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NEGRO AND A MULE
Medium Through Which Mur-
Mw<scof ventriloquist
Superstitious Darkey Throws Light on
Butchery of Christmas Family.
Son and Son-in-Law of Mur
dered Man Are Arrested.
Following the arrest Wednesday at
Dothan, Ala., of Will Christmas, a son,
and Walter Holland, a son-in-law, in
connection with the triple murder of
the ■Christmas family, new and sensa
tional developments were brought to
light Thursday, through the medium
of a detectivje: hisuwsAsUwit, a ventril
oquist, a superstitious negro and the
who has been at
W ease, declares the whole
WWMWwWwMI<Pd. He baa I■■ ■ n n<-:n
K»Cottonwood, where tne Christmas mur
ders were committed, for several
weeks, hiding in the woods in the
guise of an escaped murderer from
Georgia, and hiring a negro to bring
him his meals.
He suspected the negro knew some
thing of the crime, and with the aid
of a concealed ventriloquist, talked to
the negro through a mule. The ne
gro’s superstition was aroused and he
told the details of the murder to the
mule. The arrest of Will Christmas
Walter Holland followed.
murder of the Christmas family
wnXpn£Qf the most atrocious crimes
ever commuted in the section, and
IjrtSfiHfcnt <nN^ 0 I ,ineri^3 > has been
a^a^r cr ®"
ated so much nearlj
18,500 la| on deposit in the
hanks as n reward for the arresLoT’
the murdf’i •
FOR CHURCH IN JAPAN.
Northern and Southern Methodist®
Get Together and Make
in LkiltimoreJjßH
day of representatives of
Church
■Miflr
copal uh
- Those taking part in thecourlrence
<nctrt Earle Cranston of
anefr Rev. Dr. C. W. Smith
of bovti of the Methodist
Episcopal tLhurclf; TV A. W. Wil
son of Bishop W.
Calloway of JacksbY',* Miss., Rev. Dr.
James Atkins of NashvrHe, and Bev.
Dr. W. R. Lambuth of Nashville, rep
resenting the southern Methodists.
Tho agreement under which the
new church was formed provides that
at the next annual c9nference of
the two churches in Japan, there shall
bo selected delegates to the first con
vention which is to be held at Tokio,
in May, 1907, when the actual life of
the new church will begin.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of
Japan will start with three, annual
conferences, more than one hundred
missionaries, seventy-five Japanese
ordained preachers, 7,000 members,
189 Sunday schools, with 12,205 schol
ars, thirty-nine schools and colleges,
with 3t936 students, a publishing house
-'TTO'more than $200,000 worth of prop-
• erty.
MARSHAL KILLED BY NEGROES.
Officer Shot From Ambush While At
tempting to Make Arrests.
Tom Robinson, marshal of Winokur,
Ga., was shot and Instantly killed by
negroes at that place Wednesday
night, A crowd of negroes were shoot
ing on the streets, and Robinson start
ed toward them for the purpose of
putting them under arrest.
One of them hid himself and open
ed fire with a rifle. He shot at Rob
inson tour or five times before he was
shot by tho marshal and instantly kill
ed* At this juncture another negro
opened fire on the marshal with a
double-barreled shotgun, killing him in
stantly.
A SCRAMBLE FOR PROXIES.
New York Life Officials Trying Hard
to Retain Jobs.
Samvel ITntermayer, counsel for
the International policy holders’ com
mittee of the New York Life Insur
ance company, has sent a letter to
Alexander E. Orr, president of the
Work Life, protesting in tho
of the policy holders against
he terms the extraordinary es
cer!! 0! the toxQpany to obtain prox
ies for the annual election, which is
to be held early in April.
MANY “SUCKERS” ARE CAUGHT.
Suit for Receiver Filed Against Chi
cago Bond Company.
Charges of fraud and insolvency
were made in a suit filed at Louis
ville. Ky., Thursday against the Amer
ican Reserve Bond company of Chica
go, asking tor the appointment of a
xecolver tor the concern. Millions of
dollars of investors all over the Unit
ed States are involved In the suit
THE new south.
