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THE OM HA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY EPTEMBER 17, 1902 dent Roosevelt In his first message to con gress, in which he advised against it, 1 hive never been opposed to making needed changes. 1 must say that I do not belleve that a single schedule of the Dingley tarift law can be so amended 50 as to relfeve the people from the oppression of trusts, and that such action may jnvolve the retarding of our expanding commerce and the get- ting and holding of foreign markets. In- deed, 1 belleve such a plan to be fraught with great dabger to our people. 1 am a | great friend of reciprocity. I worked with | zénl to attain reclprocal relations between this aountry and Cuba and was successful i getting it through the house. The sen- | ate did not act on the bill, because it | would have permitted the opening of the whole question of tariff revision. The house | has mothing to say about the ratification of (reaties, but the reciprocal resolution by’which It legislated in the relations with Cuba were not iIn the pature of treaties but were reciprocal agreements in which I think ouf country would have the best of the bargain, although they would be of | sreat advantage to Cuba. Hopes for Reciprocity. “While I cannot speak for the prospects of favorable action on bills sent to the sen- ate, I still hope and belleve the same re- sult may be accomplished, and I have no doubt that President Roosevelt Is now | working on the question of a treaty with Ciba t6 give that struggling young repub- 1le needed help; a help, too, In which, while they will be gainers, we will not be losers. Now let me and let there be no mis understanding as to my position “1 belleve In protection that will pro- tect the hand of Iabor, the wheels of in- dustry, every farmer and miner, and I am against wicked corporations that would trample on the rights of the people to fair and the fruits of honest efforts. I am inst useless leglelation that would throw our country into a panic and bring a re- | newal of the horrors bequeathed to us by the last democratic administration.” “In conclusion, T desire to say that after-a caretul study of condition and political views In lowa and in my own district, T am sat- isfled that I am not in harmony with & great many of the republican voters, who belfeve that free trade. In whole or in part, will remedy the trust evil. I belleve that it will not, but that such a remedy is too likely. to involve the nation in dangerous results and | #0 belleving, I feel that T shoud not accept the nomination for congre which was so generously tendered me, and I have decided accordingly. I canuot part from a people that 1 have loved and that honored me, without leaving an expression of my earn- st and sincere views on this and other vital Ppublic questions. D. B. HENDERSON. DES MOINES IS ALL WORKED UP Letters from Henderson Gave No Hint of Intention to With- draw. (From a Btaff Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Sept. 16.—(Special Tele- ‘am.)~The political sensation of the day Is the retirement of Speaker Henderson from the race in the Third district. The news did not reach the politiclans until late this evening and at first they refused to belleve it, but whlnt the text of Hender- som's letter w shown they reiuctantly admitted that it leaves the party In a peculiar condition In Iowa. Expressions of sincerest regret were sheard on every band, not only because #Slonel Henderson bas been 50 greatly bflgfed and because be has added o much @ the prestige of fowa at the national capital, but because of the conditions which have brought about kis retirement. | Oyster Bay today. lasd C. E. Plokett derson’s withdfawal will cause a little flurry for awhile, but I do not belleve it will have any permanent resuits, either in state or national politics.” SURPRISE AT - THE CAPITAL Towans Stow to Belleve that Hender- wom Hag Actnally With- 4 deawn, (From a Staft Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—(Special Te gram.)—The news that Speaker Henderson had declded to withdraw (mr the con- gressional race because he could not agree with his party aesoclates in lowa as to revision of the tariff created a most pro- found sensation at the capitol. The news waa not very generally known until a late hour this evening and it almost required documentary evidence to Induce politicians to believe it. The lowa contingent, which 18 quite numerous here, having {wo Fep- resentatives in the eabinet, were practically paralyzed, but very regretfully werb forced to belleve the ngws, but still asserted that Henderson w be inducell to re- consider and remain Yo the race. Secretary Shaw was loath to believe Hen- derson had decided to refire and expressed the hope that the speaker could be.in- duced to reconsider his declination. Mr. Shaw safd: “I deeply deploré the réported action of Speaker Henderson..ln withdrawiog from the congressional race and am slow to be- lieve that such a coursa can be final and irrevocable. There must be'some way out of it, lowa can 1l aford to lose him and he would be deeply missed in the national councils of his parfy.’