Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 18, 1895, Page 2

R N TR T THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: U E i LA Oy a MONDAY, MARCH 18, SITArD rere 1895. Lands and Buildings to lease the peniten- tiary and grounds and the convict labor to the highest bidder, and, further, that the lesses shall pay all penitentiary expenses, in- cluding the salary of officers and other help, heating the buildings and boarding and clothing the convicts, and that the net ex- pense to the state shall not exceed 60 cents per capita per day Under this provision Mr. Buckstaff can only take his chances with any other bidder who may desire to bid for the contract; but it is clalmed by some that this section has been repealed under the indefinite provision of house roll No. 607, which declares that “all_acts and parts of.acts in conflict are hereby repealed.” ° REGIME OF MISRULE The history of the Nebraska penitentiary 18 & story of a reign of fraud, corruptic misrule and extravagance, covering a quarter of a century, The institution has been t source of more knavery, more manipulation, more fraud, than any other one institution under state control. Twenty-five years a on the Ath of the present month the N braska legislature approved an act providing | for the erection of a penitentiary. Under | this law fifty sections of penitentiary lands | balonging to the state were ordered sold and the proceeds devoted to the construction of the necessary buildings The total number of ated was 32,044, The first public sale re- sulted in the disposal of S111 acres, t amount received therefor being $11,044. subscquent sales all but 1,916 acres were dis- posed of for a total of $133,194. The peniten- tiary lands were sold at a ridiculously low , some as low as $3 per acre, and none T than $7. With $133,194 in res thus appropri- their hands the three prison inspectors et about to construct a penitentiary. On April 20, 1870, they awarded a contrdct to Perkins & Hallowell for the erection of a temporary penitentiary, the stipulated price being $§,661. The building, or what is left of it, still stands, and is now used for a barn. A view of its exterior di- menslons will cause any practical man to gazo in open-mouthed admiration at the in- genuity of a contractor who was able to spend moro than $8,000 on a structure of such modest pretensions On Ju the prison inspectors let to W. H. B. Stout the contract for the erection of the permanent penitentiary building. Stout was awarded $307,950 for the building. In their annual report the inspectors ad- mit, with charming naivette, that, although the law authorized them to expend the pro- cends from the sale of the fifty sections of land only, they deemed it to the best interests of the state to erect a building suitable to the needs of the state for a long time to come. They thercfore asked for more fund: Subsequent incidents in the history of th itentiary prove beyond controversy that ¢ additional funds were supplied. COST OF STATE CONTROL. Inasmuch as the several bills providing for state control will throw the cost of main- taining the penitentiary upon the state, some figures showing what the cost was o the state under the old system will be of intercst at this time. For six years, from 1870 to 1876, inclusive, the state paid all the expenses of maintaining and guarding the convicts in the state peni- Under the reign of extravagance and useless expenditure of public funds the old system was necessarily expensive. For 187172 the appropriations were as follo During the two years for which the abov amount was appropriated there was an aver- age of thirty-eight convicts in the institu- tlon, making the per capita cost $1.88 per day. For the biennium of 1873-4 the appropria- Guards . Tuel and lights Drugs and medi; Board and clothing Furniture, library, Total Tn these two year convicts maintained and guarded was fifty, making the per capita cost §1.53 per day. In the last biennium, 1875-6, the expendi- tures were very largely increased, the ap- propriations being as follows: ‘Warden's salary Depuly's sala Physician Chaplain . 3 Maintenance, care and custody “Total 5 357,200 Under this liberal appropriation, with the opportunity it offered for unbridled expendi- ture, the state paid $2.07 per convict per day, there being an average of seventy-five conviets in the Mstitution during the period. An inquisitive public might have in- quired why the state did not board its con- victs at the Capital hotel. It would have made @ clear saving of 7 cents per day on each convict, and the convicts would have had better fare. It is not to be inferred for a moment that it would cost the state anything like $2.07 a day to maintain and guard the convicts should the present system be discarded. There Is no reason why the convicts canuot be maintained as cheaply as the male in- mates of the asylums for the insane. Food and clothing would cost no more, the ex- pense of fuel and lights could hardiy be greater, and salaries could easily be fixed upon an equal basis with those In other state institutions. The figures are only quoled to illustrate the liberality with which Nebraska solons used to dispense the state tunds. AN ODIOUS COMPARISON, Few people know what the state peniten- tiary has cost. A representative of The Bee today asked several members of the legislature who had recently visited the pen- itentiary as to their idea of the cost of that structure as compared with the state capitol buildiag. Their average estimate was that the capitol had cost about three and one- half times as much as the penitentiary, Their guesses did not, of course, include the cost of walks, drives, etc., or fnternal im- :provements, such as heating plants, cooking and laundry apparatus, etc, but merely the imaked buildings, A careful compilation of the figures repre- senting the cost of these two structures, made from the appropriation ledgers in the auditor's office, shows that but few peoplo are capable of wuking an intelligent com- parison. Tho state capitol cost The penitentiary cost $5 $ 3,000 L 180 1,800 600 50,000 $746.,370. Clark Escaped from Lincoln OMclal LINCOLN, March 17.