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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 2G, 1907 SIX SECTIONS FOUTY-EIGHT PAGES.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
TOURISTS IN LONDON
lot An dowded by Wealthy laaricani
and Families.
TAKING THEIR RECREATION ON THE MOVE
Autoobilei Help to laep V.'a ton Eneaced
Dunn Summer.
BARRING "THE M1KA.DC" STRANGE ACT
Action of Ertith Authorities En Cantad
Comaent Gtnerally,
START FIGHT AGAhST SHOE TRUST
Uadoa Paper Eirrlilog Vigorous
Warfare) t pon Boot Shoe
Organisation, Whoso Acta
it Decrle.
LONDON. May 25. (8peclal.-London Is
faat filling up with American!. They ara
arriving by every train, filling the hotel!
and the boarding houaea and keeping the
motor cars busy from morning until night.
Prom the continent just at present there
la almost aa much travel aa there la from
America. The two streams In fact are
meeting Just now. The wealthy half Euro-pean-Ameiicau
who haa been spending the
winter on the shores of the Mediterranean
Is homeward bound'. " The often wealthier
American, who haa no time for Idling In
the winter. Is rushing over to take a few
weeks' rest and recreation In different parts
of Great Britain.
Many of the wealthier visitors are bring
ing their motor cars with them. Many
millionaires, by the way, now keep a car
or two on this side of the Atlantic all
the year around. Whether wealthy or not,
the Ylsltlng American does not feel that
he haa aeen England until be has taken a
run down to Shakespeare's country or Into
Devonshire In an automobile.
"The automobile," aald Mr. Flagg, the
Condon manager of the American Express
company, In wboae Haymarket rendezvous
Americans foregather, "Is helping to keep
Americans in this country. Where for
merly they would stay only a day or two
In London and then go on to Paris, they
are now spending the beet part of their
holiday in touring England by car. We
encourage them to do It, planning tours
for them by automobile and putting them
In the way of seeing the most beautiful
and Interesting parts of this country with
out trouble,"
- The question of the powers possessed by
the lord chamberlain raised by his remark
able action In banning "The Mikado,' Is
still arousing widespread discussion and
comment, especially now that cable dis
patches say that the production has been
revived at the West End theater in New
York City and In other parts of tbe world.
iS'v JapaitM Arm
I Influential Japanese :
Surprised.
emphatically U.at no representation of any
I kind whatsoever has been made on behalf
of Japan which can have led to the extra
ordinary attitude taken up by tbe au
thorities. Among those Interviewed may
be mentlor'd Mr. K, Buglmura, the dis
tinguished special correspondent of the
Toklo Asabt, one of the leading Japanese
newspapers. Among other things he said:
The only part of the play to which ob
jection might be taken by S3ms is the pre
sentation of the mikado on the stage as a
comic character. This Would be Impossible
In Japan where my countrymen regard the
person of the emperor aa too high for auch
' treament. Yet even with us one of our
most famous novelists, Ballaka of the Gen
roku period did treat the figure of the em
peror humorously, describing one of his
characters as the Emperor DolL The novel
la still circulating in Japan. It has not
been prohibited there.
"We recognise that In this English play
It la not any particular mikado represented,
and that the empero:' la not shown aa a
cruel and frivolous monarch. I, am not
among those who put art before morals,
but I do not think It Justifiable to suppress
the opera for such a trivial reason. Be
sides the mikado In thla play la not a cer
tain emperor of Japan of a certain period.
H la neither historical nor modern, but
purely an Imaginary creature. If the name
'Mikado' were to offend some (not sane
Japan) lot It ba changed to Qtono.'
Shogun,' or any other one pleases. Then
there could be no possible cause of offense
to anybody.
"Of course, the play la not In the least
like Japan, showing as It doea an Imaginary
world. The characters embrace and kiss
gttfte publicly. In my country this would
be quite shocking. No properly brought up
young ladles like Tom-Turn would ever
dream of doing thla
"And speaking of Turn-Tom t cannot
understand from what part of Japan the
author got the names of his character
Yura-Tum I thought' at first to be Num
Num. an Incantation to Buddha. Real Jap
anese girls would never be called Tutu
Turn or Peep-Bo. Then, too. the name of
the man Pooh-Bah Is not a Japanese
name."
Puhlle Regrets Loss ef Mikado.
Mrs. D'Oyly Carte says that ahe has
boeu fairly Inundated with letters and tele
grams frum the public expressing their in
dignation and disappointment at the pros
pect of "The Mikado" being lost to them.
Mr. lUnry Arthur James being Interviewed,
aid:
"I am unable to Judge how far The
Mikado' might possibly offend the patrtotlo
ano rengioue susceptibilities of the Jap-
sua now iar it would be poll'le to
yay oeierenoe to those feelings.
""art frm thla. which la Indeed the
whets Question. I confess I am amused at
finding so blameless and strenuously t
nocent aa author ss Mr. M. S Gilbert un
der the ban of Lord Chamberlain."
The London Daily Mall, which had so
much to do with bringing about the speedy
dissolution of the Boao trust. Is now en
gaged In a war upon the so-called Boot and
Shoe trust, which, it appeara. haa some
American connections. Saya the Dally
Mall:
"We will have a tax on every pair of
shoes made la the openly avowed Ideal and
ambition of tlte great Shoe Machinery
trust.
