The Omaha Daily Bee
ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871.
OMAHA, SATUHDAY MORNING, JUNE 2'J, lflOl-TWELVB PAGES.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
HAY IS TO EXPLAIN
CabiMt TJecidei that Buatrlai GoTimmint
Kitdi te Bt Enlifhteied,
IS UNNECESSARILY IRATE OVER DUTIES
leek Venjeanoe Whir N Earn Wm Erer
Iateaded.
OTHER NATIONS AREN'T OBJECTING
CannUmllinji Duty on Petreleum lerete
fara TTaatUokad.
SECRETARY GAGE IS FULLY SUSTAINED
pthera of the ofllclnl Fnmlly Approve
v Action He Took and Think All
'' that la JVeceaaary ! the Itui-
f V alnni' Kducntlon. ,
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f .WASHINGTON, Juno 21. Most of the
jtlme of tbo cabinet today was spent In a
HlscU8slon of the action of tho Treasury de
partment la imposing a countervailing duty
,on certain Ilusslan products. Secrotnry
page oxplalncd In detail tho action which
,the department had tnken and the cabinet
Unanimously approved of what ho had done.
As a result of the consideration of tho
rentlre mattor by tho cabinet, Secretary
in t. ...... i ... i k.
nil! Buuil luunri icjii uavuidliuun lu uiu
Russian government fully explaining tho
attitude of this country nnd pointing out
that Russia has acted hastily nnd under a
misapprehension of tbo facts In Its posi
tion of retaliation. The statement of the
secretary of the trensury Is substantially
bs follows:
Secretary Gage called attention to tho
itarlft act of July 24, 1S97, known ns the
'Dlngloy act, which, among other things,
provides that If thero be Imported Into
jthn United States crudo petroleum or tho
products of crude petroleum, produced In
any country which Imposes a duty on
petroleum or Us products, exported from
tho United States, thero shull In such cases
be levied, paid nnd collected a duty upon
raid crudo petroleum or Its products so
Imported, equal to tho duty Imposed by
auch country. This provision was embod
ied In a circular Issued to tho officers of
the customs, dated April 21, 1S98, to which
was appended a schedule of 109 countries
Imposing a duty on petroleum and Us pro
ducts. These countries Included Franco,
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Spain
and practically all of tho leading countries
of the world. This circular was Issued for
tho purpose of carrying Into effect the pe-
ftroloum provision of tho Dlngley tariff
law. .
Teat Cnae.
On June 18, 1000, an lnvolco of refined
, petroleum was received at Rochester, N. Y.,
I manufactured from crude petroleum pro
duced In Russia. Tho collector of customs
i at Rochester held that the refined article
I was subject to duty as a production of
Kussla anit.assetsed duty' accordingly. An
I appeal was takcii'from tho action Of (ho
collector to tho board of general appraiser
t New York. This bonrd on 'January 30,
1901, sustained the collector, holding that
potroleum produced In Russia and Im
ported Into England and thero refined and
thenco sent to this country was dutiable
at a rato equal to that Imposed by Russia
on petroleum Imported Into that country
from tho United States.
No protest or objection, no fnr ns the
department knows, was received from any
country against this decision and the mat
ter was not again brought to tho atten
tion of tho government until March ft of
this year. On that dato the department
held that Invoices of products of crudo pe
troleum must ho accompanied by a United
States consular certificate showing the
country whero the potroleum was produced.
In the ntvonco of this certificate tho
liquidation was suspended, and pending
further Information the rate of duties must
ho estimated at the highest rate levied
by any country on such potroleum. Fur
ther than this tho department has never
taken any action whatever on the subject
of petroleum.
Upon this statement of facts the officials
are at a great loss to understand how
Itussln can feel aggrieved at tbo govern
ment's action and inaugurato a system of
discriminating duties against products of
the United States In consequence. It Is
hoped that Secretary Hoy will bo able to
present the facts so that Russia will re
scind its action and will show that it Is
not seeking to be unjust to this country
In tariff matters.
.OPENING IS NOW ASSURED
geccretnry Hitchcock Saya Lone
Wolf rullure hcttlea
.Mutter.
WASHINGTON, June 21. Secretary
I Hitchcock reported at tho cabinet meeting
today that the decision of the supreme
court of tho District of Columbia yesterday,
dismissing tho application of Lone Wolf
and other Indians for on Injunction to re
strain him from oponlng tho Klowa-Co-maache-Apacho
reservations to whito set
tlement under tho act of Juno 6, 1900, re
moved the last obstacle to the opening of
theio reservations. Tho nllottments to tho
Indians havo been mado under the law and
the president's proclamation fixing the date
of the opening will bo Issued soon. The
secretary says that the great body of tho
Indians aro thoroughly gratified.
llraiiernilorH Are Waiting.
KANSAS CITY, Juno 21. Thousands of
people, 'men, women and children, camped
on the border of the Klowa-Coraancbc-Apache
reservations In Oklahoma, awaiting
tho opening of that land to settlement, are
In destitute circumstances, according to Dr.
J. J. McKenna, who has Just returned from
the scone.
"Only last Monday," said Dr. McKenna,
"two friends and myself drovo over to the
border from Oklahoma City nnd the sight
that greeted ua was one of terrible destitu
tion. Twenty thousand men, women and
children aro mussed on tho border and bait
of them are utterly destitute. Only a small
percentage have even tents to sleep In, but
huddlo under the wagons and such shelter
ing trees as thoy can And. At least 5,000
of them havo been thero a year and a half.
