Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1903, Page 4

~<“HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY DENY STORY ABOUT STRIKE| Ooaductors’ and Trainmen's Representative® Oontrad ot Brigg: Stery. ASSERT NO MEETING WAS HELD FRIDAY ommittes at This Point Waiting to | Hear Resnlts Obtained from Con- uld Lines Louts, ference with G at st eific general committee of the Brotherhood of Rallway Trainmen, and J. J. Rboades, secretary of the Unfon Pacific general com mittee of the Order of Railway Conductors, | state that no joint meeting of the Unlon | Pacific and B. & M. general commlttees ot those organizations was held Friday, the: there Is no B. & M. general committee of those orders {n Omaha, tha* O. E. Briggs was not secretary of such a meeting and that there was no vote on any proposition to strike on those two roads. Yesterday O. E. Briggs asserted that he acted as secretary of a joint meeting of the general committees of the Order of Rallway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Rail- way Tralnmen in room 91 of the Dellone hotel Friday afternoon, and at that meeting it wi once voted flatly to strike within forty-eight hours unle: the 20 per cent wage Increase demands were granied. A tew minutes later, said Briges, this action was reconsidered, and after a hot debate it was determined to leave the matter still to the arbitration in progress at St. Louts, Mesers. Murphy and Rhoades, who speak with authority, informed The Bee Iast night that Mr. Briggs was not connected with their committees in any way and that his statement has no foundation in fact. Fitty-Two Roads Involved. To the Corn Belt, the Missouri Pacific, the St. Louls & San Francisco and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas roads the de- mand on the part of the conductors and tralnmen of fifty-two roads was left for sattlement. The fifty-two cover all terri- tory west and south of Chicago, including the Illinols Central southern lines, extend- ing then north to the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic, west to the Pacific coast and south to the Gulf of Mexico. When the mnvomtnlx higher wages wag started a general committee of conductors'and train- men from every road waited upon each general manager, but later it was decided o ablde by the results accomplished with the Gould lines. After belng in conference since January 5 these four committees finally, on last Thureday, submitted an ultimatum to the four Gould lines. This was that freight traln wages should be raised 15 per cent and passenger 12 per cent, and that double-headers should be run on no train heavier' than one engine's rating. This latter condition is simply equivalent te barring double-headers altogether, for it is wasting an engine to add it to a train that needs but one. Other Roads Give Increase. ST, LOUIS, Feb. 7.—A conference s be- ing held today between the officials of the Missourt Pacific and A. B. Garretson, as- ,sistant grand chief of the Order of Rall- ‘way Conductors, and P. H. Morrissey, grand master of the Brotherhood of Rallway Tratnmen. It is reported that the officlals of that rond have decided to allow the same in- crease conceded by the Missourl, Kansas & Texas, and that its example will be fol- lowed by the S8t. Louis & Southwestern (Cotton Belt) and the St. Louls & San | Franelsco. The vonference began at 10 o'clock and at 1 o'clock was still In session. At that time it was said that several hours more ‘would be necessary before a conclusion was |reached, and it may extend into a night session. The meeting 18 sald to be entirely barmonious Ratlway No Personals, J. R. Dewar, assistant station master at Union depot, hias gone to Chicago. Erastus Young, general auditor of the Harriman lin gone to Chicay John Fran r agent of ‘the B. & 0 Denver. H. G. Cheyney, gen: ent of the orthwestern line here, has returned from ioux City. C. F. Redington, chief clerk in the gen- erai manager's office at Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley rallroad headquarters, has gone to Fremont. The striking machinists of the Union Pa- clfic rallway here will give a minstrel show at Boyd's opera house on February 18, the Proceeds to go to the benefit of the strikers. The Missouri Pacific raflway has just iasued & very handsome and elaborate cal- endar. which City Passenger Agent Tom “Godfrey is distributing to a few favored ones In Omcha. The calendar is o real Work ot art. TRIBUTE TO JUDGE TAFT Army Oficer Speaks of Work of Gov- ermor of the Philip- pines. J. E. Murphy, chairman of the Unlon Pa- 1 | | gone “Ever since returning from the Philip- pines, three months ago, I have seen much fn the papers to the effect that Judge Taft, governor general of those islands, ‘would soon come back to the states to mc- Judge Taft for other stations. No office that a president could bestow upon him would sonfer higher honor than his pres- ent exalted statfon confers. Indeed, he ca: win higher honor for himself and his coun- try, do his country and the world better wervice as the head