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The Omaha Daily Bee HEWS SECTION. Pages 1 to 8. For all th Nws THE OMAHA DEE Best ',?. West VOL. XXXVIIXO. 76. OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1907 SIXTEEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. SEW OCEAN RECORD Laiit&nia Makes Fait Trip from Queenstown to New York. TRIP Iff 0 DATS AND 54 MINUTES Largest Ship Afloat Beats Lucania'i Time Six Honrs. HOURLY TIKE RECORD UNBROKEN Honor Still Belongs to Kaiser Wilhelm II and Deutschland. LA PROVENCE MAKES FAST TIME FVeaeli Llaer Lower Record from Havre to New York Held by Itself One Hoar aad Twelv Mlaate. NEW YORK. 8ept. 13.-The giant tur- bine Lusltanla of the Cunard line came i Into port today on Its maiden voyage with a new record of t days and 64 minutes ' between Queenstown and New York. The Lusltanla failed to lower the hourly speel average of 23.58 knots made by the Kaiser Wilhelm II . of the North German Lloyd line, though it covered the distance be tween ports lu an average of 13.01 knots, which Is . record for maiden voyages. Captain Watt said that when the time Oomes for record making, after Its machin ery Is In thorough order, the Lulstanla will be the empress of the seas. , The Lusltanla, the largest ship afloat, was given a royal wlcorae on Its arrival here today and It was a continual ovation from the time "It . sped past the Bandy Hook light vessel and made Its way through the Ambrose channel, the first ocean vessel to enter the new fair way, until It was tafey warped Into Its dock. The Lucanla of the Cunard line fleet, which tailed from Queenstown about an hour ahead of .the newest ship of the fleet, was still unreported at the Sandy Hook light vessel at 2 o'clock this afternoon, six hours after the Lusltanla had passed. It passed Nantucket at 11:47 a. m. and will reach New York at 7:30 a. m. Saturday. Lnaltaala Ifot Pushed. The Lusltanla was never pushed to Its top speed during the entire voyage, ac cording to Its officers. It encountered pleasant weather from port to port and arrived here almost at' the hour designated hy the directors of the Cunard line. E. H. Cunard. director of the line, who made the trip over, said: "The engines of the Lusltanla worked perfectly and not once during the entire trip was the ship slowed down. The Cunard people are mors than satlsCJtd. What this ship will do in the future may be judged from what M has already done. No ahlp makes Us best time on Its maiden voyage. As to the re ports that the ship was delayed by green Stokers I know ynothlng. I shall make no suggestions for.- any changes In the Mail tanla, the sister ship ' of tho Lusltanla, J which probably wilt make Its maiden voy J age In October. We had two days of In termittent fog and one day partly foggy." Vernon H. Brown, American representa tive Of th. Cunard line,' said: "Tho Lusl tanla burned considerably less than 1,000 tons of coal a day In making 33 knots. Tho engines worked perfectly ond thera was not a hot bearing during the entire trip. When going at high speed the screws made 186 revolutions a minute." necorda of Ocean Trips. Sixty-one years ago the little steamship Europe of the Cunard Una, with its old fashioned engines, crossed the Atlantic from Liverpool to New York In 11 days and I hours. Its performance was heralded to the four quarters of tha earth, for the Europa had broken the record of 144 days, made by the steamer Great Western eight years before, in 1838. With the Europe' voyage begat) the lasting contest for the supremacy of the sea, which has led to the building of tha fleet Lusltanla. Tho Lucanla's record of five days, seven hours and twenty-threa minutes, made from Queenstown to New York In 1894. was not broken until the Lusltanla arrived today. The Lucanla on that trip mada an average apeed of 31.61 knots over a course of 3,779 miles. s While the Lucanla was holding the Queenstown record the North German Lloyd and American lines began to battle for the western record from Southampton to' New York, which was held for three years between 18S8 and 1(94 by tha steam ships Paris, New York and St. Paul of the American line. Tha St. Paul In ISM mada tha voyage from Southampton to New York distance of 1,060 miles In six days and thirty-one minutes. KalHt r " Vaa a. Mark. . Then the North vrmtn Lloyd company put over the Kalaer Wilhelm Der Gross, the first of the greater ocean steamships now traversing the Atlantic and the new vessel In 1807 became the marine wonder of the world, when 1( hung Bp a record or five days, twenty-two hours and thirty-five minutes fiora Southampton to New York. The big Kslser, as It Is familiarly called In shipping circles, created a new record In IS?, when It steamed from Cherbourg. France, to New York, a dlatanca of 3,060 miles in five days, eighteen hours ahd fif teen minutes. This record was lowered In the same year by the Kaiser to Ave days, seventeen hours and thirty-seven minutes. The Hamburg-American line captured tha blue trophy ol tha sea from Its rival In 19J0, with the steamship Deutschland. which made the distance from Cherbourg to New York In five days, twelve hours and twenty-nine minutes. . The Deutschland teetered its own record by six minutes In . 