—(Special Telagram.) +—John Clark, a motorlous thief, who stole a large number of sets of harness and several buggies in Omaha the first of the month, was arrested tonight by Detective Ma- lone and Serzeant Denny. Clark came wlong with the officers quietly enough wuntil they arrived at the door of the police etation. Then he suddenly broke away and escapad through an alley. Malone fired five or eix shots at the desperado, none of which is supposed to have taken e The buggies and harness stolen were deposited fn an 2ld house fu a small settlement about six miles out from Omaha, and were recovered through information conveyed to Detective Haze by a woman. Davis dury Still Dellberating. LINCOLN, March 17.—(Special Telegram.) ~The jury in the Davis murder trial hus | now been out thirty hours. Tonight the{ members made arrangements for sleeping | and no verdict is expected before tomorrow | morniug. It s said to stand ten for convic- | tion on the first count of the indictment, | murder In the first degree. The other counts | are murder in the second degree, man- slaughter and train wrecking. o Asks w Dav COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., ) Edith Ball of Cripple Creck di from Samucl Burns, driver, in the county leges that she m ce. arch 17.— | as sued for o | A Boston hack court here. She al- Burns in Hoston and there he proposed marrlage, which was re- fused, On My w0, 184, st alleges (- her complaint, filed in’ court, that he took her to an apartment, und threats, intimi- | dations and use of u revolver forecd her to driuk a diug. When she recovered con- | aiclousuess she was {0 the erypt of @ church, > Burns forced her to go through & viuge ceremony before a so-called min- er. She escaped the next day, and by | advice of friends fled o Colorado. 'She asks {hat' whe socalled marriage bs dissolved, { Burns be enjoined from menacing her and grant her §2,00 damages. | clothes. | Ing was held here of members of the LYNCHERS LET TWO GO FREE One of the Supposed Viotims at Walsen= buig Tams Up Alive, WAS /LMOST DEAD FROM EXPOSURE Gabatto, the Other One Captured at the Same Time, Abandoned Him DBecauso He Could Not Keep Up—No Trace of Gabatto. WALSE Giocabino, {BURG, Colo,, March 17.—Pietro ne of the men supposed to have been killed at Bear creck last Tuesday night, las been found. He was discovered lnst night by some Mexicans about ten miles from the scene of the tragedy. His feet were frozen and he was in a pitiable con- dition from exposure, hunger and fright. The sheriff was notified and this morning took him to Pueblo, where he was placed in jail. Antonfo Gabatto, the other prisoner, has not bemn found, and Pietro does not know where he f&. When Pietro's feet were frozen and he was unable longer to walk Antonio left him. Lorenzo Danino, Francisco Ronchetto and Stanislas Vittone were taken from the undertaker's rooms today to the Catholic church, where mass was performed, after which their bodies were followed to the cemetery by a large number. All the Italians from Rouse and the nelghboring coal camps were present. Concul Cuneo has sent in official testi- mony to the authorities of his government at Ho is now making an in- The consul says he will stay here for a month, if necessary to learn what he wishes. He is making a thorough and exhaustive examination of all the incidents concerned -in the unfortunate affair. He says his government is in no hurry and that everything will be done quietly and in order. It is also certain that he is now making up a report of his own and that it will cover many things not in the official report. Today his secretary, Mr. Alboe, arived from Denver. THREATENS GREENHUT TROUBLE. Will Mako it Warm for Any Ono Tampers With His Papors. NEW YORK, March 17.—The published re- ports of the opening of the safe of the Whisky trust at Peoria by Receivers McNulta and Mitchell have annoyed President Joseph B. Greenhut very much. Mr. Greenhut, when seen by a reporter of the Associated press, said he would make trouble for any one who interfered with his private documents. Pres- ident Greenhut Is confined to his room from an attack of la grippe, which has lasted some four days. Wiien shown the Associated press report from the west as to the opening of his safe by an expert employed by cefvers Mr. Grecnhut made the following statement: “On_Thursday last T received a message from Receiver McNulta asking me to send him the combination of the safe, as the re- ceivers wanted all the papers belonging to the company. 1 sent the following message in reply: “John Message papers belonging to the company contained in =afes have been turned over to Mr. Hug- ging, except minute book and certificate of the ‘company’s charter, of which you have copies. 1 have all my ‘private, personal pa- pers in the safe, therefore do not care to wire combinations. Wil turu safes over to you on my return, ‘To this I have received no reply, nor have I received any information, except what I have learned from the reports published in tho papers. “Now I want to tell you right here,” said Mr. Greenhut vehemently, ““that if any at- tempt has been made to touch my private, personal papers, I shall make it yery hot for some one committing such an outrage. While my private papers contain nothing that I need be ashamed of, or that requires concealment, they are my private property, and no one has any right to meddle with them, I notice the dipsatches say that an important document, viz., the minute or record book of the directors’ meeting, was found in the safe, and that it furnished new light on certain contracts from which the directors and myself profited. The absurdity of this statement will be very apparent when it is remembered that a full copy of this record was made by the receivers early In Febroary, and that a copy has been in their possession ever since, and it was with the express understanding of the receivers that the record book was left in my charge. ““I only express my opinion mildly when I say the reported proceedings in Peoria are unwarrantable and contemptible. 