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OilAIIA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 1900 SIX SECTIONS THIRTY-SIX PAGES.
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CABINET MEMBERS
TAKE TILE OATH
AH But Dickinioa tad MacVeaga
Qualify and TakeUp Duties of
Their Ofices.
NEGRO UPLIFT
Taft Will Visit
RANSOM KEEPING
IN BACKGROUND
Omaha in August
if He Goes West
President Promises to Accept Omaha's
Invitation Should He Go
to Seattle.
IN NEBRASKA
Eight Thousand Colored People ia
Senator from Doug-las Evidently Con
cludes He Eat Beea Too
Conspicuous.
the State Besponsirs to
Modern Spirit,
cniF.r
JTSTICE
OFFICIATES
LETS HOWELL DO TALKING HOW
nXXTEBACY FALLS TO LOW MARK
r
Ceremony Takes Place at White
House ia Pretence of Officials.
OCX MAXES TOTO 0? BUBXA.U3
Hew Secretary ia Introduced
Subordinates by Mr. Bacoa.
to
TAJT CALLS SPECIAL SXSSI03
to Xh A cm la M March
rift
path, hat Na 9alfl OIJ1
I lumtH la the
Call.
WASHl.vr.TQV. March a-AIl bat two
of the nine member, of President Taffs I
cabinet are now In office. Six. Including
Secretaries Knox. Mayer. Wilson and N
get and Postmaster General Hitchcock,
took the oath of office In the cabinet
rooms today. Attorney General Wlcker
aham was worn In yesterday, and Soero
tary Dickinson and Secretary MacVeagh
will present thsmsaives for duty within
'week or mora. .
Huntington, Wilson, assistant oecretary of
state, also took the oath of office today.
President Taft. Secretary Carpenter. Sen
ator Burton of Ohio, Richard D. Harlan,
son af Justice Harlan of the suprera
court and John Barrett, director of the
bureau of American republics, were present
during the ceremony.
Immediately after being sworn Secretary
Knox, with the retiring secretary, Robert
Bacon, mad a tour of the different bu
reaus of the department with Mr. WUcon.
The diplomatic corps will meet Mr. Knox
next Thursday. Senators Cummins and Dol
Ilver of Iowa wers Mr. Knox's first callers.
Secretary Knox said that whatever
changes there might be In hla official en
tourage would be mads gradually.
As soon as the ceremony had been com
pleted. Prealdent Taft gava himself up to
the reception of several hundred persons
who gained admittance to his offices by
being sccommnted by senators and repre
sentatives.. The outer office wss crowded
and the Una passed through the cabinet
room where the president atiod and waa
m,u7' "B Jr"'"'" , ""re
hand of each person. The line tern the
outside seemed not to diminish. Senator
Aldrlch of Rhode Island Interrupted the
reception proceeding by a somewhat
lengthy conference with the president
While the friends of senators and mem
bers were being received . tn the office
building several thousand people gathered
In tha aaat room, being,, delegations with
proper credentials and when Mr. Taft had
disposed sf the first crowd he went to the
east rewm where there the handshaking
, process continued for some time.
Call few Spewtal Saaatwa.
' President Taft today Issued a call for a
pedal session of the sixty-first con grass
to convene March 15. The call does not
mention ths object for which tha spaoaU
session t called.
The following Is the text of the call:
"By the President of the United States
ef America, a Proclamation:
"Wturra,, Public Intereats require that
the congress .,f the United States should
be convened In xlra aesalon at IS o'clock,
noon, on tint 15th day of March, 1M, to re
ceive such communication aa may be made
by the executive; now.
Therefore. I. William Howard Taft.
president tf the United States of America,
do hereby proclaim and declare that an
extraordinary occasion reoutres the con
gress of the United States to convene In
axtra session st the capital In the city of
. Washington, on the fifteenth day of March,
UM, at 12 o'clock, noon, at which all per
sona who sbsll, at that time, be entitled
ta act as members thereof are hereby re
quired to take notice.
