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The Daily Bee. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1JH3. SINGLE OOFY THREE CENTS. 1 t ' Omaha r r BULGARIA FOR PEACE Ptoidei to Wair.tain Attitu3a of Etriotut . Neutrality in Freient Affair. WILL ADOPT MOST STRINGENT MEASURES Anything Likely to Cama Disturbance With Turkey to Be Aroidai CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY COST OF WAR f eari It Will Not Be Permitted to Reap Advanttge. NATION IN POSITION TO MAKE DEFENSE l Hostilities Are Declared Will Ac cept Challenge Fearlessly Army Can Be Mobilised la Three la Twelr Dare. BANK OF ENGLAND NEEDS GOLD Raises Discount Hate la Stop fhe Drnla oi I Rfttnr apply. LONDON. Sept. ,1-Th unusual step taken by the director of the Hank of England In raising the rste of discount a full point to 4 per cent In the flr.t week of September la a prompt admission that the financial altuation In Europe I almost aa abnormal, though for entirely different reasons, aa the monetary position In New York. The Bank of England has today a atock of coin and bullion fully 10,000,W leas than It had"- year ago, while the re serve la pearl: W down. In that condition the baA., satisfy heavy demands from the ' ',f Europe. Oermany la by far the heaU' ' 'rawer of coin, and the drain of bum Berlin Is likely to continue until li. 000.000, which Is the British governmen. payment for the Netherlands Transvaal railway capital, la fully paid. Scarcely 10.000,010 of thla obligation has been dis charged up to the present time. Germany's national requirements are, however, of a far wider and more Interest ing character. Ita Imperial revenue has lately fallen short of Ita expenditure, and there Is reluctmca to bridge over the rap ALASKA MAY GET A DELEGATE t Brad and Swineford Are the Two Chief Aspirant SUBCOMMITTEE FAVORS THE PLAN Senators Wka Visited the Big Posses sion. However, Are Said Is) Oppose a Territorial Form of Government. .OFIA. Bulgaria, ovi. (I. According to reliable reports from Varna at the recent ouncll of ministers presided over ly j by calling on the separate German states Tlnoe reromann at ui palace or tuiin ograd. It was resolved that Bulgaria should continue to maintain an attitude of the Strident neutrality In the Macedonian ques tion and further that the most stringent measure ahould be adopted to prevent any thing likely to cause a disturbance In Bul garia's relations with Turkey. The war minister Is reported to have spoken strongly against sny thought of Bulgaria declaring war on Turkey, first, on account of the enormous expenditure that such a war would Involve, and, secondly, because the great power would never permit Bul garia to reap the advantage If she were Victorious. Should Turkey attack Bulgaria, declared the minister, the army could hold the Turks In check for the first few daya while the entire Bulgarian army could be mobi lized In three to twelve daya. Bulgaria would never declare war, he added, but If war was declared against her she would accept the challenge fearlessly. As an evi dence of Bulgaria's peaceful Intentions, the council decided that, upon the first symp toms of disorder on the frontier, martial law would be proclaimed at Burgas, Kos tendll, I'hlllppopolls aiid Sofia. The minis ters expressed the opinion that the powers would aoon reach the conviction that the Macedonian question could not be decided Without their intervention. 'Where Towns Were Destroyed. The Autonomic publishes the names of fifty villages burned by the Turks In the following districts: Resen. thirty villages; Kostur, fourteen; Brushevo, six, and one monastery, ' The Turks burned four vil lages In the district of Strushknpollsk and murdered the priest. The population fled to the mountains. The Turks have de stroyed all the flour mills In the district of Reeen and also every church. A fight la reported to have taken place at the vil lage of Vetrsko, in the district of Kuma novo, between a lody of Insurgents and a Turkish battalion. It' lasted four hour ' and iha'Turxs hist heavily.- Reports have reached the revolutionary headquarters here of atrocities by the Turks In the village of Velmomt In the district of Debre, , The troops and Baahl JiasoukS are aald to have surrounded, the village and part of them entered and began plundering the bouses and assaulting the women. The other soldiers remained out side and killed those Inhabitants who tried to escape. The Turks then set fire to the village In four places, burning twelve women and children. One child waa hanged. Altogether sixty pen Bants were killed and their bodies were left lying In the streets. Lelahman Awaits Developments. CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. . United Btatea Minister Irishman is not taking any steps regarding the attempt upon Vice Consul Magelssen at Bnyroot, but Is quietly awaiting developments on the part of the port. Referring t the declarations made by Chekib Bey, minister to Washington, In an Interview August 29, cabled here. It Is pointed out In Constantinople thst the ports would have obviated all the present disagreement between the United Statea and Turkey had It executed Ita engagement mads laat year, and therefore the Ottoman government Is alons blamablo for the pres ent relations between the two countries, It Is also declared that the charges made by Chekib Bey against the American mis lonarie of inciting the Armenians against the Mussulmans are unfounded. The Interior of most of the smbassles hers are guarded by armed sailors from their respective guardshlps. The German embassy, in the absence of its guardshlp, Loroley, which Is cruising In the Black Sea, Is guarded by Turkish soldiers. How Boat Waa Destroyed The survivors of the Hungarian steamer Vaakapura, destroyed