Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 18, 1903, Page 1

L3 ''HE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. ABLISHED POOR ARE A PROBLEM London Becoming Worried Over the In- oreating Army of Unemployed. Ju | | COLD SNAP MAKES SUFFERING INTENSE | . | Parades Are Being Held Daily Through the | Aristooratio West End. @rowds Are Orderly Up to the Present, but Violent Outbreaks Feared. | LAY TROUBLES TO ALIEN IMMIGRATION | Assert that Continental Laborers | Work for Less and Thereby Crowd Out the British Workman, (Copyright, 1908, by Press Publishing Co.) | LONDON, Jan, 17.—(New York World Ca- legram—Special Telegram.)—London has | been In the grip of King Frost for a week, | accompanted by bitter winds and blinding, choking dust storms, for the streets cannot | with safery be watered. The cold snap is | general throughout Europe, even the Rivi- | era, the famous winter resort, feeling its | effect. It has brought the problem of the unem- ployed in London into sudden and painful | relief. Hvery day about 3,000 wretched, | half-clad, shivering, bungry laborers, turned away from the dock gates, parade through | the West End making collections. Their | demeanor so far has been above reproach, but as the distress grows more intense trouble is feared from these demonstra- | tions. The money collected is distributed among the marchers by a regular system, the dally average being about 35 cents mplece. The depression fis spreading steadily among the principal trades, and workless, starving laborers in other parts of London talk of organizing parades through the wealthy, luxurious West End, as well as the East End dockers. The situation may | any day become serious, but the authori- | tles are anxious to avoid any collision with the unemployed. The overstocked condition of the labor market has given tremendous force to the | egitation against poor, allen immigration. The immigrants crowd out British work. men by taking less wages, working more regularly and living with fower comforts. There is no “unemployed problem” among them. Their rivals assert that they in. clude a large proportion of expelled crimi« nals, who return to criminal methods here. The more extreme opinion expressed In the miniaterial papers would have alien im- migration placed under such restriction as to virtually stifie it. America's example 1s pointed to by the more moderate newspapers as Jjustifying measures to exclude all paupers or undes sirable persons. At presont there is no , restriction whatever upon it. PRINCESS DOES SKIRT DANC Niece and Nephew of King Edward Do Turns at a Private Theatrieal. (Copyright, 1%3, by Press Publishing/ Co.) LONDON, Jan. 17.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—King Ed- ward's easy-going influence on court life was strikingly shown in the appearance of Princess Ena, the daughter of his youngest sister, Beatrice, princess of Battenberg, in private theatricals in the Isle of Wight. Princess Beatrice herself acted as stage manager and accompanist, while Princess Ena, a vivandiere, gave a skirt dance and sang a song with great spirit, while two of her brothers, Alexander and Maurice, the latter as a ‘“‘darky,” also sang and acted with marked success. ‘“‘Ena” pet her whole name is Victoria Eugenie Julia Eva of Battenberg. She was 15 years ©0ld last October and is the second of her mother's four children, the other three being boys. “Ena” is a most lovable girl and a very talented miss. Her mother, Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria's favorite daughter and her inseparable companion after the princess became a widow in 1896 until the queen's death, is the governor of the Isle of Wight. Two of “Ena's” royal cousins, Princess Margaret of Connought, who was 22 years old last Thureday, aad Victoria Patricia of Connaught, who is 16, have attracted much notice lately. Thelr father, the duke of Connaught, King Edward's only surviv- ing brother, left them behind when he and their mother went to Delhi to represent the king and the queen. The very fact of thelr remaining at home drew public potice to tuem, aud then people began to realize how much they deserve approbation for their modesty, their talents and thefr | winping ways. . FPOPE GETS MANY PRESENTS | Aggregate Thirty-Two Tho: A nd and Valued at Two Million Dollars. (Copyright, 18, by Press Publishing Co.) ROME, Jan. 17.—(New York World Cable. gram—Special Telegram.)—The pope re- eived during his jubilee year 32,000 gitts, TAKE UP COLLECTIONS AS THEY MARCH | swinai INE 19, OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1903_TWENTY PAGES. BUYERS ARE SWINDLED Painter Relterates a Statement Made Many I ART raris (GOTTI STILL FIGURES Appointment of Vannutelli Not Theught to Eliminate Him frem Probabilities ‘SEVERAL IN LINE FOR TRIPLE CROWN Times in Past, 1902, by Press Publishing Co.) 17.