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:-r* " v- v*-vv " ' r'V' r;V r" - ' TA . j " 1 ' -"'V '' ' ' . v ' ' ri ; - . KINTTO BELOiAHSi New Immigrants are Well I Treated in the South. i j INVESTIGATION IS MADE ! Baron Moncheur, Belgian Rcpresen- ; tative at Washington, Mafces a Special Tour and Gives Out Good Report. j I Baron Moncheur. th:? Belgian min- i ister, who has just returned to Wash- ! ington from a visit to South Caro- | lina, where he went to investigate j the condition of the Belgians who j came over on the Wittekind, finds j the south a good place for his people. He finds, after ten days of investigation, that the reports of dissatisi faction have been exaggerated, and that the Belgian immigrants are very well satisfied and have no complaint to make. The baron commented on the lower wage scale in the south as being the only possible ground for dissatisfaction. His investigations did not cover the cheap cost of living in the south, and he was not prepared to say that lower prices of commodities balanced lower wages'. In the party brought over by Commissioner E. J. Watson, of South j Carolina, last winter there were about i 30o Belgians, who are ^aow employed 1 in the cotton mills, aud in various trades in South Carolina. Since then South Carolina and* other southern states have sought to induce new immigrants, anu particularly Belgians, to come in. > Speaking of these Belgians in South Carolina, Baron Mopcheur said: "I saw all of them except a few who are scattered, and they had very litV tie complaint to make of the treatment which they are receiving. Of course, there are a few who are not satisfied, but they are very few. I visited them at their work iu the cotton mills, and they told me that they were pleased with their labors and the treatment given them. "1 have no criticism to make of t the work they are doing in the mills. It is not hard work at all, and they rmake very fair wages. It is the kind .of work which would suit a large number of our people, especially those having families. A boy or a girl 12 to 14 years of age and upward can easily make 50 cents a day and more in the mills. 'Of course, the masons and carpenters earn better wages. Those who come over and follow these trades are experienced men, and good, steady workmen. They find plenty of work to do, and are paid well, as I have found. "It would be a great deal better if .? there were a good sized colony in ' the state, such as there is near Rochester, N. Y. Our people there are getting along nicely, and are satisfied, and it is particularly because a number of them are together." Concerning those who left South Carolina dissatisfied, Baron Moncheur said that the number was not very . large. "Those who left would probably not have been satisfied under any circumstances," he said. "The propor* tion that has left South Carolina dissatisfied is not any greater than that which has left other states. We have bad some complaints from the immiN grants who went there, but not many. On the whole, they have gone to work there and are contented.'' Several reports have been circulated since the Baron returned to Washington to the effect that he was advising, or had advised his people against going to the south on account of the negro. Baron Moncheur said that this was entirely erroneous. "I V see no reason why the negro should deter anybody. My observation -is the white people and the negro in the south do not associate, either socially or at work. They do not work together in the cotton mills or in any other industry. The one way in which the negro is at all to be considered , in this connection is that the negroes in the cotton fields and elsewhere on the farm can work for cheaper wages than our people, and hence our people could scarcely expec; to compete with these laborers on the farm. Otherwise, the negro has nothing to do with the case, and if you hear that I have advised any of our people not to go south, you may say tor me that it is simply not so. 1 have never advised anything of the kind -any^ere." r Census of District of Columbia. A police census just completed at Washington gives the population of . the District of Columbia as 321),391, of t.hom 96,1 S3 are negroes. / HARRIMAN IMPORTS LABOR. fc P.aiircracl Magnate Will Experiment With Russians and Chinese. A London special says: E. 11. Hurriman, the American railway mag. nate, will experiment with Chinese and Iiussiahis as workmen in building a line in Mexico, and 1.400 laborers are now on their way from Vladivostok to Mexico for that purpose. 9 * ",r ' >" r. < ?*?