Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 12, 1910, Page 1

4 Y t A You aré judged by the paper Jyou read. Bee readers have no ®suse to apologize for a lack of polfrespect or intelligence. __ THE OMAHA DaiLy BE b VOL. XL-NO. 20. OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY TAFT AND LOEB TALK OF TARIFF President Wants Roosevelt to Under- stand Administration View- point. Wisitor is Tariff Expert wi y Practical Knowledge." Significance. | ¥IRST CALL OF SOCIAL NATURE | Eutirely New Angle s Presented in Visit of Warm Personal Friend of Ex-President Roose- velt to Beverly. BEVERLY, Mass, July 11.—A brand new engle was given to the visit of Willlam Loed, jr., to Iy today. It was re- | ported that his talk with President Taft | this afternoon, ‘‘on the general political {eltuation,” would include the Payne-Ald- brich tarite binl. President Taft, it is belleved, is anxious | that Colonel Roosevelt shuuld make a care- | ful study of the new law before commiting | himself In any way. The colonel undoubt- edly has had the 'insurgent view" of the tarift pretty well drilled into him by Sena- tord Heveridge, Bristow, LaFollette and the others who have been to Sagamore Hill. Qdr. Taft, the story goes today, wants the ©olonel to have the administration view. The report that the tariff was to be the principal theme of discussion today se: to be borne out by many circumstanc It Iy admitted that Mr. Loeb was sum- moned o Beverly by Secretary Norton, with the full knowledge of the president. r. Losb's duties as collector of the port of New York bring him In touch with the taritf and probably he knows more about the metual, practical working of the law than any other man. Secretary Norton and Collector Loeb, were together until late last night and re- wumed their conference this morning. They arranged to es the President at Burgess Polnt this. afternoon. Both remained uncommunicative re- garding Mr. Loeb's visit, other than to re- Peat the explanation of last night that it ‘Wwas to disouss “'the general political situ- ation.” The president played golf at Myopla this fworning with Henry C. Friok. Mr. Losh paid a preliminary call on th President this forencon and motored to the £oif linka with him. He also lunched wit1 Mr. Taft. Later Mr. Loeb went with Se: retary Norton and called on Assistant Sec- fetary of the Treapury Curtiss, who iy o R BAY, July 1l.—The announce- from Beverly that Willlam Loeb, jr., e s AN e e | _Bee President Taft today aroused great ini here owing to the close relations Which exist belween Mr. Loeb and Theo- dore Roosevelt. It was impossible to gnt from Colonel Roosevelt an expression of opinfon as to the signiiicance of this meet- ing ws be denied himself to interviewers today. 3 i The colonel is having his fourth day of rest In the Interval between the delegation of politiclans and members of congress last fThursday and that of Governor Hughes to- IDOTTOW. LIVE STOCK IN BELLE + FOURCHE IN FINE SHAPE ©Onttle on Range All as Far Al They Usuully Are by th Last of August. BELLE FOURCHE, 8. D, July nY (Specinl,)~In spite of the scarcity of range Zeed.the ccndition of stock was never bet- ter than &t present, The very condition that has made grasing scant has operated by the law of compensation to put range stock In better condition than they have feen for years at this time of year. ‘When thers is abundant rain during May Apd Juns, 8s has been the case for six of wight years until this season, the grass grows long and ripens late, and cattle ©ould not take on their best flesh In green gress. Comparative freedom from flies has been of great advantage to cattle this year also. Gernerally speaking stock s now in about ‘the same condition it U ally Is the last of August. Many etock men have pianned warly shipment this yesr owing to the . poor outiook for winter feed and the fact {ghat water holes have been drying up ‘The rain which fell throughout the west (Balf of the state last night will do much {40 relieve both of these conditions and may |®esult in some holding who had decided to {@ell. Heavy shipments will be made this '€all, nevertheless. NS DISCUSSING m%&ooum's SUFFRAGE BILL te on Proposition to Extend Par- lamentary Franchise Will Be Taken Tounight. t — ' LONDON, July 11.