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The Omaha Daily Bee. TOR A CHARACTERISTICALLY WEST ERN NEWSPAPER READ THE BEE THE BEE IS THE PREFERRED ADVER. TISING MEDIUM IS ITS TERRITORY ESTABLISHED JUNE 19. 1871. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19, 1904. SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. PROBLEMS OF CANAL Chief Eigineer Wallace Beprta to Com ittte of the Home. OUTLINES DIFFERENT PLANS PR8P0SED Careful and Tbca-'ju Surrey Ifsw Beinf Mac7 Uommiision. X - FORMER ESTIIfrs OF COST RELIABLE Sea Lertl Ditch C Million More Ezpen- lirec r Locks. - T ALSO REQUIRES E TIME TO DIG Great Problem .-olTed Is the Culebrn Cat and Disposal of Refuse Taken There from. WASHINGTON. Dec. 11 John F. Wal lace, chief enfineer of the Isthmian Canal commission, has given the house committee ' on Interstate and foreign commerce the benefit of his Investigations so far as made regarding the engineering tanks to be performed on the canal. The testimony was taken aboard the army transport Sum ner In Colon harbor on the occasslon of the recent visit of the committee to the canal aone. It Is to be printed for the use of congress. The Associated Press has been given the benefit of testimony In advance of Its publication through the courtesy of Chair man Hepburn and Secretary Cushman of the commission. Before taking up In de .tail the more distant canal proportions which are being considered by him and on which ho Is to report to the Canal commission, Mr. Wallace made thla ex planation of the general problem: The Isthmus Is transveraed by a mountain range, the summit of which is approxi mately twelve miles from the I'aclflc coast and thlrty-nve miles from the Car r I bean. Originally a gorge evidently ex isted from the Cnrrlhean near Colon to the vicinity of Uamboa and extended be yond that point In an easterly direction forming the upper basin of the Chagres river. Aiter filling this gorge with an alluvial deposit the Chagres has swung Itself from one side of the valley to the other.-. The result Is that the thread ot the original gorge cannot be followed or found from surface Indications and It is only by drilling In bedrock that exact In formation In regard to any particular lo cality can be obtained with the presence of boulders In this alluvial also explains the reason why engineers not taking time to go into the rock far enough to de termine Its actual character have been misled In thinking they had struck bed rock. To determine the most feasible plan for the construction of the canal will require a most careful and comprehensive examination, not oniy of aurface conditions, but the subsurface must be explored. Bofclo Dam Problem. After following the valley of the Chagres to Uamboa the Una of the canal followa a tributary, called the Obispo, up to the summit of Culebra, and thence followa down the valley of the Rio urande Into the bay of Panama. The summit at Culebra waa originally K feet above the aa level ana Is the lowest point in the divide along the entire length of the Isthmus of Panama. The plan of the former commission provided for a dam ot practically luo feet In height above aea level, at Bo Mo, with a .water level t ninety feet above sea level. This place wm selected on aucount of the fact that at that point the hills on either side ot the Chagres come comparatively close to gether, being about l.&oo feet apart and from the surface indications It seemed a . favorable place for the construction of a dam. But the Indications are that this locality will be an unfavorable and ex pensive one for the construction of a high dam. The InstruoUcns to the ohlef engineer by the present commission were to make full and thorough examinations of the canal route, the manner of doing the work and the various plans wmon nugni suggest themselves and lay before the commission the result of this examination with his final recommendation. T.U v.lun . KA jwvnalH-Mfl . Vi nn. estimated upon by the former com mi union, is the possibility of a high dam, or proper foundation for a high dam at Bohlo, upon which depends the advisability of construct ing a big level canal with the surface of the water ninety feet above aea level. Sixty Foot Level Canal. The second plan under consideration is a summit level of sixty feet above sea level. Constructing a canal on thla plan admits of two dlfterent methods of treatment: First, the construction of a dam, sixty feet above sea level at Bohio, with two locks of thirty feet, there being two locks on the western slope; second, the construction of a dam sixty feet above sou level at Ga tun, eight mllea from Colon, with two ' tldrty-foot locks In the same vicinity. The adoption of a sixty-foot leva! also will render It necessary to construct a dam at Uamboa, In order to provide a reservoir to accumulate water enough during the wet season to furnish witter for the summit level of the canal. The construction of a dam at Gomboa in this connection would also control the Chagres river, except that It would be necessary to provide a safety spillway by the construction of a tunnel some eighty miles in length through the divide, discharging the surplus water ot the Chagres Into the headwaters of the Juan Dlus, or the alternative plan of con structing a tunnel four miles long through the divide, separating the Chagrea basin from the headwaters of the Cutuuclllo, a stream which enters Into the Chagres val ley at Mutun. Should this latter course be adopted it would be necessary to con struct a channel for the Chagrea from Ga tun to the aea In order to divert Its flood waters into the bay eastward ot Colon. The third plan under consideration would be the construction of a canal with a twenty foot or thirty foot level above the sea with a single lock at Miraflores, and a single lock at Bohlo, or In the Immediate vicinity, the construction ot the Uumboa dam to be required In