Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 14, 1901, Page 5

EARMARKS OF A BAD MAN Ohief Donahue Believes Alabama Ruspect is Wanted Here, FURTHER INVESTIGATION IN PROGRESS Eversthing Indica Under Arrest at Vernon, Hax n Operat Omuha and Vi That (he Wan Alabama, e in inity. A an indirect of his effort cate the Cudahy kidnapers Chief believes he has landed a fugitive perhaps fnnocent of complicity naping, may be badly wanted tor some other crim, This man s the who cently arrested at Verncn, Ala., b who furmised that he might be Pat Crowe Chiet Donahue received a letter from Ver- non officials yesterday giving full partien lars of the arrest, brief mention of which bas already been made in press dispatches Enclosed with the letter is a photograph of & tough-looking character and u news paper clipping. The original of the plcture | was arrested In the country just outside of Vernon on the Saturday following the kid- | naplug, He had bis person a copy of an Omaha newspaper containing an ac- count of the abduction, some billheads of | uth Omaha firm, addresses of several persons in Omaha and South Omaha, seve eral drills, a quantity of gunpowder and pleces of tin bent in the form of a funnel which might have been used for pouring the powder futo a small hole. All this, the chief believes, indicates that the man is a safe-blower, at least a criminal, and that he is from Douglas county The newspaper clipping says that the wuspect was arrested “at the Crick bridge, two miles south 6f town; " that he has given at various times since the names of Baker, Watson and Joweph Scott, and then adds “Ho does not give any account of himself at all, except as above mentioned, and when spoken to leaves his interrogator as much in the dark as he was before plylug any questions to him. Description of Suspect. The following description of the prisoner result to 1o Donahue while Kkid sraska who, in the in Ne suspect | officers | upon n s 1s given “He is about 45 years of age, five feet ten inches high, and weighs 158 pounds; hafr rather dark and wears a sandy mus- tache. He has on a brown sack dress cont and vest, and light, small-checked pants, black overcoat, black dross shirt and tle. When arrested he had on his person an Ira Johnson 3%-caliber pistol with a blue steel barrel, three pairs of cuff buttons, threo light-colored silk handkerchiofs, & black four-in-hand tie, about half a pint | ot gunpowder in a bottle, three drills such | blacksmiths and machinists use, a pearl- | handled knife with ‘C. J. Sherer' engraved upon the blade with an acld process, a small crooked cane, two small pleces of tin which looked as if they had been used for pouring powder into a small hole. Besides these he had a copy of an Omaha newspaper of December 20 contain- ing an account of the Cudaby Kidnaping, two billheads or statements printed for J. L. Carpenter, South Omaha, one of which bore In lead pencil, telephone 12 Omaha, and in another place this address, ‘May Messer, 691 Beal street. The other statement bore in pen and fnk a Roto sigoed ‘Willlam S. Roe, commissioner, 410 North Twenty-seventh street,) which ‘highly recommended the bearer, Joseph Scott.' A third scrap of paper bore a similar recommendation for Joseph Scott and was signed, ‘C. H. Marheron Chief Donahue is of the opinion that he has Had ‘‘Joseph Scott” in custody here at some time in the past, and is satisfled that he will be able to identify him from photo- graphs and descriptions in the police arch- ives t seems probable said he, “that he may be one of the gang that has been do- ing all this safe-blowing in the small towns of the state during the last three months, At Cozad about six wecks ago a il was cracked and a large quantity of Jewelry stolen. Then it is not impossible that he is one of the Cudahy kidnapers, though the fact that he was equipped as n sate-blower would tend to disprove this. The telephone number, “1233," which ap- pears among Joseph Scott’s memoranda, 1y that of the Council Blufts, Omaha and South Omaha_Transter company, and the tele- phone No. 6 is that of the Carpenter livery barn in South Omahn. The chief thinke that Scott engaged his teams at these places for making trips into the count Ho has wired the authorities at Vernon to hold their man until his record in Nebraska can be investigated Returns are beginning to come in from the 5,800 circulars containing descriptions of Pat Crowe and offering $30,000 roward for his capture and that of the other two kid- napers of Eddie Cudahy. The solice are recelving dozens of letters every day from ambitious sherifts and marshals all over the country telling of suspects they are hold- 10g to awalt advices from Omaha, and most of these contain photographic proofs of the men under suspicion. Most of the com- munications thus far received, however, promise very little help to the police in the solution of the mystery. They pertaln for the most part seemingly to harmless tramps and vagrants, but the chief is con- fdent the Alabama letter means somothing. Thompon to Carry R, PIERRE, 8. 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J.C.Aver Co., Lowell, Mat .