—The first real formal Judgment to be passed by the House of Commons on the question of conferring the llamentary franchise upon women, will rendered tomorrow evening. The bill in- troduced by David.James Shackelton, labor member for Lancashire, was brought up #his afternoon when Mr. Shacgleton moved Its second reading. ‘Women already possess a municipal vote fn England and about 1,000,000 would be ®iven the parliamentary franchise if the bill passed. Party lines are obliterated on ghis question, The party leaders are ai- wided. Army Worm in South Dakota. BIOUX FALLS, 8 D, July 11—Myste tious worms which' have beea working in flelds 1 the vicinity of White, rBookin; vounty, during the last week or two have ‘been identified by an expert from the state sgricultural college at Brookings as the @readed army worm, which puts in an ap- pearance about once W fifteen years. They have been doing damage to fields of tim- othy, stripping the heads and in some cases making quick work in cleaning up a fleld The wornis will destroy all kinds of grain, passing from one fleld to another. The only protection the farmers have against | the worma is to plow a furrow around u fleld, throwing tke dirt toward the worm: @& they will not attempt to olimb the per- mandicular sides of the furrows 4 land dled today and Twelve Deaths from Heat in New York City Temperature at One O'clock Was Seven Degrees Cooler Than Same Hour Sunday. NEW YORK, July 1L—The suffocating heat wave still hangs over New York City, causing scores of prostrations. Twelve per- sons have died from the heat In the last twenty-four hours, Nearly 1000000 persons v beaches on Sunday. The whole Atlantic seaboard is In the clutch of the hot weather, but lower temperature is prom- ised. The early indications of a warmer day than yesterday wers not borne out, the officlal thermometer In the lofty weather bureau station at 1 p. m. reglster- ing only 8, as against 92 at the » hour on Sunday. Street temperatures are still higher, how- ever, and humanity continued to suffer, Alexander Kuryla, prostrated while work. Ing on the Sixth avenue elevated structure, collapsed against the power rail and was shocked to death, BOSTON, July 1l.—Half a dozen prostra- tlons from heat in Boston and vicinity early in the day were reported by the po- lice and hosplials. CHICAGO, July 1L—Two more deaths were added today to the list of heat fatal- ities here. Edward H, Hovey, president of a furnace company, was stricken Saturday eorge Scholl, a laborer, also died from heat prostration, ——— Pioneer Stage Driver Retires Harvey Fellows Makes Quarter Mil- lion Miles Without Missing a Trip, DEADWOOD, 8. D., July 11.—(Speclal)— Harvey Fellows, the only one of the old time stagers still in active service will climb down tomorrow and hereafter lead a less strenuous life. For twenty-five years “Harvey” has ‘made dally trips between here and Spearfish and is known the coun- try over. Until two years ago he never had a vacation, driving his four-horse team 10,000 miles every year without a day off In years and never falled to bring his stage through. Harvey never fatled to get through, and when winter storms, deep snows, temperatures as low as —3% and spring floods that washed out bridges he always somehow managed to get there. Trains have often been stalled for days, other .drivers would refuse to make the trip, yet he has weathered it all and ne: suffered a serfous accident. And despite the lurid stories of the wild and woolly west and the Deadwood stage coach, Har- ited the has covered 30,00 mil, | R & Vel e and Sl o i Throsds Felloobione Shan eveiand e 7 Chiéag_o ‘Man Kills a Bandit Elmer Cooper Shoots Holdup in Sight of Fiancee He Had Just Bid- den Good Night. CHICAGO, July 1L—Within sight of his flance whom he had just kissed good night, Elmer Cooper, a sulesman. shot and killed one of two highwdyman, who attemptea to rob him early today. The tragedy oo- curred while the young woman, Miss Cath- erine Rush, stood on'the porch of her home, 6128 Lexington avenue. Tho second thief, who {s believed to have been wounded, es. caped. Cooper was arrested and later re- leased. He was robbed under almost simi- lar conditions July 8. On that occasion he was unarmed, but he had immediately pur- chased a revolve Sioux City Officer Commits Suicide James Lester, a Veteran Member of Force, Shoots Himself on Lot Near His Home, SIOUX CITY, Ia, July 11.