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AUSTIN Tex April 9 on board trainwith Alexander Dowie expects to enter Zion City tomorrow notlike a dethroned leader but with his oldtime splendor-

I shall fight until the last vestige ofstrength leaves me ho said I willcall out the guards and we will fightnot behind breastworks mind you butalways it the charge

He wired Overseer Wilhlto to have aspecial car for him at St Louis Imust coi 10 to my own people like a leader not Ike a castoff repudiated andforsaken mortal The beloved mustknow I still havo power I depend upon you my beloved and trusted lieuten-ant to provide means for my triumphalentry into Zion City ho said in hismessage to Wilhite

Dowie CkeerfulJust before leaving San Antonio a wire

was received that a car would be sentsouth on the Wabash Dowie still re-

tains his lovo for outward show andWllhlte wired him the necessary fundsDowie is very cheerful now On boardthe sleeper ho was presented with afinished photograph for which he hadposed at San Antonio for the Hearstnews correspondent He was pleasedwith it and said Tell the Hearst newspapers io publish it Dp I look like adead man It will show I am strongAnd able to fight

Dowie arrived at the earlyWhile ho was seated in his carriage aman hobbled up to the door and said

Heals Infirm ManOh chosen one of God lay hands on

me and heal meAdvance my son said DowieThe man bowed his held and Dowie

placed his hand thereonGod be with thee and heal thy in

firmity said the apostleImmediately the man threw away his

crutches and shoutedGlory be to God I am healed

The man refused to be interviewed

First Apostle OrdersArrest of Revolters

CHICAGO April orders arereported to have been received todayby several prominent Zionltes still loyalto providing for the arrest of thechief revolters in the colony The deposed flrst apostle Is said to have tel-egraphed his instructions The men inhIding Overseer Vollva are to bebrought to Waukegan to prevent themfrom giving quick ball at Zion City

The officials threatened with arrestare Wilbur G Vollva general over-seer William H Piper overseer forChicago Harry E Cantel overseer forthe United Kingdom Dfleld vice president Zion UniversityJohn O Excel general ecclesiasticalsecreta y John G Splecher overseerfor Zion City Alexander Granger trustee of tile Zion

This bai and unexpected tacticalmove of Dowie which will open the

by which he plans to regain his lostpower will the way for his entryinto ZIon City It will leave him free tosummon his disaffected followers together at a monster meeting in Shiloh Tabernacle where he will attempt to winthem back to their allegiance

USED WILLIAM FOR TARGETWilliam Victor colored twentythree

years old of 1706 Twelfth street wasslightly injured last night by being shotin the face at Eleventh and R streetsby an unknown colored man He wentto the office of Dr Thompson across thestreet where the physician picked birdshot out of Williams forehead for halfan hour

THE WEATHER REPORT-

The vestern storm has reached south-ern Lake Michigan with undiminishedintensity and the precipitation area ofthe last twentyfour hours practicallycovers the entire country east of thoRocky mountains were alsoshowers over the northern districts westof the Rocky mountains

Temperatures have risen somewhat inlower lake region tho Ohio valley

and South Atlantic States and havefallen In the Mississippi and Missourivalleys and the States

There will be rain or snow tonight Inthe lower lake region and rain in theOhio and tho Atlantic States con-tinuing Tuesday in the Middle AtlanticState and England Snow is

Tuesday over the eastern lowerlakes

It will be warmer tonight In theAtlantic States and cooler in the

western lower lake region the Ohio val-ley and the east Gulf States and coolerTuesday in tho Atlantic States and lower lake

THE SUNSun sets today 630Sun rises tomorrow 533

TEMPERATURE9 a m 46

12 noon 471 p m 4

TABLELow tide today 205 pmHigh tide today 758 pmLow tide tomorrow250 am 325 pmHigh tide tomorro w84Sam 314 pm

All of the fashion of the andsee the Southern Pink Coat

Steeplechase the Amateur Cup at threequarters a mile on the flat and thefour contests Practicallyall of the crack gentlemen willtake part in both stakes at Banning tomorrow Adv

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Contest

The Michigan Senatorial Isdeveloping already a series of complica-tions that give the aspect of a fifteenpuzzle There are features and circum-stances that none but the meat skilledMichigan politicians realize and theyare in disagreement as to theof the different factors

