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I -I h v Press conveyed first information of the findings of the couit to Admiral Schley He was seated in the public recep tion room of a hotel chatting with several friends and evidenced no signs ot nervousness over the outcome When the conclusions of Admiral Dewey were read to him Admiral Schley showed his pleasure and it was evident from his manner that he re garded the statement from Admiral Dewqy as a vindication of his cause He declined to make any statement concerning the courts findings and excusing himself from the little com pany which had gathered about him went to his apartments where Mrs Schley had been anxiously awaiting to hear the courts decision Later the official copy was brought to the hotel by a messenger from the navy department The report of the majority in the Schley inquiry is as follows Commodore Schley in command of the flying squadron should have pro ceeded with utmost dispatch off Cien fuegos and should have maintained a close blockade of that port He should have endeavored on May 23 at Cienfuegos to obtain informa tion regarding the Spanish squadron by communicating with the insurgents at the place designated in the mem orandum delivered to him at 815 a m of that date He should have proceeded from Ci enfuegos to Santiago de Cuba with all dispatch and should have disposed hid vessels with a view of intercepting the enemy in any attempt to pass the flying squadron He should not have delayed the squadron for the Eagle Heshculd not have made the retro grade turn westward with his squad ron He should have promptly obeyed the Navy departments order of May 25 He should have endeavored to cap ture or destroy the Spanish vessels at anchor near tne entrance of Santiago harbor on May 29 and 30 He did net do his utmost with the force under his command to capture or destroy the Colon and other ves sels of the enemy whicn he attacked on May SI RAYNGR WILL ADVISE APPEAL Will Counsel Schley to FislitDecielon to the Last Kesort BALTIMORE Dec 14 Isidor Ray nor shewed keen disappointment when the findings of the court of inquiry were communicated to him tonight He announced that he would go to Washington as soon as his engage ments will permit probably Monday or Tuesday and he will counsel Ad miral Schley to fight the case to a finish by every appeal that is possi ble In an interview he said I think the country will almost unan imously accept Admiral Deweys judg ment The testimony was so over whelming on almost all of the spec ifications in favor of Admiral Schley that I must confess I am at a loss to understand upon what fact or upon what evidence of the witnesses the other two members of the court reach ed their conclusion nny is Appointed Orator WASHINGTON Dec 14 The joint committee of the two houses of con gress appointed to make the necessary arrrangements for a memorial service in honor of the late President Mc Kinley held a meeting today and de cided to invite Secretary of State John Hay to be the orator whenever the proposed services shall be held The selection was made upon a mo tion by Senator Fairbanks who brief ly addressed the committee - - - - M ADVERSE TO Hority of the Board of Irquiiy Pind Pault With Admirals Oonduct DEWnVlN REPORT SUSTAINS HIM Matter however Affixes Signature to Original Statement Schley Is Charged With Insubordination anil Failure to PL rform Duty WASHINGTON Dec 14 The most prolonged interesting and important naral tribunal ever held in this coun try came to a close yesterday having in open and secret lasted one week short of three months when Secretary Long -was handed the findings of the courtpf inquiry which inquired into the conduct of Rear Admiral Schley during the Santiago campaign For seven weeks the court heard testimony and for fully a month it deliberated upon that mass of evi dence finally reaching the conclusions announced today The result was a complete surprise and it is probable that no prophecy has approached the truth Instead of one report there are two Both are signed by George Dewey president and Samuel C Lem Iy as judge advocate This is a form said to be recognized in all the courts of inquiry the signatures of the other members not being necessary But it is explained that Admiral Dewey signed the second report a minority report to express his qualification of or dissent from the views expressed by the court comprising beside him self Admirals Benham and Ramsay in the first report A representative of the Associated i WS OM MWBWMiiiiJiaiwiiiBiiw RES TO CONVERT BRIGANDS Abductors of Missionary Complain of Miss Stones Teachings CONSTANTINOPLE Dec 13 The latest information regarding Miss Ellen M Stone her American mis sionary ana Mme Tsilka her com panion indicates that their condition has been so far ameliorated that they are able to obtain rude comforts It Is even said that the brigands have a doctor ready at hand in case his ser vices should be needed It appears that the brigands are now complaining that Miss Stone Is attempting to convert them to Chris tianity While not recognizing the le gality of the- abduction of Miss Stone and Mme Tsilka the brigands contend that their action was in the interest of a sacred cause and therefore just ifiable The brigands apparently are pre pared to hold out all winter They refuse to abato their demands one dol lar and have