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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1904)
THi: GNAT. A DAILY I frn;i)AT, JULY r.1. ir.t. v-'ILL INCREASE RAT KE3IS Another Evill.Tect FrfJicXl m IW.t of Laise in CoJ Eatr. BUSINESS- V.LH CtNCRALLY PROTEST fay Railroad' nank Discrimination Caa Only Work to Omtlit'i I n Jary, Heprllina; Capital for Investment. The proposed advnnoii In coal rates con tinues to be one of the principal tT-los for discussion amnin Omaha business m-n. Almost all citizens are a unit In declining th&t it will be one of the hardest Mows evrr dealt to thin city. J. II. Mitben, con nected wlh R. C Peters & Co., rol estate dealers, In discussing the matter said: "The effect of the rMse will be felt by msny persona who ore compelled to rent etesm-heatcd apartments. There la no qujrstlon that many of the eastern property owner whom we represent will ndvlso us after the raise goes Into effect to Increase, thu rental rates of our tenants. We buy large quantities of steam coal with which to heat the bulldinKS under our charge, una yrt have thought that we were paying a Very stiff price f.-.r It before thla proposed advance was sprung on u. The price of sunn conl ha been grnrtnnlty rreer'lnsr ip right along. We paid last winter $3 IS per tun frt'n'he brut grade, and we now under - . At there la to be an advance -l Kj on to thia seemingly exorbitant pu'e. Renters will be among the first to feel the effects of the raise. "These are not the only 'persons, how ever, who will aulTer In consequence of the decision of the- roads to make more money. We have parties now figuring with us to buy steam-heated property for rental pur poses and they all complain of the price of fuel, saying It la cheaper In surrounding Cities. j Will Kot Fan tRents ere as hlh in, Omaha nt pr-psont Injsteam-heated apartments, proportionally, &4 I" en? clty ,n th9 country, so that prospective investor can hardly figure on . advancing them to make him even or. Mi Outlay, They will not take the . chances at leant of being) able to secure an ad vance over present rents, and the result . Is that they will cot buy "prpperty until conditions change. We bave ore man now wjio la figurlr.g' bn buying nine residences and putting in a steam plant to heat them al). It la probable that whea he considers this rise In the price of fue'i It will have a tendency to keep him from Investing." p. F. Johnson, treasurer of the Omaha stinting company, said: rWe do not use vhi Would V. connld- i nld a large amount of steam coal to run . otjr plant, but tha proposed raise In freight rates will reault In our spending several hundred dollars more annually for coal. It Is a hard matter to Increase our prices tojeustomers and consequently the advnnco ' ' '-"To come out of our own pockets ". f reduce our profltu Just tha amount that v. i must pay In addition for fuel. I do not ' fciieve tha people of this city realise what alserlous thing It la. It means that users ci steam coal bete must pay a rate for f i I which would make tha price to a t gle consumer In St. Joncph or Kansas C y prohibitive in competition with others I" the others paid the same prices as those I '-vailing there now for their fuel." Give Excuse for Raise. An official of one of the railroads Inter- i In t'ao advance explained why it Is c -med necessary on the part of the lines I I increase tha rates. lie said: V The rates on coal were very-low, unre- ! i neratlvely so. From -. noma '..territory 1 : 7 were lower than, friim other, portions ' t the district supplying Omaha,. Iowa !', were forced to advance th' rates In filer to give tha lines from southern Kan ii taiK uaourl suitable remuneration for " tivlr much longer haul, southern -Kansas jet being unwllllftg to advance unless Hilar advances were made from Iowa, rate of $l.S0 on alack from southern Ifnaas to Omaha, a class of coal of which ljich more Is shipped hbre than of any "r klnd. la for a 2U) mile haul, far lower f' ' any coal rata unddr slnillar condlUona The det.ua to Advance th!a rate and the wllllngnesj on the part of southern Kan- 8i lines to advnncw ltn!rin other ratert uch more reasonable from mines much ti.rcr Omaha wen tuiv-.