* ' : r? - . r<T" \ Ci . ., ... ... "deadly work of blast."] Premature Explosion Kills Several i | Men, Hurls Train Into Creek and Wrecks Nearby Buildings. ( A Chattanooga speciai says: Three j I men killed outright, three others so j ; seriously injured .that they will die, j and two others badly injured in ad- j ! d it ion to the crashing of a Southern j j i railway freight engine and eleven cars j through a bridge into Chattanooga I ! creek and the destruction of three j ' residences and a pile driver nearby, j was the result of a premature explo- j nr 5-m n'rlnnu- Thursdav after- i ; noon of a blast at the foot of Look-' ! out mountain on the Stevc-nson exten1 sin which is being constructed by W. J. Oliver & Co. The bridge was crushed in by sev* j l eral tons of rock hurled by the blast just as the Southern railway freight i train Nq. 11 was going on the bridge. Other pieces of rock hurled for four | hundred yards crashed through the pilot of the pile driver of the Xash| ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis rail! road, which was at work driving piles ! in Chattanooga creek for a new viaduct, killing Engineer Shaefer and Fireman Hyder instantly. Other pieces of rock hurled five \ and six hundred yards struck the res- ! idences on the side of Lookout moun- j j tain, crashing through the roof and ! floors of the buildings. Several men who were working on i j the new line some distance from the I ' hioct wprp struck bv flying pieces of I rock. Two of them are at tile hospital j in a serious condition. The blast was set off by J. Ford, j a powder man for the Yarnell Broth- i ers, contractors for Oliver, against the j instructions of the contractors. He had only been employed by the company for a short time. At a late hour he could not be located. The blast was | one of the heaviest ever used on work j in this section of the country. No ! warning was given to the residents j in the vicinity or to the, Nashville, i Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad, | whose property was destroyed. | OFFICIALS ARE INDICTED I As Result of Confession of "Boss" Ruef in 'Frisco?Grand Jury Hears From Him ancj Takes Action. A San Francisco special says; Abraham Ruef Thursday made good his declaration of Wednesday that he would, following his change of plea of guilty in the extortion case against i him, turn state's evidence and assist the bribery graft prosecution in Its campaign against municipal corrup- J tion. Ruef, obeying a subpena from the i "* ? tVia ! grand jury, servea upuu jihu ai cuv < Fillmore street prison house shortly before 3 o'clock, went in the charge of Special Agent Burns, Elisor Biggy and another guard to the grand jury chamber, where he took the witness stand and submitted to aa examlnaj tion that lasted from 3:20 o'clock un! til after 5 p. in. j When the ordeal was over he called the newspaper men around him and j said that he had promised the grand J jury to divulge nothing. District At- j torney Langdon and Assistant District j Attorney Heney refused to make any j statement whatever. From Special j i Agent Burns it was learned that the j | only matter in which Ruef was ques- j 1 tioned was the alleged bribing of I Mayor Schmitz and eighteen supervisors by the United railroads to 1 grant to that corporation a change In its franchise allowing the electrifying of its 250 miles of street railway system. \f Burns' understanding of Ruef's testimony is correct the fallen boss told the grand jury that President Patrick Calhoun, Assistant President I j Mullaly, Chief Counsel Ford and Asi sistant Counsel Abbott of the United ! Railroads, paid or caused to be paid the sum of $200,GOO for the provision named; that $01,000 of this amount was Ruef's "fee;" thai $50,000 went into the pocket of Mayor Schmitz and that the remaining $00,000 was hand! ed to the eighteen supervisors, sixi teen of them receiving $4,000 each, j another demanding and getting $10,! 00o and Chairman Galagher of the . finance committee, being paid $13,000 for acting as go-between. BOTH SIDES STAND FIRM. i ! Longshoremen's Strike at New York l Beina Sitterlv Waqed. | Both the representatives of th9 ! trans-Atlantic steamship companies j and the striking longshoremen at ! New York maintain a firm position in j their respective stands. 