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AS TO BULGARIA WILL WAIT TWO DAYS AND THEN TAKE ACTION. A CONFLICT SEEMS AT HAND Little Nation, at Whatever Cost, Will Cast Lot with Persecuted Chris tians of Macedonia—Will Protect the Women and Children. LONDON—Disquieting rumors come from Vienna and elsewhere regarding teh Balkan crisis and whilst it is im possible to confirm the more sensa tional statements, here is accumula tion of evidence that some violent so lution cannot long be delayed. The Sofia correspondent of the Daily Telegraph sends, under Satur day's date, another long dispatch warmly defending Bulgaria’s patient and quixotic attitude of loyalty toward the porte and the powers denouncing Europe's indifferences to the wiping out of a large Christian community. He says: "Bulgaria has displayed unexemapled moderation. Her last urgent request to the powers was that they should compel Turkey to suppress the uprising by legitimate methods of warfare, but to spare women and chil dren from indignities and massacres. But even this, Christian Europe has refused and Prince Ferdinand's gov ernment, having fully considered the question and aware of the disastrous consequences with which the powers threaten Bulgaria if she Intervenes, has decided that she cannot longer neglect her sacred duty to prevent the Christian population being done to death. In a couple of days more the die will he cast and Bulgaria will do her duty. An official communication will be made to the powers in the above indicated time, and forthwith me necessary measures will ne taken and only countermanded If the pow ers Immediately intervene. This is Bulgaria's last word. The moral re sponsibility will fall upon Christian Europe, even if the material conse quences have to be endured by Bul garia." A dispatch from Constantinople to the Standard says large forces are be ing collected to the north and north west of Constantnople, where, in the event of war, tho first fighting is ex pected to occur, and, though allusions to any plan of compalgn is strictly censured, It may be assumed that Ger man advice during recent years had not left Turkey unprepared this time. From Vienna comes the semi-official statement that Austria has again pro posed to the powers to admonish Bul garia, but that so far nothing has come of the proposition. LEAK FROM THE GRAND JURY. Indictments in the Pastal Cases Were Tipped Off. WASHINGTON — Information has come to light which seems to Indi cate that Issac S. McGiehan and Jo seph S. Huntington, members of the Columbia Supply company, were giv en advanco information of the indict ments returned against them by the federal grand jury here last Tuesday, and have temporarily gotten out of the way. It was said that word was received here early Friday morning, six hours before the indictments were made public, that these men were wanted lo this city to answer charges of brib ery. It Is said that both these men disappeared from New York before the warrants could be served on them. • —- i Tornado Strikes Oklahoma. GUTHRIE, Okla.—A tornado struck tho vicinity of Bloomington, in south western Oklahoma, Sunday, doing ex tensive damage. The residence of Mrs. Sarah Carter was destroyed, the woman and her eldest daughter being injured. Two children were blown i across a barb wire fence into a pas ture. Buildings on the farms of Frank Allen, John Push and William Herndon were also completely de stroyed. Heavy Snow in Yellowstone Park. YELLOWSTONE PARK — Six inches of snow on the level have fall en throughout Yellowstone Park dur ing the last forty-eight hours. Well Known German Dead. MILWAUKEE—Dr. Ernest Nantke, aged 40 years, professor of chemistry and conductor of a brewers’ school in this city, died suddenly of penu monia. Killed with Empty Beer Kegs. PITTSBURG, Pa.—Late Sunday af ternoon. at Traiford City, Tony Blier was so badly battered up with beer kegs that he died Id a few hours. Blier had gone for a rest under a cliff Just under the camp of some Italians. The Italians took offense at the intrusion and hurled three empty eighth-barrel beer kegs down on Blier’s head, crushing his skull. Ho arrests have as yet been made. ■ ■■-■- - _^ ATROCITIES BEYOND BELIEF. Turks Dig Flesh from Living Woman with Pocket Knives. LONDON—The Daily Mail's corre spondent at Monastlr, In a dispatch dated September 6, claims that him self, the British vice consul, MacGreg or, and an American missionary nam ed Bond, are the Intended victims of Turkish revenge because they re ported the Turkish atrocities. If their murder could be compassed, It would be fathered upon the Bulgarians. The correspondent describes further atrocities by soldiers. In one case they flayed a little girl’s head, while in another they dug the flesh from under a woman’s arms with pocket knives in order to see tho working of her lungs. A Constantinople dispatch to the Daily Mail, dated September 10, says the porte telegraphed to Washington asking to have the American squad ron recalled from Beirut, but the re quest wab refused. Minister Leish man declared that it. would remain un til the departure of the late vail, Res hid Pasha. 