Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1901, Page 3

'l‘flF OMAH \ D AT Y BEE: TUESDAY, STEELE HEAD OF SENATE| Fairbury Member is Agreed Upon by the Republican Caucus SEARS FOR THE HOUSE BY ACCLAMATION Legislators Quickly ganization — Gov Messaue Advocates Change Auree rnor in adical 1 ~The after this afternoon COLN, Dec republican an 31— (Special members of ful attempt assembled at 8 o'cloch night and agreed on Calvin I Falrbury for president pro-tem Fremont McKesson for secretary Kelm of Falls City, for assist Al the republican senators we excepting John Trompen of Lan Benator N, V. Harlun of York county j wided The meeting was harmonious the only contests belng over m Benator Harlan of York wa manent chairman of the Oleson of Cuming for permanent s C. F. Steele was placed in nominat president of the senate by Howard Baldrige of Omaha, and there being no opposition he was chosen by a unanimous vote, . C. I McKesson of Lancaster A H. Kelm were placed in nomination for secretary and Telegram.) the to unsucce caucus to Steele John C 1A H retary of throughout or | chosen for per caucus and sitions retary on and the former was victorious by a vote of 12 to | 6. Mr. Keim was then chosen by ac tion for first Nt secretary. Robinson of Fremont was slated for geant-at-arms, John Patrick of Washington county for doorkeeper, W. H. Pool of Cass for enrolling and engrossing clerk, A. A Cressman of Crete for chaplain and Harry Beebe of Stanton for custodian of the ¢ George Crofts of Beatrice and Marquette of Fremont received two for chaplain The following committees wore On Governor & N. Allen Omaha, J. R lama- rk assist room votes elected Lientenant E of B of Standing Committees A. H. Arends of Otoe. Furnas, H. H. Baldrige VanBoskirk of Box Butte, . Owens of Dawson, Richard O'Neill Lancaster and W. M. Young of Stanton. To Apportion Ewployes Among Senators Frank M. Burrill of Custer, W. H. Newell of Cass and W. H. Edgar of G On Standing Rules—N. V. Frank Martin of Richardson Owens of Dawson In previous sessions the senate has had two clerks for enrolling and engrossing, each recelving $2 per day. The caucus de- cided to combine these two positions in one at a salary of $4 per day, making a saving of $2 per day on this line of work. The caucus adjourned to meet at the call of tho chalrman. The republican members of the house had fifty-two In their there being only one abse Practical agreement had had been reached in the canvassing during the afternoon on most of the positions to be filled, so that the result was decisive on most of the ballots. McCarthy of Dixon acted as caucus chairman and Andrews cf Froutier as secretary, with Mead of Doug- las and Cain of Richardson as teller Tho nomination of Sears for speaker came by acclamation, to which he responded his thanks briefly. The other officers agreed on are: Clerk, John Wall; first assistant, A. D. Gilmore of Nemaha; second assistant, John Barnard of Johnson; third assistant, €. E. Sandall of York; fourth assistant, H. G. Wethrell of Harlan; sergeant-at-arms, A. Wees of Frontier; chaplain, J. H. Presson of Polk; doorkeeper. A. Miller of Jefferson; postmaster, E. D. Recon of Hamllton. The Douglas county members supported Rev. B. F. Trefz for chaplain, but failed to make him by a small margin. J. W. Arm- strong was agreed on for temporary speaker. Joint Caucus of Fusion Membe of Harlan of York and E. D caucus, A Joint caucus of the fusion members of the legislature was held in the Grand hotel to consider the course to be taken on legls- lation and for the purpose of making the usual selection of caucus nominees. Sen- ator Miller of Buffalo was chairman and Representative Murray of Thurston secre- tary. Frank T. Ransom of Douglas will recelve the fusion vote for president pro tem of the senate. After considerable dis- cussion the following candidates were se- lected as the caucus nominees: For the house: Temporary speaker, John Sprecher of Colfax; speaker, D. W. Hamilton of But- lor: chief clerk, Eric Johnson of Saunders; first assistant, Danlel Horrigan of Adams; #econd assistant, Louls Paulson of Kear- ney; third assistant, J. W. Harwood of Nance; sergeant-at-arms, Thomas Dowd of Cuming; assistant sergeant arms, O, 8, Moran of Platt; chaplain, J. M. Snyder of Sherman The tusion members who did not particl- pate in the caucus were Senator Krum- bach and Representative Hauks of Otoe, Boulier of Saunders, Hunter of Howard, Dahlsten of Howard and Walker of Hitch- cock. The caucus also gave out the fol- lowing written statement as a bluff in the fnterest of those fuslon members whose seats are contested for fraud and other frrogularities. The question of contesting Governor Dietrich's right to office was taken up in the joint conference of fusion representatives and senators and consids ered