Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 21, 1894, Page 9

TWELVE PAGES FABLISHED JUNE 19, 187 INSTRUCTIONS T0 RECEIVERS What Effect They Have on the Operation of the Union Pacific, Trust company, supposed to be delayed In transit by the strike, Judge Fullerto poned the matter (il September, stating that on account of the demoralized condition of the rallroads of the country he doubted the advicabllity of attempting the sale at present. Railway No R. L. McKeller, general the' Memphis & Charleston, yesterday. Medinah temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, located at 'Chicago, will arrive here this afternoon, F. M. Lice, Imperial corder, being ‘among those in the party. They travel via the Northwestern, SHRINEIRS STOP AT CHICAGO, tern agent of was in town JUDGE SANBORN'S RULING DISCUSSED Dnlon Pacifle to Surrender the Proy the Lendville & Branch and to Op rate the Car- bon Cut-O—Other Features, rty of Denver, Gunnison Large Number of Delegates Enroute to the Tmperial Council in Denver. CHICAGO, July 20.—Medi; temple, the handsome shrine, Fifth avenue and Jack- son street, is filled today with guests from the varlous cities of the United States. The visitors are the repredentatives, with their families and fellow Shriners, enroute to the imperial council of the order, which convenes at Denver next Tuesday morning. Among the temple representatives now here are: Ahmed Temple, U, D., Marquette, Mich,— John Q. Adams, Alkoran Temple, Cleveland—Moses M. bart, Aldong Sherman, John J. Sullivan Damascus Temple, Rochester, N. Y. Ham H. Whiting. Ismaill Temple, Buffalo—Charle There was a stir and commotion around Union Pacific headquarters yesterday that tndicated something out of the ordinary wa going on. In the general manager's office the scene was a busy while in the outer offices leading to the president’s and receivers' rooms the clerks were rushed with business, and the presence of unknown stenographers was proof some of the big guns of the Unfon Pacific had quletly slipped into headquarters without their com- Ing being being known except to those di- rectly in touch with them, General Manager Dickinson was closeted all morning with Recefver Frank Trumbull of the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf, ques- man, Frank 8. Gilbert, George tions as to the running of trains and the | Erastus C. Knight. general detalls of the two independent com- | Kismet Temple, Brooklyn—Wayland Trask, panes occupying the attention of these two | Alonzo Brymer, Clarence B. Stump. railroad men Mecea Temple, New York City—George W. But In the receivers’ rooms, which of late | Millar, James Mc Joseph B. Eakins, 8. have not been oc pled, save by one or two | R, Ellison, Walter M. Fleming. clerks under Assistant Secretary Orr, there | Media Temple, Watertown, N. Y.—Richard were present Recelvers Oliver W. Mink, E. | H. Huntington, John 8. Coon. Ellery Ander-on and Frederick R. Coude Moslem Temple, Detroit—Charles F. who came in from St. Paul in the morning, | Lon Burt, Edward R. Harrls, having been in attendance on the hearing | Holmes, in relaticn to the pet'tion of the receivers Murat Temple, of the Union Pacific asking for instructions | Brush, Joseph W. from Judge Sanborn as to cutting off use- | Roscos Hakins. less members of th system, roads that Palestine Temple, failed to pay operating expenes. Burnham, Horace K. PURPORT OF DECISION. Rogers. Mr. Anderson, when asked what the pur- | Pyramid port of Judge Sanborn’s opinicn | Thaddeus B. was, said: “The receivers of the [ Pavid R Union Pacific are directed by th> court |~ Saladin Temple, Grand Rapids, Mich.— to deliver to the Denver, Leadville & Gunni- | 0% B. Windsor, Charles S. Robinson, Ed- son company, or to the American Loan anda | Wit L. Bowring, Chase Fink. Trust company, trustee of the mortgage, or { - Syria Temple, Pittsburg, Pa.—Thomas J. to the recelver, If any be appointed. the | Hudson, William S. Brown, James Kerr, Jr., property of the company on or before August | A, V. Holmes. T. The question as to the deficit arising | - Syrian Temple, Cincinnati—Levi C. Goodal, out of the operation of the' road since the | Jacob H. Bromwell, Howard Douglas, Allen Tecelvers of the Unfon Pacific took charge | Andrews, Willlam B. Melish. of the property, October 13, 1893; whether | _ Tripoli Temple, Milwaukee—REugene 8. this deficit should be charged as a preferred | Elliott, Willlam Brazier, Luther L. Canfy. claim or against the Union Pacific Railway | Hegira Temple, Utica, N. Y.—John "W. company, or equitably apportioned between | Berne, Noble . Martin, Edward Brown. the Denver, Leadville & Gunnison company Lulu Temple, Philadelphia—Joseph S, and the Union Pacific, or any line which ap. | Wright, Frederick L. R. Drandt, Charles pears to be benefited, was referred to Judge | Carey, Edward B. Jordan. Cornlsh, as master in chancery, who Is di- rected to take testimony and refer the mat- ter to the court. “The recelvers are directed to continue the operation of the Carbon cut-off. All mat- ters relating to the Washington and Idaho and Oregon extension were reserved until the accounts between the receivers of the Union Pacific and Receiver McNelll of the Oregon Rallway & Navigation company shail have been completed. “All questions as to the operation of the other roads indicated in the petition, in- cluding the Omaha & Republican Valley and several Kansas lines, are referred to Judge Cornish, to take proofs and report his opinion to the court on or before October 16, hearing on these reports to be had No- vember 15, before Judge Sanborn, at St. Paul, “In regard to the abrogation of certain one, Ho- Wil- W. Cush- Brown, Beck, Hugh A Indianapolis—John 1. mith, Henry H. McGaffey, Providence—George Blanchard, John S. Temple, Bridgeport, Bercher, H. Loy Woodward, Albing, Julius W. Knowlton, Conn.