8T. LOUIS FAIR THREATENED. Westinghouse Strike May Tie Up Im portant Work. PITTSBURG, Pa.—The strike at the Kast Pittsburg plant of the Westing house Machine company threatens to tie up Important work on the St. Louis fair buildings. President O'Connell of the Interna tional Association of Machinists has taken the matter up with President rompers of the American Federation of Labor. It is claimed that the sup port of that body has been assureu and that a meeting of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor has been called to meet at Washington on September 21, when the question of calling out all union men employed on Westinghouse con tracts on the fair grounds will receive consideration, providing an appeal to be made to the Westinghouse people in the meantime by President Gompors is not satisfactorily answered. FIRST DOCUMENT OF PIUS X. Addresses Letter to Certain Cardinals Confirming Appointments. ROME—It has been announced that Pius X would announce Tuesday his first encyclical addressed to the Cath olic hierarchy and people throughout the world, but this was incorrect. The pontiff published his first offi cial document, consisting of a letter addressed to Cardinals Vannutelll, Rampolla, Ferrata and Yves y Tuto, confirming their appointment by Pope Leo, as a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the dogma of the Im maculate Conception. The letter, which is brief, is followed by a prayer to the Virgin Mary, which will ac quire importance as being the first to bear the signature of Plus X. HEAVY DAMAGE TO GRAIN. Wheat and Hay Badly Injured in Washington. PORTLAND, Ore.—A special to the Oregonian from Spokane says: Re ports of damage to the grain and hay crops are coming in from all sections of eastern Washington except in the Big Bend. Few districts have not materially suffered from rains. For the past two weeks rain has fallen in heavy showers nearly all day, the drenched expanse extending from Walla Walla county north to the in ternational boundary and into north Idaho. A fair estimate of the wheat harvest is that two-thirds has been cut. Much of this is stacked in the fields and Is swelling from the heavy downpour. Plague Condition is oerlous. MARSEILLES.—The unofficial re ports make the plague sRuatiou seri ous. The dead, it appears, includes four women and one man whose bodies were covered with bubos, leav ing little doubt as to the nature of the disease. Drop Hints of Abdication. LONDON—The Vienna correspond ent of the Daily Mail declares that the Hungarian political crisis has be come so acute that the abdication of Emperor Francis Joseph as king of Hungary is freely discussed in the latter country, and although no party leader is willing to openly discuss the probability, there is a strong feeling in favor of Hungary’s right to choose its own king, the candidate favored being the German emperor’s second spn, Prince Eitel. To Guard Frontier Carefully. SALONICA—Palace authorities, act ing upon advices received here from the Turkish minister at Belgrade have telegraphed to the vali of Kos siao, instructing him to guard th< Servian frontier more carefully, be cause the Servian revolutionary com mittee is said to be holding meetings at many places, and is organizinj bands, distributing bombs and explain ing the use of them to their follow ers. ACTS ONDEMAND TURKEY REMOVE THE GOVERNOR WHO WAS OBJECTIONABLE. IRISHMANS PRESITCE LARCER Cheklb Bey Says that Peace Has Beef Established at Beyroot—City is Now Quiet and the People Are Resuming Business. WASHINGTON—The following buf letin was posted at the Navy depart ment Friday: "Admiral Cotton telegraphs from Beyroot, September 10, that the gov ernor general of Damascus has been appointed acting governor general at Beyroot and has expressed a desire tc settle the case of the American vice consul satisfactory to the United States government. Beyroot quiet, business improving, confidence in creasing.” The