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VOL. XXXIX-NO. 91.
OMAIIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 30. 1901 TWELVE TAGES.
SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS.
TAFT REACHES
PACIFIC COAST
Chief Executive Makei Trip Acrosi
the Continent in Just Two
Weeks.
NEXT TWO DAYS ON SOI 7
President' Party Will Visit Fair ai'V
Go to Tacoma Friday.
SPEECH AT NORTH YAKIMA
Tribute Paid to Senator Jones and
Big Applet.
SHORT ADDRESS TO VETERANS
At North Taklma
President Refers j
to Presence of Former Sweet
heart at WhON Wedding
lle Wm Best Man.
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 29 President
Taft reached the Pacific coast tonight Just
two weeks after his start from Boston.
During all of this time he has been steadily
heading for the west. Hers a new phase,
of the Journey begins, and when he leaves
Seattle for Tscoma on Friday afternoon
and leaves that city at midnight his course
will be due south until Los Angeles is
reached, and then comes thu turn once
more to face the rising sun.
I The president and his parly were met
t the Union station on their arrival at
R.1B o'clock by a reception committee of
two dosen members. The space in the
station through which the president and
his escort passed was roped off and a
large body of police kept back the crowd.
The visitors and the reception committee
entered automobiles and preceded by a
troop of mounted police proceeded to the
Kanler club, half a mils distant, where
a reception In honor of the president was
given by Mrs. Richard A. Ballinger, wife
of the secretary of the interior. After half
an hour at the club the president and his
escort went to the Hotel "Washington,
which will be the home of the visitors until
their departure for Tacoma Friday morn
ing. The president was permitted to retire
early after greeting the Tale club, which
was holding a dinner and reception at the
hotel.
Grent Throng on Streets.
A great throng of people waited for the
president at the station and along the brll
liuntly lighted streets through which he
passed, and there waa cheering at every
step of the way.. The showers of the last
two days had discouraged attempts at gen
eral decoratlona except that the pictures of
the president were displayed everywhere
and every flag-staff carried a banner.
The visit to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific ex
position will begin at 1:30 a. m. tomorrow
and Mr. Taft first will tour the grounds.
After luncheon he will make an address
n .the natural ampitheatre. The president
also will speak .t a. biyifiuet at the -pofltUo
ground (JurHiaA the evening, stt his
entire day will be devoted to the fair.
The president, on his way to Seattle,
passed through another section which dis
played Its marvels in the way of fruit
raising. At North Taklma. where he
passed the entire forenoon and made an
Rddrees, the president aaw one of the old
est irrigated fruit districts In the far west.
The great yield Of apples especially at
tracted his attention and he said he was
fond of them.
"In fact." declared the president, "I
am supposed to have Inherited the taste
of an uncle of mine, who Is reputed to
have said that he would not put his mouth
out of pucker for less than a peck."
The president Declared anent the subject
of apples that they reminded him a good
deal of human nature. Borne apples that
aie beautiful to behold from without are
found to be tasteless and mealy within,
while others not pretentious to look at
are f)und to have the solid meat, the Juice
and the taste that go to make up real
character.
; Greets Former Sweetheart.
The president met an old Cincinnati
sntetlieari at North Taklma. She la Mrs.
Hetty Hodges, formerly Miss Betty Evans,
. u.l Mr. Taft waa best man at her wedding.
The president told of .the meeting In the
emus et his speech.
In ills Yakima address the president also
look occasion to pay a tribute to Senator
Wesley L. Jonca of Washington, who
J.-lned the party at Spokane yesterday.
Governor May of Washington In Introduc
ing the president declared that it was
through him that the Pacific coast had
recognition on the national republican
ticket and for vice pjresldent In lli he
' placed In nomination Wesley Jones."
"In nominating Senator Jones for a place
on the ticket," said the president, "I do
not see why Governor Hay should not name
him for the p.esideucy, for you are not
in the habit of taking; a back seat out
here. You only Want lie best. Wherever
ou put Senator Jones he can be counted
upon to do the right thing at Uie right
time, and that, too, without any brass
band or fireworks to tell that he is doing
it. if you nominate him for the presidency
I shall be glad to go before the country
nnd testify to my own knowledge of Ids
vorih and ability as I am doing here."
