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THE OMAITA DAILY BEE: TIIUHSDAY, MAY 22, 1002. N. 0 cream Good health depends mostly upon the food we eat We can't be healthy if we take alum or other poison daily in our food. Dr. Price's Baking Powder is ab solutely free from alum, It is made from pure cream of tartar and adds to the healthfulnessof the food. Prici Bakims fowom CO, AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA Council Oalla for Bids for - Bonds for Library Bite, THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR ISSUE Osaka Water Compear Hefe.ee to - Place DlSerent Hydrant fntil the City Provides Fan da - te Pay for Them. Arrangement ax now on foot for the ac ceptance of the Carnegie library offer. The council la advertising for bid for bonds to be latued for the purchase of a site. Seven bonds of the denomination of $500 each will be Issued, making a total of $3,500. . Th Issue will bear date of Decem ber 1, 1901, and will draw 6 per cent In terest. As the bond will run for ten Tears It I naturally expected that a pre mium will be offered. On Monday evening May 16, the council will sell these bonds to the highest bidder. AU bid must be ac companied by a check for $300 a an evi dence of good faith. According to the advertisement cow being published In The Bee the sale of the bonds and the payment for the am muat be com pleted within twenty day after the deliv ery of the histories to tb purchaser. Bom time ago the Library board asked the council tor an additional $500 to be used In eontrurtrhg' permanent sidewalk about th proposed building and making - other Improvements on the grounds. It was th Idea of the board to have this $500 Included In the bond lasue, but H has been decided by attorneys that the action would not be legal and might invalidate the entire issue. Jn order to overcome this obstacle the board will aak the council for the full levy (his year, which will amount to $6,000. Of hi sum a portion will be set aside for Improvements to the grounds and what Is left after an allowance ha been made for maintenance will be used for the purchaa of books. Ho Mere Hydrants. During the last year the city council has ordered not less than two doten fir hy drants located In various psrts of the city Notices of these resolutions have been mailed by City Clerk Shrlgley to the Omaha Water company, but no attention haa so far been paid to the order, requests and resolutions. At Monday night's meeting of the council a request wa mad that a peclal com' mttte be appointed e confer with officer f th water company in regard to the setter. This Committee, composed of Ad kins, Welsh and Broderlck, called upon the officer of tb Omaha Water company yes terday and briefly stated the oWect of their visit - Th committee was told la plain word that no more hydrants would be placed until the city provided funds te pay for the same. The present levy Is entirety In adequate to pay for the hydrants now In cse, to say iioth'ng of placing twenty-four more In service. While there Is a demand from all parts ef the suburbs for water and a desire for better fire protection the authorities ran do nothlcg with th amount allowed by law for water service. Th charter provide that a certain turn hall be levied for water and v. hen this sum 1 used op there is no way to pay the bill. Overlaps In the water fund are com mon, but with the 200 hydrants now In eervlc all of the money available for this purpose 1 used up and In aplt ef economic measure there will again be an overlap. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must &avr Signature erf A ssdast rtl IU21C2L ret toztKcis. ma iiussmtt. F81 TtkPtl UYU. rti ccmifATici. rcimccartixjci awtaMavC4 I I fete a en, M cartels! hfKtt A I NOTE. Alum baking powder lnduea dy pepsla, liver comnlalnt and kidney trou ble. Alum may not kill, but undermine th health, and 111 health make lite miserable. In view of the present condition of affairs and the attitude of the water company It Is hardly probable that any more hydrants LI nor Licence. Cp to date only elghty-flv liquor licenses hare been granted by the city council, but enough more are on file to run the total up to last year's number, which wa ninety. The money derived from these licenses goes to the school fund and will be used In taking up outstanding warrant and pay ing salaries of teacher during th coming school year. In addition to the liquor license money the school will secure tb usual levy and the regular state apportionment, which will go a long way toward keeping up expense. No new building are in contemplation, the board being atlsfled that the school can get along another year without any expenditure for new build ing. Selling Do; Tegs. Ther 1 a lively demand at th clerk's office for dog tags. Bo far this month over $50 tags hare been sold at the usual rate. This money goes into the city treasury and will be used later on to pay running ex penses. Just now the dog catcher Is busy and he Is roping in a dosen or more un tagged canine each day. It coat mor to redeem a dog from the pound than