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OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 191$
THE WEATHER
Generally Fair
SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS.
CUBAN NATION HEARS
CRISIS IN EXISTENCE
UNDER IT
SOWN RULE
Republic May Not Be Able to Survive
Without Money to Carry on
Business.
ELECTION NOW IS APPROACHING
Defeated Party May Not Submit to
. Will of Majority.
wi TA1V pwTTDVTV "pVtr ATTOT'TT
Improvements in City of Havana Not
Half Completed.
GOMEZ SPENDS ENORMOUS SUMS
Present Political . Oatlook Justifies
Expectation that General Meno
cal "Will Be the Net
President.
" HAVANIA, Sept. 22.-U is felt generally
here that Cub 1s approaching a crisis
In its history reubUc. Two serious
jestions occupy the public mind:
Can Cuba survive- the present state
of Its finances?
Can it hold an honest and successful
election for the presidency with a loyal
submission of the defeated party to the
will of the majority? "'.-
That the treasury is empty; that the
last dollar of the $16,500,000 Speyer loan
has been spent, while the work of ew
ering and paving Havanla, the principal
purpose for which the plan was au
thorised by the United States, is not
only not half finished, but in danger of
interruption, if not of abandonment; that
the government is at its wits-end to
find money to meet its vast expenditures,
while . receipts from customs and the lot
tery have reached their lowest point
alt this is asserted by the enemies of the
government and most of it frankly ad
mitted by all. Everywhere it is asked,
how long can this state of affairs
continue. -
BUI Paid with Difficulty.
Last month the government defaulted,
for the first time on the account due to
the sewering and paving contract office
for work done in July amounting to about
$420,000. The government declared it
found Itself unable to meet the bill simply
because it had no more money. The con
tractors appealed to the American legation
and sufficient pressure was brought to
bear to convince the government that pay .
went was imperative. The following day
the money was forthcoming. I
There" has been much speculation as to
whether-he goeKHneiit will-he Able, to
satisfy the claims of th contractors due
toward the end 6t this months but there
are' indications that President Gomes
realising fully the peril of another de
fault, has .made an extraordinary effort
and will' he prepared to meet the obliga
t'on to tide over the crisis for another
month. '"- ; v .'' '"'
Enormous Sums Spent.
The press continues to be filled with
pessimistic articles bewailing the finan
cial and political perils that beset the re
public Careful estimates show that the
Gomez administration has spent during
Its two and a half years of power at
least 1140000,000. Experts declare that
the only hope for Cuba lies in cutting
down its expenses at least B0 per cent.
The present aspect of the political
situation , appears to Justify , reasonable
expectat'ons that Genera) Mario Menocal
can carry the election, especilly as he
has Just formed an alliance with the wing
of' the liberal party, under the leadership
of General Ernesto Asbert given of
Havan province. The chances of Vice
President Zaya's election apepar to- be
diminishing, although his following to
still strong.
Both conservatives and liberals ara
making strong bids for the negro vote
the former endeavoring to excite the an-
imnaiiv nf the neeroes against the I
liberals on account of the fatalities to
men of their race during the last lnsur
rectlon In Oriente," and the latter en
(' favoring to placate them by promises of
unconditional pardon to thousands fot
negro prisoners now confined, in Jail.
QUARRY OWNER ARRESTED
IN DYNAMITE PLANT CASE
' BOSTON, Sept. 22. The fourth arrest
to result from the Suffolk county grand
Jury investigation of the alleged dynamise-
"planting'"' In Lawrence during the
textile strike last January, took place
today when William R. Rice, an East
Milton quarry owner, was taken into cus
'tody. He was arrested on an indict
ment charging illegal transportation of
dynamite and furnished J2.000 ball.
William M. Wood, president of the
American Wcolen company. Frederick E.
Atteaux, , president of a mill supply
concern, and Dennis J. Collins, a Cam
bridge dog fancier, are awaiting trial
charged with conspiracy in the alleged
Illegal distribution of the explosive.
- The Weather ,
Forecast for Sunday and Monday:
For Nebraska Fair Sunday and Mon
flay. For Iowa Cloudy Sunday, probably rain
In north portion; Monday, fair.
