Daily Bee.
ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871.
OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1903 TEN PAGES.
SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS.
The
Omaha
BOYCOTT TWO-EDGED
Kama Cit Employer Seek to Break
Union with Laborer' Method.
BREWER REFUSING BEER LOSES ICE
Firm Whioh Aid Ilea Find Business Door
hnt Agaicrt It.
GREAT NORTHERN STRIKE POSTPONID
Merchant Open Negotiation in Endearor
to 8jttl Dispute.
DENVER RESTAURANTS CLOSED TIGHT
Walter, Butchers, Cooke and Bakers
tart War Which May Involvu
All Trades la Colorado
Metropolis,
KANSAS CITT, May tt The (.000
employers of labor In Kansas City have
banded together to fight those labor unions
which use the boycott to gain their enda,'
and have organized "The Employers' as
sociation." The association today decided to refuse
to deliver goods to places where nonunion
men or nonunion made goods are discrim
inated against. This action followed the
refusal of a brewing company, employing
union men, to deliver beer to a hotel bar
until the union was recognized. A member
of the association retaliated by refusing
to deliver ice to the saloons handling this
particular company's beer, with a result
that the delivery of beer to the offending
hotel was immediately resumed.
Several persistent boycotts have been
Isld against restaurants and various
branches of trade In Kansas City within
tne past year, because of the refusal of
the employers to recognise unions.
Strive to Stop Walkoat.
ST. PAUL. May IS. Representative busi
ness men from Minneapolis and St. Paul
to the number of nearly forty met today
the Great Northern trainmen's grievance
committee. The meeting had been called
by J. W. Cooper, president of the Bt. Paul
jobbers' committee, who stated that I
strike would be destructive to northwest
ern business interests and that the bull
ness man of the northwest were vitally
Interested in bringing about an amicable
settlement of the differences between the
railroad men and employers.
Messrs. Garretson and Newman, repre
senting the Brothethood organisations, were
present and avowed themselves anxious to
avoid any action that would work hard
ship to any Interest, while at the same time
determined to protect the men they repre
sented. After a preliminary open meeting
the doors were closed and the matter was
further considered in executive Session.
When tha conference finally adjourned it
was announced that nothing definite had
been decided, but the negotiations-would be
continued tomorrow, and . meanwhile no
strike Would be declared.
PITTSBURGH May IS. There la no
probability of an early adjournment of the
strike of the brlckmaker and clay miners.
Prom Indications the fight will be a long
one, as the Harbison-Walker Refractory
company Is determined to ignore the union.
The Harbison-Walker company Intends to
try to run Its plants with nonunion men,
160 of whom were taken from New York to
Clearfield yesterday. - They were met by
strikers who persuaded them not to go to
work. .
D.ivcr Restaurants Closed.
DENVER, May 13. Two hundred cooks,
(00 waiters, 500 butchers and ISO bakers
wr called out on strike this morning by
ths Pure Foods Council. Neasly all the
restaurant In the city are closed. The
butchers walk out Include thoso employed
at the Stock yards and many of the meat
market The union bakers were called
out from not only the housea deemed un
fair, but also those against which labor has
no grievance.
Tonight the retail clerks and International
stationary snglneers will hold a meeting
to vote on the question of Joining In the
strike. It is feared that these movements
will inaugurate a general strike of all the
union laborers Of the city. The cause of
the trouble Is the refusal of various
bakeries and grocers to make contracts
with the union.
Railroad Employes Quit.
CHICAGO, III., May IS. Four hundred
blacksmiths and their helpers employed In
ths shops of the Chicago, Rock Island A
Pacific railroad, and the same number In
ths shops of the Chicago de Northwestern
railroad, struck today after being refused
an advance in wages.
The strike of cable splicers of the tele-
' phone companies, which has been In fores
for several weeks, has spread to the under
ground pullers, tha latter having refused
today to continue at work.
Strlko at sv Funeral.
TOLEDO, O., May IS. During the funeral
services over the remains of Mrs. Mary
Kamra here the drivers of hacks struck and
refused to work because the hearse was
being driven by an nonunion man. The of
ficiating undertakers filled the strikers'
places Juat In time to prevent a scene as
the casket was being taken to the hearse.
Nonunion Trainman Mobile LI
MOBILE, May IS A local freight train
left over the Mobile Ohio this morn
Ing manned by nonunion men, brought to
Mobile to take the places of the strikers.
During the past two days forty nonunion
men have been brought here and the ma
jority of them have gone to work. The
railroad officials say they will have all
trains running as usual in a short time.
No violence of any kind has occurred at
Mobile and none baa been reported today
from any where on the line.
Switchmen Are Enjoined.
SPRINGFIELD. HI.. May ll-Mr. Leek of
the firm Larsen A Leek, this afternoon se
cured from Judge Humphrey In the United
States circuit court, on behalf of the Mobile
dt Ohio railroad, an injunction restraining
E. B. Clark and X other striking switch
men yardmen snd other employes of the
road from Interfering with the operation
of the road by stopping trains, picketing
yards or assembling in large numbers or
Interfering In any other manner.