th price of a tag and this Is one reason why mor tag have been cold this year than ever before during the month of May. Engineer Autnn Kew Role. City Engineer Beal 1 now tb city build ing Inspector. The resignation of D. M. Click, an appointee of A- R. Kelly, was turned In Monday night and accepted with out comment. The mayor at once ordered that- the city engineer be Inspector of building for th time. This will sav th alary of the Inspector and at the same time give adequate service to those who are ap pllcants for permits, as an assistant has been delgnated to assist all of the lnspec tors now on the force. The fees from this tiro cn will go to th city Instead of Into the pockets of the Inspector. It 1 th understanding that the same fees will b charged as In the past. Oae OBci Varait.1 There is a vacancy In one of the ap polntive offices and the mayor haa not been able o far to fill the place. This Is th office of plumbing inspector. W. B. Cook held the Job for a couple of years and when Mayor Koutsky was elected he resigned As an Inspector was needed the mayor caat about for a suitable man, but could find no one to accept the place at the compen sation offered. The chancea are that the mayor will request the city engineer to look after this portion of the work for the time being. While the engineer has plenty to do It 1 thought that he can worry along for a tew weeka with the additional dutlea imposed upon him. The First 'CrueT O'Reilly CHAPTER IV. When be was Informed by Count Aranda that Nicholas Cbsuvln ds Laf renter and th other revolutionists who had expelled Don Antonio de Ulloa, tb Spanish governor of Louisiana hoped to establish a republic. Charles III of 6paln, m ho had been in doubt whether or not he should attempt to hold Louisiana, sent Count Alexander O'Reilly with a fleet of twenty-tour vessels and an army of 1.(00 picked men to suppress th rebellion and establish Spanish authority. I'nder the census which had been taken by Ulloa before hi expulsion Louisiana con tained at th time only l.PfS men "able to bear arm" and a total wbit population of only I.f2. Th advent of this fleet be fore Sew Orleans, followed by th landing of th overwhelming Spanish fore oa August 17, I7C9. crushed out tb revolution which bad begun so auspiciously with tha expulsion ef Ulloa in October. 1760. Th usual Spanish fasslllad followed, as a mat ter of court. Th aluailon ia which Lafrenler and his aaaoclatea la th conspiracy found them selves after they had occupied New Or leans with th insurgent force and had driven out Ulloa. was full of unexpee'ed difficulties. As th attorney general ef the king of Franc aad senior member of th superior council. Lafrenler had ap pealed te tb loyalty of th French Creoles of Louisiana ia favor of th Freer re occupation a against Spain. Tha idea of establishing th colony aa aa Independent republic was confined at first to tb inner circle of tb conspiracy, and although it waa well enough knowa to form the prin cipal topic of Count Aranda's argument la the Spanish cabinet, the revolutloaiata ia New Orleans war never V to find a time after tb expulsion of the Spanish governor whea they could proclaim th re public with confidence that it would be supported not only agalnat Spain, but also against th king of Prase, who waa de termined to give Spain poasassloa. Th revolutioa bad succeeded largely through appeal avad to French loyalty and Aubry. tb Preach governor, who remained ia con trol of the French troops ia th colony. waa a CetarniUed royal lot, who regarded th republicans ia th superior council a rebel aad traitors. H sympathised wltk them a Frenchmen and at tb last he In terceded with Count O'Reilly tor thlr llv, NORTHWESTERN ROAD WINS Final Btrocgle in Court for Track Bights in Eighth Street, UNION PACIFIC MACHINISTS WAITING About Twelve Trala Loads of Sbrla ere from East Mill Travel to imperial Connell. With the last of seven successive In junctions projected by the Burlington rosd to prevent such action dissolved, the North western line la again asserting its legal right to the maintenance and usage of the track along the much disputed Eighth street territory. Tuesday, therefore, a gang of workman was set to work surfacing up the track, and this provoked another spasm of opposition from the Burlington, stin determined to prevent the North- western's getting In along thoae two blocks. Tuesday alio attorneys for both corpora tion were in BU Paul fighting before the circuit cout of appeal the final applica tion of the Burlington to have superseded the recent order of Judge Munger here dissolving the last injunction. Meanwhile the work was started here by the North western track gang and a watchful Burling ton scout waa soon aware of this movement and wired the new to the court room at St. Paul. There the Information waa used for all It was worth by Burlington counael. but to no avail, tor the prayer of the Burlington that the order of dissolution be superseded wa not granted. Bo the surfacing of the Northwestern track on Eighth street waa continued again Wednesday morning and will