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CHEAPEST BECAUSE BEST THE BEL The Omaha Daily Bee. CLEAN AND CONSERVATIVE THE BEL ESTABLISHED JUNE 10, 1871. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MOllNlNcj, APML 12, 1905 TEN FAMES. SINULE COPY TIN! EE TENTS. CONTENTS OF TRUNKS Paper Pound in 8afetj Vault Throw New Light on Meat Combine. SCOPE OF INVESTIGATION WIDE"" GERMANY WANTS CONFERENCE Foreign O filer Drulrfi irorc o'n fair Settled by International Agreement ( ronrm. At- RERLIN. April 11. The German govern ment continues to Iny before the sultun of Morocco the advantages of requesting the T power to agree mon themselves by an n . i , , r ntornatlonal conference on the things they Thej Are 8ftJd tO GWe Detaili 01 Woril . vouM like him to do. These Include acting of Inside CcmcanT. 1 n the "W'lons for the systematic pay CASTRO'S REPLY DEFIANT ' northern securities meets BOXES AN! CONTENTS ARE IMPOUND Two Official- of Alleged Secret Oorpoi tioni Baid to Be in Canada. SEVERAL WITNESSES EX4MINED YESTERDAY Pelevan Fraaee, Manager of the National Parkin Company, and J. A. Howard of Sew York on the Stand. CHICAGO, April 11. An Investigation by the federal grand Jury which is Inquiring Into the working methods of the alleged Beef trust of a much deeper nature and a wider scope, it Is asserted. Is to result from the examination of the contents of trunks taken yesterday from the safety vaults In the First National bank build ing. When these trunks are opened it 'is expect 1 the entire secret workings of the Aetna Trading company, a corporation through which the secret business of the big packers was transacted, will be re vealed to the Jurors, and as a conse quence many new witnesses will be sub poenaed. Tho trunks and contents Imve been Impounded on an order by Judge Sanborn so that no one by legal process can obtain possession of them. Among the names of the new witnesses subpoenaed today is said to be that of Q. II. Godfrey, alleged secretary and treas urer of the Aetna Trading company, and K. II. Cowan, another official of the com pany. The initials "R. It. C." appear on each of the eight trunks taken from theJ vaults and It is believed they belong to Cowan. Godfrey and Cowan, it is as serted, left Chicago the day the Investiga tion by the Jury began. They have been traced to Toronto, Canada, where It Is said all track of them Is lost. Delevan Fraioe, manager of the National Packing company, was one of the most Im portant witnesses before the Jury today. He was on the stand for nearly two hours, but refused to say what information he had given to the Jurors. Another wit ness who testified today was J. A. Howard, connected with a New York packing firm. Venezuela President Flatlj Befusesto Sub mit Asphalt Case to Arbitration. IT IS NOW PENDING IN COURT Executive far" It Will Not Re With drawn frnm Judicial Tribunal at Demand of Another Government. METHODS OF THEATRICAL COMBINE Text of So-Called Syndicate Agree ment Read In Court In New York. NEW YORK, April 11. During the con tinuance today of tho trial of the suit of David Belasco, the. theatrical . manager, against Joseph Brooks, in connection with the production of 'The Auctioneer." and Involving the control of the principal thea tcia of the country by a syndicate, so called, the text of the "syndicate agree ment" was offered in evidence. Its read ing was one of the Striking features of a trial replete with Interesting Incidents. The parties to the agreement, which be came effective August 31, 1901, and runs for five years, are shown to be Al Hayman, Charles Frohman, Marx Klaw and A. L. Erlanger, as parties of the first part, and Bamuel F. N,ledllnger and J. Fred Zimmer man, trading as Nixon & Zimmerman, as parties of the second part. The preamble to the agreement recites that theatrical interests In all the large cities had suf fered as a result of the Indiscriminate "booking" of attractions, necessitating some agreement between the interests whereby long "Jumps" would be avoided and tours so arranged that there would be no conflict of similar attractions in the same city. The list of theaters announced aa under control of the parties to the agreement and which was to be supple mented by any theaters subsequently pass ing under control of any of the parties in the next five years Include the Olympic theater, St. Louis; Century theater, St. Louis; Boyd theater, Omaha; Broadway heater, Denver; Tabor Grand opera house, Denver; Columbia theater. Ban Francisco. All of these, and many others named In the agreement, "shall be booked with at tractions in conjunction with each other; that Is to say, no attractions shall be booked in any of the said theaters or places of amusement (or in any which may be hereafter acquired as aforesaid) which will insist upon playing in an opposition theater or place of amusement In any of the cities above named (or any which may hereafter come under this agrement), un less the party hereto having tha theater or place of amusement in sold competition point shall give his or their consent In writing to permit said attraction to play In the opposition theater or place of amuse ment." An agreement to pool all profits is set out in the fourth clause of the Instrument and of the net profits it Is stipulated Messrs. Itayman, Frohman, Klaw and Er linger shall receive 76 per cent and the firm of Nixon & Zimmerman 26 per cent from all the theaters enumerated. Nixon & Zim merman, In return, are to turn over from S3Vs to 50 per cent of the net profits of the theaters owned by them In Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Klaw & Er langer are given control of all bookings, while Nixon & Zimmerman are designated as the holding representatives. FARMERS VIOLATE ANTI-TRVST LAW Attorney General of Kansas Bays Methods Are Illegal. TOPEKA, Kan., April ll.