of a successful admin- istration In the. Philippine islands than he could as president of the United States.” “You seem to have no doubt that the Americans will succeed in those faraway islands of the Pacific?” ““Certainly not. The army and navy have made a success, &0 far as their part of the undertaking goes, and the civil au- thorities are steadily, surely moving'on to complete, grand success. Do you recall many instances in which our good Uncle Sam has fafled to succeed in his undertak- | ings? He s not going to fail in this one. | The day is coming when the whole civil- | ized world will honor and praise our coun- try for what it has done io the Philippine | islands. Uncle S8am is destined to win fm- | perishable honor by the wise, unselfish, statesmanlike performance of the unsought taske that fell upon his broad shoulders in 1898." VACATION HOME FOR THE BOYS Prassian Syndieate Proposes to Fix a Place Where They Can Enjoy Themselve (Copyright, 193, by Press Publishing Co.) BERLIN, Feb. 7.—(New York World C blegram—Special Telegram.)—Several com- mittees in the Scheldehausen district of western Prussia will buy ground and erect a large bullding for a vacation home for school boys. The boys will be turned loose in the house and over the land, of course under oversight, but with as little interfer- enco as pcesible. They can imagine them- selves hunters and trappers, wrecked-on- desert-lsle pirates and bandits, or they can garden or farm, or do carpentering or smithy work, or be idle, jist as they please. There will be one common meal indoors, all other meals to be taken when and where the boys wish Sleeping accommodations will be pro- vided Indoors, but they may sleep where they like, provided they do nothing to en- danger their health, . The neighborhood is a lovely one, and the boys can climb trees, hills, walls; they can fish, swim, wade and make dams. The accommodation is for 200 boys and the charge for five weeks is only $12.50 per boy. OMAHA SUBURBS. Florence, Alex Paul and daughters were visitors at Blalr Saturday. Mrs. Hugh Suttle wai in Omaha Friday Fred Pulte visited relatives Saturday and Sunday Father Smith went to Bancroft Tuesday, returning home Saturday. Miss May Nelson of De Soto spent Satur- day and Sunday with her parents. John and Sidney Johansen went to Blair Wednesday morning on legal busincss, Ethan Cole and wife of Omaha spent Sunday here visiting friends and relatives. The new bell for 8t. Mark's church has been purchased and will soon be put in place, ed Powell and wife of Council Bluffs visited thelr parents here Saturday and Sunday. Mary Gunderson went to Blair, Neb. Sat- urday morning, where she will remain for several weeks. Edgar Powell, ir.. returned home Moaday from a two weeks' visit with his brother at Blencoe, Ta. Miss Martha Herbaugh, who has been absent for a week, returned home Friday from Omaha. Bert Kindred of Herman spent Saturday and Sunday here with his family, re.urning tq Herman Monday morning. Henry Buller left here Wednesday for a two weeks' visit with his sister, Mrs, Ferdl- nand Abendroth, at Bancroft, Neb. Mrs. Lou Cole and son George were called to Missourl Valley Sunday un account of the serious illness of Mrs. Cole's brother. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. James Breneman dled Friday morning, being sick only twenty-four hours. Funeral Sunda; Andrew Anderson was appointed rural mall carrier from this office February 4 on route No. 1, vice Henry Johansen enlisted in the navy. Heury and Sidney Johansen offered them- selves to enlist in the United States navy. accepted, but Sidney was not the examination at the time. The first mission tea that was intr duced into the Ladies' gulld of St. Mark's church Ly Mrs. Edgar Powell, was held at Clover Leaf farm, the home of Mrs, Powell, Baturday evening from \6 until 8 o'clock The tea was presided over by Mrs. Powell, assisted by Price and Miss Jessic Tucker, and was very successful financlally. a business visitor in Omaha Mrs. Tom Hawkins recelved a visit from her father last week. Mrs. I. E. Frederick spent last Friday visiting With friends in Omaha. Mrs. Ida Gibson of Irvington and Miss Katherine Lowe of Omaha visited at the home of Mrs. C, Nevius last week. Charles Jennings and Poland C. Finney of Omaha ' visited at (he home of Mr. and Mrs. 1. E. Frederick one day last week. The young women's clags of the Bengon Methodist Bunday school spent a véry pleasant _afterncon at the home of their teacher, Miss Johnson last Saturday. Plans for future work were discussed and a social time was had. During the blizzard last Tuesday evening two of the Benson cars collided on account of the general irregularity and the difficulty in discerning headlights. One motorman was rendered unconscious, but not serl- ously injured, while the cars were badly cept this or that high station. One week they had It that he would succeed Mr. Roct as secretary of war. Then he was to be- come an assoclate justice of the supreme court. Hoth, of course, are high station The latter was