1 am too ill at present to go into further details, but I assure you I will see this matter out to tho bitter end, and any person who has in- vaded my personal rights will be made to sulf Who Recelver, Peoria, 11 As far ks 1 know a McNulta, received. e MEN’S CLUB SEKVICES, Last Evening at St. Mary's Avenue Congre- gutlonal and First Presbyterian, The Men's club of St. Mary’s Avenue Con- gregational church had charge of the evening service last evening, and the auditorium was filled to its full seating capacity, quite & num- ber being compelled to stand. The greater part of the program of the evening was musical, the numbers being supplied by the Dudley Buck Male quartet of Council Blufts, This quartet is composed of I. M. Treynor, C. H Ogden, J. H. Simms and W. L. Thickstun. The three numbers, “The Star of Love” by Dudley Buck, “Rcmember Now Thy Cre- ator” by Dow, and “The Shades of Eve are Closing” by Abt, were rendered finely, the shading, particularly in the last two num- bers, being exquisite. Mr. Treynor sang “There Were Ninety and Nine” by Campion, and Mr, Ogden “Waft Her, Angels” by Han- del, while Mr. Simms officiated as organist, playing *March Religieuse” by Calkins, “Serenade’’ by Taft, and an organ postiude by Tours, Dr. S. Wright Butler, the pastor of the church, made a short talk on the theme “Christ as Pilot.” The Men's club, in the short time it has been organized, has done a great deal to arouso Interest in the church work and services, Similar services were held under the aus pices of the Men's club at the First Prosby- terlan church. The Mozart Male quartet, comprising Fred S, Abel, R. E. Sunderland, J. H. Adams and C. A. Hoffman, sang “Ov Youder'" by Stebbins and “Evening Hymn" by Buck, while M:. Abel made a magnificent impression in a solo, “‘Pardoned,” by Piecolo- mini, The authem “O Jesus, Thou Art Stand- ing" by Shepard was splendidly rendered by the choir. Orgen prelude and postlude re- spectively were prayer from ‘“‘Lohengrin” and chorua from “Holy City.” The topic of the short discourse by Rev. J . McCormick was “How an Empty House i Furnished.” At the conclusion of the services a special meeting of the Men's club was held. - riety Ael t His Wife’s Throat, SAN FRANCISCO, March 17.—Charley Rice, a varlety actor, well known on the Paclfic coast, was found on the street near his lodging house early this morning, v ang @ police whistie. e said that his wite was dead upstairs. Investigation reyealed a horrible sight. The woman's throat had been cut with & razor from ear to ear, her head being all but severed from her body, and the razor hidden under a pile of Rice sald that he left the room for a short time, and on returning found his wife dead. Nelghbors heard the pair quar- reling upon their return from the concert hall where they are employed. As rows between them were of COmMmON Occurrence ho one thought of fnterfering. The womun de- serted_her husband for Rice several years ago. She was known on the stage as Cora Everett, v bloody e Explanation is Not Satisfactory. BLOOMINGTON, 111, March 17.—A meet- nant Mutual Insurance assoclation of Gales- burg, representing $200.000 insurance, The report of the association explaiuin why assessments were doubled wus consid- cred unsatisfact 3 olganglation was formed with ex-Congressman Rowell as president to immedlately make a rigid ex- amination of the affairs of the association, which was originally an exclusively ©dd Fellows coucern, & parts of the union, has wembers in -lll OFFICERS OF THE ELBE UPRELD. Otto Vandersse Declares the Stories Told by Hoftman fad No Foundation in Fact. TOLEDO, 0., March 17.—Otto Vandersee of Munich, one of the survivors of the il fated Eibe, arrived In this city yesterday Vandersee appoars on the list of passengers saved as Fritz Appel, and he carefully avojded giving his real name, either at Lowestoft or New York, Vandersee ran away from his native city in order to escape military duty, and he has been haunted with a fear that he would be captured and sent back to Ger- many, without even the formality of a_trial The young man gives an entirely different version of many of the incidents of the El- be's foundering, and does not hesitate to say that he believes the later stories of the pas- sengers werp colored at the instigation of some one who is desirous of throwing more blame on the Elbe's officers than they de- serve. He is especially severe on Hoffman and says there is not a word of truth in the latter's statement that his wife was ordered away from him just as he was about to enter the boat which saved the survivors. On the contra he says he was playing chess with Hoffman when the accident occurred but that he made his way to the deck alone The boat was launched before Hoffman ca on deck, and it was only by accident t Hoffman himself got into it. He edme on deck, dragging his wife by the arm, when a sudden lurch, given as the ship was settling in the water, pitched Hoffman into the water. in much the manner that Miss Becker was thrown. Another statement that has been discussed, and always to the detriment of the Elbe's officers, is that a division was made of the women’ and_children and the men who were on deck, He states that the accident oc- curred at an hour at which every one would naturally be below, a_few minutes after 6 in the morning. For this reason very few pas- sengers knew of the accident, and he be- lieves the greater part of the drowned were strandad in their berths. The ship settled rapidly, going down entirely within twenty minutes of the time she was struck, and rolled in such a manner that the few who were awake had great difficulty in getting on deck. Vandersce does not think there were more than three or four women on the deck, and one of them was saved. In fact, he says there were less than thirty people on the deck when the ship was sinking. Of those who were saved, Vandersee says nine of the twenty-one were passengers. This, he says, accounts for nearly every passen- ger who was able to get on deck before the sinking of the ship. The published state- ments say that only four passengers were saved. Vandersee accounts for that by say- ing that the steamship company only has its list to rely on in making up its record, while some of the passengers had only taken passage to England and having paid their fares on the hoat were not booked. There is very little doubt that Vandersee iz the man he claims to be, a& his papers and records, both in Lowestoft and New York, are in his possession. He has been carefully ex- amined by Germans familiar with the case, and they have no doubt as to his being the man he claims to be. Vandersee was a stu- dent at the Munich conservatory for twelve years, and talks German, French, Ttalian and Spanish in a scholarly manner, but does not speak English. He avoided newspaper men in New York, and endzavorad to find employ- ment as an instructor of languages. Failing in that he came to this city to join a fellow townsman, and will make his home here. ELKS TRYING I0 K TOGETHER. Large Number Gathered at Chicago In Response to the Omaha Invitation. CHICAGO, March 17.