TAKE UP THE LABOR QUESTION
Members of Arbitration Committee of
Rational Ctvlo Federation Die
cms Situation.
NEW TORK. May lS.-Member of the
arbitration committee of the National Civic
Federation held their semi-annual meeting
In this city today. It was an excutlvs
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INTERNATIONAL MEET OFF
Athletic Contest Between Amerleaa
Ml English Inlversltles Will
Not Take Flaee.
LONDON, May 13. The Oxford-Cambridge
Athletic authorities hive received a
cable message from the athletic authori
ties of Tale announcing: that the proposed
Inter-unlverslty athletic contest In Lon
don durl-' the month of July Is declined.
owing "yard's refusal to participate
In It. V '''J
CAMBRIl f'Vtss., May l.-Prof. Ira
N. Hlllls of V -rvard athletic com
mittee said todaj O Marvard had never
understood that tfu Ush universities
were anxious for the '"tin universi
ties to meet them In track 'c contests.
"We understand," he salo, itt Oxford
and Cambridge were willing i send us a
challenge If we denlred. We have never ex
pressed a desire for an International meet
this year and have not received an out and
out challenge. It seems that a letter was
received by some one In New York con
veying the Idea. As I hsve said, if Har
vard and Yale were willing, then the Eng
lish universities would extend the chal
lenge. We got the impression that they
wore not particularly anxious for the meet.
We feel also that the plan for an Inter
national meet, which was worked up wholly
on this side of the Atlantic, was proposed
too late. We look upon these games merely
from the point of view as to whether they
promote athletics and when an oppor
tunity to hold athletic games comes so late
in the term we usually reject It."
NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 13.-The Yale
News today says that when the challenge
for an International track meet was re
ceived from the English universities the
matter was placed In the hands of the
Yale track management snd the Harvard
athletic committee, and everything seemed
to point to the acceptance of the chal
lenge. Yale was - strongly In favor of
sending a team abroad, and from all that
could be learned, there seemed little doubt
that Harvard would Join Yale. Word was,
however, received from the Harvard ath
letic committee that It had decided not to
accept.
IMPERIAL TROOPS CONQUER
Government Forces Are Vletors la a
Battle with Attacking: Tribes
men at Tetuan.
MADRID, May IS A dispatch from
Cepta, Morocco, announces that the tribes
men who attacked Tetuan Monday were
repulsed. They stubbornly fought their
way through the suburbs to the foot of the
walls, but the imperial troops eventually
regained their lost positions and drove off
the rebels with heavy losses on both sides.
A later dispatch from Ceuta says a cour
ier who has arrived there by sea from
Tetaan states that the battle was sus
pended in order to allow the opposing
forces to bury their dead, numbering S00.
Many heads are displayed on the walls of
Tetuan, which still has three days' supply
of ammunition. .
Dlspatehes from Tangier announce that
the imperial forces have routed the rebel
mountaineers near Fes, Inflicting great
losses on the enemy.
MASSACRE , DETAILS; "DREADFUL
Reports at tha Klahonev Slaughter
Show a Horrible Condition
of Affairs.
ST. PETERSBURG!. May II Additional
details of the Kishinev massacre of Jewe
are printed here dally. The correspondents
give the number of victims thus far burled
in the Jewish cemetery at forty-four and
say that eighty-four persons, seriously in
jured, are still In the Jewish hospital.
The horror" reported scarcely bear repeti
tion. In one Instance spike were driven
through a woman's head In the floor and
cases of bodily mutilation have been au
thenticated. About 800 to 1,000 persons were
arrested, an energetlo official having been
sent from Odessa to deal with the situation.
The apathy of the local authorities during
the two days of rapine and murder appears
to have been fully established.
LAUNCH LARGEST BATTLESHIP
Hnge Row Vessel for the British
Navy la Floated at
Clyde.
LONDON, May 13. Commonwealth, the
largest battleship afloat, was launched
at Govan. on the Clyde, today. It is the
first - vessel of the British navy to have
its ten-Inch guns protected by an extended
barbette Instead of by casemates. Its other
armament consists of four twelve-Inch
guns, four nine and one-half-lnch guns and
twenty-four small guns. The new battle
ship's speed la to be 18.1 knots per hour
and it will carry a crew of 755 men. Com
monwealth Is of 18.350 tons displacement
and its engines are to be of 18,000 horse
power.
ANOTHER WHITEJLAGUE CURE
German Doctor Announces Still One
Mora Remedy for Cos.
sumption.
BERLIN, May 13. The Berlin Medical
society announces a new remedy for con
sumption called sanostn.
Dr. Danellus of Sommerfeld read a paper
on the cure before the society and showed
that a number of patients, mostly working
men, had been cured of conaumptlon with
out Interference with their work. Sanosin
prevents coughing, fever and night sweats
and results in the patient gaining weight.
Even In severe cases the progress of the
disease has been arrested.
The remedy was discovered by Dr. Robert
Schneider.
VATICAN OPPOSED TO FRIARS
Philippine Religions Orders Aro Rot
Viewed with Favor at
Ilo'-r See.
ROME, May IS. Various documents re
ceived by. the Vatican and Individual cardi
nals by every mall from the Philippines
show the enmity between the secular clergy
and the frisrs ts far from abating.
