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Omaha Daily Bee. i;evs SECT101 ?zzz$ 1 to 8. No Filthy neatlens THE OMAHA DEC Best i". West ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORN I NX J, MAY 12, 1906-SIXTEEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS. PRESIDENT SEES CZAR friendly Relations Established Between Bussian Emperor and Parliament SPIRIT OF OPTIMiSM PREVALENT Even the Radical Newipapen Are Assumins; ' a Hopeful Tone, DRAFTING REPLY TO SPEECH FROM THRONE Amneaty and Equal Bights to Be ' and Political ;d Upon. COUNCIL OF THE EMPIRE ORGANIZED MtnkfM of Ipprr Hmm Meet oad Trke th Oath Count WHI'i Appearance aa a Member Creates rrl. 8T. PETERSBURG, May H.The hope of th establishment of friendly relations be tween the emperor and the national Par liament waa further strengthened today by the audlenco granted by Emperor Nicholas at Peterhof to Prof. Mouromtseff, the president of tha lower house. President Mouromtaeff returned to St. Petersburg from the audience apparently much Im pressed by the emperor's Interest In the problems of the country. Though tha rad ical hotheads had been praying that Presi dent Mouromtseff would lay down the law to the empcrpr and make a scene, the half hour's conference was skilfully guided both by the sovereign and the parliamentary chief so that friction was avoided. To the constitutional democratic members of the House who awaited his return from Peter hof at the Constitutional club, Prof. Mour omtseff spoke only briefly, laying especial emphasis on tha emperor's eourtesy and consideration and his thorough knowledge of the aentlment in the Parliament and society. Prof. Mouromtaeff said political questions were not gont Into aa he had regarded It as not fitting that the president of the 'representative chamber should present at an official audience the views of any one group or body. Spirit of Optimism Prevails. The Impression left by yesterday's hlstorlo days la on the whole optimistic. Even the radical papers assume a rather hopeful one. The Rech, organ of the constitutional democrats, and now the most powerful paper In Russia, while not concealing Its disappointment at the fact that the ex pected amnesty was not granted, on the other hand expressed Its satisfaction thai the emperor did not use the word "au tocracy." It regards Ms majesty's speech s an adroit refusal to grant any further concessions, leaving the new fundamental law as the platform of the government, adding: "But the policy of marking time while events are marching so rapidly ren'.ly means retreat." The' constitutional .democrats, however, are In nowlae dismayed at the prospect of having to continue the struggle. It Is al ready apparent that they Intend to nail the flag of a constitutional monarchy to their masthead, but their .first efforts will be . directed to forcing general political am nesty from the unwilling hands of the em peror. People Wait Prisoners Heleaaed. The deliverance of the political prisoners and those who have suffered for fredom's cause 1 now a passion with the masses and it is difficult to see how the govern ment will be able to resist. One of the striking changes today Is the appearance of the Official Messenger, which for days and weeks had been appearing each morning with column after column of ukases and nominations, alter the bu reaucracy feverishly sought to get their "goods in out of the wet." With the as sembling ot ' Parliament the end has come. Not a single ukiuw or nomination was printed today. -The only one official an nouncement was a rescript giving Finance Minister Kokovsoft credit for negotiating the Rut-shin loan and decorating him with the Alexander Nevsky order. Preparing Reply o Throat. The central committee of the constitu tional democrats are working out a reply to the speech from the throne. The prin cipal polnu will be amnesty and equality of political and civil rights. But a faction Is Insisting on a demand for the aboltlon of the council of the empire. An attempt will be made to come to an agreement with the peasants, who are drawing up an In dependent reply. Their chief demands are amnesty, the reorganisation ot the labor laws, the reorganisation of the army, the disbanding of the Cossacks, the separation . of church and state, a general extension of the schools and equal rights for all nation alities. Ceuacll of Empire Opens. I p. m. The third act In the great drama of Russian parliamentarism, the ' formal opening of the recognised cAuncll of the empire, or upper house ot the Par- Ilament, took place at 2 o'clock this after noon In ths hall of the nobles in the Wtn- tr palace. The pomp and ceremony charac teristic! of the old Russian life, the absence of which at the opening meeting of the popular lower house of Parliament in the Tauridc palace yesterday, was significant of the new spirit in Russian affairs, found vent in the convocation of the council of ne empire, wnicn im nan me mamoers elected and half appointed, forma the con necting link between the new snd ths old , systems. The display of uniforms and orders, vivid ribbons snd gold braid, which was seen at Its height during the cere monls) at the Winter, palace yesterday, was repealed on a smaller scale In the great white hall of the nobles today. The ministers displayed their full regalia, the members of the chancellery wore court dress snd swords, the doors ware guarded by servants in picturesque livery, snd the boxes were occupied by diplomats and high officials and richly dressed women, and