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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
CHAIRMAN LANE
ON CAR SHORTAGE
Report of the investigation
by the Interstate Com-
merce Commission Is
Submitted
CAUSE RUT NOT CURE
Discovered. Indisputable Proof
of Combine of Coal Deal-
ers to Keep Up Prices
of Fuel
DELAY IN UNLOADING CARS
Washington, Jan. 2.—The causes,
bin not the cure, for the car shortage
in the northwest and the consequent
coal famine in North Dakota, have
been determined b.v the members of
the interstate commerce commission
participating in the recent hearings
at Chicago, and Minneapolis Frank-
lin K. Lane, who served as chairman
of the investigating committee, today
filed his report with the lull commis-
sion and sent it to President Roose-
velt, who ordered the inquiry. He
finis:
“it is a fair inference from all the
testimony that the real coal scarcity
in North Dakota was such an abun-
lance of westbound traffic at the head
of the lakes that cars were not avail-
able. in the congested state of that
terminal, for the carrying of coal
to North Dakota—a comparatively
short haul for a low class commodity.”
in his letter of transmission to the
president Mr. Lane says the report
will he followed in Lie course by the
special recommendations of (ho com-
mittee as a whole as to whatever
legislation, if any may bo deemed
advisable.
Referring to the report that tlie
c.ot:I shortage was due to the presence
of a trust or combination between
dealers in coal which fixed prices in
the northwest and refused to sell to
outsiders, an I "Irregulars," the re-
porl says:
"Thy commission lias gained indis-
putable proof of an agreement be-
tween coal dealers to maintain prices
mi 1 to boycott all who di.il not so
agree, but there is no evidence at ail
justifying the contention that this
combination is chargeable with the
coal shortage prevailing, nor that the
railroads were party in such a way to
such a conspiracy.”
The report of the commission first
deals with the coal famine in North
Dakota and presents the conditions
of distress found to have existed in
Ilia! slate. The remedies which the
commissioner purposes to work out
include a proposed plan for a car
clearing house or car pool and re-
cinrocal ear Jeniurage.
■ Financial Sosa to a large percentage
of the - people of the northwest is
shown to have been caused by the
failure of the railroads to prepare,
lor a large movement of grain. Mr.
Lane shows that the railroads tapping
the great grain belt, of the northwest
seethed to have been overwhelmed
bv the year's crop, although iu fact
the crop scarcely exceeded that of
Linn, nor did it equal that of at least
one other preceiing year.
in consideration of the evidence
taken, Commissioner Lane says that
a plan for a-proposed ear clearing
house or a car pool between connect-
ing lines is regarded with much
furor. The details of such n plan
have net been worked out. Car ap-
propriation between carriers is treat-
ed at some length and the adoption
of a rule is suggested fixing a mini-
mum of fifty cents a lav during those
months of the year when the traffic
is lighl and increasing this sum four
fold luring the latter half of the
year, when ears are most needed.
The most generally advocated remedy
for tiio failure of carriers to furnish
cars when demanded is known as
reciprocal car demurrage.
Ties phrase means, in a word, that
carriers shall he penalized on failure
to furnish ears demanded and if
arises out of the universal railroad
practice of imposing a per diem
penalty when a car is held by a con-
signee for unloading beyond a certain
fixed number of days.
The commissioner says this plan
alone would not overcome the trans-
nortation difficulties if the measure
merely provided for punishing the
railroad for non-placing of cars or
non-movement. Mr. Lane in his re-
port sums up the conclusion of the
commissioners in the following:
'The problem is one murh deeper
and much broader than a mere lack
of ears and engines. it Is one in
which is involved every factor in rail
roa is. The inability of the shipper
to seme a ear may be only a symptom
of a deep seated and organic trouble
The real causes of car shortage may
lie in the too Conservative character
of the management of the road. It
may follow from an incomprehension
on the part of directors of the full
tutv imposed by law on a common
carrier. It may arise- out of a policy
in railway operation which gives
primary consideration to speculative
stock operations, it may come from
ap inability to secure funds so to fit
itself that it can discharge its duty.
It may follow in a time of exceptional
prosperity from an increase in traffic
which could not reasonably have been
anticipated. Or it may result from
an inability to sceufe and materials
necessary to the proper enlarging of
ih" railroads facilities.
"This enumeration of causes is not [
exhaustive ft could not well lie :
complete without giving considerable I
consideration to many industrial and
economic factors which at first glance
would appear remote and unrelated.