- AMUSEMENTS. oo Hentean''= in “Rupert A romantic drama four ncte b jny Hope, Presented ut Bovd s theater day for the first time by Howard ild and company THE CAST King Rudolf V of Ruritania and Rudolf Hasgendyll Howard Gould Colonel Bapt W.J. Constantine s Fritz von Tarlenhetm.. Addison Pit Licutenant von Bernenstein, C. Dibdin Pitt ant Rupert of Hentzau..Frank McGlynn nt Luzan-Rischenhelm. . Herbert Lang uer 1 F. MacGregor Jumes Frederick Bertrand Bimc George C. Saybolt Herbert Charles E. Bloomer Helnrich Frederick Bertrand Chancellor €. K. Bloomer Chancellor's servant John Chisholm Quieen Flavii Aldridge Helga von Tarlenheim Parker Rosa Holf it{orence Davis Mother Holf Blanche Rice In the realm of modern fiction there are few characters that arouse more genuine sympathy than Rudolph Rassendyll, whom Anthony Hope, with his trenchant pen and vivid imagination, has endowed with those quallties that appeal to the ordinary man be he ever so prosaic, as approaching close to the ideslistic. Truth, loyalty, braver: a reckiessuess in the performance of duty and a devotion to principle, all combine to make (he character a most admirable one With Rudolph Rassen: the under- Iying force itten the wost cbarming stories of romance, love and adventure. But this fact is too well known to need repetition. It 18 no wonder that the dramatized versions of the *'Pris- oner of Zenda and “Rupert of Hentzau' appeal 80 strongly to the average theater- goer. To what extent this condition exists was Indic yesterday, when Boyd's It all but too lmited to n Anthony Hope has wr ted | theater proved ity afford seating capacity for the great crowds that clamored to see Howard Gould In ‘Rupert of Hentzau To have seen Mr. Gould in his imper- sonation of Rudolph Rassendyll is to have enjoyed a treat rarely afforded. Indeed, to have seen the charming drama with al- most uny actor of even mediocre histrionic Ability, as Rassendyll, Is in Itselt the con- summation of u pleasure that may be long awalted and prove worthy the anticipa- tion accorded it. ‘“Rupert of Hentzau,' as presented by Mr. Gould, follows faith fully in the dramatized version the orig- Inal story. The opening scend Is lald in the con- stable's room In the castle of Zenda and the action of the play begins three years after that of the “Prizoner of Zenda" ends lavia, queen of Ruritania, who continues her all-absorbiug love for Rudolph Rassen- dyll, sends him for the third time after his return to England a rose betok pects to gain immunity from further exile by delivering it into the hands of the king. It 1 to gain possession of this note be- fore it reaches the king that Rudolph Rae- sendyll and bis loyal colleagues, members o! the king's court and loyal subjects of the queen, devote themselves, and it is th that gives the play & continuity of startling situations and natural climaxes. Rupert of Hentzau finally gains an au- dlence with the king, but is rebuffed be- fore the chance to deliver the queen's note presents itself. He then returns to the capital at Ruritania and there hoasts that the king is dead. Rudolph Rassendyll meets him, wrests from him the precious note, and they fight a duel for its possession. The great majority of the American peo- ple are under the impression that they voted for a president on the 7th of last Novem- ber. They dld nothing of the kind. They merely voted for electors, who will today as- semble at the several state capitols of the unfon and cast thelr ballots for their choice for president and vice president. The vote will be sent by epecial messengers to Wash- ington, and there, on the second Wednesday in February, the 13th of the month, the vote will be collected, opened and counted and the result declared by the president pro tem of the United States senate, acting Instead of the vice president. In an unusually in- teresting article on “The Electors and the Coming Election,” Dr. Albert Shaw dis- cusses the workings of the electoral college in the January number of the American Re- view of Reviews. Dr. Shaw says, in the course of his article On the second Monday of the present month of January, 447 citizens who were chosen for that purpose last November are to vote for a president and a vice presi- dent of the United States. Each one of these men has a perfect legal right to vote for any person whatsoever, or to vote & blank. Or, he may disregard his obliga- tion and not vote at all. So far as we are aware, all of the 447 electors are yet alive, and there is no one throughout the length and breadth of the land who does not ex- pect with entire confidence that Mr. M Kinley and Mr. Roosevelt will re of thelr votes, and that Mr. Bryan and Mr. Stevenson will recelve exactly 165 Yet no pledges have been exacted from any of these men. Thelr legal duty does not extend beyond the simple requirement that they “shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president and vice president, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same stato with themselves.” There is, of course, the reaulsite amount of detall in the consti- tution and the statutes as to the manner in which the lists of persons voted for are to be transmitted and subsequently counted by the president of the senate at Washing- ton in the presence of the two houses of congress. - One of the reasons urged in the consti- tutional convention of 1787 for the sec- ondary rather than the primary election of a oresident the very imperfect aualntance of the people as a whole with the oualifications of leading men in dif- ferent states. But thi not s0 much a distrust of the people as a recognition of conditions which actually existed in the orlgtnal colonies. Those were not days of was was railroads. telegraphs, and newspapers. There was little intercourse between the different members of the