Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 15, 1903, Page 2

ESTABLISHED JU JN 19, 1871. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1903. SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. SELECT KING TODAY Bervian Parliament Almost Certain to Piace Poter Karagsorgevitoh on Throne. | REPUBLIC MEETS WITH LITTLE FAVOR | Fow Btulents Alone Support £uzgestion to | Overthrow Monarchy. ALEXANDER'S FRIEND COMMITS SUICIDE Cfficer Who Warned Monarch Takes Hil; Own Life by 8.o0t.nz. PCLITICAL PRISONERS ALL RELEASED | Provisional Government Frees ( fenders Against O1d Kegime While Couris Adjourn and No Arrests Are Made. LGRADLE, June l4.—At a conference of urs and deputies held here tonignt it was unanimously de ton voted by the great should be put into force and that Prince | Kavageorgeviteh siould be unanimously elected king at tomorrow's mecting of the | Bkupshtina and Senate. After the election | @ deputation of the assembly will be held to wait on Prince Peter and communicate | to him the declsion of the autional assem- bly. The Servian constitution of 188 was more libaral than any granted previously and provided that ail taxpaying citizens should become electors, by whose votes the Skupshtina wad elected. It remained In force until May, 1594, when the late King Alexander by a coup d'etat abolished it and restored the constitution of 153, Al Quiet Complete order prevailed in Belgrade last night and absolute quiet is still reported this afternoon throughout | Bervia. The streets of the cap- ftal bear an animated appearance, being | crowded with officers and a large number of students who have arrived from abroad, it is belleved with the object of demon- strating in favor of [Prince Peter Kara- rgevitch as king Some republican tendencies are notable among the studgnts who have studied in France and Switzerland; thqje latter, how- ever, are quite overshadowed by the opin- | fon of the majority and there seems to be no doubt that the national assembly will tomorrow pronounce in favor of a mon- archy and elect Prince Karageorgevitch. The newspapers continue to point out the tmpossibility of the establishment of a re- public und advocate the election of Prince Peter In order to assure a brighter epoch fn Servian anncls, ided that the constitu- assembly in 185 in Servia, Powers' Ministers Remain Mum. The forelgn representatives in Belgrade continue to maintain a strict Yeserve. Peter Viliromltch, one of the oldest and most prominent members of the radical Party’ KD A foRREL Tmister of state, has been appointed president of the senate, in succession to M. Harinkovitch, who - has resigned. M. Velmiromitch will take the chair at the Joint meeting of the senate and the Skupshtina tomorrow on the g | sloh of the election of the new kin { After the election the Skupshtina will | draw up a program of procedure for the | new soverelgn und will then adjourn until he artival of the king at Belgrade. The movereign will then form a new ministry and digsolve the Skupshtina. The government yesterday pardoned all persons imprisoned for political and press offenses and ordered their immediate ‘re- lease. No arrests have occurred, nelther have any sentences been passed since the tragic eventy of last Thursday. The court of cessation and the appeal court sus- pended thelr sittings from that time, Prince Karageorgevitch, although little is known of him among the people generally here, seems to have c:ught the public tancy and his election will be a popular one. Former Queen Natalle has telegraphed to hér former lady-in-waiting to make in- quiries whether sha will be permitted to | eome to Bervia and visit her son's grave, Lieutenant Colonel Milislav Zivanovics of the general staff committed suicide by shooting himself on Friday. It fs under- stood the officer took his life because among the late king's papers was found a letter from Zivanovics informing him of the plot against his life. The newspapers, however, attempt to make out the sulcide to be the result of money troubles. Politicians Confer Together. Politiclans and members of the Skupsh- tina_ have been holding conferences throughout the day and while there are rumors of minor difforences, the election vf | Prince Karageorgevitch appears absolutely | ured. The Skupshtina and the Senate meet promptly at 10 tomorrow morning. (t Is said the ministry desires that it pro- seed to elect the king by acclamation. The radical leaders have prepared a platform for the new constitution upon the lines of that of 188, The chief points are: (1) The king shall not be the commander (2) The civil and military authorities must swear alleglance to the constitution wnd not to the king. (3) Universal suffrage and the abolition > the senat | The~constitution of 158 is of .a liberal | sharacter and its adoption was approved | st & conference held this morning between | ministers and those deputies already in | Belgrade, | Congratulatory addresses have been re- | selved by the ministry from a large num-| ser of country districts expressing warm set thanks for its patriotic action at such | A critical moment and hoping that it will arry matters to & successful ending. The | oreign ministry has also recelved satis- | tactory