Clearly, the problem of transportation
is so closely interwoven w ith I he
fabric of our commercial system and
so closely related and so interdepend-
ent are the various activities' of our
Industrial life that oue may not light-
ly say what are the mnltltudious con-
siderations which necessarily enter
into so simple a question as the reason
why a railroad car is not at once
forthcoming when ordered.
"The enactment of a reciprocal de-
murrage bill will not build a rail-
road track, equipment, enlarge and
simplify terminals, nor transform in-
competent operating officials into first
class railroad men, hut it might stim-
ulate, energize and in some cases
revolutionize the methods of delin-
quent railroads so that they would
render the service which they were
created to render. This is the
theory of reciprocal demurrage. But
that of itself it will enable the rail-
roads adequate service is not demon-
strated by experience.
The need of additional legislation
to reach the seat of the trouble is
shown by the conclusion of the re-
port, wherein It'says:
“If the interstate commerce com-
mission is to he vested with power to
make rules under which, railroads
shall bo required inpenalty to furnish
cars <f> shipper, this commission
should also be empowered to make
rules under which free interchange
of cars shall he effected, or to require
railroads engaging in interstate com-
merce to make such rules for its own
protection and provide for their en-
forcement .
M'CLELLAN DEFIES TAMMANY.
Appoints an Anti-Tammany Man Pres-
ident of Election Board.
New York, dan. 2.—John T. Dooi-
ing was named by Mayor McClellan
today to succeed John R. Voorhis as
president, of the board of elections. In
announcing the appointment, the may-
or thre wdown the gauntlet to Tam-
many Hall and its leader, Charles F
Murphy. He declared he could not
recognize tlie existing control in ram-
many or tolerate any relations with
its leader.
"1 should like," he said, "to have,
the support of the Democratic organi-
zation, because 1 have always been a
believer in party responsibility in ad-
ministration, but if r cannot have that
support under conditions which favor
clean and efficient government, I am
content to do without it."
Mr. Voorhis made a formal protest
to the board of elections against, the
seating of Mr. Dooling as president of
the hoard. Mr. Voorhis’ protest was
on the ground that he is the certified
and recommended member or Tamma-
ny hall and tv'it no one els is eli-
gible for the position of president.
The protest was filed by the hoard
without comment or action.
PROPOSITION REJECTED.
Operators' Offer to Goldfield Miners
Was Tabled.
Goldfield. NeV„ Jan. 2.—The Miners'
Union held a mass meeting last, even-
ing and voted to lay on the table the
mine operators’ proposition for a new
schedule o. wages. It is said that
neither side thought the proposition
would lie accepted, as the offer is low-
er than the pay the miners had been
getting before the strike commenced.
The miners are quiet and apparently
are willing to wait. The big opera-
tors find it agreeable to remain clos-
ed. The leasers and small mine own-
ers are becoming restless and threat-
en to start on a new Schedule.
BIG FLOOD IN ARKANSAS
Streets at Hot Springs Turned Into
Streams and Train Service De-
moralized—Heavy Damage.
Hot Springs, Ark,. .Tan. 2 -The
heaviest rains ever recorded here fell
in almost a'continuous downpour all
of last night and today, washing
away bridges and houses. The mer-
chants along Central avenue, win-re
the storm wrought the greatest-dam-
age, suffered to the extent of least
$7,1,non. Central avenue, which is Hie
principal thoroughfare of the city, was
for hours a seething river, carrying
debris of all kinds. The water was
waist deep. There have been no
trains in or out of the city since early
morning.
Little Rock Ark., Jan. 2.—Not a
train has been run between this city
and Hot Springs this afternoon or to-
night. Heavy rains have caused wash-
outs on every division of both the
Rock Island and Iron Mountain sys-
tems, and trains iu all directions from
this city are delayed. The Rock Island
annulled every freight train between
Memphis and the Indian territory line.
Two passenger trains due in this city
from Oklahoma and the west over the
Rock Island are reported to he caught
between washouts somewhere near
the state line The Iron Mountain
yards at Bald Knob arc- under water
and trains to and from SI. Louis ara
being held until the water recedes.
Hundreds of small washouts are re-
ported in all sections of the state and
relief trains with all available section
men have been sent in all directions
from this city to repair the tracks.
FIRE AT PORTSMOUTH.
Near the Ammunition Depot—Great
Quantity of Stores Burned.
BODIES CRUSHED
BURNED TO ASHES
Terrible Wreck of Two Rock
Island Trains in Kansas
Caused by Operator's
Negligence
DEAD WILL NUMBER 4-0
Thirty Mexican Laborers On
Their Way Here Urushed to
Death. Four Americans
Were Killed
NUMBER HURT UNKNOWN
Portsmouth, England, Jan. 2.—Fire
broke out at a late hour here tonight
among the ramp and equipment
stores on the gun wharf and a great
quantity of material was destroyed.
