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Discharges All Telegraphers and In
stalls Telephones—Use Twenty
four Special Trains.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Dec. 29.—An
ticipating a strike of the four hun
dred telegraphers employed by the
St. Louis and San Francisco railroad,
who have demanded higher wages and
shorter hours, the management of
the road discharged every telegrapher
employed on the system', and with
twenty-four special trains in readi
ness and a crew of linemen aboard,
they went from station to station ov
er the system of 12,000 miles in
stalling telephones, which will be used
for train dispatching in place of the
telegraph.
All the Morse instruments were
gathered up and taken to division
headquarters. Every precaution has
been taken by the train dispatchers
to avoid wrecks and misunderstand
ing of orders. The telephone orders
are first written and after being tel
ephoned are then filed so that the re
sponsibility of any order may be
traced to its source also the receiving
conductor will be compelled to write
the message and file a copy of it, thus
keeping a record similar to thal of
the present method employed by tel
egraphers.
The discharged telegraphers assert
that the Inter-state Commerce Com
mission will not allow the telephones
to be used, as the risk of wrecks is
great and that the company will be
forced to concede to t.he demands
of the union
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Trouble Still Brewing in Alsace,
Where the People Are Ruled by
Germans But Love France.
ZABERN, Alsace, Dec. 29—A citi
zen of this town shot at a German
sentry Saturday nigh, and the town
Is in an uproar as a result. The pop
ulace are almost ready to turn upon
the German troops, who are hated be
cause of the. animosity shown citi
zens here since- the episode of a
month ago, when Lieut. Baron von
Pores ter called the Alsatians “wakes,"
meaning loafers and apaches.
Nothing but the strong force of
'roops sent from the garrison to the
'own prevent hostilities between the
ilians and the troops.
SOLD BOOLE BBT
BED BB LICENSE
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FAIRBANKS, & Dec. 29.—tanana
Joseph Mikule was convicted here lash
Friday of the crime of selling liquor
without n license. Judge Fuller to
day passed sentence imposing a fine
of *300 bn Mikute, hut as the pris
oner is out of change he will be forc
ed lo spend the next 150 days in
(he local Jail. He has started serv
ing his time.
Eugene Boys Find Homes.
COLFAX, Dec. 29Sheriff Colo has
found homes for the two runaway
hoys from Eugene, O.rc. Ralph
Draper, a farmer, took Harry Walk
er, age 11, and M. Kroll, a farmer,
took Frank Reno, age 13. The boys
wore tramping end claimed Eugene
as their home.
Don’t miss the splendid pictures at
(he Orpheum change tomorrow night.
EXPERTS AFTER
THE MEAT TRUST
Secretary Houston Appoints Six Ag
ricultural Experts to Study
Conditions.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 — Secretary
of Agriculture Houston has detailed
six of the experts of his department
[ to make a complete investigation in
to the trust methods of the meat
It list. The experts will make a study
of renditions front the farm and ranch
to the retailer and consumer and will
[make lecommendations to the secre
tary as to ways and means of re
ducing the high cost of meats.
The importations of meat from
i South America, which have been very
[ large since the tariff law was enact
! ed, have in no way reduced the cost
| to the people of the United States.
[ The trust officials claim that they
cannot secure enough cattle to meet
j the demand and that the outlook for
j the future is bad. They admit, how
lever, that the packing plants of the
1 South American countries are owned
| by the Chicago packers, but they de
! ny that these same plants are sell
ing meat to European countries for
I less than to American cities.
CLEAR CM OF
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I TAKING, China, Dec. 29.—The Hus
| sian government today proposed the
J withdrawal of ail loreign troops from
| the province of Chi ii, China, includ
ing the Legation Guard, the regiments
at Tientsin, and the troops guarding
tiie railway between the sea and 1‘ek
I ing, as it regards conditions in the
north of China as no longer danger
ous to foreigners.
