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il'i I -V,:; .... liEVS SECTIOII. Pes 1 to 8. Co Into th Homo THE OMAHA DEC 1 HE UMAHA '(!(. r'-'.t1 j; r.V. " VOL. XXX VI I NO. 109. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MOUN1NO, JANUARY 1, 1908 SIXTEEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. Mir aJ "V ja. A i i Si r OMAHA .OAS BIG YEAR Growth of City in All Lines ii Shown by Figures. HOME BUILDING MAIN FEATURE Comfortable Modern Quarters for Thousand More Families Added. JOBBERS' BUSINESS IS IMMENSE Wholesale Trade of City Grows by .Millions Over 1906. MANUFACTURES ALSO TAKE JUMP Hnnk Clearing Show a High Mark, Ural lOslntc Transactions Inrrenae and Ktfrr fr'nrtor Indicate Healthy Growth. OMAHA'S GROWTH IX FIGt'BF.S. 1907. 1906. J567.51S,788 $504,388,764 aao.ooo.ooo 195,003,000 88,048,000 83.B99.000 ' 4,53(3,643 4,873,060 11,314,537 10,865,963 163,581,990 153,165,890 43,538,800 44,530,300 43,737,000 40,007 930 6,493,075 5,680,309 1,547,054 1,630,C09 Bank clearing . . Manufacturing; '. . . robbing' Building- Steal estate trans- fsr 3ounty Talnatlon for tame Dials rcoalpta, . bushsls . . . 'Brain shipment::, X.i stock ra ctipt. (head) . . Li stock ship msnt (bead) . . Ornoba liad a most prosperous season luring I!-". Even the financial flurry thot occasioned a g neral cessation of nctlvlty .luring Ihe hist two months of the year was not enough to produce any aerloua ef fect on the progress of the community, an chown by statistics. The Bee thin morn Injf present In comprehensive form some detailed Information regarding the growth of the city during the year and Ha aetlvl :'p In financial, commercial and manufac turing lines. A healthy Increase la shown In all the. figures, which have been caru--ftilly coin lilted from official sources. The Increase In clearing house transactions Is praet'cally for ten months of the year; a Increase tins been noted for the lust two months. This la In a measure true or the other factors of the city's growth, and In "Icate the. pace nt which Omaha was trav eling when Iho brakes were put on. The most satisfactory feature of tho showing made la the large Increase In the number if dwellings or apartments for tinnitus ionslruetud during the year. According lo the report of the, building Inspector, Omaha Is today capable of housing in modern and comfortable ' quarters l.Otil families more than could ha,ve been taken care of thn" year before. This Increase In th number of homes has not fully sup (pliol the deirand for houses, lo meet the grrm'th of the city's' population. It Is siwolally referred to here as an Indication of tho continued expansion of Omaha and its prospects. Wholesale and Jobbing;. Wholesaling and jobbing business of the Omaha houses, selling practically every thing which the vast territory could need, totaled IXS.O48.00O as compared to fm.KW.OOO for the year of 190M, a healthy and steady Increase, made some larger by higher prices of many articles.. Among the most Important develop ments In thu Omaha wholesale center dur ing the year, was the growth of the agri cultural Implement business and the com ing to Omaha ot no less than five big houses; several of which had formerly l en located In Council Bluffs. These liouscs, together with the enlarged inter ests of the John Deere Plow company, Kuclno-Battley company. Rock Island I'low company and the branch of tho In ternational Harvester company, give Omaha tho supremacy In the Implement trade. , The houses which opened In Omaha dur lug the year are the Sterling Manufae luring company, Newton Wagon company, l.awson Uas Engine company, Brlggs Implement and Supply company and 1. P. Mast, wagons and trucks. Home Important Deals. The John Deere company bought the lots at Nnth and Harney streets on which the Bt. Phtlomena cathedral was located, paying the, church SlK),0CO for Ihe corner, Work was started on a warehouse which will cost 1500,000. The Rock Island Plow company bas erected a new building Ave stories in height at Klghth and Jones treett, while the business of the Raelne- Hattley company Increased to such an ex tent that three adlltlonal stories were built on the five-story warehouse occupied by that company. As a Jobbing center for Implements Omaha occupies a position par excellence and the volume, of business clone in this line during 1907 Is In keeping with the large number of houses located here. Borne of the big firms have moved Into new and larger quarters and have placed more men on the road. This lias had the effect of drawing business from other cities to a certain extent and has main tallied the business formerly done out of IWoalia. The total business In Implements done by Omaha bouses In 1907 was close In tll.0U0.0Ca). Tlie business In 1 wss $S.MXV ni id In 19u5 It aggregated $' 1I0.KI0. The business In harvesters, plows and cream separators has been particularly large compared with the year before. The number of bugglea sold has been very huge, tho farmers having evidently In vested much Of their surplus money In luxuries of this kind. One firm which be. gan the year In'lls new building report an Increase