Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1901, Page 3

FUNERAL OF TOBIAS CASTOR Borvioes Thke Place in Lineeln and Burial a Wilber. PROMINENT MEN ARE THE PALLBEARERS Governor and Other Associates Hon- orary nnd OMcinls of Burlington Ratlrond Aetive=Spec Train Provided, (From a LINCOLN, Dec Btaff Correspondent.) 15— (Spectal Telegram.) ~Funeral services over the remains of Toblas tor were held today at the tamily residence, 1230 L strect. The body was afterward taken to Wilber for burial on the Castor homestead. At the home here the funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Willlam Manss, pastor of the Fifst Congregational church, and a brlef ad- dress was delivered by N. K. Griggs of Beatrice Relatives, friends and pallbearers accom- panied the body to Wilber on a speclal train furnished by the Burlington railroad, the family riding in General Manager Hold- rege's private car and the pallbearers In the private car of Superintendent Calvert The following political and bust- ness assoclates acted as honorary pall- bearers: Dr. George L. Millor, Judge W D. McHugh, Omaha: Governor E. P. Savage, Hon. A. J. Sawyer, Judge A. S. Tibbetts, General Victor Vifquain, Hon. J. H. Harley, Lincoln: Superintendent J. R. Phelan, Al- Mance; Judge W. G. Hastings, Hon. F. E. Bay, Wilber The active pallbearers, all of whom officlals of the Burlington railroad, were: T. E. Calvert, | P. Weeks, C. H. Mor- i, E. Bignell, G Bonnell, N. K Griggs, J. W. Dewe Lincolu; George W. Loomis, Omaha The immediate close | | | | relatives present Mrs. Toblas Castor, Bernard L. Castor of Wilber and George L. Castor of Lincoln, sons; Mrs, E. M. Westervolt of Lincoln and Mrs. C. L. Talmadge of Wilber, daughters; Mrs. Ida E. Bushoell of Omaha, sister, and Frank L. Castor of Lincoln, cousin Investigntes Franchise Defeat. M. L. Scudder of New York, president of | the Lincoln Traction company, has come | to Lincoln with the avowed intention of investigating the action of the city council last week In defeating his steam heating frauchise ordinance. He insists that the merits of the measure were not considered by the counclimen “I am disappointed at the action, because 1 hoped to introduce a system of heating | that would be a good thing for the city and give the Traction company a market for its own waste steam,” sald Mr. Scud- der. “It 1s a disappointment that the peo- ple have not shown more Interest and have not made thelr wishes known to thelr councllmen. If they do not want steam heating, of course, it would be foolish to ¥ring in cepital to (nstall & plant. If they | do not want the Traction company to have | the franchise and do not feel like granting it willingly, with fair provisions, of course, it will not pay me to have anything more | to do with the matter. 1 ought not to be obliged to fight for the franchise if it fs a good thing for the city, as I am confident it would be.* Prohibits Slot Machines. “hiet of Police Hoagland will tomorrow issue orders prohibiting the use of all slot machines in this city excepting those which are not governed by the element of chance. Several days ago the chief declared that all machines which returned money to, suc- cessful players would have to go and he now Intends to include those that pay only in merchand!se. “We Intend to enforce the order in every Instance,” sald the chief, “and if it becomes necessary the patrol wagon wjll be taken out and the machines gathered up and brought to the station. The practice of gambling on these machines has become common and it will be stopped. I found by Investigating today that many saloon keep- ers, some cigar dealers and many merchants favor taking out the machines and I have found that it is impossible to discriminate between those where money s pald and those where the wiunings are pald In merchandise. All of them must bo taken And orders to this effect will be given the patrolmen tomorrow' were Another reorganization of the Lincoln Gas and Electric company of this city will be eftected durlng the ensulng week. The ownership will remaln with the Emerson McMillan syndicate, but several changes | will be made In the management of the system. W. T. Douthirt of New York, legal representative of the syndicate, and H. L. Doherty of Denver, chief engineer, have arrived In the city and will attend the meeting of the board of directors of the local company. Mr. Doberty is men- tloned for tho presidenoy of the Lincoln company. Ready to Buy McKinley Chim Mayor Winnett announces that the sub- scription fund for the McKinley memorial chimes has been completed and that the purchase will be made as soon as the money is collected. The mayor asks for suggestions as to au inscription to be placed upon one of the bells. MUCH BUILDING IN NEBRASKA l: This Lumber Salesman Fi; tivity in His Ly State. Ao~ Harry B. Huston of Keokuk, Ia., repre- senting the Bradford-Kinsler Lumber com- pany, is at the Iler Grand. “I have just returned from a trip throughout western Nebraska,” said he, “and find the situation very gratifying trom our standpoint. I think I can safely eay that there will be more farmhouses, barns and other farm buildings erected In the western counties this coming year than ever before In the history of the state. Farmers are getting good prices for their livestock, and a majority of them will In- vest the profits In improvements of this kind. “I've been travellng over the state for four years and In that comparatively brief time the sodhouse has dwindled until now it is almost a curlosity. At the begining of this period 1t was the rule and the frame house the exception in a great many sec- llunf." Plattemouth Wom Club, PLATTSMOUTH, Nel Dec. 15.