—An effort to adjust the difficulty between the two branches of the Order of Elks will be made at a convention which opens at the Auditorium tomorrow cvening. The convention, or rather confer- ence, s called by the Omaha lodge. It is clalmed that representatives from nearly all of the lodges in the country will be present. The Chicago lodge will not be present, The members of the local lodge adhere to the grand lodge, which met at Atlantic City last June, and ’refuse to. recognize that the Jamestown faction has any right to its con- tention. The difficulty arose over the passage of a resolution at the annual session of the grand lodge at Detroit, in June, 1893, which delegated to a committee the power to fix the time and place for the next annual session. The committee called the grand lodge to meet in Jamestown, and the grand officers called the meeting for Atlantic City. E. B. Hayes of Washington was elected grand ex- alted ruler by the Atlantic City faction and M. H. Friday was elected to the position by the Jamestown faction. Since then the ani- mosity between the two factions has grown stronger and the prospects for a reaffiliation less hopeful. The Omaha lodge has sent to the confer- ence a delegation -consisting of George P. Cronk, C. S. Hatten, William Brandt h M. Bartlett. Mr. Cronk said tonight: “The conference is not called in the interest of any faction. The Omata lodge wants to see the crder reunited. We will enter the confer- ence with no set scheme, no attempt to re- vive the old bitterness, but with an effort to lay aside the differences of the past, drop all the animosity and make an attmept to bring both factions Into harmony. The longer the order remains divided the more hopeless will become the task of reconciliation. The legal aspect of the dispute Is now in the courts and whichever way it is decided will only in- tensify the feeling of the losing faction. We bave secured a general response to our call and 1 expect an attendance of over 100 repre- sentative: What 1s hoped to be accomplished, as stated by Judge E. M. Bartlett of the Omaha delegation is to devise some method of com- promise agrecable to both grand lodges and thefr adherents. The merits and demerits of the pending litigation will not be dis- cussed at this meeting, it being hoped s0 to shape matters that the sults may be dis- missed and cordial relations between the contending grand lodges and their partisans e restored. Neither grand lodge can long exist while members of subordinate lodges are In doubt as to which grand lodge has authority to collect the per capita tax and decline to pay the same. And jt is to pre- vent, if possible, the ultimate disintegration that tomorrow's convention was called. e Towa' nE Statesm Washington Speclal: It is learned here that Hon, James Sullivan Clarkson, at one time of Towa, but now of the United States, thinks that the republican free coinage peo- ple should have a great national organ, He thinks, and has so written to wealthy re- publican silver mine owners, that the Chi- cago Inter Ocean could be purchased, and that it onght to be controlled by the silver clement in the republican party. For sey- ral years it was fashionable here In Wash- nglon, when news was dull, to spread re- ports of Mr. Clarkson being negotlating for a_ great metropolitan pape Of late Mr, Kohlsaat seems to have knocked out Clark- son in that line, but now the former lowan seems to be coming to the front again. Clarkson, it is sald, it as believer in free coinage. 'He has beén in Utah a good deal of late, and, It is suggested, may be in- terested in some silver mines. ' Not long ago I heard it reported that he had everythin arranged to come to the senate from Utah as a free coinuge republican, Now his ideas seem 1o be to control a great free coinage organ at Chicago. Clarkson, it is sald, has nings toward Don Camefon ax n presi- dential candidate. Don could afford o pay the frelght. Clarkson would not object to democratic’ stockholders in his great free coinage organ, and, 1 am told, laid his scheme before Marcis Daly, a Montana mil- lionaire, who acts with the democratic party when It suits him. Clarkson is trying to sion_evidently that a re- more potent an’ powerful than a free coin- age organ undes democratic control. There ure not many here who belleve that his scheme to capture the Inter Ocean will lount to much, and many, in fact, are in- clined to think (hat it will 'end like all the talk about Clarkson's newspaper enterprises have ended during the past four or five years, Came toKansas City and KANSAS CITY, March 17 nin, who gave his reside Ore., was found tonight aimlessiy walking about the railroad yards in Kansas City, KKan. He was taken to toe central station, where it was made appareut by his conver- sation that he was demented.” He said he nad a wife and five children in Portland and had left there seven months agv to transact some business in Kansas City. He could glve no definite account of the nature of his business. The police belleve Minnin is insane and will investigate his case to- morrow. R Mary Perry yne Lald to Resi. CLEVELAND, March 1.—The funeral of Mrs. Mary Perry Payne, wife of ex-Senator H. B. Payne, was held this afternoon from the family residence on Euclid avenue. The services, which were very stmple, were con- ducted by Rev. H. C. Haxden of the First Presbyterian church. The \nterment was in the family lot inLakeview cemetery, | AILSA IS FAIRLY DEFEATED Lost the Rath for the Prinoe of *Monaco's Oup Hhreugh Overconfidence, 1ol BRITANNIA *PARTLY REDEEMS HERSELF Opening Day of the Monaco Regatta Marked by & Tame Contest with a Surp¥ising Result—Dakotah Wins in Her Class. MONTE CARLO, March 17.—~The Monaco regatta opened today and the principal event the rece for the prize offered by the prince of Manaco, was won by the prince of Wales' Britannia, which gave Allsa her first defeat. Britannia’s victory, however, did not create the greatest enthusiasm among impartial yachtsmen, for the reason that it was gained in a poor trial of the qualitics of the re- spective boats, and was partly due to Ailsa holding her opponent too cheaply. The race was for the Prix de Prince Albert I, open to all yachts above twenty tons, The weather was beautifol, but the wind was light and fluky, and this, of course, made an exciting race an fmpossibility, Considerable doubt wsa expressed as to whether Britannia would start in a race on Sunday, owing mainly to the presence of Queen Victoria at Cimez, but this difficulty was overcome by the prince not going on board his yacht. He watched the race from the terrace at Monte Carlo. The conrse, which covered fifteen miles, was in the