Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 25, 1910, Page 1

THE OMAHA BEE goes to the homes—is read by the women-—sells goods for advertisers. WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Generally fair. - VOL. XXXIX-—NO. 168. \NDIS TO “BEEFR TRUST” JURY Federal Judge at Chicago Ontlines Methods for Procedure in Pro- posed Inquiry. JURIST FURNISHES INFORMATION District Attorney Begins Work on Suggestion From Court. NO ACTION FOR THE PRESENT Number of Minor Cases Will be Dis- posed of First. Rules for Free Competition ) state Commerce nnd Tradé Prescribed by Congress, CHICAGO, Jan. 24.—Judge Kenesaw \ Landis of the United States district cow in his charge to the federal grand jury as- sembled today to Investigate the meth- ods of the so-called “beef trust,” declared it was through information furnished by him that the present proceeding was started. Judge Landis also sald that after he had notified the United States district at- torney in Chicago on January 20 he was surprized to see an January 22 notices In the newspapers coming ostensibly from Washington, stating that the government officials there had ordered the Investiga- Mon. It was announced, however, that action on the “beef trust” investigation would be postponed for & few days until some docket cases could be heard. It was explained that the present investigation was of such importance that it would be better i the jury was given a little time in which to familiarize itself with the routine of the grand jury procedure before considering the evidence to be presented in the packers' cases, After Judge Landis had read his charges the jury proceeded to take up some cases » minor importance. “Havihg in mind the duty of the dis. trict attorney,” sald Judge Landis, “I notified that officer on the 20th of this month that on yeur assembling here to- lay the court would direct yeur atten- fon to the subject of the present in- restigation. “It is a source of profound regret that wo d later there began widespread newspaper publication of matter pur- porting to come from Washington and expressing the intention and determina- tlon of certain governmental function- aries there as to this proceeding, and al- ing, in that conmnection, their purpose with respect to certain individuals resid- ing n this district. Secrets of Jury Room. B e o s e clafly that there 8 anything behind the publications okcept journalistic enterprise, 1 caution you to pay mo attention what- ever to them, ‘1t will be your duty to M consclentiously refraln from making any A 4 b 4 .Yq ’ P A B4 disclosures of matters transpiring in your Jury room. This ®o for two reasons; in the first! place, if an individual {s indicted he ought to have the right of trial by a jury taken from an atmosphere that has not been sucharged with feeling against him, and in the second place if he is not Indicted, it is not right that it should be published from time to time that evidence showing him gullty of unlawful conduct had been pre- sented to the grand jury. ‘“Varfous reports of alleged circumstances and oconditions {n connection with the meat indubtry have come to me. Whils the représentations set forth in these com- plaints, even 1f tfue, do not necessarily imply violation of federal law, they are of such character as to clearly impose upon the court the duty of directing your attention to them to the end that the subject may have at your hands the in- vestigation and consideration its import- ance requires. “The statute declares every contract, combination in the form of trusts or other- wise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or oommerce among the several states or with forelgn nations to be illegal and it is pro- vided that every person who shall make such contraet, or engage in any such com- bination or conspiracy, or who shall mon- opolize or attempt to monopoize or com- bine of conspire with any other person or persons to monopolize any part of such .rade or commerce shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Rules for Free Competition. ““While you will observe that by this en- sctment congress has prescribed the rule of free eompetition among those engaged In interstate and International trade and commerce, I desive to press upon you that 1t 18 not within the competency of congress, nor does the act attempt to deal with trade or commerce which is wholly intra. | ) After enlarging on the fact that congress cannot Interfere with commerce within a state, the