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I a I Il 1 xVJa WIS1I sjBHHBlt CHRISTOPHER STEIN Elected Police Justice Republican ELECTION RESULTS SHOWN AT A GLANCE WAS SMALL There are 164 voting districts in Wayne County 39 in the country and 125 in Detroit Circuit Judges Justice Supreme Court School Commissioner fol Regents of University THIRTY Recorder fol KILLED WILL HALT NO MORE Sheriff Associate Recorder THOSE WHO WON STATE TICKET BY BY Policejustice lie elected CIRCUIT JUDGES 4011 176 I the SYSTEM A TAT SITS AILURE ON THE LID the mine MAYORS aid (R) and non tends towas due 6005 4324 647 6SQ 7679 4458 precincts stood 3933jJn favor of amendment and 605 against it 6136 4153 PEESIDENT NOT WORRIED AS TO SAN DOMINGO AAIR1 Thirty four precincts show the fol lowing results Moore 'Rep Smith Dem AM GOING TO TAKE AN OUTING UNDER GOD'S BLUE He and Party Photographed Dur' Ing Kain In Pennsylvania 'Town Railroad Station orty Miles Above Tie Pass Occupied by Men President Alexander Denies State meats by Vice President Hyde 4945 6109 Police Arrested Those Who Wish 4 ed Enact Scenes of Year Ago RESCUE WbRK HINDERED BREAKING6f MAIN SHAT 6800 3932 5713 4920 SEVERAL GLARING ERRORS DE TECTEDiBY CHALLENGERS 5907 5783 4180 4017 a rest but I the open un said Prest on Godfrey A Hsnnossey ire InsunWMV H44 Majestic Bids Phone 433 miners all day investigation that the catastrophe Pittsburg April JThe special train bearing President Roosevelt and hisparty en rpute to the southwest ar rived in Pittsburg at 8:45 to night' The 4rlp from Washington was without incident except at Bend(where duding a drizzling rain the president stopped tha train and had the party photographed i In this city the president appeared on the rear platform of 'the 'car and vas en thusiastically greeted by a large' crowd of people TOM JOHNSON APOLOGIZE OR TAKE CHARGES TO COURT Cleveland April Mayor Johnson tonight refused to com ply with the city reso lution of last Monday night that he either apologize to the members of that body whom he accused of taking bribes direct ly or indirectly or to take the charges into court The mayor said that he would not do either a "asserted that he still be lieved that "certain had more Influence with the voice of certain members of the council than the interests of fopty thousand voters UNION MEN WERE PROMPT OERING THEIR AID LITTLE ATTENTION PAID TO STATE TICKET fell one the surface forty feet REPETITION RIOT WAS EARED SPRINGIELD MOB THREAT EXED TO REPEAT? TROUBLE as much excitement among the accident became ITY MINERS ENTOMBED EXPLOSION AT ZEIGLER ROJESTVENSKY PLANS TO GO TO VLADIVOSTOK IN BUT JUDICIAL CIRCUITS WERE THERE CONTESTS "Paris April The Morocco incident tsf daily making a deeper impression Snd while calmness continues to 'pre vail there is a growing sense of the rudeness of the shock which Emperor visit to Tangier and his declarations give to rench policy However for the present it is evident Continued on Page Eleven: COUNT UNINISHED AT 2 THIS accumulate in the into the of an ex tomght injured HEAVY JAPANESE MOVEMENT THOUGHT TO BE IN" PROGRESS INTEREST WAS MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS The central counting board system Is a failure This is admitted by the members of the board themselves "It is too said City Clerk Gaston is much more con fusion here added Charles Buhrer there could possibly be if the ballots had been counted in the At nearly 2 o'clock this morning the 2 count was only being com pleted and very slow progress was being made with the 8 count Only ten of the city boxes had been completed and called at that hour and none of the county boxes had been opened The prospects are that the count will not be completed before noon It was admitted on all sides that voting machines are the only solution of the problem The work of yester day afternoon and last night tfejnon strated that the central counting sys tem is too cumbersome and only feas ible where expert counters and tabu lators can be employed It is doubt ful if half of the men ever counted ballots before and hardly ten per cent understood the debit and credit system of counting Many mistakeswere made on this account and in sev eral instances William Van Dyke who had charge of the