Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 14, 1893, Page 2

WORK OF THE LEGISLATURE House Fixes an Hovir for Oonsidering the In- vestigating Committee Reports. MANY BILLS REPORTED FOR FINAL ACTION Governor Cronnse Vetors n Bill to Croate a New Judge -May Fixn Time for Ad- Journment -Routine Work in the Senate. Lixcory, Neb,, March 13—[Special to Tre | Wee.|—There were just sixty-nine members of the house present when the chief clerk | called the roll this afternoon. The reading of the journal was dispensed with Keckley called the attention of the house | to the fact that the consideration of the re ports of the several investigating committees had been set for sk this afternoon. There were a number of interested parties and he moved that their madea spocial order for absent he said consideration be tomorrow afternoon Barry offered an time at 7:30 tomorrow even Keckley cented the amendment and the house adopted it, despite the opposition of Stevens, who was afraid there would be too much confusion at a nizht se - sion The use of representative hall was voted to John Currie on Wednesday swer to a request from that gentleman, who informed the house that he would like to de- liver an address on the labor question Reports were then received from the stand {ng committees on the following bills House roll No. amend the consoli- dated statutes the recommendation that it be passed as amended. House roll No. 55, to assist the State library and the State Historical society, was recommended as a substitute for house roll No. 156, House roll No. 532, to amend the insurance laws, was placed on general file, House roll No. 287, to make policies of life and endowment insurance nonforfeitable, | was recommended to pas House roli No. 407, providing for a holiday 1o be known as “Benevolence day,” was in- definitely postponed g House roll No. 504, to amend the oil inspec- | tion laws, was indefinitely postponed. To Pay for Investigations. House roil No, 464, to_provide for the in- wvestigation and examination into the ac- counts, pros 78, vouchers, expenditures and all business connected with the Insane hospital of Lincoln, Insane asylum at N folk, State penitentiary at Lincoln, Reform school at Kearney, Home for the Friendless at Lincoln, Soldiers and Sailors ho Grand Island, Industr home, Milford Institute for the Blind, Nebraska City ; De: and Dumb institute, Omaha; Institute for the Feeble Minded, Beatrice; State uni versity, Lincoln, Agricuitu Experimental station, Lincoln: State Normal school, Peru; tate Board of Transportation,State Board of | ducational Lands and Funds, State Board f Public Lands and Buildings, Live Stock | ftary commissioners, State Board of Pur- chases and Supplies,StateBoard of Equaliza- tion, State Board of Pharmacy, State Board of Printing, State Board of Escheats, Labor au, Oil inspection. State Board of Agri- culture, State Horticultural society, and to | select a suitable attorney and such clerks to aid him in such work and an_appropriation | of 3,000 to defri nses of said commit- teeman, attorne nd rcountants, was reported for passage. ; House roil No. 510, to make an appropria- tion for the use and benefit of the Nébraska Home for the Aged, was indefinitely post- poned. 4 House roll No. amendment fixing the evening ia an | to ral It 3, o bill for an act grant- ing a.bounty of $100 to each officer and mem- ber who enlis ved in the Eirst and Second regiments of Nebruska volunteers, and who has been honorably discharged therefrom. and in ¢ase of denth of such per- sons, to their widows.and orphans, and pro- viding for the payment of the same out of the state treasury, aud prohibiting the pay- ment or exaction of attorney’s for the prose- cutfon of such claims, and providing a pun- ishment for the violation of this act, was in- definitely postponed. House roll No. 459, to amend the act to in- corporate cities of the first class and to pro- wvide for the construction of viaducts, was recommended for passage. Concurrent resolution No. 2, requesting Nebraska's representatives in congress to take steps looking to the collection of the Unlon Pacific indebtedness to the United States, placed on general file. House roll No. 511, to prescribe the quali- fication of justices of the peace inall cities having more than 8,000 population, was in- definitely postponed. Retnined the Veto Power. The committee on constitutional amend- ments presented two reports on the bill to re- peal that section of the Nebraska constitution conferring the veto power upon the gov- ernor. The majority report recommended the passage of the bill and was signed by Nelson, Gerdes, Soderman, Schelp, Fulton, Stevens and Olson. The minority report recommended that the bill be indefinitely postponed. The minority report cited the fact that ‘‘repeal of the veto power of the governor would take away one of the great- est safeguards against unwise and hasty legislation.” cKesson moved that the minority report be adopted. Sheridan moved as a” substi- tute the adoption of the majority report. Sheridan’s motion was lost. and upon the adoption of the minority report the yeas and | nays were demanded. 