Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1901, Page 2

STRIDES OF POSTAL SERVICE Especal Advancs is Made in Raral Fre Deiivery. PRACT!CAL BENEFITS ARE DEMONSTRATED Pont Faplnine the * 1 VAl -t General e of I8 \dvantages Develop the tiey Further, WASHINGTON, Nov, 27.--Tue annual re- port of Postm General Charles Emory Smith [ gives the follow- g etatement fAnancial for the year ordinary Receipts fnese {pia from orders more thar nade ie todny of operations posta $10m trom mor irder i on ; 't old 81 115.354,920.87 recelpts from tturcs for the year recelpt While the development slons of the ¢ * expenditures in the ordinary and through various exten- jce are $7.814,652.88 greator than for the preceding year, the deficit is $1.461,061.22 lews. Under present prosper- ous conditfons the Annual increase of res cofpts 15 fortu v Iarger than the inev- Mable increase of outlay and for: several yeare the defioit has been steadily growing smaller The 1,023, 7%.48 postmaster general #pace 1o the aileged mbuse of second-class mall matter privileges and the case of one publication, presumably of the Main group of fake magazines, which the govern- ment handles at a net loss of $13,421 each 1ssue, while the publishers tlsing based on the immensé gratuitous circulation make a profit of $53,780. . The government is carrying, says the posimaster general, 200,000,000 pounds of mail a year at 1 cent a pound which ought to pay § cents a pound or be excluded altogether, involving an acfual cash ouilay to the government of $5.000,000. He that in the work of reform no change is intended regarding legitimate uewspapers and magazines. criticiam falls on them and no laylng of the ax at rooted evils menaces their position. They ask no favors. They stand oo thelr rights ohject and their rogular body of readers they are the direct objects of that delib- erate and enlightened public policy which in the interest of the people fosters the wources of public intelligence. They ob- terve and fulfill the requirements of the law. And because they do they have the more concern in eliminating those which do not," devotes much says Rursl Free Delivery. Rural tree delivery finds ah enthusiastio place in the postmaster general's report He says The " rural free with Increased stil ing the last year has been nearly three limes us greal as w e _amount of fously established. The number tes in operation at the beglnning of the figcal vear was 1276 and at the close 4301 During the curreht vear, with an sugmented appropriation and a more ex- erjepced force, the work will proceed still ore rapldly. At the opening of December routws Wil be running and under present plans the number will increase by July 1, 1902, to 8,600, The rural population now recetving daily sarvice 18 about 4000000, and at_the end of the fiscal year it will reach 5,700,000 The delivery system will then cover more than A _quarter of the eligible portion of the sountry, and at the present rate of estab- Ushment the entire area sulted to ths service—that is, as estimated, 100,00 square miles of tevritory with 71,000 0% of cural residents—will be brought within its 1c0pe . less than four years. The mall will then, 1 the work goe an, be delivered at every 'door In the United States except N the most remote, mountainous and iparsely - settied sections, and th villages of limited recelpts wherd the postoffice is vithin_easy reach. The demand for the irvice grows with the public experfence of s convenience and utility. The number of lpg)\ll“llnnl 'or new routes at this time ast year was 2160, Those now pending ind awalting action amount to 6,120, Thus e 6000 routes which have been’ organized wre only one-half of the number already isked for. Advantages of the Policy. The polley of rural delivery is no longer . subfect of serlous dlspute. It has un- nistakably vindicated itself by its frults. f the financlal results are sifll undeter- nined und require greater experience and note complete data before a conclusive udgment can be pronounced, the practical henefits and the popular apprectation and tlemand have been decisively demonstrated t has becn made plain that this service 1§ + potent educatfonal force; that It brings wgricultural 1ife Into far closer relations with the active business world; that it seeps the farmer in daily touch with mar- <ets and prices: that it advances general ntelligence through the increased clveula- tlon of legit‘mate journals and perlodical stimulates correspondence. quickens all n jerehanges, promotes good roads, enhances arm valuos, makes farm life less fsolated and more aftractive and unites with other whoiesome Influences in checking ~and ihanging the hitherto prevalling currant rom country to eity. The national value M these advantages is incalculable. The ire not theoretical, but real, direct and immediate. In diffusing thym the beneficent agency of the government b brought into he qally presence and thought of the peo. nle, A service which has within three years wrought such a great {mprovement In the “condition of rural life cannot be Lalted. Tt must go on until it shall be fully “ompleted A closer of the material Interests i es this conclusion. average there are 12 families on n Under the old system they traveled ) to four miles in going to the If the cost I time, and. othar & be reckoned at 10 conts a. day v§: delivery has advanced Its extension dur- nsideration route. from t postony aheh tamity S Rl amily It Is clearly a modernte es mate. That ‘made an aggregute of §1 £y The government can deliver. the mall “at ‘the doors of all for $2, Why shouldn't it do w0 and save them the larger burden? Extend the caleulation ta the whole country. ~There are about 400.9% families dependent on the rural service. The agaregate cost to them of going (0 the postoMice reaches an enormous sum. The government can carry the postoffice to them for & fraction of the ount Under such clreamstances the claim to the service becomes irresistible. Tt is {he business of the government to delfver the malls as far as practicable, The gppres hended obstacles to rural defivery ha: lurgely' vanished with actual periene and the nifest advantages, now elearly showi, poley ge the full development of the Lven the fear that the ultlmate cost of Every Exertion a Task There is failure of the strength to do and the power to endure; a feeling of weakness all over the body. The vital functions are impaired, food does not nourish, and the whole system is run.down, . A medicine that strengthens the stomach, perfects digestion, invig- orates and tones is needed. What Hoed's 8arsaparilla did for Mrs. L. B. Garland, Shady, Tena,, it has done for others. She took it when she was il run down -- with out appetite, losing flesh, and unable to do her work. It restored her appotite, incrensed her weight, und made her well and strong. This is her own unsolicited statement. Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises to cure and keeps the promise. The earlier treatment is begun the better—begin it today. through adver- | With their fixed place, their publi@ | this service would so far exceed the returns Ak to make |t a heavy national burden is wnsibly dissipated by the resulta of the experimentul trial. It fs demonstrated that the extablishment of rural delivery is in varlubly followed by a Iarge increase of postal receipte, on the other hand, It per- mits 4 materinl retrenchment through the discontinuance of star routes and small postofces, and the combined effect of the augmented revenue and the considerable saving bringe the nei cost of the delivary wystem to proportions which may be garded witho The saving | 18 the last flscal year on star routes uperseded was $15, 0441, and on | postoices discontinued It was' $12),221.4, {The two together amount to one h ol the entire appropriation for th n e of Reven Increase of _revenue An analyste of the fiical venr #hows that offices ' the increase 11 per cent: in the nondelivery tal offices 41y per cent. and In Ahe rural wections 215 per cent. | Long experiance has made it clear that under the old conditions the nnnual rate of growidi of postal Fevenue i countes con munities 1’ about Rut wiier ever rural detivery | f established this annuai_gaim hag risen to § or 10 per ot The ratlo of increase on the rira Uites I8 substantinlly equal to that of th a Itiew. This ix as true of thoss which have beén operated for throe Vears a8 of those opergted only for A vear. ahowing that 1t fx ot an exceptional and transient expansion in the nature of a upirt, but that it fa the normul, uniform ind legitimate increase which always fol- lows tmproved facilities. in the ten com- plete county services which have been es tablished this I8 more marked than in the fragmentary system, proving that the more rfect the service the better the resiits Yt 'is ‘clear that if & saving can be effected i the ecurtallment of star routes and fourth-cinss officex to the extént of one- Aixth of the cost of ruest delivery, and |0 the annual gatn in postal revones shail ad- o 'Wherover It In npplied TFom 2 per 1o & or 10 per cent, ihen the net out- ¥ dntolved i the cofayiete development of the wystem will not he so great that it need defer congreas from the prosecution of_this enlightened policy {”With ‘Ite neceptatice a8 n fixed and en- auring serviee the wisdom of placing it o W permanent basis and of bringing it int full harmony with the general principles of | al eatablishment enforces iteeif. In \zing rural d oxperl ment congress adop dite and Simply made the requisite appro- priation, 1t did not undertake to prescribe [fhe rules or methdds of oreanigation. it gave the department full discretion to de- termine (he means and select the agents fta trinl. A# the service was expert- its nature, ae 1ts development 0 the results of actuil ox- ts progress might _require nges’ In form and method, congress emed It wise to leave the plan fiexible and capable of modification ns observation dietated. 