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BRYAN ALONE IN THE ARENA As Leader of the Democratic Party Says Editor Watterson. NO OTHER RECKONING Kentucky Statesman, Just Arrived from European Trip, Scans the Political Horizon ana Expresses Views. Coi. Henry Watterson, the editor, and Mrs. Watterson, arrived at New York Monday from Europe. An other passenger was Frigate Captain Sembiar Poschwitz, flag adjutant of the German navy, who is going to the Jamestown exposition. Colonel Watterson said, in an in terview, that William J. Bryan seem ed to be the only man in the run ning for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. ‘‘Mr. Bryan is an individual man with a certain following,” he said. “He is not a law-givef, he may be a law unto himself. It remains to be seen if the fragments of the Demo cratic party, lying around loose, can be united on anew program. ' “I think that organized Democracy at the present time can see no other alternative except Bryan. Nobody is being seriously considered running. I sometimes doubt whether he himself cares a fig for the presidency. For I should think if he believed Demo cracy had a reasonable chance of carrying the country and that he might be nominated he would be more circumspect and would show a great er sense of responsibility than ha seems to be showing." Asked what he considered the most vital issue to be raised by the Demo cratic party, Colonel Watterson said: “The one thing to constitute a mil itant Democracy is that we must think together. So long as we don’t, there is no use proposing any is sue. The relations of franchise cor porations to the public and of capital and labor are the great economic problems to be worked out in the coming year. We are on the thresh hold of their rapid development. “I do not believe President Roose velt wants a third term for himself. I know he recently stated that if the convention nomHiated him and ad journed, it would have to reconvene as he would never accept another nomination. I am willing to take him at his word.” Colonel Watterson declared that Governor Hughes was a force to be reckoned with in Republican poli tics. “I predicted last June,” lie said, “that Hughes would succeed Roose velt in the white house.” “BLACK HAND” GANG IN COURT. Batch of Thirteen Murderous Foreigners are Arraigned for Trial. More than a score of foreigners charged with being members of the “Black Hand,” responsible for a large number of crimes, were placed on trial at Wilkesbarre, Pa., Monday. Thirteen cases of shooting with at tempt to kill, thirteen of conspiracy, six of dynamiting and two of rob bery by threats and menaces are charged against the men, who are alleged to be the leaders of the “Black Hand.” COLONEL -WAS MADE WRATKY On Receipt of “Skidoo” Card and Appeals to Postmaster General. The “Slciddoo” postal cards, espe cially those bearing the membership formula of the “Down and Out Club,” are in trouble with Uncle Sam’s mail service. A southern colonel, now in Washington, received one, and he Im mediately sent it to Postmaster Gen eral Meyer, with the request for an opinion as to whether or not the card was insulting, and if so, was it eligi ble for passage through the mail. The matter was taken under advisement ROUTE OF SHERMAN MARCH o Will he Gone Over by Cadets of a Kansas Military School. Several instructors and members of staff class at the military train ing school in Fort Leavenworth, Kans., will shortly begin a horseback ride from. Chattanooga to Atlanta over the route of General bherman. Two years ago Rev. Sherman, a son of General Sherman, started to ride over the >y his fa ther in his r sea ’ entire so*” ' otest ’ and MRS. M’LEAN VICTOR. Wins Out By Big Majority Over “Insur gent” Candidate and is Still Head of the D. A. R. A Washington dispatch says: It was officially announced when the con tinental congress of the National So ciety of the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution met for Friday’s ses sion that Mrs. Donald McLean of New York had been re-elected president general for the ensuing year. Mrs. Mc- Lean received 511 and the opposition candidate, Mrs. Eleanor Washington Howard of Alexandria, Va., 152 votes. The announcement of the result of the election was received by the del egates with great enthusiasm and Mrs. McLean, after being presented with a loving cup by the vice president general, made a brief speech in which she thanked the delegates heartily for their support. Mrs. Charlott Em erson Main of Washington, D. C., was elected vice president general in charge of the organization of chap ters. NINE ESCAPES ACCOUNTED FOR. One Convict Killed and Two are Fatally Wounded in Round-Up. Four convicts who recently escaped from the Durham coal mines, at Pittsburg, Ga., entered the home of J. E. Denson, in Chattooga county, Thursday afternoon, securing clothing and provisions