though a number of the elective members were not In uniform, the colored smock snd kaftan of the peasant and the high boots and rough cost of ths workman were not In evidence. The majority of the elective mchibrr. In deed, who came from the landed nobility and upper rank of commerce and industry, j vied with the appolntlves In the number and richness of their decorations. Only a sturdy little group of liberal professors came In ' simplicity, their civil garb not being re- . lleved by a ribbon or a medal. While the lower house of Parliament Is distinctively body of new men, tha names of the , megj.ers of the council of the em pire ran he found in the Index of Russian history of ttie pst century, including Ig mttieff, Alrnieffs. PobeidoivoMsefTs and Dol goreukoffs of the old regime, a mass of re- tu-ed ministers, soldiers and statesmen of (Continued an Seoead Pag0 GRAND JURY REPORTS TODAY Federal Court Body Winding (p a Batch f lew Indictment. Owing tn the desire of the federal Brand Jury to finish the examination of a number of out-of-town witnesses In some of the minor eases Friday evening, which con tinued until after o'clock. It was decided to make no report until noon Saturday. The bflla likely to be returned are vpd pnetofflce Indlctmenta. three pension Indict ments, one counterfeit Indlrtment, where William Loy Is aliened to have passed a bad allver dollar on one Clarence Davis at Lincoln. Contrary to the general expectation, aor of the fraudulent land filing cftse Wei , under Investigation Friday afternoon. Th" special cases under Investigation are those against the Mahaffey brothers.- who were bound over to the grand Jury on the al leged charge of subornation of perjury and perjury In the matter of securing certain final proofs on some soldier filings within their enclosures In Thomas and Hooker counties. The witnesses examined are mostly old soldiers from Iowa, whom. It Is alleged, made the filings at the Instance of Reason Hudgrll of Iowa and Frank Um bert of Nebraska, with the promlre of re ceiving lino or $150 upon the completion of the final proof and deeding the lard over to the cattlemen. The testimony is in many respects similar to that brought out in the famous Ware case In February last. While the matter of taking liquor onto the Indian reservations is being looked into by the grand Jury, it may be possible that no bills will be returned because of the Fishtail Lincoln case now pending In the Vnlted States supreme court to determine the status of the Indian offenders as cltl sens. The general purpose of the grand Jury at this time Is to get all the minor cases out of the way before taking up tha fraudu lent land filing cases from the cattle coun try, and the further desire of disposing of all cases where the accused parties are either in Jail or under bond. The fraudulent land filing cases will he taken up Monday. Frank Lambert will be here to testify. Reason Hudgell of Iowa also is under summons to testify to similar practices as an agent for Lambert. It Is also ex tremely probable that some of the al leged acts of certain members of the last grand Jury may be brought up for In vestigation. Grows Oat of Lambert Cose. This story grows out of a report that during the last session of the grand Jury some of the jurors were averse to bring ing an indictment against Lambert for his complicity In the U B. I. ranch filings, which resulted In the indictment and con viction of Rev. O. O. Ware. The resuscita tion act the story comes from the further fact that Harry Welsh's term of Imprison raent In the Douglas county Jail will ex pire about July.l. Welsh was the third one of the alleged conspirators Indicted for the fraudulent filings within the U. B. I. Land and Cattle company's enclosuree In Hooker county. Ware was convicted and sentenced to one year In the Douglas county Jail, and to pay a fine of tl.OCO. This case Is still pending on appeal " to the United States circuit court of appeals, and Lambert la still under 15,000 bonds, having never been brought to trial, though under Indictment, has pleaded guilty, but Is not yet sentenced. It appears that after the adjournment of the grand Jury last fsll that some one or two members of that Jury manifested an intereet In Lambert's case and sought to befriend him and advise with him as to the character of the testi mony ha should give In the trial of the case against Rev. G. U. Ware. These re ports were widely circulated at the time, and It was then that the Intimation was given out that the alleged suspected Jurors would be Investigated by the next grand Jury. FIGHT IN ACIRCUS TENT Battle Between Showmen and Mis souri Student Will Reealt In Ono Death. COLUMBIA. Mo.. May 11. Several hun dred University of Missouri students en gaged In a fight with showmen from Cole Brothers' circus at midnight lust night and as a result Maynard M. McCole, a freah man from Craig, Mo., waa shot tn the head and is In a critical condition in the Parker hospital here, and several others were slightly hurt. McDole's recovery is doubt ful.. The bullet entered behind the left ear, penetrating to the right Jaw, which Is probably broken. McDole sustained an operation at the Parker hospital, but the bullet was not located. Several of the other students engaged In the fight had scalp wounds dressed In the hospital. C. C. bailey of Campbell, Mo., was bruised about the head and breast. A body of about Ave hundred students assembled at the courthouse and marched to the evening performance of the circus on the fair