State department had authentic advices that Governor General Nazim Pasha of Damascus, who has been ap pointed acting governor of Beyroot, is a trustworthy and broad-minded man, and Minister Leishman has been instructed to advise the sublime ports that the Washington government is greatly pleased at the immediate granting of its request for the removal of the governor of Beyroot and the ap pointment in his stead of a responsi ble person and one favorable to for eigners. A long cablegram reached the State department from Minister Leishman on the general Turkish situation, which has not yet been made public. The prestige of Minister Leishman at Constantinople has greatly in creased since the appearance of the European squadron off Beyroot, and the scope of his representations to the porte has also increased in the last few days. It is understood our gov ernment will push to an early conclu sion all its pending claims against Turkey. c-ueaiu oey, me xuraisn minister, was a caller at the State department Friday, bringing further reassuring advices that a “condition of absolute peace has been established at Bey root.” CONSTANTINOPLE—The American consul at Beyroot reports that the sit uation there is improving, thanks to the confidence inspired by Nazim Pasha, who has succeeded Reshid Pasna. Rumors of fresh outrages con tinue t£> reach Constantinople, but these reports are deliberately spread, with the object of creating the impres sion that the present situation at Bey root was caused by the arrival there of the United States warships. As a matter of fact the general state of affairs is chronic at Beyroot. In security has prevailed there for months. CHARGES NOW PUBLIC. United States Attorney Gives Names of Men Indicted. WASHINGTON—United States Dis trict Attorney Beach on Friday an nounced that the six persons named in the seven indictments returned by the grand jury last Tuesday are: George W. Beavers, former chief of the division of salaries and allowances) postofflce department; August Machen, former general superintendent of the free delivery system postofflce de partment; James W. Erwin, former postofflce inspector, with headquarters in San Francisco; George H. Hunting ton and Isaac A. McGeihan, both of New York City, owners of the Colum bia Supply company of that city, and Eugene D. Seheble of Toledo, O., a dentist and interested in the firm of Mayhury & Ellis of Detroit, Mich., let ter box manufacturers. Nebraska at St. Louis. LINCOLN, Neb.—At a meeting of the Nebraska commission for the St. Louis exposition arrangements were discussed with prominent exhibitors to have entries ready for the Nebraska exhibit at the exposition. October 18 will be Nebraska day at the fair, that being the anniversary of the day the first territorial governor of Nebraska took the oth of office. Condition of the Treasury. WASHINGTON—Tuesday’s state ment of the treasury balances in the general fund, exclusive of the $150, 000,000 gold reserve in the division of redemption, shows: Available cash balance, $235,284,092; gold, $106,738, 142. Spends Money in Salt Lake. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—General Superintendent J. P. Young of the Rio Grande & Western railway on Thursday announced that the city council of Salt Lake would be pre sented at its next meeting with a pe tition for necessary franchises for im provements for the Denver & Ric Grande system in this city, aggregat lng nearly $1,000,000. This will in elude the erection of a new station to cost at least $200,000. PENSION LIST GROWING LESS. Beneficiaries Drop Below the Mlilion Mark. WASHINGTON—The annual report of Commissioner of Pensions Ware places the total number of pension ers now on the rolls at 996,545, of which 725,356 are soldiers and 267, 185 are widows and dependents. Mr. Ware announces that it is not prob; able that the pension roll will again cross the million line, the high water mark having been reached a year ago. Five of the pensions are on the roll on account of the war of the revolu tion; 1,116 of the war of 1812; 4,784 on account of Indian wars, and 13,874 on account of the Mexican war. The average annual value of each pension is now $133. The total annual value of the Spanish war pension roll has reached $1,765,310. Commissioner Ware makes the fol lowing recommendations: Laws for feiting the pension or right to pension of any man convicted in court of an infamous crime; prohibiting the giv ing of pensions to women who marry soldiers after the soldiers become old pensioners; a different method