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The Omaha : 1 Daily Bee VOL. XXXVI-NO. 82. OMAHA, FRIDAY MOIINJXU, SEPTEMBER 21, 1006-TEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY' THREE CENTS. DEATH IN TYPHOON Extent of Diiaiter at Hone Ken Grows ai Returns Corns In. DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT TWENTY MILLIONS fit. Thousand Chinos Killed ia Vioinity of Btrloken City. ' . MANY REPORTS OF SHIPS LOST AT SEA Actual Number of Viotimi Will Probably Barer fie Known. ANGLICAN BISHOP HARE IS MISSING Yacht Carrying the Prelate Probably Sank Oil Chinese Const Official Inquiry Into Observatory ' Service. Bt Xt.KTI. LONDON, Sept. 3C. Sir Matthew Nathan, governor ot Hon Kong. Bent tha folic rt Kihl.rf m IA the pnlnnl.t nflHA . ' . "There Is strong evidence thai L V. Hoare of Hong Kong wm drowned loss of life among the Chinese probubi. will amount to several thousand.". HONO KONO, Sept. 20,-Thc full oxt nt of the catastrophe Is not yet known, but conservative estimates places the number of Chinese who lost their lives at S.0"0 and the total of the material damage to the colony at 120,000,000. Reports of disasters at sea are constantly being received hers. The steamer Alba tross, with ISO passengers on board, foundered near Futaumen pass. Only six passengers and two of the crew were saved. They swam ashore. The steamer Hong Kong also was lost and Its entire crew Is missing. The steamer Ylng Fut, from .8amchun foundered and 130 pas sengers and ten of Its crew are missing. Only two of the crew are known to have been rescued. v Mrs. Hoare and her search party have returned.' The found no trace of her hus band, Joseph Charles Hoare, Anglican bishop of Victoria, Whose yacht wss lost during the typhoon, ' Captain Thomas, commander of the river steamer Fatshan, whose Chinese crew clambered on board the French mall steamer Poleneslsn when the Fatshan collided with It, saved -his vessel and 160 Chinese pas sengers by splendid seamanship. Fortu nately the engine room staff stuck hero ically to Its staff. Captain Thomas was left almost slnglehanded on deck. He took tha wheel and navigated the Fatshan for one hour and forty minutes through tempestuous sea and finally beached the vessel safely. ' It Is believed It can be re floated without trouble. The staif of the Jardlne-Matheson Sugar Refinery rescued 800 Chinamen from sink ing sampans. ' Financial Losses Heavy, Tha losses of the Kowloon Oodown Ware house company are estimated at 1750.000. Torty thousand bales of yarn which were -- In storage, a.- Knwlomi rare prohalr.Jte4 retrievable aafnaged. The beach Is Uttered with valuable silks and many looters have been arrested here and at Kowloon. There are ample supplies of rice to re lieve distress. There were J00 Chinese passengers on board the steamer Heung Shan, from Macao, which stranded off Lantao Island. AH the European passengers, Including three women, were saved. Many of the Chinese, including women, were drowned, but the total number of deaths la not known. The position of the Heung Shan Is hopeless. The British reserve sloop Phoenix, which was reported ashore yesterday. Is a total wrsck. ' Another storm, less violent, however. than the typhoon, broke here at midnight and blew for six hours. Ths damage ap parency was not great. OflK-lal Inquiry later V. Sir Matthew Nathan, governor of Hong rong, speaking to tha legislative council today, said he intended to appoint a com mittee to Inquire Into ths charges wade agalr st the observatory to the effect that it had failed to give warning of the com ing or the typhoon. He said he was con fldent that the director of the observatory vuu.a noi De Diamed. Inquiries Into hv dividual acts of heroism with the view of accoming recognition also will be starts The governor has accepted the offer of tha American squadron to co-opera ts in rescue wora. Coptle la Dasisscs. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. M.-The Mer chants, exchange received a cable messase from Hong Kong today, stating that among vessels injured during the typhoon there was the steamship Coptic, whose spare were considerably damaged. EIGHT'HOUR LAW DISCUSSED Labor Council Talks Over Preside! Roosevelt's Order Extending the Act aad Adjourns. WASHINGTON. Sent M-ir .,-..,. 1 considerable time to the discussion of tha president's order directing an extension of tna operation of the eight-hour law, ths executive council of the American Federa tion of Labor finally adjourned today. No details of the discussion were given to ths public, but it Is understood there was a general exchange of felicitations over it. The faet that the extension bad been ra quested three year ago was pointed out. a was also ths circumstance that It had not been granted until the labor element had shown its power In politics. A general exposition of union labels was decided Upon for next year and the de. tails placed la tha hands of Vlca President Morris. It was also decided that the various labor unions which Issue labels should be urged to make aa effort to secure Uniformity in labels. x SECRETARY R00J AT EANAMA Hood e( Stato Department Will Bo OffieUllg Received by Foreign Minister Arias. PANAMA. Sept. SR.