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FOUR ARE CAUGHT
GRAND JURY’S WORK IN THE
MEAT INVESTIGATION.
THE NAMES OF THOSE INDICTED
They are Arrested and Give Bond to
Appear When Wanted — Charged
With Obstructing the Service of
Subpoena.
CHICAGO—Four men, three of
whom are employes of the Schwarz
child & Sulzberger company and the
other an attorney for that corpora
tion, were named in an indictment re
turned by the grand jury which is in
vestigating the beef trust.
It is charged that the four men ob
structed and impeded Marshal A. A.
Bach in his efforts to serve a subpoena
upon Edwin B. Fish, a clerk employed
by the company, who recently return
ed from Canada.
The men indicted are:
Joseph Weissenbach, attorney for
the Schwarzchild & Sulzberger com
pany. .
B. S. Casey, traffic manager for the
company.
George D. Hopkins, auditor for the
company.
Leo S. Joseph, employed in the pro
vision department of the concern.
The indictment alleges that a sub
poena was issued for Fish on March
3. that it was given to Bach for serv
ice, that the four men had arranged
for the departure of Fish from thfs
country to Canada and assisted him
in leaving the jurisdiction of the
court.
Attorney Weissenbach, who was for
several years an assistant to Governor
Deneen, when the latter was state at
torney in Chicago, declares that it
was at his instance that Fish returned
from Canada and agreed to go before
the grand jury. This is not denied
by government officials. Weissen
bach also declares that he has never
seen nor spoken to Hopkins, never
spoke to Cusev concerning Fish and
asserts that Joseph was never in any
manner in the matter.
The men were taken into custody
shortly after the return of the indict
ments and were released on bonds of
$1,000 in each case.
Fish was on the witness stand two
days and, it is said, revealed infor
mation concerning an attempt to influ
ence his testimony. He has been
carefully guarded by secret service
men since his return and was before
the inquisitorial board for almost an
hour Thursday. Fish ‘was heid under
$10,000 bonds to insure his appearance
as a witness.
Charles Starek, national bank ex
aminer.of Cleveland, arrived here in
response to a request from Assistant
Attorney General Pagin. Mr. Starek
will take up an examination of the
books found in six trunks taken from
safety deposit vaults 1 ere. The
trunks are said to contain books and
records of the Aetna Trading com
pany of this city.
GIVES MORE THAN MILLION.
Rockefeller's Donation to Baptist
Church Has Been Heavy.
NEW YORK—Dr. H. B. Morehouse,
corresponding secretary of the Ameri
can Baptist Home Missionary society
in this city, today made the following
announcement:
“Mr. John D. Rockefeller has just
given $100,000 to the American Bap
tist-Home Missionary society of this
city, which makes a total of more
than $1,000,000 that the society has
received from him during the last
twenty years.”
Mr. Morehouse said that this gift
was a separate one from the two gifts
by Mr. Rockefeller to the American
Baptist Missionary union recently an
nounced in Boston.
ADMIRAL DOUBTS REPORT.
Thinks the First News Would Come
From Singapore.
ST. PETERSBURG—The admiralty
has no information in regard to the
alleged naval battle in progress off
the Anambas islands as reported to a
newspaper of Amsterdam from Ba
tavia. and does not credit the possibil
ity of a general naval battle yet.
The officials concede, however, that
the Japanese may have attempted a
torpedo boat attack on a convoy dur
ing the night. It is pointed out that
there is no cable connecting Anambas
island and Batavia, and that the first
news of a fight should come from
Singapore unless the Dutch warships
are able to communicate with Ba
tavia by wireless telegraphy.
Grover Co. is Exonerated.
BROCKTON, Mass.—The R. B.
Grover company and its agents were
declared to be blameless for the ex
plosion which destroyed its shoe fac
tory here on March 20 and caused the
death of fifty-seven persons, by the
finding of Judge Fred K. Bixby, which
was made public Thursday. The
boiler explosion is held to be due to a
defect which had not been discovered.
Pope Receives Americans.
ROME—Pope Pius Sunday received
in the hall of consistory 150 Ameri
cans, including General Jacob S.
Smith and wife of^ New York, and
Mrs. M. D. Walsh. E. Dietrich and B.
F. Shriver of Baltimore. The Pope en
tered the hall, accompanied by high
personages of the court, preceded by
two American private chamberlains,
the Rev. Martin Maloney of Philadel
phia and the Rev. J. S. Brenan of
Wilmington. Dela. He gave his hand
to each of the Americans in turn and
said a kind word.