—(Spectal,)— Lying in & pool of blogd, the dead body of James Lester, & veteran of the Sioux City police force, was found by. nelghbors this morning in & vacant lot ‘adjofning his home. He had committed mulcide during the night, using & large thirty-two-caliber revolver carried by the patrolman. Do- mestic troubles of long standing s thought to be the cause, MURDERER CONFESSES CRIME Oscar Pullen Ashdown, Ark., Says He Kiled W. L. Delaney at Mrs, Delaney’s Instigation. tsed in the battering down of the jail doors 'MAYOR ATHERTON IS SUSPENDED| Newark, 0., Executive is Out of Of- _fice Pending Inquiry Into Lynch- ing of Detective, GOVERNOR HARMON GETS BUSY Probaility that Similar Action Will Be Taken Against Sheriff. ONE SUSPECT IS ARRESTED Negro Charged with Aiding in Breaking Jail Door in Custody. CHARGES AGAINST THE SHERIFF Complaint Signed by Judge Seward ' and Others Accuses the Officer of Comniving at tlons of Law. Viola- COLUMBUS, O., July 11.—Governor Har- mon at noon suspended Mayor Herbert Atherton of Newark for thirty days pend- ing an investigation of his actions during the ‘rioting Kriday night, which resulted In the lynching of Carl Etherington, the “dry” detective, Charges are now on the way to the gov- ernor from citizens of Newark, Involving Sherif? Willlam Linke, and the governor.is expected to suspend him at once. Attorney General Denman today lssued an order postponing the special meeting of the Licking county grand jury at New- ark to Investigate the lynching of Detctive Btherington. The speclal grand jury was ordered to meet by Common Pleas Judge Seward. The reason given by the attorney general is that he did not want the papers served on the jurors by Sheriff Linke, against whom charges have been filed in connection with the lynching. The news- papers will not be allowed to publish the names of the speclal grand jury when it is | called later. The attorney general will take personal charge of the investigation When the jury meets, probably week after next. Charges Against Sheritf. NEWARK, O, July 1l.—Formal charges against Bheriff Linke of Licking county, for failure-to stop the lynching of Detec- tive Ktherington last Friday night were made today, the paper being signed by Common Pleas Judge Charles W. Seward and others. These charges were imme- dlately forwarded to Governor Marmon. Judge Seward has issued a venire for a special grand jury to meet next Monday to Investigate the lynching. “This city has been for yeers in the hands of law break- ers,” sald Judge Seward today, “and the Bhigh officials of the city and county openly donnive at violations of the law and have detled the courts. The tragedy of Friday night has aroused the cfiy and the law- | abiding element, is ." to wee that lynchers are, i ‘rested today on’the’sharge of being one of the rioters who manned the telegraph pole ot . ‘*;’dmi John Btout ! From the C"flf““ Plain Dealer. For weathe ““The very place!” BOAT SINES IN MISSISSIPPI Steamer Cape Girardean Goes Down Fifty Miles Below St. Louis. —_— PASSENGERS ARE LANDED SAFELY Ninety Excursionists Are Asleep When Stemmer Strikes a Snag— Pilot s Prow To- ward Beach. ST. LOUIS, July 11.—The river steamer Cape Girardeau struck & snag and sank to the bottom of the Mississippi river today at Turkey Island, fifty miles south of here. One hundred and fifty passengers were aboard and all were taken ashore safely, The boat was returning from Commerce, Mo. Many of the passengers were women and children. They were asivep when the boat hit an obstruction. The alarm was given by Captain Willlam H. Leythe. The Cape Girardeau was bullt in Mad- ison, Ind.,. in 189. 1t was 250 fest long and carried a crew of 4. The boat s owned by the Eagle Packet company of St. Louls. On thé evening of May 11 the steamboat City of Saltillo struck & snag and went to the bottom of the tiver fifteen mlles below 8t. Louls. . Twelvs ‘were drowned by " soon as the boat hit the siig headed the Prow toward, the shore The boat sank close to the bank of the river soon after the pas- Friday night. This is the first arrest since the lynching of Detective Ethering- ton. The warrant was lssued by Prosecut- ing Attorney Smith and the arrest was made secretly. Strong Protest from Vatican Holy See Insists that Spain’s Pro- posed Bill Restricting Religious Orders is Wrong, MADRID, July 11.