court continued: “You will perceive Intent is the essence Of this offense—that is to say, there must be & conscious purpose on the part of the secuseéd to suppress competition by co- operation to that end. The law does not concern Itself with mere ceincidenct of con- duet In the absence of such Intent.” A special venire of jurors appeared be- fore Landls and twenty-three men were thosen to compose the grand jury that is ‘o hear the evidence and decide whether ndictments shall be returned against the packers. | The firms against which the government will proceed are: Swift & Co., Armour & Co., and Morris & Co.. who it 18 alieged control the National Packing company for thelr common benefit. Early today deputy United States mar- shals were started out with more than a score of subpoenaes and writs to bring before the grand jury, employes and books of the concerns invo'oved. Every precaution was taken to keep the \dentity of witnesses secret. A large num- ber of secret service operatives have ap- parently been brought here from other oities, and it is beleved they will be used In serving subpoenaes as well as supplying tvidence gathered during the Investiga- ton. Only two subpoenacs were turned orer © United States Marshal L. T. Hoy today, Mr. Hoy refused to give any information neerlug the identity of the persons on whom the subpoenses were to be served. At the eity offices of the National Packs g compdny and Armour & Co., It was Wid uo subpoenass had been served. L Harry Lyons Dies of Wounds Self-Inflicted Omaha Boy Shoots Himself at Cedar Rapids Because of a “Grouch.” CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia., Jan. 24.—Special Telegram.)~Harry Lyons of Omaha, who shot himself in the left temple and the Istomach at 9 o'clock this morning in the {lavatory of his room at Hotel Montrose, died at Mercy hospital at 4 o'clock this afternoon. A. Rothschild, his roommate, who claims to have been out of the room at the time of the shooting, held by the police, but will probably be released. Shortly before his death Lyons reiterated the statement that his wounds were self- inflicted and completely exonerated Roths- child. He sald that he realized he was ¥oing to die; that he did not wi ut had shot himself because of & \ refused to state the cause of the quch,” but sald he never had such a cause for one as he had had since aturday. "8 In Lyons' pockets indicate that 4 no trouble with his sweetheart In «inha, but she did not like the company he was keeping, especially Rothschild. The [two men pad been here since Friday. They and two others played poker on a 10-cent ante Sunday afternaon and evening in the room at the hotel and Rothschild claims that Lyons was the winner. But at the time of his death he had but 35, while Rothschild when searched at the police ation had only & nickel. This would not ave been sufficient to pay their hotel bill. One theory Is that Lyons' father had shut off his funds. Mrs. Lyons Is expected tonight and it is probable that an inquest will be held. Harry Lyons is 23 years of age and the only son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Lyons, 2403 Harney street. He was formerly with the Logan & Bryan Grain company and is now In business with Chester Weeks. The firm Is Weeks & Lyons and has offices in the Brandeis building. Lyons started from Omaha last week to travel for a Little Rock grain firm. At health and spirits. Friends here can think of no reason for his act. Mr. and Mrs. /Lyons and woman to whom Harry Lyons was engaged went to Cedar Rapids on recelpt of the news. Packers Insist Meat is Cheaper Armour and Swifts Quote Figures Comparing Prices of Last Year “Speakiag of the steadily prices of meat. permit me to E. Pinney, general, manager-ton Armp Co. of South Omaha, “that for the first three weeks of January, 1909, the average price per 100 pounds of beef sales was §7.84; for ‘the first thres weeks in July, 1809, the average price was $8.72 and for the first three weeks In January, 1910, the average price for the same amount was $7.16, “These figures ought to speak for them- Selves, as they show that instead of ad- vancing the prices have inclined downward In the last six or seven months." H. O. Edwards, manager for Switt & Co., assefts that the average price for whith his firm sold beef for the tirst three wegks of January, this year, was less than it was at this time last year, and also much lower than in July last year. Thewe are the fig- ures which his