Cautious Young Ministers.
NEWARK, N. J.—Young ministers
were cautioned by Bishop Joseph E.
Berry of Buffalo at the Newark con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church to talk sparingly of women
and to make their pastoral calls in
the evening when the wife was sur
rounded by her husband and children.
The bishop declared that the' after
noon call on women of. the congre
gation when the women were likely to
be alone should be frowned cn and
avoided as much as possible.
WILL USE COOLIES
. *
Their Employment in Building tho
Canal.
WASHINGTON—Chairman Shonts,
Governor Magoon anti Chief Engineer
Wallace met in Secretary Taft’s office.
It was the first meeting of the exe
j cutive committee of the isthmian
canal commission and details of the
j construction were considered.
On the whole the committee had a
long and satisfactory discussion with
Secretary Taft and reached some con
clusions as to the organization of the
Panama railroad directory at the
meeting which is to take place next
Monday in New York.
Chairman Shonts of the canal com
mission will be the next president of
the Panama Railroad company and
every member of the commission will
| be made a director of the company,
j That will leave four members of the
; directorate to be named and they will
j be civilians.
Another important conclusion re
' lated to the assignment to duty of the
four engineer officers of the canal
commission, who are not members of
the executive committee, namely. Ad
miral Endicott, Colonel Ernst, Gener
al Haines and Mr. Harrod. It was de
cided to make these four men a special
engineering commission, quite apart
from the board of consulting engineers
provided for in the president's order.
To this engineering commission will
be assigned the various engineering
problems arising in the course of the
| construction of the canal. To them are
to be submitted all plans of an engin
eering character of importance, and
on these they will ask the opinion of
the board of consulting engineers,
which body is so far incomplete. The
consulting board will report on the
projects to the full canal commission,
and this body in turn will make re
commendations thereon to the presi
dent of the United States.
The labor problem was discussed at
length and it was resolved that con
tracts should be made for the employ
ment of 2,000 Japanese and 2.000
Chinese coolies in the canal construc
tion. This is merely a preliminary and
experimental move, hut if it succeeds
the engineers will have an almost un
limited force of labor to draw on. No
opinion has yet been had from the at
torney general as to the right of the
commission to employ its labor more
than eight hours daily, but it has sat
isfied itself that there is no legal ob
stacle to the employment of this
coolie labor under contract. This con
clusion is based on the theory that
while the United States exercises con
trol over the canal zone for adminis
trative purposes, yet the titular sov
ereignty over the strip remains in
Panama, over which no American la
bor law can he held to extend.
FATHER SCHELL ASSAULTED
Jaw Broken in Two Places and Other
wise Beaten Up by His Assailant.
SIOUX CITY. la—Father Joseph
Schell is at St. Joseph's hospital here
with his lower jaw broken in two
places, both eyes blackened and swol
len and numerous other bruises on his
body as the result of a murderous at
tack this afternoon by Ix>gan Lambert
of Homer, Neb., in a livery barn at
Dakota City, Neb. The attack is the
result of the bitter war which Father
Schell has waged against the selling
of liquor to the Indians at the Winne
bago agency, Lambert being one of
the saloon keepers affected by the
action of Father Schell.
Shocking in the extreme are the de
tails of the assault. Hi Rasdall, a part
ner of Lambert, was an onlooker to
the assault. When Father Schell, who
has been gathering evidence against
the saloon keepers, went to the East
on livery barn to get his horse to re
turn to Sioux City, the two saloon
keepers accosted him and followed
him into the barn. There Lambert be
gan beating and kicking the clergy
man, while Rasdall encouraged his
partner. Onlookers rushed to the min
ister's assistance and managed to
stop the assault and had Father
Schell removed to Sioux City. Lam
bert made his escape and Sheriff Han
son. who has a warrant for his arre3t,
was unable to find him.
NO PEACE TALK NOW.
Presence cf Rojestvensky's Fleet Adds
Strength to Russian Position.
ST. PETERSBURG—The news of
the northward movement of Admiral
Rojestvensky’s squadron and his evi
dent intention to accept a battle when
ever Admiral Togo chooses to offer
it has for the present stilled all ac
tivities in the direction of peace, and
Mho foreign dispatches relating to the
vovrge of the squadron are followed
with the most intense interest.
Rules on Alaska Jury.