For South Dakota-Cloudy Sunday, pre
ceded by rain In east portion; Monday,
fair.
Omnha Yesterday.
Hour. Dei?
i Ambassador Makes -v
Demand that Citizen
of U.S. Be Released
MEXICO CITT, Sept 22.-Ignorlng the
usual channels of diplomatic intercourse,
the American ambassador, Henry Lane
Wilson, has made a peremptory demand
on Governor Matlas Guerra of the state
of Tamaullpas, for the Immediate release
from Jail at Tamptco of W. C. Nichols,
an American fruit grower. Nichols was
arrested six months ago on a charge of
having killed a bandit, C&ballos. whose
apprehension the authorities had at
tempted for many months.
The embassy was auinorlzed by the ad
ministration at Washington to employ
whatever means were considered neces
sary to bring about an amelioration of
Nichols' condition. Ambassador Wil
son declares he will secure his release if
it should become necessary to land ma
rines from the United States cruiser Pes
Moines, which is now in port at Tam-pico-
with 2S0 marines aboard.
The American ambassador regards the
treatment accorded Nichols by the Mex
ican authorities as persecution and has
so stated In his message to the governor.
In support of this belief he points to the
fact that a Mexffcan has confessed - In
court to being the slayer of Caballos.
This confession was disregarded by the
court, which declared it was prompted
by belief on the part of the witness that
a reward had been offered for Caballos,
dead or alive.
F
ISHER SUSTIEIN
REOIGin''t-onSE
Revoc . -er Barring Church
Insigri, ..ofli Government Schools
Approved by Taft.
PRIVILEGE DENIED IN FUTURE
President's Ruling Fills Obligation
to Present Teachers.
FINAL STEP IN CONTROVERSY
Commissioner Valentine Issued Order
Without Authority.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE SHOW
Government Longl Left Education of
Aborigines to Religious Mission
aries and Afterwards Took
Over Entire System,
Take Temperature
of Horses Daily
OXFORD, Neb., Sept. 21.-(Special.-Horses
are still dying in and about Ox
ford of meningitis, but not In such num
bers as formerly. Tha recent frost, it
Is hoped, may tend to diminish the
danger from the disease. A number of
farmers have lost valuable colts. Many
have adopted the plan of taking the
temperature of horses each disy and in
this manner have been able io detect
the presence of the disease before It was
otherwise discernible. By medical treat
ment as soon as rising temperature was
observed, some horses have been saved.
PALISADE, Neb., Sept. 21.-(Speclal.)-Since
the horse disease became preva
lent in ihla section of the state it is es
timated that about fifty horses have died
in the western part of Hitchcock county.
Nearly every farmer has from one to
three horses down with the disease. The
local veterinarian has had little success
in treating. and the vast majority of the
afflicted horses never recover. The re
port that the recent cold weather had
checked the disease does not prove to be
the case here. It is still spreading as
rapidly as -before.
YANKTON, S. D., Sept 21,-(Speciai.)-Dr.
S. M. Smith, Mitchell, United States
veterinary, called to this county to in
vestigate theMiorse- disease breakout,
pronounced it'cerebro meningitis, the
same nervous malady that is prevalent
Over the whole south part of the state.
Bon Homme county alone has lost 200
head, while Xrom Gregory to Vermillion,
the losses have been from ten to twenty
head. The total from the river counties
is very large. The disease is found on
upland and lowland; Invariably in past
ures and horses fed on dry feed in town
are free from the disease, ' Fifteen oases
have now been reported from this county
and have developed In all parts of the
county. It is thought that frost or
heavy rain will destroy the fungus that
is believed to be responsible for the
epidemic.
T, E, Calls Wilson
Another Buchanan
WASHINGTON. Sept. K.-'Secretary
Fisher's action last January In revoking
the order of former Indian Commissioner
Valentine, barring religious garb or in
signia from government Indian schools,
was upheld by President Taft in an or
der made public today.
The decision of the president is that
teachers now 'employed in Indian schools
may continue to wear the garb of their
religious orders; but the privifege is de
nied to arty persons hereafter entering
the service. This ruling will enable the
government to fulfill its obligations, the
president says to the teachers who were
taken into the government service when
religious schools were taken over bodily
as government Institutions.
