Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 13, 1894, Page 2

2 PREPARING FIGURES N | Union Pacific Getting Ready to Meet the Contentions of the Employes. MR. DICKINSON'S PART IN THE SITUATION | Dnly Carried Out Iis Instractions— Labor . Leaders Confident They Wil Carry Thelr Polnt — 1 tation Yesterdhy —Rail Notes. Cons | Union Pacific headquarters presented an | animated appearance yesterday morning, due in the main to the visit of representatives of the various labor organizations to the heads of departments. The chiefs of the different operating branches of the system were busy proparing comparative tables for the use of | President Clark and the general manager in the labor conference which convenes Thurs- | day by order of the circuit court of the | United States While there was little made public it was | fnferred from talks with several officials that Genetal Manager Dickinson was not in the | most cheerful mood over the turn events | had taken, in view of the fact that he was simply following the instructions of the re- | cefvers, both in preparing the now schedales | offered to the employes of the system and in withdrawing the schedules upon motion of the receivers and by order of Judge Cald- well's court A representative railroad official sald: ““Mr. Dickinson is b criticised by the men for having presented the new schedules to the court, when it is perfectly well known that he was acting under Instructions from the recelvers. He asked his subordinates to as- sist him In drafting schedules that would stand the closest possible scrutiny, not only on the part of the men themselves, but from the world of labor generally, and after weeks | of hard labor the new scedules wero prepared to the satisfaction of everybody connected with the Unfon Pacific system, barring the men, of course. Mr. Dickinson, confident that is position was right in the matter in view of the fact that reductions were imperative, prepared to put the schedules in force, but the pressure brought to bear by the em- ployes, who are really little affected by the change, and the opposition of certain of the federal courts, caused a change in the plans of the recelvers, and while Mr. Dickinson was on his recent tour of Inspection he was informed that the reccivers had rescinded thelr former resolution regarding a change in the schedules of the employes and had agreed to a conference between the represen- tatives of the men and the officials of the company. General Manager Dickinson has only acted as the representative of the re- ceivers and has done nothing but what he has been ordered to do by the servants of the courts. This the men should thoroughly un- derstand and not hold Mr. Dickinson respon- sible for the present djfiiculties.” WAGES OF TELEGRAPHERS. Mr. L. H. Korty, general superintendent of telegraph of the Unlon Pacific, was busily engaged In preparing a comparative table of wages paid telegraphers on railroads in this territory for use at the conference, when @ Beo reporter called upon him yesierday. Talking generally in reply to the reporter’s questions Mr. Korty stated that he had Yieard litttle opposition to the new schedule presented to the telegraphers for acceptance on their part. “‘Although they joined in the answer filed in Judges Riner and Hallett's court™1 believe the schedule was generally acceptable. One thing is certain. I be- lleve I can show that Union Pacific employes recelve from 20 to 25 per cent more wages than is pald for like service on the Burling- ton, which Is a very prosperous road, a com- pany that Is our strongest competitor and one that is cutting the vitals out of Union Pacific earnings. We pay more for like service in Nebraska than the Rock Island, aud the same With the Northwestern. Under these circumstances we have felt that a change was necessary, “What the result of the conference will be 15 purely problematical. The men will have a falr judge to pass upon ihe questions at bar, and affer I have finished my table of comparlsons my duty ends so far as the conference is concerned.” REPRESENTING THE EMPLOYES. The telegraphers will be represented by one delegate from each division on the sys- tem, a number of requests having already been recelved for transportation. It is im- possible to state who these representatives office and receive the i Of this suporh work—the story of the told by the leading generals on both sldes. MAGNIEIUED SERIES NO. 3. MAROCH 13, 1804, DICTIONARY, BE SURE 10 STATE THE NUMBER OF BOOK YOU DESIRE, NE Sunday and Threo Week-day coupons, with 15 cents in coin, will buy one part of The Encyclopedic Die- tionary. Send or bring to The Bee Ofice. Mail should be addressed to DICTICNARY DEPARTMENT. SERIES FIFTEEN MARCH 18, 1894, COUPON., World's Fair Art Portfolio. To sceure this superb souveniy r | inquired as to the manner of man Mr. Clark will be, as many of them were only seleoted Sunday at meetings held over the terri- tory covered by the Unlon Pacific, Although the Ameriean Rallway union is not working under a schedule, and is fn nowise connected with the other branches of labor, exc sympathetically, the order will be invited to sit