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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-24

Total .S12, 1882 %
It will be seen that the above eight rail
Blufs In the SUN of Sl2, 1872 20. However,
we do not receive this full amount, as
some Of the railroads refuse to pay water
and lighting levies upon portion of their
main tract which they claim Is OUT of
reach of these benefits.
OF the last named eight railroads I have
recently had occasion TO place the valua-
ton upon their property. and after much
time spent with experienced assistants as
TO values placed value upon their vis-
BILE property, which would not include
their charters and established business, of
S,4IS,241 and l doubt II three times that
amount would buy their property. Upon
the value which 1 arrived at, II they paid
taxes upon such value. the city would re-
ceive the sum Of S62,6OS, where they now
proximatey $4,000
The city cannot afford to have its valua-
ton cut down to a basis that the assessors
assess the farm land at, for it would not
gives US funds sufficient TO maintin govern
ment Today the limited 1O-mill levy for
general fund purposes brings us i'm only
$4,000 to meet all Of our expenses payable
from the general fund and we are depen-
dent upon saloon licenses, fines from the
unfortunates permits for certain privi-
leges and the like to pay the balance Of
the $4,000 to $4,000 annual expense.
City Financial Statement.
His report shows that the expenditures
of the city for the fiscal year ending March
81, 1907, were S244, 1929. At the beginning of
the year there was a balance on hand of
$6S,O5292 while the receipts were $267, 1926,
leaving balance on hand March 81 1877, of
S91, SS319
There was disbursed from the general
fund, out Of which the expenses of the sew
eral municipal departments are paid SS3-
64I56. From the 1O-mill levy for this fund
the revenue was but $36,95149 The balance
was made up from saloon licenses, police
court fines and forfeitures, and other uncer-
tain items, going to make up what is known
as the police fund" although the expense
of maintaining the police department is
not paid out Of this fund. During the last
year $52,24316 was transferred from the po-
lice fund to the general fund to meet the
running expenses of the city.
During the year the city has paid $40, 500
In bonds, as follows:
on the $500 loan ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1000
On intersection paving bonds ........., 1900
............................$ 1880
There has also been called for payment
g 500 on intersection paving bonds, which at
this time have not been presented for pay
ment. This leaves the outstanding bonded
Indebtedness of the city S2S3,OO0, as follows:
Intersection paving .....................$ &C, 500
Intersection grading ..................... 1900
Intersection sewer ....................... 5000
Ian OF S9S'Vy b25O
Loan OF SSO,OO 10000
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .S2S3 coo
There is on hand in funds applicable to
the reduction Of this bonded indebtedness to
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-24
DismantIinE Light Tower.

Petersen a schoenins sell mating.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-24

Give us your order for that spring car
pet We do the rest-sew, lay and fit IT
right to your room. D. w. Keller, 1o3 S.
Main
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-24

N. Y. Plumbing Co. Tel. $50 Night Los
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-24
LevIgne TO Nebraska.

Governor Cummins today signed the
papers granting the requisition for Ed
ward Levigne, who is under arrest at
Sioux City and is wanted in Red Willow
county, Nebraska, for counterfeiting The
evidence seems to show that he manufac-
tured several so notes of the Merchants
and Planters bank of Savannah, Ga, Of
the date of June %, 1856. It is claimed
that he was one of a gang of counter
letters
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
JUDGE HARGls ACQUITTED.
Verdict of Not Guilty in Kentucky
Feud Murder.

"
lexington, Ky, May 23.-The jury
In the case of Judge James Hargis,
charged with the murder of Thomas
aCockrill, returned a verdict of not
guilty.
This is the second acquittal of Har-
gts, he having been declared not guilty
of the murder of James B.. Marcum
at his trial at B%eattyville last July.
Cockrill, who vas marshal of Jack
son, Vas shot in the courthouse at
Jackson June 81, 1904. He died later
at Lexington, where he had been
taken for medical attention. During
the trial several witnesses swore that
Judge Hargis, his brothers and Sheriff
Ed Callahan had entered into a MUIR
der conspiracy promising immunity to
any one who would shoot Cockrill,
DR.. B. ID. Cox and j. B. Marcum, all
three of whom have since died by
shooting. The defense, however, pre-
scented testimony tending to disprove
the conspiracy charge and Judge Har-
gls, testifying in his own behalf. de-
MED all connection with the shooting.
Curtis Jett, who confessed to killing
Marcum, for which he was given a
life sentence, was a witness against
Judge Hargis.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
Tuesday, May 2s.

