Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 31, 1903, Page 1

( ) | { i i UL S THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ——— PAGES 1 TO 8. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871 OMAHA, SATURD MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1903—SIXTEEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. TALKS OF DECISION Alaskan Boundary Oommissioners Do Not Like to Disouss Work Just Finished. OLD NARRATIVE FIXED ALASKA LINE | Vancouver Recorded How He Reached Point and Oemmisvion Made Deduotion. UNITED STATES GETS TWO Believed that Explorer Passed Between Them, Defining Portland Oanal ISLANDS CANADIAN RAILROAD MAN'S OPINION at Objection to American Title s Largely Semtimental md Will Not Affect B ness of Road. NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—-On account of his officlal connection with the Alaskan tri- bunal Senator Lodge of Massachusetts de- clined to discuss the award of the tribunal on his arrival here today by the steamer Cedrie. Senator Lodge sald the members of the tribunal had been very handsomely treated in London, but as one of the arbitrators he eould not even venture to say that he was satisfled with the award and declined to say anything about the attitude of the Canadian commissioners in refusing to sign the award. Joseph Pope, representative of the Cana- dlan government, and one of the assistant secretarfes of the tribunal, who also was on Cedric, said that the award was of course a disappointment from the Canadian point of view, but offered no further com- ment, appearing anxious, however, to as- certain how the decision had been received in Canada. Former Senator Turner of Washington, another American member of the tribunal, was not wiliing to discuss how the agree- ment came to be reached, but it was ad- mitted that the decision giving two islands in the Portland canal to the United States was based on Vancouver's narrative of his voyage of exploration. The quesion hinged on whether he had called the water to the south of the Island the channel or whother he had gone to the north of them. It was found that he recorded having gone from the entrance to a point of land above the islands in a certain time, To do this it was figured that he entered the broad channel, followed it up and turned in be- tween the fcur islands. This led the commissioners to decide that the two islands lying near the mouth of the canal and opposite Port Simpson be- longed to the United States. Mr. Turner, while he was not willing to discuss in de- tafl the subject, admitted that this was true. Speaking of these two islands, he sald: “They are of very little value to us except from a strategical standpoint. I believe that the new Transcontinental railroad which 1s to he bullt north of the Canadian’ Pacific will have Port Simpson for Its Pa- cifio terminal. This makes the islands of importance to Canada. Touching a report that the Canadians charged that Lord Alverstone had been practically won over by kindness, the ex- senator sald he did not think such a thing conld be. “If anything,” he ‘added, “the hospitality and kindness was on Lord Al- verstone's side. He was hospltable to all comers and entertained us at his country place. The question to be settled was of right under the international law, and Lord Alverstone, wWho Is an able jurist, settled the case on its merits.” Mr. Turner regarded it as fortunate that the commission was able to agree and he constdered It a step forward in the settle- ment of all future dispute: ore Sentiment Th LONDON, Oet. 30—~Chairman MacRae, at a meeting today of the stockholders of the ‘White Pass & Yukon rafiroad, alluded to the Alaska boundary award. He sald that w ille he regretted the deciston which placed twenty miles of their rallroad under the jurisdiction of the American flag, it was in reality mcre a matter of sentiment than business. The reciprocal bonding arrangements be- tween Cahada and the United States would continue. Both countries would suffer equally by a disturbance of the arrange- ments, ani it was more in harmony with the enlightened spirit of civillzation to ex- tend than to curtall them. Mr. MacRae further declared that the suggestions for all Canadian or all Ameri- can roads to the Yukon were impossible of realization for & long time to come. DISHONESTY _IN ATHLETICS Principal of Phillips Brooks, Andov Dislikes Present System of Coaching. CHICAGO, Oct. #.—Conditions inimical to the growth of American manliness, both in the “decadeness of home lite” and in athletics, were discussed today by Alfred B. Stearns, principal of Phillips' academy, Andover, Mass., in an address delivered at the educational conference, which is one of the featurcs in connection with the cel- ebration of Dr. H. F. Fisk's thirty years' residence at Northwestern University wcademy. Three hundred delegates from various parts of the country were pres- | ent. After touching on the nurses, tutors and private schools to prop- erly mould a child's lite, Mr. Stearns said of school and college athletics Bly and underhand practioes are encour- aged just 8o far as detection does not ensus 0 the average schoolboy the coilege ath- lete 18 & hero, and this man, 1 regret to say, often spends his time in teaching this decéit to lads of the preparatory sel 1 have seen many an athletic coach devot- ing hours to teaching young followers that they may cleverly disobey ruies of the *game without risk of detection, and I think am safe in saying that the majority of coaches are given to this practice. 