Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1903, Page 1

’d X Y ". THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, WEDNE DAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1903-—TE} PAGES. GLE COpr COURT STOPS STRIKE Judge Adams Issues Injunotion Against Wabash Employes. PROHIBITS ORDER OR ADVICE TO QUIT Makes Obedience to Men's Vote Contempt on Part of Leaders UNIONS DECIDE TO OBEY AND FIGHT Will 8eek to Bhow Oause Why Writ Should Be Vacat:d at Onoe. RAMSEY MOVES DURING TIME ALLOWANCE Obtains Five Hours' Grace and U to | Persuade Jurist to Proh Proposed Stoppage Raflrond Lines, BT LOUIS, March 3.—An injunction {s- sued by Judge Adams in the United States district court today.stopped the Wabash strike temporarily, at least. By the poll taken last week the firemen and trainmen authorized thelr committ to declare a strike at once should Mr. Ramsey refuse to grant the demands for an increase east of the Mississippl. It was to prevent this order being issued that the Wabash officials applied for a réstralning rule and it is this order which the in- unction 1s designed to prevent. The men, though flabbergasted at the judge's action, immediately decided to obey the order, but to make speedy arrangements for a fight in the courts, hoping thereby to have the order at once rescinded. Ramsey Obtains Truce, The strike was to have been declared at noon today, but at Mr. Ramsey's request he was given till § o'clock in the evening to make a final reply. Shortly before the expiration of the allotted time his answer came {n the form of peremptory command of the court enjoining the officers of the men’s unions from ‘“ordering, inducing or otherwise cansing, directly or indirectly’ @ strike on the Wabash system. Two hours later Mr. Rameey followed this up with a note practically refusing point blank to further consider the demands made upon him. Then he went home, tell- ing waiting reporters that there would be no_ strike. Excitement among the rallway men and in 8t. Louls labor circles ran high tonight @nd there was much talk of ignoring the meaning if not the letter of the injunction and striking anywa: The men were wild and ready for almost anything, but the offi- clals restrained them, pointing out both by menifesto and by word of mouth the neccessity for calm deliberation and the advisability . of obeying the injunction, which was at all events issued by a duly appointed court and as such entitied to respect. At the same time attention wis d:-wn to the fact that the Injunction was of necessity temporary and the union had the :!fi',lfioi’u-n why it #hould not be made permanent. Conse- quently it was decided to employ counsel to argue the case and endeavor to have the ords ated. The statements insofar as they refer to the action of the court are conservative and impartial, but when at the end Mr. Ramsey's action is commented upon the officlals spare no words in expressing thelir opinion of the rallroad president. He is declared an open and avowed foe of labor organizations, who, finding he cannot oper- ate the road without the ald of union labor, has taken refuge behind an order of the court, which the men must obey without protest or go to jall. In; 1s Swee The ‘injunction, after reciting that it has been represented, that defendants are conspiring to order a strike witl the object of stopping the business of the Wabash as & common carrier, goes on: We therefore do strictly command you and each and every one of you individually and “as representativen of the Order of the Brotherhood of Rallway Trainmen and Brotherhood of Locomolive Firemen, you, said, organisations. o agents and attorneys, and all others who may be and “abetting you or them, or acting in concert with you or them' and under your, or their direction, d_until the further 'order of the court, absolutely to desist ant refrain from In Ay WAy Of jnanner ordering. coercing, persuading, inducing or otherwlse causing, Sirectly of indirectly. the employes of tha rald Wabash Raflway company, e gaged in or the operstion of Ite fraine within the United States as brakemen, switchmen or locomotive firemen, to strike or quit the service of said company, and from, In any way, molesting or Interfer- ing with said railroad company's sald em- pioyes, of ‘the conduét of iis business as a coj mon carrler, and from molesting or inter- fering with 'said rafiroad com, ficers, agents or representative to the operation of its .rains or em ment of men for or in ‘connection th with, and from preventing or (nterfering with' said railroad company with fts em- ployes and its contracts with shippers for the transportation of property, and from interfering with or preventing sald rail- road company from offering reasonable proper equal facllities for the inter- change of traffic between its lines of rail road and other Ifnes of rallway coanectin, therewith, and the receiving. forwarding and delivering of passengers and property 1o ahd from fta lines of rallroad with other raliroads connveting with such lines, and making a continuous carriage of freight from place of shipment to the place of destination, and from preventing or inter- fering with sald raliroad company's connect- ing lines and their employes in the like interchange of traMc and facllities with sald complainant raliroad company