during the year of Just 25 per cent compared with the preceding year. .Vew L amber Pirn Comes. The coming of the Bowman-Krani I.um ber company to Omaha was the event of the year In the wholesale lumber trade. Tins firm had made headquarters In Sioux City for a number of years and built up a business In lines ot yards In Iowa, No braska and South Dakota. When Its bus iness was brought to Omaha the firm ar ranged for a consolidation with the Mis nurl River Lumber company, which had a big ard on the belt line. Ho large have the lumber Interests o Omaha become that the wholesale and re tall dealers will organise an exchange dur Ing theromlng year or aaslst largely In lualutahitng a bureau of the Commercial club to look after t raff to affairs which couovrn the carload shippers. Omaha may lw looked upon as one of the largest lurp iContlnued on Boranth Pag- SUMMARY OF TUE BEE Wednesday, January 1 10ON. 1908 Ll:iRY 1908 scs' my irz. urn mr ,o? -' - - 2 3 4 5 6 Z 8 own 12 IS 14 15 16 1Z 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 2Z 28 29 SO SI TIB WEATHER. Fur Omaha. Council Bluffs anil Vicinity Fair Wednesday; no important Chungs In temperature. For Nebraska Generally fair Wednes day; warmer In wnt portion. For Iowa Partly cloudy Wednesday; warmer In paKt portion. ' Temperature for Omaha yesterday: Hour. 5. a. m 6 a. ni 7 a. ni It. m 9 a. in 10 a. m 11 8. m , 12 m 1 p. in 2 p. ni 3 p. m 4 p. m 5 p. ra 6 p. m 7 p. m 8 p. m a p. ni Deg. .. .. 26 .. 24 .. 2 .. .11 .. 3i .. HT .. 3S .. ax .. 8' .. 37 .. 35 .. 33 .. 31 .. a DOMESTIC. Yesterday was the last dny In Georgia for obtaining liquor, the prohibition law going Into effect thi morning. Page 1 A miliKtantlal cut of from )1 to $3 a thousand has been made on northern pine lumber. Pare 1 President Roosevelt and members of cabinet will seek to oberturn the decision of Judge Levis of Colorado on coal land fraud. 'JPnze 1 Comptroller Rldgely has given a atate-j ment that the nation na neen going coo fast a pace for Its Inances. Page 1 Forty loaded cars on the Northern I'a lf Jo road wore ditched near Helena. Page 8 A number of letters stolen from a mall pouch have been discovered in lexas. Page 1 Torpedo boats are behind schedule time, arriving yesterday at Para. Brazil. Page 1 Street car line's earnings stolen at Rochester, N. Y., by thieves in auto mobile. Page 1 John Mitchell arrives at Excelsior Springs, Mo. Page 1 No effort Is being made In' San Fran laco to hold Roctor Cooke. Fajre 1 The defense offers to submit the Pettl- bone case without argument. Judge Wood will give his Instructions Thursday. Page a Newest turn in New Jersey murder makes It as much a mystery as ever. Pag 1 Girl at Beaver Crossing Is seriously burned, but will live. Page 3 A vice governor for the Philippine Islands In the person of the speaker of he assembly In recommended by a bill recently Introduced. Pag 8 TOBEIGUT. Harsh words aro spoken for Editor Harden In the trial at Berlin by the state attorney. Page 1 Bomb thrown In stock exchange at Rome to Influence the liquidation of securities. Pag 1 LOCAL. 1 Coroner's Jury in Heward county falls to discover the assailant or Mrs. Frank Hmlth. Pag 3 COMUI KCIAIi AND ZTDVBTBU.Ii. Live stock markets. Page 7 Grain markets. Pag 7 Stocks and bonds. Page 7 UOTBKIKTS OP OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. Port. Arrlvfil. Balled. NKW YORK Columbia OENOA Manuel fslvo LONDON Mlunetonks HHKVKN BeydlKl. ROTTKRDAM ... Uluechsr. DELEGATES TO RIVER BOOM Committee Appointed to Select Men to Attend First Session In slsai City. To get up a delegation to attend the first session of the Missouri River Navigation congress to be held In Sioux City, la., January 22 and 23, tho executive committee of the Commercial club named a special committee Tuesday. John Steele is chairman and members of the committee are C. D. Veaton. T. W. McCulloiiRh. F. D. Wead. Wr. R. Watson, H. T. Clarke nd G. H. Gillespie. Congressman Hitchcock was the guest of the executive committee at the noon day luncheon and spoke at length of the matters before congress of Interest to the Commercial club. The congressman was given to understand the strong opposition which the business men of Omaha feel to th proposed parcels post measures, when W. 8. Wright and Euclid Martin ad dressed the committee meeting on the sub ject and pointed out the general harm, whlv '. would be done the rural districts by the adoption of even the compromise plan proposed by the postmaster general. A. 8. Kelly, superintendent of the Ne braska Telephone company and A. T. I.ane-of the company were elected active members of the club. Honorary members elected were Lieutenant Colonel W. P. Evans, chief of staff of the Department of the Missouri, and Rev. R. Scott Hyde. Odd Fellows Orphans" Home. SIOUX FALLS. S. I Dec. 31 (Special.) It had been expected that In January the matter of selecting a location for the fine and costly orphans' home avtilch the Odd Fellows of South Dakota propose erecting would be disposed of. but the official an nouncement now is made that the matter has been postponed for a year. For some years the Odd Fellowb have been raising a fund for the erection of the proposed build ing, and the fund already has reached gen eroue proportions, but Is not yet ample for the purpose, and this I believed to be the reason action has been postponed. A num ber of cities and towns In the state were In the field as candidates for the location for the home, and the rivalry has been quite keen between the various towna which sought to capture the prise. Death from Toy Hilt. ATLANTIC. Ia., Dec. Sl.