"Tbe Shoe Machinery corporation, with
a capital of $60,000,0X1, Incorporated under
the law of New Jersey, is going the right
way to realise 1U alms. It controls com
panies In Ara arte. Canada. Prance, Ger
many, Scandinavia, Bwilaerland and else
where. ' la England Its branch corporation
la known as the British .United Shoe Ma
chinery company. limited. From seven
eighths to nine-tenths of the British shoe
anasufecturers are bound to It and the
CWOua4 an Fourth rage.)
SUMMARY OF THE BEE
Banday, May lOT.
1907 MAY 1007
sua wo rst wis run nti sat
X I 2 3H
5 6 7 8 9 10 II
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31
FORECAST FOR NEBRASKA Showers
Sunday, cooler In south portion. Monday
fair and warmer
FORECAST FOR IOWA Showers and
cooler Sunday. Monday partly cloudy and
warmer In west portion.
temperature at Omaha yesterday
Hour. Deg. Hour.
Deg.
.... Tl
.... 72
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72
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5 a. m 63 1 p. m...
a. m S3 t p. m...
7 a. m 62 3 p. m...
l-a. m $3 p. ni...
a. m 66 6 p. m...
10 a. m 66 p. m...
11 a. m t 7 p. m...
u m 7u
DOMESTIC.
Three days of continuous ralrl and snow
cause severe floods In the Black Hills.
X, X
San Francisco grand Jury Indicts six
millionaires on charges of bribery and
attempted bribery growing out of gas
scandal and Parkslde trolley franchise
deal. x, Page 1
At least fourteen lives were lost by
destruction of lodging house at San Jose,
Cal. x, page 1
Both sides In Steunenberg murder case
accept Juror who la opposed to death pen
alty except when necessary to protect so
ciety from anarchy. Three Jurora were
secured during the day and but four per
emptory challenges remain unused.
x, 'so a
Monument to General John B. Gordon
Is unveiled at Atlanta, Ga. X, Page fl
Sovereign camp Woodmen of the World
adjourns after advancing salaries of Its
officers and electing delegates to camp of i
Pacific Jurisdiction. X, Page
wmna,
State Railway commission objects te
the construction mileage Idea In the ap
portionment of earnings. X, Pago
State Board of Aasesament will Increase
the valuation on railroad property about
$24,000,000 over last year. X, Page 1
Delegates are chosen at Hastings to
represent Nebraska at convention of
American Society of Equity In Omaha
next month and boost' dollar wheat cam
paign, x, Page
X.OCAX
List of business men who go on "Great
Northwest" trade excursion to northwest
states represents $20,000,000 of capital.
TX, Page
F. W. Meneray, a nurseryman, says that
small fruits have not been damaged by
I late frosts and that crop prospects are
good. TX, Pag 18
Union Pacific changes time of train
leaving Omaha for Denver from 7. JO a.
m. to midnight. TX, Page 8
Number of building permits Issued dur
ing May increases ISO per cent, although
buildings are mostly homes and Invest
ment smaller than last year. VI, Page
Gould Diets and his bride return from
extensive trip In southern Europe and
northern Africa. . . X, Pags 6
Board of Education expects to announce
at commencement time the winner of the
Rosewater scholarship. XX. Page 3
BPOBT SJZOTXOST.
Tale Junior eight wins two rowing
races at American regatta at Philadel
phia. Page X
Dlnna Ken, 12 to 1. wins the Carleton
stakes at Oravesend and makes new track
record. Peter Pan, the heavily played
favorite, was second. Page a
Kansas wins track meet at Lawrence
by S2H points to Nebraska's 60H. Sev
eral state records are broken. Page 1
Grlnnell wins the Iowa intercollegiate
track meet by one point from Drake.
Page a
Result of the ball games:
. 2 Des Moines vs. Omaha 0.
2 Lincoln vs. Denver 0.
5 Pueblo vs. Sioux City 4.
7- 6 Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn 4-6.
t Chicago vs. Cincinnati 0.
9 New York vs. Boston 1.
6 Pittsburg vs. St. Louis -J.
8 Pt. Louis vs. Boston 1.
I Chicago vs. New York 1.
( Cleveland vs. Philadelphia 2.
Page X
OOMMSKCXAX. AJTD UrSVITUAX.
Condition of Oinaha'a trade. TX, Pags
Live stock markets. TX, Page 7
Grain markets. TX, Page 7
Stocks and bonds. TX, Pags T
Eosza escrxosr.
In the Home Section of this number will
be found Buster Brown; the Busy Bees'
Own Page; Constantlne, the Aerial City;
Effect of Constitutional Government In
Montenegro; How to Wear a Long Kid.
Glove; What Women Are Doing; Love
Wins on Decoration Day; Dainty Things
in Neckwear; Triumph of the Rocking
Chair; Mrs. Pearson, the Ostrich Queen;
Fluffy Ruffles. Sis Pages
KAOAXXBTS EOTXOIT.