confederation, In point of fact, only a very limited class of men in each state were widely enough acauainted to be able to pass intelligently uoon the fitness of men living in other varts of the union But for their theory of an independent executive, the consti- tution-framers would have agreed unani- mously uvon the plan of assigning to cor gress the duty of choosing the president, Because. however, it was desired that the executive department should be distinct and co-ordinate, it was decided that the president ought not to owe his election to the members of the two houses of cou- gress at Washington, but should derive his authority from the people through a sepa- rate channel. And the channel created for that purpose was an electoral body analogous In some respects to the legis- lative corps Thus it was provided that each state should have as many presidential electors as it had senators and representatives in Send for our handsome book on The Hair, congress. This arrangement obviously was to the advantage of the small states, whick THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY Bested In a sword conflict Rupert attempts to shoot his adversary, but instead shoots himeself. The death of the king and Rassendyll's marked recemblance to the dead monarch forms a dramatic incident of the most in- tensa interest. The people of Ruritania mistake him for the king. He is besieged by his friends and by the queen to assume the place of king. In mental torture Ras sendyll wrestles with the situation that 1§ placed upon him, but is shot by a treach erous computriol of Hentzau before the decision Is reached The drama s one in which love and adventure afford the widest possibilities for the company presenting it. Mr. Gould's joint conception of the king of Ruritania and Rudolph Rassendyll intrigue range of 15 most pralseworthy As toe king he |appears a weak, wishy-wasby Individual | racked with the awful memories of former | persecutions, petulant to a marked degree and variable of mind. Mr. Gould's Ras- sendyll is a noble character, as true as stecl, loyal to his friends and fired with a passion that is ennobling and refining His portrayal is that of a man among men, A character without a blemish, an in- dividual with a conscience that denies a dishoncrable act even though that den! costs him all that s dear. His acting is of the sort that entitles him to a place beside Hackett and Sothern. The mar- velous changes that are necessitated by reasun of the dual role of the king and Rassendyll have few, If any, equals in stage history. While ““Rupert of Hentzau" is primarily a one-man play, the supporting cast fs In every respect adequate. Miss Ruth Ald- ridge 18 charming as Queen Flavia. She has & remarkably prepossessing stage presence, a regal carriage, lustrous cyes, from which shine the love in her heart for Rassendyll, and a mobile face, giving ex- pression to all that passes in her mind Frank McGlynn had the swing of the dare- devil Rupert of Hentzau and the brag- gadocio in alr and manner of the unscrupu- lous scoundrel. Particularly commendable were the characterizations of W. J. Con- stantine, Addison Pitt and Herbert Lang respectively as Colonel Sapt, Fritz von Tarlenheim and Count Luzau-Rischenheim, The play will be repeated tonight, which will be the concluding performance. Orph It would be dificult to provide a entertaining vaudeville bill than which bad its initial presentation at the Orpheum Sunday afternoon and will con- tinue to please the devotees of this popu- lar form of amusement for the current week. The program is one that looks ex- cecdingly well on paper and for that reascn attracted oven larger audiences than those that ordinarily greet the opening perform- ances at the Orpheum. “Billy" Byrnes was besieged all day Sunday and was put more that ening her lasting regard for him com it s panying It she forwards w note, in which [ {0 rout when the “S. R. 0. &ign went up she renounces future communication, but |POth in the afternoon and evening confesses her love. This note is entrusted | TWo successful one-act sketches divide %o Fritz von Tarlenheim for delivery. Ru-|honors for the stellar position. One fe pert of Hentzau, who has been banished | the delightful comedy, “A Stolen Kiss, from Ruritania because of his complicity | Which Wright Huntington and a capable In former intrigues against the King, in- | cOmpany produce so acceptably. Mr. Hunt- tercepts the messenger and possesses him- | InKton I8 no stranger in Omaha, having self of the queen’s mote. With it he ex- | been here hafore, both in the legitimate and o vaudeville, and In hoth Instances has been a prime favorite. Hilda Thomas, a comedienne of more than usual at- tractiveness and ability, presents an amus- ing farce, “The Lone Star,” in which she Is assisted by Lou Hall May DeSonso, a former Omaha girl whom many remember as possessing a voice of rare charm during the time that sho at- tended a local academy, sings a number of pretty songs and, best of all, sings them | exceedingly well. Dorothy Walters is a whistler of extraordinary ability, Robertus and Wilfredo, jugglers and equilibrists, do a number of clever feats, and the “Harmony Four" make merry in a musical comedy creation entitled, “At the Way Station. Choosing the President ™ were by this means certain to have.at least three members of the electoral college, be- cause of their two senators and the cer- tainty of their having at least one repre- sentative in the other