Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 25, 1901, Page 2

HA DAILY BEE. JANUARY THE OMA OMATIL FRIDAY MORNING KING'S DEBTS MUST BE P"”fTROflPS KILL THEIR COLONEL People May e Asked (o Sh ird Tasation for Royal Pay. SINGLE cory BIG Fullerton Man Rallies His Reserves for the Bupreme Effort. PAGE ARE RE_ RECRUITING | WOULD (UT OUT GOD'S NAME atisfed Element to | Against Soldiers. SOUTH M'ALISTER, 1. T Yes terday's reports of A CHoCtaw uprising are | tully confirmed. Scouts sent out from this | | city last night report that the dissatisfiod | Choctaws have a number of the Creek | |8 | Snakes among them and they have been . quietly organizing and arming for some | BYVErY Effort Belng Made to Harry the time. They call themselves the Choctay | COnslderation of the Document Snakes. They comprise all those Indians hat It May Be who are opposed to allotment and the con Congress at W, INDIANS to Lnite HERALDED AS KING — [ Publio Proclamation of Edward's Ascension Made with Btately 8how in London, CONDITION OF THE WEATHER recast for Nebraska— Fair and \Warmar Today: Southerly Winds; Saturday fair ilder the NEIRLEJOHN DAY Appeal o | Pody of Venezuelan Boldiers Mutiny and Beveral Hundred Are Arrested, IS SUNK BY GUNBOAT Delegates Object to Invceation to Deity in Cuba's New Conatitution, perature at Omaha Yesterday: Dew. 20 (Copyright LONDON blegram cortain sorene at the way th the picturesque procl tion in stated in all the papers was 10 % Jro ce hegan lock S imes' | palace and were rushed through at tHe dif- | by (New York World Ca There s a| 2 general publi & “eated out of | King's hont Press Publishing ¢ ’ ATHEISTS MAKE PLEA TO NO PURPOSE ek, BRITISH SLOOP CEREMONIES RECALL MEDIEVAL TIMES Thousands of Boldiers, Life Guards and Horse Guards Add to Bpectacls, RUNS HIS TOTAL VOTE TO THIRTY-ONE Only Four Votes Behind Thompeon in His Grand Total . London Lost Veanel Wan Londed | f Arms and Military Supplies Intended for the Revol tlonnry Party. dings at 9 o at MOURNING TOKENS GIVEN SOMBER YONE? YT [ New Monarch Absents Himself from the Pageantry Done in His Honor, PEOPLE RAISE GREAT SHOUT OF LOYALTY Brilliant and o Assembinge in the Conrt the Halconies of Marl- horough House Doring the Performun LONDON, Jan. 24.--London today was Biven a glimpse of mediaeval times. The quaint ceremonies with which King Edward VII was prociaimed at various points of the metropolfs exactly followed anclent prece- dents. The officials purposely arranged the function an hour ahead of the published sonouncement, and the inhabltants, when they awoke, were surpriscd to find the en tire way between St. James palace and the city lined with troops. About 10,000 sol- diers, Life guards, Horse guards, Foot guards and cavalry and Infantry regiments, had been brought from Aldershot and Lon don barracks after midnight. All the off cers had crepo on their arms and the drums and brass fostruments were shrouded with ¢ The troops themselves made an im posing spectacle, but they entirely eclipsed by the strange spectacle presented by the officials of the College of Arms. Text of Proclnmat mony began at §1. James palace. where, at 9 o'clock, Edward VII was pro tlalmed king of the United Kingdom of | Great Britaln and Ireland and emperor of | Indla. The proclamation, which was read | by Willlam Henry Weldon, king-at-arms | since 1894, and formerly Windsor herald, was s follows Whereas, It to call to' his Queen Vietor!; memory, by were The ¢ Almighty God Juto soverelgn, of blessed and glorious | whose decease the imperial crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is solely and rightfully | come to the high and ghty Prince Albert rd, we, therefore, the lords, spiritual | mporal, of this realm, being here as. With those of her late majesty's ¥ councll, with num of other pr gentlemen of quality, the lord mayor, wen_and citizens of ‘London, do now hereby, with one volce, consent of tongue and heart to publish and prociaim that the hlgh and mighty Prince Albert Edward is | now, by the death of our laie soverelgn of happy memory, becoms our only and rightful lelke Tord, Kdward VI f God, King of t United eat Hritain and Ire the falth, emperor of India wcknowledge all falth ence with all hearty and humble uffection, bemeeching God, by whom all kings and aone velgn to bless the roval Pringo Edwardt VIL with loug and happy years to Teign over us. King Not Present. kiug was not present. was a large assemblage of officials and heralds. Among those in at- tendance were General Roberts and members of ble headauarters’ staff an formerly Windsor harali. There was a great concourse of peoplo from the commence- ment to the close. The proclamation was grected by a fanfare of trumpers. At the conclusion of the ceremonics the band bo- longing to the Foot Guards in the friary court played “God Save the King. The | members of the king's household witnessed | the ceremony from Marlborough house. On | the balcony overlooking tho friary court, | whonee the proclamation was read, were the duke of orfolk and other officers of state. Tho balcony was draped in crim- son cloth. Heside the officials, in resplen- dont uniforms, were stationed the state trumpeters. Here were seen many | prominent persons, among them Sir Henry | Arthur White, private solicitor the queen, the