Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1909, Page 1

PART ONE NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO & For Nebr. For low For weather report see page WEATHER FORECAST. Generally fair. VOL. XXXVIII--NO. 4 9 OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1909—EIGHT SECTIONS GOVERNOR WILL | HEAR BOTH SIDES Sets Eleven 0'clock Monday Morning for Conference on the Daylight Saloon Bill. DECIDES ON ACTION AFTER THAT | Omaha Will Send Big Delegation to Urge His Veto, HOTEL MEN TAKE ACTIVE HAND | Bpecial Train Expected to Carry Thousand Persons. TEMPERANCE FOLKS ALSO AWAKE | Are Jubilant at Passage of Governor Shallenberger has taken no action and will take none on the daylight saloon bill until he has conferred with persons for and against the measure who | may care to join him in a discussion of the merits of the proposition which the legislature, in its dying hours, put up to him. The governor telephoned Mayor Dahiman yesterday afternoon that he would recetve | and hear all citizens Interested in the bill at his office Monday at 11 a. m. After he has heard them he wiil decide upon his ac- tion. Mayor Dahlman announced | conversation with Shallenberger that he | and a large delegation of interested per- | wons would go down from Omaha to pro- test agalnst the emasure and try to con- vince the governor he should veto it A special train probably will leave the Burlington depot at 9 o'clock Monday morning on which It 18 expected 1,000 men representative of all lines and trades will ®0 to urge the governor's veto. | “1 will see that a large delegation of y own friends accompanies me and shall be &lad to have all others join us who will," #aid the mayor, “I have hopes of the gov- ernor vetoing this bill, but we must not | expect him to do so unless we make a| showing as to injury the bill will do." Harry A. Btone, secretary of the Anti- Baloon league, pald a visit to the governor yesterday In the interest of the bill and it is likely he or others of his organization will be prosent Monday to urge approval of the bill after this e Faction Happy. interests as a rule are deploring the passage of the ‘measure and | hoping that the governor will not fail hH1 wveto It, the temperan and reform factions are jubllant over its passage and praying for its approval by the governor. The| Jegislature did nothing that aroused pub- Mo teeling in Omnaba lke this measure has | done. It was the one topic of discussion in | the clity yesterday, - liyery morsel of Infor-, mation relating to It was sought with eagernes and axxiety. The Bec's tele-| phones rang all day with Inquiries as to the governor's action. It was not a case | in which simply saloon and anti-saloon | {nterests were concerned, but one that ap- | pealed to people generally. On tho streets, | in hotels, business houses and, of course, | saloons, men discussed it and -omallmul with a lttle more vigor than decorum. | Douglas county's three senators, Ran- | som, Howell and Tauner, came In for wevere denunclation In many quarters, some where the had friends before. The general view le that these three men did | much to bring about the passage of the| bill with the amendment applying to| Omaha. 1t was frequently urged that the original bill was contrived by some of the country members over whom this trinity had ridden rough-shod throughout the| session as a get-even proposition and that when the trio fought it so bitterly in its| original form the Omaha amendment was | tacked on to rub it In. Business men fn- | st that had it not been for the stupld arrogance of these senators the bill prob- ably would never have been made to apply to this city. Commercial Club Active. | For more than two hours the executive | committee of the Commercial club dis- cussed the daylight saloon bill and then gave notice that whatever the club did | would' be strictly “under cover." The meeting was well attended. Some warm discussion was Indulged In as in- @cated by loud voices now and then which crept over the doors, under the cur- tains and out through the windows The members were considerably agitated It was common talk about the club rooms that dreams of making Omaha the ‘“con- vention cit went gllmmering and that already onc of the big conventions would bo lost to Omaha If the Nebraskans thought @ metropolitan city should be run on such radical laws. It was said the wecretary of the or having the ar- rangements