The president's ruling is the final step in
a controversy that has engaged the In
terior department with religious bodies
more than a year. Commissioner Valen
tine's order would have prohibited any
teachers from wearing religious garb in
the Indian schools after the end of the
last school year. '
President Taft's order, and a letter from
Secretary Fisher to Mr. Valentine which
accompanies it lay stress on the fact that
Commissioner Valentine Issued his ruling
without consulting the secretary or presi
dent; and while the entire subject was
under investigation. Mr. Fisher's revo
cation of the order now is made final.
Secretary Fisher's formal letter states
that the government had . long left the
education to religious missionaries; and
that when it finally began a systematic
handling of the educational problem It
took over many of the religious schools
whole plant and teachers as well," said
ernment classified service.
"The ' transfers thus have often beon j
effected by the government s renting de
nominational schools and taking over the
whole plant and teacher's as well" said
President. Taft , :.
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LEAKING
OvrrttM. wit FiwwbU tm!iw
TAFT REPUBLICANS BUSY
Uniting All Over Country for Real
Campaign Work.
CENTRAL WEST IS ORGANIZED
Opposition is Hopelessly Divided In
Illinois and Wisconsin Roose
velt Wave Over West Is
Receding.
By CHARLES A. SCOTT.
Secretary of Western Literapy Bureau ot
the Republican National Committee.
CHICAGO, Sept, 22.-(Speclal.) - That
the republicans all over the country aw
getting together for a lpng and strong
pull tg the dominant note of the reports
that corns Into national headquarters
It appears that out of 2,000 teachers' In during th last-week.
the Indian schools there are fifty-one Who
wear a religious garb and who are regu
larly classified members of the govern
ment oivil service. To direct them to
give up their religious garb would nec
essarily cause their leaving the service
because of their vows under which they
have assumed the garb."
Secretary Fisher holds there Is no legal
prohibition against the employment of
government teachers who wear religious
dress; and that opinion is endorsed by the
president. It Is pointed out that sectarian
religious instruction is not given in any
of the schools now under government control.
TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 22.-"Mr. Wilson
is the Buchanan of the present industrial
situation in the United States." Colonel
Roosevelt thus summed up hlB opinion of
the democratic candidate's position and
poUc'es tonight.
He charged that Governor Wilson had
"directly inverted the truth," and said
that his knowledge of the Roosevelt ad
ministration was gained "from the j a fluky wind, the monoplane fell like
seclusion of the classroom at the time I a stone from a height of 100 feet.
when he was still taking the position of
an ultra conservative and was being care
fully groomed for the presidency by
George B. Harvey and other representa
tives of the Wall street interests."
Colonel Roosevelt's speech, delivered in
Englishman Killed
in Fall of Aeroplane
. BELFAST, Sept. 22.-H. J. D. Astley,
one of the most intrepid and skillful of
English aviators, was killed this after
noon by the fall of his a'Sroplane.
Astley and James Valentine, each driv
ing a machine, were making exhibition
flights in the presence of 30,000 specta
tors. Astley, after a splendid flight,
was descending while the people cheered.
He attempted to bank too sharply when
making a sudden turn and, caught by
Women screamed and fainted. Astley
was flung against one of the wings and
his skull was fractured. He died soon
after being taken to the hospital.
Astley.-when flying from France to
England with Miss Trehawke Davis as a
Topeka tonight, was devoted largely to a j Passenger, naa a marvelous escape near
reply 10 uovernor w nouns receni a-
a(j. Lille on September 17. On that occasion
dresses. He came to Topeka after a day's ! tne machine fell 170 feet,
campaigning in .Kansas. He spent the!-., . , .
afternoon In Ottawa and stopped for aiShPP.'n Afft I) VI TIP Of
i r ' u -o -
tew minutes in Lawrence, the honsj ot
Governor Stubbs. At each place he was
met by large- crowds which gave him a
welcome in Kansas style.