—(Spe- clal)—The literature department of the Plattemouth Woman's club met last evening &t the home of Mry A change in the constitution as to the manner of re- celving new members into the club was made by a majority vote. Mrs. Burgert of Nebraska City, a contralto, ng “‘The Outcast” in such & manner as to call for an enthusiastic encore. She responded with ‘“Tis But a Faded Rosebud.” Glen Smith #ave a mandolin solo, “Tale of the Ka #00." Mrs. C. A. Rawls gave an Interseting blographical sketch of the career of Thomas Carlyle an author and historian. A ®olo, “The Promised Land,” by Edna Marshall, followed. Mrs. Burton gave a wketeh of the life of Charles Lamb and Mrs. Wise ote of Thackeray. —— A cold, cou, fn the bud" with Honey and Tar, Beware of substitutes, | case when it comes up for trial on Tues- STOCKMEN WAGE WAR ON PEST Ranchmen Adopt Drastie the FExtermination Troublesome Wolves. Mensures ot CHAMBERLAIN, 8. D, Dec. 15.—(Spe clal.)—Stockmen west of the Missouri river complain that there is unusual trouble with wolves the stock ranges this winter | and the losses have caused stockmen to | take extreme measures to pro thet stock from the ravages of the pest. A number of men, among them being Budd and Bryan Dalrymple, two experie wolf hunters, have been engaged b | stockmen to wage a systematic war against the wolvee In several tases the stockmen are board ing the wolt hunters and in addition pay them $4 for every wolf they kill, which with the bounty of $3 paid by the state offers pretty good inducement for activity in the exterminating line Ranchmen along the Bad river In par- ticular complain of the pest, and for gray wolves are paying as high as $10 per head These gray wolves are the greatest source of trouble, being large and viclous, and are capable of doing a terrible amount of harm to a flock of sheep in & very short period of time. There appears to be wany of this epecies on the ranges at present The hunters employ traps, guns and pot #on In the warfare that is being waged, and as the various stock assoclations, as well s individual stockmen, have embarked in the crusade against the wolves it I8 likely that the pest will soon be greatly abated, If not practically exterminated ROBBED BY HIS ROOMMATE | John Wi Omaha s Rel of $150 at an Aberdeen Hotel, on ABERDEEN, 8. D., Dec ~(Special.) John Miller of Omaha reports being robbed of $160 by his roommate at an Aberdeen | hotel. Miller did not discover his loss until he was twenty miles from Aberdeen and he failed to find his roommate on the train Papers Missing in Court € SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., Dec. 15.—(Special.) ~It has been discovered that some of the | papers in the case pending in the state | circult court here agalnst . H. Wright a prominent Centerville attorney, are miss- | ing. Just what effect this will have on the | day of this week is not known. Colonel Melvin Grigeby, attorney for Mr. Wright, says that when the case is called up he will raise the question that there is nothing in the records of the case to show that any magistrate ever made any order or decision holding that any offense had been com- mitted and that there is no reason to be- leve defendant guillty of the charge of embezzlement preferred agalcst him and | that witheut euch finding of a magistrate the state's attorney has no authority under the statutes to file information or bring the man to trial. The attorneys for the prosecution claim that the missing papers are not material in the trial of the case, which will attract at- tentlon throughout the state, owing to the prominence of the accused. Just how the papers became missing 1s not known. It ts understood that Judge Jones has invited Judge Frank B. Smith of the Mitchell cir- cult to come to Sloux Falls to preside dur- ing the trial. s for Mining Commissfon. DEADWOOD, 8. D., Dec. 15.—(Speclal.)— P. J. Miniter and W. J. Thornby have brought suit against Frank A. Waters for commission on a mining sale. The case is on trial In cireult court before Judge J, B. Moore. The plaintiffs allege in the com- plaint that they secured an option on the Old Ironsides group of mining claims, situ- ated on Squaw creek, the original consid- eration being fixed in the option at $51,500. The option was turned over to Willlam Hall, now dead, being given originally for twen- ty-five days, and afterward extended a month. Hall claimed he could sell the prop- erty for $85,000 to Colorado capitalists. The difference between the sum named in the op- tion and the selling price was to be divided among Miniter, Thornby and Hall. Befora the property was sold Frank A. Waters came to Deadwood and it was arranged that he should share in the profits on the sale, thus giving Miniter and Thornby a fourth interest instead of a third, in con- sideration of which they were also to re- celve a certain amount of stock In the com- pany which Waters proposed to organize. The plaintifts allege that the property was s0ld for more than $65,000 and that the agreement entered into by Waters has not been carrled out, and they are suing to recover thelr share Mining Activities in Wyoming. BATTLE LAKE, Wyo., Dec. 165.