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RATEON HIDES
Aldrich and Hit Committee Propose
to Retain Present Hate of Fif
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Son of Former
Omaha Pastor
Cashes Bad Checks
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Twelve Men Are Deliberating on F'
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CHINESE LOVEH
Americaniied Oriental, Who Hm Van
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FOR RETALIATION ' ON CANADA
Wood Pulp Schedule Provides for
Discriminatory Rate.
INCOME TAX IS POSTPONED
Direct Vote on Its Merits When
Schedules Are Disposed Of.
SENATORS MUST GO ON RECORD
Uiltr nf Massachusetts Keta Off thr
Krarrtlllna on Hide Question and
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WASHINGTON, June 19.-The present
liingley duty of fifteen per cent on hide"
will be retained In the new tariff bill, If
an amendment to that effect, reported to
day by Chairman Aldrich of the senate
finance committee, la adopted. The pre
sentation of the amendment wan the signal
for vigorous opposition, headed by Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts. (Senator C'lapp
of Minnesota also Hpoke against It. The
llscussion will be resumed Monday, and
Kill probably be animated.
Th senato today covered a multitude of
subjects In connection with the tariff, but
.made final disposition of nothliiK of Import
Bine. The Income and corporation tax
question received attention for some
time anil were postponed until after the
tariff provisions proper shall be finally
settled.
Senator Aldrich, from the committee on
flimncn. brought In the committee's
amendment to the wood pulp paragraph,
which proved to be a provision for
doubling the duty on wood pulp coming
from countries which undertake to pro
hibit the exportation of logs to this
country. Senator Beverldge presented
an umendinent for the cutting In two of
the house art valorem duty on cash reg
isers. Mr. Aldrich also presented the
finance committee's hide provision.
All these measures were left at the close
of the day, where they stood at the be
ginning. The wood pulp amendment was
lrcojrnlicd as an effort to retaliate upon
Canadu Ift-cause of that country's effort to
prevent the shipment of saw logs to the
I'nlted Staits, and senators generally de
sired an opportunity to study the subject
before voting upon It. .Senator Burton
made objection to entering upon the final
consideration of the cash register question
without giving the National Cash Register
company whose headquarters are In Ohio,
an opportunity to be heard.
Income Tax Postponed.
The Income tax question went oyer be
cause of the difficulty of getting republi
can senators to consider It until the tariff
should be disposed of. Mr. Bailey, who has
held out for a vole In advance of the com
pletion of the work on tbe schedules, at
last conceded the postponement oil the
understanding that when the subject does
cothe up a vote will be permitted on the
direct question, and not forced on a motion
to refer the subject o a committee.
Hide Duty Paases.
The finance committee's amendment to
the hide paragraph of the tariff bill was
presented to the senate by Chairman Aid
rich. It levies a tariff of 15 per cent ad
valorem on "hides of cattle, raw or un
ourcd, whether dried, salted or pickled,"
with a provision for a drawback equal to
the duty when exported in the form of
leather. The amendment' effect is to take
hides from the free list where the house
left it.
Basing his objection to a duty on hides
upon the claim that it would tend to per
petuate th beef trust, Senator Clapp de
clared that his constituent were patriotic
enough to give up any advantage they
might reap In the possible higher prices of
hides In order to help destroy a trust.
"How about the leather trust T" inquired
Senator Warren. "If we can get two
trusts by the ears and knock their heads
together, I think that is the better way,
suggested Mr. Warren, who could sea no
advantage in plaolng hides on the free
list to Injure one trust while the other
would thrive by the action.
Lodge Atralaat Hide Doty.
Mr. Lodge reviewed the history of the
duty on hides, and advanced arguments
in favor of admitting hides free of duty,
He aaid he would vote for free boots and
shoes If the senate would agree to. place
paper on the .free list, with the pulp logs
from which It is made, and to put lumber
a the free list, with sawed logs. Other
Wise, he said, he would not vote to put
ta products of leather on the free list
With hides.
Mr. Tillman did not understand why Mr.
Lode favored a protective duty on the
wool off the sheep, but did not favor pro
tection for the hide oft the steer. He
said the latter needed the protection most,
because It could only be protected once,
while the wool off the sheep could be pro
tected each year.