101. The Kron Prlns Wilhelm. the new ship cf tho North German Lloyd line, slipped across tha Atlantlo In IMS In five days, eleven hours and fifty-seven minutes, which was tha banner record until the next k year, when tha Deutschland ageta wrested I tha honors a the' faatest ship afloat by slipping off three minutes from tha record time of tha Kron Print Wilhelm. Tbe Deutschland made on this remarkable voyage an average apeed of 23.15 knots. La Freveaoa HskM Fast Tim. Tha transatlantic steamahlp record from Havre to New York, which has been held by tha French line steamer La Provence for a year, was broken by that steamer today when it arrived at New York. La Provence completed the run .across the long course or miles from Havre to day lu six dsys one hour and U minutes. The previous record for that course held by the La Provcnoa waa alx days two hours snd fifteen minutes. La Prow oca's ave.ase speed for the entire rua ended i.ay a S2.08 nautical miles per hour. The Lusltanla' passenger Included Mrs. Pot tar Painter. Robert Balfour, M. P., Rob art Que let. Mr. Richard Crokar aad several Bctal of the) Cunard line, SUMMARY OF THE BEE Satarday, rptrmbr 14, 1BOT. 1007 SEPTEMBER 1007 Sum mom mi wis y rnu sat I 8 2 0 3 10 4 5 6 7 II 12 13 14 15, 16 17 18 10 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 2r28 20 30 T f THB WKATHZB. Forecast till 7 p. m. Saturday: For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity Fair and slightly cooler Saturday. For Nebraska-Unsettled but generally fair Saturday. For Towa-Unsettled but generally fair Saturday; cooler in northwest portion. Temperature at Omaha i Hour. Dcg. 6 a. m 7 6 a. m 66 7 a. m 65 8 a. m 68 9 a. m 72 10 a. m 75 11 a. m 78 12 m 82 1 p. m 84 2 p. m 87 3 p. m 83 DOMESTIC. Turbine steamer usltanla makes the At lantlo crossing from Queenstown to New York In five days and fifty-four minutes, breaking the record for that trip, but not the sustained hourly average speed record per mile. Page 1 Walter Wellman gives up his trip to the pole this year because of an accident to the nirshlp on its trial. He announces that he will try again In 1908. Page 1 Freight Agent K. O. Spens makes trip to Lincoln to explain why reduced freight rate schedules were not filed with the Board of Railway Commissioners. Par 1 Matthew R. Hudson, an officer of the Southern Pacific railroad, disappears. Page 1 J. Plerpont Morgan rents fine quarters for himself at the triennial session of the Episcopal council at Richmond, Va. Pag 1 Jesse Wallace was murdered on tho South Dakota range by a cowboy named Lcnnle Ferris. Pag 1 Interstate Commerce commission maito public figures for the railroads for (ho year 1906. Fag 1 New York supreme, judge refuses 0 to grant Attorney Oeneral Jackson right to begin suit to revoke the charter of the Interborough-Metropolitan railway. Pag a Secretary Metcalf talks on Ills return from the Pacific coast of his visit thero an dth accommodations for AmurlCdn. ships on the western docks. Pag 1 Thirteen deaths have occurred of (lie bubonlo plague already In San Francisco. Pago a ,. . ', ' roBzxav. ' Many Germans an held for treason In divulging, rnjlltary secrets. , i Pag 1 Sir Thomas Lip ton decide t challenge for the America's cup In 1901. Pag 1 General Booth, commander of the Sal vation Army, Is already on his way for a visit through Canada and the Unite 1 States. Pag a Tribesmen of Morocco have begun to sue for peace with the French... Pag 1 President Fallleres commutes the sen tence of dath Imposed on a not)d mur derer and the guillotine Is forever ban ished. Pff 1 High treason Is charged against a prince of Russia for defending the late Parlia ment. ag 1 ITEBBABXA. Hearing of the charges against Prof. J. W. Searson of the State Normal school at Peru waa commenced before a com mittee of the State Board of Education at Lincoln. 3ag-e 3 X.OOA&. F. E. House and Secretary Bevls of Du luth Young Men's Christian association visit Omaha to inspect local building and equipment. Pag 9 Corn crop this year will be a rXimpor, estimates placing it at J2. 600, 000, 000 bush els. Faff 11 Timber land fraud Investigation In Idaho Involves Frank Martin of Hay wood's defense and a number of other prominent men. Pag 1 8 tors and Jetter breweries are planning additions to bulldlgs amounting to $90,000. Pag IS Grand and petit juries for September term of federal court are drawn and in clude but one Omaha man. Pag T Funeral of Dr. H. L. Ramacclottl held under ausplcss of the Masonlo order with largv' crowd In attendance. Page T Wava of reform sweeping over county deplete the population of county Jail. Pag T Affair given in honor of fall brides oc cupies attention of society. Pag BOOTH IS ON HIS WAY OVER Hiss at Salvatloa A rear Blda Fare well to Eaglaad for Work Hero. LONDON. Sept. 13. Men and women wearing uniforms of the Salvation Army filled E us ton railroad station this morning, a large party having assembled to bid fare well to General Booth, who left London for Liverpool, where he will embark on tha Allan line steamer Virginian for Quebec, In which city the veteran commander