—(Spe- clal)—A transportation company is moving forty tons of ore from the Ferris-Haggarty mine to the Grand Encampment smelter | and this delivery will be Increased just as 000 a8 the suow roads become well packed A carload of high-gradg copper ore was this week shipped from the Doane Rambler mine to Chicago. The owners expect the ore will average from 40 to B0 per cent copper. Work was suspended for several days this week in the Doane, owing to the founda- tion under the heavy bollers giving away. The damage has been repaired and work resumed. Three shifts are employed In driving the big tunnel, which, it is ex- pected, will tap a large body of high-grade ore, enough, in fact, to keep the company busy ehipping for many months to come. The Beulah company has struck a twoe toot vein, the ore from which assays $5.80 in goM to the ton. It also contains good copper values. Extending the Elkhorn, LEAD, 8. D., Dec. 16.—(Special.)—The Fremont & Elkhorn engineers estimate that the upper end of the grade on the new Lead extension will be finished by the first of the coming month. This will mean from the point where the proposed line crosses the divide into the town of Lead, There is only one heavy cut on this part of the grade, and that has been cleared out al- ready. The heaviest work remalning is at Gayville, where the contractors have to| use the greatest caution in blasting, owing to the presence of several houses occupled by familles. The cold weather of the last fow days has not interfered with the work The contractors are working in solid rock almost entirely, and it can be handled as well in winter as in summer. To Promete Wyoming 0Nl Fie LARAMIE, Wy Dec. 15.—(Special.)—~ During the meeting of the Industrial con- vention the ofl men got together and took prelimipary steps looking to the organ- ization of a soclety for the advancement of the mutual Interests of its members. Dr. McClelland of Lander was chosen pres- ident and A. W. Phillips of Douglas secre- tary. The organization will hold another meeting, probably at Cheyenne, early next year, when plans will be perfected for ad- vertising the oll resources of the state, interesting capital in the Wyoming fields and promoting the interests of the growing industry. Addition to Lead. LEAD, 8. D, Dec. 15.—(Special.)—The Matthew Bender property, which was re- cently sold to the Hidden Fortune Mining company for $26,000, has been surveyed and platted into town lots. It will be called | Bender park, addition to Lead. | started | their forces. | They | every prospect of success. {and menas committee, AHA DAILY BE SENATE'S THREE RUSH BILLS | Canal Treaty, Anarchy and Chinese Are the Vital Issnes HOUSE WILL BE BUSY WITH WAR TAXES | Strong ¥ A Get Statehood Bills pred—Congressmen Are In- resting Autoblo. graphers. (From a Staff C WASHINGTON, Dec rs in the house and nate have hed an agreement by which congress | will adjourn December 19 for the Christmas | holidays. No fmportant legislation in the house is expected until Janual as the new committees will not be fully organized for work before the coming r but in the senate there will be much business of im portance this week. The Nicaraguan treaty has been before that body since early last week and it will now be considered until a | vote 1s taken upon the proposition to ratify 1t An informal canvass by Senator Lo who has charge of the treaty, indicates that it will receive more than the two-third necessary, but concerted opposition from the democratic side has developed, and as this opposition has been gaining strength many obstacles may be placed in the way of Mr. | Lodge and the other advocates of the new treaty However President Roosevelt and the State department are anxlous for im medfate action and the powerful influence | of the administration will doubtless be fel when the roll is called. The senate fs alsc expected to make progress with the bills directed at anarchy and for the continued | exclusion of the Chinese. rrespondent.) (Spectal ) The Reduction of War Taxes. | One of the coutestse which will soon be in the honse involves the further reduction of the war taxes. This contest will be led on the part of those interests clamoring for reduction by the brewers, who now have a strong lobby lining up The tax on beer was $1 a bar- rel until the Spanish war taxes were im- posed, when it was increased to $2. - Last winter it was reduced to $1.60 after a hard fight by the brewers for the old $1 tax bave now renewed thls fight with Members of the ways and means committee are of the opln- fon that the tax as it stands is excessive and the committee is expected to sanction its reduction The proposed reduction is certain to pro- voke opposition from the temperance or- ganizations, but to what extent thelr in- fluence will prevail cannot now be deter- mined. The contest will not have been| fully developed until action by the ways which will not be taken before the middle of January. The first important measures to be passed by the house will be those making appro- priations. Speaker Henderson has given it out that bills of this kind must be hurried through. Admisston