books show: Average price of beef first three weeks January, 1910, §7.85. ‘Average price of beof first three weeks January, 1809, $7.94. Average price of beet first ‘three woeks July 190, $8.63. ' Hurrah! Price of Butter is Lower — Falls Off Six Cents a Pound on Best Creamery Because .of Congestion in the Eas The price of butter has fallen ¢ cents a pound. The Fairmount Creamery company advised The Bee last evening that this was a fact due to & congestion of fresh butter In New York and other large eastern cities, where the people haye gone to eating the storage product. This company belleves the price will not rise until the demand does, and it doesn't prétend to say when that will be. This makes the retall price of the best creamery butter in Omaha 3 cents a pound beginning today, and that same brand will be sold to the retaller for 31 cents. e — M les Are Dismissed. WASH] TON, Jan. M.—President Taft today approved the dismissal from the naval academy at Annapolis of Midship- men James M. Whitehead of New J | 8dott Lynn of Utah and Grover C. Cley ger of Excelslor Springs, Mo. The mid- shipmen were charged with intoxication, that time he seemed to be In the best of | the young | OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 'ONE-FOURTH OF | FRANCE FLOODED | ‘Q\umr of Area of Country Under Water and Rain and Snow Con- tinue to Fall SITUATION IS GROWING WORSE Electric Plant of Chamber of Deputies is Drowned Out. S§EINE HIGHEST IN CENTURY Floods Break All Records Since 1802 at Paris, DELUGES VICTIMS Quarter of Million People Stand in Drenching Rain Watching Yellow Torrent—Cellars Full a Bulldings Threatened. TEMPEST PARIS, Jan. 2.—A fourth of Franoe, it is estimated Is under water today. Snow and rain are adding to the floods which are unprecedenged in the history of the present generaflon. The Seine continuel to rise today and the situation In this city grew worse hourly. Water has drowned out the electric plant In the Chamber of Deputies and today the deputies met by lamp light. Premier Briand introduged a bill appropriating $400,00 for the relibf of sufferers from the floods: He described what the government was already dolng to abate the distrees and highly praised the rescue work done by the sold- fers and gendarmes. Owing to the difficulty of getting food into the city market, prices have been ralsed, adding another element of distress to the poorer classes. It is estimated that 25,000 laborers have been thrown out of em- ployment. > Fortunately the causualties have been comparatively few, but frequent narrow escapes from death are reported. The ex- plosion of bollers in Inundated factories s an occasional element of danger. An énosmous amount of live stock is reported to have been drowned in the departments of marine Aubey, Efsne and Meuse. It is now belleved the Eiffel tower, the foundations of which were threatened by the waters, s no lofiger in danger of collapse. However, the wireless sat- tlon at the top of the tower has bewn abandoned temporarily. The rivers Rhone and Lolre are reported to be failing and the situation accordingly improved at Lyons, Limoges, Troyes, An- necy and Auxerre. The property damage cannot be esti- mated with any aecuracy, but it will be very great. Following the appeal’ of Premier Briand, voted the $400,000 req: of flood sufferers. Late this atternoon President Fallleries and. Premier Briand made @ tour of the figoded diatrigts,in an, automobile. . The crest ‘o fthe flood had ‘then almost touched the top of the arches of the Pont Alma. Preparations were made to blow up the span with dynamite If it should becoma necessary The sewer in the Place Havre has caved In and the Avenue Montaigne has been invaded by the waters. In the Inundated suburls closed. The flood situation in Paris reached a more critical stage this morning. The Seine had has risen nine inches since 2 ted for the aid Have been meters at Pont Royal. est the river h it reached 8.80' meters, the highest point recorded In the history of France except in the year 1615. A terrible tempest of rain and wind which broke over the city at daylight only adds to the horror of the situation and to the suffering of the poor and homeless. Although the waters of the Seine af- fluents abbve the city still are rising rapidly, the muynicipal authorities were hopeful this morning that the maximum stage of waters would be reached by night fall, The river presents an awe-inspiring spec- tacle. A quarter of a million people