and rom ordering. advising or otherwise in- uenéing employes of sald conneéting lines to refuse to interchangs trafic And afford tagliities therefor as aforesald, and from inferfering with or preventing sald rail- road company and its connecting frum complying With the requirements of the iptersjate commerce act of the United States and with thelr agreements with cach other respecting sald facilities for the interchange of trafic, and from inter- fering with or preventing said railroad company In the carrying of the malls in Accordance with its’ contracts with the United States 4nd the laws relating thereto to the end that by any of the acts or means aforessid, the sald defendants, their agents or servants shall not interfere with sald ratiroad company from discharging its duties and obligutions with respect to in- terstate commerce or prevent it from forming any or all dutles or obiika- tions imposed by the act of con proved February 4, 187. and amendments Thereto in relation to interstate commerce Mereof fall not. under the penaity of what the law direots. The Injunciion is witnessed by Chief Jus- tice Melville W. Fuller of the supreme court, The Injunction fs directed against the fol- lowing persons Ly name in acdition to all other oficers of ‘he two ualons John J. Hanraban. Fred kgl H. Martin, James Seil, F. I & F Rowe. W. G. Lee, B W. Schal-r, Wi Ham McKay, J. R Courtney George W. Eradley M. McMunus, Charles A. Lew- \0u, Charics J. Augur, H. O Niemeyer, VG "White, ¥. €. Bhepard. 'T. . Dodge, B. W. Arnol, A. E.Jordan, P. H. dor rissey and (. 'H. Wilkina. Immediately after recgiving the writ a meeting of union leaders beld, where T (Continued on Becond Page. ess ap- ardt, A ox," W, ) representatives, | or with the cperation of its trains, | lines ( FRANCIS NOW GOES TO SPAIN President of St. Falr Dolng Good Work in Behalf of the Exposition, Louis ~President Francis of the St. Louls exposition, started for Madrid today, after devoting the morning further exchange of visits. He also went to the Chamber of Commerce /S ad to the bourse, L Shortly before the day's operfte, s Mr. Francis held an informal le' * eral hundred leaders of the financ commerclal world crowding around i while M. La Grave, the commissioner of France to the exposition, presented the leading officials of the various chambers. All those present had something good to say of the expoeition. M. Santos Dumont, the aeronaut, was among the callers at the hotel, while Mr. Francls was out, so that they did not have an opportunity for a personal conference. During the ball last night President Lou- bet separated himself from the presiden- tial group In order to confer with Mr. Francis on the subject of the exposition and American affairs in general. The French president referred with spe- cfal kindness and warmth to President Roosevelt. LONDON, March 8—"The government has accepted the Invitation of the United States government to participate in the St. Louls exposition,” eald Premier Balfour in the House of Commons today, replying to a question of Henry Newman, liberal, re- garding the steps being taken to insure the United Kingdom belng adequately repre- sented “The extent to which the country will participate,” continued the premier, “and the exact modus operandi are mow under consideration.” LADY COOK RATES COURT PARIS, March wes Libel Action and Then Raises Her Volce in Violent Protest, LONDON, March 3.—J. H. Wallace, for- merly secretary of the late Sir Francls Cook, today obtained a verdict for $3,250 damages for libel against Lady Cook, for- merly Tennessee Claflin of New York. The latter was charged with accusing Wallace of conspiracy to circulate rumors ‘that Sir Francls died an unnatural death. On hearing the verdict Lady Cook sprang from her seat and, ing a bundle of papers, shouted: ‘Lord Alverston, I am an American and I want you to listen to me. This has cost me thousands of pounds end I bave trusted myself In the hands of an English judge and an English jury. I have witnes from America. I can bring hundreds of witnesses. I want to go in the witness box myselt.” The lord chief justice tried to stem the torrent and asked Lady Cook to leave the court, but she continued to protest in loud tones until the ushers removed her. “Oh, don’t pull me out,” she shouted, “I will walk out. I ought not to have trusted, but I am a weak woman. I have done more for England and America than anyone else.’” SHIP - TRUST AIDS- BRITAIN Vessels Belug American Can Food in Time of - Wak, 1y LONODN, March 3.—In his presidential address at the forty-third annual meeting of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce Lord Avebury was inclined to be congratulatory over the formation of the International Mercantile Marine com- pany and especially in connection with the British food supply in war times. He pointed out that the United States would never permit the ship of an Amer- fcan company to be interfered with on the high seas. The meeting unanimously resolved to urge the appointment of a British minister of commerce. Lord Brassey sald business circles here would certainly be grateful to the government If through the creation of the proposed ministry it could remove some of those ungenerous tariffs which British commerce encountered in every quarter. JUDGES REFUSE TO TRY CASE Peculiar Situation is Sald to Exist in the Town of Abo, Finland, STOCKHOLM, March 3.