, "At Detroit, yesterday," said Colonel
Roosevelt "Mr. Wilson made a state
ment which purported to be an answei
to what I said in Colorado. I say 'pur.
ported,' because It was In no shape or
way an- answer at all. Moreover, so fai
as his utterance can be said to conta'n
Mysterious Disease
SIOUX FALLS. & D., Sept. 22.-(Spe-clal,)
Sheepmen of Gregory county
are greatly alarmed by the death of
many pf their sheep, the cause appear
ing to be a weed of mysterious char
acter, which the sheep devour. A. E
Flke was the first to sustain losses.
Twentv-seven of li 1st nheen wcra fnnn.i
any statement et all. It Is simply a mis- dead ln a pa,tUre, and within a few hours
Temperature at
i a. m
( a. m
7 a. m,
I a. m
It. m
10 a. m
11 a. m
12 m....
1 p. m
statement of the facts."
Vanderbilt Cup Eace
Put Off to Octotjer 2
MILWAUKEE, Sept 21. The Van
derbilt cup automobile races have been
postponed until week after next, be
cause of rain which made the track un
safe. The Vanderbi't race will be held
on October i, the Pabst and Wisconsin
challenge trophy events cn October S,
and the Grand Prix cn October 6.
This declsicn was reached at a meet
ing of (the officials, drivers and mem
bers of the Milwaukee Automobile Deal
ers' association this afternoon.
eighteen more died A veterinary sur
geon who examined the spinal columns
and brains of the dead sheep discovered
that a state .of paralysis resulted from
the eating of the weeds, seeds of which
were found in the intestines. When aa
animal showed symptoms of the poison
it would drop Its head, move backward
a few steps and fall dead. There is no
time to apply a remedy, as the sheep
die within three minutes after showing
signs of poisoning. .
STOLEN CATTLE RETURNED
TO STANTON FARMER
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STANTON, Neb., Sept. 22..(Special.)
J. H. Benne, a farmer living three miles
I .n,U.Ae f C t fi n t ; ... Lot Qnnilair tntiiA
it'll in rt r.it j i . i.ii .ii jaoi uuuunj .vuuu
The drivers all voted to remain ancl that thirty head of his cattle, which had
compete In the races. Additional en- been In the pasture, two miles north of
tries may also be received. j the home, durin? the summer months,
The drivers will have their expenses were gone. Sheriff Stucker was at once
paid by the dealer's association while
here. Most of the officials will return
Kg to ew zoni ounuay, oui win come uw.r
j p. m 58 before the first race is contested.
S p- m 59 a statement Issued later said the ex-
60
pense up-to-date had been from $40,000
4 p. m
K n m rift
jj j, m gg to $55,000. The proposal to postpone the
7 .). m 59 events for two weeks came from the
S . m.... SSjrivars themselves.
notified and a hunt begun. Yesterday
twenty-two of the thirty head of cattle
were returned to Mr. Benne, the thief
having been traced to Wlnside, where
he sold the animals to a butcher on Au
gust 11. Sheriff Stucker has evidence
which he believes will lead to the arrest
and conviction of a former Stanton
county boy.
In Missouri the organisation has been
perfected by the election of ex-Congressman
Elvlns as state chairman, who JiM
opened headquarters" In the Holland
building, St. Louis, from which an ag
gressive fight will be made during the
remainder of the campaign.
In Indiana, Michigan and Iowa, or
ganizations are completed and from
every section of all those states come
reports that sentiment Is rapidly chang
ing to . Tuft and the republican ticket.
In Iowa, in addition to the regular state
organization, a' league of Taft clubs has
been formed to supplement the work of
the state committee and the republicans
are more confident each day that Iowa
will be in the right column in November.
Opposition is Divided.
The outlook In Illinois for the success
of both the national and state tickets Is
materially brightened by the Internecine
warfare within the ranks of the opposi
tion. ' Rival leaders of the democratic
clans all but came to blows ln the office
of the election commission the other day,
where each was claiming the exclusive
right to speak for the party and each de
nounced the other lr terms far more for
cible than polite. A similar lack of
brotherly unity characterizes the "bull
moose" leadership, the bone of conten
tion in this case being the question Of
putting up opposing candidates. Special
Interest was added to this latter fray
by a telegram from Colonel Roosevelt to
Medlll McCormick demanding that no op
position candidate be put in the field
against Congressman Wilson on the
ground that "he has always been per
sonally loyal to me." The telegram was
peculiarly illuminating In view of the
j tirades the colonel Is delivering these
I days against bosslsm and his voluble
j assurance that the new party Is going
to be unreservedly in the hands of "the
people."