to Statehood. A strong effort will be made at this ses- slon to put through congress a bill admit- ting the territory of Oklahoma to statehood. In the last congress bills were Introduced creating states out of the territories of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona, but they did not proceed beyond the pigeon holes of the committee on territories, owing to the opposition of the speaker. When Mr. Reed was in the speaker's chair ho was Importuned by the delegates from the territories to permit their statehood bills to come before the house, but he declined emphatically to permit any such thing. At that time the free silver sentiment was still strong throughout the west and the | territories were all for the white metal | and Bryanism. Thelr admisslon to state- hood, of course, would have meant the | election of six Bryanites to the senate. This was,onc of the reasons for the opposition of the speaker and the other republican | lenders to the passage of the statehood | bills, and it was emphasized by Mr. Reed when the delegates called upon him to dis- cuss statehood. Sald he tersely: “I am against your bills and I think if the coun- | try understood the situation it would be | agalnst them, too, We have entirely too many jackrabbit senators now." Oklahoma Stands & Show. Although the New Mexico and Arizona bills have no show, members of congress are seriously considering the conditions in Oklahoma, and there s a strong prob- ability that that territory will be made a state. It comes up to the requirements in population and In every other respect, | and the general feeling In both house and eenate is that legislation changing its form of government should not be longer delayed. | Senator Fairbanks has Introduceq a bill which is regarded with some favor. It creates a state out of the territory and ai- | rects that the constitutional convention which shall perfect the state government shall select as the capital a town, the name of which shall be changed to McKinley, ‘The chief difficulty presented by the state- hood profect involves the Indlan Territory, which many of the people of Oklahoma think should be fncluded in the new state Some kind of compromise, it is believed, wil] be arranged, and in line with this plan Representative Moon has introduced a bill changlog the present form of the Indian Territory government by the federal courts to that of a territory with delegate rep- resentation in congress. The bill directs that the new territory be designed as the territory of Jefferson. Congressmen as Autobio | aphe The publicaticn of the biographles of new members in the Congressional Directory, Just {ssued, makes that volume one of un. usual Interest. These blographies are writ- ten by the members themselves and they frequently furnish an Interesting index to the personality of the men whose careers they present to the country. Some leave unsald things they might eay to thelr credit, others tell of thelr achievements more by way of suggestion than by state- ment of fact and not a few tell the story of thelr llves in detall The blography of Senator Burton of Kan- sas, the shortest of all, conslsts of two and & half lines. Representative Cassel, a new member, who succeeds the late Representa tive Brosius from the Lancaster (Pa.) di trict, 18 not so modest, for he has written nearly a page about himself and his tather, who, as he relates, was “‘one of the most prominent citizens of Lancaster county’ and “who not only filled many offices of pub- lc trust, but served in the Pennsylvania leglslature.”” Fifty-nine years after his father left the legislature Mr. Cassel him- selt was elected to that body, and, as he states with delighttul simplici served his constituents with marked ability and success.” Ho “has always been an impor- tant factor in the civil iife of his com- munity,” it his blography s to be belleved, and be has no hesitation in stating that “as a business man he Is recognized as a leader.”” He has also been president of the Lancaster County Sunday School convention. The blography of O. H. P. Belmont is brief and clean-cut, and that of Represen- tative John J. Feely of Chicago, probably the youngest man who ever sat in congress and who defeated “Billy"" Lorimer, the boas of the Windy City, is in equally good taste The disposition of members wenerally, as indicated by the new directory, is toward short blographles Somo criticlsm bas resulted from the fail- | | Navy | ofear | eays no definite plans have been made thus | | tingencies which may | fosing a reduction as low as | tollowing pensions have been grante BECEMBER 16, 1001 ure of Mr. Rocsevelt to send to the senata with other nominations that of Admiral Crowninshield to be chief of the Bureau of Navigation. Crowninshield was appointed by President McKinley just after congres journed last spring, and it was under tood dent Roosevelt would send his nomination with others covering rec appointments. This was n It possible the delay is due to sentiment in the «enate unfavorat Crowninshield, which quarters is pronounced, and a de )t the president to feel his way be- fore taking chances on the nomination's re fection Two or three bills have t introduced directing an fnquiry into the distribution of prize morey among the off and the South Atlantic squadron and in other ways