NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
THE NEW JURY LAW
IN VERY BAD SHAPE
LINCOLN—Deputy Attorney Gener
al Thompson declares that the Tucker
jury law is hopelessly tangled. Out
side of Douglas, Lancaster and Gage
counties it may be impossible to draw
a legal jury. The act was introduced
into the last legislature by State Sen
ator Tucker, who was recently re
moved from the supreme bench of
Arizona.
The dangerous part of the mix-up
lies in the fact that the criminals may
be released when their cast)- are ap
pealed. The new law went into effect
November 1 and applies to the entire
state, with the exception of the three !
counties named above.
The law provides that at least 500 i
names shall be selected from the
daily tally sheets after each election
and from this list the jurors shall be
drawn. Some counties have not the
required number of voters. Still the
number must be divided by the num
ber of precincts. This will result in j
fractions. The jurors will have to be j
divided into halves, thirds and quar- j
ters in some counties.
Saloon Wrecked By Robbers.
NORFOLK—Dynamiters blew up the
saloon of F. E. Matejke at Wakefield.
Neb., secured $30 in cash from the
safe, fled from town and were later
captured three miles east by a posse of
armed citizens. The men were not
taken without a battle, in which one
of them was shot and wounded, though
not seriously.
Arizona Man Gets Place.
LINCOLN—Judge Paul Jessen of
Nebraska City, who was tendered the
appointment to the supreme bench of
Arizona, has declined the place and
word has reached Lincoln that Dis
trict Attorney Nave of Arizona has
been given the appointment.
Increase of Land Prices.
YORK—That land has increased and
doubled in value in York county in the
past four years was proven'last week
when C. A. Schrandt purchased the
Graham 1G0 acres, northeast of York !
paying $10,100 for it. Four years ago
this farm sold for $5,000
Grain Ca--; Postponed.
Attorney General Norris Brown se
cured from the supreme court permis
sion to take two weeks in which to
prepare and file his brief in reply to
the briefs of the attorneys for the
Grain Dealer's association of Nebras
ka.
To Reopen Normal School.
LINCOLN—The Western Normal
college, started In 1892 by William
Croan, may be reopened. A number
of capitalists are thinking of utilizing
it for a normal school. The property
has been vacant for ten or twelve
years.
OAKLAND — The Great Northern
railroad has located its depot here on
Commercial avenue, between Second
and Third streets, which will be built
of brick. The pipes for their well are
here and also the material for the
water tank.
ROUTE UP THE PLATTE RIVER.
Two New Towns on Union Pacific Ex
tension.
The public has been left rather hazy
concerning the exact route to be taken
by the Union Pacific in its extension
up the Platte valley, but the course is
not given out at headquarters.
The line will be built from O’Fai
lons. on the Union Pacific's Cheyenne
line, to a point on the river twelve
miles northwest., where it will cross
the river. This crossing will be di
rectly north of Paxton. From the
crossing, the road will be built in prac
tically an air line to Northport. re
maining all the way on the north side
of the river.
Two towns will be encountered after
crossing the river—the settlement of
IJewellyn and the village of Oshkosh,
the latter a postoffiee. It is anticipat
ed that two or more new towns will
be built between the crossing and
Northport.
I-*nd has risen in value at least 25
per cent, since news of the construc
tion of the road. Valley land, in the
Irrigation belt, formerly sold at from
$20 to |35 an acre. Now It is com
manding one-fourth more than that.
Hill land was selling at from $2 to $5,
and R is also on the increase. It is
anticipated that the land will go still
higher.
The Union Pacific has been selling
lots of land lately. In October the
sales amounted to $275,000. Since
January 1, the company has sold $3,
255.000 worth of land. The demand
for land In Kansas is great, the com
pany getting pretty well cleaned up
down there. They have less than 100,
000 acres left. The most of the land
In Kansas is sold for growing mac
aroni wheat.
D«atti of Young Farmer.
OSCBGLA—Charlie Cassler, single,
aged about 35 years, was found dead
In a cornfield south of Shelby. Cor
oner Shaw and County Attorney Mills
were called out to hold an inquest, but
when they got there they failed to
hold an inquest, as it was a plain case
of suicide. Mr. Cassler had wandered
away from home the night before with
a shotgun and used it. blowing the
whole top of his head off. He was the
son of Mrs. Henry Hewitt and had
apopleptic fits for a long time.