-(8peclal.)-Mra. Fred Woolaey of this plat was shot In th heart and almost instantly killed today by a young McCarvllle boy while playing with a new air rifle received for a Christmas present. Tho little fellow I about 10 years of age and waa shooting at birds, when Mr. Woolaey stepped out of the door. His aim waa not good and the ahot entered her breast. She lived but a few minutes after being shot. 6h was the mother of a larg family of small children. The boy la proa- Iratad over th taault of th aocidaoA flBI TIME AT HAND TO SLOW DOWN Comptroller Ridgeley Discusses the Financial Outlook. NATION'S PACE IS TOO FAST Respects Paid Financiers Who Helped nllh Fortune When Bank Were Hard Pressed for Fonda. WASHINGTON. Dec. 31 W. R. Rodgely, comptroller of the currency, todny gave out a statement dealing largely with finan cial conditions during the year 1!)7 In which he snys: "The conditions which made this crisis possible are the accumulated compo site results of many yenrs of business. The whole world has been overtrading and ex pending, and nowhere lias It been more rampant than In the t'nlted 8tates. The reaction was Inevitable, nnd though It might not have taken the form of a bank panic had we been better prepared with such a banking and curretcy system ns we shoilld have, the time has come when some or all must pay for our over indulgence." "It I th? duty of the banks," says the comptroller, "to restore business to normal conditions by resuming their functions as promptly and as full as possible. Fortu nately there Is not only the strongest desire and disposition on the part of the bank to do this, but conditions are such as to make it comparatively easy, and to lead us to ex pect a much more prompt recovery than has followed other financial cr.lstaes." The reports to the comptroller show that the reserves In the central reserve cities were but 22.2 per cent against the legal re quirement of 25 per cent. The forty reserve cities show 24.72 per cent of legal reserve, or almost the full egal minimum, while their total cash means are 26.55 per cent of their deposits. Of the forty cities twenty-one show legal reserves about 25 per cent, while ten of them show over 30 per cent of legal re serve, and all but eight of them show more than 25 per cent of total cash means. The largest reserves are In the Texas cities. Galveston and San Antonio howlng over 38 per cent of legal reserve and Galveston over 48 per cent of total cash means. The returns as tabulated by states are also significant and reassuring as to the general conditions. There is not one state which does not show an excess of reserve above legal requirement ot 15 per cent and an Increase In legal reserve and total cash means on December 3 above those held on August 22. Pnrlflc States Lead. "In the subdivision by states, the Pacific states show the largest legal reserve, 22.28 per cent, while the western states show the largest cash means, 82.11 per cent. The most Important signlflrance of these figures Is that the readjustment of bank reserves hss taken placo with so few bank failures. "From October 20 to December 30, 1907. there havo been but sixteen suspensions or failures of national banks. Of these two have resumed and several more should do so In the very near future. "The reports of conditions of the national banks show that from August 22 to De cember 3 Individuals deposits decreased but 1 12,000.000, or about 34 per cent, while the decrease in cash on hand was but $4O.OC0,C00, and the Increase In bills payable and rediscounts was about 142,000.000. "We have had a very severe bank panic It would have been much worse, but for the aid given by the treasury department and some of the leading financiers of the country. Financial Patriots. "It will probably never be known how much credit Is due to a few men, who fur nished vast Bums of money and supplied credit from their enormous resources. In the patriotic effort to stop the panic and relieve situation which might have led to far greater disasters If they had not been so promptly met and so skillfully handled. "From these facts In regard to the bank ing situation. It would seem but a fair con clusion that the acute bank trouble Is past. but values of all kinds will have to be re arranged. We shall have more failures, and probably some more bank failures, but these will be Individual cases, the result of particular conditions. We have been going too fast In business, and all classes of people have been living too extrava gantly. It will be good for all of us to check this." CASE AGAIN DEEP MYSTERY Woman Identified aa Dead Cornea to Life and la Interviewed la w York. NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 31.