Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 22, 1902, Page 7

ol e Voo 5 A T R the food we eat. bat RIC cream * Good health depends mostly upon We can’t be healthy if we take alum or other poisondailyinour food, Dr. Price’s Baking Powder is ab- solutely free from alum, It is made from pure cream of tartar and adds to the healthfulness of the food. NOTE.—Alum bakipg powders induce dys« Prict Baxina Powden Co, pepsia, liver complaint and kidney trou- Cricaao, ble. Alum may pot kill, but undermines the bealth, and ill health makes life mis- erable. AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA Oouncil Qalls for Bids for Bends for Library Site. « THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR ISSUE In view of the present condition of affairs and the attitude of the water company it is hardly probable that any more hydrants Liquor Licenses. Up to date only eighty-five liquor licens have been granted by the city councll, but enough more are on file to run the total up to last year's number, which was ninety. The money derived from these licenses goes to the school fund and will be used Omahs Water Company Refuses to |in taking up outstanding warrants and pay- Place Different Hydrants Until the City Provides Funds to Pay for Them. Arrangements are now on foot for the ace eeptance of the Carnegle library offer. The council is advertising for bids for bonds to be lssued for the purchase of a site. Beven bonds of the denomination of $500 each will be issued, making & total of $3,600. The lssue will bear date of Decem- ber 1, 1901, and will draw § per cent In- terest. As the bonds will run for tem years it is naturally expected that a pre- mium will be offered. On Monday evening May 26, the council will sell these bonds to the highest bidder. All bids must be ac- companied by a check for $300 as an evi- dence of good faith. According to the advertisement cow belng published in The Bee the sale of the bonds and the payment for the same must be com- leted within twenty days after the deliv- ery of the histories to the purchaser. Some time ago the Library board asked the council for an additional $500 to be used in construttfng perfnineént sidewalks about the proposed building and making other improvements on the grounds. It was the Mdea of the board to have this $500 included in the bond issue, but it has been decided by attorneys that the action would not be legal snd might invalldate the entire issue. Jdn order to overcome this obstacle the board will ask the council for the full levy is year, which will amount to $5,000. Of s sum a portion will be set aside for improvements to the grounds and what is left after an allowance has been made for malntenance will be used for the purchase of books. No More Hydrants. During the last year the city council has ordered not less than two dozen fire hy- trln!l located in various parts of the city. Notices of these resolutions have been mailed by City Clerk Shrigley to the Omaha Water company, but no attention has so far been paid to the orders, requests and resolutions. At Monday night's meeting of the council & request was made that & special com- mittee be appointed to confer with officers of the water company in regard to the ter. This committee, composed of Ad- kins, Welsh and Broderick, called upon the officers of the Omaha Water company yes- terday and briefly stated the oblect of thelr visit. The committee was told in plain words that mo more hydrants would be placed until the city provided funds to pay for the same. The present levy is entirely in- sdequate to pay for the hydrants now 1n use, to say uothing of placing tweaty-four more in service. While there is a demand from all parts of the suburbs for water and & desire for better fire protection the authorities can do pothicg with the amount allowed by law for water servi The charter provides that a certain sum whall be levied for water and when this sum is used there is no way to pay the bills. Overlaps in the water fund are com- mon, but with the 200 buydrants pow in wervice all of the money aveilable for this purpose is used up end in spite of economie ing salaries of teachers during the coming school ycar. In addition to the liquor lice: money the schools will secure the usual levy and the regular state apportionment, which will go a Jong ways toward keeping up expen No new bulldings are in contemplation, the board being tisfled that the schools can get along another year without any expenditure for new build- ings. Selling Dog Tags. There is a lively demand at the clerk's office for dog tags. So far this month over 350 tage bave been sold at the usual rate. This money goes into the city treasury and will be used later on to pay running ex- penses. Just now the dog catcher is busy and he is roping in a dozen or more um- tagged canines each day. It costs more to redeem a dog from the pound than the price of a tag and this is one reason why more tags have been sold this year