Wassily N. Kroupensky, the Rus
sian minister, made the announce
ment, and stated further that if the
other foreign nations disagreed, Rus
sia intended to act alone, withdraw
ing even her legation guard.
Foreigners in Peking think Rus
sia’s action, coming at a time when
a state of actual warfare exists be
tween the.Mongols and the Chinese
within the borders of the province of
Ciii-li and while disorganization and
disorder continue throughout the
country, evidently intended to coun
teract the ill feeling created in China
by her Mongolian activities.
i l he announcement created surprise
I among the members of tie foreign
! diplomatic corps. It was the foremost
| topic of discussion in the foreign lega
j tion quarter last night, and hints
i were thrown out that political designs
! on the part of Russia were suspected,
j It is thought that Russia will be the
• sole nation to withdraw her troops
■ from China proper,
j Paul Samuel Reinsch, the American
jntinister, has informed the govern
j merit at Washington of the propos
' als made by Russia.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Russia's
. proposal that all foreign troops be
: withdrawn from Peking and Chi-li
j province created surprise at the State
j department, in view of the unsettled
j conditions in that part of the Chi
nese republic. Nothing official on the
i c.ubect has been received from the
Russian foreign office or from the
. i.meriean Legation at Peking.
At present the United States has
325 marines at Peking, commanded
by Mn'or Tilon Williams, and 34 offi
cers ar.d 827 enlisted men, all infantry
commanded by Col. John C. Tillcon.
Mrs. F. Soby left for Ketchikan on
tha Northwestern.
RUSSIAN MIKES
BIG HR MACHINE
Carries Ten Persons With Ease and
Has Sleeping Quarters for Twen
ty—Built Like Monoplane.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 29 —Avi
ator Sikorskis has constructed an ae
' roplane capable of carrying twenty
people with sleeping quarters for all.
He has made several demonstrations
with his machine and on Saturday
carried ten passengers for several
hours, operating his machine with
ease and landing without any trou
ble.
Army officers are watching his
work with keen interest and it is
expected the patent rights for the
machine will be purchased by the
military branch of the government,
as it can be used for the transporta
tion of troops and for scouting pur
poses.
FREIGHT RATES
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{Commission Allows Railroads Raise
Rates If Profit Shrinkage is Not
Due to Stock Manipulation.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-The In
ter-state Commerce Commission has
decided that before the increase of
freight rates authorized recently by
the commission can be placed in ef
feet by the railroads they must ap
i pear before the commission and pro.ve
j that tile shrinkage in profits are not
'due to stock manipulations and mis
| management.
The railroads have for months
claimed that unless rates are increas
ed the roads must go into bankruptcy,
its they cannot, pay the increased la
bor cost forced upon them by the
recent arbitration boards, the higher
cost of equipment, the full crew bills
of the eastern states compelling the
maintenance of more men than form
erly used by the management, and
that these facts must be taken into
consideration by the commission and
a higher freight rate be allowed.
MOYER AFFAIR
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Chicago Unions Pass Resolutions
Calling for Governmental
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' Investigation.
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—The unions of
this city held a joint meeting last
night, passing resolutions demanding
an investigation by the government
into the “Moyer affair” at Calutaet.
The unions demand that a thorough
nvcstigation be made and the blame
placed where it belongs, as they as
sert, upon the officials of the Citizens’
Alliance.
Rifles Seized at Belfast.
BELFAST, Ireland, Dec. 29.—Cus
toms officers today seized here a con
signment of 200 rifles which arrived
on board t>. freight steamer from Ger
many. This was one of the largest
seizures since the issue of the proc
lamation ugainBt the importation of
arms and ammunition into Ireland.
Cm Hires have been made daily, but
ua y In small lots. Most of the
nflc? are of patterns which have been
•Ibi-ar'ed by the European armies.
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AT CALUMET
Forty-four Children and Five Adults
Buried at Cnee—Feeling Still
High in the City.
