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OFFICIAL PAPER
|'I OF THE
{; CSTY OF ST. PAUL.
VOL. XXIV.—NO. 219.
STRIKE ORDER
A',.l. A.BSALGAJIATBD ASSO< IATIO.V
EMPLOYES OF Tin; STBSSL
Till ST CALLED Ol T
ARE TO QUIT WORK AUG. 10
li, < .v the ( oi'iioralioii Give* In,
Saturday Next Will Inaugurate
ii Long and Bitter
Btrasffle.
L BE 100,000 IDLE MEN
Auk. 6.—The «ll<- is oast.
anta is on In < arnest,
■• iminioua uef< at on one
ther, <>r ;i compromise, re
st i 11. l'p to thla evening
rely n skirmish, each side
the vulnerable spot in the
. erent. The Issue baa been
actual promulgation by
■>\ r of tin' long-talked-of
r. This order was
• ning, to take effect
turn of the mills up. Aug.
r< suit will In no man can
judging by iin- expressed
of b ith parties to the con
battle will t><- waged fast
1. eh money will be lost,
ip 'ii thousands ot men will be
CCering is looked for; even
I death ai*e possible and
Btriki ail includes practically all
10. n in the United States
tion employ not now on
\ is Issued I'runi the Amalga
i lon headquarters and mail
nalgamated lodge officials,
Cted to call their nun into
. the call follows:
I il BR'S FORMAL ORDER.
l'n.: officials of the United
fei.aes Steel Trust have, refused t'
se as union men those who are now
Striving for tin right to organize. The
itive board has authorized me to
a call upon all Amalgamated and
Other union nun in name and heart to
in the movement to light for labor.-?
its.
"We must fight or give up forever our
i rsonal liberties.
'You will be told that you have signed
racts, but y>u never agreed to sur
render those contracts to the LJnitea
Statue Steel corporation. Eta officers
think ion were sold to them just as the
mills were, contracts and all.
"Remember, before you agreed to any
contract you took an obligation to the
tlgamated association. It now calls
you to help in this hour of need.
"Unless tin trouble is settled on or be-
Saturday, Aug. lv, 1901, the mills will
when tin- last turn is made on that
day.
•Brethren, this is the call to preserve
our organization. We trust you and
need you. Come and help us and may
right come to a just cause. Fraternally
yours, -"T. j. Shaffer."
President Shaffer added this state
ment:
"The call goes to the vice presidents of
the. district in which there are mills own
ed and operated by the National Steel
National Tube and Federal Steel compa
nies, as well us to the officials of the
lodges in the mills.
"No notice has been, or is being sent to
the managers of the mills. We think
the notice has come from the other
Bide, and that they have had warning of
this ever since the inauguration of the
strike. That ought to be sufficient."
ARMY OF IDLE MEN."
. The order of President Shaffer is ex
pected to swell the number of Idle men to
over 100,000 at the end of the week. Pres
ident Shaffer was asked, if the call was
not Intended also for the union men
in the Carnegie company. He Bald that
he answered no questions on that scori.
The Amalgamated association has lodges
In the upper and lower mills of the Car
negie Steel company, and a foothold in
the Homestead, Duquesne and Braddock
mills, of the great bullwark of non-un
ionism, in conformity to statements that
have been made by President Shaffer be
fore, these men win be expected to join
the strike, as will all Amalgamated men
and sympathizers in all plants of the
United States Steel corporation. The
other companies of the steel corporation
not mentioned by the Amalgamated pres
ident, and whose operations the associa
tion will seek to hamper, are the Amer
ican Steel and Wire company and the
American Bridge company. . In the wire
company the Amalgamated as Relation
.has only lodges in the Cleveland Rolling
mill plant and the Joliet Rod mill plant
of the company. The former is now idle.
In the plants of the American Bridge
company there is no organization of the
men. The outside men handling and
erecting the work of the American Bridge
company are organized as the Interna
tional Association of Bridge and Struct
ural Workers. They are not affiliated
•with the American Federation of Labor
ATTITUDE OF FEDERATION.
'ili.- attitude of the Federation remains
rtain, ami the president of the Amal
:t<d association is unwilling to dis
t-.is.s it, although support has been prof
fered by officials of the Federation. This
was without the concerted action of the
eration executive board Many affili
aw.i bodies or ti u . Federation have an
nual or long-term contracts with their
employers, and beyond financial and
moral support, it is hard to toll how the
ration may go.
li has been the purpose of President
Shaffer to give the operating officials of
i!" remaining constituent companies of
iii.- steel corporation time to anticipate
th< calling out of their men. Jf it was
Intended to give these managers am
forma] notification, this plan was walvej
today, althoujiii they will still have till
i closing of operations on Saturday to
pr< v. m the striking or' their men.