In the Magazine Section of this number
will be round a short sketch of the thrill
ing army career of Edward Yarton, Doug
las County's Oldest Veteran; Nebraska's
Interest In Arlington Cemetery; 8tory of
the Great Battle Mountain National San
itarium for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers;
Chat About Plays and Players; Mualcal
Note and Comment; Oxford-Cambridge
Athletes Who Are Coming to America.
; atta Pages
GOING TO RED CROSS MEETING
American Representative Are Uar.
log far International Confer
eaee at London.
WA8HINOTON, May 2B.-The American I
representatives at the approaching meeting
of the International Red Cross conference j
from the 10th to the loth of June are al
ready making their way to London, which !
la the place of meeting. Miss Mabel Board- '
man sailed from New York laat Tuesday '
and within a day or two Surgeon General '
O'Reilly, General William C. Sanger and
Medical Director Wise, constituting the
central committee of the American Red i
Cross, and William Blcknell of Chicago, a i
I prominent member of the association, will
depart. '
The international conference meets unce I
every Ave yesrs snd the preceding meeting 1
was In St. Petersburg. The rsurtna baa
Slways taken deep Interest In the confer-
ence and haa charged the one about to
meet with the task of examining tbe de
vice expected to be submitted In answer
to her Invitation offering large money
prises for the best means of transporting
me wouoaea on me neia or Dai tie. other- I
wise the conference la devoted -to bringing
up to date tbe Red Cross methods of re
lief In time o war and pestilence and
natural calamities which will doubtless find
expression In certain recommendations
that will be laid before Lhe approaching
Hague eenferanoe.
PUBLIC SERVICE BAD
Oitiitis tf B.rlin An Much Diisatiafled
with Twe Chief Branch,
TELEPHONE SYSTEM ESPECIALLY POOR
Bureaucracy Hti Resulted in Perpetuatine.
Old Hen aod Their Methods,
IV1S Of MANAGLMENT PATENT TO Av
Mstrcpiliun Bailway fiu Beoorr
of General Eerisioi' .S?
LIGHTING SYSTEM IHu ONE t.XLPTION
Street Railways of Germany's Capital
Managed by Private KnterprUe
with Assistance el City
Representatives.
BERLIN, May 24. Special. ) In no coun
try In Europe can one examine the relative
efficiency and economy of state managed
and privately managed public services to
greater advantage than in Germany. The
bureaucracy here la more numerous and Ita
attitude toward the general public la more
autocratlo than elsewhere among civilised
people except In Russia.
It does not follow, however, that the av
erage German la content with all the forms
of state control under which he lives. Here
In Berlin, for Instance, great dissatisfaction
la felt with two chief branches of public
service, the Metropolitan railroad, or
Stadtbahn, and the telephone system. The
two Illustrate a condition of things which
can be paralleled in almost any part of
the empire. Just as what Is to be said of
private enterprise Is applicable in the same
way.
The Metropolitan is an object of derision
to git travellers, not lesst to the traveller
from America. It carries one. Indeed, be
tween five stations for 18 pfennigs (four
pfennigs ecus! 1 cent), but It takes about
four times as long as a similar trip in
New York. t
No doubt the 'traveller Is amused at see
ing his train dispatched to the stentorian
command "Off!" by a stiff backed person
age In captain's uniform, and there Is a
great deal of concern, not to ssy curiosity,
displayed about his ticket and behavior
generally from the moment he enters the
station until he Is enclosed In a carriage
which Is usually warm when It should be
cool and cold when It should be warm.
But he has disagreeable sensations also.
The German Pnlilc.
Once he enters a railroad station, on
might say any public place In Germnjv,
he becomes "das Publicum" In otaVr
worda, the servant and chattel of the
authorities. There Is a story, probably a'n
old one, of the present Duke of Norfolk,
when postmaster general, going Into a Eon
don suburban office to buy a penny stamp.
The clerk was taking things so easily that
the duke called him to order, and when the
clerk. In a rery Impertinent tone, asked
the duke who ha was he received the some
what astonishing reply, '1 am the Pr-bllc."
and with It the duke's visiting card.
Burn a story could not have crllrntefl In
Germany. In Germany the official Is every
thing and the public nothing. Nor Is the
public !wavs bartlr treated: Indeed. If It Is
a good child, If It behaves Itself exactly In
accnr',nroe with the numerous' notice dls
plaved In every public office. The authorities
In Germany often remind one of the little
girl who. when she was good, was very
very good, but when she was bad wss
horrid.
Were the Metropolitan In the hands of a
Private company the service would be moro
rapid, the public better treated and the line
be more frequently used, not as now,
svolded where possible. When the line
was built by Dlrcksen a quarter of a cen
tury ago It was regarded as a masterpiece
of technical achievement. So, perhaps It
was. but from the berdnnlng of Its career
It waa bound, as municipal services com
monlv are to deteriorate.
Influential Incompetence was put St. Its
head. It was overloaded with personnel,
an army of bookkeepers with stacks of
forms waa brought Into action, the bu
reaucratic spirit of contempt for or In
difference to the rights of the public began
to pervade the entire Institution, and In
efficiency began almost with the under
taking's birth. Tn such rases managers
are chosen for their personal relations In
high, that Is to say official, quartera, rather
than for their skill and experience, while
the staff la recruited, not because of intelli
gence, alertness and technical fitness, but
because of the Information the candidates
possess tn history, Latin, literature and
other academic subjects.
