Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 15, 1893, Page 5

IT WAS LIBERTY OR DEATH | ber McOlure Pats in the Revolutionary Motto, JT ONE CHANCE IN A THOUSAND Practice HE HAD & Fearful Odads Guara‘s s and a Agninst Watehfuln Tow IHe P Ny Exit trom Prison, | Escaping the Bultet— | med and Executed 14— [Special to Tie Ber.) —The more the escape of Charles McClure, Laxoons the Missouri Pacitic traio robber scut to the state penitentiary from Omahas, is consid ored the more daring it vroves to be. There was scarcely one chance in a thousand for his escape from the observation of the guard, and observation meant death, for the guard had pereniptory orders to shoot him at the first attempt Lo escapo. And yet, knowing the orders of the guard, McClure deliber- ately took thu chiance. That ho considered 1t almost hopeless is proven by two letters he left behind him. his sister One was addressed to and reads as follows DEAR SisTER: T write you these fow lines In | cnse Ishouid be Killod, Please forgive me for the disgrace | hay o the name. | Believe bl bid 8hould I make good n 120 whera Lam not kiow v past, and hopo by Keeping away fron the tlegrapi tolive in happiness. Tuis Hbeety or death in 1V case. Good hye, dear sister,” us it will by tterly inpossiblo th write In the future. 1 ahall correspond with noone. As =ver, CHARLIE Written on the same sheet of dirty paber, Wwhich had evidently been torn from th back of some one of the books belo ng to the prison library, was the following brief note W the warden's WanrbEs: Kind $tr—Should 1 e killed in this attept ploa Ve 10 1y Sister. ould | 1y escupe please forward At L wish (o say that Hall knew nothing of wy intent Wils #L Work. L s Uhe work was done whils b Yours respectfully ¢ MeCLune ks Ao, McClure's escape was not the result of a suddenly formed resolution. When ho was received at the penitentiary he made no crev to the warden of his determination to escape. Lo had not been behind the walls o week before Warden Beemer was convineed thut ho meant w carry his threats into exe- Pianned v cution. Cousequently every precaution was taken to prevent it puards were or dered to keep an extra teh on MeClure, and h cell was carefully searched every fow days. In r oo ssurance doubly surc a trusty convict named Hall wus placed in his cell with him, the warden feeling confident that Hall would give in- formation of any attempt of his cell mute to cape, But McClure man aged to keep Hall in ignorance of his plans, and it was not until Tuesday night that the latter knew of the attempt. Ho then disappointed the trust placed fn him by the warden and permitted MeClur 1o make the attempt without giving u sign, Ior ths ho has forfeited his good timo and any privileges he would have been entitled to. instead of being permiited to work on ¢ farm he is now compelled to perform the st kind of service in the shops. Six weeks ago McClure was placed in a cellin the third tier of the north end of the coll house, He quickly suw an opportunity of escape, for long beforo he had completed his arrangements he had managed to climb o the wp of the cell house and measure the ventilating shafy and_make other observi tions. He did this without attracting the attention of the guards and made bis mea urements in broad daglight at such times as ho was allowed the' liberty of the narrow corridor for exercise, Manufactured His Own Tools. MeClure made all his own tools. The saw was constructea of a piece of rusty steel that he picked up in the prison yard while ho had been employed in grading the surface of the yard inside the walls. The blade of the saw was but four inches long, and was fasteued into a handle of pine wood. He had also made u knifo blade in the same manner. His rope ladder was o masterpicce of in- geuuity. He had picked up picces of twine and cord here and there, twisted them together until he had secured two ropes about twenty feet in length. The rungs of he ladder were mado of small sticks of wood about four inches in length, These he had mado by cutting upa small lap board, which is piiced in every cell for the use of the conviets while eacing their meals. He kept his ladder and the tools in the smail ventilating shaft which is found in every cell, and they were never found by the men who searched his cell, Story of s Cell Mate. The particulars of the eseape were told by Hall, the trusty who occupied the same. cell with McClure Tuesday night, to e B vorter at the peritentiary this morning: “I never knew that McClure proposed to escape till Tuesday night, Then ho told me all about it and stowed me how he had sey- ered the burs. 1 promisod him that I would not give tho alarm and 1 am sorry uow that 1 did so, for tho warden has coavinced me that McClure is a very bad man to be ut liberty. McCiure told me that ho expected to be shot, but that he would