-— WEEKLY IRON TRADE REVIEW. Most Mills Busy but Keops Sd CLEVELAND, July 24 Review this weck proof of the shortaze of e T —The Iron Trade says: It is striking resiliency of the country's business organization that we should witness one week an almost complete paralysis of transpor- tation, compelling hundreds 6f manufac- turers to stop, while the next is marked by a complete ralsing of the embargo, with industries resuming on every hand. The week under review has shown a general starting up of iron and steel plants, not only those-which the strike had closed, but those idle on account of scale differences, contracts also Included in- the petition the | Both these impediments have now been court allowed all parties in interest to inter- | removed. There remains yet the handicap vene or answer wilhin twenty days, the re- | of insufficient coke supplies, which keeps celvers being required to reply to such inter- | furnaces in the Mahoning and Shenango ventlons or answers within fen days. Judge | valleys out of blast, and the desperate Cornish was directed to take all proofs on [ strike of the miners of the Alabama Fur- issues so raised and report to the court on or | nace companies, which has silenced about before October 15, the hearlng in these mat- | half of the furnace capacity there. The ters tl&l) be had November 15. ~Any parties | fncreased activity of mills, under the cir- ;re lfls ow%de file exceptions between Octo- | cumstances, signifies the working up of ac- Bl And November 1o, cumulated ‘orders, as there is no develop- Mr. Mink at this moment stated in relation | ment in the week indicating a revival of to the deficit of the Denver, Leadville & | demand. Prices in all departments of the Gunnison company that it amounts to about | market are steady. $200,000, or nearly $1,000 a day since the —————— yocolvers tock hold of the property in the Will Banquet at Beatrice, nterest of the court, The board of directors of the Manufac- At the hearing _before . borty Interjectod® Moc Anaorage San- | turers and Consumers assoclation met yes- terday afterncon In speclal session. Sec- Gunnison pecple asserted that if the deficlency was charged against | retary Holmes made an elaborate report of the company it would leave the company | the banquet held at Nebraska City. Ac- absolutely nothing. The Union Pacific re- | cording to his figures, the expenditures ceivers on the other hand argued that if | gmounted to The special train run charged against the balance of the system it | from Omaha pald for Itself. After a care- ful consideration of the subject it was de- would fall upon the bondholders, which they cided to hold the next banquet in Beatrice regard as Inequitable.” between August 13 and 16. The directors MR. COUDERT TALKS. This is Mr. Coudert’s first visit to the | all expressed themselves as of the opinion that the banquets, which furnish an op- west, which, he stated, might argue a lack of appreciative knowledge, but which he | portunity for the manufacturers and re- emphatically denfed, for the reason that he | tall merchants of the state to become bet- has ever been a busy man. ter acquainted, are a good thing for all par- ties concerned. Coko Asked about the future of the Union Pa- clfic system Mr. Coudert said: “It 1s very difficult to undertake to per- form the part of a prophet in connection with this system. It is a great and useful one that ought to grow in importance to the country, but everything has worked against 1t, and I may say against all the rallroads west of the Mississippl, during the last two or three years. The financial depression, the unrest of labor, storms of uncommon severity, extravagant competition, have all combined to fetter the efforts and to disappoint the expectations of the Union Pacific as well as of other railroads. Then, to0, we must bear in mind that In the United States, especially In the western half, men are strong and vigorous in their acts and optimistic In their views. They discount the future as no other people in the world have ever done, and where it appears that 1,000 miles of raflroad will probably be ne-ded in ten years they proceed at once to save time by building 2,000 miles immediately But the country must develop, the 65,000,- 000 must grow into 100,000,000 and this im- mense new work, great as it is, will be utterly inadequate to the business of the country. 1 may be an optimist; I hope I am. Pessimists are of no use in the world, but I firmly belleve thit it congress will come to its senses, if local preferences and pre- Judices will give way before what 1s plainly interests, and the promises of good crops will hold out’ for the uext two months, we will have a boom such as very few men now con- template. The period of depression has al- ready lasted too long and the very instant the causes are removed the elasticity of our people Wil once more show itself. The country needs the boom, the railroads necd it, but I grieve to say the democratic party needs It worst of all."” Messrs. Mink, Anderson and Coudert leave this afterncon for the east havivg aloit con- ploted the work which called them west at this time. Yesterday afternoon the recelvers calle upon General Brooke with a view of ascer- taining the military idea of the situation in Montana and later were shown through The Bes building, Mr. Coudert belng particu- larly impressed with the progressiveness of Mr. Rosewater and those associated with him (o erccting so complete a“newspaper office. Wi gy Oregon Rullway-Great Northern Agreement. PORTLAND, Ore,, July 20.—All the de- talls of the traffic arrangement between the Great Northern and Oregon Rallway and Navigation company were completed today and nothing remains now but to have the agreement e.gned. Manager Shelby of the Great Northern leaves for St. Paul tonight and Recelver O'Nelll will go east In a few days. Nelther of the partles will divulge any of the detalls, but it is understood that the agreement provides for the transfer of all freight and passenger busine's at Spo- kane. Oregon Pucific Sale Postponed. CORVALIS, Ore,, July 20.—The clrcuit court convened today to fix the date ami terms for another sale of the Oregon Pa- clfie Rallway company. In the absence of soy petition from the Farmers Loan and s e Short Police Stories. W. T. Harman, convicted of assaulting Officer Tom Hayes was fined §70 and costs. There is a warrant out for the arrest of Mrs., Driffcorn and Mary Doe, two bottoms dwellers, charging them with assaulting Harry Bowler. Swan Peterson, a man from the country, ms to have been robbed of §10 Thursday, while he was in the wine room of a saloon at Tenth and Dodge streets. Mike Wallenz who was arrested on charge of selling liquor without first curing a city license, was convicted terday, bound over to the district and the confiscated liquors destroyed, Elks Into Court. CLEVELAND, July 20.