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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1910)
lllh, OA! Ail A . ,M 'AHA1 Hr.h: PrA r,AI KMC -O, lSHtl. A FHolidayGreeUng M Jiapptness cn&r -every cm 2a 4fe Caterer to Serve Hot Meals to One Thousand REBELLION WILL BE CRUSHED Coriespondent Who Spent Two Week with Navarro Reviews Outlook. This Store Will Remain Closed All Day Monday Tot tw n5 1518-1520 FARNAM STREET. MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR POOR Four Thousand Dollar Railed in Des Moines for Charity. NEWSPAPERS CARRY ON CAMPAIGN ltryotlon in Cnaraje of Local Oraraalaatloaa and fllsT Plnnera Am to Be fr to the Poor. (From a Staff Correspondent.) DES MOINES. la.. Pec. 84. (fipeclal Tel egram.) Over H.OoO worth of Christmas a-ood cheer win distributed this evening, or will In the morning. ' to the poor peo ple of Dea Moines, mainly the reault of efforts on the part of local newspaper ta rataa funds for that purpose. In most of the cases the distribution has been turned over to thOoeal organisation from some of the churches, extensive distribu tion of dinners was made. ' Thoas Investigating the needs of the poor report that their condition Is somewhat better than usual, largely because of the light winter thus far. Ta start Salt Aa-alast Railroad. The State Railroad commission today ordered the attorney general to commence suits against all Iowa railroads to compel compliance with an order nf the board of several months ago, reducing the freight rata on furnaces and furnace materials. It Is stated that none of the roads have complied with the order. . Cnsantlna Expects Some Action. ' Senator Cummins, who returned from Washington today, takes a hopeful view of the situation In congress and Indicate that ha IS Immensely pleased with the evident tendency of the times for a tar riff com mission. -"I am expecting that a bill for a tariff commission will . be reported to the senate from the finance committee soon after the holidays," he said. "The senti ment for a commission has grown so strong that (t can no longer be resisted. The house will get a bill of that kfnd. We are r or tain to secure something of this kind during the session. My resolution to pro vide that when a report from the commis sion Is received It ran be acted on Intelli gently, has caused soma discussion ' and there will be more upon It before I let It go to a committee. It will be followed by the resolution ' for a rule for a committee report on every bill within sixty days. Neither one- will be adopted. There Is no tariff - question before the congress now, only a discussion with a view to how best to carry out the promises of the republican party and the administration as to these various details. , Th Ixirimsr report Is likely to cause soma discussion and It Is an Important rsatter. The situation In general In con gress has not greatly changed." Conference on Pahlle Health. a' conference. of leading physicians of the eily, together with the secretary of the State Board of Health, Dr. turned en of Washington, and Prof. Henry Albert of the atata bacterlologloal laboratory, was held here this evening to consider the prob lem of heading off the typhoid fever epi demic. Nothing new was developed and the oral health authorities have taken all th precautions regarded ss proper. Rank Increases Capital. The secretary of state received notice of an Increase In the capital of the Ma haska County State bank at Oakaloosa to lifiO.000. He also received the articles for the Newman Creamery company, Guernsey, capital, $3,000; and for the Banner Dairy Lunch Co., Minneapolis, capital, ISO.000, to do business In Iowa. Reanlatloa of the Telephones. As the result of a movement, started largely by the farmers and shippers, who are banded together In the Corn Belt Meat Producers association, legislation for the regulation of telephones In Iowa Is In pros pect. President fykes of that association Strongly urges the same. "There Is urgent necessity for the pas sage of soma laws relative to tha regulation and control of telephones companies," Mr. Bykes said: "At the .present time the state has practically no supervision of Its tele phone companies and they are handling us as they please. Competition Is almost elimi nated." Report on State Eapensea. Btate expenses for Iowa for the last two years, up to June SO last, amounted to $l,20.STO.M for salaries and per diem alone, according to tht report of Secretary A. H. Davison of the state executive council, published today. The total expenses were 12.433.727. 