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VOL. XXXVIII NO. 298.
OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1P09 TWENTY PAGES.
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DUTY ON SUGAR
ANDT0I5ACC0
Senate Finishes Consideration of
These Schedules After Ex
tended Debate.
COMMITTEE PATES APPROVED
Mrs. May Ion,
Silver Creek,
is Missing
Worried Husband Believes She is
Under Control of Desperate
People in Denver.
MAIL TRAINS
BREAK TIEUr
Service is Resumed Both Ways Be
tween Aalanta and Augusta,
Georgia.
NEGRO FIREMEN UNMOLESTED
THREE MEN
PICKED AS
RIGHT ONES
'i
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All Amendments for Lowering Tariff
Are Lost.
TOBACCO COMBINE DENOUNCED
Senator Bradley Says it is Respon
sible for Night Riders.
BACON SCORES READING CLERK
!, In narn Otflrlnl of Being In Oou-Mlrn-'
to Mint Debate Oft, but
Vice President Aximrl
Responsibility.
WASHINGTON, May 28 Senator Aldrlch
today succeeded In getting action by the
senate cm the remainder of the sugar
schedule with the understanding that the
paragraph fixing a duty on raw and re
fined sugar should bo again placed before
Vhe senate If Senator Clay's health should
to Improve as to permit of hl taking ad
vantage of an opportunity at a later date,
to mo'-e an amenrifent cutting the figures
lnto. The tobacco schedule was also
completed. No ihaiusca wire made In the
finance committee laiea on either sched
ule.. The sugar, the toonceo and agricultural
schedules divided the attention of the sen
ate with Incidental remarks on the side by
Senator Bacon and a general tariff speech
by Senator Stone. Senators Gore, Brlstow
and Clay criticised the provision for a
duty on raw and refined sugar and Mr.
riay repeated his allegation of fraudulent
transactions In the Interest of the sugar
trust. Mr. Brlstow declared that the trust
has benefited by the defeat of his amend
ments yesterday and Mr. Gore asserted
that by the adoption of the finance com
mittee's piovlslon, which was the same as
that panned by the house, only 5 cents on
100 pounds of sugar would be saved.
Bacon Accuses Read Ins; rierk.
Senator Bacon's remarks consisted of a
cha rue Unit the reading clerk of the sen
ate and the republican leaders were In
collusion to shut off debate. The charge
grew out of the fact that when the senate
was about to vote on an amendment by
Mr. ("lore to the sugar schedule, Mr. Bacon
was preparing to address the senate and
had actually beun before the roll was
cmleil. He asserted that this course had
be-n pursued to prevent him from speak
ing, and declaring that such a plan had
been followed In the past, ha entered upon
quite a sharp criticism of the official.
The vloe president himself assumed the
responsibility for ordering the call to pro
ceed and the Incident was closed. The
(love amrndment was subsequently with
dinwn. Sr-natnr Bradley made a long speech early
in the day In advocacy of the removal of
the Internal revenue tax of 4 rents a pound
on tobacco "In the hand." He asserted
S'u'h action to be essential to the welfare
of tobacco growers throughout the coun
try and traced the raids of night i-M- -i
In Kentucky and Tennessee to wlin
declared to be the unjust course or "
tobacco trust In dealing with the toViui
producers.
Tust before the session closed Mr. Mr
Cumber spoke In behalf of a protective
d'ltv on agricultural products, predicting
n ereM (ailing off In the American produc
tfnrt of wheat In the near future.
Bar Stock Rises,
The consideration of the sucar schedule
was resumed after Senator Baron entered
Ms protest which afforded an opportunity
to proceed with further debate. It had
looked as if a vote on paragraph 21.1 would
b promptly obtained. Before Mr. Aldrich
made his request that the paragraph be
agreed to Senator Brlstow had taken ad
vantage of opportunity to submit some
newspaper clippings showing that after the
vote of yesterday by which his amend
ments reducing the duty on refined sugar
and eliminating the Dutch standard tests
hijd been voted down, there had been ad
vanca of five points In the Mock of Amer
ican Sucar Refining company which, he
sa'd, showed who had been Interested In
defeating the amendments,
Mr. Gore offered an amendment reducing
the duty on refined sugar to one per cent
per pound which, he said, he was confident
would be voted down.
