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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-22
Women and Children Fleeing
for Their Lives From
Chansha
PlACARDS THREATENING TO KILL
ALL f0RE|GhERS ARE DISPLAYED
The Situation in Human is Serious
Province Is the Hotbed Of the An.
ti.Forefgn Sentiment-Au Calami.
ties Charge TO Foreigners.

Pankow. Aprh kThe situation in
Human province fs> sn.ed as criti-
cal. Women and chin G%t,e fleeing
tor their lives from chansH. CAPT.
tai. A number of villages n> 1T
city have been reduced to askA by
native mobs. : The country is pracard-
ed with threats to kill all foreigners.
This disquieting news was brought
by the missionary refugees who ar
rived here today from Chansha and
the nearby missionary stations.
Many of them had Travelled sixty miles
On foot and reached the Yangtsekiang
river in rags. Their houses had been
burned and they lost all Of their per-
sonal effects. The missionaries stat
ed that the gunboats in the river
have their guns trained upon Chansha
and the nearby point and have afford
ed refuge for many foreigners.
Three thousand Chinese imperial
soldiers are occupying the strategic
posts of the capital and detachments
are being hurried to the outlying dis
tricts where rioting is reported.
one instance a technical school was
set affre and thirty students were
burned to death. When the vessels
approached Changsha to rescue the
imperilled ones the Chinese mob
saturated the junks with kerosene oil
from the looted stations of the Stand
ard Oil company and, setting them
af1re, allowed them to float down the
stream in an attempt to set fire to the
on-coming steamers. Telegraph wires
to the westward Of the disturbed dis
Aricts have been cut. Many mission
>ries, American, French and Nor
weigan,. remained at, the outlying
posts.
Probably no other province in China
,s so intensely anti-foreign as is
Human, In which number of foreign
missions recently have been destroyed.
1t has an area of more than $4,000
square miles, and it's population is
estimated to exceed 22,O0O,O00. Ac-
cording to data on file in the state
department, its people are the sturdi-
est of the provincials of China and
they never have allowed the Pekin
government to forget that to the
Human soldiers was mainly due the
credit for crushing the TAPPING re-
oellion which broke out in 1853.
The population of Changsha, the
capital of Human, which is estimated
1T 100000. is largely engaged in the
manufacture of furniture, paper and
various articles Of gold. For many
years Changsha has been intolerant
of foreigners and nearly every great
disaster whether by famine or fire.
which has occurred, has been attri-
buted by the people to the evil influ-
ence of foreigners whose presence,
It Is believed. disturbs the orderly
course of nature. The result of this
almost universal feeling among the
people has been practically every pub
lie calamity has been accompanied by
demonstrations against the foreign
population and nearly always by the
destruction of their residences and
business houses.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-22

bond Of 100000, signed by private
parties for the reason that Q bonding
company would charge him $500
premium, and Mr.. Norton said the
furnishing Of bond by private parties
lin such cases was most undesirable
arrangement for the United States.
Subordinates in the treasury de-
partment, handling millions in money
daily, were required to furnish no
bond, excepting In some cases where
assistant treasurers required bonds
regardless Of the law in the case.
This and much other similar in
formation was ELECTED from Mr.. Nor
ton during hearing today on the
question Of whether the committee on
expenditures in the treasury depart
ment should undertake an investiga.
ton Of the $61. 900 shortage In the
sub-treasury at st. Louis and other
places and incidentally inquire into
the accounting system Of the United
States treasury.
After listening to statements by Mr..
Norton and Representatives Shackel-
ford and Bartholdt Of Missouri, the
committee adjourned without deciding
whether an investigation would be
held. Both of the Missouri congress-
men urged the committee to under
take speedy inquiry into the st.
Louis shortage in order that justice
might be done.
Mr.. Norton told Of the extensive and
revolutionary plans of the department
now under way to perfect q new sys-
TEN of construction Of vaults, cages
and other features of the various
treasures, and of espionage and ex-
animation of these institutions.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-22
Continued on Page g.
CONTINUED on Page g.
BOLD H0LDUP
Lined Up Occupants of Saloon
and Cleaned Out the
Money Tills

Park City, Utah. April 22.-Two
armed but unmasked highwaymen
boldly entered the Oak saloon on Main
street at 12:45 o'clock this morning
and lined the twenty occupants of the
saloon up in the back room. tapped
the faro bank and the roulette game,
from which they procured $500 in gold
and silver. and made good their es-
cape.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-22
Old Pals Talk

