Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 18, 1902, Page 1

SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. ASK CASTRO TG YIELD | Caracas Merchants Say Nation's Honer is Amply Satisfed. WIXED REPORTS ARRIVE ON ARBITRATION 18, 1902—-TEN PAGES. TOCKHOLDERS INY MARMONY (RK\TNESS F VEBRASKA Pleasant Theme on Which Real Bnnni Dealers Descant. | | IN SESSION F THE WEATHER| Thursday and * Friduy F CESTROYS TowN (ONEER 0N & LEASING BILL'S Russinn Tarkestas, | n. Dee. - Totally Annihilated, bat Yamber 24 Yet Known, s sovern: | RAILROAD CASE AN THE SUPREME COURT e jearth- AKE DITION O " for N MUST STOP MERGERS| o CON Forecast hraska-—Rain 1 stern Portion Intersirte Commeros Commission Cails on | Congress for New Lawn COMPETING RAILWAYS NEARLY WIPED OUT Cattlemen and Nebraska Delegation Wark- ing on the Details. ot Killed 2 | AsvkaBEL, I\u!‘\ —The tawn of Andijufl ment, was totally destrowe quake today. Combi of Tnternsts Consolidates Mag. | The number of fatalities iy b .- | certained. The pepulation fs t#i A | agement in Individual Hands. | with starvation. Shocks were felt in . w | | Marghelan and surroundfme villages and a | . | RESULT DISASTROUS TO PUBLIC WELFARE | ™//™7 at Andlian was . ¢royed for a Temperature at Omaha Yew . Deg. Hour. “ 1 15 " 15 I | ! rdny | Des. | LOUISVILLE, Ky, Dee If.—The ad- Jjourned meeting of the stoskholders of the ' STATE CONVENTION NOW Louisville & Nashville mern was held here today Mare than ordinary intemst centered in the gathering, as it was te first meeting | since the sysiem passed updbr contrel of the Atlantic Comst Line. # Meard of thir- teen directors was elected. Mr. Beaument | 1 n el 2+ | Beriin Says Offer is Declined; Venesusia Y Claims it is Acocepted. » o — Delegates Gather to Hear O Addresses and Pay Fine Comp llenges Conatitutionaiity of Nebraska Law on Damages as Interpreted by the State Court. ments to the State Where - ». » o » They Live. Legislagien Sufficiont Tnder 01 Order Must | Be Bepinced Now, | CRIMINAL CLAUSES AT PRESENT USELESS | Last Year's Bxposnre of Secret Grain Rates Wonld Have Been Followed Wy [ndictm 1f Statute Was Not Dend Letter. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The tendency to combine continues the most significant feature of railway development, according to the annual report of the Interstate Com- merce commission, issued today. The re- | port says | “It is not apen to question that the com- petition between railrond carriers, which | formerly prevailed, has been lately sup- pressed, or at least bhrought to the condl- tion of effective restraint. “The progress of consolidation, In one form or another, will at no distant day confine this competition within narrow and unimportant limits, because the control ot | most railway. erties will be merged in A few Individ¥nls, whose combination in- | terests impel them to act in concert. “While this will insure, aw probably nothing else can, in equai degree, the ob- servance of published tariffs, and so meas- urably remove some of the evils which the act was dewigned to prevent, the resuiting | situation involves consequences to the pub- | lie which claim the most serfous attention. | A law which might have answered the | purpose when competition was relled upon | to secure ressomable rates s demon- | atrably inadequate when that competition is dispinced by the most far-reaching and powerful combination. “Some great change in the conditions ealls for a corresponding change in the reg- ulation of the statute.” The commission reaffirms its recom- mendations for amending the interstate commerce law and urges the grave neces- ity tor I ton. The repert saye that the fact that 1o | convictions have vet been obtatned nor in- | | | dictments found in the cases of the roads ‘which were shown by an Mvestigation last winter to be given secret rates to grain shippers, emphnsizes the fact that the crim- inal provisions of the present interstate law are practically a dead letter. | Injunctions Raise Rates. | The commission says the effect of in- | junctions to compel roads to observe pub- | lished tariffs has been to materially ad- | vance. tip. rate. the. earrier and patd By the that their operation enables advances which otherwise might not be made. But while the producer will undoubtedly | pay from now on from 5 to 7 cents per 100 | pounds more to transpert grain from the fleld to its destination than he paid before these injunctions took effect, that must not | be regarded as an argument against the in- junctions. Thers ought to be some power to compel the carriers to maintain the pub- | lished rate and to publish a fair and res- | sonable rate. | Thirty-eight formal proceedings, double | the number brought in the preceding year and invoiving rates and practices of 300 rallronds, were Instituted during the year. To promote more general compliances with the spirit of the safety appliance law in the use of air brakes the committes rec- ommends the passage of an act forbidding the running of trains in which less than one-half the cars are equipped with power MERGER HEARING RENEWED i Lands on Twoe Lines Warth More Than When Cressed by Ouly one. ST PAUL, Minn, Dee. 17.