The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, May 24, 1905, Image 4
0.- , a- ' I 1 ) SSMBa 1-5" - ir SSgg larfSsjifa? m mdanMak3iS&LM3 PtwSrtl "fe3C353ESB8igegaf I r i i ' r r bxaslxsho Mat 11, 1870. Columbus gonrual. Columbus, Ncbr. Entered at the Portoffico, Colombos, Nebr., aa eoond-claM mall matter. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS BY CelQMbus Journal Co., (INCOIU'OUATED.) , TEKX8 OPBCBSGRimOK: OaeyeaK by mail, postage prepaid Biz meatba. Tune aaoBtha. ...........- .ti-so . .75 . .40 WEDNESDAY, MAY2J. !" TSZSISISZ S. ABSOTT, Ilii:r. RENEWALS Tlie d.ito opposite yonr imnio on yoor iPr, or wrapKr etionw to w ftatUme J onr almcription ifi liL Thn J.inln ;li8 that ruivmrnt ha leon rpciTol np to Jan. I, iwm. Ffebtfi to Fob. 1, 1WO nn.l o on. Vh-n payment' is mide. the date, which answers as & receipt, will l chanced a-cordinRly. DI8(X)NTlNUANCES-llof.pon8ibleenlMPril-en will continue to receive thin journnl until the imblitherare not inert by letter ti discontinue, when all nrreaniw. mnst ln paid. If Jon do not wifh the Journal continued fr another jear at tertho time, p-iid for has expired, sou should previously notify us t discontinue it. OIIANC.K IN ADDKISS-When onlerinc a change in t!ie:uldrei-H.stilrtcrilxTrtfhmMIe sure to uive tlieir old :ib well ju tlieir new address. The latest from an official eonrce is that they will "put it bask1 when the leaves begin to fall. If Columbus expects to celebrate the 1th it iR time the peoplo were Rotting a move on themselves. What if ell our school boards and city councils and other public officers who 6erve ovor time and whoso sal aries are fixed by law, should disre gard the law and like some of our supervisors present bills for "over time.' Another illustration of the way tho Jans figuro things out according to first principles and then get busy: The American consul-general at Yoko hama sends to Washington the follow ing evtracr frcm tho Japan Gazette: "Since the opening of hostilities gold mining in Japan has been encouraged by tho government to aid the specie reserve fund. The total for the past year will exceed twelve million yen (tr,l7fi.O00), against six million yen (fi.ttSS.OOO) in ordinary years." A gentlemanly appearing bird dog brought itself to tho little halt at tho the foot of the Journal 6tairs this moraine whoro it set np a most piti ful howl. Wondering why such a good looking dog should be harboring such woful foolings and especially why it shonld como to tho Journal offico with its talo of woo we made an investigation. Going to the composing room wo found Officer Sckack who had brought a dog "death sentence" for publication ;and inspect ing tho dog wo found it woro no tax tag. Tho interest of the railroads and of the public is necessarily identical in the long run. Thero should be no an tagonism between the two. lint the railroads are certainly acting in a manner tending to antagonize tho public by resisting payment of taxes in the federal courts. Our state courts give them the samo remedy they give other citizens. Under state law both private citizens and a railroad com pany may protest against excessive taxation, but the tax must be paid first, and the merits of tho protest do tremined later. The railrcds, not satisfied with the same rights that are assured to private citizens by state law. took advantage of their constitutional privilege as residents of another stato doing business in this state, to go into federal court and withold their taxes from tho treasury. By taking this course the railroads will find that they navomaden diplo matic blunder. THE DOG ORDINANCE. Columbus has a dog orainance. No tice that' said ordinance will be en forced has been published so widely that scarcely a man, woman or child in tho city has failed to bo duly noti fied. The old fashioned way of enforcing this ordinance was to have a dog catcher whose duty it was to assault with intent to do great bodily harm, every dog that so far forgot his dogly dnties to the state, as to run around town without a tag on his collar. But since our city council failed to appoint a dog catcher, leaving that nnnoly oflite to be administered by our dig nified police officers. Mayor Dickin son has been compiled to take an other tack to enforce the ordinance in qnention. For our police officers to a man. stand on Ilenr George's platform and emphatically proclaim the Henry George doctrine " We are for men' and not for dogs." So the mayor has adjusted tho work and has infracted the police officers to go after the men who keep the dogs