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i HE UMAHA , JJA1LY JDEE. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, MOM DAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1903. SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. SELECT RISC TODAY Eertian Parliament Almost Certain to Place Peter Krag?orgeTitch on Throne. REPUBLIC MEETS WITH LITTLE FAVOR Tew 8tu!rat Alone Support En 'gestion to Overthrow Monarchy. ALEXANDER'S FRIEND COMMITS SUICiDE CEcef Wha Warned Konarch Takes Eii Ova Life by 8-.ojt.n5. POLITICAL PRISONERS ALL RELEASED Provisional Government Frees Of fender Against Old Regime 'While Courts Adjourn and So Arrrtli Are Made. LKLOUADli. June 14. At a conference of e-.i.tUor and deputies held here tonight It was unanimously decided that the constitu tion voted by the great assembly In hould be put Into lores and that ITlnce Karageoigcvilcli should bo unanimously elected king at tomorrow's meeting of the hkupshtlna and Senate. After the election a depututlon of the assembly will be held to wait on Prince Peter and communicate to him the decision of the national asseni bly. The Servian constitution of 18i was more liberal thnn any granted previously and provided that nil taxpaylng citizens should become electors, by wtione voted the Skupshtlna was elected. It remained In force until May, 1WI, when the late King Alexander by a coup d'etat abolished It and restored the constitution of 1809. All Unlet In Servla. t Complete order prevailed In Belgrade last night and absolute quiet Is still reported this afternoon throughout Servla. The streets of the cap ital bear nu ahimated appearance, being crowded with officers and a large number of students who have arrived from abroad, It is believed with the object of demon strating in fnvor of 'Prince Peter Kara georgevltch us king. Soma republican tendencies are notable among the students who have studied In France and Switzerland; these latter, how ever, are quite overshadowed by the opin ion of the majority and there seems to be no doubt that the national assembly will tomorrow pronounce in favor of a mon archy and elect Prince Karageorgevltch. The newspapers continue to point out the Impossibility of the establishment of a re public and advocate the election of Princo Peter in order to assure a brighter epoch in Servian annuls. Powers' Ministers Remain Mom. The foreign representatives In Belgrade continue to maintain a strict reserve. Peter Villromltch, one of the oldest and most prominent members of the radical " party and, .a., former, minister of state, has been appointed president of the senate, in Succession to M. Marlnkovltch, who r haa resigned. M. Vetmlromltch will take the chair at the joint meeting of the senate and the Skupshtlna tomorrow on the occa sion of the election of the new king. After the election the Skupshtlna will draw up a program of procedure for the new sovereign and will then adjourn until the arrival of the king at Belgrade. The sovereign will then form a new ministry and dissolve the Skupshtlna. The government yesterday pardoned all persona Imprisoned for political and press offenses and ordered their immediate -release. No arrests have occurred, neither have any sentences been passed since the tragic events of last Thursday. The? court of cessation and the appeal court sus pended their sittings from that time. . prince Kurageorgevltch. although llftlo is known of him among the people generally here, aeema to have c-.ueht the public fancy and hla election will be a popular one. Former Queen Natalie has telegraphed to her former lady-ln-waltlng to make in quiries whether aha will be permitted to eome to Servla and visit her son's grave. Lieutenant Colonel Mtllslav Zlvanovlcs of the general staff committed suicide by shooting himself oh Friday. It Is under stood the officer took his life because among tha late king's papers was found a letter from Zlvanovlcs informing him of the plot against his life. The newspapers, however, attempt to make out the aulcldo to be tha result Of money troubles. Politicians Confer Together. Politicians and members of the Skupsh tlna have been holding coherences throughout the day and while there are rumors of minor differences, the election f Prince Karageorgevltch appears absolutely assured. The Skupshtlna and the Senate aieet promptly at 10 tomorrow morning. It la said the ministry desires that it pro seed to elect the king by acclamation. The radical leaders have prepared a platform for the new constitution upon the lines of that of l&S. The chief points ire: (1.) The king shall not be tha commander f the army. (t) The civil and military authorities must swear allegiance to the constitution ind not to the king. (3.) Universal suffrage and the abolition f the aenate. Theconstitutlon of 18S8 Is of .a liberal character and lta adoption was approved it a conference held this morning between ministers and those deputies already in Belgrade. Congratulatory addresses have been re ceived by the ministry from a large num er of country districts expressing warm tat thanks for ita patriotic action at auch I critical moment and hoping that It will ;arry matter to a successful ending. The roreiffn ministry has also received satis factory dispatches from