—The merger Bearing was today adjourned to be resumed at New York on December 2. C. 8. Staples, railroad commissioner, was ealled to {dentify the commissioner's map of Minnesota, as showing correctly the railroad lines in the state. and Charles L. Cook, §. A. Hoyt, Prankiin Benner and ¥ Christensen of Olivia, dealers in farm lands, testified that lands close to two or more competitive rallroads were more valuable | than lands on only ome railway. { The Northern Paciflc trust deed and a | msiderable distance was among those retainedi The Atlantic | Food and clothing are being sent Andijan WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.~The State de- partment has received from the Umdted States consul at Apia, Samos, a report that November 2 two supposedly extinct craters in the volcano of Manga, Apis, on the is- nd of Savaail, broke into vivient erup- tion. Heavy earthquake shocks preceded | the volcanic outbreak. No lives were lost. Andijan is a town of Russian central Asia, seventy It had a popu a ation of about 30,000, SHIPS FAIL TO KEEP PORTS Naval Maneuvers Show Some Veswels wed to Evelutions Practiced. SAN JUAN, Perto Rica, Deec. 17.—The Amerfcan fleet continued ita exercises in squadron formation today. The maneuvers thus far have shown that vessels which have not hitherto been con- nected with the North Amerfcan squadron are not tamillar with the present sxercises, they frequently fail to retain their posi- tions. Admiral Dewey notes all errors and !s informed of the names of the oficers in charge of the various vessels at the time the errors are committed. He transmits his views to the commanding officery for their guidance. This has resulted n a feeling of rivairy between the ships which is certain to be beneficial. The present exercises test the ability of | under way promptly | he vessels to get and to maintain their position when stand- ing and changing formations. |QUEEN ACTS AS GODMOTHER Alexandra Signe Reginter with Others at Christening of Young Duke of Manchester. LONDON, Dec. 17.—Queen Alexandra to- day acted as godmother at the christening of Lord Mandeville, the heir of the duke and duchess of Manchester, in the chapel | royal, St. James paiace. Her majesty signed the register with the duke and duchess of Manchester. Mrquis de Several, the Portuguese minister, Count von Mensdorff, secrstary of the Austria- Hungarian embasey, Barl de Grey, Lady Lister-Kaye and others. The queen’s present to her godchild was a silver bowl and spoon, inscribed “To Alex- ander George, Viscount Mandeville from by Appreaching Abdication of Empress Dowager. VICTORIA, B. C., Dee. 17.—Mail advices received from Chang King, in the Sgehuan province of China, say Meichou and Kiat- ingfu have closed their gates and declared a state of seige, owing to the numerous bodies of armed Boxers in their vicinity. Troops sent to raise the stege failed. It is reported trom Pekin that Yung Lu, first grand secretary of China, who since Li Hung Chang died has been the most power- ful man in China, is anxious to resign. The empress dowager proposes to abdicate next year and Yung Lu wishes to amtioi- pate the event by placing himseif beyond he range of consequent complications. WITH RIGHT TO SUCCEED Coadjutor Archbishop Insteand of an | Assistant to Be Vamed at St. Lomis. ROME, Dec. 17.—The congregation of the propaganda intends, in accordance with the pope’s settled policy, to appoint a coadju- tor archhishop of St. Louis, with the right of succession, instead of an assistant. The pontiff desires this mile to be ad- hered to in ail cases, except in the most important dioceses, where archbishops must be slected, as he does not approve of the appointment of auxiliaries who om the death of their late superiors are left with- out a position. EXECUTED WITHOUT A TRIAL Bumber of the exhibits in the federal case | Bi® were submitted. | It had been expected that I J. Hul| would be called, but the state decided not | to put him on the stand. He may appear | Iater as a witness for the defense. PLAGUE GERMS IN THE FOOD Goeds Shipped to Houolula from Jupan and China Carry Disense. | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17.—Advices re. cotved from Homolulu show that investiga tion proves that foodstuffs shipped to Hon- elulu from Jupan and China vis San Fran- | cisen are responsible for the ocases of Pplague recently appearing ‘here. A number of Japanese on nearby planta- tions were taken with the plague and died n a hospital in Honelulu. An examination of their effects was made but no trace of the germ was discoversd unttl thorough tests had been made of some of the Japanese grocertes found in the Rouse. | These foods under the microscope showed | a trace of the plague germs and further | examinations made of oriental stufts showed that the diagnosis was correct. POISONED TACKS MAKE SICK\ Girl Basket Worker Carries Vails in | Mouth and Almest Lores Life. | METROPOLIS, Qll., Dec. 17.—A. mouthul | of tacks from a dish contatning lir)'t‘.lflll‘ nearly killed Miss Birdie Woodard, an em- | ploye in & loeul basket tnetory. today. She is in the habil of keeping her mouth full | of tacks wih which 0 Iasten of the basket bunds. They were tnk from a dish, inte which, it is thought, someone put stryehuine yesterday. Today. after using & few mouthfuls of ‘Ifll.-‘;: became vielently UL A docter Was A Ume W save Ber lle | der has been re-estabilshed here. PORT AU PRINCE, Hayti, Dee. 17.