From Minnesota and Wisconsin reports
from all sources, both political and
otherwise, are to the effect that a great
change is taking place, the chnnge in
both states being due to the Influence of
the farmers, who are beginning to ask
themselves and everybody else what
either the third term party or the demo
cratic party' has to offer that would
moke business conditions better than
they are. The La Kollette influence in
both these states has been strong, and
while the senator ahs thus far refrained
from committing himself to President
Taft, his emphatic declaration that the
third party term has no excuse for exist
ence, that all the measures he had been
advocating can be accomplished through
the republican party, and , his biting
criticisms' of Colonel Roosevelt, have
made It enirely clear that the vote for the
third term candidate will be negligible in
the states where his followers are the
dominating factor.
Roosevelt Wave Recedes.
The republican committee has been dis
posed to take with a degree of allowance
the reports which have come in indicat
ing the subsidence of the Roosevelt tide.
During the last week, however, these re
ports have been so great in volume and
so specific and definite in statement that
they must be accepted as warranted, at
least ln a large degree. ,
. It is particularly Interesting to note
that without exception correspondents
writing fromthe points in the northwest
and throughout the Pacific coast states,
recently visited by the colonel, declare
that his meetings were a disappointment
to his own people and that his speeches
did his cauce harm rather than good.
Britons and Russians
to Divide Persia Into
Twt) Equal Parts
LONDON, Sept. H.-The practical divi
sion of Persia between Great Britain and
Russia appears almost assured as a re
sult of the conferences which Serglus
Sazonoff, the Russian foreign minister,
has had with British statesmen.
All the newspapers which are in the
closest touch with the foreign off'ce, par
ticularly the Times, -.ootted upon recently
as Sir Edward Grey's mouthpiece, are
forecasting this arrangement and are ap
parently preparing the publlo mind fot
it The necessity of preserving order In
the interests of trade is the principal rea
son MlytW&-:. j V,
The Manchester Guardian and oihst
liberal papers oppose the project bitterly.
Some of the liberal papers bewail the
disappearance of Persia as the buffer
state and foresee a great Increase In the
British military establishment, when th
Br'tlsh-Russtan boundary is drawn across
the middle of what : Is now , Persia
Nowhere Is-, the outcorne of the confer
ence between Sir Edward Grey and : M.
Sazonoff awaited with greater Interest
than in the capitals of the Balkan states,
as It is believed they have a vital bearing
on the cr'sls ln the near eaBt, the gravity
of which, unless the powers induce Turkey
immediately to Introduce reforms in
Macedonia, all are agreed upon.
PRINCE TO ASK NEW TRIAL
Negro Who Killed Deputy Warden
at Fen Wants Another Chance.
PATTERSON CASE ALSO UP
Republicans of Lincoln to Meet This
Evening to Complete the Organ
isation of a Taft Repub
lican Club.
Wilson Speaks in
Opposition to Smith
JERSEY CITT, N. J Sept. 22,-Gov-ernor
Wilson proclaimed tonight In a
speech on the New Jersey senatorial sit
uation that the only condition upon which
the democratic party can gain the confi
dence of the nation is that It "should
have Itself through and through com
mitted to progressive policies."
The governor spoke here and at Ho
boken In opposition to the candidacy of
former United States Senator James
Smith, jr., and ln behalf of Representa
tive William Hughes for the office of
United States senator, to be voted on In
the state primaries next Tuesday.
The governor declared at the outset that
It was his duty as spokesman of the dem
ocratic party In the state to warn the
people that James Smith, jr., was not a
progressive, but a reactionary..' He de
clared It ' was no personal contest and
that if Mr. Smith was his dearest friend
and held the same opinions that he does,
the governor would feel obliged to oppose
him.
Maid of the Mist
Aground on Books
NlXGARA FALLS. N. Y.. Sept. 22,-The
Maid of the Mist, the little steamer that
for years has carried tourists close to
the tumbling waters of Niagara Falls,
ran on the rocks today a short distance
below the cataract.
