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The Omaha Daily Bee. WHArS WANTED? Get It bf Inttrting a Unit Witt hi In 7ht 0ec' tUttWti idre rfslsa comni. SUBSCRIBERS filling to jef The Bet rejuirr or promptly should report re 'Phon 897. 4 ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1905 TEN PAGES. SINGLE COrY Til K EE CENTS. V .V V JAPAN ASKS BILLION Statement that TbU it Approximate Amount of Indemnity Wanted. 'Ni OTHER DEMANDS THAT WILL BE MADE Cession of Sakhalin Island and Return of Manchuria to China. CONFERENCE WILL MEET AUGUST 8 Tenni for Protocol Will Be Submitted by Japs lint Day. BARON KOMURA GOES TO OYSTER BAY Chief Eiror Will Moke n Informal Call Upon the President To day Witt Uavti Parla. WASHINGTON. July 28. -Whether there Is to be peace In the far n con" tlnuance of the war will be practically de cided at the first business meeting of the Washington conference, which will con vene at the navy yard, Portsmouth, N. H.. about August 6. Baton Komurfc will on that occasion . communicate to M. Witt the essential of Japan's pence terms for further negotiations. This, It is declared, will not be ot In a rplrlt of defiance. Indeed there are many evidences In the possession of the neutral governments that Japan Is coming to the Washington conference, not Imbued with a desire to humiliate Russia, but only to exact terms which will Insure a lasting peace In the far east, and which will in a measure compensate Japan for the finan cial losses In the present conflict. Atthougn guarding with great care the official statement of Its terms Japan has not kept from several friendly governments the general character of these terms. Official Washington has been enabled to form within certain limits a general Idea of their 'character. It is known that Japan will demand an Indemnity that will ' approximately cover the cost of the war to date. This was communicated to Russia early In the pre liminary negotiations. The amount Is still a secret, but It Is based upon the most care ful estimates of the cost of the war and will be accompanied by a more or less de tailed statement, showing the methed by which the flnnl figures were computed. It will not fall far short of $l,nfK),AOO,000, ac crrdlng to advices reaching here from well Informed sources. Besides the Indemnity, It Is believed, Japan's other essential to the continuance of the negotiations are the cession to Japan of Sakhallen and the transfer of Russia's lease, of the Llao Tung peninsula and Of the railway as far us Harbin, the recognition of Japan's pre dominating Influence In Corea and the re turn of Manohurla to China If the Russian plenipotentiaries are pre pared to accept these essentials, the offi cials here are confident that the bases will be laid for negotiations sure to lead to the etOTlrtg prfW'fflfafy Vif Washington, bring ing peace to ine iar east. Komar Goee to Oyster Bar. NEW YQRK. July 26. Baron Komura i d Minister Takahlra. the Japanese peace plenipotentiaries, - will make an Informal visit to President Roosevelt tomorrow. This announcement was made this afternoon when Mr. Takahlra arrived from a trip to Oyster Bay to officially notify the presi dent of the arrival of his colleague In the negotiations with Russia for peace. Only tli two principals of the delegation will go to Oyster Bay tomorrow, the other mem bers of the suite remaining In this city to transact the business of the commission, of which there Is a great amount. The two plenlpotentarles will leave this city about 11 o'clock, and it Is expected they will return late In the afternoon. Upon hie return from Oyster Bay today Minister Takahlra went directly to the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, where re remained In conference with Baron Komura for several hours. After the departure of Minister Takahlra, Baron Komura spent the evening In his apartments. Durli.f the day there were a number of callers and many cards were left for the baron, but he Is accessible only to his suits and a few personal friends. A report that Crown Prince Yoshlhlto of Japan died last May, the news of his de mise having been withheld for state rea sons, reached Baron Komura tonight and the baron asked the Associated Press to declare the rumor as without foundation In fact. The following note was sent to the As sociated Press: ' ' The report has absolutely no foundation. I wish you would be goon enough to deny It on the strength of my authority. , BARON J. KOMI'RA. Personnel of Russian Delegation. MANCHESTER. Mass.. July 26. Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassador, who with Ms suite Is spending the summer at Mag nulla, announced tonight that he would not go to New York on Friday, as he had previously arranged, to await the arrival of M. Wltte, the Russian peace plen ipotentlary. Baron Rosen will post pone his departure fcr New York until early next wet in order to avoid HivencMng several days In the city while awaiting the arlval of M. Witte's steamer. Prince KoudaehelT of the embassy staff will leave for New York tomorrow to make arrangements for M. Witte's reception. Baron Rosen tonight gave "h Associate Press a revlaed list of the members of the Russian Peace Commission. Accord ing to this list the commission will be composed as follows: Secretary of Stale M. Wltte, first plen ipotentiary; Baron Rosen, second plen ipotentiary; officials of the Foreign office. Privy Councillor Martens, Minister to China Poketllon. First Secretary of the Kmttassy HiiDKen, M. de Plancon. M. de Jorosuvet. prince Koiidaeheff and M. Nab oloff; officials of the Treasury lemi tment. Privy Councillor Bhlpoft and M. Vilhen nine; officer of the general staff. Major General Yermotoff and Colonel Saman) I off. representing the army, and Captain Housalne, representing the navy. M. Wltte Leaves Parle. FAR IS, July .