San Francisco, April 22-san Fran
cisco's "old timers" are conjuring up
"reminiscences Of the days fifty years
ago when Samuel L. Clemens was
plain Sam Clemens and the name
Mark Twain had little significance for
anybody except the steamboat men
on the Mississippi river. Back in
the old days." muses. Joseph T. Good
win. the pioneer editor of the West,
who gave Clemens his first job as a
writer, "Sam was the best company,
the drollest entertainer and the most
Interesting fellow imaginable. His
humor was always creeping out and
stayed with him to the last. A few
weeks ago I received a letter from
him couched in terms so character
istic of him. He wrote: Come on
and visit me once more before we
get so old We can't hear each other
sWear'"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-22
Rome Remembers

Rome. April 22-The whole press
of Rome gives much space today to
the death of Mark Twain, recalling
the months that he spent in Italy,
the death Of his wife at Florence and
the recent visit to Rome of his daugh-
ter. Clara, and her husband. Ossip
Gabrilovitch. on their honeymoon.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-22
German Sympathy

Berlin, April 22-Extended appre-
citation of Mark Twain appears in to-
days journals. The Lollal Anzeiger
says: mot only English speaking
peoples but the whole world of cul-
ture grieves that he has DONE"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-22
Roosevelt's Comment


Paris, April 22-Former President
Roosevelt was greatly panied to hear
OF the death of Mark Twain, He said.
1T Is with sincere grief that learn
ed OF the death of this great Amerf-
can author. His position, like that
of Joel Chandler Harris, was unique.
not only In American letters but in
the literature Of the world. He was
not only great humorist but a great
philosopher and thts writings porm
one of the assets in Americas con-
tributions to the world of achieve
ments of which we have right as
nation to he genuinely proud
In the pigskin library which Roose-
velt carried through the jungles Of
Africa were two of the late authors
books, "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom
Sawyer" and Roosevelt says that he
read both of them several times and
always with greatest interest.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-22

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THE WEATHER. .
North DakOta-Fair tonight with =
freezing temperature. Saturday
fair and warmer.
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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-22

life, was found dead in her bathtub
last fall in her home at Reddine.
Conn. Her tragic death greatly sad
dened her father, who declined in
health from that moment. A third
daughter, Clara. is Mrs. Ossip Gabril-
owitsch, wife of the pianist, whom she
married last year.
Mark Twain's first book was the
Jumping Frog" His best known in
this country was possibly "Innocents
Abroad" His surest title to fame is
generally believed to be "Tom saw
YER and it's companion volume, "The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" In
all. his books had a s",c of more than
100000 copies and were translated into
six languages. ---'
Others among the better known are.
"A Tramp Abroad" "The Prince and
Pauper." "A Yankee at the Court Of
King Arthur" "Puddinhead Wilson"
(dramatized) Joan Of Arc. "A Don.
bic Barreled Detective Story" and
Ewes Diary" ~
He left an unfinished autobiography.
portions of which had appeared sert.
ally.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-11
OMAHA GUARD COMPANIES
READY TO GO TO FORT RILEY
Necessary Quotas of Men Enrolled to
EntitIe the SIIIitiamen to MIX
with Regulars.

In preparation for the encampment at
Fort Riley. Kan. the three Omaha COM
panies os the National guard are doing their
best TO swell their ranks with new recruits,
Company l. OF which IT, was rumored that
the required quota would not be able to
go, has its necessary forty and will Join
with companies G and L.
Monday evening, under the direction Of
Sergeant F. o. HassmAn of L. a new en-
Gineering corps OF sixty men will be formed
at the armory, 1914 Harney street.
The trip to Fort Riley is a very attractive
outing for the members Of the militia, pro-
viding a chance to get actual experience in
the field. including sham battles against
several regiments OF regulars and those
who take part have their expenses and a
salary paid them Company c. which is
composed largely OF high school poys. is
particularly anxious TO enlist more men
before going
Five men from each company will so 70
the rifle range at Ashland, and try for the
chance to represent the Nebraska regiments
at the national rifle meet at Camp Perry
o.. later In the summer. The men from L
and G have already been chosen.
From company l. Sergeant Chrlstianson
Corporal i'm. Musician Parkinson and
Privates Kaeel and Swanson; and from
company G., sergeants Wells. Stevens and
TIeyser and corporals shrum and Beise
will cOHlpete ia the state triais
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-11
Valuable Find
OF Omaha Engineer
W. S. Greenleaf Finds Rich Deposit of
Placer Gold Of Unusual Forma-
ton Near Cody.