prince of Wales and other mem- bers of the royal family. | Idiers Cheer the King. In the yard of Marlborough house and triary court were stationed a large body of police, soldiers and foot guards. The Foot Guards acted as a guard of honor and th were posted immediately beneath the bal- cony. A large crowd witnessed the cere- mony. The spectators began to assemble t an early hour. The troops arrived at 8 o'clock, and shortly before 9 o'clock ‘in the morming a brilllant cavalcade passe down the Mall and entered Friary court It consisted of the headquarters staff, headed by General Roberts in full uniform and carrylng o marshal's baton. Sir Evelyn Wood and nine court dignitaries, headed by the duke of Nortolk, appeared on the balcony. Then the heralds blew fanfare and King-at-Arms Weldon, fn the midst of a dead silence, read the proclama tlon. Al heads were bared, and as the reading was concluded the King-at-arms, raising his three-cornered hat, cried loudly, “God save the king.' Crowd Jolns the Cry, The crowd took up the cry, while the cheers, the fanfares of trumpets and the band playlng the mational anthem made a curious medley King-at-Arms Weldon read the proclamation in clear tones which were distinctly heard at u great distance. The great crowds still thronged the streets through which his majesty passed and the great cheering was in strong contrast with the silence which greeted his majesty's ar- rival in London Orders have been issued to the channel squadron and a.l other available ships to assemble at Spithead February 1, the date of the removal of Queen Victorfa’s body from Osborne It is understood that the war ships will form a double line, through which the royai yacht, bearing the body, will pass. s IN THE CHAMBER OF DEATH ~ Are Likely has n pleased rey our wri clpa alde The There to Private Funeral Ser to Be Hel, COWES, Isle of Wight, Jan m.—So hampered have been the arrange- ments at Osborne that the body of Queen Victoria still lies in the bedroom where she died. The elaborate decorations neces- sary in turning the dining room In Osborne house into a chappelle ardente occupled so much time that, although the royal house hold waited hour after hour for the first private service, it was found impossible to | hold this yesterday. ANl being well, however, the solemn func- tlon will be performed this (Friday) morn- fug by the bishop of Winchester in the presence of King Edward, Emperor Wil- Mam and almost every other member of the royal family, The coffin was brought to Osborne last (Continued on Second Page.) | i the 1 | mained in the rc | ehanber, gi ferent prescribed places—Charing Temple Bar ide and Royal ex change celerity of Cross, the that diminutive of the Cheap with such was tions offie Thi the s feared the in It the prec aneral arrangement are a complete departure from queen’s | redece The Windsor castle been 180 crowd might become being when William 1V Windsor Character to propor was court they performed throng would be be great dif in their ge trumpeters through tillous regard for object that there getting the tab treet hour the would heralds and the No pune hown hich of the Iying tate s, in at loned be the ageable, the circums different from the then there was no railway The giving of a military funeral is of course 4n view of the recruiting e exige King Wa The poses to ask | £ Increa s Migher Wakes, that rliament that annum allow 4 to half a million sidered most inopportunc, in view of heavy.taxation and the financial burdens of unknown magnitude facing gland Africa, but the bts are put at £2,000,000 be pald ority of them were incurred on the dertaking that they must cortainly be charged on his ascending the throne. Any iner of the king's civil list will cer taluly be met with strong opposition in the House of Commons in the of national finance The city nant at the slight put upon the at tho proclamation mecting of the privy council Wednesday. When the proclama tion been signed the procedure is for ali those not privy councillors to leaye room before the king's entry to proclamation read to him. His presence constitutes the body of king's privy councit. The lord mayor lingering on when the other non-privy councillors re tired and had to be bidden almost per- ptorily to leave by the duke of Devon shire before he reluctantly retired. A curi- ous fact s that precisely the same incid Lappened at Queen Victoria's proclamatios The council and lord mayor ther re and had to be ardered eville, the diarlst council. “The city corpora- it has been shorn of one of its but the law officers declare the: had the privilege wife of a workman on whe was' admitted to a touchingly sin announcement the | pro 5,000 per 1 the queen be sterling 1s con South King which must at a un dis present condition fatiers are exce stvely indig- lord mayor has the was be 100, out by Charles ( was clerk to the tion contend privileges, neves Th ostate, " the Oshorne the death e picture of the scene. Nev e the Deathhed “What 1 hiad expocted to see,” she says, “‘was a great glided chamber, and I thought the bed would be more like a throne than a bed, with a lot of candles 11t all around and bishops praying, which an im- pression 1 got from a picture in an llus- trated paper when a foreign king once died. I was there only a few minutes, and all the time was looking at the form lying on the bed. 1 saw one piciure, though there may have been m J 1 should not like to say. This was pleture of Christ and was hanging on the hall by the bed; that is, just over the head I erept up to the bed and looked at the face. My thought was, ‘How calm and happy she is looking, like a person in beautiful The face had a soft, thin material over it that you could look through, but you could see the face plainly, and what 1 read in the papers I should think was quite right I mean that she passed peacefully with 1y pain At the bottom of the bed were flowers and some wreaths and some loose ones. Her dear hands were folded pther and higher up there a cross. 