in charge, had wired early and expressed the belief that the convention would not want to meet fn Omaha or any other city which was governed by such restrictions. The Commercial club will the executive committee decided to do without public announcement and it may not be known for some time which side the | club 1s on Hotel Mem Meet. Owners or managers of twelve of the leading hotels of Omaha met at the Rome Saturday afternoon and discussed the bill and the best method of combating what they characterized as an evil and of in- ducing the governor to veto it. Each man | present had an idea. but no resolutions were adepted and all finally decided that| the best plan would be to swoop down on the governor st Lincoln in force and take | the capitol by storm. | A speclal train has been engaged to leave | the Burlington station &t 8 o'clock Monday | morning with enough coaches (o accom- modate 1000 men or more and the hotel men urge upon every man who has the | interests of Omaha at heart to take a day off and go to Lincoln wnd “help save the da Those at the hotel men's meeting declined to say who is responsible for the special train, giving out the information that several civic bodies have combined to secure it. However, the specia] is an as- sursd fact and that it will pull out of the station with, at least 1,000 business. pro- fesslonal and working men Monduy morn- Ing 1a the hope of those back of the enter prise Rome Miller presided at the mecting of the Omaha Hotel Men's assoclation. Otbers preseat were: Ralph Kitchen of the Pax- do whatever | (Contlaued on Second Page) | #lon of military affairs of the War depart- | FATAL RIDE ON FREIGHT TRAIN | the Missourt | committee today Proie;t;AA;g;iinst Big Fine Levied by Texas Court Waters-Pierce 0il Company Asserts | Million and Half Penalty Amounts to Confiscation of Property. WASHINGTON, April 3 the Waters-Plerce Oll company United States Senator John C. Spooner has | tiled in the supreme court of United States a petition for a rehearing of the ( various cases brought by the state of Texas against that company which re-| cently were decided against it. These in- clude the cases involving the appointment of a recelver for the company and the one ousting the company from the state and Imposing a fine of $1,49,000 for violation of the Texas anti-trust laws. The reason for the petition Is that the fine was %0 excessive as to deprive the oll com pany of its property without due process of law. In support of this contention, attention is called to the fact that in the record of the case it was claimed the ofl company was making as high as 700 per cent on its | capital, but it is set forth that while this might be true, with reference to the $400.- 000 capital stock, It was not true with refer- ence to the $40,000,000 of the assets of the company. Much stress 1s lald upon the fact that a large portion of the fine was based upon the Texas anti-trust law of 189, imposing a penalty of $1,600 a day after that law had been repealed. “We therefore submit,”" says the petition, “that It s little short of confiscation for the state to have neglected to enforce the act of 189 for seven years and after that act had been repealed and the amount of the pealty reduced to $50 per day to Insist upon a verdict for $,600 per day for 1,083 days.” Father of Victim Attempts to Kill | ! Murderer Taylor| { Douglas Taylor Tries to Avenge the ! Death of His Daughter, but is Overpowered by Crowd. behalf of former | on MINDEN, Neb., April gram.)—Bert Taylor, alleged murderer of Pearl Taylor, his sister-in-law, narrowly | escaped death at the hands of the father of the girl this morning at 11 o'clock as he was about to board a train for Lincoin, where he is being held for safe keepin Douglas Taylor, father of the murdered gIrl, pulled a revolver and afmed it at Bert Taylor, but was overpowered before he could shoot The incident took place in the presence of a large crowd and has created consid- ¢rable excitement. Tiylor had been brought here for arraignment and was. In tif coa- tody of Sheriff Ransom and a depbty. He was about to board the car when Douklas Taylor drew the revolver and leveled it at the prigoner. Johnson Stack, who stood | near him, grabbed the gun and forced his | hand down toward the ground. After a struggls Taylor was overpowered and the &un taken from him without being fired. During the struggle the old man shouted. “Let me get at him. Don't keep me away Afler the train had gone Douglas Taylor and the father of Bheriff Ransom had a scene, but no trouble resulted. Douglas Taylor Is the father-in-law of Bert Taylor. Taylor wiil be held at the penitentiary in Lincoln until the May term of court. A motion for a change of venue probably will be filed by his lawyers, who have in- dicated they will plead insanity. While feeling is high the danger of mob | violence is ccnsidered remote. NEBRASKA TO SHARE FUND Enlisted Strengin of State Militia Wil Give the Depart- ment $8,648. 