"Given under my hand and the seal of
the United States of America, the sixth
day of March, tn tha year of our lord,
ana thdUsand, nine hundred and nine, and
ef the independence af the United States,
the one hundredth and thirty-third.
"WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT "
"By the prealdent. P. C. Knox. Secretary
of State.-
fmt mm Cmm aaacaClasa.
The Conservation commission will con
tinue Its existence under tha Taft admin
istration. This conclusion wss reached to
ay at a conference between Prealdent
.Tsft and tha members of tha Joint com mi t
Itae representing the state sonaarvatloo or
Jganlaatlon and tha national organisation
I appointed last November.
J Among tha several thousand persons
I whom Mr. Taft received were delegations
I from New Orleans, Oklahoma, Kanaas aad
I Mains. In welcoming them ta tha White
) Hons Mr. Taft remarked that although
f fee had coma la tike a lion having refer
ence to tha bltasard on tha 4th of March
I ' he hoped ta go out Ilka a Iamb.
Talk 1m Nsvesaapsa Mew.
i - Mr. Taft had hla first conference aa
I president with tha eorre) of Washington
1 aowopaoor correspondents at tha does of
tha Say. Ha greeted tha scare or mors of
1 ma personalty ana statea that ta falrnae
ta himself, tt would be hla policy that
quotation marks sbould not embrace staXe-
maata at news which might ba gives out at
tha White House. Whan ha desired to
make formal statement, tt would, ha said.
ba addressed to eoagrwaa or ba embraced in
a speech. This policy la a continuation of
Akt which has heretofore prevailed aa tha
ererogattvo sf tha president not to ba quoted
ia tha public prtnta la any case except a
formal statement.
VMr. Taft would give aa axpresston for
ibUeattoa oa tha- subject of changing ths
lata ef tha mana-oratlon.
t WUllaaa Loeb. Jr.. whose nomination ta
w eo nectar of tha port of New York waa
firmed by tha senate today, waa pre
n'd with a silver loving cup, of heroin
Ht, by tha office staff of tha White
naa.
"'V Tama Lamvwa fear WaahtasTlaav
flCAGOv March C -Secretary of the
i.wi M - ' w .ii m
P-aooa ever tha Feaasyrvaaia railroad
asuana his new duties) ia Washington.
1INOTON. March a Aa aa tndica-
thw prog rasa of tha Panama canal
tt h stated at tha offlcea af
eosamtiasoa ta this dry that
Lyng (ha aaoath af January over I2T tons
imlMtvea warn aaed aad aV4 auaoa ef
ltraotloa.
drflling were aocoaapuahed,
tod
rmra a Staff Correspondent.)
WASHI.NOTOV, March I. (Special
Telegram.) Victor Rosewater today pre
sented an Invitation to President Taft to
visit Omaha on his trip to Reattla the
latter part of August. This Invitation
was extended on behalf of the Commercial
club of Omaha, of which Edgar Allen ta
chairman of the executive committee and
who wired Mr. Roaewatar to extend the
Invitation to atop at Omaha either coins;
or coming from the Alaaka-Tukoa ex
poettlon. Mr. Roeewater waa Informed that there
had been no definite arrangement made
for the visit of Prealdent Taft to Wash
ington state next summer, but In event
such trip would be made Omaha ecu Id
reat aasured that the prealdent would
atop at the Gate City, for he remembered
with much pleaaure hla last visit to the
metropolis of Nebraska.
- t i-ouce J. J. uonanuc or umana
Washington today for Excelsior
Springs, Mo., where be will Join his wife
and daughter and where he will remain
until March IS before returning to his
duties in Omaha.
