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TAIT AND LOEB
TALK 011 TARIFF
President Wants Boosevelt to Under
stand Administration. View
point. JLPPEOVED OF NORTON'S SU1?
fr
-yiiitor it Tariff Expert wittf ?
Practical Knowledge r- j
IS INTIMATE WHH R0O;f Li
Ex-President Says Nothing" jto
Significance. L.J
3ETRST CALL OP SOCIAL NATURE
Entirely Niw Aatlt la PnMntfd In
Visit of Warm Personal Friend
f Ex-Prraldent Ilooae
It to Beverly.
BEVERLY, Mm., Jury 11. A brand new
j angle waa (Ivan to the visit of William
J Loeb, jr., to Beverly today. It was r
I ported that his talk with President Taft
this afternoon, "on the general political
j altuatlon," would Include the Payne-AId-Vrtch
tariff bill.
President Taft, It la believed, la anxious
that Colonel Roosevelt shuuld make a care
ful study of the now law before commttlng
t himself in any way. The colonel undoubt
edly has had the "Insurgent view" of the
tariff pretty well drilled Into him by Sena
tors Beveridge, Brlstow. LaFollett. and
the others who have been to Sagamore HILL
' Mr. Taft, the atory goes today, wants the
colonul to have the administration view. .
The report that the tariff waa to ba the
principal theme of discussion today aeeras
to be borne out by many circumstances.
It Is admitted that Mr. Loeb was sum
moned to Beverly by Secretary Norton,
with the full knowledge of the president
Sir. Loeb'a duties aa collector of the port
f New York bring him In touch with the
tariff and probably he knows more about
the actual, practical working of the law
than any other man.
Secretary Norton and Collector Loeb.
were together until late last night and re
sumed their conforcnce this morning. They
arranged to see the President at Burgess
Point this afternoon.
Both remained uncommunicative re
tarding Mr. Loeb'a visit, other than to re
peat the explanation of last night that It
waa to discuss "the general political situ
ation." . " !
The president played golf at Myopia this
toornlng with Henry C. Prick.
Mr. Losb paid a preliminary call on the
president hls forenoon and motored to the
golf links with him. He also lunched wit
Mr. Taft. Later Mr. Loeb went with Sec
retary Morton and called on Assistant Hec
retary of the Treaaury Curtlas, who U
W at Manoheatar-by-the-Sea. , ' ''
' .i,;vilfwa' tvOl'ater. JBayv j
'OTSTER BAY, July U.-The .announce
ment from Beverly that William Loeb, Jr.,
' . Collector of the port of New York,, was to
, e President Taft tbday aroused great
Interest here owing to tha close relations
(which exist between Mr. Loeb and Theo
dore Roosevelt. It waa impossible to got
from Colonel Roosevet ' an expression of
opinion aa to the algniilrance of this meet
ing aa be denied himself to interviewers
today. . -
Tha colonel Is having hla fourth day of
rest In the Interval between the delegations
of politicians and members of congress last
fThuraday and that of Governor Hughea to
morrow. IVE STOCK IN BELLE
FOURCHE IN FINE SHAPE
Cattle on Rasge All aa Far Along aa
Tbey I anally Are by tha
c Last of Ananaf.
BELLE3 FOURCHiS, 8. D., .July It
Special.) In spite of the scarcity of range
feed the condition of stock waa never bet
ter than at present, The very condition
that has made grating scant has operated
by the law of compensation to put range
took In tetter condition than they have
Tieen for yeara at this time of year.
When there Is abundant rain during May
atpd June, aa haa been the case for six of
lght years until thla season, the grass
grows ' long and ripens ' late, and cattle
could hot take on their beat flesh In green
grass. Comparative freedom from flies
haa bean of great .advantage to cattle this
year also.
Generally speaking stock Is now in about
the same condition It ti Ally Is the last of
August. Many stock men have planned
arly shipment thla year owing to tha
. poor outlook for winter feed and tha fact
(that water holes have been drying up.
Tha rain which fell throughout tha west
, talf of tha state laat night will do much
:o relieve both of these conditions and may
reeult In soma holding who had decided to
(tell. Heavy shipments will ba made thla
'fall, nevertheless.
