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

R WAL ESTABLISHED n JU ot g el o o 19, NE OMAHA, SUNDAY MORN IN( FEBRUALY 1901 TWENTY-FOUR PAG ‘THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. R T R TR e S Bl PAGES 1 TO 12, e bas S S SINGLE COPY FIVE CENT PAYHOMAGE TOQUEEN | ¥# saswte._suoors seLr| BOLRS FULL OF HOPE ' Millions Gather in British Capital to Pay | | [ Tribute to Their Late Eovereign, HAPPY ENDING TO LIFE THAT WAS USEFUL King Edward Expresses Himself as Pleased with Universal American Sympathy, | LONDON CEASES BUSINESS FOR ENTIRE DAY Monrning Was General, but By No Means of‘ Ostentatious Obaracter. VICTORIA'S BODY LIES IN ALBERT CMAPELi called that a week of 50 ago a strange dis Severnl pward Incidents covery was made in (he bullding oceupled b Cerema w the Rhone prefecture. The chiet af the ann OFF in ¢ irtmental police, Meyer, being ill, re- y Progrns wnined homo for several days. As the Lo bl prefect required some papers In Meyer's office he nt for the keys. These Meyer re LONDON, Feb. 2.1t haw been a great | fU "‘:‘“" the prefect insistiog, Meyer, who Calfour. in his eulogy | Wa€ st il went to the prefecture, entered relgn,” spoke Mr. F 11t has | the office, gathered a big pile of papers, betore the House of Col and 1A% which he bid under his coat, and returned @ happy ending iy ! home AUl London and th b i Then the prefect forced the door to motesi villages of the gEUIS paif "‘,‘” Meyer's offica. Rummaging around he dis- final honi to the late queen today In Ber |, oraq o gories of mysterious wires. In- cap 1 1d assuredly, as Mr. Balfour sald vestigation ghowed that these started from the cnd of her reign, which has now passed | ©0;p 000160 talephone and ran to the pre inc Listery, was b Deep solemnity | g0y private office, dining room and bed fAlled all heart There was reminlscent { ., 0, whore they were severally attached to grief-~the feeling that one of tho empire's sensitive plates hidden in the floor and great i utlons was missing, but 0o 8UCh | wojig 4y wuch o manner that the slightest sorrow us surrounded the cofling of LN« ) gou0q was absorbed and thus communicated coln and Garfleld, cut off before their work | 15 (ha receiving end, where the detective's | was Gon | ear was glued Eyery one felt that the incvitable death | g giscovery was revealed to the public had dealt kindly with their sovereign; that | ¢hrough the Tuesday newspapers. There was her passing had been as happy as her life | ng jntimation that the present prefect was | was useful. They gathered to honor her | groatly scared by the discovery, but the memory rather than to mourn her los | suicide of his predecessor, closely following The king and queen in a special audience | the report of the finding of the secret granted Ambassador Choate and Secretary [ telephone, was regarded as something more of Embassy White, after the conclusion of | than a mere colncidence, the sorvices at Windsar, expressed them ‘ Marscilles newspapers are now asking selves as profoundly touched by the mani- | what was in the package of papers Meyers festations of sympathy in America. Iu the | removed so carefully, Paris journals reply course of conversations had by Mr. White | that as Le Roux is dead the police agent's with the other members of the royal family, | secret reports probably never will be re- all gave expression to similar sentiments. | vealed As o queen, Victoria vas an exemplar of | e and they, fittingly, seemed the most sin- | cere mourners ANl Business Suspended, ANl business ¢ ven the drinking phesitins houses closed their doors during the day. | (Copyright, 191, by Press Publishing Co.) The newspapers suspended publicatfon and | PARIS, Feb. 2—(New York World Cable- life fu London, 1ite the rest of the empire, | gram—Special Telegram.)—For many years turned from its customary channels and was | {¢ hag been the custom of the Paris health focussed upon three miles of West End | board to fssue a weekly bulletin giving the streets, where the coffin containing the | pumber of deaths and the various diseases. body which was now merely a symbol of | &ix months ago a new death-dealer was Victorin's self, whom often before London- | added to the list and ever since it has been ers had cheered, assembled as they were | a regular contributor to the eclty mortality. today, but on occasions of rejoicing. To an | But latterly it has o surpassed all com- American the ceremonials, with all the | petitors that the authorities have been thealrical trappings of royalty, were not ltnfefll to invesiigate this new enemy of more impressive than the funeral of a | health, ehlet magiatrate chosen by the people. | One of the strect car lines running by The kings and princes, beneath silver hel- | underground electricity on a new Italian | mets and wearing gold-braided coats, were | fnvention runs on the Rue Quatre Septembre | men, but the sight of the king riding after | through a populous district to the suburbs. the coffin of his mother and queen, with | Between the rails, at Intervals of a few four other kings and half a hundred of the | are steel discs covering the electric highest royalties of European dynastics fol rvolrs which communicate