1 have heard boys complain that they were ad- ylsed that o Hitlp profanity would tend to disconcert their bpponents. Mr. Btearns expressed himself as favor of athletics, honestly pursued, even at the expense of physical Injuries or an occasional death. It was the moral effect of dishcnest practices that he deplored. MAN AND WOMAN BOTH DEAD Morace L. Green and His Wife Killed by Gas Fumes in Chicago Hote CHBICAGO, Oct. 3.—Horace L. Green and his wife were found dead in bed here to- day, the result of asphyxiation. Indications pointed to & double suicide, Green was the publisher of the Free Thought Magasine. He was 7 and his wife 0 years old. Later developments tended to show that tho aged couple were vistims of an accldent. A gus jst was found parualy open. incapacity of | | mintsters with” moderate {ready outlned. ls, | PLEA Those of Domingo Draw Up Protest Against Present Adm tion, ST. THOMAS, D. W. I, Oct. 30.—The text of & manifesto issued by the revolutionists of Santo Domingo has been recelved here. it is dated Puerto Plata, October 24, and accuses President Wos y Gil of arbitrari- ness, jealousy, suspicion and unjust pers cutions; says the prisons of the capital aro filled, and that many persons have been exiled; that the revenues have been de- creased In three months by $1,000,000, al- though since February nothing has been pald to the country's national or foreign creditors; that the accounts of the last revolution are unpald; that an irritating im- port duty of 3% cent per gallon is levied on petroleum; that an “odious loan" of $120,000, guaranteed by the duty on cocoa, has been ralsed; that $40,00 has been advanced to the government by the Hamburg-American line in exchange for port dues for four years In the case of the company's ships: that there has been a notable decrease in the fiscal dues since the president implanted “the gross system of waste,” and that an unpatriotic effort to make Dominican waters neutral, and to make the republic's ports free in case of war, was recently sub- mitted to the legislature, involving a seri- ous menace to the national territorial in- tegrity. The signatories of the manifesto, headed by General Carlos Moralles, call on patriots to defend the country's sacred Interests and to disown the authority of the present government. FORTY-FIVE ARE DROWNED Result of Collisipn Between Ru and Japanese Steamers Near Hakodate, Japan, OF REVOLUTIONISTS Santo YOKOHAMA, Japan, Oct. 30.—It was as- certained today that forty-five per- sons out of 103 who were on board the steamer Tokal-Maru were drowned, as the result of the sinking of that vessel yester- day, -after having been in collision with the Russian steamer Progress off Hako- date, Japan. The engineer of the Tokal- Maru succumbed after having been picked up by Progress. The malls and all the valuables of the sunken vessel were lost. The accident occurred at 4 a. m. in a dense fog, six miles from Hakodate. Tokai- Maru, which belonged to the Yusen Kalsha company of Tokio, sank Immediately. After resculng all the persons possible, Progress returned to Hakodate, It was severely damaged. The Russian consul is drawing up a statement of the case for the court of inquiry. The steamer Jinsen Maru has gone to the scene of the disaster with divers to search for the bodies of the per- sons who were drowned SEEKS TO SAVE EXPLORERS Expedition Will Start from Tasmania to Bring Back Boat Frozem in I HOBART, Tasmania, Oct. 30.—Terra Nova, an auxillary relief ship, formerly a Newfoundland whaler, has arrived here after a splendid passage. Morning, the Royal Geographical soclety's relief ship, is expected dally. The vessels will start for the rellef of Discovery, the British ex- ploring vessel, the first week in December, The exploring vessel Discovery has been frozen in for thirteen months at the foot of Mount Eremus, in south latitude 77:70, east longitude 186:42. In February last Morning transferred provisions to it by sledges over the ice. Terra Nova has been fitted out by the British government act- ing independently of the scientific socleties which favored Discovery's expedition. It is carrying guncotton with which to blast out a channel, but if it cannot be extri- cated 1t is understood its officers and men will be transferred to Terra Nova and Dis- covery abandoned. GERMANS WANT COLOR LINE Ask that Nai stricte: e Pollcemen Be Re- in Power to Arrest ‘Whites. BERLIN, Oct. 30.—Complaint having been raised of the behavior of the German police of S8amoa and East Africa toward Europeans, Duke Johann Albrecht, presi- dent of the German colonial soclety, has addressed a letter to Chancellor von Beu- low, asking that such cases be avolded in the future Ly clearly limiting the func- tions of native officlals where Europeans are concerned. The soclety admits that it is mpossible to govern colonles without giving the na- tive police and other subordinat: officials authority to take action agalust Buro- peans, but it is claimed measures must be taken which will insure the respect of the natives toward them @s a class. Therefore, native officlals should have power to mct In such cases only in the presence of and under the direct personal orders of their white superiors. e RADICAL REFUSES PORTFOLIO Glolitt! is Having Trouble in Form- ing & Cabinet Italy, ROME, Oct. 80.