Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1897, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1897—12 PA AND SONS. * MOSES Storage. 22d and M. F ct., cor. 1th. i he Upholstery Department Makes Some Wonderful Offers. —We've gone hunting for bargains in this department and have culled out some specials that'll open the of you who know values. eves They're in goods we want to clear out—and we haven't hesitated to cut the prices almost to giving-away point. Window Shades and Curtain Wind Poles. Shades, 3 by 6 ft., that close. . eee 15¢. 100 5-ft. trimm'nzs ~ duced to. Curtain Poles, with brass Were Ze. 2B te with 15¢. Specials in Curtain Materials —beth white and colors. Will be sold by the 1. Vallance and Drapery Fringes. If you don’t care to put the Por- tiere over your doors and yet want to be rid of that bare appearance these Fringes are just what you want. In the case of a Portiere or Lace Cur- tain wher you wish to heighten the effect one of these Fringes over it will prove a charming acquisition. The reductions speak for them- TEA! of mest r famous * Gee. or Se. iunportation inz flavor peculiarly its lerfully stimulating. 50° is qui whe 9 Successors to (Reeves, Poole & Co.), Grocer, Coffee er, Baker and Manufae- turer of Finest Confections, 1209 F Street. eel3-S6d AAO « Your husband : Can’t growl —of the meals not being ready time if yeu cook with a Gas w ne of t nm and heap fuel, too. Just tye Gas Cook Stove you want ia our stock. Low enough prices, too—$8 amd up. a y « Gas Appliance Exchange,’ 1424 New York Ave. eee ( 6 se10-284 3 PLIES OIE Great Reduction air. formerly $5.00, Switches, $6. formerly $10.50. Gray Swite 00, formerly 00, First-class attendants in Heirdréss! Shampootag, ete. Imperial Hair Rezenerator for restoring gray hair. Never fails. Try cur “Curlette’ for retaining curl. S. HELLER’S, 720 7th Street N. W. apl6-200 ALL oF ED: well as all by wy22-tt Gray Swite formerly $6.50. ing, SON'S OGESITY REMEDIES, aS f Loring’s Flesh-producers, for sale 3. G. C. SIMMS, Cor. 14th st. and N. ¥. ave. Fat Folks, Attention! A COMI'LETE LINE OF LORING’S Obesity Preparations nad Flesb-producing Orders taken Bands. Lady attend- MERTZ’'S MODERN PHARMACY, and Lith sts. dyl-et ST Ghosts! Whea your teeth pain and ache you, re- member that the dentist's obj Neve pain, But how many people seem to believe this delusion. It is a ghost of the imag tie f ignorance. and try modern methods at Evans’ Dental Parlors, 1309 F St. N. W. sel0-244 “~ Palnlersly Pleasant Eatracting, 0c. eg CONSTIPATION mewn CONGESTION wor HEADACHE Pane” det-miy E. FOUGERA & CO... New York. GOOD FOR WELL PEOPLE AND SICK ONES— Liebig Company Extract of Beef. my2l-femly Used with ice there is no Tea, at any price, superior in flavor to “Burchell’s : pe The Busy Corner, 8th and Market Space. T IN THE RIVER BED, NOTHING, UNTIL. Hi LE NIVULATION HAS BEEN AUPLIED TO THEM so It WITH MERCY TER HOW BARGAL 5 on HOW CHEAP you W SELL YOUR 2 ERTISED Oi: THE PURLIC NOTIFIED IN SO: v. WORTH NOTHING, NO MATT: HOW CHEAP THEY M. K. new prices. Ready-made_ for Tuesday, BC. set for which S. Kann,Sons&Co. Our2d Grand Rebuilding Sale. t G MOND IN THE GRAV Corsets. New buyers bring a new buyer in this Bleached Pil- department, who is | Loom Fine low Cases, weeding out three Bleached Mus-= size 45x36. eae makes ot fine lin. Special e 5 orsets, in lack, = Special price white and drab, a price for real glove-fitting Cor- stout ures, nearly all sizes, were $1.75 and $2.00. Spe- cial for Tuesday, OLD WORTH NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY haha pert Fruit-of-the= Tuesday, BC. fig- $1.50, Black Dress Goods. A few elegant numbers at special prices. We may guarantee these prices 40-inch 36-inch 54-inch 38-inch 45-inch Linen Department. SPECIAL BARGAIN ALL-LINEN COLORED CEN- ET AND BL at RID 23c. -3le. EXTRA Fine Black Serge. Spe Black Figured Mohair. INCHES LONG. 72.INCH-WIDE CREAM TARLE LI WEIGHT, QUALITY ASD. FIN CHOICE DESIGNS—FOR MOND! oy ND UNBLEACHED 2 CASES OF BLEACHED A WESC. 2986, yd TWILLED KITCHEN TOWELL », TINTED AND OUT- 18 IN. WIDE, FAST SELV: IN ALL COL 25c. | 1-YARD-SQUARE FitINGED E> TABLE COVERS, CHOI L OR Notions. ‘THIS DEPARTMENT WITH US IS A VERITABLE STORE IN ITS ONLY RUST-PROOF ALUMINUM THIMBLES. CLARK'S FAST COLOR DARNING COTTON, PER BALL....... EXTRA QUALITY PINS, 14 ROWS. HOOKS AND EYES, 3 DOZEN IN BOX, 3 BOXES FOR....... TER CARD. AND EYES (HUMP). r SAFETY HOOKS 40 IN BOX. BLACK PINS, BOX TRIUMPH DRESS ALL COLORS sTays, EXTRA QUALITY WHALEBONE C PURE SILK § 36-YARD ROLL TAPE. $HOE BUTTONS. PACKAGE OF ONE ¢ ENAMEL DARNING EGGS, WITH HANDLE. KING'S 500-YARD COTTON, PER SPOOL. for several days, but wouldn't like to say any longer. Fine Black Storm Serge. All-wool Black Figured Serge. Special............29¢. All-wool Fine Black Henrietta. NEW | Z ONLY... AND SIZ .... 