the current lowing and the hereditary quaint attaches car s passing overhead. The of court wis one never to he forgotten | cars, r are not the only thing: The popular mourning was less general | passing. Other vehicles and pedestrians and ostentatious than it would have been | strike the discs at an average of ten cases in the United States. The multitudes were | daily remarkably orderly. The whole ceremonial, | including the massing of 30,000 troops and the entertainment of ail the visiting per #00AR n admirable example of or ganization. Tonight “the eaptains and the ings depart.” The imperial yacht Hohe i zollern awalts Emperor Willlam at Port | Victorla; King Leopold and King Carlos re turned to London preparing for their . was re- turn and have departed on an eyening train, travellug incognito, | Hundreds Taken to Wospitals, | The city tonight has somewhat of a hol- | iday air, thousands of persons parading the streets, viewing the decorations, and res- taurants and saloons are doing a tremen dous business. The uniforms of the militia | and the lonial troops are visible where and their wearers are lionized The hospitals cared for 1,300 persous who o every | were Injured in the crowd. Of this num l ber, however, only sixty were serfously | hurt, including several policemen and sol- | diers, and a number of women suffering from broken limbs | Alteady the political phases of the occa- sion are being discussed. The remarkuble predominance of Germans and German influ ence 15 noteworthy. Emperor Willlam's officers, soldiers and sailors were more cor | spictous in all the ceremonies than wero | those of all the other nations together. | This has had the effect of popularizing | Germany with the people, who recently re- | garded It as thelr most menacing enemy. | It 13 eviden. that Englishmen realize that King Fdward's reign begins confronted by o commercial crisis and political dangers which give a shadow of anxiety to thelr| mournihg for the queen Que Body at Albert Chapel, | Tonight the queen’s body lies in the Al bert chapel at Windsor, guarded faithfully, awaiting the last rites. Within the castle 18 brilllantly lighted. King BEdward and Queen Alexandra, Emperor Willlam and the princes and their suites dined magnificently this evening. Three kings and heads of princtpalities, with special representatives 1eft Windsor this eveniug after lunching af the castle. Thelr departure was some- | what interfered with by the enormous pro portions of the crowds gathered around th Windgor station and in many the | royal personages were literally nto the spocial trains awaiting thew Windsor that the only cases ndled 1t was at hiteh in the elal rate program of the day occurred and thesn added to, rather than detracted from, the dramatic and pathetic interest. The first and most striking was the utter intracta bility of the horses attached to the gun carriage bearing the cofin. The alarm and chagrin of the king and emperor, who had hurried up to ascertain the cause of delay in the procession leaving Windsor station patent upon b horses struggled in the traces and cofin was almost thrown from the gu sarrlage. Lord Roberts asked the king for permission to take out the horses and sub stitute for them jackies who hud come from Fortemouth s a guard of honor. This sug- gestion was quickly sanctioned and the last timo Victoria's body was borne before he subjects it was by her royal “handymen,” | who at an opportune moment saved the | #ituation. Tonight the king sent a message | of thanks to Prince Henry of Battenberg for e services of the suilors of his command Venerable Prelate Totters, Tho other hiteh oceurred during the re lglous part of the ccremony. The was | countenances. ser- | forbidding |and handsome pre | new (Coutinued oa Fifth Page.n Mystery In Involved with Secretion of apers and Pecullur Teles ph \rrnngement. ( right, 191, by Press Publishing <o) PA Feb (New York World Cabl gram—Special Telegram )—Gabriel Le Roux prefect of the Rhone department, killed himself at his home here Wednesday night Le Roux, though only 46 years old, had held many important publie posts, Several months ago he was removed from the posi- of pretect of the Rhone, but was red a small government position in is. He accep this, but, according to his friends, he felt the humiliation keenly and was constantly bewalling his ruined reer. When he shot himself Wednesday his friends attributed the act to profound elancholia, resulting from officlal de terioration, which inference was supported by the absence of financial or domestic dif ficulties A new interpretation of the act Is now glven Ly urtriendly critics and newspapers of the opposite political faith. It is re- If a horse's hoof or a human foot chances to touck the rail and the disc the same time there is a dead horse or a d Yesterday morning, as there had been a slight snowfall, the car company scattered salt along the rails. The street looked like a battleficld Men and horses were falling everywhere. The authorities ordered trafle A and Investigated the sy Fearing wholesale danger, they talked of the coatinuance of the system. The railway company threatened to sue the city for damages if prevented from