-Attorney Gen eral Coleman has rendered an opinion to the effect that the various farmers' ship ping associations of the state are organ ised in violation of In Kansas anti-trust law. The mater was started by the Kan sas Grain Dealers' association, and the at torney general will be asked to begin pro feedings against the farmers. E. J. Smiley, secretary of the Kansas Grain Dealers' as sociation, has been sentenced to ninety days In the Jail for violation of the anti-trust laws. He has made application for a par don, which is being opposed by the farm era' organisation. The action against the farmers, started by the grain dealers, la regarded as a retaliatory measure. J. R. Oar field, commissioner of corpora Hons, started his investigation of tha opera tions of the Standard Oil company in the state. Three special agents are here with Mr. Garfield. They are going through the records In the office of the secretary of state, gathering data concerning the vari ous oil companies doing business In tho late. Charles Euil. one of the agents, Ueld a conference wlilj Governor Hocli to day, at whijh various methods of secur ing Information were touched upon. Com missioner Garfield and United States At torney Dean will hold a prolonged con- lent of the foreign debts, bringing nbout n adjustment of the tArlfTs and taking eps to properly police the country. Although no official confirmation Is ob Inable at the Foreign office, It Is said .it strong expectations are held there at the sultan will acrept the Idea of nn ernational conference. What Is said offl lly Is that Germany would accept such an Invitation as offering the best way for a settlement of the differences In views between France and Germany. LONDON. April 12.-The Tangier corres pondent of the Times on good authority says that, the advisers of the Sultan of Morocco propose Inviting the French mis sion to return from Fez to Tanarier. where the sultan s definite refusal to accept the par,ment for tne arbitration of the Ber oronoscd refrs-m. olll l, m,...ii ., ! mudez and Oicott cases. munlcated to the French Wfi,.n it i. ' lt generally rumored believed, says the correspondent, that Gcr- CARACAS. Venezuela, April 11. (Corre spondence of the Associated Press.) "Pres ident Castro will not withdraw the New York and Bermudes Asphalt company case from the Venezuelan courts and will not re submit the Oicott case to arbitration if th! whole American army and navy come to Veneiuela." This emphatic statement of General Ale jandro Ybarra, the Venezuelan secretary of foreign affairs, reflects the spirit of the re ply which President Castro made to the recent proposal of the American Slate dc- many will accept the sultan's invitation to send a mission to Fez to negotiate a new commercial treaty and personally dis cuss the best means of procuring a Eu ropean convention on the Moroccoan ques tions and international guarantees of the Integrity of Morocco. RIOTING I SPAIN IS SERIOt'S Conflicts at Madrid Are More Violent Than the First Reports Indicate. PARIS, April 11. Dispatches received here through official channels show that the rioting on the Callo San Bernardo, Madrid, yesterday between workmen and police was much more serious than at first reported. Troops were sent to assist tha police and the soldiers fired on the mob, wcundlng fifteen men. The rioters stoned windows and otherwise did much damage. The affair grew out of the excitement among the working classes following the loss of life due to the collapse of the reservoir Saturday. The feeling has in creased until the populace is now showing a menacing attitude against the govern ment. The latter has decided not to de clare a state of selge. but the authorities have taken urgent measures to suppress any attempted renewal of the disorders. FRENCH OFFICER IS ARRESTED Captain Volpert Is Ac-cosed of Com plicity In Military Plot. PARIS, April ll.-Captain Volpert of the Eleventh Infantry has been arrested on the charge of complicity in the supposed mili tary plot against the security of the state. It was announced from Paris April 6 that 8,000 army cartridges had been discovered in the house of a man named Meyer in the suburbs of Paris and that a supply of rifles was found later. The researches, it was added, were the result of the recent seizure of .WO uniforms in the residence of Captain Tamburina, a retired officer. The authorities at first did not consider the affair serious, but their subsequent opinion was that a genuine con spiracy Was being hatched. WILLIAM IS NOW AT CORFU Holer of Germany OA Greece and Klnsr Mlaaes His Imperial Visitor. CORFU, Greece, April 11. The German Im perial yacht Hohenzollern, with Emperor William on board, arrived here I today. The British squadron now In these waters dressed and manned ship and the usual salutes were exchanged. The king of Greece started out at 6 o'clock in the morning on the royal yacht Amphitrlte to meet the emperor, but took the wrong di rection and missed the Hohenzollern. Tor pedo boat destroyers were dispatched to apprise King George of Emperor William's arrival here. THIRTEEN THOUSAND ARE DEAD Commissioner Reports I'pon Number of Deaths from Earthquake. LAHORE, PunjHb, India, April ll.