-The United States cruiser Charleston having on board Secre tary of State Root And party anchored in tha bay at 4 o'clock this afternoon and shortly afterward Oovemor Ms goon of the canal sono. John Barrett.' United States minister te Colombia, and other Amarioan officials went on board to greet Mr. Root. Tomorrow Foreign Minister Arias and ths women and men of the Panama reception committee will board tha Charleston to welcome ths Root party, which will land at o'clock. . The city la galjy dsuorated In honor of tha America, aooretary sf state and Friday aosg doclared a, hotftUr, SEARCH FOR MISSING BANKER Sedan. Kansas, t'usliler lin Dlaap. eared Left f iTano Credit to His Pel-annul Account. 8KDAN. Kan., (Sept. 20. 3ames T. Brad ley, national hank examiner, opened the vsult ot the People's National bank this afternoon and found silver, gold and cur rency to the amount of $7,7TO. He and ths rest of the officers of the hank also ex amined many of the note and securities hold by the Institution mid reported that they were all genuine, as far as they could detect. A telegram this afternoon from the Union National bank ot Kansas City, one of thoc lowed bank's corre spondent. Is to the effect that tha balance there to the People's bank's credit is over j 112.0m. The New York correspondent has I not yet lieen heard from. Stockholders J and depositors alike are feeling more cheerful tonight over the situation and It Is the general orlnlon that the assets sre ample to meet all obligation. In the ex amination of the books It was discovered that the absconding cashier. O. D. Stnllard, drew 1700 on the day of his departure, but that a balance of SI. 500 remained to bis personal credit. The nbove developments hnve made his dlsappesrance more mysterious than nt first and It Is now the opinion of many of the depositors that his mind i." temporarily ..''balanced. There Is no clues to his eenboua except, that the horse that he -way Tuesday night has been found esvllle. 1. T. . 'leved that he boarded a south- bou . there Wednesday morning. CHIEr 3MAN FILES SUIT Petty aval Officer Wti Damages , Because He Was Exrlnded from a Dssre Hall. NEWPORT. R. I., Sept. 30-Chlrf Yeo man F. J. Ruenzle. stationed at the naval training station here, brought suit today against the Newport Amusement company on account of having been refused admis sion to a dance hall while In uniform. liuenxle places Ms damages at $E0O. He alleges that on September the sailor was 'then and there debarred from the equal enjoyment and privileges of a licensed place of public amusment and wrongfully dis criminated against snd denied admission by ths defendant solely on account of be ing In the uniform of the United States navy." It was stated ,tonlght that Rear Admiral Charles K. Thomas, commandant at the naval training station, is' paying the ex pense of Buenzle's suit, and it Is un derstood ths nnvy department Is behind the action. The writ ts returned October 2, in the First district court for Newport county. . . CLEVELAND, O., Bept. 20. Suits for $500 damages were filed today against the Humphrey company, proprietors of Euclid Beach, by two sailors, Rexford Stouffer and John O. Sonthelmer, of the United States training ship Wolverine, who were ordered from the dancing floor last week because they did not wear white shirts or collars with their uniforms. PROMOTER MORGAN WARNED Atteraer" General of Ohio 'Xlflee Magsstr that Proposed Railway Merger Is Illesul. 1 COLUMBUS, O., Sept. SO. Attorney Gen. eral Ellis this afternoon took steps to pre vent the proposed consolidation of the Hocking Valley and the Kanawha Michi gan railroads by mailing to J. P. Morgan A Co. of New York.' who are financing the merger, and Nicholas Monserrat,' presi dent of the railroad companies, letters notifying them that the proposed consolida tion Is In violation of the laws of Ohio. At the same time the attorney general notified the secretary of state not to accept any papers that the officers of the roads may seek to file with him legalising the con solidation. The attorney ' general. In his letter to J. P. Morgan A Co., says the Hocking Valley and the Kanawha At Michigan roads are parallel and competing lines and cannot lawfully be consolidated under the laws of Ohio and declares that for the protec tion of the rlghts'of the public and security holders the matter should be determined by the courts. SCHWAB'S AUTO IS WRECKED J. G. Srhmtdlapa of Cincinnati Badly 'Injured aad His Daughter , Charlotte Killed. CINCINNATI, O., Sept. SO.