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PEACEABLE LOOK
SETTLEMENT OF BOER
BRITISH TROUBLES
AND
OHLY TECHNICALITIES DELAY
Both Sides Anxious for the War to
End but South Africans Have Some
Difficulty in Pacifying Certain of
Their People
LONDON May 24 The Associated
Press Las every reason to believe that
peace in South Africa is practically
secured How fioon depends ap
parently more upon convenience of
tho Bper leaders than upon the inclin
ation of the British government The
private and official advices received
In London from South Africa all
point to the same conclusion The
delay is technical and to end the long
war spems to be the desire of both
British and Boor leaders The lat
ter however are unable to convince
all of their followers of Lhe wisdom
of acquiescing m the terms of peace
Information as to what transpired
at yesterdays meeting of the cabinet
Is closely guarded but it Is not like
ly that the cabinet transactions were
of vital import The surmise of one
well informed person place3 the sum
total of the deliberations of the cab
inet ministers at a decision regard
ing points of the peace agreement
of entirely minor importance An
other surmise is that the cabinet
merely sent a rather mock ultimatum
to South Africa which can be used
by the Boer leaders in explanation
to their forces
Both these surmises probably con
tain an element of truth but neither
can in any way effect the widespread
belief in the best informed quarters
that the end of the war has come
In fact those persons who are best
acquainted with the actual details of
the present negotiations only qual
ify this optimistic expression of opin
ion by guarded reservations concern
ing the extent of the personal con
trol of the Boer leaders over their
commands Were the Boers a thor
oughly disciplined force dependent
on the action of their general officers
peace would probably be now pro
claimed but Botha Dewet and the
other generals seem themselves to
positively guarantee the degree to
which their example will be followed
The delegation at Vereningen ac
cording to the information of the war
office are fairly evenlj divided Ac
cordingly extreme precautions are ex
ercised in London and Pretoria to pre
vent any premature report which
might adversely influence the Boers
Advices received by the war office
indicate that whatever decision the
Verceniging conference may arrive at
most if not all of the Boer leaders
who went to Pretoria will not con
tinue the fight The present negotia
tions were merely for the purpose of
enabling the Boer leaders to save
their faces After they learn the
results of this afternoons meeting of
the cabinet the Boer leaders are ex
pected to announce their reluctant ac
quiescence with the British terms
The war office does not expect any
serious defections from the rank and
file on the action taken by Generals
Botha and Dewet
Kansas Democrats Adjourn
WICHITA Kan May 24 The
democratic state convention has ad
journed after naming six of tne four
teen places to be filled at the Novem
ber election W H Craddock may
or of Kansas City Kan was named
for governor Other nominations are
James McCleverlty Fort Scott and
J C Cannon Mound City tor supreme
justices Claude Duvall Hutchinson
for secretary of state J M Love
Kinsley for auditor
A Veteran Passes Away
OMAHA Neb May 24 Warren
Woodard of Exeter Neb an old sol
dier and a member of the department
of Nebraska Grand Army of the Re
public who came here to attend the
slate encampment died at the Pax
ton hotel His wife arrived from Ex
eter before his death Mr Woodard
was one of the first settlers of Exeter
having located there thirty two years
ago
Drops Dead at Sons Grave
WILBER Neb May 24 While vis
iting his sons grave with his wife
Bartholomew Zoubek fell dead over
the grave from heart disease He was
72 years of age and had resided here
for thirty years
Japan Wants Large Loan
SEATTLE Wash May 24 Count
Matsukaua the prime minister of Jap
an with the Japanese minister of
finance is in the United States for the
purpose of negotiating a loan of 100
000000 with which to build ships and
railways and to carry on mining oper
ations in Japan This statement is
made upon authority of Theophile
Gollier attache of the Belgian lega
tion in Tokio who with his wife ar
rived in Seattle
ALL SIGNS POINT TO PEACE
British Officials However Give No
Indication of Negotiations
LONDON May 23 The concensus
of opinion here is that all tho signs