will begin a campaign which Is to extend over Canada and tha United 8tatc. The "seventy-eight years young general, aa ne de scribe himself, appeared to be as hearty as possible considering his age. From tha railroad car ha handed the reporters a message as follows: Ones more good-bye. dear old England. I leave your shores on what I believe is the Master's business. As I contemplate the future I rely mora than ever on tha old panacea for lessening the ruins. In equalities and tyrannies of tha world, namely, tha regeneration of tha Individual by the power of God. Before entering his 'car General Booth presided at a prayer meeting In the sta tion. Commissioner Nlcol, Colonel Lawley and Brigadier Cox accompanied General Booth to Canada. HIGH TREASON THE CHARGE Rasalaa Prince Arrested for WrttluaT Article Defending Late Par- llameat. I ST. PETERSBURG. Sept. U-Prlnce Eu gna Troubelskoy, the leader of th mod- r t tiaa ben Indicted on thm ikir,. . high treason for writing an article defend- log ioi iaia -ruameui ana Baying n government committed an Irreparable mis take In dissolving that body and proclaim ing a new electoral law, jNCaf WELLMAN GIVES UP FLIGHT Airship Suffered Accident in Test Re cently Made. WIND DROVE BALLOON OVER LAND Bag Cat Adrift aad Recovered Onlv After Two Days' Search Notalag More to Do . This Year. TRONDHJEM. Norway. Sept. 13.-Walter Wellman, the head " the Wellman Chicago Record-Herald e Vn. arrived at Trom soe last evenlr 4 the Frlthjof from Spitsbergen c"? vv y home. He an nounced ' for th' V j definitely abandoned e. .er a disastrous trial of his .eV proposed attempt to reach t- . ole. The airship rnsde an member 2 In a strong northwes- .id. which drove It southeastward" l .he land. It was found necessary to j c. the balloon adrift from tha other parts I of the airship, but It was recovered after I two days' search. I Mr. Wellman says he will make another attempt with a rew airship In 1908. TROMflO. Norway. Sept. IS-Walter Wellman and his psrty, composing the Wellman Chicago Record-Herald expedi tion, arrived here last evening on the Frlthlof from Spitsbergen. Mr. Wellman savs the airship America left Its shed Sep tember 2 and msde an ascent In bad weather, but It proved so strong and be haved so well that a start north was Im mediately made. The airship, however, encountered a storm, was driven back anJ landed cn top of a glacier. Everything was saved. When the airship left the shed It was "".nchored to a steamer, the Express, which helped to tow it to Vogel Island, two miles northward to Camp Wellman. Rlesenberg and Vandman occupied the car. The motor was found to work splendidly and when It was started drove the America ahead of the steamer. It was found that the airship answered Its helm well. Off Vogel Bay Island the America waa freed from its anchor ropes, but an Increasing gale and a driving snowstorm beat It back ward over the mainland, Spitsbergen. See ing the hopelessness of attempting to bat tle with the gale the valves were opened and the balloon quickly descended on a glacier. CANTON, O.. Sept. 13.-Mrs. Walter Wellman, who Is at the home of her sister, Mrs. George Clark In this city, received this cablegram today: ' Started. Encountered storm. Everything saved. Ship a success. WELLMAN. UPTON'S COMING CHALLENGE Royal Irish Yacht Club Will Meet at Dublin to Discuss the Details. DUPLIN, Sept. 13. A committee of the Royal Irish Yacht club will meet here this afternoon, presumably to decide upon the details of Sir Thomas Llpton's approach ing challenge for the America's cup, but the club member refuse to discuss the matter. ......... , : LONDON, Sept. IS. Sir, Thoma Ltpton will make another attempt In 1908 to re gain the America's cup for Great Britain. The announcement was made this after noon ' by Sir Thomas In London and by the . secretary of the Royal Irish Yaoht Club at Dublin.' The challenge which goes to the New York Yacht club In the name of the Royal Irish Yacht club was mailed from Dublin today. , The details of the challenge were ar ranged when Sir Thomas visited Dublin recently In the course of a yachting cruise around the British Isles. NEW YORK, Sept. 11-The News from London that Sir Thomas Llpton has sent another challenge for the America's cup caused no surprise among yachtsmen, as It was generally believed that the end of the present racing season would witness the Issuance of the challenge. The new measurement rule, which will apply In connection with the present chal lenge, has been tried out in fast sailing yachts of the larger class this summer. It Is especially designed to overcome the de fects In the old rule, which made possible the freak racing machines such as the more recent cup defenders and challengers. If the races foreshadowed in Sir Thomas' challenge are sailed .under the new rule, th contesting yachts will be normal, sea worthy boats and not creations to be sent to the Junk heap when they have fulfilled their original purpose. RIOTS NOT IN THE SAME CLASS I Count Oka ma Hays San Francisco Aathorltlea Countenanced the Japanese Disturbances. TOKIO. Sept. 11-In the Hochi this even ing Count Okuma contrasts the anti-Japanese