'COMMONS DISCUSSING
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE BILL
rVate oa Proposition to Extend I'ar
. llantealary F reach Isa Will Ba
Takea Tonight.
LONDON. July 11. The first real formal
Judgment to be passed by tha House of
Commons on the question of conferring the
parliamentary franchise upon women, will
pa rendered tomorrow evening. The bill In
troduced by David. James Khackelton, labor
tnember for Lancaahlre, waa brought up
this afternoon when Mr. Shargleton moved
Its second reading.
Women already possess a municipal vote
tn England and about 1.000.000 would be
given the parliamentary franchise if the
hill passed. Party , lines are obliterated on
thla question. The parly leaders are di
vided. Aran? Worm la Aouth Dakota.
SIOUX FALLS. 8. D.. July 11. -Mysterious
worms which' have been working In
Tolds lu the vicinity of White. rBooklngs
bounty, during tha last week or two have
tee u Identified by an expert from the state
agricultural college at Brooking! as the
dreaded army worm, which puts in an ap
pearance about once In fifteen yeara. They
have been doing damage to fields of tim
othy, stripping the heads and In some cases
making quick work In cleaning up a field.
1'h worms will destroy all kinds of grain,
pasting Xom one field to another. The
only protection the farmers have against
tha worme ta to plow a furrow around a
field, throwing tha dirt toward the worms,
s they win not attempt to climb the per
etaadlcular aides of tha furrows.
Twelve Deaths
from Heat in
New York City
Temperature at One O'clock Was
Seven Degrees Cooler Than
Same Hour Sunday.
Viriir
iukk. July lL-Tha suffocating
wave still hangs over New York City
causing scores of prostrations. Twelve per
sons nave died from the heat in the last
twenty-four hours.
VT 1 - .
"riy j.uw.wo persona visited the
Deschea on Bundsy. The whole Atlantic
seaboard is In the clutch of the hot
weather, but lower temperature la nrom-
Ised. The early Indications of a warmer
day than yesterday were not borne out,
the official thermometer in the lofty
weather bureau station at 1 p. m. register.
lng only 88. as against 92 at the same hour
on Sunday.
oureei temperatures are still higher, how
ever, and humanity continued to suffer.
Alexander Kuryla, prostrated while work
ing on the Sixth avenue elevated structure.
collapsed against the power rail and waa
shocked to desth.
UUBTUN. July U.-Half a doaen prostra
tions from heat In Boston and vicinity
early in the day were reported by the po
nce ana nospuaia.
i.xiu.:auo. July ll.-Two mora deaths
were added today to the list of heat fatai-
itiea here. Edward H. Hovey, president of
a rurnace company, was stricken Saturday
and died today and George Scholl, a
laoorer, also died from heat prostration,
Pioneer Stage
Driver Retires
Harvey Fellows Makes Quarter Mil
lion Miles Without Missing
a Trip.
DEADWOOD, 8. D., July U.-(8peclal)-Harvey
Kellowa, the only one of the old
time augers still In active service will
climb down tomorrow and hereafter lead a
less atrenuous life. For twenty-five years
"Harvey" haa -made dally trips between
here and Spearftsh and ia known the coun
try over. Until two years ago he never
had a vacation, driving hla four-horse
team 10,000 miles every year without a day
off In years and never failed to bring his
stage through. Harvey never failed to get
through, and when winter storms, ' deep
snows, temperatures as low as 35 and
spring floods that washed out brldarea h
always somehow managed to get there.
Tralne have often been stalled for days,
other .drivers would refuse to make the
trip, yet he has weathered It all and never
suffered a serious accident. And despite
the lurid stories of the wild . and woolly
west and the Dead wood stage coach, Har
vey haa covered 250,000 miles and never
had a holdup. , Mr. arid Mrs. Fellows will
leave in a few days for, an overlaid irm
Chicago Man
Kills a Bandit
Elmer Cooper Shoots Holdup in Sight
of Fianoee He Had Just Bid
den Good Night.