WASHINGTON — The supreme
court of the United States held that
portion of the Alaska code providing
for a jury of six men to be uncon
stitutional. The opinion was by Jus
tice White and was based on the
ground that Alaska is a part of the
territory of the United States in the
full sense of the word.
Tragedy in St. Louis Church.
ST. LOUIS—Captain James A.
Rider, 66 years old, for four years the
janitor of the St. James Memorial
Episcopal church, committed suicide
Sunday by shooting, in a room adjoin
ing the auditorium, in which the rector
was conducting devotional services.
The sound of the shot was plainly !
heard by the congregation, but there
was no excitement. One of the vestry
men investigated and reported to Dr.
Duckworth, who announced from the
pulpit a brief statement of what had
occurred.
Dr. Lee Adams is Dead.
WASHINGTON—Dr. Lee Adams,
chief of the claims division of the
United States internal revenue bu
reau, died Sunday, aged 63. He had
been in the internal revenue service
for about forty years.
Qu'ts Pulpit to Become Editor.
STENBENVILLE, O.—Rev. H. H.
Moniger, pastor of the First Christian
church of this city, tendered his re
signation to become Sunday school
editor of the Standard Publishing
company of Cincinnati.
GOME INTO COURT
QUESTION OF REBATES TO BE
.INVESTIGATED.
THOSE REQUESTED TO APPEAR
Chairman Elkins Says Private Cars
and Terminals Will Be Looked Into.
—Many Magnates Summoned Be
fore the Special Sest-'.on Now On.
WASHINGTON—Following is a list
of the railroad men who have been
requested to appear before the senate
committee on interstate commerce,
which will begin its inquiry into rail
road regulation at once.
W. K. Vanderbilt of the New York
Central, George Gould of the Gould
system, E. H. Harriman of the Union
Pacific, J. J. Hill of the Great North
ern. A. J. Cassatt of the Pennsyl
vania. E. D. Kenna, vice president of
the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe;
Walker I). Hines, general counsel of
the Louisville & Nashville; Hugh L.
Bond, general counsel of the Balti
more & Ohio; Winslow Pierce, gener
al counsel of the Gould system; Presi
dent Hughitt of the Chicago & North
western. President Ripley of the At
chison. Topeka & Santa Fe; President
Tuttle of the Boston & Maine, Vice
President Wilcox of the Delaware &
Hudson. President Truesdale of the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western;
President Spencer of the Southern,
President Fish of the Illinois Central.
Of these only Messrs. Cassatt, Fish i
Spencer and Tuttle have signified a
willingness to attend, and they say j
they will not he able to be present at j
the beginning of the committee's sit- j
ting. A number of the witnesses have
been summoned, however, and it is
expected that the committtee will be ;
able to proceed soon after coming to
gether. Among the non-railroad men i
to be heard are Senators Spooner,
Knox and Morgan; Prof. W. Z. Ripley
of Harvard university and Victor
Morawetz of New York.
The committee has been summoned
to meet at 3 p. m. Monday, and Chair
man Elkins of the committee has an
nounced his purpose to go very thor
oughly into the subject. The resolu
tion under which the hearing w.ll be
held directs the committee “to con
sider the question of additional legis
lation to regulate interstate com
merce, and to authorize the Interstate
Commerce commission to fix rates of
freights and fares and to acquire fur
ther information as to interstate com
merce, including violations or eva
sions of the anti-rebate law and the
devices and methods by which such
evasions are accomplished and includ- |
ing refrigerator and other private car
system, industrial railway tracks,
switching charges and the like, and
also to consider what legislation
should be enacted in relation to the
liability of railroad companies engaged
in interstate traffic or operating lines
in any territory of the United States
for injuries received by their em
ployes when in the discharge of
duty.”
GARFIELD READY TO BEGIN
Investigation of Kansas Oil Situation
Will Commence at Once.
TOPEKA, Kan—Commissioner of
Corporations Garfield announced that
the investigation of the Standard Oil
company in Kansas would be started
at once. The hearings will all be se
cret, and no intimation of the com
missioners’ work will be made public
until the report is given out by Pres
ident Roosevelt. Commissioner Gar
field held conferences with Governor
Hoch, Attorney General Coleman and
United States District Attorney Dean.
All the information gained by these
officials was placed before him and he
regards it as sufficient to start to
work on.