The situation was so grave that life
boats were made ready for launching,
and the twenty passengers were equipped
with life preservers. By skilful maneu
vering, however, Captain Carter released
the steamer by Its own power and
brought the passengers to the boat's
landing. , . ,
Today's mishap Is the nearest approach
to an accident that has occurred in the
forty-five years the trip has been made
by the present Maid of the Mist and its
predecessors.
OROZCO'S FATHER TAUNTED
BY FEDERAL SYMPATHIZERS
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, Sept. 22.-Speclal.)-At the
next sitting of the supreme court, October
7, the first case of general Interest to
the state-at-large Is that of Albert Prince
the negro convict who killed Deputy
Warden Davis last winter. Prince has
asked tin supreme court for a new trial
and this' ease will probably be the ftrat
one heard. . ' ";' ' ; " -
Another case of general interest which
will come up during the same week is
that of Sam Patterson, who , was , ap
pointed secretary of the banking board
by Governor Shallisnberger four years
ago, but did not serve because the courts
did not hold the law constitutional as re
gards the appointment of secretary of
the board. Patterson sued ' the stats fot
the $15,000 he would have received had ht
served, v , i
Opinions on cases heard last week will
probably be handed down about next
Wednesday. ' ' ' '
Hepubllcans to Meet,
Republicans of Lincoln will hold a meet
ing at the Lincoln hotel Monday even
ing to complete the organization of a
Taft republican club. It Is expected that
Senator Norrls Brown of Omaha will ad
dress the club and arrangements an
being made to accommodate a big crowd
In the banquet room of the hotel.
C. H. Gerbcr, principal assistant in the
engineering department of the railway
commission, and E. W. Reed, r'ght-ot-way
expert, returned last night from
Adams county, where they have been In
vestigating the rlght-of way values of
Hastngs-Glbbon cut off of the Union
Pacific railway. Figures were gathered
from the trip wh'ch will be of great
value to the commission in the future
as the right-of-way values have been
one of the hard problems the commission
has had to contend' 'with because of the
wide range ln opinions regard ng the same.
FIRES OF CIVIL WAR
II GREAT BRITAIN TO
BLAZE UPSATURDAY
Unionists of Northern Counties of
Ireland Will Formally Defy
Home Rule.
WILL SIGN SOLEMN COVENANT
Men of Ulster Pledge Themselves
Never to Submit.
OPPONENTS RIDICULE THREATS
Demands Made that Government
Stop Incendiary Talk.
PROTESTANT CHURCHES ASSIST
Govern Ins; Body of Presbyterian
Chnrch Declares Home Rnlc Bill '
Threatens Religions Freedom.
LONDON, Sept. 22.-On Saturday, Sep
tember 28, unionists of the . northern
counties of Ireland propose to register
their formal defiance of home rule."
Gathering In halls and market place,
even In churches, the men of Ulster will
sign a covenant pledging themeselvei
never to submit to any government from
Dublin, which may be imposed upon the
country by the Asquith-Redmond horn
rule bill passed in the House of Com
mons. .
"Ulster day," is the dlslgnatlon chosen
for this remarkable political sacrament.
According to Its promoters it will prov
a spell of determination so solemn atvi
impressive that the British cabinet will
hesitate before attempting to enforce
Us scheme for partial separation of Ire-,
land from the United Kingdom. But
viewed through spectacles of another
political color the affair it not to ba
taken esrlously. . ,
Home rule In Its revived form of local
self-government Instead of complete sep
aration from Ireland has aroused no
deeper political feeling In England than
other questions. - But the stumbling block
has developed In the unionists of Ulster,
Before they will submit to separation they
will start civil war, their leaders threaten.
Home rulers, however, treat these threats
with ridicule. ,
Fiery Talk by Leaders.
Members of Parliament like Sir Edward
Carson, an Irishman, and F, E. Smith,
one of . the most conspicuous , of the
younger conservatives, who is not an
Irishman, have mado speeches In Parlia
ment and outside, announcing freely that
Ulster never will recognise a home rule
government and urging the people to re
liit it Hence some of their opponent
ha callu4 UPon- the government to take
proceedings against them for'ineltlng" to.
break the law.
