Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 16, 1910, Page 1

)¢ » THE OMAHA BEE a clean, reliable newspaper that is admitted to each and every home. VOL. XXXIX-NO. 232. MIKES' LOSSES TOTAL MILLIONS Harvard B. Simpson, ‘Man Who Knows,” Says $5,000,000, Has Been Harvested Since 1893, WITNESS TERRIFIES DEFENDANTS Attorneys for Mikes Handle Prose- cution’s Star With Kid Gloves FEAR HE MAY @ m\,-if Testimony of Spokane Man, | % Concluded, Sensation of Tt [ New Jobs, ro-rl_z of Prosecut In Which One Vietim Was Former Prosccntor of Cpok County, L —Mabrag Diary Of- tered |hfln-«. Five million dollara have been taken from the mikes by the “big store gang since Its organization in 1898, according to | the one man who knows, Howard B. Simp- %on, now a Spokane capitallst. Simpson is the stor witness for the government and the one fear of the defense in the trial of the Mabray gang in federal court at Coun- cil Blufts, Simpson, the man who knows the gang from the day of its beginning, took the wit- ness stand yesterday to ald the govern- ment In the Introduetion of documentary veldence. Kach and every man he knew, and {n apswers of yosi and no told the Why, when and where. Neither side ques- tioned | the authority of his statements; ‘They knew he knew. hat was enough. Simpson has a grudge to square. He claims that It shull be squared and squaerd completelyy when he gets the opportunity to testity agalnst R. B. Herrlman, Ed. C. Moore and Frank Brown of the Lgs An- geles store, who whi probably be tried In federal court in Omaha. . Simpson alone hus knowledge of the gigantie scope of the operations of the gang. His estimate of $5,000,000 is based on real figures, The government now has an acounting of operations which netted the gang's store in excess of 81,600,000, There are jobs of which the government has never learned, says Simpaon, and he promises to tell it all when the time comes. He will bo thén revenged on that Los An- seles crew, Reap $250,000 in Council Blafts, 1508 The Coufieil Bluffs store In the obe pros- perous season of 1908, in which it operated iu the city across the river, collected a total of $250,000. Macellus L. Temple, dis- trict attorney, yesterday was Informed of two jobs which have never before come to ofriclal's’ whieh discount all mikjnk oper- atlons on record. A Canadian mike is said to haye lost $66,000. Becond fn rank was & forse scutor of .Clook « county, I, who T $65,00. To add to the ignomy of his fall this gang is declared to have put the prosecutor-mike up on a big flat roek and forced him to deliver a speech to them, immediately after he had been operated on. The work of tho secret service men and the postoffice detectives s constantly adding to the list of mikes—and the end is not in.gight. Officlals working on the investigation of the big store gang are convinced that but a fraction have been || discovered. Scores yet remain who would rather keep still about their losses than to face publicity and ridicule. The pre- mier mike whose misfortunes are among the records now in court at Council Bluffs 18 J. E. Cavanaugh of Oklahoma City, who lost $37,000 Witnesed Delfcately Treate Himpson's testimony marked the best that the government has adduced in the positive connecting up of the members of the gang By the defense he has been nandled With the utmost delicacy. In the words of one of the lawyers for the de- fense, “He might break loose and tell a whole lot more than we want him to.” 8impson may yet be recalled to the stand for a bit more of the exceedingly careful cross-examifiation, but whilg he is on the witness atand the general attitude of the defense will continue to be that of a man ih & powder house. The prosecution scored when George Al- verts, & clothier at Sioux City, miked for $2,000, and later offered a Job as steerer to recupérate his losses in the betrayal of an employer, ptoduced a ‘“show letter writfen by a Maybrayite and sent to him through the Mmalls. The introduction of thik letter brought forth one of the Fattles of the trial from the defense's opposition. As the one great expert on mikeology Simpson was put on the stand when the prosecution produced the Mabray's direc- tory containing the official record of. the operations of the gang. “Exhibit No. 101" Is the official appéllation of the elabo- rately indexed pocket ledger which held the secréts of the gang. cuted penmansh! the mikers ts gi¥en with' his real name and all aliases, thgether with true and tlotitious addresses, Secret O Explained. From