—The expected announce- ment of the composition of the new Giolittl cabinet tonight was not made because the party of the extreme left obliged Signor Sacchl, the leader of the radicals, to refuse |wMh his friendship participation in the government, and objected to three other tendency. This upsets the formation of the cabinet as al- It is believed that Bignor Glolittt will ultimately succeed in forming a cabinet without the assistance of the rad- fcals. BROTHER OF QUEEN ARRESTED Relative of Draga Accused of Deing in Plot Against Murderers of His ter. BELGRADE, Servia, Oct. ¥.—After a long search Captain Lunjevics, brother of the late Queen Draga, has been rearrested. He was captured in the laundry room of the fort here. The arrest of General Magdelinics and other officers is imminent. It is under- stood that a mew plot has been discovered against the murderers of King Alexander and Queen Draga. Would-Be Assassins Are Armemians, TIFLIS, Russian Transcaucasia, Oct. 30.— The three men who attacked Prince Galit- ®in, the governor general of the Cau- casas, on the outskirts of this city Tues- day, while he was driving with his wite and who were subsequently killed by Cos- sacks, have been identified as belonging 10 the lower class of Armenlans 4 A | and thi TWO WRECKS ON SANTA FEI * Engine and Oars Drop from High Br’ e Oreek Bed Below. PULLMAN HANGS "OVER 0}‘\ Westbound Passenger o 5 Runs Into an Open gf 3 Crashes Into Frelght Tra. and & PUEBLO, Colo,, Oct. 30.—By an'accident or train wreckers eastbound Santa Fe pas- senger train No. 6, known as the Colorado- Chicago fiyer, in which was one car filled with eastern bankers homeward bound frem Californla, was deralled at 1:9 o'clock this morning at Apishapa creek, thirty- five miles east of this city, and breaking down the steel bridge the engine and four cars following plunged to the bed of the creek, where they piled in a mass of wreck- age. Thirty or more trainmen and passen- gers were Injured, and that none was killed outright is regarded as almost miraculous. The Injured: Engineer John B. Walker, scalded and bruised; may die. Fireman A. B. Bates; bruised. Mrs, Mary Anderson, Neptonville, Kan.; tnjured internally. George Brown, Denver; injured internally. W. A. Pattison, Denver; lip cut, teeth knocked out and bruised. A. G. Freeze, Newton, Kan.; bruised and shaken up. M. J. Garvey, Denver; bruised and shaken La Junta; up. Rites. Hamiiton, Colorado Springs; brutsed, suffering {rom nervous shock. Harold Kolberg, Middiesboro, Ky.; head injured. Mrs, 'Lillle Schott, Denver; head and neck Injured. Joseph Stevens, Pueblo; bruised. Mrs, Joseph Stevens, Pieblo; bruised. J. G. Benson, Cold Harbor, N. D.; face cut and teeth knocked out. I F. Atkins, Dallas, Tex.; head injured. Mrs. ' ‘Mary ' Laird, Cummings, Kan.; bruised and cut. . Robert Coltum, Carbondale, Kan.; brulsed and cut. Carl Berg; bruised. F. R. Risley, Gibbs, Mo.; brulsed, nerv- ous shock. Mrs, J. A. Hoftman, Dallas, Tex.; bruised, nervous shock. J. F. McGill, Washington, D. C.; brulsed. 3. L. Reinhard, Owensboro, Ky.; bruised. Mrs. J. A. Reinhard, Owensboro, Ky.; bruised. Mrs. Mathilda Hamllton, Moss City, Kan.; bruised. R o} P. W. Bhoop, and cuts. C. Bennett, Buffalo; bruised. Louis Dulse, EJ Paso, Tex.; bruised. Mrs. F. D. White; brulsed, nervous shock, JAlice Bowmas, ‘Whitehead, Ill.; bruised, shock. John Sandoval, Trinldad; brulsed, cut. JJ_MMA Aubolum, Granola, Kan.; back in- ured. Mrs. J. M. Aubolum, Granola, Kan.; bruised. Spreading Rails Ca Unionville, bruised e Wreek. The wrecked train was made up at Den- ver last evening and at Pueblo the special car Del Rosa, in chargeof A. 8. Kim- berly and carrying eighteen eastern bank- ers, was attached to It. The train was bowling along at a speed of fifty miles an hour as it approached Apishapa creek, be- tween Manganola and Fowler. At the west end of the bridge the rails spread, derailing the engine, and when it struck the bridge one span 100 feet long went down. The en- gine, two baggage cars and a éhair car and a coach rolled over on their to the creekped, a distance of abiut fftee:, feet. Fortunately little wiiter wus running in the creek at the time. One Pullman stopped with the forward end projecting over the ‘embankment. The bankers' car was the only one in the train that was not deralled. ‘When the engine rolled over Engineer Walker was pinned under his cab and he was immediately enveloped in a dense cloud of steam, Some time elapsed before he was rescued by other members of the train crew, with tRe assistance of some passen- gers. Engineer Walker sald that the first inthmation he had of anything wrong was when the drivers suddenly began bumping the ties. He hastily closed the throttle and reversed the lever. The engine and cars plowed over the tles at least fifteen feet and.the extraordinary strain put on the bridge caused the structure to collapse. Members of the traln crew were dis- patched to Fowler to notify the Santa Fe officlals of the accident and reilef trains were sent to the scene of the accident as quickly as possible