-Tn the wreck of Charles Schwab's automobile at St. Marin de'Crolx. France, J. O. Schmldlapp, president of the United Savings and Trust company, of this city, was seriously in Jured. and his daughter, Charlotte, killed, according to a cablegram received here to day. Mr. Schdidlapp, who la widely known In financial circles throughout tha country was touring France with his daughter and Mr. and rMs. Lea Ault, in an automobile belonging to Charles Schwab, former presi dent -of the United States Steel company. Seven years ago Mr. Srhrifldlapp's wife land another daughter were killed in a railway wreck In this country- His health has not been good for soma months and he has been touring Europe In tha hope of regaining his strength. CIMARRON RIVER IS RISING Work Wreckage at Dover Bridge Lost sight Of. j KINGFISHER, Okie.. Sept! 20 The Cimarron river is rising rapidly and stead ily tonight, and all work at the scene of the Rock Island wreck st Dover bridae has been suspended'. The rescue party has lost all trace of the location of the two coaches In the river. Both are thought to be entirely imbedded In aand. Most cf the injured have gone to their homes. Three persons are still missing Mall Clerk Gamble. Ctrcusman Littlneld and Negro Porter Butler and are undoubt ed! drowned. These, with the ilesth nl a little boy named Sells of Payne. O.. from injuries, rnaks the death list four. HIGGINS IS CANDIDATE Friend of Governor of Mew York Aa. aoances Course of the Esooatlvo. BUFFAI.O. N. Y.. Bept. 0. -I a an Inter, view published today, E. H. Butler, the local Htgglns leader, is quoted as saying that Governor Hlggins will be a candidal for renomlnatlon at the republican atuta convention next week. "In my judgment, there will be no other candidate before the convention," as said. "Higgles is tha stag to lead the party to victory LABELS MUST TELL TRUTH Important Enlist by (ecritary Wilton on Veat Im-ectios law. NO MORE HOME MADE FRANKFURTERS Geographical ' Terms Mast ot Applied to Except la Products Originating at Places Xamed. WASHINGTON, Sept. Hf.-Further rulings In connection with the enforcement of the meat Inspection law after October 1, next were made public today by the secretary ot agriculture and give an Idea of what consumers are to expect hereafter when purchasing meat products, particularly canned goods. Anything savoring of a false or deceptive name will not be toler ated snd no picture, design or device which gives any false Indication of origin or quality will he permitted on any label, as, for example, the picture of a pig appearing on a label placed on beef producta or the picture of a chicken on the label of a von. I or pork product. . Geographical names are allowed to be used only with the word "cut." "type," "brand" or "style," as the ease mer be. except upon foods produced or manufac tured In the place, state or territory or country named. For Instance, ."Virginia ham" must be marked 'Virginia style j ham." "Kngllsh brawn" must be English style brawn," "Westphalia ham." must be "Westphalia style ham." The word "ham" without a prefix Indicating the species ,of animal Is considered by Hie department to be a pork ham. but trimmings removed from the ham, and used In the prenaratton Of potted meats or sausage or when used alone, may be known as "potted ham" or "ham sausage. Mo More Home Made Frankfurters. Frankfurter sausage no longer can be known as such, but must be called "Frank furter style sausage." The rules clearly define what constitutes pure lard, but prescribe that a substance composed of lard, stearin, or other animal fat and vegetable oil may be labeled "lard compounl." Among the restrictions are the following: "Picnic hams" cannot be called "hams," but may be called "picnics" or . "picnic shoulders;" "Little Pig Sausage" may be called "Little Pork Sausage." or "Pigmy sausage." extract of beef must be actually made from beef and veal loaf cannot be called such unless the meal used Is veal only. 1 The same rules apply to other canned products and manufacturers are warned that the rulings do not exempt them from the enforcement of otate laws. Importer Flics a Protest. The first case Involving the application to foreign products of the new meat In spection lav came up today before the department of Justice when counsel for a company of Switzerland appeared and made argument before Assistant Attorney Gere- eral Robb to show why thelf product should not be subjected to the operations of the law. Counsel stated -that this product, which Is a bouillon, made at Kempttall, Is in every sense a completed product when hipped to tha'TJafted States snd the tow pany has no slaughtering, packing, meat canning Or rendering plant In this country. nor Is Its product subjected to any ad ditional ' treatment after Importation. Therefore counsel asked the secretary of agriculture for a . letter stating thaj the article In question was not subject to the regulation of the meat Inspection .law. Assistant Attorney General Robb, to whom Secretary Wilson referred this ap plication, has taken ft under considera tion. The decision In the ease will, it is said, be of the. greatest importance to a vast exporting interest In Europe and par ticularly to the delicatessen trade. OMAHA ROAD ON THE RACK Manager Admits that Employes Drew Salary and Expenses for Doing Political Work. ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 20. Charges made by James Manahan. attorney for the Ship pers' and Receivers' association, that the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis tt Omaha railway spent money under the direction of Its general manager. A. W. Trenholm. to defeat the political ambitions of Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, brought the r hearing before the State Railroad and Warehouse commission to a sudden and sensational close today. When Commis sioner Staples moved an adjournment untH tomorrow every one In the room waa on his feet and alt the attorneys were talking at once. The excitement was caused by the testi mony of Mr. TrenhoTm. who, on cross examination' by Mr. Manahan, admitted that ha believed that his road had paid the salaries and expenses of some of Its employes while they were absent from duty engaged upon political work. "Was It not with the object of defeating LaFollette?" was the next question askod by Mr. Manahan. Immediately objections came In a perfect shower. The commissioners did not regard this as relevant to the hearing and Com missioner Mills declared ths hearing ad journed. NUTMEG REPUBLICAN TICKET Rollla S. WoodraaT Named for Got. ernor In Connecticut and Platform la Adopted. NEW HAVEN. Conn.. Sept. JO.-Tbs re publican stats convention named Ha state tlrkst today as follows For Governor Rollin 8. 1 Woodruff of srw naven. For l.i.-utenant Lake of Hwrtford. Governor Everett J. Secretary of Stats Theodore Bodenweln of New Haven. State Treasurer Freeman F. ' Patton of Biauora. i'omp-t roller Thomas D. . Bradstreet of Thomaaton. Attorney General Marcus 8. Holcomb pf Bouthlngton. i'angreHsnian-at-Large George JU Lllley or v iieruury. The platform, contrary to early fore- I ,ook up nbr of stats Issues that were the strongest planks In the dem ocratic platform and stated the party's at titude upon them. JUDGE LINSDEY FOR GOVERNOR Popular Colorado Jarist la .Komi aated by Convention of Independents. DENVER. Col.. Sept. tO.-Judgs Beg B I.lndsey was nominated for governor of Colorado at a convention of Independents made up of republicans and others. The matter of nominating an entire ticket waa left to a committee to bo appointed by Ilia chairman of ths convention, N. 8. Gandy ot Colorado Springs. ' BRYAN. SPEAKS IN ATLANTA Reception to Xebraakua la Hearty and Cordial, hat Sot Wholly KnthaalasUe. ATI.ANTA, Oa., Sept. .-For one hour end twenty minutes this afternoon Mr. Bryan addressed an audience of about 7.000 peopln gnthered al the skating rink ot the Ponce de Ion park. Hl reception was cordial and hearty, but It was not wholly enthusiastic or more than usually demon strative. . Mr. and Mrs. Bryan arrived a t o'clock, but were allowed to rest In their car Until 7:30, when they were escorted to the Pied mont hotel. Breakfast ano Mr. JBryan's correspondence and a private Interview with Hoke Smith preceded a general recep tion to the public, which cloned a busy day. The party boorded the train at mid night, leaving for' Birmingham, where Mr. Bryan will speak tomorrow. Mr. Bryan began his sAtires this after noon after an introductltwi ty President Lamar Hill of the Young Men Democratic league. lie wished he could enter into the appreciation of the prophesies of his election to the presidency with which he had been Introduced, but the experience of past years, he said, took something of the warmth of such appreciation. He was not sure but thst he would be happier as a private cltlsen than as a holder of office, but he did not propose to await the election to do his best for the demon- racy. He took up Secretary Shaw'o recent southern speech !on the tariff ques tion and discussed them along lines to re cent addresses. He reviewed the last ten years of republican administration, de claring them to have been of unparalleled prosperity. The bounty of God had brought circumstances foi which republicanism had claimed the credit. President Roosevelt, 'the most conspicuous reformer, but not the most advanced of his party," had done several good things, but his inspiration, he declared, came from that "source of all good things the much despised democratic platform." ,: Mr. Bryan's lttnerry after leaving At lanta as first officially announced today follows: Birmingham, September 21; Jackson, Miss., September 22 and 2t; New Orleans. September 24;" Nashville, September 25 (day); Memphis, September 25 (night); Little Rock, September 26; Indian Terri tory and Oklahoma, September 27 and 28; Kansas City, Ma.. September 29; at home for rest In Lincoln, Neb., October 1, 2 and Immediately after the conclusion of the three days' rest Mr. Bryan will speak under the direction of the democratic con gressional campaign committee for four weeks at such places as designated by the committee. WASHINGTON, Sept, , 20.-Ex-8enator James K. Jones, twice chairman of . the national democratic committee and the manager of both the campaigns for the presidency of William Jennings Bryan, has written to Mr. Bryan advising htm strongly to drop the subject of government owner ship of railroads apd to take a firm stand In favor of an enforcement of the law that Is now on the statute books. FORMER DELEGATE ARRESTED ba V St. Loals Maa Who pfered to Poach r a raotajeoft -at Man. ,-',' albal. ST. LOUIS. Sent. JO.-WUliam H. Ritter of Denver.Colo., a former Wiember; Qf the St. Louis house of delegates, who wrote to Governor Folk last week ..volunteering to coma ' here and ' testify regarding, the handling of boodle money when he waa a municipal lawmaker, was arrested last night at Hannibal, Mo. He waa on a Burlington train en route to Denver.' The-arrest was made at the Instigation of Circuit Attorney - Sager, who telegraphed the Hannibal authorities to intercept and hold Ritter on the charge of blackmail. It la charged by Circuit Attorney. Sager that Ritter attempted to extort money from R. M. Snyder of Kansas City by threatening to testify that Snyder gave him boodle money to distribute when the central traction' bill franchise- waa voted upon. 