19¢. wdccne she ROS pecial Special... NpeCiale reese one Ce Linings. GooD HEAVY T AND ANY COL DAY 1 ED SILESIA, IN BLACK ECIAL FOR MON C BLACK GRAY Z HAIRCLOTHL, WHICH WE 1Q¢, 20 PIECES ¢ < CLOTH, IN ODD CoL- ORS. Q RTH 0c. A HAI, Ie. eal Cs Ic. ee, - le. Ic. 6c. Ac. 9c. 9c. Ac. 3c. - 3c. ONDY west oeenee S. KANN, SONS & CO., 7th St. Entrance, Family Shoe Store. 8th and Market Space. prevents mali PROBABLY RATIFIED Mr, Thurston Believes the Hawaiian Senate Has Accepted Annexation. THE BODY UNANIMOUS FOR If The Tenor of Minister Cooper's Reply to Japan. NO POINTS TO ARBITRATE —— oo The ratification of the treaty annexing the Hawatian Islands to the United States has been accomplished by this time by the senate of the Hawaiian rational legisla- ture, Mr. Lorin M. Thurston, the charge @affaires of Hawaii to this country, being convinced that such is the case because the senate was unanimously pledged to annex- ation, and it assembled September 8. it will be remembered that just before ad- journment last year the Hawaiian legisla- ture passsed a joint resolution declaring that the best interests of the islands Ge- manded annexation to this couutry. The complexion of the body has not changed since then, and it is almost certain that the treaty has been ratified by a unani- mous yote. All that remains to be done now to make annexation an accomplished fact fs ratifi- of the treaty by the United States ¢, and it is confidently believed that the positive action of the Hawafian senate, which either has been or certainly will taken, will have effect on some of the Unit- ed States senators who have hitherto been uncertain about how to vote on the qu¢s- tion. Jt is not thought that they will fur- ther withiold their approval of annexation when Hawaii's representative body tukes such an unmistakable course. The Differences With Japan. The answer of Minister Cooper of Ha- wail to Minister Shimumura js said to have been sent. Minister Cooper, when the con- troversy with Japar: arising out of the pro- posed annexation grew animated and somewhat bitter, proposed to submit ill the questions-at issue to arbitration. There weze only two of them that were of vital importance. One related to the treaty of 1871, entered into between Japan and Ha- wai, undere which Japan claims that Ha- wail agreed to admit unrestricted immigra- tion, and the other was the demand by Japan of the right of Hawaii to investigate if the immigrants to the fslands, who are compelled under Hawali’s immigration laws to possess $50 when they land In the country, were the bona fide owners of that amount, as they claimed. Subsequent to the treaty of 1871, Japan and Hawail en- tered Into a convention by which the latter country was given the right to govern im- migration to its shores. Then laws were adopted somewhat simi- lar to those in force in the United States which provided-for the restriction of immi- grants who might become a charge on the country, and it was provided to meet this necessity that each immigrant must have not less than $0 when he landed. Hawaii declares that the immigrants from Japan in numberiless cases were supplied with the necessary sum by immigration companies, to which it was returned as soon as its apparent possession secured the holder ad- mission to Hawaii, and the same sum nsed | point of view would mer | bitrator who might be gestion about arbitration Minister Shimu- mura said Japan would accept the principle of arbitration, but would decline to submit the questions of the treaty of 1871 or the r ned by Hawail to ascerta: re bena fide po: they displayed and they reached Hawati to consi bitration. The J er proposed the King of Belgium as ar- rator and requested Minister Coop. submit the points of difference for ed that Minister