Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 17, 1902, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1902—-TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. MEN BACK AT WORK];"E‘M OF CECIL RHODES TAFT REPLIES T0 VATICAN|FOR THE usv%nm UNIFORM|[NPORTED MEN WALK OUT|CONDITION OF THE WEATHER DEATH IN UTAH MINE Btriking Freight Handlers Take Their 01d Places with Railroads. STAGNATION ENDS AND ACTIVITY RULES Immense Quantities of Freight Rushed Out by the Wholesale Merohants. BUSINESS MEN ARE GENERALLY HAPPY Btrike Expensive to Them, Estimated Cost Being $10,000,000. RAILROADS WIN A COMPLETE VICTORY Obtain by Striking. CHICAGO, July 16.—Renewed activity on the part of Chicago business men followed the settioment of the freight handlers’ and the teams strike today and at the close of business hours tonight thousands of tons of freight had been sent to and from the various freight depots. Every one of the 24,000 strikers who could obtain employ- ment had returned to work by 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The strike, it s esti- mated, cost the business men of Chicago $10,000,000 and in order to guard against a contingency in the future they are prepar- ing to inaugurate an educational campaign in opposition to the sympathetio strike. The labor unions will be asked to forego the use of this impotent weapon. Business interests which suffered during the strike will join in pledging themselves, it is said, mot to sign union agreements which do not guard them against these strikes. On the other hand the labor unions ai fighting to secure the right to abrogate agrecments for the purpose of ordering sympathetic strike The freight handlers blame the national officers of the teamsters for the loss of the strike. They declare that'the strike shows the necessity for ineorporating in agreements a reservation which will permit strikes. Arbitration O Credit for the settlement rests with tho Btate Board of Arbitration. It was the adop- tlon of the suggestion of that board which led to the action of the freight handlers’ union in declaring the struggle with the raliroads at an end. At the same time it is probaple that even had the state board not made its sugges- tions, the fight would have been practically over tomorrow, as the majority of the freight handlers had returned to their work before the mass meeting at which the strike ‘was called off officially had convened. It was & knowledge of this fact that had much to do with the metion taken by the union. However, the proposition made by the State (Board of Arbitration enabled thy’ freight bandlers to retire gracefully from the field. | After ten days of strife the Chicago freight handlers' .strike ‘terminated today in an unqualified victory for the railroads. A meeting of the strikers, presided over by * President Curran, resulted in an almost unanimous vote to return to work, leaving the wage scale and other questions for ettlement between the men and thelr re- #pective roads. At the conclusion of the meeting the strikers went by hundreds to the ware- houses to apply for their old positions, and the teamsters who have remained out in sympathy again took up their reins. By @moon immense quantities of freight which had been held back for days was being Tushed to the raflroads or taken from ware- houses and cars. Where stagnation had Fuled, commercial activity again reigned. Chicago merchants express unbounded re- Het at the termination of hostilities, but they are scarcely less happy than the men themselves, although the strike is esti- mated to have cost them $10,000,000, to say rothing of the trade that had been pi manently lost to them. Hall Crowded to location, The 1ittle hall where the meeting of the ptrikers took place was jammed to suffoca- tion and thousands were unable to effect 8n entrance. It was & brief meeting, only long enough for an angry speech by Curran and the vote which followed. Mr. Curran, in the course of his ad- dress to the men, said: “I am going to organize the freight handlers all over the country, and when we decide to fight agaln it will not be a struggle between the freight handlers in Chicago and the rallroads, but between the fielght handlers and the railroads all over the country.” ‘Men,” rald Curran, “we came out like Wwe have acted like men, and we ep, but there bas been treachery {n our camp. Yesterday ‘when I was about to use the telephone the wire got crossed and I heard onme of the members of our executive committee talk- ing with a rallroad manager. He was en- couraging the manager to hold out, for he told him that the strike was about broken. That {8 & sample of the faith that has been kept with me. The officials of the Truck Drive: union have not kept faith either, and it is us to keep up the strike any longer. Sball we go back and ask for our old jobs™" Vote s U ttlemen | In ¢ simple form the matter was put to a vote and almost immediately a great chorus of ayes had brought to a peaceful end obe of Chicago's most serious and threatening labor situatiops. It is believed the roads generally will allow the truck 17 cents an hour and minor concession: granted by the proposition of July 1. The proposition accepted by the men was in effect given to President Curran by the BState Board of Arbitration earlier in the day, although the proposition in its proper form was not placed before the men. The railroad managers when told of the wete to return to work sald that wherever possible the old men would be taken back. A small percentage of the new m: ever, will be retained for a time at least. Nowhere was the news of the settement received with more pleasure than at the ‘warehouses, where thousands of men gal ered from other polnts on the various to take the place of strikers were lo to return to their homes. They had been well fed and given good sleeplug quarters, but the big majority of them, belng accus med to the comfort of their hom tired of “belng herded.” Spend an Anxlous Mornin, “WIHIl today see the end of the disastrous freight handlers’ strike?’ This question was asked in the minds of thousands of lness men this morning and all e ere turned ¢n Wostas dall, Before Many Years Op & Up of Dark Continent by Rail May Become Reality. WASHINGTON, July 16.—Before many years the world may be astonished to find that the long fostered dream of the late Cecll Rhodes for the opening up of the Dark Continent has become a reality, and that a consecutive line of steel ralls will stretch from Cairo to Cape Town. The State department made public today an in- teresting report on railroad development in Africa from United States Consul Ravendal, at Belrut, bearing /tate of May 10. Th consul says that by’ 4 >ereement signed at Brussels the pre. 4y, “th By Robert Willlams with the Kiu, 77 <elglans the German route was abana. (' ‘he rail- way from Cairo to the cape « ~ried through the Congo Free State w. . waters of the Nile. From Stanley . the upper Congo a railroad is to be . to Mahagi on Lake Albert Nyanza, and th connection will supply the missing link between the cape and Egyptian rallways. RECOGNIZE FOREIGN CARDS Molders from Other Countries to B Given Chance to Show What They Can Do, TORONTO, Ont., July 16.—The Interna- tional Molders' union has adopted a reso- lution providing for recognition of the cards of members of the European mem- bers to the extent of allowing their holders to work a sufficlent length of time to demonstrate their eligibllity for member- ship in the American international union. The convention also decided to have Its constitution and ritual printed in languages other than English for the benefit of the forelgn elment in American cities. Resolutions were presented and referred protesting against the employment of con- vict labor in the production of manufac- tured goods competing with free labor; providing for the extension of the molders' union to embrace machine operators; pro- posing to pledge the Ironmolders’ union to endorse the platform of the soclalist labor party and providing for afliation with the ‘metal trades federation. TO REBUILD THE CAMPANILE Offers of Money, Some from Amerios, for the Purpose Continu. to Be Recelved. ‘VENICBE, Italy, July 16.—Offers of money to ald in rebullding the campanile continue to be received from abroad, including offers from America, but there is a disposition to make its reconstruction a purely national affair and to rebuild the structure exactly as It was prior to the collapse without foreign assistance. The cost is estimated At 6,000,000 Iire. The bronze gate of the Logetta of Ban Sovino was found beneath the debris, twisted and with one of the lions broken. There is hope that the pictures by TH toretto and others may be saved. Three-fourths of the plazza of San Marco is covered with debris and traffic is com- pletely stopped. CHANGE DOES _ KING - GOO Bears Journey Extremely Well and COWES, Isle of Wight, July 16.—A bul- letin issued at 11:29 o'clock this morning majesty bore the journey from Lon- don to Cowes extremely well and suffered no Inconvenience in the process of movin, The kin, ®00d night. His gen- eral condition Is excellent. He is much gratified at the change of air and scene. His majesty had his couch wheeled out upon the ‘open deck two hours yesterduy afternoon. TREVES. LAKING, A, R. BANHART. Chaffee Coming Home. MANILA, July 16.—General Chaffee, who was recently relleved from his dutles as military governor, will etart for home by way of Sues, probably on the United States transport McClellan, which is due at New York early in December. « Former Boer Predldent Sails, CAPETOWN, July 16.—Ex-President Steyn of the former Orange Free State, Mru. Steyn and two doctors, salled todsy for Europe on the steamer Carisbrook Castle. Mr. Steyn is suffering from enterio feve OIL FIRE STILL BURNING Ne Progress Made in Controlling the JENNINGS, La., July 16—The which attacked the ofl storage tanks here yesterday afternoon is still uacontrolled. No progress has been made in controlling the flames, and If anything they are get- ting stronger. Late this eveming the chemical engine, which arrived from Beau- mont last night, was tried, but it did pot even quench the fires in the small streams that extend from the blasing pool. At 6 o'clock four bollers had been connected and as many streams of steam were turned on the fire, but the only apparent effest was to cause the fire to burn flercer, The latest plan devised is to bulld & wall se foet high around and as near the fire #s the workmen can stand, end a force of twenty-fivc men are mcw at work. The steam plpes are then to be turmed iato this levee to flood the surplus ofl out through a ditch that s being dug. A car- load of chemicals bas been ordered for this experiment. Owing to the pecullar forma- tion of the wall the diMeulty of conque ing it is greater thau it otherwise would be. The well was mever completely finished. A four-inch pipe is set in & six- inch castng and between the two the ofl is escaping and feeding the flames. The r maining portion of the fleld Is idle. DE WINDT IS AT DAWSON Travel Explorer, Author Journalist Arrives in Alaska with Party, SEATTLE, Wash., July 16.—A special to the Times from Dawson says:| Harry de Windt of Paris, traveler, ex- BE | plorer, author, journalist and globe-trot- ter, arrived with & party from Siberia 3 river steamer lai ght. De Windt's com- panions are Mons. Levisomete des Clinch- ams Beigrade of Paris, George Hardy, an Buglishman, and Stephen Raistorguyef, a from Yakutakat, Siberia, who the t fnsisted should accompany De Windt throughout the wilds of Siberia. De Windt and party left Paris December 19 and when interviewed last night told of barrowing experiences with cold and hun- ger. The party reports famine among the natives of Nijlaskobynisk. Outlines Another Plan Relative to the Friar Lands. WOULD HAVE THE QUESTION SOLVED Notes Wisdom of Some Suggestions Made by Vatieas ut Observes Such Woumld Not Meet the End Desired. ROMB, July 16.—At moon today Major Porter of the Judge advocate's department of the army at Washington personally d lvered to Cardinal Rampolla, the papa retary of state, the last note of Judge Taft, governor of the Philippine islands, on the subject of the withdrawal of the fri from the islands, which will presumably end the government's negotiations, as Major Porter simultaneously presented a letter trom Judge Taft asking for a farewell au- dience of the pope. The following s, in part, Judge Taft's note to the vatican. It s addressed to Cardinal Rampolla, papal secretary of state, and begins thu: In reply to the two notes of your eml- nence of June 21 and July 9, I have just received a_communication from the secre- tary of war, In precise and exhaustive terms, which are here reproduced inte- rally. Secretary Root says he is glad to see by the two notes received from the vatican that the holy see is animated by the best intentions to come to an understanding with Washington about the relations be- tween church and state in the Philippines, that your eminence has declared the vati- can to be disposed to give clear and pre- cise instructions to the friars to occupy themselves with rellglon only, abstaining tirely fr itics, and that the holy Droposas 1o © Introduce, little by fittle, stics of other nationalities, espe- clally American. Secretary Root adds that he cannot do less than acknowledge the wisdom of these propositions, but that he must observe that they would not solve the question. Would Not Violate Paris Treaty. The United States has no desire to violate the treaty of Paris, and seeks not a forci- ble, but voluntary, withdrawal of certain persons, who happen to be Spaniards, and Whose previous experiences in the isiands had thrown them into antagonistic rela- tions with the people and with the Catholic lalety and native clergy, many of whom have left their parishes ‘and can only be reinstated by using material force, which the United States cannot permit. This proves that the government of the Philip- pines has no intention to propose measure contrary to the interests. ol and, In fact, its interest in the church. If uestion of withdrawal be left un- not that the Washington govern ment has persuaded the ecclesiastical au thoritles to see the necessity of carrying out this step, the latter withdrawal of the friars under order of the religious superior could not be regarded as anything but voluntary and would not violate the treaty Paris; nor could such order be regarded as afirming or admitting any accusations against the friars, because the American verpment made no such accusation. The nited States did not desire the withdrawal for Itself—It ‘was indifferent to the presence of the friars—but in the interest of the whole people of the Philippines, who were bitterly opposed to their presence. Desire of Philippine People. It was thought by the generous proposal of a contract which would bind the Philip- pine government to certain financial and other “obligations, to secure the much longed for desire of the Philippine people in the withdrawal of friars. Now that the vatican does not see its way clear to make definite withdrawal, the nt has At ot hes dpemel suggested by Cardinal first communication of June 21, First, an favestigation by both sides into the possible and probable Iliabilities and claims and the settiement of them by an accredited apostolic delegato with the gov- ernor in Manila, after the conditions with respect to the titles of the friars to the d and the amount of clalms for rental have been presented by the representatives of the church to the representatives of the Philippine government {n Manila. As to the indemnity for the friars’ lands, your eminence has pointed out the aim- culty of computing so , recipitately the exact value, but this might be done by examining the title deeds. The Washing- ton government will immediately order the eneral commanding the forces in the hilippines to furnish all Indications neces- sary to ascertain what damage has been done by the military occupation. Although Tegretful that all the questions have not been declded definitely. the government is glad to express satisfaction at the results obtatned. Secretary Root in his communication de- clares that Judge Taft's journey is quite compensated for by the fact that it is pos- sible to fix general lines on which later can be amicably resolved all the questions now pending. Want List of Property. Meanwhile, as a preliminary, he wishes Cardinal Rampolla to send to the Philip- pine government four lists of the property considered to belong to the religlous orders, comprising: 1. That transterred to corporation. 2. The ecclesiastical buildings occupled by the troops, with indlcations of the dam- age and compensation therefore. 8. The property before consi fsh crown lands, which it is de American government should transfer to the church, though Washington will' grant such transters only on condition that a atisfactory agreement be reached on all other questions. 4. The charitable and educational insti- tutions which the vatican desires to be classed as belonging to the church Secretary Root concludes by instructing Judge Taft to express to Cardinal Ram- polla his pleasure that the visit of the American representative has resulted in a broad basis for harmonious settlement, his thanks for the courtesy shown by the vatiean to Judge Taft and for the prompt- ness with which the vatican has acted, and bis hopes that, though no specific agre ment been reached, the vatican will ultimately find it just to do what has been signalized Judge Taft concluded his note to the vatican thus: “In obedience to Secretary Root's dls patch, 1 request that the future negotla- tions on the points raised be held in Manila between an apostolic delegate and the governor, after the information sug- gested above by Secretary Root has been ascertained and presented.” Object of the De; L WASHINGTON, July 16.—A high offcial of the government makes the following statement coucerning the negotiations pendigg in Rome. It can be authorita- tively stated that substantially the facts contained in this statement were cabled to Governor Taft in the latest instructions as & basis of his reply to the vatican: In seeking through Governor Taft to secure the peaceful removal of the friars of the four orders from the Philippine islands it must be borne in mind that the Ame; n representativ the Phillp- ine islands b erely been favoring aithfully to carry out the wishes of the people for which they feel themselves ullarly bound to stand. It must always remembered that it is not the United States government which in any way ob- L ts to the presence of the friars In the lands; it I8 the Cath Populn(lnn of those islands. The Catholics almost to & man, and practically all of the parish riests, are 8o violently opposed to the s that they will not permit them to cot back to the parishes, and as a matter of fact, hold their lands in hostile posses slon. Ome of the avowed objects of the (Continued on Becond Page.) the vatlcan, | On January 1 ers Are to Be Equipped Accotding to New Regulajions, - WASHINGTON, July 16—~While Secre- tary Root w Oyster Bay the president considered and approved the report of the army uniform board. The order for the new uniform will go into effect on Jan- uary 1, ‘when officers of the army are to be equipped according to the. new regu tions. Officers serving in the Philippines will be allowed to wear the old uniform during their service there. Among the changes are the following: The full dress coat is about the same as at present, save the buttons are more spreading, with ornamentations on the sleeve and with the rank designated on the sleeve instead of the shoulder knot. The new dress coat will be what bas been called the dress blouse. A new dress uniform Is provided constst- ing of a sack coat of woolen or cotton mate- rial of an olive drab color, with trousers to match. It is intended to provide suits which can be worn in keld weather that are almost a duplicate of the present khaki uniform worn in warm Weather and in the tropics. A new design for the overcoat 1s adopted and s the only overcoat allowed. It is a double breasted ulster of olive drab | woolen material. This overcoat is to re- place the old dark blue overcoat now worn. General and staff officers are to bave full dress trousers with gold lace as a stripe, officers of the line wegring the present stripe to designate the Bervice. Breeches are provided for all @Mogs and men whether mounted or disfiounted, although trousers may be worn When in barracks. Service breeches also provided to fit closely below the knee extending to the top of the shoes. f The chapeau is retained for general offi- cers and officers of the staff department, to be worn with full dress uniform, but not to be worn when mounted. A new full dress cap 18 provided, differing | considerably from the present cap in de- sign and trimmings. Service caps also are provided and the helmets are retained, as also are the present campalgn hats. Should- er-straps are to be used only on the dress coat. On the serviee uniforms the straps now used with the khaki uniform will be retained. A new pattern of mabre has been adopted for all officers in place of the | sword now in use. Russet Jeather leggins are provided for all officers, to be worn with the service tniform, but canvass leg- gins can be worn in the fleld. The button is of a new design, to be of two sizes, and | is slightly convex. It will have the coat of arms of the United States upon it. A full dress coat for oficers for evening wear has been provided, cut swallow=tall, but other- wise much like the other full dress coat. The old dress coat for enlisted men has been abandoned and dresa blouse substi- tuted, The chevrons on the non-commissioned officers are to be worn points up, The order contains full and complete dl- Union Pacifio Has Diffioulty in Keeping Its Nonunion Men. BRICKLAYERS MAKE EFFECTIVE PROTEST Lay Down Thelr Work Until No is Disc! Tools and Stop nion Employe d from Work Shops. The Union Pacific is having serious Aif- flculty in keeping the nonunion men it brings from the east in its shops after they arrive. In addition to the twenty- five who arrived from Chicago Tuesday, nine others came In yesterday, but only seven of them reached the Interior of the shops and four of these promised to leave soon as they could. The men were brought into the city under | the survetllance of the company guards, as 1s usually the case, but the atrikers' pick- ets also had an eye on the recruits and lald their hands on them as well just in time to keep them from going Into the company's quarters. Four others said they would leave during the night. The men who deserted upon their ar- rival at the shops made this statement re- garding their employment by the company's agents in Chicago: “We answered an advertisement in one of the papers there which said that boiler- makers, machinists, car repairers, painters and coach carpenters were wanted. We made application for work and found that we were consulting a representative of the Union Pacific Rallroad company, who wanted men for the shops out in this part of the country, We were structural iron workers and we hired for bollermakers, The agent asked us no questions and this aroused our curlosity. We thought it must be that the company was having trouble with its men, or that it was in pretty narrow straits lse its agent would be more particular about the kind of mechanics he hired. Not Told of Strike. “‘We inquired if there was any trouble, and were told that there was no strike, but that just a few men had refused to | work because they objected to plecework. This looked a little better to us and so, as we were looking for something to do for & while and had a desire to come west anyway, we took the chance.” It 18 sald the company intends to send all the coach carpenters and repairers it can got to the Southern Pacific and stock up on its own system with all the bollermak- ers and machinists it can ge.. News came to strike headqu terday morning from Armstrong, Kan., that five men bad quit the shops there and joined the strikers. The report says that the company raised the price of meals to the men from 20 to 25 cents. Reports were received also at strike headquarters that rections as to what kind of uniforms shall be worn upon different fons, and al the minor changes In the form that has been made WESTERN MATTE| Secretary Shaw Req - pany the Prestden Western Trip. the T CAPITAL (From a Staft Correspondent.) ‘WASHINGTON, July 16.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—BSecretary Shaw, who has spent a week with his. wife and family at Lake Champlain, returned to his office thi morning. The secretary sald he had en- Joyed his short outing very much and hopes later on to take & longer leave from departmental cares. It {s under- stood President Roosevelt has requested Secretary Shaw to so arrange the affairs of his office that he may accompany the president on his entire northwestern, southern and western trip. The only bid received at the Treasury department for a site for the public build- ing at Des Moines was that of F. M. Hub- bell of Des Moines, who offers a site lo- cated on Grand avenue, Locust and Second streets for $150,000. The site s 250x280 feet. The comptroller of the currency has ap- proved the First National bank of Omaha and the Chase National bank of New York as reserve agents for the Hot Springs Na- tional bank of Hot Springs, 8. D., and the Omaha National bank of Omaba for the First National bank of Meeteetse, Wyo. The contract for carrying the mail from Angora, Neb., to the rallway station has been awarded to E. E. Decker of Malinda and from Dezeek to Parkston, 8. D., to D. Mueller of Dezeek. WANT A SETTLEMENT MADE United States is Asked to Interest 1f in Payment of Chine Indebted. 5 WASHINGTON, July 16.—Having practi- eally adjusted the question connected with the surrender of the Chinese of the con- trol of the city of Tien Tsin, this govern- ment has been asked to interest itself in the settlement of the grave difficulties growing out of the Insistence of some of the powers upon payment of their shares of the war indemnity in gold instead of silv The Chinese government is gen- erally disturbed over this question, and Minister Wu has been 8o successful in his other undertakings connected with the ne- gotiations, his government again has called upon him to secure an amelioration of the demands. The minister came early to the State department today and had a long interview with Secretary Hay, in the course of which he presented a cablegram from the two leading members of the Chinese court who are primarily in charge of the nego- tiatlons. The message brings out for the first time the fact that it is now a differ- ence of method rather than disposition that divides the powers, and that all seem ready to do what they can to make it pos- sible for China to carry out its heavy ob- ligations, Secretary Hay studied the mes- sage closely and will give the subject his immediate atteation. POSSE IS AFTER BANDITS SAGUACHE, Colo, July 16.—A rancher who arrived from the Calvert ramch at noon today brings mews that the posse beaded by Specisl Agent Brown took up the trail of the four bandits who robbed & Denver & Rio Grande traln on Monday at daybreak, and expected to come up with the bandits today. The robbers are heading southward and are traveling in a leisurely manner. Tonight Special Officer Brown returned here and reported that all trace of -the Deaver & Rio Grande bandits bhad been lost. the machin! helpers who did not go out sl the other day left the North Platte shops Al of the unt. | Tuesday evening. This exodus includes, it is sald, the three Inspectors in the round house and four men in the tank gang and probably seven ox eight helpers from the shops prope: Bricklayers' Quick Action. e bricklayers at work on the Unlon Pacific’s new shops got Into the “game’ for a short time terday and made things somewhat interesting. A nonunion brick- layer had been put to work on the struc- ture, as the company Is extremely anxious to push the work, and just as soon as the union men caught lght of this man, whom they recognized as the same fellow who was smuggled in on them on a former occasion, they gave the signal and every man Jald down his trowel and leaped trom the scaffold—on a strike. There were about twenty of these bricklayers and the entire force at work on the bullding, in- cluding carpenters and skylight workers, was about 100. Had not the bricklayers been able to compel a settlement all this number would have struck. But little time was wasted in bringing matters to an end. General Superintendent Neft, who has charge of the construction for the Unlon Pacific company, met the bricklayers and their foremen and within an hour after laying down their tools the bricklayers were back at work and the ‘scab” was off the grounds. One condition exacted by the invincible bricklayers before they would return to work was that all the work that had been done by the nonunion man should be torn down. This was promptly done and the entire force resumed operations, and the remainder of the day passed off without further trouble. WIND AND HAIL WORK HAVOC Storm Sweeps Section of North Da- kato, Leaving Devastation in Its Wake. FARGO, N. D., July 16.—A section north and south of Grand Forks was visited by a, terrific wind and hail storm last night, causing great damage to telegraph and tel- ephone wires and bulldings of all kinds. At Conway, between Larimore and Park river, the hall was the worst ever experi- enced, and it is feared that the damage to crops must be serious. The storm was noticed first at Larimore, thirty miles north of Grand Forks. At Thompeon, south of Grand Forks, three churches were de molished, one house destroyed and the pas senger depot and platform partially carried away. At least 75 per cent of the telegraph poles between Grand Forks and Thompson, four- teen miles south, were blown down. At Winnipeg Junction the wind struck & freight, the caboose was blown Into a ditch and two trainmen injured. At Belmont, north of Hillsboro, the wind destroyed the Lutheran church, which cost $3,000, & big two-story schoolhouse and the farm residences of “Brooks brothers. No fatalities were reported. Off railroad and telegraph lines great damage s feared. SHERIFF LOOKING FOR AMES polls Officer TEiegrams in Endeavor to Locate Miss- ing dent. MINNEAPOLIS, July 16.—Sheriff Dreger today sent telegrams to the police chiefs of the country asking them to look out for and apprehend Fred W. Ames, missing police superintendent, wanted to answer an indict- ment In connection with current municipal corruption exposures Police Captain John Fitchette today was arraigned on the charge of disorderly con. duct, preferred as a result of his conduct. ing raids of downtown resorts Monday night. Though Fitchette is under sentence for accepting & bribe, he claims to be acting under authority from Mayor Ames and threatened to prosecute other officials for interfering with an officer. The case was dismissed and Fitchette is mow serving as captaln of police. Forecast for braska — Showers and Cooler and Thunderstorm Thursday; Friday Fair, - Temperature at Omaha Dy Ho ». erday 04 SHERIFF ~ CUDIHEE = MISSING Officer Who Has Been Leading in Pursuit of Tracy Mysteriously Disappears. SEATTLE, Wash., July 16.—The only in- tersst today in the Tracy hunt lles in the |mysterious disappearance of Sheriff Cudi- hee, wha severed connegtion with his office and the outside world 1n general yesterday |afternoon when he vanished from the vicin- ity of Covington. The only developments today are the find- ing near Ravensdale of some bloody band- ages near the ashes of a freshly bullt camp- fire. supposedly used by Tracy. Rallroad men report having seen & mysterious man hiding behind trees in that sectlon. TACOMA, Wash., July 16.—At the inquest today over the body supposed to be that of David Merrill, the convict, four false teeth which Merrill is known to have worn are missing. Convicts at Salem have told the warden there that Merrill had false teeth, {and this fact was telegraphed to the coro- ner at Chehalls toda BURN NEGRO TIED TO TREE Assaulted Young Woman and Mob Saturates Him with Coal 01, Applying & Match, CLAYTON, Miss., July 17.—At an early hour this morning Willlam Odey, a negro, was tled to a tree and burned. Odey had assaulted & young woman named Virginia Tucker. The negro was saturated with oil and a match applied to the fagots plled around him. Miss Tucker was out riding in the coun- try when attacked and was so violently pulled from a buggy by the negro that both her lower limbs were broken. She is at the point of death as a result of her injuries. The young woman's father is reported to have applied a match to the fagots plled around the negro. QUIET DAY FOR ROOSEVELT First Since His Arrl Bay to Be P Recreation. at ed Oyster OYSTER BAY, N. Y., July 16.—Today was the first really quiet time the president has had at SBagamore Hill since his vacation began. No business except some brief routine matters trom Washington, were at- tended to by the president. He will pass most of the day in recre- ation with Mrs. Roosevelt and the childre: Tonight R. D. Wrenn, the tennis champlon and a former member of Troop A of the | Rough Riders, and Owen Wister of Phila- delphia, the atithor of *The -Virgininn," will arrive at Sagamore Hill to spend th night and tomorrow with the president. HOBSON SAVES GIRL'S LIFE| Captain of Merrimac Fame Rescues Miss May Cerf from Death by Drowning. ST. LOUIS, July 16.—Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson of Merrimac fame rescued Miss May Cerf, a young woman well known in St. Louls soclety, from drowning in the Mississipp! river today opposite the Chau- tauqua grounds near Alton, Il Miss Cert was standing on the deck of a yac! and, losing her balance, fell into the stream, Captain Hobson, who was in swimming rpearby, at once went to the young woman's rescue and caught her as she was going down for the second time. He conveyed her to the yacht, where she was resuscitated with ‘some difficulty. WATER FAMINE AT DENVER Scarcity of Water in Platte River and Extravagant Use Decreases Supply. DENVER, July 16.—Scarcity of water In the Platte river and the extravagant use of the diminished supply have brought Denver face to face with a water famin The clty officlals belleve that only vigo ous measures will prevent resultant epi- demics. The dally consumption now ls 65,000,000 gallons and the water company says it must be reduced to 85,000,000 if the present supply is to last until precipi- tation next fall can be reasonably ex- pected to replenish it. Cutting off water for manufacturing and irrigation purposes is contemplated. UNION PACIFIC STAYS Western Passenger Association Ys- - Ctrcular Cancelling Letter Announcing Withdrawal, CHICAGO, July 16.—The Western Passen- ger amsoclation has issued a circular can- |celling the letter announcing the with- drawal of the Unfon Pacific from the West- ern Immigration bureau. The announcement [1s taken as an indication that the differ- ences of the bureau over the immigration business have been adjusted at the Colorado Springs meeting. It is presumed that the | Santa Fe and Southern Pacific receded from their former demands and that & compro- mise was effected satistactory to all. HOPS ARE HOPPING UPWARD One of the Necesslties in Manufacture of Beer Higher Than it Has Been for Ye PORTLAND, Ore., July 16.—Many hop contracts for this season’s crop have been filed in the recorder's office in various countles in the Willamette ey during the last few da The price fixed is 30 cents per pound, which is the bhigheat figure pald for hops since 1882, when they reached the phenomenal price of $1.10 per pound. July 16, Paul, for Liverpool; At Southampton; Laurentian, for from Liverpool; Pal . trom Hamburg. At Southampton—Bailed: Kron Prinz Wilhelm, from Bremen, for New York via Cherbourg. Arrived: Philadelphla, from New York. At Cherbourg—8alled: Kron Prinz Wil- helm, from Bremen and Bouthampton, for New York. At Lizard—Passed La Lorralne, from New York, for Havr At Queenstown—Arrived: Saxonia, from Boaton, for Liverpool, and proceeded. New York—8alled 8 Teutonie, for ) rmed | { Ontario mines Powder Magasine in Daly-West Workings at Park Oity Explodes. THIRTY-FIVE KNOWN TO BE DEAD Accident Oaused by Miner Going Into Mag- asine with Lighted Oandle. DISASTER EXTENDS TO ONTARIO MINE Adjacent Working Feels Foroe of the Ex- plosich and 8ix Are Killed, IS FELT FOR MILES AROUND Children SHOCK Many Women the Shatt M Throng w PARK CITY, Utah, July 16 miners were killed in the Daly-West and today—twenty-nine in the Daly-West and six in the Ontarlo. The dead recovered from the Daly-West ar JORN M'LAUGHLIN JOHN MALONEY. BURGY. 3 A LIN. HARRY DEVLIN, RICHARD DILLON, J. FEATHERSTONS. TIN J y W. G. WIGGELAND. EDWARD HALL. WILLIAM HARLIN. Dead .remaining in Daly-West: MIKE CROWLEY. THOMAS J. KBLLY. Dead in the Ontario: STEPHEN BARRATA. CHARLES NEINE. The disaster was the result of an ex- plosion occasioned by John Burgy, a miner, going into one of the magazines of the Daly-West with a lighted candle. Hls act cost him his lite and the lives of many other miners beside. His body was blown to atoms. All the other victims nizable, their faces being easily by relatives and friends. Face to Face with Death, The explosion oceurred at 11:20 last night and in a twinkiing deadly gas was being generated throughout the mines. It crept through every tunnel shaft and in- cline and In a very short e of timo scores of miners found themselves face to tace with death. It 18 not known how much powder was exploded, but whatever amount there was it went off in a terrible concuseion. The shock was something terrific and was heard for a long distance, although it was nearly 2 o'clock before it was known in Park City, a distance of three miles. When 1t Is stated that a horse was killed at the mouth of the Ontario tunnel,. two miles away, some idea of the force of the explosion may be had. The animal was 'n use at the entrance to this part of the mine and was hurled against the wall and machinery with such viclence a8 to be kitled outright. Two other horses were ajso kilied, the:latter in the Ontaria, als most &8 great a distance Wway: <That the loss of life is not far greater than it fs seems marvelous. The work of rescuing the imperilled and dead was quickly and heroically undertaken. Men were brought to the surface just as fast as the disabled machinery would permit. The victims had to be brought up the shaft in & one-com- partment cage, one of the compartments having been wrecked by the explosion. In the Ontario, which is connected with the Daly-West, six men are dead. Two ot the dead are rescuers, John MoLaughlin and John Eckstrom. The body of the lat- ter 18 still in the mine. NOT UNQUALIFIED SUCCESS culators 1s that CHICAGO, July 16.—The July corn corner was not much more than an echo today, nothing being done in the deal so far as the Harris-Gates people were concerned. It developed today that the shorts are mot all In. A few small ones began covering at the opening of the exchange and made the opening quotations somewhat erratic between 63% cents and 66 cents. Later the price settled back to 856% cents and eclosed at 65 1-8 cents, The wisdom of the bull leaders in doning the corner two weeks in advance of its natural termination was shown when the Inspection sheet was posted showing fresh receipts of 453 cars on Chicago side- tracks. Of this total 1456 cars were o tract grade, which the leaders would have been obliged to take as & means of sup- porting the July price. Otherwise it would have been bought in the open cash market by shorts and turned Into the Harris- Gates combination in settlement of ac- counts. There was also 171 cars of the con- tract grade “made” in the differept clean~ ing and drying houses, making about 500,- 000 bushels of the contract grade from all sources. Beilng out of the deal the bull leaders were relieved of the unpleasant necessity of taking care of this vast quan- tity of corn. The cash market was firmer than the day before, though not partfe- ularly brisk. Almost everybody about the board had a different theory to exploit as to the winning or losses of the Gates syn- dieate. A consensus of the best opinion, however, was that the syndicate was nom- inally a little ahead on its deal as to the July delivery, but stood to sustain & sub- stantial loss in the marketing of its §,000, 000 bushels or so of cash corn which it had been forced to accumulate. In view of this fact and the strong probabilities that this corn cannot be profitably disposed of the corner as & whole is not looked on as an unqualified succ FIGHT FOR THE PRESIDENCY Three Active Candidates in the Race fpr Chief Officer of the Hibernians. DENVER, July 16.—Three hundred and twenty-two delegates, representing thirty- Anclent Order of Hibernians now in ses- slon in this elty. The contest for the presidency is the ab- sorbing topic. There are three candidates, John A. Ryan of Boston, Patrick O'Nelll of Philadelphla and James E. Dolan of Syra- N. Y. O'Nelll bhas the united sup- port of the delegatons from New Jersey ant Delaware, which were.the last to arrive, having been delayed elghteen hours by rail- ed washouts. The report of the committes on creden- tials was received and adopted at the morn- ing session of the convention and a recess was then taken until afterucen.