this valued book, taken in the rald at Pulaski Heights hear Little Rock, from Mabray's trunk, held in hand the prose- cuting attorney called the name from the | cbded pages while Bimpson told the hi thry In terse sentences of the man named. “If I'd have had the sense of a yellow dog 1 would not have been into it,” sald Jaihes Turber, former police judge of Cum- berland, Md., $.00 mike of the Council Blutfs stere’'s July erop of 1907, Kven 1lis Volee i Sore. ‘Turher is so “Wore” about It his volce Wis husky ar he testified. Some of the Dbitter words seetned to choke him. He now ivps At Meyersdale, Pa. Turher had Just Been “turned” for 3500 ol & horse race #cheme in Chicago when Clartnce Class, defendant under alias of O'Brien, picked him up. ‘Turner told a atory of the fight in which he backed Class, by round: ‘M7 men mot 100 keen and got knocked ouit i the third rauhd. He bled out of the cdrk “L weill back (o Chicago and got sick.” ‘L ked to & died, too; wish to God I - What was sald and done?” asked R. Rush, urawing the witifess on y done, more'n It was tull of grief, the money of my own '® senve enough to see " sald the witness Wwas over at the hotel In finely exe- | the number of each of | l;awa Rcfc;rm ¢ ‘ Shool Girls hool Girls | NATION'S DANGER Big Corporation Called This and Other Second Matiny Takes Place at| O m"g"” ot Mitchelville Because of With o o o b |COMPANY MUST BE ERADICATED (From a Staff Correspondent.) Telngraly= & ‘secondriot e yeat orots | TOSFAL Attorney fays Orguniation lout In the Industrial school for girls at| Must be Ousted from Business. Mitchellville today. Tt started last even- ing, when the girls made demand for the releass of a girl, whose confinement , started the last riot. This was refused During the night an effort was made to scape from the upper storles and one _ Nl tell to the ground and injured. { yis forenoon the girls in cottage, | BLACK FLAG WAVED BY JOHN D. Men Likened to Pirates During Gov- ernment Argument. the lere the larger ones live started a fight, MILBURN DEFENDS CORPORATION {ng the band instruments and march- about the yard. ) members of the board of control|gf) Lawyer Claims Matter of Profits Sufrison, the superintendent and a spol sas Beda Uiln Velapwied man for the girle. The latter was Har 5 rlet Degger, daughter of an Omaha man ARE THGt Ulsle: fum, Faver |{The girls insist that they have been de s Too Great. Inled many little privileges they are sup- posed to have. WASHINGTON, March 15.—Holding up They say dancing had been forbidden, | the Standard Ol ‘company of New Jersey | that there 1s not time for music and|as a danger to the country and its organi- | their orchestra Is going to pleces, that|gzation as a cothmercial precedent that must | there is too frequent punishment. be eradlcated from the 'business world, During the afternoon the governor took | Frank B, Kellogg today arraigned the cor. @ hand by long distance telephone and | poration before the supreme court of the | demanded an investigation, twelve of the [ United. States with all the power of his Igirls had in the mean time been arrested, | eloquence. | accused of Inciting a riot. It is greatly| It was the government's turn to be teared that more trouble will follow, heard In the argument over the dissolu- tlon of the company as decrced by. the circult court of the United States for the eastern district of Missourl. Black Fiag of Rockefeller. Another Cannon | | Reported Hanged| | “They have waved the black flag over ! the land as others have done over the | | ocean. Do I deny they have demonstrated Cousin of Leroy Can thefr abifit No. They haye competed {ion Ef:polted Put| (ith ‘an abllity uncqualled in'this coun- to Death By President try. . | | 'In these words Frank B. Kellogg, for | the government, arraigned the Standard Oil company before the supreme court of the United States today in the second day's argument.of the case for the disso- lution of the New Jersey corporation as decreed by the United States circult court for the emstern district of Missourl. “With it's ramification, it's money power, give it carte blanche, let it combine, as Mr. Watson suggests, and let It cut prices as Mr. Milburn speaks about and I predict 1 will control every Industry in this coun- try In ten years, ves, in five years.” Mud'riz. WASHINGTON, March 15.