Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 6, 1902, Page 5

THE OMAHA CATTLE RAISERS FEEL BLUE Prospects of Losing Control of Range Very Discotiraging. TRIP TO WASHINGTON BRINGS NO RELIEF | VMembars of Delegation Tell of Their Reeeption and BfRorts Made to Secure Some Sort of Ooncession. Aithough they were treated with consid- crate courtesy by Secretary Hitchcock and others In Washington it is not with any very high hope that the Nebraskans who went to the eapital to urge the passage of the land-leasing bill return to thair homes. Those who went were Bartiett Riehards of Eilsworth, O, F. Coftey ana E. C. Harrls of Chadron, William Ferdon of Brownles, Dan il of Gerdon, C. C. Joy of Alliance and A. M. Modisett of Rushville. The last two are at the Merchants’ hotel on their return trip and Mr. Modisett gives this account of the visit: “We went there not as represenatives of any organization, but on our own account to help, it we bould, in securing the passage of the bill Introduced fn th ate by Mil- lard, and also in the howse, providing that the government lease for 2 cents per annum per scre it land west of the hundredth merfdian. f “In Nebraska are about 10,000,000 acres of this land which can be good for nothing but stock-ralsing, as demenstrated by fepeated crop fallures. From time to time the éattle- men have been fencing this land and now & prinotpal troubl though the threat has been hanging over us, I suppose, for'a long time, as the law was made in 1585 “To the secretary of the Interior, Mr. Hitcheock, we appealed for a stay of ac- tion until we could get the leasing bl through congress, but he answered that the law is on the ks and that there is noth- ing for bim to do but enforce it. Hi us very well, but I judge his idea is to en- force it, although I don’t know how soon. Conferences Were Many. “There were frequent confe the six days that we were t president devoted most of an afternoon to consideration of the matter. We were re« celved by the semato committed on lands and by the house committee on the mame. During our conference with the latter we made a disquieting discoxery. We had told that the land could only be raising and that fences were ensible in tonfining the cattle near the smaller artificia] supplies of water such as the streams from the windmill L When we sald that erops had repeatedly fatled a committeeman asked how serfously this had affected the growth In the population of that section. Mr. Richards could not tell definitely and a member turned to a census report that lay on the table. In this it was revealed that betweem 1890 and 1900 the population of various counties had decreased as follows: Cheyenne, from 5,693 to 5.570; Kelth, from 2,556 to 1,651; Sheridan, from ‘8,687 to 6083; Bloux, from 2,463 to 3,065; Dawes, from 9,722 to 6,262; Banner, from 2,435 to 1,114. Other counties had increased some, but they were those In which there are growing towns. I may say also that this is hardly a criterion of the adult pop. ulation, as children are much more numer- s there now thai 1890. Will Have Bad Effect. “It 1s our bellef that if this law is en- forced and the fences removed it will result in a still greater exodus from that section, because 1t will practically drive the smaller cattle raisers out of the busis They can- not afford to keep their cattle properly under eye and combat the increase in steal- ing which must inevitably ensue. There will be much quarreling, too, and we will be at a disadvantage in securing loans, as our security on foot will be ttered that we might not be able t loan company's agent one-half our Holdings the course of & full day's drive. - The fine tor fencing the land may be a8 much as §1,000, 80 that our extremity is seric s, and it will probably be & primcipal tor at the meeting in Crawford of the Nel 7, ** . Stock Growers' assoclation, May 18 FIND BODY OF HENRY TIENKEN Corpse of West Poiut Man Given Up The body of & middle-aged man was ound floating in the river Sunday after- on by some young men whe were boat iing, and was towed to the shore at the ‘it of Hickory street, when the poliee re notified. At Coroner Brafley's office, Jere the body wes taken, the only evi- enoe of identification was & duplicate de- posit sHp of the First Nationel bank of ‘West Polnt, Neb., made out in the name of Henry Tienken In the sum of $240. A | wateh, worke