After Babcock’s Shoes.
A delegation of Beatrice citizens to
day called upon Governor Mickey to
induce him to appoint a Beatrice law
yer to take the place on the disrict
bench made vacant by the death of
Judge Babcock.
Woman Superintendent.
OAKLAND—Miss Eda C. Nelson of
this alty, democratic candidate for
superintendent of public instruction in
Burt county, defeated Arthur Lee of
Tekamah, the republican candidate, by
about 260 majority.
NEBRASKA BRIEFS
Three prominent citizens of Exeter
died within as many days.
Rev. Oscar Sweeney, pastor of the
Christian church of Alma, has resigned
and will take up the work at Ord.
A class for the study of parliamen
tary law has been organized among
the members of the Equal Suffrage
club at Geneva.
Leonard Born has purchased the S.
Jj. Thomas farm, a few miles west of
Piattsmouth, for $09 per acre. Fifteen
years ago it was sold for $5o per acre.
At West Point the 16-vear-old son of
J. H. Kuntz, while playing in the
grounds of the public school was
tripped by a playmate, resulting in a
broken leg.
A horse kicked the 5-year-old son
of L. L. Alex of Piattsmouth, in the
face and knocked out seven of his
teeth and cut a gash on his chin which
will disfigure him for life. ,
Colonel C. E. Adams of Superior has
received from Commander-in-Chief.
Tanner appointment as member of the
pension committee of the national
Grand Army of the Republic, with a
personal request that he accept.
The elevator owned and operated at
Pickerell for Ihe past four years by G.
W. Warner has been purchased by the
Omaha Elevator company, which will
conduct the business in the future.
The Omaha people have put J. J. Ward
law in charge.
Increased bridge tax in the section
about Superior necessary by damages
from last summer’s floods, is being
borne with bravery by the people, and
universal demand is going up tor a
more substantial and parmanent grade
of work in future.
Mrs. Ida M. Higgins has filed a suit
in the district court of Otoe county,
against the supreme court of the High
land Nobles, to secure judgment for
$1,000. which she claims is due her on
a policy of that amount held by her de
ceased husband who died last March.
The report of Superintendent Ful
mer at the meeting of the Beatrice
Board of Education showed the total
enrollment of the Beatrice public
schools to be 1.S12. Of this number
2,88 are high school students. The re
port showed further that a number of
the rooms are badly crowded.
A record breaker, so far as price is
concerned, was made on the sale of
a heeler county farm a few days ago.
Jud Robinson sold to John Konicek his
farm of 240 acres, located just south
of Deloit postotfice and twenty miles
from the railroad for $41.23 per acre.
Mr. Konicek offered $55 per acre for
150 acres adjoining, owned by V. K.
Bartak, but Mr. Bartak refused the
offer.
Shortly after the track laying ma
chine on the Great Northern railway’s
new Sioux City-Ashland line was
started from Ashland for the first
time the vest of one of the workmen,
named Johnson, caught in the ma
chinery, tearing his clothing all off and
scratching his left arm and chest. He
escaped death by strangulation only by
the promptness of the engineer in
throwing off the power.
The two men who were responsible
for the excitement in train No. 44
when a bullet crashed through one of
the south windows of the car and came
near puncturing the hrain of a passen
ger, are now in jail at Broken Bow.
Their names are Riley Garranger and
Tames Owens. Constable Ira Foster
nf Ansel mo located them yesterday at
Dunning and brought them down to
Broken bow last night.
Edward Hart of Nebraska City filed
in the district court a $10,000 damage
suit against Dr. TV. T. Neal, also of
ihat city. Hart was injured several
months ago while in the employ of the
Chicago. Burlington & Quincy Rail
way company. He was taken to St.
Mary's hospital and placed under the
care of Dr. Neal. Hart charges Dr.
Neal with carelessness and and negli
gence in reducing a frature.
State Hand Commissioner Eaton will
soon make a tour of counties where
state school land has been appraised
for the purpose of releasing or sale.
The following will be the first to be
visited Lancaster. Boyd. Madison,
Holt, Washington, Jefferson. Thayer,
Howard, Valley. Kearney. Phelps, Har
lan. Furnas, Franklin, Deuel, Adams,
3reeley. Webster, Wheeler, Dawson.
The-object of the tour is to review ap
praisements.