London, Paris, Berlin and Rome, all saying that the gov ernments there have not the slightest in tention of intervening In Servla's Internal iffalra and expressing the hope that peace tnd order In the political situation will soon e restored. An official statement of Rusaia'a position las not yet' been received, but according o reliable information, Russia has no de ilre to Intervene and will not object to the ilectton of Prince Karageorgevltch. Tlia Official Gasette, Issued today. Is con fined almost entirely to the publication of messages of congratulation received by the provisional government. premier Heslsina t Die. It is known that tha murdered premier, Uarcovltch, resigned hla portfolio only a few hours before hla assassination. Ills action waa the result of a difference .of opinion with King Alexander concerning the meeting of the new Skupshtlna. The Ate king, fearing disturbances, proponed to tha premier that the leading members of tha opposition partlea and tha editors of (Continued on sVoootid fag.) RELIGION BREEDS RIOTS Corps Chrlsll Celebrations Attended by III ders In French it 'noes. PARIS. June 14 K was feared to day on the occasion o -epus Christ! celebration, the anti-clef.. -eatenlng to provoke counter demonstf. In Purls the day passed off w. lerl oiB incidents, even at churches . t the Madeline and Bt. Sulplce. where, disregard ing the advice of the prefect of police, processions Issued from the edifices and inarched around the church enclousures. Some disturbances, however, arc reported from the provinces. At Nantes, where the prefect forbade the profession, the radi cals mobbed the prefecture, stoned and broke the windows and smashed two sentry boxes. Detachments of gendarmes and dragoons drove back the demonstrators. A collision also occurred between the Catholics and socialists, in which several were Injured. The principal squares in Nantes are oc cupied by troops to prevent further dis orders. Minor disturbances are reported from Brest, Dunkirk, Lyons and other places. SAN JUAN, P. R., June 14. The church festival of Corpus Chrlstl was celebrated today. Five thouiiftnd Catholics paraded and there waa a great show of Spanish colora. Forty church aocletlea escorted Bishop Blenk to altars in various parts of the city. The ceremonies at tha cathedral were on an elaborate scale. For the first time since the occupation of the Islands many Americans participated in the cere monies. WARNING FRIEND ARRESTED Fleeing; Debtor 11ns Men Held Who Tells of Altered Kidnap ing; Plot. PARALLEL, Chihuahua, Mex., June 14. Thomas Foley Fountain, son of Colonel A. J. Fountain, is having a peculiar and trying experience here, where ha la held a close prisoner on tha charge of threaten ing to kill Grant Gillette of Kansas, who, it is alleged, took refuge In Mexico to escape his creditors. Young Fountain has been in jail a month and there seems little prospect of hla im mediate release. , It appears that ho had been imprisoned on the accusation of Gillette, who had his fears aroused when he was Informed that several persona had entered Into a con spiracy to kidnap him and deliver him to the Kansas police for a reward. Fountain, Jt la said, learned of the kidnaping scheme ana warned Gillette to be on his guard, but the latter suspected Fountain himself was Implicated and caused his arrest. VIEWS RACES FROM AIRSHIP Santos-Dnmnnt Detracts Attention from Horses to His Aerial Maneuvers. PARIS. June 34. During the racing at Longchampa today M. 8antos Dumont. In his airship No. 9, appeared over the course and went through a variety ot maneuvers which evoked great enthusiasm from the crowd.' The pasaaga of two other balloons over the racecourse at the same time added to the originality of the scene. M. Santos Dumont descended unaided in the center of the course, where a great ovation was given him. He then ress cended and after executing a second series of maneuvers sailed away in the direction of Bagatelle. A curious coincidence during the presence of the Santos Dumont No. 9 waa the win ning of two races by horses numbered I on the racing card. CONSECRATE INSULAR BISHOPS Two Prelates Obtain Mitres and Two More Are Selected for Recommendation. ROME, June 14. Monslgnor Rooker, formerly secretary of the apoztolic delega tion at Washington, waa consecrated bishop of Jaro, Philippine Islands, and Rev. Den nis J. Dougherty, formerly of Philadelphia, bishop of Neuvta Segovia, today. The commission. of five cardinals en trusted with affairs concerning the Phil ippine islands has decided to propose to the pope the appointment of Rev. Thomas A. Hendrick of Rochester, N. Y., as bishop of Cebu, P. I. The Vatican will thus have fulfilled lta moat Important promise re garding the Philippines by aendlng there four American bishops. WILL GRADE MANILA HEMP Government Tnkea Steps to Meet Complaints of Insular Export. MANILA, June 14. The government has drafted a bill to prevent the exportation of inferior hemp. It provides for a system of government Inspection and grading. There have been numerous complaints of the Inferior quality of tha exported hemp and tha trade in It la thereby endangered. A commission will meet the growers and exporters before action la taken. CAVITE BANDITS TROUBLE Raid Several Towns and- Lead Gov