7S. The fees collected amounted to t2.24S.108.17. Traveling expenses for the state amounted to $132,261.78. Trade School Abandoned. Horace F. Clark today abandoned his plans for a trade school In Dea Moines and left for his borne In Dover, Del. Fail ure to get the desired financial help and proper co-operation caused Clark to give up his projeot. Member of the board think tha schools her are doing as good industrial work aa they can with the equipment now fur nished. This equipment is to be increased when funds are available. The board mem ber did not car to assist In the estab lishment of a private school to duplicate on work taught In th public school. Terns of Offlea Commence. George Cosson, special counsel In th office of 'the attorney general, In a de cision rendered today for th benefit of all elective offices, explained the effect of th new law as to time of th official changes and said: 'The second secular day In January, ltll, falls on Tuesday. January S. at which time all elective officers chosen at th gen eral election for a full term should com mence their terms of office, except when otherwise provided by the constitution or by statute." To Enforce Psrssc Act. The Iowa Kallroad commission today In structed Attorney General Byer to com mence action against every railroad In Iowa before th Interstate Commerce com mission to compel the companies to obey a recent reduction in rate on furnace a ordered by the low commission. K. V. Fryor. steward of the Omaha Commercial club, bur decided to ailil to Mm laurels by eervinx tlie illrim r In le given the traveling men of Omaha by the club on Friday evening. I t c-nil.c i i . at the Auditorium. That th's will he some thing of a chore, the successful execution of which will put n big feather In Mr. Pryor'a cap, everybody series. He was tli onlj ninti In Omaha who expressed a willingness to tackle the Job of serving severul hot coins, m to a hungry lunch of 1.5 0 men In such a plate. Tlmt I'ryor will cany the thins off In a satisfactory manner Is asxurnl. i li n one has examined his plsns. lie has. appar ently, U ft nothing to chance, on the stage of the Auditorium a model kitchen la be ing Installed and on a sca'e never before attempted, perhaps, under like circum stances; st leHFt, not In Omaha. He has nmde Ids own plmis, which ate compre hensive and on nn plubcrate ral. They provide for several lines of tnfo'es. seventy to ninety feet In length, runn tig north and south across the stage. Between the tables are batteries of stoves, and along the sides are aisles for ti e wallers to en ter and leave by. Cf these waiters there ill be ion. fifty serving from each side of the stage and each man taking care of fifteen guests. As the wslters arrive on the singe, north or south, they will find only one way Ij get to t lie serving tables, so that confusion will be avoided. The women who are to do the serving hai-e stations assigned them, and each one will plsce on the trays Just the proper number of portions of fish, meat or whatever course happens to be due at the time. "The hot dishes will be hot, ' says Mr. ! ! .. -: i A ' . " ' f " I -1 i 'i , A. W. PP.VOR. Pryor; "steaming hot, in fact, and when they are placed on the. table they will still he hot. as also will tho sauces to be served with the flsli and meat courses. The cof fee will likewise be all right, and 1 fully expect to realise the most sanguine ex pectations ft the cluh officials by making this banquet a record breaker." The Commercial cl'ih steward doe not say this In a boastful manner, but a something right In th line of duty, and he gives one the Impression of meaning Ju.it what he says. Steward, Pryor came, to Omaha almost a quarter of a century ago. "just as a little waiter," he says, quietly. He was born In Virginia, hut was raised In Washington, one of the favorite stsmpinjt grounds of the American gourmet for generations, lie hciian with the Omnha club when it was located at Fifteenth and Karnam. When ' the break came In that organisation years sko. Mr. Pryor went with the I'nlon club. as the receding organisation wss known, tnkins the place of head waiter. Later he ! became steward, and when the two groups i anHln came together he was continued In j the posit. on of steward at Twelfth end ' rarnatu. on the opening of the Omaha cluh at Twentieth and Pouglss he moved with the club and for eighteen years In all held a place a a trusted man with that club. Six years ago the Commercial club se cured Mr. Fry or to lake the position of .-teward. and he has Justified the select lonj-ver hills, two by milking good at all times, often undei .spld flreres. most trying circumstances. Hut he admits ' himself that never before has he had Ids work cut out as In the case of the travel ing men's dinner. This tssk means serv ing a proper meal. In formal and up-to-date style, to a regiment and half of men. In a building where all the fittings must be provided for the occasion. There will be six courses, exclusive of th coffee and cigars. INSURGENTS LOSE OPPORTUNITY t orleloe; MlejM Have Serea fhrnaahent alon Had Decisive x, letiry Been W en at terra Prleto. FORGED COTTON BILLS CASE New York. Court Holds that Backs Endorsing Drafts Must Pay. SEVERAL MILLIONS INVOLVED If Derision Is I'pheld Foreign Mer chants Will Collect Immense Soma from Banks In the Vnlted States. NEW YORK. Dec. 24.