Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 30, 1909, Page 1

CITY PRIMARIES TODAY LL PARTIES Polis Open I THE OMAHA DAILY BEE WEATHER FORECAST. r Nebraska-Fair ¢ Towa—Partly elondy For weather report see page 3. NO, 246 OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNIN( 1909 -TWELVE PAGES. SINGLE (OPY TWO CENTS I “ines Are Levied in Union Pacific Short Line Cases LIVELY FIGHT WITH INDIANS Deputy Sheriffs Surround Band of | Fifteen in House Near Crazy | Snake's Home. Everett Buckingham $1,000 by Judge at Salt Lake City. ONE KILLED, EIGHT Cf SALT LAKE United States district court Marshall fined the Union Pa company, the Oregon Short Lin: ), Coal company and J. anager of the Union Pacific $3.000 each Buckingham former division . manager of the Oregon Short Ihnc 3 ined §1.000, "The fines are the re | the coal company | panies by the D. J | of this city who alleges that the defendants | had conspired and had refused to haul coal previously purchased | company These charges were sustained !at the trial by a jury which found the de- fendants guilty of conspiracy in restraint | of trade and in violation pf the anti-trust law. An appeal to the supreme court of the United States will be taken, March 2. toduy fic In the Judge Ruilroad the Unlon M. Moore. Coal com- Remainder Flee, with Offic] Close Pursuit, \ and Attempt to Escape. ult of a suit against ROUNDING UP THE RENEGADES Soldiers Are Divided Into Squads and Search of Hills Continmes— Prisoners Taken to Hick- ory Grounds. by OKLAHOMA CITY, Okl, March 2.-A detachment of Crazy Bnake's band of bel- ligerent Indians was surrounded by deputy sheriffs this afternoon near Crazy Snake's home and a lively battle ensued Mor than 200 shots were fired and one Indian was killed. Bight Indlans were captured and the remainder fled, with the deputies in pursuit. Thers were about fifteen Indians In the band that had taken refuge in a house The deputies had tracked them for some distance and were informed by a farmer of their location. | Advancing from all four sides, the posse | fired a volley at the frail house. The In-|Infuential Party in Parliament is dlans rushed out, scattered among the trees and made a vallant defense. The Agitating Against Present posse, firing all the while, steadily ad- Bllhn' F.mly' vanced and soon routed the band. None of those captured is seriously injured, but it is known that a number of Indians were hit by the posse’s shots. Crazy Snake's band apparently has broken up into numerous small groups. It scemed at nightfall that each was trying to accomplish his own escape, without re- gard for the grand dreams of the chieftain, to realize which they were called together Sunday by the smoke of signal fires. Al effort at organized resistance seemed to have been dropped with the sinking of the Bverctt Buckingham is now general man- ager of the stock yards at South Omaha, Rumor Servian King Will Flee From Belgrade LONDON, Mareh 2.—Specfal dispatches received from Rome and Vienna glve ru- mors that Peter, the king of Servia, and all the members of his family are prepar- ing to leave Belgrade. The message from Rome says King Vie- tor Emmanuel has received a letter from Belgrade that King Peter and his sons are going to Switzerland. The king' sug- gested that the youngest son of Prince Nicholas of Montenegro take the crown of Servia. The king of Italy, according to this dispatch, does not oppose the ab- dication of King Peter, but will urge that Peter's son, Alexander, succeed him. The dispatch from Vienna says an fin- fluential party in the Servian parliament is agltated against the Karageorgevitch dynasty, the famlily of King Peter, and discussing elther the Duke of Teck or Prince Arthur of Connaught as possible successors to the throne Bandits Kill Head of Posse Eight Indi The militlamen seemed well able to cope with this latest phase of the situation, however, which became evident late this afternoon. They, top, scattered out Into bands. They Invaded the hilly and wooded districts of the Creek nation in a deter- mined effort to hunt down both leaders and members of the war party. The wis- dom of this policy at once became evident, for by 7 o'clock tonight they had captured the following prominent members of Crazy Bnake's forces: Littie Tiger, a sub-chief. Kstey Larney. \'t'. ylor, Tom Jeftries, John Lewis e Simie Hatde, who is not related to Chitti Haurjo. Most of these were heavily armed. The captives were started for the | camp at Hickory Grounds, under heavy | guard. Orders were issued that