than ever before during the month of May. Engineer Assumes New Role. City Engineer Beal is now the city bujld- ing inepector. The resignation of D. M. Click, au appoistee of A. R. Kelly, was turned in Monday night and accepted with- out comment. The mayor at once ordered that the city engineer be inspector of bulldings for the time. This will save the salary of the inspector and at the same time give adequate service to those who are ap- plicants for permits, an assistant bas been deignated to assist all of the inspec- tors mow on the force. The fees from this time cn will go to the city instead of into the pockets of the inspector. It is the understanding that the same fees will be charged as in the past. One Office Vae: \ There is a vacancy in one of the ap- polntive offices and the mayor has not been able o far to fill the place. This is the office of plumbing inspector. W. S. Cook held the job for a couple of years and when Mayor Koutsky was elected he resigned. As an lnspector was needed the mayor cast bout for a suitable man, but could find DO one to accept the place at the compen- sation offered. The chances are that the mayor will request the city engineer to look after this portion of the work for the time being. While the engineer has plenty 1o do it is thought that he ean worry along for a few weeks with the additional duties imposed upon him. 2 = THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, ';‘SORTHWESTERN ROAD WIN | St Final Straggle in Gourt for Track Rights in ‘ Bighth Street, | — UNION PACIFIC MACHINISTS WAITING About Twelve Train Loads of ers from East Wil Travel Through Om: Way to Imperial Council. ‘With the last of seven successive In- lllllt!l(ml projected by the Burlington road western line is again asserting its legal right to the maintenance and usage of the track along the much disputed Eighth street territory. Tuesday, therefore, a gang of workmgn was set to work surfacing up the track, and this provoked another spasm of opposition from the Burlington, |stin determined to prevent the North- western's geiting in along those two biocks. Tuesday also attorneys for both corpora- tions were in St. Paul fighting before the cireuit cout of appeals the final applica- tion of the Burlington to have superseded the recent order of Judge Munger here dissolving the last injunction. Meanwhile the work was started here by the North- western track gang and a watchful Burling- ton scout was eoon aware of this movement and wired the news to the court room at BSt. Paul. There the information was used for all it was worth by Burlington counsel, but to po avail, for the prayer of the Burlington that the order of dissolution be superseded was not granted. Bo the surfacing of the Northwestern track on Eighth street was continued again Wednesday morning and will be finished. Attorney James B. Sheean, for the road, returned from St. Paul Wednesday and sald that things loked like emooth sailing now. The contest has been one of the bitterest, most closely fought and long drawn out in which two railroads bave* Jocked horns in Omaba. Machinists Wait for Officials. The executive board of the Union Pacific district of machinists’ unions, which it was stated would confer with General Manager Dickinson and Superintendent of Motive Power Higgins of the Union Pacific road last Tuesday relative to an increase in the wage schedule, has not vet met with the officials and it was learned Wednesday that the machinists do not know when they will get the sudience desired. At present they are waiting on the pleasure and conven- ience of the Union Pacific men and cannot predict how soon they will get together with them. Meanwhile the board itself is meeting, having been in independent session on Monday and again on Tuesday. It s thought that it has arrived at some definite determination as to its plan of action with the officiale regarding the wage scale, but till the matter is consummated and the con- ference with the Union Pacific representa- tives held and completed the members of the board decline to give any information as to what they have done among them- selves or expect to try and do with Mr Dickinson and Mr. Higgins. Shriners on Umion Pacific. More than one-half of all the Shriners who will travel from the east to the con- vention in San Francisco in June will go from the Missour! river via the Union Pa- cific. Said Assistant General Passenger Agent GerritsFort of that line: “We expect to carry about twelve special trainloads of Shriners westward. Most of them will go through Omaba, a few on our Kansas division from Kansas City. The trains will cross the Missourl river on June 1,28 4and 5. “To date the parties we have definite ar- rangements to handle are: Toledo Shrine, Zem-Zem Temple of Erie, Cleveland Shrine, Detroit Shrine, Pittsburg Shrine, Indianap- olis Shrine, Aladdin Temple of Columbus, Medinah Temple of Chicago, Osman Temple of St. Paul, Lulu Temple of Philadelphia, Washington Shrine and