- I v -'i tha "t.'ng cauBta for the iit-uvral advances. Ilia ute on southern Kaunas elack. !s only w 4 .1 r , i.coniy enjoy. lira ' . 1 s. H 1 . . f Ml ; ; - ; :- l -'' - i 1 ; J inn inn not wnther. If. overcomes tiio fatigue and no i v.ous s t r a i n from the suiamor hoat as a mildly otimula Una tonic. Wi t h i c o v n t o r 1 e . , a - a iiuio sugar if dcr.ircd nothing 3 co dolicious find bracing uu a ii 01 :.ummep i i j i .- ' I,-.. i (' "?' --- - ft n.. . 1, J . A . ti. V:a ,j Co., " ' I 1 3 t It 11 t, C. A i v:. y r. :, i . 'I " : ' c It : i . ; V 1 !:v. -l''-" t f a c-nt per ton per mil'-, l-n t' r rout." I). O. Ivts. general frcUM as-ci t ( f the R M., said: - "The advance In the rate Is mnde by all roruls end m.t the PurllnKton only. The Ilurlitigtoa has no club to hold over other lines or any Influence whatever over them." r.'AY rove back toTf,ef.x:it Korthrrestera to l!lf prpltlril on It-rnlnst Ilrailnaartrrs from Norfolk, It Is rumored that the division henilnMir ters of the Nebraska and Wyoming diinion of the Northwestern, which Is njw locate 1 nt Norf ilk, will be moved to Fremont. B'irne of the conductors v ho are now living In Fremoi.t and who have expressed a de terrniiittfion to move to Norfolk have bc n asked to retain their residences In Fremont. a.-H wns blleved the head'iuaiters would bu returned to that point. The head i'iar ters formerly were located at Fremont and, It is aald, officials have found that the division could be much mure easily operated from there than from Norfolk. Nothing Is triven out of the proponul charge at the headijuarters In this city. Hallway Notes and Personalis It. J. Flffer, puperlntendent of the Kock Inland, and Jr. 1;. Kmaiiey, ii-rlntendent of the Iowa dlvlHlon of the same company, with headmiarters in lies Molm-s, were In the city yesterday. S. North, fcnoiolv traveling passenger fn! of the Jiilnoli Cen'ral In this city, l ot now located at rveeport, IH, here bn has charve if the Worol's fair bwim's, is in the city to apend a icw days with tils family. B. I). Farkhurst. pnnernt arent of the Grest Western, and lanilly bnve returned f'-oni their Bummer outini spent at the hikes of Wisconsin, r-fr. I h rU hurst reports t.'.Mng good and a line lime during bis stay. A report Is In circulation to the effect that tiia Ro k .-ond Is to bohd a nuinl-r of boats to ply between New Orleans and routh Africa. It is supposed that these boats are to be usd In handling "iiIh and live stock shipments from the middle west to South Africa. The I'Mnois Central railroad has borrowed l-i. ovu.OU. Just what tl-.o purpose of the loan is could not he ascertained In this el!, but It is presumed that the money Is tvnrpnw-1 for pettermenf unit prohwOly for th biiiiilin of Home branch lines which are Considered necessary. Daniel Wlllard, vice president of the H;ir-llni-ton, who has been la ,Nhraska Inspect ing the lines of his company during the last week, passed tliroutli Hie city on his way east Friday afternoon. . He will go direct to Chicago. 'Jeneral Manager Ilol drege and General Freight Anenl Ives of the B. & M., who have been with Mr. Wll lard on his western trip, returned to Omah with hlin. Crosby, Kopeltx A Co. of South Omaha bave been awarded the contract for fur nishing the culvert tile for the Omaha & Southern railway now building from Bouth Omaha to I'npillon. The tile is now being deijverttd. An adiiillon will be made to tiie grading force which has been at work along the line. The Proftty, 1'lerce locomo tive and Car company is now building two cars for use on the line. They will be com pleted in time1 for the opening of the road. W. C. Allen has been appointed general yard master of the Union I'acUle. I.lr. Al len will have charge of the yards In both Council J;iun and Omaha. 