3.—(Special Tele- CHICAGO, April 3.—(Special.)—The divi- ment has announced the allowance of am- munition for the present fiscal year made to the Natlonal Guard under the act of May 27, 1908, being 50 per cent of the allow- ance to the regular army. The total set aside for this purpSse is $543,14, div¥ded among the states according to the enlisted strength of the National Guard. Nebraska with 1,200 enlisted men titled to an allowance of 38648 principal ( | witnessed the end of 'END OF SESSION OF LEGISLATLA Both Houses at Lincoln Just Before the Dinne! Bell Rings. SIMPLY WAIT FOR ENROLLING Principal Interest Centers Armmdl the Work of Yesterday. GOVERNOR RECEIVES PROTESTS Action on Wolf Bounty Claim the Only Legislative Act, | DEMOCRATIC THANKS TO KILLEN Former Speaker Nettleton, the Vet eran Republican Member, Makes the Motion Which Finally Ends the Sesslon. An epitome of the bille paswed by the Iate legislature will be found on pages 8 and 9 of the Socond Section of this number of The B (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, April 3.—(Speclal.)—After final legislative day of sixty hours, thirty-first legislature of Nebraska the ad the members started home constituents, but wherever did not go via Omaha to face possible clerks until clusion of business and for act gratulatory ship in t bers of the occupied house, themselves in more violent mood printing bill on the floor of the assembly chamber. The pussing of the 8 o'clock closing aet was the principal topic of discussion on the floors of the two houses and in the lobbles, while telegrams and letters of pro- test poured in upon the governor. The Douglas county senators and members were in & cheerless mood and the levity of the final hours did not arouse them even to passing interest in the procedure. A dele- gation of thirty business men from Fre- mont arrived at noon to see Governor Bhallenberger in protest against the bill to buy the Wayne Normal and were given an extendgd hearing as soon as the execu- that had been dumped upon him from the halls above. Large Crowd at Obsequics. An unusually large number of members the session, due to the care of the sponsors of the saloon clos- ing Qi that thelr entire forces should be avaifsbie to meet any move to alter the record on the bill and leave a loophole for legal attack. Ordinarily not half a dogen members are In at the death, but in each house it would have been possible to se- cure a_quorum almost any time until final adjournment. Efforts to reconsider the action in the senate were duly considered last night as soon as the vote was tuken, but with only thirteen senators in oppo- gition to the bill there was no chance % succeed and none was made, Number of Bills Passed. The legislature passed a total of 24 bille and in addftion the governor has vetoed one—the measure repealing the law per- mitting saloons within two and a half miles of the limits of military posts. Two vears ago the legislature passed and the governor signed 26 bills and fourteen bills in addition were passed and vetoed after the session adjourned, with one veto sub- mitted during the session. Far the greater majority of bills went through at the last moment without consideration In commit- tee pf the whole save in a perfunctory manner, A spirit of good feeling prevailed as be- tween parties to the last, and in the house this was manifested by a motion to thank Representaive Killen of Gage for his cour- tesy as floor leader of the minority party during the session. The final motion for adjournment was made in the house by ex- Speaker Nettleton of Clay, and in the sen- ate by President pro tem Tibbets, senator from Adams. A more substantial evidence of this was manifested In the presentation of a gold watch and chain to Speaker Pool, the senate yesterday having made a pres- ent of a cut glass punch bowl and set to Lieutenant Governor Hopewell, Representative Shoemaker tried to shy Man Found Dead Near Berlin Evidently Stealing Ride Box Car. NBBRASKA CITY, Neb, April 3—(Spe- cial Telegram.)