at length, and it was finally decided to lay the matter over for further consideration. This actlon was taken that 1t might first be ascertained whether the publicans were intending to consider and determine the contest in the house senate on their merits fairly and it probable nothing further will be done in the matter if the contests are decided fairly on the evidence. Willlam G. Sears, the new speaker, who will preside over the house of the twenty- seventh session of the Nebraska leg!slature, bas been known up to this time as a clear- headed and far-sighted lawyer, prominent at the Burt county bar, with incidental ex- curslons tnto politics. e is an Ohlo man by birth and a Pennsylvanian by education, some Rheumatism What is the use of telling the rheumatic that he feels as it his joints were being dis- located ? He knows that his sufferings are very much like the tortu of the rack. * What Ae wants to know Is what will per- manently cure his disease. That, according to thousands of gratef testimonials, is Hood’s Sarszparilia It corrects the acidity of the blood on which the disease dependas, strengthens the stoun- ach, liver and kidneys, and bullds up the whole system. Try Hood' ul CUT OUT THIS COUPON Present at Bee office or mall conpon with ten cents and get your cholce of Photographic Art Btudies. When ordering by mall add four cents for postage. ART DEPARTMENT, The Bee Publishing Company OMAHA, NEB. aaad | present | nator | for || and | s | having been ralsed a he attended the public He secured | )|.4 legai rudiments student in the | aw sc’hool of the State University of Kan { at Lawrence and has been practicing | profession for sixteen years. T however, he is a Nebraskan, has Nebraska as his red rest 1871 and has been identified with Burt county all of that time but two years. He was mayor of Tekamah years and county attorney of Durt county | reslgning th latter position a 180 10 avold ¢ ' uun | oming term as lawmaker. He fs ears of of slsnder bulld, which makes although of medium hoight, | Meadville, Pa., where hools s a | clatimed since mbarrasen ago him ook tall of light gray alrcady complexion, but with a tinge of appearing in his hair I have made my canvass for speakership entirely independent of senatorial contest,” said Mr.. Sear without promises of committeo appoin | ments house patronag Of course consulted with all the men who had inter esty involved, but I declined to be anyone's | candidate but my own and my associates’ | whose favor I asked. Had the speakership | been made a part of the senatorial strug ge 1 doubt whether 1 would have met the ame suce | ivNo, 1 o novel ideas as to the | management of the business of the house I expect to follow in the lines laid down by my predecessors and abide by estab- lished precedent. 1 will try to the best of ability to conduet the sessions on n of absolute falrness and t t allf allke without reference to partisan amli ations. 1 hope, however, to draw all re | publicans together into a harmonlous ma- | fority barring discussion and diversion so | that the business will be dispatched in the | most businesslike manner. It fair treat ment will abate factional opposition I feel sure the house willl have smooth salling alll the time.” This Is Steele's Third Senator €. F president of the the | the | 1 have my Term. Steele, who will act as senate, is beglnning his third term as representative of Jefferson county in the upper branch of the legis- Inture, He is a furniture dealer at Fair- bury, a successtul merchant actively in terested in the republican party. For four years he was sheriff and another four years treasurer. He Is an old soldier, who came | to Nebraska from Ulinols thirty years ago. | “What will 1 do when 1 become acting | | kovernor>” replied Senator Steele to the | query. “I hardly expect to be called into that responsible position, but it I am, | think I will retaliate in kind on Senator Talbot. You see, Talbot as president of the last senate encountered an accidental summons to the governor's chair during the Stoux Falls conventfon, when both the overnor and lleutenant governor were out of the state. He sat down and wrote out a | long pardon for me, forgiving all my sins and trarsgressions to date, and sent It to me. 1 shall be tempted to make out a pardon for him for all his sins of omis sion and commission, and especlally of re- canting his reputlicanism while holding an office to which he had been chosen by re- publican assoclates | Governor Poynter's Measnge Complete, Governor Poynter has completed his regular message to the legislature. Com- pared with effusions of his predecessors it is sald to be short and to the point, cover- ing about thirty pages of typewritten manu script, making not more than 9,000 words. The message is principally a review of the work