1t did ot desire to restrict the freedom of the department to avail Itsalf o¢ the beat suggestions and the ripest fruits of the practicnl test. The controlling ob- Ject was to determine the feasfbility and uthiity of rural delivery, and the yearly en- argement of the appropriation n the sam unltmited terms ndicated the purpose congress to allow ful latitude for " the amplest trial and the development of the best agencies and methods of application With this diseretionary authority the oxinting system has been created. At the beginning of the fscal y less than 200 routes in operation are mow 6,000 The organization necessary for this large estabiishment has been made; the agent tors to examir routes have been apy who dajlv traverse the Foites and collect and deliver the mail, have been named, and these more than 6000 selections have heen made without friction. and, 1t Is be- Heved. with Mitle complaint. The merlt principle of appointment has substantially been applied, AAd no removals haye been made except for cause. Hoth the clerical administrative force and (he force In the fleld have been chosen with care, upon groundw of fitness and oualification, and fone have been named who were not {leved to come up to a high standard of in. tegrity and capacity. Out of this method hac grown a body of falthful and enrneat employes, who, 1t is confidently felt compare ‘favorably in intelligence and efi- Glency with any part of the civil servige He advises the extension of civil service rules to every branch of the rural free de- livery service. Regarding paréels post gests: “Other countries in Europe eeck parcels post conventions with us, but it may be a question how far. a foreign seryjce of this character should be extended bo- tore a domestic parcels post shall be in- augurated. The establishment of a domestic system is a question with congress. The ftree delivery system in cities now serves 32,000,000 patrons at a eost of 50 cents each per avnum. On July 1 last 866 citles and towns were included in the sys- tem, fn which at least two malls per day were delivered and collected by the 16,389 carriers employed. During the year there were more casu- alties In the railway mall service than in any similar period since its organization. the total number being 825, in which seven clerky were killed and sixty-three seriousiy and 220 slightly injured. The postmaster general renews his recommendation for log- islation for the relief of the families of railway mail clerks who are killed while on duty., Congressional action has been recommended by the department for some years, he says, and is urgently needed for relief in deserving cases of this kind A new domestic postal card will ver shortly be issued under a contract recently executed. This card wil be of an entirely new and improved design and will bear In the upper right hand corner o likenees of the late President McKinley. Recommendations for The marked { the Tust delivery averaged preids Atrictly 18 equally returns for in the free of pte | s e fvory ax an the operation of th fnted; the carrier the report sug- Legislntion, The following recommendations for legi lation, some of which have heretofore been made, are submitted for the consideratfon )t congress: That the maximum fee for a money order be fixed at %, instead of 30 cents. That a fund be created out of the salaries of rallway mall clerks to provide for the retirement of such clerks as have, after long perfods of service, become fnca- pacitated for active duty That publishers be required make a preliminary separation of newspapers, under the direction of the department, n d condition under which they shall enjoy the exceedingly liberal rates provided for carrying sccond-class matter through the malls. That a bullding be pre of Washington to be part by the mail bag and mail lock repair shov and as a depository for mail hags. "That section 3 of the act of June 18, 159 chapter 446, providing that assistant pos masters, cashiers and other emploves in postomces of the first, second and third classen shall glve bond airect to the United States be ropeuled. and that o statute be enacted requiring. such officers to give bond Afrectly to the postmasters and holding postmasters responsible under their own hond for.any and all acts and defaults 60 cuering at thelr respective offices. That provision be made for the of ‘inctdental expenses incurred by local siicers or others in the arrest, detention and keeping of prisoners charged with vio- utions of the postal laws ~ untll such prisoners can be transferred to the custody of A United States marshal. That a statule be nostoffice inspectors warrants when sary In the duties That an appropriation be made for the Jirpoke of constructing lookouts wherever, in the opinfon of the postmaster general, they may be needed That the interstate commerce law amended to prohibit common carrier wit., telegraph and express companles, any’ of thelr employes, from aiding and abetting n the green’ goods or lottery swindles, any other schem ried on partly by mall and partly by common car- rler and which is in violatlon of the postal lawe. vided in the city used wholly or in ayment to take out scaroh er the same may be necos- prosecution of their official be or St. Louls Wurehouse, ST. LOUIS, Nov. 21.