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Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25
DECIDE UPON TRAIN SCHEDULE.
Illinois Central VIII Have Three
Trains Daily In and Out of Omaha.

Illinois Central VIII Have Three
Trains Daily In and Out of Omaha.
The officials of the Illinois Central have
virtually transferred the base of their OPP
e%rations from headquarters at Chicago to
Omaha during the last few days. Nearly all
OF the highest official representatives of the
road have either been here or are now OIL
the ground arranging for the Inauguration
of passenger service into Omaha.
Second Vice President J. T. Harahan and
j. G. Hartigan. assistant general superin-
tendent of northern and western lines, were
joined in Omaha yesterday by A. H. Hanson,
general passenger agent, and after confer
ring with General Manager Dickinson and
Superintendent Baxter of the Union Pacific
and General Manager Webster of the Omaha
Bridge and Terminal company, the schedule
Of passenger trains into the new union sta
ton was agreed upon.
The through Chicago-Omaha service will
in reality be inaugurated Sunday, when the
first train destined to Omaha will leave Chi
cago. The initial service in Omaha. how
ever, will begin Monday next. The first ILL
nois Central passenger train will cross the
terminal bridge from Council Bluffs and
reach the union station in this city at SIS
Monday morning. Prior to the arrival OF
this train the st. Paul limited express will
leave Omaha at 7 a. m, connecting at Fort
Dodge with the tracks of the MINNEAPOLIS
G. st. Louis, and will run through to Mime
apolis and st. Paul without change. At
1910 the Chicago train will leave Omaha,
arriving at Chicago the next morning about
Z o'clock. This train will do all the local
work between Omaha and Chicago.
The train which District Passenger Agent
Brill charaCterizes as ''our swell train" will
leave Omaha in the evening at 7:35 and will
have through coS ches and s~leepers for st.
Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago. This train
will be a model Of beauty, it's equipment
having been turned out by the Pullman
company. It's time will be, according to the
statement of General Passenger Agent HaA-
son, as good as the best, and it's service un-
equaled. At the beginning the Illinois Cen
trail will have three trains each way between
Chicago, Minneapolis and st. Paul daily.
This service Will be enlarged at any time
that the increased patronage ~justifies an ex-
pansion of service. In addition a local pas
senger train will run daily between Fort
Dodge and Council Bluffs, leaving the latter
station at 4:30 in the afternoon.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25
Catholic Parish libraries

1t will be of special interest to Protestant
readers, not fully Informed concerning
methods Of work in Roman Catholic par
ishes, to learn that one of the most vital
forces in those parishes is the free circuIat-
ing library. Poor is the church that has
not from one to 500 books in circulation.
There were few free libraries for children
in New York City thirty years ago, when
Father Hecker, the founder of the Paulist
Order, opened one in his parish. A lover of
good literature he had intense sympathy
with children in need of books and without
the means to buy them. He located the
library in the vestibule OF his church and
literally supplied the necessary funds. To-
day the Paulist Sunday school has 5000
volumes. No expense is spared to get the
best books. The object kept in view is to
provide for the Intellectual needs not only
of the little children attending school. but
also to encourage the love for good reading
among the young folks. The system in
augurated by Father Hecker is still In prac-
tice, Library cards, flushed on one side
with white ~silicate, are arranged. contain
Ing fifteen books, of which ten are Sc
lected from writer's Of fiction and FIVE from
biography, history or entertaining books of
adventure and travel, At least one book
devoted 10 the life Of a saint, or some ex-
planation OF religious truth, Is assigned to
each set. These cards, with the titles OF
fifteen books, are distributed and scholars
make a choice. By the aid Of a number for
each book the librarian easily keeps account.
For the return of the books every two weeks
the class Is held accountable as we'll as the
individuals,
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25
STATE FAIR BUILDINGS SOLD
Auction Sale Held for the Benefit Of the
Holders Of Bonds,
STRUCTURES BRING SATISFACTORY PRICE
several Hundred Persons Attend the
sale. Which Lasts from Morning
NTH tftcrnoon-Somc RcsCr-
NntionS Arc Made.

Tho buildings ON the north eighty acres
OF tho grounds owned by the Omaha Fair
and Speed association we're sold at public
auction Wednesday. The sale was for the
benefit Of the bondholders. Several hundred
persons attended the auction and the build
iEgs brought satisfactory prices. The ag-
gregatc results of the sale amount TO $7.1O0.
Those who registered bids we're mostly
contractors and others engaged in building
pursuits. The land on which the buildings
were situated was reserved and the struc-
lures will be wrecked and carted away.
Some OF the material is said to be valuable
and is in such shape that it can readily be
used in the construction Of new buildings.
John Wakefield acted as auctioneer and
T.. G.. solomon was clerk. Thu sale began
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and lasted
Until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. All the
buildings on the south eighty acres of the
grounds we're reserved.
A trust company is trustee for the build
ings thus sold and the arrangements brought
about by the sale are said to be entirely sat
isractory to those most intimately con-
cerned. The buildings, some OF which were
mere or less pretentious, were sold one by
one and as the bidding on some OF them
was rather sharp the sale was prolonged be-
You'd the period at first expected.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25
JEFFRIES TO BEGIN TRAINING
ob5moion Going to Hot Springs for His
Preliminary Work,
MARCH IS DATE FOR BOUT WITH CoRBEtT
Brady Receives Proposition from the
Paris Hippodromc-Mnny Active
iddcr for Boxing Com
~tcsts-Opcn bids Feb. I.

NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-At a meeting today
tween representatives of James j. Cor
bctt and James j. Jeffries 10 was decided 10
set February ! as the closing day for the
bids by the clubs for the boxing contest be
tween these two men for the championship
Of the world. Bids must be made, sealed, 70
Al Smith at the Gilsey house, and will not
be opened until 6 o'clock on the evening OF
February 1. The Coney Island Athletic CLUB
Broadway club, Utica, Buffalo and san
Francisco clubs will all be active bidders for
the bout.
william A. Brady has received a PROPOSE
ton from the Paris Hippodrome Offering a
percentage, with a guarantee Of 10000
francs. for the contest to take place in Paris
during the month of July or August, If 1t Is
possible to arrange with the men to post
pone 1t until that date. As both Corbett ana
Jefrries are anxious TO have the bout take
place on the date sclectcd-March bit is
probable that the Partisan offes may be over
looked.
Jeffries intends, in case of a victory over
Corbett. to 20 to Paris next summer and
take on somebody in that city for the
championship.
Jeffrles will start for Hot Springs next
Monday. where he will his pre-
liminary work. He will stay there about
three weeks and finish UP at his old training
quarters at A%llenhurst, n. J.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25
CLEVELAND TO JOIN WESTERN
Closcd-Nntionnl League SUR
renders Franchise.

CLEVELAND. O., Jan. 2i-Tn spite OF
elaborate attempts TO preserve secrecy
President Ban Johnson Of the Western
Base Ban league was found and corncred
this afternoon by the Associated Press cor
respondent as he was about to leave the
city for Indianapolis. When questioned
about the secret base ball conference that
has been supposed TO be going on in Clevo-
land during The las. two days he laughed
and made a clean breast Of ii.
According to his statements the National
league has surrendered Cleveland to the
Western league, although the agreement
has not ye' been reduced to writing and
signed. \ company is already being formed
in Cleveland to purchase the present Ma
tional league club from Robson and go
into the Western league. The present
team will be done away with entirely and
Mr.. johnson sad a new one will be formed
of the best material available and the game
doomed in Cleveland.
Mr., johnson said these arrangements had
been made at a conference with Messrs,
Brush, Robson, SCden and Rogers.
According to Mr.. Johnson Louisville will
not be taken into the Western league, 1t
being considered that base ball cannot be
successful south of the Ohio river under
present conditions.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25
FlTCHBuRG BONDS ARE SOLD
Governor Approves Sale of states
Interest in Road to nOstOn
a. Maine.

BOSTON. Jan. 2I.-The legislature willing.
within the next six months the Fitchburg
railroad, one of the great transportation
lines of New England, which for twenty-five
years has been practically under the control
Of the commonwealth of Massachusetts,, will
become a part of the Boston & Maine rail
road and will, if the hopes of Governor
Crane and his council, who sanctioned the
transfer are fulfilled, prove of the greatest
benefit to the city and port of Boston as
well as to the state itself.
An offer was made today to the governor
for the $4,000 shares Of the common stock
of the road, which the state has held as
security for the cash advanced in the build
ing of the Hocsac tunnel. and after OBJ
tanning the approval of the council the gov
ernor consented to sell the stock and take
in payment $4,000, coo in 3 per cent, fifty
year gold bonds of the Boston q Maine rail
road. The Legislature must approve of this
sale and the subsequent lease to make them
binding.
In view of the proposed lease of the Bos-
ton & Albany to the New York Central,
which is also before the legislature for APP
proval, the action of the governor and coun-
Gil today is generally regarded as a shrewd
business move, although there is some
uOuDJ MuttuSI Inb Selllnb VI lne SUCK Is
contrary to act of the legislature passed
seven years ago, which contemplates keep
ing the stock in the possession of the COM
monwealth and not giving it up to a rival
road.
In brief, the state trustees, backed by the
governor and council. have succeeded in
obtaining par for stock which only a week
ago was quoted at so and have substituted
for a non-dividend paying security bonds
paying a yearly interest of 3 per cent.
Whether the governor or council had the
right to make such a transaction remains
for the legislature to say, but tonight it is
generally conceded that the action will be
ratified by the general court.
Ratification of the sale and the lease will
not be made without opposition. 1t is said
that the New York Central not a long time
ago attempted to gain control of the Fitch
burg and it was intimated this afternoon
that the Boston & Albany interests might
oppose the Fitchburg, Boston & Maine
lease.
There is every indication that railroad
matters will be the principal feature of
the present session, as indicated by the in
terest taken today in the first hearing be-
fore the committee on the railroad propo-
sition OF the socialist representatives for
absorption of the Fitchburg road by the
ctetn
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25
AUTHORS OF KAFFIRGRAMs.
"Thc Zulu Telegraph" in the South
African Wnr.

Cecil Rhodes boast that he is as safe as
he would be in Piccadilly is said to be liter
ally true by those who know how strong
the Diamond Capital is in armed men and
natural defenses. | think it more than likely.
writes Julian Ralph in Golfers Weekly,
that the imprisoned folk in both these places
are more anxious about Ladysmith in Natal
than they are about their own fortunes, for
the native runners keep them informed and
they know that we are all expecting to hear
OF a third great battle in Natal, where the
rocky hills provide the fighting ground
which the Beers love-not best, as l was
going to say, but exclusively; for any other
sort of battle-ground they abominate and
sheer as clear of as they can.
The native runners of whom l speak are
the Kafirs on this side and the Basutos and
Zulus of the east coast. Since | have never
heard of such messengers anywhere else, I
think 1t probable that they are the most
wonderful of the kind in the world. They
are capable of running almost as far as our
Indians, who have been known to cover 100
miles in twenty-four hours; but it is not
by running that they do either the most or
the best of their work. This they do by
shouting their messages from hill to hill-a
far speedier medium of communication than
leg work. In previous wars between the ma
tives and either the British or the Beers il
often happened that the first news of notable
engagements was gained from the natives In
Capetown, Durham, Port Elizabeth and such
places. In this war the result of the battle
of Glencoe reached Capetown nearly forty
eight hours before the overburdened tele-
graph wires brought 1t to the newspapers.
1t TRANSFERRED, as it always does, in the gos-
sip of the negroes among themselves. They
do not go to either the authorities or the
newspapers with the information which flies
to their ears over half a continent. White
men overhear them talking at their work
and question them. At first, when they
heard the negroes say their news was
''cried" or ''hollered' to them, they made
light of IT.: but today they value 1t as highly
as you may imagine when you know that It
has never proved untrustworthy, The first
news Of the battle of Glencoe which reached
England and America came to Capetown in
this way and was forwarded on the cable
by an Euglishman who did not dare TO vouch
for It because he had been but nine days in
Africa and did not know the value of run
ners' stories" The reason why such stories
are reliable Is that whatever message Is
given by a native negro is never altered by
anyone who forwards it. though it may be
passed along by 1000 men. The precise
words that are uttered by the first man are
the Identical ones which the last one hears,
White men have often tested this by sending
messages in this way, and no one has ever
known the message delivered TO have been
exaggerated, diminished or altered in the
slightest degree.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25
Aberdeen wants the 500" Line.

ABERDEEN, s. D., Jan. 24.-(Special.)-
Business men of Aberdeen are agitating the
question Of getting the 500" line to build
here. A committee will visit the officials
of that line and urge the matter. The 500
OWNS the old grade between Aberdeen and
Bismarck and has ironed quite a portion of
it from Wishek northwest. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY expected the line will be pushed on
to Bismarck during the coming summer.
BY utilizing the Washburn road easy ac-
cess to the coal fields of North Dakota can
be had. This means a great deal to Aber-
deem and South Dakota and is one great
inducement for striving to secure this new
line of road. A large and productive area OF
new country would also be made directly
tributary to this city.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25
ASSOCIATIONS CLUB IN BALTIMORE.
NcGrnw VIII probably Re Manager
or the New Team.

BALTIMORE, Nd. Jan. 2i.-lt was an
nounced today that the meeting of capital
ists who will subscribe $4,000 to form an
American association base ball club in Bal
timore will be held on Friday. There are
ten gentlemen interested in the project and
many times $4,000 could be secured from
them for the purpose If 1t We're d"enled
necessary. The subscriptions VIII pc pald
in on Friday. officers elected and incor-
p]orators named.
Next on the program VIII he the sclecthoh
of a manager and ii is agreed that MCliraw
will be the unanimous choice. Immediately
after assuming charge McGraw, who, 1t IS
said, will be given carte blanche to get to-
gether a winning team, will begin his prep
a~rationS for the 1900 season. Perhaps the
most difficult problem will be the selection
of grounds. Options have been secured on
several sites, It Is said, and There is little
apprehension that those selected will prove
both desirable and accessible.
Before leaving town today for Washing
ton, where he went on association business,
that an association would be organized in
Philadelphia in a day or two. There is
great enthusiasm in all parts of the east
over the project, he continued, and he feels
assured tina. the association will be sue
Cessful from the sound of the bell. As to
the players. he asserted, there would be
plenty to pick from. AS a rule the players
had no love for the league, and while the
association would respect the rule, insofar
as it related to a player under contract
with another organization, he thought that
many players would not sign their 1900 con-
tracts with the league until forced to do so.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2i.-Rosults:
First race. selling. one mile: Yubadnm
won, Barataria second, Free Lady third.
Time: 1:42.
won, Turney second, DR.. Fannie third.
Time: 1:29l2.
Third race, handicap, steepleChasc, short
course: Cheesemilte won, Brakeman sec
ond. Van Brunt third. Time: 800.
Fourth race, Premier stakes, 2-year-olds,
three furlongS:, sad Sam won, Buda sec
ond. Choice third. Time: 0:3Sh.
Fifth race. handicap. one mile: Miss Mae
Day won, Tom Middleton second, Compen-
sation third. Time: 1:4O12.
Sixth race, selling. one mile: Rodd won.
Elderim second, Cathedral third. Time:
1:42.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2i.-Weather
cloudy, track fast. Oakland results:
First race, six furlongs, selling: Pongo
won. Viorls second, Tim Toolin third.
Time: 1:14A.
Second race. seven furlongs, selling; Pat
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25
RUMOR GIVEN NO CREDENCE
Little Possibility of Northwestern Leasing
Union Pacific System,
PLANS OF The REPORTED CoNFEREfs
President Hughitt IL said TO Have
Ohered Terms tn chairman Hnr-
rininn of Union Pacific
ROnrd of Directors.

But little credence is given by Union Pa
cifc officials in Omaha to a rumor originat-
ing in New York to the effect that a move
ment is on foot looking to the arrangement
Of terms for the leasing Of the Union Pa
cifc system by the Chicago & Northwestern
1t is reported that conferences between Of
hcials Of the Northwestern and the Union
Pacific have been held in both Chicago and
New York during the past six weeks re-
lative to this matter.
From certain sources the information
comes that the practical amalgamation,
however, of the two systems will take place
within a short time. 1t is said that f. H..
Hartman, representing the Union Pacific
as the chairman of its board of directors, and
President Marvin Hughitt of the North
western, have been the conferees in this
matter and that the Northwestern has Of
fered to lease the Union Pacific system in
it's entirety OH the following terms:
The Northwestern to guarantee 4 per cent
per annum on the s75, 900, 900 of preferred
stock outstanding for ninety-nine years and
to offer in exchange for the present outstand-
ing Union Pacific common stock to the
amount of SIS, 400, 100 ninety-nine year 31a
per cent gold collateral trust bonds, to be
exchanged on a basis of one bond for each
two shares OF stock outstanding.
1t is said that the common shareholders
are holding out for a guarantee OF 4 per cent
or the common stock, which now pays no
dividend, but in this connection it is stated
that the conferees are not so far apart but
that they may be able to adjust their diff
fer ences within the next sixty days. 1t is
reported that Messrs. Hartman and Hughitt
have full authority to act for William X.
Vanderbilt under the advice of j. Pierpont
Morgan.
While such a plan as this is looked upon
as absolutely impracticable by Union Pacific
officials it has, nevertheless, created much
interest at Union Pacific headquarters as
well as in other railway circles of Omaha.
A Union Pacific official, commenting upon
the matter, stated;
There may be some logic in this PROPOSE
ton, but it is not likely ever TO pass be-
yond the stage of speculation. 1t seems i'm
probable at this time for the reason that the
Union Pacific has just completed the alb
scrption of the Oregon Short Line and the
Oregon Railway and Navigation company
and is producing more revenue and greater
earnings at this time than ever before. AS
long as the system is in such a satisfactory
condition and the financial affairs so -four
ishing there is no reason why it should bar
ter away it's independence and its influence
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25

]. b. Berry, chief engineer of the Union
Pacific. leaves tonight for Chicago.
A. w. Trenholm. division superintendent
OF the Omaha road, will go to st. Paul this
evening.
c. c. Cary, commercial agent of the
Southern Pacific ait Kansas city, is an
visitor.
W. r. Comstock, travelling auditor of the
Illinois Central. has arrived from chicago 10
superintelld the establishment Of the new
ticket office at Fourteenth and Farnam
streets. A baggage car containing the
equipment of the new Office arrived yester-
day,
officials OF the Burlington are more than
Llbert Hubbard made 10 their Omaha depot
in his lecture Tuesday night. Mr.. Hubbard
said that he had only seen one building in
mis- life which eXcelled 1t I'm beauty and
praised il as the purcst type of Greek
architecture.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25

from Chicago. where he attended a meet
ing Of representative OF western lines. 1t
was agreed that c|olonist rates from territory
east Of the Missouri river should be APP
piled, via the Missouri river and Denver, 70
Spokane and points west on an omen basis,
using a fat rate instead OF the rebate plan,
In this way the traveller pays only the full
amount Of his ticket at the time OF pur-
chase, without making an additional de-
posit to be refunded at the point OF deSti-
nation by the rebate plan. Tho Montana
points the %colonist ratee, via tho Missouri
river and Denver, will be continued ON tho
rebate plan, with the exception Of the Bur
llngton's Billings line. TO points reached by
this line the open rate viii be applied as
formerly.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25

Improvement club was held Wednesday
evening in its hall a. Twenty-fourth and
LeaYcnworth streets. Ten new members
wero added. The principal discussion was
on the matter of the Twenty-fourth street
viaduct, There was a general feeling that
the work on the structure would
in the early summer and that before the
end of another year Twenty-fourth street
would furnish the chief route To South
Omaha. A standing committee, consisting
of Louis Peterson, D., w. Shull and T.. T..
Morearity, was appointed to bring the mat
ter OF defective sidewalks. catch basins,
etc, before the city council, with the re-
quest that hey be repaired.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25

Morrissey won, Monganus second, Croker
third. Time: 1;2Th.
Third race, five furlouEs, selling: Almer-
dral won, Bagdad second, Harry Thatcher
Third. Time: l.02ia.
Fourth race, one mile and one-cighth,
selling. R0sinantc won, POtentc second,
David Tcnny third. Time: 1852.
Film race, Futurity course, purse: Il. w.
Erode won, Alice Daugherty second, Bebee
third. Time: 11O.
Sixth race, selling, one mile: Del Paso
II won, TRADE second, Stuttgart third.
IImu. III.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25

NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-Th governors of
the New York Stock exchange m, today
and approved the listing of these securities:
New York, New Haven Il Hartford Rail
road company. $1,OO9,O0 0 additional capital
stock, making a total amount listed to date
of S3,SCS,6Go Sherman, Shreveport & South
ern railroad, Sl,l0),0W first mortgage fifty
year . per cent guaranteed gold coupon
company, $14, 1856 500 common stock and SIO.-
6O2,AOO ! per cent no~ncumulative preferred
stock. American Bread company, 81, 79s. 900
llrst mortgage tw~enty-year collateral trust
1918.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-25

Among a batch Of 'hohoes' at the police
station Is "A man the police have been look
ing for since January %. on THAI date NJ.
7. Hill was robbed In the Union Pacific
yards at Council Bluffs of a gold watch
and So by two men. An excellent descrip-
ton OF the men was given the police and
Hll stayed in the city for "A short time I'm
hopes they might be captured. Now thit
one OF the men Is arrested Hin Is nowhere
10 be found and the robbcr will be held
Whlle me officers go on a still hunt for the
man that was robbed.