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unday Bee. PAGES I TO 10. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1904 TIIIRTY-SIX PAGES. SINGLE COr FIVE CENTS. Omaha 1 HE PAGES I TO 10. g SIXG PRAISES OF'RAE Wonderful Stories Told of the Caret Worked by the Bone 8etter of Glasgow. DOES NOT PRETEND TO HEAL ALL ILLS Simply Seti Broken and Dislocated Bones for the Unfortunate. CONSTANT ' STREAM OF PATIENTS Started In Life as a Colliery Worker, but Fame Soon Spread. SOON FORCED TO GIVE UP WORK IN PIT Don Sot Pretend t Be Air Miracle Worker, bet that He Simply Knovs Haw to Fix In People Oat ( Jolmt. ' GLASGOW, July 1U. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) This week Glasgow wai again ringing with the fame of the collier surgeon, William Baa. Many voices In nu merous dlalecU proclaimed his wonderful cures. Many remarkable aoenea were wit nessed. Patients supported on crutchea and aticka limped painfully up to the bouse, received their treatment and emerged tri umphantly, discarding in many cases the club-soled shots, Irons and other alda to balance with which they had entered. "That'a my aon," aald a middle aged man, pointing to a boy of 10. For four years the lad has been unable to put his left foot to the ground. The ankle and hip had been dislocated. Now, though he retained his crutches, being weak still, he was using the foot with great freedom. An elderly woman who had not walked for some time owing to trouble with her anklea, was able to traverse the road back to the station. A factory hand from Lancashire, who for eighteen months was unable to work through hip trouble, strug gled slowly In with the aid of two aticka. One waa enough when he left the cottage, three or four minutes ' attention having put him right. That waa an exceptionally quick cure, but none of the cases seemed to take long, and every half hour saw two or three patients come Into view, improved If not always cured, Rae does not pose as a miracle worker. "It la Just dislocatlona that I treat," aald he In an Interview. Tall, strong-framed and rugged of fea ture, he la in appearance much the same aa thousands of other Boots. Yet there Is something strikingly intelligent in his homely face. Shrewdness and good humor shine from the gray eyea beneath the bushy ' brows silvered with the passage of years. The firm mouth and ohln, the latter partially hidden by a ahort beard. Indicates that here la a character of force ful doggedneas and clear purpose. "What Is the secret of your treatment?" he waa asked. "Secret?" aald Mr. Rae, as he relit the pipe he waa enjoying In one of his leisure hours, "There is none. It Is just putting tho bones back into the plaoes where they should be. - - "Here," aald he, stretching out his sup ple hands and strong wrlflts, "here and In my head lies the power the Lord ties given me, a natural gift for understanding what la amiss and seeing what la wanted to put It right." Rae haa, of course, studied human and animal anatomy. Some half century ago at Larkhall, hla birthplace, fourteen or fifteen miles from Qlaagow, then a sparsely populated village, bone setting waa hla hobby and he pursued it until it haa be come hla sole occupation. He has kept to the school of experience and left other training grounds alone. Hla early years were spent In colliery work, and whl'e he waa pit head foreman at Larkhtll he won looal fame aa a bona aetter, which followed htm to an embsr rasslng extent when he removed to Buther glen. So many ' people oarae to him that be found he must give up either his colliery dutlea or hla aurgloal experiments. He relinquished the pit work and, going Into Glasgow, built up a connection of some Value. DREDGE STRIKES OLD WRECK Cannon u4 Other Articles ladle It Dntea to Burly Part of ntarhteenth Contnry. PARIS,'' July 18. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) An Interesting discovery of aa ancient frigate, with a skeleton crew on board, haa Just been made at Havre during dredging operations for a new channel about 130 yards beyond the Jetty, The dredger brought up two human skele tons and a seaman's boot of old-fashioned pattern. A diver waa sent down and dis covered the remains of a frigate of appar ently about 600 tons burden, whloh had evi dently gone down during a sea fight, sev eral at the old guns being still loaded. Numerous flint-lock muskets were also found, on board and cannon balls, ooupled together by chains. In pairs. Some colls of .