Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 27, 1901, Page 1

THE OMAHA L _—— WESTABLISHED JUN er oliskes Now fe.ic s. cord sy e Gloaville Track. «COLN 7% "“’“’"'\"’ IBOT'S TIME HA'F A SECOND A met! Goes in 2:02 3-4 Over Course That Beems a Tr.fls Heavy, Cresce BEA1 HAS NO COMPANY BUT RUMNING MATES Takes Them First Half in 1:01 and Nex: in 1,01 3-4 CLEVELAND CROWD WILD WITH DELIGHT Per Expeeted ormance fs Detter Than Any Had and Owner Ketcham | CLEVELAND, 0. thuslastic cheers of July Amid the en- nearly 10,000 people Cresceus, the world's champlon trotting stallion, again demonstrated that he is the peer of all trotters by trottng a mile this afternoon r the Glenville track in 2:02%. This establishes a new world's re ord for both e replacing the former world's record of 4. held by The Ab- ot Owing to the heavy rains the track was not iu the today and it was about it was deemed to Dbe tion to warrant making times the sun's heat had been repiaced by cool breezes. Even then there were few | horsemen who looked for a mile better than 2:00. After having been given several pre- liminary miles, George Ketcham came out | with the stalllon to attempt what scemcd an impossible feat. Ketcham nodded for | the word on the tbird score, the horse trotting llke a machine | Accompanied by a runner, chestnut | stallion falrly flew to the quarter, the timers' watches reglstering just thirty sec onds of last night best of condition 6:30 p. m. before in sate cond the attempt. At | the | | Despite Heavy Footing. | As Cresceus swung Into the back stretch | he was joined by ond runner, end al- though many predicted that the footing was such as would retard his specd. he reached the half In 1:01. Ae the time wos hung out the immense crowd broke out In cheers. The three-quarters pole ws | reached In 1:31% and as the great stall trotied fato the stretch, a runner vide, his machine-lke stride w eating up the distance. ever once falte notwithstanding the terrific clip, he fairly flew to the wiie, Le- | Ing eustained only by bhis indomituble cour- ke, not being touched once by the whi his sole urging being the driver's vol and the thundering hoof beats of the we- companying runuers. As the thfie for the mile was announced | ~-2:02%--and the immense crowd reslizel that a new world's record, had been es an- lished, Ketcham and bis favorite stalli n recelved an ovation such as has becn but celfom witnessed on & race track. Thou- #ands of people rushed out on the tinck | and Ketcham was lifted from the sulky aud | carcried to the grand stand on the sl pulders | of admirers. Cheer after choer rent the alr and the name of Cresceus was upon Ups of every one present Ketchom,” “Ketcham,” yelled the crowd and the owner of the sturdy son of Rober( | McGregor was almost carried to the judges' | stand, where he delivered a briet address, Cresceus now not only holds the world's trotting record for both sexes, but last week at the Detrolt grand cireuit meeting by trotting in 2:06% and his race against Chariey Horr, securel the world's record for the two fastest heats ever trotted In a race, his second mile in 2:05, also being a new world's record for the fastest mile ever trotted in a race, and also the fastest second heat ever trotted. CHRISTIANS COUNT TITHES Pre, Yo Recko Fina A se | | | the | by ter| Tuk, ng Peoy Union nK of the Year's inl Glving. WARSAW, Ind., July At today's ses- slon of the annual convention of the Young People's Christian unlon af the United | Presbyterlan and Associate Reformed churches, in session at Winona, Treasurcr | K. Marquis reported tatal contributions 0 paid on the $50,000 anniversary . the total of piedges being $38,500. At the annual observance of “‘misslonary night,” wocleties represented In the convention hall contributed or agreed | 1o rajse sums to make up the balance of the anniversary fund. Rev. J. C. 8. Coulter | of Philadelphia, general tithe secretary. ported 5,000 tithes. General Secrelary Thomas Hanna of Steubenville, 0., reported | a membership of 1,000 cities with over 85,000 | members. Progress has been made In .|II1 Mnos of work except contributions, which have been 3,000 smaller than last year, The average of contributions has been $1.42 | per member, BRYAN'S LITTLE BON MQT Talks this evening N Tmperinlism and Tari as Heart Disense and Sto Achach CHICAGO, Willlam J atter a long sald “Imperialism is still the great tween the two political parties. to be sure, is a great subject mind heart disease ls malady than stomachach nta of Ocenns Veaseln July 26, At New York—Arrived: Fuerst K from Humburg, Salled: Culle, r AU Brow Head—Passed: Cevl York, for Liverpool; Umbria, York. for Quecnstown At Ligurd—'assed sland, from New York, for Antwerp; Frederick der Grosse, from New York, for Cherbour; At Bouthampton — Salled from Hamburg, for New York bourg At gow pool At York +Liverpool York. «t Hamburg New York At Glasgow—Arrived dclphia; Norweghan At _Havre—Arrive New York At San Francisco. r Queenstows nolu'u—Arrived from Hong Kong July Dryan tour While is here working and today | home south who of the east issue be The tarift But to my | more seriou Movem Tisma tor Lv from New from New Jeutseh'nnd, via Cien Moville—-8atled for New York: for Montreal London -Satled Astorfa Partsian, from Clas- from Liver Marquette, for New Sailed madie, for New Arrived: Phoentela, from Corean, from Phila- from Bostan SAquiiaine, from Salled: Bark Clipper | Rev | cerning human | Lords | title as he will Steamer Relgian #hip City af Han- ship Heel, f Bark Geneial F trom New Castle’ Castle " Satled tor Puget sound, m N ir chillg, E 19, 1871, INTERNAL REVENUE REPORT It Shows that Ilt:: |:ll for This Year Are Greater Than for Last. WASHI liminary v Bue GTON port of Comni erkes for the July 26.