1 The steamship men declare that i they are moving ships and such I freight as may be speedily handled j with the aid of non-union men. | ASHEVSLLE IS CHOSEN I As Place of Meeting of Next General Conference of Methodists. } The next general conference o? the ! Methodist Episcopal Church, South, | will be held at Asheville, N. C., in | 1910. Such was the decision reached I at Nashville Wednesday by ihe spe( j cial committee to decide the matter ! appointed at the last general conferj ence in Birmingham, Ala. OKLAHOMA HELD UP J } I Republicans Determined Not } to Admit New State. j ! WOULD BE INADVISABLE ! j i For Poiitical Reasons Hold-Up May j Be Successfully Carried Out. Plan is to Turn Down Newly Maopica VrfUnsxuuxion. A Washington special says: The pious unction with which the republican leaders are proceeding in the attempt to withhold statehood from Oklahoma and the high moral grounds on which they rest their objections are really impressive. . In the enabling act, passed by congress and approved by President Roosevelt on June 16, 1906, it was set forth that there should be five congressional districts in the territory of Oklahoma and Indian Territory, when they were admitted to the union as one state. This wouid give Oklahoma five representatives in congress and two senators, thus entitling her to cast seven votes in the electoral college. Of course the advocates of admission were reasonably sure that these were going to be good republican votes. The first election, however, completely disabused the minds of all. Such an overwhelming evidence of the democratic tendencies of the people was abundant proof to republicans that Oklahoma was "undesirable." They were tiying to convince PrtsiPoMcovolr nl<?n that it would not UVUV xvv/wwv?^iv be wise to permit these seven dcm- I oCratic electoral votes to unfavorably complicate the situation when a rof publican president is to be elected next year. The men who were grooming themselves to be republican seni ators and representatives are sure it would not be wise; it might be disastrous. The constitution of the new state, framed by democrats who were duly and regularly elected by the people to draft their fundamental law, is being carefully and painfully scrutinized in the search for flaws. If a technicality can be discovered which will furnish grounds for exclusion there will be no need to resort to the legislative club, which is held by the republican majority in both houses. Then, too, the high moral grounds can be maintained. In the act of congress making provision for the admission of the new state it was provided that the fol- lowing features should be incorporated in the new constitution; "Perfect toleration of religious sentiment. "Prohibition of traffic in alcoholic liauors for a period of twenty-one years in the parts of the state now known as Indian Territory, the Osage Indian reservation and in other parts of the state which existed as Indian I ? reservations on January l, 19Wo. "Prohibition of polygamous and i plural marriages. I "Release of the public lands within the state to the United States. - " Payment of the debts of the territory of Oklahoma by the state of Oklahoma. "Establishment of public schools, allowing separate schools for white and negro children. , "The right of franchise unrestricted on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude." There is also a further injunction tl^at a republican form of government must be secured. The 110 delegates to the convention adopted a document which they believed encompassed all the instructions given them by congress and later by the president on the subject of jim crow cars and the control of corporations. This done, the democrats made such disposition of the I legislative districts that the republii cans claim it will be impossible for them ever to elect a United States senator. MISSION FUND APPORTIONED. i Board of Methodist Church, South, Completes Its Work. j The woik of the mission board of \.y m r'Viiicfth sirmth was coil- 1 j LIIC -VX. iJ. s^uuivu^ MVMbM) eluded at. Nashville, Tenn., Friday, alter tile adoption of a plan tor me inauguration of horn . ;sions au.l { the apportionment ol' uie fund to bo J raised for the work in the foreign field during the ensuing year. The total amount appropriated to the mission conferences for the ensuing year was $3S3,4S3, and the total i amount to be raised by the home cont ference is $S0G,t>31.5J. ! i j INCREASE FOR OPERATIVES. I ! ..? c?nianS Mills Will Make Ad j hew j_.ia. vance of Ten Per Cent. J According to advices I'roni the lead- \ ing cotton mill centers of southern j New England fully So,0t)0 operatives ! j will have their wages advanced about j lu per cent. j The latest upward movement in mill j v.jjiges originated in Fall River, where I a new agreement recently announced j provides for a higher schedule slay 27. j GOULDS