dispatches from London, Paris, | Berlin and Rome, all saying that the gov-/ sraments there have not the siightest in- tention of intervening in Servia's internal Affairs and expressing the hope that peace ind order in the political situation will soon | »e restored. An official statement of Russia's position 88 not yet” been recelved, but according io relfable information, Russia has no de Jire to intervene and will not object to the | Jiection of yPrince Karageorgevitch, The OfMcial Gazette, issued today, 1s con- fned almost entirely to the publication of messages of congratulation received by the provisional governmnent. Premier Resigns to Die. It is known that the murdered premier, Marcovitch, resigned his portfolio only a fow hours before his assassination. His action was the result of a difference of opinion with King Alexander concerning the meeting of the new Skupshtina. The wate king, fearing disturbances, proposed to the premier that the leading members of the opposition parties and the editors of | Catholics and soctaltsts, RIOTS brations Attended in French RELIGION E BREEDS Corpus Chrinti € PARIS, June 14, y on the occaslon oy fon, the anti-clefs to provoke counter demonstf. In Parls the day passed off Wa serl- incidents, even at churches the Madeline and 8t. Sulplee, where, disregar g the advice of the prefect of police, processions Issued from the edifices and marched around the church encl ures. Some disturbances, however, nre reported from the provinces. At Nantes, where prefect forbade the proegssions, the radi- cals mobbed the prefecture, stoned and cpus Christ! reatening o ous v | broke the windows and smashed two sentry boxis. Detachments of gendarmes and dragoons drove back the demonstrators. A collision also oeccurred between the in which several were injured. . The principal squares in Nantes are oc- cupied by troops to prevent further dis- orders. Minor disturbances are reported from Brest, Dunkirk, Lyons and other places. SAN JUAN, P. R., June 14.—The church festival of Corpus Christ! was celebrated today. Five thousand Catholics paraded and there was a great show of Spanish colors. Forty church socleties oscorted Bishop Blenk to altars in various parts of the city. The ceremonies at the cathedral were on an elaborate scale. For the first time since the occupation of the islands many Americans participated in the cere- monies. WARNING FRIEND ARRESTED Fleelng Debtor Has Men Held Who Tells of Alleged Kidnap- ing Plot. PARALLEL, Chihuahua, Mex., June 14.— Thomas Foley Fountain, son of Colonel A. J. Fountaln, I8 having a pecullar and trying experience here, where he s held a close prisoner on the charge of threaten- ing to kill Grant Gillette of Kansas, who, it is alleged, took refuge in Mexico to escape his creditors. Young Fountain has been in jail a month and there seems little prospect of his Im- mediate release. It appears that he had been Imprisoned on the accusation of Gilleite, who had his fears aroused when he was informed that several persons had entered into a con- spira the Kansas police for a reward. Fountain, Jt Is sald, learned of the kidnaping scheme and warned Gillette to be on his guard, but the latter suspected Fountain himself was Implicated and caused his arrest. VIEWS RACES FROM AIRSHIP Santos-Dnmont Detracts Attention from Horses to His Aerial Maneuvers. PARIS, June 14—During the racing at Longehamps today M. Santos Dumont, in his airship No. 9, appeared over the course and went through a variety of maneuvers which evoked great enthusiasm from the crowd. The passage of two other balloons over the racecourse at the same time added to the originality of the scene. M. Bantos Dumont descended unalded in the center of the course, where a great ovation was given him. He then reas- cended and after executing a second series of maneuvers salled away In the direction of Bagatelle, A curious colncidence during the presence of the Santos Dumont No. 9 was the win- ning of two races by horses numbered 9 on the racing card. CONSECRATE INSULAR BISHOPS Two Prelates Obtain Mitres Are Selected Recommendation. More ROME, June I4.—Monsignor Rooker, formerly secretary of the apostolic delega- tion at Washington, was consecrated bishop of Jaro, Philippine islands, and Rev, Den- nis J. Dougherty, formerly of Philadelphia, bishop of Neuvia Segovia, today. The commission of five cardinals en- trusted with affairs concerning the Phil- ippine fslands has decided to propose to the pope the appointment of Rev. Thomas A. Hendrick of Rochester, N. Y., as bishop of Cebu, P. L. The Vatican will thus have tulfilled its most important promise re- garding the Philippines by sending there four American bishops. WILL GRADE MANILA HEMP Takes Complaints of I Government Steps to Meet ular Export. MANILA, June 14.—The government has drafted a bill to prevent the exportation of inferlor hemp. It provides for a system of government Inspection and grading. There have been numerous complaints of the Inferfor quality of the exported hemp and the trade in it Is thereby endangered. A commission will meet the growers and exporters before action Is taken. CAVITE BANDITS TROUBLE Rald Several Towns and Lead Gov- ernment to Prepare for Thelr - ression. MANILA, June 14.