A WOMAN AFTER PIERP.
Mrs. Williams Seeks Revenge Against
Millionaire Morgan Because She
Lost Out in Bad Investment.
At a hearing in the private chambers
of Magistrate Wahle, in the tombs
police court at New York Wednesday,
Mrs. G. B. wftliams, an Englishwoman,
who resides at the Hoffman House,
was committed to Bellevue hospital
to be examined as to her sanity.
Mrs. Williams is said to be a widow
of good connections. She was arrested
in front of the offices of J. Pierpont
Morgan & Co. on a warrant sworn
out by former Assistant District At
torney Lord. The charge was disor
derly conduct.
Mrs. Williams protested when or
dered to the hospital, and said she was
the victim of a plot planned by J. P.
Morgan. When removed from the
magistrate’s chambers she struggled
desperately and gave the five police
men who had her in charge all they
could do to get her into a carriage.
It is said that the name Williams
is probably a fictitious one. She is
about forty or forty-five years of age,
and is Reputed to have been at one
time a very wealthy woman, but is
said to have lost considerably by bad
investments.
Since March 9 she has been daily to
the offices of Morgan & Co. demanding
to*see Mr. Morgan, who is in Europe,
or his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. On the
occasion of each of her visits, it is
alleged, she has threatened to shoot
and kill tho financier and his son.
At the office of J. P. Morgan & Co.,
it was stated by a prominent official
that Mrs. Williams had been worry
ing Mr. Morgan off and on for about
five y ears. 'She was introduced to Mr.
Morgan by very good people. She
told Mr. Morgan that she believed she
has an interest in some Boston estate,
asked the financier to look up
the ratatter for her.
MY. AMorgan investigated it and
found xhat at one time she had been
interested in It, but that she had sold
stated that
v <>ni;in
HURST.
Allegedjlpct ta' Par-
An Rev.
Dr. Charles jy”Willagߣ&«l|rewing
the recent municipal electioiOn New
York city, Inspired, It Is asserted, by
a police official, and in revenge for
raids made on certain places by agents
of the Society for the Prevention of
Crime, known also as the Parkhurst
Society, was revealed Wednesday
when District Attorney Jerome sum
moned Acting Captain John H. Shells
of the West One Hundredth street po
lice station; John Phelan, a plain
clothos policeman, and two civilians,
Richard Wilson and L. Rogers, to tell
what they know of the alleged plot.
COTTON COMPRESS BURNED.
About One Thousand Bales of Fleecy
Staple a Total Loss.
The cotton compress at Toccoa, Ga.,
together with about 1,000 bales of cot
ton and ten freight cars loaded with
cotton seed meal and
guano, was burned at an early hour
Wednesday morning. The compress,
compress warehouses, cotton, cars and
contents, are a total loss. Consldera
*ble damage was done to other cars be
fore they could be moved, while other
property of minor Importance suffer
ed. The total damage will approxi
mate SIOO,OOO, and it is understood
that the entire loss Is covered by in
surance.
TELEGRAPHERS ARE SATISFIED.
Wage Proposition of Southern Railway
Is Accepted.
The committee of five representing
the telegraphers and station agents
of the Southern railway has agreed
to accept the wage scale of that road.
The scale, as agreed upon, does not
contemplate a minimum or maximum
wage, but has been adjusted with a
view of fitting each individual case.
PRESIDENT DOUBLY HONORED.
Roosevelt is Made Honorary Member
of United Veterans.
President noosevelt is now an hon
orary member of the United Veterans,
having been elected by the camp
Poplar Bluff, Missouri. The lesolo
tiona of the camp creating the presi
dent a member of the organisation
were presented to him by Senator
Warner of Missouri. The organisa
tion is composed of Union and Con
federate soldiers.
The president’s election to member
ship was due to his attitude on his
trip through the south last fall.
ALLEGED CROOK NABBED.
Ten Men Now in Atlanta Jail Suspect
ed of Being Yeggmen.