—The Aftonbladet has a dispatch from Abo, Finland, stating | that the judges of the Abo high court are | resigning wholesale, and that the police are foreibly preventing the hearing of witnesses {1in the action brought against General Kai- gorodoff, the governor of Helsingfors, by the persons who were injured in the riots at Helsingfors last spring. The riots at Helsingfors last spring arose out of a demonstration by recruits against the army edict. General Kaigorodoff or- dered out the Cossacks, who charged the crowd, knouting and knocking down indis- criminately. A large number on both sides were injured. BOSTON FIRM CLOSES DOORS Tight Money Respo ot Prominent Brok that City, for Fallure in BOSTON, March 3.—The failure of A. B Turner & Brother of this city was an- nounced on the stock exchange today. ' The firm was largely interested In Maesa- | chusetts Consolidated Mining and In West- ern rallway projects. The faliure is at- tributed to the stringency of the money market ONE KILLED AND TWO HURT Passenger Train on Ch Ohio Ruus Into Ren: HUNTINGTON, W. Va., March: 3.—Pas- senger train No. 3 on the Chesapeake & Ohio raliroad crashed into the rear of a treight train near Russell today. Freight Brakeman Charles Miller of Rus- sell was killed. Captain Davis of Russell, an the freight train, and John Rose, fire- man, were probably fatally injured. KANSAS AIDS HUNGRY SWEDES Gover roclamation Funds with Which to Feed Starving. Ap- TOPEKA, March 3.—Governor Bailey to- day issued a proclamation calling on the people of Kansas to aid the famine suffer- ers in Sweden. A general commitiee of which Dr. Carl Swensen of Lindsborg is chairman, has been appolnted to take charge of the relief work to a| gan 2 OBSERVE PAPAL JUBILEE Regal Pagesnt Marks the Anniversary of Pontiff's Orowning. LEO STANDS STRAIN REMARKABLY WELL Surrounded by Multi-Hued Cardinals and Soldiers His Pale F) White Robes G earthly Impression, ce and . “ B, March 3.—From sunrise to day- 1 Rome was on the alert and show- fng W0 unost unusual animation and inter- est in the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the coromation of Pope Leo XIII. This movement was noticeable at the large hotels which were {lluminated as though for a ball The crowds which gathered before the first cordon of troops were impatient as they stood dripping under the persistent rain. There was a great clashing of um- brellas and gemeral feeling of discomfort among the waiting sightseers, wha Included very many women in most varfed attire, { comprising foreigners of all | and Itallans from all parts of the country, | the uniformity of the crowd being pleas- | antly broken by groups of eisters in the differept gowns of their orders, Catholie students and pleturesquely attired friars. When finally the doors of St. Peters were opened an almost indescribable struggle occurred, in which all present forgot the rules of holiness and strove hard with push of elbows and feet to reach the interlor of the sacred edifice, while on all sldes were very well suited to the spot where a notable religious ceremony was about to begin. The tribunes were soon crowded to over- flowing and all the best standing places were taken. A period of comparative calm succeeded the great rush and the atten- tion of the people was attracted to the guilded throne near the high altar, and to the immense pillars of the basilica, hung with red silken draperies. Some of the tribunes on each side of the altar were filled with men and women blazing with decorations. Family of Pope Present. | | In a special tribune was the pope's fam- ily, the diplomatic corps and the members of the order of Malta, all in full uniform. After an hour of very fatiguing wait- ing & majestic procession began to ap- pear. It was composed of the great dig- nitaries of the church, the forty car- dinals present, gorgeous in their red robes, alone making a most imposing character- istic and picturesque group. At 1 o'clock the great bell of St. Peter's rang out a signal, which was followed by the ringing of the bells of about forty churches in Rome, as they sounded the an- nouncement that the pontiff was on his way to the basilica. The life of the anclent ity seemed to pause for a moment, hats wern raised and the sign of the cross was made. Shortly afterward, inside St. Pefer trumpets blared out thelr message and the pontift appeared. The people held their breath for a moment and then all the pent up enthusiasm burst forth in a tremendous roar of welcoshe. From his elevation on the new sedis ges- tatorla, carried by twelve men in costumes of red brocade flanked by the famous fla- belll (spreading feather fans) and sur- mounted by a White and gold canopy, the pops appeared to be more than a human being. He scemed to be a white spirit, this impression being added to by the pontiff's white robes and white mitre, delicate fea- tures, face white as alabaster and his thin hands moving slowly In benediction. Long Live Pope Leo. As the sweet-toned, well-trained volces of the Sistine choir sang “Tues Petrus" thou- sands of volces shouted “Long live Pope handkerchiefs fluttered In the alr, the banners of the various socleties represented were waved and many of those present, overcome