-A decision of ' po tential, far-reaching effect In the cotton bills of lading cases, rendered here by Su preme Court Justice Newburger, Is being actively and animatedly discussed today among the large Interests Involved, Includ ing cotton exporting firms, bankers and representatives of big foreign mercantile houses. Th case Is the first one growing out of the cotton bills of lading frauds to be decided, and while Its Import was ap parently not realized by others than the parties Immediately Involved, when the case was first decided on Wednesday last, the mercantile world today seems to have awakened to the possibilities Involved in it. The Judgment found by the court was one for ftS.OM agait.st th Hanover National bank In favor of th cotton exchange firm of Springs aV Co. The rise of the litigation was In the big cotton bills of lad ng for geries perpetrated last spring In tha name of two Alabama firms. Knight, Yancey A Co. of Decatur. Ala,, and Steele, Miller & Co. of Corinth, Miss. Draft through New York bank were negotiated with attached bills of lading, purporting to show that large amounts of cotton had been delivered to railroads In Alabama for shipment to foreign purchaser. It subsequently was discovered the bill of lading ware forged. It was claimed In the Springs case, Just decided, that the en dorsement by the First National bank of Decatur, Ala., which first discounted the draft, vested title In the Hanover National bank of this city, and that when the Hanover National bank collected the money It was considered to have wsrranfed the genuineness of the bill of lading attached to th draft. Justice Newburger held that Springs 4 Co. made payment to the Hano ver National bank through their mistaken I ballet that the bill of lading waa genuine and hence that even though the bank was an innocent party, Springs & Co. were en titled to recover from the bank when It was found the bill of lading was forged. Chinese Government and Assembly Defy Each Other Directly Throne Takes Summary Action in Connection with Agitation Memorial Attacks Ching. PEKING, China, -Dec. 21. The govern ment and the national assembly Issued counter defiances today. In a lengthy edict the throne ordered home the provincial leaders now In Peking agitating the Immediate convocation of a general parliament, and Instructed the viceroys to employ gendarme to prevent further assembling In the rfrovtnces and to treat the agitators as revolutldnarles, pun ishing them In severest manner. The assembly countered by a memorial to the thrope, which recites In srathlng terms the career of Prince Chlng, whose office Is that of adviser to the naval de partment, but who Is of such Influence In the government that he has borne a great share of the attack of the progressives and of his associates In the grand coun cil, by whom It Is asserted the country ha been steadily Impaired. Arguing that a constitutional regime has been begun already and that, therefore, the government Is no longer vested In It entirety In the person of Prince Chun, th regent, the memorial state that tho throne doc not have the right assumed In the edict of December 18, In which the me morial for the creation of a Constitutional government are contained. . The memorial call for the . Immediate establishment of a ministry responsible to the people. It la reported that the gov. ernment is moving the modern troops with the purpose of suppressing any outbreak. Steals Ties to Get . AnnualJail Dinner Hungry Man Invites Himself to the Christmas Feast at Police Station by Attempt at Robbery. No prospects of a Christmas dinner In sight. O. C. Huff entered a Farnam street haberdashery and helped himself to a handful of tics in plain view of the clerks that he might he sent to Jail In time for the Christmas feast. The experiment brought the desired re sults, and more. Huff was battered, beaten, assaulted, beflogged and trampled upon by seven clerks. When the police arrived the seven were using Huff for a divan. He feels better now. CMlHl'Altl'A, Mox.. Dec. is Vls F.I Paso. Deo. :t A speolsl represent stive of the Associated Press, who has bre-i with the Insurrectos for two Weeks, ie turned tedav by muls team. Ills Judgmeni of the situation In this state may be sum marized In the statement that General Navarro has been fought back from the offensive to the defensive, h-.it that the reinforcements now at hsnd will crush the rebellion within a month or two. rn this connection It was ststed today that federal troops ere now steMnned s follows: 8lx hundred under Genersl Navario at 1'edernale and vlclnltv (west of Malpsso; Too at San Antonio made up of 30. who were uninjured In the Malpasn ambusrade and J40 reinforcement and 1.S00, who ar rived here last night and today. The latter Include a batter,- of srilller..