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The Omaha Daily Bee WILCC NCI Wl 'ICR Ak-Oar-Dcn Visitors Ak-Oar-Dcn Visitors Cf IN DAY AND NIOMT OriN DAT AND BIOMT OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1908 TEN FAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. VOL. XXXVI 11 NO. km. i-v. TAl'T AT BARBECUE Two Bean, Ten Oxen and Twenty Iambi Boasted at Fargo. GENUINE WESTERN WELCO . , . i ;Tl which to live." Every County in State Representee: i K,.AThi8 i, me iwssirc brnugi t barn by k.i- Great Meeting. 1 - o CANDIDATE'3 VOICE IMPROVES Hoarseness Practically Gone and - Speeches Are Full of Ginger. ! TRAIN ESCORTED BY SNOWSTORM Three Speeches Made Grand Forks Klvo Thousand Trip Through. Minnesota. FARGO. .V. V.. Sept. :S.-Special Tele gram) William H. Taft has been In Roose velt territory all day. Northwestern Minne iiula and North Da tent regard the president as a favorite aon and they have Riven bin former aecretary of war a welcome to keeping with this spirit. Tonight twelve bands are playing In Fargo and every county In the Mate I" represented at the great barbecue at Island park where the republican presidential candidate addressed an audience of more' than 20.000 people. I.ast night a fire was started In a pit seventy feet long, four feet deep and four fret wide. For twelve hours, ten oxen and twenty lambs weie roasted on the oak umbers and the feast was spread before Mr. Taft uion hla arrival here. There was an escort of state mllltla, a torchlight pa rade and other embellishments of western hospitality that made the republican candi date feel that be was In the house of his friends and that his winning of the west is an accomplished fact. Taft'a Vole Improves. j The Taft special went through a sparsely eel tied territory today, but at every station crowds gathered to cheer the republican nominee. With the hoarseness practically gone from Ills voire. Mr. Taft was ready for a fight or a frolic and bis short plat form speeches were full of ginger and be did not mince hla words In criticism of Mr. Bryan whom be denominated a physician with nostrums and panaceas for the cure of every organlv disease. The republican party offered no quack medicines guaran teed to cure over night, but submitted a record of things accomplished and asked that it be continued as the family physician and. not succeeded by an Itenerant vendor. With great force-Mr. Taft told his audi encea thnt when he was elected president be would devote bis ability and all his eetrength to cltnohlrg the Roosevelt poll Hen to the end that every man could have h sijvare deal before the law. Again and again he denied he was tin friendly to labor and urged that the work Inirmen look Into the record for them selves and not take the records from the 'n w evangel" Ban-nef Compere, who act milled that he carried the labor vote m his iiaslde pocket. North Dakota la Safe. Senators iNelaon and Clapp and the other members of the 'Mlnner-ita congressional delegation were with the Taft party all day. Senators Hansbrougli and McCum ber and J. M. Kennedy, national commit teemen for North Dakota, told Mr. Taft that the North Dakota electorlal vote was as good as counted for him. In the nine toen years of lis statehood North Dakota never has been democratic! In a presidential election. Four years ago Roosevelt car ried the state by 30.000 and the republican leaders estimate Mr. Tafl's pluralty will be close to this figure. Three late afternoon meetings at Grand Forks brought out audiences aggregating -5,000. No more enthusiastic reception has been given Mr. Taft since he left Clncln natl. At one of these meetings the cries. "you're all right. Mill, were so numerous that Mr. Taft had difficulty In making himself heard. Train Escorted by Snowstorm. Throughout the day the Taft train was escorted by a snowstorm, and Mr. Taft talked In an overcoat, collar turned up, the auditors similarly attired. He asked permission to keep his hat on as on a couut of "the Infreqnency" of his hair, his hat was the only shelter that his head had from the snow. Soma of the visitors at the Fargo meet ing tonight had come as far as 30 mill's and all of them brought encouraging re ports to Mr. Taft. They declared fac tlonallsm had been burled and that there never had been in the state such en tmiKlasm as for Mr. Taft, not excepting P.onsevelt. T. F Marshal and M. N. Johnson, rival tsiididutes for the North Dakota united suites scnatorship boarded the Taft spe cial t frookston. They came arm In arm and Mr. Taft was told first band that all the Johnson bnd Marshal voles would be Taft voles, first, last and all the time. INDIANA MAN MAKE CHtHGG Mr m her of Legislature gars Hanly Offered time fur Vole. INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. M.