Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1902, Page 2

—_— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1902. e —————————————e e e e e e et e e et et et whatl T hive to $ou, and asking why we| eould not have @ recelpt, ending by asking | i Uncle Sam Intended to take care of the| cowboys or war widowsa. | Inclose his let- ter in answer, Which i consider Insolent After that I wrote the, istter to land office asking for information on sub- ppose he sent it to Washing- D. €., as he never anewered. A few there caime In one of Fred Hoyt's envelopes a land o receipt for $14 entry fees on north of southeast quarter section 8, norfheast quarter southwest quarter section 2 T.29, K. 4 E. No state- ment or county mentioned. That may be all right, 1 don't know. Have no confi- At the top of said receipt, in written “Bialr Sport.” My id, “Mamma, what does that The wife of one soldler and the sister of four ought to be free from insult ‘while lrlnllcllns business with government employes. A widow of 18 not apt to be a “aport.” 180 nm"}nnw whether any of the | Blair women hi ver got thelr receipts. | All, 1,07 ey want e to know that thers will be no trouble when we come to prove up on the land and have something 4 show our right to it. Réspectfully, RB. CARRIE L. CARRIGAN. WILSON WILL GPEN BUILDING L Stock Shiow Attracts Crowds of Visitors in ve Great CHICAGO, Nov. 30.—If the number of people who visited the International Liv: Stock exposition today may be taken as a criterion, the attendance this year will ex- ceed that of last by fully 100,000, Twenty thousand Chicagoans passed the gates dur- ing the day and evenin, Among these were students from the varfous agricultural colleges, which will participate in the competitive events, com- mencing on Tuesday. They visited every department, taking elaborate notes in order to be prepared for their work. The dedication of the new pure bred live Stock record bullding will take place to- morrow evening, instoad of on Wednesday, e at first proposed. The secretary of agricditure will deliver the dedicatory address. Speeches will also be made by several prominent live stock men attending (he exposition, apd much im- portant business will be transacted. The buflding was' erected at a cost of 100,000 by the Union Stockyards company #s 2 pormanent home for the recognized Iive stock associdtions of America. The judging will begin tomorrow. PAPERS TO PHOTOGRAPH FAIR Concessionaire at St. Louis Will Have to Allow Newspaper Art Freed ST. LOUIS, Nov. 30.—Photography will become a feature of the amusement quarter of the world's fair, as the result of exclu- sive privileges for photographing the expo- sition and its varied life which are to be wold. The concessionare who obtains the mo- nopoly must agree to maintain and operate on the “Midway" a complete, modern plant. Ko must agree to buy and use the best mod- ern lenses and employ only experts. A single stipulation in this exclusive photographic concession nullifies its force with respect to .the rights of newspapers and periodicals to take views for reproduc- tion in their respective publications. Sale of photographs secured under fhis special privilege is strictly forbidden. The specification regarding photographic reproductions in the public prints was in- serted because of the complaint made at former expositions of arbitrary distinctions 1mposed by the sole concessionaire, and his usual inability to furnish special views re- «qufred by many different kinds of publca- tions. - TURN SETTLERS 10 SOUTH | Harriman Lines In to Wi | Texas and Loulsiana with Immigrants, CHICAGO, Nov. 30.—More than $100,000 will be spent by the Southern Pacific in the next five months In colonizing south- ‘western Loulsiana and southern Texas, The declslon to increase the efforts and oxpenditure which are being made to fill up the {slands was reached at a general meeting of representatives of the Harriman lines held hére last week and closing to- night. Attending the conference were: Stubbs, J C trafic director of the Harriman Ben Campbell, assistant trafic di- rector; 8. F. B. Morse, passenger trafio manager of the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio, Galveston & Northern, and assistant traflc mamager of the Southern work In Texas and Loulsiana is in charge of Colonel Morse, who declared that in the next ten years the development of these sections would be greater than that of any other section of equal area in the world. “You will appreciate that this mcy not be an exaggeration,” eald he, “when I tell you land is being sold there today at the rate of 100,000 acres per month. TALKS OF RHODES’ SCHOLARS Dr. Parkin Says it Will Take Twelve Months to Sett! the Details. NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Dr. George R. Parkin, who s charged with the distribu- tion of the Cecil Rbodes’ scholarships In the colonics and United States, returned today from England on the Cunard steamer Cam- pania. He sald: I have been at Oxford for several weeks Arying to aCertain the wishes of the OXford Suthorities as to manner of distribu- 3 ere twenty-one colleges at Ox- RUR S St & A AR uate and others uj ha D8 thy jeaf I shall be kept busy vl wncoded ng with the leading tes and colonfe to the best method of selecting candi The first beneficlaries will go to Oxford the fall of 19, eangequently the final be made early in that year. BOATS STRIKE LAKE REEF Barge and Its Tug Will Both Pro ably Frove to Be Total Losses. PUT-IN-BAY, 0., Nov. 30.