this Instance the same as In the sixty 'foot level plan. lea Level Problem. The fourth plan would be the construc tion of a aea level with a tidal dock at Miraflores. In this connection Jt Is neces sary to explain that while the mean sea level of the Pacific and the Caribbean are the same, high tide in the bay of Panama rises ten fee above mean sea level and fulls ten feet below: whereas, the tide of the Caribbean at Colon la less than two feet. The construction or a a am at uam boa, with the necessary spillways, as noted in the urevlous plan, would he the same under the sea level plan as under the tblrty or sixty foot level. The construction of the Gnmboa dam would provide the water supply for the entire line of the canal, including the cities of Panama and Colon. It would also pro vide a power plant for the generation of electric power sufficient to furnish ample power for the operation of the Panama railway and the operation of any machin ery that might be used In the construction of the canal. It would require two years to construct this dam and roughly estl mated Its cost, Including spillways, would be between tl5.0O0.0DO and $lti,0u0.000, not in cluding the power plant. Asked by members of the commission for an estimate of the cost of the varloua plans, Mr. Wallace said the beat estimate that could be made at present would be based on the estimate of the former com mission of $300,000,000 for a ninety foot level canal. Figuring with thla as a basis the seventy foot level canal would cost $226.- ifl.OOO, could b open for traffic In ten years and fully completed In twelve years; the thirty foot level would cost I28O.O0C.00O, open for traffic In twelve years and fully completed In fifteen years. The sea level canal would cost 1300,000.000, could be open for trafflo In fifteen years and completed In twenty yeara. Chairman Hepburn's questions developed that the estimate of time to build a canal was based on a ten-hour day, and that with the construction of the Uumboa dam sVaotlBued on Second Page.) REVISION OF PEASANT LAWS M. Wltte Submits Draft of Sew Meaner tor Approval of t ear. ST. PETERSBURG, Deo. 1S.-M. Wltte. president of the miniHterlal council, to whim as chairman of the special com mittee appointed In 1902 to Investigate the question of the betterment of condition of rural enterprise and general revision of the peasant laws, was confided the task of lifting the enormous mass of evidence collected. Including the opinions of 11. 0") of the best qualified tenants, landlords, mer chants and manufacturers, which filled several thousand volumes, has completed the gigantic task. His conclusions, which have Just been published, are In line with the most enlightened opinion for amelior ating the peaaants' conditions. These con clusions, which are understood to have the Indorsement of Emperor Nicholas and Minister of the Interior 8viatopoIk-Mtrsky, are expected to be adopted by the com mission as the basis of new laws. The press halls the memorandum, not only as a sig nal victory In the direction of real na tional progress, but as marking a definite shelving of the plan developed by the late Minister of the Interior Von Plehve for extending the powers of local officials over the peasants, and Increasing rather than decreasing the tutllage exercised over them. Von Plehve's purpose was to rush through a law before the commission could complete It labors. In all points M. Wltte's recommendations aim for completion of the emancipation act of 1S61, by ending the treatment of peasants as a class apart, giving them a method of enabling them to free themselves forever from the soil and placing themselves on an equality with all other classes of the popu lation and removing the restrictions upon initiative enterprise which have hereto fore crushed out all ambition. In order to accomplish this he proposes to abolish practically the whole system of laws ap plicable to peaaants alone. At the same time the backward condition of the vast majority of the peasants and the fact that, If pieced on a complete equality In the matter of the holding and disposition of property, they would soon become the prey of the shrewder among them as well as of merchants who would like to posses their lands and keep them In a state of perpetual debt. Is fully realixed. M. Wltte recommends the preservation of certain laws designed solely for the peasants' pro tection, -such as the Inalienability of com munal lands and Institutions. For the management of the one and the freedom- of the other from debt, special laws will be recommended, supplemented by methods whereby peasants may leave their com munes under certain safeguarded condition or delimit lands for individual ownership. There Is also In contemplation the organ ization of a system of land credit and a scheme for the settlement of state lajfds by peasants, who want larger opportuni ties, f The press halls the memorandum with the greatest satisfaction, the Rubs remark ing that like a golden thread through It all runs consideration of the peasant as a cltlxen of the empire and no longer as a pariah. The memorandum Is In sharp contrast with the draft prepared by Von Plehve's assistant, Stleklnsky, which disregarded en tirely the opinions so laboriously collected by the commission. That draft was sub mitted to the provincial governors with the assurance In advance that It would have the Indorsement of the minister of the Interior. Stlsklnsky himself la a member of the commission, but la without Influence. His dismissal from the position of as sistant to the minister of the Interior was one of Prince Svlatopolk-Mlraky 'a first aota. BIRILEFF TO THE NAVAi, OFFICERS Advises Them to Quit Writing; aad Go to Work. ST. PETERSBURG. Dec lS.