without paying tho requiste tax and to bring them into police court to pay the fine imposed by law. Now if it doesn't turn out to be beneath the dignity of the police or the city council, or the city attorney or tho mayor or any other citizen of Columbus to file tho neces sary complaint, thero will behowl iags" in pulico court shortly that would make the canine victims of the dog catcher of previous years blush with envy conld they rise ont of their graves to witness the doings nnder tho new regime. EXIT CIO. JtXJXDIANA. Probably nobody is a friend of the cigarrette except tho misguided indi vidual who consumes and cries for it. Everybody else would like to see it banished from tho earth. Bnt we can not always have what we wonld like, especially when to get it we have to iafringe on tho personal rights of other people. The state of Indiana in this twen tieth century has pnt itself in the ab oard position of enactngas bald a piece of samptnary legislation as over exist ed is the good old Puritanic days oi the eighteenth century. Indiana, like Nebraska, has made it a misdemeanor for any person to sell or give away cigarrette.s or tho materials for mak ing them; and nobody denies that it is a good law and one that will save y yonng people from the deadly; Dal IbiIUu lu. nn.n a&mbAV - mma Sucj HUWH ST for anybody to smoke or have in his possession cigarrettes or the materials therefor. At least, so the newspapers report. It makes one think of the celebrated Blue Laws of colonial days, when a man was not permitted to chew to bacco except; when at leatt ten miles fiom any other human being or hab itation. Indiana evidently is not well versed in the modern doctrine of the relation of Btate to individual. In diana onght to move down to Tennesee and they conld hold an election. One sido could vote for Old Hickory and moonshine, and the other for Tippe canoe and Tyler and no cigarrettes. It would be a lovely joke if the In diana, courts shonld uphold the new law. Booth Tarkington wonld have a new field to work. MUSIC AND MUSIC. In a Union Pacific chair car the other day, was a number of peopls returning from Omaha whero they had been to hear the great singer Madame Gadski and the prince of orchestra directors. Emil Paur. In the same car was a group of civil war veterans with their wives, on their way to Grand Island to attend a meeting of the Grand Army. After the train started, the old boys began to visit back and forth, jollying each otnor about ''foraging expeditions," "chicken stealings," and other army experiences until a spirit of almost boyish good cheer seemed to possess them all, and caused them to forget thefr surroundings. Finally in an outburst of exuberance, aroused by their happy reminiscences, two of the boys, stooped with age, their silvered hair falling in beauti ful color contrast on their bine coats, sprang up from their seats and with beaming faces, fairly ran down the isle to the end of the car, whero they had those patriotism-inspiring instru ments, the fife and drum. Music? A large number of the pas sengers had listened with breathless- attention to the great soprano ; they had greeted with applause the great director whose baton had made fifty instrnmens play as one instrument. But they had heard nothing from the great artist that was music in so high a sense asthe notes that these two old veterans produced on the two most unmusical musical instruments in the world. And how they played ! They were living forty years in tho past when with bouyant 6tep they hail sounded the martial notes that had torn young from boys tho arms of woepine mothers. And tho old boys who listened, forgot their stiffen ed jointB and age-dimmed eyes, and were boys again, living over again those days when they took np the march from home and mother, for tho cuaso of a free and nnited country. And tho spirit of tho old soldiers invaded tho cntiro car. The people applauded, they joined in the singing of patriotic airs, and for an hour a spirit of patriotism had held every person in the car emvrapt. Onr civilization demands th music of tho Gadskis, bnt onr democracy demands the patriotic strains of tue fifo and drum produced in tho spirit of these two old veterans. ONE HO AD I1REAKS. The Kock Island railroad has re cently placed an order for 1.S00 re frigerator cars which will be owned and operated by the road itself. This is supposed to be a resnlt of the pri vate car investigation which is being mado by tho Interstate Commerce commission. Tho Rock Island nnder its new management has always been