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PROBLEMS OF CANAL
Chief Eigineer Wallace Beprta to Com
ittte of the Home.
OUTLINES DIFFERENT PLANS PR8P0SED
Careful and Tbca-'ju Surrey Ifsw Beinf
Mac7 Uommiision.
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FORMER ESTIIfrs OF COST RELIABLE
Sea Lertl Ditch C Million More Ezpen-
lirec r Locks.
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ALSO REQUIRES E TIME TO DIG
Great Problem .-olTed Is the
Culebrn Cat and Disposal of
Refuse Taken There
from. WASHINGTON. Dec. 11 John F. Wal
lace, chief enfineer of the Isthmian Canal
commission, has given the house committee
' on Interstate and foreign commerce the
benefit of his Investigations so far as
made regarding the engineering tanks to
be performed on the canal. The testimony
was taken aboard the army transport Sum
ner In Colon harbor on the occasslon of
the recent visit of the committee to the
canal aone. It Is to be printed for the
use of congress.
The Associated Press has been given the
benefit of testimony In advance of Its
publication through the courtesy of Chair
man Hepburn and Secretary Cushman of
the commission. Before taking up In de
.tail the more distant canal proportions
which are being considered by him and
on which ho Is to report to the Canal
commission, Mr. Wallace made thla ex
planation of the general problem:
The Isthmus Is transveraed by a mountain
range, the summit of which is approxi
mately twelve miles from the I'aclflc
coast and thlrty-nve miles from the Car
r I bean. Originally a gorge evidently ex
isted from the Cnrrlhean near Colon to
the vicinity of Uamboa and extended be
yond that point In an easterly direction
forming the upper basin of the Chagres
river. Aiter filling this gorge with an
alluvial deposit the Chagres has swung
Itself from one side of the valley to the
other.-. The result Is that the thread ot
the original gorge cannot be followed or
found from surface Indications and It is
only by drilling In bedrock that exact In
formation In regard to any particular lo
cality can be obtained with the presence
of boulders In this alluvial also explains
the reason why engineers not taking time
to go into the rock far enough to de
termine Its actual character have been
misled In thinking they had struck bed
rock. To determine the most feasible plan
for the construction of the canal will
require a most careful and comprehensive
examination, not oniy of aurface conditions,
but the subsurface must be explored.
Bofclo Dam Problem.
After following the valley of the Chagres
to Uamboa the Una of the canal followa
a tributary, called the Obispo, up to the
summit of Culebra, and thence followa
down the valley of the Rio urande Into
the bay of Panama. The summit at
Culebra waa originally K feet above
the aa level ana Is the lowest point in
the divide along the entire length of the
Isthmus of Panama. The plan of the
former commission provided for a dam ot
practically luo feet In height above aea
level, at Bo Mo, with a .water level t
ninety feet above sea level. This place wm
selected on aucount of the fact that at
that point the hills on either side ot the
Chagres come comparatively close to
gether, being about l.&oo feet apart and
from the surface indications It seemed a
. favorable place for the construction of a
dam. But the Indications are that this
locality will be an unfavorable and ex
pensive one for the construction of a high
dam.
The InstruoUcns to the ohlef engineer by
the present commission were to make full
and thorough examinations of the canal
route, the manner of doing the work and
the various plans wmon nugni suggest
themselves and lay before the commission
the result of this examination with his
final recommendation.
T.U v.lun . KA jwvnalH-Mfl . Vi nn.
estimated upon by the former com mi union,
is the possibility of a high dam, or proper
foundation for a high dam at Bohlo, upon
which depends the advisability of construct
ing a big level canal with the surface of
the water ninety feet above aea level.
Sixty Foot Level Canal.
The second plan under consideration is
a summit level of sixty feet above sea level.
Constructing a canal on thla plan admits
of two dlfterent methods of treatment:
First, the construction of a dam, sixty feet
above sea level at Bohio, with two locks
of thirty feet, there being two locks on
the western slope; second, the construction
of a dam sixty feet above sou level at Ga
tun, eight mllea from Colon, with two
' tldrty-foot locks In the same vicinity. The
adoption of a sixty-foot leva! also will
render It necessary to construct a dam at
Uamboa, In order to provide a reservoir to
accumulate water enough during the wet
season to furnish witter for the summit
level of the canal. The construction of a
dam at Gomboa in this connection would
also control the Chagres river, except that
It would be necessary to provide a safety
spillway by the construction of a tunnel
some eighty miles in length through the
divide, discharging the surplus water ot
the Chagres Into the headwaters of the
Juan Dlus, or the alternative plan of con
structing a tunnel four miles long through
the divide, separating the Chagrea basin
from the headwaters of the Cutuuclllo, a
stream which enters Into the Chagres val
ley at Mutun. Should this latter course
be adopted it would be necessary to con
struct a channel for the Chagrea from Ga
tun to the aea In order to divert Its flood
waters into the bay eastward ot Colon.
The third plan under consideration would
be the construction of a canal with a
twenty foot or thirty foot level above the
sea with a single lock at Miraflores, and
a single lock at Bohlo, or In the Immediate
vicinity, the construction ot the Uumboa
dam to be required In this Instance the
same as In the sixty 'foot level plan.
lea Level Problem.
