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FLOOD DESTROYS DAM. NO COMMON CARRIER. MAKING- A TEST CASE. TO AMEND RATE BILL. THE ALTOONA MIRROR GILLIS REXHOAT, Publishers ALTOONA, KANSAS.

Senator Long Will Present Change Agreed Upon. Criminality of Campaign Contributions to be Determined. The Irish linen industry is booming as it has not flourished in years, largely on the expanding exports to the United States. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1905, the bureau of engraving and printing had issued to the post office, and the post office had disposed of the whole issue, 0,000,000,000 postage Btamps. Work of Government Reclamation.

Servie In Wyoming; Washed Out Had Cost If 100,000. Casper, o. The North, Platte river has been rising at an. alarming rate during the past 48 hours due to the rapid melting of the-snows of the previous week. Tho-great diversion dam at Alvova, erected by the reclamation service as a.

temporary structure to divert the waters of the rivers while the Pathfinder dam is being built, has been, washed away and its Joss will seriously interrupt the completion of the-government enterprise. Although the heavy rains of the last, few" days had caused much apprehension among residents of this part of Wyoming, none was prepared for the overthrow of such a piece of engineering, the huge dam. When the waters swept through the immense many workmen barely escaped with. their lives. The dam had been built at a cost of nearly $100,000.

The steel bridge built by the government six miles below the dam at Pathfinder was also carried away. Cotton was king in 1905 a record year for the production, and a spectacular year in speculation. The total crop of the season was 13,550,000 bales. American spinners took bales and 8,887,000 bale3 were The largest nugget of gold ever found of which there is any record was taken out of the Byer and Hamilton Mine, Hill End, New South Wales, May 10,1872. It was found at a depth of 250 feet embedded in a thick wall of blue slate.

It was 57 inches long, 20 Inches wide and about 4 inches in thickness, and weighed G40 pounds. It was valued at $248,000. Steps Taken Immediately to Carry Proceedings to Supreme Court Prisoner Turned Over to Custody of Counsel. York. Mr.

George W. member of the firm of J. P. Mprjjaa and formerly vice president of the New York Life Insurance company, was technically placed under arrest Wednesday Ip. the proceedings which District Attorney Jerome has begun to test the legality of political contributions by insurance companies.

The warrant was issued upon information presented to Police Magistrate Moss and the allegation upon which it was based was the transfer of $48,702 of the funds of the New York Life Insurance company to Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the republican national committee in 904, in which it is charged that Mr. Perkins received the money from the insurance company and paid it over to Mr. Bliss. Immediately after his arrest, Mr.

Perkins through his counsel, Lewis A. Delafleld, served a writ of habeas corpus from Justice Green-baum, of the supreme court, by which Mr. Perkins was released from custody and the case was taken direct to the supreme court. Argument on this writ was adjourned until next Friday. The arrest of Mr.

Perkins and the subsequent issuance of the writ of habeas corpus will have the effect of having the highest courts of the state pass upon the legality of campaign contributions by insurance companies. Much attention was directed to this matter at the recent legislative insurance investigation and it was shown that several of the larger companies on more than one occasion had contributed to such funds. Mr. Delafleld then requested that his time to demur to the writ be extended and that Mr. Perkins be paroled in his custody, it being evident, counsel WHAT STRIKES COST.

Tillman Who Has 111 a rue of ihi Objects to the ew Cluuse 4 and Will Oppose It Adoption. Washington, D. C. The railroad rate bill will continue during ihe present week to receive the attention of the national senate to the exclusion of almost all other subjects. The bill will be taken up Monday as soon as the routine business is disposed of, and Senator Long will introduce the amendment agreed upon at the conference of friends of the bill with President Roosevelt last Saturday night.

The amendment is to section 16 of the house bill and provides: "That all orders of the commission, except orders for payment of money, shall take effect within such reasonable time as shall be prescribed by the commission, and shall continue for such period of time, not exceeding two years, as shall be prescribed in the order of the commission unless sooner set aside by the commission or suspended or set asida in a suit brought against the commission in the circuit court of the United States sitting as a court of equity for the district wherein any carrier plaintiff in said suit has Its principal operating office, and jurisdiction is hereby conferred on the circuit courts ol the United States to hear and determine in any such suit whether the order complained of was beyond the auth6rity of ihe commission or in violation of the rights of the carrier secured by the constitution." Senator Tillman, who has charge ol the railroad rate bill In the senate, said Sunday night that he was not satisfied with the court review amendment to the measure which was agreed on Saturday at a conference between President Roosevelt, several republican senators who are supporting the bill and members of the Interstate commerce commission. The senator said he would oppose it on the floor of the senate and he expressed the opinion that not half a dozen of his democratic colleagues would support the amendment. ZMinncapoli Journal. Uncle Sam I Don't Know as It Matters How I Get There, Just So I Arrive, BURTON'S NEW PLEA. NOT ALL TO STPJKE.

