Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 14, 1909, Page 1

THE OMAHA BEE Is the most powerful business getter in the west, becanse it goes to the homes of poor and rich. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE VOL. XXXVIII—NO. 285, WEATHER FORECAST For Nebraska—Thunderstorms, For lowa--Thunderstorms, For weather report soe page 3 OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1909—TWELVE PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. DUTY ON IRON 5 ORE REDUCED Benate Places the Tariff at Twenty- | Five Cents a Ton After Ex- tended Debate. PRESENT RATE IS FORTY CENTS | House Bill Had Placed it on thelt Free List. PARTY LINES AGAIN BROKEN | Nebraska and Towa Senators Vote in Favor of Free Ore, TALK OF TIME FOR VOTE suggestion hy Mr, Bailey for Ballot on June 1 is Agreed to by Mr. Aldrich, but Mr. Bever fdge Objects. WASHINGTON, May 18.—After a day de- | yoted to discussing the duty on lron ore the senate Just before adjournment adopted by a vote of 61 to 24 the recom- mendation from the committee on finance for a duty of 2% cents per ton on iron ore. The house had placed the article on the | free list, while the present law levies a | duty on it of 40 cents per ton. Ln off: vn\[: this vote party lines were annihilated, as seventeen democrats voted aye with (h publicans wnd tweive republicans no with the democri After & call of the senate had shown that sixty-three senators were present today, Mr. Burrows spoke In favor of a duty on iron ore as a source of revenue for the government. The present duty of 40 cents @ ton, which the committes proposes to reduce to % cents, Includes, Le sald, a rev- enue of $32,000, which would be lost by placing iron ore on the free list, as pro- posed by the hous: 2 Reading the statistics of industry, Mr. Burrows sald that rewsonable to state that at the present time 66,500 men were employed, receiving wages amounting to 331,500,000 in the pro- duction of lror ore, which Industry, he said, It was now proposed to open up to the competition of the world. Mr. Burrows read a description of ex- tensive fron ore deposits in Cuba, which, he sald, belonged to the Pennsylvania Steel company. That budy of ore on the north const of Cuba, he said, was larger than the iron ore deposits of the Lake Superior reglon and all conditions were favorable to placing (hat ore on the market at a cheap cost. Brown is Inguisitive. “Avhat is the rélation of this Pennsyl- vaniy Stecl compuny Lo the United States Bteel enrporation?’ asked Mr. Brown of Nebraska. “rhat J& pot materlal,” replied Mr. Bur rows, Ut will appeas later.” ' Ul seema U e to b very materis s M drowh. . 5 Senator Cumming sald he understood the Cuban ore could not be taken west of the Alleghenies on account of the freight rates, Mr, Burrows stated that from the lake on to Plttsburg the frélght rate was 324 a wn, while from Cuba to Piutsburg the rate was §.45 & ton, Quoting frum advance proof sheets of the néxt annual report of the geological survey, Mr, Burrows sald there are now In avail- able in the United States 350,000,000 tons of higi-grade ore, while in Michigan, Minnesota and Wikconsin there were of lower grade ores that would be available snd are now useful 74000,000,00 tons, muking T6,600,000,00 tons, In addition to which it s estimated that the Cuban deposits of high- grade ore amount to 1,578,000,000 tons, Ore Will Last Ages. Speaking on facts, rald: “The senutor from Bouth Dakota yester- | day told us that our iron ore deposits would | be exhausted in thirty years, but accord- Iug 1o the statement of the geologlcal sur- vey at the rate of consumption now golng on the fron ore of these three states will last & lttle over 6,00 years, so that I think | we need not coacern ourselves about the exhaustion of there products 6,00 years lence. He preseated petitions from bodies of dron vre miners In Michigan and elsewhere protesting against the withdrawal of the duty on iron ore. Mr. Rayner read from a of | Representative Payne in the house in de. | tense of the action of the ways and |||--¢Iln! committee in plactig fron ore on the fres | list and remarked 0 the of the ¢humber: “L sm here protecting Mr. the republicans of the senate,” Later Mr. Smith said Mr. Schwab owned more dron ore property in Cuba than any- body else and that consequenily free iron ore would give him a property tiere. re- voted the iron ore it was Several the Lasis of the he statement repuolican side | Payne from fine bonus on his Mouey on Revenue. “I am for revenue,” declared Mr. Mone who I8 & minority member of the tinance committec | He