cither escape or die. He said that he would not give him self up if he was discoveréd, but would keep on trying till they shot him! He smd that if hedid get away ho would tey and livo a better lifc, “After the keepers came around to the cells Tuesday night 4t 8 o'clock McCiuro commenced W got ready to escapo. Ho pulied the short pieces from the cell door awhich he had sawn ouy aud head through. The hole was small but he managed 1o wriggle through. Then he climbed up the iron work of tho cell door and got on to the ton of the colls. Iexpected 'y instant to hear the guard shoot, but never discovered McCh 1 could hear MeClure cutting the boards on the ventilat- ing sbaft. It took him some time, for ho had to work very slowly. I haa mude hin prom 1se to give mo a whistle as a signal as s0on 85 ho was safo on the ground on tho outside of the walls. It seemed like u tong timo and it was at loust an hour after Metlure left the cell until Lheard him whistle on the outside. nd put his hands MeCiure Hopes for Pardon, *‘He told me,” continued Hall, “that if he escapod he proposed to go somewhere where he could not bo discovered and then cow- municate to his foster father, John Doni- phun, @ prominent railroad ‘man in St Joseph, Mo, Ho said his foster father was A big railroad man and that the town of Doniphan, Neb., was named after him. He suid that niphan would use his influence to huve the governor of Nebraska shorten his term, and that if his torm was shortoned he would come back and give hin, self up and rveout his term. He has often told me that if he could get out of the pen ho would o to Indian Territory, and 1 think perhaps he has gone thero. He escaped with his convict clothes on, but he cutout his number before he started and ook bis tickets with him. He told ue bhe would tind & suit of clothes at some farm house before worning ho had anybody with him o was waiting for him on the Lo simply Look his chances, Left 4 Mossuge for McClure evidently poss fnating literary taste, for mate to wateh Tuk Be. ot believe that anybody tsido. 1'think sses a he told his ¢ or the report of his esca When Hall was brought into th warden's oftice he asked right away if the aiserim i in reporter was presenc for Tug Bee. On beine assured thatsuch was the caso ho suid that McCluro had told him that if his relatives could secure him & n or have his term shortened ho wantod the facts printed In Tuk BE Ho said that he would road that pupes rezularly and expected to find in its coluinns the news of his pardon MeClure hus had & long prison record. He 15 27 years old and has already spent eleven years beblud the bars. Ho was in the Ohio reforw school at Cleveland for four yoars and afierwards served Lwo terms in the Mis souri state jenitentiary of two and five years, respectively. Ho clilms to be the adopted sou of Johu Doniphin of St. Joseph Mo., aud has a number of relatives in differ. eut parts of the country. The sister for whom he loft tho letter is Miss Mary . Me lure of Springtield, 11 Ho has & brother, William McCiure, at Boise City, Idabo, an uncle, W. L. Hughes, at Deuver and two sunis at Putterson, ‘Mo, Hs was in the venitentiary for a fifteen yoar service aud THE OMAHA DAILY B EPTEMBER 15, 1893, d 5 had he earned his good time he would have | been froe on December 1, 1908, His full term | would expire on January 1, 1908, It is need- less to say that Warden Beemer places no | dependence on McClure's promise to return and serve out a shorter sentence. The warden | the fugitivo will be taken within g 3 S After tis Gamblers. The ten gamblers arrested at the Capital | hotel Tuesday night were brought h"['rn‘ Judge Waters this afternoon. Six of them were fined $10 cach. while one was dis- | chareed, as he succeeded in convincing the ude that he had taken no hand in the ame. Two members of the party claim to be county officers in the western part of the state. and they attempted to bribe the police in order to prevent their own arrest. The £0 gold piece which they temptingly held up to the ofticers failed to accomplish its purpose, however, and the men registered | ab the station under assumed names, Two of the cases wero continued until o later date. Dick Johnson, proprietor of the Capi tal hotel, is considerably exercised over the ; fact that a gambling resort was discovered and raided in his house and disclaims any 1 kunowledge of the game that was being worked upon his guests. Who Took the Wateh? City Detective Malone and a pawnbroker named Goldwater are today engaged in an | exciting little gamo of hide and seek. in which a gold watch and chain is the forfeit It seems that w man named Hicks pawned | the wateh with Goldwater. The pawn- | broker did not comnly with the ordinan: and failed to report the matter to the polic Then Goldwater movea to Grand Island without saying anything about the watch Hicks reported the facts to the police, and when Goldwater came down to Lincoln Saturd night he was arrested and the watch found on his person. He had pre given Hicks two false addresses This morning Goldwater was fined $16.80 and he paid it He then commenced suit against Detective Malone to recover thoe wteh, He alleges that Malone r irned e watch to Hicks, and that the latter has rrepaid the money he borrowed on the timepiece, In the meantime, Goldwater wants 1o know who has the watch. Affairs at West Foint, West Poist, Sept. 14.