Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 3, 1903, Page 1

{ ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871 OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1903—TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. ADRIANOPLE BURNING Belgrade Hears that Oity st Soene of Trouble is in Flames 'kSTROVING THE LARGER BRIDGES Leader Instruoted to Isolate Adrianople from the South Qoast. SULTAN BECOMING MORE AGGRESSIVE Turkey Will Attempt to Force Decisive Battle on Insurgents. PROMISES TO RUSSIA NOT PERFORMED Of Twenty-Four Oficers Whe Were to Be Removed Nine Only Are Dis- mi and Others A Promoted. VIENNA, Sept. 2—The Beigrade papers tonight are again spreading sensational rumors that a portion of ¥ town of Adrianople has been biown ¢ %, * that the other part is burning. No ‘%, wation of these reports Is obtainable hei % CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 2—Au. 10 government advices Colonel Jankofu. insurgent leader, who, with a stro. following, is operating southward of Demotyka, has been entrusted with the task of destroying the larger bridges of the railroad running from Dedeagatch, on the south coast, to Kuleliburges over the Maritza rallroad so as to cut off com- munication with Adrianople from the south and delay the tropps who are on thelr way to the threatened eity. The government helleves it has taken measures which will bring about #peedy and, it is hoped, decisive battie with the Insurgent forces commanded by Colonel Jankoft. The porte has sent @ note to the foreign embassies and legations informing them f.ihat _according to police Information the Bulgarian agitators are projecting outrages alnat the embassies, legations and other public bujldings in Constantinople. The vote says the Ottoman government has taken precautions and requests the heads of the forelgn missions to do likewise. Plans to Master Situation. The palace officlals were in constant com- munication with the authorities at Adri- anople throughout Monday formulating ans to master the situation in the K ayet. /7 The crowds which witnessed last night's flluminaiions here in honor of the an- niversary of the accession of the sultan were not 80 large as usual. The police recently have been exercising eciat Sevarity (\SoArd ithe Musmuimane suspected trouble in the Isturbed vilayet and have arrested and banished large numbers. While the Rus- slan squadron was in Inlada bay no less than 42 Mussulmans were expelled on ac- count of thelr unconcealed hostility to SOVIA, Sept. 1—The Uskub Teports_that twenty-four officers accused of ‘malpractice by the Russian and Austrian consuls, only nine of them have been dls- missed, while some of the others have been given higher posts. Russia Will Not Meet Rebels. ‘The insurgenta in the district of Adrian- ople appear to be less active. The Turks are pouring in In an overwhelming force snd the revolutionaries are taking refuge in the mouuntains. The Bulgarian leader, Gerglcoff, has been wounded and has fled to Burgas, Bulgaris. The Russian govern- ment has declined to recelve the visit of the deputation of Macedonian fugitives in Bulgaria, who proposed to go to St. Peters- burg and inform the csar of the pitiable condition of Macedonia and beg for his Intervention. The deputation has been in- formed that the Russian government deems the visit quite unnecessary, as it quite un- derstands the purpose of the deputation. The Insurgents, it is reported, have cap- the seaport of Ahtaboty, near Vasi- ko, on the Black sea, and the Turkish population has fled to Constantinople. The insurgents have organized a local govern- ment at the captured seaport and are giv- ing ships their clearing papers and sanitary certificates, Report of Uprising Denied. The report published by the Dnevnix of & general uprising n northern Macedonia is denied both in official and revolutionary circles. Well informed persons, however, assert that the report was carrect, but that its premature publication disurranged the plans of the revolutionists and therefore 1t is denled. According to rellable reports from Monsstir thousands of Bulgarians in that vilayet are confronted with famine in addition to Turkish persecution. Peasants ‘who are continually arriving from Mona- stir complain of the attitude of Hilmi Pacha and the Turkish atrocities. The news is published here of an eight- hour fight which occurred at the village of Bmtllovo, August 3, between 500 insurgents and elght battalions of Turkish troops supported by artllery. Thirty-five Insur- gents are reported to have been killed, ‘while gixty Turks were killed or wounded. On the following day the Turks returned and burned the village. Seven other vil- Iages In the neighborhood are said to have been burned by the Turks. According to a SBaloniea dispatch of Au- gust 31, the Bulgarian forces sustained a serious loss at Smilove, August 3%, when §.000 of them were sald to be killed, when the Turkish losses were insignificant. France is Uneasy. PARIS, Sept. 2—The ofclals of the French forelgn office express considerable | upeasiness at the action of the Turkish | government in sending Albantan troops and militia into the vilayet of Koshive, Mace- donia. The fact is that while the powers are insisting that only regular troops bs employed in sUppressing the insurrection, | Turkey is making every effort to evade the wpirit of the understanding while following it to the letter, | King jevested in Bulgaria. VIENNA, Sept. 2-—Although during his wisit here King Edward has not sought & private conference with Premier Count Goluchesky, it is believed that the Balkan troubles have been the subject of discus- slon between the king and the Austrian emperor. It s pointed out that Count Goluchesky and the Austrian ministers have attended the numerous imperial func- tions in King Edward’s honor. It transpires that Prince Ferdinand's mother, Princess Clementine of Saxe. Coburg. came here from Hungary oo Mon- day purposely to see King Edward, and that the latter's visit to Prince Phllip of Baxe-Coburg at his palace yesterday was (Continued on Becond Page) TWENTY-NINE LIVES ARE LOST|ARMY OF THE PHILIPPINES Explosions on Aust « in, n Steamer Kill Members of Crew and Passenge: . Sept. 2.