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My attitude in this matter has been misunderstood, if not misrepresented. The Typographical Union has not been condemned in this diocese, nor have its members been refused the sacrament. A person came to ray residence recently, showed me a newspaper containing: an oath said to have been taken by the members of the Typographical Union and asked my opinion regarding it. I told hlmf In substance, that the oath in Its natural and obvious sense could not be lawfully taken by any Catholic. That was my whole action In the matter.

My opinion regarding the wording of the obligation is unchanged. OMAHA, Sept. Right Rev. Bishop Scannell of the Omaha diocese of the Catholic church to-day made a statement in reply to that of President Lynch of the Typographical Union, who defended Its Catholic members who have taken the obligations of that union. Bishop said: Denies That He Has Condemned the Typographical BISHOP SCANNELL BEPLIES.

KANSAS CITY, Sept. To-day's sessions of the convention of the International Association of the Structural Iron and Bridge Workers were taken up entirely with routine matters. The Parks crowd helped clear up the small business of the gathering and no signs of the fight between the two factions promised yesterday were visible. President Buchanan made an appeal for harmony and his talk had the effect, at least temporarily, of quieting the troublesome New Yorkers. "It's the lull before the storm," said one delegate, after the convention had adjourned for the day.

The sum total of the day's work was the granting of a charter to the architectural iron workers of Chicago, a strong labor body, which has perhaps 6000 members throughout the country, and a decision to send delegates to the convention of the Building Trades Alliance, to be held at Indianapolis next month. An Important petition presented by a halfdozen Western locals recommended that the convention take some action to force certain Western railroads to pay-standard wages or let the bridge work to contractors who are fair to organized labor. Delegates to Iron Workers' Convention on Their Good Behavior. PEOCESD IN. HARMONY.

Cadets in First Class May Smoke. WASHINGTON, Sept. On the recommendation of Cantaln AVillard H. Brownson, commandant of the Navy Academy, Secretary Moody has authorized the discontinuance of the rule prohibiting smoking so far as It applies to the members of the first class. In the opinion of the Secretary the members of this class are quite old enough to be relieved of such a restriction.

Yellowstone Park Guide Is Drowned. BUTTE, Sept. A Miner special from Monida says that Frank Burnett, one of the best known guides In Yellowstone Park, was drowned in Henrys Lake last night, and his companion, Shoemaker, had a narrow escape, being rescued as he was sinking for the last time. The two men were engaged in a boat race when tlje disaster occurred. Noted Artist Dies Suddenly.

NEW YORK, Sept. Dolph, the artist, who has sometimes been called the Landseer of America because of his work as an animal painter, died suddenly here to-day from heart disease. He was 6S vcurs of BALTIMORE. Sept. 28.

At a consultation of physicians to-day it was decided that a-n operation was not necessary in the case of Archbishop John Joseph Kain of St. Louis, who is suffering from an attack of appendicitis. SAN JUAN. Porto Rico, -Sept. Twelve hundred schools in Porto Rico were opened to-day and 60,000 pupils were received.

Three times that number of children were enrolled and the struggle for preference was very great. persons were professional bandits or amateurs, said: "They are dynamiters, and there are not many of them in this country." Porto Rico Schools Are Opened. NEW ROCHELLE, N. Sept. A new play, "Lady Calmore's Flirtations," which Miss Kathryn Kidder produced for the first time on any stage to-night at the New Rochelle Theater, tells the story of an international marriage and deals with the subject in a dramatic and Intelligent way.

Miss Kidder gave an Impressive performance in the part of Lady Calmore, and the supporting company appeared to advantage. New Play Is Well Received. The committee of arrangements for the Centennial informed the union to-night that the invitation to the marine band would stand, no matter what action was taken by the local musicians. The union at once decided that it could not recede from the position it had taken and it so informed the committee. It was decided by the committee to go ahead with their plans just as though there was no such thing as music.

The playing by the. marine band Thursday night will therefore be the only music of the celebration. It was not the intention of the committee to use the marine band for anything but the mass meeting on that one evening. The union declares that its constitution forbids its members to have anything to do with an evept in which enlisted men in the Government service take part. The union therefore demands that the invitation to the marine band be withdrawn or the union musicians would decline to furnish music for the panide, for the banquet of the Mayors Wednesday night or for any other part of the Centennial celebration.