tendered, but Judge Taft promptly declined, preferring to remain at Manila and develop his plans for the Phil- ippines. But the agitation for his return did not stop. It was thought that he would be recalled to succeed Chief Justico Fuller upon his retirement. I earnestly hope and really believe that nothing in the way of officlal station will tempt Judge Taft to abandon his work In the Philippine islands. The comments were made by Major J. H. Watrous of the United States army, who spent nearly two years and a half in the Philippines, and whose dutles took him to most of the Islands occupled by Ameri- can soldiers. Continuing, Major Watrous #poke In glowing terms of the great work done by Judge Taft his assoclate commis- o When 1 think of that work, of the astonlshing progress made in establishing & stable government, of the mountainous vl stacles that have been overcome, of the thousands of schools that have been opennd and their striking success In enlightent those people; of Judge Taft's great abl ity, his tireless euergy, his good heart and the ample missionary spirit of which be fs possessed, and of hia perfect equip- ment for his high office, 1 can but look upon the proposition to recall hip as & ma- Jority of the people looked upon the propo- sition to p off' Lidcoln in 1864, before this mighty task was completed. We often bear the remark that Lincgln was given to the world that he might do the work which fell to him betw: the Fort Sumter and Appomattox events, or words to that ef- fect. 1 as singerely believe that Willlam H. Taft was given to the world to be the eivil leader in carrylng to lasting, glorious #uccess American occupation of the Phil- ippine islands. Who today think that any one could have wrought better than Abra- bam Lincoln @1d? If Judge Taft remains over there until his work Is completed— untll & stable government is established, & time that is surely coming—the nation will be wsking: ‘Where could se have found one more suitable than Governor Tant ““There is another side to his talk about disabled. The Ladies' Aid society of the Benson Methodist church held its regular meeting at the home of Mrs. L E. Frederick last Wednesday afternoon. Desplte the almost impassable snowdrifts, a dosen of the mem- bers were present. After thegregular busi- ness session luuch was served. Revival services have been well attended during the past week. Rev., Mr. Grey, who sted the pastor during the meetings. was compeiled. to be absent u few evenings both on agcdwnt of the biiszard and ill health. Rev. Mr. Mayne acted as substi- tute on these nights and afforded very pleasant meetings. The usual services will be held at the Methodist church this morning by _the pastor, Rey. John Crewbs. Sunday school at noon.. Junior league at 4 and Epworth league at In the evening Rnv. Mr. Grey of the McCabe Mathodist church of Omaha will hold special services at 7:30, and the yresiding pastor will fill the Me- Cabe charg The regular monthly fire meeting and Improvement club met last Monday nigh The main topic of business was the Im provement of the fire department, so as to give it more rapid service and more powerful capacity. A committee consistin, of Messrs. C. Stiger and J. A. Howard was appointed to meet members of ture and express the wishes of the villagers concerning the new corporation bill now pending in the state capitol. West Ambler. Mr. and Mrs. Cook went to Scribner on Friday, returning on Monday Mrs. Anna Gants was guest of her sister Mrs. F. Hensman, from Wednesday until Thursday. I Syashad a brave fight Tuesday nignt keeping the burning sparks and shingles from the schoolhouses from setting fire to his own premises. The Ladles’ Ald soclety met at Mrs. J. E Aughe's on Thursday afternoon and did & Ereat deal of sewing. Owing to snow only about twenty-four were present. Receipts, 2. Guy Matsorr and bride and Charles Syas, jr, and a friend of North Omaha were guests of C. E. Syas und family on Sunday Mrs. J. Cunningham has been on the sick st this week. The red house ®7 West Ambler, until re- HOWELL WINS EVERY POINT Controls Meeting of Democratic Oty Oom- mittes Through Proxies. FAITHFUL HAVE LIVELY SECRET SESSION E) " of the A to Distarb (he n Adopted in roves Filat ortionment ¥ Jan The democratic city primaries will be from 12 o'clock noon to 7 p. m. Thursday, April 9, Instead of February 12, as decided at the meeting of January 10. The con- vention will be at 7:30 p. m. Saturday, April 11, a few hours after the repub- licans are slated to make their nomina- tion, instead of February 14. The appor- tionmeut will be one delegate for each seventy-five votes or fraction thereof cast for Thompson for governor, making a total of 115, instead of eighty-one as under the old system. This much was decided by the demo- cratic city central committee at a meet- ing in the room of the Jacksonian club iast night, with twenty-three of the twenty- nine members of the committee present or represented by proxies. In all voting the Howell faction showed up with fifteen and the anti-Howell