CODY Wyo., July 10.-(SpeciaL)-W. S.
Greenleaf, a mining engineer OF Omaha
has discovered a placer in the Sunlight
camp. forty miles from Cody, which is said
to be unique In the history OF mining. The
gold is not found in the customary black
or garnet sand, but coats the gravel and
porous, nonmineralized rock of a blanket
some four feet in depth, 800 feet wide and
$500 feet long. This gravel and rock runs
500 to the ton and treatment similar to
quartz Is required. 1t is the mining engf-
neers theory that the deposit has been
made by the action of sulphuric gas. But,
whatever it's origin 1t is unlike any known
placer deposit and is in violation of all
geological facts and mining traditions.
The ground had been located and aban-
doned by nearly every prospector in the
country for the reason that they invariably
worked below the four-foot blanket with its
rich intervening values. Machinery has
been ordered and will be installed as
quickly as possible. 1t is owned By Mr.
Greenleaf and Floyd Conan OF Cody. Aside
final decision on the part of the com
from the Importance of the discovery to It's
owners, 1t may mean the opening up OF
what is consldefed by mining men 10 be
one OF the most promising camps in the
state could railroad facilities be had.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-11
New York Gets
p Reports from
Western Men
vr-Tr1
Tell the East that Crops Are Good
and that There is No Great
Money Shortage.

NEW YORK, July 10.-(specal Tele-
gram.) )-President f. II. Bailey of the First
National bank Of ST. Paul, writes TO cor
respondents In New York:
while it is true than in some parts Of
the west there has been an unusually large
traffic in land transactions, / do not think
that, generally speaking, the burdent as
sumed by interior banks In connection with
that line Of business sufficiently serious TO
affect money prospects incident 10 the crop
moving period.
Reports from the producing sections OF
the northwest vary greatly and in most
cases are greatly exaggerated. While the
long continued drought and heated term
have caused considerable damage. it seems
reasonable to expect that with ordinarily
favorable conditions from this time on, fair
returns from the agricultural districts"
Charles w. Bartlett, cashier OF the Mer-
chants National bank OF Springfield, Mo,
writes:
Il cannot say that speculation in the
west in land affects the immediate locality,
though it may to a certain extent
The crop outlook at this time is decidedly
bright. What is good; the oat crop better
than it has been In years, and the corn
contrary to earlier expectations-at this
time is fine; we should have better than an
average apple crop, and taking It altogether
the outlook for fall business is good"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-11
LETTERS. OF TWO PRESIDENTS
Taft and DiRG Have some COrrespond- d :
ence over the Situation Exist
80 ing In Nicaragua.

WASHINGTON, July I0-The attitude
of the Mexcan government toward the
Madrid cause in Nicaragua and the light
in W -ch President Taft views Central
American affairs are made plainer today
when the text of the correspondence which
recently passed between President Diaz
and President Taft on the subject be-
came public. This correspondence took
place several weeks ago. but further
than bare statements about the exchange
and its purport, the state department
had nothing TO say aYout IT, The let
ters were printed in Spanish in Mexico.
President Diaz wrote to President Taft,
the result Of circular telegram Madriz
sent to Central American governments,
protesting against the attitude of the
United States in Nicaragua.
President Diaz assures President Taft
that II his good offices" should prove
useful, he will gla0iy extend them" In
reply President Taft assures the presi-
dent of Mexico tHat he esteems /, his
frienGl interest in the matter.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-11
Double Indemnity
Law Attacked
Burlington Railroad Resists Damage
Suit Brought by Government on
Ground that Act is Invalid.