-Luther K. K ninety, member from P Kjlb county, of the lower house of the Indiana legislature, now In poMul session, signed an affidavit l,u lay In support of a charge made by him Saturday on the floor of the house when he voted agalnat the county option bill, that Governor J. Frank Hanly had offered him a position paying t:.oA per year If he vould wte for the bill. The affidavit rx I'hiina the alleged tiaiisucUon in detail, naming Senator WUkahire. a republican, In r,.niUH'rto:i with the charge and setting fitli i.e alleged conversation with the go-) 1 ' uor. a naior Wickslui e lias Ueuied UieJ 1 11.11 tie. iiovvrnur jiaiuy nil am lined 10 ii)k.- h statement until after he has s-eu liie ail 1, lav it w hich has been placed In the hands of Stokes Jackson, chairman of the '.ate democratic committee. The county ouon bill was iwKaed. by the house 8alur- 1 ay and was signed by liut governor. i filing to the shore and was, the only one ikma!d. otEBrHigcu;,. A lif. MVlnt lTew , tnf ambu. Heeoeer Files ealt at t.athrle t Moner for Stale. lil'THHlK. okl.. Sept. a. Governor i harlea N. Haakeii. on behalf ef the stale, t -i a suit heie today In the district court kiut the btaie Capital Printing com i any. Congressman K. g. McUuire and I 'i-nnls T. Flynn. former delegate to run. gr--.-, fur the recovery of Ilve,0i.l8. an al ien..! overcharge in the state printing from to 1i7. The petition alleges that the !;ate Capital Printing company did not re ceive all this money, and charges Fljnu Hjid McUuire with being belief icsrits. BURMESTER BOOSTS PANAMA Denies- 1 nrna of Mnekrnkrrs About I nsanllnrr Conditions F.xlst Ini There. ' Willi wag. s cf skilled workmen in all lines double what Miry nr" In Ih'.g country and w:tli living expenses Imt 1-alf, 1 have nbout conic, to the ronnrliwlon that the ."unsmiv famil 10110 Ii about the only place Surd A. Hurniestcr. formerly connected IMP Villoma- ine ii' jwiuin 111 ,u. ii J OI HIS OiVlRlOn CIllC'B Ol IDS UIMH- ftt on the zone, who Is In Omaha spo.nd- . ; portion of bis va ation. I tii-m.ul.l ,-, t1.,,, I WA I'Miri -"'ast July and lias noiliing btit nor In .lse for the country, nnd !ay that '. inkers" lo not know whit tlev at ...king about, whin they t-ay that t lit sanitary condition are had and that no white man can live wheie Uncle Pain Is building the big ditch. "We have paved streets in Golgora, where I am located, ami an excellent seweraae system and tlie sanitary conui- lons could not be better. There has been but one ease of yellow fever In thn two years I have leen on the zone and that was a native who would not keep himself clean. People down there are Just us healthy as here and the climate Is finer we don't have cold snars like this. The thermometer never goes above 9S and the nights are so cool that you have to sleep tinder blankets. And It is- that way the year around, no sudden changes that bring the grip or pneumonia. Most of the white people on the zone are naturally government employes, but only a small porportion are under the civil service. I am not in the civil service. The government Is especially considerate of we married men, and we are furnlshet bouses and furniture, rent free. All we have to buy In the way of furniture are dishes and linen. Food stuffs are much cheaper than here, though beer costs 26 cents a glass, nd a fellow can't afford to get drunk very ofen. I'rlees of Commodities. 'In Panama you can buy the best porter house steak for 25 cents a pound. Swift's or Armour's bams for 11 cents, creamery butter from the slates for !io cents a pound, and other eatables In proportion. You can get a dozen Havana cigars for 10 cents. This suit of clothes I have on was made to order for J12 and this silk shirt cost me but 11.25, what you In the states would have to pay for a common cotton shirt. "The very smallest salary paid on the Isthmus is $100 a month. Plumbers get a dollar a.n hour, pattern workers, 80 cents an hour, anl other workmen are paid In porportion." Mr. Burmester reports seeing James O'Brien, formerly tlllerman on truek No. 1 In Omaha, often on the Isthmus. Mr. O'Brien is boss steam fitter at La Boca, on the Pacific side of the Isthmus. C. El Wetdman. formerly of Lincoln, Is chief of the fire departments for the whole Isthmus. Mr. Burmester is chief of the department at Uolgona, which Is eighteen miles from Colon and twenty-five miles from Panama. Mr. Burmester left Panama two weeks ago, taking passage for New York, lie has a vacation of eighty-four days, but expects to stay hut little over a week, hav. Ing engaged pasage from New York on October 12 for. Rio Janeiro, where he will visit the Brazilian exposition. OVER SEVEN THOUSAND DEATHS Fight Cholera In Rasala Makes Headway as Percentage at Fatalities Decreases. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. M.