and $5O in money. They threw off their convict garb and put on some of the stolen clothes. A posse formed and chased them. ' They were overtaken in a patch of woods, and the posse began firing upon them. One convict was killed and two others wounded, perhaps la tally. The fourth convict escaped. The sheriff of Chattooga county reached the scene after the shooting. This accounts for all of the nine negroes who escaped from the Dur ham mine. Five were captured near the mines, and only one is still at liberty. None of the three white es capes has been heard of since the twelve got away. The escape was ef fected by one of the negroes, a preach er named Sam Johnson, gaining pos session cf a key that unlocked a gate to an abandoned wing of the mines. The convicts then found a weak place, in the top of the shaft, through which they dug in a short time. STRIKERS LOSE THEIR FIGHT. All Demands Refused and They Return to Work as Non-Union Men. The strike of tile employees of the Montgomery, Ala., Traction company was settled Thursday and the men returned to work as non-union men and at the same wages as they receiv ed before the strike. The strikers lost every point in the argument. General Manager Rag land of the company, having declared that he would not treat with the strikers except as individuals, a num ber of the men visited his office and appealed for work. He reiterated his statement, but said the company would give employment to all men who would sign an affidavit that they were not members of a union and that they would work on the old scale of wages. At the close of the day 61 strikers had signed these affidavits. They will be given employment as fast as room can be made for them. CITY OF ILOILO FLAME-SWEPT. Philippine City Reported as Being Wholly Destroyed by Fire. The city of Iloilo, island of Panay, was totally destroyed by fire Friday with the resiflt that 20,000 persons are homeless. No estimate has yet been made of the amount of damage done, and no details of the fire are obtainable, ow ing to communication with Iloilo be ing seriously affected. Iloilo is the capital of the island of Paney, located on the east coast. The port, which is second in import ance to Manila, is the center of the sugar import trade. STOLEN SECURITIES LOCATED. Treasurer Walker Disposed of Loot to Two New York Banks. York Banks. Securities to the value of $300,000 viiich were stolen from the Savings Bank of New Britain, Conn., by Wil liam F. Walker, the absconding treas urer of that institution, have been traced to two New York banking houses, according to a statement made Friday by Detective Vallely of the New York police department. He sad the two banking houses stand in the position of innocent purchasers. FLEECY WHITE COVERS WEST Snow Falls to Depth of Six Inches in Some Sections. SEVEN STATES REPORT Territory Visited Includes Nebraska, iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, South Dakota and Wyoming. At Omaha, Neb., five inches of snow fell during Wednesday night and con tinued Thursday. The fall was gen eral over eastern Nebraska, and is the heaviest known in April lor many years. The snowfall extended over a wide area, according to advices from points in lowa, Kansas, Missouri aud Colorado to the south, which report a light snowfall, while northern Ne braska, southern South Dakota, north east Wyoming and Black Hills are covered with a blanket of snow six inches deep on the level, which is still faling. At Northwestern railroad headquarters in Omaha, it was said that the storm is practically the same over the entire system, west of the Mississippi river. Opinion as to the euect on fruit In southern and central belts, cher ries, peaches, plums and berries are said by some to have been ruined almost entirely, while other growers and dealers report that fruit was not far enough advanced to be seriously endangered. In grain circles, it is believed that the snow will kill all the green bugs, which have been ravishing the winter wheat crop. BIG HOLD-OUT FOR GRAFTERS. Good Pickings in Contract for Pennsyl vania New Capitol Building. Astounding testimony was given by Frank G. Harris, of Clearfield, slate treasurer, before the capitol inves tigating commission at Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday. Harris was a mem ber of the board of put: ; c grounds and buildings, of which the governor and auditor general were also mem bers. During the time he was on the board from May, 11102, to May, PJO4, contracts for capitol furnishing amounted to millions of dollars. At torney Sorelotte brought out the fact that the contracts for the metalic fur niture were awarded three months before the contract for construction of the building was awarded. During the examination of Harris it developed that Architect Josepn M. Huston collected 4 per cent commis sion on $2,000,000 for designing the building. Harris