dlstnrbanceaat San Francisco with th Vancouver riot briefly as follow: The latter occurrence must not be placed In the same category aa the former case. The San Francisco authorities, directly or Indirectly, countenanced the acts of the rioters, while the municipal government waa a center of corruption, almost a state of anarchy prevailing. I liken the San Francisco riot to the Boxer outbreak. President Roosevelt's attitude at first waa very fair and admlttable. but after his conference with a delegation from San Francisco a change came which aadly dla- ppolnted us. The Vancouver Incident was quite dif ferent. It was an outrageous act, limited to laborers and unsupported elsewhere. The local authorities sincerely did their utmost to suppress the riot and protect our countrymen. They even went so far as to give permission to our compatriots to take measures of self defense. The sincerity su fully evinced of these really worthy local authorities of our ally in their efforts to protect our rights makea us confident of effecting a satisfactory solu tion of th deplorable situation. GERMANS HELD FOR TREASON Eateaslve Arrest Have Been Mado a Charge of Betraying Un itary Secrets. COBLE NZ, Prussia. Sept. 11-Further ar rest have been made In connection with the recant extensive betrayal of military secreta Thar are now fourteen persons In custody of whom twelve. Including four civilians, on of whom It is said belong to th nobility, will be charged with high treason. In the meantime all the prisoners ere kept In th closest confinement. The two who will not be arraigned on tha charge of high treason will appear as wlU neaees for tha state, but they will not be released before tha trial, which In all prob ability will be held In secret. DEMONSTRATIONS ARE MANY iladlaa Sedltloaleta Are Caaslnsj Mack j Trouble la Eastern Benajal Provlae. CALCUTTA. Sept. 13. Serious demonstra tlons bv seditlonlsts have occurred h.r , Attack on European are reported, eape j dally In eaatern Bengal, wher racial feel ling 1 atdlly growing METCALF TALKS OF THE WEST Labor Problem Has Rerone Serious One for Farmers Docks for Fleet. WASHINGTON. Sept. 13. Secretary of the Navy Metcalf returned today after an absence since June 29. when he left for California to make announcement of the cruise of the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific coast. He referred .today to the Tacltlc coast trip of the fleet as a "dead Issue." He said lie had been out of touch, with the Navy department for so long that more details had been made public here than had been communicated to him. He declined to discuss the Japanese question, saying that he heard too much on that subject or on the anti-oriental Incidents In cities of Washington and British Col umbia. Secretary Metcalf made a number of ob servations of importance In connection with the visit of the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific coast. He found that while the government has only one dock on the Pacific sliie that Is capable of taking a battleshhlp, there are a number of pri vate docks that might be available If needed. Of these three are at San Fran cisco. The only government dock Is at Bremerton, and this location, it is be lieved, makes it likely that the entire fleet may go aa far north as Pugn sound before returning to Atlantic waters. Con cerning this probability. Secretary Met calf said that there Is water enough at Bremerton to take In the entire Meet at "one time. The labor question on the coat, the secretary said. Is becoming; more se rious every day. and he Instanced the fact that the navy yards at Mare Island mi l Bremerton are working far under thoir capacity by reason of the labor famine. He pointed out that In the west farm hands are being paid as high as 35 per day. The transportation question also won found by the secretary to be serious. He vald the railroads cannot begin to haul the crops and the passenger traffic Is very heavy. CAPITAL IN THE RAILROADS Interstate Commerce Commission Makea Pnblle Report Showing; Condition Last Year. WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.-The Interstate Commerce commission today made public an abstract of Its nineteenth annual sta tistical report, covering the year ended June 30, 1906, showing the par value of railway capital outstanding was $14,570,421, 478, or 367,936 per mile, of the railways In the United States. Of this over 83 per cent paid no dividends. Of the railway stock outstanding 32,27,175,799 wai owned by railway corporations and of railway bonds 3641,305,030 were so reported. The aggregate gross earnings from the operated mileage of 222,340 miles of lines were 32,32,763,167, being 33,282.761 greater than in 19u, Their operating expenses were 31,556,877,271, or 3146,275,119 more than In 1905. The net earn ings aggregated $788,t87,!6, an Increase of SU7,C&7,642. The net earnings per mile of line averaged 33,648. The Income attributable to other sources than operating reached 3256.639,591., Deducting fixed and other charges, the report says,. 