CHICAGO, Sept. The marchers in the big Centennial to-morrow night will be compelled to tramp over the route without a musical note to cheer them. The musicians' union to-night positively refused to take part in the parade or to have anything whatever to do with the Centennial celebration if the marine band of Washington is to play at the mass meeting at the Auditorium on Thursday night, which is to be (he final act of tho celebration. ST. PAUL, Sept.

General Manager Thomas W. Cooper of the Northern Pacirtc Railway to-day confirmed the report of the dynamite outrages against that road in Montana. "It is true," said Cooper, "that a demand for $50,000 has been made upon the Northern Pacific Company by parties in Montana and that we have had more or less trouble with them for several weeks past. We do not know who the parties are, but are using all the efforts-possible to discover and arrest them. We have taken sufficient precaution to make our tracks safe.

"The Northern Pacific has posted a reward of $LT)00 for the arrest and conviction of the dynamiters. The State of Montana has posted another reward of $5030 and Polk County, Montana, has offered another $500, making a total reward now of $S0CO." Cooper, asked if he believed the guilty Oreg-on Short Line Gets Franchise. SALT LAKE. Utah, Sept. The City Council passed to-night by unanimous vote the ordinance granting the Oregon Short Line Railway Company Its franchise for a new depot and other proposed terminal facilities in this city.

The improvements contemplated by the company Involve an expenditure of nearly a million VANCOUVER. B. C. Sept. To secure more direct connection between European centers and the Pacific Coast, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company has decided to operate four steamers between Antwerp and West St.

John, the company's winter port in New Brunswiek. The steamers will run fortnightly after December Nsv Steamer Line Arranged. Authorities of Montana Are Still Working in the Dark. Chicago Musicians Will Not Play at the Big Celebration. FIND NO TRACE OF DYNAMITERS NEW YORK.

Sept. The validity of the indictments ae-ainst ex-Congressman Edmund H. of Brooklyn and George P. Miller, New York agent of the Brandt-Dent Automatic Cashier Company, charging them with participation in the postal frauds, was upheld in a decision handed down to-day by Judge Thomas In the' United States District Court in Brooklyn. Driggs-Miller Indictments Valid.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. According to the positive statement of Joseph Mesmer, brother of Mrs. Griffith J. Griffith, the attorneys of Colonel Griffith have offered her $35,000 cash in settlement of all property matters between them. One condition of the offer is that if, by the acceptance of this $35,000 tender, the property contest is amicably settled out of court, Mrs.

Griffith will not appear against her husband In the criminal proceedings for assault to murder. And it la further understood that the wife shall not be hindered in her suit for divorce and guardianship of the minor son. Ever since the shooting of Mrs. Griffith by her husband the public query has been: "What was the motive?" and In the twenty-five days of Interval little if any light has been shed on the problem. The wounded woman, who is still an inmate of a hospital, has not attempted to give to the public any statement as to the motive.

Mrs. Griffith of Los Angeles Reported to Have Received Offer for Settlement. BUMOR SAYS MONEY MAY STOP SENSATION "As I have been practically alone them I have been helpless, and rtklizing they have told me what they could co to me. They have insisted that I remove. the telephone lino, my only irfeans of communication with the outside worJL have threatened to destroy the ilne have reminded me that they would then have me at their mercy.

To those of who will work Jl 23 is paid, hw demand Jl 50 a day and refuse to for less. The captain of the tribe is not loyal and he has done what he can to trouble. His orders are taken as law and the orders of the Government apenl are wholly, disregarded. It would me If the trouble ended in biuodsfcpd, and If that is to be avoided it win, be necessary to send a sufficient plumber of Indian police, into the reservation to obedience to our orders, ani the" that is done the better', Snell and myself are practicaliy Barnes is visiting Indian Agent Wright cf the Soboba Indian reservation for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done to avoid trouble. The Indians on the Pala reservation, are those who were removed from their ancestral homes on the big "Warner.

ranch in San Diego County and for whom the Government purchased a reservation and moved them to it. Indians have not become reconciled to the cha.r,ge and there are those among them who feel that they have been persecuted bf the Government. Barnes said: "I aui eSmpiy staying there at the mercy cf a hundred or more Indians and no one need be surprised to hear of my death at their hands before the present trouble Is definitely settled. Ever since their, removal to Pala they have been demanding of the Government representatives which are out of all reason end cannotbe granted because the Government would not permit such things to be granted. Refusal of their demands has, so angered the Indians that they have turned upon me and with clenched fists and angry words threatened me and defied my authority.