—(New York World Cable- gram clal Telegram.) — the celebrated artist, lite size figur rome, engaged on decorate Charles M Schwab's palace 1 w York, repeats in effect what the World correspondent re- eently eabled in regard (o the shameful way in which American art collectors are 1 in Europe. He says “Half the pictures bought by Americans are either copies or forgeries. It is time {to put an end to such frauds as that by which blank canvases bearing the dates of 1830 or 1848 are sold at the prices of master- pleces by dealers who produce and sell as genuine what are only imitations of the masters of those periods.” This observation was about the lately discovi one of his most who is now Death of Paroochi Remeves One of the Most Formidable Oandidates. WAS A TALENTED AND AMBITIOUS MAN Ago of Present Ocoupant of St. Peter's Throne Makes Gossip Acute. END OF HIS CAREER MAY COME ANY DAY made ed ta in talking apering with ebrated plctures, “La Promenade de La Cour Dans les Jardins de Versallles” (The Promenade of the Court in the Gardens of Versailles). The plcture represents Louis XIV escorting Mme, de Maintenon in a sedan chair, with the court ladies following. It formerly derived its most striking light effects from the last rays of the setting sun on the palace and the greenish reflection of the rising moon on the waters of the fountain. The con trast was remarkable and was widely com mented upon when the canvas was hung in the salon. As the World readers already know, this picture was bought by Brandus in New York in 1901, at the sale of the George M. Tynes collection. It was after- ward exhibited here by Messrs. Wertheim, widely known Paris dealers in art, when Gerome discovered that the sky had been repainted and that the moon, with its re- | flection In the fountain, had disappeared. The artist now sues Brandus for $2,000 damnges. Brandus says ho is not responsible for the transformation and offers to lend it to the artist to restore the missing sky and moon reflection. The picture has been sequestered pending the declsion of the law courts. The changes were made, it s believed, however, at the request of Mr. Tynes, who 18 sald to have been in the habit of making modifications in the works of art in his collection. The critics are agreed that the American retoucher must have been an artist of no mean talent, for the changes were made with masterly skill and it is almost impossible to detect them. CHILDREN LEARN TOO MUCH Agitation in Germany Against COhil- dren’s and Still Displays Wonderful Mental and yslcal Vitality in Spite of Fact He 1s in His Ninety- Third Year. (Copyright, 13, by Press Publishing Co.) ROME, Jan. 17.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—Guessing as to who shall be pope after Leo XIII, now on the eve of his 934 year, has been greatly quickened by the death of Cardinal Parocchi and the appointing of Cardinal Serofino Vannutelli to Parocchi's office of sub-dean of the Sacred college, or vice chancellor of the Cathollc church, as some put it Cardinal Parocchi was one of the leading | | candidates for the papacy. He was a man of fine intellect, great mental activity and towering ambition. At one time be fa- vored a federated Italy, with the pope for its spiritual protector. His views gen- erally were broad and progressive. His death leaves Cardinal Oreglla the only member of the Sacred college created by Plus IX. The general fmpression in vatican circles soems to be that, with Parocchi removed trom the contest for the triple crown, Cardinal Gottl's chance i{s much improved. Yet there are mot a few who profess to believe that Vannutelli’s swift appoint- ment puts him in the lead and these per- sons are giving widespread publicity to thelr viow. Haste Causes Comment. The stir caused in Rome by the appoint- ing of Cardinal Serafino Vannutelll to the mportant position but lately occupled by Cardinal Parocchi is quite intelligible. Rome, or, in other words, the pope, does not as a rule show haste in selecting digni- taries charged with administering church affairs. Moreover, the prominence which for many years bad attached to Cardinal Parocchi might have been expected to make the pope more than usually slow in naming that eminent prelate’s successor. But there may have been private as well as public reasons for the pontift's action. During the last years of his lite Cardinal Parocchi had fallen from the high place he once held in the hierarchy. From being the respected, though mot greatly liked, vicar of the pope, he had come to be persona non grata at the vatican, and Rome does not forget easily those who offend her. - On the other hand, in estimating the significance of Vannutelli’s appointment it should be borne in mind that his new dignity 1s less welghty than the post of vicar gemeral, for Parocchi was virtually deposed, or that of secretary of state or prefect of the propaganda. Chances Not Altered. Parties Dances. (Copyright, 193, by Press Publishing Co.) BERLIN, Jan. 17.—(New York World Ca. blegram—Special Telegram.)