CAJAJMKT, Mich.. Dec. 29.—Forty
four children and five adults, killed
in the panic of Christmas eve, when
some one yelled "Fire!" were buried
yesterday. The services were held
over all the bodies at one time.
Thousands of people participated in
the services and not an eye was dry in
the great crowd after the short ser
mon delivered at the graveside.
Feeling still runs high in the city
and the striking miners still assert
the panic was caused by the Citi
zens' Alliance, while the alliance de
nies the charge and have issued a
public statement, in which it is stat
ed that the act was that of some
idiot or else had been inspired by
the union officials.
Was 57 Years Old Yesterday and Re
ceived Many Telegrams of Con
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gratulations
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i PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss., Dec. 2!).
[—President Wilson passed his fifty
i seventh birthday here yesterday, re
I ceivins many telegrams of congratu
! lations from ail parts of the country.
Most of those sen! were from total
: strangers to the president, who wish
I ed him many returns of the day and
ia long and prosperous life.
| The citizens of this town also ex
, tended to the president Itieir wishes
| for a long life with many happy birth
| day anniversaries. President Wilson
; was greatly touched by the many kind
remembrances received.
To Try Andes Flight
I SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 29.—Prep -
| arations for a flight over the Andes
l are being made by Senor Ligueroa, a
| Chilean aviator. The attempted point
; of passage will be where the moun
! tains attain an altitude of nearly 20,
| 000 feel.
CIPT. GEO. HILL
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Killed Near Seattle—Was the First
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Steamboat Captain on thj Cop
per River.
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SEATTLE. Dec. 29.—Captain Geo.
j Hill was' killed yesterday at Solduc
I Springs, near here. He was caught
i in the helling of the machinery and
; whirled about for se-eral minutes bc
! fore the power could be shut .off. His
! body was horribly mutilated by com
; ing in contact with the floor and ceil
ing at every revolution of the belt.
Captain George Hill was the steam
boat captain who investigated the
possibilities of operating stern wheei
j ers on the Copper river for the Con
I per River & Northwestern railroad,
| and later, during the construction of
I the road, he piloted one of the boats
; all summer.
j The first stern wheeler was taken
; from Vnidez to Tasnuna over the gov
ernment trail lo Wort mans and then
; across ihe divide v id down to the
: Copper; following the trail broken by
Jumes Fish, who was freighting a
i large outlit into the Kotsina for Grey,
; of Copper mountain.
HUERTA WILL
Turn Presidency Over to Minister of
Justice—Rebels Fear Him—For
eigners Like the Plan.
MEXICO CITY, Mex., Dec. 2<).-The
provisional government of the repub
lic, headed by General Huerta, will
be recognized, according to a report
current here today. Minister of Jus
tice Gerostieta will be made provis
ional president, succeeding Huerta,
but General Huerta is to take per
sonal command of the federal troops
and will lead the army against the
rebels.
The report gives great satisfaction
to the foreign element of the city and
also to the better class of Mexicans,
who feared that the constitutionalists
would reach the cap’tal. in which
event they had little to hope for in
the way of retaining life and prop
erty from the bandits who head the
d'fferent divisions of the rebels.
Huerta is considered the best mil
itary organizer in the republic and is
loved tty the troops, whom he has
lead for many years. He is fear'd
by the rebels more than any other
general of the Mexican army and if
he takes the . eld it is expected that
things will happen.
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!Trip is Regarded as Entirely Pos
sible and the Only Question
is the Expense.
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PARIS, Dec. 29. - Aviators are ai
' ready discussing the project of round
j world aeroplane tours. Heretofore a
| ship has been the only means of
I making the circle. It Seems perfectly
| possible, and that it has not already
; been done is simply a question of
! cost.
I Brindejonc made the journey from
j Paris to Warsaw. Russian officers
| have flown from Odessa to Moscow.
! The American continent has been tra
versed. Daucert reached Mount Tau
rus, 3,000 miles from Paris, on a
flight to the Pyramids, and then, in
a hurricane, irreparably smashed his
apparatus.
