Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 24, 1910, Page 1

PARE OWR NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO WIGNT. . 'THE OMAHA DAILY BE e WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—S8now; warmer, For lTowa-Partly cloudy; warmar. For weather report see page 2. VOL. XXXIX-NO. 215, OMAHA, THURSDAY / TOBACCO WILL a ] 4 f 4 ot L] ' & WAIT UPON O1L Indications that Supreme Court is Considering Anti-Trust Cases y Together. SAME ISSUES ARE INVOLVED 'd Company Will Present Its 1 Arguments March 14. COVERS ALL TRUST QUESTIONS / e Range 6f Modern Industrial Organi- zation Embraced in These Cases. m. POINTS OF DIFFERENCE One Attorney Holds that Declaton May /Be Agninst Government in Ome " Case and in Favor of it in the Other. WASHINGTON, Feb. %—While the su- preme court of the United States has vouchsafed no intimation on the subject, it Is genernlly supposed here that the decision In’ thé case of the American To- t‘\.weo company, which has already been argued betore the court, whl not be handed down, at least, until dfter the argument in the gase of the Standard Oji company, wihich I8 set for March 14. Attorney Gen- eral Wickersham, In his motion to advance / the heartng of the latter case, described the tw0 as essentially kindred, and sug- gested 1o the court that they be consid- erod’ together. Lawyérs here generally contur in the statement made by Mr. Wickershani to the court, that thess two cases together pre- sent for its consideration “practically the entire. fange of modern industrial organ- “fzationd” In this country,” and substan- tiplly every feature of the “trust question,” 26 tar as it falls within the purview of the Sherman anti-trust law. Yet, they are not preclsely allke; indeed, It is sald that in some particulars they are so dissim: ilar that the court might find n favor of the government in ome case, and against it n the other. . 1 Points of Likeness. i two ocases are alike are proceedings In equity to enjoln alloged violations of the law of the land—neither 18 In its essence a crimdnal action; In neither does the government seek to pro- €urp elther improsonment of indtvidualy or exemplary fines upon the defendants. | In both suts the charges pressed are those aleging unlawful combination and conspir- ‘@cy In restraint of Interstate trade and commerce, and continuing monopoly, or at| tempted monopoly, of important elements in interstate commerce. The Standard Oll company of Néw Jersey is attacked as a “holding company.” Out | of 'its §100.000.000 capital stock, over $57,000,- 000 ‘was exchanged in 199, according 1o e government figures, for stock In pine- ‘teeh other corporations, engaged In the various branches of the petroleum bus- neas. American Tobacco company fs al- o e t0 be both & holding and an operat- ing company. It Is actively engaged in the tobageo business, runs its own shops and dells the manufactured produsts, In the case of the Standard Ofl company, the raw product 1s to an extent produced by the corporation, In that of the tobacco eom- bination the raw material 1§ purchased. ' While the Sherman law daés not specifi- cally’ prohibit the organization of helding compasles, the pupreme court declared in the Northern ‘Securities case that the holding company constituted an organiza- tlon in ‘restraint of trade and commerce. Charges in Oil Case. rnment charges that from the the erganization of the Standard , oh enrlr-ny in 1859, a monopoly was ob- tained: that in fact for years grior to that a virtual monopoly existed bad existed, ond that the varlous forms which ‘the con. spimcy alleged against the ol company has taken, have been merely adaptations 0 #he chging nceds and conditions of the times. In the tobacco case, It s alleged, th originally when the merger was eonsum- mated In 1§90, there was a monopoly only 1»" the olgarette trads the defendants ©claim that the eontroi of the business then secured has since materially, dwindied, The Standard Oll compary's 'mounsel have gontended that the . corporations which in 1§99 entered Into the agreements complalned of had long since ceased to be ned The time of competitors. In the tobseco case the de- obligation to compete—the ‘prohibition being ngainst mpecifis agreements to suppress competi- tion; npncompetifion as' the result of the acquisition of property is, the defendants 1nsiat, hot a violation of the statute. Difference in Charges. Another difference between the two cases lies In the facy that the Standard Of1 company Is nnnufl Wwith offense against the Sheérman law alone; the tobaceo cor- porations ‘are charged with offending also the Wilson tariff act of 1894, whic hex- :.u.(‘ the application of the anti-trust AW to _@ny conspiracy In restraint of trade, One party to which was an im- porter.