-rope were still In position, but fell to pieces on being touched. On proceeding to the lower deck toe diver made the grneaome discovery of several bi"-n skeletons, being vldontly those of the arew who went down With their vessel. Already etc cannon, ton feet long, made of cast iron, have been brought tb the sur face, and It la hoped that many more curious reUoe will be resoued before the Old ship la blown up with dynamite, as It la obstructing the new channel. It la supposed that the frigate la an Eng lish C. Dutch vessel whloh belonged to the Anglo-Dutch fleet which bombarded Havre during the early part of the eighteenth cen tury. Bo far no mark or Inscription haa been found which gives any clue to the vessel's nationality. NEW ORDER F0R TRANSVAAL Talk of Modified Pores of SeH-Gevern. stent for Sooth African Colony. JOHANNESBURG. July ll (Special Ca blegram to The Uee.) lord M liner and Mr. Lyltelton are In communication regarding the advisability of according representa tive government to the Transvaal. The negotiations will probably result In a pro posal to form a new council, composed . equally of nominated and eleoted mem bers. If accepted (hla device will prove a temporary makeshift. ) ' In the permanent Interests of the coun try und racial union a Bitter suggestion would be that the suffrage should come aa a free girt from home, untainted by the suspicion of. Johannesburg Intrigue, of Which all the Boers and the majority' of the British are now apprehensive. WARY ANDERSON STILL CHARMS as and Reads for the Kd I neat Ion of the Poor of Lon don. LONDON, July 16. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) "Let us sing once more at the People's Palace," aald Mme. de Na varre. Thla week she had her wish, and the same Mary Anderson we used to know twenty years ago sang to 2.000 people, so that the poor lads and lasses of the team ing East End may have sweetness and light by the furtherance of the club settle ments. She wore no wreath of rosea; only a stm ple gown of pure white, and her hair Juat almply done lta own ornament. For her first song she chose a piece with which she used to charm London twenty years ago, "I Am An Actor," from W. S. Gilbert's "Comedy and Tragedy." When the oceans of spplause from the 1000 per sons who wanted her to sing all night had died away a silver-haired gentleman In the guinea seata crystallised every body'a feel ings by remarking In a voice made audible by enthusiasm: "Wall, really, shea put back the clock half a lifetime. I feel quite a young fellow again." Once during the evening she really ceased to be Mary Anderson. That waa when she "read" the murder aoene In "Macbeth." She waa both characters. She introduced the reading by Bitting In a very large ohalr and quietly telling the audience about her enthusiasm for Shakespeare a striking new thing for an actreaa to do. Acting aa a "super," Father Bernard Vaughan ahlfted the chalra and tablea on the platform for her, and In hla speech he said "the best talent of the empire" haa come to the East End to help the work. He referred to Mme. Albanl, Mr. Bentley and Mr. Oervaae Elwes, aa well aa Mlas Mary Anderson, In thla phrase. LORDS SIT DOWN ON WOMEN Refuse to Pnaa BUI Giving; Them tho Right to Beeon Membors of County Council. LONDON, July "la (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) Earl Beauchamp'a bill to en able women to become members of county and borough councils had a very unkind reception In the House of Lords, though a similar measure haa been read a second time In the House of Commons by a ma jority of 1SS. The lord chancellor (Lord Halabury) de nounced the bill aa part and parcel of the agitation to place women In exactly the same position aa men. "On personal grounds," he added, "I hope It will be re jected." i "Women have the right to rote at these elections," urged Lord Tweedmouth, "and aurely they. are equally entitled to alt on the councils, and even In Parliament." Lord Jamea of Hereford gently depre cated the measure aa calculated to lead women Into the struggle and turmoil of political atrlfe and Injure . not only the atato but the domestic life of every man's house. In thla view Lord Londonderry coincided, and to the horror of the lord chancellor drew a vivid ploture of a faaclnatlng fem inine politician occupying Lord Halabary'a aeat on the woolsack. "I have no sympathy with political women," said the earl of Portsmouth with unwonted asperity. "A woman's politics should be the politics of her husband. It la not a question of politics, but of sex, and the bill proposes a change in social life which I shall strongly, steadily and persistently oppose." . The second reading waa refused. SOUD SILVER BED ROOM SUIT Banter Potentate Rivals Arabian wights Tales In Aetna! Fact. , LONDON, July 18. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) A prominent Sheffield firm haa juat received at the handa of an Eastern potentate an order on a scale of magnifi cence never before heard of either In the city Itself or the country at large. One's thoughts turn to the "Arabian Nights," when la mentioned Is made of a bed room suite in solid silver, but auoh la the character of the order Just plaoed In Sheffield. The name of the oustomer Is so far a secret,, and the only Information whloh oan bo obtained Is that the instruc tions have coma from the far east, and that the question of price Is only a minor consideration. The designs are of Oriental oharaoter and of a moat elaborate description. The suite, which Is solid sliver throughout, Inoludas a bedstead, a cabinet, a dressing-table, a doaen chalra, three foot-baths, and three hot-water cans. The bedstead la of the most ornate char act erT Each of the pillars will be sur mounted by gracefully modelled female figures nearly three feet In height The moulding of the room and other decora tions will also be In sterling silver. NO HOSPITALITY