1I took charge today. I'revious to his promotion Mr. Al len was B-aslstant yard maater In this city. The position of general yard master lias been vacant (since the promotion uf R. Mc Neil to the position of superintendent of terminals. No one has as yet been named to take the position cf assistant yard mas ter made vacant by the promotion of Jilr. Allen. ordzPi rvorjEY Fen judgments Coooty Conmlloier Decide to Draw Warrant for Clerk lu Uoorea Cane, i At the meeting of the Board of County Commissioners a resolution was adopted providing for the drawing of a warraut in favor c Clerk j?roadwell of the district coutt for $26,6iX'.20 l.n payment of the Judg ment.a secured against the county by Frank E. Moorea.. jAnothur vesalution limtructe Attorney Shields iiot Jo appeal the case brouglit by the county against Mr. Mooresj rtid this long-drawn-out iUlfatiou is, there fore, supposed to be closed. ( A resolution was adopted liiati-vctlng the bridge contractoi-s to-build -a 200-foot, steel bridge over tho Elkiiorn river at Snyder s Ferry and a number of email pile bridges in various parta of tho county. , . A resolution by Commissioner McDonald appointed Mose Sturman aa assistant county agent. . ' . The World Futllphlng company was the only bidder for the ollljlal county print lr.g for tho enjuag year. Its bid was i cunts, per description pf lets, and 6 cents per description of lands for the publication of delinquent tax notices, $75 for the pub lication of the county treasurer's send annual statement and 6 cents per line for all other legal notices. dur- ( a n d ' 6 ?!' lit" 'L'OVi u. II i .,-. i- ii. fc: .1 u t a . t.u.. T ,'T,T T... X. . 4 J v I - v J '! I : CCDD, I? NO IGLinCS IN II City Engineer Eoaewater TLci Fpesks cf TaTin"- Hant for 0;nals FETIHNS FROM TOUR OF INSrtCP.CN Impressed with r.ample ofWlaalve ad 'Other tttl-a a-i " Talwke Omaba should Have HodII pl System. "A munlclwl asphalt repair ' plant for Omaha would be a aucceas,, provided law was passed putting; it operation etrlotljr under civil service rules snd fixin it o that politicians and partisan must keep their hfcrds off," says City Engineer Rose water on bis return from a two week' tour Inv-ssiisatlng; the subject. N Ho waa sone two week, spending; bis own money when the council appropria tion of ll'iO ran out, spending nine night on sleeping cars and all the available time In the Inspection, of plants and machinery and conversing with experts and authori ties. "Winnipeg, Canada, Is urie of the most shining examples of municipal control In North America,1' said Mr. Tlosewater. "The city owns the paving, plants for as phalt and macadam, water works, baa It own crematory for garbage, which la col lected at the public etpenae, and builds He own sidewalks. It has a population of M, 000, and so far this year the building per. mlts amount to 19.000.000. The city has found the laying of its own, pavement a success, the cost being about (2.2S a yard, because of high price for Portland cement nd asphalt. Situation In Detroit. "In Detroit a $15,000 repair plant Is fairly under way, Is accounted a success and re pairs are being rdade at about 87 cents a yard. The capacity of the plant Is large, being from l,uoO to 1.80 yards a day. It ia In charge of experts, the chief drawing 2,5CO a year." Mr. Kosewatcr visited New Tork, Wash ington and Indianapolis in ' order to see big paving rlants and talk with the ex perts lie thinks Omaha should have a plant capable of laying 1.000 yards of as phalt a day, which would cost about 10, 000. . A smaller plant with about half the capacity, which could be made to suffice, would cost from $8,000, to $7,000, according to his estimate. The engineer will formulate hl observa tlons and conclusions In a report to be pre sented to the council Tuesday night. VCttAN CHARGED WITH CHIME Wife of Army Sergeant Accused Of Killing Him Brought to Ouiaba for Imprisonment. Deputy United States Marshal Sides has returned from Fort Robinson, bringing with him Mrs. Lulu Bell, the alleged murderess of her husband, Sergeant William Bell of the Tenth United States cavalry, and lodge?, her In the Douglas county Jail In de