'The minority report was adopted by a vote of 47 to 36, As the vote was aunounced the governor's private secretavy appeared with a message, t was left on the clerk’s desk without action until the completion of the regular order. Sustained the Veto. When the veto had been read the question came upon the passage of the bill over the BOVernor's veto. question was lost by vote of 42 yeas and 34 nays. The veto mies. sage was is follows I herewith return without my app house roll N a bill for “an act to i seetion 220 pter il of the consolida statutes of Nebraska by providing for an ditional judge In the Twelfth judicial dis- trict In'm Xhich th Judgment the additional judge for 13 bill seeks to provide Is unnecessar the number of Judges has far outran for them. For nine years prior to 1876, when the constitution of 1875 went into | effect, and untilour popuiation exceeded 250,000, tho whole wark devolving upon the' supreme and district courts was done by three judges. The districts were | Jarge and the means of getting ahout difieult | compared with the present time, yet I know | from expericnce and from the testimony of those .who sue me that the w woll keptupund the Iabor not onerous, The constitution cf 1575, while tablishing an indepondent supreme court, 11- erally anticipated the population und court by providi nd. a judge for Aguinst the of Judges, which the’ legisluture w two-thirds vote and then not oft onee In four years, to add to the n first fixod 1n'the constitution. Ing this, beginning particularly | isiness of judi erlonced, opt by @ | ner than | mber us | Notwithstand- the year 185 Islature overy two y | the number of “district judgés has *been | Ancreased il it now reaches iwonty-elght-.in my opinion niore than double tho nim ber & sonably needed to dispose of the business of that court. At the time the constitation went into opers tlon we had one judge to 50,000 populat i and he performed the double duty of st and supreme Judge- the latter offiee dema *ing Balf bis time and attention. Todu, Ve om 'this doubis duty, w Judge for less than ¥ 40,000 poy while sevoral states havo” hut one dix elreuit jud re than 100,000 tion. Wi with his u apher, costs #4,000 annually wltiplication of | thelr nunber add” largely 1o the burdens of the state, but with 100 many judges some will be idle. Idle judges, witlout the schooling | and experience which active duty brings, a liable to be poor Judges, and poor judges tinke business for the supreme court aud are expen- sive for litigants. | It may bo that there s an unusual acoum- | mulation of business fn tne Twelfth district + F£:80, one remedy could be found in so re trieting the statd us to lessen it Anothe simplo one, s for the presiding judgo to'c other judges to bis asiistal Authority for is Is found in section 1,051 of the consoli- ted statutes, and the constiuction pat upon by the supreme court Inthe case of Tippy | s not | 9, range 6 | provide | statement, but objection being made he ac- | bodid eling from Fez to Larache under the escort ngninst the State. oo wostorn Reporter, page 208, Ruying Mananis. mmittoo to revise the blue book or anual, reported that the committ d its duty and that the senate had made purchases of the same, seven hooks for each member. Stevens asked Oakley how much the State Journal company asked por copy. Oakloy stated that the senate paid £1.45 each. The mittee was authorized to obtain prices M0 and 500 copies of the book Jensen offered a resolution appointing committee of three to act with a like mittee from the senate to fix uoon o t the adjournment of the legislature. Ste moved to table A motion to table v ton and others mude fizing a tim to adjo favor of the resolution wan said that he was in favor of staying here till the snow fiies next fall in oraer to see the Newberry bill carried through, Barry said that it was the duty to fix upon & time to adjourn and let the senate vote down the Newberry bill; then let the house kill the general appropri ation bill, and then the governor would be forced to call an extra session and he could be foreed to name railroad legisiation in the 1. The resolution carried by a vote of 34 to 27, The governor's private secretary appeared with o message informing the house that he had signed house rolls 182 and 183 Speaker Gaffin announced that he had ap. pointed Messrs. Scott, Ellis and Limgen s a special committes to investigate Minded institute at Beatrice. on second reading occupied a few minutes. and senate file Nos 1, 13, 18, , 85, 112 and 191 win i Woods asked unanimous consent to pass house roll 424, to cancel certain contracts of purchase of 4, 6 and 7, in the northwest quarter of section 9, in township 1, in Lancaster county, and to for the repayment to persons hold- ing contract of purchase thercof, of such sums of money as they have paid to the state theretor. The bill received 73 votes aye and none against Barry asked and was granted permission to place upon final passage the substitute for house roll No. 378, to provide for the appoint- ment, duties and compensation of a com mandant of the Nebraska Soldiers and Sailors home, to provide for reports from and quarterly meetings of the visiting and | examining board of said institution, to | dispense with the office of quartermaster and to ropeal said original sections 3432 and of the consolidated statutes of Nebraska of 18, The bill was rend and passed by a vote of 73 ayes and none against. Bills on third reading were called and hous roll No. 56 vead a third time. This is Barry taxation bill, deducting indebtedness from property value when listed by assessor. Bill lost by Vote of 81 to The house then adjourned. lame 1111, North. Onkloy f ens lost. Keckley, Fel specches opposed to Jensen spoke in fund tho Mon lots IN THE SENATE, Afternoon Spent in Raising Items on the Ap- propriation Bill. . Neb., March Special to T Be.]