IN SOCIETY Marie Corelll Takes n Few Shots at the Doings of tho mart Set ' LONDON, July It. -(Special Cablegram to The . See.) "Hospitality, largo-hearted, smiling, gracious hospitality, la dead," says Mlaa Marie Corel 11 in an article In The Bystander. "At homes," we read, "are a curious sort of social poultry yard, where the hens have It all their own way, and do moat distinctly crow." The smart dinner party la perhaps a little worse In its entire lack of true hospitality. Describing a dinner party given by a peer, at which ahe waa present. Miss Corelll refers to the "hopeless. Irredeem able stupidity" which was in the air. "Our host waa dull to a degree unimaginable by these who do not know what soma lordly British aristocrats oan be, while the host ess was equally stupid and entirely en grossed with herself and her bodily charms. ' .. ANCIENT CHURCH IS BURNED Honaea of Calvin anal RonssMu, Hew ever, Are Saved with Mnoat Difficulty. GENEVA. July la (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) The anoient Roman Catholic church of Bt. Germain. Geneva, was de stroyed by fire this week. The entire an cient quarter of the town. Including the old arsenal, military museum, town hall and the houses of Calvin and Roui asau. were saved with great difficulty. A library of rare books and manuscripts and some valuable pictures In the church were destroyed. RAILWAY IS UNEQUAL Transsiberiaa Line InarJ"'- ..vf "k Bet for ' ENGINEER pN.riE SITUATION Cannot Carry "plies for Army of Half a Million Men. TAKES ONE THOUSAND TROOPS PER DAY Coantry Also Has Some Serious Internal Problems to Solve. GOVERNMENT THOROUGHLY INCOMPETENT Jto One in Slftht Strong; Enough to Remedy ihe Condition If He Had tho Disposition to Try It. PARIS, July 16. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) In the course of an interview with the Bt. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo de Paris, M. Taburno, who is de scribed as an engineer of high reputation, and who took an active part in the build ing of the Transsiberlan railway, declared the problem of the transport of food and ammunition for the army of 600,000 required by General Kouropatkln to be well-nlgtrln-soluble. . Such an army will need 110,000 to 120,000 horses. Manchuria is a poor and hostile country and Eastern Siberia doea not grow enough corn for Its population. The latter country could, however, aupply the army with half the cattle and all the forage It requires. But the remainder of the enormous quantity of provision Inde spenaible to that mass of men and animals must be drawn from Western Siberia and even from Russia proper. Assuming that the supplies from Eaatern Siberia were forwarded to Harbin by the Shllka, the Amur, and the Sungarl, It would atlll be necessary to send fourteen or fifteen trains to Harbin daily with pro visions, ammunition, railway material, etc. Thla would make twenty-eight to thirty running both ways, and M. Taburno. ques tioned whether the line would be able to bear such traffic. He did not think the situation a hopeless one, however, as there still remained the possibility of organizing carriage by road and river. "But," added M. Taburno, "this oourse is urgently neces sary, as otherwise I do not see how Russia can accomplish the most gigantic task of all those undertaken In the history of mod ern mechanical enterprise." A French engineer who haa Just returned from Mukden has, in an Interview with the St. Petersburg correspondeat of the Petit Parisian, expressed a very unfavorable opinion of the condition of the Trans Siberian railway. He concludes from his own observation that the actual transport of troops does not exceed 1,000 men per day. He reckons that In the three months during' which that transport has been ef fected not more than 90,000 men have been conveyed to the seat of war, and with the Inadequate means at the disposal of the authorities even that was a tour'de force. Bailee of Rnaslan Rale. BERLIN. July 16. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) Since the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war there haa been a ateady flow of books dealing with every possible phase of life In Japan, but until last week nothing of any striking Import ance dealing with Russia had come from the publishers. But last week two books one by a German and one by a Frenchman -were Issued with the object of throwing some' needed light on the affairs of the great country over which the osar rules. The unanimity with which the writers agree as to the evils whloh beset Pussia of the twentieth oentury Is extraordinary. The outti of Russia are her rotten finan cial system, the blind surrender of all the affairs of the nation to a system of cen tralisation which cripples all local Indi vidual effort, and the enormous power of a bloated bureaueraoy. A perusal of "Russia of To-day," translated from the German of Baron E. von dor Bruggon, and of "A Russian-Chinese Empire," translated from the French of Alexander TJlar, will con vince even the most blind partisan of Rus sia that the country Is In a desperate con dition. "The Russian oligarchy," says M. TJlar, "is, Imperatively driven to find an economic