In the Black sea. attributed to explosions caused by the In surgents, state that two explosions oc curred on board the steamer at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning. Two dynamite bombs lor lncret.se.1 contributions. The Econo mist points out today that such a course might cause political complications, and It is thought preferable to wait until a new and higher customs tariff Is In fores and ths revenue thereby Increased. Mean while the government has plans for fur nishing the army with new artillery and rifles and for increasing the navy, to carry through which the government prefers to resort to large new loan' rather than to Impose fresh taxation. The Bank of Ger many is now preparing to finance these loans, doing so both by enlarging Its own resources and by attracting to home In terests German capital now employed In England and other countries. 1 Beside this outward movement, the de mand of gold for Egypt will be excep tionally heavy In order to finance the ex cellent cotton crop. Shipments of gold to the United States, though not yet begun are only proposed. Altogether, financial houses are abundantly justtfled In expect ing that the drain on the Bank of Eng land's resources will be exceptionally se vers towarda the end of the year. INVESTIGATE ITALIAN NAVY Premier Promises to Appoint a Com. mission V'pen Socialist Editor's Demands. i ROME, Sept. . Deputy Ferrl, the editor of the socialist paper Avantl, who was acquitted September i of the charge of libeling the navy, brought against him by thirty-five naval officers on the ground that the latter could not represent the whole navy, has filed an Interpellation to be made on the reopening of the chamber. Insisting again on a parliamentary Inquiry Into the condition of the navy from the time of the battle of Uses, In 186. in which the Italians were defeated by the Austrlans, until the present time. It was on the occasion of a previous attempt to obtain WparllamenCary Inquiry that Signor Ferrl made his attacks on the navy which led to the suit for libel being brought against him. It Is believed, how ever, that before the reopening of the ohsmber Premier Zsnardelll will appoint a committee of naval Investigation, aa he promised when the proposition for sn In auiry wss previously - rejected by the chambers. BARTHOLDT GETS MEETING International Arbitration Conference Will Hold Session nt St. Loats Exposition. VIENNA, Sept. 6. The conference of the Interparliamentary union for International arbitration will meet here tomorrow. A session of the council was held today to consider business. Congressman P.lchard Bartholdt, the American delegate, succeeded In securing the next conference for St. Louis In 1904 to bs held In connection with the exposition upon the condition that the official Invitation be extended to the con ference by either the president of the United States or congress. Mr. Bartholdt assured the congress that such an Invitation was sure to bs secured. ROME FEARS DEMONSTRATION Forbid Public Commemoration of Death of Philosopher Because f Csare Visit. ROME, Sept. . The police forbade public commemoration of the death of the Italian philosopher Bovle, which the ex treme parties had arranged to hold today as they believed It was Intended to convert It Into a demonstration against the comlug visit of the csar to Rome, Troops ware kapt In readiness In case o disorder, but nothing occurred to call for Were thrown by men, supposed to have I their Intervention. The extremists hav mbarked at Varna, one In the atoke hole deolded to hold the commemoration nex and the other on the bridge. The vessel Was In charge of the first and second mates the captain being asleep. The whole bridge With the captain and ths two matea was Mown off while ths stoks hole was wrecks! and an apprentice killed. - Ths explosions were followed by an out break of fire In ths forehold. Altogether fifteen persons lust their lives but all ths engineers and most of the passengers were saved. Ths crsw behaved with great gal lantry. Private advices from Adrienople report that the troops In the Ktrk-KUlsse dlstrlot are treating ths Inhabitants with great rigor. Every Bulgarian village furnishing recruits to the Insurgents has been bom barded and destroyed, ths Inhabitants be ing given barely time to escape. In the vilayet of Monaster equal isverlty Is ihown. One pasha told his troops that ths booty belonged to them and ths honor to him. Aa a result ths troops are pillaging even ths vlllagea whioh. remain neutral. There has been a heavy fall In Turkish securities during ths past two days on the unfounded rumor that the Turkish troops bad crossed ths Bulgarian frontier. LONDON, Sept A letter fron Bey root dated August XJ, describe the condi tion there under ths present vail as scan dalous. It says: Not only bribery and corruption era rampant in every branch of the legisla tion, but a certain lawlessness is manifes ting Itself among the Moslem element, which If not suppressed is sura to cause trouble In the future. The native Chr.s tlans are oppressed but they do not cotn t.l.ln while the Europeans no longer en joy the security which existed a few years ago. The house of the Italian consul was latelv rifled by burglars and Sunday. Aug ust 23. the American vice consul was fired at Arrests were made, but it always hsp- pens that the innocent man la made to suffer for the crime. , HO MB. He pi. .Plus X has represented to the Austrian emperor ths advisability, Sunday In spits sf police prohibition.. (Continued so Second Pag) Gatagr Baek ta the Apa. LONDON, Sept. I.