The general feeling In the Vatican is un
favorable to the friars, although they
have strong supporter!, led by Cardinal
Vives Y. Tuto. who is Indefatigable In help
ing them.
POLICE FIND EXPLOSIVES
Gnapowder and Dnamlto Hidden by
the Revolutionists I nearthed
la Salonlea.
SOLON IC A, Msy 1J -The police have un
earthed 700 pounds of dynamite and quanti
ties of gun powdei secreted by the revolutionists.
CUTS DOWN MEDICAL FEES
Workmen Decide Twenty-Five Cent Per
Head Enough for Grand Examiner.
PER CAPITA TAX RAISED FIFTY CENTS EACH
Osncers Elected at Afternoon Session
and Mach-Other Miscellaneous
Bnslness Is Transacted.
GRAND ISLAND, Neb., May 11 (Spe
cial.) The grand lodge. Ancient Order of
United Workmen, resumed its . sessions
shortly after 9 o'clock this morning. The
first order of business taken up was the
appointment of the election board, consist
ing of J. C. Morehead, chairman; McCoy,
Ennls, Stump, Stltts, Lonsburg, Golden,
Ofe, Kellher and Gallagher.
W. 11. Miller, supreme grand master
workman of Missouri, was called to the
chair and presided for a brief time.
The lodge proceeded to a further dis
cussion of the question of reducing the
feee of the grand medical examiner from
80 to 25 cents, the question being brought
up on a resolution Introduced yesterday
afternoon and under discussion when the
grand lodge adjourned for the day last
evening. Upon vote the resolution was
adopted and the emoluments of the office
will hereafter be . only one-half of what
they formerly were.
Greetings by wire from tha grand lodge
sessions of Iowa and Colorado were re
ceived as follows:
6IOUX CITY. la.. May 13. Jacob Jaska
lek. Grand Master Workman, Grand Island,
Neo. ; fraternal KretuitiHii irum luwu
grand lodge. Beat wishes tor future pros
perity. COM3RADO SPRINGS, May 13. To the
Grand Lodge, Ancient Order of United
Workmen, Grand island, Neb.: Frateriuu
greetings and best wishes for your future
prosperity.
It was decided to Increase the per capita
tax from $1 to 11.60.
After a spirited discussion the proposl
tton to change the representation by divid
ing the state Into districts and reducing
the representation from one delegate for
each seventy-five votes to one delegate for
each 200 votes, was defeated.
The resolution looking to ' the appoint'
ment of a general attorney for the organ
ization was defeated.
The resolution to continue the deputy
system was carried.
It was decided that all moneys received
on petitions tor aid shall pass through
the hands of the grand recorder,
The grand lodge then proceeded to the
question or locating the next grand lodge
session and selected South Omaha as the
place. There were as contestants the
cities of Columbus and Beatrice.
The following were appointed as memo
rial committee: James Fa mil, n. D.
Sutherland and Smith Western.
j no arternoon session was opened by
a short address by Supreme Foreman Mil
ler explaining the trorosltlon nf the' -
tabllshment of the fraternity temple at the
St. Louis exposition and but little discus-
slon was required to lead the lodge to adopt
a
resolution appropriating $600 toward ufVv-niusenient have ,.ade great inroads on our
ictlon. ' . . tay conRregat,on.. v .
erection.
" The report of the memorial committee,
.memorialising--the departed of '.the .order
during the past year was read and adopted.
Election of Officers.
The election of grand lodge officers now
proceeded. The ballot was after the Aus
tralisn form, with the exception that It
required a majority of all votes cast and
the considerable number of candidates for
the offices of grand receiver and grand
examiner made subsequent ballots neces
sary. While each successive ballot was
counted other business was taken up.
The report of the auditing committee on
the accounts of the grand receiver, Frank
J. Morgan, and the grand recorder, S. R.
Barton, finding the same to be correct and
In most satisfactory condition was read and
adopted. The matter of the publication of
the Nebraska Workman, the organ of the
organisation, was discussed at considerable
length but the entire matter was finally
left to the finance committee to arrange
for as heretofore as may to them seem best.
The election of officers resulted as fol
lows, four ballots being taken. Grand mas
ter workman, Jacob Jaskalek, South
Omaha: grand foreman, George M. Mor
dock, Nebraska City; grand overseer, J. D.
Brayton, Baasett; recorder, Silas R. Bar
ton, Aurora; receiver, Frank J. Morgan,
Plattsmouth; guide, J. C McEIhlnney,
Lyons; watchman, C. R. Gray, Herman;
medical examiner, F. E. Way, Wahoo;
trustee, I. W. Alter, Wayne; supreme lodge
representatives, George H. Barber, Edgar;
Jacob Jaskalek, South Omaha, and O. J.
Van Dyke, Grand Island; committee on
law, C. H. Denny, Fairbury; J. C. Dort,
Pawnee City; H. M. Waring, Lincoln.
The bonds of the incoming officer! were
fixed the "same as for the previous two
years and the newly elected officers were
Installed and the grand lodge adjourned to
attend a concert given at the opera house
this evening complimentary to the visitors.