be finished. Attorney James B. Sheean, for the road, returned from St. Paul Wednesday and aid that things loked like smooth sailing now. The contest has been one of the bitterest, most closely fought and long drawn out In which two railroads have locked horns In Omaha. Machinist Walt for Officials. Tbs executive board of the Union Pacific district of machinists' unions, which It waa stated would confer with General Manager Dickinson and Superintendent of Motive Power Higglns of the Union Pacific road last Tueaday relative to an Increase In the wage achedule, haa not yet met with the officials and it waa learned Wednesday that the machinists do not know when they will get the audience desired. At present they are waiting on the pleasure and conven ience of the Union Pacific men and cannot predict how soon they will get together with them. Meanwhile the board itself is meeting, having been in independent session on Mondsy and again on Tuesdsy. It Is thought that it has arrived at some definite determination a to It plan of action with the official regarding the wage acale, but till tb matter la consummated and the con ference with the Union Pacific representa tives held and completed the members of the board decline to give any Information as to what they have done among them selves or expect to try and do with Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Higgles. hrlner oa laion Paclne. More than one-half of all the Ehrlner who will travel from the east to th con vention In Ban Francisco In June will go from the Missouri river via the Union Pa cific. Said Assistant General Passenger Agent GerrlttaFort of that line: "We expect to carry about twelve special tralnloads of Shiiners westward. Most of them will go through Omaha, a few on our Kanaas dlrlalon from Kanaaa City. The trains will cross the Missouri river on June 1. t. $, 4 and S. "To date the parties we have definite ar rangement to handle are: Toledo Bhrlne, Zem-Zem Temple of Erie, Cleveland Shrine, Detroit Bhrlne, Pittsburg Bhrlne, Indianap olis Ebrlne, Aladdin Temple of Columbus, Medlnah Temple of Chicago, Oaman Temple of St. Paul, Lulu Temple of Philadelphia, Washington Bhrlne and Baltimore Bhrlne. Those from Buffalo, St. Louis and Kansas City we failed to get. They are going west over the Missouri Pacific from Kansas City." Ckaagei la Tine Card. Changes in the Missouri Pacific tlmecard. which wure planned to go into effect some weeka ago, but were abandoned at that time, have been reconsidered and will. It la said, be put in force next Sunday, May 25. Though these do not effect Omaha to any immediate appreciable extent, they do seri ously concern southeaetern Nebraska, as they are to alter two local trains on the line between here and Kanaaa City. Th local train from Auburn. Neb., south, and from Hiawatha, Kan., north, will both, It la aald, be extended to Palls City, Neb.. thus connecting the service and giving ad American Sent by the King of Spain to Crush the Rebellion. but hi attitude to them a revolutionist wa throughout one of hostility. During their Independent control of the superior council of th colony, which lasted from October, 1763, to August, 1769, they mere thus unable to secure the support of the colontsts themselves as against France, while Aubry as the French governor, un able oa their account to exercise his au thority, maintained himself a th repre sentative of Franc and of the aspira tions of th people for reunion with Franc while waiting for the arrival of the Spanish fleet to surrender them to Spain. The lntendant commissary of the colony, Fourault, who at a member of the superior council, had been active In th first stage of th revolution, now deserted Lafrenlere and co-operated with Aubry agalnat th revolutionist who, he declared, had no legal authority to expel the Spanish gov ernor. The first mission sent by the colonists to Franc, with Jean Mllbet as envoy, having failed, a second was sent after th expulsion of Ulloa, but the duke of Cholseul, prim minister of Franc, re ceived at about the earn time Aubry' dispatches denouncing Lafrenlere and hla associates as rebels and revolutionists. All th comfort th majority of th people of the colony received from th appeal to France was a reiteration of tha unalterable determination of the French court to tura ever the colony to Spain. Th colcnlat war thus greatly dis couraged, and. as the republican prop, gaada had not beta ventured oa in appeal ing to them at th beginning, they began to grow despairing aad apathetic. Letreaiere, Marquk and th leader of the revolution, bow began t d everything possible to establish the Republic of Louisiana before tb arrival of th Spanish fleet. They sent envoy to secure English support and busied themselves with draw ing up plana for a republic government. Finding Aubry aot to be shaken from hi determination to carry oa tb order of the klag of France, they proposed to expel him. but they seem to haw boon unable to muster support la any movement anion required th co-operation of th colonists agalnat Franc wall as against Spain. "Reduced te