The call io iii,. men of tlie three com
panies in the mills of which the Amalga
mated association i.s strongest is expected
gem railj and promptly responded
t^ on Saturday. 'Die move will, it is ex
]>■ :tcd, practl ally suspend operations of
Federal Steel company ami cut oif
half of the production of the National
and Tube companies, and throw
upwards of •io.in.'O men idle.
in the most extensive plant of the Na
tional Tube company, at McKeesport, the
nisaulon is new, and the effect of
:rike order is uncertain. The works
iloyed upward of 8,000 men.
Attitude of the m»:n of the I'nited
Btat< orporatton so far not af
fected by the strike has been carefully
since the futile efforts at
- oi peace in New York last Sat
urday Most of the nine vice presidents
of the different districts have been
Bniiiii.^ th*;r men. and their reports have
reached headquarters. In a genera] way
t tone of those reports indicates that
the men will support the stand of their
als. An aggressive move on Carne
pie mill- i.s intended and will be taken
ptly.
'FRISCO .-THIKE SPREADS.
sTomr llimdsni In lon Boxmalcera
Walked Out Yesterday.
rSAM FRANCISCO, Aug. The only
Continued on Fifth Page.
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE
GET RICH LOOT
SET.BY- (SMKI/riISG COMPANY - IS
l!iilllli:i) OF .f^so,oo(> -WORTH
OF GOLD BILLION w ,. f ,., . .
NO CLUE TO THE THIEVES
Kiplilkti Accomplished by I unnel
iiiK Under the Vault aii.l < ut- .
ting a Hole Through
the Floor.
WAS THE WORK OF WEEKS
SAX FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 6.—The
Belby Smelting a-nd Lead company has
bi iii robbed of $sso,o»)o worth of gold
bullion.
The tin it occurred some tim<- last
I was not discovered until morn-
Ing. The thieves tunneled from outside
the building under the vault at the Belby
works which are located on the bay
shore, about thirty miles from San Fran
cisco. Thej !--iii away with nearly 1,200
pounds of line rolil worth J2O an ounce,
without leaving a trace Of their identiiy
behind.
'i ne robbery is the most successful and
remarkable ever accompllßttea 1 'oh IW3
Pacific coast, and was evidently th<
work of skilled mechanics.
The whole affair was skillfully plans d
and skillfully executed, it is supposed
that when the robbers secured their loot
they loaded it into a boat thai was wait-
Ing and disappeared in the fog that had
come over San Francisco bay.. In their
haste to gel away they left two gold bars
worth nearly J50.0U0, lying on the bank
at the water's edge.
The police at all the bay cities were
immediately notified of the crime, but
all they could discover was a few of the
tools tnat the robbers hiv(\ used.
The Selby Smelting and Lead company
is the largest concern of its kind on the
Pacific coast. Ores are se.ni from all
over the \Yt siern country to be smelted
and refined and the gold is then.turned
over to the mint. A steamer makes spe
cial trips between the smelter and Wan
Francisco, carrying the ores one way
and bringing back the refined gold.
ROBBERY DISCOVERED.
This morning, when the workmen en
tered tiie vault to prepare the gold for
loading on the steamer, the robbery waa
discovered. The thieves had taken the
precaution of fastening the door of the
vault from the inside so that it would be
difficult to open from the 0u1.«13e in caste
they were interrupted in their work.
i-robably prep-u:;.LOry eng'nening ex
tending over several weeks wafl done be
ioro the robbery could be accomplished.
Close to the wall of the building in
which the vault Is located a shaft was
sunk below the foundation. Then a tun
nel was run to the vault and holes were
bored in the iron Moor until an aperture
sufficiently large to admit a man was
made. It was then easy work to pass
down the treasure Into the tunnel and
load it Into a boat. The robbers oven
took the precaution to sprinkle red pep
per in the tunnel in order to make things
as uncomfortable as possible for any
one who might attempt to pursue them.
There were four fine gold bricks In the
vault which the robbers -looted: Each
was ten inches long, live inches wide and
four inches In height. They wore all
stamped with number, weight and fine
ness, and ran thus: "No. 123(1, containing
U'JO.B7 ounces; No. 1237, containing 1127.43
ounces; No. 1233, containing 1123.22
ounces, and No. 1239, containing 1073.29
ounces." All the bricks were 998 fine and
worth $20.60 per ounce. In addition to
this, there was stolen from the bullion
vault crude sold in all sh'tiis and sizes,
and some of it In bars of different
lengths.
ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE.
"It is the boldest robbery in the his
tory of the state," said Chief of Detec
tives Seymour this afternoon, "and from
all the Information that can be obtained
at this time there is absolutely no clue
to the robbers. In fact we do not know
whether the crime was committed by
one man or five. The probabilities are,
however, that more than one man was
concerned in it.