-A Melbourne dispatch to the Dally Chronlole says ths admin latrator of British New Guiana report ths discovery of an extraordinary tribe of marsh land dwellers In the Island of Papua Owing to the swampy ground and tangled tropical undergrowth, walking and canoe Inr are almost impossible. Ths natlv dwellings are built in trees, arid ss a re suit of ths conditions the natives sre grad ually losing ths uae of their lower limbs and are unable to walk on hard ground without their feet bleeding. Their bodies have developed enormously, while their legs and thighs hsvs become atrophied Id figure and carriage they are ape-like. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.-(8peclal.)-There Is every prospect that Alaska will be granted a delegate In congress this win ter. It has long needed one and the need has greatly Increased with the unexpected development of the resources of the mighty territory in recent years. The subcommit tee of the senate committee on territories, which has Just returned from Alaska, li In favor of representation by delegate, but Is hostile to a territorial form of govern ment for the great possession. The committee went to Alaska for the special purpose of Investigating conditions and there Is little doubt that Its recom mendations will be approved by the com mittee and the senate. On the house side there has long been a feeling favorable to Alaskan representation. Now that we have delegates from Porto R!oo and little Hawaii there seems to be no valid reason why we should not have one from the most extensive of our territorial posses sions. In the event that a delegate is given Alaska, In all probability ihe republican candidate for that office will he the present governor of Alaska, John Green Brady. Governor Brady Is a New Yorker by birth, his early education, however, having been received from Judge John Green of Tipton, Ind., to whom he was sent by the Chil dren's Aid society of New York when a tiny tot. Later he worked his way through Yale and the Union Theological seminary, where he graduated. Later In life lie en gaged 1.700 acres, of land In Texas where he proposed to establish an industrial re form colony for New York slum boys, but on account of the lack of funds It' was bandoned. Governor Brady went to Alaska in 1871 as a missionary with Dr. 8heldon Jackson and later became manager of the Sitka Trading company. He was ap pointed governor of Alaska, June IS, lc97, and waa reappointed June t, 1900, his term expiring In 1904. Swlaeford Is Democrats' Choice. The demooratla candidate Is likely to be Alfred P. Swineford. After many years of prominence in the upper peninsula of Mich igan Mr. Swineford became Cleveland's governor of Alaska eighteen years ago. He had a long training In mining countries. He had been a state legislature and oandldate for lieutenant governor and for congress. He had for years conducted-what was and s still regarded as the best newspaper In Michigan's upper peninsula. - He made one of the most popular governors the Russian purohase ever had. Governor Swineford has made Alaska his home ever since. He has appeared frequently In Washington In Alaskan Interests. Few people In the United States have any due comprehension of the "magnificent dis tance." of Alaaka-Jt taken Qovaranr Brady or ex-Governor Swineford to give a man a reasonable conception of the far-reaching areas added to the American domain by William H. Seward's little negotiation with Csar Alexander II. In the current Issue of the Connecticut' Magaxlne, a valuable his torical publication. Judge Lyman E. Munson has an article In which he says: "The Alaskan Islands are crowned with golden sunlight at midday, while midnight darkens the capltol at Washington." America's Wonderland. ' Governor Swineford of Alaska some years sgo gave to a newspaper correspondent a story which was widely published. In this he said: "When I am sitting In the execu tive residence at Sitka I am farther east from Attu islands that westernmost of ths Aleutian islands than I am west of Port land. Me. If the capital of the United States wss located In the exact center of our country It would be In the Paclfle ocean 600 miles north by west of San Fran cisco." This was before our country became a world-girdling power; It was before the gold discoveries of the Klondike and Nome and before the mighty rush of people from everywhere in Alaska. At the same time the then governor spoke of the agricultural possibilities of the "American Wonderland' and amased the Washington newspaper men by telling them that Indian children played baseball and danced barefooted be fore the executive residence In Sitka on Christmas day. He also delighted In ex hlbltlug a map of Alaska made on the scale of an ordinary state map. It was a hugo affair rolled In a big bundle, so largo no wall In Washington could be found big j enough to hang It on. In actual land area Alaska la clmost seven times as large as Nebraska not counting the Islands, and In extent of land and water, from the Russian to the British boundary it is something colossal. It will be no small honor to be Alaska's Crst delegate, and Incidentally the mileage to and from Skaguay to Washington each session of congress, during the term (and sometlrnaa there are three sessions) will make the Alaskan delegate the best puld men In congress with the possible exception of the frisky end tawney Prince Cupid of Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. Oar "Lack of Preparedness." The lack of preparedness which England showed on going Into the Sjuth African war and which has recently been made public through four bulky blue books Is sued last week In London by the Commis sion of Enquiry has been the subject of universal comment in army and navy cir cles hereabouts. It has done one thing, however, that may be far-reaching In Its results and that la it has drawn the at tention of the heads of army and navy de partments to our