—The government has recelved a strong protest from the vatican against the bill prepared by Premler Can- alejas forbldding other religlous orders to enter Spain pending the settlement of the Tecent diffloulties. The vatican contends that Spain has no right to take any step regarding the religlous orders without a previous agreemerit with the holy see. Anti-clerical meetings continue to be held in Madrid, Saragossa, Tarragone and To- ledo. At Barcelo petition signed by 22,000 women Was presented to the governor of that city endorsing the government's re- liglous polley. At Grenada a gathering of Catholics .was attacked by the anti-cleri- cals, MRS. HELEN K. GOULD AND RALPH H. THOMAS MARRIED Ceremony is Performed In Bride's Apartments — Nime Detee- tives Wateh House. —_— NEW YORK, July 1L—Mrs. Helen Kelly Gould and Ralph Hill Thomas, nephew of 'Washington Thomas, president of the Amer. loan fugar Refining company, were mar- ried today 1o Mrs. Gould's apartment on Park avenue, by the Rev. Dr. Webster of the Brick Presbyterian church. Joseph Thomas, brother of the groom, mcted as best man, and the bride was given away by her mother, Mrs. Edmund Kelly, The wedding party was held to the fm. ASHDOWN, Ark., July 11.—Osoar Nll-nnmldmt. friends of the couple. According to surrendered to the sheriff of Little River oounty last night and confessed to the murder of W. L. Delaney near Ashdown, June I8 last. He he and Mrs. De laney planned the murder, The wife, Pul- len says placed a large box under the window from which he shot Delaney in the back as the latter lay asleep. Mrs. Delaney and Pullen were Indicted last week. Mrs, Delaney is In custody. the present plans Mr. and Mrs, Thomas will sall for Europe tomorrow. The presence of the Frank J. Gould child. ren, little Helen, Margaret and Dorothy, at the wedding, and the fact that nine detectives, who admitted they were in the pay of Frank Gould, watched the ~house, #ave rise to a report that Mr. Gould haq Issued instructions mnot to let the childron accompany the newly wedded couple abroad, Giving N One of the most unusual cases of virtue Ketting @ reward is that of the young man who got $15 Monday for giving & colored washerwoman his seat in & car. Besides surrendering his place to the aged woman with her heavy basket the young man found himself walking beside her to the scene of his work carrying her basket. He says ho has been remunerated at the rate of §1 a block for his trouble, as he waiked | fitteen blocks. Frank Trummer, a plumber of 4501 South Tenth stre the lucky recipient of & passenger in a Har- ney street car Sunday when the colored |women boarded it at Twenty-fourts and Plumber is Rewarded for egress His Seat Dodge streets with her basket. arose and invited the aged newcomer to his place. A party of white men sitting near thereupon began & period of jollying and teasing of the plumber. Getting off the Car at the same corner |the negress and her benetactor walked 1o | | sother, the young man assuming the bus. den of the basket. He asked her if she | won anything on Johnson and was toid sne |Bad gathered in 80 trom that source | To parting the nesress asked the name |ana aadress of Trumme celved & note In which he was declared tn “most mannerly White man I ever saw and in which was enclosed 35 Trummer sengers left. One side was submerged. The passengers walked from the boat on the gangplank. ’ Drexel Breaks British Record for Altitude Son of American Millionaire Reaches Height of 2,493 Feet in Bleriot Monoplane. BOURNEMOUTH, England, July 11.—A new British record for high flying was made by J. Armstrong Drexel, son of An- thony Drexel, at the aviation meeting here today. He reached an attitude of 1,950 feet, Young Mr. Drexel has been practicing for some time with Blerfot monoplanes. His Dbest previous achlevement was at Brokenhurst, July 2, when he reached a helght of 1,070 feet. Drexel made another ascent by sunset and beat his own record. He achieved this time & helght of 2,453 f Wolfner Buys . Alcohol Plant Distillery at Marshalltown, Ia., Be- comes Property of Peoria Cooperage Magnate, MARSHALLTOWN, Ia, July 1lL—(Spe- olal Telegram.)—William F. Wolfner, vice president of the National Cooperage com- pany of Peoria, today bought the large new plant of the National Denatured Al- cohol company, valued at §120,000. Mr. Wolfner says he will operate the plant, beginning the last of August. He deniss having any connection Wwith the whisiy trust in making the purchase. DES MOINES LOCKOUT WILL BE ARBITRATED General Strike of Bullding Trades Announced for Monday s Averted, DES MOINES, Ia., July 1L—Contrary to expectations, the building trades council aid not call a strike of all union men em- ployed by the master butiders today. Tt was announced that the men will work pending arbitration. ’Phone Tyler 1000 for all departments of The Omaha Bee ‘This 1s the new switchboard tel- ephone number of The Bee. Get The Bee operator and ask for the department you want. After 6 p. m. and before 8 a. m. call Tyler 1000 for edi- torial department, Tyler 1001 for advertising and circula- tion departments and Tyler 1002 for managing editor, Prominent Men Fall Under Trains and Are Killed F. H. Lincoln, Traction Manager, and Rev. Jacob Salade Are Crushed to Death in Philadelphia, PHILADELPHIA, July 1L.