Mr. Aldrlch then called for a vote on the
paragraph fixing the duty on all grades of
sugar. He had responded to hla own name
when Mr. Bacon for the time put an end
to the proceeding by entering his protest.
Mr. Clay Immediately took the floor to
apeak to 'he sugar schedule.
Muaar Combine Band of Thieves.
"We are granting favors to the most
unrom.clnoable trust ever organised In the
Tutted States." he declared, speaking with
Ureat vigor. "A band of t hleves and
enlndlers." he continued, "Is robbing the
American people and I will retract nothing
I have said, for I know from Investigation
of what I have spoken and we should not
give the trust free sugar unless we make
a reduction In the duty on refined sugar."
After being reminded that Ms amendment
provided for a .'reduction on refined augar
without an equivalent reduction on crude,
Mr Gore withdrew It in favor of that
formerly presented by Mr. Clay, which pro
vided for practically cutting In half the
duties of the bill both on raw and refined
aiiKar.
Pointing out that this amendment would
so reduce the duty on raw augar as to In
jure the beet sugar Industry, Mr. Brlstow'
protested against it. although hla course
has been to advocate a lowering of duties
in the bill.
The paragraph relating to raw and re
fined sugar was then adopted as recom
mended by the committee on finance, with
the understanding that Mr. Aldrlch him
self would aek for a reconsideration of the
section when Mr. Clay w;aa prepared to
olfer and speak on his amendment.
The section relating to maple sugar and
maple syrup, placing a duty of 4 cents per
pound on each; taxing glucose 1 cents
per pound and sugarcane In its natural
state in per cent ad valorem, was agreed
to by a viva voce vote.
The section Increasing the duty on sac
charine from I to 71 cents per pound was
agreed to. The augar schedule being com
pleted, the tobacco schedule was passed
tCutiUjiueJ ua FiX'.U Fe.
DENVER, Colo., May 2. (Special Tele
gram.) Lcltevlytt his wife, Mrs. May Ion,
has been kidnaped, drugged and robbed of
money and valuable and that her captors
will kill her unless a ransom of eVW be
forwarded before the end of the week,
Charles Ion, a business man of Silver
Creek. Neb.,, arrived today and appealed
to the police for assistance In Ills search
for his wife.
She left, Silver Creek last Wednesday for
Glen wood Springs and was In ordinary
health when she bade him goodby. She
had about $400 cash and Jewelry valued
at $.iOfl. The following day Ion received
a letter, signed ostensibly by his wife,
though the wrltlnK did not resemble hers.
It said she was very 111 and would go to
a hospital that afternoon In charge of a
nurse she had employed.
By the same mall two postal cards, writ
ten In pencil and unsigned, were received
by Ion. One of the bore a request that
t-VW be sent Immediately.' The cards were
supposedly written by the nurse In charge
of Mrs. Ion. "Where do you want your
wife's body sent, should she die?" was
a question appearing on the cards. This
followed directly after the request for the
money. It was written In such a way that
Ion believes his wife will be put out of
the way, should the money not be sent.
Every hospital and a number of private In
stitutions were visited by the police, but
no trace was discovered. A complete de
scription of the missing woman was given
to each patrolman and the city is being
searched for her.
Bolt Kills Babe
in Mother's Lap
During Hard Storm
Many Houses in Howard County Are
Struck by Lightning; and
Much Stock Killed.
ST. PAUL, Neb., May 28-(Speclal.)-riurlng
a terrific thunderstorm In the
northwestern part of Howard county light
ning struck the home of Ignata Slntek,
northeast of Elba, and killed his 9-months-old
babe as it lay In its mother's lap. The
mother was stunned, but not seriously In
jured. " '
The storri "scurred Monday afternoon,
and b.lated reports are Just being received
here of the destruction by the - floods of
rain that fell, and the lightning. Several
houses were struck by lightning and con
siderable stock killed In the fields.
At Dannevlrke six Inches of rain fell,
while at Cotes field U Is reported seven
and a half Inches fell. The rain did con
siderable damage to crops.
Actress Dead;
May Be Murder
Emma H. Curran, Who Appeared with
Chauncey Olcott, Found Dead
in Apartments.