In the first place William AldenSmith in announcing his candidacy hasviolated traditions of many decadesMichigan The Senatorshlps are distributed geographically the eastern section getting one and the westernthe other Senator Alger Is theand Senator Burrows the westernat present William Alden Smith iswestern district man and ho is thewestern district man who has hadtemerity to shy his castor He isto retain that distinction for accord-ing to report neither thedistrict aspirants who have been keep-ing their eyes on the Burrows succes-sion nor the eastern group who resentInterference from the west are at allpleased with his appearance in thegame

Governor Warner would have an ap-pointment to make if there should be avacancy before the Legislature meetsThis possibility is being seriously

by the Wolverine politicians ua convention should nominate a candidate that would end matter because the governor could hardly do lesthan appoint the man who had beenominated But If there were no nomi-nation or if the vacancy shouldbefore the of the conventionthen the governor it hopromise ho has made heretofore wouldappoint Samuel w Smith of OaklandThe covenor and this particularare Jointly interested In a big stocfcfarm and are close personal as well aspolitical friends However thisIs not taken very seriously as thecandidates the governor hacome to the difficulty of carrying It securerelease from It IncidentallyWarner Is out as one of thmen who would make good Senatorialtimber and might easily get into

It Is said with great confidence

Governor Warner he would not namany one of the three men who are noiregarded as leaders Hill anWilliam Alden Smith Edwardton Representative and chairman of thiCommittee on Is aof the western districta pretty definite understanding in hisection the at the enroi Senator Burrows service

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TOWNS ARE ABANDONED

Some Were Destroyed andMany Others Hang in

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Record of Destruction-

The town Dosco Trecase hasbeen destroyed

Three towns Torre Annunziata Torre del Greco and SanSebastian are threatened by agood of lava which Is graduallyengulfing them

Fifty thousand natives havebeen made homeless

The famous Vesuvlan observa-tory near the top of the mountainhas been destroyed The direc-tor and other employes fled fortheir lives

Naples Is In a state of panicand the city Is shaken by earth-quakes at frequent Intervals

From the main crater stonesare being hurled 3000 feet inthe air crashing down to earthand blocking the railroads themain arteries of relief for the

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NAPLES April thousandpersons fleeing from a fiery death intho molten lava pouring from MtVesuvius have reached this city

Added to this horror Is the fear occasioned by a succession of earthquakesand the possibility of a series of tidalwaves

Even the inhabitants of this city areterror stricken and hosts of them fearful of Vesuvius are fleeing towardRome

As the residents flee refugees fromother towns pour In

Towns Wipes OutTen thousand are from the town of

Bosco Trecase on the southern slopeof the mountain which has been completely wiped out not a vestige of thetown remaining

Thirty thousand are from Torre Annunziata on the shores of the Gulf ofNaples one mile south of the

The town was almost surrounded-by the streams of lava and the inhabi-tants fled for their lives The fugitiveswero brought to Naples by trains streetcars military carts and steamships

Naples Terror Stricken-In the meantime Naples Is terror

strickenCinders from tho fiery mountain have

fallen In some places to the depth orthree feet stopping all street trafficand paralyzing huskies The sufferingsof the poor are appalling

The villages of Ottajano and Pogglomarino at the foot of Vesuvius andonly a short distance from Naples havebeen absolutely destroyed Many of theinhabitants of these villages perishedand none of them escaped without injuries more or less serious

The captains of four English steamersnow in the harbor of Naplesoffered their ships to the Italian authoritles to shelter the fugitives TheItalian fleet is being mobilized anC Isproceeding to Naples to offer any

assistance to the stricken peopleThe King and of Italy have

been touring the city endeavoring totranqulllze the people

A train going toward Naplesthe coast was to make head-way against the mass of cinderswas brought to a standstill The passengers sought relief by plunging Intothe sea

A dispatch from Torro Annunziata receIved here today states that theof lava from ML Vesuvius towardthat town has ceased and that all dan-ger of engulfment has passed

The wrought by the eruptlon has been so widespread that 50000are estimated to have been renderedhomeless A dozen villages have beenwiped out and 2000 acres of vineyardsolive groves and farm lands have beendestroyed

