The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 23, 1904, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY; JANUARY 23, 1904. WG VINE DEAL THOUSANDS OF THE TAOOPS OF THE CAR INVADE CITY OF NEWCHWANG, : IND CHINESE MERCHANTS ARE COMPELLED TO DISPLAY COLORS OF AUSSIA IS PROJECTED Nog‘otimmns Now On for Sale| of Two Biggest Silver and Lead Producers in Utah| THE PRICE IS 817,000, 0001 RRESEAE G President Sweeny of the‘ | Federal Mining and Smelt-| ing Company Is the Promoter | RSN EES | Special Dispatch to The Call. i SALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. 22.—Ru- mors that negotiations were pending for the sale of two of the biggest pro- d g s in Utah to the Federal Mining Iting Company were ¢ me It is nmow ac- k1 within ort time a & »f the Silver King and the both of Park City and y ilver lead . as now ap- | . it will be one of ions ever ctly what fig being considered is not sta understood that the 1 $17,000,000. negotiations Mining e man who lead mines fall. Sweeny tions looking famous Park w for | der hat the mines is experts and orts he has formed of the properties. have been carefully ex- been ed by 1} i to contain an enor- mous ¢ The Silver King mine now pays regular monthly dividends Daly West con- onth in dividends. es WO tion to sell year ago and id nertie not figure for are held with a v the lua- Silver King West. e nds Sold. —Frederick by 8000 ac om 1t he Ange County making L land pital- peat = Riverside Oflicial Is Indicted. RIVERSIDE, J Two indict- ments were brought in this afternoon ags J. W. Carroll, supervisor of on the new county court- 1 the with charge of embez- sum of $61 45, in purchase of ma- unty Hospital, and the connection with the West River- was arrested and the sum of $1000 in indictme bl s RN Big ¥ in Chicago. CHICAGO,J The plant of the P Plat Company, 442 | Wabash avenue, was nilblrlv\ed by fire to-night and from & building the e communicated to the factory and apartment the Bucklen Medical Com- st of the bailding of the any. A number of families lived kien building were compelled to e hasty exits, but all escape unharmed. Loss, $300,000 Lost Newspaper Man Turns Up. LA PO Jan. 22.—Cyrus R. McCa spaper man, who disappear suppc beer him says several years ago and was e been murdered, has telegram from | Alaska. McCartney and rich. The last in- m was ths his been found or. is well wation abo: had SEUT Somewhere in the world life is ot stake cvery minute of the day. Right &t our own doors, perhaps, is goingon a nnxgk as grim and as any fight or flight on record. . 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Mystery Surrounding Theft of Safe From Southern Pacific Train ————— STILL e b5 B Three Tramps, Who Sold an 0ld Hat to Prisoner, Are Being Closely Watched by Sheriff SUSPECT IN JAIL Special Dispatch to The Call. AN LUIS OBISPO, Jan. 22.—Officers and detectives worked dilligently all day on new clews looking to the appre- hension of the thief, or thieves, who stole Wells, Fargo & Co.’s safe from Southern Pacific train No. 9, near this city, vesterday morning. The officers will say little to-night, but they appear to be satisfied with the result of their work. The ground between San Luis Obispo and tunnel No. 1, twelve miles of heavy grade, was thoroughly gone over again to-day. “The man who tried to board the southbound train yesterday and who had bought a new hat, after purchasing an old one from tramps a short time before, still refuses to talk. The Sheriff declines to allow the suspect to be in- terviewed. Three tramps who occupied a shack near Serrano and who sold the suspect a hat are still under surveil- lance. It is believed here that the mys- tery surrounding the robbery will soon be solved. MRS. APPERSON PASSES AWAY AT SAN JOSE SAN JOSE, Jan. 22. — Mre. Drusilla | Apperson, mother of Mrs. Phoebe| Hearst, died at her home, at Lawrence ation, eight miles west of here, at | late hour last night. She was the Apperson, was a widow of Randolph W. 87 years of age and a native of South | Carolina. Mrs. Apperson was, before her mar- riage in 1840, Miss Drusilla Whitmire, daughter of Henry Whitmire of Frank- lin County, Mo. She came to California with her husband in 1863, and almost immediately they took up their home at Lawrence Station. For forty years she had resided at that place. Her husband died several years ago. Mrs. Apperson was well known in this county and had many friends| among the carly residents of the val- ley. She had been in iil health for some time. . She was a prominent member of the Cumberiand