-M. Wltte, Prof, de Mar tens and a number of officials making up the Russian peace plenipotentiary party left the 8t. Laxare railroad station at 9:8 this morning for Cherbourg, where .they will sail for Nsw York on the Noah German l.lojd line , Steamer Kaiser Wllhelin der Urokse this evening. Many officials and diplomatists gathered at the depot. Includ ing Ambassadors Nelldoff and Casalni and M. Routkowskl, the Russian financial agent. M. Wltte remained on the platform smok ing a cigarette and chatting with the am bassadors until the train pulled out, when he raised his ht and bowed his farewell salutations to the crowd. M. Leplne. the prefect of police, remained beside M. Wltte until hla departure. Mine. Wltte and her daughter accompanied Mr. Witte to Cher bourg. Thence they will go to Brussella and remain there during the conference. ROTEST FROM PORTO RICO Con Inn of Municipalities Asks r Share of Krlf Gnvrrnnrit L for the Inland. UA N, P. R.. July :5. A memorial ess adopted by the convention of illtle today nays this Is the seventh ary of the American Invasion of lloo and complains that the pre nco of power still rests with an e council composed bf heads cf lenta appointed by President Roose- to mui anr Poi pel exi de) ve ' "These heads of departments," It says, "arrive here knowing nothing of the language, customs or needs of the coun try and twenty-four hours after disem barking take their seats In the executlx-e council and determine the fate of the Island." The memorial calls for no change In the composition of the House of Delegates, which consists of thirty-five members elected by the people. The convention also adopted a petition for presentation to the insular legislature for the protection of the municipalities and the granting to them of autonomy. Several speeches bitter in tone were made against centralizing the power in the Island In the hands of the secretary of Porto Rico and the executive council. PROSECUTION OF AMERICANS Matter of Holding Yoang Men for Trial Comes I'p In Par. lament. LONDON, July 26. The shooting case Involving J. 8. and II. C. Fhlpps, sons of Henry Phlpps of Pittsburg, was again men tioned In the House of Commons this after noon, J. Galloway-Weir, representing Ross and Cromarty county, Scotland, wanting the lord advocate for Scotland to take steps to prevent the defendants from flee ing from Justice. The lord advocate, how ever, said he had every reason to believe that the Phlpps would be ready to meet any charges brought against them. One of the men. he understood, was now In Tarls. The two sons of Mr. Phlpps were recently charged at Inverness with the reckless discharge of firearms on the Beaufort es tate, In the highlands of Scotland, leased by Mr. Phlpps from Lord Lnvat, by which the young men wounded three persons. On July 22 they were committed for trial and were released on $2,500 ball each. Mr. Galloway-Weir called the attention of the House of Commons to the case July 23, when he asked the lord advocate whether the defendants were still In the United Kingdom. GOVERNOR SCOLDS JEWS Odessa's Executive Arrases Them of Belug Responsible for Internal Trouble ef Russia. ODESSA, July 26. The governor of Odessa has Issued an extraordinary proc lamation which when posted In the city tomorrow may have the effect of Increas ing the already bitter feeling against the Jews among the troops and more Ignorant classes of the population. The governor says he hae received a number of anony mous letters denouncing persons as social ists and revolutionaries, which he entirely Ignores, believing that In most cases these communications were Inspired by motives of personal vengeance. The proclamation continues: "Letters have also come from the Jews charging the police with pre paring for a Jewish massacre." The governor then declares that such ac tion is Impossible and will not be per mitted, but he adds: The governor Is astonUhed at the Jews addressing such letters to him, seeing that It Is the Jews themselves who caused all the disorders. The police Invariably found revolvers, bombs and prohibited literature In Jewish houses, but for the Jews there would be no disturbances and no Kniaz Potemklne affair. Now the Jews have the impertinence to bring charges against the police. " JAPANESE SEIZE LIGHTHOUSES Position Taken Commands Retreat of Russians on Sakhalin Island. ST. PETERSBURG. July 27.-3:10 a. m. Dispatches from Manchuria report the landing of a Japanese battalion and the selsure of a lighthouse on the Siberian coast near Doastrlcs, a post formerly called Alexandrovsk, 700 miles north of Vladivostok, after a preliminary shelling by torpedo bout destroyers. Military officials here attach Importance to the episode only In connection with the Sakhalin campaign and say as the landing was effected at a place where the Straits of Tartary. between Sakhalin and the mainland are narrowest, it apparently Is part of the strategy of the Japanese to prevent the escape of the Russian garrison In Sakhalin across the straits. They said that the landing Is too far north to have any bearing on the main campaign or on operations against Vladivostok. RUSSIA ASKS PART. OF NORWAY Another Version ml the Pargoae of Meeting of Tsar and Kaiser. LONDON. July 2T.