—Or- During the fighting yesterday a number of per- sons were injured, including two Italians, | who were serfously injured. Two men accused of committing crimes were excused during the day without trial The United States legation is protected by troops. BOOKKEEPER DEFRAUDS BANK Institution at Beriin Loses S175,000 Through the Dishonesty of an Employe. BERLIN, Dec. 17.—The Darmstarder bank has been defrauded of $175.000, owing to false entries in the books on the part of a bookkeeper, Nessier, who had charge of the deposits. Nesslor has been missing since Sunday Sixty-Three Frosem to Demth. VIENNA, Dec. 17.—Aceording to advices from Huuogary sixty-three persons were frozen to death during the last three days. Wolves are devastating the sheepfolds and bave devoured three sheep herds. German Turre: Ship Ashore. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 17.—The German turret ship Witteisback s ashore near Kos- ver. The German warships Kaiser Wilhelm dor Grosse and Tring Hefarioh have gone | to its assistan Quigiey is Archbishop. ROME. Dec, I7.—it is reported ‘hat Bishop James B Quigiey of Buffalo, N. Y., ce. the ends has been appointed archiishop of Chicage | | in succession to the late Archbishap Feehan. MARSEILLES. Dec. 17.—The strike is at an end. the sailors having voted to resume WOrk LOmMOIToOw. - three miles from Khokand. | (From a Staft Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Dee. 17 —(Special Tele- gram.)—Representatives of the Nehraska Stock Growers’ associntion had an ex- tended conferemee tonight with Senators Dietrich and Millard and Representatives Burkett and Shallenberger aver the new | leasing bill, appllcabie only to Nebraska, which it is believed by catctiemen will solve the much vexed question growing out af the occupancy of the pubiic domain. Chair- man Lacey of the public lands committes, who has held promouaced views on the question of leasing public lands to oattle barons for grasing purposes, was also pres- | ent. The bill, which is the result of many conferences between representatives of the government and cattlemen, pravides for ten years' lease ofjpublic lands, the maxi- | mum of a leasehoid being thirty seetions, |or 19,200 acres, to be divided into six classes and to rent from 1 to & cents an acre per annum. The bill also provides for the leasing of lands contiguous to free goid, s0 as to give the largest range pos- sihie for cattle owners. It provides that half the proceeds from the lease shall be devoted to irrigation, ome-fourth to Ne- braska and ome-fourth to the county. In view of the character of the territory rep- resented by the Cattle Growers' association. it is claimed that it requires thirty acres | to feed one steer, and comsequently thirty | sections is not dispropertionate to the in- | erests of the particular section. | Senator Dietrich suggested a very similar | measure early in the last session of con- | gross. The committee of cattlemen had an in- | terview with Secretary Hitchcock teday, at which it was suggested to get the Nebraska delegation together an a proposition, and tomight's conference was the result. Toward the close of the conference Representatives | Mondeil of Wyoming and Moody of Oregon, who are largely imterested in this ques- tion, entered the conference to urge that | Nebraska take the initiative in the proposi- | tion to lease the public domain for cattle | grasing purposes. At the close of the con- | | terence it was decided to hold a further | meeting of the Nebraska delegation, at | which time one member would be selected | | to introduce the measure. James A. Kline of Minden, natfonal bank | examiner, 1s the guest of W. B. Andrews, | auditor for the Treasury department. Burkett Names Cadets. Representative Burkett today ommed W | C. Cook of Lincoln and Elmer P. Drake of | | Pawnes City as alternate cadets to the military academy at West Point from the First district of Nebraska. Rallrond Case in Supreme Court. The Chicaga, Burlington & Quiacy Rail- way Company against Hate G. Wolf, ad- ministracrix of John F. Wolf, deceased, ap- Dealed from the supreme court of Nebraska, wag argued in the supreme court today. J. W. Deweese appeared for the railroad com- | pany and T. J. Mahoney of Omaha for the | | plaintiff. This action was brought by John | F. Woife in his lifetime to recover dam- | ages for the loss of a foot caused by be- | ing run over by a Buriington car. The ques- | | tion involved in this case is whether the | | Nebraska statute, as constructed by the Ne- | braska courts, is repugmant to the comsti- | tution of the United States; whether a rail- road company is absolutely lable for in- juries sustained by a passenger without any | tault of the company, not only without any fault of the company, but when injures were caused by & fault of the passenger in- jured. Woif was a passenger aboard a train on | December 4, 1884, from Oxford to Holdrege, | and was thrown from the train and fell in | such a manner that his left leg and foot were run over. He sued for $30,000 damages | and secured a verdict for $5,000, and at the same time the court made a special finding of fact in response to certain questions ag to whether the train at the time of the se: ! cident was being run in the ordinary way. On the general and special verdicts peturned | by the jury judgment was rendered agaimst the railroad