in conference, aithongh at one time It was thought President Cla would refuse to treat with them, on the ground that they were not affected by the horizontal reduction sought to be put In force March 1. It I8, however, now glven out that Mr. Clark wiil hear the men upon all questions concerning the betterment of the system CLARK AND CALDWELL. In this connection there is a pleasant bit of history that may be told. When Judge Caldwell “was casting about for a man fo present the court and the Union Pacific company he began inquiries as to the fitness of President Clark for the position. Never having met Mr. Clark and desiring to make lowly, Judge Caldwell went to eral St. Louis rallroad men and was, as to his judicial instincts, as to his fairness, in fact as to the standing of the president of the Union cific in and cut of the railroad world. The estimates formed of Mr. Clark were undoubtedly satisfactory to Judge Caldwell for he immediately, after satisfying himself of Clark's ability, wired that gentleman that he would be cailed upon to sit as an arbiter in the difficulties be- tween the employes and the recefvers of the Union Pacific. It was an honor as compli- mentary as It was unexpected, and I Clark accepted the trust. When Mr. Clark left New story goes, some of the r mended that he should Caldwell when he reached St. Louis Mr. Clark is said to have replied: ‘‘No! Jud Caldwell has honored me by seleciing me to sit In this conference. To call upon York, colvers all upon 50 recom- Judge To this | him at this time would look as if 1 desired to cultivate the court for the purpose of in- fluencing the tribunal, of which I am only a servant. When these matters are finally settled I shall be glad to call upon Judge Caldwell, not before.” And he hasn’t called. EMPLOYES GETTING TOGETHER. Number of Conferences to Ie Held This Morning » While every one was busy at the Union Pacific headquarters yesterday preparing for the meeting of the employes and Mr. Clark, which is to decide the fate of the proposed wago schedule, the employes themsel were not idle. Up to last evening only two of the organizations had enough of mem- bers present to do anything toward prepar- ing for the impending conference. The fire- men and the engineers were early on ground, and yesterday held secret confer- ences to get a better understanding of the situation and to formulate a plan of pro- cedure. What conclusion they arrived at is of course largely spect I8 certain, that they consider that they ha the right of the matter and that they can make such a showing as will convince Mr. Clark of that fact. The leaders of the different organizations have very little to say as to what course they will pursue, but after the meeting of the representatives of all the organizations, which will be held this afternoon, they wili | be able to give out something as to their probable course of action. One thing fs cor- tain, and that s that they will never give up the contention unless it is forced upon them by the courts that the schedule agree- ment formerly made with the Union Pacific company is binding upon the recelvers. While some of them concede that it may be modified in some respects by the consent of both parties to the agreement, they one and all contend that the validity and binding force of the agreement is the one great principle, fully as important as tho Question of wages with which it Is involved, that must be maintained. KFor this reason some of the men consider that it Is unwiso for organizations which are not parties to the agreement to mix up in the wage quess tion at this time, though they sympathize with these employes and are willing to do all that lies in their power to help them in maintaining an equitable rate of wages. An. other complication that is liable to cause some trouble is the effort to make the sched. ule agreement binding upon the St. Joseph & Grand Island and the Kearney & Black Hills divisions of the road. Aside from the question of the binding force of the wage agreement made with the Union Pacific company, the men contend with great earnestness that the proposed new adjustment of wages is unfair to the men and that there is not sufficient reason for the attempt to put it in force, The conductors will have a meeting at 10:30 at the Dellone this morning, and at tho same hour and in the same hotel tha Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen will have a mecting, though the meetings will be held in different rooms. The Telegraphers will also have a meeting this morning, and after these meetings are held and the different organizations have gone over the ground and decided what to recommend to the general meeting, to be held later, they will be ready for the fray. A meeting of all the men was held last evening, but for the reason that some of the organizations had not had an opportunity to consult among themselves nothing was accomplished. 