ernment to Prepare for Their Snppressloa. MANILA, June 14. Disorder continues in the province of Cavtte. Two bandits, named Fellzardo and Montalon, with aome follow ers, recently raided a number of towns. The government Is planning a campaign to suppress the troubles. CABLE NEARS COMPLETION Work to Start This Week on Last Section of Parlue Wire. MANILA, June 14. The eableshlp Colon, which ia laying the Pacific cable from Guam eastward, la nearing Midway Island and It la expected the laying of the section from Midway Island to Honolulu will com mence next week. ' FINP NEW SMELTING METHOD Cornell Students' Discovery Will Revolutionise Copper Reflnlna; and Save Millions. NEW YORK, June 14. (Special Tele gramsTwo Cornell students have pub lished a thesis describing a new method of refining copper which they claim to have discovered. The discovery, if it beara out Its Inventors' claims, will revolutionize the smelting Industry and affect a saving of sunny million of doUara. RECORD IN COTTON EXPORTS I Valne of Crop 8?nt Cut of Country Larger Than Ever Before. QUANTITY ONLY TWICE EXCEEDED Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Brlslow Says Machen'a Plan of Raral Free Delivery Would Cost t)HH,ooo,ooo a Tear. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, June 14.-(s3peclal.)-Cot-ton is still king in the export records of tne United States, and Ita record in the present year is likely to surpass that of any pre ceding year. The value of raw cotton ex ported In the eleven months ending with Alay Is, according to the preliminary figures of the treasury bureau of statistics, 1308. 747,19$, which Is S5.000.0UO In excess of the highest eleven months' record ever hereto fore made. Two years ago the figures leached 1303,497,617. Should the Juno figurea equal those of June In the immediately. pre ceding yeare thj total for the fiscal year would bo WIT, iwm.ooo. xT $4,000,000 in excess of the banner yeor 1901. . The quantity exported this year is not aa great aa that of tho years 1W8 and Ai however. The total quantity exported In the eleven months ending with May Is 3,481, a53,:X7 pounds, against 3,a,t;a,478 pounds in the correrponding months of 1901 and 3.721, 510,000 pounds in the eleven months of HDS, when the value was but $:22, 414,180. Thus the total quantity at the present time Is 210,0(10,000 pounds less than that of the cor responding eleven months In 1898, but the value is $N6.000,000 '.n excess of the value for the corresponding period of that year. The average price per pound of the cotton exported, determined by dividing the numbr of pcunda into the vslue stated by the bureau of statistics records. Is for the eleven months ending with Msy, 1903, 8.87 cents, and for the eleven months ending with May, 1898, 5.97 cents. Comparing the total values of cotton ex ported with those of preceding years 1903 seems likely to show the largest total value in raw cotton exports of any year in the history of our commerce. In 1848 the total value of raw cotton exported was. In round terms, f.2,000,000; In 1860. 1192,000.000: In 1870, J227.000.0O0 In paper, but $1S4.000.000 stated In gold; In 1SS0. 211,000.f0; In 1890, $250,000,000; In 1900, $242,000,000; In 1901. $313,000,000, and, as already Indicated, seems likely to be for 1903. $317,000,000. Some Other Tall Flarnres. Meantime the value of cotton exported In manufactured form h will make ita highest record In the present uveal finr. At the same time the wntrr .... era of the United States have Increased and are sun increasing their consumption of ootton both from our own flM anA . - - II VIII abroad. Ihe lotal number of balea taken by u. uuiia oi me united states last year for me nrsj, time passed the ,,000.000 line the figurea being 4,083,000 balea, against S.&44 000 In 1900. The importations of fnrolm -.. - - -n. v. i I'll, chiefly Egyptian, are also growing with re- marKSDie rapidity, the Importations In the present year beinar IlknTv tn neh on nnn rn - w - .-.,w,wv pounds, to which may be added 20,000,000 p..ui.u ot noc us, or cotton waste, with a total valuation of about $12,000,000. against 43,000,000 pounds of raw cotton, and 78,000 pounds of waste Imported in 1893, valued at less than $50on.00O. What Rural Delivery Costs. "To continue the -rural free delivery ser vlce upon the lines laid down by former Superintendent A. W. Machen would cost the government $100,000,000 annually," waa the startling statement made by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow to The Bee today. "The rural free delivery service with its army of carriers reminds me of the old Roman way by which am blUoua soldiers and statesmen were ele vated to place and power. Conquering aoldlera returning from the wars now and then distributed corn to the Roman people and by that means rode into power. This rural free delivery business reminds me very much of the distribution of corn prac ticed In the daya when the Roman empire ruled the world." Mr. Bristow is not an enthusiastic expo nent of the rural free delivery system He frankly states that it was a mistake to establish It upon tho tinea adopted. He ad mits, however, that undoubtedly (t has come to stay, that the people having had a taste of luxury In the way of having their mall delivered at their