th last stage of despair, writes Gayarr. "the Hot pur among ta inewrganta proposed to expel Aubry aad th few French troop that vera ta th eotocy, to proclaim Nsw Orison a tre pactaaa ditional passenger acrvlc to th several town oa the line between Fall City and the present stopping place of each train. Railway Kotre and Pereoaala. J. P. Parrett. trsvellrig freight aeent for the Missouri Purine railway at Concorila, Kan., is In Omaha. General Passonger Asent J. R. Buchanan Of the Fremont, Elkhorn Missouri Val ley railroad gate to Chicago Wednesday night. General Manacer Bid well of the Fre mont, Elkhorn Missouri Valley railroad has gone north to look over the work on the erdlgris extension into Boyd county, E. E. Carter, chief clerk of the 'Frisco office, has returned from a fortnight s wed ding trip through the entire south from the gulf to the Atlantic. The Burlington will shortly Issue fom west roast points a folder advertising specially the St. Louts special from Port land. It contains a detailed map and hand some half-tone illustrations. A party of the officials of the Pittsburg Plate Glass company of Pittsburg came into Omaha Wednesday on a special Pull man car from Kansas City. The eastern ers ere on a tour of Inspection of the agencies of their company. They leave Omaha Wednesday night over the Chlcaao, Milwaukee & Bu Paul railroad behind No. Z. James J. Hill, with a party of railroad notables, was in Omaha an hour Tuesday evening on a tour of Inspection of the Burlington svstem. The party comprised C. E. Perkins. President George B. Harris of the Burlington. First Vice President Darius Miller. Second Vice President How ard Elliot, Otneral Manager F. A. Delano and Mr. Hill. A special train carried the men. and thev left for Lincoln shortly after o'clock, spending; the night there. They went on to Denver this morning. LOCAL BREVITIES. The Treasury department ha authorized the surveyor of the port at Omaha to re new the lease upon the bonded warehouse In thia city. Oscar Bntvely, a 15-year-old newsboy, was discharged in police court after having been arrested for Jumping on and off street cars and throwing stones at the conductors. He promised to be good in the future and waa released after hearing one of Judge Berka'a fatherly talks. Dr. B. Carradlne. the evangelist, will begin a aeries of meetings in Omaha on June 1 in a tabernacle tent 'Seating S.nuo persons, which will be erected on Harney street, opposite the court houae. He comes here from Colorado Springs, where he haa been preaching to vast audiences. Burglars entered a room at Cretghton Vniverslty Tuesday night and stole 126.40 which belonged to one of the professors. Mrs. Anderson, 218 South Twenty-ninth street, reported to the police that someone one had torn a screen from a window of her residence and stolen a silver sugsr bowl. In the United Btates court Anton Bkou tnal haa been awarded a verdict of $6,000 in hla suit for $15,000 damagea against tha C'jdahy Packing company for personal in juries. As soon as thia case was disposed of the court began the trial of the Canton Bridge Company against Cliff Cole, to re cover money sJleged to have been lost at gambling by one of Ita employee. Mrs. Clark, wife of Superintendent D. O. Clark of the Union Pacific Coal company, died at her home, 422 North Twenty-first street, at 1 yesterday afternoon. The re mains will be taken to Manchester. O.. for burial, though the funexal arrangements have not been announced. Mre. Clark came to Omaha in 1886 and had a large circle of friends. She leaves no children. Fatting to establish a substation of the postoffice at Tenth and Farnam streets the postmaster has recommended to the de partment that a substation be established at Clifton Hill and that the substation ordered to be established at Twenty-fourth and Farnam streets be established at Twenty-eighth and Farnam streets, as no one can be found at the former location who desires It. The Omaha Teamsters' union baa taken a hand In the contest between the Hen ahaw hotel and the unions of cooks and waiters. Tueaday afternoon It waa de cided by that union to deliver no more Ice or coal to the hotel until It had come to terma with Its former employes, while one driver refused to deliver a load of coal which he had taken to the houae, not knowing that a strike was In progress. E. K. Lee Stone is on -trial In criminal court tor an alleged aaaault upon - Samuel McCoy April 26, the charge being aaaault with Intent to do great bodily harm. Stone's defense is that' he was boarding with McCoy'e deserted wlite&nd family and that what McCoy called apd. saw hlnj with one of the children on his Xnee he (McCoy threatened him with the roughest kind of rough treatment and UnaDy. attempted to strike him. ... ,r - , Murray Schwarts has been appointed deputy county surveyor to succeed Louis Bllckenadorfer, who resigned recently to go to Denver and enter the employ of the Breckenridge Gold Dredging company. Mr, Schwarts waa deputy sly. years or more under former Douglas county surveyors and waa on City Engineer Roeewater's staff