—An action was fled In the United States circuit court in this city today by George A. Reynolds of Michigan, the newly elected grand secre- tary of the Order of Elks, against Clate Smith of Youngstown, O., the retiring secre tary of the society. It is alleged that Smith refused to give up books, records, papers and emblems of the order now in his possession, and the court is asked to compel him to do so. the se- yes- court R - Excurslon Train Wreckod EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 20.—A wreck of an excursion traln on the Louisville ville & St. Louis (Air Line) railroad today injured four pussengers. At Velpen the truck under the engine tank broke, derailing the baggage car and two passenger coaches The injured are: George Pltcher, Albion scalp wound; Alonzo Dickey, Alblon, chest and shoulder hurt; M. Stanley, Albion, chest hurt and bruises in the lower abdomen, prob- ably fatally; M. Diccus, an Englishman, com- pound fracture of the le Serlous Charges Proved Unfounded DENVER, July Lieutenant Colonel Chaftee, after a thorough investigation, has reported to General McCook, department com- mander, that the charges against Captain A. L. Meyer, Indian agent at San Carlos, are entirely unfounded. His fi 5 were at tacked, his management of the Indians criti- cized, his business methods assailed and ho was accused of having allowed five Indian murderers to escape. Struck @ S L OWENSBORO, Ky, July 20.—The steamer G. B. Montleth struck a‘snag near here today and sank. One child is missing. A panic was narrowly averted, as the boat carried a_large number of Sunday school children. e Overe by Hent. Willlam Dunn, aged 93 years, was over- come by the heat at Sixteenth and Douglas streets yesterday. He was taken an adjoining store and then taken to home at 412 South Eighth street. e Death of Hon. Amos Strong, MINERAL POINT, July. 20.—Hon. Amos Strong dled today at Lis home in this eity, into his OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING MOTHERIN-LAW KNEW HI Man from California Gets Into Unexpeoted Trouble in Omaha, MR. REYNOLDS' VISIT NOT APPRECIATED Man with Too Many Wives Lod; by the Mother of One of His Vietims ~Story of Love and Cruelty. Had Walter D. Reynols known that he was to land in jail, the presumption is that he would have given Omaha a very wide berth when he was making the journey acrcss the continent from California to New York, but as he had not received a hunch in this direction he came along and is now in a cell meditating over the folly of having too many strings to his bow and too many wives to support. Mr. Reynolds « and now me to Omaha Thursday he declares that If he gets away with a whole gkin he will never come aga! not if he lives to seo the end of the twen- tieth century. Down on North Sixteenth street, not far from Webster, W. T. Lyons and his wife operate a small bakery, where they are as- sisted their daughter, Birdle, a come woman of some twenty summers. Thurs day this young woman was attending to her duties about the premis shnging and seemingly as happy as a lark. During the early part of the evening she suddenly put on her wraps and went out, telling her parents that she was going to breathe a lit- tle fresh alr. At 9 o'clock she had not re- turred and the parents became alarmed Anotlier hour and then another passed away but with the passing of the latter hour there came a messeng:r boy with a note which read: “Birdie Is to stay with me tonight. will see her in the morning.” FEARED SHE WAS STOLEN. Visions of kidnapping floated through the minds of the two old people as they theught of their daughter being carried ‘away some strange man. They discazs21 th uation in all of its different and many | and then started out on a scarch, ¥ing to all of the places which the girl had heen in the habit of frequenting. Not finding her, they reported the matter to the police, and then returned to their homes. Just then it occurred to thelr minds (hat during the afterncon they had seen a man walking up and down on the opposite side of the street, apparently watching their house. Mrs. Lyons, who by this time had recovered somewhat from the excitement attending the receipt of the note, remembered that the man who had been parading the sidewalk resembled Reynolds, the sou-in-law, though she hardly thought that it could be he, as the last heard from him he was on the Pa- cific slope. There was little sleep for Mrs. Lyons that night, and bright and early yestorday she was at the police station, where she gave a complete description of Reynolds and swore out a warrant for his arrest. This was placed in the hands of an officer, who started on a blind trail. He had gone up to Farnam and was walking down Fifteentii street when he came face to face with a You man who tallied with the description given® by Mrs. Lyons. Tapping this shoulder, the officer asked, Reynolds?” The reply was to the effect that there was no mistake, after which the man was in- vited to the station and locked in a cell On the way to the jail and while he wal being scarched he expressed a great degree of disgust on account of being arrested and declared that some person would pay dearly for the humiliation which had been brought upon him by reason of his incarceration. He insisted that he had done nothing except to take his lawful wife to the Arcade hotel, where they had spent the night. He ex- plained that he was the keeper of the insane in one of the hospitals in San Francisco, was on his way east to visit relatives and had concluded to stop off for a few days in this city to visit his wife, who was stopping with her parents. There had been no separa- tion, although the parents of the woman had tried to turn her against him by poisoning her mind with false reports concerning his past life, telling her that he had five or six wives from whom lie had never been divorced. The other end of the story Is to the effect that some years ago Mrs. Thorne, now Mrs. Lyons, and her daughter Birdie resided in this city, subsequently removing to Cali- fornia, where a couple of years ago. the mother married Mr. Lyons. = Shortly after that Birdie secured a place in an’ insane asylum, which was under the superin- tendency of Reynolds. With Birdie and the superintendent it was a case of love at first sight, ending in a matrimonial union after an acquaintance of a few months, Soon after, the marrlage Lyons and his wife came to Omaha and about a year ago they commenced to re- celve letters from their daughter, all con- taining tales of woe regarding the cruel and Inhuman treatment of her husband. This continued for some time and at last Lyons sent the girl money to pay her fare to this city. A fow