—[Special to T Bei.]—The public schools of this city opened Monday with an unusually large attendance, Anna and Fred Hunker left for Quin HL, Tuesday, where they will attend college Mr.and Mrs. Ziof of i, 0., the former a brother of aman, are in this city, The republican county central committen met in this city Saturday and set the dato for holding the county convention on Octo- ber 3 at Beemer. Fred Beerbohm this city, fell fr his way home f of the wagon verely bruising bone Mr. and Mrs. ( Cincinna Mrs, Otto living six miles west of a toad of lumber while on m town. One of the wheols passedover his loft leg, se the flesh and breaking the wsper Faerhoff, who have been visiting relatives in Monterey town- ship the past two weeks, returned Monday morning to their home in St. Charles, Mo, Carl Bocker and William - Gentrap left for Quiney, 1., Wednesday afternoon, W attend college. Lirust Pabl died at bis home in this city Sunday night of heart disease. The funeral took place Wednesday and the remains wero taken to the public cemetery for interment. Mr. Toeonics, living about seven miles west of this city, was taken to Omaha Wednesday for treatment at St Joseph's hospital. Miss Mary Lawrence J. Pflaum county’s most prosy married today to Cl Joseph Ruesing of St. church of this city p Pllaum, eldest daughter of esq., one of Cuming ous farmers, s Morris, Mary's Catholi rforming the ceremony oved Fatat, GRAND Is1AND, Sept. 14.—[Special to Tur Beardsly, who assaulted nold man, at the canning Friday, will be, compelled to and trial for manslaughter. After linger- sfor nearly a week the victim di yesterday. Bullis showed signs of impr ment until Tuesday morning, when a chango for the worse took place. Beardsly had in the meantime been tried forassault and sen- tenced to ninety in tho county jail, the nmit of the law. The coroner's verdict was that Bullis came to his death from congestion of the lungs, brought on and aggravated by in- | jurics received at the hauds of Geor Beardsly. Beardsly is now in the county 1 He has fely véry much broken up over the affair ever sinee” it oceurred, and - fears ure entertained by the sheriff that he will worry himsclf into irsanity. There was no evidence in the coroner’s inquest of any - tent on the part of Beardsly to kill or even do great bodily harm. Ho recently came from Lincoln. No furthor complaint has as yet been filed. ¥ Indopendonts, Crawronn, Neb., Sept. 14.—[Speciul Tele- gram to Tux B "he independent county convention met here today and E. M. Cook was mado temporary chairman and L. B. Fenner temporary sceretary. Mr. Cook as. sumed the gavel, gave somo wholesomo ad- monition as %o the proper course for inde. pendeats to pursue and warned them in a fatherly way to bewaro of the poiitician The greatest haemony prevailed throughout “The resolutions adopted by the convention reafirmed the prineipl Ymaha plat- form and the tencts laid down by the inde- pendent platform at tue state convention at Lincoln September ' solutions ilso opposed_any chang sent land law by which the sanc uy e turned over 10 syndicates. ‘The following ticket, which Dawes Coun is considered to bo strong and clean, was nomini Treasurer, 1. M. Cook; sheriff, Charles Dorgan, clerk, C. . Bacon; judge, J. L Harbaugh; county suverintendont, Mrs. 15 A. Sheldon (one of the editors of the Chadrou Signal); county surveyor, L. Larson. Webstor County Pio Rev CLoup, Sept. 14 to Tug Bek 'he old settlers of the county held a meeting in the geoveat Amboy yester- day. Tho day was perfect and the picnic a Eroat suce ess, . Penman, a jeweler of Red Cloud, and 1 Blain, daughter of Captain Blain [ were married at the bride’s parents at Cowles Tuesda The People’s bank of Red Cloud will be in. corporated under the state law this week and will open for business November 2. The tal stock is all paid in—8&15,000 he president s J. L. Mine r, W, A rwood; assIstant o o Hugh Miner, Je.j directors, J. J. Squires, Kansas City, and Miner, W. A Sherwood wnd Hugh all of Red Cloud Congressman McKeighan arrived home wday. He said in resnonse toa joking re iark about his senatorial aspirations that inder no circumstances would ho change his position in the house for one in the scuate Miss Je of the Cowles bank, Arrestot o Fereymn Prarrsyouri, Sept. 14 —[Spoecial T legram to Pui Bee. |-~ 'ne squabble which has been woing on for several weeics botween the rival ferries which operate on the Missouri op- posito this eity, has culminated in the srrost of 5. 