The supreme court is to solve the
rucker jury law puzzle. Attorney
General Norris Brown filed a petition
>n behalf of Governor Mickey, request
ing a writ of mandamus to compel C.
D. Reneau, county clerk of McPherson
-ounty, and the other members of the
ranvassing board to -draw a jury panel
in accordance with the Tucker law.
The board refused the demand of
County Attorney Wesley Wilcox to
select the panel and thus the matter
gets into the court. It will be heard
frrobably at the next sitting.
The supreme court has postponed
the grain trust, suit, the state against
the Omaha Elevator company, for
two weeks at the request of Attorney
General Brown, who desires further
time to file his brief.
Two new trains into Omaha and the
time cliped oft of all other is the latest
Innovation of the Illinois Central. The
orders go into effect at once. No. 5
is a new train from Chicago, known
as the fast mail. It leaves Chicago at
2:15 a. m.. arriving in Omaha at 3:55
p. m.. making connections with the
west bound trains. The run is made
in thirteen hours.
Lewis Lesure, administrator of the
R. H. Jones estate, in Sarpy county,
sold the Jones homestead at auction to
the highest bidder lor |112 per acre.
It was bid in by Herman Lineman, a
wealthy farmer of Sarpy county.
President Trennery of the State
Bankers’ association was in Lincoln on
business connected with his office. The
officials are now busy working on a
revision of the groups, as one or two of
them are entirely too large. Mr. Tren
nery expressed himself as being well
pleased with the last meeting of the
bankers and hardly looks for such an
other one in the near future.
| ELECTION COMMISSION
TAKES BALLOT BOXES
HEARST INAUGURATES A CON
TEST FOR THE MAYORALTY.
Some of the Ballot Boxes Found Where
They Should Not Be—The Con
testant Makes a Statement Re
garding the Situation.
NEW YORK—The contest over the
mayoralty election inaugurated by
William Randolph Hearst, the munici
pal ownership candidate, developed in
teresting spectacular features.
For twelve hours the lioxes contain
ing nearly tiiut.iMin ballots cast in last
Tuesday’s election choked the streets
in the vicinity of the headquarters of
the laiard of elections in Sixth avenue
between Forty-first and Forty-second
streets. The ballot boxes had been
gathered during the night by the po
lice and conveyed in patrol wagons to
the election board's headquarters.
There ihe officials refused to receive
the ballot boxes and the notice, act
ing tinder a court • order, signed by
Justice Gaynor, compelling the police
authorities to turn the ballots over to
the election hoard, had nothing to do
but remain outside and await the
pleasure of the election officials.
Apprised of the situation, the attor
neys for Mr. Hearst appeared before
Justice Dickey of the state supreme
court and secured from him an order
compelling John K. Voorhies, presi
dent of the board of elections, to ac
cept the ballots. The order was serv
ed promptly and the ballots were re
ceipted for by the election hoard.
Under strong guard the patrol wagons
containing the boxes were driven to
various ware houses in the city and
Brooklyn, where the bal'ots were
stored subject to the ordt rs of the
election hoard.
State Attorney General Julius May
er had an important conference with
District Attorney Jerome Thursday af
ternoon. after which it was announc
ed that the attorney general’s office
would remain open until midnight.
Superintendent of Elections Morgan
appeared before Messrs. Mayer and
Jerome, with six of his deputies, and
placed evidence before the prosecut
ing officials.
Mayor McClellan engaged counsel,
among them being Alton It. Parker,
ex-judge of the court of appeals and
democratic candidate for president
last year, to represent him during the |
mayoralty contest. He made public |
the following statement:
"The election returns show my elec- j
tion by a plurality of 4.180 votes. !
These returns are the results of pro- j
cedure prescribed by the law and they j
are expressly declared by the law to 1
be presumptively correct. I believe !
they are correct. Therefore I will ■
take all legitimate means to protect
my rights, as well as those of the vot
ers. If my adversary appeals to the
law to overthrow what are now the
legal returns of the results of the elec
tion I will meet him fully prepared
to vindicate these results. To the
courts, where these differences must
be passed upon, every candidate and
every citizen should readily submit.”
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH
IS MAKIHC PROGRESS
WASHINGTON—The ravv depart
ment has been informed that the wir®>
less telegraph operator at San Juan.
Porto Rico, read signals which were
being sent from a wireless station in
the vicinily of New York. The dis
tance as computed at the navy depart
ment is approximately miles.