-Slnce the beginning of the epidemic there have been 15,683 cases of Asiatic cholera reported in Russia, and 7,102 deaths. In St. Petersburg alone, since the presence of the disease was officially almltted, September (, there have been 4,931 cases and 1,875 deaths reported. The figures, with reference to the in vasion of the olty by the disease, cannot be relied upon, as on a number of occasions private but trustworthy statistics showed the number of cases and deaths In a single day to lie far In excess of that' announced by the authorities. The efforts of Premier Btolj-pin and soma of the higher government officials, how ever, which recently have been dlrocted to wards arousing the municipal authorities to action, have resulted In an appreciable betterment of the sanitary condition and a consequent decrease In the disease, as shown by the figures given out today. For the twenty-four hours ending at noon the number of new cases in the city was 26S, and the number of deaths 11.1, as com pared with S12 new Cases and 153 deaths for the previous twenty-four hours, and 357 rases and K2 deaths between Thursday noon and Friday noon. The people have taken heart because of this improvement, notwithstanding that since the beginning of the epidemic the cases multiplied at an alatmlng rate, and health officials have been encouraged because of the compara tively low death rate. In ISO:, when the cholera carried off thousands in Russia, the death rate readied 60 per cent. The death rate In tue present epidemic has been be tween 30 and 35 per cent. Difficulty has been experienced in dealing with the workmen of 8t. Petersburg, who with their families comprise three-fifths of the population, and w ho are both unable and unwilling to comply with the sanitary precautions. Tlis Ignorance of the lower orders and Hie superstition of all classes greatly Increases the difficulties of the silustlon. During the early atages of the epidemic few could be prevailed upon to go under Inoculation, which Is provided free of charge, but latterly the authorities have made Inoculation compulsory in some quarters of the city. SEVEN DROWN NEAR CHICAGO! I.aanrh Containing Klght Men Cap sized In t'alaatet River nnd Only On Cars pes. CHICAOO. 8ept. a Seven men out of ai party of eight men were drowned In the Calumet river at One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street. South Chicago, to night when the pleasure launch, I.emon, struck one of the supports of the railroad i bridge and sank with all on board. The owner of the launch succeeded In swim- I lances of all nearby police stations were j hurried to the scene. I BOYD IS AGAINST P IMKIflM wri,wi. Desaorratle Candidate Speaks at Mnui j port Him for Speaker If Re- I Elected. NORFOLK. Neb.. Sept 3.. -In a letter appearing In the Norfolk News this even ing. Congressman J. Y. Boyd of the Third Nebraska R-publlcan district, declares he will not vete for Cannon for speaker if re- r elected. SHERMAN SPEAKS IN CHICAGO Candidate for Vice President Ad dreasts Hamilton Club. BEGINS TOUR OF TWO WEEXS Time Will lie Spent In Illinois, Ohio and Indiana Senator Smith and Congressman Longworth Also Srsk. CHICAOO. Sept. Opening the rjpuS llcan tempnign In Conk county, before the llsmllton club here tonight. James 3. Sher man, vice presidential nominee of the re publican party, begun a speech-making tour, which In the next two weeks Is to take hlm throigli Illinois. Indiana and tilil . Other ppcar.evs were t'ongiasrrati Nicholas I.onxworth and Penator William Alden Finish. Mrs. I.ongworth, daughter of the president, occupied a box at tho meeting and evinced her keen Interest In politics by frequent applauee. The presence of Mrs. I.ongwcrih caused the attendance ! of a large numbed of women. Mr. Sher- ' man said that the paramount Issue of this campa g.i dialed to a question of Mr. Hoosevi lt s p alleles. Mr. Sherman sahl: Our lai.k us republicans In this cam paign, our duty a a Americans Is to con vince a majority of the voters that re publican policies, republican enactments, republican administration will produce the greatest degree of prosperity, of prog ress, of contentment, the fullest meas ure of the necessaries, the comforts, the luxuries of life, the best plane of living, of education, of civilization, the surest prospect of the highest attainment. Our task is easier than that of our rd versarlew. because we have a premise on which to base our argument. We have a pa.it to which we exultantly point; a past on which we rightfully ha.