—The annual pre- ssioner of Internal | fiscal year end shows that receipts from all | al revenu for the year. §71,889. This is an increase re tor 0, The for al 787,102, the predicated on ney orders a reduction of t collection, as fiscal year several sources Splrits, $118 $6,150,18 $3,126 82 increase, §2,- $14,621 rease, decrease, § enumerated, s and | personal propert 107 Schedules A and documentary $1,728,328. | fucrease, $4o7. | rense, $700,277. | shows the ag- tes: Alabama, Calitorola and 0 and Wyoming, Rhode Island Georgln, $824.- Ilinots, $55407,024 a, $1,809,373; Kau nd Oklahoma, $1 Kentucky, b bl ppl. $2,300.981; Maryland, Dela and two countles of Virginia, Mussachusetts, $7,541,852, Mi Minnesota 2 Mis- Montana, Idaho and Utah, orth Dakota and South | w Hampshire, Maine i New Jersey, $0,- and Arlzona, $120,308; orth Curoliua, $1,- 4; Oregon, Wnsh- tugton and $1,220.013; Peansyl- vania South Carolina, § Tennessee, $2,406,180; Texas, $1,881,424; Vir- ginla, $5.6: West Virginia, $1,63 | W . $10,820 604, ARE FOR POCKET CUSPIDORS June sources of int akgregated $30 of §11,565,561 over fiscal year ended penses of the burcau will approxi 4 cen of cost of « figures, 1900. the fis the June th ex- ate and & lection these less tax on m will be 1 or cent of cost con ed with the eceding The receipts from the revenue are given as follow 0279 increase last Tobacco, $62,481,907; increas ‘ermented liquors, $75,600,907 110,153, Oleomargarine, §2 26,68 Filled 2041, Mixed taxes A8 above 03 in the over year chees flov not 2,141 Speclal $41 distributive $5,211,808 elsewher $30 of increase, $2,32 and B (proprietary stamps), $36,241,036 lanks, bankers Miscellane T'he Eregate $673,254 Nevada $1.24¢ $3,09 26, Haw Indiana, sas, I 009,03 shares decrea ete., $1,918 3 de statement us, §1 tollowing Arkansas oy | $1,6%0,478 ors and 988, Florida $102 416,582 lan Territory $ and M ware 188 D. € 530,133 1, $4,300,250 uri, $17,560,648 braska s N $1,201, Mexlco $22,42 Alaska, rmont 2; New New York 124,749, Oh scoasi De'esnten to Congress on Tubers m Health Mensure, . LONDON, July At the final meeting | of the congress on tuberculosts, held today | under the presidency of Lerd Derby, reso- | lutions were adopted in favor of legislation | toward the suppression of expectoration in | pubiic places and recommending the noti- | flcation of the proper authorities in cares | ot phihisis and the use of pocket spittoons, arserting that these sanitary precautions were indispensable in order to diminish tuberculosls. A resolutlon was adonted expr ing the opinton of the congress thet the health oM- cers should centinue every effort to pre- vent the spread of tuberculosls through | milk and meat ond that as doubts con- immunity from bovine tu- | berculosls ralsed by Dr. Koch were of vital | importance o the public health and the ag- | ricultural Interests of the country, the g ernment should immediately Institute a rigid inquiry into the Identity of human and bovin» tuberculosis Othar resolutions passed indorsed the educatlonal work of the national socleties | toward the prevention of tuberculosis and | tuvited legislation in support of this work. | The appointment of a permanent inter- national committee to collect evidence, pub- lish literature and recommend means for the prevention of tuberculosts was advo- cated. The members of this committes are to be nominaie by the various govern- ments from national soclotles. In the course of an address delivered be- fore a health congress held at Eastbourne today, Dr. Koch of Berlin spoke of the treatment of malarla. He relterated his| dictum that malarfa did not emavate from swamps, but was caused by the inoculation of mosquitoes and gnats. He further sald | that malarial parasites could be stamped | out with quinine treatment. LET EDWARD CHOOSE TITLE Lord Sallshary Rules | 1ow LONDON, July 26.—In the House of | today Lord Salisbury, the premler, tntroduced a bill authorizing King Bdward » assume by proclamation within six months of the adoption of the bill, such may think fitly recognizes his pinfon beyond the seas. Che premier added this title would prob- ably be “Edward the VII, by the grace of God, ot the United Kingdom of Great Britaln and Ireland, of British domintons | beyond the sea, King, Defender of the Faith and Emperor of India.” e | HAS MINISTERS’ ACCEPTANCE Chinn Receives ¥ tives' Approval for Indemanity Payment. | | - | The ministers of the powers, after today's meeting, dispatched a | note to the Chinese peace commissioners | formally accepting the recent Chinese offer, | which was In antieipation of th. plan for the payment of 450,000,00 Indemnity at 4 cent Interest payment to be made in 1640 of principal and 1,000,000,000 taels. PEKIN, July ministers’ | taels as | the final The total pay- | interest will be per ments STEEL STRIKE MAY SPREAD | Threntens to Rea in Mahoning Val h Out Into Farunces a4 Shenango July 27.