from both Pueblo and La Junta. When these trains arrived at the creek all the injured had been removed from the wreckage. The cars were mot badly broken up and the passengers in them had escaped with bruises, sprains and cuts. After their wounds had been dressed they were piloted across the dry bed of the creek and, with the passengers who were uninjured, were taken to La Junta in & special train. Engincer Walker and others who were serfously injured were placed in the Santa Fe hospital there, and the remaining re- sumed their eastward journey, with the ex- ception of some women who were suffering from the shock to thelr nerves. The wreckage cannot be cleared away and the bridge repaired before tomorrow evening. Meantime ftrans to and from Denver will be run via Trinidad. The dam- age I8 estimated at ¥15,000. An investigation showed plainly that the spikes had been pulled from three ralls. The motive of the wreckers is a mystery, as no robbery was attempted. The bridge was Inspected last week and was found to be in good condition, and the track, of elghty-five-pound steel, was relald about a year ago. But for the accident of a hot box on the expreas car a large amount of money would have been in the safe on the wrecked train it is .belleved, was the plunder the desperadoes hoped for, Vallses wero rified by the robbers during the excitement following the wreck. The express car in which, according to re- | port, money was being transported was Jeft at Colorado Springs last night for a later train. in Second Wreek. TOPEKA, Kan., Oct. 0.—At the office of Superintendent Hurley of the Santa Fe it was said tonight that the wreck of pas- senger train No, § at Howell, Kan., last lowing were injured, but not seriously: Ray Stevens, Wichita, Kau.; G. W, Beak, Pratt, Kan. Will Investigate Matter. TOPEKA, Oct. 30.—It Is announced at the Santa Fe general office here that a special effort will be made to apprehend the per- sons who caused a wreck of the Banta Fe special near Fowler, Colo., this morning. The best secret service men from head- quarters have been detalled on the case. The officials have been notified that already some clues have been found and it is ex- pected that some arrests will be made be- fore many hours. General Manager Mudge in discussing the wreck sald: “I have no information which enlightens me &8 to the motive of the par- ties who wrecked the traln by drawing spikes and joints for a distance of three rail-lengths at the approach of the bridge. 1 will leave for Colorado tomorrow morn- ing." . SAM PARKS Second Time Delegate s Found Gulity of Extortion. IS CONVICTED NEW YORK, Oct. 30—For the second time within two months Samuel J. Parks, walking delegate of Housesmith's and Bridgemen's union, local No. 2, was con- victed ‘of the crime of extortion in the court of general sessions this afternoon. It took the jury just twelve minutes, dur- ing which time they took two ballots, to agree on the gullt of Parks in extorting $600 from the Tiffany Studios, a firm of contractors, under threat of keeping it from continuing work on bulldings last June. . It was shown at the trial that Parks had obtained $00 from the Tiffany firm as an “Initiation fee" last January when the housesmiths and bridgemen were on strike on three of the Tiffany contracts in this city. Parks claimed that this money was a fine levied by his labor union. Later the fac: developed that Parks had been dls- loyal to his union, inasmuch as he per- mitted the Tiffany firm to employ non- union men on concern jobs after having recelved the $500. This accusation was not denied by the defendant or his counsel during the trial, but the latter contended that Parks had given the money to the treasurer of his organization, and that the entire transaction ,was a business deal which, instead of being a crime, afforded considerable advantages to the firm which pald the money. Counsel for Parks en- deavored to introduce certificates as to the prisoner's delicate staté of health, but Judge Newburgh, before whom the case was tried, refused to admit them. J. W. Osborne, Parks' chief counsel, made an excellent defense, although*he had weak grounds on which to stand, while Assistant District Attorney Rand placed Parks in a bad light, both to the public and his fellow labor unionists, in his summing up to the Jury, In his charge Judge Newburgh mald that it made no difference what disposition Parks made of the money after he had ob- tained it from the representatives of the Tiffany firm, If in the belfef of the jurymen he had obtained under a threat direct, that fact would constitute extortion, the crime charged against the prisoner. ‘When the jury was polled and the ver- dict rendered, Parks glared at the jurymen with the same look of deflance which he maintained during this, as well as his pre- vious trial. He was remanded for sentence a week hence. Parks Is now awaiting the declsion of the court on a writ of error, having been sentenced after his first trial to a term of not less than two and a half nor more than three and a half years in Bing Sing prison. The charge on which his former conviction was secured was also extortion, COURT TO EXONERATE CHASE Such Said to He the Findings in ) Case of Colorado Militi General. DENVER, Oct. 30.