Coop: this 1 stating e: Japan replied at nes to while As to submit the controversy to arbit profe wi that points th tion, only stnese minister to i tions the countries at ating that the submi matter according to Japan make the ther variance on, a sion of in chancery the damages due to Japan, b question of the treaty of } right to discover bona fide ownership of requisite funds by immigrants were not to be judged nothing else would remain for the arbitrator to do. — —o—-—______ THE HAWKINS CRIME. No Time Fixed for His Wife’s Trial as Accessory. No time has yet been fixed fer the hear- ing of the case of Mrs. Louise Hawkins, colored, charged with receiving part of the proceeds of the safe robbery committed in. the tax coliector’s office by her husband, Thomas Varick Haw‘<ins. Her counsel, John M. Langston, will ask the court to fix an early date for the hearing. It is now claimed by friends of Mrs. Hawkins that she is in almost destitute circumstances, and this piea may be made when the case comes before the court, probably this week. Her husband is still in jail, having been un- able to give bond, and it is thought his case will be one of the first acted upon when the grand jury meets. Hawkins is probably the best-dressed prisoner in jail at this time, and he is tak- ing good care of his wearing apparel. He wears his patent leather shoes and has his trousers turned above the tops of them. While he is on friendly terms with most of the prisoners, he does not care to asso- ciate or converse with many of them. Soon after he reached the jail he talked with scme of the prisoners, and it was a relief to him when he told all about his crime, and since then he has seemed better sat fied with his lot in life. His statement in the prison was that he had no idea of tak- ing the money five minutes before he struck the combination of the safe. He was sur- prised himself, he said, when he heard the lock click and realized that he could open the big iron door. What made him rob the safe he could not tell. The prison fare does not exactly suit his fancy, but the corn bread and fish have not yet made him sick. Hawkins has but few visitors, and his wife is not dne of them, His stepfather has called on him, as has one other friend. If he cannot succeed in ccmpromising the case, Hawkins is anxious for an early hearing. If he cannot get out he is desirous of entering upon the service of his sentence as soon as possible. —>_—_ MAY USE THE DOLPHIN, Nicoragua Canal Commissioners Want a Veusel. | Commander W. H. Lyon, commanding the Dolphin, was at the Navy Department today in conference with the officials in re- gard to the future duties of that vessel. ‘The members of the Nicaragua canal com- mission have applied to the Navy Depart- ment for the use of a naval vessel in the Prosecution of their work on the isthmus, and it is not improbable that the Dolphin will be sned to that duty. Capt. O. Carter, who ts a member of the sooat 5 tt GD 4, LANDING AT DYEA. AT SKAGUAY AND DYEA Before Trying the Great Alaskan Passes, NO WAY OF TRANSPORTING SUPPLIES >—_——_ Tons of Goods Piled Up by the Ocean Side. SCARCITY OF CARRIERS Ses From The Star’s Special Correspondent. DYEA, Alaska, August 28, 1897. After closing my last letter to The Star, we left Juneau about 5 o'clock in the af- ternoor ard proceeded across the arm of the sound to Douglas City to put off and take on freight. We were detained here about four hours, and most of the passen- gers embraced the opportunity of visiting the famous Treadwell mine. Here is lo- cated the largest gold stamping mill in the world, with two hundred and ninety stamps in operation. Surrounding the mills are veritable mountains—not leads or veins, but absolute m tains—of gold ore, which, though of low grade, is free milling. It is so easily reducible and water power is so unlimited that the profits of this mine are enormous. But many men have even left sure and well-paid positions here for the Will-o’-the-wisp of the Klondike. Leaving Douglas City between 9 and 10 o'cleck, we steamed up the Lynn canal and into Chilkoot inlet ‘and anchored off Skaguay about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 12th. It was raining steadily, and a gray cloud and mist shut out everything more than twenty yards from the amer. In front of us