Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1895, Page 9

THE OMAHA DAILY BE "ABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, WEDNES e DAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1895—TWELVE PAGE SINGLE COPrY FIVE CEN] = ] LLINER visiting through the Lvery not fail lady to look Department of the Boston Stol are showing 200 imported Patt and thousands of Trimmes trimmed in our own work 1 are on sale at prices from $18. to v8e. Omaha We take care of should Milline We o llu'"'l" Grounds Free ot (| ats, o, and .00 down Charge. 50 Grand S Gra Y- Cloaks, Baby at the Fair your BICYCLES Trained Nurges in Attendance FREE. BOSTO Bargains in Dress Goods. Thousands of unmade dress patterns, each pattern containing 7 yards of strictly all wool Novelty Dress Goods, Serges, Henriettas, Dress Flannels, plain and fancys, checks and stripes; all new, fresh goods and worth He a yard, go on bargain suare, just as you enter tlie main door, at $1 each. 500 dress patterns of 114 yards wide Novelty Boucles, in mixtures, imported broadcloths, in black and all fall color- ings, fancy weaves in imported all wool dress goods. These gouds are worth up to $1.00 o yard, and go in full dress patterns on bargain square for $2. entire pattern. BLACK GOODS In onr Dross Goods Dept. 50 pieces of strictly all wool Black Dress ods, in novelty weaves, 44 inches wide, worth up to G9c¢ a yard, on sale at 3 The greatest assortment of new, fresh and stylish Black Dr Goods ever shown in Omaha. Sicilian mohairs, fmported French serges and henriettas, erepons and Jacuards, goods worth up to $2.50 a yard, go on sale in our dress goods department at 50c, and 98¢ a yard. Colored and Novelty “orn: Dress Goods. The handsomest line of new. fresh Dress Goods, our new importation in silk and wool weaves, plain colors, checks and stripes, go at special pric for SHIRTWAISTS for hot weather, Our stock. of » o $1.50 entire Waists that we laundered cuffs and colla dered Shirt Walsts with colly ruflled or embroidered, in fancy pereales or plain white. The coolest thing to wear to {he fair grounds, go at 89%¢ and H0¢ each. new, ch, Shirt with or laun- large sailor B e S — 1000 dozen TREFOUSSE WHITE CHAMOIS CLOVES, Worth $1.25 These became slightly wet on coming across the ocean, but as they are chamois and washable they are not hurt. They are a big bargain, THE ENTIRE STOCK CARPETS Of the late J. W. Dimick Sold by the Trustees ON SALE NOW Best quality extra super all wool Ingrain Carpets, worth 75 a yard, go at 35c. Latest patterns beautiful Wilton Velvet Carpets, worth $1.50 a yard, go at 75c. Moquette, Velvet, Oriental and Wilton Rugs, $1.50, $2.50, $3.50 each, worth $10. Elegant Brussels Carpets, worth 90c a yard, 8o at 49c. Blegant Moquette Carpets, worth $1.25 a yard, go at 69c. with - borders, Best« quality Linoleum, go at 39¢ and 49¢ per square yard, Best quality Body Brussels Carpets, with borders to match, worth §1.50 a yard, go at 750, Very finest Royal Wilton Carpef , with urs, RANDEST SALE IN OMAHA GRANDEST BARGAINS IN NEW FRESH GOODS, pecial Bargain Counters This Week. nd Opening Sale. Millinery. BALLOONS GIVING AWAY |[FOR THE CHILDREN Pretty Art Souvenirs Given Away Free FREE. N. W. Corner 16th & Douglas, OMAHA. i{Grand Opening Sale. Fall and Winter Style.. BOYS CLOTHING 2,000 Boys' Suits, in years, worth $3.00, go at $1.35 3200 BOYS SUITS In sizes 4 to 14, wortl n": 6. $7.50, go sizes 4 to 14 borders to mateh, worth $2.50 a yar $1.50. Fine English Kidderminster Carpets, worth 90c a yard, go at 49c. Best Oil Cloth go at 25c per square yard. go at SOUVENIRS to Customers Men’s Furnishings 20¢ 90c 25¢ Worth 75¢ All Men’s High b Grade White and Colored Laun- c dered Shirts.... \ Worth up to $1.50 All Men'’s 75¢ Winter and Summer Underwear. ..., Men’s Highest Grade, strictly All Wool $1.25 Underwear..... All Men's Sum- mer Negligee Shirts, light and dark colors .... Grand Opening Fall Style 200 garments imported from Mue rope. Thousands of the best in New York and the entire stock of the bankrupt Novelty Cloak Co. e e e = e CAPES TTACK ALL In novelty clothe, boucles, plushes, g JRE A pouct {rakhancail claborately tAmmed and exs e m:u‘? “i"" Fipening salemt tra lar sweep—all lined throughout ¥ Like above with fancy eilk. 4,98 25 $35 $50 =ST0O $60,000 worth finest and best Shoes made in America, all new styles, for Men, Ladies, Boys and Misses AT iy Hall P SPECIALTIES, /it The Twentieth Century Shoe, I The Ak-Sar-Ben Shoe, wt The Chicago Shoe. And Satin Slippers to match any dress. BOSTON STORE Continuing the Greatest Bankrupt Hat and Cap Sale For Men and Boys ever held in Omaha. 