-ie pre dictions for the future. The only past to which our democratic brethren care to refer is three-quarters of a century gone; to the hlstoiy of Jefferson and JacKsoig they appeal to history rather than to memory. Democracy's recent past they either hide, decry, repudiate or attempt to excuse. Democracy's peerless lead er's loftiest periods deal wholly with the expected. His roseate pictures are of ti e future; are attempted X-rays. Ours are of tho past are things avcomplished, deeds done, results attained. When democracy does explore a past more recent than Jackson's time. It Is to criticise and condemn the republican party for alleged failure to do that which democracy never attempted to do when the opportunity was hers. Principles and great national policies may change from time to time for one of two reasons. Klllier an Issue or ques tion may be solved and permanently sut tled, such as the slavery question; such as the resumption of specie payments; such as the establishment of the gold standard; such as the building of the Panama canal, or it can be abandoned temporarily or permanently, because It Is not at the time expedient or because It seems impossible ot final accomplish ment. Of the latter I might mention the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, government ownership of railroads, the Initiative and referendum and similar policies that Mr. Bryan has advocated, but for the time, at least, haa omitted from the democratic platform, which he framed, because their further advocacy at present would be fatal to his party's chances of success, If chance it has. Mr. Bryan Is the Tarty. These characteristics of the two great parlies, the parties which have appealed to the American electorate for tlfty years, are not only worthy of attention, but or analysis. Men are valued and their wortn is gauged, not alone by character, but gun - eiaily by a lifelong record of accomplish ments. Parties should be gauged tlie same way. Mr. Bryan Is bound to the traditions and blunders ot the democratic party. He has seized its name, captured its organiza tion, has written its platforms, and by force, made himself its candidate. He has fathered and advocated one unwise, dan gerous and destroying policy after another; each one dying the campaign of Its birth, and thousands of democrats refuse to yield to his dictation or be bound to his chariot wheels. The democratic party, not only has a very small record since the birth of the repub lican party, but of the record It has as to legislation and accomplishments, the one great law which It put upon our statute books when it had the opportunity, was, a measure described by a democratic presi dent as one "of perfidy and dishonor, and brought barm to our country and disaster to our people. Comparing the various platforms of the democratic parly for the last half century, we find that it has clung to but one policy or principle, and that is, free trade. The policy has lived through all the varying years as the one issue that has. been taken up and not abondnned. I think It was Henry watterson who aald that "the demo -cratic party la a free trade party, or It la nothing, and certainly In the light of hon esty no one can dispute that statement. It Is as strongly the one as It Is appar ently, the other. Analyzing briefly what the democratio party has stood for during the last thirty years, and what it has done or attempted to do. we find that it haa preserved only one doctrine, viz: a tariff for revenue only. or free trade, and that as near a free tra.1.- law as it was possible to get through both houses or cangress. That, In a nut shell, is the democratic party record and the democratic character. No need to annalylse the various plat forms adopted by the republican party dur. ing mese same years to ascertain for what It has stood We can take up the record of Rcoomoiisnmonts. we learn not onlv what has been sdvocated. but what 1ms been done. We find that as consistently as the democratic party has advocated free trade. lust a.i consistently and persistently haa the republican party advocated protection. Mr. Sherman here enumerated the re sumption of specie payments, the gold standard, free rural delivery, the railroad rate law, the Dep-irtment of Agriculture, the pure food law. the meat Inspection law and many other accomplishments of the republicans as constituting a great record, and then promised his hearers that "in Coming years the republican party will In augurated a postal savings bank system. "In every department of our govern ment," he added, "the watchword of re publican statesmen in legislative and ex ecutive posltton. Is onward, upward." COCKRILL KILLED BY TRAIN Noted Kentneky Feadlst Meats Death la Railroad Yards at Lanlsvlll. IXtUlSVILLE. Ky.. Sept. r. The body of a man, who was run over by a train and Instantly killed In the Kentucky ft Indiana railroad yards last midnight, was identified early this morning aa that of Thomas Cockrill, the noted Breathitt county, Kentucky, feudist. Cockrlll's pres ence in the yards haa not been explained, but it la presumed ha was either on hla way or returning from a visit to Ills old home, lie was a brother of Jim Cockrill. who was, for a time, marshall of Jackson, and who was assassinated. Tom Cockrill TV as also involved In several feud battles and had killed at least one prominent mem ber of the Hargls faction. YOUNG ROOSEVELT TO CLERK I " of ' '"'111 Begin Datles ia Carpet Factory Is) Office. HARTFORD. Conn.. Sept. 28 Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. who will enter tho emnlov of the Hartford Carpet company tn Thomp- sonvius on ciciouer i, will oo clerical work in the office for a time and later will en ir miiii ana snvanre rroin one department to another until he haa learned tne art or manufacturing carpens. He will live for the f i-Heiit at the tioiiie oj A. I). UiKflna, president of the cunceru. .. CWW 1 ri ill I I I i From the-' Detroit Free' Press YOAKUM TALKS TO FIREMEN Rock Island Chairman Addresses Con vention of th Brotherhood- RAILWAY FINANCE DISCUSSED Employes Are I rged to Assist In Pre venting Aliened Attacks by Law makers on Business of Railroads. J COLUMBUS. O.. Setti-i28.-B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the executive committee of the Rock Island, San Francisco lines, delivered the principal address before the seventh biennial convention oVho Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen s,nd Rnglnemen today at Memorial hall. H said on part: In Wall street there are men whose busi ness life "hlrsbeee. ?. en to supplying their own funds and frtrnut;.of Investors of this country and Ktirops, svho have confidence in tnem, to nulla up the railroads or this country. Nlhety per cant of the lOG.OoO miles of railroad serving the people of that great doman lying west of the Mis sissippi river has been built by funds fur nished by New York bankers. Some of their Investments have been profitable; while others have not. They took their chances and have experienced receiver- ships and foreclosures. On the whole, however, they have made a profit. They were entitled to a profit for supplying the necessary funds to enable the country to 5rom and its resources to be developed, ut 100 times more profit haa been received by the owners of lands, of mines, by mer chants and manufacturers In the different commercial and manufacturing centers than the bankers received upon their In vestments. At 4 per cent per annum It requires the Investment of SIS.OOO to earn as much - a year as the average earnings of the fire men, IT). At present there are 1.O0O.O00 men, women, estates, trustees, corpora tions, banks, etc., who hold railroad se curities as Investments. It Is just as es sential for the prosperity and steadiness of the railroad business to have the man who invests S19.000 In railroad ' securities feel safe and secure as it is that you, whose Investment Is your time, feel sure ot your employment witn the railroads. The danger which threatens the man's Invest ment juat as surely endangers your pay roll. Money is timid, this is natural, as most of the men who Invest money do so for others. Those making Investments for others are held accountable for their judg ment by those who own the money. If a trustee or a guardian or a banker Invests the S19.P00 we are using to illus trate, for an estate, a ward or a client, he tries to put It where he is sure of tlie $760 a yer for the benefit o. the ownner of the money. He la Just as careful about this ss you are In receiving for your time $700 per year. The investor hesitates to risk money In a business which is being constantly attacked by our lawmakers. Continued agitation makes him afraid for the future. 1 want to make plain to you that the attacks on the business hit the employer harder than the man who Invests In stocks or Donas, as ine railroad em ploye gets 42 cents of each dollar earned, wlille the investor receives 21 cents. Keep these facts plainly In mind and you will see that your interest and that of the in vestor are Inseparably linked in a partner ship, only you have twice as much at stake as the Investor In the gross earnings of the railroads of this country. What csn we hope to gain by our politicians continuing to stamp the Dantcers ana capuansis as a body ss unscrupulous In their business methods In dealing with our corporations and Institutions? COMMITTEE FAVORS REVISION Senator Borrows Tells President of ' Progress of Tariff Inqnlry. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. Senator Bur rows of Michigan called on the president today to discuss the re-adjustment of the tariff. The senator Is chairman of the subcommittee to Investigate this subject, and with his committee has been taking testimony both here and In New York. He said all the members of the commit tee were In favor of readjustment. Senator Burrows will leave here Friday next for West Virginia, where he will take the stump for Mr. Taft. He will make speeches In Pittsburg Mondsy and Tuesday next and will continue his tour until October 20. BRYAN'S rOlRTH WEEK OF TOl'R Democratio Candidate Speaks at Sloax Falls. . 11. SIOUX FAL1.8. 