Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 2, 1909, Page 1

THE OMAHA BEE §0es to the homes—is read by the ‘Women-——sells goods for advertisers. VOL. XXXVIII—NO. 3 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE 01. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING,, JU SENATE TO HOLD NIGHT SESSIONS Senator Aldrich Announces that| Effort Will Be Made to Expe- dite Tariff Bill. COTTON CILOTH SCH®"7JLES UP 7 | | Senators Smoot and hph{n Views of Finance %%Z ‘tee Iowa Man Takes Exoeptii ment by Rhode Isle LODGE AND ROOT Mussuchusetts Senator Says Proi Small and that Protection is New England Manufacturers Are Still Needed. WASHINGTON, June L—After, in effect, teceiving Information from Chairman Ald- vich that beginuing with tomorrow night it would be expected to hold night sessions for the convideration of the tariff bill, the icnate today began consideration of the swtton cloth schedule. This portion had been passed over upon the first reading with the understanding that many amend- ments to It would be offered and much time would be necessary for its discussion. The first day did not fall short of a justi- fication of this supposition. Therg were not many speeches, but those nade were of considergble length. Ben- ators Smoot and McGee, both majority members of the finance committee, were the principal tors, and both spoke in support of committee provisions. The Utah tenator ehtered upon technical prasenta- tlon of the entire subject, reaching the conclusion that the senate bill does not, in reality, Increase duties now collected by the Dingley law. He undertook, however, to show that by varlous rulings of authorities the duties had been reduced to the extent of an average of 20 per cent. It was the purpose of the comMittee to carry Into ef- fect the existing law. He declared that the committee had been influenced neither by manufacturers nor importers. Lodge on Protection. Senator Lodge gave especlal attention to the cotton schedule, but incidentally spoke of the general poliey of the republican party with reference to the subject of tariff revision, He contended that there had been no intention of revising the tarift downward, but that the purpose of the party had been merely so to revise the tariff as to protect American manufactur- ©ors against oheap forelgn labor. He de- clared that New England factories were returning only small dividends to the own- ers. He explained at length the process of mercerization In order to show that ‘he protective rate allowed for this process was not ex ve. A % nd Addrich. arly in the day Senator Dolliver took exception to & remark by Senator Aldrich. The lowa senator had offered an amend- ment to the eotton schedule for ad va- lorern, ‘rather than specific duties, where- upon Mr. AMrich made incidental refer- ence to senators “who come here with ‘tmporters’ briets. Mr. Dolliver made sharp reply, but when Mr. Aldrich ex- plained that he had not meant any ro- tlection, business proceeded with seren- 1ty Later (the senator from Towa sald re- flectipns upon his course had come from behind the doors of the finance committee. This was wald in response to a defense by Senator Root of the board of general appraisers, to which reference had been wAde by Mr. Dolliver At 6:05 p. m. the senate adjourned until 10:9 a. . tomorrow. The house was in soaslon only thirteen minutes, adjourning until Thureday without transacting any business. Zeppelin Ship Flies Again Temporary Repairs Enable Dirigible to Continue Journey to Friedrichshafen. GOEPPINGEN, June 1.—The Zeppelin air- ship that came down here yesterday on its yeturn trip from Bitterfeld and sustained injuries in the maneuver, went aloft at 320 this afterncon and headed in the direc- tlon of Friedrichshafen. Temporary repairs to permit of the return trip had been ef- fected BERLIN, June 1.—Count Zeppelin has sent a telegram to the reichstag saying that he regrets greatly that he must post- pone his invitation for me: ascensions In his new model airship, inas- much as the complete restoration of the damaged parts will require six weeks. DIES ON WAY TO CEMETERY Mrs. H, W. Groves of Nebraska City Atopped on Mission of Love By Heart Fallure. NEBRASKA CITY, b., June 1— (Speeial)~While on her way to the c~me- tery to decorate the graves of deceaed friends, Mrs. H. W. Groves, aged 80 years, Was stricken With heart disease and died in & home te which she had gone when she foit the attack coming on. She had walked weveral blocks when she began to feel weak. She stopped at the home of Fred Black, complaining of being ill, and while situng in a chair she fell over dead. She leaves & husband and a family of | grown children. They have been residents | of Nebraska City for & number of years. WOOL MARKET IS STILL FIRM Level of Values Practically it Was Three Wears Amo BOSTON, June 1.