Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 25, 1903, Page 1

an PACKING FIRMS UNITE Omaha Oompany Has Oombined with Bix Other Lesser Oonoerns. BIG MEN HEAD NEW CORPORATION Bwifts and Armours Pigute with Other: as the Original Directors. HOPE TO DO $150,000,000 BUSINESS J. P. Lyman is Named as President of National Oompany. CAPITAL IS PLACED AT 815,000,000 New Jersey Grants Papers Authoris e and Trade Oompetitors’ Direction and Control. JAICAGO, March 24.—Several of the smaller packing plants of Omaha, Chicago d elsewhere have united under the name of the National Packing company, with $15,000,000 capital. J. P. Lyman is presi- it of the compan; The company has been Incorporated In New Jersey and ft is announced that the following are the wfllplllu purchased: Omaha Pll:? .H‘mn‘mn‘ tlnl nmplny G nnnl:‘);nmn }.nx'?ln‘:: company. -American Prov United States Beefl ro:nv.;n‘n;ompuy . Fowler Packing company. The purchase, it is stated, Is made for investment, with the idea of doing a busi- ness of between $140,000,000 and $150,000,000 a year, The directors, whose names follow, are all interested in the big packing companies of Chieago: J. P. Lyman, J. Ogden Ar- mour, G. F. Swift, Edward Morris, P. A. Valentine, Aruthur Meeker, L, F. Swift, B. F. Switt, Ira Morris, James D. Standish, Kenneth K. McLaren. J. D. Standish is secretary and treasur CONSUL WARNS THE JAPANESE Contrary to Law of Japan for Them to Go from Hawall to ) Continent. "9?‘F-r HONOLULU, March 17.—(Via San Fran- clsco, March 24.)—Acting Japanese Consul | Okobe has issued a proclamation warning his countrymen against going to the United States from here, declaring that the trip is | contrary to the law of Japan and also that immigration and labor agents who have been securing recruits are misrepresenting the conditions. The governor has signed the act to make the old Hawailan flag the officlal territorial flag. A concurrent resolution instructing the secretary of the territory to fly the flag over the capitol building was adopted by the house of representatives yesterday. _H. Bcullin, son of a capitalist of St. Loujs, accidentally shot himself on the steamer bet. an i Yoo 3 state room and ‘when he the drawer the weapon struck the sidé and explodea. The bullet lodged in his right thigh. Scullln was a through passenger, but was put ashore here and the X-ray will be used to locate the bullet. The wound is not belleved to be serious! W. R. Castle, jr., will leave in the near future to take a position as instructor English literatyre at Harvard. He s a descendant of one of Hawall's earliest mis- slonaries and an alumnus of Harvard. WOMEN NAME NEW OFFICERS Susan B. Anthony Selected as Homors ary President by Suffra; Convent NEW ORLEANS, March 24.—The’ prin- cipal business of the woman suffrage con- vention today was the election of officers. ‘These were selected: Honorary president, Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N. Y.; president, Carrie Chap- man Catt, New York; vice president, Rev. Anns B, Howard, Philadelphia; correspond- ing secretary, Kate M. Jordan, New York; recording mecretary, Allce Stone Blackwell, Boston; treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton, ‘Warren, O.; suditors, Mary J. Coggesham, Des Moines; Laura Cley, Lexington, Ky. DIVIDE CAPITAL BY THIRTY Chain and Steel Company Reduce Stock from Sixty M Two ML NEW YORK, March 24.—Stockbolders of the Uhited Chain and Stee) company today directors' recommendation to capital from $60,000,000 - to $2,000,000. The reduction follows a. recent decision not to mequire a number of firms for which the company was negotiating. It also was decided to change the name to the Union Iron and Steel company. HEAT SLAYS TWO IN ICE CAR Light Fire in Refrigerators Burned to Death W) Sleeping. ELLENSBURG. Wasb., March, 24— Michael Hunt, a walter of Tacoma, anl Frank McCluskey of Lake City, Ore., were found dead today in & refrigerator car. They bullt & fire !n the car and went to being smothered and burned. Rebut Insanity Theory. PIERRE, 8. D., March 24.—(Special Tel- egram.)—The state, in rebuttal in the Lin- ney trial, placed on the witness stand a number of residents of Blunt who had been in' constant assoclation with Linmey, none of whom bad ever seen anything which would lead them to belleve that he was {nsane so far as his actions went to show. The principal witness in rebutttal was Dr. James L. Green, the superintend- ent of the Nebraska hospital for the'insane st Lincoln. The case, as shown by the testimony, was read to him and he was asked what the condition of the defendant at the time of committing the homi- clde in July last, the doctor holding that on such & state of facts the defendant was sape. OB cross-examination he stated that the actions of the defendant in North Da- kota would indicate insanity at that time, tified to might mean either mental aberra- tion or intense preoccupstion. The after- nooa is being put in by the attorneys in INCIDENT Former Br IS NOW CLOSED Minlster to asant Things, Caracas h minister at Caracas, on Mr. o secretary of the United States legatiol &t the Venezuelan capital, In_the Venezuelan blue book re- cently published, and asked Premier Bal- four if his majesty's government had been called upon to make amends to the gov- ernment of the United States therefor. The premier acknowledged that Secretary Hay had called the government’ to the passage referred to. Mr. Balfour added: “Sir Michael Herbert has informed the secretary of state that the passage escaped his attention, other- wise It would never have been published. 