Thoy went with possibly 1200 or $300 and
have made nothing Blnce they arrived
Imply waiting waiting. Tho really pltl
able thing about It all Is that thero are
hundreds of desperadoes on the border whs
havo picked out clalniB and will not scruple
to kill the successful ones In the drawing.
In case thoy havo a lottery. A reliable
merchant told me a few days ago about a
hand of 1Q0 such desperadoes, who havo
ecoured tho reservation for choice claim
and ore determined to have them at any
cost," , ,
BRITISH THOMSON-HOUSTON
General Klectrio of Nctt York Iluya
it Through Herman nnil French
Shareholder.
(Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.)
LONDON, Juno 22. (New York World Ca
blcgram Special Telegram.) The Morning
Expross states that tho General Electric
company of New York, of which J. I'lerpont
Morgan Is tho principal ttockholder, has
acquired a controlling Interest In the British
Thomson-Houston Electric company. This
bar -cn done by purchasing stock held by
G' nd Krench shareholders.
1. '' "K, June 21. Official confirma
tion hi.. ' f. 'en to tho purchase of the
Drltlsh Ttu t -iston Electric company
of London, En ho General Electric
company of Now 't Is announced
officially thnt tho .. ,', and Krench
shareholdings In the Eng. ' company havo
been acquired, thereby giving tho American
company a controlling Interest. C. A. Cof
fin, president of tho General Electric com
pany; Eugcno Griffin, first vlco president,
and W. J. Clark, general manager of tho
foreign department, will be members of tho
British Thomson-Houston board and the
closest co-operation will exist between the
General Etectrlc and British Thomson
Houston companies.
IS GRANT'S GRANDDAUGHTER
London Society Wonder nt Newa of
Ilreaklug of llnlfour'a En.
gnKcment.
(Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.)
LONDON, June 21. (New York World
Cablegram Special Telegram.) Among tho
paid announcements In tho Morning Post
of today appeared this notice: "The mar
riage between Miss Vivian Sartorls and
Archibald nalfour will not take place"
London society Is completely mystified.
Miss Sartorls, who Is a granddaughter of
General Ulysses S. Grant, Is well known
here, and Mr. Bnlfour Is a cousin of the
famous Arthur Balfour, tho statesman.
Tho American contingent In London was
surprised nt tho announcement of the en
gagement April 18, but prepared to send
wedding gifts fitting for the granddaughter
of a former president of tho United States.
Nobody knows tho meaning of tho sudden
notice, and many refuso to believe It true.
Tho Morning Post, however, Is one of Lon
don's most conservative dallies nnd print's
all the authorized society announcements.
it.
MORGAN GOESJN FOR ART
J. l'ierint'a I,ntct I'urclinur la Hey
nolila' "l.ndy Del inn nnd 1
Daughter."
(Copyright, 1901, by Press Publishing Co.)
LONDON, June 21. (Now York World
Cablegram Special Telegram.) J. Plerpont
Morgan has mado another great nrt pur
chase. He has Just acquired Sir Joshua
Reynolds' famous portrait group, "Lady
Delma and Her Daughter." Ho bought tho
picture from tho dealer, Charles Wort
hclmcr. This portrait, which stands high
among Reynolds' masterpieces, and Is an
extromely attraciive work, changed hands
at Christie's auction room nine years ago
at 53,000. Mr. Morgan In now said to hava
paid $10,000 for U. Reynolds painted it In
1780 for Lady-Dclma, who was -a alster'of
tho then earl of Carlisle, nnd a great
beauty. Reynolds got $1,050 for It.
CHARITY GARB FOR A QUEEN
Iilack Sat I it norm to lie Provided
ltnnnvnlo hy Pnltllc Suli
acrlptlon In Purl.
PARIS, June 21. A public subscription
has been opened to buy Ranavalo, tho de
throned queen of Madagascar, a black satin
gown. Ranavalo has been allowed to leave
Algiers for n few weeks' visit to Paris. She
wished to tako back with her a black satin
gown, but found sho could not nfford to buy
It, her allowanco from tho Krench govern
ment being too email.
Tho antl-mlnlsterlnl newspapers, which
have been attacking the government on ac
count of Us parsimonious treatment of tho
dethroned queen, took the matter up. La
Prcsse started tho subscription today nnd
730 francs have already been received, Henri
Rochefort heading tho list with 50 francs.
A number of deputies and municipal coun
cillors am among tho" donators for tho
gown. To the annoyance of tho government,
Ranavalo has accepted tho gift.
LLOYDS IS HELD LIABLE
Mnat Sualnln the Loaa of Inaured Gold
Commandeered by the
Iloern,
LONDON, Juno 21. Considerable Interest
has been aroused by the success of the
Drel-Konteln case In the appeal court, In
which Lloyds is held for the 600,000
which the Transvaal government comman
deered from a train.