ntroduced total value entering into ules of the a statement giving the | f products and the total wages each under each of the sched- bill. He sald he presented the statement particularly because of its being | schedule which biil in the labor | nt. ot per ¢ does carry revenue enough,” he said. “I am of the opinjon that the expenditures of the government can- not be reduced and 1 will venture to pre- | dict that the mext supply bills, instead | parrying $1,08,00.00 will amount $L100,00,00. & ‘am one man, at least is for the United States of Ame . not for the ¢ umer. i Mr. Money sald he bellgved that the in- creased rates on Won proposed by the | flnatce commitlee Were necessary to pro- | duce suftiélent revenues. Mr. Money had read a circular calling upon people to write letters to senators | wsKing for free hides und to request others 10 do s0 and characterized the System as | “an endless prayer business.' { “Now if the people would get together| on free hides, free leather and free .l ! lumplug them all together, I might stang for that program,” sald Money. Looking Toward a Vote, Mr, Bulley asked Mr. Aldrich if he would ‘uuru for a time for & vote on the income ax. Mr. Aldrich in reply asked Mr. Balley whether he would extend agreement to in- clude & tme for voting upon the bill and its amendments. Mr, Balley proposed a vote on the income tax amendment next ot to | who rica and | (Continued oo Becond Page) {AUTOS Motor |the matter Big Decrease in Fatalities on Railroads Statistician Thompson Finds Silver Lining Under Recent Finan- cial Clouds. CHICAGO, May 13.—There was a siiver lining under the financlal clouds of 1907-03 in the form of a remarkable decrease in the number of rallroad fatalities, accomd- Ing to a speclal report made public today by Slawson Thompson, editor of Bureau of Rallway News and Statistics port, which is based on stutisties of the Interstate Commerce commission, sa “There were 1,92 fewer fatalities to pas- sengers and employes in rallway accidents during the calendar year 1908 than in 1007 Comparing the returns of WS with those of the fiscal vear 196-7, the decrease In fatalities was even more gratifying, being 2173, or 434 per cent. Of these the de- crease In passengers kilied was from 570 | to 22, or nearly 4.8 per cent, and in em- ployes from 4,430 to 2,635, or 45 per cent' Fatalitles to_ passen in train accl- dents decreased 70 per cent in the calendar year 1908, as compared with the flecal year 1%6-7, and 51 per cent among em- ployes hurt In the same class of accldenty. This decrease among employes s qualified by the fact that during the panic their ranks were reduced by 15 per cent “laying oft™ “All things considered,” the regort con- tinues, “the conclusion Is unavoldable that the marked dimunition in fatalities in 1908 was due almost entirely to the recession in frelght traffic, which took the strain off every department of service and sub- stituted orderly observance of rules by passengers and employes for the violation in the feverish rush of prosperity that culminated in October, 107. Tike condi- tlons produced lke results before and after the panic of 1598." Mr. Thompson notes that the raflroads of Great Britaln went through the year 1908 without killing & single passenger in a train aceldent. Heart-Breaker is Found Guilty Charles E. Nord, Who Made Love to Many Women and Robbed Them, Draws Five Years. KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 13.—Charls F. Nord, & real estate broker, accused of winning the love of a number of women in varfous citles including Néw York and Chicaggo, and inducing them to part with their money, was today sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. He was charged with obtaining money under false protenses from Mrs. Carrfe Hamflton, a miliger, formerly of Frankfort, . Ka by making false prelenses. The sen- tence imposed by Judge Latshaw was the maximum penalty. When Nord was arrested glowing letters, addressed to him from women in a dozen Qifferent states reaching from New York to New Mexlico, were found in his trunk. In almost every instance the writer be- tween words of love spoke of money ad- vanced to Nord and of deals which he was supposed to be conducting for them. Many of the letters were published. Then num- bers of the women worte the local author- ittes denouncing Nord and asserting that he had not dealt squarely with them in mattegs of love as well as of money. The feharge on which Nord is being tried is that preferred by Mrs. Carrle Hamil- ton, a milliner formerly of Frankfort, Kan, Mrs. Hamilton today testified that Nord had persuaded her to sell her home and her millinery store, giving the proceeds to him for ‘nvestment in a food preserving compahy In which he sald he was inter- ested. “I never recelved the stock,” said Mrs. Hamilton, “‘and afterwards I,learned that no such company ever existed.” RAT SAVES LIFE OF WOMAN Acts as Cushion for Hend When She is Thrown from Auto- mobile, JACKSON, Mich., May 13.