the search be kept up and numerous parties went out during the early hours of the night to round up the renegades. As fast as they are captured they will be hurried to Hickory Grounds, which will be estab- lighed soon as a reconcentrado camp. By this means the military authorities ex- pect to avold a pitched battle, but r garded it as certain taht numerous smaller engagements would be fought. The Indlan killed by the posse was the only fatality of the day reported to Col- onel Hoffman. There are numerous rum- ors of engagements here and there, with varying numbers of fatalities. One story told that a posse of farmers near Checo- tah fought a large band of negro rene- gades and killed twenty.. This, with simi- Jar reports cannot be confirmed. A very dlsquieting condition exists throughout the troubled district, however, and almost wnything in the way of & fight would not be surprising. Deputy Sheriff Frank Jones early today reported to his superiors at Chetocah that he believed his posse had part of Crazy Snake's band surrounded, Including the chief himself. This gives rise to a story that the leader was killed. No confirma- tion of this could be obtained and it prob- mbly Is Incorrect as nobody could be found tonight who had seen the Snake during the fay, | City Marshal at Trenton, Mo., Fatally Wounded in Battle with Safe Blowers, TRENTON, Mo., March While head- Ing a posse of citizens who were in pur- sult of two safe blowers, City Marshal George Caraway was shot and probably fatally wounded here today. The robbers escaped. The safe blowers had robbed two stores at Spickard, near here, and escaped on a hand car. Local authorities were notlfied and were at the right-of-way just outside Trenton armed and ready to meet them. Instead of coming on a hand car, however, the robbers arrived on a train. They were soon located by the posse and a lvely exchange of shots ensuad. Caraway dropped with the first volley, disorganizing the pursuers and in the excitment the rob- bers again made their escape. i Three of the robbers were cornered this\ afternoon by the posse of the McCus farm, two miles south of the town of James- port. There was a hot exchange of shots and one of the robbers was shot and killed.. The two others surrendered. 29, Honor for Omaha Girl at Wellesley . Gemude——Sc-hermerhom. Junior at Noted Women's Col- lege, Made a Scholar. Indians Retreat to Hills, As tho troops prepared to enter upon the sctivities of the night it was thought that the Snake had carried out his last night's Intention of seeking refuge in the Hickory Hills and that he was supporied there by some of his leadors. Scores of cowboys and frontfersmen, all expert gun fighters, joined the militiamen | In the chase during the day and evening They know the rugged country as well as Ao the Creeks. These men deolared that M Crazy Snake was anywhere In the dis- triet, he would be run down before morn- ing. Despite all the talk about Crazy Snake the miltia officers have yet to find any- | body who has seen him since Sunday morn- ing. Thelr only real knowledge that he is BOSTON, Mass, March 3.—Among the | Wellealey college girla who have received | the highest scholarship awards announced esterday In chapel is Miss Gertrude Scher. merhorn, & pretty junior from Omaha Miss Schermerhorn so distinguished herself in her college work that she Is made a Wellesley college scholar, a notable dfs- tinctlon. The honors are awarded the junlors on the basis of one and one-half years' work. They wers established for th purpose of giving recognition to a high Aegres of excellence In academic work and of showing appreclation of loyalty to th high intellectual standard the college secks to maintain. Miss Schermerhorn is very popular at Wellesley and fellow students | Railroads Assessed $3,000 Each and | Sharp Coal company | the Sharp | | gram.) | woula | most in the minds of the American people commanding the Indians personally is the Information choked out of his son by the deputies when they hanged him by the are congratulating her today on her new honors. DIVERSE VIEV ON THE TARIFF Congressmen Bombarded with Letters and Telegrams on the Various Schedules. MEMBERS INCLINED TO BALK Hinshaw of Nebraska Has a Confer-l ence with the President. | OPPOSES NUMBER OF SCHEDULES Chief Executive Quoted as Favoring Light Duty on Necessaries, BURKE WHIP FOR THE SPEAKER | Detalled to Find Ont Just How Many Can. Re Mustered to Vote for Rule Limiting Amend- From a Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 29.