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The Omaha Daily Bee THE OMAHA DEE Koca to th homes la read, by th womeiii lit foods far advartksort. WEATHER FORECAST. Fer Nebraska Fair and warmer. For Partly cloudy. For Mihi' report see Page 1 VOL. XXXVIII NO. 303. OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, W09-TEX PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. ALDRICH AND STONE CLASH Senator from Miaiouri Criticise! Rhode Wander's Reference to German Government. LATTER RESENTS THE CHARGE Say Hia Remarks "Were Directed at . German Manuf actui-' . DEBATE CONSUMES Tl V- WURS ;,; ; ' V i. Senator Depew Alio B " ' In volved in Controve. , SHARP CRITICISM BY LAFt ' TE Escaped Convict Takes on Role of Millionaire Romantic Career of Charles Hardin; Closei with Disclosure After " Marriage with Belle. BIG STRIKE SIIELT0N ESCAPE MADEJN MOTOR Fourth Union Pacific Bandit Ran Auto to Denver Following Train Robbery. NEAR AN END Mayor Reyburn of Philadelphia Says Traction Tieup Will Be Settled Soon. AGREEMENT IS IN SIGHT SEEN AT TWO TOWNS ON ROUTE Badger Stat Senator Assert . .-i Finance kommlttre Wltfchfld . i )aformatqn, .'. Senate. WASHJNOTON. June 3 -The senate waa not In an' amiable state of mind today and a consequence there were several clashes of temper. The day vd begun with a speech by Senator . Stone of Missouri, tn which he asserted that the Oerman offi cials had taken except Ion to remark re cently made by Senator Aldrlch relative to the wag ntatement aupplled by the Germnn government it the request of the' American aecretary of state. Mr. Aid rich had characterised a 'Impertinent" the effort, which he claimed had been made Irt that statement to Influence Ameri can tariff legislation and Mr. Stone under took to Show that the epithet had been ap plied to the Oerman government. Mr. Aid rich resented this Implication but he. re peaiedly raid that the Oerman manufactur ers had undertaken to Influence the course of the tariff bill and he charged that In so doing they had been guilty of Impertinence. Dining the course of hi remarks Mr. Aldrlch Intimated that Mr. Stone was act ing as a representative of Oermany and this remark aroused the anger of tho Misaourlan. Declaring hi right to epeak his mind as an American senator, he said the use of the expression was "a gross Im pertinence." The colloquy consumed almost three hours of time. Ultimately Mr. Aldrlch paid high compliment to the Oerman people and thelr emperor and . '-ha Incident cloned for the day with the statement by Mr. Stone that while Mr. Aldrlch and Mr. Pepew, who also had been Involved In the controversy had not trade atralghtfr-r ward retraction as he had believed they ahould. they had so "sugareoated the dose M to relieve It of Ita bitter taste." Criticism by ! FoMette. Following the Aldrich-Stoue episode, Senator I Follette resumed his speech In opposition to the cotton schedule, which proved to be a genera) criticism of the method igf. lb finanot eflramttfcea. He as serted tnat the -Oerman wage report had, 'contrary to a statement by Mr. Aldrlch, reached the committee before the tariff bill was reported to the senate and he charged the committee with general neg lect In withholding Information from the senate. He opposed the new cotton duties as ex cessive and made an argument In favor of a general scaling down. Towards the close of the afternoon ses sion Mr. I Follette became quite ex hausted and an effort was made to obtain permission for htm to suspend and resume again tomorrow. Senator Aldrlch took ad vantage of .the Incident to make an effort to 'obtain an agreement to vote on the cotton schedule at a fixed hour tomorrow. In this he was unsuccessful and after ten or fifteen minute of recuperation the Wisconsin senator proceeded. At 5:20 the senate recessed until 8 o'clock.' tone end Aldrlch Clash. Senator Aid rich's characterisation of the course of any government, which might tend to this country any anonymous state ment Concerning prices In the foreign country with a view of influencing legis lation was made the subject of an acri monious colloquy In the senate today be tween Mr. Aldrlch and -Senator Stone. The previous remark of Mr. Aldrlch was based upon the fart that in response to a 1 request from our own State department, (he Oerman authorities had forwarded to this government statements of manufac turers concerning the rate of wages In Germany, with a request that the names of the manufacturers be not used. Senator Stone brought up the question soon after the senate convened by reading a telegram fromVBerlln declaring the Oer man government had taken offense at Mr. Aldrlch' language