—A large “rat’ in her hair saved the life of Mrs, Richard Frost in an automobile accident here to- day. Mrs. Frost and her baby were both thrown from the machine when it eollided with a telephone pole. Mrs. Frost struck on her head with such force that hairpins were driven into her scalp. At the hospital the surgeons who at- tended her sald the “rat” saved her head from belug crushed. The baby was in- jured about the head. IN FUNERAL CORTEGE Used in Strike tion Cars to Overcome Chicago ndi- CHICAGQ, May 1.—An automoblle funeral was a departure from the routine here today, due to the strike of cab and carriage drivers. The re- | \BIG VICTORY FOR FRENCH PREMIER | Chamber Endorses His Fight of Strike of Postal Employes by Vote of 454 to 59. SCENES | WILD ON FLOOR Trouble Starts When Socialists Are | Charged with Being Reactionaries. STRIKERS ~ARE UNDISMAYED | | Leaders Predict that Today Will Show Big Increase, SERVICE IS NEARLY NORMAL Less Than lnel’l‘rnll of Employes | » . Department of the Seine Are Out, in and PARIS, May 13.—The turbulent sesslon of the chamber of deputies today ended in a signal victory for Premiér Clemenceau | when the government's policy with regard to the postal strike was emphatically en- dorsed by a vote of 464 to 59, including the government's insistence that postal em- ployes and other functionaries have mo | right to strike. Immediately afterward | the chamber passed a vote of general con- fidence in the government, 350 to 15 The strikers recelved the chamber's re- buke with a shrug of the shoulders, de- claring that it only served to bind closer their forces, which would soon startle the | country by the big increase and a rapid | extension of the general movement. On the other hand, it is Intimated that the gov- | ernment las other plans In view to offl- clal any serious growth of the strike. Up to midnight there was no change in | the situation. If anything it was in the direction of a weakening of the strike sen- timent. The general conviction Is that if the movement does not make vast strides tomorrow it 1s almost certain of complete | failure, M. Barthou, the minister of public works, posts and telegraphs, agserted during the debate that only out of 4,26 postal employes In Parls and the department of | the Seine are out and that conditions in the provinces were even better. Premier Clemenceau, in a typlcal epi- grammatie speech, coolly concluded the exciting session with the declaration that it was merely a case where France must choose between revolutfons on the one hana and progressive evolution on the other, or betwesn work under republican law and order and a spirit of adventure calculated to disorganize and rend the [ republic Wild Scenes in Chamber. There were wild scenes in the chamber of deputies this afternoon when the gov- ernment asked for a vote of, confidence on the attitude assumed by it in the strike of the government amploves M. Sembat and M. Jaures warmly defended the stand taken by the postmen, and the latter de- clared that the battle which had begun would not end until the functionaries were possessed of the same ‘“‘svndicate” rights private workmen. He charged that for rs a paramentary majority had en- couraged “syndicatism.’” M. Combrouse, radical republican, Inter- vened and virtually charged the soclallsts | with being the tools of the reactionaries | He declared specifically that M. Morel owed ‘\HR seat to the Duke D’'Uzes. Instantly | the_chamber was in an uproar. M. Morel |tried in vain to make himself heard and M. Brisson, president of the chamber, clapped his hat on his head as a sign that the session was closed. The tumult, however, continued. The soclalists began singing the “Internation- ale,” to which M. Baudry D'Asson and his royallst colleagues, standing on chairs, re- | plied by singing “Vive Henry IV. Finally the public and the press galleries | were cleared, but there was frantle de- | lirlum both inside and out of the Cham- | ber of Depmties. Outside In the corridors | several persons who raised the cry “Vive Le Rol,” were almost mobbed. Premler Clemenceau finally had D'Asson ejected and ordered the steps to the tribune cjosed. | Service Nearly Normal. [ The number of striking government | employes showed no appreciable in- crease this morning. The services are rormal, and at some places, notably Bor- | deaux, the telegraphers who went out yes- terday, have returned to thelr posts. The concerted eftorts of the strikers stationed | at various bureaus in Parls to induce their | | comrades to foin the movement, have been | without effect. The authorites are con- fident the strike will be over In a few | days. On the other hand, the leaders of | the strike clalm that the government i | “bluffing” and that fts figures regarding | the number of men are ridiculous. They | declare the movement will extend rapidly | and that the General Federation of Labor ';‘m scon make a dramatic appearance on | the scene. Dies on Wedding Tour. NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 13.—News has been received here of the death in Ceylon, Indla, May 4, of Willlam Kurtz Johnson, | Yale '06, manager of the Yale crew that | year. Mr. Johnson dled from heart failure He was on a wedding tour. | | | ‘Farmers’ Union Will Construct Warehouses EPRINGFIELD, Mo., May 13—A plan to construct & chain of warehouses in the grain-producing territory for the purpose of holding wheat for high prices was en- dorsed here today by the mass meeting of the graln growers and cattle growers branch of the National Farmers' unlon. It 18 belleved by delegates in attendance that farmers by next season will be pre pared to handle a large per cent of their crops in this way At the invitation of the American So- clety of Equity the farmers also promised 10 co-operate with that orgapization. Theo- dore G. Nelson, national organizer of the Equity society, addressed the meeting The report of the committee on resolu- tions, which wus adopted, urges opposition to legislation which alms to control rail- road rates by igmoring states’ rights In and endorses the efforts of congressmen to secure appropriaiions for agricultural schools. The use of cotton in the manufacture of twine, repe, sacks and other articles in common use is also endorsed. It was stated in the meeting that 6000000 more bails of eotton would be consumed If manufacturers would use the cotton of the south instead of import ing Jute from the Philippines. National -Organizer Nelson of the Equity assoclation in his address told of the comprehensive plans of that organization. “The object sought by the members of the grain growers' department this year," sald he, “Is much the same as the purpose | for which this convention has been called | by the Farmers' union. By collective mar- | keting the members of the soclety will sell their grain'to the millers and export prod- ucts will be sold direct to the English and Scottish wholesale co-operative socleties of Great Britain. In this way we will pass crops by the speculator and be our own middleman. By getting for themselves the profits which go to the speculator and the middleman, the graln growers will, no matter whether the price be high or low get a greater income from the sale of their crops, without corresponding Increase in cost of bread to the conrumer: D. J. Nell of Forth Worth, Tex., presi- dent of the State union, warned farmers to prepare for aggressive action against | Greedy wheat operators of Chicago and New York. | | veston | primary | now | equal | general o\ THIS MAKES FOURTEEN N i WE HAVE ALL BECOME LIGHTNING CHANGE ARTISTS. From the Minneapolfs Journal. KANSAS CITY TURNED DOWN Commissioner Clark Hands Out a Decision Against Kawville. OMAHA NOW HAS EQUAL SHOW Interstate Commissioner Sets Out Doctrine that Distance Alone as Measure of Rates Would Be Clearly Unj (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, May 13.—Interstate Com- merce Commissioner Clark, in an opinion handed dismissed the com- plaint of the Kansas City transportation bureau of the Commercfal club against the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail- and others dered tcday Commi “Proportional rates on beyand the Missouri river are the same to Mississippl rive crossings from Omaha and from Kan City via all lines. Proportional rates on grain from Omaha to Cairo and otk Ohlo river crossings, to Mcmphls, to Caro- Ilina territry, and to New Orleans, Gal- and other gulf for expert, are a cent per 100 pounds higher than from Kansas City. Complainant, representing grain dealers at Kansas City, alleges that this adjustment ts unjustly discriminatory against Kansas City, in that it does not give full recognition of the shorter dis- tance from Kansas City to St. Louis and points southeast therecf “In se of this kind there must be an examination consideration