faction with eight votes, after the preliminary skirmish, in which the former succeeded in overruling the chair and seating thelr own proxies. Chalrman W. O. Gilbert presided. The meeting was not exactly a love feast. The harmony prevailing was the same kind of harmony that keeps people wondering how soon the patrol wagon will get a riot call, and when the meeting was over the anti-Howell men were just as willing as ever to bet the clothes on their backs that convention day will be a snowy time for the coal candidate. Executive Committee Session, In the afternoon Chairman C. L, West of the executive committee called that com- mittee together “to clear himself of any charge of failure to do his full duty.” He wanted to know the committee’s pleasure. Chairman Gilbert of the central commit- tee sald that his first pleasure would be to learn who the duece appointed Olrich Jellen to take the place of Stamley Let- ovsky, who had gone Fepublican. He was informed that the executive committee had made the selection. His answer was a demand to know If he himself didn't have the appointing power, and Chairman West conceded that he had. Accordingly, Mr. Jellen was escorted to the door and Mr. Gilbert's selection, C. J. Smythe, was seated as a member of the committse. Ed P. Smith moved that as the city con- tral committee was to meet in the evening | all matters be referred to it and L. J. | Piatti seconded the motion. J. J. O'Conuor offered as a substitute a motion that the primary and convention dates be selected by the executive committee, but this motion dled for lack of second and the Smith motion prevailed. Adjournment was taken immediately. Fireworks in the Evening. When Chalrman Gilbert called the main committee to order in the evening R. J. Altcbison of the Howell faction took one frightened look at the newspaper men present and moved that the business be @one under cover. Joe Rapp, who studles law in the Herdman office, seconded the motion. J. J. Mahoney of the anti-Howell crowd was for leaving the lights turned on. He moved ‘he committee proceed to businesr, and added that he saw no reason for keeping things dark. Joe Butler onded this motion. " Before attempting to take a ballot the chalr decided that it would be well to ascertaln who was entitled to vote, and there then arrived a large, adult row over the proxi Joe Butler protested against Will Herd- man's being allowed a voice, as there had been found on the records no mention that HerGman ever had been made a member of the committee, but withdrew his pro- test upon being informed by the chalr that Herdman bad been made such member at a certain committee meeting. P. N.| Tobin was challenged as a representative of the Fourth ward on the ground that he has been resident in the Eighth' ward for a year and a half. W. T. Johnson was objected to by the same protestant, Butler, because mow In the Eighth instead of the Sixth. J. J. O'Connor was objected to as a proxy for John T. Evans because Evans hasn't been, J. J. Mahoney said, a resident of the Seventh ward for two years and lsn't even in the city now. Dan Cannon and W. H. Chadwick both presented proxies from D. T. Murphy end there were others nrotested on both sides. Behind Closed Doors. In the hopelessness of the tangle tte chalr put the motion for exeeutive session and it carried. The protest against Tobin was then considered and the chair sus- talned it. A vote was called and the chair was overruled, 15 to 8. As this test affected all protests based on the grounds of nou- | residence the rest were not considered and | the Howell faction secured the contested seats. After that it was plain sailing. Wil Herdman introduced a resolution to the effect that the city central committee con- cur in all acts of the meeting of January 10 except as to dates of primaries and con- ventions, and changing these to April 9 and 11. This left the Thompson vote ap- portionment standing and the antl-Huwell faction was just 1cady to move an amend- ment when West moved the previoue ques- tion. This brought the final showing ot strength and the resolution was adopted, 16 to 8. Sandwiched in with the motions and s onds were some of the warmest tete-a-tete in all history and to transact fifteen min- utes' business the committee was closeted | nearly two hours. KOCIAN IS ANGTHER WONDER Bohemian Boy Who Plays on the Violin and Astonishes the Maste: Jareslav Kocian, the youngest of the Bo- hemian violin virtuosi, who will piay at Boyd's theater Monday afternoon, February 23, was bofn February 23, 1884, in the small town of Usti Nad Orlici, Bohemis. At the age of 3 he watched with great Interest the violin playing of his father's people. It was at the age of about 4 that the gifted child received his first violin and was in- structed by his father. The latter, being # schoolmaster, was also & music teacher, a8 {8 common in nearly all European coun- tries. In a short time the boy was playing in the town orchestra, where his great musial talents were roticed by everyone. In the year 1896, when a lad of i3 