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Statesman Advertise; Get Quick Returns. VOLUME XXXII. OPERATORS NOT DISPOSED TO YIELD ROMS IS nmiTED He Favored Making Conces sions to Miners SUCCEEDED BY WINDER It Will be a Day or Two Yet Be fore Conference is Held With Miners INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 19. — The bituminous coal operators belong ing to the Interstate Operators' associ ation are assembled here in large num bers and there is every reason to be lieve that the conference which will be held here this afternoon will be well attended. The conference met at the Clavpool hotel this morning in an in formal manner and after transacting some preliminary business took a re •cess till this afternoon, when the first business session will be held. Mr. Francis L. Robbins, who is the principal mover of the conference, call ed the conference at the suggestion of President Roosevelt, for the purpose of giving the wage proposition to the miners a thorough reconsideration. It is hoped that by modifying the posi tion of the operators in the bitumin ous belt, which includes westedn Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana and Illi nois. a strike of the mine workers in the bituminous mines will be averted. It is understood that an effort will Iv made to vote the sentiment of the operators on the tonnage basis, instead by individual vote. This would wrest the voting power from the rebellious independent mine operators, who have been holding out against higher wages, while the large producers who are in the minority favor concessions on the wage proposition. There is every reason to believe that the independent operators will strenu ously oppose any attempt to base the vote of the conference on the tonnage <>f the represented and a live ly war is expected. Tt" the Robbins fac tion. consisting of the large operators, should win the day a conference with the miners will be held in a day or two td finally settle the agreement be tween the miners and operators for the year beginning in April. With this matt ter out of the way the way would be clear to a revision of the negotiations MANY WELLS IN EAST ALDER STREET ARE GOING DRY Strange things are happening in "East Alder these days. Since last Thursday nearly 15 wells in that sec tion of Walla Walla have gone dry and residents are nonplussed as to the cause. In several instances residents have been compelled to use the waters of Mill creek for domestic purposes, and if the strange phenomenon con tinues a serious situation will con front the people in that section depend ing on well water for their household supply, as the city maips do not ex tend beyond Watertown addition and ABOLISH THE OFFICE OF STEWARD AT STATE PRISON The office of steward at the state ■penitentiary will be abolished on April 1 and the duties of that office will de volve on the prison physician, who must become a resident of the prison. This decision was reached by the state board of audit and control at a meet ing held at Olvmpia Friday evening. By the decision J. C. Hillman, now t.ie evening Statesman BOYS AND MEN CAPTURE MANY FINE TROUT. Hundreds of trout and many salmon were captured in the old Isaacs mill race, east of the city, by boys and men today. The race was closed down this morning and in the receding waters were hundreds of fine trout. Boys, and even men, were soon attracted to the scene and many of the fish were captured and taken home, rather than let them die in the stagnant water. Others were taken and liberated in Mill creek. An interesting question has now arisen: In taking the trout this way has the fish law been violated? between the' anthracite operators and miners. E. L. Robbins, of Pittsburg, was to day deposed as leader of the mine oper ators and J. H. Winder, of Cleveland, was elected temorary chairman to suc ceed him. A delegate criticized Mitchell's silk hat. The convention cried him down and shouted that it was glad to have a president who could wear a silk hat. Federation of Labor Council. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19. — All members of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, except Mitchell, second vice president, were present at the meeting today. The meeting is considering the print ers' strike, the threatened coal strike and proposed labor legislation. Winder represents the Morgan in terests. Robbins advocated concilia tory measures. It is said that joint action of the conduct of the operators would now be an unwise policy and is opposed by operators generally. Revolver Championships. NEW YORK. N. Y„ March 19.