running, 0 the restrictions were removed, the authorities slmply warning the company putting salt on the rails, Stopp agains | JOHN BROWN'S SOUL MARCHES N Ser by (Copyright LONDON, Feb. 2 Cablegram — Special phics of Queen V Press Publishing Co.) York World elcgram.) — Biogra- toria are sllent on the great influence exercised t court for a lengthy period by her famous Scotch ser vant, John Brown. He was a brusque, un- couth, but honest and faithful servitor, without the slightest respect for rank or fame. The snubbing later prince Br to of Wales, who wn, thought ft better policy propitiate him by gentleness ents. The duke of Edin- never tolerate Brown, and rarely visited the queen In consequence, while Empress Frederick did not come to ngland for thirty years owing to her re- sentment at Brown's familiarity and the power he wielded at court. Disraeli bowed to the presumptuous menial, while Glad- stcne ignored him On Brown's death memorial erected over lowing insiription A teibute of loving, grateful ng friendship. from his truest, best and most grateful friend, Victoria, R, 1 After a few years a new and handsomer memorial was substituted, with the in scription toned down as follows first tried on burgh would the him queen had a with the fol and over- This stone 18 erected In affectionate and | gratetul remembrance of John Brown, the devoted and faithfut personal attendnt and friend of Queen Vietoria, in whosa service he had been thirty-four years. Queen Victoria took Brown's family into her service. Every year she placed a wreath on his grave. MISS GONNE FEELS HOPEFUL Wriia Encourage Her in reland's Cause—In Coming to Leeture N (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing (o) PARIS, Feh. 2.—(New York World Ca blegram—8pecia elegram.) —~Maud Gonne salled from Havre for New York on the steamship La Champagne. Before leaving she sald that the new century and the relgn in Britain have tions and that these things, toupled with the loss of British prestige resulting from the Boer war, encourage Irishmen to hope for a vigerous revival of their cause. She says that everywhere throughout Ireland there is a deep-rooted Welief that this cen tury will see redressed Ireland's centuries of of pression She intends lecture in every state of the North American union and expects great results therefrom, changed condi- to ad citizen. | m. | IMPORTANTCHANGESATCOURT l)lL’l‘\ OR [)0“”('\ sngrecable Relntions Retween King German Newspapers Differ as to Occasion of K ser's Long Btay in England, 1 | EXCHANGE OF HONORS TREATED LIGHTLY | Proposal of a Moral Entente Between Eng- | land and Germany Ridiculed, OLD PRO-BRITISH AND PRO-RUSSIAN FIGHT | Von Buelow's Will Occasion Liberal Attacks. | NEW COMMERCIAL TREATIES IN JEOPARDY | of filial piety and that ‘ —_— ¥ d and His Sister, | rei Heatrice | Bouth Afrikanders Still Confident of Ulti- | s y (Copyright, 1001, Press Publishing Co.) | mate vlml’y Over Efl!hfld~ LONDON Feb. (New York World T Cablegram—S8pecial Telegram.)-~Veiled al NOT YET READY T0 TALK OF PEACE|!utlons wppesdin the Lomon papers to | unpreasant Ms at Osborne during the | — past week, i, It is sald, are likely to be followed & iportant chang At court IComml.anQfl E!n' to Dewet Bl’ll’ldfidl‘! These hf & :"KI ‘lwlvl\v dis \L. eable Ir" Traitors and Execution of One Just fied, | lations be S . the king and his sister Princ ss | = widow of Prince Henry T | ot Battey _F ven before death of PLENTY SUPPLIES CAPTURED OF ENEMY |the quce o Beatrice removed her children Sast Cowes castle and le | —_— Osborne e herself that night. Since " . | then B © has only come to Osborne Dumdum Bullets with the Woolwich Arsenal | | gl Ohla By Sioy wnd | Mark Now Used by Burghers, has absolutély refused to meet Kalser | | whose enmity to the Battenbergs is hi | - | toric. King Edward and the late Prin | INMENSE COST OF WAR TO GREAT BRITAIN | Dattenbierk wte always on friendly terms | n ‘one occasion they had a serious personal | | quarrel. Prince Henry, being directed by Estimated Sum Spent by the Beitish | the queen to instruct Commander Fuller ton to procecd to Portsmouth with the in Conducting the Campaign yacht Alberta and bring over Prine | | to Date Placed at Louise to Cowes, either forgot or, as was | FR00,000,000, | suspected, willfuily omitted to give the | order, with the result that Princess Loulse, | e |after waiting an hour in the Portsmouth NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Charles D, Plerce, | 40ckyard, wa smpelled to take an ordi- | consul’ general of the Orange Free State| Ny bassnger boat and drive a common | and trusteo and treasurer for the Boer re- | “4b to Osborne house [llef fund, today gave out a statement| The Princess arrived furlcus--in fact, she about the conditions of affalra In Soun | fi® b '\"h"” e T‘(’I‘"""‘\_:' ca. The statement in part 8 as fol. [Wales, Who was staylng at Oshorne “”:‘ b LBl | house, went in search of Battenberg, whom s | o P Was ente: : ¢ o “Advices by cable and private messages | B¢ met Just as he was entering the castl from Europe and South Africa are more en. | €rounds. Wales abused him violently for couraging (han at any (lme since the be. | hIs remissions in the presence of the lodg ginning of the war. There can be no doubt | keevers, sery and Battenberg's two of the final success of the Boers, who wil: | COmpanions. An eye-witness stated he accept no other terms from Great Rritain | feared the affair would terminate in a peaca with honor, meaning the fuil | Persoual encounter | gnition of both republics with full | That evening the prince of Wales re- | | treaty-making powers and without the lan. | ceived a challenge from Prince Henry of | Kuage of ‘suzerainty.’ The Boers are noy | Battenberg to cross to Belgium to fight a ready to negotiate with England fi\rl‘“"'l' but before Wales conld reply the | peace, but ure determined to continue the | 4U¢¢n dntervened and forced Battenberg to fighting until the general situation Is strong enough in thelr favor to make dip- lomatic steps certain. | “The three pretended peace commis- | sloners sent to Dewet by the British were | *ples and traitors. They iuterfered with | the burghers. One, an Englishman, was properly shot and it is known that one other, Andries Wessels, was a burgher of the Orange Free State and subject to the laws of the republic, in which President Steyn is regarded by the fighting burghers 8 chiet executive, while British sov. reignty is not recognized by them. Pres- ident Steyn s with Dewet and there fs 1it- tle doubt that these burghers were trled under the laws of the Orange Free State and lawfully executed “The Boer forces in the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, in- cluding the invaders of Cape Colony, num- ber over 25,000 men, strong, liberty-loving patriots. Born hunters and trained marks- men, they are admirably fitted by long training to carry on the guerrilla warfare which has so sorely crippled the British | army, Supplies Captared trom Enemy. “They have so far succeaded in obtaining by capture a large portion of their supplies from the British. General Christian Dewet, | that greatest cavalry leader of modern tines, gold and 130,000 khaki uniforms—enough to last the army four years. He has also captured over 100,000 horses and 6,000 pris- oners. He and his forces alone have in- flicted on the British losses of over §: | 000.000. ‘The Boers are very moblle and have ad- anced to within two days’ march or 100 miles of Capetown. Most of the burghers have two horses—many of them three—en- abling them to make rapid marches and quick retreats. The British march wearily | about the country with wagons, drawn by | slow moving oxen, loaded down with camp equipment and loot The Boers have abundance of provieions, guns and ammu- nition and when short of these important implements it 15 only necessary to capture | an outpost or provision train and help themselves. In the beginning of the war | the Boers were armed with Mauser rifles, using plain bullets, but many of them now | have Lee-Metford rifles, using a dumdum | butiet, all of which have been captured from | the British and bear the arrow mark of i Woolwlch.' From the foregoivg it can be readily understood why the Boers can continue the war Indefinitely, regardless of the number of British troops sent against them. Hoer Lossen in Dead Smal| “The Hoer total losses in killed and dying from wounds fn battle have not exceeded 1,500, but the loss in property and the im- | | poverishment of the people has been very | great. Thousands of women and children are left In a state of destitution and hun dreds of thousands of dollars’ worth will be | required to render them eftective aid | *The war has cost Great Britain $800,000,- | 000 in gold, a sum twice greater than the | entire value of +he reputlics, it sold to the | highest bidder, and over 100,000 of its troops | have been rendered hors du combat. Dur- | ing the last one or two months the British ’ nave been compelled to act almost entirely | on the defensive. The war s costing Great Britaln at the present time over $1,000,000 a day to support the troops in the field and | Helena fsland and | the Boer prisoners at St other points. “The failure of the British arms to open the Kimberley and Johanuesburg mines has deprived British stockholders of the divi- dends on securities listed at $850,000,000 and has reduced the output of diamonds and Kold $284.000,000 and has added $800,000,000 | to the taxation of ¢ Britain and Ireland These tremendous sums subtracted from innmh resources have resulted in the im | pairment of the values of many kinds of | securittes dealt in by London stock brokers | | | | | and are the superinducing causes of nu- merous bankruptcles in British financial circles.” VORACIOUS FOR DIAMONDS Americans S0 Greedy for Gems that They Put Up the Price Fifty Per Cent, (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co) LONDON, Feb. 2.