Mr. Lodge ts frequently interrupted.
"If you will give us the duty you have
placed on leather goods, in ten years we
will raise all the hides used In the I'nlted
States," said Senator McOuraber, referring
to large Importations of hides. Mr. War
ren said the duty on hides would add
cents to the cost to the making of a pair
of shoes and would not be paid by the
consumer. Mr. l.oiise was i hided as an
advocate of free trade.
"I feel sorry for the senator from Massa
chusetta." said Mr. Scott, "because he is
making a free trade speech when we all
know he Is such a good protectionist.1
Acrnti mt lnsara;raer.
In a colloquy with IMxon, the Hon
tana senator suggested that his Maasa
chusetta colleague was "Joining the in
urgent." This only called forth
smile from Mr. Lodge. Replying to
suggestion from Senator Warren tea
the Central Leather company had Insti
gated the outcry against the beef trust,
the Massachusetts senator said sharply
that his course was not instigated fry
the Central Leather company.
That la a combination," he said, "th
has been dealing In th food products of
the people. I need no Instigation from
anybody to oppose them, and when I see
a great Industry pass helplessly lnt
their hand I should Ilk to do anythln.
In my power to stop It."
His concern In this subject, he ssld
wsa to subserve the Interests of th la
tCoutliued on Second Page)
CHICAGO, June t Special.) On the
strength of his father's name James I. Me
Cormlck, son of Rev. lr. Samuel B.
McCormick. chancellor of the Western
university of Pennsylvania, victimised some
of the wealthiest citizens of Chicago with
worthless cheeks and lolled In luxury at
the L'nlon League club.
He Is now in a cell, charged with oper
ating a confidence game. His last victim,
a minister, telephoned for the police.
McCormick lout money betting on ba.e
ball games. He says he does not drink
nor smoke, and that women never Inter
ested him. A wasted college life, he says,
started him on the wrong path. McCor
mlck's confessed list of victims Is as fol
lows: John C. Fetzer, $70.
John Fletcher, assistant cashier of the
Drovers' National batik, $70.
James H. liouglas, vice president of the
Quaker Oats company, $f)0.
Everett Slsson, publisher of the Interior,
$00.
Union League club, $40.
Sherman house, $40.
E. Oxey. traveling salesman for the Al
bert Dickinson Seed company, $10.
R. Humble, said to have an office In the
Ohio building, $T0.
"Nearly all of my victims were friends
of my father," said McCormick. "He Is
a nonresident member of the Union League
club and my name was sufficient to get a
check cashed there."
When Sisson discovered that the check
he had cashed for McCormick was worth
less he caused- a warrant to be Issued for
is arrest. He Informed his friend. Rev.
William Chalmers Covert, pastor of the
Forty-first Street Presbyterian church, that
e might expect a visit from the wayward
son of his old friend, Chancellor McCor
mick. On ' Thursday young McCormick
asked him to cash a check for r0.
I have not that much money In the
ouse," said the minister,- "but if you will
return tomorrow I may have It for you."
Yesterday McCormick appeared again and
was escorted Into the library. Detectives
Stark and Johnson strode In and placed
him under arrest. At Central station he
roke down and confessed.
Rev. S. B. McCormick was for some
years pastor of First Presbyterian church
In Omaha He was succeeded by Rev. K.
H. Jejiks, the present pastor. He was re
garded as one of the strong Presbyterian
ministers of the west and now ranks with
the leaders of the east as well as west.
Dr. McCormick left Omaha to become
president of Coe college at Cedar Rapids,
a. His administration there was so suc
cessful as to attract the attention of the
arger Institution at Pittsburg.
Only a' few Sabbaths ago Dr. McCormick
occupied his old pulpit in Omaha. He
stopped on his way to the general assembly
at Denver and was given a most cordial
greeting by his old friends.
President Dovey '
ot Boston Team
Stricken on Train
Base Ball Magnate Victim of Sudden
Attack of Hemorrhage of
Lungs.
XENIA, O., June 19. President George
Dovey of th Boston National League Base
Ball club died on a Pennsylvania train be
tween Cedarvllle and Xenla today at 4:10
o'clock.