| Purthermore, the goverhment 1 n‘mh establish the rule that a cor- pora \ entering into an agreement abroad Which In purpose confllets with . Ame) law,, gains no immunity from the that such an agreemept is lawfu) ‘.!m country. t buggested that the commodit h by the Sthidard 01| company m':; be Propecly called “necessuries of lite" AHOES dealt In by the tobacco cot 400ty mmd Comspiracy. General Wickersham in his ar- @ tobacco case expressed the opinton. different” element woula enter nto the m:hl- Au_absolute neces- sty of I tinguished . trom one that whe Mecessity, beoause :mn a commodity “Was ,charged with a public usy, jubt.as much, §f not more, than what is called publie utility companies.” t of the hearing in.the cir- nther difterences were elther bagame apparent. Q the court Jid " not Atty rume Mohler Admits U. P. Freights MakeSlow Time Vice President, on Witness Stand, Concedes Other Koads Move Freight Faster. NEW YORK, Feb, 2.—Freight train speed on the Union Pacific was gone into at length today by Government Counsel Soverance, In examining A. L. Mohler, vieo-president and ;eneral manager of the Union Pucific, In the government swit to dissolve the Union Pacific-Southern P: ciftc merger 1 BILLS IN MILK COMBIY ~ SES 5 ;\“‘Exchu ge <elicted. 3 Eight of Se- Yor* 1 N\ 774 TG [ALL Ok <ED WITH CONSPTRACY [ N | Wholesale Price of Milk Fixed at | Fourteen Cents a Gallon. ACCUSED MEN ARE PROMINENT in that they ! Comparing tabulated figures, which the| Number of Them Are Directors in witfiess safd had been prepared by the Several Other Corporations. American Railway assoclation, the Santa | F'e, Great Northern, Northern Pacific and | othen partly single track lines were shown IMMUNITY BATHS FOR NINE by the table presented to average much | better time than the Union Pacific, partic- | ¥ ularly on the scheduled time of their green | irectors Who, Escaped Indictment truit preforred trains. Testified for the State—Penalty “According to these figures, then,' sald in Year in Prison and Mr. Severance, “the slowest time in the Fine. United States 's made bn the Unlon P: cifte.” | o “Yes, that appears to be s0," sald Mr.{ NEW YORK, Feb. 28 —The so-called milk | Mohier. trust was indicted in New York today. | The witness sald the green fruit train|After a grand jury Investigation pxl!ndlnl‘;' schedule was entirely satisfactory fo the|Over a perlod of weeks, a blanket indict- shippers. He dropped a remark that there |ment was handed down in’ the criminal was an agreement as to this, | branch of the state supreme court naming | Mr. Severance Immedintely became inter- | ®ight of seventeen directors of the Con- i | solldated Milk exchange, a New Jersey cor- | “I'd be very glad tol learn something |Poration and cherging that théy met June | about this agreement,” he sald. 2, 1%9, In New York and conspired to-| Mr. Mohler sald he had been informed |Eether and with others to fix the whole- | by the Southern Pacific officlals tht there | sale price of milk and did fix it at $1.40 for | had been some sort of an agreement with [a forty-quart can of milk. shippers, but just what It was he did not| | One yeat in prison and a fine of not more Kitow. | than $5,000 or both is the penaity for each The much-discussed 5i-hour train between | offense, which is a mifsdemeanor. Bench Council Bluffs and Ogden, which issued for the eight di- | was | warrants were made & 100-hour train in 1907, was alluded |rectors. They are Walter R. Comfort, to by the witness, who saM congestion president of the Robert Reld Ice Creamy| of traffic had made opefation at the ofig- | company, a director of the Actna Natlonal | tnal speed impossible. | bank, the Delavan Consolidated Milk com- | The witness then said the Union Pacific 'pany and several other corporations, had spent generously In installing all sorts| Thomas O. Smith of Thomas Smith & of safety devices. | Sons, Fredcrick E. Seller, a milk dealer “That, of course, has been to our In-|of Newark, N. J.; Dantel Balley, & milk terest,” he sald. “The public is worth |producer; John A. McBride, a milk dealer more to us alive than dead.” of Sussex, N. J.; Henry F. Huntemann of |the Standard Dairy company; James A. Mirs. Vaughn Daes | or oot oy o Not Think Poison Killed Husbapd | | | | munity by testifying before the grand jury and before the state Inquiry into the milk trade which is still in progress. The Consolidated Milk exchange was exchange | MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, From the New York Herald, THREE DEAD IN STRIKE RIOTS Two More Dying and Thousand Are More or Less Injured. MAYOR WANTS STATE TROOPS Day of Disorder in Philadelphin Fol- lowing Efforts of Traction Com- pany to Run Cars—Barn is Dynamited. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2.