Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 3, 1901, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ONDAY JUNE JAMES A, HERNE'S LAST EXIT nther of "Shere Aores” Dies at Hi York Homs. PROSTRATE SINCE STRICKEN IN CHICAGO that Interrupted His Tour Re- fore the Company Heached Omaha Never Allowed Him Re- covery of Strength. NEW YORK, June 2.—James A. Herne, actor and playwright, died at his home in this city this afternoon of acute bron- cbitls and pneumonia, after an illness of eight weeks. Mr. Herne was taken il in Chicago while playing o “Sag Harbor," & play of his own composition. He came at once to his home, took to his bed and never arose. It had been supposed for several days that he was improving, but Saturday night there was a change for the worse, which resulted fatally. At his bed- side when he passed away were Mrs Herne, his three daughters and bis b-year- old son. It 15 not decided when the funeral will be held Mr. Herne was born in Troy, N. February 1, 1839. He made his first ap- pearance in a smull travellng company, with which he remalned but a few weeks In April, 1359, he appeared at the Adelphi theater, Troy; later in varlous companies; became a “star’ and sinco 1878 has been appearing in his own plays, most promi- nent of which are “Hearts of Oak,” “The Minute Men,” “Drifting Apart,” “Margaret Fleming,” “Shore Acres” and “Sag Har- bor." Y Once Arisona’s Governor. NEW YORK, June 2—Richard McCor- mick, died at his home in Jamalca, L. I, today. He was born in this city ‘n 183 In 1866 he appointed territorial gov- ernor of Arizona. He served in this capacity until 1869. He was assistant sec- retary of the United States treasury in 1877-78, and was elected to congress in 1679, and served one term. He married a daughter of the late Senator Thurman of Ohio. She survives him Rev. Thom Hearne. CINCINNATI, Jupe 2.—Rev, Thomas H Hearne, aged 81 years, and for sixty-one years a minister in the Methodist church, died at his home here last night. He held many prominent positions in the church and wes Upited States consul in the Brit- ish West Indles during part of his mi slonary service. He was the author of several standard book Hobson's Tutor. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., June 2—Informa- tion of the sudden death of Rev. J. M. Otts, D. D., of Greensboro, Ala., has been telo. graphed here, where Dr. Otts was recontly pastor of the Third Presbyterian church. Dr. Otts was a well-known writer on the bible and the Holy Land. He was a tutor of C tain R. P. Hobson for a number of years. Er————————C———— South Omaha News ———————— e Within a short time the county sors and the city tax commissioner will have completed the work of making the 1901 sment. There is considerable specu- lation as to how valuations will range, but until the totals are completed no com- parisons with former years can be made. From unofficial sources it is learned the county valuation will be lower than a year ago. Tax Commissioner Fitzgerald 1s workisg bis force hard to complete the city as- sessment soon. It 1s thought the valua- tlon this year will be about $2,225,000. The levy for city purposes will be made on the basis of the valuation turned in by the tax commissioner. Taxpayers will be glven an opportunity to protest in case they consider their assessments too high. The new charter provides for a board to listen to complaints and adjust matters in cases where it is evident an error has been made. On account of the increased expense, owing to the changes in the charter, the city will have to levy considerable more than in previous years. Perhaps within another week the citizens of South Omaha may be glven some idea of what their taxes will be. School Roard Meeting. The Board of Education will meet to- night in monthly session. A board of ex- aminers for the teachers’ examinations, to be held June 18, 19 and 20, will probably be appointed. As the board of last year proved satisfactory it s understood the same appointments will be made again this year. Another matter expected to come up {8 the selection of a superintendent of pub- lie instruction. The teachers' committee has taken Dr. Wolfe at his word and has not considered him an applicant for the position. Last December Dr. Wolfe notl- fled the teachers' committee he would never his connection with the schools of South Omaha at the conclusion of his present contract Within the last few weeks Dr. Wolfe bag changed his mind and now wants to stay for another term or two. He has been notified that a successor has been selected Nothing will be done tonight about the High schiool, as bids for the structure will not be received until June 7. Shrigley's Report. Clty Clerk Shrigley has prepared a re- port which he will submit to the council tonight, showing the condition of the funds The Whole Truth! There’s nothing so