120,000 AT ONE-FORTH THEIR REAL VALUE 5 25¢ 35¢ 49¢ 98¢ $1,49 Boys' Hats and Caps, 5e; worth 25c. Boys' Hats and Caps, 25 3 worth 50e, Boys' Hats and Caps, 86c; worth T6e. Boys' Hats and Caps, 49¢; worth $1.50. Men's Hats go 98c and $1.49, in three great lots, 590, Among these will be fourd all the latest styles in derby, Fedora, rafle road and planter shapes, and worth up te $4.00. DID NOT AGREE WITH SCOTT Supreme Court Decides the Percival Uon- tempt Case, CRIMINAL JUDGE IS RZVERSED AGAIN Holding that the Publication Com- plained of Did Not Refer to the Court or Its Officers as Stated in the Complaint. LINCOLN, Sept. 17.—(Special Telegram.)— The supreme court yesterday morning filed a declsion in the case of W. D, Perclval, plaintift in error, against the State of Nebraska, re- versing the judgment of the district court ot Douglas county and discharging the plaintiff in error. The supreme court holds that the article published In The Omaha Evening Bee of March 9, 1894, upon which the contempt of court case was founded, was not libellous per 5o, ag only by innuendo could it be con- strued as ettacking the veracity of Judge Cunningham R. Scott. Tho court says: “The language of the portion of the article proved or admitted by the plaintift in error to be his production cannot be sald upon Its face and without an innuendo to apply or refer to the court proper, or its officers, or to jurors or witnesses, or to one more than another, or to be libelous per se, or that it elearly charges, as is stated in the complaint, that the court was corrupt or influenced by corrupt motives, or to so charge with reference to any one more than another. It cannot be said upon its face to refer to any case pending at the time it was written aud published, or to any designated case. The phrase “possessed of & pull,’ s to speak strictly, without an intelligible mean- ing and s in any event so doubtful and un- certain that it cannot be applied as imputing that the court was corrupt as is claimed in the complaing Wwith any greater certainty than it may be sald to refer to some other person or persons or to actions or motives erroneous and improper, but not corrupt.” The decision was written by Justice Harri- son. HISTORY OF THE CASE. Detalls of What Brought About the Detent of Scott. During the early spring of 1893 a large quantity of fugar was stolen from the cars and warchouse of the Burlington road. De- tectives traced tha theft to T. F. Jardive, a man who operated & city express company, and George jth, his employe. Both men weto arrested and held to the district court, ¢ they pleaded not gullty. The case called, and they demanded separate trials Smith was tried before Judge Keysor, co wvicted and sentenced to a te of five years in the penitentiary, The case sgalnst Jardine, the principal, was continued until March §, 1594, when he went before Judge Scott, with- own testimony and that of a reporter on the World-Herald, Scott adjudged Percival guilty of contempt, fining him the sum of $50 and costs, the order being that he stand com- mitted until the fine and costs were paid. Not being disposed-to/part with this sum of money, Percival went to jailr where he re- mained for the spAGE O 81X hours, and until the supreme court could order him ‘released. This drag net secfor the reporter was in- tended to catch other fish, and it did, too. Having disposed of Percival, Scott ordered a warrant for the arrest of Edward Rose- water, editor of The Bee, and had that gentle- man ‘cailed into court, charging him with being responsible for the pubiication of the Jardine article. Mr. Rosewater tried to show that he knew nothing abeut the publication of the article until he read it in the paper, but that made no difference to Scott. The court would listen to nothing,/and before the argu- ments were completed he passed a commit- ment over to hisjstenggrapher, finding Mr. Rosewater guilty, (fining him $500, and sen- tencing him ta thirty’ days in the county jall. Without allowing: him to appeal, Mr. Rosewater ordged| hustled away to ja where he was aloWelito remain until at- torneys could reach a judge of the supreme court, who upon the showing entered an or- der for a release. The case went tp:th supreme court, Percl- val showing that he had not had a fair and impartial trial and nlle&‘ g that there was no contempt in the published account of the pro- ceeding. 