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—It is the voracious appetite of Americans and not the regulation of the De Beers output by Ceell Rhodes that, according to Mr. Woolt leading partner of the biggest London whi e- sale diamond firm, is responsible for send- ing up these gems 60 per cent. Mr. Woolt said “Everything has gone up in our trade, meralds ten times as much as dlamonds, such a motopoly as this. Roughly speak ing, 1 should say they have made about 1 910,000,000 in one year between them.'" in one week has captured $925,000 in | owing to the smallness of the supply Pearls, too, &re very dear. Americans buy up three-fourths of the diamonds. Americans buy the very finest diamonds and will pay apy price for them. The syndicate has got the cream. There are | only six members and there never was withdraw the challenge. Princess Beatrice, siding with her hus- band, insisted that he was wrongfully a cused of deliberately doing what was really the result of an oversight. The breach never hea Inde since autumn, Princess Beatrice has used her brief au- thority in vy the prince of Wales strongly Queen Alexandra is friendly whose courage and loyalty in taking her | husband's part she approved, while she detests the kaiser for his tyrannical trea ment of his wife, Princ Victoria of | Schieswig-Holstein. The relations between the king and queen, therefore, are in- creasingly strained and the important change at court suggested as in the alr fs the possible retirement of the new queen into complete seclusion |WHIP HAND OF PARLIAMENT King Fdward Holds 1I¢, Victoria's Forfeltuve with Her Denih, sented to Reatrice, Queen ed (Copyright, 1901, Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb -(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—King Ed- ward has the whip hand of Parliament in | the settlement of his civil list, by or income, |as the arrrangement under which Queen all Victoria surrendered the crown prop- erty, in return for £355,000 a year, lapsed | with her death All the crown property reverts to the | king until Parliament makes a new a | rangement with him. The income from Queen Victoria's reign aud 1s now | £600,000 a year, which sum the king fn- tends to demand As the falling-in of the erown-leased West End mansions during the next fow years will still further subsantially en- | hance the values of the | | | correct thing would be tg presc worth | mation German Crities in the iHippines De- clare That Pacification is Far Off and Accuse Americnns BERLIN, Feb, 2.—Excepting a few liberal papers like the Vossische Zeitung and th Tageblatt, the German press has in no way received the advancement of the British press this week g iously Nine-tenths of the press pers'sts in pretending that German emperor's visit was a mere matter honors mutually conferred there were solely meaningless civ- ilities in nowlse touching or indicating the sentiment of the two nations toward each other nor reconciling their conilicting in terests. While for a couple of days after the death even the Anglophobe press kept a truce, during the last half of the week the on the subject existing upon th queen's press began to speak openly of Anglo-German relations cossion of King Edward The Kreuz Zeitung today ridicules the London Daily Telegraph's proposal for a “moral entente” between Germany and England, adding: “If the anti-European conomic attitude of the United States con tinues fous difterences will ensue, in which England may, perforce, join the United States, which threatens to be a much more formidable opponent than many. But Germany's economic would, nevertheless, remain antagonistic t England and Germany in no case would join with England in fighting the United States cconomically, nor would England expect that, fearing thereby a possibility to in strengthen Germany, its rival. Germar such a case would be in tertius gau The Rhenish West Halische prints a similar ariicle The Rhenish West Nachrichten today prints an editorial rather friendly, but points cut the dificulties of an entente be- tween the two countries and demands that England murt once and for all drop its old superstitiolsness und recognize Germany as its full equal. Only thus could an under- standing be at all maintained Kainer In Visiting To The Leipsic Neuste Nachrichten and the Hamburg Nacheichten priot articles se- verely bl- ning the emperor for his pro- longed visit to Eogland, the latter saying ‘In that, the emperor's English sympathies collide with his duties as German emperor." ns eitung Long. Utterances on Protection | the | The Cologne Volks Zeitung claims that it | 1s the old fight between the pro-Russian and pro-British parties in Germany, while the ve good e lations toward both. The semi-official press during the week has been rigidly silent and the crown property near'y doubled during | s awaiting the emperor's return and intt Every German paper that has In | any way referred to Anglo-German relations | has sccuted the idea of an Anglo-German alllance. Several ministerial utterances have caused much press comment this week crown estates, the | Count von Buelow's declaration in the Diet king is also expected to demand a lump | that included social protective duties to sum of £2,000,000 to pay his debts. There |aid German agriculture are certain to cause is little doubt, despite the heavy taxation |a general onglaught upon Count von Buelow because of the war, that this Parltament will vote to the king what he asks. London papers llke the Telegraph, whose proprictors are in touch with royalty, are | significantly expatiating on the Inadequ | of the queen's list for the king to prepare the public for