because of the Import ant position he occupies In his party and In congress. Reading from Mr. Aldrich's riginai remarks, Mr. Stone said: "When the senator from Rhode Island made that somewhat petulant and extraordinary declaration, every, one here took notice, and I think every one regarded his utter ance as impolitic If not Impolite." Aldrlch Dealce Charge. Mr. Stone said ha was not surprised that Germany had taken notice of thla ut terance and felt offender , by It. Mr. Aldrlch, mho had listened attentively to the words of the Missouri senator, arose and aid; "I made no charge against the Oerman government. I was talking about Oerman manufacturers, hoe names were kept from us and who furnished Information with the express understanding that it was nut to used In the enforcement of our customs laws.. The seaator may consider that Information of value. I do not There Is to qbeatlon about the German govern ment here at all. The Oerman govern ment tot warded these statements wltb the distinct understanding that they were not to be ued to raise the Invoice value of goods Imported Into the United States contrary to our laws. I repeat that any attempt on In part of any government to Influence . legislation on Oi tariff matter Is Imperti nent. I did not say the Oerman govern ment made such an attempt, but If any government made such an attempt It would M Impertinent" Mr. -fiione .insisting that the senator from Rhode Island had referred to the Oerman government as Impertinent, again read the u aw ment made by Mr. Aldrlch aa It ap peared In the record. "I was not discussing the German government In that regard. ul was referring to various statements be fore the committee." said Mr. Aldrlch. woo added with energy, "the senator la mis taken." "1 am not mistaken," insisted Mr. Stone. fCMUAa aa sUeeaA JM-) BAINBRIDGE, Miss., June 3. It took Charles Harding, alias A. I). Oliver, Just five months and three days to run he social gamut from escaped convict through the roles of promoter, millionaire,' envied bridegroom of south Georgia and back to the penitentiary again. The climax came today, when Sheriff Jones of Monroe county, Mississippi, arrived here and Iden tified A. D. Oliver as the Charles Harding who escaped from his custody on December SI last. Harding, said the sherif, had eleven years to serve In Mississippi for ob talnlng money under false pretenses. Early In January "Oliver" appeared at Climax, Oa., near here, and the report was spread that he was worth $5,000,000. He posed as a capitalist, bought lumber mills and tlmberlands and established a bank at Climax. At the height of his success "Ol iver" married Miss Rose English. A few days ago "Oliver" was arrested, charged with swindling the people of Cli max out of many thousands of dollars, his bride filed suit for divorce and one of his employes In the Climax bank was threat ened with lynching after "Oliver" had been placed In Jail here. News of his arrest at tracted the attention of the Mississippi au thorities. Dr. Cleminson Changes Front Stops Talking: Abont Death of Wife and Will Fi?ht Every Step. CHICAGO, June 8.-Tolice Captain Kane said today he had' practically abandoned hope of securing any further admissions from Dr. Haldane Cleminson, charged with the murder of his wife. "Dr. Cleminson has secured an attorney and apparently has made up his mind to fight every Inch of the case against htm," said Captain Kane. "We are now Investi gating several clues, among them the doc tor's alleged relations with women. There are many of these, and we have learned that Dr. Cleminson made no secret of them to his wife, except that he used no names." Although Judge Clifford refused to re lease the prisoner on a writ of habeas cor pus yesterday. It Is aald a new move Is being planned In the courts before another judge," probably on the grounds that there la no legal evidence on which to hold the accused physician. Meanwhile the police plan to remove, the prisoner from the po lice station to the county Jail. Two detectives from the state's attorney's office were detailed today to assist Captain Kane in his Investigations. Harriman Stocks Go Soaring Southern Pacific Leads in Furious Bull Flurry on New York Exchange. NEW TORK. June 8. Furious buying of Southern Pacific railroad atock was the leading feature of a sudden revlvlaj of speculation In the stock market today. In terest was congested In a few prominent stocks, notably the Harrtman-Paclflca and United States Steel. A sudden upward rush of nearly 6 points tn Southern Pacific had an impressive effect on the whole market It was unexplained by any news, but rumors of an Intended increase in