Democratic chal lengers nippeci errors that looked very suspicious Yesterday afternoon most of the time was spent In educating the counters and last night they fciegan to get tired and loafed with the result that it was midnight before any of the '8 boxes were opened The' work of counting commenced at about 2:45 within a half hour after the' first ballot box which wag from 1 Continued on Page Two RENEWAL 'LAND IGHTING IS LOOKEij'OR improper ventilation of the Violations of the Election Law Reported to Judge Lurfee Standard Time Returns from forty nrecincts in city showed a vote of 3467 in favor of standard time and 2514 against it ANMIQ IIR fUMNIo runo fur storage Shock of the Eiploaion Was elt Twelve Miles Away LATEST BULLETIN TGTArs Thirty four precinots show the fob lowing results: Stein Rep Moriarty D6m SUPERINTENDENT INSUR ANCE BEGINS INQUIRY" BUT LITTLE INTEREST SHOWN IN THE RESULT ELECTION These In Many Places Occasioned Much Strife Not as much interest was shown in the results of election as is usual The politicians and others directly gathered in knots about the 'Iiglit Guard armory to get the latest reports as they drifted from the central (Counting board 'but the general public refused to show any excitement and the usual down town election night crowds were missing The only enthusiasm came from the Burns men who celebrated by shout ing aroun4 the streets Burns VOTING MACHINES THE ONLY SO LUTION PROBLEM is all or something to that ef feet Little knots of "workers gathered about headquarters1 in the Kanter building but Burns himself was not present Beck headquarters in the Home bank building were dark Telephone calls at: the Republican shrievalty candidate's home elicited no response making it appear that Mr Beck had gone to bed as he did on the night of the primaries to read the result the next morning Neb April 3 Be preferred farm work schooling Merle 14 years old today shot (himself saying as he fell probably mortally wounded: want to go to school I prefer the The father removed to Lincoln recently from a farm to educate his children New York April The most im portant development in? the Equitable Life Assurance society affairs today was the announcement tonight by Gov Higgins at Albany and by President Jas Alexander of 1 the society in this city that the state superintendent of insurance rancis Hendricks had begun an investigatiorf of the com affairs This was followed by the introduc tion in the state senate tonight of a resolution providing for a investigation of the Equitable The resolution was presented by Senator Brackett In an authorized statement tonight the first Mr Alexander has made since the 'state superintendent was called Into the the president of the says that The investi gation by Mr Hendricks now in progress he adds establish the truth or falsity of many matters which are now "being alleged on the one hand and controverted on the He also takes occasion to deny some of the statements made formally by MrHyde last Saturadv night Rne vote on the Home Rule amend! the consittutlon from fortf tne 6160 5297 5323 5061 5856 5601 4352 3523 5309 3883 3793 5806 The Usual Noisy Election Night Crowds Were Missing rom the Streets LATEST BULLETIN Thirty four precincts show the fol lowing results: Oakman Rep Scullen Dem CONCENTRATION RUSSIAN ARMYTS COMPLETE I 'a thirty five and forty descended resume work a terrific the mouth of air One of the" steel to the surface The at BOY WHO Want to go to school SHOT HIMSEL LATEST BULLETIN TOTS Thirty four precincts show the fol lowing results: Aicjsone Ttep Henley I Lincoln cause he1 to city Justice of the supreme Joseph Moore Regents of the universlty and Dr XV Sawyer "Wsr Member of the state board of educa McKone CHIE COMMENT ON HIS LONG? TRIP LATEST BULLETIN Thirty' four precincts show the fol lowing results: Harris Rep 4729 Phelan Dem 7724 LATEST BULLETIN TOTS Thirty four precincts show the fol lowing results lost Hep isher Dern AT LEAST THAT MANY DEAD IN MINE LONG BOYS GOOD BYE SHOUTED TO CROWD LATEST BULLETIN TOTAW Thirty four precincts show the fol lowing results: Collier Rep 6066 Connolly Dem UWo Member State Board of Education EQUITABLE WILL BE INVESTIGATED rank Barnum (R) Brownell (R) rm Arbor Hamilton (R) Mile