Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1902, Page 5

AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAA Beards of Health and Bduoation ta Conf o Vecoination, PROPOSED TO MAKE 1T COMPULSORY Henry Loschner Avers Mis De- termination to Ran for Mayor on Democratic Ticket—Gossip ot the Magte City. A called mesting of the Bou:2 of Educa- tlon will be held tonight for the purpose of ‘onferring with members of the Board of Health in regard to compulsory vaccina- tlon. President Bulla of the Board of Bdu- cation has invitad the members of the Board of Health, including Mayor Kelly, to attend this meeting. It is understood that It the plan of general vaccination is deemed advisable the Board of Kducation will fol- 20w the Instructions oi the Board of Health. What the Board of Health wants is a certificate from some physician that each pupll attending the schools has Been suc- eosstully vaccinated. In this way the health authorities hope to stamp out smallpox. Plans for Hospital Plans for the proposed hospital to be erected by the county and maintained by the city are drawn and specifications for the contractor have been made out by ‘Colonel Watking, a member of the Board of Health There Is still some uncertainty regarding the location of the hospital, but as the eontract prige has been agreed upon and the award virtually made, it Is expected that the location will be determined upon within a day or two. At the present time the city physiclan and the mitary fin- spector are looking after eighty-five o of smallpox. Drawn, Troop Meeting Tonlght. There will be a meeting of the troop recently organized at the council chamber tonight. Quite a number of recruits have been added to the original roll and It Is expected that when the troop is mustersd into the service of the state there will Le ¢he full quoto of members. Yesterday afternoon there was a meeting of the three commissioned officers of the troop and non-commissioned officers were named. W. T. Cox will act as first sergeant, while J. H. Duncanson, Barney O'Connell, Fd Christ and Hal H. Roberts will fill the reat of the sergeants’ places. F. W. Shot- well was chosen quartermaster sergeant The corporals selected were K4 Cahow, Charles Mann, George Carley and Herb Gerlow. For farriers the officers selected Charles Van Arman and Fred Scott. J. M. Dilly and Jobn Cowan were ap- pointed trumpeters. Theodore Tilllson !x saddler and George Casey waggoner. All of these appointive officers are ex- pected to be at the meeting tonight, as well as all of the members of the troop already enlisted. A chaplain will most likely be elected at this meeting. Plans Completed for the Temple. Architect L. A. Davis has completed the plans for the Ancient Order of United Workmen temple to be erected at Twenty- fitth and M streets. The bullding will be gt brick, two stories and a basement and will cover elghty by fifty feet. On the ground fioor there will be an audi- torlum with a seating capacity of not less than 600, Members of the order are rap- idly dieposing ot the bullding stock and there is now enough money on hand, It Is stated, to commence the work as soon as the ‘weather will permit. Loechuer Still ln. " John Henry Loechner called at The Bee office yesterday to say that he Is still in the fight for mayor and that he s looking for the nomination on the democratic tigket, “The fact that I have been indicted by the grand jury, aé a member of the Board of Education, will make no difference with my plan 1 am a candidate for the nomi- nation d 1 propose to do the best | can ostponement in Probable. Members of the council sald yesterday that there was a probability that the ap- polutment of members of the library board would be postponed for some time. Mayor Kelly of course wants his way and insst that four women be made members of the board. The council, however, is of the opinion Afiat nine men can glve the people better service and so the plan is to cut the women out. The scheme to postpone the appointments is for the purpose, o it is stated, of making the nlayor tired of his bargain with the women who he has named on the board. Improvements at Armour's, Armour & Co. will shortly commence the constructlon of insulated loading platforms and sheds. Plans have already been drawn for these improvements, but work will not commence until spring. The improvements contemplated will cost something over $50,000, Workingmen's Club Meeta, The regular meeting of the Working- men's club was held Sunday afternoon at the Trades and and N strets. Thomas Myler, president ot the club, presided. The committee on hall reported that it had secured the use of the Trades ahd Labor councll hall for Sunday afternoon meetings. A committee of five was appointed to draft a constitution and Labor hall, Twenty-sixth THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: by-lawa to govern the elub. Short addresses were delivered by several of the members 1 Magie City Goanl Menry Oest fe home from a visit friends at Burlington, Ia Theodore Vols has gone to Chicago to attend