The fourth plan would be the construc
tion of a aea level with a tidal dock at
Miraflores. In this connection Jt Is neces
sary to explain that while the mean sea
level of the Pacific and the Caribbean are
the same, high tide in the bay of Panama
rises ten fee above mean sea level and
fulls ten feet below: whereas, the tide of
the Caribbean at Colon la less than two
feet. The construction or a a am at uam
boa, with the necessary spillways, as noted
in the urevlous plan, would he the same
under the sea level plan as under the
tblrty or sixty foot level.
The construction of the Gnmboa dam
would provide the water supply for the
entire line of the canal, including the cities
of Panama and Colon. It would also pro
vide a power plant for the generation of
electric power sufficient to furnish ample
power for the operation of the Panama
railway and the operation of any machin
ery that might be used In the construction
of the canal. It would require two years
to construct this dam and roughly estl
mated Its cost, Including spillways, would
be between tl5.0O0.0DO and $lti,0u0.000, not in
cluding the power plant.
Asked by members of the commission for
an estimate of the cost of the varloua
plans, Mr. Wallace said the beat estimate
that could be made at present would be
based on the estimate of the former com
mission of $300,000,000 for a ninety foot level
canal. Figuring with thla as a basis the
seventy foot level canal would cost $226.-
ifl.OOO, could b open for traffic In ten
years and fully completed In twelve years;
the thirty foot level would cost I28O.O0C.00O,
open for traffic In twelve years and fully
completed In fifteen years. The sea level
canal would cost 1300,000.000, could be open
for trafflo In fifteen years and completed
In twenty yeara.
Chairman Hepburn's questions developed
that the estimate of time to build a canal
was based on a ten-hour day, and that
with the construction of the Uumboa dam
sVaotlBued on Second Page.)
REVISION OF PEASANT LAWS
M. Wltte Submits Draft of Sew
Meaner tor Approval
of t ear.
ST. PETERSBURG, Deo. 1S.-M. Wltte.
president of the miniHterlal council, to
whim as chairman of the special com
mittee appointed In 1902 to Investigate the
question of the betterment of condition
of rural enterprise and general revision of
the peasant laws, was confided the task
of lifting the enormous mass of evidence
collected. Including the opinions of 11. 0") of
the best qualified tenants, landlords, mer
chants and manufacturers, which filled
several thousand volumes, has completed
the gigantic task. His conclusions, which
have Just been published, are In line with
the most enlightened opinion for amelior
ating the peaaants' conditions. These con
clusions, which are understood to have
the Indorsement of Emperor Nicholas and
Minister of the Interior 8viatopoIk-Mtrsky,
are expected to be adopted by the com
mission as the basis of new laws. The press
halls the memorandum, not only as a sig
nal victory In the direction of real na
tional progress, but as marking a definite
shelving of the plan developed by the late
Minister of the Interior Von Plehve for
extending the powers of local officials over
the peasants, and Increasing rather than
decreasing the tutllage exercised over
them. Von Plehve's purpose was to rush
through a law before the commission could
complete It labors.
In all points M. Wltte's recommendations
aim for completion of the emancipation act
of 1S61, by ending the treatment of peasants
as a class apart, giving them a method of
enabling them to free themselves forever
from the soil and placing themselves on an
equality with all other classes of the popu
lation and removing the restrictions upon
initiative enterprise which have hereto
fore crushed out all ambition. In order
to accomplish this he proposes to abolish
practically the whole system of laws ap
plicable to peaaants alone. At the same
time the backward condition of the vast
majority of the peasants and the fact that,
If pieced on a complete equality In the
matter of the holding and disposition of
property, they would soon become the
prey of the shrewder among them as well
as of merchants who would like to posses
their lands and keep them In a state of
perpetual debt. Is fully realixed. M. Wltte
recommends the preservation of certain
laws designed solely for the peasants' pro
tection, -such as the Inalienability of com
munal lands and Institutions. For the
management of the one and the freedom- of
the other from debt, special laws will be
recommended, supplemented by methods
whereby peasants may leave their com
munes under certain safeguarded condition
or delimit lands for individual ownership.
There Is also In contemplation the organ
ization of a system of land credit and a
scheme for the settlement of state lajfds
by peasants, who want larger opportuni
ties, f
The press halls the memorandum with
the greatest satisfaction, the Rubs remark
ing that like a golden thread through It
all runs consideration of the peasant as a
cltlxen of the empire and no longer as a
pariah.
The memorandum Is In sharp contrast
with the draft prepared by Von Plehve's
assistant, Stleklnsky, which disregarded en
tirely the opinions so laboriously collected
by the commission. That draft was sub
mitted to the provincial governors with
the assurance In advance that It would
have the Indorsement of the minister of the
Interior. Stlsklnsky himself la a member of
the commission, but la without Influence.
His dismissal from the position of as
sistant to the minister of the Interior was
one of Prince Svlatopolk-Mlraky 'a first
aota.
BIRILEFF TO THE NAVAi, OFFICERS
Advises Them to Quit Writing; aad
Go to Work.