-Admlral Blrlleff, who has gone to Libau to super Intend the completion and preparation of war vessels still in the Baltic sea, with a view to their dispatch In case of necessity to the Far East, in a witty and caustic letter to the press has admlnlatered a re buke to those naval officers who have been engaged In a controversy In the news papers relative to the question whether Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron la able to cope with the ships of Admiral Togo without reinforcements. Admiral Blrl leff expresses the affirmative on this point, declaring that beyond question the Japa nese ships have suffered severely, as evi denced by the fact that the Japanese have ordered 108 armor platea, fourteen for the battleship Mlkaaa alone. Nevertheless, he oonsidera It to be absolutely vital to pre pare a third squadron should it prove necessary, to support or replace the second squadron. The admiral aaya every day'a delay Is a misdemeanor and every week's a crime. The business of naval officers, therefore, he remarks with grim humor. Is to lay aside their pens until the war la over and attend to business. There Is no time now to try to locate the blame for the fact that Russia's navy was no better prepared.. "As a matter of fact," Admiral Blrlleff aays, "we are all guilty. If our heada are still on our shoulders It is due to the fore bearance of my long suffering emperor." BIG CROWD THRONGS T. PETEH'S Occasion la the Beatification of Gas pare Del Bufalo. ROME, Dec. IS. St. Peter's was espe cially decorated for the formal announce ment this morning of the beatification of Gaspare Del Bufalo, of the Congngatlon of Precious Blood and Canon of San ! Marco under i'lua vil. The function was performed at the altar of the chair, ao called because It contains the sacred wooden episcopal chair of St. Peter. Thla afternoon Pope Pius X, acoompanled by the cardinals of the court and all bishops and dignitaries of the church at present In Rome, went to venerate the Del Bufalo. The ceremony had the added object of a demonstration of loyalty. Over 1 10,000 people crowded the basilica. It was much remarked that Pope Plus, Instead of walking to St. Peter'a as had been ar ranged, went In the sedla gestatorla, al though that mode of travel Invariably causes him nausea. He waa unable today to walk because of gout, with which he has suffered so much the last few days that he waa obliged to sit during audi ncea Marblehead at Santiago. SANTIAGO Dtt CHILE, Dec. 18.The American cruiser Marblehead, Commander Holmes, has arrived at lqulque. The re mainder of the American Pacific aquadron, under command of Rear Admiral Good rich, la expected to arrive at Coqulmbo this week. Objects to Foreign Osneers, CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec. U.-The forte has rt plied to notes from Austria and Rus sia that It objects to the suggested In crease In the number of foreign officers In the Macedonian gendarmerie on the ground that It would disturb the native population. KELLER LOSES HIS STANDING His Dismissal Create Vacancy in Presi dency of Letter Carriers. NO LONGER REPRESENTS MEMBERS Department Will Mot Receive Him or Listen to Ills Complaints on alngham's Case a Little Different. (From a Staff Correspondent ) WASHINGTON. Dec. la.-(Speclal.)-The Po9lofflce department In dismissing from the postal service the heads of the two great associations of letter carriers, act ing under the direct orders of the presi dent, has shown clearly that "pernicious political activity" will not be tolerated among employes In the service of Uncle Sam. President Keller, of the National Association of Letter Carriers, did not have time to resign. If that course had ever been hie Intention after receiving the ultimatum of Mr. Brlstow, the fourth as sistant postmaster general, that he should show cause within three days why he should not be removed from office for In subordination. In a large sense this same condition applied to Frank II. Cunningham of South Omaha, president of the National Association of Rural carriers, who was re moved from the service for violation of the president's order of January 31, 1902, which forbids any employe of tho government, or any association of such employes attempt ing to Influence legislation of any charac ter or for any purpose or to solicit In creases of pay for their services as such employes. Where Keller Loses Standing;. The Postofflce department has always been ready to receive the heada of the letter carriers association and of rurnl carriers and listen to any suggestions they might desire to make regarding the Inter ests of the carriers In both these branches. This courtesy was assumed to be due the carriers and their representatives and every facility has been given them for the presentation of their requests to the de partment. Now that Keller Is not a mem ber of the postal service it follows that the department cannot receive him as the representative of the carriers. According to the constitution of the Letter Carriers' association the office of president must be filled by some person who la In the active employ of the government. The dismissal of Keller from the service therefore not only creates a vacancy In the office of president, but minimises his standing be fore the department. It would therefore appear that the only way out of this dif ficulty la to elect some one else to the po sition of president of the Letter Carriers' association who is In good standing with the Postofflce department or else change that clause of the constitution which pro vides that a president must be In the ac tive service of the Postofflce department as a letter carrier. The department holda that the carriers cannot by any act of any association of their own creation demand that a repre sentative be received unless he Is an em ploye of the service. The humblest car rier would be received at the department If he went there with a vlw to promoting the Interests-of .his associates and his call was in accordance with official precedence. Cunningham's