—Disorder continues in the province of Cavite. Two bandits, named Felizardo and Montalon, with some follow ers, recently raided & number of towns. The government {s planning & campalgn to suppress the troubles. CABLE NEARS COMPLETION Work to Start This Week on Last Section of Pacific Wire. MANILA, June 14.—The cableship Colon, which is laying the Pacific cable from Guam eastward, is nearing Midway tsland | and it is expected the laying of the section | from Midway island to Honolulu will cqm- mence next week. Save Milllons, NEW YORK, June 14—(Special Tele- gram )—Two Cornell students have pub- lished a thesis deseribing a new method of refining copper which they claim t have discovered. The discovery, If it bears out its inventors' claims, will revolutionize the smelting Industry and effect a saving the | v to kidnap him and deliver him to | Value of Orop 8ent Out of Oountry Larger Than Ever Before. {QUANTITY ONLY TWICE EXCEEDED ter General tow Says Plan of | Rural Free Dellvery Would Cont $100,000,000 & Year. Mache I (From a Staft Correspondent.) WAEBHINGTON, June 14.—(8pecinl.)—Cot- ton Is still king in the export records of the United States, and its record in the present | year is likely to surpass that of any pre- | ceding year. The value of raw cotton ex- | borted in the eleven months ending with Muy I8, according to the preliminary figures of the treasury bureau of statistics, $308,- | #0605, which is $5,000,00 1 excess of the highest eleven months' record ever hereto- |fore made. Two years ago the figures | reached $303,497,617. Should the June figures | eaual (hose of June n the immediately: pre- 1‘v:ulln. yeare th: total for the fiscal year would be §317,000,000, ©r $4,000,00 fn excess ot | the banner year 1 | The quantity exported this year is not as | great as that of the ye. 1808 and 14 | however. he total quantity exported i the cleven months ending with May is 53,287 pounds, against 3,208,621,478 pounds in the correeponding months of 1901 and 2, 10,000 pounds in the eleven months of 1% | when the value was but $222,414,1%. Thus the total quartity at the present time ls 210,000,000 pounds less than that of the cor- responding eleven months in 1895, but the value fs $96,000,000 ‘n excess of the value for the corresponding period of that year. The average price per pound of the cotton exported, determined by dividing the | number of pcunds Into the value stated by | the bureau of statistics records, is for the eleven months ending with May, 1903, 8.87 cents, and for the eleven months ending with May, 1898, 5.97 centa. Comparing the total values of cotton ex- { ported with those of preceding years 1903 | seems likely to show the largest total value in raw cotton exports of any vear In the history of our commerce. ‘In 1548 the total | value of raw cotton exported was, In round terms, $62,000,000; in 180, $192,000,000; In 1870, $227,000,000 In paper, but $184,000,000 stated fn gold; In 1550, $211,000,000; In 1890, $250,000,000; in 1500, $242,000,000; in 1901, $313,000,000, and, as already indleated, seems ltkely to be for | 1903, $317,000,000. Some Other Tall Figures. | | n Meantime the value of cotton exported In manufactured form has also increased, and will make its highest record in the present fiscal yoar. At the same time the cotton manufactur- ers of the United States have increased and are still increasing their consumption of cotton both from our own flelds and from abroad. The total number of bales taken by the mills of the United States last year for the first, time passed the 4,000,000 line, the figures being 4,083,000 bales, against 3,644,000 in 1000, ) The importations of forelgn cotton, chiefly Egyptian, are also growing with re. markable rapidity, the fmportations fm the present year being likely to reach 80,000,000 pounds, to which may be added 20,000,000 pounds of “flocks,” or cotton waste, with a total valuation of about $12,000,000, against 43,000,000 pounds of raw cotton and 78,0m pounds of waste imported In 18, valued at less than $5,000,000. What Rural Delivery Costs. “To continue the‘rural free delivery ser- vice upon the lines laid down by former Superintendent A. W. Machen would cost the government $100,000,000 annually,” was the startling statement made by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow to The Bee todey. “The rural free delivery service with its army of carriers reminds me of the old Roman way by which am- bitious soldiers and statesmen were ele- vated to place and power. Conquering soldiers returning from thé wars now and then distributed corn to the Roman people and by that means rode Into power. This rural free delivery business reminds me very much of the distribution of corn pra, | ticed in the days when the Roman empire ruled the world.” Mr. Bristow is not an enthusiastic expo- trankly states that it was a mistake to establish it upon the lines adopted. He ad. mits, however, that undoubtedly it has come to stay, that the people having had u taste of luxury In the way of having their mail delivered at their own gateway will Insist upon retaining it. General Bris. tow frankly says that it would be foolish to fight public sentiment, but he belieyes that the wholesale establishment of ryral routes to please some senator or member | of congress should be curtailed ana that when & rural route is hercafter estap. lished it should have merit behind ft. Ag soon as the investigation which he hag 1 charge is at an end it Is predicted that there will be a complete reorganization of the rural free delivery service and a num. ber of heads are expected to fall into the basket. Uncle Sam's Growing Bu A The vastness of the business done by the government of the United States 1s pe- yond comprehension unless brought home to the people through the medium of a tabulated statement. Auditor Willlam E. Andrews of the Treasury department, who has seen the business of the government £row as no other man has who has occupled a similar position, has preared for The Bes a statement of the number of accounts and | amounts involved in the settlements made by the various dlvisions of the auditor's | office for eleven months of the present | fiscal year. While the figures are approxi- mated, they will not, It Is believed, differ very materially when the auditor comes to | make up his account at the close of the present flscal year on June 3. The follow- ing table shows the enormous extent of the business of the government: Customs, 10,68 accounts Public debt, 2,215 accounis Miscellaneous, 8,97 accounts Internal revenues, 84,38 accounts Total, 106,281 accounts. During the year 1902 the number of ac- counts settled by Auditor Andrews was 9,48, the total amount involved being | $6,378,110684. The reason for the falling ofr in the total amount of the several accounts lis due to the abolition of the war taxes The number of accounts, however, will far exceed those of any previous year, 17,000,000 9,000,000 815,000,000 fiscal year, including ! average, as to the the usual number monthly of accounts ments. Wide Tires in the Philippines, The bureau of insular affairs of the War department has received the annual ireport of A. U, Betts, governor of the { province of Albay, for the year 1902, in | which he tells of the completion of the ! road between Legaspi and Ligao, which passes through the center of the great hemp country. The enormous tram, RECORD 1N COT10N EXPORTS|OMAMA ~ SEEKS CONVENTION nent of the rural free delivery system. e | $ 482,000,000 | $4,653,000.000 | the | work for the last month of the present | [ FIND NEW SMELTING METHOD| | settled and amount involved in such settle. | Lincoln Man Wil He New Head Con- sul of M of ern Woodmen merica. INDIANAPOLIS, June 14.—The thir- teenth national convention of the Modern | Woodmen of America will begin here Tues- {day morning at Tomlinson hall, Head Con- sul W. A. Northeott, lleutenant governor of Tilinols, presiding. Thirty-three states will be represented. Delegations have already arrived from twelve states, ineluding thé® whole New ingland delegation. There will be 469 dele- |gates and sixty-elght head officers and |members of standing committees. It is | expected there will be 4,000 foresters in |camp. Twenty-two hundred tents have been erected and teams have arrived from Wisconsin, lowa, Kansas and Missouri. The city Is profusely decorated. The subject of ehlet Importance to come before the convention will be the read- justment of rates. At the state conven- tions of Woodmen Meld on May 6, the ma- Jjority of the delegates to this convention were elected with the expectation that they would favor readjustment in the line of Increase, graded according to the ages of the members, Caucuses of the @ifferent state delegn- tions are being held and it was announced tonight from the official press headquarters that the head consul would be A. R. Talbot, Lincoln, to succeed W. A. North- cott, Greenville, Il The executive councll will ask the head camp for an appropsation of not less than $10,000 for the relief of the Woodmen flood sufferers in Kansas and Missouri. A number of leaders are in the city to watch the action of the' Modern Woodmen convention c¢n the fate question. The candidates for the next meeting are Omaha, Los Angeles, Saratoga Bprings, N. Y.; Salt Lake City, Denver, Nlagara Falls and Milwauke The Modern Woodmen of America of Omaha and Lincoln, to the number of 4, left for Indlanapolis last night to attend the blennial national convention of the or- der. A special train started on the Rock Isiand from Lincoln in the afternoon and | stopped Beveral hours in Omaha, leaving at 7:46 in the evening. From Chicago the train will proceed to Indianapolis over the teacks of the Big Four. With three drill teasms from Lincoln, one from Omaha and one from South Omaha there will be a battalion to represent Ne- braska at the conver'tion. It had been or- iginally hoped that «il of the four teams in Lincoin would attend, but No. 969 backed out at the last moment. This was felt very much, as A. R. Tailot of that camp Is a | candidate for the office of head consul and stands a good chanc: of obtaining it. Drill team No. 120 went from Omaha and No. 1006 from South Cmaha, which, with the friends and other members of the or- der, made over half of the trainload. PLANS TO BLOW UP TOWN Armed Roumaniar Forces Works to Close by Intimtdati perini adent, MORENCT, Ariz., .4'ne 14.