CHICAGO, July ll.-Wlthln sight of his
fiance whom he had Just klsaed good night,
Elmer Cooper, a salesman, shot and killed
one of iwo highwayman, who attempted
to rob him early today. The tragedy oc
curred while the young woman. Miss Cath
erine Rush, stood on 'the porch of her home
612 Lexington avenue. The second thi.f'
who is believed to have been wounded es
caped. Cooper waa arretted and later re
leased. ' He waa robbed under almost simi
lar condltlona July 8. On that occasion ha
waa unarmed, but he had Immediately pur
chased a revolver.'
Sioux City Officer
Commits Suicide
James Lester, a Veteran Member of
Force, Shoots Himself on Lot
Near His Home.
SIOUX CITY. Ia.. July U.-(Spedal.)
Lylng In a pool of blood, tha dead body of
James Lester, a veteran of the Sioux City
polloa force, waa found by. neighbors thla
morning In a vacant lot adjoining his
borne. Ha had committed suicide during
the night, using a large thlrty-two-callber
revolver carried by the patrolman. Do
mestic; troublea of long standing la thought
to ba tha eauae.
MURDERER CONFESSES CRIME
Oacar Pallea of Aeaoowa, Ark., Bare
Ha Kllca W. L. Deleaer at Mrs.
Drlaney'e laatlgatloa.
ASHDOWN. Ark., July U.-Osoar Pullen,'
surrendered to the sheriff of Little River
county last night and con Teased to the
murder of W. L. Delaney near Ashdown,
June IS last. He says he and Mrs. De
laney planned the murder. The wife, Pul
lan says placed a large box under the
window from which he ahot Delaney In
the bark as the latter lay asleep. Mra
Delaney and Pullett were Indicted last
week. Mrs. Delaney la In custody.
Plumber is Rewarded for
Giving Negress His Seat
One of the most unusual cases of virtue
getting a reward is that of the young man
who got $15 Monday for giving a colored
washerwoman his seat tn a car. Besides
kurrendering his place to the aged woman
with her heavy basket the young man
found himself walking beside her to the
scene of hla work carrying her basket He
says he haa bean remunerated at the rate
or $1 a block for hla trouble, aa ha walked
fifteen blocks.
Frank Trummer. a plumber of iSOl South
Tenth atreet, was the lucky recipient of
the money. He was a passenger In a Har
ney atreet car Sunday when the colored
woman bearded It at Twenty-fourth and
The Omaha Daily
OMAHA, TUESDAY Ml Mt.S'INU, .IIXY 12, 1!I10
MAYOR ATHERTON
IS SUSPENDED
Newark, 0., Executive is Out of Of
Jice Pending Inquiry Into Lynch
ing of Detective.
GOVERNOR HARMON GETS BUSY
Probaility that Similar Action Will
Be Taken Against Sheriff.
ONE SUSPECT IS ARRESTED
Negro Charged with Aiding in
Breaking Jail Door in Custody.
CHARGES AGAINST THE SHERIFF
Complaint Signed by Jadge Reward
and Other Acrnaea the Officer
of . COBnlTlna;. at Viola
tloas of Law.
COLUMBUS. O., July U.-Oovernor Har
mon at noon auspended Mayor Herbert
Atherton of Newark for thirty daya pend
ing an Investigation of his actions during
the rioting Friday nlaht which r.,,nH
In the lynchlnr nf Pari cik.vi...
'dry" detective.
Charges are now on tha wav to the rnv.
ernor from cltlsena of Newark, involving
rr.iiiam i.mke. arid the eovernor la
Pciea 10 suspend him at once.
Attorney General Denman todir l
an order postponing the special meeting
i... county grand Jury at New
10 investigate the lynching of Detctlve
btnerlngton. Tha special zrand Inrv .
""""" l meet by Common Pleaa Judge
Seward. The reason given by tha attorney
general is that he did not want the papers
served on tha Jurors bv Kh.riff u.i,.
against whom charges have been filed in
connection with the lynching. The news
papers will not be allowed to publish the
names of the special grand Jury when It Is
oauea later. The attorney von.r.i .
take personal charge of the lnvatiHnn
when the Jury meeta, probably week after
next.
Charsea AaTalaat Sheriff.