in a drenching rain throng the stone parapets and quays whtching the yellow tide, which is crowded with drift wood, wine casks and other, wreckage, rushing seaward. The water now is almost flush with the arches of the bridges. This | sthe higgh- Work to Save Bridges. like mad at all the bridges disentangling blockades resulting from the floating debris, and It is hoped that all the bridges will be saved. Traffic on several of the fraller ones, however, has been stopped. All of the cellard along the quays are filled™with water. One of the chief dangers is the weakening of the foundations of the buildings along the water front by the seeping waters. The remalning walls of the forelgn office are surrounded by water and the beautiful garden in the rear of the bullding is a veriable lake Streets around the Chamber of Deputies are considered ungafe and all traffic in these dtreets has been forbidden. The tunnél between the Quai D'Orsay and the Qual D'Austerlitz stations s a rushing (Contihued on Page Two.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—“I am gather- ing proof which will show that farm prod- ucts’ are belng s0ld cheaper abroad than they are in this country,” declared Secre- tary of Agriculture Wilson today at. the high cost of living hearing belng conducted by a subcommittee of the house committee on the District of Columbia. Mr. Wilson gave evidence to show the producer at the present time was gotting a little more than formerly for his food products, while the ultimate consumer was paying an excesstve price. “Until comparatively recently the Amegi- can people enjoyed the cheapest food in the world" continued Mr, Wiison, “But nowadays not people know Bow to farm profitably, to get enough out of & day's work, nor how to make an acre respond. The lure of the factory has called the farmer from the. plow. “The worst farming in this couptry is | done ep=t of e Allggheny mountains and American Food Products Sold Cheaper in Europe agricultural land Is cheapest in that lo- cality. “In consequence” continued Secretary Wilson, “the boys have left the farm and the scarcity of labor is now the greatest concern of the agriculturist.” Secretary Wilson declared that Washing- ton was one of the most expensive cities in which to live, and retallers in this city de- mand 42% per cent profit, while in cities like Philadelphia and New York they were content with 17 to 2 per ceat. Conditions at the capital, however, with reference to the cost of lving, the secre- tary said, were true to a great extent of other citles. He told the committee that it had a great opportunity to do a service for the whole people by ascertalning the cause of these conditions, Chalrman Moore intimated that the whole matter of the cost of food products from producer to consumer would be gone fnto. Seoretary Wilson was the only witness examined today the Chamber of Deputies unanimously | The schools | o'clock and the river now registers 7.58 | been since 1802, when { Firemen, police and (roops are working | stream. The basement on the Palals D'Jus- | From the Minneapolis Journal. 1910—-TEN PAGES. NO PROFIT ON FASTENERS Commissioner Dennett Answers An- other of Hitchoock’s Charges. INVENTION OF AN EMPLOYE Rewents Statement Hitchcock Was Not Wanted at Land Gifiee— Trath About Tele- * sra) WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Admitting that the paper fasteners used by the general land office were the invention of his chief of acoounts, Irving C. Rittenhouse, and declaring the latter made no profit on them, Commissioner Dennett answeredan- other of the charges made against the In- terior department by Representative Hitch- | cock of Nebraska when the heartngs be- ing conducted by the house committee on expenditures in the Interior department were resumed today. Mr. Dennett sald he was careful ‘to as- certain that it was no violation of law be- fore the purchase was made and required Mr. Rittenhouse to watve his royalty. Mr. Dennett resented the suggestion that Mr. Hitchcock was persona non grata at the land office and that he could not get information he wanted. Mr, Hitchcock, who for a time examined the witness, sald - THE OMAHA DAILY BEE For lowa—Partly cloudy. NGLE COPY TWO CENTS. HICK cosy: or LIvinG, Fixing the Responsibility for the High Cost of Living—Same Old Circle Banker Frisked As He Was Acting Part of Gallaat W. M. Van Norden Robbed of $28,000 By Woman Whose Purse He * Picked Up. NEW YORK, Jan. #.