of ex amining applicants for pensions, Mr. Ware stamping the present system as uncertain, unsatisfactory and of an enormous amount of political friction. Mr. Ware says the bureau has gain ed on the current work 100,000 cases during the last two years. MONEY TO RECLAIM LAND. ' Commissioner of General Land Office Makes Report of Cash on Hand. WASHINGTON—W. A. Richards', commissioner of the general land of fice, has made public a statement showing the amounts to the credit of the reclamation fund from sales of public lands in the several states and territories during the fiscal years oi 1901, 1902 and 1903 under the provi sions of the act of congress approv ed June 17, 1902. It is shown that during the present year there has been covered into the treasury from the proceeds of the sale of public lands in sixteen states and territories the sum of $8,401,493, making an ag gregate of $16,191,836 as the total thus far received and on deposit in the United States treasury to the credit of the reclamation fund. Of this amount Nebraska contributed during the present year $118,838, and a total since 1901 of $354,036. Dur ing the year 1903 South Dakota sold lands credited to the reclamation fund valued at $239,420, making the total received from that state $546,982. In Wyoming lands were sold which brought $272,923, during the current year, making an aggregate of $658,686 during the last three years. -j, ■■■ ' -.. ■■■— TO ENFORCE PURE FOOD LAW. Some Foreign Goods Are to Be Shut Out. WASHINGTON, D. C.—The agri cultural department is making strong efforts to keep out of the country all imported goods, the entry of which is prohibited under the pure food act. Since August 1, when the act went into effect, approximately 600 ship ments of meats, wine, olive oil, etc., have been held up pending an exam ination as to the determination of the question whether their use Is prohib ited in the country whence they are imported into the United States. Up to this time only one shipment, con sisting of white wine, has been re fused entry. The special agents and consuls abroad keep the department advised by cable of all shipments of goods which may come within the prohibi tions of the law, and instructions are sent at once to the collectors at the ports where they are to arrive to hold them in warehouses and send sam ples to Washington for analysis. TAUL MORTON AT OYSTER BAY. President Also Hears Report on Al leged Indian Frauds. OYSTER BAY, L. I.—The president entertained at luncheon Paul Morton of Chicago, vice president of the San ta Fe railroad sy"tem; Francis E. Leupp of Washington, and Lieuten ant Gordon Johnston of the army, who was a member of the president's regiment of Rough Riders. Mr. Leupp, who is a Washington newspaper correspondent, was ap pointed by the president several months ago as a commissioner to make an investigation of alleged In dian frauds in the Oklahoma territory. He has completed his work and mad< his report to the president. Omaha Steer is Dead. MILWAUKEE, Wis.—A prized shorthorn steer belonging to W. F. Christian of Omaha passed to the hap py hunting grounds Wednesday morn ing. He had brought it from Omaha, where it captured the red ribbon. A string of red and blue ones floated over its quar‘ers. It was taken ill with bladder and kidney trouble in Omaha, but appeared to have recov ered. Tuesday night is suffered a re lapse and died. • I It IIIII HI* I I I I l-HHI 11 f* :: THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. | ) I Latest Quotations Trom South T Omaha and Kansas City. I 4 M 1111 H I 11 111 IHHfWil SOUTH OMAHA. CATTLE—There was a moderate supply of cattle In sight and about the usual conditions prevailed. Neither packers nor feeder buyers seemed to be very anx ious for supplies, but still they bought up about everything offered at right around steady prices. The few corn fed steers that arrived sold without much trouble at steady prices, but there was nothing strictly choice offered. Good to choice corn feds have been In good de mand all the week and If anything art a little stronger. The cow market did not exhibit any ere at amount of life, but prices held about steady. The feeling seemed to be a littel better, but there was not the strength that characterized yesterday's market. For the week cows are much over a dime lower as part of the loss of the early part of the week has been regained. Bulls, veal calves and stags sold In just about the same notches they have all the week. There were very few stockers and feeders offered and not many were