-The Identity of the woman whose dead body was found In Harrison, N. J., last Thursday remains a mystery. The story told by Mrs. Hattle Hull, that the dead woman was her friend, Mrs. Agnea Young, wa exploded today. when Mrs. Toung wa found alive and well in New York City. Bhe is employed a an accountant In a real estate office in New York and declared emphatically that she had not been In New Jersey on Christmas day and that she did not known any one named Charle Meyers for whom the police were searching, a a result of Mrs. Hull's statement. Mrs. Young obtained first knowledge of the fact that her nam had been connected with the murder mystery from thla morning' t newspaper. She ex pressed Indignation that her name had been drawn into the affair by Mr. Hull. KNIFE T0v LUMBER CHARGES Nearly F.very Kind ot northern Plae Lower kr front On to Three Dollars. MINNEAPOLIS. Dec. 31. Lumber prices are down. Nearly everything In the north ern pine list 1 cut from SI to $3 a thou sand. The reductions from the August list are as follows: Dimension and timbers, S3 a thousand. Common board. Nos. 1, 1 t, 4 and 6, tl a thousand. Fencing. Nos. 1 and 2: Six-Inch, 11 a thousand; four-inch, 12. No. 8: Six-inch, S2; four-Inch, S3 a thousand. "C" and better, eight Inches and wider, ft a thousand. Siding: "C" and better. S3; "D" and 'E," Si; "C" and better, Norway, 1 a thousand. Lath, 60 cent a thousand. i snail Tax List In Soath Dakota. SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., Dec. 31. (Special.) The fact that the delinquent tax lists printed this fsll In the newspapers of the various counties of th state were the smallest for years if not the smallest In the history of South Dakota testifies to the excellent financial condition of the peo ple of th state, but further evidence, par ticularly upo nthe financial condition ot the farmer of that portion of th state lying east of the Missouri river, 1 given by th record of farm loan la tlie region indicated, BOMB IN STOCK EXCHANGE Dynamite Exploded to Prevent l.lqnl- datlon Flab teen Persona lnjnred. ROME. Dee. 31. An enormous explosion terrified the people today In the center of the city and wis followed by a desperate cry Inside the Mock exchange. , It Is as certained the explosion was caused by a dynamite bomb, which Is supposed to have been thrown with the Intention of pre venting liquidation at the end of the month at Ihe Btock exchange. The wounded so far reported number eighteen. NEW YORK, Dec. 31. A bomb thrown against the front of a two-story frsme building In East One Hundred and Forty- Ninth street In the Bronx before daylight today badly wrecked the building and en dangered the lives of eight persons, who were asleep therein. A lisli store kept by Joseph Rao on the first floor, was almost demolished and his living rooms back of thw store were wrecked. A door was blown off Its hinges and, striking Mrs. Marie Rottlsnno, Rae's married daughter on the head. Inflicted a painful wound. Rae has asked the police to search for his son-tr-law. Antonio Bottlsano, who he sftid, had threatened to blow up the store because his wife had left him and taken refuge with her father. TORPEDO BOATS ARE SLOW Five Days Behind Orlarlnal Mchrdole, Dae to Accidents to Ma chinery, PARA, Brazil, Dec. 31. The torpedo boat flotilla which Is . receding the battleship fleet to the Pacific arrived here today. The boats left Port of Spain December 23 and are now five days behind their original schedule, due to accidents to the machinery of two of the destroyers. The transport Aretliusa arrived here yesterday. Para Is on the Para river, about sixty miles from the sea. It Is a modern city of broad and well paved streets, surrounded by pleasant rural suburbs and has a popu lation of 75,00,1. It Is an Important shipping port and has a fairly good and deep har bor. The torpedo boats will remain thero several days. VICE GOVERNOR FOR ISLANDS Bill In Filipino Assembly to Office to Speaker of the Aaaembly. Glva MANILA, Di-c". 31. A bill has been In troduced In the assembly to make the speaker of that body vice governor of the Islands. This matter has been agitated here for several weeks past. The office of vice gov ernor has been vacant since the promotion of General Smith to be governor general. Tho Philippine members are generally In favor of the measure. . Count Tolstoi Injared. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 31. News has reached here that Count Leo Tolstoi was thrown by a stumbling horse and sustained a dislocated shoulder. In spite of his ad vanced age tho count Is making a rapid recovery. "'Governor I.npea Wonnded. MANILA, Dec. 31. Governor Lope of Hollo has been shot and seriously wounded by a disappointed politician. It Is not ex pected that the wound will prove fatal. MITCHELL VISITS SPRINGS President of t tilled Mine Workers Association Arrives at Missouri Health Resort. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo.. Dec. 31. John Mitchell of Indianapolis, president of the United Mine Workers, has arrived here for his health and, according to present plans, will remain about three weeks. Mr. Mitchell reached here yesterday from Chi cago, accompanied by his brother, David Mitchell, and his private secretary. The brother will return to his home In the west within a few days. President Mitchell said this morning that he felt no bad effects from the trip from the east and expected to gain much good from the water and the treatment that he would undergo while here. GLASS BLOWERS KEEP BUSY Three Thousand Workmen Return After Shut-Dona of Ten Days. MILLVILLB, N. J Dec. 31. Three thousand glass bottle blowers have returned to work In the latge glass plant here after a shut down of ten days. That there will now be no stop In uny of the local plants before JVly 1 Is very improbable, as the companies claim that they were never more rushed with orders than at present. Thelf only present difficulty 1 In securing enough help. The deadlock between the Amalgamated Window Glass Workers' as sociation and the Manufacturers' aasocla tion continues and apparently neither or ganisation Intend to sua for peace In the wage scale controversy. FORTY LOADED CARS DITCHED Lou; Train on Northern Paclne Brcaka Away at Helena on Steep Slope. HELENA, Mont., Dec. 33.-A highly spectacular "wreck occurred on the North ern Pacific railroad Just west of here last night, when an east bound freight train running extra got beyond control of the engineer because of failure of the air brakes to work on Helena hill, the east slope of the Rocky mountains, resulting in the ditching of forty loaded cars. Three brakemen were Injured, two of them named Sherman and Brady, seriously Another brakeman waa badly scratched and his face was cut. The Injured will re cover. NO SEAT, NO FARE FIGHT ON Jersey City Street Railway Patrons In Contest for Better Ae roramodatlona. JERSEY CITY, N. J.. Dec SI. Six case brought to test th Jersey City no seat. no fare ordinance are on trial In the police court here. Mayor Fagln I attempting to enforce the ordinance, whloh provide that no fare need be paid unless a seat is fur nished. Witnesses have already testified to the circumstances under which they re fused to pay their fares when there were no vacant seats In the car. The caaea are being hard fought and the trial will last several days. Colonel Mardock Not Improved. WICHITA. Kan , Dec. 31 Colonel Mar shall M. MurdiH-k. the veteran editor of the Daily Eagle, who Is 1)1 at his home here, wa resting comfortably thla morn ing, but no hope of his recovery waa held out by th physiclrna Congressman Victor Murdock will roach hooi tonight from WaahlnaTton. JEW YEAR IS WELCOMED HERE Father Time Considers a Difficult Proposition from the Mortals. MANY RING OUT AND IN PARTIES ( hnrrh and Social Organisation Say Farewell to 1007 and t.lve 1008 a Hearty Wel come. IVevr Year's Day Proaram. Poot ball, Diets park. 9:30 p. m. Plnala In squash tournament, Jlacp.net Club, 11 a. ra. Boyd' theater, "The Clansman," mati ns and night. Orph&ntn, vaadsvllle, matinee and night. Xrug, "Th Black Politician," matlno and night. ; Moving plctnrss at other thaatsr. Just for a moment Father Time rested last night, at the period when the clock on the federal building strikes twelve. and then lingers, like the gathering of a thirteenth sound within tho bell. It was moment, when mortals counted on living on without growing older, but the new year awoke. This year will be ladles' day all year leap year, as It were. It was ushered out as beflltted the occasion and welcomed in as befitted Omaha, glittering, prospective. year of 1-9-0-8, which expects to be a '"record breaker In many ways." In many of the churches, lodge rooms, club rooms and In hundreds of private houses many parties met last night to "see tjho new year In." v Meeting; at Churches. Members of the Men's Modern Movement club, assisted by the officials of the First Methodist church gave a reception to the members and friends of the First Methodist church In the church parlors, the reception opening at 8 o'clock. .The club kept "open house" until midnight when the 'old year was given a fond fare well and the new year welcomed. Special entertainment waa arranged, consisting of addresses by prominent club and. church men, music by members of the club, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Kelly, Miss Irene Cole and Miss Hazel LoDesca ioveland. Feller's orchestra also contributed to tho entertainment and refreshments were served by the women of the church. At the Swedish Methodist church the Ep worth league held open house, serving a light supper between 7 and 9 o'clock. A social time and a literary program fol lowed, Joseph Swenson delivered an ad dress and then the watch night services began. Rev. Peter Munson preached. At the People's church watch night services were observed, beginning at 9 p. m. Rev. Alonzo T. Jones, Rev. A. Maurica Abbott and Rev. Charles W. Savldge preached. Holiday In City. New Year's day Itself will be observed as a holiday In Omaha In honor of the advent of ia. A hearty "Welcome to Our City" will be said to 1908. Stores, banks, offices, shops and the' like