Little Chance of Promotion.
Under such a system Edison ( himself
would have a poor chance of employment
or promotion. The consequence has been
that after twenty-five years working In
Berlin, ths number of passengers, tnstesd
of rising yearly to correspond with the
enormous Increase In the population, has
remslned ststlonary or decreased. The
public prefer the private company's street
cars (Strassenbahn) or the cartages of the
privately owned elevated and underground
railroad (Hochbahn), for they thus get
quirk transport at a moderate fare, at the
same ttme avoiding overfilled rarrlagea,
unexpected delays and domineering super
vision. For the Hochbahn franchise the Siemens
A Halsk company pays rent of about
2V4 Pr cent on a yearly Income exceeding
,000.000 marks (Il.SOO.OuO), but a minimum
of $4,000 annually. It la a small, but quick
and comfortable railway, taking one a dis
tance, at present, of four miles for cents.
Since Its establishment tour or five years
ago not a single accident on It of any
gravity has been recorded.
The Berlin telephone system has never
been thoroughly efficient and today may be
said to be one of the Worst in the world.
An organic change In ths manner of putting
the called In connection with the caller was
recently Introduced, and ever since the
papers have teemed with complaints, con
demnatory resolutions drawn up by public
bodies and literature of the same sort
If the change seemed likely to result In
an Improvement one might have patience,
but for several months It ho been In oper
ation and the service Instead of growing
better la dally growing worse. Such an
evil would have been avoided by a private
company, which would have made sure
that tt would satisfy its clients before ven
turing to disorganise commercial and so
cial Intercourse and unnecessarily irritate
the community. The authorities do not
appear to have oonaulted the public m any
fashion. They simply aald .let H be done
s.d tt was dona Now they stand oorn
mttted and the public Is helpless and In
more than one sens volceUsa.
Probably water works ought everywhere
to be In municipal handa. but however that
(Continent oo Fourth M4
NATIVE ATTACKS GOVERNOR
Germany's Colonial Scaadale Creep to
Light Notwithstanding Efforts
tn Concent These.
BERLIN. May . (Special.) In the long
series of "Colonial Scandals." with which
Germany haa been so much preoccupied
during the past yesr or two none has at
tracted more attention than the cose of
Jeskr -ron Puttkamrr, which has Just been
up " the disciplinary court for Imperial
r-, v Uttng at Potsdam. Herr von
S ner belongs to one of the best
',NN" slan families and la closely related to
3 Btsmarcks. He waa for some time gov
ernor of the Cameroons, where the Irreg
ularitlea charged against him were alleged
to have been committed. Public attention
waa at first attracted to his administration
by a native calling himself Prince Akwa,
who came to Germany and published an
attack en the governor, whom be accused
of having Imprisoned his father, described
by him as a king, and other colored chief
tains because they had addressed a com
plaint against him to Berlin. Herr Eri
berger. who waa Just then pushing himself
to the front aa dlalnfector of Augean
stables, took up the matter and gave It
extended publicity. It haa been noised
about that Herr von Puttkamer had en
Joyed in the Cameroons the society of a
Frauleln Ecke, whose acquaintance he had
made In l&ti at a pension In Berlin and
whom he had Introduced to the guests at
the residency aa his cousin. It waa further
stated and thla waa one of the counts
against him that when this woman's pres
ence In the colony threatened to create a
scandal ha sent her home with a passport
made out In the name of Baroness von
Kckhardtsteln. Anothur allegation which
he waa called upon to face was that he
had Improperly accepted presents of shares
In certain companies engaged In planting
and commerce In the jcolonv. Prosecuting
couiwel demanded the defendant's- dismis
sal from the service, but the court finally
found Herr von Puttkamer guilty on three
counts, sentenced him to pay a One of $300
and ordered him reprimanded on account
of his relatione to the woman.
HOME RULE SPIRIT GROWING
John Redmond Has Engagement to
Deliver Address Before Ox
ford L'nlen Jane tt.
DUBLIN, May 2&. (8peclal.-Tho en
gagement which Mr. Redmond has made to
address the famous Oxford Union society
on the Irish national question on June I
SDd the fact that minorities against home
rule at the Oxford union have been rapidly
diminishing in number may render it of
Interest to know that as far back as U7I
Mr. Swift MacNetll, then an Oxford under
graduate, moved a motion In the union in
favor of the establishment of an Irish
Parliament. The motion was of course
defeated, but It bad the support of Mr.
J. R. Green, the historian, who made an
eloquent speech In its support.
Two Regius professors of history at Ox
ford, Mr. Freeman and Mr. York Powell
were earnest advocates of bom rule. . The
Very Rev. Dr. Kitchen, formerly Dean of
Winchester and now dean of Durham, who
is himself a distinguished historian, who
filled the chair of history tutor and lecturer
at Christ church, Oxford, and public ex
aminer In th history school has for more
than twenty years been an ardent advocate
of home rule. . '
The wide difference of opinion regarding
the home rule proposition Introduced into
Parliament makes It difficult to express any
opinion at this time with any reasonable
degree of Intelligence. It Is too early to
even venture an opinion as to ultimate re
sults, but this one thing msy be taken for
granted by Irish-Americans that the new
home rule proposition pleases nobody.