WORKMEN ELECT OFFICERS
Grand Lodge at Sloaz City Names
Its List of
Loaders.
SIOUX CITY, la.. May 13. (Special Tele
gram.) The election of officers of the
grand lodge. Ancient Order of United
Workmen, resulted as follows: Will M.
Narvls, Muscatine, grand master work
man; George Heck, Burlington, grand
overseer; B. F. Rehkopf, Dea Moines, grand
recorder; Henry Mlchelstetter, Bloux City,
grsnd receiver; L. Southard, Shenandoah,
grand Inside watchman. Representatives to
supreme lodge, W. H.- Berry, Indlanola; B.
F. Carroll, Ies Moines, and B. F. Rehkopf,
Des Moines.
At the afternoon session Davenport was
selected as the next place of meeting.
A proposition to hold biennial sessions
was voted down.
It was decided to make the report of one
medical examiner Instead of two sufficient
for entrance to membership.
LIVELY CONTEST FOR OFFICE
South Dakota Workmen Elect Fred
B. Smith Over George
Sehlosser.
LEAD, 8. D.. May 13.-(Speclal Tele
gram.) After a spirited contest between
Fred B. Smith of Hecla and George Sehlos
ser of Sioux Falls. . the delegates to the
Ancient Order United Workmen grand
lodge re-elected Smith. The following gen
tlemen were selected for the other ofTices:
P. M. Simmons, Huron, grand foreman;
Olaf Nelson, Tank ton, overseer; G. A.
Skinner. Watertown. guide; T. B. Blaine,
Ashton, receiver, re-elected; Alexander
Friser. Lead, tnstde watch; C. Cardinal,
Minnesela, outside watch.
The order has hsd a net galii of 1.410
members during the year. Five hundred
delegate are in attendance.
FOLK'S PROBE SINKING DEEP
Former senator 'tells Circuit Attorney
Detailed Tale of Boodllue;
In
BT. LOUIS, May 13. Former State Sena
tor Schwclckardt gave circuit Attorney
Folk severs! new lends In legislative
bnodllng today. Mr.' Bchwelckanit had
been suupotnsed by the grand Jury, but did
not give evidence, having a long conversa
tion with Mr.- Folk instead.
In a statement that was reduced to writ
ing and signed by Mr. Schwelckardt, he told
Mr. Folk that during tha session of ISM he
received an envelope front a messenger boy
with Instructions not to open it until he had
resched his room in Jefferson City.
It contained 11.000, with full Instructions
what to do with the money. He did not re
tain any of It hlmeelf, but divided it equally
among four other senators. No statement
was made ee to which particular legislation
tha 11,000 was to Influence, but It is under
stood Senator Schwelckardt said it was In
tended to Influence the fete of several bills
in that session:
The senator Is supposed to have also re
vealed something of the plan of operations
pursued by the lobby and the senate com
bine, i .
Senator Schwelckardt' statement will
enable Circuit Attorney Folk to get after
certain men whom the statute of limitations
doea not protect.
Senator Morton told the grand Jury today
that he was at the Planters' hotel on March
24, 1903, when the $5,000 Is said to have been
distributed by an agent of the baking pow
der trust. . '
WASHINGTON. May 13,-The State de
partment hae notified Governor Dockery of
Missouri that it cannot grant its request
to secure the extradition of Ellis Waln
wrlght, a millionaire brewer of St. Louie
who is wanted li. connection with the mu
nicipal bribery charges - and who Is sup
posed to have fled to France. The obstacle
lies In the fact that the French extradition
treaty does not enumerate bribery as an
extraditable offense. If tha Missouri au
thorities can describe ) Watnwrlght'a of
fenses under another titit the State depart
ment will exert, itself ta' secure his appear
ance for trial. '
CHURCH IS JL0SINQ GROUND
Bishop Declares Sfaay . of Ration's
Best Men Show So Religions
Interest.
BOSTON, May 13. The 118th annual con
vention of the Episcopal church in the
diocese of Massachusetts was held today.
Bishop William H. Lawrence In his ad
dress said: .
So far as statistics can show it is doubt
ful If the oliurch has been keeping ' pace
with the population.. The church is not
apparently Increasing in number or power.
A great proportion of the Intelligent men
and leadors of our communities have no
Interest In the church. Many of the finest
characters are outside the church. In
fidelity, sincere and insincere, is all about
us. More than that the interest in com
mercial, material, social and intellectual
life Is gaining a stronger hold, on ,tha
peopie,
Trial and financial success. Sport and
ueiow u inene jnni'riices are me low-r
standards of tanle the grosser , 1m
m era Ui lea. , ,-'" ..- -, . v, -.-t
In ' view of such conditions the bishop
deprecates the discussion now going on in
diocesan conventions as to . whether . the
name of the church should be changed. .
CLEVELAND. O., May 13. -At the annual
convention of the clergy and laity of the
Episcopal dlocesa of Ohio the question of
changing the church name was deadlocked.
The clergy favored a change, but the latty
did not.
