Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 7, 1889, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL 7! 1880.—SIXTEEN PAGES. ennison Bros SILK FINISH HENRIETTAS, 15¢ Just the thing for early sprin wear, beautiful line of colors 4 nches wide; same quality sold others at $1,00. Our price !‘/Yondny and Tuesday 78c¢ yard, LADIES’ Gauze Vests, 2DC Just to start the season we will Elnce on_sale Monda3 80 dnzen adies’ Fine Gauze ests, high and low neck, long and short sleeves, at only 28c each, LADIES’ LISLE VESTS o0c Monday you can buy a Ladies’ Jersey Ribbed Lisle Vest in pink, light blue and drab. These vests are worth $1.28. They will go with a rush Monday. Kid Gloves, 49c. The best Ladies’ Kid Glove ever offer at the price. Getthem Mon- day, 49c¢ a pair, Bennison Bros BENNISON BROTHERS. SPECIAL SALE MONDAY and TUESDAY BLEACHED MUSLIN 18 YARDS FOR $1.00. 1 CASE STANDARD Dress Ginghams Gc a Yard. 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Don’t let the little ones go without a cloak to day. MAIL ORDERS LED, Fichus, Monday we offer a large line of B-corner Black Fichus, silk ems broideréd corners, at $1.50, $3, $4, only and $5. All great values and worth WITH THE BORDER GIVEN FREE! ———————————————————————————————— T . For the entire combination, consisting of Wooden Spoon, large Butter Bowl, Potato masher, Rollin Pin, FlourScoop, Bread Boar and Sieve, all for 75c. WHERE CAN YOU DUPLICATE IT ? Butter Ladle, SILK ) and worth $3.00. each. Si%&fraps,$“] Elegant all silk, trimmed with silk, chantilly lace on sleeves, collar and down front; rich silk ornaments on hack an tabs; the very latest; NOJET TRIMM H worth $15. MAIL ORDERS FILLED. Duti UMBRELLAS, Monday we place on sale 200 Silk Umbrellas, paragon frame, well made 19 t he has pur- ins at his own tha rta Ires us Lace Cu for us to place them on sale Wednes- We advise our customers to wait for this in time way. given av Poles will be price, and will express them day. Great Curtain Sale? - —Our Eastern Buyer wi P EC IA L chased $6000 worth of One day at $1.68 & Ladies’ 3 Jackets, 200 Ladies’ black all wool Stockinette Jackets, For one day you can buy them at the low price of $3. MAIL ORDERS FILLED. BENNISON BROTHERS. “Livons86 Yd Fine Towels, 10c. Fing Towels, [5c. Fine Towels, 2c. Table Linens, 38c. Table Linens, 48c. Tahle Linens, 58c. Monday we place on sale 1 case of the celebrated Thistle Summer Corsets. This is the first sale of this corset this season and all should take advantage of the price, 75¢; worth $1.25. Mail orders filled. Persian $I Shawls 250 Ladies® All Wool Persian Shawls for Monday only, at the low price of $1 each. Bennison Bros 5 Bennison Bros Fisl Blak Hose, J0¢- OUR OWN IMPORTATION Ladies’ Fast Black Hose, and every pair posiuvelY gnaranted to be absolutely fast black. They are worth 80e, but just to intro= duce them we propose to let them out at 80¢ pair LADIES’ Fancy Striped Hose, 50¢ Ladies’ Fancy Stripe Hose, the nobbiest one out. They are really worth $1.00 a pair. Just to creats a sensation, our price will be, Monday, BOc a pair. Children's Hose, 1/c 40 dozen Children’s Full Regu- lar Made Ribbed Hose in blacks and colors, all sizes, Monday, to close, 17¢ pair; worth 40c. Satin Rhadame 100, A few more pieces left. You will never again see such a bar- cain in silks. Take advantage of it. Only 7Be yard; worth iy $1.28, Bennison Bros SCORING STATE WITNESSES. ;‘ludze Baldwin Pleads Strongly For Miss Biechler's Acquittal. SEARCHING FOR INSANITY, Showing the Efforts of Attorneys to Separate Young King From the ‘Woman Who Afterwards Slew Him, *! rhe Oratory Commences. At the opening of the trial yesierday morning General Cowin announced that all the testimony he wished to introduce would e furnished by one witness—Jailer Miller. Two more letters were put in evidence on the part of the defence. ‘fhe flrst letter read was written at 821 Vermont street, Quincy, 11, and reads as follows: My Dear Harry—I don't know ‘what to make of your long silence. You begged me to come back here and stay and be what 1 bad always been to you. I prom- 18ed that I would. I wentto Chicago to make you marry me, Harry, as you had promised to, but when I saw how much trouble you had and how you were fixed, I felt sorry for you and did s you wished me to. You said, **Libbie, go back, and be the good, noble lit- tle woman you havé always beea, and get along as best you can until 1 get things tixed