a ‘blank mountain wall de- scerded sheer to the water. From a point where a rocky road wound out of sight into the fog a rickety wharf had been built out some ten yards into the water, and en the end of this stood a man wildiy gesticulat- ing and shouting to the eaptain not to land for fear of pulling down the entire struc- ture. This wharf was almost covered with bales of hay, bags of flour and meal, sides of bacon and all sorts of provisions, all ex- posed to the steady downpour of rain. By degrees the fog lifted and through the rain we obtained our first view of the future city of Skaguay. Imagine a long marsh, hemmed in lofty mountains on either side, gradualiy rising from the water's edge until, about six hundred yards ck, the view is ob- structed by a thick growth of fir, cedar and underbrush. Then imagine this low valley covered with tents of all size: lors and descriptions, with two hut-like frame heuses towering up in contrast to the tents, and you have Skaguay, the starting point of the caravan which is to go, by the White Pass, to its Mecca in the Yukon countr: AS we were not permitted to land on the wharf the steamer was soon surrounded by small boats of all descriptions, and we were soon being taken ashore at the rate of two bits apiece. The rowers made inoney at this rate, taking half-a-dozen at a toad, and making a trip in a few minutes. Once landed at the edge of the marsh we had to wade through mud and water ankle deep for several hundred yards before we reach- ed the first line of tents. Here a dismal sight greeted us. There had beem an unusually high tide the night before (the normal tide here is from eighteen to twenty feet), and thé tents on the lower ground had been half submerged, and all the stores and provi- sions in and about them had been thor- oughly soaked or floated away. Here and there a few logs had beea gotten together and weighted down, and huge stores of merchandise were piled on them out of reach of the water. Proceeding toward the heart of the city we were met by a huge post with arms at right angles, one marked Broadway, the other Bond street, and be- neath it was a board, probably two feet square, bearing the inscription: “This lot, 50x150, located by John Smith; corners Afterward, as we progressed, similar signs met us 2very few feet. These lots overlap each other to such an extent that it will take a Washington land cffice man to straighten them out. We soon came to a store, sheltergd by a. large tent, stock- ed with five or six,thousayd dollars’ worth of provisions, for,sale cheaper than they can be purchased Jin Seattle, While we were in the store several dis- heartened prospegtors came in offering to sell their entire outfits for,whateyer might be offered. There are‘several of these stores at Skaguay, and all seem to be do- ing a good businéss. Proceeding further we were surprised, to find the tents as thick in the woods as in the open. In fact, the greater part of Skaguay'is hidden from the water. ‘The land jumipers’ placards are as thick there, tog, From; the edge of the woods the trail goes, @ narrow, heavy road, through rhe lofty pines:and thick under- brush. is a Following this for a mile we came to a rude, fregile> bridge crossing the Chilkat river. At this point two men had been drowned, one in attempting to guide two horses across the stream, the other, heav- ily, loaded, was crossing the stream on a 4éog when he slipped and in a moment was dashed to pieces by the mad current on the jagged rocks. Within half an hour after these accidents the bridge was com- As far as we went, and, as we were told, for five miles beyond, the trail is lined with tents. 