'The caae against Snyder was dis missed Tuesday and Ritter, . who had come hre ' from Denver and kept ..his whereabouts secret, was returning to Denver when intercepted. He was brought to St. Louis today and placed in Jail. , Eugene Sweeney. - who was identified with the central traction deal as a pro moter, and who conferred with Bitter previous to the latter's departure yester day, waa also arresed and. placed in Jail. They will be ' held pending Inquiry into the case. BANDITS HOLD UP A TOWN Michigan People Stand aad See Oae Bank Robbed aad Another sintered. GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., Sept. 20. Eight masked and heavily armed burglars held the people of White Cloud, a village forty five miles north of here, at bay early today while they rifled the Newayge County bank arid attempted also to rub the bank of R. Gannon & Son. The men rode into the town of White Cloud between 12 and 1 o'clock, surrounded the buildings contain ing the two banks and posted guards out side, while other members of the gang worked Inside. ( The interior of tha Newayago - county bank was completely wrecked by two ex plosions. The burglars got between t2,000 and 14.000 in rash. Dynamite was then used to wreck- the Interior of the Gannon bank, but while the cracksmen were at work there the townspeople, wakened by ths sxplosions, gathered until there were so many of thain present that the guards evidently decided It was not prudent wait longer. They called out the men working in tha bank before they could ge: the safe open and, covering the citizens with their guns, rode out of tows on horseback. SAN FRANCISCO WANTS. HOTELS Visitors at Goldea Cat Have Hard Tims t Find Sleeping ' , . Rooms. BAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 20.-A serious situation faces ths rlty in. the lack of hotel accommodations. Last night In eight of the largest hotels not a room was vacant and people were sleeping on cots In ths balls. Westbound travel has been exceptionally heavy of late and people are Socking to ths city from al over the country. . The hotels have been besieged with telegrams asking to reocrve accommodations. At present no solution ot the problem of housing ths travelers appears. Heveral hotels have been planned, but their com pletion is so fsr in ths future that they cannot ba counted on to help relieve the prsts of travel. , - , . FEDERATION HAS TROUBLE Internal Dineoiions Likely to Cans) Failure of Political 0impai, GOMPERS OPPONENTS HOLDING ALOOF Commissioner of lmmtgratloa Sar gent Doea Xot Feel Worried Over People of Jtorthwestern States Going to Canada. ( (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. Sept. 20. (Special Tele grani.) The political campaign of the American Federation of Labor threatens to end in a fiasco long before the ballots are counted In November as a result of fac tional strife within the executive council of the organisation. The executive coun cil has been In session here this week and It has not been harmonious. Politics has been discussed and President Samuel Oompero baa come in for a large measure of criticism from some of the conserva tive leaders, notably John Mitchell. head of the United Mine Workers of America. Mr. Gompera' . campaign methods. It Is stated on good authority, do not meet with the approval of Mr. Mitchell, Vice President Duncan and other potential lmces in the executive council. The prediction ts made In Washington that Mr. Gompers' days as president of 4he American Federation of lAbor are num- I bered. The factionalism In the federation, which " la of long standing, has been In tensified by Mr. Gompers' incursion Into the field of politics and he Is marked for slaughter by men who are anxious to place Mr. Duncan at -the head of the great est labor organization In the United States. It is understood that Mr. Mitch ell's ambitions do not lead in the direction bf the federation presidency, but thst hs would like to see Mr. Duncan, who Is secretary of the Granite Cutters' Interna tional union. In the pl-e. The discord among these labor leaders Is expected to have an adverse effect upon the success I ot , the federation campaign. In fact, it is stated that Mr. Mitchell, Mr, Duncan and other labor leaders Iden tified with the antl-Gompers faction Intend to let Mr. Gompers and his friends run the present campaign In their own way. and when they have made a failure, as It is expected they will this year, then a formidable movement will be started at the psychological moment to oust Mr. Gompers from the presidency. Mr. Mitch ell has told frends since his arrival here. It la stated, that he will make no speeches in this campaign. The federation was counting on him to do effective work in a number of districts in Pennsylvania, In diana, Ohio and elsewhere. Sargent's View oa Immigration. F. P. Sargent, commissioner general of immigration, returned to Washington today from a tour of inspection along ths north west Canadian border. Mr. . Sargent vis ited a number of cities lying along