ST. PETERSBURG. Dec lS.-Admlral
Blrlleff, who has gone to Libau to super
Intend the completion and preparation of
war vessels still in the Baltic sea, with a
view to their dispatch In case of necessity
to the Far East, in a witty and caustic
letter to the press has admlnlatered a re
buke to those naval officers who have been
engaged In a controversy In the news
papers relative to the question whether
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron la
able to cope with the ships of Admiral
Togo without reinforcements. Admiral Blrl
leff expresses the affirmative on this point,
declaring that beyond question the Japa
nese ships have suffered severely, as evi
denced by the fact that the Japanese have
ordered 108 armor platea, fourteen for the
battleship Mlkaaa alone. Nevertheless, he
oonsidera It to be absolutely vital to pre
pare a third squadron should it prove
necessary, to support or replace the second
squadron.
The admiral aaya every day'a delay Is a
misdemeanor and every week's a crime.
The business of naval officers, therefore,
he remarks with grim humor. Is to lay
aside their pens until the war la over and
attend to business. There Is no time now
to try to locate the blame for the fact that
Russia's navy was no better prepared..
"As a matter of fact," Admiral Blrlleff
aays, "we are all guilty. If our heada are
still on our shoulders It is due to the fore
bearance of my long suffering emperor."
BIG CROWD THRONGS T. PETEH'S
Occasion la the Beatification of Gas
pare Del Bufalo.
ROME, Dec. IS. St. Peter's was espe
cially decorated for the formal announce
ment this morning of the beatification of
Gaspare Del Bufalo, of the Congngatlon
of Precious Blood and Canon of San !
Marco under i'lua vil. The function was
performed at the altar of the chair, ao
called because It contains the sacred
wooden episcopal chair of St. Peter.
Thla afternoon Pope Pius X, acoompanled
by the cardinals of the court and all
bishops and dignitaries of the church at
present In Rome, went to venerate the
Del Bufalo. The ceremony had the added
object of a demonstration of loyalty. Over 1
10,000 people crowded the basilica. It was
much remarked that Pope Plus, Instead of
walking to St. Peter'a as had been ar
ranged, went In the sedla gestatorla, al
though that mode of travel Invariably
causes him nausea. He waa unable today
to walk because of gout, with which he
has suffered so much the last few days
that he waa obliged to sit during audi ncea
Marblehead at Santiago.
SANTIAGO Dtt CHILE, Dec. 18.The
American cruiser Marblehead, Commander
Holmes, has arrived at lqulque. The re
mainder of the American Pacific aquadron,
under command of Rear Admiral Good
rich, la expected to arrive at Coqulmbo
this week.
Objects to Foreign Osneers,
CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec. U.-The forte
has rt plied to notes from Austria and Rus
sia that It objects to the suggested In
crease In the number of foreign officers
In the Macedonian gendarmerie on the
ground that It would disturb the native
population.
KELLER LOSES HIS STANDING
His Dismissal Create Vacancy in Presi
dency of Letter Carriers.
NO LONGER REPRESENTS MEMBERS
Department Will Mot Receive Him or
Listen to Ills Complaints on
alngham's Case a Little
Different.
(From a Staff Correspondent )
WASHINGTON. Dec. la.-(Speclal.)-The
Po9lofflce department In dismissing from
the postal service the heads of the two
great associations of letter carriers, act
ing under the direct orders of the presi
dent, has shown clearly that "pernicious
political activity" will not be tolerated
among employes In the service of Uncle
Sam. President Keller, of the National
Association of Letter Carriers, did not
have time to resign. If that course had
ever been hie Intention after receiving the
ultimatum of Mr. Brlstow, the fourth as
sistant postmaster general, that he should
show cause within three days why he
should not be removed from office for In
subordination. In a large sense this same
condition applied to Frank II. Cunningham
of South Omaha, president of the National
Association of Rural carriers, who was re
moved from the service for violation of the
president's order of January 31, 1902, which
forbids any employe of tho government, or
any association of such employes attempt
ing to Influence legislation of any charac
ter or for any purpose or to solicit In
creases of pay for their services as such
employes.
Where Keller Loses Standing;.
The Postofflce department has always
been ready to receive the heada of the
letter carriers association and of rurnl
carriers and listen to any suggestions they
might desire to make regarding the Inter
ests of the carriers In both these branches.
This courtesy was assumed to be due the
carriers and their representatives and
every facility has been given them for the
presentation of their requests to the de
partment. Now that Keller Is not a mem
ber of the postal service it follows that
the department cannot receive him as the
representative of the carriers. According
to the constitution of the Letter Carriers'
association the office of president must be
filled by some person who la In the active
employ of the government. The dismissal
of Keller from the service therefore not
only creates a vacancy In the office of
president, but minimises his standing be
fore the department. It would therefore
appear that the only way out of this dif
ficulty la to elect some one else to the po
sition of president of the Letter Carriers'
association who is In good standing with
the Postofflce department or else change
that clause of the constitution which pro
vides that a president must be In the ac
tive service of the Postofflce department as
a letter carrier.
The department holda that the carriers
cannot by any act of any association of
their own creation demand that a repre
sentative be received unless he Is an em
ploye of the service. The humblest car
rier would be received at the department
If he went there with a vlw to promoting
the Interests-of .his associates and his call
was in accordance with official precedence.
Cunningham's Cavse Different.