to business matters Rodie Redmond has gone to Denver to accept a position With a wholesale lquor company. A serles of union evangellatic wervices will comme ice tonight at the United Pres- byterfan church On_Thursday ovening, February 6, the members of 81, Catherine's guild wiil give an entertalamont at Woodmen hall. The police propose getting after property owners who have not cleancd the snow from sldewalks as Is provided by ordinance. DECORATION OF CANDY EGGS | Traveler Tells How it in Done, Also Speaks of Easter Trade, “The total sales ot Easter confectionery during the past fivo years have equaled the total for the fifteen years prior to that," sald W. G. McClellant, who repre- #ents the oldest candy firm in the United | States and who {s now a guest at the Iler Grand “I don't know just how to account for this,” he confesses, “unless it Is one of the results of the more goneral observance of the day. Baster has come to be sec- ondary only to Christmas, New Year's and the Fourth of July among holidays, and in Milwaukee, Louisville, Cincinnati and St Louls, where the German element is large, the day Is fast taking first importance. The demand for fancy confections has in- creased so rapidly that it has caught the retallers short every year for five years, though they have increased their stocks regularly. The demand has been for better quality, too, and the result is that the makers have equipped themselves with molds for making eatablo rabbits, birds and varlous animals, as well as the eggs that have always been in demand. Even these | exgs are recelving elaborate ornamentation now at the hands of speclal decorators in all factories. “The egg Itselt is made in two molds and the yolk in a third mold, the two outer sections belng pressed together over the yolk while still warm and with a string fengthwise through the center. The string 18 longer than the egg and the protruding end 18 held by the factory girl while she dips the egg into a jar of chocolate orange, violet, strawberry or other tinted coating ation. The plece of imitation bird Is then hung up until the coating hag hardened, after which the decorator does her work. The tiny fowls, beasts, | fishes and flowers and the ridges of frosting | that wil! be observed this year on all the tancler eggs, and which will appear to have been carved from marble by no very awk- ward artist, are all the work of dexterous candy workers, whose only tool, other than ! the fingers, 1s a cornucopla with a small orifice at Its pinched end, through which the candy paste pours in a threadlike stream. They work from no model, but are allowed to exercise thelr own Ingenuity, and the only reason that animals and birds are the most prevalent forms is because they seem more appropriate at Bastertime than would human faces or other similar figures. An Attack of Pnenmonia Warded Off | “Some time ago my daughter caught a { severe cold. She complained of pains in her !chest and had a bad cough. I gave her Chamberlain's Cough Remedy according to directions and In two days she was well and |able to go to school. I have used this remedy in my tamily for the past seven years and have never kuown It to fal,” says James Prendergast, merchant, Annato | Bay, Jamaica, West India Islands. The palus in the chest indlcated an approaching attack of pneumonta, which in this inatance waa undoubtedly cd off by Chamber- laln's Cough Remedy. It counteracts any | tendency of a cold toward pneumonia. For ;nlll by all druggists. i {ACTIVITY IN_ FARM _ LANDS Present Exceed Record in State Nebraska. | Sales Any Pre- | 1 According to R. C. Peters the present year opens with activity in farm lands which promises to exceed anything previously known in the state. Mr. Peters says: “The |number of farms changing hands in Ne- ka at this time s something remark- |able and the prices are an indication that {the attention of Investors has been at- racted to this state, for a time at least, In pite of the reports of partial fallures !last yeur. One farm in Stanton county sold last week for $50 per acre and another for 51.50. Boone county land is also becom- Ing active. One farm In that county of cver 200 acres recently sold for $55 per acre. The demand for farm loans is enormous for this eeason of the year and these loans this month will probably be double what | they were In December. The majority of loans are made for the purchase of land |and n every case the price of the land has |advacced considerably over what it was at |the former sale. Money Is easy, but the in- | oreased demand makes it apparently slow of receipt, as the applications must be in- vestigated and when there are so many of them this requires time." The average Interest rate on farm loans Jin the stute at th's time 1s 5.5 per cent, which geuerally includes all commissions and in many instances the cost of examina- | tion. —_— Chapped nhands, cracked lips and rough- ness of the skin cured quickly by Banner Salve, the most healing ointment in the world Stop coughing. Stop it at once, before it gets the start of you. Stop it with Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. 