—The local wool market has Lroadencd considerably with the ar- #val of the greater part of the new ciip. Puying by manufacturers continues and prices &se still very firm. The level of values I8 now practieally back to that which obtained years ago. The everage mediuni territory wools are valued at Gfc Where | Norfolk. Young Robbers Are Taken In at Norfolk Yellow Literature Exemplified in Its Worst Form in Nebraska Town., NORFOLK, Neb., June 1.—Now'olk police today unearthed a gang of boy bandits who, according to the confessioni of two, have systematically robbed stores, beer | vaults and merchandise cars for some | months. They led dime novel careers, | staying away from home entire nights and holding headquarters in barns and ice houses. The older members of the gang | threatened to kill the younger boys who should reveal the gang's deeds. Horace and Glibert Case, aged 12 and 14, were Jailed in a separate cell from Em- ery Banney, probabiy 19, because they sald Bonney had threatened to kil them for telllng. It is sald young boys were deliberately drawn into the gang and taught to steal. Five youths wanted in this connection are said to have fled from | NORFOLK, Neb., June 1.—(Special Tele- gram).—For many monthe petty robberies have occurred, ia candy factory being broken into and robbed only recently. This was done, the Case boys say, by the gang Bonney, one of the leaders who is under arrest, has but one leg. His mother, Mrs Etta Bonney, widow, who drew a Tripp county homestead, but failed to file, has hired a lawyer to defend her son. The preliminary hearings will be held tomorrow. County Attorney Nichols will make an ef- fort to send the older boys to the peniten- tiary, and the younger ones to the reform school. Silver Service is Presented Ceremony on Shore Near Battleship Mississippi is Hindered by Heavy Storms PASCAGOULA, Miss., June 1.—With the big battleship Mississippi riding at anchor twelve miles due south of this port, meveral thousand citizens of the state whose name the vessel bears gath- ered on the shore here this morning and presented to its officers and crew the silver service which the people of this commonwalath purchased through popu- lar subseription, It was originally planned to make the presentation on board of the battleship, but although yesterday's storm was fol- lowed by falr weather today, fast running seas made navigation for emall excursfon boats dangerous. Fearful uf storms and other dangers that might arise, Captain Fremont was unwilling to leave his ship and the sil- ver service was accepted by Lieutenant Commander Benjamin J. McCormick in the vame of Captain Fremont, the offi- cers and erew. y Race to Seattle Starts in New York Six and Possibly Eight Cars Will Be- gin Long Distance Con- test Today. NEW YORK, June 1—8ix automobiles and poseibly eight will start late this after- noon in the long trans-continental race from this city to Seattle for the cup offered by Robert Guggenheim. Mayor McClellan will start the contestants on a signal from President Taft in Washington, who at the same time opens the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition in Seattle. The weather wi ideal today for the start of the race which is designed to dem- onstrate the reliability of the modern auto- mobile. From thig city to St. Louls the cars will be subject to the control of a pacemaker. West of St. Louls the racers will make thelr own pace. MILLERS DISCUSS FLOUR MAKING. AT_NATIONAL MEET Delegation from Omaha ance at Conventfon in Mt wauk MILWAUKERE, Wis, June 1.—Technical subjects bearing upon the manufacture of flour will be discussed during the next four days in the fourfeentf annual con- vention of Fraternity of Operative Millers of America which opened in Mllwaukee today Large delegations are here from Minne- apolls, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louls and varlous eastern milling cities. The annual address of President George H. Lewis and the reading of routine reports occupied the time of the opening session. KILLED "IN ELECTRIC PLANT Howell N Higbee, Son of Burlington Magnate, Meets Accidental Death BURLINGTON, lowa, June 1.—Howeil N. Higbee, son of Col. George H. Higbee, a | prominent business mai: and street car magnate, was accidentally killed today in an electric light plant here. Attend- | Visiting Dignitaries View Parade of | afternoon, pressed a telegraph key of Al- SEATTLE SHOW OPENED BY TAFT President Touches Gold Key White House and Starts the Machinery. in ATES ARE OPENED ON TIME| Soldiers and Sailors. JIM HILL PRINCIPAL SPEAKER Railway Magnate Advocates the Enforcement of Law. MODERN LIFE IS T00O COMPLEX He Demands Repeal of Laws Intended to Give Advantage to Peraon Undue Any or SEATTLE-Wash,, June Taft in the White House at 3 o'clock 1.