Cavse Different. In the case of Mr. Cunningham condi tion are somewhat different. So far as can be ascertained the constitution of the National Rural Carriers' association dif fers from the Letter Carriers' association In that It doea not provide that the presi dent must be an employe of the govern ment. If thla be true, Mr. Cunningham can still serve his association as president, unless the department should decide not to receive the president of the rural carriers' association because he was not a govern ment employe. Whether the department Will go to this length la a question. Many congressman have seen the postofflce au thorities and have laid before the fourth assistant postmaster general letters from rural carriers seeking to pledge these same congressmen to vote for Inoreased pay for the rural carriers, with threats that in the event of their being antagonistic to such Increase they would be "marked for the slaughter." Some of the carriers who have been called on the carpet for sending out such threatening letters have Invariably atated that they were directed to do It by superior officers of their association. This particular statement of the carriers In re gard to the reason for their action is espe cially offensive to the officers of the Post office department, because of the Intima tion contained therein that the carrleis rec ognize ti e authority of their association aa having greater rights to direct their ac tions than the Postofflce officials, and that they regard an order from their associa tion officers as of more Import than an ex ecutive order sent out with the president's approval. General Wadsvrorth'a Tableware. There Is a short Christmas story of a year ago which has not yet found its' way Into print. During the civil war General James W. Wadsworth, father of the mem ber of congress of that name, waa In com mand of a division of union troops at the battle of the Wilderness. He had carried with him, from his home In Geneseo, a camp outfit which contained a stiver fork and spoon and a knife. The table Imple ments he used dally and Just before the fight In which he was killed he had eaten his dinner, using the table necessities. His "striker," or body servant, waa enguged In clearing the mesa table when the news of General Wadswurth's shooting was received. The "striker" waa a New York soldier, who realised that the table appliances l.,si used by General Wadsworth ought to be preserved for his relatives. He carefully packed them up and carried them back, with him to his home In central New York. Years after the close of the war he told the county clerk of his home county that he hud them and that be would like to restore them to the relatives of the general. The county clerk took charge of them and for got all about his trust until a year ago last summer. Then, meeting Representa tive Dwight of his own district, he men tioned the Incident and said that the Wadsworths ought to have the silverware back again. Dwight took to the Idea at once, but decided to wait a short time be fore returning the articles to the rightful owner. This he did last Christmas, and It Is doubtful if the congressman received anything on that occasion which he prizes so highly as the fork, knife and spoon which were used by his father at the last meal he took on the battlefield of the Wild erness forty years ago. Hospital Patients' Privileges. "People without experience have some very queer Ideas about hospitals." said a recent patient In an Institution of that kind. "One of the commonest Ideas, and one very wide of the mark, is that when one goes to the hospital as a patient. (Continued on Second Page.) BAD STORM INNEW ENGLAND Wires Are Reported Down and Fears Kipreeee for h(tpliST. NEW YORK. Dec. IS. The snowstorm and gale which struck the coast yestfrday and continued until the early hours of this morning was the most violent that has occurred for several years. Reports from the New Jersey and New England coast and from Incoming steamers tell of fu rious gales an! many dlsnsters. At Vineyard Haven over fifteen schoon ers anchored In the harbor were blown ashore early today and several others weri damaged In collisions. Off the Bayhead. N. J., life saving station the schooner Lizzie H. Brayton-. bound for Providence, R. I., from Baltimore, went ashore, the crew lelng rescued by the life savers. The Cunarder, Umbrla, and the Amer ican liner St. Paul, both of which ar rived today, reported heavy weather and adverse gales during the whole passage. The anchor line sttamer Astoria, bourd for Glasgow, went ashore today In ths lower bay, but was later floated without Injury and proceeded. Most of the sound steamers were late In arriving at their piers. In the river and harbor the traffic was for a while during the worst of the storm almost at a stand still. So heavy was the snowfall that lights could not be seen on tho river a boat's length ahead, and ferry boats and other craft proceeded at a diminished headway, blowing whistles and feeing their way cautiously through the blinding storm. No accidents of any moment were reported. In the city the snow, which began yester day afternoon, fell almost without Inter in Iks I on until eurly this morning, till eight Inches had fallen. At the Grand Central station It was sail tonight that the train service had not been Interrupted by the storm. There had been a slight fall of snow In the northern and western parts of the state. With the ex ception of the two trains due from St. Louis, one at 1:30 p. m. and the other at 3:30 p. m., which were two hours late, the officials said thst the trains were run ning on regular schedule. Three feet of snow on the level was the record of the storm In the east end of Long Island and as a result trains were delayed. One train bound west from Sag Harbor Is still stalled In the Shlnnecock hills. BOSTON, Dec. 18. The storm today was a blizzard