During the last year the United States produced an enormous amount of gold. It was a banner year for the gold mines of the United States and the Transvaal particularly, the two great gold countries of the world competing for supremacy. The year's yield of gold in the world amounted to about $375,000,000 from all sources of Eupply. Of this amount the United States produced $90,000,000. Miners Will Work Where Scale of 1903 Is Paid.

Figures Showing NuniHer of Persons A (Tooted mid Probable Money Loss in One District. Pittsburg, Pa. In the Pittsburg district there are 50,000 mmers upon whom 1 50,000 persons are dependent. The total wages of these miners is $2,100,000 monthly. In, the entire state there are 110,000 bituminous miners whose average wage "is $2.50 per day.

The production of this force 13 107,900,000 tons annually. It is estimated that in the event of a strike the average daily loss in wages would be about $050,000. The daily consumption of bituminous coal is estimated at about one million tons against which there are stored about 5,000,000 tons. In the anthracite strike of 1902, 537, 000 miners and families were affected. The loss to miners in wages was $28, 030,000 pnd to other workers in the mines $457,000.

The loss to operators is estimated at $52,250,000, to railroads $20,000,010, and to other interests $35, 935,000, making a total loss of $142,372, 000. The new water works which are being discussed at Los Angeles will cost according to estimates by Frank H. Olmstead. This Is an enormous sum for a city of 105,000 population to pay for such works, and this amount is due to the $26,500,000 which the conduit, over 250 miles long, will cost. In order to construct the con- The Kansas Senator's Counsel Cluiiu Senate Alone lias Power to Expel Members.

Washington, D. C. Attorneys for Senator Burton have filed a separate brief attacking the constitutionality of the act of 1S64 under which he was indicted and convicted. The remarkable contention is made that the senate alone can punish Burton by expulsion. The names of B.

P. Waggener, of Atchison, and W. P. Hackney, of Winfield, are included in the list of attorneys for Senator Burton. The brief filed Thursday was prepared by Mr.

Waggener and aside from the legal proposition advanced is a most Interesting document. "The constitution," says the brief, "will be searched in vain to find the power conferred upon congress ex-pressly or by implication, 'to delegate to the judiciary the power by indictment or otherwise to remove from office a United States senator or forever disqualify him from thereafter holding any office of public trust under the constitution and laws of the United otates." cuu it win De advisable, Mr. oimsteaa says, to build a railway over 13,000,000 along the line and to erect three 600-barrel cement mills. said, that in any event there has been no criminal intent. Mr.

Jerome said he had no objection. Friday next was fixed by Justice Greenbaum for the hearing of the arguments and Mr. Per FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT. kins was paroled as requested. CUMMINS REPLIES TO ELKINS CAPPED THE BIG GASSER.

Officials of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. have changed the original date for the opening of the new subway in that city, and now expect to inaugurate the service on December 21. The two parts of the work that will require the utmost energy, if they ore to be finished by that date, are the changing of the grade of the lines west of the river to admit the surface tracks to the bridge over the Schuylkill, and the big station under the surface of Market street from 15th to 16th streets. NEW YORK HEARING CLOSED. iitlonuI Municipal Lonniu' Will Meet ii Atlniitio City ruder Favorable Auspices.

Philadelphia. The next annual conference of the National Municipal League which will be held at Atlantic City, April 24 to 27, is expected to be one of the most interesting ever held by that organization. Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte, the president of the league, will preside. Among the speakers will be George W. Guthrie, who was recently elected mayor of Pittsburg; Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia, and Henry WetnstoclC president of the Commonwealth club, San Francisco.

Clinton Rogers Woodruff of Philadelphia, secre tary of the league, in his report will deal with the advances during the past year in every important municipal center in the country. The report will show that in no preceding year have there been so many victories for good government and so many substantial improvements in methods. I own Governor Pays His Respects to West Yirg'iniu for Intter's Criticism. Des Moines, Iowa, Governor Cummins has mailed to Senator El-kins of West Virginia, a reply to the senator's letter in which he criticised statements made by the governor in speeches to the voters of Iowa, regarding his examination before the senate committee on interstate commerce when it had under consideration the railway rate bill. The governor says that the senator accused him of falsehood in declaring that his cross-examination was hostile, that an attorney of the railway companies sat at the right of Senator El-kins during the examination, that Senator Elkins appeared to be in commun-r ion and sympathy with this attorney, and that the attorney handed to Senator Elkins questions to be asked the governor.