There was considerable alarm be-
cause of the proximity of the ammuni-
tion depot, and the resources of the
ports fire apparatus were brought out
to subdue the fire.
After several hours hard work the j
flames were gotten under control.
Topeka, Kan., Jan. 2.—Two white
men, a negro train porter and about
thirty Mexican laborers lost their lives
and filty-five persons were injured
when two passenger trains on tlie Chi-
cago, Ruck Island & Pacific railroad
collided head-on four miles west of
Volland, lias., at 5:ill o’clock this
morning.
The exact number of the dead will
probably never be known, as the
bodies ot a number of Mexicans were
completely destroyed by the flames
and the charred bodies crushed to
ashes by the removal of the wreckage.
Jack Slater, the engineer of train
29, saw the other train’s headlight
as the engine came around the curve
aud jumped after applying the brakes,
escaping practically uninjured, rits
train had been brought almost to a
standstill before the crash came.
Conductor William Grimes or train
No. 29 was sleeping in a seat in the
smoker when he felt the emergency
brakes applied. Divining the cause
lie hurled himself through a window
and escaped with a broken collar bone.
Rock island engine No. 1:;:14, which
pulled train No. 29 this morning, is the
same locomotive that drew tin- Rock
Island passenger train which was
wrecked at Willard, Kan., in January,
1904, resulting in the loss of nearly
twenty lives. The two wrecks oc-
curred at points less than thirty miles
apart. The same engine has been in
:hrue other wrecks In the same local-
ity.
li is not known to a certainty Ihat
Julius BarmeisteV of Davenport, la.,
is dead, but there is practically no
onanee that lie is alive. He was one
of a party of eight homeseelu-rs from
Davenport who were riding in the
chair car. Shortly before the collision
he had gone into the smoker and since
the wreck his companions have been
unable to find any trace oi him or ills
body, it is thought he was burned to
tenth and the corpse charred beyond
recognition.
At the local hospitals tonight, a!! of
the injured arq reported to lie doing
well, with the exception of Bara and
Alvario, two Mexicans, who cannot re-
cover,
Miss Sadler of .McIntyre, la., a pro-
fessional nurse, was on tin- ill-fated
train at the time of flu; collision. She
was only slightly bruised and rendered
service of incalculable value caring for
the injured before the arrival of the
surg -ons.
Dynes, the ope nil or. is still In jail
at Alma tonight.
The people of Waubaunsee county
are all in sympathy with Dynes and
an effort to convict him of man-
slaughter, if made, will probably fail
Twelve bodies, which were burned
beyond recognition, lie In a box cat
at Alma, Kan., tonight. They will be
buried tomorrow afternoon. A charred
body, supposed to be that of a woman
lias been taken from the wreck. Va
Hons pieces of jewelry, blackened by
the flames, were found, together with
a few long hairs sticking to tie
charred hones.
Two, inquests will bo held, one at
Topeka and one at Alma.
The dead:
JULIUS BERM ELS TER Davenport,
Iowa,
WILLIAM T. .MILLER. Soldier City,
Kansas.
ALBERT LINK, colored, Topeka.
FRANK SAVER, passenger. New
London, Mo.
Mexican laborers numbering sup-
posedly between 2'1 and .'!0 persons.
W. li. OSGOON, Mitchell, Iowa.
The family injured:
Hoiyon Alvario. Mexican laborer,
lefl leg broken, left arm broken, in-
jure I internally and badly crushed.
Berlatla Bara. Mexican laborer,
head crushed, lef’ log fractured, right
leg so badly crushed that, amputation
was necessary.
The more seriously injured:
R A. Hicks, Kansas City, Injured
internally.
William Douglass. Nevada. Mo., col-
lar hone broken, right ankle dislocat-
ed ami fractured, head bruised.
G. Harrison, baggageman, Kansas
City, head cut and hurt internally.
E. H Dauchy. assistant engineer,
left ear badly torn.
W. A Willett, Peabody, Kans., arms
burned.
William T. Miller was riding the
blind baggage and was crushed to
death
A man who has just returned from
Ihe scene of the wreck says that over
thirty persons were burned to death.
those who perished are thought to
have been Mexican laborers, who were
Am their way from Columbus Junction,
()., to Mexico.