—The steam barge D. F. Rose of Marine City, Mich., sud the barge Mosher of Port Hurem, struck Starvey Island reef iu Saturday night's gale it s foared that both vessels will be barges Wawanash and Lyman Casey, with Mosher belng towed by o to leave for Port Huron oday, though leaking badly. An attempt 1l be made tomorrow to release Rose and ler-grad- 0G THIEF SECURES PARDON One of the Queer Things Whioh Falls to the Lot of the Pres‘dent. NEWLANDS FINALLY WINS LONG FIGHT Work of Distributing Thirty-Nine Milllon Packages of Seeds is Begun by the Agricultural Department. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—(Special.)— President Roosevelt has pardoned a man imprisoned in Alaska upon comviction of stcaling a puppy, valued at $15. The pres- 1dent has all sorts of cases of convicts to consider. Thousands of applieations for pardon are filed with the president every year, but it is eeldom that he has a $15 puppy dog case to consider. Some years ago a western man of great prominence was convicted of a technical violation of the postal laws. He naturally desired a pardon, and he employed ex-At- torney General Carland, as his attorney. Mr. Carland was a confederate veteran. He represented the state of Arkansas in the senate, when he was selected for the head of the Department of Justice, by President Cleveland. Like all southerners he was somewhat slow in his movements and some of the friends of the western man came on to Washington to “hurry him up.” These western friends of the “man behind the bar" were somewhat per- slstent in their attempts to force Mr. Ca land to “hurry up.” Finally the former attorney general sald to ome of these triends, who is pot a lawyer. “Your associates don't seem to realize that I have had something more in the. way of experienice fn pardon cases than they possibly could. In ‘the first place 1 bhave defended men convicted of capital erimes. Some times I have succeeded in securing a verdict of acquittal for a man charged with murder. Later I was district attorney in Arkaneas and helped to convict men accused of like crimes. Later I joined in recommending the condemned for par. dons. 1 have served as a judge on the bench, and in that capacity have sentenced more than one man to death upon convic- tion under the charge of murder, and I have jdined in an appeal to the governor of Arkansas (o pardon the condemned man. I have even served as governor, and in that capacity- have granted pardons my- self. Finally I have been pardoned for my part in a capttal erfme and I belleve that I am botter qualified to talk on t subject of pardon than most men.” ‘‘Great Scott, senator,” exclaimed his :lller, ‘‘were you ever convicted of mur- er.” No,” replied Sepator Carland, “but I was convicted of treason and I was the first man in the south pardoned by Presi- dent Johnson." Newlands in Sight of Goal. A number of western politiclans, who have arrived in Washington, for the coming scsslon of congress, are discussing with much Interest the political situation in Nevada far it affects Senator William M. Stewart, and Representative Francls G. Newlands, who will in all probability suc- ceed Senator John P. Jones, in the senate, The ate has long been the goal of New- lands’ ambitions, and every step that he has made in that direction has been de- feated by Senator Stewart, who succeeded to thwarting the aspiring ambitions of his younger opponent until the passage of the irrigation bll whenthe long and bitter fight between Stewart and Newlands . for the supremacy in the #tate ended in favor of Newlands, and as a result of his political sagacity and his clever manipulation, New- lands now is in sight of the longed for seat. The passage of the frrigation bill was substantially the cause of Representa- tive Newlands' victory, for Irrigation is the sole hope of Nevada; and the circum- ances that Mr. Newlands had finally suc- ceeded in laying a solld, tangibie found tion for this hope is the firm belief of the people of his state, almost irrespec- tive of his party, and it was @ force that Senator Stewart could not cope with, al- though he had endeavored in every way to detract from Newlands the credit of having made an irrigation law possible. In this direction a rather amusing story is being told around Washington. Shortly after the irrigation bill was passed an ar- ticle was printed in a number of news pers, containing Interviews with Secretary Hitchcock and. Secretary Wilson, in which they gave Mr. Newlands the llon’s share of praise for' the successtul fight he had made for irrigation and the ultimate pas- sage of the bill. When Senator Stewart came across this article he was the most turiously enraged man possible, and im- mediately called on Wilson and Hitchoock, and indulged in a violent denunciation of Newlands, accusing the cabinet officer of having furnished campaign material for the democratic party. As a result of the last election the Nevada legislature has a total membership of fifty- four, and of these the fusionists have forty- six on joint ballot. Of the hold-over sen: tors the fusionists control nine and the re- publicans two. Senator Stewart's efforts were directed to the election of these hold- over senators, to the end that he might s cure re-election to the United States senate