—The Post today | av A serlous sp 1 of the steel strike Is now threatened in an unexpected quarter. From the sheet, steel hoop and | tin mills the contest is expected to reach ut nto the furnaces in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys and cause a complete hutdown of those plants. It would throw many bundreds of men out of employment and curtail the production of raw material, a8 well as the finished lnes naces it 1s belleved that the danger will| threaten with greater force than ever tho | union mills of the National Steel company | throughout Oblo. It it is not checked at that point the same spirit of unlonlsm 1is teared to be strong enough to reach once wore luto Homestead and Dugquesn PITTSBURG | From these fur- | is | not | not | milimetres, OMAHA, GERMANY'S NEW TARIFF LAW SATUR!I AY Anether Dra't is Printed Correberating the First. PUTS DUTY ON GRAINS PLENTY HIGH Stipulates That Ireaties Rye Shall ture Commer Pay A Others Five Marks or Mare o in Proportion, BERLIN July 26.—The Relchsanzeiger to publishes a draft of the new customs tariff law and the customs rates. The bill stipulates that in any commercial treat entered Iutc by Germany the duties shail be lower than varks on 1 marks on wheat, 3 marks on barley and 5 rks on oats The duties on grain ry provisions and cattle are published last week by the Stutt garter Beobachter and already cabled to the Associated Press from Berlin, with the ex- eption of s, which are e The North German Gazette, discussing the pub lication by the Reichsanzeiger of th toms anonuncements, points out that draft of the new tariff was published be ause it had already been partly printed in an unauthorized manner, but, as it had been thoroughly discussed In the Bundssrath, uelther the provisions of the bill nor the customs rates therein set down were unalterable before the bill as potate pt the | reached the Reichstag The text of the me appeared lats for comment in the evening papers Opinton in Berlin commercial circles, how is that American gchedules monstroug, fnvolving a t G ny's industrial classes, together with a foreign trade, tariff wars to commercial treaties. ever, ie burden f commercial injury to and serious and rlous its no s Mistal, business in Berlin regard exceedingly bad for Ger many and the United States, pointing out that the sharp agitation during the last few years has borne fruit in the present bill. Besides the agricultural schedules the Americans express keen disappoint- ment at the heavy increases on machinery. The present dutics, ranging from 2 to 8 marks per hundred-weight, are in many cases more than doubled. In the cases of !-lw!flrv quadrupled are 8180 Mard hit measure shows a reclassification of and a much more minute division wfflons, therefore, are often difficult PR b, as printed by the Relch- . Alis a pamphlet of 167 pages. The'itles on grain are the same as pub lished In the Stuttgarter Beovachter. The duty on malze Is 4 marks per metric hun- dred-welght, without minimum; the duty on barles 15 4 marks per metric hundred- welght maximum and 3 marks per metric nundred-weight mintmum; cloverseed will pay a duty of 5 marks per metric hun- dred-welght; rice is 4 marks por metric hundred-welght; malt of barley will pay 4% marks per metric hundred-welgbt, while other malt will pay § marks; cotton is free, while hops will pay 40 and hop meals 60 marks per metrle hundred-welght. Most all vegetables will be free of duty. Apples, unpacked or in sacks, will be frea of duty. Apples packed In other ways will pay a duty of 6 marks, Hard and Soft Woods, Americans in the trouble as Hard woods, not sawed, will pay 20 pfen- nigs per hundred-weight, or 1 mark 80 pten nigs per so!td metre; soft woods, not sawed, will pay 20 pfennigs per hundred-welght, or 1 mark G0 pfennigs per metre. Hard woods, sawed, will pay 1 mark 25 pfennigs per hundred-welght, or 10 marks per solid metre; soft wood, sawed, will pay 1 mark 25 ptennigs per hundred-welght, or 7 marks 0 pfennigs per solid metre. Barrel staves will pay 30 ptennigs per hundred-welght Horses worth from 300 marks to 2,500 marks are ranging from 30 marks to 300 marks aplece. Beet cattle, 2 marks; young cattle, 15 marks; calves, 4 marks, and hogs, 10 marks. Fresh meats will pay 30 marks per hun- dred-weight; prepared as table delicacies they will pay 75 marks per hundred-welght. Meat extracts, 30 marks per hundred- welght; sausages, 45 marks; lard 12 marks 50 pfennigs per hundred-weight, and oleo- murgarine will pay the same as butter. Cheese will pay 80 marks per hundred- welght. All flours, except oat flour, will pay 13% marks per hundred-welght, while oat flour will pay 16 marks. Cottonseed oll, In casks, will pay 121 marks, and not in casks, 20 marks per hundred-weight. Sugar