—Fire tonight de- stroyed the three-story brick building at Main and Brooklyn streets, oocupied by the Scarritt-Comstock Manufacturing company as a finishing shop and warehouse. Holiday goods and stock of furmiture to the amount of $175,000 were burned. The bullding was valved at $25,000. The loss is practically covered by inpur- ance. One hundred and twenty persous at work it the bullding at the time had nar- row escapes from injury and death. Southern Pacific Depot. ALEXANDRIA, La., Nov The South- ern Pacific depot here filled with freight, was desteoyed by fire, together with a num- ber of cars. The loss is estimated at | #70,000. d no directing man- | sar 1899 there wore | Thera | to locate and the fnevec- | be- | will | | Jector company | and President Johnson today sald that this | enacted authorizing | to | OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, N OVEMBER 28, 1901 {LIST OF DEAD INCREASES Twonty-Nine Workmen Among the Ruiny at Detreit. { | fUND TO RELIEVE STRICKEN FAMILIES | Prosccenting Attornes Employs Pro- feswor Cooley (0 Determine Cause | | | " | ploston at Pemberthy DETROIT. Nov. 2 When the search r\(; the Pemberthy Injector company's plant, | wreckel by a boiler explosion yesterday morning, was completed tonight the death | 1kt had reached a total of twenty-nine, | Afl but two of the company's employes have been located and ae theso men worked in the front bullding, which was not | wrecked, {t 8 thought that they are at| their homes. The men’s addrossea are not | on the company's books, ®o it may be somo time before they are located the It of dead LOUISE A, HENNI PATRICK MALLOY. married CHARLES MARVIN, aged 24 JACOR KOEBEL { CHARLES A, LILY A. E. MILLER, aged ! A, E HOFFMAN, aged 28 ED BURTCH, aged 17 BUGENE BERTCH, aged STEVEN KROSS, aged 20 BARNEY MIOTKE GEORGE SCHOENER. CHRISTOPHER WALDMAN JOSEPH COFFEY, aged 17 JOHN FREAY GEORGE DOWNES ADOLPH KNAPP JOSEPH KOSACK WALTER IDE. RICHARD BRYAN JOHN SCHAIBLE DOUGLASS DICKSON, boy. | WILLIAM EGGERS, hoy | PETER DOLL, 1. BROCK JAM THOMAS. WILLIAM MANN THOMAS MULLA CHARLES LUTH. Binckened and Mangled Dodies. | Of the dead, twenty-one were dug out of | the ruins, burned and blackened corpses, and the other six dled in tho hospitals from | thelr injuries. All the rest of the injured were reported oh the road to recovery to- day, except'ng John Klinowlez, who is sut- fering from a fractured skull. Engineer | Riley's recovery is now considered to be | certain At 6 p. m the searchers finished Vhl" work of overturning the debris. Only two | bodies were found today, both of which | were torribly mangled. The prosecuting attorney this afterooon began an examinat ‘nto the cause of the | explosion. Prof. Mortimer E. Cooley of | the University of Michigan, who has been | asked by Prosecutor ffunt to make an ex- | pert examination of ‘he wrecked boller, | came in from Ann Arbor (his afternoon and | went immediately to the scene of the ex- | plosion. He inspected the exterior of the | boiler, but sald that he ventured no opinion | with regard to the cause of the explosion. | Already over $600 hus been raised for tho | tamilies victims and_subspriptions are rapidly coming in. The Pemberthy In- carried $55,000 insurance | Following is | aged 38, married | | ‘E | would cover the company's loss. FIRES FIFTY SHOTS (Continued from First Page.) was dispatched Tuesday, baving on board about fifty soldiers for Chamo, or its vicin- ity, where it was claimed a party of liber- als under General Torras has recel quite recenily a fresh supply of arms and ammunition “Sa Paulo and Barbacoa are known here to be liberal strongholds and places very easy to defend, while to eross the bridge spanning the Chagres river, now swllen, | was next to impossible for' an attacking | The feat was accomplished, how- | ever, but the reason the liberals aban- | doned Barbacon is not made clear. The | death rate on the government side was very great, many bodies falling into the river. An attempt was also made to make a detour on the river In boats, but as the Chagres was swollen the hoats were cap- sized and many men were drowned, “General Castro commanded the govern- ment forces at Barbacoa. General Alban tried to get a irain yesterday morning to convey 200 men to the sceme of the en- gagement at Barbacoa, but Captain Petty of Towa said that not a single armed man would be allowed to entrain. Bltter Feeling Against Americans, “The feeling here against forelgners, par- tleularly Americans, runs high. “A speclal train at Panama to convey General Alban, alone and unarmed, awaitod the arrival for hours of the morniug train foroe. SENSE ABOUI' FOOD, s About Food Worth Knowin Tt is a serious question know just what to eat stomach 1s out ot order cause gripiog and ‘pains Grape-Nuts Food can be taken at any time with the certainty that it will digest Actual experience of people is valuable to any cne interested in foods. Mrs. Ella Natlon, 1452 Grand Ave., Terre Haute, Ind., “Had suffered with indigestion for- About four years, ever since an at- tack of typhold fever, and at times could eat nothing but the very lightest food, and then suffer much agony with my stomach | 1 would wish I never had to eat anything. I was urged to try Grape-Nuts Food and since using it I do not have to starve my- self any more, but 1 can eat it at any time and feel nourished and satlsfied, and dys- pepsia is a thing of the past. “When my stomach used to have that burn- ing, hungry sensation my heart would flut- ter, just as sufferers with stomach trouble know abont, and when I was so weak T could hardly walk 1 would get up and get some Grape-Nuts and cream and eat them and tie trouble would stop right away, and T kept growing better and botter