house. It was pro- vided that in each state the allotted num- her of electors should be chosen In what- ever manner the legislature might indi- cate. Thus in the early period of the re- vublic the Isgislatures very commonly ap- vointed the electors, without a popular vote. Gradually, however, one state fol- lowed another in adopting the better plan of leaving to the people the choice of the electors As originally adopted, the constitution provided that each elector was to vote for two candidates for president; and that, when the votes were counted, the man hav- ing the highest number should be presi- dent and the man having the next highest should be vice president. This system made John Adams vice president during Wash- ington’s two terms. In the third presiden- tial election it had become clear that Adams and Jefferson were to be competing candidates, and that they represented di- verging tendencies which were soon to be- come the basis for distinct political par- ties. Adams, as the loglcal successor of Washington, represented the federalist forces. Jefferson stood for the new demo- eratie ideas that were prevailing in sym- vathy with the principles of the Freénch revolution. This was In 1706, There were no definite party organizations, and certainly neither of the candldates was put in nomination in any formal manner. Yet the leadership of these two men was so widely recognized that most of the electors voted for either Adams or Jeflerson. Adams reccived sevs enty-one and Jefforson sixty-eight votes. This kave the country a federalist presi- dent and a democratic vice president. Thus it the president had died in office his suc- cossor would bave made a radical change both of principal oMcials and of policies, Some electors in this contest of 1796 had used their legal discretion and voted con- trary to the expectations of a majority of their constituents. This led to a much moro careful scrutiny in the election ot 1800: so that by that time the electors come to be chosen, not only with regard to their party tendencies, but also with vrecise reference to their support of cer- tain presidential candidates. Since each elector was to vote for two candidates, it was easily possible that two men might stand at the head of the list with & clear majority of all the votes and with an exactly equal number. And this is what happened in the next election, that of the year 180¢, when party feeling ran very much higher than in 1796, and when electors were expected to concentrate their votes for second choice as well as for first choice—s0 that, it possible, the victorious party might win the vice presidency as well as the presidency. The uew party ma- chinery worked so well that whereas in 1796 there had been some electoral votes cast for a dozen or candidates, in 1800 there were seventy-three votes each for Jefferson and Burr, the democratic more can- didates (then more commonly known as republican), and sixty-five for John Adams the federalist, with sixty-four for Pinckney of South Carolina, the other federalist can- didate (John Jay of New York receiving one scattering federalist vote). Thus the democrats had carried the day and won both great offices: and it was, of course, their Intentfon that Jefferson should be president and Burr vice president Neveribeloagy since these two men had Lizzie and Vize Daly make a hit in their original dancing specalty and the popular kinodrome rounds out a pro gram of unusual merit with a number of new and interesting views Minco's Troendero— The Majestic, Burlesqie opened a week's engagement at Miaco's Trocadero yesterday to audiences that filled the house both afternoon and evening. Two amusing burlesques are presented, one to open and the other to close the show, and in there are a number of well rendered musi cal seloctions and the usval display of at tractively-garbed femininity | Jesste Padgham, a sweet singer, and who | hias been heard with appreciation in Omaha | before, is the best feature of the olio Mile. Ray's dancing sensation delights th audience aud several other turns of the program come In for liberal applause. There has never been a better show at the Trocadero, and this week's bill wili undoubtedly please the cllentele of the pop ular playhouse. JAMES SALMON HONORED Omaha Man One of the \ dents of the Natlona e Presi- Build Trades Council, CINCINNATI, Jan. 13.~Most of the of- fieers and many delegates have arrived for the annual convention of the Nutional Building Trades council, which convenes here tomorrow. There are 100 delegates and one of the principal matters for con sideration is the federation of all trades in the building industry. The headquarters of the national council are in St. Louis and the present officers are: President, | B. L. Smith, 8t Louls; vice president, J F. Harvey, Milwaukee; John Mangan, Chi cago; H. W. Sherman, Rochester; James Salmon, Omaha; Thomas Dyer, Clucinnati; J. F. Hughes, Pittsburg; secretary-treas- urer. H. W. Stelnbiss, St. Louis; organ- fzers, Edward Dawes, Illinois; John Coah- ley, Indlana; W. S. Fort, Indiana; A. H Harron, Texas; W. E. Ward, New Jersey; E. J. Mueller, Arkansas; M. J. Shea, Wis- consin, and J. A. Lord, New York Sulelde of Captain Stockwell, SHERIDAN, Wyo., Jan (Special.) News has been received here of the sulcido of Captain G. G. Stockwell, one of the best known citizens of Sherldan county, at the ranch of W. 8. Hardee, northeast of town It ix sald that Stockwell had been Il since the holldays