—F. H. Lineoln, until recently assfstant gemeral manager of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company, was instantly killed while attempting to board a Washiington ' train at the West Philadelphia station of the Pennsylvania raliroad today. Mr. Lincoln resigned his position with the street raflroad company 'to become as- sociated with the Goldschmidt-Pherlm com- pany, metal manufecturers of New York city. He was one of the original promoters of the Pay-within car company, and at the time of his death was vice-president of the Electric Service Supplies company ot this city. While attempting to hoard a fast moving in-bolind pasvengér ' traln at the Tioga atation of the Mu,!‘.uw_-v company tor of Girhge u&’m was- under, the Wheels and -crushed. to death, Dr. Sallade was secretary of the American Home Mission soclety, and formerly serva as pastor of the Temple Baptist church. TRINIDAD, Colo, July 1.—Dr. R. T, Wiley, a wealthy resident of Mineral Wells, Tex., walked off a Pullman car while asleep last night, near Rameyville, on the volorado & Southern rallway, and was killed. His body was found today by a searching party. Wiley, with' his wife, was enroute to Colorado Springs. FastTrain Wrecked Near Hudson,N.Y. Seven Cars of Western Express on New York Central Derailed— Three Trainmen Killed, NEW YORK, July 1L.—Three trainmen were killed' and & trainioad of passengers were badly shaken up when north-bound uain No. 6 on the New York Central, known'as the Northern and Western Ex.. press, was wrecked near Newton Hook, nine miles north of Hudson, early today. The railroad officials here report that all the passengers were able to continue their dourney. The Twentieth Century Limited, on which Jack Johnson, the heavyweight champlon fighter and James J. Corbett was coming to this city, was delayed an hour by the smashup. Engineer Tyndell was caught under his engine and was fatally crushed, dying shortly afterward. The other trainmen were instantly killed, A Teport was received by ‘the publlc serivee commission stating that the wreck was caused by the engine striking & door of & freight car that had fallen on the track. The fatalities were primarily dus to the overturning of the engine and baggage car, which toppled completely over when they left the ralls. Every other car of the seven comprising the train were derafled, but only the baggage car overturned. The tracks were badly torn up and traffic was blocked. The train was known as the Northern and Western Express and carriéd sicepers for Utica, Syracuse, Buffalo and, other polnts, including one for St. Louls. METCALFE IS WITH BRYAN Assooiate Strings Along with Editor in Commoner's Cause, EASY TO BE A PROHIBITIONIST Writes to Mr. Hitchcoek that He is Not Making Any Sacrifice in His upport of the Peerle Leader’s Plan, (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, July 11.—(Speclal.)—Now war has broken out between Congressman Hitchoock and Richard L. Metcalfe. oclate editor of The letter to the editor of the World-Herald today makes It plain that the expected split has come at last. He jolns his chlef in charging the World-Herald with having misrepresented not only the {ssues but Met- calfe as well. His letter is as follows: “LINCOLN, Neb,, July 11.—To the Editor of the World-Herald: In your leading edi- torial today you say that Lancaster coun- ty's declaration for county option ‘was a personal ‘concesslon to Mr. Bryan, more than an’ expression of opinion of convie- do something to quell controversy within the ranks of our party than contribute to it; but I eannot, in Justice to myself, permit this statement to 80 unchalienged. “I know you did not mean to do me an infustice, but you must not let, zeal for your cause prompt you to misrepresent the candudt of others In order to bolster your own position. “If democrats are at all interested In What I have done on this subject then they are entitled to the exact facts. ‘‘Years ago I grew weary of the dom!nation of the democratic party by the liquor in- terests. 