—A strong agi- tation has begun in Germany against chil- dren's parties. Both the Cathollc and Protestant clergy are denouncing the sort of parties which have been introduced from England and the United States, advocating a return to Puritan simplicity. Children's parties are becoming so elaborate and ex- | pensive that even in court circles protests are ralsed. Then the children’s balls are sald to corrupt the youth, A leading soclety woman of Berlin says: “I have heard remarks from girls at chil- dren’s balls about the dresses of rivals and about the bearing of boys which amazed me. Children are taught the wrong side of the world at these balls and cease to be children At a children's party with any pretension to elegance wine is always served to mere children, who go home semi- intoxicated and acquire a taste for strong drink.” German children of the better classes, especlally in the cities, and .of the lower classes, too, are deteriorating in a way that is attracting wide attention. The criminal statistics of the large towns show that Juvenile offenders are growing more numer- ous. EMPEROR NOT SO ORTHODOX Kaiser Takes Up with Expo- | nent of “Higher Criticl of Bible. It the importance of his new office were to be accepted as an indication of his chances of eventually wearing the tiara, Cardinal Vacnutelli could not be regarded as nearly so formidable a candidate as | Cardinal Satolli or Cardinal Rampolia. That Vannutelll was in the first rank of the dignitaries thought to have hope of sitting on St. Peter's throne had long been known, But it is not clear that the hope has been materially strengthened or dimin- ished by recent occurrences. Speculation as to the papal successorship, | always rather vain, has of late years come | to be almost foolish. Leo XIII has given | no evidence of being moribund and none of the cardinals whom rumor credits with an anxiety to replace him has up to the pre ent demonstrated that he is either spiritu- ally or intellectually his equal. (Copyright, 108, by Press Publishing Co.) | of the Uni | should continue to Of the five or six “‘papabili” (papal pos- #bilities), however, Cardinal Serafino Van- nutelll (not to be confounded with his the exponent of the higher biblical criti- | brotber, Cardinal Vannutelll), probably is cism is causing consternation in orthodox | ©P¢ Of the most worthy. While somewhat circles throughout Germany. It is true | cOnservative, he is no longer antagonistic that there s a school of theologians here ' t0 the progressive and enlightened policy who welcome all enlightened criticism, but | Which Leo XIII initiated and which has they are regarded as perilously broad, and | made Catholicism heartily and generally the great bulk of the clergy consider that |Tespected even by the Protestants of accepting Delitzsch’s Assyriological theo- | America. Ten years ago he was by no vies tends to destroy belief in the inspira- | Means in sympathy with what is vulgarly tion of the scriptures. termed Catholic “Americanism.” Once at The emperor is the head of the German |least, at about that period, by objecting to Protestant church and if he uses his pon- | his transfer to the archdiocese of Bologna, tifical power to disseminate ideas of the he incurred the displeasure of the pope. echool which he has now taken up, it would jsous“ ENTERS V‘A_COMPLMNT | mean a religlous upheaval unequaled since | nds P BERLIN, Jan. (New York World Ca- | blegram — Special Telegram.)—Emperor Willlam's patronizing Prof. Delitzsch as the reformation, and probably a vast seces- slon to Catholicism. ANDRE AROUSES NATIONALISTS ted Editions of His Musie Sold All Over Great Brita (Copyright, 1908, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Jan. 17.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—Sousa has written to the London Times complaining Up in Arms Over Ministers’ Proposa to Abolish the Officers’ Mens. i | w | & prelate of his household informs the World correspondent, valued, at a low esti- mate, at $2,000,000. One thousand of the gifts are very costly. Among them is the smperor of Austria’s present, a statue of solid gold nearly seven feet high represent- Ing “The Good Shepherd.” It is now in the pope’s private lbrary. At the Christmas and New Year's recep- ton the pontiff received & splendid snuffbox merusted with diamonds, together with a of gold from the Noble Guard. Other | valuable gifts came from the College of ! Cardinals, the Swiss guard and the Roman | pobllity. HAS CANAL"'B;OAT'FOR STUDIO Duteh Painter Tours and Works and Hemain: Home at ¢ (Copyright, 138, by Press Publishing Co.) AMSTERDAM, Hollaud, Jan. 17.