"We have tak^en all precautions to cap
ture the robbers. Telegrams have been
sent to every sheriff in the central part
of the state ordering him to search for
the missing gold, to overhaul every boat
and steamer within his juiTtfdlctlon, to
search every railroad train and stage
coach passing through his county, and
to examine everyone taking passage at
the different railroad stations through
out the state.
"We can do no more than this, and I
think that, with the precautions we have
taken, no stranger can leave the state
uninspected. Surely, If any attempt is
made to ship tiie bullion by any of the
ordinary modes of conveyance, we will
discover it. On the whale, the chances
are good for captuffng the robbers."
HOW IT WAS DONE.
Ofllciul of the Company Describes
SUUlful Work of Thieves.
VALJ-EJO, Cal., Aug. 6.—An official of
the Selby smelting works made the fol
lowing statement to a representative of
the Associated Press regarding the rob-
bery:
"The robbers must have succeeded in
entering the vault some time between
midn'ght and 5 o'clock this morning. They
entered the vault through a hole about
tiie size of a manhole In a boiler, and
the Indications are that they had beep
working on the scheme for some time.
Over ]. rio holes were bored Into the bot
tom of the vault, and the workmanship
indicates that mechanics of more than
usual ability superintended the job. The
hoh b were bored almost to the surface,
and when the proper time came the plate
jyas forced up, Urns giving the robbers
access to the vault.
"The looters fust excavated alongside
the building directly in line with the
vault. The work of excavating must have
taken some time, and at the end of each
night's work—for the work must have
been done at night—a covering of laths,
rubber sheeting and sacks was made, the
whole being covered over with, a layer
of dirt, thus hiding any , sign of ..what
was gonig on. What became of the ex
cavated dirt we have been unable>to<nnd
out. .It must have been removed in sacks.
The covering we have ascertained was
not strong enough to hold the weight of
a man, but the excavation was-made so
close to the building that the man never
walked over it. We are satisfied that the
plotters were aided by some one thorough
ly familiar with the system -employed at
the works, and one fully informed as to
the construction of the vault. • ■"
"The weight of the gold carried out
of the vault aggregates 1,280-pounds, and
it must have taken several trips for one
man, and several men must have been
employed in carrying the metal to the
boat. We are assured a boat was in
waiting for them.
"Inside the vault were seveiraT slclts
containing $110,000, but this was not
touched. It may have been that th* men
became alarmed. That they were
alacmed is also indicated by the fact
that two bars of gold of great value
were left on the beach in their haste
to" escape.
"Every -possible.clue is being followed
but I am unable to say that we have
bfi -n at all successful thus far, but we
hope later to make the announcement
, that the robbers have been apprehended."
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, 1901.
*»<jHSv^'Sl^*** (if I\^
HURLS HIS DERANGE
SJSINATOIt >II.A!I(I\. OP SOUTH CAII
OLIXA, TALKS HACK TO
TILLMAX
REFUSES TO BE CAST OUT
DeiimiitlM 'J'ii:i« tin- Democratic
Voters of Him State Choose lie
(ween HiniNelf and Mini
With ihr Pitchfork.
COLUMBIA, S. C, Aug. 6.—The Dem
ocratic state executive committee today
received Senator MeLaurin's reply to
their action of July 26, condemning his
course In the senate, and demanding hia
resignation.
In the course of the letter Senator Mc-
Laurin writes:
"I hold my commission from the Demo
cratic voters of South Carolina- I recog
nize no authority but theirs; take no or
ders from any source but them, and shall
in clue course to them for judg
ment on my course as a senator anil my
character as a man and a Dehiocrat.
"Personally, 1 am indifferent to your
action, because nobody has made you my
masttr or ctnsor, and 1 regard what you
have done as merely expressing the mal
ice and the fears of one individual, Sen
ator B. R. Tillman. But for this always
evil and indecent Influence, ordinary re
spect for the proprieties would probably
have prevented the four of you who are
my declared competitors for the .seat i
now have the honor to occupy, from at
tempting to use the power entrusted to
you by your party to remove a rival from
your path.
LET THE PEOPLE CHOSE.
"I shall ask the people to decide be
twen the man who has trie d to help build
factories, open highways of commerce,
and command for the Democratic party
the confidence and respect of the busi
ness and laboring elements North and
South, and thj^of the man whose con
duct and record has been such as to sink
the party to disrepute and impotence, I
shull ask them to say whether they pre
fer the senator who has tried to retain
for South Carolina the honor and dignity
won by a long line of illustrious sons and
glorious deeds, or the senator who has
postured as buffoon and bully, and who
proclaimed on the floor of the senate
that he represented a constituency of
ballot-box stutters and murderers wiio
wanted their share of the stealage.