base In the far east. Chinese Industry, Mongolian and Manchuria gold, are to pro Tide the sinews of war for an empire which will be a repetition of the empire of Kubla Kahn. The only alternative to the realisation of thla dream Is ruin. The, moment Russia ceases to be able to borrow In Europe and America, her collapse, at least as a European power, Is InevTtable." "The strength of the nation is being sapped," says Baron von der Bruggan. "Dishonesty in the administration Is on the Increase and In spite of railways and telegraphs the government Is less able to keep Its army of officials In order. This exaggerated system of bureaucracy nat urally leads to a condition of ansrchy, which is today felt everywhere above and below; Independent activity and national Indepedencene are being ground to pow der. Exam-pie of heonsetfse. As an example of the evils of centraliza tion and the Incapacity of the central gov ernment Baron Ton der Bruggan quotes the fate of the last Russian census. During five years the commission ap pointed for the working out of the accumu lated material has given no sign of Ufa beyond the fact that it la unable to oope with the matter. During these five years It has spent 4,000,000 and published nothing. The states of Livonia keep In their record offices efficient and well-trained statistical departments, so they asked the govern ment to leave to them the working out of matters relating to the census of Livonia. The government would thus, at any rate, have obtained a piece of work able to serve as a-pattern and, moreover, free of coat. But the request was refused. Such sepa ratism could not be tolerated. The csar appears to have no word In thta matter, where mllllona are concerned, yet, as can be seen by the Government Messenger, he had time to give his august attention to the case of a girl at eohool at Reval whose delloats health made It un desirable that she should be worried by the learning of the "awful Oerman lan guage," and an Imperial decree waa pub lished exempting her from this trial. "In conclusion." says the baron, "one more example of the paper administration of thla gigantic empire. Somebody haa calculated that If one of the ministers were to set out on a Journey abroad and accom plish It all the offices In the empire would be Informed of this event by official no tices to the number of 17.000." Much more of the same sort Is contained (Continued on Sixth Paga) TEACHES PRACTICAL CHARITY Novel School Will Be Started In Mew York City This Fell. (Copyright, by New York Herald Co. 1904.) NEW YORK, JULY 16.-(New York Her aid Service Special to The Bee.) Some thing new In the educational line in tins city will be started this fall when a per manent school for social workers will be established with a curriculum the like of which has never been carried out In an American college or university. It will be picturesque and at the same time practi cat, because dealing with vital social prob lems and presented by those actually en gaged In working at them. This announcement la the result of seven years' movement to raise, the stan dards of workmanship In philanthropy. Since 1897 workers from all parts of the United States have each summer attended the sessions of the summer school In phll anthroplcal work carried on by the New York Charity Organisation society, but there has long been a demand for some thing more definite and systematic. As an outcome the permanent school is to be instituted by the committee on phil anthropic education. Edward T. Devlna will be the director of the school, and he will have associated with him Mrs. Anna Gnrlln Spencer, director during the last year of the winter course In philanthropy, and Alexander Johnson, secretary of the National Conference of Charities and Cor rections. The course will open October 6. Instructions will include all the principal forma of charlable activity child-helping agencies, the euro of needy families, hos pitals and hygiene, the prevention of dis ease, reformatory methods and probation l.'iws, sanitary housing, preventive social work, immigration problems, the slate's charities, the anti-tubcrculosis campaign and many more. To the class teaching and observation will be added actual experi ence in the field. NEW RAPID TRANSIT ROAD Will Be Constructed . In Washington m for Beneflt of the Con gressmen. (Copyright, by New York Herald Co., 1904.) WASHINGTON, July 16.