places will be closed and churches, clubs, theaters and homes will keep open house. Everybody will b.' happy with tie new yeer spirit, There will be special big dinner In "hotels, restaurant and homes. The afternoon I tho time to make New Year's calls.' While the-- formal New Year's reception given by the director of the Young Men's Christian association has been omitted this year the association will keep open house Bat down by the fire and dropped asleep on that day and the new building will be j while waiting for the two little girls to re open from cellar to garret for the Inspection turn from a Sunday school Christmas tree. of visitors and all are Invited to call during the day or evening. There will be an elabor- ate program of entertainment for those who call and It Is the Intention to make the day a memorable one In the history of the association. The Young Women's Christian association held a "get-one" party at its rooms Monday night, as a substitute for the regular New Year eve function. One hundred and fifty Invitations were Issued and each member brought a friend or prospective member. Music and short talks served to enliven and deepen the Interest of the evening St. Peters court and Crelghton court. Catholic Order of Foresters, will give a dancing party at Crelghton' Institute hall this evening. At the Omaha club there will be special music In the ladles' cafe from 10 o clock until the arrival of the new year. A large number of the members and guest are ex pected to be present. Boy at Y. M. C. A. The Bible class members of the Boys' department of the Young Men's Christian association will enjoy a big supper this evening, followed by an entertainment. This Is given to all the boys who have attended the classes three times In suc cession this fall and winter. The boys' octette of the Junior Young Men's Christian association met for practice Monday after noon with Lee A. Kratx, who organised It. The members of the octette are: First tenor, Clarence McCullough and Harold. Pagels; second tenors. Merle Howard and Robert Theobald; baritones, Frederick Mc Connall and Walter Rosenberg; basso, Ed Burdtck and Rahl Buddcnberg. In the way of amusements there will be good attractions at all the theater. There will be foot ball at Diets park at 2:30 In the afternoon, when the Belvederes and the Tiger will struggle with the pigskin The finals In the squash tournament will be played at 11 o'clock in the morning. The Central Park Improvement club will take occasion to celebrate on New Year's day the completion of the extension of the street car lines, which brings nearer to the throbbing heart of commerce that ex cellent community around Forty-second and Grand avenue. The celebration will take the form of a street car ride over the city with speeches and band music on the wing. Some of the friend of, Bert Cox, an ardent member of the club, are trying to prevail on him to give a characteristic green corn dance, but Mr. Cox is of opinion the weather won't quite harmonize with th exercise. Voice from the Orient. The young people of Calvary Baptiat church will watch the old year out and the New Year In tonight In the church parlors. A program ha been prepared and A. U. :awaguchl, a Japanese student at William Jewell college, will speak. Oysters and an enjoyable time will be served. A short de votional service will be held Just before 12 m. Omaha lodge. No. L of the Royal Achates, will dance the old year out at a farmer ball tonight at Barlght's hall. There will he prices awarded for the best farmer costumes. TAFT LEAVES FOR MILLBURY Secretary of War Will Visit Horn of Ills Mother, Recently Deceased. BOSTON, Dec. 31. Secretary Taft left her today for Mlllbury, the horn of his mother, recently decaaaed. NO EFFORT TO HOLD COOKE San Franrlsco Police Arc ot Author ised to Arrest t'nfrockrd Hector. PAN FRANCISCO, Dec. :i-Tlo Re, Jere Kiiode Cooke, who d-;.i p a ed Iro n Ins resilience when his iilcnilfl atlon be came known, togtiier with 1,1.4 young com panion. Floret tit Whalcy. and their baby, wus limited here anln last nigh;. He M staying at the home of a fri nd, where h and his companion are comfi rlably situ ated. In an interview Inst night Cooke said he will return east as soon as he can ge j enough money together to tiavel and ai noon as matters can be arranged he wl 1 marry Miss Wlialey. It Is pxpectnl that the g nndmnther of t lie young woman will send h-r the funds necessary to return east. The head of a' San Franclfco detective agency, named In connection wllh tho pos silile nrrest of Cooke, stated last night that they had not received any Instructions from the east concerning CoPke; that so far as they know there was no warrant for his arrest, and that tlioy were doing nothing til nil in tho case. There was nothing to stop Cooke from going where he pleased and they were not even keeping track of him. The Kilke are not looking for Cooke, al though dispatches from New Yoik say that there Is a warrant for the eloping preacher's arrest on the charge of slninc tlon, nnd thai the local authorities will be asked to find and hold the fugitive. STREET CAR EARNINGS TAKEN Two Men In Automobile Take Cheat with Money nnd Escnne at Rochester. roc HESTER. N. Y., D.