Ban Francisco, |90t. On account of the Fifth Interna tional Convention of the Epworth League at San Francisco in July, the Southern Pacific Company and its con nections will sell Exceedingly Low Rate Round-Trip Tickets. In fact, tickets will be sold from the East for the ftfund trip to San Francisco at rates much less than the normal one way fare, and further, they can be purchased to read .westward via any of the Southern Pacific's three routes —Sunset, Ogden or Shasta—returning via the same or either of the others. These Low Rate Round-Trip Tickets will be on sale daily July 6th to 13th, inclusive, and will be good for return until August 31st, permitting stop overs at all points of Interest en route, both going and returning. The South ern Pacific Company and Its connec tions operate through sleeping car lines from various eastern points. In formation relative to the rates, routes and through service will be cheerfully furnished by W. Q. Neimyer, G. W. A., S. P. Co., 238 Clark St., Chicago, 111. One test of, Intellectual power Is sticking to a thing until you have mastered It. ladle* Can Wear Shoes, Ouc size smnl ler after using AI Ion’s Foot Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoeseasy. Cures swollen, hot,sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. All druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Ad dress Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. A joke about the 8chuylkill water cannot be made very clear, NEW FAST TRAIN TO COLORADO Via SHuoiirl Pacific Hallway. The Missouri Pacific Railway is now operating double dally service from St. Louis and Kansas City to points in Colorado, Utah and the Pacific coast. Trains leave St. Louis 9 a. in., and 10:10 p. m., Kansas City 6 p. m. and 10 a. m., carrying through sleeping cars between St. Louis and San Francisco without change. Excursion tickets now on sale. For further Information address Company’s agents. H. C. TOWNSEND. O. P. & T. Agent, St. Louis, Mo. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent staren uou tatns only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed Or money refunded. 1 [ Thompson’s Eye Water MraiQinaiJOHM w.jiobkh, ilfcWalyyn Washington, D.C. ■WSuccessfully Prosecutes Claim*, ■ I,»t« FMnotnal Blftmluer XJ.B. Pcumlon Hurnau. m 3 nr*in civil war. IBadludii auiitf claim*. at tv niuce. IN WET WEATHER ! A WISE MAN WEARS ^SH BttNfP j OILED WATERPROOF l r v CLOTHING j • 1 • ' blaca or yellow mi KEEP YOU DRY NOTHIN ELSE WILL I -TAKE NO 3U63TITUTE3 ■ CATALOGUES FREE• .SHOWING FULL LINE Or GARMENTS AND HATS ; ! A.iJ.TOWER CO. BOSTON, MA33,46 f pFROM AiJiB I^POINTS^YEWII U The tire buyer should look well “ " ' before choosing. A good pair of tires adds to the life of your wheel — saves it many a jolt and jar. I Service is what G ScJ Tires give first, last and all the time. They are comfort able, satisfactory and easy to repair. Just the kind for country roads and big loads. Send for catalogue. J f a & J TIRE COMPANY, ;! Indianapolis, lad. TRIENNIAL CONCLAVE, Knights Templar LOUISVILLE, KV„ Aug. 27th to 31st, 1901. LOW RATES and Best of Service VIA THE KND IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE Tickets on sale August 24th to 26th, In clusive. and In Colorado August 23rd to 26th. Inclusive. Good to return until Sep tember 2nd. and may be extended until September 16th. 1901. For further Information write any agent the company. H. C. TOWNSEND. General Passenger and Ticket Agent, ST. LOUIS, MO. Vfaen Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This raper. W. N. U_OMAHA No. 33—1901 SPORT IN WESTERN CANADA! While the Farmer** Grain I* Ripening and HI* Stock Growing Fat da May Have Plenty of Shooting. There is probably no country on the American Continent where the life of the farmer carries with it that assur ance of comfort and success as does Western Canada. Nor is there to be found anywhere else such a pleasant combination. Game abounds every where and nowhere does it afford such perfect amusement. A noted sports man writing of the favorite pastime says: “There is one particular spot where I saw a man drop seventy mal lards one morning and bring them all to bag, too, for they dropped In open water or on flat prairie. At the right season of the year you can see black lines and triangles cut sharply out against the sky all round you, moving very swiftly, and you begin to wonder whether you have enough cartridges to hold out. You can hear the prair.e chicken crowing like barn-door fowls, and a little to the northeast is a bit of marshy ground, cattle-poached and dappled with gleaming pool3, where the snipe are nearly as thick as