NEW YORK. May 28.-Emma H. Cur
ran, an actress, who lived with her
brother, James Curran, In apartments In
West Twenty-second street, was found dead
In her rooms today under circumstances
which led the police to suspect she had
been murdered.
Miss Curran is said to have appeared In
plays with Chauncey Olcott and James
O'Neill.
Commercial Travelers Meet.
PITTSBURG. Kan.. May IS With 3,500
delegates from Kansas and Oklahoma in
attendance the interstate convention of
United Commercial Travelers began here'
today.
Traveling Men Aid Waifs
The traveling men of Omaha have en
tered the breach In behalf of the Child
Saving Institute In Its effort to raise
its 175, ono building fund by June 1. so as
to, secure the $26,000 gift of Mr. George
A. .loslyn, and members of a committee
appointed to take charge of the work
believe they will secure at least $1,000
for the fund In the next two days.
The Travelers' Protective association
Is In charge of this new effort to se
cure the required amount in time, and
a committee of six has been appointed.
Subscriptions from traveling men or ex
traveling men can be sent to any mem
ber of Uvls committee or to the Insti
tute's headquarters in the Board of
Trade building. V. G. Llndgren is
chairman of the committee which la
composed of Charles E. Hopper, W. D.
Eck, C. O. Lobeck. C. C. Patrick and
Frank Colvin.
The secretary of the Travelers'
Protective association has headed tne
list with an amount considerably In ex
cess of $U and any others can contri
bute larger sums If the wish. The ap
peal to the traveling men is for tl sub
scription, however, and knights of the
grip anywhere lu the vicinity of Omaha
are requested by the committee to send
II or ti or more, for the fund.
"Our UsCIs already started and I be
lieve that the names of fully 1.0U0 travel
ing men can be secured by June L" said
Chairman Lindgren of the committee.
"The boys who knock around among all
kinds of people. In all kinds of weather,
have the biggest kind of hearts, and if
we do not roll up at least tl OU0 for the
fund In the next two days I, fur one,
will be -greatly disappointed. All that
is necessary Is to let the boys know
what we are doing, and they will come
to the rescue In fine style." v
All traveling men In Omaha are re
quested to leave their subscriptions with
the cleik and Mr. Llndgren will call for
them. Those 8undaylng in other hotels
are requested to make up lists and mall
them Sunday night to the committee.
Something over $3,000 must be raised
Big Crowd at Atlanta, but There is
No Demonstration.
STATE MAY TAKE ACTION
Some Hints at Receivership for the
Railroad.
FREIGHT TRAINS ARE STARTED
Train Leaves Atlanta Late In the
Afternoon and General Manager
Scott Sara More Will
Follow.
BULLETIN.
ATLANTA, Ga., May 2. Operation of
freight trains was begun by the Georgia
railroad late this afternoon, pne train
starting out of Atlanta. General Manager
Scott said more trains would follow.
ATLANTA, Ga., i May 29. -Carrying a
negro fireman, the first train of any sort
to run over the Georgia railroad for more
than five days, an engine and a mail car,
left here at 7:30 this morning. The train
pulled out through a deep lane of specta
tors at the station, but there was no dem
onstration. The negro fireman on the At
lanta train bore a name distinguished in
Georgia, Joseph M. Brown, which Is Iden
tical with that of the governor-elect who
will take office In a few weeks. The sub
ject of keen acrutlny, the fireman kept his
eyes on the work and smiled good
naturedly. A few comments were over
heard from the crowd that he was running
a risk.
The engineers upon all trains today were
the regular men who stopped work last
Saturday. They returned to work with the
assurance from Assistant Chief Burgess
of the Order of Locomotive Engineers tha.t
they would be protected. The mall car
was a combination, half mall and half bag
gage, but the baggage department was
heaped with mall sacks.
The train made only a little more than
seven miles in Its first hour's run, owing
to a stop at Decatur, the first town east
of Atlanta, where newspaper men, who had
started to make the trip in the baggage
car, were put off. There was a long con
ference with officials of the road over
their presence, and It was finally decided
that they were passengers and that the
road had no right to carry passengers.