-New York Herald Service Special to The Bee.) Washington already has Its Congressional Limited and other famous trains, but ac cording to present plans for Improvements about the capital the Roll Call Limited, tlje most novel train in the world, is soon to make its appearanoe. This train will make frequent and rapid trips through an under ground passage from the capltol to the two new office buildings to be constructed for the use of the senators and members of the house, Respectively. On the main basement floor of the build ing will be the terminal station of an up-to-date little electric railroad, with cars equipped for the comfort of the distin guished gentlemen in congress. With a final warning that all ahall be aboard the little train will go humming from its station. It will pasa through a brilliantly lighted subway under the south east lawns of the capitol grounds and within a few seconds will halt In the sub basement of the house wing. Here the members will disembark to find them selves within easy acess of the private ele vator leading to the floor of the house. The Journey will require the briefest possible space of time. As a counterpart to the house office building congress at the session Just closed mado provision for the construction of an offloe building for the senate. The house building Is to be located opposite the south east corner of the capltol grounda, while the senate building will occupy the corre sponding square to the northeast. The senate building win be but a year behind the house building at the most, and when It Is completed the subway and electrlo transportation fact lit lee provided for tho house win be duplicated. PANAMA MAKES IMPROVEMENTS Much Money Paid by United Stntes Has Already Been Appro priated. (Copyright, byNew York Herald Co, 1904.) WASHINGTON, JULY 16. (New York Herald Service Special to The Bee.) With creditable . promptness and ' considerable lavlshnees the new Republic of Panama Is proceeding to utilise for public improve ments the 110,000,000 which It received from the United States recently for the Panama canal rights. According to a report from H. A. Gudger, the American consul gen eral at Panama, $3,200,000 has already been appropriated, 11,000,000 of which goes to the province of Panama alone. According to the law appropriating this money, which was passed by the National Assembly on June 6, the plana and specifi cations for the Improvements for whloh It Is to be used must be all filed and the work must be under way by December 8L The work for which the money will he need covers a wide range. The sum Is distrib uted among, the various provinces as fol lows: Provincs of Panama, $1,000,000; prov ince of Colon, $300,000; provtnoe of Chlriqnl, $450400; province of Cocle, $350,000; province of Los Santos, $360,000; province of Vera Aguas, $360,000, and province of Booas del Toro, $460,000. The act glvea the president of the repub lic the right to admit free of duty all ma terial used In these publio Improvements. DISCOVER NEW ANAESTHETIC Renders Possible Msny Operations Heretofore Considered Im practicable. LONDON, July la (Special Cablegram to The Bee,) The recent dlacovery of eucaine, a powerful local anaesthetic, Is looked upon as another sclentltlo triumph. It will make possible operations which might not otherwise take place owing to heart weaknesses, for tho patient remains conscious during Its use, although, of course, thoee parts of the body to which It is applied are Insensible to pain. It will also give the surgeon time for his work and do away with certain people's con scientious objections to anaesthetics. Although It can be used for amputations, It will probably bs most useful for treat ment of the thyroid glands. In such oper ations the use of chloroform ia often lm. practicable. A successful operation of thla kind, which was recently performed with eucaine In a London hospital, lasted nearly an hour and a half. Eucaine Is Injected by a hypodennlo needle under the skin where the Incision Is to be made. After a few moments the skin may be cut without the patient feel ing anything. As different and deeper parts are exposed the drug la dropped at Inter vals of a few mluutes. PROTECTION FOR ALL Faoking Strikebreakers Will Be Given Police Escort to and from Plants. SATURDAY QUIET AND UNEVENTFUL Day Devoid of Happenings Around the Packing House District. MANAGERS TALK OF STARTING ON MONDAY Give Notice that They Will Resume Opera tions on that Day. MEN STILL CONFIDENT OF WINNING Say that Every Day Slakes Them Stronger snd that Importations Are Not Hortlna; the Cnase In the Least. At a meeting held last evening the South Omaha Board .of Fire and Police Com missioners passed a resolution declaring that all men who desire to go to work In the packing houses, whether their resi dence is in South Omaha or if they have come from other cities, will be given pro tection by the police in going to or com ing from the packing houses. The police will also disperse all crowds congregating on the streets and trespassers on private property will be arrested. The board wants fifteen more special policemen to go to work on Monday morning. Saturday closed the fifth day of the packing house strike. The best of order prevailed, and there has been no drinking to speak of among the unemployed. The atrikera maintain pickets and every move ment made by the packers that oan be seen is promptly reported to headquarters. Some of the pickets during the day brought strike breakers into headquarters, where the situation was explained. With very little hesitation the newcomers left tho city without. applying for work at the pack ing plants. Men Taken to Plant. About 10 o'clock twenty-five men from branch houses arrived at the Cudahy plant. These men met In Omaha and with At torney Tom Crelgh as pilot, boarded a special motor train. At A street the cur was met by Chief of Police Brlggs, who occupied a front seat. The car was run to