under the direct supervision of the executive during the last two years with special stress upon the various branches that have been hampered by want of legisla- tion or by supreme court decisions invall- | dating legislation under which action formerly had. Incorporated into the re- view are & number of recommendations for curative acts and suggestions of ways and means to improve extsting methods of state administration. The governor has been careful in the preparation of his message,” sald one of his clerical staff, “and has succeeded in covering a great deal of ground In a short space. He has revised it several times and always in the direction of making it more concise. He has a faculty of con- densing which Governor Holcomb did not have. Governor Holcomb re-wrote his last message several times and each time found it expanded two or three pages, until it became a ponderous document. Gov- ernor Poynter's production s an antl-ex- pansionist message, at least in point of slze In his message to the legislature Gov- ernor Poynter will advocate a radical change in the laws relating to the management of the Institute for Feeble Minded Youth | at Beatrice, The principal suggestion will | bo that the law requiring parents to pay tultion of children In the institution be repealed. Under the existing statutes | parents are required to pay $10 per year for children kept In the home, but In the event of their faflure or Inability to pay this amount the county from which the inmate is sent s allowed to contribute the fees Never Turned Into Treasury, nder the present system a lot of money accumulates at the home, which is never turned into the treasury,” said a friend of the governor's, who s interested in the proposed change. ““The constitution of the state contemplates that all money expended | by the state shall come from the state | treasury. The money payed for the tuition | {of Inmates never finds its way Into the | | treasury, but 1s used for purchasing sup- | plies for the institution. We want the law | requiring the payment of this fee repealed, | for experience has shown that in nearly | every instance the money comes from the county and not from the parent.'” | | The trouble at the Beatrice home under | the administration ot Dr. B. F. Lang, all | arose from the unauthorized and ill-advised | | expenditure of the cash fund, which was | used for purchasing all sorts of supplies that | were not neeled. The friends of the governor | insist that the proposed change is not in- | tended as a reflection on persons who may | hereafter have chargb of the institution, | but simply for the purpose of reducing | the management of the home down to a | busiaess-like basts. | A large force of carpenters and palnters were at work In the lagislative halls to day getting things in readiness for ¢ opening of tho seseion tomorrow. Hoth | halls have been repapered and recarpented | and all the furniture looks new with ¢, fresh | cout of varnish. No New Appointme. » now appointments have been an nounced by the state officers-elect, but the applicants are in plentiful evidence. Most futerest centers in the staff of the state banking board, consisting of secretary and | bank examiners, who, under the law, must have had practical expericnce in bankib. Quite a number of Omaha people are seek- | ing these places, us well as country ba | from all parts of the state. the bonrd sald today that {would be made and given not later than Saturday o8 A member of the selections to the publi 'S (£pe | | Ver Missl PLATTSMOUTH, b, Dec a1 | cial.)~John Keisor, who runs a general | | merchandise store at Maynard, was in the city this afternoon and reported to Sherift | W. . Wheeler that someone broke into his | store last night and stole botween §25 and three jackknives and a halr- clue to the thives has yet | $30 in money clipper. No been found Turners Plan Tou PLATTSMOUTH, Neb, clal.)—Delegates from the different local socleties of the Turn Bezirk of the Mis- sourl valley, *.h headquarters in Platts mouth, met at ‘‘urner hall in this city last | evening and outlined the exercises and | name Dec. 31 | stitution for over twenty-five | the | Yale untv | Hays by | hail was well filled and music, | gram | them | latd | rules to govern the next tournament, which will be held in &t time during next The societies i Joo or Kan July this as Clty some- listrict include Kaa- sas City, Atchison Joseph, Omaha, Fre mont, Millard and Plattsmouth. The off- cers of this division all reside here and are John P. Sattler, president; Louls Ott ecretary; Fred Ebinger, treasurer; Wurl, district instuctor il Wurl and Philip Thierolf, members of the advisory board DEAN EDGREN IS CALLED Sweden Wants Him (o Fill an Iusti- tute Chale of Germanie 1l cial)—Dean Hjalmar Edgren of the graduate school and ad