will pay 40 marks per hundred-weight, as will frult eugars, glucose, dextrin, etc. Mar- | garine butter will pay 30 marks. Artifictal lards will pay 12i¢ marks. Fruit prepara- tlons will pay 75 marks and in brandy 80 marks per hundred-welght. All hermet- lcally sealed foods otherwise unspecificd will pay tobacco will pay 85 marks per hundred- welght, as will the stems of raw tobaeco. Stemmed tobacco leaves and chewlng to- bacco will pay 180 marks per welght. Clgars and clgarettes will pay 270 marks. Petroleum will pay 10 marks to 6 marks per hundred-welght, according to 1ts quality. Wool will be admitted free. Leather will pay from 30 marks to 50 marks and shoes from 85 marks to 120 maj metric hundred-welght How Manufacturcrs Will B Wood manufacturers will be taxed follows per metric hundred-weight marks Planed wood, 6 further 10; prepared flooring, to 18, furniture made from hard wood, 12; in the rough, 15; finished furniture of soft wood, 8, and in the rough, 12, “lnished pig iron, 1 mark per metrle hun- dred-welght; cast piping for walls, abov 7 milllmetres, in the rough, 3 marks same finished, 43 marks; the same below In the rough, 6 marks, and the latter finished, 9 marks rollers, rough 3% marks; finished, 10 marks. Fine cast- lugs will pay from 1 to 5 marks; rail and blooms, 1 mark 50 pfonnigs. Wrought bars and hoops Wil pay from 1 mark to 5 marks; sheets, 5 marks 50 prennigs to 7 marks. Rough wire will pay from marks to 5 marks. Polished boflers will pay & dred-weight 6 marks; as in manufactured, Spades and shovels will pay forks, 10 marks; saws, 15 marks and 20 marks; files, 10 marks to 40 marks rough scrows, 5 marks; finished screws, 12 marks. Aluminum, hammered or rolled, will | pay 12 marks; lead, rolled, 3 marks; cop- per, wrought or rolled, 12 marke; copper wire, 12 marks. Locomotives will pay from § marks to 11 marks per metric hundred- welght. Steam engines will pay 8% marks per hundred-welght, Sewing machines, 35 marks. The dutles on machinery for wood iron and stone working will range from 2y marks on machinee welghing two and one- halt hundred-welght to 4 marks on ma- (Contluued on Second Page.) | United States | reau of statistics today | in 1901 hindrances | | | Produets of a, {In two American woods | | 8outh America. caled under the tariff law to pay duties | » marks per hundred-weight. Raw | 150, hundred- | \antern 3 | marks to § marks per metric hun- | | Spring Velley MORNING f N YEAR'S FORE!G Lulted States l'l: r:u in Value of Its Articles Import. Billlons on of Bxe port and WASHINGTON figures of the July 26.-~The foreign commerce in the year ended | were completed by the treasury They nports, $822,878,018; total exports, $1,487,- 567, exports of domestic products, $1,- 460,453,800, The tmports by gr year 1901, compared year, are as follows Articles of food a $218,610 1901, $222,207.8 Articles in crude condition for in domestic in- dustry: In 1900, $302,426,748; In 1001, $269 3,404, Articles wholly or partially man Mfactured for use in manufactures and me chanic arts: In 1900, $58,433,549; tn 1901, $79,080.716. Articles manufactured ready for consumption: In 1900, $128 in 1901, $130,662,00 Articles of voluntary use, luxuries In 1900, $111,670,094 $120,038,007 The reduction In curs chiefly in raw wool and fudia rubber, and in most the reduced value i partially due to re- duction of price rather than quantity Raw silk shows a reduction from $44,549 In 1900 to $29,353,777 tn 1901 de crease in value of 34.1 number of shows a d. 11,230,210 pounds in 1900 to 9,139,617 pounds in 1 of only 188 per cent In india while the imports of 1901 only 483, agalnat $31,376,867 In the orted in 1901 s 55 275,520 45,377,138 pounds in 1 In wool the fmportations decreased from 165,928,455 pounds valued at $20,260 986 in 1900 to 103,583,505 pounds, valued at $12,- 520,881 in 1901 The exports of domestic merchandise by great classes were as follows: of the 1501 bu- at classes with the n the fiscal pres animals: In 1900 value of imporN oc- silk, hides and skins a ™ i1, a de ubber $28.4 quantity pounds, are 1900, i against 0. feulture §35. Prod'ts of manufacture 43,6176 Products of mining 27,843,742 Products of the forest.. 52,213 Prod'cts of the fisheries ; Miscellan s 4,865,218 The apparent decrease in manufactures, which amounts to $24423.753, s chiefly to the exports to Hawall and Porto Rico, which are estimated at about $25,000,000 for the year, and largely consist of manufactures. important articles of manufacture, however, the exports of 1901 fall below those of 1800. The total exports of cop per in 1901 w 69,328 pound at $41,260,376, 333,340,725 1900, valued 5,172,166, against at § This decreasc was chiefly due to a reduction in demand | In cotton cloths | tor copper In Europe there was a reductlon due to the tempo- rary suspension of exports to China, which the exportations of cotton cloths fell from 152,023,681 yards, valued at $8,763,134, tn 1900 to 83,850,402 yards, valued at $4,552,- 534, In 1901 exportations by continents in 1501, compared with 1900, are as follows: Europe .......... North America 8394528 iy BBI3 N Asia Oceanfea Afriea .. Lotal' s 