8. D. Clark of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen stated yesterday afternoon that ho was confident that the difficulty would all be settled lere without the aid of the courts. He had all confidence in Mr. 8. H. H. Clark. Should they fail In this, however, the men were prepared to make a good showing in the United States court. In common with all the representatives of the various organi- zations he expressed his satisfaction that a new day was dawning in the matter of settling differences between employers and employes and that the federal courts had at last acknowledged that the men had a right to their day in court An nho Conductor Talks. J. A. Matott, representative of Da Grande division No. 1,893, Order of Rallway Cons ductors, is one of the advance guard of that organization tthat will be here to attend the conference on the wage question, Mr. Matott sald that his organization was probe obly the first of the railway organizations to foresee the new order of things in the way of the settlemept of difficulties between the companies and their employes, and were pos. sibly better prepared to cope with it than some of the others. For some time the cons ductors had been working along legislativo lines, and had discountenanced strikes where it was possible to avoid them. By reason of the fact that the companies were the first to resort to the courts for the settlement of the differences that arose from time to time bes tween themselves and the employes, they were possibly better prepared at the outset to meet the new conditions, but the men were not slow to comprehend the advantages of the method, and would meet the coms panies on that ground. The present contest, as ho viewed it, was not only a vital one to tho employes of the Union Pacific, but to the workingman everywhere and in every branch of industry. The courts so far had only had the company’s side presented to them, but from this out the labor element proposed to see to it that their side was represented not only in this, but in future controversies, Concerning the local condition on the coast and in the western country, Mr. Matott sald (hat there still remained’ with them some of the rougher element that in the old times were In for carrying everything by shere force, but the more conservative el ment had obtained the ascendancy, and had also succeeded In cooling down the more rad. ical clement, Tho present difficulty he hoped and believed would be settled amicably and to the atisfaction of all. ist abor Reprosentatives. The representatives of the various labor organizations are now practically all on the ground. The following represent the engin- eers and are making the Arcade their head- quarters: A. D. Chamberlain, Troy; A. G, Roberts, St. Joseph; Thomas Keating, Fort Worth; Thomas Oliver, RIlls, Kan.; Joseph Milett, Leavenworth, Kan.; Dan Breese, division 103, Laramle, Wyo.; J. A. Randal, division 236, of Portland; J. E. Mattheson and Frank Leavitt, division 362, of Grands 0. Barnhart, division 443, of Tekoa, Wash.; W. J. Ingling, division 228, of Pocatello; Peter Grant,division 408, of Lima, Mont.; J. B. Toner, division send cr bring six goupous of this scries bearing different dates with 10 cents in coin to ART PORTFOLIO DEP'T, Bee Oilice, Omaha. | makes its headquarters at the Arcade. 324, of Montpelier, Tdaho; A. Preese, divi- slon 232.0f Salt Lake; Willlam Lethbridge, diviston 136, of Evanston, W, Albert Flood, division 44, of Rawliny, Wyo.; Thomas R. Reed, division 115, of Cheyenne; W. H. Fikes, division 88, of North Platte; A. R Fonda diviston 183, of Council Bluffs; Simpson, division 81, of Kansas City. The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen also It s idont | the | the | atlon, but this much | THE_OMAHA DAILY BEFy TUESDAY. MARCH 13, 1894, THEY DOWED BOTH SCHENES D. Clark, Moulton, Walraven, Portland M. Davis, representad by the following: 8. Pocatello, Idaho, chalrman; J, B Denver, v chairman; H. J. venne, secretary; A. B, Gould, E. Watson, Tekoa, Wash.; G, ; 8 P. Miller, Ogden; A elier, Idaho; A. R. Gracle, F. Tracy, Evanston; Georgo and Island; J. Hatton, Junction R. Weston, North Platte; F. Monat Larami Candish City, Kan.; J J. Murphy, Oma The Teiegrapher's Brotherhood Is repre- sentod by the following, who are making the Arcade their headquarters: G. W. Hart, Salina, Kan.; D, C. Copley, Aurora, Wyo.; B. N. Stevenson, Dillon, Mont., secretary and E. L. DeBrell, Denver; o7 Troutdale, Ore.; B. F. Frobes, Salt F. B. Deveil, Wardner, Idaho; D. J. Kelly, Beattie, Kan.; F. E. Gilliland, Council Bluffs, chalrman grievance committee. The' Fireman's Brotherhood is making the Windsor its headquarters and has the fol- lowings representatives on the ground: C. A. M. Petrie, Ellls, Kan., chairman; F. H. Leh- man, Denver; 8. H. Donehower, North Platte; R. J. Clark, Evanston; C.0. Colo.; J. F. Holloway, Pocatello, H. K. Taylor, Tekoa, Wash.; W. W Young, Dallas, Ore.; Grant Keys, Le Grande, Ore.; B. R. Robbins, Kansas City; B, P. Daker, Omalia; H. H. O'Donhell, Rawlins; C. J. Wechter, Laramie; A. T. Butler, Lima, Mont.; A. L. Smith, Beatrice; George Edgar, Salt Lake; A. J. Maxey, St. Joseph. The conductors are making the Dellone thelr stopping place and they have the fol- lowing representatives: J. L. Kissick, Den- n; N. R. MeBride, Grand Island, W. J. Martin, Pocatello, Idaho; Ed Boyd, Ogden; J. N. Marks, Laramie; E