dividends and of a proposition to retire the preferred stock figured In the gossip In duced by the spectacular movement The buying waa accreditted to Inside sources and showed no evidence of coming from a public, demand. United States Steel stock continued Its remarkable advance and touched new high levels within a fraction of 69. Preparation for the Introduction of this stock to the Paris bourse were held to account for Its strength. The whole market was strong and active, but nothing like the extent of these leading speculative favorltea. ROOSEVELT GOES TO KIJABE All Menken of Party Will Visit the America a Mission an Spend Nlsht la Camp. NAIROBI, British East Africa, June t Theodo-e Roosevelt and all the members of his party left Nairobi on a special train at 1:15 this afternion for Kljabe, where he will visit the American mission and spend the night tn camp. The departure for the Sot Ik district will be made tomorrow. Missouri Pacific Simply v Laughs at Business Men The Missouri Pacific Just laughs at the business men of Omaha wKo dare protest Its action In cutting off several miles from the switching district of this city and gets so tickled over the Joke that It can't take the thing seriously. When called "on the carpet" before the august State Railway commission this Oould road "covera Us broad smile with one hand and with the other shoves a bashful boy In Ita employ onto the witness stand as its sole representative to answer the profound questions pronounced by the commission or the business men and their attorney aa to why thla switching district was thus . ruthlessly circumscribed. When all these serious business men, with their attorneys, had assembled before the Nebraska Railway commtssion Wednes day, bringing with them manufacturers from Chicago and stockmen from South Omaha, the Missouri Pacific Railway com pany put O. E. VanDorn. a clerk In the Omaha office, on the stand to explain why tht rates for switching cars on the Belt line were not remunerative and how the company waa losing so much money, that because of lack of locomotive power It loot tf .006 train miles during January or something like that Mr. VanDorn was evidently embarrassed whan k found as waa u only rspreeeoia Agents of Conflicting Interests Hold Extended Conference. MORE RIOTING DURING DAY Second Outbreak of Sympathizers Comes During Noon Hour. OFFICER SHOT, HUNDRED HURT Mob Resents Arrival of Strike Break era and Relan of gTerror Fol lows, la Which Property Is named. BM-LET1JT. PHILADELPHIA, June S Mayor Rey burn stated at 8:30 this evening that the strike would . be settled within sn hour. This is believed to he the result of a conference held this afternoon between State Senator McNichol, the republican leader, Director Clay. Mayor Reyburn and the representatives of the tro'.ley men. j Bl'LLKTIX. PHtT.AriRt.PHIA. June 8. Mayor Rey burn said this afternoon that developments were expected that might end the strike at any mlnuta. It Is believed arbitration is In Bight, as Senator McNichol, the re nublican leader of this city, has taken an otive nart in the consultations today be tween city officials and representatives of the transit company, ana it is neuevea me nnlttlcal heads are fearful their causa Will be. Injured by a prolongation of the strike. AH saloons in me criy nave uccu wun closed at o'clock tonight PHILADELPHIA, June S Conditions were quieter this morning in Philadelphia, following last night's riotous outbreak In certain sections, when the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company put Into effect Its order to run cars after nightfall, a thing that haa not been attempted since the strike of its motormen and conductors began last Saturday. At 11 o'clock 3. O. Pratt, the strike leader, announoed that he had called out the elevated and subway men and that 86 ner cent of the service on that system was tied up. The company clalma there Is no strike: thU two crews quit and their places were filled. It Is understood that soma of the men who stopped work this morning returned to their trains when as sured of protection. Ample police protec tion now accompanies each train. Rioting la Renewed. During the noon hour when the streets were filled' with men and boys employed by business houses there were several dis turbances that bordered on riot. One block from the - postofflce a crowd surrounded a car, dragged the motorman and con ductor off and beat them, and for a while the air was filled with missiles. The win dows and show cases of a drug store were smashed. Womfi passengers in the car cronehed. terrified, on the floor while the car windows were being amashed. A po liceman was