1 need say no more than that an error of this kind, however regrettable, may occur in any department, especially when under- going an exceptional strain.” The blue book referred to was published February 16. It contained an official letter from the former British minjster of Car- adhs, W. H. Haggard, to the forelgn secro- tary, Lord Lansdowne, dated Trinidad, De- cember 30, concerning the alleged illegal detention of the British schooner Harry Troop by the Venezuelan government in ah unhealthy place from May to November, 1902, whereby the crew were decimated by dysentry, Mr. Haggard sald in this letter: “1 regret to say that it would appear that T placed too much faith in the com- plete accuracy of the statements of the secretary of the United States legation, W. W. Russell to the improvement i the condition of Harry Troop, etc., when he saw it. “These statements may probably be ac- counted for by the facts, which appear un- doubted, that Mr. Bowen was most anxious, for reasons best known to himself, represent the conduct of the Venesuelan authorities in the most favorable light pos- sible, and that he had inspired his subordi- nates in the same direction. To put it briefly, Mr. Russell did not dare to say a word outside the legatjon contrary to Pres- Ident Castro's mode of proceéding. WASHINGTON, March 24.—This' matter concerning the aspersions cast by Mr. Haggard, late British minister at Caracas, directly upon Mr. Russell and Indirectly upon Minister Bowen, is declared here to be a closed incident and there fs mot the slightest disposition to pursue the question turther. Mr. Haggard has left Caracas for good end consequently capnot again come in con- 2t with the officlals of the American le- | ftion, while his successor, Mr. Bax-Iron- | #1des, the present minister, through a r 1 years, when Lord Pauncefote was ambassador, became {mbued with the American spirit t‘o @ degree that is expected to prevent fric- lon. | dence at Washington for TOWN OF SURIGAO RETAKEN American Ofeials the Fore Are Found Safe by the Constabulary. ~MANILA, March 24.—The town of Suri- &ao, Iv the northwestern part of the island of Mindanao, which. was captured .Sunday by ladrones, was relieved today. The American officlals and foreigners wore | found to be safe. Eighty ladrones, led by ten escaped con- | victs, participated in the attack on Suri- | ga0. They had twenty rifiés and forty bolos | and succeeded In surprising and rushing | the con: | the constabulary. Inspector Clarke was killed at the first rush. The ladrones cap- tured eighty rifles. The American officlals, the women and the foreigners sought refuge in the govern- ment bullding, where Treasurer Kelly, a former Indlan scout, sumed command. The defendants were armed with shotguns and refused the summons of the ladrones to surrender. They held out until the town was relleved today by a force of constabu- lary sent from Tacloban. . The ladrones fled at the approach of the constabulary. Three companies of United States infan- ry will reach Surigao tomorrow and then probably will start in pursuit of the la- drones. The government forces operating in, Albay province, island of Luzon, ha established a concentration szone in the center of that province, twenty-seven miles long and ten miles wide and have a series of detachments of troops following the la- drones. WASHINGTON.. March = 24.—Secretary Root today received a cable from Governor Taft announcing that the affair at Surigao turns out to be an escape of prisoners sen- tenced to-long terms for ladronism, who, with sixty -or eighty of thelr fellows, re- turned to Surigao and succeeded in sur- prising and rushing the ccnstabulary bar- racks, obtaining constabulary arms and ammunition, killing Constabulary Inspector Lewis M. Clark and thus taking command of the town. HAVE TOO MANY HOLIDAYS Russian Authorities Decide that the Laboring Classes Do Not ‘Work Enou ST. PETERSBURG, March 24.—The Rus- sian authorities have decided that the laboring classes have too many holidays and the officlals are taking steps to stop what they characterize as being a growing evil. The minister of agriculture is the prime | mover in the efforts to curtail the ob- which, he says, in | high as 140 yearly, sevenily-seven of them falling in the sum- mer, the most important season for agri- culturists. The m.inister arranged a speclal confer- ence, which discovered that many of the holidays celebrated are not prescribed by the church, but are merely based on local custom. The council of the empire was therefore appealed tp and an offic notification will be issued by the police and local officials to the effect that voluntary work on hol- idays is not prohibited by law, The clergy will also be enjoined by the holy synod (o explain to the people the true meaning of Christian festivals and to ufge dropping some of the holidays which are not connected with the church. PRESIDENT BELITTLES REVOLT Nicaraguan Executive Says Rebels rrounded and Will Soon NEW YORK, March 24.