3 That portion of' fhe Rccount which Scott took exceptions to-74ad.as follows: *‘Persons who were around thié cFiminal section of the district court yesterday afternoon witnessed a striking fllustration of %hat it is to be pos- sessed of a pull. Théke same persons were also given an iHustratlen of how easy it is for & man to keep eut-of the penitentfary if the pull is worked for all that it is worth.” i REBELS COMPELLED 10 RETRE A Sade an Attack on the Jenfugos. HAVANA, Sept: 17.=0Official dispatches re- celvedhero give an qqcount of a sharp en- gagement at Arimaofifiear Clenfugos. Tho village was attacked: by(& considerable band of insurgents, but the loyalists offered so stubborn a resistance that the attacking party were obliged to retreat, leaving three of their number den Twenty-six Insurgents bave surrendered to the authorities at Remdl The rallroad bridge at fugos, has been by n%‘ party which execuf§d eight. » Rafael Arce, one of the insurgent leaders, of Village Albino, near Cien- by insurgents, the e work numbering was wounded in a skirmish with Spanish troops near Las Lajas, province of Santa Clara. The mayor of Anibal reports an enzage- ment with Insurgen in Puernlo Telegrafo in the judicial district of Sagua La Grande, in which the loss of the insurgents was five killed and fifteen wounded. Armed bands ‘continua to commit depredations in this sectlon. . * The column of ‘General Mela has returned to Puerto Principe after an-absence of eight days, General Mela reports that he had soveral brisk skirmishes with the insurgents, but that he could not force them iato an en- gagement, relwn Noudholdegs for Foreclosure drew his plea of not guilty, and entered a plea of gullty, This plea was accepted, and Jardine was released on bonds, to appear at the September term of court. Upon the open- lug of the September term of court Jardine agaln appeared before Judge Scott, and the imposing of the sentence was poustponed for one year, Al The had before Scott. Percl _have gleaned the information, was arrested rdine had been released, March 8, Bee gave publioity to the proceedings The unext day W. D. , the reporter who was supposed to wuu'umr;:- ror- oo COLOGNE, Sept. t a meeting of the Frankfort and Am r‘ committees of Atlantic & Pacific olders today it was ony with the New ew the applieation decided to act in Bty York committee andsy tor the appointment of a speclal recelver- ship in November, umte the committee complaints shall be satisfacto- in the meantime rily met. It was Also decided to press for- ward foreclosure proceedings in order to obtain possession of the line, and at the same time take action with a view to estab- lshing connections of the Atlantio & Pacifie with other rallway lines. No Clemency N, Sept. 17, BRRLTY i v Mr. Stein, r. Theodore Runyon, amb or to Germany, has to the district at- tenced to four months’ {mprisonment at Neurembourg for insulting Baron Thuenjen, royal commissioner of the bath and a ciate justice in Kissingen. Mr. Runyon has been informed that the sentence of the court must be sustained. e Snid to Be Enlisting Filibuste ST. LOUIS, Sept. 17.—For more than a week a Cuban, giving the name of Semor Enrique Morena, has been in this city for the purpose, it s said, of enlisting men for service in the Cuban rebellion. He ap- proached Buck - Taylor, the western scout and ranger, who is in the clty, and made a cash offer {o him to equip a band of rangers to go to Cuba and fight against Spain's army. When question by a reporter, Buck Taylor sald: “I have got a contract now to fur- nish a lot of men for Texas ranches, and if, after they get there, these men want to go to Cuba and fight, there is no way I could prevent it. After they reach Texas I have no further control of them. Already I have so0 many applications for enlistment that I had to leave the exposition yesterday to avold them.” L Fatal Rexults from a Kerosene Fire. CLEVELAND, Sept. 17. lan, living at 2054 Eli street, was fatally burned today and her Infant son, Henry, was burned to death. The mother tried to start a fire with kerosene, pouring the fluid from a can into the stove. A ter- rific explosion followed, and almost in an in- stant she was enveloped in flames. ‘She suc- ceeded in getting out of the house with one child, Willie, who was also severely burned. Henry was dead when found and Mrs. Nolan will die. Several neighbors were badly burned in attempting to rescue him. The house was entirely consumed _———— xecuted Stokes Followers LONDON, Sept. 17.