He was on his way to Cincinnati unac
companied. ' He was strloken with hem
orrhage of the lungs, and August Herr
mann of Cincinnati, chairman of th Na
tional Base Ball commission, was notified,
Th body Is In charge of the coroner of
Green county.
PITTSBURG, June 19 The sudden death
of George .Dovey caused surprise In this
city, as he spent yesterday here to hold
a conference at the Hotel Schenley with
President Dreyfuss and Secretary Locke
of th Pittsburg Base Ball club. Mr. Dovey
left here late yesterday afternoon for
Steubenvllle, O., where h was to look
over some promising base ball players and
then Intended to go to Cincinnati. He was
apparently in th beat of health.
CINCINNATI, O., June 1 August Her
mann, president of the National Bas Ball
commission, has wired John Dovey, brother
)f the oocedent, who Is now with the Bos
ton club in St. Louis, asking for Instruc
tions as to the body. No National league
games will be played on the day of the
funeral.
BOSTON, June 19. George Dovey, had
been owner of the Boston team of the
National Base Ball league for the last three
years, having purchased It from the fa
mous triumvirate, Messrs. Conant, Soden
and Billings. For a number of years Mr.
Dovey had been a salesman for the St.
Louis Car company and the ownership of
the Boston team was his first serious
base ball venture.
He Is survived by two brothers. John, th
secretary and treasurer of the Boston Na
tional team, and James, who Uvea near
Philadelphia. Mr. Dovey's mother, aged
Hi, still lives at Brooklyn. Mr. Dovey was
Vi years of age.
Dark Veil Hung
Over Meat Probe
East St. Louis Investigation Goes on
in Dark and Names of Wit
nesses Suppressed.
ST. LOUIS, June Is. A greater veil of
secrecy was drawn about the proceedings
of the government meat Investigation to
day and there waa no Intimation of even
the Identity of witnesses.
George P. McCab, solicitor of th Im
pertinent of Agriculture, said that the
testimony of Julius Blschoff corroborating
Inspector J. F. Harms', charges lll be
msde public only after It has been sent
to Secretary Wilson at Washington.
Harms left here today for his home In
Fremont, O. He declined to testify at the
secret sessions of th Investlgatora, but ex
pressed encouragement regarding th out
look.
Francis J. Heney Closes with Savage
Attack on Defense.
PERJURY AND WITNESS FIXING
He Wouldn't Be Surprised if He Was
Murdered.
ELOQUENT APPEAL TO JURORS
They Are 1 rgfit, for the Honor of Man
r'ranrlsco, to Find Defendant
Guilty History nf Famous
Roodle Case.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19.-The case of
Patrick Calhoun, an Issue that has divided
the people of San Francisco during the last
two years, was submitted today to the Jul y
that tried the president of the United Rail
roads upon an Indictment for bribery. At
a late hour tonight no verdict had been
returned.
In order to prevent the possibility of a
demonstration In the vicinity of the room
where the Jurors were deliberating the
streets were cleared of spectators as soon
as Mr. Heney concluded his address, which
was terminated at 10:30 o'clock this morn
ing after the prosecutor had spoken for
over sixteen hours.
Lunch was served them In the Jury room
and it Is probable that this course will be
followed In the future until some decision
In the case has been reached.
Heney Makes Bitter Speech.
In his closing argument for the state.
Francla J. Heney made direct charges of
witness fixing and perjury against several
officers or employes of the United Rail
roads. The speaker charged that James
L. Gallagher's home In Oakland 'had been
dynamited by agents of the lefense, and
at the end of this subject said:
"Now that A. A. Moore of the defense has
assured me that the defendant and his as
sociates wish me a long life, I shall take
added precautiona for my own proteotion.
and make certain as I can that I shall not
be shot In the back or dynamited In my
bed. The evidence here shows that It Is
often possible to prepare a defense In ad
vance, and I don't overlook warnings of
this sort
Final Appeal to Jurors.
Mr. Heney brought bis argument to a
close three minutes ahead of the allotted
time. A moment before he was engaged
In a review of a supervisor's testimony.