SAX JACINTO. Sept. Norton M. Barnes, who holds the position of Indian fanner in the employ of the United States Government at the Pala Indian reservation, his duty being to instruct the Indians In agricultural pursuits, expects serious trouble on that reservation and has recommended the use of sufficient force to compel the Indians to obey orders. Special Wepatch to The Call.

It was not until to-day that he was suspected of theft, for be had handled thousands of dollars and had never been short a dollar. An examination of the bank account of the association, however, showed that It was depleted, and when it was learned that Reed had drawn out the money In currency Saturday his employers secured the warrant for his arrest. On Saturday, Reed cashed three checks for J300. $2750 and respectively. Of this he used H750 for the weekly payroll, but the balance.

J4350. he drew out of tho bank in currency and after paying oft the employes left his office and disappeared. When he did not return home Saturday night his wife applied to the police for assistance In the effort to locate him. but he could not be found. LOS ANGELES, Sept.

J. Weller Reed, for fourteen years a trusted employe of the Southern California Canning Company, and its organization cashier of California Fruit Car.nera' Association establishment in Loa Angeles, one of the largest In the association. Is a fugitive from justice. A warrant for his arrest on a charge of felony embezzlement was sworn out to-day. Since Saturday noon ho has been missing and detectives have been unablj to find any trace of him.

The known amount of his peculations Is $4350 cash, but whether his accounts are deficient to a greater extent will not be known until his books have been experted, and that is being done. Reed paid all bills of the concern with checks which were signed by himself and H. E. Kennedy, the superintendent. Kennedy frequently signed a number checks in blank and Reed filled them in at his pleasure.

Recently Kennedy noticed a number of in the check book marked void. These. Reed said, represented spoiled checks, but it has developed to-day that they were used by Reed, who had cashed them for various amounts. Special Dispatch The Call. REFUSE TO TAKE PART IN PARADE There will be a meeting this evening of the advisory council of the league.

The council consists of the vice president and one member of the executive committee Republican League: "I desire to be excused from attendance at the meetings of your committee for the period of one month from October 1, 1903. Very respectfully, A. RUEF." The reply of the organization committee published herewith is clear and directly to the' point. The sentiment expressed at leagug headquarters last night was to the effect that the committee acted wisely in declining to temporize with Mr. Ruef.

It is erpected that he will now openly betake himself to tins camp of Mayor Schmitz and stay there until Mr. Crocker is elected Mayor. Hon. A. P.

Williams presided at the meeting of the organization committee last evening. Other members attending were: Thomas D. Riordan, Dr. McNutt, John C. Lynch, Henry Ach and David Rich.

the league. Hon. A. P. Williams, authorizes the correspondence bearing on the subject to be given to the public.

Ruefs letter requesting leave of absence is brief and as follows: "San Francisco, Sept. 26, 1M3. "To the Organization Committee, United THE organization committee of the United Republican League last night requested the resignation of A. Ruef. The president of Several caucuses have been held at room 38, Phelan building, by party leaders, who number among them several politicians in the city, and it has been decided to hold the nominating convention to-morrow evening at Pioneer Hall.

A caucus of the party leaders will be held at room 38, Phelan building, this evening. J. Steppacher and T. D. Riordan addressed the Commissioners In behalf of tho list as printed by the County Committee.

The list embraces 800 names. NON-PARTISANS IN FIELD. The Citizens' Non-Partfsan party has filed articles of incorporation and will make a bid for public favor this election by- putting a ticket in the field. The officers of -the party are: J. W.

Sparrow, president; Fred T. Knoles, first vice president; Francis L. Cook, second vice president; Percy Beamish, third vice president; Emanuel A. secretary and general organizer; Professor Joseph H. Alfonso, assistant secretary; A.