two years hence, and as the two republican members of the Nevada state senate have declared that they will not vote for Senator Stewart, It 1s almost safe to say that he s practieally out of the contest for the sena in 1905. Senator Fred Dubols of Idaho, in discussing the situation the other night, sald Newlands' name bas been so long and 80 intimately associated with the efforts to cure legislation for the Irrigation of arid lands that the republicans could not sweep him out of the way, and the consequence is he will be promoted to the United States senate, Distribution of Seeds. The work of distributing 39,000,000 pack- ages of seeds by the government has begun. B. F. Brown, the inventor of various ma- chines used in the preparation of the seed packeges, has the contract this year for preparing the seed for distribution. The country has been divided into six divisions, d by December 20 seeds will have been t to Alabama, Arizo California, Flor- ida, Georgla, Hawall, Loulsiana, Mississippl, New Mexico, South Carolina and Texas. By December 81 Arkansas, North Carolina, Ok- lahoma, Oregon, Tenness d Washington will be reached. The other states are reached in January, February and March. 1daho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming come last ané seeds to this, the sixth, division, will be sent by March 31. At the bullding 221 Thirteen and a Half street, used for the distribution of govern- ment seeds, workmen are busy remodeling the plant. Another set of bins to hold the sceds 18 being added and there will be an- other row of machines to count and sack the seeds. The process is so accurate and #0 complete that the scales show everp package of lettuce seed to weigh one-one hundred and twenty-elghth of a pouad. But what s more remarkable, package after package of flower seeds, after going through bins, chutes and machines, weigh exactly the same, the weight in the instance of one flower belng one-one thousandth of a pound and In asother one-twelfth hundredth of a pound. Starting at the top of the bullding the seeds descend to the mall carts, sorted, sacked, tagged and counted for the post- office authorities, almost all by machinery. On the upper floor there ir a row of small bins with chutes to the mhchines just be- low. Boys HIl these bins with seeds trom the sacks as it comes to the department from the various sources. Automatically it 1s fed to the machinds, each operated by one girl. These machines measure the quan- tity, put the seed In (he siall sacks and seal the sacks. A chute carries these sealed sacks to the large bins on the next floor below, bins large enough to hold 200,000 of these packages. Belts run around the out- side of these bins, sixteen in number, and a larger sack is used here. The belt car- ries the eack along the bin and the girls stationed along place in the sacks the vari- ous seeds. No mistake can be made. An operator cannot pick up any other variety and she cannot well miss the sack, as it slowly passes on (he wide belt. Colonel James Morrison, inspector-in-chief, also 100ks after that Statehood Bills First, With the arrival of senators and repre- sentatives, there is increasing interest in the omnibus statehood bill, the first great measure to come before the eenate. The house bill providing for the admission of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizoma ls pending in the senate as a special order for December 10. Plainly put the bill provides statehocd for three territories, but in the case of Oklahomi it is provided that in adopting Its construction Oklahoma shall remit to congress the right to add to its territory any part or all of Indian Territory It it should hereafter be the wish of con- gress to so Qispose of Indlan Territory, rather than admit it as a separate state. Up to this moment, senate opinion with rogard to statehood for those territories is badly mixed. The democratic senators are all in favor of statehood for the three territories, the qualifications being that some ~ are In favor of the admlssion of Okla- homa as a separate state, leaving Indian Territory to come In later as another state, while other democrats favor bringing in Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state. The republican senators are still | more mixed. Some, like Quay and Elkins, | tavor the admission of the three territories Just ag the house bill provides. Some favor the house bill amended so as to exclude New Mexico and Arizona. Some favor Okla- | home as ascparate state, leaving Indian Territory to the future, while still others tavor Oklahoma and Indian Territory as a single state. Of course there are senators who are opposed to the admission of any of the territories. Plainly the greatest obstacle to any sort of statehood bill s the varlety of views which exist among the senators. For this very reason it is safe to say that statehood for the latest applicants for admission may possibly fail. Even the differences between the senators who are favorable to statehood for the three territories may prove potent enough ! to defeat the whole measure, to say nothe ing of the views of those who favor state- hood for Oklahoma alone or of those who oppose any sort of statehood. Gamble Sees the Game. Senator Gamble of South Dakota this| morning concluded a little recreation would do him no harm before beginning his labors ' in the senate and accepted an invitation