company, and on appealing to | | the supreme court of the state, that court held that the rairoad company, by reasen | of the Nebraska statute, was absalutely la- | ble for injuries received by passengers while riding upon railroad trains, and rm.l | liability existed without any fault or wrong on the part of the railroad company. Adjudicating Shoshone Claimw. Senator Clapp (Minn.) today introduced a ! bill referring to the court of claims the claim of the Shoshone Indians to title in all of the Wind River reservation in Fremont | county, Wyoming. It was provided by | treaty, dated February 24, 1869, to set apart the Shoshone or Wind River reservaiion for | the absolute and undisputed use and occu- pation of the Shoshones. In 1877 the Sho- shones gave their consent that a band of | Northern Arapahoes should be removed to their reservation as their temporary abid- ing place. This band of Arapahoes has re- mained ever since and now claim to own an undivided one-half interest in the Shoshone | reservation. The Arapshoes have by au- thority of the United States, but against the protest of the Shoshomes, received one- | half of all the proceeds derived from graz- ing leases, from the sale of the Big Horn hot springs, formerly & part of the reserva- tion, and of all other momey as proceeds from the Shoshone reservation. Therefore as the Shoshone tribe of Indians claim to own the Wind River reservation in its en- tirety and to be entitled to all proceeds derived from grazing lemses and the sale of the Big Horn hot springs, jurisjction ts conferred on the court of :aims to hear and determine the claims of the Shoshenes. | Logan for Postmaster at Pones. J. H. Logan was today recommended for postmaster at Ponca, Neb.. by Representa- \ive-elect J. J. MeCarthy. The papers were transmitied to the Postoffice department hy Semator Millard, with a favorable recom. mendation. ! Senator Millard, Miss Millard and Mrs. W. B. Millard were guests of Senator and Mrs. Scott at dinmer last evening, { Root Asks for Money. | Sacratary Roet today sent to congress s | supplemental estimate for appropriactons | to be expended at Battie Mountain sani- | tartum, South Dakota. Mr. Root urges an | appropriation of §200.000 for the completion | of the samitartum in accordance with picns adopted at & meeting of the Board af Man- agers of soldiers’ homes in Washington a week or more ago. He also wants an ag- propriation of §10,000 to purchase a strip of ground lying between the site donated by | o ] m Ja Vu’ i} VE ‘7 7’ | | | | | | July Dr. Hendricks was s Const Line was weil ropresented. The directors will meet in Néw York next Friday to organize. Six of the old directars, including Milton H. ~lmu::-mn| of the retained. Louisville & Nashville, The meeting of the stdeihoiders was harmonious throughout, sedl ail who at- tended were pleased at the outlook as evinced by the declaration of the new di- rectors. While control of the Louisville & Nashville property has psssed into the At- lantic Coast Line, it seems eertain that the old officers of the Louiwville & Nashvilie il be rotained and ihe @it polley con- tinued. | R. W. Belknap presided 400,000 of the 600,000 sented. After the verifying following board of di August Beimont, chai Nashville Railroad elected: R. C. Hrwin, dent Atlantie Comst Line railroad, New{ York; M. H. Smith, president Louisvillhk & Nashvilie a little over proxies the was chosen: Loufsville & railroad, Loutsville, re-efected: H. Walter, | chairman board of directors, Atlantic Coast | Line Railroad company, New York: Warren Delano, jr., Baltimore, Md.; Warren G. Bliott, president Atlantie Comst Line of Connecticut and general counsel of the At- lantie Coast Line Railroad company, Baiti- more; Michael Jenkins of Atlanta, stock- Eolder Atlantic Coast Lime; G. P Kinsley, third vice president New York Life [ ance company, New York; Attilla president Columbia Finance and Trust com- pany, Lousville, Ky., re-elected; W. G. Raoul, president National Raiiroad of Mex- ico, New York, re-clected: John L Water- bury, Manhattan, Tex., re-sleeted; Waite Onkman, New York, re-elbeted; R. F. Elane, New York, re-elected. After the meeting Mr. August Belmont said: “The directors of the road will meet in New York Friday. I prefer not to forecast their action, but I will say that there will be no radieal change in poiley and that the officers to be elected will be agreeable to the old constituency of the road.” Mr. Belmont and Mr. Milton & Smith left the meeting apparently in the best of spirits. It is said that ME Mitchell will be re-elected president om Friday, with the same authority, and that UPBRAIDS Mystery Surrounnds Gecurred in ments. Telegram. ) latest of interesting gomsip concerning Mrs. B. Molineux is to the effect that herself and & man whose identity has not yet been discov- ered were the principals in a which is alleged to have taken place in her apartments last Saturday night, but tm- formation of which did not leak out until this afternoon. According to the stories toid. occupant of rooms in proximity to the apartment of Mrs. Molineux were startled about 11 o'clock Saturday night by a man entering her rooms and bitterly arraigning her. She was apparently greatly angered by his flerce attack and the audacity displayed by administering a tongue-iashing to her and replied vigorously to the reerimina- tions of her caller. The war of words is alleged to have continued for some time, | attracting the attention of several persons in nearby rooms, who could not heip but hear the angry voices of the two, although it was only now und then that they could distinguish what was said. Not enough was heard to reveal what the quarrel was about. Whether or not the alleged midnight caller was an emissary of Roland B. Mo- | Uneaux or a New York acquaintance of M. Molinesux’s cannot be ascertained. Many people will be keenly interested in solving, If possible, the mystery surround- ing his identity. CONSPIRACY TRIAL BEGINS Witness Says at First Undecided How to Proceed. FREEHOLD, N. J, Dec. 17.