1 suppose It was of gold I remember the rings had not been taken off the fingers. After the first minute my tears got in the way of my ing any- thing properly Another eyewitness said “It was like the figure of a child, not a woman, 80 small and faded was it. I fre quently saw the queen here, year after year, and this season she seemed to shrink away, but I was not prepared for the trans formation of the last w days' seve ness and death. Tho change had made the fact almost emaciated, und it had the pallor one expects to find, but the whole form seemed tiny, No one was allowed to stop except to kneel, but the impression left was one of sublime peace and beauty, and of the vanity A velled figure posite side from where we passed. 1t was Princess Beatrice, who cannot be torn away from the room was sloep. away there was of human grentness. clded On=To De Mil- tary, in Accordance with Queen's Wish, COWES, Isle of Wight, Jan. 24.—-12:30 p. m.—It has been decided that the funeral of the queen will take place Windsor castle, February 2. The body of the late queen will be removed from Oshorne house February 1. It was the expressed desire of the queen that the funer uld be mili tary in character. Several officfals arrived from Windsor this morning, bringiug the state regalia. 1t was carried in a baize bag he coffin of Queen Victoria will be of English oak, lined with satin. It was or dered here this afternoon and s to be de livered at Osborne tonight. The will be a reproduction of the one used at the funeral of the duchess of Kent the queen’s mother A magnificent satin pall, with the royal arms in each corner, is being made. Wherever It traverses roads the will be borne on a gun carringe Emperor Willlam decided this even!ng not to leave Osborne till after the funeral LONDON, Jan m.—1It is under- stood that the progress of the hody of Queen Victorla through London will be an imposing military pageant and that mem- bers of the House of Lords and Commons will be invited to follow the body. At same time there seems to be some appre hension lest a change of decislon should omit the London portion of the program. The Daily Telegraph editorially claims for London the right to #hare in the obse- quies, and declares ‘that nothing but the dead one's wishes should prevent this. The announcement of the fureral has been de- layed to enable all foreign representatives to arrive at Windsor on time. It Is an nounced that the Grand Duke the grand duchess will come to be present at the ceremony, ) a body 25.—4:30 a the crowd | the ceremonlal | | the | during the | hear the | who | Harris was the son of Harry Harris, man- re ll- | [TIEN TSIN AS MILITARY BASE was kneeling by the bed on the op- | |WEST INDIA MEAT MARKET outer | the | ergius and trom Russia FORT DE FRANCE, Island of Martinique, Jan. 24.—On the 1ith of this month the Venezuelan troops in the Hoyo barracks | at Caracas mutinied and killed their colo- uel, lieutenant colonel and seven men and fled in various directions. Two bun- | dred and ten of the men were captured agaln. There was no fighting in the town and the exact cause of the mutiny is not known No accurate gurding the Maria Teresa Miranda details are obtainable re- sinking of the British sloop by the Venezuelan gunboat It is supposed the Maria Teresa was on her way from the British island of Trinidad with a cargo of arms, intended for the Venezuelan revolutiopists, and that she was met by the Miranda, which, wishing to take possession of her, fired on her and in wo doing set her on fire, afte which she sank, according to one report the insurrection appears to be localized between Cumana and the extreme | northeast of Venezuela The insurgents | have taken possession of Cerupano and | the evening of January 21 there | was a tentative uprising in the neighbore hood of Barcelona Calw prevalls in the west, but a number | being made and the revolu- | appear to be concentrating at | ev of tionists Curacon ARTIST ENDS LIFE'S MISERY | nE American Painter, Thought to | Be from Kansas Clty, Drowns in the Se PARIS. Jan. 24.—The remains of a young man of refined features, which have been | in the morgue since January 12, when they | were found floating in the Seine, have been identified as those of Langrel Harys, an artiet well knewn iu the American colony. The United States consulate officials are attempting to locate his relatives. His | father is supposed to be Henry Harys of | 5 Lydia avenue, Kansas City. He lived here at the Hotel de France, and at Cholseul. He was only able to make a precarfous living by the brush and debts began to annoy him. He owed a bill of | francs at the hotel, which was pressed | ayment. 