-Com-missloner Jullundur reports that as a re sult of his Investigations he estimates the fatalities resulting from the recent earth quake in the Kangra district at 10,000 and In the Palampur district at 3,000. The total number of persons killed at Dharmsala was 424, besides the Goorkhas who were crushed to death by the falling of the stone barracks. Plea for Disarmament. PARIS, April 11. Baron D'Estournellea Ds Constant, the former deputy and presi dent of the parliamentary group favoring International arbitration, today made his debut In the senate In a speech urging the military and naval disarmament of the states Europe by a proportional reduction of their forces similar to the Joint dis armament of Chile and Argentina. Consider Fishermen's Indemnity. PARIS, April 11. The arbitration com mission appointed to determine the Indem nities payable to ths French fishermen for abandoning their rights along the treaty shore of Newfoundland meets here May S. Andaloslan Drouth Broken. MADRID, April 11. The drouth has been broken In Andalusia. Abundant rains have fallen th.nuvhuut the Andaluslan provinces and there Is great Jubilation among alt classes as a result of the Improved outlook. throughout Venezuela that the demand of the United I States was Utile less than an ultimatum to General Castro, and the reply of the Ven ezuelan president was awaited with inter est. Nearly two weeks have paused since Cas tro made his reply and as no action has been taken by the United States, and no further demands have been made, the last demand of the United States has gone the way of many previous requests for arbitra tion and the incident is practically closed as far as its discussion in Caracas is con cerned. flatus of Oicott Case. The Oicott cose, the arbitration of which the United States seeks to have reopened, is also known as the Orinoco Steamship company case, and was arbitrated by a mixed commission In 1903. resulting in dis agreement and the umpire, Henry Barge, decided the case, allowing the company $28,225 on a claim of $1,141,058. The greater part of this claim was based on damages alleged to have been suffered while tho Orinoco Shipping and Trading company, an English corporation, owned the busi ness to which the Orinoco Steamship com pany subsequently succeeded. President Castro and his advisors claim that to re open the case would be an insult to Ilo.land, as Mr. Barge, who acted as umpire, is a well known Dutch diplomat. President Castro and the members of his cabinet take the ground that while the government stands for the general principle of arbitration, it will not have an asphalt case wrested from Its courts to be carried before a board of arbitration. Castro's Reply Threatening. WASHINGTON, April 11. Throughout the diplomatic corps keen Interest exists regarding the sensational answer which President Castro is said to have made to Minister Bowen'a latest request for arbi tration of the pending question between the United States and Venezuela. Although Venezuelan legation officials say the text of the dispatch was not Included in the mall reaching the legation today, and whi,h left Caracas after the answer was delivered to Mr. Bowen, It has become noised among diplomats that the answer was undiplomatic and almost threatening in wording. The knowledge possessed by certain diplomats on the subject here in dicates clearly that the character, If not the exact text, of the answer has been known for some time to the diplomatic corps In Caracas, and there is reason to believe that several foreign governments already have been advised of its text. While diplomats who have Inquired at the State department have been Informed that practically no action will be taken regarding Venezuela until President Roose velt returns from his western trip, they also have received the intimation that if the exact text of Castro's answer com prises an Insult to the Americans lt will not pass unnoticed. Holland Makes Demands. WILLEMSTAD. ISLAND OF CURACAO, April 2. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The presence In Curacoa of J. H. De Reus, the Netherlands charge at Caracas, has revived rumors of probable Dutch interference in Venezuela to force President Castro to release Dutch sailors who are said to be imprisoned unjustly at Puerto Cabello and Maracalbo. Mr. De Reus has been In conference with the of ficers of the Dutch warship Kortenaer, which is stationed here, and It Is reported that within a month additional Dutch warships will reach. Curacao. Repeated demands have been made by Holland for the release of the sailors, and coersive action was recommended by the charge some weeks ago. Cancels Interest on Public Debt. President Castro of Venezuela lias pub lished an edict announcing that interest on the Interior debt of Venezuela for seven years has been cancelled and that scrip bearing interest at 8 per cent will be Is sued to replace the 6 per cent scrip which now represents the Indebtedness. Much of the Venezuelan Interior debt, which amounts to $16,500,000, is held by French men, and this ei'.'ct will doubtless Intensify the strained relations existing between France and Venezuela as a result of the action against the French cable.y Castro Goes on Visit, CARACAS, Venezula, April 11. President Castro leaves Cnrcacas tomorrow for a month's trip to CI u dad Bollver and other Interior cities which he has not formerly visited. Earthquakes Again. SIMLA, India, April 11. Fresh earth shocks yesterday evening and this morning led to a revival of alarm. The new govern ment offices were freshly cracked. Royal Party for Majorca. PORT MAHON. Islsnd of Minorca. April 11. King Edward and Queen Alexandra sailed t'iday on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert for Falma, Island of Majorca. PREACHER WAS INDISCREET Utugbamtoa Pastor Who Would Elope with Young Woman 8ns. pe-nded for a Year. New Director la Place o Chosen to Take tbe One Not (Continued vu 6viud !'