wanted. The few that did arrive sold at not far from steady prices. Strictly choice feeders are not much lower for the week but aside from a few sales of that kind the general mar ket Is safely quoted 15@25c lower. There ware only a few western grass beef steers offered and they sold about steady. For the week choice stuff could safely be quoted strong, but common grades have shown no improvement. Range cows held steady. HOGS—There was not a hevy run of hogs, but reports from other points were not very favorable to the selling interests and as a result the market was rather weak. The heavy hogs sold largely from $5.50 to $5.60, medium weights from $5.6< to $5.75 and lightweights sold from $5.78 up to $6, the top price being paid for a very fancy load weighing 147 pounds. This is the first load of this kind that has' been received this year, all the othei fancy lightweights averaging around 200 pounds. SHEEP—Quotations for grass stock: Good to choice lambs, $4.65®4.85; fair tc good lambs, $4.25@4.65; good to choice yearlings, $3.3o(®3.50; fair to good year lings, $3.35@3.50; good to choice wethers, $3.25@3.40; fair to good wethers, $3.15® 3.25; good to choice ewes, $2.75®3.00; fair to good ewes, $2.35@2.65; feeder lambs, $3.75@4.35; feeder yearlings, $3.25®3.50; feeder wethers, $3.00@3.25: feeder ewes, $1.50® 2.50. KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Steady to strong; native steers, $4.4005.55; Texas and Indian steers, $2.9003.60; Texas cows, $1.5002.45; native cows and heifers, $1.4004.10; stockers and feeders, $2.9004.45; bulls, $2.0003.40; calves, $2.0005.50; western steers, $3.750 4.70; west ern cows, $1.6002.75. HOGS—Steady; bulk of sales, $5.9006.10; heavy, $5.8006.00; puckers, $5.8006.10; me dium, $6.1006.15; light, $5.9506.15; york ers, $6.1006.15: pigs, $5.8006.10. SHEEP—Strong; muttons, $2.6004.00; lambs, $2.900 5.25; range wethers, $2,400 3.90; ewes, $2.3003.75. mbe6,,iti. .1... aafldUfldalrf511aci mm amo HOPE TO EXTRADITE HIM. Proceedings Begun to Bring Back Leo pold J. Stern. WASHINGTON—This government has instituted proceedings for the ex-, tradition of Leopold J. Stern, the Bal timore contractor who disappeared when indicted by the grand jury in this city for conspiracy in a postal con tract and who was located recently at Toronto, Canada. Postoffice Inspec tor Walter S. Mayer of Chicago left here Friday night for Toronto, where he will confer immediately with the crown’s attorney and the American consul there. The state department also tele graphed the consul to request the au thorities at Toronto to hold Stern un der the provision in the extradition treaty between the United States and Great Britain that a fugitive can be held by either country at the instance >f the other for forty days. Mayer carried certified copies of the papers In the Stern case and other documents “ssential. MUST PAY THEIR FULL SHARE. Railroads to Abolish Rates for Mer chants’ Meetings. CHICAGO — Railroads composing the Central Passenger association have practically decided to discontinue :he practice of granting reduced rates for merchants’ meetings, which are now held in nearly every large cen ter of the country. Territory covered by the lines extends from Chicago to Pittsburg and Buffalo on the east and north of the Ohio river. A reso lution, which was passed at the month ly meeting of the association Friday, is to the effect that in granting re duced rates the railroads are discrim inating against small cities and in fa vor of the large distributing centers. Enters on Routine Work. SOUTHPORT, England—The Brit ish Association for the Advancement of Science has entered upon its regu lar work with a large attendance. Will Abolish Direct Taxes. COPENHAGEN—The report of the West Indian commission has been pub lished. It practically coincides with the forecast of the Associated Press' from Berlin, August 31. The abolition of the majority of the direct taxes and the export duty on rum, sugar and mo lasses are recommended. One colo nial council for all the Danish West Indian islands, with three represents tives in the Danish parliament, is also suggested. SEA ISLAND QUEEN , l • • CLEVER WOMAN HAS ONE HUM DRED THOUSAND SUBJECTS. , Through Her Own Efforts Mrs. Paul Kolbe Has Acquired an Immense Fortune and Civilized Fierce Tribei of Cannibals. One of the richest women in the world is Mrs. Paul Kolbe, who is ft virtual queen over 100,000 South Sea islanders, who only a score of years ago were among the fiercest cannibals on earth. To her subjects she is Known as Queen Emma, and