of severity along the southern New England coast. All wires on Cape Cod were prostrated and there has been no communication south of Wareham by land lines since early this morning. The wind blew a hurricane at Newport, R. I. At 7:S0 o'clock tonight the only wreck reported was at Fisher's Island, where the crews of a big tug and three barges were saved. NEWPORT. R. I., Dec. 18. As a result of the worst blizzard that has visited New port In many years all local traffic Is prac tically at a standstill. The storm began at midnight last night and abated at noon today. On a level the snow Is more than two feet In depth, while a strong wind has piled up drifts that block the streets. The train from Boston bearing the Sunday papers, due here at 4:80 a. m., did not ar rive until 11:80. The Fall River steamer was caught In the storm and arrived early this morning, five hours late. WOODSHOLB, Mass.,' Dee. IS. The tug Susie D. arrived from Vineyard Haven this afternoon and reported that the storm early today drove fifteen schooners, anchored In the harbor, on shore, while others were damaged through collisions. The damage was the heaviest since tho November gale of 1898. As far as could be learned no lives were lost. GAS PIPE LINE IS BLOWN UP Supposed to Be Result of Fight Over Running; Line Ont of the State. COFFEYVILLE, Kan., Deo. 18. Between Liberty and the Verdigris river more than a mile of the partially completed pipe line of the Kansas Natural Gas company was blown up with dynamite by masked men some time during the night. The pipe was broken and great holes torn In the right-of-way. The perpetrators are unknown. Beside being masked they were otherwise disguised. The officials of the company have as yet taken no steps to Investigate the matter. The act Is openly approved by many of the residents here. The explosions are the result of a fight that has been wage J for some time against tho pipe line company, which Is a foreign corporation, by the farmers of this section, who resent the piping of the gas to Missouri. WOMAN EVIDENTLY MURDERED Effort Made to Destroy Features to Prevent Identification ot Victim. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 18 The nude body of a white woman, who is believed to have been murdered, has been found on Mount Cutler by two sur veyors. The body waa lying face down ward across a log. An attempt to de stroy the features and prevent Identifica tion by burning had been made. Near the body was found some hair pins and an empty bottle that had contained gasoline. Enough of the hair remained to show that the woman had light brown hair. She was about 30 years of age, about Ave feet six Inchea In height and weighed about 140 pounds. Evidently she had bean dead a week or ten days. The . coroner has taken charge of the body. Detectives are at work on the case. TEACHERS G0JT0 NEW JERSEY Annual Convention Is to Be Held at Aiburr Park July S to T. CHICAGO, Dec. 18. Announcement was made tonight by Ireman Shepart of Wi nona, Minn., secretary of the National Ed ucational association, that the forty-fourth annual convention of the association would be held at Asbury Park and Ocean Grove, N. J.. July S to 7 next year. The program for the convention will be arranged at a meeting In Chicago, December 30 and 31, between William H. Maxwell, superinten dent of schools In New York, who Is presi dent of the association, and the eighteen department presidents. A special rate of one fare, plus membership fee, for the round trip, haa been granted for the con vention by all the railroads in the trunk line association. Wreck of Steamer Fonnd. NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-Early this morn ing the wreck of the ill-fated Glen Island os found with only the smokestack vis ible, near Hempstead harbor, . The general manager of the Btarln Transporta tion line has sent divers to the wreck and will spure no ffort to nnd the bodies of the seven members of the crew and two passengers who perished la the burning steamer. MURDER IN INSANE ASYLUM 0ns Patient Strangles liother to Death Whei Left Together. KEPT QUIET FOR SEVERAL WEEKS Action Taken at Request of Rel atives So Blame Attached to At tendants for tnfortunate Aft-air. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN. Dec. 18. (Special.) A trsgedy enacted at the Lincoln Insane hospital thst has been suppressed for some weeks, was the murder of W. F. McCartney, brother of Frank McCartney of Nebraska City, by Dr. Olaf Ancora of Howard county, the two being patients In the hospital at the time. McCartney was supposed to have been strangled to death by Ancora, while the two were alone In one of the violent wards, though the only evidence that the asyltlm officers have that such was the case Is Ancora's statement of the sffalr and probably the marks on the dead man's neck. Coroner Graham was called at the time, but after securing the statements of Superintendent Greene and the insane murderer, he decided an Inquest was not necessary. The affair was reported to the State Board of Public Lands and Build ings the day before election, but has been suppressed by the members of that body. The first Intimation of It came out In the biennial report of Superintendent Greene. In that report Dr. Greene, In asking that a recommendation be made to the legislature for an appropriation for an addition to the hospital, stated that due to the crowded condition of the building one male patient had accidentally lost bis life. An Investi gation of this part of the report led to the discovery of the murder. Ancora was suffering from acute paresis and McCartney was afflicted with chronic pareMs. One of them had been In the hos pital a short time only and an attendant placed them both In one ward or room while he cleaned another room. When he returned to get one of the patients to moke the transfer he found McCartney dead. Ancora admitted that