grounds north of town. They de manded a twenty-flve cent rate of admission which was granted. They occupied seats together throughout the main performance and maintained an orderly behavior, oc casionally giving Missouri yells and songs. After the performance a number of the leaders demanded that they be allowed to remain during the concert which followed. Showmen armed with tent poles drove the students frbm the tent, striking several of thcui. This Incensed the students and they ran to a siding near the Wabasli railroad station, where the circus train was preparing to depart. Here a battle ensued between the circus employes and 250 stud ents, in which bricks were thrown freely shots were fired and teui poles were wielded vigorously by both students snd showmen. The students captured a cirrus chariot, which was found today In a field near town. The circus train left town at I o'clock this morning and was delsyed by greased and loosened rails and an open switch, the tampering with the track being ascribed to the students. No arrests have been made. The students say the circus men were the aggressors. SCHURZ IS CRITICALLY ILL Condition of Distinguished Patient Takes a (liana for tha NEW YORK. May II -Carl Schuri. the noted publicist and former secretary of the Interior, lies critically 111 at his home In this city. He Is suffering from a complica tion of disease, and. while It waa thought early today there has been an Improve ment In his condition, it was felt tonight thst the patient had lost some ground. I-ats tonight the following bulletin was issued by the standing physicians: No tangible change for the better: takes nourishment ; puln if fsir quality; res piration raihsr more frequent; tmo moder ate attacks of pulmonary oedema guru.g tha day, no vlu. but ralaar aaeie resi les. . , . BAILEY AMI N3MENT IS LOST Senate Reject Court Eeriew Feature Pre tested by Senator from Texas. DEBATE ON ALLISON AMENDMENTS Mr. Burner .. i the Proposer! Compromfr , exactly What Ra',y 4v- ompnule sire. jTON. May 11. Senator Bailey's j 4 .tslon amendment applying to or- i the Interstate Commerce commls aa covered by the railroad rate bill, htch has occupied so much Of the atten tlon of the aenate In connection with that bill, was today adversely disposed of by the decisive vote of 23 to M, practically a party vote. The debate on the provision was limited to a brief political speech by Its author In which he aaid the president had changed his attitude on the question of maintaining the rates fixed by the com mission until the courts reach a final de cision. An amendment offered by Senator Rayner confining the court review to constitutional questions was also voted down, but not until after speeches had been made by Messrs. Rayner and Bailey In advocacy and Messrs. Allison, Fulton. I-ong and Cullom In opposition. The debate was In antici pation of the discussion that is expected to occur upon the Allison court review pro vision tomorrow. Messrs. Rayner and Bailey contended that the Allison amend ment authorises the broadest possible court review snd the Maryland senator urged that in It Senator Aldrlch had achieved a sig nal victory. Senator F"ulton stated that he had first suggested the language of the Allison provision. A number of other amendments, offered In the main by democrats and by Senator La Follette, were rejected. The votes were generally along party lines during the entire day, but the Wisconsin senator voted with the democrats on all propositions and Messrs. McEnery and Morgan, democrats, voted with the republicans on most of them. The only amendments accepted during the day were those offered by Senator Allison striking out the phrase "fairly remunera tive" in the provision allowing the Inter state Commerce commission to fix rates; limiting the operation of orders of the commission to two years, and making the Interstate Commerce commission the de fendant In suits challenging the rates fixed by It. The anti-pass provision heretofore adopted was again discussed. It Is evident that it will be modified. The senate will meet at It again tomorrow. Allison Amendment Adopted. Consideration of the railroad rate bill was resumed In the senate today. Senator Allison was prompt In presenting the first of his compromise amendments, striking out the words "fairly remunera tive" from the fourth section of the bill aa descriptive of the rates which tha Inter state Commerce commission may prescribe. The amendment was adopted without de bate. ' The second amendment, limiting to two years the life of the commission's 'orders, was next adopted. Senator Bailey presented his amendment prohibiting inferior United States courts from issuing temporary Injunctions against the orders of the Interstate Commerce com mission. Benator Bailey said the so-called Allison amendment was the work ot the president and declared that the president had failed to Justify the hope be had aroused. On a roll call, the Bailey amendment was lost 23 to 64. . Senator Culberson presented an amend ment requiring that injunctions should not be granted without hearings and also Im posing other conditions. The amendment was voted down 29 to BO, a strict party vote, except that Senator LaFollette voted In the affirmative. Senator Bacon offered an amendment re quiting hearings on injunction proceedings and requiring also the presence of two Judges, one of whom shall be a circuit Judge at such proceedings. The amendment was rejected 24 to S2. Senator Tillman offered an amendment prepared by the