our northwest frontier,' merely, aa he said, to become acquainted personally ' with the men who have charge of Immigration work there. Ha found the greatest prosperity possible and a pervading element of Satis faction which comes f roan prosperity rn'd prom iso, of liurteattcd-rropa at Almost' every variety which are raised In this great belt of cereal production. "Our Canadian neighbors are offering considerable inducements to our young men In Nebraska. Minnesota, the Dakotas and Wisconsin .to cross Into their country and take up homesteads, snd many of our young men are taking advantage of it. It la a case of 'westward ho' and the usual spirit of unrest which actuates the younger element in the west to seek new pastures and fresh fields for their activities., I do not think, however, any movement into Canada can In any wise cause us alarm, because for every one who leaves the United States at least two comes from some foreign country to take their places." Markell Earoatc West. J. E. Market of Omaha, accompanied by one of his assistant superintendents. Jay Burns of Lincoln, who has been In Wash ington for the past few daya, left for the wsst this morning. Mr. Msrkel and his associate are returned from the south, where they were interested in providing food snd shelter for construction gangs on the new line of the Illinois Central rail road. , ' ; Magooa Sails Taesday. Governor Charles E. Magoon of the canal zone advised the isthmian canal commis sion today that hs would sail from Panama next Tuesday and would Immediately come to Washington. , - Mlaor Matters at Capital. The secretary of the Interior has executed a contract with the Dead wood Construc tion company, Deadwood, S. D., for the construction and completion schedule of the distributing system of the Ihterstate canal, North Platte Irrigation project in Nebraska and Wyoming. - The Deadwood Construction company will receive $8,175 for the work.' Stack S. Metcalf has been appointed post master at Ellis, Minnehaha county, S. D., vice E. O. Harstad, resigned. Rural route No. I has been ordered estab lished November 1 at Ord. Valley county, Neb., serving 510 people and 114 houses. , John H. Kramer has been appointed reg ular and Henry Kramer, substitute rural carrier for route ( at Remeen, la. Civil service examinations wHI be held October 24 at the following places for the position of engineer and carpenter in the Indian service at Winnebago: Nebraska, Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island; Iowa, Fort Madison, Iowa City, Mason City, Sioux City; South Dakota. Aberdeen, Deadwood, Sioux Falls, Wstertown. ESTATES UNITE IN SUITS Largo California Comblaatloa Will Teat "Earthaaak Clause" la Policies of Insurance. 8A-J FRANCISCO, Sept. 20. The Exam Inex says today that the Sharon estate, California Wins Dealers' association and Parrot estate hav decided to combine In a $&00,OCO suit against the British Insurance companies which, by reason of an earth quake clause In the policies, are refusing to settle their Ben Francisco losses in full. The companies referred to include tha Commercial Union,' Alliance. Palatine and Norwich Union. Added to these are the Indemnity snd Williamsburg City of (his country, whose policies contain the same provision, purporting to exempt them from liability for loss caused by earthquake. Damaged Boiler aa Object l-etios. VALLEJO, Cal., Sept- .-The boiler which exploded on board the gunboat Ben nington in eian Diego harbor in June of last year, killing sixty-five of the ships erew. is to b shipped to Annapolis, where It will be used st ths naval academy fur Illustrative purposes In the Instruction the mldjihlpmen for engineering work. Al! four loll-ra of the ship have been re moved. The Interior ut the exploded boiler has been left In exsctly the sains condition in which It waa found Inv sneaiateljr attar the eiploaon . NEBRASKA WEATHER FORECAST Temperature at Omaha Yesterday! Hour. Deg. Hoar. Dca. S a. m...... 6T 1 p. m ? a. m Rt 'a p. m To T a. m...... (Ml si p. m...... 7 tt a. n H 4. m ..... T t W a. m A3 n p. m ...... T 10 a. m Wl p. m OR 11 a. 4MI . T p. m n II a tt p. in R.1 An. m tta DOWLING TALKS TO STUDENTS President ot C'relghtoa t'alverslty Enjoins Pharmacy Pupils ta Re member Moral Side. The formal opening of the Crelghton Col lege of Pharmacy, session of 1W-107. took place Tuesday morning at the Edward Crelghton Institute. Father Dowiing, president of the university, gave the stu dents an address. He called attention par ticularly to the duties the students owed to themselves and to their parents in choosing right associates and of Identifying themselves with those influences which make for moral and spiritual growth. He cautioned them against neglect of their religious duties while awsy from home. The many advsntages offered by the uni versity In the way of library, debating so ciety, musical associations and athlttlc privileges were extended to the students of the College of Pharmacy. Prof. Ikl mund Thorp, Charles B.