative sense and still
leaves Iho agreement inviolate. There
is every reason to believe that the bill
will be disposed of tomorrow.
Many Criticisms,
The bill to.dav was under general
discussion and was sharply criticised
bv many senators. A large number of
amendments were adopted. Most of
thorn were along lines heretofore dis
cussed, but there was one innovation.
Senator .Page had offered an amend
ment embodying a provision for the es
tablishment of a reserve fuud for postal
banks.
Mr. Cummins attacked this amend
ment and secured the elimination of the
reservo provision.
Among the amendments adopted was
one suggested by Senator Smoot. which
had been outlined in Ihc conference of
Republican leaders regulating with
drawals of postal funds and limiting
the power of the trustees to make in
vestments to the authority explicitly
granted iu the bill itself.
Debating Smoot's View.
The Smoot amendment and the Cum
mins modilication led to much debate,
which will be continued tomorrow, when
Senator Jvoot will speak.
Senator Smith of South Carolina
found iu the bill "au adroitly framed
foreruuuer of a central bank,", and
opposed it .us undemocratic and uurepub
lican. and Senator Simmons of North
Carolina w.'is afraid it would so oper
ate as to deprive various communities
of their own funds.
Senator Gallinger .thought- Unit; in
ease' of war .the bank depositors would
make a rush to withdraw their funds.
Mr. Beveridgc believed.lhe government
would Lake care of its own credit, when
the emergency arrived. Sjtyator Kaik"
s.-ii(T that the niotiov of the poor should
not be the first to bo called for in time
of war.
minority Report on
taft's railroad bill
WASHINGTON. March S. Declaring
the administration railroad bill would
Impair the efficiency of the existing stat
utes and that the creation of a court of
.commerce, which the measure involves,
'would mean an expenditure, "wholly un
'necessary." Senators Cummins nnd Clapp
today submitted tho minority report of
the senate interstate commerce commis
sion. The report holds that the creation of a
court, the sole work of which would be
to try railroad cases, would be funda
mental wrong and reminds the senate
of "the tremendous influences which will
inevitably surround the ?cleclion of such
a tribunal."
In the last three and a half years, th
minority report asserts, there have been
Jiit-t twenty-six cases In which such a
court would have had jurisdiction.
In pointing out some tilings which the
senators think mnke the bill Ineffective. ,
they declare It should Include nil cor
poration common carriers and that there
Is nothing to prevent n holding corpora
tion from Issuing all tho stocks and bonds
It may please.
Possibility of Merger.
The minority senators claim the section
to govern consolidation of railway lines
would permit water und rail routes to
consolidate; would nllow a railroad to buy
up a. competitive steamship line, and that
in effect all tho railroads In the United
States could be merged under a single
corporation, piovlderi ihey would be oper
ated by electric power.
Senators Cummins and Clanp reported
lo further amend Hie existing law lo
make all holding corporations conic un
der the Jurisdiction of the Intcr-state com
merce commission and would make the
term "common, carrier" embrao all cor
porations having controlling interest In
a common carrier.
GALLINGER MEASURE
IS FAVORABLY REPORTED
WASHINGTON. March By pracii
callv a unanimous vote the senate com
mittee on commerce today ordered a fa
vorable report on the Ualllnger hill to
authorise the postmaster general to "ivu
increased pav lo mall lines established
betwoen the "Culled Slates and ports In
So-lib Amerira. the Philippines. Japan.
China and Australasia. This measure is
in lieu of a gene nil- subsidy measure
which supporters of plans to increase the
merchant marine have been unablo to
push through congress.
Coder the act of March 3. 1S91. the
pn.-l master general is authorised lo pav
for ocean mall service at the rate of four
dollars per oniwnrd tulle to vessels of the
first class, two dollnrs to vessels of the
second clnss. and one dollar lo vessels
or Iho third class. The Gallinger bill
would permit the postmaster general to
give the four-dollar rale to vessels of
tho second class and the two-dollar rate
lo vessels of the third class In order to
encourage the establishment of steam
ship lines lo the countries named.
Kverv member of the eommltteo vold
for this bill except one Democrat, which
Is greater support thnn has ever ben
given t anv of the subsidy measures. It
Is p"cted" Hie hill will pass the scnnle
without much opposition and the house
prohablv will run counter to tho views
of Ihe memb'-rs who support the Hum
phrey subsidy bill.
Statements in favor of tho Gallinger
bill wcro made to the commllieo by Win
throp L, Marvin of Boston, who has been
giving this subject attention for many
vears ami Commissioner Chamberlain of
th" bureau of navigation of the depart
ment of commerce and labor.
ILfVRDWICE AMENDMENT
TO ANTI-OPTION BILL
WASHINGTON. March .". The antl
opllontblll hearing was resumed today
before ihc house committee on agricul
ture, neprcsent.itlvo Hardwlck of Geor
gia 'had prepared an amcndmeiii lo the
Continued on Pago Two.
ESTRADA'S fill I
CRUSHEDTQ EARTH I
Revolutionary Movement in Nic-
aragua Virtually Ended in H
Overwhelming Defeat. fl
NOTHING REMAINS SAVE H
HOPE OF INTERVENTION
General Estrada May Proclaim IH
New Republic and Appeal to H
United States. H
BLU13PJJ3LDS, Nicaragua, March 3.
General Jintrada, head or" the provincial
government and leader of the insurgents
declared today that he intends to with
draw his forces into the bush and op
pose the advance of Madriz to the bitter
eud. But it is necessary to read be
tween the lines of this statement.