Lloyds published a report, October 3,
1S99, to tho effect that gold valued at
000,000 and In transit had been comman
deered or selred by the Transvaal author
ities. This was before the South African
war had broken out, for the Boers did not
enter Natnl until October 11, 1899, although
tho Orango Krce State on Octobor 6 of tho
same year had seized 800 tons of coal In
transit, belonging to tho government of
Cape Colony. Tho report of the seizure of
tho 500,000 in gold was reiterated October
4, 1S99, and It was further said that the
amount was commandeered while on Us
way from Johannesburg to Capetown, being
tho week's shipment of gold, Insured by
Lloyds, from the Rand. Tho gold was sub
sequently taken to Pretoria,
GERMANY WOULD ASK MORE
Wnnta Two Million-round lnrrenae
In Indemnity to Coter II
penne, Mny In July,
BERLIN, Juno 21. It Is officially ad
mitted that Gormany desires to increase
her claim of Indemnity from China from
12,000,000 to 14,000,000, becauhe the first
figures do not Include expenses borne by
Grrmuny In China from May to July, This
demand about tallies with Germany's ac
tual outlay during tho two months In ques
tion. It is understood here that Great
Britain backs up Germany In this Increased
claim.
BOER CHILDREN IN PRISON
Unit the Prlaonera In Ungllah Con
centration Cnmpa Are Little
More Thmt Infunla.
LONDON, June 21. The war secretary.
M. Broderlck. Informed a questioner In
the House of Commons today that out of
63,000 persons In the concentration camps
of South Africa 34,000 were children.
FIREWORKS SPREAD DEATH
Expleda li Fatartai Tanamaat Hama aid
Fourteea Are Lett,
PROPRIETORS TO BE HELD UNDER ARREST
Kxploalon So Forceful thnt Hoy a Half
Illock Dlatnnt la Knocked
Agnluat n Fence and Ills
Lck tlroken.
.1,
NEW YORK, June 22. Twelve persons
were killed, two aro believed to have been
killed and a number were Injured yester
day as tho result of a Are following an
explosion among a quantity of fireworks
In tho store of Abraham M. Rlttcnbcrg nt
Patcrson, N. J. Tho flro was on tho
ground floor of n tenement building. The
cause of the explosion Is not known and
the property loss will not exceed $33,000.
Tho bodies found up to 12:10 this (Sat
urday) morning aro those of:
MRS. LUC1NDA ADAMSON.
MRS. CHARLES WILLIAMS, burned
whtlo trying to rcscuo her husband.
CHARLES WILLIAMS, helpless cripple,
unable to leave bed.
HAROLD RITTENBERG, lO-months'-oId
child of the keeper of the fireworks store.
WILLIE ELSASSER, 6 weeks old, mother
kept bakery and store.
MRS. BERT BAMBER, whose husband Is
In hospital.
BAMBER. 6 months old.
MRS. ALDREW ELVIN, head only found,
trunk missing.
MRS. ANNA BURNS.
CLARENCE BURNS, 6 years old, found
clasped In his mother's arms.
MRS. ANNIE LANN1GAN.
MRS. MARY DUFKY.
Total number of bodies recovered, twelve.
Tho missing:
JOSEPH ELVIN, 2 weeks old; mother's
head found.
MRS. ANNE FENTEMAN.
TWO NEPHEWS OF MRS. LANNAOAN,
whoso body has been found.
MRS. ELSASSER, kept bnkershop; child's
body found.
Thnae Ininretlt
J. Jessut, bruised about the head and
body.
Mrs. J. Jcssup, burned and bruised about
body.
L. Bamberger, head and face burned.
Gcorgo Sodor, head severely cut.
Nicholas Hlllman, cut on head.
Fireman Edward S. Llngland, Injured by
falling wall'.
Mr. atid Mrs. John McGlone, burned about
faces and bodies.
Several persons received minor Injuries,
but went to their homes. The building In
which the explosion occurred was a frame
tenement, four stories hjgh, with stores ou
tho ground floor.
Tho middle store was occupied by Rlttcn
berg. Ten families occupied flats In tbo
building. So great was the forco of the ex
plosion that a boy playing in the street half
a blook nv.ay was lifted .from his feet and
hurled against an Iron fence. One of bis
legs was Droken. A trolley car was directly
In front of the.Julldlng when the explosion
occurred. The burst of flame blown out Into
the street, scorched .the aide of the car and
singed the hair of the passengers. A num
ber of thoso on the upper floors when tho
explosion took placo were cither stunned
and burned to death, or found escape cut
off nnd wero suffocated. After the first
explosion thero was a succession of smaller
ones and then came a second big explosion,
which was muffled and deadened and prob
ably occurred In tho cellar.
Fnlthfnl Wife Pcrlahea.
Every window seemed to bo emitting
flame after tho first explosion. A woman,
her clothing on fire, lenped out of one of
the windows and fell to the yard below. Her
dead body was dragged out of reach of tho
flames, but the flosh was roasted and,
dropped from tho bones. She later provca
to bo Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Williams' hus
band was a cripple. His wife is supposed
to have remained longer than she could
with safety In an effort to savo him. He
was found burned to a crisp on his bed.
Some, of the occupants of tho rooms
dropped from tho windows and wero
bruised. Others hung from the windows
until tho firemen came and twenty persons
wero taken down In this way through tho
fire nnd araoko by the firemen, while others
dropped Into life nets.
Daniel Dooley, who was In the yard when
the explosion took place, saw the two Rtt
tenberg children' In tho rear room and
rushed Into tho flames for them. He got
one of them nnd carried It out, and tried to
go back for tho other, but the room was
then one mass of Are and ho was too late.
He was badly scorched In reienim- th
- "n m
child.
While the rescues wero going on the fire
men Wero fighting the flames. Pnntntn Al.