Judge Lawler reminded him that the re
maining moments were few, and Mr. Heney,
throwing aside a quantity of note yet un
ref erred to, said:
"Gentlemen, I thank you for your atten
tion. I leave this case In your hands, con
fident and expectant that San Francisco
will have no cause to question the good
faith of your verdict, whatever it may be
and that the state of California will learn
from your conduct that you do not hav
to bring before a Jury the men who saw
a briber pass the money to secure a con
vlctloi.. and that any amount of circum
stantial evidence will not be treated as In
sufficient when a wealthy man la on trial
although a supervisor Coffey, for In
stancecan be convicted In a few minutes."
The Judge began his Instructions to the
Jury.
History of the Case.
Mr. Calhourn, together with Abraham
Ruef and three subordinate officials of the
United Railroads, was Indicted on four
teen counts. It was charged that the cor
poration had secured from the supervisors,
on May 21, 1906, a permit authorising sub
stitution of the overhead trolley system for
the cable lines partially destroyed by the
earthquake and fire of April 18, 1908. Cal
houn and the other defendants were ae
cused of having paid Ruef, Schmlti and
the supervisors $200,000 for their services
in securing the permit for the company,
and each indictment was based upon the
money received by one of the supervisors.
1 he prosecution, during the several
trolley trials, has attempted to prove that.
Calhoun, the day following th final pas
sage of the permit, sent from New York
to the mint here $00,000, which he
previously authorised the mint officials to
pay to Tlrey L. Ford. The money, as is
admitted, was withdrawn In three install
menta by Ford, whe presented orders
signed by Calhoun. It was alleged by
prosecution that within a few days after
each of Ford's visits to the mint, he re
ceived a call from Ruef. Following this
assertion James L. Gallagher, chairman of
the supervisors, testified that Ruef had
paid him over $40,000 In July and an equal
amount In the following month. Gallagher
said he had retained $16,000 for himself, had
paid $10,000 to Andrew M. Wilson, one of
his lieutenants, and had given $4,000 to
each of the other supervisors. It was af
firmed by the prosecution that Ruef and
Schmltx divided the balance of the fund,
about SIU.OOO.
The Specltto Aersutloa,
The specific Indictment upon which Cal
houn was tried was the offer of a bribe
of S4.0U0 to Supervisor Fred P. Nicholas, .0
Influence his action upon the trolley per
mit. Nicholas admitted acceptance of the
money for that purpose.
A witness called during the trial was
Rudolph Spreckels, president of the First
National bank, who instituted th graft
prosecution. It developed that $234,000 had
been raised and expanded, and Mr.
Spreckels' accounts voluntarily produced In
court, showed he had contributed ap
proximately $175,000 of the total.
SMALL FINE JF0R EMBEZZLER
Man ladlrtcd for Taklna; 7.OnO U
Asseeaed BOO by Kansas City
(.'art.
KANSAS C1TT, June 1 Entering a
plea of "noil contend!-," J. R. Brady,
former president of th Merchants' Refrig
erating company, waa today fined $j00 by
Judge John F. Philippe In th federal
court. Brady was Indicted In 1908 for th
aleged embesslement of $711,000 from th
Merchant' Refrigerating company through
alleged embexzlement of $7(.000 from the
menta returned against Brady In the cir
cuit court on the same charges were
quashed February 1$ by Judge Porterfield
because they were net consilient god dis
approved each othe
College Graduate o"ler wMrh
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
CONVENTION OF PICKED MEN
Eagles' Grand Aerie is Composed of
Past Masters.
RYDER SAYS FORTY THOUSAND
No Fnlae Alarm About the Crowd
that Will Swarm Into Omaha
for This Bis National
Event.
"Some folks are Inclined to think we are
exaggerating when we talk of 30.000 to
40,000 delegates and visitors to the Eagles
grand aerie convention In September," said
Secretary Ryder of the convention com
mittee, "but we are not stretching It in
the least, Judging by the conventions held
heretofore. Omaha Is more centrally lo
cated than any city that has ever enter
tained the grand aerie meeting, midway be
tween the coasts, and the time of year Is
the most salubrious of the whole twelve
month.