ARE AT OUTS. Deserted Wife of Howard Drags Her Hubby Into Divorce Court Under Salacious Allegations. At Xew York Monday, Mrs. Howard Gould filed against her husband, the millionaire yachtsman, a suit for separation, one of her most astonishing aiegations being that because of his personal habits he is an improper person 10 live with. The com- | plaint is highly sensational, charging j Gould with consorting with uumer-1 ous women. Almos;;: as astounding as the actual j beginning of the already famous di- j vorce case are developments iu the I investigation into the use of police headquarters detectives by Howard Gouid -against Mrs. Gould. District Attorney Jerome will consult with Police Commissioner Bingham, going , over all of the evidence thus far adduced in the case with the possible result that he may begin a grand jury proceeding to see just what there is j to the conspiracy charged by Mrs. j Gould. Mrs. Gould's complaint gainst her j husband covers every one of the four grounds on which it is possible to secure a separtion. Under the first j charge, that he is not a proper person to live with, it is said that some ! exceedingly distressing facts will be' presented in the bill of particulars ?r at the time ef the trial. The second charge is that he abandoned her. Since last July Mrs. Gouid j has been living at the St. Regis, recognized for some time as the city home of the Gouids, and her husband has not once visited her. Non-support is the third ailegtaion. In September last Gould is said to I have discontinued providing Mrs. I j Gould with funds, and until very recently she is said not to have re- I ceived a single penny from him. Under the fourth charge, that of cruel and inhuman treatment, many specifications are made, one of which is that Gould, at the time of their separation, sent notices to all of the! trades people with whom he has been dealing instructing them not to give her any credit if they had any idea of collecting their accounts from him. This was at a ti>ie when he was trying to force her to accept his terms in the financial feature of their sep- j aration, and she charges that in this ! way he endeavored to compel her to I submit to his wishes. Another of the specifications is that J . he has humiliated her, constantly J surrounding her with detectives, caus-1 ing her mail to be opened and subjecting her to many similar annoy-j ances. A friend of Mrs. Gould says that when details are presented to the court, Mrs. Gould will state that one of the worst, of the many indignities heaped upon her was the fact that ??*' - ? ?-- li-irlnrr Tt tVWA Sf Re Wllllfi ciltf v. tto iume gis hotel her husband was openly paying attentions to another woman living at the same hotel. "Mrs. Gould knows that her hus band is worth at least $20,000,000,' said a friend of thh lady, "and thai he has an assured income of $1,000,oOO a year, and she asks for alimony at the rate of $100,000 a year during the time the case is in court. At the time of the trial she will make a demand for permanent alimony or $180,000 a year." Counsel for Mrs. Howard Gould said that the suit will be tried in open court, adding: * "Mrs. Gould desires that full publicity be given to it, and she refuses to spare any one engaged in the plot against her." EXPLOIT OF NEGRO CONVICT. Captures Ten of His Fellow Prisoners Who rtad Escaped. Fourteen additional misdemeanor convicts have escaped from the Sumter county, Georgia, chaingang, making a round total of about thirty escaping" leceiitly, and costing the county thousands of dollars. Tne. fourteen psranins. disarmed two of the three guards, while ihe third guard is reported to have ded the scene, the convicts deriding him, as he sprinted after the fourteen escapes, who had been gone some hours. Another-convict, Brady Reddick, found the gun of the decamping guard, and thus armed pursued the fugitives. He captured ten of his fellow prisoners, and returned th^m tc camp at the point of his gun, after wards chaining them. This brilliant feat of a negro convict is applauded by the citizens, oi Americiis. The four convicts who finally go; away had ail escaped previously^ and were recaptured within the past month at a cost of $500 to the county in rewards and expenses. DIAZ MAKING A BLUFF. Kr- ? A r?i Reinn Sent tc !V!CA:wCU I I i Wj.0 ? W 3 Guatemalan Frontier. Mexican troops "^.rc being removed to the Guatemalan frontier. This information reached the Mexican capi tal in a private telegram Monday, la what numbers or for what purposes these soldiers are being moved southward is not known outside oi