aggres sive and progressive, and it wonld seem to have hit upon tho psychol ogical moment to break away from the private car octopus Just now the octopus is nnder a cloud of con siderable density, and while railroad ing is a bnsiness which generally speaking is not run on sentiment, never theless what ever power is in public sentiment will be on tho side of the Hock Island: It will remain to be seen whether the Bock Island will now bo put out of bnsiness by the private car power. The mysterious clnb with which the monopoly is supposed to keep every railroad nnder its dominion may turn out to be smowhat imaginary. THE FREMONT TRIUUNE The Fremont Daily Tnbuno has just celebrated its twenty-second birthday, and it admits what the peo ple of Nebraska have known for a long time, that it "is a pretty healthy yonth." Tho Daily Tribune began preaching the doctrine of a' greater Fremont when that city was little moro than half as largo as Columbus. And no one will deny that the Daily Tribcno Has played a largo part in placing Fremont among the best of the smaller Nebraska cities. Hail Ross Hammond been made of the stuff that gets discouraged easily, or had he waited for the business men of Fre mont to tell him to start a daily news paper when Fremont was a little city of :MX. the Daily Tribnno would not ocenpy the place of influenco it occu pies today, and Fremont, lacking the commercial stimulus that can be given only by a daily nowspaper, would stand much lower among the cities of Nebraska. The management of the Columbus Daily Journal hopes for the same earnest co-operation of bus iness men here that Columbus and the Daily Journal may grow in the measure that Fremont and the Dailv Tribune have grown under the man agement of Ross Hammond. ADVANCED POLITICS. The democratic ring in New York City and the republican ring in Phil adelphia have for years been a dis grace to tho American republic. The most shameless steals and high hand ed boodling have been practiced in these two harpies' nests, until New York and Philadelphia have come to bo standards, representing ona hun dred per cent, in the, scale of govern mental corruption. Philadelphia has just witnessed a scene which is truly Unssian. The city council had the question of gas franchises under consideration. A scheme was under way to grant the exclusive privilege to a certain cor- Joa for a term of . seventy -five year cit&eauinyadd I vearfVauulhousuad 9. a A fe. - the council chamber with ropes and openly threatened to hang the alder men who were engineering the steal A hundred armed policemen held the mob in check 'while the elected rep resentatives of tho people voted away the rights and tho money of the people. It is understood that the mayor will veto the ordinance and it mill then be up to the council to pass it again, over his veto, Meanwhile public sentiment is doing uliat it can pub licly, and the wallet of the interested corporation is no doubt .doing what it can privately. The situation is interesting and vital. It is a tucate f-kiw-down be tween bribery methods enr one hand and an aroused ens e of public decency on the other. It is as much a crucial test of democratic government as is the strike situation in Chicago. If a unanimous public sentiment cannot in Fume wav con.p 1 onedienpo to principles cf justice on the part of its eldcted Bprvants. we had better prepare for mob rule. TEACHERS AND PREACHERS "J suppose. Mr. Greenwood, that tho tcarhors who remain in town are doing a great deal of hard work at the public library," remarked somo one thJs morning to Superintendent J. M. Greenwood.- Mr. Greenwood, at his desk, laid do.vn bis pen and leaned back in his chair. "Teachers." he said, "don't read. Teachers seldom look at anything ex cept textbooks. Teachers don'J know very much. Teachers don't want to know anything except tho particular thing they happen to be teaching. The narrowing effect of school teaching is something terrible ig behold. No, sir, teachers who are in town are not doing hard woik nt all on their books. Tbxy seldom go near the li brary. "Of course thetc are lots of ambi tious ones. Tenchcis as a class are very ambitious. Hut their ambitions are limited to the onn or two things they teach. Tho ir.iud of rho teacher does not grow normally. Ono tiart of it grows abnormally kt-cn while the other part dwindles to nothing. Take tho woman who tenches English grammr or rhetoric, for instance. She gets to know ail tho rules so well the can see a rhetorical or grammatical mistako as soon as tho page is laid before hor