of the entire rate from of production to ultimate destination. It is not sufficient to consider rates to an intermediate mar- ket, nor alone the rates from such market if the question of dlscrimination between such markets is to be determined. “Adoption of distance alone as the meas- ure of rates from points of origin to market would necessarily result in ar division of territory between markets and would be destructive of com- petition in most of that territory. It would destroy the long-established adjustment which places Missourl river crossings a parity in both fnbound and outbound rates on traffic generally. Giving to Ka sas City all the advantage that could come to 1t from mileage adjustment would give down today, way company In sloner Clark says grain coming the opinfon re from ports, ac and point a ¢ on it a monopoly of territory In whieh Omaha | f and the Omaha would chasing power sas City now terms.” with the Kansas City, rule to a pur- in which n- with Omaba ¢n competes of it v application give in territory competes same exclusively a Bl May 13.—Governor pure food bill of the bitteres Signs Pure F HARRISBURG, Pa., Stuart today signed tf which was the object of or contests of the recent legislature. In u way the Dill makes the federal food law the law in this state. Everythingonthe want ad pages from pianos to poultry, Speaking of pianos. some of our big piano firms tell about their best bargains on the want-ad page under the head of ‘‘Offered for Sale— Pianos.”’ They know that want-ad readers look for real bargalns there. Often they, or other peopls, have slightly used planos, too, that may ‘be bought for a fraetion of what a new would cost. Have you looked at the Bee want ads yet today? | Washington Anti-Treating Saloon to Open in Des Moines Patrons Will Also Be Urged to Buy Buttermilk and Other Soft D'rinh Instead of Liquor, DBS MOINES, In, May 18-—The first | will be opened here May 22 Permit to | open was granted tonight to A. 8. Kirk- hart of Des Moines, who controls fifteen local saloins and who declares that if the venture proves a success he will Install the same system In all of the others. Kirkhart's plan goes Bishop Potter one better in that treating will not be toler- ated. Clerks in charge will Induce drink- ers to accept a substitute for liquor in the form of buttermilk, sweet milk, tea, cof- and other soft drinks. The liquor habit will be discouraged as far as possible in harmony with the ideas laid down by the owa temperance forces. CONDUCTORS WILL STAY IN CEDAR RAPIDS | fee, Convention of Order Refuses to Re- Headquarters After Extendea Debate. move BOSTON, May 13.—Cedar Rapids, Towa, will continue to be the headquarters of the Grand Division of the Order of Rail- way Conductors. Although strong pleas were made at to- day's session in behalf of the Indiana eity, they could not induce the convention to move the general offices. James H. Tre- win, chairman of the lowa Board of Edu- cation, and J. H. Grimm of Cedar Rapids upheld the interests of that place. No other business was transacted, the delogates for the remainder of the day being guests of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Firemen ICE PLANT FOR UNCLE SAM | President Taft Has Plan for Central- izing Parch of Supplies for Departments. VASHINGTON, May 13.—Government ownership of an ice plant in the city of is contemplated in a plan which President Taft has under considera- | tion for centralizing the purcnase of sup- plies for all of the government depart- anti-treating saloon in the United States | pmorning, Sunday ! whisky with Ripley and & TWO ALLEGED MIKE WORKERS Officers of Nodaway County, Mis- souri, Take Them In. PUT UP CASH BOND AND MOVE and the Mi Omcers Also Are Seeking Sam Latvren- son with a Warrant, ou; MARYVILLE, Mo.; May 13.—(Special Tel- wasg arrested here last night on a techni- | cal charge of gambling. Bheriff Tilson of this (Nodaway) county is of the opinion that Griffin and Fred Smith, arrested here Monday night, are members of the May- bray gang. One is the same man who had charge of the Maybray fake race horse at the time It was quartered h last fall and while the gang were making this town their headquarters, employed a fc of stenographers and piloted the palr in thelr dealings here. They went to Picker- ing, Mo., six miles from Maryville, on May § and purchased a team of mules from George Ripley. Of the ‘purchase price of $15 only $50 was pald down. deliver the animals at Pickering the next The pair left some fine was intoxicated when he went to town on Sunday morning. He wes accompanied by his