bad fora cough as coughing. There’s nothing so good for a cough as Aver’s Cherry Pectoral The 25 cent size is just right for an ordinary, everyday cold. The 50 cent size is better for the cough of bronchitis, croup, grip, and hoarseness. The dol- lar size is the best for chronic coughs, as in consumption, chronic bronchitis, asthma, ete, Three sizes: 25c., S0c., $1.00, 1 your drt o) agldes s e ) dre 7o Aderedd. At the close of business May levy amounted to $107,426 and the amount drawn up to the date mentioned was 061, This leaves a balance of $10, the city's strong box. Here are the bal- ances: Interest fund, $6,544; judgnient, $1,045; police, $74; fire, overdrawn light, $283; salary, $201; engineer, $41; streel repalr, $4; park, $1,148, emergency, $25, general, $2 The finance committee will at once pro- ceed to take steps to secure the payment of the overlap of about $40.000 by the issue of general indebtedness bonds. is done the city will be in fair condition financially. No effort is being made to pay off any of the bonded debt of the city, that is, the general bunds, and no sinking fund is es tablished. When general bonds become due, a5 850,000 did June 1, the city merely re- funds the issues. Something may be done under the new charter to create a sioking tund in order to reduce the bonded debt of the city, which is now $307,000. Real Estate Boom. The real estate market here is booming and transections of considerable importance may be recorded before the week is over. Ed Johnston will place his Spring Lake park addition on sale Tucsday and Harry Christle will sell lots on Drews Hill Thursday. This latter addition is the property of B. Jetter and ls regarded as splendld land for the building of cottages, an it 48 near the packing houees. Thomas J. O'Nell has property he calls Armour- dala at Twenty-sixth and Archer streets Acre lots in this addjtion are being offered at_reasonable figures Building permits continue to come in and it is thought the building season here will be & busy one. Council Meeting Tonight. The city council will meet in monthly sessfon tonight, but there {s nothing of importatice to come up, as far as known now, except the relssuing of general bonds. An ordinance regulating bill posting and creating the office of city bill poster is ready for first reading. This will be re- terred to the judiclary committee for ex- amination. No bills to any amount can be allowed on account of the condition of the funds, but several claims filed will be turned down. Sheep Batchers' Strike. According to rumors, the trouble now sald to exist between the sheep butchers and the packers will be settled one way or the other today. Reports have It that President Donnelly will not waste any more time in trying to arbitrate the mat- ters under conslderation and will order a general strike today unless the packers discharge nonunion laborers Magie City sip. H. Waggoner ix conducting a institute at the Christian Rev, W. missionary church. The councll is arranging for a meeting of the board of equalization on special {improvements. There will be a reception at the Young Men’s Christian aseociation Tuesday nigh! for W. H. Overton Carl A. Smith of the Burlington frelght office and Miss May Tyner were married at Papilion May 1§ A. H. Noyes, one of the head offictals of the Hammond Packing company, passed yesterday In this city. The managers of the Young Men's Chris- tlan association will meet tonight to select A& successor to Becretary W. H. Overton. The police made eighteen arrests Satur- day night. This means there will be some- thing doing at the city rock plle this week. Girla Grow Taller, Mr. Charles Dana Gibson finds that the average American girl fs growing taller at the rate of two inches every ten years. This would be alarming for posterity were {t not for the fact that onme camnot have too much of a good thing. King Phillips on King Corn George H. Phillips of Chicago, corn king of the Board of Trade, contributes to the Saturday Evening Post a paper on “Corn Its Meaning to America.” Mr. Phillips knows a few things about corn and fre- quently raises it in the Chicago corn pit. His faith In the great American cereal s unbounded, and rightly so, for he has fraquently staked a fortune on Its growth and {iovariably Increased his store of wealth. His pointers in this instance, un- llke those of last April, cannot be re- garded as cash items, but are interesting as the tribute of & king to his subject. Mr. Phillips says in part: Corn is the great, distinctive American crop. It belongs as much to this soll Aoes the red man himself. From the Mex- fcan border to the hills of Maine, from the shores of Puget sound to the swamps of Florida, corn literally covers our coun- try with a green and fruitful mantle. There 18 not a state in all the union where Indian maize Is not an important