04,483,052 $1,487 To Oceanica the apparent decrease of $§,- 014,009 s entirely due Hawailan figures from ment of 1901 the export state- To Asla the reduction of $15,510,008 is due | In part to the temporary suspension of ex- ports to China during the recent perlod of | hostilities, and in part to the reduction in exports of cotton to Japan, as compared with alnormal exports in 1500, Th countries are A decrease of $10,000,000 to Japan, $5,000 000 to China, which are due to the cause above mentioned. The exports to Russla in the flscal year 1901 were $9,545,004, against $10,488,419 in 1900, The principal increases in exports are: To the United Kingdom, $97,000,000; Brit- Ish North America, $10,000,000; British Africa, $5,000,000; Germany, $3,724,363; Mexico, $1,600,380; Chili, $2,007,161; Peru, $1464,459; Porto Rico, $2,601,025, and Philippine {slands, $1385,615. By far largest fncrease was to the United Kingdom, to which the exports were $531,208,263 in 1001, against $533,819,635 in 1900, the total Increase being nearly $100,000,000, of which over $:0,000,000 was in cotton, about $15, 000,000 In breadstuffs and in provisions. territory were valued at 558 per cent of the total year. Tho total imports of the year were $27 268,168 less than those of 1900 and 180 less than those of 1861, ten years earlfer. The total exports were § 475 in excess of those of 1900, and $603,274.747 in excess of 1801, ten year The exports was $1 of 1900, and $525,5 $819,551,308, exports of earller, FOR TICKET COUNTERFEITING ¥ tectives Arrest menmer Association rank Rice a D nk They Have a Prize, July 2.—In the arrest Frank E. Rice, a local ticket broker tectives of the Western Passenger ciation believe they spiracy to defraud western railroads of large sums of money Rice was arrested gery and conspiracy. He gave $4,500. According to the dete Western Passenger association, Rice mileage tickets to various western which were supposed to have been by the Lehigh Valley & Monon roads accuse Rice of turning out from a private side of Chicago CHICAGO asso- out bond issued stamping mill located out- EDITORS START BACK TONIGHT pending This Duy In Salt Lake City with Nothing to Do but Look. SALT LAKE CITY first halt of the Union Pecific's 2,000 mile press excursion was finished at 8 o'clock tonight when the special ran upon the siding at Saltalr beach. The start from Wyo., was made this morn- ng. Stops were made at Aspen Tunnel and Evanston, Wyo. A thirty-minute stop was made at Ogden, After o day In Salt Lake City the return trip will bogin Sat- urday evening Total of WASHINGTON, July 2 of the treasury today bonds as follows: Two thou at $1.13.0074, $1,700 bs at $1.00.2 38 at $1.00.128. The total amount purchased Bonds P 3 —~The purch: tor tho sinking fund today is $15,954,100 at & cost of §15,026,563. COMMERCE detailed show total | ) these per cont, while the crease from due absence of figures showing valued | pounds in to to the absence of principal changes in the exports by the the | about $10,000,000 The total exports to British | or the excess of | 0,643 greater than that| 17,927 greater than that of of have unearthed a con- on a charge of for- | for | Ives of the sold | points They | railroad tickets Utah, July 26.—The secrotary ased short term and dollars 4s 36 and $500 1901 -TWELVE PAGES KAILROAD HEADS T0 | General Praning of Ageuts in Btere for | Combination Lizes 1 ] PACIFICS FIRST TO CONSOLIDATE OFFICES | - Are Soon to Unite fttle Wi a 1L Trio Follow Sul ater | CHICAGO, The Chronicle to- morrow will say: If the plans of the Har- riman syndicate are successfully exccuted agencles of the Union and Southern Pacifi roads in all parts of the United States and Canada will be consolidated, obably Sep- tember 1 Officers of the two r S Ar planning to abandon the local office of th Unlon Pacific road in Chicago and turn the businces over to the Southern Pacific | agenecy under W clmyer, general west. era freight and pussenger agent, as the first move in this direction, Doth roads now maintain offices in ago and in each a large force of agents and clerks Is em- ployed he plan of consolidating the trafe forces of the Harriman systems, it effected, will also apply to New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore Pittsburg, Cincinnatl, New Orleans, St Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Atlanta, Ga Havana, Cuba, Ogden, Salt Lake City Portland, Buffalo, Los Angeles, Seattle and many other points. It fs sald that when adviser shall have been appointed to look | atter the business of the Morgan-Hill | ronds, the Burlington, Northern Pacific and K Northern, all sevarate agencles now | 1s general trafic ent maintained by these lines in the different citles of the country will be consolidated and there will be a general pruning of the traveling and soliciting frelght and pas- senger agents. 'WESTERN ROADS CANNOT QUIT | Meeting of Executive Officers Dincov- that Ratecutting s Tem- porarily Obligatory. CHICAGO, July 28.