months after coming here she concluded to give Reynolds up and sccure a divorc: on the grounds of bigamy and failure to support, The suit, however, was not commenced, but considerable work was done in the way of securing evidence to be used at the trial. Letters were secured from a brother of Reynolds, residing in Buffalo, N. Y., in which he stated that Wal- ter had had several wives; one at least in cach town in which he had resided and that he had never been legally separated from any of them. This evidence, which has been s:cured, conveys the information that the wedding with Birdle Thorne was a clan- destine affair and was strongly opposed by her parents on the grounds that Reynolds was a worthless fellow and a rounder who never saved any money. Yesterday when Reynolds was told that his wife's parents accused him of hav- ing almost a countless number of wives, ho admitted that he had some, but claimed that at the time of marrymg Birdie Thorne there was no llegal impediment to the union. Reynolds being a stranger in the city, is making no attempt to sccure bail and’ will patiently remain in fail until the final disposition of th> case, that is it his wife should conclude to appear and prose- cute, the Mr. man _on “Is this —— BOARD 0F PUBLIC WORKS. No Changes Yet in Street o, Husiness Transac2od The first meeting of the Board of Public Works after the reorganization was held yes- terday afternoon. It had been apprehended that changes might be made in the forces of the street and sewer departments, but the new commission preferred to wait until they had become more familiar with the men and could decide better what might prove beneficial. Chairman r urged the commissioners to make up their minds in this quarter as soon as possible, as he did not think the board could et the 'best service from men who were in the dark as to howslong their services would be retain:d The contract connections in with Moritz Meyer sureties The strest commissioner was have Military avenue cleaned under the 10 per cent clause, and also that portion of Twentleth street batween Vinton street and Van Camp avenue. The amended wooden sidewalk specifica- tions having been approved by the city coun- cil, the chairman was directed to advertise for bids for wooden sidewalk construction during 1894 —Rouatine some of Samuel district 576 and A. H Katz for sewer was approved, Gladstone as directed to el Identified as Her Fa Coroner Maul has recelved a letter from Lulu Reed of Denver, the contents of which convinces him that the floater found In the 21y 1891 TWELVE 1 SINGLE Cory rmmnnns ananand TWELVE PAGES ‘TVE CENT! the other day Was her father. the letter there ‘Was a photograph which was a good likeness of the drowned man. The daughter sall nothing about the digposition of the remalfs, only saying that if it proved to be the bedly of her father, she wanted to know. The body has been burled at county expanse. river With gl TWO-COUPLE ELOY MENT. Search for His W.fe and Daughter and Thelr Lovers, LOUISVILLE, July 20.—A sensational elopement from Nashville, Tenn., culminated in the equally sensational arrest here of all the principals in the affair. Mrs. Mattie Landes, a fine looking woman of 50 years, is in jail. Willlam H. Levell, a well dresscd man of 43, is in a cell at the Seventeenth street police station and in an adjoining cell is C. S. Jennings, a_fashionable looking young man. The three were arrested by de- tectives at 1702 West Walnut street on a warrant sworn out by G. W. Landes ot Knoxville, charging them with adultery Landes, who fs said to be in comfortahle circumstances financially, came to Louis- ville from Knoxville a few days ago, and at once called on Chief of Detectives Owens and told him his troublez According to his statement his daughter, Nellie, a_beautiful young woman of 19 years, had been re- ceiving attentions from C. 8. Jennings, against his will. He also stated he had sus- pected his wife of being on much too friendiy terms with Willam H. Lovell. On July 6, he sald, the whole party eloped, taking with them two smaller children. Lovell came to Loufsville with Mrs. Landes.and the children. The older daughter was accompanied by Jen. nings. The house at 1702 West Walnut strect was rented and they had been living there since. Landes spent nearly two weeks searching for them before he came to this cit He secured the assistance of the de- tectives, who succeeded in locating the guilty parties. The oldest daughter was not locked up, being left to take charge“of the younger children. G. W. Landes' e “CHICAGO & ALTON WRECK, Several Persons Injurcd by u Failure of the Signal System. CHICAGO, July 20.—The Chicago & Alton express which left here at 9:15 last night was derailed at the belt liné crossing near Sum- mit. The engine and first four cars left the track, the mail and baggage car being over- turned. One mail clerk wes probably fa- tally hurt and two others received painful Injuries. Seevral passengers were shaken up and bruised, but none of them were seriously hurt. The engincer of the wreeked train say there were no signal llghts displayed. The de- railing switch was set to ditch approach- Ing trains, as a belt line train was then switching on the crossing. General Manager Chappell of the Alton road reports that no ome on the train v severely Injured with the exception of an unknown colored man who was stealing a ride and was badly hurt, The postai clerks and baggageman were slightly bruised, but none of the passengers were fnjured, The ac- cident was caused by & semaphore signal light going out and the engineer did uot have his train under proper control. The injured are: Tony Behr, postal clerk, calp wound, not serious. J. E. Logan, Chicago, extra postal clerk, knee cut. D. McClark, Brighton Park, extra postal lerk, head cut, not serlous. William C. Eaton, Brighton Park, postal clerk, quite seriously injured. William Crawford, colored, Atlanta, Ga., who was stealing a ride, knee cut znd great toe crushed. — - KILLED ONE AND'WOUNDED THO. Cnicago Saloonkeeper, Tacklod by Three Robbers, More Than ilolds Itls Own, CHICAGO, July 20.