In the case of Mr. Cunningham condi
tion are somewhat different. So far as
can be ascertained the constitution of the
National Rural Carriers' association dif
fers from the Letter Carriers' association
In that It doea not provide that the presi
dent must be an employe of the govern
ment. If thla be true, Mr. Cunningham
can still serve his association as president,
unless the department should decide not to
receive the president of the rural carriers'
association because he was not a govern
ment employe. Whether the department
Will go to this length la a question. Many
congressman have seen the postofflce au
thorities and have laid before the fourth
assistant postmaster general letters from
rural carriers seeking to pledge these same
congressmen to vote for Inoreased pay for
the rural carriers, with threats that in the
event of their being antagonistic to such
Increase they would be "marked for the
slaughter." Some of the carriers who have
been called on the carpet for sending out
such threatening letters have Invariably
atated that they were directed to do It by
superior officers of their association. This
particular statement of the carriers In re
gard to the reason for their action is espe
cially offensive to the officers of the Post
office department, because of the Intima
tion contained therein that the carrleis rec
ognize ti e authority of their association
aa having greater rights to direct their ac
tions than the Postofflce officials, and that
they regard an order from their associa
tion officers as of more Import than an ex
ecutive order sent out with the president's
approval.
General Wadsvrorth'a Tableware.
There Is a short Christmas story of a
year ago which has not yet found its' way
Into print. During the civil war General
James W. Wadsworth, father of the mem
ber of congress of that name, waa In com
mand of a division of union troops at the
battle of the Wilderness. He had carried
with him, from his home In Geneseo, a
camp outfit which contained a stiver fork
and spoon and a knife. The table Imple
ments he used dally and Just before the
fight In which he was killed he had eaten
his dinner, using the table necessities. His
"striker," or body servant, waa enguged In
clearing the mesa table when the news of
General Wadswurth's shooting was received.
The "striker" waa a New York soldier,
who realised that the table appliances l.,si
used by General Wadsworth ought to be
preserved for his relatives. He carefully
packed them up and carried them back,
with him to his home In central New York.
Years after the close of the war he told the
county clerk of his home county that he
hud them and that be would like to restore
them to the relatives of the general. The
county clerk took charge of them and for
got all about his trust until a year ago
last summer. Then, meeting Representa
tive Dwight of his own district, he men
tioned the Incident and said that the
Wadsworths ought to have the silverware
back again. Dwight took to the Idea at
once, but decided to wait a short time be
fore returning the articles to the rightful
owner. This he did last Christmas, and It
Is doubtful if the congressman received
anything on that occasion which he prizes
so highly as the fork, knife and spoon
which were used by his father at the last
meal he took on the battlefield of the Wild
erness forty years ago.
Hospital Patients' Privileges.
"People without experience have some
very queer Ideas about hospitals." said a
recent patient In an Institution of that
kind. "One of the commonest Ideas, and
one very wide of the mark, is that when
one goes to the hospital as a patient.
(Continued on Second Page.)
BAD STORM INNEW ENGLAND
Wires Are Reported Down and
Fears Kipreeee for
h(tpliST.
NEW YORK. Dec. IS. The snowstorm
and gale which struck the coast yestfrday
and continued until the early hours of this
morning was the most violent that has
occurred for several years. Reports from
the New Jersey and New England coast
and from Incoming steamers tell of fu
rious gales an! many dlsnsters.
At Vineyard Haven over fifteen schoon
ers anchored In the harbor were blown
ashore early today and several others weri
damaged In collisions. Off the Bayhead.
N. J., life saving station the schooner
Lizzie H. Brayton-. bound for Providence,
R. I., from Baltimore, went ashore, the
crew lelng rescued by the life savers.
The Cunarder, Umbrla, and the Amer
ican liner St. Paul, both of which ar
rived today, reported heavy weather and
adverse gales during the whole passage.
The anchor line sttamer Astoria, bourd
for Glasgow, went ashore today In ths
lower bay, but was later floated without
Injury and proceeded.
Most of the sound steamers were late
In arriving at their piers. In the river and
harbor the traffic was for a while during
the worst of the storm almost at a stand
still. So heavy was the snowfall that
lights could not be seen on tho river a
boat's length ahead, and ferry boats and
other craft proceeded at a diminished
headway, blowing whistles and feeing
their way cautiously through the blinding
storm. No accidents of any moment were
reported.
In the city the snow, which began yester
day afternoon, fell almost without Inter
in Iks I on until eurly this morning, till eight
Inches had fallen.
At the Grand Central station It was sail
tonight that the train service had not been
Interrupted by the storm. There had been
a slight fall of snow In the northern and
western parts of the state. With the ex
ception of the two trains due from St.
Louis, one at 1:30 p. m. and the other
at 3:30 p. m., which were two hours late,
the officials said thst the trains were run
ning on regular schedule.
Three feet of snow on the level was the
record of the storm In the east end of
Long Island and as a result trains were
delayed. One train bound west from Sag
Harbor Is still stalled In the Shlnnecock
hills.
BOSTON, Dec. 18. The storm today was
a blizzard of severity along the southern
New England coast. All wires on Cape
Cod were prostrated and there has been
no communication south of Wareham by
land lines since early this morning.
The wind blew a hurricane at Newport,
R. I. At 7:S0 o'clock tonight the only wreck
reported was at Fisher's Island, where the
crews of a big tug and three barges were
saved.
NEWPORT. R. I., Dec. 18. As a result of
the worst blizzard that has visited New
port In many years all local traffic Is prac
tically at a standstill. The storm began
at midnight last night and abated at noon
today. On a level the snow Is more than
two feet In depth, while a strong wind
has piled up drifts that block the streets.