Paul Moran, son Of Thomas Moran,
the New York landscape painter and
himself a portrait painter. is dead at
Los Angeles. Cal.
Dallas Sanders, one Of the best
known Democrats in Pennsylvania
politics and a prominent attorney of
Philadelphia, is dead at Atlantic City,
N. j.
Half a block Of buildings at Love-
lock. New, were destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of $4,000. A man whose
identity is unknown was burned to
death.
A severe wind and electrical storm
did much damage in different parts of
Indiana. Trees and fences were blown
down and houses in many localities
were destroyed.
Francis Ludlow Clark, a we'll known
inventor, chief engineer Of the West
inghouse Airbrake company and de.
signer of the Westinghouse airbrake,
Is dead at Los Angeles. Cal.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
A@sHii
Would Enforce the Laws.

Enforce the laws" was the g1st II a
message of Governor John Burke to
the states attorneys of North Dako-
ia at their convention in Grand Forks.
Particularly significant was the refer
ence to certain laws passed by the re-
cent legislature which the governor
insists shall be enforced. The mes
sage is one of the most important ut
terances of Governor Burke since he
assumed office. The governor was
emphatic in his declaration that the
tax law be enforced in such a manner
as to provide against unjust and IN
equal taxation. He said it was the
especial duty of the states attorneys
to enforce t G law against commercial
discrimination, the violation of liquor
licenses and to enforce the pure drug
act, the regulation of stock food, the
regulation of the Seizure of liquors
and the pure food act. The states at
torneys declared in favor of the as
sessment of property at it's full value
and adjourned, having concluded their
work.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
AT LEAST EIGHT ARE DEAD
Lodginghouse at San Jose, CAL,
Destroyed by Fire.

San Jose, CAL, May 25.-At least
eight persons were burned to death
by a fire that destroyed the Union
lodginghouse. Firemen are digging
out the bodies as rapidly as the still
s~mouldering ruins will permit.
The fire started in the zeal of Fred
erick Browns commission store in
North Market street near st. James
and soon spread to G. w. Lafferty's
livery stable and to the Union lodging
house above the stable. There were
forty sleeping dodgers in the Union
house and they were awakened by
the twenty terrified horses in the sta
Bile, which were hemmed in and STAN
peded by the flames.
Rushing into the halls in their night
garments the dodgers CROPPED .their
way through the choking. binding
smoke, led by the voices of the fire
men. Many Of the dodgers made their
escape. 1t is believed eight or ten
were burned to death and it is consid-
cred miraculous that all were not Gre
mata6
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
BRIEF ITEMS OF news
Minor Events Of Interest From All
Parts Of the World.
Wednesday, May 22.

Bank robbers cracked the safe in
the bank at Winnebago City, Neb.
They secured about $1,000.
The Spanish naval estimates pro
vide for the expenditure in 1907 OF
%$10,000,000 and in succeeding years OF
$13,O0O,O 900.
Sir Joseph Fayron, physician extra
ordinary to King Edward, is dead. He
was born in 1924, served in the army
throughout the Indian mutiny and re
tired as surgeon general.
A heavy frost occurred over the
eastern half of Kentucky Monday
night and is believed to have about
completed the work of killing fruit.
In a wreck neal Little Falls, N. Y.
of the Buffalo-C Cleveland special, west,
bound from New York city on the
New York Central railroad; one mar
was killed and two were critically
injured.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
DAKOTA NEWS
items Of a Week From Various
Parts Of the State.
Plant Of the Standard Oil Company at
Bismarck Destroyed by a sSec-
tacular Fire-cramer Jury
Disagrees.

A spectacular fire occurred at Bis
marck when the plant of the Standard
Oil company burned. 1t was a total
loss. 1t is not known how the fire
started. An employee had been work
ing in the storeroom, which was used
solely for filling small tanks and bar
rels from the large tanks Of kerosene
and gasoline which stood outside. The
fire started in this room soon after the
man left. When the fire department
reached the scene there was some de-
lay owing to the distance to the n.y.
drant and the fire was soon beyond
control. It made a great sight, as the
Gil escaped from the tanks and made
q blaze that blistered the creamery,
the nearest building, which was saved
by the firement. An immense crowd
gathered and had just been driven
back by the police when two small
tanks exploded, throwing burning oil
a considerable distance. Shortly after
wards a gasoline tank blew up with a
loud report, the explosion cutting the
tank in two and sending the parts 600
feet horizontally. Fortunately no one
was hurt. :. ,,-f7r, n-+
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
BODY FOUND IN TRUNK.
Armenian Priest Murdered In Ns~
York City.