PITTSBURG. May 13. By a vote largely
In the majority the Pittsburg diocese of the
Episcopalian church at Its thirty-eighth an
nual meeting today decided against chang
ing the church name.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 13. The Episcopal
diocese of Indianapolis today voted against
making any change In the church name.
KANSAS CITY. May 13 Thecouncll of
the western Missourt diocese of the Protes
tant Episcopal church voted today, 28 to 21,
In favor of changing the name to that Of
"the American Catholic church."
This recommendation will be made to the
general conference which meets in October.
OMAHA MEN ARE HONORED
Woodmen of the World Election Gives
Many Places to Nebraska..
Metropolis.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 13. The Wood
men of the Wor'd today elected officers as
follows: Sovereign adviser, A. Falken
burg, Denver; sovereign banker, Congress
man Morris Bhepard, Texarkana, Tex.;
sovereign clerk, John T. Yates. Omaha;
sovereign watchman, B. W. Jewell, Omaha;
sovereign escort, H. F. Blmrall, Missourt;
sovereign sentry, D. E. Bradahaw. Little
Rock, Ark.; sovereign physicians, Drs. Ira
W. Porter and A. D. Floyd, Omaha; oov
erejgn commander, James R. Cett, Omaha,
holds over for feu.' years.
The following board of sovereign man
agers was elected: W. A. Fraser, Dallas,
Tex.; J. E. Fitzgerald, Kansas flty. Mo.;
C. C. Farmer. Mount Carroll, ta.: A. B.
Lewis, South Carolina; M. Dl Roache,
Cleveland. O.; N. B. Maxey. Indian Terri
tory: C. K. Irwin. Tomah. Wis.
W. A. Falkenburg of Denver ws unani
mously indorsed for vice president of the
national fraternal congress, which Convenes
In this city next August
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TEARS
BIGGEST STORM IN
Heavy Rains Aro . Dolnsr
Amonnt of Dinaiti
Florida. -
reat
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JACKSONVILLE. Fla., May 13. -A heavy
northeaster has been blowing for the past
few days accompanied by driving rains.
Last' night and this morning it was un
usually heavy. Reports from the state say
much damaae has been done to turpentine
camps and phosphate plants. Rig tldei and
heavy rslns have flooded the lower portions
of Jacksonville and boats are being used
on several streets. The terminal station
and all the approaches are under water. In
the nllroad yards the waters are rush
ing through at a six-mile speed. The total
rain fall for the past twenty-four hours
was (.40 inches. No trains have arrived to
day. Reports from the state ey all rail,
roads are In bad shape from the flooding of
tracks. The storm is the worst for years.
Many houses In the negro section were
washed sway.
BUFFALO FJRE FATALITY
Lieutenant William Clark Soecanibs
to His Injuries Loss Two
Hundred Thousand.
BUFFALO, May 13.-Flret Lieu
tenant William Clark, who was Injured In
tha Diamond Mills fire last night, died to
day. The loss Is estimated todiy at L00,
000, partly covered by tnsuraooe.
FREMONT GREETS VETERANS
0i iisna Make Etery Effort to Ears tb
Encampment a Pleasant One.
SOCIAL FEATURES TAKE UP FIRST DAY
Bnslness Session Comes This Morning
and Officers tor the Ensuing .
Year Aro to Bo
Elect od.
FREMONT, Neb., May IS. (Special.)
Fremont la thronged with veterans of the
'KOs and the hospitality of its citisens Is
unbounded. The members -of the Grand
Army of the Republic, of the Women's Re
lief Corpe and lodges of the Grand Army
of the Republic began assembling yester
day evening, snd the hotele are taxed to
their utmost. Grlssled veterans with their
wealth of badges are manifest everywhere
and welcoming flags greet them from every
quarter.
Comrades have met and greeted each
other who have not met for a generation.
The encampment Is one of the most largely
attended held in the state for many years.
The twenty-seventh annual, encampment
of the Nebraska department Grand Army
of the Republic, began last evening with
a reception to the visitors by the citisens
of Fremont at ths Congregational church.
The organisations participating were the
Fremont Commercial club and Bone and
Daughters of the American Revolution.
There was no attempt at carrying out a
program' and the occasion was devoted to
the welcoming of the visitors, both the
G. A. R., W. R. C. and ladles of the O. A.
R. .Light refreshments were served and
the affair was a most cordial and delightful
This morning was given over largely to
the reception of delegates and meeting of
the committee on credentials and of other
courses of administration.
Formal Meeting; In Afternoon.
. The formal meeting of the department
encampment convened at 1 o'clock.
The Women's Relief Corps convened at
the Congregational church at 9:30 a. m..
Department President Mrs. Almee J. Ken
ny of Blair, presiding. Tha address of
welcome was delivered by Mrs. Minerva
Bushnell of Fremont.
The Daughters of Veterans. Mrs. Estella
Edgecome of York department president,
met at' 1:30 a. m. at the Sunday school
room of the Congregational church. The
address of welcome was delivered by Miss
Emma Gay of Fremont.
. The ladles of the Grand Army of the
Republic, Mrs. Tattle M. Vaughan, de
partment president, met at 9:30 a. m. at
firemen1 parlors, city hall. The address
of welcome was by Commander D. M.
Allen of McPherson post of Fremont.