—Reports of a varfed character saying that George Can- non, supposed to be a cousin of Leroy Cannon, had been hanged in Nicaragua by order of President Madriz, found thefr way to the State department today. No news of such a thing has been re- celved by the State department. One ro- | port wak that George Cannon had been charged with being a conspirator. NEW ORLEANS, March 15.—A special from Port Limon, Costa Rica, say “A report has reached here that George F. Cannon, an American cousin of Leroy Cannon, who was exscuted by order of Zelaya, president of Nicaragua, 18 In the penitentlary at Corinto, charged with being at the head of a consplracy to take the life of Dr. Madriz, who succeeded“Zelaya as president of Nicaragua. “It is' alleged that while in Bluefields Cannon was secretary to General Chamorro, | Leaving Nicaragua, he reached - Costa Rica, where he passed under the name ‘of Robinson. Changing his hame to Wal- lace, he is said fo have succeeded in get- ting a letter of introduction to Dr. Madriz. Cannon put up In San Jose at the Imperial hotel, where ho was recognized by hn old dcquaintance, who Informed the editor of the paper.” HARRISBURG, Pa., March 15.—David K. Carnon, father of Leroy Canuon, said to- da:' that the George Cannon reported as ha 'ing been hanged in Nicaragua, was no rolative, Hits Big Corporatl “What makes a great country?”’ he asked, “Not great corporations. It is the indivi- dual; the independent proprietor with the star of hope that has always been held out to men before him. Your-honors, it is and but another from soclailsm to anarchy.” Except about twenty minutes that John Milburn consumed at the beginning of the sittiog in the conclusion of his opening address and about an equal length of time occupled by D, T. Wateon at the closs of the /day, both in defense of the Standard Ofl, all the ‘time was taken up by Mr. Kellogs. His object was to give a history ot the Standard Oll and its activities, which he characterized.as monopolistic, but fre- quently he was led off into-the law of the case, He seemed Inclined to leave many of these points for the discussion of At torney General Wickersham, who is to close the case for the government tomor- roy. Particularly was thls true as to L/ the point o common ownership of Standard Ol property urged by the defense to have existed both before and after the organ- tzation of the alleged fllegal cobination of 1890, y Court Interested in Owner Time and again the court manifested its keen interest in the case by subjecting the counsel before it to a series of querfes. They were particulariy anxlous to know about the common ownership claimed by the Standard Ol counsel, and to get the various interpretations of the meaning which should be given to monopoly, n.’ used in the Sherman anti-trust act. The day brought out a sharp conflict of purposes by the government and the Standard Ofl. Mr. Kellogg, on behalf of the government dwelt upon the activities of the corporation with a view of at- tempting to prove an Intent to monopolize, in addition to the reorganization of 15%9. On the other hand, the Standard Ol counsel contended that such matters were not before the court for review. The only question, they clatmed, was whether the alleged illegal combining of 189 was a | violation ot the law as hela by the lower UNDER JUDGES WORDS|court. This they base on the fact that | the government. did not appeal from the de- cision of the lower court. The plan to- night ls for Mr. Watson to continue his address when the court meets at noon toMorrow. He is followed by Mr. Wick- ersham for the government, while John G, Johnson is to close at the end of the day for the corporation. Milburn Defends Corporation, Mr. Milburn devoted himself to some ob- servations on the income of the Standard Oil. He complained that the government unjustly computed the percentage of per- mits oo the original capital. He argued that capital assets had been the basis of this computation. This would show the net profit to be 25 per cent per annum during the years 1900-1906, when there wa: such & great development of the by- products. He also spoke briefly of prices, claiming the tables he presented showed there was no arbitrary action, ' “This company has been under Search a8 no other concern has ever been,” said SENATOR BURKETT PUTS IN | RESOLUTIONS FROM OMAHA | Also Introduces ! From Civil War Veterans as to Pensions, Nebraska Member Resolution (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, March, 15.—(Special Tel- egram.)