Creek Geo SBarnes (R Ray City Gustav Hine (D) Renton Harbor Gillette (R) Doe 1 James Johnston (R) Morrell (R) Cltre A Lacy (D) Chas Legg (R)' 'leman Win Towers (D) fbrunna A McMullen (Cit) Clarence Merwin (R) Alton Hall (DJ Aitken (R) 'rn(l '1 laven Harbeck Osmun (R) Suylandt XV Ash (tit) Todd (D) I School Inspectors REPUBLICAN MAJORITY WILL BE ABOUT 75000 Harrisburg Pa April exactly say that I need am going to take one ir der? blue heaven dent Roosevelt today standing the platform by his special car in the Pennsylvania station and conversing with' Congressman Olmsted United States' Attorney McCarrell and United States Marshal in the pres ence of a grfeat crowd that had gath ered at 'ithe station to meet himi It was suggested to the presidept that things would go along in a smooth manner even if he were ab sent things tvill be' all he said "I have left Taft sitting on lid keeping down the San Domingo Later he said: "I am going' to have an outing I am (going to get away where I even think of a fourty class i When tjie train came in the crowd was station balcony and gave the president a cheer as the stopped stood on the rear plat form waving his 'hand to the crowd and' fairly beaming with good nature When the train stopped the president CnRttnnea V' J' a LATEST BULLETIN ror Thirty four precincts show the fol lowing results: Beck Rep Burns Dem County Auditor I ATT Rill I PTIM totals I bvbnha I I 111 Thirty four precincts show the lowing results: Hill Rep Sawyer Rep Millard Dem Jersey Dem CENTRAL COUNTING BOARD IS TOO UNWIELDY Stj Petersburg April (2 a' A letter from' Vice Admiral Rojest vensky to his wife which has just been received here indicates that the departure of the second Pacific squad ron from Madagascar waters is final and thatit is now on the way to Vlad ivostok a In the letter the admiral wrote tpat the sailing of the squadron had been fixed for March 19 but nat urally he avoided mention of the route which jtwas intended to follow on the voyage eastward 'J The admiralty yes terday admitted knowledge of this de termination of pVice Admiral Rojest vensky and stated that no contrary orders' had been sent him It is un derstood that a rendezvous with Vice Admiral NObegatoff division of the Baltic squadron is not contemplated iiGenLinevitJch? Jn a dispatchdated Acril says: situation remains unchanged A Russian patrol during the night of March 27 surrounded a Japanese pa trol icgnsisting of six dragoons in 'the village of Baichanchentse on the ex treme Russian left ive of the Jap anese were killed A sergeant was captured Guns hu Pass April 3 A renewal of fighting is expected 'shortly The con centration of the Russian army 1 complete with its advance south of the station of feipinghai seventy miles north of Tie Pass The Japanese are screening their move ments well (by means of cavalry and it is i difficult 'to locate the bulk of their army heavy movement seems to be in progress on the Russian flanks The railroad station at Chang tufu forty to fifty miles above Tie Pass ijj occupied by Japanese' artil lery ibqt so? far as ascertainable It doesno cover a large body of troops April of the Kaiy ma force drove the Russians from Mienhuachieh and occupied the vil lage and northern: bights (March 31 Tha situation 1 "other directions is unchanged RENCH IRRITATION AT KAISER GROWING I ATECT Rill I ETIM TOTALS Ur i law I wnfcnt I I 1 1 Thirty four precincts show the lowing results: Brooke Rep Donovan Rep razer Rep Hunt Rep Mandell Rep Rohnert Rep Hally Dem Henze Dem Hosmer Dem May' Dem Miner Dem Murphy Dem Springfield Ot There was great apprehension tonight of a repetition of the disorderly scenes which were enacted a year ago when a negro named (Dixon was 'lynched Because of numerous complaints tnat Jiad been made against the saloon kept by Joseph Kempler in the dis trict a large crowd of men and boys gathered in that vicinity at 10 with the avowed purpose of burning the place The police were more aler than during the Dixon riot and quick ly surrounded and patrolled the place making a number of arrests of mon who were considered disorderly andlikely to arouse the mob spirit At midnight the police have kept the crowd which numbered uo to 1000 persons vwell scattered and the feel