Your correspondent has yet to find an Irish
man, who has expressed himself as being
satisfied. The Irish Catholics are angry,
but so, too, are the Irish Protestants. And
it la doubtful whether there exists In all
Ireland an Irish Catholic, who la as In
dignant as the average Irish Protestant.
ARREST BELGIAN OFFICERS
Aceased of Espionage Behalf of
Germany Arrested 1st Pe
culiar Way.
BRUSSELS, May 2S.-(Speclal.)-The ar
rest of four ex-noncommtssioned officers of
the Belgian army who are charged with
espionage on behalf of Germany waa
brought about In a curious way.
An advertisement appeared in a Brussels
newspaper for an Intelligent young man,
a tioiiuuiiiiiilssloned officer preferred, who
would be well remunerated for certain
services.
A noncommissioned officer who answered
the advertisement waa asxed to keep the
appointment the following day. He waa
met by a stranger who informed him that
the present difficult situation in Morocco
might result In a war between France and
Germany and that Germany wished cer
tain information regarding the numerous
forts of tbe Meuse, especially at Naumur,
Malonne and. Liege.
The noncommissioned officer refused In
dignantly. Several days later the soldier
encountered the man In the street and
gave htm into cuatody. He proved to be
an ex-noncommissloned officer and his ar
rost was followed by that of three men
who were working with him.
The quartet claim that they were em
ployed by a private detective agency to
work against France, but not agalnat Bel
glum. DISCOVER GENUINE WATTEAU
Landlord In New Zealand Who Took
it for Debt Realise Upon
His Property.
DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND. May 26.
(Special.) A picture which Is pronounced
to be a genuine Watteau has Just been dis
covered in a private house here.
Forty years ago a "remittance man," who
waa dying at Dunedln, at a hotel, made ths
picture over to the landlord In discharge of
a debt. The picture was In custody of a
bank and there the landlord allowed It to
remain for many years, little suspecting Its
worth, .but finally taking It ut and giving
It to his daughter as a wedding gift.
A little while ago a local artist happened
to sea the picture and gave acme idea of
the value of It to the husbsnd of the owner.
Ths latter communicated with the New
Zealand premier. Sir Joseph Ward, who
Informed Mr. A. A. Longden. who Is In
charge of the British art section of the
Christ church expostion. Mr. Longden ex
amined the painting snd pronounced it a
genuine Watteau. He will probably send
It ' to England on an offer by Sir Isidore
Bplelnsaa. '
The picture Is 1 foot M Inches br 1 foot
t Inches. It represents a group of Watteau
figures set In a rural scene, wiUl a back
ground of dark follag) .
BIG FISH IN THE NET
Six Millionaires Are Indicted by fan
Fraaoiioo Grand J try.
CHARGE IS BRIBERY OF OFFICIALS
Twenty-Eight Bills Containing 123 Cunti
Ara leturned.
GROW OUT OF TRACTION AND GAS DEALS
Six orporitien and Two City Officials on
the Liib
MEN INDICTED FRIDAY GIVE BOND
Trolley, Telephone and City Officials
asd Their Attorneys Throng
Jndg Coffey's Co art
Room.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. May 25-S1x more
millionaires and multl-mllllonalres. some of
them well known throughout the country,
fell under the accusation of the Oliver
grand Jury this evening when that body.
Just before an adjournment until June 10,
returned fourteen Indictments Jointly
against O. H. Umheen. J. E. Oreen and W.
I. Brobeck, charging them with attempted
bribery of public officials, and fourteen In
dictments Jointly against Frank. G. Drum,
Eugene De Babla and John Martin, charg
ing them with bribery of public officials.
With the former group Abraham Ruef, the
fallen political boss of San Francisco, was
Jointly Indicted; with the latter group Ruef
and Mayor Schmlts.
In all . twenty-eight Indictments were
found today, containing 126 counts and call
ing for ball bonds In the total sum of
II. 260,000.
Umbsen, Green, Brobeck and Ruef are
accused by the grand Jury of offering a
bribe of H.000 each to Supervisors Boxton,
Coffey, Oolemnn, Davis. Duffey, F"urey,
TJalagher, Harrlgan, Kelly, Lonergan,
Mamlock, McGushln, Phillips and Walsh
on NovemberJO, 1806, to award to the Park
Side Transit company a street railway
franchise. This franchise was voted De
cember 81, 1906, but the Spreckles, Heney
Bums bribery graft Investigation getting
under way at about that time tho Parkslde
deal was abandoned and no money was
pasaed, ssy the prosecutors.
On Real Indictment.