"I desire to proclaim to the world that
you do not represent the intelligence of
the Democracy of the people of South
Carolina, and to you and Senator Tillman
that he has never been my master and
shall never be; that he shall not escape
the vengeance that must surely fall upon
him when the people have been made to
understand his motives, his methods, his
debased character and his shameful rec
ord. To that grand conservator of free
government, the rserved patriotism and
common sense of the people, I make ap
peal against partisan intolerance and
tyranny."
WILL HEAR MCR. IRELAND
ARCHBISHOP OP ST. PAIL AT
HARTFORD CONVENTION.
HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 6.—TKs aft
ernnon and evening saw the arrival here
of the advance guard of delegates to th«
national convention of the Catholic To
tal Abstinence Union of America, which
will open tomorrow in Footgard hall.
It is estimated that the opening session
will see 300 members present, including
some of the noted Catholic divines of
the country. Great Interest is taken in
the expected presence of Arcihbishop Ire
land, who tonight by telegram assured
Bishop Tierney, of this diocese, that he
would attend tomorrow night's meeting.
11l Health Cause of Soi«-i«le.
DENVER, Col., Aug. fi.—Goorge Gibb,
chief clerk for the general manager of
the Colorado Fuel & Iron company,
killed himself 'today in the office of the
company In the Boston block by shoot
ing himself through the head. It is sup
!■< :-ed that ill-health, from which he had
been suffering for several months, had
afucted his mind.
poES ti(e poMfrtfE
DULUTH, Minn., Aug. 6.-(Speclal.)-
The Second Presbyterian church, of this
city, is shy one deacon. Several members
of the congregation, Including the min
ister, A. C. Man^on, and other people
are shy certain funds which, it is al
leged, the said deacon owes. The recaJ
citrant offk-ial is J. D. Boyd, who ar
rived there about six months ago from
Ayr, Scotland. He rapidly established a
reputation among the church people of
this city by his enthusiastic interest in
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SHIELD.
The Pot Should Not (all the Kettle Blneic.
lIILLF/riX OF
IMPORTANT NEWS OF THE DAY
Weather Forecast lor St. Paid:
Showers; Cooler.
I—Strike Order is lamed.
< alil'oriiia Smelter Looted.
I,ook« Like < iiiihiiliih
I.iuvlcsh nt Luwtou.
MeLimrin Talks HucK.
iicnison on Schley Court,
I —lmproving Itn'.ian Mound Park.
Whitehorne Wai In City.
Oliuee Ihliukl NurtTery Complete.
Pipe Mills to IlcMUiiie Work.
Omaha OtlteialM Not Worried.
3—His Crop in Manitoba
Imi list rial Coin miX wion Report.*.
News of tlie JVortb^vCNt.
Maryland In After Gurmun.
4—i:<i:tui-iai Comment.
Ship Yard* Are Busy.
6—mull 8, St. Paul O.
Gomel in the Hie l.c«suf».
General Sporting ■ CoHHtp. "7"
<>— Great Weatern Drnni'lion Out.
Kevra of the itsi ilroad.s.
Globe Popular Wimf*.
7—Grain and Provision MarketM.
September Wheat, 70@70 5-Bc.
Bar Silver, 58 8-Sc.
Stocks Closed Weak.
&-*■!(oInoil Her Beauty..^
Final Paving Order* Issued.
Dillon Will Be Extradited.
Seven Killed by Explosion. 1
WEATHEK FOR TODAY.
Minnesota—Fair in western, showers
and cooler in eastern portion Wednes
day; Thursday, fair; fresh northwester
ly winds.
Wisconsin—Showers and cooler Wednes
day, except fair in southeast portion;
Thursday, fair; fresh southwesterly
winds, becoming northwesterly.
lowa—Fair and warmer in eastern,
showers and cooler in western portion
Wednesday; Thursday, fair; variable
winds, becoming northwesterly.
North Dakota—Fair Wednesday and
Thursday; warmer Thursday; northerly
whins.
Smith Dakota—Fair and cooler Wednes
day; Thursday, fair; northwesterly
winds.
Montana—Fair Wednesday, with warm
er In western portion; Thursday, fail ;
wanner in southeast portion; westerly
winds.
St. Paul — Yesterday's observations,
taken by the United States weather bu
reau, St. Paul, P. F. Lyons, observer, for
the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock
last night—Barometer corrected for tem
perature and elevation: Highest temaer
aturo, 85; lowest temperature, 62; average
temperature, 74; daily raage, 23; barome
ter, 2H.92; humidity, 51; precipitation, 0;
7 p. m., temperature, 84; 7 p. m., wind,
south; weather, clear.