Newmann, treasurer; James A. Stiger, general attorney; board of A. Lorenzo, Joseph H. Alfonso, Frank Smith. G.

W. F. Cook. W. M.

Park. James A. Stiger, J. W. Sparrow, Fred T.

Knoles, Francis L. Cook, A. Newmann and Percy Beamish. erts and Boyle voted against the motion. Roberts displayed some fueling because, he said, he had not been consulted.

The charge has been made that Roberts' list contained names of men who, though Republicans, are said to be supporters of Mayor Schmitz. UKIAH, Sept. John Lucas, aged about 78 years, a resident of Redwood Valley, was struck by the California Northwestern passenger train a short distance above Ukiah this afternoon and severely injured. Lucas rwas going home from Ukiah with a two-horse team. In making the crossing at the Arnold Ford place, where there is at deep cut both for the railroad and wagon road, the train struck the team, crippling one horse and splintering the wagon.

Lucas was thrown from the. wagon and sustained several bad lacerations of the scalp and a fracture of the skull. Train Smashes Into Wagon. The company members they are willing to concede all that is asked regarding wages and hours, but that they will not consent to relinquishing jurisdiction of their plants. There shall be no discrimination against union men and any journeyman who during the life of this agreement may be given employment to fill anv vacancy or increase the force shall be a membcf of the International Typographical Union, provided the union is able to furnish such Journeyman.

CINCINNATI. Sept. men employed by the Cincinnati branch of the American Type Founders Company struck this afternoon. The strikers include type casters, dressers, mold workers, machinists, brass rule workers, nicking machine operators and inspectors. The men pay that at noon to-day an agreement was presented at the foundries throughout the country and that a national strikewas inaugurated because the company refused to accede.

The proposition in the agreement that caused the strike read as follows: Employes of Cincinnati Branch of American Company Quit Work. TYPE CASTERS STRIKE. The hearing was on a motion by counsel for the defendants for the reduction of the amount of attachment, for an order for the substitution of a bond for the property attached and for an order requiring the oral examination of the members of tho firm of D. E. Lowe Co.

as to the actual amount of damages sustained by the firm in conseuence of the strike and boycott. The suit of which to-day's proceedings was a part is brought In the State Court, seeking damages, and is independent of another suit in which the same parties arc involved, brought in the United States courts, in which J219.00Q damages is sought and also an injunction restraining the defendants from continuing the boycott on the ground that it is a violation of the Sherman interstate commerce law. BRIDGEPORT, Sept. A temporary victory was scored to-day by the defendants in the suit of D. E.

Lowe hat makers in Danbury, who are backed by the American Anti-boycott Association, against the officers of tho American Federation of Labor, the officers of the United Hatters of North America and 250 members of the United Hatters as individuals. After a hearing before Judge Wheeler of the Superior Court the amount "bf the attachment was reduced to J00.000. This was a very substantial reduction, as the real estate covered by attachment is held at an assessed valuation of $128,000 and the bank accounts of the individual defendants aggregate $521,000. the Attachment Against Them. United Hatters Secure a Reduction of SCORE TEMPORARY VICTORY.

The Board of Election Commissioners yesterday adopted the list of officers for the municipal election as filed by the Republican County Committee and the United Republican League. By this action the Commissioners virtually rejected the list of officers favored by Commissioner Roberts. Commissioner Voorsanger moved that the County Committee list be accepted, and he was supported by Commissioners Deasy and Everett. Rob- agement refuses to accede to the request that only union men be employed. J.

S. Partridge, chairman of the Republican Convention, attended the meeting of the organization committee last night. To. day he will announce the committee of five on vacancies, which the convention directed him to appoint. The duty of filling the vacancy for Assessor caused by the resignation of Charles S.

Laumeister will devolve upon this committee. Later on Chairman Partridge will appoint eighteen members-at-large of the new county committee, or governing body tof the party. ELECTION OFFICERS. Thursday evening of this week tfie candidates on the Republican ticket will meet for organization at the headquarters of the United Republican League. 16 Geary street.