—Three dead, two lying at the point of death {n hospitals | tssued today, ‘charges that it contend that their wots have been , ( P merely to the acquisition vt man- | f uring property; that manufacturing rporations are under no l::x | Stevens Dairy company. Nine other directors of the | escaped. indictment, having earned Im- | Wife of Professor Says if Strychnine Was Found in Viscera it Was Put There After Death. PARIS, Mo., Feb, 28.—Mrs. Alma Vaughn, through her .brother, Attorney David M. Proctor of Kansas City, In a statement chntne really has been found {n the viscera taken from the body of her husband, Prof. J. T. Vaughn, it was placed.there after his death by persons who. had. personal réasons for such actions. The statement says in part: “Mrs. Vaughn belleves. now,.as she dia then, and as the coromer's jury found by thelr verdict on the sdoond day of Feb- ruary, that Prof. Vaughn came to his death {from natural causes, and not by poison | adrhintstered either by himself or any one | else. She belfeves now, as then, that Prof, Vaughn did not take any sirychnine or other polson Intentionally. “She believes now, as she did then, that Prof Vaughn did not at that time take strychnine or any other polson by accident, {unless perchance through a mistake of a | druggist. But she now believes, as she h: at all times belioved, and as' she will ways in the future bellove, that no strych- nine was actually found; but, If found, she belleves now, and always will believe, that it was placed In the viscera subsqquent and not prior to/ Prof. Vaughn's death, at the instance of certain parties who necessarily were and are vitally Interested in sych a result of ‘the analysis,” PEARY’S PROOFS CALLED FOR Naval -Committee of House Wants Otfictal Notice of Discovery of Pole. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Peary's proofs that he reached:the North pdle were called {for by the naval committee of the house | today. During his last. leave of absence from the ! Navy department Mr. Peary worked under | the direction of that department. A mem- ber of the naval committee sald today that they had nothing more than “general re- ports” that Peary had reached the pole and that the committes felt’ that it should be furnished with something official MINE EXPLOSION. IS FATAL urned, but Others in Escape. One Mhn B Four Seventy- Sh CENTRAL CITY, Ky., Feb. 28.—An ex- plosion of gas in the mine of the Iron Mountain Coal company, three miles from here, today probably fatally burned Warren Gibbs, a miner, but seventy-four men, who | with Gibbs comprised the day shift, | escaped with slight bruises. The mine is !still on fire, [l formed under the laws of New Jersey soon after the supreme court of this state an- nulled ' the charter of the old milk ex- || change, limitca, ments are the first specific results obtained by the state since it began its investigation of the milk trade in Greater New York. A_commissioner appointe. geheral's ‘office has be: on the matter at whi obtained as t6 warrant its being laid before the. grand jury, ; After returning the Indfotments the grand Jury will ‘confinue its sittingn to consider further evidence’in the hands of the dis- ‘rict attorney. Nation Wide Fight Against the House Fly Civic Association Begins Moving Picture Campaign of Education Against Pest, WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—~The common house fly is the objeet of a nation-wide crusade that was launched agalitst him here today. A moving piciure campalgn of edu- catlon In theaters throughout the United States and In Canada was perfected by enthusiastic men and women who have or- ganized themselves into the special fiy- fighting committee of the American Clvic assoclation. By the moving picture films they expect to educate everybody to the dangers of the house fly and transform the population of the United States and Canada int6 an army that will make its existence short. The committee has the following membership: Edward Hatch, jr., New York, chalrman; Dr. Woods Hutchinson, New York; Dr, D, D. Jackson, New York; Dr. Albert Veer, Albany; Colonel John Y. Cuyler, New York: Mrs. Robert 8. Bradley, Boston; H. P, Kel- sey, Salem, Mass., and,Miss Caroline Bart- lett, Kalamazoo, Mich. WOMAN DEAD, MAN WILL DIE Rock Island Passenger Train Strikes Street Car In Denver, Knoeck- ing it Fifty Feet. DENVER, Feb; 28.