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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1902. DREAD CHOLERA KILLS S0LDIER Ninety of the Americans Die of the Disease in Philippines. Health Authcrities Enforce Strict Regulations but Without Result. MANILA, June 22—Ninety American soldiers have died of cholera since the disease first broke out. Owing to the in- crease of cholera the health authorities here and in the provinces are enforcing stringent regulations. The total number of cases and deaths are as follows: Ma- nila, 153) cases and 1236 deaths; provinces, | 7369 cases and 5440 deaths. Senor Vill formerly Presidente of | Santa Tomas, has been sentenced to| ears’ imprisonment for violating, | nces, his oath of allegiance Wilde of the Thir- y has béen sentenced by | court-martial to be reprimanded for the | burning of a native cockpit at Lingayan, | D Luzon. | indings of the court- | sentenced Captain Wilde, e captain violated | d did not show proper | | | respec authoriti The former g general Cailles who to the American authori. 1901, has notified the| tigating the charge; by Major Gardener | against A officers and soldiers Tayabas that he is willing to testify as t conditions which ex- | isted s Province ‘prior to his fter Major Gardener had | vince to be pacified. Gen- | that he agrees with Gen- | ther former | insurgent t' Tayabas Province was the plined stronghold the insurgents June 22.—Hon Leo P. the Philippine in the city, of absence | Pepperman said to-day: | commission has been til it now covers 6000 in salary from $15 per | er year. | the immediate reward to has caused a change em of education ime to one of more based largely on prac- Le interest of the a knowledge of | 10,000 adults are going to | in Manila. Before the n the American type- | known in the | every examina- being received aphing. Of the | 4000 are held by er by Americans. | NGTON m as possible. continued, in the Govern- fore I left Manila had passed ations and had been The Filipino makes coming to America 1 he principal provinces for cting examinations. ow much good ma- considering the of the island is ng to Hide a Murder. June 22.—The mutilated years, an steel mills & ruins of destroyed by fire to- es believe the bo; house fired to hi as almost severed from embered limbs of the house. Bunch is PR Deadly Fight Between Divekeepers. MIDDLESBORO, K June 22—In a t Cabin Hollow, five miles rival divekeepers, hackelford, brothers, ith Overton, Timothy an, name unknown, The Shackelfords t been killed by Luke the opposing side. Overton . Hopper gang. More trou- ted. b arrests have been Drown in Sight of Picnickers, | ST. LOUIS, —Four boys, aged | 16 and 17, w d by the capsizing Glen to-day. They 1, Peter Lakin, Al- Robert Redan. Hun- on shore saw the boys water, but were un- t Fire Destroys Mill Property. | TTLE, June 22.—Fire caught in the | of the Kellogg Mill Com- rd early this morning and 3 be placed under control entire pldnt _and $30,000 | of the Stimson Mill | it. The total loss | imately $65,000. Fountain Pens. selling agents for the Water- the Swan fountain pens | for the Marshall, the | We are i man Ideal and and sole agents best $1 pen in the world. Sanborn, Vall | & Co., 741 Market street. . Church-Scrubbing Pastor. | One seldom hears of a vicar scrubbing | his own church, but at St. Cuthbert's lodge, Millwall, situated in the very east| of London, we find the Rev. Richard Free, | wvicar, who recently explained to a repre- sentative his scheme Ior spring cleaning churches. St. Cuthbert’s is a poor neigh- borhood, where the people ~sometimes | &) k of trees as things pertaining to an- other world, and where a hansom cab is practically unknown. : It occurred to me,” he said, “as I was | on my knees scrubbing our own little church, that there must be a great many churches in London which could occasion- ally do with a little more than the ordin- ary dusting and sweeping, and if only they would pay us a small amount for our services we are the very people for the | work. I can beeswax, varnish a chair or | polish a ficor, and 1 don't mind scrubbing till I get ‘housemaid’'s knee.’ My wife, too, is exceptionally good at brasswork | and decorating. We have, besides, a de- little band of workers of men, wo- | and girls, who can polish and | would gladly give their ser- | 1 mougml we | g0 B an. vices to benefit our church. could have a suitable vehicle, and down together, taking our own pails and brushes take in h We will leave any church we | nd like a new pin."” —ee——————— Snails as Window Cleaners. An old colored woman selling snails oc- casionally makes her appearance on c street, says the Philadelphia Rec- | ord, and sometimes she may also be found along Front street or Second street, up in the district that used to be known as the Northern Liberties. She carries an | old basket in which the snails repose on | freshly sprinkied leaves. These are not | sold as food, but for cleaning the outside of window panes—an old practice still in vogue in Kensington. The snail is dam- pencd and placed upon the glass, where it 3t once moves around and devours all insects and Yorelgn matter, leaving the pene as bright and clear as orystal. There are old-established busingss places in Kensington where the upper windows, when cleaned at all, are always cleaned by snails. There is also a fine market for snafls among the owners of aquariums, as they keep the glass clean and bright. ————— Be ashamed of nothing on earth except poor work, which is a thing to be ashamed of. Select whatever you are best fitted for and train yourself to thoroughness in that line.