shape of a triangle. The wind was blowing a light breeze from the south- east when the yachts reached the starting line, where they for some time lazily kept luffing and tacking, waiting for the signal to start. The competitors were, in_addition to Aflsa and Britannia, Corsair and Valkyrie, The first leg was about to windward, and all the racers stood off to the eastward with their starboard tacks pretty close aboard. Aflsa could probably have gotten off sooner had she so desired, but she waited until she could come aronnd in Britannia’s weather. It took Ailsa but a short time to overcome the thirty-one seconds Britannja had gained on the start, and then she had the prince of Wales' cutter broad on her lea beam, blanketing her for a time, and then forged ahead, and continued to gain until she had but two short boards to reach Cape Marin. All interest centered in the leaders, and as Cape Marin was reached it was the general opinion that Aflsa, barring uccldents, was a sure winner, she having not only overcome the Britannia’s thirty-one seconds lead at the start, but gained a lead of two minutes and seven seconds, The Cape Marin turning mark was rounded at these times by the leaders: H.M. S, Ailsa L1228 50 Britanni 30 What little breeze there was began to grow less in_ weight after the yachts stood up for Roque Brune. On this leg the wind was well aft, and once straight on their course, spin- nakers were brought out on both racers, In a short time the breeze freshencd a little, and Britannia was the first to get the benefit of it. As her spinnaker and mainsail filled she shot ahead, and those on the Ailsa began to think that the stern chase was going to be a shorter one than they had expected. Foot by foot, the Britannia overhauled the leader, and soon, despite a luff made by Ailsa, she went to the dront; and rounded the Rogue Brune mark thirty-elght seconds ahead of the Allsa, their respective times being: H. M. Britannia o4y 10 Allsa .. 2 49 48 1t was a short aud easy reach home. Brit- annia continued ‘to gain slowly and at the finish of the first ‘tound she was forty-three seconds to the good. The first round was finished at these times: Britannia 12 56 10 Allsa 12 56 53 On the run ‘up to the Rogue Brune mark the racers had'the wind, which was getting more westerly, well abaft the port beam. Britannia_had luffed out a good bit. Allsa drew to the windward as well and Britannia had luffed up farther and farther. Both kept at it_until they were so far out in the bay that when they headed for the mark they put the wind well enough astern to make a run for it. Spinnakers were again set, and then Britannia began to get through the water quicker than her opponent. Siowly but surely she came along, and in a short time stole into the lead. Rounding the mark the pair were overlapped, Britannia blanketing Aisla. This resulted in the latter having to make a short tack to get around, and in the meantime Britannia_fetched around and reached for home with a good lead. The times of the finish of the second round were: H. M. S Britannia. 1 45 40 Aflsa .. 1 45 48 Thus Britannia won casily, without reckon- ing the time allowed her by Allsa. The actual times occupied in covering the course were: Yachts. H. M. S Britannia . 2 19 00 Allsa . 2 2 34 Valkyrie . 2 41 0 Corsair 2 o 10 Mr. Allen’s ten-rate Dakotah won the race for her class, easily beating the St. Marcal. 8. H. M. 8. COLLEGIATE RECORDS ALLOWED, Committeo Decides to Charge an Entranc ¥en Hereafter, NEW YORK, March 17.—The executive committee of the Intercollegiate Associa- tion of Amateur Athletes held a meeting at the Fifth avenue hotel tonight. The fol- lowing colleglate records were allowed: Two-mile bicycle, 5 minutes, 10 seconds, W. D. Osgood, Unlversity of Pennsylvania, June 4, 1804; one-mile run, 4 minutes, 25 seconds, by G. W. Orton, University of Pennsylvania, May 9, 180, Two hundred and twenty yards low hurdle race, 243 scconds, J. L. Bremer, Harvard, May 12, 1804, The intercollegiate records accepted are: Two mile bicycle race, 5 minutes, 15 & onds, F. W. Sims, Swartmore, May 15, 189 one mile rin, 4 minutes, 2445 seconds, G. 0. Jarvis, Weslyan, May 16, 1584; throwing sixteen-pound hammer, 123 ‘feet, ‘11 inches, W. O, Hickok, May 26, 1801; putiing sixteen und shot, 42 feet, by W. O. Hickok, Yale, May 26, 1864, The committee ag new de- parture, namely entrs Hitherto entry has been free, but a tax of 50 cents for each event will be levied. DETAILS OF DE. RICE-SIM3ONS MATCH, a Greut Race to Be Run on the Fair Grounds Track April 20. ST. LOUIS, March 17.—All the details of the Dr. Rice-Simmons match race have been settled, The race will take place Saturday, April 20, rain or shine. Both Mr. Walsh and Mr. Foster have deposited §750 with the fair grounds. After the race the winner gets back his §750. while: the fair grounds retains the other $760 for teack rental. The winner also takes the entive gate receipts, In addi- tion there Is a side bet. Simmons is to carry 106 and Dr. Riced18pounds. Fred Taral has been engaged to ride Dr. Rice, and in all probability Thogpe will ride the son of Sir Modred. Snapper Gariison has besn enzagad to act as starter. These detalls were ar- ranged by Secretary Gwynne, and will be approved at a_meeting of the board of rac- ing stewards tamerrow or Tuesday. iree other races are £0 be run on the same day. As the races are Lo be run over the fair grounds track ii order to insure that the turf congress regulations are lived up to, the racing stewards will supervise the day's sport. Not in with ho Siiver Party, SANTA FE, N. M., March 17.—A few days since the new. “silver party” addressed a letter to ex-Governor Prince, announcing his selection by the executive committee as a member of the.new party's provisional com- mittee from New Mexico. He has sent reply to Chairman A v the invitation. He says ing very highly this strong faith in the Il|'hu'lplr of bimetallism and for the efforts I have made in its bihalf, 1 do not approve of separate political action at this time. 1 belleve that the duty of the hour is ta educate the people of ihe east on the financial question first.” ————— Grand land's Fire OfMcers. GRAND ISLAND, March 17.