v husband also had an experience with rape-Nuts Food. He was vory weak ani slekly in the spring. Could not attend to o work. He was put under the doctor's care but medicine did not seem to do him any good until he began to leave off ordi- nary food and use Grape-Nuts. It w positively surprising to see the change in him. He grew botter right off, and naturally he has none but words of praise for Grape- Nuts “Our boy thinks he cannot eat a meal without he has Grape-Nuts, and he learns so fast at school that his teacher and other scholars comment on It. I am satigfied that it is because of the great nourishing eloments iy Grape-Nute. “It I8 a pity that people do not know what to feed their children. There are many mothers who feed their youngsters on al- sometimes ‘o when &' person’s and most foods most any kind of food and when they be- come sick begin to pour the medicine down them. The real way is to stick to proper food and be healthy and ket along without the medicine and expenge.” fr h m Colon, but on the arrival of the latter re at 6 o'clock in the evening, bringing forty wounded men, among whowi were several officers, with the news that the government troops had victoriously crossed the bridge at Barbacoa, the specfal' tratn wae not dispatched and General Alban re- mained at Panama “At §:30 p. m. yesterday a large pros cession, headed by a band of music, marched in an orderly mavuer all over Panama shouting General Alban's praise and pros claiming that the death blow had been given to the liberal causo in this depart- ment SUAIN N TORMENT (Continued from First Page.) bound train are belleved to be booked from New York for settioment in the west The depot at Seneca and two compara- tively uninfured coaches have been utilized as temporary hospttals. One relfef train 18 now returning to Detrolt from the wreek and other frains are enroute to Peri and | Adrian. Latest Reports as to Casnalties, The Iatest reports from Adrian nre to tho effect that there are eighty dead and 150 injured, of which twenty-five cases are serious. Fifty of the dead were killed out- right. Among the tmjured are L. Loyd, Mempton, N. D, head badly tn- Jured Vietor Coben,: &. Paul, Minn., hit on head by water bottle. Frank R. Bledlien, broken. H. Walter Grefs, Joplin, Mo E. F. Smith,.Detrolt, slightly orge Peffer, .I“'VYU.L not serious. W. E. Gillen, Jumped from smoker window with four others, and cut seriously. Ellaredell, porter, elight McElmore, porter No. 13, slight Mrs. C. H. Chryon, Buffalo Mrs, Richard, residence unknown George Eilot, South Sebyl, Me., not ous. Victor Greenbaum, New York, slight H. C. Whitney, Grand Rapids, in car on | eastbound traln which was telescoped Walter Grelg, Joplin, Mo, badly about bead . A. Palmer, conductor parlor car, got out all right. Engineer Strong makes statement: Mrs. M. E. Strioger, Bellevue, Mich., spine injured and skull fractured; may die. Fravk Beldler, Baltimore, ribs broken. Salla Zook, Burnside, 111, slight, Loufs Shoemaker, Adrian, Mich Baltimore, left arm serfously, seri- hurt the following bip in- | ured Vietor Brooklyn: Jesste hurt, George T, White, and Seventy-sixtli rlous. Thomas Crehan, talo: leg tujured Winifred Crehan, Batavia 1. Banard, Logansport, injured. Anua Kasou, Denver; injured about head Katherine Plutt, Denver, slight Mre. Joseph Jackea, Elobeville, slight 8K bruised. Amelia, Colion, Colorado, slight G W. Sweeney, Detroit, bruised about bead and legs. A Mre. Donivan of 6341 Wentworth ave- fue, Chicago, 1s among the rescued | I was running sixty-five miles an hour when T saw a:Hght on the westbound traln I sbut down {0 fitty-miles. We 'had eeyen coaches and & paggage car. I jumped, so did my firemand The first car was atrong and was not smashed. The second collapsed and not a soul escaped.” Cuune of the Wreck. Willard Stearns, editor Press, who had just retarmed from the wreck at 2:30 a. m., telephoned the follows ing to the Associated Press: Mr. Stearns sald the cause of the disaster was the misreading of his orders by Engi- neer Strong of the Continental I.lml(r-1.\ The order read, 'Pass at Seneca,” b Strong understood it to read “Sand Creek.” | The conductor of the train read the order rightly. He did not know tbat the engineer misunderstood it and supposed that the traln was going on a siding. Finding that the train was running rapidly the conduc- Cohen, 164 home St Williams, Wi Paul Detroit; Green street Minn back and hip | 670 Bast One Hundred street, New York; se- 161 Norway street, Buf- | N Ind Y. slight. | internally Colo, | | Y., badly | *. Carroll, Tonawanda, N. of the Adrian | ter put on the alr brakes himself, but he was t0o late, and just then the engineor sot the brakes to try (o avert the force of the collision, The engineer's leg was broken and he was otherwise Injured. Seven dead were | taken out of one car of the Continental limited. All those on that train who were killed were on that car, which was be- tween the smoker and dining cars. The bulk of the injured persons were taken to Peru, Ind.. and Montpelier, O., the tracks of the Detroit & Lima Northern and Cin- cinnati Northern being utflized in getting around the wreck. Mr. Stearns sald that the scene of the wreck beggars description. The night is bitterly cold and as there is but one farmhouse adjacent to the scene there was but little shelter for the sufferers. Matters are In an extremely chaotlc con- dition and there are soarcely any facilities for identifying the dead and the railroad will not permit the use of its wires, the only ones. available, for carrying the new These dead have been identified: JAMES BROWN, porter, Detrolt. JOB WITCHELL, Detroit. E. N. DENELL, Detroit GEORGE W, YEOMAN, capitalist City. PERU, Ind., Nov. 28.