In reply to a question Commissioner
Garfield said that he had been work
ing on the oi! situation for several
months. He said:
The early agitation in Kansas in
terested me, as it is practically a
repetition of what we went through 1
In Ohio several years ago. The rela- :
tions of the production of crude oil
to demand is naturally a very import ;
ant matter in this investigation. The |
Standard Oil company seems to have
raised the cry of over-production as a
defense against the charges and this
claim is one of the things that we i
will go into very carefully.
BRIDLE FOR MISS ROOSEVELT
Made of White Horse Hair With Solid
Silver Buckles.
NEW CASTI..E, Colo.—Now that
the reception to President Roosevelt
and the parade is assured the women
of New Castle have decided to do
their share. As soon as the president
alights from the train a committee
from the women’s reading club will
surround him and will escort him to
the club rooms, where on behalf of
the women of Garfield county he will
be presented with a horse hair hi idle
for the use of Miss Alice Roosevelt.
The bridle itself is a work of art,
which took over a year to complete.
Turkey Settles Claims.
PARIS—A dispatch to the semi
official Temps from Constantinople
says the French ambassador, M. Con
stans, has received an imperial irade
making a co. plete and definite settle
ment of the French claims. It gives ah
indemnity of $7,000,000 for the contro
versy over the Damascus Nazrib ra'l
road and insures continuous French
control of the read, and also accords
as damages $.t20,000 to the Frnech
company operating the quays of Con
stantinople. These are the‘main feat
ures.
Hitchcock Refers Rebate Case.
WASHINGTON— Secretary Hitch
cock has decided to refer to the at
torney general the question of rail
road rebates on material used in con
nection with the irrigation reclama
tion service, which Comptroller Trace
well has decided could not be legally
accepted. The secretary refuses to
discuss the comptroller’s opinion, but
other officials at the interior depart
ment hold that the so-caiied rebate
is merely a reduction, such as is pro
vided for by sectior. 22 of the inter
state commerce act
PAUL JONES’ BODY FOUND.
Successful Termination of a Remark
able Search at Paris.
PARIS—The remarkable search
which Ambassador Porter has con
ducted for the body of John Paul
Jones has been crowned with success
by the discovery of the body and its
identification by the highest French
medical experts as unquestionably
that of the famous American admiral
who founded the American navy.
Ambassador Porter cabled to Wash
ington announcing the successful re
sults of his long and difficult search.
The body is in a good state of preser
vation, considering that the inter
ment took place over 100 years ago.
The circumstances leading to the
final discovery of the body are par
ticularly interesting. General Porter
has conducted the search for the last
five years and when congress recently
tool; no action upon the president’s
recommendation for the expenses in
cident to the search the ambassador
continued the extensive labors at his
own expense. A large force of work
men has been engaged night and day
tunneling and cross-tunneling the old
St. Louis cemetery. This constituted
a huge operation, embracing nearly a
block covered with buildings and re
quiring a system of subterranean min
ing.
-tundreds of wooden caskets were l
found, but not until Wednesday were
unearthed four leaden caskets which
gave promise of containing the body
of the admiral. Three of them bore
plates designating the names of the
deceased. The fourth showed superior
solidity of workmanship. No plate was
found on this casket and it is sup
posed it was removed when another
coffin was superimposed on it. The
leaden coffin was opened in the pres
ence of Ambassador Porter, Colonel
Bailey Blanchard, the second secre
tary of the American embassy, and
Engineer Weis, who has been direct
ing the excavation. The body was i
found to be well preserved owing to
its being immersed in alcohol. It was
wrapped in a sheet with a packing
of straw and hay. Those present were
immediately struck by the resem
blance of the head to that on the
medallions and busts of the admiral.
As was anticipated, no uniform, de
coration or sword was found, as all
such articles had been accounted for
aft°r the burial.
The coffin is shaped like a mummy
coffin, which coffins were common at
that period, widening from the feet
to the shoulders, with a round top
fitting over the head.
The coffin was taken to the medical
school where directors Capitan and
Pilillau, distinguished professors of
the school of anthropology and recog
nized authorities on such investiga
tions, were charged with making a
thorough examination for the purpose
of identification. To facilitate this,
the ambassador furnished them with
portraits and medallions, two busts j
by Houdil and authentic descriptions
of the color of the admiral's hair and
height and measurement of his body, i
After the most minute examination
these facts were fully substantiated:
Length of the body, five feet seven
inches; the admiral's exact height.