years, Jaroslay entered the Royal Conservatory of Music at Prague and became a pupil of céntly owned by the Unlon National bank. has been purchased, and the owners are removing It over *o Grifin's grove on South Forty-ninth street. The stereopticon views given at Soutn- west church on Friday night were fine and a large crowd witnessed them. The pro- will be used by the Junior league for its pledge to expenses of the church. Workmen are busy this week clearing away the debris from the grounds where the two school butldings burned Tues- day uight The remaining building will 2000 be reopenad 10r the first and second Erades und Kindergarten. All books, seats and the plano were saved. the renowned master, Prof. Sefcik. From this institution he was graduated in five years, being one year less than the course required Koclan is not like the majority of vir- tucsl, skilled only iu tecbuique, but has been very successful in composition and as a director of orchestras, for example, Jep- in's orchestra in Monte Carlo, He has been the lion of musical circles In Austria, been Inseparable friends from childhood In Amerfea Kocian has gained as great success as in Europe, having been received with great praise in the musical centers of the east. While in Washington Koclan dedicated one of his compositions to Miss Alice Roosevelt SAY NOMAD HEHDS RUIN RANGE Want Yelluwstone Blg Morn Stockmen Prohibited Park Extension. CODY, Wyo., Feb. 7.—(Special)—At a meeting of the stock growers and business men of this section at the town hall the astion of some men who petitioned Presi- dent Roosevelt to rescind his order ex- tending the boundaries of the Yellowstone park and excluding stock from grazing thereon wae repudiated. Resolutions were adopted urging the president and other government officials to iet the order stand, but asking that, in case grazing is per- mitted, the privilege be granted to resi- dent stockmen only. There were nearly 100 signers of the petition, all leading stock and business men. They maintain that nomadic herds and flocks are ruining the ranges in the Big Horn country and have been encroaching upon the forest re- serves. The action of officlals in blowing up certain trails to prevent sheep passing in and out of the reserve was approved 1y the stockmen. WYOMING DRUG MIXERS MEET Organize State Board to Examine Ore- dentials of Pharmacists and Im- pose Rigld Examinatio; RAWLINS, Wyo., Feb. 7.—(Special)—A State Board of Pharmacy was organized here yesterday. It is proposed to investi- te the credentials of every person who puts up drugs In the state and each phar- macist must pass a rigid examination be- fore he will be given a certificate which will entitle him to practice his profession. | The board has caused to be introduced/in the legislature a bill for Its rellef add for laws governing pharmacists, making it un- lawful for any person except qualified phar- macists to practice in the state. A large number of pharmacists attended yester- day's meeting. MAY SAVE LIFE OF TOM HORN Bill Introduced in Wyoming Legls ture Provides for Abolishment of Capital Panishment. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 7.—A bill intro- duced in the Wyoming legislature on Janu- ary 31 15 now credited with having for its purpose the saving of the life of Tom Horn, convicted of the murder of Willie Nickel, and now under sentence of death. The bill abolishes capital punishment, and becomes operative againet all sen- tences of death already pronounced and not executed at the time of the passage of the act Claims of Twenty-Eight Thousand, RAWLINS, Wyo., Feb. 7.—(Special)— It is said that suft will be brought against the Encampment Transportation company to recover claims to the amount of $28,000. It seems the company cgreed to pay for its teams and other property at the rate of $1,000 per month. Seven payments were made and the other eight defaulted. It is expected the North American Cpper com- pany will take charge of the property and assuine the indebtednes: Disease Among Wyoming Cattle. CHEYENNE, Wyo.,, Feb. 7.—(Special)— State Vetenarian G. T. Seabury has re: turned from the northern part of the state, where he has been battling with unknown diseases among cattle and glanders among horses. Near Aladdin, in Crook county, forty head of cattle dled of an unknown disease, which it is belleved, has been checked. In Big Horn county Mr. Seabury killed & number of horses affected with glanders. Snow in Red Desert ix Melting. RAWLINS, Wyo., Feb. 7.—(Special.)— Conditions in the Red Desert are improv ing. A warm wind has melted the snow on the sides of hills and sheep are now able to get plenty of feed. ROYAL SACRIFICE IS IN VAIN Eloping Princess Permanently Barred Both from Children Saxon Home, DRESDEN, Feb. 7.