mos quitoes. A thin column of blue Bmoko curling up in the distance shows you where a few wandering Indians have pitched their camp, hut there Is no other indication of civilization in sight. Still, the neighborhood is well settled, and a short drive will bring you to a farmhouse, where you can buy the flnpst buticr and the freshest eggs for uncivilized prices. A very short railway journey will bring you to a country full of deer and the lordly wapiti, the king of the <’eer tribe the world over, and down on the flat, boggy land by the lake shores the moose will stand knee deep in water on the summer evenings ready to lie down when the flies get bothering. All day you breathe the wild free air of the prairie, and at night you are lulled to sleep by the surge and ripple and splash of the waves on the beach, broken now and then by the wlerd banshee-cry of strange water-fowl.” Particulars regarding settlement of the lands of Western Canada can be had from any agent of the Canadian gov ernment, whoso advertisement appears elsewhere in your columns. OLD READER. Never contradict a woman when she is abusing her husband. HO! FOR OKLAHOMA! Now land* noon to open. Be ready 1 Morgan'* Manual, with supplement containing proclamation,map showing allotment*. County neats, etc., $1. Supplement A Map, 50c. Agents Wanted. DICK T. MORGAN, Perry, O. T. VP hr Negroes Die Young. The American Missionary associa tion makes public a report from one of its representatives in Nashville, Tenn., concerning the death rate among the negroes of the south. The report states that in the represen tative southern cities for the past five years the death rate of the whites has been 20 in 1,000; that of the colored people 32, In 1,000. The south is said not to have shown much concern about the rapid increase of the negro, since the census of 1900 made it appear that In the ten years previous the black race Increased 24 per cent and white 23.91 per cent. The death rate of the negro Is greatest under the age of 15 and least at the higher ages. The race Is subject to a higher death rate than the whites from the following diseases: 1. Consumption at all ages, but especially between the ages of 15 and 45. 2. All diseases of Infants. The colored mother too often does not know how to take care of her infant. 3. Pneumonia at all ages. Scrofula and contagious diseases seem also on tha increase. New Library Scheme. A new departure in library service has been Inaugurated by the public li brary at Springfield, Mass., where 100 persons have agreed to pay 5 cents a week for ten weeks for home delivery of books. Each patron specifies ten books at the start and the time of use i3 the same as if called for at the li brary by the user. The innovation, it is believed, will greatly add to the pat ronage of the library. If it proves a public accommodation the example will doubtless be adopted throughout the country. Rosaries and Accordeons. At Loreto, Italy, an establishment foi the manufacture of rosaries occupies thirty-five female adults for an average of 260 days a year. The annual pro duction amounts to 35,000 dozen ro saries, which are disposed of at Loreto and other places In Italy. At Castel fldardo and Loreto 160 hands are em ployed In three establishments for the manufacture of accordions, which are largely exported to the United States of America. The stomach has to work hard, grinding the food we orowd into it. Make its work easy by chewing lice muu's Pepsin Gum. It's a wise cook that knows enough to leave well done alone. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. There is neither honor nor gain got in dealing with a villain. Ido not believe Plso's Cure for Consumption has an equal tor coughs and colds.—John F Dot hr, Trinity Springs. Ind., Feb. 16,1900. Why isn't a homely actress a case of stage fright? Uall's Catarrh Cure It taken internally. Price. 75c. Anpint a villain and he’ll stab you, stab him, and he'll anoint you. Kid-Ne-Oids, the new discovery for kidney diseases and bock-ache, has merit; that ac counts for the unmeuso sale. Druggists, OOc. He who calls all men fools is right in at least one instance. Ancestors often resemble potatoes— the best of them are under ground. Are Sent Message Rejecting Their Amend ed Form of Platt Clause. GOVERNMENT CANNOT ACCEPT II Cannot Change the Wording Nor Accept Other People’s Changes—President McKinley Anxious to Help the Island ersf Hut Finds No Way to Do So* WASHINGTON, June 1.