Chief Donahue has had the most stren
uous three or four days In his Ufa sines
he came to Washington on request of
Major Sylvester, chief of pollcs of Wash- ,
lngton, to help keep the criminal classes
tn check. Donahue, who Is a big, strap
ping fellow and of the same age today
as President Taft. waa sslected aa one of
the ten chlefa of pollen to act aa the pres
ident's guard of honor. In consequence
of this designation Chief Donahue waa
constantly with the president on In
auguration day. He marched beslds the
carriage which carried President Roose
velt and President-elect Taft to tha cap
ltol. trudging through the slush and
snow. He watched over Mr. Taft on his
return to the White House and waa with
him on the reviewing stand and ha re
mained with the president as his person!
bodyguard until the Inauguration waa
over and the ball but memory.
Chief Donahue, while ' admitting that
the day waa a strenuous one, a aid it waa
worth while and be would like to go
through a similar experience.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hayward of Ne
braska City, who have been guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred W. Cpbam of Chicago in
their private car, Commonwealth, during
the Inauguration, left for the west today.
Tha president today signed the recess
- nited States district attorney for South
. .
Dakota. This action waa taken so that
term of court may be held and has no
reference to permanent appointment.
Big Oil Strike
Near Washakie
Company ia Which Gould Diets, is
Interested Owner of the
Property.
LANDER, Wyo., Ibrch C (Special TI--gram.
Gould Diets of Omaha la Interested
ta developing a new enterprise la Wyoming,
a producing well of heavy black oil of
axpbaltum base bavina been brought in
at a depth of BO feet on the lease of tha
Washakie Hydro Carbon Mining company
at Fort Washakie. Wyo.. sixteen miles
north of Lander, this evening.
To the efforts of Russell Thorp of Lusk.
Wyo., Is due' tha credit of bringing in the
first producing oil well on the Shoshone
Indian reservation. Associated with Mr.
Thorp are Gould Diets, a well known
Omaha capitalist; E. J. UAhlein of Chicago
and J. K. Moore, Jr.. of Port Washakie.
Oil men through tha country have been
watching tha development by this company
with tha keenest Interest and now that a
producer has been developed It will mean
the Interesting of large capital aad develop
ment ta already under way. as Los Angeles,
Washington and New Tork man have ma
chinery on their various
Wireless Plant
for Storm Use
Philadelphia Will Establish Station
oa City Hall to Obviate Tele
graph Blockade.
PHILADELPHIA. March 1 One resalt of
wire prostration dac to tha bllsaard will
be ths establishment by the city of a
wireless plant on top of the city hail tower.
COUNCIL BLUFFS MAN
ARRESTED IN DETROIT
Ottw Neadhasa, Said ta Ba Wasted ta
Several Cltlre, le Charged with
Paealaa- Worthless Cheeks,
DETROIT. March a A man giving hla
nam at police headquarters aa Otto Need
ham of Frankfort. Mich., was arrested
bars today on a charga of paaaing worth
less checks In several western cities. The
police say ha ia wanted in St. Louis. Kan
aas City and Omaha, and that he was
until recently a druggist In Council Bluffa
To Change Inauguration
to Last Week in April
WASHINGTON. March . A proposition
to change tha data of tha Inauguration
from March 4 to tha last Wednesday ta
April was made by Senator Deoew tn the
brief executive session of tho senate today.
Thla proposition was tn a resolution pro
posing an amendment ta tha constitution
which was referred to the committee on
elect tona
The senate waa tn session eight aunates,
after which the dcors were closed for
executive business until t.Tt o'clock, when
the senate adjourned una die.
The aamlnatlona af Willi am Loeb, Jr.. ta
ha collector of tha pert of New Tork. and
Beekmaa Wtnthrop, to be aaalataat secre
tary of tha navy, warn confirmed by tha
senate ta executive session today.
Befera taking thia eulluu Sera tor Bailey
aada a protest aa:nst stories which wers
Evidence, is Plentiful, However, Raa-
som is Doing the Planning-.
05E TRICK IS TTJB2IED OH EDI
Stock Yards Bill Hot Referred to
Committee Ee Intended.
C0OTT OPTION BILL TUESDAY
Made Special Order la Staatt la
Order that All May Rave
Notice aad Be Present
ta Vote.