own lack of prepared ness should we be forced into another war. One of the highest army officers, whose NEW COAL HAULING ROAD Projected to Open Lands la Kentucky in Connection With New , Mining Company. CINCINNATI, Sept, -A mortgage to secure bonds on a new railway from Co lumbus. O., to Msysville, Ky., to connect east and west trunk lines in the north with the Chesapeake Ohlo.he Louisville ft Nashville and other southern lines, was recorded yesterday and today It Is an nounced that this new line will also ex tend ninety miles from Maysvllle, Ky., through Jackson, Pike, Flcrd and Martin counties In Kentucky, so Is to form nn outlet to the coat fields on the west side of Big Sandy river, , The Great Northern Coal and Coke com pany, recently organised with a capital isation of $10,000,000, owns 600,000 acres of coal lands In that region, and la said to be promoting the new railway. It Is pro posed to ship this coal by rail, as well as down the Big Sandy and Ohio rivers, as has been done for years. Jt Is said that the Great . Northern and the Pittsburg coal companies will then control the coal trade from Pennsylvania , and all states along the Ohio river to . New Orleans. Large elevators . and tipples are to.be erected at Marysvllto for transferring coal into barges for the trade along the Ohio and the Mississippi valleys. The Great Northern will have Ita land and railway headquarters In New York. Its shipping headquarters at Maysvllle and Its selling headquarters at Cincinnati. The temporary organisation of the Great North ern Coal and Coke company Includes J. M. Camden and ftprtgg Camden of Parkers burg, F. A. Dlnlcy and Robert Nomlon of Chicago. George C. Howe of Duluth. J. C. Maya of Palntsvllle, Ky., and members of an eastern syndicate whose names are not made known. It Is said that with con nections at Columbus. O., this combination Intends also to enter the lake coal trade. FATAL FIGHT OVER WOMAN I condition ofjthe weather Bishop's Salary Suppressed. PARIS, Sept. I. Premier Combes has sup pressed the salary of Bishop Andrleu of Marseilles because of the violently worded circular Issued by the blahop to the clergy of his diocese, denouncing the authorities and also on account of a recent demomtra tlon In the cathedral at Marseilles on the occasion of a visit from the bishop of Nancy, whose salary had been privately suppressed by ths government. HUSBAND IS UNDER ARREST Millionaire Las Anarcles Official Charged With Attempting to Kill . His Wife. Is David Houser ii Etabbed and Mortally Wounded by Charles. Ellsworth. TROUBLE STARTS AT HILL'S ROAD HOUSE Termination Is on Road Leading ta City Man Who Don the Massing Arrested Later by Coanctl Mian's Police. David Houser was stabbed to death . by Charles Ellsworth about one-half mils southwest of Hill's road house on the main road leading Into Omaha, at 13:30 o'clock this morning. Both men reside In Council Bluffs and had been at the road house to attend a dance. Houser's death was not Instantaneous. He died about an hour after the wound was Inflicted, In Dr. Hobb's office at SKlt Sherman avenue. John Fosdlck and David Houser attended a danca at Hills road house yesterday evening together. A woman with whom Houser had been on somewhat Intimate terras wss also attending the danoa, and during ths evening had shown some at tention to Ellsworth. This Houser re sented. He and Ellsworth had some words during the evening at different times. About 11:30 Houser and Fosdlck decided to return home. Fosdlck took ths buggy and was In company with a woman. Opal La Blanche, while Houser started to walk on shead. After they had gone about a mile Houser, who seemed to be considering the Incidents of the evening, turned to Fosdlck and aald: - "I don't like the way I have been used I gutss I will go back and settle with that fellow." Fosdlck attempted to dissuade htm, and told him that he was foolish to go hunting trouble as there were Ave or six men In the other party while he was only one. Fosdlck says he thought Houser had given tip the notion of going back or waiting to meet Ellsworth, but that h. had dropped back behind the buggy and when he looked for him again he waa gone. Another Man Interferes. Forecast for Nebraska Showers and Much Cooler Mondsy; Tua day Fair. Temperature at Omaha Yesterdayi Hoar. Deg. Hear. Deg. S a. m fl-J 1 p. m 4 a a. m ea a p. m 7 a. m 4 il p. in ' R a. m IT 4 p. m ...... XI n a. m to n p. m :l II) a. n TS p. m...... T 11 a. m Til T p. m TS 19 m S2 Fnsriink than tnlri the vonns: woman In LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. ..-Colonel : the buggy with him that he was going to Griffith, a millionaire resident of this city and a member of the board of park com missioners, has been arrested On the charge of assaulting his wife with murderous In tent. Mrs. Griffith is In a hospital suffering from the effects of a pistol shot wound In the head and a compound fracture of the shoulder. She was shot.' last Thursday evening in her room at the Santa Monica hotel, where, with her husband and son, aged 15, she had been spending the summer. In her statement to ths district .attorney, Mrs. Griffith said her husband shot her after forcing her to answer at the pistol point some Irrational 'questions aa to her faithfulness and knowledge of any attempt to poison him. When he shot her she was on her knees, fine jumped up and ran to a window, out of which she Jumped, falling on a roof some fourteen feet below, frac turing her shoulder blade. Mrs. Griffith wsnted a charge of Insanity preferred against her husband.:. Colonel Griffith lnr)"',i that his wtfa was wounded aooldontal.i.rw was twrMfng bvrf a trunk, according to his; story, when ha heard the report of the revolver and turned to see Mrs. Griffith fall to the