1 heard my party habitually re- ferred to as the ‘whisky p and I saw the republican party habitually getting the | whisky vote: Long for County Option. “For several years I have advocated| county option. Recognizing the differences on this question in our own party, I bo- lieved that the best method in dealing with it was to relegate the contest to the legis- lative districts, pledging in our state plat- form that in event the people, speaking through the legislature, passed a county option. bill the governor would sign the measure. Last February I wrote to Mr, Bryan, then in Bouth America, advising this pl At Columbus on the evening of July 21th, speaking upon by own initia- tive and speaking only for myself, I reit- erated these views In the hope thet they would provide a common ground upon which _leaders with ~different opinfons | might stand so far as our state platform was concerned. “While it is trus my suggestions seemed popular with the rank and rile of the demo- crats who attended the Columbus dinner, it 1s also true that I could not persuade any of the leaders to endorse my position or to agres upon that method. “Harmony being desirable, with what reason Is Mr. Bryan criticised by those who on thelr thing for the s “Mr, Hitchcock was one of the first to whom I made known the purport of my proposed speech at Columbus and he was among those to whom I looked In vain for any encuragement r support for this plan to bring about harmonius action In the democratio state convention. “Referring to my Columbus address the World-Herald treated me handsomely—as it usually does—but it sald not a word tn | (Continued on Becond Page) Seven Alleged Are Arrested at Havana HAVANA, July 11.—Colonel Jorge Valera, a mulatto, and six other persons, most of them colored men, were arrested by the miratad an ADKl 2. with the arrest og| Whether there had been secret police today, charged with conspir-|General Evaristo Hstenose, (colored), leder | the law ing to start an uprising against the govern. ment. The seven men were on their way to Vieja Bermeja, In the province of Matanz to which placs a trunk contalning arms and ammunition and dynamnite has been shipped from Havana Letters and documents found on the prisoners, who have been brought to Havana, are believed to implicate many other persons In the conspiracy. The trunk was traced by the police of- ticlals to the medical school of the Havana university The janitor of that institution arrested today aud & large quantity of dynamite was found in his possession, It i not quite three months since the last negro conspiracy agalnst the govern- went was nipped 1n the bud by the police Conspirators | it | |otficiuln _Agitetion of the race question in| | pany of Paplilion, operating in Ca: ——————— e WEATHER FORECAST. Fair air report see vage ¥ For Nebraska For lowa BELL COMPANY BUYS UP OTHERS Several Deals Are Completed Look- ing Toward Telephone Merger in Nebraska, WILL ASK AN INJUNCTION Independents Ask Attorney #:neral to Intercede for Them. WANT MERGER HEADED OFF Nebraska Bell Says it Has 50,000 In- dependent Connections. THREE MORE COUNTIES ADDED Systems of Cuss, Otoo Sarpy Counties Have Mfeen Secared by Friends ot the Dell Compay. Telephone mergers are golng on all over the state and a baltle I8 now In progress between the Hell and Independent telephong interesta. Iy tollowing the announcement made Bee that the Nebraska Telephone had scoured control of the Ine dependent tclepho panies of Cass, Otoe and Sarpy counties comes the an- nouncement from Lincoin that (he indepe; dent telephone peoplo huve msked the at- torney general of Nebraska to stop fur- ther morgers between the Mell and fr pendent interests In addition (o the other mergers comaes the announcement that the Alllance tele- Phone system, which was recently sold to L. G. Dow, and who took possession July 1, has been agaln transferred, this time to the Nebraska Telephone company, which means that it f: now a part of the Bell telephone system. A. D. Lane conducted the transfer. It Is announced thut copper wires will be Instalied between Omaha, Al- llance and Denver and also to Crawford. The Allignce system now numbers 77 city phones, 30 country phones and service Is also supplied to 190 telephones on con- necting lines owned by farmers and ranch- men. . by The company PS Fifty Thousand Won Over, In a statement to The Bee Monday, Mr, Yost sald that aiready B0.000 Independent telephones of Nebraska were connected with the Nebraska Tolephone system and thut the addition of the phones of Cass, Sarpy and Otoe countjes Would add about 5,000 more, The Duff and Furmele people have sola out their Independent telephone interests to the Nebraska Telephone company and the the owners of the Home Telephone systém of Sarpy county have followed suit. The Otoe county independents were uwned by E. A. and Ralph Dutf, brothers, and the Casu county lines by Tom .na‘e.fic. e e, and eyer. i the . 