not vouchsafed a reply to Mr Dickinsons ultimatum to the effect that they must accept his last offer or nothing It is believed in well informed circles that were the gold actually proffered at some spot on the border by an accredited emis sary the brigands would reduce the amount of the ransom It is under stood here that recommendations have been forwarded to Washington pro posing that an ultimatum be sent to Bulgaria WILL NOT TOLERATE IT Gompers Declares American People Will Condemn Decision SCRANTON Pa Dec 13 -When the correspondent of the Associated Press showed the San Juan cable to Mr Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor tonight he expressed great surprise at the news In answer to a question as to what the federation will do Tie an swered If Mr Iglesias conviction is upon the charge that he has been guilty of conspiracy to increase the wages of Porto Rican workmen we shall leave no effort unturned to se cure his release and the necesssary changes in the laws of the island to conform to American standards It is an honorable ambition to se cure better returns in the shape of wages for labor The Porto Rican law is evidently a relic of Spanish brutal code and regime and the American people will not tolerate so gross a violation of guaranteed rights The executive council was in ses sion when the Associated Press cable dispatch reached Mr Gompers He said there is ho doubt that the con vention will take up the matter before it adjourns SCHLEY REPORT SOON READY Finding of Board of Inquiry is Expected S oi WASHINGTON D C Dec 13 The Schley court of inquiry is near ing the end of its labors and while it is impossible to secure from the members of the navy department a statement when the report will be submitted it is believed it cannot be delayed more than twenty four hours It was said at the department this afternoon that the close of business hours the report was not finished It is the intention of Secretary Long to liave typewritten copies of it pre pared immediately for the press Although clothed with reviewing authority Secretary Long has said that he will not exercise it in this case The report will be given to the public without the slightest change The court was again in session to day although Admiral Dewey did not attend the meeting Captain Lemly judge advocate of the court paid a visit to the court rooms this morning and carried some papers which while connected with the case were not the report of the court Tobias Castor Drops Dead OMAHA Neb Dec 13 Tobias Cas tor long prominent in Nebraska poli tics died on Burlington train No 4 at 755 this morning while enroute from Lincoln to Omaha Heart fail ure is the supposed cause and it is thought that he over exerted himself in hurrying from his residence to the Lincoln station The body was taken off at Havelock and Judge Tibbetts of Lincoln who was in the same car with him accompanied it to Lincoln Daughter of Congressman Weds OSKALOOSA la Dec 13 Miss Bern ice Lacey youngest daughter of Congressman John F Lacey of the Sixth Iowa district was married m this city iast evening to Carroll E Sawyer Mrs Roosevelt Will Receive WASHINGTON Dec 13 Mrs Roosevelt will hold a reception for women on Saturday the 14th inst from 3 to 5 oclock She will be as sisted by the women of the cabinet and will have with her during the re ception a number vof ycung women including those of the cabinet circle This will be the first of the public receptions that have been held by the mistress of the White House since the Cleveland administration tnvmwwii yy jkjasssi rinjgh FLAWS OF THE TREATY Senator Bacon in Speech Proceeds to Point Them Out HE REPLIES TO SENATOR LODGE Disapproval of Canal Treaty not Giving This Country Full Control Faults of the Old Treaty Still In Evidence Mis oellnneous Matters WASHINGTON D C Dec 12 Two speeches on the Hay Pauncefoto treaty were made in the executive ses sion of the senate yesterday one by Senator Bacon in opposition to the treaty and the other by Senator Cul lom the prospective chairman of the committee on foreign relations in support of it Mr Bacon replied to the speech made by Senator Lodge He summed up his objections in the statement that he could not freely accept any treaty which does not place the isthmian canal entirely under American aus pices and American control This h said the pending treaty does not dc nor does it do anything like it It did not by long odds accomplish wiat had been accomplished by the senate amendments made to the Hay Pauncefote treaty at the last session of congress The Davis amendment he said had abrogated all the objec tional provisions of that treaty as ne gotiated and it did not matter what provisions there were in the agree ment for long as the United States was authorized as it was by the prin cipal Davis amendment to secure the safety and maintenance of the canal by its own force That amendment had given this country a free hand to do what was necessary for the pro tection and defense of the canal whereas the present treaty carried all the restrictions which were originally contained in the old treaty leaving out the modifications of the Davis amendment He also pointed out that the treaty reproduces the restrictions of the old Suez canal treaty which had been in corporated in the original convention He charged that these restrictions had been copied almost