I Address to Veterans.
In 'the throng that greeted the president
at tt court house were a large number of
Gtnd Army veteran! and members of
Hie Women's Relief Corps.
I am honored by the presence of the
v.iaiid Army men," said the president, "and
b the ladies, too, who. while they do not
wear uniforms, suggest the presence of the
Women's Kelief corps. I have had the
pleaaure of meeting Grand Army men at
many places on this trip, and It Is most
inspiring to have brought back the mem
ories of the time when it cost Mood and
courage to met the Issues of the day and
.ie tlir couutry.
"It Is pleasant to note that far out in
tin- western country. aay from the battle
fields where the issue of the nation's life
uj contested, we find the heroes of that
war mho pushed out here even after so
heavy a struggle in order to build up a
ucw country and add to the strength, the
expansion, the wealth and the prosperity
of the country v. hlcli they saved.
Heroes of the Philippines.
Just In front of me I see a monument
that brings back memories that I always
.ike to refer to and emphasise. The monu
iii tit 1 1 understand to be to one of those
who save up his life In the far distant
' illpflnea In order that the duty which
l'u5 government had there should be per
fjiia. and a supervision extended and
f ar
iCunllnued on Second Page )
First Test of
Oklahoma Bank
Guaranty Act
Eeceiver Begins Paying Depositors of
Columbia Company Banks May
Resist Extra Assessment.
KLAHOMA CITY. Okl.. Sept. 29.
a aupply of money received from
tate guaranty fund, supplemented
1 caah on hand In the bank, State
Commissioner Yours today paid
4 00 depositors of the Columbia
id Tru.st company which sus
l veaterday. No excitement pre-
v vj." e people apparently trusting
th .9 guaranty.
Commissioner Young refused to make
a statement a to the hank's condition
tonight pending a thorough investigation
of lis assets.
Scrurltle to the amount of $250,000
have been offered the bank officials hy
local capitalists, but these have been
refused on the advice of the bank com
missioner, who expresses confidence that
there will be no difficulty In paying the
depositors dollar for dollar.
Interest throughout the state today
was Lntense. The Columbia company
was the reserve for perhaps 150 other
state banks and nad on deposit $1,300,000
of their depoBlts. The failure in the
application of the guaranty law would
mean ruin to many o fthese and a finan
cial panic in the state.
GUTHRI K, Okl., Sept. 29. Oklahoma
bankers will not resist, for the present.
the colectlon of the proposed assess
ment of three-fourtliH of 1 percent Im
posed on Oklahoma banks to recoup the
state hank guaranty fund made neces
sary by the failure of the Columbia
Bank and Trust company of Oklahoma
City.
Tim matter will be held In abeyance,
It was stated tonight, pending the double
liability assessment of 1200,000 against
the stockholders of the Columbia con
cern.
L. A. Wilson of El Reno, president of
the Oklahoma Bankers' association,
withdrew the official call issued earlier
In the day for a meeting of the executive
committee to be held at Kl Reno next
Saturday, to consider the matter.
Bryan Will Not
Meet Bailey
llebraskan Says He is Willing to
Make Tariff Speech in
Atlanta.
ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 29.-The follow
ing telegram was received here tonlgnt
from Mr. Bryan at Lincoln, Neb: "E
gagements are made for my time until No
vember, but I shall be glad to make a
tariff speech in Atlanta some time in No
vember or December. I consider a debate
ohjrctionable, however, for reasons which
I will communicate by letter.
"WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.,'.',.
Senator Joseph W. Bailey of T SaS' today
sent the following telegram to the Atlanta
Young Men's Democratic league:
"I authorized my friends at El Paso to
arrange a Joint discussion between Mr.
Bryan and myself and they undertook to
do so, but he objected on the ground that
It would militate against democratic suc
cess In the next congressional election.