Size and shape of the head agree
with several peculiarities identical
with the head of the admiral. Hair,
dark brown, the same as the admir
al's; in places slightly gray, indicat
ing a person of his age. 45 years.
The hair is long, reaching below the
shoulders, and is combed back and
gathered in a clasp at the back of the
neck.
OVER-RIDES SUSAN B. ANTHONY
National Council of Women Declares
Divorce Evil to Be an Evil.
WASHINGTON— Over the bitter
protest of Miss Susan B. Anthony the
National Council of Women adopted
a resolution pledging the organization
to co-operate with church and state
to ascertain what are the chief causes
which induce or lead up to divorce.
Divorce, the resolution recites, is
known to cause most disastrous re
sults in the family and state.
“I do not consider divorce an evil
by any means,” asserted Miss An
thony, who was on her l~et before the
reading of the resolution had been
concluded. It ip just as much a refuge
for women married to brutal men as
Canada was once a refuge from brutal
masters. I will never vote for a re
solution that will cut women off from
refuge from designing and brutal
men.”
The council adopted formally the
anti-polvgamy resolution favorably re
ported from committee; also a resolu
tion deploring the horrors of war in
general and particularly the present
war in the far east. The council
pledged itself through resolution to
establish and maintain kindergartens
and day nurseries for the poorer
classes of colored children.
Resolutions also were adopted op
posing the indiscriminate use of the
American flag, and advocating on all
possible occasions the adoption of the
initiative and referendum as the most
effective means for securing equal
rights for women.
Stricter Medical Examination.
BUFFAI-O. N. Y.—An executive
committee of the Royal Arcanum is
in session here. One of the members
in speaking of the order said their
reports for the year ending May 1,
next, would show that the receipts of
the association exceeded the amount
of the death claims by only $20,000.
The sneaker stated that the execu
tive committe would recommend not
only that the medical examination
be made stricter, but that the appli
cant’s mode of living and habits be
examined into.
Early Spring in Alaska.
SEATTLE, Wash.—A special from
Nome to the Post Intelligent states
that the past winter has been unpre
cedented for mildness and that the
ice is rapidly breaking up all along
the coast. In St. Micuaels bay the
water is open and the ice in Norton
bay and sound has already moved
north as far as Nome. Bering strait
has been open all winter, and at' no
time since January has the thermo
meter been lower than zero, and for
the past forty days the average tem
oerature has been 50 above.
BAD FOR INDIANS
I
AGENT WILSON SAYS FREE
WHISKY MEANS THEIR END.
RED MEN FORWARD A PROTEST
—
Insist That They Have Been Robbed
of Their Lands and Money Belong
ing to Them is Gobbled Up by the
White Speculators.
| WASHINGTON—H. G. Wilson,
bonded school superintendent of the
Winnebagoes, arrived in Washington
on matters before officials of the In
dian bureau and expects to return
home within a few days. Upon his re
turn he will install his’successor, W.
A. McFatridge, and this having been
I accomplished will start for Klamath.
| Ore., having recently been appointed
bonded school superintendent of the
Klamath schools.
Mr. Wilson, in speaking of the con
ditions on the Winnebago reservation
respecting the sale of liquors, said
that during the recent months there
had been much less drinking. The re
cent decision of the supreme court,
however, holding there is no law to
prevent the Winnebago or other In
dians who hold full American citizen
ship from purchasing liquor, will have
a disastrous effect.
“This decision means the finish
morally and physically of this tribe of
Indians,” said Wilson.
“If enabled to purchase whisky they
will soon become extinct. In fact, it
will be but a few years until nearly
every able bodied man among them
will have drank himself to death.”
The Winnebagoes have filed a pro
test with the secretary of the interior
and commissioner of Indian affairs
of the manner in which that tribe has
been robbed of its lands and cast into
outer darkness by the white man for
the last twenty-five years. The Winne
bagoes declare their lands, which
have apparently been sold by them
have been taken away fraudulently.
Members of the tribe, they assert,
have been forced to sign blank papers
they know’ nothing about; checks they
have received have been taken from
them by forge or offset by enormous
whisky bills; their agents have falsi
fied itemized accounts they sent to
the department, and during the last
three months have ridden all over the
reservation getting signatures from
Indians to papers which enabled the
speculators to get hold of their prop
erty. The climax, they charge, came
when their agent himself handed to
speculators direct the government
checks, money belonging to- the In
dians to pay fraudulent debts and
whisky notes of Indians without in
vestigation or hearing and without the
knowledge and consent of the In
dians. The complaint is transmitted
by Phillip Long, a Winnebago, and
is signed by more than 100 of his
tribesmen. Some of the names attach
ed are Red Legs, Charles Earth.