own gateway wll! Insist upon retaining it General Bris tow frankly saya that it would be foolish to fight public sentiment, but he believes that the wholesale establishment of rural routaa to please aome aenator or member of congress should be curtailed and that when a rural route la hereafter eatab llshcd It should have merit behind It As soon as the investigation which he has in charge la at an end it Is predicted that there will be a complete reorganisation of the rural free delivery eervice and a num ber of heads are expected to fall Into the basket. I'ncle Sam's Growing; Business. The yastness of the business done by the government of the United States is be yond comprehension unless brought home to tha people through the medium of a tabulated statement. Auditor William E Andrewa of the Treasury department, who has seen the business of the government grow aa no other man haa who has occupied a similar position, has preared for The Be a atatement of the number of accounts and amounts Involved in the settlements made by the various divisions of the auditor s office for eleven months of the present fiscal year. While the figures are apprpxl ! mated, they will not. It is believed, differ i very materially when the auditor comes to make up his account at the close of the ' - rA n t 4"! ar a I vta sn Tuna n rrt - "" i no follow ing table shows the enormous extent of the business of the government: Customs, 10,630 accounts $ 42 000 000 Public debt, 2.215 accounts 617'(xm'oiio Miscellaneous, ,!'7 accounts 2 f'.O WO 0"0 Internal revenues, 84,359 accounts MZMJU.iM Total. 106.231 accounts .$4.6U3.0o0 lK) During the year 1902 the number of ac counts aettled by Auditor Andrews was 96,4.s3, the total amount Involved being $6,878,110.5i4. The reason for the falling off In the total amount of the several accounts is due to the abolition of the war taxes. The number of accounts, however, will far exceed those of any previous year, the work for the last month of the present fiscal year. Including the usual monthly average, aa to the number of accounts aettled, and amount involved in auch settle ments. Wldo Tires In the Philippines. The bureau of Insular affaire of the War department has received the annual report of A. I'. Betts. governor of tho province of Albay, for the year 1902, In which he tells of the completion of the road between Lrgaspl and Liguu, whlih passes through the center of the great hemp country. The enormous traffic Continued on feoond Ptg omaha seeks convention Lincoln Man Will Be Sew Head Con sul of Sutlers Woodmen of America. INDIANAPOLIS, June 14. The thir teenth national convention of the Modern Woodmen of America will begin here Tues day morning at Tomllnson hall, Head Con sul W. A. Northcott, lieutenant governor of Illinois, presiding. Thirty-three states will be represented. Delegatlona have already arrived from twelve states. Including the whole New Kn gland delegation. There will be 4t dele gates and sixty-eight head officers and members of atandlng committees. It Is expected there will be 4,000 foresters In camp. Twenty-two hundred tents have been erected and teams have arrived from Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansaa and Missouri. The city Is profusely decorated. The subject of chief Importance to come before the convention will be the read justment of rates. At the state conven tions of Woodmen held on May 6, tha ma jority of the delegates to this convention were elected with the expectation that they would favor readjustment in the line of increase, graded according to the ages of the members. Caucuses of the different state delega tions are being held and it was announced tonight from tha official press headquarters that the head consul would be A. R. Talbot, Lincoln, to succeed W. A. North cott, Oreenville. 111. The executive council will ask the head camp for an appropriation of not less than $10,000 for the relief of the Woodmen flood sufferers in Kansas and Missouri. A number of leaders are in the city to watch the action of the' Modern Woodmen convention en the rate question. The candidates for the next meeting are Omaha, Loa Angelea, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Salt Lake City, Denver, Niagara Falls and Milwaukee. The Modern Woodmen of America at Omaha and Lincoln, to the number of 400, left for Indianapolis last night to attend the biennial national convention of the or der. A special train started on the Rock Island from Lincoln In the afternoon and stopped Several hours In Omaha, leaving at 7:46 in the evening. From Chicago the train will proceed to Indianapolis over the ti-acks of the Big Four. With three drill teams from Lincoln, one from Omaha and one from South Omaha there will be a battalion to represent Ne braska at the conversion. It had been or iginally hoped that i ll of the four teams In Lincoln would atte id, but No. BG9 backed out at the last moment. Thla was felt very much, as A. R. Tall ot of that camp Is a candidate for the offl -e of head consul and stands a good chanc i of obtaining It. Drill team No. 120 'vent from Omaha and No. 1095 from South Omaha, which, with the friends and other members of tho or der, made over half of the tralnload. PLANS TO BLOW UP TOWN Armed Roumanian Forces Works to