verbatim from the old treaty the only material change being in the omission of the words In time of war as in time of peace from the rule of the Suez canal agreement This omission did not in his opinion change the char acter of the agreement The only reply he said which the advocates of the treaty make to criticism is that the canal would be tinder the full control of the United States in time of war but this is no more true now than under the old treaty and it is a strange thing that all the provisions refer to the control of the canal in war notwithstanding it is contended here that in that con tingency the removal of this phase places the canal under our absolute control He said the war restrictions of the treaty were entirely inconsistent with the claims of Senator Lodge that this country should say who should use the canal and who should not in case of hostilities He contended that the only power given to Great Britain was found in the last sentence of reg ulation two providing that the United States shall be at liberty to maintain such military police along the canal as may be necessary to pro tect it against lawlessness and dis order This he said was not suffi cient to make the canal an American institution and if the Davis amend ment had been necessary to render the original treaty acceptaoie it was equally necessary in this instance He considered the pending treaty every whit as objectionable as the treaty of last session AGREE ON IRRIGATION BILLS Western Members Hold Caucus and Se lect measures for Support WASHINGTON D C Dec 12 At a caucus of western members of con gress interested in irrigation legisla tion it was agreed to incorporate in their recommendation fcr a bill pro viding for irrigation of arid lands the following essential features The money derived from the sale of all public lands shall apply to the revenue provided for irrigation all irrigation projects shall be under the direction of the interior department settlers upon such lands shall pay 5 an acre in addition to the home stead fees each settler shall be lim ited to the purchase of 80 acres charges for irrigating their lands shall not exceed 10 per acre Will lie Gen Roosevelt WASHINGTON Dec 12 The army board which has been for several months preparing a list of officials which shall be recommended for brevet rank in recognition of gal lant services in Cuba Porto Rico the Philippines and China has completed its work and the report will be sub mitted to the secretary of war in a day or two This list is to take the place of that laid hefore the senate last session and withdrawn A NEBRAShANS StZK IN VAIN North Platte Relatives Tear Harm Tins romo to Jomlo Allm CHICAGO Dec 11 Relatives of Miss Jessie Allen a handsome girl of 23 fear she Is either being held a prisoner in this city or that she has been murdered A week ago aho ar rived here from Jersey City N J on her way to North Platte Neb where she was to spend the holidays with relatives At the Northwestern sta tion she discovered the loss of all her money quite a large sum She tele graphed this fact to Eugene Paddock of Lemly Neb who forwarded trans portation and money which is now here but no trace of the girl cau bri had It is feared she was lured from the station by the hope of recovering her money and has been foully dealt with She was attractive and stylish ly dressed The police are unable to get a clue to her whereabouts DEATH OPjNOR MENDOSA Said to Davo Died of Fever but May TTavo Keen Killed COLON Dec 11 Via Galveston Senor Mendosa a brilliant lawyer and a prominent liberal who drew up the capitulation papers after the bat tle of Panama last year is reported to have died of typhoid fever recently at Chorrera Another version of his death is that he was shot by General Victoriane Lorenzo the liberal com mander at Chorrera as the result or an altercation regarding the advisa bility of the surrender of the liberal forces at that place to the govern ment Previous to the arrival of General Castro at Agua Dulce the liberals dispatched two large boats to Tuma col laden with salt for the liberal army CHANGES IN CIVIL SERVICE President Approves Amendments to Ttnles Elslit and Ten WASHINGTON Dec 11 The pres ident yesterday approved a number of amendments to civil service rules 8 to 10 recommended by the civil ser vice commission some weeks ago and subsequently passed on as to their legal aspect by the attorney general Probably the most important of them provides for discontinuing the pay of persons found to have been irregu larly appointed This is provided for in the laws for the Philippines and in the state law of New York but the federal laws are held by the civil ser vice advocates to have been defective in this respect Bronze Tablet at Buffalo BUFFALO N Y Dec 11 A bronze tablet now marks the spot where the body of the late President McKinley lay in sate in this city in the lower corridor of the city hall The inscrip tion on it is as follows HERE LAY IN STATE THE BODY OF WILLIAM MKINLEY PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES v Forty five stars from the border of the tablet and the letters are cut into the bronze to the depth of three eighths of an inch To Secnre Release of 3I1rs Stone WASHINGTON Dec 11 Repre sentative Ryan of New York yester day introduced a bill authorizing the state department to expend such amount as is necessary