—President Ze- laya bas cabled as follows: MANAGUA, Nica March #.—On March 18 a small bulary barracks and stampeding | OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH LAND BUSINESS 1S BRISK Government Sells Pnr and Three-Quarter Millions Worth Last Year. POOR ROADS HAMPER THE RURAL MAILS President Makes a Change in His Program and Will Take =a Long Ride at Grand Island, (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, March 24.—(Special Tele- general land office relative to the cash sales of public lands during the first half of the présent flscal year shows that thero were 23,015 entries, covering 1,663,613 acres for which the government received $4,747.- §63. 'As compared with the corresponding period of last year a very remarkable in- crease is shown. . This increase is due timber and stone act. During the last half of the flscal year of 1902 there were 7476 entries, covering 767,002 acres, for whica the government received $2,719,884 W. A. Richards, commissioner of the gen- eral land office, who has been confined to his bed 'during the past week with an at- tack of grip, has recovered sufficently to be at his office. Comunissioner Richards, though not fully re was able today to sign up his accum mail and hopes within & ‘few days to be guite himself again. C. B. Guernsey, president of the Wyoming state senate, who has I8 Washington several weeks, left for enne tonight. Jones Going to Southwest. Indian Commissioner Jones leaves Wash- ington tomorrow morning for an extended trip through the southwest. Mr. Jones will visit several Indian reservations in New Mexico and Arizona 'and imcidentally cross the border into Mexico to look into some private business, being somewhat interested in investing his surplus cash In copper mines in our sister republic. Poor R Hamper A circular has been sent out stating the. difficulties rural free delivery is encount- ering because of bad roads in many sections of the country, It is pointed out that ap- plications for. service, which are turned down each day on account of bad roads, are rapidly increasing. Friends of the system tear It will not be long before the number of rejected routes will affect so meny peo- ple that the cry of favoritism will be raised, with the result that congress will do away with the entire pos- sibly, is urged n argument for the im- provement of roads both by counties and states, and for active participation of the government in the work. Change Nebraska Program. The very latest information relative to the president's intention as to his forth- coming trip to Nel will doubtless create some sore spots. Mr. mflu re- sponding - to urgent of Seaaters , Neb.. He will' arrive there -nna Ayfllnw\llx be His ’n“um réaching Orand Is- uuuux-.ummknuuu least twenty-five miles.- The president suggested that upon his srrival at Grand Island he may be in need of outdoor exercise and hoped. that a-brisk gallop would be invig- orating and trusted that the senators would accompany him. Senator Millard, it is expected, will remaln Pullman car or take a dogeart for a ride over the hills while his colleague fs with the president on his gallop. The president desires miost of all to “rough ride” to the Soldlers’ and Sallors’ home and there take supper with the veterans. Routine of Departments. These Iowa rural letter carriers were ap- polnted today: Davenport, regular, Carol M. Adame; substitute, James E. Murray. Deep River, regular, Ira Hopwood substi- tute, Mrs. Hopwood. Centerville, regular, Clarence C. Bryan; ° substitute, Claude Bryan. Elliott, regular, Fred W. Sandell; substitwde, Ellas Ashburn. Fredericksbury regular, Fred W. Eygabroad; Dora Eygabroad. Guthrie Center, regular, Herbert W. Myers; substitute, Ruby Myers. Hampton, regular, Aaron W. Monroe; sub- stitute, Ellzabeth Modroe. Kanawha, regu- lar, ' Thomas H. Thompson; ~ substitute, Knute Landy. Stanton, regulars, Charles A. Malmberg and Arvid Johnson; substitutes, Jobn F. Malmberg and Adolph Johnson. Yale, regular, Ulysses G. Fickes; substitute, J. H. Ficke The Citizens' National bank of Cedar Raplds has been approved as reserve agent for the Citizens' Natiohal of Belle Plaine, Fifst Natlonals of Grundy Center and In. dependence and Leavitt and Johnson Na- tional of Waterloo, Ia.; Cedar Rapids National of Cedar Rapids, for Confmerclal Natignal of Councll Bluffs, First National ot , Forest City National of Forest City, City Nationals of Marshalltown and Mason City, First National of Thompson, Faygtte County National of West Union, Ia., and First National of Ceylon, Minn. Merchants' National of Cedar Rapids for First National bank of Crystal Lake and Independence, Ia. The