Interstate Commerce com mission extending the authority of the commission over joint rates and through rates, partly by rail and partly by water. The amendment was voted down, but when subsequently offered tn modified form by Benator Lodge, waa adopted. Rayner Criticises President. Before Senator Allison had time to com plete the presentation of his amendments Benator Rayner -took advantage of the op portunity to present his constitutional court review amendment. "I wish the president had not' interfered in this legists tion.'" bs said. In speaking for tbe amendment, "but had permitted us to proceed to settle the queetlon here as it should be settled." He would not say In the senate that the president had been caught in a trap, but be would say that he was so constituted that "he could not look at a trap without fooling with the spring." He went on to say that the president had been irreparably caught and now his party friends and parly enemies were vtelng with esch other as to who should be the most sealous In their advocacy. He then referred to Benator Thong's limited review amendment, saying that the Kansas senator had been first chosen by the president as his channel ot communi cation with the senate, but on last Friday he had been succeeded aa minister pleni potentiary by the senator from Iowa, who had brought forth a broad review. He had been informed that the Iowa senator had been selected without his knowledge and at the time tha selection was made that the senator was engaged In his nocturnal repose. But notwithstanding the provisions were in flesdly conflict, said Mr. Rayner, their authors were equally well accredited. The testimonial of Mr. Long bears the royal impress, aa do those of Mr. Allison, with the addition of the coat of arme of Rhode Island. "We understand all this," he said, "hut the people do not. We understand that the 1 lr"td'n, n lon" caressing the senator jrotn mush sua me junior senator from luwa. (Mr. Dolliverl but that he is now clagping to his bosom the senator from Rhode Island. Mr. Aldrlch." Victory for Railroads. He proceeded to outline the difference be tween the Allison and the Long amend ments and while he was doing so waa taxed by Benator Aldrlch with having changed his position, which he denied. In conclu sion Mr. Raynor congratulated the broad review advocates upon their signal victory. "I also congratulate every railroad presi dent ot the country and their a mating ar ray of counsel." Senator Long made a legal presentation (Continued on Beoood Page.) EDWARD ROSEWATER IN ROME In The Bee on Sunday will ap pear the first of a series ot letters written by Mr. Edward Rosewater on the work of the Universal Postal congress: now in session In Rome and to which Mr. Kosewater is a delegate from the United States These letters will give an account of the workings of the congress, what it has accomplished and the interesting sidelights thAt make up bo great a part of the proceedings of such an honorable and distinguished body. They will be illustrated from photo graph taken in Rome. IN THE BEE NEXT SUNDAY TALKS OF DELINQUENT GIRLS Philadelphia Woman Kays They Should Hoi Be Treated Like Bnd Boys. PHILADELPHIA. May U.-"The Delin quent Girl" waa discussed at the morning section meeting of the thirty-third national conference of charities and corrections. The subject was presented by Miss Vida H. Francis of this city, who said In part: The radical difference In proportion be tween boy and girl delinquents and In ratio of the nature of crime committed by each serves to illustrate the point which I most desire to emphasise that the problem of the one la not the problem of the other. The recent wonderful strides of biological psychology makes it seem Incredible that our Juvenile courts are still applying the same methods ot reform to t yi and girls. The Judge of a juvenile court has three courses open to hltn: First To send the girl back to her same environment under the care of a proba tioner. Second To place her in a good home through the probationer or some child placing agency. Third To send her to a training school. A girl morally tainted should obviously not be returned to the scene of her infec tion, and only in cases of trivial misde meanor oi in the exceptional case of a good, normal home can a gin ue safely so returned, for her misdemeanor has proven that the home is unable to exert proper Influence or power. In placing girls uninfected by the social evil, but ot criminal tendencies, the danger is that they will not receive an adequate special training. The place of tha normal child Is in the normal home, but every de linquent needs a special care and a heavy responsibility rests on judges to examine the reputation of the families in which the delinquents are placed and on probationers to see that they live up to their reputations and responsibilities. No words can be strong enough to urge Judges not to send girls who are actually morally tainted into homes. If It is a crime against the home and community to harbor a person amicted with emajlpox. Is It not a greater crime to keep In the home a person capable of Infecting others with a moral evil more hideous than physical dtsee.se T And It is not only a crime against others, but against the girl whom we are claiming to help. At the afternoon section meeting state boards of charities were discussed, the principal paper being presented by David S. Snedden, assistant professor of educa tion In Leland Stanford university. Prof. 8 ned den urged that report-, of