fault of $5,000 bail. The murder occurred at tin early hour Tuesday morning at Fort Robinson' and ffas said to be the outgrowth of Jealousy on the part of both parties. There had been a ball at the fort the night previous and Mrs. Boll had attended the ball from her home at Crawford, three miles distant from the post. Sergeant Bell remonstrated with hc-r for her attendance at the ball and wanted her -to return home. This, It ' is said, she ret used to do and remained for the night at the ejunrters of a Mrs. Johnson, a houaekeeper l'or some of -the parties at tho jMxt, Bell learning she was there went to tho Johnson premises and tried to urge h'.r"to go home. , She refused1, It Is reported, to rlo so,' and a, tpiarrel ensued, during which- Mrs. Bell Is said to have shot her husband. Mrs. Johnson wag the only wit ness of the tragedy, it occurring about I o'clock Tuesday morning. Sergeant Bell died of hia;mjurlea the same night and the funeral took plnce Thursday. Mrs. Boil maintains the shooting was ac- cldontal. Phe was given a . preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner Bnbcock of Chndron, who went to Fort Robinson to investigate the case, and Mrs. Bell was bound over to the federal grand Jury In $5,000. In default of ball r,ha was remanded o the Douglas county Jail. FORT CALHQUiM , caEGnATIO'J Centennial M ill Be Attended by' Gov. ernor i-inuv 7Huxiuar w Bf.gT Time. The Fort Calhoun centennial celebration committee was very agreeably , surprised Wednesday afternoon to find that tho peo ple of Fort Calhoun . .had .anticipated their arrival with the, boulder monument, al ready had prepared a pedestal for. It on the school' house grounds , and bad 'placed the boulder in position. It will remain on the school house grounds until tbe exact spot where the Lewis and Clark treaty with tha Indiana was held. ' ' A. Ii. Sheldon of the Stat Historical so.-ioiy vm in Omnha Fri'lsy from Lincoln, conferring with the general committee! Governor Mlcky bus Bl(fnlfled his accept ance of an invitation to be preser. at the centennial ceremonies at Irt Calhoun August S and take part In tho program. The committee announces that it has se cured a rate from Lincoln to Omaha for one and one-third fare for the-round trin and a rate of 85 cents for the ronirU trip from Omaha to Fort Calhoun. It is expected that at leant 600 people from Blair will be present at tha centennial ceremonies, including- the mayor and city council. Orders already have been baued from headquarters of the department of the Missouri, directing-. a battalion of the Thirtieth United fitats Infantry and the band from Fort Crook to proceed to Fort Calhoun to participate in the ceremonies of the dedication of the boulder monument and otner Incidental parts of the centennial STCP.Z EKL.Ar.CL3 i.J f.CCM l) rewind Company Will Build no G1A I.mid lUrk Accommodate "W ill, t!,t? pulling down of the old dw'ell ng Ju,t north of the isiora brewery, on f'uT.oan avenue, l.mt v . , k. there iltsnrw pmiej t.notn-r of Omut.a'a old landmarks. i lie uuilil.iiK Has eiect- J thirty years ago. bi.t of late h.is boil in a dilapidated state and an eye. re to that section of the city. V itn the panning of thia bIkh of the tu.iaha of th? punt conns the Bij;n of the prosperous O.oiaNu of the present and fu ture, for tha Ktors Hrewlna company, vl.lcli baa boot-lit the lot and dwelling, and nt hiiM lastlgation the bu!.!!nj was 3e str.iyc.l, '.e lures lis l.iteuu.uis of gra.ilus; djwu the 1 to the level of th n,ct and at a fi-tuir d.ite erectlinf u.i.;itt.,ii to ihe brew i y b.i.!!!UKl on It. The M..I s HrewtiisT cuinpaiiy bus been tiyii-s: to (d'taiii this iiroperty for nome time, tl.e Dtiadlly In. r. ik'iiij bunln .-..i of tl.e (inn n.uKIng it tmeiisarr for it to l.ave lome I. . It la tin-i,,t:t tha i.ew bli:-l!l-rf i!l le used t.y a l.'di!:, Uvp..--t- iii' iit. 1 I is c, u.i.uny has flutin.- tha l,t t . w i . bought iii di y- r.inwr lets ri IB nr. t. .1 lilir :tJt..:y f-eil.e di and In i.