Ion led with a hoso lino In an effort to keep
mo nro irom tne upper floors, where It was
said many were nlnned In. Tho mn
hardly taken their positions and begun on
me HinewniK to tnrow water Into the up
per floors when, without warning, the whole
upper part of tho bulldlnir nhnv. th.m
sagged outward ond fell. The captain and
two or ms men were burled under tho blaz
ing dobrls. One of the mm la haHlv hi,r.
Tho building In which the explosion oc
curred was destroyed. Rlttenberg will
probably be arrested pending an Investiga
tion. In the debris was found the head of a
man or a woman, the hair humix! nff mH
the features unrecocnlzahln. Th. r.m.i
of the body has not been found. The bodies
taKen out tnus far are almost unrecogniza
ble and are burned and tarn hv th r nn.i
tho collapto of the tlmbors of the building.
HASHI TORU ASSASSINATED
Former Japanese Mlnlater to United
Stntea la Stnhhed at City Aa
aenibly Meeting.
YOKOHAMA. Juno 21. Hoshl Toru, who
was minister of communications In the last
Ito cabinet, was stabbed to death at a
meeting of the city "assembly and died
shortly afterwards. Hoshl Toru was Jap
aneso minister at Washington and waa
rormerly president of the House. The as
sassination Is supposed to have been due
to politics. .
Movement of Ocean Veaaela, Jnne -t.
At New York Arrived Belgrnvla, from
Genoa ond Naples; Pennsylvania, from
Hamburg, etc.; Columbia, from Hamburg,
etc, Snlled-CUtlc. for Liverpool.
At Havre Arrived La Lorraine, from
New York. '
At Brisbane Sailed Aerangl. from Syd
ney, N. 8. W. for Vancouver, 13. C.
At Movllle Sallod-Astorla, from Olns
gow, for New York; Parisian, from Liver
pool, for Montreal.
At Queenstown Sailed Commonwealth,
from Liverpool, for Boston.
At Southampton Sailed Fuerst Bis
marck, from Hamburg, for New York, via
Cherbourg.
At Llverpool-Arrlvcd-Mlchlgan, from
Boston.
DARIUS MILLER IS RETICENT
Great .nrtliern'a Vice Prenldcnt He
cllnea to Confirm Iteport of
Promotion.
ST. PAUL. June 21. More thin ordinary
Interest wsb attached to' the return to St
Paul today of Vlco President Darius Miller
of tho Great Northern, who Is roportcd to
hae been selected as director of traffic for
the Hill-Morgan group of railroads, com
prising the Great Northern, Northern Pa
cific and Burlington. It was txpected that
Inasmuch as Traffic Manager Stubbs of the
Southern had confirmed his appointment as
director of the southern) group Mr. Miller
would do tho same concerning his own ap
pointment, but such wasjnot the case. Mr.
Miller says that up to too present time hu
h:is no Information as to what really was to
bo done. t
"I say authoritatively ,that nothing has
been decided as yet regarding the actual de
tails of management of the Northern
group."
"H.tve you been selected?"
"I have, of course, heard my name men
tioned, but nowhere as often as In the press
reports. I don't think this matter will bo
settled until after the return of Mr. Hill."
"Do you think the northern group will
carry out the harmony program on tho
samo lines as thi Harrlmxn gioup?"
"Not necessarily. There Is no agreement
whatever to that effect. Merely because
Mr. Horrlman has elected a director of
traffic for the Southern Pacific, Union Pa
cific and other lines in the group It does not
follow that northern lines .will j0 the same.
Tho Oreat Northern and Northern Pacific
have Jolutly bought the Burlington. This Is
uo secret now. But as to tho details of
agrecmont that Is not fully determined
upon. In fact the questions being consid
ered are thoso concerning the best methods
of harmonhtng the threo properties. Mr.
Harrlmun seems to have settled tho ques
tion for his group by uppolntlng Mr. Stubbs.
Mr. Hill aud Mr. Morgan may settle thelrj
In another way.
"I was not in Chltago for tho purpose of
considering my appointment, for. as I said
before, 1 was never directly asked."
'FRISCO CAPITAL DOUBLED
Notice la Filed of lnrrenae from
Fifty .Mllllnna to One Hun.
dred Mllllona.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.. Juno 21. L. F.
Parker, general attorney for tho St. Louis
& San Francisco Railway company, today
filed with tho secretary of stato a statement
of Increose of capital stock from $50,000,
000 to $100,000,000. This incrcV will bi
employed In the consolidation, of tha
Frisco with tho Kansas City, Kprt Seott &
Memphis road.
KANSAS CITY, Juno 31. B. p; Wlnchell,
president of tho Memphis railroad, nnd tho
attorneys for that road declined' today to
discuss tho Increase of the 'Frisco capital
stock from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 beyond
stating that the Increnso was made to take
care of additional bonded Indebtedness of
tho 'Frisco railroad. The fact flat the
capital stock was to be doubled bis been
advertised by tho 'Frisco railroad for sev
eral weeks and Is Bald to haro nothing to
do directly with the consolidation of tha
'Frisco and Memphis rallVoi-?
Several 'Frisco , and' M.'aia railroad
office In Missouri Uik.r6',cV been closed
have been reopened. This 'was done, It Is
said, not because tho consolidation plan haa
been abandoned, but because one offlco was
unablo to tnko care of tbe business. For
tho same reason trains that were taken off
on both roads havo been restored.