with emotion, sobbed loudly, while others fainted from excess of feeling or fatigue. Meanwhile the pope proceeded slowly on what seemed a carpet of heads, absorbing the entire attention of the vast throng. When the pope arrived at the throne the ceremony proceeded rapidly. Leaving the sedia gestatoria the pontff knelt and prayed and then rose without assistance, donned the falda and the new triple crown and the celebration of the mass began. At the moment of the elevation of the pope a profound silence fell in the assem- blage, the guards presented arms, the peo- ple knelt, where it was possible for them to do so, and from the cupola came the clear, thin sounds of silver trumpets giving the idea of heavenly music. The pope then administered the papal benediction and retired to a room for re- storatives, prepared on purpose every time he goes to St. Peters. Aerogram from America. NEW YORK, March 3.—The telegram has been sent to the pope by Cardinal Gibbons, transmission having been made by the Marconi wireless system: BALTIMORE, March 2—Pope Leo XIII, Rome, Italy: American heirarchy, clergy and laity send congratulations on your Jubllee. (Signed) JAMES, CARDINAL GIBBONS. GOVERNOR CALLS OUT TROOPS Colorade Executiv following Sends Soldiers to Protect Property at Colo- rado City., DENVER, March 3.—At the request of | United States Reduction company, opera- | ting at Colorado City, Governor Peabody | at noon today called out the state troops | to proceed to Colorado City and protect the ! reduction company’s plant from strikers. ! COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 3.— at Cripple Creek were notified to discon- tinue shipping ore to the reduction mills troubles with the labor unions on and after March . This inthoduces the strike into the Cripple Creek district, as the Elkton company says it will continue to rum, em- ploying union and nonunion men, as can ve secured. ROCKEFELLER IS GOING WEST He ends Four Hours in Kawvsas City and Then Leaves for Denver. KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 3.—John D. Rockefeller, accompanied by his wife, son and a physician, arrived here today from the east emroute to California, where he goes to take & two months' res During & four hours' stop.here the party spent some time driving about the city nd depsrted at 1:30 this afterncon for | Denver on a special train over the Mis- sourl Pacific ratiroad. Mr. Rockefeller declined to be | viewed. He appeared to be well. inter- ) especially | nationalities | heard cries of fear and imprecations, not | Sheriff Gilbert of El Paso county and the | The owners of the Elkton and other mines | at Colorado City which are having strike | | presideat this week. APPROPRIATIONS GROUND OUT Combination ble to Keep Them Down o Withsta Assaults on It. PIERRE, 8. D., March 3.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Today was appropriations day in both houses. The combinations formed carly in thé session to'hold down the spe clals going completely to pleces. The sen- ate passed house bills for $10,000 at the blind asylum at Gary; $2,292 deficfency at the reform school; $35,000 for the Aber- deen normal; $25,000 for the School of Mines at Rapid City; $20,000 for the pen) tentiary, and' the bill for Redfield insane | hospital, and for the armory at Vermilion. | The senate appropriations passed by the | senate were to import broad-talled sheep | for the Agricultural college experiment | station and a number of bills which were | duplicates of house bills passed yesterday and today. A bill was Irtroduced in the senate au- thorizing the state to make a deficlency levy of 1 mill on the dollar. In the forenoon session of the house | the speaker was voted his chalr and gavel The house passed semate bills fixing fees for filing articles of Incorporation and pro- | viding rules for the governlng of corpora- | tlons formed in this state. The house bill to create a state revenue commission was killed on committee report, as was the bill | to tax the products of mifies, | At the afternoon session the hbuse rap- 1dly ground through house bills up to the time of special orders and passed bills | giving sheriffs $5 per day custodian fees for | holding stocks of goods taken under exe- | | cution; requiring counties to pay haif | values for horses killed on aecount glanders; submitting to the electors of | Butte and Lawrence counties the matter of boundary; providing for extra compens- ation for assessors in large counties, and several small deficiency appropriation bills, besides an appropriation of $20,000 for Improvements at the penitentiary Then started the fight on the spcial ap- propriations fo: Spearfish, Sprivgfield and Madison, which failed yesterday and the work was a repetition of the sceneg in the senate two years ago under similar con- ditions. It was a matter of bringing up the bills again and again until they fnally pulled througr, the Spearfish bill coming first and passed, 63 to 1. Longstaff fought the bill to a finish, but was defeated in his every effort in one of which he took the first appeal from the decision of the chair which has been made this session, but | falled to make his point. The Madison bill was next and failed, after whi'h Longstreet declored it as his beliet that as one had passed the other two should go through. | Springfleld came next and agatn went down for lack of two-thirds. Allén then moved reconsideration of the Madiron bill, which passed, followed by reconsideration and passage of the Springfield "Il Th sen- ate bill appropriating $1,00. annually for firemen’s tournaments came up and after considerable opposition wep. to the judi- clary committee to pass upc 1 Its constitu- tionality. The house gemeral appropria- tlons bill and the bill for 138,000 appro- priations for buil’ings ou t).» fair grounds at Huron were introduced by 'he appropria- tions committee. i L KATY CLAIMS INGIAN LAND Files "Application for Alternate See- tions Through Cherokee Nation with Davis Commission, VINITA, Kan., March 3.—The Missouri, Kansas & Texas rallway has filed with the Dawes commission a claim to every alter- nate section on each side of its line through | the Cherokeen nation. This claim is based upon an act of con- gress passed in 1866, and involves 500 | square miles of fine agricultural land. The Cherokee nation will insist upon the | United States reimbursing the Indians in case the railroad should sustain its claim. | Chief Buffington claims that the land in question was given to the Indfans in 1835 | by President Martin Van Buren, who sald: | “This shall be your home forever.” The Cherokees formerly owned Georgia and South Carolina, Alabama and West Virginia, in whole or in part. It is thought | the government will Ignore the claim. | DEAD CATTLE DOT PRAIRIE, Colorado Steers Succumb by Whole- | to Severe Blizsards and Deep Snow. DENVER, March 8.—Thousands of cattle, | dead or dylng, in the snow can be seen| from every rallroad car throughout the range country. . The storms of the last two weeks wrought havoe among the herds. Trainmen arriv- ing from the east report from six to twenty Inches of snow on the Kansas line. One train crew on the Missouri Pacific road counted more than 1,000 dead cattle be- tween the Kansas line and Pueblo. Rock' Island tialnmen estimate a stmilar number lying within sight of that line. GOULD SYSTEM GETS BIRD Milwaukee (| Oficlal s Trafiic Manager of All Lines. to Become MILWAUKEE, March 3.—The Evening Wisconsin today says: Within the next thirty days A. C. Bird, third vice presi- dent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul will become traffic manager of the entire Gould system. His general headquarters will probably be in Chicago. President A. | 3. Earling of the St. Paul road, pracgically | confirmed the report and Mr. Bird did not | | @eny it. | | | {OHIO RIVER AGAIN RISING | Be | is Expected Today and to Much Follow, | Damage May CINCINNATI, May 3.—The Ohlo river at 9 a. m. had reached the stage of 49.4 feet and is rising at the rate of two-tenths of a | | foot an hour. At this rate the danger line, | Bty feet, will be reached at noon. Indications are that possibly four feet more may come, which will cause much in- convenience in the lower portions of Ihel | city by the flooding of cellas KANSAS SEEKS NEW FOREST Asks President to Set Aside Seventy- Five Thous Fiuney Opunty. | & d Acres in TOPEKA, Kan, March 3.—President Roosevelt will be asked to set aside 75, 000 acres in Finney county as a forest re- | serve. It the president grants the re- { seats in the courtroom, | floated on out of the Miami and into the FIND MRS. LILLIE GUILTY Fix the Penalty at Imprisonment in Peni- tentiary for Life. DEFENDANT TAKES VERDICT COOLLY Remande: She to the C and Now Occupies Woman's Cell County Jal tody of the the DAVID CITY, Neb., March 3.—(Special Telegram.)—‘We, the jury in the above en- titled e, being duly fmpaneled and sworn, do find the defendant guilty of mur- der In the first degree and recommend that she be imprisoned for life. “(Signed) A. C. POOLE, Foreman."” This was the verdict rendered by the jury in the Lillie murder case at pre- cisely 3 o'clock this afternoon. As soon as the jury had agreed upon thelr verdict the news spread rapidly and in a few| moments peoplé were seen running from all | directions toward the courthouse and be- fore the defendant arrived the large dis- trict courtroom was completely packed with humanity. A large portion of the crowd was men, not to exceed twenty women being present. Each person as | they entered the courtroom door wore an | anxfous look and loudly whispered, “What is the verdict?" Mrs. Lillle, accompanied by her father. brother, Mrs. Grisinger, her sister, and Sam Lillle, brother of the murdered man, arrived at 3:23. They all took thelr usual While Mrs. Lillle looked bright and pleasant she had the appearance of anxiety as to what the verdict of the twelve men was. As they marched In she looked at each ome very carefully. When Clerk Straka read the verdict Mrs Lillle sat motionless and when the word “guilty” was pronounced not even a quiver of the 1ip was noticeable. Counsel for the defemse ssked that the | jury be polled. Clerk Straka called the | name of cach Individual juror and when he arose propounded the question: “Was this and is this your verdict?” and the jurors Individually responded In clear and distinct tones, “Yes, sir.” Judge Good thanked the jurymen for their patience during the trial of the case and then excused them without further service. Mrs. Lillle was remanded to the custody of the sheriff and she now occupies the ) woman's cell at the county jail. The ver- dict as rendercd was expected by those who heard all of the testimony and fol- lowed the case closely. | The instructions of Judge Good to the jury were lengthy and on the whole con- sidered to be eminently fair. especially on the points of previous good character of | the accused and motive for the commission of the crime. The jury was charged yes- terday evening and deliberated practically all night, BODY IS PARTLY IDENTIFIED| Remaing of Wom: Fouan River NEW ALBANY, Ind., March 8.—Although Edward K. King today falled to positively identity the body of the woman found in the river here as that of his wife's sister and a wife of Alfred Knapp, the impréssion is strong that the body is that of Knapp's victim. The matter of identification is ex- tremely difficult, owing to the Jong immer- slon. It s belleved, however, that the body is that of Hannah Goddard Knapp and that it was put In a rough box, thrown into the Miami river at Hamilton, 0., December 22, Ohlo and down past Louisville, where it rose to the surface and was discovered. The identification of the body was made almost certain last night by a minute de- scription telegraphed by the authorities of | Hamilton. In her ears were found gold wire earrings and on the third finger of the left hand was an embossed ring with three little birds and an owl. In every particular the body was found to tally with the minute description given by Knapp in his confe sion. After belng removed to an undertaking establishment the body was embalmed. Mr. King examined minutely the earrings and ring. and it is believed that before the day 18 over he will declare the body to be that | | { ( | of Hannah Goddard Knapp. LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 3.—A tele- graph message just received from New Albany, Ind., says: Edward F. King of Cincinnat! and Charles Goddard of Ham- ilton, O., brother-in-law and brother of Hannah Goddard Knapp, have positively identified the body found floating in the Ohio late yesterday afternoon as that of Hannah Goddard Knapp, wife of Altred Knapp, now under arrest in Hamiltoa. The statement was made that the jewalry found on the person was the same known to have been worn by the young woman Lefore she became the wife of Knapp, and that there is not the slightest doubt of her identity. The remains will be sent to Hamilton this afternoon. HAMILTON, O., March 3.—While talk- ing about the finding of the body of Han- nah. Goddard today Knapp confessod an- other assault. He was hoboing in Missouri in the sum- mer of 1886, when he stopped at a farm- house and & 16-year-old girl gave him bread and milk. When he found she was alone he assaulted her. As he was leav- ing the room he saw a loaded Winchester and grabbed it. Soon after he was pursued by sixteen armed men, whom he held at bay and finally escaped to the river, where at the point of his Winchester he made a man take him across in a skiff. After emptying the Winchester he gave the rifle to the man with the skiff and then escaped as | rapidly as possible through another states) As be concluded his narrative he asked with a sort of puszied air: “What will they do with me?" “Don’t know,” replied Some say you are crazy.” “Well, I'm not,” responded Knapp wi‘h sudden heat, “I ony get these killlng spells at times, that's all.” DEATH OF BANKER A MYSTERY Polnt the questioner te Opium Poison GUTHRIE, Okl., Mearch 3.—An autopsy held on the body of Horace H. Hagan, a widely known politician and banker, who died siddenly yesterday, supposedly from heart disease, Indicates opium polsoning. It is supposed that Mr. Hagan took an overdose of the drug to allay pain. The quest pine trees will ba plantsd The Kansas congressional delegution in Washington will lay the maticr before tae | 1 | Mr stomach will be removed and examined Hagan carried heavy life insurance, said to & $100,000, the last $20,000 | ! house he told his wife he | Gibraltar. of which wi cured tes days ago. CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Forecast for Snow Wednesday and Probal Temperature at Omaha Yesterday: Hour. Deg. Hour. 5 a . G a. 7 a ~ o a 10 & 11 a. 12 m. Three Men Indiet in Conmection with Indinn Land Salew. Nick Fritz, Matthias Williame and John McKeegan were each fiued $200 in the United States district court yesterday after noon, having pleaded guilty of combining with other persons to inter fere with the at auction, The action was based on two indict- ments returned by the lust grand jury, in which these defendants, together with John A. Harmon of O'Neill, A. J. West and Wil lam Tigh, were accused In six counts of conspiring to defraud the United States, of conspiring to interfere with the sale’ of public land and of interfering with such sale. All of and counts against the thre the bar yesterday were dismissed by district attorney, and the defendants were glven ten days In which to pay the fine and costs. These cases grew out of a recent sale of land in Thurston and Cuming counties, which sale wag held at’O'Neill. In the statement of the attorney of the defend- ants to the court it was sald that the parties had paid $2,100 to persons to cause them to refrain from bidding, but that it was done because the parties threatened 0 a to bid much more than the land was worth | and then fail to comply with the terms of sale, 8o that the land would revert to tho government, which would be to the interest of the men who received the morey, as some of them were then occupying land. This statement was admitted as true by the assietant district attorney, and he rec- ommended that the pleas be accepted and the other counts in the indictments be dis- missed. MAIL CARRIER IS MISSING n. O No. 1 of the Force, Unaccountably Davis, Haw Disappeared from View. R. C. Davis, one of the ploneer letter carriers of the Omaha postal service, is missing. He was cdrrier No, 1, has been in the service twenty years, and was re- garded as one of the most trustworthy of the force. Davis is about 60 years of age and, whh bis wife, boarded at 1901 California street, Mrs. Davis {s his second wife, he being also her second husband. Their domestic re- Iatlany uge, amiceble. at a loss to account for his disappearance Mr. Davis has been missing since Fri- day ovening last. When he went home oft duty that evening he changed his carrier's uniform for civilian clothes, and gave his wife receipts for a number of small bills that he had pald, Intluding the receipt for his life insurance, which not yet due, and left unpaid rome bills tbat were really more pressing. On leaving the boarding was golng to visit a sick fellow letter carrier, and that 1s the last she has seen of him. Officials of the Letter Carrier's associa- tion- called upon Mrs. Davis on hearing of her husband's disappearance and will assist in the endeavor of locating him. It was at first thought that Davis might | have gone to California to visit his step- | son, who lived at Los Angeles. Mrs. Davis is not of that opinion, and is inclined to | think that he will turn up again soon all | His affairs with the postoffice de- | right. partment are all right, and the cause of his disappearance is yet unexplained. GAS INSPECTORS ON STRIKE New Men ployed by Chicago Gas Company Under Police Protection, CHICAGO, March 3.—The strike of the inspectors In the employ of the People’ Light and Coke company, which was en- dorsed Sunday by the Chicago Federation of Labor and ordered yesterday, was act- ively inaugurated today, nineteen {nspectors sent out by the company having left taeir work at the request of the members of the Gas Inspectors’ union, who had been dis- charged. The company executed a shrewd move by ordering the inspectors not to report at the office today, but to go directly to work from thelr homes. In spite of the warn- ing twenty men reported at the office. Police protection was asked for and under the protection of the officers the squad boarded a street car to make their dally rounds. Several members of the union also boarded the cars and soon pre- vatled upon all but one of the men to join in the strike. NEW TERMINAL IN Better Than the Santa Fe or South- Pacific, but Costs SAN FRANCISCO, Maren 3.—The aminer sa; Representatives of the San Francisco Rallroad, Terminal end Ferry company have just secured a freight tr- minal in San Francisco at a cost of $1,000,- 000, which will provide greater facilities than either the Santa Fe or the Southcrn Pacific controls. The new terminal 1is located In the Potero, just north of Islals creck, and com- prises between sixty and full blocks, containing more than seventy-six acres. The greater part of this property is now submerged by the tides and it will cost $2,000,000 to improve it seventy Movements of Ocen At Antwerp; Vesnel ew York—Arrived: Seeland, from Lahn, from Genoa, Naples and Bailed: Palatia, for Naples Mareh 3. and Genoa At Cherbourg—Arrived helm, from New York At Gibraltar—Arrived: New York At Brow Head—Passed: Boston for Liverpool At Prawl Polnt—Passed Philadelphia for Antwerp. At Rotterdam—Arrived: Now York At Bremen—Arrived heim, from New York At Antwerp—Arrived New York At Ale from B At Quee Kronpring Wil Neckar, from Ultonia, from nnland. Rhyndam, from Kronprinz Wil- Vaderland, from andria—Arrived: Commonwealth, n, via Genoa, etc. stown—Arrived Ultonia, from | Boston for Liverpool (snd proceeded) charge | free sale of government land | different | the other indictments | prisoners at | the the | - Davis s "FRISCO | Ex- | from | Y TIIREE CE (OPEN THE CIGAR BOX That is the Mandate of a Resolution Intro- duoed in ths House by Knox | BARTLEY AND HIS FRIENDS TO FIGHT Forme: State Treasurer Meserve May Also Have an Investigation. [ FATE OF THE RESOLUTION UNCERTAIN Rafloads Win o Signal Terminal Tazation. INDEFINITELY POSTPONED o Viotory on | | H. R 330 Representa Counties Which Would Have Been Direct Henes © fctaries Vote Amainst Mensure, (F'rom a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Neb, March 3.—(Special)— Whereas, There s an effort belng made to relfeve the official bondsmen of Joseph 8. Bartley, and Wheréas, 1t being of common report th there fs of has been In existence a mug mooted cigar box containing has become necessn 1 Lo ask for legl e It this house, Wforesald clgar ontents, be fore this body for oficial inv and that this houee appoint a committes of five members of this body to prosecute this Investigation and be empowered to call for all papers and compel the appear- ance of ull persons required to carry this investigation to its successful termina- tion; and be it further Resolved, That this empowered to investigate the duct of cx-State Treasurer serve reg 1& his alleged acceptance and retention of interest col 1 upon mone; belonging 1o the state which, it is alleged, he had loaned and deposited in certain | banks In this state | In spite of ‘all the influences brought to bear by Bartley beneficlaries and others | to prevent any move by this legislature | 1ooking to an investigation of the Bartley | cigar box scandal, this resolution was intro- {duced in the house today, as was pre- | dicted in The Bee this morning. Knox of Buffalo county is its puthor. Mr., Knox says he has introduced the resolution only after a careful study of all the circum- stances surrounding this complicated and mysterious affair and as the result of due consultation with friends. He declares that | be is prepared to push it vigorously, con- | tending tnat it embodies a most urgent de- mand of the people of Nebraska. Mr. Knox admit that he has been Importuned by | various individuals to drop the resolution. One element has sought to stall off the action by trylng to make him belleve it would be an unwise step from & repubiican standpoint, Mr. Knox belng a republican, but all such appeals, entreaties and advice have fallen upon deaf ears. /Sentiment 1s Growing, That there is a live and enthusiastio entiment (n the legislature for a thorough Anyestigation of_this { mystery cannot be denfod. . %“' | at the outset of the Session; it fins | | evident since the rocont declamations of Bartley in his interview with a correspond- ent of The Bee, In which he deflantly told the people of Nebraska it fs mone of their | business what he has done with the $600,- 000 of state money embezzled. Then, too, the introduction in the senate by Hall of Douglas county of a resolution to release the Bartley bondsmen from their offeial obligation to the state, stimulated this de- sire for an honest investigation. This is apparent from the first clause of the above resolution. The members who want to see this affair cleared up have taken the po- sition that if the legislature 1s to go about freeing these men from their obligation to Nebraska it should free Nebraska, if pos- sible, from the burden that rests upon it by partial reason of the vell which is held tightly around this cigar box 1d to con- tain so many valuable 1. 0, U's. | As was Indlcated in The Bee this morn- ng and set forth in the resolution, the plan of Investigation contemplates an in- quiry into the official conduct of ex-State Treasurer Meserve, the populist official who succeeded Bartley and whose name has been connected somewhat with matters in- cidental to this mystery. Also, was forecasted by The Bee, steps will be taken It the resolution Is passed to have Gov- ernor Savage and any others who may be able to throw light upon this question tes- tity before the committee. Birtley's Friends Active, , by thit the with fts That it be re- box, to- uced be- committee be also officlal eon- ohn M. Me- What the facts of the resolution will be cannot be predicted. It has been referred to the judiclal committee of the house, composed of' Nelson, Morsman, Ten Eyck and Kennedy of Douglas, Loomis of Dodge, Sweezy of Adams, Douglas of Rock, Thomp- son of Merrick, Spurlock of Cass and Perry of Furnas. These men are all leaders in the house. They are all republicans, save two, Loomis and Kennedy. Tt is not pos- sible to obtain an expression from ‘he com- mitteo at this time, however. One of the pointed out this afternoon that s a lack of harmony in the com- mittee. That every possible effort will be made by the Bartley people and those who for obvious reasons do not want to see any additional Jight shed upon this affair to obstruct the investigation, is & foregone conclusion. Since the opening of the ses- slon this clement has been iepresented in the legislature by cfficial lobbylsts to see | that this thing was not stirred up. This lobhy still at work. One of the engi- neers of this movement had the temerity to say yesterday In the course of his work among a little group in one of the anti- rooms of the house “They talk so much about the money that Joe Bartley and his bondsmen owe the state! Why, do you know 1:'s & fact that Bartley has actually paid back to the state over $200,0007 And if they had given him a chance when he was out on parole he would have paid back more. He nsked for fur- ther time, but it was refused him." Kallroads Evade Taxation, The house this morning by fitty-three to thirty-eight vq definitely postpone H, R. 330, the bill tax- ing rallroad terminals for munleipal pur- poses. The vote camo on the reports of the eommittce on eltles and towns. The major- ity of that committee, Roberts of Dodge, Ferrar of Hall, Cropsey of Jefferson, Me- | Clay of Lancaster and Cassell of Otoe, all | representing cities having railroad termi- nals and demanding the rights contained in this measure, voted to indefinitely post- pone the bill, while the minority, Gilbert and Nelson of Douglas, Sweezy of Adams and Becher of Platte, also containing cities having railroad terminals and favoring the passage of the bill, voted to recommend the bill for passage. The former report was sustained This Is the first direct test that has been made In the house on this question ' of wilroad terminal taxation. As a matter a ed vote to of in-