Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1909, Page 1

) ) | & t 4 THE OMAHA BEE Is the most powerful business getier in the west, bacause it goes to the homes of poor and rieh. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Jenerally fair. For Jowa—Partly eloudy For weather report tee page 8 } NEAR PANICON | STOCK MARKLT Rock Island Common Rises Over Thirty Points Within a Few Min- utes After Opening. s DROP IS ALMOST AS SUDDEN Men in Control of Company Know | Nothing of It. | | | | [ | [ TO INVESTIGATE ) One Rumor that Scheme of “Match” | Orders was Carried. | OTHER THEORIES ARE ADVANCED Oue, Most Generally At- Brokers Repre- | Accepted, | | betes Buylng ting Interests of Euro- penn Shorts. The New investigation mon stock of the Rock rose 314 points almos the opening t denly, dropped to 5. Thereby stery or a flasco, with char lespateh, will sift to the bottom close of today's session, t quickly held a confercnce and it unced that a special @ vestigation ostituted. Francis L of the g:change: J and Ernest Goesbeek were pointcd a committee to conduct the vestigation. Conservative members of the | ®xchange are much ekeited over the episode and a rigid and searching inquiry is de- manded, with summary punishment of the offenders, it thelr guilt is established. Reld and Moore Ignorant. Officers of the Rock Island discla'm any ibility for the movement. At the of Daniel G. Reld, who with Ex- Judge W. H. Moore, {s the acknowledged leaders of the Rock Island group, it was said Mr was ind'sposed tod! Another repor hit he was enter- talning a hous Ll country home near here. J arrived In the | eity from Chic he afternoon and affirmed what | ad earller in the day that personally he knew nothing of the excitement until told of it upon his arrival in New York. 8o much mystery and- confusion sur- rounds the movement that anything like @ clear explanation seems well nigh im- possible at this time. Duirng the brief ses- slon which the bovernors of the exchange held this afternoon several members who figured in the buying and selling were called before the committee, but no details Yegarding (he premilinary investigation were made public. Those brokers credited Wwith the orders deciined to throw any light on the gubject. They will be called to tes- Hey Jeter befgre: the investigating commit- tec. York on Is- fm- then Ftoc its han lar me ev har ac Con any fter has an 4 g0 was had 1 forr president Atterbury T ap t teld ¥ Many Theorfes Advanced. Stories purporting to explain the ullun-‘ ton are numerous and conflicting. One theory was that an attempt at manipula- | tion in the stocks had miscarried. Accord- ing to this explanation, heavy buying orders were placed on the market, but through some oversight the corresponding sclling orders did not appear. The result | was, following out this theory, that there was comparatively little stock for sale and | the brokers who had charge of the buy- ing orders had 10 bid the market up In order to execute them. If such was the case the orders were destined to s0- called “hatch orders,” which were the | principal subject of the recent investigation of hte Stock exchange instituted by Gov- ernor Hughes. Durlng the flurry of the stock today balance of the iist, Including th issues, Was extremely weak, with apprchension of another ‘“‘corner. An officer of the First National bank of this eity, which has intimate relations with the Rock Isiand, expressed the beliet tonight thut the whole matter had its in- eeption in buying for who are supposed to the stock. Rumora of Corner. Today's opcratiohs in Rock Island com- mon totaled eppio: ately Shares, or more than i6 per cent of the whole. The stoek fiue cetween 49% and 81, its top price of the first haif hour, and closed | &t L, 4 Rl A 1% points. All this ng pryotechnic advance of 81 points an surprising precipita- tion to the opeting sale price caused shiver of fear the stock exchange, which spread itselt across the coutineat| on the Lroker's wire thai a “corner” nad | been citd In the stoek of the Rock Island pany A hlock of L8 shares was soid at 8L, the top price. Rock Island common oltsed at 4% last Friday. “It seemib as though some one has been | seliing something he dM not own,” sald a | director of the Rock Island, “The ocnirol- ing, interusts and officlals of the company Bave nothing to do with the spectacular ad- | var d It 16oks as It ther onsid- LI ri interest in the stock and this Wi 43 apparently badly squeezed tods be | the active vague Ruropean have been interests short in aled cavally al on as a ing sale of Roek I:land was 600 