1t is belleved financlal dis- ed to his suicide. He was last seen allve at midnight January 11, arrests a Well Known in Kansas City. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 24.—Thomas L. ager of the Laning-Harris Coal and Grain company of this city. Mr. Harrls received a letter from his son from Paris a month ago and at that time the boy was well. Thomas Harrls was 24 years old and hail been in Paris for a year and a half. His fafhier says be bad been studyiag at there, but he does not know at what achool. Tho last time the son wrote he directed that an answer be sent in care of a bank in Parts. The young man's full name was Thomas Langrel Harris. He was eccentrie and It is believed he changed the spelling of his name. Harris created rather a sensation among Americans in London by his hold blds for fame and fortune and his extra- ordinary ability to meet noted persons in the literary and artistic world. Harris taught art here for some time and did a Ilttle newspaper work occasionally. He left Kansas City about 1898 and went first nada. In Canada he taught portrait painting. Next he was heard of in London a painter of miniature portralts for persons of fashion. DESOLATION elire "IN MONTREA eaves Center Portlon of City Ruined, Thirty Warehouses Being Destroyed. MONTREAL, Jan. 24.—Business 1s prac- tieally stagnated in Montreal as a conse- quence of the disastrous fire last night in the center portion of the city, which is | a scene of desolation. The Board of Trade walls are still standing, but the building is otherwise completely destroyed, though it was supposed to be fireproof. The other buildings are masses of ice and charred ruin. The total loss will be $2,500,000. Altogether about thirty bulldings, chiefly wholesale warehouses, were destroyed, to- gether with their valuable stocks, A wan named Rosen, a tallor, and an- other named Wilson are missing and it is feared they perished, Work Now Most w ing On leates Thy f the Troops at Pekin 1 Be Embarked, TIEN TSIN, Jan. 4.—Preparations are being made in Tien Tsin to make it a mili- tary base for the coming spring and sum- mer, when it 1 belleved a majority of the 1roops In Pekin will encamp in this nelgh- borhood, preparatory to gradual embarka- tion. Great quanties of ice are being storea and options are being obtained upon & ma- Jority of the large buildings in the foreign concessions. German Syndieate with Octopus De- &n% Buys Great Tract of Land attle, CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 24.—(Via Hay- tien Cable)—A Hamburg syndicate has purchused the estate of the late President Crespo in the Orinoco district. It has an area of 10,000,000 acres and upon it there are 80,000 head of cattle. The syndicato Intends to cortrol the meat market of the West Indies and also the packing industry. ¥ e Would Sell Them. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 24.—During the de bate on the budget in the Folkething (lower house of Parliament) today the chalrman of the finance committes announced that a majority of the committee were disposed to sell the Danish West Indles to the United States It satisfactory conditions were ob- talnable. He added that from a purely economic standpoint It was advisable to sell the islands, as they cost the treasury more than they were worth, Russian Court ouruing. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 24.—The czar left Livadia yesterday on the royal yacht, tak- ing a train for Sebastopol, leaving in the | evening for St. Petersburg, where the court goes in mourniug Operation on Kruger's Eyes, UTRECHT, Jan. 24.—An operation was performed on Mr. Kruger's eves by Profs | ratiroads Nelen and Dhreymans. The operation way perfectly successtul, a fict is between them and the treaty In- | dians. While non-citizens are not in danges it is stated that the Snakss have planned to destroy all the rallroads in their nution by burning bridges and section hou a preconcerted night. They hav Governor Duke and iseued an or citizens to cease leaxing or renting whites. The first offense they will punish with fitty lashes, they sayi ears vill cut off for the second offense and death for the third. They have organized and have leaders in every (‘hoctaw county and claim td have a membership of 2600 United States Marshal Grady has sent the leaders word that arrests will follow the firat violation of the law, no maticr what may be the result. He has wired the de- partment for permission to sweer in spe clal deputies and If this {s granted he says he will be able to bandle them and will not ask for troops There Is to be a meeting of the bloods on Saturday and the marshal says he will attend it it he can and give the Indians a talk. The Indians are riding over the country In bamds of five or six, serving their notices. General Superintend- full- ent Harrfs of the Choctaw rallway, who was | here last night from Little Rock, has en- Joined especial watchfulness upon all em- ployes of the line iu the Indlan Territory Dukes Heturning to Muskogee, FORT SMITH Ark, Jan. 24.—Choctaw Governor G. W. Dukes, who has been in the city all week as an attorney in the Towne murder case, left tonight for Muskogee to Investigate the reported Snake Indlan up rising among the Choct He said just before his departure “I am going to Muskoges to personally view the situation. 