—(New York Cablegram—Special Telegram. )—W. 0. Nieuwenkamp, one of the most famous artists. of Holland, was taken to a canal boat, & big boat with modern comforts and ftted up within to resemble an old Dutch interior. He has just returned from a tour through the canals to winter here and the eanal boat gallery is now the resort of the fashionable people. Nieuwenkamp says that iu his boat he can journey, be at home sod work at the same time. He and his wite frame his pletures, print and bind his catalogues. bitterly that he finds “pirated” editions of his compositions selling broadeast in Lon- | don. He says “I have been laboring under the delusion that T had complied with the requirements | of the International copyright laws and that your government would assume the responsibility to protect my property. Ap- | parently ng such responsibility exists. There surely must be a remedy to proteet a composer from such deplorable injus- tice.” Nevertheless, through Sousa’s agalnst the pirates VOLCANIC GERM IS THE LATEST ‘l"reneh Selentl THREE YEARS ON ONE PICTURE | German Artist Completes Palnting of | | (Copyright, 18, b; (Copyright, 198, by Press Publishing Co.) | PARIS, Jan. 17.—(New York World Cable- | gram—Special Telegram.)—General Andre, mivister of war, is moving to suppress the | oficers' mees In the French army. He | thinks the French oficers are restricted ln their liberty by being forced to mess to | gether and that each ought to be permitted | to eat where he pleases. The natlonalists are up in arms. They say suppressin regimental receptions was a blow to thel army, and banishing the mess would be an- other. They argue that the mess unites men a8 nothing else could do. At the mess there is common.fare for all. Without it | the poor officer will bave to seek some cheap restaurant, while the rich ones will | profit by good cheer. there s none except instituting proceedings | Claims te H covered it in V of Par Emperor's Entry Into Jeru- | Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Jan. 17.—(New York World Ca- il-lp(rlm Special Telegram.)—The latest | setentific discovery is a voleanic “germ” in (Copyright, 1908, by Press Publishing Co. v! Paris, Stanislas Meunlerm, “the principal BERLIN, Jan. 17.—(New York World Ca- | geclogist of France, has Informed the blegram—Special Telegram.)—Prof. Her- | Academy of Sclences. He has been care- mann Knackfuss of Cassel has finished his | fully exam!ning earth dug up near the huge painting representing the entry into | Boulevard St. Martin and the result of his Jerusalem of Emperor Willlam and the | investigation is in this locality what empress, attended by a numerous suite.| he terms a “germ” of a volcano really ex- Knackfuss was with them and worked on | ists. The eminent geologlst reassured the picsure three years. The emperor often | Parisans with the announcement that no | visited him and made suggestions. William | harm can come of the sald germ at present, | 11 passes for & “modern Maecenas™ in Ger- | though 1t is impossible to answer for what many and is much fiattered by the title. | the future may bring. salem. that | (Cor | explanation offered 1s that | not inspire confidence |RICHARD CROKER HAS NEW FAD | Ada Chicken Busine DISCOVERS A NEW MICR(]BE1 Italian Professor Finds the Creature Whieh ¢ phobia, ses Hy (Copyright, 1908, by Press Publishing Co.) ROME, Jan. 17. New York World Cable- gram pecial Telegram. Prof. Sormani ersity of Pavia has given to the World correspondent the following state- ment in regard to the si ilcance of his discovery of the hydrophobla microbe ““This discovery fills & great gap in modern science, for heretofore we have been totally ignorant of the microbe of hydrophobia. The researchzs of other bacteriologists have resulted in descriptions by various authorities of this microbe, but nome had been able to embody In one and the same whole the various details discovered. ““The rabies microbe, being polymorphous, or many-formed, the discoverers of the va- rious forms did not associate them In one blological connection. Then, the study of | all the different forms required an enor- mous amount of time, research and the best appliances, all of which I have been able to give them. “The microbe itselt is extraordinarily small, being visible only when snlarged from 1,200 to 1,500 diameters, and ~° tion 1s only possible at 2,00 diameters. “The discovery of the mig move all obscurity In the Py rables anti-toxin belng sclentifically propagated of from the tissues of the purity of which is, “It completes Pas) supplies a certain r rables when properly applied. \crobe was ob- tained from the sali¥e ’glands and nerve tissues of rabid animals. “It has a remarkable faeility for chang- ing its shape. These changes are not mere caprices of nature, but follow definite laws. | Sometimes it Is like a little cloud, at other | times like a flake of wool and still other | times it seems to possess numberless rami- | fications.” SOUL NEGLECTS TO RETURN Experiment of a Frenchman Proves Fatal to the onstrator. ol 9,000 111 re- nethods, ole trom / es instead £ 85 animals, | Aln, discovery and | (Copyright, 19, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Jan. 17.