and that his illness had un- balanced his mind. He shot himself in the mouth with a Winchester rifle, the same gun with which he killed a man named Welch not far from the spot on Goose Creek where he took his own life. Captain Stockwell was born in Simla, India, 81 years ago while his father, a ma- jor in the English army, was on duty at that place. Stockwell was educated i Wellington college and completed a course in the Sandhutst military school. He was glven @ captain's commission in the English army. After serving a few years, he re- signed and with a brother, came to Wyo- ming. The famous Beck ranch was pur- chased and for a time the brothers did quite well, but reverses overtook them and they sold the ranch. At the time of his death Stockwell interested in a number of good mines in section, from which he would, in a years, realize a fortune. was this tew Congreswman Martin Better. DEADWOOD, §. D., Jan. (Special.) Congressman W. Martin is slowly re- covering from an acute attack of pneu- monla, which came very near being fatal, Mr. Martin will be down fo his office in about ten days. He will be able to leave for Washington as soon as be had planned before his sickness, which will be about February 10, the recelved exactly the same number of votes, it became necessary, under the constitu- tion, for tha lower house of congress to select one of the two by ballot for presi- dent, the other thereby becoming vice president. Jefferson, as the real head of his party, was viewed with cspecial hos- tility by his political opponents. The de- feat of Jefferson had been the direct ob- ject of the federalists’' campaign. Naturally enough, since they were in control in the house, they were strongly tempted to favor Burr, and thus keep the Virginian in the role of vice president, which he bad been filling for nearly four years. Burr could have stopped the intrigue at once by re- fusing (o allow himself to be voted for, and by demanding that the intention of the people and of the electoral college should be carried out. But Burr habitually sacri ficed his honor to his ambition. The con test lasted for many days, and it was only on the thirty-sixth ballot in the house that Jeflerson obtained the requisite ma- Jority of the state delegations and was made president, Burr hecoming vice presi- dent It I8 not easy to change the constitution of the United States; but this scandalous deadlock aroused the country even to that point. It had come near making Burr president of the United States, and it had as one of its sequels the slaying by Burr of Alexander Hamilton, who more than any other man had been Influential in securing fustice for his own great opponent, Jeffer- son. It was plain that the constitution must be so amended that electors should vote, not for two presidential candi- dates, but for one man specifically for president and for another man for vice president. Accordingly, the twelfth amend- ment, under which presidents have been elected ever since, was framed and adopted by congress in December, 1803, and ratified by the requisite number of states in time to have effect in 1804, when the Jefferson and Clinton ticket was voted for by 162 out of a total of 176 electors. This election year of 1804 is notable In the history of American politics as the first in which regular nominations were made—not, however, by party conventions, but by congresslonal caucuses. The con- gressional caucus system was abandoned in the Jacksonlan period, when in 1828 Jackson's candidacy was indorsed by the action of state legislatures and innumer- able organizations and gatherings through- out the country. Four vears later, in 152 the period of great national party conven- tions began, which has lasted ever siuce. With the consolidation of parties by means of these representative national conven- tlons the selection of presidential candi- dates became a strict party function, and the men nominated in the several states to serve as presidential clectors became the representatives of the parties, with the universal understanding that if elected they would cast their votes for the preei- dential tickets of their respective organ- izations. Thus it has become a purely formal func- tion that the electors ordinarily exercise. But It is an office of dignity and honor. It 15 almost invariably conferred upon men whose selection 15 a tribute to their stand- ing as good citizens of high probity, es- teemed in their several communities. The trost reposed in them ha in any case been violated never In the election of 1872, the leading can- didates were General Grant and Horace Greeley. The republicans secured a large majority of the presidential electors. Be- fore the electors met, Horace Greeley was in bis grave. Since the democratic elec- JANUARY both 14, 1901, [OFF FOR SALT LAKE (ITY | Omaba Delegation Goes to National Live Btock Association, |SPIRITED STRUGGLE FOR NEXT MEETING has by all casting big vote seemingly has the advantage in the contest | [ary 2 | Pearson far the largest voting delegation ot state, Utah, Colorado and Nebraske in its favor, Omak GRACE BUCK IS KIDNAPED SUPREME COURT PROCEEDINGS Father from Omaba Said to Be Implicated dings of the supreme coutt Janu- ary 2, 1901 against pany, app al from Lancaster county; order | o appellant to fle cost bond and briets in . wenty days: dismissed nisi. Westervelt Representatives This Clty Tre-|against Baker, appenl from Hall county pared to Strong Arvgw- | Submitied on motlon (o