—(Speclal Tele- With so many divergent Interests prossing for consideration in the tariff bill, Chalrman Payne and his associates on the ways apd means committee are seri- ously debating the question whether it not bé wise to permit a vote on the particular. schedules which are upper- seemingly, by reason of letters and tele- grams now belng rocelved by senators and representatives, than to bring in a rule shutting off all debate and vote direct on the amendment. While it is admitted that the present tariff bill, as framed by the ways and means committee of the house, .18 @ colossal measure and gen- erally acceptable, it has so many points of attack that communitfes most affected are up In arms, and in consequence thou- sands of telegrams and tens of thousands of letters are pouring in upon members of congress in support or opposition to sev- | eral most important schedules, lumber, ofl, | tea, countervailing duty on’coffee, gloves, stockings, hides, until the congressman's life 1s not a happy one. Congressman Hinshaw saw the president today and presented to him a schedule of duties for which he could stand and against which he was opposed. Mr. Hin- shaw Is in favor of free lumber, he wants the cbuntervailing duty on ofl taken off, as well as the countervalling duty on cof- fee. He is In favor of free hides: against the duty on Rloves and “forninst” the duty on stockings. Mr. Hinshaw doesn’t hesitate te say that Luclus Litteauer, maker of gloves of Gloversville, N. Y. who at one time talked of establishing a glove factory in Omaha, is the African in the woodplle and who, through his asso- From the New York Herald TARIEF TALK IN THE HOUSE Mr. Moon Denounces Democratic Cau- cus for Disciplining Bolters. LUMBER, COAL AND SUGAR RATES Cushman of Washington Protection Pleads for and Mr. for on Lumber Scott of Kansas Free Lumber. WASHINGTON, March 20.—~The tarifr| question was again discussed in the house today In ® ten-and-a-half-hour session. | Mr. Moon (Tenn.) scathingly denounced those of his democratic colleagues who adopted the caucus resolution disciplining the twenty-three democrats who supported |the Fitzgerald amendment to the rules, fur- nished the only exciting Incident. Those clates, ralsed the duty on gloves. wWho spoke on the tariff were Mossrs. James Where President Standa. of Kentucky, Cushman of Washington, Mr. Hinshaw. while not quoting the presi- | Kennedy of Ohlo, Gillette of Massachu- dent. sald that he was in fayor of lowering | setts, Scott of Kans 2 Poters of Massa- | The dutios on ‘the necessaries of life and |chusetts, Delkma of Michigan*ind Hull of | that he belfeved he would so state if neces- | Tennesser. sary in a message to congress if conditions Caskman Pleads for Lumber, demanded such a declaration. The coa-| Mr. Cushman of Washington, the new gressman from the Fourth district gave|republican member of the committee on it as his opinion that an incomé tax as|ways and means, pleaded for better protec- it affects dlvidends on stocks would be|tion to American lumber and for a duty entirely constitutional and that an excise |on eoal. The democrats, he sald, had char tax on corporations would be within the acterized the bill as iniquitous, but while Iimits of the supreme court decisions. Just |there were some featu not entirely to whether Mr. Hinshaw reflected the presi- | his liking he aid not condemn it as a whole. dent's ldea or not on thess questions ts| Mr. Cushman's declaration that the con- Bot nown, but they are interesting at|ditions were far better today than they Bak | were under democratic rule was disputed Reprosentative Burke of South Dukota by Mr. Welsse of Wisconsin. Mr. Welsse has been detsiled as a special scout on|declared that :y\|~lrxf- ylvulul ‘uixhhwn m:n:l':u behalf of the ways and means rommmmi:‘:m‘;:‘_”h';‘d i e B gt e 1 to canvass the house on the tariff u\!e!l\unj‘h". had: been tatlutes 1o the amount-of with relation to partieular questions in | G0 00 LT (R OP controversy. Speaker Cannon is desirous [ *° G0 A0 LR 0T T erous of passing the Payne tariff bill at the| S o 5o, earliest possible moment and so are tho| “.p, japoring man has traveled a mighty other ultra_protectionists, but there are (... = " oy and your party were a large number of republicans who will | | in,”" addressing himself to Mr. Wilison fl" not vote with the majority for & hard and | po,neyjvania, wio had interrupted him., fast rule prohibiting amendments under the | .pyo laboring man,” he continued, “has five-minute rule and in conmequence M. | ..’ .4 all the way from a dime's wortt Burke and two or three other adminis-|,¢ jiyer on credit to a dollar's worth of tratfon men have been deputized to KO | porterhouse on cash, and that represents ahout among the majority for the purpose | o mighty and unmeasured distance in the of sounding members and ascertaining Just | chart of domestic economics and natlonal where they can be relied upon to support | progperity.” the ways and means committee in the| Mr. Cushman declared free coal was not parsage of the bill. | a republican doctrine. He referred to the It is expected a rule will be brought In|jncrease In the value of farm and other covering amendments on the larger dif-|products and also of land during recent ferences—lumber, hides, wool, cotton, sugar, | years and said the advance In the price of tea, coffee and hoslery—permitting amend- | jJumber had not been an unfair one In com- ments to these individual schedules and | parison. that the rest of the schedules will be passed en Woe. That i the situation tonight Conference on Ind Burke today had a conference with commigsioner of Indian affairs rela- to hastening the allottment and ap- praisement of lands in Nerth and South Dakota so that registration can take place this coming fall. The commissioner inti- mated that if the authority to increase the number of appraisers could be enlarged it | would be possible ‘to complete the work | this year. Mr. Burke will co-oporate with Senator Gamble In endeavoring to get a | me applause Scott for Free Lumber, Mr. Scott of Kansas declared that lumber | | ought be put upon the free list and { contended that the duty on hides ought to be restored, that the duty tea should be removed and that an additional internal revenue tax should be levied upon | He also opposed the enactment of a federal | law taxing Inheritance. Mr. Scott a red that the rate of duty on zinc ore as carried in the Payne bill taken In conjunction with the duty on spelter would inevitably close | the Kansas smelters. He contended that | to M1 the tive resolution through the present special ses- | (Continued on Third sion of congress granting this authority. | Representative Burke has Introduced s bill extending the right of commutation to | persons who made a second homestead who were deprived of right under Page.) Spring is almost here. How about entry (Continued on Second Page.) neck until he expressed an anxiety to talk. The youns man may have been misleading | the deputies aL that, as he is a smooth | vne. The militiam though, insist they have the best of reasons for belleving they | are near 1o capturing the Bnake and ending his uprising. Soldiers Begin FPursuit. | MUSKOGEE, Oki, March 20.-Up to noon today that had been no encounter be- tween the state militia, marching Cragy Sneke and his band of Creek dlans and negro allles, according to best Information available here, and Woops were stll pursuing the reds. It is reported (hat Crazy SBnake, fearing arrest, has made his escape, deserting his follow- ers and Is now on his way to Washington | o incercede with the Great White Father. The main portion of the soldiers, under command of Cvlonel Roy Hoffman, is pushing northward in search of the chief and his men. Several other detachments of militia are doing poliee duty and led by farmer scouts familiar with the country are patroling the country for miles around Hickory camp looking for any refugees *hat may be hiding in the mountains and timber. Soemingly First District. 511203 B. 2d d At Ward, District ist 2d- 3d— 260 ath th c 8 Wth Bt 81 g i Bancroft n the | the 1138 N econd Wa 18t 236 2th 8t 24223 Vinton § ad Vinton 8t ath Vinton 8t Sth—-224 §. 16th St v 2419 N 16 N. 24t Third Ward. 1548 W ebater 318 8. 10th St 313 N. 15th Bt 410 8. 13th St 58 §, 13th St ith 15t °d %l Fourth Ward 1611 Daveny St 422 8. I5th 8 18 8 16th St —316 8. 3th St 0 Davenport St 1606 Cass authentic reports today from (Continued on Third Fage) Primary Today -Where to Vote Fitth W 3w Sherman Ave. rman rman Ave 1846 Sherman 16th Sixth Ward, 4th M N. %th St Military Seventh Ward. 2119 Leavenworth St 155 Georgia Ave. (barn, r.) 1338 Park Ave 136 Cuming St 8t 4th—2415 Cuming St Polls open 12 noon to 9 o’clock ballot rotate. All political parties nominate at this primar new gowns? Isyour springsewing done? Now is the time to be looking for a dressmaker. You can find the one vou want most easily by looking over their ads on the want ad page under the head of Dress- makers.”’ Ninth Ward. riet 9 Cuming St Cuming St Davenport 211 8. 