-c. 31. -Two m "i sto'o a chest containing S-.9 fr,m a stree car standing In front of the Mo n street east car barns this morning at ti:2'. o clo and got safely away with it In ai aul mohlle. The stolen money represents the earnln of the Rochester Railway c( mi any yes terday on what Is known ns th caste n division. It was being transferred aecor 1 Ing to custom from the Federnl streoL hr. .i the State street office to 1 count-d. ' The car was 'n .charge of Motn'.man W. Glover and Conduct ir L. R. Cla'k. Til ' stopped Ih car 'nt the Sodus Buy statloi at East Main street nnd went Inside: As Glover entered the door he saw an aut -mobile drive up beside tho car, but paid no attention to It. The two men were In the stati-n on'y about a mlnuie, but when they return rt they found that the chet which c ontained the money was gene from the fr nt pla. form. The tracks of an automobile. In the snow led close to the car and east on Main street. MOTHER DIES FOR CHILDREN ncaolotely Prevent Them' from As sisting Her While Her' Cloth ing: Wa In Flames. NEW YORK. Dec. 31. From a shabby lit tle flat on Second avenue today will be held the funeral of a womon who gave her life to save her two little children. None of the neighbor knew- much about Mrs. Mary Nautusch except that her husband never appeared and she worked fifteen hours a day In a laundry to care for her two little children, aged six and nine. The other nleht after returning from her work sne When they entered sne jumpea up .uu.u.m, and her skirt caught Are. The children . i Un M.nltll.lu ,1, 1 U ll O ll rUStied lO nor, uui one it""""') r- - them out Into the hall and locked the door, that their clothes might not catch fire. By this time Mrs. Nautusch's thin clothes were a mass of flames and neighbors who rushed In and extinguished the blaze touna her unconsclou. She died at a hospital. Neighbors are caring for the little girls, who will probably have to be turned over to an institution. BANK CLERK TAKES BRIDE Grafton. N. J.. Man Bionn '-"" of School Girl nnd They Arc Wad. CHICAQO. Dec. 31. After cashing, last evening at the Victoria hotel, a check for 1200 drawn on a Grafton (N. D.) bank. J. J. O'Brien proceeded to change his en try on the hotel register from J. J- O'Brien to J. J- O'Brien and wire. The wife until yesterday was Miss Flor ence McKenzie. She Is 18 years old ana ner home Is In Detroit, but she has been at tending school at Notre Dame, Ind. From there she came to Chicago and waa wedded here. Soon afterward a telegram reached the hotel from the father of the young woman, saying he was on his way to Chi cago to prevent the wedding. He Is a director of the bank on which the check was drawn and O'Brien Is an officer there. A complication in the matter Is that the young couple started for home last night by way of Seattle, Wash. ASSAILANT COVERS TRACKS Coroner's Jury In Seward County T'n able to Locate Rlama for Death of Mr. Smith. SEWARD, Neb., Dec. 31. (Special Tele gram.) After being In session a week and examining and re-examining twenty-six witnesses, the coroner's Jury found lnte last night that Mrs. Frank Smith, who was murdered In a farm house near Mil lard on December 16. came to her death from a blow on the head dealt by an un known person. Excitement Is high here over the brutal murder and the county commissioners and the governor will be urged to offer rewards for the apprehension of the murderer. A Bohemian was mur dered In the same vicinity a year ago In a slmlar manner and tno murderer was never apprehended. Nothing was taken from the Smith home, so that robbery was not the motive. Witnesses declared she had no enemies and revenge was not the object. Mrs. Smith was found late In the afternoon of December 16 with her skull crushed by a blow dealt with a singletree. GIRL IS SERIOUSLY BURNED Merna IVelaon of Beaver Crosalng Painfully Injured, but Will Recover. SEWARD. Neb., Dec. 31. (Special Tele gram.) Merna Nelson, daughter of Georg Nelson, a farmer living near Beaver Cross Ing, was painfully burned when her dress suddenly caught fire and burst Into flame, enveloping her. She was sitting close to a hot stove at the time. Her parents were away. The child ran into the yard and rushed, a human torch, to the cattle corral. Jumped into a tank of water I About th shoulder th flesh was cooked. Bhe will recover USE FOR SEW LAW Government . Will Appeal frcra Decision of Colorado Judge. CABINET CONSIDERS DECISION Strong- Objection to Legralizinf Dummy Entry System. POSITION OF THE LAND OFFICE Intimation that Bureau Partly Agrees with Court. NEW- CHARGES TO BE FILED Nome of Men ltrlenscd Are to Be Accused of Perjury In Making Descriptions of l.nnd Taken. WASHINGTON. Dec. 31,-At the coblnet mectlnR of the year 1007. held today, the decision was reached by the president and attorney general that the government will use every means hi its imwer to bring about In the higher courts disapproval of the decision rendered In Colorado by Judg Lewis that there Is no law against