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Philadelphia Labor Lead
ers MqkeGains-Attacks
on Street Cars Lessen
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PHILADELPHIA, March 10.—En
couraged by their success yesterday
In breaking Into the ranks of unor
ganized tabor, the union labor lead
ers continued their campaign today
to swell the army of sympathetic
strikers.
The successful proselyting among
employes of the Baldwin Locomotive
works Is likely to lead to a cam
paign against other large in
dustrial plants which are considered
“open shop” places. .
Aided by recruits from other cities,
the Rapid Transit company today
operated more cars than on any day
since the strike was declared.
A few attacks were made on the
new crews but were not serious.
These assaults were confined alto
gether to the outlying sections of the
city.
To the threat or a country wide
strike if the local traction heads did
not agree to arbitration the company
officials made curt response, announc
ing they had said their last word on
arbitration and if the wide spread
■trike depended on their yielding the
■trike would come. Evidences, how
ever, were given by the employers of
many classes that they were confident
| ^national strike would not be forced
‘■Mp'^iat the sympathetic movement
^£re ‘evould wear itself out. Several
firms \ announced that their hands
were returning to work. Possible
trouble' was indicated by the an
nouncement that the strikers would
hold art open air mass meeting in
the National league baseball park to
morrow*. The police declared that
the meeVing would not be permitted.
The mert reiterated their intention of
meeting} but say order wi’l pre
vail.
An important accession to me
ranks of'the strikers was announced
tonight ^rom Camden, N. J., where
1,600 carpenters went out. About
the same number quit work at subur
ban points and the men declared if
necessary V,200 carpenters would be
called outv. in Montgomery chunty,
adjacent to Philadelphia tomorrow.
A campaign to dissipate the im
pression wiiich apparently prevails
throughout fhe country, that Phila
delphia is in the grip of terrorism,
and is not d*>fe for nor a pleasafit
place to visit, yas inaugurated by the
merchants and\, manufacturers" asso
ciation today. ,
Resolutions Adopted by the associa
tion's directors \say exaggerated re
ports of the conditions here have
been circulated. What outbreaks oc
curred have been \nostly in the out
lying districts, and', have been easily
handled by the locaj police, say the
resolutions. '■
It is declared that Philadelphia is
anything but excited over conditions
and that except for the printed re
ports, “the majority of the citizens
would be ignorant that anything but
normal conditions prevail.” '
CAIN’S BRAND ON ROYAL FLUSH.
MAYFIELD, Pa., March 10.—Draw
ing a royal flush in a poker game,
Anthony Maravich was so unstrung
that heart trouble followed and he
was found dead in bed in the morn-1
lng.
The death of Ibsen made BJornstjerne Bjornson, the fnmous Norwegian
author who went to Paris for medical treatment, the lending figure In Scandi
navian literature. The works of Bjornson are placed by critics among the
masterpieces of the world's literature. They comprise prose, verse and dra
matic productions. The picture is one of the last taken of Bjornson and shows
him and Mme. Bjornson In the streets of Rome. He was horn Dec. 8, 1832.
FILES SUIT
ALLEGING
District Attorney C. R. Reeves,
acting for White Pine county and for
himself as a taxpayer, last night
filed with the clerk of the district
court an action against J. M. Lock
hart, and J. E. Stevens, H. C. Nichol
son and J. C. Wheeler, the latter
three as members of the board of
county commissioners asking that
the claim of Lockhart for $150 as sal
ary for services as special legal ad
viser to the county board for Febru
ary be adjudged invalid and that the
commissioners be permanently re
strained from allowing the claim, as
well as that the costs of the suit be
assessed to the defendants named.
In the complaint it is recited that
Mr. Lockhart'flled the claim in ques
tion on March 7th, and that Mr.