—Three ex- plosions occurred today the Austrian steamer Vaskapu soon after leaving the Bulgarian port of Burgas, enroute for C stantinople by which twenty-nine persons perished. The vessel caught fire and had to be beached. A telegram conveying this news was re- cefved by the agent here of the Huhgarian Levant lne to which the vessel belongs. The telegram said the Vaskapu had been destroyed in the Black sea. The captaln and officers of the steamer and six of its crew were killed, a total of twenty-nine lives being lost. The Vaskapu sailed from Varna, Bulgaria, and after calling at Bur- gas, steamed through the Black sea toward Constantinople when the three explosions took place. The deck of the vessel took fire and she had to be run ashore at Mis- erova bay, eighteen miles north of Burgas, where it ie still burning. LONDON, Bept. 2.—In a dispatch from Vienna reporting the destruction of the steamer Vaskapu in the Black sea the opin- fon 18 expressed that the Bulgarian revolu- tionaries were responsible for the explo- son. ITALIAN DEPUTY ACQUITTED Court Ho CONSTANTINOPLI Socialist Editor Not Re- wible to Individuals for General Remnrks. RO & Sept. 2~The trlal of Deputy Ferri, the editor of the soclalist paper Avantl, on a charge of libelling the navy brought against him by thirty-five naval officers, including Commander Cagni, the companion of the duke of Abruzzi on his Arctic expedition, concluded today. The hearing, which had lasted three days, aroused Intense excitement. The affair arose out of the fallure of Deputy Ferri to obtain a parliamentary inquiry into the navy and his subsequent attacks on fit. The trial was marked by violent incidents, demonstrations and arrests, the troops be- ing called out. The court late tonight de- livered judgment in favor of Deputy Ferri on the ground that the officers were not entitled to bring a sult against the de- fendant in virtue of the accusations which he brought against the whole navy. CHOATE GIVES A DINNER His Guesta Are Boundary Commission- d Chief Justice of Great Brital LONDON, Sept. 2.—Ambassador Choate tonight gave a dinner to Chief Justice Al- verstone and all the boundary sommission- ers, Judge John M. Dickinson representing the American counsel, and Robert Findlay and Sir Edward Carson representing the British counsel. Chief Justice Alverstone tomorrow will be chosen chairman of the commission, ‘which will assemble in the cabinet room of the Forelgn office. An adjournment for a fortnight then will be taken to allow coun- sel to prepare their oral arguments. Three each side will addreas the com- Cisposition on the part | cluston of the and 1t is now belleved the award will be rendered in the middle of October. STATE TO AID PLANTERS Secretary Chamberiain Approves Plan of Jamatcan Government to Assist Destitute. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept. 2.—The gov- ernor announced this afternoon to a dele- gation of banana planters Colonial Eecre- tary Chamberlain's approval of the pro- posal that the Colonial bank should fssue & loan of $50,000 on government security in ald of the estates which suffered the great~ est devastation by the recent tornado. The governor also foreshadowed extensive re- lief works to be established by ‘the govern- ment to provide work for the unemployed and destitute. The colonists are dissatis fied with the attitude of the imperial au- thorities, but regard the methods employed as simply temporary. . AGUINALDO GIVES ADVICE Urges Hix Countrymen to Quit Gambling and Send Their Chil- drem to School. MANILA, Sept. 2—Aguinaldo, the ex-rev- olutionary leader, but now a pronounced supporter of the policy maintained by the United States in the island, has just ad- dressed n letter of advice to his country- men. In this he urges fhat they forsake gam- biing; to improve their methods of agricul- ture and to attend the public schools o generously provided to furnish them educa- tional facilities. MAY GOELET IS ENGAGED Beauntiful American Helress is Marry the English Duke of Roxburghe, to LONDON, Sept. 2—The engagement is announced of Miss May Goelet to the duke of Roxburghe. The duke of Roxburghe is now the guest of Mrs. Ogden Goelet, mother of Miss May Goelet, at Newport, R. 1 MANILA, Sept. 2.