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Convict Is Stabbed to Death by Fellow Pris Press Associated Service Oakland Tribune. Edit Exclusive LAS VOL. LXXVII. WEATHER- Oakland Saturday; and moderate vicinity: north Fair wind. tonight and OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1912.

24 PAGES WAR NEAR WITH MEXIC MINERS BEGIN VOTING ON PLAN TO END THE STRIKE AN A3 AN AN SETTLEMENT CANNOT BE REACHED BEFORE EASTER Scann A Coal Mina in Grease Britain. of the Great Western Colliery, Pontypridd, Coming Out. Government Starts Work on Oil Storage Locks at New Naval Base CLEVELAND: March orders for a suspension of all operations in the anthracite mines beginning April 1, were issued. by the United Mine Workers of America this afternoon. President White said the suspension would be equal to a strike except that the men at the pumps and others necessary to protect mine property would be kept at work.

LONDON, March royal assent was given to the minimum wage. bill at noon today. Balloting began today in all the districts of the United Kingdom on the question whether the million miners now on strike should return work pending the decision of the district courts, to be appointed under the government's minimum wage act, on the rates of wages in the various centers. In some cases the result of the balloting will be known this week. The colliers connected with the Brynkinalle mine at Chirk, Wales, already have voted on the question and the proportion of 5 to 2 of the men is in favor of resuming.

considerable number of miners. went into the pits In various districts today. Some 2000 men resumed work in the collieries of Warwickshire and the miners of Lanarkshire are returning in Increasing numbers, making a stipulation that their wages shall 'be paid tomorrow as they and their families are starving. The full returns of the balloting will not be officially announced until April 4, and it probably will be after Easter before all the miners return to work. From now on, however, it is expected that greater numbers will resume each day.

The total cost of the strike to the miners' unions to date has been $5,216,250, and the balance left in the union treasuries now amounts to only $4,750,000, most of which is invested in securities which will not bring their full value under forced sale. Besides the total spent by the miners' unions, the organizations connected with other. trades have distributed nearly $2,500,000 in out-ofwork benefits to their members. The admiralty has learned a lesson from the strike and has begun working out plans for immediate oil and coal storage locks at the new naval base at Rosyth, in Scotland. 'WANTED---MAN MAN TO THRASH WIFE HE DOES Woman Adverlises For and Secures Youth, Who Thrashes Husband WANTED A man to thrash a wife-beater.

"Ten dollars reward. Easy work. Mrs. R. B.

Gillies, 116 Nob Hill avenue. SEATTLE, March advertisement appeared yesterday. and eight men applied for the job. The first applicant was a little fellow and Mrs. Gillies sent him away.

The second, a husky youth, said it would be A pleasure to do the work for $5. Mrs. Gillies engaged him at once and gave him instructions. Her hisband 'must not be permanently disfigured or disabled, but must be slapped, choked, knocked down and rolled the floor. When Robert Bent.

Gillies, aged 53, formerly a water broker, returned home late in the afternoon Mrs. Gillies and the youth were waiting for him. Mrs. Gillies, telling the story today, said her, young man's work was so, excellent that she compelled him to take the -full $10 fee. Gillies could not be seen today.

The couple have been married ten years. Both are old residents of Seattle. Before advertising Mrs. Gillies had complained to the mayor, chief of police and prosecuting attorney without satisfactory results, she said. Child Crawls Over Snow in Order to Go to School' LAWRENCE, March Hazel.

Orr, a 10-year-old girl, main- tained a perfect record for attendance at a country school this winter by crawling on the frozen- now for an eighth of a Her tencher toll LAS Edit GOLDMANJAIL UTTERED THREAT Daughter of Roland W. Snow Tells of Encounter on Rawhide Streets Both Victims of Duel in First Congregational Church Are Buried, Today The funeral services over the body of former Mayor Roland W. Snow of Oakland, who was killed in a duel with Adolf Goldman in the First Congregational Church Wednesday night, were held this afternoon at the James Taylor undertaking parlors. The ceremony was private. only immediate relatives being present.

The services were read by Rev. J. McLean, former pastor of the First Congregational Church and a life-long friend of the dead man, President C. G. Nash of the Pacific Theological Seminary.

The remains were cremated at the Oakland Crematory. John Kenty, formerly Gertrude" Snow, daughter of the former mayor, arrived in. Berkeley this morning from her home Navada and is at the home of her cousin, Professor David P. Barrows of the University of California. The ashes will be shipped to Nordheft, Ventura county, where they will balburied beside the remains of Mrs.

ow, the late wife of the deceased ayor. The funeral services were extremely simple and were attended only by the immediate relatives of the de- ceased. TELLS OF VIOLENCE. Following her arrival this morning Mrs. Kenty told of being threatened with violence Adolph Coldman a month ago at Rawhide, bra has been living.