Close by Intl uldatlna; Su perintendent. '-.',- MORENCL Ara Pna 14. Interest can tered yesterday In'the trial of the strike leaders, who were brought before Justice Chapman for examination. Eighteen men were examined. District Attorney C. L. Rawlins conducted tho examination for the territory and the strikers pleaded their own case. ' Their leader, "Three-Fingered Jack," cross-examined witnesses for the territory. In all about twenty men were examined and their testimony tended to ahow that the coming of the troops last Tuesday and the fearless work of the deputies of Sher iff Parka earlier In the day prevented trouble of a serious nature. The accused were all bound over to await the action of the grand jury, charged with inciting riot, and It is probable their leader will be further charged with threatening to com mit murder. The most damaging testimony waa given by Superintendent McLean, who waa sur prised In his office on Tuesday noon by the heavily armed strike leader and ordered to close down the works. He wss given one minute, and obeyed. He was told the offi cer on guard had aurrendered to his armed men. The leader aald that he would that night blow up the town and loot the rulne The prisoners were taken to Solomonvllle, where they will be held pending an order to take them to Tucaon, the jail there being deemed aafer. The grand jury meets In October. "Jack," the strike leader. Is a Roumanian and landed in New York the day President Garfield waa shot. He says he remembered the day becauae he knew It was) coming. NEW YORK BUILDING STOPS Employers Deride to Continue Lock out Till I'nlons Accept Ar bitration Plnn. NEW TORK, June 14. The members of the Building Trades Employers' associa tion announced that not only would the present lockout continue, but that other work would be stopped, thua completely tying up all building work in the city, un less all labor unions adopt the plan of ar bitration to prevent further strikes. The new condition of affaire came as a thunderbolt to the majority of the walking delegatea, who had thought that about 60, 000 of the 120,000 men out alnce May 4, would resume work tomorrow. Charlea L. Eld president of the Building Trades Em ployers' association, said: We are responsible fir the new order which will continue under the lockout, and It can be said further that the lockout will be continued till the unions have in..ntB,i t our plan of arbitration. We have sent ! notices to contractors and builders to make I the lockout ae complete as possible. This ! will mean that wherever any work Is being none mm wnere mere is material on hand th work will go on until the material is exhausted and then that work will cease I'ndor this itrangement work will prob ably last until Wednesday or Thursday snd there will re no further work until we have como to n understanding with the labor uyilons. The walking delegates have carried things with such a high hand that we have been compelled to take this action. DEWEY READYT0 TESTIFY Will Give His Version of Berry Kill Ins; at Preliminary Trial. 8T. FRANCIS. Kan., June 11 Chaunrey Dewey has decided to give his version of the affair that resulted In the killing of several members of the Berry family next Tuesday. This, It Is supposed, will be done In opposition to the advice of his attorneys. Mr. Dewey hopes that by giving the facts, as he clatma them to be, he will be able to secure Ms freedom on bond. The widows of two of the momlwn of the Berry family will be on hand to testify. The town I gradually filling up with friends of both sides and every effort id being made by the authorities to prevent a ooaruet. MILLIONS BACK DIVORCE Wealthy Wife and Bioh Husband Each Seek Freedom from Dakota Courts. MOTHER NEATLY KIDNAPS YOUNG SON Both Sldea Trick Other, I'sIub Every Legal Meana to Trip Those Con ducting; Opposing; Cnsea and Mahe Road Hard. SIOUX FALLS. S. D., June 14.-8peclal.) The commencement of a ault for divorce In the local courts by Delia Whitman, wife of Joseph H. Whitman, a capitalist and heavy landowner of Chicago, who ia a resi dent of Sioux Falls, adda another chapter to a caae which aeems to develop more than the usual number of sensations. One of the features was the kidnaping by the mother a few daya ago of the 8-year-old son of the couple, who haa been living with his father in this city. As a climax to his matrimonial troubles Whitman suc ceeded in securing affidavits from some of the neighbors questioning tha sanity of his wife, and an order which compels tha mother to bring tha son back to Sioux Falls until tho divorce Is determined. The wife played a neat trick on her hus band by putting in an appearance in Sioux Falls and commencing a suit for divorce herself before he could do so. Ties Ip Husbnnd's Property. By Instituting the suit Mrs. Whitman haa tied up all his property, so he will be un able to transfer such of It as is within the Jurisdiction of the South Dakota courts until a decree is granted or rejected In the divorce ault. A few days ago Mrs. Whitman, who Uvea on one of the aristocratic boulevards of Chicago, arrived In Sioux Falls. She waa act-on anled by a sister. They proceeded to the home of Mr. Whitman, where they were kindly received. The wife and her sister announced that they 'would