admitted that the board spent money blindly in furnishing the capitol, and that when the con tract for the metallic furniture was made, there was no definite idea of the cost. He thought it would cost between $lOO,OOO and $200,000 and had not the slightest idea that it would amount to $2,000,000. Harris declared it was the duty of Huston, who was the architect, to keep watch .over the contractors and see that, all con tracts were faitl-.uily fulfilled. “If the architect had been faithful in his duty,” he went on, “and had the contracts been lived up to, as he could have forced them to, i be lieve there would have been no trou ble and that there would have oeen no scandal.” ROOSEVELT’S HEART IS TOUCHED By Georgia’s Action in Reproducing the Home of Hit* Grandfather. Judge Land and Mr. Harris of Cor dele, Ga., called at the white house Thursday and were received by President Roosevelt, who said: “Nothing has ever touched me bo deeply as the action of the people of Georgia in erecting a fac simile of my granfather s house as the Geor gia building at the Jamestown expo sition.” CONSUMER IS ELIMINATED. Coal Mines Not Allowed to Sell Product Direct to People. At the closing session in Atlanta of the Retail Coal Dealers’ Convention, the fact was developed that a mine owner wiil be immediately boycotted by the members of the Southeastern .Retail Coal Dealers’ Association, if he sells directly to consumers. One of the chief objects and aims of this association is to prevent con sumers buying their coal direct from the mine owner. NEGROES GET MILLION For Aid of Their Rudimentary Schools in Southern States From Wealthy Philadelphia Woman. A gift of $1,000,000 for the establish ment of a fund for rudimentary schools for southern negroes was an nounced at Philadelphia Tuesday night. The donor is Miss Anna T. Jeanes, a Quakeress of r-hiiadelphia, Booker T. Washington, head of Tuskegee In stitute and Hollis Burke Frizzell, president of the Hampton Normal and industrial Institute, are named as trustees of the fund, but neither of the institutions they represent will share in the gift. The income of the million dollars is to be used for the sole purpose of assisting in the “southern United States community, country and rural schools for the great class of negroes to whom the small rural and commu nity schools are alone available.'’ Miss Jeanes, the donor, is about 80 years old, and comes from an old and wealthy family. She has long been interested in the welfare of tiie negro, and has been a contributor to institutions for their education. Site has known Booker Washington for a decade. in transferring the million dollars to the trustees, Miss Jeanes states that, “trusting and believing in the practical and far-reaching good that may result from the moral and ele vating iAfluence of rural schools for negroes in the southern stupes, taught by reputable teachers, I do hereby ap point Booker T. Washington of Tus kegee, Ala., and Hollis Burke Friz zell of Hampton, Va., and their suc cessors in the trust appointed and cre ated as hereinafter directed, the trus tees of an endowment fund in per petuity of one million dollars, which is hereby created, to be known as ‘the fund for rudimentary schools for southern negroes,’ the income thereof shall be devoted to the sole purpose of assisting in the southern United States, community, country and rural schools for the great class of negroes to whom the small rural and commu nity schools are alone available. “Should, the said Booker T. Wash ington or the said llo.lis Burke Friz zfc’U decline to serve before they shall have tstablisned the board of trus tees of said endowment fund, or if lor any reason tlie same shali not be constiuted by them within a period of six months from this date, then 1 request and empower the trustees of the Hampton Normal anil Agricultu ral Institute and the trustees of the Tuskegee industrial Institute to se lect and create from members of their ow'ii boards u special board of trus tees to act as trustees of the said en dowment fund in perpetuity hereby created; and i direct that such board apply the income upon the said fund in like manner solely toward the maintenance and assistance of the rural, community and country schools for the southern negroes, and to en courage moral Influence and social re finement which shall promote peace In the land and good will among men.” BARGE AND CREW MISSING. Is Supposed to Be at Bottom of Lake Mich igan With Fourteen Men. The wooden lumber barge Arcadia, which left Manistee, Mich., April 12, for Two Rivers, with a cargo of hard wood, has undoubtedly been Jest In Lake Michigan with her captain and owner, Harry May, and about thir teen others. Marine men have given her up as lost. CRANKY-LOOKING COMBINATION. Carnegie, Low, Butler, Et Al., Join Forces With Old Lady Eddy. With Mrs. Mary Laker G. Eddy as its