3th St 214 Farnam St Dis 18t 24 (barn.) 3d Ave (barn, r.) Ave. (barn, r.) 8 bth Tenth Ward. s 018 8. 10th 8t ' 2l Leavenworth 8t 2121 ] eavenworth St {th—1430 §. 16th St Sth—1448 8. 15th 8t Ave Eleventh Ward. Ist—4008 Hamlilton St 34302 Farnam St 34343 Leavenworth St 4th—706 8. 7th St They each tell the kind of work they do. These are the ones who want your work, and people who sbow they want your trade are the ones who will take care of it after they get it. These are the ones who are enterprising and up to date, They are business people. That's in the evening. Names on| ¥e kind who will satisty ,you. Have you rend the weil ads yot— todayl 24362 Ames Ave 313015 Corby St. (barn, r.) 4th—2%0 N, 24th St | woman by electrocution | ants, | was | that bwaid After WHILE BUSINESS WAITS. Shoots Aunt and Kills Himself in Denver Mansion ] Father-in-Law of Former Governor McDonald Commits Sensational Crime While Insane. DENVER, March 2.—John Collins, father of Mrs. Jesste McDonald, wife of | former Governor McDonald, today shot and | fatally wounded Miss Sarah Nichols, and then killed himself. The shooting took place at the McDonald home, 1151 Logan avenue. The motive for the shooting is unknown. Colling came to Denver recently from Pennsylvania Miss Nichols was Mrs. McDonald's aunt on her mother's sidv. Collins s believed to have been insane. Nebraska Alumni Dine in Chicago Former Students at State University Will Hold Informal Meeting and Social Gathering. CHICAGO, March 29.—(Special Telegram.) —Alumni and former students of the Uni- versity of Nebraska living in this city and vielnity enjoyed & spclal gathering last night. It was In the form of a business meeting and an Informal dinner and was held at the Union restaurant, convening at 6:30 o'clock. ;. A number of prominent alumni' were present and gawe addresses and matters concerning the betterment of the university and the alumni association received atten- tion. CENTRAL PAYS REBATE FINE New York Rallroad Pleads Guilty to Giving Commission on Coop- erage Shipm | NEW YORK, March 2.—The New York Central & Hudson River raliroad com- pany, through its attorneys today pleaded gullty to the charges of rebating in con- | tests, nection with transportation of cotperage supplies and pald a fine of $10,000 In the United States circuit court. UP IN AIR ON DONOHOE BILL Legislators Much in Doubt Whether or Not it is a Corporation Measure. ASSAILANTS VOW THAT IT IS Attitude of Douglas Senators Tends to Befog the Issue, [VOTE AND WORK AGAINST IT Have Always Lined Up Hitherto in Favor of Corporations. DONOHOE DEFENDS HIMSELF Lively Debate Over Motion to Reeall the Measnre, Which ix Voted Down by & Big Majority. " the Senate (From LINCOLN, hody here | oe il a Staff Correspondent.) March 29.—(Specinl.)~Every+ 15 up fn the alr over the Deno- now pending in the house, which the public service corporations in ntrol of the State Rallway commis- Thoy cannot understand how, If It is a corporation measure, Ransom Howell can be lined up against it, when they have been the spokesmen of the core porations on ery other measure. Neither is the onslaught from the World-Herald, which has stood for so many corporation measures, inspired confldence. The most plausible explanation s that Ransom and Howell got Donohos to. go 1o the front, and fixed up the deal for It to pass the senate with their votes against it. For Howell and Ransom to vote ‘“no’’ on a corporation measure would be the best [ boost they could give it since they have | had their corporation table exposed so | otten. Tho effect of the World-Herald's de- | lirium 18 indicated by what several demo- eratic members of the house say. ELKINS COMES TO DEMOCRATS' AID | The bill ls preity sure to be lifted by | the sifting committee 8o that the members | of the house will have a chance to take a stand on it out in the open. Slap at Doug! Members. The democratic senate gave a direct slap at the Douglas county senators and the World-Herald today by refusing to recall il N AR ek Sodtbi wag | fTOm the houss 8. F. 34, by Donohoe of NGTON, 3 Holt, the bill placing the regulation of all made in the senate today to & statement|puplic service corporations furnishing eiec- by M;". l;llnlp ;h“-t (hn"flnnnct :::mm:;: tricity, water and gas in the hands of the was holding dafly sessions on the raflway commission. By & vote of 10 to Dbill. The criticism came from Senator |2 the members stood by Senator Donohos Bacon, who sald he understood that only [in a fight he made against Senator How- cortaln members were present. He