The officials of the company place
the blame of John Lines, the 19-year-
old telegraph operator at Volland. w ho.
failed to stop train No. 29 at his sta-
tion after receiving orders to hold her
until No. tin had passed, Lynes i> be-
ing held by ihe authorities at*Alma for
investigation.
By the light of the flaming wreck-
age. passengers who wore uninjured
worked heroically to save those Who
were pinned fast between the mass of
splintered timbers and twisted iron
work. The lack of tools to work with
ill chopping away the sides of the cars
was a great Itinderance to the early
rescue work.
in an hour and a half from the time
of the wreck the first relief train, from
McFarland, Kan., bringing surgeons
and helpers, reached the scene. In the j
meantime, the rescue work was being 1
pushed by volunteers, while surgeons
for miles around promptly responded
-to calls for their services. Another
relief train from Topeka and two
wrecking trains soon arrived and all
of the dead and injured that had been
taken from the wreck were brought
to this city, where the Injured wen-
placed in hospitals. Two injured Mex-
icans died on the way to Topeka amt
Link, the negro porter, died at Stor-
mont shortly after being taken there.
When 1-ink was tescued it was neces-
sary to tear his leg from his body to
extricate him from the wreckage.
Five minutes before the trains
crashed together the operators for
hundreds of mites along the line of
the Rock Island system knew (hat the
collision was certain, as Lvnes had
wired from Volland that he had let
No, 29 pass, but there was no earthly
means of preventing the disaster. At
8 o'clock tonight the company com-
pleted a track around the wreck ami
the line was open again.
TWO BURNED TO DEATH
FRAUD CHARGED
TON. Y. EXCHANGE
Congressman Livingstonainl
Uarvie Jordan File Charg-
es with Post Office
Department
FRAUD ORDFR IS ASKED
ANOTHER TELEGRAPH OPERATOR
CAUSES ANOTHER WRECK.
Fatal Wreck on Northern Pacific,
Equipped With Block System—Two
Railroad Men Burned Up in a Ca-
boose.
Butte, Mont.. Jan. 2.- A Livingston.
Montana, special to tin; Miner says:
A wreck occurred at 2:db this morn-
ing at Coal Spur, a s'.it ton on the
Northern Pacific ten miles wexi of
this city, in which two railway men
of Livingston lost (heir lives. Tin-
dead :
JAMES CARUSO: locomotive en-
gineer.
.!. A. STORRS, freight conductor.
The men were riding in Ihe caboose
Of an extra east. Just «« the exlra
had secured orders to enter the block
easi from foal Spur, and wa-m pulling
out, ihe train was struck by the two
light engines. .
From the evidence given at Hi-;
Coroner's inquest held today, it seems
that the wreck-it ml loss of life is due
entirely to operator ,1. K. Brady at
Hoiier.s' permitting the light engines
to enter the block east of his station
before he got u clear block from the
operator at Coal Spur
When Brady discovered his mi;,lake
he wired the operator at Coal Spur
u> have the l-ght engine:; flagged. The
warning was received in tinn and a
brake-man sent.' out to dag the com-
ing engines. \ urge was set some
distance iron) the rear oi the extra
east hut Ihe engineers failed to see
it and erasin' I down into Idle caboose
of the outgoing train • The caboose
imediately took fire and tioth men
were burned to death.
Ajjniust the New Yol k Cotton
Exchange ami the Charges
Upon Which Application
is Based, Filed
WHAT THE EXCH ANGE SAYS
HARRIMAN'S LIBERALUrY.
Offers His Lines of Steamers to Carry
Food to Famine Sufferers:
Washington, ,lan. 2.........Secretary of
War Taft, as president, of’ the national
Red (truss, today sent a telegram ad-
dressed to 10. H Harriman, executive
officer of the Union Pacific railway.
New York city, accepting bis offer of
free services of the San Francisco and
Portland team ship lines lot the
n aiisporttit ion of supplies to .Bhang
liai and (long Kong for the famine
sufferers of China, and thanking him
on behalf of the president for the ot-
ter.
Washington, D, C., Jan. .2.—Charges
of fraud were filed late Ibis afternoon
with Postmaster General Cortelvou
against the off! in is and members of
the New York cotton exchange by
Representative Livingston of Geor-
gia, and Uarvie Jordan, president of
tile Southern Cotton association. On
ri.e charges they filed they base a
request that the post office issue a
fraud order against the officials and
.members of the cotton exchange in
enter to bar them from the use of
the United States mails in conducting
what the charges term fraudulent
practices.