—(Special)— The Grand Island Fire department elected the following officers last night: W. R. Me- Allister, president: R. I Hite, chief; Fred Soll, secretary, and Richard Goehriug, treas- urer. A commlittee of eleven was also ap- pointed to provide funds for the entertain- ment of visitors at the next annuii con- vention of the state assoclation, to be held in this city In January uext. “While appr recognition of my | wail like | spring concealed | the log, HID IN HER CABIN WALL. How Julla Pritchard, the Contedernte Spy, Eludad Parsuers In Arkansas There 1s & two-story log house about eight miles trom Batesville, Ark,, on White river, which has a history. The house is now “sealed” so that the rough log exterior is hidden behind very ordinary looking weather boarding. This fs the home of Julia Pritchard, who was famous during the war as a female confederate spy. She did val- uable service for the confederacy, and was long and often sought by federal troops. She was never captured. When 1 passed through Batesville, says a writer in the Philadelphia Item, 1 heard of Mrs. Pritchard, and de- termined to visit her. The door was opened to me by a tall, angular woman, with black hair and a pair of eyes to match. She was so quiet in her demeanor that I was sur- prised when she told me that she was Julia Pritchard took me through the house and talked entertainingly of her work as a spy. In an upper room she showed me the socret that kept her from ng captured during the whole of the war. She pointed out what to all appsarances was a log in the all the rest. When she touched a ingenfously in the back of the log moved out and showed a snug opening just large enough for a person to lie in and move about enough to keep from bocoming cramped. “I remember well one time in particular when th d me from the federal troops,” ald she. “1 had been down to the spring yonder getting a pail of water when I saw a troop of blue-coated soldiers galloping toward me from across the river. I knew they were after me, so 1 dropped my pail and broke for the house. I ran and, climb- ing upstairs, got into this hiding place and pulled the log shut. I lay there quietly and soon heard the heavy clanking step of the scldiers as they stamped about down stairs searching for me. They turned the furniture over and broke everything in sight. I could hear them swear as they vainly sought for me. Then they came upstairs, and as they looked in every concefvable place they made the air blue with their curses. ‘She is here, 1 know,’ said one who must have been the captain. ‘I saw her come in.' There was no doubt about this, as all testified to seeing me come into the house. I heard one sug- gest that the house be burned down. They were sure that would bring me out of my hiding place. I felt a chill pass over me, but lay quiet, feeling that some means of es- cape would be thrown in my way, The sug- gestion seemed to be a good one, for all hurs ried out of the house to get fire brands. While they were out I hastily got out of this place and climbed up the big chimney there. “I came out on the roof all right. The soldiers were by this time in the house again, but seemed loath to set the house afire. All this gained me time. I hastily scram- bled down the side of the house and, going to the stable, saddled and bridled my horse. I got on him as quick as I could and dashed out of the stable and toward the river. 1 knew I was safe, for there wasn't a horse in the south that could catch Nero. Just as I reached the bank of the river one of the soldiers looked out of the window and saw me. He yelled, but it was a joke to me them. I threw up my hand and told them to follow if they wanted to. Nero plunged Into the river and carried me safely across. The soldlers mounted their horses without delay, but they had ridden all day and were no match for Nero. He carried me to friends and a place of safety, else T might not be here today to tell you this.” 5 —-— SAM BROWN’S FIRST KILLING A Nevada Desporado Whose Career of Crime Wax Etarted by a Bully. “At my first meeting with Sam Brown, the famous desperado, he did me the honor that few men would care to receive,” said Wash Parker, an old time Nevadan, to the New York Sun. ‘‘He invited himsell to be my traveling companion on a two days’ wagon journey. I was starting out one morning with a wagon and a pair of horses from a little mining setlement known then as Gold- crop. As I came opposite the hotel a large man standing on the veranda hailed me and asked if I was going to Virginia City. I answered yes, and he said: *I reckon I'll go along with you.’ 'm Sam Brown,’ he added. ‘Maybe you don’t have much confidence in me since hear- in’ my name, but I reckon we'll travel along together all right.” “\Vell, there wasn’t anything to be said but ‘All right; jump aboard, and Sam Brown, with a carpet bag in his hand and his pistols bulging under his coat, came out to the wagon and took his seat beside me. He proved a clvil enough_companion, and we got through to Virginia City all right, with nobody killed on the way. He had taken along a bottle of prepared cocktails, and I had a box of cigars, s0 that the time passed rather soclably as we mado our journey together. “We went into camp that night at Sandy Springs about half way t Virginia City, and in the course of the evening he told me some- thing of his life and adventures. One thing in particular that I remember was the way he came to start out on his career of killing. I don't recall whether it was in Texas or Mis- souri that this first affair happened, but it was when he was & hulking young fellow, green and chicken-hearted, to use his own words in telling it. There a certain gambler in a town where he was staying who used to bully and abuse him when they came together, everywhere and whenever the gam- bler saw him in a =aloon he would kick him about and drive him out of the place. One day a man unfriendly to this gambler said to Sam: “‘Why do vou stand all this abuse from that gambler? Take this pistol and the next time he crowds you, kill him.’ “Sam took the advice and the pistol and the mext time the gambler went for him, in stead of sneaking away and looking sorry he shot his tormentor dead. After he had thus wot his hand in, killing men came easy to Sam and he made a long score before his own timo_came. “Though, as T sald, we made our journey together all right, I knew it would take too little to set things to going all wrong for me to thoroughly enjoy Sam Brown's society. I wasn't sorry to set him down at the Prim- aventura saloon in Virginia City, where we took a drink together, shook hands, and went our different way: —_—— DONE FOR REVENUE ONLY. And the Chinnman Justified His fiypocrivy by Clting American Examples. The “ways that are dark and tricks that are vain” of the “heathen Chinee” are mot exemplified alone in famillarity with the re- sources of the card sharper's trade. 