—The first witness today in the trial of Laura Big- gar, Dr. Charles C. Hendricks and Samuel Stanton for alleged conspiracy to get the estate of Henry M. Bemnett was A. V. D. Watterson of Pittsburg, counsel for P. J McNulty, one of the executors of Mr. Ben- nett’s, and a beneflciary under the will. Mr. Watterson said Dr. Hendricks told him last June thet he would sither olaim for Miss Biggar her share of the estate under the will or lay claim to the whole for her as the common law wife of Mr. Bennett, or put in & claim for the services she had rendered him during his life. In indecided. Mr. McNulty testified that he went to the Bayonne sanitarfum at Miss Biggar's request and met the doctor, who had mot made up his mind what to claim for Miss Biggar. Henry Croft, clerk in a New York sta- tionery store, testified regarding the biank certificate signed by Mr. Stanton, former justiee of the peace, setting forth the ai leged marriage of Miss Biggar and Mr. Ben- Bett. Witness sald certificates of the kind said to have been used by Mr. Stanton were printed December 23, 1900. The date of the marriage certificate was January 2, 1898, Secsetary Tucker of the Hohoken Board of Health, testified that Stanton had asked him to ente. the marriage on the records. ILLINOIS ROAD MOVES MEN Scott Becomes Assistant Gemeral Pas. senger Agent, with Hemd- auarters at Loaisville. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 17.—A number of changes have been made in the passenger department of the [llinois Central's south- ern lines, to become effective on February L The most important is the appeintment of John A. Scott, at present divisiom pas- senger agent of the road at Memphis, to succeed W. A. Keilond of Louisville as as- sistant general passenger agent. With this change is also announced the (ranster of the assistant gemerai passenger agent's beadquarters from Louisville ‘o Memphis and the estabiishment of & division pas- were repre. | m: New York, re- | quarred | | thing that ever happened to ns | mitting men to go east to solleit aid in 1894 | We should | from 1 A large number of real estate dealers | from the state and an aimost full rep- resentation of the Omaha Real Hstate ex- change were present at (he opening meet- ing of the second annual convention of the | Nebraska Real Estate Dealers’ assoctation. It was 8 o'clock when President James | Conkling of Frankiin called the meeting to order and intreduced Dr. E. Combie Smith of the First Methodist church, wha offered prayer. The president then introduced C. F. Har- rison, president of the Omaha Real Estate exchange, who, in his address of welcome, said in part It is salu that God made the country and 1 made town, but L belleve that | God also mude the fown when He made | the combinations of nature which quired Ly cities. Omaha s the natur: | suit of its location. It is the log! of a combination of circumstances | natural adv The location ot eastern termi the Union Pacific | roud. at O e of the drst (hings | that w make Omuhn great, but we | are not dependent upon the railrouds. We | residents af Omuha do not k are doing here. The smelter | bustness 30,000,000 4 ve 82,500 a day for labor. It ha il parts of the western cont We have . be known as the great packing mter of this region—built up in just vears. These enter; are not so due to man as to nature. The man is wise, indeed, who knows whe v piteh his tent, but no man can make a_town if the loc does not possess natural advantage. Objects of the Gathering. Conventions of this kind are held for threa reasons. One to permit the members of the assoctation to get acquainted with each other. Acquaintanceship seems to be a small thing, but it is a goud thing to get acquainted. A second reason 18 0 gt members pportunity to get into touch with bust conditions. This s a day of large affairs. Once a milllon doilars was A very large sum. Today we talk of milllons as we once taiked of thousands. The men who know are kings and . hen we meet men upon whom we can rely we are for tunate. The third reison is for the purpose of dis- cussing business affairs. We have five general subjects for dlse: irrigation, segisiation, taxation, lmm n_ and sociation. W o place business on a higher plane. There is a ¢ ing that real estate men are not rell and in some cases this is s0. It is bet | be fair than to “take all the tramfic bear” when the opportunity in offe | Here in Omaha we have set up a stand |of fairness apd straightforward dealing | and the man wha violates it is in disgrac You are more than welcome to this town and If we have forgotten anything for your comfort we will