? Secretary Wilson ycould scarcely believe the story, but evidence accumulating through bulletins to the press associations and messages to apecial correspondents, he s forced to admit its truth. “I really do not understand it," Wilson. “It will, boweyer, certainly tend to bring tariff revision to a most acute point as an fssue, and but little else will be discussed during the remainder of the campaign. It Is & remarkable coincidence that the announcement of Henderson's withdrawal should follow so closely on the heels of the reports of a conference at It is reported in the press dispatches from there that Senators Hanna, Aldrich and Platt of Conneoticut held firmly and successtully against any revision of existing tariffl schedules, beat- ing Senators Spooner and Allison, who con- tended that a revision of the tarifft was imperatively demanded ‘in the west, par- ticularly in Towa. I can scarcely conceive what causes Henderson to put his hand down so firmly, but it certainly means a slump in tarift.” Who will seek to fill Henderson's shoes is the question most frequently heard on all aldes. The lowans here assert that there is an abundance of good timber in the Third Towa district upon which to draw, but they mournfully assert that there ls only one David B. Henderson. Quite a num- ber of lowans are mentioned as likely to seek the nomination in place of Henderson, among those most prominently mentioned being the following: State Semator Court- wright, who formerly unsucceestully sought to defeat Henderson for the nomination, w nol & a i by and see Courtwright secure the plum. Harding county has two favorite sons who will be groomed and placed in the race, namely, J. H. Funk of Eldora and Charles Albrook of Cedar Falls. The retirement of Henderson naturally cauees all sorts of speculation as to who will be selected to preside over the d liberations of the Fifty-eighth congres On every hand the query was why it ¥hould bp dope and Wha it all means. No Intimation ‘of an' intention fo withdraw bad come to any one here. The state com- wittee had no information. Letters writ- ten by Colonel Hendersdn s late as yes- terday indicated that he had no thought then ‘of withdrawing. He had invited Goveror Cumimins to go into his district and $peak with him next week, and had urged Cummins to do 0. He had written Major ‘Lacey only a few days ago asking him to speak at Towa Falls October 2, and Lacey had consented. He has written here Ing about the campaign work and hdd promised his opening speech in manu- script. The announcement, therefore, came s a complete surprise, Congressman Lacey of the Sixth dlstrict 18 in the city and he at firet refused to be- lteve the rumor. When shown Henderson's letter he declared his bellet that Hender- son is mot In fact out of line with his party om the tariff question. “If we were to mccept the democratic Interpretation of the platform then he was out of har- mony with his party; but I make my own Interprétation of the platform and belfeve that it is good republican doctrine. There was no need of Henderson's withdrawal, He is too great a man for lowa to lose ut this time. I regret exceedingly that he has taken this_coufse. If a convention is had in the Third district he will be unani- mously tendered the nomination again, He would have been elected .easily it he Ing remained in the race.” overnor Cummins . declared that it is no difference on the tlil:mb:::: impelled Henderson to withdraw. “His lotters to me urging me to speak in his district and hy Lurd- at the recent con- ference here.”” sald the governor, “lea me to belleve’ that he was well satisfied. ] cannot understand It at ¢ General hellet is tha Bll:lclhwk county will will_be elther Senator Courtw, Charles Pickett. c«-.run.m':'.:".nu:'-‘ didate last winter, but withdrew in fayor of Hendersos, Pickett has desired to be canddate for a long time. . Democrats belleye that withdrawal will elept Botes, but here say Bolek can be beats the men hamed. SURPRISE TO _ POLITICIANS t & candidate from be selected, and 1t Henderson's republicans beaten by either of n Talks on the’ Withdrawal of Speaker Sept. 16.—(Spectal Tel- ©gram.)