d then the stock advanced | liree-quarters and then by | Lounds to a bigh price of sl ce blocks of stock from 100 to atiged hands r Phale figures 4t and sha an On T.00 Threatened. enormous supplies of & vicient relapse en- deciine, however, was much the advance, the recessions ally by fractions and from Within fifteen minutes the | fallen back to 8. Traders gen- Isve that & corner had been en- {n the stock and there was a gen- (0 unlosd securities throughout st. ccame quickly unsettled consequences of a bear Island. Southern Pacific, 1 point, ran off 4 polnts \igamated Copper dropped “riday’s closing and there nloading of securities, &8 in Pennsy!vania I hour, Reading Unlon Paeifle At sto wued stend runi 1t pric | throus pan afer ¢ below ¥rid back % was a causing e reached 25 1 M, United 1% and Amer The best op clal and broke interest had besn gsught in lald trap, the sprin of possible because of the ahse of the larger operators. The Rock Island bonds which were con- #ontinued on Sefond Pased 5 | wable In all cles Wam n wh fu ch was only e of sevaral a a | boy Metz License Granted to Make a Test Case ' Protesting and Defending Attorneys Enter Into Agreement to Abide Decision on Appeal. For wran the purpose of avolding a lot of ling and waste of time In a repetition 2 mments, and for the purpose of hav- % validity of the Gibson law tested " the Board of Fire and Police com- 2% ¢ at its meeting Monday after- %% ruled the objections filed by the © 3 league against the granting of Zo the Metz Brewing company % ymmendation of attorneys for 2 5e board decided to grant the Jen have the matter threshod ts. This will be done today of the court in the Mets case m the board in acting on the ap, wxions of the other brcwers, who want t8 continue to sell beer by the case about the city. Charles Metz was on the witness stand the greater portion of tho afternoon. and all of the other brewing companies were ropresented. Instead however, of having all the brewers testify which would consume several days, the at- torneys representing all parties agreed to make a test of the Metz case and abide by the court's decision In that hearing. The board also took up the cases of Tom Foley d the saloon, lstened to th stimony and arruments, and then took the cases under advisement a o\ lee, out | Thd a Budwelsar [Mrs. Stewart Ford Not in Court Lawyer Says She Was Injured by Fall on Ice and Secks, Delay. CINCINNATI, O., Dee. 2I.—When the case of Mrs. Jeannette Stewart-Ford was called before Judge Woodmansce today the woman was not In court. Her attorney, Willlam Thorndyke, explained that she had fallen on the fce yesterday and so Injured herself that she cohld not be present. A question ‘has beem raised as whether the charge of blackmall made against Mrs. Ford in the Indictment really constituted a crime under the stat- utes, It has been gencrally understood that the indictment charges that Mrs. Ford threatened Warriner with exposure of his shortage if he did not pay her money, when, as a matter of fact, the indictment charged that she threatened to reveal the fact that Warriner shielded a former em- ploye of the Big Four, whom Warriner had ascertained to be short some 322,000, accord- ing to his claim. "It is as to whether or not such action would constitute blackmall that may bes the subjegt of an attack. Warrper will be the chief witness hers. His departure for Columbus to serve the sentence of six to | years imposell upon him has been deferred until he has testified in the Ford case. \ Sues for Car Chained to Track Pullman Company Begins Action for $20,000 Against Sheriff and Plaintiff. COLUMBUS, 0., Dec. 2.—The Pullman company today filed suit in the United States court against Sheriff Linke of Lick- ing county. Attorney Fred W. Slack and & palitician, Melville Gilletfe of Newark, O. for $20,000 ddmages. The company chims that on November ), one of its cars, “Eu- | faula” was taken out of a Baltimore | Ohfo train, bound for Washington, and chained to the tracks through the actlon of defendants. Mr. Gillette Is said to have taken the | action because he could not get payment 120 worth of clothes he says had been stolen or lost from one of the Pullman cars. The sheriff scrved the attachment and the passengers claimed they had been subjected to great inconvenience The car is still chained to a s'de track at Newark. for i 1 | OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1909—~TEN PAGE REPARING FOR GENERAL STRIKE Heads of Railroad Unions Affiliated with Ameriean Federation Leave | St. Paul. CONFERENCE ENDS IN FAILURE| Each Side Refuses to Make Any Fur- ther Concessions. RAILROAD OFER STILL OPEN Statement by Managers Says it Will! Stand Until Wednesday. OTHER UNIONS| DEMANDS OF Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen are Asking Substantial Advance—— Statement by President Brown of New York Central. Minn., Dec. 27.