—There were only twenty-two mem- bers present when President Pro Tempore Correll called the senate to order this after- noon. Considerable miscellaneous business was transacted, in which the maximum rate bill passed by the house last Friday was read the first time by its title. A motion was then made to mittee for consideration of bills on general | file. On this proposition several republican senators demanded a call of the house. The doors were closed, and, after several ab- sentees had drummed in, the doors were opencd, and the senate went into com. mittee of the whole, taking up the general appropriation bill. Laxoc go into com | | | | | been propr the state penitentia giving that institution the sum of $10,550 for sewerage, weneral repairs, furniture. The amendinent came in the form of an itemized | epted an amendment giving the institution 210,000 in a lump for general repairs. Adopted. Senator Campbell offered an amendment striking out the appropriations for maintain- ing electric bell system, telephones, speaking tubes, delivering convicts on court order: ationery and printing, und photographing convicts. The appropriation was smail, all the items altogether amounting to $830. The motion was not agreed to. The Home for the Friendle: came in for its full share of the increased ap- provriations. It was giver £5,000 for a new boiler and new boiler house, and its general list was increased in almost every item until the total inerease amounted to $16,5 The Soldiers and Sailors Home at Grand Island came in for a slight increase, amount- ing to but 650, The Institute for the Fecble Minded at Beatrice was not forgotten in the general distribution. The item of maintenance and employes’ wages was raised from £45,000 to £65,000. Other items were swelled to the amount of $7,700. The committee then rose, and the senate went_into exccutive session to listen to a pointment of Mr, Gilmore of Auburn to steward of the Lincoln Insane lum, senate then adjourned. Pl TELEGRAPHIC BRIE. at Lincoln be The s, Domest Nothing new has transpired in the strike on the Tolado, Ann Arbor & Michigan railway. A portion of the wall of anold building in course of reconstruction in- Chicago fell and A. C. Briggs, a carpenter, was crushed to death, At Monterey, Mex., a wreck oceured on tho Mexiean Central raiiway by which Engincer Seoency aud hiy firemin were both fatully njured. No particulars at hund. G. L. Morrison and M. G. Edwards, two grisoners who escaped fron the Princoton Mo., Juil, were shot und killed by a sheriff's posse from Missourl at Davies, ln. W. II. Taylor, a ber of St. Louis, Mo., shof arlisle, a_ Chicago A because of the latter's intl- acy with Taylor's wife. Taylor is in jail, The 1| meeting of the Commercial iy Mutual, Aid nt Association America held in Ut s, With 1. D, P} Bertha Marks, suieide at Muncl had slipped son spent it, for wh dher to the reform sehool. relars, Saturday night, entored the house Thomas Bryant on Catherwood ereck rtucky, and by torturing him with fire made hini' reveal the hiding place of o large sum of maney, which they sceured Tho striking conl miners of the Monongahe valley, through the executive board, hive made i proposition to the conl exchange submit “the question of wages to arbitration The operators say it will not be uceepted Tho will of the lato Charles E. Gehring, president of the Geliring Brewing company of Cleveland, O., disposes of an estate vilued it FL,000,0C0, " Four thousand dollars 18 given to local charities, $2,000 to the poor of his nutive town In Gerwiany and the remainder goes to his widow and ehildren, Josse und dames Seligman, who are el defendants in the suit | ht by the mond T company againsi Joh Inman and others o verover 84,0 use of alloged fraud in Wia it erminal directors in “uit court A shooting scrape oc Minn., early yesterduy wame, which Wil llkely resuit in the Fred Stauke, a barfonder, who at to cish by foree some choeks of his e Who was playing. The proprietor house had left his son in instructing nim not to his return Stauke. A of Utic 1 y out of the parents thr house and atened to nded Sepit of the Richmond the United States clr- urred at Centerville, ning overa poker upt ployer, of “the rarily, any checks unfil In'carrying out his orders he shot A widow and dered by rabl crenated. Aftor a lonz di ildren were ur- Salmodorf and their . ‘ussion the Brit Commons rejected, by o close vote, I's wotion that the evicted to isslon bo Impeached. A building in the Shrudelstrasse, collupsed while twed were e Fou en of the hay en from the ruins, sident Diaz of Mexlco has decreed the ce Lmportation of maize and beans for Indofinite ‘period. It is expected, however that bigh ruilway rates will K importa tion The stated the which China artillery have ordercd to the seenc. A dispateh trom Tangler says that while Mr watell of the American consulute was tr h House of W. Rus ants com- “arlsbad, i Ohinese authorities In Kashgar, 1t Is seize tho portion of ssin und to infantry and of wis attacked by a small band cd robbers. The robbers fired without | i A0 ¥Dody and fled when the soldlers e two soldiers | of | and | and fu LINCOLN PRIESTS COMPLAIN Why the Pops's Reprosentative Will Visit Nebraska's Uapital, CATHOLIC PRELATES CAN NOT AGREE Father Crowley Declares that Bishop Bo m of Lincoln Dis of Vital 1 rr arded an Order portan rom the gaodn at K Lixcors, Neb,, March 13 Bk, |—The anuouncement that Mg would wisit Lincoln after Easter to in quire into the difculties existing between Bishop Bonacum and ral of his pr is confirmatory of the news exclusively given in Tie Bee to that effect when Father Walsh returned from his conference with the monsignor a4 month sinee. The priests who ave asking for the transfer of Bishop Bonacum to Cheyenne are Father Walsh of this city, Father Corbett of Pal- myra and Father Crowley of Tecumseh. Father Walsh