-~A republican congressional 'dis- trict copference, was held here today for the purpose of outliniag a plan of cam- Palgn. The chairmen from nine counties Were present.! - State Chalrman R. H. Spence was unable to be present, but was represented by E. A. F. Dawson, private secretary 1o Senator - Allison, who has charge of the speaking bureau during the campaign. Congressman Lot Thomas of Storm Lake was present. The assembled republican politicians were astounded at the receipt of the news of the withdrawal of Speaker Henderson. Congressman Thomas sald: “1 am not prepared to discuss the news vot in harmony with the idea that free tradé is a remedy for the trust evil. No one advances such an ides. At the recent conference at Des Moines adherence to pro- tection was proclalmed as a cardinal re- publican principle. The difference of opin- ion is merely one of rdtes. Sveaker Heb- The Non-Irritating Cathartic Basy to take, easy to operate— Hood’s Pills General Grosvenor of Ohlo, Joseph G. Can- non of Illinols, and last hut -pot least, the wise ones say, Charles: fleld ‘of Maine. Littlefield is reported to have been chosen by President Roosevelt's as,his knight errant to fight the trustd in the halls of congress and’ iight reasonably claim and‘ secure admiulstration ‘support in an effort to escure the speakership. Director Gedrge E. Roberts of the United States mint, the prinoipal’ owner of the Des Moines Register, s paper which has advocated tariff reyision;” Epeaking tonight of Speaker Henderson's ackion, eaid: “This action of Speaker Henderson s incom- prehensible. 1 am wholly unable to ao- count for it. He was sure of re-election. His withdrawal of course will emphasize and exaggerate the differemces that exist among lowa republicans, and that is to be especlally deplored on this account. Gen- eral Henderson has a strong hold om the affections of our people. Whatever differ- ences of opinion existed on account of the tariff, no one has thought of his retire- ment from public iife.” NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—Senators Hanna and Allison returned to the Waldort- Astoria a féw minutes before midnight When informed by the Assoclated Pre of Speaker Henderson's decision to refu the nomination for congress, Senator Hanna sald: “We have already heard of it, but we have absolutely nothing to say on the subject.” Senator Allison also refused to talk. Senators Spooner, Lodge and Aldrich also returned to this city tonight from Oyster Bay. SMITH EXPRESSES REGRETS Dida Not T Was So The announcement that Speaker Hender- son had declined the nomipation for con- gress from the Third fowa dfstrict and had withdrawn from the Pice was ‘fecélved in Councll Blufts last night with considerable surprise. Although the dispatches announc- ing Mr. Henderson's withdtawal gave but little information it Was presumed that he had decided to decline the remomination, which ia the Third district meant re-elec- tion, on account of his views on the tarift not being altogether in harmony with thos of the republican party in Iowa, as expressed in the platform adapted at the State con- vention ii Des Motn: . Cobgressman Smith- when he learned ot Speaker Henderson's withdrawal said ““The news that Speaker Henderson has concluded to refuse to stand for re-efection in his congressional district iy so sutprising and the information given a# to his reasons is 80 scant that T am scardely prepared to do more than express my deep regret at the conclusion reached, and at the loss sus- tained by the republicans of lowa and the whole country therefrom. The telegrams I bave seen declare that his withdrawal is caused by dissatisfaction with the attitude of his party on the'tariff. but do not say whether 1t is the attitude of his party in the nation or h te that is unsstistactory to him. From what information 1 had I believed that whie the state platform was not perhaps in the exact language he would have chosen, he was upon the whole not great’y dissat! fied therewith, andl I certatuly had no idea that he was so digbapisfied upon HOLD SPELLMAN FOR HURDER{ | Jurers at Oorener's Inquest Find that He | Delivered Fatal Blow, STRIKERS ARE CLEARED OF THE CRIME | Verdict Recommends that Powpisil Be Held for Farther Invest ton, Although Evidence Does Not Implicate Him, | | mystertous Ninth and Davenport. All the witnesses who testified to seeing Pospieil ngreed that he carried, as he sald, an umbreila, that is all but Ball, who claims Pospisil had & club, Some interesting testimony was adduced vesterday regarding the ownership of the steel knuekles picked up in the city jail lobby Sunday. Sergeant Hudson and Off cers