New York, May 27.-Rev. Father
Kasper, aged sixty, of the Armenian
Apostolic church of Hoboken, N. j.,
was murdered in this city some time
last week.
The body has been found in a trunk
which had been left as security for
their rent by two Greeks who three
weeks ago engaged a furnished room
Of Mrs. Henry Sherer, who occupies
the third floor of a tenement at 1873
West Thirty-seventh street.
The body was found in a kneeling
posture with the head bound against
the knees by a heavy strap which
passed over the back of the neck and
was buckled under the shins.
DR.. Leblanc, the coroner's physician,
gave It as his opinion that the man
vas thrust into the trunk while alive
and the owe of the trunk held down
until death ensued. The condition of
the organs was found to be similar to
those in cases of asphyxiation.
Father kasper, carrying a small
leather bag In which his collections
were placed, came to be a familiar
figure in Greek and Armenian circles
here and it is believed that he was
murdered for the money he carried.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
cramer Jury Fails to Agree.

After being out more than ninety
four hours, the Cramer murier case
jury at Fargo was discharged. Their
deliberations covered a longer period
than that of any former jury ever sum
moned in CNss county. From the first,
it is asserted, the jurors stood six to
six, and neither side would yield.
States Attorney Bennett announces
that he will retry the case at the next
term. Two juries have disagreed.
Mrs. Cramer's crime was ordering her
son to shoot his father. They had
many years of domestic discord, re-
sulting in at least half a dozen separa-
lions. There was no difference in the
testimony as to Mrs. Cramer's order
ing the shot to be fired, but the de-
Tense claimed she was justified.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
BRIBERY is The CHARGE
Another Batch of Indictments
at San Francisco.

San Francisco, May 25.-The grand
jury has returned bribery indictments
as follows:
Against President Calhoun Of the
United Railroads., IA; against Assis-
tant to President Thornwall Mutually,
IA; against Attorneys TREY l.. Ford
and W. M. Abbott Of the legal depart
ment of the United Railroads, IA each;
against Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, 1s;
against Abraham Ruef, IA; against
President Louis Glass of the Pacific
States Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany, 2; against Theodore v. Halsey,
formerly an agent of that corpora
ton, 1.
Ruef, schmitz, Calhoun. Mutually,
Ford and Abbott vare charged with
bribing fourteen supervisors to grant
an overhead trolley franchise to the
United Railroads. Schmitz is further
charged with bribery in connection
with the fixing of the gas company's
rate and with receiving $4,000 in the
United Railroad franchise deal.
The indictments against Glass are ad.
ditional to the eleven indictments al,
ready returned against him on the
charge of briIing supervisors to re-
fuse a competitive telephone franchise.
The indictment against Halsey is for
the same o%ffense.
Superior Judge Coffey fixed bail in
the sum of 100000 on each of the
charges and gave the accused one day
to furnish bonds.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
Monday, May ~.

The condition of Miss Ethel Barry
more, who is i'll at the Auditorium ho-
tel in Chicago, is said to be much i'm
proved.
The Commercial club of Chicago
will entertain General Kuroki at a
dinner to be given at the Auditorium
hotel Friday evening, May 81.
The projected track and field meet
between Harvard and Yale and Ok
ford and Cambridge is off for the pres
ent year, Oxford and Cambridge hav-
ing definitely decided that they are
unable to send a team to America.
Major General Olson, the Norwegian
minister of defense, has resigned and
his portfolio has temporarily been as.
sumed by Premier Nicholson. General
Olson complained that. his colleagues
failed to support his plans for ma
tional defense.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
AFFECTS IS, 600 OPERATIVES
Increase in Wages in New England
Cotton Mills.

Boston, May 27.-The general up
ward movement in the wages of New
England cotton mill operatives Mon
day affected about $4,000 operatives
in Rhode Island, Southeastern and
Western Massachusetts, Amesbury,
Mass, P~ownavale and other places in
Southern New England. The advances
in the sections named amount to about
10 per cent. Early next month it is
expected an increase of S per cent will
be given in many mills in other manu-
featuring districts. The cotton mills
of New England employ upwards Of
20h,0 600 hands when the machinery is
fully manned.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
MRS, M'NNLEY DEAD
Widow Of Late President Passes
Away at Canton, 0.
PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY
Transition From Life to Death So
Gradual That Physicians Noted
II With Difficulty.