hit on the head by a brick and seriously hurt On a riot call a pa trol wagon filled with policemen seatterd the crowd and made several arrests. All of those Injured In last night's rioting will recover. About 100 are under treatment in hospitals. The station houses were filled to overflowing with persons arrested for rioting. As Illustrating the ugly feeling engen dered by last night's rioting there were more minor disturbances this , morning probably than at any time since the strike began. The strike syhpathlzers devoted their energies to the harrassment of the strike breakers and others who are run ning the comparatively few cars that are on the street. Each car carries one or more policemen, but few passengers, the public evidently being' afraid to ride. Thousands walked from choice, hbwever, as a means of "getting even" with the tranelt company for Its recent Increase In the rata of fare. ' Four hundred additional subpollcemen were sworn In this morning. Timothy O'Leary. assistant superinten dent of police, who has been In active charge of the policing of the city since the strike began, said today that if necessary to preserve order 10,000 extra men would be enrolled for police duty. Hundred Hart In Riot. One policeman shot and probably fatally Injured, nearly a hundred persons bruised and battered, either by policemen or strike sympathizers. Is the result of the attempt (Continued on Second Page.) tive of the company to defend the position In the Belt line switching cases which have, already cost the Omaha business men considerable time and money because the Missouri Paciflo la never quite ready. After Mr. VanDorn had tone his best to fix up some'' reasons which his superiors have thus far failed to do. Attorney J. 11. VanDusen asked: , "How old are you, young man?" Burlington officials laughed, Mr. Van Dorn looked atlll mora embarrassed and appeallngly at Commissioner Clarke. "We insist that the young man tell his age," said the attorney, with a fierce gleam In his eye." But VanDorn atood pat He did not see where the age fit Into the cost of switching cars to Portal, Ral ston and other points on the Belt Una, and he said so with a real saucy stamp of his foot, which Indicated that he would break up the attorney's umbrella and pray for rain If the Impudent question waa pressed much further. "it waa a burlesque on a hearing." aald one of the shippers. "As usual the Mia sourt Pacific was not ready, and another bearing is to be held June . VanDorn was the only one to represent the Mis souri Paciflo and we axe teld be la under M years of M From the New Tot'c Herald QUEER PLEA FOR MERCY Former Detective Hardin Asks Parols Before Commitment. , MORIARITY GETS SIX MONTHS Posse of Armed Men ScoortnK Vtrln ltr of Lloyd Station in Search of Sconudrel Who Attacked School Girl. (From a Staff Correspondent) DE8 MOINES. June S. Governor B. F. Carroll was today asked, to parole, before commitment to the penitentiary for a three-year sentence, former Chief of De tectives Ell Hardin, who Is now ' working on the police force In Pan Diego, Oal. Hardin clalma that his wife is seriously 111 and that he has two Invalid sons. If he is aent to the penitentiary, he says,' they will be thrown on the county. He says that he Is willing to return and begin sen tence at once If the governor denies his request for a -parVVtir. ,": Morlarttr Gets Off Eajty. But for the Intercession and pleading of the two women who have suffered because of his perfidy, Frank J. Morlarity would have been sentenced to a long term tn the penitentiary when he stood up before Judge Joseph K. Miller In the criminal division of the district court Thursday mornlns and entered a plea of guilty to the indict ment charging him with bigamy. As It was, Judge Miller was moved by the prayers of the two wives of Morlarity, and after administering a slight "burn" 'o the self-confessed criminal, sentenced him to six months In the county Jail. The court could have Imposed fifteen years in the penitentiary. Armed Men Chasing n Scoandrel. Armed with shotguns, a posse of irate citizens Is In search of a man said to be about SO years of age, who this morning attempted an assault on Mildred Kelsey, 14-year-old daughter of William Kelsey, proprietor of the Senate saloon, 407 East Sixth street. The assault, which la one of the boldeet reported to the local police in recent years, occurred In broad day light at 8:30 this morning, near Lloyd Sta tion. The Kelsey home Is only a half mile north of Grand View Park, and Mildred was on her way to attend school when she was pounced upon by the man. She put up a brave struggle and.'by biting one of her