A short and stout young man giv
ing his name ns Fob' Kimball, but
who explained his real name was Na
poleon, Poly being his nickname, was
arrested by city detectives in Atlanta
Wednesday morning on suspicion of
being on intimate terms with the
crowd held as suspected crooks ia
tbe tower.
DOUGLASVILLE. GA, THURSDAY. MARCH 22, 1906.
GEORGIA BRIEFS •
» y y'f rrv t w b 5
Will Send Strong Delegation.
Georgia will send two strong dete
ntions to the biennial general con
trence of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, which convenes iu
Birmingham, Ala., May 3, and remains
In session for three or four weeks.
One of these- delegations will repre
sent the North Georgia conference,
and the other the South Georgia con
ference.
• • *
These Vets Averse to MlxingA
At a called meeting of the Augusta
Confederate Veterans a motion to
send delegates to the memorial to
late General Wheeler, ’which will
soon be held in Atlanta, was laid on
the table, it being the expressed sense
of the meeting that they did not be
lieve in “mixing the blue and th®
gray.”
• * *
Dyer Also Acquitted.
George H. Dyer was found not guil
ty of the murder of Policeman Patrick
Kearney at Savannah. The trial had
lasted four days.
The trial was the seccond for mur
der growing out of the general politi
cal battle in which partisans of the
two local factions engaged in front
of the city hall on February 9.
♦ * *
To War on Mosquitoes.
The extermination of
now the object of the Atlanta board
of health. The finance committee of
the city council has recommended an
appropriation of $2,000 for the purpose
of starting the work, and promised
to give another $2,000 to the board of
health for the mosquito campaign
when the June apportionment sheet is
written. *
/• * •
Three Postmaster® Indicted.
Three postmasters have been In
dicted by the grand jury of the United
Hates court at Savannah. William
I. Peeples of Kingsland, in Camden
ounty, is charged with the misap
rdolatlng of money orders to the
'mount of $290. Charles R. Jackson
was the colored postmaster at Darien.
It is charged that he abstracted
amounts aggregating $497, of which
$4Ol was in general postage funds.
The third postmastef was Wil®am
B. Maxwell, colored, of Thebes, Lib
erty county. He is charged with em
bezzling $450 in postoffice funds. s
* * *
Smith Heads Atlanta Fair.
The directors of the Atlanta Fair
Association held their annual meet
ing the a past week and elected offi
cers for the year.
Alex W. Smith, first vice president,
was elected president; J. Lee Barnes,
first vice president; Charles I. Ryan,
treasurer, and Frank Weldon, secre
tary. Mr. Ryan and Mr. Weldon were
both re-elected.
Chief Joyner of the city fire de
partment, declined to accept the
presidency of the fair association for
a second term, though the fair last
year was probably the most success
ful state show ever held.
• * •
Dago “Citizen®” Lose Rights.
Thirteen {more Greek citizens at
Savannah have forfeited their right
to eall themselves “American citi
zens." The act to annul the proceed
ngs of January 24, when they were
laturalized was taken in the city
ourt. The erstwhile citizens appear
ed, and admitted that they had ch
ained their papers by false testimony
and fraud, and asked to be allowed
to withdraw the statements on which
they gained them. Judge Norwood or
dered the papers canceled.
The prosecutions in progress in the
United States court have struck ter
ror to a number of the "citizens” who
were, it is said, made for political
purposes.
*• * /
To Be Sold at Public Outcry. *—‘
The litigation involving the New
Century Cotton Mills at Douglasville,
has at last been settled, and the mills
will be sold at public outcry by order
of the United States court next April
in Atlanta. AH the legal matters
have been straightened out and the
debts of the mill paid in full. The
holding company, which is financing
the venture, advanced the necessary
amount to settle the litigation, and
will pay the present Indebtedness of
the concern in full. They also pro
vided for the payment of $14,500 of
bonds due the town of Douslasville.
The property of the New Century
Cotton Mills cost about SIOO,OOO. The
building is of new construction, and
it is put up of the very best material.
There are about fifty acres of land in
the mill site.
Gift to Tech from Carnegie.