At the meeting of the grand army en
campment this anernoon .at the Congre
gational church,1 Department Commander
Calvin F. Steele of Fairbury presided.
Mayor George Walla of Fremont delivered
an eloquent address of welcome which was
responded to by Department Commander
Steele. . . - , '. , , , .
'. CosamuAdar'o Report..
' .Department Commander Steele submitted
hie annual address at the' assembling ofthe
business session this afternoon. It showed
that on December 31, 1802, there were 6.3U3
members and 13 posts of the Grand Army
In the state. The gain during the year up
to the date of their encampment was 6U2
member and a loss of 711. Of this loss 133
were by death, leevlng but 78 by suspen
sion. The present membership is 6,161 and
232 posts in good standing. The total loss
during the year was, therefore, 208 mem
bers. The report pays a brilliant tribute to the
Woman'e Relief corps,- auxiliary of ' the
Grand Army of the Republic, and to . the
Ladles of the Grand Army f the Republic
and Daughters and Sons of Veterans, who
will later have to taKe up the work of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
The Grand Army of the Republic posts of
the state are specially enjoined to appro
prlately observe Memorial day. Special
tribute was paid to the memory of Past
Department Commander H. C. Russell, who
died July 3) last at Schuyler, Neb.
There were at the close of the year 1902
41$ veterans at ths Grand Island home and
125 at the Mllford home. The general gov
em ment pays $100 per csplta per .year for
supposedly one-half of the maintenance of
the male Inmates of the state soldiers'
homes. In the last two years the state has
received $60,667.86. . Since the homes were
first established In 1887 the general govern
ment has paid Into the state treasury of
Nebraska $237,302.16. As a matter of fact
the homes do not receive 1 cent of this
money.
The remainder of Commander Steele's re
port refers to the establishment of the Na
1 tlonal sanitarium at Hot Springs, 8. D.; to
1 he progress of military instruction in the
! public schools and to the legislation now In
force In twenty-eight states relative .to the
desecration of the flag for advertising pur
poses. Ksnsas and Idaho were among the
western states that still have no laws on
this subject.
The encsmpment took a recess at t this
afternoon until 9 tomorrow morning, when
the election of officers will be the special
order of business. The Woman' Rolfef
corps this afternoon elected Mrs. Helen Ti
Cook of Lincoln president, Mrs. Minerva
Bushnell of Fremont senior vice president.
Mrs. Cl.ira Hall of Brownvllle Junior vice
president and Miss Ella Brooks of Lincoln
treasurer. The remainder of the officers
will be elected tomorrow.
Reception and Camp Are.
This evening at 7 o'clock a reception was
given by the Ladies of the Grand Army of
the Republic at Firemen's hall.
The event of the da was the "campflre"
given at the opera house, at which the fol
lowing program was rendered:
Chorus by School Children The Sol
dier's Farewell (an American hvmn)
Directed by Miss Murllla Maxwell.
Invocation
Rev. W. H. Buss.
Chorus of School Children Tenting To-
mKni , ..
Directed by Miss Marilla Maxwell.
Address by Mrs. Addle Adams
Solo The Blue and the Gray
Mrs. Marie Martin.
Address by General J. C. Black of Chi
cago ,
Elks' Quartet of Omaha
Address hy Judge Lee Eitelle of Omaha
and Past Department Commander
John Ehrhardt of Ktunton
Fremont Quartet Misses Maud and
Leo: a Murrcll, Messrs. George A.
Murrell and L- L. Lease.'
Recitation The Old Grand Army Boys..
Miss Ethel Stiles.
Considerable dlaappointment was felt over
the inability of Governor Mickey to bi
present, being celled away by the Illness
of a relative.
An interesting feature of the campflre
was the presence of the Fremont Signal
corps In full uniform.
, The regular bualness session of the en
campment will begin tomorrow, at which
time the officers will be elected for the en
suing year, their installation following In
the evening. Only three candidates have
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CONDITION 0FTHE WEATHER
Forecast for Nebraska Fair and Warmer
Thursday; Fair Friday.
Temperature at Omaha Testerdayi
Hour. Deg. Hour. Dear.
5 a. m 1 p. sa t
a. m till a p. m...... t
T a. m ..... , nil 8 p. m ..... -
8 a. m US 4 p. sa 6T
9 m. m ..... . Ml B p. m
to a. m BT e p. an T
11 a. sa IW T p. m T
18 sa OO p. m S
p. m 64
ZIMMAN T0BE PRESIDENT
Republican Members of Row Council
So Deride la a, Caueue
Wednesday.
H. B. Zlmman, re-elected councilman
from the Third ward, is to be president of
the new city council after Its organisa
tion. May 2.
This was determined yesterday after
noon In a caucus of the republican mem
bers of the new council, held at the city
hall. In this caucus the first ballot gave
Zlmman of the Third ward five votes.
Nicholson of the Fourth ward two votes
and Huntington of the Ninth ward one
vote. Mr. Nicholson immediately moved
that the election be made unanlmoue and
this was done. Mr. Nicholson was then
made the caucue choice for president pro
tern, of the new council.