Another Anthracite Conference In-dlnn Territory Miner Satisfied-May Compromise in Kansas Wilt Work in Iowa. Indianapolis, Ind. The national convention of the United Mine Workers of America adjourned sine die Friday after authorizing the national and district officers to sign a wage agreement with any coal operator who would agree to pay the scale of 1903 or its equivalent for a period of two years. This is an advance of 5.55 per cent in wages in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania, and jail other districts ertcept the southwest, composed of Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas and the Indian territory, where an advance of 3 cents per ton is demanded as the 1903 scale is practically in force in that district. The action of the convention will bring out of the mines of the country Saturday niglit 509,500 men in the anthracite and bituminous fields.

These will remain on strike until settlements have been signed by districts or with Individual operators. The only miners at work on Monday will be 25,000 men In the New River, Pocahontas, Fairmont and Central fields of West Virginia, where an agreement was made several days ago to allow the men to continue at work until the district convention now in session at Charleston has reached a disagreement with the operators. The men will return to work as soon as the scale is signed. If there is a disagreement in these joint state conventions any of the miners can sign the scale and resume work where individual operators pay the advanced scale. The joint conference of this district adjourned Friday after disagreeing and after the miners had unanimously declined to submit the differences to a commission to be appointed by President Roosevelt.

The national executive board will meet Saturday morning to take up the details of managing the strike. It was empowered to decide as to what employes will be allowed to continue work at the mines to prevent the destruction of the property during the suspension. There is in the national, district and local treasuries of the miners $2,500,000, of which $400,000 is in the national treasury. Kansas Miners May Compromise. Topeka, Kan.

A strong effort Attorney Generul Hudley Has Finished Taking- Testimony There In Missouri Ouster Suit. New York. The taking of testimony in this city in the proceedings brought by the state of Missouri to oust from that commonwealth the Standard Oil company of Indiana, the Waters-Pierce Oil company and the Republic Oil company on the ground that they constitute a combination in restraint of trade was ended Tuesday. Attorney General Hadley of Missouri who has been present during most of the time since the local inquest began, announced that with this adjournment the New York proceedings were ended. He instructed commissioner Sanborn, before whom the witnesses testified, to send a certified copy of the testimony to the supreme court of Missouri where it will become a part of the record in the state's case.

According to to recent statistics, the length of the railroads of the world was 537,105 miles on December 31, 1904, of which 270.3SG miles were in America, in Europe, 4G.592 in Asia, 15,049 miles in Africa and 1G.702 miles in Australia. Of the mileage of European railroad Germany stands first followed in their order by Russia (33.2S0), France Austria-Hungary the United Kingdom Italy Spain Sweden and i Norway There seems to be an epidemic of polaritis, judging from the many plans of audacious and death-defying men who would carry the pole by assault since strategy has failed. The old-fashioned way of steaming as far as possible and then using dogs has gone out of style. Now Is Is air-ships and atitos that will be used to conquer the last bit of obstinate space yet defying man. Walter Wellman will use the air-ship method and will be able to start when summer comes.

The Duke of Abruzzl, who has been farthest north of any man, will try again to reach the pole. The tins Well Xestr Cnney, Which Has Burned Since February 2.1, Success fully- Uxtlnsuislied. Independence, Kan. Finally the Kansas Natural Gas company's big Vanderpool gas well below Caney, which was struck by lightning February 23, was successfully extinguished at 5:30 Thursday evening. The second hood, which was a failure, two weeks ago, was placed over the well Thursday afternoon.

The ground had been made wet and soft around the well, so that the hood sunk deep into it. Previously the six inch casing which had caused the horizontal tongues of fire had been dropped into the hole and the only fire now mis through the vent pipe in the top of the hood. Over one hundred yards of canvas ducking was sewed into big blankets and first a' layer, of canvas and then a layer of gumbo was built around the hood uf 'A there were tons of earth banked dp. Then the hood was anchored with big chains. Steam pipes were connected to the vent pipe to prevent the flames from rushing down into the hood when the valve was shut, as in Wednesday's trial! Then a big spool was attached to the long arm used to turn the valve and around this spool wire was wound.