Presbyterian Church of this city, and her funeral will take place from that church next Sunday afternoon. Elbert Clark Apperson, a son of the deceased, at’ Lawrence Station. s Death of Civil \\u Nurse. OAKLAND, Jan. Mrs. Maria Virginia Storm, aged 71 years, died at her home, 1940 Poplar street, last night. Deceased was an army nurse during the Civil War and was a mem- ber of Lyon - Relief Cc G AR, She leaves a husband and one son ott, a former | died to-day at her | dent of this ci home in San Francisco. John R. Walker, aged 80 ars, die lagt night]at his home, 812 Lew stiet. Debeased has resided in Q land for thirty-one years. Mrs. J. O. Olsen died to-day at her home in this city, aged 64 years. De- ceased leaves a husband and one daughter, Mrs. Carrie J. Jensen. Mrs. T. J. Armstrong died yesterday at her home in Fruitvale, BE L RESE Banker's Wife Dies” Mrs. Clara Meyer., wife of Damiel Me the well-known banker, passed at her residence on California vesterday after a long illness. Meyer was a native of Sulzburg, nany. She is survived by her hu: street Ge Wd and a sister, Mrs. Julia Meyer. he funeral will be private, . 1A Episcopal Bishop Passes Away. NEW YORK, Jan. 22-Episcopal Bishop Thomas Underwood Dudley of Louisville, Ky., died here to-day of heart disease. B — Japancse Railways. The Japanese state railways are to become a joint stock company. The departments of finance and of com- munications have decided on the plan | of converting the Governmenfgy rail- | ways into a joint undertaking of the All the existing Government railways and the properties attached to them will be assessed and the Governmment | SMALLPOX will hold the shares representing them, while the public will be invited to subscribe the cost required for re- pairs to existing lines and for the con- struction of new ones, a sum estimat- ed at about $35,000,000, out of a cap- ital of $140,000,000.—New York Press. —————— Yoreign Shipping in British Ports. The inroads on British commerce that are being made by foreign ship- ping can be seen in the reports of tonnage from the great South Wales docks of London. In 1897 at five of these docks there arrived 16,122 Brit- ish ships with a tonnage of 10,741,000 tons, and 2640 foreign ships with an aggregate of 1,875,400 tons. Thus the British tonage was about 85 per cent of the whole. In 1902 the correspond- ing figures were 13,969 British ships of 9,745,200 tons, and 4017 foreign ships of 3,607,500 tons. Thus the British tonnage was about 73 per cent of the total. The foreign. ton- nage had increased 92 per cent and the British decreased 9 per cent.— New York Commercial, OREGON RAILROAD MEN FOUND TO BE CARELESS Assistant Trainmaster of the Northern Pacific Learns That They Do Not Heed Signals, PORTLAND, Jan. 22—To determine the efficiéncy of the employes and to learn to what extent the rules are obeyed a series of secret tests are be- ing made over the entire system of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Several nights ago Assistant Trainmaster Coyle of the Pacific division came to Portland and watched the men running out of Portland. He stationed Himself at Scappoose, to ascertain what attention the trainmen paid to the signal lights. His investigation resulted in showing that the carelessness that had beén demonstrated by similar tests on the Eastern roads also existed in the West. unning out of Portland on the Pacific division are some of the oldest and most careful conductors and engineers on the road, but the majority of them violated the rules applying to the sig- nals. at a station the track is clear. a red light is in sight or where no light shows it is the duty of the trainmen to await for a clearance. The only train that obeyed the signal was the north coast limited. S e i FRESNO HODCARRIERS QUIT WORK ON A NEW BUILDING Refuse fo Permit the Employment of a Man Who Was Rejected by Their Union. FRESNO, Jan. 22.—Because W. S. Scott, the brick contractor on the new Forsyth building, which will be Fres- 's finest business block, continues'to employ Frank Norton, whom the hod- carriers have refused to elect to mem- bership in their organization, the hod- carriers all walked off the job to-day. It was stated to-night that there will be a general strike among .the build- ing trades employed on the structure. Norton when put to work by Scott promptly sent in his application to the | The hodcarriers struck the first day he went on because he was not then a member, but went to work again at the direction of the Building Trades Council. But at thelr meeting Wed- nesday night they refused to elect Nor- ten to membership, and when Scott re- fused to discharge him they struck. —e——————— 1S EPIDEMIC SON BARRACKS Soldiers Stationed at St. Louis Are Required to Bé Vgecinated and Arve Quarantined. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 22.—The presence of smallpox among the troops at Jef- ferson Barracks has resulted in the vaccination of -all .the men in the Fourth and Eighth Regiments of cav- alry and it has been decided to post- pone a ball scheduled for to-morrow evening. Lieutenant Frank E. Davis has been removed to the county quar- antine station suffering with the dis- ease and Lieutenants Cox, Watson and Keller, who were exposed, have been quarantined in their quarters. ————— BLOODHOUNDS TO SEEK TRAIL OF A MURDERER Body of a High School Teacher in an Indiana Town Is Found in a Shed. ¢ BEDFORD, Ind.,, Jan. 22.—The body of Miss Sarah Schaefer, teacher of Latin in the Bedford High School, union. AT J | was found in a carriage-house to-day. |She had been .attacked and robbed. The appearance of the shed indicated a struggle with her assailant. Miss Schaefer came here from Elk- hart, Ind., a year ago and was much admired. There is great excitement over the murder and bloodhounds will be given the scent. s genuine approval of the concert given last evening as the sixth number of the Y. M. C. A. star course. The Blanchard & Venter Concert Company furnished the en- tertainment. which consisted of solos by Waldemar Lind, violini Carrie Brown Dexter, soprano; Estelle Rey- nolds Drummond, pianist, and J. ¥, Veaco, tenor, nd readings by Carrie Fross Snyder. The next entertain- ment of the series is announced for February 5, when Russell H. Conwell, the Philadelphia orator, will speak. ————— WIDOWS, 105,000 of Them in New York City— 2.720,000 in the Nation. A Chicago mathematician announces that Chicago, with 60,396 widows, has a larger number than any other com- munity in the country. It is added that the number of widowers In the city is only 23,007 As a matter of fact, the State Wwhich widows are the most numerous is New York, in which they number 320,000. Tke city in which they are most numerous is the city of New York, where there are 105,000. There were by the last Federal cen- sus 2,720,000 widows in the whole United States, of whom, it is worthy to re- mark, 88,000 were in Indiana and only 8000 in Utah. There were 128,000 in Massachusetts, less than the total number in the two States of Alabama and Mississippi, though the view pretty generally pre- vails that the number of widows is dis- proportionately large throdghout New England. There are nearly 2000 in Hawaii and 1700 in Alaska, a proportionately larger | number than in thé city of Chicago. s R 1 FREE TO - ADVERTISERS IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. De Witt’s Guide to San Fran- cisco. Strect Car Lines, Hotels, Boarding, Rooming and Apart- ment Houses, ete., ete., together with an up-to-date indexed map of the city. BRING YOUR WANT ADS TO THE CALL. A WAN Where a white light is displayed ! Where | q in| Continued From Page 1. Column 5. his duties as Secretary of War on Feb- ruary 1. “ S R DELAY CAUSES APPREHENSION. the Nations Not, Likely. LONDON, Jan..23.—The delay in the Russian reply to ‘the’ latest mote from Japan is causing the custemary crop of sensational. statements pointing to tite imminence; of war in the Far East. The Dally Grabhic this morning says it understands’that there is no likelihood of a compromise, owing to the unyleid- | ing attitude of Japan .on "the Map- | churian questign,” and the fact that in i her last note to Russia Japan_struck out the whole article in the draft of | the treaty relating to the demand of | Russia for a neutral zone. The correspg; ent of the Morning Post at Chefuhas sent in ‘an‘alarms ing report u.amz.ooo ‘Japanese troops. have landed at‘Masampho, in Southern Korea, and the . Port -Arthur corre- spondent - of ‘the< Paris "edition’ of the | New York Herald. also refers,.in a _dis- | patch, to the fact.that the news of the | | occupation of Masamnho 8- being-re- ceived calmly. s = ., d Special dispatches from Seoul 'say the Emperor of Korea has appointed 1a new Cabinet, ‘ with' Yi- Yon Gik ‘as | Minister of War, and Finance. Yi Yon Gik has ordered 10000 rifiés tor Lhe army. Reports have been ‘sent in.from Che- i 1 been fund under the bridges of - the Manchurian line above Port Arthur. The supposed intention was to blow up the bridges as soon as hostilities | began. The Tokio correspondent of the Daily Mail sends the following dispatch: “The Jiji Shimpo says that on the | day following the ratification of the Chinese-American treaty Russia noti- fied Japan that it was useless to nego- tiate a neutral zone on the Yalu, as | the ratification of both treaties showed that Manchuria was Chinese domain.” Cabling from Shanghai the corre- spondent there of the Daily Mail de- clares the Chinese Government has ! | i | | force to Chinese Turkestan. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Dally Telegraph .cables to his paper as fol- | lows: “I learn 'that difficulty has arisen through reluctance to grant the same freedom of immigration into Manchu- ria to the Japanese as to other foreign- ers, for fear that the Japanese would £oon overrun the province. Whatever | concessiong, however, Russia offers re- garding Manchuria will probably be of- fered in the first instance to the United | States.” PUBLIC TENSION GROWING. Russia’s Delay and J Japans Stoie At- titude Aré Considered Foreboding. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 22.—The Czar has not’ yef called the council to consider the Japanese reply, but it is said at the Foreign Office that the sum- mons may bé issued any day. The de- lay, coupled with d.zpatches from To- kio saying that Japan is armed and grimly awalting, has caused a slight renewal of public nervousness, which was reflected by the weakness on the Bourse to-day. This alarm is seeming- 1y not shared in the higher Government circles, where it is insisted that the Czar’s pacific declarations were not idle words. The worst that is now an- ticipated is the breakdown of the ne- gotiations in the event of Russia's re- sponse being unacceptable to Japan. The papers to-day publish prominent- ly the statement ‘that -the United States’ Asiatic squadron will remain in Philippine waters. The Gazette, in pointing out the mischief caused by er- roneous statements that Admiral Evans’ destination was Yongampho, Korea, in- stead of Olongapo, Subig Bay, near Ma- nila, welcomes the correction as evi- dence that the United States will not meddie in the quarrel. Morning and Afternoon Sessions, But Little of Importance Done. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Morning and afternoon session$ of the Cabinet were held to-day. In the absence of Secretaries Hay and Moody, no matters concerning the State or Navy depart- | ments were considered. It can be said | on authority that no action of serious importance was taken. It is likely dur- ing the session of Cdngress that the President, on account of pressing en- gagements in the early part of the day, | frequently will have the Cabinet meet- ings in the afternoon. s JAPAN 1S INDEPENDENT. Mikado Asks No Mu]lnllon From Any Foreign Power. LONDON, Jan. 22.—The Associated Press is officially informed that the Japanese Government will not accept the mediation of any of the foreign powers. ? L Y Russian Squadron Sails. SUEZ, Jan. 22.—The Russian squad- ron, consisting of the battleship Dmitri Donskoi, the cruiser Orel and six tor- pedo-boat destroyers, sailed to-day for the Far East. One Russian torpedo- boat destroyer, which is disabled, will remain here. “ To Prevent the Grip. Laxative Bromo .Quinine removes the cause. To get the genuine call for the full name. 25¢. * e Threading Needles. My mother's sight has failed so that g)lgreadlng a needle is a task almost be- yond her. After an absence from home 1 learned that a young friend having setn her difficulty had helped her over this little obstacle by threading her ‘needles. She simply took the spool of thread and paper of needles, and, with- ‘out breaking the thread, threaded the whole paper of needles as one would string beads. When a needleful of thread was desired all that was neces- sary was to take the first needle, draw off as long a thread as desired, fasten the outside needle to the spool and leave it ready for next tlm-—Goml Honuhepflax B A‘Gmenutn Pll.u. e O B e YD s Oiauu% to nfimfl m hu.” Likelthood of a Commromise Betweeu ; -~ | plot. foo that quantities: of dynamie have. learned that Russia is sending a large | GvARD FOILS PRISONERS’ ATTEMPT TO BREAK JAIL Three + Convicts Forfeit Credits and Are Consigned to Dark Cells 3 by Sheriff Curtis. Three desperate prisoners serving time in the County Jail made an at- tempt to escape from the institution early yesterday morning by! sawing through the steel bars of a window, but were foiled by the prompt action of Guard Charles Stryker. The men who tried to break jail are E. H. Leroy, Andrew