state boards of charity no compiled uwve--for the en lightenment of the average, cltisen rather than for the Interests of scientists and stu dents of social phenomena. Mr. Snedden made a number of practical suggestions for the making of reports along these lines. Minneapolis has been selected as the next place of meeting, the date to be determlnd latr. HEPBIRS CRITICISMS THE XAVY Iowa Representative Snys Its Officers Are InefBcleor. WASHINGTON, May U. After passing 120 pension bills the house today devoted much time to considering a point of order made by Mr. Tawnry against an appropri ation for a new steel floating dock pro vided in the naval appropriation bill. The chair held the point of order well taken In a carefully prepared opinion. Mr. Hepburn of Iowa made a vigorous at. tack upon the court-martial system in the navy and especially criticised the officers responsible for the accidents that have hap. pened to ships of the navy. A point of order against the appropriation for the naval training station at Lake Bluff, 111., was pending when the house ad journed until Monday. During the consideration of the naval ap propriation by the house today Mr. Hep burn of Iowa,-who has been relentless in his strictures upon the efficiency ot the navy, took occasion to reply to a speech made by Mr. Weeks of Massachusetts last Saturday in which the latter stated that there had been but thirty-seven court-martials In forty-one years growing out of ac cidents in the last forty years to naval vessels, which, he stated, was a complete recoi d. To that Mr. Hepburn took decided ex ception. He said Mr. Weeks' total was wholly in correct and that It did not Include acci dent to the more expensive vessels of modern date. He cited the accident that happened to the battleship Rhode Island while going Into York river. "Certainly If there is any position, sny part, said Mr. Hepburn, "of our navigable waters that tbe navy and the officers of the navy ought to be familiar with It should be that his toric port. They ought to be able to get In and out there." He recalled the attempt of our squadron to get out of the port of New York, suc ceeding psrtlally In doing It, running two of the vessels In the mud and getting the other two Into dangerous collisions. He recslled the Incident In which he said Admiral Slgsbee ran his vessel Into a dock In New York harbor, and remarked "one would auppose that these gentlemen would be familiar with surh waters. "These are but a few Instances of In efficiency, of Incapacity tn handle these great vessels. We are spending millions of dollars to build up a great navy. I think It is the part of patriotism to do this, but there ought to be some guarantee, some as surance that when we secure such ves sels they will not be recklessly destroyed by Incompetency snd inefficiency. " Mr. Hepburn said he still believed that our system of sdmlnlsterlng rrimlnsl Jus tice la the army snd navy Is lamentably faulty. "Almost impossible." he said, "to secure fairness of judgment on the part of those who are to try criminal malefactors. Think of It. The courts are made up from the classmates, from the companions in amis, from the friends snd associates, from tbe military family, from which they are alike members." WA8HINOTON. Msy ll.-Mesers. lxrl mer (111 ). Davidson (Wis . Ransdell ti.a t sod Ellis (Mo.), members of the rivers and harbors committee of the house, leave this afternoon for Kansas City, Bt. Louis and Chicago en a campaign education for larger appropriations for rivets and har bors. - MILLARD REMAINS SILENT Too Bnay at Present to Deoide What Be Will Do on the Eenatorehip. INTIMATES MAY MAKE STATEMENT LATER Slonx Indians Keek to Bnloln Fxeen tlon of Contract with Catholic Missions for Edocatlon of Children. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. May ll.-(Speclal Tele gram.) Senator Millard was asked today to lift the veil which hangs over his in tentions regarding an ' active or passive camtalgn he proposes to make to succeed himself as United Stsles senator. The story comes east to the effect that Senator Millard has led his followers in Nebraska to believe that he would make a publlo statement regarding his position. The sen ator, however, said he was not prepared to make a formal statement as to his In tentions Just yet. He, together with all other senators, are so much occupied In answering the succession of roll calls on amendments to the rate bill that they have little time to think of their personal affairs. Senator Millard Intimated, how ever, that when the final vote on the rate bill hod been taken he would have an op portunity to think over the situation as to the senatorial contest and definitely an nounce In a public manner to his friends what his course will be. Senators Cannot Visit Wayne. The people of Wayne. Neb., have planned a rousing Fourth of July celebrstlon and have written Congressman McCarthy to se cure for the occasion either Senator La Follette or Senator Tillman. Mr. McCarthy saw both gentlemen today, but previous engagements compelled them to decline. Minor Matters at Capital. Representative McCarthy was today ad vised by the pension bureau that Dr. J. W. B. Smith of Albion has been designated to act as pension examining surgeon at that place, vice Dr. J. W. Thompson, re signed. iR. B. Schneider of Fremont is in Wash ington on personal business and today called upon Senators Millard and Burkett and the members of the Nebraska delega tion in the house. Mr. Schneider comes to Washington upon business before the general land office. Senator Burkett Is advised that Q. A. Duncan of Lincoln has been granted a pension of f to date from November. 