here. I will write you every day aud send ou some money every week. Take Miss Sharp to board and just as soon as I can ar- range things I shall have you here.” You said my baby would not bé born without you marrying me, and 1 promised to give you e’ Sob maiiesd pil this Satabday olcut Harry. How am 1 0 believe you are going o do'us you said you would, when I have ‘been home five days and haye not heard one word from you. Do vyou think 1 can trust ou when you treat me thusi No, Harry {(Inn, 1am ge(nfif to sell my ring and then go 10 Chicago, and if you wish me to come back here to live, you must marry me atonce, Then I shall satisfied to live in a barn, if 1 have to, and will trust you then, but this way I can't. Send me my ring at once. You will hear from me again soon, Always your true wife, LInBIE. The next of these -detters was written to Henry Woolworth King, the confidential riend, and i8 as foliows: *He Knew 1 Would Starve." 821 VERMONT STREET, January 81, 1887.— My Deur Friend—Yonr good letter of Sun- day was duly received. .I was so glad to hear from you. 1 have beon 8o heavy and blue, but your good letter has given me new courage. 1 have not heard from Harry yet, and it has made ine sick. Henry, you say my visit seemed 8o queer to you. ot any more than it does to me. I can hatdly be- lieve what has happened. It all secms like a dream to me, and I think I would feel very happy if it was all & dream, My poor Harry, I did not like him so well until now. Henry, he did not mean o get 80 wuch in debt, an God knows I have worked and saved and done my part to im_from it, but all to no good. He would not do as I wished him to. He would have his own way, and see ‘where his own thoughtlessness has landed him. 1did not go to Chieago to make Harry trouble. I went because he was 80 unkin %o me before he left for home, and he did not write me. He promised to sen m tel Monday, und coul their money when 1 did not have enough to buy bread aund could not teil when I weuld n“{iny, and it Almost Made Me Orazy. Harry has not known how I suffered. I have mever told bim, He is proud and I know it would hurt hus feelings and mal oo h:: 2 'l?l':fil e find for it to m an '.-un he w‘no going to do and makeé him marry me at once if T had to live this way. but I'did not have the courage to say any- thing to him. I knew he was doing his best &nd could do no more. Then I saw you and toid you all because I could trust yon and knew you would advise me for the best, I did not think you would tell Mr. Adams. Harry and I'are sorry you did, but again, I think it was the ounly thing to do, because if our friends had not given me that money some one would bave found out who Mr. Le Garde was, and it would have gone to Harry’s father and made trouble for us all. 1 should not care for myself. [Then follows @ statement of several bills she had paid the day before, amounting to $46.50.| I don't know how much Harry pat in my book, but it was not much. When you come back, bring all the bills back with you. Ask Harry to write me, and let me hear from you soon. Good-bye. 'Always your friend, Lasmie KiNa. Jailer Joe Miller was placed on the stand to testify that, on the day of the shooting, when Miss Biechler was brought to the jail, her right hand was badly burned, evidently by the powder flashes of the revolver, With this the defense rested, the defend- ant or no other witness having been put upon the stand. Brief consultation was held by the attor- neys of each side as to the arguments, Judge Groff ruled that he would confine the speeches to four, giving each side two, It was then agreed that Assistant County At torney Edgerton should open for the state, and be followed by Judge Baldwin on be- half of the defense. General Cowin will speak Monday morning and after him County Attorney Mahoney. It was first agreed that C. S. Montgomery would open the argu- ments, but after the surprising turn of things, the failure to put the defendant on the stand, he concluded to say nothing and gave way to Edgerton. Edgerton's Talk, In a brief, pointed introductory delivered to the attontive box, Mr. Edgerton said: *‘The confidence displayed by General Cowin last night in his intimation to the court that, in all probability, the defense would offer no testimony, Imparted a horrible suspicion to my mind, Just think of 1it, gentlemen, as a basis of suspicion, The evidence shows that @ human being was shot down in the