'From a Staff Correspondent)
LINCOLN. March . (Special.) Senator
Ranaom. who when the legislature con
vened waa one of the moat energetic mem
bers of the atate senate and waa alrrs
with suggestions snd aid to his fellow
senators when in trouble, has become one
of the meek and paaetve ones, and to lav
he sits calmly while the matters of utmoet
moment are being considered and coaches
his friend Howell what to say. It ta be
lieved the gentleman from Douglas la
playing one of the most foxy games that
have been perpetrated before the leglsla
ture, and that In tha end he will be able
to win out In what he desires, but In so
doing hs has been obliged to pull over bis
shoulders the pelt of a lamb.
Stork Tarda Bill Located.
To the republicans this week belongs
the credit of turning a neat trick on tha
Douglas county statesman and he la now
Industriously engaged In countering. Lieu
tenant Governor Hopewell referred the
house bill regulating tha rates to be
charged by the South Omaha stock yards
to tha committee on miscellaneous sub
jects. Instead of to ths committee on mis
cellaneous corporations, of which Tanner
of Douglas Is chairman, and to which it
was expected the measure would go. This
committee Is composed In part of three
country members, who are likely to re
port tt out again und place he measure
before ths senate. Wbst would have hap
pened had tha bill gone into tie hands of
the committee on miscellaneous corpora
tlons, organised for this especial purpose,
may be Imagined. The stock yards bill
reduces charges for yardage SO per cent.
and provides that for feed ths yards may
not charge mora than SS cants above tha
market price. This Is tha measure that
has been set as the p-tce of .the passage
of tha Omaha charter In the house by ths
friends of Repraeetitatlve Tajlcr.
So frequently has ths corporation
record of Senator. Ranoonr been" re ferret!
to In tha last fsw weeks that ha h
deemed U wise to- lay la the Vackmwwdt
and whan tha stock yards bUl waa if
ferred to the live stock cotrrmlttes all
ha did was to ge to tha presiding effl
car's desk and maks a protest. But tho J
senator la not downed by any meana. I
Hla ability to prevent the passage of tha
bill has not yet been fully tested. He
may ba able ta call to his help Senator
OUls of Valley, who conaented to tha
amendment of the physical valuation bill
by striking out the provision that would
take In the stock yards.
Personnel of Cosamlttea.
The miscellaneous corporations commit
tee is: Tanner of Douglas. Bartos of
Saline, Buhrmaa of Howard. Dlera of
Tork., Tlbbets of Adam's, Lavsrty of
Saunders and Myers of Rock.
Tha committee on miscellaneous corpora
tions, to which tt was expected Lieutenant
Governor Hopewell would refer the bill,
la headed by Senator Tanner of Douglas
and tha other members are Bartoa of Sa
line, Buhrmaa of Howard. EM era of Tork.
Tlbbets of Adams, Laverty of Saunders and
Myers of Rock.
Tha committee on misccllansous subjects
is constituted aa follows: Puller of Sew
ard, Doaohae of Holt, Henry of Ootfax.
Gam mill of Frontlar and Thompson of
Cuming. All of these members represent
either farming commnnlUea or live stock
sections of tha stata and would ba vttally
Interested tn anything tending to tha safe
guarding of Interests of shippers of stock.
Senator Puller la a democrat as are tha
other members except OammlU and Thomp
son, senator Donohoe la from a prominent
rtock shipping county aad has been rated
as oca of ths Independents of too legisla
ture, while Senator Henry and Senator
Howell had a ctormy session early In the
legislature, when Senator Howell declared
ha would BAma Lee Herdman dark of tha
eommcttea oa municipal affairs. Senator
G aim ill haa repeatedly championed tha
Interests of tha farmers, and Senator
Thompson, until a stock yards bill was In
troduced and gained position In tho house,
was contemplating tha Introduction ef a
similar measure. Senator Puller today, when
asked about tha bill admitted that tha In
terests of hla constitusnta would demand
a thorough consideration of tha aneaoure.