8. Archer, one of the ferrymen. Ho was nabbed by the shoriff of Mills county, lowa, yesterday morning, und taken to Glenwood to ausiver to the eharge of running a ferry without & license. Both ferrymen secured license from the commissione this county, butin Towa, O'Neill and ‘Phomas. obponcnts of Archer, sccured un oxclusive privilego. Aveher wils roleased from juil, but remaing in the sheriffscustody. Efforts will be made to rolease bim on habess corpus. U, H. Parmelec of this city has disposoed of a 240-acre tract of umwp land four miles west of h for §12,000 dohn Kaffenberger was the purchaser. This is the highest price ever paid for unimproved farwing land in Cass county ved farming Seventy Carloads of Corn, GRAND ISLAND, Sept. 14.—([Special to Tug Bee. | —Seventy carloads, or 35,000 cases, is the output of sweot corn by the Graud Island Canuiug company for this season. The crop was short of that of 1502 » Discuss Dougias County Afair Enkuoy, Neb,, Sept. 14.—[Special to Tug Bk )—Sunaay, September 17, the Douglas Couuty Republican club will meet here and discuss county aflairs. s Lorenze & Lotta, America's greatest trapeze artists, Courtland beach tonight. CONFEDERATE COLONELS' DAY Spirit of Secession Cropping Out in the National Legitlatare, WARM TIMES ASSURED IN THE HOUSE Debate in Congress on the Abolition of the Federal Election Laws Likely to Pro- voke Soms Side 1 WasHiINGToN Burear o Tug Be T STREET, WASHINGTON, Sept According to program there opened in tho house today a debate which, for acrimony and duration, will have few equals. Tt will be upon the bill federal election laws. With the laws now eiving the foderal governmentsupervision over elections invol g congress wiped off the statutes there will never more be seen about the polls United States troops, no matter how great the slaughter of nog id union men may be; 1bolishing the s nor will supervisors of elections or United States marshals or theie deputies be called into requisition. There will bo no such thing as election procedures befors federal courts, which are the only tribunals wholly free from local strife and political prejudice. Under the operation of the proposed law which repe all federal election safe. guards, the shot nd the bludgeon and the white cap will rulo,and local law local feeling will dictate not only the ing of the batlots, but the result of the elo tions, It is the intention to permit the south once more to vet into the sadale and be solid for secossion and repudiation. Tt is the first great stride to the rear and in tho direction of those conditions which pre- vailod south of Mason and Dixon's line prior to the attack upon Fort Sumte Loyal Americay Is Tho very suggestion of repealing the federal election laws has fired the hearts of all loyal Amoricans to the highest possible pitch. If the democrats meet the determin- ation of the republicans with cqual or- ganization and carnestness congress will find itelf in a condition bordering on ution before many wecks. The flicting partisan inferests which are bringing about this state of affaira. Repunlican come they from the south or north, aro never revolutionary. Those in this congress would not rise to the height of revolution attained by the democrats when the elections bill of thrce years ago was under discussion; but, there are expasperating side issues which contribute to the heat which must be felt upon both sides when the discassion of this measure 1s fairly undor way In_ preparing for the diseussion of the revolutionary elections bill the aemocrats have turned their backs upon all precedents and principles estabiished by them. The; have engrafted into their codo of rules a pro- vision which will enable them to reach a vote at any time—clotu s terso as that provided by the Reed rules, They have made it easy for threo men on the rules | committee to limit debate. They have re- | pudiated every assertion made by them in | the house and in the senate during the | Reed congress. Speaker Crisp has packed the judiciary committee with a view to | formulating ~ the bl which has been agreed upon, and reporting it and controlling debate upon it in the interest of the “nigger drivers” of the south and tno shotgun policies of tho secossionists, al- thougzh the measure itself sncaks out of the insignificant and unimportant committes on f president and vice president and utatives Lo congress. Controllod by & Confederate Colonel. While the one committee has jurisdiction direct, the other, headed by a Texas con- federate colonel, will control the measure It would seem proper for a confederate colonel in the speaker’s chair to pack com- mittees for the purpose of legislation to strige