Madsen and Kirk were placed on the etand to tell what they knew about this weapon. Madsen and Kirk promptly told all they knew, which con- tained nothing upon which a solution of the problem as to the ownership of the knuckles could ‘be based. Hudson, after | passing through a severe ordeal of cross Earl Caldwell came to his death on the | morning_of September 14, 1902, in the eity ! of Omaha, Neb.. r«lu!llhr from a blow delivered with falonfous intent by John Bpeliman at the Intersection of Twelith and Cass streets, in Omaha, Neb. While the preponderance of testimony does no jmplicate Charles Pospisil mend that he be held . tigation. | This is the verdict returned by the jury In the inquest before Coroner Brailey over the body of Barl Caldwell, the Union Pa- cific machinist who met a violent death near the Cass street emtrance to the shop yards shortly after midnight .!nmrd-v.s The t, Al D. Balcombe, foreman, 2 California street; E. M. Stenberg, 2224 Mason; George R. Rathburn, 2610 Charles; C. M. Bachman, 1615 Chicago; H. S. Mann, 1713 Chlcag Steven Hansen, 2220 North Twenty-ffth aveaue, 1t is the “Irony of fate” that for the mur- der of a Union Pacific employe, which was 1aid at the door of strikers, another Unlon Pacific employe should, out of nine prison- ers, be the only man charged with the crime. John Spellman, as has been stated, was a laborer on the contract work of the new shops being completed by the Union Pacific, had never been an employe of the ahops and was not one of the strikers with whom the railroad company is now at | sue. Spefiman’s father, Mike Speliman, who was arrested at the same time with his s0n and seven others, was in charge of the plckets stationed at the Cass street gate near which the tragedy occurred and was at firet belloved possibly to be the man who delivered the blow that caused the death of young Caldwell, but the emphatic testimony of Mordica W. Ball, the com- panion of the murdered man, who himself was severely beaten on the scene of Cald- well's death, removes the burden of this grave suspicion from the senior Spellman and places it upon his son. Elder Spellman Not the Ball, in his statements yesterday, simply made it an Impossibility for Mike Spellman to have been the slayer of Caldwell. He testified on direct examination and re- peated it on cross-examination that Mike Spdllman did not strike Caldwell, but was one of his (Ball's) assailants, and when the attorney for the defense asked him if he was positive of this, Ball replied that he was absolutely certaln and that there could be no doubt. Notwithstanding his exoneration as to the Caldwell case, Mike Spellman doubtless will be held on a charge of assaulting Ball County Attorney Shields probably will have a warrant lssued for the arrest of Jack McKenna also as one of Ball's assailants. According to Ball's testimony he was first assaulted by these men. There is a decided feeling of censure among strikers against Mike Spellman for the part he seems to have played in this unfortunate affair. He was charged with the direction of plckets and 1n this ca- pacity was the one to vestraln rather than promote violence. That he did mot exert his influence to check the trouble when he saw it coming, Instead of facilitating it, as he is gald to have done, is the sovurce ot aevers criticism - agBlo¥Y’ him by strike leaders. Four witnesses who claimed to have been on the scene when the trouble in which Caldwell lost hig life occurred specifically and emphatically declared that John Spell- man struck the first blow upon Caldwell and that he followed up this blow with others by jumping upon his victim, whom he knocked into a ditch. Three of these witnesses were George L. Perkins, Ray- mond Chadwick and Rudolph Lindberg, ap- prentices in the shops before the strike, and the fourth was Mordica W. Ball, the companion of the murdered man. Certain as to John sgeilman. In his testimony yesterday morning Ball, who was the principal witness of the day, told the coromer, jury and the attorneys this: “I am absolutely certain that John Spell- man was the man who first struck Earl Caldwell, that he followed up his first blow and fell or jumped on Earl after he had knocked him in the ditch. I am absolutely certain Mike Spellman (father of John and a striker) did not hit Barl Caldwell and had nothing to do with the assault made upon Caldwell. I am just as positive that John Kerrigan was not in this fight, and I am not able to say with any degree of certainty that anyome else was except John Spell- And then Ball went diametrically oppo- site in his statements to the testimony of the three witnesses who preceded him and whose