TO NEW YORK AND RETURN
Ilallroada Decide ot Put On It'onnd
Trip Fare Arrangement for
ChlcnRo Pntrona.
CHICAGO. June 21. Tho rail
decided to sell tickets from Chicago to New
York nnd return, and from New York to
tnis city and return, from July 1 to October
20. Round trln tickets hetwee
have never been sold before.
Three grades of rates have been estab
lished. Tickets over differential II nps will
be sold for $31. Tickets reading over a
Qincrcniiai lino one way and returning over
a standard lino will bo sold for $33.
Tickets good over standard lines both
wnys will bo sold for $35. These rotea are
based on the rates made for tickets good
for ten days on account of the nnffnin .
position, $2 being added to tho rate from
unicago to uunalo, ana rrom Buffalo to
New York. The arbitrary sum of $2 Is added
for the purpose of making It unprofitable
for scalpers to deal In the round trip tick
ets. TO TAKE MORE UNION PACIFIC
Humor Current thnt Syndicate Will
Still Fnrther the Community
of Intereata,
NEW YORK, June 21. It was reported In
Wall street today that a syndicate which
recently sold a largo amount of St. Paul
stock has agreed to take a large amount of
Union Pacific common stock In furtherance
of the community of Interests Idea. This
syndicate was Bald to be headed by William
Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller. The
amounts of stock Involved wore not defi
nitely stated. No official confirmation or
denial of the report was obtainable.
PHOTOGRAPHER GETS DROP
la Spilled from Ilia Ilnllnon While
Trying to Tnke Chlcairo
Stock Ynrda,
CHICAGO. June 51. Gennro TV T .ntvpAn.
a photographer, made an ascension In a
uuiuuu m mo siock yarns mis afternoon
to take a birds-eye-vlew picture and when
fifty feet abovo the road level the cross
bar broke nnd the haloon swayed, spilling
Lawrence nnd his camera out. Lawrence
was saved from death by dropping Into the
many strings of telegraph and telephone
wires, from which ho fell to the ground.
He received a dozen scratches and a ner
vous shock, but declared that he was not
badly hurt. Meantime the balloon, a large
affair, broke from 11b guyrope and sailed
away.
WANAMAKER RAISES HIS BID
Adda a,"o,noo More for Congrenamnn
Foerder'a Little Philadelphia
Prlae Pncknicr.
PHILADELPHIA, June 21. Following his
offer to Mayor Ashbrldge last week to psy
to the city $2,500,000 for the street railway
franchises cranted to certain ranltnll.t in
this city by tho city councils, ex-Postmaster
uenorai jonn wauamaker tonight sent a
communication to Congressman Robert II,
Foerder. one of the capitalists to whom
one of the franchises was granted, offering
him $500,000 for tbe franchises, in addition
to giving to the city the sura already
offered a few days ago.
SIXTEENTH STREET PAVING
What Fxapatty Own en Hata Paid aid
What tha City.
PUBLIC HAS MAINTAINED THOROUGHFARE
Itnlna Produce (Irent llcnt Itulla
While the People Settle fur Im
provement to Aid Prltnte
PurncN,
Totnl nnniinl rental col
lected Totnl imnraacd vnluntlou
(lty)
Per cent of rental pnld
on nxnriiNiMl vnluntlou
(elt
Total market nliintlou . .
Per cent of reutnl pnld
on market itluit tlmi . .
Amount expended by
city lu Hcventeen yenra
In ImprotliiK nnd
ninliitiilnliiK pnrliiH
A in ii ii tit iinlil ()- prop
erty miner In Nr cit
tern jrnra for pnvliiit..
Amount uaaeaaed MHnliint
Iota nlinttlna- dlreully
on .sixteenth ntrcet
(one-third of coat)....
Ratlmnted coat of re
pulra now needed
7,(K)0 to
.unilier of front feet on
Mxtfcuth afreet from
vthlch rcntnl la col
lected ,
Tn till monthly reutnl
now bclnir collected.. ..
Average monthly reutnl
per foot front occupied
Kfttlmntri! coat of repnlra
per foot front occupied
Coat to property iitiut
tlnn directly on Six
teenth atrcet (one-third
of total)
a l.-.T.yna.txi
tmn.tr.'o.oo
a:t..
1,1172,(550.00
u
tt 00,047.110
47.aao.7i
in,74.1.BT
8,000.00
4,001!
a
f ia,io5 na
3.U7
l.!)f)
O.I7
The foregoing figures tell the story of
tho North Sixteenth street situation. In
seventeen years tho owners of tho prop
erty fronting on that thoroughfaro have
not paid one cent for the repair of tho
pavement, and only onco since the im
provement was mado In 1883 havo thoy
been aBked to assist, and that was In 1898,
when tho atone gutters were taken out
and asphalt gutters put In.
llulldlnKa a Public Dlnnrncr.
In tho mcantlmo handsomo revenues
havo been drawn from as miserable a lot
of buildings ns ever disgraced a modern
city. From Dodge atrcet notth, with tho
single exception of tho federal building,
moro is not a structure to which tho In
habitants of a town of 5,000 people would
"point with pride," whllo tho great ma
jority of tho "business blocks" aro one
story structures of a character that brings
a blush to tho face of every loyal citizen
of Omaha each time ho takes a friend from
Bbroad along tho street. Many of tho
buildings nro of frame construction and
In tho last stages of dilapidation. The
owners keep on getting big rents for them,
however, nnd decline to Improve either tho
buildings or their surroundtngt.
