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Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
COMMISSION PLAN IN DAKOTA
Many Cities Rush to Adopt New
Method of Govern
ment.

PIERRE, S. D., Feb. 2S.-(Speoial 1.-THE
commission plan Of government appears to
be growing one in this state. While no
general movement has developed along
that line until this year since the law was
enacted, this spring has seen strong
movement in that direction. Sioux Falls
was the first to attempt it and failed on the
first effort, but won in the seconds That
was about as far as the movement went
until this winter, but 1t appeared to have
a general revival. Pierre, which defeated
the plan" last year, has accepted It by a
vote of more than three to one. Watertown
ana Mitchell defeated 1t on the first effort,
but Will probably try again next year
Huron accepted 1t on the first effort in
that direction. Yankton has adopted It, as
has Dell Rapids. Fort Pierre will vote on
the adoption of the plan on the first of
March and Spearifsh win vote on the propo
sition on the tenth. A petition is be-
ing extensively signed for trial vote
at Rapid City, and that town will vote
some time in the coming month. 1t is not
yet too late for other towns in the state
to try 1t out in time for the spring cleo
tions, and other places are likely to get
into the game before the time has passed
Tor trying it this year. If the plan works
In the smaller towns as we'll as 1t appar-
emily has in Sioux Falls. another year
will show a general movement in that
direction all over South pukota.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
Two Nebraskans
Enter West Point
Roy NJ Smyth and Thomas G. Ian
phier Among q Successful
Ones of 100.

WEST POINT, N. Y, Feb 2S.-(Special
Telegram0-Out Of class of 108 who re-
ported here to be examined as to their
qualifications for admission to the Military
academy only twenty-seven passed sue
cessfully. The result of the examinations
was announced today. Among those who
passed are Roy NJ. Smyth and Thomas c.
Lanphier an ex-cadet, both of Nebraska,
and Louis T. Byrne Of New York. The
successful twenty-seven, together with a
class of los examined in january, VIM be
admitted to the acdemy tomorrow. Young
Byrne is brother OF Cadet Eugene A.
Byrne, who met his death in the foot ball
game with Harvard last autumn.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
HUNT BREAKS ALL RECORDS
Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit Kill
500 Large Animals for Science.
GIANT GLANDS MOST IMPORTANT
First COmpIete Specimens Ever Taken
Out of Africa Are Secured by
Ex-President - Writing
Next Diversion.
GIANT GLANDS MOST IMPORTANT

2 GONDOKoRo, Feb. 2S.-Colonel Roose-
welt and the others of his immediate party
sailed today for Khartoum, where they ex-
pect to arrive March Is. With the de-
parture the African scientific expedition,
under the auspices Of the Smithsonian in
stitution OF washington and led by the
former president, was. for all practical
purposes, brought to close.
Colonel Roosevelt eonsiders that the kill
ing Of the giant Glands in his recent ex-
cursion along the upper reaches Of the
Nile was a fitting ending of a marvelously
successful trip. The results generally,
from the standpoint of the hunter and the
scientist have exceeded all expectations.
Colonel Roosevelt and his son, Kermit,
have killed some 500 specimens of large
mammals. The bag includes the following
Seventeen lions IL elephans, 10 buffaloes,
10 black rhlnoceroses. white rhinoceroses,
hppopotami, 9 giraffes. leopards.
cheetahs, 8 giant Glands, 8 sables, sta
tunga and bongoes
All these were killed in the interest of
science and the specimens will be disposed
of accordingly, the greater number going
to the Smithsonian institution. Mr.. Roose-
welt will retain not more than six trophies
for himself.
From the point of Importance the most
highly priced game may be rated as fol-
lows: First, the giant Glands, the first
complete specimens Of which family are
now being taken from the country; second,
the white rhinoceroses; third, the bongos,
the first to be stalked and killed by a
white man, and, fourth, the sitatunga, a
species of antelope.
The naturalists secured a remarkable Sc
lection, comprising many thousands of
birds and other mammals. The results in
this line have been most gratifying and
science will be enriched by several new
species and an enormous series of the
smaller mammals of Africa. The game
taken and the collections made constitute
a worlds record for. a similar period OF
hunting and scientific research in Africa,
and the American museums will receive the
greatest collection OF African fauna in ex-
istence. All agree that too much prais
cannot be accorded r. ]. Cunninghame, the
Englshman whose management of the ex-
pedition was as nearly perfect as could be
conceived.
Colonel Roosevelt will now devote his
time TO writing, including the preparation
OF the addresses which he is TO deliver in
Europe. He will do no more hunting, un-
less during the trip down the Nile chance
throws in his way an opportunity to secure
some specimens.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
Mine Workers to
Decide on Strike
Special General Convention Called at
Cincinnati March IA to Act
on Agreements.