for more than a year. During the last year rand a half he has been In Denver with the Union Pacific. The disbarment proceedings agalnat Fred L. Smith, a colored attorney charged with unprofessional conduct toward Prince Wheeler in offering the latter transporta tion out of town while under bond to ap pear In court as a witness 'n the Martin Shields case, are concluded, but the commit tee will not report for a day or two. A. C. Troup was not able to remain through the hearing and will have the testimony read to him by the court stenographer. H. E. Petersen and D. M. Stark, the lat ter from Missouri, are the latest members of the "easy marks'' to complain to the police of the wlckedneaa of woman. Stark met Eva Woods on the street and after a round or two of drinks in a wine room went to sleep and awoke later and found his ring and purse on the floor and the woman and $25 missing. She was arrested, but denied taking any of the man's money. Petersen met a woman out on St. Mary avenue and waa relieved of $35 before he knew what had happened. A description was furnished the police and a woman whom Petersen identified aa his companion waa arrested, but she denies the charge. Revolution to form a republic where th oppressed and needy among a-U the nations of the esrth would find a refuge and a horn. Th chief of the republic was to be styled Protector and to be assisted by a council of forty men. elected by the people either for life or for a certain number of yeara. A bank on the plan of Amsterdam or of Venice was to be created to furnish the commonwealth with the currency of which It would stand In need. The Swiss captain, Marquis, had originated this plan of a re public and he openly and violently recom mended its adoption so much so that it became a subject of discussion, for and agalnat, in printed and In manuscript docu ment, which were circulated throughout the colony and some of which are really of a curious character. It the plan of Mar quia could have been executed. It Is prob able that Lafrenlere would have been the Cromwell of Louisiana, There is no doubt but that the colonists would have eagerly adopted this form of government, hsd it been possible at the time; for it mutt be recollected that from the earliest existence of the colony almost all its governors had uniformly complained of the republican spirit which they had observed In Its in habitants. But the colonists, oa maturer consideration, became convinced that Frtace, Spain and England, for reason too obvious to be enumerated, would neves permit their rebellion to terminate sue. ceaafully in the establishment of a republic ia Louisiana. They therefor abandoned th idea aa Quixotic, but they nevertheless bequeathed to their posterity th right of claiming for Louisiana th merit of having been the first European colony that enter' talned the design of proclaiming ber inde pecdence. The atoutest hearts and the noblest minds, however, cannot acblov impossibilities." While their leader were preparing a republican constitution and circulating re publican documents, the colon lata con tinued to be alarmed and depressed by re ports of th overwhelming nature of the preparation made by Spain to suppress th revolt. When th Spanish fleet aad army, commanded by Count O'Reilly with th authority of vioaroy, appeared at the mouth of th Mississippi, it wa already apparent ta tha leader of th revolutioa that Its success wss bopeJeaa, bat novorth. less they determined, to aak a final effort t rout- th oloalaa fp-r sari si area, WANTSADYKE ON TAXATION Tax Oommiatiouer Ask City Attorney Qu union Pertaining to Assessment. FORTY PER CENT OR FULL CASH VALUE Mr. Fleming Want to Know, Ala wneiner tie pnau Take rigaree frosa ttate Board Rail, roed Valaatloa. Tit Commissioner Fleming It already laying his plans tor the 1901 city ssseee- ment and. preliminary to rending hit depu ties Into the field, he hss ssked City Attor ney Connell a few pertinent questioni as to how he shall proceed. He fcs determined to avoid. If possible, a repetition of tb tax muddle of the last tew months. The prin cipal point upon which he asks light is whether he sbsll follow the custom of th last forty year and assess property st a percentage of its fair cash value or whether he shall apply the atatu'.es literally and st- tcee It st Its full cash value. The questions ar embodied In the following communica tion, which was sent to Mr. Connell yet terdsy: . OMAHA. May 20-Hon. W. J. Connell. City Attorney, Omaha: Dear Sir Now that the matter of the assessment of the lfa tax haa been closed, I beg to ask you for some legal advice in the matter of the ma kins of tbe assessment for 19U3. as fol lows: First The city charter says thst "the tsx commissioner shall by himself and his deputies sssess and value at their fair cash value all property." You know, of course, It has been the custom always. In place of assessing at the fair cash value. 10 aaopt a percentage oi me lair casn value as a basis of the sseessmeni. i de sire to know whether or not this can be lecallr done, or whether or not It 1 the duty of the tax commissioner to comply literally and strictly with thia requirement of the law and assess all property at Ita rair casn value. Aboat Railroad Property. 