—~The board of in into the cherges of cruelty formulated against Major Robert L. and has adjourned. It will later consider the arguments offered on behalf of both sides of the case, at the close of which records will be sent to \Washington for final adjudication. Hopes to Hasten Aeti THE HAGUE, Sept terday’s unoffictal sessio arbitration court has been drawn up by Secretary General Ruissenacrsd and will be forwarded to the powers interested. It is hoped 1t will hasten action 5o as to per- mit a definite opening of the case about October 1. ~A report of yes- of the Venezuelan Mexican Volvano is Active MEXICO CITY. Sept. :-—Colomina vol- cano continues intermittently more active. Monday there was a terrific report and the people in Tuxan rushed out of doors In & panic. Scientists believe the mountain change its shape radically. will New Ministry for Chi BANTIAGO, Chili, Sept. 2 —After a fort- night's work President Ralsco has formed & new ministry, headed by Ricardo’ Matte as the Jate ministry, Howse through | Major Hunter, has commenced its hearing | Nebraska Secures a Place in the List of National Officers. BIG CAMP FIRE HELD LAST NIGHT Addresses Were Dellivered by Gov- ernor of the State, General Hale, General King Many Other Notables. Minn., Sept. today marched through streets thousands anxious to do them honor Swarthy, stalwart and alert, the soldiers who saw service in Luzon formed a sharp contrast to the grizzied old veterans of Gettysburg, Shiloh and a hundred bloody battles of the war between the states. The day for the great parade of the Army of the Philippines dawned cloudy and with threatening sky, and shortly before the parade started a slight drizzle began to fall. Nevertheless, the program was car- ried out, and, headed by General C. McC. Reoves, as grand marshal, a column of apout 3,000 strong marched through the downtown streets. The parade was led by a platoon of ST. PAUL, two wars shoulder 2.—Veterans of shoulder to thronged with mounted policemen. Then came the Twen- ty-first United States infantry under com- mand of Major Hunter Leggett, followed by the Tenth United States fleld batte under command of Captain Ridgeway. Two little squads of members of the Grand Army of the Republic called forth the greatest applause accorded any organiza- tion. Soldiers in Line. The third division consisted of the First infantry of the Minnesota National Guard. The fourth division also consisted of the state National Guard, being composed of parts of the Becond and Third iyfantry and the First battalion of artillery and the boys' brigade. Then came a dozen car- riages containing Governor Van Sant snd staff and several officers connected with the army headquarters. Then followed what was perhaps the most beautiful fea- ture of the parade—the living flag—com- posed mostly of little school girls. The Soclety of the Army of ghe Philip- pines, under command of Brigadier Gen- eral Hale, was the last division, but by far the most imposing. At the head of it rode General Hale, General King and Colonel Metcalf. They marched well and were greeted with cheers and waving hats all slong the line. General King is President. At the business session thi officers were efected as follows: President, General Charles King of Wis- consin; first vice president, Colonel J. W. Pope of Colorado; second vice president, Captain C. E. Locke of Colorado; third vice president, F. M. Schutte of St. Paul; fourth vice president, Captain H. A. Crowe of Pennsylvania; fth vice president, Colonel W. 8. Metcalf of Kansas; sixth vice presi- dent, Major D. Falrchild, jr., of Towa; sec- setary, A. E. Fouls of Missouri; treas- afternoon urer, A. E. White of Illinois; chaplain, Captain James M. Malilley of Nebraska. The reunion came to a close tonight with @ campfire at the Pcople’s church. Goy- ‘wadress ¥l Baha - 1) - of the state and General Irving K. Haie, rotiring president; responded. General Hale spoke, In part, as follows: General Irving Hale said in part: The soclety is rapidly growing in indj- vidual membership, and, more l‘mpflr::gll in the organization of numerous jocal 108 founded s fount on a just war, with ho sdministration and o glorious reault "t o concerned, in the most unique expe: in_the history of the nation. i Service In war {8 but a duty, Involving no greater courage than many of the deeds of peace. For every hero in war there are a nundred in civil life. Every man with the right stuff in him ahould be better kinder and more patriotic for having rerved his country as a soldier under the flag. year ' ago we were smarting from mosquito-like attacks on the Army of the Philippines by fellow patriots and states. men in this country, some from _sincere but mistaken motives of humanity and others from political demagoguery, using | the army a8 & club to assassinate- the ad: ministration in facing its duty and respon- Hibility In the Philippines. e But the army found valiant defenders in its commander-in-chief, the president, the secretary of war and the great ma. fority of the people. Today the mosquitoes are ~ practically exterminated, as the American people have always' eradicated unjust traducers of the American soldjer in the performance of his duty. Investigation has proven that the fm- proprieties committed in the Philippines were remarkably few under the provoc tion. and that the army. in the face. of maddening hardships and difficulties and exasperating troachery and savagery, has conducted a war so humane in general that it has astonished the observers of forelgn nations and even the Filipinos themselv The developments also established that the country has followed the only possible course with decency to ourselves, European inhabitants of the tslands and fhe masses of the Filipino people. and that the results have been and will continue to be beneficent. Whether or not the constitution tech- nically follows the flag, that flag. wherever it _float: brought and always will bring humanity, justice, ecivilization and good government. Chaplain Mailley made ‘an address, and > NOTED Il‘DIl}N__CHIEF D_EAD | WANTS Pa Timers of the Kickapoo Tribe, GERMANTOW clal)—Ke-wa-ko-uk, Kickapoos, Is des to rest with imposing ceremonies, His passing marks the last of the time chiefs on_the reservation. Kan., Sept have an Indian burial. Little Simon succeeds Ke-wa-ko-uk and there will be no change in the tribal rela- tions or in the policy of conducting the tribe. but flows In his velns. The dead as snow and he, cline, He had lived peaceful and quiet all his |ing some sixty rural free delivery routes life and he was beloved by all his tribe. Although he refused to follow the customs of the whites, and was proud of his race, none the less progressive and he he was had amassed a comfortable fortune in ian and cattle. His tuneral was attended by a large con- course of Indigns and not a few white | people from the surrounding country, who knew the dead chief and respected him. His last resting place fs built a framework which will mark the the principal address. —e e OFFICER IS IN CONTEMPT| ilinol Imprisoned for Disobeying Order of Court. CHICAGO, Sept. case growing out of the arrest in the criminal court, & Away Marks Last of the Old- 2.~ (8pe the aged chief of the and his body was laid old A Only a few of the aged men now remain who will Little Bimon is not of the old race, | WASHINGTON, younger and more peogressive blood chief was 108 years old. Al- though he retained his mental faculties. up to the day of his death, his hair was white for weeks prior to the end showed unmistakable evidences of de- above ground after the fashion of the Indfaps. The body is interred, but above it is erected grave as the resting place of the trus Indian. The ceremonies at the grave were con- | ducted in Indian tongue. Little Stmon made State's Attorney Fined and 2—In & habeas corpus for the| second time of Walter B. Hoyt on a charge | of obtaining money under false pretenses in deflance of an order of Judge Cavanaugh the latter ordered RURAL NAIL ROUTES Oongressman Burkett Interviews the De- partment Officials, | SAYS THEY WERE PROMISED AUGUST 1| Also Anxiou Ha to Know Why Notk Yet Been Done About New Feder: Building at Lincoln, (From & Siaft Correspondent.) Sept. 2.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Congressman E. J. Burkett of Lin- coln 1s in Washington today. Representa- tive Burkett comes to Washington upon a number of matters before the departments which hav cumulated during the time since congress adjourned. His chief mis- sion, however, is to labor with Fourth As- sistant Postmaster General Bristow regard- which his constituents desire established. The routes were petitioned for some months @go and had practically been pr ump-l peu- toners o be put Into active operation on or before August 1. “There Js some dissatisfaction through- out my district and in fact in the west genernlly,” said Mr. Burkett, “over restric- tions in the rural free delivery. My con- stituency is located in onc of the richest farming reglons of the west and we have had a taste of the great benefits derived from rural free delivery and are clamoring for further extensions. We were promised practically about sixty additional routes to be put into operation August 1, but there seems to he some hitch over the matier since General Bristow took charge of tho rural free delivery business and this s on of the chief reasons which brings me 10 Washington. 1 desire if possible to secure additional rural free delivery sertioe for my section. “Another matter of considerable fmport- ance to my city, Lincoln, which Is dragging along, Is the new public bullding. The last congress authorized a new building at Lin- coln and our citizens are naturally anxious to see the project started. 1 intend to call upon the treasury officials to sée i plans cannot be hurried along." Mr. Burkett has numerous smaller mat- | third attorney. informal talks were given by General King, General Reeves, Colonel Metcalf and others. SILVER FOR PHILIPPINES Nearly 1,000,000 Taken from Phila- delphia Mint to New York for Shipment, PHILADELPHIA, Sept. %—Under escort of a strong guard 104&.00 silver colns, | aggregating 198,660 were shipped today | from the United States mint to New York, | where théy will be placed on board a steamship and taken to Manila. The colns were packed in 430 heavy wooden kegs, each | welghing 30 pounds when filled. The ship- ments comprised 210,000 pesos, $165.0°0; 160000 fifty centavos, 1,400,000, 2,350,000 twenty centavos, $235.000; 3,500 ten centavos, §1750; 3600 five centavos, $5,1%5; 63,00 | one centavos, $3.400; $0,000 two centavos, 218 It was officlally announced the further colnage of money for the Philippine Islands would be temporarily suspended until the mint employes catch up on the coinage of | minor and subsidiary money for the fall | trade in the United States. DRAINAGE TUNNEL FINISHED| Water in Many ML n C Creek Distriet Will Be Lowered. le CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, Sept. %.