to go to Philadelphia to witness the foot ball game between West Paint and the Naval academy. BSenator Gamble went over to Philadelphia on a speclal train bearing a number of government officials and prom- inent officlals of the army and navy. Representatives Burkett of Lincoln, | Burke of Plerre, and Martin of Deadwood | arrived today and will make the Dewey their home during the coming session. Im- mediately after dinner, the trio linked arms and proceeded to the Cochran to ten- der thelr congratulations to“Uncle Joe™ Cannon. e i A EDISON’S ~ GREAT INVENTION A Thorough and Effective Dine Germ Destroyer. NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—The announcement a few weeks ago that Thomas A. Edison, ir., had discovered a new curative forcé which he embodied in his latest invention, the | Magno-Electric Vitalizer, startled the whole world. Hundreds of people have written from all quarters of the globe for a detailed description of the inventfon. No single in- vention of the past two hundred years has done 8o much for suffering humanity as the Edison, jr., Magno-Electric Vitalizer. No other invention has received such absolute proot of its extraordinary properties in cur- | ing consumption, rheumatism, restoring shattered constitutions, and in giving back | new life and energy to the prematurely aged. The one absorbing question of the hour is: What is the Magno-Electric Vitalizer? What does it absolutely accomplish? Hun- dreds of instances can be cited in which the wearing of the Magno-Electric Vitalizer has resulted in incalculable benefit to the wearer in even the short perlod of one week. Medical men in New York and in all of the large Eastern cities bave examined the new discovery and pronounced it one of the greatest boons of the age—the ounce of | cure for which the patient world has been waiting in the universal hospital. Edison, jr., 18 not alone in believing that it it be possible to perfect the human race it 1s in electricity that the means must be | sought and found. He has used the same talents in reducing this epoch-making in- | vention to a practical working basis as were | used {n harnessing and driving the lightning and collateral forces that play such an im- portant role on the stage of modern prog ress and activity. The Magno-Blectric Vitalizer is being placed on the market by Mr. Edison's own compaoy, the Thomas A. Edison, jr., Chem- ical Co., 4 Stone st., New York. Mr. Edison was seen in his laboratory yesterday. He sald: “I am personally su- perintending the distribution of the Vital- izer, as well as attending to the correspon- dence relating to it, because I wish every- body to have an equal opportunity to secure its curative ald. 1 want to help all sick people to be well and strong, but I mean to see that the same attention is given to the case of the farm-hand, afficted with rheu- matism, who writes me from Nebraska, that is paid to the rich man residing in onu of the palaces on the Hudson, who is suftering from nervous prostration. I am playing no tavorites; anyone with a two-cent postage stamp can write to the Thomas A. Edison, ir., Chemical Company and obtain my book- let, which will tell him clearly what the Vitalizer is and what it will do for him.” SALT TRUST WARS IN DEATH Fights Appointment Ousting T Its NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—An action to set aside ibe recent appolntment of receivers for the National Salt company and to have the bankruptey proceedings cancelled will be brought in {he United States circuit court at Newark, N. J., tomorrow, The contention will be made that jurls- diction was not vested iu Judge Kirk- patrick when he appointed the receivers, as the chancery court had previous to his dettsion appointed receivers on application of the directors, who represented that the company was insolvent. Receivers | was | of their present masters. ‘The chancery court receivers are at pres- company’s affairs. A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Brome Quinine Tablets. All druggists refusd the meoey If it falls to cure. B W. Grove's siguature is on each box. 6. ROOT WRITES OF WARRIORS Reports Remlt of Work Done by War Devartment. URGES REFORMS AT HOME AND OVER SEA Wants General Staf and National Militia Estab) d and Recom- mends Reduced Tarift for Philippine Islands. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Elihu Root, secretary of war, in his annual report mentions the reduction of the armed forces to 66,711 and an order which will result in further reducing the number by Feb- ruary next to 59,866, Of these 13,480 will be in the Philippines. The organizations stationed at Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley have been ex- empted from the reduction for purposes of Instruction, so that at the general serv- ice and staff college and the school of application for cavalry and light artillery, student officers may become familiar with the handling of troops at full war streugth. Islands Need Little Defenwe. The report continues: The only armed forces which will then remain to be maintained on account of the islands ceded by Spain will be the Porto Rico Provisional regiment and the Philip- pine scouts. 