consoiidate. Wa ment @ It in Expected Next | neta Implement Company against Gil Convention Will e Here, The Pacific express, which pulled out of | the Union depot over the Union Pacific rail roud at 4:20 yesterday afternoon, was flled | with & jolly and determined party of Omaha business men. They were Jolly because they were off on a jaunt out of the routine | of their everyday business aud they were | determined because they had their minds | made up 1o bring to Omaha a couvention | of from 8,000 to 10,000 prosperous gentle- | men next year The party is destined for Salt Lake City whero the annual convention of the Na tional Live Stock association opens next Tuesday. There will be nearly 10,000 peo ple in attendance, representing not ouly the great live stock states of the west, but the kindred interests of the east and south. ¥ el of Delegation. Omaha delegation consists of J. A Hake, president of the South Omaha Live Stock exchange; W. B. Clark, Alma Jack son, W. H. Jones, J. 8 Hoon, A. Garrow, Al Powell, James Bonner, J. B, Blanchard, Charles Burke, Nat Huston, W. J. Perry, A. C. Davenport, J. 8, Coffman, J. B. Ralin, r The | George W. Plattner, F. E. Sanborn. George Moorehead, William Krug, Willlam L. Campbell, E. V. Lewis, J. W. Carpenter, John €, Knox, A, . Marriott, Rome Miller, W. H. Colling, John Iler, C. J. Lane, W. E, Wood, Scott Davis, J. A, Kuhn and James 1. Paxton. These gentlemen will extend to the Live | Stock assoclation a most cordial and press- ing invitation to meet in Omaha next year, resenting the claims of this city before t paign—in which every delegate with a vote will be talked to confidentially and im- preesively by an Omaha man. A private letter received in this city from C. F. Martin of Denver, secretary of | the fonal Live Stock assoctation, intl- | that Omaha* will not secure next year's convention without a struggle, as a Vigorous fight will be put up by several othe A struggle is much to the liking of the Omaha adherents, and they are golug fo| cities which covet the prize. Salt fight Lake prepared to put up a winning Fortit with ¥ Their ammunition is of the best, consist- ing of sound arguments showing that Omaha, on account of being the most ac cessible point in the great western stock- fecding country, on account of it8 immense stock yards and packing houses and its solid market, and on account of its splen Aid auditorium the proper place for the big convention of the stockmen. Louis and Chicago, it understood, will also put forth claims for the convention, but it is not considered possible for any one of them to put up a | more effective argument than that to be advanced in behalf of Omaba. The dele- gates from Nebraska to former conventions of the association favored Fort Worth, Tex., and Salt Lake City in the enmpaigos 10 which they were successful, and this yoar the Texas and Utah men are expocted to rally round the Omaha standard. 1. i¢ understeod that Omaha will also have th support of the Colorado delegation, as Den- . of Kansas City, St w the Electors Express ver is not a candidate. With Texas, which People’s Wil tors were in a minority, they dia not at- | tempt to concentrate absolutely upon any one clse, although about two-thirds of them voted for Mr. Hendricks of Indiana. | Hardware Company, appeal from Chase county; order on appeliant to serve and file briefs in twenty days; dismissed nisl. Me Cullough ngainet Dovey, appeal from Cass county; advanced. Brown against Collins, error from Luncester county; order on plaintift to file cost bond in twenty days; dismissed nisi. Harrison aguinst Carr, a peal from Lancaster county; order on ap- pellant 1o file and serve briefs In twenty days. dismissed rnisl. Willlams against Taylor, appeal from Lancaster county; of: der on’appellant to file ¢ st bond in twenty Jismissed nisi. Stato ugainst Chi St Paul, Minneapolls & Omaha Rail way Company: dismissed as per stipulation MeKinney against Giassburn, appeal from Wheeler county; order on appellant to serve and file briefs I thirty days; dismissed nisi order for issuance of summopgs, notwith. | standing waiver thereof by couffty attorney Brown agalnst Colling, appeal from Lan: caster; order on appellant to file cost_bond In twenty davs. Omaha Loan and Trust Company against Wunderwald, appeul from Buffalo county; leave to file additional tran- county: order ofi appellunt to file cost bond and briefs in twenty dave; dismissed nisi President and Directors of Tnsurance Com pany of North America against I s appeal from Lancaster county: order on appellant (o eerve und file briefs in ninety days; dismissed nisi; motion to dismiss for 0t of cost bond’ overruled. ~ Doherty against Linn, error from Douglas county advanced, Hooker against President and Directors Insurance Company North Amer- fea, error from Lancaster county; order on appellant to serve and flle briefs in ninety days. Tripp against Dawes County, error from Dawes county: order for jseuance of summons, notwlthstanding walver thereof by county attorney, Kear agalnst Eastern Bullding and Loan / tion, appeal from convention with the best eloquence their | Luncaster county hmitted on motion to Jarty affords. Before the flow of eloquence | AISMIss. Patton against Burris, ert party affor comme. the | Valley county’ dismissed by plaintiff. Cran fn the convention, however, will come the | gainat Roseengren, appeal from Douglas most important work—the button-hole cam- | county; _dismissed by appellant. Holt against Schnelder, appeal from Lancaster county; mdvanced, Tecumseh National Bank against Mol error from Johnson anced; motion to afirm deni inst 'Gilbert, error from Cass county; advanced; order on plaintff to fle briofs in ten dayd dismissed nist. Martin against Conn 1, error trom Dixon county submitted on motion to quash bill of ex ceptions. te against Omaha National Bank, error from Douglas county; leave to file wmended petition instanter; advanced for hearing at first sitting in March; leave 0 plaintift “to file additional transcript State ex rel Seth Thomas Clock Company gainst Commissioners of Cass County; submitted on motion of plaintiff to vacate order sustaining motion to modity opinjon heretofore made and submitted on motion for order directiug costs in supreme cour &nd in district_court taxed to plaintif. 