a big | A funny story a chapel in Belgravia ago, there was a pra health be restored acy This is emand. about . two Sundays that the queen's But the parson went | on to say that if this was impossible hl‘ prayed that Providence would turn heart of the prince of Wales and make hlm a better man, and that he might lead more moral life, is golng the round W or | has which claims that become agrarian and jeopardizes the chances of new commercial treaty Then there were Minister Buford's remarks, calling the deal a necessary evil, and Min by the liberal press, | ister of Justice Schoented's statement that | fices for government of Both the Jewish candidates are considered excentionally | DUKE GETS A CDLD SHOULDER | consorship which the right and center op- Ofended British His Coming Qu (Copyright, 1%1, by Press Publishing (') PARIS, Feb. 2.—(New York World 1'u blegram—Special Telegram.)—The duke | Orleans started for London to attend tho | tuneral of the dead queen, but mm.-uly changed his mind. On the way he [ceived a cold letter from the duke of Con- | naught and a short formal note of than from the king, on the strength of which Orleans left Brussels hastily for Milan whence he telegraphed here that the dut hess' illness preve { 1ard. The British royal family has not for- gotten that the duke of Orleans once wrote a letter of commendation a French caricaturist, who drew grossly offensive pictures of Queen Victoria | DIVISION OF QUEEfi'S ESTATE | e his going to Eng- to to Receive Oshorne ouse—Other Bequests Are Conjectural, 1001, by Feb. 2 Special T (Copyright, LONDON Cablegram Press Publishing Co.) (New York gram—Queen Vic- toria’s testament will not be made publie as a scvereign's will {8 exempt 1|‘4m| obligation to file for probate, rumors are in circulation disposal of Balmoral concerning castle and the Osborne house, the queen's two private residences. Henry Labouchere says Balmoral will go | to the king, as the queen was aways anx- { fous that it s'ould be a permanent crown residence. The Osborne estate, he says, will go to Princess Beatrice. The bulk of the queen's other property, including her income of $100,000 per annum from the ground rents of Holborn viaduct, her large freehold estates at Baden, G { many, and her accumulated savings, will not much more than aggregate $10,000,- 000, will be divided Princess | Beatrice and the duke of Connaught, ar - between of | the duckess of Albany has already been | | provided queen’s | objects for. Labouchere private fewels, at $2,500,000 The World's correspondent states that both Oshorne and PBalmoral have been strictly entailed on the kivg and his Lelrs. estimates the plate and artistic World | the | Confiicting | which 1 4 | | | THE BEE BULLETIN. SCHEME VASTER YET * \ 1 Snow Tod er; Nor 1s: Monday Fa lxlv o1 theen. Viurorin | Harriman 8yndicate is Also Affiliated with [l aht | Control of the "' Katy."” Naiser's Maotiy | Omnhn Railro: ¥ ¥ nEe to Que o Oma Ol 5oAn Last s for i State Girls 1 Clusses Pay w Wall Strest Forosees Ultimate Univoraa Trust of the Big Eteam Lines. 10 Quee ahin Nociety I Ctub and Chnrelty | ¥ s Estrnynun e | el Lol SOUTHERN PACIFIC STATUS UNCHANGED i Town b i R L L g Effort to Maintain Present System of Work 10 Rateona by Pagtiintle | ing and to Promote Harmony. " ot P gLl ‘nussm SAGE SOUNDS A DANGER NOTE LR whn's Sporting it AL Direetor of Union Pacific Says the Combination Makes n 14 Monopoly That Will Drive Peo 4 ple Into Hostile Lekisiation. :': '\:'"n ”‘:' . - Mand, | NBW YORK. Feb. 2 (Special Telegram.) » bt R - {=It 15 announ on high authority that for Raluy DAy ) 1o Harriman syndicate is also afiiated w. | with a controlling interest in the Missouri | Kansas & Texas rallway Thus it shown that the motives which led the Harriman syndicate to secure the Speyer and Hunt Temperature UNCLE SAM So Decl ereint n s 1 | ington holdings in the Southern Pacific and | thus a dominating fnterest is involved in w | vaster scheme of railroad consolidation t| The stock purch constitutes two-fifths ot DR | of the entire outstanding shares of a capital ; g A".' |of 8 832,000, No other large blocks of stock are outstanding, =o this giver the Lvies iz | Harriman syndicate absolute control of tha e management. The stock bought was Hunt « @0 | fngton’s and the holdings of the Stanford « 81 and Crocker estates secured in April by Speyer & Co. The purchase, it was stated today, was made entirely for the benefit of the Union Pacific connection with 8 | b Jeopardy otect that company’s which woulid possibility of tho IS WAR SICK ancisco, be in the in falling into hostile control ares Cou de Castel antellane | oo inern Pacifi in & Farisian Article The transaction was quickly made. An In 1 fntinm. | crease of $30,600,000 1n the loan account of (Copyright, 131, by ress Publishing co,y | NOW York banks today is significant in this R M ol able | The question of permanent financing of Castellane is secking distraction from his [ (e purchase has not yet been taken up, the pecuniary harassments in politics an | conditions under which the purchase waa lterature, He contributed to Friday's | Concluded not making It possible to prepare Gaulofs an erudite article, manitesting both | PIans 8o soon. For the time being thero bents. 