. ) J W1LKESBARRE, Pa.. April 11. At to day's session of the Wyoming Methodist conference the committee appointed to in vestigate the charges against Rev. C. W. Smith recommended that he be suspended from ministerial functions fur one year. The committee reported that he was guilty of "indiscretion and, imprudence." The re port was adopted. Rev. Smith wus formerly pastor of the Fair view Methodist church at Blng hamton, N. Y., which charged him with attempting to induce Miss liorton, tha 16- year-old daughter of a parishouer, t elope ' deputy sheriffs will leave Duluth on with hlin, J special train louiguL OIL COMPANIES FILE RETURN Standard and Republic Coneerna Say Mlssonrl Anti-Trust Law la Not Constitutional. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.. April ll.-In the supreme court en banc today A. D. Eddy and Frank Hagerman filed separate re turns of the Standard Oil company and the Republic Oil company In answer to the ouster proceedings instituted by Attorney General Hadley on the ground that the oil companies have formed a trust combina tion. The returns deny specifically the allega tions in the information filed by Attorney General Hadley and then plead that they should not be held to answer to the in formation, declaring that the anti-trust law la unconstitutional. The Waters-Pierce Oil company was given until tomorrow to file Its return. The cases are aet for April 23, when the pleas will be passed upon and the court will de termine whether a commissioner shall be appointed to take testimony. RIOT AT MINNESOTA MINE Two Men Killed In Fight at Illbbtaa Deputies Leave Dnluth on Special Train. DULITir. Minn., April ll.-Two miners, Ellus Hasklnson and John Eckdulil, were killed and several seriously Injured by strikers in a riot which occurred today at the Hull-Rust-Ollver Mining compuny. The situation there Is critical and twenty Naaae-J. NEW YORK. April II. The annual meet ing of the stockholders of the Northern Se curities company tn Hoboken today elected five directors, of which Amos T. French is a. new member. Mr. French is a director of the Chicago, Indianarolis & Louisville Rail way company. Robert Bacon, D. Willis James, John S. Kennedy and Edward T. Nicholas were re-elected directors. Offi cials who announced the result of the elec tion declined to say who retired from the board of directors to give place to Mr. French. The only stockholders present at the meeting were E. T. Nicholas, General Coun sel William P. Clough and Nicholas Ter hune. It was announced that S.141.SS4 shares had been voted by those three men. Although those present at the meeting declined to say what director of the com pany reth-nd to give place to Mr. French It was currenly reported In the financial dis trict without denial that E. II. Harriman was the director who failed to be re-elected. At Mr. Harrlman's efnee no statement on the subject was obtainable. The Evening Post sejs: M. H. Harriman. president of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads, was displaced from the directorate of the North ern Securities compatvv at a stockholders' meeting in Jersey Civ today, this action marking what Wall stieet looked on as a culmination In the long standing enmity between the HIM and Harriman parties in the Northern Securities company. Hy a vote of strictly the Hill shares ami proxies, representing in combination 2.H4R.OO0 shares, Mr. Hill i lected Amos T. French, a son-in-law of John S. Kennedy (also of the North ern Securities company and one of Mr. Hill's staunehest siipHirters), to Mr. Harrl nian's place on the board. There was no contest over Mr. Harrl man's displacement at today's meeting of the stockholders. The stock held by the Harriman Interests, including the $S2,ono.ijn of Northern Securities shares in the Oregon Short Line treasury, whs not voted at the meeting at nil, nor has lt been voted at any Northern Securities meeting since Mr. SchifT made his proposition to the board tor a settlement of the whole disturbance a year ago, and its absolute rejection by the Hill interests. CHANGE IN THE PROGRAM j Nebraska weather forecast j PLANS OF THE JAPS Heavy Snow in Mountains Causes Altera tion in President'i Itinerary. RULING ON NEWSPAPER MAIL Many Alleged Supplements Excluded ' from the Second Class Rate. WASHINGTON, April 11. Third Assis tant Postmaster General Madden has Is sued a circular letter to all postmasters in which he says: It has been brought to the attention of the department in a number of cases that publishers of newspapers are presenting their publications for mailing with no called supplements wlilch are manifestly Illegal. These alleged supplements con sist of calendars, sheet music, patterns, blocks of post cards, series of cut-out animal pictures, animal masks, plasto graplis, cut-out dolls; soldiers and naval vessels, circulars, nanuoiiis, special de tached advertisements, cardboard specta cles, sheets containing disks of soluble paint