—Interest con- tered yesterday in‘the trial of the strike leaders, who were brought before Justice Chapman for examination. Eighteen men were examined. District Attorney C. L. Rawlins conducted the examination for the territory and the strikers pleaded their own case. Thelr leader, ‘“Three-Fingered Jack cross-examined witnesses for the territory. In all about twenty men were examined and their testimony tended to show that the coming of the troops last Tuesday and the fearless work of the deputies of Sher- it Parks earller In the day prevented trouble of a serious nature. The accused | wero all bound over to awalt the action of the grand jury, charged with inciting riot, and it is probable their leader will be further charged with threatening to com- | mit murder. i The most damaging testimony was given by Superintendent McLean, who was sur- | prised in his office on Tuesday noon by the heavily armed strike leader and ordered to | close down the works. He was given one | minute, and obeyed. He was told the offi- | cer on guard had surrendered to his armed men. The leader sald that he would that | night blow up the town and loot the ruins The prisoners were taken to Solomonville, where they will be held pending an order to take them to Tucson, the jail there being deemed safer. The grand jury meets in October. “Jack,” the strike leader, is a Roumanian and landed in New York the day President Garfleld was shot. He says he remembered the day because he knew It was coming. NEW YORK BUILDING STOPS Employers Declde to Continue Lock- out Till Unions Accept Ar- bitration Plan, NEW TORK, June 14.—The members of | the BuHding Trades Employers ocla- tion announced that not only would the present lockout continue, but that other work would be stopped, thus completely tying up all buflding work in the eity, un- | less all labor unions adopt the plan of ar- | bitration to prevent further strikes. | The new condition of affairs came as a | thunderbolt to the majority of the walking | delegates, who had thought that about 50,- {000 of the 120,000 men out since May 4, would {resume work tomorrow. Charles L. Ria- | Mtz, president of the Bullding Trades Em- | ployers’ association, sald We are responsible fér the new | which will continue under the Invkmn“rt(l‘u'l‘;‘ | 1t can be said further that the lockout witl | be continued till the uniong have accepted our plan of arbitration. 'We have Sent notices to contractors and bullders to make | the Jockout ae complete as possible. This | will mean that wherever any work is being done and where there is material on hand the work will go on until the material exhausted and then that work will cease. Under this arrangement work will proh- | ably last until Wednesday or Thursday, | and t e will e no further work untfl we have come to some understanding with the | tabor unions. The walking delegates have | | ported carried things with such a high hand that we have been compelled to take this action |DEWEY READY TO TESTIFY Will Give His Ve tng at ¥ on of Berry Kill- eliminary Trin ST. FRANCIS, Kan., June 14.—Chauncey Dewey has decided to give his version of s affalr that resulted in the killing of several members of the Berry family next Tuesday. This, it is supposed, will be done in ppposition to the advice of his attorneys. Mr. Dewey hopes that by giving the {facts, as he claims them to be, he will be! able to secure Lis freedom on bond. The widows of two of members the Berry family will be on hand to testity The town Is gradually filing up with friends of both sides and every effort is being made by the authorities to prevent the of MILLIONS BACK DIVORCE Wealthy Wife aud Rioh Husband Each Seek Freedom from Dakota Courts. MOTHER NEATLY KIONAPS YOUNG SON Both Sides Trick Other, Usi Legal Means to Trip Thos: cting Opposing Make Rond Hard. Every Con- SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., June 14.—(8pectal.) ~The commencement of a sult for divorce in the local courts by Della Whitman, wife of Joseph H. Whitman, a capitalist and heavy lundowner of Chicago, who 18 a resi- dent of Nioux Falls, adds another chapter 10 & case which seems to develop more than the usual number of sensations. One ot tite features was the kidnaping by the mother a few days ago of the S-year- old won of the couple, who has been living with his father in this city. As a climax to his matrimonial troubles Whitman suc- ceeded in securing affidavits trom some of the nelghbors questioning the sanity of his wite, and an order which compels the mother to bring the son back to Sloux Falls until the divorce is determined. The wife played a neat trick on her hus- band by putting in an appearance In Sloux Falls and commencing a sult for divorce herself before he could do so. Tien Up Husb: By Iustituting the suit Mrs. Whitman has tled up all bis property, so he will be un- able to transfer such of it as is within the Jurisdiction of the South Dakota courts untli 1 decree is granted or rejected In the divorce suit. A tew days ago Mrs. Whitman, who lives on one of the aristocratic boulevards of Chicago, arrived in Bioux Falls. She was nccon panied by a sister. They proceeded to the home of Mr. Whitman, where they were kindly recelved. The wife and her sister announced that they' would remain in Bloux Falls for a week