-—-Two reliet trains are on the way from the scene of the wreek at Senoca bearing the injured. One of the trains will not reach Peru until 2:45 a. m. The general hospital for the Wabash sys Kansas | tem i3 located in this city. Train Kills Two Women PRINCETON, Ind., Nov. Mrs. John Havs and Mrs. Frank Kightly were killed by an Evansville & Terre Haute passenger train at Hazelton today. They were cross. fog the track in a buggy, where an embank- ment hid the approaching train from view. MUTUAL INSURANCE MEETING Executive Committee Arranges for the National Convention at St. Paul. The executive committee of the Mutual Insurance Companies’ Association of the United States met at the Millard hotel Wednesday afternoon to fix the date and ar. range other details for the national conven- tian of the association. It-was decided to hold the convention in St. Paul, Minn., the firet Tuesday in March, 1002. The work of arranging the program for that occasion has been left to the ‘secretary. It {s sup- posed that about 200 delegates will he pres- ent, representing overy staté in the unlon. The following officers and members of tho executive committee were present: W, D, Forbes, Des Moines, president; W. B. Linch, Lincoln, secretary and treasurer; H. A Wiley, Kewenna, Ind.; C. N. Doane, Newton, Ia.; R. M. Scott, Topeka, Kan.; R. J. Youns, Oelwein, Ta. They will leave today for their homes, To Cure vold in Unc Day. take Laxative Bromo Quinine Fabiets. AN druggists refund the money it it fails (o oure. E. W. Grove's sigoature is on' each box. 25e. | road 4 | have to be pald, { Ohlo | portation LONG LEASE OF BURLINGTON Hundred and Ninety-N ne the Term Bpecified. RATIFICATION DUE oara in IN CHICAGO TODAY Every Line Now Controlled Operated by the Quiney W 1 nn bt volved in this Transier of Authority, [ BURLINGTON Telexram.) —The Quincy Rallway company, the $100,000,000 corporation recently Incorporated here for | the purpose of operating lines fn this a | other states, Ia about to enter Into year lense of nll the 1ines owned Ia, Nov Chlengo, Burlington Quiney company Papers necossary to effect have been prepared and the lease authorized by the stockholders of both | companies In meetings recently held. if | netual execution of the lease has not been the transtey that It nlready bears the signatures neces- sary to make It a logal document | It s understood that at the meoting o and that at a wimllar meeting of the Chi cago, Burlington & Quincy Rallwny com will be taken To complete the deal the Chicago, Bur meet and elect permanent officers officers will be re-elected by the new regime. Accordingly, the Chicago, Hurlington & undor & new name what [t owned and con trolled under the old organization The exact terms of the lease cannot be ascertained, but It is understood that the old company will continue to be the divi- dend-paying concern and that both boards as well as both official rosters will be the same The mystery of the frequent adjournments of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail company's stockholders’ meetings ha been explained. It is stated that the annual meetings will hereafter be adjourned from week: to weck, 80 that any official act that may become necessary to the welfare the property may be done without delay. This method is the one employed by Mr. HIll in connection with the Great Northern d has been found of great conveui- ence in case of emergency. [ new railway company it Is explained that such oncern deemed essential in conncetion with refunding of bonds, which will be hegun in 1908. At present the Chi- cago, F ton & Quiney Raflroad cotn- pany has a large assortment of special boods Issued aguinst various portions of the sys tem and for a varfety of purposes. About $25,000,000 worth of these miscellancous bonds will begin coming due soon and wiil It is the’ purpose of the owners of the property to issue in their stead bonds of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rallway company and to make the authorized issue sufficient to take care of the future needs of the system. The pro< ceeds of the new bond Iskues will be avail- able for all purposes and the financial palicy will be greatly simplified Such a plan, however, could not be carried out without the organization of a new com pany, Incorporated, as is the Chicago, Bur- lington - & Quiney Raflway company, in state whese laws do not require that the bonds of a corporation bear a certain rela- tion to the amount of capital stock. It asserted that for this reason the new com- pany would have been organized irrespe tive of the change in control of the Bur- lington. a was Stuart, General § of Middle and Na Division Pr Nov. 27.