part of the commonwealth's agriculture. This can be sald of no other crop. Few of the men who cultivate this “majestic, fruitful, wondrous plant,” few of those who handle it commercially, few who stak» fortunes on its price fluctuations, bave any conception of its significance to the American people and to their prosperity. The magnitude of its acreage and volume, the universality of ite distribution over the favored soil of the United States, and its adaptability to human neceds, are little short of marvelous Draw a mental picture of a vast field of corn, $3,000,000 acres in exteut, and you have a view of the consolidated cornfields of America. This is the present corn acreage. As a companion picture, let tbe imagination depict a mountain of corn containing 2,000,000,000 bushels of the beau- titul yellow cereal. This is one year's harvest from the great fleld—simply an average annual crop! The immensity of these figures may well stagger the im- agination of the ordinary matter-of-fact man and cause him to ask: “Where and how Is this monster harvest used?’ That the demand for corn should far exceed so prodigal a supply seems almost impossi- ble. But the facts show that the world's call for corn is far outstripping, and In rapidly increasing ratio, thls enormous out- put of this country's vornflelds. How this demand has grown to the point to which it has reached, what are the certaintios of its future development and what It means to the American people, may be briefly suggested by a word of corn history. In all that may be said on this score, keep conatantly in mind this fact: Our 2,000,000,000 bushels a year is 80 per cent of all the corn grown In the world! Up to 1896 we exported 35,000,000 to 65,000,000 bushels a year. During that perfod the prices recolved by the farmer ranged from 20 cents to 25 cents a bushel, save as influenced by unusually short crops Beglnning with the middle of the last decade of the last century a marked in- crease In the commercial uses of corn began. The perfection of milling machin- ery, under the Influence of American in- ventive genius, made possible the prepara- tion frow corn of a large variety of hu- man foods. Cornmeal and the coarser cornbread, so popular among the colored people of the south, had, previous to that time, been the main forms in which corn was utilized as an article of diet for man With the new machinery the Indian cereal was reduced to the fineness of flour, and fmmediately this product began a career of growing popularity. Dalntles of various and tempting kinds were devisud, and flaked hominy, cornstarch and breakfast foods of which corn was the mala founda- tlon came into general use, This movement has steadily progressed until today thirty large milling concerns in | publie | When this | ISCANDINAVIANS BUY MORE | Uncle 8am Discovers Denmark, Bwed Norway's Preferen | | g | | | EXPORTS MORE THAN TREBLED SINCE 1890 | | m and | Ten Years Have Increased from | Nine to Twenty-Nine Million Dol 1 { tars In Value—Denmark | the Leader. | WASHINGTON, June %.—Frank H. Hitch- | cock, chief of the foreizn markets section of the Agricultural department, has pre- | pared a comprehensive article on the | States and | the Scandinavian countries- Denmark, Sweden and Nor during the ten years from 1860 to 1900 inclusive. It | shows that in the ten vears subsequent to 1890 Utlited States exports to these three countries rose from $6,000,000 to nearly $20,000,000. Imports from Scandinavia are small, belng below $4,000,000 in 1890 aud only a little more than $5,000,000 In 1900 which was the record year in imports Denmark is the principal factor in Scan- dinavian trade, the exports to that country for 1900 having a value of more than $18, 000,000, while the combined shipments to | Sweden and Norway were valued at about $10,000,000. The official trade returns of the United State do uot present separate statements of the commerce carried on with Sweden and Norway, but the latter country s at present the mofe important customer Since 1890, when United States exports to Denmark were valued at little more than $5,000,000, and exports to Sweden and Nor- | way at less than $4,000,000, the former, according to the records of 1900, have in- | croased over $13,000,000 and the latter | about $7,000,000 Although Denmark is the leading destina tion of exports from here in the Scan- | dinavian trade, imports come chiefly from Sweden and Norway. The value of the | goods purchased from these two countries during 1900 slightly cxceeded $4,000,000, while the importations from Denmark had a value of only $920,000. In the imports from Sweden and Norway, however, there was comparatively little increase during the last ten years, whereas, the record of importations from Denmark showed a de. cided gain, the value for 1900 being more than double that reported for any