Exactly by what means the state would
Interfere was not stated, but a receivership
was hinted at. This solution was given
color both by the fact that the state Is a
stockholder In the railroad and by a dis
patch from Social Circle, Ga., that the peo
ple there lntend-td to demand a receivership
by the state on the ground of public con
venience, provided no relief from the tleup
of freight and passenger service was ob
tained quickly. Other points sent urgent
messages to the governor demanding relief
and the continued reports of dissatisfaction
over the presence of 'the negroes on the
mail trains forces a crisis.
Action Awaits Arbitration.
Any action by the state, however, was
deferred awaiting the result of arbitration
negotiations.
There was no mistaking the depth and
the scope of the 111 feeling against the
negro firemen from one end to the other
of the Georgia railroad today. However
no efforts were spared to find some means
of settling the strike without resort to the
use of guards, which was frankiy recog
nized as of extreme danger to the peace
of the community through which the road
runs.
The remark of one man to a correspond
ent who made part of the trip with a mall
train today may be taken as Indicative of
the abnormal pressure Just now existing In
the strike district. "This is a white man's
(Continued on Fifth Page.)
by June 1 if the Joslyn gift Is to be se
cured. The officials of the Institute
have decided not to again ask for an
extension, aince Mr. Joslyn has already
twice extended the time.
The traveling men have already sub
scribed $33.60. as follows:
Charles L. Hopper $10 00
C. O. Lobeck l.oo
Victor G. Llndgren l.uo
Frank Clavln 1.00
W. 3. Sheldon 1.00
John W. Ryan l.oo
W. D. Eck 1.00
H. E. Bell , 1.C0
E. L. McShane 1.00
C. A. Nlcoll 1.00
K. It. Bleaklng 1.00
G. F. Stepp 1.00
Leo Barvel 1 00
E. B. Uesman 1.00
F. Milmlke fO
J. W. Roach 1.00
Total $21.50
This list, added to the other subscrip
tions, brings the total up to $71,696.32,
leaving $3,303.68 yet to be raised. Of
ficials of the Institute believe there are.
at least 6,000 people in Omaha willing
to give $1 to the fund. If they are un
able to send the money In, a messenger
will be sent after It If the name and ad
dress will be telephoned to Doug la
2061.
Later subscriptions, including the
money given by the traveling men, are
as follows: .
Previously acknowledged $71,51 32
Romans Alliance of Unitarian
church 26 00
Ladies' Aid society of Lowe
Avenue church 15 00
Ladles' club. Springfield, Neb.. 10 50
Chapter K. P. E. O. society.
Lincoln. Neb jo 00
A friend in no
Mrs. M. L. Hitch j
Mrs. A. B. Carpenter 00
Miss Alice Ferris j no
Mrs. E. E. Zimmerman j no
E. E. Zimmerman 1 00
Reed Zimmerman 1 00
Mr. and Mrs. H W. Zimmerman i lino
J. R. Flemmlng 1 no
Mra. F. M t'hltman 1 00
Miss Gertrude U Bailey 1 no
Charlotte Hitch 1 no
Uernice Hitch 1 on
Louise Hitch 1 on
Traveling men 23 50
Total... .$71..32
"S
News Note : Two strangers spent some time on the floor dt the senate yesterday against the rules and
despite the vigilance of the doorkeepers.
From the Washington Evening Star.
COURTS FLAYED BY ASSEMBLY
Presbyterian Church Criticises Deci
sion Annulling Union of Branches.
PASSED ON CHURCH DOCTRINE
Basis of Discussion is a Report on
Tennessee Decision KsoeLlng Out
Merarer with Cumberland
Branch of the Church.
DENVER, Colo.. Mav 2S.-The church
locked horns with the state this morning
when the general assembly of the Presby
teriun church In effect condemned the ac
tion of the state courts of Tennessee In
setting aside the union of the Presbyterian
church in the United States of America
with the Cumberland Presbyterian church.
The assembly's criticism of the courts,
which was unsparing, was based on the
report of the committee on church co
operation, which report was written by
William Henry Roberts, D. D., LL. D., the
stated clerk of the assembly, chairman of
the committee and for more than twenty
five years regarded as the law giver of the
assembly. It set out In effect that of the
three established doctrines with respect to
the relation of church and state, they be
ing the Roman Catholic, wherein the
church Is superior to state; the theory
recognised In England and some parts of
the United States that the state Is superior
to the church, and the Calvlnlstic, wherein
church and stale possess distinct jurisdic
tions, the latter Is the preferable view and
will be held to In the Presbyterian church.