5 3 by | that there is less climbing to be done over the Skaguay trail and that horses can be used all the way. But there are not more than 300 horses to move all the tons of provisions, and the road is so heavy that slow progress is made. Then the charges are enormous. There are about six two- horse wagons hauling provisions to a point about four miles beyond the bridge. For this they are charging $10 a fon. Several teamsters told me that they had been clearing more than a hundred dollars a day for three weeks. From the point where the wagons stop the goods are being pack- ed to the lake—Lake Bennett—on horses and,men for $30 per hundred pounds. The Indians, of whom there are very few here, are charging $33 per hundred. Few of the prospectors are able to pay these excessive charges, and nearly all are at an abso- lute stand still, And yet every day adds hundreds to the thousands already here. It Is difficult to learn anything about the White Pass. It is said to be about 2,400 feet high, or about 1,100 feet lower than the Chilkoot Pass; yet there are said to be a number of elevations and depressions be- tween the Chilkat river and the pass which, added to the height of the p: make it greater than the Chilkoot. We could hear of only one party who have reached Lake Bennett by this pass. They were a party of six under a civil engineer. They were on the ground early when the ; Packing charges were low and it cost them $4,009 to get through. Returning through “town,” where we noticed several saloons in full blast, we watched the process of unloading the steamer. On account of the impossibility of using the wharf, this work had to be ac- of lighters and one small tugboat, which was necessarily slow. Here our prospectors met with their fir disappointment.” The boats which had been cut and fitted, and which had cost from $100 to $120, though containing not more than $2 worth of lumber, had to be thrown aside. The packers absolutely re- ft to carry them—or any article more than three feet long. Hundreds of these bundles of plank lay around on the shore ¢r floated off on the tide. It is said that a saw mill has already been erected at Lake Bennett, where these boats will be made for each, A saw mill is now being erected here, wiich will be in operation in a fe We landed about 100 woe-be- gone-looking Kiondikers, and about eigity tons of stores, Both became thoronghiy wet before they had an opportunity of get- ting under cover. Five per cent would be a high estimate of the numb who will get to the Klondike this year. A winter resort will spring up at- Skaguay, where the stores, the saloons and the gambling hells will reap a harvest. I must not forget to mention that the United States commissioner, who has re- cently be ent here, is not here for health nor the paltry salary of $1,000 a year. He is making more money than even the teamste: for he is fining for petty offenses and is collecting costs that seem fabulous even where gold bub- bles up from the sands. In addition to this, he is recording the ims of the land jumpers at $ a claim, and has already recorded several thousand. There are about 600 horses to move over 2,000 tons of stores; they pack only 150 peunds, and on account of the heavy con- dition of the road make but a few miles aday. The trail is about forty miles long from Skaguay to Lake Bennett, and be- sides all this the trail is blocked for miles and all travel occasionally stopped for a half hour or more by a mired or unruly horse. So the readers of The Star can easily perceive how impossible it will be for more than a mere handful of pros- pectors to get through before winter, which will set in next monta. A thousand or more horses are expected within the next few days, but it is difficult to see how they wiil hasten matters. About noon the rain stopped, and short- ly afterward we finished unloading and steamed away for Dyea, leaving a drench- ed and wretched-looking lot of Klondikers behind. Dyea is about six miles due west of Skag- uay, around a high point of land, and ap- proaching it one gets the idea that it is located exactly as is Skaguay, but, with the sun shining on the white tents, it pre- sented a much more inviting appearance than the latter place. We soon perceived that it is located on much higher ground, well drained and out of reach of the tides. On acceunt of the shallowness of the wa- ter, we could not go nearer than two miles to Dyea, and at this point we began to discharge passengers and freight on lighters. Getting a small boat, we made for the nearest point of land, and after a two-mile walk over a rough but high and dry road, we reached the outskiris of the village of tents. We found it very different from Skaguay. We had been told that there were at least 2,000 men at Dyea, but could see no more than a few hundred. This was soon explained, when we were teld that there was a delay of but a few days at Dyea, and that the greater num- ber of