This encourages the belief that it will
be iiossible to establish wireless tele
graphic communication between San
Juan and the Washington navy yard
in the near future.
PROSECUTING CATTLE MEN.
Cases; Not Likely to be Tried Until
January.
OMAHA—Owing to the many civil
cases to he disposed of at the Novem
ber term of federal court. Judge Mun
ger thinks that none of the suits
brought for the unlawful fencing of
government land in the western part
of the state will be tried until January.
The most, important of these will be
that of the governor against Bartlett
Richards and William G. Comstock
Richards is president of the American
Cattle Growers’ association. He and
his partner are alleged to have approx
imately 1,000,000 acres of the govern
ment domain under fence. These il
legal inclosures are in Sheridan. Deuel,
Grant and Cherry counties.
Aooeal for Aid.
ODESSA—The chamber of com- I
merce has decided to appeal to the |
chambers of commerce and exchanges i
throughout the world to open subscrip
tions to assist the sufferers from the
riots at Odessa and in other towns
in South Russia. One hundred and
eighty political prisoners hava been
released here under the amnesty de
cree.
Winter Drill in Prospect.
WASHINGTON—After the depart
ure of the British squadron, command
ed by Prince Louis of Battenberg.
Rear Admiral Evans will send wili'-j
send the battleships of his fleet to dif- j
ferem yards for their annual fall re
pairs. and later will start the North ■
Atlantic fleet south for the winter j
maneuvers. It is expected it will be
ready to rendezvous in Hampton
Roads by the first week in January. '
going from there to Guantanamo. The
general hoard of the navy is now pre- ;
paring a program for the winter drills.
Anti-Mormon Ticket Wins.
SALT LAKE CITY. Utah — The
American party, of which former j
Uniter States Senator Thomas Kearns
Is a leader, today elected Ezra Thomp- i
»on mayor after a bitter eompaign. to '
which the opposition to the Mormon I
church was the sole issue. Mayor !
Richard P. Morris. Mormon and demo- '
-rat, ran ahead of Chife of Police Will
tom J. Lynch, republican and gentile,
for whom United States Senator Reed
Smoot made a personal campaign. Ex
cept some aldermen, the whole Ameri
can ticket m-ohalitv Is nW«»1
RUSSIAN TROOPS MUTINY.
City cf Cronstadt ii Falmes and Maa
sacre is Reported.
ST. PETERSBl Rtl—Intense excite
ment prevails here owjn£ 10 the alarm
ins news from Cronstadt. According
ft> the reports a mutiny of the sailors
occurred during tiie night and was fol
lowed by ti regular battle with the
troops, during which machine guns
were used. I.ater the torch was used
and the town is now in flames. It is
reported that the glare of the fire can
he seen from the windows of the em
peror’s palace at Peterhoff.
The inhabitants of Cronstadt are in
a panic. The boats ft) St. Petersburg
have stopped running and telephone
and telegraph communications have
been severed.
Ii is impossible now to verify the
reports or secure details of the hap
penings.
THE MISSIONARY MASSACRE.
Religious Workers Advised to Get Out
of the Country.
HONG KONG—As a result of the
recent massacre of American mission
aries at l.tencbow an-imperial edict
has lieen issued directing the viceroy
of Canton to furnish efficient protec
tion to the missions, to punish, all the
guilty persons and to promise the full
est redress, and warning him thar he
would lie held responsitde for further
outrages and for the protection of the
missions.
Th? American consul at Canton. Ju
lius S. Lay. declares that the dissem
ination of inflammatory boycott liter
ature is indirectly responsible for the
massacre and he has warned the iso
lated statons in Kwang-Tung and
Kwang-Si of their danger in view of
the fact that the anti-American feeling
is growing stronger and advising the
departure of the missionaries for their
head stations.
GREAT CAREER FOR ROOSEVELT.
Watterson Says End of Term Will Not
Conclude His Activities.
CHICAGO—A glorious career for
President Roosevelt as president of
Harvard university after he leaves the
White House was predicted by Henry
Watterson. the star-eyed aitostle from
Louisville.
Mr Watterson came in during the
afternoon from Wisconsin, where he
has been lecturing, and went to the
Auditorium Annex—to rest. he said.
He would not talk politics.
