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Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
NIGHT RIDERS ARE cENsoRs
boys Given Severe WhippinE bs
Masked Men Because They
Refuse TO Work.

wAVERLY, Tenn. Nov G.-Two boys
named Baker living near the Tennessee
river. were given a severe whipping by
masked night riders last night for the
reason, as given by the riders, that they
would not work.
The boys were then told to go and show
the switches TO preacher and tell him
why they were whipped and ask him TO
pray for them.
John Walker, who lives further up the
river at Daniels Landing was also visited
by band OF riders who forced him to
run up and down half-mile lane until he
was exhausted. while they cut at him with
whips. He was told he had been talking
too much.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
TANG SHAo VI ENRoUTE EAST
Distinguished Chinese Diplomat and
Suite VIII Pass Through Omaha
Saturday Evening.

OGDEN, Utah, Nov. 27-The special
train of seven cars carrying the Chinese
special envoy Tang Shao vi and encourage
reached the Union depot at i2;5 this after
noon, en- route to Washington to convey
the thanks of his government to President
Roosevelt and the American government
for international courtesies OF an appre-
clable character.
The train, on the Union Pacific, will
reach Omaha at p. IN. Saturday. The
ambassador expressed grateful apprecia-
ton OF the kindly reception accorded the
party since it's arrival on the steamer Mon
golia.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
PU VI SOON TO ASCEND THRONE
Infant Emperor OF China viii Re-
ceive FeaIty OF Dignataries
of Nation.

PEKING, Nov. a6-The government has
decided upon December ?. as the date for
the ceremonies attending Pu Yrs ascension
to the throne. On this day the officials OF
Peking and all the members OF the imperial
claim. viii acknowledge fealty to the in
fant emperor OF China.
II has been understood tat :his ceremony
was to be performed on New Years day
when the era OF the late Kuagh Hsu ex-
pired. The apparent urgency Of the gov
eminent is aseribed 20 desire 10 relieve
the anxiety OF the official class.
A reward OF 1000 taels has been offered
for the apprehension Of the leader OF the
recent revolutionary outbreak at Marking.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
TWENTY MILLION LUMBER DEAL
Combine Alleged to he In Formation
to COn1rOI white Pine
situation.

CHICAGO, Nov. 1.-The Tribphs today
says: Chicago is to become the sole sell
ing headquarters of the new lumber COM
bination and Edward Hines Is to be pTesi-
dent OF the syndicate.
while figures publicity stated have fixed
the combination as a t2o0o0,0oo affair COM
peting lumber interests can see no limit
TO it's capitalization, but at the same time
they expressed no fear OF its attempting TO
restrain trade by fixing prices. Frederick
Weyerhaeuser, the lumber king of the con-
tinentsi Mr.. Hines and others directly
concerned vanished from Chicago yester-
day and It is believed they had gone to
the home of Mr. weyerhaeuser at St Paul.
II Is believed they are completing the de-
tails Of the combination.
"A new capitalist named In the venture
was T b. Walker. the largest individual
owner OF standing white pine in the world,
Mr.. Weyerhaeuser and Mr.. walker, II is
said, have made previous attempts to ar
rive at a business understanding. Mr..
Walker has played a silent game in the
lumber trade. tying up every dollar avail
able in standing timber and not selling
often.
''The new combination not only controls
the key to the white pine situation. but
it also has large voice in the hemlock
yellow, southern and western pine fields
Mr., Weyerhaeuser controlling the supply
Of Mississippi.
"Cloquet, MINI, is the center OF pro-
duction of white pine and the controlling
elements there are Mr.. Weyerhaeuser, the
Northern Lumber company, the Cioquei
Lumber company, and the Johnson Went,
worth Lumber company-whlch also came
into the new combination with Cooke and
O'Rriau neOnle
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
BILLIK'S MOTHER IS DEAD
Loses consciousness on ReceivinE
Farewell Letter from Her Sen,
Condemned 20 Die.