—Ladies’ Home Journal. TURN BESIRK ATHLETES | STRIVE FOR THE LAUREL Nineteenth Biennial Festival Begins in San Jose With a Big Attendance and Many Interesting Performances at Schuetzen Park by Members of Prominent Organizations AN JOSE, June 22.—With song and dance the athletes of the Pacific Coast Turn Bezirk closed the first day of their nineteenth biennial turnfest. All day long they vied with one another on parallel and horizon- tal bags and the straight and side horse, and thks evening the singing sections en- tertained the sturdy members of the ve- reins. The large crowds that came last night were added to this morning by the excur- sions from San Francisco. Two thousand people came from the bay cities on two excursion trains. This enlivened. the city and the turners are practically in posses- sion of the place. A delegation of 20 turners from Los Angeles and San Diego came in on an early train this morning and these also gave an added interest to the turnfest. To-day's exercises began with a march of the turners, headed by the Fifth Regi- ment Band, for Schuetzen Park, where the athletic contests were held. There were seyeral hundred men in line, headed by the local Turn Verein. At the park the athletic contests were held under the direction of Paul Uth, the head turnwart | of the Bezirk. The contests to-day were on hor- izontal and parallel bars and side and straight horses. San Francisco Turn Ve- rein was represented by sixteen men, Ein- tracht of San Francisco by twenty, Vo waerts of San Francisco, two: Oakland Turn Verein, seven, and Sacramento ‘Turn Verein, four. The m gave fine exhibi- tions of their ability as athletes and a large crowd of spectators was in constant attendance. Each man's skill is figured on a percentage and their standing will not be known until to-morrow’s contests are completed. All those making over 50 per_cent out of a po: le 75 will recelve a diploma. There are three grades. In the third or highest nine are entered; in the second, sixteen, and in the first, twen- ty-four. High and broad jumping, pole vaulting, bar and ring turning, bowling and shooting will be taken up to-morrow, and there will be fencing and wrestling. In the evening there will be a grand ball, when the distribution of prizes will take lace. PiThis turnfest of the Bezirk is proving one of the most interesting held, as is evidenced by the attendance. "There are delegations present from the Turn Verein, Eintracht and Vorwaerts of San Fran- cisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Stockton, Los Angeles, San Diego, Marysville, Santa Rosa, Fresno, Bakersfield and Riverside Vereins. This Bezirk turnfest takes in all Central California and nearly every town in the section is represented. Every al- P R e ° DAUGHTERS OF CALIFORNIA SCORE SUCCESS IN LONDON Fllen Beach Yaw and Mrs. Lillie Birmingham Charm Large and Critical Audiences. LONDON, June 2.—Two singers, both daughters of California, 1ast week scored more than ordinary suc- pefore London audiences. Ellen American cess tBElch Yaw in a concert in St. James Hall convinced the critics she is no long- er to be regarded as merely the possessor of a phenomenally-high voice. E£ince she was first in England, six years ago, her voice has deepened and gained in volume. It is now of medium register and of a particularly mellow quality. The other singer is Mrs. Lillie Birming- ham of San Francisco. She gave a con- cert at Bechstein ‘Hall Friday cvening, when her warm and sympathetic con- tralto voice charmed a large audience, which gave her an enthusiastic reception. The critics also joined heartily in an ap- preciative verdict. Mrs. Birmingham gave a selection of songs in French, German, English and Italian. ARCHBISHOP IRELAND TO BE MADE A CARDINAL Dispatch From Rome Says His Eleva- tion Will Occur During Decem- ber Consistory. NEW YORK, June 22.