—Brigadler General John W. Chase, commander of the National Guard of Colorado, now on trial before a court martlal, will be exonerated from the charge of perjury. When the court met today it wus announced that no further evidence on this charge would be required and a recess was taken at the request of General Chase's attorneys to give the de- fendant further time to arrange his de- fense to the charges of disobedience and insubordination. A member of the court on belng asked for his opinfon of the significance of the abrupt closing of the bearing on the perjury charge, replied that it amounted practically to an acquittal. The afternoon counsel for General Chase moved a nonsult on the charge of disobedi- ence. General Chase was put on the stand. He admitted refusing to obey the alleged executive order for the release of the prisoner Davis. He did not believe the order came from the governor. He denied that he had ever willfully disobeyed any order which he knew came from Governor Peabody. MONTANA STATESMEN CONFER United States Senators and Governor with J. J. Hill Consider Mining Trouble, BUTTE, Mont., Oct. %.—James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern, United States Senator Paris Gibson and Governor Joseph K. Toole of Montana arrived here today in Mr. Hill's private car and held a gonference with United States Senator W. A. Clark at the latter's office. These men, with Congressman Joseph M, Dixon of Montana, constitute the board of arbitration, named by the Business Men's dssoclation and the labor unions of Montang, to settle the difference be- tween the Amalgamated Copper company and the Heinze faction. The governor is expected to call & speclal session of the legislature for Friday next, but nothing official in regard to this can be learned, At the first session of the board of ar- bitration, James J. Hill was elected pres- ident and the board plan outlined, WANT ORIGINAL DISPATCHES Missour! Attorney Calls on Ofcinls of Telegraph Company to Pro- duce Them, JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Oct. %.—The original telegram which passed between D. J. Kelley of New York and former Lieu- tenant Governor John A. Lee are wanted by the state to be presented as evidence in the trials of Senators Farris and Smith next Monday on the charge of bribery in connection with alum legislation. Subpoenaes In the case were lssued today for Buperintendent S. J. Frankel of the Western Union Telegraph company and Superintendent G. E. Paine of the Postal company, ordering them to produce the originals of certain telegrams. Burhed to Death Elevator. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30.—One man, Harry McWilliams, was burned to death and five others severely injured during a fire which today destroyed the large grain elevator of the Baltimore & Ohlo Rafiroad Sompany and the four-story rolling mill of W. oodward & Co. The loss is esti- mated at more than §200,000. The elevator contained 50,000 bushels of grain. Cotton Market & NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—There was great activity and excitement in the cotton mar- ket this morning on the receipt of weather forecast for the western bell, Which pre- dicted snows for tonight and In the terri- tories. with cold weather for the entire western belt. Before the end of the first hour prices were 10@18 polnts net higher. Higher., mallipox Epidemic in Illin SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Oct %.-Dr. E. E. Baker, inspector of the Btate Board of He reported today to Becretary that there had been found on investigation cases of smallpox in the township of Dupage, Will county, and the township of nt, Cog.l oounty. The suj s o ownships In question estab- lish strict quarantine, MAY CLOSE PACKING HOUSES Gigantio Strike of the Amalgamated Butohers is Now Threatened. TO HELP SAUSAGE MEN AND CANNERS Omaha, Ohieago, City and St. Joi ing Centers Affected by th Labor Distur NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—General Organizer Elchelberger of the Amalgamated Butchers Workermen's union of North America, as- serts that 60,000 out of the 78,00 members of the union will, in all probability, go on a strike in sympathy with the 2,000 sausage makers and canners who have quit in the packing houses in Chicago for an increase in wages of 2 cents a day. “The question is now being put to a referendum vote,” he sald, ‘and the votes will all be in by Monday. The sympathetic strike will be ordered if a settlement of the strike in Chicago s not speedily reached. The principal packing centers to be affected by strikes are Omaha, Chicago, St. Louls, Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo. "Our organization is a unit on the ques- tion of supporting the Chicago strikers in every way possible.” Conference May Avert Trouble. CHICAGO, Oct. %0.