"The Eagles' order Is peculiar. In this.
that every delegate who sits In the grand
aerle has been through the chairs, Ithus
making a picked body of mon. The Junior
past president casts the vote of his aerle,
based on membership, but every man who
has ever been president of an aerle has a
vot in the grand body. It Is this provision
that makes such a big convention. Every
aerle makes a generous appropriation for
Its delegate or delegates, enabllrg them
to bring iftelr families, if they so desire,
and a great majority of the delegates do
bring one or more people with them. It Is
a point of honor to spend the money So
appropriated.
Fiaht for Conrentlon.
"There Is always a keen fight for the
location of the next convention and many
cities send representatives well provided In
funds to make the campaign. For Instance,
at Milwaukee, when we first tried to get
the convention for Omaha, we found that
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston was financing,
from hla contingent fund provided for
that purpose, th Boston campaign. The
exposition management was backing the
Norfolk, Va., campaign, and Norfolk won.
The Omaha committee spent possibly $400
In boosting and advertising, aside from
what individuals spent, which was no small
amount, while the other convention-seeking
cities spent probably $2,500 each, At Seattle
last year St. Paul and other cities were
backed In their requests for the convention
by plenty of funds, and by their convention
and publicity committees; but Omaha won
out because of the continual boosting, year
after year, of a few faithful spirits.
New Orleans is In the contest for the
Grand Aerie convention In 1912, and the
editor of the Dixie Kagle, published In
that city, writes as follows to the Omaha
committee:
Your letter will be used In our next
Issue. The appearance of the cuts of the
Omaha Auditorium (published In June
Issue) has made a big hit among the
Kagles of this section, and It Is our desire
to use these cuts analn before the conven
tion takes place. We have recently visited
several of the southern aeries, and It looks
as If the southern states will be better
represented than ever before. W are do
ing all in our power to get as many of
the brothers In this section to go to Omaha
i as possible, for our slogan will be "New
Orleans. 1912. Trust to near more oi ine
good things In Btore for the Eagles that
will visit "The Center," In a short time.
San Francisco will, It Is understood, ask
for the 1911 convention, but will have to
contest with several other cities for it.
LONG TERM F0R "ADAM GOD"
Fanatlo Who Murdered Kansas City
Patrolman Given Twenty
Five Years.
KANSAS CITV, June 19 James Sharp,
self-styled "Adam God," recently found
guilty of murdering Patrolman Michael
Mullane, who was killed In a fight with
religious fanatics of whom Sharp waa
leader, was today sentenced to twenty-five
years In the penitentiary.
Is your room go
ing to be too hot
this summer?
What's the use of staying
where you are if you nre go
ing to suffer! The best thing
to do is to look over the large
list of rooms that are offered
for rent on the want ad pages
of The Bee. There you will
find such a variety that you
are sure to secure just the
room you have in mind.
Have you read the want ada yet
today?
would be best knock him out in the first
Bishop Bonacum
Talks of Trouble.
at Ulysses
He Says No Violence Was Offered to
Him and His Party Purpose
of His Visit.
LINCOLN, Neb., June 19. Right Rev.
Bishop Uonacum returned today from But
ler county, and mlnlmlnlsed the demon
stration at Vlyseas last night, in which he
was pictured as being driven from th
town by an angry mob.
No violence, Bishop Bonacum was of
fered him, and the extent of the demon
stration toward the two prleBta who ac
companied him was limited to rude re
marks by a small party of men and boys.
The only Indignity he suffered, the bishop
Said was when, after leaving Ulyseas In
a livery rig for David City, a party of
men followed In an automobile and com
pelled the liverymen fb abandon his pas
sengers, necesslttattng their walking a.
distance of four miles to the village of
Garrison, where they were accommodated
for he night.
Bishop Bonacum said he was convinced
the action at Ulysess was lnolted, but In
the absence of positive proof ha was not
prepared to make any charges as yet.
His mission to Ulysess, he added, was not
to install a priest In place of Father Mur
phy, the priest he has excommunicated,
but to hold a meeting of the truatees of
the Catholto churoh at that place prelim
inary to a suit in the district court
restraining Father Murphy from Inter
fering in any wy( with the parish prop
erty. This suit. Bishop Bonacum said,
will be heard the coming week in the dis
trict court at David City.
A dispatch from Ulysess tonight says the.
feeling there is bitter toward the bishop,
and the people are loyal to Father Murphy.