—This is the date set for the opening of the annual indoor championship contests of the United States Revolver association. The contests will be held in this city and in a number of other cities simul taneously. These contests are open to all citizens of the United States, and emblems and medals will be awarded emblems and medals will be awarded to the victors in the various contests. Arrangements are now being made to arrange an international contest shrd arrange an international match with England, France and Germany. It will probably be arranged that the shooting is done in the respective countries and the results reported by cable. Mind Is Clouded. CLEVELAND, 0.. March 19. —It is believed that John D. Rockefeller is 1 suffering from a recurrence of the j acute melancholia that he had years j ago. He then thought that he was ! poor and hounded by creditors. there are few* means of obtaining water from Mill creek, except to carry it in buckets or other vessels. Such a thing was never known be fore. except in very hot and dry sea sons. and then in only a few instances have the wells gone dry as they have at present. Yesterday several residents put in nearly all day sinking their wells deeper, but the relief was only tem porary, water being developed soon sinking away again. The strange phe nomenon, it seems, is confined only to that part of Alder street just north and east of Watertown addition. holding the position of steward, will have to be provided with a new berth and Dr. J. C. Mack, who is now prison physician. must take up his residence at the penitentiary if he desires to hold the position, fust how the new order of things sets with Dr. Mack could not ascertained today, as he left yester day morning for a two days' trip to Spckane. THE EVENING STATESMAN,WALLA WALLA, WASHINGTON. MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1906. COLLEGE PUICE PEOPLE OBJECT TO lift SEWER SYSTEM Declaring that they can get no satis faction out of the Blalock Fruit com pany, a big delegation of College Place people have signified their intention to wait on the council tomorrow night and respectfully demand that the vent of Walla Walla's sewer system on the Blalock ranch be changed further west so that College Place residents will not get the benefit of the nauseating smells which they say arise from the putrid matter that continually flows down the pipe line and is distributed over the big ranch as fertilizer. Kicked for Years. f Ever since the city entered into a contract with the Blalock Fruit com pany permitting the use of the sewer a~T for fertilizing purposes College P.ace people have complained of the stench which they say greets their olfactory organs. Last year there were a number of cases of typhoid fever in College Place, and it was alleged the sewage distributed over the Plalock ranch contaminated the wells that sup ply the college town with water. Mat ters. prominent College Place people LITTLE COMPETITION IN CITY PAVING CONTRACTS At the close of the arguments in the case of R. H. Johnson versus the city of Walla Walla Judge Brents this af ternoon stated that he would take the case under advisement and render a decision later. The court intimated, however, that he might deny the ap plication for a permanent injunction on the ground that the case was brought immaturely. The charter provides that no contract for street improvement such as paving can be awarded until the assessments and estimates have been made and an ordinance authoriz ing the mayor to enter into a contract has been p&ssed. HABEAS CORPUS ARGUED TODAY Federal Court Deals Willi Legal Points KIDNK IS CHKS Last Hope of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone to Escape Trial in Idaho BOISE, Ida., March 19. —Argument was heard in the circuit court of the United States this morning on applica tions for writs of habeas corpus for Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone. The applicants contend that the district court of Canyon county cannot obtain jurisdiction over defendants whose presence in Idaho was secured through The case was taken under ad- visement. HADLEY GAINS POINT. Attorney for Standard Oil Company Admits Combination. ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 19. —An at torney for the Standard Oil company admitted today before a special com missioner that the stock of the Repub lic Oil company is held by stockholders of the Standard. ESTABLISHED 1861 say, have drifted along without any notice being paid to the complaints until patience has ceased to be a vir tue and now they propose to take p shy at the council in an effort to gel the nuisance abated. The following remonstrance was prepared a few days ago and 101 residents of College Place and vicinity signed it in no time. The Remonstrance. "To the Honorable Mayor and Council of Walla Walla: "We, the undersigned persons, who are residents of the county of Walla Walla, in the immediate vicinity and contiguous to the vent of the Walla Walla sewerage system at the Blalock Fruit company's farm, adjacent to Col lege Place, do and in the interest of the future health and the enjoyment of wholesome atmosphere, aside from maintaining our rights amongst men, hereby remonstrate against the continuation of the nuisance created to the College Place district by the dump ing of the Walla Walla sewage upon the College Place district. "The present conditions, aside from May Go to Supreme Court. In the case at bar the council only proceeded so far as to give notice of intention to pave and to advertise for bids and had not passed the necessary ordinances. Judge Brents said he would like to have the case put