*BpmHlgh| *Bpmlli^h
Havre 70 70 Jacksonville .78 88
Mod. Hat ...68 CS Kansas City .B3 80
Pr. Albert ..60 e,i Marciuette ...72 *i
S. Current ..04 jJOMinnedosa ...01 t,>
Wllliston 70 72 Montgomery .. Vi
Alpena <;0 70' Montreal ....68 7t>
liattleford ...0! 01 Nashville M) 84
Bismarck ....72 78 New Orleans.SO 84
Buffalo 02 74 New York ..'■{ 71
Boston ',r, 70 Norfolk 70 sr;
Calgary ti2 Ml North Plalfe.&2 :<•:
Cheyenne ....66 so'Omaha si x.s
Chicago .. ..'in 72lPhlladeIp9iia .(56 70
Cincinnati ...<J4 72 Pittsburg ...M 68
I pavenport ...SO 84,Qu'AppeTle ..<SO 64
i Detroit 70 78 'Frisco .. ..60 62
■■ Duluth SO SL'St. Louis XI *>S
J'Mmmitnn ...f!2 04 Salt Lake ..78 84
I Ci. Haven ....70 78 Ste. Marie ..68 76
1 Green Bay ..T£ S2lWashington .72 74
Helena ill GiJ Winning . ..08 82
] Huron S2 B0
•Washington timo (7 p. m. St. Paul.)
River Bulletin-
Danger Gauge Change in
Stations. Line. Reading. 24 Hour*.
St. Paul M 3.0 —0.1
Davenport L 6 B<B —0.1
La Crosse 10 3.'J —0.1
St. Louis 30 7.9 —0.3
—Fall.
River forecast till 8 p. m. \Vr>unfss(Jay:
The Mississippi will remain stationary,
or fall slightly, in the vicinity of St. Paul.
church work, particularly that relating
to young people, and was fleeted deacon.
Later he organized the church boys Into
a military company. Uniforms were or
dered, and Boyd received the money for
them from the boys, but failed to ac
count for it to the firm from which they
.were ordered. He managed also to de
fraud the minUter referred to out of
$70. When his crookid work was dis
covered, last week, he lift town and has
not been heard from since.
CROOKS MUST QUIT
VIGILANCE'COMMITTEE IS OHGAX
. .. - IKED -TO STOP THE SURE
THING BUSINESS
SHARPENS ARE GIVEN NOTICE
llome«eekerM Mean Ilu*lneMM, an
GiunblerM Take Heed'—Murder's
mid Robberlea of Frequent
Occurrence
LAWTON, O. T., Aug. 6.-After wait-
Ing: in vain for the authorities to act, the
citizens of I,awlon took the gambling
question into their own hands last night.
The "sure-thing" gamblers, emboldened
t>y their successes Saturday and Sunday
etoppeu at nothing Monday. People wore
openly robbed. A crowd of homesfekers
finally organized and served formal no
tice that no more unlicensed gambling
would Ik- permitted in and around Law
ton. ..... " . * ■
It was a 'busniesa organization, which
did not mince any words, and this morn
ing there were no "sure-thing" devices in
sight.
HARVEST FOR HIGHWAYMEN.
Two men killed by highwaymen, one
seriously wounded, $1,600 in money an.l
nine watches taken, is the criminal rec
ord of the Lawton district for twenty
four hours. Trwin Rogers, of May coun
ty, O. T., was shot and killed instantly
by one of three men who last night at
tempted to hold up a party a mile south
of the townsite. All but Rogers r.lll
and the robbers thought he int. nded to
fight.
Another gang of highwaymen robbed
nine "prairie schooners" near Rush
Springs Sunday night. The telegraph
wires were cut and the news did not
rea^h here until today. The gang was
composed of three men, all of whom
rode thoroughbred hones. In one wagon
containing '/.. B. Beemblossom, of Guth
rie, his eleven-year-old son and two oth
er persons, young Beembkwsom was
killed and a man, name unknown, riding
a horse near by, was shot and wounded
.seriously. The highwaymen in iadi In
stance escaped.
FILING ON Til Kill CLAIMS.
Probable Two or Three Thousand
Will Go by Default
EL RENO, O. T., Aug. 6.-In the open
ing of Indian lands on the Klowa-Com
anche reservations the last act began to
day, when the winners in last week's lot
tery were permitted to sit on their
claims. Filings at the rate of 250 per
day at El Reno and Fort Sill will be
continued until m the entire 13,000 claims
have been disposed of. It Is estimated
that 2,000 or 3,000 claims drawn at the
lottery will never be filed on. There un
doubtedly will be a lively scramble for
them by the thousands who did not win
: in the lottery. An auction sale by the
I Federal government of town lots at An
; nadrio, Hobart and Lawton commenced
I today. At each place thousands of per
i sons have waited for days the opportu
j nity to purchase lots and begin business.
