Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 15, 1909, Page 4

BEE OMAHA, WEDNESI Y, DECEM BER 15 LAMRO HAS MOVE IN SIGHT| | ity Sest of Tripp Must Change| Site to Get to Railroad. SURVEY MISSES IT TWO MILES resting * Fight trvees Under Way Be- Townsite Men—Two New Towns May Be the Reunit. DALLAS, 8. D., Dec. W—(Special)—The present week will umquestionably be a momentous one i Pripp county, the por- tion of the Rosebud reservation recentls opaned to settlement As a result of this week’s happenings the | thriving young city of Lamro, -designated | at ‘the June cloction as the county seat of Tripp county, and now & prosperous com munity ocontaining about fifty business bufldings wnd many spick and span new residences, will probably remove to a newly selected site two miles north of its present location and a fourth of a fulle from the proposed townsite of Winner, the foster-! chfld of the Northwestern railroad and| the Western Townsite company of Dallas. | For more than two years Lamro has been steadily growing and expanding on the theory that fits geographical location in the almost exact cefiter of the new county would bring to it not only the court house but the extension of the Northwestern rail road when It shou!d leave Dallas on its ultimate way to the Black Hills country. Lamro was founded by the Lamoureaux brothers (Oliver and Willam), who are | of French and Indlan extraction, on a site which their sire had many years ago preciaimed as the natural location for a Iarge and prosperous settlement. *s Took in Omly Few. Their corporation was a ciose one and they admilted only H. F. Slaughter of | Gregory, refusing other white men a share | in thelr undertuking. From the first it appeared siated for & successful future, and s00n lots were selling at a merry pace and | buildings were springlog up as if by magic. A $6,00 hotel, a large general store, two | livery barns and other ventures which were initiated in the fall of 197 were fol- lowed in the two succeeding years by a multitude of business establishments, until the culmination of its hopes and anxieties uppoared Lo have been reached with the ervetion of the court house and jail and | big public school bullding last summer. ‘fhat the railroad would come to Lamro wa the firm opinlon of the Lamroites and despite the fact that the Northwestern surveyed two miles to the north building operations have never ceased for a day— and are still belng pursued. Meanwhile Erpest A. Jackson, president ot the Western Townsite company of Dal- 1as, has been quietly and persistently at work gatbering up land for townsite pur- poses along (the survey ‘of the-Northwest- ern and negolating with the Northfestern officlals for exclusive townsite priveleges. His labors were crowned with the pub- lished announcement of less than two weeks ago that he had perfected an agree- ment with the Ploneer Townsite company, representing the Northwestern Railroad company, whereby the Western Townsite company of the Dallas is to control three townsites on the extension of the road—all north and west of Colome, the first town west of Dallass Hunt New Sites. The first was located on section M—two mjles north and a haif mile cast of Lamro —~fhe cost of the siserbelng. $5,000 for #0 acres of raw prairfe land. The second and third are to be farther west and do not interfere Wwith &ny es- tablished towns except Witten, which 1s ten miles from the nearest. The lot sales were Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this woeek—and with the announcement began ® strugsle for the commerclal and political control of the county which bids fair to entail a long and bitter fight. Strong financlal Interests being Involved as well as the fate of two cities and the removal of a court house and county seat, the.jon- test promises Interesting developments, Naturaily the people of Lamro were panic stricken by the announcement that the rallroad had thrown them down And were supporting the movement to estab- lish another townsite at their very doors and before they had recovered their equi- polse Mr. Jackson and his cohorts were upon them with the alternative of pulling up stakés and “coming across” to their new town of Winner, When they had sufficiently recovered from the shock, however, they resented this proposition and sought rellet by purchas- ing from Chester Slaughter, the Dallas banking rival of the Jacksons, Chris Colombe and W. H. Tackett, a quarter ction of land two miles north of their present location and just & quarter mile west of Mr. Jackson's proposed Winner townsite. This, too, is on the rafiroad survey and in a strategically important position under the circumstances. If the road passes through one it must of neces- sity pass close to the other. New Lamro. The deal was quickly consummated and it is now anticipated that New Lamro will prove the haven of refuge to which all loyal Lamroities will fly, With them they hope to carry the Lamro postoffice, court house, school,’ three large geraral merchandise stores, four livery barns, four banks, three hotels and restaurants, several saloons and innumer- able poolrooms, real estate offices, hard- ware stores, lumber yards, meat