The report rebukes the Tennessee courts
for presuming to psbs Judgment upon mat
ters of church doctrine. It recognizes the
right of courts to pass upon disputes con
cerning property, but where a religious be
lief lb concerned the report contended that
this shall be adjudicated in the church
councils. The assembly also reaffirmed the
recommendations of the assembly of l. 6
at which the union of churches was ef
fected. The report of the committee was
based on the local action begun by anti-
consolidation members of the Cumberland
church wherein they were supported by the
Tennessee courts and given possession of
a number of valuable churches which oth
erwise would heve become the property of
the United church. It was the contention
In these suits that the union forced mem
bers of the Cumberland church to recog
nlre doctrines different from the one to
which they had originally subscribed.
Armed Men Hold Up Restaurant.
NEW YORK, May as. Four armed men
Invaded a restaurant at 444 Seventh avenue
todav, held up the twenty customers and
made their escape. One of the robbers
guarded the door, another covered the
cashier with his revolver, while the other
two robbed the customers. They are be
lieved to be members of a notorious East
Eide gang.
One man's meat
is another man's
poison. You may
want what the other
man is glad to sell
for a song.
Under the head of 04 Offered
for Sale" is most everything
you can think of. Make it a
practice to read these ads.
You will find it will be more
than worth your time.
You will find real bargains
every day on the want ad.
pages, that, will cave you
money.
Have you., read the want ads yet
today!
Taft to Attend
Yale Club Meet
at Pittsburg
President Will Speak and Play Golf
at the Western Association 1
Convention.
PITTSBURG, May 28,-The fifth annual
convention of the Associated Western Yale
Clubs, which will be attended tomorrow
by President Taft, Secretary of Htate
Knox and many other notable men, began
here today. Excepting a smoker at the
Pittsburg club tonight the program today
Is unimportant.
While today Is "Tale day," the Important
events in connection .with the convention
will not take place until tomorrow, which
Is "Taft and Yale', day." President Taft
will arrive here Saturday morning, going
to the home of Thomas K. Laughlln, Jr.,
Woodlawn Road, Mrs. Laughlln being a
sister of Mrs. Taft. An hour later the
president, escorted by tiecretary Knox and
others, will proceed to Arsenal park, wheie
he will assist in the dedication of a drink
ing fountain erected by the Daughters of
1R12. On hla way to the park the presi
dent will visit the Rodeph Shalom temple
(Rabbi Dr. J. Leonard Levy pastor), while
he will make a short address to the con
gregation at noon.
The guests, with the entire convention
body, will be taken lo automobiles to the
Allegheny Country club. A buffet lunch
eon, golf, tennis, base ball and other sports
will be Indulged In. In the evening -he
party will attend the annual banquet of the
Associated Western Yale Clubs at tho
Fort Pitt hotel.
The president will remain in Pittsburg
until Sunday evening, when he will depart
for Gettysburg, Pa. Sunday morning Pres
ident Taft will attend aervlces at the First
Unitarian church.
TWO MORE OF ALMA GANG
Sheriff Carroll Finds Men Who Es
caped from Mlnden at
Julesbnrai.
ALMA. Neb.. May 2S (Special.) Sheriff'
Carroll has returned from Juleshurg, Colo.,
with Orln Galvln and Owen Ialley, who
are believed to b1mpllcated In the Re
publican City merchandise robbery. The
young men were known around Mlnden as
Claude Smith and Pat Crowe.
It is also believed they are implicated In
the Keene bank robbery and the Wilcox
suloon holdup, as a search of their be
longings revealed a kit of tools and masks.
When young Aahle and O'Brien were ar
retted recently here Galvln and Dalley $-ft
Mlnden, where they had been living, and
they were not found until Sheriff Carroll
located them at Julesburg.
Charles O'Brien was arrested a second
time Wednesday upon the discovery of new
evidence and put under $2,000 bonds.