The postmaster general referred
liis callers to Judge Goodwin, assist-
ant attorney general for the postoHL-o
department. It Is likely a healing on
the charges will he held by Judge
Goodwin before a determination of
the question is reached.
Following is n summary of the char-
ges presented to Mr. Coitelyrni:
I We charge that New York lias
ceased to he a commercial sfiol cotton
market, and that tlu- New York cot
ton exchange, operating under its
pru'-i-iii debased and fraudulent con-
tracts,'him developed into a purely
speculative exchange, and that the
grades of eotiiiu shipped to New York
and tenderhlde on the contracts un-
der the rules of the New York cotton
exchange, cannot be used for cum
mereia! spinning purposes and that
such grades of cotton are used solely
to depress the price of spinnaldo
grades in. the South to further the
speculative features oi the New York'
cotton exchange to the heavy detri-
ment of ihe legitimate cotton trade
of (He Unit' ll Stales
2. We further charge that tin1 «alii
New York cotton exchange, through
its officers ami members, i- daily ic-
ing the United .Suites malls f.u- the
purpose of transmitting ami adver
Using their business to the legiti-
mate cotton trade of tin- United
States, ami we charge Unit such bus-
iness is fraudulent and tlint said offl
dais and members of the New York
cotton exchange .should be denied the
use of the Uni1- -I States mail •
We fit ft In charge that the quo
bard, president of the New York Cot-
ton exchange, announced today that
he had a ki d Postmaster General Cor-
telynu to scud him copies of any com-
plaints that might have been mado
to him against the New York cotton
exchange. This action was taken on
the publication of reports that an ap-
plication will lie mode to the postmas-
ter general in behalf of eott m growing
Interests in the South for the issuance
of a fraud order against Ihe New
York cotton exchange denying It the
use of the United Stales mails. It
was said Iu have been charged that
cotton delivered on contracts and sold
on the floor of the-N*'\v York cotton
exchange was net of 111" guide called
for by tin? coni t acts On publication
of these reports i‘resident. Hubbard
first scut a telegram to Mr. t’ortclyoii
atnl then, on December .11, wrote to
him. asking that Mr C’ortelyon "favor
the Now York exchange with copies
of ani complaint made against it; in
order that action might be taken to
protect its interests against, such
unwarrantable attacks."
Tite letter continued:
"It is deplorable that such as,-anils
should no made on the New York ex-
change. a chartered institution of.
more than thirty five years’ standing,
founded b> merchants of the city: or
sucli Implication as to the integrity
of its members, should be made under
any pretext or for any purpose what
ever.
"Onr members are of the best
known merchants here, of the trade
In the South ami abroad. They are
proud of the past and the present
of their organization. They are up-
right biudtii'ss men. They needed no
defense or apology and they ask the
nature of the charges which are igno-
rantly. made. They will protect them
solves, and they indignantly protest
against the calumny which is circulnt-
' il for I heir injury ."
PETRIFIED FOREST RESERVE.
MORGUE MASTER’S
GRUESOME FINDS
What Was Supposed to Be
the Remains of a Man
Turned Out to Be Parts
of Many Bodies
FLESH. t’OAL AND CLOTH
Ground Into a Mass.—Baby's
Skull. Man's Foot. Woman's
Hand, Part of a Face,
and Other Pices
INVESTIGATION OF WRECK
Washington. Jan. 2 -In an endeavor
to identify the mangled bodies of
victims oi the Terra Cotta wreck of
Inst Sun lay night, a gruesome dis-
covery was made at the morgue to-
day. What was supposed to be the
mangled body of a man attired in a
suit of "pepper and salt" proved to
be the composite t,-mains of several
of tin- nnfoiiunates who died in (he
Hun lay wreck. The morgue master
had ai! (he pile of human flesh and
parts which had been gathered at
tbe wreck t einoi.-1 to the "dead room"
. today in an effort. Id establish identity.
Wlicn lie delved into II, he found a
Aside I piece, of a baby's skull: a man's foot
badly crushed and encased in a shoe:
Proclamation Issued Setting
Thirty Sections of Land. .... ...................................—
Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 2. Copies of j the hand of a woman and a portion
President Roosevelt's proelaniallon of .i human face; also fingers, toes
setting aside thirty sections of land
ami the “Petrified Forest s'oi Gila and
Apache counties, Ari-eiia. a the Pel
lifted Forest National Monument.,"
liavo lu-eil received here. Tlu- procla-
mation, which is based upon an act
oi congress on June ,v pun;, declares
that tin' “Mesozoic Forests." com
nionly known as tin- “petrified for-
esee.," are of the greatest scientific in-
terest and value and it appears, that
Inc-public gbqd-would lie promoted by j
the reserving 01 those deposits- of to:;- 4
sili.-i'd wood its a national monument
'with as much land as may be inces
suty for tin- profier protection thereof.
and other parts of women's and Child-
ren's bodies an 1 those of men, all
ground Into the black coill dust and
with pieces of garment.-, mixed into
like mass.