Canton, O., May 27.-After thirty
years of illness and suffering Mrs.
William Mckinley, widow of the late
martyred president, is dead. The
transition from life to death was so
gradual that it was with difficulty that
the attending doctors noted when dis
solution came.
There was no struggle-no pain.
Mrs. Mckinley never knew of the eff
forts made for days to prolong her
life, nor of the solicitous hope against
hope of her sister and other relatives
for her recovery.
At the Mckinley home when death
came there were present Secretary
Cortelyou, Mr.. and Mrs. M. C. Barber,
Mrs. Sarah Duncan, Mrs. Luther Day,
Justice and Mrs. William R. Day,
Doctors Portmann and RiXey and the
nurses.
1t is announced that President
Roosevelt and Secretary Loeb will ar
rive in Canton Wednesday morning to
attend the funeral. Vice President
Fairbanks, who had often been a guest
Of the McKinleys, is expected to
reach here on time to attend the serv-
ices.
The body Of Mrs. Mckinley will be
placed in the vault in West Lawn Gem
etery, which holds the body Of her
husband, until the completion of the
national mausoleum on Monument
hill, when both caskets will be trans
ferred to receptacles in that tomb.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
TO GUST OIL TRUST
Commissioner Named by Missouri
Supreme Court Reports.
FINDS COMBINATION EXISTS
Standard, Waters-Pierce and Republic
Companies in an Agreement to
Prevent Competition.

Jefferson City, Mo-, May 24.-Com-
missioner Anthony, appointed by the
Missouri supreme court to take testi-
mony in the custer suit Of the state
against the Standard Oil company, in
his report made to the court holds
that the evidence introduced before
him is sufficient to GUST the Standard
Oil company and tributary companies
from Missouri. His findings hold that
the Standard, Waters-Pierce and Re
public OIL companies entered into an
agreement to control the prices Of Oil.
He recommends that their charters
be revoked and that they be ousted
from the state. In his report he holds
that the supreme court has the au-
thority to make the ruling Of custer.
Attorney General Hadley filed the
suit in the supreme court two years
ago, charging that the Standard Oil
company, the Waters-Pierce Oil COM
pany and the Republic Oil company
were in a trust and were parties to a
conspiracy to control the price of oil
and petroleum products in Missouri
and to limit and prevent competition
in the oil business. More than a year
has been occupied in the taking of the
testimony, witnesses having been TX
amined in New York, st. Louis and
other cities.
Testimony Reviewed in Detail.
In his report to the court Judge
Anthony reviews in detail the testi-
mony showing the organization and
conduct Of the companies. He re-
ports to the court that the evidence
shows that in 1901 the Standard, Wa
ters-Pierce and Republic Oil COM
panies entered into an agreement,
which continued to exist up to the
time of the filing of the suit, for the
purpose of fixing and controlling the
prices to be paid by retail dealers
and others in Missouri for the prod
ucts of petroleum and to limit and
prevent competition in the business
of buying and selling oil.
The report Of Commissioner An
thony will now be reviewed by the
supreme court. The court may affirm
the findings of the commissioner or
1t may remand the case to him with
directions for further proceedings.
If the report should be affirmed and
the findings Of the commissioner
adopted by the court the court will
then have power to take from the
Waters-Pierce Oil company, which is
a Missouri corporation, its franchise
rights as a corporation. With regard
to the Standard and Republic COM
panies. both of which are foreign cor
porations. the court would have power
to cancel their right to do business in
Missouri.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
Can Have ArmorIes.

The state armory board met last
week and chose the five companies Of
the state guard who are first to be
given a chance to secure an armory
with state aid. They are the battery
and band. Lisbon; Company X, Dick
inson; Company l., Hillsboro; Com
pany A, Bismarck, and Company G.,
Valley City. When a company Sc
cures a site and $4,000 it can apply to
the state armory board and the state
will add $4,000 for a new building, title
to which is to remain in the state,
with the ortion to the company Of
purchasing 1t at any time.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
THEODORE TILT0N DEAD.
Plaintiff in Famous Suit Against
Henry Ward Beecher.