1 will acknowledge that my determination to employ Hop Sing as my laundryman, says a writer in the New York Herald, was largely {nfluenced by the fact that conspicuously displayed about his little shop were sundry Chbristian mottoes, such as “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord;” “He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord;" “God bless our home,” and so on, From this I Inferred that Hop Sing was a brand plucked from the burning. I grew to quite like the fellow, and often had occasion to reproach myself that I fell so far short of his standard of imperturbable good nature and untiring in- dustry. 1 never doubted the sincerity of his conversion until the other day, when happening to drop in with my weekly bundle of collars and cuffs for the wash I found him tacking up some chromos uf sacred pictures, “Why, Hop," T said, delighted, “if thing goes on you will soon be holding a Sunday school class of your own here." 1 thought for a moment that I detected Hop In the act of winking his other eve at mpanion, but 1 was probably mistaken ‘No,” he replied, with an expression of infantile candor, ‘me no teachee Sunday schoolee; me makee tlade goom.” “Why," I said, when I comprehended him sufficiently to take in the purport of his answer, 'do you mean to say that you put hese things simply (o attract customers?'’ Alle same likee Melican man," plicd, with a grin; “allee same. man takee Chinaman's joss signs, put ‘em on tings, make um sell; make 'em tink Chinaman make um. Why for not China- man putte Melican man’s joss signs round shop; makee Melican ‘man feel good; makee Melican man give Chinaman work?" I knew that Hop Sing was guilly of gross uypocrisy, but for the life of me I could not think of enything to say that would con- vince him of the heinousness of his offense. And though I have lost confidence in him, I still let Llm wash wy collars and cuffs, he re- Melican DECISION EXPECTED ~ S00N Oakland Water Front Oase Now Under Advisement by the Supreme Court, SCME NICE POINTS OF LAW INVOLVID Future of the City of Oakland Largely Dependent Upon (he Outcome of the Case—~Railrond Company Claims Tts Title is Perfect. WASHINGTON, March 17.—There are reasons for believing that the supreme court will soon render its opinion in the Oakland, Cal, water front case. The title of this suit is the state of California against the Southern Pacific Raflroad company, and the title the two principal parties to the contest, though the city of Oaklind has also been permitted to appear in it, for the protection of its Interests. The case in- volves the title to about 8,000 acres of land, supposed, with its improvements, to be worth soveral million dollars, and its adjudication will involve several nice points of law, among which will be the right of a state to dispose of its domain except for public uses and for a city to sell property acquired from a state on trust, and also possibly some con struction of the terms of the original grant of the land embraced in the state of California to the United States by Mexico. When the town of Oakland was Incorporated the entire water front was granted to the town, and it was afterward sold or leased (it is a question of dispute which) to one Horace W. Carpen- tier, on condition that he build wharves, and this he did, afterwards selling the water front to the Southern Pacific Rallway com- pany, which now occuples the land, and, it is represented by the state, refuses to allow its use to any one else. The effort on the part of the state and the city is to have this title declared void. The railroad company maintalns the validity of its title and also sets up that there was an amicable settle- ment of this entire question between the railroad people and the city in 1864, Re- ferring to this statement, Senator Stewart, who appears for the company, says it was en- tirely satisfactory to the people of Oakland at the time “and remained so until the wave of sand lot politics swept over the state and filled the offices of the municipality with per- sons willing to take all that other people had and surrender nothing which they them- selves had.” OFFENSE indicatos WILL NOT BE REPEATED. Spanish Gunhoats Will Be a Little More Careful in the Futuro. WASHINGTON, D. C.,, March State department has received a dispatch from Minister Taylor at Madrid. The Spanish government has given assurance 4o the United States that there will be no repetition of such offenses as the firing upon the mail steamer Allianca. The reply of the Spanish govern- ment is couched in courteous and temperatc phrases and expressed the determination of Spain to avoid further cause of complaint on the part of the American government. As to the attempted detention of the Allianca the Spanish minister of foreign affairs says he is as yet without information, and adds that as scon as he shall have received a report from the captain general of Cuba concerning that incident a reply will be made to the demand made in Secretary Gresham'’s telogram. While the officials of the State department are unwilling to say anything whatever con- cerning the contents of Minister Taylor's cablegram it is believed the foregoing is a fairly accurate interpretation of the dispatch. It will be noted that the Spanish government promptly complies with one of the most im- portant of Secretary Gresham's demands, which was for “immediate assurance” that the war vessels patrolling Cuban waters should not give further offense in the manner complained of in the Allianca affair. As to the other demand made by Secretary Gres- ham that the Spanish government should promptly express its regrets for the attempted detention of the Allianca, Minister Taylor re- sponds, stating the willingness of the Madrid government to respond thereto in due time should the facts on investigation prove to be in accordance with the representations made by the United States, 17.—The INCIDENT CLOSED FOK THE PRESENT. Itallan Government Satisfied with Efforts to Punish the Lynchers, WASHINGTON, March 17.