wife. Griffin and Smith lured him into a poker game in the brick yards and took $% from him. ana slapped Smith over. fied during the onslaught on Ripley then secured the young team of mules and drove back to the 'm. Smith and Gritfin then replevined the team, but Ripley put up an indemnifying bond f them and still has the money in his pos- session, Smith and the Maybray gang tout in trying secure bond for Bmith gave away the ‘Ge- talls of a similar game which wis played on Alvin Abbott of Elmo, near here. in the case of Abbott the gang sccured the $1#0 they had paid him for the team, two checks for §250 each and one for $35. Ab- bott stopped payment on one of the 20 checks, which were made out to Sam Law- renson of Councll Bluffs, and by him en- dorsed and cashed. Warrants and extra- dition papers are out for Lawrenson. Smith was held here.in the hope that Griffin would come back to go his bonds Griffin dld so and as he stepped from the ‘Wabash train here last night he rested. Her husband had Smith. Mrs, to on ments. It is believed the government will secure | better value by advertising for bids. It | is sald the so-called ice combine has here- | tofore been able to fix prices it pleased. | time. He was required to give cash bond for the release of himself and Smith. Both then left for Council Bluffs The bond required is the heaviest that can be exacted In a gambling case in Missourl. YORK, March 13.—"The tion of a tariff bill satisractory to people of the country will bring to Unied States a reasonable, rational, and, we hope, a permanent prosperity,” said Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the treas- ury, tonight at & private dinner given at the Union League club in his honor by Géorge S. Terry, assistant treasurer of the United States, at New York. The guests included thirty bank presidents and repre- sentatives of the larger banking institutions of New York City “From the point of view of tary of the treasury,” sald Mr. MacVeagh, W the the the secre- “¢he business situation throughout the country 1s favorable. We are mot worry- ing about the deficit. The main question is perhaps, will the new tariff answer the expectations of the people? “The admiuistratior. is approaching the question of currency, bankmg and treas- uey reforms with an open mind and with a hospitality toward the suggestions of bankers and others wio know the situa- tion. One thing the new administration has already accomplishes and from the polut of view of my department I regard omple- 7it ‘Budget Idea Brings New Sense of National Economy as many the most important movement years. 1 refer to President Taft's action n introducing the idea of a sys tematic balances ‘budget.’ Heretofore the estimates of the various departments have to a great extent been compelled to stand alone and unrelated. The secretarles have made out thelr estimates scparately and there has been little or no attempt to co- relate them. In Mr. Taft's cabinet the secretaries will present thelr estimates and these will be studled and overhauled with a view to the amount of revenue available and with regard to the comparative ne- cessities of the different departments “In congress, 100, the idea of a budget and of the study of the government penditures and revenues as mutually re- lated has taken form, as shown in the senate’s action In ting a committee on expenditures which will bring together the estimatql revenues and the estimated expenditure and will decide whether the fmposition of additional taxes is neces- sary. The ‘budget’ idea will bring about a new sense of national ecoromy and of the need of intelligent and systematic spending.” ex- 01d Deal of Last Fall Led to Arrests, | | ekram.)—James Griffin of Council Bluffs | Ripley was to | Mrs. Ripley raided thé game at this time | was arrested here Monday night, | was ar- | He had 32,00 on his person at the | an $800 | (ROUNSE DIED AT MIDNIGHT IPormer Governor of Nebraska Has Been Called, After Extended Iliness. DEATH EXPECTED FOR DAYS Had Passed the Biblical Term of Years by Five. SYNOPSIS OF LIFE HISTORY Mechanic and School Teacher, Cap- tain and Magistrate, SERVED TWO TERMS IN CONGRESS Burial Will Be at COalhoun, Family Plot, Where Mrs. Croi Was Barled Many Years the Former Governor Lorenzo Crounse dfed on the stroke of midnight Thursday. He had been Ul for a long time, and at aif- ferent periods of his illness had ecmed on the verge of death, but had rallied in rather remarkable fashion. For the last few days the former governor has been falling rapidly, and hope of recovery wns practically abandoned early fn the week. Most