—President of the Switchmen)¢ un- jon, after a conference with the other heads of the other branches of the rail- way departments of the American Federa- tion of Labor, announced tonight that the heads of the various branches will leave for their headquurters tonight to prepare for a general strike unless the rallroads meet their demands. All of the efforts of Governor Eberhart to end the strike have apparently failed | because of a refusal of the railroad offl- clals to agree to at once reinstate the men who went out. Third Vice President Slade of the North- | ern Pacific, and J. M. Gruber, gencral manager of the Great Northern, today | handed the governor a written communi- catlon In which they restated their willing- ness to submlit the matter of wages and hours of labor to the Chicago conference, but that they could not agree to reinstate the men to their old positions at once, but would take them back when their were vacancies. The railways have given the untill Wednesday to accept their of ST. PAUL. Frank T. Hawley men fer. President MHawley of the Switchmen's union, has sald all along that he would | insist on the men being taken back at | once. The federation committee m a laiter con- ference with the governor explainel more fully their position and mads (he as- sertion that it was a fight throughout |he‘ country by the American Rallway- asso- | ciation on the railway organizations em- | braced In the American Federation of | Labor. Statement from Railroads. CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—O. L. Dickeson, peaking for the General Managers' as- | soclation, gave out the following statement | today: The conference between the railroads and President Hawley of the Switchmen's Un- | lon of North America ended in Goverror Eberharts office this morning. | “President Hawley demanded that all | the striking men bo reinstated pending set- tlement through the Chicago conference. The rallroads offered to take the men back as fast as possible without displacing men now at work. Mr. Hawley would not | agree to anything but complete reinstate- ment of all men, consequently further gotiations were at an end. ““The only important point of differenc wus complete reinstatement of a!l strikers at once. ne- | The r | Governor ilroads today offictally notitied Eberhart that they will hold open their proposition to President Hawley | until next Wednesday, It he cares to ac- | cept 1t D Demands of Other Unions. Attention was also given here today to negotiations between the officials of forty: two western roads and representatives Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireme: and Enginemen. In the negotlations, . C. Nixon, general manager of the 'Frisco road, heads the conference committec for the raiiroads, and the firemen are rep sented by a federated board of the em- | ployes of all the roads Interested. The firemen's demands are for an increase of from 15 to 40 per cent. Statement by President Drown. NEW YORK. Dec. -Referring to the likelihood of the eastern railroad empl demanding an increaso in wages, Prosident Willlam C. Brown of the New York Cen- tral 1s quoted today as saying “So far as 1 am able to learn, there is 4 the Crew Goes Down with Lost Schooner| | Wreck of Vessel Half Submerged' is Sighted from the Shore. HULL, Mass, Dec. 27.—The wreck of a five-masted vessel, probably the Davis Palmer, was sighted at noon today on Hard- ings Ledge, two miles off Poimt Allerton The hull of the vessel was submerged, but [ | the stumps of all of the five masts were above the water. The schooner evidently struck the ledge during the storm and went down with all on board no disposition on the part of the railroads to deal arbitrarlly or unreasonably with their employes. The whole matter hinges on the question whether there has been | sirce the last increase In wages a materiai | Increase in the cost of living |GIRLS REFUSE SETTLEMENT Shirt Walst Makers Vote Not to Ac- cept Proprosition Made by Employers. Dee. 