—After an other long conference between the president and members of his cabinet a message of rejection was sent tc General Wood, advising the Cubans in unqualified language that there is no power resting in the United States government to change the terms of the Platt amendment and that this government insists on the acceptance of the Platt amendment, without amendment or qualification. The Cu ban convention is still in session and the message of rejection will be de livered to it immediately. The admin istration is confident that the Cubans will understand the exact attitude of this government and make a satisfac tory acceptance within a reasonable period. This action followed the decision of the cabinet that the action of the Cuban constitutional convention in ac cepting the terms of the Platt amend ment with modifications and interpre tations of its own was not "substan tial” compliance with our terms, with in the meaning of the amendment. The three main points- in which the action of the convention is regarded as unsatisfactory relate, it is said, to coaling stations, sanitation and inter vention. The Cuban convention took from the coaling station paragraph of the Platt amendment its obligatory character and merely authorized the Cuban government, in its judgment, to allow the United States to possess coaling or naval stations. The United States will assist on an absolute agree ment to grant these coaling stations. With respect to sanitation, the Cubans do not agree to carry out plans al ready devised, and in accepting the Platt amendment modified its provis ions so as to change them considerably. In the matter of intervention the objection is that the Cubans have so changed this vitally important part of the Platt amendment as to make the right of the United States to intervene an ambiguous and doubtful matter, whereas a straight and unequivocal ac knowledgment of right to intervene when. In our judgment, intervention is necessary to assure Cuban independ ence or a stable government, is in sisted on. The cabinet meeting lasted an hour and a half and had been preceded by an hour’s conference with the presi dent and Senators Platt of Connecti cut and Lodge of Massachusetts. As the author of the amendment, the pres ident desired to learn the views of Senator Platt and also those of Sen ator Lodge, who is one of the influen tial members of the committee on for eign relations. At the cabinet meeting Secretary Root took the stand that the interpre tation of the Platt amendment contain ed In the constitution adopted by the convention and the whereases append ed to it, went outside of a fair inter pretation of its meaning and was un acceptable. In thi3 view the cabinet concurred. When asked as to what would be the next step of the government after the Cuban convention had been notified of the rejection of its action, one of the members of the cabinet said that the government could do nothing further until the convention again acted, that as long aB the conditions of the Platt amendment were on the statute books compliance with them must precede our relinquishment of control over the island. Campaign for Pare Food. LINCOLN, Jun 1.—S. C. Bassett of Gibbon will come to Lincoln June 1 to open the office of the pure food de partment. He is planning a vigorous campaign against the illegal manufac ture and sale of imitation dairy pro ducts, tut will take no active steps toward enforcing the law until he has the office opened and his de partment well organized. Archbishop Keane'i Record. DES MOINES, June 1.—Archbishop Keano of Dubuque has recently made an extensive tour of the parishes in eastern Iowa preparatory to his tak ing a journey to Europe and to Rome. Since he entered upon the work last fall he has visited over 100 parishes and has confirmed more than 10,500 persons in the church. Shooting Between Farmers. MT. AYR, June 1.—Jacob S. Miller and R. W. Shaffer, farmers, engaged in a quarrel over some cattle belong ing to Shaffer which had been tres passing on Miller's farm, and in the hot words that followed Miller picked up a Winchester rifle lying near and Bhot Shaffer in the right thigh. The ball passed through his leg. coming out near the groin. ShafTer will recover unless blood poisoning should fol low. SHE IS STILL SERIOUSLY ILL Mr*. McKinley’s Physician* Watch Her Every Symptom. WASHINGTON, May 31.