of the department of romance lan s of the University of Nebraska, has tendered the chalr of Germanic lan- in the Nobel institute at Stockholm, Sweden, and it s announced semi-officially that he has accepted. Dr. Edgren has been a member of the faculty of the Nebraska in- years and has since 1885, He ranks educators in the west from the university will gunges held his present t among the foremost e 1 his departure be deeply regretted The Nobel institute was founded hy the Russian ofl king of that name, who gave it $140,000,000 in one donmation. It Is one of leading educational institutions in Fu- rope. Dr. Edgren served a few years as & nember its faculty befors be dean ot University of Nebraska of the became He was tendered a position in the Swedish in- | stitution last year, but, after a conference with the Nebraska authorities, he concluded to remaln in this state. The chair of Ger- manic languages, however. i« a much more Important pesition th the one offered a year ago, and this fact od with slre to return to his native country, him to look with favor on the call Dean Edgren graduated from the Royal Milltary acedemy of Sweden In 1880 and soon afterwards came America In 1871 recelved the degree of Ph. B. from Cornell unlversity and the de of Ph. D. from sity In 1871 caused L 3's Lueky Speech. H. F. Karley got away from a charge of grand larceny with unexpected ease in the police court yesterday afternoon. was arrested last Saturday on complaint of Charles Alman, from whom it he took the sum of $65 In currency. When the case was called yesterday Judge Lewin, noticing that the complainant had not yet been sworn, asked Alman to hold up his right hand and take the oath prescribed by layw. m not going to swear to nothin', judge,”" ohjected the complaining witness, “because 1 don’t know uothin'." That s tled 1t ns far as the court was concerned, and (he prisoner was promptly released. Western Phi The Western Philosophical will hold its first annual meeting at the University of Nebraska tomorrow. It I8 expected that the session will continue un- t1l Wednesday evening. Among the speakers named on the program are Chancellor An- drews, Prof. J. E. Woodbridge of the Uni- versity of Minnesota, Arthur Fairbanks of the University of lowa, Rev. J. R. Brown of Kansas City, Prof. C. B. McAfee of Park college, Prof. . D. Hugh of the Colorado State Normal school, W. M. Bryant of St Louls, C. A. Ellwood of the University of Missouri, Prof. J. E. Creighton of Cornell university and J. D. Logan of the University of South Dakota. A committee appointed by the city coun- 11 1s at work preparing a new Lincoln char- ter for submission to the legislature. Changes will be made in the revenue portion of the present charter and provision will be made for lessening the city's lability for damages on account of defective sidewalks. ESCAPED PRISONER CAUGHT Eric Engle, Who Sawed His Way Out of Jail at Lexington Retaken, wophical Soclety. assoclation 51.—(Speclal jail here court on LEXINGTON, Telegram.)—Eric Engle, in awaiting trial In the district charge of burglarizing the Thornton jewelry otore at Cozad, made his escape about & o'clock this morning by first saw- ing a bar oft his cell window, crawling through the aperature thus made and then prying a bar from the outside window Neb., Dec. with one of the bars in his hand he walked | Elm Creek, where His friends there notified Sherift to his old haunt near he expected protection held him, however, and teleptone. Mr. Hays took first train for Elm Creek, returning this afternoon with his man, whom he says will not _again escape. ELM CREEK, Dec. 81.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—Eric Engle, who last night sawed his way out of the county jail at Lexing- ton, where he has been confined for the last month on the charge of robbing a Jewelry store and the postoffice at Cozad, was captured efght miles morth of here this morning by Sherift Funk of Kearney and Constable Brown of this place. He will be taken back this afternoon by Sherift Hays of Dawson county, who 18 here and has the prisoner heavily froned and says he will be kept %o until his trial. State Historieal Soclety. LINCOLN, Dec. 31.—(Special.)—The State Historical society, of which J. Sterling Morton is president, is to meet in Lin- coln January 8 and 9. The meetings of the Territorfal Plonecrs are to be the same days. The program of the Historical so- clety Is JANUARY 8, 8§ P. M The Beginning of a Sfate. President's Annual Address—J. Morton Sterling Blographical Sketches—Senator P, W. Hitchcock, Senator A, *addock, G. M. Hitcheock, W. E. Annin The Grange and Farmers' Alllance. Beginning of the Grange—R. A Hawley Remarks by J. H. Dundas, J. H. Power: and others The Farmers' Alliance—J. M. Thompson, Remarks by Hon. N V. Harlan, ex-Gov: ernor Crounse and others. Business Meeting. JANUARY. 