—A brief Sun ca- ble from Rome says Mgr. Ireland will be made & Cardinal at the Papal consistory in December. + . TWO OF THE TURNERS PROM- INENT AT THE FESTIVAL IN SAN JOSE. ternating two years the entire State par- ticipates. Turn Verein Hall was crowded _this evening by turners and their friends to witness the prize singing contest and gym- nastic exhibitions. It was in the singing that the greatest interest centered. Seven teams were entered, but only four ap- peared. The singing section of the San Francisco Turn Verein was the first on the programme, and consisted of a chorus of twenty-five voices. The other contest- ants were the singing section of the San Jose Turn Verein, with fifteen members; Socialistic Chorus of San Franclisco, with thirty-five members, and the singing sec- tion of the Oakland Turn Verein, with twenty voices. The selections were all well rendered and drew forth a great deal of applause. Louls Hinz, a member of the S8an Fran-| cisco Turn Verein, gave a fine exhibition of club swinging. He swung five-pound clubs for five minutes. Twelve m'e\'nbersK of the San Francisco Turn Verein ful-I lowed with an exhibition of iron wand | exerels The next number was the | feature of the evening, and consisted of | club swinging by twelve members of the | ladies’ class of the San Francisco Turn | Verein. They wore natty sallor suits of navy blue and presented a fine appear- ance. The club swinging was of the high- | est order and the young ladies were loudly applauded. Those taking part were: Misses Juliet Schroeder, Annife Bergman, Rosa Schmidt, Lena Sablat, Laura Sablat, Minnie Trost, Emma Planz, Laura Sfess, Edith Plagerman, Etta Plagerman, Mary Eggerling and Hattie Korn. A long pole exercise was given by six- teen members of the San Francisco Turn Verein. This was known as the ‘‘bear” class and consists of members all over forty years of age. Paul Uth, the head turnwart of the Bezirk, and Charles Stein- beck of Oakland gave an exhibition of fencing. This closed the programme, and the hall was then cleared for dancing. To-morrow the athletic contests continue, and it is predicted that some new records will be made. INSULT TO THE ARMY MAY COST FOUR LIVES One Man Is Killed and Three Are Dangerously Wounded in a Melee. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., June 22.—An at- tack upon the American army in the Philippines made at a garden party here last night started a fight that may cost four lives. One man is dead and three others probably fatally wounded. The dead: JOHN KENNEDY, aged 45 years. The injured: Alonzo Barber, stabbed twenty times, cannot recover; Charles Hobbs, badly cut about the face, neck and breast; Lincoin Monday, jugular vein almost severed. Monday, who served three years in the archipelago, was a member of the Ninth Infantry and is a survivor of the mas- sacre of Company C at Batangia, Samar, gave Barber the lie when the latter said that “two-thirds of the American soldiers who went to the Philippines were hood- lums.” In the fight that followed Hobbs and Kennedy took the part of Barber. All fought with pocketknives until Monday, | weak from the loss of blood, sank to the | Workers of America, to-day issued the | road and mining corporations on the one hanl ! and the | and ground. Then one of his frlends in the crowd handed him a revolver and he shot Kennedy dead. Monday then shot at Bar- ber and Hobbs, but failed to hit either. Earthquake Shocks in Italy. ROME, June 22—A violent shock of earthquake is reported from Cassano Ale- jonio, in the department of Catabria. No damage was done. TELLS WHAT MINER ARE TRIVING FOR President Mitchell Issues an Address to the Public. Explains Cause ard Status of Strike in Anthra- cite Regicn. Says the United Mine Workers, Be- lieving Their Cause Just, ‘Are Ready at All Times to Arbitrate. WILKESBARRE, Pa., June 22.—John Mitchell, president of the United Mine following address. 1t is partly a repiy to the letters of the operators deciining to accede to the demands of thie unlon, which were published about ten days ago: To the Pubiic: If the contest now in pro- gress in the anthracite coal 1egions of Penn- sylvania afiected only the welfare of the rall- oal mine workers on the other, the pubile would have no Vvital Interests at stake and would consequently be less concerned than it now is in the continuance, the extension or the termination of the condlict; but Inasmuch as there is a third and important interest in- volved which, although in nowise responsibie for the present strike, is, nevertheless, an in- nocent victim thereof, it is but fair and proper that the general public should be fully and ac- curately informed upon the merits of the que. tion in controversy. Iif it shall be asked why we have waited until the close of the sixtn week of the strike to issue a statement of this nature, suficient answer may be found in the fact that we have hesitated to utter any word or take any position that would impede or embarrass easy reconcillation with the coal operators. Every delay and precaution, every conceivable conciliatory effort that honorable and conservative men could take to avert a rupture and every means that thought could suggest to bring