are propitious but up to 2 oclock this
afternoon the British officials had giv
en no indications of the course which
the negotiations between Lord Kitch
ener and Lord Milner and the Boer
delegates at Pretoria were taking
That conferences are occurring re
garding the basis upon which peace
shall be declared Is the sum total of
tho Information which the war office
has vouchsafed up to the present
though it is intimated that a definite
announcement of the result peaceful
or otherwise may speedily be expect
ed
The expression that peace is close
at hand has obviously taken a strong
hold of operators on tho stock ex
cnange The buying of consols and
gilt edged South African shares con
tinues it is believed in behalf of well
informed interests
PALMA EXPRESSES GRATITUDE
President of Cuban Republic Sends
Message to Secretary Root
WASHINGTON May 23 The sec
retary of war has received the fol
lowing message from the president of
Cuba
Elihu Root Secretary of war
Washington I am deeply moved by
your heartfelt message of congratula
tion on the inauguration of the re
public of Cuba to the birth of which
the people and the government of the
United States have contributed with
their blood nd treasure Rest assur
ed that the Cuban people can never
forget the debt of gratitude they owe
to the great republic with which we
will always cultivate the closest re
lations of friendship and for the
prosperity of which we pray to the
Almighty
Signed
T ESTRADA irALMA
TOWN ISOLATED BY STORM
Decorah Cut Off by Flood Which Does
Great Damage
CONOVER la May 23 The town
of Decorah la the county seat of
Winneshiek county has ben cut off
from communication with other points
for the last forty eight hours The
storms of Tuesday night flooded the
valley from Conover to Decorah
sweeping away railroad bridges tracks
and telegraph poles and flooding the
town
Two men drove from Decorah to
Conover this afternoon and reported
that water ran through the streets
carrying away bridges and some of the
smaller houses They said that two
lives had been lost and that possibly
others had perished People were
driven to the hills The Milwaukee
road has a crew at work repairing its
linese and expects to open communi
cation with Decorah tomorrow night
PRICE OF COAL IS ADVANCED
Radical Action Taken by the Retail
Dealers in New York
NEW YORK May 23 Convinced
that weeks and possibly months may
elapse before the miners strike shall
have been settled retail coal dealers
here have advanced the price of an
thracite coal to a maximum of 850 a
ton and at the same time marked up
bituminous to 450 when purchased
in small quantities To consumers of
large quanties of soft coal a rate of
385 is quoted
Only once before have these prices
for fuel been exceeded That was in
1871 when the price of anthracite
reached a maximum of 11 a ton
Bad Hail Storm Hits Iowa
PERRY la May 23 The town
and vicinity of Dawson six miles west
of here was vited by a severe hail
and rain storm Hail stones measur
ing three inches across were picked
up after the storm Not a pane of
glass was left on the south side of
buildings in the town even large plate
glass windows in stores being broken
Trees and growing crops are damaged
badly
Think Pfeister Insane
WILBER Neb May 23 Complaint
has been made before the insanity
board against a man named Pfeister
who it is said is roaming around the
country south of Swanton in a crazed
condition and afflicted with the small
pox
Swedish Ministers Must Refrain
SIOUX CITY la May 23 Minis
ters of the Swedish Baptist church in
Iowa cannot in future belong to se
cret orders under the revised consti
tution of the association
Bard Ordered to Vacate
CHEYENNE Wyo May 23 I N
Bard who owns a large ranch prop
erty on Little Bear creek about thirty
five miles north of this city reports
that on last Saturday he received
warning to leave the country in the
form of a note on his doorstep Ac
cording to Bards statement large
areas of government land as well as
county roads are fenced in and in
order to get to his ranch he is com
pelled to cut fencees
ERUPTION AGAIN
MOUNT PELEE AND SOUFRIERE
BREAK FORTH
TERROR AND AWFUL DREAD
Frenzied Populace Appalled by Fiery
Clouds Hot Stones and Swirling
Ashes Flee to Cities for Refuge
Amid Indescribable Consternation
FORT DE FRANCE Island of Mar
tinique May 22 Yesterdays eruption
from Mont Pelce was violent in the
extreme Colossal columns of volcanic
matter were ejected from the volcano
which rained huge hot boulders many