-ir si -., -1 I uv j ut no '-'' v !.. i. w In ti, tba., 'i lacking tho romance of tbe days that were, are visible steps of the days the Gate City has yet to see. NO FUNDS NOW FOR ROAD Coejnty Short on .Money to Repali1 Driveway as' Live Stock Ex- '' ehstnar Asks. J, B. Blvichard and J.iCJ.. Martin,; for, a committee of the South Omaha Live Stock exchange, appeared before the county com missioners yeaterday and appealed for as sistance fropt the county in the improve ment of tlie dirt road of Thirty-second street' that leads from Hanscom park- to the stock yards. - r . . "This road," said Mr. Blanch ard, "is used by perhaps one-half of the members of tho live stock exchange In driving from their residences In tha Seventh ward to. their places of business In South Omaha. That Is, it Is used when it is In passable con dition. As tbe road Is partly in the city of South Omaha and partly in the city of Omaha, and as the owners of the abutting property, are mostly nonresidents, It la lm pcsmble to have the street Improved In the usual way. If the county will furnish the material for macadamlrlpg the road, we think we can Induce the councils of .the two citlea to do the work." Commissioner O'Keeffe announced thaJt the board could not at thla time take any OOicIul action toward the Improvement of the road because It bad no funds to apply to the purpose. He advised the live stock exchange committee to take the matter up w!h the board about the first of next year, to that provision for the improvement could be made for tiext year's road levy. The committee withdrew with the understand ing that it could do nothing but follow tha advice of Commis loner O'Keeffe. SENATCr, KEAr,NSGGS WEST It ah Statesman Hastens ta Attend Conference of Ina Pedro-Salt Inlie Road Haxsetei, Senator Thomas Kearns of Utah paBsed through Omaha yeateiday in his private car bound for his homo In Salt Ike City. Hia car was attached to the Union Pacific fast mail. . . J. Vttd, vle prtmiutiul of liie Mercan tile Trust company of St. Louis was to have met Senator Kearns here to accompany hlin west, but the Wabash does not arrive in time to make connection with the fast mail, consequently Mr. Wade followed on' the Overland Limited and will raeot the sena tor in Cheyenne, and from there go forward to Salt Lake CIl with. Mm The two are going west to attend a con ference of parties intercated In the uw San Pedro railway, which Is now being built west from Salt Lake City to Los An geles. It Is said that. Senator Clark of Montana will be lament at the. meeting, which has been called for the purpose of taking up the financial end of the project for dlacuasion. The Mercantile Trust com pany,' It is understood, bae done murh to ward financing the undertaking. S'verul aifr-rn capltaltBtp will alao be prtriftnt at the conference. AiurCuilty BlatletU-a. The following births arid deaths bave be.. a repurle-'i lo t'.e i.oard f iieaUri Our li'S th tftcu'.y-our hums endliijf at siooa t.a ' ii nla y : lurili N'lc.hole-a Cheret. IK -S Wali.ut. yi' l; lv im lTuwn, II' ) Cilt-1 aven ue, fiii; 1 Jwut'l v. i.i.rr. ;.-!S North Ti-niy-ti'ii'J, sirl; liu. 'u liuro. l-,rly-lii;iln miu! i-i'i - lil-l on avenue, l.v, I'ualiiH 1' r.iii Irr..lo t-'Z Itrlck svs ruo II ltioiiH;n: Ail-iln 1 Iftine. 'i wwn 1 V-Ni x I n and !.ifi.ia, ti; A a. e Teo-i-ieton, ..! i' j IliinOt of W. J. t-jolt. i. I IloJlie; llnuly ht'K-iiM't. Clntksou host llil, ri'.rne West I -..int. Neb., U Mrs. ti. iU. Iracy, OU 1 c.pio's biMor, tJ Creditors Mshf I tmi(r, , The rirdito'-s f.f John Fr.-1 Oil.-rv, a Toer.. iia i .-f ii.m.ui, I v i.L-.l a i-i i.-n Itl tlin lulled .-i.i(.h 1. .-I rli t c.a.ll in: ti.st he l il"rnii. a t I- r . i P t Tim f.r. tr nv.t ! . . F. llrio.-. the N .im.i. ,1 m on.! . t i-. aii nay rh ! j'onrs & r.hUH-iitnVi!. all .f ' m Vli' -rt Jul,, I Ulnlul II I I I .'iu, 1 .s JI...I. Tli chi-IK" u iiiU'iii Jo t'.H i'tui'.'i ii. nc fil,-fv Ii (tur- 1 f n M,.-.(,t ! I I'. I-U o.-l .1 I I I t s nw K ni.-i i i. i . by but of ., t., I.