Worse Every HourThe eruption Is growing worse every

hour and as a consequence a state ofpanic prevails throughout the surround-ing country Thousands of persons havojoined tho refugees who are leaving thevicinity of the volcano The heavy taUof ashes and dust makes living st un-pleasant that many of the better classesliving in this city and other towns whofear no actual from theuntil the volcanos activity shalland the air has

Earthquakes EverywhereThe earthquakes are felt for many

miles around Incessant rumblingsthunderings accompany the repeated ex-plosions at the craters of the volcanoThere Is a continuous discharge of lavacinders and hot rocks

At San Giuseppe a church and severa houses have been wrecked apparently by an earthquakewere and Theremainder of the population fled itpanic Ottajano Poggiomarino Somm

and other large towns and villages hasbeen abandoned Lava Iseral feet deep through the atOttajano many houses have fallen

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The eruption has assumed unexpected proportions and lava Is now flowing on map showin every direction from the prater except to the northward and direct eastward To the northeast the

village of Ottajano has been threatened for several days To the southeast Boscoreale Kings Woods has beenapproached by a stream The commune of Bosco Tre Case Woods of the Three Houses has been destroyed 10000

people being made homeless The same lava strums are now threatening Torre Annunzlata which has been abandoned by its inhabitants and may spread as far is Pompeii agrJn covering that city and burying the buildingsand streets of the ancient city that have been revealed after years of excavation Numerous streams of lava areflowing southwestward toward the coast of the Bay of Naples threatening Torre del Greco To the westward thetown of Porticl and to the northwest the town of San Sebastiono are threatened The observatory has been de-

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BOSTON April Houston linesteamship Hllarlus Capt R N Marshal arrived from Buenos Ayres andSouth American ports yesterday bring-ing In a thrilling tale of mutiny whichoccurred at the outset of the passage

The vessel left Buenos Ayres February 26 for Boston and New York Shecalled at Montevideo where severalhundred head of cattle were taken onboard for Para Brazil Fifteen

were shipped among them nineItalians and Spaniards

Nine Men Armed-

It afterward transpired that thesenine men were armed with revolversand long dangerous knives and wereevidently bent on trouble from thestart The Italians refused to performtheir share of the work leaving It allfor the other cattlemen who were Ger-mans Englishmen When the latter remonstrated the Italians flourishedtheir knives and revolvers

Finally one of the men told the captain of a plot that had been hatched tomurder the officers and all the Englishmen on board and afterward take pos-session and loot the vessel of every-thing of value

Measures were at once taken to frustrate plans of the mutineers About-a dozen thoroughly reliable members ofthe crew were armed and the Italianswere forbidden to come forward of theengine room and a member of the crewwas stationed at the deadline with in-

structions to shoot down any man whoattempted to rush forward

Allowed to Escape

When the mutineers found that theirplot was known they threatened tomurder everybody on board and takepossession of the vessel They kept outof pistol sage of the officers howeverbut In some remote part of the vesselthey fired an occasional shot wheneveran officer was seen Several shots were

but no one was injuredCaptain Marshall at last decided to run

for and when that portreached the mutineers were allowed toescape One by one they slipped overboard and swam ashore Captain Marshall did not want to suffer the delaywhich would have followed In capturingthe mutineers

POLICE SEEK LOST

Request has been made of the localpolice that they make efforts to findThomas Golden fourteen years old ofElizabeth N J who disappeared fromhis home about a week ago and is be-

lieved to be In Washington CaptainBoardman acting Superintendent ofPollee received a pathetic letter fromthe boys mother lost night Detectiveshave been looking for the lad sincethe receipt of the missive but havefound no trace of him

Last Monday morning Thomas lefthis to school He wore abrown Norfolk suit blue blacknecktie and a pink and white shirtHe failed to return for lunch Hismother sent a messenger to the schoolShe learned that the boy did not attendschool that day

Dont tall to see at Benning tomorrowthe Southern Pink Coat Steeplechasewith its field of andthe best gentlemen riders that have notbeen an open steeplechaseThe Amateur Cup gentlemen riderswith four other firstclass events Adv