8 D.. Sept. it -William J. Bryan, democratic candidate for presi dent, opened the fourth week of this pres ent tour by a renewal of hla criticism of Mr. Taft snd tlie republican platform. Conrt Decides for Warner. LANSING, Mich.. Sept. 18 -The supreme court this afternoon handed down a de cision In favor of Governor Fred M. Warner in the Bradley-Warner recount caae. Tlie court held with Governor Warner that the board of canvassers had no power to go behind the returns from the recent primary election in Michigan, and examine Into the enrollment of voters. Unless the canvass of the vote should discover voters enough to overcome Uoernor Warner's lead. Taft Stumping 5 WATER FAMINE IN AUGUSTA Flood at Georgia City Cats Off City's Supply Many Factories and Mills Idle. AUGUSTA, Ga.. Sept.. 27. -Though the flood, which filled the streets of Augusta, several weeks ago, has long since subsided, the city Is still experiencing great Incon venience because of the resulting condi tions. Not a drop of water has been pumped into the city reservoir since the flood and noue can be sent through the pumping sta tions for some days to come. Pour fire engines have been placed at points along the Savannah river, and tbeae are throwing water directly . Into the city mains. This pressure la sufficient to send water through faucets on first floors and to flush sanitary contrivances up to this level, but : not above. This water Is not used for any other purpose, the president ot the board or health having' Issued a warning against Its use . tot drlnklitgjOf cooking purposes. All drinking water is purchased from private concerns or sup plied by the the city or street railway com pany. The railway company owns several springs about the city, and from these bring a supply Into Augusta and gives It away to those In need. The city has uti lized Its sprinkling carts to supply drink ing water from artesian wells. The . ice companies are supplying the persons able to pay for water at 4 cents a gallon. According to board of health reports, health conditions in the city remain excel lent. But one rain has fallen since the freshet, and In consequence, the dust Is equal almost to a plague. There la no lack of relief funda, the committee In charge of the work having on hand about 110,000. Nearly 4,000 mill operatives are Idle because of the flood, the cotton factories In which they- were employed being unable to operate because of the lack of water In the canal. SAVINGS BANKS. THE THEME American Association Begins Session nt Denver Upon This Theme. DENVER, Sept. 28. -Although the ses sions of the American' Bankers association proper, which meets here in ' Its thirty fourth annual convention, will not com mence until Wednesday morning, sectional meetings began today. At 10 o'clock this morning the savings bank section of which Lucius Peter of Chi cago is president, met In the Brown Palace hotel. Tlila afternoon President August Blum of Chicago called to order In the Brown Palace hotel the Clearing house section. After prayer by Rev. Ixuis A. Bsnks. W. E. Revenscroft of Denver, welcomed the delegates to the savings bank section. This was followed by the annual address of the president, reports of the secretary and committees and addresses. One of the most Important committee reports was that on postal savings banks. Open discussion followed this report. In the clearing house section committees reported, following which action was had on the recommendations of the executive committee. Several formal addresses were delivered at this meeting and general dis cussion had on auggestions offered in re sponce to the call of cities. Both the savings bank and clearing house sections elected and Installed new officers before adjourning. The report of the committee on postal savings banks of the savings bank aection contained the following: It la our opinion that unless imnratu.aiu ' demanded by public needs the functions of the United States government should not be extended to the spheres more properly occupied by state governments or by cor relate of Individual effort. TWO BIG BANKS CONSOLIDATE United States National and National of Commerce Join Forces In Denver. DENVER. Colo.. Sept. -Patrons of the United States National bank and the Nt. tlonal Bank of Commerce received In their mail today announcemxnt of the consol. Idation of the two banks. The business will be continued In the name, of the United States National bank. Gordon Jones is president and W. B. Morrison cashier of the ConsoMdated bank. President D. II. Dongan of the Bank of Commerce, retires from active business. Tlie statements of the two banks at the close of business. September 23. show that the combined deposits are SS.474.7 and the combined resources, 17,321,811. The two banks stood highest among the banks of the city In the point of reserve, the Na tional Bank of Commerce having about to per oent and the United States a per cent of the deposits either In rush in their vaults ror la deposits in reserve cities subject to .