eyes. But that is aU she con seo. She loses tier ideas and ap preciation. When sfe tteds at all the is absorbed with notlrng but doubtful construction. "The ordinary teacher acquires a pedantic idea of his own importance by reason of constantly dealing with children. Being constantly superior to those with whom you associate has a bad effect on anv one. It has a bad effect on the teacher. Tho teacher might learn of other uorsons who are brighter than nitnsolf if ho would read, but ho doesn't think it necessary to read. "I think a minister is a good deal like the school teacher. Yon will find tho ministers who rend are very fow indeed. It would be a good scheme if tho minister could persuada himself into disturbing his own in fallibility. But ho can not. Ho doesn't read. It wonld bo a good thing if ha wero not so cocksnro of himself. Bnt liko the school teachers, his lack of knowledge of human affairs betrays him. "Teachers and preachers must work along other lines than teaching and preaching, or they will become Alost irredeemably. A big question now is 'How can wo save rho school teacher :' The answer is, ' He must save hxn- self. He must work along other lines than school teaching. ' He must rend books and moot men and know whnt it is to bo in business. "Too many of them aro children. I know them Haven't I been a teacher myself f jr years and years?" . "Mrs. Whitney, 'asked some one of tho public librarian, "do teachersdraw many books out of tho library r" 'Very few. vory, very few. " she replied. Kansas City Star. COLUMBINES. Socio years ago we sojourned for n spall in tho city of St. Edward, Nod. Last week we made a pilgrimage to that city to see what had beccmo of a certain bunch of hoodlums with whom we nsed to associate there. They are still there. Wo were accompanied ou this journey by our old fiddle, which cost $-" new. Wo were also accompa nied by our old friend Prof. Sike who was accompanied by his old fiddle. Now this town of St. Edward has in our absence undergone ' reform. In fact, it has become a prohibition town with the usual train of attendant evils. A man who can go into a dry town and come ont sober is a pretty good man. However, if you want to bo suro and keep sober on any such ex cursion, we would 6irongly vdviso yon to go with our old friend Sike. Just let Prof, go a Mttlo ahead and there won't be anything for you to get in toxicated on. " Whu cometh on the choo-cnoo cars':" nuoth my old towii St. Ed. "Itibineself come back to see yon once again." I said. "What brine ye m that little box?" quoth my old town S. Eu "Begob, that is my good old Stradi vari us," I said. "For we've come to sound the tim brel and to beat the tom-tom like "Wo used to beat her down in old Missouri, County Pike. "Just watch tho smoke that's made by us me and my old friendSike "And We'll go back to Colum bus in the morning." "Ach, Louie! Say, where am I at?" quoth I in old St. Ed., Tho nest A. 31. when some brute bauhd me from my virgin bed ; "Just takeme to a hardware store, and take me quick." I said. "I want to buy a garden rake to comb my blooming head." And nevermore in old St. Ed. will I go down the pike ; I'd rather be a teamster in Chicago on a strike. But yon should have set your optics onus me and my friend Sike As they hauled us to Columbus in themoraiug. f One of the inconveniences of a good name is the liability to -hold-ups at the hands of blackmailers. Editor Kosewater of the Bee is having a turn at 'that unpleasant experience just now, and his valued contemporary, the World-Herald, is happy as a clam. Of eonrce it has not yet been demon strated that Mr. Kosewater is 'an in nocent victim, but the affair as it is reported bats mot of ihn ear marks of the govd uld-fathioucd hold-up. However, we think Brother Rote water shonld have exercised a little more caution before he bent his aged footsteps toward that darken d ioom of tbnt married lady in that hotel on that fateful day in that, wicked city in the house that Jack built. Any how, we know one distinguished journalist who on any rnch occasion will send word to snch married lady to drop around to the offico if rbe wants to disrnss tho renting of real estate. Walt Mason is preparing to publiih n selected lot of his verses in a book and then sell the book t ihe people. As there seems to oe no wuy of stop ping him. we take occasion to advice tne public and each member thereof to purchase and poruso that book without fait Of all the feature writers for Nebraska pipars Walt Mason com mands the bebt English and is the most literary. He