6econd The chsrter urovides that "the tax commissioner shall take the valua tion and assessment of railroad property within the city limits from the returns msde by the State Board of Equalisation to the county clerk." It Is well known that the State Board of Equalisation val ues property for taxation at only a small percentage of its fair cash value. If. for future assessments, we assess the prop erty within the city st Its fair cash value. ana lane raurosa proprnj irom in? re turns msde by the State Board of Equal isation, then all property, except railroad roperty. in the city win be valued at its sir cash value, whereas the railroad property will only be valued at a small fraction of It fair cash value: The con stitution provides that "taxes shall be uniform in respect to persons and prop erty within" the city. Therefore. Is this provision of the charter requiring the as sessment oi aaiiroaa properly 10 no laaen from the valuations maae oy tne mate Board of Equalisation constitutional? Third If the provision of the chsrter requiring m! to take valuations of rail road property from the returns of the State Board oi tquanaauon ia not consti tutional, shsll I proceed to value railroad property Just as all other property is val ued? Fourth If you are in oouht aa to hether or not the provlalon for taking the validation of railroad property from the return made by the State Board of Equalisation Is constitutional, shall I as sume that It ia unconstitutional and go head and make a valuation and assess ment of my own of the railroad property within the city, so that If the railroad choose they can test the question of the constitutionality of thia provlalon, and the city have the benefit of a tax on the rail road property on tne same dssib as oiner nromrtr ia asaesaed. If the court should Anally hold that this provision is uncon stitutional? Fifth How (bail l assess ranroaa prop erty? now Astii uiirisnrni filxth The charter ssvs that 'It Is tbe lai mmmiasioner'a dutv to assess all property, real and personal, and all fran chises within the city limits belonging to persons, partnerships, - associations and corporauona. in ioc isu assessment 11 Is undoubtedly true thst a great deal of personal property was omitted from tbe aaseesment roll. This was not due to any delinquency In my office, for my deputies made inquiry, according to the customary blanks heretofore furnished assessors for that purpose. Will you be good enough to advise me In whst wsy property own er can be compelled to disclose their personal property? Seventh Have I, as tax commissioner, power and authority to compel each Indi vidual to make disclosure of his money, credits and other personal property? If so, how can I do thia? Elrhth Has the tax commissioner power and authority to compe. the banke In the city to disclose the names of their depositors and the amount of money to the credit of each of them within the city dur ing the period of asseeament? If so. whst is the proper procedure to accomplish this? Mntn in Dianas in preeent uae are those that have been In use for a good many yeara, but they eeera Insufficient for the purpose of accomplishing a full dis closure of property ana of getting all tax able property on the assessment roll. I in close herewith copies of these blank forms. Will you be good enough to make any sug gestions that tbe law will warrant which would improve meee Dianas tor us pur pose of getting a disclosure of property? Tenth Does section gt of the aeneral revenue law apply to mercantile corpora- Waata taieK Aaswer. A there ia a arrest amount of work to b done that ia preliminary pertaining to the assessment for 190S it Is very desirable I should be sble to make my plana at once, and I would consider it a great favor and to the interest of the city to have an an swer in writing at as early a date as pos sibly convenient. Very truly yours. WlU'lAH MJ.UlMi, Tax Commissioner. "Before I started In oa the 102 attest- ment." aald Mr. Fleming. "I had teveral talk with Mr. Connell oa the aubjeet of the 40 per eent baalai and I gathered from the interview that in his opinion It was perfectly legal to assess property at a per centage of its fair caah value. I under stand, however, that in hla address before tb suprems court's referee a month ago h aald that hla advice to me was just tbs opposite. I want now to get bla answer in writing, thst I may file it away and avoid further misunderstanding. "I oee ther 1 a caat in point now before th district court at Lincoln. Tha Lincoln Gas company has complained that its as sessment la too high in proportion to the assessment of railroad property In the city and th court has remanded the case to the Board of Equalisation tor a new hearing. Ther th city tax commissioner assesses property st its fair cash value, while the State Board of Equalisation uses a percent age of th fair cash valus at th basts of assessment, and the result 1 a