1 do not belleve the con- ditlon in the Indian country is as bad as stated, even among the Creeks, and as for 1ay people, while there may be a few fool- ish enough to join the uprising, as a whole they are too law-abiding to do so. So far as we are concerned there will be no need to call for government troops. There can be no doubt, however, that the Snakes are rising, as trouble has been brewing among them for soveral months."” Governor Dukes was shown the dispatch | Great Cane ¥ from South McAlester sgating that he had | been deposed by the fullbloods. e seemed nettled and said ) “That is the first I hi%e heard of it. But 1 am governor and T will remain so. How ever, 1 will investigatéthls when I get Muskogee. As to the'imessage sent me telling of my removal, {t 8 o canard, pure and simple. The statarjat that I came here to telegraph for spé®ial Indian police 18 t00 foolish to be belfgyed,’ Requent fo CHANDLER, 0. T Tilghaman, sherift of requested Governor %0 companies of protect citizens living' Oklak:oma, —— CHEAP TICKETS TO Trunk 4.—William -/ county, has 0 order out militya to e east line "BUFFALO Line and Central ¥ oclation Making Up Pan- Americnn Schedule., NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—Another meeting was held today by the committees of the Trunk Line and Central Passenger assocta- tions at the Trunk Line offices here, to discuss the special rates to be fixed by the reacning Buffalo, or with con- nections to that point during the period of the Pan-American exposition this year. The joint subcommittee agreed to make the following recommendations concerning passenger rates to Buffalo during the Pan- American exposition: For tickets from Chicago to Buffalo and return, good during the season, standard, $21.60; differential, $19.20, For tickets from Chicago to Buffalo and return, good for fifteen days only, standard, $18; differential, $16. For tickets from Chicago to Buffalo and return, good for five days only, standard, $14; differential, $13, The committee also recommended the es- tablishment of a three-day excursion rate from territory hereafter to be determined, to Buffalo, of about 1 cent a mile. DEATH FOR THE KIDNAPERS Missour! Extreme Omaha New Governor Advocates Panishment, Citing © an Proof of Need. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Jan. 24.—Gov- ernor Dockery sent a message to the legis- lature today advocating the passage of a law {nflicting the death peralty in cases ot kiduaping for ransom. He referred to the Omaha case and said It showed the necessity for the passage of such a law. Governor Dockery's communication reads as follows: To the senate and ty ment of a law which Wil permit the in- flietion of the death penalty in cases of Kidnaping for ransoni. The recent atrocic crime in’ our slster state of Nebraskn strongly appeals for the passage of such a law. T am sure it will be cordfally ap proved by every father and mother in this state. Under our statutes train robbery is properly punishable by death or imprison- ment (i the state penltentiary, It seems that the erime of child robbery for the pur- pose of rausom should be prohibited under penalties us severe as the crime of train robbery. A. M. DOCKER —_————— GOOD THING SHRINKS UP ieneral Organicer 0'Den of the Brick- layers' Unton Replies to His Traducers. MILWAUKEE, Jan. 24.—At today's ses- slon of the Bricklayers' and Masons' In ternational union General Organizer Thomas O'Dea replied to the charges made that he had derived benefits to the extent of $10,000 during his eight months' incumbency. Mr. O'Dea made lengthy talk and stated that his revenues amounted to less than $1,200, At the afternoon session the per capita tax of the Chicago union for twenty-two weeks prior to the strike or lockout was ordered to be placed to the credit of that union for the coming year. The aggregate of the tax amounts to about $2,500. A resolution was adopted that subordinate unions be urged to establish mortuary tunds The matter ot organizing a union in Porto Rico was under discussion, but nothing fiual was decided upon Want the Water Themaelves, WICHITA, Kan., Jan, #.-Several dele- ates from 'Arkanaas river towns are in Wichita today devising means to prevent Colorado irrigation companies from river water for frrigation and thus depriyv. ing the Arkansas valley of sublirrigation, I respectfully urze the speedy enact- | be | clause in th | | house of representa- | PATents of Little Alonzo | amend was defeated | tution to a comp | over using | with the prosecution have HAVANA, Jan The Cuban constitu tlonal convention began the draft of the constitution recently submitted by the cen tral committee. It was decided to accept the draft as a whole and then to discuss it to | article by article. Senor Clsneros moved to strike out a preamble invoking the faver of God. He said he had not religion him- self and took no exception to the religious | bellefs of others, but that the constitution recognized no religlon and that in his opin- ion there no reason for {nvoking the deity Senor M ported Senor Clsneros General Sanguily said: “If wo do not in voke God, whom can we invoke? An In