: CLEVELAND. O.. Nov. e7.--Mrs. Barbara
Billik, mother OF Herman Blllik. who Is
under sentence Of death at Chicago. died at
her home here today. She had suffered
from heart trouble and dropsy for several
months. On Wednesday last Mrs. Billik
received a farewell letter from her son.
While reading this she fell into faint and
was revived only after several hours OF
unconsciousness Since then her death has
been expected at any moment.
Several months ago Mrs, BlIlk arranged
with an undertaken to burY the bodies OF
herself and son side BY slde In . local
cemetery.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
MORE CHOLERA IN RUSSIA
Many New Cases of Disease In Well
tO-DO Families Are Re-
ported,

ST. PRRTEsBURG, Nov. H.-Asiatic
cholera, which. since Its prevalence here
three months ago, had been thought to be
exterminated seems to have broken out
afresh. In the last twenty-four hours there
were twenty-seven new cases in this city
The new cases are mostly in well-to-do
families and they show all the virulence OF
the early days OF the epidemic
Since the beginning Of the epidemic there
has been a total OF slS4 cases. s.S0O deaths,
and ass reeoVeriez For several weeks
past the number Of new cases in the capital
has averaged less then ten.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
SENTENCE UPON MRS. CLARK
Court. In Answer 20 Plea for Mercy,
says the Jary Has Done
Enough.

VBRMLIoN. S. D., Nov. 27-Cspecial rsle-
sram. )--Three years and ten months at
hard labor was the sentence pronounced on
chrtstlana Clark. by Judge f. G. Smith to-
Say for the killing OF her husband, August
1s last 1t was the maximum sentence
under the verdict OF manslaughter in the
,.cona degree returned by the jury, with
the exception OF the tiOOo fine,
From his remarks In answering plea
,or mercy for the defendant by Attorney
Jolisv Judge smith made Il plain that
th. tury had shown sufficient mercy in
xi.w of the evidence. The General feeling
A. tbat the defendant is getting off easy.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
INSPECTORS BUSY ON WRECK
Investigation Being Made whether
NavisatOrE Used Due Precau-
tiOnA Before Crash.

NEW YORK. Nov e7.-Government in
spectors will begin today an investigation
OF the cause OF the collision between the
Georgia and the Finance. Captain Now
bray Of the Finance has been quoted as
saying that he saw the Georgia when ii
was nearly a mile distant and that the
collision would have been avoided il that
vessel had backed its engines and put its
helm to port
on the other hand, Captain Clarke OF tho
Georgia said that the Finance did not OBJ
serve the signals to pass on the port side
Of the Georgic.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
DOMESTIC.

Ray Lamphere is given an indie
terminate sentence of from one to twenty
one years for the crime of arson. Page
Judge Taft is pursuing his policy of
securing revision of the tariff Page /
A $4,000, 900 lumber deal is in process
Of formation. by which the white pine
interests will be consolidated. Page /
Herman Billiks mother died when she
received the farewell letter from her son,
Page 1
Nebraska cattle are being sh own at the
international show at Chicago Page
1t has been officially announced that
Frank Hitchcock will be appointed post
master general by the next president.
Page
Inspectors are busy investigating the
cause of the loss of the steamer Finance,
Page
Massachusetts, representative says he
believes the rules of the house, and not
the speaker, are at fault for existing
legislative conditions. Page
William Hayward is in Washington to
attend the banquet to be given by Frank
Hitchcock, chairman of the republican
national committee. Page ]
A locomotive boiler on the Katy" road
exploded near Parsons, Kan. killing two
men. Page /
rang SnOO IL SpeCldl aHlpaSSduoT IToh
China, will pass through Omaha Saturday
evening at o'clock. Page j
FoREraN.
Cholera has broken out afresh in Russia
and many deaths are resulting among the
high-born. Page q
Pu VI will soon ascend the throne of
China and all the dignitaries of the en-
pire will swear featty. PaGe
France Is completely aroused over IN Q
case of Mime: Steinheil: Pege
General Leconte reappears after 1t was
reported he had been shot in the interior
of Hayti. Page 2
Cat gets into hot air pipe of furnace
in an Omaha home and creates commo-
tion. Page z
President Schurman of Cornell uni
versity to be one of the speakers at the
Corn show Page 9
Measure is being drawn for introduc-
ton which is intended to clip the claws
o fthe loan sharks. Page
II. Il. Palmer to erect large building
at the corner of Twentieth and Farnam.
Page .
Charles Leonard, who stole trunk con-
taining $4,000 worth of jewelry. gets a
three-years sentence. Page
Democratic members OF the present city
council are coy about Saying whether
they will be candidates for reconciliation.
Page 5
oolx1IH1CIAL AND INDusTRIAL.
Live stock markets. Page ID
| Grain markets. Page IL
! Stocks and bonds. Page IL
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
PEARSON HAS MORE CASH
Chicago PhIIanthrOpist VIII Soon
Give Away Three Millions
MOee.