of Wednesday and all of Thursday Mr. Crounse was in a state of coma, with occasfonal moments of censclousness. Lorenzo Crounse was born at Sharon, in Schoharfe county, N. Y., Januaty 27, 1884, of German descent, both his &randparents being born across the water. He was the youngest of seven children, and when a boy worked in his father's tannery. He was educated In the common schools and attended two terms at the New York Con- ference seminary, taaching school In the winter, to earn money for his expenses during th summr trms. Raised Battecy for War. When 21 years of Age he began the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1857 at Ft. Plain, Montgomery county, N. Y., opening an office in that town, where he practiced until the breaking out of the civil war, when he raised at Ft. Plain Battery K, Firkt regiment, New York | Light artiilery, being chosen captaln of the company. He served four years and | was engaged in several buttles, belng se- verely wounded while holding Beverly's ford the Rappahannock river. When partially recovered he resigned his com- mand and in 1864 moved to Nebraska, set- |tiing at Rule, in Richardson county. In the election in October of that year the future governor of ' his state was chosen as one of the county's representa- tives in the terriforial legislature. Two years later he was appointed a member of the committees on judiciary, reyision of the statutes, and to draft o constitu- tlou to be submitted to the voters of tis territory a the next election. In October, 1866, he was elocted @ justice of the su- preme court, being nominated by unani- mous vote in the republican state con- vention held in Plattsmouth. He assumed this office in March, 187, when the state was admitted, and served a term of Aix years and was assigned to the third, or | northern district, comprising all the state | north of the Platte river excepting the counties of Douglas and Sarpy. on Twice in Congress. Governor Crounse declined a renomination to the bench at the expiration of his ju- dicial term, but in 1572 was nominated on the third ballot In state convention for member of the lower house of congress. He was elected that fall against Genéra: Silas A. Strickland and John Taffe, recelv- ing 17000 of the 27,50 votes cast. He was re-elected to congress in IS, but in 1876 | was defeated for the senate, | At the close of his congressional cam- | paign, Mr. Crounse took up his abode on a farm in Washington county and in 1879 was appointed Internal revenue collector for Nebraska by President Hayes. Twelve | years later President Harrison appointed him assistant secretary of the treasuty In 1802 the republican party nominated Mr. Crounse for governor, against his de- sire, and in the election that fall he won by a majority of about 10,000 votes over J. Sterling Morton, the democratic nominee, and General Charles H. Van Wyck, the populist nominee. He was Inaugurated on January 3, 1893, and served one term, re- | tusing a renomination in 15 through the { medium of a letter to the publie Becoming a private citizen once more, the former governor resided on his farm in Washington county until 190, when he was nominated|and elected a member of the state senate, which body came near | electing nim to the United States senate to fill out the unexpired term caused by the death of Senator Hayward. Governor Crounse was married to Miss Mary E. Griffitie® in 1560 and to this unlon son and ghters were born: Willlam G., Gretchen and Mario | The eldest daughter 1s now Mrs. Gilbert M. Hichcock. Mrs. Crounse dled fn 1882, The funeral, for which the time has hot yet been #ét, will be held in Omaha. Burlal, { however, will be at Calhoun In the family | burial lot, where Mrs. Crounse was laid { many years ago. | | Lyman L. Bryson Wins $100 Prize | Omaha Student at Michigan is Given ! First Place in Poetical Com- petition, DETROIT, May 13.~«(8pecial Telegram,)- Lyman L. Bryson, a junior “Iit" at the University of Michigan, and living at Om- aha, has been awarded the Nelson Field poetry prize of §100 for a hundred line poem in blank verse entitled ‘‘Andreas wning." ‘The prize I the gift of Nelson Field, a | prominent University of Michigan alumnus. There were than a dozen gtudents contesting for the prize, but the Omaha man was awarded the prize, with D, Wilson of Fiint a close second. more Mr. Bryson graduated from the Omaha High school in 1905, and ts now In his third year at Michigan. While at school here he was considered one of the best school debaters in the state. He has spent the last two swnmer vacations &8 & Fe- porter en The Ees i