—The separation of tormer Crown Princess Louise and M. Giron does not change the present legal situation, and will not have the elightest effect on the divorce proceedings which will be re- sumed February 11, . The princess can never return to the Saxon court, but she may possibly effect a reconcillation with her own family and take up a permanent residence in Austria. A counsel of the ministers, specialiy called by King George, today considered a telegraphic request from the crown princess, sent through her lawyers, begging to see her son, Christian, who is dangerously fll. The decision, however, was that, much a8 the ministers might sympathize with the mother, it was impossible for her to re- turn here, as It would occasion popular excitement, ABYSSINIAN WAR POSSIBLE Menelik Breaks Off Relations French Resident with Driving Him from Ca LONDON, Feb. 7.—A dispatch from Rome says reports have been received from Ad- dis Abeba, Abyssinia, that King Menelik has broken off relations with M. Legard, the French resident, and expelled him from the capital. M. Legard is now quartered twenty miles from Addis Abeba. Filipino Protest Against Chinese. MANILA, Feb. 7.—The Filipino Laber, union has fssued & protest against Chines immigration, threatens violence to prevent its introduction here and asks the people to co-operate in the efforts to preveat such immigration. Governor Taft Resumes Work. MANILA, Feb. 7.—Governor Taft, who ha been il far & week, as the result of drink- ing infected water while touring Laguna and Batagas, s recovering and has re- sumed work. MORMON MURDERER IS MAD NEW YORK, Feb. T.—Willlam Hooper Young, on trial for the murder of Mrs. Pulitser, was today dcclared insane by & commission in lunacy, composed of Drs. Flint, McDonald and Dana, appointed by Judge Herrick © France and Eugland. Koclan is sccompanied by Spindier, an excellent boy planist. These youths have ' NEW YORK, Feb. 1t is semi-officially stated that the proposed increase of ths B t0g. this present capitaiiiation, rom nt cap o, 10" $400,000,000. - FATHER COMES INTO DRAMA May Obange the Program in the Sadler Dorre Howard Leve Btory. WANTS TO KNOW SUMETHING ABOUT GIRL Just What Part He Proposes to Take in the Melodramatic Aftair Does Not Appear from Recelved Here, Letter Wilhelmina Sadler again has title to ap- pear In the public prints. In December Dorre Howard, a messenger boy 16 years old, shot himself twice, but not fatally, in a room al the Arcade hotel because he thought he was going to lose her. January 3 sho was spirited to the south by her mother after habeas corpus proceedings in criminal court. Two weeks ago, other mes- songer boys say, the youthful lover tried to trall her and beat his way as far as Kansas City, where he gave up the chase and returned to Omaba. Now there appears i the little drama a man who affirms he {s her father and who demands to know what has been going on. Attorney John O. Yelser, who represented Mrs. Sadler of 119% North Fifteenth street, mother of the girl, declines to give out a word concerning this latest development, but it {s understood that there has come to Dr. E. W. Powell, tho attending physi- clan of the boy, a letter dated at Yoakum, Tex., January 16, and signed by R. W. Sad- ler, who is apparently an employe of the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad com. pany. The letter Is said to contain the explana- tion that the writer saw in a newspaper an account of the dramatic Incidents oc- curring in Omaha and to contain also the statement that he is the father of the girl and would like to have her questioned as to her surroundings without her mother be. ing present. Protests on Heing Dead. When Mrs, Sadler was on the stand she testified that she was divorced from her husband twelve years ago and that he had not been heard from in ten years and Is presumed to be dead The writer of the letter protests that be 1s the livellest corpse in the whole state of Texas. He further narrates certain al- leged famiiy history, stating ‘that he mar- rled the girl's mother (then Miss Mary Ryman) at Big Springs In February, 1882; that the daughter was born in December of that year, that in 1892 he left the two and went to Monterey, Mexico, the wife and girl going to Fort Worth, Tex., where the latter was placed in a convent; that hs subsequently went to Fort Worth and car- ried the girl away with him and into Mexico, that the wife and mother followed and by certain provisions of the Mexico law was enabled to recover possession of the child and return her to the Fort Worth convent, that later he learned the two had gone to Omaha, but that he never knev. exactly their whereabouts until he read of the incidents here. Where the girl is now very few peopls in Omaha know. All the information | vouchsafted Is ‘hat slie 1s In a convent near 8t. Louls aud has grown to like the place. Every effort is mace to keep young How- ard from learning her location, that there may be no Romeo-Juliet balcony work un- til both are old enough to know better than to try it. On the stand the mother testified that the girl was just come 18 the day she left home, shortly before the shooting escapsde. It was this fact that enabled the mother's attorney to secure for the parent the custody of the child, as under the Texas law a child is a minor un- til 21 years old. The statement of the writer of the letter received this week would make the girl a trifie more than 20 years old, but still within the provisions of the law which goyerned Judge Baxter when he gave the child to the mother. What the letter writer proposes to do, if anything, is not stated. CAKEWALK CAPTURES PARIS Seen at Every Concert Hall ai elety is Also Having an Attack. (Copyright, 193, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Feb, 7.