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The Omaha Sunday Bee. j PART I. PART I. PAGES 1 TO 10. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1904 TIIIRTY-SIX PAGES. SINGLE COrV FIVE CENTS. SIXG PRAISES OF'RAE Wonderful Stories Told of the Cures Worked by the Bone Setter of Glasgow. DOES NOT PRETEND TO HEAL ALL ILLS Simply Set 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 Dora Hot Pretend to. Bo Any Miracle Woiktr, bat that He Simply Kaovra How to Fix (f People Oat of Joiat. ' GLASGOW, July lb. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) This -week Glasgow was gain ringing with the fame of the collier surgeon, William Rae, Many voice In nu merous dialects proclaimed hie wonderful cures. Many remarkable soenea were wit nessed. Patients supported on crutches and sticks limped painfully up to the bouse, received tbeir treatment and emerged tri umphantly, discarding In many cases the club-soled shoes, Irons and other aids to balance with which they had entered. 'That's my son," said 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 crutohea, 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 ankles, 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 sticks. One was enough when he left the cottage, three or four minute ' attention having put him right. That was '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 Is Just dislocations that I treat," said he In an interview. Tall, strong-framed and rugged of fea ture, he Is In appearance much the same as thousands of other Soots. Yet there Is something strikingly intelligent In his homely face. Shrewdness and good humor shine from the gray eyes beneath the bushy ' brows silvered with the passage of years. The firm mouth and ohln, the latter partially hidden by a short beard, Indicates that here Is a character of force ful doggeiiness and clear purpose. "What Is the secret of your treatment!" be was asked. "Secret?" said Mr. Rae. as he relit the pipe he was enjoying In one of his leisure hours, ''There is none. It Is Just putting tho bones back Into the places where they should be. - - "Here," said he, stretching out his sup ple hands and strong wrists, ."here and In my head lies the power the Lord has given me, a natural gift for understanding what la amiss and seeing what Is wanted to put It right." Rae has, of course, studied human and animal anatomy. Some half oentury ago at Larkhall, his birthplace, fourteen or fifteen miles from Glasgow, then a sparser populated village, bone setting was his hobby and he pursued It until It has be come his sole occupation. He has kept to the school of experience and left other training grounds alone. His early years were spent In colliery work, and while he was pit head foreman at Larkhlll he won local fame aa a bono setter, which followed him to an embar rassing extent when he removed to Ruther gien. Bo many ' people came to him that he found he must give up either his colliery duties or his surgical experiments. He relinquished the pit work and, going Into Glasgow, built up a connection of soma Value. DREDGE STRIKES OLD WRECK Cannon and Other Articles laotoat It Dates to Bart? Part of Eighteenth Century. PARIS,' July tt.' (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) An Interesting discovery of aa ancient frigate, with a skeleton crew on board, has Just been made at Havre during dredging operations for a new channel about 190 yards beyond the Jetty. The dredger brought up two human skele tons and a seaman's boot of old-fashioned pattern. A diver was sant down and dis covered the remains of a frigate of appar ently about 600 tone burden, which had evi dently guns down during a sea fight, sev eral of the old guns being still loaded. Numerous flint-lock muskets were also found, on board and cannon balls, eoupled together by chains. In pairs. Some coils of tvle were still in position, but fell to pieces on being touched. On proceeding to the lower deck the diver made the gruesome discovery of several human skeletons, being evidently those of the crew who went down With their vessel. Already ais cannon, ten feet long, made of oaat Iron, have been brought to the sur face, and It la hoped that many more curious relloa will be rescued before the old ship la blown up with dynamite, aa It la obstructing the new channel. - It Is supposed that the frigate Is an Eng lish C Dutch vessel which belonged to the Anglo-Dutch fleet which bombarded Havre during tbe early part of the eighteenth cen tury. So far no mark or Inscription has been found which gives any clue to the vessel's nationality. NEW ORDER F0R TRANSVAAL Talk of Modlaed Form of Sell-Gevera. meat for South African Colony, . JOHANNESBURG, July 1. (Special Ca blegram to The Bee.) Lord MUrrer and Mr. Lyttellon 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, oomposed . equally of nominated and elected mem bers. If accepted pus dtvlce will prove a temporary makeshift. ' In the permanent interests of the coun try kiid racial union bnter suggestion would be that the suffrage should come aa a free gift from home, untainted by the suspicion of. Johannesburg , Intrigue, of which all the Boers and the majority of the British are now apprehenbivn. MARY ANDERSON STILL CHARMS lags sis Reads for the Bdtflcatloa of the Poor of Lea-don. LONDON, July 1. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) "Let us sing once more at the People's Palace," said Mme. de Na varre. This 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 roses; only a sim ple gown of pure white, and her hair Just simply done its 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. 8. Gilbert's "Comedy and Tragedy." When the oceans of applause from the 1,000 per sons who wanted her to sing all night had died away a silver-haired gentleman In the guinea seats crystallised everybody's feel ings by remarking In a voice made audible by enthusiasm: "Wall, really, she's 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 was when she "read" the murder scene In "Macbeth." She was both characters. She introduced the reading by sitting In a very large ohalr and quietly telling the audience about her enthusiasm for Shakespeare a striking new thing for an actress to do. Acting aa a "super," - Father Bernard Vaughan shifted the chairs and tables on the platform for her, and in his speech he said "the best talent of the empire" has come to the East End to help the work. He referred to Mme. Albani, Mr. Sentley and Mr. Gervaae Elwes, aa well as Miss Mary Anderson, In this phrase. LORDS SIT DOWN ON WOMEN Refaae to Paaa Bill Giving; Them the Right to BMwmt Member! of County Cossoll. LONDON, July 18. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.J Earl Beauchamp's bill to en able women to become members of county and borough oounolls had a very unkind reoeptlon In the House of Lords, though a similar measure has been read a second time In the House of Commons by a ma jority of 198. The lord chancellor (Lord Halabury) de nounced the bill as part and parcel of the agitation to place women In exactly the same position as men. "On personal grounds," he added, "I hope It will be re jected." i "Women have the right to vote at these elections," urged Lord Tweedmouth, "and surely they. are equally entitled to sit on the' councils, and even In Parliament." Lord James of Hereford gently depre cated the measure as calculated to lead women Into the struggle and turmoil of political strife and Injure not only the atate but the domeetlo life of every man's house. In this view Lord Londonderry coincided, and to the horror of the lord chanoellor drew a vivid ploture of a fascinating fem inine politician occupying Lord Halebury's seat on the woolsack. "I have no sympathy with political women," said the earl of Portsmouth with unwonted asperity. "A woman's poUUos 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 was refused, SOLID SILVER BED ROOM SUIT Kaatera Potentate Rivals An Vlghte Tales la Aetna! Fact. t LONDON, July 11 (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) A prominent Sheffield firm haa just ' received at the hands of an Eastern potentate an order on a scale of magnlfi cenos never before heard of either In ths city itself or the country at large. One's thoughts turn to the "Arabian Nights," when la mentioned la made of a bed room suite In solid silver, but such is the character of the order just plaoed In Sheffield. The name of the ouatomar la so far a secret, and the only Information which can be obtained la that the Instruc tions have coma from the far east, and that the question of price Is only a minor consideration. The deslgna are of Oriental character and of a moat elaborate description. The suite, which Is solid silver throughout, includes a bedstead, a cabinet, a dressing-table, a doaen chairs, three foot-baths, and three hot-water cans. The bedatead Is of the moat ornate char aotorr" 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 tlons will also be in sterling silver. NO HOSPITALITY iljl SOCIETY Mart CorelU Takes a Few (hate at the Dotage of tho mart Bet. LONDON, July 11 (Special Cablegram to The . Bee.) "Hospitality, largo-hearted, smiling, gracious hospitality, is dead," says Miss Marie Cor el 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 Is 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 Corel U refers to the "hopeless, irredeem able stupidity" which waa In the air. "Our hoat waa dull to a degree unimaginable by those who do not know what some lordly British aristocrats can be, while the host ess was equally stupid and entirely en grossed with herself and her bodily charms." ANCIENT CHURCH IS BURNED wtmm w Hoases of Calvta and Roosseava, Bw ever. Are Saved with Meek Difficulty, GENEVA, July 16 (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) The ancdent Roman Cathollo churoh of St. Germain, Geneva, waa de stroyed by fir this week. The entire an cient quarter of the town, Including the old arsenal, military museum, town hall and the houses of Calvin and Route u, were saved with great difficulty. A library of rare books and manuscripts and some valuable pictures In the church were deetroyod. RAILWAY IS UNEQUAL Tranuriberian Line Inad' ..o'N-A ?k Bet for ' ... v ENGINEER x.rlE SITUATION Oannot Carry plies for Army of Half Million Men. TAKES ONE THOUSAND TROOPS PER DAY Country Also Haa Some Serious Internal Problems to Solve. GOVERNMENT THOROUGHLY INCOMPETENT Ho One In Sight Strong Enough to Remedy the Condition If He Had tho Disposition to Try It. omwasnwawaa N PARIS, July 16. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) In the course of an interview with the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo de Paris, M. Taburno, who is de scribed as an engineer of high reputation, sod who took an active part in the build ing of the Transslberlan railway, declared the problem of the transport of food and ammunition for the army of 600,000 required by General Kouropatkln to be well-nigtrln-soluble. . Such an army will need 110,000 to 120,000 horses. Manchuria Is a poor and hostile country and Eastern Siberia does not grow enough corn for Its population. The latter country could, however, supply the army with half the cattle and all the forage It requires. But the remainder of the' enormous quantity of provision lnde spenalble to that mass of men and animals must be drawn from Western Siberia and even from Russia proper. Assuming that the supplies from Eastern Siberia were forwarded to Harbin by the Bhllka, the Amur, and the Sungarl, It would still be necessary to send fourteen or fifteen trains to Harbin dally with pro visions, ammunition, railway material, etc. This 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 wag a tour'de force. Exiles ot Russian Rale. BERLIN, July 16. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) Since the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war there haa been a ataady 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 caar rules. The unanimity with which the writers agree as to the evils which beset Puesta of the twentieth oentury Is extraordinary. The curses of Russia are her rotten finan cial system, the btlnd 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 der Bruggon, and of "A Russian-Chinese Empire," translated from the French of Alexander XTlar, 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 fmd an economic base In the far east. Chinese Industry, Mongolian and Manchuria gold, are to pro vide 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 this dream la ruin. The . moment Russia ceases to be able to borrow In Europe and America, her col lapse, at least as a European power, la inevTtable." "The strength of the nation la being sapped," says Baron von dar 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 anarchy, which la today felt everywhere above and below; Independent activity and national Indepedenceno are being ground to pow der. Exam-pie of heoapetne, Aa an example of the evils of centralisa tion and the incapacity of the central gov ernment Baron von der Bruggan qnotea the fate of the last Russian census. During five years the commission ap pointed for the working out of the accumu lated material haa given no sign of life beyond the fact that It Is unable to cope with the matter. During theae five years It haa 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 aa a-pattern and. moreover, free of cost. But the request waa refused. Such sepa ratism could not be tolerated. The caar appears to have no word In this matter, where millions are concerned, yet, aa can be aeen by the Government Messenger, he had time to give his august attention to the oaae of a girl at sohool at Reval whose delloate health made It un desirable that she should be worried by the learning of the "awful German lan guage," and an Imperial decree waa pub lished exempting her from thla trial. "In conclusion," says the baron, "one more example of the paper administration of this gigantic empire. Somebody has 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 bv official no tices to the number of U.0O0." Much more of the same sort la contained (Continued on Sixth Paga) TEACHES PRACTICAL CHARITY Novel School Will Be Started la Mew York City Thla Fall. (Copyright, by New Tork Herald Co. 19o.) NEW YORK, JULY 16. (New York Her ald Service Special to The Bee.) Some' thing new in the educational line In tin 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 practl cal, because dealing with vital social prob lems and presented by those actually en gaged 'in working at them. This announcement Is the result of a 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 Organization 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 Uarlln 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 forms of charlable activity child-helping agencies, the caro of needy families, ho pltals and hygiene, the prevention of dis ease, reformatory methods and probation laws, sanitary housing, preventive social work, Immigration problems, the state's charities, the an ti-tuberculosis 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 for Benefit of tho Con gressmen. (Copyright, by New York Herald Co., 1901.) 