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MSMMnrtMmMKM jjji i MaiumftitaHi'ina.iujjei f- ' -trg'isur. r: t - mt V&T-. &' . & ' .. '. f NEBRASKA NOTES MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS THE COMMON WEALTH. IN STATE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION Call Issued for Assembling August 224 The Supreme Court Soon to Pass on the Question of School Rights Miscellaneous Notes. Republican Call Issued. LINCOLN Chairman Warner of the republican state committee, acting upon instructions from the committee, has issued the following call for the state convention, to be held in Lin coln August 22: The republicans of the state of Neb raska are hereby called to meet in convention at the Auditorium in the city of Lincoln, on Wednesday, Aug ust 22, 1906, at 2 o'clock in the after noon, for the purpose oi placing in nomination candidates for the follow ing offices, viz.: One United States senator, one gov ernor, one lieutenant governor, three railway commissioners, one secretary of state, one auditor of public accounts, one treasurer, one superintendent of public Instruction, one attorney gen eral, one commissioner of public lands and buildings, and for the transaction of such other business as may prop erly come before it. Court to Pass on School Rights. LINCOLN At the next session of the supreme court the school board of Lincoln will have an opportunity to show why the state officers who have children in school should pay tuition. Some time ago a bill was presented to each of the officers for tuition on the ground that Lincoln was not their le gal residence, and hence as non-residents their children should pay a fee to attend the public schools. The offi cers objected strenuously, because it is necessary for them to reside in Lin coln and because their personal prop erty is assessed here, but the school board would not listen to this, desir ing the cash instead. Attorney Gen eral Brown then filed a petition for a mandamus to compel the board to al low the children of Governor Mickey and Superintendent McBrien, who were named as relators, to attend school. The court has set. the case for the next term. Unregistered Bond Presented. LINCOLN A Pennsylvania bank has bought a $1,000 bond issued by the city of Beatrice in 1900, bearing 3 per cent interest, which has not been reg istered in the office of the auditor. The bond was sent to the First Na tional bank of this city for registra tion and was brought to the auditor's office. The bond was one of an issue of ninety-seven bonds, fifty-five of which were for $1,00 each, twenty-two $100 each, one $97 and one $248. This Is shown by the bond. Some of the coupons had been clipped from the bond and it bore the appearance of having been legally signed by the mayor and the city clerk of Beatrice. None of the bonds, however, had ever been registered in the office of the auditor and there is fear that the bond Is a forgery. The bank has taken the matter up with the officials of Beatrice. Freak Mule in Otce County. NEBRASKA CITY Robert Davis, who lives a few miles south of this city, has a miniature mule that is nearly two months old, but is only thirty-five inches high and weighs hardly enough to be counted. It is perfectly formed, except that its hind inkles are so crooked that they have to be broken to be straightened. When the mule gets tired it rests by sitting on its haunches. It is believed the an imal will never be any larger. Answer to Power's Appeal. Attorney General Brown filed an answer to the appeal of former Sheriff Power of Douglas county from the de rision of Auditor Searle in refusing to allow him railroad fare from Omaha to Lincoln, the trip being necessitated by reason of the sheriff bringing a prisoner to the state penitentiary. The claim was for $3.30. The answer sets op that the sheriff rode on a free pass and therefore his carfare was not al lowable as a claim against the state. Insurance Less in San Francisco. Insurance Deputy Pierce, in answer to letters of inquiry, ha received re ports from the various insurance com panies doing business In Nebraska, showing the loss of each by reason of the San Francisco earthquake and fire. Each of the companies said its loss would be fully paid and the company would not be injured. A Shortage In Sight. FALLS CITY The committee that Is investigating the city treasurer's of fice has not completed its labors but It is now claimed by those who have a good chance to know the facts that an apparent shortage of $6 000 in the city's funds, $600 in the library fund, and more than $5,000 in the school fund has been found. Attack Rebate Charge. LINCOLN Alleging that the re bate charges in the anti-trust grain cases is proper subject mater for the Interstate commerce commission the Central Granerles company of Lin coln filed an answer in (he supreme court The answer says further that the defendant company "does not re ceive and never has received this elevation charge unless the grain went through the defendant's elevator; that said 14 cents was only paid in inter state shipments, to or beyond the Mis sissippi river. Governor Makes Appointments. LINCOLN Governor Mickey ap pointed R. B. Windham of Platts month a member of the board of con trol of the institute for the deaf and dumb at Omaha, and also for the insti tute for the blind at Nebraska City. Litter of Wolves Captured. TABLE ROCK Jasper S. Killett, who lives a few miles northeast of here, has captured a couple of litters of yosng wolves eight in one and aiae Is the other besides the mother wolf, is one Instance, OVER THE STATE. Mrs. Elizabeth Urwin died at Platts mouth, last week, aged 90 years. Work is rapidly progressing on the new Burlington depot at Beatrice. For the first time in the town's hi tory, Oxford is to have three saloons. A Lincoln man is drawing plans for the T. M. C 'A building at Fremont The State Liquor Dealers' associa tion will meet in Columbus June 11th. It is said Gov. Mickey has asked for the resignation of Dr. Nicholson of the Norfolk asylum. The dead man found floating down the river at Rulo, was identified as J. G. Mason of Brownville. E. E. Bolejack has just established a bank at Barada. The capital stock of the new bank will be $6,500. A Y. M. C. A. building will be put up at Fairbury. The structure Is to cost $15,000, and the money has all been raised. W. H. Mann has a time card of the Burlington for 1881, which shows that there were but two trains a day be tween Plattsmouth and Lincoln. Mrs. John C. Buess, an aged lady and one of the pioneers of Otoe county, fell down a flight of stairs and broke a number of ribs. It is feared she will not recover. The Hartington city council has passed an ordinance prohibiting bar ber shops to be open hereafter on Sun days subject to a fine of $50 for vio lation of the ordinance. At a special election in Beaver City, the proposition to issue bonds for the erection of a high school building was carried by an overwhelming majority there being but nine votes cast against August Groff, cashier of the State bank of Goehner, Seward county, re ceived $65 in small contributions for the San Francisco people and sent the money to Dr. Devine of the Red Cross. The project to re-establish the twenty-five cent ferry rate for the ben efit of farmers of the Iowa side of the river is again being pushed by the members of the Commercial club of Plattsmouth. Of the ninety-five lots set aside by the state fair board for the implement section, sixty-three have already been taken. The rapidity with which the space is being engaged is a surprise to Secretary Mellor. Property of the George Town Roller mill and flour company situated sev eral miles south of Broken Bow and principally owned by Mayor George of Broken Bow was totally destroyed by fire. No insurance. R B. Blust will build a new hotel In. Ravenna. It will be a brick structure 32x60 feet and two stories high. A new hotel is badly needed in Ravenna since the burning of the Burlington hotel and eating house. Orlando Fish, a former resident of Merrick county, died at the Colum bus hospital from the effects of a gun shot wound inflicted by James Nichols of Nance county. The men had quar reled over lease of a farm. - John Howell, vice president of the Bank of Oxford, will shortly retire from active participation in the man1 agement of that institution and will be succeeded by his brother, Matthew Howell a capitalist of Yortv, Neb. Fremont is to vote upon the proposi tion of issuing bonds oi $50,000 to wards the construction of a new lighting and water works system, cost ing $83,000. This was decided at the close of a long meeting of the city council. Coal has been discovered on the farm of C. E. Morris, three miles south east of Diller, and samples brought to Beatrice show the speciments to be from one to three inches in thickness. The vein crops out in a cut made by the Burlington company In straighten ing its roadbed. The Vermont Marble company of Rutland, Vt, has presented Seward county with a block of white marble from which a life size statue of Hon. William Seward, for whom the town and county were named will be carved. This statue will be placed on a pedestal at the north entrance of the court house. Jansen & Son of Jansen, recently sold to the commission firm of Clay. Robinson & Co., 428 shorn wethers and yearlings, which averaged ninety-two pounds and for which they received $5.45 per 10 pounds. This price Is the top for the season on shorn weathers and the first and only lot to bring the figure. Rev. P. L. Johnson, treasurer of Has tings college, has gone to New York City for the purpose of completing the $100,000 endowment fund which is be ing collected for that institution. About $80,000 has already been sub scribed. Andrew Carnegie has of fered $20,000 for a new building If the $100,000 is raised. Sheriff Bauman of Dodge county, arrived at Fremont from Jsceola with Fay Baker. He was charged with the theft of a team and buggv rom George Heine of Hoper. Baker had posses sion of the outfit that was missed from Heine's barn. He claimed to have bought it from a stranger, but was confused in his story. He was caught near Osceola while driving through the country. In order to push construction with the greatest possible speed the Union Pacific will install an electric light system along the Lane cut-off, near Omaha. Work on this cut-off is being pushed as fast as possible day by day, but that is not fast enough. The two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Van Auken of Hart ington, died last week. The little one swallowed a bean which lodged in her windpipe. Preparations were made to take it to Sioux City to have an operation performed but it strangled to death on the train. J. G. Stroble, J. M. Livinston and J. J. Jones of Nebraska City, left for Mexico to secure a concession from the Mexican government, and will open a large mine on a section of land which they have in view and build up a town about the place. John Chalupsky, a farmer residing three miles south of St Paul, commit ted suicide by blowing bat his brains with a shotgun. Temporary insanity caused by drinking Is supposed to have been the cause of hls.-j action. Domestic trouble had been brewing Is the family for a long time...' TILLMAN CHARGE REITERATES WHAT HE SAID RE GARDING THE PRESIDENT. QUOTES LETTER FROM CHANDLER Senator Lodge's Denial that President Had Spoken of Knox and Others Secretaries Root and Taft Hold a Conference. WASHINGTON Senator Tillman, who on Saturday made a statement in the senate covering the details of his and Senator Bailey's , negotiations through ex-Senator Chandler wita) President Roosevelt regarding the rate bill, on Sunday made public a portion of a written statement made to him by Mr. Chandler of his various conferences with the president on this subject The portion given out by Mr. Tillman is largely a repetition of the first part of his statement in the sen ate yesterday. It covers, however, that portion where Mr. Tillman had quoted Mr. Chandler as saying that the president had stated that he had come to a complete disagreement with the senatorial lawyers who were try ing to defeat or injure the bill, nam ing Messrs. Knox, Spooner and Fora ker, regarding which statement Sena tor Lodge subsequently said he was au thorized to state from the white house that it was an unqualified falsehood. On this subject Mr. Chandler, referr ing to the president, said in his writ ten statement: "He said that he had been much troubled by the advocacy of an un limited court review by some of the lawyers of the senate naming Sena tors Knox, Spooner and Foraker as trying to injure or defeat the bill oy ingenious constitutional arguments. but that he had come to a complete disagreement with them. He made this point emphatic by repetition." The statement given out by Mr. Til- man follows: "Senator Tillman said that on Sat urday, May 5, he insisted on having from ex-Senator Chandler a written statement of the various conferences by the latter m connection with the plan of the president to control the railroad rate legislation by alliance with the democrats of the senate, and Mr. Chandler gave him such a state ment made prior to Saturday, May 12, and signed by Mr. Chandler with the president on March 31 which had be come a subject matter of dispute, but would retain the remainder for use in case any other parts of his should be denied." Senator Lodge called at the White House in the evening and took din ner with the president. Subsequently Secretaries Root and Taft arrived at the White House and joined the presi dent and Senator Lodge. Senator Lodge and Secretaries Root and Taft remained with the president until late. At the conclusion of their visit none of the parties present would discuss the visit and all of them de clined to answer any questions regard ing the subject under discussion. FATE OF FATHER GAPON. Body of Priest Found Hanging in Villa Near Ozerki, Finland. ST. PETERSBURG The mystery of the fate of Father Gapon apparently was cleared up Sunday by the discov ery of a corpse, which has almost positively been identified as that of the former priest, hanging In the up per chamber of a lonely villa in the summer suburb of Ozerki, Finland. The villa was rented April 8 for the summer and a deposit paid by an un known man from St. Petersburg, who, after visiting the house several times in company with a young workman, disappeared April 11, taking the key with him. The proprietress of the villa, alarmed at the nonappearance of the tenant notified the. police, who entered the house. Knocking down a door, they were confronted-by a body in a long coat hanging from a nail, the feet touching the floor. Decompo sition of the face made positive iden tification difficult, but the features re sembled those of Gapon and the clothing corresponded with that worn by the missing labor leader. Good Wages for Expert Painters and Paper Hangers in Omaha. Owing to a scarcity of first-class workmen the master painters of Omaha are paing up to 50 cents per hour for skilled workmen. Open shops and plenty of work. Vesuvius Acting Up Again. NAPLES Prof. Matteucci, director of the royal observatory on Mount Ve suvius, telegraphs that the volcano is in slight eruption. Thick vapors and sand are being expelled and the elec trical phenomenon continues, but he says the situation is not grave. Mrs. Jefferson Davis Better. NEW YORK Mrs. Jefferson Da vis, who Is ill in this city and whose condition was considered grave, was better Sunday. Physicians say that the crisis is passed. Former State Auditor Dead. VERDON, Neb. John Francis Cor nell, for four years auditor of public accounts of the state of Nebraska and fifty years a farmer on the same sec tion of land in Richardson county, died Sunday at 6 o'clock at his home. A widow and four daughters, Helen, Eunice and Vast! Cornell and Mrs. J. R. MIckel, survive him. The funeral will be held Tuesday forenoon and burial will be in the family cemetery on the hillside of the old Cornell homestead pre-empted by his father in 1856. Plenty of Water in 'Frisco. SAN FRANCISCO One of the causes of the destruction of the great er part of San Francisco was revealed when Mayor Schmitz and Engineer Schusseter, accompanied by other, of ficials, made a trip down the penin sula to inspect mains of the water company which furnished the city's water supply from Crystal Springs and other lakes. Several big breaks were found In the mains and thus was ex plained the reason why the city was without smfflclent water supply to IghtUw lames. THE MONEY READY. Insurance Companies Will Begin vto Pay Losses. SAN FRANCISCO Financial inter est on Wednesday centered in the an nouncement made by the insurance companies that in the immediate fu ture they would pay losses of tha fire sufferers. It is believed that most of the money will be put into general cir culation and when it is distributed will relieve the people of San Francisco as no other means could. This news was welcome, not only to the policy holders, but also to the banks that have been doing their best tor tne pumic witn tne resources at their immediate command, necessarily limited. The announcement .was offi cial to the extent that it was given to the subcommittee of the citizens' gen eral committee and duly reported at the general committee's daily meeting. The announcement was received with applause, news from these interests having been awaited with much anx iety. "What will be the effect of the pay ment of this insurance money?" was asked of James D. Phelan, chairman of the finance committee. "Nothing could do more good," he replied. "When the money is paid out to the people it will put them on their feet It will bring about an early re sumption of normal conditions. The people want money to buy what they need, and the payment of these many million dollars will greatly assist the banks in giving them money. What is more, the circulation of the money will be of great value to the banking in terests." With their announcement that losses will soon be paid the insurance inter ests have made the concession that sal vage operations on property swept by the flames may be proceeded with. Policy holders may save anything they can find without fear of risking the loss of their claims for insurance. To a great extent the work of demol ishing walls and clearing away debris has been postponed because of the doubt regarding the attitude the in surance companies would take. The work of contracting and wrecking com panies has been deferred awaiting such a definite statement as that made by the insurance companies to the com mittee. WILLING TO BUILD BIG WARSHIP. Proposed Vessel Will Cost Ten Million Dollars. WASHINGTON The construction bureau is willing to undertake to build the leviathan 20,000-ton battleship, pro vided for in the pending naval appro priation bill, and on the basis of the experience acquired in theconstruction of the battleship Connecticut, at the New York navy yard, the constructors feel sure that they can execute this task with reasonable dispatch at a min imum of cost. A careful estimate limits the time al lowed to fcrty-eight months and the cost to $10,000,000. The New York navy yard is found to be the only place available and suitable for this work. DOWIE CASE IS CONTINUED. Failure of Voliva and Apostle to Come to Understanding Causes Delay. CHICAGO Failure of John Alexan der Dowie and Wilbur G. Voliva to agree upon the proposed selection of a committee of three to govern the af fairs of Zion City caused a halt in the legal proceedings Wednesday before Judges Wright and Donnelly. The at torneys for Dowie announced that they were not in a position to say that he would agree to the appointment of the committee, and the hearing was adjourned until late in the day to per mit of communication with Dowie at Zion City. Swallowed Dundy's Watch. NEW YORK "Gyp," the big trained elephant of the New York Hippodrome, while Manager "Skip" Dundy was pet ting her in hsr stall Tuesday, playfully lifted his fob diamond studded watch and charm from his pocket and before he could grasp her trunk swallowed the timepiece. It was a highly valued present from his father. He gave "Gyp" five gallons of castor oil and offered fifty dollars reward. Reports oh the Grounding. WASHINGTON. The report of Capt. Perry Garat of the battleship Rhode Island on the grounding of that vessel on York Split recently has been received at the navy department It shows that the cause of the accident was an error of judgment, and Capt. jarst has suggested a court of inquiry, which has been ordered. Political Plot in San Domingo. SAN DOMINGO. Republic of Santo Domingo, via Hayti. It became known today that the authorities on Sunday, May 6, discovered a plot to assassinate President Caceres as he was leaving the theater. Several arrests have been made. Shots were exchanged last night near this city between rural guards and supposed revolutionists. Nebraskans on a Jaunt PHILLIPSBURG, Kas. The mem bers of the trade excursion had an extraordinary pleasant trip through Kansas. From Fairbury to Phillips burg there is one continuous field of alfalfa hay. The prospects for the :rop were never better and the treat ment accorded the visitors all aong the line was correspondingly good. Much was done to strengthen the trade relations with the western towns. Great crowds greeted the trade excur sion, and the Alma band again cov ered itself with glory. Mrs. Blaine Seeks Divorce. WASHINGTON. Mrs. James G. Blaine, formerly Martha Hichborn, daughter of Rear Admiral Hichborn, retired, has informed her friends here that she is going to Sioux Falls, S. D.. to spend the summer. There appears to be but little question why Mk. Blaine chooses South Dakota as a re sort in place of Atlantic City, where she has in former years spent a con siderable portion of each summer. The Inference is, of course, that she is tak ing steps looking to securing a divorce. The amendment COURT REVIEW FEATURE OF RAILROAD BILL REJECTED. CONSIDER ALLISON AMENDMENT Rayner Asserts that the Proposed Com. promise is Exactly What Railroad Companies Desire The Anti-Pi Provision Discussed. WASHINGTON Senator Bailey's nonsuspenslon amendment applying to I orers 0f tne Interstate Commerce commission as covered by the railroad rate bill, which has occupied so much of the attention' of the senate In con nection with that bill, was on Friday adversely disposed of by the decisive vote -of 23 to 54. practically a party vote. The debate on the provision was limited to a brief political speech by its author in which he said the presi dent bad changed his attitude on the question of maintaining the rates fixed by the commission until the courts reach a final decision. An amendment offered by Senator Rayner confining the court review to constitutional questions was also voted down, but not until after speeches had been made by Messrs. Rayner and Bailey in advocacy and Messrs Alli son, Fulton, Long and Cullom in op position. The debate was in antici pation of the discussion that is expect ed to occur upon the Allison court re view provision Saturday. Messrs. Rayner and Bailey contended that the Allison amendment authorizes the broadest possible court review and the Maryland senator urged that in it Sen ator Aldrich had achievea a signal vic tory. Senator Fulton stated that he had first suggested the language of the Allison provision. A number of other amendments, of fered by democrats and by Senator La Follette. were rejected. The votes were generally along party lines during the entire day, but the Wisconsin sena tor voted with the democrats on all. proposition and Messrs. McEnery and Morgan, democrats, voted with the re publicans on most of them. The only amendments accepted dur ing the day were those offered by Sen ator Allison striking out the phrase "fairly remunerative" in the provision allowing interstate Commerce commis sion to fix rates; limiting the operation of orders of the commission to two years, and making the Interstate Com merce commission the defendant in suits challenging the rates fixed by it The anti-pass provision heretofore adopted was again discussed. It is evident that it will be modified. DOWIE'S CONDITION CRITICAL. Physician Says He Can Live But a Few Days. CHICAGO The- condition of John Alexander Dowie is said to be nearing a critical stage. The venerable "first apostle" has taken to his bed and his strength is failing. The selling of the strength is failing. The swelling of the characteristic of his affliction, is said to have extended upwards until with in a few inches of the heart Dr. Blanks, who has been in constant at tendance upon Dowie since his return from Mexico, said that he might, by reason of his great vitality, live a week or ten days, but that a fatal ter mination of the disease within two or three days would not be surprising. PAPER TRUST QUITS. Combine Concludes Not to Fight Suit Against it Further. ST. PAUL, Minn. .- The United States government on Friday secured an unconditional surrender in the United States circuit court before Judge Sanborn in the suit which the attorney general began on December 27, 1904. to dissolve the combination between the General Paper company and twenty-three other defendants on the ground that an agreement had been entered into by the defendants in restraint of interstate commerce. Soap Found in Sand Hills. SIOUX CITY. la. Farmers from Savage, Neb., brought to Sioux City samples of a remarkable "mountain soap" discovered near that town. It seems the mound lying among the sand hills contains fine sand of about the sort used in scouring soaps. Ow ing to some chemical it is sa.d to lather in water, and the owners of a soap factory here will analyze it. The farmers thereabouts, it is said, are hauling away the soap sand by the wagon load, and using it to clean dishes, scour floors and wash bands. Senators Cannot Visit Wayne. WASHINGTON The people of Wayne, Neb., have planned a rousing Fourth of July celebration and have writen Congressman McCarthy to se cure for the occasion either Senator La Follette or Senator Tillman. Mr. McCarthy saw both gentlemen, but previous engagements compelled them to decline. Panama Warned to Be Quiet. WASHINGTON Revolutionary movements or election troubles in Panama which in any way interfere with .work on the canal zone justify the interference' of the United States in spite of the Panama government. Such is the tenor of the instructions sent to Governor Ma'goon of the canal zone by Secretary Taft, who also sub mitted to Governor Magoon a letter from Secretary Root setting forth in detail what is stated to be the justifi cation of American interference in case of disorder. American Fishermen Released. WASHINGTONThe American fisher men arrested for alleged poaching off the Mexican coast and placed in jail at Progresso have been released under Consul Thompson's pledge for their appearance for trial. Pension Bills Passed. WASHINGTON Three hundred and twenty pension bills were passed by the house Friday in one hour and a half. 'This record has never been equalled in the disposition of pension legislation. FENCES MUST GO. Otherwise Uncle Sam Will VffSrsusly Act. OMAHA By an order issued by Judge Manger twenty-five cattlemen are given five days in which to'remove their unlawful fences from the gov ernment domain. If the illegal wires are not down at the end of that pe riod Marshal Warner is ordered to pull them down and destroy .them at the expense of the cattlemen. The cattlemen are also permanently en joined from constructing fences upon the public domain. One of these restraining orders was issued against Rev. George W. Ware, president of the U. B. I. Land and Cattle company, in Hooker county. Eight other defendants are included in the suit and the injunction operates against all of them. Their illegal in closure comprises over 111,000 acres of government land, and all the unlaw ful homestead entries within the in closure have been recommended for cancellation. The suit against Ware, Henry Hoff- gard, foreman of the ranch, Reuben W. Mahaffy and R. H. Shimmin was filed by Special District Attorney Rush last November. In default of their filing an answer to the petition, or appear ing in person to answer the allegations of the complaint, they will now have to face the decree which was prepared by Mr. Rush and presented to Judge Munger for his signature Tuesday. He signed this one and the decree in six other similar cases late in the after noon. A similar order has been Issued against William E. Black, T. B. Hord and fifteen other defendants to oblige them to remove their fences from the Dismal river forest reserve in Thomas county. Their inclosure comprises about 85,000 acres. In the Niobrara forest reserve the Federal Cattle company, with ten oth er defendants, has been ordered to re move" fences irom 100,000 acres of gov ernment land. Likewise a judgment has been taken against Robert Gillespie and Jacob W. Steller in Thomas county. In Custer company Charles and Er nest Gutherie are commanded to take down their fences, and in Cherry coun ty Robert Gillespie and Jacob W. Stet ter are obliged to do the same. PRESIDENT ASKS FOR MONEY. Message Recommends Appropriation of Half Million to Buy Food. WASHINGTON The president has transmitted to congress a letter from Secretary Taft recommending the ap propriation of an additional 500.000 to meet conditions at San Francisco. The president's letter follows: "I herewith trans .t a letter from the secretary of war in respect to the situation as to the army supplies at San Francisco. This letter contains appendices showing the supplies which have been transmitted to San Fran cisco and their cost and sets forth the necessity of an additional appropria tion of $500,000, which I recommend be made at once. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." VAULTS ARE NOW BEING OPENED. Banks Find Securities Intact in Safes Which Passed Through Fire. SAN FRANCISCO Safety deposit boxes in several big institutions that provide these fireproof receptacles for the public were made accessible Tues day. The vaults opened were those of the Union Trust. Crocker Woolworth. Canadian Bank of Commerce and. Mer cantile Trust institutions. Steel and asbestos had performed their trust well. All the contents of the stsel boxes were found intact Nothing was harmed. Iowa Crop Bulletin. DES MOINES. la. The past week has been abnormally cool, closing with heavy to killing frosts in all dis tricts on the mornings of the Cth and 7th. The minimum temperatures were below freezing at numerous stations, and possibly the more tender varieties of fruits have suffered some damage. In about one-third of the state, in the western and northern districts, the rainfall was above normal, but gener ally conditions were favorable for plowing and preparations for planting. Strike Becoming Serious. ROME Disturbances of a grave na ture have occurred at Bologna, in con nection with the general strike. Sev eral officers and soldiers were wound ed, and many buildings, .including some of the hospitals, were stoned. At Milan the strike has not resulted in any disturbance and is generally condemned. Vesuvius Trembling Again. NAPLES Vesuvius is again show inv activity. A cloud of smoke hangs over the crater and rumblings were no ticeable. The main crater is discharg ing sand and cinders. Miners Ratify Agreement SCRANTON. Pa. Work will be com menced by the mine workers through out the anthracite fields in Pennsylva nia Thursday morning. The repair men and any others necessary to pre pare the collieries for general opera tion will report for work on Wednes day morning. This was decided upon at the closing session of the conven tion held Tuesday afternoon. At the morning session the agreement entered into on Monday between the operators and the scale committee was formally ratified. Minister is Assassinated. WASHINGTON Mr. Corea, the NIc araguan minister here, received a ca blegram Wednesday stating that Adol fo Altamirano, the Nicaraguan minis ter for foreign affairs, has been assas sinated. Sherman Law Obsolete. CINCINNATI, O. Charles G. Dawes, former comptroller of the currency, in a speech before the Bankers club de clared that the Sherman anti-trust law Is s dead letter and a discourag I ing Influence to business. READY rllHTnTrT TRIPLETT WILL CONTEST THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM. HAS LAWYERS AT BOTH ENDS Indicted for Land Frauds Offender Arrested in Texas, but Will Return to Nebraska and Answer Before Court for His Transgressions. OMAHA That Aquilla Triplett in dicted as alleged procurer of fraudu lent filings on public lands within the big cattle ranch enclosures in the northwestern part of the state, is go ing to put up a fight against convic tion in the United States courts is shown in the fact that his Omaha at torney, A. H. Burnett appeared at the federal building Wednesday and an nounced that he would represent Trip lett in the cases now before the Uni ted States court. Counsel has also been provided for Triplett at El Paso, Tex., where he is now in custody awaiting transfer to the jurisdiction of the Nebraska district of the United States courts. The department of justice expects to prove a great many important things in the fraudulent land tiling cases by Triplett, and for this reason months have been spent in his appre hension and if necessary his extradi tion from Mexico, where he had tied.' after hearing that he was wanted. The government is in possession of information that Aquilla Triplett knows more of the fraudulent land practices in the cattle country than any other man and the impression is prevalent at the federal building that the suspected cattle barons are back of Triplett's defense and will employ the best legal talent that money can procure to keep him from going be icre the grand jury, much less come to trial under the indictments found against him already. FENCES COME DOWN. Eight Hundred Thousand Acres Now for Free Ranj;c. OMAHA Unlawful fences which inclosed SOO.OOO acres of the govern ment domain in the western part of ne state have been taken down. Sworn statements to that effect have been received by Special District At torney Rush from twenty-five cattle men against 'whom he brought seven civil actions, five in federal circuit court and two in federal district court These actions were all injunction suits filed last fall, and three days ago decrees were issued commanding the cattlemen to remove their fences within five days and enjoining them permanently trom constructing fences upon government land. None of the cattlemen appeared or answered the bills of complaint, and the reason they did not is now obvious. They had complied with the oraer to remove their fences before the ofllcial decrees were issued by Judge Munger. As the result of abandoning tne. il legal fences, vast tracts of land, out side the inclosures of the big cattle companies' inclosures, have been re linquished. CONDITION OF WINTER WHEAT. Average for United States Six Points Above Mean for Ten Years. WASHINGTON The crop report ing board of the bureau of statistics of the department or agriculture, from the reports of the correspondents nad agents of the bureau, finds the area under winter wheat remaining in cul tivation on May 1 to have been about 29,C2::,000 acres. This is 6 per cent, or about 1,718,000 acres, less than the area reported as sown last fall, and 1 per cent, or about 941,000 acres. less than the area of winter wheat report ed as harvested last j-ear. The average condition of the grow ing winter wheat crop on May l was 91. as compared with 89 on April 1, 1906; 92 on May 1, 1905: 76 on May 1. 1904. and 85, the mean of the May av erage for the last ten j-ears. Entitled to Pensions. WASHINGTON. The house com mittee on pensions on Friday author ized a favorable report on the Scott bill, which gives a pensionable status to the veterans or their widows of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Kansas volunteer cavalry regiments under the act of June 17, 1900. providing for pen sions for soldiers who served ninety days during the civil war. These regi ments were mustered in just at th close of the war, but did valuable ser vice in repelling Indian attacks there after. Joseph Leiter Suspended. CHICAGO. Announcement was made Friday that Joseph Leiter, who carried on a spectacular "corner" in wheat eight years ago, had been sus pended from membership on the Chi cago board of trade. Leiter's suspen sion, it Is said, was because of com plaint from a trader, that a bill for $8,000 for services rendered during the time the what corner was si force was still unpaid. In commenting on the action of the board of trade direc tors, Leiter did not seem to care much about his suspension. Japs Help San Francisco. WASHINGTON Secretory Taft, in his capacity of president of the Amer ican Red Cross, has informed the Jap anese ambassador that funds being collected from the general public in Japan for San Francisco's relief will be gratefully accepted, by the Red Cross. Murderous Nebraska Woman. DENVER. Colo. While soundly sleeping after his night's work as brakeman on the Colorado & Southern railway, H. W. Benner, formerly of Fairbury, Neb., was dealt a terrible blow on the head with an ax by his wife. He may die. Blenk Succeeds Chapel le. WASHINGTON Right Rev. James H. Blenk, bishop of Porto Rico, has been appointed archbishop of New Orleans to fill the vacancy created by the death of Archbishop Chapelle. ft M 71 1 SET v SUjgWjF?Sjr3wres ,wiw-mff'Jm v