Whether' Senator Ransom will consider
tha Omaha charter and "home rule" of
mora Importance now than tha stock yards
bill will be ena ef the Interesting develop
ments of tha session. Whethsr tt makes
any dlffsranco what Senator Ransom
thinks probably depends oa ths eleverneea
(Continued on Second Page,)
printed concerning ths executive session
of yes tardiiy. whea ha suggested that
Charles Nagel of Mlssoart nalght ba In
eligible for tha office of secretary of com.
merco and labor if ba had beea interested
as counsel in a suit against tha Watars
Picrca OU company, which litigation ta a til!
pending before a federal coart. Mr. Bailey
made aa extended speech, criticising
sharply ths publication of alleged Inaccu
rate stodes of executive sessions and lec
turing parsons who may have gtvea out
lnforxaatloa concerning tha sessions. T'.ie
matter waa referred to a committee of five.
The nomlnalton af John P. McDowell ta
ba reoeivar af public mnaey at Willis ton,
N. D-. Oliver C. lUppsxOwock La ba receiver
at Gregory. S. D-. and Thorns s C. Buna
to ba register of tha land office at Gregory
aiaa wers confirmed,
i w MlSiv, vA.
From the New Tork World.
HARRIMAN AND GOULD DEAL
Union Pacific and Wabash Will Ex
change Business at Kansas City.
AGREEMENT STILL TENTATIVE
Harare that Iaterehaaa-e Will Is.
clad Practically Alt Other Cea
aectieae May Kxptala Plaaa
clal Traaaastlaas.
ernCAJO; KUrci lr 7fvorw-Hr8rald
tomorrow morning will say; Negotiations
arc In progress which wilt, tt la thought,
eventually land for Edward K. Harriman'e
Union Pacific Una wast of Kansas City
the greatest traffic coup In Its history.
It Is understood that beginning early In
May thsrs wilt be an Interchange traffic
agreement between the Wabash and the
Union Pacific at Kansas City which will
be of immense value to each system. The
details of the tentative agreement have
not received tha sanction of Harrlman or
of George J. Gould, but It ta known that
it is tha purpose to Interchange traffic
well nigh to tha exclusion of alt other
connections. Tho pending agreement may
In a measure explain why Harrlman was
so ready to throw fS.OOO.dOa into the syn
dicate which loaned Gould $8.00,000 to
save soma of his roads from bankruptcy.
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE
GENERAL EMILI0 NUNEZ
Cm baa Merchaat with Pereawal
Uradge Fires Two Shwts at
Famar Geveraer af Havana.
nitrivi Marrh I .in attemnt waa
made this evening to kill General Emllio
Nunas, ex-governor of ths provlnos of
Havana, while hs was passing through
San Miguel street.
Jose Ctsnsroa. a merchant, who haa had
a personal grudge of long standing
asainst General Nunea, fired two shots
at him. but neither took effect.
Clsneros waa arrested and said that he
h.i aoiectad todav to kill General Nunes
because ths latters daughtsr. Marls, was
to be marrlsd tonignt to oagar tuvei.
son of a millionaire sugar planter.
General Nunea was governor of Havana
during tha recent American Intervention.
An attempt was made to shoot him two
years ago.
Old Tom Murray,
who built the Mur
ray Hotel, in Oma
ha, had a store in
the early days w here
you could buy any
thing from a candle
to a second-hand
coffin.
Ha would buy aaytnlni that was
cheap and sell anything ha had. at
a Uttla profit. Ha ptw rich and
died rkh.
Tom Murray would have
revelled in the want ad page
of The Bee. Do you look it
over every dayt It teila you
where you can buy most any
thing you want- It offers a
way to sell anything you don't
want. It will save you money;
it will make you money.
It ia a constant loaaos to tha
tartfty aad the wide awake.
SAME OLD GAME
Wool Men Who
Sell in East Incensed
at Low Prices
Wyoming Growers Realize How
Warning- Girea Them Ead Some
Point to It.