ARREST NOT WARRANTED.
Department Cannot Order Arrest of
Jap Revolutionist.
Wasinglon, ..Inn. 2 A request was
received tinlav from Immigration Com-
mi - doner North of Him Franciseo by
the officials Of Ihe department ot com-
meree ami labor far it warrant, for the
arrest of T. TaJteiichl, the publisher of
tho paper known as the ''Revolution," . ... . . .. ..
on Lie allegation iliat he is an amir-1"1 M ill another extra I min, a ti eight,
elii.-t aud u dangerous person. The !-No 'vns ** Brunswick,
matter was considered by 1 hi- depart - j several milenearer Washington, and
inept official:; In the light uf Iho evi-
dence in-!- e Pie department, and
Investigation Begun.
Washington. Jan. 2. An iuveallga-
lion to aseerlain tin- cause and fix -the
le.- pun dhilhi for the disaster'oil tim
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Terra
la. 11 ('.. la-d Sunday', was begun
hen- lie-fore a coroner's jury today.
The principal witnesses were three
officials of the. 'road, none of whom
could give any reason for Ihe wreck.
Nearly fifty wit nesses have been sum-
moned and tin- inquiry promises to
occupy tin- entire week
The testimony ieveloped the move-
ments of the trains involved from
ihe time tlrev were-both at Washing-
ton .Inm-tiim between four and five
o'clock Sunday afternoon, until the
acebb at took place. Engineer Milder-
brand of the ''dead" train, bad special
orders to run with caution because
ABE RUEF'S TRIAL DRAGS.
Again Questions the Qualifications of
a Grand Juror
Hart Francisco, Jan. 2.—In Judge
Dunne's court today th- attorneys for
Abe Ruet for a second time in the se-
sion questioned the qualifications ot
Morris I.evingston to act as impartial
grand juror For the purpo e of im-
peaching I.evingston, they called to
the witness stand James Graham, jan-
itor of the John Swell grammar
school, who testified that Levlrigeton
had told him that Ruet and Schmitz
were grafters and deserved to lie in
San Quentin. This statement, he al-
leges, was made in Levingston's
saloon.
A cross examination of the witness
by Hiram Johnson brought out the
fact that Graham had been approached
t nitons sent oiit daily m the debused
'contracts of the New York* cotton
exchange, exercise a tn ed quinal Ing
influence liver the legitimate. cotton
trade to its gn it detriment find in-
jury.
e! We further charge that . New
York t'iiv lift - ceased ty lie u spot i.\ month
cotton market f >r Commercial Bpinmi-
bh- grades of cotton due to the pres-
ent debased -'Contract's of the New
Yoik cotton exchange.
1. We further charge that under
tile present debased aud fraudulent
rules of t In - New York cotton ex
change, a large number of unsfiliina
ble low grades of cotton are tendered
on the contracts of said exchange
which: art: mil. .permitted under the
ruies of any': (liber cotton exchange in
the world, and we affirm Hue such
rules are' fraudulent
t-—We charge further 1 Hat the of-
ficial dally quotations sent, out
through tin United States infills by
Mic office! and members of the New
Yolk cotton exchange to their eus
toinei« and others, both as In "fu-
tures" . and “spot" prices, are fraud
nien1 iu that neither ri>pi'cKenf» the
'me and actual value' of spot outrun,
but that tbc aim- arc from $1 to $7 in
(iOinmissioni-i- Ninth was notified that
tile case ;t it stands before tie- depart-
ment ,ii pn-M-iil would not warrant an
iu rest.
RUSSIA'S ENORMOUS BUDGET.
liiiiin 1 ihe same way.
The train record kept by Dispatcher
Deni showed Hint lie had received#
a message from the operator JK
Takonia Park lhut the "dead" train
hud run by -ills red signal
Division Superintendent O. H.
Hobbs s.ihl lln company had made no
, error: lo investigate Ihe accident It
Over Five Hundred Million for Six ! heina Impossible lo do so bemuse the
Montho Expenditures. |.....'<•' liM' lnil,t' *'en“ )‘n'
St I'eterxbii: dan 2 Ihe prelim l!l>r Ml hacrlbe.l the
in;ii) ini la-l i-miinaicH prepared |,v I accident to n "violation of rules.