PROJECT BIG SMELTING PLANT
Row York Company Boys Utah Mines
and Will Erect Reduction
Works.
NEW YORK, May 13. A certificate was
sent to Albany today Incorporating the
Newhouse Mine and Smelters. The cap
ital is $6,000,000.
It 1 understood the company Is to ac
quire from Samuel Newhouse hie mining
Interests in Utah, including the Cactus
copper mines. The company lssuee $1,600,-
000 6-per cent first mortgage bonds and the
entire $!,000,000.
Mr. Newhouse formerly owned and de
veloped the Utah copper mines and the
Newhouse tunnel i Colorado. It is under
stood mills and smelters capable of con
centratlng 1,600 tons of copper ore per day
are already being contracted for.
HITCHCOCK URGES STATEHOOD
Tour of Oklahoma Convinces , Seer.
tary thnt Territory Deserves
Promotion.'
ENID, Okla., May :. Secretsry Hitch
cock said in the course of a brief speech
to an audience of 6,000 citisens today:
Mv trip to Oklahoma has changed my
mind on the advisability of admitting the
territory to statehood. Conditions all over
the territory are remarkably prosperous.
You are entitled to statehood and while the
Interior department has little to do with
congress I shall recommend immediate
statehood for Oklahoma.
He Is also quoted a saying later in an in
terview:
I am oppoeed ttt statehood for Indian Ter
ritory until euch time ss existing treaties
expire and tha land is subject to title.
BODY IS FOUND IN BOXCAR
Refined Man Discovered Hanging;
- When Train Roaches St. Louis
Depot.
: t
ST. LOUIS, May 13. The body of an un
identified man was found hanging In a
box csr which , arrived today from Mar
shall, Ind. He was well dressed, and his
clothing bore the tailor' mark "Lyons.
San Francisco." His linen Was marked "J.
M."
The man war apparently 35 year old,
and had evidently been of refined char
acter. The body waa taken to the morgue.
GERMAN RECEPTION TODAY.
Countrymen of Kaiser's Commission
Aro Invited to Gather at
City Hall.
- Especially for the Germans, who by rea
son of limited street car service and other
accommodations are prevented from accom
panying the agricultural commission on
its Inspection of the Omaha Industries to
day, a reception will be held at 4 o'clock
at the city hall. Mayor Moores will pre
side and an invitation I extended to all
resident Germans snd other to meet the
land owner from the kaiser' domain.
SIGNS CHILD LABOR BILL.
Governor of Pennsylvania Makes
. lalawfol to Employ Children
la the Mines.
It
HARRISBURG, Ps., May 18.-Governor
Pennypacker today signed the child-labor
bill and vetoed the other three miners'
bills. The child-labor bill makes It unlaw
ful to employ children under 16 years of
age in and about the mines. The three
bills vetoed were the eight-hour-day bill,
the bill providing foT the payment for
coal mined by the ton of 2.240 pounds, and
the mine inspection bill.
AMERICANS MARRY IN JAPAN
uangnier oi jiomiru isvans Becomes
a Bride la the Far
East.
TOKIO, April (Via Victoria, B. C,
May 13.) The wedding of Miss Virginia 8.
8 Evans, daughter of Admiral Evans, and
H. T. Bewail took place In the Trinity
cathedral. Tsukljl, Toklo, last Wednesday.
Movements of Ocean Vessels May 13.
At Liverpool Arrived: Oceanic, from
New York; Taurlc, from Portland. Bulled
Majestic, for New York; Bouthwark, for
Montreal.
At Southampton Arrived: New York,
from New York.
At Ponta Ferrerla Passed: Lombardla,
from New York, for Naples and Genoa.
At Hamburg Arrived: Bluiher, from
New York, via Plymouth and Cherbourg.
At Leghorn Arrived: Perugia, from New
York, via Marseilles.
At Cherbourg Sailed: Kaiser Wllhelm
II. from Bremen and Southampton, for
New York.
At Antwerp Arrived: Vaaderland, from
New York.
At Plymouth Arrived: Deutschland,
from New York, for Cherbourg and Ham
burg (and proceeded).
At Hong Kong--Arrlved: Gaelic, from
San Francisco, via Honolulu, Yokohama,
etc.
At Genoa Sailed: Liguria, for New
York (not previously).
At Hallfnx, N. 8 Arrived: Carthayn
nUn. for Olusgow snd Liverpool, via 8t.
J.ihr.s. N. F., for Phllsdelphla.
At The Lizard Paused. La Savole, from
Hamburg.
At Manchester Arrived: Pilar de Lar
rlmiga, from Galveston and Norfolk, via
Havre.
At Queenstown Arrived: Parthenla,
from Baltimore, for Liverpool and Glas
cow. Hailed: Ultonia, from Liverpool, for
Inston; Auranla, from Liverpool, for New
York.
BOTH OBSERVE LAW
Court Order Eestrain Both Sides in Capital
and Labor Contest.
FIGHT IS BEING CARRIED ON QUIETLY
Ho Indication of Disorder a Busine; Men
Returns Operation.
CONGESTION OF FREIGHT IS RELIEVED
Transfer Companies Bar About Seventy
rive Wagon in SerTioe.