"President Roosevelt." said he,
whu urged, "will round out his ca
reer. after leaving the. White House,
as president of Harvard university. It
will !>e a fitting and glorious termina
tion of his useful life. He will be the
greatest figure in the country as the
head of the university."
PU3L1C RECEPTION FOR TAFT.
Secretary of War Make:- a Speech at
Cristobal.
COLON—There was a public re
ception at the I)e Lesseps house at
Cristobol in honor of Secretary Taft,
who made a speech praising President
Roosevelb's administration of canal
matters ami the methods taken to ob
tain the best engineering advice in fhe
choice of the plan for building the
canal. He emphasized his predictions
that the canal would soon be built
and made a laudatory reference to Gov
ernor Magoon. Chief Engineer Stev
ens and Chief Health Officer Gorgas.
A private ball followed the reception.
SENATOR BURTON INDICTED.
Charge That He Misused His Office is
Made by Federal Grand Jury.
ST. LOUIS—The federal grand jury
returned an indictment against Llnited
States Senator Burton of Kansas. It
is stated that certain features in the
former indictment against Senator
Burton which was quashed were rem
edied in this new indictment.
The allegations in the present in
dictment are the same as in the one
quashed:
That while a senator of the United
States he accepted money from the
Rialto Grain and Securities company
of St. 1 stubs for services rendered be
fore the postoffice department in be
half of that company, which was being
investigated by inspectors.
The only charge is in the legal word
ing of the indictment, which is differ
ent to avoid the errors, found in the
former, by United S'ates* Judge Van
devanter.
Third Union Labor Victory.
SAN FRANCISCO — The union
labor party arifleved an astonishing
triumph in yesterday's battle at ihe
polls. From the head of the ticket
down to the eighteenth nominee for
supervisor every union labor candi
date was elected. Mayor Eugene E.
Schmitz being returned for* a third
term by a majority of 11,500 over
John S. Partridge, the joint nominee
of the republican and democratic par
ties. The remainder of the candi
dates of the Schmitz ticket were
elected by majorities ranging from
4,000 to 7.000.
Land Frauds in Idaho.
MOSCOW. Idaho—The federal grand
jury engaged in ferreting out land
frauds, completed its work and.was dis
charged. Eight indictments were re
turned, but United States Attorney
Ruck declines to give out the names
of the indicted.
Another Victim of Foot Ball.
ALTON, 111.—James Squires, aged IS
years, a member of the Alton High
school foot hall team, died Monday
from injuries received Octoher 21 in a
game.
No Charges for Notary Work.
WASHINGTON —Postmaster Gen
eral Cortelyou issued an order except
ing all fourth c-la.ss postmasters from
the operation of the order prohibiting
notarial charges by notary publics who
are officers or employes of the execu
tive services of the government.
New Mexico Would Be Alone.
SANTA FE, N. M.—The territorial
republican central committee met in
special session in this city and passed
Prong resolutions against the proposed
lointure of Arizona end Xev Mexico
AN IMPORTANT SUIT
IS JO BE HIED
IN WHICH THE ELKINS LAW WILL
3E TESTED.
A Nembr of Railroads and the Pabst
Brewery Involved—General Moody
Explains Matters by a Public
Statement.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General
Moody made a statement with regard
to the petition which will be filed l>y
his direction in the circuit court for
the eastern district of Wisconsin,
brought under the Elkins law. to test
the legality of certain commissions
paid by railroads (after the receipt of
the published rates) to a private car
transit company controlled by stock
holders of the corporation shipping
freight in those cars over the railroad
lines.
The statement follows:
The petition is against the Milwau
kee Refrigerator Transit , company.
Fere Marquette Railroad company.
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
company, Erie Railroad company, St.
Louis & San Francisco Railroad com
pany. the Chicago & Alton Railroad
company and Pabst Brewing company.
The case arises out of the fallowing
state of facts, which have been inves
tigated by the Interstate Commerce
commission and by private interests
adversely effected, brought to the at
tention of the attorney general and by
him carefully considered.
Conferences havet been held between
the attorney general and District At
torney Butterfield of the eastern dis
trict of Wisconsin at Chicago and
Washington and on Friday last at a
conference between the attorney gen
eral. Mr. Purdy, special assistant: At
torney General Pagan, the district at
torney. and Special Counsel Charles
Quarles of the Milwaukee bar, the form
of the petition was determined upon.