American iounder, and Andrew Carnegie, Seth Low, Nicholas Mur ray Butier mid other American publi cists identified with the movement, an American branch of the Associa tion for International Conciliation, was organized at New York Tuesday. TO INVESTIGATE IMMIGRATION. A Working Plan Adopted at Meeting of Special Commission. The immigration commission was in session for three hours at Washing ton Tuesday considering the details of the proposed Investigation. It was practically decided that all of the nine members of the commission ex cept Commissioner Gill and Professor Jelks should proceed to Europe for the purpose of prosecuting the inqui ry there, and Messrs. Gill and Jenks should carry on the work in this country. TEDDY WHACKS LABOR UNIONS With This Vigorous Swing of His Mighty “Big Stick.” UNDESIRABLE CITIZENS Are Moyer and Haywood, Regardless of Whether They are Guilty or Innocent of Steunenborg’s Murder. In a letter addressed to Honore Jackson of Chicago, chairman of tho Cook County Moyer-Haywood confer ence, made public TTtesday President Roosevelt replied to the criticism ot his recent letter, in which he referred to Moyer and Haywood, officials of the Western Federation of Miners, charged with implication in the mur der of former Governor Bteuncnueig ot Idaho as “undesirable citizens. ' The president says he regrets any body pf men should so tar 'forget their duty to their country as to, by formation of societies and iu other ways, endeavor to influence justice, or coerce court or jury; that they, not he, are trying to inflifence jus tice and he condemns what he calls their flagrant impropriety in the mat-* ter. He says that he indicated no opin ion as to their guilt of the Steunen berg murder, hut that it was a sim ple absurdity to suppose that because a man is on trial he is free from criticism as to his manner of life. He said he might as well be accused of trying to innuence the suits against Harriman, some of w hose friends had also criticized him. He said that both Moyer aud Haywood stand as repre sentatives of those who habiluahy ap pear as guilty of incitement to or apology for bloodshed and violence. He added that lie was profoundly in different to tho condemnation of him for liia criticisms of the undesirable types of citizens, regardless of the power of either labor or capital. The letter in part is as follow's: "April 22, 1907. —Dear Sir: I have received your letter of the 19th hist., in which you enclose the draft of the formal letter which Is to follow, i have been notified that, several dele gations bearing similar requests are on the way hither. In.the letter you, on behalf of the Cook County Moyer- Haywood Conference, protest against certain language 1 used in a recent letter which you assert to be designed to influence the course of justice iu the case of the trial for murder of Messrs. Moyer and Haywood. I en tirely agree with you that it is im proper to endeavor to Influence the course of justice, whether by threats or iu any similar manner. For this reason J have regretted most deeply the action of such organizations as your own iu undertaking to accom plish this very result in tile very case of which you speak. For instance, your letter is headed “Cook County Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone Conference’ with the cannot, will not and shali not claim our brothers.’ This shows that you ami your asso ciates are not demanding a fair trial, or working for u fair trial, but are announcing iu advance that the ver dict shall only be one way, and that you will not tolerate any other ver dict. Such action is flagrant iu its impropriety, and 1 join hejfrtiiy iu condemning it. “But it is a simple absurdity to suppose that because any man is on trial for a given offense he is, therefore, to be freed from ail criti cisms upon his general conduct and manner of life, in my letter, to wnich you object, J referred to a ceriaiu prominent financier, Harriman, on the one hand, and to Messrs. Moyer, Hay wood and Debs on the other, as being equally undesirable citteena. it is as foolish to assert that this was design ed to influence the trial of Moyer and Haywood as to assert that it was designed to influence the suits that have been brought against Harriman. J neither expressed, nor indicated, any opinion as to whether Messrs. Moyer and Haywood were guil.y of the mur der o( Governor Steunenberg. if they are guiily, they ought to be punished. If they are not guilty, they certainly ought not be punished.” Both Bristols Now Dry. The local option election in the Vir ginia portion of Bristol last Tuesday, was hotly contested by the saloonists and anti-saloonists, the largest vote in the history of the town being cast, file anti-saloonists won by a majority of 201 out of a total vote of 871. The Tennessee section of the city voted to abolish saloons on the Bth of March.