The train from Boston bearing the Sunday
papers, due here at 4:80 a. m., did not ar
rive until 11:80. The Fall River steamer
was caught In the storm and arrived early
this morning, five hours late.
WOODSHOLB, Mass.,' Dee. IS. The tug
Susie D. arrived from Vineyard Haven this
afternoon and reported that the storm
early today drove fifteen schooners,
anchored In the harbor, on shore, while
others were damaged through collisions.
The damage was the heaviest since tho
November gale of 1898. As far as could be
learned no lives were lost.
GAS PIPE LINE IS BLOWN UP
Supposed to Be Result of Fight Over
Running; Line Ont of the
State.
COFFEYVILLE, Kan., Deo. 18. Between
Liberty and the Verdigris river more than
a mile of the partially completed pipe line
of the Kansas Natural Gas company was
blown up with dynamite by masked men
some time during the night. The pipe was
broken and great holes torn In the right-of-way.
The perpetrators are unknown.
Beside being masked they were otherwise
disguised. The officials of the company
have as yet taken no steps to Investigate
the matter. The act Is openly approved by
many of the residents here. The explosions
are the result of a fight that has been
wage J for some time against tho pipe line
company, which Is a foreign corporation,
by the farmers of this section, who resent
the piping of the gas to Missouri.
WOMAN EVIDENTLY MURDERED
Effort Made to Destroy Features to
Prevent Identification ot
Victim.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 18
The nude body of a white woman, who
is believed to have been murdered, has
been found on Mount Cutler by two sur
veyors. The body waa lying face down
ward across a log. An attempt to de
stroy the features and prevent Identifica
tion by burning had been made. Near the
body was found some hair pins and an
empty bottle that had contained gasoline.
Enough of the hair remained to show that
the woman had light brown hair. She
was about 30 years of age, about Ave feet
six Inchea In height and weighed about
140 pounds. Evidently she had bean dead
a week or ten days. The . coroner has
taken charge of the body. Detectives are
at work on the case.
TEACHERS G0JT0 NEW JERSEY
Annual Convention Is to Be Held
at Aiburr Park July
S to T.
CHICAGO, Dec. 18. Announcement was
made tonight by Ireman Shepart of Wi
nona, Minn., secretary of the National Ed
ucational association, that the forty-fourth
annual convention of the association would
be held at Asbury Park and Ocean Grove,
N. J.. July S to 7 next year. The program
for the convention will be arranged at a
meeting In Chicago, December 30 and 31,
between William H. Maxwell, superinten
dent of schools In New York, who Is presi
dent of the association, and the eighteen
department presidents. A special rate of
one fare, plus membership fee, for the
round trip, haa been granted for the con
vention by all the railroads in the trunk
line association.
Wreck of Steamer Fonnd.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-Early this morn
ing the wreck of the ill-fated Glen Island
os found with only the smokestack vis
ible, near Hempstead harbor, . The
general manager of the Btarln Transporta
tion line has sent divers to the wreck and
will spure no ffort to nnd the bodies of
the seven members of the crew and two
passengers who perished la the burning
steamer.
MURDER IN INSANE ASYLUM
0ns Patient Strangles liother to Death
Whei Left Together.
KEPT QUIET FOR SEVERAL WEEKS
Action Taken at Request of Rel
atives So Blame Attached to At
tendants for tnfortunate
Aft-air.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN. Dec. 18. (Special.) A trsgedy
enacted at the Lincoln Insane hospital thst
has been suppressed for some weeks, was
the murder of W. F. McCartney, brother
of Frank McCartney of Nebraska City, by
Dr. Olaf Ancora of Howard county, the
two being patients In the hospital at the
time. McCartney was supposed to have
been strangled to death by Ancora, while
the two were alone In one of the violent
wards, though the only evidence that the
asyltlm officers have that such was the
case Is Ancora's statement of the sffalr
and probably the marks on the dead man's
neck. Coroner Graham was called at the
time, but after securing the statements of
Superintendent Greene and the insane
murderer, he decided an Inquest was not
necessary. The affair was reported to the
State Board of Public Lands and Build
ings the day before election, but has been
suppressed by the members of that body.
The first Intimation of It came out In the
biennial report of Superintendent Greene.
In that report Dr. Greene, In asking that a
recommendation be made to the legislature
for an appropriation for an addition to the
hospital, stated that due to the crowded
condition of the building one male patient
had accidentally lost bis life. An Investi
gation of this part of the report led to the
discovery of the murder.
Ancora was suffering from acute paresis
and McCartney was afflicted with chronic
pareMs. One of them had been In the hos
pital a short time only and an attendant
placed them both In one ward or room
while he cleaned another room. When he
returned to get one of the patients to moke
the transfer he found McCartney dead.
Ancora admitted that he had strangled
him to death. Both men, however, had on
restraints, that Is bands around each
wrist; these were attached together and
fastened to a belt so that the hands could
not be raised but for a space of a few
inches and neither could they be separated
bur for the space of a very few Inches. In
view of this. Dr. Greene said he did not
know how the tragedy could have hap
pened, though he was sure that Ancora had
strangled his victim to death, for he had
admitted as much.
McCartney was unmarried and about 35
or 40 years of age. For some time he had
been in the sheep business In New Mexico
and Arizona and had come back to Ne
braska to engage In farming. His people
are among the oldest residents of the state.