markets, diug stores, blacksmith shops, auto garages, the .ewspaper and other busi- | ness utllities which will make their's the real town and thus obviate either the neces sity or desirabliity of having another townsite located in that vielnity and dis- courage newcomers from locating there. The fale of the townsite of Winner seems, therefore, as much in the balance ai this mement as does that of Old Lamro. With the lot sale at Winner scheduled for Wednesday of this week excitement is rife and there s an uneasy feeling among those who had been planning confidently on seelng the rew town of Winner bscome | the only rafiroad town in the center of the county. And now the Lamroltes are beginning to threater retallation measures by propos ing to establish other towns farther west, which will also be on the rallrond survey Bro announced for tiay to have' gatned tn play for the weck en claims large gaing fn’ want The Bue 'oliph & large nun of want ads from -the YWo Merald dafly dnd’.repnbh vredits the Worll-Herald. s as hucorrect 54 thoke | gt xbéd o the Bow. o0 T e e e ey ) Teha it givis shvdit for-quish & doan. . ‘h} L to & able advertising that The Beo rejects; alwo. that for gooll ' and rerisons The Bee has refused the copy ‘of two lurge local advertisers, who used 500 or 600 inches space at this time last year. i /+386 inches GAIN 4104 67 indlies LOSS 74,1403 ifichos QAN shes W inohes LOSS ocent medieal and question: . sufficient ern Townsite company and all along the line. All Gregory and Tripp county are anxiously awaiting the result of the lot sales—especially the one which is scheduled for Wednesday at Winner—as being in- dicative of what the Lamro people will do and possibly being the occasion of counter | announcements from the camps of the various belligeronts. Pecullarly enough its promoter of this fight allgns |about all the Indian blood interested in the varlous Tripp county townsites—the Lamoureaux, the Colombes, and Isaac Bettleyoun, with their white allles, Tackett and the Slaughters—on the one side agalnst the Jackson contingent on the other. As a great many Dallas and Gregory business men and others’ plan on estab- | lishing themselves in Tripp county when | the rallroad goes, o interest ls naturally at fever heat. Diamonds—FRENZER-1th Army Officer Found Guilty of Embezzlement and Dodge. | Captain Franklin Sentenced for Long Series of Petty Crimes at West Point. NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Captaln Thomas Franklin, United States army, twice com mended by General Chaffee and Géneral Otis for distinguished seyvice in Chind and Manila, pleaded gulity today -to' & long series of petty embezzlements from the mess fund of the West Point cadets, as commissary and treasurer of the United States ‘military academy and was sen- tenced by Judge Hand In the United States cireuit court to two years and six months In the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, 9a. His counsel gave notice that he would apply for a writ of error and review ‘As commissary and treasurer, Captain Franklin had charge of the pay checks of the cadets, which he deposited with United States subtreasury in this city and | drew against for mess supplies. The total amount of his defalcation ran to of which $4683 was represented by false youchers, presented for approval to the superintendent of the United States mil- itary academy. At his first arraignment In last June he pleaded not gullty and subsequently demurred. The demurrers were overruled and trial set for today. The statute of limitations In the court martial bars offenses committed only two yea back as against three years in the federal courts and for this reason Judge Hand and not Major General Wood heard the case. Captain T. S. Ansell urged for the pris- oner that his client had risen from the ranks by merit and that his irregularities were chargeable to his efforts to raise a large family on an oficer's pay. The sentence besides the penalty it sets, automatically Cashiers Captain Franklin from the army and deprives his family of any prospects of a retirement pension. OLYMPIA WASH., Dec. 18.—Ortis Hamil- ton, former adjutant general of Washing- ton, was found gullty by a jury tonight of embezsling state military funds. Ham- {iton was convicted of obtaining $1800 by forged vouchers. Several other charges are pending against him. He is accused and spending it on women. Nobody is Too Old to learn that the sure way to cure a cough or cold {s with Dr. King’s New Discovery. %c and §1.00. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. Eleven Chosen in High School Pre- naries, from Amonsx Whom Team Will Come. The preliminaries for the Tri-City debate {Detween Omaha, Kansas City and Des Moines high schools were held at the | Omaha High school, Monday afternoon and a squad chosen from which the debating team will be chosen later. The High School Glee club, under the charge of Mr son, & member of the faculty good selections before the debates. Fol lowing Is the squad chosen; Barnes, Rip pens, Haynes, Johnston, Troup, Byers, Van Avery, Lamson, Sallsbury, Shillington and Carsten gave several and thus "“mix" the situation for the West “THE QUEEN Grimes, OF TABLE WATERS" Apollinaris The Carbonate of Soda which is its natural and chief constituent is the sworn enemy of Gout, Rheumatism and Indigestiom: the | of embezzling 350,000 belonging to the state | | passengers STEERAGE CONDITICNS VILE Bpecial Agents Traveling as Pas- sengers Report Awful Conditions. SEXES ARE HERDED TOGETHER Women Are Frequently Insulted by Members of the Crew——Impres- sfons Are Offensive to Every Sen WASHINGTON, steerage conditions, obtalned by special Dec. 14—A report on based on Information agents of the imml- gration committee traveling as steerage on different transatlantic steamers was made public today through presentation to the senate with recommen- dations for leglslation to better conditione. Conditfons found In many of these vessels are described as appalling. The general re- port of the commission contains the re- ports of individuals glving their experlences on board steamships where they posed as fteerage passengers. A woman agent who was herself miserably insulted and ecom- pelled to withstand repulsive privations, ald: “During these twelve days in the steer- age 1 lived in a disorder and in suround- ings that offended every sense. Only the fresh breeze from the sea overcame the sickening odors. The vile language of the men, the screams of the women defending themselves, the crylng of childre wretched because of their surroundings. es. pecially every gound that reached the cars frritated beyond endurance. There was no sight before which the eye did not prefer to closa, “Evorything was dirty, sticky and als- agreeable to the touch. Every impression was offensive. Worse than this was e geueral alr of immorality. For fifteen hours each day 1 witnessed all around this improper, indecent and forced mingling of men and women, who were' total strang. ers and often did not understand one word of the jame language. People cannot live In such surroundings and not be influ enced.” Members of Crew Insulting. The woman agent had told of the ming- ling of the crew with the women of rhe steerage and said that the same conditions were true of the asociation of men steer- age passengers with the women. Agents of the Immigration commission say that on many of the steamships men | stewards and members of well as male steerage passengers, crowd Into the compartments set aside for the women and pass through the passageways of such compartments so thut no woman in the steerage “had a moment's privacy.” “Members of the cre: agent, “npever falled to deal a woman passenger a blow when she was found standing on the framework of a lower berth to get anything from an upper berth. It a woman was dressing they always stopped to watch her apd frequently hit and handled her, The writer tells of repelling advances on the crew, as ,'" said one woman the part of the crew and stewards with | hard, unexpected blow in the offender's face. She says: g ‘The manner in which the sallors, stew- ards, firemen and others mingled with the women passengers was thoroughly reyolt- ing. Their language and the topics of thelr conversation were vile. Thelir comments |about the women, and made in their pres- prescribed by the law must be used ence, were coarse.” Quarters Are Vile, Concerning other conditions in the old | type of steerage which still exists on many | &R has ever gone on record in denying HIGH SCHOOL DEBATING SQUAD | of the steamships, the agents of the com- mission are just as severe. In the duction to the report, It is stated: “The universal needs of space, air, food, sleep and privacy are recognized to the degree now made compulsory by law. Be- vond that the persons carrled are looked upon as so much frelght, with mere tran- sportation as their only due.’ The sleeping quarters are described as being in many cases flithy, Inadequate and all that 18 bad, Good conditions are described in connec- tlon with Investigations of some steam- ships, and It is declared that competition was the most forceful influence that led to the development of the improved type of steerage. “No woman with the smallest degree of intro- modesty, and with no other conveniences | than & wash room, used jointly with men, and a faucet of cold salt water can keep | clean amidst such surroundings for a per- 104 of twelve days or more. It was for- bidden to bring water for washing purposes into the sleeping compartments, nor was there anything In which to bring it." Senator Dillingham, chairmen of the im- migration commission, Introduced in the senate today two bills intended to correct much of the evil from which the complaints are made. CONFIRMATIONS BY THE SENATE Number of Nominatio; Are Approve WASHINGTON, Dec. l—In executive session today the senate confirmed & larg number of nominations, among which were the following: W. Cameron Forbes of Massachussetts ta be governor of the Philippines; John R by President Carter of Maryland to be minister to| , Boumania and Servia; Chandler Hale of | Maine to be third assistant secretary of state; Willlam Phillips of Massachussetts | to be secretary of the embassy at London; | B. §. Cable of lilinois to be assistant sec rétary of Commerce and Labor; James L. | Davenport of New Hampshire to be com- missioner of pensions and Leander Still- well of Kansas fo be deputy commissioner of pensions. Vanderbilts Buy Interest 1n the Missouri Pacific Rivals of the Goulds Secure Repre- | sentation on Board—Extensive Improvements to Be Made. WICHITA, Kan., Dec. 14.