a I IIIIIIIII III III QUIT. Despite the Promises Maxie. to Strike They Resumed Work. ' DAWN AND DISAPPQINTMENT The-Situation at the Oak Hill Mine—De . Armitt and the Labor Leaders Dif- fer—[The Little Town of Roanoke _. (1115.) Is Once More Quiet. Pittsburg, July"31.—After a long and weary night of waiting to learn the re- sults of the meetings of the miners of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal company the camping strikers were a disappointed lot of then today, for the expected exodus from the Plum Creek, Sandy Creek and Oak Hill mines did not occur. The miners did not quit work as they promised to, do last night, and all the mines were in operation today. Until daylight the indications were that the strikers had won and that no more coal would be mined until the strike was over, but the dawn brought disappointment. In the vicinity of the Sandy Creek and Oak Hill mines anxious inquiry was made about Plum Creek. At the two meetings last night the leaders an- nounced that the Plum Creek miners would come out and that no more coal would be dug until the strike was won. What reports these statements were based on could not be learned, but they must. have been unfounded, for at half past 3 o’clock this morning 200 strikers, after making a demonstration at the Plum Creek mines, went into camp at _Negley postoflice, a half mile from the tIipple. where they remained until 5 o'clock and left only when they learned that all the miners had gone in and that yesterday’s work had been fruit- less. At. Sandy Creek a small body of strik- ers watched a majority of the miners who attended the meeting last night go back to work. .f‘ At the Oak Hill Mine. ' The main! interest in the strike, so far as De Armitt's men are concerned, is at the Oak Hill mine, about two miles from Turtle Creek. . The strikers thought that mine .would close, but to- day the Oak Hill miners boarded the campany’s train at Turtle Creek as usual and started to work. 'A body of the strikers was camped along the rail- road track and as the train hauling the miners passed the camp four of the strikers jumped on the cars. Two of the miners, believing the strikers Were about to make an attack, jumped from the cars and joined the strikers. These two were the only Oak Hill miners who started from Turtle Creek for the mine and did not go to work. The mine offi- cials say that, including these two men, not over 6 per cent of the Oak Hill miners are idle, and their absence is caused by sickness or something other than the strike. What the marchers will now do is not known, but from indications given by the speakers yesterday it is believed that large bodies of strikers will be brought to the vicinity of De Armitt’s mines and the demonstrations will be itept up. ‘Much credit is given the leaders and the strikers for the good order which has been maintained, and the indica- tions are that there will be no violence. The men are not drinking and perfect order is maintained inthe Camps. The men in the miners’ camp are well supplied with food. They number sev- eral thousand. De Armitt says of the big meeting: “A few of our me’n from the Turtle Creek and Plum Creek mines attended the meeting. About 40 of the younger men in the Sandy Creek mine were present. As far as the effect of the meeting on our men is concerned it was a. flat failure. All of our mines were in operation today.” ‘ Late last night Mr. Warner, secre- tary of the Mirrers’ union, telephoned that a break in De Armitt's men had taken place. He says that‘after the day meeting another meeting was ar- ranged and it was attended by many of the men who had been at work. Several local speakers, he said, placed the matter before them in such a con- vincing way that the men from De Ar- mitt’s Turtle'Creek mine resolved not to return t0v work in the morning, but they afterward changed their minds. “A Conflict of Evidence.” ' Secretary Warner claimed this aft- ernoon that all of De Armitt’s mines would be idle tomorrow. Not a pound of coal was mined at Sandy Creek to- day, he said, and not more than 50 men were working at Turtle Creek. This aiternoon he ordered tents for the strik- ers encamped near De Armitt’s “mines. The strikers, he ‘said, would not leave until the men quit work if they camped there for a month. . A call for a meeting of the United La- bor league on Sunday evening to ar- range for a mass meeting on Aug. 5 was issued today. Debs has promised to return and speak on the occasion. President De Armitt denied Warner’s statement that the men were out at Turtle and Sandy Creeks today. He claimed that all or the miners were at work. Roanoke Is Quiet‘; Peoria, 1115., July 31.—Visiting coal miners have nearly left Roanoke and its vicinity. There are not more than half a dozen in town. No one is working at the mine. At Benson miners boarded a Santa Fe train and wanted to ride free. It was necessary for the conductor to knock some of them off the train. Diflerenoes Adjusted In a Steel Plant. Muncie, Ind., July 31.——M. M. Garland, president of the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Iron and Steel Workers, spent the day here in conference with the Midland Steel company and succeeded in adjusting some differences that will result in the plant’s resuming work in all departments. The company formed a new scale of wages for the men in the Blooming mill that was objectionable. It was decided that the entire crew should work on athe tonnage system, based on 100 tank the scale of wages being such that th y can make as much as, or a fraction more" than, last sea- son’s wages. ~ ‘Appointment For McKinley’s Uncle. San Francisco, July 31.