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—In an effort to prove that the soul can leave the body and return to it, Albert Guelle, & man of superior intelligence, lost his life, a vie- | tim to one of the strangest experiments in | history. M. Guelle was widely known as a translator from the Greek, Latin and | Hebrew. For a time he filled an appoint- | ment at the Bureau of Public Assistance, but resigned his position to study occult sclences at Meudon. The independence of the mind In dreams caused him to con- clude that personality s dual, and he re- solved on an experiment that should free his soul from his body for a time. His exveriment was based on that of the fakirs in India, who have themselves burfed alive, maintaining their body in a lethargic state while their minds are supposed to journey in the astral world. He constructed an consisting of .n' reservolr fixed “to. the wll, which | would let a mixture of chloroform, sul- phuric ether and water, fall, drop by drop, on his tac Then, choosing his birthday for the ex- periment, he wrote his will and a letter to a friend. He placed himself on a bed beneath it, having anointed his body with antiseptics, that mortification should not set in while his soul was absent. The letter to his friend asked him to awaken Guelle at the end of ten days. Im- mediately on receiving it the friend rushed to the young man's apartments with Guelle's mother. They were too late. They | found the student stretched on the bed, a ealm expression on his face as if he were sleeping. He had been dead several hours In his will he enjoined his mother not | to regret him if his experiment should prove fatal. He promised that his scul amunicate with her. | ANOTHER AMERICAN CONQUEST Morgan Could Not Buy Cunard Line, but Widow Wil Marry Sec- tion of It, (Copyright, 1903, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Jan. 17.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—The betrothal | of Mrs. Padelfort, a pretty American widow, | to Ernest Haliburton Cunard, a wealthy member of the famous shipping family, has aroused much interest in American and English “smart” socicty. Mrs. Padelford was Florence McFeeters of Baltimore. She married one of the Padelfords of Savannah and bas a tall, good-looking daughter. Her | husband’s brother, Arthur Padelford, mar- ried Miss Beach Grant, who also is a widow. Mrs. Florence Padelford is much admired and {8 “In" with the very fashibnable set here. She took Mrs Arthur Paget's house on West Halkin street, leading to Belgrave square, four years ago. There her sister, Miss McFeeters, has lived with her, but now | 18 moving to Portman square, a few doors off from Mrs. George Keppel was formally announced at a dinner party given by Mrs. Arthur Padelford to meet the engaged couple. The wedding will be very quiet and they will go for the honeymoon to the Riviera. The betrothal CALUMET BOOM FLATTENS OUT| Much T Club ked oOf Swell American don Dies A Bornin'. right, 1903 LONDON, Jan by Press Publishing Co.) 17.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—The much boomed Calumet club, which was be Wall street in London, has “‘died a-bornin" like its predecessor, t Columbia. The difficulty argse over which Americans resident in London should be elected. But the real trouble as that the originators of the scheme did or possess sufficlent | standing to carry tious undertaking soelal influence tarough such a prete or to His Already Large Line of Pastoral Industri Copyright, 153, by Press Publishing Co.) WANTAG! ngland, Jan. 17—(New York World Cablegram lal Telegram.) Richard Croker is goicg luto chicken rale- ing 7n a large ecale. He iy laying out an extensive plant for incubation and rearing chickens on the most approved sclentific principles. It will be cn the Moat House estate. The business will be in full swing next sprink. { his action | that | the tax levy must 7% | my | individual citizen. | policy TOTAL OF TAX ROLL Board of Equalisation Raises Figures of Board of Review. | INCREASE COMES ON PACIFIC EXPRESS Eotire Oapital Btock of That Company Added to the List. | RAILROAD PROTESTS ARE OVERRULED Figures Turned in by Board ef Review Are Firally Approved. * | MEMBERS UNANIMOUS ON ONE POINT Quertion of Sustaining the Assess- ment of the Corporations as Re- turned is Settled Afiirma. tively Without Dissent, As a net result of the labors of the city council in its capacity of board of equaliza- tion, which closed “last night, the ass ment rolls for the tax levy of 1903 show | an increase of more than $4,250,000 over the figures as returned by the board review. The fact that there is an increase instead of a reduction in the total is due irely to the fact that yesterday after- noon the assessment of the Pacific Express company was advanced from $115,000 to $5,000,000, all of the other important changes made by the board having been reductions The chiet alterations made by the board in the rolls In the course of the session aro as follows: ] REDUCTION Paxton & Gallagher Co see-Glass-Andreesen Co ew York Life bullding Omaha Belt railws 8 42500 0,000 Total Pacific Exnress Co % 484,384,600 Besides the reductions specified above it 1s estimated by the tax commissioner that the smaller alterations will