or ten days to visit the boy. The two women, it is said, made themsclves so agreeable that they completely hoodwinked Whitman, who was the offletul custodian of his son. When it was suggested by the mother and her sister that they take the boy downtows consent was readily forthcoming from the father. As Four after hour rolled around and they did not return he realized that he had been duped and instituted a search for the missing trio. No trace of the two women and the boy could be found around the railroad stations. No liveryman had seen them. No one had een any persons answering their descrip- tion on any of the highways leading out of the clity. Thelr disappearance apparently was as complete as if the carth had opened and swallowed them. d’'s Property. Hides in Local Hotel. It has just been learned that instead of attempting to leave the city at once, as some might have done, the two women and thelr little charge proceeded to a local hotel, where they kept in close confinement until a day or two ago, when a closed hack drove up to the hotel and the women and boy got in. The horses were started on a run and kept that gait until the crossing of the Rock Island rallrond was reached, where the three took the train. Although the complaint and other papers in the divorce suit of Mrs. Whitman have been removed from the office of the clerk of courts, enough is known of the case to warrant the bellef that one of the grounds upon which the divorce is asked for Is fail- ure to provide for the needs of the wife and child. It 1s sald that Mrs. Whitman once before separated from her husband on account of an alleged penuriousness, & reconcilation afterward being effected. Mrs. Whitman is sald to be wealthy in her own right, while her sister. who has in- terested herself in the case In behalf of Mrs. Whitman and her child, s reputed to be worth $1,00,000, 8o it Is probable the legal warfare between the couple will be strenuous. STILL SPURN ARBITRATION Chicago Walters Refuse to Settle Dif- Exeept by War. CHICAGO, June 14—Although no prog- ress was made today toward settling the hotel and restaurant strike in Chicago, still there was noticeable Improvement in the service offered by the different estab- lishments where the employes have quit work. All the hotels are open for busi- ness, and with few exceptions succeeded in taking care of all guests that applied for accommodations. The places of the strikers are being filled as fast as help can be im- from outside cities, and tonight several of the hotels announced that by tomorrow night they would have a tull force of employes. Offers by the Hotel Keepers' association to submit the controversy to arbitration are still spurned by the strikers and it is declared tonight that more places where the proprietors refuse to sign the new scale will be closed tomorrow. An effort was made today to have the Steam Power council call a sympathetic strike in all houses where the waiters are out. The request was refused. This means that the engineers, firemen and eleyator men will remain at work, and is a severe blow to the strikers. In explaining the stand they have taken the members of the steam men declare the striking unions are unreasonable in their refusal to arbitrate. In the hope that they could he made to change thelr | tacties, the council appointed a committee | to call on the strikers tomorrow and try to induce them to submit the whole trouble to arbitration. The committes will meet | President Gompers of the American Fed- eration of Labor, who will arrive tomorrow, and ask him to use his influence to bring about a peaceable adjustment of the trouble. DOPE BLASTS BRIGHT LIFE! Cocaine Jimmy, Once Sioux City Mp..l; lete, Dies Mental and Phys- fenl Wreek. June 14.—(Speclal Tele- | Shennon, well known as | dled today, a vietim of the cocaine habit, “Cocaine Jimmy" has lived in Joplin ten years and was once connected with the rallway mall service. | He was an expert musician, an athlete and | well educated He w a total wreck, physically and mental and spent the last six years in begging alms in the streets. He was so bowed that his hands touch the ground. He came from a walithy and in- | fluential family in Sloux City, fa. He was | buried today in the potters fleld | JOPLIN, Mo, gram.)—Don L. “Cocaine Jimmy," would |trom New FOHEbAST OF THE WEATHER For Nebraska—Partly Cloudy Monday, Probably Showers and Cooler in North and West portions and at Night in East Portion, Yenterday: Des. 77 78 ™ Temperature at Omah Hou Deg. Hour. .. B8 ». ™ . BY o as a8 71 74 75 80 80 7= ™ ™= HOFFMAN DENIES PRINCE YARN Declares Rudolph Would Be Older Than He and Joins Ge 1 Laugh at Tale, EETE T §EEERES (From a Staff Correspondent. DES MOINES, June 14—(Special Tele- gram.)