numbered 1,396,994, purport- ihg to have been purchased from A. Engle- | man of West Point, and having & leather | geard, wae the enly thing ot value found on his person. The wateh stopped at 1:47 o'clock. The body indicated that ft had been in the water for a considerable time and the clothing was full of ssnd. Thers were | wevernl cards indiesting that he had been In Omaba saloons. Reporta sent from West Polnt to The Des state that a man named Henry Tienken disappeared from that place several days ago and that he had beén charged with attempting to kill his wite, B. F. Hil of 216 Cuming street, who reported missing, and who, from gen- eral descriptions, was belleved to have been drowned, returned to his home yes- terday. |CAPTAIN SWOBE BACK IN OMAHA Short Leave Here After Long Journey Around the Werld, | Spena Captain Thomas Swobe, U. 8. A., and Mrs. Bwobe, formerly of Omaha, arrived Sun- day, to make their home at the Iler Grand hotel for a week or two before golng to the captain’s new station, wherever it may be. Their won, Dwight M. Swobe, a travel- Ing passenger agent for the Union Pacifie raflroad, came from his headquarters In Chicago, and spent the day with them. Captain Swobe éntered the over-gea serve iee October 15, 1898, and for the last two yoars has been chief quartermaster of the Department of Mindanao and Jolo. June 30 last he was given leave and visited Omaha, but in December sailed in charge of troops on the transport Crook, distribut- ing the men at various islands and bringing back two battalions of the Seventeenth infantry. He reached San Francisco April 2 and subsequently was given thirty days’ leave, most of which he will spend In Omaba. He ls to be stationed in this coun- try aad while he has, he states, received no intimation of the place, it fs thought that it will be at Chicago, with the De- partment of the Lakes, or else with the Department of the Dakotas. He may go to Chicago for a week before being as- L The captain shies, with military diplo- macy, from any interrogatories concerning department affairs, but sald, in a general discussion of the Philippines: Y1 anticipate no further trouble of any leriousness there, but the only rebellions @lement left is constituted In a few strag- gling bands of brigands and they are not bothering any now. The government is bringing many troops home and sending out only recruits for regimeiits that are already there. Aguinaido is not considered a factor in anything, any more, and within the last two months the last of the Insurrecto gen- erals have come in with their men da The natives are fast coming to un- nd and like the Americans, and are turning their attention again to peageful occupatiogs. They all, or nearly all, had some line of work before the war and to these lines they will return, without trou- ble, I anticipate. Those who have been enlisted in the constabulary are giving ex- cellent service and the coast residents have fathomed the virtues and necessities of sanitation and are making great improve- ments In t direction. The statement that the islands are the richest in the world {8 no exaggeration, I think, and the prospect should please Americans much,” HOLINESS MISSION MEETING Evangelistic Band from Iowa Invades Hawnts of Sin in Omaha. Preliminary to the ning of & mission Bouse in Omaha, Misses Emma C. Baller, Ina Reece, Rev. C. W. Harned and W. W. Oleott, representatives of the lowa Holiness dssociation, held an open air meeting in the street opposite the Omaha City mis- sion, 116 North Tenth street, last night. One feature of the meeting was that no col- lection was taken up. The work, they say, 18 supported by individual subscription. A house of foirts rooms 114 North Twenty-sixth street has been cted for the mission, and here Rev. and Mrs. Harned will make thelr home. It will be opened this evening by Dr. D. J. Bunce, evange- list, and the meetings under his direction will continue afterncon and evening for ten days. The work is to be conducted on interde- nominational lines, and will include all de- partments of city mission activity—jail, hospital, house-to-house visitation and open air “services. An effort is belng made to secure the Bellstedt tent and site for a serfes of tabernacle meetings, to be con- ducted by Dr. B. Carrodine of St. Louls early in June. — ‘The Jadies wonder how Mrs. B. manages to prederve her