those who had come. were well on their way oWer the pass. When we asked why so many were going from Dyea to Skaguay we were told that all the Indian packers (though charging $33 per hundred pounds) were engaged, that horses could not be used on the Chilkoet Pass and that many of the late arrivals went over to Skaguay in the hope of having their gooécs packed over by horses. Over the Chilkoot Pass it !s only twenty-four miles to Lake ARTISTIC MUIR AIL DECORATIONS. Wall Paper. Relief. LLL LPL EEE EOEEEOCOEDDIDSE DO EP OPEEEO Fresco. Fabrics. Sketches Furnished. Dark Room for the Display of Night Effects in WALL PAPER. RICHARD W. HENDERSON, LS F St Opposite Columbia 09 Theater. the fact remains, nevertheless, that hun- dreds are getting through the Chilkoot Pass in good time, while there is a com- plete block at Skaguay. There is a tem- porary want of packers at Dyea, but every hour brings a canoe loaded with Indians from points far and near; besides a number of Klondikers are selling their outfits and turning packers, seeing in this at least a more immediate chance of profit. The Dyea trail is the one which has been reg- ularly traveled heretofore, and is well known from end to end, whiie it is im- possible to obtain any information about the White Pa: In Dyea, while the signs of the land jumpers are abundant, and while we saw one saloon, there are no signs, as at Ska- guay, that any number of men expect to pass the winter here. Everything is bustle and move, and much more orderly than at Skaguay. ere we sought to verify the story heard at Juneau that an Indian had been killed by a Klondiker. The truth of the matter is as follows: A prospector engaged an Indian to pack his goods through and at the top of the pass. disputed their weignt and the Indian’s wages. The latter refused to be bulldozed and the white man drew a pistol and threatened to kill the Indian. The latter, aided by other Indians, promptly disarmed the fellow and ma: him back to Dyea, where the commi above referred to, fined him $20 and taxed the costs at $4! The Kioendiker did not stop to dispute the taxation, but gladly paid his $# and hurried back. As is usual in Indian countries, the whites begin and cause most of the trouble. Indians in southeastern Alaska are it trious, quiet and honest, but will not mit to imposition. They live comfortably, have well-built and commodious houses, end are far in advance of the negroes in the south. There are already here a number of the Chilkats and Chilkoots from th ighbor- hood, Auks from Juneau and Thlingits from Wrangell and Sitka. They pack as much as a horse and make better time. T! were packing for $14 a hundred until the representatives of a San Francisco paper came here, and, being anxious to get through, offered them $33 per hundred for packing through. Since then the regular price is $0 a hundred. Think of paying five cents a pound for flour in Seattle, paying the steamship com- pany a cent a pound to Dyea, and then the Indians thirty cents a pound from Dyea io the lake, Thirty-six cents a pound, and still more than six hundred miles from the gold fields. We go on to the Muir Glacier, Killisnoo and Sitka. We will return from Sitka and send you some idea of Skaguay and Dyea when the winter has set in and when the additional thousands. who are on the way have arrived there. The “Willametie” from Seattle is expected tomorrow with a thousand men and six hundred horses. A number of other American and several English ships are reported on the way. It is difficult to foresee how this rush to Dyea and Skaguay—which must terminate in a blockade—will result; but one need not be a prophet to know that suffering and erime will hold high carnival at the head- waters of the Lynn canal during the winter months now nearly upon us. J. 8. R. LIFE AT SKAGUAY AND DYEA. Saloons and Dance Halls, but No Fighting. The steamer City of Seattle arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., yesterday, five days from Skaguay. Among the passen- gers are twelve men who started for the Klondike, but faiied to eross the pass. A. C. Warner of Seattle, an artist, who has been getting views of both Dyea and Ska- guay, was a passenger on the Seattle. He says the Ekaguay trail is closed for the season, but that many are still flound- ering around in