floor. The weapon, ha says, was one of his own which Mrs. Griffith came across In gathering to gether their effects for packing. How it was discharged Colonel Griffith does not know, as he asserted that his back was turned. He denied that there was any pos sible cause for a quarrel between himself and Mrs. Griffith and declares that re ports of his having fired the shot are abso lutely unfounded. DEFENDS MODERN JOURNALISM Prof. Erie Sparks Saya Newspapers Are the Barometers af Society. CHICAGO, Sept. . Prof. Erie Sparks defended modern Journalism before the regular weekly session of the Cook county teachers' Institute at the normal school and declared the newspapers were the barometers of the times. He deplored the "sensational ideals" of the modern editors, but said that they reflected the Ideas of the times. The remarks were made In the course of a lecture on "Rerorm Movements in Amer ica." The lecture was a critical study of Horace Greeley, with special attention to the great reform movements of ths middle of the century In which he was Interested abolition, temperance and woman suf frage. Ho told of the high principles which governed Greeley In the management of the New York Tribune and compared them to the methods of later editors. 'The newspaper Is, however," he said, "sn accurate barometer of the times. An accurate estimate can be formed of a per son by the way he reads a newspaper. Some men will turn to the sporting page at once; other men will begin at the first page and read column after column; others go at once to the financial page. A woman will pick up a paper, glance at the first page to see If there are any elopements or romances, and then turn to the 'woman's page' and but, good Lord, deliver us." The Institute closed this afternoon. Prof. Sparks lectured In the afternoon on "The Moat American of Our Presidents." turn back and see what had become of his friend. He turned the horse and drove back a few hundred yards, and was just In time to see Ellsworth jump from his buggy and attack Houser, who fell Into tbe weeds by the roadside. Fosdlck ran up to render some assistance to his fallen friend, but another man who was In ths buggy with Ellsworth, whose first name Is Charley, and who In the meantime had gotten out, warned him back and made a pass at him with something which he held In his hand, but what Fosdlck waa Unable to state. He gave it as his opinion that It .was either a pair of knuckles or a knife. Fosdlck then Jumped back and tried to reason with the two men and finally they allowed him to approach his friend. Ellsworth and the man named Charley got Into their buggy with the two women who accompanied them and started down the road. Their rig waa behind that of Fosdlck. As they, passed him he was In the act of assisting Houser Into the buggy and una w UtiWsHwNKr- wotn'i- .iiliwwerte or ths other' he could not state, out at htm with the whip as they, turned out to paps, When ' Fosdlck had gotten Houser Into his buggy he told him to drive on and find a doctor as soon as possible. . Houser re plied that ha was feeing quite weak, and said that he believed he was pretty badly hurt. He was able at that time to sit up, Fosdlck again warned him to hurry. for ward as fast as possible and And a physi cian. It was Fosdlck'o Intention to follow along on foot with his woman companion as all three could not ride In the buggy very well and It did not occur to him thiit there was danger of Houser dying. Houser drove on ahead and finally went out of Sight. Lylnar In Bottom of flatrgry. When Fosdlck and his companion reached NO ONE HURTJN" RUNAWAY Dr. Paris, Family and Coachman Hara Kxcltlag Time, bat Ara Rot Injnred. A fine team of carriage horses belonging to Dr. B. B. Davis performed a feat yes terday which resulted In the demolition of the doctor's carriage and came danger ously near terminating seriously for Its oc cupants, the doctor, his family and coach man. Fortunately, however, none was hurt and the horses themselves got off without Injuries. Dr. Davis, Mrs. Davis and their little son were In the carriage, which was being driven by their coachman to the Madison at Twenty-first and Chicago streets, where the family wss to dine. At Twenty-second end Chicago the horses scared and 'soon got beyond control of their driver. They whisked Into the front yard of Judge Doane's residence, paying little heed to the fence which partially surrounds the place. Picking a favorite tree, they made a few fancy turna around It, and then decided to romp over Into the next yard, which wss that of Count Crelghton. In the meantime, however, Mrs. Davis first, then the father with his boy, and last - the coachman, emerged safely from the rig. which waa still attached to th horses. It looked like a cinch for the death of two mighty fine horses and the destruction of the carriage. The latter Just about came true, but despite the fact that the horses. In their mad race, took a desperate lunge over the six-foot terrace of Count Crelghton's place, they landed safe and sound, ready for an other good scamper. They took the scamper and finally turned up In their stalls st home, leaving remnants of the carriage behind them. - Those who witnessed ths runaway wonder how the occupants of the csrrlage got off without serious Injury. CRUSHED UNDER MOTOR CAR Thrown on Trnck In Front of Moving; ' Car fey a Fractions Horse. John R Wilson of South Omaha received Injuries about :80 last evening which re suited In his desth a short time, afterward at the South Omaha hospital. Wilson v out driving and coming down the hill at Twentieth and L streets his horse got be yond control.' Wilson was thrown out and onto the motor track Immediately In front of a moving car. When picked up he was stlil alive, but died