1 _recommend the ditcontinuance of the Porto Rico regiment, and that at the same time the right of eniistment in the regular | army be extended to citizens of Porto Rico. There i& no longer occasion for maintaining a special and peculiar force in the island, outside of the coast defense fortifications. The Philippine scouts, on the other hand, should be continued. They enable us to reduce the force of American iroops in the | Philippines more rapidly tnan we could without them, and their knowledge of the country makes them cspecially valuable in hynting down ladrones, which for a good while to come will be an urgent business. The relations between these scouts and the insular constabu.ary will have to be worked out hereafter when we have had lon perience and know better what revenues can be rélied upon by the insular govern- ment maintaining order, Many Recrults Rejected. During were 124,042 applications tor enlistment in the army, not including the Hospital corps and Philippine ecouts. Of these 37,461, or about 30 per cent, were accepted and 87,081, or about 70 per cent, were rejected. Of the number United States, 4,726 were of foreign birth | and 488 were born in Porto Rico; 34,617 were | white, 3,284 colored, 14 Indlans and 488 Porto Ricans (color not specified). The re-en- listments numbered 11,48 and the new e listments 26,026. Of the applicants reject 1,622 were rejected as allens and 3,828 as il- literates. The health of the army has shown a con- tinued tmprovement. Deaths from all causes during 1901 amounted to 1394 per 1,00 of mean strength, as against per 1,000 of mean strength during 1900. This large reduction of death rate wi in a great measure Que to {mproved conditions in the Philippines, where (he rate was re- duced to 17.% per 1,000 in 1901, as against 29.42 in 1900. The death rate from all causes Quring the year 1901 in the United States {90 per 1,000; in Porto Rico, 7.81; in and in the Pacific islands and China The, admissfons to sick report for disease and Injury and the discharges for disabliity agree with the reduced mor- tality rate in being considerably less. Yurther improvement of heaith In the Pl Cuba, 5.29, ppines may be anticipated from the | | cessation of guerrilla warfare, with the ex- posure incident to it. Full returns have not been received cov- ering the period of epidemlic cholera in the Philippines, but telegraphic reports Indi- cate that the army nas suffered but little. The principal mllitary events of the year nave been the end of the military occupa- tion of Cuba nd the end of the insurrec- uon in the Philippines. The report, proceeding, details the Amer- fcan evacuation of Cuba and the estab- lishment of the insular government, and the pacification of the Philippines. It continue: Moros Need Care. In the meantime the close general an ogy to the relations of the North Ame jcan Indians indicates a duty, for the pres- ent at least, of limited supervision and control operating upon the tribal gover: ments of the Moros, rather than an a tempt to substitute an American or Phil- ippine government acting directly upon the individual Moros. Now that the insurrection has been di posed of we shall be able to turn our at- tention, not merely to the slave trade, but to the already existing slavery among the Moros. We cannot immediately free the slaves by a single act, first, because it would require a war of extermination in probably be found fighting agalnst us; and, kecond, because a large part of them would have nowhere to go and no way to live if deprived of the protection and support I belleve, how- ever, that we can maintain a process of gradual and steady reduction, resulting ul- timately in the extinction of the practice of slavery. ‘The task of improving the Moros is by no means hopeless. General George W. Davis, who commanded in Mindanao, and now commands the Division of the Phil- ippines, says of them: "Whatever may be the number of Moros, whether a few or many hundred thou’ eands, all, and many times more than all, of these people will be needed as agricul- tural and mechanical laborers and helpers in the cultivation of the doil and the util- ization of its productions for the benefit of themselves and mankind. They are able to produce rice, sugarcane, coffee, corn, cattle, beautiful’ woven fgbrics, and thrusting and cutting weapons; they manu- facture bronze cannon and gunpowder, and glve surprising proofs of thelr ingenulty and ndustry. Their Moro boats are fash- foned and rigged and salled with the ut- 11l and are admired by all strang- ers. The restoration of the normal conditions of peace and the return part of the army to the United States have made it possible to resume with increased activity the work of preparing for future wars. The increase of the army from 25,00 to 60,000 has made necessary a great increase in barracks, quarters. hospitals, and all the constructions which go to make up an army post. The accommodations which had been provided before the war with Spain are now quite inadequate and require to be more than doubled. The rapld increase of Inexperienced men make the kind of exercise furnished by the joint army and navy maneuvers of last September of the utmost importance. I urge that appropriations be made by congress to provide for a continuance of the same prac- tice, and for the most liberal allowances of ammunition and projectiles for general target practice in which the entire coast artillery can take part. An_examination of the sources from which are drawn the officers of the army, as now constituted, shows how important it is to go