—Senator Burkett today Introduced a resolution from the Audubon soclety of Omaha, urging the passage of a bill for the protection of birds, also the resolutions of surviving veterans of the civil war resid- ing at Clay Center, Neb., urging the sup- port of *the dollar-a-day bill The secretary of the interior has author- ized the reclamation service to construct structures of varlous types at numerous places along laterals under the North Platte irrigation project in Nebraska and Wyoming. The structures consist of con- crete drops, turnout gates, bridge plers, culverts, flumes, etc., and it is estimated that the total cost will bo about $40,00. FAITS Bank Embessler Collapse as Court Sentences Him to Prison. INDIANAPOLIS, March 15.—As sentence was pronounced on him by Judge Ander- son In the United States dlstrict court to- day, PaulyC. Gall collapsed and slipped to the floor between the two deputy marshal ! who were supporting him, as Judge An- derson sald: “I sentence you to five years In the | federal prison at Leavenworth,” Gall was convicted of having alded Max P. Emmerich, a bookkeper of the Capital National bank of ti el in abstracting $40,000 of the bank's funds. “Strong’” Man Abandons Wife, NEW YORK, March 15.-Charles A Carver, former Yele athlete and the uni- versity “strong man,” was arraigned in the Tombe police court today charged with belng a fugitive from’ justice from Illinals, where he is charged wiih having-abandoned his wife, Loulsa Carver. He was held under $1,000 bonds. Mike Sees Man for Whom He Bought Coffin Walk in Court To have been miked for $37.000 and then to have bought coffin and flowers for the burlal of the wrestler whose “drop dead” game lost him the meney, {8 the memory that nourishes the canker of revenge In the heart of J. E. Cavanaugh of Muskogee, Okl, a witness in the Mabray case at Council Bluffs. Mr. Cavanaugh got more for his money than any other mike. The drams pre- sented for his delectati Included - more (Continued on Second Page.) The man whaose coffi selected at New Orlans Walked into court In presence of his vietim and pleaded sullty under the name of Ole Marsh of Seatt] Mr. naugh by virtue of his expendi- ture of $37,00 owns more stock in the “big store”, than "any of the other of the throng of investors. His contribution marks the highest point in the successes of this suc- cessful organization. He excelled where many *trove for prominence. Mr. Cavanaugh than the usual tragie ® of the fatal| An enthuslastic mike with a pencil has injury of his wrestler, was treated (o] figured that had Cavanaugh won on the the pleasure of preparing and attendiug | odds of the game presented he would have the funeral of the unf. Of course, he pald for this fittle lon, just out of sympathy for the poor vietim, pulled down nearly $500.000. The game, however, was made to operate in only one direction. but a step from combination to socialism Erom the New York World. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. MARCH 16, 1910—-TWELVE PAGES. V ACUMUIATED BY FEN0 SROTTLLD COMPETITION ! YMENT OF SPECIAL PRIVILEGES REBATING. CUMMINS HITS RAILWAY BILL Towa Senator Will Oppose Measure Even Thou'lt He Loses Job. MOST IMPORTANT ITEM THAT IS UP t @ Rushed ‘i; ‘Discussion May Comtinued Far Inte Summer . —Prestaent's Abifon Critt- clzed Ca WASHINGTON, March 15.—That he would oppose the administration railroad bill, even though it might result in an effort to lead him out of the party, Senator Cum- mins of Iowa, in effect, declarsd 'n the senate today. Te was making the initial speech on the raflroad bill and commenting especially upon the history of the measure, which, he sald, had originated in the executive branch of the government, rather than in congress. After occuping its place of the senate calendar for elghteen days the bill was taken up at 2 o'clock, and thus was launched the discussion of what the mem- bers of the senate regard as the most important legislation before congress. The Towa senator had proceeded for only about two hours, when he asked leave to sus- pend until tomorrow. The leave was granted, but Senator Hale, chairman of the republican caucus, gave would be In notice that hereafter the 'bill kept constantly before the senate, language just as positive, Mr. Ball clared that the bill could not be and declared that congress was liable still to be considering it when the “‘dog days" arived. Criticizes the President's Action. In the main,” Mr. Cummins' speech Was devoted to & general review of the rall- road measure, but it was preceded by a recital of the history of the proposed leg- tslation, in which he criticized the course of the president and declared his Inten- tion