was removed two years ago because of the statement made to the bishop by Mrs. Mary Sheedy, against whom Walsh had testified at the inquest over the dead body of her husband whose murder she was charged with, Mrs Sheedy stated to the bishop that Father Walsh had made serious reflections against his (the bishop's) morality, and without ceremony or giving the father a chance to defend himself, he was suspended for five years, Father Crowley’s complaint is understood to be that the bishop had disregarded an order from Rome to reinstate him after the ied to the [Spe rsts bishop's suspension had been car higher tribunal. Father Corbett was charged with some ecelesiastical irregular- ity, said to be a too great liking on his part 10 Stay up with the boys. On his appeal the procecding was quashed and the e not sustained. Recently the trouble between the two broke outagain, and Iather Corbett was uotified that the bishop would take testi- mony at Palmyra on the charges prepared against him, but as he was not served with a cof harges he did not appear. The bishop did, and it transpired that the chavges were one that he enzaged in a fight on_election day at Palmyra, and the other for using insulting language to the bishop. Some testimony was taken on the former charge, but the latter was not entered upon ory fully. The insult to the bishop appened * some eight months ago. he bishop was on visit to the Palmyra church, and in _his ad- dress to the congregation spoke of the poor condition of the parish, and found fault with nearly everything that Father Corbett 1 done. It is said that at this junctu Pather Corbett stepped forward and gave the lie indivectly to the bishop, and wound up by saying: *“The bishop has come here to niake trouble between you and me. Now let a us offer up a prayer that he will fail in his | design,” ‘The people all knelt, with the bishop alone standing. He, too, kneltafter all had gotten down ou their knecs. At a recent meeting of the priests here the trouble was called up again, and there we som fiery passage betwe the end father from in which the lled the one from Palmyra very uncomplim y name, None of the ests here will discuss the marter. District Court News. Judge Hall and a jury are engaged today in hearing the case of Platt Bayless against the vity. Bayless is a farmer, and one night last March he drove into an open ditch at Seventh and South streets, and a spring seat landed on top of his head, denting it verely, and he claims 810,000 for the perma nent injuries inflicted, L. A. McCandless objects to paying W. S, Fletcher §10,000 for the _four hours incarcer- ation he didn't enjoy in November last. Me- Candless says he didu't arrest Fletcher, buy that Marshai Adams,an ofilcer of the United States, did, and turned him over to him. He ims that Fletcher deserves to be locked up anyhow, that he was o railroad grader who had come into Yankee Hill precinct to live while the road was beiug built, and had no right to vote, and was arrested when he tried to vote. This is a relic of the s J over whether Rock Island graders should be allowed to vote for Bryan last fall, Mary Wilson asks fora divorce from her husband, Charles Wilson, to whom she was married in Douglas county September 16, 1869. The grounds are drunkenness, cruelty and nonsupport. Lydia Butler began suit today to enforce her dower interest n property now owned by S. J. Irvine, Hattie Furr and Emanuel Wil- son. pr City In Brief. Health Officer Bartram this afternoon found the dead body of a small infant in Salt creek just below the A street bricice. There 18 no clew as to how the infant came there, but it is presumed to be the offspring of some criminal intimacy. Tt was partially decayed, and nothing about it to indicate its identity John B. Wright is today being boomed for mayor on the republican ticket as a dark horse, R. E. Moore having declined and 1. M. Raymond being an imrusslmliu‘ because of the multiplicity of candidates from bis ward for other offices. The women are up in arms at the action of the mass meeting of nonpartisans the other evening in refusing to name a woman as one of their candidates, and have called a mass mecting for tomorrow afternoon to take some retaliatory action, probably to put up a ticket of their own. ‘The prohibition city convention will be held av Red Ribbon hali Wednesday ofter- noon. Six of the twenty workmen employed in Lasch Bros.’ candy manufactory struck this morning for higher wages. The men had beén working there for years, and took ad- vantage of the incoming of a’ new foreman to demand more wages. Their places were filled several hours later by green hands, The colored footpad is still at work. Last night he met Miss Atchison of 1931 G streot Miss Fitzgerald of F and Eighteenth strects, and knocked both down. He grabbed a package in the hands of one of the girls, but it contained nothing but me Miss Atchison w. beaten about the head e, and 1o less than seven marks from the blows can be seen on her face Fremont News No Neb, March 13.—(Special to A prohibition club has been by the students of the Fremont Normal school, and the following named officers have been elected: R. A. Peck, president; 1. A. Miller, first vice president C. A, Button, second vice president; Lucy Tewksbury, secretary, and Charles Pease, treasurer. A farewell reception was given A. M. Clemmence and wife this evening in’ the rooms of the Young Men's Christian associa- tion, by the members of the association and the Ministerial association and their friends Mr. Clemmence has been general secretary of the Young Men's Christian asseciation in this city for over four years, during which time he and his estimable wife have always had a kind word to say of everybody, and have made many warm friends who regret to see them leave for thew new home n Waco, Tex., where he has accepted a similar situation. 