(ii J I nw l ' i f . 1,11 dT - i""'n I ' m'X. t sight exchange. DELEGATES TO WATERWAYS State to Be Represented at the Con vention to Be Held in Chicago. LINCOLN WANTS TO HEAR HUGHES Hallway Commission Pats In Day Hearing; Charge of Discrimination Against the Bell Telephone Company, LINCOLN, Sept. 28. (8 vci.U.)-Govemor Sheldon today appointed the following del egates to the lakes to the gulf deep water way convention to be held in Chicago, Oc tober 7 to ; William Hayward, Nebraska City; Charles Sloan, TJenevs ; Eugene Brad ley, Nebraska City; H. T. Clarke, sr.. Omaha; James North, Columbus; K. Mj'CTi Alliance. , Governor to Attend Ball. The governor and his military staff will attend the Ak-Sar-Ben ball at Omaha Fri day night. Governor Hughes May Come. There Is some prospect that Governor Hughes of New York will be secured for a speech In Lincoln the morning of Oc tober 7. He has already been assigned for an address at Grand Island on the after noon or evening of .the same day, follow Ing one at Omaha the night before. The re publican state committee Is endeavoring to perfect arrangements which will bring him through Lincoln on his way to Grand Island and allow a stop-over of forty min utes at this place. If this Is done,, short speeches from the rear end of the train may be scheduled for Governor Hughes at Seward, Aurora and York. If possible, the Itinerary will be extended to Hastings be fore Hughes g-oea to St. Joseph the morn ing of October 8 to begin a trip through Kansas. Word has been received by tlie republican state committee from W. K. Andrews, auditor of the treasury department, that be will reach Nebraska about October 3, and his services will be available after that date. He will be sent to Syracuse for an address on the 8th and other dates will be assigned him in the South Platte terri tory to keep him on the stump until elec tion. A number of these will be In the Fifth congressional district, which he formerly represented In congress. The democratic stale committee announces that Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia, former aecretary of the interior under Cleveland, will make speeches in Ne braska. Hearing Telephone Complaint. The railway commission today began tak ing testimony In the matter of the com plaint of II. F. Canon against the Nebraska Telephone company. The complainant is secretary of the Johnson County Home Tel ephone company. He alleges that the Bell company charges local subscribers at Te cumseh 5 cents to talk to Crab Orchard, Vesta and Sterling, while non-subscribers are charged 15 cents to talk to Crab Orchard or Vesta and 10 cents to Sterling. The Bell j company denies that the rstes are dis criminatory In that they are open to all persons on the same basis, that tlie rates are not remunerative, but were made to meet Irrational competition. W. W. Morsman. attorney for the Bell company, cross-examined Mr. Canon. Mark Wooda appeared as attorney for the com plainant. It was charged by the complain ant that the Bell company dlacrimlnated by giving free service to offices In the court house at Tecumseh. 'Phones had been ordered out and not taken out. The Bell company denied this and made a counter charge that the Independent company Is giving free service of that nature. Mr. Morsman produced a letter from Sheriff H A. Minor In which the sheriff said the "phone in his office, belonging to the Inde pendent company, had not l'n psld for during the last six months, while others were chargfd tl for the same service. Mr. Canon said the bill bad since been paid by the sheriff. "It dnn't matt sit Thairmsn Wlnnett. Both con panle.i Isve reen do Inor It all ovet he etafe." Mr, Canon admitted that hU company charged suba'Tlbers- ten cents a csll he tween Cook and Tfcumseh. but permitted farmers to have an unlimited number of calls for 25 rents a month. Mr. Morsman In dtiscuslng the mater In an Informal way aald he hetleved rites ought to be made with regard to giving tie j.eipln tie service they ask for anJ that in rate making, dlatanre arwt some times volume of business ought to be Ig nored. The hearing rlosol this sflernoen. It Invokes minimum toll ihsrges snd the com mission will ak for agreement and sug gestions from the telephone coropanfea, KING'S FIRST PARADE Daylight Tayeant Three Miles in Length Will B? Seen Today. PARTICIPANTS NUMBER 6.000 (Military Section, with Cavalry 23 I Abreast, a Big Feature. DREAM OF DIETZ BECOMES REAL Parade Manager Relieves in Daylight Spectacles Which All May See. ROUTE OF MARCH CHANGES SOME tirent Length Makes It ecesnrr Mgif Parade ironnd Larger Area, Which Will Make It I'uslrr to 9m, VKATIIER. Tuesday, fair and rUing temperature. Carnival Attendance. 106. . ... BBSS . ... 8318 .... 6,088 , . . .16,683 :07. 