Along this street flow the, great bulk of
the rotatl business In Omaha,-, and lts con
dition Is a matte'rof" concern to evefV cltl-
l0n' ". i 4 t.
Tho ronflltUr. of the aaphajtr. parlftg on
Sixteenth etreet between Douglas ' ' add'
Cuming has become such that either early
repairs must be mado or the street will
become Impassable. At present there Is a
dispute In the city council as to who Is
responsible for tbe condition of tho street,
nnd whother the city or tho owners of
abutting property should he called upon to
pay for the repairs needed.
History of the Paving.
Boventccn years ago Sixteenth street was
paved with asphalt from Douglas to Izard,
tho total number of yards of asphalt laid
being 22,711, and tho contract price $2.98 por
jnrd. This was put down under a six-year
guaranty. Of tho work dono 13,826 yards
was charged to tho abutting property and
tho rest to tho city. This mndo the original
cost of the Improvement to tho properly
owners $41,231.48. In 1898 tho old stone
gutters were taken out and new asphalt
gutters put In, tbe total amount of work
charged to the property owners being 3,
427.66 yards, tbe contract price being $1.75
per yard, and the total cost $5,999.23. Thus
In seventeen years tho property owners
along Sixteenth street have pald for tho
Improvement of tho street nnd tho main
teanco of the paving $47,230.71. Under
the method of assessing tho cost of such
improvements only one-third Is charged
against the property fronting on Sixteenth
street, which makes tho share of the own
ers of this property $13,743.82 for the cost
of the original paving and $1,999.74 for the
cost of putting in the new gutters In 1898.
Tbe city's share of the original cost of
the paving, 8,888 yards at $2.98, was $26.
486.21, and for building the new gutter,
2,223.35 yards, tho city paid $3,890,86, a total
of original cost to the city of $30,377,10 for
tho Improvement ot this eectlou ot Six
teenth street.
neenrd of Itepnlr Rxpenaea.
Under tho six-year guaranty there was no
expenso for repairs to tbo surface until
1889, when a contract was entered Into with
the Barber company to maintain tho asphalt
surfaco for ten years. Under this contract
$13,501.30 was paid out. Since 1899 addi
tional repairs have been mado at tbe ex
pense of the city until the total amount
pnld out of the public funds for maintaining
till street In good condition is $20,270.56.
Thus It Is shown that in the seventeen
years since Sixteenth street from Douglas
to Izard was Improved tho owners of tho
abutting proporty have paid $47,230.71 and
tho general public has paid $50,617.66 to
maintain the street. That Is, the public at
large, which uses the street but casually,
has paid $3,416.95 more to keep It up to a
high standard than those for whose direct
benefit It has boen maintained. In all these
years tLe property owners who have de
rived largo revenues from tho miserable
structures along Sixteenth street north of
Dodgo havo not paid one cent for tho repairs
on the pavement. These figures may sur
prise some of tbe councllmen who havo held
forth so eloquently on the matter and who
have talked of the thousands of dollars paid
out by tho property owners to keep up thu
paving in front of their premises. One of
the councllmen placed the figures at $100,
000, The general public has paid since the
expiration of the guaranty given by the
original contractor $20,270.56 to maintain
this strip of paving, which Is $1,527 more
than tbe total original c6st to those ownem
whose property fronts on Sixteenth street.
Itevenne Derived hy Owner a.
1'ollowlng Is a showing of the rental
value of tho houses and pieces of ground
now occupied on Sixteenth street between
Douglas and Cuming. In this dlstanco are
two blocks for which the public Is charge
able. One Is on tha west sldo of tho street,
occupied by tho federal building, tbe other
Is Jcfforfon Square pork, on the cast side
of tho street. The total frontage of oc
cupied ground Is 1,002 feet, and the total
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CONDITION 0FTHE WEATHER
Forecast for Nebraka Fnlr Saturday and
Sunday; Variable Wlndn.
Temperature nt Omnhn yea(erdn t
Hour. neg. Hour. Deg.
5 a. m h'" p. rn M
t; . m f.1 z p. in. Iv
a. m ks 3 p in '0
K a. m 70 4 p, m s:
9 a. in 7'J .p. m M
10 a, m 71 6 p. m !2
11 u. m 7 7 p. in m
12 m 79 sn m i9
9 p. in ii
GIFT FOR PE0PLE'SCHURCH
Modeat IK'iuer Mutt Iloiintra Million
Dollar to Curry tint Dr.
Tliunin' Plnn,
CHICAGO, June 21. Tho Rceord-Hfrald
tomorrow will say: On the Rockefeller and
Carnegie plan of endowing colleges and
libraries a western benefactor, whose name
for the present Is withheld, has plsccd lu
escrow In a Denver bank $1,000,000 In se
curities for the purpose of establishing
Pcoplu's churches throughout the country,
following tho lines laid down by Dr. H. W.
Thomas of this city.
Tho administration of this fund has been
confided to Dr. Thomas and men active In
promoting the liberal church movement.
The legal feminities Incident to tho as
sumption of trust were completed today and
tho organization of tho People's Church of
America was mado by the election of a
board of directors, ns follows: President,
Dr. H. W. Thomas; vice president and
treasurer, Prof. John F. L. Kbcrhart: secre
tary, Pcrclval Hunter; directors, John P.