youthful looks. The secret s she takes PRICKLY ASH BITTERS; it keeps the system in perfoct order. Remarkable experiments completely successful. The difference is very noticeable and a trial only is asked. During the devastation of Cuba, young tobacco plants were brought over from the Vuelta Abajos district of the island and transplanted in a few chosen spots near southern Atlantic and Gulf waters . In some places th and multiplied until good sized ey thrived. These were sprouted crops were raised. After nearly three years’ natural curing a perfectly delicious genuine Vuelta Is obtained. Escaping the enormous duties the projectors are enabled to produce a five cent with a rime genuine Vuelta filler. The best kind of a properly cured Bumatra wrapper, with all bitter ness removed, is added. These features are very unmistakable u the cigar produced thereby. It is the Tom Keene, It has the exquisite “Java Coffee” taste of finest goods. wotice the gonuiness and vast superiorily of tvs- produet. You will mflhw'. . et N G0., Distributors, OVER THE FENCE AND 00T Desperate Oonvict Beoapes from Lincoln Penitentiary by Ruse, DARING PLAN PROVES SUCCESSFUL Theodore McManine, Sent for Twelve Years From Douglas County for Highway Robbery is Now at Large. Theodore McManine, sent up for twelve years for robbery from Douglas county last January, escaped from the penitemtiary at Lincoln Jast Saturday and is still at large. McManine was one of a gang of convicts working as a hodcarrier on the new ad- ministration bullding in the penitemtiary enclosure. It is supposed that the escape had been planned for some time, as several incidents, all seemingly eldental, oc- curred during Saturday forenoon to make it possible, and It is supposed also that others were in league with him. Little, however, s kmown as to the details of the plot. One| of the guards gives this account: “‘McManine had been employed with sev- eral others all the morning carrying hods of mortar up to the second floor, and I noticed that his clothes were so daubed with the plaster that I could hardly make out the stripes. I thought nothing of it at the time, as 1 supposed it was accidental. Then about fifteen minutes before the gong struck for noom a hod of bricks fell from the sec- ond floor. It made a terrible clatter, and several of the men narrowly escaped being knocked down by the flylng bricks. Of course it diverted every one's attention for the moment. The guards got the order to look sharp, and when the dust lifted the convicts were lined up and told off. While this ‘was being done someone noticed a plece of scaffolding leaning against the prison wall. Over the Prison Wall. “We found we were one man shy and & reference to the list in the contractor's hands showed it to be McManine. The scaffolding against the wall told the rest of the story. The alarm was given at omce and armed guards were sent out in every direction to hunt him down. “'At the time there was a plenic in prog- ress in the grove outside the prison grounds and several trolley loads of people had just started back to town, The supposition is that he had boarded one of these cars. He had 80 much mortar on his clothes as to thoroughly disguise his prison garb and he might have passed in any crowd for a citi- zon laborer." The Omaha police and Sheriff Power were notified of the escape by telephone about noon Saturday. Since then they have been keeping a sharp lookout for the man, but have seen nothing of him. The theory gen- erally accepted is that he boarded am out- golng train the moment he reached Lin- coln, and that he is now several hundred miles from the scene of his spectacular escape. McManine. is described in the Bertillon records as follows: Age 23 years, weight 160 pounds, height 5 feet 8 inches, com- plexion fair, black halr and brown eyes. Bold Crime of Prisomer. On the night of October 32, 1901, Theo- dore McManine and a young man about his age named Charles Glover, both residents of South Omaha, set out to paint the town. After visiting several saloons and liberally patronizing each, they ran out of money. Attempts to borrow from acqualntances falled. The pair became desperate and re- solved to turn footpads. The rallroad yards being a lonesome district, promised a fruft- ful fleld &nd they turned thelr steps in that direction. There, at the intersection of N street with the Union :Pacific tracks, they came upon an old man, John Andres by name, employed as a flagman. Pulling their hats down over their eyes, they approached him and ordered him to throw up his hands. He resisted them and tried to give an alarm. Thereupon ome of the desperadoes seized him by the throat and hurled him to the ground, while the other tried to rifie his pockets, but the old man struggled desperately. After wrestling with him a moment one of the palr put & quietus to their victim by striking him on the head with the butt of & revolver. They then took his momey, $4 in silver and some small change, and hir watch, and went away, leaving him for dead. The next day they were arrested and taken to the bedside of old man Andres, who positively identified both as his as- sallants. They were then locked up in the Douglas county jall. For a while it was thought Andres would dle of his injuries, and even as it was he ‘was confined to his bed for nearly a month, The men were tried before Judge Baker in December of last year on a charge of robbery. Both were found gullty and Mc. Manine was sentenced to twelve years in while Glover got off with An extra two years was given McManine because of his persistent at. feld his pal. In pronouncing sentence upon them Judge Baker said: “After the brutal way you treated that old man you may be thankful I am sentencing you for robbery and not murder.' McManine and Glover were taken to the penitentiary January 15 of this year. EMIGRANTS KILLED IN WRECK Two Dead and Forty-Five Injured as Result of Headon Collision tn Pennsylvania. ' CONNBLLSVILLE, Pa., May 5.—~Two per- sons were killed and fos five injured, three fataly, in the head-on collision be- tween an emigrant train and a fast freight near Rockwood, on the Baltimore & Ohlo raliroad todey. Dead: A. D. VENTURRS, NIKOLI SAKEII, two Itallan emigrants. Fatally injured: B. F. Smallwood, newsboy on the emigrant trata. Domico Pedazio. W. H. Wensel, brakeman. Forty-five Italian emigrants, the ma</ jority of them men, were injured, but none of them seriously. The emigrant train was late out of Cum- The fast freight esstbound was bhauling twenty-two loads of merchandise. by the showers of broken glass, and & num- ber were pinioned bemeath the wreckage. Fire started several times, but was ex- ger and three of the freight were destroyed. SIXTY ARE BURNED TO DEATH DAILY BEE: BOERS STRIKE HARD BLOWS Destroy Miles of Railroad, Capture Garrisons howses in Cape Colomy. LONDON, May i1 advices have been recelved here describing the siege of {he British garrison at O'Okiep. These Wdvices show that early in April the Boers under South bad pretty much thelr own way In the northwestern corner of Cape Colony. They destroyed miles of rallroad, burned the sleepers and dynamited the block- houses fn the district, compelling the evacuation of many small garrisons and blockhouses. The concentration of the British forces at O'Okiep, while the garrisons at Spring- bokfontain and Comcordia surréendered. The former garrison gave up after a strong fight, in which the British had four men killed and six wounded. Refugees poured into Port Nolleth, at which point four British gunboats were sent to protect the place. The surrender of 0'Oklep was demanded April 14, but they bhad 6,000 persons to feed, and only provisions enough to last three weeks, the British officers refused to surrender. Amusements. At the Orpheum— The program of vaudeville offerings ge- lected by the management of the Orpheum for the closing week of the present season at this pop house is one of uniform excellence throughout and ih point of merit will rank alongside of any that have been e during the iast aix months. There veral familiar faces upon the bill, although for thé most part they are offer- ing different acts from those in which they formerly appeared. Those who are repeat- ing the “same old thing” fortunately are offering something that is enjoyable not only a wécond but a third, if not innumer able timtes. In this class s the act of the Barrows-Lancaster company, who offer a one-act comedy entitled “Tactics.” This little playlet, which is really one of the most clever of its kind In vaudeville, will be remembered as having beén one of the most enjoyable features of one of last season's programs. In the way of a novelty | musical act it would be hard to put to- gother one that would be any