At a given signal men took the end of this wire and ran turning the valve quickly, and the great fire was out. As the valve on top was closed the hood quaked violently. The gas burst from beneath the lower rim; scattering the mound of earth (and tearing the canvas Imbedded in it into shreds. The great difficulty now will be to build a derrick over the well, fish out the dropped tubing and retube and shut in the well. After the fire was put out the gas was turned loose and is now blowing into the air out of the top vent of the hood.

"Prophet" Doivle Deposed. Chicago, 111. At a meeting Sunday of 5,000 adherents of the Christian Catholic church at Zion City, of which John Alexander Dovrte is the founder and first apostle, Dowle's authority was repudiated and Wilbur Glenn Vol-iva. who for some time has been conducting the affairs of the church, was elected in his stead. Mrs.

Dowie also repudiated her husband and their son, Gladstone Dowie cast his lot with hU mother and the new leader, Voliva. Civic Leugrne Meeting nt Kmporin. Emporia, Kan. At a large citizens' meeting held here on Wednesday night a temporary organization was perfected for the purpose of establishing an Emporia branch of the Civic League. The meeting was addressed by Joseph L.

Bristow, ex-fourth assistant postmaster general; W. R. Stubbs, of Lawrence, and Dr. Lawrence, of Eldorado. Bristow told of the present need for regulation of freight rates.

He said the Hepburn bill, in his judgment, was the readiest relief for freight shippers. Stubbs made an hour's talk, which he closed with a plea for the organization of a Civic League as a protection against corporate greed. Hunt for WIckliflTe Not Successful. i 1 1 I. T.

Marshal W. H. Darrough returned early Friday morning from the Spavinaw hills where he has been hunting the Wick-liffes. Only the usual number of deputies are now left in the hills. The marshal will return to the hills on Wednesday.

He came in only to settle his monthly accounts. Darrough denounces as false the stories sent out from Muskogee regarding the shoting of a crippled fullblood boy by his posse. He saw no trace of the Wickliffes fresh enough to follow, but says the hunt will be kept up until the outlaws are captured, dead or alive. Lout Its Th roil to I Aspect. Pittsburg, a.

Dispatches from the soft coal field Sunday night indicated almost a general announcement from the operators of Western Pennsylvania to pay the miners the advance of 5.55 per cent called for in the restoration of the scale 1903. With notices posted at the majority of the mines announcing the granting of the scale the strike in nthe soft coal field has lost the threatening aspect that has surrounded it since last January. The Smoke Abatement League of Cincinnati has issued an appeal to the citizenship for substantiated and comfort in the work of ridding Cincinnati of the heavy pall of smoke hanging over the city from Price Hill to Walnut Hills. Owing to the topography of Cincinnati the work of abating the smoke nuisance is more difficult than in other cities. The western hills prevent the winds from dissipating the smoke, save on rare occasions, and under certain atmospheric conditions.

Electricity and natural gas may soive the problem. Is being made to avert the coal strike in Kansas, and it is believed that the defeat of the Ryan resolution in the national miners' convention opens the way for the settlement of the Kansas The Xew Jersey a Fast Battleship. Boston, The performance Thursday of the battleship New Jersey in maintaining a speed of 19.1S knots an hour in a fotr hour endurance run off the New England coast, coupled with her remarkable speed Wednesday over a measured mile at Lockiand, at a 19.48 knot gait places this product of the Fore River Shipbuilding company at the head of all American built battleships, so far as speed is concerned. difficulty without reference to the uction of the eastern miners. W.

Robinson, assistant secretary of the state society of labor and industry, Not to Sell Indian Coal Lands. Washington, D. C. As a result of charges made in the senate by Senator La Follette in connection with the proposed sale of the coal lands in the Choctaw nation, it has been practically settled that congress will not permit those lands to be either sold or leased until a full investigation has been made to determine their value. has gone to Pittsburg and other south Ohio River RiHliis Rapidly.

a i 1 1 Ind. The Ohio river here is rising rapidly and Sunday, night stood at 37.3 feet, which is 2.3 feet above the danger line. All sido streams continue to rise and many landings between here and Cairo, 111., are submerged. ern Kansas points to work ror a peaceful settlement. For many years before Mr.

Robinson's connection with the state labor department he worked in the southern Kansas fields as a miner. Will Study nt Fort Lcnvemvortn. Leavenworth, Kansas. Jean Bougere, a second lieutenant in the Second Hussars, of the French army, a son of Gen. Bougere, chief of staff of the French army, arrived at Ft.