9, H. W Sketcnes wative W, 8 P. M. Hardy —Senator, Reminscences Biographical Tipton, Repre: W Furnas, W. D. Oldham Prefghting—H. T. Clarke. Remarks and discussions by and others \rly Roads and Routes in Nebraska— Persinger Business meeting. Annunl Ra PLATTSMOUTH cial.)—The annual rabbit supper was giv Saturday evening by the Tel Jed Sokol so- ciety and was The commodlous dancing and cd the pro W. A. Pax- election of officers (Spe- ral good time constity During the evening the so-called committee kidnaped some forty men, who were blindfolded and stood up against the wall until each dis- big silver dollar. The bandages wero then removed and their eyes beheld tho smiling \tenance of King “Gam brinus rhereupon he escorted all to the places of honor and urged upon sip of his special brow. Long tables were in the gallerios of the hall, where 0 brer rabbits were dished up in state to the 300, 2 gene ule” young gorged one col (1 s Maly's Assassl SMOUTH, Neb., Dec. 81.—(Spe- Late Saturday night Ofcer Fitzpat- tramp giving the name of t. on the suspicion of his being for the shooting of Joe in a South Omaha saloon, and former city clerk of that place, Pudnet protested that he knew nothing of the affair, but his description so closely aoswered that of Stegeman, the wan who PLA clal) rick arrested a Pearl Pudne the man wante Maly, bartender otto | Karley | was alloged | the | n | them & | | fired the fatal shot and e the officer felt justified In holding him. lodged in jaill and the h au thorities notified The prisoner admitted | having been in South Omaha Saturday, but | declares he caught a Burlington freight | train southbound early in the evening and was kicked off at Oreapolis HANGS HIMSELF IN JAIL to Be of Omaha, Bastile at that He was MOUTH, Dec. 31.—(Special Tele gram.)—Charles Frisch, about 40 years of | age, committed suicide this hanging himself from a rafter in the county jail, using an old blanket as a rope. He | came to this city from Omaha ten days ago. | and being penniless and his mind slightly unbalanced, he was sent to the county hospital, but escaped in a few days. Fri day evening he appeared on the streets and the officers locked him up pending the | action of the county commissioners. ile leaves a wife and six children in Omaha The name Charles Frisch cannot be [ found in the Omaha directory and the po- { lice have no knowledge of such a man. 1e Live There. Many Aged Pe ELK CREEK, Neb., Dec. 31.—(Speclal.) In and within radius of one mile of this small town live as many old people as in any community of like size In the state far as s known. Here are thelr names and ages: Andrew Phelen, $3; Berlinza Phelen, his wife, 74; F. H. Butler, 78; Wil llam Morris, 86; G. C. Brittain, §1; Eliza | Brittain, his wife, 76; Mary Cody, 78; J. M. Thompson, 81: Belinda Thompson, his wite, 76; Mary Hart, David Simmons, his wite John Du- | 85; Jane Simmons, fack, 83; Thomas Robison, 82 ¥ t Fire in n Blizzard. YORK, Neb, Dec Special.)—The York firemen had to fight a fierce fire in the binding department of the York Times | last night, when the thermometer was reg istering zero and the snow storm raging hardest. Valuable adjoining properties were threatened, hut by diligent effort the flames were extinguished without —other | 1088 than the damage to the stock, Tramps Tamper with n Switch, TABLE ROCK, Neb., Dec. 31.—(Special.)— The action of three tramps at a switch in the ratlroad yards here Saturday night xcited susplcion and the switch was ex amined and found to have been choked with an obstruction, apparently for the purpose of wrecking a train that was nearly due. A search was made for the trio, but was not successful, Soclety Girls Banquet Friends, TABLE ROCK, Neb., Dec. 31.—(Speclal.) The twenty young women composing the Saturday Night club gave a banquet on the appropriate evening ot last week to their men friends at the residence of Mra. I C. Norris. Holly, carnations, ferns and American Beauty roses were used gener- ously in the decoration res Addith al Teachers. SCHUYLER, Dec. 31.—(Special.) The city schools have become so over- crowded that the Board of Education found it necessary to employ an additional teacher to take charge of the sixth grade work. Miss Katherine Woods has been selected. BALM FOR WOUNDED LOVE Aged Sultor Goes Into Court to Re- cover Title to & Real Estate Retrothal Gitt, After having fought ithe battles of life through the greater pAEL of the outgoing century, John Kndzior, geptuagenarian, be gins the new cycle as plaintiff in a breach of promise suit, whereln he alleges that Josephine Vetrouski, a coy lass of tender yeurs, has played hide-and-seek with his affections, and, incidentally, secured title to valuable realty. It is not so much his blighted affections as his