His purents reside at Nebraska City and
are aged.
Dr. Ancora was a physician, practicing
medicine In Howard county and Is said tu
have been prominent and to have had a
large practice .until he became afflicted
with paresis.
Statement of Superintendent.
Superintendent Greene is sick In bed at
the hospital and was seen there this after
noon. He made the following statement:
. "There Is very little to say about the mat
ter. We put the two men together while
an attendant fixed up another ward for the
reception of one of them and Dr. Ancora
strangled McCartney to death. How he
managed to do it I do not know, for both
had on restraints like we put on all vio
lent patients and both were about the
same size, and apparently of about equal
strength. As soon aa I heard of the death
of McCartney I notified Attorney General
Prout and through him the Board of Pub
lic Lands and Buildings, and telegraphed
Frank McCartney. We also called the
coroner and Invited the closest possible in
vestigation. The coroner took the state
ment of the murderer and said an Inquest
was not necessary. Frank McCartney waa
satisfied and asked that the case be not
made public. While I do not know how
It could have happened aa It did, I do not
blame any of the attendants. The attend
ant In charge had to take his chances when
he put the two together because of the
crowded condition of the hospital, as we
have frequently had to do.
"The affair happened after breakfast, I
think the day before election. The attend
ant left merely to scour the floor of another
ward. The reason the affair was not made
public was because of the feelings of the
relatives of the two men. To publish such
an occurrence would also tend to atlr up
10,000 relatives of patients and keep them
in constant uneasiness. It was for that
reason, and no other, that It was not given
to the press. I do not blame any one for
the tragedy, aa It was a result of our
crowded condition here."
Dr. Greene has been confined to his bed
for two days and this afternoon he had a
high fever. However, he stated he felt hot
ter than last night and expected soon to be
up and well.
Cost of Keeping; Insane.
The cost per capita for maintaining the
Insane hospital at Lincoln during the Inst
two years, according to the report of Su
perintendent Greene, filed with Governor
Mickey, waa 3336.98. In figuring the cost per
capita Superintendent Greene Included 117.
000 expended In permanent improvements.
Dr. Greene states In his report that the
hospital has been crowded during the en
tire two years and that In order to make
it sufficiently largo to accommodate the
patients he recommends to the governor
that 150,000 be appropriated by the next
legislature for additional room to accom
modate at least 175 more Inmates. Should
this be allowed, he states, It will give him
more men with which to work the farm
and make that asset of the state even
more paying than It Is at present. He also
states that at the time the appropriation of
$172,600 waa made by the last legislature the
estimate was baaed on a belief that the
Norfolk hospital would be completed and be
able to care for the patients In its district
for at least ten months of the time. As
this hospital was not completed Dr. Greene
recommends that $18,000 be transferred from
the appropriation made for the North
Platte Institution to the credit of his hos
pital. Out of an appropriation of J156O00
for the payment of salary of employes
other than the officers and for the main
tenance of the Institution Dr. Greene has
on hand I9.M5 99. consequently he wants
that 118.000 to help him make both ends
meet at the end of the time the appropria
tion runs.
The hospital farm, piggery and garden.
has been a paying Investment, according to 1
the report, having turned Into the funds of
the hospital I18.J87.79 clear profit. The In
come was sa follows: Farm, $2B.872.; ex
penses. $15.100 08; piggery, Income, $SJS;
expenses, $1,239.65; garden, Income, 86.760.M;
expenses. $3.24S.2; total Income. lnM;
total expenses, $22,7.7S. The hospital owns
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BERNARD M'GREEVY ARRESTED
President of Fulled Bunk at O'Neill
Cnptured In Phoenix,
Arlsona,
rilOENIX, Ariz., Dec. IS. (Special Tel
egram.) While Bernard McGreevy was ex
amining a huge brass cannon In the city
hall plaza at 1 o'clock this afternoon he
was placed under arrest. IVsplte the sur
prise and shock of this unexpected coup,
McQrcevy at first denied that he was th
fleeing president of the defunct Elkhoni
bank of O'Neill. Neb., which closed Its
doors thla last Thanksgiving eve. It was
discovered November 25 that both Mc
Greevy and the bank's cashier, Patrick
Hagerty, were missing.
McGreevy had been dabbling In Arizona
mines and It was expected that he might
come to Phoenix, enroute to Pinal county,
where his Interests lay. Mr. McGreevy
was absorbed by the gun, which Roose
velt's rough riders had present! to
Phoenix as a memento of the 8panlh war.
when Captain HI McDonald of the city
police force arreted him. He was under
the shadow of the city Jail.
When a deed to Mrs. Sarah D. McGreevy
to some Pinal county mines were taken
from McGreevy's pockets, together wlih
a handkerchief marked with his name, he
confessed his identity and said that he
would return to Nebraska without extra
dition pnpers. Further than this he re
fused to make any statement. Mrs. Mc
Greevy Is with her family alone. 111. Mc
Oreevy refused to talk about the bank's
failure or the charges that may be filed
against him. He Insisted that he was not
the man until a search of his effects con
demned him and he then asked to be re
turned to Nebraska without any delay for
the formality of extradition papers. Evi
dently he had been In the foothills near
Florence for at least two weeks and prob
ably knows nothing about Hagerty's move
ments. He did not register at any of the
Phoenix hotels.