3385,186,323 Is the net Income for the year avallablo for dividends or surplus1. There wjre m.irt.'m passengers carried, .an Increase of over 60,000,000, and 1,641,874,219 tona of freight carried, an In crease of over 202,000,000 tons. The average revenue per passenger per inllo was 2.008 cents. The earnings per train mile In creased both for passenger and . freight trains and the average cost of running a train one mile increased. The ratio of operating expenses to earnings was over 66 per cent. The report shows 10,613 persons killed and 97,706 Injured. There was a total of 1,621,355 persons on the pay roll. EDUCATORS FAVOR NEW PLAN Brooklyn Teachers Propose to Ad vance Pupils by Subject Rather Than Grade. NEW YORK, Sept. IX An Investigation conducted by a committee of the Brooklyn Teachers' association, a report of which has Just been published, shows that edu cators throughout the United States favor a system of promotion by subjects Instead of by grades In the secondary schools, and believe' that a liberal education ' course should be devised to take fifteen years in Its completion instead of sixteen years, as at present. It Is likely that an effort will be made to lay the matter before the National Edu cational association at an early meeting and have that body take official action. The reform suggested would mean a revo lution of the school system throughout the country and answers were received from 660. Every state and territory is repre sented In the answers, and also Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, Russia, Tur key, China and Japan. The first question was aa to promotion by subjects. Tha second on a course of liberal education to extend over fifteen years. At present the course is sixteen years, four being spent in each of these schools: Primary, grammar, high and col lege. The new proposition is to Introduce an Intermediate school between the pri mary and grammar schools and to have th course In each school extend over three years. The majority of answers favored both propositions. MAKES SPORT OF THE NAVY Rasalan Bourse Gasette Has Severe Criticism for Seamen of that Coantry. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 13.-The news paper here today voice their Indignation at what they term the "utter lack of sea manship displayed within a few miles of Russia' Baltic fortress," ascribing yester day's needless secretlveness on the sub ject of tha accident to the imperial yacht Standart, which went aground oft Horaoe. near Hango, Finland, September 11, to the marine minister' "consciousness of guilt." The Bourse Gasette remarks: How Is it possible to reconstruct the Russlsn navy when the seamen are unable even to safely steer the imperial yacht. It la frightful to think of entrusting costly bsttleahtps to such cureless hands. TRIBESMEN SUE FOR PEACE Number of Warrlag Native Near Caaablaaea Are Aaxlona to Ead Hostilities. PARIS, Sept. 11 Admiral Philllbert ca bles that the Chaoua and some of th other warring trlbemen in the vicinity of Casablanca have reopened negotiations for peace. General Drude gave the tribesmen until tomorrow afternoon to visit' him and accept the conditions he specifies. TANGIER. Sept. 13.-Mull El Haflg, It la stated here, remaina at Morocco city, be 'caus he lacks a sufficient number of fol lower U Dble him to march to th coast. BIG MEN CAUGHT IN THE NET Prank Martin, Attorney for Defense, Indicted in Idaho. LAW PARTNER OF HAWLEY Former Slate Official Who ".Met Tragic Death Also Named In List of Men Accased of Land Frauds. The further th cover Is drawn from the timber land fraud cases In Idaho, which will be prosecuted for the government by S. R. Rush of Omaha, the special assist ant attorney general, the more remark able appear the phases of this case. Pass ing from the sensation revealed in the fact that United States Senator Borah, who prosecuted W. D. Haywood on the charge of murdering former Governor Steunenberg, la one of th Indicted men, the Indictments, which hsve Just been made public In their entirety, show that Frank Martin, one of the attorneys for the defendants In the case, is himself als indicted. Martin is a member of the legal firm of Martin, Hawley. Puckctt A Haw ley, retained by the defense, and Hawley was an associate of Borah In the Hay wood case. Martin Is also chief owner of a Boise newspaper and Borah a part owner. But this Is not all the Indict ments He against two brothers, one of whom was a high state official of Idaho, who met a tragic death. They are men tioned lh the bill as John Doe and Rich ard Doe. Some of the Other Men. The Indictment Is a Joint one and is against John I. Wells, Patrick H. Downee, John Kinkald, Louis M. Trltchard. Wil liam Sweet, Albert E. Talmer, Horace 8. Rand. Frank Martin, United States Sena for W. E. Borah, James T. Barber, presi dent of the Barber Lumber company of Chicago: and Sumner O. Moon of the Bar ber Li'mber company of Chicago. The indictment charges "that on Septem ber 1, 1901 (and from September 1. 