postoffices at Birch, Plerce county, Neb., and Grifin, Boone county, Ia., have been discontinued, Edwin R. Pease has been appointed_sub- stitute clerk in Fremont (Neb.) postoffice. W. 8. Wilmarth, jr., of Terraville, 8. and Claude C. Campbell of Clay Center, Neb., have been appolnted rallway mail clerks. Postmasters appointed: = Nebragka—Rich- fleld, Sarpy county, Heury L. Lowry, vice A. Becker, resigned. lowa—Vlele, Lee county, Francis L. Keran; Westerville, De- catur: county, Edward Sanders, The postoffices at Over, Neb., Cornell, Ia., Carpenter, S. D. sad Cumberland, ¥o., become domestic money order offices April L An additional rural free delivery route will be established May 1 at Gretna, Sarpy county, Neb.; area covered, twenty-five square miles; population served, 460. | ‘The. postofices at Reseue, ~Saunders county, Neb.; and Olson, Fremont county, Wyo., have been re-established, with Mary Palensky and Fred B. Morris postmasters, respectively. The Citizens' Staté bank of Wis Neb., was todsy authorizod to convert Into the Citizens’ Natichal bgnk of Wisner, with $30,000 capitai. Will Make Momey for isla Secretary Root has been in cable corre- spondence with Governor Taft and it has becn determined to sell §3,000,000 of tem- porary certificates for the purchase of silver bullion for colning into pesos. The certif- icates bear 4 per cent interest, are free from taxation and run for one year. They will be jssued denominations of §1,000 each, made paya 1o bearer. These cer- tificates are to be sold in this country. The losular dlvlllll of the War depart- largely to the operation of the so-called WILL PUSH THE CHARGES Kansas ity *Ik- Department io Accused Many Ser arities. KANSAS CITY, Mareh 3—The investis gation of the polica department, etarted by charges of crooked work, filed last week by City Jaller Todhusiter before the Board of Police Commissioners, has aiready devel- oped sensational disclosures and will be pushed. Todhunter, in his testimony, declared that the jailers bave made a practice of taking money from prisoners who have any service rendered thém and also have regu- Iarly taken mopey from a lawyer for throw- ing cases his way. Other charges made during the investigatfon are to the effect that a sergeant and other officers at the Central station have stolen from drunken prisoners. Another case testified to was that of a prisoner who was released without trial upon payment of §135 to a lawyer, who was, it was testified, escorted to the man's cell by city detectives. These detectives later, it was stated, went with the prisoner to a pawnbroker's shop that he might pawn his dlamonds to secure the money. Something of & semsation was causted to produce the polige record of arrests In the Westport district to show the entry of the arrest of a man from whom Todhunter was accused of having recelyed some money was called. The record had been mutilated, four sheets having Been removed. Later Chief of Police Hayes, who was on the stand, said Jaller Todhunter had lied when he said the pflcl commissioners had ordered him remov ABBOTT STARTLES HEARERS aborated in His Book, “The Theology o Evelutiontst.” NEW YORK, March 24.—Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, somewhat startled his hearers at a Methodist minister's meeting by pro- pounling some of thase religious theorles that he has elaborated in his book, “The Theology of an Evelutionist. The bible, according to Dr. Abbott, is merely a record of human religious expe- riences. “I have a respect for the old theology,” he sald “and today I cannot doubt that the change from the old to the | new thinking in religion is important, rad- feal and revolutionary. “The typleal departure. is the recogni- tion of what was once called the ‘Carpenter Theory of God’s Creation of the World.’ “The bible is not & book in which ffty or sixty writers tell what is religion, but it s & record ef their religious experi- ences, a record of thelr consciousness of God. _ They. were: hujgen, were {m- perfect men, those who wrote the bible. They stumbled as we stumble.” pratnsiv oty St el BAD BLIZZARD IN MICHIGAN Temperature is Helow Freezing and Much Fear is Felt for Safety » of . DETROIT, Muarch. #i.~Dispatches from western Michigan report that one of the worst blizsards of the winter is raging In that section of the state, with the temper- ature below freezin Much fear is felt for small fruits and peaches. ' At Benton Harbor and St. Jo- seph ‘much damage has been dome by the ‘wind. ‘The big store of H. L. Bird & Co., at the prineipal corner of Benton Harbor, is wrecked by the wind and its stock and fix- tures ruin BLACKLISTS ARE PRIVILEGED ing Damages from Armour & Company. MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 24.—Judge Halsey in the circult court today decided that so-called blacklists are privileged communications. Valentine Gerhardt was accordingly non-suited in his libel action against Armour & Co. and Willlam G. Lloyd, the Milwaukee representative of the pack- ers. Gerhardt claimed damages after he had been refused a supply of meat because a previous bill had not been pald. FAIR CASE IS POSTPONED NEW YORK, March 24.