he had strangled him to death. Both men, however, had on restraints, that Is bands around each wrist; these were attached together and fastened to a belt so that the hands could not be raised but for a space of a few inches and neither could they be separated bur for the space of a very few Inches. In view of this. Dr. Greene said he did not know how the tragedy could have hap pened, though he was sure that Ancora had strangled his victim to death, for he had admitted as much. McCartney was unmarried and about 35 or 40 years of age. For some time he had been in the sheep business In New Mexico and Arizona and had come back to Ne braska to engage In farming. His people are among the oldest residents of the state. His purents reside at Nebraska City and are aged. Dr. Ancora was a physician, practicing medicine In Howard county and Is said tu have been prominent and to have had a large practice .until he became afflicted with paresis. Statement of Superintendent. Superintendent Greene is sick In bed at the hospital and was seen there this after noon. He made the following statement: . "There Is very little to say about the mat ter. We put the two men together while an attendant fixed up another ward for the reception of one of them and Dr. Ancora strangled McCartney to death. How he managed to do it I do not know, for both had on restraints like we put on all vio lent patients and both were about the same size, and apparently of about equal strength. As soon aa I heard of the death of McCartney I notified Attorney General Prout and through him the Board of Pub lic Lands and Buildings, and telegraphed Frank McCartney. We also called the coroner and Invited the closest possible in vestigation. The coroner took the state ment of the murderer and said an Inquest was not necessary. Frank McCartney waa satisfied and asked that the case be not made public. While I do not know how It could have happened aa It did, I do not blame any of the attendants. The attend ant In charge had to take his chances when he put the two together because of the crowded condition of the hospital, as we have frequently had to do. "The affair happened after breakfast, I think the day before election. The attend ant left merely to scour the floor of another ward. The reason the affair was not made public was because of the feelings of the relatives of the two men. To publish such an occurrence would also tend to atlr up 10,000 relatives of patients and keep them in constant uneasiness. It was for that reason, and no other, that It was not given to the press. I do not blame any one for the tragedy, aa It was a result of our crowded condition here." Dr. Greene has been confined to his bed for two days and this afternoon he had a high fever. However, he stated he felt hot ter than last night and expected soon to be up and well. Cost of Keeping; Insane. The cost per capita for maintaining the Insane hospital at Lincoln during the Inst two years, according to the report of Su perintendent Greene, filed with Governor Mickey, waa 3336.98. In figuring the cost per capita Superintendent Greene Included 117. 000 expended In permanent improvements. Dr. Greene states In his report that the hospital has been crowded during the en tire two years and that In order to make it sufficiently largo to accommodate the patients he recommends to the governor that 150,000 be appropriated by the next legislature for additional room to accom modate at least 175 more Inmates. Should this be allowed, he states, It will give him more men with which to work the farm and make that asset of the state even more paying than It Is at present. He also states that at the time the appropriation of $172,600 waa made by the last legislature the estimate was baaed on a belief that the Norfolk hospital would be completed and be able to care for the patients In its district for at least ten months of the time. As this hospital was not completed Dr. Greene recommends that $18,000 be transferred from the appropriation made for the North Platte Institution to the credit of his hos pital. Out of an appropriation of J156O00 for the payment of salary of employes other than the officers and for the main tenance of the Institution Dr. Greene has on hand I9.M5 99. consequently he wants that 118.000 to help him make both ends meet at the end of the time the appropria tion runs. The hospital farm, piggery and garden. has been a paying Investment, according to 1 the report, having turned Into the funds of the hospital I18.J87.79 clear profit. The In come was sa follows: Farm, $2B.872.; ex penses. $15.100 08; piggery, Income, $SJS; expenses, $1,239.65; garden, Income, 86.760.M; expenses. $3.24S.2; total Income. lnM; total expenses, $22,7.7S. The hospital owns (Continued on Second Page.) NEBRASKA WEATHER FORECAST Fair Monday and Tuesday. Temperature st Omaha Yeaterd Hour. Dei. Hour. syi Dear. . 43 . . as ft a. m ao 1 p. n a. m 32 8 p. m 7 a. m .14 ! p. m H a. m Rl 4 p. ne n a. m 4 R p. m . . . 10 a. m 40 a p. ta 11 a. m 44 T p. m . Si . at . . sn . 2 . 2-4 11 m 41 p. p. . . . . . . BERNARD M'GREEVY ARRESTED President of Fulled Bunk at O'Neill Cnptured In Phoenix, Arlsona, rilOENIX, Ariz., Dec. IS. (Special Tel egram.) While Bernard McGreevy was ex amining a huge brass cannon In the city hall plaza at 1 o'clock this afternoon he was placed under arrest. IVsplte the sur prise and shock of this unexpected coup, McQrcevy at first denied that he was th fleeing president of the defunct Elkhoni bank of O'Neill. Neb., which closed Its doors thla last Thanksgiving eve. It was discovered November 25 that both Mc Greevy and the bank's cashier, Patrick Hagerty, were missing. McGreevy had been dabbling In Arizona mines and It was expected that he might come to Phoenix, enroute to Pinal county, where his Interests lay. Mr. McGreevy was absorbed by the gun, which Roose velt's rough riders had present! to Phoenix as a memento of the 8panlh war. when Captain HI McDonald of the city police force arreted him. He was under the shadow of the city Jail. When a deed to Mrs. Sarah D. McGreevy to some Pinal county mines were taken from McGreevy's pockets, together wlih a handkerchief marked with his name, he confessed his identity and said that he would return to Nebraska without extra dition pnpers. Further than this he re fused to make any statement. Mrs. Mc Greevy Is with her family alone. 