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, the 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 capitol 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 shall be aboard the little train will go humming from Its station. It will pass 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 office building for the senate. The house building la to be located opposite the south east corner of the capitol grounds, 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 1s completed the subway and electrlo transportation facilities provided for the house will be duplicated. PANAMA MAKES IMPROVEMENTS Mock Money Paid by United States Has Already Beea Appro printed. (Copyright, byNew Tork Herald Co. 1304.) WASHINGTON, JULY 16. (New York Herald Service Special to The Bee.) With creditable . promptness and considerable lavlshnesa the new Republic of Panama Is proceeding to utilise for publlo improve ments the $10,000,000 which it received from the United Statea recently for the Panama canal lights. According to a report from H. A. Gudger, the American consul gen eral at Panama, $3,200,000 haa already been appropriated, $1,000,000 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 Died and the work must be under way by December tL The work for which the money will be used covers a wide range. The sum Is distrib uted among, the various provtnoes as fol lows: Province of Panama, $1,000,000; prov ince of Colon, $300,000; provinoe of Chlrlqul, $4MM)00; provinoe of Cocle, $380,000; province of Los Santos, $360,000; province Of Vera Aguas, $360,000, and provinoe of Booaa del Toro, $460,000. The act gives the president of the repub lic the right to admit free of duty all ma terial used In these publlo Improvements. DISCOVER NEW ANAESTHETIC Readers Possible Many Operations Heretofore Considered Im practicable. LONDON. July IS. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) The recent discovery of eucalne. a oowerful local tnuuhntin i- looked upon as another sclentltlo triumph. it will make poesiDie operations which might not otherwise take place owing to heart weaknesses, for tho patient remain conscious during Its use, although, of course, those 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 be most useful for treat ment of the thyroid glands. In such oper ations the use of chloroform la often Im practicable. A successful operation of this kind, which was recently performed with eucalne in a London hospital, lasted nearly an hour and a b-Jf. Eucalne (a Injected by a hypodennlo needle under the skin where the Incision Is to be made. After a few moments the skin may be out without the patient feel ing anything. Aa different and dun .- are exposed the drug la dropped at Inter- I vale of a few mluulea. PROTECTION FOR ALL Packing 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 and that Importations Are Not Hnrtlns; the Cause 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 como 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 haa been no drinking to speak of among the unemployed. The strikers 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 wlthout.applylng for work at the pack ing plants. Men Takea to Plant. About 10 o'clock twenty-nve 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 Briggs, who occupied a front seat. The car was run to Thirty-third and Q streets without any trouble and the branch bouse 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 dosen 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 Is In Chicago attending the arbitration meetings, are to the effect that another conference with President Donnelly Is be ing held, General Manager Howe ot 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," said 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 was shipped last evening for the same section. Among the harvest hands were some of the South Omaha packing house strikers. Anoiseeucnt from Packers. Late Saturday afternoon the packers an nounced that they would take back what skilled workmen they can use If applica tion Is made before 8 o'clock Monday morn ing. The statement 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 aa men return to work the else ot 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 ia getting better." It la expected by the packers that men enough will be on hand Monday to dean op 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 Fire and Police commission, had this to say re garding the strike: "If a man really wanta to go to work and asserts 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 to work are given an opportunity to do so." ' Aside from the twenty-five men escorted to Cudahys yesterday by Chief Briggs, only one man waa taken In during the afternoon. This man applied to the chief to see him safely to the Omaha's gate aud this was done. The strikers did not make any demonstration. They merely looked on rind said not a word. This shows 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 the men arrested was a striker. Chief Briggs said that It had been the quietest week In police cycles that be remembers. Mra Are Confident. At labor headquarters last night the best of feeling prevailed. Those