Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-23

measure will prove all right"
Mr.. Sears said he came to Lincoln on
business connected with the supreme court.
He called upon Governor Mickey.
win stands the Test.
ternoon Water Commissioned Tyler, with a
centrifugal pump rated at 5000 900 gallons
per day and two. piston pumps with a
combined capacity Of 500, 900 gallons per
day, worked like a beaver to pump dry the
new city well sunk at A street, but Mr..
Tyler was unsuccessful. The water In the
we'll was never lower thar twelve feet
and after the pumps had been strained to
their utmost he gave It up and pronounced
the well a winner.
The pumps at no time came up to the
standard claimed for them, but II Is be-
lieved' to be due to the fact that they were
somewhat worn. At one time the test
showed the pumps we're throwing water at
the rate Of 100000 0 gallons per day. The
average test showed 10000 to 100, 900 gallons
per hour.
The we'll was sunk for city purposes and
It is seventy-six feet deep from the top to
the bottom proper, but six small holes have
been bored through the sand rock. making
the total depth to the bottom of the small
holes 100 feet. It is nfty-nve feet in diam
eter at the top and thirty-nve feet at the
bottom. The cost to the city was Sls, 900.
The reason Of the test yesterday wac to
discover the flow Of the we'll in order to
select machinery for lifting the water.
Observe ArbOr Day.
The state onicers, with the exception Of
Governor Mickey and one or two others,
observed Arbor day by closing their ofnces
and taking a vacation. The Board Of
Public Lands and Buildings went to Grand
Island, Adjutant General Culver recuper-
ated from the effects Of his address before
the Women's club Of Fsirbury, State Sup
erintendent Fowler KENT to Alliance in
connection with normal schools and normal
schools Junior. The employees, however,
observed the day by planting q tall syca-
more sapling near the Morton Circle, which
they dedicated to the memory of the
founder of Arbor day. The business houses
were closed a portion OF the day and some
Of them all the day. City and county oflces
were closed. The public schools OF the
city carried out appropriate programs.
Lincoln Expects Big Crowd.
II is believed that fully 10000 people
will be In Lincoln next Monday to greet
President Roosevelt. Havelock, University
Place, College View and other suburban
towns are coming in a body and 1t is ex-
pected that for seventy-hve miles outside
the city limits the country will be depopu-
lated.
Plans for the entertainment Of the presi-
dent have about been completed, There
will be no entertainment, no speech max
ing, except the president. no reception by
the prominent" citizens; there will be
| n0fhtn0 IN ppa4rank Nha na00Ia Neora Rrak
and last and all the time, getting a glimpse
of the president and hearing him speak
that day. The committee in making its
arrangements has had in mind that the
people are coming to see and hear the
president, and for that reason on next
Monday there will be no blowing Of trum-
pets of political a~spirants or we'll knOWn
citizens.
Wyoming Puts Up Quarantine.
State Veterinarian Thomas has received
a notice from Wyoming that the authorities
there had quarantine against all kinds OF
live stock, to take effect April is and con-
tinue in force until next April. This will
prevent the taking Of live stock into wy
oming unless they have been placed in
quarantine and pronounced free from dis
ease. -
According to the terms Of the prociauna-
tion the examination may be made at AL
lance and Aurora, IL the Nebraska shipper
desires. Cattle 'trailed" or driven In Il
the state must be examined at the state
boundary. The main object Of the procla-
nation is to keep out cattle affected with
tuberculosis and ''scab," but 1t Will have
the effect Of excluding shipments OF sheep
Dr.. Thomas said that the effect Of the
proclamation would be to greatly hamper
live stock trafic along the western borders
of the state. He would not say wether he
would take steps to issue a counter procla-
nation. AS a rule such procedure as thai
adopted by Wyoming is regarded as rather
extreme and such a step is adopted only as
a last resort, because Of the great hardship
entailed on stock raisers and railroads
When the rumor was circulated last fall
that the foot and mouth disease was raging
in the eastern states there was consider
able alarm lest the disease should obtain
a foothold In the state, but there was nc
thought of a quarantine because of the
hardship that would result from such &C.
ton.
1t has been intimated thai the action
taken by the Wyoming state ofhclals Is de.
signed to control in a measure the ship.
ment Of sheep Into the state. At present
the sheep and cattle men in that state
are at swords points over the feeding
grounds.