In view of that statement by him I am
not willing to put myself in the position
of urging him to do what he thinks would
be against the Interest of our party, but
If he should change his mind about the
matter and consent to the arrangement
you propose It would please me very much
to discuss the question of raw material
with him at Atlanta whenever It may suit
hla convenience."
Spokane Rate
Hearing Begins
Eastern and Western Roads and
Merchants of Many Cities Rep
resented by Attorneys.
SPOKANK. Wash., Sept. 29-The taking
of testimony In the Spokane freight rate
cases was begun today before Commissioner
prouty of the Interstate Commerce com
mission. Allied with Spokane are attorneys repre
senting Walla Walla and l. Grande, Ore.
On the other side are attorneys for the
Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Burllng-
I ton. Pennsylvania. New York. New Haven
! H Hartford, the Harriman Inlet ests. the
Merchants' association of Kew York, the
Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and
business Interests of Boston, Worcester and
Springfield, Mass.; Portland, Ou, and
Chicago.
Attorney Stephens for Spokane shippers
presented numerous exhibits and Indicated
the nature of the testimony that will be
submitted to uphold the demand for lower
freight rates.
Free Methodist Conference.'
KIOCX FALLS, S. D. Sept. 29. (Special.)
A number of clergymen and others have
gathered at Faulkton to attend the am ual
conference of the Free Methodist church of
South Dakota, which convened there
Wednesday, for sessions continuing until
Saturday evening. Rev. W. D. Olmstead ef
Ohio Is presiding at the various sessions.
What! Walk to Florence?
Nay! Nay! Cry Passengers
Florence has one on Dundee. The other
night a crowd of people bound Dundee
ward submitted to being held up by the
strikebreakers on the car before the
crew would run the car out to the suburb.
Now, hark to what the bold bad men of
Florence did last night when two strike
breakers got funny:
About 7 p. m. a car well filled with
tired men and women was bound for
Florence and had proceeded to a point
about half way between Amee arenue and
the end of the line. Then the strike
breakers got nervous They bethought
themselves that twould be cosiar In the
car barn than out In the dark where too
mature egge or solid rock doth soma times
wing Its venomous way.
Forthwith they started to reverse the
direction of the car.
"What'a thtsT cried the passengers In
chorus. "Go back downtown or get out
here?" Not it we know ourselves and we
KING'S HIGHWAY
OPENTOI'UBLIC
little Doing in Daytime, but the
Shows All Open for Business
at Night.
INITIAL ATTENDANCE IS GOOD
Shows Are More Prompt Than Usual
in Opening for Business.
ALL CONTRACTED FOR ON HAND
Profiting by Past Experience, Board !
Ties Them Up with a Bond.
LIGHTS IN CITY TURNED ON
Omaha lias on Its Prettlrat Attire
and Is Ready to Welcome the
Guests of the Royal
Samson.
ATTENDANCE.
1907. 1908.
Wednesday 9,569 4.375
1909.
9. 443
Promptly on scheduled time Samson
touched the button, the gates of the King's
Highway flew open, the big bally-ho
band over the triumphal arch played the
opening air and Omaha's fall festival was
on. The time of the opening was at 1:30
Wednesday afternoon and it found most
of the attractions ready for business. No
effort was made to give any performances
In the big shows until evening, when the
people of the city began to visit the
grounds. The opening was rather quiet, as
It is usual for the first day, but the even
ing found all the shows ready for business
except the big show which the Board of
Governors Is installing under the direction
of Emil Brandeis, chairman of the amuse
ment committee. This show is nearly com
pleted. Spielers barked and their assistants with
the various nolsemakers vied with each
other in their efforts to attract the crowds
to the different shows. One show has a set
of chimes and another has a big Claxton
horn for a bally-ho. AH did good business
for the opening night. The shows are all
clean and high class and will bring no
reproach on the promoters of the enter
prise. Space I sed to Advantage.
While the space given to the carnival Is
somewhat less than last year, the ground
Is used to better advantage and larger
shows than ever before use all available
space. A large number of catch-penny af
fairs wMch dotted the grounds last year
are missing.