—~President this aska gold and sent a spark across the con- tinent that put in motion the wheels of he Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition; loosed he waters of its fountains, unfurled its banners, started its bands 'playing, re- leased showers of daylight fireworks, called upon the saluting guns of the American and Japanese fleets, set all the steamers in the harbor and all the locomotives in the raflroad yards bellowing and shrieking and brought forth universal rejolcing from all Seattle which has tolled for years to bring about this day. The exercises at the world's fair grounds preceding the president's signal were car- ried out with military precision. The ex- position gates were opened at 8:3 o'clock. At 9:30 troops from the United States army and navy, the Japanese cruisers Aso and Soya and the state militla paraded through the grounds under the command of Colonel T. C. Woodbury, U. 8. A, and the column was reviewed from a stand at the head of the court of honor by exposition offi- clals, visiting governors and Admirals H. Ijichi and Uriel Sebree. The cersmonial exercises were held in a vast natural amphitheater sloping to Lake Washington, Hill Principal Speaker The program consisted of music, Invo- cation by Catholic Bishop Edward J. 0'Day, brief address by Director General 1. A. Nadeau and President J. E. Chil- berg, the long address by James J. Hill, chairman of the Great Northern board, and benediction by Episcopal Bishop Frederick W. Keator. Then, just before noon (Pacific time), word was flashed to the White House that all was ready and President Taft's response set loose the flags, bells, machinery, curfous Japanese fireworks and noise When the message was an- nounced a huge gong struck five strokes and an enormous American flag was un- fugled and thousands of small flage were scat{cred in the breeze. A mountain battery fired a salute of twenty-one guns, the Japanese and American fleets in the harbor several miles away crashed out their tribute. Luncheon was served to invited guests at the speaking platform and out of the New York building. Dur- Ing the afternoon there were receptions at all the state bulldings. The day was warm and partly cloudy. The fair as thrown open today was fin- ished and carpenters and painters were nowhere to be seen. The few delayed ex- hibits will be installed at night. The only serfous deficit is in the Hawailan and Philippines displays, but the transport Dix is speeding hither with them and should arrive next Thursday. Hill for Law Enforcement. “The greatest service to the natfon, to every state and city today, would be the substitution for a term of years of law enforcement for law making” declared James J. Hill in his address at the open- ing exercises of the exposition today. “There are four great words that should be written upon the four corner stones of every public bullding in this iand, with the sacredness of a religious rite,” said Mr. Hill. “These watchwords of the republic are equality, simplicity, economy and jus- tice. They are interwoven with every fi- ber of the national fabric. To forget or deny them will lead to every misfortune and every possibility of destruction that rises now threateningly in the path of our country’s greatness. “Equality before the law is an embodied promise of the United States. It Is the first principle sought to be established by the federal constitution. Insofer as we have been faithful to it, we have not only grown great and pronperou~ but have com- manded the respect of others, becatse we respected ourselves. Insofar as we have denied it, in 8o far as there is anywhere a special privileged an unequal restriction special privilege or an unequal restriction of legal governmental favoritism whatever, tathers and turned backward the old, svil traditions whose trail of blood and oppres- sion runs through all history. “It needs herolsm, it Involves the shak- ing off of ostentatious follles that have already warped our earller ideals, it may even require a considerable readjustment of our whole industrial system and a re- form in our very conception of the rel tion between a government and Its citizens before the severe standard of absolute (Continued on Second Page.) Parson Goes in ng me to do what I believe is a great work?' said Rev. Charlés W. Savidge. “Since The Bee published those articles | about my gettidg a letter from a young man and woman in New Jersey with a farm anrd no companions 1 have had stacks of letters from men and women, good peo- ple and well-to-do, with no companions. I believe 1 will get & good man for that New Jersey girl who owns the fifteen acres of strawberries “I tell you what I'm going to do; next Sunday night I'm going to preach to men and women who wre not married and want to be or ought to be and I want those who are married to stay away. I want to fill to T0¢, scoured, with the staple wools at Tio on & clean basis. Bales