George I-rOngtail. Louis Grayhair,
Green Rainbow, Pet Snake. Two Buf
falohead, South Wind, Big Tree. Walk
ing Day, George Whitewing and Green
Hair.
RUSSIANS ON THE RUN
Tokio Report Says Main Body of
Czar’s Army is Now at Kirin.
TOKIO—It is reported that the
main force of the Russians, which re
tired in the direction of Hsing.king,
has reached Kirin. The rear guard,
which is estimated at 12,000 men. con
tinues in the vicinity of Harlung
cheng, closely in touch with the Jap
anese vanguard. The main force,
which retired from Kaiyuan over the
Kirin road, is reported at Kirin, with
a rear guard of 8.000 men, at It
suchow,, Haklusu and at Sulipao,
keeping in touch with the Japanese
forces.
Changchen Is evidently the rallying
point for the Changtu and Fakeumen
forces. Although a force, estimated at
13.000 men, has been detailed to oc
cupy Fenchua, and 3,000 to hold Pa
miencheng, the latter force seems as
signed to check and retard the Jap
anese advance.
MERRIAM COMMITS SUICIDE
Of Merriam Mortgage Co. and Brother
in-Law of Sheldon.
POSTON, Mass.—Clarence M. Mer
riam, an investment, broker having of
fices in this city, has committed sui
cide at a hotel. His father is a broker
in Chicago. No cause for the suicide
is known.
Mr. Merriam’s body was found some
hours after death on a bed he had oc
cupied since last Saturday. There
wras a bullet wound in the head. The
suicide leaves a wife and two children.
He was a native of Waterbury, Conn.
The police of this city say that
Clarence M. Merriam, whose body was
found in a hotel late yesterday, com
mitted suicide by shooting. Merriam’s
friends here cannot explain the act.
They say so far as they know Merriam
enjoyed splendid health and was pros
perous. Merriam’s father and brother
reside in Topeka.
Marrin Skipped to France.
PHIIxA.DEL.PHIA—Frank C. Marrin,
alias “Judge” Franklin Stone, whom
police agents have been seeking in
connection with the affairs of the col
lapsed Storey Cotton company, is re
ported to have landed at Havre,
France. March 23, having sailed from
New York on the same day the con
cern went into the hands of a re
ceiver. Marrin was accompanied by
his wife and twro sons. Thomas H.
Quinlan, secretary and treasurer of
the Storey company, is also said to
have been in the party.
Would Take Him Up Pike's Peak.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—LTpon
return of President Roosevelt here
from his hunting trip about the middle
of May he will be waited upon by the
members of the Pike’s Peak Press
club of this city, and presented with
one of th club's handsome gold badges
as a souvenir of his visit. The presi
dent has been elected an honorary
member of the club. The badge will
be made out of pure Cripple Cr°ek
gold. It is also planned to take the
president to the summit of Pike’s
Peak on the cog railway.
FRAUDULENT CONCERN FAILS
“Get-Rich-Quick” Company Operating
In Kansas City Closes Its Doors.
KANSAS CITY—The American
Mercantile association, alleged to he
a “get-rich-quiek” concern, with offices
in a down town office building, has
been closed and this notice posted on
the door: "Ooodby, suckers, good by.”
The whereabouts of the officers of
the association is not known. The
company’s head office was at St.
Joseph. Mo., and from there a notice
had been sent out to its subscribers
announcing the suspension as follows:
“The officers of the American Mer
cantile association takes this means
to announce to you that the business
of the said corporation has been sus
pended and that it will be unable to
complete or carry out its contract
with you.”
When this notice was received by
the Kansas City subscribers, the ma
jority of whom are laboring people,
they flocked to the concern’s offices.
Many pitiable scenes were enacted.
The subscribers had agreed to pay
$1 a week for eighty weeks on the
promise that they were to receive
$100 at that period. Many working
girls and laborers had been making
payments for months past. One wo
man had paid $7.50 a week for sixty
'•x weeks and expected soon to real
ize $720.
JAPANESE PLANS.
Oyama's Force to Be One Million
Men.