I \<ai,UXT JOHN' WOOD,
Lucky Man RefuMeM to Share Hit
I.uck Wiili the Telephone Girl
FORT SILL, O. T., Aug. S.—John Wood,
of Weatherford, O. T., who drew No. 1 in
the Lawton land district, created a s<-n-
Katton at the land office today when In
filing his plain) he chose 160 acres run
ning the entire length of the townsite
on the south. According to the govern
ment plan, the two most valuable sec
tions in the whole reservation were made
to adjoin the townsite on the south. Mis.s
Bfattie Bealls, the Wichita, Kan., tel.
ph<me girl who had drawn No. 2 from
the wheel, had counted on selecting
of these, but when Wood made hi.s selec
tion she had to content herself with a
tract south of Wood's, and two se |
away from the townsite. Wood's claim
is valued at $50,000.
UNDER AN ARMED GUARD
GEORGIA RAPIST SKXTEXCED TO
HAJTG AFTER 4O MINUTES' TRIAL..
ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 6.—Guarded ny
three companies of state militia, called
out by Gov Candler for his protection,
Raymond Ross, a negro, charged with
assaulting Mrs. Miller, was taken to Can
ton, Ga., from Atlanta today to stand
trial. A special. session of court was
call, d by Judge Orabex, who asked for
the militia. The time the trial consumed
was only forty minutes. The negro was
convicted and sentenced to be hangid
Aug. 27. Rosa was again landc-d in the
Atlanta jail at 3 p. m, for safe keeping.
PRICE TWO CENTS—{ B?^gSh
TO TRY SCHLEY
BEAR ADMIRAL HOWISON (UK
TIRED) NAMJBD VSTHI1II) MEM
BBR OK TIIK COI HT
BUREAUCRATS GET VERY BUSY
CronvnlnsUielil, Who is Credited
With Hating Scliley ami DeWey
ji.- Well. 1.-.iml-* the Samp
won Force.
DEWEY AND CROWNINSHIELD
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.— Thr vacancj
in I];-- s bJej court of Inquiry, caused
by tin- Inability of Rear A . iber.
ty Co serve on account of ill hi alth,
ailed by ih.- sell i tlon of Rear Ad
miral Henry U Howison, whose appoint
ment was announced by Assistant Sec
retary Hackett today. At the same time
it was announced that this appointment
would be agreeable to Admiral Bchley.
The department, before taking action,
had submitted a list <>r ■ Ad
miral Bchley, which Included thai of
I. <■■■ A' ml . I Howiaon, aud Admiral
Bchley had Indicated bis entire wl
in ss to accept any officer >>n the list.
The department also communicated the
selection of Capt. Parker before mr l kiti«
it public. Assistant Secretarj Hackett,
before Issuing the order, communicated
with Admiral Eiowlson, who la at pres
ent at Saratoga Springs^ N. V., and
certalned from him that he had given
utterance to no expression of opinion ro
garding the merits of the Sampson-
Bcnley coin roversy.
The department announced that Ad
miral Howieon would accept the detail.
Admiral Dewey was notified of Admiral
Howlson'a selection, and the department
sent t" tlii latter a copy or the precept,
together with Admiral Bctiley'a letter,
relative to the flfth paragraph of the
precept and the department's responses
thereto, which correspondence Is part of
the official record.
HOWISON'S RECORD.
Rear Admiral Howison la one of the
youngest retired officers of his grade,
having been retired Oct.. 10, 1899, when
he reached the age of sixty-two. Dur
ing the early part of the war he served
principally on blockade duty, but later
participated in the battle of Mobile bay
as commander of the United States ship
Bienvllle. It la rather an Interesting
coincidence that he was in command of
the cruiser Vandalla at Samoa, which
later went down in the hurricane in Apia
harbor while Hying the flag of Rear Ad.
miral Kimh.riy, who had succeeded him
as senior officer on the station, and
whom he now succeeds on this court.
He was In command of the 1303t0n navy
yard during the Spanish war, and Later
was commander of the South Atlantic
station. He made the Campus long dis
tance cruise around Africa in the Chi
cago as the last act of his active career,
arrivingl in New York the day before
Admiral Dewey arrived in the Oiympia.
It will be remembered that, although
he outranked Admiral Sampson, who was
In command'of the receiving fleet at
that time, he refrained frona assuming
command, but courteously allowed Ad
miral -Sampson-to do the honors upon
that celebrated occasion.
WITNESSES TO BE CALLED.
A preliminary list .of the witnesses who
will be called to appear before the court
has been prepared at the navy depart
ment. Some of these officers are on for
eign stations, and these also .-.ill be or,
dered home.
Among the witnesses desired by Ad
miral Schley Is Lieut. Benjamin W.