Leavenworth Wednesday to enter the Infantry and Cavalry college. An invitation was extended Lieut. Bougere to enter this institution by President Roosevelt as a recognition of courtesies paid Generate Chaffee, Bell and Crozier by Gen. Bougere during the visit of the American officers to France last year. Martin Kellar, a waiter in a Seattle cafe, a few weeks ago overheard guests at his tajble discussing the chances of making a fortune in Ta-coma tide lands.

Having saved up $2,000, Kellar boarded the next train and secured an option on a block of tide lands, and in a few days afterward received an offer from the Union Pacific of $80,000 for the block of lands. He cleared up $60,000 on his investment, but has gone back to his old business as a waiter. He finds that tips are sometimes more valuable than those who gave them are aware. Killed in Senate Klevntor. Washington, D.

C. Mrs. Mary C. Wallace, of Denver, was fatally injured in the public elevator in the senate wing of the capitol Thursday An Ohio Town Threatened. Bellefontaine, March SI.

The entire population of the town of Lake-view, near here, was called out earl Friday evening to help repair a break in the dam of the Lewiston reservoir which threatens to deluge the tow. The break has been partially repaired, but danger, it is feared, is only temporarily passed. Father (uipini Asks Trlnl. St. Petersburg, Russia.

Father Capon, in a letter to the Procurator says he is only living in St. Petersburg by tolerance and demands to be put on trial in order to defend his honor and legalize his status, or, if guilty, to be condemned. Kusslau Troops to Finland. llelsingfors, Finland. The reported dispatch of Russian troops to Finland is producing disquietude.

It is feared that the authorities at St. Petersburg intend to supersetie Gov. Gen. Gerhard. by attempting to leave the car while it was in motion and she died short ly before 6 o'elock.

Russian Workmen Refuse to Vote. Warsaw, Russia. The factories were to have elected delegates' to the: electorial convention Wednesday, but the election was a complete failure. Of the 114 factories in Warsaw only four elected delegates. tiov.

On vis Lends Ilerry in Arknimaa Little Rock, Ark. With practically complete returns from 62 out of 75 counties, Governor Jefferson Davis has a majority of 2.071 over Senator James H. Berry for the democratic nomination for senator. Results Of KlIKNillll F.lcctions. Ekatcrinoslav, Russia.

The Octo-berlsts captured the city elections by electing to the municipal congress forty-seven of its delegates as against thirteen constitutional democrats, fifteen Jews and five reactionaries. Amendment to Rnilrond Hill. Washington, D. Senator Car-mack has offered an amendment to the railroad rate bill Thursday making the initial railroad liable for damage to freight trasferred to a connecting line. The amendment has been favorably passed by the senate committee on interstate commerce.

esro Fiend Sentenced. New York. Robert H. Spriggs, the negro who was recently convicted of abduction in detaining white women against their will in a resort frequented only by negroes, Tuesday was sentenced to 20 years In state prison. Siuoot Testimony Completed.

Washington, D. C. The introduction of testimony in proceedings against Senator Smoot was concluded at 11:50 o'clock Tuesday. The arguments will be made some day next week to be agreed upon by counsel Henceforward, so far as Belgium Is concerned, absinthe, under all and any circumstances, is contraband. The stigma of the law is upon it.

Efforts have several times been made to suppress the use of absinthe in the country, and recently, despite all opposition from the manufacturers and retailers interested, a prohibitory bill lias passed both houses of the legislature. In the senate the bill was pass-d by 92 votes to 2. The act Is very-far-reaching. It prohibits the importation, manufacture, transport, sale or rtoring for sale. Big- Fonr Kond Confiscates All Conl Springfield, Ohio.

The Cleveland Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis (Big Four) railroad issued a general order Friday to confiscate all coal In transit on all Its lines passing through this city. Museum Declines to Pay Psice. London, England. The British museum has declined to purchase son memorandum, wjiich was recently sold at auction for $18,000 and offered to the museum by the- pmr.ha.'jer at the same price.

Minckleford Renominated. Jefferson City, Mo. Dcrsey W. Shackleford, congressman from the Eighth district, has been renominated, carrying the primary. A convention will be held at California June 5 to ratify the nomination.

Fnrorable Report on Free Alcohol. Washington, March 31. The house committee on ways and means Friday authorized a favorable report on the free alcohol bilL.