It appears that the Pabst Brewing
company are latge shippers of beer
over the various railroads running
from Milwaukee. Some of the princi
pal stockholders of that corporation or
ganized and own the Milwaukee Re
frigerator Transit company, a corpo
ration operating private cars. To the
latter corporation the control of the
shipments of the Pabst Brewing com
pany was given by an agreement en
tered into between the two corpora
tions named. The various railroads
mentioned as defendants, while receiv
ing as freight money, the open and
published rates for the transporta
tion of commodities have paid to the
transit company, in whose private cars
the beer was transported, a commis
sion of about 12 jier cent, upon the
amount of the freight money collected,
with the effect, of course, that the net
amount received for transportation by
the railroad companies is so much less
than the published and open rate.
This petition is designed to test the
legality of such payments and is
brought undr the provision of the so
called Elkins law. which provides that
a failure strictly to observe the pub
lished rates shall be misdemeanor.
FOR UNIFORM DIVORCE LAWS.
Thirty-Four States Appoint Delegates
to Conference.
HARRISBU.RG. Pa. — Governor
Penny-packer sent personal letters to
the governor of every state in the
United Slates, urging them to appoint
delegates to the congress to be held
at Washington. D. C., February 16,
1906, to consider the passage of uni
form laws upon the matter of divorce
throughout the nation.
The governors of thirty-four states
have written to Governor Penny-packer
that they have already appointed del
egates or will do so.
Will Fight a Recount.
NEW YORK — Charles H. Knox,
chairman of the Tammany hall law
committee, announced on Sunday that
every step taken by Mr. Hearst and
the municipal ownership league for a
recount of the votes cast at the recent
election would he bitterly opposed.
Mr. Knox said that the basis for the
opposition would be the decision of
the court of appeals in 1904, written
by Judge A. B. Parker, now Mayor Mc
Clellan's senior counsel. This decision
was against the opening of ballot
boxes.
Jews Weep for the Slain.
LONDON—Pathetic scenes were wit
nessed tonight a i a gathering of 10,
000 Jews at the East End of London in
the great assembly ball at Mile End,
where a memorial service was held
for the Jews recently killed in Russia.
The hall was draped in black and the
majority of those in the audience wore
emblems of mourning. At the chant
ing of the fifth chapter of Lamenta
tions almost all present burst into
tears and mournful wailing. Rabbi
Swzweck made an eloquent appeal for
help of the Jews.
Mc’Graw Signs Contract.
NEW YORK—Rumors that John J.
McGraw was to quit base ball were
dispelled on Friday by bis signing a
three-year contract to manage the New
York National league team, after a
brief «tmferenee with President John
T. Brush. The plans for next year
were discussed and the advisability of
taking the team to California or to
Cuba for training were taken under
idvisement. It is possible that the
former ground will be selected, al
botigh nothing definite has been deter
mined upon.
May Reach to Porto Rico.
WASH1NOTON—The navy depart
ment has been informed that the wire
less telegraph operator at San Juan,
Porto Rico, reads signals which were
being sent from a wireless station in
the vicinity of New York. The dis
tance as computed at the navy depart
ment is approximately 1,400 miles.
This encourages the belief of the de
partment that it will be possible to
establish wireless telegraph communi
;ation between San Juan and the
Washington navy yard in the near fu
ture.
| CARNEGIE TALKS ON SCANDALS.
Tells Where He Thinks Root of the
Trouble Lies.
NEW YORK — Andrew Carnegia
uiK>n disembarking from the steamer
Baltic on which he arrived here, talked
an American politics. He spent the
' summer at his castle in Scotland.
After expressing himself in favor
i of honest elections and declaring that
municipal ownership was hound to
| come some day. Mr. Carnegie said:
"The insurance scandals have made
! a profound impression throughout Ett
1 rope. The ioot of the trouble is that
I there are so many men in America
who are so good-natured that they lend
! their names to financial institutions
and assume duties which they have
not time to perform. Their respect
able names are used as decoy ducks
by the real managers of the institu
tions over which they have no con
trol. What we need to control tuch
evils are men in office who arc not
money grabbers, who arc retired from j
business and who will conduct public !
offices as they would their own busi
ness.
FAVORS SEPARATE STATEHOOD.
President to Recommend for Okla
homa and Indian Territory.