The Georgia Technological school
has been tendered the sum of $20,000
by Andrew Carnegie forth epurpose
of erecting a handsome library build
ing.
It is provided, however, that the
school is to agree to furnish $2,000
per year to sustain the library and
employ trained help. This proviso is
not likely to be a stumbling block, ts
the Technological school already em
ploys a trained librarian, and has at
lease 4,006$ volumes that must be
catalogued and cared for.
With six hundred students, the ma
jority of them using the library,, there
has been fejt the need for larger or
additional quarters, and Mr. Carne
gie’s offer delighted the boys nearly as
tnuch as it did Professor Mathewson,
who has been working for several
tnonths to secure the potential influ
ence of the famous philanthropist.
•^* i * * *
Want Tax
The counties Os Greene
Oglethorpe, Walton, MteDuffie and Co
lumbla, together wHh t
Union Point, Gr
tordsville, have he
eeedlngs 4 .n the
at Atlanta, Judge pwnaletoD presiding,
against Hon. William A. WrigTftFeomp
troller general of the state of'Geor
gia, the object of the litigation be
ing the issuance of an order directiug
♦he comptroller to prorate among the
petitioners such tax moneys as a re
cent decree against the Georgia rail
road maj r bring into the hands of Gen
eral Wright.
Some two years ago Attorney Boy
kin Wright, brought suiL fRY tho city
of Augusta and the coaHHMftlicb ■
mond against the G
company for taxes on 1€ of
stock in the Western Ala-
bama, owned by the and
won in the state courMSMKmt hav
ing been brought in
tnat city is the heme |j|!Mßßßendant
company. Not re
sult in the court,
the railroad the
case to the court,
where the decision of the lower court
was sustained. That brought the
question up io' Comptroller General
Wright, whose duty in the premises
is the collection of taxes on the 15,
000 shares of the Western of Alabama
road. At that stage of the game the
plaintiffs stepped in with a mandamus
directed to the comptroller*general in
which the counties and towns enumer
ated demand the payment to eacn of
them a portion of the taxes to be col
lected.
The plaintiffs in the mandamus lay
claim to a part of the money because
the Georgia railroad, which owns the
stock declared,
through th
tinned. ■ -
SOUTH
Manufacturers’
Bou q u e
n:ore; in it= 6
‘‘Considered
of the south are in
and the future is as fulFof fine prom
ise as the present is fpll of substan
tial realization.
“One of the most significant fea
tures of southern progress is the ra
pidity with which the masses of the
people are being supplied with bank
ing facilities and are, moreover, be
coming accustomed to use them.
“This growth of banking and its
placing in touch with the world of
progress thousands of farmers and
other persons w’hose connection there
with was formerly remote and infre
quent is part of the substantial foun
dation which has enabled southern
financial centers to display them
selves year by year more and more
Independent of New York city when
the crop-moving seasons come around
“It also betokens the growth of a
'new spirit in the very heart of the
south promising to bring about wider
native development of natural re
sources, instead of a development only
bv outside men and capital.”
AFTER PLATT AND DEPEW.
Resolution Call® for Their Resignation
But Was Tabled.
A resolution offered in the republi
can county committee of New York
county Thursday night, calling upon
Senator Platt and Senator Depew to
resign their seats in the United States
senate, was quickly defeated by the
adoption of a motion to lay it on the
table.
The demand for the resignations
was based upon the recent insurance
Investigation.
QUICK SALE OF BONDS.
Alabama Disposes of Big Batch Which
Fall® Due in July.
The $7,437,600 of bonds du® by the
state of Alabama and maturing the
first day of July have gone, save a
small amount, to a syndicate com
posed of Ntew York. Birmingham and
Montgomery bankers. The basis is
3.82 and 4 per cent fifty-year securi
ties. The entire amount was sub
bribed three times ever.
TO FIGHT FOR TWO STATES.
House Republicans Agree to Stand
Pat on Their Measure.
A Washington dispatch says: As
the result of a caucus, which lasted
for two and a half hours Thursday,
the republicans of the house voted?