—In the supreme court today Justice Greenbaum postponed until April 7 the examination of two per- sons alleged to have been eye-witnesses of the cutomobile accident by which Mr. and Mrs. Charles 8. Fair were killed. Mrs. Fair's relatives opposed the post- ponement, while Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, Mr, Fair's sis- ters, asked to have the hearing delayed until June. MOVES HOUSE TO ESCAPE LAW Clatmant to Dakota Property Dodges Injunction and Takes it to GRAND FORKS, N. D, March 24.—A hurry call went up for an injunction last night to restrain Mrs. John Jacobson from moving a house into Minnesota, Ownership was- claimed by both the woman and Phil Wett, between whom pro- ceedings were pending in the trial courts. STROLLER CONFESSES THEFT Missing Oper ger Caught with Company’s Cash in His Pocket. MILWAUKEE, March 24.—Gilbert War- fleld, the missing member of the Sylva Opera company, was arrested at Eagle, Wis., and confessed to robbing Treasurer Nordlinger of $2,700. He bhad nearly the full amount of stolen property in his possession. CHILDREN BURN TO DEATH Mother Locks Th s Goes sto: the in House While to =& KANSAS CITY, March 24.—At Kansas City, Kan., today two children. Asa and Charles Bigelow, aged 4 and 3 years, sons of 0. W. Bigelow, were burned to death in a fire that destroyed their home, the mother having locked them in while she went to the store. when Sergeant Snow, who had been directed | 25, 1903—TEN PAGES. INGLE CorY THREE CENTS. CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS Order of Oourt Prevents Passage of the Rosewater Franohise Ordinance. NEW BILL COVERING SUBJECT INTRODUCED Ordinance Practically Identieal with One Covered by Restra Order is Read Twice a Referred. | An injunction issued by Judge Guy R. C.|{ Read of the district court prevented the | city council from passiug the Andrew Rose- water electric franchise ordinance pending | on its third reading last night. But the in- | Junction did not prevent the council from ordering the first and second reading and | the necessary publication of an Andrew | Rosewater” electric franchise ordinance | without the amendment by a vote of 6 m‘l 3 not voting. The ordinance as passed is identical with the original ordinance but | was repd as an entirely new ordinance. | The \restralning order was signed by | Judge Read and directed against the mayor | and the members of the city council, indi- | vidually and as a city governing body. The | order was not given until five minutes of § Io’clock last evening and was served at once on the members of the council, reach- ing them before the council was called io order. Stephen Rice, a laborer in the em- ploy of the New Omaha Thomson-Houston Electric company, s made tho relator in the order, which directs that the council | be enjoined until a hearing before Judge Read on March 30. Attempting to pass the pretended ordi. nance, being document No. 337, without the amendmente thereto made by the said mayo; counell, and from sub- Titting to_the city the vote of the electors of sald Broposition to grant the franch 83 mentioned in said ordinance and from tak- | Ing any steps therein as in relation to the granting of @ franchise under said ordi- | nance without the amendments thereto and until said ordinance as amended has been published for two weeks in two dally papers of said city, and from in any way granting or glying'unto the said Andrew | Rosewater for himself perso benefit_any franchise as desc aid ordinance and from entering into any con- tract In relation thereto with the said An- |drew Rosewater or any person or persons Tepresenting his Interest therein, unti ths | further order of this court, and that the | hearing for temporary injunction be set ‘before me for 9:45 on the 30th day of March at courtroom No, 6 in The Bee bullding. Basis of the Petition. The petition cites that the council's ac- tion of December 23, fnjecting the amend- ments to make the franchise privilege gen- eral never has been reconsidered and is still in binding force; that the ordinance as amended mever has been published in any Omaba paper and that hence the coun- cil is without authority, under chapter xiia of the Compiled Statutes of 1901, to grant the franchise; that in the same chapter of the statutes it is made unlawful for any officer of the city to be or become in any manner Interested or in any way partake of the advantages and projects of any contract or work or letting to be made under the au- thority of and by the city council; that any contract, franchise or special privilege, and that any such contract work letting or spe- ©lal privilege or franchifse attempted to be granted would be against vnhll policy, in| ‘violation of the" cfty charter und vold. 1n-| cidentally, it is added that Andrew Rose- water is city engineer and, hence a ity officer, & part of whose dutles s to super- intend all work upon the streets and ad- vising the council as to th» advisability of the letting of all contracts