-Frlcke and Frank H. Wormley will have charge of the reg ular work of Instruction in the College of Pharmacy. WIFE LEAVES ON WEDDING DAY Bride Quits Her Husband Just After Ceremony and He Gets -Divorce. Benjamin 8ulka was granted a divorce by Judge Kennedy Thursday because his wife left him on their wedding1 day and has refused to live with him! since, though he has repeatedly asked her to. They had known each othe'f about a year and a half, both of them living In New York City. One day they went over to Jersey City, N. J., and had the marital knot tied without the knowledge of her parents. He was a traveling man and had to leave on a long trip on Ills wedding day. When he returned to New York his- wife was with her mother and she told him she would never live with him. Augusta W. Bailey has been granted a decree of divorce from Latimer Bailey, a fraternal insurance man, with $50 a month alimony. She charged him with nonsup- port and cruelty. They were married twenty years ago and came to Omaha about two years ago. ' MEN GET MONEY'S WORTH X " Two Farmer's Satialted with Being Flaed for Assaulting Oao of Their neighbors. A neighborhood quarrel with several In teresting features waa brought' before -the public gane In' tha court of Justice Altstadt family -by 'the name of Utt.live oa adjoin- There has been continual strife between the two families for some time for differ Mtt reasons, and It culminated a few days ago, when ("tt stopped Wlpf's team as he Was driving, while John Pa later, a sup eon of Utt, assaulted Wlpf severely. Wlpf had his two assailants arrested and each was fined $5 and costs by Judge Alt stadt Wednesday. Utt and Palster pleaded guilty snd said they got their money's worth with Wlpf, as Palster Is only a youth. He said if the team of Wlpf's had not run away they would have had even a better time. SOUTHERN VETS ENTERTAIN Former Coafederatcs Servo Dlaaer to Survivors of Wllder's Brigade at Chlckamaaga. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. 20. A no tsble feature of the reunion of Wllder's brigade of the Army of the Cumberland was the entertainment given today by confederate veterans. ..Camp Joe McCon nelt. Union Confederate Veterans, of Ring gold, Ga., wss the -host, serving a basket dinner at the foof of the Georgia monu ment on ' the Chlckamauga battlefield. N. B. Forrest camp of this city was also largely represented. Speeches were mads by General Wilder, Congressmen Maddox and Lee of Georgia and by, several ex confederates. Survivors of the Iron brigade, made up ot Illinois, Indiana and Ohio troops, held a reunion today on Snbdgrass hill, where they fought In 13. CORTELYOU JfJN CANDIDACY Says Ho Is Postmaster General and When a Candidate Will Sar So. OYSTER BAT. Sept. 20. Postmaster General Cortelyou. who came here today to aee Prealdent Roosevelt on official bus iness, when reminded that he had been mentioned as a possible candidate for gov. ernor of New York, said: "You may quots me as saying that I am, aa postmaster general of the United States, engaged In efforts to Improve ths postal serylce. When I am a candidate for any other . office I will say so." President Roosevelt, had as luncheon guests today Archbishop Ireland and Arch bishop O'Gorman of Sioux Falls, S. D. ; Jacob A.' RMs. William A Whit and Hor ace A. Knowles. THAW INJUNCTION GOES UP Justice McLean Sends Matter ta Re carder Goer for Decision I on Merita. NEW YORK. Sept. 20. Ths motion by counsel for Harry K. Thaw, to make permanent a temporary writ prohibiting the district attorney and grand Jury from examining witnesses in Thaw's case, waa referred to Recorder Goff In a decision handed down by Justice McLean in ths supreme court today. "Further action," ssys the decision, "will be deferred to afford an opportunity for a motion In the same behalf before the recorder." Interest on Honda Taxed. SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 70.4-Interest upon United Stales government bonds Is taxable, whether those bonds -sre owneil by an individual or coi iwratlun and whether the Interest Is held in the form ! of a draft, check or money. This oVrNlou has just been leached 11 y the I nlte.l bin Ira supreme court In tbe :ase ef the Ifilwrnla savings and lxian society against the city and county of San Fraurlaio for ths re covery of taxes paid under protest on the luteiest of Sli,OU).0iA) worth of ponda. COAL TRUST IN OMAHA Hard and Tut Combine on Prioei Thro nek the Local Exolant:. SO SAY OFFICIALS OF THAT CONCERN Testimony Given by ' Present and Fatt Secretaries at Tronty't Hearing;. SLABAUGH WILL MAKE USE OF EVIDENCE Interstate Commerce Commission Takes Union FaoiEo Case to Utah. BRINGS OUT FACT OF TIGHT MONOPOLY Through Officials of Company tt Is Shown thnt Hnrrtmaa Corporation Holds Tight Rein oa Small Competitors. Interstate (bommeree Commissioner C. A. Frouty yesterday afternoon st 2:50 con cluded the Omaha session of the Investiga tion Into the methods by wiiK h the Union Psclfle acquires Its conl lands and treats Its -competitors In tine coal business, sfter having unearthed remarkable evidence tending to establish the fact. In emphatic contradiction to recent assertions of local dealers, that the coal men of Omaha main tain a hard and fast combine, or trust, on prices through the medium of their organi sation, the Omaha Conl exchange. This finding waa based on the testimony of no less authorities than Walter Mills and H. E. Ostrom, former and present secretaries