vocation of some kind {8 customary Senor Llorente strenuously motion of Senor Cisneros, declariog that all constitutions contained such a clause. The convention rejected the proposal of Senor Clsneros. The first two articles republic and describing the territory Cuba dopted without discussion “tro moved to amend the ar- calling for the division of Cuban ter ritory into provinces in such a that there would be seven provinces instead of #ix, his suggestion being that Santiago should be divided in two. The motion and then the entire article was rejected, but the adherents of the provinclal form of goverament claime that the latter vote was based upon a mis- understanding of the questicn before the house and a motion to reconsider was passed fust before adjournment A large majority of the d the provincial form and this will undoubt- edly be approved tomorrow Interest ls keen in pusiing the consti tion before the adjourn ment of the United States cougress and It s probable that night sessions will be held next week. CUBANS HAVE THEIR REVENGE opposed the de the of constituting way 1dn of Spanish Sym- pathizer Blackened by 1 Ire. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Jan. 24.—Fifteen | hundred acres of sugarcane burned yester- day as the result of political friction, on Joseph Rigney's plantation, Coibahueca near Manzanillo, the richest plantation In this province. During the war at the Cuban insurgents against Spain Mr. Rigney refused to pay tribute to tha Cubans. For two vears he supported a Spanish garrison, but ultimately the Cubans destroved the property with the axcaption of the mill, volued at $1.000, This year the plantation was equipped to produce sugar, Mr. Rigney's loss is about $100,000, but it will not seriously cripple the business. A considerable quantity of cane from the fields is still valuable and can be used unless rain falls in a few days. Mr. Rigney’s daughter, Lilllan, was recently married to Lieutenant Whitside, son of | General Whitside, Two plantations at Guantanamo have lost heavily during the week from similar fires. Burning cane is a popular method of getting revenge among the Cubans, FILIPINOS ASK FOR A DELAY| Island Renl Vatate Owners Wish to Tie Partinlly Exempt from Taxa- tlon Two Yen MANILA, Jan. 24.--The hearing on the municipal government bill today developed an attempt on the part of prominent Fili- pinos to secure a delay of two years before taxing land where the owners are unable to cultivate on account of the dangerous situation in the fighting territory. The bill originally deferred taxation for a year The commissioners adopted an amend ment providing that land owners who are not implicated in the insurrection after March and prove that the unsettled con- ditions prevented working land be ex- empted for the second year. Lieutenant Steele, with ten men of the third regiment and seven native soldiers, fought a flerce halt hour's en- ment with a large force of Filipinos at Tenaguna, island of Leyte, January 9, which resulted in the killing of over 100 insurgents. Private Edward McGugie of Company M was killed The situation in the island of Samar since the increase of troops has been quiet. Lukban's forces are hiding Captures, arrests and scizures of arms continue In the unpacified districts of the feland of Luzon GEORGIA BOY MISSING atterson, ng Since Tuesday, Belley He Has Been Kidnaped. » ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 24.—T. T. has asked the police to find his 13-year-old son, Alonzo Patterson, who disappeared from his home in this city last Tuesday Mr. Patterson belleves his boy has been kidnaped The family of Bass Frazer, who is be- lleved to have been kidnaped two weeks ago from the Georgia School of Technology, have given up hope of ever seeing again. Frazer's brother, who left for his home in Alabama today, has no idea that the $500 in gold which he paid a negro, who promised to restore the student to his family, will ever be recovered. The police are at work on both cases. SQUATTING ON SALINE LANDS Prospects of Bitter if Not Bloody f Salt- Bearing Desert, LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 24—It is said that, pending the signing by the president of the bill extending the mineral laws saline lands, George Durbrow of the Stnadard Salt company, with a force of men, has squatted on government lands near Salton, in the Mojave desert, from which the Liverpool Salt company is said to derive its supplies. Trouble is expected. n May Rec GOSHEN Jan. 24 gram.)