consider it a favor if you will suggest it. J. A. Siater of Minden, who responded, said in part: We feel proud of Omaha. Iowa I take pride in referring to the fact that that state has no town Ik~ it, Ilinos has but one. We have a right to be proud of Omaha, for we have heiped to maikte it, and we are alo proud of the N Of the: wtrve thing necessary to make a successful farm. ing community. Most of our farms are awned by those who occupy them. Their | houses are good and weil furnished. The granuries are full, the creameries are turn- ng out fine butter and the pouitry business | 18 one that should not be overfooked. Mouney in Vebraska Farmw. Farm laborers are in demand and_cannot | be secured in sufficient numbers. Each of | the ten counties has garnered in fuil cro | of winter wheat, corn, hay and other pro | nets. Our farmers had a strpius of mon {in the banks. Banks were full all summe | Little of the crop of 192 has gone on_the market, and the bank surplus has been somewhat reduced. Nearly all the co crop will be fed or sto Our farms pa from $2 to § per acre on rental of one-third t0 two-Afths of the crop. In York coun: | & number of sales have been made at | per acre, and If the fail wneat business continues as it has for ten years the land will pay fair interest on $60 (o $80 per | The man who possesses some of these | broad acres will be fortunate in years come. With these good crops there is no more satisfactory condition than those which exist the eustern part of N braska. Few places offer so much advan- tage to farmers of moderate means. In the east the rents are too high, In the south the soctul conditions are not satistactory and on the Pacific coast the work is done by large syndicates and companies who crowd the smail owner out. The or casional drouth is all that injuries s q if we use good judgment these may be made of advantage, for I crops be held higher prices will rule. The wors vas per- and he rail- e and ores from f When I am in have cared for the sufferers our resources and we would have made money The speaker then read reports from the counties comstituting his district, showing that business of all kinds is satfsfactory in the counties of York, Fillmore, Harlan, Pheips, Clay. Adams, Franklin and Kear- ney, showing much activity in farm lands, with general and large advance in price. The reports showed much grain still in the hands of tarmers. The chairman of the local convention committee announced that the Millard hotel is the official hotel; that badges may be secured upon application by all delegates and representatives, the badge to comtain the name and address of the delegate: that the recepiion commities is at the service | ot all visitors, and that the typewriters and operatars in the committee rooms are for the use of the delegates without cost. Lincoin's Eloquent Representative. | After these announcemenis H. H. | of Lincoln was introduced and the subject of “Our State Capital.” Wilson said in part Wilson spoke on | | FUNERAL ARRANGED ent Asmociation Appoints mittee and Decides Det | | Opening Tomb, NEW YORK, De. 17.—The exocutive com- | mittee of the Grant Monument assoeintion held a short meeting at the Chamber of Commeros tiscuss arrangements for the fun Mrs. U. 3. Grant | All that has been done here as vet ia to | arrange for the lifting of the top of the | granite sarcophagus in which Mrs. Grant's | | body will ile. A committes to have charge of all ar rangements was appointed today, comsist ng of General Grenville M. Dodge, Elihu Root and Henry W. Hayden president and secretary of tNe assoeiation: Cornelius N. Bliss and Colonel A. L. Noel Blakeman Colonel DBlakeman will have Imediate charge of details and has gone to Washing ton to m eral Fred Grant. ST. LOUIS 17.—General Fred Grant passed through St. Louis this evening en- route to Washington to attend the funeral of his mother. UNION MAN IS INDICTED | Geand Jury Telluride WMakes Serfons Charges Against Vin- ¥ Dee at cent St TRLLURIDR, Colo., Dee. John, president of one of the twenty-two men partieipation in the riot at the Smuggler- Union mine in July, 1801, in which two men were killed and five wounded. He was arrested this morning. dictments against St with murder, attempt bery. Four other arrests were made late teday The prisoners are Sam Seed and James P. Roner, miners at the Tomboy mine Washburn, cook at the Four M and John E. Conn, a saloon keeper. The charges against them are similar those made against St. John. GAMBLING CASES ON TRIAL Court in Now to Pass Upon the Re- form Work Com 17.—Vincent St. the Miners' union, s indicted for The in- John charge him to murder and rob- George is mine, ced by Attorney Jerome. | NEW YORK. Dec. 17.—The hearing of the | charges against David Bucklin of being| manager of a gambiing house on East Forty-fourth street, the Canfleld house, was | commenced today. ploaded not guilty and deciined to. mi reply to the question, “What Is your business Joseph Iacobs, the detective who is satd | to have gathered testimony against the house, was the firt witness. He told how he played ‘aro and roulette there. Bucklin, ! he sald, hired the men who came in and watched the different games. The hearing was adjourned until tomor- row. DOCK CLERKS TO RAISE PAY| Railronds Reduce Ofice Salaries to Offwet Incremases Granted Artisans. TOPEKA, Kan., 17.