Wells, Admiral BcbVey'a dag secretory,
who was aboard the Brooklyn as a mem
ber of Commodore Scbley*s staff through
out the Spanish war. There are no Span
ish officers on Admiral Bchley's II
Capt. James Parker, Admiral Bthtey'a
assistant counsel, appeared .it the navy
department today to resume hii invesu
gution of the records in connection With
tiic disputed points in the Santiago cam
paign. He was given a desk in the sec
retary's office, as he was last week, and
such records as be called for were placed
at his disposal by the bureau of naviga
tion.
< KOWMNSHIKM) HBTI 111 >V .
Bnemy of Soli Icy :m<l Ocncy KeallrH
Hlmaelf.
WASHINGTON, D. <\, Aug. «.— A de
velopment of tli- mi 1' Bchley in
quiry is the activity of every one con
nected with the bureau of navigation.
Rear Admiral Cfowninsbield has taken
persona] command of tin- aoU-Scbtoy
forces and is directing the preparation
of the case agalssi Bchley. Efe win l^av.
nothing vi re the complete
humiliation of the nar admiral, af.id as
he appear! to have the sympath: and co
operation of Secretary Long aad Assist.
ant Secretary Hackett, he la not apt to
be hampered In hia benevolent purpo
Crowninshleld la said to be mortified
and chagrined o rtment of
Admiral Dewey aa the president of the
court. H.- hatea Dewej with ■ cordiality
that is only equaled by his batred of
Schley, and I"- was desirous that aome
other officer be appointed to preside al
the coming Inquiry. Crowlnlnshield >:n
--ployed all of his to prevent
Dewey from in-in^ ordered to the
Asiatic station during the winter ol
He foresaw that th< ■ • tit might
turn out to be Important, and wanted
it for one of tii" coterie of favorltiea
who basked In the bin of th • chief of the
ii of navigation, Senator Proctor,
of Vermont, however, proved to have a
more pot< tit pull at tho Whit/ house than
Crowninshield, and Dewey was*ord red
1" Hongkong.
When the commodore reported at the
bureau of navigation for Instruct
just previous to bis depart ire from
Washington, Crownlngshl In the lan
guage of a gentleman who la familiar
with the facts, "gave him a nasty re
ception.',' lie was unable to conceal' the
sense of defeat which he frit because
Commodore Dewey had been assigned to
an important command against his
wishes. '
When I>- tlic
office, CrownlnaWe] l found hima^lf un
able to k> • ■;> down i
ment that were consuming him, and
turning to Dewey exclaim
"Commodore, 1 desire to say to you
that •! cannot approvi the manm
which you obtained this assignment. Of
ficers of the navy should not r*-*ort to
politicians to secure assignments."
Dewey looked Crowninslil.-M In tlio eye
for a moment befor< -..itV» th;-t
sailorllke candor and bluatnes>3 ior irhlch
he is fan,.
"C'rownlnshield, what I
to give m< ? How did you |
of the bureau of. navisaii'
Thc-n he turned on his heel a
out of the offlce without ay
<x(;»lanation from Crowninahi *
commodore was awari- tfiat Crowntn
hhkld had obtained hla b-r'.h thn
t'nc Influence of politlri;:n :■), chluf of v
was Senator Platt, of N«W Vorx
ornciAL paper
OF THE,
CITY OF ST. PAUL.
HAWKEYEC.O.P.
-MEETS TODAY IX \OJIIXATIX(J <OX
VEXTIOX TO NAME STATE
OFFIC
CUMMINS IS IN THE LEAD
Opposition to i!i«> Chief Caadldate
Cor the Gubernatorial \,,mi,ni.
tion I niiiiic to <-<i
KERRIOTT FOLLOWING BOLTS
CEDAR i: \|-il>.-. lowa. Aug. G.-Tho
combination against Cummins was brok
en tonight by a larse number of the
rrlott delegates^ who abandoned their
man and went over to the Dcs .Y!otn<s
candidate. The countks In the movement
are Adair, Audubon, Cass, Montgomery,
Shelby and Pottawattamie. They will
bring to Cummins an increase of !irty
six votes on the first ballot and seventy?
eight on the second.
Wh< n 11 nfei mcc bi thi ! i
mi ii met, a numbi r of I
thai the arr&ngemeni i ntere i Into
ti rday with the st< erlng i mm
«re< abU to them, and Ihe did n>t
hke the looks ■
Thej wanted Herrloti to agree to i
combinat lon with the < 'umtnlns m< •
he preferred i>> run his own
'I he delegate i then anno
Intend) d to conn • lummlns.
The d.-ie i ,,,,, of H, rriott's m<
sider,-,i to prai !e the n >n
tiuti in favor of < iiin
■ I. «l t.. I, in early in the ev< nil
votes i.ii- the Hrsl ballot, while he claim
ed 791. The br<
admissl t his opponc nl
mi the second ballot
hi.s own estimate he will havi
M 7 €.11 the lir.sl ballot, an 1 a total "!
xi' "ii the se „nd; *--'i votes ue ■.
sarj tn a choice, 'i
tee. notwithstanding the (ailing
Herrloit's vote, win stick to H
and mak( their ii K ht under Ills name.