LOS ANGELES. Cal. Nov. z7.-Dr. d. X
Pearson. the millionaire philanthropist OF
Chicago about whom statement Yves
published some days ago that his benefac-
tions had depleted his fortune and left
him $4,000 in deficit. is quoted in a morn
ing paper as declaring that the story is all
''bosh."
DIR. Pearson is also quoted as saying that
he has 100000 more TO give to educational
institutions in this country. which gifts
he will begin TO bestow next July.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
HITCHCOCK IN THE CABINET
Chairman OF ReDubIiean Committee
Ffrst one Named for Position
by Judge Taft.

NEW YORK, Nov, a.-rhe Associated
Press Is authorized to announce that Mr.
Frank II. Hitchcock has been offered and
has accepted the position OF postmaster
general IN Mr.. raft's cabinet. THIS IL the
first cabinet position filled
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
SPECIAL SESSION IN OHIO
Governor Harris Announces He VIII
Call Legislature January TO
Elect Senator.

COLUMBUS, o., Nov 2l-G0Yernor
Harris announced today that he will call
the Legislature In extra session to meet on
January T. The legislature will vote on
United States senator On the following
Wednesday.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
or oOHAN aTNAlkaGIPe
LOCOMOTIVE BOILER ExPLoDEs
MoEul Engine Just overhsuled II
shops Blows Up, killing
Two Men.

PARSONS Kan, Nov. 2L-Two men are
dead and another is expected TO die as a
result of the explosion Of a Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas freight engine near 1denbro.
Kan, six miles south OF here. The dead:
FRANK r. MELVILLE. engineer, Par
son, Kan.
F. +. wULF, fireman. Dallas. Tex.
Fatally injured
c. f. Roe, brakeman.
Engineer Melville's body was horribly
msngled. Wulfs body was carried more
than 500 feet from the track.
The engine. a Mogul, was turned out OF
the shops yesterday after complete over
hauling II was one OF the most powerful
on the system. No damage was done TO
the train,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
Decision to Insist Upon Action Along
Line of Platform Strengthened.
CONFERENCE WITH WOODRUFF
New York Chairman Comes to Discuss
Senatorship.
AvoR TARIFF COMMISSION
New York Merchants Association
Goes on Record for Creation of
Permanent National
Body.

HOT SPRINGS. Va, Nov. 2I.-President-
elect Tstt's announced position In favor Of
a thorough tariff revision Is being approved
in a correspondence which is developing to
the extent OF more than a hundred letters
a day. Mr.. Taft's determination in this
respect continues and the trend OF recently
expressed sentiment is most satisfactory
to him.
New Yorks republican state chairman,
Timothy L. Woodruff. arrived here today.
He said:
"I expect to have general talk with Mr.
Taft. who, when in Brooklyn, invited me
down here. We shall discuss the New York
state political situation and the United
States senatorship. l have not yet de-
fined my position as to the senatorship, but
may do so later"
The president-elect had another confer
ence with Mr. Hitchcock this afternoon.
The visit of the national chairman ended
tonight, when he returned to Washington
to attend n dinner to be given in his honor
tomorrow night.
FavOrs Tariff Comm mIssion.
| NEW YORK. Nov. T.-Resolutions ask
ing for the creation of permanent
tional tariff commission were today passed
by the board of directors Of the Merchants
association of this citys The association
asks for IAN early, comprehensive and
thorough revision of the tariff"
Provision is asked in the expected tariff
| legislation by congress for the negotiation
OF commercial agreements with foreign
nations on the basis OF maximum and
minimum tariff. conceding the minimum
rates to foreign countries which reclprocate
by giving minimum rates on American
| products
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
Two Men sentenced.

CHICAGO. Nov 2L-William L. Tlden
and chauneey l.. Graham. officials OF the
American Steel Ball company. were SEN
fenced today by Judge Chetlain In the
superior court 10 serve a term OF one 10
twenty years in the penitsntiaFy on charges
~ conspiracy.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28
TEE WEATHER.

FOR OMAHA. COUNCIL BLUFFS AND
VICINITY-Fair and warmer Saturday.
FOR NEBRASKA-Fair and warmer sat
urday.
FOR IoWA-Fair, with rising tempera-
ture. Saturday.
Temperature at Omaha yesterday:
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-28

1eIeEates TO Rive Congress.

Mayor Dahlman has appointed number
of the leading citizens of Omaha as dele
gates to the National Rivers and Harbor'
congress, which meets in this city on De
cember 8. Governor Sheldon has not ye
forwarded to the secretary OF the congress
the list of delegates from Nebraska, bu
It IS thought the list will arrive early mex
week
New-York tribune., 1908-04-22
NEW YORK TO FIGHTN. }.
Passaic Valley Commission S"bm'ts
Plan for sI2, ,25O, 900 Flume.