bringing the Schley-Sampson contro versy before congress, but there dis position in hoth house and senate to sup- press these bills for the reason that mem bers say the country has had a surfeit of | department scandals and that the ooner they are forgotten the better. Admiral Schley's mall i y with let- ters expressing confidence in him as a naval One of these letters was signed by 400 school children of the anthracite country in Pennsylvania n done | n an s a DESIRE TO REDUCE WAR TAXES | Ways and M pmmittee Discusses Various Lines ¢ ng for With- drawal of Revenue. Dec. 15 — Chairman | avs and means committee | WASHINGTO! Payne of the far for considering the question of further | reducing the war taxes. At the same time | there has been much informal discussion of | the subject. Considerable data has been gathered concerning the itoms which can best b reduced and there scems to be a general purpose on the part of the mem- | bers of the committee push this im- | portant question to the front soon after the holidays In speaking of the matter today, Mr Payne said: “With a surplus of about | $100,000,000, 1 have no doubt the ways and means committee will frame a bill reducing the revenues, probably on the general lines of the last war tax reduction bill. But there is no particular burry in dealing | with the subject, as there are several con- call for a large in- crease in government expenditures and it will be well to understand pretty well what our expenditures are to be before | finally determining on a large reduction ot the revenues. “When we make the reduction we ought to make it as large as can be made with safety. In my judgment the committee will take the matter up soon after the holidays Whether we will bave bearings or not will depend upon the pleasure of the commit tee."” In the absence of action by the commit- tee, Mr. Payne will not discuss the prospect of reduction ou particular items. Already several Interests have applled for hear- ings. These include the representatives of the tea interests, who desire to have the 10-cent tax imposed by the war revenue act taken off of that product. No formal application has been made by the repres sentatives of the beer and wine interest but both are expected to make strong ef- forts for reduction on their respective taxes. Suggestions have also reached members of the committee that the war tax ime posed on banking capital be taken off. An- other proposition s for the doing away with the withdrawal stamp taxes on im- ported merchandise, particularly on tos bacco, as these withdrawal stamps are said to be very onerous to importers. The large tobacco Interests have not yet made known what, if any, further reduction they would eek on tobacco, but the independeat producers of manufactured tobacco and snuft are understood to desire a reduc- tion from the present rate to 6 cents per pound. Bills bave been introduced pro- 2 cents per pound. There is no suggestfon thus far that fur- ther changes will be made on cigars and | cigarettes. Owing to the large amount of surplus thero is some sentiment among members fu favor of wiping out the entire Ist of war revenue taxes at a single stroke, thus leaving the revenue and custom laws upon the basis that existed prior to the Spanish war. PENSIONS FOR WESTERN VETERANS, War Survivors Remembered by the General Government. WASHINGTON, Dec. he 15.—(Spectal.)— Issue of November Nebraska: Original—George W. Omaha, $6; Charles Seeber, Boelus, Henjamin F. Weaver, Omaha, $8; George Witters, Minden, $6. Increase, restored, refssue, ete.—Maurice Fitzgerald, Green: wood, ter VanHorn, Schuyler, $%; Plattsmouth, $12; Harrison X d, $10; Andrew P. McDon- ald, Helden, $6. ' Original widows—Special accrued, November 21, Martha O. Watson, Grand island, §. )riginal“Melvin H. Byers, Des Benjamin F. Strohm, Cushing, B._ Claypool, Hampton, $6 ta, $5. nerease, nard L. Melton, 1y, Des Molnes, $§; $6; John H. Cim- Rock- reissie llerton, $10; Jacob In Zlwood ‘Moore, Villise merman, Soldiers' home, Marshalitown, $12; an M. Baker, Newton, $8; Martin ter, Malcom, $12; Joseph' Furstenberg, $10; Peter Rickabaugh, Glenwood, Joseph M. McCulloch, Clearfield, $8: ar A, Fuller, Maquoketa, $10. Original widows, ete.—Minors of Isaac Buck, For- est City, $18; speclal, November 27, Mary Nethercit, Manchester, §5. South Dakota: Increase, restored, re- issue, ete.~Andrew J. Barnet, Webster, $10; Willtam Combellick, Gettysburg, $24; Wil* bert Peck, Deadwohd, $10. Colorado: Original — Edward Buena Vista, $6. Increase, restored, re- {ssue, etc.-Samuel A King, deceased, Leadville, $12; John F. Turner, New Castle $12; Juan Domingo Rival, 'Aguilar, § Original widows, ete.~Emma A. King, Leadville, §8 Issue of November 26: Nebraska isa, restoration, refssue, etc.—Samuel Hagermin, Sailors’ ‘and Sol: diers’ Home, 1 _Island, $19; Robert T. Robinson, ( 310, Original widows, ete.—Spectal accried November Carolina A ranklin, Glltner, 38 wa Increase, restoration, reissue, Danlel M Hicuddy, New Albin, wrles . Wagner, Davenport, ‘$§ ardner, 8henandoah, Charles som, Clarksvil ’ clal aceru dar ¥ Gregor, + Mary Wyoming: In ete.~Thomas J Martin, ete. & DMargaretta 3. Williams, ease, restoration, Cook, Lovell, §24 South Dakota: _Original widows, efo.— Special accrued November 27, Altha Mar- Vi Bpringield, s Montana: Ortginal soula, Increase. etc.