pre- vious year of the decade Of the merchandise imported into the United States from Scandinavia during 1900 was 27 per cent consisting of agricultural produce, where as products of the farm comprised about 70 per cent of United States exports. Denmark the Heaviest Buyer. Denmark's purchases of American farm produce amounted to about $15,000,000, while Sweden and Norway bought to the extent of only $5,600000. As compared with the record for 1860, when this coun- try's agricultural exports to Denmark were valued at $4,800,000 and agricultural ex- ports to Sweden and Norway at $1,700,000, the figures quoted for 1900 disclose a re- markable Increase. The chief agricultural articles imported from Scandinavia in the order of their importance were hides and skins, renuets, seeds, cheese and distilled spirits. Non-agricultural imports were valued In 1900 at $3,765,352, iron and steel in unmanufactured forms making up nearly half of this amount. The principal other articles were wood manufactures, fish, manufactures of iron and steel, whale and fish oil and machines. Export trade to are ongaged in the manufacture of food products from corn. An authority on this subject says that this cereal is now the basis of forty-seven food and 108 commer- cial products. Suci has been the trans- tormatfon wrought by the change from the old “burr’’ stones of the custom mill to the modern milling machinery! To all practical purposes this change in the util- ization of corn as a food has taken place within the last six years. Meantime from corn has grown an indus- try of large proportions and national im- portance; the manufacture of ‘‘grape sugar,”” or ‘‘glucose. This recent in- dQustry consumes from 50,000,000 to 60,000,- 000 bushels of corn each year, or more than double the capacity of all the glucose plants in existence five years ago. How much of this new product has been paid for by fer- eign nations? This is an interesting ques- tlon. In 1890 we exported 38,000,000 pounds of glucose, worth $860,000; 1u 1896 the vol- ume increased to 171,000,000 pounds, worth 32,772,000, and in 1900 we sold to forelgn natlons 222,000,000 pounds, worth $3,600,000. Meantime our exports of starch increased from $476,000 in 1890 to $2,604,000 last year. The volume of increase in the export of glucose and its products is only a fraction of the increase in the domestic use of these articles. All of these recent developments in the demand for corn for commercial uses may be regarded, speaking by comparison, as merely incidental to the main volume of increased demand—that of the export trade ot yellow cereal itselt and the meats pro- duced by its feedin Let us look back and sce what the ocean vessels carried to forelga shores from the cornflelds of the United States. The exports of corn for 1891 were 81,000,000 bushels, valued at $18,000,000; in 1896 we sent across the water 100,000,000 bushels worth $38.000,000, and last year we exported the splendid total of 210,000,000 bushels, which brought us $85,000,000. Cornmeal exports Increased from $947,- 000 in 1891 to $2,148,000 in 1900. In ad- dition, we send abroad every year in corn. fed meats the equivalent of 300,000,000 bushels Though, as I have already indicated, corn is an important feature of agriculture in every state of the union and commands a total acreage of 83,000,000, the great corn belt which supplies the commerce of the world is mainly confined to Ohio, In- diana, Illinols, fowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. lowa is entitied to the distinc- tion of being crowned as the great corn state. oL more than 25 per cent of the corn raised on American flelds goes, in its natural state, out of the counties in which it s grown. Here is the basis of Amer- lea's supremacy in the production of meats Practically speaking, we feed the meat eaters of the civillzed world. We consume more beef, pork and mutton than any other nation and provide vastly more of these products than does any other country Without our magnificent corn crop this chievement would be an impossibility. . One of the most important facts to be noted in attempting an adequate estimate of the significance and the future of Amerl- can corn i3 this: The area suitable for corn production in this country Is today almost wholly utilized. There can be no material enlargement of our cornfields unless the ground be taken from some other crop, and tho extent to which this is possible 1s de- cidedly Timited. This being the case, the ouly material increase over our present corn production must come from improved methods of cultivation, and here, agaln, we auickly encounter practical and positive limitations. The corn crop mow grown is ger than in 188 000,000,000 point for the first time There has been bo material enlargement | growth of the trade between the United andinavia consisted chiefly of bread stuffs, which in 1900 amounted to $9,740,350 or nearly half the total of the agricultural exports, and were mado up of corn, wheat flour, wheat, rye and oatmeal in the order named. Other products aggregated $4,688. 