wide dis parity in th assessment of tb two classes of property. It was just tnls complication that I foresaw a year agt., aad which caused m to apply th 40 per caat standard of as sessment. SWITCHES OFF THE SECURITY Hew a Stooksaaa Brlaaa aa Eater- talatasj Stery by Railroader lata Coart. Three people want into Judge Key tor's court yesterday with trouble oa their hand. On wat William F. Oarrlty, pro prietor of a local oasis; another waa James M. Canning, a atockmaa of Arlington, and th third was Ed Landon, a railroad man at South Omaha. Oos night aom weeks ago Cunning ar rived la Omaha with a draft for fdOO and. It I alleged, borrowed $300 on it tbe next morning from Oarrlty, giving tbs paper, not endorsed, to tb latter as security. Thea ht wandered forth with Landon. a chance aequalolaaoa, and treated ealoos erowd with th fro hand of a politician. Now Garrtty la a sing lor $900, which C in ning refuse to pay, averring that h was drugged and baa a recollect ion of receiv ing any money. Canning, st was shown tb ldaea, wa one In aa asylum aad baa bees pat la tb oar of a guard axa eiao tb cpad that furnishes tb oa for this auiu Mr. Lnndna va th moat enterteJuing I witness tit tt moraine.. ha told of hi ,a h told 4 '-it ' n MA muttt nr i J Mi Ml h 711 SSSJ WlliKt'gll'.WStlW.'WSiJ' I.IIH.II (Ni "Erect Form" Summer Models Made of a wonderful white batiste, as light as a zephyr, but tough as canvas and always cooL Trimmed with lace and ribbon. These different models : " Erect Form" 983 For slight figure . , $1.00 "Krci Ferm" 970 For medium figures. 1.00 "Erect Farm" 972 For fully developed figures 1.50 "Ereci Farm" 961 For medium figures . , 2.00 "Erect Form" 903 For stout figures . . 2.50 GIRDLE CORSET K ures and young girls. Lirbtlv bootS. It accentuates but aad hip. nd h the wcirtn of a leather. In white. p4nk. ana mur Dtiitte. I nmmed wits B 1 lace and ribbon. Model 117, If your dealer cannot supply you, trad his same and coat oi corset desired, direct to WE.INGARTEN BROS.. 377-379 Broadway. New Tork largest Nmmufactmrtrt experiences with Cunning in the vernacular of his business. He said: "Cunning and me coupled up early In the morning at Goldsmith's water tank down in the east part of town. Cunning, he headed for Garritty's a soon as It wsa opening time and I see Garrity pass over about a furniture car full of tbe long green. Then Cunning and me atarts out to cover the system end he unloads like a pay car. Every time w see a saloon semaphore he heads right In and bunts everybody up to the bar for orders." "Did either of you get drunk?" asked the attorney. "No, I started out with nothing but emp ties, so I could take on a good deal and not wobble, and Cunning, he seemed pretty well flanged, too, and took the switches without jumpln' any to speak of. We got along all right until we went to swltchin' around down under the Tenth street via duct. There we run into a gambler with a big headlight and a bum railroader that didn't have clothe enough to flag a hand car. I told Cunning they'd spill him If he went against thsm and that we'd better take the aiding, but he wouldn't see It that way and told 'em what I said. Then one of 'em connect with me on one side of the head and the other on the other side and I see it' up to me to clear the rlght-o'-way. I open up with all tbe steam I got, ex pec tin' Cunning to couple on aa a pusher, but I'm cussed If they didn't run away and him with them. The next day I see him and he trie to square himself for puiliu tbe pin on me, but I don't know what had happened In tb meantime, nor where th money went." CHECK ON TRAIN JUMPERS Jadge Floes Two of Them aad Ser a-coat Give Tip to Twenty ' Other. Carl and Mark Case were fined $5 each and George Hegerson and Ed Livingstone were discharged in police court for Jumping on and off trains. John DeLong, special agent for the Missouri Pacific rail road, stated that tbe men belong to a gang out on Walnut Hill who for aom time have been in th habit of Jumping on and off train and causing the crew consider able trouble. About aix weeks ago several of the gang set tbe brakea on a freight train and tbe engine waa unable to pull it. Sergeant Whelan went out to the Walnut Hill school Tuesday to Investigate and find out how many of the pupils wer engaged In the practice of jumping on train and over twenty boy admitted that it i one of their favorite pastime. Th sergeant gave th boys a fatherly talk and. a they promised to be good, no other arrest wer made. Meetlaaj of Colonial Premiers. NEW TORK. May 21. Th London corre spondent ot tbe Tribune aays that tb coming conference of colonial premier i bring anticipated with tha llvliest Interest, in view of the recent speech by Colonial Secretary Chamberlain - and Bir Wilfrid Laurler oa the aubject of commercial re lation between England and the colonies. Tb liberal newspaper already are talk ing of the serious danger which threaten the empire and are endeavoring to stir up an agitation, with the object of Inducing the colonial secretary to leave the Imperial solvereln in the pigeonhole where it wa placed