ing is growing that there wlU be no rioting All the saloons in the por tion of the: city where the' Kempler saloon is located' are closed The number of drunken men on the streets is increasing and this fact gives police officials more concern than anything else The rfiore disorderly part of the crowds is composed almost identically wme clasS' of men who burned the saloons at the time of the lynching of JDixOn a year 3 QUEEN ALEXANDRA WILL GO TO MARSEILLES TODAY Genoa April Queen Alexandra who arrived here yesterday on board the British (Royal Yacht and Albert was taken for a about the city today by the duchess of Aosta The queen wlU sail tomorrow fW Marseilles Guy 31 Ghester (R) Coolidge (R) 4 Janies Parkinson (D) 5 Smith (R) 6 George Smith (R) Cnaries if Wisner (R) Davis (R) tv Adams ip) Renton Ill April 3 Some fifty 21 UOW I miners were entombed tday in Jos 'I Steere (R) I mine at Zeigler by a terrific 'Y explosion of gas and it is probable 1 0 vr (R) I that thirty or more of the burled men George Ya pie (D) fare dead Thus far fifteen bodies have Eiskine R) been found The explosion it is said I' rkins ilhs I was due to the fact that the Leiter Collins (R) Iinines are not' worked on Sunday thus I allowing gas to Pmhp Padgham (R) Peter Dodds (R) lower workings Kinne R) I When between ajn I five miners had tlHMil JJUd Vll llvj I Stone (R) Imine today to rank Emerick (R) I explosion 'blew er aimer (Mf hie into Chittenden (T D) nign into Kelly Pearl (R) I carnages Wiest CR) from the KaW TaP shock of Norman Haire I Benton rank Sheperd (R a teamster driving alon: ouarpn ixxj 5 Miner (R) John Carr (D) Walter 'H North (R) Harry A Lockwood (R) elected LATEST BU LLETI NINTH WARD Two precincts show the followin' McArthur Rep 203 Treppa Dem 499 TENTH WARD One precinct showsthe following: Johnson 360 Kirchner Dem 189 ELEVENTH WARD Two precincts show the following: Miehin Rep 810 Cady 372 TWELTH WARD Two precincts show the Goldberg Rep 587 Potischke Dem 223 THIRTEENTH WARD Three precincts show the following: uenstaeat tKep i Hely Dem' OURTEENTH WARD Ona shows the following: Leonard Rep a s385 Bryan Dem 153 i ITEENTH WA11 Twa precincts show the following: Iee field Dem i hS27 SIXTEENTH WARD xjljp BHUVYo L11v AL741LI JY Illg tsrnvers nep hnnn Tlorri 4 WARD Two precincts show the following Bennett Rep 513 Rackham Dem 431 Dr i Indson Jas an a Walter Taylor Samuel Brown (R) i Graham (D) Willifl nP Wente (R) Marine Sid McLouth (D)n'rqnntte Walter Ward (R) James Beckwith (R) Root (D) Reardon (R) lernens Westendorf A leming (R Matthew Stoll (R) Stanley Parkhill 'iac ir Gulllot (R) Ste Marie rank Perry (R) John McCarthy (R) Sr red Moore (R) Johns itzgerald (R)st rank Pixley (D) Louis John Burns (D) 4r Rivers oster (Ily A riedrich (D) Cuban Congress Opened Havana April The seventh session of the Cuban congress began today President message congratu lated' the country on the continuance of order 'and on the fact that there have bean: no untoward incidents be yond those ordinarily dealt with by courts' i i the was bottom of a shaft the explosion was felt welve miles east of Zeigler a road half a mile from the mine was coveredwith falling cinders and debris cov ered the floor of his wagon half an inch deep One miner was killed and'four were severely injured at the mouth of the shaft in which the explosion occurred The work of rescue was begun at once by miners who were arriving when the explosion took place But the mine shaft was demolished so that rescue work' has to be carried on through 'the 'air shaft But our Rescued This has hindered? the work ing the entombed men to such tent that when darkness only three bodies and man had been brought to These bodies found from the bottom of air shaft and this (Cit) I for many hours was as far as the res cuers were able to penetrate the shaft (R I A committee of union miners from uuquuill U11U UL11C1 lieifcllUlHlllg towns headed by District President Morris hastened to Zeigler soon after the explosion occurred and offered their aid The bodies of the dead are so black ened that they cannot at once be identified Rolla Campbell is the in jured miner brought out of the and it is said he cannot live Campbell is conscious but he is unable togive any explanation