—The body of a man was found near Berlin this morning and identi- fled as that of Balley of Des Molnes, Ta He was evidently riding in & box car on Pacific raflway and fell out under the car on the fast freight train ‘The coroner held an inquest this afternoon. one at Chlef Clerk Come by reducing the amount of allowance for preparing the house jourmal from §1.200, in accordance with action of Mr. Cone when representa- tive in the last sesslon, who then attacked the allowance of $1,200 fo Chief Clerk Bar- nard on the ground that it was excessive. The resolution was held up under the rule that it must go over a day under the rules. The senate, at the request of Auditor (Continued on Becond Page.) Wisconsin Game Warden Admits Committing Perjury MADISON, Wis, April 3—Chief State Game Warden James W. Stone, iestifying before the senatorial primary investigation confessed to perjury In that his testimony when he appeared before the commiitee three weeks ago in his ex- amination as to the distribution of $2500 of the Stephenson campalgn fund false. In addition to this Mr. Stone formed the committee that the game wardens raised & sum of $1,200 which was given to Gevernor James O. Davidson for his campaign fund " The witness presented a list showing how lie disposed of somethi:g over §2,000 which was materially different from the list which he offered when he first appeared be the committee. The $,30 campaign fund presented to Governor Davidson, Mr. Btone declared, was delivered In three instaliments. Stone testifled that when he delivered the first 600 i an envelope the governor asked him what It was and witness remarked: “Ask e no questions and 1l tell you no lies \e governor, according to Jbeyed orders As far as Mr Davidson neve: was e the witness, Btone knew, Governor solicited a contribution P. J. Koehler, organizer for 8. A republican candidate. Cook, told of disbursing be- tween $5,000 and $9,00 in Milwaukee and other countles and testified that Cook's men were bought away with $430 of Stephenscn money. Koehler also told of one Benjamin Steinel of Milwaukee, a democratic candidate for the assembly, of- fering his services and proposing a meeting to arrange for the support of a democratie club in Milwaukee for $3, but that the proposition was “turned down.’ SOLDIERS GROVE, Wis., April 2—Gov- ernor J. O. Davidson tonight explained the $1.20 Incident testified to by Game Warden J. W. Stone, saying that he had never been able to get an explanation from Mr. Stone and that the money is still in the bank at Mr. Stone's orders. He sald Mr. Stone luid the mevey in an envelope on his desl saying: “Ask me no questions and I'll tei] you o lies." The envelope was put away and all efforts to get an explanation falled. The money wus later deposited in a bank and still there, waiting for Mr. Stone to Governor Davidson said he asked contribution to his campaign ex- penses from the game wardens remains claim it for no a journed a half hour beefore noon today and their they The work of enrolling bills occupled the a short time before the con- the twenty- four hours preceding the fall of the gavel there was practically no business to trans- Members of the senate introduced con- resolutions of thanks, and ex- tended to their colleagues tokens of friend- » way of photographs and mem- tearing up thelr bill files and scattering the result of the stute's tive attached his name to forty measures | two of | . \"\'\3 I Wi ! #rom the Minneapolis Journal. 0 |\|\ Wi M) [l fiman Wil THE ROBIN’S RETURN { L= asom SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. (7 VI 006 Fowi, COUNTING NOSES IN HOUSE Insurgents Hardly Hope to Defeat Rule to Vote on Tariff. DWIGHT CERTAIN IT WILL CARRY Attorney for Helrs of Sully, the Noted Rosebud Outlaw, Seek to Secure Allottments of Land for Them, (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, April 3.