Father Murphy said:
"Bishop Bonacum, with two priests, by
whom, he sought to secure a legal ma
jority, attempted to overbear the churcl
trustees of Ulysses. His object was tc
go through th form of a regular church
meeting and pass a resolution aimed tc
oust me from the church. Thl resolu
tion, had It passed, would have been usee
as the basis of legal proceedings sic!
as were followed to remove me from tlx
church at Reward.
"The Ulysses trustees refused to meet
with the bishop. Th meeting then was
opened in the hotel. The bishop had
called it to order and a resolution was
proposed, when the people. Indignant at
the procedure, swept In and smothered
the whole thing."
Job Offered to
Fred J. Abbott
Aurora Editor May Be Assistant
Commissioner of Indian
Affairs.
(From a Ptaff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON. D. C. June 1. (Special
Telegram.) Secretary Balllnger today of
fered the position of assistant commis
sioner of Indian affairs to Fred J. Abbott
of Aurora, Neb., to succeed Robert G. Val
entine, who has been promoted to succeed
Francis E. Leupp, resigned.
Mr. Abbott Is editor of the Republican of
Aurora, regent of the State university and
a man about 40 years of age. He has en
dorsements of Senators Burkett and Brown
and the republican members of the Ne
braska delegation. It Is said the proffer of
this position comes to Mr. Abbott practi
cal ly unsought.
Postmasters appointed: For Nebraska,
Gretna, Sarpy county, James M. Fox, vice
C. E. Baker, resigned. For Iowa, Cam
bridge, Story county, James A. McKee, vice
M. F. King, resigned; Ewart, Poweshiek
county. Ell W. Gregson, vice B. N. Wasson,
resigned.
Rural carriers appointed for Iowa routes:
Iowa City, route No. i, J. W. Schooley, car
rier; Israel Schooley, substitute. Van Horn,
route No. 1, W. H. Bradbrook, carrier;
Katherine Bradbook, substitute.
No Saloons In Bterllns.
TECl'MSEH. Neb., June !. (Special.)
Henry Seele cannot secure a saloon license
to operate In th town of Sterling. The
controversy cam to a conclusion In th
dlstrtct 'court her yesurday, before Judge
J. B. Raper. The village trustee, after
several heated sessions, gav Seel a
llcenso, the remonstrators declaring It
could not be legally done for Seel was an
offender, having been found guilty ot sell
ing liquors to minors. Th case was tried
In lower courts, and finally taken to the
district court. Her th finding was final,
th court refusing to allow th llceus to
be granted, under Ui vldnc4
round or play hint for while?
GOVERNOR AT DOLLAR DINNER
Shallenberger Spouts to Democrats
Gathered at Kearney.
TAKES BACK-HAND RAP AT BRYAN
Affair Notable for Those Who Were
Not Present aa Well as for
the ' Outburst of the
Gierotlve,
KEARNEY, Neb., June !.-( Special Tel
egram.) The dollar dinner for democrats
here tonight was notable for some of the
demoorats who were not present. Among
these were Richard L. Metcalfe of The
Commoner, and l.)r. 1. I,. Hall, defender
of the faith and head financier of the
party In the state. Some others were not
present, but these were overlooked In the
noise that greeted Governor Shallenberger
and Arthur Mullen, oil lnnpector and
keeper of the gubernatorial conscience.
Former Mayor Brown of Lincoln was
among the guests and the speakers. The
chief talk of the evening was made by
Governor Shallenberger. who hurled de
fiance at the bankers who seek to test the
deposit law In the courts; at the men
who want to apply a similar test to the
"non-partisan" Judiciary law, and at
everybody and everything that did not
agree with him that democracy Is the one
saving grace of the nation, and that he
1b Its local prophet. He paid a back-handed
compliment to the Peerless Leader of the
Unterrlfied, by pointing out that In all
his life but one democrat had been elected
to the presidency, and at the same time
Insisting that more men answer to the
roll call of democracy today than ever
"fore. The inference Is that these demo
crats do not rally behind Bryan. The
lovernor also defied the liquor dealers
&Dd brewers of the state, and said he ex
pected to keep right on fighting through
out the time of his term of office.