cttiten agreeing In advance to purchase coal or ' other public lands that may be acquired by others, under what Is known as the dummy entryman system. Attorney General Bonaparte said after the cabinet meeting that It was fortunat that congress last year parsed a law giv ing the government the rlixlit to appeal In criminal cfiaes. hh undoubtedly the gov ernment would appeal to Its fullest extent against a decision quashing indictment against men charged with illegally ac quiring coal lands. Position of Land Offli-o. The comiiilrsioiier of the general land office said today that his department had nut Initiated the land fraud cagea which have, save In a few Instances, been dls- missed by Federal Judge Lewis at Den- . ver. Although the land office Is co operating In every possible way with the department of Justice In bringing fraud- . ulent entrymen to Justice, the Interior department had nothing to do with bring ing the indictments which have been quashed, and there are Intimations that the latter .department partially agrees, with Judgo Lewis In his ruling that tha . ' persons Hocused of illegally acquiring . ' lands cannot be held under the Indict- , ments as drawn, at least ns they apply 1 j to violations of the timber and stone act. It Is understood that the land office is about ready to call from sixty to eighty , . violations of tho land laws In the Colo- ,. rado region to the attention of the grand i Jury. Some of these may Involve a num ber' of tho very persons whom Judge Lewis has discharged. Commissioner Balllnger holds that It is speolflcally pro-' Ided In tho act of 1878 that the claimant of land must make a showing ut th .' time of the application that he does not take the lands for tho Ymtieftt tit .nv other person. Under tho statute lie doe" nui nave io repeal tins ni me tune or proof, although the department call for a showing of this kind at the time ot proof In order to obtain all evldenc pos sible Indicating the good or bad faith at ' the time of application. In other words, it Is held that a man may change his ' mind ns to the disposition of the land ho weeks to obtain from the government. W'lU Charite Perjury, The new cases whloh tho land offle will bring are largely built upon perjury and fals allegations as to character of ' lands. A special officer of tho land of-, , flee la busily at work at Denver on thes cases and Is acting entirely Independent of the Department of Justice. i Commissioner Balllnger aald today that he had not examined the .decision of Judge Lewis In regard1 to the. coal -entry cases which have Just been dismissed, but - he asserted that bin department had noth ing whutever to do with the prosecution. BISHOP E. G, ANDREWS DEAD Illness Follows Severe . Cold - Cos traded In West and Jle Die at Brooklyn.. NEW YORK, Dec, l.-Blsliop Edward X Andrews of the Mothodist Eplacopal church dlod at his home in Brooklyn, at I o'clock this morning. , Death had been expected,, since yesterday, wtxm the physlolnp. In at tendance gave up alt hope..- ' Bishop Andrews, who was 82 years old, contracted a aevere '-old wbtld attending the bishops' confeifnce and the. meeting of the home and foreign, mission boards of his church at 'San Francisco Just October.. He never fully 'eoverd and a general breakdown followed.-,- ' ' : , - ',''' i Bishop Andrew for nearly half a aentury ' was one of the' nost' yidely Jifiown'clerry- men in tho United States. ' Jiefore hi 1 vatton to the bishopric m) was -pastor of several large churches, "in i Ihe .New York east conference. Bcfrh In central New York, he studied for tha mfniotry In "Vts leyan college. .For several year before n terlng the ministry he, was ' president ot Caseovla aeademy- in this slat. Ha was chosen bishop ln 187t and In 1904 wa re- lleved of many duties, and placed on the retired lint. His active lnlret In th ad ministration of the affairs of the church ' did not cease, with hi retirement, however, and he continued to take an important part In its councils witll' the last, iilyhop An drews I survived by a widow, one too and ' three daughters. ' ' ' ' ' me Z' r-- rrVTlll''A J"""TKOT - BIG LOT OF LETTERS FOUND Looter of Mall Near Waco, Tea Left Check Lying; In, ' tiulch. , , WACO. Texas. Dec. Sir Another. Urg batch of mail lias been found west of here near where the first batch wa left, by tb ' pouch looter Christmas night. It ia esti mated that checks, money order and draft left lying In the gulch whero th pouchra were opened will aggregate Stfl.OlA Special government officer are working on th case. Borne 2,0i0 or S.OOO letters designed for various parts of the .United State were in the poucljea. BULLET" PIERCES BOY'S BODY O. W. Fetters of Washington, la.. Mysteriously Shot While at Dea Moines. VIS MOINES. ).. Deo. 31 O. W. Fetter. Washington, la., a student at tending Highland Park college of this city, wa mysteriously shot through the body Just above the heart today. Fetter says h la unable to explain the shooting; that he wa ' walking near Iho gun club en rout to school, when he wa suddenly fell with a bullet. The ball from a ruV plavced th body. Fetter mar dua Br-an