is also a comical cuss, but he deserves no ciedit for that because it was born in him. This paragraph is subject to revision -in case ho doesn't send ub a free copy of bis book. We like the nerve of the man who can get np the next mdrning after a high lonesomo and swear that be feels finer than silk However, while we admire his nerve, we don't envy him his taste. Terrific Race Wth Death. "Death was fast approaching," writes Ralph Fernandez, of Tampa, Fl , describing his fearful race with death, "as a remit of liver . trouble and the disease, which had robbed me of sleep and of all inteiest in life. I had tried many different doctors and several medicines, but got no benefit nntil I began to nre Electric Bitters. So wonderful was their effect, that in three days I felt liko a new man, and today I am cured of all my troubles. Guaranteed at Chas. Dock's drutr store prico M) cents. GEffOA. ( From tne Ueaiier. i Joo Coleman, tho laundryman, met with a painful accident this morning by hnving his little finger caught in tho washing machine which mangled it so badly that he was compelled to hnve it amputated. News was received in this city the last of the week announcing the death of Mrs. B.A. Meonoy at Shawnee, Ok lahoma, but wo have been unable to learn the cause of her death at this writing. George Rose reports to the Leader that ho was out walking with a yonng lady the other evening and as they wore passing Alaney's restaurant the yonng lady asked him the following question:" Do yon know that the sea son has arrived when tho appetite for tho bubbling and inviting efferves cence banded out by the man by be hind the soda fountain is at the zenith of its capacity':". George immediate ly effervesced. Tho members of tho graduating class gave an ice cream and straw beny sccial at tho Sntton building en Friday evening last which was at tended by a large crowd. Stsrmre'd juvenile orchestra furnished music for the occasion and their selections were heartily applauded by the audience. The affair was one of the plearantest entertainments of the season and the class deserve congratulations. The receipts were about $35. The school board met the last of the week for the purpose of selecting teachers for the coming year and suc ceeded in electing the Misses Maggie McFayden, Eva' Robertson, Eliza Kennedy, Lenn Johnson, Grace Doyle and Miss Condard but were dead-locked on principal and assistant and after balloting until 2 o'clock a. m., they adjourned. The vote on prinoipal stood threo for the re-election of Steinbach and three for a Lincoln candidate. From the present ontlook manvof the farmers of Prairie Creek and Loop township will be unable to put in any crops this year on account of surplus water. The sunny land in that town ship is underlaid with a layer of clay and thousand of acres are nnder water from one inch to three feet deep. As the clay prevents the water from going down it will remain on the land un til evaporated by the sun and wind which will take weeks of dry weather. The music loving people of Colum bus will appreciate the appearance of the Troubadours at the North opera house Friday May 36. They come un der the auspices of the Maccabees and will be well worth hearing Humphrey. (From the Democrat.) At n special meeting of the school board last Friday evening R.M.Camp bell was elected to succeed himself as n-incinal of the Humphrev public schools fur tho ensuing year F. L. Galagher returned home last Sunday from his South Dakota trip Ho was one of the unfortunates who had to walk from Crestun Sunday morning .on account of the washouts in the track between here and Ores- ton. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Oark of Pasa dena, California, accompanied by' four nieces were in Humphrey a couple of days this week visiting old friends and acquaintances. They left yester day for Portage, Wisconsin, where they wiU visit a few weeks and then return to Humphrey for a conple of weeks visit before returning to Cali fornia. Irene, the little three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. MikeEisen monger, died Wednesday afternoon from membranous croup and the little body was laid to rest in St. Francis cemetery yesterday afternoon. The family is quarantined on account of diphtheria two children having the disease thus the sad hereavesaeat is mud harder for tho family to. hear... They have the rympathy vt the entire ' community. A change has taken place in the HcKillip Mercantiile Co , store. Mr. E. f. Ewing has put chased an inter est in the store and hereafter the