D. Woodmansee, Cheyenne; J. A. Matott, Le Grande, Ore.; J. A. Allison, Portland. TBOUND RATES. Lake; WE! Another Cut Has Been Made by the Atchi- won Road. CHICAGO, March 12 announced that, teiing effst fson today March 15, it | will put into effect a westbound rate of $10 from Chicago to Kansas City, At 'ison, St. Joseph and Leavenworth. The reduction Is made becanse the Atchison has found in scalpers’ hands tickets to San Francisco reading over the Chicago & Northwestern and Union Pacific, which are betng sold for $30 one way. The rate quoted by the Atch- json will have the effect of reducing the through rate from Chicago to California by 2, Chairman Caldwel, upon receiving today the notification of tho intended reduc- tion, told the Atchison that he would call on them for justification of the rate, They will submit for his edification a stack of tickets fully six inches thick. The Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy and Chicago & Northwest- ern have taken active steps to prevent the demoralization reaching Omaha business, and today formed an agreement that, while they would accept the $10 rate to the Missouri river and for basing to points beyond, they would not use it for basing purposes of local rates east of the river. The Alton, however, views the lower rate with great satisfaction, and declared today that it would never allow the rate to be advanced from $10, and if it | could get it to §6 it would be happier than it is now over the $10 rate. It was currently reported today that the Atchison and South- ern Pacific had agreed to restore matters as they existed March 1 and arbitrate from that standpoint. The local officials of the Atch- ison, however, denied having any such infor- mation, Just the Other Way. Superintendent Goodnow of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, after reading the ac- count published exclusively In The Dee Sat- urday of the new block signal system which the Milwaukee put into effect yesterday, tele- graphed The Bee that the statement made relative to the new system to the effect that two trains would be allowed on the same block was erroncous, as the new system pro- hibits just that very thing. He stated that the eastern roads left it optional with the operators as to allowing more than one train in a block, but the improved Milwaukee sys- tem made it imperative on operators not to allow more than one train on a block, which is a great deal safer than under the systems in use on eastern road: Rates for the Irrigation Convention. For the interstate Irrigation convention, which convenes in this city March 21, the raflroads of Nebraska have made a one-fare rate for the round trip from all stations. In the territory of the Western Pas- songer assoclation a fare and a third has been agreed upon. No rates have been made trom Colorado points, as the local rate due to tho cut in transcontinental rates is much cheaper than the one-fare rates. No rates have been made from Dakota. Tickets will g0 on sale March 19 and will be good until March 24. Chicago to Knnsas City for 810. TOPEKA, March 12.—General Passenger and Ticket Agent George T. Nicholson of the Santa Fe today announced a rate, effec- tive March 15, from Chicago to Kansas City of $10. This is a cut of $2.50 and is good only westbound and is made because Chicago ticket brokers are making a lower rate than $32.50 on California business. Mr. Nichol- son sald at noon today: “The Chicago & Northwestern is evidently back of the Chi- cago brokers, and the latter are evidently protected in the cut by the Northwestern people.” ‘Will Hold a Jolnt Session. The employes held a joint meeting yester- day afternoon at the Arcade for consultation and to formulate a plan of action. Unique Trip 'Round the World. Ono of the most gigantic schemes asso- ciated with British newspaper enterprise is that which Is being carried out at enormous cost by the proprietors of the Dundee (Scot- land) Courier and Dundee Weekly News. They are sending two young ladiés—Miss Marle F. Imandt and Miss Bessio Maxwell— on a tour around the world for the purpose of collecting facts of special feminine inter- cst. These ladies start on Thursday of this week on their journey of some 26,000 miles. Passing _through the countries. of Burope they will visit Egypt, Arabia, Indla, China, Japan, Canada and the United States. They will have opportunities of forming impres- sfons regarding the status of woman, of in- vestigating into the conditions of ' female labor, and of studying the social and re- ligious life of women In various lands, so that their tour cannot fail to produce unique results. Last year twelve workingmen were sent by the proprietors of the above news- papers to America to report on the condi- tions of labor here. Brandished a Koife, Ed Johnson was arrested yesterday at the instance of Colonel Floyd, at the Diamond, for threatening to use a knife. For the past year or so Johnson has been employed at Floyd's residence, 1620 Sher- man avenue, and until yesterday he appeared to be an honest, hardworking fellow. He went down town and drank too much, and when he went home he drew out a