126 to 35, to stand by the statehoag
bill as it passed the house, and sfe
the senate for a conference on
measure. This vote followed immOKr
ately after a resolution offered
Mondell of Wyoming, represent®Jfe9i,
insurgents had been defeated.
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) PASSENGERS ROAST
In Burning Wrecks of Two
Trains in Colorado,
A FRIGHTFUL SMASHUP
and Rio Grand® Trains Crash
.Twibfiether in Blinding Snow Storm
Scores Lose Life—Caused
by Sleeping Operator.
A wreck accompanied with horrors
exceeded only by the Eden disaster,
which occurred August 7, 1904, on
the line of the same railroad, resulted
from a head-on collision of two pas
senger trains on the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad, four miles east of
Florence, Col., at an early hour Fri
day morning.
According to the latest dispatches
from Pueblo, conservative estimates
on the total loss of life place the num
ber of dead at thirty-five. Rio Grande
officials insist that the exact number
of persons on the two trains cannot
be ascertain; that it is impossible.
’9. F. Lively, night operator at
Swallows, whose alleged failure to
deliver orders to train No. 3 Is sup
posed to have been the cause of the
wreck, has been in the employ of
the road for many years. He was
relieved from duty Friday night, and
will be suspended until after the mat
ter is thoroughly investigated by the
officials. •
The trains were the Utah-California
express N 0.3, westbound, from Den
ver, and the Colorado-New Mexico
express, No. 16, eastbound from Lead
ville and Grand Junction.
They met on a sharp curve, and
were less than two hundred yards
apart when the engineers discovered
that a collision was imminent. It is
known that the engineer of the west
bound train put forth every possible
to bring his train to a stop,
■Kb his efforts were fruitless, and, al-
Tsfcfigh he succeeded in checking the
of his train, the crash that fol-
TWed was beyond his power to pre
vent, and he went to his death with
hts hand on the throttle, faithful to
■MBkcharge. This mucn is vouched for
fireman, who, seeing the use
■Umess of remaining i'n the face of.
HBiN death, jumped and/saved liimselfg
Fof the conduct of the engine crew o£
the eastbound train, it can only bd|
said that they died at their post, for
no one lives to tell the story of their
heroism. ,
The disaster was made more horri
ble by the manner of the death of
many of the passengers. Fire swept
over the wreck, engulfing the victims
in a caldron of flame and leaving only
charred and blackened bones to tell
the tale of slaughter.
In a blinding storm which made it
almost impossible for the trainmen to
see ahead, the two trains collided
head-on at a point midway between
Portland and Adobe, 25 miles west of
Pueblo, at 2 o’clock in the morning.
The Utah and California express
No. 3, westbound, left Pueblo over
an hour and a half late, and was given
orders to meet the Colorado and New
Mexico express, No. 16, eastbound, at
Florence. This order was changed,
and the westbound train w r as directed
to pass the eastbound train at Beaver,
about 12 miles east of Florence.
The order should have been deliv
ered to the train crew at Swallows
but for some reason still unexplained
the operator there neglected to do so.
In the meantime, the eastbound had
received its order, and expected to
meet the westbound train at Beaver.
In the forward coach of the west
bound train every seat was occupied
by passengers, most of whom were
homeseekers on their way to the
northwest. A number of foreigners
were among them, and in their terror
they gave life without making any
attempt to reach safety outside the
burnlug car.
Paralyzed with fear and with pray
ers upon their lips, they sank to the
floor of the car and were roasted
alive.
ABOLISH FOUR-YEAR TERM
Is Purport of Resolution Passed by
Holston Methodist Conference.
The ministers’ council of the Ab-
■ ingdon district, Holston conference,
I Methodist Episcopal church, south, in
session at Knoxville, Tenn., passed a
j resolution to be forwarded to the gen
! eral conference of the church at Bir
• mingham, Ala., in May, praying that
the four years’ maximum limit for
continuous service for a minister at
a single charge be abolished, and that
the districts and jurisdictions of pre-
: siding eld«rs be made smalldr.
"
STANDIFER OUT ON BOND.
I Father Puts Up SI,OOO in Cash and
n Son is Released.