on with the military education of officers In some general and systematic way. Of the 2,900 officers of the line, 1815 have been appointed since the beginning of the war with Spain. Of these 216 were supplied by the West Point academy; the remaining 1542 come—il4 from the ranks, 612 from civil life and 616 from the volun- teers of the war with Spain and in the Philippines. The volunteers and enlisted men have acquired useful experience and were ail selected on the ground of their military conduct and intelligence. Yet it Ben- erally true of the whole 1.542. constitutin, more than one-half of ali the officers of the line, that they have had no systematic military education. They constitute nearly the entire body of first and second lieu- tenants. ~After some years they will have to supply our generals and colonels and chief staft officers charged with the in- struction, discipline and command of our forces. Unless the theory of military edu- cation under "which we have maintained t West Polnt for a century e, It 1s important to give flicers soms of the educa- tional advantages which West Point men get before they are commissioned. The same will be true of future accessions to the force of officers, for West Point not be expected to fill more thi two-thirds of the annual vacancis Wants Militia Established. Tt is really absurd that a nation which maintains but a smail lar army and depends upon unprofessional citizen soldiery for its defense should ong as we have for 110 years under milih which never worked satistactorily obsolete before any man now fi tary duty was born. The result is we have practically no militia system, notwith- standing the fact that the comstitution makes It the duty of the federal congress “to brovide for organising, arming and dis- ciplining the militla.” 1 recommend, there- tore, the passage of the bi) introduced last Both forces are now useful agents in { the year ended June 30, 1902, there | cepted 32,49 were natives of the | the greater | session, which will er taining’ @ etanding ar o put a force of at I stantly upen a_d ation of war, the cost would be less than to mal few additional regiments of regul YOS, The military would then be le us while main L 80,000 men 000 into the force of the United States s follows gular army, capab the president whe coming to 100,000, cond. Such of the ady trained as a natlonal guard, luable, when used in the manner here- ter indicated, as any other troops) as the president shall see fit to call into the service of the United States for not exceed- ing nine months, to repel invasion. Third. A ficst volunteer reserve, composed of such companies, troops and’ regiments of the organized militia ady tra.ned as a national guard as volunteer by organiza- tions with all thelr officers and men. Fourth. A second volunteer reserve, com- posed of men previously enrolled and hav- ing military,/training in the National G the regular army or the volunteer army, and commanded by officers whose fitness has been ascertained by practical tests Fifth. Such turther volunteers as it may be necessary to call from the states, ac: cording to ~their respective quotas, and commanded by regimental officers ap- pointed by the governors of the states, The capacity of the National Guagd in general to serve effectively in the nation army depends largely upon the ald they r celve from the national government. 'The guird is now armed with a variety of weapons of difterent kinds and calibers, i cluding two different calibers of the obse lete Springfield rifie, the Lee, the Remin ton-Lee, the Winchester and the Krag- Jorgensen. In eeveral instances different Natlonal Guard organizations of the same o of en- he sees organized militia (al- nd just state are armed with different weapons of | the 115,000 4,00 have the difterent calibers. = Among al) national guardsmen on Modern service riflc of the army. With th exception of these 4,000 rifles the arms of the guard would be practically worthless in time of war. The militia and the volun- teer National Guard organizations in gen- Al would be obliged to throw away their present arme at the beginning of a war and get re-equipped with weapons tie use of which they had never learned. Create Genmeral Stafl, to be done now important thin ! the ‘creation of & e regular army is neral staff. It was the lack of such a body of men which led to the confusion atterding the Bantlago expedition in 1598, Promotes Economy in Army. The act of 1872, under which the ment acts practically as a savings bank, v beneficial. Under that enlisted men may deposit their savings sums not less than $, with paymast nd upon deposits of not less than maining for »d of six months, In erest is pald at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. Without this the soldier would in s, have no means of Investing or taking care | s from his pay, and the ten- spend the pay, whenever opportunity offered, up to the fall limit. Under this law the amount of savings reported by the paymaster general to the credit of enlisted men on June 30, 1802, was $4,260,24.81. The effect of this arrange- ment has been to promote economy, dis- courage vseless ard profligate exper and give the men who leave the service an accumulation upon which to start in clyil life I concur in the recommendation of the adjutant general that the privilege of this statute should be cxtended to officers, Philippine