of the accident A Childers a striking Zeigler miner last October predicted in a printed article that an explosion was likely to occur on account of what he YpHlanti (M Gaudy (R) I snaitSrf As far as the state ticket was con I There rriAd th I miners when Michigan yesterday was known because "there had been a strike extremely small It was a foregone of long duration and many conflicts that tb TfArmbiino" had occurred between strikers Jd be elected and there was little I Continued on Page Seven I GEO ANGELL CO LTD to accidental explosion of accumu I la ted gas no(ce pictures 816 Woodward ave Supt Hurd of the Leiter minesto Unv I night estimated the number of dead I at thirty four and possiblythirty nine "The Japanese with The wounded total 8' wits ful coorfi costumes given free copy of next ree If you fear Grip or Pneumonia remember the best remedy is Piso's Cura INTEREST PARTY SET ASIDE 3 i 4 4 ft 3k Extract of Vanilla Prepared from selected Vanilla Beans 6 'tlsh i 4 4 PARTISANSHIP DROPPED IN THE JUDICIAL CONTEST JUDGE MURPHY LEADS PROBA RLE DEMOCRATIC WINNERS DONOVAN BELIEVED TO BE OUT SIDE THE WINNING LINE ELECTION IS THOUGHT TO BE CERTAIN TIte County AuditovaMp la Still in Doubt Partisanship was dropped in the vot ing on judgeships and other local of flees in yesterday's election in Detroit and Wayne county and the results were surprisingly Democratic when the immense Republican majorities of last fall are considered Complete returns from 34 received to 2 this morning indicate vdhat ate least two of the Democratic candidates for 'circuit' judge were elected Judge Murphy be ing second highest on the entire' list if not the highest Judge Donovan in regard to whose 'fate there was so much interest appears to have drop ped just outside the winning list in spite of an immense amount of work In his behalf The of the earlier part of the campaign on shrievalty was all wrong and tit looks as if Burns Demo crat defeated Beck Republican by a big majority the 34 precincts re ferred to giving Burns a lead of over LIOO It was the third attempt of each of these men to land the shrievalty Beck tried twice for the Republican noml nation and was defeated and his friends thought that if once nominated he would certainly be elected Burns has been nominated twice by his par ty and was defeated 'at both elections in close runs Both candidates were therefore well known No Beek Money Ost Beck by sueb a heavy majority in the recent primaries that It might 4 have been taken for' granted that he would have the united support of the workers of his party but this was not the case He was nominated partly through themoney and work of the McMillan workers who did not want 1 Dever an 'Alger man to get a chance to be elected but the McMil lan machine 'appears to have dropped him in the election Neither McMillan nor Beck himself to have spent i any money for workers at the polls There was no general RepubHcan or ganization while there was an: army of Burns workers The Democratic candidate had not rthe enthusi asm of 'the workers of hisown party but had the sympathy of many of younger Republicans especially those with sporting proclivities and money from some source appeared to be out for Burns Sporting men seemed to figure that if Beck was ejected boxing the running of slot machines in suburbs etc would be suppressed and all out to down the eighth ward Repub lican Then a powerful factor agednst Beck was the statement im puted to him years ago that SI a day was enough for workingmen Tbi statement which was' mafia distorted through 1 a discussion as to bast way? in which city money was to be spent in hard times of Aten years ago and which was successfully refut ed many tjmes since still was used with great effect among working men and it was hard to counteract its effect defeat 'Will' have an effect be yond his mere personal defeat and th appointment of deputies His election would have given McMillan people at least the' syqiyathy of the sheriff's office and it may be safely asserted that the Codd Alger people did not wear out their coat sleeves in hustling for his election Another phase Beck's defeat is that it will discourage Continued on Page Two 41 AS 1 GWWARREN a ca ARCADE 2 Jewelry Silverware.