Metzinger and Thomas Kelly, alias' Frank Callaghan. | By slipping small pieces of wood into the locks of their cells the latter were prevented from - being firmly {locked Thursday evening and -later that night Metzinger. opened his cell door and then released Leroy and Kelly. The prisoners then quietly pro- ceeded to the epd of the corridor, | where Kelly lifted Metzinger up to a window, the bars of which the last- named began to cut with a saw. He .was in the midst of his work when detected by Guard Stryker and a hur- rled»im'emgatlon expoud the whole Leroy is‘supposed to have re- ceived the saws from a woman who is thought to be his wife and who fre- | quently visits him. He gave them to hig pals, who had entered into the plot with him. The prisoners have been deprived of their credits and confined in dark cells by order of Sheriff Cur- tis, 7 —_— e PERSONAL. C. B. Jillson, a fruit man of Napa, is at the Grand. Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Stitt of Vaca- ville are at the Palace. J. T. Roberts, the well-known banker of Madera, is registered at the Palace. Judge M. B. Koon and C. 8. Gillette, prominent attorneys of Minneapolis, Minn., are at the Palace Hotel. V. von Grot of St. Petersburg, who | is interested in several large mining | concessions in Siberia, is at the Pal- ace. F. Sontag, president of the Grand Pa- cific Hotel Company of Chicago, is a guest at the Palace Hotel, and is ac- companied by his wife and daughter. State Senator George T. Myers of ‘| Oregon and his son, George T. Myers Jr., superintendent of Oregon's fish- eries and game exhibit #t the St Louis Exposition, arrived from Port- land yesterday and are registered at the Occidental. E. A. Ashcroft, a noted metallurgist of London, who, with Professor James SwinQurne, head of the Mining In- stitute of England, has inaugurated a new process for the reduction of ores that promises to revolutionize the present art -f metallurgy and that has been causing much comment in the British scientific journals, is reg- istered at the Palace. He has been examining mining properties in Brit- ish Columbia. s 5 R Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—The follow- ing Californians are here: From San Francisco—I. Cohn, W. R. Cohn, at the Hotel Spalding; C. A. Hawkins at the Hoffman, M. Lowen- stein at the Hotel Savoy, M. Mac- Dowell at the Bartholdi,” Miss M. Nathan at the Wellington, H. G. Sherdeman at the Imperial, Mrs. M. Spencer at the Murray Hill, J. E. Freeman, Miss M. L. Payne at the Holland, H. M. Abrams at the Herald Square. From Los Angeles—A. J. Condee at the Sinclair. St RS A OFFICIAL DESIGNATION 1 OF AERIAL RACES World’s Fair Airship Contests to Be Known as “Aeronautic Con- course of 1904.” “The Aeronautic Concourse of 1904" is the official name for the airship con- tests to be held in connection with the World’s Fair. Complete organization for the events was effected recently at a meeting of the exposition's commit- tee on aeronautics. Willard A. Smith, chief of the depart- ment of transportation exhibits, will continue to have direct management. Octave Chanute, past president of the American Society of Engineers, who is considered a leading authority on aer- onautics, was appointed consulting en- gineer. Carl E. Meyer of the “Balloon Farm" of Frankfort, N. Y., was appointed su- perintendent of the aeronautic grounds and buildings. He will report for duty February 1. Mr. Meyer is classed among the leading balloon manufac- tures and practical aeronauts.of the United States. Among Mr. Meyer's duties will be the establishment of a balloon shop on the fair grounds for making repairs to air- ships. He will make and operate the signal balloons used for marking. the course of the grand races, will have charge of the hydrogen gas plant, and, in a general way, will direct the con- tests’ under the direction of the in- ternational jury. ¥ The aeronautic grounds are on the level plateau of the Washington Uni- versity campus, directly west of the Hall of Congresses. They will be sur- rounded by a board fence twelve feet high. At the southern and western sides the fence will be raised to thirty feet to act as a windbreak. . Pipes and valves for inflating the bal- loons will be installed in the inclosure. A wooden structure eighty feet high will be erected as a testing station for airships. All contestants will have full use of all the facilities installed by the exposition.