—'B. F. McKin- léy, uncle of President McKinley, has been appointed assistant postmaster of this city by Postmaster Montague. A Party of Men Who Propose to Walk All the Way to Klondike. WILL WORK ALONG THE ROAI A Miner Who Has Returned With a. Nice. Stake Made Just as Hope Was Desert- ing Him—Another Prospecting Company Incorporated. route for the goldfields of Alaska, leav- ing behind them families, houses and lands, many of them taking their de- parture without the knowledge of their families. ‘ _ It is their intention to make the jour- ney; after leaving New York, on foot and to pay for their subsistance by ply- ing their respective trades and peddling. Their leader and president is Charles L. Wise. Mr. Wise said that the party were all aware of the dangers and perils of the trip, but were Willing to face any- thing. There were two things for each man to promise before he was entitled to join the party. First, that he had no regret leaving his home; second, that he would abide by the wishes of the ma- jority. It was also necessary for each man to be a Hebrew. That will prevent any race distinctions and quarrels on the way. ‘ Each‘ man was requested to deposit such a sum of money in the treasury as he felt able to, the deposits ranging from $15 to $200. The oldest man in the party is 50 years old and the youngest 17. The party start today for Hartford, and after leaving Hartford 'will go to New York and then will begin the overland journey. Instead of traveling due west‘they take a southerly course, peddle through some of the southern states as far as Texas and from there go up the Pacific coast to W'ashington. They expect to reach there in the spring and will buy provisions, wagon and horses to go into Canada along the western border. They expect to reach the gold regions in the middle of May.. They will travel and rest alternately six hours at a time un til they reach the promised land. In the party all kinds of trades are represented. One man has a knowledge of wtedicine. Another is a taxidermist and a skilled hunter and is expected to shoot game for the party. ' President Wise is but 27 years old and says that he was the candidate for et in 1891. . Luck at the Last Moment. Sioux Falls, July 30.—William Kolju, a Finlander, has arrived home after an absence of 18 months, bringing with him $17,000 in gold nuggets from the Klondike country. In February he was on the verge of starvation and had no money to buy food. A short time after this his fortune brightened. He struck pay dirt and began taking it out and packing his sluice boxes. quired arduous labor, as pay ground lay in bedrock, beneath 'several'feet of solid ice and frozen sand. The only way to get it out was to build immense fires and thaw the dirt, after which it could be shoveled. In May the water came in torrents. Kolju began sluicing his dirt and met with succeSs. He at once set to work to clean up as much of his dirt as pos- sible and took out a little more than $17,000 in gold dust, which he brought home. He sold his claim for $20,000. Kolju says that there is muchgold in the country, but that the percentage of men who get it is no greater than it is in the average mining camp. Some of the oldest settlers are poorer than when they went there, although they work untiringly. All of the pay dirt lies on bedrock, beneath the beds of streams, and the only time it can be reached is in the winter while the water is frozen. In summer it cannot be reached because of the water. » The weather is terribly severe. and for over a month the sun never shines there. The earth is froZen to an un— known depth. and although the weather becomes very warm in summer the ground never thaws to a depth of more than 14 to 18 inches. Two trading companies, Kolju says, have a monopoly in the matter 'of sup- plying the inhabitants with clothing and provisions under a charter from the Canadian government, and all other dealers are excluded. A man is not even permitted to take his own supplies in with him, the two trading companies compelling him to buy of them. . To reach the Klondike a journey must bevtaken that is attended with enormous discomfort. There are two routes, one of which lies over the range from Ju- neau and down the Yukon. and the oth- er is up the Yukon from its mouth. The range that must be crossed ingoing by way of Juneau is the highest on the American continent, although the dis- tance across it is not very great. In either event there is a long stretch of region across which everything must be hacked laboriously, along rude trails. The country is almost devoid of animal life. Klondike Fever In Albany. Albany, July 30.—-A number of Alba- nians have formed themselves into the Albany Gold Mining and Prospecting company. This company was incorpo- rated today with the secretary of state and proposes to send three prospectors to the Klondike region at an expense oi $1.000 each. The company has a capital of $3,000, divided into $6 shares, and the 35 shareholders own stock ranging in value from $5 to $100, which is the high- est individual subscription. Two pro- spectors have already been selected to go to Alaska for the company. - Decrease In Cattle. ' El Paso, Tex., July 30.—It is said by ’ stockmen that in the past three years there has been a decrease in cattle ed States. In 1890 we had our greatest number of cattle,453,000,000 head, and 63,000,000 population, and now with a population of 70,000,000 we have but 48,- 000,000 head of cattle: In view of these figures higher prices are predicted for beeves. Dc Jeltsch’s Suggestion Unpopular. Constantinople, July 30.——The demand of the German embassador, Baron Saur- ma de Jeltsch, that a provision be in- serted in the peace treaty between Greece and Turkey for European con- trol of Greek fln’ances'meets with dis- favor among the other embassadors. Worcester, Mass., July 30.—Thirty-, tour Hebrews started from Boston en mayor of Hartford on the Socialist tick— , This re- . amounting to 4,900,000 head in the Unit- . THII IIIIIITIII IIIIIT' -I- H ‘ Ev CHECKER-BOARD BUSINESS DIRECT CRY, W Tn-EEV E Ni N G' ’e'A' zE T T E. 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