Matters Touched On, Immigrants to the number of 30,04 ar- rived in the Philippines durirg the fiscal year 1902 as against 17,108 {n 1%01. Of this number 12,751 (including 10,101 Chinese) had by o islands before. Among the came for the first time there or 88 per cent, Americans, 368 Chinese, 51 Japanese, 222 English, %8 Span- fards, 120 East Indlans, and 60§ of other nationalities. Among the Americans there were 176 merchant d; nd grocers, 790 teachers, 122 clerks an: ountants, ‘The greater number of Americans are, how- ever, not described by occupati More than three-fourths of the Chinese were laborers, and more than half the remainder merchant 1 earnestly urge, the duties levied in the United States upon products of the Philippines imported theretrom be Feduced to % per cent of the Dingley tarift rates; second, that the government be per- mitted to establish a gold standard for its currency, and to take such measures as it finds to be practicable and prudent to keep the silver coinage which it s au- thorized to issue at parity with gold, with- out in any way committing the United Stites te, reaponsibility therefor. MISSOURI LAW IN DOUBT No One Seems to Know at Present if Boodlers Can Be Legally Tried. of any savir dency would be t first, that ST. LOUIS, Nov. 30.—The December grand jury will be empaneled tomorrow and continue the investigation of municipal corruption, The full revelation of the nature and ex- tent of “boodling” in St. Louis, according e Ee9irme "part of tha slaves would | to the circuit attorney, is not yet finished and he states that he means to push it to completion. The intervention of the statute of limita- tions in the lighting blil case, and the fact that further indictments have been made in connection with this measure, have awakened discussion over the exceptlons to this statute and the possibility of fur- ther prosecutions. It is the opinion of lawyers that if an information has been filed or an indict- ment found against the alleged bribe- givers the trial will amount to a test of the statute. The circuit attorney refuses to discuss the exceptions. Charles F. Kelly is expected to reach here by Thursday. He will be tried on De- cember 15, on the Suburban charges, along with- seven other members of the house of delegates indicted in that conmnection, unless he secures a severance. This ac- tion on Kelly's part is not expected, how- ever. A number of other indicted delegates are also expected to come to trial between pow and December 15, and several others soon after, PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 80.—Mrs. Charles F. Kelly, arrived here todayJrom St. Louie. She was met by friends and at cnce taken to the central police station, where she had a six hours' talk with her husband It is expected the prisoner will be ex- tradited and taken to St. Louis within the next few days. Prise for Horse Race. NEW YORK, Nov. 80.—The conditions for the Futurity of 1903, to close January 5, are announced by the Coney Island Jockey club. Tbe added money for the race, as usuel, is $10,000, the estimated value being $75,000, of which sum $3,750 will go to the breeders. law | iture | { who amputated the tongue and gouged out .bcfure he died. WECTORE NETS FORTONE Oatholios Raise Twenty-Five Thousand at - One Meeting. | PRIEST TELLS OF EDUCATIONAL WORK Says Millions Are Paid in Taxes Which Are Not Due and One Million Ohildren Cared for Free by Church, CHICAGO, Nov ~“The Roman Cath- olics In the United States are annually pay- ing into the nationgl treasury $25,000,000 be- yond their rightful taxes and are educating 1,000,000 children without charging the country a cent. Yet we have never been given one word of praise for this work. The country is not to blame for this, we our- selves are at fault because we have never told the United States what we have been doin| In these words the Very Rev. Wil- liam O. Broen Pardow, 8. J., of New York City pleaded to an audience of Catholics that filled the Auditorium tonight to ald Cathollc schools. The aubject of the lecture was “Saint De La Salle and Modern Education,” and its { object the ralsing of funds for the teaghing | orders of the Catholic chureh. The management of the affair reported | after the meeting that $25,000 had been the net amount received. This amount includes | the $10,000 offered by W. Bourke Cockran of New York, conditionaMy on a like amount being raised by the sale of seats. UNKNOWN LAND TRAVERSED American Captain Visits New Re- ®lons In Island of Mindanao. MANILA, Nov. 30.—Captain Pershing, with sixty men, has completed a march | across the island of Mindanao from Camp | Vicars to Iligan., This is possibly the | first time that white men have made the j Journey. Captain Pershing visited the villages of Madaya and Marahul. On his way to Madaya he found the Moros surprised to learn that Americans were rot monsters ten feet tall, with horns and tails. At Marabul he addressed 500 Moros, telling | them of the friendly purposes of the Amer- fcans. Representatives of the Dato and Bocayutan tribes, which are now at war, asked Captain Pershing to arbitrate. He agreed to visit them and give his arbitra- tion on his return journey to Camp Viears. No hostility was shown toward the column | on the march. The constabulary in the Zambales prov- ince report a repulsive incldent of cruelty | perpetrated by ladrones. Several columns of constabulary had been chasing them with the assistance of friendly natives column and were captured by ladrones, | the eyes of one friendly and then sent him back to the constabulary. The fate of the others is unknown. FORTUNE AWAITS CLAIMANTSi Vienna Miser Leaves American Rela. | tives Who May Hear Something to Thelr Advanta VIENNA, Nov. 30.