1906. Frank E. Smith of Wakefield, Neb., is In Washington In relation to several patent claims pending before the commissioner of patents. Representative McCarthy Vill prisent Mr. Smith to both the commis sioner and the secretary of the Interior to morrow. ' Senator Burkett today inttoduced . sn amendment to the agricultural appropria tion bill appropriating f 15,000 for an ex tension of forest planting on forest re serves, of which not to exceed 12,500 may he used to construct a permanent ststton building on the Dismal river forest reserve In Nebraska. . Congressman Kennedy's bill te give Ja cob Schultx of Omaha a pension of 4 passed the house today. This is the seventh special pension bUl which Mr. Kennedy has succeded In getting through the house this session, a record that any veteran member would be proud of. Charles M. James of Orlnnell, la., who was one of the boys convicted for haslng at Annapolis, has been pardoned by the president and set back a year. Young James has resumed his studies at the naval academy. School Contract Enjoined. Reuben Quick Bear, Ralph Eagle Feather and Charles Tackett. members of the Sioux tribe of Indians on the Rosebud reserva tion In South Dakota, on behalf of them selves and other members of the tribe, today applied to the district supreme court through their counsel, Barauel M. Broslus, agent of the Indian Rights association, for an injunction to restrain Francis E. Leupp, commissioner of Indian affairs, from entering Into and carrying out a contrsct with the bureau of Catholic In dian missions at Washington, D. C, for the support and education of children of the Sioux tribes at the Rosebud reserva tion or eiaewhere. The secretary of the interior and the secretary and controller of tha treasury are aleo named as defendants In the pro ceedings. Tbe secretaries of the Interior and treasury and controller of the treasury are asked to be restrained from paying out any of the money of the Stoux treaty fund for the purposes mentioned. , It Is stated by the complainant tha't the amount which will be necessary to carry out the proposed contract of Com missioner Leupp with the Bureau of Cath olic Indian missions is about t?7,O0O. The complainants contend thst the payment of the money referred to will be in violation of tbe treaty entered Into between the Sioux and tha United States government. This suit grows out cf the agitation be gun by Rev. Mr. Clark, missionary to the Rosebud Indians, snd who are largely members of the Episcopal church. Colonel Crowd er tn Washing-ton. Colonel Enoch H. I'rowtler, general staff, now on leave at Omaha, will repair to Washington. D. C. for tetnoorury duty In the office of the judge srivornte general of the army and upon completion of duties there he will return to Omaha. G. I Faucett of Crete, Neb., has been sppolnted scientific assistant In the Agri cultural department. Poetal Mnttere. Rural rarrlcrs appointed: Nebraska At lanta, route 1. Noon Johnson, carrier; Mary Johnson, substitute. Iowa Iawler, route I, Eugene Griffin, carrier; Frank Griffin, substitute. Melvln. route 1. Thomas I.lhby, tSTTler; Wells Daggett, substitute. Mystic, route 2. Herry Bcott. carrier; Thomas Bcott, substitute. Silver City, route 2, John Slomsn, carrier: Sidney Sldener. substitute. South Dakota Conde, route 2. Elijah Odcll, carrier; Dellah Odell. substitute. Hum boldt, route 1, David Brewer, carrier; Al bert Bauer, substitute. Parker, route 1. Roy Wells, csrrler; Edward Roddel, sub stitute; route I, Fred Bickel. csrrler; Chsrlea Manon, substitute. Parkston, route 1, Christian Michaelson, csrrler; Jos. eph Nessan. substitute. Rursl routes ordered established July It In Iowa county, la.: Lodora, route , pop ulation 230. house fie; South Amana, route L population 2S0, houses 70; Victor, route t, population 400, houses 100. William A. Davison has been appointed postmaster st Lucss, Gregory county, B. D , vice Peter Yerley, resigned. Complete rural service hss been ordered established In I .eke county. South Dakota, effective July 1 next, making the total number of routea In ths county twelve. Railroad Wreck In Ylratal. LYNCHBURG. V . Msy 11. -Four train men w ere killed and four in lured In a col hstnn toda on Uie Norfolk Western railroad fcsr. THE BEE BULLETIN. Forecast for Nebraska Fair Saturday. Monday Showers and Cooler. ' Pace. 1 Pnrllament Answer ( ear's Jipeech. ftalley Intendment to Rate Kilt l ost Millard Silent on lensjttrahlw. Jndament Aaalnat Paper Trnst. X Financial Review of the Week. H ew from All Parts of ehrnka. 4 Falls City Trrnsnrer Is Short. R Inanrancc Aaents Help Pay Losses. Xehraska Commissioner Is t lean. Womnn In (lob snd Charity. T Dlaest of Supreme Conrt Opinions. Victims Before the People's Bar. lO Kdltorlal. It Affair ot Sonth Omaha. 13 Sportlna; Hvent of the Day. H Financial nnd Commercial. Ill Connrll Rlnff and Iowa -si. Temperature at Omahn tester ny i Hoar. De. . . 61 , . Hit . . ttft . . TO . . T , . H4 , . Kl Honr. I P. 3 p. ft p. P. B p. p. T p. H p. . P. eg. . H4 . an . K8 . Sal . Nil . SUt . a . To . 7 S a. m., a. m . . 7 a. m . , st a. m. , 9 a. m . , 10 a. m. , 11 a. m . , 13 m FUNERAL DRIVERS ON STRIKE Indertaklna Business In ew lark Tied I p and 1KO Bodies Remnla I nburled. NEW YORK, May ll.