—Presidents and ex- ecutive officers of all the western roads, traffic directors of the Harriman, Hill and other interests and the chairmen of the various western freight assoclations were in session today wrestling with the prob- lem of the maintenance of agreed rat between Chicago, St. Louls and Colorado- Utah points. Three weeks ago, when Vice President Stubbs of the Southern Pacific located at | | Chicago to direct the trafic affairs of the | so-called Harriman roads, the presidents, | executive officers and ehief trafe officials | ‘uf the western roads agreed that rates, which had been badly cut, should be re- stored to tarft on July 15. Some of the roads not represented at that meeting afterward reported that they had made contracts running until August 5 and could not restore rates until then. It was then agreed that ncme of the roads should ad- vance the rates until August 5, but that then no further ratecutting would be tol- erated, . Evidence bas been obtalned since that several of the roads had made contracts running until the end of this year and, as this would prevent a restorailon of rates as agreed, the meeting held today was called. 1t was found that the contracts | could not be abrogated before termination | without bringing about legal complicatiol and the prevailing sentiment was that the | business should be pooled and all roads | | get a share of the proceeds. | It 1s probable that In order to avold | | i i further breaks of this kind arrangements | will be made. {[ROCK ISLAND'S NEW AIR LINE It in to Connect Kansas City and To- peka and is to Be Completed This Year. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 26.~The Timen will say tomorrow: The Rock Island rail- road has been at work for some time past preparing for the building of a line be- tween Kansas City and Topeka. The sur- \\'\ y was recently completed and an en- I trance to Kansas Clty has been arranged | by the purchase of land for several miles west of here on the north side of the Kan- sas river. The management expects to have the line completed during the present year. The Rock Island now uses the Union Pa cific's tracks between Kaneas City and To- peka. The survey for the new line, which has been practically approved, gives the Rock Island an alr line between the two cities. The Kansas River is to be bridged fn three places. One of the bridges will bo but a few miles west of Kansas City and will carry the line to the north side of the river, but it will enter Topeka on the south side of the river paralleling the Santa Fe track for some distance. UNION PACIFIC BUYS BRANCH Kelly of Omaha Recovern Leavenworth & Lawrence Line, a Judge in Recelver's ¥ ™ LEAVENWORTH, Kan, July 25—The venworth & Lawrence branch of the | Unton Pacific, which has been In & recety |er's hands for several noon today, the years, was sold at | th | Missourt | amount, | the temperatures officially reported | were | heavy rains {cattle next week. | prised | this afternoon purchase price belng $500,- but bidder and the down o Judge W. R ha for the Union Pacific rail- Kelly stated that the receiver would be discharged at once and the road rated as part of the Union Pacific sys- tem road Kel There was was knocked of Or y. Judg one British Stockholders Dissatisfied. SAN FRANCISCO, July 26.—Willlam Morshead, an English barrister, who repre- sents the British stockholders in the Cen- tral Pacific rallroad, has arrived here from Toronto to renew his previous efforts to sccuro u reorganization of the Southern Pacific company, which absorhed the Cen- tral Pacific Should a case now pending In the United States clrcult court be de- cided against the English stockholders Mr. | Morshead says he will begin a suit in the wondon court of equity, The Chronicle says that J. M paymaster of the Southern pany, and oue of the oldest employ, 15 to be retired u Hanford, Pacific cam- men in its Clark Says Road Will Be Butlt | SAN FRANCISCO, July 26.—United Stat: Senator Clark of Montana Is here in con- nection with the construction of the s.n‘ Lake, San Pedro & Los Angeles railroad which, be says, will be completed as rapldly | as possible. He confirms the truth of a | recent statement that he is negotiating for a rich copper miniug concession in Siberla. Cne of his agents Is now investi- suiing the property, DAILY BEE. SINGLE FALL | TEMPERATURE COMES DOWN | Drop of Several Degrees Is Suddenly Noted Late in the Day nt Omah Nebraska—Partly ( fat bably Showers in Western Poy vy Fair fn Western, Probably and Not_ 8o Warm, Southerly Becoming Variable. W T8 1 100 (4 ns 0 w6 st The backbone be broken, but fi is a perature has taken a tumble Showers of rain in various country adjacent to Omala responsible tor the change About 6 o'clock last cvening a brisk wind galloped over Omaha for a few min- utes and immediately thereafter the tem- perature fell from 85 to 8% degrees. Later it dropped to 84 The maximum temp was at 4:10 o'cluck ermometer registered $0.8 degrees the firet day since July 19 when maximum temperature was below 102 Although at no time durlog the day was the temperature cqual to that of several preceding days, there waus no diminution of suffering, for what was lacking in high thermometer was more than made up in inc of humidity. Doctors say that it fen't the extreme hurts €0 much as a