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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
OIL PRODUCERS IN CONVENTION
Men Controlling Western Wells Hold
Conference In ISnnsnN City-Must
sell Product or Build Tanks.

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 3O.-Several oil pro-
ducers from Indian Territory aud Kansas
met here today TO discuss the question of a
market for their products.
J. J. Curl OF Bartlesville, l. T., said be-
fore going into the conferences
we want a market. We are up against
it to get rid Of our products. Either the
Standard will take our oil or VIC must pro-
vide more tankaEe. That will take time.
We want TO look over the situation and
decide some way out OF the dilemma
is the conference called FOR the pur-
pose Of sending a delegation to Governor
Folk and Attorney General Hadley to ask
them to cease the fiGht on the standard?"
was asked.
Il have heard nothing about such a dele
CATION. replied Mr.. CjRif
II l.. Woods of the Oh city Derrick, who
is in the city, said: II understand that as
the Standard has ordered work stopped in
Missouri on its Whiting pipe line. the pro-
rucers see their chance of a market slipping
away from them. The agitation against
the Standard in Missouri is hurting the oil
business in the territory and Kansas. l
think the producers will send a committee
to Governor Folk and Attorney General
Hadley 70 ascertain, If possible, what are
the prospects of a cessation OF hostiities." F"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
JEWS HOLDING CONFERENCE
International Meeting in Vow In scs-
sion at characterization of
Russian Jews Considered.

GSSELS. Jan. 30-Thc general Jewish
conference called to consider the state OF
Jews in Russia. formally opened it's session
today under the presidency of David Wolff
sohn. chairman of the International Zionist
committee.
sohn urged the establishment Of an inter-
national committee either in Berlin or Lon
don to watch the interests OF the Russian
Jews. a motion to that effect went over
until n later session.
NJ. Mandelstam of Kicfr presented a re-
port on the conditions in Russia from
which 1t was gathered that the Jews had
no hopes Of an Improvement in their status
resulting from revolution or government re-
forms The only solution of the problem,
according to the report, would he the
foundation of Jewish fatherland
NJ. Kohan of Kishineff, said he thought
the eventual emigration of all the Jews
from Russia was inevitable He proposed
Egypt or Asia-Minor as suitable for a
Jewish settlement and advised that all
emigration of Jews to the United States OF
Great Britain be stopped in consequence of
the laws against aliens which are in force
in those countries.
Delegates from Germany, Austro-l Hun
gary, Great Britain. Russia, France. Italy.
Denmark and Argentina are present, but
the American delegates have not arrived.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
THREE KILLED AND FOUR HURT
Westbound Limited on Great North
ern in smashup Near Columbia
Falls, Mont.

ST. PAUL, Jan. 3O.-Great Northern Ori-
entail Limited No. l, westbound. and pas
senger train No. ., eastbound, collded
head-on on a straight track one mile west
Of Columbia Falls Mont, at 1910 O'Clock
last night
A corrected list of the dead and injured
follows:
The dead:
FIREMAN WILLIAM KAMBLEY.
Whitefsh. Mont.
EXPRESS MESSENGER wURZBACH
The seriously injured:
Engineer o. Bardin, Whitehsh
Engineer w. T. Thierweshter Whitehsh
Conductor c. A. Irwin. Havre
Mail Clerk Reynolds.
Five passengers were slightly hurt The
injured were taken to wnitefsh.
The express cars were so badly smashed
that they were taken from the trains.
Train No. left Columbia Falls on it's
eastern trip at 7:1O p. m. and No. I was
scheduled to leave there at o'clock p. m.
(western time).
General Superintendent l. T. slade who
gave the foregoing information to the As
ISOLATED Press. said he had received no in
formation as to what caused the collision.
SPOKANE, Wash, Jan. 30.-Advices re-
ceived here state that the wreck on the
Great Northern railroad near Columbia
Falls, Mont. last night. was caused by
Oriental limited No. J. westbound, running
past the station without orders.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
cU+s RATE ON EXPORT CORN
wabash Makes Tari6 of 23 Cents from
Omaha to Boston, Including
Loading Charges.

CHICAGO, Jan. 3o.-.Announcement was
made today by the Wabash railroad that
commencing February / that road would
put into effect a carload rate for export
corn of l3 cents from the Missouri river to
Boston and New York. and % cents to Phil
adelphia, through Chicago and st. Louis,
with transit privileges,
These figures will include the cost of load
ing on vessels. For several months the rate
has been 27 cents. with an added loading
charge, despite the efforts Of the Chicago
and St. Louis grain merchants to bring
about settlement Of the rate difficulty
which developed between the eastern and
western railroads last year.
The eastern roads all along have refused
to join with the western roads In dividing
the difference between the local rate and an
export rate. The step taken by the Wabash
It is believed will result in the eastern roads
meeting the Wabash rates.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
NEGRO ATTACKS YOUNG WOMAN
Mrs. Nina May Dupree of Atlanta, Ga.
Probably Fatally Injured by
Unidentified Man.

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. S0-Mrs. Nina May
Dupree. a young woman about ~ years old,
who lives with w III. Grogan, a prosperous
farmer about six miles from Atlanta. near
Cornell. was assaulted by negro this after
noon. After cutting her throat and leaving
her IN a diving condition from loss of blood
and nervous excitement the negro escaped.
A posse OF more than 100 citizens with
hounds is following the negro tonight, and
II he is captured he will in all probability be
summarily lynohed
The assault upon the young woman oc-
CURED some time between the hours of 1
and o'clock this afternoon. Mr.. Grogan
and his wife returning home from Atlanta
at the latter hour found her lying in the
dining room I'm a pool OF her own blood
Physicians, who were Immediately sum
moned. despair Of her life. She was too
weak 10 say more than that tail black
negro was the peTpetrstor OF the crime.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
CLIMBS THE PILOT LADDER
Miss Roosevelt Boards Ocean Liner
to Meet Her Future
Sister-in-Law.

NEW YORK, Jan. 30.--Miss Alice Roose-
welt and her iance, Congressman Nicholas
Lougworth, boarded a revenue cutter today
and proceeded down New York harbor to
meet the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse, upon which Comtesse de Chambrun,
Mr.. Longworth's sister. was a passenger.
The comtesse. who was formerly Miss Clara
Longworth of Cincinnati, has come 10 this
city as a guest at Miss Roosevelts wedding.
At quarantine station, where the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse slowed down speed. the
revenue cutter went alongside the big liner
An attempt was made to lower a COM
panion ladder for Miss Roosevelt, but the
delay I'm doing this was too great and Miss
Roosevelt boarded the steamer by the pilot
ladder.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
RATES OF EXCHANGE SOARING
Russian Gov Nernment Takes Hand In
Banking and Rnises Rate
of Interest.

Sr PETERSBURG. Jan. 30.-An impOr-
Ia uan.ial measure. dictated by the
drt ! the savings banks in consequence
of : Evolutionary agitation and the inn
poss of competing with the rates of
priva nks, is announced. IL increases
by in order the rate OF interest of
the go lent savings bank from SO to 4
per cei The government hopes 1t will
have 4 thle effect on the redepositing
which Ia eady commenced. According
to the of statement the increased de-
posits in { rings banks Of the first half
OF the Rus January were s.. $4,000. ten
times the irI4easc during the similar period
OF 1905.
At Moscow. according to the Slovo, the
depostors Of gold are demanding receipts
stating explicitly that their deposits are
roturnnble i'm the same metal. The banks
refuse to do 80. Tho rate Of interest was
decreased from 4 per cent to Sc per cent
in 1894 on account of the favorable position
Of tho government and the low rate Of
money at that time. IN order has also
been signed by the emperor raising the
rate paid on deposits in pcrpctuity in
the Imperial bank from 3is to AZ per cent.
The rates of exchange are soaring stead
lily. For drafts on America private banks
are charging as high 20l roubles per
500 whereas during the preceding summer
tho rate was 1880 roubles per 800 The
official rate Of exchange OF England now
is %. compared with the December rate Of
N.i5. hut this rate is obtainable only at
tho Imperial bank The unofficial rate on
the Boursc is $3.50
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
MUCH BENEFIT TO GUAaDSMEN
Officers of Regular Army Point out
veal Places and How to
strengthen Them,
lFrom a stafr Colrespondenl.l }

tf rom a STAN correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan So.-(special.)-Th
Interstate National Guard association
which has been in session In this city has
closed an interesting and profitable session
Of that association. Forty-thrce states
were represented by their adjutants gen
eral colones, majors and others connected
with the citizen soldery of the United
States. During the four days these reprc-
sentative guardsmen were in town the
streets were respIendent with blue uni
forms and gold lace and carried one back
to the early days of the Spanish American
war. when Washington was the Mecca for
aspiring military heroes.
Important questions affecting the guard
were discussed and analytical compari-
sons were made between the methods
adopted by the several states. Generals
Chaffee. Bates and other prominent officers
of the regular army bore down on the
necessity Of building uP the weak points
in the second line OF defeusc, by which
the National guard Is known The inn
portance of rifle practice. subsistence on
government rations and practice marches
were ably discussed and as consequence
the guardsmen who were present at this
meeting have gone homo with higher Ideals
than they have ever had before so far
as making the National guard an effective,
vital force During the convention the
guardsmen called upon the president, who
paid high compliment to the militia of
the several states and Impressed the OH
ccrs with tho necessity Of making real SOL
diers of tho enlisted mon and adopting those
methods that would be OF vast benefit to
the citizen-soldier In time Of war
Colonel Haley, who is member OF the
Nebraska legislature and showed his strong
friendship for the guard during the last
session, will remain in Washington for the
next month. Speaking Of General Culver,
Colonel Haley said: lie has made one of
the most efficient adjutant generals the
state Of Nebraska ever had. lie is a real
soldier aud knows the necessity of making
{ he National guardsnen the same"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
Russians May Protest Trade.

ST PETERSBURG, Jan. 3o.-On account
OF the threatened invasion of Japanese and
American goods in the Russian markets in
Manchuria the management of the East
Chinese railroad has raised the question of
increasing the railroad rates northwsrd Of
Kwang Cheng-Tsze TO the stations in Rus
sian hands. 1t is said that Japanese mid
dlemen are handling British and American
as we'll as japanese wares. Twenty trains
are running daily from Yakow to Kuid-
tuan, where enormous stores OF goods are
being assembled for the Harbin, Vladivo-
stok and other markets.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
New railroad In wyoming.

CHEYENNE. Wyo., Jan. N-A Colorado
4 Southern railway engineering party will
start out February I for the purpose OF sur
veying a new lire of railroad from Orin
Junction TO Sheridan, Wyo 10 form an ex-
tension OF the Colorado & Southern. The
new road will pass through Buffalo and
viii connect with the Burlington at sheri-
dan, giving Denver direct line TO northern
N~9ming and Montana.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
WITNESS CAUSES SENSATION
q. A. Allison says Sea which De-
stroyed Valencia Was Not
High"

SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. SO.-At today's
session OF the investigation into the loss Of
the Valencia c. A. Allison OF ST. Paul. a
passenger, testified that the sea was not
rough. He explained that ne had himself
been a sailor and thar the surf that finally
battered the Valencia to. pieces could not
be called high. This testimony caused
mild sensation, as all published accounts OF
the wreck have been described as "hixh
seas and terrible SURF"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
POLITICAL PRISONERS ESCAPE
Mob at Riga Kills sentinels and Re-
leases Men Held by Gov
ernment.

RIGA. Livonla. jan Boa mob attacked
the Jail in the center of the town this
morning. shot down the sentres, broke
open the cells and liberated all the political
prisoners. Half company OF soldiers were
stationed in the building, but so rapid and
unexpected was the action OF the rioters
that their purpose was successfully carried
out. There were many women among the
attacking party,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
NEW JERSEY SENATOR ANGRY
would Declare Charter OF Standard
OIL Company Forfeited for
Violating Law,

TRENTON. n. j., Jan. O.-In the state
senate today Mr.. Minturn introduced
resolution calling for the institution OF
legal proceedings in the name OF the state
against the Standard oil company of New
Jersey and its subsidiary corporations in
the state for the purpose of annulling and
forfeiting the charter Of the company on
the ground Of the alleged violation OF tn =
common law relating to monopolies and of
the Elkins law and laws relative to inter
state commerce.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
SENATE CONFIRMS NOMINATIONS
New Federal OmciaIs for Eastern
Missouri District.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O.-The senate in
executive session today confirmed the fol-
lowing nominations:
David Patterson Dyer attorney for the
Eastern district of Missouri; Lucius O.
Hobbs receiver of public moneys at Lead
vile. Colo
Marshals-William l.. Morsey, Eastern
district of Missouri; William Spry, district
of Utah.
Ross X. Brattan, Washington consul at
Hang Chow, China.
ostmasters-Iowa: James Havey John
son, Logan: Joseph Morton, Sheldon;
Charles j. Wonser. Tama.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
ASKS OF MARkEL CONTRACT
Senate Committee Examines Mr., Shonts
About Feeding LabOrers
TOO MUCH PROFIT tOR IHc CATERER
stevens TeleRrnpbed Commission
That Contractor Would Make
Million Dollars

WASHINGTON, Jan. ~. - The senate
committee ON mteroceanic canals today re-
sumed its examination of Theodore T.
Shonts. Mr.. Shonts explained ia detail the
preparations for the awarding of the con
tracts to Mr. Markell for a complete COM
missary on the isthmus.
The Markell contract took effect September
I, 1906. and was Cancelled on october IL. Mr..
Markell had gone to the isthmus first AT the
invitation OF former Chief Engineer Wallace
to assist the commission in deVising plan
Of feeding employees Of the canal works.
At the afternoon session Senator simmons
sought to show that the bid of Hudgins *
Doumar of New York for the feeding of the
canal employees was lower than the bid OF
j. E. Markell & Son AR. Shonts replied
that it would be impossible to tell which
bid had been the lowest. but that the eX-
perience of the Markell firm in feeding large
bodies OF men had been taken into consd-
Grafton.
Senator Simmons asked Mr.. Shonts IL he
thought the law had not been violated in
letting the contract to firm who's" bid had
not been the lowest. Mr.. Shonts replied IL
the law said that the lowest bid should be
accepted without considering the time NJ de-
livery Of goods or the quality furnished
tnfn inc law was Nloldleu ny lit NpiillilS-
sion I'm a number of instances After the
Markell contract had been Cancelled. said Mr..
Shonts. It was suggested by MIR Stevens
that Mr. Markell ought to have some COM
pensation for the trouble and expense which
he had incurred
AS matter Of fact" asked MIR. SIM
mons. was not this contract Cancelled he
caused you received n message from Mr.
Stevens saying the contractors would make
/ 81. .OOO coo year out of the arrangement and
| asking that it oe held in abeyance?''
"Well. remember receiving such a mos
sage" said Mr.. Shonts.
J II Immediately called in Mr.. Markell and
4 told hiEl we would have to make some
! other arrangements. Mr. Stevens said the
men could be fed on the isthmus for g
/ cents day
| Mr. Markell said that he could feed then
| for 30 cents il permitted TO reduce the foot
| to the quality given the laborers under MIR
| Stevens plan"
The committee held an executive session
! at which It was agreed not to continue
! the examination of Mr. Shonts for few
days. Former Chief Engineer Wallace vii
testify on Thursday. The committee ad
journed until tomorrow
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
Movements of Ocean Vessel. Jan. 10.

At New York-Arrived: Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse. from Bremen Koenigen Louise
from Bremen; Sailed; Cevic, for Liverpool;
Moltke for Genoa.
At Naples-Arrived carpathia. from New
York.
Halifax.
AT Hamburg-Arrived: Amerika. from
New York.
Al Liyerpool-Arrived: Lake Champlain,
from ST. Johns, ", Il. Sailed; Lake Mani
toba. for 81. Johns. " B.: Sylvania. for
Boston.
Al Teneriffe- Sailed Menez, for San Fran
cisco.
At Leghorn-Sailed: Syria. for New Or
leans
Al Hamburg-Sailed: Ammon. for San
Francisco; Armenia, for New York.
AT Antwerp-Arrived: Kroonland, from
New York.
At Moville-ArriNed: Numidian, from
Halifax.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31

Whie Mr., Townsend regarded the ques-
ton as in no sense political he expressed
himself as pleased that the republican party
has taken it up. He arraigned the means
employed by the opposition 10 rate legisla-
ton. He continued
To me IL has seemed that "a systematic
EFFORT has been made to discredt the ad-
ninistration In various matters I'm order TO
direct attention from this great question
and ] have no doubt that delay will be
caused wherever possible I'm the vain hope
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
witnesses in smoot Case.

The names of witnesses who have been
summoned to appear before the senate
committee on privileges and elections in
the Smoot case next Tuesday are: Henry
W. Lawrence, a business man at Salt Lake
City and an apostle Of the Mormon church;
John p, Helmgren of Bear River City,
Utah, a Mormon; William Jones Thomas
of Spanish Fork, Utah, Gentle; Charles
Smurthwait of Ogden, Utah, a Mormon
who has been cut off from the church,
Walter NJ. Wolfe, professor of the Brigham
Young college at Logan, Utah, who has
lately been cut off from the Mormon
church.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-31
General Chnnee Retire. T.hursdny.

Lieutenant General Chaf1ee VIII be placed
on the retired list of the army next Thurs
day at his own request after about forty
five years service. General and Mrs. Chat
fee and Miss Chaffee will leave here the
end of the week for the City of Mexico,
where they will remain until May l next.
Later in the summer they will take up their
permanent residence at Los Angeles, Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10

scorpion. it lives upon the juices which it sucks
from other animals, and does not need a
very complicated inside to digest such nourish-
ing food
Spiders can exist for a very long time with
out anything TO eat, and do not require water.
/ once had large case of stuffed birds set
up; when 1T was complete, a lot OF camphor
and carbol1c acid was concealed under the
moss and branches at the bottom. to kill any
moth or other injurious insect that might be
lurking about the feathers, and the glass doors
were then sealed all around like the rest of
the frame, to prevent air from getting in. No
sooner was the job finished to everyones salts
faction than two or three tiny shining strands
OF web made their appearance, stretched across
one corner of the case, so delicate as not to
disturb a butterflys wing, with which they
came in contact. There was no sign Of moth,
so the doors were never opened, and the
threads are there undisturbed to this day.
Their owner remained invisible until one night,
at least two years after their construction,
small "money-spider' crawling along ono of
them.
The death-watch, often called "tcking spi-
DER an insect producing a noise very much
like that of watch or small clock, which |
dare say most of you have heard behind
wainscot, or at the back of chimneypiece.
is in reality not spider, but a beetle, about
the size of a large flea. 1t makes the sound
by a series of blows with it's mandbes against
the wood in which it burrows, and does so as
a signal to its companions. Sometimes ii will
be answered by ticking in some distant cor
ner, and where death-wateh is known to
have taken up its quarters in room, it may
generally be called into action at any time
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10
THE GIGANTIC MousE-EATrNe sriDEn.

by tapping on the bare table with finger
nail, This beetle is named the anobium.
The web issues from two little tubes called
the spinnerets, which project from the hinder
part of the body. 1t has been woven into a
fabric, after the, fashion of the silk worms
produce, but only as a curiosity. 1t is too
fine ever to be used practically for this pur
pose. There Is nothing in nature that com
bnes such strength and elasticity with such
extreme thinness. To see big, bulky spider
drop, and bring up suddenly at the end of
long line, which is hardly visible TO the eye,
with jerk that seems enough to snap any
thing ten times as great, would convince one
of this, if the manner in which large insects
are hopelessy bound by it did not
Wonderfully skillful little engineers they are
in fixing up their snares If you look at
web which is spread in any situation where
there is constant current of air. You will
find it douby strengthened in the direction
from which the draught comes and those
which build in the open air run out extra
stays on the weather side on the approach of
storm.
The other day a gentleman published an
instance of a spider that had made its abode
in veranda. On several occasions. during
high winds, one part of its web, which was
most exposed, became detached from its moor
ings, notwithstanding all the efforts which
the creature made to retain it in position by
additional ropes. At last it went down, and
spun a number OF lines around bit of stick, ,
which was lying on the floor of the veranda,
and contrived-by dnt of hauling first on one
end and then on the other-to raise this in
midair: The weight restrained the tapping of
the web-anchored it, as it were and held it
firm When the gale was over, it was lowered
again, as of no further use.
| Spiders have many natural enemies besides
housemaids Birds are always on the look
out for them, and toads devour great num-
ber In Van Diemen's Land there is a fiy
which reverses the order of things, and preys
| an tha GA ntOp of its gneclQG in general
There are hundreds of different kinds of
spiders, our largest here being very insignifi-
cant specimen compared to the giant taran-
tulas of tropical countries-enormous creatures.
whose legs spread out would cover space as
big as a dessert plate. Every large spider,
however, is not tarantula. Those which
receive the name are poisonous, but it is a cll-
rious thing that the very place from whence
they derive the name-Taranto, in Italy-haa
no poisonous species.
There are small venomous spiders as well as
! big ones. In New Zealand there is very
vicious little customer called the katipo, which