—Ons woman was killed and a motorman was fatally in- Jured in a collision here this afterncon be- tween a Rock Island passenger train and 8 streef ‘car. The train, golng at full speed, struck the street car, knocking it fifty feet away and overturning it, but the half dozen passengers, with the ex- |ception of the one wpman, escaped- by | Jumping. More Pec;ple E | More persons enter the bullding of the Onfaha Yopng Men's Christian assoclation in a Single day than In any other assocla- tlon bullding in the world. The average | tor the tiacal year shows an average dally | attendance of 2,700, - the Twenty-second street New York branch ranking second with 2,260, On Washington's birthday 3,085 men and boys entered the rooms by actual count. Of this number 450 weare hoys. The at- | tendance was recorded By & man In the !hhby armed with & pocket register. The total attendance would show slightly larger figures If the attendance in the barber shop were taken in consideration. ‘The young men rooming in the dormitory o4 In early—that is, most of them do. ot A [ the 1% men who lve in the bullding g fifteen were ‘he Ones are men whose employ- keeps them out during night hours w“:”‘ in the city on lat nter Omaha Y.M.C.A. Than Any Other entered the main lobby. This would he at the rate of six every minute. Between 1 {ana 2 n'ctek there were 260 attendants, and betwedn § and 7 o'clock M7. The noon rush {8 _accounted for by the business in |the third floor dining room ana the lunch counter on the wain floor. The largest number to enter the building in any one day last year was 5,615. This was on Saturday, March 2. Saturday the banner day of the week for attendance, “We are particularly proud of our rec- ord,”" said B, A. Wade, the general secre- tary. ‘“The lpcation of our bullding is es- peclally advantageous and to this fact we contribute good reason for our record. It speaks well for the popularity of the Young Men's Christian assoclation.” Ranking ‘third on the list of popular branches is the one at Indlanapolis, where the daily average for the year ws= 2,150, The central branch of Chieagc and the branch at Philadelphia hold the fourth Dikoe with dally averages of 2,100 in 189%. \ Today's indict- | {and more than 1,000 persons injured is the {toll exacted by the reign of lawlessness i Which has existed in this oity for three days as an outgrowth of the strike of the employes of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company. X With the exception n:.:‘ thuch les wag reported, the kftuation hag :fi:’m -lgm- change since yestorday. Under heavy police protection the Phila- | delphta Rapld ~Tramalt - ny i# oper- ating a limited number of ears on all it& lines running to the center of the eity. The service 15 uncertaln and the public 18 not patronizing the cars to any exteiit. The company declares it has more. than 600 cars in operation and that it has men enough to man 1,400, cars. As usual, the statements are disputed by the Atrikers, { who claim the company Is operating to the 1imit of its resources and that the number | of cars on the street s fewe even fhan yesterday. Advertisements have been inserted in newspapers by the transit company calling for 3,000 men. May Call State Police. If the police cannot handle the expected | disorder an appeal I8 expested to be made to the governor. The state police may be drawn into the situation at any moment. Up to this time there has been no effort made to bring about a peacetul settlement of the strike. There was little talk today of & general labor strike, and such a rad- ical move 18 not looked.for at present. The failure of the ‘state fencibles, an in- dependont military -organization | to in- timidate the strike sympathizers ia the northeastern section of the clty, yesterday was the basis of & onference Which was | called for today between Governor Stuart, Adjutant General Stuart, Brigadier General Browman and Mayor Reyburn. g It is understood Mayor Reyburn s anxious to call upon state troops, but DI- rector ot Public Batety Clay is opposed to this procedure. The director urges that the state police, an* experienced mounted organization which has done effective duty in different parts of the state, should at first be called upon. There are, however, only 200 men in this organization, but they are the pick of the state. More Cars Than Tuesday. At 9 o'clock the traction company an- nounced that it had 84 cars in operation or thirty-seven more than at'the same hour yesterday. Thig number, it wes stated, would be increased during the day | to 600. The company also announced that it had 2nough men to mdn 1,400 cars if the city could provide sutficient police protec- tion. As one and two policemien are on each car the company says the city s not in & position to furnish protection to all the gars, and at the same time take care of the general polige situation. The num- ber of cars normally operated is 1,80. The tractionu company opened its Frank- fort line for the fivst time since the strike started, and & company officlal sald four or five important lines might be put in (Continued on Second Page.) Last week a lady on Davenport street rented a room that had been vacant three weeks. Fifteén boarders had tried and couldn't find an occupant for it. A little Bee want ad found the roomer and might as well have found him three weeks earlier, Don’t hesitate—know that The Bee's 42,000 subscribérs want things must have \hings. If you pay rent on & phone it will be all right to call Dous. 228-—Want Ad Dant | tion 1910—-SIXTEEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS i ol Can’t Fly With Wings Clipped. Bank Fails and Bookkeeper is Now a Fugitive Employe Chu"ged with Being Short $144,000 Last Heard Of in Kansas City. BOSTON, Feb. 2.