Rogers' Will Gives Fund
to Schools of Native Town
NEW YORK, May W.-The will of the
late Henry H. Rogers was filed for prebate
here today. The testator leaves all his
property to his widow, children and rela
tives with the exception of $190,000 willed
to the town of Fairhaven, Mass., for the
use of the primary and giammar schools
of that community.
Mr. Rogers divided his residuary estate
into four trust funds, one for the benefit
of each of his children. When the children
attain the age of 40 years they are each
to receive one-half of the principal of the
trust created for their benefit, the other
half Is to be held In trust during the life
of each child.
No estimate of the value of the estate
was given.
The four children of Mr. Rogers' who
will share equally In his residuary estate
are named In his will as follows:
Anne Engle Benjamin, Clara Leland
RUSH TELLS OF HANDICAPS
Special Assistant Attorney General
Home from Tulsa.
OKLAHOStANS FIGHT 1 FOR TIME
Land Fraud Defendants Had Idea
' They Might Escape Throsgh
Statute of Limitations, De
clares Prosecutor.
Special Assistant Atterney General S. R,
Rush and Special Inspector E. B. Lennon
of the Interior department returned last
evening from Tulsa and Muskogee, Okl.,
where they have been looking after the
government's Interests In the Muskogee
land and lot frauds, which have Just re
sulted In the re-Indictment of Governor
Haskell and others.
"Two Indictments were returned," said
Mr. Rush, "one against the whole outfit
and another against several groups, the
names of the Indicted parties having al
ready appeared In the press dispatches.
Only two United States attorneys were
employed In the cae, District Attorney
Gregg and myself.
"More evidence was presented before the
grand Jury at this time than In the pre
vious ease, in which the Indictments were
quashed because of the grand Jury being
larger 'than the lawful number. The rea
son for the discharge of the first grand
Jury panel was that most of them had
been drawn from Muskogee county, where
many of the people were Interested In the
civil suits growing out of the alleged Ille
gal lot transactions. For this reason we
asked the panel be discharged and an
other drawn, which was more satisfactory
to the Interests of the government.
"Attorney Mott, who has been frequently
referred to In the press adispatches, was
not associated with the government at
torneys, as he is the attorney for the
Creek nation, arid Is not a government
officer at all, and took no part In the
case.
Kpeclal Agent Armr a. Myth.
"Neither had the government an army
of special agents in the field to work up
evidence against the defendants. There
were but five or six special agents there,
and they were wanted to look specifically
after the gentlemen who wanted to culti
vate an acquaintance with the grand Jury.
"An Information or complaint was filed
against the editor of the Tulsa Evening
Democrat for eontempt of court for his
persistent and villainous attempts to In
fluence the grand Jury. He has been cited
to show cause why he should not be com
mitted for contempt.
"I was even charged with being there
In the Interest of Mr. Hearst, and we were
all accused of about every crime In the
calendar. Fortunately the Indictments
filed against us by the outraged Okla
homans hove only been filed with the at-
(Contlnued on Second Page.)
Broughton, Mae Rogers Coe and Henry
Huttleeton Rogers.
It la provided In the will that the cost of
any litigation that may be instituted In re
gard to bequests shall be deducted from
the bequest of the litigant.
The will gives to the widow the use of
the New York City residence and sets aside
a trust fund of $2,W0.000 to $3,000,000 u
provide an annuity for her of $100.0x0. At
her death thlr trust fund Is to be returned
to the residuary estate. Mr. Rogers leaves
his residence at Fairhaven, Mass., and his
real estate there to his son, Henry H.
Rogers, Jr.
Various trusts, ranging In amounts from
$10 000 to $.'00,000 each, and altogether aggre
gating $600,000, are created for the benefit
of Mra. Rogers' collateral relatives The
Income from these trusts Is to be paid to
the various beneficiaries during their live,
and upon their death the principal of the
trust funds will revert to the residuary
estate of the testator.
Trio Arrested by South Omaha Police
Identified as Robbers of
Overland Train.
TRAINMEN SAY NO MISTAKE
Shells Fired at Robbery Identified
with Those Children Find.
PHOTO OF FOUR MEN IN AUTO
Men of Their Description Seen at
Rendezvous Afterward.
RUN AND SQUAT AS IF SCARED
Boys Do Great Service in Effecting
Capture of Suspects.
WILL SHARE IN ANY REWARD, TOO
Officers Confident They Have Bandits
and Expect Fourth.