111. Mc Oreevy refused to talk about the bank's failure or the charges that may be filed against him. He Insisted that he was not the man until a search of his effects con demned him and he then asked to be re turned to Nebraska without any delay for the formality of extradition papers. Evi dently he had been In the foothills near Florence for at least two weeks and prob ably knows nothing about Hagerty's move ments. He did not register at any of the Phoenix hotels. PLANNING TC, SEAT PEABODY Evidence of Election Frauds to Be Submitted to Colorndo Iyearlslature. DENVER, Doc. 18. Alva Adams, demo cratic candidate for governor, has lost 1,182 of his plurality In this county by the action of the supreme court In ordering the elec tion commission to eliminate five precincts from the returns. His plurality In the state still stands at about 1(1.000. By the supreme court's orders the dem ocrats ose three senators who were ap parently elected In this city, and the re publicans gain control of both branches of the legislature with a majority of thirty on Jolnt; ballot They are planning to sub mit to the legislature evidence of fraud In Denver, and ask that body to dclare Governor Peabody elected. The supreme court Is to be reorganized April 4 next by consolidation with the ap pellate court and will consist of reven Judges, two of whom are to be appointed by the governor. M. M. Hamma, an expert, has examined the ballots of Precinct three. Ward four, submitted to him yesterday by the su preme court and will report tomorrow that 240 of the 371 ballots found In the box are apparently fraudulent. Of these 2G6 are democratic and five republican. Wil liam J. Klndel, supreme court watcher, has testified that City Detective Willlim Green, one of tho four men on trial for contempt of court. In the precinct In structed repeaters, many of th?m women, but did not In any manner Interfere with the watchers or voters In general. CHADWICK NOT TO TESTIFY Attorney Advises Her Not to Appear In Bankruptcy Pro. feedings. CLEVELAND, Dec. 18. The examination of Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwlck on the bank ruptcy proceedings agulnst her Is sot for tomorrow morning before Referee Reming ton, but It Is considered certain he will not testify at the present hearing. HVr attorney. J. P. Dawley, said tonight that he would request a continuance tomor row, saying he has not had time to In vestigate the bankruptcy order and will decline to allow her to give any testi mony. Mrs. Chadwlck was visited by Dr. Hall, the Jail physician, today. He said she waa still very weak and nervoua, but Improv ing. He will call on her again tomor row to see If she Is able to appear before Referee Remington. The. only other per sons summoned in the bankruptcy hear ing to give any Information they may have of property owned by Mra. Chadwlck art Emll Hoover. Mrs. Chadwlck'B son, and Freda Bwanstrom, her nurse. Receiver Loeser said tonight that he did not expect any more witnesses will be called for the present. He has arranged to Insure for $60,000 the Chadwlck property In his possession. Mrs. Chadwlck today sptnt her first Sun day In Jail. She now has a companion In the Jail, a young woman detained for ex amination as to her sanity. The womun seemed much Interested in Mrs. Chadwlck and the two conversed quite freely. NEGRO APPEALS FOR LIBERTY gays His Brother Is Keeping; Him In Slavery and Asks for Heleaae. ATHENS, Ga Dec. 18. One negro seeks release from a condition ot servitude from one of his own race. In Clark county Rob ert Christopher, colored, through his attor ney, has sworn out a warrant before Com missioner Klnnebrew, charging his half brother, George Christopher, with compel ling him to work for the latu-r without any legal light to do so and hs seeks the sld of the federal court In procuring his release. The trial of the accused negro Is awaited with unusual Interest. BISHOP PHELAN IS DYING Physicians Say He May Not Longer Than a Few Hoars. Live PITTSBURG. Dec. 18 At midnight Bishop Phelan's condition Is extremely crltlcaV He may not live longer than a few hours. PRAISES THE TROOPS Central Stoessel Recounts the S traffics of the Fort Arthur Gsrrisen, DESCRIBES ASSAULTS BY THE JAPANESE Trenches Changs Hands lereral Times Daring the righting. BOTH SUES DISPLAY GREAT BRAVERY Assailants Gradually Mastering Positieas Around the City. COMMANDER NOT DlScOURAGED, HOWEVER Latest Dlspatrhra from the Oarrlsoa Are t.lven Out by the Emperor Cover Events from Late In November. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. H.-Generi Stoessel's dispatches to the emperor, which were received Friday night, were given out tonight. The first Is dated November 'A and Is as follows: I am happy to Inform your majesty that on ISi-vemlur alter an Increased bom bardment, the Japanese Httscked one of the fortM on the northeastern front and leaped mlth a portion of their forces on tne para pet. They were annihilated by rifle fire and bayonet and thrown back Into the trenches. Their reserves were scattered by shrapnel. From November -i to November ia the enemy violent. y bombarded the fort, and In spite of great losses, effected by their per severance a passage between two forts on the northeastern front. At 6. .Hi In the evening of November 2S, after heavy tiring the Japanese suddenly hurled themselves against several works on this front and seised a portion of the trenches, but they were thrown back by the reserves after a fierce bayonet struggle. They returned to the assault at midnight nnd again occupied a part of the trenches, but were annihilated by our bayonets. At 2 o'clock In the morning all was over and your majesty's heroic troops were able to rest and start repairing the damage caused by the bombardment. From the loth to the f.4th the Japanese luct more than 2,ou0 men. All of our troops behaved ns heroes. The following especially distinguished themselves: Generals Kon dratenko Nikltln. commander of the artil lery, and Morbatowsky, and Ll.utenant Colonel Naouemenlio. tDotons of other officers In lower grades aro also mentioned In the dispatch.) BomlianlTient of the town and harbor continues dally. A number of buildings have been destroyed nnd the harbor has sus tained some dnmage. The garrisons are) n excellent spirits. Bloodiest Days of Assaults. In another dispatch, dated November 18, General Stoessel says: The 2Uth and 27th were the bloodiest days 1n the ofBaults on Port Arthur. The at tacks begun on the nlKht of the 25th against our left Hank, near Pigeon bay. The first was repulsed with gieat loss to the Japa nese. The same night the enemy attacked a detachment on Panlung mountain, but were repulaed, as were also their attacks on Visoknia (iW-Meler hill). On the i.lh the Japanese began to bom bard and attnek fiercely the forta on the northeastern front and the advanced trenches. The trenches reeeatedly changed hands. Nevertheless, on the night of the iith we threw back the Japanese at the point of the bayonet. The enemy succeeded in blowing up the parapet of one of the foits and began building parallels there. At another fort the same night they laid sacks along the rampart, but our artillery dis persed them. Toward 10 o'clock In the evening the Japanese attacked a battery on our left In considerable strength and at first obtained possession of a part of the works, but our heroes brought bayonets Into use and the Japanese retired, leaving n heap of their men. Along the whole front the Japanese opened a violent fire against the Interior of tho fortress, keeping It up until B o'clock of the morning of the nth. The helo which God sent us on the birth day of our mother, the csarlna, gave us fur ther victory. The message mentions the same four offi cers as given In the preceding dispatch, to gether with several others who specially distinguished themselves. A further dispatch from General Stoessel, duted November 80, says: Since November 27 the Japanese have been carrying on a violent bombardment and making incessant aanults In considerable force against Vlsokala (203-Meter hill). Their assaults were repulsed. Twelve Days of Assault. On December 2, General Stoessel reported aa follows: The twelve days' assault, which com menced on November 20, was definitely re pulsed last night. I am happy to say that your majesty's heroic troops alone could have been capable of doing this. There has never been pilch a fierce assault. The fol lowing contributed principally to Its re pulxe: GeneralH Komlratenko, Nikltln and Gorhatowsky, and Colonels Irrmann and EretiakolT, and Lieutenant Colonels Naou menko and Gandoiiriue. It la thanks to them and their officers and naval sharp shooters and the artillerymen that Port Arthur succeeded again In resisting. The Japanese, according to the prisoners, lost at least 2A,0o0 men. We request your pray ers and those of the mother empress, which are manlfextly shielding us. As general ald-de-camp to your majesty, I have expressed your majesty's thanks to the gartipon. On December B General Stoessel gM ported: At 7 o'clock yesterday morning the Jap anese, having concentrated all their forcen, began an assault of Vlsokala hill, bombard ing it simultaneously with eleven-Inch and slxteen-lnch shells. A fierce tight raged all day. We repelled three nfltaults. Towards evening the Japanese succeeded in obtaining possession of the crest of the hill, and Immediately got two eleven-Inch guns Into position there. Among the wounded are General Tserpensky and Lieu tenant Colonel IloiitonssofT of the Frontier guards. Colonel Irrmann performed prodi gies of valor. General Stoessel's last dispatch la dated December 10, and says: Since the capture of Vlssokala hill our ships in the harbor have been suffering from eleven-Inch Japanese shells. General THerpciiHky succumbed to Ms wounds. The troops are In excellent spirits. , Fighting Is Desperate. CHE FOO, Dec. 18. For ferocity and sus tained desperation on botii a:c:es, the strug gle for the pot session of High Hill prob ably was the most remarkable In the his tory of the siege of Port Arthur a slego noted for slaughter. This statement is based on nn interview which the corre spondent of the Associated Press had with Commander Mlixeneoff, executive officer of the battleship Poltava, up to the time the vessel waa disarmed and who, as al ready told, headed the party of seven Rus sluns who left Port Arthur In a sail boat on December 15 and after extreme suffer ing while crossing in a driving snowstorm, arrived here December 16, bearing dis patches which were turned over to the Russian consul for transmission to St. Petersburg. These dispatches. It is under stood, consist partly of a statistical report of the effect of the Japanese bombardments and there la nothing In them to Indicate that Genural 6toeseI Is without hope that the fortress will be able to hold out. Communder Mlxxeneoff, who was wounded In the leg during the battle of High Hill, said to the Associated Press correspondent: "Slr.ce the Jupenese, on the 2sth (month not mentioned) began their aitick on High Hill, which they call Two Hundred and Sixty-three Meter hill, the fighting has been continuous. The steep and sandy slopes of the hill were streaked and dotted with snow when the Japanese bera the battle, which was destined to fanVwususs)