Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-07
BAINDRIDCE UPAOLDS CHINA
Refuses to Believe Alarmist Reports Of
Boxer Outbreaks.
MAJOR CRUISE ORDERED TO CAPITAL
aunrtermaater Relieved from Duty in
Omaha I'm order to serve Tenn
PorariIy at Headquarters
In Washington.
trrom a star Correspondent,

master has been relieved from duty at
Omaha and ordered to Washington for tenn
porary duty in the ONCE OF the quarter
master general
w. e. Bainbridge of Council Bluffs,
American secretary of legation at Pekin,
discounts reports Of serious uprising in
China. He has Just received a letter from
Minister COnger in which no reference is
made to trouble in the Celestial empire.
Mr.. Bainbridge does not believe that there
Will be repetition Of the Boxer uprisings
Of few years ago, and he Is inclined to
doubt that any trouble is brewing which
will necessitate the presence of a large
| fleet of the powers. "All reports so far"
said Mr.. cambridge, come from alarm
list sources in Shanghai. II there was any
serious trouble ahead in China the State de-
partment would be apprised OF II by Min
lister Conger. and he has evidently not
made a report of the subject"
The omnibus public buildings bill, passed
during the closing hours OF the last con-
gress, authorized the secretary of the treas
ury to purchase tract Of ground lying i'm
medlately west of the ground now ownad
by the government in Council BLUFFS. The
ground so authorized to be purchased is
thirty feet wide and extends south from
Broadway TO the first alley south Of that
street. The act authorizes the secretary TO
secure this additional tract provided he
can purchase II at a sum not to exceed
S7,500 The property sought to be secured
is owned by e. A. Wickham of Council
Bluffs and the secretary OF the treasury Is
now engaged in negotiations with Mr.,
Wickham to secure the property within the
limit fixed by congress.
Routine of Departments.
The PostofRce department today author
ized the following promotions Of postoffice
! clerks: Iowa-Charles City, one from $500
to $500; Marshalltown, two from $500 to
$500, one from $500 to $500, one from $1,000
to s1,1OO. South Dakota-Lead two from
$500 to $500, one from $500 to 5000.
Charles A. Lutz has been appointed reg
ular and Ray Hall substitute rural free
! delivery carriers at Perry, Ia.
The Second National bank Of Dubuque has
been approved reserve agent for the
! Commercial National bank OF Waterloo Ia.
The postmaster at Havelock, Neb., has
been authorized to move the postoff1ce to
the building owned by Phillip Hunt and
Lewis Anderson.
Captain Walter c. Short, Thirteenth cav
airy. and Veterinarian Charles D. McMurdo,
Tenth cavalry, have been ordered to Craw-
ford Neb,, +. to inspect ten polo ponies for
| tne QuaTleTndSLeT
Postmasters appointed: Nebraska---Zeb-
J edee NJ Stout, Ceryi Gosper county, vice
]. NJ Van Derhoof resigned; Ell C.; BECK
ner, Ware, Butler county, vice w. Kilgore,
resigned. Iowa.. M. Cook, Farley, Du-
buque county; d. H. Van Kirk. SwaledaIe,
| Cerro Gordo county.
These Iowa rural free delivery routes will
| be established July l. Donnellson, Lee
county, three routes; area covered, ifty-six
square miles; population. 1850. Elkader,
Clayton county, three routes; area covered,
seventy-one square miles; population, 1900.
Washington. Washington county, two addi-
tional routes; area covered, thirty eight
square miles: population, 975.
Test RussIa's Good Faith.
1t is practically admitted here that the
new commercial treaty between the United
States and China has been, in one phase.
especially designed to test the soundness
of Russia's promise to maintain the open
door in Manchuria.
Ever since Russian occupation in 1900
the province has been practically governed
by the Russians, who have regulated all
external trade. American exports of great
value have entered Manchuria and as the
State department had no mind to lose that
trade to any other nation, 1t challenged
Russia's purposes and received specific
promises that the open door would be main
tained. The provision in the treaty now
under negotiation, declaring Moukden and
its port. Taku Shan, at the mouth of the
Yalu river, open to foreign trade affords
the opportunity for the test
Nebraska Photos for st. Louis Fair.
The bureau of education has arranged a
unique exhibit at the st. Louis fair to
consist of photographs of every school in
each of a large number of counties to be
selected from various sections of the coun-
try. The exhibit is designed to represent
the actual conditions of the schools of the
United States the features of the teachers
and pupils, their clothing and badges Ne
braska. New York. Pennsylvania. Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina, Kansas, Texas
and California are among the states from
which counties have been selected.
Coal In KOOtenai.
Discovery of a large area Of coal and
petroleum land in the southeast Kootenai
! has been reported to the State department.
: Two hundred and twenty miles of territory
have been staked of, most OF the Iocators
being Americans.
Cadets to Practice on Battlefield.
The secretary OF war has directed the
: first class OF cadets at the military academy,
numbering ninety -four, to proceed to the
battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa. about April
20 for three days instruction in strategy
and tactics.
Value Work on Canal
Admiral Walker, General Halnes and Ma
jor Black, the two latter OF the corps OF
engineers, will leave New York next Thurs
day for Colon to appraise the value OF
work now in progress on the canal, which
. will be prosecuted by the French company
I up to the moment when the property comes
, into the actual possession of the United
States.
When the agreement to sell the canal was
signed by Secretary Hay and Mr.. Cromwell,
> there being no stipulation to the contrary,
the company was not bound to continue
the heavy daily expenditure on account OF
labor and material and superintendence in
volved in the continuation of the work.
: 1t is claimed that such a suspension would
have worked harm and have resulted in the
loss OF a number OF canal workers, who
now have become experienced and Injured
TO the climate. The canal company under
took to keep the work in progress and
I now looks 10 the United States for com
9 pensation. The subcommittee is going "a
the isthmus to take check notes on the