1t's topic was imperialism Will ot be any change. To maintain the He expressr the opinion ihat consolida- present status of the Southern Pacific is tion of t might ha could ev give the Profiting by his wide expe can public affairs, men tha of encountered couraged consequer disposed imperialism remunerative the main consideration and the two prop- erties will be vorked o harmony and fric- tion of the past will be avoided It is possible that the Unfon Pacific may take over the Southern Pacific, ultimately but it this plan is adopted it will be und | terms, it was said today by Union Pacific he German states into the empire wve been prevented and believes it en now be undone, but he does not recipe lence in Ameri- he informs his count United States is heartily sick t the because it has proved un- | \Dterests, which will not involve any burden Boni adds: “The dificulties | OF immediato lability to that company. ‘n the Philippines have dis- | The syndicate will make an aunouncement their ldeas of conquest. As a |©P this point next week nce President McKinley appears| 1f the Central Pacific could have been in China to adopt a retreating at- | taken over separately the new purchaseis titude instead of forging ahead to win| Would have been glud to have made sue territory. In this respect the United States | A0 &rrangement, but under the readjust policy approaches our own and Russia's, | ment of the Central Pacific finances the ir- while wid trom Eng revocable lease and its shares as pledges for athern Pacific bonds this was im- len and the breach dividing America and Germany. That is a line of action by which we may dissever the im- b perial triple alliance and create a double lons of the Central Pacific to the nce between the two great democ- | KOvernment and to the Southern Pacific are lew."” interesting, in view of the new relations to e . | the Union Pacific. The close identificatton of the Rockefeller interests with the Har- LOUIS NOIR, DEAD NOVELIST!HIILIII syndicate would facilitate the new Onpeiin Tt relations proposed for the Kansas & Texas ™h property and the control of the Missour!, 8 Kansas & Texas, it was asserted today, had i been practically already assured to the (Copyright., 1901, by Press Publishi y | syndicate. 1t is practically certain, the PARIS, Feb W York Waorld Cable- | fore, that the acquisition of the Southern gram—Secial im.)=Louis Noir, noy- | aciflc may be taken as completing the elist, a brother of Victor Noir, who killed | ¥ndicate's control of transportation factli- Plerre Bonaparte in 1870, died Friday, aged | ties in the southwest, south of the Unlon 65 vears. He had had a varied aud ad- | Pacific lines, rounding out a system which Vel taroiin e Once he was a watch- | Wi include, besides the Union Pacific and maker's apprentice, then a journeyman | the Central Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, baker end mext a soldier, distinguishing | Kansas & Texas and Kansas Clty Southern, | himself in the Crimean war and in Afriea, | West of the Mississippi ri Afterward, like his brother, a journalist, | he drove nto fiction with a phenomenal | WARNING FROM RUQSELL SAGE | story called “The Head Chopper,” which | was such a sensation that he had an enor hoa Gigantle Combination remarks have stirred up the whole liberal | mous market for his later stories. Al o1y to Arouse Dintrust and press, which points out that the Prussian [ had dime novel-like names. Their he ANty AhONE ‘the Me0nls: government guarantee equality in these ve- are now houschold names throughou st ) spects. France, | NEW YORK Feb. (Special 'I‘uln-l‘(run: ) In the Reichstag this week the subject | - A note of warning was sounded today by of theater censorship was thoroughly ven- | BUYS MARLBOROUGH HOUSE | iuscell suge regarding such colossal rail- tilated. A number of most amusing blun- ik ks road deals the acquisition of the ders by censors were mentioned. The !ib- | W. K. Vanderbilt's Generosity Way | Southern Pacific by the Union Pacific. Mr. erals are demanding a cancellation of tho | ables Duke to Repair His | many years a director of the Union Family Possessions, « | Pacifie, said pose - “It is a glgantic combination in which (Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing ¢o.) | twelve men get the absolute control of more Grade of Horsms Dateriorating. LONDON, * Teb (New York World | than 25,000 miles of rallroad and a practical During the discusglon Count Lehreadorff, | (vp)pgram.—Special Telegram.)