feet in diameter upon the ruins of
St Pierre and the surrounding coun
try from an enormous elevation and
with fearful volocity The volcanic
clouds advanced as far as Fort de
France
The spectacle was appalling and be
yond description Tne whole popula
tion of Fort do France was thrown
into a frenzy of panic during which
soldiers police men and women all
terrified frantic weeping and praying
rushed through the streets while over
head the growing fiery clouds rolled
relentlessly and rained down stones
still hot amirt the swirling ashes
The steam launch of the United
States cruiser Cincinnati took some
refugees to the French cruiser Suchet
and nearly 100 persons sought refuge
on the Cincinnati and United States
steamer Potomac At 10 oclock the
Potomac went to investigate matters
and all reports agree that Lieutenant
Benjamin B McCormick the com
mander of the steamer did excellent
work He went in close to St Pierre
and found that that city had been
bombarded with enormous stones
from the volcano and that the ruins
left standing after the first great dis
aster had been nearly razed Mil
lions of tons of ashes then covered the
ruined city
Further smaller stones had destroy
ed the houses of the brave villagers
who had stuck to their homes
Lieutenant McCormick took on
board the Potomac ISO refugees The
lieutenant fed them and brought the
party to Fort de France This work
of rescue was difficult and dangerous
It is reported fiat the whole popula
tion of the islnnd is fleeing toward
Fort de France The consternation
prevailing is indescribable Mont
Pelee is stil very threatening
The French cruiser Suchet went on
another tour around the island and
did not take part in the rescue work
of the Potomac
The United States steamer Sterling
has returned from San Juan de Porto
Rico
The United States steamer Dixie is
expected here this afternoon from
New York
POLICE BOARD STAYS
Supreme Court Again Decide in Favor
of Present Incumbents
LINCOLN May 22 The supreme
court has denied the application of
C C Wright for a writ of mandamus
to compel the governor to appoint a
board of fire and police commissioners
for Omaha Two questions were in
volved in this case One was the au
thority of the supreme court to man
damus the governor and the other
was the right of the governor to
make appointments The opinion was
written by Chief Justice Sullivan
Judges Holcomb and Sedgwick con
curring
The court declares that it has the
right to mandamus an officer of the
executive branch of the government
and that in this regard the law makes
no distinction between officials The
writ is denied however on the
ground of res adjudica which is that
a question once determined by a
judgment on its merits is forever set
tled It was on this ground that
Judge Sullivan in the Kennedy case
adhered to the decision in the Moores
case from which he had originally
dissented
Funeral of Consul Prentis
FORT DE FRANCE Martinique
May 22 Funeral services over the re
mains of Thomas T Prentis the late
United States consul at St Pierre
were held yesterday
Kansas Wetted Down
TOPEKA Kan May 22 Heavy
rains have fallen practically all over
Kansas during the past twenty four
hours The rain was the heaviest of
the year
Omaha Company Expanding
CHICAGO May 22 Plans are un
der way for the reorganization of the
Omaha Packing company Ira M Cobe
president of the Chicago Title and
Trust company promoting the deal
The stock is to be 20000u0 pielerrci
and 52000000 common Subscribers
to the preferred leceive 50 per cent
of the amount of their subscriptions
in common as a bonus The Omaha
company has a branch in this city
j and others elsewhere
WILL FIGHT BISCUIT TRUST
Independent Concerns to Unite In Op
position to the Same
CHICAGO May 21 The Inter
Ocean says that the independent bis
cuit companies throughout the coun
try will soon be combined In a giant
rival to the National Biscuit company
probably under the name of the Un
ion Biscuit company
Several of the largest independent
concerns have already entered Into an
agreement to unite and steps now be
ing taken by the officers of the Union
Biscuit company of St Louis are de
signed to amalgamate most of the 150
independent companies Into one cor
poration A buying and selling agree
ment has already been entered Into
it is said
According to the present plans of
the independent people Jacob L
Boose formerly president of the
American Biscuit company which was
absorbed by the National Biscuit com