—Following the dlscov- ery that the Natibnal City Bank pf Cam- bridge bad been looted of $1444,000, the doors of the institution were closed today, probably forever, by National Bank REx- aminer Pepper, acting on behalf of the comptroller of the currency. Later a war- rant was issued for the arrest of George W. Coleman, the young bokkeeper of the bank, who was last heard from in Kan- sas City a few days ago. Coleman is charged with embezzlement. The Institu- Is In solvent, the capital stock of $120,000 and the surplus having been wiped out by the defalcation. Former Governor John L. Bales, the receiver, will liguidate the remafning assets. The hank officlals suspected that Coleman's accounts might be incorreet last Thureday and requested Mr. Pepper to go over the books. On Fri- | day, Coleman fled and Monday night friends received a telegram “ffom him dated Kansas City, Mo. This said he would be home tomorrow. \J THe wrecked bank carried deposits of $127,482, mostly the money of small trades. men, It was organized in 183 Among the stockholders is Charles W. Blliot, presi- dent emeritus of Harvard college. Under the national banking, laws, the stockholders are lable to assessmerit It the assets are not sufficient to pay the creditors in fuil, Baokkeeper Coleman is 2 years of age and is the son of a prominent business- man. He is unmarrled. Coleman is treas- urf of the Boston branch of the Klssel e company, a St. Louls concern. He mdintained two touring cars and a kennel of dogs and was regarded as a ‘liberal spender.” WABHINGTON, Feb. 25.—A shortage ol $144,000 In the individual deposits caused the closing of the doors of the National City bank of Cambridge, according to in- ‘ormation from (ne comptroller of the our- rency. G. W. Collwlll’l is the name given at the office of the| comptroller of the currency as the bookkceper of the National City bank of Cambridge, whose defalcation clllleq the closing of the institution. He has fled, His shortage wipes out the capital stock - of $100,000 the surplus and undivided profits amounting to $37,450, thus making the bank insolvent, HOGS STILL FLYING IN THE AIR Go to $9.350 on the Omaha Murket| and Are Still Migher Elsewhere, Hogs continued to climb at South Omaha Wednesday and although 8,000 were on the market early the price went up to $9.8, which was quite a rise over the record of $9.15 of the day before. “The lowest price pald was $9.10. ’ CHICAGO, Feb, 2.—Another step toward the $10 Rog of 1810, the record since the civil war, was made today at the stock yards where live hogs sold at $9.65.a hun- dred welght. The new price is an advance of 15 cents over this year's previous record. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Feb. 2.—The hog price record was again shattered at the South Bt. Joseph market today wheu the top price was $9.50 per hundred. LOUISVILLE, Ky, Feb. 2.—Hogs sold here toddy for $9.65 per hundred, 10 cents nearer the $10 mark than yesterday. ST, LOUIS, Mo., Feb, 2.—Live hogs sold iere today for $9.70. ’Omnhn;m and South Dakotans Give Tariff Testimony. LUMBER AND GRAIN MEN HEARD Latter Complaint fContinues Today, Other Going Befére Comiminsion in Washington Some Time in Spry + Interstate Commerce Commissioner Edgar E. Clark heard a deal of evidence in the lumber and grain complaints of Omaha business men yesterday. In ghe complaint of the Omaha Grain exchange against rates in Soyth Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa here the first witness was W. V. Harrington of Sipux Falls, S. D. D. T. Cross of Berestord, S. D., who operates twelve clevators in South Dakota and Towa polnts, stated that_he formerly shipped grain to Omaha and was well satigfled with the Omaha mayket and the grading of both coarse and smaller grains, byt that he shipped very littie now from South Dakota points because ho could get much better rates th Chicago and Minne- apolls, mileage considered. He had no par- ticular complaint to make of shipment from lowa points to Omaha. { Other Bievator Men Heard. W. % Bharp of Sioux Falls, who operates eleven elevators in South Dakota, testified t0 the same effect and so did W. J. Thomp- son