Thirty-third and Q streets without any trouble and the branch house men marched in -a body to the plant. This was all done in plain sight of committees of the strik ers and not a protest was uttered aloud. Some of these men are practical packing house men, while half a dozen are butchers, the balance being made up of salesmen and office men. In addition to these twenty five men, eight men came down from Omaha In a wagon and were not molested or stopped by the pickets of the strikers. Advices from Mr. Cudahy, who la In Chicago attending the arbitration meetings, are to the effect that another conference with President Donnelly Is be ing held. General Manager Howe of Armour's has brought in quite a number of branch house men and during the forenoon acquired twenty additional laborers. "Gangs In each department are being Increased dally," aald Mr. - Howe. He expects the plant will bo running ffl pretty fair shape by Monday. According to reports Swift ordered 600 loaves of bread from Markey, the baker at Twenty-fourth and F streets. The union bakers In the Markey place refused to fill the order and Manager Patterson had to look elsewhere for bread. A party of twenty-five harvest hands was shipped to the western Nebraska wheat fields Friday. Another larger delegation waa shipped last evening for the same section. Among the harvest hands were some of the South Omaha packing house atrikera Announcement from Packers. Late Saturday afternoon the packers an nounced that they would take back what skilled workmen they can use If applica tion la made before 8 o'clock Monday morn ing. The atatement la made by the pack ers that some of the places of skilled work men have been filled and all of the skilled men who walked out Tuesday cannot at once secure work. The packers assert that they propose opening their plants on Mon day morning and will operate all of the departments. As rapidly as men return to work the si so of the gangs will be in creased. 'Things are shaping themselves nicely," said General Manager Howe of Armour's last night. "The packers are gaining every day and business Is getting better." It Is expected by the packers that men enough will be on hand Monday to clean up the receipts at the yards In short order. Mr. Howe declared that he did not Intend to bring men here from other cities, as he Is Inclined to think that enough men can be secured In South Omaha for the time being. Order Will Be Maintained. George W. Mas son, chairman of the Firs and Police commission, had thla to say re garding the strike: "If a man really wanta to go to work and asaerts that he cannot get Into a packing house through fear of being molested, the police will escort the man or men to the gates of the plant de sired. We propose to keep order and see to It that men who are anxious bo work are given an opportunity to do so." Aside from the twenty-five men escorted to Cudahys yesterday by Chief Brlggs, only one man was taken in during the afternoon. This man applied to the chief to see him safely to the Omaha's gate and this was done. The strikers did not make any demonstration. They merely looked on and said not a word. This ahowa under what discipline the men are being held by the leaders. While speaking of discipline It might be well to mention that from Sunday, July 10, until Saturday night, July 16. the police made only twenty-two arrests, and not one of ths men arrested waa a striker. Chief Brlggs aald that It had been the quleteat week in police drclea that he remembers. Men Are Confldent. At labor headquarters last rtsht the best of feeling prevailed. Those who gathered there appeared to be confldent that their cause would win In the end. Aa for the pack ere sending for men from branch houses to work In the plant, the atrikera appeared to care very little. "Such men," said a prominent leader, "will not hurt our cause In the least, aa they know little or nothing of the details of a parking house. The result will be that such men will really do mors harm than good. Another thing, they are soft In the muscles and cannot stand manual labor. In two or three dsys these men will have to be pot on- the shelf to rest their hands and feet. Now Just watch and see If I am not right." Vice President Veil wss busy st his (Continued en Second Psge.) THE BEE BULLETIN. Forecast for Nebraska Fair and Con tinned Warm Sunday and Monday. Page. 1 Sin Praises of Collier Doctor. Siberian Itosd Inadequate to Task. Status of I.ocsl Porkers' Strike. Latest front the Wnr In the Kast. 3 Flaht Against Social Democracy. Plan to Arbitrate Strike Falls. 8 Kens from All Parts of ehrsUa. Banquet Pnul Morton nt Home City. 4 Body of I.oomts Washes Ashore. Dixie C lub lias Its First Out ins. 5 Plumbers Bill Breaks Record. Baxter fines to Lehigh Valley. 6 Pnst Week In Omaha Society. Servlees at Omaha Churches. T Sportlnsr Iteaults of the Day. S Connell muffs mm A Iowa News. Hatlroait Ticket Swindlers Busy. Ants Have a Fine Appetite. 10 W hat to Do When In Danger. Wnshlnatnn on Mount 7.lon Hill. 11 Summer Life at Atlantic City, hebruaknns nt World's Fnlr City. lit Amusements and Music. 13 Weekly Review of Sports. 14 Kdltorlnl. 