G, in mi. i - - el- finance fit ; | The. official records of Hie weather
ut mod. rornne ilt'in", Jan ; bureau showed that tin- wearbei was
nan II, . i.. \ ide vCd.-IH.'inn fur regu j foggy on the night ot the accident,
lai o'xpcniji lures, an increase of $lv- ----------* ' “
x"i;,i"(i. oi ;.7 i>-1 i-iut I'iimi'iitv.i with i BESKIGKI) BV MEXICANS.
I lu* .semi-fuinun) c;xi>i'n«!if uivs for Ui*v| ____
.--.ini' 1'nTiuJ ot Tin* ^realor. ^
j>;ii t m the inn ;iwill Ih* iln uiii'<1 ' Young Exoress Agent Shot a Mexican
in i,i.i )j;jv incut ot tin* mint' 1 on i In* ! Bartender and Was Attacked by
1 »i 14 Itmii of I'.Hiu which incivu -»•.I the j His Friends—Rescued by Sheriff.
toi.nl of InUMosi ciiargorl from $11,- • —„•
| Suntu l*V. X M.. -Ian 2 liai r.icad*
I .-(j in thi* Sun’ ;i K<* station at Lamy*
j fof iH'i hours today. -1 M. Morris,
j Wells Farg.) Express agent, and Guy
DftS.GOD IO
Tin* d.u iiiil Hern i an In
eivjro- of $r;,782,D(»n in tin- Imdi-of
of tlii' niihlsiry of limimc, ra sing iho
tot Hi to %'xl, or that Irpail
moot, childly to fH'ovhh- lor the In
creased nmniifucturc of spirits, tn
nii vt the Bteadil, im-roasluK con-amp'
t ion
The •‘KtimaU1* for the extrn.or.llnar-y
expenditures, including sums
which arc to be .levoted to army re-
form, elitcation and pos.-dld- to naval
const ruet ion. have no’ yet he n pub-
lialv.l.
, , , , .. The «tw‘rnment, a* an/Kmuei d. e\-
.|"-r bale le- - limn the market PH " | . .. „ ,m.sliimling
at which - pinna ble urades of " .Hon „ ,,, of.l iK., t io, within.-......tub.
cnnhl be purchased ill the Soitt.il and | ])|M lv|„ ............. itllew
'.....’ ........... ” 0,1 jin Germany
CAPTAIN OF THE DIX BLAMED.
Edwards, tin day operator, stood off
i mob ot Mexicans and were rescued
by the sle-riir In the nick of time.
,\i ,,-ri- had killed Catalluo l.ebaio,
one of their countrymen, and tha
Mexicans wanted lo ivnch the youth.
The Mexicans still swear vengeance
ami may again attempt to do harm to
Morris.
The killing of Debate occurred ear-
ly thin morning and but. few details
eiiii be - reared regarding the motive
for the; crime. Morris arrived here
on Santa Fe Main No. 8, and it is
j -aid visited tilt- saloon where Debate
I was tending liar. The men became
I involved in an altercation, the cause
j of which is unknown, and a fist fight
hollowed. Lelia'ii summoned half a
I dozen of Ids friends and sought out
I ids assailant Fearing that his life
shinped to New York for
said fraudulent contracts.
We fm then charge that out of the j
advertised stock of cotton at present i
store! in 'in- warehouse.- Of New I The Seattle Traaedy Recalled By Re-
York f'ilv. amounting to 11 Utah, bales I port 0f 'investigation.
fully 7ii,euo bales of said cotton are ot j u'.,ui,[„,.inn t ,>, - v ifiiin-t of , ,, , ,
Mich inti i-ioi "i 'ides tn render the ” 1,11 - ' ; was in danger Morris pulled a rcvol-
such lnf.no. g.ad.s ». lo retidm th< lh„ steamboat inspection officers who I th„ men not to ad-
mad.- t.,1 Inve*..gallon ot the collision I h(, w,mM
between the -dean,ci's Dtx and Jennie | s,.V(,ni| ,lf th(, foreigners were arm*
^:vri"l:':':.,ly,l*’:,;...!:!:ii';.^;^!!;ied. p g said :,„d paid imic attention
th* warning Thc*y ran for him.
ami ho tirt*d. Iho imllor penetrating
Luiiato - heart, and he died Instantly.