statements agreed in very detall, by implicating Charles Pospisil, a Unlon Pa- cific striker, one of the men who, he thought, was engaged in the assault upon Caldwell, but he could not be certaln to what part Pospisil played. He was positive be saw Pospisil standing on the spot when Spellman knocked Caldwell down, and eald Le saw Pospisi] raise a club in both hands and advance toward the prostrate form of Caldwell as if to deal him a blow, and be- lieves that he did strike him. He could not be certain as to this, he said, for he was set upon about that time by Jack McKenna, Mike Bpellman and he thought two others and was busily engaged in fighting bis own battle. After Perkins, Chadwick and Lindberg bad testified that they were positive Pospi- sil was not present when the fighting oc- curred, Pospisil himself took the stand and testified to the same thing and swore that he bad no part whatever in the affair. c The case of Pospisil 1s a peculiar one. From the firet affair it was believed he was not st the scene when the trouble oceurred. He seemed to have proven a compiste alibl to this effect by the statements of three witnesses, but the assurance of Ball that he was at the fight and took a hand in the attack made on Caldwell admits of a question. The testimony of Martin Shields, & policeman who met Pospisil twice on the fatal pight within a few blocks of the sceme of murder, complicates the situation. Shields says he met Pos- pisil first about 11 o'clock at Ninth and Davenport and then about 1 o'clock, which was after the tragedy, near Twelfth and [ Pospisil insisted that he and Shields met also at another time and exchanged greetings, which would have made it im- | possible for him to have been at the fight when It occurred.. Shields could mot re- member this occasion. yer. that subject as te even lead him’to think of withdrawing. Whatever .may have been his reasons for taking this important step it means that the country s to lose the services of one of its ablest statesmen that lows is not only to lose one of its most conspleuous figures i onal affairs, but in every probability g lose the great of- fice of speaker, dnd this should,‘and I Teel will, be & matter of deep regret to every citizen of the . A Deathblow to Maiar Electric /Bitters kill and expel malaria divease germs, will prevent typhoid and cure fever and ague or no pay. Ounly e Matt Schneckenberger, another pofic | well, but w man, also testified to having met Posplsil at Nioth and Davenport that night, about 11:10. Pospisil says he examination by Attorney B4 P. more extensive. He picked the knuckles up from the floor under the seat pre- viouely occupled by Kerrigan and others and could not give satisfactory evidence that ' Kerrigan had placed the weapon there. Bajl Deseribes Assauit. In dederibing tHe assault on him Ball testified that he thought Mike Spell- man was the first man who struck him. He said that Jack McKenna joined Mike Spell- man in assaulting higr and ‘that two others, | whom Re' could not name, took a hand. He said he was struck ot the upper forehead with a club and also o the elbow, both of which places were badly scarred. He fought his assailamts as best he could, he said,” while trying ‘to back off from them and’ get ‘to the gaté of the yards. He eays he fell and thht Mike Speliman and Mo- Kenna fell on him, but that be rolled out from under theth. Ball gave a graphic description of the as- sault and death of his companion, Caldwell. He sald that he:tried hard to assist Cald- prevented by the men who assailed him. Caldwell, according to Ball, cried out, “Oh, don’t,-don't,” while he was down in. the gutter and being pounded by his aesailants who, he wae sure, were John Spellman and one other. As he rolled from under Mike Spellman and McKenna, Ball says he made a feint at drawing a revolver, which dispersed the crowd and gave Cald- well a chance to get up. He says Caldwell ran to the gate, preceding him (Ball) in- side. He says Caldwell was carried to the dormitory inside the yards by himself and a guard and expired within about fifteen minutes after he Was assaulted. Fall to Fix Murderer. With all the cross-examination of Ball and the other witnesses the attorneyd failed to draw out any statement that would fix the responsibility for the fatal blow. Rudolph Lindberg, the 16-year-old black- smith apprentice who testified this morn- ing, was discharged and the others held. County Attorney Shields wanted Jack M- Kenna to take the stand, but upon advice of his attorney, Ed P. Smith, McKenna re- fused to do so, or at least sald he would not testify if placed on the stand. Shields then requested that. McKenna be