the matter in dispute to ar- bitration was resorted to by the union both before the strike order was issued and since it went into effect, but without avail, the coal magnates replying to all our overtures with th: declaration that there was nothing to arbitrate. This statement on their part is equivalent to saying that the coal mine workers have made unreasonable demands and have struck without real or sufficient cause. To this let plain, un- varnished facts and flgures reply. WAGE OF THE MINERS. For more than twenty-five years the anthra- cite coal mine worksers of Pennsylvania have chaffed and groaned under the most intolerable inhuman conditions of employment fmaginable. Their average annual earnings have been less than those of any other class of workmen in the United States, notwith- stanéing the fact that their work is more haz- ardous and the cost of living greater than in any other important American industry. The total number of persons employed in_ and around the anthracite coal mines is 147,500. They are employed never to exceed 200 days in any one year and they receive as compensation for their services an average of $1 42 for a ten-hour work day. It will thus be noted that they earn annually less than $300. Such pay may supply a living on a par with some classes of European laborers; but who will say that it is sufficient to support Amer- ican citizens or enable parents to educate and properly maintain their families? True it is that a 10 per cent increase was granted by the coal operators as a strike concession two years ago, but it is also true that a large por- tlon of this 10 per cent was pald back to the companies to buy the suppression of an old powder grievance. Moreover, acpording to re- liable commercial agencies, the cost of living s iIncreased, particularly in the purchase of foodstuffs, from-" 30 te 40 per fent, so that the purchasing power of a miner's earnings is less now than before the strike of 1900. The presidents of the various coal-carrying railroads have given publicity to a statement that during the year 1901 the productive capac- ity of mine workers deteriorated an average of 1215 per cent; in other words, the United Mine Workers' organization is accused of en- couraging poor workmanship. An examination of the reports on coal production compiied by the United States Government discloses the fact that the allegations of the railroad presi- dents are misleading and untrue, as the fol- lowing figures will demonstrate: From 1890 to 1900, inclusive, the mines were in’ active operation an average of 182 days per year, and for each person employed there were produced 363.58 tons of coal per year, or for each day the mines were in operation 2.16 tons were produced per employe; while in the year 1901, against which the operators so bit- terly complain, the mines were in operation 1944 days, and there were produced 475.43 tons for each person employed, or for each day the mines were in operation 2.36 tons were produced per employe, thus showing~ conclu- sively that instead of a deterioration there was a decided improvement in the productive ca- pacity of the men after they became thoroughly organized. Can the unprejudiced reflect upon these facts and conlude that the anthracite miner is a better workman than he was before the 10 per cent concession in wages two years ago? PRICE OF COAL ADVANCED. The railroad presidents contend that they cannot_increase wages without making a cor- responding increase in the selling price of their product to the consumer, and have accused the mine workers of suggesting a proposition that would impose a hardship upon the public by increasing the market price of coal 10 cents a ton, the amount that would have been re- quired to meet all the demands made by the miners; however, their solicitude for the pub- lic weal has not deterred them from advancing the market price of their coal more than $1 per ton since the strike was inaugurated, with- out giving any part of the increase to the mine workers. In substantiation of our claim that the coal companies can afford to pay increased wages to the mine workers without increasing the cost of coal to the consumers we submit the follow- ing extracts from the Government reports showing the selling value of the coal loaded on cars at the mines for the eleven years begin- ning with 1890 and ending with 1900, as com- pared with 1901. The average home value of all coal mined and sold during this period was $1 48 per ton, while a press bulletin recently issued by Charles D, Walcott. director of the United States geological survey, says that for the year 1901, the ‘increase in the value of the anthracite product received at the mines showed a galn of 27,746,164, or more than 31 per cent over that of 1900. The average price for the marketed anthracite coal, that is the product shipped to market or fold to local trade, was $187, the