—Warner M. Van Norden, the banker and president of the Van Norden Trust company, was held up and robbed of $28,000 last Wednesday night as he was leaving the Waldorf-Astoria. With the arralgnment today of Bessle Roberts, allas Kitty Dowdell, of Chicago and Annie Williams, allas ‘Chlcago M: gle,”” came the story how Mr. Van Norden's excoeding graciousness cost him his pock- etbook. Mr. Van Norden left the hotel and was about to take his automobile when he saw two women walking along Fifth avenue. One of the women dropped a pocketbouk and Mr. Van Norden politely picked it up and returned it A hearty slap on the back was-the some- what startling and unconventiohal manner in which one of the women signalized her thanks. There was a profusion of thanks and bows and one of the women fainted suddenly on Mr. Van ‘Norden's shoulder. he had been asked his state on the | president's recent order against subor- dinates divulging information. Because of this and the pecullar position he vocupied in having presented charges 'hé had not applied for information, Condengation of the testimony of. the last hearin gof the comittee as reported in these dispatches Jd to, the omiesion of {an important statement’' of Commissioner | Dennett of general land office arding the charge that private telegrams were paid out of the funds of the department. This is what the commissioner sald as shown by the stenographer’s record: “I have no knowledge of any such tele- grams .being sent, with the exception of | two telegrams which were sent to the commissioner of the general land office | at a‘eritical time, stating certain remarks | which were being made in a paper. These telegrams after having been recelved were taken to the chief of fleld service and the Western Unlon were notitied that they must not be charged:to the public lapd appropriation; that they related to private matters; that no bill would be authorized which was submitted for those teegrams.’ It appears from the record that this state- ment was substantiated by Mr. New- burgh, assistant chief of the accounts ai- vision; the purport of the testimony of both being that the telegrams reterred to as transmitting newspaper articles were not paid for by the department at all. Examined by Mr. Hitchcock, Commis- sioner Dennett agreed to furnish a detailed | statement of all expenditures from the million-dollar fund around which the charges resolve on the claim of improper use, and also to furnish a list of trans- fers and promotions/of employes bstween and on the statuory civil service rolls and the speclal million-dollar fund or “Schwarts rolls.” He denled that salarles were gener- ally increased when employes were trans ferred to the “Schwarts rolls. Mr. Hitchcock explained that he coild not agree to answer ail questions becauso |of the naturally confidential character of |his sources of information in the Interior department and the punishment that would | follow exposure of these sources. Mr. Dennett said that'a-little over $,000 worth of furniture, including carpets and | rugs, had been bought for use in the gen- | and office under the $1,000,000 public domain protection fund, but that it was | all incidental to the work under that ap- propriation and was of the cheapest kind of material and bought under the regular contract system. He sald the $1,000,000 appropriation had |enabled the bureau to catoh up largely | with the work of protecting the public domain. Rs. TILLMAN, JR., SEEKS WRIT FOR HER CHILDREN Daughter-in-Law of Senator is Ask- ing Divorce From Husband. COLUMBIA, 8. Jani 2.—Attorneys for Mrs. B. R. Tillman, jr., made applica- | tion before the supreme court todey to be | heard on a petition for a writ of habeas {corpus to obtain possession of her two | children, Douschka and Sarah, mow held | by United States Senator Benjamin R. THll- |man. The younger Mrs. Tillman charges | that her husband was addicted to the ex- | consive use of intoxicants and crueity. Sworn statements from leading citizens in the state, attested her unimpeachable char- acter. The case will be presented to the | supreme court next Mopday. 'BUCK STOVE CASES JOINED| Two Appeals in Gompews Contempt WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.