—Tlree men who un- dertook to rob Robert Meyer, a saloonkeeper on the West side last night, found the job a hard one. Mr. Meyer was counting the receipts when the three men entered. One of them, Peter Traynor, grabbed Meyer's revolver from the bar and pointed it at him, while the others attempted to rob the drawer. Meyer selzed Traynor's wrist, and pulling another revolver from his pocket, opened fire. A lively exchange of shots followed. Tray- nor fell to the floor mortally wounded; one of his companions, Bdward Cahill, was shpt in the shoulder and hand, and the third, who has not yet becen found, is, according to Meyer, badly wounded, as he was bleeding freely when he made his way out of the place. The plucky saloonkeeper himself re- celved a painful bullet wound in the left shoulder. of Wilmore Bad Camp Meeting Tei LEXINGTON, Ky. July 20.—Wihnore, a small town In Jessamine county, was badly damaged by a cyclone last night and at least a dozen people were injured, one of them fatally. ~ The holiness camp meeting was struck and every tent and cottage destroyed. In the country about Wilmore at least two dozen farm houses were greatly damaged and some of them were wrecked entirely, Trees were mowed down by hundreds, crops just harvested destroyed, and the damage from the wind and rain that followed is very great, —_———— TARNSLEY WON'T TESTIFY. Town ana Declines to Ifelp the Grand Jury Investi- gate His Tarring and thering. DENVER, July 20.—Adjutant General Tarsney in a sharp letter to Judge Campbell of Colorado Springs declined to appear be- fore the grand jury there this morning and testify in regard to the tarring and feather- ing to which he was subjected In that city. He savagely attacks the assistant district attorney, sheriff and foreman of the grand jury and says that if the jury sincerely de- sired to find the perpetrators of the outrage it would not have d:layed the investigation for four weeks. SEVERAL LIVES WERE LOST, Boller Explosion In a Newark Hat Factory Does Dire Damuge NEWARK, July 20.—By the explosion of a boller In Benjamin Jachins' hat factory this afternoon that shop and six frame tene- ment houses In the rear and on both sides of the boller house were enveloped In flames. It is believed that several llves were lost. Magazines Explode an o of the Iu- ates Serlousty [Tnjur H, Ga., July 20.—Fort Pulaski is on fire and a series of explosions of maga- zines have occurred. - Sergeant Chinn, U, S. A, and Lis wife are known to have been serlously injured. =i R ttoo Marks to Idenufy Him, SAN FRANCISCO, July 20.—Anthony Kearns, a wealthy cattle dealer who died re- cently in Inniscarthy Ireland, left his entire estate, valued at £80,000, to his nephew, James Kearns, who came to America twenty- five years ago, and who was to be identified by tattoo marks on his arm. Agents of the estate belleve they have found the long miss- ing heir In the person of James Kearns, a local butcher, who i3 taking steps to claim his inheritance. e Amateur ress Assoclati BOSTON, July 20.—S. A. Shoenfleld of San Francisco declined the office of corresponding secretary at the convention of the Natlonal Amateur Press assoclation and Clifford W, Kissengen of Reading, Pa., was elected. The alumni association eleoted the following of- ficers: President, Truman J. Spencer of Connecticut: vice president, Berthan York jrant of Dakota; secretary, George W. Dodd of New Jersey. The leopards glve two performances at Courtland beach today, BEAUTIFUL LOGAN VALLEY Wonderful Clianges Wronght in One of the Richest Sections of the State, GOOD STORY TOLD OF EX-GOV. THAYER 1 Leases of Indian Laods Repr Whites Improperly Sign: Develop Complications tives of Both K Besieging the e ds wnd ont Fathe The road from Decatur to Lyons winds up Blm creek, towards the divide, the water shed that separates the streams that run into the Missouri from those running into Logan On either side are fenced fields, com. s and groves of timber, hunted prairie chicken not a bush in sight, and oh, how the settlers did worry over the lack of Now the country is fairly covered with trecs Past Charley Gould's which used to stand up gaunt and bare at the head of the gulch, a landmark for miles, and not a tree to be seen short of the Missourl bot- toms. Now you cannot see the house from the road for the trees and underbrush. We are on the divide and a scene of beauty meets the eye, agriculturally speaking that cannot be excelled anywhere in the west. A high, gently rolling prairie, dotted with farm houses and shady groves, where last 1 saw the lonely cattle trail and the yet recent “‘buffalo wallow."” And the corn flelds, whole sections of them, breast high, bright, waving green; and the oats and wheat but little behind, for here they have had more rain than we have had, and the crops hardly show the effects of the drouth of May and June elsewhere. 1t is one of the gardens of Nebraska. It is June; Nebraska is at its best, and w bowl along a maginficent country road straight west as a line as far as the eye can reach. Farm after farm s passed; grove after grove s reached, and at last the long famed Logan valley bursts into view Twenty-five years ago I wrote an for B. B. Taylor in the Omaha Republican and said it was the most beautiful lay of land for farming in Nebraska, and 1 see no reason to change that now, only Instead of naked prairie grass, as then, it Is dotted with villages, farms and trees, such crops! . In the olden time there were natural groves in sight; one where Lyons now is and one at Oakland. — Other than these not a tree was to be found; now they loom up from every quarter section. “A tree- less country? Not much.” But here ‘we are at creck. fortable hous formerly the where with first timber! house, article and Just two LYONS, senior Waldo Lyon moved the mill over there from the Arizona bottom, built the first little store and blacksmith shop, and began a new country “so far away from anybody,” they sald he had hard work to get neighbors to move out there and keep him company, and many were the prophecies on the Missouri bottom that “them Lyons fellows would be glad to move back some day,” but no one has moved yet; on the contrary, half the old Missouri bottom folk have gone to Lyons, Oakland, Bancroft and Pender. Here your correspondent was greeted by scores of old friends, Waldo Lyon, jr., the Everetts, Darlings, Crowell, Tim Calnon, Riley Hart, Henry Stecn and others. It's a lovely little village, so clean and bright. Of course, it has two news- papers, and the editor of one is “Mosc’ Warner, son of Colonel Jesse Warner of Dakota county, and he has written a_ history of Dakota county which is useful, ornamental and mostly true. Charley Darling and Ben Everett took us in and did for us by turns, and the varns we had to swap about old times around the old store, and