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Conferences among the leaders on both sides of the house were the order of today, it being generally conceded that general debate on the tariff bill would terminate at noon on Monday, when the house committee will throw their &wn “little joker” into the ring by fixing an hour upon which the vote shall be taken for the passage of the Payne tariff bill and providing for record votes on frec lumber and free hides. While the majority and minority ‘whips” have been busily engaged in rounding up their sides for a battle royal on Monday the so-called republican Insurgents and the Fitzgerald mugwumps have been holding secret caucuses with a view of ascertain- ing thelr strength when the previous ques- tion is ordered upon the adoption of ths rule. In the last twenty-four hours there have been more changes among house members than you “could shake a stick at’' One faction of the republican party ®ould have a man for a litle while because he was disgruntled over some particular schedule and then the other side would have him because the leaders refuse to make good thelr promises. S0 numerous were the changes, according to hearsay, that it re- quired the party whips to keep a card index of members of the house in order to approximately gauge the temper of the house membership The whip of the majority, Dwight of New York, stated tonight that there were | enough votes assured to adopt the rule when brought in on Monday. The house will meet at 10 o'clock on that day in order that general debate on the bill may be closed when provision will be made to begin consideration of the bill under the five-minute rule. Some Opponents Placated. The eighty-odd amendments which ways and means committee reported to the Payne bill late this afternoon, it is thought, will clarify the situation so far as sectional opposition goes to certain features of the measure, but it will not satisty those who are against the countervaliling duty on dil and who belleve there should be an additional tax on beer. The opponents of the (Continued on Becond Page.) The little fellow in business has to sell on a close mar- gin of profit. He has notthecapitalto in- vest in big ads—so he uses The Bee want ads. They are cheap—every body reads them—line for line and word for word. The small merchant who carries his want ad {s the enter- prising fellow who has something to sell and can sell at a small profit. Watch the want ade if you want your dollar to buy the most. Have you read the want ads yet, today1 Kinkaid Roasts Proposed Tax on Tea and Coffee Nebraska Member Says, However,; He Will Vote for Payne Tariff Bill. WASHINGTON, April 3.—Bleven members were In their seats today when the house of representatives met to further conside the Payne tariff bill. It wes the smallest attendance of the special session and demonstrated the fact that interest In the debate had practically disappeared. Mr. Sparkman, democrat, Florida, opened the discussion with an earnest plea for a re- storation of the Dingley rate on lumber and the imposition of a duty of 5 cents a pound on all cotton imported in the United | States, | seen In company with a man. | prosecuted the search for his son far and Engineer Sees Home in Flames Runs Overland Limited to Station and Rushes Back, but Too Late to Save House. BOONE, la, April 3—(8pecial Telegram.) ~While pulllng No. 2, Overland Limited, into Boone on the Northwestern this morn- ing at 3 o'clock Eugineer W. A. Reed, one of the best men In the Northwestern em ploy, saw his beautiful country home (The Maples) burning about 100 yards from the track. He threw the throttle wide open, pulled the train into Boone at a breakneck speed and then hurried home, but too late. The house, barns and all the out bulldings were ruined and some stock was burned His wife was alone at the time, and was awakened by the crackling of the flames She had a hard time getting from the | house. The f're is thought to have nu\nud‘ from the furnace. Supposed Kidnaping Case Cleared by Fi FLINT, Mich,, April 3.—Instead of hav- ing been kidnaped when he disappeared from home here on February 21, 10-year-old Harold Moon fell through the ice of Thread pond and was drowned The long search for the boy which has been prosecuted in all parts of the country ended today when his body was found floating on the surface of the pond by Bert Robson, who had been seaching for it there for days. A pair of skates fastened to the little feet bore mute testimony to the manner of the lad's death. The small hands were still covered wih the mittens which the boy wore when he went through the ice Buspiclon developed soon after the little boy's disappearance that he had been kid- naped. As the search about the pond where he had gone to skate falled to reveal any traces of him, the suspicion