660. The next most {mportant agricultural exports were oll cake, cotton, vegetable olls, molasses and syrup, tobacco, sveds and fruits and nuts. Of the non-agricultural commodities shipped from the United States to Scan- dinavia during 1900 mineral oils and manu factures of fron and steel comprised the foremost Iteme. Measured in value these two classes of merchandise constituted more than haif of the entire export trade in non-agricultural products. Of minteral olls over $3,000,000 worth was exported. and of iron and steel manufactures nearly $2,000,000 worth. Next to these two leading items the most important expofts in the order of their value were agricultural implements, leather, crude fron and steel, wood in its unmanutactured forms and fertilizers MRS, MARY LEONAR Passing of & Noted Charncter of the Civil War, Mary Leonard, famous as ‘‘French vivandlere of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Pennsylvania volunteer regl- ment in the civil war, committed suicide the other day at her bome in Pennsylvanin She was one of the most noted female char- acters of the civil war, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. Wounded in battle, she was honored in many ways for conspicuous bravery. She committed suicide evidently through a whim. For many years the aged woman had been an Invalid and lately was a great sufferer from rheumatiem and a rebel bullet which she still carried in her left ankle. She was 67 years old “French Mary" galned her sobriquet from having been a native of France. Her fath- er's life was lost 1o a French revolution She was married at the age of 13 and came to this country with her husband shortly before the outbreak of the civil war. The husband jolned one of the zouave regiments. She becamo a nurse and vivandlere and made considerable money. Charles H. T. Hollls of Philadelphia engaged her support in organiz'ng the One Hundred and Four- teenth Pennsylvania volunteers. She was permitted to enlist as a private and served bravely. In the second day's fighting at Fredericksburg she was wounded. Her hus- band died later and before the war was over sho was wedded to Richard Leonard, & member of her own regiment and a Pitts- burger. She warmed the hearts of her ald « rades of the One Hundred ana Fourteentn by appearing among them at the anniver- sary of the battle of Fredericksburg in Philadelphia on December 13, 1883. She had a paper signed by President Lin- coln, attesting to her bravery. once Living. Detroit Journal: Tragedy hands, such was her extremity. “‘Aye, truly!" cried she. “‘But one can- not live on wind!" *'Oh, 1 don't know," quoth Comedy, with a ghastly galety quite characteristic of her In these her later years. 1 have existed comfortably for extended periods on little besides wind and whiskers.” Even now, forsooth, the wind-and-whisk- ers joke, while not the only joke, was fa- clle princeps. wrung her Scholar an Scientist. E. H. Harriman, the railroad magnate, is both scholar and sclentist, has fitted out an exploring expedition into northern Alaska and has a hobby for the breeding of good horses. | His Tribute to the || Great American Cereal. of the corn supply in the last twelve yea On the other hand, the last five years have witnessed a tremendous Increase in both the domestic and foreign demand for corn This is convincingly shown by a few facts covering the perlod from 189% to 1900. Look- ing back five years we see an lncrease In the annual (domestic) consumption for glucose amounting to 25,000,000 bushels 2 year, and In the export demands 113,000,000 bushels annually; the increase in the num- ber of hogs slaughtered is 10,000,000, repre- senting, at a low estimate 200,000,000 bushels in pork; In cattle slaughtered the increase has been 600,000, representing 60,- 000,000 bushels of corn a year in beef. This makes a demand for 398,000,000 bushels a yeoar for these four items—a splendid in- crease over the requirement of five years ago. Concurrent with this startling fin- crease in the consumptive demand for corn and its products there has been, let it be remembered, no increase in the volume of production. Our crop in 1889 was 2,112,000,000 bushels; in 1895, 2,151,000,000, and in 1900 it fell back to 2,105,000,000. These figures show 400,000,000 bushels increase in the demand for corn in the last five years, wholly apart from the increased demand for the yellow cereal as an article of human food—and this with a stationary production. All of these comparisons between supply and in- creasing demand take Do account of the inevitable increase in population and the consequently increased consumption. Very