assailant's fingers, succeded In free ing herself unharmed. B. &0. Machinists Call Strike Today General Walkout of Men in All Shops of that Railroad is Or . dered. BALTIMORE, Md., June II. A general strike of machinists in all the shops of the Baltimore A Ohio rallrond has been ordered to tske effect at 2 p. m. today. ' ,Tht action, It Was stated at the machin ists' headquarters here today, is the re sult of the Introduction of the piece work system In the erecting departments of the Mount Claire shops, which led to the strike of machinists there a few weeks ago and what the men claim was equivalent to a refusal of the compauy at the conference yesterday between Vice President Potter and their representatives to reinstate the Mount Claire men.' , Anything from a lost dog, to a min ister to marry you, can be found on The Bee want ad pages. Variety is the epic of life, and our want ads are full of spice and full of life. Even if you are not looking for any thing in particular, you will find thern interesting. Ht you read the want ads jet todat U. S. "I'LL BE GLAD WHEN THIS ACT Senator Brown Throws Scare Into Leaders Nebraskan Will Offef Amendment to Put Wood Pulp and Paper on Free List. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, June 3-(Speclal Tele gram.) Senator Nnrrls Brown, who has: been making a very exhaustive study of wood pulp and print paper, gave notice to the senate today that he would move an amendment to schedule M putting wood pulp and print paper on (the free list. Sena tor Brown, who has been heard but very seldom In debate on the tariff, believes that there is ground for a reduction which should be made under the bill now being considered. He has studied not only the technical questions Involved, but has made an analysis of the .Mann eorumisBlon report.- whfoh he belle-res Is far-reaching In Its conclusions. Today In conservation with Senator Aldrlch, Senator Brown learned that the finance committee would probably advance rates on wood pulp and print paper over the house bill. The junior senator then quietly stated ' to Senator Aldrlch that he would 'offer an amendment aa outlined . above. Senator Frye, who was sitting near and overheard the conversation between Sena tors Brown and Aldrlch. exclaimed, "Good God, that will ruin us," when he heard Brown serving notlve on the chairman of the finance committee that he would In sist on wood pulp and print paper going on the free list ATHEISM BARRED BY LAW Damn Committee Act Requires Fvery Person in Russia to Have Positive Faith. ST. PETERSBURG, June, S. -The second law on the government's program of re ligious liberty will come up for discussion In the duraa tomorrow and will cause an Interesting debate between the defenders of orthodoxy and the liberals, In which Premier Stolypln is expected to take part. The' government draft placed certain re strictions on the changing of oneS faith, but the committee has introduced modifi cations removing all such restrictions, pro vided the sect is not criminal. The com mittee has decided that every man must have a positive religion, and that the pro fession of atheism can. not be allowed. NOTED GERMAN LIBERAL DEAD Dr. Theodore Barth, Who Made Study of Bryan Campaign, Victim of Indigestion. ' BADEN-BADEN, Germany, June 3. Dr. Theodore Barth, leader of one of the rad ical parties In the German Reichstag, "died here last night of a malady of the digestive organs. He was born In 1849. Dr. Barth had behind him thirty-five years of work for liberalism In Germany. He had been styled a extreme radical and for some years he had been the leader of that group in the Reichstag. Major Bandy Comes to Omaha. WASHINGTON, D. C June 3-(Speclal Telegram.) Major Omar Hundy, Insnepctor general, Is relieved from duty aa Inspector general. Department of Texas effective July 15, and will then proceed to Ornaha for duty as assistant to Inxpector general, Department of Missouri. Tried to Extort Money from Wife of Missing Chicagoan CHICAGO, June 8-BenJamln Miller, al leged to have attempted to extort IW) from Mrs. Benjamin Porter, whose husband, a life insurance agent, disappeared myster iously several weeks' ago, was arrested here today. According to the police Miller wrote an unsigned letter to Mrs. Porter stating that for 1300 to be secretly left lucked oer a doorknob at Taylor and Halsted streets, Mr. ' Porter would be re turned to his home. This letter, .like pre vious ones of similar purport, Mrs. Porter turned over to the authorities. A woman dressed to resemble Mrs. Porter visited the addresa given in the letter early today and did as requested with the money. Miller, it Is charged, grabbed