NEWARK. O., July ll.-Formal char.
against Sheriff Linka of Licking county,
for failure to atop the lypching of Detec
tive Etherington last Friday night were
made today, the paper being sltrned hv
common -iaaa Judge Charles W. Seward
ana otnere. These charges were Imme
diately forwarded to Governor Harmon.
! Judge Seward haa. issued a venire for a
special grand Jury to meet next Monday
to Investigate the lynching. "This city haa
been for yeara In the hands of law break-
era." said Judge Seward today, "and the
High officials of the city and county openly
connive at violations of the law and hv.
aenea the. courts. The tragedy of FrMav
night has aroused the cfty and the law.
abiding element, ia determined to wee that
una lynchers are, punished.'" i i ,0
Iert .Valentine, a Colored Ynan. was ar
rested today onh'eharre of being one of
uie rioters who manned the telegraph pole
Used in the battering down of the Jail doors
r"rlday night. . This Is the first arrest
since the lynching of Detective Ethering
ton. The warrant waa Issued by Prosecut
ing Attorney Smith and tha arrest was
maae secretly.
Strong Protest
from Vatican
Holy See Insists that Spain's Pro
posed Bill Restricting Religious
Orders is Wrong.
MADRID, July U. The government has
received a strong protest from the Vatican
against the bill prepared by Premier Can
alejas forbidding other religious orders to
enter Spain pending the aettlement of the
recent difficulties. The Vatican contends
that Spain haa no right to take any atep
regarding tha religious orders without a
previous agreement with the holy see.
Anti-clerical meetings continue to be held
In Madrid, Saragoass, Tarragona and To
ledo. At Barcelona a petition signed by
22,000 women waa presented to the governor
of that city endoralng the government's re
ligious policy. At Grenada a gathering of
Catholics .waa attacked by the antl-clerl-cals.
MRS. HELEN K. GOULD AND
RALPH H. THOMAS MARRIED
Ccremoay la Performed la Bride's
Apartments Nlao Detae
tlvea Watch Hoaee.
NEW YORK, July U.-Mrs. Helen Kelly
Gould and Ralph Hill Thomas, nephew of
Washington Thomaa, president of th Amer
loan 'jugar Refining company, were mar
ried today In Mra. Gould's apartment on
Park avenue, by the Rev. Dr. Webster of
the Brick Presbyterian church. Joseph
Thomaa, brother of the groom, acted as
best man, and the bride was given away
by her mother, Mra. Edmund Kelly.
The wedding party waa held to the Im
mediate friends of the couple. According to
me present plans Mr. and Mra. Thomaa
wll! sail for Europe tomorrow.
The presence of the Frank J. Gould child
ren, little Helen. Margaret and Dorothy
at the wedding, and the fact that nine
detectivea, who admitted they were In the
pay .of Frank Gould, watched the .house
gave rise to a report that Mr. Gould had
"-" u,in. not io let the children
accompany the newly wadded couple abroad.
Dodge atreeta with her basket Trummer
ros. and Invited th. aged MWoom l0
and teasing of the plumber
Getting off the car at th. earn, comer
the negrea. and her benefactor walked to
gether, th. young man assuming the bur
den of th. basket H. aaked her if ,h.
won anything on Johnson and was told sh.
had gathered In M f,om that aourca.
In parting the negresa Mk.4 ,b
and address of Trummer. Monday be rZ
oelved a note In which ha was declared tha
"most mannerly whit, man I .VM Mw"
and In which was enclosed tie.
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From the Cleyaland Plain Dealer.
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BOAT SINKS ? IN ' MISSISSIPPI
Steamer Cape Girardeau Goes Down
Fifty Miles Below St Louis.
PASSENGERS ARE LANDED SAFELY
Ninety . Excorsioalats Are Asleep
When Steamer Strikes a Unas
Pilot Tarns Prow To
ward Beach.
ST. LOUIS, July H.-The river steamer
Cape Girardeau struck a anag and aank to
the bottom of the Mississippi river today at
Turkey Island, fifty miles south of here.
One hundred and fifty . passengers were
aboard and all were taken ashore safely.