carving knife a foot long and threatened to cut any one who interfered with him. Mr. Floyd then had him arersted, as he was afraid he would hurt some member of the family, e Pair of Accldents. Christian Gullenheimer, employed at the Storz & Iler brewery, fell through a trap door yesterday afternoon and fractured his spine. i A man standing at the corner of Fifteenth and Jackson streets was run into and knocked down by a team last evening about 8 o'clock. He suffered no broken bones and the principal Injury he sustalned was a bad cut on the face. His name {8 Bdwards and he works in the Union Pacific shops. Ll Threatened to Stub. Willlam Smacklin was yesterday brought in from Elkhorn and lodged in the county jall. He threatened to carve a man out there for an alleged insult to his wife, S LOCAL BREVITLES. A Dr. J. W. Blythin is the proud father of a ten-pound boy, The stranger arrived Satur- day night. Rev. Thomas Marshall, D.D., fleld secre- tary for foreign missions, will deliver one of his lectures in the Castellar Street Presby- terlan church, Sixteenth * and Castellar streets, Wednesday evening. DIED, s head, Afty “Notio cad, ety conts MALONEY \dence, 910 North notice iater, vach addition Thomas, age, 38 years, at re Ixteenth sireet. Funeral etscher, | Board of Trade Proposes to Continue Exist- ence op the Old Lines. NO CONCENTR/\T\IO’N OF STOCK ALLOWED norelnl 1ol Bitter Spirit at et Last Evening. o The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Trade last evening was the largest one that has assembled for two years. Every chair was taken. All the old guard of the organization seemed to rally to save the colors from being snatched by the Commer- clal club, They came prepared to die in the last ditch fighting against an attempt on the part of a number to capture the building stock, and at the same time oppose Mr. Ayers' scheme to transfer $3,000 annually into the treasury of the Commercial club D. H. Wheeler moved reconsideration of an action taken at a meeting of the Board of Trade held December 11, at which the fol- lowing resolution was defeated Resolved, That we hereby authorize directors of the Omaha Board of Trade to sell lot number 140 of the city of Omaha to the Omaha Board of Trade Building company, In consideration of $1 and its suming " the payment of $0,000 now upon said property, of Trade I of and cc the Omaha o Mr. Wheeler wanted, the resolution passed and objected to the treatment it recei at a former meeting on the ground that onl ten members were present at that time. I belleved that sentiment had in the meantime changed. President Gibbon ¢ ose and called attention to his annual address, heretofore published, in which he exposed the animus {hat prompted the presentation of the resolution at the December meeting. He branded it as “‘a scheme of a ring’ to secure 51 per cent of the Board of Trade stock and the sell the property or else run it on the company plan, vote themselves big and enjoy themselves, while the B Trade would whistle ‘as a plain, ever: business organization deprived of its build- ing. Taking the floor, Mr. Wheeler proceeded to make a strong talic for reconsideration of the action taken in December and took ceptions to some of Mr. Gibbon's remariks. Mr. Wheeler kicked: on the “'sinking fund”’ 1dea and said It would sink the finances of the institution ‘‘out of sight.”” He thought that reconsideration would give men who had been members of the club for years a chance to “get a smell for their money.” During his remarks the speaker was called down by the chairman with relation to his assertions about a $5,000 balance in the treasury at the time of Mr. Wheeler's with- drawal as a director. When Mr. Wheeler sat down Colonel Chase arose and vigorously, opposed Mr. Wheeler's scheme. Colonel (Chase said that he be- lieved the Board jof, Trade was the most substantial organization of business men in Omaha and was generally so regarded, with all due respect to, other organizations. He sald that it was the only local business organization that ‘‘hag a nest egg to set on’” and hatch out a brood. No matter if some of its members did, helong to other organiza- tions, they should eling to their first love and not take any hasty step toward disposing of its property, and.not allow the Board of Trade to be gobbled up by any other interest. Mr. Wakefleld spoke “from a philosophical standpoint” and favored a business plan to wipe out all the debts of the organization and to stand firmly against a reconsidera- tion of the resolutign formerly adopted. This started a lively debate. President Gibbon called Mr. Tukey to the chair and took the, fioor. He answered Mr. Wheeler and took exceptions to several of hig insinuations, He gald that the men who voted down the resolution at the. former meeting, were, mpnofl good common sense, who were. overwhelmihgly oppesed to -the scheme of a_clique to gobble sufficient stock to secure control of the bullding and form a little ring or stock company ail to them- selves. Mr. Gibbon said that he was bitterly opposed to the 51 per cent scheme to get control of the pride of the Board of Trade. The speaker warmed up during