within a few minutes after arriving at ths hospital. There It no conductor on the cars on this line and at this point the motnrman, Fred Patterson,' wss, Inaids the car collecting fares and waa powerless to prevent the accident. Wilson was about 27 years old and waa employed by the Omaha Packing company. He had been married about two years. INDIAN LAM DEALS Correspondence Between Secretary of tbe Interior and President Oarrett. FORMER CALLS LATTER DISCOURTEOUS Head of Association Thinks Charges More Important Than Courtesy. INSPECTORS MUST BE ABOVE SUSPICION India Bights Association Execntire De fends His Agenta's fieport COURSE Of DEPARTMENT IS DEFENDED Many Changes Mad Have Already Been Investigated, Officers Have Been Removed and Work Is ta Be Coattaaed. WASHINGTON. Sept. . Secretary Hitchcock today made public the follow ing correspondence between himself and Philip C. Garrett, president of the Indian Rights association: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. WASHINGTON. DC. Aug. 19. IDtiS - Hon. Philip C. Garrett. President Indian Rights Association. 1.15 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Sir: I have received yours nated Alandar. Mass., August tf, replying to mine of the 20th Inst., and quote the first psi-Hgraph of the same as lollowa: "I am away from home, as I have been much of the summer, and do not recall exactly how the copies of Mr. Broslus' lettor were sent out." This In reply to my letter of the 20U Ic you, which whs as follows: - "l.'pon my return to the city yesterday I And your letter of the Mth Inst.. Inclosing a letter from your Washington agent. P. Ihl. Broslus. In which you stale, seams to me (you), io present grave Irregularities on the part of officials uppolnted by the govern ment which have a tendency to wrong the Indians the very wards of the nation whom they are appointed to protect; and I tako the liberty of submitting a copy of It to you In order, if you thought proper, the subject may be offlclslly Investigated." Before replying more fully to your letter, as above acknowledged, I will thank you to kindly inform me whether or not the widespread publication In the press of the country, on or about the date of your let ter to me enclosing said letter, was auth orised by yourself or by any officer of your association? Publication Was Discourteous. My purpose In thus addressing you was to ascertain whether or not you had auth orised or were aware of the fact that the letter of Mr. Hroslus, enclosed with yours to me of the 13th, which I did not receive until my return to the city on the lth, hud been given wide-spread circulation throughout the country, mid before I had an opportunity to make any teply. Inas much us such publication seems to me as being most discourteous, under the clruum stHiues. Hence my Inquiry which, ss a matter of courtesy, I deem due to your self. I sincerely regret that you can not iiw recall exactly how the copies o: jur. Broslus' letter wtre tent o it. Returning now, in further reply to yours of the l.Uh Inst., 1 note with pleasure your desire not to wish to exasperate any of ths evils In the administration of the Indian bureau, and beg to state that the "grave Irregularities on the part of officials ap pointed by the government" with which you stem to have been impressed by the re port made to you by Mr. Broslus, have, for monl.is ;,ast, had my personal attention, thua anticipating your courteous request that the subject may be. officially investi gated, i Orll -tals " Are 'Hemm ed. ARTILLERY TAKES LONG MARCH Ordered to Make Eight Hundred Mile . Trip From Tennessee ta Fart Myer,- Va. CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. Sept. . Ths Third Vnlted Btates artillery, which has been stationed at Chattanooga park for nearly two years, leaves on Tuesday for Fort Myer, Va., where It will be located the Missouri Pacific viaduct on Sherman : The organisation, consisting of about 300 avenue they saw a buggy standing at the side of the street. At first they could see no one Jn the buggy as it was dark, but on looking closer they beheld a man lying in the bottom of the rig. Fosdlck hur ried forward, saying at the same time: "That Is Houser and I guess he Is done for." When he reached the wounded man ha men, will undertake the longest march ever attempted in time of peace by a body of the regular army. It Is about MO miles from here by roads to Fort Myer, and, acting under orders of the War department, the artillery will march the entire distance, carrying with It all of Its equipment. The men will ride on the cannon and ammunition carriages still breathing and he Jumped into the ! and the mules in the command. It Is ex- NEW WORLD'S TRAIN RECORD Baltimore Ohio Passenger, Covers 128 Miles la 13S Mlaates Be tween Junction aad Chicago. CHICAGO. Sept. 6. What Is claimed to be a new world's record for long-distance running made by a passenger train was made on the Baltimore Ohio railroad early this morning. A stretch of 128 miles name for obvious reasons Is suppressed, i was covered in 126 minutes. No stops were said to The Bee correspondent today that the National Guard of the several states. while making a splendid nucleus for a mag nificent army, needed much more care In made. The distance traversed is between Chicago Junction, O.. and Garrett, Ind. During the run a speed of eighty-five mIK-s an hour was reached. This was ths maxV Aeala British Pride. LONDON, Sept. C-The' Dally Mall ap peals this morning for a British syndicate to forestall the attempt of an American combination to buy all ths Doresetshire snd Devonshire "ball clay" mines, with a view to obtaining control of the British pottery trade. French Village Destroyed. CHAMBRET. France. Sept. -The vil lage of La Blse was destroyed