Baltimore Shrine. Those from Buffalo, 8t. Louls and Kansas City we falled to get. They are going west over the Missouri Pacific from Kansas Oity.” Changes in Time Card. Changes in the Missourl Pacific timecard, which were planned to go into effect some weeks ago, but were abandoned at that time, have been reconsidered and will, it is said, be put in force next Sunday, May 25. Though ttese do not effect Omaha to any immediate appreciable extent, they do seri- ously concern southeastern Nebraska, as they are to alter two local trains on the line between here and Kansas City. The local traip from Auburn, Neb., south, and from Hiawatha, Kan., north, will both, it is said, be extended to Falls City, Neb., thua connecting the service and giving ad- to prevent such action dissolved, the North- | ditional passenger service to the several towns on the line between Falls City and ‘lhe present stopping places of each train. way Notes and Person J. P. Barrett, traveling frelght agent for | the Missouri Pacific raliway at Concordia | Kan., is in Omaha. | General Passenger Agent J. R. Buchanan of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Val- ley raliroad goes to Chicago Wednesday | night General Manager Bidwell of the Fre- mont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley rafiroad | has gone morth to leok over the work on | the Verdigris extension into Boyd county E. E. Carter, chief elerk of the 'Frisco office, has returned from a fortnight's wed- | ding trip through the entire south from the | guif to the Atlantic The Burlington will shortly west coast points a folder advertising | specially the St. Louis special from Port- land. It contains a detailed map and hand- some half-tone illustrations. A party of the officlals of the Pittsburg Piate Glass company of Pittsburg came into Omaha Wednesday on a speclal Pull- man car from Kansas City. The eastern- ers are on a tour of inspection of the agencies of thelr company. They Omaha Wednesday night over the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railrcad behind No. James J. Hill, with a party of raliroa notables, was {nh Othaha an hour Tuesday evening ‘on a tour of inspection of i Burlington system. The party comprised C, E. Perkins, President George B. Harris of ‘the Burlington, First Vice President Darius Miller, Second Vice Presiflent How- ard Elliot, Géneral Manager F. A. Delano and Mr. Filil. A special train carried the men, and they left for Lincoln shortly after 6§ o'clock, spending the night there.” They went on to Denver this morn LOCAL BREVITIES. The Treasu: the surveyo v department has authorized of the port at Omaha t new the lease upon the bon in this city, Oscar Snively, a 15-year-old newsboy discharged in 'poiice court after been arrested for jumping on and of street cars and throwing Stones at the conductors. He promised to be good in the future and was released after hearing one of Judge Berka's fatherly talks. Dr. B. Carradine, the evangelist, will begin & series of meetings in Omaha on June 1 in a tabernacle tent seating 3,000 persons, which will be erected on Harney street, opposite the court house. He comes here from Colorado Springs, where he has been preaching to vast audiences. Burglars entered a room at Creighton University Tuesday night and stole $26.40 which belonged to ome of the professors. Mrs. Anderson, 218 South Twenty-ninth Etreet, reported to the police that someone one had torn a screen from a window of her residence and stolen a silver sugar bowl. In the United States court Anton Skou- mal has been awarded a verdict of $,000 in his sult for $15000 damages against the Cudahy Packing company for personal in- juries.” As s0on as this case was disposed of the court began the trial of the Canton Bridge Company against CUff Cole, to re- <over money alleged to have been lost at gambling by one of its employes. _Mrs. Clark, wife of Superintendent D. O. Clark of the Union Pacific Coal company, died at her home, 422 North Twenty-first street, at 1 yesterday afternoon. The re- mains' will be taken io Manchester, O., for burial, though the funeral arrangements have not been announced. Mrs. Clark came to Omaha in 158 and had a large circle of friends. She leaves no children. Falling to establish a_substation of the postoffice at Tenth and Farnam streets the postmaster has recommended to the de- partment that a substation be established at_Clifton Hill and that the substation ordered to be established at Twenty-fourth and Farnam streets be established at Twenty-eighth and Farnam streets, as no one can be found at the former location who desires it The Omaha Teamsters' unioh has taken a hand in the contest between the Hen- shaw hotel and the unions of cooks and alters. Tuesday afternoon it was de- cided by that union to deliver no more ice or coal to the hotel until it had come to terms with its former employes, while one driver Tetused to deliver a load of coal which he had taken to the house, not knowing