of opposing the bill in its present shape even at the expense of the severe displeasure of the chief executive. “If the uncontradicted and repeated and apparently authorized statements of the newspapers be not in error, every republi- can at least is expected to vote for it just as it is, unless he decides not to incure the executive displeasure, but to be banished from the republican ranks,” sald Mg, Cummins. “I do not speak of this phase of the subject In a spirit of anger. I am con- scious of no other sentiment than pro- found regret. I recognize that it is not only the privilege, but the duty of the president of the United States to make such recommendations (o congress as in his Judgment will best promote the general Weltare, He is quite within his privileges and his duties in expressing his views upon such subjects as often as he Wkes and as emphatically as he pleases. “Whether he is within the privileges of his duty when he attempts to presertbe for, which legisiation shall assume, may well be doupted. His great predecessor evidently thought that leglslative propriety did not permit it, for when he was dealing with the same subject In his message at (e heginning of the first session of thé fifty-ninth congress In 1%5, he sald: It is not my province to Indieate the exact terms of the law which should be enacted, but I call the attention of the congress to (Continued on Second Page.) If yop are prepar- ing for Easter, read the Bee want ads. They give you information that you shouldn’t be without. They tell you what you should have, what it will cost you, and where to get it, Millet Picture In Studio of German Artist Famous Painting Was Simply Bor- rowed to Make Copy, Says. g e e s SAN FRANCISCO, “March 15.—Declaring that he took the picture in order to make a copy of it, Willlam Kunze, a young Ger- man’ artist, was airested this afternoon In possession of the $10,000 painting, “Shepherd and Flock," by Millet, which was stolen ‘last Bunday from the Golden Gate Park museum. Kunze was nabbed in his'studio. Immediately after being booked on a charge of grand larceny the prisoner was taken from the city prison by several de- | tectives ‘and ‘it is belleved that they went in search of possible accomplices. Kunze | answered that he was led to take picture by his love of the beautiful and a desire to secure an adequate co The painting, loaned to the museum by | Miss S8ara Spooner of this city, was painted I by Jean Millet n 1582, Laymen Gather at Capital City' Fourteen Kudrcfiople Crowd Lin- coln to Attend South Platte Convention. the{gan Francisco. ‘BUSY DAY FOR ROOSEVELTS | — : Ex-President and Family Seeing the Bights Around Khartum. VISIT SCENE OF BIG BATTLE Party Will Leave Khartom Thurs- day and Will Stop at Awssua; and Luyor—Goodbye to Native Servants. KHARTUM, March 15.—Colonel Roosevelt | stated today that he could not return to | the United States by the way of San Fran- | elseo, but It possible would visit Denver and Cheyenne in August. to meet. Colonel Roosevelt, today had an interview. with the latter and presented | him with a petition from the chambers of | commerce of Kansas City and other west- |ern cities asking the former president to" |return to the United States by way of | IMr. Roosevelt reptied it"would be impo: sible for him to accept the suggestion owing to his engagements including his presence at the marriage of his son, The: dore Roosevelt, jr. to Miss Eleanor B. Alexander, which I8 to take place in June. If possible, however, he sald he visit Denver and Cheyenne during the frontier day celebrations In Augnst. Colonel Roosevelt upon his visit to the Gordon Meiorial college addressed the students informally, expressing great in- terest In thelr work and remarking upon the #plendld progress made by British en- ence had been exérted i Khartum, Bent on making the most of their brief | stay in this, the capital of the Egyptian (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, March 15.—(Speclal.)—~One of |t e larges: gathering of men ever assemb.el In Lincoln began a two-days' meeting here tonight with a banquet at the auditorfum and an overflow feed at St. Paul's church The oceasion Is the Laymen's Missionary meeting of the South Platte countr: afternoon 1,400 persons had registered and the auditorlum and the chireh dining room were crowded. The banquet was served by the varlous churches. Chancellor Avery made the introductory speech. HASKELL CASE MAY GO OVER Trinl on Charge of Fraud in Town Lots May Be Continued a Year. GUTHRIE, Okl., March 15.