main hall of & prominent hotel in this city, The defendant was found with the smoking in- strument of destruction in her hand and an admission on her lips that she had fired the fatal shot. She has been brought before you in the nterest of justice. Deliberation and malice have been proved. Yet, without one word in explanation or mitigation, counsel for the defense calmly submit that they have no evidence to offer. “This distrust I have referred to was that everything was all right iu the minds of the defense or they would not have dared dis- cuss the probability of going to you without some explanation, But second thought dis- pelied the suspicion, for I knew that the car- rying out of a farce in this court of justice implied the participation of twelve jurymen. I will not believe without the force of abso- lute contradiction that people have so livle regard for law as to pass this murder by without visiting just retribrution on the perpetrator, Gentlemen, %uu will respect the sanctity of the oath you ave taken. You have called upon the Crea- tor of the universe 1o assist you in the dis- charge of imur duty and you must remember that He will expect to ‘meet no hindrance from you in the performance of His task. It is an unpleasant duty that is imposed on you andon the state, but we must not shrink from it." The ll)enker thought it a matter for com- mendation that the introduction of the evi- dence had been con as to call for the to the defendant. of the elder cted with such fairness ing of but one exception e urged thav the absence ing was ample proof of a de- sire to bury his grief aud that it was com- mendable I:'hthnr to use all his resources to have the enforced with regurd to the death of his son. _Refuting the common law marrlage, Mr, Edgerton went over the correspondence leading to the agreement of scparation and release and the circumstances surrounding, as the evidenco pictured whem. The forcible inferences drawn by Mr. Edgerton from the rnuu«. Against & comwon law marriage, ) be said, called for More Than & Mere Promise of marrf and au agreement Mwua h mtleno man u;‘wlk greatly a defendant and she was supported by her attorneys in her tottering walk to a back room. The lungs of the spectators had barely reached a normal working condition when Mr. Cowin stepped into the court room and asked the court if it could be arranged that his client might remain in the small room to which sne had retired, explaining that the open door would conduct the proceedings to his client. However, County Attorney Ma- honey thought it best to have the defendant in the presence of the jury and she was led back to her chair. Mr. Mahoney insisted that the evidence warranted the conclusion that the resump- tions of criminal intimacy were always in- stigated by the defondant; that the dead man Harry had confessed to his father and in pursuance of s promise to reform had, come to Omaha. The fact that, ia one of her letters, Miss Biechler said she, too, would be forced to employ a lawyer, was dwelt upon very earn- estly by the speaker as conclusive that the little woman meant business, and that her only object in keeping up the struggle was based on a_craving desire for more money. And she did secure the services of one of the very best criminal lawyers in Chicago. He advised her,as the jury has been well in- formed, to uccept the terms of settlement offered, give up the young man and go her way. in fact, he dréw in his own office the article to which she attached her name, releasing all claims ou Harry King, and receiving in consid- eration, therefore, the sum of $1,500 and the clean liquidation of all debts. 'The letters and agreements were all read to the jury. The tragedy enacted Saturday morning, November 17, 1885, the wild journey made by Libbie from Chicago to see Harry, and hav- ing an understanding with him, their inter- view with him In the hotel parlor, and all the subsequent, exciting, sensational scenes, were graphically picturea by the lawyer and attentively listened to by the audience, The theory advauced as the probable intention of the woman coming here at the time was to Extort More Money and expose King to his friends in Omaha. But the programme failed to work as mapped out. “*You are told, gentlomen of the jury, that King took her by tne throat and, in a fit of anger said, ‘Damn you, I could silence that tongue of yours forever and end this whole business.’ Then a pistol shot was heard and the next minute Harry King foll o desd man on the landing of the stairway,’ Mr. Edgerton argued that the question of insanity could not be taken into con- sideration, That dodge worked yoars ago but, in this {doy of rapid advancment, electricity wid steam, the |u~urla. as well as the courts, have become convinced that the theory is carried to extremes. 'L'hé fat fairy wtth gorgeous bangs, chewed ner gum vigorously and a tall, languid beauty, in the clerk’s box, found wmore enter- tainment reading the “Quick or the Dead,” than listening to the speaker. Judge Baldwin rested his ponderous brow against the tablo while the prisoner sat with eyes closed dreaming the struggle of her ife over. it _any wonder, “that, after exclaiming, id Mr. Edgerton, ‘My God, have killed my husband’ fall [} corpse at her feet, and the horrors of the tragedy pictured in her mind; is it any wonder, she is not a ray- ing manisc to-day! Is there any question that, if she were insane, evidences of that unfortunate affliction would be depicted in her face and actis here."” The speaker cl¥sed by referring to the conduct of the prosecution in this trial, and expressions of pity for the Kri‘louer‘ but her the compliment of having as her lefenders two ef the best crimial lawers in N.lbrllk a. . friend Judge Baldwin will not behim- self if he fails to make the tears flow,but I ask {ou uot to forget the sorrows of those who ave been T‘h{ stricken at the loss of & son —the aged father and mother, the latter of whom we have been told, almost on hearing le fate or her dear Harry, lost her after seeing him The court then took a recess until 2 o'clock. Mr. Kdgerton’s pathos had such an effect on the prisoner that for fully ten minutes after Sheriff Coburn went to léad her out she sat as frigid as a statue and could not be induced either to move or speak. Ouvoe or twice the muscles of her face twitched convulsively, showing that she was struggling to keep from going through an- other siege of hysterics, ‘hen the sheriff finally started out with her, and as they reached the door, she gave a few moans and threw her arms about wildly, but soon re- covered and walked on to the jail. AFTERNOON. Judge Baldwin in His Defense of Miss Biechler. Before court convened this afternoon, Mr. Baldwin went back into the private room, met Judge Groff, and extending his hand heavenward, exclaimed ! *‘Remember, judge, that the eye of God is on you in this case.” “*All right,” replied his honor; ““but don’t you forget, Mr. Baldwin, that the eye of the court is on you.” It was the judge's npcnlug and as s0on as court convened, ho proceeded on behalf of the defendant’ with a short introductory with reference to the angry sea, tempest- tossed ship, the never-failing cowpass, and the all-powerful laws of God,s0 fixed and un- explicable as to bafile the combined intellect of this world over siuce its beginning. ““What are we doing here to-day! There is on trial for the highest crime a woman, Neither she nor any of her sex has had aught to do with the law, or its administra- nor is there one of her sex in the box to try her. She is at the merey of those who cannot uuderstand her love or make up." Mr. Baldwin took occasion to congratulate the court as a gentleman who, in his inmost heart, desires to do what s and also the prosecution for conducted itself through rial in an honorable manner. “Never, in my experience as a lawyer, have I occu- pied the position I do to-day. Not for this ~oman alone but for the great principa in- volvea do I interest myself so deeply in this case. On the top of this tem- ple stands the figure of & woman representing justice, Why is it that, - stead of the figure of noble woman, some great judge is not placed there?” All he asked of the jury was to do right, and ho felt savisfled they would speak the one word which would give his suffering little client the right once again to breathe the pure air of heaven, ‘“‘But, I want to say now, if this woman guiity and must be punished, it is certainly murder in the first degree. There can Nefther be Manslaughter nor murder in the second degree. To be the first, the person must be capable of premeditation and deliberation. That Harry King lived and died on the 17th of Ndvember last Iahall not attempt to deny,” and the speaker also sdmittea that King's death was occasioned by a gun in the hands of the prisoner. He, usked the jury to mentally travel with him back through a few years of the little woman’s life. e invited them to imagine the young wife, with her head pillowed on the breast of a strong, proud husbandy the bright future then opening to her, the happy thought of becoming a hup&{ mother, when suddenly, through 0 shocking fright of a ' horrible 'dream, her soul is plunged into darkness, her brain is left in & whirl and the monster with numerous horns enters her home to drive out peaceful- :.