-1B IvUr li'liV-l1. i I i, I In IlLt'-t io i'. t .it a ptcfeiird ,t-i.:u.r i-r ail ...KM" lic.a.Ii.fa. pur' - - w it 1 aa K ska C-VVll rt?3 Clxtsen .houra quScktrr trran eny -other Vtrrs Elootrlo Lightaa Tralna ' Icqtilraj t ii m tm ii r f i ii -s a w I X t 9S.W C f , m wmi , rPlron SIS. . . Hudson and cruising along the New Eng land coast." says City Attorney Wrijcht, who has returned with bis family af'.er his vacation. "A great part ot the time was spent on tho water and the remainder was put In at places of Interest. I did not think of business once whon I was awny and kept nil thoughts connected with the city hall en, of my mind. I have no news of any kind to oiler. concerning the water works appraisement or anything else, but feel fresh and fit to tackle the piles ot work that cornea Into thia office," CDD' ACTION OF MACHlNEftY Specialists In MeHehanioa Orentljr Fs i sled by tbe Err tie Dera tions of Engines. , Some of the, wonders of machinery. ucb, ai the erratic operation of certain engines at particular times, are little, understood even by practlaai machinists. ... ' , Everyday thing's which are perfectly fa miliar to mechanics ot one class are totally unintelligible to- the workman in another branch. Men who have worked a lifetime in fashioning caatlron under the lathe are greatly surprised on learning that the same material, when employed In the heat ing pipes of a blast furnace stove, grows from six inches to a foot . in length from constant use. And the furnace man U equally unprepared to hear that the core bars used for casting pipe loao as much as three Inches In easting twenty or thirty pieces.- i r In practice, for Instance, a piston - rod packing of eaey fitting babbit bushing is used,- When these bushes become suf ficiently worn - to leak we close them up by compressing them In the water.' cylinder of a hydraulic press. In-this eperatloa a mandrel somewhat smaller than the pis ton. rod Is put Inside," end with all the pressure we can bring to bean we huve never been aide to .compress the bush so aa to grasp the mandrel tight, and yet occasionally we have had those bushes shut down while the engine was running so as to grasp the ptston rod as If gripped in a vlso, to break the bushes aeunder. Indeed, or to make tliU necessary la order to get them off. Again, in the foundation of embossed work, two (ilea ars used, the female die often being made by driving the hardened male die Into a block cf soft steel. This operation im easily performed by a few blows of the Crop hammer. It drivea in and raises the soft metal without distort ing tha block In any other particular. Had the same operation btuin attempted by means of the hydraulic press the . block would probably be upset one-fourth 4t depth, the sides bulging out or the piece crushed, without producing other than a faint marking of the outline ot tho male die. When the lawn mower was first intro duced tho inventor was considered little abort of a mechanical heretic to imagine that be could get suihclent traction with two light whela to rotate a cylinder six times tiair own weight at six times their velocity and cut th rusj In addition. Tbe worm that drives tie bed of a Ejllrs plfr.nur does riot wear out half as fust as It should, ..and there is po.lbly some thing unexpected about it, even to ihe makers themselves. A 12xl8-lnch cylinder engine, which had been, running a year at lb5 revolutions a ndnuto on an unusually solid foundation, began one day without apparent cause to shako . endwlita, and bt-fore night bad aLuken itself loose. As no barm resulted and the work was preying, the repairing of the foundation was postponed until va cation time, about a month distant. I s fore that time arrived, however, the blink ing ceased, and the engine ran perfect! biaootU In spite of the impaired foundu. lion. . . Ajiothur and even more curious instance cf the unexpected wfcs that of a well known electrician who built and tetd for three )ir a certain piece of apparatus fil'tih promised to be eiK'iinl.oly used. As It worked perfm-tly, a lari; amount of capital was pat Into buildings and plant fur the production i.f thee pieces of ap paratus for the rsiurket, and many were built; but the iinuiutiii tureis re totally Uoalile. lo rriirotlic the orlKtiu.l either la eit.