to be used in ciio:1ng outline draw ings, etc. etc." The letter says puWI' hers seem to re gard these things as m-r missible under the act of 1878, but by no reasonablo Inter pretation of the law en such articles be regarded as "germane" to a newspaper or us matter sxippllcrTjf .".irder to complete what Is left Incomplete .1 tl.0 paper itself. The circular then adds(' The privilege accorded to a publisher to mall his newspaper at the subsidized sec ond class rates carries with lt no right to those rates for any other matter than the newspaper itself and such supplemental matter as is really "germane." Upon other matter sent In the mails, the pub lisher must pay the same rate as any other citizen. The postmasters are directed to notify publishers that on and after September 1, 1905, the legal rate will be charged on such matter according to its character. HITCHCOCK REFERS REBATE CASE Attorney General Asked to Pass on Issue Raised by Comptroller. WASHINGTON, April ll.-Secretary Hitchcock lias decided to refer to the at torney general the question of railroad rebates on material used in connection with the Irrigation reclamation service, which Comptroller Tracewell has decided could not be legally accepted. The sec retary refuses to discuss the comptroller's opinion, but other officials at the Interior department hold that the so-called rebate is merely a reduction, such as is provided for by section 22 of the Intcr-state com merce act. They say the arrangement af fects a large saving to the government. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN Fifth Triennial Convention Opens with Address of Mrs. Swift. WASHINGTON, April 11. Mrs. Mary Wood Swift, the president, called the Na tional Council of Women together today to begin the real work of tho fifth trien nial meeting. Sessions will continue through Friday. In the morning there was various incidental matters attended to; In the afternoon the annual address of Mrs. Swift was followed by reports from various affiliated organizations, and in the evening greetings were heard from a num ber of prominent workers. At all tho gatherings there were In attendance prom inent women Interested In the betterment of childhood and womanhood. DRY SUNDAY FOR ST. LOUIS Police Commissioners Will Enforce "Blue Laws" In Mlssonrl Metropolis Next Week. ST. LOUIS, April 11. Announcement was made, today by President Stewart of the Board of Police Commissioners, that the Sunday closing law, commonly termed the "Blue law," would be enforced .In St. Louis, and that Its enforcement Is ex pected to begin next Sunday. According to the general law on Sunday observance It is a misdemeanor to perform labor other than household work and work of charity, Indulge In games, expose for sale any goods or liquors, or keep open saloons, or carry on the business of bar berlng on Sunday. Judge Marshall of the supreme court decided that Sunday base ball Is a recrea tion and not prohibited. GIVES MORE THAN MILLION Rockefeller's Donation to Baptist Church Has Been Heavy for Twenty Years. NEW YORK, April 11. Dr. H. L. More house, corresponding secretary of the American Baptist Home Missionary so ciety in this city, today made the follow ing announcement: Mr. John I). Rockefeller has Just given tliuiuo to the American baptist Home Mis sionary society of this city, which m, ikes u total of rnoitt than tM,) that the so ciety has received from lilm during the last twenty years. Mr. Morehouse said that this sift was a separate one from the two gifts by Mr. Rockefeller, to the American BaptiM Mis sionary union recently auuuuiued la Bos-tou. LEAVES COLORADO SPRINGS FRI0AY Rnn Will Be Msde to New Castle Where Party Will leave Rail road for the Hunting Grounds. 1 COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo., April 11. President Roosevelt's special train Is sched uled to start, from this city on Its run Into the Rocky mountains over the Colorado Midland railroad at 9:30 o'clock Friday night. Owing to heavy snows In the vi cinity of Red Stone the destination has been changed to Newcastle, twelve miles west of Glenwood. from which point tho party will start for camp. The pilot train, which will be run five minutes ahead of the special, will carry the newspaper reporters and several rail way officials. One of the biggest engines on the Mid land will pull the special. On tho pt:oi will be an enormous shield made of Amer ican flags with red, white and blue stream ers reaching from the shield to the boiler head. In each window of the engine cab will be a picture of President Roosevelt, while the words "Our President,'1 printed In large letters, will be placed on each side of tho tender. By special request the president's car will be at the end of the train. The only official of the Midland to travel in the president's car will be M. L. Phelps, as sistant superintendent, who will have gen eral supervision. No nttempt will be made at fast time, but the special will have the right-of-way over the road. Every train to be passed will be sidetracked at least twenty min utes before the special is due First Camp In Huntsman's Hills. GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo.. April 11. President Roosevelt will make his first Colorado camp in the Huntsman hills, twenty-three miles south of Newcastle, and about fifteen miles from Redstone. Guide John Goft has received a telegram from Secretary' Loeb saying that It was the wish of the president to begin the hunt with a chase after bear. This necessitates a change in the plans, for Goft and Borah had arranged to make the first camp on the White river plateau, a district of moun tain Hons. They had expected to stay there three weeks and then go to Hunts man hills for bear. Soon after receiving the message Borah and Goft left Newcastle to establish the first camp. It will be near the Johnson ranch nn the Divide river. This country Is noted for its large gama and old hunters declare that the president will be surfeited with sport. The understanding Is now that the party will track over tho Huntsman hills, taking about two weeks to make the trip, and that It will then go Into Redstone, where the president Is to be the guest of John R. Osgood: President May Prolong; Trip. LAWTON, Okl., April U.