little acumen is required to see from thie showing that we shall never in return to the old prices for corn. In my opinion, 40-cent corn will represent the minimum figure for the future. Con- trast this with the fact that '08 corn was cribbed by investors In Kansas and Ne- braska at 10 cents lo 13 cents a bushel! Of course, the country was then suffering from general and acute financial depres- slon into which other elements entered; but it may be set down with emphasis that when the American corn crop commands its rightful figure, as It will in the fu- ture. prosperity will be far more general and the suffering entailed from financial depressions much less acute The farmer side of the corn question may be stated in a sentence: The farmers in the corn states of America are more pros- perous, have more ready money, better homes, better farms, and enjoy more de- sirable socfal conditions than the farmers in any other agricultural belt in the world The value of the country's corn crop in 1000 was $751,000,000 at ferm prices; the total wheat crop was valued at §324,000,000 and the value of all the cercals In the United States, including wheat and except- ing corn, was $385.000,000. This shows the overshadowing importance of corn to the American agriculturist as no amount of talk can show it. No country in the world has at any time produced a cereal crop of any kind equaling the corn harvest of the United States in either volume or value. Now let us look at another phase of the corn question. On the basis of the normal production in recent years, the 10 cents & hushel which has been added to the price of cora, as a tany recognition of the rapidly changing relations between supply and demand. has added $200,000,000 to the annual iocome of the corn growers of America. Divided among the great corn states this sum Alstributes as follows Fifteen milllon dollars to Indiana, $10,- 000,000 to Ohlo, $30,000,000 to Towa, $18,000,- 000 to Missourl and $20.000,000 each to Kansas and Nebraska. Do we need to look further than this for the real hasis of the improved agricultural conditions in America during the last five years? ATIONALISTS HAVE HAVANA Oarry Cuban Oapital by Eafe Majority Over AllL Bankers Union of the World. OPEN LETTER My attention having been called to the fact that unserupul- ALSO ELECT EIGHTEEN OF COUNCILMEN Republicans La Democrats Only Half that Many =tiener in the Next Mayor. HAVANA, June 2 Havana pationalists yesterday's municipal fied. Senor Miguel Gener candidate, was elected recelving 11115 votes Senor Mora, republican Senor Carlos Garcia, democratic party The nationalists ted elghteen mem- bers of the municipal council, the repub- licans four and the democrats two. The predictions of the over the outcome of elections are veri- the nationalist mayor of Havana, against 7,355 for and 2,311 cast for the candidate of the ous competitors are sending out in circular form a report that the Bankers Union has been sold to another order, T desive to state that no such sale was ever made or even contemplated, by myself or by any other officer of the Bankers Union. How such e report happened to be given to the press 1 do not know, but it Snecess as an Agent In Boston. There scems to be no good reason why | women should not become successful solic ftors of Insurance, but comparatively few have essaved that role. The pioneer of her sex and probably the most successtul of them in this line s Mrs. V. P. Peakes of Boston Some years ago, owing to the death of her husband, Mrs. Peakes was thrown upon her own rcsources. After looking over the va- rlous occupations open +to women as A moans of livelihood she decided to make an effort as an insurance solicitor The years since have proved that she chose well. Mrs. Peakes speaks from ex- perience when she saye A woman who does anything In insurance ought to make from $1,200 to $1.600 4 year, and from that up to $7,000 or $10,000. There is absolutely no limit for the woman who is suited to the work and who glves her time to it." When asked what are the qualifications necessary for success she replied: ““Thera are three things—determination, tact and brains.” Viile nearly all women insurance ngents confine themselves to soliciting insurance among women, Mrs. Peakes does all her | suring, or practically all. among men. ' can tnsure three men,” she declares, “while 1 am getting one woman ready to Insure.” Mrs. Peakes has very charming manners -the manners of an educated and refined woman—yet at the same time she has a gen- erous supply of business dispatch. Per- haps it Is the last named characteristic that makes her so successful in dealing with men. She never fritters away time or wastes valuable minutes after she has slearly stated what she has to say. While recognizing her own success in her chosen fleld of effort, Mrs. Peakes at the