The boat waa returning from Commerce,
Mo. Many of the passengers were women
and children. They were asleep when the
boat hit an obetruction. The alarm waa
given by Captain William H. Leythe.
The Cape Girardeau was built In Mad
ison. Ind... In 1S99. It waa 230 feet long
and carried a crew of &. The boat la owned
by the Eagle Packet company of St. Loula.
On th evening of May 11 the steamboat
City of Saltillo struck a snag and wont to
the bottom of the Jlver fifteen miles below
St. Loula. . Twelvi persons were drowned by
the einklng of the poeV.j,.
' Pilots John flout ISid John Street as soon
aa the boat hit the snag headed the prow
toward. the. shore The boat aank close to
the bank of the river soon after' tha pas
sengers left. One side waa submerged.
The passengers walked from the- boat on
the gangplank. '
Dfexel Breaks
British Record
for Altitude
Son of American Millionaire Reaches
Height of 2,493 Feet in Bleriot
Monoplane.
BOURNEMOUTH, England. July 11. A
new British record for high flying- was
made by J. Armstrong Drexel, eon of An
thony Drexel, at the aviation meeting here
today. He reached an altitude of 1,930 feet,
Young Mr. Drexel haa been practicing
for some time with Bleriot monoplanes.
His best previous achievement waa at
Brokenhurat, July 20, when he reached a
height of 1,070 feet
Drexel made another ascent by sunset and
beat hla own record. He achieved this time
height of 2,493 feet
Wolfner Buys
Alcohol Plant
Distillery at M&xiholltown, Ia., Be
comes Property of Peoria
Cooperage Magnate.
MARSHALLTOWN, Ia.. July ll.-(Spe-
olal Telegram.) William F. Wolfner, vice
prealdent of the National Cooperage com
pany of Peoria, today bought the large
new plant of the National Denatured Al
cohol company, valued at $120,000. Mr.
Wolfner aaya he will operate the plant.
beginning the laat of August He denies
having any connection with the whisky
trust in making the purchase.
DES MOINES LOCKOUT
WILL BE ARBITRATED
General Strike of Holldlag Tradea
Annonneed for Monday la
Averted.
DES MOrNES. Ia.. July It-Contrary to
expectatlona, the building trades council
did not call a strike of all union men em
ployed by th. master builders today. It
waa announced that the men will work
pending arbitration.
'Phone Tyler 1000
for all departments
of The Omaha Bee
This Is the new switchboard tel
ephone number of The Bee. Get
Tbe Bee operator and ask for the
department you want.
After 6 p. m. aud before 8
a. m. call Tyler 1000 for edi
torial department, Tyler 1001
for advertising and circula
tion departments and Tyler
1002 for managing editor.
- TVELVE PAdES.
That Summer Vacation
"The very place!"
Prominent Men
Fall Under
Trains
and Are Killed
F. H. Lincoln, Traction Manager, and
Rev. Jacob Salade Are Crushed
to Death in Philadelphia.
rmuADELPHIA, July 11.-F. H. Lincoln
until recently assfstant general manager of
the Philadelphia Rapid Trannlt company.
was Instantly killed while attempting to
board a Washington train at the West
Philadelphia station of the Pennsylvania
railroad today. . . .
nr. Lincoln resigned his position with
IK . II A ... . .
u" nuiuwi company to Deoome as
sociated with the Goidschmldt-Pherlm com
pany. metal manufacturers of New Tork
oity. He waa one of, the original promotere
of the Pay-within oar company, and at the
time of hla death waa vice-president of
the Electrlo Service Supplies company of
thla city.
While attempting to board a faat moving
in-bound pasuenger ' train " at tha , Tioga
station or the Reading . Railway ' company
today. Rev.'- Dr. Jacob Sellade. acUna naa-
tor of Orace BpUsu temple, was- whtrledJ
under,, the wheels and -crushed to death.
Dr. Ballade waa secretary of the American
Home Mlsalon society, aiid formerly eervd
aa pastor ot the Temple Baptist church.
TRINIDAD, Colo., July U.-Dr. R T
Wiley, a wealthy resident of Mineral "Wells
Ter., walked off a Pullman car while
asleep laat night, near Rameyvllle. on th.
oiuraao uoutnern railway, and was
killed. His body waa found today by a
searching party. Wiley, with' his wife was
siuuuie io voioraao springs.
I .
Fast Train Wrecked
" Near Hudson.N.Y.
Seven Para nf Trr.t. r
- " viittiu xixpress on
New York Central Derailed
Three Trainmen Balled.
NET,LORK' Ju'y U-Thr- trainmen
w.r. killed and a tralnload of passengers
up wnen north-bound
train No. 69 on the New Tork ru..-i
known' aa the Northern and Western Exl
vroae, was wrecKed near Newton Hook
nine miles north of Hudson, early today'
Th. railroad officials her. report that all
the passengers were able to continue their
Journey.
Tha Twentieth Century Limited, on whioh
Jack Johnson, the heavyweight ch.mm
fighter and James J. Corbett was coming
iu ... -. " uciajeu an nour bv the
smashup.
Engineer Tyndell was caught under his
engine and was fatally crushed, dying
shortly afterward. Th. other trainmen
were ' instantly killed.
A report waa reoelved by the publlo
strives commission stating that the wreck
waa caused by the engine striking a door
of a freight car that had fallen on the
track.
Th. fatalities were primarily due to the
overturning of the engln. and baggag. ear,
which toppled completely over when they
left the ralla. Every other car of the seven
comprising th. train wer. derailed, but
only th. baggag. car overturned. The
tracka were badly torn up and traffic was
blocked.
The train waa known aa th. Northern
and Western Express and carried sleepers
for Utlca, Syracuse, Buffalo and, other
points, Including on. for St Louis.
Seven Alleged Conspirators
Are Arrestee! at Havana
HAVANA, July ll.-Colonel Jorge Valera,
a mulatto, and six other persons, most of
them colored me, were arrested by the
secret police today, charged with conspir
ing to start an uprising against the govern
ment. The seven men were on their way to
Vleja Bermeja, In the province of Matanxas,
to which placd a trunk containing arms
and ammunition and dynamite has been
shipped from Havana.
Letters and documents found on tha
prisoners, who have been brought to
Havana, are believed to implicate many
other persons in tha conspiracy.'
- The trunk v. as traced by the police of
ficials to the medical school of tha Havana
university The Janitor of that Institution
was arrested today aud a large quantity of
dynamite was found in his possession.
It Is not quite three months since the
last negro conspiracy against the govern
ment was nipped In the bud by th. police
Bee
SIM! 1.1
METCALFE IS WITH BRYAN
Associate Strings Along with Editor
in Commoner's Cause.
EASY TO BE A PROHIBITIONIST
Wrltea to Mr. Hitchcock that He la
Not Maklaar'Aay Sacrifice In Hla
npport of the Peerless
Leader's Plaa.
: (From a Staff Correspondent)
LINCOLN, July 11. (Special.) Now war
has broken out between Congressman
Hitchcock aiid Richard L. Metcalfe. The
associate editor of The Commoner In a
letter to the editor of the World-Herald
today makes It plain that the expected
split has come at laat. He Joins his chief
In charging the World-Herald with having
misrepresented not only the Issues but Met
calfe aa well. His letter Is aa follows:
"LINCOLN, Neb.. July H.-To the Editor
of the World-Herald: In your leading edi
torial today you Bay that Lancaster coun
ty's declaration for county option 'was a
personal- concession to Mr. Bryan, mora
than an expression of opinion of. convic
tion.' Then yotj add 'th. aam. motive led
Mr. ! Metcalfe v to sacrifice hla well-known
convictions, to '.Mr. Bryan's wishes.'
I would rather do something to quell
controversy within the ranks of our party
than contribut. to It: but I cannot in
Justlc. to myself, permit this statement to
go unchallenged.
' "I know you did not mean to do me an
Injustice, but you must not let, real for
your cause prompt you to misrepresent the
conduct of others In order to bolster your
own position. . .
If democrats are at all Interested In
what I have done on this subject then they
are entitled to the exact facts.
"Tears ago I grew weary of the domination
of the democratic party by the liquor In
terests. , I heard my party habitually re
ferred to aa the 'whisky party.' and I saw
the republican party habitually getting the
whisky votes.
Loasjr for Conn ty Option.
"For several yeara I have advocated
county option. Recognising the differences
on this question In our own party, I bo
lleved that the best method in dealing with
it waa to relegate the contest to the legis
lative districts, pledging In our state plat
form that In event the people, apeaklng
through the legislature, passed a county
option bill the governor would sign the
measure. Last February I wrote to Mr,
Bryan, then In South America, advising
this plan. At Columbus on the evening of
July 27th, speaking upon by own Initia
tive and speaking only for myself, I reit
erated these views In the hope that they
would provide a common ground upon
which . leader, with different opinions
might stand ao far aa our state platform
was concerned.
"While It la true my suggestions seemed
popular with the rank and rile of the demo
crats who attended the Columbus dinner,
it Is also true that I could not persuade
any of the leaders to endorse my position
or to agree upon that method.
"Harmony being desirable, with what
reason la Mr. Bryan criticised by those
who on their part declined to yield any
thing for the sake of harmony?
"Mr. Hitchcock was on. of th. first to
whom I made . known th. purport of my
proposed speech at Columbus and ha waa
mong tho. to whom I looked in vain for
any encuragement r support for this plan
to bring about harmontus action In the
democratio atate convention.
"Referring to my Columbus address the
World-Herald treated me handsomely aa it
usually does but It said not a word In
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officials,. Agitation of the race nuettcin in
various parts of th. Cuban republic cul-
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rtiui'a. wun me arrest cf
uenerai .varuio Bstenosa, (colored), leader
of th. Independent party, and four of hl
associates. Following the detention of Gen
eral Eslenose, many arrests were made In
various parts of the Island In compliance
with orders from PreMdent Gomes, who
announced . Ma determination to proceed
with, th. utmost vigor agnlnst the elemenU
rcpponalble for th. agitation, which In ft
feet was regarded aa a serious movement
calculated to develop open revolution
against th. government
. Indictments were returned againxt Gen
eral Estenoue and twenty-two of his asso
ciates, charging them with the crime of
inciting rebellion and Instigating aml-whlle
violence. Later, however, all th. negro
prisoner, concerned In th. alleged con
piracy, with the exception of the nerro
leader, were discharged by a eprclal Judge,
who waa appointed to try u. cases.
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BELL. COMPANY
BUI'S UP0THEBS
Several Deals Ale Completed Look
ing Toward Telephone Merger
in Nebraska.
WILL ASK AN INJUNCTION
Independents Ask Attorney ;neral
to Intercede for Them.
WANT MERGER HEADED OFF
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.xumQna Km uajl l, 41 U S 4JU,VAV ill'
dependent Connections.
THREE MORE COUNTIES ADDED
S stems of C'uaa, Otoe and Harpy
Countlea Ilnvc ileen ftrt-nred by
Krlriida o( th Dell
Comim) .
Telephone mergers aiw going on all over
tho stats and a battle In now In p.vgiesg
bn ana imu'iK'nat-nt telephone.
Interests.
Closely fallowing the announcement mad.
by Tin- llee that the Nebraska Telephone
lompany l)nd atcured control of the In
dependent tclopltona companies of Cass,
Otoe ami Smpy counties eomes the an
nouiicement from Lincoln thut the Indepen
dent telephone people have aski'd the at
torney generul of Ncbraxka to Mtop fur
ther tmigcia between tha Bell and Incte
pendent Interests.
In addition lo the other mergers com.s
the announcement that tho Alliance tele
phono ay.tem. which was reorntly sold to
L. O. Dow, and who toek possession July
1. has been again transferred, thla time
to the Nebraska Telephone oompany. whU'U
means that It It -now a part of the Bl!
telephone system. A. D. Lane conduced
the transfer. It Is announced that copper
wires will be installed between Omaha. Al
liance and Denver and also to Crawford.
The Alliance system now numbers 77S city
phones, SO country phones and service Is
also supplied to 130 telephones on con
necting lines owned by farmers and ranch
men. Fifty Thousand Won Over.
In a statement to Tha Bee Monday. Mr.
Yost suld that already 60.000 Indononri.nt
telephones of Nebraska were connected with
the Nebraska Telephone system and thut
tha addition of the phones of Cats, Sarpy
and Oto. countlea would' add about 6 0U0
more.
The Duff, and Parmule people have sold
out their Independent telephone Interests to
the Nebraska Telephone company and the
ine owners or th. Home Telephone system
of Sarpy county have followed ault. The
Otoe county Independents were oned by
E. A. and Ralph Duff, brothers, and hs
Cass county lines by Tom and C. C, Par..
iele, and everything goes t m ' the deal. .
Thla lets-llie Wta .-..a.a. l
the business ex apt for their holdings is
th. plant in Omaha, which Is In the stag,
of regeneration. If It, too, should uitl
lately land In the hands of the Bell people,
It would surprise no one. The Woods
brother, of Lincoln thebe things go by
families-are tbe big ducks in the Omana
puddle, though Lysl. I. Abbott is paddling
the canoe as receiver.
Mr. Yoat Talks.
Concerning th. deal, Casper E. Yoat.
president of the Nebraska-Telephone com
pany, said:
"Parties friendly to the Nebraska Tele
phone company have purchased auhstuntial
Interests in the Plattsmouth Telephone
company, the Nebraska City Telephone
company and the Horn. Telephone com
pany of Papilllon, operating In Cass, Otoe
and Sarpy counties. This will mean a con
nection of th. telephones operated by thee,
companies with the Nebraska company a
system In the near future, an Increase or
over 5,000 telephonea which may now be
connected to tha Nebraska company's
Omaha subscribers and to Its ' system
throughout the state.
"Perhapa It is not generally understood
that over 60,000 Independent telephonea In
the state have been connected with th.
Nebraska company's lines, and while thi
new arrangement means a substantial In
crease In the number of connectlona, It Is
by no means as important In point of num
bera aa the connecting arrangements whlou
have been made previously.
"The telephone la peculiar in ni. thut
It la of advantage to the aubscriber in pro-
yomon io me number of other subscribers
which may ba reached over it and it la
the duty and Intention of th. Nebraska 1
company to add to Its avaiiabl. connec
tions as rapidly aa possible."
APPEAL TO ATTOR.NBV GENERAL
Iteprcaentatlve of Company Wants
Him to Invoke Oaater Order.
LINCOLN. Neb.. July H.-(Speclal Tele-gram.)-The
attorney general has been
asketo bring suit to oust th. Nebraska
Telephone company and th. Bell Telephone
company from doing business In Nebraska
because of an alleged violation of the law
of the purohase of competing ayatema in
Otoe, Cass and Saltne counties.
F. M. HaU, representing Frank H. Woods,
president of the National Association of
Independent Telephone companies, con
ferred with the attorney general today aud
asked him to file the ouuter suit.
Vhe officials Interested are not yet ready
to give out the details of the suit and
neither would the attorney general ' U'a.
ores tha case, other than to say, "It was
reported to me by Mr. Hall that th. Ne
braska Telephone company had been buy
ing a majority of th. stock, of competing
companies in various parts of tho state.
He delred that a suit b. started to pre
vent a merger of these companies 1 Ba.J
IwoulU Investigate th. evidence and see
whether there had been a violation of
the law. I do not know whether I ahall
file the suit, and the only statement I
can make U that I have the case under
adi l.iemtnt."
Faith Town Lots Bell Writ.
ABERDEEN. S. D.. July H.-(SpecIal)-A
large crowd waa in attendance at tha
town lot aala at Faith, tha new . town on
a branch Una of th. Milwaukee railroad,
thirty miles southwest of Mobrldge, In
Meade county. The branch road has not
yet reached the town, and persons drov.
overland from Lrrnmon. 8. D., elKhty-flve
miles away. Of th. 200 lots offered for
sale all but thirty was dlspoeed of at
prices ranging from $110 to $1.2.-j0. the total
amount received for th. 170 lots being
JJ3.950. Faith, it Is believed, will b.com.
one of the best of the many new towns
springing up In thla newly opened country
tn northwestern South Dakota.
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