286, Be., 81 J. C. AVER CO., Lowsll, Mass. Coughs Asthma Bronchitis Hoarsenese Weak Lunge Weak Throats CONTROL OF OPEN RANCE Question of Leasing Grazing Lands te Btock Raisers, SOME PHASES OF PROBLEM DISCUSSED Retrospective View of Ind volved with P and Apparent Posaibili fens Rellef is Aftorded. OMAHA, Jan. 25.—To the Bditor of Thé Bee: In your Friday Morning Bee 1 note an editorial discuseion of the question of leasing the public range lands west of the 100th meridiah, as proposed in a bill now before the natfonal congress. In this edi- torial you treat the proposition “land grab bilL" The subject Interests me, at this time particularly, because of the fact that in the proceedings of the Nebraska Improved Live Stock Breeders' association, at its annual meeting in Lincoln, January 21-23, which The Bee reported with pralseworthy fidelity, my name became associated with a resolution - favorable to some measure which will give occupants of the public grazing lands security of tenure. For the preaent discussion we will consider the res- olution as an endorsement of house roll 7212, “Browersock’s land grab bill." “‘Bowersock’s bill" is not Bowersock's. The bill was drawn by a commitiee of the Amerlcan Cdttle Growers' assoclation. 1 had the honor of participating in the or- anization of that assoclation on March 6, 001, In Denver. By this I became famil- far with the circumstances preliminary to the drafting of this bill and since the meet- ing in Denver have devoted some time to investigating the conditions the proposed “lease law" i3 designed to meet. My per- sonal investigation, in which I have slept under the stars with sheep herders in the Wyoming sage brush as well as conversed with the best informed men between Mis- sour| river points and the Pacific coast, but convinces me of the commercial and moral necessity of some legislation which will radically change the present intolerable condition existitk on the public range lands. What are the present conditions? Control of Water Cournes, First, the range country ‘‘west of the 100th meridian” is a domain as large as twenty-five states of the area of Ohlo. Throughout that vast domaln wherever there a spring of water, a ‘running sjream, a “‘water hole,” stockmen have pre-empted or bought the land surrounding the water, and controling the water, they control the use of all adjacent public land; for with- out water for stock and devold of suficient rainfal] for successful agriculture, as these lands are, they are useless Second, along all the running atreams throughout the range country by Irrigation hay can be grown, and wherever hay can be secured there the cattle industry flour- ishes. Permanent homes, therefore, have been established by cattlemen along the streame. The herds of cattle, most of them small ones containing but 100 to 500 head, are grazed on the public range with three to five miles of the water in summer and {are fed on hay In the etormy perfods of win- ter, ranging further back on the pastures in the epring when snow is melting and pools of water abound. In this way the popula: tion of “the west” has Increased till ter- ritorles have become states and a continu- ous stream of wealth in live stock flows in to build up the cities ot Fort Worth, Den- ver, St. Paul, Kansas City and Omaha, Dividing Public Range. Third, the United States law forbids the placing of fences or other obstructions to occupancy upon public domain. The theory has been held that eince these lands belong to all the people, they must be held for free access of settlers. This was not a “‘theory” while the river valley lands were public domain. But with the pre-emption and settlement of the prairies and valleys east of the 100th meridian, squat- ting and homesteading became a “theory,” except along streams, as above mentioned. In process of time resident western stock- men, recognizing the situation, began to agree upon boundarles of the grazing lands respectively used, and in order economleal- ly to use these lands, fences were put up. Within five years barbed wire has taken the place of the range rider; the “round up" hag practically disappeared; the “‘maverick" has ceased to be a bone of contentlon; the thoroughbred has supplanted the long-horn or “dogy;" women and children--the Amer- fcan home~—have been established along all the running streams of the range country. Fourth. But another factor enters into the problem. In the cvolution of the live stock business the sheep industry has to be reck- oned with. Here is an animal that can grze closer than a steer; it is omnivorou eating sage brush and greasewood as read- fly as gras#, and in winter subsisting on snow for water. Possessing these advan- tages, the sheep Is master of the range situation. He waxes fat on the high plains in winter, and makes a desert along the mountain streams in summer. What he cannot eat his feet destroy, for the bunch grass of the mountaing dies under the trampling of sheep. For barbed wire he cares not, and your