further cut down the rolls $147,000, which would make a total reduction $300,500 to be subtracted from the obe item of increase, $4,885,000, | and leave to be added to the aggregate | amount of the rolls as returned by the | Board of Review, $4,884,500. | The one clement of uncertainty fn those | figures is the gross amount of the smaller | reductions and, as that amount vai greatly from the estimate of the tax com missioner, it is safe to place the present total of the assessment rolls at $129,500,000. | Levy Should Be Low. With that assessed valuation the amount of revenue raised for both city and school | purposes last year could be obtained from | a levy of 8.7 mills. The estimates of the city officers upon the tax of 1903 have con- templated a levy of 10 mills and at that rate the city could have the limit allowed by dhe charter, $1,040,000, as compared with $503,000 last year, and the schools $265,000, as compared with $225,000 last year. When the board was called to order y morning _all of the members were present with the ex- ception of Councilman Hoye, who has been seriously 11l for several weeks and is not yet able to be out. Mr. Hascall at| once announced that after reading the able | opinion of the city attorney he had made | up his mind on the question of jurisdic- tion, and as he belleved the other mem- | bers had also, he thought it would be best | not to waste the time of the board and | the attorneys for the railroads in hearing | argument on that poiut. He said that he was free to admit that had the city at- torney upheld the law requlring the board | to take tne valuation of railroad property as returned by the State Board of Equall- zation he would have been infiuenced in by that opinion, but since he had read the city attorney's opinion he had for the first time made up his mind this board had jurisdiction in the | squalization of the railroad assessments as returned by the Board of Review. Moves to Overrule Protests. Mr. Hascall moved then that the protests of the railroad companies against the juris- | diction of this board be overruled without | | further delay to the end that if the rail-! {road companies desired to get a decision from the courts upon the point they would | have time to do so before February, when be made. This motion was in fact carried when it was suggested H. McIntosh, as “a friend of the that in the inte ularity of procedure and completenes record the rallroad representatives be given an opportunity to be heard on the question of jurisdiction before taking action Charles J. Greene, counsel for the lington road m called upon to dress the but his argumen was (reated more as an oratorical treat for the entertainment of the than a regular part of the proceeding was first placed in the middle of the floor. pat all could hear to advantage, and bers and spectators then settled down in their chairs to enjoy his eloquence. This sentiment was so apparent that Mr. G manifested his disapproval in the ep paragrajh of his arg n words what ~5 follows “ihe question of railroad taxation is n only of vital concern but closely touches the ir ts of ¢ It appeals to our ven eration for government and our respect f law and therefore we should not approac with levity, or treat it lightly dieposed to treat this matter seric Speaks of Constitutionnl ¥ Mr. Gre then review tional provision phasis to the grant of ure to provide th value of property for shall be ascertained that the ~onstitution confers up 12 the right to confer upc nicipalities power to levy taxes nicipal purposes, but further provides that these 1 be uniform with respe to persons pr and the legis » bas the right to provide the man- which these taxes shall be levied railroad taxation, he said the legislature has maintained distinet policy with respect to the as sment of railroad property, and it s a not peculfar to this state. It pre valls in nearly every other state in the United States, and therefore it must be soundly based, for the courts, state ‘and federal, bave approved, sanctioned and even eulogized it. And since the people of all of our states and the courts believe fn it it would hardly seem possible that a mu- nicipal body would wish to place itself in an attitude of hostility to this position of the people and the courts.” Rallroad property, argued the lawyer, 15 a unit and not a group of separate vro erties. He dwelt at some fength upo: to co Bu ment some to the general pu taxation, giving power to the em leg which axatlo al be leg mus for mu- ner in 1k He pointed out » taxes a perty ner a (Continued or Second T.ge.) of | i 1 | | councilmen | constitu- THE BEE BULLETIN. Forecast for Ne Monda raska—Fair Sunday and rope’ ty Suceessor. Eauall | ure Provides Ne Shaw Wele, Indiet News from Dietrich to for On for 1 Place. ongress. | ® 4 riet nvent ha. elvership, r St Louls in Safe. Nellie Price Arrested in € Past Week In Omaha § Strike Commission Hears ¥ 5 Lively Political Fight in Colorado, Thief Fatally Wounds Man. Legislation Worries Roosevelt. Explosion Hoard Battleshi « 1 Dlar a News. Weekly Re i Sporting Events of the D W tnlogizes Roosevelt, In the Domain of Woman. Amusements and Music, Bditorial. Moroceo and Tix People. Story of a Soldier's Christmas, Story, Markets Men Refune - i 10 ne and few of Sp 12 12 |14 15 118 |10 20 nancial. to Take Plecework. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday: | Hour, De, Deg. 5 a. e o | s | o 10 111 II'.I 26 ‘o OMAHA CLUB ANNUAL MEETINGT Directors Authorized to Add to the lding—Result of Elect Present Bu At the annual meeting of the Omaha club | 1ast night it was voted to authorize the | directors to build an addition to the club | building at Twentieth and Dowilas streets The extension will be on the north side and its cost is estimated at $10,000. portion will be three stories in conform to the rest of the structure, its material will also be the same. Dimensions of the extension will thirty-three by twenty-six feet. On first floor this will ofter a room & menta the ladies’ cafe. Thy main dining room will be extended on the sec- ond floor, and on the third floor additio ght, to | elecping querters, with baths, will be fur nished. The addition is to be completed by the ond of the present year. There was considerable discussion of the project. An unusually large attendance was pres- ent, 130 members voting on the election ot directors. There were four of these to be named, one vacancy having been created by the death of J. J. Dickey and the other three by the expiration of the terms of Luther Drake, Harry Cartan and J. H. MeIntosh, T these plices were elected Luther Kountze, Victor B. Caldwell, John 8. Brady and Harry Cartan. Other members for whom votes were cast were Charles H. Brown, J, A. Kuhn, J. H. McIntosh, Luther Drake and Madison S. Peters. The report of the club showed an increase in the resident membership from 253 to 261, and in the nonresident and army member- ship from fifty-three to seventy-eight. The club hes reduced its debt during the year apd has mede permanent improvements costing $7,000. The club income has been fnereased more than $3,000. Considcrable merriment was caused by the statement in the report that the water bill had been reduced from $278 in 1901 to $254 in 1902, despite the increasing mem. bership. sident E. P. Peck presided at the meeting. {ON LOCAL SALES OF GAS| City 1s to Receive Greater Royaltles for Past Year Than for Any Preceding One. | A report flled with the city comptroller by the Omaha company shows that the ty 18 to receive from the compa 17 as royalties on the company's sales 19¢2 (o local consur than the This s the largest showing yet made the company and ex ' by $1,200. On a oasis of 0 feet the 1902 total means 285 of gas NEGRCES TO AID MISSIONS Board of Black Bishops Axks Ald for A Aftric o city by s other 1 tect rica and | Jan, iT. bishops In ec decided to raise the requircments for admiesion to the and to ask the ne of the ! church to contribute $100,000 during the present year for work extenslon in this ntry outh and Afrl HEWITT African ference here to- andard of edu- 1 coL and in REPORTED SINKING on Family ot to Take New York's Ploncer Mayor, NEW tonig tamily who slde were h sa that n YOR memb Jan. 17 ot Shortly Abram ady before 11 Hewitt's at his bed the doctors losing conscious- were not iedly he alre nm fast e end s e pec » of Oc Y any time. Moveme Vesxcls Jan, At Lug ew York Averpool: La outs, m from t Liver Antwery At i New Y At from 1 Castle 1 At C Bosta Arriy ton and W for Minneapolis rk (passed Hursf Kroonland, Etruris. for phia kin, from San r Hong Kong coma_for He Seattle for Hong Kong coma and Seattle At Rotierdam w York At Kir f ¥ from Jun Maru, fr wmut, from Ta- Salled: Amsterdam, for e Head—Pussed: Taurle, Jew York for Liverpool At Queenstown—Arrived: Umbris, from | New York for Liverpool, and procesded. from The ' new | Methodist | West | mmonwealth, from | for New SINGLE COPY 'l-‘l\'E CEN 'TO GOBBLE THE LAND Aim of the Oattle Barons Has Not Been Abandoned for a Moment. RELY ON THE LEASING BILL TO AID How the Measure Would Defeat Hope for Parmanent Settlers. PUBLIC DOMAIN IN IMMINENT DANGER e Millions of Acres in Neb Bubject te Entry. | POWERFUL INFLUENCES ARE LINED UP is Forces Hehind the Measure of Such Strength that the People Must Wake Up or Losxe Thelr Mag- nificent Her (From a Staff Correspondent.) GORDON, Neb,, Jan. 17.—(Special Tele- gram.)