CANDIDATES TO MEET. The advisory council will consider topics relating to a vigorous prosecution of the campaign. of each Assembly district club, together with members of the organization committee. Excellent Career of Fourteen Tears Is Marred by an Act a Canning Company Declares Is Crime. Fight to the Death Is Improbable.

Demands Are Heard for Supplies Which Cannot Be Allowed and a The Discontented Aborigines Make Threats in Southern California. Peculations Are Reported to Beach Into the Thousands. "Five hundred dollars a month is not much for a man with my ability," said as he turned away. He left in from San Quer.tin at 5:50 o'clock. AtGreenbrae he took the train for San Francisco.

Ten other convicts left the prison today, all but one, however, much later than Becker. Joseph Goodwin. No. 14,563, who had been Incarcerated for twenty years, went out. Goodwin, or familiarly known abound the prison as "Coffee Jose," was convicted of murder in the second degree in Shasta County in 1SS3.

He was sent to San Quentin for twenty years and has served the full time. When approached by a Call representative Becker was polite but uncommunicative. He would not state his ultimate destination, claiming that "Frisco will be my home for some time to come." He would neither admit nor deny that he would accept an offer of $500 per month from the American Bankers' Association to refrain from further forgery. SAX QUEXTIN PRISON, Sept. With dignified 'read, smiling and in other ways showing every indication of happiness, Charles Becker, the prince of forgers, left San Quentin prison to-day, a free man.

He has served seven years. He stood for a moment as if to breathe the air of liberty, then turned around, facing the gate through which he entered In 1897, and muttered something unintelligible. Captain Russell of the prison guard awakened Becker from his reverie by a hearty handshake and a "Now. be good, Charley." Other prison attaches followed suit. To each one Keeker made some short reply, thanking them for their good wishes and advice, as well as thanking them for the treatment he had received during his Incarceration.

The prison "unlock" ia at 6 o'clock each morning, but last night Becker asked to be let out before the other convicts. His wish was complied with and at 5 o'clock his cell door was unfastened. When he came out he was attired in a gray suit, patent leather shoes and a blatk soft hat. When he reached the outside gate it was a Quarter to 6. Special Dispatch to The OH.

The next witness was the plaintiff himself. He told of his doings on the night of the shooting in the Thurman house. He' said he was in bed a little after 8 o'clock. The hat which was found in the Thurman house was shown to Roberts and he- said he thought it was hisT He told of a conversation with one Hedges the morning after the shooting. testimony was at variance with statements which Roberts swore to immediately after the shooting, and Judge Magulre of counsel for the defendant improved the opportunity to try and embarrass the plaintiff.

Finally the deposition was handed to the court. How long Roberts will be on the stand is hard to say. He will probably occupy the witness box all day to-morrow. Mark R. Plaisted, manager of the defendant company, was the first witness sworn for the plaintiff.

Plaisted identified the papers in which the objectionable articles appeared as Issues of the Democrat and testified 'as to the paper's circulation. MADERA. Sept The faking of testimony, in the case of Dick Roberts against the Fresno Democrat Publishing Company began to-day and Madera is on tiptoe of expectation. Madera wants to know who shot Sheriff Thurman and the people are waiting: for the sworn statement of the Sheriff himself. Heretofore he has refrained from discussing: the mysterious shooting affray in his own house.

Counsel for the plaintiff, in opening: today, announced that Thurman would testify, when he is put on the stand, that Roberts was not the man who fired the shots which wounded him. However, many believe that no one but the ex-SherliT himself knows what his testimony is to be. Testimony Now Being Taken in the Interesting Libel Oase. Convict Who Served Twenty- Year Term. Also Is Released.

Mysterious Disappearance of Southern California Cashier. PaFa Eedskins Excite Feajr in a ment Official. Becker Passes Out of San Quentin After Seven Years. Witness in the Roberts Case May Cause a Surprise. EMPLOYERS CHARGE HIM WITH THEFT INDIAN IRE MAY AROUSE AN ASSASSIN NOTED FORGER LEAVES PRISON MADERA EXPECTS SOME REVELATION RUEF'S RESIGNATION IS REQUESTED BY THE COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATION Meeting of the Advisory Council of the United Republican League Is Called Candidates on the Party Ticket Will 'Gather Thursday Night Next List of thb Election Officers Is Accepted THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 29.