discharged, but Captain Haze declined to grant the re- qu Neither of the Spellmans were placed on the stand. Dr. Seymour H. Smith, the Union Pacific physician and surgeon who was called to at< tend Caldwell, testified that he reached the shops after Caldwell was dead, examined the wounds and tho the fatal blow might have been dealt with a fist, fail or blunt instrument, He found a lump on the back of the head where the fatal blow w struck the size of balf an egg. He was not at the autopsy 8nd could give o sclentific statement as to the case. TAKE - INTEREST IN CARNIVAL People of the Black Hills Coming Dowh ¥pbm Omaba in fvrd - Morewl 4l At DEADWOGD, 8D, Sept, 1h—(pecial) —Fraok Dunlop gud John Drexel, the emls- sarles of Ak-Sdr.Ben, who are in the Hills éxploiting the carnival, are meeting with the best of sucgess everywhere they go, and have captured the different citfes and camps of the Eflls completely, so there is certain to be A big excursion to leave this section of the country on the 26th for Omab Saturday they visited Lead and while there worked up a strong sentiment among the people of that prosperous city in favor of making a big showing at the carnival, and it can be confidently stated that Lead will send the biggest delegation from the Black Hills of any city in it. The people there are enthusiastic over the proposed excursion, and they will not allow Dead- wood to get ahead of it in point of num- bers. The business men of Lead took hold of the propesition in the right spirit, and before Messrs. Dunlop and Drexel left that city they had the assurance that at least 200 people would attend. The mayor and business men generally joined with the Omaha representatives, and they assured them that they would not etop working on the proposition until the day came for the excursion to leave the Hills. Sunday, the Omaha gentlemen spent in Spearfish, where they succeeded in working up & lively interest in the excursion, and received the promise of many that they would be in Omaha on ‘he Aates of the show, and would join the excursion when it left the Hilly Last evening the representatives of the Knights were entertained at the Deadwood Business Men's cjub, where Mr. Dunlop and Mr. Drexel explained everything conpected with the festival _and. caroival to be held in Omaha by the society. A great deal of Interest was aropsed among the mem- bers of Ihe club, and the delegates .from the Gat® City received the assurance that every assistance that the club could giv to further the plans of the representatives with, regard to the coming excursion.would be extended, and a committ Was ap- pointel to aesist in drumming up a crowd. At Sturgls and Rapld City the delegates also met with splendid success in workl '3 up an interest In the coming excursion, and have received assurances from the business men of those cities that there will be a large crowd join the excursion when it pulls out of Deadwood. There will aleo be many go from Rochtord, Hill Olty and Custer City, so that Omaha may ook for a large Influx of Black Hillers ou the 27th of this month. . STRIKE IS ON AT SWIFT'S Two Hui d Wool Workers Leave Chicago Packing House Beea Nonunion Men Are Em CHICAGO, Sept. 16—Two hundred mem- bers of the Wool Workers' union employed by Swift & Co., went on a strike today, al- leging that the company was employing non-union labor, in the wool department of the packing plant. The men claim that unless their grievances are adjusted tomor- row all the union men employed by the firm will be called out on a sympathetic strike k Firm in Tr NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-~Application was made today to file an involuntary petition in bankruptcy against the cloak firm of le. stationed at | Meyer Jonasson & Co. of this city. Smith, | made It evident that his knowledge was no | SOLDIERS BLOCK THE TRACK McLean Oables vhat His Journeys at Panama Are Interrupted. SALAZAR SAYS IT'S ONLY A PRECAUTION Commander ernment Reconclles American Assurance that There Will B No Moere of ¢ Forces Ofcer with Molestation WASHINGTON, Sept | Navy Moody today received the following cable from Commander McLean, who ar- rived a: Colon yesterday Yesterday 1 went stopped twice by ote., placed on tra to Panama Traln obstruction-plate iron, After train passe tions. Accompanied by consul and Com- mander Potter of Ranger, called on gov- ernor. Friendly conversation. Returning to Colon this morning stopped by obstrac- tions. Soldiers were compelled to remave | them. Soldicrs then stood on track. By | my directions train moved on and soldlers Jumped away, - WHl- guurd trains. No Tevolutionists. in sight, but rumored coming toward rallroad The foregolng dispatch was not dated except as coming from Colon, but i& ac- cepted as referring to events of Monday. The officlals at Washington are not in- clined to jump hastily at the conclusion that the obstruction of trafic by govern- ment soldiers was inspired by the Colom- blan government itself, but are more ready to belleve that the act was for the purpose of ascertaining it any revolutionists occu- pled the train. Commander McLean's dis- patch, as given above, is not in full, some portions contalning expressions of opinion on the commander’s part having been elim- inated. It is understood that at the meet- Ing of Commanders McLean and Potter and Tu, the United States consul, with Governor Salazar at Panama, the latter disavowed responsibility for the act of the government troops. Acting Secretary of State Adee and Sec- retary Moody were in consultation for some time today in regard to the isthmian situa- tion, though the conference took place be- fore the receipt of Commander McLean dispatch. However, the dispatch was re- derred to the State department immediately upon its receipt and it is understood that some representations will be made to the venting a repetition of the lncident, and ob- taining some expression from Colombia which may simplify the rather complex situation which comes of the conjunction of the government (liberal) and United States forces. By the treaty of Granada, Colombia and | the United States mutually guarantee free and uninterrupted trafic across the fsth- mus, and in the event that onme or the other showed a disposition to interfere with free transit it would be the right of the other to step in and insure it Commander McLean's action in placing guards on the trains creates a sitvation similar to that which existed some months ago, when Captain Perry, with lowa, and Commander McCrea were at Panama and Colon respectively, and each train was oc- cupled by a force of American bluejackets or marines. Captain Perry at that time was forced to take possession of the Pan- ama railroad and It is probable that fur- ther interference will resultt in similar ac~ tion on the part of Commander McLean. Six trains are run across the isthmus each day, two.passenger and four freight trains, and each one may bave to be provided with a guard. Orders were issued today detaching Coms mander McLean from command of Cingiu- nati on_the,arrival. of. his successor, Com- hahdét “Mason, who sailed from New York today ifor Colom, bub it *was ‘stated &Y' the Navy department that if the situation re- quires it Commander McLean will be kept in command beyond (he appointed time for his detachment. Salazar Smoothes it Over, PANAMA, Sept. 16.—Commander Potter and Commander McLean of the United States cruisers Ranger and Ofncinnati, re: spectively, und the acting United States consul here, Mr. Ehrman, had a conference yesterday with General Salazar, commander of the government forces on the island, which lasted over an hour and in the course of which many important points were dis- cussed. The matter of the interpretation of article 35 of the treaty of 1846, by which the United States, in view of cer- taln concessions made by Colombia, guar- antees the neutrality of the isthmus and that traffic across it shall not be inter- rupted, was also taken up in the confer- ence. In this connection It was related that in November, 1891, the revolutionary general, Patino, and his men boarded a rail- road train running from Panama to Colon, and by this means succeeded in surprising the government garrison at the latter place and in capturing the city. In order to pre- vent a repetition of such an occurrence General Salazar has now ordered that all trains be stopped before entering Panama or Colon and briefly inspected by govern- ment soldiers. In the carrying out of this plan of inspection the government has placed an obstacle across the track at a point a little beyond where the train stops and it has been at once remoyed as soon as it was dicovered there were no ravolu- tionists in the train. Not to Occur A Commander McLean complained of this measure of General Salazar. The general re- plied that the superintendent of the Pan- ama rallroad, H. G. Prescott, had made the same complaint, and that out of consider: Prove It Any Time By the Evidence of Omaha People. The daily evidence citizens right here et home supply is proof sufficient to. sat- isfy the greatest skeptic. No better proof can be had. Here is a case. Read it Mr. Fred Miller, employed at Edquist's meat market, 17th and Clark streets, living at No. 1611 .lzard street, says: “I have been so bad with my back that I could scarcely stoop. After stooping I could scarcely stralghten and trouble with the kidney secretions existed. 1 tried every kind of remedy guaranteed to be a sure cure for kidney complaint and although 1 was never compelled to stop working I have scores of times felt inclined that way. Two boxes of Doan's Kiduey Pills, procured at Kuhn & Co.'s drug store, cormer 15th and Douglas streets, cured me. It I have a recurrence of kidney complaint I now know what to use. Fog sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents per box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buftalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no ubstitute, TEN DAYS TRIAL. Haveyes smail, week, sasusiory o malited vt ol e ‘varievsels, sirtature, eia ] Y Vacuam Deveiope: wilirestars or siectriaisy. 50,00 | SN . | R.P.Emmet, N-40-51 Good Bik, Denver, Col | Business Stimulaters BEE WANT ADS reoveverecy ~Secretary of the | saw government soldfers replace obstruc- | government at Bogota with a view to pre- | 1 | cheerfully | 1 i | & method of policing that did not in | to_compel ation for the raliroad company and In view of the fact that the company had agreed not to run empty cars he would attend to the matter General Salazar added that these obstructions did not authorize Amer- fean intervention, because they were only tore with traffic and which the government ¢°n eidered a sovereign right, which right the United States wae bound (o guarantee It I« sald General Salazar brought other questions for discussion with American officera, but resulted, The = conferenco ended Mot umicably, with the expression of hopes that everything would be settled amicably. Com mander McLean In a toast proposed peace and the progress of Colombia. TESTING ANTI-FUSION LAW Kan, ©t Salt to Compel Place ing of Craddock's Name on Two Tickets. tho ne St TOPEKA, Kan hrought here today the secretary of state and county, clerks In Kansas to pla of W. H, Craddock, the fusion nominee for governor on both the democratie and peo- ple's party tickets. This is the test sult to détermine the validity of the anti-fusion law. Only four justices were present to- day .and they declined to constder the ap- plication for a writ of mandamus until the full ¢ourt is present, which probably will be Thursday. Sept. 16.~Suit was Faston Legisiative Candidates Named, OGALLALA, Neb. 8°pt. 16.—(Special Tele- sram.)—The democrats and their, dlstrict conventions here today for the hirtieth senatorial and fifty-tourth rep- resentative districts. Frank A. Johnson of Lincoln county wae nominated for repre- sentative and Nat Brownfield of Dawson county for sepator. 'W. M. Thompson, can- dNate for governor, and John Powers were the principle speakers. The meeting had been. extensively billed for two weeks, but the attendance was quite small. Less than balf of the counties. were represented at the convention Cull for Demacratic Convention. WRST PQINT, Neb., Sept. 16.—(Special.) «~~The democvatic senatorial convention for the district, comprising Cuming and Burt counties, is called to meet In this city on September 20. No candidates are mentioned s yot. The immense republican mafority of Burt county,has for many years more than offset the dwindling democratic ma- Jority of Cuming, o the result is foregone, making candidates on the democratic ticket very shy in announcing themselves. Republican Ticket at Plerre. PIERRE, 8. D., Sept. 16.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The republican county ticket se- lected at the primary election in this county today fs: J. W. Laughlin, sheriff; C. A. Bartlett, treasurer; W. C. Notimeyer, reg- ister of deeds: L. B. Westfall, audito James W. Morse, clerk of court; L W. Goodnow, state's attorney; Maude R. Car- ter, supetintendent of schools. FREE TO MILLIONS, the Asking. Medical books are mot always interesting reading, especially to people enjoying good health,; but as & matter of fact scarcely one person in ten is. perfectly healthy, and even with euch, soomer or later sickmess must come./: It s also & well established truth that nine-tenths of all dlseases originate with & breaking ‘down of the digestion, a weak stomach weakens and impoverishes the systen), makiog, it easy for disease to gain a foothold. Nobody need fear consumption, kidney disease, liver trouble or a weak heart and nervous system as long as the digestion is good and the stomach able to milate plenty of wholesome food. Stomach weakness shows {tself in a score of ways and this little book describes the symptoms.and. causes and points the way to a cure so simple that anyome can under- | stand and apply. 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