~The appeals of the oficers of the American Federation of Labor to the supreme gourt, growing out of the suft of the Bucks Stove and Range com- pany against them in the District of Colum- bla, were today ordered consolidated by the The woman revived and' the banker went home in his machine. The $28,000 was gone when Mr. Van Norden reached home. The women have been held in $30,00 bail for turther examination. Kitty Dowdell, br Bessle Roberts, was ar- rested yesterday and (he Willlams woman was found later. Tn the language of the police the women ‘wore “fast workers' 3 2 ~The :Willlams #irl, ‘Who" is described by her assoclates as the “big blonde,” denied she had robbed anyone or that she knéw of any robbery. i “If Dowdell got aw: with anybody's roll, she observed, he didn't give me any of it. I was not wise to the opera- tion." Fifty-Eight Bodies Found in Wreck Conductor’s Tickets” Show Beventy- nine Passengers Were on Can- adian Pacific Train. SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont., Jan. %.—The count of tickets of Conductor Reynolds of the fll-fated Canadian Pacific rallway train shows there were seventy-nine passengers, This does not Include the crew. Fiftys eight bodies have been: recovered and twe are reported missing. In the second-clase coagh all the eleven occupants perished. LOOKS BETTER FO RLIBERALS Late Returns in England Increase Lead of Coalition Over Opposition. LONDON, Jan. 24—The liberals materi- ally Increased their score, according to to- day's returns from Saturday's elections for members of Parllament. They retain fif- teen seats previously held out of a total of seventeen contests. Of the other two seats ohe went to a unionist and the other to a nationalist. The position of the parties at this time is as follow: Government Coalition— Liberals Laborites Nationalists . Opposition— Unionists 219 SHOT DEAD . 200 . 38 . 8 IN COURT ROOM Caleutta Police Officer Who Exposed Bomb Comspiracy, Vietim of Assassin, CALCUTTA, British India, Jan. 24— \ Shamrul Silema, a police pfficer, who was prominent In unearthing the Michapur, |heralded the report that $5.00 cattle, 1ong /in view of Secretary Ballinger's pecom- Bengel, bomb conspiracy, in the high court today. The murderer, a young Bengall, When overtaken the assassin bomb, which falled to explode, overpowered. was shot dead fled. threw g and he was There’s no such thing as a useless article. If you don’t need a thing, your neigh- bor may. T:a Bee Want ads sell what one is glad to be rid of, to another who is glad to get it, Phone your want ad into The Bee if you can’t come down to the office. court and set for hearing on the first Tues- lday in the term, beginning mext October. Want Ad Phone Douglas 238. FARMERS ROLLING IN WEALTH Examples of How Richardson County Land Pays Dividends, RETIRE. AT AGE OF FORTY Horses Bought Sixteen Years Ago Seil Todsy for Higher Prices Than When Young—Fortanes in Ce M. N. Davis, not long ago, hauled off a buggy that was not his own and last week brought some of his wite's chickens to town and 'sold them, the amount being nearly $20. Joe Nedrow sold some of his wife's chickens this week and then had about $35 extra to carry around In his pockets. Mr. Nedrow tries to justify him- selt by saying the chickens were eating more corn than they were worth. Mrs, Amil Moritz sold & big lot of chickens not long ago and then Mr. Moritz announced a public sale with the statement that he had rented his farm and was going to ltve in town.—Stella Press. The dbove item, true in itself, was re- cently published as a joke In the Stella Press. The next week Mr. Moritz had a farm sale and then he gave the editor of The Press, for ‘publication, a statement as to why he can retire from the farm. He is only 40 years old, and during sixteen years of ‘married life has made $%,000 at farm- Ing, beginning as a renter. In the state- ment he says that at his sale, one mare, owned sixteen years and costing 350, sold for $5. She had raised mule colts, which Mr. ‘Moritz sold at different times and re- ocetved 399250 for them. Another mare owned eight years, costing $30, and rals- 10 oolts, which sold for $68L50. at the sale DIOUght $84. “One bought elght years ago for §66 brought $120; she had raised colts, selling ot $3. « During the time Mr. Mor- itz owned these animals the sale of their colts amounted to $2,148. The first team of mules was sold elght years ago. The total Lamount of this public farm sale was $1,88. Prosperity in Richardwon. The following ftems tell their own story of the success and prosperity of the Richs ardson county farmer: James B. Standerford of Humboldt last week sold at St. Joseph a carlot of hogs (sixty-elght head) averaging 265 pounds at $8.80 per hundred. | On