that a strike was in progress. E. K. Lee Stone is ontrial in criminal court for an alleged assault upon Samuel McCoy April 26, the charge being assault with intent to do great bodfly harm. Btone's Qefense is that he was boarding with McCoy's deserted widgand family and that when McCoy called saw him with one of the children on hil he (McCoy) threatened him with the roughest kind of rough treatment and finally attempted to strike him. Murray Schwartz has been appointed GeFuly county sirveyor to succeed Louis Blickensdorfer, who resigned recently to 0 to Denver and enter the employ of the reckenridge Gold Dredging company. Mr. Schwartz was deputy six. years or more under former Douglas county surveyors and was on City Engineer Rosewater's staff for more than a year. During the last year and a_half "he has been Denver with the Union Pacific. The disbarment proceedings against Fred L. Smith, a colored attorney charged with unprofessional _conduct toward Prince Wheeler in offering the latter transporta- tion out of town while under bond to A ar in court as a witness ‘n the Martin hields case, are concluded, but the commit- tee will not report for & day or two. A. C. Troup was not able to rematn through the hearing and will have the testimony read to him by the court stenographer. H. E. Petersen and D. M. Stark, the la ter from Missouri, are the latest ‘membe; of the ‘easy marks’ to complain to the police of the wickedness of woman. Stark met Eva Wi on the street and after a round or two of drinks in a wine room went to sleep and awoke later and found his ring and purse on the floor and the woman and $25 missing. She was arrested, but denied taking any of the man's mone; Petersen met a woman out on St. Mary's 335 before he escription a woman companion n tified as his was arrested, but she denies the charge. i The First American Revolution “Cruel” O'Reilly Sent by the King of Spain to Crush the Rebellion. CHAPTER IV. ‘When hé was informed by Count Aranda that Nicholas Chauvin de Lafrenlere and the other revolutionists who had expelled Don Antonio de Ulloa, the Spanish governer of Loulsians hoped to establish a republic, Charles III of Spain, who had been in doubt whether or not be should attempt to hold Louisiana, sent Count Alexander O'Reilly with & fieet of twenty-four vessels and an army of 2,600 picked men to suppress the measures there will again be an overlad. | opeliion and establish Spanish authority. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of Under the census which had been taken by Ulloa befor: his expulsion Louisiana con- talned at the time only 1,893 men “able to bear arms” and a total wkite population of only 5562. The advent of this fleet be- fore New Orleans, followed by the landing of the overwhelming Spadish force om August 17, 1788, crushed out the revolution which had begun so auspiclously with the expuision of Ulloa in October, 1760. The usual Spanish fussillade followed, as & mat- ter of course. The sluation in which Lafreniere and his assoclates in the comspiracy found them- selves after they had occupled New Or- leans with the insurgent forces and had driven out Ulloa, was full of unmexpected dificulties. As the attorney geoeral of the king of France and senior member of the superfor councll, Lafreniere had ap- pealed to the loyalty of the French crecles of Loulsiana in favor of the Freach re- republic was comfived at first to the inner circle of the conspiracy, and sithough it was well enough known to form the prin- cipel toplc of Count Aranda's argument iz ¢ 5 ] g § but his attitude to them as revolutionists was throughout one of hostility. During their independent control of the superior council of the colony, which lasted from October, 1763, to August, 1769, they were thus unable to secure the support of the colonists themselves as agalnst France, while Aubry as the Fremch governor, un- able on thelr account to exercise his au- thority, maintained himself as the repre- sentative of France and of the aspira- tions of the people for reunion with France while waiting for the arrival of the Spanish fleet to surrender them to Spain. The intendant commissary of the colony, Foucault, who as a member of the superior council, had been active o the first stages of the revolution, now deserted Lafreniere and co-operated with Aubry against the revolutionists who, he declared, had Do legal authority to expel the Spanish gov- erpor. The first mission esent by the colonists to France, with Jean Milbet as envoy, having falled, a second was sent after the expulsion of Ulloa, but the duke of Choiseul, prime minister of France, re- celved at about the same time Aubry's dispatches denouncing Lafrenlere and his sssoclates as rebels and revolutionists. All the comfort the majority of the people of the colony received from the appeal to France was a reiteration of the unalterable determination of the French court to tura over the colony to Spain. The colcuists wore thus greatly AU couraged, and, as the republican prop: ganda bad Dot been ventured on in appeal- ing to them at the beginning, they began to grow despairing and apathetic. Latreniere, Marquis and the leaders of the revolution, now began to do everything possible to establish the Republic of They sent envoys to secure English to form a republic where the oppressed and peedy among ail the uations of the earth would find a refuge and a home. The chief of the republic was to be styled ‘Protector’ and to be assisted by a councll of forty men, elected by the people elther for life or for a certain number of years. A bank on the plan of Amsterdam or of Vénice was to be created to furnish the commonwealth with the currency of which it would stand in need. The Swiss captain, Marquis, had originated this plan of a re- public and be openly and violently recom- mended its adoption—so much so that it became a subject of discussion, for and against, in printed and in manuscript docu~ ments, which were circulated throughout the colony and some of which are really of a curious character. If the plan of Mar- quis could bave been executed, it is prob- able that Lafrenlere would have been the Cromwell of Louisiana. There is no doubt but that the colonists would have eagerly edopted this form of government, had it been possible at the time; for it must be recollected that from the earliest existence of the colony almost all its governors had uniformly complained of the republican spirit which they had observed in its in. babitants But the colonists, on maturer consideration, became convinced that Frence, Spain and Enpgland, for reasons too obvious to be enumerated, would never permit their rebellion to terminate suc. cesstully in the establishment of a republic in Louisians. They therefore abandoned issue from | leave | the | MAY 22, 1902. WANTS ADVICE ON TAXATION sx Oommissioner Asks Oity Attorney Questions Pertaining to Assessment. FORTY PER CENT OR FULL CASH VALUE s to Know, Also Whether He Shall Take Figures Tax Commissioner Fleming 1s laying his plans for the 1903 city assess- ment and, preliminary to sending his depu- ties into the field, he has asked City Attor- already ney Connell a few pertinent questions as to how he ahall proceed. * He i determined to avold, it poseible, a repetition of the tax muddle of the last few months. The prin- | cipal point upom which he asks light 1is whether he shall follow the custom of the last forty years and assess property st & percentage of its fair cash value or wheth | be eball apply the statutes literally and soes It at its full cash value. The questions are embodied in the following communica- tion, which was sent to Mr. Connell yes- terday: OMAHA, May 20.—Hon. W. J. Connell, City Attorney, Omaha: Dear Sir—Now that the matier of the assessment of the 1902 tax has been closed, I beg to ask you for some legal advice in the matter of the [paking of the assessment for 1908, as fol- ows: First—The city charter says that ‘“‘the tax commissioner shall by himself his deputies & and value at their fair 88 cash value all property.” You know, of course, it has been the custom always, in place of assessing at the fair cash value to adopt Tcentage of the fair cash value as a basis of the assessmeni. I de- sire to know whether or not this can be legally done, or whether or not it is the duty of the tax commissioner to comply literally and strictly with this requirement of the law and assess all property at its fair cash valve About Rallroad Property. Second—The charter provides that tax commissioner shall take the valua- tion and assessment of railroad property within_the city limits from the returns made by the State Board of Equalization to the county clerk.” It is well known that the State Board of Equalization val- ues property for taxation at only a small percentage of its fair cash velue. If. for ‘uture assessments, we assess the prop- erty within the clty at its falr cash value and take railroad propert; turns made by the Btate ization, then all property, properiy, in the city will be valued at air cash value, reas the rallr roperty will only be Fract “the ction of its fair cash value: The con- stitution provides that “taxes shall be uniform in respect to persons and prop- erty within® the city. ~Therefore, is this provision of the charter requiring the as sessment of dailroad property to be taki from the valuations e by the Sta Board of Equalization constitutional? Third—If the provision of the charter requiring me to take valuations of rail- road vroperty from the returns of the State Board of Equalization is not consti- tutiona all I proceed to value railroad propert; as all other property is val- ued? Fourth—If you are in doubt as to whether or not the provision for taking the valration of railroad property from the returns made by the State Board of Equalization is constitutional, shall I a sume that it is unconstitutional ahead and make a valuation ment of my own of the raliroad property within the city, so that if the railronds choose they can test the question of the constitutionality of this provision, and the = the ratl- city have the benefit of a tax road property on the same e perty is assessed, x;flllly )held that this provision is uncon- stitutional? Fifth—How shall I assess raiiroad prop- erty? How About Disclosures? Sixth—The charter says that “it is the tax commissioner's duty to assess all property, real and personal, and all f chises Within t! ty 1 belonging to partnerships, - associations and oarpor In the 1X2 assessment it is undoubtédly true that a t deal of personal property_was omitied from the assessment roll. This was not due to any delinquency in my office, for my deputies made inquiry, according to_the customary blanks hereiofore furnished assessors for that purpose. WIill you be good enough fo advise me In what way property own- erg can be compelied to disclose their reonal property? P eventne Have’ I, as tax commiasioner, power and authority to compel each indi- vidual to make disclosure of his money, credits and other Kor-aml property? If #0, how can I do this? Eighth—Has the tax commissioner wer and authority to compe. the banks [ "the city ‘to disclose the names of their depositors and the amount of money to the credit of each of them within the city dur- ing the period of assessment? If so. what is_the proper procedure to accomplish this? Ninth—The blanks in present use are those that have been in use for a good many years, but they seem insufficient for the pus of accomplishing a full dis- closure of property and of getting all tax- able property on the assessment roll. I in- Will you be good eno flo’;u lhlt‘ the ll"":fll warrant whicl Souid Jmprove these blanks for the pur- pose of rettng a disclosure o roperty? Tenth—Does "section & of the general revenue law apply to mercantile corpora- ons' Wants Quick Answer. As there is a great amount of work to be done that is pmllmhll.r{ pen.unmfi to the assestment for 1903 it v desirable I #should be able to make my plans at once, and 1 would consider it a great favor and to the interest of the city to have an an- swer in writing at as early a date as pos- sibly convenient. Very I‘AT’FL';!“I;-{NG, Tax Commissioner. “Before I started in on the 1502 assess- 1 bad several talks with Mr. Connell on the subject of the 40 per cent basis and I gathered from these interviews that in his opinion it was pertectly legal to assess property at a per- centage of its fair cash value. I under- stand, however, that In his address before the supreme court's referee a month ago he said that his advice to me was just the opposite. 1 want now to get his answer in writing, that I may file it away and avold further misunderstanding. “] see there is & case in point now before the district court at Lincoln. The Lincoln Gas company has complained that its as- sessment is too high in proportion to the assessment of railroad property in the city and the court has remanded the case to the Board of Equalization for & new hearing. There the city tax commissioner assesse: property at its fair cash value, while the State Board of Equalization uses a percent- age of the fair cash value as the basis of assessment, and the result s a wide dis- parity in the assessments of the two classes of property. It was just this complication that I foresaw a year agu, and which caused me to apply the 40 per cent standard of as- sessment.” SWITCHES OFF THE SECURITY How & Stockman Brings an Enter- taining Story by Rallroader Inte Court. Three people went into Judge Keysor's court yesterday with trouble on their bands. One was Willilam F. Garrity, pro- Cotton Spiuning I “Erect Form” Summer Models Made of a wonderful white batiste, as light as a zephyr, but tough as canvas and always cool. Trimmed with lace and ribbon. “Erect Form” 970 For med “Erect Form" 972 For full “Erect Form" 961 For m “Erect Form"” 903 For stout figures SHIRT WAIST CORSET does away with unei GIRDLE CORSET 3"{,“‘3; wres and young girls. Lightly 1t accentuates bust and_hips, and has the weight of a feather. In white, pink, and blue batiste. Trimmed with 'l lace and ribbon. Model 137, 1f your dealer cannot pame and cost of corset ungainly ridges at biaties. Fite fine women oul of ‘white linen batiste. Trim: lace These different models : “Erect Form ™ 983 For slight figures $1.00 1 1. 2 ium fifuru . developed fi;ure.s 00 50 ium figures . 00 " gt and ribbon. Model 118, supp! wend his LI e WEINGARTEN BROS., 377-379 Broadway, New York Lorgest Monufacturers of Corsets in the World experiences with Cunning in the vernacular of his business. He sald “Cunning and me coupled up early in the morning &t Goldsmith's water tank down in the east part of town. Cunning, he headed for Garritty's as soon as it was opening time and I see Garrity pass over about & furniture car full of the long green. Then Cunning and me starts out to cover the eystem and he unloads like a pay car. Every time we see a saloon semaphore he heads right in and bunts everybody up to the bar for orders.” “Did either of you get drupk?" asked the attorney. “No, I started out with nothing but emp- ties, so I could take on a good deal ana not wobble, and Cunning, he seemed pretty well flanged, too, and took the switches without jumpin’ any to speak of. We got along all right until we went to switchin' around down under the Tenth street vil- duct. There we run into a gambler with a big headlight and a bum railroader that didn’t bave clothes enough to flag a hand- car. I told Cunning they’'d spill him if he went against them and that we'd better take the siding, but he wouldn't see it that way and told 'em what I sald. Then one of ‘em connects with me on one side of the head and the other on the other side ana I see it's up to me to clear the right-o'-way. I opens up with all the steam I got, ex- pectin’ Cunning to couple on as a pusher, but I'm cussed if they didn’t run away and bim with them. The next day I see him and he tries to square himself for puiiin’ the pin on me, but I don't know what had happened In the meantime, nor where the money went."” CHECK ON TRAIN JUMPERS Judge Fines Two of Them and Ser- geant Gives Tip to Twenty 4 Others. Carl and Mark Case were fined $5 each and George Hegerson and Ed Livingstone were discharged in police court for Jumping on and off trains. John DeLong, special agent for the Missouri Pacific rail- road, stated that the men belong to a gang out on Walnut Hill who for some time have been in the habit of jumping on and off trains and causing the crews consider- able trouble. About six weeks ago several of the gang set the brakes on a freight train and the engine was unable to pull it. Sergeant Whelan went out to the Walout Hill school Tuesday to investigate and find out how many of the pupils were engaged in the practice of jumping on trains and over twenty boys admitted that it is one of their favorite pastimes. The sergeant gave the boys a fatherly talk and, as they promised to be good, no other arrests were NEW YORK, May 21.—The London corre- spondent of the Tribune says that the coming conference of colonlal premiers 1is being anticipated with the livliest interest, in view of the recent speech by Colonial Secretary Chamberlain and Sir Wilfrid Laurier on the subject of commercial re- lations between England and the colonies. The liberal newspapers already are talk- ing of the serious danger which threaten the empire and are endeavoring to stir up an agitation, with the object of inducing the colonial secretary to leave the imperial zolvereln in the pigeonhole where it was placed a few years ago. It is tolerably certain that any proposal to adopt a sys- tem of preferential trading within the em- pire will meet with vehement oppositien. Englishmen are eager for a closer union with the colonjes, but the words “‘commer- clal relations” frighten them. try Depressed. NEW YORK. May 21—Depression is still affecting England’s cotton spinning indus- try, cables the London correspondent of the ;rnbnm. For two months 16, 0% n Lancashire _employing BOT SHOOTS A COMPANION One Bullet Passes Throngh the Lung and Result May Be Fatal. AFFRAY PARTLY RESULT OF OLD FUED Johm Byrnes and Christian Jensen Quarrel Over a Younger Brother and Byrnes Fires Five Shots from His Revolver. Christian Jensen, a lad aged 16, son of Ole Jensen of 3107 South Sixteenth street, was shot with a 32-callber revolver last evening by John Byrnes, son of Policeman Byrnes. At the time of the shooting the boys were playing ball in the square op- posite 3015 South Seventeenth street. The bullet entered the left lobe of his lung and passed out through his back. It is saild that five shots were fired, some of them, according to the boy's story blank cartridges. One of the shots punctured the ear of the lad without inflicting serious injury. All the other shots with the e ception of the one that entered his body, were ineffective. The shooting took placs about 8 o'clock. The boy was carried into the residence of Peter Melchoir, 3016 South Seventeenth street, and medical attendance was promptly rendered by Dr. Rix and Police Surgeon Benawa. He was taken to St. Joseph's tion Not Definite. John Byrnes, who did the shooting, is sged 14. He was afterwards crrested and his explanations of the shooting are neither really explanatory or definite in character. It is said by some persons that there bas been a so-called feud between the boys for a long while and that today, the threat on the part of young Byrnes that he would beat & younger brother of Christian Jemsen, the young man who was shot, led to meeting between the two, and the result was the shooting. Young Jensen showed much courage and complied with every suggestion of the phy- siclans, in order that surgical sid: should bave the proper result. The wound is & serious one, but young Jensen was reported in good condition this morning. GETTING MR. 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