TOKIO—Japan is meeting the Rus
sian plan of reorganization and rein
forcement of its Manchurian armies
with an extensive expedition from its
own military organization. The details
and figures are carefully concealed of
what seems to be a plan to double
the present army units, but it is re
liably estimated that by autumn next
the total military organization will ex
ceed 1.000,000 men actually employed
in the field. The fighting force is
roughly estimated at 700.000 men.
with increases largely in the infantry
and artillery, although an enlarge
ment in the cavalry branch is also
contemplated.
As a result of the manufacture at
the arsenals in Japan, together with
captures and purchases of guns, it is
predicted that this year will see a
Japanese artillery superior to that of
the Russians, in quality as weil as
numerically, and it is confidently be
lieved that the Russians will be incap
able of overcoming these numerical
advantages. Wherever railway im
provements are possible they will be
carried out when Japan will be suffi
ciently strong to take and hold Har
bin and simultaneously continue oper
ations against the Russian forces to
the eastward of that city.
CASTRO'S REPLY DEFIANT
Venezuela President Flatly Refuses
to Submit Case to Arbitration.
CARACAS, Venezuela—(Corres
pondence of the Associated Press)—
‘‘President Castro will not withdraw’
the New York and Bermudez Asphalt
company case from the Venezuelan
courts and will not resubmit tbe Ol
cott case to arbitration if the whole
American army and navy come to
Venezuela.”
This emphatic statement of General
Alejandro Ybarra, the Venezuelan sec
retary of foreign affairs, reflects the
spirit of the reply which President
Castro made to the recent proposal
of the American state department' for
the arbitration of the Bermudez and
Olcott cases.
It was generally rumored through
out Venezuela that the demand of the
United States was little less than an
ultimatum to General Castro, and the
reply of the Venezuelan president
was awaited with interest.
Nearly two weeks have passed
since Castro made his reply and as
no action has been taken by the
United States, and no further de
mands have been made, the last de
mand of the United States has gone
the way of many previous requests
for arbitration and the incident is
practically closed as far as its dis
cussion is Caracas is epneerned.
EIGHT-HOUR DAY AND CANAL
Believed That Law Does Not Apply
to the Isthmus.
WASHINGTON—Chief Engineer
Wallace of the isthmian canal com
mission had an interview with Secre
tary Taft, in which the conditions on
the canal were discussed. Afterward
Mr. Wallace met such members of
the commision as are in the city.
As to the right of the commission
to employ labor for more than eight
hours per day there is a belief that
the eight hour law does not apply to
the canal zone. Chief Engineer Wal
lace says that it would very serious
ly impede work to have the eight
hour law in effect during the construc
tion of the canal. It. would be impos
sible to make uniform hours for all
labor, because some labor must be
twelve hours, while ten hours is the
regular rule for most of the working
men.
Must Get Japan’s Consent.
WASHINGTON — The executive
committee of the Panama canal com
mission, Messrs. Shonts, Magoon and
Wallace decided to draw up detailed
specifications to govern in the em
ployment of labor on the canal. A de- .
cision from Attorney General Moody
as to the application of the eight hour
day to the work is expected in a few
days, and will govern that problem in
the specifications. Permission will
have to be obtained from the Japanese
government before the 2,0(jp laborers
can be secured.
Bear Hunt First in Colorado
GLENWOOD SPRINGS. Colo.—
President Roosevelt will make his
Colorado camp in the Huntsman hills,
twentythree miles south of Newcastle!
and fifteen miles from Redstone!
Guide Goff has received a telegram
from Secret.-ry Loeb saying that it
was the wish of the president to be
gin the hunt with a chase after bear.
This necessitates a change in plans!
for Goff and Borah had arranged to
make the first camp on the Whita
river plateau, a district of mountain
lions.
Nebraska News
Saloon license in Lincoln this >ear
will cost $1,500.
The salary of ihe mayor of R of rice
has been increased to $2.>'» a year.
Anton Engleman. a West Point jew
eler, has been declared insane and
taken to the asylum.
Mr. and Mrs. .John Wittwer. living
near Humboldt, last week celebrated
their golden wedding.
The town of Bur well is being great
ly stirred in a religious way by Evan
gelist Jones of Lincoln.
The Nebraska State Medical asso
ciation will hold its annual meeting
in Beatrice on May 1, 2 and i.
More building is going on in Fre
mont just at the present time tiian at
any previous time in fhe last decade.
About fifty new residences are being
built.
Word from Roelus is to the effect
that the sheriff of Howard county has
given tip the chase for the roboera
who blew the safe of the bank and
secured about $4,000.
The general store of L. Kronp at
Wyoming. Otoe county, was entered
and robbed, entrance being effected by
breaking open a back window. A
large amount of goods were taken.
The rase of the state aeainst Henry
Rroer for the killing of his father,
John H. Rroer. November 11. 1304,
was submitted to the jury at Geneva,
who returned a verdict of not guilty.
The home of Mrs. Roby, of Grand
Island, a widow, was burned to the
ground, only about fifty dollars’ worth
of furniture being saved. Mrs. Roby
was away from home at the time of
the fire.
The Reatrire Chautauqua associa
tion is making elaborate preparations
for this year's session. July 6 to 18
inclusive, and will present one of the
best programs in the history of the
organization.
Mr. and Mrs. Silas Rryson. old resi
dents of Gage county, living near
Adams, celebrated their golden wed
ding. About 150 relatives and friends
helped to make the occasion one to
be long remembered.
A barn and contents, including
three horses. 1,500 bushels of corn
and a quantity of grain and hay. be
longing to John Holm, five miles west
of Odell, was burned. The loss is esti
mated at $2,500 with no insurance.
Street Pros, of Rroken Row have
been putting down a hydraulic well
on George Ransley’s place, about
twelve miles southwest of town. When
at the depth of fifty feet they struck
a vein of caal measuring several
inches.
I.eon and Jay Lyons, two hoys liv
ing south of Firth, went out to a
common duck pond with their tame
ducks as decoys and in a few minute*
bagged eleven wild geese out of one
flock and in another half hour bagged
nine more from another flight.
The Plattsmouth city council at its
last regular meeting decided to cancel
the license of any saloonkeeper who
in the future is found guilty of sell
ing liquor to a minor or to any per
son after having received a written
request to refrain from so doing.
Earl Long, the 15-year-old eon of
James Long, living eight miles south
of Beatrice, was probably fatally in
jured by the accidental discharge of
a shot gun. which he was dragging
from behind while en route to a pond
to shoot ducks. He will probablv die.
The children of H. C. Sutheit, who
resides a few miles northeast of here
in the corner of Nemaha county, have
begun action in the county court of?
that county to have a guardian ap
pointed for their father, alleging that
he is of unsound mind and therefore
incompetent to transact his own busi
ness.
Frederick Erbs, aged about CO
years, was almost instantly killed at
Columbus in a rather unusual man
ner. He was working for Patrick
Murray, one of the wealthiest farmers
in the county, and was returning from
town with a load of malt for hog feed.
The wagon wheel dropped into a rut
and Erbs fell off and one wheel passed
over his head, crushing it badly. He
lived only a few minutes.
The supreme court at its last sit
ting inaugurated a new' rule, which
will save much time to attorneys. The
rule is that all attorneys wdio expect
to make an oral argument before tie*
court must file their intentions with
the clerk and they will be notified of
the time for the argument. This will
save the attorneys from coming to
Lincoln on the first day of the sitting,
when probably the argument would
not be heard.
Mrs. Minerva Colby of Beatrice,
widow of the late Dr. Colby, has filed
remonstrances against the seven sa
loon proprietors who were in business
in Beatrice a year ago. Mrs. Colby
states that on account of the defend
ants selling liquor to her husband he
was unable to handle a fractious team
and was killed in a runaway.
Friends fear that prison life is sap
ping the mentality of Mrs. Lillie, now'
confined in the penitentiary for mur
dering her husband.
What appears to be the work of an
incendiary caused four fires in Nor
folk within a tew hours, some of them
simultaneously. •
A young man by the name of Ran
ktn was found dead In a field near
l nadilla. He had been working on
the farm of W. C. Stokes near Una*
dilla and had left the Stakes residence
early in the day, taking a shotgun
with him. His death is bel'eved to
have been accidental.
The voters of Grattan towmship.
Holt county, at a meeting called for
that purpose have unanimously agreed
to employ an expert bookkeeper to go
over the books for the ten years last,
past and find out just where the
money collected by taxation has gone
The machinery for the installation
of the meterological station in Beat
rice. which the United States weather
bureau is to establish in this city, is
nearly all there and soundings of the
“E? UMer\WhiCh 18 to be brought
into distinction, will soon be made a
matter of daily record. The rainfall is
also to be recorded.