and the gramt- ing of all franchi Coyncilmen Hascall and Mount were late in arriving at the council meeting, as were also the coples of the restraining order as issued against the councilmen. In fact, the restraining order and the detained council- men arrived within a few moments of each other. Hascall Urges Delay. On the first suggestion of the reading of any ordinance before the council Council- man Hascall was on his feet and declared that the members were risking contempt of court in moving a handebreath in any or- dinance matters. City Attorney Connell was then called upon to give his opinion in the matter and he declared that he was abso- lutely certain that the ordinance matters to come up during the evening were all without the terms of the order and could safely be taken up by the counctl. Never- theless Councllmen Whitehorn and Mount refused to vote from fear of the order of the court. The other six of the councl all voted on the Rosewater franchise and in the affirmative, so that it was passed through its first and second readings and was ordered published in the Omaha papers tor & period of ten days. From the time that the resolutions of the Real Estate exchange and the South Side Second Ward Improvement club, fa- voring the Rosewater franchise ordinance, were brougiit up for reading Hascall proved ‘himself an obstructioni guing futlly that the franchise and all that,pertained to it was a dead issue and could Dot be men- tioned so long as the restraining grder is in force. Rosewater Was Prepared. In the course of the evening Andrew Rose- water sald: “Mr. Wright, who prepared the petition and dragged in Stephen Rice as the plaintift, at the moment before filing his papgrs, is in the employ of Mr. Nash. I have kffown this and that they were hatc ing something for several days, and I wi not upprepared. 1 had another ordinance all ready to be introduced tonight and pub- Ished fmmediately, 30 that if they beat me on the first one I may still be able to catch them with the other. “But that Mr, Nash's forces can defeat the first one seems hard to beleve. I don't see how a district judge can brush aside the council' in such & manner as this. It is just as if the supreme court would try to step in and decide what congress shall do, for a city councll'is nothing less than a reflection of congress. After the ordi- nance is passed a court might, with perfec propriety, pass upon its validity, but to review it in advance and decide whether or not 1t shall be passed Is quite another mat- ter," City Improvement Bond The council also passed two ordinances through their first and second readings providing for the issuance of $195,000 of city bonds for paving, sewer and engine house improvements and building. The first one provided for the issuing of §50,000 worth of paving and sewer bonds during each of the years 1903, 1904 and 1905, draw- ing 4 per cent interest and not to be sold below par. The money is to be used for paying the cost of paving, repaving or macadamizing the street intersections and spaces opposite alleys in front of prop- erty mot subject to paving taxes and for the bullding of city sewers. The second ordinance provided for the lssue and sale of bonds to the amount of $45,000 for the bullding of engine houses in the city. Both bills were referred to the judiciary com- mittee after their econd reading The appointment of Clayton W. DeLa- mater, George W. Warsbam and Ole C. (Coutinued on Second Page) | CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Forecast for Nebraska—Falr Wednesday I'hursday Fair In East; Rain and Colder in Western Portion Temperature at Omaha Yesterday: Hour. pom. ». Hour, Des. . 30 ar . 40 . .4 v 40 . 83n . 88 . 87 Deg. ETS EE TAKE TWO TRAYS OF DIAMONDS | Palr of Thieves Work Neat Jewelry Triek Two trays of diamond rings, contalning twelve gold bands set with stones, valued | in the aggregate at nearly $1,000, were stolen from the jewelry store of A. B. Hubermann, corner of Thirteenth and Doug las streets, Tuesday afternoon between 12 and 1 o'clock by two well dressed young men, who made their escape. Two men called at the store at a time when only Mr. Whipple, a clerk, were there. Having pre- viously been seen to examine a watch which was displayed in the window, Whipple granted their wish to inspect the time- plece when they stepped into the store. While he was waiting upon them the telo- phone rang. Mr. Hubermann told the clerk to answer it and he continued in the pros- pective sale. Shortly a Mr. Whipple's return the young men stated that they would call again for the watch and departed lelsurely. They walked northward on Thirteenth street. After they had left, the case con- taining the diamond trays was found to have been opened and two trays of rings missing. Believing that friends had per- petrated a joke, no thought of a theft was entertained until two hours later. to work upon the case. The thieves are described as about 22 an1 17 years of age. The oldest, about five feet seven inches in helght, wore a dark suit and had a dark complexion. The youngest was about five feet four inches in height and light cotaplexioned. The proprietors of the American Pawn shop, Wolfe's jewelry store and two other stores on Douglas street report that two strangers, bearing the description of the young mien, called at their places of busi- ness and endeavored to work a similar game Monday evening. While one exam. ined jewelry the other wandered into the rear of the store. Nothing has been missed by the owners of the stores. Up to a late hour last night the police had been unable to unearth any clue lead- ing to the discovery of the identity and | whereabouts of the robbers. It {s the idea of Chief of Detectives Dunn that the pair are eastern professionals of some standing and skill and that they got clear of the city some time before the police were noti- fied of the robbery. RAID ON THE TIGERS’ LAIR South Omaha G-:;-‘ "vflx(-n- Are tance ot L3 Dunn. Armed with the necessary papers from Justice Foster’s court, Sheriff Power and several deputies went to South Omaha at 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon and seized two wagonloads of gambling fixtures at Myron Sherman's, 406 North Twenty-fourth street, Berlin at 2403 N street, visited also, but no seizure made, the only objeets in sight being an inoffensive table and four eminent gentlemen engaged in a de- lightful game of whist thereat. To accomplish the rald the sheriff di- vided his force, two men going to each place and all at the same hour. The fixtures seized were taken to the court house and stored in a basement apartment. Of the proprietors of the places only Myron Sherman appeared in Justice Foster’'s court. He was placed under 3500 bond and the hearing set for March 31. The complaint against Sherman and Berlin & Healy was by L.J. Dunn, and that against Jorgenson by Guy H. Roberts. NEW BLACK HILLS RAILROAD italists Propo; Tap Coal Country Betw. lington and Elkhorn s Z7N to CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 24.—Articles of incorporation were filed today of the Wy- oming & Black Hills Railroad company, to operate in South Dakota and Wyoming, with $2,000,000 capital. Lewis C. Twombly will be president and general manager and the following Minne- apolis capitalists are interested in the en- terprise: A. E. Johnson, Phillip 8. Harris, Carleton L. Wallace, Edwin G. Potter and Alpha E. Hoyt. This road will be about 100 miles n length and will open up & vast coal country. It will connect the Burlington and Chicago & Northwestern systems. BRIBE CHARGES DELAY SuUIT Judge Postpones Stratton Will Case on Account of Alleged Corruption. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 24.— The Stratton will case was called at 10 this morning and an adjournment immedi- ately taken till tomorrow. The continuance was caused by the sensa. tional afidavite of Harry Berry, Homer Snyder and others that the attorneys of I Harry Stratton had tampered withthe jury. Senator E. O. Wolcott announced that Harry Berry could not be found in the city. DIES IN PLACE OF FISH i Blown to Bits While Dynamite in River. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., March 24.—Edward Vandeventer, aged 83, of Mound City, Mo., was killed near there today by the explo- slon of. several. sticks of dynamite used in killing fish in the Missourl. At New York—Sailed—Calabria, for Gib- raltar, Leghorn and Naples: Kron Pring Wilhelm, for Bremen, Plymouth and Cherboury Nt BeillyPassed—Patricia, from New York, for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Ham- bur, At Antwerp—Arrived—Finland, from New York Movilie—Arrived_—Tunislan, At from 8t. John, N. B., and Halifax, for Liverpool e NondonoArtived—Mintenaha, . from New York. At Liverpool—Arrived—Cevic, from New Yor! At Rotterdam—Arrived—Amsterdam, from New York. At Piymouth—Arrived—Patricla, New York, for Cherbourg and Hambur Hubermann and Charles | Chiet of | Detectives Dunn was then notified and went | STUEFER DENIES ALL Says He Nover Profited a Oent from Any of the Bond Transaotions. NELIGH TOOK BURT COUNTY COUPONS He Did Not Know of Date When These Bonds Were to Be Sold. WERE DELIVERED TO HIM ON JULY THIRD Burt Oounty Treasurer fays He Wrote Stuefer About Them. REPORT ON BARTLLY INVESTIGATION Unable to Find Any Evidence of the Exirtence of the M Talked of “Clgar Box" or of Pri- vate Loans. | 8TU INVESTIGATION _continues. Forme state (reasurer denies he ever | profited a dollar from bond transactions. Bays'Burt county bonds were delivered to him July § and paid for. Denles being | advised ‘of date of sale. Burt county | treasurer testifies to writing him offering | bonds. | PURE FOOD blll passes senate atter sena- tors representing cities vamnly try to have it amended BARTLEY committes files its report to ef- that famous box' was evi- ty @ myth. No {16 found of whers Bartley had loaned state money. Former Covernor Savage received r;rI ered let- | ier requesting presence, but dld not rep.y. JAIMS bill occuples most of the time in | “the house. Effort to tack on appropria- tion to pay beet sugar bountles falls. (From a Staft Correspondent.) LINCOLN, March 24.—(Special Telegram.) | —The Stuefer investigation committee and the senate revenue commitiee took the cen- ter of the stage early this morning and held it until midnight. The former con- | tinued its examination of witnesses in the Burt county bond case and the latter put in the day and night trying to resist the onslaughts of franchised corporations to force their way Into that section of the rev- enue bill providing the groes earnings fran- chise method of taxation. In the meantime | the house pegged away at the clalme and current expense bills, increasing the grand total of the former and recommending it | tor passuge. The senate passed the Hauna junior pormal school bill and to cap the climax, the house committee on investig: tion of the so-called Bartley “cigar box' | submitted a report of its perfunctory pro- ceedings. In yesterday's report ex-State Treasurer Stuefer, by a typographical error, was made to say that he employed W. T. 8. Neligh to conduct the purchase of the Burt county bonds, when as a matter of fact Mr. St fer distivetly sald he “had not' so em- ployed Mr. Neligh. He stated that he bought the $80.000 worth of bonds from Ne- ligh, giving him two checks of $70,000 and $10,000 respectively in payment. The examingtion today began at 7:30 a. m: with Mr. Stuefer on the stand.” The other witnesses were Attorney lhunl th J. Pipes rem, bookke for the state t,flunnv. and W. T. 8. Neligh of West Polnt. One of the principal points brought out by Sears, attorney for the committee, came through the testimony of Fodrea, who r celved the Burt county bonds for Mr. Stus fer when they were delivered to his office at the capital by Neligh, July 8, 1901. Fod- rea said he made the entry on the bond book of the transaction. The entry wi “Purchased July 5, 1901, on & basis of 3% per cent, coupons detachable to equalize rate, except a bonus of $560 in coupons not detached.” The point doveloped was that that part of the entry beginning with the word “ex- cept” was made “a long while,” to use Fod- rea’s words, after the first part of the en- try. Sears sought to show that this was added after he had made public the fact that $550 in coupons were in the treasurer office, attached to the bonds and not a counted for. . Fodrea could not be positi as to dates. Attorney General Prout, in his testimony, stated that it was at hif suggestion that this latter entry wi He sald Mr. Stuefer came to him Sears’ publica- tion of the affair and asked for advice ag to how to account for this balance in coupons of §550. The attorney general said he told him simply to make that notation on his books. Stuefer replied that he was afraid Sears then would accuse him of doctoring his books, “No matter what Sears says” rejoined | Mr. Prout, “if your books are not correet, correct them.' The entry was then made by Fodrea. Neligh merely recited a history of the | Burt county bond transaction, saylng he | had bought the entire lssue of $80,000 on | his own responsibility and sold them after- | ward to Stueter as state treasuter on a cash premium basis payable in coupons, and that this gave him $3,450. He said not mnother coupon beyond this amount was cut off and that Mr. Stuefer did not realize & cent's { profit from the deal. Neligh showed the original contract on which he bought the bonds from the supervisors of Burt county. He sald he finally offered and gave par and a premium of $800 for the 3% per cent bonds and lost by the transaction. Getting Down to Business. The Stuefer investigation was resumed at 7:30 this morning with Mr. Stuefer on the stand, under cross-examination by BSea attorney for the committee. He was cro examined by his attorney, J. H. Van Dusen, In answer to questions by Sears as to why he did not buy certain county bonds called to his attention by Sears, Stuefer sald he was unable to buy them because be could mot afford to pay a premium. He then admitted that he had paid a pre- mium on state warrants, explaining that it was easy to keep these accounts on bis books. He further stated that he had not searched for such investments, s he deemed that the duty of the Board of Edu- cational Lands and Funds, and not that of the state treasurer. Referring to a sum of ate money deposited in the First bank of Omeha, Btuefer sald in answer to questions, that the money drew 3 per cent interest, payable monthly, but that he did not collect it at such inter but allowed it to accrue for about one year and then collected it and turned it into the general fund, which then was kept separste from school mone: On cross-examination by Van Dusen, Stuefer sald the first knowledge he had of the intention of Burt county to lssue refunding bonds came to him im March, 1901, before the bonds were issued in July through J. R. Butherland of Tekamah He denled having been advised of the date of issue by any Burt county men or newspa- pers and sald that he was ignorant of the exact date on which the bonds were fs- ed and advertised for sale until it was ‘:““‘llm late to bid on them. He further stated thet be @id mot koow Neligh was | !