WASHINGTON—President Roohe
velt informed a delegation from Okla
homa that he would recommend in
his forthcoming message single state
hood for Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory. The delegation told the presi
dent they hoped congress would pass
a single statehood resolution accord
ing to his recommendation.
They suggested a provision regulat
ing the liquor trafflee be left to the
people, as with their personal knowl
edge of the Indians in the territory
they would settle the question prop
erly.
FOREIGNERS TAKE TO SHIPS.
Fearful of Another Outbreak at
Odessa.
ODESSA—Apprehensive of a renew
al of the outbreaks here many foreign
ers last night went on board ships of
their respective nationalities. The
governor general has given the con
suls assurances that he will not permit
further disorders, but the foreigners
will feel safer on board ship until af
fairs have settled down more. Per
fect Neidhardt. to whom is attributed
the responsibility for the outrages, is
stii! on office.
It has been officially ascertained that
there are upward of 40.001) sufferers
from the recent reign of anarchy.
Joy is expressed here at the retire
ment of General Trepoff from the
post of assistant'minister of the in
terior.
A TRAIN WRECKER
OUT OF HARM'S WAY
MARENGO, la.—Erie von Kutz
leben. alleged German baron, who
caused a train wreck on the Rock
Island at Homestead last spring just
to “see what would happen” was sen
tenced to life imprisonment here. At
torneys entered the plea of insanity,
but failed to substantiate it and after
deliberating a few hours the jury found
a verdict of guilty. A number of lives
were lost in the deliberately planned
wreck.
AMOURETTE BEECHER IS DEAD.
Cousin of Henry Ward Beecher and
Worker for Women.
SANTA BARBARA. Cal. — Dr.
Amourette M. Beecher, daughter of
David Beecher, and a cousin of Henry
Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher
Stowe, died last night after a brief ill
ness. aged 83 years.
She was born in Connecticut. She
was a prominent educator and philan
thropist. For four years she was bead
of the Hartford seminary for girls, the
first of women's colleges. She was
educated in medicine and gave her
time and skill without charge to suffer
ing. womanhood, whose welfare had
been her life work. Her only immed
iate living relative is a daughter of
her brother. Cate Luther Beecher of
Brooklyn. N. Y. The remains will be
cremated at her request.
POLAND UNDER MARTIAL LAW
_
Jaws Armed and Barricaded in Houses
Amid Outbreak.
■WARSAW—The proclammation of
martial law in all of the ten govern
ments of Russian Boland has caused
surprise and exasperation here and
there are apprehensions that it will
provoke disturbances worse than those
that have already taken place. The
city is panic-stricken. There arc per
sistent rumors of the organization of
anti-Jewish riots, and the houses of
Jews are barricaded and watched day
and night. The Jews are arming them
selves with knives, revolvers and rifles.
Owing to the general strike the dis
tress is hourly increasing. There is a
scarcity of coal arid food.
Honor for Omaha Citizen.
WASHINGTON—A joint banquet, at
tended by about 400 men and women,
at the New Willard hotel Friday
night terminated the meetings of the
National Hardware association and
the American Hardware Manufactur
ers’ association, which have been in
progress for the last three days. W. S.
Wright of Omaha, the newly elected
president of the National Hardware
association, acted as toastmaster and
toasts were responded to by Represen
tative Burton of Ohio, and James R.
Garfield.
Two Cases of Fever.
’ HAVANA — Two cases of yellc
feVer have recently developed in H
vana. One of the persons stricken
an American tourist. A. Z. Outwater
Passaic. N. J.. who is employed as
teller in a bank in Jersey City
Wolves Killing Much 8tock.
STURGIS. S. D.—From Blxby it
learned that coyotes and gray wolv
are becoming very numerous in th
vicinity and lots of stock is heii
killed. United action for their destni
tion. It is said, will be begun at once.
FRAUDS IN ELECTION
CHARGED IN NEW FORK
PROMINENT POLITICIANS ARE TO
BE PUT UPON THE CARPET.
i Attorney General Mayer and State
Superintendent of Elections Mor
gan to institute a Searching In
vestigation.
NEW YORK—Ten indictments fur
violations of election law and two for
assaults committed at the polls at the
election Iasi Tuesday were drawn up
by the grand jury.
It was said that Attorney General
! Mayer and State Superintendent of
j Elections Morgan had instituted a
: searching investigation of the alleged
| election frauds which would be con
j tinued until the legislature meets.