the old po- litical bouts and the changes in the coun- try. “Ben” used to be a good republican then, but he's a rank “pop” now, and has inoculated all his family, but they are just Jolly folks to visit, all the same, Here is one of Ben's stories: After Frank Welch's mill burned down at Decatur and the grasshoppers ate up the crops, and times looked nearly as blue as they do now, Frank met some friends (?) one day and was com- plaining of hie hard luck. *But,” said he, “I'll be all right soon; I've got a letter from Senator Thayer and he has promised to get me the Omaha Indian agency, and then I'll be all 0. K. again. Here's the letter.” “Let me see that letter,” said one. After reading it over he remarked: “Well, I ain’t the only fool in the world; I've got the mate to that letter, and Thayer promised me that agency, too."” “Holy Moses,” said another; “I'm the third fool in this crowd, for I've got a letier from Thayer also, and he promiscd me that agency.” Frank put up his letter sadly and pondered. He never got the agency, but he did get to be congressman from Nebraska. Peace to his ashes. The next day Mr. Everett drove us out to see the valley to George Morter's farm, and a_farm it is, too. He is building a new $800 barn, where. the cattle and horses can pull the hay and grain down to feed themselves, and tip the water trough up when they please. The last time I saw him he was working at $20 per month for an- other man. How Is that for Nebraska and the Logan valley? And there are lots more that have done equally well in twenty-five years. We came home through the little old orig- inal grove of ash, elm and boxelder. In one old elm split open by many a storm, An drew Everett's boys found a hatchet and quite a pile of sliver money shortly after they opened the farm, hid long before, no doubt, by a wandering Indian or hunter. In the bend of the stream Joe La Flesche came down with all his band and camped one winter, when he quarreled with- the rest of the Indians about trading matters. They had hundreds of ponies running near in the timber. We passed Fremont Everett's farm, an oddly-built, but roomy and com- fortable house. In 1866, when Franch Welch, Cline and the writer were sent to West Point as a committee to see If the settlers were all murdered there by the Indians, we crossed the Logan at Lyons on a fallen tree, and swam our ponies over. Now a handsome iron bridge spans the stream. Nothing seems more wonderful than the timber, the groves, which the settlers wished and prayed for so earnestly in the early days. PENDER. This is a handsome town on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad, op- posite the Indian reserve lands; in fact, Pender s on the western end of the re- serve, originally, on land sold by the Iu- dians some years ago. West of the rail- road track Is white man's land, cast of the same red man's. The whole old reserve was organized into Thurston county a few years ago, with Pender as the county seat; and this has caused some of the complica- tions of Indian citizenship. In time the government decided to allot lands to the Indians in severalty; 160 acres to each adult head of a family; eighty acres to each adult not the head of a family; and forty acres to each child, That the adults then on hand should not get all the land and leave none for those to come after, a cer- tain portion of lands were left unallotted, and are known as “tribal land.” This land is mostly in the beautiful Logan val- ley, and finer soil for either grazing or farming it would be hard to find. The Indians did not, or could not, use this land, and the whites living along the border hated to see 80 much grass go to waste, o they began leasing the lands of the Indfans. On the Omaha reserve a man by the name of Farley, who married into the La Flesche family, got the windward side of the agent or the government, and leased many thou- sand acres of the tribal or unallotted lands near Pender, at from 10 to 25 cents an acre, This was In 15890, and the lease was supposed to be for five years, There are about 560,000 acres of unallotted lands. It is claimed only five chiefs signed these lands and the Indlans are divided as to the propriety of so using the lands. Several deputations have gone to Wash- ington, both whites and Indians to have these lands allotted, to have the leases an- ‘When the through Miss professional Indian philanthro- pist, it afd, and others at Washington who get on the blind or fat side of our “Great Father” there, nothing has been done. Farley and Brother Tibbals, also a member of the La Flesche family, have been too many for the combined forces of out siders, and the allotment hangs fire, while leases are likely to remain in force long to get this year's grazing or hay fuct, anyway On the Winncbago lands a different of affairs exists, When attention drawn to these vacant lands several ago an llinofs outfit came fn there rganized_themselves as the Flournoy Stock and Real Estate company, and leased some 26,000 acres, also for fiv intending to graze and feed cattle, they say; but finding the land so much more valuable for agriculture, they have broken up the most of their fands, sublet them to whites, and made farms thereof, on which good crops are raised and other improvements made. As one of the company sald, they did not come way out here for their health and they leased the land from 15 cents per acre upward, or for what they could get, as they had the right to do, oF thought they had, and now ciaim they have been a great help and aid to the country, for every on knows that land for farming is compara- tively worthless the first two years after breaking, the cost of breaking and rough buildings, even for shelter, being consider- able, and they will leave the land In good condition for a new tenant, and the Indians can get, at the expiration of this lease, the one to two dollars an acre some claim they ought to have as rental for far uds When used for grazing alone, or cut closely, the grass soon runs out, and the land is worthless for that and not broken up for agriculture. This is the Flournoy com pany’s story, and their matter is now in court, Agent Beck having tried to abrogate the leases. Of course the latter use of the land suits Pender and the other towns along the line of the rescrve, as it incr the number of white settlers, occuples every quarter section, and makes more trade and business for_everybody m this state of affalrs have grown charges