highest figure obtained since 1888." In other words, while, according to President Oliphant, 18 cents per ton represents the ope- rators’ increased cost of production in 1901, 89 cents per ton—as compared with 1900—rep- resents the increased value of the product to the operators. In view of the fact that this enormous increase in the selling price of coal has been extorted from the consumer by the coal trust, can any one say that the demands of the miners for a small portion of the in- creased wealth thelr labor has produced are unreasonable or unwarranted? The statement says that further evidence of the ability of the coal mine operators to pay increased wages Is shown in the statement of John Markle, managing partner of the G. B. Markle Coal Comipany, an independent firm operating three mines in the Lehigh region, made in a suit_before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Mr. Markle Is quoted as say- ing that the company in the.five years from 1860 to 1894 made profits of over $1,000,000, and the statement says the Government reports show that the home value of coal produced by the anthracite companies during that time was §1 51 a ton. DRAWS A CONCLUSION. 1t the G. B. Markle Company could make a profit of over $1,000,000 in five years when the elling price of their coal at the mines wa: TWENTIETH CENTURC CK 30K A eap-lond of Cook Books has just arrived from Chicage and they are ready for distri- bution at the business ofJe of this paper. All Call sub- scribers are entitled to a copy of this great Cook Book at the premium price of fifty cents. An additional charge of 20 cents to pay expressage will be required from out of town bscribers ordering by mail. — JOURNALISTS FROM UTAH GUESTS OF PRESS CLUB Party of Newspaper Folk From the Mormon State Reaches San Francisco on an Extended Tour of Coast—Visitors Are Well Entertained by Local Members of Profession o | | OFFICERS OF UTAH PRESS ASSO- CIATION, MANY MEMBERS OF i WHICH ARRI\'EE YESTERDAY. HE Utah Press Association, a party numbering some fifty-seven people, one-half of whom are Mormons and the other half g tiles, arrived in the city in their special car from Ogden yesterday morn- ing. This is the ninth annual outing of the assoclation, the trip having com- menced on June 9. While here the party will be guests of the Press Club of San Francisco, ‘The roster of the party is as follows: Miss Louise Mathews, Beaver News; J. B. Graham and wife, Bingham Bulletin; John Stahle Jr. and wife, Bountiful Clipper;sC.. E. Huish and wife, Eureka Reporte: ‘Willlam Buys and sister, Wasatch Wave; J. W. Rus- Lehi Banner; E. T. Hyde and Mercur Miner; J. 3. M. A. Willumsen and sis- ter, ; S. L. Raddon and wife, Park City Record; A. B. Willlams and wife, Richfield Reaper; . E. Diehl and wife, Monmouth Record; . A. Johnson and sister, Springville Independent; Leofie Horne, Salt Lake Tribune; C. W. Pen- rose and lady, Deseret Evening News; Charles Randall and lady, Daily Herald; D. P. Felt, wife and mother, Juvenile Instructor; Mrs. A nle Morton, Zlon’s Young People. 'Miss Es- tella Neff and Mrs. Emma Goddard, Younx Woman's Journal: M. E. Jones and lady, Min- ing Review; Miss May Anderson, Children’s Friend; W. W. Taylor, Plain Dealer; Parley P. Jenson and lady, Bikuben; Miss Annie Campbell, Woman's Exponent; James Dun and daughter, Tooele Transcript; R. swl-‘nes and mother, Official Photographe: J. tain Martin. The Utahans will leave for Felt and wife, Pacific Union Recorder. Monterey to-morrow. o e e i e e a $1 51, does 1t not seem reasonable to suppose that the larger companies—whose cost of pro- duction is necessarily less—could make a suf- ficlent profit in 1901, when the home value of their coal was $1 87 per ton, to enable them without detriment to their business to pay the anthracite mine workers the small pittance asked for by them? The statement then quotes President Truesdale of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, who in his annual report to the directors of his company said that the year 1901 would pass-into history as one of the most satisfactory to the an- thracite coal companies ever known, and the Commercial and Financial Chronicle’s comment on the report of President Oli- hant of the Delaware and Hudson, as Follows: The average of eighteen selling prices for 1901 must have been 30 to 40 cents higher in 1000 and the profits of the coal mining opera- tions of the Delaware and Hudson in 1901 was $1,407,307. The statement ridicules as absurd the offer of President Baer, the recognized spokesman of the coal trust, to submit the books of the coal departments to prove that wages could not be jacreased, and says: Efghty-five or 90 per cent of all coal pro- duced in the anthracite regions s from mines owned and operated by the various coal-carry- ing railroads; the freight charges for deliver- ing a ton of anthracite coal one mile are three times as great