the date of the sale the price was the|highest ever paid on the 8t. Joseph market. This price was b cents higher than Kansas City's top price and 20 cents bettér than the highest price at South Omaha for the same date, which shows Standerford knows how to ralse and feed hogs. Just about a month earlier Mr. Standerford sold a carlot of hogs, of his own feeding also, In St. Joseph for $5.424. The hogs averaged 306 pounds and up to that 'date brought the highest price ever pald at Bt. Joseph, consequently within a month he attained two top record-break- ing prices. The 1st of September Isaac W. Harrls of Stella topped the Kansas Clty market with three cars of hogs which sold at $8.15. Mr. Harris came here from Illinols nearly forty years ago and bought unimproved land for & farm Home at § an agry. Following the panic of 1873 he offered hogs for sale at $2.60 per hundred, but could find no buyer. After keeping the hogs awhile he sold them |at 827, which is his lowest selling price |as & hog stockman. Mr. Harris is today one of the rich men of Nebraska. He Is an officer and stockholder in several banks, | heavy stockholder in the Humboldt brick plant and president of the Richardson County Farmers' Mutual Insurance com- pany, yet he has worked as hard as any |tarm hand at all kinds of farm labor. The family are now occupying their town resi- |derce in Steila. Ata women's club meeting the last week Mrs. Harris stated that last summer she ralsed and canned her own tomatoes for winter, after the remark had just been made that a farm renter's wife, a young, strong, healthy woman, had just been seen buying at the local grocery store canned tomatoes, canned beans, butter, bread and potaces. Richardson County Cattle, In the fall Kansas City press dispatches expected, had arrived. These cattle were a Richardson county product and were ed on the Harbaugh ranch at Dawson. They were fifty head of white faces averag- Ing 1481 pounds and were sold to Armour & Co., not for $8.00, but for $5.10. Soon after- ward Harbaugh's herd beat even the above, for he sold a carlot of fifteen head for $10.00 per hundred, which was the highest {priced load of cattle ever sold at any of the great markets of the country. These fifteen head were a mixed bunch of Angus, Shorthorns and Herefords and averaged 1,884 pounds, They were not show cattle, but, as those of the Harbaugh cattle first mentloned, were selected by their owner from @ herd of 20 head he was feeding. The third Jot from this bunch sold at $5.40 and the remaining lot, five head, at $9.00 The Harbaugh cattle were started to fatten on snapped corn and alfalfa and finlshed on ground corn, It is not uncommon for Richardson county farmers to top the stock markets in the mid-west cities, but there is some- thing of‘usfusual and particular Interest in the cases here cited. J. H, Morehead of Falls City s also a late topper of the Kansas City market with three carlots of fat cattle. Last spring he pald $3.7 for the steers and he took a top price at $8.25. He feeds corn and hay and runs hogs with the cattle. In the spring he bought 125 light shoats at 365, and his book accounts show they brought him §2,900. COMMITTEE ACTS ON WAREHOUSES House Body in Charge of Indian Af- fairs Would Drop Them in All Cities. SECRETARY BALLINGER'S PLAN Department Criticises Thomas as For Too Expensive. OBJECTION AS TO INSPECTION Claim Made Goods Are Not Properly Investigated. PROVISION FOR GENOA SCHOOL Introduced for New Bufl in South Dakota—Henry T, Clark’s Plan to Harness wourt. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, D. €., Jan. 2.—(Special Telegram.)—The Indlan Affairs committes of the house In reporting the Indlan appro- priation bill today threw a bomb among Indian warehouses by fafling to make an appropriation for their continuance. Cor- respondents of newspapers in cities where Indian wavehouses are located besieged Chairman Burke of South Dakota to a certain the reason for this omlssion. To- morrow representatiyes and senators will probably begin asking the question why the Indian warehouse shouid be abundoned. Instead of Chairman Burke asking the question why this change from the a depted w, Mr. Burke turned the in- qQuirers over to Robert M. Person, clerk of the committee, late auditor for the interior department, and Mr. Person, acting as g between, sald that after full investigation, It had been ascertained that the ware- houses were too expensive, because it cost too much to