'he striking girl | shirtwaist makers voted this afternoon to refuse the settlement offered hy the manufacturers and declared their inten- tion to continue the strike until all of their demands are granted. The employers of- fered a compromise last+week and their proposition voted upon today by the may thousands of young women workers, NEW YORK, was Did - You Know J. J. Hill : Was a P ortrait Painter? “I heard & Mttle story not long ago on Jrmes J. Hill thal has not appeared In print,” said Halleck Rose of the law dc- | partment of the Burlington railroad at the | Paxton, “that Ulustrates a side of his character that is little known. It was told by an intimate friend of Mr. Hil's in the Burlington offices during the corn show “Mr. Hill had some few years ago com- missioned a leading artist In New York to paint for him a portrait of C. E. Peri.ns, then president of the Burlington thait had been compicted and M notificd. Mr. Hill asked this frin was also an int nin Perking', to accompan) 10 pass wpon made ard o I n 15 clos nomy ““Fhe tralt rro L i ress. Mr. Hil the poruait ior sume moments withoue expressing himselt either in approval or disapproval. Finally be remarked, ‘It looks much like Mr. Per we Locke Kkins, but there seems to lacking in the expression.’ “Mr. Hill then picked up the palette and | a small artist's brush and painted a stroke here and a line there with extreme care | but perfect confidence, and, stepping back, remarked: ‘There, does not that improve it? That is more of Mr. Perkins' expres sion.’ “Ihe friend sald that the effect of Mr. 1 t up the picture was mar- a perfect porcrait of Mr. [ him that unique expres- famillar to~his Intimace fness and formal tedious siiting s touching I was that | 4| i ¢ couid v na aranterizes | rew to g at o Lfe “No one knew that he was an artist, and question If he kmew it. But he knew what was wanting in that picture and be knew how to supply that want.™ | aragua (=) TANPARD Gadh = < Cp L <14, From the Washington St ZELAYA NAY YET BE TRIED Flight to Mexico Will Not Free Him from Prison Charge. ON VESSEL AT SALINA CRUZ Destination Evidently City Mexico—American Boy Beaten by Agents of President Madr i ot WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—The @ocking of the General Guerrero, the Mexican gun- boat, at Salina Cruz with former Presi- dent Zelaya and party on board, is not regarded as a change In the former presi- dent's plans. As understoo! sheve it ‘was his purpose at the time he Iéft Managua to proceed to the City wf Mexico, and there 1s no doubt that will be his destina- tion. How long he will remain in Mexico, how- ever, is not known here. The departure df Zelaya from Nicaragua 1s not regarded in official circles as at all conclusive that he will escape punishment for his crimes in that country. The United ates government has never taken any steps for the apprshension of Zelaya or prevent his leaving the countr It preferred to proceed with deliberation, knowing that should his presence in Nie- aragua he required at any time to answer for his misdeeds his person could be se- cured with little or no difficulty. Secrctary Knox in his letter to the Nic- charge Mr. Rodriquez, made it clear that any demand this government might make upon Nicaragua in the way of reparation for the shooting of the two Americans, Cannon and Groce there might be included in addition to a money In- demnity that person or persons found guilty of the murder of the two Americans should be tritd and punished. The question of extradition in a case of this kind was settled many years ago and there cases cited where crim- inals have been surrendered by the na- tions they had been ¢iven asylum, even when there were no ex sradition treat- fes. Should, therefore, the Utlted States de- mand of N a the punishment of laya there seems to be little doubt that any nation where he raay have taken refuge will, on the showing the United States will be able to riake, surrender him for trial and punishms at. Wil Go to Mexico City. SALINA CRUZ, Mex., Dec. Z.—Pose ntos Zelaya, former president of Ni- caragua, arrived here on the Mexican gun boat General Guerrerro today. After re- peated refusals he granted an Interview 1o the Associated Press. He said he would leave tonight for Mexico City and remain t six months. He would, he added, ex- his thanks to President Diaz for the latter's kindness to him. The General Guerrero flew both the Nicaragua and the Mexican flags. As it came along side the pler a crowd formed chiefly of dock hands, awaited it. One of the number, a Central American, welcomed Zelaya with a speech, in which he violently attacked General Estradad, the leader the Nicaraguan insurgents, President Cabrera of Guatemala and the United States government. Standing the deck of the gunboat elaya responded with a few noncommital marks. He 4id not refer to the United States, but sild he was, glad