by firs yes terday afternoon. Thres women 'wars se verely burned. drill and practical education in the life of mum. Bursts of speed at seventy snd a soldier then was being given to It. While I seventy-five miles an hour were frequent, admitting that the recent militia bill was a ' The train was made up of five cars and step in the right direction, he said that ' ' pulled by locomotive No. 1460. In much more was needed than the Dick ti l charge of Engineer William Dunton. This i . number of years, and It appears has nevsr contemplated. The volunteer soldier of to- ! locomotive Is of the new Atlantic type, j n considered a vicious msn before. The buggy and called to ths woman that he would drive with him to a doctor. The first physician ha could find was Dr. Hobbs, whom he arouaed. The Injured man was carried upstairs Into the doctor's office, where lis expired In about two or three minutes. Dr. Hobbs said that the cause of Houser's death was hemorrhage. He hod a wound about three and a half Inches In length and about four Inches deep in his left shoulder and a large artery was severed by the cut. The physician said that If the Injured man could have had medical attention in time his life probably could have been saved, but he expressed surprise that he had lived as long aa he did with such a cut and no effort made to stop the flow of blood. Fosdlck. aftrr leaving ths Injured man at the office of. Dr. Hobbs, drove to the police station as rapidly ss possible and gave notice of ths commission of the crl-ne. Captain Mostyn dispatched a man to the Douglas street bridge to hesd off Ells worth and his party In case they attempted to cross to the Bluffs, but the officer was too late. The party had crossed about thirty minutes before the officer reachs I the toll station on the bridge. The gite keeper said that Ellsworth, whom he knew by the description given, was very anxlou to know If a rig had crossed the bridge a short time shead of them containing three people. The gatekeeper could not tell him and he grew angry and made some in sulting remsrks, but finally drove on. He seemed very nervous and chagrined that hs could get no Information. F.llsworth Arrested. The Council Bluffs police were also noti fied by the Omaha department, and were on the lookout for Ellsworth to arrive In that city. He wag arrested there at 2:40 this morning and Captain Mostyn and Sergeant Dempsey went across the bridge to bring him back. Ellsworth Is a driver for ths Bartel ft Miller Grocery company In Council Bluffs. He has been in the employs of the firm for pected the distance will be covered In about forty-five days. KERFOOT GOES TO VIRGINIA Is gnoceeded at Hoeraltlngr Station by First hdeatennnt Alfred M. Mason, Who Arrives. First Lieutenant Alfred M. Mason, Vnlted States coast artillery, arrived In tne city yesterday to take charge of the recruiting station here, relieving Lieutenant B. H. Kerfoot, of the United States artillery, who has been In charge of the regular army recruiting station hers for a long time past. L'eutenant Kerfoot, upon being relieved of his duties here today will go to Fort Mon roe, Va., where he will undergo examina tion for promotion. There will be no ma terial changs In ths personnel of ths re cruiting party here. Sergeant Richards will continue In charge of ths recruiting detachment, a position that he has faith fully filled for nearly a year past. dsy and the volunteer soldier of forty years ago were two different propositions, "The volunteer soldier of tbe present gen eration la a dllletante alongside his brother of a generation ago. He Is soft and needs pampering; otherwise he will not do the work that devolvea upon htm. He Insists upon rich food and If passible would like to carry bathtubs with hi in with shower attachments, so that he might bathe with due regularity. He wants hair mattress -a and In summer dsys electric fans la his tent. The men who fought for the preser vation of ths union forty years ago were Continued ea SUUi PagaJ weighing 177.000 pounds. It Is the most powerful style in service on the Baltimore A Ohio road. An extra large water tank helped in thla performance, saving stops for water. From Oarrett to Chicago an other locomotive of the same type took the train. On thla run a speed of seventy six miles an hour was reached. The per formance between Chicago Junction and Garrett could have been duplicated, had not the train been blocked by a train ahead, which compelled slowing down several times. The dlxtanre of 131 miles between Garrett, Ind., and South Chicago was cov ered In 1SS minutes, making the whole run of t4 miles ta 171 minute. fact that ha waa more or less Intoxicated last night probably had a great deal to do with the commission of the crime. Houser was In the employ of the Cal Hafer Lumber company In the Bluffs up to a month ago, but since that time he has done nothing. He 'has. It seems, never worked at any one place very long at a time, but has been in the habit of drifting around from one position to another. The crime was committed Inside the boundary lines of Nebrsska, but not within the city limits of Omaha. Fosdlck snd ths La Blanch woman were (Coailnusd on Second Page.) ALTON ENGINEER IS KILLED Locomotive Bailer Explodes While Train Is Raaalng at Fall Speed. BLOOM INGTON, III.. Sept. .