—Cornelius Van- derbilt announced here tonight that the Vanderbilts have become financlally in< terested in the Missouri Pacific raliroad and confirmed the rumor that he has been made a director of that company. Just when the change in the directorate of the Missouri Pacific was made he de- clined to state, but he specified that he |had become a director “very recently.” | Whether this means the culmination of |etforts of the Vanderbilts to obtaln econ- trol of the Gould lines, neither Mr. Van- |derbilt nor members of his party would |state. They delined to ‘discuss to what extent the Vanderpilts have become inter- ested In the Golijd'lines, but Mr. Vander- bilt himselt’ and’ €. 'S, Clark,* vice presi- |dent of the MiMouri Pacitie/ intimated their holdings, to be.of vas: importance, Mr. Vanderblit and a party of Missouri Pacific officials are spending the’ night in Wichita. The party has )ust jinspected the St. Louls, Iron Mountain & Southern and is now going over the Missouri Pa- cific. Pueblo J& their western destination. Mr. Vanderbilt tonight indicated that great improvemerits are to be made on the Iron Mountain and Missouri Pacific roads. EFFECT OF 'NEBRASKA RULE Auditor Barton's Relations with Mis- souri Companies FProvokes Comment. A correspondent of the Western Under- writer, writing from St. Louls, asserts that & recent ruling of Auditor Bartop of Nebraska amounts to “a practical ex- clusion of Missourl lite companies from | doing business in the state.” The Mis- souri State Life and the International Life | of St. Louis are reported most deeply con- cerned The correspondent writes, in parf The registration and deposit law of Missouri, enacted (hirty-isx years ago, prescribes the form of the certificate to be used by the department of insurance |of Missouri on registered policles as fol- | 1ows | “This policy is registered and secured |by a pledge of bonds or deeds of trust on real estate .deposited with this de- partment."” | Nebraska | but Auditor has no laws on the subject, Barton evidently has con- cluded that the Missourl law |n this re- | kard should be amended. According {to the rullng of the attorney general of Missouri, nelther the department of in- surance, nor amy Missourl company has any opuion in o far as the form of certi- ficate 1s concerned registered policies of Insurance, but that the certificate on Officlals of the M'ssourl companies de- |clare that no American actuatry of rec- ognized standing or scientific Insural | the mathematical correctness of the Mis- {souri certificate. They further state that |the word “secured” in the certificate is {not & misnomer, but expregses with ex- actness the meaning intended be con- | veyed, viz, that the policy Is proteéted | {and secured’ by jan ample deposit by the | department of igsurance, A man wholly gnorant of actuarial sclence might argue that the poliey would a0t securcd, unless an amount equal | to Its face wis deposited upon the part of 10 be He became the first great reformer, gave the stupefied serfs their brotherly rights; way for the Renaissance, and instituted measures W The First Great Democrat, Plebeian King, Educator, Commoner Charlemagne was born into a world rapidly d e Internecine war, cruelt rapine flourished everywhere. barism. peasantry bility debauched and ignorant. capricious ~enerating into bar- . yand The 10+ The will of the noble was the was brutalized; the law of life and death, and serf mur- der was merely a fineable offense. Humanity was ebbing, fast bearing down gpon savagery lower thaa it emerged from, w}p::n thic heroic figure stepped in. hal{ed the drift of the world and assumed the gigantic task of re-making the Caucasian race. time into the intelligent voter of to-day. This story of Charlemagne touches the Dark Ag thought and understanding, and reveals in our present 4dev ideas of 1.100 years ago. ideas which rescued humanity an: Spencer say: “The superman of to-day is but a tadpole to t A1l this debt we owe Charlemagne, the blue-eyed giant, 6 feet 4, who put his Atlas shoul- ders to the world and lifted it back into civilization. ussell begins this story in his terse, modern cutting away the fiction and error of would- style. be “history,” revealing the of the best developmeuts of 1 i I the Hollday Cosmopolitan Charles Edward R He “hews to the line,” or, rather, to the man, This chronicle i8 of inestimable value to students of history, but it is only one of the many features whi whole inspirational truth of this father ‘make the Holiday modern conditions and ideas. IN THE HOLIDAY SMOPOLITAN 5c. a Copy at All News Stands. and began with the prem founded schools and colleges w’ hich changed the ox-like human of that ise that all men were equal; hich paved the es with the pulse of modern fgel!r}g. elopment the fruition of the initial d started the up-rise which made he MAN of to-morrow.” of modern affairs. progress