‘nu. and break up theése very happy rela- ons.” On the proof submitfed by the state, Judge Baldwin said he was ywilling to argue and submit the case. H® “too went over the scenes of the tragedy, throwing in, of course, 8 fow extra touches' of sentimentality, It was perfectly natural that she should want a room next to King's and surprise him. But the bell boy said to her his wife is with him, Wildly she exclaimed, “Why, I am his wife!” Where is the woman who under like circumstances would not bave seresmed and raved and wanted to go tearing into that rooom! This Harry Kiog, who the prosecu- tion claims was a roformed man, was there in an improper manner when his wife came to see hun, He and wmet her, from the lips of witnesses, testified to by one and endorsed by the other, that during their mterview he talked angrily, and we have it from the testimony {utroduced by the state that, while he had ‘er by the throat and Wwas tureatening to silence her tongue for- ever, the shot that killed him was firea. There is uot a doubt that she shot him, but where! The ball entered in the back and ranged downward, Therefore, if fired from that pistol, iv must have been held above him, and that it was fired near whe elevator is & fact proven as surely as anything. The hand that held the revolver was burned. They must have had a struggle, because to frap- ple her throat he must have stooped, thrown up her arm and in some way the weapon was discharged. He ran, of course, and fell down the ' stairs. She ran after him, in that dazed condition described by witnesses, not knowing what she was doing. Afterwards she told her story, and “if you doubt the truthfulness of that story, gentlemen of the jury, I am very much mistaken." The speaker thought that could Harry King’s real thoughts have been known on that fatal morning, there is no doubt that he would then have willingly taken the advice of this woman to rely on his own resources, go with her and live a happy life. He had said ‘m her long before: *‘I'want to marry you.” **Harry, do you mean it?" she asked. He sal “1 do. am the son of a millionair but, Libbie, we will go off down into Missouri and and sign a con- tract more binding and sacred than the ser- mon of any minister or priest.” ‘They could not live in’ Chicago, and went to Quincy, where, as has been fully shown, they had a happy home, until the murder in* terfered and broke itup, True, thoy were poor there, in debt and experienced adversi- ties, but she clung to him, and we have it from lips on that stand that she was willing, if she could have him, to de anything and live 1n a barh if necessary. Do you think she would be willing to sacrifice everything and starve unless she was his lawful wife! The speaker who pro- ceeded me referred to the mysterious Henry Woolworth King. Why mysterious, when his name is on the information? They were going to bring him here, but dare not be- cause they know that he was bound to tes- tify to the lawful marriage of this poor woman and Harry, The testimony of Johuson, as to his con- nection with the negotiations carried on at y as_agent for King's father, was re- viewed. They thought they had trapped her and him too, but we have it that afterwards were found living together again in Chicogo, and if Harry King's spirit could be brought here now he would tell you that the love existing between him and her was 50 binding as to defy. the sepa- rating powers of human effort or human law, It was love, and Webster in his definition says that love is of God. All his letters to her commenced ‘‘My dear wife” and ended “Your loving husband.” Then came the second trouble, in which his people wanted to and said they ‘must get rid of the woman. But not one solitary word has ever been brought out to~show that Harry W. King, jr., did not want her for bis wife, or *‘tell me of a single time if you can wnere she has not told the truth,” lot of educated men got her into their power and tried to make her sign a contract by representing that Harry had been disinherited, and was worthless, living in Omaha, and would never see her. again. But, said she, ‘I can go there and make him support e, Their reply was, “We will run him away from there then as we did before, and it will do you no good.” “Who is Luther Mills?’ nquired Mr, Baldwin. “Why, he is the man, paid by old man King's money, to draw that contract and induce her to sign it, Then let nfe ask ‘whether Mills, and ‘such a smooth spoken man as J. McGregor Adams, talking for two hours to one poor, weak lit- tle woman, could " not her into & condition where not know what to say or do? No one knew whether she had read, heard or knew what the coutents of that agreement were. The only thing Adams could remember about it 'was that at Mills' uest she put her name to the document. by lying and mwisrepre- sentation, said the speaker, they induced her for the consideraf of §1,500 to sign it. About that time, they knew, Hury Was mar- ried to another woman, but deliberately lied to this one about it. The next day she heard he was married and weat to his father for an explanation, but the father claimed to kuow nothing about it and turned her away with & short uncivil answer, 7 'l"hl:g she went to Joh;r)n. who admitted ¢ had seen a paragraph in some newspaper to that effect. Realizing that she had been , sud ina condition of mind uncon- scious of what she was doing, the woman started as quickly as she could to see whether it was true that she had been deserted by the man she loved, and who had given her every reason to believe he loved nher. Beott and Ormsby testified that at the time and after the tragedy sho was totally insaae. Nothing has boon adduced to show that prior to that uct she was not out of her mind, There is nothing in our organization or makeup that will destroy our minds so quickly as an interforence in_our family and lovo affairs. Senator Jones, of Florida, pur- sued a woman to marry him until he lost his reason. - The judge read from medical authorities to show the conditions to which women are subjected, and as proof that whilo passing through certain poriods many of them are thrown into a state of mind borderin strongly on that of insanity. He also relato with ~ dramatic effect & number of in- stances personally known to him, in which sudden shocks have driven peopld totally crazy almost instantly, but, declared he, *wo cannot explan them. ' The question here, therefore, is, was this woman insane ‘when that pistol went off "’ 3 The definition of & common law marriage was left with Judge Groff to give to the oon,” declared Judge Baldwin, I shall say the last word in her behalf that I can, Others are coming after who ocan say more and say it better, but the man don’t live who takes a more sincere or carnest interest in her welfare than [ do.”’ The speaker had no desire to press heavily on the sorrowing father and mother, but to the jury he said: “I want you to write your verdict on God’s key stone of heaven, aud let the men who commit crime stop their damnable ways, make them let alone the women who are not their wives, and there will be no Libbie Biechlers to haunt them.' When Mr. Baldwin concluded the cou - journed until 9:30 o’clock Monday morning. At that time General Cowin will make his plea, after which County Attorney Mahoney will take a turn and the case will probably £0 to the jury Monday evening. Religlous Notes. Newmen M. k. church—Preaching at 10:30 mormng and 7:30 evening by the pastor, Rev . J. E. Ensinger. Evening subject! ‘*Mrs. Harry W. King--Should She Hangi" Preaching every night during the week by pastors, First Baptist church—Strangers’ Sabbath home, corner Fifteenth and Davenport streots; Rev. A, W. Lamar, pastor; preach- ing av 10.30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.; mornmg theme, ‘A World-Wide Gospel;"” evening theme, ‘“‘Some Blind People;” Sabbath school at 12 m.; prayer meeting Wednesday evenng at 7:45; young people's society Friday eveming at 7:45, All are cordially inyited; seats free, ‘‘Mayor Broatch and the Sunday Law" will be the eveuing theme of Rev. J. B. Johnson at the Walnut Hill Christian church, Unity church—Rov. Henry A. Westall, of Bloomington, Ill.. will preach at Unity in two services. Morning service 11 o'clock; subject, “‘Faith and Sight;" evening, 7:30 o'clock; subject, ‘‘Thiugs Which Remain,” All are invived, 4 Marriage