-Whlls passing Greenvlew at full speed today, the boiler of a locomotive pulling a Kansas City fast freight, westbound, on the Chi cago ft Alton railroad, exploded, killing Engineer Frank J. t.'pton of Bloomlngton, probably fatally injuring Fireman C. C. Keltner of Bloomlngton, and severely In juring' Brakeman J. A. Montgomery of Rood House. Many cars wer thrown In a 'ditch and broken. The track was blockaded for sev eral hours. Movements of Ocean Vessels Sept. O. At Queenstown Arrived: Cymric from New York for Liverpool ana proceeded. Sailed: Cumpanla for New York. At Southampton Sailed: Koenig Albert for New York. At The LI sard Passed: Kroonl&nd from New York for Antwerp; Minneapolis from New York for Ixmdon; Ryndom from Rot terdam for New York. At Klneale ffei. eadem from Boston for Liverpool. At Uverpool rri e.l : Damara from Halifax via Bt. Johns, N. F. ; l.'mbrla from New York. At Moville Arrived: Ionian from Man, treal for Liverpool and proed-d. At Ht. Michaels-Arrive i: Vancouver from Boston for 'lllirjltir. Naples ant Genoa. At New Tork Af Ived: Furnea!a from Glasgow; Vnlted HUI' I Km Copenhagen, sus. This investigation wsa made by trie while on a vlnlt to Indian Territory in May, m a result of which certain removals from office by dismissal and enforced reoignntlnn resulted, and upon, my return here amended rules and regulations were prepared and Issued on July 10, th, purpoxe of which was to inure fully protect the Creek Indians in the matter of alca of ttieflr land by a proper notice and ths requlreirtmit of sealed bids, by which .Suth satisfactory results have been iiccoirlplliihed In the matter of the sale of Inherited lands In other reserva tions throughout :he country, none of the original deeds for the sale of hind under the Inherited act, nor of lands In the Creek Nuilon, having been tip to that time nor since appiovei,1. On the contrary, fn the matter of the sale of inherited land under the sealed bid ' order we are receiving in mmiy cases from 15 per cent io 125 per cent advance over the o lKlnnl pi low tcituered hy the s.inis parties for the ame land; wh 1h the Creek deeds under the old system have all been dl apprnved to the number of K'.i deeds, and returned with their accompanying checks, amounting to mote than &it'.i.Xio, thus show ing that, In the matter of nrn-lal irregu larities and Ihe adoption of snid regula tion, the interests of the Indians have not heen jieglected by the department, as is indirectly charged by Mr. Broslus. whose report I do not care to further discuss, be cause the accusation therein contained r to receive a full and rigid investigation. They have been promptly denied snd such Investigation demsnded by the members of the Dawes commission and Inspector Wright, who are, of course, entitled to be presumed innocent In the meantime. Beady, to Accept Asalataace. This department Is, and always has been, more than ready and willing to accept the assistance of your association in ascertain ing and rectifying any Irregularities It may discover, or believe to exist, when properly presented and substantiated, and la always f lad to do anything toward the betterment, n all respects, of the Indian wards of the government. There are, however, proper and Improjer methods of procedure, and I think that It was not Justifiable, but dim couiteous to me, and unfair to them, to publish broadcast to the world the material gathered by Mr. Hioslue, without further verification and without his having af forded to Ihe otilrlala whose reputations he attacked any opportunity to explain what seemed to him objections ble. The department does further maintain that its inspectors and other officials should have respect and confidence until a clear case Is made against them and that the riresent policy of dealing with the Indians s the result of accumulated experience and Is being pursued Intelligently and Vigorously with a view to the Indians' best interests. Your obedient servant, E. A. HITCHCOCK. Secretary. Mr. Garrett's reply was as follows: - i Letter From Oarrett. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 4. lfrOS.-Hon. E. A Hitchcock, Secretary or me Interior, Wablilngtou, D. C Kir: I have the honor to acknowledge yours of tne 2fUh ultimo, reminding me of my letter of the S.'ith ult. which partially leplled to yours of the 2oth. To enter upon Hie question of personal discourtesy wVitch you lalre, would, II think. Involve a long discussion. 1 must therefore content myself with utterly dis claiming the least Intention of discourtesy to you. I have not had the honor of much personal acquaintance with you. but my profound legard for the president, my knowledge that he esteems you highly, anl my deep conviction of your own Integrity and faithfulness to your high trust, wnuU forbid Intentional discourtesy. The publication of the Broslus report wss In accordance with the custom ot the as sociation to give to the preen matters of Importance In which the public are sup posed to be Interested. . That It created a great deal oi putio interest is quite evi I am slad to have learned sinca the letter of Mr. Broslus called ths subject to mv attention that you had. kno-vn something of the dangers to whsVh he refers pre viously, and am epecluliy pleased to Mow that you had taken steps to Investigate them and am well contented that the de partment should have the entire credit of ft, satisfied If we can aid in some degree In preventing the wrong that might have resulted to the Indians from being con summated and especially gratified If the Investigators ahall be absolutely unblafsl. Iaspeetora Seem to Whitewash. Too often these officials appear to bs under Influences from members of con gress Interested In them and 1 am bound to say that inspectors too often seem to whitewash men utterly unfit for their po sitions. You will observe that I ssy ' seem " I do not claim Infallibility. We make no charge up to this time against any member of the Dawes commis sion, nor. 1 lM-lleve, does our Informant, Mr. Broslus, whose allegations, you will observe, are general In their character and Invite attention to a certain rluss Of Insti tutions with which soma of them are con nected ss they ought not to he it they wish 1