CASPER, Wyo.. March l Special
Local wool growers who consigned their
1901 wool to eastern houses are advised
that their clips have recsnQy been sold at
prices ranging from U to 12H cents per
pound. The sheepmen are greatly mcensed
sa a result of this action upon ths part of
tha commission houses and by many it ta
regarded as robbery, tn view of the fact
that ths sams houres are contracting the
1908 wool on the sheep's backs at from 17
to X cents per pound. This action of the
eastern houses has mada many converts
to the wool storage plan of the National
Wool Growers' association In this section,
Wyoming glow eis who consigned to
Boston com mission houses were fore
warned. Many of them took advantage cf
the) proposition offered by the Omaha Wool
and Storage company and sent their clips
here.
"Not a pound of wool haa left our ware
house which brought leas than 17 cents,
said C. H. King, president of the wool
company. "I taks tt that those who were
foolish enough to sell their wool In ths
east or consign It were those who made
their deals early. Our bouse waa a little
lata In opening, but we were ready for all.
There Is quits a difference between IT
cents and 11 cents, as the wool growera
will ses by the else, of the checka they get."
Besides ths visible gains, Prealdent Bred
Gooding of the National Wool Growers'
association aays the Omaha market mads
the growers (3,000,000 becsuse of the In
fluence it had on the east.
MAMMOTH GORGE FORMS
IN MISSOURI RIVER
Beaideats ef Bottoms ia Vlctaity af
Veraalllaa. S. D-. Ara Pre
paring; ta Slave.
VERMILION. S. D.. March 1-A mam
moth gorge haa former in the Missouri
riven three miles southwest of Vermilion,
and us leas It breaks tonight tha water will
ba flowing over lowlands tomorrow morn
ing. Down In Gunderson's bend where the
gorge formed two years age, tha water
lacks IS Inches of running over the banks.
Flva miles west of tha present gorge ths
water is said to be failing. Indicating that
another gorge has formed farther up
stream. Residents of ths Missouri bottom
ars on ths anxious seat tonight, and many
ars preparing to move out.
At Yankton the James river, already
high rose two feet, and a large territory
ta flooded. Soma uneasiness as to high
water ts felt here.
Maybray Must
Council
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 1-Judga
Jacob Trlefcer In tha United Statea district
court today refused to permit John C. May
bray, allrred leader of the gang of swind
lers arrested here, to withdraw his admis
sion of identity and waiver cf arraign
ment before Corns issloner Allen to the
federal grand Jury at Csuncil Bluffs and
Issued a writ of removal to that court,
Maybray was making a fight to remain
here with tha three other members of the
garg. Maybray a 111 leave tonight for
Council Bluffs under a heavy guard.
raa Stay Brad ratralltlaa
HOT SPRINGS. Ark.. March a Ooorga
Ryaa. held undo CO, JOS bond here for al
leged mlit'itt cf tha mails ta connection
with tha foot racing oporatkina of tha came
HARD COAL MINERS' SCALE
Arrangements Made for Conference ia
Philadelphia Thursday.
EARLY AGREEMENT IS EXPECTED
Distinctly Better Paellas; Prevails
aad It la Prabaala There Will
Ba Ia Saspensioa af
Work.
WTLKESBARRB, Pa.. March ' .
Thomas L Lew la president ef tha United
Mine Workers of America," today com
pleted arrangements for a meeting be
tween the mine workers and the anthra
cite coal operators la Philadelphia next
Thursday to msks a new agreement be
tween the men and their employers. Mr.
Lewis left for Indianapolis. Ha will re
main at national headquarters there until
Tuesday and will reach Philadelphia
Wednesday. W. J. L. Cake, president of
the Individual Operators' association, haa
agreed to attend tha meeting. The pres
ent three-year agreement will expire
March SI.
Thsrs Is a distinctly better feeling In
the bard coal fields regarding the out
coma of tha negotlxtlona. Business msn
say that they look for only a short sus
pension of work. If, Indeed, there Is any
suspension at alL
Night Riders Are
Sued for Damages
Frank Eckler Charges that Ee Was
Driven from Home by Band
of Eentuekians.