Reeves made known in writing on
the face of the bill his objections to
Its payment; that the claim was
tabled for the period of ten days in
order that the plaintiff, Reeves, might
bring an action to test the validity
of the claim. Mr. Reeves asserts in
• SECOND BRIEF IS •
• FILED BY STANDARD •
• - •
• WASHINGTON, March 10.— •
• A second brief in the Standard •
• Oil appeal to the Supreme •
• Court of the United States was •
• filed today by others of its •
• counsel. It is in addition to •
• that filed on Tuesday and is •
• signed by John G. Johnson, of •
• Philadelphia, John G. Milburn •
• and Frank L. Crawford of New •
• York. •
GALL FOR A STATE VOTE ON
QUESTION GENERAL STRIKE
_ \
mPennsylvania Federation Committee
™ Would Have Response in t5 Days
NEW CASTLE, March 10.—A committee of nine appointed yesterday
to devise means for carrying into effect a resolution calling for a state
mil possibly a country wide labor strike, the event arbitration in the
labor situation falls at Philadelphia, reported to the convention of the
Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor here today. The committee an
nounced it had issued a request to all local union organizations to call
special sessions to vote on the question of a state wide strike within fif
teen days and report the results by wire to the president of the State
Federation.
• TROOPS ARE ORDERED •
o TO SARATOGA STRIKE •
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• SCHNECTADY, N. Y„ March •
• 10.—companies E. and F. of the •
• Second regiment were today or- •
• dered to proceed to Saratoga •
• immediately for strike duty. •
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the complaint that there is no law
authorizing the commissioners to
create the office of special legal ad
viser to the board and to fix a salary
for such services. It is further de
clared that the action of the commis
sioners employing Mr. Lockhart as
special legal adviser is "an attempt
to absorb the legal vested rights from
the people whereby they select their
agents and Instead of the Board of
County Commissioners being the
agents of the people of White Pine
County in this matter, the people be
come the subjects of said board."
DEFENDS RESTAURANT HASH.
Self-Styled Puglists Badly Done Up
for Reflection on Dish.
NEW YORK, March 10.—Millard
Roper, proprietor of a restaurant,
has an idea that he makes the best
hash in Brooklyn. So when Fred
Burns, who says he has stood in the
ring with Fitzsimmons, ordered a
plate of hash and then declared it
was full of shoestrings, Roper felt
all cut up. When Dr. Loeb, of the
Williamsburg hospital, and Police
man Burk suceeded in reviving the
villifier of the Roper hash, Mr. Burns
said he had been fanned with a
billiard cue until he took the count.
In the Bedford avenue police court
Magistrate Higginbotham prevailed
upon both men to shake hands and
withdraw their cross charges of dis
turbing the peace.
CALL YOUNG GIRL RORRRR.
Police Say She Has Held Up Men
and Looted Houses.
PITTSBURG, March 10.—A beauti
ful young woman of 18 years, whom
the police claim for the past three
months has been holding up men at
the point of guns In the fashionable
East End district late at night and
taking money from them as well as
robbing the swellest boarding houses,
was placed under arrest here late
last night and today was sent to jail
In default of $3,000 bail. She Is
charged with larceny. The young
woman appears on the police dock
et as Lillian Smith, but she frankly
admits that this Is not her name.
Proprietresses of several boarding
houses and owners of some private
homes appeared against the young
woman this morning and told how
she had come to their places at dif
ferent times and represented herself
as a telephone girl looking for a
boarding house. Her beauty and ap
parent Innocence apparently won for
her and she usually was given the
best room in the house, from which
she would disappear in a few days,
taking all the money she had been
able to find and at the same time all
the really line clothes of the women
boarders of the house. The young
woman was Identified through a
stolen silk shirt-waist by the former
owner.
All Avalanche Victims
Out Today-Short Line
Now Tied Up by Floods
WELLINGTON, March 10.—The
Great Northern snow fighting trains
will break through the huge drifts
which obstruct the line in the next
day or two. Already freight trains
are being started from Spokane.
The body of the last woman was
taken from the wreckage of the ava
lanche and sent to Seattle last night.
The bodies of eighteen passengers
and nine trainmen still remain in
the ruins.
Assuming that the unidentified
bodies recovered, ten in number, are
those of laborers killed in the smok
ing car, 67 bodies have been recover
ed, leaving, it is estimated, about 45
to be brought out. Rapid work is pos
sible now and is being rushed as fast
as it can be carried. It is expected
that tomorrow will see the last body
out.
OGDEN, March 10.—Traffic on the
Oregon Short Line Idaho division is
at a standstill today owing to the
loss of a large bridge between Mont
pelier and McCammon, Idaho. The
trestle was swept out this morning
uy the flopd waters of Bear river.