-The strike, of 1.60 funeral drivers, ordered last night, tied up the undertaking business In New York City today so completely that about 150 bodies remained unburied. Hearses and carriages were driven away from churches, mourners were kept waiting all day In homes of the dead and In several instances nonunion drivers of hearses and carriages were at tacked In the streets and police protection had to be called. In many cases undertakers appealed to the Board of Health for permits to post pone burial beyond the four-day limit, while others asked for permission to con vey bodies to the cemetery on trucks or street cars under police protection. tIn every case permission to use street cars for funeral vehicles was denied, but In cases where death had occurred from con taxlous disesses and Immediate burial was required undertakers were forced to make use of their coffin wagons or such vehicles as they were able to procure with drivers. The strikers declared tonight their light for $14 a week Instead of $12 is on in ear nest. Their employers the Coach Owners' association decided not to grant the In crease. W. F. BECHTEL IS ACQUITTED Jury Finds Former l.lfe Insurance President TTot Guilty ot Misuse of Funds. MINNEAPOLIS. May U.-Late this aft ernoon the Jury in the W. F. Bechtcl case brought In a verdict of not guilty. Bechtel was charged with using- ths funds of the Northwestern National Life Insurance com pany to pay his own personal debts and not keeping an account of the money used in such instances. The defendant was formerly president of the company, and the specific charge against him was that he took $3,500 from the concern's treasury to pay a certain fee which be owed. Vice President George C. Markham of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company today continued his testimony before the special legislative investigating committee. It developed that J. B. Mo Gtiire, general agent for the company in Southern Illinois, received approximately $1,600 for looking after legislative matters In Illinois during one year and $1,000 for another. BRIBERY CHARGE WITHDRAWN Evidence Against County Attorney Gibson of Kansas City, Kan Prove Weak. TOPEKA. Kan.. May 11. Charges of bribery and corruption made by the state against James 8. Gibson, county attorney at Kansas City. Kan., will. It was decided today, be withdrawn. The evidence ad duced was Insufficient to sustain the charges. Proceedings were brought In the supreme court last September to oust both Prose cutor Gibson and Mayor W. W. Rose of Kansas City on charges of permitting vio lations of the prohibitory and antl-gambllng laws. It was charged that Gibson accepted money from the saloonkeepers. Mayor Rose resigned, but wes aftei-wsrds formallv j oustod by the supreme court. Rose was laat week re-elected on a "wide open" plank. DOWIE'S CONDITION CRITICAL Physician of "First Apostle" Says He (an Live But a Few Day. CHICAGO, May 11 The condition of John Alexander Dowie Is said to be Hear ing a crftlcal stage. The venerable "first apostle" has taken to his bed and his strength is falling. The swelling of the extremities, which is a noticeable charac teristic of his affliction, is said to have extended upwards until within a few Inches of the heart. Dr. Blanks, ho has been In constant attendance upon Dowie since his return from Mexico, said tltnt he might, by reason of his groat vitality, live a week or ten days, but that a fatal termination of the dlaease within two or three days would not be surprising j FOREST FIRES IN IDAHO Several Sawmllle and Many Thousand Feet of Timber Burned at Sand Point. j BUTTE. Mont.. May 11. Hand rolnt. I Idaho, adiicea state that a destructive Are I Is burning within a few miles of that place. ' Sparks from the engines of tir.at Northern traina started the tire, which has now burned beyond all control, and the ranch I ers of this vicinity are making efforts only t to save their movable property. Several sawmills and many thonxanda of feet of poles and posts have already been de stroyed. aged Man's Doable Crime. PHILADELPHIA. May 11. J. it Yarnall. aged su years, t onlay shot his wife, 7 years old. and afterward killed himself. The woman's condition Is critical. The shooting occurred i.t the home of tlieir dauahi'-r, Mrs. Jonepn K. Winn, at Ardinore. a sub urb. The motive Is not known. Dr. Hnuah to He K.acruted. DAYTON. O., May It-Judge Brown. In comri.on pleas court, today overruled h mntlni for a new trial In thf esse of lr. Oliver Haugh. convicted of the murder of his Ve-rtnts snd brother, and sentenced him to ue electrocuted June PAPER TRUST 0U1TS Combine Conclude Not to Fieht Suit Aeainst it Turtber. JUDGMENT CONFESSED ON ALL POINTS Prater of Government for Order Disnolrin: Company ii Granted. MEMBERS CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY Bill Alleeed Attempt to Monopolise and Ee3train Trade. DECLINE IN PRICE OF WHITE PAPER Market Drops Forty Coats a Hundred Since Filing; of the Salt and Further Reduction la Espeeted. ST. PAUL. Minn.. May 11. The United States government today secured an un conditional surrender In the United Ststes culrcult court before Judge Sanborn In the suit which the attorney goneral hegnn on December 27, 1904, to dls. solve the combination between the Gen eral Paper company and twenty-three other defendants on the ground that an agreement had been entered Into by the defendants In restraint ot Interstate com merce. Attorney Kellogg for the government and Attorney Flanders for the defendants ap peared before Judge Sanborn, sitting as a circuit Judge, and Mr. Kellogg moved that the mandate from the United States su preme