remain In Sioux Falls for a week or ten days to visit tho boy. The two women. It is said, made themaclvea so agreeable that they completely hoodwinked Whitman, who waa the official custodian of hla son. When It waa suggested by the mother and her sister that they take the boy downtown consent waa readily forthcoming from tho father. As hour after hour rolled around and they did not return he realised that he had been tiuped and instituted a search for Ihe missing trio. No trace of the two women and the boy could be found around the railroad stations. No liveryman had seen them. No one had seen any persons answering their descrip tion on any of the highways leading out of the city. Their disappearance apparently was as complete aa If the earth had opened and swallowed thrm. Hides In Local Hotel. It haa Just been learned that Instead of attempting to leave the city at once, aa some might have done, the two women and their little charge proceeded to a local hotel, where they kept In close confinement until a day or two ago, when a closed hack drove up to the hotel and the women and boy got In. The horaes were started on a run and kept that gait until the .crossing of the Rock Island railroad was reached, where the three took the train. Although the complaint and other papers In the divorce suit of Mrs. Whitman have been removed from the office of the clerk of courta, enough la known of the caae to warrant the belief that one of the grounds upon which the divorce is asked for Is fail ure to provide for the needs of the wife and child. ' It Is said that Mrs. Whitman once before separated from her husband on account of an alleged penuriousness, a reconcflation afterward being effected. , Mra. Whitman is said to be wealthy In her own right, while her sister, who haa In terested herself In the case tn behalf of Mra. Whitman and her child, is reputed to be worth $1,000,000, so It is probable the legal warfare between the couple will be strenuous. STILL SPURN ARBITRATION Chlcaftro Walters Refuao to Settle Dif ferences Except by . War. CHICAGO, June 14. Although no prog ress waa made today toward settling the hotel and restaurant strike In Chicago, still there was noticeable Improvement In the service offered by the different estab lishments where the employes have quit work. All the hotels are open for busi ness, and with few exceptions succeeded In taking care of all guesta that applied for accommodations. The places of the strikers are being filled aa faat aa help can be Im ported from outaide cltlea, and tonight several of the hotels announced that by tomorrow night they would have a full force of employea. Offers by the Hotel Keepers association to submit the controversy to arbitration are still spurned by the strikers and it is declared tonight that more placea where the proprietors refuse to sign the new scale will be closed tomorrow. An effort was made today to have the Steam Power council call a sympathetic strike In all houses where the waiters are out. The request was refused. This meana that the engineers, firemen and elevator men will remain at work, and la a severe blow to the strikers. ' In explaining the stand they have taken the membera of the steam men declare the striking unions are unreasonable in their refusal to arbitrate. In the hope that they could.be made to change their tactics, the council appointed a committee to call on the strikers tomorrow and try to Induce them to aubmlt the whole trouble to arbitration. The committee will meet President Oompers of the American Fed eration of Iabor, who will arrive tomorrow, and ask him to use his influence to bring about a peaceable adjustment of the trouble. DOPE BLASTS BRIGHT LIFE Cocaine Jimmy, Once Slonx City Ath. lete, Dies Mental and Phys ical Wreck. JOPLIN. Mo., June 14. (Special Tele gram.) Don L. Shannon, well known aa "Cocaine Jimmy," died today, a victim of the cocaine habit, "Cocaine Jimmy" haa lived in Joplin ten years and waa once connected with the railway mall service. He waa an expert musician, an athlete and well educated. He waa a total wreck, physically and mentally, and spent the last six years in begging alms In the streets. He was so bowed that his hand would touch the ground. He came from a waithy and in fluential family In Sioux City, Ia. He waa burial today la tha potter's field, FORECAST 0FTHE WEATHER For Nebraska Pnrtly Cloudy Monday, Probably Showers and Cooler In North and West portions and at Night In Kast Portion. ub Yesterday! Honr. Dear. Honr. Dea. B n. m...... AN 1 p. m...... 7T a. m nr a p. t T . n.n.ii tn 8 p. m TU "I n. ni ...... 64 4 p. m ..... . W On. m...... HH R p. m...... HO 10 a. m 71 p. m HO 1 1 n. m ...... 74 7 p. m ...... T" ia m 75 H p. m. . . . 