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Conference With Coal Miners Posponed byTheir Request Thought to Be Good Sign

for an Amicable Adjustment

NEW YORK April 9 Tf conferencebetween Jhe coal operator u theJs to have cwi held to-

day according to an announcementuwde by President Mitchell at the Ashleid House has been postponed untiltomorrow

The postponement it if understoodwas made at the request of the opera-tors and this is taken as an Indicationthat a peaceful solution of the troublein the anthracite fields Is probable

Meetings of the operators committeeand the miners committee as well wereheld today In order to be prepared forthe joint meeting of the committees ofseven It was reported that the operators would meet the arbitration proposition submitted by President Mitchellby a counter proposition to have theanthracite commission decide firstwhether cr not any new conditions havearisen wilch would Justify the changeIn the award made by the commissionthree years ago

Although there was no official conit was believed that the

miners might accept the challenge ofthe operators if it was made formally

STEEL MEN SUMMONED

TO TELL ABOUT PRICES

Corporation Officials to Testify at Committee Hearing on Ship Sub-

sidy Bill

Several officials of the United StatesSteel Corporation will testify before theHouse Committee on the Merchant MarIne and Fisheries this week In thebearings on the ship subsidy bill

This statement was made by GenCharles H Grouvenor chairman ot thecommittee after a conference with thePresident General Grosvenor would notdisclose the names of the officials butsaid that they had been summoned totell what they knew about the chargethat American steel plates rails and

ier steel products are sold cheaperabroad than they are in the UnitedStates

We are going to get to the bottomf The thing If possible General Gros

vcnor declared The charge has beenmade on all sides and we want to findout from the officials of the corporationitself the reason and wherefores

General Grosvenor said he thoughtthe hearings would be closed this weekand that the bill would be reported outof the committee shortly afterwardsHe would not express any views as tothe probable passage of the bllL

WASHINGTON HEIGHTSWORKING FOR A PARK

Residents of Washington Heights arepushing their efforts toward securing apark for that section of the city andwith this In view a meeting has beencalled for 8 oclock tomorrow night Inthe Washington Heights PresbyterianChurch Columbia road and Kaloramaavenue

The of residents In thatsection Is being solicited and notifica-tions of the meeting have been sentout signed by S W Woodward ThomasO Selfridge John Sternberg and Charles-A Douis

A sew lot of gentlemen riders at Benning tomorrow will make their debut Inthe Southern Pink Coat Steeplechase Itwill be one of the most racesof the season Only those who havebeen placed in an open steeplechase willbe eligible to Amateur Cupfor gentlemen riders on UA flat andother races Adv

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They may try to prove before what-ever tribunal is agreed upon that thereareInequalities of hours of work not cov-ered by the award of the Rooseveltcommission

Inequalities of wages not so coveredof provision for differences In

the capacity of coal cars which prevailthroughout the anthracite coal regions

Proof ly experience that there mustbe a new award over the compositionand procedure of the board of concilia-tion

Operators at OddsMany differences have

among the anthracite operators as tothe exapt nature and extent of thecounter proposition that is to be madeto John Mitchells proposal for arbitrationPresident Baer of tha Reading andE B Thomas of the Lehigh Valleywho is chairman of the operators scalecommittee called John Mitchell up onthe telephone shortly before 11 oclockand requested the adjournment of todays meeting which was granted

FILTRATION PARKS

NAME IS MMILLAN

Secretary Taft Decides to Honor Mem-

ory of Senator Who Workedfor District

The strip ot Government ground sur-rounding the filtration plant on theand west sides of First street northwest will be called McMillan Inof the late Senator McMillan whomany years was a leading factor in Dis-trict legislation This decision wasreached today by Secreary of War Taft

Some time ago Secretary Taft wasvisited by a delegation representingCivic Cents a local organizationsuggested that the new park beIn honor of either Senator McMillanSenator Galllnger Senatorlong has been actively identified withDistrict legislation also but SecretaryTaft decided that the honor should goto the dead rather than to the living

WILLING TO TACKLE

Tho hazing trials at Annapolis fol-lowed by the long discussion ofsubject in and out of Congress haVEserved to widely advertise the Academyand as a result there has been an unusual rush of applications from ambilious young men who would like tbecome admirals Many of the appli-cants breathe defiance to all hazerand recite Instances of their physicapowers to demonstrate their fitness foappointment One of the letters re-cently received at the Navy Departmenran as follows