-The correspondent of the Dally Mall at Stockholm says: "The object of Emperor William's Interview with Emperor Nicholas was to obtain the con sent of the latter for a prince of the house of Holiensollern to ascend the throne of Norway. It is possible that the Russlun emperor will cunsent, provided Russia be permitted to slightly rectify Its frontier on Hie Atlantic." The Dally Mail, commenting on the dis- patch. suggests that the "rectified frontier" means that Russia wants to acquire the strip of Norwegian territory which sep arates 8weden from the Arctic ocean, thus gaining a seaport. MEYER" DOWN TO BUSINESS Ambassador to St. Petersburg Takes I'p Matter of Trade Re. latlona. ST. PETERSBURG, July 2.-Negotla-tions for the Improvement of the Russo-. American tariff relations are now proceed ing under better auguries of success. Ambassador Meyer has succeeded In brushing aside the customary barriers, tak ing up the matter of discriminating duties on American imports, levied in relation for the Imposition of a countervailing duty by the United Btates on Russian sugars, direct with the department Interested, the minis try of finance. The ambassador had an Interview yesterday with Finance Minister Kokovsoff and discussed the subject in Its general outlines. This will be followed by frequent conferences. The progress of the negotiations lor a French commercial treaty makes a speedy arrangement de- "r&ie. RATES OX FRUIT AND GRAIN Interstate Commerce Commission Looking Into Changes of Car Lines. ELEVATOR ALLOWANCES UNDER FIRE Grain Dealers and Agent of Great Western Railway Testify as to Payments tor Head ling Grain. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July M.-An In quiry by the Interstate Commerce commis sion Into complaints of shippers against alleged excessive charges In freight rates, was begun here today by Francis M. Cock ret!, a member of the commission, former United States senator from Missouri, who was the only member of the commission who had arrived when the hearing began. Commissioner Cockrell took up the In vestigation of private car lines which was the special purpose of his comlrfg to Kan sas City, The Investigation was conducted by Frank Barry, special agent of the In terstate Commerce? commission. Almost every shipper who attended the Inquiry was armed with expense bills to show the freight rate charges and the charges for Icing and relclng cars In fruit and produce shipments. The shippers were a unit In declaring that although the cost of pro duction Is now greater and the market price lower than In former years, on some classes of perlshafjle shipments, the freight and Icing charges are the same or greater than In former years. It was shown that the tost of using refrigerator cars nnd operated exclusively by the railroads them selves was one-half and one-third as much ng the cost of shipments made under similar conditions where the cars were owned by private car line companies. The scope of the Inquiry was confined to western and southwestern territory, through which refrigerator cars owned by the Armour Car Line company are oper ated. A dozen or more shippers and rep resentatives of fruit dealers' associations at points In southwestern Missouri along the line of the 'Frisco railroad, were pres ent to give testimony. Investigating; Elevator Charaes. A special session of the Interstate Com merce commission was hcjd tonight to take up the question of allowances granted to grain dealers here by the railroads on grain shipments. Six or eight witnesses had been summoned, but It was not gen erally understood that a night session was to be held and only three witnesses ap peared. These were Frank P. Lint, secre tary and treasurer of the Hinds & Lint Grain company; E. O. Moffatt of the Mof fatt Grain company, and M. H. McNeill, grain agent for the Chicago Great Western railroad. Each of these witnesses was asked by Frank Barry, who conducts the Inquiry, what allowance railroads granted to ship pers on outbound grain. The answer In each Instance was 14 cents. Both Mr. Lint and Mr. Moffatt said they had never received any allowance on inbound grain and Mr. McNeill said his road had neves granted any such allowance. Each of the witnesses said that thclVi cents was al lowed by the railroad to "rover elevator charges and was given only to. those who handled grain through elevators. FIRST REPORT WAS "FIXED" Assistant Secretary Finds Less Cotton Planted Than that Reported by Hyde. ' WASHINGTON, July 26. Assistant Sec retary Hayes today made the following report to Secretary Wilson on the acreage of cotton In the southern states In 1906, as compared with that planted In 1904: The crop estimating board of the De partment of Agriculture has considered the report Issued by the bureau of statistics on Juno 2 relitive ,t the acreage planted in cotton In the southern states In 19o6, as compared with that planted In 1904, and has concluded : First That a new eatlmate should be made on acreage planted and that the fig ures In Mr. Hyde's hands wiien making his estimate should be used as the basis: Second That Mr. Hyde, with Mr. Holmes at his elbow prompting him, made the esti mate lower than the facts at his hand from the reports from the seven clauses of re porters employed by the bureau warranted. Third The board finds upon careful con sideration of the reports of all classes of correspondents and agents that the acreage planted In cotton this year, including the entire season, should have been estimated at 85.1 per cent of that planted last year, equivalent to a reduction In planted acreage as compared with last year of 14 9 per cent (instead of 11.4 per cent.1, or 4.731, OUU acres, the estimate or the total acreage planted this year being 26,998.000 acres. The estimated percentage of the decrease In each of the cotton growing states Is as follows: Virginia, IS; North Carolina. 