in proper shape and taken to the supreme court in order that several knotty questions might be decided without any unnecessary delay. He requested Garreht & Dunphy to submit addition al authority on the point thai the case was brought immaturely. Little Competition. As- to the council advertising for EEGIN V/ORK TOMORROW ON STREET CAR LINE. Tomorrow morning the work of constructing the Walla Walla street railway will be com menced by the Walla Walla Traction company. A large force of men will be put to work and the line in the city rushed to completion as soon as pos sible. Work will begin at the corner of Palouse street and Boyer avenue. The line will extend tip Boyer to College avenue, thence north on that avenue to Isaacs ave nue, east to Clinton, south on Clinton to Whitman, west on Whitman to Second and thence north on Second to Main. Considerable of the material has arrived from the east and the remainder will be here in a few days. As soon as the city line is completed work on the interurban line to Milton and Freewater will be taken up. Louis Kossuth's Birthday. BOSTOX, Mass., March 19.—Louis Kossuth's birthday anniversary yas observed by the Hungarians of this city with appropriate exercises at the Washington monument in the public garden today. A large floral wreath, entwined with the American and Hun garian colors, was placed at the foot of the statue and several addresses were made by prominent speakers. After the exercises In the park the members of the committee which had been in charge of the memorial celebra tion took luncheon at the Pannonia club. Many prominent Hungarians of this city were present. Similar celebrations were held in. Xew York. Philadelphia. Pittsburg, Chicago. Detroit and other cities where Hungarians in considerable numbers are living. the unbearable nauseating effects pro duced, endanger the health and even lives of the residents of said district. We respectfully beg of your honorable body on behalf of our health and the peaceable enjoyment of our rights that the nuisance be immediately abated." Go to Court if Necessary. "College Place people are now deter mined to abate the nuisance even if we have to go into court," B. S. Wood ruff declared to a Statesman repre sentative this afternoon. "We have taken the matter up several times with Mr. Campbell, one of the owners of the Blalock ranch, and he promised to have the outlet changed a quarter of a mile west, but nothing has been done. Al! we ask is that the open ditch be closed up tight and the outlet be located be yond the Blalock buildings about a S ~ quarter of a mile further west. The College Place people think this is a matter of health and comfort with us and we are determined to take the matter into court if the council does not, as the owner of the sewerage sys tem. have the outlet changed." only two kinds of pavement, Judge Brents said he was inclined to think that pitting a patented article against an unpatented article could hardly be called competition, especially when it was necessary to go to the original company for the patented article sucl" as contractors must do when taking contracts for laying Warren's bitulithic pavement, While there were a few allegations in the complaint- filed by the plaintiff that the court thought were somewhat trivial, he said there were some ques tions of a very grave nature which should be thoroughly considered. GOV. MEAD IN CALIFORNIA Heads Party ol Excursion ists From Tacoma REACHED 'FRISCO TODAY Will See Chinatown and Other Sights Tonight—Banquet Tomorrow Night SAX FRANCISCO, Cal.. March 19 — Governor Mead and a large party of business men from Washington will arrive here this evening for a few days' visit to California and will spend this evening seeing the sights. Tomorrow they will go to Mount Tamalpais and also visit the board of trade. Tomor row night they will be given a recep tion at the Palace hotel. Wednesday they will go to Stanford university at Palo Alto and to San Jose. The Pope's Name Day. ROME, March 19.—Today being the name day of Pope Pius X, the holy father received thousands of letters from all parts of the world. This morn ing he celebrated mass in the presence of a few intimate friends and members of his household. He lunched as usual with his sister, and afterwards received the sacred college in his library and IS SCOTTY A ROBBER? THIS CHARGE IS MADE. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. March 19.—Warrants have been issued in Inyo county for William Keys, Shorty Smith and Walter Scott, the Death Valley miner. It is charged that Scotty plan ned an ambuscade when escort ing a party to the mines and his brother Warner was shot, that Scotty's famous mines are a fake, and that he got his money by robbery and swindling. thanked the cardinals for their good wishes. Tie did not deliver a formal address, however. In remembrance of his name day the pope received many handsome and valuable presents. Today his holiness remarked: "By the grace of God, I feel younger and better every year." MAY ABANDON HIS THRONE. Hungarians Expect the Emperor to Abdicate. PARIS. March 19.