3 Ry i P e salge i the business ex ept for thelr noldm the plant in Omaha, which is in the stage of regeneration. If It, too, should witi- lately land in the hards of the Bell people, It ‘would surprise no one. The Wouds brothers of Lincoln—these things go by families—are the big ducks in the Omana puddle, though Lysle 1. Abbott is paddiing the canoe as recelver, Mr. Yost Talks, Concerning the deal, Casper E. Yost, president of the Nebraska: Telephone com- pany, said: “Parties friendly to the Nebraska Teie- phone company have purchased substantial Interests In the Plattsmouth Telephone company, the Nebraska City Telephone company and the Home Telephone com- . Otos and Sarpy counties. This will mean & con- nection of the telephones operated by thews compunies with the Nebraska company's system In the near future, an Increase of over 5,000 telephones which may now be connected to the Nebraska company's Omaha subscribers and to its system throughout the state. “Perhaps it is not generally understood that over 50,000 Independent telephones in the state have been connected with the Nebraska company’s lines, and while this new arrangement means a substantial in- crease (n the number of connections, it s by no means as important in point of num- bers as the connectlng arrangements whick have been made previously, “The telephone Is pecullar in (his, that 11t ls of advantage to the subscriber in pro- portion to the number of other subscribers Which may be reached over it and it is the duty and intention of the Nebraska company o add to its available connec- tons as rapldly as possible —— APPEAL TO ATTORNEY GENERAL Representative ot Company W, HMim to Invoke O LINCOLN, Neb., July gram.)—The attorney general has Leen sketo bring sult to oust the Nebraska Telephone company and the Bell Telephone company from doing business in Nebraska because of an alleged violation of the law of the purchi of competing systems in Otoe, Cass and Saline counties. . M. Hall, representing Frank H. Woods, president of the Natonal Association of Independent Telephons companies, con- ferred with the atlorney general today and asked him to file the ouster suit. “ihe officlals Interested are not yet ready to glve out the detalls of the sult and neither would the attorney general ais. cues the case, other than to say, “It was reported to me by Mr. Hall that the Ne. bruska Telephone company had been buy- Ing a majority of the stock of competing ompanies In various parts of the state, © desired that & suit be started to pro. vent & merger of these companies. 1 said | various parts of the Cuban republic cul of the Independent party, and four of his| oclates. Following the detention of Gen- | eral Ksienose, many arrests were made in | various /'parts of the island In compliance | with ordera from President Gomes, who| [announced . his - determination to proceed ! | with the utmost vigor against the elements, |responsible for the agitation, which in ef. | | tect regarded as a serious movement | calculated to dévelop open revolution egainst the government. | Inatctments were returned against Gen- eral Estenose and twenty-two of his asso- clates, charging them with the crime of| | imetting renelion and instivating anti-white Later, however, all the negro concerned In the alleged con-| with fhe exception of the negrol leader, were discharged by a special hmu,l who was appointed to try the cases. Iwould Investigate the evidence and see violation of I do not know whether I shall file the suit, and the oniy statement I an make 13 that 1 have the advisement. — Sell Wen, ek July 11.—(Special)— A large crowd was In attendance at the town lot sale at Faith, the new town on & branch line of the Milwaukee rallroad, thirty miles southwest of Mobridge, fin Meade county. The branch road has not vet reached the town, and persons drove overland from Lemmon, 8. D., elghty-five miles away. Of the 200 lots offered for sale all but thirty was disposed of at prices ranging from §110 o 1,250, the total amount received for the 110 lots being 3,960, Falth, It s believed, will become ane of the best of the many mew towns springing up In this newly opened country in northwestern South Dakota case under