Chairman McMtll in,
mlttee, said tonight that he still felt
conndi nt of tin- outcome, ile claimi i
pursued In,- the ( •iirnmins
faction In forcing the break from Her
rloti would prove a boomerang that
would cost Cummins mure than he had
gained.
ANTIB STILL HOPEFUL.
••\\"< shaii certainly control the 01^;,lu
xation ol the convention," be said.
"There is no longei doubl of that, and
tin- n port o-f the commltti c on cr
tials win be snstnim-.i by tin- conven
tion. After we bave shown that w<
in control of the convention, we can
ip< ii who shall be nomlnati d.
"Even had the Herrlott delegates not
withdrawn from him, Herrloti himself
would have had an open rupture with the
• h the ear*
ly part of the evening the committee
in-K'*<l him in give i|i his claim foi
place and allow h.in to COOM out for
I !ai riaian.
"Herrlott has the reputation <it' being
iyer, and not an argument thai th«
members ol the committee could adi
would budge him. Me malni Lined his
imisulm.) ; ,.|(i enhanced ids reputation.
Not one inch would be yield. Tin' price
<>f his alliance was th« Hrsi place •
ticket, and there waa nothing else that
was worth while t" him. At v o'clock
i h.- members of th< rmnlttee had given
up all idea of holding HeiTiOti in line,
and hi Was out for himself, Indepi nd( ot
id' the committee and of Cummiiw. This
was the situation whin the conference ol
the Herrlott delegates was called, and it
was the belief of the llerrioit men in
the hopelessness >>t tils cause, as wed ax
their friendship for Cummins, thai Im
pelled them to bi
At 11 o'clock the steering committee,
becoming doubtful of their ability to win
with Harriman, offered to give the nomi
nation to Congressman John B. i
; of the sixth district. The congn
' agreed to consider the proposition, but it.
I 1h not believed that he will accept. All
the congressmen and orators of thi
have thua Tar held aloof from the tight.
Senator Dolllver refused to Join In the
ii).':.t against Cummins, and Congressman
I Hepburn has refused to lead the fight
I li. the convention against Cumi
BACH EXPECTS TO WIN
Mr. Herriott said this evening: "1 am
not in favor of talking before a
and the only thing I care to say la tint
i am well pleased with my candid
with the way that it has been received
and With tli<- way It bas grown sine- it
I '111111 l ■
Mr. Cummina .said: "I regard my
nomination as certain, i have enough
votes right now to win, and thi second
choice strength that I possess Is enough
to give me the noml • ny time i
choose to call up m It."
Mr. Han Iman expi • - i d hlmx II
follows: "I am well satisfied with the
outlook. T know that there or<
obstacles in the way, but I consider that
I have a most excelli nt cham ■
nominated, and 1 think that I will b
choice of the convention."
Mr. Trewin said: "I will be much
stronger than people think, and I n
gard ins- success as extremely pi
FOR MINOR OFFICES
So much interest has centered around
the gubernatorial fight, that the candi
dates for the minor places hare bten,
generally overlooked. The lieutenant
governorship has assumed considerable
Importance tonight because of the prom;
lnence that it la likely to cut In any
deals between the Cummins forces and
any of the candidates of the"steering com
mittee. David Brandt, of Clinton, has
made a strong run for lieutenant gov
ernor, and has gained Strength through?
out the day. Klemme has many follow
ers, however. Late this" afternoon the
name of P. L. Pr< in, of RlnKßol'l
county, was sjughl out us a candidate,
for lieutenant governor. His name was
first mentioned by tho Cummins people,
more with the Idea of forcing the hands
of Ilorrlott an'j ii ■ riman than for any
other reason, but if one or both of th'?F*
candidates d*oea not shew a tendency to
come to terms with the Cummins peo
pie before tomorrow morning, the name
of iir. PrentiH will be pushed with all
the strength of the Cummins faction.
Por Judge "f the supn me i ouri
il opinion that ■'
ads for su]
■ut of Ptl -lion. A'l the
i;.| all the
of the committees will ix- held tomo
morning Jui t prior I
The Cummins men have given up all
Idea of making their fight it. the com
mittee on credential! and It now i« high
ly probable that the committee will b©
constituted with a majority of it . mem
bert opposed to Cummlnsf. This means
that they will bring in a report unseating
the Curnmintj delegations In Jack«on and
Carroll counties; and the eight delegates
from Polk county. The Cummins men
will make their tight on the adoption of
the majority and minority reports, and
have unbounded confidence that they will
to able? to Btcuro the rejection of the
majority report.