of domestic wool are larger now than for several years, while the movement in New Zealand eross-breds s again sub- Slantial that church of mine with young folks or middle-aged folks, who want mates and don’'t know where or how to get them. And I'm going tu preach hard. “'Go to It'—that will be my text. I am convinced there s & real work to be Aiding People to Marry “Say, do you knew that The Bee is help-dune Business of | in this way. I know there are un- | married people who would like to get mar- risd and ought to get married and I be- | lieve I can help them to get partners. | “The salvation of this country lies in the | pure iife and the pure life is only poscible | where the home abounds. “My work already has reached such | Pproportions that I can not attend to it | alone; I have employed a secretary to help me. Why, I have letters from men and women in different states. ‘Mr. Savidge, 1 have & good farm and some money, but no wife. Help me get one’ That's the way one letter reads. ‘I have a little means of my own, am healthy and fairly ®ood looking: find me a husband.’ That's the tenor of others. / “Why, this is the Lord's work and I am in the Lord's service. “Next Sunday night I shall tell these 1909—TEN PAGES. SINGLE From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES AGAIN. W. A. PINKERTON ON TRE J0B Big Chief Comes to Take Hand in Train Robber Case. FIVE IN HOLDUP THEORY NOW Discovery of Additional Lodging Places of Bandits Leads to the Bellef by Chief of Po- lice Donahue. The arrival of Willlam A Pinkerton of Chicago, head of the detgctive agency that bears his name, and the discovery by Chlef of Police Donahue that five men partici- pated in the Overland Limited holdup and two more lodging places of the bandits are the latest points of Interest in the robbery story. Mr. Pinkerton came to take a hand in the case, but declines to talk for publica- tion. He will remain until the hearing of the bandits before United States Commis- sloner Anderson at federal building today. Unless the accused men walve examination (he preliminaries will continue for a couple of days, probably, as there are many witnesses to be heard. Among these witnesses are several who say they will be able to ldentify the trio as men who committed other crimes besides the rob- bery of the Union Pacific train. Chief Donahue says the authorities have Leen working on the ease gince Sunday with the idea that fiva,men robbed the train. ik skl . Saturday morning, it 1s sald, the lodging house where the suspect Gordon roomed, was located and placed under striet watch. Sunday another room was found and con- nected with the holdup gang. No arrests have heen made, as the men stlll at liberty are cleverly eluding the officers. The latter venture no statement as to the men belng in Omaha. They only hint that with all the notoriety the case has been given, the closeness with which every clue and theory has been watched by the officers and the chances already afforded for escape from the vicinity, the bandits would be foolish to remain here, More Rooms, More Men. It 18 understood that only after the third room had been found was it concluided that a fifth man was In the case. thel\ the second room was located, Gordon was es- tablished as the former ocoupant, and the authorities say that they can now connect him with the case. Then it appeared that the fourth man, who was supposed to have roomed with Gordon, had also roomed part of the time with a fifth man at another room, other than the one at the Seibert house, 34 North Fifteenth street, and the second room, whose location the police will not divulge. Investigation proved that a fifth tion and had been connected with the train robbery. ' Still 8 another person % identified Woods, one of the holdup suspects, as having been in Fremont the day of the train robbery. F. W. Hauser, a grocer and general merchandise dealer of Fre- mont, was In Omaha Tuesday and identi- fied Woods as & man who was in his store on the forenoon of the Saturday the ban- dits held up the Overland Limited. Woods bought several maps of Canada and the northern part of the United States and talked with Hauser for a short time, joking in his usual manner. Woods' manner was one of the chief points of Hauser's identification Tuesday, as he evl- dently is always joking and laughing. With Hauser's identification of Woods and also that of the Fremont boy, Roy Me- Dermott, who identified the supposed leader of the suspects Monday, it is certain that the prisoners were in Fremont for the half day preceding the-holdup and that they took part in it is proved by their identifi cation by the mail clerks, all of whom have now done so. The identifications by the Fremont peo- (Continued on Second Page.) “Go west, young man, was the ad- vice of Horace Greeley. That was sage counsel at the time 1t was given. ‘‘Read the want-ads, young man,’’ is the advice offered by men of affairs today. All have this opportunity, The keen ones observe it and use the classified pages of The Omaha Bee as stepping stones to greater advancement. man had occupied the third room in ques- | Jacobs’ Trial for _Murder of Girl is On at Sturgis Young Man is Charged with Kill- ing Sweetheart Who Jilted Him. STURGIS, S. D., June L—(Special Tele- gram.)