and counter charges, crimination and reerimination, visits to Washington, and agents sent out from there to investigate and report, and mefther the report or the in- vestigations have been satisfactory on either side. Mr. Peebles of Pender, who is largely interested In the town's prosperity, seems to have got Hon. J. Sterling Morton on his side, as far as insisting that the allotment shall be made and the bill to tax the al- lotted lands passed. When the strikes are over perhaps some attention will be paid to this matter. In fourteen years more the lands allotted are to become the property of the Indians fn fee, and they can sell them. To those best posted this scems folly, and it is predicted that in ten years from that date, from their absolute ownership, many will ‘not have a foot of land and no mone and will again become charges on Thurston county, the state, or the general govern- ment. The government should hold title for some years longer. You can't civilize a tribe in a day, or even in a few yea JOHN A. M'MURPHY. e 0 A YOUNG HERO. nulled, pro and con; but Fletcher, a state was " and Live they yoars, Unselfish and eroic Conduct of a New Jersey School Boy. A terrible railroad accident happened in Hoboken, N. J., a little while 3 Youth’s Companion. An accommodation train, running too fast in the fog, crashed into a standing express. There was a school boy on the express who had been sitting in the rear car studying his lesson. As the express train slowed up a feeling of oppression took hold of him. He sud- denly remembered hearing his grandfather once say that the rear car was the most dangerous one in the trajn, and, acting on an impulse of the moment, he got up and went through one car into the third from the rear. He was scarcely seated when he felt the car crumbling beneath him and found Limself entangled in a mass of men and wreckage. Wounded and bloody the boy extricated himself. Above the rush of escaping stcam rose the agonized cries of the un- fortunates pinned beneath the broken timbers. Men were dazed and aghast. “An axe! an axe!” shouted a shrill voice. The sohool boy was the first to gather his wits and start the work of rescue. With an axe he saved three or four men before the older bystaiders had begun to think. Then a cry of horror from another point called an_excited group of men together. Beneath the wrecked engine, amid the drop- ping coals and escaping steam, was seen the flgure of a man. The sight was the more sickening because the dead locomotive was liable to topple over any instant and crush whatever lay beneath it. There was a cry for volunteers. The conductor called; the engineer called; but all held back. Not all; out of the crowd came a slight figure whose clothes were torn, whose face was almost un- recognizabie from blood and soot, and whose hands were black from merciful toll, ‘Il go! Let me go, quick!” cried the schoolboy. The crowd stood back, while a few made an effort to stop him; but the boy flung himselt underneath the locomotive, risking death as unhesitatingly as he had ‘skated at recess, Steam hid his movements; the huge engine actually shivered above him, as if deciding whether to roll upon the young hero or not. Then there was a shout and men felt a rising to thelr throats. From under the iron monster the boy reappeared, dragging after him the man he had gone to save. Now there were willing hands and plenty of volunteers after the deed was done. It was sail by those present that no person so distinguishea himself as that schoolboy. When he ap- peared at his father's door, hours afterward, he sank cxhausted upon the threshold, with clothes torn, with face and hands grimy and blecding, and so changed that his mother’s servants did not recognize him. One of the distinguishing qualities of our ican boyhood is its readiness to accept nsibility. Unselfish and herofe conduct not a product of age, but of instinctive nobility, which it is pleasant to know that the pupil at any school may possess equally with the man of maturer years, SAFE DEPO3IT COMPANIES, They Cut n Conslderable Flgure in the cos of the Empire State. According to the report of the state super- intendent of banks the safe deposit com- panies of New York state are beginning to cut quite a figure in its finances. There are twelve in New York, three in Brooklyn, and one each in Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and Binghamton, The total capital at the beginning of the year, says the New York Sun, was $3,693,000, and they had in bonds, loana and debts out- standing about §1,300,000 of liability. Their resources included more than $2,000,000 in real estate, $750,000 in vaults and safes, $300,000 in cash, and Investments to the amount of $1,600,000. Their surplus over lia- bilities, which represents profit from their operation, above dividends, was $421,000 on 1. Lincoln® Safe Deposit company on Forty-second street, opposite the Grand Cen tral station, f which Thomas L. James is nt, owns real estate to the value of ,000. This company was established in 1881, The Amercan Safe Deposit company, corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-second street, was established in 1882, It owns real estate to the value of $317,000, which Is more than its capital stock The Bankers' Safe Deposit company on the corner ¢! Broadway and Wall street was es tablished in 1850, "‘The Garfield Safe Deposit company was established in 1888, Its vaults and safes cost $84,000. The New York Safe Deposit company, which is the ploneer in this line, was estah- lished in 1861, It pald in dividends last year 22,000, and hus besides a cash surplus of $05,000. There Is practically little risk in the conduct of safe deposit companies, once the “plant” of safes and vaults is paid for. Most companies are run in connection with some bank e —— Seo the performing lions aft. and eve Courtland beach today, : ago, says’ (ZAR MARTIN'S RENT ROLL What it 8hows as it Lies in the Hands of the Sheriff, FACTS BELIE HIS FIGURES OF SPEECH Recelver Shows that the Thele Tithings the e of Czar's Slaves Pay Martin in Reformer Promptly and Champion of the Law, There Is a rathor peculiar sta’e of affairs In the district court at present. This con- s in the fact that M. F. Martin, (he land- lord of nine-tenths of the abandoned women in the burnt district, court with a protesting against the occus pancy of his houses in that locality for pur- poses of pros ftution. The situation arises from the