—Mrs. Mc Kinley had a fairly comfortable day, but still feels the effect of the fatigue incident to the long trip from San Francisco to Washington. The physi cians hope, now that she is again safe ly established in the white house, that the slight improvement which has manifested itself since leaving San Franciso will be continued and that soon she may be able to sit up. She is still very seriously ill and her every symptom is being carefully watched by those having charge of the dis tinguished patient. Dr. P. M. Rixey, the physician in charge of her case, spent some time at the bedside of the patient today. Associated with him in a consultating capacity are also Surgeon General Sternberg of the army and Dr. W. W. Johnson of this city. The president spent most of the day at the white house in the company of his wife. Late in the afternoon, in company with Secretary Root, he went out for a short drive, taking a ride In the suburbs, but he returned to the white house in about an hour. PAUL MORTON TELLS THE PLAN. Two Steamers a Month to Serve the Oriental Business. CHICAGO, May 31.—Paul Morton, second vice president of the Santa Fe, who returned from New York after having been in conference with the Hamburg-American steamship officials relative to the establishment of a new line from San Francisco to the orient, in discussing the project said: “The Santa Fe is negotiating with the Hamburg-American line, but the terms of the contract are not all agreed upon. Our contract with Che California and Oriental line does not expire until next year, and until that time a new line cannot be established. It is the purpose of the Santa Fe tcT inaugurate passenger as well as freight service between San Francisco and oriental points and we want the Hamburg-American company because It is in a position to give a better service than the company with which we now have relat'ons. “At first we will not run more than one or two steamers a month, but as the trade and traffic increases the ser vice will keep pace with it.” THE GREEN PEA LOUSE. Department of Agrlcnltnre Gives Warn ing: Against the Insect. WASHINGTON, May 31.—'The de partment of agriculture has Issued a report on the ravages of the green pea louse, giving warning that the insect, one of the most important of those which ravaged the crops of the coun try during the last two seasons, will widen its range geographically and in crease the amount of destruction. Since its first appearance in May, 1899, at Bridges, Va., its devastation has steadily increased and it has now become the cause of great loss in the principal pea growing regions of the United States. The estimated loss it caused along the Atlantic coast states in 1899 is estimated at $3,000,000, and in 1900 this had reached $4,000,000 by the middle of June. In some farms in Maryland 80 per cent or more of the crop was destroyed. Vigorous efforts are making to control its spread and the official bulletin gives a detailed description and means of fighting it N«br..k. at Washington. WASHINGTON, May 30.—Mrs. Sarah M. Atkinson of Winnebago, Neb., has been appointed matron at the Indian school at that place. Thel treasury department has awarded contracts for supplies for pub lic buildings at Lincoln, Neb., as fol lows: Coal, Union Fuel company; ice, the Cooper Manufacturing Ice and Cold Storage company; miscellaneous, H. Herpolscheimer. Hlrsm Prion Dead. WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 31.—Hi ram Price, who served many years in congress as a republican repre sentative from Iowa, and who was commissioner of Indian affairs from 1881 to the beginning of the first Cleveland administration, died here of heart trouble. Mr. Price, who was 81 years old, was president of the State Bank of Iowa for many years. Promotion for I.l.utansntA. WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 31.—Sec retary Root has decided that all of the second lieutenants of cavalry who were such on February 2 last, and all of the second lieutenants of infantry who were such at the date of the or ganization of the volunteer army in 1890, shall be at once promoted to the rank of first lieutenants. Philippine. Mot Affected. WASHINGTON, May 31.—The treas ury officials discussed with much in terest the decisions or the supreme court in the insular cases and the con clusion has been reached that nothing in these decisions is conclusive upon the government to change its adminis tration of the custom laws as to the Philippine islands, and therefore du ties will continue to be collected on imports from these Islands as here tofore. Cuban Constitutional Convention Finallj Approves Platt Clause. VOTE IS FOURTEEN TO THIRTEEN. Radicals Fight Hard at the Finish and Abuse Conservatives —Senor Tamayo Designates as Traitors All Who Vote In Favor of the Amendment. HAVANA, May 29.