16; -South Carolina. 14; Georgia. 14; Florida. 12; Ala bama. 11; Mississippi. 16; luislana. 17; Texas, 16; Arkansas, 19; Tennessee, 13; Mis souri, 16: Oklahoma, 15; Indian Territory, II. The averages were made for each state by each of the four members of the board and the comparatively small disagreements were harmonized almost wholly by aver aging, and the above results are fully agreed to by each and every member of the board. COTTON MARKET IS EXCITED Government Report Sends Prices High and Resulting Sales Hammer Them Down. NEW YORK, July 26 Prices for cotton bounded upward almost instantly today when the government report of a decrease of 14 S per cent in the acreage planted as compured with last year was received on the exchange. The gains ranged from 12 to 14 points. October reaching 11.17 cents. Tremendous selling, presumably by long ! nl"nt B United States Judge for the dls Interests. followed and prices went turn-j trlct of Oregon to succeed the late Judge bllng. October was beaten down 15 points Bellinger. Private advices to this effect from the highest to 11.02 cents. The market was excited and Irregular. NEW ORLEANS, July 26-The day was one of unusual excitement In the cotton market, owing to the revised government acreage report. This showed the reduction of acreage to be 14.S per cent, compared with the previous figures given out on June 3. pow declared to have been manipu lated, of. 114, or a further decrease of IS per cent. The market was put up about 15 points after the reading of the report and many bears turned bull for the trading during the remainder of the day. Prices, however, were but I and 3 points above yesterday's closing. P.RATT IS DENIED NEW TRIAL Litigation Over Division of Cattle Company Property Goes to Snpreme Coart. CHEYENNE. Wyo.. July 26. (Special Telegram.) Colonel J. H. Pratt of Omaha must now take his rase to the state suf preme court, as Judge Scott this after- noon denied a new trial. Pratt sued for a redivlsloo of the property of ihs Leltcr- i Pratt-Catlia cornnaar. valued at TAFT PARTY VISITS TOKIO Official Members K.ntertalnrd at Lanrheon by the Mikado at J the Imperial Palace. TOKIO, July 26. The emperor and crown princess today received In audience and entertained at luncheon the official members of the party of Secretary Taft. Shortly before noon Secretary Taft was driven to the Imperial palace in the state carriage. Lloyd C. Orlscom. the American minister to Japan, escorted Miss Alice Roosevelt to the palace. Crowds of people lined the streets during the passage of the distinguished visitors along the streets to the palace. At the palace the Imperial princes and princesses, attended, by the royal person ages of the emperor's household, the mili tary and naval staffs, members of the cabinet and council of statesmen, assisted In the reception of Secretary Taft and his party. Minister Orlscom made the presentations to the emperor while Mine. Grlscom per formed a like office when the visitors ap peared before the crown princess. After the presentations all proceeded to the banquet hall, where the emperor sat at the bead of the large table In the cen ter, with the crown rrlnces on his right and Princess Kanln on his left. Princes Fushl and Kanln were seated on either side of Secretary Taft and Miss Roosevelt. Minister Orlscom and Mme. Grlscom were seated directly opposite the emperor. The other members of the party were seated on the right and left, accord ing to order of precedence. A garden party succeeded the luncheon. The emperor ordered his private park opened, and the Americans were driven through the grounds. The park was com pleted 3f years ago, and no foreigners were ever before admitted to It. The party loft the palace at i1:.1n o'olorfc. The court presented a brilliant spectacle during the ceremonies. Premier Katsura banquet led Secretary Taft and the members of his party at the Imperial hotel tonight, Madame Takahlra. fhe wife of the Japanese ambassador at Washington, acting as hostess. The dining hall was decorated with the national colors of Japan and America. Premier Katsura accompanied Miss Roosevelt to the banquet hnll and Secre tary Taft accompanied Madam Takahlra. Premier Katsura proposed In a toast the health of President Roosevelt and Minister Grlscom proposed the health of the em peror, amidst the cheers of the Americans. Premier Katsura In proposing the health of Miss Roosevelt and Secretary Taft Jointly, said that the reception given Secretary Taft and the members of his party was a tribute of Jn pan's respect for President Roosevelt. Referring to the visit of Commodore Perry to Jiipnn he said that America was Japan's sponsor. Secretary Taft, In responding, congratulated Japan on Its marvelous progress during the past half-century and expressed the hope that the friendly relations between the two countries would always exist. FIXING DAMAGES TO INDIANS . i Government Apprnlser la Appointed for Railroad Rlght-of-Wnr .... - v (From a Staff Correspondent.), WASHINGTON, July 26.