ltigations which been woven about Martin's property for time past, Among the plaintifts who went into court to e gainst the czar of the halt world was Annette C. Carter. On her pe- tition Judge Scott appointed the sheriff as a temporary receiver to take charge of Mar- tin's property his was on July 7 and yess terday the case was to come up on the Wmos tion for the appointment of a permanent re- But the motion of Martin pu's the mattor In a different light. Since the temporary receiver was appointed the property has been technically in the hands of the court and yess terday was presented the spectacle of “the well known landlord of a score of bawdy houses petitioning the district court to aba‘e the criminal nuisance which was belng main- tained on the premises over which the court now had jurisdiction. When the case was called sald that he had heard that the property in controversy was used for purposés of prostitution, but no showing of this fact had been made’ before the court. He wanted somo light thrown on the matter, as he did not propose to have the court placed fn the position of having charge of houses of - fame. The attorneys in the case retired to the judge's private room and Leld a con- sultation, after which it was announced that they had agreed to continue the wholo proceedings until September 1. This was therefore ordered, and the temporary re- ceivership was continued until that ~date, The consequence is, that the sherifl’s office will be the custodian of Martin's property, for_another six weeks. i The sherifl's report for the time during which he has had charge of the property! was submitted to the court. It shows that Martin’s statements made at the time when The Bee published certain facts regard- ing his treatment of his tenants, and tte exorbitant rents he exacted from these un- fortunates, to be utterly false. At that time Martin contended that even at the exorbi- tant rates at which his houses were rented he lost so much money through the failure of the tenants to pay that it was impossiblo for him to make anything. The report of, the receiver shows that with two exceptions every one of his tenants had paid her rent for some {ime in advance. One is In arrears for three months, and one for one month, and the remainder are paid up either to August 1 or to some time in July. e pos il WESTERN PENSIONS. has como into motion have some claims Judge Scott Veterans of the the General Governme WASHINGTON, July 2.—(Speefal to The —Pensions granted, issue of July 17,' were: f Nebraska: Original—Charles H. Egglan, Omaha, Douglas. Original widows, ete.— Harrlet 13, Hanchett, Grand Island, Hall. Renewal -Charles J. Stevens, North Orange B, Hosea W, Original widgws, embored by | Groom, Des Moines, I ete.—Sarah J. Kephar Creek, Idaj Mary E. Dewey, Hawarden, Sioux, \ Colorado: Original—Juan 'Jose Martinez, San Luis, Costilla. North Dakota Fort Totten, Benson. South Dakota: Original—Mike Starr, Hot Springs, Fall River. Reissue—Ruth A, 'Wat- kins, RRee Heights, Issue of 1 Benjamin Original—Sevier Turpil, Original— Original Union, | DeWitt, Clarke, Nebraska: et, West s of Harmon Waldo, Laura I3 Young, Camp winal—Samuel H. Doughman,! Benjamin 8. Miller, Mal: 12, Hancock (nurse), Den-| Patrick Prandy, Dubuqué, Du-! William Devine, Lake View, Sag.{ John B. Shields, Massena, Cas. widows, ete.—Elizaheth Carson, Polk; 13mma Turner, Ligbon Linn; Susannah Sturgeon Powes| shiek, Mexic war su , PASe— John Karr, Marshalltown, Marshall; Ira M, Taft, Danl Woodhur: i North 4 Original—John Smith, 1 Forks, Grand Forks, uth Dak Original—James T. Fergus son, Wessington Springs, Jerauld. Montana: ~Additional-John Barry, conda, Deer Lodge. Colorado Originnl—Joseph Rouse, Huerfano. Rencwal and Incrense— Artemas Borden, Elbert, Eibert, Original yidows, ete.—Mathilde Tieeker, Highlands, Arapahoe. Wyoming: Original—Nathaniel V. Foote, Laramie City, Albany. \ oA A Now Sults in Distriet Court. Electa Romans has become convinced after eight years of married life that life would possess more charms If she were rid of her, husband, 8. P. Romans, and has filed a peti- tion for divorce. She alleges that for several| years her husband has been an habituall Arunkard when under the influence of liquor, has assailed her with language that would' not be fit to appear in her address to! the court. She asks for a divorce and such provision by way of alimony as the court! may see fit to prescribe, | George Harr is the plaintiff in a rather, peculiar suit, in which John N. Frenzer is the defendant, Harr claims that about eight! years ago Irenzer was an agent for the Mcs Cague Investment company; that at that| time Frenzer induced him to purchase a lot! in Bedford Place on the promise that Fre m,«r; | mark, buque Increa Original Des Moines, Anas Talmadge, would buy back the property on his own ac- count at any time after January 1, 1889, By, the time this promise matured Harr was tired of his bargain and wanted Frenzer (o carry out his part of the agreement. This,! he asserts, he refused to do, and Harr has now gone to law to collect $1.190.76 and get rid of the lot, which he claims 15 an eles phant on his hands | Willlam A. Langworthy has brought fores/ closure proceeding st Bthan Wolcott and others on a mortgage glven to secure a' promissory note for $1,400, e Robbed by Her Guests, LONDON, July 20.—~A dispatch to Chronicle from Paris says: Mrs. Botsen, a wealthy American lady, recently missed a itity of Jewelry valued at 25,000 francs. tives were eng; d and they traced the missing valuables to two young en of the names of Defly and Lestrange, both mem- bers of good families who had been invited to lunch by Mrs. Hotsen on a day just prior to the discovery of the robbery. Both men were arrested, Thelr relatives are making every effort to secure them from prosecution, - His Antugonists. SAN ANTONIO, , July 20.—A terrible tragedy has been enacted on Cherry creek, thirty miles north of here. Jim Craney went to the house of a man amed Layton, where he met John Crain and son. In a quarrel that took place between Craney and Crain and son Craney drew a pistol and shot and killed both Craln and son Craney then escaped and has not been apprehended. Ll M lnge Liconses, the Killed Both The following licenses to wed were granted by the county judge yesterday N nd Address. I agle, Omaha Minnie J chter, Omaha . Nathan W. Freeman, South Omahs Gracle Cooper, Council Bluffs, la Edward J. Rawlings, T oln Mary A. Lumber, ldncola, B s