SIOUX FALLS, s, D., July 10.-ISpecial)
Judge Garland of the United States court
in this city, has taken under advisement a
case which is expected to determine the
constiutionality of what is known as the
double indemnity law. enacted by the state
legislature at its 1907 session.
The suit was instituted by the United
States government, the Chicago. Burlington
& Quincy Railroad company being the de-
fendant. The government seeks to recover
from the railway company damages in the
sum of $42,79S for the destruction Of timber
by fire alleged to have been started by
sparks from g locomotive belonging to
the railway company on it's lines in the
Black Hills. The timber destroyed by the
fire was in the Black Hills forest re-
serve.
The actual value Of the timber DESTROYED
by the fire was $2O.51742 one-half of the
amount sued for less the interest. NJ X.
Griggs. an attorney of Lincoln, Neb.,
argued the case before Judge Garland for
the railway company, while the argument
in behalf OF the government was made by
United States Attorney f. E. Wagner.
The railway company based It's defense on
the contention that the double indemnity
law is unconstitutional. for the alleged
reason that 1t is in conflict with both the
state and federal constitutions. Owing tC
the Importance of the case It may be sev.
eral days before Judge Garland renders his
decision.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-11
saenwerfest at sioux FaII..

SIOUX FALLS, S. D.. July 1O.-(Special)
Martin Bergh, secretary Of the local COM
mittee in charge OF arrangements for the
annual saengerfest OF the Northwestern
Scandinavian Singing association, to be held
in Sioux Falls commencing July IS, an
nounees that singing societies viii com
mence arriving In the city by Thursday.
Among them will be societies from La
Crosse and other Wisconsin cities; Canton,
s, D., and others. The singers coming
from Fargo and Grand Forks N. D., have
sent word ahead that they will travel in
their own special cars. which viii be side
tracked here so they can occupy them
during the saengerfest. Chicago will be
especially well represented at the saenger.
fest. 1t Will be one OF the greatest gath.
erings Of singers In the history of tn,
northwest.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-11
DEATH RECORD.
NIrr. Minnie D. kendnII.

CENTRAL CITY, Neb,, July 10.-(Spe-
cial.)-The burial of Mrs. Minnie f. Ken
dali. an old and prominent resident of
Central City. who died at Grand Island the
day before. occurred at Clarks Saturday
Mrs Kendall was visiting with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. DIR. L. d. Burgess at Albion when
she became SO III that her physicians
ordered her TO try the climate in California
in hopes of obtaining relief. Enroute west
she stopped OF ITO spend few days with
a brother and his family in Grand Island
and there became worse. and was taken tc
a hospital At the hospital she underwent
a serious operation, from which she did
not rally. death following soon afterwards
She and her husband were early settlers
Of Merrick county, locating here over thirty
years ago, The husband died about twenty
years ago, and since that time Mrs. Ken
dali followed the profession of trained
nurse.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-11
Mayor Dahlman
Given Welcome
Out at Sidney
Makes Address Before Large Crowd
and is Entertained by the
City Officials.

SIDNEY, Neb.. July 10-CSpecial Tele-
gram. )-Mayor James c. Dahlman, candi-
date for governor, addressed large audi
ence last night at the band park and from
the frequency of applause which greeted
him, his sentiments met with hearty ap-
proval. He was met here by the mayor
and city council and escorted in an auto
mobile to the park. J. ], Mcintosh intro
duced the speaker and, although a republi-
can, was in sympathy with many OF the
policies which NDahlman advocated.
The principal features of Mayor Dahl
mans talk were: Removal of the state
capitol from Lincoln to a more central
point of the state; arbitration boards be-
tween labor and capital his opposition to
county option. and his strong argument
N sfayos of fornse rule =
After his address he was entertained at
dinner. Mayor Dahlman has many friends
in this section.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-11
DECISION TO Be SUSPENDED
Investigation Into Freight Rate
Situation to Go Ahead.
MUCH TERRITORY IS AFFECTED
Commission to Hold Meeting
This week and Decide Upon
what Shall BE
Done.

WASHINGTON, July 10.--At q meeting of
the Interstate Commerce commission the
coming week that body will decide to sus-
pend. pending examination the general In
creases of freight rates which have been
filed with the commission recently. These
increases of rates cover the most important
territory of the United States from rail-
road and commercial standpoint. They
cover the east, the region north OF the Ohio
and east of the Mississippi and the middle
west. Most of them go into effect August
1 or thereabouts.
A question has been raised whether the
eotunission would exercise its Ruthority
under the law Ia sircf 4 way as to make
sweeping SUSPENSIONS OF the general freight
rate increases. This question has been
accentuated especially by the statement
given out from Beverly, following the re-
cent conference between President Taft and
Chairman Knapp. Following that confer
ence 1t was given out that the commission
was going to administer the law in con-
servative fashion and was going to suspend
increased rates only In exceptional cases.
This was seized on in many quarters as
meaning that many OF the general increases
which the roads had decided on would not
be suspended and that part of them would
be allowed to go into effect.
1t is stated now on the best of authority
that the commission expects to suspend the
general rate increases and that whatever
was given out at Beverly was not to be
construed as meaning otherwise. so far as
the proposed general increases are con-
cerned.
The commission will meet July y. AL
the members but Commissioners Lane and
Clarke, who are in Europe, Will be present
The commission WIN hear the parties in
terested in the New Jersey commuters
rates and will decide what to do aboui
them No hearing is planned with respect
to the general increases of freight rates.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-11
GOPHERS TO RAID OMAHA
Governor Eberhart Will Lead Delega-
ton to Ad Club Convention.
FIFTY COMING IN SPECIAL CAR
official Advertising Agents of Min
neapOIis and st. Paul to BE Here
Two Days I'm Advance to
Decorate Quarters.