, Sir Edward Carson and F., E. Smith
are to be ths first to write their names
to ths "covenant" In Belfast city hall,
where the largest assembly Is expected.
How many names will appear on this
unique declaration of independence is a
subject, of newspaper contention. Predio
tlons of Ulster! enthusiasts range from
500,000 to 1,000,000. , v , -.
,The Belfast corporation ' has recom
mended all employers to give Saturday
to their men as a "day of m;t." Tha
governing body of the Presbyterian
church has issued a manifesto declaring
that the home rule bill threatens rellg ous
freedom and setting apart the day as
one for worship and prayer. The "coven
ant" Is to be signed on the steps of tha
Belfast cathedral, and religious service
will be held there, as well as in Presby.
terlan, Methodist and Church of Ireland
places of woiehip ln Ulster. ,
Unionist women have formulated a
declaration for members of their sex to
tlgn and are preparing a demonstration.
Seating of Taft Men .
Defended by Bryan
POCATELLO. Idaho; Sept. 22. -In his
Journey from Montana to Idaho, William
J. Bryan made several speeches from the
rear platform of his train and In all he
assailed Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Mr.
Bryan spoke for almost an hour in Idaho
Tails and confined himself ln most parts
to an attack on Roosevelt's plan for reg
ulation of the trusts.
Mr. Bryan's principal speech was de
livered here, when' he defended the action
of. the national republican commjttee in
seating Taft delegates at the Chicago con
vention. He sold the system was wrong,
but the custom was a time-honored one,
and similar action was taken by the dem
ocrats In control at Baltimore. He crit
icised the progressives for haying failed
at their convention to make any effort
toward remedying the old methods.
UNITED BRETHREN IN
CONFERENCE AT AURORA
AURORA, Neb., Sept 22,-(Speclul.)-The
West Nebraska conference of the
United Brethren church Is In session in
this city. Bishop Weekley of Kansas City
I is presiding. The church has equal rep
' reservation of laymen and ministers. S.
M. Snider, who has been pastor of ths
j Aurora church for several years, was
elected presiding elder of the district.
There are thirty charges in the. district.
Those present from out of the district are!
Bishop Weekly of Dayton, O., and Mr.
J. Hal Smith and wife, returned mission
aries from Africa.
Political Notes
(Continued on Second Page).
EL PASO, Tex., Sept. 22 "Viva
Orozco," cried derisive federal sympa
thizers at the railroad station when
Colonel Pascual Orozco, former military
chief of Juarez and father of the leader
of the Mexican revolution, arrived to
night from Marfa, Tex., handcuffed to
a smuggler, in custody of a United
States marshal.
'The revolution will triumph," re
torted the aged Orozco to the crowd of
hooting Mexicans who followed him to
the county Jail
At a meeting of the republican state
central committee of Minneapolis, former
State Senator E. B. Hawkins of Duluth,
was chosen as the Minnesota membvr of
the republican national committee to take
the place of I. A. Casewell, who had
resigned following the convention at Chi
crxo. The prohibition party of North Dakota
will place an electoral. ticket in the field.
Champ Clark made his first campaign
speech In his own district when he ad
dressed the voters of Hawk Point, Mo.
He devoted the greater part of his
speech to the tariff, especially as it ef
fects the farmers of the middle west.
Governor Hadley, who was floor
leader for Colonel Roosevelt in the re-
1 publican national convention and who
since nas not taxen an active pari in
national politics, snounced that he has
notified all of his appointees tn the state
that he has released them from obliga
tions to him and that they are free to
support any presidential candidate.
INFERNAL MACHINE INJURES
BOY WHO FINDS IT AT EXETER
EXETER, Neb., Sept. 22 Alex Nelson,
a school boy, today found near town
what he regarded as a curiosity ln tha
shape of a tin box with a peculiar
mechanism Inside. In taking It to his
father's blacksmith shop he attempted
to investigate. There was an explosion
which rendered him unconscious, partly
wrecked the shop and set It on fire. The
boy Is badly injured, but has a chance
of recovery. Where the supposed in.
fernal machine came from is a mystery.
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