■I ‘Mfis father having put up a cash
j Edward Marion Standifer, the
of the woman who killed
s Mt;&happell Whisenant,
the tower in At-
)< 'hr ’ ' i”
YELLOW FEVER SCARE.
Doctor® of Several State® Called to
New Orleans for Consultation.
Case Was Not Yellow Jack.
Health officers of Mississippi and
Alabama were called to New Orleans
Saturday to investigate a supposed
case of yellow fever on which local
physicians had come to no agreement.
Dr. Iron, president of the board
pf health, furnished the press with
statement:
“The ease of Jules KkKvnz was re
ported tq.-4)€~'ursmich susirfcion on
Monda'y afternoon, March 12.' x Drs.
Denegre Martine and J. Mu Bat'Chel*
lor diagnosed the as catarrhlLL
jaundice. Dr. Hamilton Jones, after
three days’ observation of the case,
reports it as yellow fever; The
health officers of Mississippi, Ala
bama and Texas have been notified
as per copy inclosed. The case was
treated as a suspicious case from the
beginning and every precaution
was taken.”
Following is a copy of the telegram
mention in Dr. Iron’s letter as sent
to the state health officers of the
three adjoining states:
“New Orleans, M'arch 16, 1906. —
Committee appointed to investigate
suspicious fever case. Charity hospi
tal differs as to diagnosis. Invite you
to come. C. H. IRON, M. D.,
‘‘President State Board of Health.”
Dr. Batchellor, house physician of
the Charity hospital, when asked re
garding the case, said that the pa
tient was Jules Ebernz, an oyster
shucker, aged 30- years. He was taken
to the hospital from a lodging house
on March 8, and it understood
that he had been ill about seven
months.
Dr. Batchellor said he had diagnos
ed the case as catarrhal jaundice, and
had seen no reason to alter his diag
nosis. He had treated and observed
hundreds of cases of yellow fever, and
was positive that the patient was not
suffering from that disease. Ebernz
had been at the hospital for about
seven days, but his physicclan has
had ample time to examine his ill
ness and satisfy himself as to its
nature
Unanimous agreement of the phy
sicians from the states named, of the
local physicians and of the represen
tatives of 'the United States that the
patient did not have yellow fever was
the result of tte-a-Utonsy held Sun-
Majority of Victims of |4orrnW
Wreck Cannot 3e Identified.
Twenty-two dead and twenty-two
injured is the latest estimate of the
casualties in the wreck of the two
Denver and Rio Grande passenger
trains which collided 25 miles wfcfL
of Pueblo, Col., early Friday morn
ing. Only seven of the dead bodies
can be identified and only one of
these retains sufficient outline of
features to be . readily recognized.
Two telegraph operators are held
in the public mind to be responsible
for the disaster, although nd formal
indictment has gone out against them.
Both have been ordered discharged
from the service of the road.
A coroner’s jury has been empanel
ed, and will investigate the accident.
FOR POISONING HUSBAND.
Louisiana Woman is Convicted and
Given Fifteen-Year Sentence.
Charged with poisoning her hus
band with strychnine in order to be
free of marital ties and to marry a
younger man, Mrs. Bettie E. White,
38 years old, of comely appearance,
has been convicted of manslaughter
in the district court at Rayville, La.,
before Judge W. J. Gray, who sen
tenced the woman to a term of fif
teen years in the penitentiary.
UNCLE SAM MAY TAKE HAND.
Attorney General Wants to Know
About Lumber Trust In Mississippi.
The United States government Is
about to take a hand in the investi
gation of the alleged lumber trust in.
Mississippi.
SCORE OF INDICTMENTS FOUND.
Many Savannah Citizens Must Answer
to False Swearing.
The grand jury of the United States
court at Savannah, Ga., Wednesday af
ternoon returned twenty indictments,
sixteen of which were in joint form,
against persons charged with viola
tions of the naturalization laws. The
indictments were “for swearing false
ly to affidavits and applications for
citizenship.”
The offenses are alleged to have
been committed variously in 1904 ani
1906. One man pleaded guilty as soon
as Indictments were returned.