7B 9 p. a T2 HOFFMAN DENIES PRINCE YARN Declares Rudolph Would Bo Older Than He and Joins General Laugh at Tale. (From a Staff Correspondent. DE3 MOINES, June 14 (Special Tele gram.) The story from Marinette, Wis., connecting Dr. C. H. Hoffman with Aus trian royalty and representing him to be Crown Prince Rudolph who committed sui cide some years ago, creates only ridicule here among the acquaintances of the doctor. Mr. Hoffman himself indignantly denies it and saya that If the crown prince were allvo he would now be a man much older than Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman's friends also call attention to the fact that he is a well behaved man, a roan of unusual Intellect and a finely educated doctor; In short he is too smart to be ono of the royal family. But Hoff man, who was let out of the Drake med ical school because he would not show his diploma and reveal hla Identity and past life, still steadily refuses to say anything about his past life, which Is a mystery to all. It la known that ha waa In an Insane asylum and there met a nurse whom he married, but beyond this his life Is a mystery. CRASH INJURES OMAHA GIRL Hnnaway Santn Fe Car Strikes Las Yeans Trolley, Maiming Mrs. Leonard. EAST LAS VEGAS. N. M., June 14. (Special Telegram,) Mra. E. W. Leonard, rnrmorlv Miss Genevieve Stewart, a beau tiful young Omaha woman, waa thrown from an electric car in a collision this Phe struck her head against a telegraph pole, sustaining a fracture at the base of the brain. She was picked up alive, but death la expected momentarily. The electric car waa going to Hot Springs, when It was struck by a Santa Fe car laden with coal that had broken away from ita engine and dashed down the main Una. Neither Mra. Leonard's husband or fam ily were with her. Two other paaeangera were severely In jured. LINCOLN BOY FALLS FROM CAR Death Comes Instantly to Child Re turnlns; from Ball. Game. LINCOLN,' Neb., June 14. (Special Tele gram.) Herbert Gaffey. a 12-year-old boy, while' riding on n College View car. fell under the rear trucks and waa crushed, death resulting almost Instantly. He had been at. a ball game In College View and was returning home about 6. According to the story of the conductor, he was sitting on the step of the car kicking at the weeds, when his foot caught and he waa dragged from his seat. He was taken to the home of his father, H. H. Gaffey, a plumber, living at 1846 Prospect street. The fatality occurred near Falrvlew. CARRIES DRUG ' IN NECKTIE Convicted of Manslaughter Merrlman Man Tries to Poison Self. VALENTINE. Neb., June 14 (Special Telegram.) John Green, the Merrlman hotel keeper, who waa convicted of man slaughter here last Friday, tried to com mit suicide today by taking a dose of car bolic acid. He waa not Buccesaful In carry ing out hla Intention, aa a physician ar rived In time to save his life. Green killed a man in Merrlman last fall and his caae excited much Intereat here, aa he was well known. He carried the polaon for several weeks In his necktie. WOMAN DIES ON THE TRAIN Succumbs to Consumption While Traveling with Four Lit tle Children. SIDNEY, Neb., June 14. (Special Tele gram.) Mrs. Alexander, a passenger on Union Pacific train No. 4, died here this evening aa the train was entering the yards, of consumption. Four little children accompanied her. Her home was at Elgin,' Ore., and aha was on her way to Sumner, Mo. The body waa taken In charge by Undertaker Esslg and tha husband notified. The children are being provided for by the Ladles' Aid So ciety. THINKS DICK LANDON SHOT Wife Aaks Information Concerning Reported Butchers' Picnic Tragedy. Dick Landon of South Omaha Is reported shot at the butchers' picnic at Pries' lake last evening. Mrs. Landon telephoned the police for particulars, but beyond this nothing definite can be learned. Tha as sailant Is supposed to have taken a buck skin horse and buggy and disappeared. The Omaha and South Omaha police had no Information concerning the shooting up to a late hour. Mrs. Nation In Omaha. Carrie Nation, the hatchet champion, wss in Omaha yesterday for a few hours. She came In from Cherryville Kan., in the morning too late to catch the train for Eagle Grove, Ia.. where she talka thla evening. She apent the day with Mrs. Rcynolda of 1S09 South Twenty-ninth ave nue. She found time to attend services In the First Christian church, of which de nomination she is a member, and after ward to visit the county jail, where aha put in fifteen mlnutea In spreading the propoganda of total abstinence. Movements of Ocean Vessels, June It. At New York Arrived: Anrhorln, from Glasgow and Moville; Cedric, frdiu Liver pool and Queenstown. At yueetistown Arrived : Cymric, from New York for IJverpcol; I'mbrla, from New York for Liverpool, and both prM et-ded. Sniled: Ctimpanla, from Liverpool for N w York At Liverpool Arrived: Helgenland. from Philadelphia via Uueenstown; Ueorglc, from Now York. FEUD WAR IS WARM Ewen'i Hotel Burnt Down Snppoietly 11 Reault of Incendiarism. HARGIS SUPPORTERS ARE SUSPECTED Two Hen aid to Hare Been Been Near bj When B'irm 8tartsd Arretted. BROUGHT UP ON HABEAS C0RPUSWRIT Judge Allows Bail, but lien Finajlj Go Back in Military Custody. CASH OR DEATH PROFFERED WITNESS Given Choice Between Repudiating Tale of Marram's Murder and Getting; S,oo0 or Stleklnac to It and Dying;. JACKSON, Ky June 14. Tha City hotel, a three-story building owned by Captain B. J. Ewen, the principal witness against Jett and White waa burned to the ground early this morning. There were fifteen guesta In the hotel, but all escaped with out Injury. There was no Insurance on the structure and tha hotel, together with Its furnishings and the effects of the guests, la a total loss. The origin of the fire la unknown, but the belief la general that It was of Incendiary