to be In Mexico, which country he considered a cond fatherland The former presiddent refused to recelve newspaper men, today, excusing himself the ground that he had been mis- represented in the news reports sent out of Nicaragua. He added, however, that he might consent to an interview. Zelaya's friends will not discuss his plans for the future. This afternoon he ‘was still aboard the General Guerrerro and in consultation with others of his party. The latter are Luis A. Cousin, secretary of war of Nicaragua; Roberto C. Bore, Zelaya's secretary an formerly com- mandant of the Department of Granada; Carlos N. Gongzolas and Gallerado. One of the men who arrived here on the vessel, which brought Zelaya, sald the gunboat Jeft Corinto at 4 o'clock on the afterncon of December 24 On that day re several where carag to of on on later |two American war ships left Corinto, but no attempt was made to stop Zelaya when he boarded the Mexican gunboat. Prairie to Bluefields. COLON, Dec. 2.—The United States r Prairie salied from this port at yesterday for Bluefields, Nicaragua. formerly | Famished Timber Wolves Attack Man in Illinois Henry Lind and Team Have Narrow Escape from Death Near Mont- gomery, CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—A pack of elght tim- ber wolves atiacked Henry Lind and his horses today while he was driving through the woods near Montgomery, I The wolves attempted to leap into the slelgh. Lind fought desperately with a heavy whip, and his horses, bleeding and ex- hausted, mesaged to reach & clearing, where the -wolves were frightened off. Such an experience has not been reported in this section In many years. ONE HOLIDAY LICENSE THAT WAS NOT NEEDED Young South Omaha Man Decides Not to Marry After Parents Came on the Scene. Gilbert S, Alton, who at first said he was ears of age, and Minnie A, White, aged 7 vears. hoth from South Omaha, applied for a marriage license at Council Bluff { and as they were accompanied by the par {ents of the young woman, Harry M Brown, clerk of the district court, pro ceeded to comply with their request. After taking a second look at the youn man Mr. Brown had doubts as to his be Ing of legal age and suggested that | would be better for him to secure the con |sent of his parents. Young Alton gave | their address and Clerk Brown called ther: | ip over the telephone. They told Mr Brown they would come at once to Counc! | Bluffs and awaiting thelr arrival the young couple and the girl's parents sat in Mr. Brown's private office. When the parents of the young man reached the court house the whole party held a protracted conference and soon after young Alton without offering any explanation said: “I do not need the fi- ense now."” The party | left the court house and boarded e strcet car for Omaha. One of the court house officlals who witnessed the departure of the party sald the girl was crying and that evidently the parents of the couple were not in the best of hu- mor, BISHOP WILLIAMS BUYS HOME end of Episcopal Diocese of Omaha Secures for Residence the Hugh Murphy House. Rt. Rev. A. L. Williams, bishop of the Episcopal dlocese of Nebraska, has bought the cement house formerly occupled by Hugh Murphy, at Thirty-first avenue and Harney street, facing on the boulevard. The prfce pald was $12,000. The sale was made by A. P. Tukey & Son. Mr. Tukey has also sold the 200 feet on Farnam street, west of Thirtieth street, on which he had a sign for so long, “The cheapest property in Omaha. The price paid was $15,000, SINGLE | {CONGRESS OF CACKLERS OPEN | Large and Noisy Congregation of | Roosters and Egg-Layers. BIRDS OF BEAUTY AND OF BREED | Dogs of All Strains and of Extensive Pedigrees are on Exhibition Rival ing Barnyard Beauties in Making a Row. The mighty cackle congress Is on. The annual show of the Transmississippi Poul- try assoclation opened last night in the Auditorium with a large representation of the birds that cackle, crow, scratch and | piek on proud display before an admiring attendance of visitors. The fluffy egg-buflders are holaing forth in the noisiest of agtherings. There is a factional row in Cchickentown and the debate lasts through all the waking hours. Obstreperous bantams, lassitudinous, beefy Langshans, lumbering Shanghais—they are all kept from strife only by the partitions )t the exhibit cages. Challenges ring back and\ forth across the big hall and the at- mosphere I8 one of tenseness. It i1s just as well, too, for the visitors to be a bit careful when strolling down the lanes of chicken coops. These hostile cockerels have a habit of venting their