to secure the release of Miss Stone the missionary held by Turkish brigands About 1500 bills and resolutions were intro duced yesterday Most of them are re prints of measures proposed at for mer sessions Among the new bills are those of Mr Shattuc of Ohio for the exclusion and deportation of alien anarchists and ofMr Wilcox the delegate from Hawaii for the re tirement of the Hawaiian coinage Cattle Rustler Captured HURON S D Dec 11 Sheriff Braden of Sanborn county has taken Jim Sontag arrested here for cattfe stealing to Wooncocket where he will remain in jail till the sitting of the next term of Sanborn county court His partner Moody arrested some months since is now serving a four and a half years term for cattle rus tling Improvements for Mnskojre WASHINGTON Dec 11 The sec retary of the interior has approved bond issues by the city of Muskogee Creek Nation I T for 150000 for construction of water works for 25 000 for sewers Prize Comes in Handy CHRISTIANIA Dec 11 It was an nounced in the Storthing today that the Nobel prize for the encourage ment of peace and arbitration fcr 1901 amounting to 150000 kroner had been equally divided between Dr Henri Dumant the Swiss physician who was recommended by the Swedish Rigsdag to the committee entrusted with the bestowing of the prize and Frederick Passy the former member cf the French Chamber of Deputies w yatT W f GETTING TO TilE FRONT Manufacturing Capital in lebraska Shows Handsome Increase 0UR00K IS VERY ENCOURAGING Census Bureau Issues a lteport that Kc cals RemirUahlo Progress in the State Court Dckets Being Cleared Mis cellaneous Nebraska Matter WASHINGTON Dec 11 The cen sus bureau has Issued a preliminary report on the manufacturing indus tries of Nebraska showing a total capital Invested of 71 978877 an in crease of 92 per cent since the census of 1890 and value of products 143 98G127 an Increase of 55 per cent Other figures are Establishments 5413 wage earners 24471 total wages 11570208 miscel laneous expenses G933748 and cost of material used 10219C397 Statistics for the three cities separ ately reported follow Lincoln capital 2608 992 increase 11 per cent value of products 4105 951 increase 11 per cent establish ments 252 wage earners 1736 cost of material used 2173345 Omaha capital 34282063 increase 87 per cent value of products 42 391876 increase 2 per cent establish ments S37 wage earners 7422 wages 3755810 cost of materials used 22 113388 South Omaha capital 16471328 value of products 70080911 no sub sequent figures for 1890 establish ments 139 wage earners 6606 wages 3368591 cost of material used 61 277486 CLEARING UP THE DOCKET Supreme Court Is Catching Up With Its Work LINCOLN Dec 11 According to Clerk Herdmann of the supreme court rapid strides are being made in reducing the size of the docket When the commission began work the court was about six years behind in business If the present progress is continued it is estimated that the docket will be cleared before the next session of the legislature which con venes in January 1903 It is noted that the number of appeals to the supreme court are decreasing partic ularly in that class of cases which are appealed merely to occasion delay When It took from four to six and seven years to reach a case mortgage foreclosures and other suits in which the adverse party might profit by tie ing up litigation for an indefinite time were appealed vlth great frequency while other cases really meritorious in which the average party could not afford to wait the tardy action of the supreme court he would compromise instead of appealing Now conditions are reversed Cases are seldom ap pealed for the mere purpose of delay and meritorious ones are usually taken up with the result that a better class of litigation is being entertained now than before the commissions appoint ment Iowa Traveling Men flloot DES MOINES Dec 11 The twenty-first annual meeting of the Iowa State Traveling Mens association was held here with an attendance of about 500 from Iowa and adjoining states The old directors were re elected and W H Wheeler and F E Haley were re elected president and secretary An incident of the convention was the ap pearance of A B Cummins who has long been the counsel of the associa tion Game Warden Alert THEDFORD Neb Dec 11 Deputy Game Warden Frank Nash and Sheriff Crow arrested A L Leland and Harry Leland on the Dismal river in this county and brought them before Esquire Wright The boys pleaded guilty to hunting without a license and each one was fined Thomas county is a hard place for the poacher ns r Factory Slint Doivn FREMONT Neb Dec 11 The sugar factory at Leavitt closed its sea sons work after a very successful run The factory has been in con tinuous operation since October 1 and the delays experienced the first two seasns have been entirely ab sent Fails to Stib His Ilpart SUTTON Neb Dec 11 Wes Al berts stabbed Ed Scott with a dirk the knife being aimed at his heart Scott parried the blow- and received the knife in his arm It severed the muscles down to the bone Die Twenty Minutes Aoart FREMONT Neb Dec 11 Isaac H Brown and wife Mrs Sarah Brown died at their home within half an hour They were nearly eighty years of age Mr Brown had been in poor health for years and was attacked with heart trobule A physician was sum moned but when he arrived he was dead Twenty minutes after he