'They expect to leave here Thurs- day, stopping in Omaha one day with the eneral secrotary of the Young Men's Chris- lan associntion there before going to their future home. os. FRENONT, Tue, Bie.| organized Blair's Great Rovival, Bramg, Neb., March 18.—(Special to Tne Bee.|—A great revival has been in progress at the First Baptist church of Blair for the past two months. Following the “Week of Prayer,” the Methodist Episcopal church commenced special meetings and continued for one month with good results. By this time the Baptists were ready to dedicate their new church, which is one of the prettiest in the state. After a week's rest the church started on a series of meetings. From the first the church was crowded and conversions occurred every night. The pastor called to his assistance Evangelists Keables and Thompson. Uhe whole city was moved. The pastor has baptised over dighty already and many others are waiting. Young | men, who in the past would not think of goiug to church, but who were founa in 1to Tne | saloons and other placas of amusement, go to church and are tive in Christian work The Young Moen's (Jhristian sssociation has been very active in these meetings and has done much good The evangelists closed their labors last THursday nd left for Waterloo, Ta., but, the pastor will continue the meetings Arl¥every one has o good word for these evangelists ‘and believe that they are men called of God to this kind of work. Fire atohiu . Hesnoror, Neb., March 13 ~Yesterday moraing the frame Biilding on the south- | west corner of the public square, oceupied | by . B. Porter as & vestavrant and bakery, | caught fire. The )r. pes were confined to | the four one-story “bylldings that stood in the row The 10sses are ame. Welsner, shoe shop, loss on W, 00, no insurance: Hedlitska & | Hoor carpenter shop, loss on building, f600; Mrs. Sa . restaurant, loss on building, #00, no insurance; M Gandy, | tailor shop, $50, no insurance; B. Porter, restaurant, stock and fixtures, 8350, insured | in Aet for £300 and Continental for 300, | "he other th » buildings were cleared of their contents before the fire reached them. Much praise is given the fire company for its efMcient services. Beatrico Business Faily Beatnice, Neb,, March 13.—(Special T gram to Tur Ber.|—The grocery establish- | ment of Sutherland Bros. was closed undera chattel mortgage this morning. The heav iost claim against the establishment is that of . S, Bartlett of Grinnell, Ta, for 1,080, The Farmers and Merchants State bank of this city has a_claim' for 00, Black Bros. of this city $2 and Hargrave B of | Lincoln $30.80. 1t is thought that the aadi- | tional liabilities may bring th regate up | to #4250, The assets will this amount, as the establishwent was one | of the best stocked in the city, The failure | is attributed to dull trade and slow collec tions. exceed | Death of Two N Beatrice, Neb., Ma gram to Tur Bee. | —Mrs, Cla M. Boyd, aged 71 years, dicd here this morning. She W the rvelict of the late James Boyd and s one of the first settlers of southern Ne braska. Two sons, George and Frank Boyd, survive. | Word was received lhere today of the [Teath of Mrs. Dr. I. M. Somers at San Diego, Cal. The decensed’s husbind 1w formerly one of the proprietors of the Beat- rice Daily Express aund was coroner of county for two terms. Tele rissa Schuyler Republicans Senvyrer, Neb., March 13.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee)—The city caucus to nominate city officers was held by the repub- licans at Chase's hall tonight. The follow- ing_were nominated: D. MeLeod, mayor S. Turrill, clerk; 1. H. Kolm, treasure E. B Gremnman, engin W. Brown, police judgze; conncilmen, J. W. Shultz, First ward: James Woods, Second ward; and H. W. Kolm, Third ward. John Prokes and M. L. Weaver were renominated to succeed themselves as members of the school board - - ¢ aucu A Gre The patent sliding iron fire proof shut- ter manufactured by Andreen & Gannett | of Omaha was given a practical test yesterday afternoon’ by the Lincoln fire department, the building seleeted being | the new four-story factory of the Lin- | coln Paint and Colar company. FEvery claim of the inventor that it could be closed or opened at will by the action of astream of water was proven to the satis- faction of all, among whom were a num- | ber of factory owners and insurance men. | Kimball Bros, ave the Lincoln agents, | and a branch factory may be started here coess. el ST Y. M.C. A. CONFERENCE. Program of t to Be Held at The Younz Men's Christian associations in the counties of Douglas, Washington, Burt, Thurston, Dakota, Dixon, Cedar, Sarpo, Otoe ict conference at Blair, March 17-19. The district,committee comprises K. 5. Thomas, chairman, Omaha; C. 5, *Wllliamson, sccretary, Omaha Battin, Omaha; C. S, Platt: W 8. Hyer, Nebraska City: Charles Blair; T A. Chickering, Ashland. The pro- gram for the conference is FRIDAY EVENING. MARCH 17, B :'v 0—Reception to delegates by cltizens of Blalr. 8:30—-Opening session; address of welcome to delegat Response—Elmer E. Thomas, chairman dis- trict committe iy . Address—Re: Wright Butler, SATURDAY. Opening service of Opening address, Preparatio 9:00 5 Heart, Omaha. pr 5 Fiiting for Service; F. Gilmore, 9:45-"“What We Are Here For." Brief dress by nbers of district committ, 10:10°-“What an Association of Can Do Mr. E. B. ilenderson, Albion 10:45—"Athletic aud Outdoor Sports.” Battin, Omulia. 