1901, un til and Including tho times hereinafter al leged), the Indicted parties unlawfully con spired with some 108 persons (whose namea are given) to defraud the United States out of ths possession and use of and the title to divers tract of public lands (approxi mating 147,000 acres), all In Boise county; that the conspiracy was one for obtaining for private gain, uae and benefit of the large tracts of timber lands." The Indictment goes into great detail and specifies that the persons Indicted caused deed to be given to either A. E. Palmer, George S. Long or Horce S. Rand for the purpose of receiving title for the benefit of the alleged conspirators and that the title was afterward transferred to the Barber Lumber company as a part of the con spiracy. The trial of Senator Borah under this In dictment is set for September 23. A panel of eeventy petit Jurors ha already beep, drawn for the trial and the intereats of the government will be looked after In the case by Assistant Attorney General C. M. Burch and Bpeclal Assistant Attorney General 8. R. Rush of Omaha. ' , o Respecter of Person. . In reference to tho sensation In the case as appearing In the press dispatches from Boise, Mr. Rush, who Is now In Omaha, ays: "I do not know anything about this mat ter other than appears In the paper and am not prepared to make any statement in reference to the matter. I can say it Is the Intention of the Department of Justice to bring the cases to trial without refer ence to the distinction of the defendants. There has been a practice for years of syndicates and speculators to acquire pos session and title to the public lands by any means, fair or foul, and now In Wyoming and Colorado there has recently arisen a tremendous agricultural spirit as stimulated by the dry farming process and the specu lators are unloading yiese lands upon farm era and whoever will purchaae them at from 15 to 33 per acre and are making mil lions out of these lands. The same obser vation will apply to the Irrigated and mountain districts of Idaho and Montana. These land speculators have through some means acquired title to nearly every avail able acre of agricultural land and the farmers must pay the price If they expect to get hold of them for agricultural pur poses. Nebraska Lands a Paradise. "I have been over vast tract of those segregated lands and also much of the fraudulently acquired lands of Nebraska, and I am free to say the Nebraska lands are simply Paradise aa compared with some of the Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho lands. Out about Kimball, for Instance, th speculators are holding their lands at from 325 to 327 per acre and are getting that for them. It I these same lands that were characterised only a few year ago a worthless, and every sort of effort was undertaken to prevent the gov ernment from restoring these land thus fraudulently acquired by the speculators back to tha public domain for th us of actual, honest settlers. This land Is capable of producing an abundance of grass and alfalfa. The Introduction of brome grass Into these regions has transformed these so-called deserts Into fruitful farms, and as a consequence will open up a tremendous dairy industry all through western Ne braska. "Th speculators will fight by every means in their power to retain their title to the lands, and will use every possible mean to defeat the efforts of the govern ment to restore the lsnds back to the public domain. "The Department of Justice ha had a hard task before It. The land speculators possess a big influence and will exert It to a finish to secure them In their holdings. They will not give up a foot of these lands In any of th states without th hardest kind of a fight. But it Is the Intention of th department to recover these landa wherever possible and bring the guilty. par tie to justice. The fight i.ss but just be gun, but I believe we will win in the end, and need only a public sentiment to back us up." C0PPER MINEJLARE T0 RlcacitTorruy1derreA0teRlchmond ln the iNew Closing Order Will Apply Only on Sunday and Not Every Day. BUTTE. Mont.. Sept. 11 The mine of th Amalgamated Copper company will not be cloned because of th glut of th copper market. General Superintendent John GUI!. 1 ln a ttement In th Inter Mountain, says that while work will be abandoned on Sun ' days hereafter, there will be no general close down. Developments and exploitation will bo I (topped for th present, however, and pro- ductlon curtailed until It fall to about i 3.000.000 pound per mouth. It Is how about 3X1,000,000 found gv month. WESTERN MATTERS AT CAPITAL Captain Sweeaey Ordered from Omaha for Service la the Philippines. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. Sept. 18. (Special Tel egram.) Captain Claude B. Sweeijy, pay master. Is relieved from duty In Omah. to take effect In time to enable him to take transport from San Francisco. No vember 18. for Manila, where he will be assigned to duty In tho Philippine division. The application of A. Hanson, F. J. Greasier, C. B. Chambers. T. L. Hanson and A. C. Wilson to organlie the First National bank of Strawberry Point, la., with 325,000 capital, has been approved by the comptroller cf the currency. Rural carriers appointed for Iowa routes: Boone, route 7, K. D. Aylsworth, carrier; C. D. Stevens, substitute Ogdon, route 5, C. A. Nelson, carrier; C. C. Mar gan, substitute. Announcement has Just been made of the engagement of Miss