who gathered there appeared to be confident that their cause would win In the end. As for the packers sending for men from branch houses to work In the plant, the strikers appeared to care very little. "Such men." said a prominent leader, "will not hurt our cause In the least, as they know little or nothing of the details of a parking house. The result will be that such men will really do more harm than good. Another thing, they are soft In the muscles snd cannot stand manual labor. In two or three days these men will hsve to be pnt on the shelf to rest their hands and feet. Now Just watch and see If I am not right." Vice President Vafl was busy at Ms (Continued en Second Page.) THE BEE BULLETIN. Foreraat for Nebraska Fair and Can tinned Warns Sunday and Monday, Pa ge. 1 Sins Praises of Collier nor tor. Siberian Hoad Inadequate to Task. Statna of l.oeal rruer' Strike. Latest from the Wnr In the Kail, a 8 4 s e T S lO 11 12 13 14 15 Flaht Aaulnst Social Democracy. Plan to Arbitrate Strike Falls. Kens from All Pnrts of Nebraska. Banquet Pnnl Morton nt Home City. Body of l.oomls Washes Aahore. 1)1 lie flab Has Its First Ontlns. Plnmbera Bill Breaks Record. Baxter tinea to Lehigh Valley. Past Week In Omnhn Society. Services at Omaha Churches. Sportlnsr llrinlli of the Day. Council Bluffs and Iowa News. Railroad Ticket Snrlndlera Busy. Ants Have a Fine Appetite. What to tlo When In Danger. Washington on Mount Zlon Hill. Summer Life at Atlantic City, hebraakana at World's Fair City. Amusements and Music. Weekly llevlew of Sports. F.dltorlal. Parker In the l.lmr 1,1 a ht. Oregon's Debt to State of Iowa. Recipes Worth Much Money. Queer Questions Over Telephones. Financial and Commercial. Prisoner Before Federal Judge. Pron-rrss of Vacntlon Contest, to 80 The Illustrated Bee. 1H lO 'JO at Temperatnre at Omaha Yesterday I I Hour. Dfg, Hour, Dear. I B a. m TT 1 p. m H ! 8 a. m TV 2 p. m DO : T a. n 77 8 p. m Ml j a. in Tl 4 p. m ir.t I 0 a. m 81 5 p. m flit 10 a. in H4 41 p. m HI It a. m 87 7 p. m OO 13 ai 87 VIRGINIA COMPANY IN TROUBLE . . - Traction Company Operating; In Rich mond and 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, was placed in the hands of receivers today by Judge Wuddell of the United States district court upon petition of the Bowling Green Trust company. William Northrup and Henry T. Wlckham were named as receivers. Neither bus yet qualified and Mr. Wlck 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 is now being argued in the state circuit court at Peters burg, the defendants claiming that there Is no necessity for receivership. The explanation of the application to a Vnlted 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 arrest has been made on the holdup of the Interna tional & Great Northern train at Speers last night. This saspeot, 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 has ar rived at Oak woods. It Is officially reported tkat 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 tickets. 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 Cttlaen to Show Ills Hand In Gambling War. MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 1. The commit tee of public safety today called upon Mayor Williams, Chief of Police Mason and George Blackwell, sheriff of Shelby county with a request that these officials atate what they would do In the future toward closing up alleged dives and run ning criminals from the oommuntty. The answer of Shoriff Blaokwwll 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 demands. The recent action of Vloe Mayor Hender son In declaring against Chief Mason practically aaeurea the latter's retirement from the head of the police department. NONUNION OR A REDUCTION Employee of the Pittsburg; Foundry Roeoiva Notion of Oompaay'a Intentloa to Cut. PITT8BTJRG, July 18. -The employes of the Pittsburg Steel Foundry at Glaasport were paid off today and notified that the plant would be operated by nonunion men next week unless a schedule of 10 per cent reduction In wages via accepted. The men declare that they will not return to work at the cut and as Superintendent Duncan McDougal Is said to hpve already secured a number of nonunion men to work, trouble Is expected. The employes are members of the foundrymen's association. FIFTY THOUSAND AFTER LAND That Number Have Already Regis, teres for the Drawing for Roaebad Hoeseeteade, BONE8TECL. 8. D., July !. The elerka In charge of registration on the Rosebud reservation land tonight place the total registration to date as follows: Bone steel, 17.IH; Fairfax, t.K2; Yankton, XI, 171; Chamberlain, t.071 Total. C1 JAPS ARE CLOSING UP Armies of General Oka and Nodzu Hare Joined at Tang Chi, Near Ta Tche Kiao, JAPANESE CONTINUING THEIR ADVANCE Extra Precautions Being Takea Owing to the Pact that Konropatkin is Near. INVADERS ARE ENTRENCHING POSITIONS Russians Are Beginning to Open Their Eyes and Doubt Story of Jap Losses, OFFICIAL DENIAL RECEIVED FROM TOKIO Russia Still Hopes that While There Is a Discrepancy la the Figures that Enemy Haa Suffered a Repulse. (Copyright by New York Herald Co., 