—Negotiations have been begun which will in all probability result in preventing the threatened general strike of packing house employes through- out the country. President Michael Don- nelly of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmens' union, received a communication from the Chicago packers tonight, asking for a conference to bring about a settlement of the difficulty. Mr. Donnelly sent word that he was ready to meet representatives of the packers at any time cr place they might suggest. Up to a late hour tonight no time had been fixed, but it is belleved the meeting will take place tomorrow. The Packing Trades council will hold a meeting tomorrow night and a report from President Donnelly on his confer- ence with the packers' represenetatives and Its result will form the basis for what- ever action is taken by the council. The employes of the sausage making and can- ning departments in Chicago, who have been on strike for several days, expect President Donnelly |to settle the trouble. Burlington Frelght Hamdlers Strike. ST. JOSEPH, Oct. 30.—The Burlington raflway frefght handlers struck here to- day because two unfon men who recently came here from Kansas City were dis- charged because of a breach of discipline. Nonunfon men joined the union men in demanding their reinstatement. The dis- charged men were former)y in the employe of the Burlington road at Kansas City and recently went out on a strike. Other men have ben put to work in place of the strikers, Boller Makers Out on Erfe. SBUSQUEHANNA, Pa., Oct. 3.—The strike of the Erie railroad’s bollermakers and their helpers in all of the shops on the ystem between New York and Chicago s now complete. The men left in the round houses of the various shops to do ‘hurry' repalr work were called out By the unfon tonight. Several hundred men are involved. All of the shops on the Erle railrcid sy tem were closed tonight until November . Mitehell Day Causes Trouble, TAMAQUA, Pa., Oct. 30.—Because of the refusal of 4,000 of the mine workers em- ployed by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company to obey the company's orders and work Mitchell day they have been sus- pended for two days. On Wednesday the company issued an order that its collleries would work as usual on Thursday (Mitchell day). Yesterday morning less than 2,000 men and boys reported for duty and it was found necessary to shut down all of the thirteen collierles except two. This morning when the men who celebrated Mitchell day reported for duty they were told that there would be no work for them until Monday. The men who were on duty yesterday were told to work us usual. This order has caused much indignation among the union men and there is talk of a strike. President Dettrey of district No 7 has been sent for. Scouts Idea of Strike. CHICAGO, Oct. 30.—Patrick Mackin, busi- ness agent of the Chicago branch of the International Unlon of Bridge and Struc- tural Iron Workers tonight stated that there was no likellhood of a strike of the iron workers being ordered in Chicago, as some of the leaders of the union in New Xork have threatened, Even were a gen- eral strike called less than a handful of men would be effected, as only one firm would be involved HUSBAND DELIVERS ADDRESS Eulogy of Mrs. Booth-Tucker Pro- nounced by Commander of Salvation Army, CHICAGO, Oct. 3.—Surrounded by 3,000 Salvation mourners who had gathered at Princess rink tonight to pay tribute to the memory of Mrs. Emma Booth-Tucker, who was killed In a railroad wreck last Wednesday night, Commander Booth- Tucker, in a sermon full of pathos, told of the many good deeds performed by the depd leader. While speaking the husband, griet stricken and weeping, stood at the head of the casket. When the eulogy was finished there was not a dry eye in the audience. The memorial services were participated in by many prominent officers of the army. At the conclusion of the ceremonies the casket was removed to the Pennsylvania depot and will be taken to New York early tomorrow morning. Commander Booth- Tucker will travel on the ‘same train and will be accompanied by Colonel Sowton and & number of other officers, including En- sign Hessle Dammes, who was private sec- retary to Mrs. Booth-Tucker and who was with her at the time of her death. On arrival of the funeral train at New York another service will be held and later the body will be sent to London for interment. POLICY OF THE STEEL TRUST Official Talks About Price for Prod- uets and Wages of Em- ployes NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—The following statement was made today by an officlal of the United States Steel corporation, outlining the company's policy as to prices for producty and wages of employes: There will be no cut In prices. Rates will be maintained. As for the matter of wages, that has not been considered save in an informal way. At any rate no changes of this kind are likely before the new year. ‘The matters now under discussion by the heads of the subsidiary companles are n;mo;; all aitogether of & :;;xm‘l.ne ch.rn-f\er, though considerable thought is belng given 10 economy of operations, THE BEE BULLETIN. Forecast for Nebraska—Fair _and Colder Saturday; Sun Fair and Warmer. Page. 1 Declines to Talk Boundary Award, Two Bad Wreeks on the Santa Fe. Strike May Close Packing Compllation on Nebraska Crop: Gorman Attacks Roosevel Doctors Favor the Canteen. News from Nebraska Towns. Musonic Home Formally Opened. In the Field of Electricity, rs at South Omaha. re Making Ready. ell Bluffs and lowa New Financial Review of the Week. Select Parr. Army Maneuvers Come to an End. Tax Ruling Forms a Precedent. Gowsip of Local Political Fight. Through Street Curs to Dundee. New Offices for Great Westers On the Trail to the Black Hills Editorial, Building Modern Railway Station, Financial and Commercial, Golng to Meet Stickney Party. 