his speech and-appealed to all his hearers to sit down good and hard on the scheme sprung by Mr. Wheeler. Colonel Chase moved that Mr. Wheeler's motion to reconsider the action taken at a former meeting with relation to the resolu- tion be laid upon the table. The motion pre- valled after some discussion. Mr. Ayers then introduced the set of reso- lutions published in The Bee last Saturday, which in substance favored the purchase of 200 memberships in the Commercial club at a total cost of $3,000. Mr. Wakefield sprang to his feet and op- posed the resolutions. He said that if the Board of Trade had any money to appropriate that It could be used to better advantage than to swell the coffers of the Commercial club. In concluding his remarks he moved that the resolutions be laid on the table. The chairman put the vote and the Commer- clal club men were in the minority. A motion to adjourn was then quickly put and carried, and the Board of Trade men re- Joiced that’ the colors of their organization were still flying triumphantly at the mast- head and the consolidation goose had been cooked to.a finish. e N HONOLULU ADVICE: of Latest News from the Islands Show the Royallsts Are Losing Hope. VICTORIA, B, C., March 12.—The steamer Warrimoo arrived at noon with Hawailan news one day later than received at San Francisco on the Australia: HONOLULU, March 4.—Some months ago W. G. Smith, editor of the Star, attacked in his paper Charles Wilson, the ex-queen’s marshal and alleged paramour. Wilson had Smith arrested five timos on sults for crim- inal libel. Smith claimed he intended to sub- poena the ex-queen as a witness. Yesterday afternoon the cases against Smith were ail dropped on account, it Is claimed, of his intention of forcing Liliuokalani to take the witness stand, This is taken as a sign that the royalists have given up all hopes of res. toration, as, in that event, the queen could not be summoned. The new law referring to aliens went into effect today and several arrivals by the War- rimoo had some difficulty in landing. Sevs eral men were_detained on board. Thurston to/Be Wedded. SAN FRANCISCO) March 12.—The Even- Ing Post says the engagement of Minister Lorin Thurston, Hawaflan representative at Washington, and Miss Harriet W. Potter, and asserts the wedding will occur the latter part of this month at the bride's home at St. Joseph, Mich, = Miss Potter met the Hawailan minister at the World's falr, WEATHER FORECASTS, ghtly Colder i No- [Today. oh 12, —For Nebraska cooler; northwest It Will Be Fair anf¥’ Dbras) WASHINGTON, and lowa—Fair; sl winds. For South Dakota! cooler; northwest widd: For Missourl, and Colorado—Falr; varlablo winds, } Sty LT Yesterday's Nominations. WASHINGTON, ¢Mareh 12,—Postmasters nominated: Nevada—FHenry J. Berry, Reno, Robert N. Locke, Plerre, 8. D.; John Flat Oklahoma City, OkL; George M, Mas De Smet, 8. D, Treasury Department—George L. Miller of Nebraska, to be survéyor of customs for the port of Omaha, Neb, To be Register of Land Office—James Gras ham of Idaho, at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, War Department—Caplain Cole A, Wood- ruff, Second artillery, to be captain; Second Lieutenant H. C. Schumm, Second artillery, t0 be first lleutenant. John H. Mulligan of Kentucky, to bo cone sul general of the United States at Apia, Samoa. ir; probably slightly e —— for the Army. WASHINGTON, March 12.—(Special Tele- gram to The Bee.)—Leave for two months on the | | eligible surgeon's cortificato of disability, with per- mission to leave the Department of the Colo- rado, 1s granted Captain Frank M. Robinson, Second cavalry “rst Lioutenant D. Green venth in try, Is assigned to duty as acting as ant quartermaster at the Army and Navy \eral hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., and wiil pair to that place and relieve First Lieu tenant Robort R. Stevens, Sixth infantry, of his dutles at the hospital. fa - . NEBRASKA LUMBERMEN, Meot In C I Omaha 5 to Be Settled, nvention of th and retail lumber dealers will convene this city today, the sessions being held in the hall In the Patterson block, at the corner of Seventeenth and Farnam streets. This meeting will bring a large number of the retall dealers of the state into the city to take part in the deliberations, which will continue for two days. While the meeting will bo in the nature of a love feast, having for its object a cementing of the tles of friendship among the dealers, matters of vast importance to the trade will be brought up for discussion It Is stated upon authority that the dealers from the small towns come armed to the teeth, o to speak, and will call upon the wholesale men for some explanations. These retallers will claim that the wholesale men have been making terms to outside builders who would buy in carload lots, giving them prices equally as low as made to the retail dealers. Should they find this charge to be true they will demand a cessation of the practice, or else know the reason why. They , that they are the customers of tho wholesalers, and that for this reason the wholosalers are not toting square when they name the same prices to the consumers