—The Daily Felegraph this morning publishes a telegram dated Uganda, September 5, which states that 100 of Stokes' followers were shot by Belgian troops after Stokes had been executed. Stokes, it will be remembered, is the Eng- lishman who was hung by the Belgians for alleged participation in the slave trade and whose execution has since formed the sub- ject of negotiations between the British goy- ernment and Belgium. et Expect Another Bond Issue. LONDON, Sept. 17.—The Standard’s finan- clal article this morning says: President Cleveland is not likely to let gold'go to a premium in New York during his administra- tion If a few sales of government bonds can prevent it. So when the bond syndicate has loaded up we shall have another season of its soothing mixture, e « Pnper Mills Start Agaln. APPLETON, Wis,, Sept. 17.—All the paper mills at Appleton started up today and sev- eral hundred men who have been out of employment for four months are agaln-em- ployed. An immediate improvement will be “felt in all business circles throughout the valley, which have been much depressed since the shutoff T Gunhoats Go Up Chinese Rivers. FOO CHOW, Sept. 17.—It having been re- ported to the Chinese officials at Ku Cheng were not pushing the inquiry into the massa- cre of missionaries on August 1, with the zeal that the occasion demands, two foreign gun- boats are said to hu;e been dipatched up the the river to str up activity, ——— Secured a Jury Las KENOSHA, Wis,, Sept. 17.—A jury has at last been secured in the Kenosha arson case and the trial is now in progress. The court room is filled to suffocation and many were not able to galn admittanc Insurance men from all over the United Stal are Inter- ested In the outcome of the =: ponimnns fsdlil Accedes to the Dem ST, PETERSBURG, Sept. 17.—From a good source it is learned the Porte has accepted officlals to greater the of the powers with to l?l regard to re- TREASURY HOLDING IT OWN Deposits and Withdrawals of Gold Balance Each Other. GENEROUS OFFERS thi THE WEST Stiffening of Ratenw of Exchango Likely to Stop the Qutflow=—All Talk of a Bond Issde Aban- doned in Ofiicial Clr ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Reports to the Treasury department shows $260,000 in gold was withdrawn today from the subtreasury at New York for export, and that $250,000 in gold was deposited by a Rochester bank which offsets the withdrawals, leaving the true amount of the reserve at the close of business $95,382,628. Under normal condi- tions, the treasury gains some gold every day, banks in all of the subtreasury cities prefer to exchange for notes any small amount of gold they may take in over theirr counters, and especially if their coln reserve is in no need of replenishing. During the last few weeks the aggregate of ‘these deposits has been considerable, the offers of large amounts, however, have not been plentiful, except when accompanied by cofiditions, the department could not accept. Several offers of small amounts have been lately made, with the stipulation that the department pay expresage both ways, but as there s no appropriation for these purposes, these offers have been de- clined . It was said at the department the most generous offers of gold nearly always come from the banks of Chicag. and St. Louls, and when gold is scarcest, these banks always come forward and express a willingness to help out. At New York to $436,000 in large United States notes were deposited in exchange for small notes to be shipped to a number of points north, south tnd west These exchanges are recelved with satisf: tlon at the department as they reduce the supply of cash which In time, It 18 argued, is sure to result in a stiffening of the rates of interest, and incidentally in a cessation of the withdrawals of gold for foreign invest- ment. The talk of an early bond issue has practi- cally died out here, the opinign emong of- ficials being that while President Cleveland will protect the natiopal credit when in danger by any means within his power, the present situation is notsuch as to call for any action on his part., Those persons best qualified to speak on the subject say an- other bond issue is mot now within the probabilities. e ——— Cut Down the Maffilhpum Insurance. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 17.—The amendment to the constitution of the supreme lodge, Kuights and Ladles' of Honor, which was proposed by Dr. Witherill, barring from thg soclety as hazardous oceupation bartendersy railroad men, electric lingmen, etc., was lost on a final vote. While a majority were in favor of its pasaage, there were not two- thirds of those present veting in its favor. An amendment was passed decreasing the maximum _ amount of iggurence obtainable from $3,000 to $2,000. The question of selecting & new ritual for the supreme lodge was referred back to the committee on the of.the order for fur- ther investigation. —————— Ticket Agents' Convention Opemed. BOSTON, Sept. 17.—Representatives from every section of the United $tates assembled in the large banquet hall et Hotel Vendome today, being presént to attend the opening of the fortieth semi-annual convention of the American Assoclation of Geperal Passenger and Ticket Ageats. President Willlim Dav- Idson called the convention er. 1 After the reading of by Sec- - % retary Smith and the transaction of routine business, it was voted to hold the next con- vention in Richmond, Va,, on the third Tues- day in March 1896, A short recess was taken. e — TO MAKE S0 PROPOS! CHANGES Sovereign Grand Lodge lows Not Ready to Consid ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., €ept. 1 erelgn grand lodge, Independent Ordir 0dd | Fellows, met this morning at 9 o’clock. The grand sire appointed the following special committee on buildings ah@ghalls: J. Otis | Humphrey, Illinois; 8. T. %uns. Missouri; Alfred S. Pinkerton, Mas:Rghusetts; A. C. Cable, Ohlo, and Francis N:' Rea, Pennsyl- vania. The duty of the committee is to re- port the condition of buildings and halls, Lewis Van Norden, representa‘ive from Ohlo, uttempted to have a radical change made in the secrét ‘Work of the order. He ofered a resolution” that a universal pass- word and grip be adopted for the initiatory degree in subord'nate and Rebekah lodges; that a committee of three past grand sires be appointed to formulate the password and grip. Objection was made and the resoution was referred to the proper committees. Res- olutions bearing on the same subject were introduced by Pennsylvania and Indiana rep- resentatives, but they, too, were referred to the proper committee, The Arkansas delegation is making a strong effort to secure the next session of the rov- ereign lodge for Hot Springs. A resolution to this effect was offered, but it was laid over until Thursday morning at 9 o'clock The grand srie appoluted Colonel M, F. Dowd, editor of the O1d Fellows' Souvenir of St. Louis, official report of th's session. A number of appeals came up from grand lodges in New York, Colorado, California, Ins diana, Massachusetts and British Columb'a, but in all cises tho recommendations of the committees were approved. —— RY DIVORCE of oaa ¥ r The —The sov- | MRS, 9 LAN SUIT, ers Finally Filed Charging Her Husband with Desertion. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17.—Mrs, Emille Charlotte Langtry will today, through her attorneys, Dunn & McPike, says the Exam- | iner, file an actlon for divorce from her hus- band, Edward Langtry, in the superfor court of Lake county, where the famous Jersey Lily has considerable property. Her grounds for’ divorce from Mr. Langtry are specified as desertion and fallure to provide for his | wife and daughter, a girl of 14 years. The complaint further 'alleges that there is no community of property, and requests that the custody of the child, Jeanne, be awarded to the mother, It s understood that there will be no contest. Several days ago dispatches from New York announced that the firm of Howe & Hummell of that city had malled to Dunn & McPike papers to be filed {n court asking for a divorce on behalf of the Jersey Lily. When seen upon the subject, Messrs. Dunn & Me- Pike seemed reluctant to say anything about the case, but now that the papers are here and are to be filed Mr. McPike declares there 18 nothing to conceal. Attorney McPike says that Mis. Langtry is expected to return to her home in Lake county soon, as she has grown very weary of her histrionic work. Fsem this it is believed that Mrs, Langtry has definitely decided to Bandon the stage. It is not known that she contemplates a new matrimonial venture should her prayer for a re'ease from the bonds which unite her to Bdward Langtry be granted., She s expected to arrive In San Prancisco within six weeks, e ——— Found Murdered in Hix Room. FORT WAYNE, Sept. 17.