down all there is of absolute im- partiality in general olection laws. 1t is this cola-blooded preparation and the many advantages taken of the minority by a majority that has always cried out”against majority rule that is exasperating to the present minority. “Then the relegation of the country’s busi- ness measure—thie tarif bill —to the rear for the bill to repeal the federal eloction laws is most contemptuous. Everybody knows that | the business interests of the country are sus pended in_midair, and_that every real bus| uess man in the country wants to know at the earliest possible day what this domo- cratic congress and administration are gomg to do in the way of “tariff reform,” what kind of & new tarif law the country is to have. 1f there was excuse and necessity for calling congress together in extraordinary session for tho purpose of ropealing a per- nicious silver law, it is concedod on every hand that thero 18 now existing o demaad for early action upon tho tariff to relieve suspense and prevent bankruptey, Exasporating Sido Issues, Instead of proceeding to tho consideration of local legislation while the tarift bill is being provared, or discussing some joint measure like the one prepared by Mr. Gos- venor of Ohio, announcing the general principles of proposed tarifl veform, or somo manner precipitating the tarift quéstion di rectly upon tue house. the unconstructed confedorate brigadicrs and colonels have switched out of an unimportant little com- mitten, like baudits fiving from a rocky am- buscade, o measuro which is intended to rovolutionze socicty and destroy the fundi- mentul principles of the federal constitution, These are some of the exasperating side issucs. This effort to destroy federal election laws which have stood the test of many years is ono of the *nerviest” steps over taken in congross. 11t was in the direction of right- mg o wrong or granting privileges due American citizens which we is i proposition to strike down the only pro- tection given & helpless minority in blooa- tnirsty sections of the south, ident “Harrison proposed o extena and broaden these federal election laws three years ago, & minority less in number than the present one in the senate announced When Pros- that it would “rot in ita sear’” “fight till the ants carriea it out of “the key holes of the senate chamber,” “lose its last drop of blood,” ete., befor would submit to the adoption of the meas- ure. That littlo democratic minority which prevailed in the senato three years ago an- nounced for revolution before it would sub- mit to the will of the mujority. w that sume minovity, which has been swelled to o slight majority, announces with irritating complacency that it will force through the senate, us it intends o drive through the house, a measure which will wips away all the federal election laws. It forgets that the senate is workiug under tho same code of rules that it dd three years age, and that there is in the bands of a brighter and moro patriotic republican_minority the same 1m- plement of defeuse that was wielded so suc- cessfully to defeat the bill of three ye ago, and that the conditions then existing have only been reversed, so far as legislation is concert Anxious to Secure Good Material, It was stated at the Treasury department today that the award of the coutract for tho superstructure of the new fed at Omaha would likely not be made for somo time. Secretary Cariisle, in whose hanas the bids and all the mat pertaining Lo | Tlinois man appoint 1 builaing | the question are, is ind 4 and absent from the department. AU the oftios of the supervising architect it is statod that the Hi est of all in Leavening Power,— Latest U, Roel ABSOLUTELY PURE i awarding of the conteact has been deferred | upon the request of Senator Manderson. who hopes to be able to secire an additionad ap- propriation ffom congtess which will enabie the department to usa granite imstead of sand or lime stone or that,granite may yet bo figared out of the appropriation already | made. The departmeént is awaiting first to sec if congress makes an additional apy priation, and if that is refused, ihen an attemnt will be mado to see if granite can bo figured out of the present anpropriation Thero appears to be little if any hope of a further appropriation at the hands of this congress, Quesi oned Seriator Alien's Under the caption “[tidiculous Statesman ship,” this evening's 'Washington News has an editorial raking Senator Allen fore and gle. aft for his speech in the senate yesterday in favor of an_nvestigation to ascertain if auy | senators own national bank stock or are di- | rectors of any banking institutions. | After declaring ” that Senator Allen is | trying to bring the_United States down to the level of a Now York jury by declaring that no senator has a right to own stock in any corporation or