Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-21

addressed appeals last night. The Western
Union is sending these messages free. and
among those received tonight are the fol-
lowing:
Blair, Herman, Kennard, Calhoun and
Arlington will contribute, each sending
carload of provisions. Plattsmouth has 125
sacks of flour to send Crawford sent SO;
Tecumseh has a car of cornmeal ready for
shipment, as has also Beatrice. Franklin
sends one car OF provisions
General Manager Bidwell of the North
western wired the governor that his road
would handle all shipments for the suffer
ers free, il sent TO some recognized COM
mittee. The shipments will be turned over
to the Union Pacific at Fremont
other Towns Get Busy.
FREMONT, Neb., April 2O-(special.)-
On Wednesday afternoon w. r. Wilson
started a fund for the relief of the Cali
fornia people who are suffering from fire
and earthquake and yesterday a number of
subscriptions were added Today Wilson
Reynolds circulated a paper and raised
about $500 in a few hours this morning
None of the people here who have friends
or relatives in the devastated districts have
been able to hear from them.
BEATRICE, Neb, April 20.-(Special Tel
egram.)- AT a meeting of the city council
today it was decided to ask citizens to
aid in sending carload of provisions to
the San Francisco sufferers. Acting under
instructions from Adjutant General Culver
Captain ]. c. Penrod of Company today
shipped number of tents and equipage to
the stricken city. The Beatrice military
band has decided to give a concert Sunday
afternoon, the proceeds of which are to be
sent direct TO San Francisco.
The San Francisco relief committee will
start n carload Of Beatrice cereal mill corn
meal in ten-pound sacks over the Union Pa
cihc tomorrow for the stricken city The
money for the purchase of the meal was
raised in two hours. Citizens are subscrib-
ing literally for further aid.
HoLDREGE, Neb., April 2O.-(Special
Telegram mayor Uhlig called a mass
meeting of business men and citizens to-
night to take action toward relief for the
people at San Francisco. The court house
was filled and in less than thirty minutes
it was decided to ship a car of four an the
irst train that would carry it and pro-
vision was also made for the -four Com
mittees were appointed to canvass the city
and county for funds and complete the
work by Saturday night. Some of the COM
mittees were at work even tonight.
SCHUYLER, Neb.. April 20-CSpecial
Telegram To-day about 10 o'clock Mayor
Arnold received telegram from Governor
Mickey asking him TO start relief fund
for the people In San Francisco. Mayor
Arnold started out and in a few hours
had enough to insure the shipping Of a
car. The car was loaded this afternoon
and is ready to go out. The car, which
was loaded at the mill, consists Of -four
and cornmeal in eight pound sacks. Cap
tain Johnson OF Company X today re-
ceived orders from Lincoln to ship all the
blankets and tents at once. Everything
was shipped this afternoon, as the COM
pany packed IL at once.
TECUMSEH, Neb.. April 2O.-(Special
Telegram.)-At mass meeting Of citizens
held here tonight il was decided that
Tecumseh would forward at once a car
load of cornmeal for the shipment from
Nebraska OF provisions 10 the San Fran
cisco victims. A second car to contain
miscellaneous provisions will be raised in
and around the city.
BLAIR, Neb., April 2O.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-A telegram was received today by
Mayor Williams from Governor Mickey
calling notice 20 the urgent need Of aid by
the earthquake sufferers at San Francisco