11:00—Auxilfaries to th 3 W. F. Beverly, Kearney. wvelers—Mr. 1. A. Corresponding Members Awmes, 0--Open confe S nd ad- ve Men Neb. JW. () Women (h) Commercial Patterson, Cmabu. (¢) Mr. itugn Scilly, o1 alse servi r Work: The Study of the rles Bird, Omaha 5+ Prevention,” Prof. F. W Taylor, State unlversity, Lincoln. 8:15—"The Boys,” Mr. P.'L. Johnson, Hast- “Committee Worl Williamson, O; 5 mo Things Lang, general secreta 15 "“Information son, Albion. ug service. “The Value ‘of an Assoclation owin,” Howard Baldridge, chairman committee, Omaha. 7:45—Work Awong Railroad Men," Loomis, assistant general manager 1. Omiha “Christian Men in Public Warren Switzler, Omahu. SUNDAY. 9:00—"Titting for Wor from Sin 3:00—F Ober, gene 4:00 and How to Do Tt,” p. ot to Do Mr. F. W. . Sloux City, Ta Burcau,” E.B. Hender- to a state W, M. Life,” Hon pwer to Turn Men ' Prof. C. A, Murch, Kearn angelieal Biblo Class, F. W, secretary, Omaha. meoti eeting: sharp, pointed addresses by delegates short, - RSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Lloyd of Gothenburg has returned | visit to Rock Island, T, B. ", Ankeny, who is a large owi mines and chlorination works at D., was in the city yesterday. wnk Morrissey, late private secrotary to rnor Boyd, is lying eritically ill at the Dellone hotel. 'He was taken ill Saturday, and was last evening suffering intense pain. Mrs. Morrissey was hastily summoned from Lincoln, and is now, at his bedside. At the Murray: 'J.E. Gavin, A. Menny, £, Serat, Kansay City; J. E. Ren, S, J Chicago; J."M." Batcheldeor, Rut- Charles D. ¥ittinger, Chicago; Al New York; K. J. Lawton, Dead- A. Stew oIn; A, J. Caudee, Tra Oakland; T. E. Chicago: J. W, Holmquist, Oakland; L. C. Elkin, John" Vesser, Chicago: A Brenner, New Bedford, Mass.; . J. Hea St. Louis. » At the Mercer: George Lewis, W. E. Bischoff, Lok Woodson, St. Louis; L. C. Welsh, Allyn, W. A Demey, Chicago; . McConville, Jersey City ; N. Maddocks, Detroit; James Cline, Jeff L. Stone, Minden; H. P, Johnson, Davenport Ta.; F.H. Moore, Atthison; W. H. Korns, Tekamah; C. R. Rbdman, Oakland; W. H Brown, Arapahoe: Sion' Dwick, Onawa, Tn.; James I, Higton, Crete: John H. Price, Nebraska City; C. Bruer, Jansen; W. Mo ton Swees. Lincoln; H. 8. Caudee, Beatrice ; T. B. Irwin, Gordon, Neb.; Chris Fischer, Venango. Ew Yok, March 13.—[Special Telegram to Tie Bee.|—Omaha: . B, Stokes, buyer for Robinson-Stokes company, Westminster; W. F. Baxter, buyer for _Kilpatrick- Koch Dry Goods company, Westminster; Mrs, E. L. Lomax, Hotel Savoy; W. B. Tay- lor, Windsor. Cuicago, TIL, March_ 18.—[Special Tele- gram to Tae Bee)—-Nebraska arrivals: Grand Pacitic—Mrs. 1. N, Cook, J. M. Wool- | worth, Omaha. Brevoort—G, A. Hagensick. Charlés G. Heydorn, Lincoln. L. C from h er in the arfish, M Warner, land, Vt. Denzer, wood n, New York ; s Ended In Stabbin, A couple of colored courtesans named Dixon and Bound engaged ina row in the Third ward last night, which wound up by | common thing to see irrigated | WATER'S VIVIFYING POWERS | Eleotrio Light Tarned on for the Sun- | down Club, NEBRASKA'S ARID LAND TO BE A GARDEN Marvelous Transformution to Bo Wrought by treigntion— Exhibition of ¢ by Electrlcity a Familinr Sig In Omaha's Future, | oking t Water power, ir | ing were tion and_ eloctrd the topics discussed by the down elub last night. | The banquet tables at the Mercer hotel we surrounded by nearly 100 of the wide awake members of the club, and when the | | refeeshments in both liquid and form | had been disposed of the club listened t Sun al very interesting addresses by gentle | from abroad Ex-Judge Joseph R and, after stating that | cussion would be supplementary dress of Dr. Mill Ylatte river canal scheme | meeting, he introduced My of Cheyenne, actively Clarkson pr the subjocts for dis to the ad the pre George K 1t eding Hunt inter, the construction of several large irrigation ditehes Mr, Hunt spoke at some length and ver zreat undeveloped between the vi which markably entertainingly upon the resources of the Rockies and the | might be reclaimed productive. The arid belt, he said, includes | an area of over 150,000 square mi | nearly one-third of the entirve torritory of United States. Adjoming this distinetive arid region there lay a long areaof land that was partially arid. - Over this area, cmbrac ing western Nebraska, there was alinost suf ficont rainfall to insure a full crop if the water could be held in reservoirs and prop- erly distributec Redemption for Arld Lands. Mr. Hunt estimated that with a proper system of irrigation 350,000,000 acres of arid land mght be made productive. The arid | region would becorre even more productive than the land watered by rain, because the crops would never be retarded by cold weather. The farmer could let the water in | upon his crop at exactly the proper time and | in 1t amount | L aker held that with the thorough development of the water supply for irriza tion purposes the United States could pro- | duco enough food to supply the entire world | A farmer could raise as much upon twenty | acres by means of irrigation as he « upon | 100 without irr tion. Irrigated farms | rarely embraced more than cighty acres, and | those who took charge of even less than that succeeded better. He had seen land that wais worth but 36 per acre before irrigated producing av annual crop worth 1,000 per acre. True, this was = in Californin, and might not be considered a fair comparison, but it was a land produce uch as that count Missouri and made wet | from four to six times as n vhich needed no irrigation. One great ben fit to be derived