The attorney general and Mr. Mor
| gan Friday night examined a number
j of witnesses in connection with the
: frauds and also conferred with Henry
! E. Younge, special counsel for Mr.
j Hearst, and discussed plans to prose
cute persons against whom chargi s
may be brought.
Two ballot boxes were wound in a
barber shop at 156 Third avenue one
of them full of Jialf soiled and torn
ballots and the other empty. This
barber shop was the polling place of
the First election district of the Eigh
teenth assembly district, which is the
district of which Charles Murphy, head
of Tammany hall, is the leader. Hearst
watchers found the two boxes. Depu
ties from State Superintendent of
Elections Morgan's office took posses
sion of the boxes.
President John R. Voorhis of the
board of elections said that the grand
jury requested him to deliver to them
the registry book of the Fifth elect ion
district o,f the Twenty-fifth assembly
district. The book was given to the
jury.
The situation at this time was de
scribed by William R. Hearst as fol
lows:
“The law commission has discovered
some very amazing things and the
deeper we go into this thing the uglier
it looks. We have evidence againsi
twelve district leaders and ! am con
fident that we shall send two or three
of them to prison. I am just as much
interested in the criminal prosecution
of this cla^s as I nnt in the recount
In this case it makes no differenci
whether I am declared elected or not
in comparison with the greater duty
pf sending criminals to jail.'
“It was for this purpose and to
strengthen the evidence against a cer
tain district leader that I made the
offer of $10,000 reward Friday for such
evidence. We have at least sufficient
evidence to prove the necessity of a
recount, and I believe that recount
will show a difference of 20,000 votes
in my favor.”
Here Mr. Hearst said that many let
ters had been received by his mana
gers. purporting to show that men
from Connecticut, Massachusetts and
New Jersey had come to New York on
election day and after voting fifteen
or more times for the "faramany ticket,
for which they received a $5 note each
time, returned to their homes.
OMAHA’S BUILDING BOOM.
It Has a Percentage of Increase Above
All Other.
OMAHA—Omaha's place in building
operations of the country for the past
month fixed at a good place, with its
percentage of increase leading all or
the principal cities of the country, and
with aggregate cost exceeding such cit
ies as St. Paul, Seattle. Columbus.
Louisville, Memphis. Atlanta, Toledo.
Duluth and New Orleans. Omaha has
had sixty-eight building permits,
amounting to $424,700, showing an in
crease over last year of 229 per cent.
This is the comment made by Constitu
tion News on the building situation
generally.
VOTE OF SENATOR MILLARD.
It Will Be Cast Soon or*. Railway Reg
ulation Bill.
OMAHA—Senator Millard will leave
the latter part of next week for Wash
ington to attend a meeting of the com
mittee on interstate commerce.
The committee meets November 20.
The new bill which is pending will be
voted upon at that time, and if ap
proved, will be submitted to President
Roosevelt, with a request that the s»
lient portions of it be used In his mes
sage to congress.
Opposed to Any Alliance.
NEW YORK—Sentiments opposing
anything tending to bringing about an
alliance between the United States and
Great Britain were given expression
at a meeting in Cooper Union under
the auspices of the united IriBh so
cieties. Speakers declared that the ar
rival in American waters at this time
of the British squadron under com
mand of Prince IjouIh of Battenberg
was not for social courtesies, but was
planned In the interest of an alliance
between the two nations.
pall Money at 15 Per Cent.
NEW YORK—Money on call went
to 15 per cent Thursday, the highest
rate for several years. I.ast Satur
day s bank statement showed the sui
plus reserve to be almost exhausted,
and since then large sums have been
sent from New York to the interior,
leaving practically nothing to be ler.’
in this market. Secretary of the
Treasurj Shaw was in New York and
he reported that ho intended to de
posit several million dollars of govern
nient funds with the banks to relieve
the situation.
Move in Meat Cases.
CHICAGO—Attorney General Moody
has sent for United States District
Attorney C. B. Morrison and Assistant
Attorney General Oliver E. Pagin to
so to Washington in regard to th.
‘beef trust" prosecution. The plea of
the packers declaring that Commis
sioner Garfield of the bureau of cor
porations had promised the packers
immunity from prosecution, has taken
such an aspect that the attorney gen
eral is said to wish a joint interview
with the commissioner and with
Messrs Morrison and Pagin