9.51 6,67 SOS 83,100 190C. 4.376 V.06 e,7 10,664 Wsdnesday Thursday , Mdaj Saturday . King's Highway Program. King's Highway open at 18 o'clock aaea uay. Madam Traaoss and diving horse, 1:30 and p. nt. Sullivan and XUrala, 3 and 8i30 p. m. Balloon race and airship flight, 8 p. as. Country Circus exhibitions hourly. Tuesday Lincoln Day. Wednesday Hebraaka Say. Thursday Xlks' Day. rriday Ancient Order United Work men Day. Saturday Saglss' Day. Ak-Sar-Beas Own Event. Day rarado Tuesday, iright Farads Wednesday. Taft and Fireworks Thursday. Coronation Ball Trlday. Cinderella Ball Saturday, 8i30 p. tn. Today will witness the first great pa rade of Ak-Sar-Ben XIV nnd it will be the most notable daylight parade, ever undertaken in the history of thin dynestv. It will stretch for throe miles or more in lengtli and comprise some 6,000 people. Its length would even exceed this but for the fact that the footmen will bu marched as many abreast aa the width of tiie streets will permit and cavalry twenty five abreast. Gould Dietz, director general of this pa rade, who haa worked with untiring zeal for weeks In conjunction with other mem bers of the Board of Governors, sayn that people who miss seeing this great pageant will deprive themselves of one of the most spectacular demonstrations ever at tempted by a scion of the house of Ak-Sar-Ben. This piiaUo will possess a distinctive . military aspect Troops to the number of 1,200, comprising Hie famous Second cavalry, the signal corps and the Six teenth regiment with their bands; tho high school cadets and the drill teams of scores of fraternal organizations, will be In the line. New Root of Pnrade. Because of tha exceptional length of the daylight parade Tuesday afternoon. Gould Dletz, manager ot the parade for the Board of Governors, has found It necessary to change the route. The route as now ar ranged is: Sherman avenue south to Douglas, east on Douglas to Tenth, south on Tenth to Far nain, weet on Farnam to Fifteenth, south on Fifteenth to Howard, west on Howard to Sixteenth, north on Sixteenth to Harney, west on Harney to Nineteenth, north on Nineteenth to Farnam, east on Farnam to Sixteenth, north on Sixteenth to Douglas, east on Douglas to Fifteenth, north on Fifteenth past army headquarter. Tho police insist that the people will have to keep back on the sidewalks and entirely off the street. Owing to the great length of the parade the cavalry soldiers will be marched twenty-five abreast. This will necessitate giving the whole thoroughfare to the procession and keeping the spectators back even with the curb line. The Military Section. The Second regiment. United. Stater cavalry. Including the headquarters field staff and hand and eight troops, arrived in Omaha from Bt. Joseph Monday morn ing over the Burlington and was switched up to Fort Omaha, where the regiment went into camp about 11:30 south of the new barracks. The command numbers almut "30 officers and enlisted man, with an equal number of horses. The command will remain at Fort Omaha until Wednesday and will partici pate In the great daylight Ak-Sar-Ben parade Tuesday afternoon. The Sixteenth United Ststes Infsntry. headquarters field staff and hand, with eight companies, numbering about (M officers and enlisted men, will arrive In Omaha this forenoon and will also par- I tlclpate In the Ak-Sar-Ben parade. Fort Omaha was visited Mondsy after noon by a great host of citizens to see the famous Second cavalry, which Is ono of the noted and crack regiments of the United States army. Here are the arrangements of troops In the daylight parade anil the places tn meet, promptly at 1:30 p. rn.: First Dlvi-lon I'nltd States troops, Hlxtf-enth, north of Cuming street; Colonel Gardner. Second Division National guards and cadet j. Nicholas, west of Hlxteenlh street; P. I lea f-y. marshal. Third Division Fraternal societies. Izard, west of Sixteenth street; C. H T. Relpen. Fourth Division Fire depsrtment. Burt, west of Sixteenth street : W. F Stoecker. Fifth Division Carnival crew. Chicago, east of Sixteenth street: Herman Metz. Sixth DIvNIon -Carnival crewn. ill' awn. west of Sixteenth street; Thomas Swift, It ((! FOR All. illF. lITOn Hoaslng Ak-War-Ben ,nrale Is Work of the V. M. C. S. Housing of Ak-Sar-lten vlsltota will en gage the attention of the Young Men's Christian association this week. Having discovered that no other institution or or ganization is piovitling strangers with a directory of ro.ims nnd Iodising and being urged on to the work by the UvArd of gov ernors, a tier'cal force has been set aside St the. association to ptosccuto Hie work. "If 1t is to be suucefcsful." declared Gen ersl Secretary Wade, "peuple who have rooms to rent must oo-opert wilh us and furnish at once tlie necessary Informa tion." The Young Men's Christian association, which Is doing the work gratis and st a considerable cost to itself, Will direct strangers seeking quarters to addresses on file at the association. Householders with rooms to let aould at one wtU i