- made up of two light mortars for firing i Hotchkiss guns and two Twenty-two psssenger coaches are now on the tracks of the Mexico A Northwest etn railroad to forward the reinforcement. Today was spent In loading food on the cars and In making other preparations for the campaign. These troops will go first to Pan Antonio, making a new force of 5.000 led by the best officers In Mexico. It Is their program to take Malpaso the present rebel stronghold. This once tsken a Junction will be formed with Navarro under the troops which hsv pome over Isnd from "onora. Inearaenta l.oae Opportanlti. All this will entail serious fighting, but there Is no foreigner here now viewing af fairs linpsrtlallj who pretends a belief that the federals will not triumph eventually. The Insurrectos lost one chance of creat ing a natlou-wlde revolt when they failed to crush Navatro at Cerro Prleto. At that time they did not have their forces con centrated and Navarro held his own. Whit he is under orders not to take the offen sive h is In a defensive position, which th Insurrectos cannot attack without dis aster. His Job Is to sit t ght and allow the reinforcements, now numbering treble hi own force, to continue the campaign. Na varro's original fore was. It ha now been shown, scarcely mors than a police force, which was considered sufficient. D a I now sending an army. The Associated Press correspondent brings word that in the fighting around Pedrrnslos und the west entrance to Malpsso the Insurrectos were much Inferior In number, but at Mslpaso they were superior In position aarrn Kseratea Prisoners. Arrivals from the front today brought conflrmat'on to the statement thai Navane executed a number of civilians st Cor. Prleto. The number Is given now thirty-two, twentv-twn In th village pmrer snd ten at a hamlet nearby. Last Sator dsy the revolutionists executed ten prison ers a a retaliatory measure. Thec won loysllsts taken at Guerrero three or four weeks ago. They were given trial of n rough sort and convicted of trencherv while being allowed the consideration of neutrals. When the revolutionists becam- doubly certain of the executions st Cerro Priefo they shot their own cspt ves. The execnt'on occurred at a hnmlel between I. a Junta and Guerrero. Kl. IWXO. Te.. Iec. :'l Superintendent George T. Hutiedao ami n force of men left on a speclsl tra.n this morning for th south to male repair" on the Kl lso ,v Noithwestern railroad line where Insur recton had burned and dnamt-d thtc bridges after capturing a Ira n and Kolm south with It. How many more htiduea were burned Is not known. The tele graphic commnn cnllon has been restored only to Gnxuitin and three bridge were destroyed that far south. The Weather. Full N KWIA SK A I'nsi tll"d. Folt OWA-!now. Temperatures at rinnha yesterday Hours. i a. m (I a. m , 7 a. m x a. ni..,.. a. in 10 a. m 11 a. m 12 m 1 p. m ?l 2 p. m II S p. m ili 4 p. m 2 R p. m W dp. m 2l 7 p. m 24 lVg 1l IJ 14 17 l.oeal Record. OFFICE OF THK W FATHER RUrUfiAU. OMAHA, Dec. 24. Official record of tem perature and precipitation compared with th corresponding period of the last three years: 1910. 1W9. 190S. 190? Highest today 26 28 47 4? I xi west today 6 18 PI 2fl Mean temperature 16 23 S M Precipitation 00 67 .( .00 Temperature and precipitation departures frnn the normal at Omaha since March I and compared with the last two years: - Normal temperature 24, Deficiency for the day ' Total excess since March 1 737 Normal precipitation M Inch Deficiency for the day 03 inch Total rainfall alnce March 1 14.27 Indict Defclency since March 1 14.78 Inches Excess for cor. period. 1909 4. M Incite' Deficiency for cor. period, 1908.. 4.38 Inche) Six Men Killed in Head-On Collision Near Nevada, Ohio ""SSSaBSBBSB Fast Westbound Train on Pennsyl vania Main, Line is Struck by Eastbound Express. FORT WAYNE. Ind.. Dec. 24. In a head on collision at Nevada, O., early today, between westbound passenger train No. 16 and eastbound express train No. 4 on the Pennsylvania railroad, six persons were Wendllas; Denied New Trial. LOlTI8VILLE, Ky.. Dee. 24. Joseph Wendllng. convicted December S of the murder of 8-year-old Alma Kellner, and given life imprisonment by a Jury, was de nied a new trial by Judge James p. Greg ory in crim?nal rrt tods- r was sen tenced to tb penitentiary for Ufa. Justice Newburger, in holding with the view thus outlined, directed Judgment, but deferred the filing of an opinion for two week. Notice of appeal, it la stated, will be filed at one. Should th higher courts af firm the Judgment, It Is declared that suits Involving several million of dollars will be Instituted by foreign merchants, who suffered severe losses from th frauds against the several big banks hen which handled the cotton bill and drafts. No Word is Received from Aviator Grace "WW""' le . vn v. r 1 I at 1 m irTojSaCfoto. m vjftj tali"" w nj Christmas Greeting That this Chri&tmai day may bring you a full meas ure of hippintsa and en joyment it our sincert wiih. Our store will be closed all day Monday. Search for Aeroplanist Who Disap peared in Fog Over the North Sea Continues. LONDON. Dec. 24.