The Indictments against Drum, DeSabla,
Martin, Ruef and Schmlts charge them
with giving a bribe of $760 each to super
visors In consideration of their vote, cast
March 12. 1906. by which the legal gaa rate
for 1906-07 was fixed at 85 cents Instead of
75 oenta. Frank G. Drum is manager of
ths Tavls estate, one of the largest prop
erties In the west. He Is a member of the
executive committee of the Board of Di
rectors of the San Francisco Gas A Elec
tric company and of the Bay Cities Water
company and occupied an Identical office
In the Parkslde Transit company. Eugene
De Babla Is a director tn and was formerly
president of the Gas & Electric company.
John Martin la closely associated with
De Sabla in many interests. Each Is many
times a millionaire.
Each of the six corporation officials In
dicted today will be called on Monday to
furnish ball bonds In the sum of 1140,000.
So will the mayor. Ruefe ball required
will be $20.000. This Is a total of $1,260,000.
The gTSnd total of the ball demanded on
all of the 336 Indictments for bribery, at
tempted bribery, extortion, conspiracy and
perjury this far returned by the Oliver
grand Jury as the net partial results of Its
Investigations into munlolpal corruption Is
$3,360,000.
Indicted Men Give Bond.
Millionaires and multl-mllllonalres, presi
dents and vice presidents and lesser offi
cials of great corporations today thronged
Judge Coffey's court room with their attor
neys and attendants. They had been sum
moned to give ball in excess of $600,000 to
Insure their persotfal liberty pending trial
on felony ndlctments leturnel egatns'. them
by a grand Jury.
First came LouH Glass, vice president
of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company, to give bonds In the sum of $20,
000 on the charge of bribing two of the
supervisors to vote with their associates
against the granting of a competing tele
phone franchise in San Francisco. Mr.
Glass was represented by Attorney Coogan,
who handed to Judge Coffey two bonds for
$10,000 each, given by a surety company of
San Francisco.
President Patrick Calhoun and assistant
to President Mullally of the United Ratl-
: roads, General Counsel Tlrey L. Ford and
Assistant Counsel William L. Abbott of
j that corporation, each of them Indlctod
, on fourteen counta on the charge of brib
ing thirteen supervisors and Mayor
Schmlts to grant a trolley franchise, un
der which the United Railroads system
was electrified and Is operated, appeared
in company with Attorneys A. A. Moore
and Stanley Moore of the United Rail
roads, Morlts Rosenthal of Chicago and
Earl Rogera of Los Angeles, all of whom
will take an active part in the defense
of the United Railroads officials hence
forth. William H. Crocker, president of the
Crocker National bank of this city and
recognised aa the foremost capitalist of
San Francisco, and President Henry T.
Scott of the Pacific States Telephone and
Telegraph company, were in court to fur
nish personal ball cash or bonds tn the
sura of $660,000 for Mr. Calhoun, Mr.
Mullally, Mr. Ford and Mr. Abbott. Ar
rangements, however, had already been
made with the Metropolitan Surety com
pany of New York, and today Attorney
Rogera handed to Judge Coffey fifty-six
separate bonds for $10,000 each. Aft-r
Judge Coffey had signed his approval
flfty-alx times he nodded to the million
aire defendants and said:
"Gentlemen, that Is all," and the lat
ter, with their counsel, withdrew.
Attorney Schlesslnger appeared for
Theodore V. Halsey of the Pacific States
Telephone and Telegraph company, in
dicted on the same charges brought
against Vice President Glass.
As Abraham Ruef Is a prtnnr on
rhargea of extortion, to which he hue
pleaded guilty, and as it la understood that
he prefers the aafety of Elisor Rlggy's
Fillmore street prison house tn liberty, his
failure to appear In court today created
no surprise.
Mayor Behmlta Appears.
Lter, Mayor Schmlts, accompanied by
two of his attorneys, and by President
Thomas Williams of the New California
Jockey club, and President William A.
Dingey of the Contra Costa Water com
pany, entered the court room and offered
sixteen bonds for $10,'U) each. They were
approved by the district attorney and ac
cepted by the court. Mr. Falrall, Sohmlts's
(Ccstloaad n Second PagaJ
BAD FLOODS IN BLACK HILLS
Million Dollars namaare Itesnlts front
Three Days' Contlnnons Rain
and Snow.
DEADWOOD, 8. D., May SR. (Special
Telegram.) One of the most disastrous
floods that has visited the Black Hills for
a number of years la doing damago to
buildings, railroads and streets In lead
wood and the surrounding country. Throe
days ago It began to rain and has con
tinued without Intermission until Dcadwood
creek, Whltewood creek and all of Its
tributaries are now swollen out of their
banks, and the flood passing Deadwood Is
freighted with all kinds of debris, showing
thnt considerable damage haa been dona
above the city.
All of the lines of railroads entering
Deadwood have been damaged and trains
are badly delayed. The cellars of a num
ber of houses in Deadwood have been
flooded, while the water la threatening the
lower parts of the municipality. Sleet has
been falling this afternoon and the creeks
are still rising. In the mountains above
the city there Is at least three feet of
snow, and snow Is still falling. Should this
come down In the shape of water within
the next few days It will mean the destruc
tion of a great deal of property and severs
damage to Deadwood.
Reports from Belle Fourche sre to the
effect that a great deal of damage has been
done to the big government reclamation
works at that point, the Belle Fourche river
having reached the highest stage known
for years.