pleen with vicious pecks at the first bare lhand that strays within reach of the barred fronts of the cages. | The proudest, most cantankerous bit of ‘eathered aggressiveness is “Omaha,” a ited Pyle game bantam belonging to H. D. “oster. Mr. Foster won the first prize the show last year on this vain bird and 1e little raseal is crowing already with is aspirations for more medals and rib- bons. The judging of the birds will begin today and the prize glivng will continue through the show, which closes on Saturday night. All the birds are not yet in, although the show is quite complete. There are several blocks of chickens and sther fowls to be secen, but the show does not end there, The show inclsdes water fowl, tsrkeys, pheasant and pigeons. Then there is the show of the Nebraska Kennel club ,which opens today at noon The first tragedy of the show has oc- | curred. “Snowball,” & White Wyandotte | cock, the pride of the Fauble & Fauble | yards at Council Bluffs, mixed it with a| White Leghorn cock on the way to Tmaha | while the drayman was not looking. Now | both of the birds are splattered with blood and torn into shapes that will spoil their | appearance for the whole show. It must | have been a fine go, but no one was there to applaud, | There will be a cock fight at the show on Wednesday night, when some of the fussy birds will get a chance to show their form. Of course it won't bo a really truly fight, | but the meatches will be a most lifelike | imitation of a “main.” The fighters' spurs | will be covered by boxing gloves made just for chickens and they will be allowed to bitf each other in a padded pit. The beefiest bifds at the show are the big Light Brahmas shown by J. B. Keeline | of Councll Bluffs. Some of these big fowls | weigh as much as fifteen pounds. They can ( | (Continued on Second Page.) NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—The formal com. | plaint in the damage suit of Francis J Heney of San Francisco against Willlam | H. Crocker, the California millionaire, for | 320,00 on an allegation ef libel, was filed | here today. Mr. Heney bases his action on an open letter bearing Mr. Crocker's | name, which appeared In a*New York evening newspaper December 3, In which Mr. Crocker defended his action in first supporting Heney in the San Francisco graft prosecutions and later withdrawing his support. James H. Beck, counsel for Mr. 1d today *'As 500n as Mr. Crocker's letter was pub- lished, Mr. Heney telegraphed me to bring this suit. Mr. Heney, who nearly gave his life to the cause of exposing corruption in San Francisco, desires to settle once and for all time the question as to whether he conducted the prosecutions inst the San Francisco grafters in an honorable and Jegitimate way. In th heat of the great . Heney, '‘Heney’s Attorney Gives Reason for Libel Suit contest in San Franciséo many charges | were made by irresponsible men against | Mr, Heney, but when Mr. Crocker assumed | responsibility for these charges and gave | them wide circulation, In a responsible | organ of public opinion, Mr. Heney felt hi sopportunity had come to have a jury of his fellow countrymen determine the | justice or Injustfee of the accusations aguinst him. “In San Francisco the graft prosecutions have s0 divided its people inio hostile camps that it would seem to be a matter of exceeding difficulty to secure a jury whichs wowld consider the questions In- volved with absolute Impartiality. In New York, however, there can be no selfish in- terest In the issue which grew out of the San Franciseo graft prosécutions and here, therefore, & jury ¢an be selected which can impartially and fearlessly judge between | Mr. Crocker's grave accusations and Mr, Heney's account of his stewardship as a public officlals | The coal dej | No expense will be | and Clft Lattimer, TWO CENTS. COoPY UNION PACIFIC ORDERS HOME Vice President Mohler Completes Arrangements for New Headquar- ters Building for Oveland Road. SITE AT FIFTEENTH AND DODGE Twelve Story Structure to Cost One Million Dollars, STRICTLY MODERN; NO STORES Local Ticket Office to be Located on Ground Floor. OFFICES NOW WELL SCATTERED Hids Will be Called for and Work of Demolishing Old Labor Temple Will Begin at Early Date. Elds will be asked aj once for the erec- tion of the new Unlon Pacific headquar- ters bullding at the northeast corner of Fifteenth and Dodge stre The work ot tearing down the old structures which now cover the half block will begin as soon as possible and the work on the building will be pushed. This is the announcement which was made by A. L. Mohler, v.co