—The difficulty western railroads are finding in keeping ical help is affeeting the clerks in a pecullar manner. Some of the roads, the Santa Fe included, have begun reducing salaries of the office employes. The high wages paid to mechanical help makes it necessary, the companies say, to retrench expenses and they are doing this among their office for No organiza- tion exists among the clerks, but it is un- derstood that steps will be taken to re- quest the roads to discontinue the policy. NEGROES ARE DENKED FOOD Four Shooting Affrays and One Warder | Lead to Drastic Weasares in Ind dec { | | to represent ! SoUTH BEND, ma, Dee. 17.—Rour| shooting affrays and one murder. in which | negroes took part, have been followed by the closing of clubs and saloons conducted by negroes, and many ocolored people are leaving the city. ! They say they cannot get food and serv- | fee at the restaurants, although they have | the money to pay for it. i A committee of citizens has raised 3500 as a reward for the capture of three negroes who murdered John M. Koonsman on Saturday. |WISCONSIN IS NOT TO SAIL| Orders Which Would Have Taken the War Ship to Sea Are Sud- denly Cancelled. You are here tomght amid scenes of pros- | perity. not only in Nebraska, but country at large. This year the state pletes its thirty-fifth year, and it may be well to take stock of our resoure Ne- brasks is perhaps the most exclusively agricultural state in the Unfon. We have no mines. no forests and our manufactures are in their infancy. There is a limited COFn_gTOWing territory in America—a mere hand’s breadthl on the surface of the earth and Nebraska s one of the greatest oducers ir that territory. During famt six years Nehraska has ranked: s second and third esch and third, times, making it the third corn producing state in the Union. While Nebraska stands twenty-si popuiation. she stands seventh as a wheat producing state. But perhaps a fairer test s amount a single man with a single horse can oro- duee. The average man has produced in Nebraska & per cent more corn than he has produced In Towa. A fatted steer within 180 miles of Omaha I8 Worth as much as a tatt:d steer 150 miles from Chicago, and | there 18 no remson why there should be any difference in the price of land You gentlemen have not been doing you | auty. 'Fou should reach the people in the eastern states 4na carry them over the | states of Illinois and lowa. In the last ten vears the United States census shows that Nebraska has incressed its population but 1 per cent, wnile lowa incremsed 16 per cent. Part of this was due to the fact hat before 189 a large number of peaple | tried to make farms on grazing lands. But tiis year we have loaned 3.000 at 3 per cer he Old Bay state, and this should shange their opinion of us. Ome of ¥ mka's Advan Much of the vast wealth which we pro duce remains in the state. If our gold the fleids were gold from the mines profits would go Into the pockets of | tavored few, while the great majo: om- the - (Continued en Fifth Puge,) n the | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17.—Orders from Washington, which would have taken the battleship Wisconsin to ses, bound for the Bremerton dock on Puget sound, have ' been cancelled and Lieutemant Commander Mayo, temporarily in command, is await- ing instructions from the Navy depart. ment. | The reason for canceling the ortginal | orders not known here, but the ves. sel's officers expect to go to Bremerton within a few days. | Movements of Ocenn Vessels Dee. New York—Arrived—Perugia, from | Blucher. from Hamburg. Safled— | Oceanta, for Liverpool; St. Paul, for South. | ampton. At Liverpool—Arrived—Canadiun, from New York: Mechanician, from New Or- | eans: Tunisun, from St. John and Halifax Salled—Celtic, for New York At Aniwerp—Arrived—Switzeriand, | Philadeiphia. At London—Saled—Colombian, 7. At from for Bos- Boston—Arrived—Karamania, from | Naples A Yokohama — Arrivad — Empress China, from Vancouver, for Hong ete. Salled— apura, from Hong tor Portland, Ore. At Queenstown—Arrived—Teutonie, New York A Naples—Arrtved—Lahn, York At Hamburg—Arrived—Teutonts Montreal, via Sydney A braitur—Passed—Phoenician, New York, for Napies and Genoa. San Franciseo uiled —Carmenia. irnme. Albert, r Honolulu or Santa Barbara. At Hong Kong—Armved—Gaelle, from San Francieco, vie Honolulu and Yokohama. ar | Kong, Kong, | from | from New from | from | for Wiscon- l BRITAIN ANNOUNCES WAR AS NOW GN Premier Teils Parliament Dinlomacy Kaows Nothing ef Peacefnl Blookades. |ITAUAN MINISTER LEAVES COUNTRY Bowen Entertains Englishmen, W Live at Embassy While Embrogiio Continunes and Vecessitates In- oremse of Amerfoan Staff. CARACAS, Dec. 17.