Trains are being detoured over the
Unfon Pacific to Ogden.
At 6 o'clock tonight the first
through passenger train to leave Car
lin, Nevada, started through Palisade
canyon and westward to the coast.
This train was expected to go
through last night but the repairs
were not concluded as rapidly as ex
pected. It is believed the train will
go through tonight without fail, al
though it will be delayed by slow
running at several points.
WASHINGTON, March 10.—Infor
mation was received at the postof
fice department from Superintendent
Valle at Seattle, Wash., that the body
of Mall Weigher Fred J. Bohn had
been recovered from the debris of the
crnyon. The telegram stated that all
the registered mall on train No. 25
has been recovered. The body of
Substitute Hiram Townslee has not
been found. The postofflce depart
ment announces that malls from the
east for Pacific coast points probably
will not be interrupted, as the lines
affected by the washouts and ava
lanches will have been repaired by
tomorrow.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, March 10.—
Before the noon adjournment of
Judge Smith McPherson’s court to
day, a Jury had been secured for the
trial of J. C. Maybray and his alleged
confederates on charges of wholesale
swindling by means of fake sporting
contests.
Ed McCormick, Thos. Gay, Freu
Mull and Geo. R. Morrison, other
supposed members of the band, were
also arraigned today.
Questioning of the prospective jur
ors disclosed the fact that several of
them had been “talked to” by men
who claimed to be victims of the de
fendants and Judge McPherson or
dered the U. S. marshal to take steps
to bring the guilty persons before the
court.
Pleading guilty to a charge of con
spiracy to defraud in connection with
the widespread swindling operations
charged against John C. Maybray and
eighty other defendants, Bert R.
Shores, William S. Harris and Frank
N. Marsh this afternoon threw them
selves on the mercy of the federal
court. Sentence was deferred. Early
in the day these three men with
thirteen other defendants had been
arraigned and pleaded not guilty.
Marsh said that he had talked the
matter over with Shores and Harris
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o •
• THE MARKETS. •
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• NEW YORK, March 10.— •
• Lead quiet, $4.60 to $4.65. Cop- •
• per weak, spot 12.87% to •
• 13.10. May 12.80 to 13.15. Sil- •
• ver 60%. •
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• CHICAGO, March 10.—May •
• wneat closed at $1.13. •
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and that they had decided to plead
guilty and "take our medicine.”
Marsh also declared he would not
turn government evidence, but it is
believed Shores and Harris will do
so. Marsh is an all-around athlete
and has been a wrestling promoter in
Seattle. Shores is also a Seattle man,
while Harris gives Spokane as his
home. Marsh and Harris were
charged with having "steered” J. C.
Kavanaugh, now living in Muskogee,
Okla., against a $24,000 fake wrest
ling match. Kavanaugh formerly
lived in Davenport, Iowa.
RESUME INQUIRY
OF LIVING COST
Senate Committee Takes Up Examin
ation of Dealer Who
Admits Increase.
WASHINGTON, March 10.—In
quiry into the high cost of living was
resumed today by the Senate com
mittee which examined Edward F.
Hall, who conducts a grocery and
meat market. He said the biggest
Jump in meat prices he had ever
known was in the last two years.
Mr. Hall said he figured on a gross
profit of 15 per cent, but was satis
fied with a net profit of 5 per cent.
This caused Senator Smoot to in
quire:
Then how is It you have accumu
lated $35,000 in fifteen years?”
The reply of Mr. Hall was regard
ed by the committee as somewhat
evasive but the point was not press
ed. Mr. Hall said that Elgin creamery
butter was standard and that the but
ter price was fixed at Elgin. He
stated that it was a trade supposi
tion that a number of manufacturers
in Elgin get together and fix the
price of Elgin butter.
CONVICT ROAD-BUILDERS.
Congressmen Discuss Construction of
Highways by Using Men
From Pens.
WASHINGTON, March 10.—Con
struction of roads by convict labor
was discussed in the House today in
connection with a bill providing for
a military highway between Fort
Leavenworth and Fort Riley, Kan.,
to be bui’t by labor from the military
prison at Fort Leavenworth. Opposi
tion was expressed to having the gov
ernment take part in the building of
any state road.