Governor Shallenbera-er's Address.
Governor Shallenberger said he came
as a messenger from the democratic ad
ministration, bearing th news that it
liad made good In Nebraska. It had re
deemed all Its promises In the enactment
of a bank deposit guaranty law, a law
for a nonpartisan Judiciary and for the
physical valuation of railroads, and he
defied all "nulllflers and repudlatora,"
saying: "I would warn those who con
template assaults upon this law for
selfish and mercenary reasons that nulli
fication has never been popular nor sus
tained In this state, or in the nation, and
that if by any means, either by cunning
or for partlsun reasons, they should
thwart the expressed will of the people
through their representatives In tills
matter ' they will only put off the day
of reckoning." After some further re
marks congratulating the people of tho
slate that he and his fellow democrats
In the legislature were elected, he took
up the liquor question, saying.
In matters affecting public morals the
lost legislature took advanced grounds. The
republican party has long professed to be
the party of morality and reform. But it
remained for the late legislature to pass
more bills regulating unbridled license and
promoting orderly liberty than have been
enacted by republican legislatures In twenty-five
years. They stamped upon the stat
ute books a law prohibiting drinking and
carousing upon our railroad trains; the
selling of liquor to Indians: the desecra
tion of the Sabbath by the selling of liquor:
selling Intoxicants to imbeciles or Inebri
ates and last, but not least, the late legis
lature enacted a law which deciees that
liquor shall be sold In Nebraska by day
light only. Ail of this legislation Is in the
interest of law and order and is bound tit
be powerful -in the prevention vice and
crime. 1 have hea'd rumors cf 4'aappi'oval
from alleged c-tnocralic s-t. and re
publican nulllflers, but t her wish to
serve notice to the people of the state,
to republican nulllflers, or democratic re
pudialors, If such there be, that these laws
which I have mentioned are notice to the
world that democracy and decency have
Joined hands In the state of Nebraska and
all h I cannot put them asunder.
liolld on Klliht O'clock.
The "daylight saloon hill" Is already
upon trial In a dosen representative Ne
braska commonwealths anil In every one
of them It Is being received with unquali
fied approbation by all classes of people.
Even liquor dealers themselves find that
it Is helping to relieve them from some
of the evils and curses of their business.
Every one who has sense enough to think
Intelligently upon the sutct knows that
ths all-night saloon Is the nstural haunt of
vice and crime and the producer ot misery
and woe, and the man who advocates It
or opposes any sort of regulation, as do
the opponents of th daylight saloon bill,
Is th advance agent and promoter of state
wide prohibition, far mote than the party
prohibitionists themselves. 1 was accused
by a democrat of having violated 'he prin
ciple of "home rule' by affixing my sig
nature to thst bill, but my leply to him was
that this bill in my Judgment v.sh the
greatest "home rule'' mesnuie ever paxHed
because it as notice to the world that
hereafter In Nebraska t ' 'tome should
rule afier I o'clock and .'..ji the saloon, it
does not repeal the right of local option,
the pouer of each community to deter
mine whether or not liquor shall be sold
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Girl Evidently Left Home Because
She Loved Him.
HAD THREATENED TO KILL HER
Lovesick Note She Wrote Him in
Possession of Police.
MOTHER ACTIVE MISSIONARY
Thronah Her Z.ral for Converting
t'hlnnnien to Christian Faith
Ilnnahter Met Man Who
Prolinlily Caused Death,
NEW YORK, N. Y June 19-Untll a
dapper, stocklly hullt Chinese, well edu
cated and. when lu.t seen, dressed In a
black suit of American cut. Is under ar
rest and put through the police Inquisition
known as "(he third degree." It Is likely
thst the murder of Elsie Slegel, grand
daiiRhter of GcneVal Frsnx Slegel, Civil
war hero, will remain unsolved.
Leon Ling, alius Leotig Lee Llm, alias
William L. Leon, converted Mongolian
restaurant proprietor, admirer of white
women, and lover of Kl.sle Slegel, Is the
man. Hut when or. how he left New York,
while the girl's body Isy cramped and de
composing In a battered trunk In the stuffy
little room he formerly occupied, remains
to be learned. With him Is supposed to
be his companion and erstwhile room
mate, Chung Sin. who also may be able
to throw some light upon the murder.