as those of other roads for the hauling of bituminous coal one mile, and as a consequence the coal departments, while actually earning enormous profits on a legiti- mate business, may and do appear to be losing Money, for the reason that the railway depart- ments absorb the profits of the coal departments by charging the coal departments exorbitant freight rates. Thus they rob Peter to pay Paul. It cannot be said in extenuation that there is any peculiar necessity for this triple charge on hard coal, for all other kinds of freight—very much more troublesome to handle and more perishable—are carried at a far lower rate. SYSTEM GF MEASURING. ‘' In this connection the statement calls attention to the fact that a ton of coal, as the consumer understands it, is not a ton of coal as the miners are pald for it— that is to say that the ton of coal sold the consumer weighs 2240 pounds, while when the miner is being paid for his la- bor he is required to produce and load from 2740 to pounds for a ton, against which ‘“flagrant injustice the anthracite mine workers so vigorously and justly protest.” The companies assert that the excess weight is required to compensate them for impurities and refuse matter that is loaded with the coal and cannot be mar- keted. Regarding this Mitchell says: If their statement be true, why fs it neces- sary to continue a system of docking by which at times they arbitrarilly deduct from a miner's earnings from 10 to 15 per cent of the total as 2 penalty for loading impurities, for which they have already penalized him in excess freight? It must be obvious to every intelligent ob- server that the coal companies derive a con- - The association members visited Boise City, Portland, Seattie and Victoria, B. C. in all of which cities they were royally ! entertained by local members of the press. | They were met on their arrival at the ferry by a committee from the Press Club | and escorted to the Golden West Hotel, where headquarters were opened. Dur- ing the afternoon the visiting journalists were treated to a car ride to the CIff| House, a special observation car having | beer. provided for the purpose. The car | was in _charge of a committee from th Press Club, including President L. E. Stover, Secretary Elmore Leffingwell, Li- brarian George Trowbridge, James K. Polk, Philip Bolger and Oscar Tolle. Mrs. James K. Polk chaperoned the ladies of the party. Several stops were made at points of interest en route, the car re- turning to the city at 5:30 o’clock. The visitors will utilize this forenoon as best pleases them, there being no set programme. A number will ride out to Golden Gate Park and visit the museum, observatory and other places of interest in the park. Returning before 11 o’'clock, they will then visit the Mint, where the process of turning virgin gold into the coin of Uncle Sam’'s realm will be ex- plained to them. For the afternoon an excursion on the bay has been provided. The Call has tendered the use of a ves- sel for the editors and the party will be accompanied by a committee from the Press Club. The vessel will leave at 1:30 o'clock. The Union Iron Works, the islands in the bay and other points of in- terest will be inspected. In the evening there will be a tour of Chinatown under the chaperonage of four detectives es- pecially detailed for the service by Cap- siderable income from the continuance of this system of measuring the earnings of their em- ployes, as they thus receive a large amount of marketable coal for which they return no com- pensation to the miners. The miners have asked that the coal they produce shall be honestly weighed and correctly recorded. This recital of facts disposes of the operators’ clalm that they cannot afford t6 pay living wages for faithful service and unceasing toil amid surroundings constantly fraught with the gravest danger. The statement tells of the fatalities among miners, and says: Eight times as many men and boys are killed and injured annually in the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania as wers killed and Wwounded from the American ranks in the Span- ish-American war in Cuba. The statement says that according to reports of varlous chiefs of police there has been less infraction of the laws and fewer arrests during the time the strike has been in progress than for a like pe- riod preceding it. Concluding, the statement says: WARNING TO OPERATORS. It is now apparent that the real purpose of the coal operators is to destroy organization among workmen. If by any chance they should succeed in their design—which is not at all likely—another labor organization will spring from the ruins of the United Mine Workers of America and the contest for living wages, for humane conditions of employment, for hetter education, for higher citizenship, will go on until_the men who produce coal— ing motor power which drives the wheel commerce and