—enry Wilson, the man Who trled to commit sucide vesterday, wag today removed to the county furm, where he will remain under guard until his condf tion, still critical, Improves, after which he will be obliged to serve the 100 days juil sentence. Attorneys and others connected donated a sum sufficient 1o send Wilson home at the ¢x- piration of the sentence, s ver, gates favors | Patterson | him | HEIRESS Mrs. IS Schindler-Siehert band in Omaha nd Rushyille. Leaves ¥ en to NEW YORK, Jan (Specinl Telegram.) Relatives of Mrs. Schindler-Siebert look to Nebraska to clear up the mystery of her disappearance. She was one of the prettiest | &1rls in Hoboken society and a favorite daughter of the wealthy Dr. Schindler. Sov | eral weeks ago ehe wuddenly disappeared Poltee ald was invoked without success Her father was much troubled over the matter and died last week. In his will ho left her $40,000. John Schindler, her brother, has just suc ded fu tracing her. He found she had gone with Willlam Siebert, son of ex-Pollc ptain Sfebort of New York, who also has money. The two were married and went | to Omaha. There they quarreled and sep- arated. The groom went to Mussels Hill Mont., and the bride to Rushville, Neb where she {8 now. Mr. Schindler today re ceived a lotter from Slebert detalling som of the facts. Schindler why my s says: “We are all wondering r does not communicate with us. She surely must know by this time that father is dead and that she is his hei My brother-in-law wants sone of the money and refuges to interfere with hie wife's a tions POPULISTS PROD POCKETBOOK Ways and Menns Committee Triea to Flgure Out How It Can Settle Ttn Indebtedness LINCOLN, Jan. 24.~(Speciul Telegram.) The ways and means committee appointed by the populist state central committee Iast week cheek up the accounts of Chairman J. H. Edmisten and devise ways and means for paying the committee's in- debtedness, finished the first part of its la- bors tonight after a two deys' session. The members of this speclal committee, one from eaca congressional district, are C, Q. DeFrance, W. D. Schaal, John ©. Sprecher, Jam Calkins, N. M. Graham and W. J. ylor. A summary of findings Chatrman Bdmisten received from all sources $1,024.17, which Includes $1,086.26 pald him by Treasurer Mann in reimburse ment for money temporarily advanced committee by the chairman. His disburse ments were $3.675.64, leaving a balance of $348.53 on hand. But to Chairman Rdmis- ten a balance was due on his ealary clalm of $362.50 for the campaign of 185, amount- ing to $321.18, and a LIl of £25 for street car fare pald out in 1900, which left him owing the committee just about $£2.35, and this he paid by check to Chalrman Schaal of the wuys uwad wieans commitice, A rocommepdution will he wade 1o the contral commitiee that the treasuter ho in- structed to call upon W. F. Porla for n detafled statement, as required by law, of certain moneys collected and disbursed by him which shoald have passed through the hands of the treasurer. At its mext session the ways and means committee will formulate a plan to liquidate the party indebtedness. One of the big claims is in favor of Mrs. Helon M. Gougar and she has placed it for collection in the hands of a local attorney. It Is for a large number of Gougarian pamphlets which the committee supposed were a donation to the committee. BELIEVES HE STOLE THE RIG its shows that TECUMSEH, cial Telegram.)—A man about | been agrested by Sheriff C. a charge of theft. It seems that he hired a team and buggy from the llveryman at Virginia, Gage county, yesterday and drove immediately to this city. Last night he stabled his outfit in a livery barn here and this morning, it is charged, he got up and attempted to sell the rig. Not being able to dispose of the whoie outfit he sold one of the horses to A. B. Cooper, who in turn #old It to a foreign horse buyer who was in the city About that time word came from the liveryman at Virginia, asking that his horses and the wman be held. The alleged thief had hired another rig and siarted on “east on the Brownville road and the officers arrested him near Graf. He was brought back and landed fn the county jaill. He gave his name as Elf Tonight he was taken back to Virginia to answer to the charge of horsestealing Neb., Jan. 24.—(Sy B. Strong on BUI for Fraternal Orders, LINCOLN, Tan. 24.--(Special Telegram.) The insurance committees of the senate and house met tonight with representative of fraternal orders to consider house roll 90, by Lane. The bill was recommended for passoge by the Nebraska fraternal con- gress and, with the exception of one pro vision, has met with general approval. The | particular section discussed tonight pro- | vides that whenever any assoclation in- | corporated under the laws of Nebraska shall be refused the right to transact busi- |ness in any other state the auditor shall | exclude all similar organizations from that state from doing business in Nebraska Several Nebraska companies have been nied the right to enter the Illinois feld {and it is clalmed that the bill is really an attempt to exclude socleties and orders Incerporated in that state from continuing | their business in Nebraska The 1llinois | societies have a total membership of about 000 in Nebraska and the passage of the act would practically prevent all of them from accepting any new applications ely Jan. Arrived—Lahn, from Southampton; Hohenzoller: ienoa, ete. Safled—L' Aquitaine risrihe, for Bremen At Antwerp—Arrived--Nederland, Philadelphia | At London | New York, 24, Hre- fry for Havre; N and from - Menominee Minneapolis, Arri Salled from for New Western- ew York Nomadic, m Antwerp, Liverpool-—Salie for New Bremen—Arrived—Trave, from N Arrived—Waesland Germanie, from New York for New York: Belgen- delphia, both from Liverpool Arrived F Hismarck nsto iladelphi 1} | Satled-—Teutanic | 1and, for Phil | At Apl | trom Alexandria, fc At the Ilzard-Passed n New York, for Havre Genoa — Arrived Theresa, from } At Hamburg New York At Rotterdam-—Salled New York, via Boulogne. from { npagne A i | Caigerin | via Na Cap Maria Arriy Sta dendam, for IN NEBRASKA the | years old has | MeBride. | ‘P[CULIAR METHODS OF HIS CAMPAIGN All Borts of Promises Held Out to Wavering | Followers, "'DOUBLE CROSS" COMING TO SOMEBODY ntleman George Ying Hoth Ends to the Mid- | Na | ad Ath Beh o K 5T B3 A1 6o ~ TUh Sth YR Wy 53 7T 20010 15 1 as a0 w. . . | Van Dosen ., LINCOLN, Jan. 24.