15 Pnrkrr In the Mme Mailt. Oregon's Debt to State of Iowa. IN Recipes Worth Much Money. Queer Questions Over Telephones. 10 Financlnl and Commercial. 20 Prisoner Before Federal Judge. Progress of Vacation Contest. till to SO The Illustrated Bee. Temperetnrej at Omnbn Yesterduyt Hour, Dear. Hour. Dee;. . . MS , . IK) , . i , . :t . . 02 . . ( .. IMJ I S n. ! a. : T a. TT 7 TT Tl 81 N4 87 ST 1 P. 2 p. 8 p. 4 v. 5 p. p. T P. m m .... I "I a. m I O a. m . lO a. m 1 11 a. m in . m. 13 an.. . VIRGINIA COMPANY IN TROUBLE Trctlon Coinpnny Operating; In Rich mond nnd Other Towns Has Receiver. RICHMOND, Va, July lt-The Virginia Passenger and Power company, embracing the Richmond Passenger and Power 'com pany and the Richmond Traction company, waa plated In the hands of receivers today by Judge Waddell of the United States district court upon petition of the Bowling Green Trust company. William Northrup and Henry T. WIckham were named as receivers. Neither has yet qualified and Mr. Wick ham hesitates to accept. The Virginia Passenger and Power company is capital ized at $15,000,000 and operates In three Virginia cities Richmond, Manchester and Petersburg. Frank Jay Gould Is the ma. Jority stockholder. A suit brought by George E. Fisher of New York for a receivership la now being argued In the state circuit court at Peters burg, the defendants claiming that there la no necessity for receivership. The explanation of the application to a T'nlted States court for the appointment of a receiver In the case of the street car properties Is that it was made by the Gould interest to prevent, it Is claimed, the disintegration of the properties. The re ceivers, as appointed, have accepted and qualified. ONE TEXAS BANDIT ARRESTED Believed that the Train Robbers Operating; Near Speers Did Not Get Much Cash. HOUSTON, Tex., July 18. One arreat has been made on the holdup of the Interna tional & Great Northern train at Speers last night This suspect, whose name is not known, declares his Innocence. Sheriff Watts of Anderson county and a posse have been at work all day tracking the bandits, Ranger Captain MoClelland got orders to proceed to the scene and hss ar rived at Oakwoods. It Is officially reported that the bandits, of whom there were four, according to the best Information, entered the express car, after blowing open the door with dynamite, and took therefrom four packages, one containing $21, another $7, a third not con taining money and a package of railroad tlcketa. Fireman Roy Milton, who. was hurt In Jumping from his engine. Is not seriously Injured. The country In which the holdup occurred is filled with timber and thick underbrush, i WARM TIMES IN MEMPHIS Mayor Asked by Cltisena to Hla Has! In Gambling War. how MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 11 The commit tee of public safety today called upon Mayor Williams. Chief of Police Mason and George Black well, sheriff of Shelby county with a request that these officials state what they would do In ths future toward closing up alleged dives and run ning criminals from the community. The answer of Sheriff Blackwall was satisfac tory to the committee; Mayor Williams said that owing to the complicated city and state statutes re garding gambling he would require that time be given for a detailed answer to the committee's demanda The recent action of Vice Mayor Hender son in declaring against Chief Mason practically assures the latter's retirement from ths head of the police department. NONUNION OR A REDUCTION Bmployes of the Pittsburg; Foundry Reeelva Notice of Company's Intention to Cut. PITTSBURG, July 16.-The employes of the Pittsburg Steel Foundry at Glassport were paid off today and notified that the plant would be operated by nonunion nien next week unleaa a achedule of 10 per cent reduction In wages .us accepted. The mun declare that they will not return to work at the cut and aa Superintendent Duncan McDougal la aald to have already secured a number of nonunion men to work, trouble la expected. The employee are members of the foundrymen'a association. FIFTY THOUSAND AFTER LAND That Number Have Already Regis, tered for the Drawing- for Rosebud Hosneeteads. BON EST EEL. B. D., July l.-fhe clerks hi charge of registration on tbe Roaubud reservation land tonight place the total registration to date as follows: Bone sleel. 17, S; Fairfax, $63; Yankton, 171, Chamberlain, 1.071 Total. C.7fl JAPS ARE CLOSING UP Armies of General Oku and Nodru Have Joined at Tang Chi, Near TaTche Kiao, JAPANESE CONTINUING THEIR ADVANCE Extra Precautious Being Taken Owing to the Fact that Kouropatkin is Near, INVADERS ARE ENTRENCHING POSITIONS Russians Are Beginning to Open Their lyes and Doubt Story of Jap Losses, OFFICIAL DENIAL RECEIVED FROM T0KI0 Russia Still Hopes that While There) Is a Discrepancy la the Figures that Enemy Has Suffered Repulse. (Copyright by New York Herald Co., 1904.) ST. PKTKKSUUiia, Saturday, July Is. (New York Herald Cablegram Special Telegram to The Be.) The Japanese are advancing upon Ta Tche Kiao, where Gen eral Kouropatkln In person apparently In tends to take htsua with the enemy for the first time. Artlllury Are was opened by the Japa nese on Wednesday, evidently