of that exchange, and tt was of such a character as to havo elicited from County Attorney Slabaugh the statement that It will be most valuable to him In his search for a coal trust through the channel ot a grand Jury. Mr. Prouty came from Chicago to Omaha and began the investigation, with J. T. Marchand, attorney for the commission, Wednesday morning. The Investigation was adjourned to Salt Lake City next Monday. In the two days' session here an enormous mass of Information as to the methods by which a powerful corporation nfiulrcs more power and of how It exerta that power toward weak competitors, struggling for an existence waa produced. Wise lawyers regard it as a most effective object lesson. And what Is more remarkable Is the fact that this Information was drawn from pillars of the powerful corporation. In a nutshell, the investigation brought out the assertion by Attorney Marchand for the commission that the Union Pacific procured its coal lands through fraud; an Impassioned denial of this by ' Attorney Baldwin for the Union Pacific; testimony by D. O. Clark, superintendent of the Union Pacific Coal company, that employes and officers of the company were used to take-up sections of land; statements by Randall K. Brown and other small mine owners that they had failed to indue the Union Pacific to afford them trackage fa cilities; statements by Warwick Saunders, a -smalt- competitor, that he had to allow the Union PaclflO to dictate the price of catt4a- order to l)v in business and thnt I h cou'd not ' ", f ro1tt the -they were heeded. ..The Investigation was originally aug-. gested aa a result of the 'Union Pacific's refusal In 1905 te grant certain trackage facilities to the Sioux City - and Rock Springs Coal company, an Independent con cern, of which Warwick Saunders Is the head, and whose mines are near the Rock Springs mines of the Union Psclfle In Wyoming. But Mr. Prouty says the in vestigation will extend to much wider scope than this single ease. Evidence of Local Coal Trust. Evidence was adduced Thursday morning tending to contradict the statement made by Victor White and published In an In terview In The Bee a few daya ago that there is no local Coal trust. Walter Wills, forn-er secretary of the Omaha Coal ex change, testified that the exchange .llxus prices" in general; that Megeath, president of the Sheridan Coal company, fixes whole sale prices on Sheridan coal, and Viului White, retsil prices. He said no price fixed by the exchange could be varied without consent Of the ex chat go. Victor White, while not an ac tive member of the exchange, waa, Wills said, an houorary msmber. ' So far as coal along the Union Pacific la concerned it developed that company did all the fixing of prices. . Ar other feature of the morning hearing was that the ordinary bonus paid by the Unlcn Pacific for coal land filings by its employes was $20 over and above ths filing fees, which were also paid by Ilia Union Pacific, and practically all these filings made by the Union Pacific Coal company and railway employes were made a the direction of D. O. Clark. Tha statement that- the bonus of $10,000 for the Abbott quarter section of land was paid to Warwick Saunders ss a commis sion was modified to mean that, while the money was made payable to Mr. 8aunde.is by the Union Pacific, It was paid to him to be paid to Mr. Abbott and Mr. Abbott waa tbe sole beneficiary of the bonus of itAivA .Kaw. . V. . mow .1 l J ftvtww, .wti .ii. i.cii mm m vuiibiu- eral'on for bia land. Saunders figured In the transaction only as an Intermediary. Wills Tells of Exchange's Methods. Walter Wills was an Important witness during the morning session Thursday, in describing the methods ot the Omaha Coal Exchange, he aaid: ' . "The Union Pacific Coal company la not a member of the Omaha Coal exchange. The purpose of the organisation of the ex. change was to advance the interests of sll Ita members. The exchange made a uni form retail price for all coals handled by Its members at ths meetings of the ex change except Rock Springs coal, the Union Pacific Coal Company and rail road ' making the price for - what Rock Springs cosl shall . sell la Omaha both retail and wholesale, as well as Hanna and other coals produced alohg the Union Pacific. No- other road under, took to dictate ths prices of coal In Omaha While I was secretary that I know of. Victor White was an ex-ofrlclo member of the exchange and he Invariably fixed the retail price of Sheridan Voal !nthis city without regard to tha exchange, while th wholesale pries was fixed by Mr. Megeath for Sheridan coal. All tbs coal dealers la town were members of the Omaha Coal exchange. I lisvs not a list of all the dealers at this time nor have I a record of their membership. .To my best reiolloo tlon the members of ths sxchange wcio: Cqutunt U Kqulres, Coal 1(111 company; CX B. Havens company, Tom Collins Havens, Nebraska Fuel company, t'nluu Fuel company, Sunderland Bother. lUrn.on, Weytli company, C. W. Hull coin, pany, Nebraska Coal and Lumber comnut.y, Rysn Coal company. Wells Lumber und Coal company, Pittsburg Coal and Lime compaay, South Omaha Coal and Ic company, Hald aV Rice, John Schneider weibd. and others, whoso name I cauaut