from irvigation was the ict that farmers would be enabled to live | close together, thus overcoming the isola- | tionand loneliness that formed one of th chief objections of rural life. In closing, Mr. Hunt spread picture of coming prosperity for great western country before the mental vision of those present. He believed that the once arid plains of these central woes 'n | states would yet become the very center of population and political power, the garden spot of the world. The address was heart- ily applauded. Value of a Water Power, The next speaker was Mr. O. W. Crawford of Gothenburg, a man who has been the Iainspring in the enterprise that con- structed a caual at Gothenburg and built a factory there which employs nearly 200 men. He discussed in an eloquent and’ practical manuer the advantages of the canal scheme He sald that they had only built a little ditch twelve miles long, but it had given | them an abundance of power. They were | going to_enlarge the ditch and got more power, The Gothenburg canal has a fall at its mouth of sixty feet. Mr. Crawford believed that Gothenburg would become a large manufacturing town s through the ad- antages 3 anal. If Gothen- burg could afford to build « canal, surely it would pay Omaha to do the same. He spoke of the wonderful power that had been de; veloped at Niagara falls, and smd the samé opportunities lay within the reach of Omaha Mr. R.B. Howell made a very neat and effective address upon the ancient methods of securing water power and irrigation, Dr. S. D. Mercer was called out and offered some practical and effective remarks, which were received with much favor. Then the subtle fluid from which we secure light and heat and power came in for its share of discussion We do not fully know the source N hon he vast domain 1 electric force, at nature’s nerves of lightning chain. But the members of the Sundown club arned soveral new and valuable things | about the uses to which elcetricity may be applied. The attention of the club di- rected to the work of an electric cooking apparatus stationed near the center of the dining room in full view of all present. The glectro-bakery was manipulated by Mr. J. M. ill. a beautiful all this | Cooking by Electricity, Stretching along one end of the dining room upon a banner were the following words caleulated to be applied to the electric cooking apparatus: “Thns is the culinary implement that will be used in the homes of Omaha upon the completion of the great Platte rive Mr. 8. L. introduced Mr. Hill in a few neat and appropriate remarks. The clectric oven exhibited was about cighteen inches square. It was a wooden box lined on the inside with asbestos and tin, A cur- rent of fitty volts was employed in doing the cooking. 1t passed into the oven on a wire and wound tarough resisting wires in the top and bottom, producing heat enough in forty. five minutes to cook a good sized turke thoroughly. The planis to keep the oven tightly closed for forty-five minutes while the current is turned on and then permit the | accumulated heat to do the work slowly and thoroughly. By that time the heat should be suflicient to cook the fowl in two hours. With the same current passing through small flat stoves cakes were cooked beauti- fully, water was brought to the boiling point, flat irons were heated and curling irous weré | prepared for the feminine toilet The cooking machine was thorouehly ex- plained, and the members of the club went home to dream of trying lawsuits, selling goods, writing up life insurance and pulling political wires by electricity G FIVE FATALLY INJURED, as Inspection of a Coal Mine by a arty of Miners, CONNELLSVILLE, Pa., March 13.—A party of miners was inspecting the Whittsett mine near Perryoplis this morning, when a body of gas exploded, fatally injuring five of the party, as follows | Ep HARRINGTON. WILLIAM GOLDSBOROUGH, Or1vER BENTHOOVER. Josian Ross Mixe INsPECTOR WILLIAM DUNCAY. e Dixon and Grifin Matched, NEW Youk, March 13.—George Dixon, the champion, and Johnny Griftin, the Braintree lad, were virtually matcned tonight. The men are to fight at 120 pounds and to weigh inato'clock on the day of the match, which is to take place at § p. m. on some day between June 28 and July 4, to be here- afier arranged. The Coney Island Athletic club is said to have offered & purse of £10,000 for the fight. | J. E. Meyers, ulias Blair, charged with stealing silks from Falcozer's, waived an ex= I amnation yesterday and was held to the dis- | trict court in the sum of $1,000. Ed Sutton, from the bottoms, was fined $30 and costs yesterday for disturbing the peace, | The case against William Hill, charging the latter stabbing the former. Both were Jjailed and the Dixon woman's wound dressed. him with assaulting an Italian woman, was tried and Hill was discharged, as the ‘court | and cf | codification | opinion | Party Wall Disput wood out Fd Austin, the Det bulk of the gate receipts, was satisfied that the complainant had not toid the truth Deteetive Vizard recovered o faro layout yostorday that had boen stolon from Doever's gambling houso in South Omaha Chiof Detective Haze loft yosterdny for rt Madison 1o bring back R (), J u drommer who passed n lot of worthloss drafts. m Scott compiained to he had boen swiped by a colored man loft a deseription s assailant at the jail Last night the police arrested George Bryant, until yesterday omployedas collector v R C. Clevoland's feed store, for em lement. Tt seems that Bryant coliected #120 belonging to the firm and blowed the greater part of itplaying faro, He confessed this to his employer and the arrest followed A