News from Minnesota, received by the
publicity bureau of the Omaha CONNER
cial club, is to the effect that today a
joint session Of the Town Criers' club of
st Paul and the Publicity club of Min
neapolis is to be held 80 close the list of
delegates and make final arrangements
for the Minnesota party that is to attend
the national convention of ad men in
Omaha next week.
The notice received also says .'The ad-
vance guard of the Minnesota delegation,
consisting of Curtis L, Mosher, manager
of the st. Paul city advertising bureau,
and Mac Martin Of Ntnpeapolis. represent-
ing the Phbffefty siE rofr 500 members Of
that city, will leave for Omaha two days
in advance OF the convention to prepare
the way, fix things with the chief of po-
lice and learn. the free lunch routes"
THE dignity bunch" as the party to be
led by Governor Eberhart is dubbed in
Minnesota, will include besides the COVER
nor President d. NJ. Neill OF the Mime
sofa Federation OF Commercial clubs and
prominent men connected with the adver-
tising associations and civic development
bodies to the number of fifty. They will
invade Omaha, as the letter says, Ito de-
termine by ocular and gastronomic OBJ
servation whether the Nebraska ad men are
going to make good on this Dutch" propo-
sition, the Ak-Sar-Ben joust and various
other serious business and philosophic en-
terprises with news of which Minnesota
has been flooded for a month past"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-11
HomeSteader'S
Life Wears Upon
Sheridan Man
Body of G. F. Booth Found Hanging
to Roof of Claim Shanty Near
Ellsworth.

ELLSWORTH, Neb., July 1O.-(Special
Telegram)-In a claim shanty thirteen
miles northeast of Bingham, in Sheridan
county, Charley Wagner OF Ellsworth dis
covered the body of man suspended from
the roof.
AT the time of discovery the man must
have been dead twenty-four hours. The
body has been identified as that of c. F.
Booth, homesteader. Owing to the alb
sence OF any signs of violence or a lynch
ing suicide is supposed
Coroner Mcdowell of Sheridan county set
out from Ellsworth early this morning TO
view. the body which will be conveyed TO
the county seat, where inquiries will be
Instituted.
! The sppposition OF suicide is strengthened
BY the fact that Booth had for s6me time
been complaining of the hard times and the
vicissitudes Of the life of homesteader.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-11
podie. stiII IN coay Re.ertolr.

CODY, Wyo, July 1O-(speeial.)-A hope
has been abandoned Of recovering the
bodies OF the four reclamation service men
who were drowned some two weeks ago in
the lake formed by the backing Of the sho-
shone river behind the recently completed
government dam. Their motor boat over
turned in the deepest part OF the lake.
which now covers what was known as the
Trimmer ranch, and 1t is believed that the
bodies have become lodged in the tall cot
tonwoOds which grew uDon the place.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-11
Phone Tyler 1000
for all departments
of The Omaha Bee

This is the new switchboard tel
ephone number of The Bee. Get
The Bee operator and ask for the
department you want.
After 6 p. m. and before s
a. m. call Tyler 1000 for edi-
torial department, Tyler 1901
for advertising and circula-
ton departments and Tyler
1902 for managing editor.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-11
Big Mortgage 1. Relea.ed.

PIERRE. S. D., July 10.-tspeclal.)-A re-
lease of per cent mortgage for 600
was filed with the secretary of state today.
The mortgage was given in 1888 by che
Duluth, WATERFOWL and Pacific Railway
company, a branch of the Great Northern,
TO the Central Trust company of New York
and has been satisfied by the Great North
ern company. of which the branch Is now
a mart