—The trial of Oscar Jacobs, charged with the murder of Miss Elba Roberts, January 18, began here today before Judge | Joseph W. Jonee of the Sioux Falls cir- cuit, who exchanged with Judge Rice of the Deadwood cireuit. The killing of the girl took place in the millinery establishment of Mrs. John F. White, where the girl was employed. Jacobs and the girl were alone in the millinery portion of the bullding at the time. A short time before the girl was killed, she wrote a letter to her father, F. J. Roberts, of Reed, S. D., in which she stated she intended to have nothing more to do with Jacobs. The letter, which will play an important part in the case against Jacobs, was recelved by the father the same night the tragedy oceurred. One of the important witnessee for the prosecution will be John . White, hus- band of the woman by whom Mise Roberts was employed. They reside in rooms in the year of the millinery store. On the night of the tragedy, White and his wite and Miss Roberts were in the living apart- ments, Someone was heard to enter the front room from the street door, and Miss Roberts, after opening the door between and glantmg into the front room, excused herself, stating it was Oscar. She entered the front room, closing the door of the living apartments behind her. White was suddenly aroused by a scream, a shot and a thud as though someone nad fallen. Running into the front room he found the body of the girl on the floor and Jacobs standing nearby. When a do- mand was made for the gun, Jacobs pointed to the front of the store, where the weapon iay about twelve feet from him. Before leaving the millinery atore he made an effort to/ secure the weapon with which the girl was killed, doubtless intending to turn the weapon upon him- self. Jacobs claims the girl took the gun from his pocket and shot herself. MADDEN'S WITNESS IS HELD Business Agent Who Testified for De- fense 48 Charged with Perjury CHICAGO, June 1.—Francis”E. Thoman, business agent of the Structural Iron Work- ers' unlon, was Indicted on a charge of perjury here today In connection with his testimony for the defense in the trial of Madden, Pouchot and Boyle, labor leaders convicted last week of “grafting.” Thoman was an important witness for the defendants. The grand jury intimated that the ab- sence of other similar indictments was due to Inability to secure the presence of needed witnesses. DROUTH MENACE IN CHINA in Some FProvinces Affected Four Years Ago Are Again Threatened. Crops | SHANGHAI, June L—Reports received | hére from the provinces Kangusu, Anhwel, | Klangsi, Hohan and Shantun indicate a se- | vere drouth which seriously threatens the | crops. The same districts were atfigted | four years ago and were then relieved by American contributions. JOHN JUNKIN FOUND GUILT Slayer of Clara Rosen is Convicted of Murder in First Degree. JURY OUT BUT FOUR HOURS Judge Roberts at Once Passes Death Sentence and He is Taken to Fort Madison for Safe KeKeping. DES MOINES, la., June 1.—The negro, John Junkin, tonight was found gullty, at Centerville, of the Murder of Clara Rosen, the Ottumwa chalr singer Februry 5, last, and was sentenced to death by Judge M. A. Roberts The jury returned its verdict after a de- liberation of less than four hours at 7:b0 o'clock. There was an immense crowd awaiting the result of the trial and as the last words were read by the clerk a shout went up which was taken up by the crowd in the court house square. Attorneys for the defense walved their customary right of three days before sen- tence of death is passed and agreed that Judge Roberts pass sentence immediately, which the court did Junkin will hang the last Friday in July, 1910, Tonight he was taken to Fort Madison for safe keeping till the day of his execu- tion. Adjutant General Guy Logan of Des Moines was in the court room when the sentence was pronounced. He state tonight that there would be no need of militla to guard the prisoner, as the verdict met with popular favor. Junkin's crime was one of the most atrocious In Iowa. He confessed killing Clara Rosen on the night of February 3, last, with a stone, while she was returning from the home of her sister. Later he dragged the girl Into an excavation and assaulted her. Her dead body was found by a searching party the next morning. Military Precautions Taken. Adjutant General Logan of Des Moines has twenty picked men of the lowa State militla in Centerville