—St. Louis Republic. —————( s Goodman Gonrong—We don't git nothin’ at that house. I asked the woman fur some cold vittles, a cup o’ cawfey, some clothin’, an' a place to sleep in' the barn’ an', by gum, she gaid I was domin’ it a little too strong, and’ she set the door in my face! Tuffold Knutt—That's wot yet git, ye blame fool, fur puttin® all yer begs in orfe ask it."—Chicago Tribune. ——— B C.. Jan. 22-A letter from domina a CI’OBZA. | 0LD [SSUES ROUSE FRENCH Recent Expulsion of Alsatian Priest Cause of Bitter De- bate in Chamber of Deputies MINISTERS WIN 'ON VOTE —_—1 Police Break Up a Demon- stration on Street and Ar- rest About Sixty Persons R LA PARIS, Jan. 22.—The Chamber of Deputies was the scene of much ex- citement to-day in connection with the case of Father Delsor, the Alsatian priest who was expelled from France recently on the ground that he was a foreigner seeking to foment agita- tion against the Government. His ex- pulsion has revived the animosity growing out of the Franco-Prussian war, a considerable element of the press and public asserting that the ex- pulsion of Delsor as a foreigner marked -the final abandonment of Al- sace to Germany. Premier Combes declared the agitation had the same theatrical character as Boulangerism. After a long and heated discussion | Premier Combes intimated that he would accept a motion made by M. Sarrien as the order of the day pure and simple, with the understanding this should be taken to imply approval of the Government's action. The division resulted in a Ministerial vietory, the vote being 259 to 243. During the sitting of the chamber there was a noisy pro-Alsatian demon- stration in the Place de la Concorde, | which resulted in the arrest of about sixty persons. Order was restored la- ter and the persons arrested were re- leased. FAMILIES RUN- FROM FLOOD, | PR AR Continued From Page 1, Column 7. gheny stood at 29.6 feet at Perris Isl- and and was rising at the rate of six- tenths of a foot an hour; the Monon- gahela ‘at the wharf stood at 27.2, ris- ing eight-tenths of a foot per hour; | the Ohio at Davis Island dam stood at | 25.1 and rising four-tenths of a foot per hour. The worst Zears of the manufactur- ers along the Pittsburg side of the Al- legheny River from the Sharpsburg | bridge down were realized shortly af- ter midnight, when the water swept | over the banks in many places and in- undated the surrounding districts. Every mill and factory between the Allegheny Valley Railroad tracks and | the river is more or less flooded and it is estimated that in the neighbor- hood of 25,000 men will be forced to lay idle until Monday or Tuesday. | e g i SNOW FOLLOWS RAIN. Trains Delayed and Traffic Prostrated | in New York and Canada. BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 22.—With a continuous fall of rain for nearly | twenty-four hours, the immense quan- | tity of snow throughout the western | part of New York was rapidly turned into water, which soon, to-night, sent the rivers swirling out of bounds, flood- ing great areas. In Northern New York and places in | Canada, where the temperature was lower, the rain turned into sleet and ' snow, prostrating telegraph and tele- | phone lines and demoralizing railroad | traffic. Trains on the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific to-night are reported | at from twelve to twenty-four hours | late. The Chicago express, on the| Grand Trunk, arrived at Toronto| twenty-four hours late, after spending | fifteen hours in a snowbank. Another | train is stalled in the snow somewhere between Montreal and Toronto, and | snowplows have been sent out to rescue | the train. i SITUATION IS BRIGHTER. Fall of Temperature Lessens Danger of Break in Cuyahoga River. | Alexander, should receive OMAHA ORDER S IN TROUBLE Nebraska State Supreme Court Grants Receiver for the Bank- ers’ Union of the World AFFAIRS IN BAD SHAPE State Auditor Deeclares the Coneern Is Unstable and True Report Is Not Given LINCOLN, Neb., Jafl. 22.