—Again the | monopoly of all lines leading to the Pa chict curator of horse breeding in Prussia. | roport js prevalent that the duke of Marl- | cifie. Such combinations of concentratea admitted that the quality of horses is on | horough will be enabled, by W. K. Vander- | capital are sure to arouse the people. And the down grade, owing to low prices and | piji's gonerosity, to buy back Marlborough |the people once aroused are more powerfu: foreign competition. A large sum was de- | hoyge tor his famil No progress has | than this railroad combination or any other manded by the government for premiumns | y0on made the past year with the construe- | that might be formed. I regard it am on foals tion of Mariborough's projected palace in | very dangerous to have such great combi On Monday the Diet held its first reading | Maytair, in anticipation of the contingency | natlons. It §s right and proper that the cap of the canal blll, whose chances are gmal’ | which now has ariser {talists who invest moncy in rallroads or unless the government first satisfles con It is said the duke of Cornwall is de-|other great enterprises should be assurca servatives and agrarians by tariff compen- | (ermined to take Clarence house for his |of reasonable and fair returns, It is right sation London residence, and the king s not | that rallroads should have an agreement The Reichstag banquet in honor of the | ayerse to the sale of Marlborough house for | not to cut rates below a fair profit-making emperor's birthday occurs on Monday night. | $1.000 000 figure. But this should be done in conven- It has occasioned a rumor in German cir tions, by meeting, by agreement, not in cles that General von Putkamer, retired stifling competition had published a pamphlet strongly con CHINESE HONOR CHAFFEE “In the end this deal will excite distrust, demning the German drill regulations, | A merican Com 1n e- | arouse resentment and incite to retallatory which he claims are antiquated and not | i T P measures the people, the state legislatures adapted for actual warfare, pointing out a A and eventually the national congress. The number of cases. The military press is o farmers will consider ~themselyes, injured now full of replies, pro and con PEKIN, Feb. 2 A of Chinese | by rates, the states will inaugurate legis- Americans Accused of Cowardice, | residents have presented Geueral Chaffee | 1ation and there will be decp hostility to The German press publishes from Manila | With several umbrellas. Through an in- | combined capital letters of the end of December describing | terpreter thelr spokesman said the presen The donl war the center of discussion the situation in the Philippines as deplor- | tation was mado on account of Chinese re- | everywhere to i The general opinion able and the pacification as far oft. The | &ard for General Chaffee personally and for " that It 9 the !‘r 'ul\um‘x;v move to Josses of Americans are satd to be much | the troops under his command ‘|][“ orm an ultimate universal rallrond trust greater than officlally admitted. Americang | Wished, the speaker asserted, that others :n\\' treat the Filipinos, {t 1s said, no better | had been as considerate e chinese 1ad | HAYS LOOKS FOR NO CHANGE | than the Spanish did. The letters also men- | Watched with great interest the Christianity | tion alleged cases of cowardice among the | a0 civilization of the western powers Opernt a | Americane, even the officers | ring the last few month the | Miss Jane Oakley of San Franclsco has | Speakr continued, “the Chi LI province has | Owns been engaged to Baron Schellaba, an of 1 locting, outrages, vandalism, mur Aen ot tHa suardk itchery and unnecessary expeditions for | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb President ¢ Willlam 1hne of Heidelberg cele- [ the purposes of extermination and spolia- | M. Hays of the Southern Pacific company, T T | tion, tre the world recognizes China's | when asked if he thought the sale of the Much complaint is heard in Berlin about | FIKht to reiain its own customs and its own | controlling interest in the company to the the court mourning, by which dancing for | 1, a8 at least equal and perhaps | Hurriman syndl ild lead to Import- The Souns manhls s sraxily raatrainad rior to those of foreigner [ant chauges of u ut or ;‘:n“ rwm Frank H. Mason, consul general of the I see 0o pre any marked change United States, has just recelved a diploma | PRINCES (IET OFF EASILY | in Southern Pacific affairs so far as the of honor from the Marseilles Soclety for the lc Interest is concerned. What dit Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which he | Banish Only Ad- | ference does It make to the public whether tounded while consul there. visable to Demnad in & rallroad be owned by one man or whether Ex-Paymaster General J. A. Smith fs 1l | Their Cases (88 Yt 1A Rt0oK A 1AIG, B A QUAGIAS ‘1'| st the Kalderhof | PEKIN, Feb. 1--M. Do Giers, the Russian | in accordance with a broad and liberal Soldiers Die tn Col | minister, had & three hours' conterence | policy which conserves the best interests HAVANA, Feb. 2.—Following deaths since | with Li Hung Chang ifterncon f the public as much as the interests of last report: Private Frank Hensler, Com- | The foreign diplom eve that It is | the stockholders? 1 do not look for any pany A, Second artillery, Columbia bar- [ urgent that they uld hold out for mo | startling change as a result of the change racks, on 27th, of yellow tever, and Corporal | punishment for the princes heyond banish- | of ownership. The Southern Pacific will go Thomas Y Company M, Tenth | ment. M. De Glers bas stated that Russia | ahead very much us If no change bad alry, at Manzanillo on 25th, from will not covsent to the execution of Prince | taken place. Its Interests, in a traMe sense, dental gun shot wound Tuan | are pretty well defined and are not to be