court affirming the order that the witnesses must testify, be filed. Judge Sanborn ordnred the mandate filed. The witnesses then appeared before th United States examiner and urtcred to testify. The defendants then withdrew their answers. Mr. Kellogg announced that the government did not care to examine the witnesses and moved for a decree In favor of the government. Judge Banborn ordered that the decree be entered for the govern ment for the relief of the prayer and tha decree be settled on June L and the pro ceedings were adjourned. Three witnesses who refused to testify, namely, C. I. McNalr of the Northwestern Paper oompany, A. C. Bossard of the Itasca Paper company and B. F. Nelson of the Hennepin Paper company, paid into court the $100 fine assessed against each for contempt of court for refusing to answer the questions put to them at a former hearing. Story of the Salt. Suit waa brought by Frank B. Kellogg and James M. Beck, special assistant at torneys general of the United States on be half of the government against the General Paper company and twenty-three paper manufacturing corporations in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan a little over a year ago. Tbe complaint alleged that the de fendants, in violation of the provisions of the Sherman act, entered into an agree ment, oomblnatlon and conspiracy with each other to restrain trade and commerce among the several atates and to ooutrol. regulate and monopolise said commerce. and that this was accomplished by organ- Ixing the General Paper company of Chi cago with a capital stock of $100,000, divided into 1,000 shares of $100 each, which stock was divided among tbe paper manufactur ing corporations in proportion of their dally output ot paper; that tbe corporations thereupon entered into a contract making the General I'aper company Its exclusive selling agent. The defendant Bled answers and testimony was taken for several months, most of the facts showing a com bination were elicited from the offlccre of the various defendant companies. Finally the defendants refused to furnish any further testimony or to answer any ques tions, on the grounds that the testimony would tend to Incriminate the witnesses and the corporations, and on the ground that the testimony was irrelevant and Im material. The case went to the supreme court of the United States and was there -argued on January 2, la connection with the "tobacco cases." tVuestten Decided. In both the paper case and the tobucoo case the question argued and decided was that witnesses were not exempt from answering on the ground that the testimony would tend to Incriminate the corporations. The supreme court held that th evidence was clearly material, that the bill ' of complaint charged an unlawful combina tion and conspiracy and that the testimony tended to show 11. The deylaiun In this cease really loft nothing for the defendants to do but sub mit to judgment and today they appeared In court, withdrew their answers and there upon Judgment was ordered for the govern ment, as prayed tn the bill of complaint. This is a complete victory for tbe gov ernment. The price of paper at the time this suit was brought ' was from $2 2$ to $2.15 per cwt. The bringing of this suit already has had the effect of reducing the price of paper to about $1.86. The reeult has been very beneficial to the newspaper publishers throughout th coun try. Competition will now be restored be tween the various mills. Attorney General Talks. WASHINGTON. May 11 Attorney Gen eral Moody, upon being questioned con cerning the slgnlttcance of the action cf the defendants in withdraalng their an swer to the government's bill in the I aper trust case today at Ht. Paul, said: This action on the part of the constitu ent companies of the l'ap'r trust ter minates the litigation by the entiy of a Judgment for all the government de manded In its bill and Is a complete vio- I torv for the United Htates. They maiiu 1 faeture substantially the sole supply of news print and fll.er paper for tits dls ' trh't wet of Chicago and east of the Rocky mountains. ', During th summer and autumn of I!W a j large amount of testimony was taken which tended to show the existence of tlnj allegation combination, as charged In the ! bill, i'tirlng the Inking of the testimony ' the rni'praii.ns refused to exhibit their books and anxwei questions on the ground that such evidence was Immaterial and that it would tend to Incriminate them. Proceedings were thereupon instituted lu th United Slates circuit court for the eastern (iirtrlct i f V!consln to punish fr.r contempt for refusing to produce hooka ! and arn-wer questions. These cases were ! argued in the supreme court of the United States oil the jo oay oi jariuHry, in, wun the case of Hale agalni! llenk'J, commonly known aa the "Tobacco trust' raa. The same questions were Involved In the Paper trust case that were Involved III the To. baceo truxt rase and the derisions of tha supreme court In the two cases were ren dered at ths ssme time. These decisions inactlrally dlatxited of the defense In the 8per trust case and resulted in the Pro ccedlnrs In the rliruit court at St. Paul this morning, by which final Judgment had been ordered lu favor of the govern, luetif. Tout nam tn Dissolve. MiLWA I'KEE, May 11. -A Journal sp- tlal frcm Menasha. Wis, says that George A. Whiting, first vice president of the G, n eral Paper company, says thst the company will now dissolve. When ssked whether til office maintained la to WaUa huUams. )