—(New York World Cable- gram, Special Telegram.)—Paris has gone mad over the cakewalk. At the last opera ball the great attraction of the evening was the t American importation, and the managers assert that it proved the strongest drawing card they have had in many y There 18 not a music hall in this city that does not announece a cake- walk upon its bills. Soclety itself has the prevailing mania, and in even the most ex- clusive salons one hears the all-prevalling question, “Can you do the cakewalk,” or, as the French say it, “Kakavakay cous.” No cotillon this winter has been consid- ered complete without a cakewalk feature, and it ig & frequent sight to eee some mar- quis and haughty duchess pigeon-winging down the ancestral halls that have for cen- turies echoed only the stately music of the minuet. SAN DOMINGO OBJECTS TO PAY Says American Clalmants Should Not Evoke Ald of Washington Gov-' ernment to Recover Debt. SAN DOMINGO, Feb. A public meet- ing has been held under the auspices of the Dominican government to consider the demands of the United States for a’set- tlement of the Clyde line and other claims. . The meeting declared that the govern- ment ot the United States ought not to interfere, as the claimants could settle thelr differences in this country. \ It was decided to send the minister of finance, Senor Emiliamo Tejera, to Wash- ington to announce this decision to the government of the United States. Meanwhile Mr. Powell continues to de- mand & settlement of the claims, refuses 0 accept the terms proposed, and has an- nounced that he will not submit to any further delay. It Is assgrted here that the Dominican government eking to evade by all possible means a settlement of the American claims. MAY LOSE TWO CONSULS Pa ro Agent Lies Crit- leally 1L » Representative and ¢ Away PARIS, Feb. 7.—Consul General Gowdy bhas been informed that Jobn H. Carroll, United tSates consul at Cadiz, Spain, died teday of consumption at Mentone. The United States vice consul at Genoa telegraphed that Hubbard T. Smith, the vice and deputy cousul general at Cairo, who is lying ill 1o a hospital &t Genoa, suffering from cancer of the kidneys, is gradually sinkiog Fremch Police Seek Murderers. PARIS, Feb. 7.—The French suthorities bave forward:d & request for the extradi- tion of & Belgian named Thubocus and his woman companion, who are said to be now in the hands of the police in the United States. 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Y., who will gladly send you by mail, immediately, without cost {0 you, a sample bottle of Swamp-Root, and a book containing many of thousands upon thousands of testimonial letters In writing, be sure to say that you read the and women the Omaha received from men this generous offer in ——— e RELIEF FOR THE STRICKEN of Famine Sufferers, PLAN SEEMS TO BE WELL ORGANIZED Distribution is Made Through Fin- nish Committee Instead of Gov- ernor General, Who Shows Signs of Being Blaved, . ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 7.—The corre- spondent of the Assoclated Press returned yesterday from Helsingtors. He found measures for the relief of the distress in Finland apparently weil organized. The distribution of funds is carefully su- pervised. The Finnish national relief com mittee has received up to the present $16,- 000 from American relief organization: General surprise and gratitude s expressed at the large contributions which th com- mittee has received. Other forelgn countries have contributed $3,000, and in Russia $23,000 has been col- lected, including $14,000 from the Russian Red Cross society, of which the dowager czarina is th eprotectress; $2,000 from the czar and $10,000 from the czarewich. The Finns wero agreeably astonished at the fact that the imperial gifts and the Russian contributions through the official 8t. Petersburg committee, organized by the Interior minister, Von Plehwe, with Ad- miral Craemer as chairman, were sent to the Finnish committee instead of Governor General. Brobrickoff. The governor, how- ever, s recelving the funds collected by the Novoe Vremy: Governor Has a Preference, All this is_regarded as elgnificant, since General Brobrickoff in his official organ de- clared that justice demanded that in the distribution of the government fund de- cided preference must be given to com- munes whose inhabitants obeyed the mill- tary service decree The Finlanders rded this as tanta- mount to an admission that the money paseing through General Brobrickof's handa is used against the Finulsh committee, i cluding $49,000 which remained from the previous famine