Some reports say that both Chinamen
are on their way to Vancouver, via Pan
ama, but this rumor Is only one of many.
All that Is known to a certainly Is that
they are missing, and that the girl's bat-,
tered body remained behind In th room
of an Oriental who loved her Jealously,
dogged her footsteps, threatened her, and
at times spoke with such evil Intent 'that
the 20-year-old girl Confessed to friends
that she was afraid of her former wooer.
Cilrl Associated with Chinamen.
Few murder cases In New York have
developed more rapidly and at the same
time come no nearer solution than the
Slegel mystery. Hut that part of the story
which was unravelled here today brought
out principally the mysterious phases of
the KiiTs nfo; hpr apparent craze for
mission work among the Chinese; her as
sociations with the man who Is supposed
to have killed her, and, lastly, the fact
that it was on his account that she left
home on Wednesday, June 9.
' It has also come out that the girl's
mother, now so prostrated, according to
reports that It hus been necessary to re
move her to a hospital, had been fearful
of her daughter's safety ever since the
girl's disappearance, and had searched
Chinatown day after clay without success.
The mother and Paul legel, the father,
are hoping against hope and are clinging
to the evasive clue that a telegram signed
"E. S." was sent from Washington on the
fateful Wednesday. This message read:
"Will be home Sunday or soon. Do not
worry."
The father, as far aa can be learned,
hurried to Washington today to determine
whether the telegram was Bent by his
daughter or as a blind. The police main
tain that It was sent by a Chinaman
quickly after the murder to. delay Investi
gation and to aid the murderer to escape.
Leon and Chung Sin ore well to do. In
vestigation today showed that they con
ducted four restaurants In all, one near
Fort George on the Hudson, not far from
the Slegel home on the Bronx, one at
Conoy Island and at Paler ion, N. J., and
another at Norfolk, Va. All these resorts
will be closely watched by the police,
tilrl's Missionary Career,
Elsie Slegel's entry Into the mysterious
ways of the Chinese came through her
! now grlef-craxed mother, who was long
Identified with Sunday schools and mission
work In Chinatown. In this way the girl
came to , know various Chinamen, and
when Leon, whom she met at th Fort
George resort, became attentive, he waa
received In the Slenel home, and continued
his associations .with the girl until his
love became violent. Then, from what can
be learned, her father forbade th China
man to visit the house.
It was. then that Elsie, although afraid
of her admirer, deserted her home, never
to be seen alive again by any of her house
hold. Where she went directly after leav
ing home, whether she Joined the China
man, or was lured to the room and mur
dered. Is yet to be cleared up. Her body
tells only the story of a brutal murder.
The disappearance of the Chinaman adds
the other morbid feature.
Lovesick Note to Heathen.
That the girl cut her family ties because
of the Chinaman Is Indicated by the fol
lowing note, undated, which was found
In Leon's effects:
You seem to be growing cold to me. Just
think of the sacrifice I made for you
mv family and my friends. For (tod's
sake don't forsake me. ELSIE.
As to the motive for the murder, th
police are Inclined to accept first, Jealousy,
and then love-mania. The girl was loved
by at least one other Chinaman than
Leon, a, id this may have caused the crime.
A letter to Leon threatening him If he
persisted in his attentions toward the girl,
was among ths missives giving a clue to
this phare. In Chinatown a celestial,
known as Young liien Is known to hav
admired her.
Three Celestials In Jail.
Police activity here has brought about
the arrest of three Chinamen, who were
associated with the restaurant keeper, Sun
Leung, above whose place the body was
found, but they are held merely as ma
terial w Itnesser. Sun Leung is missing.
In the meantime physicians are making
a more minute examination of the body
and Its organs. An autopsy held this aft
ernoon determined that the victim died
from at-pliyxla, but since there were Indi
cations of poison pivsent, a chemical anal
ysis Mill be necessaiy. To this end the
organs have been sent to Prof. George A.
Ferguson, of Col.nnbla university,
Frsnx Sieu'l. an uuil of the murdered
ulrl and one of four sons who survrv
Geneial Kianx ltii, has cut t th aid