Mrs. Kenty said: she, have not seen my father for about 8. year prior to his death. A year ago he left Rawhide, where my husband and I were living, ostensibly to. escape Goldman.

Goldman, however, to Rawhide after that carom time expecting to find my father still there. Seeing him on the street one day I feared for my own safety and sought the protection of the marshal's office of Rawhide. was accompanied by a deputy. marshal along the main street o' Rawhide one day in February when we came face face Goldman. He demanded to know Where my lather was, but I refused absolutely to give him any' information.

He decared that he would see that I did and threatened me with violence in case I continued in my refusal. He was ordered by the deputy marshal to have me alone and threatened with arrest if he continued his threats. Since that time I heard nothing more of him until yesterday morning, when I received a telegram from my uncle, Pro- (Continued on Page 2. Col. 5) FEUD ENDS IN DEATH Victim's Throat Cut as He Sat at Breakfast Table in Jail Slayer Declares He Killed Negro in Order to Save Own Life LINCOLN, March Charles Davis stabbed and killed Convict John Strong, a negro, at the state penitentiary this morning while the inmates of the prison were leaving the breakfast table, When the gong sounded to clear the convicts from the' "table Strong leaped from his place onto the table in front of him, ran down the aisle and out of the door into the cell house, blood streaming from a gash in his throat.

Guard Charles Berry jumped to the side of Davis, who was holding a blood-stained knife in his hand, and arrested him. The rest of the men filed out of the dining room in orderly fashion. Davis is said to have been frequently threatened by Strong and claims he killed the negro to save himself. Strong, with a brother, was sent to the prison for second degree murder, was serving a life sentence, has bad record, having frequently secreted a knife and used it on fellow convicts with whom he had a grievance. Davis was seated directly behind the man he killed.

Leaning over the interposing he seized Strong by the throat and plunged the knife into it, drawing the blade backward to the right ear. The windpipe. and the large arteries were severed. SPECTATORS ARMED. Almost break of day farmers' SPRINGFIELD, March teams began to line up at hitch racks in front of the general stores of the village and the crowd began gathering in front of the little operahouse, where is being held today the inquest over the body of Roy Blunt, Innocent victhn ten days ago of a battle against three escaped convicts.

Chief of Police Donohue of Omaha, with nineteen policemen of that city were among the witnesses. County Attorney Jamieson consulted with attorneys and officials and. decided no' attempt would be made to disarm those present, although it was known that many came armed. Members of the families of the dead man and his wife were seated near the jury. The young- widow, at times oblivious of what was happening about her, sat with lowered eyes.

Sheriff Grant Chase testified that one of the convicts fired the shot which killed the young farmer. Chief of Police John Briggs, who led the officers, said the convicts were the first to open fire. could not tell whether any one the dead men die was a victim of his bullets. STUDY WELL LESSON OF UNEARNED INCREMENT The following editorial appared in THE TRIBUNE of Tuesday evening, March 26. It is here r'-published by request as a vital contribution to the Hotel Oakland subscription campaign.

THE LESSON OF UNEARNED INCREMENT. A gentleman who owns sone very valuable, property in Oakland which be purchased nany years for less than the annual rental he receives fom it, today declined to subscribe for stock in the new Hotel Oakland on the ground that "nobody in Oakland ever helpel him." He is mistaken. Everybod, in Oakland has helped him. He is being helped by every dolor spent for public and private, improvements in this city. Evey new building erected, every new store opened, every new irdustry established contributes to increase the value of his property.

Every family added to the population becomes a part of his investment and helps him to amass wealth. By the transmuting process of business a part of the money expended on the new hotel becomes his private property. Did this gentleman ever stuly the meaning of unearned dncrement? Ninety per cent of ill his wealth is unearned increment. He invested a small sim in his real estate holdings and the people of Oakland incriased the value of the investment ten fold. What the peope contributed to increase his original Investment is unearned Increment.

He did little or nothing to firease the value of his erty. The people of Oakland die that work for him. As propand business increased he erected buildings pop- his ulation on property because tenants were- nady to lease them at a high rental. He did nothing to bring people here, but has been enriched because people did cont here in increasing numbers. The community at represents all but a small fraction of the value of his property.

So he is entirely wrong in saing nobody in Oakland ever helped him. He 1s equally wrong in assuming that the new hotel will not help him. It willhelp him. 'It will help every real estate owner in the city, beause it will contribute materially to an advance in propery values. It will bring people and business here, encourap investment and stimulate other improvements.

The gentleman we allude to, and all like him or situated as he ought to subscribe for a block of hotel stock as a partial return. for the unearned Increment which constitutes the bulk of his fortune. U.S. TO 501 Berkeleyan Caught by Shaft and Killed Body of Workman Is Horribly Mangled When Tangled in Machinery. SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, S.