firm will be koowu as the M cKillip Ewing Co. This does uut necessarily mean that there will be anv change in the manacemnnt of the tor- because Mr. Ewing has been identified with the McKillip Merchantib Co. for -some time and v he is well acq uainted with all the patrona of the .tore. It ts Mr. Ewiog's intention. to inaugurate a greater campaign for busineas than ever, and people who have beeu trading at his store can easily realize that this means some thing, because n the McKillip Jler cbantile Co. the store commanded a large trade. D. C. Westfall was suddenly strick en with apoplxy about noon Sunday at his home, and his life is still hover ing in the balance with little hope of recovery. Shorliv aftrr dinner Mr. Westfall left the house apparently in his sood health and about an hour afterward he wns found lying on the floor of an out-house unconscious. He was carried to tho houe immndiately and since then everything ponuMe has been done to relieve him, bnt very little itnprov intent is noticeable. Mr. We6tfall in of ciucry, kindly dis position, well liked ty all and his many friends in iuwu and other places where he is well known hope for his spoedy recovery. Sared by Dynamite. Sometimes, a flaming city is caved by dynamiting a space that the fire can't cross. Sometimes, a cough hangs on so long, yon feel as if nothing but dynamite would cure it. Z. T. Gray, of Calhoun. Ga , writes :"Mv wife had a vory aggravated cough, which kept ner awake nights Two physicians could not help her so she took Dr. King's New "Discovery for consump tion, coughs aud colds which eased her congh gave her sleep and finally cared her." Strictlv scientific enre for bronchitis andLaGrippe. AtCbas. Dark's drug store, price 50 cents and $1 guaranteed. Trial bottle free. INSANE NEGRO DEFIES OFFICERS Kills One Man, Wounds Seven and is Himself Riddled With Bullets. Owensboro, Ky., May 23. Bob Shaw, a negro, supposedly insane, has killed Eeuuty Marshal William C. Brown and wounded seven men in the past twenty-lour liours near Waitmnn. Shaw had been terrorizing tin .n munity around Waitman and pea is sant to this city A iiossc was at once forme, soon as they approached t man's house ho opened fire. . Watson was shot in the face an . . nty Marshal Jackson in the back. Oth ers wounded were Dr. O. H. Litt on the hand; a boy named Howard and a boy named Pelly in tho legs. A posse. heaMcd by Sheriff Kelly, went from Lcwisport to Waitman and found Shaw sitting on his front porch. Shaw quickly barricaded himself in his house. The posse tried to storm the house, but the negro opened fire, wounding James Ford and John Rob inson. He apparently bad only small shot, which saved the lives tif those ho aimed at. Shaw was shot ut twice. Ho had two revolvers, but announced that he would save them for work at close range. A great crowd gathered around the house, keeping at a safe distance. Will C. Brown, a deputy Sheriff, vol unteered to go to the house, and take Shaw. When within fifteen feet of Shaw, the crazy man fired, blowing Brown's head completely off. A mob of men and boys finally sur rounded his house and set it on fire. Shaw remained in the burning house as long as he could stand the heat, and finally leaped out and tried to es cape. Nearly 100 shots were fired and Shaw's body was riddled with bul lets. TIFFANY'S ROBBED OF $90,000 Three Diamonds Stolen From Shop in Mysterious Way. New York. 23. The detective forces of two continents arc working to re cover three diamonds cut from the world famous Excelsior stone, and valued in the aggregate 'at 190,000, which were stolen from the shop of Tiffany & Co. May 4. The news of the great robbery has just become public. In all ten diamonds were cut from the Excelsior last fan shortly after its purchase by Tiffany from an Eng lish syndicate. The stone was found at Jagersfontein, South Africa, in 1893, and in the rough weighed 971 carats. It was the largest diamond that ever has been cut up and the to tal value of the ten stones taken from it was $500,000. Five of th" diamonds were sold by Tiffany ' well known New York people last Christmas. Of the remaining flvo the company now has only two. The robbery was committed in the workshop, on the fifth floor of the Tif fany building, in Union square. Storm Does Damage In Texts. Dallas, Tex., May 23. Several lives were lost and .serious damage was done to crops In many sections of Tex as by the terrific wind and rain storm that prevailed in many sections. Streams are out of banks and bridge3 have been .washed away. In the northwest pnrt of Haskell county, fourteen houses were destroyed, th3 two children of Will Townds, near Marc, were killed and Mrs. Townds was found unconscious and will die. Mr- Townds .escaped with slight bruises. At Malone. the Christian and Baptist churches aqd several build ings were wrecked. At Temple. Bertha Henley was killed by lightning. Con siderable damago was done at Waco, several houses being unroofed. Algees Are Both Arratttd. Omaha, May 23. Morris S. Algoo and his wife were both arrested and placed in a cell at the city jail. The charge was blackmailing Edward Roscwater out of $250. The woman was not arrested on the other charge, that of attempted blackmailing of $1. 