Licenses. Following arethe marriage licenses issued yestorday in the county coart: Name and Residenca, Nicholas Pies, Omaha, ......... Magdolen Lewback, Omah f Frank Dahlquist, Om, Hulda Peterson, Omaha Rasmus Hansen, Omak: Anna Nielson, Omaha, 45 45 { 2 { Fred Palmtag, Omaha, ... Ada Magee, Omaha P! Avrohitect Sidney Smith is confined to his house by illness. Con, man W. J. Connell has returned from Washington, K. (. Cooper, general manager of the Den. ver Republican, is in the city and stopping at the Paxton, Colonel R. H. Hall and wife left yestorday morning for Los Angoles. The colonel goes to his new department headquarters in the Iatter city, while his wife will visit for a time with her sister, Mrs. Captain Duggan, in Suata Fe, A large view of the plans for the Chau tauqua grounds has been placed in show window of Milton Rogers' store, where it will remain for several days. RAILROAD NEWS, Trains Abandoned. Commencing to-day, trains Nos. 5 and 6 on the Burlington between Chicago and Denyer will be abandoned west of Lincoln, the fast service being confined between Chi- cago and Lincoln. No. 1 will handle all the local day traftic west of Lincoln, Branch Service Abandoned. The new time card on the Union Pacific takes effect to-day. No. 1 passenger 1s tho only train affected, which will, west bound, leave here at 8:35 p. m., instead of 7:52 as before, The branch service on the Blue ?prl:&;s road, to that point, has been discon- inued, Railroads at Loggerheads. The Union Pecific is endeavoring to per- suade the Southern Pacific to put on an ad- ditional train petween Ogden and the coast, All along the Union Pacific has encountered an obstacle of this kind the Southern Pacifio refusing to make proper connections at Ogden.” It)s thought that a deal will be effected. Conflicting Statements, Chief Clerk Loomis, in the general man- ager’s office of the Burlington, denies the truthfulness of the report, published in Tus Bee to the effect that a big reduction in the number of employes at headquarters was about to be made. He states that the force has been kept down to the lowest number at all times, However, the report to the con- trary comes from a roliable source. There is 1o truth in the report in o morning paper concerning the abolition of tho department of auditor, but the sub-auditing departments are to be consolidated with the auditing de- partment, Mullen for Assistant Auditor, It in correctly reported that a ciroular will s00n make its appearance announcing the ap- pointment, of Edward Mullen as assistant auditor of the Burlington with headquarters in Omaha. Mr. Mullen is now an attache f the auditing departments Ratiroad Notes, The Union Pacific received a new engine, 034, from the Schenectady locomotive works to-day. J. 8. Tobbets, assistant general freight agent of the Union Pacific, returned from Helena to-duy, where he has been in attend. ance at a meeting of stockme: (. M. Caming, assistant gencral menager of the Union Pacific at Salt Lake, is in Omahu receiviag instructions concerning the new time card on that end of the road. It is expected soon that the Union Pacifie trains will be run through to Puget sound instead of Portland, as af, present, The Rock Tsland has decided to adopt the 10-cent ratv on lumber between Cuicago and Missouri river points. ‘This will give the Chicago dealer a differontial of 8 cents over that of 8t. Paul ana Minneapolis. The rates at present from Chicago to Omuha are 16 cents per hundred, and from St. Paul to Omaba 18 cents per hundred, ‘Women's Views on Politics. Sr. Louis, Mo., April 6,—The Sunday Post-Dispatch will print interviews on poli- tice with 500 women in different parts of Missouri. These interviews show that while Missouri is democratic at evéry elec- tion, the majurity of the women interviewed. are republicans, Oanly a few are prob tionists, and not twenty in the 500 favor women suffrage, but quite a number would be glad to vote on license and schoot ques: tions, " Pugilistically Inclined Militiamen, Cuicago, April 6.—Pwenty members of the First regimers, llinois Natlonal Guard, yrho wero arrosted Last night whilo wiesss fi, ng a prize fight between two memb i regunent, were arraigned in the police cous v this morning, sud each paid a fiue of $1 costs, e Found Dead His OfMge. S1. Louvis, Mo,, April 6.—Joseph J, Mo~ Dowell, a promivent iron merchant of this city, was “ound dead in his ofice about 1:39 this aflernoon,