The first show to attract the eye on en
tering -the .hlgheway Is the Human Roul
Ette Wheel, a device framed to furnish
fun and amusement for boys as well as
for the spectators who watch their antics
In trying to ride on the slippery revolving
surface... which throw.- them off as fast as
they can get on. '
Turning to the right there Is the usual
array of booths and at the end of Eight
eenth street Is the trained wild animal show
of Big Otto. Here are all sorts of, forest
bred wild animals, trained to do the bid
ding of man. There are eighteen cages of
animals and all are trained to "work."
Tho feature performance is given by Mile.
Kay with a cage of performing leopards.
The animal show is housed In the biggest
tent ever pitched on the carnival grounds.
Turner's "Seven-in-One" show is framed
up like a side show to a circus and here Is
displayed quite a variety of freaks such
as are usually seen In a side show.
Wlllard's Temple of Music is another big
show, in which a bevy of young women
play on all sorts of contrivances, such as
alarm clock., buzz saws, pipe organs and
numerous other devices. A young woman
plays on a bank of flowers by means of
electricity which passes through her body.
The hippodrome circus from Dreamland
on Coney Island will amuse the youngsters
with its trained dogs, ponies and monkeys.
Omar Sand has a splendid version of
Lunette, the human butterfly.
Numerous other attractions make the
King's Highway a place where an evening
may be spent and enjoyed by all.
The members of the board of gov
ernors who look after the business affairs
of the merry monarch. King Ak-Sar-Ben
XV, stood on the King's Highway and said,
"It Is good."
"The shows 'in the amusoment court are
of a higher grade this year than in any
Samson has ever undertaken to give for
the public," said Emll Brandeis, chairman
of the amusement committee. "For some
time the board has been booking shows
only to lose out ut the last minute, when
it was too late to fill their places. This
year, however, a different scheme waa tried
and the shows were all bought outright
and placed under bonds to appear. That
the schemes has worked out well Is shown
by the fact that they are all here and In
place.
"We have not as many small shows as
heretofore, but we have larger and better
shows, and plenty of them."
Jap Ten Garden.
Prof. Willard Chambers has called for a
final full dress rehearsal of the children
who will take part In the Japanese Tea
Garden for Saturday afternoon at 1:30 at
the den. The boys who will take part and
those who have not received their cos-
(Continued on Second Page.)
firmly believe we do. Get out of here
you pusillanimous pikers. Vumoose!
Chase yourselves! Skidoo'"
Fulfilling to tlie letter that advice to
tiie players about suiting the action to
the word, the doughty passengers Imme
diately procerded to kick the strikebreak
ing conductor and niotuiman off the car.
Then one of the valiant hand mounted
the motorneer's post, turned on the cur
rent and run the cur to Florence.
Sadly, wearily the strikebreakers hoofed
it to their car barn.
"There's a riot out our way," said they.
"A hand of ruffians attacked us and we
had to flee for our lives."
A riot call was turned in to the sheriffs
office and an emergency auto speeded
northward. Arriving at Florence the
deputies found the street car peacefully
reposing in unmolested condition on the
last stretch of track.
Score one for Florence,
H8 f-'axf rn
'mis owrf le oi(t.ieT)
His
From the Cleveland Leader.
WRIGHT AND CURTISS FLY
Former Makes Three Successful
Attempts and the Latter One.
BALLOON RACE IS FAILURE
Baldwin's DlrlRtble Drops Into Had.
on Hirer Near Start and Tom
Ilnson la Forced to Deecend
Near White Flalna.
NEW YORK. Sept. 29. Wilbur Wright
circled the great Statue of Liberty at the
entrance of New York hi his aeroplane
today, while In the upper part of the city
two huge dlrlblo balloons failed tnglorioualy
In their task. This, the first day of flights
of the Hudson-Fulton celebration, was a
victory for the heavler-than-alr marhines.
Both Wrinht and Glenn H. Curtlss soared
successfully from the uenxirome on Gov
ernor's island In their motor propelled bi
planes. Both great dirigibles, manned re
spectively by Captain Thomas Baldwin I
und George L. Tomllnson, and entered in
the New Y'ork World's New York to Al
bany race, were forced to descend because
of mechanical difficulties t fore they were
well under way.
Wilbur Wright made ll ree sensational
flights and Curtlss made ' ne brief though
successful spin of thirty si onds' duration.
Baldwin, with his dtriglbk landed In the
Hudson river less than an hour after the
start, while Tomllnson, after remaining
in the air from 11:36 a. m. until 1:30 p. m.,
came to earth near White Plains, N. Y.,
twenty-two miles from his starting point.
Neither of the dirigible pilots was injured
nor waa either craft seri'isly damaged.
With a lull In the Goneral '11 udSon-FuIton
ceremonies, the eyes of all New York and
its million visitors wera turned toward
Governor's Island, where the aeroplane
flights were held nnd toward Fulton
square, at one Hundred and Nineteenth and
Riverside drive, the starting point of the
New Y'ork-to-Albany race. Unfavorable
winds or rain during the last two days
had caused a postponement of all flights
and an Impatient public hailed today with
eagerness when it became apparent that
weather conditions would permit the men-
birds to try out their steeds.
Curtlss was the first to leave the earth
and at a time when dawn had hardly
broken. He spent the night on Governor'
Island and at 7 o'clock rose, but only for
a brier night.
Three Fllahta br Wrlht.
Two hours later Wright made his first
ascent, encircling Governor's Island and
remaining In the air for seven minutes.
After an hour's rest, Wright again went
aloft, this time remaining In the air for
six minutes and thirty seconds, attaining
a speed estimated at fifty miles an hour
and with a glorious sweep out over the
bay, passing entirely around the great em
blem of liberty situated on Bedloe's is
land to the northwest. Not content with
these spectacular feats, Wright made a
third flight this afternoon before a crowd
of 60,000 persons, who by that time had as
sembled on the island attracted by the
news of his earlier ascents. Yachts, ex
cursion boats and various craft had gath
ered on the aviation field and they tooted
their whistles noisily as his machine rose
from the ground for the last flight of the
day. He did not attempt to fly over the
water nor did he go to any great height,
but executed two complete circuits in the
air and then made an excellent landing
while the crowd, including his rival, Cur
tlss commented on the ease with which he
manipulated his craft.
In all three of his flights today, the
Wright machine showed greater speed than
that of Curtlss, but the Curtlss flyer
seemed to keep Its equilibrium better and
remained on an even keel. Wright, In fact,
met with one slight mishap in his first
flight when a wlng-tlp struck the ground
on landing and considerably Jarred his ma
chine.
Wright's action in circling the statue of
liberty today is taken as a challenge to
Curtlss, for Curtlss, It will be recalled,
was the first to mention such a flight.
From now on It Is expected that the two
rival aviators will strive to outdo each
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Big Brother Plnys on the Eleven
No More Delay
in Libel Case
Judge Anderson at Indianapolis Re
fuses Request for Continuance
Made by Government
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Sept. 29.-Judge
Anderson of the United Slates district
court to day refused to grant the plea of
the government for a re-oonttnuance of
the hearing of Delevan Smith and Charles
R. Williams, proprietors of the Indianapolis
News, who are charged with criminal libel
In having published articles alleged to In
timate that there was corruption in the
sale of the Panama canal zone to the
United States. The hearing will be resumed
before Judge Anderson on October 11.
Judge Anderson said In his ruling today
that the defendants were under Indictments
and either should have their hearing or be
discharged. He said the matter had been
long delayed by the government.
'You may write to the attorney general
and tell him that I will not consent to
further delay," said the court to Charles
W. Miller, United States attorney for In
diana. Mr. Miller submitted that the hear
ing of Messrs. Smith and Williams should
be postponed until after the New York
World trial In New York, October 20.
Messrs. Smith and Williams were Indicted
by the federal grand Jury of the District
of Columbia. It is alleged they were guilty
of criminal libel against Theodore Roose
velt, Douglas Robinson, William Nelson
Cromwell, Charles P. Taft and others. The
defendants are under bond of S5.000 each.
The district court now is to determine
whether or not they shall be removed to
Washington for trial,.. , . y
Postal Employes
Arc Organized
Southwest Association, Representing
35,000 Mail Handlers, is Formed
at Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY. Sept. 30 A permanent
organization of postal employes of Missouri,
Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma and
Arkansas was formed at today's session of
their convention here. It will be known as
the Soutiiwest Postal association, and rep
resents 35.000 postal employes.
F. M. Filson, postmaster at Cameron,
Mo., was elected president; W. C. Mark
ham, postmaster at Baldwin, Kan., secre
tary; W. G. Haskell, Cedar Rapids, Ia
and Edward Slzer, Lincoln, Neb., were
among the vice presidents chosen.
George H. Fair of Topeka, Kan., was
elected vice president-at-large for the rail
way poBtal clerks.
Resolutions were adopted urging congress
to legislate favorably on the following
matters:
City delivery In all second-class offices;
substitutes to be provided for rural car
riers; farms to be numbered consecutively;
long time leases on postofflce sites, or pur
chase.
Kansas City was chosen for next year's
meeting place.
SPAIN IS USING IRON HAND
Authorities of Barcelona Are Deport
ing All Suspects Without Se in
ula ace of Hearlua-.
PARIS, Sept. 2 The Matin today pub
lishes a dispatch from Cerebere, on the
Spanish frontier, saying the authorities of
Barcelona are making use of the most
drastlo measure to rid the city of sus
pected revolutionists. Hundreds of repub
lican and anarchist suspects are being ex
iled to the provinces without a hearing, and
often without being given an opportunity
of notifying their families.
Harry Whitney Answers
Questions of Newspapers
NEW YORK. Sept. JJ.-The following
despatch has been received by the Asso
ciated Press from Harry Whitney, the New
Haven hunter, who arrived at St. Johns.
N. F., yesterday by the schooner Jeanle
on his way home:
"STEPHEN VILLE CROSSING, New
foundland, Sept. IS. "So many questions
are being asked of me by different papers
that I desire to make the following state
ment through the Associated Press. My
reasons for not going back to Etah after
Dr. Cook's things, was that the engines of
the eJanle, one of the smallest boats that
ever went to the Arctic, were not working
satisfactorily and we were depending partly
on sails, which later we had to do entirely.
Ttiere was no reason why the Jeanle could
not have gone back, but not knowing that
Dr. Cook's things left with me were of
such importance as they have since turned
out to be, I did not return.
"In addition I had promised the Eskimos,
who were with me after musk oxen in
Ellsmerland. certain things which I ex
pected on the ship coming for me. but they
were not on board the ejanie and I did not
want to return and disappoint the men.
AnwUiex rtaftun waa that I wauled tw pro
WILLIAM R. MORRISON DEAD
Former Democratio Leader Dies at
His Home at Waterloo, Iowa.
SEVERAL TERMS IN CONGRESS
He Wm a Member of Interstate
Commerce Commission for Ten
Years, Reins; Appointed by
Cleveland In
WATERLOO, 111.. Sept. 29,-Colonel Wil
Ham R. Morrison, for many years leader
of the democratic party and veteran of the
Mexican war, died at 8:20 tonight at his
home here after a long illness. He had
been unconscious for several hours during
the day, but revived shortly before the end
came and spoke to relatives gathered about
the bedside.
William Ralls Morrison was born in 1S24
and had served as a private In the Mexican
war. Returning to Illinois, he entered pol
itics and, after serving two terms in the
state legislature, was elected to congress
In 1X63. While chairman of the house ways
and means committee he introduced the
tariff measure known as the "horizontal"
or "Morrison bill.
He retired from congress In 18S7 and in
the same year waa appointed to the Inter
state Commerce commission by President
Cleveland, remaining in that position for
ten years.
Since 1899 Mr. Morrison has lived In re
tirement. DIRT FALLS ON MEN
WITHOUT ANY WARNING
Six Men Are ' Hurled Alive
t a vein of Tnnnel at New
Haven.
by
NEW HAVEN. Conn., Sept. 20. Gangs of
men were working hard this morning to
reach the tunnel drivers who were burled
by a cave-in in a tunnel which is being
driven from AUIngs Mill to Lake Maltbl.
It Is believed six men are burled alive and
there seems no hope for them. They are
negroes and Italians.
The New Haven Water company owns
several small lakes which feed into a
reservoir. To make the supply in the
reservoir uniform, a tunnel half mile In
length is being driven through a hill to
connect two lakes. For several days the
workmen noticed water seeping through.
The cave-In late yesterday came without
warning. Two men In the driving gang got
out, but the others were caught either be
yond the fall of dirt or under It.
SANTA FE ROAD
PAYING PROPOSITION
Annual Report Phovra Goodly Mnm for
Betterments After Dividends
Are Paid.
CHICAGO, Sept. 29. The annual report
of the Atchison, Topeka A. Santa Fe
Railway company for the fiscal year
ending June DO, 1909, made public
here today, shows Income from oper
ation of IfM, 266,716, and from all sources,
J95.42t.091. Deducting from this expenses,
including the taxes, rentals, etc , of $i!l,
4.. 019. and fixed charges, including accrued
Interest on adjustment bonds of J13,t,4S.i)Sl,
a balance for the year of 0,117,990 is
shown.
From this remainder, dividends of S5.70S,
630 on the preferred stock and I5,152.5f0 were
paid. For additions and betterments,
000,000 was appropriated, $4,000,000 of which
was expended during the year. The sur
plus carried to profit and loss is ::9H 6-0
for the year.
Wisconsin Wine Game.
TOKIO, Sept. 29. By the score of S to 7
the University of Wisconsin base ball nine
won today's game against the All Toklo
team.
long my hunting trip, which I was adhie
to do by not going back, but by cutting
across Smith Sound from North Star hay
and following the edge of the ice south.
"I do not believe that either Dr. Cook or
Commander Peary, if placed in my posi
tion, would have dune differently than I
did, nor would they, having started south
for civilization, have turned back. I had
never seen Dr. Cook until I met him !n
the Arctic. He told me he had been to the
North pole and I was pledged not to re
veal this fact to Commander Peary, but I
could say that he had gone further north
than Peary In 1006.
"Commander Peary, to my knowledge,
knew absolutely nothing about what had
been left with rne by Dr. Cook, except that
I mentioned instruments, clothes and furs,
and dalsn a narwal horn. Dr. Cook's be
longings left In my charge were placed In
boxes, whleh were nailed up. Then I saw
the Eskimos cover them wttn rocks.
"No one could have been kinder to me
or shown me more consideration than Com
mander Peary did while I was on the
Roosevelt, and he aald he would be very
glad to have me remain aboard ar.d re
turn with him, instead of Joining the
Jtanio. "ilAIUlV WHITNEY."
MEETINGS FAIL:
ST1UKBST1LL0N
Several Conferences with Wattles,
but Company Declines to Recede
from Position Taken.
BUSINESS MEN MEET FOR TALK
Fifty Summoned by Head of Company
and Long Conference Held.
DECLARE BUSINESS SUFFERING
Men at Meeting Unit in Asserting
Ak-Sar-Ben Will Be Injured.
CARNIVAL TRUCE IS REJECTED
atreet Rallnny Itefnsrs Arbitration
Proposition, Concessions of Rtrlkrra
and tlTerturra by Roard of
Governors of A k-9nrRen,
COWDITIOHS Or TUB BT&XSCII.
President Wattles meets fifty business
men for long- talk, but nothing results
toward strike settlement.
The Bee's proposal of arbitration by a
board of representative citizens, aeoepted
by the strikers, la promptly rejeoted br
the street railway company through
President Wattles.
Wattles refusea to negotiate further
with the strikers.
Conference between Wattles and Ab
Bar-Ben representatives produce! nothing
In the form of a truce or adjustment and
Wattles asserts "there is no change In
conditions."
Strikers hold parade and are given
privilege by mayor for big- allied union
labor demonstration Saturday,
Fifty prominent business men of Omaha
were in private conversation with President
G. W. Wattles of the street railway com
pany for over three hours yesterday after
noon, but at tho close Mr. Wattles and
many of the business men stated that no
pi uk'i ens had been made in settling tho
strike.
The business men were summoned tc
Wattles' office by him and It waa under
stood the meeting was for the purpose of
discussing the strike situation. Those who
were present were slow about discussing
what had taken place, but enough was
gleaned from the conversations with th
men to indicate there was considerable
difference of opinion, both as to the atti
tude of the company has taken and as to
whether or not the differences should ba
submitted to arbitration.
Strike Ifnrts Business.
The business men were a unit on onej
thing, however, that the strike ia cutting
business 1,1 two and will have a disas
trous effect on the Ak-Sar-Ben carnival
next week. One of them declared:
"I went to the meeting with the under
standing that something was to be done if
possible to settle the strike. There waa
nevlderable discussion and many volun
tuer suggestions. Ho vote was taken and
no effort was made to endorse any method
of reuching an agreement. There were
many differences of opinion and at tho end
I am of the impression little or no progress
was made toward ending the trouble.
"There was some talk of arbitration, but
I do not think the meeting will reemlt in
arbitration. It was merely an informal
gathering of business men to discuss the
situation.
"Mr. Wattles did not HRk for suggestion
as to the best way to Mid the strike, but
a number of those present volunteered
suggestions."
Mr. Wattles' statement of the object and
result of the meetlng was very brief!
"About fifty business men met me on ln
vitation to talk over the situation. We dis
cussed it, but no solution of the trouble
was found. The situation is exactly as it
waa before. The company took Its stand
Sunday and that Is where it stands today.
There is no change."
One Man's Opinion.
At least one man at this meeting man
of large Interests it Is learned, expressed,
the view that the street railway company
is not doing all it could to give the publlo
adequate service and not doing all It could
to effect a settlement of the difficulties
that prevent it from giving good service
so long as it stood out unequivocally
against arbitration and all proposals of
such adjustment and Ignored the auiavar)'
proposal of a truce. This man made knWB
his views in highly vigorous language and
sought to win others to his way of think
ing, but it Is admitted that he failed In
this, for the majority at the meeting were
either non-committal or endorsed the
company's views, as set forth by Presi
dent Wattles. This one man laid atrees, it
is learned, on the wisdom, fairness and
Justice of arbitration as a meana of solv
ing this problem and giving to the people
the car service they deserve.
Charles R. Sherman of Sherman V Mc
Connell, said after tiie meeting;
"it was the sentiment of the meeting
that the street car company waa doing the
best it could to settle the strike trouble
with wisdom and fairness to all concerned.
The representatives of the street oar com
pany felt that they should be allewed to
go on moving cars for the accommodation,
of the public and should be protected In
so doing and that outside Interference and
suKgestions of aibllratlon only served to
confuse matters the more. They felt that
the time for arbitration had paeeed. They
Intended to Improve the service by putting
on additional cars during the rush hours.
They will seek to bring the best of the old
men back Into tiie service in time."
Km ply Stores A newer.
Business men who were asked by a re
porter whether or not they were satisfied
with what the street railway company waa
doi.ig to settle the strike were reticent.
Only one of a number consented to be
quoted.
"There Is no use asking a question like
that," said one proprietor of a department
store. "These empty aisles are enough of
an answer to that question, but I don't
want to he quoted as saying anything."
"1 don't see what the street railway
company could do further In View of Its
contract witli some 'MO and odd of their
men." said Charles C. liehien of Thompson
& lieldeu. when asked for his opinion or
the efforts of the company toward a settle
ment of the controversy. "1 mean the men
who stood by liie ompany in the earlier
stages of the strike."
Mr. Wattles and the board of directors
met with a committee from the Board of
Uovirnors consisting of C. II. Pickens, Emll
Brandeis and Kwrcil MuckliiKhatn. The
conference lasted for oer un hour. When
the committee cii.eiyed from the board of
directors' room in the company headquar
ters Mr. lickei.s tald there waa nethiug 14