—Tt was stated here today that the trial of Governor | Charles N. Haskell on.the charge of using illegal methods to obtain title to town lots in Muskogee, Okl., might be continued for a year. L OPTION TAX IS HELD GOOD Missourl Supreme Court Sustains Legnlity of Stamp Reveuue on Futare Dealings. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, March 15.—The supréme court today sustained the con- stitutionality of the law requiring & stamp | pair of horses and escorted by two Egypt | Wingate general governmient of the Sudan, the Roosevelts were early astir today. Colo- | nel Roosevelt was especially busy, occu- pying the intervals between excursions to points of historic interest in recelving callers and making reply to such of his voluminous correspondence as he had been able to examine. After breakfast he summoned to him the native servants who had accompanied him throughout the expedition and bade them | goodby. Each recelved a presont of cash | from Colonel Roosevelt and a gift from Mrs. Rooseveit. The sight-seeing program began with a visit to Gordon Memorlal college, bullt at the east end of the town In 1802 hy sub- scriptions eolleited from tho British people by Lord Kitchener. From the college a | drlve was taken to other parts of the town. | Colonel Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Ethel and Major General §r Rudolf Baron Von Sladen, the inspector general of the sirdar's staff-made up the party. They ordered & carriage drawn by & handsome ian lancers. During the drive they were Joined by other members of Major General | staff, occupying two carriages Later in the forencon the Roosevelts abandoned the carrfage for a motor car and, unaccomphhled, drove into the suburbs, This afterncon the Roosevelts planned a visit to Kerrerl, th® scene of the great hat- tle on September 2, 1898, when the Angio- Egyptian forces defeated the khalifa and | reconquered the Egyptian Sudan. The trip | of 25 cents on each deal In fulures of grain, stoek and provisions. ¥ (Continued on Second Page.) GARFIELD, Kan, March m—v:awudl | Payson Weston, overcome by the exertions of yesterday in walking seventy-two miies, was unable to continde his journey east- ward today. He walked two miles and then was forced to give up and go to bed. He declared, however, he would be walking | again by afternoon. ( Weston passed last' night at a farm | house two miles west of the elty, having) completod the seventy-two miles he had fixed for his day's work. He Aid this In celebration of his seventy-second birthday, which is today. He started out at 6 o'elgck Weston “All In” After Walk of 72_Miles Monday | great weariness suddenly overtook the aged today bright and happy, and apparently good for & good day's journey, When he rcached this place, however, a pedestrian. “I'm all in" he sald. to stop and rest Weston now Is seven days ahead of his| schedule, “T guess 1'll bave ¥. G. Bonfels of Dénver, who came here | would | ergy within the few years that its influ- | | the, commisstoner of labor WEATHER FORECAST, For Nebraska-~Partly cloudy, For lowa—Increas'ug cloudiness, For weather repor:. see page 2, r— STRIKE AVERTED AT LAST MOMENT Walkout of Firemen Halted by Acceptance by Men of Federal Mediation. |SUITTANG ORDER IS RESCINDED | | Will Be Re-Issued, However; if Medi ation Falls Througl |IMMEDIATE ACTION DEMANDE | Union Men Wire Washington Officiali to Hasten to Chicago. |ALL DANGER PAST, SAY MANAGERS {Rattrona Ofrjeérn Settlement Forsee Amicabl Although Employes That Thetr Consent to Medintion fx Simply Evie dence of Falrneas. Say | CHICAGO. Mareh 15.—-Danger of an im mediate sirike of 2,000 locomotive firomen, |the throwing out of employment of more 1(I1ll\ 125,000 oth employes and the tem. |porary suspersion of business on pra |Ucany every rallroad wystem between Chl |eago and the Paclfie coast was avorted {today through the aceeptance of offers of | medlation from the- federal authorities at Washington. At the request of the general managers lot the forty-seyen western rallronds in- |volved, Chalrman Martin A. Knapp of the | Interstate Commeree commission and Com- missfoner of Labor C, P. Nelll telozraphed an offer of federal mediation to the union [u"}(lnls This offer way accepted, W. §. |Carter, prestdent ‘of the Brotherhood ot | Locamotive Firemen and Enginemen, stipu- Nating, however, that actlon must begin | without delay i Strike Prevented at Last Moment. The appeal to Washington was taken as |an eleventh-hour move to