-(SpeclaI Tele gram.) Frank M. Conner, special agent of the Indian bureau, has gone to Nebraska to pel Jn conjunction with officials of' the Sioux Cltr'A Western Railroad company in appraising lands of the Omaha and Winnebago Indians growing out of the building of 1 a, railroad line across their reservations. The Sioux City & Western railroad has held a concession for a right-of-way through a portion of these reserva tions for a long time and now seems In clined to build the .railroad before the government will permit actual construction. The railroad must pay down a sufficient sum to cover what In Its estimation will be the damage done to Indians by such construction. The right-of-way held by the Sioux City & Western Is about eighteen miles In length. GifTord Pinchot, United States forester, who is now on his w-y to visit several of the forest reserves for the purpose of Inspection, will first visit Sheridan, Wyo. Upon completion of hla tour of Insjiectlon, Forester Pinchot will go to Portland, Ore., to attend the Irrigation congress which convenes in that city August 21. Captain Sam D. Freeman, Tenth cavalry, is detailed as a member of the Examining board at Fort Robinson for service dur ing the examination of first and second lieutenants only, vice Major Benjamin H. Cheever, Sixth cavalry. E. L. Crawford has been'appolnted post master at Rlnard, Calhoun county, la., vice H. C. Elmore, resigned. Rural free delivery route No. 3 has been ordered established October 2 at Genoa, Nance county. Neb., serving 352 people and eighty-eight houseB. Roy M. Ireland has been appointed regu lar and Charles Ireland substitute rural carriers for route No. 4 at Arapahoe, Neb. The Citizens National bank of Hampton, la., has been authorized to begin business with $100,000 capital. T. J. B. Robinson Is president; W. W. Beebe, vice president; W. L, Robinson, cashier. COTTON DECLINES ERMINE Attorney for Harrlman System Will Not Aeeept Place on Federal Bench of Oregon. PORTLAND. Ore., July 16. The Tele gram today says that William A. Cotton, with a commission already In his posses sion, has concluded to decline the appoint- have been received here. Mr. Cotton left New York for Oregon last night after a conference with the eastern officials of the Harrlman lines, and today the fact of his Intention to decline the Judicial position offered him by the president became known. It is generally believed that Inducements have been offered him by the Harrlman system that make it worth while for him to decline the bench and remain where he is as general counsel of the Harrlman northwestern lines, with additional powers and financial considerations. STAR WITNESS ARRESTED Self-Confessed Grafter at Milwaukee sued for Damages by Former Official. MILWAUKEE. July M-Edward F. 8trauss, former supervisor of th Ninth ward, self-confessed grafter and star wit ness before the grand Jury, was arrested yesterday afternoon on an order of arrest Issued by Judge Ludaig of the superior court, in an action for damages commenced by Frank F. Schulti. former assessor of the Twenty-first Ward and reporter on the Gcrn,ianla. Schulti demands US.OUO (or al iased defamation of aharaotaa. NEBRASKA SAILOR IS DEAD Ward Kennedy of Alliance Succumbs to Injuries Received on the Bennington, B8DY WILL BE SENT HOME FOR BURIAL Investigation of Disaster Has Been C'onrlnded and Report Will Be Sent to Washington Be fore Publication. SAN DIEGO, Cal., July 2)?. Another death among the Injured of the Bennington's crew has occurred, the victim being Ward V. Kennedy. The body will be taken to Alliance, Neb , where the deceased formerly lived. The Investigation of the disaster con ducted by Commander Young and Lieuten ants Yates and Ward has been concluded and a report is being prepared to be for warded to Washington. Nothing can be learned as to Its contents from any of the three officers, but there appears reason to believe that they have decided only one boiler exploded, but that the explosion broke the steam pipes of the other boilers and that thus the latter contributed their share of the death dealing steam. No deaths have occurred since that of W. V. Kennedj, late yesterday afternoon, which brought the total, up to sixty, hut Inquiry at Agnew's sanitarium this after noon elicited the statement that no hone Is entertained for the recovery of at least three and It Is thought these may pass away during the night. Gunboat Again Afloat. The gunboat Bennington is again afloat on an evn keel and will be towed to the Mare Island navy .yard to be thoroughly examined and repaired. Much Interest cen ters on the question of what was the steam pressure on the boiler "B" at the time of the explosion, It being understood that the safety valve had been set to blow off at U0 pounds. Ten minutes before the explosion the pressure was only US pounds and was i rising. The boiler had been cleaned only a short time before and filled with fresh water from ashore. Only one boiler exploded. An examination of the Inside of the ship shows that the hull has been damaged but little. If any. The water which poured In and caused the listing came through the