From other Black Hills towns come re
ports of flood and damage from high water,
crippled train service and washed out
county roads. It la estimated the damage
so far done by the flood will amount to at
least fl.OOn.flcr).
STURGIS. 8. D.. May f5.-(Ppeclal Tele
gram.) After three days and nights of
steady rain It started to snow this after
noon and a bllzxard Is rnglnir tonight. The
storm Is the worst since 1RS3. the time of
the big flood. The Black Hills country Is
thoroughly drenched, the streams being
bank full and overflowing, many bridges
have gone out and travel through the
country la Impossible. The roads are In
horrible condition and trains are all late.
The enormous amount of moisture Is hard
on cattle and sheep, but Is good for the
farming country, and the biggest crops
ever known are looked for. I.andslldea are
reported from the upper Black Hllla. The
big Belle Fourche dam la reported to have
gone out, but telephone Information contra
dicts this.
WESTERN MATTERS AT CAPITAL
Representative Parker Returns to
tooth Dakota Satisfied with
Result of HI Mission.
(From a 8taff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON. May 25 (Special Tele
gram.) Representative Parker of South
Dakota, who haa been In Washington sev
eral days, left tonight for home. Repre
sentative Parker's visit to Washington was
chiefly upon several poetofflce appointments
In South Dakota.
"My mission to Washington has been
eminently satisfactory from all view
points." said Congressman Parker. "All
recommendations made by my colleague,
Mr. Hall, and. myself will go through, I
am assured."
Brigadier Gcieral Earl D. Thomas Is re
lieved from temporary command of the De
partment of the Missouri and will proceed
to Denver and assume command of the
Department of Colorado.
Iowa rural routes ordered established
August 1: Emmetsburg, Palo Alto county,
route 1 population, 456; families, 89. Ttuth
ven, Palo Alto county, route 8, population,
406; families. 81.
South Dakota postmasters appointed:
Laflln, Lawrence county, Katherine Fraier,
vice Charles Florman, removed; Spink.
Union county, John Bratt, vice Otto Ceder
berg. resigned.
DESPERATE NEGRO CAPTURED
Man Believed to Be Jesse Coe,
Wanted for Harder, Taken
at Ban Jose, Cal.
BAN JOSE. Cal., May 26. A negro be
lieved to be Jesse Coe, wanted In Indian
apolis for the murder of Policeman Charles
Russell on September 30, 1906, was arrested
here last night after a fierce battle with
two policemen, both of wnom were severely
slashed with a rasor wleltrd by the pris
oner. He was finally overpowered.
INDIANAPOLIS. May 25.-The negro
thought to be Jease Coe, arrested at San
Jose, ml., lut night after a desperate fight
with police officers, Is wanted tn thla city
for the murder of Policeman Charles J.
Russell on the night of September $0, 1906.
Officer Edward J. Pettlcord. who accom
panied Russell on the fatal night, waa ahot
and killed by Coo's partner, George Wll
Haina. Williams paid the death penalty for
his crime, bring hanged at the Indiana pen
itentiary at Michigan City on February I
of thla year. Coe escaped after he had ahot
and killed Policeman Russell and all efforts
to race him have been to no avail. There
la a reward of $1,660 for the capture of Coe.
STREET CARS ARE ATTACKED
Attempt to RvHrame Operations Over
Sonth Line la 'Frisco Cansea
Violence.
BAN FRANCISCO, May .-Conslderable
violence attended the running of the street
cars In the "South of Market" district
today. H ricks and stones assailed many
of tho strike breakera and numeroua car
wtndowa were amaahed. Several passengers
sustained Injuries from flying missiles.
Rocks and fragmenta of cement were piled
along the rails, while In many placea heaps
of sand had been carefully shoveled In
the path of the cars. From a number of
partly finished buildings along the Bryant,
Mtsslon and Folsom street lines nails de
scended on the passing cars and several
painful Injuries were suffered by motor
men and conductors.
SUMMIT COUNTY FOR TAFT
Itrpnhlleuns In Senator Dick' Home
Endorse Candidacy of the
Secretary.
AKRON. O.. May 26. The republican ex
ecutive committee of Summit county. Sen
ator Dlck'a home, today passed resolu
tions declaring that In "William Taft la to
be found the beat representative of Rooae
veltlan politics and principle among all
the candidates for president," and that we
do heartily endorse William H. Taft for
the republican nomination In 1908."
The committeemen state that In this ac
tion they believe they "represent the sen
timents of the republicans of Summit
county.
Senator Dick was not present at tha
meeting, having left fur Chicago earlier
In Ute dan .
RAILROAD VALUES UP
Total Inorsnie la the Eailroad oMtament
About Fifty Tr Cent.
NEW LINES ACCOUNT FOR PORTION OF IT
Priperty lot Aumed Latt Tear la Alaa
Iltosd on the Boot.
t
BIG RAISE IN VALUATION OF TWO LINES
Union Paoifio it Inoreaied liftaea
Thousand Per Mile.
I
BURLINGTON COMES IN FOR BIG BOOST
Northwestern Also Increased Then
sand Dollars and Other Line
Remain Substantially a They
Were Year.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, May 26. -(Special Telegram.)