of Madison, the same state. B. F. Ralnbolt of the Cavers Elevaltor company, Omaha, was called to the stand, hut his examination was deferred until this motning, when intervenors-from Min- neapolls wili ask to be heard. Mr. Clark also took testimony yesterday in the complaint of the Commercial club on the rates on lumber from Omaha to points in South Dakota, Kansas and Wy- oming. W. B. Smith of the Bradford-Kennedy company testitied for the complainants in the morning and the defense had-its in- rings In tie aiternoon. \ 8. H. Miller, frelght agent for the Chi- cago & Northwestern lines west of the Missourl river, was \he first witness for the defense. His testimony related chietly to the conditions prevalling on the branch lines of the Northwestern, from Norfolk Junction to Dallas, 8. D., and other South Dakota points upon which was based the establishment of the lumber rates com- plained of. The line, he sald, extended but 168 miles from Norfoik and the gen- erdl traffic over the branch was light, at the best. Big Shipment Was “Abnormal. Ho maintained that a legser rate could not be glven with prafit to the company. The distance from Dallas, 8. D., to Omaha was 271 miles and the rats on lumber was 173 cents. He admitted that a total of L35 cars of lumber and bullding ma- terfal had been shipped over the branch line in 190, but thought that the ship- ments during that year were abnormal and | would not probably bé duplicated for some years, until the country was betfer set- tled. J. E. Kelby of the Burlington asked how many of the eight wholesale lumber deal- ers of Omaha were interested in the com- plaint now before. the commission, to which Mr. Smith answered, ““three,” nam- ing his own company, the Chicago Lum- ber company and the Updike Lumber com- pany. Mr. Rich asked to introduce in evidence & number of letters from customers of the Bradford-Kennedy company, in Colorado points, showing| that they were satisfiod 7 (Continued on Second Page) ,Missou‘ri River | WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—In the repeated | | shifting of the se-called “Missourl river rete cases”: before the supreme court of the United States lies a story that the of- ficials of the Department of Justice are not talking much about. Some of the cases were advanced for argument on February 2. Then, at the re- quest of Solicitor General Bowers they were postponed untll October 11. This week Mr. Bowers asked the court to set tim for argument In April. It was discovered that there probably would be no cases to declde along In Oectober. The cases involve the vaildity of rates | which the Interstate Commerce commission | ordered in October, 198. The )ife of those | rates s Umited to two years, honce some | | | | e Rate Cases May Outlaw Before Decision time in October next, probably -before the Supreme court could hand down an opinjon, there would be nothing to decide, oljcitor General Bowers ‘xplained this “Mituation to the court, adding that the prin- Iple Involved would remain after October | next, and, If the cases were' allowed to die, It would mean ‘that new orders would have to be lssued and the entire litigation | started anew. In explanation ot the course of the de- partment, Mr. Bowers sald that the cases were not ones which he had worked on, and, hence, he was not familiar with the life of the order. He added that he might have overlooked that point, even if he haa been engaged on it. The cascw are set for hearing on April 4 TALKUNFAIR RATESTOCLARK | HELP PROMISED FOR CRAWFORD |Seortary of War Will Recommend Aid in Building Waterworks System, {MORE LANDS FOR HOMESTEADS |Interior Department Gives Affecting Wyoming. Order INDIANS COME IN FOR BENEFIT Creditors Have Been Ordered to Arbitrate Claims, MEASURES FOR HOMESTEADERS | severar Rulings Promulyated Nevraskans—Rapk Salary for South Dukotaw—— Carriers’ Oveftime, Interest to (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Feb, 23.—(Special Tele- | ram.)—§enator Brown and Representative | Kinkaid this morning had & conference | With the secretary of war relative to a bill | which they jointly introduced in tholr re- | #pective branches of congress providing an appropriation of $0,000 to aid the city of | Crawford, Neb., in erecting water works, the present water supply belng polluted by sewage from Fort Robinson. When the bill was originally introduced the secretary of war was Inciined to oppose it, In fact, he did not see why the government should ald the town of Crawford whatsoover. At contercnce, Semator Brown -and | Representative Kinkald produced evidence tending (o show that the | government through its military post at Fort Robinson }wes foullng water now belng used at Craw- ford, greatly to its detriment and to the menace of public