750, on which Algoe was bound over to the district court. Clmxti for Aetisu. When the body is cleared for action, by Or. King's New Life Pills,' yon eaa tell by the bloom of health on the cheeks; the brightness of the eyes; the ImuMss of the flesh and muscles; the buoyancy of the mind. Try them. At Onus. Deck's drug store 25 cents. MEM H EMPLOYERS AND TEAMSTERS HOLD LONG CONFERENCE. ANOTHER SETTLEMENT INSIGHT Believed Finish of Struggle Will Come Within Forty-eight Hours Express Companies Waive Blacklist Propo tion Lumber Drivers Out. Chicago, May 23. After a confer ence lasting for three hours, repre sentatives of the teamsters' union and the employers declared this morning that the prospects for the settlement of the strike are excellent and that the end of the trouble may be looked fcr at any time within the ne.u forty eight hours. The stumbling block in tho negotia tions is the declaration by the express companies that none of thoir striking drive? wil re taken h-u pn ler any circumstances. All other tenns sub mitted by the employers to the strik ers have been accepted. The man agcrs of the express companies de clared that while they would re-employ none of their drivers, they had no intention of keeping a "blacklist." and there would be no objection to any driver who secured a position with some express company other than tho cne by which he was employed at the time he struck. He would be given a position, it was asserted, if a vacancy existed at the time of his application. This phase of the strike was the only matter discussed at the conference last night, and in the opinion of all present it opened a way for a settle ment. Despite this move for peace the lumbermen's association is preparing for an extension of the strike. At a meeting of this organization it wes decided that the sixty-five flrs com posing the association wuld compel their drivers to make deliveries to strike-bound houses. Twelve of these firms enforced the order and between 200 and 300 of tho drivers quit work. BOWEK-LOOMISJASE POSTPONED Matter Awalta Arrival of Late Min ister to Colombia. Washington. May 23. The further Investigation of the Bowcn-Loomls matter has been postponed pending the arrival in this city of William W. Russell. let minister to Colombia, whom Mr. Bowen wants to have exam ined before any decision on the case Is reached. Mr. Russell was secretary of legation under 'Mr. Loomis when the utter was minister to Caracas. Minister Russell was cabled a week ago at Bogota to come to Washington, not in connection with the Bowcn Loomls matter, but to discuss with the authorities here his treatment of affairs at Caracas with special refer ence to the asphalt controversy. It is not intended to take any action in this matter probably until congress meets next fall, providing nothing happens in Venezuela to force an Is sue. World's Fair Awards Muddle. New York, Mpy 23 Jluosts fcr hearings from St. Louis fair exhibitors who are iX present in controversy with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition company over the coming award of prizes have been filed at the offices of the national commission in this city, but as the commission has less than six weeks to live and proceedings of such a nature, if started, would last well Into next winter, it is doubtful if the commissioners would be able to do anything to give satisfaction for the complainants. The pi nesting exhib itors, among whom are some of the most prominent manufacturers in the country, are opposed to the award of prizes on the ground that exhibits were improperly classified and judged, and that many of the resulting awards will be unfair. The act of congress by-which the national commission was created, provided that the awards of the exposition company must be offi cially endorsed by the commission. To Prevent Chinese Smuggling. Washington, May 23. Secretary Metcalf