—The heirs, some of whom are living in the United States, are wanted to an estate valued at about $100,- 000 left by Helnrich Oestericher, a miser, Five of the friendlies straggled from the | DIETRICK HAS OPERATION Peary's Doctor uffers trom Appendi- Feel, Knife, eltis and Surgeon's PHILADELPHIA, Nov. §0.—Dr. T | Dietrick, who was with Lieutenant Pears when he made the last oxpedition in search of the North Pole, is lying seriously ill in St. Luke's hospital, a victim of appendioftis Dr. Dietrick had been suffering with in tense abdominal pains for a week, when he came to this city. The doctors told him he would have to undergo an operation his life was to be saved The operation was successtully performed on Friday by Prof. Carl V. Vischer, chiet of the medical staff. Dr. Dietrick's condition was tonlght reported to be favorable with bright chances for recovery GILMORE RANCHER IS DEAD Just in Time Wyoming Arrives End Chicago Life at Hotel. CHICAGO, Dec, 1.—(8pecial Telegrim.) Richard Danells, aged 74, a prominent ranchman of Gilmore, Neb., died at the Wyoming hotel here shortly after miduight supposedly of Peart disease. He arrived bere In corpany with his nephew, Thomas Moriimer, and fyrmer Governor Packard of lTowa only an hou previous to his death. Always the Same Good Old BLATL BEER The Pride of Milwauke Bend Postal Card for New Brochure which tells why BLATZ B:ZER IS RICHT BLATZ MALT-VIVINE (NON-INTOXICANT) TONIC FOR THE WEAK' All Druggists or Direct VAL. BLATZ BREWING CO., Milwaukee OMAHA BRANCH, 1412 Douglas 8¢t. Tel, CHICAGO AND RETURN 1081, who recently died here. The Vienna authoritfes found among his papers a schedule of securities worth $100,- 000, but only certificates to the value of $73,000. Upon being questioned, Oeste- | richer's landlady produced a batch of se- | curities worth $17,000, and sald the de- ceased had presented them to her the day The woman has handed over the papers, but without renouncing her claim on them, ! Oestericher -left a brother and two mar- | rled sisters living somewhere in the United States, while among the heirs are three children of a deceased sister named Roths- child. CASTRO Opens Jatl . ical Offenders Loose Once More. FREES PRISONERS | CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 30.—Presi- dent Castro has. opened all the pris- ons In this city, at Puerto Cabello and Maracaibo and liberated the political of- tenders confined therein. Among the released prisoners are Olavar- ria, the brother-in-law of General Matos, ' Acedo, the latter's confidential agent, and | leading traders jo Caracas named Travesio Voncah und Nunez, who were arrested for complicity in the revolution. This act h produced a good impression and it is re ported that General J. M. Hernandes, called “El Mocho,” and three others of the rev- olutionary leaders will also be liberated | shortly. COAL OIL CAN EXPLODES . but Com- Journmey Instead. ELKHART, Ind., Nov. 30.—Arthur and Charles Lynett, 8 and 6 years, respectively, died today as the result of burns recelved this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Lynett slept late. The boys came down stairs before their parents o and the older boy attempted to nxr}.’nre with kerosehe. An explosion follow. d both boys received burns from which they dled. + It outsells all others— SWIItS | Jersey Butterine More Jersey sold than any other Butterine, because it ex- cels all others in quality and appearance. Put up in 1 and 2-1b. prints in printed paper wrappers like cut. Ask your dealer. Faasas Gty Omaa St.Losis Swift & Company, Chicago St.Jescph St.Faul PLWerth - SI4.T% The Rook Island System will sell tickets on Nov. 30th, Dec. 1lst and 2nd to Chicago and return for $14.75, good for returm until December 8th. (TIVANEIL] TICKET OFFIGE, OMAHA. NEB. ~ Specialists In all DISEASES 3 DISORDE of MEN, : 12 years of suce ceasful practice in Omaha, JARIO0ELE ADROELE a4 rou SYPHILIS 5 ot O orreet e s REAKING OUT ot cured for lite and cleansed STRIGTURE =zt " s oms b FRINARY, Kidney and Biadder Troubles Weak Urime, of Urinatias, Uriss mll or nddress, 110 S. 14th St. SEARLES & SEARLES. °¥i* AMUSEMENTS. BOYD’S —TONIGHT—TUESDAY NIGHT— JAMES NEILL and_the Neill Company— - Tontght—+UNDER THE RED ROBE.” ~Tuesday—“HON. JO GRIGSBY "~ Prices: 25¢, boc, ¢, §1.00——— WEDNESDAY MAT. and NIGHT—Thurs- DAY NIGHT— “PUDD'NHEAD WILSON,” With W, 8. GILL in the title role. Prices: Mat., %c, Hc. Night, %c, Hc, e, $1.00. FRIDAY—SATURDAY MAT. and NIGHT— GERTRUDE COGHLAN bt LICE OF OLD VINCENNES." Woodwara & Burgess, Managers. ‘elephone, 1881, Matinees Wednesday, Saturday, 205, Every Night, 8:15. HIGH CLASS VAUDEVILLE Athos Family, Carver and Pollard, Mark ullivan, Kelly and Violette, Berol and gfluk Baby Lund, Alburtus and Millar and the Kinodrome. Prices—l0c, Ze, Sbe. S HOTELS. Bundey, Th )it eud Douglas 5in OMAHA, NEB The MILLARD, owaus: vy "™ f SPECIAL TEATURES: % l LUNCHEON, FIFTY CENTS, l ecessl- 12: to 3 p_m. SUNDAY, 6:8 p_m. DINNER, ie. Steadily Increasing business has ated an enlargement of this cafe, doubling is former capactty.