—The Platt amendment was accepted hy the Cuban constitutional convention by a vote of 15 to 14. The actual vote was on ac cepting the majority report of the committee on relations, which embod ied the amendment, with explanations of certain clauses. The radicals made a hard light at the last moment and Senors Portuondo, Gomez and Tamayo bitterly arraigned the conservatives. Senor Tamayo was particularly vindictive and declared that everybody who voted in favor of the Platt amendment was a traitor to his country. The convention com pelled him to retract this statement. On several occasions personal encoun ters seemed imminent. Senor Gomez spoke for more than an hour and his speech undoubtedly won over Senors Castro, Robau and Manduley. He appealed to the pa triotism of the delegates and rehearsed the long fight for independence, de nouncing as perjurers all who favored the Platt amendment on the ground that they had sworn to draw up a constitution for an independent re public. Several conservatives arose and re quested Senor Gomez to retract, but he refused. The following delegates voted against the majority report: Gomez, Gener, Portuondo, Lacret, Manduley, Cisneros, Ferrer, Fortun, Robau, E. Tamayo, Silva, Castro, Zayas and Aleman. Senors Rivera and Bravo were ab sent. The convention will convene Its ses sions, which will be devoted to draw ing up the election law. La Discussion In an extra this even ing exclaims: "Now will come im mediate independence.” By a decree to be issued in Havana the terms for paying mortgages will be extended four years, the debtors paying each year respectively 10, 15, 35 and 40 per cent of the principal and accrued interest. It is understood that both sides are satisfied with this ar rangement. The sewer bids will be opened to day. There are twelve in all. The bidders are required to deposit $500, 000. CANNON TO AID THE FARMERS. French Use Them to Fight Hail, Frost and Grasshoppers. WASHINGTON, May 30.—The French agriculturalists intend to fight frost and grasshoppers as well as hail storms with cannon and smoke, ac cording to an interesting report re ceived at the state department from Consul Covert Lyons. It has just been determined to hold an interna tional cannon congress at Lyons In November next and Consul Covert was authorized to extend an invitation to Americans to take part. The success that has attended the experiment of firing at approaching hailstorms to prevent their ravages upon French vineyards, has prompted steps for a still further extension of the usage of cannon in agricultural society circles. The theory in some quarters prevails that it is not the frost itself which blasts the budding fruit, but the sun’s rays following a night of frost, which find the grape, already sensitive to the cold, an easy victim to the heat. Can non fired horizontally over vineyards at Asti at sunrise produced interesting results. A strip of vineyard 500 feet wide, over which the smoke from the two cannon had been spread, was en tirely protected from the effects of the frost, while the vines on either side were badly injured. An invasion of grasshoppers is an nounced to occur this summer in southern Algeria and the cannon mouths are to be turned against them also. Nebranka Exhibits for Buffalo. LINCOLN, May 30.—The Nebraska exhibit for the Pan-American exposi tion will be shipped to Buffalo at once and soon after Assistant Commission ers R. R. Randall of Lincoln, T. E. Hibbert of Adams and Miss Leona Butterfield of Omaha will go east tc direct the work of installing it in th* agricultural building. N®gro Shoots Two Others. SIOUX CITY, la., May 29.—Because he was called a “cheap skate” at a colored church sociable, harry Baker walked a mile, procured a revolver, re turned to the church and shot three other negroes, one of whom, Jim Askew, will die. The others, Charles Watkins and Louis Cloyd, are not dan gerously wounded. Rivalry for the at tentions of a colored girl and statement that he could not buy ice cream roused Baker’s anger. THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. Latest Quotations from South Omaha j| and Kansas City. SOUTH OMAHA. Cattle—There was a good, liberal run of cattle, and in view of the liberal re ceipts packers started in to buy their sup plies for a little less money than they did yesterday. Sellers, however, held for steady prices, so that while the market was slow in opening, not much change was noticeable. Beef steers made up the bulk of the receipts, Vfie same as has been the case for some little time. It was a little late before many sales were made, owing to the fact that packers were bid ding lower, but after buyers and sellers got together the cattle changed hands at a rapid rate at just about yesterday’s prices. • The heavy weights continue in the best demand, but still the lighter grades, if of desirable quality, sold with out difficulty. It was the light common stuff