The State Board of Assessment has prac
tically agreed to assesa the railroads of
Nebraska at a total of $T3,ono.onO, an In
crease of about $M,O0O.0(U over the asneea
ment of last year. The Union Pacific aid
the Burlington will supply the greater por
tion of the Increase, the former being
valued at $75,000 a mile, an Increase from
$'.0n0, and the Burlington at $42,000 a mile.
an Increase from $38,760 a mile. The North
western will be assessed at $33,600 a mile,
an Increase from $32,600 All the other
roads will be assessed at the same figure
aa last year. These Increase, together
'with new lines and other property not
assessed last year, make the total Increase
In railroad valuation about $24,000,000. ,
These figures' have not been formally
adopted, but there Is no doubt they will
be when the board meets next Monday.
The assessment was decided upon at an"
Informal meeting held In tho office of State
Treaaurer Brian lato thla evening, at which
various methods of assessment were tried
out until the board had practically reached
the unanimous opinion of what the assess
ment should be. For the last week Gov-,
ernor Sheldon haa spent nearly the whole
of each night In his office, studying the
railroad returns, and most of the other
members of the board have spent much
time In Individual study of the questions.
While It has not been announced by Just
what method of assessment the values were
reached. It Is understood a uniform plan
was adopted.
The assessment shows the greatest In
crease ever made In any one year on the
assessment of railroad property. Previous
to this the board of 1904 held the record
when it made a $19,000,000 increase at the
time the new revenue law" went Into effect.
The board began Its session May 1 and
with the exception of phe occasion; when
an adjournment waa taken for three pr
four days, It has held a meeting almost
dally since then. All of the railroad repre
sentatives have been given an opportunity
to be heard and they have taken advantage
of tho courtesy of the board to plead and
argue for a reduction.
The record of the assessment will ba
made Monday at a formal meeting.
WOODMEN END THEIR SESSION
Increase of Salaries for Omaha Men
Recommended In aoveretga
Cnmp.
NORFOLK, Va., May 2S The sovereign
camp, Woodmen of the World, which con
vened here May 24 In biennial session, ad
journed today. An application from tha
uniform rank for 10,0u0 for the next two
years waa denied, but the uniform rank
was allowed $3,600 and relieved of all dues
and charter taxes. It was decided that
the uniform woodmen will camp at tha
Jamestown exposition for ten days begin
ning August 19.
The following were elected delegate to
the Pacific Jurisdiction at Seattle in Julyi
J. C. Root, W. A. Fraser and J. El F1U
gerald. The appointment of three delegates to tha
fraternal congress at Sault Eta Maria,
Mich., in August waa left to the sovereign
commander.
W. 8. White, Sioux City, la.; Louis Rog
ers, Gainesville, Tex., and E. R Stiles,
Omaha, were appointed members of tha
laws committee.
The annual salaries of sovereign officer
were Increased aa follows; J. C. Root, sov
ereign commander, Omaha, from $$.000 t
$10,000; W. A. Fraser, sovereign advisor,
Dallas, Tex., from fees to $5,000; Morris
Shepherd, sovereign banker, Texaraana,
Tex., $2,400 to $3,600; John L Tates, sover
eign clerk. Omaha, $6,000 to $7,600; B W.
Jewell, Manchester, la., chairman sover
eign finance, $4,900 to $6,000.
Dr. Ira W. Porter and Dr. A. D. Cloyd.
sovereign physicians, Omaha, $3,600 to $M
each.
It was recommended that the executive
council Increase the salary of BovraS
Attorney A. H. Burnett of Omaha frgta
$4,900 to an adequate amount in view of
his devoting his entire time to this work.
It also was recommended that ths bond
of the salaried officers be doubled and thla
matter was left to the executive council.
The Norfolk seaalon cost the sovereign,
camp from $28,000 to $30,000, according to
Sovereign Adviser Fraser.
BOSTON GETS CONDUCTORS
A. B. Garrettson of Texas I EleeteA
Grand Chief of thai
Order,
MEOTPinS, May 26 After selecting Bea
ton aa the meeting place In 1909 and eleot-
lng grand officers the convention of tha
: Order of Railway Conductors adjourned
' sine die tonight. The following officers
' were elected: Grand chief conductor, A. B.
Gairettson of Texas; assistant grand chief
i conductor, L L Sliepard; grand secretary
j and treasurer, W. J. Maxwell; grand senior
conductor, U. Curtis; grsnd Junior con
ductor, W. M. Clark; outside sentinel. J. R
Rlss.
ORDERS POLITICIAN TO JAIL
Topeka Justice of Peace Fine D. W,
Molvnne for Refusing to
Testify.
TOPEKA. Kan., May S. David W. Mul-
I vane, repumiran national committeeman
j from Kanras, waa fined $6 here today by
Justice of the Peace Bollinger and ordered
committed to the county Jail until the fins
is paid for refusing to testify in a suit
brought by H. H. Tucker. Jr., former sec-
j tf tary-treasurer of the Uncle Bam Oil com
pany, now In the handa of recelvera.
Mr. Mulvano stated he would neither pay
the fine nor go to JalL yb ahwiff baa smA
yet served the writ, .