PLANNING TC, SEAT PEABODY
Evidence of Election Frauds to Be
Submitted to Colorndo
Iyearlslature.
DENVER, Doc. 18. Alva Adams, demo
cratic candidate for governor, has lost 1,182
of his plurality In this county by the action
of the supreme court In ordering the elec
tion commission to eliminate five precincts
from the returns. His plurality In the state
still stands at about 1(1.000.
By the supreme court's orders the dem
ocrats ose three senators who were ap
parently elected In this city, and the re
publicans gain control of both branches of
the legislature with a majority of thirty
on Jolnt; ballot They are planning to sub
mit to the legislature evidence of fraud In
Denver, and ask that body to dclare
Governor Peabody elected.
The supreme court Is to be reorganized
April 4 next by consolidation with the ap
pellate court and will consist of reven
Judges, two of whom are to be appointed
by the governor.
M. M. Hamma, an expert, has examined
the ballots of Precinct three. Ward four,
submitted to him yesterday by the su
preme court and will report tomorrow that
240 of the 371 ballots found In the box
are apparently fraudulent. Of these 2G6
are democratic and five republican. Wil
liam J. Klndel, supreme court watcher,
has testified that City Detective Willlim
Green, one of tho four men on trial for
contempt of court. In the precinct In
structed repeaters, many of th?m women,
but did not In any manner Interfere with
the watchers or voters In general.
CHADWICK NOT TO TESTIFY
Attorney Advises Her Not to Appear
In Bankruptcy Pro.
feedings.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 18. The examination
of Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwlck on the bank
ruptcy proceedings agulnst her Is sot for
tomorrow morning before Referee Reming
ton, but It Is considered certain he will
not testify at the present hearing. HVr
attorney. J. P. Dawley, said tonight that
he would request a continuance tomor
row, saying he has not had time to In
vestigate the bankruptcy order and will
decline to allow her to give any testi
mony. Mrs. Chadwlck was visited by Dr. Hall,
the Jail physician, today. He said she waa
still very weak and nervoua, but Improv
ing. He will call on her again tomor
row to see If she Is able to appear before
Referee Remington. The. only other per
sons summoned in the bankruptcy hear
ing to give any Information they may have
of property owned by Mra. Chadwlck art
Emll Hoover. Mrs. Chadwlck'B son, and
Freda Bwanstrom, her nurse.
Receiver Loeser said tonight that he did
not expect any more witnesses will be
called for the present. He has arranged
to Insure for $60,000 the Chadwlck property
In his possession.
Mrs. Chadwlck today sptnt her first Sun
day In Jail. She now has a companion In
the Jail, a young woman detained for ex
amination as to her sanity. The womun
seemed much Interested in Mrs. Chadwlck
and the two conversed quite freely.
NEGRO APPEALS FOR LIBERTY
gays His Brother Is Keeping; Him
In Slavery and Asks for
Heleaae.
ATHENS, Ga Dec. 18. One negro seeks
release from a condition ot servitude from
one of his own race. In Clark county Rob
ert Christopher, colored, through his attor
ney, has sworn out a warrant before Com
missioner Klnnebrew, charging his half
brother, George Christopher, with compel
ling him to work for the latu-r without
any legal light to do so and hs seeks the
sld of the federal court In procuring his
release. The trial of the accused negro Is
awaited with unusual Interest.
BISHOP PHELAN IS DYING
Physicians Say He May Not
Longer Than a Few
Hoars.
Live
PITTSBURG. Dec. 18 At midnight
Bishop Phelan's condition Is extremely
crltlcaV He may not live longer than a
few hours.
PRAISES THE TROOPS
Central Stoessel Recounts the S traffics of
the Fort Arthur Gsrrisen,
DESCRIBES ASSAULTS BY THE JAPANESE
Trenches Changs Hands lereral Times
Daring the righting.
BOTH SUES DISPLAY GREAT BRAVERY
Assailants Gradually Mastering Positieas
Around the City.
COMMANDER NOT DlScOURAGED, HOWEVER
Latest Dlspatrhra from the Oarrlsoa
Are t.lven Out by the Emperor
Cover Events from Late
In November.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. H.-Generi
Stoessel's dispatches to the emperor, which
were received Friday night, were given out
tonight. The first Is dated November 'A and
Is as follows:
I am happy to Inform your majesty that
on ISi-vemlur alter an Increased bom
bardment, the Japanese Httscked one of the
fortM on the northeastern front and leaped
mlth a portion of their forces on tne para
pet. They were annihilated by rifle fire and
bayonet and thrown back Into the trenches.
Their reserves were scattered by shrapnel.
From November -i to November ia the
enemy violent. y bombarded the fort, and In
spite of great losses, effected by their per
severance a passage between two forts on
the northeastern front.
At 6. .Hi In the evening of November 2S,
after heavy tiring the Japanese suddenly
hurled themselves against several works
on this front and seised a portion of the
trenches, but they were thrown back by
the reserves after a fierce bayonet struggle.
They returned to the assault at midnight
nnd again occupied a part of the trenches,
but were annihilated by our bayonets. At
2 o'clock In the morning all was over and
your majesty's heroic troops were able to
rest and start repairing the damage caused
by the bombardment.