in readiness to pro- tect John Junkin, confessed murderer if the jury fails to agree to return a verdict satisfactory to the public. Should the ver- dict be life imprisonment, the men will be rushed from thelr headquarters to the court house only 100 feet away. General Logan said this morning that he belleved this number would be sufficient to quell any demonstration that may be made, but it is the general belief among citizens that, should @ mob form, twenty men will 8o down like s0 many tenpins. The case was given into the hands of the Jury at 3 o'clock this afternoon, following the closing argument of Prosecutor Cornell of Wapello county. STEEL COMMON IN FLURRY Application to Bourse C st Stock on Parls a Sharp Ad- vance. NEW YORK, June 1.—The prite of com- mon stock of the United States steel cor- poration opened at a sharp advance on the stock exchange today. Fifteen thousand shares which changed hands In the initial transactions sold at 6% to 65% as com- pared with the closing price of 64% on Fri- day. An advance of & full point also was made by the steel preferred ghares on the first sales and all other steel stocks wers actlve and strong. The activity was attri- buted to the application to list United States steel common stock on the Paris bourse. (Continued on Second P WASHINGTON, June supreme tacle in this, nation. The prisoners consist of former Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp of Hamilton county, Ten- nessee, and his jailer deputy, Jeremiah Gibson, and Luther Williams, Niek Nolan, Henry Padgett and Wiliam Mayse, all of Chattanooga. These are the men who a week ago were found gullty by the court on the charge of contempt in permitting and participating in the lynching in 1906 of a negro named Edward Johnson after the supreme court had granted permission to him to bring his case to the supreme court on appeal. He had been found gulity of a statutory erime and was under sentence to be hanged. The granting of the appeal acted as & write of supersedeas and when the fact of this action became known in Chatta nooga, where Johnson was in jail, and when the highest tribunal in the Have you rcad the want ads yet, people things il *hey come to my church— the unmarried. Led the others stay away.' today? the further fagy that it would cause a post- ponement of the execution If indeed it might pot entirely preveat i, dawned on Six Lynchers Before Court on Charge of Contempt 1.—The court of the United States was today the scene of the arralgnment of six men before its bar, which was an unprecedented spec- the people of thai city, there was consid- erable excitement, which culminated the night following In a mob taking Johnson from the jail and hanging him. The act was resented by the court as one of flagrant contempt and immediately com- plaint was made to President Roosevelt with the result that he placed the matter in the hands of the department of justice which immediately took steps to ascertain | the names of the participants in the lynch- ing. Proceedings were then instituted |against the sheriff and a number of his deputies as well as against about twenty citizens of Ohattanooga. The Inquiry which was subsequently made on behalf of the court, reduced this number to nine and the court's own investigation elimi- nated three others leaving only six to be brought before the tribunal The offenders came into the court today in & body. They were accompanied by of- ficers of the law and by their attorneys. The court today postponed the passing of sentence to permit petitions for a re- | hearing. The cases therefore go over until next term, the prisoners remaining out on bond. 1 WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—S&howers Towa—Showers. weather report sed For Page 3 JOPY TWC CENTS. CAN TEST LAW HERE IN OMAHA }Depnrtmcm of Justice So Rules in | Matter of Bleached Flour | Argument. "SENATOR BROWN ADVISES SMITH | South Dakota Semators Appear to Be Pulling Together. |JOIN IN SUPPORTING SHABER ‘Repreuenutive Martin Returns from Trip Home in Happy Mood. | SALARY RAISES FOR POSTMASTERS Annnal Readjustment Benson and Boosts Pay at Many Other Towus Nebrasks, lowa and South Dakota. (From a Siaff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1 Brown, who has taken the liveliest interest |in bringing about an adjustment of the | differen between the millers of Ne- | braska, K and other states wherein | winter wheat is grown and the agricuitural |department regarding bleaching of flour, {today telegraphed Edward P. Smith of |Omaha, attorneys for the millers, that the | Department of Justice saw no reason why suit to test the legality of the Agricul- tural department's ruling should not be | brought at Omaha. The Department of Jus- tice, huwever, reserved the right to have the suit brought elsewhere, should it so elect Mr. Smith, in a letter to