10 11 12 13 14 16 Temperature at Omaha Yesterday: Hour. Deg. Mour, Deg. 5 a. " 61 59 b8 (34 [ 53 B4 53 o5 as 48 cracaLEEm BLAIR IS ABLE TO GET ABOUT St. Louis Attorney Rapldly Recovers from Collapse of a Week Ago. ST. LOUIS, Oct. %0.—James L. Blalr, the attorney, was 5o far recovered today that he was able to walk about his rooms on crutches, as he did before his collapse last Baturday. He showed great Interest in the newspaper accounts of the progress of the grand jury's investigation into the story told by Roberts and read all the accounts carefully. Miss Nettle Sheetz, Mrs. Blair's private secretary, said today that the family would soon leave Stancote, but declined to say when or where they were to go. It Is under- stood that the date of departure depends largely on the date when the grand jury Is expected to make a report on Its in- vestigations. The report is expected to be made within the next two or three days. Personal letters to Evans R. Dick of the firm of Dick Brothers & Co., of Philadel- phia, and of Frank Graham of New York, their attorney, have been sent by Circuit Attorney Folk. Mr. Folk declines to give out the text of the letters, but says they are requests for the two gentlemen to come to St. Louls, bringing papers and books with them, to appear as witnesses before the grand jury In the Blair case. FIRE CAUSES DEATH OF MAN One Dead and One Injured as Result of Flames in Philadelph PHILADELPHIA, “Oct. $.—One person dead and possibly two, a dozen persons injured and a property loss of more than $200,000, is the result of a fire which oc- curred today in the block bounded by the Schuylkill river, Race, Vine and Twenty- third streets, ‘The dead: CHARLES MESSMER, aged 16 years. Missing: Harry McWilllams, a roofer, The buildings destroyed were the flour- ing mill of W. 8. Woodward & Son, and the Baltimore & Ohlo grain elevator, ad- joining. The wagon works of H. Kalser & Co., were damaged by a wall falling on the roof. The fire began in a frame bullding be- tween the flour mill and the grain elevator and it quickly spread to those buildings. Eight men were working on the roof of the grain elevator when the fire began and seven escaped. The eighth, McWil- llams, cannot be found, and it s believed his body 1s in the ruins. — MERCER DENIES THE CHARGES Government Agent Says that Lumber Contracts Made by Him Were Authorized. — -~ SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 3.—Captain W. A. Mercer, who is mentioned in the sult of the ‘government brought at Fergus Falls, Minn., against the Commonwealth Lumber company for timber alleged to have un- lawfully taken from the government land, is now stationed at the Uintah Indfan res. ervation, In northeastern Utah, Captain Mercer telegraphed tonight denying all charges of irregularity in connection with his work in Minnesota. “I certainly had authority for all con- tracts made by me," said Captain Mercer, “and there were no operations except under these contracts approved by the Interlor de- partment, The operations were under the immediate charge of a competent superin- tendent of logging, and the scalers were competent, as shown by the tests of their scales submitted to me, which was satis- factory in every instgnce that I now re- call.” ARBITRATION IS POPULAR Sentiment in Its Favor s Growing Both in United States and Eauro, ROME, Oct. 0.—Judge Willlam L. Pen- fleld, sollcitor of the State department at Washington, who has been in Rome for some time, has finished the counter case of Venezuela against the allied powers and will present it to The Hague tribunal next Wednesday. In conversation with the correspondent of the Assoclated Press he said: My experience enables me truly to say that European sentiment in favor of arbi- tration has been much augumented during the last year. The United States is belng given its full credit for this condition, which has been largely produced by the active exertions of resident Roosevelt and Becretary Hay in bringing the Plus fund case to The Hague tribunal, and also in leading the powers to submit to that court the present controversy with Venezuela. Movements of Ocean V. At New York—Arrived from Genoa and Naples; Numidian, from Glasgow; Rhein, from Bremen. Balled: Arable, for Liverpool. At Queenstown—Arrived: Commonwealth, trom Boston, for Liverpool and proceeded Sailed: Columbus, from Liverpool, for Bos- ton. yab Liverpool—Salled: Armenian, for New els Oct. 30, Prinz Oskar, or. At Arrow Head—Passed: Umbria, from New York, for Liverpool At Cherbourg—Arrived: Auguste Vie- torla, from New York, via Plymouth for Hamburg and proceeded. At Hamburg—Arrived: Phoenicla, from New York CROPS OF NEBRASKA Remarkably Good Yield for a Remarkably Unfavorable Seasca. WHEAT RETURNS A FLATTERING TOTAL Orop that Was Thought to Be a Failure Tarns Out Streng. CORN STILL HOLDS ITS PROUD PLACE 8truggles Against Late Planting and Early Frosts and Wina. OTHER CEREALS BETTER THAN EXPECTED Cold, Damp Summer Has Plain Effect onm Total Yield, but the Aggre- gate In Enough to Justify Farming. NEBRASKA'S CORN CROP. Hushels, 218,007,673 224,201,050 244,125,008 180,611,944 229,907,858 OTHER FARM PRODUCTS. ——e—iBushels- 1003, 1902, teees 88,012,051 60,216,688 . 