was again called to the Brown residence and found that Mrs Brown had just breathed her last - urtNTHS UNABE TO STAWU iuuiia ANKLES btOAUSE OF 3PKA1NEP Cared by St Jaeob Oil From the Cardiff Times Among the thousands of voluntary endorsements of the great value of ana Jacobs Oil for sprains stiffness sorenesa is that of Mrs hms Alexandra Road GelH Ysbrod near Pontypridd South Wales who says It is with great pleasure at my wiling testimony to the invaluable at j excellence of your celebrated cobs Oil as experienced In my ow case I sprained both my ankles a walking down some steps so severely that I was unable to stand for several months The pain I suffered was most severe and nothing that I useu ne me until I applied St Jacobs Oil when they Immediately became better dally and in a short time 1 was able to go about and soon after I was quite to advise cured I am now determined vise all persons suffering from pains to use this wonderful remedy which did so much for me Mrs Thomas does not enlighten U3 as to what treatment she pursued dur ing the months she was unable to stand and during which time she was suffering so much but we venture to suggest that had she called in any well known medical man he would have at once prescribed St Jacob3 Oil for it has conquered pain upwards of fifty years and doctors know there Is nothing so good The proprietors of St Jacobs oil have been awarded twelve gold medals by different inter national exhibitions as the premier pain killing remedy of the world The committees who made the awards were in each instance composed largely of the most eminent medical men ob tainable Mrs Thomas evidently did not know the high opinion in which St Jacobs Oil Is held by almost every progressive medical man Only Companions Are Cats Mrs Sarah E Phlpps an authoress of Buffalo N Y lives in a tiny cot tage of three rooms her only compan ions being two cats She works dur ing the day and writes at night Chas Frohman has secured the rights of dramatization of her latest novel An Old House by the Sea Xu Winter Uso Allens Foot Ease a powder Your feet feel uncomfortable nervous and often cold and damp If you have Chilblains sweating sore feet or tight shoes try Allens Foot Ease Sold by all druggists and shoe stores 25c Sample sent FREE Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy N Y You only have 10 tell one person that a thing is free The Lincoln Nebraska Importing Ilorse Co a advertisement appears in this paper Their stallions are selected with the greatest of care bj a member of their company who spends much of his time traveling over England and France They now have a grand lot of Percheron and Shire stallions The best that Europe dan afford No concern in the United States can sell for less money than they can In making sales they prefer cash but will sell at the same rate on ample time to enable the purchaser to piy for the stallion from his earnings if judiciously handled They wish to employ good salesmen Kipling Heads a Klfle Club Mr Rudyard Kipling has been re elected president of the Rottingdean Rifle club The club owes its incep tion to Mr Kipling and has not yet been defeated It has beaten some powerful opponents both volunteers and civilians notably the First Lon don Fusileers and the Lewes Rifle club PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are the brightest fastest and easiest to use Sold by druggists 10c per package Shark and Soldier Latter Inside A somewhat remarkable addition has apparently to be made to the cas ualty lists from South Africa The other day a man who is engaged on the Englisn steamsulp Canada writ ing home to his relatives referred to the capture of a big shark at East London When ripped open the mon ster which measured eighteen feet long was found to have quite recently swallowed a soldier bodily The mans body and uniform were intact save for a small portion one shoulder which had been cut off TALKS ON ADVERTISING The best way to advertise is just to advertise Get at it with a view to hav ing the people know what you most desire to sell and incidentally letting them know that the specified items do not represent your full stock Say in teresting things about interesting goods and have the goods to talk Men talk of the secret of successful advertising but it is all very plain The essentials are to offer what people want at fair prices and to offer it in a way that will make readers know they want it The art in an advertisement is to speak as the inter ested and well informed merchant would speak to a prospective customer The mere appearance of a business mans name and address in every issue of a leading newspaper will do work to increase his trade Every business man however is able to give facts about his establishment which will encourage people to deal with him To state such facts clearly in a newspaper is the prin cipal secret of successful advertising The Idea that It takes a number of impressions to make the average ad vertisement effective is not new Forty years ago an English advertiser said to the publisher of the Cornhill Maea zine We dont consider that an ad vertisement seen for the first time bv a reader is worth much The second time It counts for something ThetMwI time the readers attention I Z 1e fourth time he reads it through thinks about it the fifth and chaser of him It takes makes time to a pur r I X V i