the mud in a vain attempt to get through. The first fourteen miles of the trail from Skaguay beach is strewn with the carcasses of 600 horses. Eieven saloons and three dance hatls are doing business there, but Warner says there 1s no trouble, there being no fighting or thiev- At Dyea the people are still moving slow- ly forward, though greatly impeded by nud and rain. With the exception of two days, rain has fallen contini irty inspectors on the beach, and but little stuff gets through. Frank i for the miners in the camp blame him for the foolhardy stampede of scaniily sup- plied people to the district, imperiling the lives of all, on account of the food famine that has already begun. This, in brief, is the story brought down by the passengers on the steamer South Coast, Captain Stoddard, arriving at Seat- ue Saturday afternoon, eleven days from St. Michael. Among the important news brought. by the South Coast is the safe arrival at St. Michael of the river steamer P. B. Weare, which stuck on a sand bar for over two weeks below Circle Cit The arrival of the Weare will be good news to the pe ple of Dawson City, for when the South Coast left St. Michael the Weare was load- ing supplies, and it was expected she would go up the river in a day or two h a 500-ton cargo. Her voyage should not ccnsume more than tw which would put ber in Daw tember 25. The Wears almost entirely of provisions, tons she will take in will m: in relieving the threate RIOTING AT PLUM CREEK Women Marchers and Deputy Sheriffs in a Serious Clash, Many of the Latter Severely Clubbed— S. C. De Armitt Cut in the Hand Several Arrests Made. PITTSBURG, Pa., September 13.—Emma Maas, the miners’ Joan of Arc, and three other women, were arrested for marching at Plum Creek this morning by sheriff's puties. The attempt to make the arrests precipiteted an incipient riot, in which the deputies fared badiy. No one was seriously hurt, but scarcely a deputy escaped a club- hurt, and Superintendent Sam De Armitt was cut on the hand. Two of the women errested carried babies. The riot was the result of planned attempt to prevent t work at Plum Creck from entering the mines, There were twenty-five women and about fifty strikers concerned in It. Women to March in Front. The plan was to have the women march in front with their babies, with the design of working on the sentiments of the men who would be goirg to work and to act as a shield for the rest of the party. The carefully men at women were to crowd around each man as he attempted to go into the mines, take his dinner bucket frem him and then throw it into the ditch. About daylight the party started out headed by Emma Haas. Those not having a baby carried a pick handle or a club of some sort. On the Murraysville road they encountered a posse of deputies, and were ordered back to the camp. No attention was paid to the order, and the party tried to force their way through the nes of deputies. A scuffle followed, and Emma Haas and three other women who were in the lead were arrested. Wild Scenes Ensued. A scene of wild excitement then ensued. The moment a deputy laid hands on a woman he was surrounded by others wav- ing clubs in the air and using them on the head of a deputy when the opportunity offered. Deputy Walker was severely clu>- bed and S. C. De Armitt was cut in the hand. He says he was attacked by a wo- man with a knife. The deputies finally got their prisoners into the company sta- ble and later brought them to this city, where they were lodged in the county jail. The names of the women arrested were: Emma Haas, Mrs. John Kosar, Mrs. Frank Haas and Mrs. Eisner. Mrs. Kosar and Mrs, Eisner had their babies with them. After the removal of the prisoners from Plum Creek the excitement subsided, and the women and strikers returned to Camp. Women Hard to Arrest. ‘The reascn more of the women were not arrested was that four or five deputies were required to hold one of them, and the force was not large enough to take charge of the crowd. ———— OVERPOWERED BY PIRATES. An'Italian Vessel Captered by a Band Rif_—s. with what money end val they could find, taking with them the and sev- eral sailors, whom they as prisoners 2 larger force, a pind speeng up winch ot a a up wi en- abied the crew remaining on the vessel to escape on a rising tide.