the money and started to run away. Detectives broke IS OVER." TO PUSH BUTTER EXCHANGE Omaha Creamery Men Say Project Easily Realized. BENEFIT TO INTERESTS IMMENSE Creation of Primary Market Tlanncd Which Will Handle TS Per Cent Of T0,OM,e0O Pounds of ' Batter Annually. A butter exchange for Omaha Is In a fair way of being realised. Following the successful opening of the Albertj I.ea, Minn., exchange Tuesday, Omaha creamery men ' have been actively bestirring themselves and will continue to do so until the project for a local exchange comes Into being. i David Cole, who attended .the Albert I.ea opening, wired The Bee last evening that buyers were present at Albert la fj-om everywhere and that sales were made to many points. , . "A butter exchanee," declawd E. S. Snlvely, "would benefit Omaha Immensely and it Is not only a feasible project, but "it would benefit the producer of butter and oggs. If including the latlen. an much as the Grain exchange has helped men who raise wheat tn this part of the world. Values will be decidedly more stable, be cause the eastern markets are ofen man ipulated and prices artificially fixed so that they do not respond to the real salable prices. The price for butter on the Chicago exchange for Instance, last year at one time, was fully 1 cent less than the actual salable price of the commodity at that time. "If Omaha had a butter and egg exchange it would add very materially to the dairy Interebts of a great range of territory. There are creameries In St. Joseph, Sioux City, Wichita to name only three places which are dependent upon centers well to the east to market their surplus, and buy ers go to Chicago and New York to make' their purchases.. "Seventy-five per cent of the butter of this territory Is shipped each to Chicago and New York and there sold. Jt can all be sold from Omaha. Big buyers would flock here In numbers and would establish offtocs here and start accounts In Oma.ha banks. There Is no less than 70.000.800 pounds of butter produced annually In this territory and most of it goes far away be fore being sold. It Is the same proposition as confronts the Wyoming wool grower, except that It will be easier to create a primary butter market here." NATIONAL LAW THEIR MODEL Grocers' Convention Committee Ad vocates A men din a State Stat ntes. to Conform to It. DETROIT, Mich.. June 3. Uniformity In pure food regulations That the national pure food law as the standard was the gist of a resolution presented today by the legislative committee of the National Wholesale Grocers' association, In conven tion here. The resolution strongly advo cates the amending of all state laws to conform to thenatlonal act now In force, the elimination of statutory standards In the different states, and the substitution of a syndicate of determining standarda in conformity to the methods now In use by the government. Minneapolis Grain Market. MINNEAPOLIS, June 8. WHEAT July, 1.29't; September, II 10'; December. 11. 07; cash. No. 1 hard. il.3:MilS3'A: No. 1 north ern, $1.32ffl.S27; No. 2 northern. I1.30&1.3OH; ISO. 5 nortnern, ll.iTiiri.SrV from hiding places and gave chase, tiring several shots, and overhauling the fugitive after an - exulting race. Miller told the police he had been hired by a man to get the money. Thla man he said he had met ouly a few days ago. The man said- he had stabbed the husband of a woman wno was In love with him and that the woman wanted to give him some money. He was afraid to go for It, and paid Miller to do the Job. ' The disappearance or Mr. Porter hajy uran a uiysiviy war 11 nM vtllllea (ne police for several weeks. He carried with him S200 which he had collected for the company whirh employed him. No trace of him haa been discovered. Kearney and North Platte and1 ' Both ' Spotted Fugitive. WAS EXAMINED AT LATTER TOWN Four Men Looked for and Suspect Not Held. TRIO IN OMAHA OLD CRIMINALS Detective lacdnnald of Spokane Identifies Woods, Torgensoa and Gordon as Marias Bad Records In Xorthwest. Identification of the three Union Pacific bandits as far western criminals with dan gerous records, and the discovery that James Slmilon, the man arrested in Den ver, went there in an auto, were the de velopments yesterday In the train robbery affair. It Is asserted that Shclton was seen boih at Kearney and North Platte on his way to Denver In the car, and that he was iub Jected to scrutiny In the latter town. North Platte, however, was looking for four men In a car, and Shelton was allowed to go on his way. tl la believed that he got away with the contents of the mall sacks which were found the night of the robbery. Evidence seems also to point