Mary A. Oven shine, daughter of General Samuel Oven slilne, U. S. A., and Mrs. Ovenslilne of Washington, to Captsln Guy S. Norvell. Eighth cavalry, U. 8. A., now stationed at Fort Robinson. Neb. The wediing, for which plans have not been definitely ar ranged, will take place In Washington about the middle of next month. General Ovenslilne and his wife and daughter have Just returned to Washington from Ogun quit, Me., where they and Captain Nor vllle'e father. Colonel 8. T. Norvllle. U. S. A., retired, also spent the summer. An examination for clerk and carrier In the poHtolfice service will he had In Hold lege, Neb., on September 30. W. C. Conley has been appointed guard In the Big Horn national forest reserve. Wyoming. RAILROAD MAN DISAPPEARS Matthew R. Hndson Believed to Have Wandered Away at Oakland While Demented. CHICAGO. Sept. 13. Matthew R. Hud son, an officer of the Southern Pacific rail road, is missing and his relatives bcllev htm to be dead. At his residence, 4S9 Fifty fourth Place, his wife, crushing down her own sorrow, is ministering to the needs of her husband's dying father, Richard Hud son, who is suffering from a paralytic stroke brought on by the shock of the dis appearance of the son. It is believed that Mr. Hudson wandered away from his office In Oakland, Cal., while In a demented condition, on August 81. which was the day he was to start for his home. On that day he mailed a letter to his wife. In which he told, In Incoherent sentences, that he Intended to start home ss quickly as he could arrange his affairs. Since then he has not been seen by any of hla associate. Three month ago Mr. Hudson quit the Illinois Central railroad to take a position with the Southern Pacific In California. As he was unable Immediately to dispose of his home In Chicago he decided to go to California alone. Mrs. Hudson now be lieves that the worry of belnjT away from his home and family told on him. The only child of the Hudsons some years ago was known to theatergoer as "Baby" Hudson. He took child , part In Shakes pearean plays In ' Robert Mantell's com pany. . - TOOK MAN WHO ACTED FIRST Woman at Chicago Promised to Marry Man Who Balled Her from Jail. CHICAGO. Sept. 13.-Emlly Howe, 23 years old, recently of Minnesota, last night was the heroine of a romance In the Har rison police station, giving herself as wife to T. J. Hawthorne, a Chicago letter car rier, who beat her betrothed, F. M. Crosby, a Nevada mine owner, by two minutes In furnishing bonds for the release of the fair captive held on a charge of taking things from a State street' store. This charge Miss Howe denies and the strenuousness of her assertions and the faith of her friends point to her Innocence. Frank M. Crosby, the mine owner to whom she was engaged and who was her girlhood sweetheart away-back at Glcncoe, Minn., was heart-broken as he saw her leave the station with his rival. These men had never met until they stood a: .ie sergeant's desk last night. Miss Home was arrested a week a,o. Her case was con tinued ten days. All efforts of the mat'iu to learn something of tho girl' hls'j.-y were inaaiiing, as she said she pr?f ;rr.j life Imprisonment to letting her irtends tno-v cf her arrest MURDER IN RANGE COUNTRY Loanle Ferris, Cowboy, Shot Jesse Wallace la Meade County, Boath Dakota. STURGIS. 8. D., Sept. 13.-Spec1al Tele gram.) G. A. Anderson arrived here early this morning, bringing new of the killing of Jesse Wallace by Lonnle Ferris, a cow boy, yesterday rear tho J. A. Cattle raTich, Brushie, Meade county. Anderson was with Wallace at the time. Ferris and Wallace had been at outs over cattle range for some time. After a few words when meeting Ferris shot Wallace In the back twice, also making threats to Anderson, who went after help. Before help arrived Ferris shot i Wallace again throe times, killing him, and left. Ferris is still at large. The sheriff I and coroner left for the scene of the killing t this forenoon. MORGAN HAS FJNE QUARTERS Wealthy New Yorker Rents Rich mond Mansioa Daring Ilia Stay at Kplacopul Council. NEW YORK. Sept. 13.-News has reached here that J. Plerpont Morgan has leased a fashionable home In Richmond, Va., near the Jefferson hotel, and will occupy It with his family and guests during the triennial session of the Episcopal council, beginning on October 1'. He will pay 36.000 a month rent. Th Jeffereon hotel, largely owned by Joseph Bryan, a wealthy Episcopal layman of Richmond, will be headquarters during the session, MAY NOT ATTACK MERGER Xew York' Attorney General De feated In Effort to Dissolve laterboraugh. NEW YORK. Sept. 18. Attorney Gen eral Jackson's application for leave to be gin action against th Interborough Metropolitan company to vacate Its char ter waa denied today by Justice Hendrlck in the supreme court. Th decision also carries refusal to consider an application that th merger of th Interborough com pany be set aside. Th company con trol all the street railway, elevated and subway Hoe cn Manhattan, island. I PROMISE TO BE GOOD Eurlington Hastens to Reamre the State Railway Commission. SPENS HASTENS TO LINCOLN Threat to Arrest General Manajer Brings the Avowal. GLAD TO GIVE INFORMATION New Tariffs for Line Northwest of Grand Island Being; Printed. FORGET TO NOTIFY COMMISSION No Joint Kates with Union Pactflo from that Territory to Omaha Quoted by the Road la Ita New Tariff. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Sept. 13 (Special Telegram. I Following the publication In The Bee ot tho fact that the railroad commissioners were seriously contemplating the arrest of Burlington officials on charges of violating the orders of the board. Freight Agent E. C. Spens of Omaha on Thursday niade a hurried trip to Lincoln to assure the com missioners they were needlessly exercised about the attitude of his road on western freight rates. No schedules had been filed with tha board of freight rates west of Grsnd Island under the 15 pr cent reduction of the Aldrlch law and the commissioners had consulted With the. attorney general aa to the proper course to pursue In calling the road to time. Mr. Spens said the road Inadvertently neglected to give notice of the actual facta In conectlon wtih thesrt rates, hence the difficulty. Ha said for the points In question the Burlington road had the long haul, the Union Pacific having the short haul. The Burlington, therefore, had determined to make no rates what ever for these points In Us new tariff, which Is In the printers' hands and had Instructed the printer by telegraph to omit the tariffs. A copy of the telegram was shown. Tho misunderstanding hsd re sulted through an error In not notifying the board. The road Intended to apply to the commission for permission to do away with the rates at these points entirely. Mr. Spens said the Burlington will al ways be glad to furnish the commission any information necessary for Its Inquiries. Terminal Tax Spreads. Railway Commissioner Clarke will go to Council Bluffs next Wednesday night to address a delegate meeting there which Is considering taxation matters. He will discuss the terminal taxation Idea adopted Into law by the Nebraska legislature, through the efforts of the Omaha delega tion. Wlnnett to Washington. Railway Commissioner H. J. Wlnnett will go to Washington, to be there Oc tober 8 to attend the national meeting of railway commissioners. STENSLAND FOR A FULL TERM Wrecker of Bank at Chicago Turned , Down Flatly by Pardon Board. JOLIET. 111., Sept. 13. The pardon board denied the application for pardon made by Paul O. Stensland, who will have to serve out his full term of Imprisonment for looting the Milwaukee Avenue Sav ings bank of Chicago, of which he was president. No petition for a pardon was presented, the application coming up In the pardon board's regular court, convicts being en titled to apply for a pardon after having served eleven months of the sentence. The board decided to hold Stensland for the maximum term and therefore if he makea the "good time" he will be entitled to for good conduct he will not get HI liberty until the expiration of eight years and three months. The board had no statement from the trial judge or th state' attorney of Chicago. Stensland was crushed by the decision. CHINESE DYING OF PLAGUE Thirteen Death Have Resulted at Ban Franclaco from Bubonlo Disease. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13.-Chang Moa Wo, president ot the . Chinese six com panies, was found dead today at 743 Sacramento street In Chinatown. Death was due to plague. A Greek laborer who was taken 111 In a house ln Green street near the water front also died today. Th total number of case to date, twenty-four, deaths, thirteen. Dr. Rupert Blue, the government ax pert, who has been placed In charge of the plague situation says there Is no causa for alarm and that there I no necessity nor any danger of a quarantine against San Francisco. STEAMER WRECKS SCHOONER Vessel Containing Official Party from Rhode Island Collide with Small Boat. NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 13. -Having aboard Governor Hlgglna of Rhode Island and th large official party from that state who at tended tho Rhode Island day celebration at the Jamestown exposition this week, th) steamer Dorchester, which sailed front Norfolk for Providence late last night, ran down and sunk in Craney Island channel of tha Elisabeth river the pungy schooner Fannie B. Groveman, bound from Glouces ter county, Virginia, to Norfolk. Tha Dor chester was uninjured. Four men narrowly escaped drowning. FALLIERES TAKES A HAND Commutes Sentence of Noted Mara derrr, Doing Away with Capital Punishment. PARIS, Sept. 13. The question whether the guillotine would reappear ln Franca, which has been daily agitating th French press, v. as decided this afternoon, when President Fallleres commuted to lit 1m prisonement the lentence of death passed on Botetllant, whose atrocious murder of a girl excited the horror of Franc and I brought forth many petitions for th In- ffiction of the death sentence. A bill to j abolish capital punishment Is part of th government's platform and has already been Introduced ln the Chamber of Deputies. New Appraiser of Mrrchaadls. OYSTER BAY. N. Y..' Sept. 13-Tha president today appointed John U. Mattors, jr., appraiser of nierchandui at Ban Fraa-cisco