they charge them Many of tho outside dealers arrived on the late trains and the balance of them will be in this morning. The In connection lumbermen will be nvention Todny rlevi The annual ¢ wholesale in iny Part of It with the meeting of the leld this evening a ro. union of the “Concatenated Order of Hoo. Hoo,” tho sign of which is a black cat and in which lnmbermen, newspaper men, woods workers, railway officials and actors are to membershi amuel P. McCon. nell of Council Bluffs, vicegerent snark, will confer on about twenty-five candidates the biographical degree of t layful Kitten, After this it is likely that an “on the roof” session will be held. The Missouri river is threatening to inun- date the town of East Atchison, Kan The mayor of Ogden, Utah, warns work- fngmen to keep away from that city The president has pardoned Thomas wood, convicted in Utah for fornication. The street car strike at Youngstown, O., was seltled yesterday, the men returning to work: Richard Croker, the Tammany chief, has reached San Antonio on his return from California. Two masked men made a_futile attempt to hold up Mose Harris, a Denver clothing man, last night as he was closing up h store. District Master Workman Carey of Toronto says there is no truth in (he story that the Canadian Knights of Labor will secede. Advices from Jacksonville, Tenn., are to the effect that Justice Jackson of the United States supreme court is not danger- ously fll. The St. Paul Chamber of Commerce by unanimous vote has again endorsed the im- portant proposed ship canal from Lake Super- for to the Mississippi river. The secretary of the navy has accepted the resignations of Cadet Mack Herman Olsen of Wisconsin and Max Spitzer of New York, members of the third class. The Johnstown, Pa., steel works, which have been shut down’ since January 1 for repairs, resumed operations yesterday, giv- ing employment to 2,000 men. Dr. James N. Taylor, president of Vassar college, lecturcd Kansas City High chool yesterday on the subject of woman's education. Wil Shockley, a farmer living near Ozark, Mo., attempted to kill his wife and child yesterday. ~ He falled to accomplish his burpose and committed suicde. A fight occurred between strikers and United _States deputy marshals at Mugo mines, Kentucky, Sunday night. One of the strikers was seriously wounded. The cases of Darragh and Sattley were called in the criminal court at Independence, Kan., yesterday and were continued until May 7 at the request of the prosecutor. All of the 300 operatives at the Merrimac woolen mills at Lowell, Mass., went out on a strike yesterday as a result of a reduction in wages, ranging from 12 to 45 per cent. The National Board of Directors of the Travelers Protective association has decided upon Milwaukee as the place to hold the next annual convention and June 19 the time. The embezzlement case against S. M. Fol- som, president of the defunct Albuquerque National bank, was dismissed in the in the United states court at Albuguerque yester- day. To a representative of the Associated press a member of the Dawes commission today denied the truth of the rumor that the In. dians had agreed to treat with the commise ston. A. J. Lask, Charles Menke and John Chap- man, officers of the defunct Hutchinson, Kan., National bank, were yesterday placed under arrest by Deputy United States Mar- shal Graves. Returns thus far received from the charter elections held in the villages of Michigan yesterday indicate republican victories in the majority of instances where party tickets formed the issue. Andrew Sauer, cashier of the defunct De- flance, 0., Savings bank, and now deputy collector of internal revenues of this district, was arrested yesterday, charged with having embezzled $17,000. The grain fleet of Chicago will not leave be- fore April 1, although navigation is open. This 1s because Insurance does not go Into effect until then. This will be twenty days earller than last year. The New York Life Insurance company filed a petition yesterday in the United States circult court of Topeka for a fores closure against the Wyandotte Loan and Trust company of Kansas City. Governor Lewelling of Kansas_returned to Topeka from lowa yesterday. He found on his desk the resignation of J. F. Willitts, member State Board of Pardons, accepted same and appointed A. C. Baker to fill the vacancy. Tho case of the state of Kansas against Banker A. W. Little, charged with killing B. B. Johnston at Kansas Clty, Kan., was called in the district court of Johnson county, Kansas, yesterday under a change of venue. Eugene F. Ware and J. W. Green, lead- ing lawyers of Topeka, Kan., were beforo Judge Caldwell at Little Rock, Ark., yester- day with an application revoking the license of certain Insurance companies to do busi- ness in that state. The coroner’s jury in the case of the Pennybridge accldent over Newton creek, Brooklyn, N. Y., January 21, has found that the accident was caused by the carelessness of the engineer, James McLaughlin, who con- structed the bridge. Judge Henry of Kansas City yesterday ap- pointed Robert Gilham receiver for the Northeast Electric Street Railroad