-ct or durir.ltiy. Ill nlK'Uur cam?, two Similar boilrlS were com.- I. ;! by i.-i ks at ts 8-iui it.tu.m. TH3 boiler being about half full. The water, without apparent cause, behaved very strangely, all going into one boiler and then into the other. When the play was ai its height, the boss, considering the live of the men and the premises of more value than the cause of science, ordered the fires drawn and the cause could never be determined. Chicago Chronicle. NO TRACE OF MISSING CLERK Claee - a to Wfcerwabowts of Georgre '"' W. ktocho Rot Ye Discovered by- tho Officials, . -Nothing has yet been heard from George TIT, Roc ho, tha missing money order clerk oi' the Omaha postoffice. The amount of Shortage still remains In the neighborhood of $400, and, though all returns are not yet In, It la not believed the deficiency will exceed that figure. A little matter developed In the ease Fri day in which It was learned through I'.ocho'a wlfo that on the day before his final disappearance he was In South Omaha endeavoring to borrow money to make good the $00 shortage, but was unable to do so. Ills disappearance followed immediately thereafter and Mrs. Roc ho says she Is as much in the dark as to his present where abouts as the postoffice officials. MISSING MAN HEARD FROM i jBdjcej Daniel McKooa Sends Ramb Ilast Letters from Widely Sep, rated Farts of tho Conntry. NEW TORK, July 20. A letter was re ceived today, from- Judge Daniel' McKoon, who mysteriously disappeared three weeks ago, saying that he was in El Faao, Tex. The letter, which was addressed to his son, was rambling and Incoherent and indicated that the writer's mind was af- f&Ctfcd. It was reported at the time of Judge McKoon's disappearance that he had been kidnaped and was being held for ransom, out this view was not sccepted by tha police. Since that time the missing man's son has received Snvsral letters from widely separated parts of the country. Notes from Army Hendqnarters. Trumpeter Row J. Houohin of Troop O, FiKhth cavalry, and Private Thomas Cof fey, Troop K. Fourth cavalry, have been honorably dlscharned from the service. Private J. W. Douglas, Troop M. Klghth cavalry, has upon the recommendation of the chief surgeon of the department of Missouri, been tiaaferred to l.i hospital corps. ... Cook Thomas Roane of the United States army, having been declared lnne by thu army medical authorities at Fort Crook, has been ordered taken to the Govern ment hospital for the Insane near Wash ington, 1. C. FERS0NAL PARAGRAPHS. I. S. Cutter of Lincoln Mrs. Ned Tiar nnrd of Fremont, J. J. Roberts of rtvld City and Mr. and Mrs. 1;. M. Hatcllffe of (Seattle are at the lier Grand HI J. Alexander of Lincoln, former de partment coimnandnr of the NeorasM Grand Armyxif the i'..-rii,!'.:, U u Oiuaim Vlxiior, a Ktiest tbe lier Orand. . M, A. Faxon of llnstlnxs, M. J Han nlfc,n of Kluait, F. N. lil of Iiiiatlnua, J. it. Wilson o' Papililun und F. W. iiui ber of Platts.nouth. are at ttie Miirray. H. J. I'almer, a prominent republican worker of Orand Island, was a visitor at rciniMicMiL nlo uiiiiinit tea h. uJ umi teis -jienlay Jiu Is qnn'ii-rni at tlie Aluiray. C. W. Turner of Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs. It. Winn of b.ilt ijiku t it)', Jlrti ry Ji na,-r-u of tiraii'1 lsiaiiit, Mr. and Wis. it. V. Jil.tliew of lilooiiiiiifcton and G. W. J-lttio ot i.yin are at the Mlllnid. Mr. and Mis C. II. Ill ur of Laramie, ir. and Mis. C. . Conant of Cbnyenne, Mr. and Mis. F. M. M.,ie of Lincoln, U. A. Jim. -a of Si-attie, W. ,ll. Clemiiioii of ireiooi.t, A. JO. '1 iioiiiiis.ui of Itkaoinii, r.. Ii l.iiintn of Hwi iaiclsce si n J Ii. Cuthiiei inoit of Fan oury are at the l'uxt..n. J. W. I f -i'l. mil (i of i.hloii(fe nii tt. M. J.irvla of KuMiKim, count Afii.-.i, wne loiiaiia vliHiir J- r ... 1,, y infill, sinj.jitig- at tui! 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