The provisional government, wishes to
force American intervention if possible,
because it cauuot consistently ask for
it iu tho face of its many refusals to
consider the peace proposals made by
Madriz at the time when it seemed that
victory to the provisionals was almost
assured. General Estrada did not even
answer the proposal advanced hv the
consular body at Managua, believing
that it merely indicated that Madriz was
on his last legs.
3r. is pointed out that an appeal from
General Kstrada to the United States
government now would defeat its own
end, as that government, having held
aloof in tho moro prosperous times of
the provisionals 'hardly could be ex
pectcd to jump into the breach to save
a cause already all .but lost.
BLU J? FIELDS. Nicaragua, March 3.
The insurrectionary movement head
ed by General Estrada againsl the Nic
araguan government has ,bocn practi
cally crushed. The insurgent campaign
in the west has petered out and nothing
is lett to the provisionals but to rc
sort to guerrilla warfare, encouraged bv
the desperate hope thai tho United
States may yet intervene in a wish to
put an cud to the disturbed situation
in the republic.
For the first time today the corrc
spondents and the more prominent per- JM
spnagcs'of this city wcru told the true IH
situation, which, howevor, had been sus
pectcd for a week. Tho public genor
ally is still in the dark and pinning its
faith to the false reports circulated of
insurgent success. Theso reports have
.been given currency not only in this jH
city, but have been sent broadcast. IH
with tho deliberate purpose of infl-t-encing
opinion in the United States VM
aud elsewhere. IH
It . is-now admitted that General Gha-morro-s
campaign was a failure, Ho tM
had hoped that, tho interior would we!
come aud reinforce tho iunurgeut atms. IH
Ihis was possible up to tho time J3res JM
tdeiit Zelaya resigned. J lis resignation VM
mid the- election of President Madriz IH
appears to have satislied the nconle of
the interior and the west generally.
May Appeal to Uncle Sara.
There is slill talk of a now republic
comprising the eastern half of Nicnra iH
gua. General Estrada mav proclaim IH
such a republic ami appeal to the
Hinted States to protect it from inva
sion by the Madriz government. Addi
tional supplies of ammunition arc ox- lM
peeled here, and these will lio used to
turUtcr a arucrrilla warfare. Tho do
strttclivo blow Tell at Tisma on Feb
ruary 22, when General Chamorro was
defeated. Ju killed, wounded and cap JM
lured tho insurgent general lost S00
Chamorro himself barelv escaped and
with .100 or 200 meD fled to Sap Yi. IH
cente. here General Mena was in- IH
trenched
Godfrey Fowler, the American who
was in charge of the insurgent artillerv
iindcr Chaniorro, was wounded in thV iH
log. and left, at a plantation near Tisma. IH
General Chamorro is said to have IH
reached San Yiccnto Siindnv and to
have wired his report yesterday ITc
estimates tho enemy's loss a I. 10"00 men IH
and explains his defeat bv the cxhaus
tiou of his cartridge supply.
Situation Revealed.
. Dlsoulcting rumors had boon in-clrcu-
hitlon here for a week, but not until to
. day, when General TCsrrada let the higher
. oiflcials of Iho provisional government EjH
Into the secret was the situation known.
When this dispatch was written only tho tH
, more prominent peopto of Bhicfields wpro
In possession or the facts, hut it may "ho jH
assumed that Iho populRtlon generally
will receive the news without demonstra-
In official circles there was for a time
profound gloom, but later in the dav tho
oflli'lals appeared to bo rocoverlng 'their H
comtiosure.
With the remnant of Chamorro'3 forca
there are now at San Vicente ROn pro- HH
visional soldiers. Recruits at Panama IM
started for the front today nnd an of
fort Is to ho made to get 500 recruits
from the Nicaragua ns or the city. Tho
present indications are for a si vie of
bush warfare, presumably with the Idea IHHHIH
of compclliiig the United States to inter- HHHHH
Tlie sonlimont In favor of Ir.ten-entlon
has been growing since Plena's defeat at H
Santa Clara -nearly a month ago. Infor
mation as to General Estrada's willing-
ness to allow the Cuiterl States to step H
In and supervise the elections was con-
veyed to the stato department some time 11H
ago but elicited no expression from Pros-
Ideut Taft or Secretary Knox. il
Anxious for Peace. ll
niuefjelds will now extend open arm? to
almost any proiositlon leading to th"
termination of hostilities. 'H
The experience of tho last two months iM
has demonstrated that the revoltilionurv jH
sentiment in the Interior did not survlva jH
the retirement "of Zelaya from tho presl- iH
doncy, and General Chamorro, who began IH
tho "march on Managua, tho capital 1
found himself in the enemy's countrv and
almost alone. He found it nocesr.ary to jH
adopt a pollcv of guerrilla warfare and be JH
great acllvltv in cutting telegraph wires JH
and niakhnr 'night marches he succeeded jH
In deceiving the government and the m
countrv generally as to his whereabouts IH
Follo'wlng theso plaiiP. Chamorro was
reported simultaneously at Managua, a'
liocao. at Comlapa and at other places.
There Is reason to believe that the re
ports of tho capture of Granada nnd or
the stenmer Victoria on l.al;e Managua
wore promulgated by President Mndr'r MH
for the sole purpose of drawing Chamor- RH
ro into that vicinity. tH
Chamorro's defeat leaves only General tH
Mena's comparatively small force Inter- fH
posed between the enemy s army of TOCO IH
and the cast coast. fll
Lnyniou's Bis Banquet.
DKNVKi:. March Fifteen hundred IH
covers were laid at the banquet tonight
which formally wpencd the convention of M
the Lavinen's Missionary Movement. H
James P. Hunted presided.