-Cowboya who have arrived here from Frederick, Okl., near where President Roosevelt and his party are In camp, assert that the presi dent has decided to remain in the pasture until Saturday, thus extending his hunt two days. Prayer for President's Safety. SPRINGFIELD. 111., April Il.-Chaplnln Bradford devoted almost his entire opening prayer In the house today to a supplication for the safety of Fresidont Roosevelt, now on his hunting trip through the west and southwest. He drew a picture of the dan gers into which the presiden; was going and prayed for his safe return. In his prayer the chaplain asked that whether the "monsters of the mountains" flee from the president In fear or fly at him in fury, he may find himself "protected by the shield of the Almighty, so that upon his return to his home In peace and safety, like Thy servant David of old, he can tes tify to the people that 'the Lord delivered him out of paw of the Hon and out of the paw of the bear, and let all the people praise Thee.' " WORK OF SALVATION ARMY Booth-Tucker Explains Methods of Taking Colonists from England to Canada. CLEVELAND, O., April 11. Before leav ing for the east today. Commander Booth Tucker outlined the plan of the Salvation Army to relieve congestion in population In London by sending the people to Canada and other English colonics. Commander Booth Tucker said: Iast year the Salvation Army carried 1.000 persons from England to Canada, which Is starving for population. We car ried them in our own ship. It will aot bo long before we will be carrying English men, not by thousands, but by ten of thousands, not only to Canadu, but to New Zealand, Australia, India and South Af rica. We did not dump our immigrants In Quebec as the United States Immigrants are in Ellis lslund. but dropped six here and eight there and a dozen in another place wherever they were needed. Everv man who left Englar. ". for Can ada knew before he started where he was going, what he was going to do when he got there and what wages he would receive The United States should revise its im migration laws. Through its consuls and other representatives, immigrants should be Investigated before they start and not after they have landed at New York. Then you get the cream of Europe and not the scum. The Salvation Army would like to co-operate with the United States government In a work of this kind. Then colonization could be made the handmaid of immlgra- t,on' VOTE ON ROCKEFELLER GIFT Prudential Committee Takes Final Action and Will Make a Statement Today. BOSTON, April 11. The prudential com mittee of the American Board of Commis sioners for Foreign Missions met today and took action upon the report of a subcom mittee recommending the acceptance of a gift of $100,000 from John D. Rockefeller. A vote was taken Just prior to adjourn ment late this afternoon and the result of the vote will, It Is stated, be made pub lic at noon tomorrow. In the meantime members refused to give an Inkling of the decision reached. There Is good reason, however, to believe that the report of the subcommittee waa accepted. It is understood that the prudential com mittee also discussed the feasibility of recommending the Institution of a Judicial trlhunal to paKs upon voluntary contribu tions to the board. Fair Wednesday and Thursday. Temperature at Omaha Yesterdayi Hour, K a. m , l T H It lO 11 HI Den;, . . l . . n . . .T2 . . ;ta . . 3 . . :i7 . . 4lt ..41 Hour. 1 p. m . . . 2 p. m . . , .1 p. m . . . 4 p. in . R p. m . . . l p. m . . T p. m . . . M n. m II p. ni o . r Ti. t 3 n Den. I vjsuia s i uric o do lucrcuBeu w vue ! Million Men. i "I ACTIVITY TO CENTER l:t b;i m 4S SMITHS BACK AT NEW YORK I nrimnn in nn t'aiteraon Anannon Flaht Aanlnat Extradition Attorney for Smith Talks. AROUND HARBIN Little Brown Hen Expect to Capture and Bold This rortreea. RUMORS ABOUT ROJESTVENSKY New Great Incohonee Chosen. V CHICAGO, April 11. At n great chiefs' codicil of the Improved Order nf Red Men lichl lure today John W. Cherry of Nor folk Vu., wus chos-n great Incohonee, to succeed the late Thomas H. Watts of Montgomery, Ala. Other officers chosen were: W. A. S. Bird of Topeka. Kan., groat senior sagamore, and Joseph Farrur Of Philadelphia, great Junior sagamore. NEW YORK. April 11. -J. Morgan Smith and his wife, who have been indicted, to gether with Nan Puttcrson, on a charge of conspiring to obtain money from Caesar Young, the bookmaker. In connection with whose death the Patterson girl Is also under Indictment end is about to be tried a third time, arrived In this city tonight. Smith and his wife were arrested in Cin cinnati. Yesterday they abandoned their fight HgaliiEt extradition and started for New York in the custody of