of the department of com merce and labor has made ajequest upon the state department, with which It has complied, that the Mexican gov ernment be asked to assist the Amer ican immigration inspectors on the Texas border in their efforts to pre vent the wholesale smuggling of Chi nese across from Mexico into the Unit ed States. The secretary bases Ms request upon a report from T. F. Schmucher, inspector in charge at El Paso, Tex. This shows that in the town of Juarez. Mex., across the river from El Paso, there are three Chinese firms or companies engaged in this smuggling. Eectric Line a Sure Go. Des Moines, May 23. A. E. Parks of Chicago stated that the electrical interurban railway from Des Moines to Creston Is now an assured thing, and that while the financing of the road was not completed it had pro gressed so far that the announcement could be made that the road would be built He said the road would be seventy-five miles long and would serve 160,000 people, touching Maxburg. Spalding and Winterset. Mr. Parks further states that through the use of a transformer it is proposed to intro duce electricity in farming by furnish ing voltage to the farmers whoso land Is crossed by the line. New Route to Southwest. Chicago, May 23. A new route to the southwest independent of the St. Louis gateway Is to be given the Chicago shippers in the near future. This is to be accomplished by cross ing the Mississippi river at Thebes, 50 miles south of St. Louis. To make the new route possible It was neces sary to construct a bridge across the river at the point named. This struc ture has just been completed and will be opened for traffic with elaborate ceremonies on Thursday of this week. The new line will be used by the Illi nois Central principally for freight ' mn. uivermores conoition. Melrose. Mass., May 23. It was an nounced that the crisis In the illness of Mrs. Mary A. Livermore bad been passed and that she was slightly bet ter. It was also stated that If her condition remained the same during the next thirty-six hours there was a possibility of her recovery. Or. Koch Released on Bail. Mankato, Mina, May 23. Dr. George R. Koch, twice tried for the murder of Dr. Loula A- Gebhardt of New Ulm. has been released oa '$20. 000 bail. The date of the third trial was Axed tor July f. ' i OU mav know our store and know that we sell good clothes or men, but we believe .here are other facts con cerning our merchandise tfhich would benefit us both (f they were better known to you. We contend that our ( clothing embraces about all that the word "clothes" implies. It is not mere covering for the body for hot and cold days, but it is a recognized correctness r for garments for dress ; it is fashionable apparel, up-to-date attire. We are herewith illustrating our CROUSE & BRANDEGEE Smartsac, a distinctive-cut sack suit for men and young men, a suit combining features' of importance in this day of tailorec clothes ready to put on. These suits arc made of rough and smooth faced fabrics, full of distinctive points of modern tailor ng, in which you are sure to find absolute satisfaction, not alone or service, but for correctness as to present demands of high mality tailored garments. GREISEN ..11th COLUMBUS, - aVaVaVMauuuulMBusVksssWBj jt.ujJHSfSi aSufttSSnrti if lUnNtaUbutUtiK 1 unuunw uuuIbbbbbbVssViCV M sniKa KB suuuu MuuIbbKac! ??- .snusBsl aHsmuErji?r'7t It is a cupboard and a kitchen table com bined. It saves room and saves money. Come in and see it. See our new line of Morris Chair?, Exten sion Tables, Eeclroom Suits, etc. Our stock is up-to-date and our prices will please you. Henry Gass FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING 11th Street. Columbus, Nebr. Painting, Paper Hanging, Frescoing, Sign Writing, Glazing, Etc. Besides the regular Wall Paper Stock we carry we have sample books from the largest manufacturers of Wall Paper and can suit you in quality and price. NORTH STREET 1 Door r w w l0M00000000M00 - New Tin Iioelle tV Laiijjeiieirer the new tinner- liavc hjx'ih-iI a !m jii-t we?t of tlict'iilii -ti:iri ami i- fiean d to do all kiinU of tin work, repairing of all kind-, tin lonliii, -punting etc .M-. moving, repairing ami -toriim of -tuvc-. All work ptiarantcul to lni the very hot, ami pi ice- re:tsomiil . If vmi tiv tin-in once they will alway- do your work ROELLE&LANGENEGGER!.; West of Coll Storage, Hth Stiei-t. ( o!n:iilii-, !; J xx9ssso0s;xi:ooo:s: Iiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiniii ISOME PAINT 1. 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