to the fact that Shelton was the man who guided tlx auto to the scene of the holdup, and there lit the signal beacon which led Woods and TorKcnscn to make Engineer MtkolJohB bring the train to a stop. ' Private conferences between each holdui suspect and Detective Macdonald of Spo kane were held at the county' Jail Thurs day afternoon. Macdonald would tell noth ing of what was said or done and neither affirmed or denied the idea that a confer slon was secured. Assistant Speclnl Agent John C. Vlzsard of the I'nlon Pacific and Chief Canada held a conference with the Spokane officer later In the afternoon. They refused to divulge the details of the conference. Bandits Identified. Detective Macdonald positively identified Woods, Torgcnsen and Gordon soon after his arrival. lie arrived In Omaha Thvtrday morning end went to the bandits' cells about 10 80 o'clock. He knew the three men so well and . they so quickly realised the position his identification placed them In, that all merwly laughed and said nothing at first. Woods Is tho notorious safe blower, train robber and bandit, Dan Downer, of the northwest, according to Detective 'Mac donald, who has known of him for eighteen years. He is' alVn suspected of the Midway murder In British Columbia. Toreensen i known by that name'around Kpokane and has a number of crimes charged against him. Gordon's real name Is Gordoh M. Golden and he Is known to have associated with Downer. Torgensen and other crimin als In the northwest, although he comes of a good 'family, hln brother, Joe Golden, a train robber, bclnp bis only relative who has a police record. Thinks He Knows Shelton. Detective Macdonald says he believes Charles . R. Shelton, the fourth Suspect, who was arrested at Denver early Wednes day, Is really H.jb Splaln, a notorious horse and cattle thief, safe blower and bond Jumper, who has done time In several peni tentiaries. Shelton was Identified aa Splaln by the Spokane officer Thursday morning in Omaha by means of a picture. The three men In Jail here expressed a deBire to talk with Detective Macdonald again this afternoon and he will hold a private conference with them, it is ex pected that something Important In the way of a confession, complete or partial, or a scheme whereby the 'prisoners may escape the maximum punishment by turn ing witnesses against their partners still at large, may be broached and perhaps ar ranged. I . , , "I knew Jheni aa soon as I saw them through the. bars of their individual cells," remarked Macdonald afterward. "And they knew me, too, for they made no ef fort to evade Identification and Just put up their usual laughing stunt. "They're fierce fighters, at least Downer and Torgensen are," the detective con tinued, recalling, encounters he has had with both men. "And Downer laugh, even when he Is fighting you. That's a habit he iv-ayd has." Clever Criminals. Although Downer and Torgensen are well known to both police and public at Spo kane and Everett, Wash., and In the sur rounding country, a desperate criminals and guilty of. many crimes. Detective Mac donald declares they are so clever that neither haa served much time In prison for the offenses. They have been arrested a number of times In cases for which there was not enough evidence to convict them, he Bays, yet the police knew positively that Downer and Torgensen were reaBy guilty. The only prison term Macdonald says was ever served by Downer was a three year term at the Walla Walla (Wash.) penitentiary for horse stealing. He and Torgensen, who Is said to have been his partner in crime for years, are wanted now at Waterville, Wash., for safe blow ing and bond Jumping and at Everett for carrying buiglarr' tot in, besides being sus pected of many other cases of safe blow ing, train robbery tnd similar crimes which cannot be definitely fastened to their record because they escaped without being captured or even seen, so that a good description could be given of them. The murder Downer is believed to have committed was thst of a storekeeper at Midway, British Columbia, who was held up in his store, robbed of considerable money and then killed In cold blood. It occurred last fall and there are ho wit nese or descriptions .extant. Brother Killed In Holdup. A brother of Downer is said to have been killed by officers In a daring holdup In Stevens county, Washington, when his partner, (Maude Wells, was also killed. This is pointed out by Detective Macdonald to show that the Downer now In the Doug las county Jail is one of the most des perate characters now known to the west ern police and comes of a family of crimi nals. The photographs, deacripUona and roc-