—The drainage tunnel that wiil drain many of the principal mines of the camp below | thelr present lowest workings was com- pleted today. It is 4,070 feet in length and cost approximately $90,000. Work was started January 2. The portal of the tup- nel is near the intersection of Arequa | gulch and Cripple Creek, at an elevation of | 5616 feet and about 330 feet below the water level The objective point of the ot | POTR. It is the same political complexion | tunnel is the 0-foot level of the Bl Paso s mine. the arrest for contempt of Assistant State s Attorney Barnett and sentenced him to ten days’' imprisonment and to pay & fine of $0. Thomas J. Howard, detective, and | Officer Louis Houlillon of Cincinnatl were also cemmitted for ten days Hoyt was charged with being a fugltive from justice and upon the hearing of the! nabeas corpus case the officers attempted to serve a governor's warrant upon him in the court room, although warned by the fudge not to do so. Assistant State's Attorney Barmett expliined that he had| advised the arrest of Moyt upon the ex- ecutive warrant. “Yofi assumed that the court didn't know what he was talking | about and advised the efficers to act In defiance of the court,” exclalmed Judge Cavanaugh with spirit. “Mr. Barnett, al- though you are a friend of mine 1 can make no exception In your case. I will sentence you to jall for ten days and to pay In addition a fine of . ALL, MINES MAY . CLOS Missouri Operators Act in Dealing’ with the Miners, at for KANSAS CITY, Bept. 2-All the 8,00 coal miners in Missourl may become in- volved unless the 800 men in the Novinger district return to work promptly. They went out against the orders of President John Mitchell and in violation of the Chi- cago conference, and the operators may re- fuse to enter the conference scheduled to be held here on September 10. If the operators should decline to confer further it is predicted that it will result | in the closing of all the mines in the state. | Judge John C. Tarsney, owner of cne of the idle mines in the Novinger district, is quot- | ed as saying: All the mines of the district will be run- ning in a few days or none of them will be. The miners will find that they are dealin with the entirety now and not with indi- vidual operators. President Mitchell is act- ing in good faith, undoubtedly, and now It is only a question of his power in the af- fected district. James Mgoney, the local leader who 1s re- sponsible for the present strike, incited the miners to quit work in order, It is 8aid, to show his defiance of President Mitchell, whom he has previously opposed. TROOPS FOR CRIPPLE CREEK Sheriff Makes No Request, but Busi- ness Men Ask, and Colorade Milttia Gathers. to for nel DENVER, Sept. 2—There seems tonight to be a likelihood of the State troops be- ing ordered to Cripple Creek tonight or to- morrow. No definite statement from %n| ' official source has been given out to that| effect, but it 1 known that a large num- ber of milittamen have gathered at the| armory in this city, and Governor Peabody, | Adjutant General Sherman Bell, Attorney | General Miller and Judge Maxwell of the! Colorado court of &ppeals have been in conference for several hours, General Bell stated this evening that a committee of mine owners and business men would arrive ton!ght from the Cripple | Creek district to confer with the state officials regarding the calling out of the| troops, but up to 1i o'clock they had not! put in an appearance. Sherifft Robertson of Teller county has not asked for troops, | but it is understood that an appeal for protection bas been made to the .nv‘:rmnr! by business men of the district, and the | attorney ge! al holds that this is sufi-| clent to warrant the governor in acting ASKS FOR AN ACQUITTAL At eys for Accused Street Car OM. clals Argue Motion on Testi- s mony for State. AR of NEWARK. N. J., Sept. 2—At the con- clusion of the testimony of the last wit- ness for the state in the trial of the street | car officlals Mr. Lindabury for the defense| moved that the court direct the jury to find a wverdict of not gullty Argument was opened immediately by Mr. Lindabury. In| asking for the dismissal of the case Mr.| Lindabury sald that the claims that the defendants had aliowed the car to be so crowded that the motorman could not ork his brake had not been upheld, but disproved; as it had been testified by the state witnesses that the motorman had room sufficlent. It had not been shown| that the defendants had any knowledge of the crowding of the car, He argued that the state had failed absolutely to show that there was gny connection be- tween the acts of the defendants and what bad eccurred. Justice Gummers reserved decision om the motion untl tomorrow, the i ters before several remain in Washington several days. Mr. Canal company, wili this can be done by cable, and he will not consider the September 21, has passed, with no appeal sible” to tel tiations, of course, but three weeks Is a leng time and may bring about marked changes in sentiment of the Jolomblan con- ton, Pa. 52,617,180, $1,089,300. The Mare Island estimates In- clude the following items: Improving chan- dry dock, $100,000; gineering bullding, $150,000; new anchor and chain shed, §155,000. Time Clock Company Under Fi Beveral Clock company of Binghamton, whose alleged | postal | today by the inspect company with transactions involved In the supply of the clocks uuder the alleged contract with the government | takes the position that no contract between | | the department and the company existed, as the document purporting to be a contract lacked therefore no abrogation is needed of these supplies are belng purchased, the department explaining needed. day considering postal cases, but adjourned until tomorrow without action. | Postofic Acting Be serters from ended December 10, 1898, signing of the treaty of peace clusion disagrees with a ruling of the War department to the effect that the war was The secret service counterfeit 320 national bank note on tre | Mechanics National bank of New Bedford, Mass. The series