pany is to bo at the head of the new
concern
FRENCH PREMIER TO RETIRE
President Loubet is to Form New
Cabinet June 1
PARIS May 21 It is officially an
nounced that the premier M
will resign before
June 1 leaving President Loubet to
form a new cabinet simultaneously
with the meeting of the new chamber
M Waldeck Rousseau notified M
Loubet and his colleagues just before
the presidents departure for Russia
that he considered he had accomplish
ea the work of unity which was the
object of his taking office and that
therefore he desired to retire from
the present cabinet but would retain
office until a new cabinet was formed
trom representatives of the majority
of the newly elected deputies
INJUNCTION PUT IN FORGE
Order Restraining Packers from Main
taining Combine Issued
CHICAGO May 21 The temporary
injunction asked for by the govern
ment against the members of the so
called packers combine is now in
force It was issued by Judge Peter
Grosscup after the close of arguments
in the United States circuit court
room The order gives the relief pray
ed for in the bill filed by District At
torney Bethea on May 1
It is so wide in its scope that if
the packers or their agents continue
with their present alleged uniform ar
rangement they will be taken into
court on contempt proceedings and the
burden of proof will be on them to
3how that they have not violated the
order in any particular
Price of Coal Advanced
NEW YORK May 21 Owing to
the strike in the anthracite coal mine
region the price of bituminous coal
has been advanced in this city from
J2G0 to 450 a ton The coal opera
tors it is said intend to cut off the
anthracite coal supply in the small
towns in order that there shall be a
greater supply for this city It is a
violation of law to use soft coal in
this city
Basse Point Flooded
FORT DE FRANCE Island of Mar
tinique May 21 A severe inundation
at Basse Pointe on the northeast
coast of this island at 2 oclock this
morning swept away twenty houses
and fifty other buildings were damag
ed by the flowing mud which has
swept over the Vallee de la Riviere
There was no further loss of life
Basse Pointe having been abandoned
several days ago
Boers Vote for Peace
LONDON May 21 Business was
very buoyant on the stock exchange
this afternoon owing to reports of the
receipt of a private telegram announc
ing that the Boer conference at Ver
eeningen had voted in favor of peace
on the best terms procurable by a
delegation to be sent to Pretoria to
conler with Lord Kitchener and Lord
Milner the British high commissioner
Breaks Automobile Record
NEW YORK May 21 All automo
bile records between New York and
Philadelphia have been broken by a
party of Nov Yorkers who made the
run from this city to Philadelphia in
four hours and eight minutes The
distance is 103 miles
To Be Marshals
WASHINGTON May 21 The pres
ident today nominated W M Hanson
and A J Houston to be United States
marshals of the southern and east
ern districts of Texas respectively
Robber Kills Saloon Man
KANSAS CITY May 21 Joseph
Barrone an Italian saloon keeper
aged 31 was shot and killed in his
saloon in this city by a robber with
whom he had a desperate encounter
early today The robber entered the
saloon and finding Barrone alone de
manded his money Barrrone refused
to surrender his cash and a struggle
followed The robber fired five shots
at Barrone three of which took ef
fect The robber escaped
THE LIVE STOCK MARKET
Latest Quotations from South Omaha
and Kansas City
SOUTH OMAHA
CATTLE There was not a heavy run
of cattlo 50 that under tho Influence of
ji kockI local demand trading was fairly
active and pructlcally everythlnjf was
disposed of in jjood season Beef steers
made up the bulk of the offerinKH and
tho quality was fully as kooCL as usual
Tho demand was especially good for the
choice heavywclKht cattle and such
kinds could safely be quoted strong and
active The liBhtwelKht cattle howover
did not move quite as freely as they
have on some days and the same was
true of the commoner jcrodes of all
weights While such kinds did not sell
any lower as a rule still packers were
indifferent buyers and sellers in some
cases found it rather hard to Kct as
much as they thought they ought to
huve Practically everything though
was disposed of in good season The
better grades of cows and heifers also
commanded steady to strong prices and
the market was active The medium
kinds and canners did not show much
of any change Bulls veal calves and
stags also sold in Just about yesterdays
notches Stockers and feeders were
rather scarce and anything at all deslr
ablo was picked up in a hurry at fully
steady prices The commoner kinds were
neglected more or less the same as us
ual but they sold at right around steady
prices
HOGS There was another liberal sup
ply of hogs so that packers took ad
vantage of the opportunity to pound the
market a little Trading started out
rather slow at a decline of just about 5c
Tho market was not verv brisk at any
time but still the hogs kept going over
the scales and the bulk of the offerings
was out of first hands at a resonably
early hour The bulk of the good weight
hogs sold from 705 to 720 and the me
dium weights went at from G5 to 705
and the light stuff went from GJK down
SHEEP Offerings of sheep and lambs
w ero so light that it could not be said
that there was a market There were
just a few bunches of mixed stock in
the yards and they sold without any
trouble at just about steady prices What
has been previously said regarding the
demand for good stuff still holds true
and there Is no doubt In the minds of
traders but what desirable offerings
would sell at the high point of the sea
son
KANSAS CITY
CATTLE Best beef steers ffl0c high
er cows and heifers steadv to shade
lower stockers and feeders weaker
choice export and dressed beef steers
700fi730 fair to good 500 ti700 stock
ers and feeders 3Wi515 western fed
steers J450fi6Go Texas and Indian
steers 31Qg630 Texas cows 300f475
native cows 22551615 native heifers
300675 canners J200ft250 bulls 325
4 o40 caves 300040
HOGS Market weak to 5c lower top
7iOf bulk of sales 7005730 heavy
720740 mixed packers 51011730 light
Ksm7A2i yorkers 700712 pigs 5
OCcjCTO
SHEEP AND LAMBS Market 510c
lower native lambs 54057CG western
lambs 5W5700 native wethers 530
G10 western wethers 4305550 fed
ewes 475Jt00 Texas clipped yearlings
5505S0 Texas clipped sheep 4301530
stockers and feeders 240450
PERRY HAS A FLOOD
Woman Drowned and Many Persons
Saved with Difficulty
PERRY O T May 24 Heavy
rains caused the creek running
through Perry to overflow its banks
at 3 oclock this morning Several
small houses along the banks of the
stream were washed away before the
occupants could escape
One woman name unknown is re
ported drowned Several women and
children were rescued from trees and
house roofs One family was saved by
cutting through the roof G W Coop
er a hotel proprietor at the risk of
his life swam to a tree and rescued
two women and a baby George Ney
a cook rescued the wife of a hotel pro
prietor from a house in mid stream
One bridge was washed away and oth
ers are in bad shape On the east
side of the square and on East street
the water ran into stores damaging
stocks
AI Beard Wanted In Iowa
ONAWA la May 24 County At
torney W L Smith of Monona coun
ty has sworn out a warrant for the
arrest of Al Beard the notorious out
law wanted at St Paul Minn and
Lincoln Neb for the murder of John
J Gillilan and now in custody at
Kansas City Beard it is alleged
robbed a bank at Turin la on No
vember 8 1901 when a large sum was
taken
Church Struck by Lightning
RIVERTON la May 24 During a
severe rain and wind storm at this
place the spire of the Baptist church
was struck by lightning which com
pletely wrecked it besides doing great
damage to other portions of the build
ing
One Little Mine Running
HAZLETON Pa May 24 Matthias
Schwabe a small independent oper
ator started up his colliery at South
Herberton All of his miners are to
receive the wages demanded by the
mine workers
The Motion Overruled
DES MOINES la May 24 The au
preme court overruled the motion for
rehearing in the case ot Johnson
against the Omaha Railroad company
from Woodbury county in which case
the attorney for the railroad company
had contended that the court laid
down a rule which would enable all
tramps to ride on trains free because
the court held the company liable for
damages for evicting a tramp while a
train was in motion
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MTIMTMli TT I
Womans Uneven Shoulders
New York Sun Have you r
in the course of
one woman to another
the Bhopplng district
a walk through
noticed how crooked women are get
ting to be Look at somo of tho
and see ir in J
women who pass us
right shoulder Is not almost Invaria
bly lower than the other The other
woman looked and lo it was so J
is the nutural result of always hav
ing a train to hold up said the first
woman Why will women cling to
such unreasonable fashions A train
is graceful only when allowed to seep
tho ground and we cannot let it do
that In the dirty street consequently
we are everlastingly clutching it to
keep it from the pavement and the
position this necessitates is so con
stantly assumed that the right shoulder
is becoming lower than the other II
the thing continues the boasted car
riage of the American girl win souu
be an empty boast indeed The only
remedy for the present the only hopu
for the future is to leave off trailing
skirts and to go to a gymnasium
There under the direction of a compe
tent teacher one who knows how to
cure just such defects train and never
stop until you are straight again
He Gave His Address
Harry Furniss tells a good story of
a distinguished but Irritable Scotch
lecturer The gentleman had occasion
to speak in a small town in one of the
Lowland counties and it chancea tnai
he met with a more than usually lo
quacious chairman This genius ac
tually spoke for a whole hour in in
troducing the lecturer He wound up
by saying It is unnecessary for me
to say more but call upon the talented
gentleman who has come so far to give
us his address tonight
The lecturer came forward You
want my address Ill give it to you
322 Rob Roy Crescent Edinburgh and
Im just off there now Goodnight
May Womans Home Companion
Cheaper Beer of Abstinence
A curious strike is In progress at
Rokewood near Ballarat Victoria
where in consequence of the refusal
of the local publicans to reduce tho
price of beer from 6 pence to 4 pence
per pint nearly every resident has
signed a pledge to do without beer
until Melbourne prices are charged
Ilumlng Head
Star City Ark May 26th A very
remarkable case has just occurred
here
Mr W H McFalls has been suffer
ing severely for two years with an ail
ment that puzzled the doctors and
everybody The trouble seemed to be
all in his head which had a burning
sensation all the time
Sometimes this burning pain in the
head would be worse than at other
times but it never left him
At last he tried a new remedy called
Dodds Kidney Pills and was agreeably
surprised to find that the burning
gradually disappeared
An attack of La Grippe has laid him
up for the last few weeks but Dodds
Kidney Pills have banished his old
trouble entirely
His son George used a few of the
Pills which his father did not need and
they have done him so much good
that he says he would not take ten
cents a pill for the few he still has left
Were it possible to peer into the fu
ture the chief charm of existence
would be lost
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THUNDER MOUNTAIN IDAHO A
MINERAL TREASURE HOUSE
Fortunes or Gold Are Being Found In
tho Center of the Stato of Idaho
Thunder Mountain the new Idaho
gold field is the most promising min
eral region in the United States The
richness of this country was not
known until late in the fall of 1901
after heavy snows had closed all
nues by which the region might be
reached except upon snowshoes Not
withstanding this fact Colonel W H
Dewey of Idaho and others who have
had wide experience in mining have
expended vast sums in the purchase of
undeveloped claims The surface indi
cations are marvelously rich These
gold bearing ledges from 100 to 300
feet will run through a mountain par
allel to each other In the Dewey
mine this vast deposit has values run
ning from 7 to 4000 per ton and the
plates of the 10 stamp mill which runs
on the ore have to be cleaned of their
accretions of gold every six hours
In a few weeks two miners last
spring cleaned up 7500 in placer gold
using a small cotton hose to wash
the- gravel the water coming from a
small reservoir on the mountain side
The mineral zone covers a large sec
tion of hitherto unexplored countrv
and is about 175 miles from a railroad
mere are nve routes leading to the
lftunder Mountain country via
Ketchum Mackay Boise and Weier
Idaho and Redrock Montana all on
the Oregon Short Line railway A
great rush to this
mecca for
mine s i
SCwniaind V ndS1 Moun
tain ill be as familiar
as the old
watchword Pikes Peak
or Bust as
soon as the snows
disappear
so that
tne camp may be reached with sun-
MavlCTWi11 r0bably be betwSi
Ma lo and June 1 A
scarcity of
pro
visions at present keeps miners awlv
as flour at 50
per sack is considered
larSon 2
agriculture and atockSSnapted to
agnt S thgof St TPfSSenger
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