a tew year Ago. It Is tolerably certain that any proposal to adopt a sys tem of preferential trading within th em pire will meet with vehement opposition. Englishmen are eager for . a closer anion with the colonic, but tbe words "commer cial relation" frighten them. Cotton gptaainsr Industry Depressed. NEW TORK. May H DeDression Is still affecting England's cotton spinning Indus try, cable the London correspondent of the TrtDune. r or two monma it,ou,ui spindle la Lancashire employing 4,OU0 people bare been running only four daya a week, and it ia now proposed by the masters' as sociation that four more Saturdays shall be closed days. Tne cause is tne over production of yarn and the accumulation of stocks in first bands. XyJdDDdd (bud however, bj the use of Mother's Friend before baby comet, at this great liniment always prepare tbe body for the strain upon it, and preserves the symmetry of her form. Mother' Friend overcomes all the danger of child-birth, and carriea the expectant mother safely through this critical period without pain. It it woman's greatest blessing. Thousands gratefully tell of the benefit and relief derived from tbe ose of thia wonderful remedy. Sold by all druggists at fi.oo per bottle. Oar little book, telling all about tbit liniment, will be sent free U til Sar.cH Eeis!i! am H - p., .-.-.Tyn ... T n Uupm-j ay n- ia. Brsh m s 3 SHIRTWAIST CORSET does away whh unsightly buncbet and ungainly ridres at bust and shoulder bUdea. Tits nine women out of lea. In white linen batitu. Trimmed with 1 laee and ribbon. Model US, ? tf Certttl In IA World BOf SHOOTS A COMPANION Oae Ballet Paste Through tha Lang tad Basalt ilaj Be Fatal AFFRAY PARTLY RESULT OF OLB FUED John Byraee and Christian Jeaaea Quarrel Over a Ttaater Brother and Byrnes Fire Five Shot from HI Re-volver, Christian Jensen, a lad aged 16, son ot Ole Jensen of 8107 South Sixteenth etreet. was shot with a 82-callber revolver last evening by John Byrnes, son ot Policeman Byrnes. At the time of the shooting th boy were playing ball tn the square op posite S015 South Seventeenth street. Th bullet entered tbe left lob of hi lung nd passed out through hi back. It Is said that five ahota were fired, aom of them, according to the boy' atory blank cartridges. One of th shot punctursd tha ear ot the lad without inflicting serious injury. All th other shot with th ex ception of the one 'that entered hla body, were Ineffective, Th ahootlng- took plaet bout S o'clock. Tbe boy was carried Into th residence ot Peter Melchoir, 1016 South Seventeenth street, and medical attendance wa promptly rendered by Pr. Rix and Folic Surgeon Benawa. H was taken to St, Joseph'a hospital. Explanation Sot Definite- John Byrnes, who did the shooting. Is aged 14. He was afterwards arrested and his explanations of tbe shooting ar neither really explanatory or definite In character. It is said by some person that there has been a so-called feud between the boy or a long while and that today, th threat on the part of young Byrne that he would beat a younger brother of Christian Jensen, the young man who wa (hot. led to a meeting between the two, and the result was tbe shooting. Toung Jensen showed much courage and complied with every suggestion of the phy sicians, in order that surgical aid should have th proper result. The wound is a serious one, but young Jensen was reported in good condition thia morning. GETTING MR. TROSTLER RIGHT Kinth Ward Connrllmnn Kot Opposed to Ralelnar th 6aa Cam staay Assessment. "The Bee made a mistake, which doe m an injustice, in it statement purporting te tell how tbe different oouncllmen stood on tbe Gaa company assessment when In sec ret session," said Councilman Trostler. "While we agreed to keep to ourselves what happened In that session. I think I am priv ileged to give the facts to set myself right. I wss reported aa wanting to make no changa from the Board of Review figure at all. when aa a matter of fact. I advocated rais ing the Gas compsny's aaseesment In the same ratio that we had already raised tb assessment of the telephone and electric lighting companies. Councilman Lobeck made this ststement In open session ths next day to prevent m being placed la a false light, and I am aura every one of th coun cllmen will bear m out. My figures wer neither th highest nor th lowest, but I finally agreed with th other to th oom promls. I do not want th taxpayer to misunderstand my position. I am sure Tb Be will make thia correction." abaaily Caavtaeco. If aomo on should tall you fifty times that Chamberiain'a Pa la Balm relieves rheumatic pains and that many have bea permanently cured by it, you might tlll b only half convinced. Glv that liniment a trial, however, and experience tbe quick relief from pain which it affords, and you would be fully satisfied of ita great value. tS and 60-ent bottlea. Every woman eorett a shapely, pretty figur, and many of them deplor tbe lost ot their girlish forms after marriage. Tbe bearing of children it often destructive to the mother shapeliness. All of tbit can be avoided. 3 IF uu(B)mcilJ i 4 i'i