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NEWS SECTION. Pages 1 to 8. The Omaha Daily Bee. Sherlock Holmes' Mystery Next Sunday's Bee. ESTABLISHED JUNE 10. 1S71. OMAHA. SATURDAY MOKNINO, A PHIL 15, 1S03 SIXTEEN PAGES. SINGLE COrV THIJEE CENTS. BEARS MAY BE SAFE ears that Snowstorm in Mountains May Spoil President'! Sport. CHIEF EXECUTIVE WELCOMED TO COLORADO ; Governor McDonald and Party Meets Spe cial at ttite Line. CROWDS AT TRIMuAD AND PUEBLO Mr. Roosevelt Makes Addresses at the Sta tion at Each Point LAST STOP AT COLORADO SPRINGS llrrr lie Appeal 10 .Newspaper M .ot to Follow Him Into Moon lains Train Use at Ken UiiIf at H A. M. cc .1. til. ll II NEWCASTLE. Colo.. April 14. With the enuw two feet deep In every direction from the camp and from three to Ave feet deep In the lulu, . with the snow storm sllii continuing. It is possible Freaitrent Roosevelt will be compelled to de lay his hunt here or content himself with smaller game than the grizzlies he has planned to kill. For a week now the Know tins fallen day after day. Not twenty-four houis have passed without Us storming. All that prevents the roads and trails from being absolutely Impassable 1m the warm weather that has Intervened and to a great extent iueited the snow. 1. II. Wells, a Meeker hunter, who is one of the party, has Just arrived here. It took him nearly five hours to make the twenty miles" ride from Camp Roosevelt, and his horso wan worn to exhaustion when he readied here. 'The weather Is at least three weeks be- ind the normal." he said. "There hits n an unusual amount of snow here this winter, but not In ten years have I seen the conditions so bad as this season." lamp In l'erfect Shape. According to Weils, the camp is now In perfect shape. It has been practically de cided to track the game with dogs and to follow with horses. This is considered one of tho most dangerous sports, and the bad condition of the ground makes it doubly dangerous now. A full grown grizzly can easily race away a.vi,. uui oil uuu uie uuo toil wmuai equal the speed. Hunters here point out that to hunt from horses at all a dead gallop must he kept up all of the time to close In with the quarry, and that this speed must be main tained over gullies, through gulches, around rocks, over broken logs, through thickets and brush and up and down mountain sides, and they pesslmistlculiy add, some ono la sure to be hurt. Now that the reception to President Koosevelt and the parudo Is as sured, the women of Newcastle have de cided to do their share. As soon as the president alights from the train a com mittee from the Women's Heading club will surround him and will escort him to the club rooms, where, on behalf of the womun' of UnrifoJU cpuMyj. he wilt he anted with a horsehair bridle for he tise pf Miss Alice Roosevelt. The bridle Itself Is a work of art, which took over a year to complete. All of the straps, Including the reins, ure made of pure white horse hair and the buckles are of solid silver. Itecelves Hunting License. TRINIDAD, Colo., April 14. President Roosevelt crossed the Colorado-New Mexico boundary line at 11:60 a. m. Governor Jesse F. McDonald of Colorado and his party met the president at Emory Gap, N. M. After greetings were exchanged Gov ernor McDonald presented to the president a speclul engrossed hunting license, giving him permission to kill any game he may want In Colorado. The president's trip through New Mexico was a continuous ovation, for although the train did not stop at small stations, there were crowds at all of them, who let out a good western yell for the nation's chief executive. Seven thousand persons, including 2,000 school children waving1 small Omits irro. to.i resident Koosevelt this afternoon with I'npftrR i Fin nnruii n nifnrm mH v. ..... . 1 off and forty special officers appointed to keep the crowd In order. Another of rough riders and another of, veterans acted as a guard of honor to the president. The presi dent was introduced by Mayor H. B. Brown as "the greatest man In the world," and talked for five minutes, warmly greeting the old soldiers. Ureat Crowd at Pueblo. PUEBLO, Colo., April 14 Pueblo citizens i the number of 6,000 greeted President (oosevelt upon his arrival at the Union station nere at i:4; n. m. toriav w in the special was first sighted a mighty cheer .went up and this continued until President Roosevelt appeared on the rear plaftorm and begun to address the crowd. His speech was Interrupted by the presentation of a "big stick," the gift of the school chil dren of the city. The president spoke briefly. Promptly at 6:60 the special pulled out over the Colorado & Southern for Colo rado Springs. The trip since crossing the Colorado line, has been uneventful except that at every station great crowds gathered to greet the chief executive of the nation. The passenger yards here had been cleared and the president's speclnl was handle without a hitch. During the stop the train was surrounded by a cordon of police. A special committee of citizens headed by Mayor Brown greeted the presi dent and welcomed him to the city. Appeals fur Fair Play. COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo., April 14. Fully 10,000 people assembled at the Santa Fe station tonight to welcome President Roosevelt. Grand Army veterans were lined up on the plufiorm, and a band entertained the crowd during the wait. Promptly at 7:30 o'clock the presidential spifiiil train pulled Into the station. Wild cheering greeted the president as he stepped out upon tho platform of the car. The president responded to calls for a speech, saying In part: Let me say one word of special greeting to the veterans of the Grand Army. To f'ou. my eomruiies, i wish to say that I luve Just come up from Texas, and It would huve done your hearts good you men who wore the blue In the greut war to see how, side by side with your comrades who wore the blue, stood the men who wore the srrav united with them now forever and ever with one ikig ana one country, ueugnted though 1 was with every feature or my receotlon In exas, I think that the feature that pleased niu most whs that of which I have Just spoken to see the former union and former confederate veterans standing together under the old flag. Now 1 um going to make a request of the pi ople of Colorado. I am off on a hunt. One thing ou cannot do on a hunt, and that Is to osiry a brass band. You. cannot combine hunting hears with a Fourth of July celebration. Seriously, I am going to bi g the pimple of Colorado to treat me on thlK hunt Jint as well as the eople of Oklahoma treated me on the wolf hunt. If a lot of newspaper men start to ronie In ft.r me I will have to come home: that Is till there Is to it. The thing they can do that will please me best la to let me be on MORGAN ANGRYAT ITALIANS Refuses to Alan Statement Regard Ins lion- lie Secured the ROME. April 14-Hefore J. Pierpont Morgan, who arrived here yesterday from Naples, left Taormlna an cximinlng magis trate from Taormlna boarded his ynoht Corsair to take Mr. M rgan's testimony concerning the person who sold Mm the famous1 cope, stolen from the cathedral of Ascoll and subsequently returned to Asoll by Mr. Morgan. The latter was indignant at being tro'ibled about the matter after having returned the cope without even asking for the reimbursement cf the money he had paid for it. He said he did not remember anything connected with the purchase nf the cope, but when asked to sign a state ment to that effect, Mr. Morgan refused, saying he would not sign anything In a language he did not understand. The government has been Informed of the Incident anil Is most displeased at Its oc currence. It was due to the fact that the courts of Justice in Italy are lndejwndcnt of the government and the examining magistrate at Taormlna acted on a request received from the court at Ascoll and not at the request of the Italian government. The authorities of Acoll are still trying to ascertain how the cope was stolen and In so doing requested the legal auth irlties of TaonniiiH to take the testimony of Mr. Morgan. USD BODY OF PALL JONES Ambassador Porter's Search for Remains of Naval Hero is Successful, IDENTIFICATION BEYOND QUESTION Rod? Is Encased In Leaden Coffin and Is Well Preserved Final Inter ment at Arlington Cemetery. REPORT Otf SCOTCH I III RCIIES Free Church Should tilre All Surplus Property to Inlted Body, LONDON, April II. The report of the royal commission appointed to Inquire Into the Scottish churches' dispute recommends that the Free church should hand over to the United Free church all the property It cannot Itself adequately administer. As It Is admitted that the former can only utilize a small proportion of the church's manses and money handed over by the recent decision of the courts, the recom mendation. If accepted by the government, will mean the restoration of a large purt of the property to the I'nltcd Free church. Legislation will be necessary to give effect to the recommendation, but little. If any, opposition Is expected to It. COMMISSION FAVORS CAHTOOXS Would Permit Printing of Pictures and Publication of TVbntes. ST. PETERSBURG, April H.-The press commission has recommended the removal of the censorship from cartoons and tho debates of zemstvoe and other legal organizations. Imputation Visits Dnlfonr. LONDON, April .14. The deputation of members of Parliament, headed by Joseph Chamberlain, appointed at the meeting In the House of Commons yesterday to present to Premier Balfour a statement expressing the views of the members who are In favor of tariff reform, was received by Mr. Bal four at the foreign office today. The pro ceedings were private. It Is said, how ever, that the deputation did not ask for an Immediate answer and the premier will tak4 time to consider the terms proposed as a compromise looking to the solidification of the unionists. GARFIELD GETS DOWN TO WORK RL'LINC FATAL TO INDIA: S the bee bulletin. p i . rcibtunnu; 'apni !. un account of the condition pf his health and the fact that the evidence against Maxim Gorky Is not Btronger than that against hundreds of others who have not been arrested In connection with the disturbances at St. Petersburg January 22. It is understood that tho government has abandoned Its inten tion of bringing him to trial. Arbitration Treaties Approved. THE HAGUE, April 14.-The second Chamber of States General today approved the arbitration treaties between the Neth erlands and Denmark, France and Great Britain. (Continued on Second PacaJ CORPORATION OUT OF BUSINESS Death of Boston Promoter Forces a Sew Jersey Concern to Wall. BOSTON, April 14.-The Mystic Print and Dye Works, a New Jersey corporation located In Medford, was placed In the hunds of a receiver today on petition of the Locke Coal company of Maiden and others. John D. Street, treasurer of tho Mystic company, was named as receiver. Carence M. Merrlam, a well known Kan sas man and Boston Investor, who com mitted suicide here Tuesday, Is named by the petitioners In their statements filed with the court. Merrlam, It was alleged, had been given $13,300 in demand promissory notes by the Mystic company under an agreement that he was not to Bell them or transfer them until he had accomplished the sale of 175,000 In bonds which the company had decided to Issue. The petitioners allege further that the holders of these notes, which cannot be located, would proceed against the Mystic company and that this might cause the company embarrassment. It was stated that the company owes $77,000 and has assets of $109,000. Merrlam was the manager of the eastern agency of the Merrlam Mortgage company of Topeka, Kan. He was a brother-in-law of Rev. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka. QUIET SUNDAY AT ST. LOUIS Restaurants, Barber Shops and Clear Stands to Close Hotels Will Serve Meals for Rrgalar Patrons. ST. LOUIS. April 14. At a meeting today of the leading restaurant proprietors it was agreed to close their restaurants In the business section of the city next Sunday, It being the opinion of the restauranteurs that there would ho little profit in keeping open with the bars closed. At another meeting the managers of the principal hotels agreed to close saloons, cafes, barber shops, news and cigar stands, keeping open only the dining rooms for the accommodation of regular patrons. In most of the hostelrles It will, be Impossible to even get shoes shlned and the baths will also be shut down for the day. PARIS. April 14-The remarkable search' which Ambassador Porter has conducted for the body of Paul Jones has been crowned with success by the discovery of the body and Its Identification today by the highest French medical experts p.a un questionably that of the famous American admiral who founded the American navy. Ambassador Porter cabled to Washington tonight announcing the successful resul'.s of his long and d'fflcult search. The body Is In a good state of preservation consid ering that the Interment took place over 100 years ago. The circumstances leading the final dis covery of the body are particularly Inter esting. General Porter has conducted the search for the last five years and when congress recently took no action upon the president's recommendation for the ex penses Incident to the search for the re mains, the ambassador continued the ex tensive labors at his own expense. A large force of workmen has been engaged nisht and day tunneling and croas-tunncilng the old St. Louis cemetery. This constituted a huge operation embracing nearly a block covered with buildings and requiring a system of subterranean mining. Ilody Is Well Preserved. Hundreds of wooden caskets were 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 nams of the deceased , The fourth showed su perior solidity of workmanship. No plate was found on this casket ana It Is supposed It wen removed when another coffin was superimposed on It. The leaden coflln was opened In the presence of General Porter, Colonel Railty Blanchard, the second sec retary of the American embassy, and En gineer Wels, who has been directing the excavation. The body waa 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 prepent were immediately struck by the resemb lance of the head to that on the medallions and busts of the admiral. As was anticipated, no uniform, decora tion or sword were found, as all such arti cles had been accounted for after 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. Identification Is Complete. The coffin was taken to the medical school, where Directors Capltan and P.p lllu, distinguished professors of the school Of anthropology and recognized authorities on uch investigations, were charged with making a thorough examination for the msvorpjii. identification. To facilitate thlsl the.. am Vassador " f urhterred ' fnVrh - wltli pof?l traits and medallions, two busts by Houdln and authentic descriptions of the color of the admiral's hair and the height and measurement of his body. 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 ad miral's: in places slightly gray. Indicating 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 tne neca. The face Is clean shaven, all correspond ing exactly with the descriptions, portraits and bustB of the admiral. The linen Is In good condition. One ar ticle bears an Initial, either "J' or an inverted "P." Burled la Leaden Coflln. The body waa carefully packed. The limbs were wrapped In tinfoil, presumably for sea transportation, as indicated in a letter of the admiral's nearest friend and a pallbearer of his funeral, Colonel Blackden, who said: Ills body waa put in a leaden coffin, so that ia case the United States, which he had so essentially served, should claim his remains, they might be more easily re moved. Finding that all the internal organs were singularly well preserved the doctors made an autopsy, which showed distinct proofs of the disease from which the admiral Is known to have died. The Identification waa pronounced complete in every particular. Care has been taken to keep the body In its present state of preservation. It will be placed In a handsome casket and de posited In the receiving vault of the Amer ican church on the .Avenue de I. 'Alma until the ambassador can learn the opinion of the government concerning the most appro priate means of transporting it to the United States and giving a fitting sepulture to the body of the illustrious sailor whose place of burial had so long remained a mystery. Final Interment at Arlington. WASHINGTON, April 14. Ambassador Porter's dispatch announcing the finding of the body of John Paul Jones reached the State department tonight. It was of con siderable length. In the State department code and will not be deciphered until to morrow. Just enough of it, however, was deciphered tonight to confirm the press re ports of the finding of the body. There is genuine satisfaction among the officials at Washington that the untiring efforts of Ambassador Porter have been crowned with success. It Is probable that a recommendation will be made U congress at its next session looking to his reimburse ment. The remolnB of John Paul Jones ara to be brought here and interred In the Na tional cemetery at Arlington, and It Is likely that the transfer will be made the occasion of an Interesting demonstration. It Is prob able that Secretary Morton will send a battleship to France to bring the body home. Commissioner's Assistants Sunlit Records In Office f Oeneral Freight Agent of." It '. TOrEKA. Kan., April I4.-Commlsslonr of Corporations Garfield spent the day tak ing evidence at the Santa Fe general offl ces here regarding the connection of that road with the Standard Oil company In the matter of rates on oil. He It coverng the same ground as the suit started by the oil producers against the Santa Fe, alleging conspiracy. Mr. Garfield called on Mr. Koontz. general freight agent of the Santa Fe. today and asked him If he would allow a complete overhauling of the cempany's. records that touched .upon the point In question. M-. Koontz replied that he Sinia Ke had nothing to hide, nnd that Mr. Oar field or his men might have access to every freight tariff and reeurd they wanted to see. Mr. Garfield then put his assistants to work In the freight agent's office, nnd they are examining all the freight tariffs of the last five or six years In order to ar:tve at the exact truth of all of what the Santa Fe has been doing. It was announced that none of the Santa Fe officials would inter fere with the Investigation In any way. All they ask is that the inquiry be made In nn imptrtlal manner. This assured, they will do all In their power to assist the fed eral authorities. Commissioner Garfield refused to detail his movements for the next week. How ever, the work he has started upon In the Santa Fe offices will takn him several days to complete. SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON SHIP GRAIN DEALERS FIGHT BACK Kansas Attorney General Asked to Define Legal Statas of Farmers' National Exchange. TOPEKA. Kan.. April 14. Members of the State Grain Dealers' association have asked the attorney general for uu opinion as to the status of the National Farmers' ex change, the Immense combine of farmers which Is doing business in Kansas. This organization has subsidiary companies scattered over Kansas. Oklahoma. Ne. hraska and other states. It Is capitalized for t,V,nn0,ruO under tho laws of South Da kota, but It lias never been admitted to Kansas by the .state charter board. To get this authority would require a pay ment of about 10,000 into tha atata treasury. SALOON SMASHERS SENTENCED Mrs. Nation and Accomplices Riven Fines and Jail Terms at Wichita. WICHITA. Kan., April 14-In the district court today Carrie Nation, Myra McIIenry and Mra Lucy Wilholt were found guilty of destroying property and sentenced by Judge Wilson. Mrs. Nation was fined .&i and given four months in Jail; Mrs. Mc Henry two months and a hue of lift), and Mrs. Wllhoii twenty-five days in Jail and a fine of 1j0. Sentence was suspended pending good behavior. The offense was committed September last, when the three women broke the win dows of a wholesale liquor house. The women voluntarily surrendered Me time ago. BIG ILLUSTRATED FEATURES IN NEXT SUNDAY'S BEE I Slierlock I olmes Mystery The Adventure of the Golden Plncenes fully up to the standard of this remarkable series. 2 Busier Brown, Funmaker This Infant prodigy makes more fun than all the rest of the picto rial funmakers put together. 3 Six Men Die for Her Love LeartK'Ss beuuty in space of twelve mouths sends six suitors to their raves. 4100 '-ays to Break Your Neck Daring chances taken In the upmsemrnt profession at risk of uert'oriner's lite. 5 A Spanish Town Without Women It la all because 15D women have been imprisoned for sedition, leav ing all the work to the men. 6 Prettiest Chin la the World It belongs to a professional model and earns her I.TSki a year on ac count of its perfection. 7 Charity Employment for Rich Girls Solution offered for the problem of the wealthy daughter who does not have to work unless she wants to. 8 Most Unpopu'ar In List of Beasts It is the hyena which has the rep utatior of being rlie meanest ani mal ki own t i mall. 9 Whit ths Fas'er Rabbit Will Bring Foretaste ef tin novelties the slii.ps ore oferlnn to help celebrate, the coming t'astertide fittingly. 10 Ayesss, the Trailer Short Story A thrilling little tale of love and adventure bv Louis Beeke, author of "The Islund Wife." ' . on t?ayi Tree Whisky Means the as-Ml""1! of the Winnebigoes. RED MEN FORWARD A STRONG PROTEST Insist They Have Been Bobbed of Their Lands and Montr ' (lob bied Ip br the White peculators. President's Yacht Sjlpb. Tow of Merchantman After nn Explosion. NORFOLK. Va., Apr 14.-The Morgan line steamship. El Cld, "passed the Virginia capes today towing the president's yacht Sylph, aboarl of whlchjan explosion oc curred, seriously scalding two men. The El Cld towed the Sylph into Hamp ton Roads and Admiral Harrington, com manding the Norfolk navy yard, orde.-ed a naval tug to proceed at once to tow tho vacht to Norfolk. The Sylph waa at tho time of the accident on Its way to its regular station at Washington from Florida waters, where It recently had aboard Mrs. Roosevelt and her children. Mrs. Roose velt and party, howevev, left the Sylph at Jacksonville and proceeded to Washington some days ago. The Sylph on sighting the El Cld at sea gave signals of distress and the Morgan liner immediately went to Its assistance ar.d towed It Into harbor. The Sylph arrived ftt the Norfolk navy yard this afternoon in tow of the naval tug Mohawk. The vessel Is not badly dam aged, but its boilers re" r:salilod as the result of the blowing fut of two tubes while the yacht was In storm in the gulf stream near Cape Hutteras on Wednesday afternoon. The two Injured men will re cover. STRANGE PLAGUE IN NEVADA People at Tonopt.1. X -e Dying; at Bate . of from o Twenty RENO. New, April 14 Hundreds of peo ple flocked Into Reno on the Virginia and Truckee train tonight, fleeing from a sick ness now prevalent at Tonopah. Every train for a week has been crowded. Governor Sparks tomorrow will nppolnt a special medical commission and send the members to Tonopah. These men will co-yoperate with the physicians of the camp and at once begin a campaign to check the disease that Is mowing down people nt the rate of from five to twenty-five each day. Yesterday twelve bodies were stretched on slabs In the only undertaking establishment In the camp. An equal num ber at least were dead around the town. The disease strikes without warning. The healthy are the moBt susceptible and in from twelve to twenty-four hours are dead, the bodies blackened by the myste rious poison that saps their lives away. fFrom Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, April 14-tSpttlal Tele gram.) 11. G. Wilson, bonded school su perintendent of the Wlnnebagoes, arrived In Washington today on matters before officials of tho Indian bureau and expects to return home within a few days. I'pon his return he will Install his successor, W. A. McFatrldge, and this having been ac complished will start for Klamath, Ore., having recently been appointed bonded school superintendent of the Klamath schools. Mr. Wilson, In speaking of the conditions on the Winnebago reservation respecting the sale' of liquors, said that during the recent months there had been much less drinking. The recent decision of the su preme court, however, holding there Is no law to prevent the Winnebago or other Indians who holds 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." Indians File Protest. The Wlnnebagoes have filed a protest with the secretary of the Interior and commissioner of Indian affairs of the man ner 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 Wlnnebagoes declare their lands, which have apparently been sold by them have been taker, away fraudulently. Mem bers of the tribe, they assert, have been forced to sign blank papers they knew nothing about, checks they have received have been taken from them by force or ofTset by enormous whisky bills; their agents have falsified Itemized accounts they sent to the department, and during the last three months have ridden all over the reservation getting signatures from In dians to papers which enabled the specu lators to get hold of their property. The climax, they charge, came when their agent himself handed to speculators direct the government checks, money belonging to the Indians to pay fraudulent debts and whisky notes of Indians without investigation or hearing and without the knowledge and consent of the Indians. The complaint Is transmltteed by Phillip Long, a Winnebago, and Is signed by more than 100 of his tribes men. Some jof the names attached are Red Legs, Charles Earth, George Long tall, Louis Grayhalr, Green Rainbow, Pet Snake. Two Buffalobead, South Wind. Big Tree. Walking Day, George Whltewing and Green Hair. . .-Little Chance tox lwr. - - tMtrsVhgWslriiafi-'KTrlH'aTa eifn' sliotf further cause why the Sidney land office should not be discontinued an executive order will soon be drawn, providing for Its discontinuance and be In readiness to be submitted to the president for his approval upon his return from the west. Commis sioner Richards has written Congressman Klnkald to notify him of the contemplated abolition of the Sidney office. This letter Is a mere act of courtesy to the congress man. It does not, however, appear that the most earnest pleading on the part of Klnkald can now prevent the affairs of the Sidney land office from being wound up. Oeneral Cowln Goes Sonth. Oneral J. C. Cowln of Omaha, who Is Just recovering from a severe attack of grippe and nervous prostration, is In Wash ington on his way south. General Cowln paid he had no objective point in view. He needed rest and thought he might find it in a more salubrious climate than Ne braska. "Nebraska's climate Is good for sturdy people, but you need something more equitable when you are sick." General C. F. Manderson Is in Washing ton on legal business. Postal Mnttcrs. Iowa postmasters appointed: Sherman, Hardin county, John J. Ellerbrook, vice Marie J. Schmedlka, resigned; Troy, Davis county, George E. Roby, vice H. W. Weycr, resigned; Verdi, Washington county, Maud E. Green, vice T. E. McMillan, resigned. Forecast for Xebraaka Fair nnd t n Cold Sntnrdnr.- Hanilar Fair and Warmer. Pnae. 1 Snow Vnv ftpnll President's nort. Hod y nf John Pan! .Tines Is Fnnnd. Free Whlk.r Will Itnfn In-Mnns. Itnsslnn Army Again In Itrtrrnt. 3 Inillcl mcnt of Parkers F.xpccted. I.lltlc Hon.. of F.nlnsr Strike. Russians Fear Revolt on Mny Day. 3 Snow Fftll .Ml Over ebrnka. Railroads Flll-gr Properly Reports rws from All t'rts of ebraka. 4 t'nptnred Robbers dmlt finllt. F.vrnts at Omaha Playhouses. fl Loral llrnler liaise Meat Prices. Ware amrd to Succeed Uruel. City Mtlnatlon tinoil for Lawyers. 6 Mnsarn I'nrnrlte for F.ndlnsT Life. W atcr Snpply of City of ew York. T Rnslncss for Qunitrr Shows Well. Free Ilnreno Sends tint Laborers. H SflrrliiK limes with John I. f One Chinaman la Ordered Home. tn Editorial. 11 Affairs at South Omaha. Elevators for County Coort Hons. 12 Opening of Rune nail Season. Commercial Review of the, Week. 13 Financial and Commercial. 1(1 Council ItlnlTn nnd town Kewa. Gossip of Ilia I nlon Pacific Merger. Temperature at Omaha Y'esterdnyt Hour. Ilea;. fi a. ni Si) 41 a. m 20 T a. m Jin R a. in 27 f a. m 20 10 a. ni 84 11 a. m an 12 m. . , 44 Hoar. 1 p. m. 2 p. m . 3 p. ni, 4 p. m . R p. m . O p. m. T p. m. 8 p. m. O p. m. i . . . . i . . . . Dear. . . 4U . . 42 . . 44 . . 42 .. 34 2 H2 32 2 CASE OF JUSTICE HOOKER Action of Sew York Supreme Court Jurist Denounced la Sensational Terms by Prosecutor. ALBANY, N Y., April 14 In vehement and scathing terms, the alleged acts of former Congressman Warren B. Hooker of Frcclonla, now a Justice of the supreme court. In connection with appointments. rental matters and certain litigation af fecting the postoffloes at Fredonla and Dunkirk, Chautauqua county, were char acterised before the assembly Judiciary committee today by Frank W. Stevens, representing especially the Jamestown Bar association, but speaking as counsel for all the bar associations which have participated In the Investigation of the conduct of Justice Hooker. Mr. Stevens, who began yesterday, occupied the entire day today. The committee 'adjourned today until next Wednesday, when arguments for Justice Hooker will be resumed. A reso lution will be presented In the assembly probably. Monday night extending the time for the committee to report on the case until Thursday, April 27. The sensational sjwech of Mr. Stevens for the Bar association began at the out set of the session. He said: The government at Washington in this case was George W. Beavers. He was the man whofiassed upon tne requests of Judge Hooker- They .re .close, intimate friends. Op leiirfr at er'- Mter we find the word "personal." hi' on letter we find Hooker eiiuslvely thanking Beavers for favors. A Justice of the supreme court thanking a public officer for favors, you find that every time Hooker makes a request of Beavers It is granted without a word; no Inquiry made; absolutely no question raised. Hooker shows a moral unfitness of somo kind; a weakness In that armor with which every Justice of the supreme court should be clothod. JOE JEFFERSON IS DYING Family of the Distinguished Actor Assembled About Ills Bedside Ex pect Death at Any Minute. WEST PALM BEACH. Fla., April 14. Joseph Jefferson lies critically HI at his winter residence at Palm Beach. His con dition thlr afternoon, reported by his at tending physician. Dr. R. B. Potter, is lit tle If any improved. He Is surrounded by his family and they are prepared to expect death at any minute. Three weeks ngo Mr. Jefferson visited ex President Cleveland at Hobe Sound, where he caught cold, and on his return to Palm RUSSIANS ON Till- RUN Tokio Report Soys Main Body of Csat'l Army is Now at Kino. i i i REAR GUARD PROTECTS RETRE Japanese Advance in Constant Tonch with Enemy at Several Poin'.a. REPORT OF NAVAL ENGAGEMENT DENIE0 Officials 8ay Report of Sea Fight Off Saigon is Without Foundation. WOUNDED MEN ON THE HOSPITAL SHIP Amrrlmn Admiral at Manila Rccelva Report from saigas Itrgardlnsj Rojestvrnaky'a Yessel In the French Port. TOKIO, April 14. It is reported that tha main force of the Russians, which retired In the direction of Hsingklng, has reached Klrln. The rear guard, which Is estimated nt i:,0iX men, continues In tho vicinity of Harlungoheng, closely In touch with tha Japanese vanguard. The main force, which retired from Kalyuan over the Klrln road, Is reported at Klrln, with a rear guard of 8,000 men, nt Itsuchow, Hakltisu nnd at Sulipao, keeping In touch with the Japa nese forces. Changchen is evidently the rallying point for the Changtu and Fakumon forces. Although a force, estimated at 13,Oti0 men, has been detailed to occupy Fenchua, and 3,o0i) to hold Pamtenoheng. the lattor force seems assigned to check and retard the Japanese advance. The imperial ordinance which declares Mako harbor, on the Pescalores Islands, lit a atate of siege, becomes operative today. Noon. The naval department pronounces the reports of a naval cgngagement re cently off Saigon to be unfounded. 3 p. m. The following official announce ment was made today: Our force advancing eastward via the Fushun and Hallung road encountered and defeated the enemy on the morning of the l-th at Erhoiilu, seven miles east of Ylng pan. The enemy's strength was one regi ment of Infantry, six squadrons of cavalry and four guns. Our force then occupied Tsangshl, about nineteen miles east of Ylngpan. Tho enemy, In retreating toward Hallung, fought at every step. The enemy on the Klrln road has gradu ally retreated since the 11th, a portion of this force stll lremalnlng to bar the passage of the Yushu river. No change has occurred In the Changtu or Fahkmen districts, except occasional cavalry skirmishes. Wounded Men on Hospital Ship. MANILA, April 14. Rear Admiral Train, in command of the American fleet in Asiatic waters, received a telegram at I o'clock this afternoon from Balgon, the capital and principal port of French Cochin-China, reporting the arrival there of the Russian hospital ship Orel at K o'clock on the morning of April 13. The Orel had many wounded men on board. SAIGON, Cochin China.Aprll 14 The Rus sian hospital ship Orel has sailed. It re mained here thirty-six hours and took aboard OOO tons of coal, as well aa sup plies of provUiloim and medicines. Cruiser Raleigh Leaves Borneo. LABCAN, British Borneo, April 14.-The United States cruiser Raleigh sailed north ward today. Its destination Is unknown, gtoessel Trial Begins. ST. PETERSBURG, April 14. There Is no truth in the report from Cracow that Lieutenant General Stoessel had been as a formality condemned to deuth by the commission appointed to inquire into the surrender of Port Arthur. His trial only bean today. 4:23 p. m. The admiralty has not re ceived any dispatches recently from Vierf Admiral Rojestvcnsky. The officials say that - all talk of the emergence of any of the Interned Russian war vessels to Join Rojestvensky's squad ron is pure nonsense. Much satisfaction and admiration are ex pressed In naval circles at the bold, di rect manner In which Rojcstvensky Is car rying out tho objects of his voyage. The attitude of indifference in certain quarters of society' as to the outcome of the naval battle Is arouslrTg criticism and Prince Ouktomsky In his newspaper, tho Beach was forced to take to his bed. Ho convalesced and was up after a few days j pawrlj today takes society to task for Its unpatriotic, careless attitude. TO CONSIDER HOIADAHY H1VF.HS Special Committee Holds Its First Formal Meeting;. WASHINGTON, April 14. The president has appointed a special commission to deal with three Important questions which have arisen relative to the diversion and inter ference with the course of International rivers. This commission consists of Judge Penfieid, solicitor for the State department; Special Assistant Attorney General M. C. Burch and Prof. E. H. Newell of the geo logical survey, and has Just had its first meeting. All of the questions before the commis sion have formed tha subject of extensive correspondence between the State depart ment and Mexico on the south and the Dominion of Canada, as represented by Great Britain, on the north. On the south there Is the long standing controversy growing out of the damming of the Rio Grande and the use of the waters of the upper river for irrigating purposes In American territory to the injury of the I Mexican farmers on the right bank of the I river. The Mexicans claim that the Rio 1 firnnrie Is h navlaable river and conse quently that this diversion of the water is In violation of International law. To the westward the commission la to dealwlth the Colorado river, where the upper waters. In American territory, also are about to be diverted, to the losses of the Mexican ranches In Lower California. On the north, the Milk river projects In Montana have alarmod the Canadians. Arising In tha United States, this river flows into Canada and back again Into Montana. The Canadians have been mak ing large use of the waters on their side, which has led to a project by the 'people of Montana to cut out the entire bend In the river on the Canadian side by a canal, the effect of which would be to completely deprive the Canadians of water. The commission will have to deal with some entirely new questions of Interna tional law relative to riparian rlgiitt. confinement, when Monday he was seized with a relapse. Dr. S. G. Worley was called from St. Augustine, but returned Thursday when Mr. Jefferson showed some Improvement. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 14. Infor mation from West Palm Beach at 10:30 Likes American Action. Dispatches from Washington showing that Japan officially notified th United Slates when the rupture with Russia oc curred that no uct of hostility would take I . .11 .. nH.n ..n.. . M tonight is to the effect that Joe Jefferson j J"" u"1" '""""' War nuU UCCII Ill.li.vi cn a iiunim lie broke out Februnry 8 und the declaration of war was not formully made until February, is resting easy. He Is somewhat Improved today und hopes are now entertained for his recovery. 'FRISCO BUYS INTO NASHVILLE Another Direct Line from Center of South to Gruin Fields of West and Northwest. lo, attract much attention here. Although the dispatches arrived too late for news paper comment this morning there Is con siderable speculation as to the cause of the publication of the statement at this time. It Is regarded aa a friendly manifestation toward Russia on the part of the United States, Russia always having contended that the statement of M. Kurlno, former Japanese minister at St. Petersburg, to Foreign Minister Ijimsdorff when he pre sented the note severing diplomatic rela tions, In which he expressed the hope that NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 14. Through the purchase of the Tenneasee Central rail road, the St. Louis & San Francisco (the 'Frisco) railroad system Is to secure an entrance Into Nashville. Such is the story ! resulting from the presence here today of ; tn9 rupture was only temporary, gave Rus- A. J. Davidson, president of the 'Frisco; i ea no reason to anticipate an attack with- B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the 'Frisco ollt warning In the shape of a declaration executive board, and J. C. VanBlarcom, of wnr. president of the Tennessee Central. No. Ko Wounded Mentioned, details were announced, but members of j 8.,5 m.The admiralty's advices from the visitors admitted that In future prob- SnlKOn do not mention any wounded men ably by May 11. the Tennessee Central : hpA on bo;ir(J th RuHlan hospital ship would probably he a 'Frisco road. This i 0r(,, wh(.h arrlV(H, thrre y,terday. It probably means another direct road from j obably bas glrk Fal!ors on board. Nashville to St. Louis and Chicago, as well I .. . lllu1r.r.lood ,ha, the Orel will leave : as to the grain fields of the west and north- i Bal)?on nt nre Dna reJ(1n Admiral Ro i west. 1 in.,.,.n.Lv'B u.niiidron. which. It Is said. may be standing off somewhere up the roast awaitl lg the hospital ship. Russian troops have successfully raided the railroad in the direction of Kalyuan, about twenty miles north of Tic Pass. A dlsoatch from General Llnevltch, dated April IS. to Emperor Nicholas, says: .Qv.lrv Ariril D rlestroved the i-Aflrnml BUTTE. Mont., April 14. A telephone qh wlr near Ynkutzu and between message from the Five-Mile House, on the Kalyuan and ''hangtu, and April 10 th flat, below Butte, states that F. Augustus ' r-lry cut the telegraph line near Kai Helnze and a touring party of four persons U" gormlse as to Shins. ACCIDENT TO COPPER KING Tonrlna r of F. Augustus Helnse Collides with a Wagon Near Butte, Mont. have met with a serious accident, Helnze's BERLIN, April 11. Admiral Rojest- car having collided with a wagon. Ambu- j ven8hy., ,qlladron Is believed by the In lances are now on their way In response to , .,,.. division of the German navy de. hurried calls. j to t,e lying off the Cuyos Islands, n,nA a, nth rt Mtnrtnrrt Iiklllt.nlnu Movements of Orcan Vessels April 14. ,SM1 ' ., . . , ' .u .... ... .... , Islands. rroa Ing and preparing for the At New York-Arrived: I Sivole, from 1 ' . ,. , .,. ,, ' .... , Havie: IVrusla. from Nanl.s: l.uranla. last stage of Its long voyage. Although j from Liverpool. : theso Islands belong to ti.o United States, i ai i. vertioei .rnveo torintman. rr. m Will Intestinal Railroad. SPRINGFIELD. III.. April It -Hy a vote of t',1 to 21 tl.e Illinois house of representa tives today killed the Manny resolution providing for an Investigation of the Illinois Central Railway. The vote came on mstslnlng the speaker's ruling that the resolution was out of order on tne ground that the constitution placed the power In toe hands of the governor. The repub licans voted slmost solidly to sustain the i spraker, while the democratic vote was split. . .M'W o'K i ym'ic. irom isosun. nu'"ii: ., ,, ,. i j . ,. . Arable, for New York; Mongolian, for Nw three-mile limit, with hard bottom ut they have fine anehoraKes oiislde the Yor!:. ! At Dover-Sailed: Peutseliland, for New ! York. At Queeiistown A rri ved : Campanlan, I from New in k At Glasgnw- ilkd: Mongolian, for New I twenty o thirty lainum. i n i.erm ni navy il partnu-nt re -e!veil in a telegram today from one of the llu'-l lii.liari port 'an indication that the Russians while off York: HutiK.irim for Montreal, At Naplrs Arrived: Slavonia, from New York for Kieume. At Bremen At rived; Caasatt, from Bal timore. At Movllle B.flled: Tunisian, for Hallfsv the soul hem end of Cochin China April 11, changed their course and headed on a course which would bring them to the Cuyos Islands, In the northern part of the Sulu sea, Ui miles distant, In four dava