BHONTZ MAY QUIT JOB.
Chairman of Canal Commission is Bad
ly Broken in Health.
Reports have been current for some
time past to the effect that Mr.
Shonts was about to resign from his
position as chairman of the isthmian
canal commission. He has broken
badly in health as the result of over
work, it Is said, and his nervous sys
tem has suffered particularly.
MINERSJJIESCENT
Unwilling to Accept Respon
sibility for Coal Strike,
ANXIOUSF.ORCONFERENCE
Mitchell Sends Letter to Ba®r With
Request for Further Parley—Set®
Forth Grievances of the
President .J
I’niW Mine
of the
mittee, his the committee’s
communication rejecting the de
mands of the miner®’ organisation.
The letter, in part, is as follows: .
“Indianapolis, Ind., March 17, 1906.
—Mr. George. F. Baer, Chairman,
Philadelphia.—Dear Sir: Referring
again to your communication dated
March 10, with accompanying docu
ments, and to our reply thereto, I
write to say that I have submitted
to our the answer made
by your committee to the propositions
presented by us.
"It is unnecessary to state that we
were keenly disappointed to learn
that our demands were rejected in
toto, and that our arguments in favor
of them had received so little con
sideration at your hands that they
wore practically ignored in your re
ply to us.
“We have again reviewed the scale
presented for your consideration; have
compared it with the scale of wages
paid for similar classes of labor In
other coal producing states and dis
tricts, and we are satisfied beyond the
peradventure of doubt that the wages
proposed are not in excess of —indeed
that they are not as high as wages z
paid in the bituminous mining dl a ‘*’'t '
of our country.
“Judging from the language Mem
ployed In your answer to us, it is
perfectly evident that we failed to
make clear or that you failed to un_
derstand Uie real Import of the prop
ositions submitted by us.
“We wish to assure you that w«
are not unmindful of the great pub
lic interests involved in this contro
versy as to our future relations, nei
ther are we unappreciative of the jJ
splendid efforts made by the
to
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coinniission w aS" ■
as to the
findings and expressed the hope
at the expiiatlon of the award the
lations of employer- and ouiployw’’’ 1 "
wonld 'have. so far improved as to
make impossible such a condition as
existed throughout the country in
consequence of the strike in the an
thracite region.
“We had entertained the hope that
our adherence tor the letter and the ,
spirit of the award and the absence
of local or general strikes in the past
three years would have appealed more
strongly to your confidence, and that
we might reasonably expect serious
consideration of our claims at this
time.
"While it may be true that, on the
part of the operators, there has been
no serious cause for complaint during
the past three years, we wish to as
sure you that, in expressing this
ion, you do not reflect our X
only has there been criticism
the miners, but what is more
ant, there exists much cauWWr
criticism and complaints.
"How’ever, we repeat that the in
terests involved are so vast that we
are not willing to break off negotia
tions without iflrst making further
effort to reconcile our differences.
We, therefore, propose that further
conference or conferences be held
between now and April 1.
"If this suggestion meets with
your approval, w r e shall be pleased to
arrange with you a date upon which
our joint committee may reconvene.
I am yours truly,,
“JOHN MITCHELL, Chairman.”
A8 SOP TO THE CHINESE.
Southern Cotton Mill Men Urge Pa®»-
age of Foster Bill.
Prominent cotton mill men from
Georgia, South Carolina and North
Carolina appeared with representatives
of the American Asiatic Association
and the National Association of Man
ufacturers, before a subcommittee of
the house committee on foreign af
fairs, at Washington, Wednesday, to
urge the passage of the Foster bill,
to amend the Chinese exclusion act so
that high class Chinamen may be ad
mitted into this country without o&-“
struction.
BLIZZARD IN NEW YORK.
Tail End of Winter Gave City a Decid
edly Rough Day.
It remained for the last of winter
to give to New York the first real
touch of blizzard conditions experienc
ed this season Wednesday. A fine,
powdery snow, driven before a north
east gale, which reached a maximum
velocity of 40 miles an hour.