BUSINESS MEN STATE THEIR POSITION
Authorlao Publication of Lengthy Re
view of tha Trouble from Their
Standpoint Incidents
of tho Strlko.
Walter secure promise of financial as
sistance from national vrganlsatlon. Other
unions pay assessment for benetlt of
laundry workers.
Laundries postpone day of resumption to
Monday.
Strike situation decidedly quiet under re
straining Influence of two injunctions. Bunt
ness men ss well ss strikers admit that a
more conciliatory feeling pievalls and next
conference may produce results.
Transfer companies Import no more
teamsters.
The eighteen Omaha laundries that were
closed as a result of the differences be
tween tha laundry owners and employe!
will not reopen this morning, a was
planned, or at least given out by the pro
prietor. The date for resumption of busi
ness Is now set for Monday,
The laundry workers, like ths striking
waiters, have 'come Into possession of
financial resources that enable them to
withstand a longer siege of Idleness in
their attempt to cope with the proprietors.
It was thought when the laundry worker
went out, many of them being on very
mall wages, that within a few days they
would be forced to return to work. But
concerted action ha been takon by other
union of the city, a fund collected and -maintained
by contingent fee for the
benefit of the laundry workers. Kach
striker will receive a fair benefit, In every
case calculated to meet the actual needs.
This, and probably this alone in some,
though not all cases, enables a continua
tion of the strike.
As for the waiters, whose resources were
also thought to be so meagre that they
would soon have to give up In despair,
they yesterday received .advices from their
national organization that an allotment of
$10,000 had been made to them and that
additional help would be given when neces
sary. The national order ha levied a tax
on' all local throughout the country ta
support the striking waiters In Omaha:
The men and women affected by this move
ment feel encouraged to undertake a much
longer siege if necessary, although they
assert their preference for seeing the strike
Boon eettled. . ' , ',....
With a federal oourt Injunction hanging
over the headsof the -strikers -.nd a -district
court Injunction 'staring the employ
er in the faoe, ,the contending force are
somewhat restrained. Yet things appeured
to be Vnovlng about as usual yesterday and
that means moving on a moderate scale.
The strikers are proceeding with their af
fairs In a quiet way, while little by little
certain lines of business that were tied up
by the strike are being loosened. What
will happen when the waiters' restraining
order gets to working real well cannot be
told now, but a little Incident transpired
yesterday to suggest that something
might happen. A ccntractor reported that
a certain firm had refused to supply him
with raw material, snd as the injunction
specifically enjoins any firm from such re
fusal. Its application may bring matter to
a test. It Is the intention to place the in
junction in effect by applying it In speclflo
cases like this.
Practically no tangible progress has been
realised in the strike on either side for
several days. Not a single material break
has come about this week and nothing ha
arisen to stimulate hopes of an Immediate
settlement, though a manifest moderation
of sentiment at the Business Men' asso
ciation meeting Tuesday night offer some
encouragement. It 1 thought that after
another conference between the Joint
committees and the governor the force
may be able to decide on eome common
ground.
Sis Mora Importations,
Not since Sunday have any nonunion
men been brought into the city. Of those
who had come up to that time about 160
something In the neighborhood of 100 have
been sent out of the city by Uie striking
teamsters; the remainder are at work for
the transfer companies. W. 8. Jardlns of
the Merchants' Express company said that
he had forty-seven team at work yes
teroay and would put on seven more bo
fore night He said his company had a
many as all the other companies together.
The total number of teams at work ts ap
proximately seventy-five. The normal force
ts 250.
The encoursglng statement le made by
the transfer companies that the congeetlon
In freight, due to the strike, ts being
relieved. Mr. Jardlne said on that point:
'There I no congestion at all, now. We
have been making such steady Inroad on
it that ths congestion is entirely relieved.
We are tsklng care of the traffic very
nicely now."
Some more coal teamsters hsve Joined
the email caravan of wagons that now
travel the streets snd for this there le
some rejoicing. The department store are
gradually starting up a few team. Thelr's,
like the transfer and coal company wagon.
are guarded by special officer. Ths special
officer have not had occasion for exercis
ing their newly acquired authority as yet
tn any positive manner. The striker er
refraining from all violence.
Meat Cutters Aro Waiting;.
Still another feature ha developed In the
meat cutters' relations with their employ,
ers. Since the employers decided not to
abide by their endorsement of the union
scale and submitted one of their own, tho
employes have decided to remain at work
ur.tl! Thursday night, when they hold a
special meeting at Labor Tempi. They
have also Interested the Packing Trade
council. Including the packing house em
ployes, in the fight, end this council will
hold a meeting Tuesday night at South
Omahs, or possibly sooner, and take tip
the strike proposition with a view of some
sort of sympsthetlc movement. Many of
the meat cutters aro also members of ths
Packing Trades council. J. A. Bradford,
recretary of the meat cutters, Is president
of the packen.
The freight handlers yesterday took
into their union twenty new memhers who
had been working na nonunion men. They
tcok In thirty-three a few days ago.
Mora Conciliatory Feellag.
Two members of thsBuilness Men's as
sociation stated yeaterday that the aasocla