origin, and two men are held on this charge. Mtlltln FlBht Flames. Jackson haa no fire department, and Ita citizens were awakened by the. firing of pistols and guna and much excitement prevailed. A detachment of militia came on the double quick from their ramp across the river and rendered valuable aid in assisting the guesta to escape and pre venting the flames from spreading. Captain Kwen has been kept at the mllltla camp rince he testified last Monday that he aaw Curtla Jett fire the shot which killed Mar cum. It waa only two daya ago that Jack Bon waa put under rrartlal law. The fire haa caused renewed apprehension. As the day wore on and more Information was forthcoming the public began to take the fire not only aa Incendiary, but as ac cessory to other acts of Intimidation In connection with the trial of thoae accused of the murder of J. B. Marcum. It haa been openly predicted that there would be the flashing of incendiary warnings, that arson would go along with assaslna tlon aa disciplinary measures might be needed In Breathitt county. Bribes Offered to Kwan. Captain B. J. Ewen was the chief witness for the prosecution In the trials of Jett and White. He la the deputy sheriff who testi fied that he saw Jett ready with his pistol In his hand to fire the last shot into Mar cum'a prostrate body aa it lay In the court house doorway. Through fears for his own safety, he said, na did not dars to allow Eaerlff Callahan and County Judge Hargts to know what he had seen. When It did be come known. Se was first a prisoner-in bis , borne, and then he fled the county until he could have tha protection of troops. His house haa been under the guard of a detail of aoldlera for several weeks and aa a mora stringent precaution against assassination ha alept In camp at the provost marshal's headquarters. Several days sgo' a party vlalted him at hia home and mad him a propoaltion that If ha would repudiate what ha had related on the wltneaa stand, saying that he tes tified to what waa not true because of the Indictment which he waa under, he would be given $5,000 by' a certain clthten, and that if he did not accept the offer he would be assassinated. He encouraged hla visitor to return In the afternoon and stationed two wltneases In a closet who overheard the propoaltion and the threat, which waa accompanied by tha tender of five crisp $1,000 notea. No one has doubted that Ewen waa In actual dan ger, but few were prepared for a atep as desperate as that which cams' today. Work Hard to Save Town. At 6 o'clock thla morning Joe Rndmon, a watchman at the lumber yard of Swann & Day, discovered flames Issuing from the roof of Ewen's hotel, altuated In the moun tainside, 3oO yards from the depot. The alarm waa given and Lieutenant Klnnard, with the provost guard, turned out to ren der assistance. Soon hundreds of people were on the scene. Heroio work on tha part of tha soldiers and citizens saved possibly the entire south side of the town. The McEwen hotel Is at the end of a long row of miners' cottages, all of whlrh were In grave danger. When those in tha hotel were notified the fire had gained auch head way that the guests who hud not risen had only time to eava part of tholr clothing. John Clarey of Louisville, a telegraph operator, waa asleep on the second floor. In the excitement he was not awakened until the flames had shut off eacapa from tha front stairway and was almost suffocated while comlntv out by the rear stairway, falling unconsclouB and half -dressed on the ground, when ha finally freed himself from the danger. Mrs. Ewan and her children are poorly clad and loat everything. The house and fixtures were valued at about $10,000. They were the saving of a lifetime and Ewen and family are tonight homeless and dependent upon tha pltallty of the troopa In camp. Protecting Water Itnu to Wast. Rain barrels around the houae, which afforded ita chief fire protection, were overturned by the Incendiary before the torch waa applied. Nearly all of tha In surance policies In Jackson have been can celed because ot recent events. Two cloth balls dipped in kerosene and tur were found near the hotel. , Hold Two for Arson. Gray and Jim Haddicks and Jerry Luntx, workmen at the Swann & Lay lumber yard, reported having aeen Joe Crawford and Ud Thap, wagoneera for the Hargla Bros., come across the brldgo and return just before the blase was discovered, and Major Allen ordered these men arreated. They were taken Into the military camp by the soldiers and manacled In tha guard house Gray Haddicks was retained by the pro vost guard aa a witness. Soon the Hargls people were active. They sent Attorney! John O'Nell of Covington and U. B. Golden' of Iturbervllle, defending Jett and White, and swore cut writs of habeas corpus maklnr them returnable at once. The wrlti were served on Major Allen and he aent th prisoners to the courthouse under a stronj guard, commanded by Captain Maddox. Commonwealth' Attorney Byrd asked Judge Rrdwlne time for Major Allen to tllu a resonse. He asked that he be given till tomorrow, but Judge Redwlne demanded that it be filed at once. Thin whs done and the attorneys argued the ramc. Two of the most Interested spec tators were tfiunty Judge Hargls and Sheriff Ed Callihau. The attorneys argued