same time sces plainly that not every woman can “go and do llkewise."” When she was asked what is the proportion of women who are lfkely to succeed In the in- surance fleld she replied: I should say not more than one in a thousand. On the other hand, If the woman has the right qualifica- tions she is bound to succeed.” Mrs. Peakes is an officer and an active member of the New England Women's Life Underwriters' assoclation, which s the first | ¢ soclety of tho kind for women in existence. She Is most enthusiastic in her work and believes thoroughly in the value of {neur- ance. RECORD FOR HOMING PIGEONS Pocahontas Establishes It by Flying 400 Miles In Nine Ho: and Forty-One Minutes. LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 2.-—Pocahontas, 8 Pigeon owned by ‘8. J. Schreck, broke the local homing pigeon record today by ying from Alligator Lake, Miss, a dis- tance of 400 miles on an air line, in nine hours and forty-one minutes. Insuranze must have come from some unfriendly source. E. C. SPINNEY, Supreme President. Omaha, June 1st, 1901, VIM VIGOR VITALITY FOR MEN urcy PULEN, DISNORE BN Mt e s v :'.‘:.‘fi’:.'l'.ih',"&!i‘:‘;.‘-.‘.‘%!‘."n.\"-‘ Joisbuon dimprie, escmtt, & cgarotte-smohing. . mo-an 5.:‘: .fihflnflr' T fiwfl% ‘elanon Remedy Go., 8an Francisco, Oae FOR SALE MY MYENS-DILLON DRLG € HER HUSBAND IS SUSPECTED Finding of Mrs. Klensmire's Body Results inK money refunded, with Loxes. Circulars froe. ., 14TH AND FARNAM. intended to keep them from knowing she had killed herself.”” All this was ground out of Klensmite in short, hesitating sentences. Asked about the condition of his wife’s crushed head, he sald “Maybe the dirt falling on it mashed it 1 wouldn't strike ber." There was no more than two feet dirt over the body when it was found Klensmire is a German farmer, 48 years old, tall, spare and unedugated. He talke with hesitation and appears dull of mind. The posaibility that he would be tried for murder seemed secondary to the disgrace that would result from the publicity of the affalr. Klensmire was born near Hol- 5 ton and has always lived in that vicinity, June 2.—W. H. Klens- | gy mother and two or three brothers and 4 ound | mire. whose wife was yesterday found 'yigiore Jive there and are prosperous and murdered near their home near Holtow, | peqnonted Kan., buried in a shallow trench, w ar-| rested In Kansas City, Kan., today. Marks o he ‘woman's body. which 1s beiieved to| THOUSANDS SEE HIM SINK have been buried since M 19, indicated —— that her akull had been crushed with a leatenant Thante of Colorade jonnal Guard Drowns at a Denver rk. o HE CLAIMS SHE COMMITTED SUICIDE Lo Den| That He Murdered Her and Insists that She Hanged Her- welf Hecause They w eled. KANSAS CITY, Secol club and suspiclon was directed ugainst the husband, who disappeared on that When arrested today Klensmire wa o depot walting to take a train, as he sald for Holton. When told that he w wanted on suspiclon of murdering his wife he refused for a time to talk. Then he declared that his wife had committed sul- DENVER, June 2.—Willlam E. Thaute, 24 years old, a machiniet, and second lieu tenant of Company B, First regiment, Colo- rado National guard, was drowned in the lake at City park this afternoon in full clde on May 12. On the folowlng morning, | view of 5,000 people. With two companions be sald, when be found the body hanging | he was rowing on the lake when the boat from the rafters in thelr house, he took It | was accidentally swamped and Thaute, who to the trench and burled it. Klensmire | could not swim, drowned before help could denled that he bad murdered his wite, and | reach bim after making this brief admission refused to talk further. Kilensmire was traced to Kansas City, Kan, by a Topeka de- tective and said that he had arrived here on May 30. He was taken to Topeka to- night. Klensumire was supposed to have gone to Texas, but it appears that detectives who have been working on the case traced bim to Kansas City yesterday. Decetves the Children | Friday last the Klensmire children in Holton recelved a telegram from Texas | and apparently from thelr father, stating that Mrs. Klensmire had died there of yellow fever. Following the finding of | the body the mysterious murder in 1892 of Paul Swetlyck, Mrs. Klensmire's | brother, who carried $86,000 life insurance | in favor of the Klensmires, was brought forth as @ suspiclous circumstance, and ! this led to coupling Klensmire's mys- terious disappearance with the murder of bis wite. Finally Klensmire was induced to make the following statement: | Lets Wite Have Her Way. i “My wite and I disagreed frequently, but 1 usually let her have her way. Just be- | fore her death she Was very augry be- | cause 1 wanted to sell some land to which Spillane Gets His Farm Back. GRAND ISLAND, Neb., June (Spe- clal.)