Edward Hatch ir. member of the New YORK
Merchants Associations committee on Haroor POI
luton said night that his association was
prepared to fight New Jersey in its proposed plan
to terminate its Passaic Valley trunk sewer IN
New York Bay The report Of the PassaIc NaIIey
Sewerage Commission announced yesterday
and it ignores the protest made by New 4orH
against the pollution of its harbor. The trunk
sewer is to cost somewhere in the neighborhood
Of S2 600. and conteTnplates taking the sewage
Of all cities in Essex, Passaic. Bergen and HUI
son, emptying it into a submarine tunnel in NeVafN
Bay, which will have its final outlet IN New YORK
Harbor near Robbins Reef
The report OF the Passaic Valley Sewerage Com
mission which ready for distribution to the
authorities Of the various municipalities through
which the trunk sewer viii pass. give a compre-
hensive statement OF facts and estimates relative
10 the construction OF the proposed fume from
Paterson point in New York Bay near Rob
bins Reef.
Estimates made by Rudolph Herring and George
W Fuller. engineers to the commission place the
maximum cost al Sl225O000 including $4,000 needed
to secure property rights. These figures are con
frrned by Alien Hazen. William II. Brown and
EdIow W Harrison engineers. who conducted in
vestisations as this phase Of the work indepen-
dent Of each other. The estimated cost Of opera
ton and maintenance At the outset. based on an
average daily flow OF I4o.O00c0 gallons, is $1,000
per annun increasing gradually 10 s2s3000 Sear!y.
when il is estimated. the full capacity OF 5s9GUV0
gallons a dav will have been reached According 10
= tabilation appended the report. the sewer viii
be constructed so as TO provide for population Of
6aq 40 which it is calculated. Will be attained in
1910 The territory cared for totals 61s27 acres.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-22
MITCHELL UINS POINT
Can Use Geis@Ier-Haas Co. Books
an Hdfen inquiry.

After trying for long time TO set a glance at
the books Of the Geiszler-Haas Realty Company
TO study the facts and figures Of that proceeding
by which the city had to pay about $1,000 for
land and water al Hunts Point assessed for $500,
John Purroy Mitchell, Commissioner OF Accounts,
viii have his opportunity to-day.
Joseph lavender, Eugene Schwetzer, julius W
Haas and Alois Geiszer, directors of the comp ny,
appeared yesterday under subpoena before Com
missioner Mitchell Alois Geiszler IS the Of
Borough President Hafen's superintendent Of high
ways. who is stn absent from the city. Justice
John J. Brady of the Supreme Court, another di-
rector, not present.
Commissioner Mitchell had told the directors that
he had the information he wanted, but he de
sired the examination for a matter Of record il
connection with the Haffea investigation The per
mission was obtained condition that only such
facts and figures which may have direct bearing
on the Hafen investigation VIII be made public
by the commissioner
Before Mr.. Lavender read the statement giving
access 10 the hooks, Louis Q. an Doren asserted
that Borough President Haffen had not in any way
obstruCted the examination. He said Mr.. Hafen
had interest whatever IN the Gciszler- Haas
company, and could De held accountable for
anything the books might show OF for the diff
culties met by the commissioner before getting =
look them.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-22
CITT,S SAVING on SNOU.
Street Commissioner Shoes Hoe
Nezc RemOraI Method UOrked.

Commissioner Crowell Of the Street Cleaning
Department says that the snow removal methods
used by his predecessor. Or. BenseI. and himself
have resulted in q large saving to the city. The
total snowfall for 1S07-'0S 81 inches. and
to clear II away cost the city S551,304 50. Dur
ing l906-'o7 52-4 inches Of snow fell, and 10 re-
move it s2,470.499 90. which S. .sl9I95 A
less than the previous year The cost was %
per cent Of last year. while the snowfall was 60
per cent Of that season.
Commissioned Crowell said that in both sea
sons some of the snoWstorrns unimpOr-
tant that they could be taken of by the ordi-
nary force Of the Street Cleaning Department
without extra expense. In 190607 the aggregate
snowfall requiring extra expense was 4S.7 inches,
50 per In l907-0S the proportion -
per cent. 23 inches. The Commissioner said:
A little figuring shows that in I906-G7 the
cost inch of snowfall actually removed was
56,535 IS, and the cost a mile of street inch
removed vas sI7S 81. while in 1e0--'0S the re
spective figures $23.969 IS and So s.. Going
still further back, the figures. respectively. for
1905-'06 found TO be s55.4l4 IA and 81 IS
New-York tribune., 1908-04-22
MR. BRYCE ON MISSIONS.
Urges Higher Ideals IN Treatment
Of Blackboard Races.