industry, the product that is so essential to the welfare of society, the mineral which is the very foundation of our national prosperity—shall Teceive for thelr labor suf- ficlent compensation to relleve them of the necessity of sending their boys and girls, of tender years and frail physique, to the mines and mills, there to destroy their youthful vigor in an effort to assiet their under-paid parents to maintain their families. Consclous of the great responsibility resting upon us; apprehensive of the danger threaten- ing our commercial supremacy should the coal miners of the entire United States become par- ticipants in this struggle, we repeat our prop- osition to arbitrate all questions fn dispute; and if our premises are wrong, If our posi- tion is untenable; 1f our demands cannot be sustained by facts and figures, we will again return to the mines, take up our tools of in- dustry and await the day when we shall have a_more righteous cause to claim the approval of the American people. TCHELL, JOHN M President of the United Mine Workers of America. — Dynamiters Try to Wreck a Train. DULUTH, Minn., June 22.—Dynamiters early to-day made what was thought to be an attempt t k a ch bound for Duluth on the Northern Pacife Rallroad at a E:lnt between Maple and Poplar, Wis. seven different places between these two points the track was blown up by dynamite. No T A a s T T o Oh(ine HOUSE SEEMS DISPOSED T0 ACGEPT BILL Passage of the Senate Canal Measure Is Probable. Representatives Have Confl- dence in the Wisdom of Roosevelt. May Insist Upon a Single Amend- ment Putting a Time Limit on the President’s In- vestigations. 1 LA E] Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 406 G STREET, N. ’“ . WASHINGTON, June 22.—That Con- | gress, after all, has the greatest confi- dence that President Roosevelt is a man of action and can be trusted to carry out promptiy a great enterprise is shown by the disposition of the House to accept the Senate canal bill with little, if any, | material change. 1t was said to-day that the House might irsist on inserting ome of the amendments cffered by Senator Mallory of Florida, putting a time limit on the President in the matter of his investigation of the al- leged difficulties, legal and diplomatic, which surround the Panama offer, and nrellmuh'ed in accepting the Panama 16ute. The House conferees, however, will not prolong the struggle in conference in or- der to get this amendment accepted, be- | lieving that the President will take up the matter promptly and reach an early decision. Senator Mallory offered three amend- ments making a time limit of six, twelve and eighteen months. All of these wers defeated by about the same majority by which the Spooner substitute was after- ward adopted by the Senate. When_the House conferees finally yield | to the Senate bill an effort will be made to insert the Mallory amendment limit- ing the time to one year. This reads as follows: That should the President be unable, within six months after the approval of this act, to obtain for the United States, on reasonable terms, satisfactory title to the property of the New Panama Canal Company and such com- trol of and jurisdiction over the necessary ter- ritory of the Republic of Colombia mentioned in sections 1 and 2 of this act, including the right to perpetually maintain and operate the Panama Railroad. If Senators Morgan, Hanna and Kitt- redge oppose this in conference, it is al- tcgether probable that Representative Hepburn and the House conferees will withdraw it. *Not only is President Roosevelt in- trusted with tremendous power and re- sponsibility in the matter of the selec- tion of the route, but also In the appoint- ment of the commission to carry out the great enterprise. Seven members are provided for, and their salaries and ex- Fenses will aggregate not less than $130.- 000 annually. To conduct such a great work without the suspicion of a scandal, in the stress of party politics, will be | a gigantic undertaking and it is a high compliment which Congress pays to the character of President Roosevelt in plac- ing in his hands, without lmitation or reservation, the selection of the most important commission created by Con- gress since its foundation. Gamorra Triumphs in Naples. NAPLES, June 22.—Candidates put for- ward by the Camorra, the notorious se- cret society, were elected all along the {line in the municipal elections recently held here. It is expected that the gov- e{'\ment ‘will dissolve the municipal coun- cf ADVERTISEMENTSS Good enough for anybody! ALL Havana 4] LLER —4 > 7 e valxe as tags from * HORSE SHOE," bave been in years by the leaders of Mormon Church _and _their followers. Positively cure the worst cases In old and young from effects of self- abuse, dissipation, excesses of cigarette-smoking. Cure lost Manhood. Impotency. 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