--The jury In the case ot Spillane agalnst Haugh returned a verdlct last night, aiter a trial lasting five days, re- turning to Spillane a farm of elghty acres in possession of Charles Baugh. Spillana ieft his farm to enter the army in 18594 and claims that his property was taken out of hix possession by fraud. His claim of $250 for rents during the meantime was ot allowed by the jury. Another similar case s pending, Cyclinta Go Along Some. /' YORK, June 2—A crowd of more persons saw exciting_contests of speed today at the meet on the Vaflsburg board track Quarter-mile, professional, flylng start: Frank Kramer of East Orarige won, Floyd McFarland of San Jose, Cal, second; H. B, Freeman of Portiand, Me., third." Time: 45, ive miles, professional, handicap: H. B, Freeman of Portland, Me. (50 yards), won: Tom Cooper, Detroit’ (scratch), second; F. A. McFarland, Jose (cratch), third: Hardy Downing Angeles (100'yards), fourth. Time: 11 s WEST POINT, Neb., June 2.—(Special.)=— Raln fell fn this vicinity last night and thic morning. Growing crops need more raln. Crops, without exception, are in splendid condition. Corn s all up and 18 thrifty. €mall grain also is in fine shape. Potatoes, of which a much larger acreage than ever before has been planted, look well and garden vegetables arc plentiful. Indications point to another bumper crop. Seasonable Fashions hion Hints by Mary Lam West ¥ nt Graduntes. WEST POINT, Neb., June 2.—(Special.)— The graduating exercises of the West Point High school will take place Wednesday evening. Eight students will be graduased. 4 Miss Minnle Dooley has accepted a po- she had signed a deed. She suid she would | F08 FHEEE Toey (a0 BERE o leave me. But I did not want people to | i g know she had left me and told her to say b v she was going away on & visit. We bad | emme——————— a few words on Sunday (May 12) about | Y it. She went away aud later I found her | Hurry up, Mr. Grocer; your body hanging from a rope in the barn. I ¥ 4 NalaeN m;’ h"'dn:n‘ N s atrald obithie dins | € ustomers want FelsNaptha grace and hid her body in the straw. The goap: 5¢. And you must return next day 1 burled her. 1 told the children [\ ot g e i Fels & Co., makers, Philadelphia. she had gone to Texas and the telegram | I had sent saying that she was dead was | are necessarily made of much heavier leather and with heayy soles, ou ac count of the rough usage they are bound to recelve. We have a heavy three- sole methanics' made of good, honest leather and made the shape of the foot, in the plain round toes, lace only, that we bave priced at only $2 The uppers of this shoe will stand two palrs of half soles and we recommend them to those who have to be on thelr feet much. Drexel Shoe Co.. tor the A-:‘ln; \#lf shoe, and Girl 810 16 years. Misses' and Girls' Wrapper. No. 3 tasteful wrapper, or lounging robe, that can be slipped on in her own room and be worn during the hours of privacy and rest Is es- sentlal to the comfort of the growing girl as It fs to that of her elders. The tasteful little garment lustrated exactly fills the need and s absolutely simple at the same time that it is made on gracetul lines. The model 1s made from dimity, showing pink £pots on a white ground, but all washable materials are suitable as well as lightweight flannels and flannelette for the cooler days. The tronts are slightly full at the neck and | widen out to form the skirt portion. The back Is full at the neck and drawn In with gathers at the walst line, below which point It falls in graceful folds. The neck s fin- ished with a deep turn-over collar and the sleeves are in bishop style. At the walst is a ribbon that is tied slightly toward the left side and holds the fullness In place. To cut this wrapper for a girl 12 years of age, 6 yards of material 27 Inches wide, 4% yards 32 luches wide, or 41§ yards 44 inches w » will be required. The pattern 3534 Is cut in sizes for misses of 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 years of age Kimball Piano Talk No 4— Esperience—-Kimball planos and or- gans huve won thelr way to great fayor and high rank by reason of experlence and intelligence of the makers—Thelr experience covers a continuous period of over forty years as dealers and manu- facturers—It makes “assurance doubly sure,” coupling musical worth with great durabllity, and proves the ability of the Kimball Co. to furnish buyers the wost for thelr money. A. HOSPE ausla and Art _ISIa-ISIi Douglas S For the accommodation of The Bee's readers these patterns, which usually retail at from 25 to 60 cents, will be furnished at a nominal price, 10 cents, which covers all expense. In order to et any pattern enclose 10 cents, give number and name of patterc wanted and bust measure. Al- low abbut ten days from date of your letter before bepinning to look for the pattern Address Pattern Department, Omaba Bee. e |