maintain them. It costs in the neighobrhood of $80.000, acording to Mr. Person, to maintain warehouses at Omaha, New York, 8t Louls, Chicago and San Francisco. He Insisted that it goods were bought In the open market and under cash digcouts there would be considerable saving for the government. “In purchasing supplies,” he sald, ‘“they must be transported to warehouses and then retransported to places where needed. You can buy more quickly and get the ' benefit of prevalling markets as goods are needed than If you purchase them in large lots and store them until neede Inspection Criticise “And then another thing, I have dis- covered that the Inspection of goods is | largely a farce. I made this discovery on an extensive tour of the country with for- mer Becretary of the Interlor James A. Garfield. 1 discovered that where thou- sands of packages, say went into a ware- house, the inspector would only look ayer one of n-u,w nocent the rest as belng up'to o v “Then you expeef fnepection to be made school of Agency?” replied Mr. Ferson. “That seems to be the bettér way; certainly the more saving way." “What s to prevent the superintendent of a school or agency from doing the same thing as you charge against inspectors at Indlan warehouses “e will only Inspect goods which are needed and will in the course of his busi- ness Inspect all of them, as he is ordering for but one institution as againi chaces for a number of Institution According to Mr. Person, Representative Hinshaw of Nebraska was the only mem- ber of the committee to protest against the action taken which the elerk of the committee says was unanimous. Mr. Hin- shaw held up the actlon until the meeting Saturday morning, when the bill was com- pleted and .made ready for report today. Provision for the Genoa Indian school, which was left but of the estimate, Is in the bill as reported today, there being an appropriation of $3,100 for the maintenancs of 400 pulls. 1t was generally sald today that the sen- ate committee on Indlan affairs would un- doubtedly restore Indlan warehouses | omitted from the bfll, but of course that |1s @ matter largely of pressure, and it will | be necessary for Omaha to get busy with the rest of the olties which are like suf- | terers by reason of the houge committee's action and bring the senators to an appre- |clation of what the 'Indian warehouse | means to better service, New Bullding for Plerre, | It is Interesting in this connection, that | while Chalrman Byrke became an advocate |ot Secretary Ballinger's recommendation hat all warehouses be eliminated, he has |provided for a new bullding at the Plerre Indian school to cost $25,000. The bill |turther carries $26,00 for the enlargement |of the insane asylum at Canton and gives |Rapld City's school $1,600 for additfonal improvements, an Increase of $2,000 over the estimates of the secretary of the interior and Treasury department. | One feature of the bill, in view of the agitation over the retention of warshouses, |18 worth passing mention, for under it the |secretary of the Interigr could place a warehouse anywhere, and this may turn out .to be the African in the lumber plle, | mendation to discontinue all Indian ware- {houses. The paragraph referred to reads as follows: “For purchase of goods and supplles for |Indfan service, Including Inspeotion pay of necessary employes, and all other expenses | connected therewith, Including advertising, {telegraphing, telephoning and transport jtion of Indian’ goods and wupplies, 33, | provided, that thereafter the purchase of Indian supplies shall be made in conformity ith requirements of section 319 of revised istatutes of United States.” ' Senator Crawford today Introduced & bill appropriating $35,000 for the establish- [ment of & fish hatchery station In skstern iSouth Dakota within the ‘valley of the | Sloux river. The selection of the site pro- | posed is left to the diseretion of the beere- tary of commerce and labor. | ‘Seuator Crawford also introduced w bill to Increase the limit of cost of & Publie bullding at Huron to $100,000, Help, for Fremont, The secretary of the treasury today sent a letter to congress askink that an ap- propriation of $3,600 be Inserted In the pend- ing urgency deticlency bfil Yo enable him to rent suitable quarters for housing gov- emment employes pending remodeling and compietion of the federal bullding &t Fre- mont, Neb, On recommendation of Congressman Hull, Dr. E. C. McClure has been appoluted pen )