From the loth to the f.4th the Japanese
luct more than 2,ou0 men. All of our troops
behaved ns heroes. The following especially
distinguished themselves: Generals Kon
dratenko Nikltln. commander of the artil
lery, and Morbatowsky, and Ll.utenant
Colonel Naouemenlio. tDotons of other
officers In lower grades aro also mentioned
In the dispatch.)
BomlianlTient of the town and harbor
continues dally. A number of buildings have
been destroyed nnd the harbor has sus
tained some dnmage. The garrisons are) n
excellent spirits.
Bloodiest Days of Assaults.
In another dispatch, dated November 18,
General Stoessel says:
The 2Uth and 27th were the bloodiest days
1n the ofBaults on Port Arthur. The at
tacks begun on the nlKht of the 25th against
our left Hank, near Pigeon bay. The first
was repulsed with gieat loss to the Japa
nese. The same night the enemy attacked
a detachment on Panlung mountain, but
were repulaed, as were also their attacks on
Visoknia (iW-Meler hill).
On the i.lh the Japanese began to bom
bard and attnek fiercely the forta on the
northeastern front and the advanced
trenches. The trenches reeeatedly changed
hands. Nevertheless, on the night of the
iith we threw back the Japanese at the
point of the bayonet. The enemy succeeded
in blowing up the parapet of one of the
foits and began building parallels there. At
another fort the same night they laid sacks
along the rampart, but our artillery dis
persed them. Toward 10 o'clock In the
evening the Japanese attacked a battery
on our left In considerable strength and at
first obtained possession of a part of the
works, but our heroes brought bayonets
Into use and the Japanese retired, leaving
n heap of their men. Along the whole front
the Japanese opened a violent fire against
the Interior of tho fortress, keeping It up
until B o'clock of the morning of the nth.
The helo which God sent us on the birth
day of our mother, the csarlna, gave us fur
ther victory.
The message mentions the same four offi
cers as given In the preceding dispatch, to
gether with several others who specially
distinguished themselves.
A further dispatch from General Stoessel,
duted November 80, says:
Since November 27 the Japanese have been
carrying on a violent bombardment and
making incessant aanults In considerable
force against Vlsokala (203-Meter hill).
Their assaults were repulsed.
Twelve Days of Assault.
On December 2, General Stoessel reported
aa follows:
The twelve days' assault, which com
menced on November 20, was definitely re
pulsed last night. I am happy to say that
your majesty's heroic troops alone could
have been capable of doing this. There has
never been pilch a fierce assault. The fol
lowing contributed principally to Its re
pulxe: GeneralH Komlratenko, Nikltln and
Gorhatowsky, and Colonels Irrmann and
EretiakolT, and Lieutenant Colonels Naou
menko and Gandoiiriue. It la thanks to
them and their officers and naval sharp
shooters and the artillerymen that Port
Arthur succeeded again In resisting. The
Japanese, according to the prisoners, lost
at least 2A,0o0 men. We request your pray
ers and those of the mother empress, which
are manlfextly shielding us.
As general ald-de-camp to your majesty,
I have expressed your majesty's thanks
to the gartipon.
On December B General Stoessel gM
ported:
At 7 o'clock yesterday morning the Jap
anese, having concentrated all their forcen,
began an assault of Vlsokala hill, bombard
ing it simultaneously with eleven-Inch and
slxteen-lnch shells. A fierce tight raged all
day. We repelled three nfltaults.
Towards evening the Japanese succeeded
in obtaining possession of the crest of the
hill, and Immediately got two eleven-Inch
guns Into position there. Among the
wounded are General Tserpensky and Lieu
tenant Colonel IloiitonssofT of the Frontier
guards. Colonel Irrmann performed prodi
gies of valor.
General Stoessel's last dispatch la dated
December 10, and says:
Since the capture of Vlssokala hill our
ships in the harbor have been suffering
from eleven-Inch Japanese shells.
General THerpciiHky succumbed to Ms
wounds.
The troops are In excellent spirits. ,
Fighting Is Desperate.
CHE FOO, Dec. 18. For ferocity and sus
tained desperation on botii a:c:es, the strug
gle for the pot session of High Hill prob
ably was the most remarkable In the his
tory of the siege of Port Arthur a slego
noted for slaughter. This statement is
based on nn interview which the corre
spondent of the Associated Press had with
Commander Mlixeneoff, executive officer
of the battleship Poltava, up to the time
the vessel waa disarmed and who, as al
ready told, headed the party of seven Rus
sluns who left Port Arthur In a sail boat
on December 15 and after extreme suffer
ing while crossing in a driving snowstorm,
arrived here December 16, bearing dis
patches which were turned over to the
Russian consul for transmission to St.
Petersburg. These dispatches. It is under
stood, consist partly of a statistical report
of the effect of the Japanese bombardments
and there la nothing In them to Indicate
that Genural 6toeseI Is without hope that
the fortress will be able to hold out.
Communder Mlxxeneoff, who was wounded
In the leg during the battle of High Hill,
said to the Associated Press correspondent:
"Slr.ce the Jupenese, on the 2sth (month
not mentioned) began their aitick on High
Hill, which they call Two Hundred and
Sixty-three Meter hill, the fighting has
been continuous. The steep and sandy
slopes of the hill were streaked and dotted
with snow when the Japanese bera the
battle, which was destined to fanVwususs)
