Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 24, 1902, Page 1

E TABLISHED JUNE 19, < THE OMAHA DALYy BEE. 1871. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1902—-TEN PAGES. SINGLE ODELL HAS TO COME Gevernorship Tangle Him to Baratoga. SHELDON DECLINES TO WITHDRAW NAME Befuses Governer's Request After Visiting Benator Platt. WOODRUFF CROWD RESUMES AGITATION Timothy, Himeelf, Vemtures te Print o Fow Worde. PLATT ANSWERS IN CAUSTIC VEIN Lieutenant Oalls Emplies that the Scemically-Invested Executive is Not So Unselfish @ He Seems in This Trouble BARATOGA, N. Y., Sept. 33.—The aim- ,culty In the republican convention over the candldacy of George R. Sheldon for the licutenant governorship assumed such proportions this afternoon that Governor Odell was summoned from Albany for con- sultation. Word comes that he left the tate capital for this place on a special train tonight. It has developed that Governor Odell to- night requested Mr. Sheldon to withdraw from the race for the nomination for sec- ond place on the ticket. The governor £ave as a reason that he was of the opinjon that Mr. Sheldon's candidacy would jeop- |ardizo the success of the whole ticket. The governor added that he had eelected Mr. Sheldon for the place and was his close personal friend, but had reached the conclusion that it was best Mr. Sheldon should retire. Mr. Sheidon consulted with | Senator Platt and, gaining the senator's |support, informed the goveraor o could Dot comply with the request. Governor Odell then sent to Senator Platt and asked him to use his influence to get Mr. Sheldon to retire. Mr. Platt snnounced that he would not make the re- quest, and that Mr, Sheldon was in to stay In the meantime the Kings county delega- [ tion, headed by Lisutenant Governor Wood- ruft, had hints of Governor Odell's request and immediately resumed its attack on | Mr. Sheldon. Woodruff's Attitu Immediately after the adjournment of the convention in the afternoon, Lieutenant | Governor Woodruff made this statement: “1 have mo persomal animosity sgainat Mr. Sheldon. I believe that the objections | raised to him are of the gravest sort and that they jeopardize the state ticket. I bave no personal ambition. I am not and | Will mot be a candidate. 1 am interested in the success of the state ticket alone, frrespective of individuals. I am the unit voter for the largest county in the state, |next to New York county. We carried our primaries and have united the party. 1 belleve that Kings county should have ‘some say in nominating a ticket. We were promised this. Mr. Platt broke his word to us and named Mr. Bheldon without eon- interests of the. but /taken. I bow to no man in my allegiance to the party and its leaders, but I am not golng to stand calmly by and see the party interests jeopardized. 1 have no candidate, but I belleve there are up-state men who could fill the place acceptably and aid the ticket. 1 believe also that if an up- state man is nominated Kings county can nominate the secretary of state, probably Mr. Dike, and all portions of the state will bo represented on the ticket.” Platt's Onustic Comment. own the statement of Lieutenant Dn‘vv:::o:hw”drul, Senator Platt sald: ‘Perhaps we can glve Mr. Woodruff a lit- tle lesson in politics as well as in good manners. Why should the les der of any lone delegation be offended because a man | ) ? Is Kings county desires to be a candidate? to control the situations? Mr. Sheldon is a candldate and is not withdrawn at all. Tell Mr, Woodruff that for me. “Woodruff could have many things. Yo has had them. He has retus:d some lately, and it s 111 advised of him to seek to make trouble. His concern for the party is very touching, but there are others of larger experience who are equally Interested and more ca- ot judgin "\:};cn t’hn news of this trouble between the leaders bocame public in its entirety the previous apathetic attitude of the rank and file of tho delegates to the state convention changed to one of the livellest interest. By 6 o'clock Governor Odell was being urged by his personal friends to come to Sara- toga and settle the controversy, but to this request he at first answered that he had slgnified what his wishes in the matter were and that the convention could work out the situation itself. His esteem and regard for Mr. Bheldon were as firm as ever, but he bad become convinced that Mr. Sheldon /eould not help and would only hurt the ticket. Odell Takes Positive Stand. Governor Odell's friends then began to work actively to get Mr. Sheldon to retire and ms a result of the agitation telegrams began pouring in from all sections of the | state not to vote for Sheldon on the ground of his business aMliations. Leaders from up the state were apprised of the fact that the governor was averse to Mr. Sheldon's nomination and toward 9 o'clock the news was known about hotel corridors. About that time Governor Odell in response to & query from Lieutenant Governor Wood- ruff with regard to his position on the Sheldon candidacy sent a telegram, saying he (Odell) would not run on the ticket if Sheldon's name was on it. Odell's father and brother then went to the telephone and told the governor that he must come to Saratoga and straighten the matter out. Quigg Sounds the Key Note. The republican state convention met here today for the preliminary work incidentsl to the naming of a state ticket and the draft- ing of a platform. Outside of delegates and alternates the spectators were fi Ex-Congressman Lemuel Ely Quigs, the temporary chalrman, spoke tollows: ooseveit Recognized Leader. For elght.years the republicans of this etate have enjoyed public favor. We have elocted four republican governors. One of these, summoned to the highest destiny that is within the life of any man to reach, by his progressive ideas, his ardent triotiem, his splendid courage and his ofty integrity has profoundly impressed the country. ° Nowhere i his leadership more cordlaily accepted than in his own state. ‘The American people are better off today than they ever were before and noth) the democrats can say will solld truth. It is no wonder the democrats are troubled about an issue. it is the singular fortune of this country that the politieal problem most under dis- cussion 18 not how to get its people profit- ably employed, but how more evenly to (Continued on Fifth Page) — PRESENTS SIDE OF MEXICO Attorney for that Government Makes Argument in Plas Case at The Hague. THE HAGUE, Sept. 23.—Lawyer Ralston of 8an Francisco occupled the morning ses- sion of the international court of arbitra- tion, which is hearing the arguments in the case of the Plus fund. He contended that Mexico was bound by the judgment of the previous arbitration court, which counsel anticipated the present court would ocon- firm, thus Increasing the general confidence in Arlmr',"m A8 A mea of settling dis- putes. When' # %, sion was resumed afternoon «_ %, ° refused an application from the AR unsel that Lawyer Deacamps sholis, % “sard Monday. It was explained that' % .« was prevented from attending this W Attorney De La Crow. case. Ho maintained thav, question of a confliet of nau Jbs involved in the present dispute, which was merely a case of diplomatic intervention by the United States in favor of a private claim of the archbishop of California against the government of Mexico. Hence only the actual law of Mexico was applicable and not the vague prineiples of equity invoked by the United States The fund in dispute, counsel continued, was established with the question of politi- eal conquest of California and the pight of disposing of the fund belonged to the king of Spain and, subsequently, to the United States, but never to the church or to the archbishop of California. The session was adjourned until tomorrow. EARL ROBERTS CALLS A HALT Promises to Pun! Severely Anyome Hereafter Guilty of Such Per- secution as Gregson' in the LONDON, Sept, 23.—As an outcome of the recent Gregson incident, Earl Roberts, commander-in-chief of the forces, has no- tified all commanding officers of the ne- cessity of suppressing, with a strong hand, any such practices as “ragging,” which he declares to be a disgrace to the army and most perniclous and prejudicial to the whole spirit of discipline. Earl Roberts threatens to severely punish in the future any cases similar to the Gregson {ncident. Second Lieutenant Gregson of the Second Life guards was known to be a hard worker, an efficient officer and popular with his men. On the night of July 21 & number of officers of the regiment chased Lieuten- ant Gregson out of his quarters, hunted him through the barracks with whips, ducked him in a horse trough and later wiecked bls quaiiers aud desiroyed bhis kit. The only explanation of this treat- ment was that Lieutenant Gregson was #ocially undesirable. The Ueutenant re- ceived his commission February 15 last. A military court of Inquiry investigated his persecution, and it has been reported that two lleutenants probably will be cashiered as a result of the escapade. MONEY AT TWENTY PER CENT Financial Situation ‘Wall Street Cireles Continmes to Excite NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—The local financial situation continued to excite considerable Interest today. Momey on call fluctuated between 11 and 20 per cent before noon, opening at the first figure and advancing to 20 per cent in leaps. By noon the rate had eased off to 12 per cent. An unusual and significant feature was the lending of money by individuals and firms, who withdrew the greater part of their bank balances and made loans di- rect. Naturally this curtalled the supply of bank money and created some 111 feeling be- tween the banks and their clients. One prominent brokerage house is re- ported to have taken $1,000,000 cash out of two banks, lending the money at from 15 to 18 per cent. Two leading banks re- ported today that withdrawals by their out- of-town correspondents, presumably in the west and southwest, had been unusually heavy. These drafts, it was added, were for crop purposes. Considerable money Is reported to be going to Chicago, Cleveland and St. Louls. A number of out-of-town banks pursued thelr usual course on this occasion by with- drawing balances from the local banks and loaning them direct on the floor of the ex- change. Local branches of the Canadian banks were heavy lenders at the higher rate. | In the last hour the rates for call loans | were quoted at from 10 to 13 per cent. At the close money on call was strong at 60118 per cent and close offered at 8 per | cent. WHEAT CHORTS RUN TO COVER Panic Advances Price of Septem- ber Option to Eighty-Five Cents in Chicago. CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—September wheat to- day gave strong evidence of a congested condition, advancing from 79% c the bottom price at the opeging, to 85 Bents, a | gain of nearly 10 cepts over yesterda bottom price. Today's sharpness of vance, like yesterday's, was due to co |ing of ehort contracts, «'ihough toda: | operations in that line were sald to ha been on a smaller scale. Yesterday the buylng was chiefly by influential houses, but today the demand came chiefly from outside shorts, representing numerous but generally small lines. The running of “corners” on the Board of Trade has been enjolned by the courts, but it is stated that the avallable supply of contract wheat s nearly all in the hands of & prominent elevator company. Repre- entatives of this company did not sell openly today, but were credited with letting out some September through other houses. This relief became effective shortly before noon, when the price had reacted to 81% cents. The short interest {s belleved to repre- sent between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 bushel MOVING THE QUARANTINE LINE Plan to Place it Farther 8 ples Attention of Natl itary Assoclation WICHITA, Kan., Sept. 23.—The National Assoclation of Sanitary Boards met here today. The two points of interest are the placing of the quarantine line farther south and the extension of the open season. After the appolntment of committees recess wa taken. The members of the committee to fx quarantine lines and to regulate the open season include George B. Ellis of Mis- sourl, A. W. Sale of Ilinols, W. H. Dunn of Ternessee and M. M. Hankins of Texa The committee on resolutions includes D. F. Luckey of Missouri, L. C. Tiffany of lllinols, L. 8. Pope of Teanessee and W. J. Moore of Texas, SPEAKS ON TARIFF REVISION Roosevelt @loses Teur with Noteworthy Utterances at Loganspert. PROBLEM IS A BUSINESS PROPOSITION Nation Should Desl with it as Su Avoicing Sudden Violent Changes, Yet Fitting Rates to Chan ing Clreumstances. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Sept. 28.—One of the most important of President Roosevelt's speeches was delivered by him here today to a crowd that stood in a pelting rain to hear him. The president himself was somewhat exposed, but, as has since been learned, he had previously resigned him- self to an abandonment of his present tour and was anxious to give his views on tariff revision before returning to Washington. Not Wholly Politieal. He said, in part: The business world must exist largely on eredit and to credit confidence is essential. Any tampering with the currency, no mat- ter with what purpose, It fruught with the fuepicion of disnonesty iIn result, s {atal in its effects on business prosperity. Very ilgnorant and primitive communities are continually obliged to learn the elementary truth that the repudiation of debts Is, In the end, ruinous to the debtors as a class, and when communities have moved some=- what higher in the scale of civilization they also learn that anything in the nature of a debased currency works similar damage A financial system of assured honesty 's tal. Another essential for any community is perseverance in the economic policy which for a course of years 1s found best fitted to its pecullar needs. The question of combining such fixedness of economy as regards the tariff, while at the same time allowing for a necessary and proper readjustment of duties in particular schedules as such readjustment becomes a matter of pressing Importance, Is not an easy one. It is perhaps too much to expect that from the discussion of such a question it_would be possible wholly to eliminate political partisanship. Yet those who be- lieve, a8 we all must when we think seri- ously on the subject, that the proper aim of o party system is, after all, to subserve the party good, cannot hope that where sueh partisanship on a matter of this kind conflicts with the public good it shall at least be minimized. Tariff is a Business Proposition. What we really need in this country is to treat the tari! a business proposition and not from the standpoint of the tempo- rary needs of any political party. It surely ought not to be necessary to dwell on the extreme unwisdom, from a business stand- point, from the standpoint of national pros- perity, of violent and radical changes amonnting to the direct upsetting of tarift policies at intervals of every few years. A pation like ours can adjust its business after a fashion to any kind of a tariff. But neither our nation nor any other can stand the rulnous policy of readjusting its busi- ness to radical changes in the tariff at fhort intervals, This ls more true than varfety of our product. s of today carry rates of duty on more than 4,000 articles. Continual sweeping changes in wuch a tariff, touching so intimately the commercial Interests of a nation, which stands as one of the two or three in the whole industrial world, cannot but be dis- astrous. Yet, on the other hand, where the industrial needs of the nation shift as rapidly as they do with us, it is a matter of prime importance that we should be able to ‘adjust our economic policy as rapldly as possible and with as little friction as possible to these needs. What is Needed. We need a scheme which will enable us to provide an application of t| rinciple o 'l‘:': Probiem, “some - ich these shifting needs can be-recos- nized and the necessary readjustment of dutles provided without forcing the entire Dbusiness community and, therefore, the en- tre natlon to submit to a surglcal opera. tion, the mere want of which, and still more ~ the accomplished fact of which, would probably parallze, for a conslderable time, the industries of the country. Such a realization might very readily produce the conditio om which we ago, in 1593, It is on every ac- earnestly to be hoped that this roblem can be solved in some manner nto which partisanship shall enter as a purely secondary consfderation, 1f at all; that is, in some manner which shall pro- vide for an earnest effort by non-partlsan Inquiry and action to secure any changes, the need of which s indicated by the ef: fect found to proceed from a given rate of duty on a given article, its effect, If any, as regards the creation of a substantial monopoly, Its effect upon domestic prices, upon the ‘revenue of the government, upon importatians from abroad, upon home pro- ductions and upon home consumption. To Meet Requirements. In other words, we need to devise some machinery by which, while persevering in the. pollcy of a protective tariff in which 1 think the nation as a_whole has now gen- erally acquiesced, we would be able to cor- rect the irregularities and remove the in- congrulties produced by the changing con- ditions without destroying the whole struc- ture. The one consideration which must never be omitted in & tariff change Is the im perative need of preserving the American standard of living for the American work. ingman. The tariff rate must never fall below that which will protect the Amer- ican workingman by allowing for the differ- ence between the general labor cost here and abroad, 8o as o at least equalize the conditions arising from the difference in the standards of labor here and abroad, a difference which it should be our aim to foster Insofar as it represents the needs of better educated, better pald, better fed and better clothed’ workingmén of a higher clags than any to be country. At all hazards and no matter what else is sought for by changes of the tariff, the American workman must be pro- tected in his standard of wages—that 18, in his standard of living—and he must be se- cured the fullest opportunity of employ- ment. Three Hours In Indianapolis, INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. Roosevelt was the guest of Indianapolis for three hours today. The special train bearing the party arrived shortly before noon. The party was driven to Tomlinson hall, where the president addressed the Spanish-American war veterans, now hold- ing thelr annual reunion in this city. The afternoon program was as follows: 1 o'clock—Luncheon to the president at the Columbia club. 2 o'clock—The president addressed the people in Monument place from Columbia club balcony. 3 o'clock—President left via the Big Four for Muncle, Ind. The weather was “made-to-order” variety and long before the arrival of the president, Washington street, which had been roped off to prevent the crowd surging toward the center of the thoroughtare was packed with people eager to see and hear the president. All along the route to Tomlinson hall the chief executive of the nation was kept busy bowing his acknowledgments to the cheers. A great ovation awaited him at the hall, where he made his principal address. The hall bad been elaborately decorated and there was nothing lacking to make the president’s welcome bearty and enthusi- astlc. ator Beveridge Introduced the pres dent at Tomlinson hall and Senator Fair- banks presented him to the people from the Columbla club balcony. The president spoke as follows at Tomlin- son hall Par Tn speaking to the men who volunteered for the Spanish war I wish to lay speclal stress on the need of preparedness. Modern war of a serious kind Is determined quite as much by what the antagonists have done in advance of the outbreak as by what they do afterward. Modern condi- tions have brought all parts of the world clozer together, and, while this nearness (Continued on Fourth Page.) frered | ound in a foreign | 23. — President | CONDITION OF THE WEATHER§ Forecast for Nebrasl ~Falr and Warmer Wednesday. Thu Ay Fair. Temperature at gnh- Yesterday: Hour, Dex. . tpom. [ . 2 . s | . a2 . T . 4 .64 . 5 . o | . “ . 6 . 7 b 64 s 6 » o | OMAHA'S RED LETTER DATES. September Z4—AkeSar-Een Street Fair | open October 1—Ak-Sar-Bem Daylight rade. October 2—Ak-Sa de. October 3—Ak-Sar-Ben Royal Bali A October 4—Ak-Sar-Ben closes. et —— TALK OF STRIKE PROBLEMS at the Con- Pa- en Electrical Pa Court Street Falr Obstacles in Arbitration MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 28.—The second day of the national convention of employers and employes closed tonight with the discussion of the elght-hour qu#n. Miss Elizabeth C, eler of Providence, R. I, spoke on ‘T4 Oppertunity of the Soclal Secretary.” “The Economic Effects of the Eight-Hour was the subject of the address by Frani vey, professor of economics of the Unk of Minnesota. Prof. Mavey belleves not until the laborer can do the safle amount of work in eight hours that hejan do in ten hours will the eight-hour daggquestion be brought to a settlement. discussion of the elght-hour question WHS opened by Prof. Bates Clark of Columbla university, who spoke to the question, “Is Compulsory Arbi- tration Inevitable?” He sald in part: “An anomaly in our civil system which has long existed s rapidly becoming seri- ous. The civil law protects men who wish to work whenever and wherever work is offered to them. It Allows employers in the time of a strike to)gather unemployed men from many places and ‘use them as strike breakers; yet it does mot actually protect these men whén they accept the employment offered. It allows organized laborers to drive them off by the various kinds of persuasion they kmow how to use. In the last resort, it suppress positive rioting, but short of that it will let the nonunion men be terrofized and assaulted to an evtent that is demally suMeient to keep them off the where a strike is in progress or to dri¥e them off if they bave had the temerity th come. “It after a tribunal decided what 1s fair, the men refuse to' work, unless they can have more, let the employer be free to gather a new force let the men so gathered be protected by the full power of the state. This {8 th) essence of com- pulsory arbitration, in my bellef, it is the only kind of com)ulsery arbitration needed in Amerfca.” [’ |\ The closing sddn",l ning was that ot W. D, Winan, t of the | Deere Piow m-}’ e, I, who spoke om “Responsibility fn. Labor Con- tracts, from the Standpoint of the Manu- facturer.” He sald in part: “When both sides come to see the de- sirabllity of a mutuality of remedy as well a8 mutuality of agreement in all contracts | by which the one party agrees to furnish employment to the other at a stipulated wage, and to pay him regularly for it, and the other party undertakes to render serv- ice for a definite period of time, the in- nate sense of falrness of the American people will devise and demand some plan by which onme contracting party will be equally bound with the other. I am con- vinced that labor will mever possess the dignity that rightfully belongs to it until it assumes the responsibility it demands of | its employe: GENERAL SMITH SPEAKS OUT “Hell Roaring Jake” Finally Says a ‘Word in His Own Behalf Con- cerning Samar, INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 28.—General Jacob H. Smith, in an address on “The Philip- | pines” before the national convention of | the Spanish War Veterans tonight, made | his first public utterance .on the Samar | campalgn. He defended his course and | | was cheered at the conclusion of his ad- | dress. He described the island, told of | the cruelty of the natives toward nnlve‘ soldlers, and continued { “We had to curtail the food supply to | bring them to terms. We fnstituted a | blockade to prevent food being sent out. | | We destroyed their Interior huts that | | formed a shelter. As they came in we | | treated them kindly and returned them to their homes. After the women and | children were in, by instituting a strict blockade, we prevented them from sending | supplies to the fighting men. By this | course and by keeping the men tired out and worn out by frequent incurelons into the interior after them, they finally lost | heart and concluded to give up the strug: gle. Terms of surrender were arranged in & conference with their leader, byt be- | tore I could carry out my part of the | agreement I was called to Manila for other purposes.’” TREASURER GETS IN TROUBLE | County Official at York, rennsylvan Large Sum of Money. YORK, Pa., Sept. 23.—County Treasurer | Willlam O. Thompson, charged with embez- | | 2ling county funds to the amount of $73,- !576, was arrested today and placed under | 50,000 bail. Thompson walved a hearing and will take his case direct to the October grand Jury. He was arrested on ten specific charges, a warrant having been sworn out for each offense. Movements of Ocean Vessel At New Sept. 23, York—Arrived—Bremen, Bremen. Sailed—Taurlc, for Moltke, for Hamburg, via Plymouth an Cherbourg; Kron Prinz Wilhelm, for Bre- men, via Plymouth and Cherbours; Liguria, for Genoa and Naples | (At _Boulogne—Arrived—Potsdam, _from New York, for Hamburg, and proceeded At Brow Head—Passed—Ivernia, from Boston, for Queenstown and Liverpool. | At Cherbourg—Arrived—Kaiserin Maria. Theresa, from New York, for Bremen, and proceeded At Yokohama — Arrived — Empress of from Liverpool; | China, from Vancouver, for Shanghal and { Hong K | At Sydney, N. 8. W.—Arrived—Miowera, from Vancouver. | At Queenstown—Arrived—Ivernta, Boston, for Liverpool, and proceeded At_Liverpooi—8ailed—Ultonia, for Boston, via Queenstown. A1” Plymouth—Arrived—Kalserin Theresa,” from New York At the Lizard—Passed—New York, lorl from Marla Loudoa. ‘| be in Omaha Saturday night, the Ak- | of his long expected visit COPY THREE CENTS, PRESIDENT ABANDONS HIS WESTERN TRIP Ak-Bar-Ben Oalls Off Eleotrical Pageant for Saturday Night. SAME PARADE GOES ON NEXT THURSDAY Grandest Eleotrical Bpectacle in Festival History is Promised. ALL BIG CARNIVAL EVENTS WILL COME Al moe of President Outs Out Oaly the Special Arrangements. REDUCED RAILROAD RATES TO PREVAIL | Change in President's Plans Brings Disappointment to Omaha, but Alters Carnival Program Only Slightly. Although President Roosevelt will not| Ben festival will open today and be car- rled out In every detall as planned before the president's visit was expected. Ab- solutely the only change in the program ls the *omission of the electrical pageant arranged especially for the president's benefit for Saturday night and which § exactly the same parade that was origin ally scheduled for Thursday night of next week, and will be given on that date. When the Board of Gavernors began preparation for this year's carnival a visit from the president was not expected | and the dates for all the big festival events were fixed. Later on, when It was learnal that President Roosevelt expected to visit Omaha on the night of Septemver 27, ar- rangements were made to glve the elec- trical pageant twice, the first time on the date of the presidential visit and second on the date originally set for it. This special arrangement for two presenta- tions of the parade has now been called oft. At & meeting of the Board of Governors last night it was decided to pursue the course outlined above and to devote every energy to making the electrical spectacls of next Thursday night an unqualified euc- cess. On account of the expected visit of the president speclal pains have been taken by the board In the preparation of this year's electrical parade and the post- ponement of its initial presentation from Saturday to next Thursday night allows just that much more time for arranging all the details of the mammoth spectacu- lar show. It is promised that the pageant of this year will excel in splendor any ever before glven by the Knights of Ak- Sar-Ben. The spectal rallrond rates granted on account of the presidentlal affalr probably will prevail, as it will be diffcult for the roads to recall their offers at this late date, and in any event the reduced rates given solely on account of the Ak-Sar-Ben festival events of next week will be In torce. Banguet 1s Declared Off. . After ogneiderable discyssion f of Governors decided ihat the banguet ar ranged for the president would mot bo givan Saturday evening. Railroad rates which had been snnounced for Saturday will be effective all next week, so that the only change in the ar- rangements will be those for Saturday. The first intimation that President Fry of the board of governors received of the | fact that President Roosevelt had cancelled his Nebraska dates came from a reporter of | The Bee, who asked him what the board would do under the circumstances. For a minute he belleved that he was being hoaxed, but when he found it was no joke he sald that the matter would have to be | attended to immediately and inside of fif- teen minutes & speclal meeting of the board was called to meet at the Omaha club at 8 o'elock to declde upon & course of action. Previous to the meeting none of the mem- bers would express an opinion publicly, as the board acts as a unit and decides upon | all matters before they are discussed pub- lely. Told in the Bee's Extra. The news of the president's condition and the consequent determination to abandon the rest of his western dates reached The Bee office in the form of an Associated Press bulletin about 3:40 yesterday after- noon. The last edition of The Evening Bee had been sent to press some moments | before, 8o an extra was immediately pre- pared. Nome of the wild rushing to and fro and hurling about of pages and huge ladles of metal so graphically described | by local contemporaries when they get out their extras was indulged in by The Bee force, but several minutes before the first World-Herald boy had emerged from the | alley The Bee was on sale In front of that office. Very soon after the extra edition of The Bee was out people began to clamor at the | telephone for further news of the presi- | dent's condition. When assured that his | attending surgeons anticipated no trouble | nd that only a minor operation bad been performed, public apprehension subsided, but expressions of disappointment that the expected visit would mot occur were many and genuine. Mayor Moores Regrets It. Mayor Moores, when seen by a reporter of The Bee, had but just heard of the abandonment of President Roosevelt's | western trip and expressed the deepest re- gret and disappointment that the pres! dent's physical condition should be such as to make it mecessary for him to give | up his tour and also that the people 0(“ Omaha should be deprived of the pleasure He sald: “I am very sorry to learn of the presi- den! disability, for I had supposed that be had entirely recovered from the ef- fects of that accident and was not aware that there was any danger of serious con- sequences. It 1s a great dlsappointment fo me that our people should be deprived of this expected opportunity to see the president and have him as their guest, lnd‘ this turn affairs have taken Is something | of & blow to my pride as well, for I have fattered myself that we were golng to show the president something here that he could not see in any other city of the country. We are justly proud of our Ak- Sar-Ben electrical parade, the idea of which originated here in Omaha and the like of which is not to be found any- where.”" Surprises Se The first information that Senator Millard, | who has had charge of the general arrange- | ments for the president’s reception in Ne- braska, had of the sudden ending of the tour reached him through the newspaper extras. Monday afternoon the senator re- | celved & telegram from Secretary Cort | the way of decorations and getting people by many thousands. | tion may be successtul and his recovery (Continued on Seventh Page.) R e e J OFFICIAL STATEMENT. § | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. 3 —3 p. m.