Paris, May 25.-Theodore Tilton is
dead. For some days past Mr.. Tilton
had been suffering from double pneu-
monia, complicated with heart trouble.
Theodore Tilton. author and jour
nalist, was born in New York Oct. 9,
1885, and graduated at the College of
the City of New York. He was editor
of the Independent, New York, from
1856 to 1870; editor of the Golden Age
from 1871 to 1874 and from 1874 to
1876 he was editor of the Brooklyn
Union. In August, 1874, Mr.. Tilton
sued Henry Ward Beecher for $1OO, 900
damages for the alienation of Mrs.
Tilton's affections. The trial lasted
112 days and resulted in a disagree
ment. Mr.. Tilton had lived in Paris
since 1898. His last known work was
a poem, published last year. entitled
"Tbe Fading of the May Flower"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
SIGNED BY THE EMPEROR
German Modus Vivendi Regulating
Tariff Rates,

Washington, May 25.-The secre-
tary of the German embassy has noti-
fled Secretary Root that the German
emperor has signed the bill passed. by
the reichstag recently giving effect to
the modus vivendi regulating the tar
tff rates between Germany and the
United States. Accordingly in a few
days the pr esident will issue a proc
lamation announcing this fact. The
ley duties provided for in the ar
rangement will go into effect July l.,
but the amended treasury regulations
In Difference to German desires will
take effect Immediately upon the issu-
ing of the proclamation.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
Bell Boy Is Shot.

Elmer Norson, eighteen years old,
whose home is at Benson, Mimi, but
who has been working as a bell boy
at a Fargo hotel, was shot and serious
,iy wounded by the accidental dis
charge of a revolver which he was ex-
hibiting to a fellow employee. The
gun was loaded, but when Norson
handed it to his companion he failed
to tell him of this fact. The latter
pointed the pistol downward and
pulled the trigger, the ball penetrating
the feshy part of Norson's leg. I'm
less blood poisoning intervenes the
physicians say that the boy will re-
cover.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
SITUATION is SERIOUS.
German Mission at Lienchow, China
Destroyed.

Berlin, May 27.-According to dis
patches received here from Sanghai
and Hongkong native rioters have de-
stroyed the German mission station at
%Lienchow, near Pakhoi. The mission
aries escaped. The German gunboat
1ltis, reinforced by twenty marines
from the gunboat Tsingtau, has left
Hongkong for Pakhoi and it is ex-
rected that a British gunboat will also
be sent to that port.
According to advices received by
the German Gable company from
Shanghai disturbances have also
broken out at Pakhoi and the situa-
ton there, as at Lienchow, is appar.
entity serious.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
PANEL is EXHAUSTED.
steunenberg Murder Trial Is Again
INTERRUPTED,

Boise. Ida, May 2s.-The steunen-
berg murder trial has again been in
%terrupted by the exhaustion of the
jury panel. The last man of the Sec
ono special venire was disqualified and
Judge Fremont Wood postponed the
trial until Friday morning, when Sher-
If shad Hodgin is to produce another
special venire of sixty-one men. The
odd number was jocularly asked for
by the defense in the hope Of changing
the luck that has logged the even
numbers used.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
PLOT TO KILL KAISER.
Thirty-five Suspects Arrested in Ger
man Capital.

London, May 25.-The Berlin CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail says that
the arrest recently Of several Russian
students there was the result of accu-
mulated evidence that they were asso-
ciated with a Russo-German plot to
as~sassinate the kaiser. Thirty-ive, in
Guiding three women, were arrested.
twenty-five have since been released
upon the establishment of their COM
parative innocence. Six of the others
r expelled from the country.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-30
Saturday., May rs.

Former United States Senator John
Patton is dead at Grand Rapids, Mich,
of typhoid fever.
While on trial on a charge of having
murdered an Italian butcher in Brook
lyn Rocco Panagiro, an Italian, COM
mitted suicide Friday in Jail by hang
ing himself with his belt to his cell
door.
Dispatches to Dun's Trade Review
indicate that Improvement Is slow in
business and agricultural conditions.
but most sections of the country ex-
perience somewhat more seasonable
weather.
George F. Chapman, vice president
and general manager of the United
Railroads, is dead at San Francisco.
Mr.. Chapman contracted a cold a week
ago which rapidly developed into pneu-
monia. He was forty-four years of
age.