Senator Brown, tates that information has been received that the Department of Justice had deter- mined to bring suit in some other city than Omaha, which caused Senator Brown to take up the matter with the attorney gen- eral, with the result as outlined. Senators Gamble and Crawford of South Dake continue to do business together, notwithstanding that a number of news- papers in the state are persistent in thel declaration that quarrels between the sen- ators are of almost dally occurrence and thut an open breach will follow the ad- Journment of congress. Be that as it may, Gamble and Crawford deem to have reached a hard and fast agreement as to the patron for today South Dakota's senfor senator presented to President Taft a recommendation, signed by himself and Senator Crawford, strongly endorsing How- ard C. Shober of Highmore, for the po- sition of auditor for the Interlor depart- ment, now held by Robert S. Persons of the same state. Senator Gamble had an |extended conference with the president regarding the appointment, and while he refused to say anything regarding a change In the auditorship for the interior depart- ment, it s believed he has excellent gorunds to expect that Shober will be ap- pointed, as the senator's are enthusias- tieally behind him. Kobert 8. Persons, the outgoing auditor and one of South Dakota’s best known newspaper men, will have filled the office elght years on July 1. Previous to that time he wus deputy auditor for four ‘'years. Had ex-Senator Kittridge won out in his fight with Governor Crawford, Persons would have undoubtedly continued “‘on the job,” but Kittridge lost and as Persons Was one of his most faithful followers, nothing else is expected than that he will have to walk the plank. It is understood here that Major Kelley, superintendent of the liwsebud Indlan agency, has been suspended on charges, and that a special agent of the Interior department has been put in charge of the agency. Senators aGmble and Crawford have united in recommending for appointment Frank H. Kinney of Philip, 8. D, to be clerk to the commission for the appraise- ment of lands on the Cheyenne Indian reservation and F. M. White of Mitchell, §. D, for clerk to a similar commission at Standing Rock reservation. Senator nsas Martin Feels Serene. Representative Martin of Deadwood, S. D., who has been away from Washington for several weeks, looking after his fences, returned last night and was in his seat when the house met this morning. Mr. Martin, who admits that he left Washing: ton a few weeks ago considerably pessi- mistic in humor, today returns with a smile and declares he has joined the opti- mists. “Everything is all right out in my state,” sald Mr. Martin. ““We have been blessed with an early rain throughout my section and other portions of the state, and indl- cations mow point to an abundant crop, and, naturally, everyone is feeling corre- spondingly cheerful over prospects. Ot course, the tariff discussion and its ulti- mate vesult and possible provisions occu- ples considerable attention by our people, but really not so much as might be gen- erally supposed. There is a general de- sire that eongress shall enact the bill as speedily as may be, but the people of South Dakota are not impatient; they have confidence that the ultimate decision of congress in the matter of tariff legis- lation will be wise and satisfactory, and they are not apparently worrying them- selves very much about Its minor detalls. They now find industrial conditions excel- lent, and that is really the true test of the business pulse.” Mrs. John E. Hipple and Mrs. C. B. Bil- linghurst of Plerre, 8. D, are in Wash- ington to attend the graduation exercises at National Park academy, at which thefr nefce, Miss Annie Billinghurst, will re- celve her degree this week. Thomas C. Dawson of Councll Bluffs, for some years United States envoy ex- traordinary and minister plenipotenttary at Bogota. and recently promoted to be United States envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Santlago, Chile, Is in_ Washington in conference with the State departmont, recefving final instructions prior to leaving for his new post of duty. Mr. Dawson will remain in Washington several days before leaving for his new post, and expects to stop at his old home, Council Bluffs, en route, ers Get Good New twenty-sixth annual re-adjustment of postmasters’ salaries were announced today, effective July 1 Nebraska—Increases: Benson, O'Nefll, Spencer, $200; Falls City, Guide Rock ball, Laurel, Long Pine, Ogallala, Sargent Wausa, $200; Ainsworth, Alblon, Ansley, Arapahoe, Arlington, Atkineon, Aurora, Baneroft, City, Beaver Crossing, Benkelman, Bertrand, Blue Hill, Bridge- port, Broken Bow, Butts, Callaway, Cedar Bluffs, Central City, Coleridge, Columbus, Cozad, Crawford, Creighton, Davenport, Kim- Heave! | ]