1904.) ST. PETEItSBUHG, Saturday. July 18. (New York Herald Cablegram Special Telegram to The Bee.) The Japanese are advancing upon Ta Tche Klao, where Gen eral Kouropatkln' in person apparently In tends to take Issue with the enemy for the first time. Artillery fire was opened by the Japa nese on Wednesday, evidently for the pur pose of trying to find the position of the Russian batteries, whloh, understanding the object, did not reply by a single shot. The Japanese after that guve 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 Kutis, in a special dispatch from Ta Tche Klao, says the position is very strongly fortified and the Japanese are not likely to take It unleea they can largely outnumber the garrison. It remarks with amusing confidence that the presence there of General Kouropatkln muBt have had a demoralising effect upon the Japa nese. The taking of Ylnkow has not been of ficially confirmed, but Is accepted generally ac a fact. One military' crillo prognosti cates that the Japanese will utilise the mouth of the Llao river to bring up pro visions 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 lnnded at Dalney, while Field Marshal Oyama and several officers who took part In the capture of the fort ten years ago are working on plana for its capture. Another report announces that Qyama has gone to Join Kurokl, whose forces are gradually creeping northward along the valleys. Kurokl has 100,000 men and 226 guns. Oku has 65,000 men and 2G4 guns. Nodsu, before the 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 Wet and hund It over to Germany. In exchange England will get what It so long has been seeking the Yang Tse Klang valleys as Ha exclusive sphere of influence. ' Japs Closing Up. ST. PETERSBURG, July 16,-1:30 p. m. The Japanene are continuing to advance on Tatcheklao, following a solentlflo plan, and entrenching their positions as they move forward. They appear to be taking extra precautions in the case of Tatcheklao on account of their knowledge that General Kouropatkln la there personally. According to a dispatch from Lieutenant General Sakaharoff, dated July 15, and given out today, the wings of General Oku's and Nodiu's armies have joined at Tang Chi, ten miles southeast of Tatcheklao, The Japanese aro also reported to have occupied the fortifications at Plutzau, about seven miles north of Kla Ping, audi were still proceeding toward New Chwang, which had not been occupied July IS. A detachment of General Kurokl's force Is reported to have leached the village of Tsxhakehe, forty miles east of Llao Yang, on the Feng Wang Cheng high road, BAYS JAPS LOSIi. TWO THOUSAND Admiral Ale left" Makes Report of Flahtiug Around Port Arthur. ST. PETERSBURG. July 11 in tho flght lngof July t and July 4 for the possession of the positions at Lnnsantan outside of Port Arthur, Viceroy Alexias reports that the Japanese were repulaed with the aid of the protected cruiser Novlk and a num ber of gunboats and torpedo boats. The Russians captured a number of Japanesa fortifications. The losses of the Russians were two officers and thiity-frve men killed and four officers and M7 men wounded. The Chinese estimate the Japanese looses at S.000. Alexleff adds that the Japanese landed 2,000 men and titty guns at Port Dalny July 1 The following ta the text of Viceroy Alax lefTs report) According to reports received from Port Arthur dated July &, an tngugeinent oo ourred July S and July t, on the tight flank of our line of defense for the poHaesolon of the positions of lAinsantn. Towards evening the enemy waa repujsod and many of the Japanoita rortllloaUuns full Into our bands. During these two days the Novlk, with gunboats and torpedo boata, put out to st and boinburded the enoiuy thus contributing to our general success. Our Ionises for the two days' fighting were: Killed, Captain Glietenko ot the Thirteenth regiment and Lieutenant Lirotoff of the Tweiity-seventh rngtinnnt: wounded: Cap tain Mlroschnlkoff of the Thirteenth r1 nxint. Uontenant Olanhlnevsky ot the Four teonth refcimunt, SuD-Lleutonant Demlan oft of the Fifteenth reglnitmt and Prince Gantlmouroff, aide-de-camp of General Stoessol, dangerously wounded, Thlrty-nvu of our soldinrs were killed and 247 were wounded. Colonel Reus who lu txl as chief of staff of General Stuessel, was brtilwcd. The Japanese toasos for the two days, aooordlug to Chinese reports were I, wo men According to the report of Jtily T w cap tured. July 6. an udVunoed hill, ensuring us uoMMAanitm of Luiinantan Dujot. Our loa- sea were two ortUwn klllnd arid one officer and twenty-one eoliiisra wouajded. Aocorftfiitf to infuitiiatioa rwnlved the Jui.iioo vfrectud a lfudiag at Port Imlny July X, disembarking 1 about su.OOo men aud fifty guns. The whole town swtiiiiioil wllft Japajuvstt soldiers. Tfia anxiny Is rl'liiiuf the dcM-kn and control) ehnnno staliou. The rullruad line Is being rapftirvd throiurhoi1' the whole length but owing to ttis ' of eiiKtuoa the uars ate workret by C), On July the Japanese susi.eii-V.'j: 'Z advaiion and i ntrenched them'' (Tii positions tnay are oocHWii.ut - wui he hia y