health. Secretary Dickin- son was 50 impressed with the arguments of the Nebraska representatives that he agreed to change his former decision ana send to congress a report favoring the cnactment of the leglslation suggested whereby the town of Crawford may be aided to secure a water works system. Locomotive Inspection, Senator Burkett introduced i-day an amended form of his Bill providing for fed- eral inspection of locomotive bollers. While the general purposes are the same as in | his former measure the new bill differs in {4ts provisions as to the appolntment of | inspectors and the number of examina- tions of bollers required, ete. The amended LIl provides that an inspector general and from four to six district inspectors, to | constitute an inspection board, shall be | appointed by the oresident, with the con- sent of the senate. Under these officers local inspeetors are to be appointed by the secrejary of commerce and labor. The rules and regulations under which inspec- | tions shall be made are tq be formulated by the Interstate Commerse commission, under whom provisions of the act shall be administered. The old bill provided for four annual in- spections. The amended moasure proyides for one annually, an internal and external personal examination and hydrostatic test of bollers, also that mare frequent exam- inations may be made If necessary, though it also provides that where engines are doing lighter work they may be exempted from the annual test. The rallroad com- | pantes are required to make monthly ex- aminations and veport on their engine boll- ers, giving thefr findings as to the cond- tion of the locomotive and all repairs made. Warchouses Now Assured. Upon mation of Senator Brown, the com- mittee on Indian, atfairs at its meetiog to- day unanimously decided that the Indian | warehouses shall ba retained in the Indian bill. This, in view of the action of the house, was practically a foregone conclu- sion. \ Senator Gamble today secured the pa ot a bill appropriating 32,609 due James | Elllott as salary for services performed United States district attorney for. the dis triet of South Dakota from July 11, 1006, to March 4, 1907, Early in the administration of President | McKinley, Mr. Blliott was appointed United States attorney for the district of South | Dakota and his appeintment’ was duly con- firmed. At the end of the term for whioh | he was appointed he was reappointed and | served a full second term. His second term | having expired, he was reappointed by President Roosevelt for another term, and under this reappointment he continued to | serve after the expiration of his second | term trom July 1, 1906, until March ¢, 1907. | Owing to the purely personsl and factional opposition of ex-Senator Kittridge, his re- | appointment by President Roosevelt falled {of confirmation with tbe expiration of the Pifty-ninth congress, March 4, 1907. Smiths Get Homestead. The house committee on public lands tos day agreed to make a favorable report on | Representative Kinkald's bill to allow Fred | K. and Lulw Smith to remaln upon the homestead entered upon by their father some ten years'ago in Loup county, to live | upon the property and makg certaln - provements and prove up' within three | years, It appears the father of the chil- dren, aged now 16 and 12 yeais, respectively, died about ten years ago. The body of | Homesteader Smith was burled upon his homestead and the children were cared for ! by nelghbors. The statute of lmitations ran against them as heirs and it was found | & special act of congtess would be neces- sary to prevent the general land office under the law from ordering. the cancella- tion of the entry. Representative Hinshaw ‘today recom- mended May M, Campbell to be postmaster at Hordville, to succeed C. . Hillsey, re- slgned. More Lands for Homestead Under the enlarged homestead act the Interfor department hes designated ap- proximatcly 00,320 acves of land in town- ships 8 and 51 north, ranges & and 63 west, Wyoming, as subject to disposition under the provisions of the 80-acre home- stéad act. Up to date agroximately 13,100,600 acrés In Wyoming have been designated under the eniarged homestead act. f Approximately 44,630 acres of land in the vielfilty of Green River, Wyo., have been found by the Interlor department to be adaptable to water power purposes and to @ny Becretary Hallinger placed the tract #Ithin a temporary power site withgraw | pending the enactment of legislation by | congress regarding the disposition of power |sites on the public domain, This area Zormed part of & tract whigh was with- drawn some time ago under the reclama- ton act trom all forms of entry on the theary that it contained power possibili- ties, The lands embraced W the original