com- bination of temperature and humldity. And in this every layman agrees with the med- feal men Last night was more comfortable and the individual who has been having trouble with his wife beca she forces him not tem- the hot wave may that the parts of the are probably of the day enment It the was rase the wall—as reported in the police news yesterday—~had no kick coming, even he didn’t have cholce of position. So far as recorded there was no call for blankets yet sleep was more of a possibility in any room with ordinary ventilation. The drop of last evening may mean the dawning of cooler days, but the weather man refuses to go on record with such a prediction. Mr. Welsh was for many years statfoned In St. Louis. St. Louls Is in No use explaining the rest. Proatrated a Sec, .. Peter LeClere, a packing house employe, was prostrated by heat in a saloon at Six- teenth and Leavenworth streets last even- tng. He was attended at the police station and removed to the Clarkson hospital. This Is the second time LeClere has been prostrated this summer and his condition is considered dangerous. GENERAL DROUTH SITUATION Wenther Bureau Officials Regard the Conditions as Somewhat Improved. WASHINGTON, July 26.—The last twen- ty-tour bours probebly have been the most tuvorable to the states of the corn belt since the cxlsting hot wave began, nearly forty days ago. Rains, generally light in have fallen In western Kansas, western Nebraska, southern Missourd, cen- tral lowa, Arkansas and a little in Okla- homa and the prospects seem to be favor- able for a continuation tomorrow of more numerous showers in the section covered by these states and territories. On Sun- day showers are looked for In northern Hlinots and northern Indlana Still there has been no general rain, of | which the crops stand in so much neced and there are no immediate prospects of any. On the whole the weather bureau officlals here regard the situation as some- what {mproved. Incidental to the rains today somewhat lower than yesterday. However, they range from 92 to 100 in the corn belt. Conditions will remain prac- tically unchanged in the drouth section duriog Saturday and Sunday and the weather will continue very hot, with the possibllity of relief from scattered thun- derstorms. In the Dakotas and in Montana there has not been any rain of importance in the last twenty-four hours, but temperatures have been a little lower. There were good last night in Wisconsin, in lower Michigan and in northern Ohio and falr rains in N SOUTH DAKOTA THEIR HOPE Missouri Live Stock Men Ship Their Cuttle North 1o Escape the Drouth, YANKTON, §. D., July 26.—(Special.)— William Corbin and Ed Bailey, who live in the drouth-stricken section ot Missouri, were in Yankton yesterday on thelr return to Missourl. They have secured leases on grass land near Geddes and will return to Charles Mix county with 400 head of They were much sur- to find crops looking o well in Bouth Dakota. They will put up hay and winter their cattle near Lake Andes. Local thundershowers visited this county Ouly a little rain foll at Yaukton, but some sections recelved al- mast an Inch, HURON D teen days of intense laet night by s Beadle county, and the greater portion the Jim river valley. It was the longest and hottest period ever experienced in this section of the etate, the temperature aver aging § degrecs above that of any July in the past twenty years. So Intense has the heat been at t 8 that outdoor work was abandoned during the middle hours of the day, particularly in harvest fields. Three prostratione by heat occurred, but all have nearly recovered. The ralns of Wednesday night and Thursday morning will be of {m. mense benefit to corn, millet and pasturage; the corn crop, while apparently damaged July 26 heat (Special.)—Fif- was terminated | by heat, will be exceptionally heavy if fa. vorable weather conditions econtinue. ports indicate a light potato crop. VERMILION, 8§ D, July 28.-—(Special Telegram.)—After twenty-five days without rain and the thermomater registering from 100 to 108 nearly every day, a fine shower fell tonight, which seems to be genera over Clay county. TYNDALL, D., July 26.—(Special.)— Henry Hebner died Wednesday evening from snustroke. He had been employed on the farm of Joseph Stone. He leaves a wife and fourteen children. Deceased was twice married Re- I1inols in Marked Down, SPRINGFIELD, 111, July 26.