Vedrines, who has reached Vienna
in a flight toward an unknown des
tination. has announced that he will
j probably continue his flight to Lake
| Tchad, in Central Africa, or to Aus
] tralia, 10,000 miles away.
! It :s evident that a tour of the
j world is only n question of adequate
■ arrangements for oil, relays, etc.
: From Paris to Kamstchatka should
| take three weeks: then to the Amer
ican coast, following (lie Aleutian is
| lands, In Alaska, the last of which,
| the Commander, Is only 60 miles
i front the Russian coast. Then from
south Alaska the aviator can descend
the Pacific coast, traverse Canada to
Davis strait, Labrador and Greenland,
and thence go by the Gulf of Den
mark to Iceland and Scotland.
The total distance would be about
25,000 miles and the trip would take
two months.
Yakima to See Fine Birds.
j NOItTH YAK1JIA, Dec. 29 -Chin
j ese pheasants and a number of other
game birds of Yakima county will be
exhibited at the Yakima ppulty as
sociation’s annual exhibit January 5
to 11. A committee of the associi
tion is now seeking a place to hold
the show.
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Fine Program Tonight.
All fine pictures tonight at the Or
pheum. A complete change tomor
row eve.
Captain Callighan left tills morning
wltfi i> number ;of passengers for
Shoun bay.
MCE SUICIDE
IS ALARNIIHG
Police Raids Agency for Perform
ing Operations—Three Per
sons Held.
PARIS, Dec. 29.—A police inquiry
into the death of a servant girl in
Montargis has led to the discovery
in Paris of an agency for the per
formance of illegal operations. The
information which has come to hand
constitutes truly amazing revelations.
Letters and papers which have been
seized go to show that the agency
had dehlings with nearly 15,000 wo
men, with whom :t got into contact
i by means of advertisements in news
1 papers, chiefly fashion journals, and
| through agents in provincial towns.
A man who appears to have been
| tlie head of the organization and two
1 women accomplices have been arrest
I ed. Three houses which belonged to
I the organization have already been
discovered in Paris end kays and pa-,
pers found point to the existence of
a fourth house whi h the police be
lieve to be the central office of the
whole agency.
! Legislation to put a stop to such
! practices has been under considera
| tion for some time. The Senate will
I shortly be called upon to discuss a
| bill regularizing women’s hospitals
and the profession of midwives. It
| proposes to make every kind of com
plicity in such practices a criminal of
fense, and it includes measures for
dealing with advertisements of drugs
and for the prosecution of those who
publish recommendations. Recent
I statistics revealed a most alarming
; prevalence of such practices in Par
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Demands Resignation of Four Who
| Helped to Oust P esident Kane
From His Position.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec, 29.—(lover
| nor Lister today demanded the resi§
i nation of four of the members of the
board of regents, who govern Wash
j ington University. The demand for
j the resignation is made because of
j the dismissal of President - Kane, of
• the university, who held the position
j for ten years. He was turned out
i on political grounds.
The friction between President Kane
i and the faculty has been growing for
the past two years and ended in the
passing of a resolution two weeks ago
by the hoard of regents declaring the
1 position of president vacant.
RAMPOLU'S DEATH
8E IMSTIG1TED
ROME, Dec. 29.—The newspapers
of this city print stories of the mys
terious death of Cardinal Rampolla.
It is believed that he died as a re
sult of foul means. The body will
be exhumed, says some of the papers,
and a thorough investigation made
into the cause of the cardinal’s de
mise.
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WALLA YY’ALLA, Dec. 29!—Seven
teen horses were burned to death, as
many sets of harness, 40 sacks of
wheat and a barn on the George Mc
Guire farm, 10 miles from the city,
destroyed by lire last bight.
Edwin Eckcrn, cashier of the Y’al
dez Bank & Trust company, accom
panied by his wife and son, left this
morning for Seattle on a short busi
ness trip.