man giving his name as G. Cleveland iming to hail from Council Bluffs, came to Omaha_yesterday to up his wife. To the police last night he said that he had found her, and had been forcibly cjected from her apartments. A family quarrel is at the bottom of the whole affair S RS LEGAL. that and the police MATIE Omnha Lawyers Lrge the Codilieation of the Statates. The lawyers of the Douglas county bar have put theit shoulders to the wheel in an effort to secure the passage of the bill now | before the logislature, providing for the ap- | poin it of a commission codify the laws of the state Yesterday, without any 1 couple of hundred of th bar met in Judg X some. preli sed of the fol animously adopted R Ived, That it ment of ) mh u to revise and provious notice ? th whi had by on was mbers o ro Y matter wing resolu lis unanimous sent i of Dousglis Tooking to the ap- e 100 {0 securs tho rovic the laws of the state, should piss. alaw: and be it further Resolved, That Hon. John L. Webster, Hon S Churehill and Hon. ¢, . Smyth o up uted @ committee fo prosont this resolution Islative committee now having the Dill In charge Judge Scott has county members should be enact st cach suce id that A written to the Dou 1S xplaining why such a law He says that duving th ssive legisinture in many instan s to repeal tho old. The > the law is so vaguo and indefinite that it is impossible to construe the t meaning of what is intended. By a carefu of the laws the judge is of the that a great many conflicting features can be eliminated DISTRICT COURT. Alleged Diamond Thief on Trial, Louis Hillike is suing the estate of Meyer Hellman for 1000, anl the caso is on trial befora J The plaintiff alle that when he Richelieu hote North Thirtec Mr. Hellman ag to pay half the the party wall but th. built st he failed to do so., year ago Bernard Corrigan ha was spending his mo friends succeeded in wpointed as a guard district young man uss On and 1 Adam is now asking the guavdian. Th i1 has rof i Johu Hale court on the Beaurard, a res diamonds and jewelry s that he was one of those tipsy visitors who intimidated her and took the valuables from her person having Ben S Corrigan 13 that in th robbin bu is trial district cha of lentof the * Court Calendar, The call for today is as follows LAW ROOM NO. 2-JUDGE SCOTT. Hamlin vs Sp Thomis vs Thonns, Shea vs Swift & Co. Michel vs-Unfon Pacific Railway Greenman vs New nee conpiny 32-276-Omahu Driving and tion vs Upton, Gans vs Murray. Morlarty, Trinible & Co. vs Staple- Park associa- Graham Paper company vs Todd. pb vs Murphy. Son vs Me vs 22sen wun vs Hetz Meins vs Hetzel. vs Hennett, 7ol vs Bennett. Rockwood vs Hetzel. < d vs Saunders, 104—Oberton vs Record. 11—Baker vs Hamel. LAW ROGN NO, 3—JUDGE DAVIS, Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine y vs Moline, Stoddard company. o mpany vs Garneau lan vs O'Neill. 7—Wagner vs Huuck. High vs C. B, & Q. Raflway company. Lawrence va son. d—lves vs Omaha Belt Line Railway compiny. 80-367Kurtz vs Patri 3—-Wolfl vs LAW ROOM NO. 30-71 k Land e igtry. 4—JUDGE FERGUSON Aabel vs Omaha, huller vs Nuson St Vs Gibbon. Levi vs Owiha. 7—Schlank vs Omiha, ~Buldwin vs Missourl Pacific Railway ipany. ny. 3—Midland Guaranty company vs Flan- 85—Wells vs Rile; LAW ROOM NO. vor Dickinson vs Fulke. Van ss vs B, & M. R. R. Co. Bernstine vs Kilne, Bagley vs Falke, Douglas vs Blanchard, Root vs Douglas county, 80-68—Bell vs Carbury. 80-70—Northern Assurance Hamilton, )-81—Shipman vs French, 0-98—Pitts vs Travis, )-110—Clements vs Westerholin =119 -Palln vs Johnson. )-34—Hunsen vs Missourl \pin, 197 Williams vs Specht, EQUITY ROOM NO. 61 UDGE HOPEWELL. 81-288 ~Thomsen vs Dougl ty 31-240—Hartman vs Do county, 31242 Gurdner vs Do inty 268—Hertelsen vs Donglas county. 270 Wilson vs Douglascounty. Hertzog vs Burr ~Hokunsen vs Hokuansen, Hunt vs Willl 0. 30-1 80-10 10-40- company vs ific Railway | American Loan and Trust company | Anmerican Loan and Trust company | VanElten vs Hoagland, Smith vs Hurst Butes vs ' Hunt vs Oity of Florence. UITY ROOM NO. T~ UDGE IRVINE 10y, & (o, vs Weleh vs Hubbard Stoddurd vs Murphy. Owmaha Natlonai bank vs Freyhan Eayrs vs Sharp Unlon Stock ¥ s Stoddard. Wyatt-Bullard Lumber 81-95-Schao M 31-87. wrds National bank company vs Investors com Walker vs | Anderson vs Douglas county. Donerty vs Douglis county Thompson vs Douglus county. Kohn vs Douglas county. Bruner vs Douglus connty. Place vs McCague Lnvestnient com pany vs Beecher, 1l Passumpsle Savings bank vs Spotts- —— Kelly Defeats Austin, Dernoir, Mich., March 13, —In a rattling ight at the Griswold strect theater tonight Kelly, the Hoboken cyclone, knocked )it middleweight, in The winner took the Tom he seventh round CURES CA a | all JACOBS S | ttoc AYER’ - Sarsaparilla Is superior to all other preparations | elaiming to be blood-purifiers. First [ ofall, because the principal ingredi- ent used in it is the extract of gen- uine Honduras sarsaparilla root, the | variety Tichest in medicinal proper- | ties. Also, be. | Cures Catarrh i i - | low dock, being raised expressly for | the Company, is always fresh and | of the very best kind. 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FARNAM St. THEATER "] Do and 760, SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT, Nights Commencing Thursday Even= ing, March 16, With Satur= day Matinee. MR. CHARLES HANFORD, With the Booth-Barrett Scenie Production of Julius Caesar Mr, Hanford av Maro Antony, sawrday, INGOMAR No advance in prices. ST JOANS CHOIR . Vel I ol W Creighton College Hall I C RALGIA HAs ~o EQUAL, N ‘Tuesday, March 14th, 8 p. m Proceods for henetit of the poor,