institution which may b subject of lecislation, the News “That would mean, if carriod 1o its logical conclusion, that no person who had y money could be a member of congress, ongress 18 constantly called upon to logisiate uvon matters in which all moneyed men are intorested. Aceording to Senator Allen a congressman ought not to own bank stock because he has to take part in logislation affecting the banks,” 3y the same process of reasoning ho mst wa railroad stock or government bonds, or real estate or 1 or mines, or shivs, or prope of any description. If he owns gov- ernment bonds how can he properly vote on n measure calculated o raise the' price of these bonds? If he owns real estate in the district or in his own city how can he vote on_a proposition to erect a government building on or near his tand? 1f ho is inter- 'S in a cotton mill ora clothing store how can ho vote on a tariff bill, which af fects the property of such an establishment? One thing is cortiin, Senator Allen and some of the other fronticr senators are doing their best to bring the scnate into the disrepute which they seem to crave and rehsh.” Senator Allen s heexpects just such re- marks from the press and he cares no more for it than for the breezes which blow every day across Chesapeake bay. outh Dakota Intorests. Senator Pettigrew roceived a telegram from the mau of the Homestalke mine at Lead City, S. D, Tuesday, asking that the commander of the troops at Fort’ Meade be mstructed to turn out his entire force to as sist in firhting the fire that was threatening tho country. The senator obtained the order from the sceretary of war. Representative Pickler las the house a bill to open the Y. reservation. It is sim to Pettigrew's bill, but has some changes relating to home. stead sotticment on the lands. seuato committeo on Indian affairs unanimously authorized Senator Pet- w to report his bill to pay the Crow reck scttlers 8200000 for losses sustained by them in settling upon and afterwards being removed from these Crow Creek lauds. Deawing thi Sonator Pottigrew has been instructed by the senate comnittee on Indian affairs to re- port adversely upon the confirmation of the 1Indian agent at White IZarth ana the Mississippi man appointed at Yankton, S. D. Tho Iudian committee, by a vote of 6 to 2, decided to rejeet all appoint- ments made from one state or territory to another state or territory unless the appoint- ments were satisfactory’ to the representa tives of the section where the men were sent out. not introduced in nkton Indian The tods Lines ¢ ose. Funds for River Work. A complaint has been made by citizens of Omaha, who eogaged in doing work through the Missourt River commission at St. Louis, that the commission was unablo 10 make any payments because of the fact that no money could be obtamed from tho government. * Major Suter, president of the commission, made a request for money, but was unablo’ to obtaiu_it. The department tod ont §143,500 to the subtreasury at St. Louis to the credit of the commission, Miscellaneous. Postmasters appointed today: Nebraska— Bladen, Webster couuty, Julius R. Horn, vico James Burden, removed; Lindsay, Platte county, Patrick Dugan, vice Samuel K. Painter, rewoved Towa—Lothrop, Warren_county, John T. McCaught, vice John L, Leggett, rosigned ; Rippey, Greene county, L. Deppen, vice H. 1. Tovejoy, removed. neral and Mrs. Schofield are again at their home on Connecticut avenue, after a delightful visit to the World's fair and rela- tives n Keolcuk, Ta. A quiet wedaing occurred_at the Church of the Epiphany last ovening. The cons tracting partics were Miss O. N. Shafer of this city and Georgo 1. Bryan of Hailoy, 1daho. “After the ceremony the couple left for the home of the groom, Who is one of the most extensivo silver mine owners in Idaho The comptroller’s certificate, anproving tho extension of the corporato existence of the First National bank of Red Oak, In., until September 24, 1913, was 1ssued today. F. M. Byrkit is prosident of the bank John D. Benton has been appointed re- ceiver of the Lloyds National bank of James. | town, N. D. Mr. E. Ham, who has been Senator Man- derson’s vrivite secretary for nearly eicht ears, hos resigned to euguge in private business, He has been most obliging to Nebraska correspondents and eficiont and nt in bis efforts in behalf of the best ests of tho republican party and tho 15 of tho late wir who may have had occasion to call into service the senator's intercession to procure pensions, Mr. Mercer has recoived a lotter from Frank Kaspar, president of the Omuha Western Button manafactory, in which he protests azainst a reduction of the duty on pearl buttous and furnishes some informa- tion which he requests should be placed be- fore the commitice on ways and means to- morrow afternoon. Mr. Mercor has ob- tained leave to present tho matter to the committeo and will do 8o tomorro Peuny S. Hearu, —— 8141 for a fine black cashmero dress at the Morse Dry Goods Co.'s. e Chadron Vigorously Protests. CuavioN, Neb., Sept. 14.