CINCINNATI, March l-Prank Eckler
former tobacco dealer of Harrison count v
Kentucky, but now of Cincinnati, todav
sued eleven alleged "night rldera" In tha
United Statea court of Covington, asking
for tS.OBO damages, said to have been sus
tained at tha hands of tha night riders,
Tha defendants are John and Jamee RM.n.
James and Everett Aulick. James Lang,
Alfred Collier, Perd Colvln, Tod and
Charles Jones, Kirby Hamilton and Jesse
Allen.
In a lengthy Mil of particulars Bekler
states that en ths night of March 2&. ixm
tha defendants and several other tn him
unknown surrounded his homo In Harrison
county at midnight. Ha says that at ths
point of a pistol ha was attacked ami
dragged from his homo and dmd tn m.
company the defendants to the Pendleton
county una, a distance of ona mile. vr.
further at ilea that he was kept a prisoner
in Pendleton county for soma time, but
was finally allowed to go with a warn ina
ne alleges mat as a result of the raid
he was forced to leave bis home and re
move to Cincinnati.
Por this mental and physical suffering
he asks for tQM.
Return to
Bluffs for Trial
racsntly uncovered at Little Rock. tonight
successfully combatted requisition proceed
ings which would have caused him to ba
returned to Council Bluffs to be tried for
having swindled Joe Walker out of JE.gnfl,
Ryan, with his attcmey, met Poetofrica
Inspector Bwanaoa and Special Officer
Donowag and an agreement was reached
whereby Ryan waa to be in federal court
Monday morning at 9 o'clock. Attorney
Huff, for Ryan, announced that also at
that time be would have a writ cf habeas
corpua for Ryan demanding that ba ba
held here instead of being taken away.
Ryan ia wanted hero to aaswar a minor
charge of assault wtth Intent to kill and
hla counsel will demand that ha first ba
triad horn for that affeasa before being
taksa ta any other point to answer charges.
negroes ia the Professions Doing
Credit to Their Bace.
CLEBGYMEH, LAWYIBS, DOCT0BJ
Eare Flourishing" Churches, aad Chil
dren Attend School Numerously.
NEGRO FARMERS ARE TEBJYTHC
Not Many at Theea, hat Work af the ,
Threw Seora E a staged la
tared Parealta Shaveo If
Very Eaeaaraatagly. .
Tha negro population of Nebraska, ao
cording to tha census of 1900, waa af
when Z per cant were mulattoea. - The
percentage of negroes to total population
was 0.1. At tha same time Kansas had
negro poulatlon of S,iXA or a percentage
of IS. Iowa bad U.aM, wtth the same per
centage as Nebraska ODcncarad ta total
population. At the present time tt la es
timated that thla statu haa a negro" pop'
latlon In the neighborhood of lam, and thai
Omaha and Lincoln have to per cant ei
the total.
According to the census the Uliteraoy
among negroes was about seven times aa
great as among whites, ths country svarv
but in Nebraaka and statea close by Illiter
acy among tha colored population was much
smaller than In other aactlona, Por tha
country at large, tt was figured that tf tha
percentage of illiteracy should fall ta each
succeeding ten years by as great an aaaount
as It dU between UM and 1000. tt would
become aero about 1940. A great many
colored men and women of Nebraska ara
highly educated.
Tha medium age of tha negro population
at that time was 14 years; that ta. half
the negroes tn the country were below that
age, which was 4 years below tha median
ags of ths whites, S t years, a difference
closely connected with a high birth rata
and a high death rata.
Breadwinners constituted O.S per cent
of all negroes at least 10 years of af, as
against a percentage of 41S among the
whites cf like age. This difference hold
good generally, north and south.
Illiteracy at Law Biba.
Progress among tha negroes of Nebraaka
Is kseptng pace with tha beet that ta being
reported from other sections of the country.
