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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
MAY LOSE COW ENTION
EXCESSIVE RATEnpEMANDED By
CHICAGO AuD1rpR1ux HOTEL.
Postmaster Gensral Payne Wires sena-
tor Hanna and Says COMMITTEES
May Rescind It's Action.

number OF congressman have received
information frot1 Chicago to the effect
that the Auditorium Hotel in that city has
raised It's schedule OF prices to $40 a day
Tor the period Of the coming national re-
publican convention next June. The news
created a great deal of unfavorauie COM
ment. coming so close upon the heels of
the decision of the national committee to
hold the convention In Chicago, and came
quickly to the ears of Mr.. Henry C. Payne,
postmaster General, and prominent OFF,
ella! of the committee, who Immediately
took steps to verify the rumor.
May Call Netting.
Mr.. Payne IL Of the opinion that such &C.
ton on the part Of the hotels Of Chicago
would result in call for a meeting of the
nauonai committee to consider another
place for the convention. He telegraphed
Senator Hanna, who is in New York, to the
eject that the Auditorium Hotel had given
notice that Its prices during the convention
week would be raised four-fold, and that
he deemed 1t advisable for the committee
to take some action thereon.
A telegram of similar import was sent
70 the proprietor of the Auditorium, Mr..
Payne going so far as to say that his
information was correct he believed that
the action of the hotel would result in a
.AASSNAA.o " .AiS AotiOIldi TcpuUllCdA COHllMI-
tee, at which the decision to send the con-
ventton to Chicago would unquestionably
be rescinded.
Charge $40 Day.
The evidence referred to by the Postmas-
ter General Is telegram to a prominent
member of the House of Representatives
from one of the large hotels in response to
a request for reservation of room for the
three days of the convention. The rate
fixed was $40 day. and no reservation
would be made for less than Ave days
. This member has been stopping at the
hotel In question when in Chicago during
the past ten years. The rate has been IS
day for two In room and $50 for enc.
He figured that his room should cost sis
for the three days. Instead the new rate
would make his bill just 500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales-Reguar call. ~ o'clock noon-wsshinstou
Railway and Electric As 81 600 Mt 7I&, 81 600 at
71%. ''
Capital Traction I at 49,
Union Trust and Storage 10 at IO6ss 10 at IO8g
Lanston Monotype. 10 ut &.
After call-Washington Railway and Electric
prefd., 10 at 49,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
New York Stock Market.

Furnished by w. B. Hibos & Co, bankers
and brokers, 1419 F ST.. members New York
stock exchange. Washington stock ex-
change and Chicago board of trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
Today's Government Receipts.

National bank notes received today for
redemption. $s54,0o9; government receipts
from internal revenue. $727 037; customs
1857 1876; miscellaneous, s7S.102; expendi-
lures. 81 .25O.OO0.
Available cash balance. $221 7691Tl2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
and the stock was offered at 6S, but the
bid was not higher than Ca

An effort to buy ten shares of washing
ton and Norfolk Steamboat Company stock
failed, although go was bid. The asking
price was not less than 235
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
House Calls for Post Office
Department Evidence.
WANGER RESOLUTION
PREVIOUS QUESTION NOT ORDER
ED, AS SUPPOSED.
The Speaker Announces the Mistake
Yesterdays Proceedings Ac-
cordingly Vacated.

There We're indications of another lively
morning over the investigation of the Post
office Department, but the ominous clouds
we're soon blown away by the Irresistible
,reeze of unanimous consent The outcome
f today's set-to results in the placing of
III the papers and evidence touching upon
the investigation formally before the
House Since the matter first came up for
consideration the democrats have been
strenuously endeavoring to have the papers
sent directly to the House, in order that
hey might be printed as a public document
md thus be available for almost unlimited
distribution campaign literature The
democrats have not attempted to veil their
purpose In this respect.
An attempt To have the papers sent to
{ he House direct instead of to committee.
where the number of printed copies would
ne small. was made yesterday, but, accord
4ug to the record, was voted down by the
tCtipn of the members in ordering the pre-
.louS question on the resolution presented
by Chairman Wanger of the committee
Expenditures in the Post Office Department
authorizing that committee to call for the
papers. The vote on the previous question
vas announced as a tie until the Speaker
'NerCtSed his prerogative and voted in the
Itirmative. The previous question was os-
-euSibly ordered 10y u vote of los TO 1O7, and
ne resolution was adopted with the help
Il the solid democratic vote by 100 to 100.
day ended the post office discussion, for the
being "A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
BONA FIDE CIRCULATION.

The sworn statement below shows that
the circulation of The Star is what It is
claimed to be. Furthermore within the
city of Washington it's circulation is more
than double that of any other paper.
whether morning or evening, and it lie
regularly delivered every day. by carriers
to fifteen thousand subscribers who taxe
no other Washington daily paper.
Circulation of The Evening Star"
SATURDAY. December IL, I9os........ ,432
MONDAY, December Ia, l903 81 Ola
TUESDAY December I6. ls0s.. 81 ,Oo4
"WEDNESDAY, December 49, i903.......... TAO
THURSDAY, December IL, lsoS............. .33, ooz
FRIDAY. December Is,
Total .......... 40, oss
Daily average ......................3siS S
/ solemnly swear that the above statement
represents only the number of coptes of
THE EVENING STAR circulated during the
six secular days ending Friday. December
Is, 1903-that is. the number of copies ac-
tuaily sold. delivered. furnished or mailed.
for valuable consideration. to bona fide pur-
chasers or subscribers. and that the coptes
so counted are not returnable to or remain
in the office unsold.
j. WHIT. HEBRON,
Bush ess Manager.
T. s.vening Star Newspaper Company.
Subsvgibed and sworn to before me this
nineteenth day of December. A. d. 1908.
CHAPMAN W. FOWLER.
Notary Public. d. C.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19

A meeting of the stockholders Of the
Monoline Company was held today in the
Office of the K. B. Cottrell A resolution
was adopted empowering the directors to
Ill the franchise and rights OF the COM
pany in this country on such terms as may
be considered to be for the best interests of
the company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
MI. Williams Calls for Papers.

Mr.. Williams of Mississippi. leader of the
minority. obtained the floor Immediately
after the Speaker had announced the err
roneous vote of yesterday. He offered as
substitute for the Wanger resolution one
'alling upon the Postmaster General to
transmit to the House all the papers and
violence touching the investigation into the
alleged frauds and irregularities in the
postal department and service. Mr.. Will
iams reiterated the stat ement that the
barge had been made that the Bristow re-
port was edited before TRANSMIT tai when
Il was asserted that his resolution would
simply calf forth papers Identical with
hose published earlier in the week by the
committee on post offices and post roads.
LET'S have the papers and then we c1n
see whether they are dupl Gates or not. "
replied Mr.. Williams. Il want this matter
20 come before the House and through the
House to go to the people. 1 want the re-
port and the evidence to be as voluminous
rs possible We understand that the doinga
IF certain people have not been brought to
The light as fully might be-
Mr.. Williams, when asked if he proposed
to publish all the testimony proposed to be
used in the prosecution of persons indicted
in connection with the frauds, said he had
no such purpose. and forthwith amended s
substitute resolution by excepting from the
papers called for such in the opinion OF
the Attorney General would defeat the ends
Df tustiCe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19

At the meeting Of the stock exchange
today the demand for the securities of the
to be good. The trading was not large
and the prices remained steady. The bonds
were sold at 71x and subsequently they
were offered at TN, with the bidding at
71N.
For the preferred stock bids were made
for large blocks. aggregating 300 shares
at Il without the stock being offered In
such lots. The bid for fifty shares was
41H. and the lowest asking price was 42h.
211 was bid for ten shares Of Washington
Loan and Trust Company stock. but none
was offered at less than 215. A couple of
ten-share lots OF Union Trust and Storage
Company stock were sold at 1904 and 1061k.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19
Of Justice.
Republicans Do Not Object.
'AIr. Speaker, l see no reason for objec
ton TO the passage of the gentleman's

Mr.. Speaker, l see no reason for objec
ton to the passage of the gentleman's
resolution" remarked Mr.. Payne, the re-
publican floor leader. Let's have all the
publicity we can get. I'm in favor of it,
Not republican offered word of pro-
test Taking the wind from the demo-
cratic sails. they voted as a man for the
adoption of the resolution. The agreement
unanimous
Mr.. C0wherd (MissourD member of the
post Office committee. spoke for that COM
nittee, saying the chairman. Mr.. Over
street, had suggested the widest publicity
20 the papers received from the department.
Mr.. Williams, addressing Mr.. Cowherd,
said: Il want to suggest to the gentleman
hat 1t has been reported, as shown by por
ions Of the report of Messrs Bonaparte
md Conrad. that certain things had been
covered up. especially in connection with
Mr.. Heath"
Mr.. Cowherd's Explanation
Mr.. Cowherd replied: II think the gem
'Ieman from Mississippi misunderstanding the
Export in the publications in the newspa-
pers. l understand the report of Messrs
Conrad and Bonaparte to be on the action
# the post Office on the Tulloch charges
where It was said there was an attempt to
cover up something In regard to Mr.. Heath.
Il do not understand that report to say
that the report of the fourth assistant post
master general, Bristow, as printed, cover
ing about 100 pages. was in any way an at
tempt to cover up anything about that gem
tleman or anybody else. My impression Is
II the gentleman will examine that report
which is found in the newspaper accounts
he VIII see that the covering up referred to
was the act OF the Postmaster General in re-
iusing TO investigate the Tulloch charges"
The House then amid applause, ad-
journed until Monday. January 4, at Il
o'clock. The attendance this morning was
not large many or the members being al
ready on their way home to spend the holt
days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19

But this morning after the House had
convened and the journal had been read
Speaker Cannon stated that it was his duty
10 announce to the House that a mistake
bad been made yesterday in the vote on
the previous question. With his own vote
included, he announced, it had been learned
,,fter a careful count that the final vote
was 4 tie-l01 to 1U7. The previous ques-
lion was not ordered therefore, and all &C
non subsequent to the announcement of
z he erroneous vote was accordingly va
'ated- The journal was corrected and ap-
proved, and the Wanger resolution was be-
tore the House.
Neither Mr.. Wanger nor Chairman Over
-,reet of the committee on post offices and
post roads was present. The former led
he fight yesterday. which resulted IN the
idOPtion of his resolution, while Mr.. Over
-treet objected to the resolution as being
l duplication of wor.. already accomplished
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-08
GIRLS TO PLAY BASKET BALL
College Carnival Fixed Up for Lin
coin, Where Several Teams
VIII Meet.

Nebraska girls intend to monopolize the
end of next week for a few basket ball
stunts of their own. On March 60
there will be a memorable intercol-
legiate girls carnival in the armory of
the University Of Nebraska at Lincoln.
The first girls team of that institution
will meet the Haskell Indian girls team.
This will be the first time that the red
girls have ever met white in basket ball
or any other contest, although their broth
ers have been mixing it for several sea-
sons. The second game will be between
the first girls team of Kansas university
and the second girls team of the University
of Nebraska. Both contests will be played
the same night. The Nebraskans always
put up a strong girls team and they stand
to win both games.
The next night, Saturday, March 81, there
will be some doings in Omaha. The
Bellevue first girls team will come in to
play the Young Women's Christian asso-
citation second team that night. A cork
ing contest Is promised.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-08
WIPING OUT THE FUR ANIMALS
TrRppers Have Wen Nigh Extermi-
mated the Creatures on which
They Depend.

IF trappers keep on at the gait they are
going in Nebraska" said a we'll known
dealer in hides and furs yesterday, there
will not be a fur-bearing animal left in the
state In a comparatively few years from
now. You would be surprised to know how
many trappers there are in Nebraska. One
would think there wouldn't be anything
for them to do, and there isn't much any
more, but there was a day when there
was a good deal Of fur to be had in this
state, and there is still a whole army Of
trappers. They send us in their furs from
all parts Of the state, but they aren't
sending as many varieties nor as many Of
any variety now as they once did.
Beaver and otter. in fact, are prae-
tically gone now. A fur from one such
animal brings from $40 to Sl2, but the
trappers cannot find them any more. /
haven't seen twenty beaver furs from Ne
braska this season. Smaller furs are stiIl
rather plenty, but even the polecats are
growing scantier. We do not have half the
number Of them now we did four years ago.
They are worth from 81 to $3.50. There
are still a great number OF muskrat skins
coming in. ! do not suppose we shall ever
see the end OF them. They bring from is
to 20 cents.
IN fur in which there is lots Of trafie
from Nebraska, and the only one, It seems,
they cannot exterminate or even lessen, is
that OF the coyote, or prairie wolf, II Is
not the trappers only who handle this
fur. OF II alone 1t may be said that every
body takes a shot at IL. Farmers, ranchers,
hunters, all go for the coyote. The skins
bring from 81 to s. each.
There is a great demand for coyote furs
for expert. because they make such excel
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-08
sioux CITY.

Second on the card will be the high dive.
This stunt consists OF diving over a bar
without touching it onto a mat on the floor
on the opposite side. The game is to clear
the bar as high as possible, The diver goes
head foremost and lights on his hands on
the mat. In this contest Hugh Wallace will
represent the seniors, Harry Counseman
the ~juniors. Robert Switzler the sopho-
mores and Cyrus Downs the freshmen.
Next will come the second half OF the
omaha-sioux City game, and following that
will be the wrestling matches. In this
Fairbrother will represent the seniors, Put
nam the juniors. Grossman the sophomOres
and Tompsett the freshmen. There will
be two rounds. First freshman and sopho-
more will meet and junior and senior. Then
the winners OF those two bouts will wrestle
for first place. This will prove a highly
exciting event. d.
Following this will be the interelass bas-
ket ball tournament. A freshman team
will play a sophomore team. a junior team
the seniors. Then the winners will meet
for first honors. The games will be made
Of very brief duration. The different teams
are; Seniors, Laubau, Wallace, Kelley,
Deviation and French; juniors, Durkee,
Meyer, Cherrington, Thomas and Thomp-
son; s~ophomores, Walsh, Patterson, Cooper,
Lindsay and Goodman; freshmen, McAvin,
Wilson, Bowman, Burnett and ~Percapile.
Next In order will be the hand walking
contest. a race OF fifty feet. with the con-
testAnts on their hands. The different
boys have been practicing hard for this,
and some of them can make remarkable
speed considering the means Of locomotion.
Ernest Kelley will represent the seniors
In this event. Harry Counseman the juniors,
Dick Patterson the sophomores and Cyrus
Bowman the freshmen.
Then comes the girls basket ball game,
OF brief halves, and next is the relay race.
with a team entered from each class.
There will be four men TO a team, ana
each man will run three laps. The race
will be against time. The teams will be:
se~niOrs-French, Deviation. Fairbrother,
Wallace.
Juniors-chsmbers. Putnam, Hunter.
Counsenan.
sophomores-waish, Patterson, Lindsay.
Cooper.
Freshmen-BuTnett. Wilson. McAvin,
Tompsett.
The nnal event of the carnival will be a
tug Of war, with four men on each class
team. In this freshmen will tug against
soPhOm0res and juniors against seniors for
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-08
HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES BUSY
P~reparations for the Glass Contest al
Germania Hall Now Occupy
Much Attention.

Youthful muscle and agility will be put
to the test on the night Of Friday, March
%, when the hfth annual athletic carnival
Of the Omaha High school will be held at
Germania hall on Harvey street. As usual
this will be an interclass contest, fresh
men. sophomores, juniors and seniors vie
ing for the supremacy. Blu an important
foreign feature has been secured for this
carnival, the return basket ball game with
the Sioux City High school team. This
will be the biggest event OF the evening,
although it's result can in no way count In
the final standing OF the contesttng classes.
There are many different events planned
for the carnival. Besides that basket ball
game there will be an interclass basket
ball tournament. a girls basket ball game
between freshmen and sophomores and ath-
letic contests as follows: High dive. wrest-
ling, hand walking, relay race, tug-of-war.
Each event will be participated In by rep
resentatives from each of the four classes.
First place in any event will count o points,
second place 3 and third place l point. At
the end the totals will be figured, and the
class with the highest. number of points
takes the palm.
During the week Just past each class
has been busy selecting it's representatives
" II 4 hIOnN ~ was NNAS
not by selection nor election, but by compe-
tition. At the Young Mems Christian asso-
citation gymnasium the athletes of the diff
ferent classes have striven for a place,
and the various teams are now made up.
Each class has selected a leader, they be-
ing: Seniors, Hugh Wallace; juniors, Dick
Hunter; sophomores, Clarence Walsh;
freshmen, Thompson.
The evening will open with the first half
Of the omaha-Sioux City basket ball game.
A few weeks ago the Omaha boys went to
Sioux City and were. vanquished by this
team, 81 to 10. an exceedingly close score.
They vow all manner of revenge this time.
The personhels of both teams will be just
as 1t was at that last encounter and the
Omaha team the same as when it met the
Lincoln High schools boys a week ago. The
lineup will be:
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-08
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Herbert Spencer has for years turned out
an average of $50 words Of revised manu-
The city Of New York has a considerable
amount of property which 1t rents to pri-
vate tenants, but II is also a tenant under
$S17,O 900.
A writer in Charities places the number
of crippled children who applied for relief
at t5e H IsTen YOT at Hospitals 'oS5' nasT qSr III Of the w Sis55
were sent away because of the inadequacy
of the hospitals for their care.
p. s.. Devine of st. Louis owns a sundial
made by ThomGs Jefferson. The anthem
ITCHY of the relic is attested by documents
duly sworn to. In order to tell the correct
time the dial must be set by the north star.
Buffalo physicians, in an operation the
other day, took out of the patients stomach
nearly 500 tacks, knife blades and nails.
That stomach must have been used to hard
wear.
An insurance company in New York has
just paid 100000 for a five-foot strip OF
building from being closed up by another
structure. The phrase free as air. Is not
of universal application.
Lawrence McAlpin OF Philadelphia has
just celebrated his Tooth birthday. He was
born in Ireland and laid the first rail or
the Madison & Indianapolis railroad He
has had seventeen children. He lost track
of four of them-two sons and two daugh-
ters-several years ago, but thinks they are
now living in Canada
A curious recognition Of the right OF
women to hold public office has, with little
gallantry. been made in Pike county, Penn
~sylvania. Porter township has so few
voters that Mrs, Sarah Miller was placed
on the democratic ticket for school director
there being no other available candidate,
one democrat being the nominee for three
local offices.
Congressman Heatwole of Minnesota is Q
continual cause of envy among colleagues
whose digestion is not OF pristine Vigor
The Minnesota man attacks and assimilates
all sorts of incongruous feeds. The other
afternoon his luncheon in the house res
taurant consisted of a milk punch, a
chicken sandwich, an oyster stew, a piece
of custard pie and two cups OF coffee.
In compliance with appeals from many
patriotic citizens of Hartford, Conn, PhiliI
Hansling, Jr., superintendent OF streets
consented to forego his determination L
cut down "the Washington elm" opposite
the Wadsworth atheneum on Main street
that city. He trimmed the o~Yerhanginl
limbs, which might fall during a gale anC
do injury to persons or property, and gave
the chance to the old tree to add q few
years to its history. There is a tablet OF
the trunk of the tree placed there by the
Daughters of the American Revolution 4.
memory Of the time when washington
visited Hartford and stopped beneath tn,
tree.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-08

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such help as would Ilake them well and strong.
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