ohicia circies. AND STILL ft i wr m Ha=- ill C\ till L XV n\ ft' Ml I'ij <** p&dj) uf\ THE SEA GIVES UP TWO MONTH-LONG BATTLE ON SHIPBOARD BETWEEN CHINESE AND RUSSIANS A Thousand Rabid Cooiies and Maddened Peasants Engage in Deadly Combat at AH Hours of the Day and Night During Maori King's Last ' Trans-Pacific Yoyage. ' San Diego. Cal.?With nearly 1000 enraged Chinese and 200 maddened j Russians rushing in mobs at each other, thirsting for blood and a fight to the death while a helpless crew of i half a hundred friendly Chinese and three lonely English officers stood between the murderous assaults in <iu euui l lu siup lite icai iui tai uagc only to be set upon by both forces, while a crowded ship rolled wildly in a fierce storm?such was the awful, experience on board the British ship , Maori King, which sought San Diego Harbor, forced to run for refuge here in order to prevent what appeared to be certain wholesale slaughter. As a result of the race war six Russians and two Chinese lie dead and more than 200 are dangerously wounded from knife thrusts. According to Captain J. W. Duncan, in command of the stricken ship, the Maori King left Vladivostok with 921 Chinese. 417 Russians, a crew of fiftysix Chinese, who had long been in the service of the boat and their officers; Captain Duncan, First Officer T. S. Vernon and Second Officer T. H. Oxlev. It appears that a Chinese contractor, Lee Sun Sai, lured the Chinese on board the ship from the vicinity of Harbin on a promise to land them in San Francisco. When two days out he told thera a mistake had been made, and the boat would land them at Guayamas, Mexico. Oil learning of this deception the Chinese broke out in mutiny, chased the officers of the ship into their cabins, attacked those of the Chinese crew who remained faithful and then started a race 'war on the Russians. * The officers finally fought their way out, and, after shooting a score - : ?j > ?i oi tiie umnese, regameu cuuuui u*. | the ship. All of the horrors of mutiny rampant with a horde of rabid coolies of the lowest and basest type engaging in deadly combat all hours of the day and night for nearly a month, were intensified by the filth of the passengers and the rotten decks, unwashed and putrefying with a thick coating of offal, blood and foul garbage. Disease broke out among the Chinese, making the situation worse. As they refused to allow the surgeon near them over a hundred died like rats and were thrown overboard. ' It was a real hell ship," according to First Officer T. S. Vernon, "and I have seen some pretty tough lots in my time. "Just a week ago we were caught in a frightful storm. Even with a free crew we would have had great ^difficulty in riding her out. - But with a row going on between the Russians and the Chinese it was awful. * The propeller shaft smashed through its steel case and it took lis two days to repair it. All of this time we were j being beaten to and fro in a raging j storm, the waves washing clear over j the decks. But the Chinese and | ! Russians were bent on murdering : ! each other, and the battle still went j on. Then the Chinese called for the j life of Lee Sun Sai, the contractor. "During the blackest night, the Chinese, most of them stripped bare' ! to the waist, their brown bodies slick and shining in the lightning flashes, j surged back and forcli, nearly a thou- j sand of them, brandishing long J ! knives and screaming hoarsely in J their hideous gibberish like so many i fiends on Walpurgis night. "They rushed at the Russians again ! and again, cutting and slashing and | stabbing. The officers were simply ; helpless." British Vice-Consul Allen Hutch- ' inson has appealed to the military \ j authorities, and orders have been re- i i ceived from Washington that as many j j soldiers as necessary to quell the mu- j ; tineers be detailed from Fort Rose- j crans. Captain Dnncan asks that the United States allow a guard to accompany the Maori King to Guayamas. as the Chinese cannot be landed j oil this side. : : Bull i in ore Goes Democratic. I Barry Mahool, Democrat, and ! | President of the First Branch, City . : Council, v.rs elected Mayor of Balti-! | mere over K. Clay Timanus. Repub- j ! lican. the present incumbent, by a ' i majority ci' about 4000. | : ? ; Trust Prosecutions La^. Attorney-General Bonaparte let i trust prosecutions stagnate, spending ! nearly all his time in Baltimore, and j when questioned by President Roose-! veli ^aid he had been ill. i - '. ' "'A It RISES. "? : I if" ' | 1 ?From the Pittsburg Dispatch. mrmrrTTiTfr 1TMITO OfFABTDO '"->^1 