H. Brown, a machinist employed by the Great Western Melting and Refining Company, met a horrible death this afternoon. He was at work on some machinery in a lot at the company's plant at Folsom and Speer streets, when water pipe broke or he took a misstep, and was whirled around the shaft. His clothes were torn ribbons and his body was so badly crushed that he lived only until the Harbor Hospital was reached. His home is in Berkeley.

Valuation of All Railroads Authorized Measure Reported Today Enlarges Power of Interstate Commerce Commission. WASHINGTON, March cal valuation of all the railroads, of the United States is authorized in a bill reported unanimously to the House today by the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. The measure enlarges the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission and empowers it to make the valuation to fix and adjust rates. Bishop Dies at 85, Leaving 27 Children Secretary of Brigham Young Also Mourned by Widow and 14 Great Grand Children. SALT LAKE CITY, March Hyrum B.

Clawson, a pioneer of 1848, secretary to Brigham Young, first ager of the Zion's Co-operative cantile Institution and of. the Salt Lake theater, died here last night, aged 85. He leaves a widow, twnety-seven children, -145 grand children and 14 great grand children. Bill to Abolish Court Is Favored U. S.

Commerce Tribunal to Be Ousted If Majority Report Goes Through. WASHINGTON: March bill to abolish the United States Commerce Court was favorably reported to the House today by Renresentative. Sims for the majority of the interstate and I foreign commerce committee. Morgan Line Will Hold Entire to Transport Son Hundreds of Rifles anar volvers to Be Distributed Among Foreigners NEW YORK, March 29. were rife here today that the federal government had asked the Morgan Steamship line, plying between New York, Galveston, New Orleans and Havana to hold its entire fleet in readiness for transportation of provisions, war supplies 2 troops to be forwarded to the Texas and Mexican borders at a short notice.

This rumor became current prior to a dispatch from Washington announcing the State Department had ordered arms and ammunition sent in the care of Ambassador Wilson in Mexico City for distribution to responsible citizens of the United States Beet Interests to Fight Free Sugar Trust Is Accused of Trying to Put Measure Through Congress. MILWAUKEE, March -Truman G. Palmer, secretary of the executive committee of the United States beet sugar industry, was selected today to conduct the fight of the beet sugar men against the free sugar bill: before the senate finance committee next week. It is said the beet sugar men will charge that the sugar trust is back of the bill in an effort to force the beet sugar men out of business. "Free sugar means practical confiscation of $100.000,000 now involved in beet sugar factories in the United said C.

S. Morey of Colorado. Attempt Is Made To Oust Rieber Executor Accused of Failing SAN FRANCISCO, March pctition was filed in Judge Graham's court today in the estate of. Almon Danforth Hodges, 3 former Berkeley professor, asking for the removal of Prof. Charles H.

Rieber, as executor. The 3p- plication is made by O. Albert Bernard, who is the guardian of Fred Hedges, the Incompetent son the decedent. The claim is made that Rieber has neglected to file a proper report on the property which is said to be valued in excess of $200,000. Vetoes Resolution Passed by Congress to Account for Estate.

President Taft Disapproves the Plan to Establish a Maneuver Camp. WASHINGTON, March Taft vetoed today the joint resolution passed by Congress- to provide for the establishment of a permanent maneuver camp for regular troops and militia near Anniston, Ala. Miners Buried Alive In English Quarry Roof Falls in, Killing Fourteen Who Are at Work On Outcrop of Coal. SHEFFIEL England. March Fourteen buried the WASHINGTON, March Secretary of State Wilson today confirmed a report from Mexico City that all dependable Americans were to be armed for their own defense and other foreign governments were to take like safeguards, It was announced that Ambassador Wilson would distribute to the Americans the 1000 army rifles and revolvers now enroute.

The Mexican government countenances the arming of foreigners. President Taft waived the recent neutrality proclamation in the case a shipment of arms which left New York is understood the Mexican government would not assess duties against these arms or against those being shipped from European nations for the use of their subjects. Some of the details of a recent meeting of Americans in Mexleo City to formulate plans for self were given out today. It was proposed that all Americans should be armed. The proposition was.

submitted to President Madero and he acquiesced and admitted it to be necessary precaution against a rough element in Mexico City which would not hesitate to take advantage of the dispatch of government troops from the capital. According to reports to the State Department, unorganized robber gangs in Durango have taken encouragement from the successes of Orozco in Chihuahua and it is feared they will become unmanageable should the federals in that state be withdrawn for duty in other sections. BOTH SIDES SUFFER. NOGALES, Ariz, March -Each suffered heavy losses and each claimed al victory in the battle be(Continued on Page 2. Col.

4.) The Association of AmorAdvertisers has examined and certified to the circulation of this pubthe figures of circulation contained in the Association's are guaranteed. American day wrote to County Superintendent Hawley of the girl's feat. The snow being over HAzel's head, she found that by crawling over the top not break through, and in this.