-The search for Cecil S. Grace, th amateur 'aviator, who lost hi way In a fog while attempting to re turn over the' English channel to Dover Thursday, was continued today without success. Th only development this afternoon was an unconfirmed rumor current at Amster dam that an aeroplane had been picked up in tlie North sea. A fleet of torpedo boats cant out from Sheernesa to scour the waters of the vi cinity had not returned up to 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. Grace had flown from Dover to Calais and was heading back for the lingllsh shore when, apparently he lost his bearing and Instead of continuing toward Dover, steered to the northeast and over the North sea. Efforts to find him on land or water have continued ceaseless since Thursday evening. CALAIS, France, Dec. 24. It was rumored hare tonight that the crew of a fishing boat had seen Cecil Grace, the aviator, fall Into the North Sea. but telegrams of Inquiry dispatched to the mayors in the towns and villagea of tha coasts of Belglumand Holland were all answered to the effect that there waa no news of the airman. SIX PERSONS ASPHYXIATED Fear Men ana To Women rsss Dead In Hons at Kenton, O. Aro KENTON, O., Dee. 24. Two women and four men were found dead today In two rooms l'n a building at tha rear of the opera house. The dead are. CLARK LATHAM, ased J4. MRS CLARK IATHAM, Sled II. PFARL KKNNKDY. aged 44. WII.IJAM KKNNKDY. aged M. HARRY NKWCOMB. aged at. Midi) ELlZABrJTH BAILKT, aged 2S. It 1 supposed the fumes from a gaa stove killed all six persona a dozen others were In Is believed, fatally. The engineer east- engineer on Fort killed and half Jured, none, It dead: CHRISTIAN C. CRAIO, bound train. Fort Wayne. CLARENCE C. MILLER eastbound train. Fort Wavne. DEW1TT C. BEklBB. baggageman Wayne. GEORGE H. HORTON. baggageman Fort Wayne. WILLIAM A. DOYLER, passenger, Chi cago. FRIEDSTEIN, passenger, Chicago. The wreck, It Is reported, war caused by the engineer of the eastbound train disre garding the block signals. It I said they had run three blocks when the crash came. - Miller was a student engineer about to be promoted from freight to passenger service and was making a trip with En gineer Craig. Tha Injured were brought to Fort Wayne. Two Burglars Taken by Unarmed Victim Frank H. Bick of New York Pursues Men Who Bobbed His House and Captures Them. NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-Although they fought desperately with both teeth and hands, two burglars were captured today by their victims, who, unarmed and un dressed, had ensued them for nearly a iftile. Frank H. Vlck heard a noise In his dining room Just before daylight. As he stole downstairs the robbers rushed out to the street. He followed, clad only in pyjamas. He overtook one and closed with him. The burplar fastened Ids teeth in Mr. Vlck's neck and tore the flesh terribly, but waa unable to get away. The other burglar returned to aid his companion and also bit Vlck frightfully. Help came then and the burglars were overpowered. Union Pacific Cuts the Price of Coal Output of Bock Spring's Mines Re duced Thirty-Five Cents a Ton by President Lovett. CHEYENNE. Wyo.. Dee. 24 President Lovett of the I'nlon Pacific Railroad com pany sent a message from New York last night to Rock Springs, ordering the price of coal at the nitne reduced SO cent a ton. Th order came aa a Christmas present to all the coal consumer on th lie of th Union Pacific railroad In Wyoming. Colo rado and Nebraska and I th result of a vigorous protest against tha recent In crease. A breath from the woods Just the fragrance of an honest wish that all of us may enjoy a Merry Christmas Miller, Stewart & Beaton Co. 2L LAVNDERER& GREETING We wish all our patrons a Merry Christmas and Prosperous ISfew Year In commemoration of Christmas, the following laundries will be closed all day Monday Chicago Laundry Garrett Laundry Kimball Laundry Midland Laundry Model Laundry National Laundry Nonpariel Laundry Puritan Laundry Truax Laundry REGULAR CALLS FOR THAT DAY WILL BE MADE TUESDAY Kindly help us observe the dmy and be patient in case of delay. i '