—The Italtan minister left Caracas this morning. At § o'clock Mr. Bowen went to the Itallan lesation in A state corriage and ok the Itallan min- ster. Signor de Riva, and the Itallan con- sul, Signor Gazzurrelll, apd conducted them o the railroad station, where they were met by the lending Italian residents of this ity. Mr. Bowen them accompanied the minister to his car, shook hands with him and handed him papers and cigars for his journey to La Guayra. The nezuelan newspapers are gnorant of the Itallan ultimatum and therefors there wers no crowds at the station and no hostile demonstration. This note was transmitted to President Castro this afternoon, and was signed by all the leading merchants, bankers and culturists of Caracas, who will meet tonight and discuss ways and means of obtaining money to pay Venezuela’s debts. The note is as follows: Sir:—~The undersigned, having met with the purpose of offering their ald to the Kovernment of emiela in the present nfiicting situation, which has been cre « by the aggresive attitude of Ger- many and Great Britain, and upon your request, to give our opinjons in writ we address you in the following terms In view of the acts of violence already committed and of the absoiute impotence of Venezuelu to meet force with foree in response to the ailled action of Cermany and Great Britain, in view of the fact that Venezucla hus exhausted all the means ired by civilization and diplomacy to put an end to the present situation, and the government and peopie of Venesuela have mplied honorably and werthily to the demands of national honor, we consider, with all due respect, that the moment to ¥leld (0 force has arrived. We, therefors, respectfully recommend that full powers be given to the minister of United States of Amerfes, authoriz- ing him to carry out proper measures to v still | terminate the present conflict in the man- | ner least prejudicial to the interests of | Venezuela. The blockade of La Guayra, notification of which was communicated to the Venex- uelan government on December 13, went into effect today. The order applies to Venesuelan vessels only. It has been decided that the Vemesuelan diMculty shall be arbitrated and & diseus- slon. of terms of setilement I now going on. Mr. Dowen will undoubtedly be one of the arbitrators. The government fears that coercive meas- ures will tollow the establishment of the blockade, consequemtly President Castro continues to act with extraordinary energy. He has transformed the entire country inta a vast camp, having raised more than 40,000 men, whom he has armed well, quipped and transported to La Guayra and Puerto Cabello, in the expeetdtion that the allles would attempt to land at one or both of those points. Will Deciine Arbitration. BERLIN, Dec. 17.—A formal notifiostion the blockade of the Veneruelan ceast likely to be issued tomorrow. It is un- 1 that ships of the United States be on precisely the same basis as these of other nations. rmany considers that President Cas- tro's proposal to arbitrate is inadequate, as it is unaccempanied with guarantees to pay If the arbitrators direct against him, and a reply in that sense has been or will be sent through Mr. Bowen. Great Britain will make a similar answer. These statements are not made officially, but are derived from an exceilent source. The Foreign office here denied explieitly that the German squadron in Venezuslan waters has been ordered to seize Margarita island, adding that no occupation of the territory of Venezuela is ta be allowed. The Foreign office officials allege that a systematic effort is apparently being made Germany as the propelling power in the coercion of Veneruela and as being responsible for all the harsh meas- ures. For instance, they say the bombard- ment of the forts at Puerto Cabello is as- cribed to German initiative, whereas the officials say, without reservation, that ft was at the British commander's sugges- tion, Topaze being a British ship. The German commander partieipated in the fir- ing as & loyal ally. The German government is not insisting on more severs measures than the original of | pian contemplated and regards the sinking of the twe “diminutive, wholly unseaworthy eraft”” as an “insignifieant incident.’ WASHINGTON, Dec. 17:—The officials here have come to the conclusion that the protected “peaceful blockade” of Venezus- lan ports cannot be recognized, as against United States shipping at least. It the allies seek to exclude Venmesuelan shipping from entering Vemezuelan ports that might be permitted, but they canmet exclude United States ships in regular bus- iness uniess a genuine state of war is recognized. Semor Ojeda, the Spanish minister, and Baron Moncheucher, the Belgian minister, have not received offictal advices relative to the joint note their governments have addressed to President Castro, asking that n the event of a settlement of the claims of the allled powers Spain and Belgium be given similar treatment. The Spanish minister denfes that there s the slightest probability of further action on the part of Spain unless events in Caracas make it necessary for the Spanish representative to withdraw. Min- Ister Ojeda does not anticipste this In | view of the strong ties of friendship that exists between his government and both American republics. Baron Moncheucher regards the posi- tion of his country as thus far neutral, but (n case circumstances change this at- fitude it s ' ooy that Minister Bewen will be requested to look after Belglan interests in the Venesuelan capital. Bei- m, having 0o 2avy, it will not be pos- sible for that country to jein in the naval demonstration of the allied fleet Mr. Bowen's position s realized to one of extraordinary dificulty. He is now n charge of the interests of Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Holland, besides those of the United States, and may be called upon to take charge of the re- mainder of tie Buropean countries, Witk