for tho pur pme of trying to find the position of the Russian batteries, whloh, understanding the object, did not reply by a single shot. Tbe Japanese after thai gave up the ad vance upon the main road, reverting to their usual tactics of outflanking and thus tuning the positions as they did at Kal Chau. The Kuus, in a special dispatch from Ta Tche Kiao, says the position Is very strongly fortified and the Japanese are not likely to take it unless they can largely outnumber the garrison. It remurks with amusing confidence that the presence there of General Kouropatkln must have had a demoralising effect upon the Japa nese. The taking of Ylnkow haa not been of ficially confirmed, but la accepted generally ac a fact. One military' critic prognosti cates that tbe Japanese will utilise the mouth of the Llao river to bring up pro vtRlons in a northern direction to the projected scene of operations near Llao Yang. At Port Arthur the siege operations are being pushed along actively. Two more Japanese divisions have landed at Dalney, while Field Marshal Oyama and several officers who took part in the capture of tbe fort ten years ago are working on plans for lta capture. Another report announces that Oyama has gone to Join Kurokl, whosa forces are gradually creeping northward along the valleys. Kurokl has 106,000 men and 326 guns. Oku haa 05,000 men and 251 guns. Nodzu, before tho divisions men tioned above arrived.) had 80,000 men and 180 guns. The Runs publishes a remarkable state ment, which If true Is of high political Im portance. It is to the effect that England proposes to evacuate Wei Hal Wei and hand it over to Oermany. In exchange England will get what It so long haa been seeking the Yang Tse Klung valleys as Its exclusive sphere of Influence. ' Japs Closing I' p. ST. PETERSBURG, July 16.-1:30 p. m. The Japanese are continuing to advance on Tatcheklao, following a solentlflo plan, and entrenching their positions aa they move forward. They appear to be taking extra precautions in the case of Tatcheklao on account of their knowledge that General Kouropatkln Is there personally. According to a dispatch from Lieutenant General Sakaharoff, dated July 16, and given out today, the wings of General Oku'a and Nodsu'a armies have Joined at Tang Chi, ten miles southeast of Tatcheklao. The Japanese are also reported to havo occupied the fortifications at Plutzau, about seven miles north of Kla Ping, anil were still proceeding toward New Chwang, which had not been occupied July 16. A detachment of General Kurokl's fores Is reported to have reached the village of Tsshakehe, forty miles east of Llao Yang, on the Feng Wang Cheng high road. BAYS JAPS LOSfe I'WO THOC8AND Admiral Alesleff Makes Report of Flstbtlns; Around Port Arthur. ST. PETEKdBLKG. July U.-J.U tho flght lngjof July V and July 4 for tbe possession of the positions at Lnnaantan outside of Port Arthur, Viceroy Alexieff reports that tbe Japanese were repulsed with the aid, of the protected cruiser Novlk and a num ber of gunboats and torpedo boats. The Russians captured a number of Japanese fortifications. The loases of ths Russians were two officers and thirty-five men killed and four officers and 147 men wounded. The Chinese estimate the Japanese loases at 3,000. Alexieff adds that the Japanese landed 2,000 men and fifty guns at Port Dalny July S. Ths following Is tha text of Viceroy Alex lefTe report i According to reports received from Port Arthur dated July t, an tngugement oc curred July I and July t, on the right flank of our line of defense for the ponncselon of the positions of Luns&ntan. Towards evening the enemr was rnpuisod and many of the Japanose rorUiloaUuiis foil into our hands. During these two days the Novlk, with gunboats and torpedo boats, put out to sea and bombarded the enomy thus contributing to our gt'iierul suoci'ss. Our lo?.e for the two days' fighting were: Killed, Captain Ghetenko of the Thirteenth resiment and Lientenant Llvotoo o the Twenty-seventh regiment; wounded: Cap tain Mlroschnlkoff of the Thirteenth refit ment. Lientenant Olsnhlnevsky of the Four teenth refelniont, SuD-Lloutonant lieinlan ofC of the Fifteenth rr-glmant and Prince Guntlmouron", alde-da-camp of Omieral Stoeasei, dangerously wounded. Thirty-Dve ;f our soldlxrs were killed and 247 were wounded. Colonel Reus Wlio lu'tud as chief of staff of General Stoessul, was bruUcd. The Japanese losses for the two days, according to Chinese reports were 1,000 men According to the report of July 7 we cap tured, July a, an unVunood hill, ensuring us posaeenion of LuiiHanlao puts. Uur Jus sns were two ottloers killed and one officer and twenty-ono soldiers wounded. AocuMilug to intorniatioa rvo-lved the Japanese ITtHtd a landtag at Port lHtlny July 1 dlauintiarkliig about i,00ii inert and fifty a una. The whole town swarmed with JapMJue soldiers. The ent-iny is repaliiiuf the dorks and centred elnutrlo station. The railroad line Is being repaired thrturhoi' the whole Irnsth but owing to the of eiiKlima the cars are worknd by t'" On July the Japanese suspeiii'o'H atlvauce and entrenched theius''-ockct positions they are exupjriiy-'S' to all lout that .4 wiii he belli -