prevent a walk- |out which, it was declared, threatened the |Breatest railroad strike since that of 1894, | Thirty-seven memhers of the western |tederated board of (he brotherhood at mid- |nlght last night formally voted for a strike. |The hour for striking had been set for noxt |Monday morning and the members e prepared to start for thelr homes—some of |them as far as the Paclfic coast—to put the atrike into action when the mediation fteps were taken, 1t is stipulated (hat the mediators shall {come to Chicagp, According to My Carter, !this function will be, not to arbitrate the inatters in dispute, but to determine what shall be arbitrated. The questions involve wages—which both sides have ugreed upon «s arbitrable—and two other technical points, invelving promotion and representa- tion In the union, which the brothorhood conlends are arbitrable, but which the ralironds assert are not, 2 “It the medidtion falls through, the | strike. will go-right on X plinned." sald | Mr. Carter. i Unfon Men Agree to Medlat | The acceptance of mediation was con- |tained in the following telegram seut by |the -brotherhood to Messrs. Nelll and | Knapp. “Matters In controversy Involve condi- {tions of emplayment and Increase In | wages, Come preparing to leave city. As- surance fs given that mediation will be- gin immediately and In the clty of Chi- cago. service of the companies will rarily withheld. The fact that we have postponed arbitration on all matters in controversy and the fact tHat the man- agers have soiectdyour proposition, dones not lead our men VYo expect a settlement Authority for the men fo leave the be tempo- from mediation, but as evidence of our | fairness will aceept your friendly offices under the conditions named herefn. Please answer promptly. “W. B, CARTER." Firemen’s Reply to Manager. The committee sent the following lettep to the general manage “W. . Nixon, chairman of the manager | committee “Dear Sir—Your letter of Mareh Iith' has becn recelved, In which you commun- fcate the Information that the manager: committee hus Invoked the aid of the Erd- man act, and that the honorable chalrman of the Interstate commerce commission land tho honorable United States commis- sloner of labor have been requested by the managers' commitiee to tender thelr good his Is to advise the mdnagers' commite ce that tchairmman of the Interstate Come merce commission and the commissioner of labor have tendeved by wire their friendly offices in an endeavor to setile | through mediation the pending controversy, *“The proposition of our committee that matter In controversy be submitied to ar- bitration s evidence of the regardl that we have for the interests of the public and after giving the matter further considera~ tion our committes instructs me to notify the, managers' commitee that it has ac- | cepted the good otfices of the ehairman of the Interstate Commerce commission and it an etfort to reach an amicable adjustment .of matters in dispute, provided thiat such mediation | shall be conducted In the eity of C and without delay. “Our committte 4 fromthe intcrosts of puble 1} no other parties concerned In this dispute except the rollwdys represented by the managers' commiites and the ecmployes represented by our conmitiee, In & statement glven out tonight the gen- eral manage 1: “All prospects Of o atrike are over The will be none. Seltlement of the wiole co troversy by medlation and arbittation is assured.” / Railroads Make VFiest Move, The application for medintion was made by the railroads. The request was imme- dlately granted. immediately after Chalrman Knapp of Interstate Commerte commission ar- at his office today representatives of the raliroad general managers’ commit- teo presented to him the applieation of the raliroad officials for wediation of the trouble. ‘The application was slgned by W, ©. Nixon, chalvman of the general mane agers’ committee, The request was the medlation of the diffieulty that had arlsen on the sub- jects of “wages, houys of |abor and condi- tions of employment,” between the fort: seven roads involved and the Brotherhood | of Locomotive Firemen and Engliemen.” LARNED, Kan., March 1.-Edward Pay- son Weston resumed his journey after rost- | ing three hours In bed &t Garfleld. He rrived here at 1:30 p. m., following a ten- mile walk, It was requested In the application that the mediators, Chalrman Knapp and Dr, Nefll, commissicner of labor, enter Into communication with W. 8. Carler, pres- dent of the brotherhood with & view 1o an