company of Kansas City, owing to the pressure of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company, with a claim of $20,000 against the road. Judge Scarrit of Kansas City has confirmed the report of Referee E. H. Stiles in favor of the plaintiff in the sult of A. A. Burgard and others against Simon K. Howe, involv- ing the possession of the island in the Mis- sourl river opposite Armour's packing house at Kansas City. i PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS, At- Rev, Charles W. Savidge 1s holding a two days meeting at Wabash, Neb, Miss Edna M. Brown has returned from an extended visit to Sioux Falls, 8, D, Hon., Brad Slaughter, ex-United States marshal, was in the city yesterday, Dr, von Froebel of Berlin, German Omaha, Heo s visiting Mr. Nato Salisbury s in Omaha on his way to Idabo in connection with Colonel Cody's | ranch seheme, EN before the pupils of the | TROUBLESONE TIMES 1N ENID Rival Factions Fighting for Possession of the City Government. CITIZENS ARE IN A STATE OF TERROR Armed Parties Patrolling the Streets and Ready for & Row-A Desperate Fight In the City Yesterdny — All Law Disregarded. ENID, Okl, March 12.—~A new factor entered the municipal war in this city today and precipitated another desporate fight be- tween 8. I, Spencer, president of the 0" County bank, and a the name of Flaherty, a notorious saloon bum and all around tough. encer has been fdentified with the Moore faction, even going 80 far as to arm himself in defense of Moore's action. Spencer was put in nomination by the Moore crowd today for city treasurer, and become Involved with Flaherty at the arsenal, where both sides keep thelr guns Spencer was brutally beaten, but managing to get his gun In position, commenced an Indiscriminate fusilade on his assailants. Flaherty was slightly wounded and a spent bullet struck a woman on the street, but did not injure her seriously. The Moore element is guarding one part of the city with a trusted squad of men armed with Winchesters and the Gregg gang clir over the ramparts of the council chamber in another part of the town and are transacting busin with a new set of records Colonel John Wiggins, who Is fn Washing- ton in the interest of the county seat bill, wired for money to come on this mornin and the Moore faction made a draft on th y treasurer for the money to send him Gregg and his followers fmmediately out an injunction against Moore, restraining him from touching any of the city funds, and it Tooks now as It Wiggins will have to either borrow the money to come home*on or walk. The Gregg gang say they will never permit him to have a cent Bvery man who is out on the streets at night fs closely scrutinized and a watch put on his track until his identity is well estab. lished. No one Is permitted to go near either of the hostile camps without a pass from the leaders of the factions, and the fecling s so bitter tonight over the Spencer-Flaherty shooting scrape, and the hard eharacter by feeling is further intensificd by thie local primarfes in progress this afternoon, that it is fearcd there will be bloodshed before morning and inno. cent persons will lose their lives. The fight fs for blood. No compromise Is offered or xpected from either side. Elther one or the other side must make an unconditional surrender. The arm of the territorial court, Invoked yesterday miorning by the Moore element, has had no effect in dispelling the Gregy ag, and they put at deflance the order issucd by Judge Burford of the feleral court The county officers seem powerless (0 quell the warfare. However, the county officors have taken sides and the desperate shooting scrape between Commissioner Williams and Jaller Wfiliams has embittered the fight, and it is believed one or the other will be 1 before the war is over. They met in the Enid pharmacy, Jailer Willlams declaring that the commissioner must go under. They commenced shooting at sight, and the former was shot in the head and his friends carried him off the field in an ambulance. Williams is a desperate man and it is cortain that when the two men meet again one or the other will go over the range. The commis. sloner is a4 quict and unassuming fellow, but has a good cye and steady hand, and his friends do not credit him with being a coward by any mean: The conservative element of the city de. plores the war, but they are powerless to do anything and apparently have no recourse, Mr. Watson said to the Assoclated press correspondent tonight that many of the peo. ple entertained a dread that some firebug would set the town on fire and the high winds now prevailing would wipe every building on the site out of existence. He patrols his promises every night with a Win. chester to prevent his property from being burned up, and sleeps during the day. This is only what a score of citizens do overy night.” There is no insurance on any of tho buildings in the town and if a fire breaks out everything would be a lo One of the leaders of the Gregs gang threatened to shoot the Associated press representative on sight if his crowd got the worst of the report. 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