—G. R. Singer, a merchant and postmaster at Duntee, a small hamlet seven miles west of this city, found murdered In his room this morning, having been pounded to death with clubs. The motive for the deed was elther robbery or revenge. He had $150 in his possession, which is now missing. He was over 70 year old and had a family. Were Not KANBAS CITY, Bept. 17.—A speciyal to the Star from Perry, O, T, says; Great ex- citement prevalled here this morning because of the fallure of the First State bank of Perry to open for business. Attachments to the amount of $30,000 were run on the late last night, and this morning. The carries about $40,000 fn deposits, and it gald that there is but $1,200 cash hand. The liabilities are estimated at by 000 and $80,000, with assets near| amount. None of the bank's officers s can be found. The feeling against them is strong. Cashier Fred W. Farrer, formerly of Arkansas City, Kan., has been in the moun- tains of Colorado for several months, and the bank has been run by some young men. President of the bank, J. V. N. Gregory, was formerly president of the First National bank of Arkansas City. The Bank of Perry and the First State bank were consolldated three months ago. Steps are being taken to at- tach the banks assets not already covered. WILL BUILD A MONUMENT TO GRANT Movement Started by the Soelety ot the Army of the Tenneswee, - CINCINNATI, Sept. 17.—The Soclety of the Army of Tennessee reassembled at 10 . m. for the second day's session. The anuual address of Colonel Fred D. Grant was a stir- ring and eloquent effect. The ‘soelety ad- Journed before noon to attend ‘a reception by the citizens of Clnciunati, at the Zoologi- cal gardens. Major Hoyt Sherman reported in favor of St. Louls for the annual meeting next September, and the report was adopted. Colonel Fred D. Grant reported Genesal 0. 0. Howard as the committee's selection for orator at St. Louls next year; adopted with a stirring, unanimous vote. A Tesolution was adopted o erect a statue of U, 8. Grant at Washington, D. C., and ask the co-operation of congress. President Dodgs announced that he would name the Grant monument committee after his return to. New York. The following officers were, glected; Presi- dent, G. M. Dodge of Towa; gorresponding secretary, General Andrew . ‘Hickenlooper, Cincinnati; recording secretary, Colongl Cor- nelius Cadle, Oincinnatl; treasurer, General M. F. Force, Ohlo Soldlers' home, Sandusky; vice presidents, Colonel Nelson Cole, Missour!, General O. 0. Hov U. B. A.; Captain A. C. Kemper, Ohio; Captain_Joseph Dicker- son, Washingion; Captain B, B, Hamilton, Tllinois; Colonel W. L. Shaw, Iowa; Colonel Milom Smith, Towa; Colenel J. W. Barnes, Missourl, and Captain Lewis Kellar, Ohlo, After ‘the banquet tonight the members of the Army of the Tennessee will took their berths in a train of Pullmans 0% the Queen & Cresencent, leaving at 7:30 tomorrow for Chattanooga to participate in the dedication of the national park at Chicamauga. On Thursday night, they join a meeting there with the survivors of the confederate army of Tenncssee, at which the speakers are to be both unlon and confedcrate generals, Among those responding at_the banquet to- night were: Captain §. H. M. Byers, author of “Sherman’s March to the Sea” General Horace Porter, exGovernor Forakep, Father Thomas Ewing Sherman, Colonel M. A. Coch- ran, Judge Richard Tuthill, John A, Logan, jr., Mrs. Mary Logan Pearson, General D. B. Henderson and Colonel Milbert Plerce, it e AL Rl NATIVES WILL AKE MEDICINE Sandwich Isl tors Are Try the Doe- Them, ng to Kil INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 17.