cattle man—his home and interests are wiped out by the sheep man. What Is more, the “sheep syndicate” has sprung into existence. The flocks of Chicago or San Franclsco corporations, with 50,000 to a half million sheep, In charge of peons and Indian herders, trav- erge the mountain states, leaving a wilder- ness In their wake. These sheep corpora- tions, own no homes; they pay no taxes; they have no Interest to further but the sustenance of their flocks, Against this invasion the established, home-making cat- tle man has no defense except his Win- chester. Waur on Sheepmen. This state of war mow existing In the range country between sheep and cattle interests, and for which the existiog public land law is responsible, reflects most di creditably on American anship. Un- der this Intolerable condition sixteen hom!- cides were reported in Colorado alone be- tween November 1, 1000, and March 1, 1901. This is the moral aspect of the situation. A people which are self-respecting will not tolerate a condition which produces such results. A home-loving people cannot but sympathize with and desire to further the interest of the cattleman who in this dis graceful “‘war of the range'’ offers his life in an unequal contest for possession of the only resource for maintaining & family in his isolated mountain home, gainst the nomadlc hired servant of a foreign sheep corporation. In this contest the cattleman has been driven out of the mountaln states, except in favored locall- tles. The war Is being waged bitterly in Colorado, the Dakotas and In the Paeific coast states, aud there are signs of sheep invasion of Nebraska, Kansas and the Texas panhandle. But your sheep corporations command enormous capital. For many years the American Wool Growers' assoclation has pported A strong “lobby” contingent in Washington. It bas dictated tariffs in past years, and now decrees that all fences on the public lands shall come down—i &al fences, to be sure; but a species of out of which has come comity be- tween nelghbors and thrift where chaos held sway. It is because of this edict againet fences, already issued by the ersment Department of the Interior, whici administers the public Iands, that the cate tlemen are prompted to apply for a law which will secure them in the use of the privileges they now enjoy Should the fences come down the range cattle Industry, hesides having to struggle for existence, will necessarily lapse into the state existing ten to twenty years ago, before fencing began, and which proved finaneially so disastrous. The cattleman must become as nomadic as the sheepman Contentions will arise over ownership, winter feed will not be provided, losses will be heavy, improvement in breeding will cease and the breeder of purebred stock In the valley states will find his best market destroyed. It s precisely at this point that enlightened self-interest prompted the Nebraska Improved Live Stock Breeders' assoclation to adopt a resolution strongly Indorsing the land leasing bill. The opposi- tion to this measure in our association came entirely from gentlemen who dream that the old homestend law which was an ex cellent measure where all the land was farm land, is applicable where none of the land is farm land. The resolution in our soclation had the support of every breeder of purebred stock who had glven the measure any consideration. The cattlemen, in‘ presenting the Bower- wock bill, express a willingness to pay fairly for security in the use of lands they alrady occupy. Those lands heretofore have not pald revenue to either state or nation. They have neither been homesteaded nor bhought and are not now sought after by settlers, If, Indeed, they are capable of settlement. A large revenue would immediately accrue to the national government by a lease sys- tem. All the people to that extent would share in the profit of the use of the lands and peaceable and honorable possession would be the lot of men who now demean themselved to use by force what they can- not acquire by fair legal right, The editor of The Bee chooses to discuss the detalls of land leasing and reaches a conclusion adverse to it. But In view of the conditions existing, shall the people o ime time quibbling over detalls of a before they declde on a principle of administration of the public lands? We think they may not wisely do so. Let the people make a united demand for a leasing system. Then statesmen will apply them- selves to perfecting a system. Burely the people of Omaha and the farmers of the corn-growing states whose financlal Inter- osts are so deeply concerned In the pros- perity of the live stock business In the range district will not engage In a conten- tion which fmperils the cattle industry. HUGH F. M'INTOSH. Amusements Creighton-Orpheum, Nine young Hawalians dressed in trousers and shirts of spotless white, brightened by red sashes and gay-colored hats, sang and played their native music to two large audi- ences at the Orpheum yesterda: In spite of the fact that the young men from the tropics were snowbound between