blowhole and pipes, broken by the force of the explosion. A private dispatch from Oakland says that the mother of E. B. Robinson, one of the Bennington victims., has lost her mind through grief. Will Be Burled Saturday. ALLIANCE. Neb., July 26. (Special Tele gram.) Ward V. Kennedy of this city, who was among the seriously injured victims of the Bennington disaster, died at San Diego last night. He will be burled here Satur day. ROADMASTERHAS CLOSE. CALL Motor Jumps the Track and Falls on Him Rendering; Him Inconsclous. TECUM8EH, Neb., July 36. -(Special Tel egrani.) IrfKOiiiasier S. B. Rice of tba Bur lington, whoVie hohie la In this city, suf fered an accident today. He started north from the city this morning on his gasoline motor car, when the vehicle flew the track, threw him violently to the roadbed and the car fell upon him. He says the accident happened three miles out of town at 10:30 this morning. Mr. Rice was rendered un conscious and he remained In that condi tion until about 3 o'clock this afternoon, lying out In a heavy rainstorm. Although several trains passed the spot where the accident happened neither Rice nor the car were noticed by the crews. He regained consciousness at 3 o'clock and started for town on foot, but he was so weak he did not reach here until about 6 o'clock. When he did he was given immediate surgical care. It was found that he had sustained two broken ribs and had received a scalp wound. It is believed his Injuries will not prove of a serious nature. ASKS MONEY FOR WATERWAYS Convention to Be Held Pressure to Bear Congress. to Bring CINCINNATI, July 26.-Captaln J. E. Ellison, chairman of a subcommittee ap pointed by the preliminary session of the Rivers and Harbors association, which met here recently, left for Baltimore today In company with other prominent river men to meet officials of the National Rivers and Harbors association. Those officials will ba asked to issue a call for a meeting of the association at Washington during next session of congress to make provisions for increases in the appropriations to be used for the Improvement of waterways through out the Interior of the United States. In the event the officials of the national association do not call a convention as asked. Captain Ellison will Issue a call himself by the authority conferred upon him at the recent preliminary session of the convention here. WOULD LIMIT PARLIAMENT Churchill Not Permitted to Introduce Bill to Limit Life' of Body. LONDON. July 26. The ilouse of Com- m ..... , . i : I i . . rafiia.il tn r... r-m). T"1 I . ""'.' . iiriiiiti , tumuli Spe.icer Churchill to introduce a bill limit ing the life of Parliament to Ave Instead of seven years. Mr Churchill explained that the bill would give fuller popular control of the executive. He said that there was a grow ing diminution of Parliamentary authority over this government and by this mechani cal arrangement more frequent appeals to the country would be of national advan tage. The proposal was defeated by 23 to 176 votes. TRAVELERS NAME CMAHA MAN A. I.. Sheets Selected as Secretary Treasurer of International Fed. eratlon of Societies. PUT-IN-BAY, O.. July 2-At the final session of the International Federation of Commercial Travelers' organizations today the following officers were elected: Presi dent, E. P. McPherson of Indianapolis; vice president, George 8. Din a of Utica; secretary-treasurer, A. L. Sheets of Omaha The new executive committee Includes Louis Le Braume of St. Louis and F. E. Kalcjr of Des Moines. Sere Chicago Chief of Police. CHICAGO, July 26 Mayor Dunne today appointed Captain M. Collins as chief of police, ice Francis O'Neill, who resigned a few days sgo The new chief hss risen from the ranks. He was a patrolman in the front line of police at whom the bomb was thrown la Ii market square many NEBRASKA WEjATHER FORECAST Scattered showers and Thunder storms Thursday nnd Friday. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday! Hoar. Dev. Hour. pea. IV n. m tut t p. in ..... . T I H a. m U V p. m T1 T a. m let a p. m T.'l An. m tin 4 p. m 7.1 ft a. m UI ft p. tn...... T.'t in a. m tlT II p. n T.I 11 a. in HH T i. m 72 12 m 70 si p. m 71 I) p. ra TO MORTON IS NOW PRESIDENT Former Cabinet llltlrrr la Official Head of Kqoltahle life As. anrnnre Society. NEW YORK. July 26 At a two hours' session of the directors of the Equitable Life Assurance society today the resigna tions of former President James W. Alex ander and Nevula H. Stranahan as direc tors were accepted. Taul Morton was elected president of the society, retaining, it Is understood, the chairmanship as well. A special meeting of the directors will be held tomorrow, at which additional directors will lie elected and amendments to the charter of the society adopted. At today's meeting of the directors George F. Vleter of this city and Ernest B. Krultsschnltt of New Orleans were nominated as directors nnd will be elected at tomorrow's special meeting. Mr. Vlctcr Is a prominent dry goods ami commission merchant of this city, and Mr. Kruttschnltt Is one of the leaders of the bar In tho southwest. Chairman Morton reported to the directors In pursuance of his policy of retrenchment the society would effect savings of $,".nn.oro a year. He submitted a financial report for the first six months which was pronounced very satisfactory by the directors. At tomorrow's meeting the position of chairman may be abolished. The matter of pensions to the widow of H. B. Hydo nnd others was referred to a committee consisting of Directors McCook, Whitman and Zechnder, who will probably report thereon tomorrow. It Is also under stood, that Mr. Morton's salary as presi dent of the society will be $l,nn0 a year. E. B. Thomas was elected a member of the executive committee, which has not yet been fully organized. BUILDING AND LOAN MEETING National Association Hears Reports President nnd Secretary nnd Omnhn Man Talks. NEW YORK, July 27.