—A gentle- man in this city has recelved a leiter tiom his brother, who is a member of the vational guard at Honolulu. The lstter bears the date of September 5, and fn commen'ing 03 the cholera situation In the Saudwieh islands, colved in the United States are exavgerated. The Unitd Btates ship Bennington' was an chored outside of quarantine, wnd there had w one death from cho'era ou board. The nited States ship Olympls, enroute to Ciina, decided not to touch the Larbovsend coal was to be taken out of her. The the cholera Is confined almost entirely to the natlves. Owing to their rupersiiilon, they are difficult to handle, and Low gas.y are rarely reported in time for su treat- ment. As a result the death Eee .x’\ expresses the belief that the repocts as re- | medicine to kill them if the d'sease not. Nine out of ten cases are faal. The infected districts are under strict quarane tine and soldiers are constantly on duty. does PROY Char ON POLIC Are Little Better al Clanxe Sept. A sensat'on was created in the prison congress by a paper on “Politics and Crime,” written by Amos G. Warner, professor of economics and social tclence in the Leland Stanford university of California, and read by John N. Dryden of Kearney, Neb. “If the state itself is under the influence of criminals,” said the doctor, boldiy plung= Ing Into his ubject, “how can it hope to ree form criminals? Setting a thlef to catch a thief was an old-time doctrine, but the plan of setting a thief to reform a thief has never yet Leen defended. The representas tives of the state with whom criminals are most frequently brought into contact are policemen, police justices, sheriffs, sheriffs® deputies and jallkeepers, only a shale, if at all, better than the criminals themselves, The hope of cure of criminals largely lies in curative treatment In the early stages, Petty offenders and those on the verge of criminality in the large cities seldom or never get beyond this line of guards and live more or less in their presence. The police to them represent the state. The professor illustrates his meaning by giving details of the treatment given tramps, gamblers, prostitutes and the criminal classes generally. The paper started a warm discussicn, and brought out a number of protests, Warden W. E. Hale of San Quentin, Cal., who for six years prior to assuming charge of the prison, had been sheriff of Alameda county, said that he wanted to brand some of the allegations as to corruption in Call- fornia as false, Mr. Halo thought It was shameful for & man of the standing of the professor to make such sweeping and general charges, and he could not sit still under them. It was the sentiment oft he delegates that a man of Prof. Warner's standing would not make such broad assertions unless he was able to back them up. The rap=r was crdered filed and thanks sent to the profcsos LAGONL STATIST NATIONAL LANS, Reports on Pertinent Toples sented by State Officers, MINNEAPOLIS, S8ept. 17.—The Nstional Assoclation of Labor Statisticians began Its eleventh annual convention at the Commetcial club rooms this morning, with President Carroll D. Wright, national commissioner of labor, In the chalr, The lebor commissioners of a score of states were pres Weleom= In gaddresses werc made by Govirnor Clough, Mayor Pratt and J. C. Calderwood, president of the Commercial club. To these President Wright responded, saying that the wo'k of the members of the assoclation to shiow that capital and labor are allled, and rot antage onistic forces. Thirly-throe states hive fol- lowed the lead of Massachusetts since 1869 in appointing commission:rs and pushir g this work, 4 Reports of committees were then called for, and the association settled down to buse Iness, Reports were heard as follows: Car- roll D. Wright, on the natlonal bureiw's in- vestigations of femsle labor as a fac'or, and the changes wrought by machinery; H. G. Wadlin of Massachusetts, on the wages of working women and the effects of alcoholismy on industry and erime; James M. Clark of Pennsylvania, on the bullding trades and the condition of women In cleloil occupationsg Lee Merriweather of Migsouri, on street rajls way franchises; Charles H. Bummerman of New Jersey- on industrial depression, co-op= erative socleties and cotton and woolen in= dustries; Charles H. Morse of Michigan on the status of street rallway employes; B, Re Lacy of North Carolina on the condition of labor In that stute; L. G. Powers of Minnesota “on the burden of taxation borne by raflroads and other Industries. These reports embodied the work of the varlous state bureaus Pree