loss of land that prompted the aged man to file sult against Miss Vetrouskl The petition, which is a lengthy document, koes on to say that about February b of last year, the plaint!ff and the defendant entered Into an agreement of marriage “engaged,” as the younger folks would term it. It is further set forth that at no time, In the preseat opinion of the plain- tiff, did the defendant have any intention to fulfil her matrimonial promise, but that she was guided solely in her demonstration of affection by a desire to secure title to lot 9, Woodlawn addition to the city of Omaha, on which 18 located a valuable house, The property was transferred, so the plalntiff asserts, as an evidence of good faith on his part. He had no diamond rings with which to seal the engagement, but b, and houses and lands were quite as accept- | able, g0 the story goes, as glittering jewel. A Continuing his story, the petitioner en- ters into a review of his pecullar case and tells how & few days after his engagement to Miss Josephine, his daughter, Mrs. Julia Socha, went before Judge Vinsonhaler of the county court and, Tepresenting her father to be incompetent to manage his affairs, secured appointment as his guar- dian. Subsequently the septuagenarian came before Judge Vinsonhaler with con- Guardian pinte: the guardianship order was revoked—but that is anclent history, for the ups and downs of Kndzlor during the past year have been given much publiclty in the news- papers from time to time. Now the old warrior is making a century epoch by taking the initiative in a breach of promise sult—something that in the nine- teenth century most always devolved upon the woman in the case. With his charac teristic eye for business, the aged petitioner prays the court to set aside the title, to restrain the defendant from disposing of the disputed property and also from en- cumbering it with a mortgage, which 1t is asserted, she has been attempting to do. Judge Keysor, who was rounding out the century with a prosale insurance case, was pressed into service long enough to issue @ temporary restraining order. It Is re- turnable January 12, at which time the merlts of the case will be entered finto more fully. John Kudzlor is in many ways a remark- ablo man. Although almost entirely with- shrewdness amassed o comfortable tune, and takes particular pride in declar- Ing that advanced age has not made per- ceptible inroads upon his physical constitu- tion. In fact, ho is decidedly more than # parallel for Denman Thompson, the vet- eran player, who in his “0ld Homestead," declares “I am sixty-seven and spry as a kitten," For Puneumonin, Dr. C. J. Bishop, Agnew, Mich., says: “I have used Foley's Honey and Tar in three very severe cases of pneumonia with good results In overy case.” There is nothing so good. Dillon's drug store, South Omaha; Myers-Dillon Drug Co., Omaha, District Judges to Meet, The judges of the district court will meet at the court house at 10 o'clock this morn- ing to make the annual docket assignments and take action on such changes in the court rules as may be deemed necessary. It 1s understood that there will be no change in the assignment of judges and that during the next year they will oc- cupy the same rooms in which they have been holding forth sluce last New Year, afternoon by | | by the said Josephine was not a romantic miss, | vineing argument to the effect that he was | capable of conducting his own affairs, and | [IDENTITY OF ONE KIDNAPER | out a school education, he has by native | for- | The most important change made last year was the addition of Judge Keysor to equity court, there having previously only two equit been divistons REWARD IS DOUBLED (Continued from First Page) uch a serious coloring on the case is not right to expect Mr. Cudahy to con | tinue his offer of $25,000 reward for the |arrest and conviction of the men who st | his boy. 1t is high time the city, co and state take a hand in bringiog to | tice the men who dare to threaten the of citizens who are attempting to dangerous criminals behind the bars “I have wired the governor urging him | to offer reward A speclal meeting of the council has been called for this after- | noon to consider the advisability of appro- | priating $10.000 for any person who may bring about the conviction of the Kidnapers. The county will also be asked to give some money, and I have no doubt but that will swell the sum up to $25,000. In case | the legal department dec cannot give m this purpose, 1 will that it nty Jus lives land we | tes that the clty ney for am the | | Beals with the money Ralst of his pocket lose s hand on 1 ale on convix t place bath t re money pald The he ¢ renting ¢ point, I This man Ralston see nia for For wever, 1s to me mo med to I writing (he 1 lotter Aths o frer Real reatening