Omaha and Kausas City and arrived in Omaha less than half an hour before they appeared at the afternoon performance, they wore thelr airy raiment as (hough the weather man were reporting 100 in the shade, and sang thelr island love songs in mellow volces that suggested sephyrs among the tropical foll- age of the land of Queen Lil. Miniature guitars, queer pipes which resembled flutes and other instruments audiences were played by from our new possessions. After singing @ number of native selections the Hawal ans sang~ some English songs with a quaint accent that found favor with the audiences. Akonl Kia-s singing of “Always,” following the playing of the air as a flute solo by M. Lealakl, was especially well roceived. Turner Haynes, the Omaha trick bley- clist, who won first prize at the amateur performance given January 1, made his first professional appearance yesterday and proved that he has carned his promotion from the ranks of the amateurs. The four Otts gave a laughable skit, “The Smart Bet," which wae one of the best farces of- fered at the Orpheum this season. Ver- | mette and Dionne did some horizontal bar | work which was unusually thrilling. Fo- | garty and Brown contributed some clever ragtime songs and dances, Seymour and Dupre presented a sketch, “An Original Idea,” which proved to be an acceptable vehicle for some good dancing and jump- ing. Some comedy work by Devany and Allen and an interesting lot of new pictures completed the bill the musiclans At the Boyd. Nearly as many people were seated in the theator as appeared on the stage during the presentation of ‘“Secret Service” by Danlel Frawley and his company at the Boyd last night, and for the sake of Mr. Frawley this i much to be regretted. His Is a good company, the plece is a sterling example of American melodrama and the performance was excellently staged and en- tertainingly acted. Mr. Frawley is rapidly becoming a finished actor, and it is to be hoped that he will not take last night's audience as a measure of Omaha's interest in him. His presentation of the part of Lewis Dumont is a most eatistying bit of stage work. All through the several try- ing scencs he has he carries himself with splendld composure and effective realism. Mr. Harrington Reynolds, Benton Ar- redsford, the confederate secret agent, was & good foll for Mr. wley. Mary Van Buren bore the part of Bdith Varney with becoming grace and dignity. The rest of the company are capal Burlesque has given way to farce comedy at the Trocadero. James L. McCabe came to that playbouse yesterday with “Maloney's Wedding." The farce Is one which was written as a vehicle for Mr. McCabe's clever Irish comedy work. It Is provided with speclal scenery and proved to be a good medium for the introduction of u number of speclalties. Maloney's Initiation into the onic order and the other unusual ex- periences incidentto his wedding pleased large crowds yesterday afternoon and even- ing. Maloney will play a three days' en- gement at the Trocadero. WHAT WIDOW__DID FOR - FAIR Elks Recelve a Donatlon from Unex- pected Quarter and Value it 's Trocadero. Accordingly, The Elks were informed some time ago of A most deserving case, where help was needed, and it recelved thelr best atten- tlon. On Saturday the widow who had re- celved the asslatance came to the EIk rooms and handed to the committee an envelope which contained a letter and three crocheted dresser mats, which she had made herself. The letter is a most pathetic one, breathing appreciation in every word and showing that her “‘widow's mite," as she expressed it in ber letter, was the very best offering that she could make. In the words that have come down to us through the centuries, “she had done the best that she could.”” In all the gifts the Elks have re- ceived, this of the widow has touched the reaponsive chord of every Elk heart m-re deeply than any. It will be known at the fair as “The Widow's Mite." For Fmeum Dr. C. J. Bishop, Agnew, Mich., says: *1 new to American [ | Koehler is so sure of his men that he ex- e used Foley's Honey and Tar in three very severe cases of pneumonia with good results i ¥ case.” Beware of substl. futes, ~T, 100.. On the wa to CALIFORNIA Golf, tennis, polo, bathing, yachting, fishing, bicycling—no matter what your favorite game may be, you can play it all day and every day in California. Califor- nia is a veritable paradise for lovers of outdoor sports—a land of bright skies, sunny days, nights. The pleasant Denver and Ball rlous mountain scenery of trip Is comfortably as well as quickly , and cool, sleep-inducing est route to Calitornia is hz way of t Lake City—-passing through the glo- ‘olorado by daylight. The made—~it you take the Burlington Route. Throu, claco, 4t m h standard sleepers, Omaha to San Fran- dal, ‘Through tourist sloepers, three times o week, 4:2 m. Thursdays, . urdays. HlHlli]W TICKET OFFICE, 1502 Route Saturdays, and 10:30 p. m. Sat- 10th and Mason Telephone Farnam Street. Telephone 250. BURLINGTON STATION, Ste,, 128, raska What Leoks Like & Winn; | Ready for the B SOME GOOD GAMES ON ITS SCHEDULE | | First Trip Includes Contests with Rest of Middle West College Teamn and Second Looks to Sout Winter athletics at the University ot No-| braska are now in their hey-dey. The fact| that the formal schedule of basket ball contests opened last night at Lincoln draws | chiet attention to that sport for a time. | For weeks the gymnasium has seen a flying mass of arms and legs as the different teams strove for place, but now the first team has been picked, together with its substitutes, and these collegians are now starting oat on their career of conquest or defeat. J. P. Koehler is captain and plays a guard. Cortelyou and Hagensick are for- wards and Plllsbury is center, while Ray- mond is the other guard. ‘“Bobby" Galnes 18 substitute for center, Hewitt for forward and Hiltner for guard. It is the general opinion in the athletic department at the university that this is the best team ever put out and the school hag had some winners. In fact, Captain presses every confidence that they will de- feat the famous University of Minnesota team In February, which has receatly de- feated Yale on the trip of the New Haven men west Every man on the Nebraska team s known as an athlets and it is remarkable to note that four men of the five are foot | ball players, and all stars. Captain Koeh- ler has been center on the 'varsity eleven for three years, Cortelyou is the Omaha boy who made such a reputation at end last season, Pillsbury is the phenomenal big full back, the largest man on the team, and Raymond is the little back whose kick- ing was such a strength to the team in 1900. Gaines. the substitutes, is the crack twirler of the base ball team. or Fred Morrill has arranged a fine 1, began last night with the the Lincoln Young Men's Christian association. Next comes Kansas university at Lincoln on January 31. The Omaha Young Men's Christian assoclation goes down on February 8 and on February 15 the Nebraska boys go to Sioux City to meet the Young Men's Christian assoclation there. The next night they play the Uni- versity of Minnesota team at Minneapolis and on this contest the hopes of a season Linge. Mana schedule. game against The remainder of the trip is not def- nitely settled, but arrangements are pend- ing for games with the University of Wis consin and the Fond du Lac and Stevens Point teams, In the Badger state, and the University ot Chicago, Ravenswood and West Slde Young Men's Christian assocla- tion teams at Chicago. On the return jour- ney a game will be played at Rock lsland, 1L; at lowa City with the University of lowa team, at Grinnell college and with the Young Men's Christian association in Omaha. Later the Nebraska team will leave home again, this time for the south. It plays a game at Topeka with the Young Men's Christian assoclation there on February 27 and other games with Kansas university and the Haskell Indians, both at Lawrence, Kan. Some scores of candlates, meanwhile, are hard at work for the track team, which is not yet chosen. §. D. Clinton is manager and A. McComb captain, but the personuel is not otherwise determined. However, the most promising candidates are already showing up beyond the rest, and it e safe to say that the team will be drawn from Pillsbury, Gaines, Shedd, Kellogg, Carr, Mundorf, Hewitt and Pepoon of the old men and Hagensick, McDonald and Havens of the new candidates. Coach Booth is handling the track men and Jack Best s overseeing their training. No outdoor work has begun yet, but it will commence just as soon as the weather per- mits, The first tournament event will be the annual Charter Day indoor meet, to be held in the gymnasium on February 15. Great rivalry attaches to this affair alwaye, as it is the frst real match contest of the sea- son and determines to a considerable ex- tent the class of the athlotes who compete, The differexy ovents will be the pole vauly, | twenty-five-yard dash, fence vault, rusning ARSITY BASKET BALL TEAM 103"ty sty e vunoing it mans: | fug broad jumps and three broad jump Next comes the annual meet of the Ne- bracka Inter-collegiate Track Athletic as- soclation, which occurs on University fleld on May 17. The contesting schools will be the State university, Wesleyan univers- ity, Doane, York and Hastings colleges, In addition to these events arrangements are now pending with the University of South Dakota, Drake university, Kansas university and the University of Iowa for individual contests. An effort will be made to bring the Nebraska-Drake meet to Omaha. It is rather early yet to say much about the base ball team other than as regards prospects, for the men are scarcely out yet. It is not too early, however, to state that such last year stars as Captain Bell, De Putron, Khodes, QGaines, Raymond, Towneend, Hood, Bender and Doane will be prominent members of the team. That almost completes the (nfleld before the men are out for practice and gives three pitchers, Galnes, Townsend and Bender. Doane wlill probably catch most of th time and Raymond, Hood and Rhodes will be distributed about the bases. De Putron has his old place at centerfleld oinched and Townsend and Gaines play good outfields when not pitching. Captain Bell will probably stay In tho outfleld, at his ac- customed right garden spot. Manager George Shidler has his schedule completed now as to personnel, but not all the dates are arranged yet. The outlook for a fine team, though merely an outlook yet, seems excellent. On February 1 all the candidates will be formally called out for a showing, but the system of coaching will be different this year from that em- ployed in+former seasons. The men will not be hunched, but will be separated into squads of the old men and the new. As fast as the latter show sufficient form they will be moved up with the old men for practice, and th old pla; who canmot hold their places with the first squad will be shoved down. ST. LOUIS FRANCHISE IS SOLD ed American League Grant P by a Number of Local CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—The Bt. Louls Amer- fcan league franchise was sold today by Matt apd Henry Kiliea of Milwaukee to R, L. Hedges, Who represents a number of Bi. Louls capitalisth. The price paid was not made public, The new owners of the club will hold a meeting in St. Louls Wednesday to form a permanent organi- zation and elect officers, It is sald Mr, Hedges wil be elected president of the club, In'the transaction here the purchasers of the club were represented John E. Bruce agd J. C Cincinnatl. L. R. Hedges 1a a retired car- rlage manufacturer of Cincinnatl and now a resident of St. Louls. It Is sald that Jimmy McAleer will be kept s manager ¢ _the new owners and tho players as previously announced will be retain ST. LOUIS, Jan. 26.—Nobody here seems to know R. L. Hedges, who is sald to repre- sent & number of 8t. Louls capitalists in the purchase of the St. Louls American league franchise. The man named fs bhe- leved to be acting for Ralph Orthwein, Lacey Crawford, fiuu—ll ardner and prominent business men who have be mentioned in connection with the possl ownership of the club. It {s not that the real purchasers will be known before next Wei m—nln,y, when, it 18 said, a meeting will be held here to organize and elect officers, Wentern League Offer. HUMBOLDT, Neb,, Jan, 26.-—(8pecial. Ray L. Linn, famillarly known In circles as “Brick,” the crack pitcher of this city, has received a flattering offer to enter the Western league the coming se ball | | season at'a good sala Linn did some fine work last season with amateur teams in this vicinity and his friends predict a Breat future for hij {TEXAS LEAGUE PERFECTED |Lone Star Fans Organize and Apply | to National Assoclation for ! Frotection. | | > | DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 26.—The Texas | 1eague of Base Ball Clubs perfected or- | ganizgation here (odnx by admitting Corsl- cana and Dennison-Bherman. The league | has applied to the National Assoclation of Base lmll Clubs for protection under class D. KNOCKED OUT IN FIRST ROUND Rochenter Man is Whinped by Andy Stevenson at St. Loulw. 8T, n. 26.—A( the St. Louls | Rowing club Lou Freidman of Rochester, N. Y., was today knocked out by Andy Btevenson of St. Louls in the first round |of a ten-round match, | TOURIST SAYS HE IS ROBBED Informs Police of Strange Experience, bat Evidence of Crime is Found. LOUIS, J: Clarence Collard reported to the police last night that he was held up and robbed of $26 and a return ticket from Alleghaney, Pa,, to Denver by two men near Tenth and | Farnam streets. The robbery, he says, | occurred about 8:30 o'clock. Collard arrived in Omaha Sunday morn- | ing from Pennsylvania en routo to Denver. He spent the day sleeping at the Unlon | depot, only leaving it to get his meals at a restaurant across the street. Late last ovening he started out to see the town, while awalting his traln. When at Tenth and Farnam streets he was accosted Ly two men, he says, each of whom pointed a revolver at him, He was commanded by ler of the men to ‘hold up his The second man then robbed him of the money and ticket. Offcers investigated Collard's story thor- oughly, went to the place where te sald the robbery occurred, but could find no tracke Indicating that such a session had been held at Tenth and Farnam streets. Later in the night Collard told several conflicting steriss of the holdup. The police belleve he was decelving them. UNABLE TO LOCATE HER HOME Woman Deaf, Dumb and Nearly Hitud s Cared for by the Police, Martha Waybright, deaf, dumb and al- most blind, was found last night by the police, wandering around near Twentieth and Clark streets. The woman was lost and on a slip of paper wrote that she re- sided in North Omaha. She was taken to the address by Officer Baldwin fin the emergency rig. The address proved to he wrong, however, and the woman was taken by the police to the home of William Nor- ton, 1304 Ohicago stroet, where it wis found tives lived. y Fine Chumpngne, Note the remarkably fine and breedy quality and dryness of G. H. 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