—[Special Tele- gram to Tug Bes |—The first invimation that the land offico was to bo consolidnted with that at Allianco reached hero through Tue Bee this morning. To say that the citizons were indignant ‘would be too mild, The land ofice at this place, in matter of business and money, handled greatly exceeds that of Alli- ance,” 'At a largo moeting of citizens held this evening tho consolidation was do- nounced and _committees appointed to lay the proper facts and statistics before the gencral land oftice. Irotests will at once be forwarded from this place, Rushvilie, Gor don, Crawford, Hay Springs, Harrison, Whitney and numerdiis smaller places. Pablic Se This year's enrollment in the publi schools already shows an encouraging in- crease over provious, years, the total thus far being over 1140k as against | for 1802, and. Superintendent Fitzpatrick states there are over 800 children ordinarily en- rolled who ure now absent in Chicago. The increase, the superingondeut thinks, is due men in part 1o the influx,of tamilies from Colo rado, South Dakols, and other western states, ‘I'he principul incrcpse is at the Hartman and Pacitic schools and the principal de- crease is at the Dupont school. A slight de- Croase is noted at the Saratoga, Mason, Far- nam and Cass schools, but this may be at- . Gov't Report. Baking Powder tributed in largo part to the changing of the | districts and the establishment of the Cen tral school. A% all the rest thero is an in- crease. Another room Walnut Hill school has boen opened at the o accommodate the in ased number of pupils, and the half-day session plan, as outhined in Tre Bee a day or two ago, has heen inaugurated at the Keilom kindergarten, there being now ninety-four of the very little ones attending that insti tution. which is somewhat limited as to capacity S S— IMUSEMENTS, When Planguette’s “Les Cloches de Corno- ville" was produced, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, it attained an immediato popu larity, which it has maintained ever sinc till now the opera, best known in this coun try under the namo, “The Chimes of N mandy," has becomo a classic 1n the lighter lyric literatura, 1t 18 full of clevor things musically and its comedy 1s clear and per. suasive. kvery part in the work is full of opportunities for the artist Last evening a new organization, the ldaeal Opera company, opened sason at the Farnam Street The Chimes of Normandy." ideal performance. The seore or more mem bers of the company are worthy young people; they are as earnest in thoir work as they can be, and doubtless they do their best, but they fatlea ta_enthuse the lar tence last evening. 1i wero the kinder PArt Lo say no more of the performance, called a brief theater with 1t was not an AU the Peoples. The warm weather keeps hundreds of poo- ple away from the theaters, yet the big vrogram of comedy and specialtics presented the New People's theater this week has tracted fair-sizod audiencas that are fully repaid for attendance. The comedy, “Blunders,” keeps one in continual laughter and the clever specialty peoplo who appear ro liberally applauded. Next week the stock company prosents another very funny comedy, entitled “Our Strategists.”" It has been thoroughly rehearsed, and, with tho specialty program, which 18 a lengthy one, including the groat Valdare brothers, the famous bicyclists, will prove a powerful biil of attractions, g Tusares Your ¢rop, Drought is never known under ditch A perpetual wator right is better than insuranco policy, becauso it not only assures a full “crop every year, but it multipiies the yield from fourto ten times. There ‘are many crops grown that pay as high as $100 an acre. Land which will do this should be worth 21,000 Asan investment a forty-acre farm is a fortune in itself. G. .J. Hunt, room First National bank is selling such land, with a perpetual water right under the Belmont canal in the North Platte valley at $20.00 an acre Ho furnishes full particulars and pays half your fare to see it. — - Otoe R pubiican Convention Callad, NeBrAska Ciry, Neb,, Sept. 14.—[Special Telegram to Tue Ber.]—The repubiican county central committee met this evening at the Hotel Watson for the purpose of 1s. suing a call for the county convention, and the meeting was largely attended. ' Hon, Johu C. Watson, chairman, called the com- mittee to orfer. It was decided to held the primaries on Saturday, September 30, at 6 o'clock in the city and 7 o'clock in the coun- try, and to hold the county convention on Tuesday, October yracuse. Major J. W. Pearman was present and spoke briefl also other republicans. 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