referred | ell's motion. A public hearing on the meas- to the fact that the democratic members |ure before the house judiciary committee of the committee were excluded. | will take place tomorrow afternoon at L The discussion came about shortly after o'clock, though the commitice, Chalrman Mr. Hale had presented an order to the Wilson says, s by a strong majority op- senate that untll otherwise ordered no |Posed to a favorable recommendation buginers other than the house tarif bitl, | Senatyr Donohoe defended himself against executive business and routine morning | Dusinesi: should £ onsidered, |as he exprossed it, and an unknowing tool “Perhaps T should have sald subcom- |©f the corporations in a speech which mittee,” explainea Mr. Hale, abounded with shafts directed at the states- “Is it not usual to give the minority |Men from the metropolis and in which he representation on subcommittees?" asked |d€clared that far from being a measuta | Ml that would permit the public service cor- "Not on faritf matters,” replled Mr. Fale, | POTations to escape their dues, It would which rejolnder provokea general laughter, | L2Ke £rom the city counclls that have becn Defending the courss of the majority, Mr. | 0mittedly unable to cope with corpora- Fale sald what was belng done by the |tlOn® auestions over which they have Tepublican senators was only customary, | VTeRtled in vain and would place future b e e SRR e o \'nhulln:m of thelr propertics In a board resorted to the same practice of excluding | e Tecesy 0 " the Work expertly the opposition Senator Howell charged the bill was in- J“l"‘": W"‘“ ";;lk':'m""'fllflt:l" ""'"'“?"'l' troduced at the behest of the public sery enator ns, republican, West | corporations, Virginia, declared himselt and hin state |the to be of the msouth, the Interests of which he said, were being ‘crucified.” He as- serted that New England was over-repre- sented on the committee, while the great middle west and the south were not repre- sented at all HALE REMARE DRAWS FIRE Minority Balks on Committee Sessions with Only Republicans Present. West Virg England Overrepresented, While South and West in Ignored. n Senator Charges New . co who sought thereby to avold the drastic rate cuts and occupation taxes imposed by city councils. He said he had been importuned to introduce it before it was placed In the hands of Senator Dono- hoe and he had refused because he was a champlon of the people, and always would be as long as he could shout home rule. He declared that he had been unable to|Other senators had received letters from get A hearing unless he would agree to|them in favor of 4he bill, he said. come in “under the yoke." “Why, if the corporations didn't want it, R ML b el they would be here fighting it,” declared Mr. Elkina referred (o the fact that the | Senater Howell. democrats in the house had had no op- Domohes Defonds Himeelf. portunity to criticise the tariff bill before| ‘The World-Herald has scen fit to at- gy {tack me because of my position ss Intro- Exception was taken by Mr. Gore, and | ucer of this bill" declared Seuator Dono- hoe, “and it has become & personal matter | with me now. This bill was prepared by (Continued on Second Page.) Effort to Save Husband Last Aqt_ of Mary Farmer AUBURN, N a prayer for her quietly Y., March 2.—Murmuring soul, Mrs. Mary Farmer to the eleciric Auburn prison shortly after 6 o'clock morning and executed for Mrs. Sarah Brennan at April. The ond was led chair in this the murder of Brownville last execution of Mrs. Farmer-the sec- infliction of the death penalty on a in this state—was effected without sensationa: incident. Five women, twop of whom were prison attend- witnesses. Father Hickey spiritual advisor of the condemned woman, following the execution gave out a state ment signed by Mrs. Farmer, which she declared that her husband, James Farmer, entirely innocent and knew nothing of the crime until after it had been com- itted Dr. John Gerin, the prison physician, said the woman was dead after the first shock, but as there was still & tremor of muscular reaction, two succeeding ocom- tucts were given. State Electrician Davis that 184 volts and seven and one- | half amperes was the strength of the cur- ent that passed through thie woman's body Warden Benham had announced physiclans had pronounced Mrs. Farmer dead, Dr. Biward Spitzka of Phila- delphla and Dr. Charles Lambert of the Pathological Institute at Wards Island, N Y., perfermed the autopsy. The statement which Mrs. Farmer pre- pared yesterday before she was taken to the condemned row was written by herself and addressed to Father Hickey, who told her that # she could truthfully exonerate her husband she should do s0. The state- ment signed in the presence of & notary and dated March 8, follows To Rev. J. J. Hickey: My husband James D. Farmer, never had any hand in Sarah Brennan's desih nor never knew unything about it 11l the trunk was opened 1 never told him anything what had hap- pened, I feol be Lias been terribly wronged we: that the | w | the county attorney of Lancaster county and s copled in the main from the Wis- consin law, a copy of whose session laws of 1907 1 hold here and which is In the | main word for word with this bill, except for certaln changes made to conform with the fundamental laws of Nebraska. That 10oks as If the bill was dictated In Omaha doesn’t it? “I have submittad this bill to.an aitorney whom T have every confidence, not hav- ing the time as & member of the senate to g0 Mto this matter in detall, but I am assured that his study of the provisions has revealed no ‘Joker.' “It only means that when & city desires to take over the property of a municipal | corporation the valuation shall be declared by & commission properly equipped to make | it and expert enough not 1o fix that valua- !tion from $3,000000 to $3,600,000 higher than Is right. There are many provisions of this bill which have not been touched upon at all in the attack upon the bill rerie | &nd all T ask s that the sonate do not re- The ‘\"R" and choke this bill off without & hear- the room ang | \78: an ia the purpose of the mover of the just without the door a prison guard was "‘;;‘O';:' Lt #po " B0 ye, the we s < 9 husband returned to his cell and nwe:‘x’:vz. for enator Donoioe, but they lnsisted g less woman led down the narrow corridor. ": Pogh Secntvon, Early this morning Father Hickey joined Sator Ranm was grieyed a3 the o the watchers at Mre. Farmet's cell door “K!Ilrd:’ of the metropolitan prass, snd de= In the pale ochre Mght of the corridor the | *\"'°0 DeWspaper men don't know everys an And Drisst praved tomsinalr £1% | ihing and ususlly kacw. mothing akemt' la sacrament w adininistered and Mrs. }'”“‘"‘“I”h but declared the expose of this Farmer said she was not afraid to die. | bill was a long felt want In the state. The Father Hickey sald the meeting betwee: “hm was an effort toward centralization. husband and wife last night lasted for over | /! Was Vold because it did not attempt te o by ler-~ Ao oo, repeal statutes vitally affect “Mrs. Farmer seemed anxious to obtain | Wth franchises and in 'l‘"l.: the latest news from the folks at their oig | V48 municipal ownership. home and little, if anything, was said The senator opposed this, cited the Omaha about the execution. When the time came | Water board experiment as a 200,000 samee for the final parting Mrs. Farmer said, |Ple of municipal control and Insisted tie ‘Goodbye, Jim, If T don't see you in this | b/l was a “pipe dream of a theorist.” world I will In the next.’ " “If the citizens of any city are not honest Locked in his cell in a far-away corner ugh to elect honest eity councils they of the prison, Jim Farmer, the husband, | should suffer the consequeaces,” he de- prayed during the hour of his wife's ex. | clared ecution. Bhe had told him she had to die | Eenator at dawn and that she had made a state- | and ment thet he was innocent of the ecrime. | cor 11.; hmn'n vovnld on collapse from grief | bill on conditions In Omaha. and he frequently gave way to tea The The vole 1o recall the he e 10 rec biil lost husband will not be taken back to the | rolowing votes " oot death row” until Wednesday morning. - pepiun Moy nes D. Parmer was not at home the | day the affalr happened, nelther did James | D. Farmer ever put a hand on Sarah Bren- | nan after her death. Agsin I wish to say | as strongly as I can that my husband, | James D. Farmer Is entirely innocent of | the death of Sarah Brennan, that he know- Ingly had no part in any plans that led to it and that he knew nothing whatever about it. ' (Signed) “MARY H. FARMER, Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 2th duy of March, 1909, B. F. Winegar, Notary Public. Cayuga county.’ 1 Separated by steel bars and an Interven- Ing screen, husband and wite spent final hour together In quiet converse women attendants were In existing respect to Done Ransom and Benators Howel] engaged In A threes 1 argument as to the effect of the er. Buck, Hatfield, How sile the charge that he had beent ‘a “ehumg™ %