is of 1582, check letter B, charter No. | treasurer of the United States photograph on plain paper, no fibre; num- bers, seal and panel of back tiuted with Rev, Colo. CRIFPLE CREEK, Prowlers fired upon the guards at Ei mine last night and the the fire. No one was lnd departments and will May Extend Treaty Time. As the time limiit for ratification of the Panama canal treaty approaches there is repewed talk that the United States extend the time. wiil issue between the two governments. Cromwell, attorney for the Panama s confident the time limit be extended if nocessary. He says treaty Jost until midnight, an extension of the time. “It is difficult to conceive how Colombia could fail to ratify a treaty with terms as favorable to Colombian t as those Ampos- at will come of the rego- rawn from Entry. The secretary of the interior today or- dered to be withdrawn from all forms of disposal scribed lands in the Rapld City (8. D.) land aistric | southeast quarter of section 14; e of 23, and all of 24, 2, 35 and 3, of township 3, range 4 east; also the southwest quarter of 18, west half of 19 and west half of 31, of township 9, north of range 4 east. land reservolr Belle Fourche irrigation project, snd em- Dbraces in the neighborhood of 590 acres. whatever the following de- South half of section 13; t- half The thus withdrawn will be used as a site in connection with the To Improve Navy Yards. Estimates for improvements and expendi- tures ut the navy yards named have been i submitted to the “chief of the bureau of |2 precipitation during the eighth month as yards and docks, the figures having been | marked the last August. In 1875, 7.77 inches prepared by the civil engineers attached | was reached and three other times the is | igure was less, yet more than 7. $1,080,500; for Portsmouth, N. H., $3,500,000; | 26 wa the yards. The total for Boston Norfolk, Vi $2,618,000; for Washing- D. C. $2316197; for League Island, $,794,347; for San Juan, Porto Rico, and for Mare Island, Cal., in Mare Island strait $150,000; wharf at additional steam en- employes of the Bundy Time clocks in the were examined here They were closely regarding the accounts of the the government and the contract to supply the postal service has figured investigation, tioned department. The the essential requirements, and No more that no more are The grand jury was in session to- Close of Spanish War, tary of the Navy Darling cided that for purposes aftecting de- the navy the Spanish war the date of the This con- closed for administrative purposes in that department until April 11, 159, the date the exchange of ratifications of the treaty New Counterfeit Bank Note. has recelved a new 743, Bruce register, It is & good Denlel H. Fleming of Leadviile, has been appointed a chaplain in afmy. He was chaplain of the First Colorado volunteers in the Philippines. Mr. Fleming Is an Episcopallan. Prowlers Fire Upon Guard, Colo.. Sept., guards ret P‘:l; urn ured. . The original time set for | ratification was September 22, but the belief is growing here that the State department |may decide to extend the time thirty to sixty days in order that further diplomatic correspondence may be had upon the points Isince the first day of Wyman ! CONDITION OF THE WEATHER Forecast for Nebraska—Falr Thursday and Cooler in Southwest Portion; Friday Fair. Temper Ho 5 3 7T n re nt Omaha Yesterday: Deg. Hour. Dex. PR 1w ~0 . 62 2 st 6 s2 a =4 o8 3 70 S0 kel s T ™ T3 MAYOR SAYS Chiet Executive ¥ Objection to Thomas Grand- IT IS POLITICS nounces Wright's « stand Play. The appolntment B. F. Thomas as second assistant city attorney brought forth another protest from City Attorney Wright. Mr, Thomas was at the c vesterday, but did not enter the lo department. He told friends who asked hin: that he did not know what move le would make to get Into a colgn of vantage where he might perform the duties of the office. Mayor protest Moores says that Mr. Wright's is & grand stand play for the bene- £t of his demacratio constituents. The mavor says: “Mr, Wright deeired the appointment ot A. G. Elick, and had Mr. Ellick named by me you may be surc been ther | would have been no talk about there not being: work enough In the office for As a matter of fact ther le work for a second assistant to perform and as soon as the new tax sale law goes into eftect there will bo much more objection is due to politics.” City Attorney Wright's statement {5 this “The appaintment and confirmation of B. F. Thomas as second assistant attorney calls for a statement from me. asked for a second assistant. 1 do not need one. It is a new office and increases a the expenses of the city when the funds | of the city are more than exhausted. 1 have already called the attention of the council to the useleesness of this office Mr. Herdman has not only cleared up all the work of the tax department of this of- fice, but is daily asking for more work. No officer of the city has ever had to wait on the legal department. No matter referred 10 me by the council or any head of a de- partment has had to wait beyond the next meeting of the council, except when it was held for good reason other than for want of time. “I am not the guardian of public ex- penses, but I cannot ellow such reckless and unnecessary use of public funds in conneetion with my office without calling attention thereto. I have never objecdd to Mr. Thomas on account of his poll and I do not now, but I have personal reasons for objecting to him which even the mayor admits are good, and because of those reasons I.cannot allow him to in any way interfere fn city business. The legal department needs him no more than a cat needs two tails. So long as unnece ry offices are created and filled solely for political reasons this city may expect to run behind as it has been doing in the past “I appeal to the taxpayers to assist in keeping the expenses of this city within {tssincome.’ £ R, i et ol AUGUST MAKES WET RECORD Heaviest Recorded Precipitation Fell During the Moath that Has Just Passed. The Intelligent general public has had a notion all along that this month of August was a wet August, and now comes the monthly meteorological summary of Fore- caster Welch to glve the people the satls- faction of an officlal corroboration of the sense of touch which teld them that their feet were wet. During the month 1250 inches of rain fell. Now the good govern- ment has kept @ record of ‘these things which the weather has or has not done during the past thirty-three years; prob- ably that there may be some means of de- cision when two or more of the oldest tnhabitants lay a bet on the great storm of 76; and never has there been known such August day that you oould wring out over a desert and dispel @ famine; a day (hat, given a fair chance, could shrink all the red flaunel that ever was made into shirts; for on that day 4.6 inches of witer fell. The following day was wet with 3 inches, on the 25th, 144 fell and the first day of the month was showery with 1:15 inches. June 1 we had accumulated a deficiency the year of 2:01 inches but we ere on the way to success now. The mean temperature for the month was 72 degrees; the highest, 82 on the 2d; the lowest 64 degrees on the Jlst; the great- est dally range 2 degrees on the 3d and the least day range, 7 degrecs on the 25th The mean for August during 33 years is 74 degrees. The prevafling direction of the wind was south and the total movement 4,84 miles, the maximum velocity having been 35 miles per hour from the southwest on the 24th. The total preciptation for the month was 125 inches the average for August for 3 years being 356 inches; the accumulated excess since January 1 is 5.27 inches. There were § clear days, 13 partly cloudy, and 9 cloudy. NO DANGER FROM INFECTION ing from Contagious Disease Mauy De Transported. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 2-Dr. U. 0. B Wingate, secretary of the Wisconsin State Board of Healtk, said today that a move- ment wis on f00t AMONE bagge.gs masters, undertakers and boards of hezlth providing 1 the enactment of laws permitting the transportation of bodies of persons ‘who have dled from yellow fever, cholera or bubonic plague, heretofore barred, to any place in the country. Dr. Wingate says the art of embalming Is so perfect that danger from infestion would result no Movements of Ocean Vessels Sep At New York—Arrived Geneva and Naples. Sailed: Philadelphia. for Southampton; Rotterdam, for Rotter- dam and Boulogne; Teutonic, for Liverpool At Liverpool—Arrived: Nordland, from Philadelphia; Oceanic, from New York Halled: Havorford, for Philadelphia, via Queenstown At Southampton — Salled: Deutschland, from Hamburg, for New York, via Cher- bours. At Queenstown—8alled: Liverpool. for New York At Antwerp—Sailed: Feunland, for Phil- adelphia. At Philsdelphia—Arrived: Rhynland, from Antwerp. AU Cherbourg—8ajled: Deutschland, from Hamburg and Bouthsmpton, for New' York At Bouthempton—Arrived: New York, from New York. At Hong Kong—Arrived Lothian, from" Han from Tewps sad ¥ 5 Ir#m fa. from Auronia, from (previously) ol Olympla, The | 1 have not | SHAW TALKS FINANCE | REASONS FOR COUNTRY'S PROSPERITY United States Produoces and Consumes More i Than Any Other Nation. HISTORY DOES NOT ALWAYS REPEAT Secretary Recalls the Change in Publec Opinion in Ten Years. WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED AT THIS TIME Volume of Money Should He Made Reapousive 1o Varying Domsnds of Business in All Pare of Luion. CHICAGO, ness men listened to on the glven tonight e Nati velers Sept Two hundred busi- from all yparts of the country ctary of the Treasury Shaw ncss outlook at 4 banquet at the Auditorfum hoter b 1l Association of Merchants and Lyman J. Gage addressed the assoclution the same subject just be- fore his retirvment fiom the Treasury de- partment, In his d ission clared that what Becretury Shaw de- was needed was not an elastic dollur, but some provisions by which, automatically, the aggregate vol- ume of dollars should Increase whinever and wher ciore dollars were aecdod, ‘nnd would as promptly retire " net needed. His speech in tull follows: _A representative of a large Gally recently submitted as the baslg of boom left - the it found_it? s usual, but I ting a fe facts. the follo & with available sta- ics covering any former period and can be ¢ AnEWer to the proposi- tlon. Qur f oduce $4,000,00.000. Have these lands terile or their occu- pants_indoles r 500,000 factorles udd 35,800,000,000 in $300,000,000,000 Of raw rial, and net output, exclusive uplications, i# more than $8,000,000,00, Have ‘these hives of indusiry been sumed by the ejements? Six million eratives in these factories and work shops _annually slgn payrolls aggre- gating $3,000,000.000. -Have these artisans be- come paral d or have their wages been uced? Our mines, quarries, clay banks nd ofi wells yield §,000,000,000. Are these ctorehouses of wealth exhausied or their capacity dimint Our 200,00 miles of {rallway transport 600,000,000 tons of original frelght, mot Including duplications. and 800,000 Gparatives, exciusive of oficers. 