Chattanooga, Tenn. April 2l-The Methodist
Laymen's Missionary Movement met in the
Auditorium here tonight Besides address Of
welcome by Mayor CrabtIee and a speech by Gen
sTal Julian :. Carr. Of Durham, y g, Anbassa-
dor James Bryce. Of Great Britain. addressed the
meeting Nj. Bryce said in part:
Missions are not the only form which the contact
Of advanced Christian races with backward races
has taken. When the Spaniards began 10 conquer
convert the Indians Crowds OF friars accompanied
them There was much preaching, and the desire
Cross reign over all American lands vas genuine
desire. But, unhappiy, the cOnQuerors did many
other things beside preach. They were greedy OF
wealth They forced The natives 10 til the soil
ana labor mines They did this harshiS
that IN some thirty or forty years all the native
Indians HispanioIa HaytD said havs
peTshed. This happened before long in Cuba and
Jamaica also. Everywhere the same thing has
gone on, happening more or less wherever the
horses, have come ii contact with the weaker
II intelligence anr organization
has too often taken the form Of filing the white
mans pocket Il II any wonder that the behavior
Of men who nominally Christians has checked
the spread Of Christianity? The missionary comes
But when the natives hoW behave VINO
profess the religion which the missionary breaches.
Is said have described the process of the contact
Of civilized men with his people in The words:
First missionary: then trader. then army"
II ought 10 b@ our aim TO compel those who go
forth from among Us into nOH-ChTistian
set better example of conduct worthy Of civilized
men than many have done In another fifty years
that which have called civilization will ha ye
oEerspread the whole world and destroyed the ma
tive organizations and the customs Of the backward
which some OF those beliefs imposed upon them
viii also vanish II is therefore all the more i'm
tiOns by others woTthier and stronger, and TO do
this : quickly
New-York tribune., 1908-04-22
CAR DIVES OFF BRIDGE.
-Four Men Hare Narro1o Escape on
BriarcHf Course.

BY the greatest good luck four men escaped death
or serious injury the Briarclif trophy race
course yesterday morning. when a big racing car
driven by its owner James Ryan. smashed through
an iron railing and dived into the water or saw
mill Creek The car. which is an old Nanderolli
cup racer, not entered for the BriarchH' anu
Rvall who was to have driven one of the cars IN
the Briarclih contest on Friday. retired ABOUT
week ago in favor OF another chauffeur
Ryall. who had recently removed the plaster cast
he wore because of d fracture of the kneecap, got
of yesterday with sprained ankle-a tilne ior
him as he has fractured his legs three times in the
last year. With him in the car were VIII
Robertson brother of George Robertson. who Is
TO drive of the cars in the Briarchn' BOD
Murray and Charles Weed These men althoneh
doused in the water after being hurled twenty feet,
were not seriously hurt
This accident. the most serious and the latest OF
,tc series that have occurred, shows again how
dangerous the twisting, hiy, thirty mile course
over which twenty-five cars are 10 he sent ten
times at as high speed their drivers dare 10
make on Friday. The presence Of Ryall and his
car IN the course Yesterday during the two hours
between and O'Clock allowed for practice was
contrary TO the request Of the racing committee,
ich has asked all persons not entered Tor the race
to keep off at that time, that the racing ma
chimes NAV have clear road as possible
He had nearly arrived at what might be called
the .homestretch' of his first lap, and had taken
ali the hazards and corners and curves neatly
The approach 10 the bridge over Sawmill Creek is
passing the hairpin of the Almshouse, in
Fastviev winds down a steep hill that becomes
double s. with the last loop Of the letter com
pleted by the bridge itself This loop. showing
HOW, the road turns 10 the right and then veers
sharply TO the left the bridge is approached, Is
indicated In the accompanying cut.
AS RyaH swept down the hill and out on the
curve of the road the skidded he brought it
about for the turn the bridge It plunged into
the iron pipe railing Of the bridge which gave way
81, ha Of he he
was .'llp-ended'' by its momentum and before II
lad turned a souersault into the brook the four
men and one wheel went flying out over the water
course like dice thrown from box Then the car
landed bottom side up in the water.
The creek is shallow. and the men were founder
irr ashore when Arthur Campbell. in a racing
chine came over the course With him was Ralph
de- Palma They hustled the bleeding, water soaked
men hack to the Alnlshouse. a mile away. where
DR. & W Fairchild attended them. Later in the
6av they came back to their quarters at the Hotel
Lincoln in New York The car. il was said last
night Is not beyond the art OF the repair man