president and general manager of the Union Pacific, Monday aftérnoon. “President Lovett, the board of directors and Julius Kruttschnitt, director of opera- tion, all of whom have continuously sup- ported the building of the new headquar- ters bullding in Omaha, have finally au- thorized me to go ahead with the con- struction,” sald Mr. Mohler, “The bullding will be very expensive and modern and will be a twelve-story steel stiucture. “The people of Omaha have for some years past been exceedingly considerate of the Union Pacific in helping it develop its terminal properties, and this is one of the ways in which ‘the company is 'glad to be able to reciprocate—by putting up a creditable and permanent structure. The thought occurs to ime, that as this siats prospers by investments and improve- ments, work of this character is most ef- fective In building up communities and should be encouraged.” i Jarvis Hunt of New York and Chicago is the architect and the estimated cost is over $1,000,000. Exclusively a Railrond Bulldin, The city ticket office will be placed on the lower floor. No room is set aside for store rooms, as the enure bullding is to be used as headquarters for the Unlon Pacific. The bullding will be $7x1T7 feet and will be located on ground bought by the Union Pacific over two years ago and held since that time especially for the building. At present the offices. of-the Union Pa~ citic are scattered all gver Omaha. The main offices are in the old headquarters bullding at Tenth and Farnam strects. rtment i& in The Bee build- ing, the médical department is in the Brandels bullding, the claim department is in the basement of the Merchanis' N tional bank, the land department, the pur- chasing and other departments are in the old United States National bafik buflding and part of the engineering depafiment and the tax department are in the Pacific Express company's building at Fourteenth and Harney streets. For all these out- lying offices the company has been pay- ing big rents. The building is to be a beauty of mod- ern architecture, of steel, brick and tile, spared in adding to its | beauty in every possible way. {BOY MISSING TWO WEEKS FOUND MURDERED IN HOVEL | | Detective Force of Pittaburg Hent on { Solving Mystery of Death of | James L. Friel. PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. #l.—Practically the entire detective force of Greater Pitts- I burg is attempting a solution today of the death of James Lawrence Friel, the 14- year-old boy, whose body was found ves- terday in an abandoned house in the North side, partially nude, frozen, and the throat terribly lacerated with a knife. The authorities &re exerolsing every power to reach samo tangible understand- ing of the boy's death. Up to the present, however, little progress has been made, Young Friel had been missing from his home since December 13. On that day he attended school. Search was instituted by the police and family, but not a trace of the lad was found until yesterday, when a small boy, playing In the rooms of the abandoned house, accidentally stumbled on to the body. The police are of the opinlon that the boy was murdered last Thursday. “Yeggmen" infest the distriet In which the crime occurred and the police are con- ducting a rigid investigation among this class of criminals. CHILDREN VICTIMS OF FIENDS Their Skulls are Crushed and Bodies are Burned in The Home, LOVELAND, 0., Dec. 21.—Fire today de- stroyed the home of L. Sonnecalf and caused the death of Rose and Paul Sonn calf, aged 8 and § years. Stanley Le professional ball play- ers, tried to rescue the children, but they were driven from the house by the flames. A coroner's investigation disclosed the fact that the skulls of the two children had been crushed with a hammer. It 1s belleved an insane person killed the chil- dren and then burned the house to hide the crime. No arrest has been made, but a woman is under surveillance. \ BOATS PLY VILLAGE STREETS Detatls of the Recent Flood 1 Show that the Storm Was Widesprend. SAN SABASTIAN, Spain, Deo. .~De- tails of the damages caused by the disas- trous floods last week are pouring Into this city, Only three houges were left standing in the village of Santa Christiana and at Lavicllla a church was the only bullding able to withstand the storm. Benevente, & town thirty-four miles north of Zamorra, with a population of about 5,000, was under water for five days, during which time all traffie in the streets was conducted by boats. The village of Villabeza has been destroyed and the creps in the Castile plateau rulned Spain