Altgold, Ocorgo W. Boman, W. W, Ormsbeo
Jcnkln Lloyd Jones.
The anonymous benefactor Is said for
merly to havo been a resident of Chicago
nnd a devoted parishioner of Dr. Thomas.
Of late years he has resided In tho west,
whero he Is said to havo accumulated a
vast fortune.
Over the signature of Secretary Hunter
the following statement was given out to
night: "Wot Ic will commence actively In Septem
ber in establishing People's churches
throughout tho country, a benefactor hav
ing mado this possible hy depositing with
the Miners and Trust company of Donver
securities amounting to $1,000,000. to be
drawn hy the church for that purpose. Tho
plan Is to double tho amount of money any
community may raise toward establishing
n People's church."
GIANT POWDER BEHEADS THEM
Accidental Kxplnilou KIM Two Min
ora nnd Severely Iujnrea Seven
Other Xrnr ICnlnma.
KALAMA, Wash., June 21. A premature
explosion occurred today nt a rock cut halt
a mile south of Kalama on the new Wash
ington & Oregon railroad, killing tow men
and Injuring seven others.
The dead:
THOMAS ORA1IAM of Portland, Ore.
HUGH JAMESON of Portland, Ore.
Tho Injured:
"Scotty" Honey of Vancouver, B. C,
fatally.
James York of Carrolltpn, Wash., skull
fractured,back Injured.
and
. '
ti 1 1 1 1 1
tha head and body.
Arthur Hockott, Kalnma, right leg badly
bruised.
Charles Rellly, head and left leg Injured.
Burkley, scalp w-ound.
From survivors It Is learned that Thomas
Graham and Hugh Jameson were loading
a twelve-foot drill bole with No. 2 giant
powder and had put In about 100 sticks.
It Is supposed that they had begun tamp
ing the powder with a crowbar when the
explosion occurred. Jameson's head was
blown off and Graham was blown almost
Into a Jelly. "Scotty" Honey wns blown
up on top of the cut, a distance of fifteen
feet. His Injuries are fatal, though he Is
still alive. His chin was blown off, skull
fractured, arms and logs broken and holes
blown through his body.
ONE BOY PROVES AN ALIBI
Clyde Moore Left Alone to Face
Charge of Murdering Kan
ana Farmer.
WINFIELD, Kan., Juno 21. This after
noon tbe jury In the Betts murder caso ren
dered a verdict of not guilty. Tho boy.
who Is 13 years old, was In tbe court room
with his mother and father, and all broke
Into tears, the boy weeping llko a baby.
It has 'not been decided when Clyde Moore,
Belts' chunr, will have his' trial. Tho
chargo against both was tbe killing of C. L.
Wllberger on April 18. Tho Jury was out
since, yesterday morning.
Betts Is the son of Charles Betts, an ex
policeman of Arkansas City, who Is In
county politics. Moora Is tbe son of Wil
liam Moore, a machinist of Arkansas City.
AprJI 18 Wllberger, n well-to-do farmer,
wan killed by a shot fired from behind. He
had been to town and sold a load of wheat.
While on his way home he was killed, his
body being found In thn bottom of the
wagon and his pockets rifled.
Betts and Mooro ran away from homo
and took with them a revolver. Each boy
uprin the stand said the other lad had tbe
revolver tho afternoon of the murder. They
had separated at noon. Betts proved a
fairly good alibi.
HOMEOPATHS TAKE IT UP
Don't Itellah Mr. Kddy'a Declaration
that They Appronch Her
Own Faith.
RlCHFIELI) SPRINGS, N. Y., June 21.
Dr. R. H. Stout ,of Jacksonville, Kla., read
a paper biro the American Institute of
Homeopathy (his afternoon on "Christian
Science, a Menace to Public Health."
In the animated discussion which fol
lowed Dr. T. C. Duncan of Chicago led the
debate. Dr. M. Bell Brown of tho Woman's
Medical college of New York made a state
ment denying that Christian Science Is
spreading among women who believe In
homeopathy. An earnest attempt Is mak
ing to secure united vigorous action by tha
Institute against tbo doctrines of Mrs,
Eddy, who recently characterized homeo
pathy as a stepping stone from allopathy to
Eddylsm.
INVITES PLOWMEN TO UNITE
Truat Cnmpnny In Xew York Plain
Conference to Arrange Nn
tlonal Combination,
CHICAGO, Juue 21, According to a mem
ber of tbo recently formed Plowmen's asso
ciation the Uulted Slates Mortgage and
Trust company of Now York has sent out
Invlla'tlons to all the plow and agricul
tural Implement manufacturers In the
United States to meet next Wednesday In
New York for the purpose of forming a na
tional comblnutlou.
'JohW'Bardo oU&eattlerlshUarim;
Lee K ontgouiery f'InVerinYtirefl
WIPES OUT FAMILIES
Toraada Iwtapi Notthira Nibraika aid
Leaves a Trail of Dtath.
ONLY ONE CHILD LEFT IN A HOUSEHOLD
Father and Children Inttantlj Killed in
Wreckage ef Home,
WIND STRIPS BODIES OF CLOTHING
Dwellings and Other Euildlnge Qa Down
Like Facki of Oarda,
PEOPLE ARE TfESSD ABOUT FIELDS
AVI nil Grind Tlmtiera to Duat, Mulit
nliiff Sin j Stock nnd Hailstones
till na IIhip Hull nnln
Crop.