3080 000,000, Are these thoroughfares of com merce in ine hands of receivers, or are they likely to be? Why We Are Frosperou As nearly as can be estimated the snnual productive capacity of the American people is $11,000,000,000. This does not Inciude dy- plications. This does not include raw cot- ton and manufactured cotton; but raw cotton and the value added therew in tie rocess of manufacture. Of this Yo sxvort 500,000,000, and import 31,000, of other merchandise, mainly noncompetitive with our own preducts. We therefore. gons We_are sume the equivalent cent oill, the world b Lhn‘ most rous le i use we both r&u han others. The little thit consume more road, about 10 per cent of our er metropolitan the following an interview: United States ‘he honor was could not hely 12, of we sell aet production, and tiie little we purchase abroad, 6 or.7 per cent of our net consump- on, constitute no challenge to the state- ment that our prosperity vests with our- selves. Unless our factories and work- shops voluntarily close, or labo tarily ‘refuses employment, of Go voluntarily ceases its activity, the occasion for wlarm. Unless apprenension becomes epidemic and vltra-conservatism | contagious, the immediate future holds for us as much of veal good as the immediate past has showered Upon us. Change in Ten Years, | To those who are comparing 1903 with 158, | end who think history iikely 16 repeat liseli ! every ten years, g t the suggostion of a few radical differcnces in conditions. ‘Cen years ugo, whether wisely or unwisely, Whether with or without foundation in faet or reason, a very jarge number and of that aumber many close students of commercial and industrial conditions, believed our then fnanclal system not only unsafe, but abso- | lutely vielous. At least four kinds of money —United States notes, treasury notes, silver dollurs and silver certificates—were belleved to be dangerously near depreciation. Grave doubts existed, and were froely expressed, whether the secretary of the treasury coull maintain the parity of these forins of money if he chose. and equally grave doubts exlsted as to the wisdom of atterpt- ing to maintain théir parity. Ave, a very respectable number of very good people un. a very respectable portion of a very good public press. openly advocated the redemp- tion of greenbacks in silver und the re- fusal to exchange goM for any form of money except gold cerlificates, No such doubt or desire mow exi B statute it Decome the duty Of the see: to maintain the par- retary of the treasur, ity with gold of all forms of mouey coined or issued by the government and bxpress {aughority is given to negotlate loans, If netessary, for that purpose. In other woi the secretary of the treasury is direct: o excha gold for any and every kiny and form of money colned or issied hy the United States, and to bond the gov- ernment to the last Himit of his authorily whenever such action is recessary to (he maintenance of parity. A man (s a fool who sends his money iuto hiding now. What is New It I8 true that a very ber of very good people, and of that num- ber 1 desire to be ciassed, believe our financial system. good as iU is, might be fmproved by adding an element or ejus- teity. I do not think ihere exists any ¢ Who believe we should have gl years ago we nad ow we have eeriainly more than tweniy-nine and probably nearly thirty doliars per caplts. Conservauve business men and conservative bunkers do not generally consiger (his an insufficient normal minimum volume of currency. 1 repeat the only crieism now offered re- lales to the want of elastieity. Not that a dollar can be fe, but that the be tmde rosponsive to the busfness. Of course the term tic material Jke rub- ons direction, but it opposite direction, while the material, the volume, is or ine creased or ivhed. What 1s needed is not un elastic dollar, hut somo provision by which, automatically, the sggregate volume of dullais shall increase whenever and whereves moro dollars are needed. and will as prooptly retire when not needed here s now 1o statutory prohibition against \he well-nigh inherent right of bunks 10 jxsue clrculating notes. This right throughout the United Scates, but 10 @ tux of 10 per cent. per an num. This tax is prohibitory, 1f | were ven autbority to formulate & measun t would provide the requisite elasticity present currency system, I think 1 d au amendment permitting na- ks, with the consent of the com: troller of the currency, 1o issue & volum of circulating notes equal to 5) per cent. ¢ their bond-secured circulation. ut a tax of § per cent., the same to be retired at will or by direction of the comptrolier, by the d posit uf an equal amount of lAwful money with any subtreasury ed. respectable nume- uny 1 321 per capit ber will ) contracts in exists sub e Effect of Emergeney Curremey. Three things i kunow. First, this addi- tional circulation would spring into exist ence almost instantly whenever and wher- ever interest rates advanced to the pol of profit. Second, it would as promptly r tire whenever interest rates became no mal. Third, it would be absolutely sufe— as good as the present national bank fssue and with & slight and lmmscerial chubge identical in form and appearance—for the government, amply proiected by the § font tax, would underwrite it, But you Ay this is emergency currency. Anything more is inflation. It has the advantage, how- ever, Over emergency OWTency so-named,