lMlLLIWLr MHO oiviuna WRECK OF SHIP IN WHICH EARL * '|j SOUGHT BURIED COCOS TREASURE < :| Noble Patron of Gold Hunters and Hi* Wife !l Narrowly Escape With the Crew ol the Attiquic?Golden Goddess . J| With Mantle of Gems Still Unrescned. :M New Orleans, La.?Toe Anselm, Jfl just arrived in port, brought the crew of the steamer /Attiquin, a private s'|S vessel belonging to the Earl Fitzwilliam. The Attiquin was a large vessel, built after the style pf an auxiliary; cruiser. She cleared from Bristol,' ^fl England, stopped at Tampa and Be- *'|jS lize, British Honduras, which point she left for a voyage around Cape r'*JB Horn, her destination being Cocos j Island, off the west coast of Central v :3| America, where it was the intention of the Earl, her owner, to -search far i'M treasure. N The vessel was beached and ,3 wrecked off the coast of Honduras and is a complete loss. \ \ The owner and crew escaned nar- i '.'JS rawly with their lives. The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam went to Belize, where they were cared for by the British colonial authorities, while the crew were sent to New Orleans. They gfaj will be forwarded from here to New ^ This is the second expedition sent 'M out by Earl Fitzwilliam within the past three years to uncover the fabled treasure on Cocos Island that has H come to grief. In the latter paH ot'-xIM 1904 the steamer Veronique, which was chartered for the purpose by . JM Earl Fitzwilliam, carried the Earl, Admiral Palliser, retired; of the Brit- ? ; ish navy; Colonel Carter, of the Qrit- yljB ish army, and several other friends of Earl Fitzwilliam to the famonsv^|j9'1 treasure island off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The Earl stopped at Jamaica and . - -fa took op. two expert miners and 'six- '-ia teeh negro laborers, with a mass bf /i'JS equipment and supplies. The steam- M er finally got to Cocos after a rough trip around the Horn. When the -|fl party got to the island an old German, who was about the only resident of ^ the place, told the Englishmen that if they looked in the right place they could find 6,000,000 pounds of treasure and a golden statue of a goddess -1| robed in >a costume of royal gems. The jGerman said that he guessed the y Wk statue was buried under a cliff that overlooked the sea. The miners prepared to blow up >-.&M the cliff and get at the statue in that way, but a premature blast blew the top of the cliff down on top of them, 'jifl Those who escaped went to work to dig out their comrades, assisted by;' ^i|| the Earl. There was a landslide, v|| which buried the Earl and his men 1 in the sand, and gave him a fractured | skull. A dozen of the men were sent / ..*a 10 the American Hospital at Ancon, Panama. As soon as the Earl was yM able to travel he and his friends went back home. Earl Fitzwilliam was born In Canada and was the oldest son of Viscount Milton, M. P., and Laura, daughter of Lord Charles Beauclerk. \'-M He married a daughter of the Mar- & quis of Zetland. He succeeded his -4$ grandfather?' the sixth Earl Fitzwill- ,t|aB iara, in 1902. He carried dispatches ,-j| for the army headquarters staff during the Boer war, for which he re-, ceived the Order of Distinguished ' ^> Merit. He is Master of the Went- ?|fl worth Hounds and the Wicklow Harriers. He has vast estates in York- .-s shire and in County Wicklow, Ire- |j land, which are said to aggregate || 115,000 acres, from which he derives ^ au income of more than $500,000 a . year. He is one of the wealthiest peers of the empire. The Cocos treasure is supposed to -J have got. there in 1820, when there was a big revolt in Peru and tfie wealthy citizens at Callao took their valuables out and buried them on the : ^ islarid. While they were going back i* to Peru a sloop of war sunk all on >rv board but two men. The story runs 3! that these two. men finally got back *> to the island'and picked up $7500 j worth of treasure, but on the way "'t back one of them was eaten by sharks. The other fitted up a ship ^ at Panama for treasure hunting pur poses, but was arrested and narrowly escaped being executed. Then lie died a natural death. . "Silent" Smith's Will. Following the funeral services the | contents of James Henry Smith's v.-111 were inaae Known in iui?. City. His estate is estimated at ' 325,000,000, of which the widow re- ^ ceives 52.000,000. Two nephews are the principal beneficiaries. ' '*<** ^ * #3S Panic Costly to Florists. The panic in stocks in March cost r lie florists of New York City half a million dollars in lessened sales during the week before Easter. t ^