NAPER, Neb., June 21. (Special Tele
gram.) A terrific tornado went down the
Keya Paha valley, twenty miles north of
Stutrt, Holt county, at sundown last even
ing and left death and desolation In Its
wake. Eight persons dead and several
others Injured Is the result of the twister's
trail.
Tho dead:
JACOB GREENING, aged (5.
MAGGIE GREENING, aged 12.
JOHN GREENING, aged 8.
MARY GREENING, aged 6.
JACOB GREENINO, aged 3.
CLAUV ANDERSON, aged 7.
IDA ANDERSON, aged 5.
BERTHA ANDERSON, aged 10.
Tho Injured:
Mrs. Jacob Greening, seriously.
Theodore Anderson, aged S, dangerously
Mrs. August Anderson, In & critical con
dition. Otto Metz, severe bruises.
Henry Metr, leg broken.
Three Fnnncl-Miaped Clouds.
The weather had been extremely sultry
all day and about 6 o'clock storm clouds
gathered In tho northwest and soon wero
seething, boiling, black musses. Three
funnel-shaped clouds formed, ono of which
followed tho valley In Its mission of ruin
and death.
It first paid a visit to tbo home of Henry
Meti. It was seen approaching by Mr.
Metz and ho and his brother Otto went
Into a slough, lay down nnd hung onto tho
grass. They yere picked up by a twister,
carried 200 yards and dropped, then picked
up again and carried back, then plckod up
a third time and flung to tho placo where
they were first. Otto Is bndly Injured.
Henry had a leg broken.
The tornado then paid a visit to tno
home of John Berg and scattered outbuild
ings and farm machinery around, but In
jured no one.
From there It went to Jacob Berg's,vu
teuing-. granary, tun i.L.corn.
taia5jinc,c
corneals,
ThW 1
Hauff and tore It up badly, but hurt no
one.
Family Wiped Out.
It then struck tho dwelling house of Jacob
Greening, killing Jacob, Maggie, John,
Mary and Jacob, Jr. Tho only ono of tho
family to' escape Is Grace Greening, aged 14.
Your correspondent today witnessed tho
grueromo sight at tho place where, twenty
four hours beforo, tho Greening family had
lived tn peace and happiness. Not a vest
ige of the house remained, while out on
tho bare ground In the morning sun, with
only a blanket to cover their nakedness,
lay the father and his four dead children, a
bruised and blackened mass ot humanity.
Four horses, a lot of sheep and other
domestic animals wero killed at this place,
whllo a now mower was picked up, carried
100 yards and twisted out of shape.
Smaahea IIIk Timber Like Heeda,
From hero tho twister went through big
timber on the bottoms, smashing It down
like so many reeds, and struck the new
bridge across tho Keya Paha. The brldgo
was totally wrecked.
It then took a jump and struck the
house of August Anderson a quarter of a
mtlo distant, Mrs. Anderson was homo
with her children, tho husband at a neigh
bor's. Seeing the storm coming, Mrs. An
derson thought tho chicken coop at the
brow of the hill a safer placo and took
the children and went Into It. The cyclone
wrecked both houses, killing Clara and Ida.
Mrs, Anderson and baby were taken up
In tho nlr thirty feet and violently dashed
to tho ground. Mrs. Anderson la In a crit
ical condition, while the baby was not In
jured tn the lenst. Bertha Anderson, aged
10, died this afternoon, making eight dead
altogotbcr. Thcodoro Anderson, aged 8, Is
dangerously hurt. Mr. Anderson probably
owes his life to being awny from home.
Nothing was left around the Anderson
placo except wreckage, and thn valley up
and down a long ways Is littered with
broken boards and household furniture In a
thousand pieces.
Victim Stripped of Ctothca.
A singular feature of this sad affair Is
that tho clothing was torn from all the vic
tims by the fury of the wind,
Another peculiar Incident of thn storm
was tho case of Rev. L. E. Barnes, who
moved on bis claim only yesterday. Seeing
tbe storm coming, and thinking ho would
he safer In tho valley, he hitched up his
team and tried to drive the horses to Green
ings, a hsit-mlle distant. For tbe first
time slnco he has bad the horses the team
absolutely refused to go. Taking one out
he tried to rldo It, but with the same re
sult. He then took both horses to his
shanty, out of tho storm. Thn wind lifted
tho house up and carried It away, but
neither horses nor man wero hurt.
It was a night of terror for people here.
Hailstones ns largo as base balls and some
seven Inches long fell, whllo the elements
seemed, as a lady expressed It, "under tho
control of a thousand dovlls."
Hundreds of peoplo of Boyd aud Holt
counties went to the scene of the disaster
today and tbe funeral procession of tha
eight who were burled this afternoon was
the largest seen In this county.
LYNCH GETS A HURRICANE
llouaea Blown Down, People Injured
and llnllalonea Bcimliurd
the Crnpa,
BUTTE, Neb., June 2L-(SpeclaI Tele
gram.) A small hurricane struck Lynch
at 10 o'clock last night and threw over
several buildings. No one was hurt.
Southwest of Lynch three farm houses
woro blown to pieces and two peisons wero
badly Injured. Evert Rlcard's brick hoiua
on the Niobrara was blown down and u
Waw&waar.:
