OMAHA DA1T/V j K ATTTT ? H A"V. , TAXTTA1V J7. 1000.
ill
I5c Men's Neckwear 3c
Today wo place on pale
0110 of the most extraordinary
bargains that we have over
sold. It is 800 dozen men's
line white lawn band bowy ,
the regular IGc article , all
put up nicely two in a
box. Your choice afc
each , 0 to a customer.
Men's 75c
Silk
Neckwear
Today Wo will give * you" iho chftlco of
C7u dozen men's high grade GOc nnd ? Go Silk
Noukwenr In locks , puffs , but principally In
the now flowing eM Imperials. They como
In all polorH ai'd ' the latest -
designs your choice ut IGc
each . . . > . , . .ij. .
Men' SI.25
Laundered
Shirts
Today wo give you
choice of all .small lots and
broken lota of men's white
and. colored laundered
shirts , nil kinds , at , each ,
Men's Laundered Shirts 5Ge
150 dozen men's
high grade laundered
shirts in the very new
est and latest patterns
with still bosoms and
cull's dotauhcd , with
toft bosoms and laund
ered collars and cuffs
attached , they arc reg
ular SI and $1.50
goods choice
today
atta's
ta's 50G Leather
Gloves and F.Titis Oc
To close out the
balance of those
men's heavy lined
leather mittens arid
gloves wo give §
you ehoico
today at , .
TRANSVAAL'S ' FRONT DOOR
Important Part in Diplomacy Played by the
Delagoa Railroad.
BUILT BY A KENTUCKY HUSTLER
l liy I'ortUKtil mid Converted to
ItM Oi\u UHC \ -c.ollnlliiiN for nil
Indemnity lrnKKl"K ti > r
Ton
There ban been mention of late In the
aowspnpera of the great delay In deciding
the Delngoa Hay railroad arbitration case ,
a. matter now running back as far as 1890 ,
and of Us Importance In diplomatic circles ,
owing to the general belief that England
will come iuto possession of Delagoa bay
when the case Is ended. As la well known ,
the railroad was constructed by Colonel
Kdward McMurdo , an American capitalist ,
who for years was well known In the Lon
don financial world. A man who Is familiar
with the atfalr from Its beginning , gives
In the Now York Sun the following details
of the construction of the railroad and the
International problems Involved :
Colonel Kdward McMurdo , u Kcntucklun
living in London , u man or great energy ,
liad bin attention drawn to thu richness of
the Transvaal long before Hrltlshers took
any Interest In Oem Paul's country. Colonel
McMurdo waa the son of a well known
clergyman. In the civil war ho was noted
for his bravery , und came to be n protege
of General Grant. In London he had a great
business success. His homo In Hcrkoley
uquaro-was the scat of a generous hos
pitality. Success in London was Insufficient
to causa leMurdo'a love for his country
to fade , Hltj patriotism was nt nil times
In evidence , and friends , participating In
the hospitality of liW table , always sat under
thu folds of the stars'and stripe * .
Many of the UnglUhmcn who'In tbo early
" 80s went to South Africa "we're'In'Ihe pay
of Colonel McMurdo. Whllo Sir Thomas
Tailored nnd his staff of engineers were
building the Dclagoa Hay railroad , capable
igents Were ecourlng the Transvaal nnd
neighboring regions then under native rule
eccklng far mines nnd tracts of territory
capable of development by colonizers , So
little did financial London know of the
Transvaal and Its rcsourceu In these days
that It Js told of Colonel McMurdo that he
actually hud men give freu lectures , Illus
trated' by lantern pictures , which persons
from every walk of Industrial life were
risked to attend. McMurdn was recognized
ns the great pioneer of South African de
velopment und enterprise , Cecil Hbodcs ,
Uarnoy Darnato and Belt followed the way
blazed by the American.
At the time of his death In 1SS9 Colonel
McMurdo wan chief owner of the St. Augus
tine diamond mine In Klmberloy und con
trolled many other promising ventures in
Our Entire Stock of Clothing Divided Without Reserve Into Two Lots Your Choice of All the
Your
Choice
of all the
Your Choice of fill the Your Choice of All the
$18 $9fl $ OT MEN'S SUITS KEN'S SUITS
10 O for
, P5 and OVEHGOATS 9 and QVfcRCOATS
Including such as Including1 such as
Men's finest All Wool Cassimere Suits- Men's nice All Wool Cheviot Suits-
Men's finest Imported Worsted Suits- Men's Tweed and Homespun Suits-
Men's Silk and Satin Lined Suits- Men's good Cassimere Suits-
Men's highest grade Beaver Overcoats-
Men's
Serviceable and Warm Ulsters-
' -
Men's finest quality Melton Overcoats- '
' Men's Beaver , Melton and Kersey Overcoats-
Men's Kersey and Irish Frrieze Ulsters-
Men's Satin Lined Covert Overcoats All thoroughly well tailored and excellently lined
Worth $18.00
All go at Worth $20.00 All gro.at Worth $ ! 2QO
Worth $25 00 Worth $65.00
Today -we will give you choice of every boys' suit infer the Your choice today of over a thousand
house , in ages 3 to 15 , that we have been selling for § 2. 50 , Boys' Long Pants Suits , in ages 11 to 19
§ 3.00 and § 3.50 , in fancy silk embroidered years ,
vestee suits , sailor suits and blouse suits. Also including fine striped and checked wor
steds , plain and fancy cheviots , cassi-
all wool two-piece knee pants suits in checks ,
meres etc. , in round and straight cut
stripes , cheviots , cassimeres , worsteds , etc. '
every suit this season's production , most
as well as an immense lot of odds and
ends Of of them in large sizes. To close them out
suits we have been selling at 84.50 and $5.09
we put them all in one lot on 2nd floor today
As we are determined to close out all fall
at 2.50 snit. This
day § a is really-the
goods , regardless of any sacrifice , do not
of these suits at . grandest bargain our house has ever
get one today $1.25 offered - . -
South Africa. Ho was building the Tehuan-
tepcc railroad across Mexico , connecting the
Gulf with the Pacific , anil had Just disposed
of the controlling Interest In the Financial
News of London. With the loss of his mas
ter wind , many of his far-away enterprises
failed to thrive under the perfunctory man
agement of his successors , and gradually
passed to other handg. Ilia genius told him
that to control the railway connecting the
Transvaal with Its natural harhor , and con
sequently with the outsldo world , -would
amount to the control of a nation , and that
nation dccupylng very rich soil. Colonel
McMurdo thus foresaw the potentialities of
Dolagca bay. His name Is affixed to the Del-
agoa Day railway , nnd It will probably nl-
wayo bo known as the "McMurdo railway , "
whatever Its corporate title.
COIIUCHHlOll OlltlllllVll.
In the closing mouth of 1S83 Colonel Mc
Murdo obtained a concession from the kins
of Portugal for the construction of a railway
from Ivourenzo Marquez to the Transvaal
frontier. At that time the condition of the
Transvaal nnd the "hinterland" was widely
different from what It now Is. The existence
of gold In payable quantities was almost un
known , the commercial and agricultural In
terests of the country were In a depressed
condition , and the 'Transvaal treasury was
empty. A concession had been granted pre
viously by Portugal for the railroad , carry-
a subvention , but It was so freighted with
stipulations and conditions , otrlngcnt and
ambiguous , as to keep people from embark
ing capital In the proposed enterprise.
McMurdo wanted a concession unhampered
by conditions , ono that would give the ex-
clustvo right of carrying passengers and
gcods across the Portuguese colony of Mo
zambique for ninety-nine years. Ho de-
shed no subvention that would make of the
Portugucso government a partner. Ho prob
ably well knew the shifty character of the
Latin-descended Portuguese. At all events ,
ho wanted a concession that would give him
a free hand BO long OH its conditions were
rc pccted. This ho ( secured direct from the
kins , carrying with It the exclusive right to
fix freight nnd passenger rates , with tele
graph prlVllegea , the gift of an Island In
Dclagoa bay and a liuiil grant calling ( or u
goodly part of the moat important part of
the town of Lourcnzo Marquez , as well as
\r < st tracts of wild land along the ling of
the road. Its terms were agreed upon In
direct conference. The late John M. Fran
cis of Troy , N. V. , then United Slates min
ister at Lisbon , lent Colonel McMurdo all
the assistance In his olllclal power through
out the negotiations.
Colonel McMurdo and his associates In duo
tlnio built the road from Delagoa bay to
the Transvaal frontier. It was a moat ex
pensive line to construct. Bridges and Iron
work wcra inado In England and carried to
South Africa to be put togothcr there. A
licet of steamers disembarked In Delagoa
bay the locomotives , cars , station buildings ,
In fact , practically everything needed of a
constructive character. Some of the Iron
work and rails ordered by the Gladstone
government for the Suaklm-Ilorbor military
railway Into the Soudan , and never used ,
was purchased by McMurdo and transported
to South Africa.
The concession called for the making of
n line terminating exactly ut the Transvaal
frrntlor , and tt'o government furnished the
constructors with maps on which the "fron-
t'er"as definitely Indicated In commanding
letters. To this point tbo road was built ,
under constant observation of military en
gineer ofllcerH of the Lisbon government.
\Vhen declared by them to bn completed , the
road was formally opened with grand festiv
ities. A holiday was declared throughout
the colonies , a train tilled with dignitaries
j ran from Lourcnzo Marquez to the frontier ,
j drawn by nn engine named In honor of the
Portuguese Uug , and the line was declared
formally by the supervising authorities to
bo completed ami open for traffic. A ban
quet was given at Lourcnzo Marquez to the
governor of the colony , the blehops , the
superior officers of the local regiments ; In
fact , all officialdom of a grade demanding
attention on an occasion of that sort. Loyal
toasts were drunk to the king , and congrat
ulatory telegrams were sent Colonel Mc
Murdo in England. This was In 1887.
Jlonntril liy till ! Jlooiil.
Six months after when the Transvaal was
beginning to throb with business energy , and
with the country becoming veined with rail
roads ttat must of necessity converge at
the frontier nnd communicate with the sea
and the outer world by means of the Mc
Murdo road , the Delagoa bay enterprise was
much to the fore In Europe , and had taken
a commanding place In political talk at
every capital of importance. It was con
ceded that the Delagoa railroad must In
time play an Important part in controlling
the destinies of the hemmed-ln Transvaal.
From Pretoria to Delagoa bay was only
j
j about 300 miles , as against more than 1,100
by way of Capetown. The Doers had a dislike
|
' like for everything Drltlsh , and every road
leading to the sea , eave the Delagoa route ,
led across hundreds of miles of Hrltleh soli.
Political reasons were thus combined with
facts of logic In naming Delagoa bay as thu
natural point of Ingress and egress for the
Transvaal. It was natural , therefore , that
the American concessionaire was recog
nized as ono who could have an Important
word In all matters dealing with the South
African republic. As a fact , ho sought only
to make his venture a great success on
legitimate lines. A year after his railroad
waa open for business four governments-
Great Britain , Germany , Holland and the
Transvaal were competing In their offers
for his controlling Intercot In the under
taking.
Recognizing possibly the fact that Its con
cession bad been drafted In too liberal a
spirit , Portugal was now treating the Mc
Murdo venture In a manner portending no
good. There were grounds for suspicion
that the Boers nnd Portugucso were en
gaged In a conspiracy with a hope of forcing
the railroad Into their own hands. The
Boers could furnish money In any sum. It
la a fact , supported by documents , that a
continental banker tendered Colonel Mc
Murdo a certified bank check for about
$5,000,000 for his Interest In tbo road , act
ing obviously for the Boers nnd Portu
guese , The offer was declined. Then fol
lowed a threat to obtain the line by meth
ods less honest than direct purchase , Dis
turbing as the threat was Colonel McMurdo'a
belief was that the Portuguese would never
dare attempt so hlgh-lmnded an outrage as
the dispossession of himself and his Eng
lish associates from their legal rights.
l\o \ set a very high value on United Stutea
citizenship.
The utter faithlessness of the Portuguese
was made apparent In many ways. In 1SSO
the Lisbon government eerved notice on
him that It had discovered that the rail
way was not finished to the frontier , and
the dividing line between Us territory and
that of the Transvaal was six miles fur
ther Inland , and that If the railway was not
completed to that arbitrarily-named place
within four months the line would bo seized
by the government and the concession can
celled. Colonel McMurdo answered that to
construct a railroad across ravines and over
n range of mountains in four mouths was
{ physically Impossible , und said that if ho
had the necessary time he would build tbo
slx-milo addition gladly , There was no lack ,
of money nnd other , means on his part. The
newly Imposed condition was meant , ob !
viously , to compel him to sell his Interest In
the enterprise. All engineers knew the addi
tional nix miles could not be built In the
'
tpeclfied time , especially with the wet season
just beginning , I
The Portuguese Invented thla "movable ! 1
frontier" to servo their own ends nnd
wasted no time In explaining why theor - 1 |
iglnally-named "frontier" had been dls- j
carded , Ihoy. had conceived a XnmtlM n 1
wheels , as It were , that could bo moved
about at will In their .dcslro to dodge the
terminus of the railroad. As an interesting
fact , it was not until two years later that
the frontier between the Boor republic and
the Portuguese colony was fixed by conven
tion between the two governments , and then
fliilto n different frontier from cither the
one to which the road had been completed
nnd the six miles Inland waa agreed upon.
Every previous attempt to place the dividing
line had been mere guesswork.
"In May of 1SSD Colonel McMurdo died
suddenly at his London homo of paralysis
of the brain as a rc&ult of overwork and
worry. The following month the property
of the Delagoa Bay Hallway company waa
seized by Portuguese regiments , acting un
der orders from Lisbon. To outcry through
out Europe was very great. In England the
feeling against Portugal was Intense. In
dignation meetings were held publicly , and
n severance of all relations with Portugal
was strongly advocated. It was oven pro
posed to exclude Portuguese securities from
dealings on the London Stock Exchange. A
squadron of British warships was hurried to
Deiogoa bay with orders.
IJi'Iny unit .IrliUrntlnn.
In America the affair waa understood , The
widow of Colonel McMurdo and Inheritor of
Ms estate , appealed to the State department
at Washington to demand reparation and
Secretary lllalne , co-operating with the
British government , promptly made de
mand upon Portugal for payment. Portugal
chose to trade upon her weakness. Consequently
quently when thu Lisbon government pleaded
guilty and admitted responsibility by paying
a committing sum on account , England nnd
the United States were forced to give ear
to her ontrcoty for a court of arbitration to
fix the amount of Indemnity.
Secretary Blalno favored compelling Portugal
tugal to make Immediate reparation to Mrs.
McMurdo , but yielded to a request for ar
bitration. Ho forced Portugal , however , to
abandon Its charges of technical breach of
contract nnd confess unwarranted seizure ,
thereby reducing the arbitration to ono of
Indemnity only. Colonel Kobert G. Inger-
tioll , chief counsel for the American plain
tiff , co-operated with Mr. Blalno In arrang
ing the teims of submission.
In 1890 the president of the Swiss republic
appointed thrco jurists of his country to Bit
as a court to determine the value of the
railroad , concession nnd lands , and their
future earning capacity , BO that Portugal
should at once pay tbo Englishmen nnd the
American Interested in the affair the value
of their property , The arbitrators gave the
Interested powers to understand that Us
labors would bo completed In eighteen
months. Up to the appointment of the Del
agoa court Swiss judges had done n good
share of tho-work of arbitrating dispute * be
tween governments , but the almost criminal
procrastination that haa characterized the
Delagoa case- will doubtless cause litigating
states to apply elsewhere to have disputes
adjudicated. More than ono secretary of
state of the United States and moro than ono
premier of England has besought the arbi
trators to render their decision. No Portu
guese official , presumably , has desired to
hasten matters , for to fall dishonestly Into
possession of ft railroad , paying ut these
times a net profit of 1100,000 n year Is too
excellent a proposition to tamper with. Port
ugal naturally U dreading to have payday
come , and U will be awkward without out
side help for the Portuguese government to
raise ttlo $10,000,000 or $12,000,001) ) dollars
for | U high-banded spoliation of other peo-
pie's properly.
A board of engineers cent to South Africa
by the arbitrators reported the value of the
concession alone to be , on December 31 , 1806 ,
$9,000,000. Unofficial valuers said It was
worth $15,000,000. .
A dozen times the arbitrators have net a I
date for announcing their award , but something - .
thing alwayn Intervenes , a holiday haa to
bo taken , or an export has to be sent to ,
South Africa to value a pile of last year's j
railway sleepers. Meanwhile Lord Salis
bury's Inquiry Is permitted to remain for
days untouched beneath nn official door at
Berne , before the arbitrators can find time
to open and prepare It for pigeonholing.
Thus , In a moral sense , the Swiss arbi
trators years ago became the allies of the
Portuguese government , through permitting
their dllatorlness to servo Portugal's aver
sion to paying for property deliberately
stolen. In International arbitration there is
no statute or rule of limitation , and by con
stant trading on "official courtesy" decades
may pass without the performance by an
arbitral court of a tittle of the duty en
trusted to them , The cause of arbitration
has received a setback through the Delagoa
arbitrators.
Delagoa bay admittedly Is the front door
to the Transvaal , moro than merely the key ;
and the Delagoa railway Is the most valuable
sixty mllus of trackage in the world. Its
potentialities of value in time of war nro
now recognized , and , the present conflict
over , It will be worth twice what it was n
year ago , for It will carry a nation's traffic.
Under British rule Delagoa bay would soon
become ouo of the busiest harbors of Eng'
land's great empire.
aiATUIMOXV LKSSEXS CU1MR.
Fewer Mnrrleil Tlinii Slnislc Mi'ii Are
TrniiNKri'NNorM of the I.mv.
V. Prlnzing has contributed a statistical
study of this subject , reports the Medical
Journal. According to this study property
rights are moro generally respected 'by the
married than the single. The married man
does not commit the graver offenses against
property , such as robbery and fraud , so
much as the less dangerous crimes , such as
receiving stolen goods , breaking the lawn of
trade and public health and bankruptcy.
Men who are married at an early age ( from
18 to 25) ) offend against property more often
than the unmarried of the same ago and
married men who are older. This Is prob
ably explained by the pressure of family ex
penses. Offenses against morality , except ,
of course , bigamy and , for some reason ,
Incest , are far moro common among unmar
ried men a fact that was to bo expected.
Offenses against human life are moro fre
quent among the unmarried , though the
disproportion Is not so great as In the mat
ter of the rights of property.
It Is Interesting to note that the criminal
ity of widowers decreases with advancing
years , although tlilfl Is probably true of all
men. Widowers , however , contribute u
greater share of crime between the ages of
30 and CO thaniany other class. This
may bo an argument cither for or against
marriage , according to the point of view.
Widowers nro especially prone to murder ,
Incrst , false accusation and false witness.
They stand first In all classes of crlmo and
their offenses against property are note
worthy. In extenuation of widowers It maybe
bo clalnifd that tbo loss of the wife leads
to demoralization , both In mind nnd In do
mestic affairs , and removes an Influence
that IB evidently salutary In the majority
of men. According to thcso statistics the
longer a man Is married the more law-abid
ing he becomes. This may be accounted
for not only by the fact that the burden of
married llfo Incident to the larger birth
rate at that timp and the financial straits
of the parents Is greater In the early years
than it IB later. This Is Indicated by the
fact that the rate of offenses against prop-
.orty falls oil rapidly with advancing years
among the married.
\ ( > t UllkllV SlIllNlltMl ,
Wauhlngton Star : "I suppose tburo Is no
doubt about the signature -being genuine , "
nad | the paying teller affably to the man
who was cashing a check In his own favor.
"Look here , " was the answer. "You're
not going to pin mo down. J served on the
Jury ouco and you've got to stick up u
blackboard and go to war ) ; with a piece of
chalk before you get mo to say a word about
anybody's handwriting. I'm a natural
stickler for the formalities. "
Our first great Violet Sale
will commence Saturday at
8:80 : o'clock a. in. Showing
the largest line ever shown in
Omaha and at prices one-halt'
less than those most popular
spring flowers ever sold for.
'Violet Booth on
are g
only.
Bunch of ] j dozen fi
Violets With
Foliage A
only *
Bunuh'of two dozen Large
Violets , with folifi o and long
sterna
Bunch of 2 } dozen "Wood
Violets , with long stems and
fronted foliage
Bunch of thrco do/.on largo
liiiHlish Violets with
foliage
Largo bunch of gross Russian $
Violets with long atoms and A
foliage , would bu cheap at 75c
4 gross fine Scent eel French Q
V.olets with foliage , equal to /
natural violets In overv rosuoct *
The latest fad for the muff otvcollar-otto
Choice of five different styles of Violets
lets , including the beautiful Par in u
Violet , Silk and Velvet Violets , etc. ,
all large bunches and artistically ar
ranged with natural frosted folingu ,
sold for $1.00 each eVerywhere , at
BEGINNING
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JANUARY 29.
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