—Leaders of the Hungarian colony in Paris are of the opinion that Emperor Francis Joseph will abdicate the throne before long. They express the belief that the final struggle between Austria and Hungary is at last about to break forth, and that it will 'mpossible longer to patch up even a temporary settlement be tween the two nations. The Hun garian leaders have long had their plans prepared for the crisis when it arrives, and no time will be lost In forming a provincial government and taking over the control of Hungary. It is known that the venerabte em peror was anxious to quit the throne some four or five years ago, and only reconsidered his decision at the earnest entreaties of his family and ministers. If, however, the present situation is not by some compromise smoothed over. Francis Joseph will quit his throne and his country. Rumors have been current this week that agents of the Austrian emperor have recently been visiting Paris with a view to ob taining suitable accommodation for him should it become necessary for him to carry his decision to resign his crown into effect. Big Failure In Russia. MOSCOW, March 19. —A Raesstor gouff Pross, the largest merchants in Russia, has failed for thirteen and a half million dollars. EARLY FRUIT BADLY DAMAGED ON 6LALOCK RANCH Last week's cold snap damaged early fruits on the Blalock fruit ranch from 25 to 40 per cent and the monetary loss to the company will run into thou sands of dollars. Herbert McArthur. manager of the Plalock Fruit com pany's extensive interests in Walla Walla county, stated this morning that the principal damage was done to Bartlett pears, Ring and Royal Ann cherries, silver prunes and early peaches. Just what the percentage of loss will be Mr. McArthur said he could hardly estimate now, but that the damage to ■he crop of silver prunes. Bartlett Dears and Ping cherries will be above 25 per cent, he felt sure, and perhaps might reach 40 per cent. The Plalock Fruit company has thousands of silver prune trees bearing and this variety of fruit is one of the principal sources of revenue of the big ranch. ANDERSON SHIS MK OF Win WIH (Ml IS KBSIHID SAX FRANCISCO, Cal.. March 19.— The liner Coptic arrived from the orient 31 noon today, having been detained at Honolulu on the discovery of smallpox among the crew. General George E. Anderson, coifeul at Amoy, China, was a passenger. He said the boycott situ ation is unchanged. There is great unrest in China and should the em press dowager die civil war is likely to follow. The Japanese are actively You Get Today's News Today in The Statesman. CONSULAR BILL PASSED House Votes Approval of the Senate Bill FREE SYSTEM ABOLISHED Senate Vote# to do Away With Rank of Lieutenant General of the Army WASHINGTON. D. C., March 1!> — Grosvenor's amendment providing for the abolishment of the grade of lieu tenant general but specifying that Cor bin and Mac Arthur shall not be de prived of (his rank passed the house today. The house today passed the senate bill reorganizing the consular hervice and abolishing the fee system, giving consular officers annual salaries and creating three consular inspectors. The president today nominated George W. Irwin to be postmaster at Butte, Mont.: for register of the land office at Redding. Cal., Clarence \V. Lieirrlnger; for register of the land of fice at Carson City. Nev., Louis J. Cohen: for receiver of moneys at far son City. Earl W. Tremont: receiver of moneys at Redding. Cal., L. B. Carter. The senate committee on territories favors the nomination of Hoggatt for governor of Alaska. GAMBLING HOUSES CLOSED. Montana Attorney General Responds to Appeal of Civic League. BI'TTE, Mont., March 19. —Attorney General Galen has issued orders to th<* sheriff to Close the gambling houses at. Butte. This, order follows a bitter Psrht waged hy the Civic League against the* gambling element in an effort to close the town. The district attorney refused to act, "Last week's freeze was particularly hard on the silver prunes and cher ries," Mr. McArthur said. "It is al most impossible to say just what the loss to the Plalock orchards will be. but from ' a cursory examination I should judge it will be more than 25 per cent. The prune crop in the Walla Walla valley was practically a failure last year and it is unfortunate that the crop has been badly damaged again this year." Other Orchards Damaged. It is believed that other orchards within a radius of three to four miles of Walla Walla will be found to have been badly damaged by last week's cold sna;\ Py a peculiar freak of na ture the Milton and Freewater coun tries practically escaped scot free from the severe cold and fruit men say w.e prune crop in those sections is now practically assured. engaged in working up trade In west ern China. He said talk of war with China is absurd. The trouble is due to a disorderly element. General An derson witnessed the Chlnf Pu When Presbyterian and Catholic missions being destroyed by vandals and the occupants driven to Amoy. The dam age amounted to a hundred thousand dollars. Eight hundred Chinese sol diers rushed to the scene and stopped the depredations. NUMBER 259.