—The weather bureau recorded & temperature of 99 de- groes today. Two deaths and several pros- trations were reported. cory to | | sleep on the back side of the bed next to it | lendid showers over all of | of | FIVE PRAYERS AND RAIN Nebraska Offers Up the Oae and the Other ut Dows, SIMULTANEOUS ENOUGH TO BE RELATED Indications Continue of Gradual Break- ing Up of Drouth. | — SIDNEY CALLS ITS SHARE A DELUGE 8t. Edward and Trenton Ges Pleaty and Expeot Mo OTHERS GLAD TO SPEAK OF SHOWERS In Lincoln Petitions Shift for Gover. nor Savage's Henefit—<Kan nd Minsourt Are Refreshed by General Rains. Rainfalls continue In Nebraska. Omaha last night felt the benefit of cooler breezes ! s a result of showers in other places. Spe cinl dispatches to The Bee from over the state gave renewed indications of a gradual | breaking up of the drouth. Some of the #howers came so promptly that they seemed & dirnct answer to the prayers that wers offered over the state in response to the governor's proclamation. Beatrice and Plorce last night reported light showers §t. Bdward told of heavy rain and more in sight. Wilsonville rejolced In half an fnch Plainview called its downpour heavy and Sidney spoke of a deluge. Trenton meas- ured three-elghths of an inch and saw promise In the sky of more, while the mer- cury fell from 100 to 75 degrees, with an fcy thud. Alblon welcomed showers. Bassett chronicled heavy preeipitation in Rock and Keya Paba counties Sibley, Ia., reported forty-one one-hun- dredths of an fnch. Vermilion, 8. D., sald rain was general over Clay county. Kan- sas recorded the end of drouth, with gen- eral rains all over the state, Insuring water for cattle and the salvation of pasturage. Missouri checred up under three-fourths of an inch of rain all over the northwest section, and St. Joseph was too wet to play ball. In other drouth-stricken states show- ers added to the general encouragement. TRENTON GETS WET AND COLD Drenching and Drop In Mercury Quick to Follow Season of Prayer. TRENTON, Neb., July 26.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—According to Governor Savage's proclamation a season of prayer was held in the Methodist Episcopal church this morning and was seemingly answered, as it began to rain about noon and rajned steadily for an hour. Nearly three-eighths of an inch of water fell heré and in some portions of the county it was heaviér. The rain was accompanied with but little thun- der and lightning. Today's rain s the first of any consequence in forty-two days, this being one of the longest dry spells ever known here. The rain will revive the pasture and hay considerably, besides | puritylng and cooling the atmosphere. Con- tracy to some of the weather reports, It has been partly cloudy for four days. At 1:45 p. m. today the thermometer registered 75 degrees and remained so for some time. This Is the greatest drop in the temperature in weeks. The thermometer has regls- | tered with a few exceptions over 100 both night and day nearly five woeks. Indica- tions point to more rain tonight. Rain in Other Places. PIERCE, Neb.,, July 26.—(Speclal gram.)—A light shower of rain fell this afternoon, just enough to lay dust WILSONVILLE, Neb., July 26.—(Special Telegram.)—A good shower visited this lo- cality last night and this evening another rain of one-half an inch fell, cooling the atmosphere and refreshing vegetation. ST. EDWARD, Neb., July 26.—(Special Telegram.)—A heavy shower of rain fell here this evening, the first in over a month. Rain i reported to be heavy south- east of here. Corn Is standing the drouth well in most places. More rain is looked for tonight. PLAINVIEW, Neb,, July 26.—(Speclal Tol- egram.)—This vicinity recelved a good, heavy raln at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The corn here has stood the drouth remarkably well and the rain today will make a good yleld for this locality. This Is the firat rain since July 4 BASSETT, Neb., July 26.—(Special Tele- gram.)—A heavy rain fell in the northern part of thie county and In Keya Paha county this afternoon. Thin Se. SIDNEY, Tele- here the on Calls It Deluge. Neb., July 26.-~(Special Tele- | gram.)—Another big rainfall came tonight and the streets are deluged with water. Reports from the country say that a heavy rain has fallen pretty generally throughout the county. This means fat eattle and plenty of good grass lands. The second crop of alfalfa is all cut and stacked and a third crop assured owing to the heavy rains of the last three days HARRISON, Neb., July 26, egram.)—This section was visited by a good rain last night. The potato crop Is saved, but it came too late to help grass on the range, which has matured. The range is in excellent condition now for winter fee ELWOOD, Neb., July 26.—(Special.)—The drouth was broken {n this locality lest ! night, 1.06 inches of rain having fallen The south part of this county evidently got a considerable heavier fall. The north half will have a good crop of corn with continued favorable weather, but in the south half the corn has been damaged by dronth and grasshoppers. PRAY FOR THE GOVERNOR Petition that Henrt Softened in Seqnel (o 1ix Ab from Rain Meeting, ~(8pectal Tel- Savaue's Ne nee (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN July 28.—(Special.)—Prayers for raln and prayers for Governor Savage were offered at the First Congregational church in this city today. In this temple the Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists and Congregationalists united In an appeal for deliverance from the drouth. Rev. Manss spoke at some length on the object of the service and added that he regretted the absence of Governor Savago and other state officlals, He sald that in- vitations had been sent to each state officer end be thought the governor and his col- leagues should take as much Interest in the result of the proclamation for the day )