—(Special Telegram.) The featuro of today's senatorlal ballot was the gain shown by Melklejohn, which sent his column up to 41, only feur be hind that of Thompson, which rested nt 6. Melklejohn made this showing only by exerting his uimost pressure to bring in those on his re ve list and {n his score aro to be counted most of those known as the bandwagon men, who watt to be in With the leaders at every stage of the game | The gain of Meiklejohn came from Me- Carthy of Dixon, who had been previously voting for John R. Hays; from Sandall of York, wio ! voted for him at the slart, and {ron <hnson of Phelps, who has been voting (or Rusewater. Except for the trans | fer of Juhuson, the Rosewater strength ©tood unchanged. The continued absence of Baldrige leaves Mr. Rosewater ihort one | vote that belongs to bim, while teday's ab- spce of Andrews and Marshall kept one vote away from Thompsen, Crounse, Hin- shaw and Currie. The attempt to under the 67-48 singl a complete fatlure, t Light that the mecetip) goneral consent. It if the prevailing tm- pression (hat the eNorfk to recure a. cAugns under the, S ed in the call will have. 16 be abandoned. Another Caucus Caill. Another caucus call was put in circula- tion tonight calling for an attendance of | sixty-seven members with a vote of fifty to rule. The bebind the movement are opposed to the single nominating sy | tem of balloting and it is expressly stipu- lated in the call that nominations are to mado by viva voce vote, no nomination to be effective until two persons shall have recelved the required number of votes. Our call has zlready received several sald a member tonight. “Quite a number of the men who have fnsisted on the single ballot plan of voting have ex pressed themselves as favoring it as last resort and we hope to obtain a suf cient number of signers. It is provided in the call that only persons of unquestionable republicanism shall be voted for in ti caucus. Tho campaign being waged by Melkle John and his managers is attracting at tention because of the resourceful combi- nation of influences on which they are drawing. Melklejohn bas a campaign fund | of promises that seems to bo inexhnustible and everyone enlisted in his retinue of camp followers is confident he is going to shine in the government service, efther with military epaulets. diplomatic honors or civil appointments attached to fat fed- eral salaries. One of his doorkeepers, who served in a late volunteer regiment as a captain, has not finally deeided whether to tuke command of the forces In the Philip- pines or of the investing army in Cuba, Meiklejohn is unquestionably enjoying the active support of almost the whole federal brigade of postmasters, land office ofctals, Indlan reservation agents and so forth on the assurance that they are to be protected and retained In their places. Nearly overy republican paper in northwestern Nebraska for example, that profits by land office ad vertising patromage has been lined up to pump out laudatory effulgences for Meikla- | John in every weekly issue. old a caucus tonight nomination call was attendance being so was declared off by | i [ { | Profuse Use of Promises, At the same time, the very positions now occupled by this federal brigade are being ppreelled out by Melklelohn with oqually | lavish promises to men on the outside. without reference to the results. Senator VanBoskirk Is voting for Mr. Molklejohn with the idea that by 8o doing he will suc ceed in getting rid of F. M. Dorrington from the laud office fn his district, while At the very moment Dorrington himself is bending every effort in Meiklejohn's be half with the distinct promise that he will sty | A similar case is found in Nemaha county, whose two members, Senator Berlet and Representstive Armstrong, are recording thelr ballots each day for Meikiejohn. Both of these men were elected over the fll | disguised opposition of Tom Majors and their principal object is to prevent Majors from having any voice whatever in the dia | tribution of federal patronage in that sec tion, But Majors is also here on the ground doiug all he can for Meiklejohn and telling his Grand Army assoclates that It they will only make Meiklejohn, Majors | and his friends at home are sure to be taken | care of. | Salling Under False Colors, Another favorite ruse of Meiklejohn's workers s to inform the members confi- dentially that he 18 the preferred cholce of President McKinley. In spite of re- | peated statements by the president and Senator Hanna that they are uot taking | part in the Nebraska contest Mr. Mefkle- john has steadily posed as the administra- tion candidate and had his pictures inserted in the newspapers so labelod. His literary bureau, which s conducted systematically on a large scale, constantly frames its eulo- gles for Insertion In country papers with ;:. view to reinforcing this impression and (Coutinued on Third Page.)