18 against Oshorn, appeal from Doug- county: time for appellant to file brief on_motion’ for rehearing nded thirty days. Poska agalnst Stearns, error from Lancaster county: submitted on suggestion of diminution, Weltzheimer inat Flsher motion confessing error, r sting vaca- tion of decres of district’ cours iving re h 4 for order of reversal; with- drawn. rpenter against City of Red Cloud, error from Webster county; order on Intiff 1o serve and file briefs in uinety days. Bvans aguinst Dworak, appeal from Antelope_county: submitted on motion to affirm. Manley against MeDermott, error from Buffalo: order denying reheating to vacate; rehearing d; mandate re- called.’ State ex Spreacher against quo warranto_dismissed by plain- Hff. Safling agalnst Salling. appeal from Sarpy county; conditional order of diminsal made ahsolute. Stuart agafnst Burchum, appeal from Lancaster county; submitted on motion substitution. Conkling against Wertz, appeal from Douglas county; submitted on motion to quash bill of exception. Jasper Walker of Buffalo county was ad- mitted to practice {n the supreme court on motion of W. D. Oldham. The following causes were submitted on br Keeley Institution of Virginia ngainst Wade, error Washington; Ruankers™ Life Assoclation agafnst Commissioper Douzlag County, error Douglas; Globe Loun and Trust compuny agalnst Biler, uppeal Doud- las; McCormick Harvester Manufacturing mpany against 1 Otoe: Johi vis, orr nst Connell, appenl Douglas; Steinberg st Bufin,’ error Lancaster; Watson winst Cowler, error Otoe. following cases wero affirmed ander Busick against Clark, ereor Chas>, ollowing cises wers argued wnd sub Nautlonal Bank of Commerco againt Kinkead, appeal Douglas: Veeder agninut A question that naturally arises 1s, What would have happened if it had been Gen eral Grant, rather than Mr. Greeley, who had died? Probably the republican na- tional convention that had nominated Grant | would have been called together ngain at | once to make a nomination, on th standing that the whole party, including, | of course, the republican electors the selves, would abide by the result of conventiou's work. This solution, of course, presupposcs a sufficient interval between the death of the | successful candidate and the meeting of the | slectoral college. Several hypothetical questions must at once occur the thoughtful mind. It may suffice to suggest | n single one of these. Suppose President McKinley should meet sudden death in a railroad wreck on the morning of the 14th of January, previous to the meeting of the electors. Congress might instantly sus- pend the rules and pass a bill postponing, let us 8ay tor two woeks, the meeting of the under- | the to presidential electors. This would give the republican party time to select another candidate But in the failure of congress to act with such rapidity, the electors would be obliged to mect and vote. irst, let us suppose that all or most of these electors had not heard the sad news. In that case they would have voted, of course, for M- | Kinley. When congress came to count the votes In February, two radically different ovinlons might be presented. One opinion would be that the McKinley votes should be counted for president and the Roosevelt otes for vice president, but that Mr. Roosevelt must at once take the oath of office as president. The other view would be that the McKinley votes were null and vold, and that the only votes that could be counted for president would be the 155 cast for Mr. Bryan. In the case of the election of 1872, three Georgia electors voted for Mr. Greeley, although he was dead. When the votes were being counted, Senator Hoar of Massachusetts objected to these three votes, and the two houses had to act sepa- rately on the objection. One sustained Mr Hoar and the other did not. The conse- | quence was that the three votes were thrown out. In our hypothetical case, hoth | houses being republican, it is probable that | it would be decided to count the votes as they were cast for McKinley, and to allow the vice president, Mr. Roosevelt, to take the oath of office as president. This would carry out the Intention of the country; for, as everyone knows, the object of choos- Ing the vice president is to provide a man who in case of the death of the president is prepared at once to agsume the executive funcilons The constitution itselt does not fix the date for the assembling of electors. The present date—namely, the second Monday in January—was fixed by act of congress, as also the date—the second Wednesday In February—when the electoral votes are to be counted at Washington. Improvemeuts law that in the provides for the