Ia tha matter of education, lowering of tha
parsaotaga of illiteracy, tha negroes of thia
vicUUty. and of thla stata. ara as far ta tha
good as those of any section of tha anion.
good many among tha adults bava
achieved considerable success ta ths pro-
issslons ano in caiungs apart iron aonuaaa
Ukif- anma have, learned trades. etheVa ara
clerking or engaged tn business In a anadsac
way, and about throe scars are farmera
Leaders of the raco In Ocaaba estimate that
ene-third of tha local negro population, own)
their bomea or ara buying them aa tha
Installment plan.
There ts one negro Bpiscopai clergyman
tn Omaha, Rev. John Albert Williams, asy
ststant secretary of the diocesan council t 1
two Baptist ministers. Rev. J. A. Bingamar .
and Rev. Oa W. Wright; ona Methodist
minister. Rev. William W. S. Dystt. In
Lincoln there are three colored conaTega-
tlona, Baptist. Methodist and CampbaUlta,
and Nebraska City has a small congrega
tion of colored people, with a minister at
tached. Of the practicing attorneys In Omaha four
are negroes Pred L. Smith, Joseph Carr.
Silas Robblns and H. J. Ptnkelt.
In the medical profession. Omaha boasts
five negro doctors J. H. Hutten, L. E,
Bailer, A. Q. Edwards. W. M. Gordon aad
M. A. Williams. One hospital la tha stata
la run by a negro physician. Dr. Pltppan, at
Stromsburg, whose patients ara all Cau
casians, and who la quite successful tn his
work. William W. Peebles ta tha only
colored dentist la Omaha or tha stata . At
Crelghton university there ara threa col
ored students In tha medical t leases, ana
In tha dental school and ona In tha phar
macy claaa
Mix Merrily ia PalMlra.
Of politicians there arc many among tha
negroea ef every city; in fact, politics la tha
ona game, where, whea tho sport la hot, tha
colored man gets in oa an equality without
much question. If ha has the ability to
Uallvsr votes cn election dsy.
Ths name of Dr. Orvtlle Rieketta wilt
reaully be recalled as attaching to . tha
clever eat negro political manipulator that,
ever set foot tn Douglaa county. Ha served
two terms tn ths lower house of tha legis
lature, and waa a master hand at scheming
along political linea "Bud" Lindsay at Lin
coln also takes high rank aa a practical
political worker, or did before tha oasrrea
tloo system was abolished. "Bud" waa al
ways a prominent figure tn repuMlcai
ranks tn Lancaster county and haa bel t
federal office with a good deal of dignity.
Ha ts now engaged tn the hotel business,
and making a success of tt. To aama any
particular local negro as a leader ef the
colored phalanx might create soma )ealoay.
k., frtlin rirent Peer and Henrv V plum.
nier will take high place In such a list.
Ths former Is sealer of weights and msao
urea under Mayor Dahlmaa, and the latter
is a elsrk In the tax department of tha
county cisrk's office.
Thsra la bars a negro fire company, two
negro policemen and ssvsral negro latter
carrlera
D. W. Obea Is the name of the ona colored
undertaker In Omaha, and ha haa a aegro
woman aa assistant, who la a licensed ozn-
balmer.
A newspaper, the 'Enterprise, ts published
in ths tntereet of the negroea of Nebraaka,
. . w 4. . eei.A In omihi 1, tv. m,ww
iu - w -
schools there la ona colored teacher. Mies
Eulalla P. Overall. Of tha trained nurses
working In Omaha, threa ara colored
woman, who stand well among physicians
and patients who hava tried them.
Solomon Dank Gondchlid Is a colored
man whoee entarprtso and confldanca tn
his own ability lad him to eataailsh in
Cam aha a Saratoga chip factory, and he
Is doing well. The Misses Ooodcblld. his
sisters, are hairdressers with a large
elientela. who have Invested quits heavily
tn Omaha real estate, snd this belief in
tha solidity and arladum of such invest.
menu is. as Rev. Jona Albert WUUanas
says, greorfca strong among tha aegroaa
of tha city. There ara at laaat tww aoi
tOoaimaad aa Beosad foTaJ