Representative Hobson of Alabama
introduced an amendment providing
for a division of the cost of roads be
tween the government and the states
when declared necessary by the sec
retary of war.
“Some great plan should be drawn
up," said Mr. Hobson, “for the con
struction of roads in the United
States under a single harmonious sys
tem. The roads of Alabama should
lit into those of the adjoining states
in every direction.”
AT KHARTOUM MONDAY.
KHAH'l OUM, March 10.—Col.
Roosevelt is expected to be here next
Monday and will be joined that even
ing by Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel
Roosevelt, 'l ne Roosevelts will re
main here until the following Thurs
day, being entertained at the Sirdars
palace.
• “NO NIGGERS AND NO •
• BOOZE" IN TEXAS CITY •
• - •
• BIG SPRINGS, Texas, March •
• 10.—“No niggers and no •
• booze,” is the motto in Big •
• Springs and Howard county. All •
• negroes have been run out of •
• the county and whiskey was •
• voted out yesterday. •
• The prohibitionists doubled •
• the vote of the antis and had •
• 23 to spare, so that today the •
• prohibitionists are shouting “23 •
• for the saloon." •
Opposes Taft Reclamation
Bonds-Colorado and
Utah Lands Reopened
WASHINGTON, March 10.—The
Balllnger-Pinchot investigation re
sumed today with James R. Garfield,
former secretary of the interior, on
the witness stand. Secretary Gar
field explained that the Alaska coal
lands bills were introduced in con
gress during his administration of
the Interior department.
He startled the investigating
committee appreciably, when he de
clared that it was his opinion that a
thirty million dollar bond issue rec
ommended by President Taft to con
gress, was not necessary for the prop
er forwarding of reclamation work
In the west.
Mr. Garfield said this In defense of
co-operative agreements he had en
tered into with the water users’ as
sociations and of reclamation cer
tificates he had issued in evidence
of work performed, and which have
come to be known as “Garfield cur
rency.”
Mr. Gartield declared it was evi
dent that Attorney General Wicker
sham and President Taft did not
have the proper facts before them
when they reached their opinions ad
verse to the legality cf the reclama
tion certificates. The former secre
tary of the interior admitted that,
in urging the coal legislation by con
gress early in 1908, he bad made the
statement that he was willing to con
done fraudulent land entries In Alas
ka provided the entrymen were com
pelled to pay an increased price for
the land to the government.
WASHINGTON, March 10.—A
large part of the lands withdrawn by
Secretary of the Interior Garfield
along the Grand river in Colorado
and Utah, on ground which it was
contended contained power possibil
ities, wl’l be restored to entry by
Secretary Ballinger. This was an
nounced today along with the state
ment that examination had shown
that only 12,352 acres of 'he with
drawn land was available for power
purposes.
KNEW OF COMBINATION.
Witness in Alaska Fraud Hearing
Tells of Interest of Ciug
genheiins.
CLEVELAND, March 10.—That a
combination with Guggenheim inter
ests was considered by the 33 claim
ants to Alaska coal lands was admit
ted today before United States Com
misisoner McGee by W. H. Warner,
one of the entrants.
Mr. Warner declared that at the
meeting of the claimants at Spokane
in 1907 to which he sent a proxy,
there had been a discussion on the
advisability of a combination with the
Guggenheims, but that he had under
stood the matter was dropped.
The evidence was given at an open
ing of an inquiry here into the claims
of four of the original 33 claimants
to patents to Alaska lancts.
Mr. Warner and Hugh B. Wick of
Youngstown, another claimant, both
testified that they had known per
sonally most of the 33 who had filed
claims and that it had been under
stood that they would operate on a
friendly basis.
TWO HUNDRED LABORERS
BURIED WHEN WALL FELL
Two Are KiU-ed and Ten Ftatally
Injured in a Pittsburg Accident
PITTSBURG, March 10.—A fifty-foot brick wall, left standing in the
ruins of a Are at a foundry building, collapsed today, burying 200 work
men, killing two and probably fatally injuring ten more. Most of the
victims are foreigners.
The injured and dying men were dragged from under the scantlings
and sues of brick and mortar as rapidly as rescuers could reach them.
An hour after the accident two of the workmen were found alive, but
crushed in a crevice between the timbers and brick piles which had at
Arst been overlooked as a possible place of concealment of bodies.