-There was a large and representative gathering of officials of co-operative banking Institutions of -ho United States nt the opening session today of the annual convention of the United States Co-operative Savings and Building Loans association. The annual address of the president of the league, was delivered by A. L. Guttell of Shelbyvllle, Ind. The reading of the annual report of the secretary, H. F. Cellarlus of Cincinnati, followed. H. F. Cellarlus of Cincinnati, O., secre tary of the United States league, said In his annual report today: The lost year has been a successful one for the local building and loan associations of the United Slates. The total assets of the local building associations In the United States Is now 30,342.668. which Is a net In crease for the year of 320,788.474. The total membership Is 1,631,046, a net increase of 64.346. Pennsylvania made the largest Increase, gaining over 36.5uO.000 In assets nnd over 6,0o0 In membership New Jersey Increased nearly S3,0tio.ni0 In rsseu- and Massachu setts over 32.5o0.000. The number of separate associations is now 5,265. Treasurer J. K. Gamble rend his annual report, after which George F. Gilmore of Omaha, Neb., read a paper on "Withdraw als of Money from Building and Loan As sociations." POLICE AT DELMAR PARK Officers Attain Force Their Way Into Grounds, but Make Mo Arrests. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 26. Pursuant to the Instructions of Governor Folk for the enforcement of the anti-pool selling law, a squad of police under command of Cap tain MqNamee marched Into Delmar race track today, but no incidents attended their presence and they made no arrests. Sheriff Herpel arrested Ike Cohen In the betting Ting on a warrant charging' the registra tion of a bet. Cohen wag released on bond. He was one of the eleven men arrested yesterday and had given bond. When the squad appeared today an attempt was made to close the folding Iron gates, but the officers promptly pushed them open and entered. Beyond scattering themselves throughout the place, the officers did not interfere in any way. and after the flnai race quietly departed. RAIDS CHICAGO POKER ROOMS Kerr Chief of Police Makes Hundred Arrests, Seises Paraphernalia and Destroys Knrnlture. CHICAGO. July 26-John Collins, the newly Installed chief of police of this city, startled the gambling fraternity tonight by leading a comprehensive raid against the largest poker rooms to be found In the downtown section of the city. Headed by Chief Collins in person, the police descended upon four prominent gam bling clubs and arrested about 100 men and confiscated iHrze nimntin.. . ' . . i rln g paraphernalia, and deBtrojed all of j the furniture to be found in the .daces. ; Chief Collins announced early In the day that he proposed to suppress all gambling in the city, and the raid tonight was the first step taken In that direction. BISHOP JOYCECRITICALLY ILL Venerable Prelate of Methodist Church Lying Wear Point of Death at Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. July 26.-Bishot Isaac W. Joyce, who has been lying l.i aa the result of a cerebral hemorrhage and paralytic attack sustained wMIe preaching at the Red Rock, Minn., camp meeting on Sunday, July 2, IsnioI expected to live through the night Movements of Ocean Vessels July SC. At New York Arrived: Patricia, from Hnmburg INantucketi; Main, from Bremen, (Nantucketi: Iximhardia, from Naples; Teutonic, from Liverpool. Sailed: Baltic, for Liverpool. At I Jveriiool-Sailed: Philadelphia n. for Portland: Hylvanla, for Huston; Merlon, for Philadelphia; Oceanic, fur New York. At Queenstown Sailed: Caronla , for New York. Arrived: Saxonla, from Bon ton; Cedric. from New York; NordlanJ, from Philadelphia. At fi noa Silled: I.lguria. f r New Y'oik. - At Naples Sailed: Prim Dakar, for New York At Bermuda Sailed : Bermudlan, for New York. At Southsmpton-Salled: Kaiser Wilhelm der Gi for New York. At F'l mouth Arrived: Deutschland, trkm Kw York. FORTY-FIVE DEATHS Yellow Fever Epidemic at Kew Orleans la Spreading. SIX FATALITIES REPORTED TUESDAY Eleven New Cases Found, Making Hundred and Sixty-rive to Date. TEXAS QUARANTINES ALL LOUISIANA Officers of Three States Will Meet to Straighten Out Complications. ALL rOCI TRACED TO FRENCH MARKET Crowded Section of City Where Sanlr tatlon la Poor Said to Ba Place of Origin of On t break. NEW ORLEANS, July 2ti.