by her own intelligent efforts she has accum ulated within twenty years the vast sum of $20,000,000. Twenty years ago Queen Emma, upon the death of her first husband, Edward E. Forsayth, an Englishman, found herself not only poor but heav ily in debt, but even then her knowf edge of trade conditions in the west* ern Pacific was quoted as authorita tive, and by making use of this knowl edge and taking advantage of her op portunities she quickly paid off heii indebtedness and laid the foundations i of her present large fortune. X. At that time what have been known since they became a dependency of Germany, in 1884, as the Bismarck archipelago, a group of islands lying northwest of New Guinea, were almost; unknown. The largest of these islands were formerly known as New Britain, New Ireland and the Duke of York group, but now appear on the map as New Pomerania, New Mecklenberg, and New Lauenberg respectively!! Their area is about 18,200 square miles1 and the population is estimated at 188,000. Queen Emma was the first person to recognize the fertility of the group, and for comparatively small sums acquire title to many thousands of acres. She established plantations and! as her business increased put on a! line of vessels of her own that now' ply between the islands and Austra lia. At first her position on the islands was not only uncomfortable, but ex tremely dangerous. The cannibalistic natives were hostile and suspicious, but she gradually acquired such influ ence over them that of nearly the entire population she is now the vir tual ruler. She gives them their laws, marries and divorces them, and is « looked upon as the final arbiter in all m matters of dispute. $ &ne nas gradually civilized many of her dependents during the years of her supremacy over them and it is now seldom that they appear in public without at least a girdle around their loins. On one plantation alone of’ 120,000 acres in New Pomerania she employs 1,500 natives and fifty Eng lishmen and Germans as overseers. One of the smaller plantations is de voted to the South Sea island cotton and comprises 15,000 acres. Other products of her plantation are rice, coffee, tea, bananas, copra, bread fruit and betel nute. Although a Samoan princess the United States have almost as much £, claim to Queen Emma as the South 4Mb, seas. Her father was Jonas M. Coe, for twenty-five years American con sul at Samoa, who married there a princess of the reigning house. She was his eldest daughter and was edu cated in Australia and San Francisco. At the time of her marriage to Mr. Forsayth she was considered the most beautiful woman in Samoa. Her' pres ent husband is Lieut. Paul Kolbe, for merly of the German army. THE CHANGES OF HISTORY. Napoleon’s Coup d’Etat Compared With That in Servia. An English writer says: “It is now stated that the number of those who have fallen victims to the coup d’etat at Belgrade is fifty-four. The massa cre has aroused the disgust and indig nation of all Europe, which cannot find a parallel for such a butchery in modern annals, but the world would appear to have forgotten Louis Na poleon’s coup d’etat of Dec. 2, by which he extinguished in blood the French republic and raised himself to what was practically the imperial tnrone. On that occasion the usurper scrupled not to deluge Paris with the blood of its citizens, hundreds of whom lost their lives, so that, as far as murderous results were concerned, the crime of ‘Napoleon the Little’ was even more flagitious and unjustifiable than that of the conspirators who have now abolished the Obrenovitch dynas ty. Yet within five years Queen Vic toria, on the steps of Windsor castle, presented her cheek to the perpetrator of the coup d’etat.” —- A* What They Were Good For. Sir Thomas Upton and Nikola Tes la were discussing the future of Ire land, over a companionable glass and a good cigar, in the Waldorf-Astoria last week. The baronet was not in clined to share the inventor’s opinion, and finally, with a little impatience,, be asked: : “Well, Mr. Tesla, what do you think' Irishmen are good for, anyway?" ’j “They're good for what might be! made out of them,” was the quickie ply, and Sir Thomas smiled and tslfet silence.—New York Times. Stump Speaking and Poker. , After William Hepburn Russell had) made a political speech to a rather! undemonstrative audience he said to a companion: “Stump speaking is a great deal: 'ike poker, after all.” “How’s that?” his companion re-i turned. . “Oh. you know, one often feels the need of 4 good hand.”—New York Times.