61,508,342 58,503,007 5,948,505 8,008,928 Article, Wheat Oats .. Rye Barley 2,152,522 Nebraskans can contemplate with much satisfaction the yleld of the fields for the last season. It is true that the total flg- ures of bushels and tons is not up to that of 193, but under the conditions the re- turns are certainly cause for congratula- tion. In many respects the growing sea son was abnormal, April, when the rains are naturally looked for, was a dry, cold month; May was wet and cold, June was wetter and colder, and July, reckoned among the hot months of the year, was the wettest on record, and the daily mean temperature from 5 to 8 degrees below normal. It seemed like hoping agalnst hope to expect a crop under these discourag- ing conditions. Grain of all kinds and grasses grew rank under the Influence of the damp, cool weather, and ripening was beyond possibility. In June estimates on the wheat crop were that it would ex- ceed even therecord-breaking crop of 190 when the time came for harvest, many reported that the wheat crop would be a fallure, In the sense of a bumper crop it was a fallure; but the yield is such as would have been cause for congratula- tion a few years ago. Thirty-eight mil- lton bushels of a first-class quality of wheat is Feturned as Nebraska's yleld for the season. This is a disappointment, but is due solely to the untoward weather conditions that prevailed during June and July, The acreage of winter wheat, of which crop the yleld for 1908 is 31,450,604 bushels, was practically the same as last sesom, being’ 2,017,200 for 1908, and 2,04~ 198 for 192 In spring wheat, the yield for which for 1903 is 6,622,147 bushels, there was a decrease in acreage of 200,000 acres, The average yield is about three-fifths that of 1902 What is true of wheat is also true of other small grains. Oats shows an i crease in yleld, but 102 was a bud sea- son for oats, and the acrcage for 1003 is over 200,000 acres greater, An Increase in the acreage of barley over last year's ac- counts for the glight increase in the total yield, Corn Survives Elemental Assault. King Corn also had a hard year of it, but came gloriously out of the contest with the elements and is proudly waving his plumed head with a total yleld that is far above expectations. When it is recalled that a large percentage of the total acre- age was not planted until late in June and much of it not until early in July, and that at the time when the flelds are gen- erally lald by the first tender shoots were just peeping above the raln-soaked earth, the returns seem phenomenal. A ninety- day corn crop is something to talk about and that is what Nebraska has raised this time. While July weather was unfavor- able to the wheat and other small grains it was also retarding the growth of corn and the weekly crop bulletins for that period of the year were all most discour- aging. August came with some ideal corn weather, and the growth during that month was wonderful, so much o that the farmers felt greatly encouraged. “If frost holds off long enough, we will have a good corn crop yet,” was the word. September came, and with the early days came a repetition | of the cold rains of June and July. Frost came, too, but the clouds hung heavily over the Nebraska flelds, and the cold did not affect tne crop seriously, Some few flelds in the western end of the state were touched, but the damage was not so se- | vere as might reasonably have been ex- pected. Government reports placed the frost damage at 10 per cent of the crop. After the middle of Beptember the weather | cleared and week after week of the most | glorfous ripening sunshine flooded the fields, and the corn that had withstood the frost came Jut in magnificent shape. It 14 not a nubbin crop. KEars are long and Il filled out and the grain s plump and firm, so that it will grade as high as Ne- rn ever did grade. In this regard | it Is w great improvement over the crop of 1 1002, which while mueh larger in number | of bushele, had hardly 20 per cent of mer= chantable grain. The early frost of ‘that year “caught corn in the milk,” and the result was that at least 80 per cent of it was soft, and only fit for immediate feed. ing. rask; Pot Potatoes suffe too, and the yie to- the but the ripening o Crop Short. ed from the wet s n, 1 was far from being up avers The growth wis good, cold, dark, damp days during the period prevented the erop from maturing, thus reducing the yleld. Only the late planted potatoes gave anything like the yield that is usually expected from this crop. Hay and alfalfa suffered from the same cause; growth was splendid, but ripening was retarded by the rains, This really developed into a very serlous situation on the ranges, where the snows that camo with the September cold wave threatened to do away with the winter range alto- gether; but the warm, bright weather that followed the storm has remedled this con- ditlon to & large extent. Stockmen coming in now report ranges in good condition As in years past, the effort to obtain exact figures on the hay, alfalfa und po- tato crops has proved a faillure, For some on the officials whose duty it is to after the collection of crop statistics do not deem these crops worthy of atten- tion. As a matier of fact, they are of real importance o the stute. Many of the counties uot represented in the talde