—1Leonard Barrott, Colorado: _ Original Montevista, $6. MUCH COPPER ORE IN ALASKA Major A. R. Abercrombie Sa leves that the Supply is In- exhaustible, plds h Red Oak. $5. reissue, Samuel Miller, restoration, Missoula, 35, Da C. Mis- SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 15.—Major A. R Abercrombie, who for four years has been supervising and directing the United States development and exploration work in the Copper river valley, has arrived here from Alaska. He has been assigned to the com- mand of jthe Thirteenth finfantry in the Philippines. In the construction of the all- American highway to the Yukon the gov- eroment has expended $271,000, and already §old to the value of $160,000 has been taken out Major Abercrombie says there |Is every reason to belleve that there is an al- most Inexhaustible supply of copper ore in Alaska. | the ways and means committee last Frida; | Liverpool for forgery, but the British gov- SENATE COMMITTEE LIST Annenncement is Expected to Be Made Tuesday. CANAL TRBATY IS T® COME UP TODAY Teller Mak the Firat Speech=No Doubt of Ratification — ¥ Will Rush Phil Revenues, ppine Dee. 15.~The disposition nate is to do very little business beyond acting upon the treaty before adjournment for the holiday In accordance with the agreement reached Friday the treaty will be voted on before the senate adjourns tomorrow. Senator Teller will make the first speech of the day tomorrow and he will be followed by other senators with brief speeches. The opponents of the treaty admit there is no doubt of ratification On Tues, the announcement of the committees will be made and there is a probability that after this announcement the senate will adjourn until Thursday, when the adjournment for the holidays will take | place, vxtending to January 6. If there are | busines sesslons Wednesday and Thursday Senator Morgan will make an effort to se- action on his bill authorizing the | acquisition of right-of-way for the Nicaragua canal, but senators on the re-| publican side of the chamber are inclined to postpoue all {mportant legislation until | after the holidays. There probably will be action before the adjournment on Thursday on a number ot cure Hay-Pauncefote | 1 society will spread to other cities and towns of th and will be taken up by the other members of the Catholic hierarchy It is the result of the of th Indlan school problem at the recent meet Ing of the archbishops in Washig 11 Bishop Horter tions the fact that Mother Katherine Drexel perior mother of the of th ssed Sacrament gives $70 annually to the | fon of the Indian childr Hoce: 18 discussion n v Sisters Why They Take Desperate Chances in Thelr Work. “I have been often asked why rallway | engineers disregard their fnstructions and the warning signals along the line of their | road,” sald a general superintendent of a ratlrond to a Washington Star m and 1 have summe up that it s human re for men ke chances fn (heir and that engineers are no excep general run | s _they cannot glve a satisfac- | t so. 1 wihl gly hentic of this habit me years | by | o tory | vou an which m minutes On a rond 1 was & with was a ‘o miles in length, center. The draw hud be A tughoat was passing throug men heard the rumble of a_fast laden passenger train as {t striuck | bridge a mile away. Knowing that th dunger signals were set with ihe oper of the draw, they supposed that the neer would slow up, s might necessary, In the train . frightfy They yelled ¥ nata Itve ten time conr consternatic ular speed o ared fnevitabl of the tugboat to go at full epeed and as the hoat glided through the draw in the darkness (hey exerted themselves to swing the draw fnto the locking bolts before the train could Bet to the point where the rails sparated “The englneer, however, disregarded th last danger signal a few hundred vards from the draw and came on. By A re markable coincidence of time and position the draw, which was, of course, in motion, swung %o that the rafls of the east-bound | nominations and the chances are that At torney Goneral Knox's nomination will be | among those te peceive attention. The introduction of resolutions bearing on | the case of Admiral Schley is also among | the probabiltties, but no action in that | direction is anticipated for the present. Program of the Hoawe, The house this week will pass the bill to provide temporary revenues for the Philippine islands, which was reported from Under the agreement made general debate will extend throughout Tuexday and until 4 o'clock Wednesday, when a vote will be ! taken. There will be no opportunity to amend the measure, There will be a break In the party lines on both sides of the house. Mr. McCall of Massachusetts, the re- publican member of the ways and means committee, who opposed the Porto Rican bill durlng the last congress, will speak agalnst the measure and will be supported in his dissent from his republican col- leagues hy Mr. Littlefield of Maine and perhaps several other republicans who op- pose the Porto Rican bill and hold that a similar {ssue s presented at this time, On the democratic side Representative Robinson will support the bill and the re- mainder of the Loutsiana delegation will do ltkewise. Representing the cane sugar interests of their state, they are opposed to concessions on sugar dutles, either