—Chief Jus- tice Holcomb of the Nebraska Supreme Court to-day granted the request Deputy State Auditor Plerce for a tem- porary receiver for the Bankers’ Union of the World, an insurance order with headquarters in Omaha, and Sheriff Powers of Omaha was appointed. The Deputy Auditor alleges that the order is insolvent; that all the Mlabilitie have not been reported; that 3 amount due policy-holders and unpaid is $20,000, and that the assets are only $2437. E. C. Spinney of Omaha is pres- ident of the union and his wife s vice president. OMAHA, Neb, Jan. 22—The Bank- ers’ Union of the World, for which the Supreme Court to-day granted a tem- porary receiver, was originated five years ago by Dr. E. C. Spinney, who has been its president since the charter was granted; Judge E. P. Holmes of Lincoln i¢ vice president; Elmer H Packard, secretary, and M. T. Swartz, banker. The company has been doing business in twenty-five States and has in force about $25,000,000 of insurance. Its gross receipts for 1503, according to a statement just issued, were $135,387, and the claims paid during the period amounted to $52,000. President Spinney stated that the re- ceivership came as an entire surprise to him, although he admitted that there had been some difficulty between the State officers and the company, as a result, he said, of his declining to pay certain’ alleged excessive charges for examination. He says that on January 10 the con- cern had $12,000 in cash on hand and owned other assets worth $35,000. The allegation that the State Auditor makes, he said, that $20,000 was paid him for salary for 1903 was untrue. He stated that his salary had been $6000; that he had been paid about $7000 com- missions, which represented five per cent allowed him but never drawn on business for three former years; $1000 paid his wife as salary for editing the official paper, and $5000 in stock which he had placed in the treasury and which was returned to him by order of the directors. The headquarters of the Bankers Union occupy a large suite of rooms in a downtown office building and em- ploy a large force of clerks. Sheriff Power, the temporary re- ceiver of the union, took possession of the offices of the concern late to-day. —_———— SUPREME COURT DECIDES IN FAVOR OF DAUGHTER ame Widow of the Late George Grannis Is Awarded Only $20,000 of $175,000 Estate. Harriet G. Center is entitled to the major part of the $175,000 tate left by George W. Grannis according to a de- cision rendered by the Supreme Court yesterday. The widow will get only $20,000. The grandson will get deced- ent’s gold watch and jewelry. The es- tate will be distributed exactly as Grannis intended. The deceased left a will in which he gave his wife $20,000 and his daughte Mrs. Center, the remainder of his pn. erty. A codicil was added it was directed that his grnnds-m_ his watch and jewelry. Mrs. Grannis thought she should havé more than had been given her and contested the decree oi distribu- tion accordingly. The Supreme Court finds that deceased had accumulated the greater part of his fortune before his second marriage and that therefore he was entitled to dispose of it as he wished. —_——— —— Younz Hebrews to Eutertain. The Young Men's Hebrew Assoc tion has arranged for a book night morrow evening at its clubrooms, 1917 Page street. The entertainment will be for the benefit of the association’s library, and it is expected that a large \e ccllecticn of books will be donated during the evening. ADVERTISEMENTS. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 22. The flood situation in - Cleveland and vicinity is brighter at midnight Friday, because of a fall in the temperature, which will lessen the probability of a dangerous gorge about ten miles up the Cuyahoga River breaking and letting loose a great mass of water held in check by it. The Cuyahoga River is flowing aboat fifteen miles an hour and is slightly lower than during the day. Three great lake vessels that broke loose from their moorings’ to-day are still wedged tightly together, and there is no possibility of them breaking away or of them being moved until the flood of water has ceased running into the lake. The entire loss in Cleveland is esti- mated at $500,000. —_——— Made Paper of His Scalp. To have a portion of his scalp torn off and worked into the texture of a ! sheet cf, white paper was the expe- rience of Irvan McNutt at the Hamil- ton Paper Mill, Lafayette. Young McNutt prided himself in a shock of long hair, and to this was due his ac- cident. His locks caught in the &al- enders of the paper-making machine and his head was drawn to the rapidly revolving rolls; but the scalp gave way, and though he was painfully Injured, his life was saved. The skin and hank of hair passed through the machine, and when the latter was stopped the human hair and cuticle formed a novel “watermark,” which was cut ciit for a keepsake for McNutt. — Philadelphia Record. MNID‘IJ!B 22 —A deeclsion of particu- blldlfl'llr'nmhlh! by Judge No Appetite BAJA CALIFORNIA Damiana Bitters s ' TIVE, INVIGOKA- )52 GREAT RESTORATIVE, Ix - Tomie for the. '0:::\—- : Diseases of e Kidness 1'""-..-"“"‘ "y Seils G 1t o merica 823 Market st, 8. F. —(Send for Circulars).