Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-13
CUSTOMS HOUSE IS RUSHED
Foreign Exhibitors Hurry to Get Their Goods
Away from EXP ton.
GOVERNMENT WILL GO AFTER CHINESE
MonGoiians who Have Disappeared
viii he Looked Tn and sent Back
F~orecaster welsh Gets New
1nstrumeats.

Exhibitors from outside the country who
had displays at the exposition are rushing
their goods out OF the country, and the en-
ployes In the customs ONCE are kept on the
Jump making out the proper papers. The
Mexican and Hawaiian exhibits have already
gone, and the Canadian exhibits will leave
today. Many OF the smaller exhibits are
also about ready to be taken away. A great
portion OF the exhibits made by Mexico,
Canada, and Hawaii we're given away after
! the close OF the exposition as souvenirs. and
on these articles the government RENTED
| the duty which would have been In force
had the articles been sold. The High school
and Bellevue college were both benehciaries
Of these gifts.
The government is not going to sit idly
by and allow the country to absorb the
Cinnamon who were brought here for exhi-
+! bition purposes without taking some action
to drive the Mongolisns back to
their native cline. There were 63S Chinese
brought over on account OF the exposition
and all Of them reported at the exposition
grounds some time during the season, but
at the close Of the show less than a dozen
remained on the grounds, and these are
said to have been residents OF Chicago.
These people have ninety days after the
close Of the exposition in which to make
arrangements to return home. and after
that time has elapsed II they are still within
the United States they may be picked UP
and deported without ceremony. The Treas
ury department has tracers out after them,
and 1t Is believed that many Of them will be
identified in a short time. Forty Of them
were seen and identified in New York City
by customs ~oficials about a month ago.
Sixty Chinese who had been imported for
the Nashville exposition were identified at
Los Angeles about six weeks ago, and were
promptly taken In charge by the officers and
deported.
The customs office has received notice Of
the shipment of twenty-five cars of lead and
silver ores for the smelter in this city.
This is the largest single invoice the office
has ever received.
Weather Bureau Affairs.
/ The local weather bureau has been the
legatee Of many Of the valuable instruments
displayed In that portion Of the government
exhibit at the exposition. Among these is
an improved instrument shelter and certain
other instrument equipments, the transfer
being made In view OF the early removal OF
the weather once into the new postonRce
building, where 1t will have greater facili-
ties for the work under Its Jurisdiction.
Local Forecast Oficial Welsh is pleased
with the outlook for his new quarters, and
predicts he will have the finest weather office
| in the west. He will have four large rooms
which will be equipped with the best furni-
ture used in the bureau, and all new. All
Of his instruments will be arst-class and the
latest improved, furnishing him with every
facility for the proper prosecution OF his
work. The exposure for the instruments in
the new building will not be so good as that
In Tho ppoaoof location ood to xho% ~vka.k
win In a measure interfere with the accuracy
Of the work, but II the proposed west wing
to the building shall ever be built this de-
feet may possibly be remedied.
Mr.. Welsh has long had an ambition to
have . printing outfit attached to his ONCE
to be used In getting out the maps, and
printing the corn and wheat bulletins, and
such other matters as might be assigned to
his Office. When the weather office display
at the exposition was put In place, and Mr..
Welsh saw a printing outfit among the artl-
cles shown, he cast covetous eyes upon 1t,
and set about to have it assigned to his
Office at the close of the exposition. But as
the exposition progressed and he saw the
workings of the outfit. he became suspicious
Of 1t, and when the weather men assembled
here in convention, a number who had these
outfits warned Mr.. Welsh to leave them
severely alone, as with Jut material increase
In his office force he would find them
more Of a delight in anticipation than in ac-
tual possession. Accordingly the Omaha fore
caster cast aside his ambition, and allowed
others to secure the plum.
COngratulates The Rec.
I Speaking Of the corn and wheat bulletin
service which is conducted during the grow
ing season from the Omaha office. Mr.. Welsh
said it had become one Of the most popular
features Of the weather bureau work. He
said the prominence given these reports by
being published at the top Of the editorial
columns Of The Bee. and the accuracy and
completeness with which they had appeared,
had not only contributed largely to their
popularity. but had increased the Importance
OF the service. and he had received thou
sands Of inquiries about and favorable COM
ments upon the reports from several OF the
western states covered in the service.
Next to the Indian congress at the expo.
sition, the largest convention of the noble
red man will assemble in this city next
week, and the rendezvous will be at the old
postofhce building. There will be delegates
from all the reservations In Nebraska, and
they will be witnesses or defendants in
liquor cases where the bulge has been fur
nished the child OF the forest contrary to
the laws Of the nation and the peace and
dignity Of the community.
Postofnce Inspector Sinclair Is In the city
preparing his evidence in certain postonice
cases which he will bring before the federal
grand jury next week.
Letter Carrier Ernest F. Tyler Is now
taking his annual vacation Of two weeks, and
his place Is taken in the meantime by Sub