—Expressions of satisfaction have been made by the Italian government at the steps taken by the Colo- rado authorities for the apprehension of the murderers of the Italians at Walsenburg, and the diplomatic incident occasioned thereby is regarded as closed for the present. That satisfaction exists is shown by the telegram which was sent yesterday by As- sistant Secretary of State Ubl to Governor McIntyre of Colorado. In this telegram Mr. Ul sets forth the expression of appreciation manifested on the part of Baron Fava, the Italian ambassador here, and of his govern- ment and of the federal government at the cfforts of the state authorities to arrest the guilty parties. Today the assistant secretary reccived a reply from Governor McIntyre, in which that official said that the district’ attorney told him that he would use every means to se- cure the arrest and conviction of those who were guilty. The governor said also that he had issued a proclamation offering a reward of $1,000 (the limit under the statutes of the state) for the apprehension and conviction of the guilty partie AND DOMESTIC D. the BY DRINK ORD, Carpenter Clark Crazed to the Extent of Cutting His Wife's and 1is Own Thronts. DES MOINES, March 17.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Last evening a carpenter named B, T, Clark attempted to kill his wife and him- self at their home at First and School streets, Whilo the woman and her 10-year- 1d son were at supper the man, who is her ond husband, came in and sald he had ome to bid her goodby for the last time, With this he drew a razor and began slash- ing at her throat, cutting four deep gashes in her neck and face. She now lies in a critical condition and her recovery is doubt- ful. Clark then disappeared and went t boarding house at Seventh and Mulberry streets, where he appeared before the land- lady with a great gash in his throat and told what he had done, saying he was going to finish the job. He returned to the street and roamed about, leaving a trail of blood, and was arrested’ early this morning and lodged in jail. He is not dangerously hurt Drunkennéss and domestic discord are giver as the causes of the tragedy. Juck Kerry's Lutest Killing. SIOUX I March 17.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—Jack Kerry, a gambler of local re- nown, has recelved notice that by the death of his father he falls heir to an estate of 160,000 in Areland. He ran away from home fourteen years ago because = his parents wanted him to marry against his wishes. He enlisted in the ular army as soon as he reached New York and was sent west He has been a gambler several years and Is @ high roller. He left for Ireland the same day e was notified of having come into his propert Beecham's pills are for bilious. ness, bilious headache, dyspep. sia, heartburn, torpid liver,diz- ziness, sick headache, bad taste in the mouth, coated tongue, loss of appetite sallow skin,etc,, when caused by constipation ; THE AMERICAN PLOW. An ITmproved Implement Needed on the Trairios. Secretary Morton declares that the plow used by the American farmer is a humbug and an enemy to fertility. Sald the secretary to a correspondent of the Chicago Recors “We have improved our plows less than any other implement men uses. The plow used in Nebraska and other stoneless solls impacks every furrow It passes over and ren- ders it as fmpervious to rainfall as possible, The draft of a plow 1s downward to such an oxtent that the full force of the team's strength is exhausted In pressing the bottom of the furrow into a polished trough for the conduction of rain down the side hills. We must have some method of tillage which shall stir up the sofl and subsoil to the depth of clghteen inches and more. If it were possls blo to loosen the soil and subsoil down for three feet all over the state of Nebraska, we could then, with an annual rainfall of twenty inches, make abundant and profitable crops. Until deep plowing—through subsofl tillage~= becomes universal in that commonwealth there will be, year In and year out, no cer- tainty of remunerative crops. Prof. Shaler of Harvard estimates that the present ineficient and fll-resulting meth= ods of plowing, especially upon undulating lands, cost the farmers of the United States 250 square miles of sofl each year by erosion. Bverywhere in Nebraska where torrential rainfalls are so frequent the side hills mutely verify Prof. Shaler’s theory as to the annual waste of washed lands, “This Is a matter of such vast importance that 1 have asked Chancelior Canfleld of the University of Nebraska to bring it before the 1,600 students in that institution and ask them to try to think out a new implement of agriculture which ehall supersede the plow. It is a subject upon which the fn- ventive minds of educated farmers should be concentrated. A proper solution of the difii= culty will facilitate subsoil tillage and at tho same time save both the crops and the soll. In my judgment the coming implement should spade the land and turn it over, as a man who pushes the spade with his foot into th ground and drawing the spade out turns the soll upside down by the twist of his wrists. Possibly a rotary spader could be invented. Possibly an implement consisting of a large number of revolving knives could be made 80 that in passing over the surface of thefeld it shall chop up the sofl and subsoil for two feat in such a manner as to render the perco- lation of the rainfall down to the depth to which the ground has been stirred very easy and perfect. i SR M A PROFITABLE BARGAIN. A Man Invests $100 a Claim and Maken n Fortune Out of It The history of gold mining in California, says the San Franclsco Chronicle, is full of instances where abandoned claims have sub- sequently ylelded a rich return and where shafts sunk as far as capital would permit have afterward made rich fortunes for most fortunate capitalists. The stories told about such experlences in the Comstock and other famous mines are as household words in mining circles, and there Are occasional anecdotes in connection with less historical enterprises. One story relates to the casual visit of John Jillson to Siskiyou county years ago in search of a recreant debtor who owed him $500. Times were hard and Jillson, whe he found his man, accepted $200 ‘“‘on account” and started home again. ““What 1s land worth here?"’ asked Jillson. Not much of anything,” was the reply. But you fellows seem to like it,"” persisted Jillson. “Only because we can’t get away."” “What will you take for your claim?" asked Jillson. “‘One hundred dollars cash.” ““Done,” sald Jillson, going down into his pocket. The price was paid, a deed given, the sellers walked away, the buyer took off his coat and went to work. The next day he struck ft rich and in a month cleaned up $13,000. S e Two of a Kind, J. L. 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