—The story from Marinette, Wis., connecting Dr. C. H. Hoffman with Aus- trian royalty and representing him to be Crown Prince Rudolph who committed sui- clde some years ago, creates only ridicule here among the acquaintances of the doctor. Mr. Hoffman himself indignantly denies it and says that if the crown prince were alive he would now be a man much older than Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman's friends also call attention to the fact that he is a well behaved man, a man of unusual intellect and a finely educated doctor; in short he Is too smart to be one of the royal family. But Hoff- man, who was let out of the Drake med- ical school because he would not show his diploma and reveal his identity and past lite, still steadily refuses to say anything about his past life, which is a mystery to all. It s known that he was in an insane asylum and there met a nurse whom he married, but beyond this his life is a mystery. CRASH INJURES OMAHA GIRL Runaway Santa Fe Car Strikes Las Vegns Trolley, Maiming Mrs. Leonard. EAST LAS VEGAS, N. M, June W.— (Special Telegram,)—Mrs. E. W. Leonard, formerly Miss Genevieve Stewart, a beau- tiful young Omaha woman, was thrown from an electric car in a collision this morning. She struck her head against a telegraph pole, sustaining a fracture at the base of the brain. She was picked up alive, but death 1s expected momentarily. The electric car was going to Hot Springs, when it was struck by a Santa Fe car laden with coal that had broken away from its engine and dashed down the main line. Neither Mrs. Leonard's husband or fam- ily were with her. Two other pasesngers were severely in- jured. _— LINCOLN BOY FALLS FROM CAR Death Comes Instantly to Child Re- turning from Ball Game, LINCOLN, Neb, June 14.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Herbert Gaffey, a 12-year-old boy, while riding on a College View car, fell under the rear trucks and was crushed, death resulting almost instantly. He had been at a ball game in College View and was returning home about 6. According to the story of the conductor, he was sitting on the step of the car kicking at the weeds, when his foot caught and he was dragged from his seat. He was taken to the home of his father, H. H. Gaffey, a plumber, living at 1846 Prospect street. The fatality occurred near Fairview. CARRIES DRUG ' IN NECKTIE Convicted of Manslaughter Merriman Man Tries to Foison Selt, VALENTINE, Neb., June 14.—(Speclal Telegram.)—John Green, the hotel keeper, who was convicted of man- slaughter here last Friday, tried to com- mit suiclde today by taking a dose of car- bolic acld. He was not successful in carry- ing out his intention, as a physiclan ar- rived In time to save his life. Green killed a man In Merriman last fall and his case excited much interest here, as he was well known. He carrled the pofson for several weeks in his necktie. WOMAN DIES ON THE TRAIN Succumbs to Consumption While Traveling with Four Lit- tle Children. SIDNEY, Neb., June 4.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Mrs. Alexander, a passenger on Unfon Pacific train No. 4, dled here this evening as the traln was entering the yards, of consumption. Four little children accompanied her. Her home was at Elgin, Ore, and she was on her way to Sumner, Mo. The body was taken In charge by Undertaker Essig and the husband notified. The children are being provided for by the Ladles’ Aid So- clety. THINKS DICK LANDON SHOT Wife Asks Information Concerning Reported Butchers' Plenic Tragedy. Dick Landon of South Omaha fs reported shot at the butchers' picnic at Pries' lake Iast evening. Mrs. Landon telephoned the police for particulars, but beyond this nothing definite can be learned 3 saflant is supposed to have taken a buck- skin horse and buggy and disappeared. The Omaha and South Omaha police had no information concerning the sh to @ late hour. as- Mrs. Nation in Omaha. Carrle Natlon, the hatchet champlon, was in Omaha yesterday for a few hours, She came In from Cherryville Kan, In the morning too late to catch the train for Eagle Grove, Ta., where she talks this evening. Bhe spent the duy with Mrs, Reynolds of 1509 Bouth Twenty-ninth ave- She found time to attend services in the First Christian church, of which de- nomination she is a member, and after- ard to visit the county jall, where she put in fifteen minutes in spreading the propoganda of total abstinence. nue. eln, June 14, fr Liv Movements of Ocean Ve At New York—Arrived: Anchorla Glasgow and Moville; Cedric, frdm pool and Queenstown. At _Queenstown—Arrived New York for Liverpcol; Umbria, fr York for Liverpool. and h' pr Salled: Campanla, from Liverpool fo: York At Liverpool—Arrived Philadelphia via Queenstown; York. Cymri New fed New Belgenland, from Georgl Merriman | FEUD WAR IS WARM Ewen's Hotel Burnt Down Supposedly an Result of Incendiarism, HARGIS SUPPORTERS ARE SUSPECTED Two Men 8aid to Have Been Seen Near by When Blase Started Arrested. BROUGHT UP ON HABEAS CORPUS WRIT Judge Allows Bail, but Men Finally Go Back in Military Oustody. CASH OR DEATH PROFFERED WITNESS Given Chofce Hetween Repudinting e of Marcum's Murder and Gotting 865,000 or Stieking to it and Dying. JACKSON, Ky., June 4.