and human conditions, Cosmopolitan stand forth as one L) Iy the insured to pay the future premiums on hig poligy. It is a fundamental princi- ple in legal reserve lnsurance that the re- serve on hand at any time to the credit | of a polley plus the present value of the future premiums to be pald with interest | thereon is and must be at all times equal | in to the face of the policy aturiug death losses are provided for from the contributions of each policy holder the percentage of each premium being utll- izsed for the purpose of paying current| death claims, and which, as all men fa- | millar with insurance Are aware has nathing to do with the reserve, Further, all of the Missouri life companies are stock companies, and their entire capital is deposited with the state in excess of the legal reserve and held by the depart- ment of jnsurance for the protection of policy holders. “The form of eertificate formulated by Auditor Barton, If applied to Missouri companies, would embody an wbsolute misstatement of the fact, because It is only & half truth. It understates the security afforded by the state deposit law, and, even if there was no law in Missourl regulating the matter, his form of certifi- cate’ would be objectionable on that ac- count. The traditional policy of the Missouri de- value partment has been Lo resent any unjust | sin | // 1.20p 430 p .50 p. 1158 7.06 am Observation eping car, ten-section two-drawing-room sleeping car, free reclining chair car (steel construction) and combination baggage car and coach between Chicagoand Jacksonville. Through sleeping car, and free chair car service, between St. Loui All meals en route in dinin, Columbus with through sleeping car to an Jacksonville, and cars. Connection at from Savannah; also with trains at Jacksonville for all Florida points and steamship Connections for Havana, Cuba VIA KNIGHTS KEY OR PORT TAMPA A special Florida Folder and information as to low winter tourist fares, reservations and tickets of your home ticket agents or by addressing S. NORTH, District Passenger Ageat, liilaols Ceatral R.R. New 1402 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb, Fast Through Train to ' FLORIDA dlscrimination against the insurance insti tutlons of the state by any other state. A few years ago the department in Wiscor imposed some restrictions upon Mis sourl fire companles, and the department promptly notified the Wisconsin authori ties that an attempt to enforce an arbl- trary ruling would immediately result in every insurance institution In Wisconsin being barred from doing business In Mis sourl. The Missouri companies have very little business in Nebraska and are not ctively cultivating that fleld, so that from & practical standpoint the question is not an important one. The Nebraska life and tire companies enjoy & large and profitable business fn Missourt, which would probably be immediately cut off in the event Auditop Barton excludes Missourl companies from Nebraska PEORIA OPERA HOUSE BURNING Building, Which i Alse Home of Evening Journsl, Will Be Total Loas. PEORIA, Til, Dec. 14.—The Grand Opera house, in which is located the Peoria Even ing Journal, is burning, and will probably be & total loss. BOARD KEEPS BUSY WITH SALOON LICENSES OF CITY Twenty-Eight Applicants Obstacle of the Have But (helr Way, The petitions of twenty-elght of the 140 petitioners for liquor llcenses, located in the Third ward have been accepted by At- torpey Elmer E. Thomas sna Rev. J. M. Leldy of the Anti-Saloon league with the exception that' the Anti-Saloon lcague rem onstiates on all to grant a license over the year, questioning the authority of the excise board this has been appealed to the supreme court from a decision of the dis- triet court, Thirty resideg{d'and free-holders of the Third ward have been accepted by Thomas having the right to affix their signatures to lighor petition The attorneys Wwho represent the peti- tiovers, other than in the Third ward, will ba required to show that the signatures of the signers are rellable resident free- holders In the respective wards before the remwonstrances will be ralsed on the peti- tons. Attorney J. P, Breen represents seventy- elght petitioners and will be able to fn- duce the temperence workers to accept the valldity of the signatures within the next few days. Other attorneys represent the balance. of the petitioners. But few petitions are being remonstrated against except on the points heretofore mentioned. The board will meet again Thursdey night to consider the re monstrances, Chamberlaiu's Cough Remedy cures the worst colds. Try ‘t A Home Remedy That Reduces Fat, Would you like to have & nice firm tigure, bit escape (he tiresome, bome- breaking exercise or the soul-sickenihg diet of the old-time plan of reducing ex- cess flesh? Then g0 to the drugkist and ask for this inexpensive mixture: % ounce Mar- mola, % ounce Fluld Extract Cascara A(lunlll and 3% ounces Peppermint Water. “Take a teaspioaful after meals and at bedtime and m & fow weeks you can be as fit physically as a fawn, ix these | dients at home 1f you wish, but see that you get the Marmols In & sealed package. When fresh It acte quicker.—Adv.