officers. To avoid the crowd of curious persons assem bled at the Grand Central station the Smiths were taken from the train at the One Hundred Twenty-Fifth street station in Harlem and brought down to police headquarters in a carriage. J. Randolph Patterson, father of Nan Patterson and of Mrs. Smith, was at the Grand Central station. Herbert R. Llmburger, retained to de fend the Smiths by J. Randolph Patterson, had a long conference with J. Morgan Smith tonight. After conferring with his client, Mr. Llmburger said- I told Smith that It would be best for him to tell everything. There Is nothing he told mo that can be harmful to Nan Patterson. Everything he knows, will, on the contrary, help her. The papers about which there has been so much talk are not incriminating. Wo are willing to afford the district attorney's office fcvery facility to accomplish the Identification of Smith by the pawnbroker, Stern, if he can do lt. ARGUE CORPORATION TAX LAW New York Attorney General Pleads Constitutionality . of Bill Favored by Roosevelt. ALBANY. N. Y., April 11. Attorney Gen eral Mayer will go to Washington tonight or tomorrow to appear for the state before the Ulited States supreme court for the final argument for the corporation fran chise tax case, which has been pending be fore the various courts of the state and nation since the law was enacted six years ago. While the papers In the case mention only a few large New York corporations which have taken up the prosecution of the matter, every corporation In the state, large or small, is interested In the result. If the decision of the court of appeals of this state is sustained the various corpora tions will. In the aggregate, have to pay over to the tax collectors in the various counties more than $26,000,000. Tlw law. was enacted. In 1899 upon the special recommendatloD at the then Gov ernor Roosevelt. Its constitutionality has been a matter of litigation ever since, and It has been upheld by all the courts of this state. ANATOMISTS JHOLD SESSION College Men Get Tone her to Consider Question of Forming; n trnl Institute. PHILADELPHIA, April 11. The first session of the conference of American anatomists was held today in Wlstar In stitute. Anatomists from all parts of the country wore present. Tho subject considered at the meeting was the advisability of selecting a central institute for co-operative research, tho board of managers of the Wlstar insti tute offering that institution for the pur pose. Those In attendance were: Dr. Llewellyn F. Barker and Dr. Henry H. Donaldson, Chicago university; Dr. Simon H. Gage, Cornell university; Dr. G. Carl Heber and Dr. J. P. McMurrich, Univer sity of Michigan; Dr. George S. Hunting ton, Columbia university; Dr. Franklin P. Mall, Johns Hopkins university; Dr. Charles S. Mlnot, Harvard university; Dr. George A. Plerson and Dr. Edwin G. Conklln, University of Pennsylvania. EMPLOYING PRINTERS TO MEET Next Convention of the United Typo thctae Will Be Held nt Niagara Fall September 4. KANSAS CITY, April ll.-The next con vention of the United Typothetac of Amer ica will be held September 4, next, at Ni agara Falls, N. Y. The executive com mittee of the organization decided this point In its meeting here today. Tho re mainder of the session was devoted to hearing complaints from members in va rious parts of the country and in auditing accounts. The meeting was executive. The delegates who took part in organizing the Employing Printers' Association of tho Southwest have departed for their homes. The details of the campaign to be carried on this summer against an eight-hour day for printers will not be mado public LAND FRAUD CASES BEGIN Persons Alleged to Have Acted as Agents for Senator Clark on Trial. HELENA, Mont., April ll.-What are known as the western Montana land cases were called for trial before Judge Hunt In the United States court here today. Fifty, four persons ore defendants and the gov ernment rharges, through the intermediary of R. M. Cobban, that they were agents of United States Senator Clark. The latter has been sued for recovery of land which Is very valuable for the timber on it. The grand Jury, which meets April 19, will I decide other land cases and It is understood ' .hat u.nuntlnnAl fipu.liinm.nt. will ,,!!.. I Movements of Ocean Vessels April 11. At New York Arrived: Cltta dl Torino, from Genoa; Kaiser Wilhelm II, from Bre men; Finland, from Antwerp; Rynland, from Antwerp: Putsdam, from Rotterdam. Sailed: Grosser Kurfurst, for Bremen: I'aiinonla. for Nt pies; Prlris Adelbtrt, for I Naples; Victorian, lor Liverpool. At Marseilles Arrived: alabrlu, from New York. At Genoa Arrived: Ligurla, from New York. At Antwerp Arrived: Kroonland, from Ne v York. At Hamburg Arrived: Mem-ihls. from Tacoma. Sailed: Alhlngia. for New York. At Sydney An Ived : Sierra, liorn San Francis' -o. At Liverpool Arrived: Oeorglc, from New York. Sailed: Lake Manitoba, fur fit. Johns. N. 1!.; Hironhi. for Boston. At I'onttt Iielgada Arrived : princes Victoria Luise. from New York. Bailed: Romanic for Boston. At Algiers bulled; Cuuoyiu, fur Genoa, Belief at St. Petersburg that Battleships Are Now Past Straits, ONE FORT IN FORMOSA CLOSED Rumor that Admiral Togo Is to lit Harbor of Kelunsf as a Base More Colliers Pass Slog a pore. TOKIO, Apll 11. Japan Is meeting tha Kussiun plan of reorganization and rein forcement of Its Msnchurlan armies with un extensive expedition from Its own mili tary oi ganlzuticm. Tho details and figures are