ni woeks ed then o Jail, b and begi to get Ralston is a evide Reals ened tha fe * Ralston's pal Mr. Heals Cudahy | AT do him le wonderful erimi tly encouraged by bbery in for & New circulate a subscription paper, and confident that 1 can raise $10,000 in short order. “The eyes of the world are tur: on Omaba. The theft of Eddie Cudahy was one of the most remarkable crimes of the | century and it is not right that it should B0 unpunished. Omaha will bo judged by | the steps it takes In bringing the kidnapers | to just It these men are allowed to| escape punishment others will be encour- | aged to undertake similar crimes. It is the | to such brigandage “The Cudahy family has suffered enough at the hands of thewe desperadoes and 1 feel confident that I voice the sentiment of all good citizens when I say that the city should relieve Mr. and Mrs. Cudahy of fur- ther suspenso. 1t is not comfortable for them to be living under the threat that a by 1et will end the life of one of their children in case their reward is continued. It not a case in which they alone are inter- csted. Law and order demand that an end be brought to such proceedings amd it is | time that every man in Nebraska take a hand in the affair.” KIDNAPERS' THIRD LETTER| erndors Send A reatening Harm t Houwe the Cadahy a. E. A. Cudahy recelved on Monday fore {noon a third letter from the kidnapers reit I‘ln'Hux the threat made on December that unless the reward was withdrawn | Larm would come to some member of hl~| | household. Like the second, this letter was ;r eived through the mails and s post marke “Omaha, December 22 a. m" | Mr. Cudahy refused to permit the reporter to see the letter, but it Is understood that in the matter of character formation and general style it is almost exact coun terpart of the two first recelved and that | there is no question as to mmon suthor ship. This third letter was not to the chief of police. As to the contents of this last communi two sentences aro known as follows: “If the reward s | not immediately withdrawn we will get an- other of your Kids,” and “Your wife is talking too d— much; see that she keeps her mouth shut.” The relevancy of the last sentence Is not quite clear, as Mrs. Cudahy has never been quoted in the newspapers in relation to this case and If she has spoken to her personal friends about it, as she doubtiess has, it 1s not easy to understand how the kidpapers are in a position to know about it. It is understood that this third letter will not be given to the newspapers. MILLS OFFERS $500 REWARD Brigadier General Tenders His Finan- cial Ald to Discover Omaha Kidnapers, are E. A. Cudahy from General Anson Washington, D. C. “E. A. Cudahy, 518 South Thirty-seventh streot, Omaha Neb.—I subscibe $500 to your proposed Increase of reward to $100,000. “ANSON MILLS, “Brigadler General, U. 8. A., Retired." Mr. Cudahy was “not in'" last night when a reporter for The Bee called to ask him about the foregoing, but ( eral John Cowin, his persoual counsel, was seen in reference to It. He called up Mr. Cudahy "phone, and after having a talk with him, said: “Mr. Cudahy says he doesn't know what | General Mills means by the words ‘your proposed increase.’ He says he hasn't pro- | posed any such increase, and that this is the first notice he has received of an indi- vidual contribution to the reward fund, He has not been in correspondence with Gen- eral Mills, and, so far as I know, he is not acquainted with him. He regards the action as entirely spontaneous and un- eolicited on the part of General Mills, “Mr. Cudahy further informs me that ho will not withdraw his reward of $25,000 for the arrest and conviction of the kid- napers, but that his reward will be added to the reward offered today by the clty councll. This makes the total reward now offered $560,600," Mills, Kansan City People Belleve Him Be Ralston, Who Stole Young Beals, KANSAS CITY, Dec, gram.)—D. J. Hoff, with C. H. Lewls, cashler of the Union National bank, pald over the $5,000 to Ralston, the kidnaper of Beals, Jr., 1s posi- | tive that Ralston was the prime mover in | the Cudahy kidnaping “The night that Beals, fr., was stored to his father,” sald Mr. Haff, “Ral- ston was glven a check for $5,000, with Mr. Beals' word of honor that it would be cashed at the bank at 8 o'clock next morning. That was tho hour wet on the | time lock for the opening of the vault. Mr. Lewls and I were selected by Mr. Beals to be at the bank and cash the check, Wo were there a little ahead of time. Exactly at 8 o'clock Ralston came In the door. Mr. Lewls went back to the vault and | while he was gettng the money out I had a good chance to study the kidnaper “Ho was below the average in height and | build and his complexion and hair | light. 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