—~The staff of the officlally BALTIMORE, changes in the railway following Baltimore & " announce today J, . Stuart, general superintendont of th middle and northwestern divisions, | poluted general superintendent of 1t vice William Gibson, retived from the west end of Chica ap Ans The line 0 | Junction to Chicago will be known as the Chicago division. D. D. Carothers is ap- ponted superintendent ‘of the Chicago division, with headquarters at Chicago. ! Jurisdiction of W. R. Woodford, general superintendent, is extended over the middle and central division. P. C. Batchelder, su- perintendent of the Chicago division, is ap- pointed superintendent of the middle division, with headquarters at Newark, 0., vice T. J. English, transferred Conference of Ma NEW YORK, Nov. According to the Journal of Commerce, the object of the meeting of the western railroad presidents, which has been called for Thursday, Decem- ber 5, in this city, is to discuss the traffic and rate situations. Such a conference, ming at the present time when the con solidation of the northwestern railroads has Just been accomplished, is regarded as quite | significant and it has been suggested tnat this conference will discuss the union of rallroad interests in the northwest. The situation will be thoroughly canvassed, but tes Stgnificant action determined upon will be made public, ower Unsatisfactory. vania Rallroad company has given forma notice of the permanent: wbandonment the trolley service between Mount and Burlington, N. J., which has been terrupted by tbe burning of the in- rolled and operated by the Chicago, Burlington & haw been | made, it soon will be, but It ta understood | the stockholders of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rallroad company to be held in Chicago tomorrow the lewse will be ratified | pany to be held here soon similar action lington & Quincy railway people will also The old Quincy raflway has simply leased to itseif of With reference to the organization of the | CHANGES IN THE B. & 0. STAFF| it is not thought likely that any result or PHILADELFHIA, Nov. 27.—The Pennsyi- of Holly power g houss a: the former place several yweaks 80, and of the return to the use of steam as motive pawer, The Pennslyvania com pany selected the hort 1ne between Mount Holly and Burlington for an experl ment power tor up-to date pow Mount Holly Th as put in operation June working of the sy the officiale ihey refrained public utterances on the matter, known r the line had been in operation for come time that it | 44 no thelr expectations and that | there would be no extension of the electric [ systom withg electr! motive trafilc ant theroughly installed at equipmen: Th observed by while heav and was electric 18, 189 stem wa the tram closely ot ny con and DEATH RECORD. 2 & ) “Gover ASPEN, Colo Davis M Former Gov slorado foll dead while he Walte k this mornin apples.. e had been in good health up to the mement of his death " |is belleved that thg causo of his death was heart trouble Davis Hanson Walte was born at James town, N. Y., April 0, 1825, During the early part of his fife he was engag in mercantile pursults at Russell, a and | Fon du and Princeon, Wis. He was a member of .the Wisconsin legislature in 1875 He taught school for a time and hen published a newspaper at Jamestown | N, ¥, In 1876 he removed to Larned, Kan { where he wag elected to the leglsl re He Colorado In 1 practicing law | at Leadville and Aspen. He was a repub- lican in politics until 1832, when he was a delegate to. the popullst convention at Omaha He was nominatea for govern-y of Colorado in that year hy the people’ party and was elected. His administration | during 1893 and’ 1804 was and entful. Twice he called out the state militta, the first time to aintain order in Cripple Creek during the miners’ strike and the pcond time to seat hig appointe !un the Denver #ire and Police hoard, whose "..mhmu had been disputed by the old | board and whe had been foretbly v-\l-\m\m\v‘ {from the city hall. Governor Waite was a | candidate for re-election in 1864 was | defeated b Charles A. Mecintyre lean 1 ot ( srnor lere o'clo was peeling came to | | | | mpestuos repub. SOUTH B udebaker died n Mr ol funeral lock Eaturday afternoon, private Hon, Ciem Studet | county, Pennsylvania, In was | years old the family [now Ashland county, Ohic father, John Studebaker of blackemithing and Clem Studebaker we where he taught Stu huker, Ind ] Nov. 27.—Hon 3 o'clock today will The by ND, Cle at i | ker's be at o' be | Ker s born in Adams 1931, When he noved to Wayne, n wagons. Hig followed the trade wagon making. In to South Bend gchool during the | winter 1850 and 1851 In the spring of 1551 he found employment in the black ith department of a company making | threshing wiachines, recoiving his board | i 30 conts a day. When he arrived ar | South Bend he had only bu ful | saving he was able. in February to start the blacksmith busine an brother named | taater they peetved a contract which oxecuted ontire satisfaction of the government. This | gave them a start and from that time the | firm grew to its present large proportion In i856 the company was Incorporated as the Studebs Bro Manufacturing com- pany, with Clem Studebaker as president. He was for many vears a member of the York bock concern of the Methodist pal church. He was twice.a lay del- ugate to the geaeral conference of the church, iwice delegate to the national re- publican canyention and United States com- migsioner to the Paris exposition; also to the New Orleans exposition; president of the Indiana board of world's fair man agers, a member of the Carriage Builders' National assocfation and at one time its | president: was appointed by President Har- rlson a ember of the Pan-America con gress during the winfer of 1889 and 1890 { was a member of the board of frustees of Depauw university and president of the ;‘ hautauqua as<ociation by ca 1852, with Henry overnment the | elder was to Ex-Mayor Mage RAWLI Wyo . Rawline, ‘S, Nov. 27.