—The City hotel, a three-story buflding owned by Captain B. J. Ewen, the principal witness against Jett and White was burned to the ground eurly this morning. There were fiftecn guests in the hotel, but all escaped with- out injury. There was no insurance on the structure and the hotel, together with its furnishings and the effects of the gucsts, 1s a total loss. The origin of the fira is unknown, but the bellef is general that it was of Incendlary origin, and two men are held on this charge. Militla Fight Flames. Jackson has no fire department, and its citizens were awakened by the firing of plstols and guns and much excitement prevalled. A detachment of militia came on the double quick from thelr camp across the river and rendered valuable ald in assisting the guests to escape and pre- venting the flames from spreading. Captain Wwen has been kept at the militla camp rince he testified last Monday that he saw Curtis Jett fire the shot which killed Mar- cum. It was only two days ugo that Jack- son was put under rartial law, The fire has caused renewed apprehension. As the day wore on and more {nformation was forthcoming the public began to take the fire not only as incendiary, but as ac- cessory to other acts of intimidation In connection with the trial of those accused of the murder of J. B. Marcum. It has been openly predicted that there would be the flashing of incendlary warnings, that arson would go along with assasina- tion as disciplinary measures might be needed in Breathitt county. Bribes Offered to Ewen. Captain B. J. Ewen was the chief witness for the prosecution in the trials of Jett and White. He is the deputy sheriff who testi- fied that he saw Jett ready with his pistol in his hand to fire the last shot into Mar- eum’s prostrate body as it lay in the court- nouse doorway, Through fears for his own sufety, he sald, ce did not dare to allow Eaerift Callahan and County Judge Hargls to know what he had seen. When It did be- come known, 36 was first-a prigoner-in his home_and then he fled the county until he ! could have the protection of trobps. His house has been under the guard of a detall of soldiers for several weeke and as a more | stringent precaution against assassination | he slept n camp at the provost ‘marshal's headquarters. Several days ago n party visited him at his home and made him a proposition that if he would repudiate what he had related | on the witness stund, saying that he tes- tified to what was not true because of the indictment which he was under, he would be given 35,00 by a certain citizen, and that if he did not accept the offer he would be assassinated. fle encouraged his visitor to return in the afternoon and stationgd two witnesses in a closet who overheard the proposition and the threat, which was accompanled by the tender of five crisp $1,000 notes. No one has doubted that Ewen was in actual dan ger, but few were prepared for & step desperate as that which camd today. Work Hard to Save Town. At 6 o'clock this morning Joe Rodmon, & watchman at the lumber yard of Swann & Day, discovered flames issuing from the | roof of Ewen's hotel, situated in the moun- tainside, 300 yards from the depot. The alarm was glven and Lieutenant Kinnard, with the provost guard, turned out to ren- der assistance. Soon hundreds of people were on the scene. Herole work on the part of the soldlers and citizens saved possibly the entire south side of the town. The McEwen hotel 18 at the end of A long row of miners' cottages, all of which were in grave danger. When those in the hotel were notified the fire had gained such head- way that the guests who had not risen had only time to save part of their clothing. John Clarey of Loulsville, a telegraph operator, was asleep on the second floor. In the excitement he was not nwakened until the flames had shut oft escape from the front stairway and was almost suffoeated while coming out by the rear stairway, talling unconscious and half-dressed on the ground, when he finally treed himself trom the danger. Mrs. Ewen and her children are poorly clad and lost everything. The house and fixtures were valued at about $10,00. They were the saving of a lifetime and Ewen and family are tonight homeless and dependent upon the hnes pitality of the troops in camp. Protecting Water Run to Waste, Rain barrels around the house, which afforded its chief fire protection, were overturned by the Incendlary before the torch was applied. Nearly all of the in- surancd policles in Jackson have been can- | celea because of recent eyents. Two cloth balls dipped’ In kerosene and tar were found near the hotel. Hold Two for Arsonm. Gray and Jim Haddicks and Jerry Luntz, workmen at the Swann & Lay lumber yard, reported having seen Joe Crawford and Ed Thap, wagoneers for the Hargls Bros., come across the bridge and return | just before the blaze was discovered, and | Major Allen ordered these men arrested. | They were taken into the military camp by the soldiers and manacled In the guard. house Gray Haddicks was retalned by the pro- vost guard as a witness. Soon the Hargls people were active. They sent Attorneys Jobn O'Nefl of Covington and B. B. Golden of Barberville, defending Jett and White and swore cut writs of habeas corpus making them returnable at once. The writy were served on Major Allen and he sent th prisoners to the courthouse under a stron guard, commanded by Captain Maddox Commonwealth's Attorney Byrd asked Judge Redwine time for Major Allen to filo 1 response. He asked that he be given till tomorrow, but Judge Redwine demanded that t be filed at once. This was done and the attorneys argued the casc. Two of the most Interested ey tators were (punty Judge Hargls and Sheriff d Caljhan. The attorneys argued | l H