—As a result of the trol ley accident at Pittsfield, Mass, the president recelved several se- rious bruises, One of these, on the left leg, between the knee and the ankle, has developed into a small abscess. The president is en- tirely well otherwise and has con- tinued to meet the several engage- ments of his itinerary, but in view of the continuousness of the ab- scess and out of an abundance of caution, Drs. Oliver and Cook of Indianapolis were requested to weet Dr. Lung, the president's sur- + ‘ ‘ ‘ . | + . H geon, at Indianapolis. Dr. Richard ‘ son of Washington was there. In the opinion of the trouble doctors the necessitates an which they formed at operation, think should be once . H ‘ per- at St. Vincent's hospital, in this city. As after the operation the president will require entire rest, probably for at least ten days or two weeks, it has been necessary to cancel all the remain- ing engagements of his trip and he will go direct from Indianapolis to Washivgton this evening. The physicians say that the case is not in any way serlous and that there is no daunger whatever. This statement Is made so that no false rumors may disturb the people and that they may be authoritatively advised of the exact nature of the case. GEOR! B. CORTELYOU, : Secretary to the President. DISAPPOINTS NEBRASKA TOWNS Announcement of President’s Illness Occaston of General Regrets. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Sept. 23.—(Special Telegram.) —Elaborate preparations had been made for the entertainment of the president on his proposed visit to the Nehraska ecapital next week, and the announcement tonight in the hotels and other public resorts of his illness occasioned widespread expres- slons of regret. The final arrangements for his reception had just been completed at & meeting of the committee at the Unfon Commercial club today. In political | dent's physician, Dr. circles the president’s predicament s viewed as a public misfortune, partisan ship being lald aside for the moment and the resulting depression affecting all. The | republican state committee, while disap- | pointed keenly by the abandonment of the tour, will make no suggestion. that the trip made later after the president convalesced. The journey so far has be under ‘the direction of eenators and con- gressmen, with whom the executive Is per- sonally attached, party organizations mean- while holding aloof, so that the spirit of partisanship could be eliminated. HASTINGS, Neb., Sept. 23.—(Special Tel- | egram.)—The news received here tonight of the iliness of President Roosevelt and | the necessary abandonment of his trip to | Nebraska caused profound regrets to be expressed on all sldes and the people of Hastings sincerely hope for speedy recov- | ery. Preparations had been made for a | grand and glorioys Teception to the presi- dent and his party Saturday morning, and | not a single thing or suggestion had been overlooked by the various committees hav- ing the matter in charge. The fact that it was to have been strictly a nonpartisan affair caused everybody to lend a helping hand and assist in making it as great and as fitting a welcome as is due to the president of the United States from the 10,000 people within the corporate limits of this city. Senator Dletrich and Mayor Miles were both seen tonight and they expressed deep concern for the president and sincerely hoped that he is on a speedy mend and | promptly denied as fast as will soon recover. They were very so-| leltous for the welfare of the president | and realized that the great disappolntment of the abandonment of the president's trip was as nothing compared to the great| anxiety for the president's speedy recovery. | KEARNEY, Neb., Sept. 23.—(Special Tel- | egram.)—Kearney bhad made extensive | arrangements to receive the president, in into the city. The whole country for many miles around was anticipating his coming and his welcome would have been made The committee had everything in hand for a complete and suc- cessful entertainment of thirty minutes or | more for the president and his party. The | disappointment is great and the feeling | seems to be one of sympathy and interest for the president and hoping the opera- | rapid and permanent. DISCOURAGING TO THE ELKS Stoux Ofty Had Planned to Make Pres- tdent's it the Big Day of the Carnival, SIOUX CITY, Ia., Sept. 23.—(Special Tel- egram.)—The Elks' blg fair, In spite of unfavorable weather conditions, has opened ausplclously. The fair will last a week and indications are that large crowds from lTowa, South Dakota and Nebraska will be in attendance. Tomorrow morning the Elks will march in & body through the streets, after which the fair will have been formally opened. Jabour's circus is the chief attrac~ tion. It had been planned to make ‘‘Roose- velt” day the big day of the fair and the abandonment of the western trip has plunged the management into despair. No attraction has yet been found to take the | place of the president’s visit as a drawing card. STRIKERS HAMPER ARMOUR'S Company's Beef Plant in Chicago at Standstill as Result of Sudden Walkou: CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—Operations in the | beet plants of Armour & Co. were tied up by the action of 150 laborers who went on strike for an increase of 25 cents a day in wages. Before the men had been out an hour the 500 butchers employed in the beef houses were made Mle for want of ma- terfal. The strikers threaten to extend their fight to other portions of the Armour plant tomorrow unless & settlement is reached. | keeping back the people. Goes Into Hospital at Indianapelis and Operation Performed at Onoe. LEAVES LATER IN DAY FOR WASHINGTON All Engagements in the West Are Oanceled on Acosunt of His Illness, DUE TO EFFECT OF PITTSFIELD ACCIDENT Bruise Then Received Davelops Into Painful Absoess on the Leg. TEN DAYS OR TWO WEEKS REST REQUIRED Condition Not Alarming and Good Care and Rest is All that s Constdered Nece: y in His Case. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. Za—At T:43 this evening the president, accompanied by members of his immediate party and es- corted by a company of infantry, was car- ried on a stretcher from §t. Vincent's hee- pital to his car and the train left & few minutes later for Washington. The following official statement was fs- sued: “At 315 p. m. the president went from the Columbia club to St. Vincent's hospital in his own carriage and shortiy after he was in the hospital the operation required was performed by Dr. George H. Oliver of In- dlanapolis, In consultation with the presi- George A. Lung, and Dr. George Cook, Dr. Henry Jameson and Dr. J. J. Richardson. At the conclusion of the operation the physiclans authorized the following statement: “‘As a result of the traumatism (bruise) recelved in the trolley accident at Pittsfield, Mass., there was found to be a circum- scribed collection of perfectly pure serum in the middle third of the lett anterior tibial region, the sac containing about two ounc which was removed.’ “The indications are that the president should make speedy recovery. It is abso- lutely imperative, however, that he should remain quiet and refrain from using the leg. The trouble is not serious, but tem- porarily disabling. (Signed.) GEORGE B. CORTELYOU. Scretary to the President. Abandons Western Trip, INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 23. -- President tern tilp cawe io an un- timely end in this city today. He was found to be suffering from a swelling in the left leg between the knee and the ankle that required immediate surgical at- tention, and, instead of being taken to the traln to continue his journey to Fort Wayne, Milwaukee and Omaba he was con- veyed to St. Vincent's hospital, where he was operated on. The operation occurred at 3:45 o'clock | and lasted only a short time, when he was taken to a private room in the hospital to rest After taking a light luncheon at 7:50 p. m. he was conveyed on a stretcher to bis train, which had been<backed up on the “Y" near the hospltal, and at ten min- utes to 8 o'clock the train left for Wash- ington. The first intimation that anything was wrong came in the form of rumors to the great crowd that was patiently walting ound the Columblia club and the Soldiers’ nd Sailors’ monument for the president to ppear. It was about half past 2 o'clock, balf an hour after the time set for the president to leave the city, that a few of the favored ones in the crowd recelved in- timations that the president was sick and that the rest of the trip probubly would be abandoned. These statements ~ were they gained currency, but soon the rumors began to take on a more serious character. he president has burst a blood vessel," was a whisper that went around among the police officers and soldiers. ‘““This cannot be true,” sald others, the president is in the corridor conves with Senator Fairbank ¥ en Aw ination fs Hinted. Then 1t was sald that the president was sick, that he had fainted, and finally a rumor was started that he bad been shot. These rumors, however, did not appear to | reach the crowd, and the thousands stood patiently after the speech by the prestdent from the balcony to see him make his way out of the club. The minutes began to slip away, and still he did not come. A Ralf hour or more passed, and finally it w notfeed that a movement of some kind w on. The president's carriage stood in front of the entrance of the club, with Colonel Wilson, the governor's private secretary, inside holding the large bunch of American Beguty roses that had been given the pres! dent in the ball. The soldlers of the Na- tional guard were drawn up along the street just In the rear. The secret service men and the local police and detectives crowded the sidewalk in front of the club, The command was given to make room, and a path was cleared from the club entrance to the ear- riage and, as if in answer to the rumord of bis illness, the president, accompanied by Senator Fairbanks, with a quick and sturdy gait came down the steps of the club, and hastily entered the carriage. Colonel Wilson got out and Senator Fair- banks, Secretary Cortelyou and Governor Durbin took seats in the carriage with thé president. The carriage started immediately, the horses being urged into a trot. A second carriage containing the secret service of- cers followed closely in its wake, and a third one containing Assistant Secretaries Loeb and Barnes and Drs. George J. Cook and J. J. Richardson closed up the rear. No sooner had the carrlages started than | Captain Callon of Battery A, with twenty mounted artillerymen, and Captain Hyland with as many mounted police, surrounded them and In a few seconds the cavalcade swung at a rapid galt down Merldian street. Leaves Crowd Guessi The crowd in the circle had hardly got a glimpse of the carriages before they were gone. Much to their surprise, the soldlers were left behind, and also & number of the carrlages. Yet/ihey sent up & cheer, and apparently took it for granted that there was Dothing unusual in this method of leave-taking. The cavalcade started south on Meridian street between rows of banked-up bumanity beld back from the street by ropes, A slight rain had begun to fall, and this ap- peared to furnish the reason why the car- riage containing the president should be entirely closed. Above the sound of many horses trotting upon the asphalt and the rattling of the carriages could be heard the cheers of the people, who, though they could not see the chief executive of the na- tion, thought they were bidding bim a e et