—(Speclal)—R Magor, ex-mayor of Rawlins, died at his home here tast might. He was one of the | most prominent citizens of this section and [ held large property interest He was In- sured i 4 New York company for $100,000 which policy was the largest that has been carried by a Wyoming man in many years Mes. Day. Hu at. Nov, 27. Mary HUMBOLDT. Neb, Mrs. Mary Day died yesterd of her son, Silas Day, at the age of §5 years. er husband dled ii 1885, She leaves four grown two of whom lve neaf here, one in Wyoming and one in Arkansas. Fu- neral servicos were today and fnterment was i the city cometery WESTERN PACKING STATISTICS s Still Further | ing Week und Last Year. (Special.) v at the home Marketing crensex Over Pree; Same Weel of CINCINNATY (Speclal T gram.)—The Price Current says the market- ing of hogs has heen further increased The total western packing is 735,000, com- paved ‘with 666,000 the preceding week and 25,000 last year. Since November 1 the total ts 2,885,000, against 1,050,000 o year ago. Prominent places compare as follows 1901 0, SO0,000 355,000 0 145000 14000 141 00) 10900 | 72,0 10,0000 41,060 Josenh Indfanapolls Milwiukee Cincinnati Ottumwi Codar Ruplds Sioux City Paul oYD' I | LAST TINE TO | il NIGHT, Pri 'Primrose=Dockstader’s MINSTRELS MATINEE TODAY s | | in the yard TRAINME Switohmen Must Wage Their War Without Other Union's B N RENALN AT WORK | | FREIGHT TRAFFIC CONGESTED BY STRIKE Mave Closed Down and N Settlement . Others WIIL Have (o ) w the in e Bsnmpie train 1 dely PITTSBURG, Nov. 27~ The men decided officlally and finally meeting held in the Aven | that they “woull continue notwithstanding the of he men’s Union of North Amer This 1 that dne made | by nonunion men and that the wwitehr | who membets of the Rrotherhood | Rafhway Trainmen will not join the str | of the other unfon At a late hour tonight Mesers |and Fiizgerald are in rot | with Robert Plteatrn, general superintend | ent of the Penns, es. What th Ject of the eonfersnce (s has vot | learned The strikers continue | Adent of uitimatély winuing the strike | the action taken by the Brotherhomt Raltway Trajomen will not materfally t their cause. They eay the roads ar all intents and purposes tled up and | that 1onight cvem passenger trains are | being blocked | The company efetate thers may be in passenger service | ¥ the unusual congestea | roads here and elsewhere | Frelght in N e theator k h strike Sy they will t oot t [ aro of Morrisse ne conferen n Ivanin heen vot con | say | ot | affe to « v that what delay o a conditton of the fed Up, The conditlons as follows The Baltimore, & Ohlo terpt to freight, ally, althougi | #everal trains were made up in (he Glen- wood yards and sent over the “pike our crews worked until noon, when two were laid off. The vardmaster saya elght solld traing were made up In the yards today. The rienc as found todey are about made little at 1 move Allegheny Valley road has expe- little 3t any rellef and business i« practically at a standstill Only few card filled with ‘perishable freight were moved. @he Crescent mill al Forty-ninth streot I8 reported partially closed down and the Carnegle at Twenty- ninth and Thirty-third streets it is feared will have to suspend if the Allegheny Vel ley faflg to get supplies to it soon. The Pittsburg & Western has fared pretty well today. 1t landed in the yard at Ben- nett station fifteen men from Philadelphia and three shifts were working. The off clals now have hopes of breaking the strike in a few days. They have given their old men until tomorrow to return and if they fall new men will be put to work at once. A meeting attended by 300 switchmen was held tonight It announced that notwithstanding the action of the Brotherhood of Trainmen today, probibiting members of the brother hood from joining the strike, 100 men eli- gible 1o both organizations declared them elves in sympathy with the strike and will- ing (0 go ont. ABSOLUTE Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Signature of 1 [ OGURE 2ICK HEADACHE. Than Ever OURS 2 From ST, LOUIS |2 8P. M.'lfOBA. M. IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE PAMPHLETS FREE ON APPLIOATION 8T, LOUIS, MO. ices Mat. and Night 25¢ 50c 75¢ $| [ Miaco’sTrocadero’ " ORRIGHTON ephone 1631, RA TODAY-2:15, THANKSGIVING MATINEE. Matinees Sunday, Wednesday and day, 2:15; Evenings, WIG ASS VA Irwin Walter Mr Mrs, i, Courcy Bro Bature ¥io Johnxon ina Allgn, & Jones, & awloy, Carroll vdner Crans, Jones, Grant PHONE 1 THANKSGIVING MATINEE TODAY CES 10¢, 2 INTY PAREE BURLESQUERS | THE DA £ AL FEATURE: