Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 23, 1902, Page 8

NEWS O COUNCIL ¥ INTEREST FROM IOWA, BLUFFS. MINOR MESNTION, Davis sells drugs. Btockert sells carpets and rugs. Mets beer at Neumayer's hotel. ‘Wollman, sclentific optician, #9 B'way. Dr. Reller has discharged all his small- Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Templeton New novelties In_plicture frames. C. B. Alexander & Broadway. J. C. & W. Woodward, architects, room 4 Everett block, Coonell Bluits, ia. Missour! oak body wood, $6.5 cord. Wil dam Welch, 2 N. Main street. Tel. 128 Harrington of North Seventh slowly recovering from pneu- hoslery and underwear. Drop s a postal card Y W.'S. Homer, 28 Fourth Mrs. of Nineteenth avente ¥ourth nfiu‘ Owen Cunningham, aged 16 was committed to St B-mrd- hospital yesterday. il i s (Jenry Wageck, 118 Nicholas strest, was Fled to the health board yesterday as i ‘rom_ smallpox and was removed to_the pesthouse. W. H, Smith, brother of County Re eoraarxum:n. ralcu::y returned 1 the Klondike, has sold three son City to Chicago capit for $32,000. Charles Stevenson and James M. Brown ongaged In & ENC 1ast evening in & South Main street saloon and were arrested. They gave bonds for their appearance in poiice Court Monday. Until March 1 Bourlelus wiil have a ape: clal sale on records for talking ma at 4#0c each, or 34 a dozen. A plece of Theet music free with each record. &% Broad- way, the plano house, where the organ stands upon the building. Bert Huffaker, who has been a resident of Bllver City, Ia., tor several years, has returned to Council Bluffs (o ‘make his home in the future. He has accepted a position with the Cole-Brelstord Hardware mpany, where he was employed when he L 189, inform hi: Manager Stevenson wiehes to Inform his that the production of “Nathan takes place at the Dohany thumr tonight, will be complete In every All_the scenery and properties of production _at the Knicker- New York, have been en- detail. the original bocker_theater, trely repainted and will be used, together ith a new set of costumes, and no ex- rnn has been spared to make this pro- u ction, n every way in Keeping with all New York production: four acts and six scen old_grammar school in New London, Conn., und all the way through depicting scenes ind incldenta of revolutionary times that make the play of absorbing interest from oeginning to end. Davis «lls glass. Plumbing and heating. Bixby & Son. COUNCIL BLUFFS SOCIETY. Mrs. trom Mry is in Lawrence Overmier has returned )ury-vma, Mo. N. Casady, Jr., hlcl‘o visiting Miss Sanders enter lned u cards Friday avent Thirty guests attended. The Rucher club will meet Tueldly after- noon at the home of Mrs. Marion Macrae entert 1 f -choolm-um at her home on Fifth avenue Friday even- ing. 408 Qakland avenus Mr. Benton are home trom nmn- wod'dln‘ journey to Salt Lake ity Mrs. A. 8. Hazelton fs expected home trom Des Moines the latter part of the it Hyacinth, Neb.,'ts Dr M. Plumer of Hyacinth, Neb. luc:l St Hio "larers e Heorge: H. “Riche IRAILWAY BADGES OF HONOR Faithfal Employes of Motor Company to Wear Gold Stars, INDICATE TEN YEARS' To SERVIC: e Shows a Record of Five Years in the Company's Employ— Whoe Are on the L 0Old-time emrloyes of the motor company, as & reward and mark of distinction for long and falthful wervice, will henceforth wear a badge of homor which will dis- tinguish them from their fellow-employes. Conductors and motorneers who have served the company continuously for ten years will be entitled to wear two gold each lapel of their uniform cos Those who have served for five years will wear one star on each lapel. This order, issued by W. B. Tarkington, general superintend- ent, went into effect yesterday. Four conductors and twelve motorneers have been continuously in the service of the company for ten years and their coat will hencetorth be adorned with two The conductors entitled to this mark of merit are A. D. Van Horn, D. E. Buck, P. J. Smith, W. F. Thorne. The motorneers who have eerved ten years and are entitled to this distinction are Robert Cragg; Charles Barnett, James McClure, R. Roper, H. Brooks, H. Hough, John Nelson, Luke Graham, Grant Schoup, James Meek, George Mehling, W. E. Hoyt. There ere three conddctors who have served five years and are entitled to one star on each lapel, Oscar Pfeiffer, F. B. Hudson, ‘Pat McMenomy. These three mo- torneers are also entitled to the same mark of distinction, M. J. Sullivan, L. Benedict and R. H. Carter. The men are much pleased at this mark of their long service, as they realize that when the public understands the signifi- cance of the stare they will respect an em- ploye who has by honesty and faithfulness to his duty won this badge of esteem from his employers. GEORGE A. LEE IS MISSING Conduct: of Omaha-Bluf Draws His Pay and Mystifies His Family., Lt George A. Lee, a conductor on the Coun- ell Bluffs-Omaha line of the motor com- pany, le missing from his home at Twenty- sixth street ‘and Avenue A. He drew his .pay last Tuesday, stating to the cashier that he was sick and needed a few days’ layoff. He was granted the leave of absence and the company is Inclined to believe he will show up again all right. Fellow-employes, however, believe he has left the city, His wife has not n him since he drew his pay. He did not account iss Helen Letson was hostess to thirt) (r?:ndl at her home on Fifth avenue Ffldly night. Mise Eila Rosenfeld entertained at whist t!,lulrdly the A. T. Bowling club of ma The United Commerclal Travelers will glve a voverly ball in Royal Arcanum hall Baturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hater ertalned at Monday evening at lhllr home on w. nlnnon avenue. E. 8. Allen entertained the Atlas ub At a Washington tea at her home yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs, Brelsford will entertain the “alendar Card club at their home on Frank itreet Friday evening. Mrs. Frank P. Bradley will leave early March for California to spend the re- ainder of the winter. Mrs, W. A. Travis of Little Field, O., guest of Mrs. Charles Bradley, will leave tor her home early in the week. Miss Price of Chicago, who has been visiting Councll Bluffs friends, wi early in March for Hot Sprin Mrs. Constant of Lincoln, Nel Slelsmer .of Red Oak, la. are gu Mrs. James McClure of Stitsman street. 1. Beers Rohrer, student at Mexico, Mo., | s ‘spending a_week's vacation with_his arents, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Rohrer, Vine reet. The New Century club met Wednesday fternoon with Mrs. Friend of Frank street. The club will mect tnis week with 3 H. Arthur entertained members of the Broadway church cholr at their home on Washington avenue Mon- day evening. rdson, wife of Rev." Mr. rewdson, pastor of the Christian church this clty, who has been critically b, s mproving slowly. “r and Mrs. W.' J. Marble were given a ?I.I’ly Tuesday evening at their me, 131¢ venue A. ‘ards, games and a u«my luncheon passed the hours. The Ladies' Musical club will be enter- Hréynor, “First. avehue.” Mte. “regnor i s 5 nor Mrs. C. A. Wiley giving the pron{m, The T\uwdly Eucher club was entertained Tuesday atternoon by Miss Howman. The club will meet this week with Mrs. Harry L‘ullnmhilli of Omaha. Lunch will be served i Fay and Miss Emma Case were E‘lfl'l.d Wodncldly night at 8:3% at the me which the grogm had fited up at n streel X Wik oMetated. iy Mrs. V. G. Hulette onlertulned the Unl Vlrlll)' club Wednesday al noon. ulette Will soon remove to Wichiva, Ka rs. J. M. Matthews of Angle avenue will entertain the club this week. The next general reception of the C 1] Blufts Woman's club wpl I be llve'n hc;m:‘llul iece KI{ "“i {,nod:rn lll\hlllll!l ?O ri- of the club ai aude Smith of First avenuer . 1 e The First Avenue Eucher club ter- tained Tuesduy evening by Mrs. Eva Mur- vay of Willow avenue. Mrs. A, V. Frush Was aw the prize for capds. The club will meet this week with Mrs. Frush, Mr. and Mrs. 8. T. Kerns, who will soon remove o near Corning, Ia, ‘Were given o surprise nfl ening by Jewel urt, Pribe of Bcn Hur ul ‘helr Komn on $arrison Jigeet, Supreme Deput Frank Johnson o on alf of t order, e Mr. and Mri. Kerns a fine framed n-lnunx. A reception was given T M‘ I Rev. and Mre."J. W, Calfee In | :' iway Methodist chureh \Iclrl e, hwh-r - avenue, in honoi of Rev. ‘Mre, Waddell. Th. lllull hrnjrnm n“c.l‘wdbod J. thal{‘ d l' l V;)fi:l lames l' ln lfl rfad- 5tanit VIoHn solo B shlsa Bessie Crane. Both s trial of the suit of Frank Peterson ugainst Paulson to regain possession of a Qwelling was begun before Judge Thornell i the district court yesterday. The case was brought on appeal from the court of Justice Bryant by the plaintiff. her with the fact that he intended to apply for a leave of absence. It was rumored that his departure was due to an entangl ment with another woman and that she had left the city with him. This was found to be not the case. as the woman said to be as- sociated with Lee is at her .home and d¢ nies knowing anything about the missing conductor’s whereabouts. Lee has two children by a former wite. His present wife has two children by a former husband. It was reported yest day to the officials of the motor company that the family had been left in destitute circumstances and Lee's fellow-employes started to take up a subscription. When Mrs. Lee heard of their intention she asked that it be not done, as she could get along all right for the present and she expected her husband would return to her. It was reported that Lee had been seen in Omaha and some of his fellow-employes went across the river to look him up, but failed to get any trace of him. Lee has been in the employ of the motor company three years and the officials are inclined to believe that he will satistac- torily explain his absence. Some of friends are of the opinion that he has gone to his former home In Minneapolis to vieit relatives. Davis sells Council Blufla Churches. The sermon will be omitted this evening at the Broadway Methodist church and the monthly sacred concert given In its place. The cholr, under the direction of Ned Mitchell will be assisted by Miss Ethel Cook, soprano, and the Misses Grace and Cornelia Stevenson. This will be the pro- gra Prelude—Serenade Les Mrs. “Gloria Patria" Glichrist r. alen My 'God, Siith Messrs. Brown, Kyl;‘ell Stevenson and el Tenor Quartei—Nearer, Solo—Face to_F + Johnson ‘Miss Bt Anthem—Daybreak Parks Sol Come Hit the Works of the Lord . Buck Ned Mitcheil. Anthem—Tbey Shall Mount Up with Wings as the Eagle: Simper Offertor Haydn Hymn—| -Webb “Postlude” in At the morning render Protheroe's ‘Tours r will Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem.” Vincent Brown will s Solo “The Wayside Cross” and Mra: Bol: | ¢ linge a ‘Mias McFadden will sing the weet Hour of Prayer,” by Rogers. This will be the musical program at the vesper services this afternoon at 4 o'clock in St. Paul's lnluapll chureh: Organ de. Proces: “Glorla_Patri “Magnificat” “Nunc Dimittis’ Vesper Anthem—Singing in God's A Acre ....... Bracket lnlo—lho' Me Thy Way, 6 Lord —— Bodsteln Hymn—No. 48, “Jérusalem the Golden” ' Jeune Serman by th Anm-m— ho Are These That Are A 3 Stainer Recesmionai- No. 3%, “Thése mem-l wers' Morley The jury in the suit of Stone & Tinley dgalost James SBaguln to recover on a note sriginglly given to James P. Weaver brought in a verdict yesterday morning for the plaintiffs. A motlon for & new trial was fled yes- terday by the defendant in the case of James Jacobson agalnst E. L. Shugart. In the sult of W. 8. Heaton agalvst E. H. Sheate & Co., Judge Thoruell ruled that the Ilnsurance money luvolved and which e Thornell overruled the motion of the plalntiff for a mew trial in the personal injury damage sult of Gideon R. Sutberland “gainst the city, N, ¥, Plamblag Os, (sleghone 350 Organ Postlubie There will be holy communion at 8 a.m., morning prayer and sermon at 10:30, when the rector, Rev. George Edward Walk, will preach on “A Perfect Church.” Lenten services will be held Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday aftermoon at 4:30 o'clock. The class for confirmation will meet Monday at 4:30 o'clock. Wednesday night service will be held at All Saints’ chapel, Eighteenth street and Third avenue. “Growth in the Kingdom" will be the subject of Rev. Harvey Hostetler this morn- ing in the Second Presbyterian church. In the evenls his theme will be “Christian Patriotism.” Sunday school will be at noon and Junlor Endeavor soclety meeting at 4. The Young People's service will be at § Rev. C. C. Maxfield of Omabs will co duct services morning and evening In the First Baptist church today. Joh Dale of Omaha will occupy the pul- pit of Trinity Methodist church this morn- Ing, and Rev. C. W. Miller in the evening. There will be no preaching services to- day In the First Congregational church. Sunday school will be at noon and meeting of the Christian Endeaver scclety at 6:30. A business meeting of the congregation and soclety will be held at 2 p. m. in the church sarlors. There will be morning prayer, litany and sermon at 10:30 this morning In Grace Eplscopal church. Sunday school will meet at_noon. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, will hold services this morning at 11 o'clock in the Sapp building. The subject wiil be “Christ Jesus.” Sunday school will follow this service. Experience meeting will be Wednesday night at 8. Instead of the regular sermon this even- ing, Rev. W. B. Crewdson, pastor of the First Christian church, will deliver an il- lustrated lecture on “The Jewlish Taber- nacle and Its Significanc Conference services will be held today in the Latter Day Saints' church. There will be prayer and soclal service at 9:45, preaching at 11, by Eider Joshua Carlisle, end preaching at 2:30 by Eider F. M. Cooper. Theodore M. Thomas will be in charge of the services in the Delong mission at 3 and 7:30. Rev. ry Delong will be ted by Dr. Trenner of Omaha. Past Master Workmen. At the meeting Friday night of the Past Master Workmen's assoclation of the An- clent Order of United Workmen, it was de- cided to lmit its territory to the towns of Council Bluffs, Missouri Valley, Woodbine, Pacific Junction, Glenwood, Tabor, Red Oak, Shenandoah, Villisca, Walnut, Marne, At- lantie, Creston, Prescott and Charter Oak, instead of all towns in the southwestern part of the state. These officers were elected: President, 0. Hochman, Counecil Bluffs; vice president, W. R. Emmont secretary, W. F. Donaldson, Missourl Val- ley; treasurer, E. Totma: Jones Held for Grand Jury. A. E. Jones, charged with brutally beat- ing his wife, who has since brought suft for divorce, was bound over to the district court grand jury yesterday morning by Po- lice Jndge Aylesworth. His bail was fixed at $300, which he furnished. Gravel roofing. A. H. Read, 541 Broadway. FILES CLAIM FOR DAMAGES Seeks to Recover $30,000 for the Death of & Missionary at the Hands of the Boxers. ONAWA, Ia, Feb. 22.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Charles A. Anderson of Whit- ing, through his attorney, B. A. Smith, has filed a claim with the State department at Washington, claiming $30,000 damages for the death of his sister, Hilda 8. Anderson, who was killed by the Boxers in Mongolia province, China, in 1900. Two of Mr. Anderson sisters were killed in China during the late uprising against foreigners, but only one was a subject of the United States, the other sister owing her alleglance to the king of Norway and Swed Hilda 8. An- derson was naturalized at Rockford, Il in 1897, and went to China as a missionary for the Christian allianc clde of Mrs. Moggie Uroft. SHENANDOAH, Ia., Feb. 22.-~(Special.) —Mrs. Maggie Croft, a widow of 60, com- mitted suicide tonight by taking strychnine. She was despondent owing to long con- tinued iliness. Her death was discovered about 10:30 and & coroner's inquest was held at once, the verdict being suicide. NATAL DAY AT JOHNS HOPKINS Twenty-Fifth Anniversary is Cele- brated—Dr, Ira Remsen Made President. BALTIMORE, Feb. 22.—The notable ex- ercises which mark the quarter century in the history of the Johns Hopkins untver- sity and the installation of Ira Remsen ag president of that institution were attended today by fully 4,000 persons, many of whom came from all parts of the country In order to participate in the jubllee program. The features of the exerclses werc an address by the retiring head of the insti- tution, Dr. Danlel Gllman, the inaugural of President Remsen and the conferring of degrees upon a large number of educators and scholars, and a congratulatory address | by President Eliot of Harvard university. To the beautiful strains of Liszt's fes- tal march, an academic procession of 1,500 alumni and students entered the auditorium of Music hall, where Governor John Wal- ter Seth delivered an address of welcome. President Gllman after a few words of thanks to the happy reference to himself by the state’'s executive, said: The distinguished scholar who has been called to the presidency of this university by the unanimous voice of the trustees and with the hearty concurrence of the faculty is no stranger to the duties and cares th: devulve upon him. He has been a member of our soclety since its rllest days and has won the entire admiration of the com- munity. With the knowledge of a colleag and the devotion of a friend 1 now wel come him i the name of the governing board to this high station and bespesak for him perpetual confidence and support, You are thrice 'lllcom' to this seat, thl Remsen, doctor of laws, in Y Columblia and Princeton. May the blelllnl of God be with you. Then followed President augura] address. On motlon of Dr. Gilman the following degrees were conferred: Doctor of Laws—Charles William Ellot, resident of Harvard university; James ngell, University of Michigan: Andrew Dickson White, -mb-u.um- of the United States in Germa John 8, Blllln, New York; Orlnvllh Blnnluy Hull -nl of Clark university Wol James | Schouler; John Wlllllm lullel nl the Unl- versity of Virginia; Charles Doolittle W cott, superintel n\ of IM Unll.d States Geological sur Simon pri fessor of mllh!mllu in lM L'nlu:d llll i Jun Loudon, bnl\erlllr T Willlam Patterson, McGill unlvo treal; Josiah Royce, professor in John Franklin Jame- Remsen's in- h ‘of the University of Chicago: E. Wilson of Columbla nnlverllly ‘codward Wilson of Princeton, Franc nde; f Princeton, Wiillam Raine: ;‘:"1" University of Chicago ‘Charles lism Dabaey o f the University of Tennes: s Butler of Columbia universit enry . M. * Smith Pritchett ol the Massachi setts Institute of Tec Jordan of Stanford unlvurll Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale univer- sity. A Thousand Dollars Thrown Away. Mr. writes: My wife had lung trouble for over ffteen years. We tried a number of doc- tors and spent over & thousand dollars without guy relief. She was very low and I lost all hope, when a friend suggested try- ing Foley's Honey and Tar, which I dia,’' and thanks be to this great remedy it saved ber life. She is stronger and enjoys better health thar she bas ever known In ten years. We shall never be without Foley's Honey and Tar and would ask those aflicted to try it.” MeGevers and Young Corbett. mU IVILLE, 22.—~The South- A tie club to nm "'" this it non Nent ey & 10 y on W a fntended to have the { @ the' match ‘take’place 1 B0 XSl orum: DELAY IS CAUSING TROUBLE Government lnglml in Oleaning the Tama Indian Reservation, THREAT TO LIFT THE QUARANTINE (From a Staff Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Feb. 22.—(Special.)—The delay of the officials at Washington in arranging for the cleaning up of the Tama Indian reservation in lowa is causing the local authorities of Tama county a great deal of trouble and annoyance. The people at Montour, one of the towns near the r ervation, threaten to lift the quarantine agalnst the reservation and permit the In- dians to come to thelr town, as the trade of the Indians is valuable to them. There were several cases of smallpox in Montour, but nome lately. At Western college of Toledo one of the students was taken 1l and is being cared for; another, Miss Albla Cox, pronounced 11l with the chicken- pox and sent to her home In Madison county, near Earlham. The State Board of Health here was notified and investigation owed that she had smallpox. The presi- dent of the State Board of Health has noti- fled the people near the reservation that they nrust continue the quarantine until the Indian bureau has funds to pay for all blankets and clothing burned and cleans up the reservation. The Indians are restless and as spring approaches desire to get off the reservation and if the matter is de- layed much longer they cannot be re- strained. A few days ago a peddler went on the reservation and purchased a lot of the blankets which had been used by the slek Indi and started out to sell them. The people of Toledo heard of it, organized a posse, pursued the man and burned his h\llnlelt G. A. R. Encampment. Arrangements are being made to include in the annual department encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, which meets in Des Moines May 20, reunions of regiments and brigades to which ‘soldlers will be invited from all states adjoining Towa, and it is expected that a large num- ber will be here from those states, chiefly former Iowans or members of lowa regi- ments. The committees are preparing for an attendance of from 4,000 to 5,000 at the reunion. Governor Vam Sant of Minnesota will be present, also Commander-in-Chief Torrance. The chief address at the open- ing of the encampment will be by General G. M. Dodge of Council Bluffs. There will be reunions of several brigades and regiments and the program as now belng made up will be unusually fine. New Corporations. The McCallsburg State bank has been incorporated at McCallsburg, Story county; capltal, $25,000; B. M. Rasmussen, presi- dent; E. O. Dillon, cashier. The Maguoketa School Furniture com- pany has been incorporated; capital, $25,- 000; by W. B. Sutherland and otbers. For Pulling Wrong Tooth. T. W. Willlams of Keokuk, has sued the Keokuk Medical college for $1,000 for dam- s to his face, by which he claims his former beauty has been permanently and painfully injured to the extent of $1,000. It is clalmed by the plaintiff that one of the doctors at the institution gave him a cause of action by wilfully, neg- ligently and maliciously pulling & sound and very valuable tooth of the™ platntift without his consent, lacerating his mouth, causing him pain and permanently Injuring his looks. Patriarchs Militant. The department convention of the Pa triarch Militant will be held in Des Moines next year. This was decided at the meet- ing held In Marshalltown. The department also pledged $300 toward the fund for'the entertainment of the soverelgn grand lodge of 0dd Fellows In Des Moines this year. The Patriarchs passed a resolution indors- ing the bill pending in the legislature to make it & misdemeanor for anyone to wear a’'secret soclety emblem who is not a mem- ber of the order in good standing. There attendance at the conventlon. rance Companies Come Back. time ago the leading foreign i surance companies doing business in Io paid their annual tax of 3 1-2 per cent on gross business done in Iowa, and at the time of filing thelr certificates of tax pay- ments, they notified the treasurer and au- ditor that they had paid under protest and reserved the right to question the legality of the payment. This was equivalent to withdrawing from the state, for the au- ditor refused to issue them certificates at that time under the circumstances. These foreign insurance companles have since withdrawn thelr protest and received their certificates to do business. At the same time a bill has been acted on favorably In the legislature to take off the discriminat- ing tax on foreiga insurance companies and leave them on the same basis as the do- mestic companies, paying 2 1-2 per cent. Another bill is to be intréduced to fix the rate for both forelgn and domestic com- panies at 2 3-4 per cent. There has been complaint that so many of the foreign companies have withdrawn from the state that it is hard to place insurance on some large manufacturing industries. Contest of the Colleges. Drake university is making big prepara- tions for the state oratorical contest to be held mext Friday night at the Drake auditorium. A crowd of at least 700 is ex- pected from the different colleges who will take part in the contest. It is expected there will be fifty from Ames, seventy-five from Coruell, 150 from Simpson, seventy- five from lowa Wesleyan, 200 from Des Molnes college, besides others from othe points. On Thursday evening a banquet will be tendered the visiting delegation at the Savery at 9 o'clock, and on Friday aft- ernoon a reception will be held at t of Chancellor and Mrs. W. B. Cralg, for all visiting students and presidents of the mallpox Dr. A. M. Lynn, president of the lows State Board of Health, after a personal investigation regarding smallpox in Moines, issued an official statement tonight, saying: “'Present effective methods are expected to soon relieve Des Moines of the disease. Business is mot interrupted and traffic is following its usual lines and travel con- tinues uniaterrupted, with entire safety to the traveling public.” —_— Capture Large Party of Boers. LONDON, Feb. 22.—A dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria, February 21, says Colonel Park, with 300 mounted m recently surprised a Boer force at Nooitge- dacht, Transvaal coleny, and captured 164 prisoners, together with & quantity of unitions of war and a sumber of horses and wagons. There were no British casu- alties. The prisoners include Field Cornets Joubert and Bejater and Lisutenant Viljoen. BARCELONA, Feb. 22.—Although there was some resuscitation of ordinary lite in this clty yesterday, it was largely artificlal. A few public establishments reopened under the compulsion of the authoritles, but practically no business was transacted. The street cars ceased running at § in the evening and the newspapers were unable to publish, the compositors refusing to work, The captain general authorized the managers of the papers to seek for printers ated affrays and at- tempts to sack bakeries, during which five persons were wounded. It was reported this morning that a num- ber of workmen had been caught in the aot of preparing bombs. The captaln general has allowed the rioters three days in which to deliver up all their arms. After the expiration- of that time any person found in possession of arms will be tried by drumhead court- martial. Orders have been lssued to all the ealoons to close at 7 o'clock In the evening and citizens are not allowed to be out of thelr residences after 8 p. m. MADRID, Feb. 32.—Agitators are actively urging the declaration of a great strike here February 24, In support of the strik- ers in Barcelona. The royalists are greatly excited by reports that workers at Baree- lona have been tried by court-martial and shot. This, however, is officlally denied. Advices from Valencia say the strike there has been suppressed, but that the workmen dre clamoring for the rolease of thelr arrested comrades. More factorles have reopemed at Sara- gossa and Sabadell. SENDS AMERICAN TO PRISON or Takes Ar- Bitrary Course in Coliection of a Olaim, GUAYAQUIL, Feb. 22.—A police court judge here today issued an order for the arrest of Jackson Smith, manager of the J. P. MgDonald Construction company, until he has pald the sum of about 4,000 sucres (n sucre 1s equivalent to 87 cents, United States currency), claimed by a sub-con- tractor named Darquea, who, it s sald, really owes the McDonald compiny meney, It s asserted that the case is net, even according to Ecuadorean law, one for a police court, and that the sentence is arbl- trary, being dictated by a judge who had no evidence but Darquea’s atatement before him, who is sitting miles away from the places where the work in connection with the case was done, and from whose sen- tence there is no appeal. The whole case 18 looked upon as an attempt to harass the American constructing company. Mr. Smith left here this morning for the com- pany's works, but will probably be ar- rested and brought back. KING LEOPOLD -NOT COMING Has Said Nothing to Indicate tention to Visit the United States. BRUSSELS, Feb. 22.—The Assoclated Press is authorized by an official of Ki Leopold’s household to announce that wh his majesty has on several occasions_ex- pressed a desire to visit the United Stat he has mever reached the point of sugg: ny date. Since the denlal of a report, several months ago, that the king intended to visit the United States his majesty has not uttered & word from which could be deduced any foundation for the report that he intends to undertake a voyage to Amer- ica this yea: NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH Consclous, with eyes staring wide at the impending danger, but with his back so wrenched that he was unable to move hand or foot, Walter Colgow, a Union Pacific switchman, lay across both rails of a track | at the yards Friday and watched two freight cars, pushed by an engine, bearing down on him. The man’s injuries had de- prived him also temporarily of the power of speech and he was undble either to cry for help or save himself. Meanwhile the other tralnmen had not seen Colgow fall and he was shut out from the view of the engine- men by the Intervening cars. Foreman Neff, in charge of the new ma- chine shop comstruction, saw the ma: plight and let out a cry of warning. The enginemen did all they kiew and the cars were stopped, when Colgow had disappeared under the end of the first one. The forward wheels of the leading truck were within a foot of his body and he bad just fainted trom shock. When Colgow was revived he was in a pitiable mervous condition and wa: suffering greatly from the severe twis his-back sustained in falling from the top of & car onto the ties. It was,feared at first that he was permanently incapacitated, but re- yesterday the hospital authorities ported that he was better and would be to work again, though not for some time. Colgow’s accident happened in a pecullar manner. The engine was pushing three cars, with the tehman on the front end. At a polnt on track dirt from the ex- cavations for the mew buildings had pilea «\ higher than the fails and in the rall grooves water used in mixing the con- crete had flowed along and frozen, so that there was an ice surface higher than the rails. When the first car reached this place It ran along on the ice and left the rafls. Where the ice ended It began to mp along the tles, and Colgow signaled the engineer to stop. His warning not ded and the cars moved on. Just ahead, and close to the track, was the huge cinder pit, and the deralled car was heading for it. Colgow began to yell for a halt, but there was still no response, so he ran for the back end. As he was about to leap from the top of his car to the roof of the mext one the two broke apart, the couplings hav- ing been severed. The car went on into the diteh. Colgow meanwhile had jumped far short and fell to the track. Jake Gaudauer Badly Hurt. RAT PORTAGE, Ont, Feb. 22.—Jake Gaudauer, the famous oarsman, slipped on the ice while curling at the rink here, s right shoulder and cutting his face badly. His surgeon says Gaudauer will never row a boat again and will be in bed for week Young Roosevelt Holds Up Well. WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—At 12:15 o'clock this afternoon President Roosevelt received NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—It is reported by Salvador correspond says o Herald dis- pateh from Panbama, t the recent tidal waves on the Salvadorean coast cost a loss of more than fifty people and partial de- struction of seven villages. QUESTION OF GYM AND GUNS Board of Education Has Oase of Sex Aguinst Sex to Bettle, GIRLS AND BOYS BOTH HAVE ADVOCATES Member Howard De Cadets 11 Not Have Guns if Girls Are to Me Deprivea ot Thelr Gymnasiom, “No gym, no gunms!" This will be the shibboleth of o strong faction of the Board of Bducation at its next meeting. “It our girls can't have a gymaastum in which to get healthful exercise, our boys ean’t Have theae extra guns with which to artinr” Thus the lines will be drawn, It will be a o of sex agalnst sex, The board 1s about equally divided on the issue, Mem- ber Howard stands as champlon of the girls, and Member Homan will marshal his force in bebalf of the boys. It will be a merry war. “I think we are derelict in our duty to the taxpayers of this dlstrict,” said Mr. Howard, “when we permit that gymnastum to Be closed because of a paitry eapense of $63 a month which an instructor will cost. The mew High school bullding was erected with the understanding that ft would Include a gymnasium for the girls. We gave our promise to the Woman's clud of Omaha to that effect, and now the first thing we do Is to close it iudefinitely. The girls stand in need of physical exercise Just as much as the boys do. The boys have their military 4rill; the girls have nothing that corresponds with it. The boys have an opportunity to make up demerit marks in their other studles by efficiemcy in drill; the girls have mo such means of redeeming themselves. For this on 1 say the boys shall not have the extra guns unless the girls can have the gym. “I have been talking with several mem- bers of the board on this subject, and I'm pretty well satisfied now that at the meet ing Monday night a motion will be made to reconsider the action of last Tuesday night whereby the gymnasium was closed. Wants No Disert to “I am not opposed to buylng guns for the boys. The proposition of the govern- ment to sell us 260 new Winchester breech- loading rifies for §3 each is a good one and one of which we ought to take advantage, but I say if our ecomomy is to result in inconvenience to the girls the boys shall be required to share that inconvenlence. It is not right that this board should dts. eriminate in favor of either sex." Member Homan declines to state what his tacties will bo, but he is firm in his conviction that the board can’t afford to maintain the gymnastum. Another important matter which will be taken up by the board Monday night will be the appointment of a truant officer ‘provided for by the compulsory school law passed by the last legislature. Eleven persons have applied for the position, as follows: Mrs. Grace Allan Bradley, Otto C. Schwerin, A. P. French, Edward Yarton, Monte Soule, Beecher Higby, Philip F. Hels James M. Rollo, George L. Dennis, E. D. Mullery C. W. Cain. ‘The board is divided on this issue, as well as on\the one of the gymnasium and the guns. Some think it a wanton waste of money to pay $1,000 a year to some man to lead a reluctant pupil to school by the ears. ‘The practice of “playing hookey,” they say, is not general enough in Omaha to warrant the expenditure of such a sum for such a purpot ‘Besides,” says a member, “‘our school rooms are already overcrowded with puplls who are willing to be educated with- out coerclon, and if the truant officer should round up enough estrays to earn his salary it would put us to the expense of renting extra bulldings and employing extra teach- ers. The other side is In favor of conforming to the law by employing the officer. PEARSE MAKES QUICK CHANGE His Ultimatum to Board of Education Undergces a Sudden Reviston. There was a strike at the Omaba High school for a few minutes one day last week |and it failed. For some time Arthur 8. Pearse, commandant of cadets at the in- stitution, has been clamoring loudly for ad- ditional guns for the cadet battalion. The guns did not come and Mr. Pearse con- cluded to suspend operations until they arrived. He issued a general order Tues- day morning to the effect that drills of the battalion would be suspended indefinitely and visited one of the’members of the school board, personally serving the notice. To the member he sald the suspension of darills would be continued until the desired guns arrived. The member responded: “Very well, but, of course, when the drill is suspended you will have nothing to do and your sal- ary will be suspended while you are on & acation. 1 do mot understand any-such thing,* replied the commandant. “But such is the case, nevertheless,” he was told. Then the commandant did some think- ing, with the result that after a conference with his brother, the syperintendent, an- other order was issued superseding the first one, to the effect that drills would be sus- pended for ome week, until certaln rooms could be secured. FRACTURES STEPSON'S SKULL Anton Martenck Sends Fred 1s Locked Jail. Anton Martenek, aged 48, and his son, Fred Blazek, aged 23, quarrelled Sat- He also struck him acrest the left shoulder, brulsing it severely. During the time the blows were delivered, the two men, both bleeding profusely, kepl struggling from one part of the room te another, upsetting furniture and leavibg spots of blood over the floor. The frightened women ran from the house and told a neighbor to call the po- llee. Word was telephoned by the Burling- ton telegraph operator, and Captain Hayes sent Sergeant Dempsey and Ofcer Fisl with the patrol wagon to the scene of the trouble. When the officers arrived the men had stopped fighting. Martenek was lylng 1 bed with his head loosely wrapped with & towel, while in another room Blazek was being cared for by his sister, who had washed his wound and was endeavoring to stop the bleeding with wet towels, Both men were taken to the police sta- tion In the patrol wagon. The wounds of Marterek were found to be simply scalp cuts. Pollce Surgeon Francls Borglum, as- sisted by Dr. Raymond Mullen, cared for Blazek, and found that his skull was frac- tured, and after dressing the wound sent him to the Clarkson hospital. The fracture is considered serfous, al though at no time was Blasek unconsclous. He was weak from pain and loss of blood. e ————— ) Ante Room Echoes et With a banquet Friday evening was closed one of the most successtul r:unlonl ot the Masons of the Scottish Rite ever held in the state. When the reunion opened Tuesday there were applications from fifty-three persons desiring to be ad- vanced in the degrees from the fourth to the thirty-second. Heretofore many of those who took the fourth degree would #top before they completed the degrees of the rite which are conferred at the re- unione, the larger number stopping after the elghteenth had been conferred and hav- ing the other degrees conferred at some subsequent time.. This year those who dropped out were the exception to the rule, and more than forty men received the thirty-second degree on Friday. The banquet was spread in Freemasons’ hall at 8 o'clock and consisted of the cholc- t viands of the season. The service was excellent and the cooking perfection. At the close of the feast Matthew A. Hall, the toastmaster of the evening, took charge. Addresses were delivered by Governor E. P. Bavage, who came up from Lincoln for the occasion; W. 8. Summers, Willlam Cleburne, 0. 8. Lobin M. F. Funkhouser, C. B. Herring, Henry W, Wilson and Mr. Folsom of Lincoln. The banqueters were at th table until midnight. Tangler temple, Nobles of the Mystlo Shrine, is making arrangements to place itself in position to act as should act the temple which bears upon its rolls the name of the imperial potentate of the order for the coming year, There was a joint meet- Ing of the committess eharged with the arrangements for the excursion to San Frpnolsco at the hall last week, and at that meeting a change was made in the hustling committes, O. H. Pickens being added in place of a member who could not serve. This committee has in charge the work of preparing for the excursion by securing the names of those whon will make up the party. At this meeting it was decided to send from Omaha to the coast the largest number of Shriners who have ever made the overland trip. Letters were received from some of {he temples in Towa and east. ern states asking about what Omaha in- tended to do, some of them expressing a desire to come through this city and joln the party of the next imperfal potentate enroute. The result of these letters wi the adoption of a plan which has for fits purpose the organization at Omaha of a large excursion party composed of members of shrines from all over the east enroute to San Francisco. To do this Tangler tem- urday evening 2t their home, First and Spring streets, and Blazek is now In Clark- son hospital with a fractured skull, while Martenek is locked up in the police sta- tion, on a charge of assault with intent to do great bodily injury: Martenek, who wears a wooden leg, has been working in a dairy at Albright. He had not been home for several weeks. When he met his wife yesterday afternocon he gave r $5, saying that he would only need a small amount for tobacco. Blazek works for the Cudahy Packing company in South Omaha. He went home bout 6 o'clock, and when he saw his step- father he promptly told him to go away, 80 Mrs. Martenek's daughter explained to Sergeant Dempsey and Ofcer Fiske. Mrs. Martenek cannot speak English. It appears from the daughter's account of the quarrel that r brother insisted he was supporting the family, and that he did not intend to support his stepfather, t00. Martenek seized a two-inch auger, and when Blazek attempted to eject him from the bouse, Martenek struck Blazek a hard blow on the (forehead, knocking him to the floor. Blazek sprang to his feet, the blood streaming over his face, and man- aged to take hold of the auger. After a struggle, in which the stove was upset and the furniture scattered, Blazek cured the suger and struck Mart severe blow on the back of the bea spiral edges of the suger making fve cuts ple will have a strong entertainment com- mittee and wjll have to make preparation for recelving and caring for the travelers. Some of the temples which corresponded with Omaha on the subject have made plans to go to the coast by way of Kansas City and to return by way of Omaba, so it would not be surprising if the majority of the tem- ples in the United States had representa- tives in Omaha during the morth of Jume, either going to San Frdncisco or returning therefrom. In this conmection it is recalled that it has been just ten years since Tangler tem- ple entertained the Imperial council in Omaha. On that occasion, with & member- ship but one-third of its present the temple raised the sum of $9,000 entirely within its membership for the reception and entertalnment of guests. With the present large membership, and taking into consideration the good work dome in 1892, the present committees believe that they will have no trouble in ral the funds required for the tri The prominenée of Tangier temple as the home of the imperial potentate will involve the maintaining of “open hous during the year, and while the committees are at work preparing for the trip to the coast, they will constantly keep in mind the fact that funds must be provided in addition to the usual amount for the extraordinary ex- penses which will be Incurred during the next year by reason of its prominence. Clan Gordon, No. 63, Order of Scottish Clans, held its regular meeting Tuesday evening at its hall, Continental bullding, when a number of applications were dealt with and the remainder of the evening w devoted to song and sentiment, among most noticeable features of which we the songs by Clansman Watson and the bumor of Clansman P. T. Anderson as a story tell Banner lodge, No. 11, Fraternal Union of America, is making elaborate preparations for an entertalnment and public meeting to be addressed by the supreme secretary of the order on March 13. Mondamin lodge, No. 111, has made arrangements to no' third floor of the block. Omaha lodge, No. 311, has reorganized Its degree team. Omaha grove No. 1, Woodman Circle, gave an entertainment at its hall Thursday evenlng. “The Sniggles Family,” intro- Quced by Miss Ada Berg, was the feature of the evening. The Fraternal Brotherhood of the World will give an open entertalument in the Royal Arcanum hall, Bee bullding, on Thursday evening, February 27. The pro- gram will consist of games at cards and good music and dancing. Refreshments served free. The public most cordially invited. The Royal Highland organized a castle at McCook Friday night, electing the fol- lowing officers: Clarence B. Gray, P. L. P.; J. Raymond MeCarl, I. P.; Frank S. Vabue, chief counsellor; Mrs. Laura B. Pope, worthy evangsl; Charles O. Blomqulst, see- retary; Mathew Lawritson, treas: Y arder; John Hust, sentry; Mrs. t C. Tyler, herald; James C. Mitehell, ide; Mrs. Anna H. Conley, first worthy censor; Mrs. Clara Snyder, secopd worthy censor; Robert W. Devoe, C. of 8.; Robert M. Knipple, C. of A.; George W. Norrils, George Beck and Mrs. Loulse J. Ritten- house, rganagers; Dr. Will V. Gage and Dr. Charles L. Fahnestock, physiclans. G. Conley, Ja