more en- tertaining than that offered by Mallory Brothers and Brooks, two colored gentle- men and a woman. Each is a clever in-| strumentalist, as well as a vocallst, and| they offer a repertoire of well chosen se- lections on a vatiety of novel instruments. Lotta Gladstone is one of those quaint monologue comediennes with a laugh that is so Infectious that the least intimation' of a smile on her face causes a burst of sympathetic laughter in the audience. Her | oharacter dialect stories are new and de- cldedly novel. La Fever presents a novel dog and cat act, in which a dozen aif-| ferent greyhounds are made up with ar- tificlal heads, manes and talls te imitate horses and upon which & like number of cats and monkeys ride bareback. There are the conventional boxing dogs, somer- sault doge, high leaping hounds and skirt dancing poodles, as well as an interesting little black and tan that does a rather clever imitation of a certaln dance performed | by Egyptian girls In their native country | and eometimes in America. The balance of the bill includes Marsh and Sartelle, Sydney Smith and the kinedrome. Bohemian Amsteurs— Nefther on the ground floor nor in the gallery of Bohemian Turner hall at Thir- teenth and Dorcas streets was there any ' extra standing room Bunday night when the Bohemlan-Amerfcan Dramatic club ap- neared in Charles Townsend's war drama, “Down in Dixle,” staged under the direc- tion of F. W. Bandhauer and F. B. Slama. The club had previously given “The Cuban Spy" and “A Noble Outcast,” and all three | productions have met with such approval | that it has been decided to give another in about six weeks. The proceeds go to improving the equipment of the house and to reducing the indebtedness Incurred when it was ereoted four or five years ago. For the play last night the characters were without exception well and appropri- ately costumed and. the limited scenery of the house employed to its best posstble | advantage. | As Harvey Wells, the federal colonel and | bero of the plece, B. W. Bartos filled all | requirements. John Fiala showed proper | reportorial ambition and energy in the part of George Washington Bangs, an attache of the Herald. R. Havelka played a calm, despicable Major Bradley, villalnous econ. federate and rival of Colonel Marves J. J. Bvoboda as Corporal Hooligan, blue i & Novak as Hon. C. J. Dus bibulous congressman; ®. F. Band- Hesekiah Snifine, & degencrate Yankee. and J. H. Killian as Uncle Mosley, faithful slave, furnished the play with an abundance of fun. O. Jellen was Billings, Bradley's henchman. A very captivating and consclentious berolne was Miss Bessie Jablecnik as Helen Trevolr, southern heiress, and she had o capable second in the Molly Martin of Miss Marie Nejepiusky. Mre, F. B. Slama was well equipped by nature for the part of Mra. Dusenberry, s bustiing woman of busi- ness, and Mrs. Goldie Kilby's Susannah was the real thing in darkey juveniles. The orohestrn, which contributed so largely to The “Parisian Belles Burlesquers” opeued & week's engagement at the Trocadero Bunday. The opening burletta introduces the entire company, in a melange of celtic wit and_humor, followed by an olio in- oluding Henella, the toe dancer; the Chat- ham sisters in wongs and dances, Riggs and Barney In “The Orafters,” Rowland and Van Tossel in a military sketch new to vaudeville, the principal feature of which was 4 spirited broadsword combat. The closing number, “Robinson Crusoe, Jr.'” 18 a burlesque on DeFoe's ever popular story. The belles remain the entire week with dally matinees. —_— Winehell Offered Head Place, KANSAS OITY, May 5.—Benjamin P, Winchell, vice r“flt and general man- raliroad, % s “ollered {he' presiicmce of the Gomi -Rfuwggu lmn.n-fi'. v . Winchell - the offer and two com- east to- yot rn-pnl the position Tonditions and B dack out soon. ST. LOUIS, Moy 54 mecal tothe h y, BRys: T B R el B S5 S e . o 1ant woneral mangger of 'ph:fi L d Movements of Ocean Vessels May 4, All the Life—All the Eunergy—All the Ams- bition Disappears When the Back Begins to Ache. DOAN’S KIDNEY PILLS CURE Sick Kidneys—Cure every Kidney Ill—Cure Kidney “bad backs.” Ever have a bad back? A back that ached like a toothache? A back so lame and painful all day, so weak and played out at night, that life was one long drawn out misery? 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