that was slow sale. Cows were in light supply and good demand and no ma terial change was noticeable in the prices paid. Packers bid good, steady prices and bought up what was offered in good season. Choice heavyweight heifers in particular moved freely. Bulls also were in active demand this morning, and any thing at all desirable in quality sold in good season at steady prices. The same was true of stags and calves. Hogs—There was a very heavy run of hogs, over 15,000 head being on sale. The demand, however, was equal to the occa- \ sion, as is shown by the fact that every- J thing sold in good season, with the mar- ^ ket averaging only a shade lower. Pack ers started in bidding mostly $5.60, or lower, but sellers held on for steady prices, and for that reason the market was a little slow in opening. Finally, how ever, packers raised their bids and began paying $5.60 and $5.62Ms- At those prices the hogs moved toward the scales at a rapid rate and it was not long before practically everything was out of first hands. The choicest grades sold largely at $5.65, and as high as $5.75 was paid for a prime load. Sheep—There were only a few cars of sheep and lambs here and the market on the lighter weights of lambs was fairly active and just about steady with yester day. The clipped lambs sold mostly from $5.80 to $5.90, which prices average up about the same as yesterday. There were no choice wooled lambs offered. The heivyweight clipped stuff was slow sale this morning and a little weak. KANSAS CITY. Cattle—Native and Texas beef steers, steady to a shade higher; Stockers and feeders, slow; cows and heifers, steady to 10c lower; choice beef steers, $5.50@5.85; fair to good, $5.00@5.40; stockers and feed ers, $4.00@4.50; western yearlings, $4.50(5) 5.55; Texans and Indians, $4.50@5.50: Texas grass steers. $3.40@4.25; cows, $3.25@4.75; heifers, $3.65@5.35; canners. $2.25@3.15; bulls, $3.50@4.50; calves, $4.00@6.50. Hogs—Market steady to 2%c lower; top, $5.90; bulk of sales, $5„60@5.85; heavy, $5.80 @5.90; mixed packers, $5.65@5.85; light, $5.40 @5.75; pigs, $4.40@5.35. Sheep and Lambs—Market 5@15c lower; jp western lambs, $4.60@5.50; western weth ers, $4.00@4.50; western yearlings, $4.5-@ 1.90; ewes, $3.75@4.25; culls, $2.75@3.50; Texas grass sheep, $3.50@4.60; Texas ^ lambs, $4.25@4.60; spring lambs, $5.50@6.25. SURGEON ST. JOHN IS KILLED. Company A. Twentieth Infantry Meets Band of Insurgents. MANILA, June 1.—Thirty-three men of Company A, Twentieth regiment United States infantry, recently en countered Segovia’s band near Para cale, North Camarine province. Sur geon St. John was killed. The in surgents lost five men killed and had two wounded. Doniels has been again attacked and reinforcements have been sent from Marindique. As a result of the investigation of the shooting affair at Camp Stotsen burg, May 21, Lieutenant James How ell of the Sixth artillery will be tried Uy court-martial. Second Lieutenant Charles R. Lloyd, jr., also of the Sixth artillery, and Dr. Overton, who dressed the wounds received by Lloyd at the hands of Howell, have been re leased from arrest. Runaway Husband. BLOOMFIELD, June 1.—A. S. Ken drick, of Floris, who sold off his prop erty and left his wife and skipped to Kansas with the money, and who has been confined in the jail here, was given a hearing in the justice court. His attorney worked hard for a com promise, and finally accomplished his plan. Kendrick agreed to give his wife $2,350 and allow her to make ap plication for divorce on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment. Mrs. Kendrick withdrew all former charges which she had preferred against him. Mis Theft at Singapore. x LONDON, June The Daily Mail has received the following dispatch from Singapore: “Bank notes to the value of £50, 000, mostly in £50 notes, have been stolen from the Singapore branch of the Hong Kong and Shanghai bank. There is no trace of the thief. Condition of the Treasury. WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 1.— Today's statement of the treasury balances in the general fund, exclu sive of the $150,000,000 gold in the division of redemption, shows: Avail able cash balance, $161,537,698; gold, $92,923,024. It Restricts Oleomargarine. HARRISBURG, Pa., June 1.—Gov ernor Stone today signed the Snyder Harris oleomargarine restriction bill. The new law regulates the manufac ture and sale of butterine and similar products, forbids oleomargarine from being colored, prevents dealers from selling oleomargarine for butter, and makes it compulsory upon each dealer to secure a permit from the Agricul tural department before handling oleomargarine. I