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Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
COLORADO LINES AMALGAMATE
Denver e. Southwestern to BE Alb
sOrbed by Springs a Grip
pie Greek.

DENVER, May 1.-The Post says: The
Colorado Springs G. Cripple Creek will prob
ably take over the Denver & Southwestern
on June l.
The Denver & Southwestern Is composed
OF the Florence Cripple Creek. Canon
City & Cripple Creek. Midland Terminal and
Golden Circle (electric).
The Cripple Creek Trading and Transfer
company. controlling the transfer business
of the Cripple Creek district. and several
smelling companies are adjuncts of the
Denver & Southwestern, and are included
In the consolidation.
w. X. Gillett president Of the Denver &
Southwestern, and A. r. Carlton, general
manager of the trading company, have gone
east to arrange. It is said, for the transfer
Of the system to the Colorado Springs &
Cripple Creek.
The present plan is to make a complete
consolidation of the Cripple Creek roads
and the managements will be separate. II
is said Mr.. GIllett will probably be placed
at the head Of the consolidated lines.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
START FOR RIFLE PRACTICE
Second Battalion OF Twenty-secOnd
Rerintent Marches TO WINNIE
baeo Reservation.

The second battalion Of the Twenty-sec-
ond infantry, comprising Companies H.
F, G and H, under the command of Major
Pickering, started yesterday on their an
nual march and target practice at Winnie
bago reservation. Seven days are taken
for the march each way and two weeks
will be spent in camp on the reservation
During the march stops will be made over
night and camp struck at Fort Omaha
Calhoun, Blair, Tekamah, Golden Springs
and Decatur.
This is the first of the three oattalions
10 30 into camp for the two weeks target
practice on the Indian reservation ana
upon its return the other two battaiions
will do likewise. The range this year Is
considerably better than It was last year
ara the soldiers win work on i while they
are there and put 1t in better shape sun.
An attempt has been made for several
wears to induce the government to estap-
lish a permanent range here, but II mas
been unsuccessful so far and therefore lit
tie money has been spent to put II In the
condition that It should be.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
WOULD WEAKEN The EMPIRE
Lord ROsebery Puts Himself ON Rec
ord as opposed to Chamber
dnin's Reciprocity Plan.

LONDON, May A.-Lord Rosebery ex-
pressed surprise that his speech at Burnley
on May IS. in which he dealt with Colonial
Secretary Chamberlain's tariff speech
delivered at Birmingham on May Is, has
been interpreted as in any way supporting
Mr.. Chamberlain's proposal to establish
reciprocity between Great Britain and her
colonies, and explains that he purposeiy
treated the subject uncontroversally be-
cause he was addressing a non-political
audience.
Lord Rosebery adheres to his opinion
that the liberal party is indissolubly bound
TO free trade and that anything like an
imperial commercial league would weaken
the empire internationally and exert the
permanent hostility of the world.
In letter TO a constituent Mr.. Chamber
lain further emphasizes his belief In the
necessity for an imperial commercial
league. He says:
I am firmly convinced that the prosperity
OF this country depends largely on fits trade
with the colonies, which under a wise sys-
tenn of mutual concession will increase by
leaps and bounds. We have been apt in the
past to consider too much the advantage OF
buying cheaply and not to pay sufficient at
tention TO methods whereby we may have
the means that enable us to pay at all. In
creased wages are even more important tc
the working classes than reduced cost OF
living.
Mr.. Chamberlain adds that he has the
fullest confidence in the working classes
and their power to realize the great issues
which depend on present action.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
FENCES MUST COME DOWN NOW
hitchcock Denies the Report That
Time Has Been Extended
TO July.

WASHINGTON, May 21-secretsry Hitch
cock said tonight that the report that there
had been extension OF time to July / for
the removal Of fences around public lands
used for grazing purposes was incorrect.
An inquiry Of this character came TO the
Interior department from Nebraska. Shortly
after the adjournment OF congress the de-
partment issued orders TO it's agents, di-
recting the removal OF the fences, and the
law. the secretary said, would be carried
cut.
In some OF the other states the removal
OF the fences has been in progress for a
year or more.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
PICTURES WILL ESCAPE DUTY
ART measures of Morgan Are to BE
Admttted ~ ''HOusehOId
ERects."

NEW YORK. May 1.-Undsr the design
alton Household effects" J. P. Morgan
win be able to bring into this country most
OF his art treasures that are now scattered
through the museums OF Europe or are in
his London house.
Mr.. Morgan has ordered his agents to
gather together all his paintings. bric-a-
brac and antiques. and It is believed Ameri-
cans will have an opportunity of seeing
one Of the finest private collections In the
world.
These objects OF art are appraised at not
less than s2.ooo.ooo and had Mr., Morgan
imported them a year ago he would have
been obliged to pay almost $4,000 duty.
Many OF the paintings and smaller antiques
have been in Mr., Morsan's Park Lane
house for more than year and therefore
come In under the head of household effects
which are not dutiabie
1t Is said Mr. Morgans lease Of fine
house in Park Lane was made more with
a view to obtain legal residence for his
art treasures than TO have a dwelling house
IN Londons famous avenue.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
ROOT TO LAY CORNERSTONE
Omaha Man Accepts Invitation TO
Omciate at Mississippi state
Capital.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, May A.-(Special
Telegram )-Joseph c. Root Of Omaha, a
thirty-third degree Mason, who is now
in this city as sovereign commander and
founder Of the Woodmen OF the World
whose sovereign camp Is in convention
here, today received and accepted the in
vitation Of the grand master OF the A. f..
and A. NJ. OF Mississippi TO lay the corner
stone Of the new Mississippi state capitol.
In course OF erection at jackson, Miss.
The ceremonies will take place June 8
and the Masons Of Mississippi are making
elaborate preparations for the event. Mr.,
Root will go to the convention attended
by Colonel b. W. Jewell, chairman of the
finance committee OF the Woodmen of the
World, to attend Woodmen festival in
jackson on the afternoon of the eere-
monies
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
TUBE COMPANY IN TROUBLE
receivers Named for West Virginia
Corporation with Almost Mil
lion Dollar Debt.

CINCINNATI, May A.-Judge Thompson
today appointed receivers for the Eastern
Tube company, Incorporated, in West Vir-
ginia, with capital stock Of 100000, and
with general ofiices at GAINESVILLE, o.
The receivers were asked for by the Cen
trail Iron and Steel company of Pennsyl-
vanla, which claims that the liabilities are
more than $4,000 and that the assets con-
sist of $4,000 In bank, $4,000 in bills re-
ceivable and $4,000 in the GAINESVILLE plant.
and that other creditors join in asking for
settlement.
The receivers will continue the business.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
INHABITANTS GIVEN WARNING
Town of Frank is Threatened with
Another Great Dis
aster.

FRANK. N. w. T.. May IA crack
four feet wide and 100 feet long has opened
200 yards back from the face of the western
peak of Turtle mountain at the summit.
A dispatch has been received from the
lieutenant governor of the territories order
ing the mounted police to inform everybody
of the danger and suggesting the imme-
date evacuation Of the place.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
BOILER MAKERS ELECT oMAHAN
HemPeII is Made Third Vice Presi-
dent OF Railway Assoc
ciatiOn.

COLUMBUS. O., May 21-Ths Interna,
tionai Association of Railway Master
Boilermakers concluded it's second annual
convention here today deciding TO meet
next May at Denver Colo.
J. A. Dornberger OF Roanoke, Va. was
elected president c, L. Hempen, Omaha.
was made third vice president.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
EIGHT LOSE THEIR LIVES
Fire starts in New York Gas House
and Explosions
Follow.

NEW YORK. May A.-A fire started to-
day in one Of seven gas houses at One
Hundred and Fifty-hfth street and sheri-
dan avenue. There were ive explosions.
Police headquarters has been oficially
notified that eight bodies have been taken
from the hre Three persons were injured.
one Of them. John Weyler, fatally.
While the hre is not under control. the
hremen are said to have Il well in hand.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
cnttIe Mu.t be sIa.Ehtered.

DURHAM, Natal, May a.-The British
steamships Abeyholm and Anglo Chilean
have arrived here, from Buenos Ayres.
with foot and mouth disease prevailing
among the cattle on board The author
ities insist that all the live stock on the
vessels be slaughtered before the steamers
are allowed to enter the harbor.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
Famous Omaha BOOmster QuAran.
tined with Smallpox at
stamford.

STAMFORD, Conn, May a-George
Francis Train is quaFantined at the home
of his sister. Helen M. L. Gulader. in this
city. suffering from a mild case OF small
poX.
Mr.. Train came here from New York
His physicians assert he has been M for
At least . week.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
RauIe rate Is Reeusea.

LONDON, May a.-The directors Of the
Bank Of England today reduced the banks
rate OF discount from TO 3lk per cent
The reduction was attributed partially TO
offers Of American gold and to gold ship
ments from New York 70 Paris.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
Make Friendly Reterenee to spain.

BARCELONA. May A.-The first anni-
versary of the proclamation Of the Cuban
republic was celebrated here by a dinner
yesterday evening, which was attended by
nifty Cubans and the consuls OF Cuba and
the United states and Brazil The con-
suls in their toasts made friendly refer
ence 10 Spain.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
Datch Patrol West Indies.

THE HAGUE. May a.-The government
OF the Netherlands announces that in con-
sequence Of the political situation in Vene-
Euela and the interests of the Dutch colony
at Curacao II is considered absolutely
necessary to station permanently a large
warship In West Indian waters.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
BROKEN BRAKES CAUSE WRECK
ChicasO street Cars Collide, Injurins
Twelve, Five OF Them Dam
EerOasIy.

CHICAGO. May a.-rwelve persons we're
injured, ave OF them dangerously. and a
score Of other passengers thrown into a
panic by collision between electric cars
at Thirty-nfth and Halsted streets today
The brakes on one car failed to work.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
Tank Scattered Over Quarter Mile of Ada
cent Territory.
ONE MAN DIES AND MANY ARE INJURED
Five Hundred 0srI Jeopardised and One
Probably Consumed.
CAUSE or CONFEDERATION NOT KNOWN
Explosions are Heard All over the
Bronx, while Flames shoot Hum
dred Feet Into the Air, De-
stroying Two buildings.

NEW YORK. May Alan explosion Of
five barrels of hydro-carbon in the New
York Central railroad yards at One Hun
dred and Fifty-ffth street and Sheridan
avenue today caused a disastrous fire, re-
suited in the death OF one man, and
stalled all trains on the New York Cen
trail.
An erroneous report that eight men had
been burned to death was sent to police
headquarters, but was quickly denied. Jo-
seph Careno lost his life and John weyler
and Leonard stoker were severely burned
The fire spread to three gas tanks, the
machine and repair shops and several
freight cars. Tho explosion of the gas
tanks caused much confusion and for a
time II was feared that It would be impos-
sible to save the hundreds of cars lying in
the yards. The Twentieth Century linn
tied for Chicago and other New York Cen
tral trains we're stalled.
Many Explosions Occur.
Explosions occurred at intervals of one
or two minutes and were heard all over the
Bronx. The first oil tank to explode was
opposite One Hundred and Fifty-ffth street.
In It the gas was made with which TO
light the cars. The tank was about forty
feet in diameter and thirty feet high and
contained nearly 100000 gallons Of oil. The
IRE shot 100 feet into the air.
An adjacent building used as a factory
was totally destroyed, as was aso a repair
shop nearby, which was thirty by sixty
feet In size. The hremen saved the large
machine shop.
The origin OF the hre Is not yet ex-
planned, but from a report 1t is said the
IRE started in a number of tar barrels,
caught an oil car and thus spread to the
oil tank. When the explosion occurred
section Of the tank were blown in al direc.
tons. two sections landing 500 feet from
the scene Of the blaze.
Joseph Cheeeno. one Of the injured men
u reported - have died, and It IL said an
unidentified ihan died in the Lebanon hos
pital as the result OF injuries received al
tha ore, while MANY others were seriousls
All thuatrslns on the New York Central
going both directions are stalled. There
were st least 500 cars OF all descriptions
in the freight yards, but it is not known
how many. II any, OF these have beer
burned.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
wives Call Husbands on.

NEW YORK. May A.-subway contrac-
tors experienced great difficulty today with
their employees. many of the men being
taken away from work by their wives. In
many instances the women say the strikers
have threatened that their husbands would
be killed II they do not quit work.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
Movements of ocean Vessels May 2i

At New York-Arrived-Aurania from
Liverpool: Gera, from Genoa; Laurentian.
from Glnsgow. Sailed-La Lorraine. for
Havre; Auguste Victoria. for Hamburg
At Cherbourg-Arrived-P from
New York
Al Plymeuth-Arriyed-Fuerst Bismarck,
from New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
Tfn Plate seaIe sIEned.

PITrsBURG, Pa, May I.-The Anal
gamated association officials returned TO
this city and It is announced that the tin
plate scale was signed at the conference
with the manufacturers in New York. The
settlement is considered a good one for
the workers. and from 1000 to 5000 are
affected. The most important feature of
the new agreement was the limit Of out
put and was the cause OF the delay at the
meeting
The wages OF the skilled workmen re-
main unchanged being on a sliding scale
based on the selling price. The scale goes
into effect July /.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
DENVER STRIKE IS SETTLED
Men Win Many Concessions, Including
Agreement to Arbitrate,
UNIONS ARE OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED
Seven thousand are Out at st. Louis,
While New York wives Fetch
Husbands Away From work
In subway.

DENVER, May A-The strike which for
several days has practically paralyzed the
business OF tins city, involving nearly lU,-
900 men and women was settled at to.
night through the efforts of committees OF
the Chamber of Commerce and the local
Typographical union. Though both sides
made concessions the victory seems to be
with the men.
The agreement entered into between the
General Executive Committee of Or
ganizd Labor and the Executive Commit
tee of the Citizens alliance, whose mem
bership embraces nearly all Of the en-
ployers of labor in the city comedies
a. The right of employees as we'll as
employers to organize.
(z) Permits employers to choose their
ehiDioyes reBaruIess oI their membership Il
(SJ Forbids the discharge of employees
on account of their afiiliation with unions.
present differences by a board to consist
OF five employers and hve employees III
rectly involved in the present trouble,
and, IL necessary, an eleventh man who Is
not involved. the findings of this board to
be binding upon all members of the Ciu-
zens alliance and upon all unions rep
resented by the general executive COM
mittee.
t6.). All strikes. lockouts and boycotts
(6.) The men now out are to be re-
instated as rapidly as their services can
(79 Ali suits for injunctions are to be
Withdrawn.
Seven Thousand out I'm Sc. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, May A.-Approxlmately 1000
men are now on strike in ST. Louis. The
threatened strikes, which have been brew
ing for some weeks past, have eliminated
and commerce In st. Louis is seriously In
j terrupted.
The freight handlers of all the roads in
st. Louis and East st. Louis today struck
| in sympathy with the porters and packersf
between 1880 and 1900 men going out. and
| as a result there is a possibility that the
officials of the roads will endeavor to Sc
| cure an Injunction from the federal court
to restrain the men from interfering with
their business II they proceed to I'll the
vacancies with nOnunion men.
1t is claimed by representatives OF both
branches of the freight handlers that the
tieup in st. Louis is complete and that
| every railroad is affected. At present, ac-
cording to the claims of union representa-
tives, between 2,5OO and 1900 men are
directly involved, and the number will in
all probability be increased.
In addition to the striking freight hand
Iers the strike situation in st. Louis in
cIudes the walk-out of 1900 metal workers.
This has resulted in tying up about $4OO.ooC
worth OF contract work throughout the city,
some OF the men demand shorter hours; the
j majority demand an average increase IN
wages OF 10 per cent. :.
I
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
Lone Wolf Devastated.

CHICKAsHA. I. T.. May h.-A tornado
passed over Lone Wolf. sixty-hve miles
west OF Chickasha on the Mangum branch
OF the Rock Island. -Four houses were
blown down and their contents scattered.
Mrs. Harvan, wife Of farmer. was blown
against a barbed wire fence and killed
The tornado wrecked telephone and teIe-
graph wires. destroying trees. fences and
outhouBeB.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22

ORD, Neb, May n.--wofd has reached
here that.a small tornado Visited the farm
ing country ten miles east this evening.
The hosiseA on the ranch ot Hanrx Huslset
were wrecked and outbulldlnss levelied.
There were no fatalities. Telephone wires
leading to town are down In all direc-
learned
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
Two TOFnadOes at I1insIsy.

KINsLEY. Kan. May IA tornado
passed over Hodgman county. nftssn miles
northwest OF Kinslsy. at this afternoon,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-22
FRANCIS TRAIN HAS PEST

The receivers will continue the business
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-21

The check the War Department has put
upon Governor TAFT's policy for dealing
with opium in the Philippines Is probably
caused by the desire to give the Taft scheme
further study and by the respect for the
common disapproval Of the use of opium
under any conditions. But, as bearing
upon the present situation. an article on
opium prepared by the late DR.. W. H. DhA-
PER, from the report OF the Royal Commits
sion appointed TO consider the prohibition
Of opium In British India, published in THE
Sun Of June 10, 1895, 10 a very illuminating
document.
This commission was appointed at the
instance OF tho Anti-Opium Society, which
declared itself satisfied with the Commits
sioners. The investigation was made in
India, where about seven hundred witnesses
were examined. including all brought for
ward by the friends Of the society.
The result was that eight Of the nine
Commissioners reported that opium In the
forms preferred in India Is not detrimental
to the health Of the people; that the inev-
table alternative Of the drug was some
still more hurtful stimulant, and that the
cultivation Of tho poppy and the manu-
facture and sale OF opium in the Anglo
Indian Empire should not be prohibited.
This report was approved by the House
of Commons by vote OF ITS to 70.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-21
Army Officers and West Point.

Officers Of the Regular army may take
heart of hope from the Presidents APP
pointments of cadets to the United States
Military Academy in the class which
will enter the institution next June. OF
the eleven appointments announced on
Friday, all are sons Of men who are or
were in the Regular service. One OF the
young men is the son of that gallant old
warrior Gen. SIMON BoLIvER BuCKNER
of kentucky; another is a son of the late
Capt. ALLYN CAPRoN, who served with
such distinction in Cuba during the
Spanish American War, and another is a
son of Gen., KoBBE. who won a Briga-
dier's star in the Philippines. Among
the alternates are sons Of officers in tho
navy as we'll as the army,
1t has always been held by the officers
of the army and with much reason, that
the Academy was not for their sons, no
matter how capable they might be Of
passing the rigorous entrance examina-
ton, because there were always the sons
Of men with political influence to be
taken care of first. Army men cannot
play the political game, and they are Of
little Use to the Congressman who may
nominate cadets from their districts.
1t isn't so often, even. that an army
officer has vote, owing to the fact that
he isn't long enough at any one station
to acquire voting residence
So it happened that the sons Of the
army have had to get their Academy APP
pointments, if they got them at all, al
most always from the President Mr..
MCKINLEY was the first of recent Pres-
dents to inquire what West Point material
there was among the sons Of officers in
the service, before naming the cadets
at-large. And now Mr.. ROOSEVELT, fol-
lowing in the late Presidents footsteps,
has taken all of his candidates from the
sons Of the men who do the nations
fighting.
The army's sons are coming to their
own.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-21
storey on Oppression j..

We have received pamphlet copy OF
what purports to be an address delivered
by Mr.. MooRr1ELD STOREY before the
New England Suffrage Conference on the
3oth Of last March. The SUBJECTS, Negro
Suffrage liz Not Failure
OF course, Mr. MooRFIELD STOREY has
perfect right to regard negro suffrage
as triumphant success. just AZ he has
the right to believe that American pos
session of the Philippines is a crime. But
he has no right to say this:
THESE thinkers ion the negro question: say that
the policy OF Justice has failed. while Others like
TIE NEW YORK SUN. even suggest that We must
repeal the Fifteenth Amendment and Wy oppression
again"
The oppression which Mr.. MooRFIELD
STOREY says THE SUN suggests must be
tried again, with the repeal OF the Fiji
teenth Amendment as preliminary
thereto, is apparently Of the sort which
he goes on to describe as having been
tried before the Fifteenth Amendment
was adopted
The Kukux Khan made its appearance In
1895 and soon spread all over the South It's VIC
tins we're Union men and negroes. It's methods.
plans and membership were secret and II intimi-
dated whipped and murdered men with impunsy.
Colored schools were closed, schoolnasters and
clergymen shot and hanged, and the testimony
makes II apparent that II WAS q movement TO In
,irnldste the negroes and hold them In subsection.
Other conditions prior to the adoption
OF the Fifteenth Amendment are recited
by Mr.. STOREY to support his assertion
that it was the grant Of suffrage which
prevented the actual or virtual reen-
slavement of the blacks, He says this
in so many words:
Meanwhile suffrage has done Its work. II
has prevented the Reimbursement OF the negroes,
and from now on the struggle should be easier"
We shall answer Mr.. MooRF1ELD
STOREY as il he we're sane and candid
person. The Sun has at no time sug-
gested the repeal of the Fifteenth Amend
ment and the trial Of oppression again
as a means Of subjecting the blacks to
the will of the whites. To say that, or
to intimate that, is to bear false wit
ness. Mr.. STOREY should exhibit the
particular passage in which we have
advocated repeal and oppression.
The suffrage is not an inalenable right
OF citizenship, and the denial Of the suf-
frage to certain classes Of citizens is not
oppression. unless almost the entire white
female population and all intelligent
white native youth between the ages Of
eighteen and twenty-one are to be con-
sidered victims of oppression.
1t is not, and never has been, the Fiji
teenth Amendment that pre- the re-
ensla vement Of the negro. His bulwark
against reinstatement in any form is
the Thirteenth Amendment, which no
man, North or South so far as we are
aware, has proposed to repeal.