staple iipHi for spinning or manufac-
turers purposes, and that a eonHider-
able portion of said cotton h«H beep
hold in -aid warehouse for years and j oy which iiinmi fifty people lo-t their j1
is totally unfit for any purpose what - I Ji\-,-s, has heeii receive t l»j the dc
to be tendered on »h* ! |>J,, ITil of commerce and labor The j j
ever excoi
fraudulent contracts of the New York
cotton exchange to the serious detri-jj,
mem and injury of the legitimate c<T- ; j>j^
ton trade of the I'nited Stales. YVo
ty went to summon hold Iho others
pursued Morri.«, who lied it) i1#1 direc-
tion of the depot Arriving at the sta-
tion house. Morris locked himself in
a small !\ii and. aided by Edwards,
who obtained the agent's revolver,
j succeeded in holding out against tho
yesterday and asked if he could re- j therefore ask you to send a represent
member this incident. Graham is the! stive to the warehouses of New York
man who was called upon some time j ("if \ and have an the cotfon stored
ago to impeach Grand Juror Deasey. I there Inspected ; nd graded in order
Graham recalled the incident. «o | o.firially to determine the character
and exoticrau
t.Dipfain Philip Mar on of ih
who, the report says,
the requirements
of I u
Jeatiie,
‘fulfil le 1 all
law/’
TWO ROADS ISSUE PASSES-
i
Drachmae took hint to his home. He, of the unspinnable and unmarketable j Good Only. However. Within .-..xx .
the witness, said he felt a delicacy gn-. le* of cotton in that mar j Limits of the State. * mo!> until Sh u iff ( harles t C lossom,
it<iP anil VO. 1 !...» ti. Gmflnn #V».. f- mi •• li.nl nnill i-'intd 11 PH II 1 l’"l ) J j .\ | j I gll '' PttS Y ' ’ I ItU l| ItCC I) 1)01 i tlC(l 1)^ 11 SC Oi t ilG
have been istKiieii b> ihV Great North- | '"lefibane within the room, arrived
atKiut discuxying 1 he matter and re-j ket to lender t h - * fraudulent euflt.raetfi
R-riefi Uie two to Attorney Sliortridge. I of ihe New York cotton exchange uii*
-------- I-|lf, presen: pructicea of that ex-
BAD MARKSMANSHIP. ! change.
■-- j In addition to the formal charges,
r, an,I Northern Paeitie railway: to! Morris was arrested ami placed iu
gi-datur* uii-l Olliers j ja>| here Groat excllement pre-
anii' G.e^/miam-i- xc”Jand further trouble is
!U tfUS ra'ii7' rtii'i * 11 * lontinm-i rnro
elTeelUB] io evade the federal law with i feared
Gen. eGo. A. Beil Dead.
Washington, Jan. 2.-- Brigadier Gen-
eral George A. Bell. U. S A , retired,
died at his residence iu this city tie
day. He was brevette.l four times for
gallant conduct during the civil war.
ilie following
each annual
Tiiis is mil
>n I
provision printed
good or :i trip wholly
Panama's Legislature.
Washington, Jan. 2.—The state de<
The trains wete numbers 29 ami 30,
running between Chicago ami E! Paso
They met on a sharp curve with fear- j Soldiers Shoot at Two Murderers and Imam letter, and affidavit* in support
fill impac!. Adding to the horror of j Hit Four Innocent People. j of tiir-tn. were submitted to Postma
the collision, fire from the lamps in U'ar.-aw, Russian Poland, dan. 2 Iter General Fort cl you. Repiesenta-
the cars and from the locomotives I Two terrorists shot and killed two !Jive l.ivingston urged prompt and de-
wax
wreckage _ ..... . ___ . . ..... . .. _ . . .. _______ _______________„
anil op-ne I fin- on she assassins The j given attention by the department. nor < an imggag • be cheeked or sleep- ; assembly had been called in extra sea-
bullets went wide ami wounded four ' ---- | ing car reservations tie made for an -ion to consider the boundary qites-
persons. j New York, Inn 2 Waller C Hub- j tnier-tnte trip !' | timi between Panama and Posts Rica.
communicated to the splintered I gendearmes on Gfantzna atreei today j ci ive ai 'i-m in lh<- matter, am! Mr | witiiin 11.-- late. |i eannie lie I'M-ii j liar!rui-tii received a dispatch today
:kage and spread rapidly, consum- and fled Soldiers started in pursuit J Cortelyou said the charges would be | for any, portion of an Inti- -.stale trip, | ironi Panama stating that (he national
Ing five of the forward ears of train
No. 29, westbound, and burning a nnpi-
Ix-r of passengers 'Alt iiul five of
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