—After a thorough examination of | existing conditions throughout the ontire Sixth co essional district, where 9 per cent of the public land of thie state lays, {1t 1s apparent to the most casual observe that the land-leasing bill, now being gen- | erally considered, is a gigantic fraud, and o one seems to recognize this fact more gene than do the promoters thereof. The recent spectacle of a Nebraska fed- eral grand jury adjourning without a single | tndictment “against large offenders in | this part of the where more than | 3,000,000 acres of was involved, and | bringing five small offende castern part of the state, whe 10 acres were involved, 18 considered greatest joke of the stal land dictments against 5 In the less than generally ‘ th | 1t | congr ! the 1 | power season, will fonal ing to be remembered that during the campalgn the promoters of bill dia erything in thelr have congressional candidates | pledged to their pet measure, but, notwith- }Mandmx Judge Kineaid's well known views against any leasing bill whatever, the judge's majority in the district was close to 3,000 votes. the | From st fnformation obtainable | now it rs that the reference of the bill to the Nebraska legislature was done | as a last resort and the entire district 's | #ald to now be drummed up and hunted [over for any persons who are willing to take a trip to Lincoln and nelp lobby the | resolution through: the matter of expense to be borne by the promoters for the “pub- lic good.” It must be remembered that the promoters of the leasing bill are well ltlrxflnlm‘d and the showing they are pre- pared to make is simply wonderul. Bill Has Influentinl Backin It must also bo remembered that the large cattle barons have influential backing and unless the common people of the state | act, and that quickly, they will wake up some morning and find the benevolent homestead law a thing of the past—and this the law that has given millions of bomeless people hom (e P aa (et (heBettls Sany “are strongly depending upon the bankers of the state for assistance In passing the measure, as nearly every bank in the state of any efze has more or less cattle paper in thelr vaults. The bait thrown out to catch the Nebraska legislature appears to be the revenue feature, wherein it is pro- vided that one-fourth of the leasing money is to go to the county, one-fourth to the state and one-half to the federal govern- ment, but the weak part In the mezsure is the fact that the cattle barons have fixed the leasing price at less than taxes would amount to if they had title to the land, and In the end the county and state would each be the losers. | Another feature of the bill is the expec- tation of the cattle barons later on to ob- tain title to the land after a certain num- ber of years of peaceable possession, which plan will Involve the future control of the land department of the government by the cattle barons, and they being able to eall off the dogs during a generally conceded honest administration portends what might be expected some years hence with & friendly “Indian” in charge of the land de- partment. Admitted Wrongs an | { Remedy, It is generally admitted by part’sans on | both sides of tho leasing question that | great wrongs have grown up under exist- | ing laws, wrougs which have been given to the public during the past few months, and | there appears to be a solution of the prob- lem coming In sight, and while it is not pleasing to the cattle barons, it meets with | the approval of the common people. | The strong undercurrent of opinion seems |to be drifting ltke a Nebraska blizzard in favor of @ section homestead law for the Sand Hill district. In favor of this me |ure it is argued that while a man can rdly make a living on a quarter section | alone, he could make a living for a fam- {1y on a section of land. It appears to be | the general bellef that if a section could | be taken in a homestead thar an the Sand Hill country would rapldly settle up with a good class of citizens, who would greatly | add to the general wealth of the state, | Another good feature advanced in faver of a section homestead law would be its welf-acting enforcement, as where a man | was holding a section of land under the homestead act it would be so valuable that if he Aid not reside upon it in perfect com- pliance with the provisions of the law, his right would be speedily contested and taken y from hini. The sentiment in favor of section homestead law appears to have 1 out of the recommendation of Presl | dent Roosevelt in his messago to congress wherein he recommended a larger number ot for a homestead in the purely grazing part of the country, and also ex 1 the opinfon that homosteads should only who actually lived land. connection acre pres b be & ! | m 1t is we 9,000,000 to those with to consider res of public fifth of the bar 1and one the homestead that there are land in Nebraska, area of the state, and if the ns have been traMcking in the in & fraudulent manner, ould only take a quarter h m could we. expect ) could lease twenty sections, or 13 ? It is argued that a sec- tion would be so v * that the cattle men could not § nyone to t land , 88 they would each want ves. Niue milllon acres di- section homesteads would pro- 14,000 families, whereas 1t i pa i out in it would only provide should therefore be which would be best law yet | one cattle publie = m . how one se m where an n lots persuns. mit determine Taken Last Year. From an examination of the records of the land offices so far visited and caretully estimating the number of homestead