Made No Agreement

Pittsburg, Aug. 24. - When the conference between the coal operators' committee and miners' officials resumed Tuesöay morning the operators presented a proposition to submit the questior. to arbitration and pending the decisión of the arbitration they would concede í'ó cents per ton, making the rate &1M cents. President Ratchford refused this and firmly maintained his stand for the payment of the 69 cent rate until the question was settled by arbitration. He suggested President McKinley and William J. Bryan as the arbitrators. No Agrcement Reached. The operators stated that if an agreement was not reached they would stait their mines at once with new men. The joint conference broke up at noon without reaching an agreement. The miners' officials refused to recede from their position and demanded 69 cents per ton pending a settlement by arbitration, and the operators would not concede more than 61% cents. A general meeting of operators was called for 2 o'clock in the afternoon to hear the report of their committee. The members of the committee refused to make any prediction as to the probable action that would be taken. Fay of Miners Withheld. Monday was pay day at the Plum Creek mine, and about 200 of the men received their money. Pay was withheld from about 150 men on account of the strike. The amount held back amoursted to quite a large sum. A number of the miners threatened to enter suit for the amount due them. The threatened evictlons at Plum Creek will not take place this week, as the company discovered an error in the papers served on the tenants, which made them illegal. New papers are being prepared, however, and the evictions will be made as soon as they can be served. Anticipating the evictions, several of the strikers who occupied company houses moved out.