counting of the electoral votes have done away with some uncertainties that previously existed. | Whoth rds the existing the best, It eystem as theoretically is cer- tainly In no mauner discreditable. It is not destined to early change, moreover, and it 15 by far too Important—even though to so great an extent a merely formal in- stitution--to be allowed to fall into any greater obscurity than now envelops it in the general wind. McKinley-Lanning Loar and Trust Com- pany, appeal Hall; John agalnst Connall, appenl Douglas, leave to appellant John) to filo briefs insty Dryden agalist appeal Bu submitted on i tiong to advance and suggestion of dimin tion: Bullard against Norrls, mandam leave to relator to file briefs in fifteen days and to_responlent to file briefs n thiriy days; State agalnst Missourl Pacifie Raif 1'Company, original, pagsed to January Anst Chicago, Rock Taland ry 6; Bank ru o Stockham crror Hamilto passed 1o Jan againgt Al ry 15: Dy s more against State, argued and xubmitied Gardner against Burk, error Jlajne, passed | t0 February b; Jerome ngaist Stafe, error Dodge, passed for thirty i Dodge {3 against Acom, errcr Dodus, passed January 15; Howell against Stafe, error Nemaha, passed to thirty caye Feet, Detroit Journal: In the dance T trod upon my beloved's toes. upid,” she hisse “Alas!" quoth I, profoundly shocked at this display of temper. “Are they my idol's feet of clay?" “Well, they're not castiron, I tell you those!" exclaimed the beantiful girl, with heat in her voice, I tried to laugh, but there was a chill at my heart High Grade Pianos—— Are the cheapest in the end, as they are bound to give you absolute satisfac- tion—so many planos are sold which are CALLED HIGH GRADE, but you eannot make a mistake when you select such planos as the Knabe, Kranich & Bach, Kimball, Hallet & Davis, Need- ham, McPhall and other similar makes, which we are carrylng—Come and look over our immense stock and be convineed that you are getting the very best value for your money. A. HOSPE, WMusic aad At 1613 Dovglas. Mechanic's Shoes— Are necessarily made of much heavier Jeather and with heavy soles on ac- count of the rough usage they av bound to receive. We have a bheavy g-sole mechanic's shoe, made of good, honest leather and made the shape o the foot, in the plain round toes, lace ouly, that we have priced at only $2.00 The uppers of this shoe will stund two pair of half soles—and we recommend them to those who have to be on their feet much Drexel Shoe Co., caster county; erder on appellant to ille cost bond in twenty days. Bacon against Dawes County, error from Dawes county; | seript; submitted on motion to dimiss. Chicago, Burlington & Quiney Raflwny Company against Yost, error from rork county; advanced to be on call for first | sitting ‘in February. Real Estate Company against Fawell, wppeal from Lancaster & | Railrond Company, passed to Feb: | | Cheston against Wilson, appeal from Lan- | | in the Affair, Badger Lumber Com-| HAS BEEN LIVING APART FROM HIS WIFE She Attends n Danee | Denver a She Returns Home Mer “Yenr-01d Daughter In Gone. DENV Colo., Jan. 13.—(Special Tele gram.) ~The culmination of the trouble in the Buck family was the kidnaping of 7 year-old Grace Buck last nlght Charles Buck and his wife For a year ave been 1iving apart, he in Omaha, she here in Denver, in & room at the Temple block, Colfax ave nue and B street. Mrs, Buck has had cus tody of the child Last night, accompanied by her sister she attended a dance. When they returned Grace was not to be found. On investigation she discovered that during her absence Mrs. Buck's brother-in-law allowed the father, who came from Omaha, to take the chlld. Mre. Buck applied to Captain Arm strong of the detectives for assistance The only Charles Buck whose name a ears In the Omaha directory lives at 2023 las street and {s a traveling salesman in the employ of a local wholesale candy house. A call at this number brought to the door a Mrs. Charles Buck, who denied all knowledge of any Denver kidnaping and stated that she and her husband have no children Rewnrd for Alnnama Kidnaper, BIRMINGHAM, A Jan. 13.-Captain N. H. Frazer of Unlon Springs today cf fered through Chief of Police Albion Hixon of that place $500 reward for the return of his son, Bass Frazer, who is supposed to have been kidnaped from school in At lanta. His offer follows by offer a reward of 00 for Bass lead or allve, a student of the AtlantaTechnological ‘sehool, who disan- ared from tl Saturday evening, Janu ary 6 The monev fs on deposit at he Merchants' and Farmers' hank of Union Bpringe, Ala. Al communieations should be addressed 1o me at Union Springs De werd) of Busk Frazer: Ninoteen years old, five fect eleven fnches tall. 145 pornd welght, black, wavy hair, heavy bearded for his' age, close-xhaven and had no viee wears No. 7 hat, No. e, winlks erce and his face full, scar on face’ and on fore head right under halr. No additional {n formation s necessary. N 1L PRAZER Thrent of Ki SIOUX CITY, la., Jan. 13.—(Special Tele gram.)—Joseph A man who Nebraska, ye large has recelved a that plans are being 11-year-old son. Joe. over to Chief of Police clined to think a promient livery ranch in eastern note of warning made to kidnap his He turned the note Nelson, who Is in someone who has heen a ing about Pat Crowe is trying to havs a little sport. Mre. Foye i cled and the boy i being closaly owns a greatly wo watched. 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