fund, amounting to $181,- 000. Owing to the demoralization caused by the money distribution at the time of the last famine the committee now restricts help, excepting In the extreme cases, to the distribution of foodstuffs, seeds and mates rials, for cottage industries, as loans in return for work. In some cas on the advice of the ag- ricultural experts who have been through- out the country, small loans of money for farm improvements are granted on the con- dition that If the improvements are actually made the committee will cancel 50 per cent of the debt If it is repald by 1906. Needy school children are housed, clothed, boarded and lnstructed free. The commit tee accounts are audited by the Bank of Finland, and are regularly published in the newspaper separate from the proviuclal funds and the senate appropriation that are used for bullding roads and canals for drainage purposes. BERNHARDT ESSAYS NEW ROLE 1 B to Put Audl- Sympathy with the Drama. (Copyright, 198, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Feb. 7.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—Sarah Bern- hardt appesred today in ‘‘Andromaque,” with music by Saint Saens. Speaking to the World \correspondent of her mew role as Hermione, and sald: “For me Hermione s & woman who suffers in her love much more than from irritation at the scorn of Pyrrhus. She sees her dearest dreams by turns realized and shattered. These alter- Bations cause her most profound Lesture. J Her love is such that she cannot survive her assassinated lover. I interpret the role of Hermione differently, perhaps, from other actresses. Bnuim.onmlnntvaldingfarth-ludl| “I felt very nervous. Yes, I never go on the stage without feeling nervous at the start. Every night when I face the footlights I suffer several minutes from nervous contraction of the lower part of the face, and at first performauces 1 feel such keen agony that it requires a strong effort to overcome my aversion to appear- ing." The World correspondent asked her rea- sons for requesting Saint Saens to write music for “Andromaque.’ Mme. Bernhardt unswered: *‘The specta- tors must be prepared for the special at- mosphere of the plece, so that when the curtain rises their minds, hearts and souls may be assimilated to the general sur- roundings of the drama. Music alone can accomplish this transformation of person- ality. Even between acts the music of the play will serve as a link between the dif- ferent scenes, preventing the minds of the spectators from falllng from the heights to which they have been transported.” Most Striking Ceremany, ROMIE, Fob. 7.—The requiem mass cele- brated today on the twenty-fifth anniver- sary of the death of Pope Plus IX was a striking ceremony. Cardinal Satolll offici- ated. The pope, who was surrounded by the members of the sacred college, the pontifical court and the Roman aristocracy, gave the absolution and a postolic benedic- tion, although he was suffering from a cold. Among the Americans present were Dr. Kennedy, rector of the American college, and Bishop Burke of St. Joseph, Mo. Prince Henry to Command at Kiel, BERLIN, Feb. 7.—Prince Henry of Prus- sla’s three yoars' service ends in Octobor, when he will give up command of the bat- tleship squadron and become commander of the naval station at Kiel In place of Ad- miral Koerster. General M LONDON, Feb. Lieutenant General Miles and his party left today to join the steamer Lucania at Liverpool s to 5 NERVOUS PROSTRATION. The Result of the Pain and Irritation from Hemorrhol, Nervous prostration is often the result of neglecting & case of hemorrholds or plles; the pain and irritation attendant upon this digagreeable trouble inconven- fences and annoys one, but it is impossible to go to business and to do the ordinary day's work, so the trouble s neglectcd une til the nerves become exhausted and the patient s a victim of nervous prostration Hemorrholds cause a scnsation of heat tension and itching in a reglon where Is located the most sensitive nerves of the buman system, aod the continued irrita tion will eventually cause & collapse of the nerves. This would ecasily have been avpided 1if the patient had carefully treated the case of plles from their first appea: ance. No otber trouble can be so quickly and safely overcome if treated In an early stage, and even If the case is an old one there is & remedy which will act with re- markable results If faithfully applied The Pyramid Plle Cure is In suspository form and can ‘be convenlently applied to the affected parts, the soothing olls and medication reaching and healing the en- larged hemorrhold veins of the rectum and acting at once upon the inflamed tis- suey EVery suferer from the trouble should send at once to the Pyramid Drug Co. Marshall, Mich., for thelr book on Piles or Hemorrhoids, which will be sent free. The Pyramid Pile Cure {s so well known and the hundreds cured by It have so advertised it, that the litlle book is merely sent to give each patient a clearer view of his or her particular case and the proper treat- meat for it