from the Philippines or Cuba. The general beliof is that the bill will secure as many democratic votes as it loses votes on the republican side and that the majority In its favor when placed on its passage will be about the republican ma- jority in the house. SUSPECT IRISH AMERICANS British Government Anxious to Ap- prehend Men Said to Be Wreckers of L 0ol Bullding NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—The presence of | private detectives searching the pler when the Transatlantic liner Etrurla reached | here today disclosed the fact that they were not looking for Lawrie Marks, wanted in | ernment {s anxious to apprehend several men suspected of peing the authors of the | explosion and fire which wrecked the Ex- change bullding and Liverpool town hall. Soveral of [Etrurla's passengers who visited the scene of the explosion and fire on the morning of December 6 say that | Superintendent Thomas of the fire brigade told them that the exchange was destroyed by an infernal machine timed to go off at | midnight and which had been placed in the | offices where brokers' samples of ofl were stored. He charged that Fenlans were at the bottom of the conspiracy. John Lee, the keeper of the exchange, they said, in- formed them that he suspected Irish- Americans, who had been meeting for days at the monument of the Emancipated Slave in the courtyard of the quadrangle, as being responsible for the latest outrage. SCHLEY PREPARED FOR ACTION Rear Admiral Notifies Attorney Gen- that He Ready to Con- tinae Proacbution, BALTIMORE, Dec. 15.—Rear Admiral W. §. Schley has notified Attorney General Isidor Rayner that he s ready to take any action with reference to his case that Mr. Rayner may advise. Mr. Rayner expects to meet the admiral in Washington tomorrow or Tuesday. When asked whether he favored a con- ressional investigation, Mr. Rayner sald: “I doubt whether a proceeding of this sort 1s the proper one. It generally mssumes a political aspect. At this time I am of the opinion that the matter should be prose- cuted by the courts. There are plenty of ys In which this can be done and this week we will begin to consult and de- termine upon our course of action.” Among the telegrams Mr. Rayner has recelved since the publication of the find- ings of the court of inquiry was one from a gentleman in another state who asked that his identity be kept secret, with an offer of $10,000 for the necessary expenses attending a further prosecution of the case, The offer was declined PAPAL DELEGATE RETURNS Archbishop Chapelle on Fis Way to Washington to Report Findin Philippine Friar Question. NEW YORK, Dee. 15.—Archbishop Cha- pelle of New Orleans, lately papal delegate to the Phillppines, returned from Europe on LaBretagne Mgr. Chapelle was sent to Manila by the pope In 1809 at the suggestion of I’rvn‘l!nl McKinley to settle what was then known as the “Friar ques- tion.” On the way home from his mission he stopped at Rome, and tomorrow he wil} make his report to President Roosevelt, The archbishop declined to discuss his mission abroad before making his report to the Washington authorities. CATHOLIC FAITH FOR INDIANS Hed Men, CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. 15.—An organiza- tion was formed in the cathedral parish today upon the advice and investigation of Bishop Hortsmann of a soclety whose | the track were in fuxtaposition with the bound track upon which the train running, and the heavy engine and one passenger coaches, striking the e bound rails, glided upon the draw and | stuck there, the remafning portion of the train being ‘on the west-bound track, mak ing almost a figure 8 of the conch It the draw had moved the thirtieth [art of & second faster or slower the east. | bound ralls would not have béen opposite | the west-bo-nd ralls at the very instant that the great engine strick them an: frightful dis would have resulte When I got the bridge a fow minutes later 1 fully cted to find the train in the bottom bay and th smashed into 1 discharged the englneer on the spot and asked him why he had not observed the signals. H mitted give an that he saw th but ¢ a_ Eatisfactory re for failing observe them. He evidently took chaner finding the draw d when he reach it “The engineer of today | nervs man, especally or traine on the big roads. It s one man earry a limited express n through the darkness of the night . sleet and blinding &now at sixty miles an hour. The storfes wo read about of an engineer losing his ‘nerve' after an accident e largely fiction. In twenty-seven years | of active railroad life 1 have had but one or two men apply to me for a transfer upon the ground that their nerves had gone back on them for running the fast trains 1 have had men who had been flung fifty foet over their or in a head-on slon and had a dozen bones broke m me after they had been discharged fro the hospital and ask to be put back on thetr old runs. You see, they' begin el when they are wbout 18 ‘or 2 and the o of an engine s thelr home. 1f they run into & person or a wagonload of people on the track, if it is not their fault, they take a practical view of it; they have to. If it is thelr fault we discharge them. and they can take any view of it they please then, for we do not wish in our employ careless men. This {8 true with all of the big roads | and