1903. an official visit and declared to us that you will support a candidate for Mayor against the Republican candidate, Mr. Henry J. Crocker, and also stated that you would support all other candidates on the Republican ticket. The organization committee cannot reconcile your position in this matter with the avowed purposes which led to the formation of the United Republican League or with the public pledges and promises made by all the members of the committee prior to the recent primary election.

The organization committee has, therefore, unanimously decided to resignation. Respectfully, A P. WILLIAMS, President. J. STEPPACHER, Secretary.

-v SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 26V 1903. MR. A. RUEF, City Dear Sir Since the receipt of your communication requesting leave of absence from attendance at the meetings of the organization committee you have paid us BUMFORD FALLS, Sept. The mills of the International Paper Company did not reopen to-day, as expected, and the 700 hands remain idle.

The mill man- Demands of Union Hen Not Granted 5 ADVERTISEMENTS. Ean Francisco, Tuesday. 20 September, 1903. There's a kind of furniture you cannot buy here yet there is plenty of it on the market. It's the kind that is stuck, together in a hurry and rushed out of the fsctories to be sold by some retailers as "bargains." I Compare this sort of furniture with the kind that goes through our hands and the difference is invariably dis- covered sooner or later.

The desk shown here is a good example of our well- made furniture. Built of carefully seasoned wood and richly finished. A neat, refined pattern in two woods golden finish and maple, with birds-eye front. The draper beneath writing surface is of good size and has a gracefully swelled front. At fifteen dollars it is really an exceptional value.

(Formerly the California Furniture 957 to 977 Market Street, San Francisco ADVERTISEMENTS. I Come to-day if you possibly can. Our great removal sale, the largest ever held on the Pacific I I Coast, is drawing to an auspicious close. Each day the store has been crowded with customers wish to get their money's worth and who appreciate the safety of dealing with a house of unques- tj I tioncd honesty and integrity, whose record of S3 years in the lead in the music business on the Pacific I Coast rightfully commands the confidence of the public. The ability of Kohler Chase to offer the i best values in the market has maintained the house in the lead during these years, and when Kohler Chase cut prices the purchaser knows that he is not only receiving exceptional value, but that he is getting a good, honest piano.

We take a large number of pianos which are neither up to date nor good in exchange: these in- Jj struments we sell off at low prices, and give each purchaser the privilege of exchanging them at the full price paid within three years on a Knabe, Fischer. Hobart M. Cable, Kohler Chase or any other instrument we handle. No customer buying a low-priced instrument could desire better protection tl than this. The purchaser of the cheapest instrument in the house has this privilege.

I Our stock is now almost reduced enough, but we have advertised that the removal sale will continue I up to the day we. move, and as long as we have the pianos on our floor we will make this statement srooi. Our new store on the corner of Kearny and Post streets, diagonally opposite the White House, is almost ready, and no more pianos will be unboxed for our retail department at our old store at 30 CFarreH' 1 street. All the instruments now arriving will be held for the opening. Remember that Knabe.

Fis- cher, Hobart M. Cable and Kohler Chase pianos are all included in the sale, and besides a ereat many organs! Mason Hamlin and others, damaged and used Pianolas, Aeolians, small instruments, etc. If you desire an instrument it will p3y you to investigate the sale at once. We invite every ij intelligent purchaser to compare the values offered with those of any other house. We are amply able I to prove every statement contained in our advertisements.

Our reputation is too valuable for, us to allow any overdrawn or sensational description of pianos. I Every instrument in the house can be purchased on our well-known system of easy payments. The Kohler Chase plan makes it possible for any one to own a piano gj merely by making a small payment down and a small payment monthly. NOTE. Unscrupulous.

dealers have advertised that they can furnish the celebrated Knabe and Fischer pianos. We wish to inform the public that we represent Messrs. Wm. Knabe Co. and J.

C. Fischer in this territory and no other house can supply these celebrated goods. AH such statements are made to mislead and deceive the public. KOHLER CHASE 1 Now at 30 Q'Farrell Street. Later at Kearny and Post..