I play football have been captain othe basketball team these last tw

I am also an expert at the box-ing gloves and would like to haysome of them Annapolis fellowstheir hazing on me I

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FACE DRAWN AND PALE

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NEW YORK April DRockefeller emerged from his seclusion at Lakewood for the firsttime since December 16 today andcame to this city

His whole appearance tended toconfirm the rumors that Mr

has been in far from goodhealth since he went Into retirement on that date

He was apparently very weakand he looked several years olderthan he did before he sought seelusion and before the Missouri In-

vestigation startedHe was wan and his face was

drawn and thinHis usual sprightly step was

gone and he leaned heavily on hisvalet as he walked slowly to thetrain He did not wear his wig

CAME IN PRIVATE CAR

Mr Rockefeller had a stateroom Inthe parlor car Hiawatha on the trainwhich left Lakewood at 813 oclockarriving In Jersey City soon after 9

oclock Just as the train drew Intothe Lakewood station a big automobilepulled up and out of it climbed threepersons From the front dropped MrReckefellers valet John who Is in con-stant attendance upon the man oflions From the back seats came MrRockefeller and A man and womandressed In deep mourning It was novmore than fifty yards from the automobile to the train but Mr Rockefellerhad to take Johns arm and accept hisassistance all the way up the steps ofthe coach

When a photographer who was at thetrain to take a picture of Mr Rocke-fellers departure pointed his camera athim and started to snap It Mr Rockefeller raised his arm over his facemovement however was a weak oneand he way not able to quicken his PiKeto get away from the camera He finallyclimbed up into the coach with thedouble assistance of his valet and theporter of the oar and disappeared

Visit to New GrandsonThe reason for Mr Rockefellers com

ing to New York Is to pay a visit to hisrecently acquired grandson John DRockefeller HZ to whom since his arrival about a month ago the grandfather has not been introduced It wasplanned at first to take John D III toLakewood during the latter part of theweek but apparently the grandfathercould not wait so long and decided tocome to New York himself He will stayat his sons Fiftyfourth street home

Mr Rockefellers Imprisonment be-gan on December 16 when it appearedthat he was likely to be called to testifyIn the investigation which Mr Hadlevot Missouri was carrying on in regard-to the Standard Oil Company in thatState He disappeared completely atthat time shortly after he had JiJncUthe Society of Newspaper Humoristsand amateur sleuths throughout thispart of the country busy trying-to ascertain his whereabouts

On February 3 Mr Rockefeller ap-peared at his Lakewood home ant themystery was solved The grounds abouthis home have been patrolled by guardsand no one who could not show goodreason for belnc there was admittedMr Rockefeller never left the houseexcpr for a stroll around the groundsEven after Mr Hadley announced thathe would not call Mr Rockefeller Inthe Missouri investigation the guardsaround the grounds were still maintained and the exclusion of all those wnocould not show pressing business waskept up

All the time he lived in solitary statethe wildest sort of rumors flew In re-gard to Mr Rockefellers health Itwas said on several occasions thathe had completely broken down andthat the physicians were much alarmedabout his None of these reorts however were given out from

Rockefellers home but arose fromthe outside They were evidently

for while Mr Rockefellerlooked far from well this morning thefact that he was able to make thejourney at all put an end to the rumorsthat he Is In a dangerous condition

FRAUD ORDER ISSUED

AGAINST FRISCO ATTORNEY

Holding that a persons address is hisprivate property the Postoffice Department has issued a fraud order against-R J Rice attorney of San Francisco

Cal on the ground that he defraudeddelinquent debtors of their addresses

The department claims that tho nameof R J Rice was assumed by theEastern Outfitting Company of 13202SStockton street san Francisco to ob-tain tho address or debtors to It for furniture and clothing Those who wereaddressed were led to believe the department says that an estate had beenleft to a person of similar name whosewhereabouts was unknown and that

Rice had been empowered to searchfor the party

At Benning tomorrow a new Innovalion The younger generation of gentlemen riders will have a race exclusivelyfor themselves in the SouthernCoat Steeplechase The most interestingrace of season The Amateur Cupalso for gentlemen riders and four otherraces Adv

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