caret ully concealed of what seems to be a plan to double the present army units, but it is reliably estimated that by autumn next the total military organlzatlop will exceed l.oOo.ooo men actually employed in the fluid. Tho fighting force is roughly esti mated at "00,000 men, with Increases largely in the Infantry and artillery, although an enlargement tn the cavalry branch is also contemplated. As a result of the manufacture at the arsenals In Japan, together with captures and purchases of guns. It Is predicted that this year will see a Japanese artillery superior to that of the Russian, in quality as well as numerically, and It Is confi dently believed that the Russians will be Incapable of overcoming these numerical advantages. Wherever railway Improve ments are possible they will be carried out when Japan will be sufficiently strong to take ar.d hold Harbin and simultaneously continue operations against the Russian forces to the eastward of that city. Japs Marching; on Vladivostok. GUNS1IU PASS, Manchuria. April 11. Tho tlinw has been followed by a florca gale which has dried out the mire, and Is now raising a heavy dust. It is a provi dential change, as otherwise the troops tenting In the mud proba"bly would soon bo subject to sickness even in epidemic form. It is steadily becoming more evi dent that first calculations as to Russian losses in the battle of Mukden wera ex aggerated. A portion of the Fifth rifle regiment, which was cut off at Mukden has Just arrived at Kjlrin, having succeeded tn penetrating tho Japanese lines. The Chinese state with great posltlve ness (hat General Kawamura'a army sup ported by General Nogl's army ta moving In a northeasterly direction, aiming to cut Russian communications with . Vladivos tok. According In the so,c sources 30,000 Japanese landed at Dulny March 28, and It Is reported that six additional divisions are forming in Japan tn operate against Vladivostok and Sukhulln. The Man churian Chinese have adopted an attitude of positive hostility to the Russians. NebogatotX Is Waiting;. LONDON. April 12. A dispatch from Jlbutil, on the Gulf of Aden, to the Dally Moil says: "Vice Admiral NebogatofT'a squadron has been seen cruising near Socotra. lt Is reported to be awaiting reinforcements from the Black Sea fleet. The mystery of Vice Admiral Rojest vensky'a whereabouts is still unsolved, and speculation on the possibilities of the situa tion is of the keenest. The hypothesis of the newspapers this morning Is that hia six battleships slipped past Singapore some night with lights out. Tho Dally Telegraph's Singapore corre spondent cabling under date of April 11, says: "All reports to the contrary, not withstanding, only one battleship, the Slssoi Vlliky, passed here Saturday. No ships of the Tsarevltch type were with the squadron." Fnrmosan I'ort Is Closed. WASHINGTON, April 11. Minister Grls com, at Toklo, hits cabled the State de partment that he hns been advised of tho closing of Kclung to foreign ships until further notice. Kelung Is a port on the north end of the lslund of Formosa. It Is believed here that the action of the Japanese government In closing Kelung indicates that this port will be used by Admiral Togo as a base for hia fleet. Colliers Pass Singapore. LONDON, April 11. A telegram from Slnaporc reports that four supposed col liers passed there, going east, April 10. These ore presumed In shipping circles to be the advance guard of the sixteen Hamburg-American line steamers chartered to act as supply ships to the Russian second Pacific squadron. Dutch to Preserve Neutrality. THE HAGUE, April ll.-The Dutch East Indian sqtir.dron Is Baid to have been or dered to proceed to the Anambas Islands (where the Russian squadron which passed Singapore April 8 Is anchored!; with tha view of assuring the observance of isn trailty. Snruilae as to Rojest vrnslcT. ST. PETERSBURG, April 11 (4:35 p. m.) Whether Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's battleship division passed through the Straits of Sunda or the Strnlts of Malacca, It Is practically certain now that ha la moving to effect a. Juncture with the divi sion which passed Singapore April 8. It is possible that this may not take place until the two divisions reach Cape Fa da ran on the east coast of Cochln-Chlna. The dispatches from Singapore naming the ships which passed there Saturday are erroneous In several particulars, notably in the case of the Furst Bismarck, re chrlstened tho Don, which is still at Libau. The cruiser Russ was fitted with a cap tive baloon for observation purposes and though it left originally with Rojestvensky, at a trial off Gothland the ropo connecting the balloon with the ship parted and the balloon was lost. The Russ consequently was compelled to return. Later It went out with Admiral Rotrovsky's division. According to the admiralty's Information the Japanese had an observation squadron In the watera off Labuan, British Borneo, where they took tha same advantage of British neutrality as Rojest vensky did of French neutrality at Madagascar and this squadron is now believed to have been summoned by Japanese scout.i to remain In touch with the rtusi'hins until they get, north of the straits of I'flimT.ii, where it is believed here n ImtllH will occur. what Togo Mny Do. Considering th vital nature of the Issue the admiralty is inclined to think that Admiral Togo will not dare to send ships lo Vladivostok or leave vessels uelilnd him to cope with lht Russian vessel at