-Stx deaths from yellow fever were recorded today up ta 6 p. m , making a total to date of forty-five. The number of new cases reported yester day, but complied todav. Is eleven, making all told to date 165. There are now nine teen foci of Infection. The organisation of forces for fighting the spread of the Infec tion and for a campaign of education and practical application of the mosquito ex termination plans has been completed, and besides loo men put on as extras to clean gutters by the city 350 men are working aa part of the system of sanitation. Cltlxens are being organised In wards and these ward clubs will form precinct clubs, and a house to house canvass will be made to as sure the screening of every cistern and tha oiling of every cesspool and water pond. The business men have provided the funds for this work nnd as the people are now aroused to the necessity of action there will he no let up. Y'lelding to the senti ment of the community the State Board of Health today adopted new regulations for the fruit ships, providing they should re main six days nt sea between the hist port and New Orleans, and requiring fumigation nt port of departure and fumigation here after the discharge of the cargo. Yester day the steamship Anselm of the United Fruit company was allowed to come up after being at sea four and a half days, and according to the ship's papers It stopped at the. quarantine station exactly forty min utes, during which time its crew of forty one men were examined and passed. This aroused the people to action and this fore noon Mayor Behrman, Attorney General Gulon, former Governor Hard and Colonel Charfes Banvler, waited on President Sou chon of the State Board of Health and In sisted that the regulations be made Imme diately regardless of the fruit ships at sea on the way up. The Board of Health de sired to give those ships an opportunity to come In ami then put the new regulation Into effect. Dr. Bouehnn after the confer ence decided to put the regulations into immediate effect, and so Instructed tha quarantine officers. Later he summoned the fruit importers to his office and ex plained the -matter to them. ' Naturally they, realized the sentiment tf the com munity was such that personal reasons would not be allowed to ente Into the present emergency. The people are con vinced that the Infection was brought here by the fruit steamerV and if It become necessary to make the regulations so strin gent as to drive them away( In the present feeling such regulations would be enforced. While handling the present emergency some thought Is being given to the future and on all sides there is a sentiment that nothing shall stand In the way of future immunity from mosquito fever, a It 1 called now. Quarantine Complications. In view of the many quarantine compli cations which have arisen, Dr. Souehon hag called a conference here next Sunday of the health officer of Texas, Mississippi and Alabama to discuss quarantine regulation and devise a system by which travelers can be admitted with certificate of marine hos pital service. Surgeon White, who la In charge of all the government work, will be present and participate. The work of locat ing the detention camps Is progressing,' though It has been slower than at first an ticipated. The resident of Kenner, four teen miles from New Orleans, on the Illi nois Central railroad, object to the camp, and it was located at Hanrahan, neat tha railroad gravity yards. The location of the other camps have been fixed and supplies are now being sent to them. The infec tion of the original focus seems to diminish, as fewer new case are being reported there, which Is a hopeful sign, Indicating that the modern methods have been ef fective. The work now Is to locate the new foci, and treat them In the same man ner. Physicians are now reporting all cases of fever, and wherever there Is the slight est suspicion rigid sanitary rules are ap plied with the result that up to now there has been no spread of any case from any of these new foci. Those which are devolp Jng are all traceable directly to the original focus In the Italian quarter. The emergency hospital was opened today and patients removed to It I a screened ambulance. Dr. John Gulteras, now profes sor of pathology of the University of Ha vana, but formerly of he marine hospital service, and who represented that service here during the fever of JP97, has been or dered here by the Cuban government and will arrive tomorrow. Close Inspection In Progress. WASHINGTON, July 26.-In his advice from New Orleans to the publio health and marine hospital service today Surgeon White says that a house-to-house Inspec tion is being conducted In the portion of the cliy which is affected by yellow fever. This section Includes forty or fifty blocks. He also says that general screening for protection against mosquitoes is promised. Passed Assistant Surgeon Joseph Gold berger has been ordered to Vlcksburg, Mia., and Shreveport, La., with Instruc tions to run down all rumors of yellow fever cases in those cities. All case of fever are to be screened until a positive diagnosis is arrived at. The officials of the Marine Hospital ser vice are Investigating a reported suspi cious case of fever, which Is said to have developed on the line of the Texas Pacific railroad about seventy-five miles from New Orleans. No report from the physician sent to examine the case has been re ceived. Surgeon General Walter A. Wyman, who has been to Honolulu on business connected, with the service, will return to Washing ton tomorrowtnd take active charge of the measures undertaken by his bureau to cop with the fever. HOi'BTON. Tex.. July 26.-As a quaran tine has been declared ugainst the state of Louisiana because i f tj slowness In qur antinlng New Orit jiu, physicians and guards have l-i n dispatched to the Louis iana border. Dr. W. I Cook of San Miro being In charge of the ttabln river caiun.