as a result American engineers of to- day are about as model a set of men in thelr employment as can be found SOURCE OF THE ROAHN w was | “t m a sober, ste st exp § nerve that 1y @ Missouri Stream that Hawe Its Birthplace in a Cave. To one who has investigated the heads of different rivers and noted the law laid down by nature, regulating their origin to be, that they recelve thelr supply of water from tributaries which in turn are fed from insignificant branches, a trip to the source of the Roaring river in southwestern Mifs- sourt would be a velation. This river, reports the New York Sun, makes Its firsi appearance in the form of a tremendous #pring which bolls up immediately at the mouth of a cave, whe chambers extend far {nto the Ozark mountains. From the mouth of this cave the water dashes down the gorge with a roar of thunder for a dls- tance of about 1,000 feet, where It turns at right_angles around a paflsade known as Deer's Leap,”" th 1t takes on a zig-2ai course until it joins the White river u fow miles beyond, “crossing the wagon road seventeen times in seven miles. Its fords are dangerous, owing to quicksand, and not belng navigable at any point it s of no im- portance except for ita plcturesqueness. but as to that feature it has no rival for one of its length and 18 supposed to have served as A bullseye for more camera enthuslasts and as a subject for more genuine and would-be artists of the brush than has any other place of interest within a radius of many miles Tts water, coming as It does from !llflnz. 18 clear as crystal and of Fish can be pmmlf seen as they play among the mocks and watersoaked logs |has e at the bottom of the river a fe: oot from the spring. At the edge of the hugo | spring it what is known as the dead line, which is simply a fallen tree of smali dlameter that rests upon a couple of rocks. On the outside of this separating line the watar 18 knee deep, but inside of the same lles the boling spring, thus far found o e unfathomable. A nefghboring blacksmith known as the prophet, because of his s remarks and eccentricities, attempted find sounding by lowering Into the pring n heavy anvil suspended at the end of n rope 22 feet in length. Upon falling to find what he went after at that depth some ona asked him why he did not tie on more rops and let the weight down still farther. Ifa replled that he was afraid it would fall into the hands of the Chinese and then ha would have to go to the other stde of the world to recover it; which remark this much-whiskered sage made without any apparent effort or after effect upon h constitution. The cave overhanging the spring extends back seventy-five feet, and, along with ita connecting chambers, forms an ample play. room for myriads of bats which dart about the dismal vaults A young man attempted to dive down In the big #pring and bring up some tmportant news to the world eoncerning its origin. Ha dived and swam downward as far as ha was able—which was not a great distanca owing to the strength of the nrrlnm b on rising to the surface he found himself cut off from the outside world by a partition of solid rock and in total darkness. Ha had come up through another channel and found himself in a dungeon filled with bats without number. ~Fafling to find an_aper- ture through which to escape and finding himself rapidly becoming unnerved by the situation, he taxed his remaining strength to tho utmost, repeated his dive and for- tunately came up on the opposite side of the division which had {mprisoned him, landing In an exhausted condition from which he never recovered, The pines in the vicinity grow to huge proportions, and In the more thickly coye ered sections exists an fllicit distillery ele. ment, which i1t Is well to shun, unless ane has (he password. Owing to the wildness of the locality the sportsman need not go home with an empty for game s abundant the reen tint The Burglar's Mistake. Atlanta Constitution: *Look here,” said the burglar, as the man raised himself to | & sitting posture fn the bed, “what do you mean by llving In & room that invites strangers and yet affords them no reward? Haven't you got any money hid out some- where ?" “'No,” replied the man, “but I'm expecting some. 1 have sent two poems to the Scrawl, | four sketches to the Scribe, and six—" | “Say, are you a writer?" “I should say ®o! Just let me read you my—" The burglar raised a warning hand. “No," | he sald, “my time's limited. I've got three more houses on my Ist, and 1If they pan out as bad as this one I won't-have any break- fast. I'll read your stuff when It's printed 1 take all the magazines. By the by- He paused—looked at his watch and a “Any more literary houses in triot 7" “None." ed this dis- purpose is to contribute the sum of 25 cents a year, which will be used for the preser- vation of the faith awong the Indlans. The “All right—I'm off. “Same to you after you!" Good night!" Please close the window ! In | men | whe Colds Are Quickly Cured by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy It acts on nature's plan, loosens the cough, relieves the lungs and opens the se- cretions, effecting a perma- nent cure. It counteracts any ten- dency of a cold to result in pneumonia, It is pleasant to take, both children and adults like it. 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