BEND EVERY EFFORT TO GET HIM
Captives Have Some Cash on Them
Unable to tilve Clear Account
of Themselves Two Profess
Not to Knore t)ne.
Eight mail sacks containing registered
malls taken by the highwaymen from the
Overland Limited about 11:20 p. m. Satur
day were found by John Vavra yesterday
in the attic of the Brown Park school.
Tho find was made by Vavra, who is the
Janitor of the school, about 10:30 a. m., but
It was not reported to the police until after
noon. Vavra was determined to secure his
share In the reward, if possible, so he did
not report the find at once. Even then,
being for some reason unwilling to confide
in the South Omaha authorities, he re
ported to Captain Mostyn of the Omaha
police department.
Captain Mostyn, William T. Canada and
Chief John Brlggs went at once to the
school building and verified the find. C.
M. Perkins of the federal mall service, In
charge of the invest laatlon, Wok rharne
of the mail sacks, which were taken to
Omaha.
The sacks were all cut and the contents
rifled. It appeared that they were placed
In the attic early Sunday morning. Durlnjr
the day the robbers laid low and sorted
out the desired letters and packages In tne
attic, which afforded an excellent place of
concealment. It Is thought they hid their
guns and went Into Omaha Sunday night.
Weaves et Aronnd Men.
Next to the finding of the outfit by John
Krollk. Eighteenth and V streets, while at
play on the way home from school Thtirs
day noon, and the rapture of the highway
men, D. W. Woods, James Gordon and
Fred Torpensen at. 11:30 or 12 p. m. Thurs
day night, the finding of the mail sacks is
the most Important event of the great
number of startling disclosures since the
true trail was found.
The evidence both circumstantial and
direct Is closing on the three men with
positive certainty.
EHIck R. Mlckeljohn and Herman Prawl,
engineer and fireman of the Overlan.l
Limited train, arrived In South Omaha yes
terday afternoon at 6.30 p. m. and Iden
tified Torgensen and Woods as the men
who climbed over the cab and held them
up forcing them to stop the train. Tor
gensen was recognized mostly by his voice
and movements and general outline;
Woods by his heavy shoulders, complexion,
scanty hair and his height.
Emil Kslaum, a workman In J. J. Hurt's
elevator, saw two men Friday morning,
May 21. on the Union Pacific, right of way
apparently examining the ground and
looking about. He was working Inside and
they approached the elevator. He Identi
fied Woods and Torgensen as being the
men he saw. He says he saw them prac
ticing with automatic guns under a bridge
on the right of way.
Furthermore, the three alleged train rob
bers were brought into the police court
room in South Omaha last evening and
positively identified by the five school chil
dren as the men seen prowling around
the Brown Park school building Sunday
and Monday. One of the boys recognized
Wo das the man who told him to say
that he knew iilm In case he was asked
to Identify him by stating that Wood lived
about there some place.
f'ollaip I'uoVr fccrullar.
A. R. Bents and John Vavara, the Jani
tors of the school building, also recognised
the three men and gave a fair description
of the fourth man. Then the three men
were told to stand up for identification
by the school children and Janitors. Tor
genstn almost tollapt-ed and Wood lost a
Rood tlf al of his coiiiHriUre. Gordon looked
as If all hope was gone and ha in't a friend
in the world.
F. E. Hart, a farmer, altso Identified yes
terday two of the men, Wood and Gordon,
as pro ling about the empty house at
Camp 4 of the Kllpatrlck Bros.1 camp,
within 3iO yards of his home. Ile saw them
there twice or three times, trying to get
Into the empty houe. but discovering Hart
watching them they finally went away.
An Important clue found In the loft of
the school housie seem to lead to the prob
ability that thene men may have had some
thing to do with the Spokane robbery. This
was a small pocket glass, with a picture
of the Union station at Spokane nn the
back. The glass was a new one, of the
souvenir kind, and evidently had fallen out
of the pockets of one of the men while
climbing up Into the loft.
Such In the main haa been the course of
events In the capture of the three highway
men since John Krolik distovered the
cache ahere the men had hidden their
guns and ammunition, and the blue polka
dot handkerchiefs which bid the faces of
three of thein. Tue boy la said to have