grew. Reports came from several different directions that a lad answering his description had been From Pon- tlac, Mich,, came a report that a boy of his appearance had been seen in a frelght car with & rough looking man of whom he weemed o be In fear. Rewards aggre- gating 51,30 were offered for the boy's re- turn. Circulars were sent broadcast all over the United States. Tuman N. Moon, the boy's father, has wide. He was supposed to be in Chi today investigating. It was Harold's 1i- year-old sister Marina who firet learned today that the missing boy had not been stolen, but was dead. 8he had gone to the neighborhood store and heard the first re 0 {come with better grace if made when my | national campaigns. FITZGERALD ANSWERS BRYAN Insurgent Democrat Replies to Crit- icism in the Commoner, NEBRASKAN RASH AND IGNORANT Says Charge that He is Not Democrat Shonld Have Been Made When His Speeches Were Selected for mpnign ‘_i—fl{nrnls‘ WASHINGTON, April 3—Representative John J. Fitzgerald of New. York, who gained prominence by having adopted his amendments to the house rules, and who at the same time brought down upon himselt and twenty-one followers the wrath of the so-called regular democrats, issued toda: the following reply to Willlam J. Bryan's criticlsm of his action, which recently, ap- peared In the Commoner “With his usual rashness Mr. Br) rushes in where angels might well fear to tread. His statement that I am not a representative of my party would have speeches cratie were being selected as demo- ampaign documents in the last two It would have been more convincing if he had marshaled in- cldents In my ten years service in the house of representatives to justify his assertion. If Mr. Bryan means that I am not a representative of the Jdemocratic party as democracy has been understood and professed by himself, 1 shall not ehal- lenge his statement. My political convie- tions and bellefs are more in accord with the democracy of those men who twice made possible Mr. Cleveland's election as president, than with the latter-day rad- icalism of the west. “As to the personal references in Mr. Bryan's statement to my sense of pro- priety and respect for my party. I have only to say that if the democratic party had given me three opportunities to become president and I had failed as dismally as | Mr, Bryan, even if 1 did not have the sense | to do %0 the obligation of gratitude to ny party would compel silent bout matters of tgnorant.” me which remain was grossly inding of Body| port there of the finding of his body. The girl ran to her home and broke the news to her mother, who for five weeks has been enduring the strain of not knowing whether her son was dead or alive Heart-breaking as the news was, mother expressed teeling of reliet have the strain of weeks removed. gram was sent Immediately to Mr. notifylng him of the finding of the CHICAGO, April 3.—Truman N. Moon, father of the Flint¥boy, is in Delavan, Wis., in company with a deteciive, to which place ho was lured by a letter demanding $00 ransom for his lost son Moon recelved a at Flint a few days ago from which the writer stated that lost boy in his possession, and that the father could recover bim by going to Delavan and depositing $0 in the mouth of a cannon In the city park. Subsequent developments show that the scheme was arranged by a person who had read the details of the kidnaping of Willle Whitla of Shavon, Pa.. that he sought merely to extort ‘“easy money” from a frantle tather. The father immediately went and put the case in the hands of a detee- tive agency A plan was devised capture the alleged plotter. Accordingly a detective was ment to Delavan yesterday afternoon to arrive in accordance with the directions of the letter. Today the news of the finding of Harold Moon's body was rcelved by the detective agency, and it has since been trying to get into communi- catlon with the detective and Mr. at De the to A tele- Moon, body. a letter his home Delavan, he had in in the to Chicago Moon | pine BIG FIRE AT FORT WORTH | Area Ten Blocks Long and Seven Blocks Wide Over. Burned SIX LIVES ARE REPORTED LOST Damage to Property is Estimated Six Millions. BLAZE STARTS IN A BARN Devastated Distriot Contained Finest Residences in City. SHOFS AND ROUNDHOUSE GONE Four Churches, Two School and Sanftariom dings Are Destroyed. Dallas and Weatherford Send Ald. FORT WORTH, Tex ® stiff wind a fire which originated in & barn at Jennings avenue and Betersmith street, In the southern portion of the oity, this afternoon swept over an area ten blocks In length and seven wide, and de- stroyed property roughly estimated In value o be In excess of 35,000,000 and caused the death of six persons. The fire, which originated in & fashion- able residence district, was bayond all con- trol within fifteen minutes after its out- break and was not checked until dynamite was resorted to four hours later. The local fire department being unable to cope with the situation, assistance was rushed from Dallas and Weatherford on special tralns, but the spread of the flames was not checked until they had eaten thefr way to the Texas & Pacific railroad reser- vation on the east. On the south the fire was checked at the Texas & Pacific pas- senger depot, this steel and stone structure forming a bulwark that saved the whole- sale district, which at one time was in imminent danger. The Texas & Pacific roundhouss and twenty engines, the repair shops. four churches, two public school buildings and Walker's sanitarlum were destroyed. The other buildings destroyed were residence most of them new, in the most exclusive residence section. People living within n radius of thres blocks of the place whers the fire started had no time to save any- April 3. —Fanned by { thing. A patient, whose identity has not been learned, perished in Walker's sani- tarfum, and three men were electrocuted and their bodies burned to cinders in the Bawyer electrical plant. Herbert Stacey was fatally burned In an endeaver to save his ‘dwelling and a fireman fell from a housetop and was killed. “Rev. H, O, Cowan, nssistant pastor of 1k, Broadway Presbyterian church, is missing The burned district tonight is being pa~ trolled by troops to prevent looting, and it is estimated that 500 families are homeless, Many of these have gone to Dallas, where shelter has been offered. Jim Hill Joins Optimist Ranks Good Crops and Tariff Legislation Should Bring Back Prosperity, Says Magnate. WASHINGTON, April 3.—"1t the tantf {s given prompt attention and this year's crops ars good, there should be a return of the wholesome conditions of 1905 and 1906," said James J. Hill, head of the Great Northern railroad, here last night “It is best that normal conditions should be restored surely rather than swiftly.” Mr. Hill stated that there were 270,000 idle freight cars in the country which, if coupled together, would make & train extending from New York to St. Louls and l.hrn back to BBaltimore, “yet there are those who ask why car sho, running full force and wh P:h:"z:m roads are golng to order new rolling stock” he continued. “Orders for now the old and f4je ne wones us enactment ¢ Wil help business, re-all.” 3 uch depended vpon used and the needed. The expeditio the tariff legislation but it will not be g oy He explainea tha the crops, e —— CQAL STRIKEi FULL Force Canad Miners Assert Short Will Seon Force an Agree. ment. WINNIPEG, Man April 3.—Dispatches today from the coal reglons of Alberta and British Columbla state that, with the ex- ception of the operated by the Crow's Nest Pass Coal company, all the miners employed in the Letherbridge. Bankheaq, Maple Leaf, Pas, burg, Blair- more, Hillcrest and Coleman mines are on strike. "he miners are qulet, is In full for The strikers are of the opinion that the supply of coal fa shert and that the operators may come to an :i]gn‘-'lnflul The operators argue that as & summer season is at hand e for coal will not be so grear. T AN The men at Fernfe Camps say they will take no notice of the Lemioux law, as me act of Parllament can compel them to work without agreement mines but the strike an — | FILIPINOS FAVOR PAYNE BILL Governor General Flooded with Dis patches Criticising Position of Assembly, WASHINGTON, April T.-The buresu of Insular affairs today recelved a cable- gram stating that the governor general of the FPhilippines was being flooded Wwith telegrams from various points fa the island urging that the Assembly re rde from Its opposition to the Philip- #chedules of the Payne tariff bii, — ! MADAM MODIESKA IS SINKING ANl MWope for W Recovery Has Been Abandoned by Her Friends. 10§ ANGELES, Cal, April Modjeska Is sinking rapidly Ler recovery 1. -Madame All hope for has abandoned. 1t is not belleved that she can survive meos than two or three days. Dw. J. P. Boyad Is in constant attendance at her bedside, been