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. pa special gen.
eral convention of the mine workers of
North America, to be held in Cincinnati
March IA, was called today from the head
quarters of the organization in this city.
The convention will act upon the conclus-
ions Of the joint conference of the central
competitive field, to be held alsoin Gin
cinnau on March g.
The Miners National convention of In
dianapolis resolved that in no district in
the country should a new wage contract
be made until all the districts were in a
position TO sign the uniform contract pro-
posed by the miners. Therefore whether
or not there is 10 be a general strike OF
bituminous coal miners, rests upon the joint
conference and the miners convention in
Cincinnati this month.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01

sea When he became the head OF the
Hagenbechs chronological department. II
was only natural that he should Introduce
the natives OF the far north OF his own
country to the people OF Hamburg From
this collection Of Laplanders was evolved
the idea, following out which the captain
made the trip to the United States this
year
Annually Hagenbech makes a feature Of
having representatives Of some nation at
his show. Last year there were Arabs
from the Red set littoral and 20 procure
the collection for the year before Captain
Jacobsen made an expedition to the East
Indian archipelago and brought hack with
him some OF the Mongolian- Dyak folk who
inhabit the island of Celebes
The party he will take with him viii be
led by Chief American Horse and will be
made up Of twenty-seven men. eight women
and four children.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
Captain Jacobsen Will Take
OgalallaS to Hagenbach Show

Captain Adrian Jacobsen. European
ethnologist and scientific traveller OF world
wide repute, is at the Rome.
Captain Jacobsen is the representative of
Carl Hagenbaoh, proprietor OF the Tier
park stellingen, Hamburg Germany. His
present visit 10 the United States Is with
view TO obtaining material for a wild
west show at Hagenbach's circue. He
has already engaged at the Pine Ridge
reservation a party OF thirty-nine Indians
and Is but waiting to secure the necessary
horses and mules TO effect the purpose OF
his voyage across the Atlantic. He ex-
poets to pass through Omaha March IS,
and viii sail from New York March 10 on
the President Grant with his collection.
The Indians, who belong TO the ogalalla
tribe OF the Sioux nation, will return to
this country In October.
Born in Norway, Captain Jacobsen fol-
lowed for a number OF years the life Of the
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
BUDCE FIRST; PEERS NEXT
Premier Asquith Announces Financial
Measures Will Take Precedence.
WILL ASK EXCLUSION OF LORDS
First Move in Fight on Upper Body
Will BE to Eliminate Them from
Consideration OF Rev
enue Measures.
WILL ASK EXCLUSION OF LORDS

LONDON, Feb. 2s.-Financial business
first and the question of the House of
Lords second was the program laid down
by Premier Asquith in a statement made
in the House Of Commons this afternoon
In moving that government business have
precedence at every slttingsu to March "a,
When Parliament reassembled after. the
Easter recess the preiGer said that the
government would pFesenb resolutions at
flrming the necessity of excluding the
House Of Lords altogether from the domain
of finance and restricting its power OF
veto to other legislation,
To secure this, the government, he added,
would use all methods that seemed proper
and adequate within the limits of the con-
sttution and upon its successful accom-
pllshment the cabinet and liberal party
would stake not only the fortunes of the
ministry, but their very existence as a
party.
The exlgencies Of the financial situation
were such, the premier declared, that the
vote on the army and navy bills covering
the borrowings and other urgent demands
must occupy the whole time Of the House
of Commons up to March "a, when ad-
Journment would be taken to March 29.
Attack on Peers Next.
Immediately Parliament was reassembled,
he said, the government would introduce
resolutions excluding the House of Lords
altogether from the domain of finance, and
declaring that in other legislation the
power of veto as at present possessed by
the House Of Lords should be limited so
as to secure a predomnance for the House
of Commons during the lifetime Of a single
Parliament.
Continuing, the prime minister said it
would be made plain that these changes
were without prejudice and that the gov
ernment contemplated in the subsequent
year the substitution in the second chamber
Of a democratic for hereditary basis.
A. ]. Balfour, the opposition leader,
twitted the premier in the quick changes
in the government program. The premier's
only consideration, Mr.. Balfour said, seemed
to be to keep the cabinet together.
John Redmond the nationalist leader,
declared that If Mr.. Asquith would give a
definite promise that in the event Of the
House of Lords hanging up the resolutions
he would go to the king and ask for guar
antees and II refused, would resign, In
the meantime, suspending consideration of
the budget, the Irish nationalists would
support the resolutions. Otherwise the ma
tionalists might vote against the premier s
motion.
Sir James H. Dalzier the radical, whose
hostile amendment disapproving any gov
ernment aiming at reform, was ruled out
OF order, admitted In brief speech that
Premier Asquith's statement had done much
to meet the views of the radical rebels"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
THREE HUNDRED TRAVELLING
MEN FROM GERMANY IN CANADA
New Germnn-CanRdian Trade Treaty
Causes Influx of Commercial
Men from Continent.

WINNIPEG, Man, Feb. 2S-The new
German Canadian trade treaty will take
effect tomorrow and the secretary of the
Canadian Commercial Travellers associa-
ton has received word that 800 German
travellers are on the way to Canada to
compete for the trade in western Canada
now controlled by United States firms. Last
year Germany bought S9O,OCOOOO worth OF
western Canada grain or grain products.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
Ten Dollars for Iowa Hog
Paid on Chicago Market

CHICAGO, Feb. 2s.-An Iowa farmer to-
day obtained tho highest Price paid locally
for live hogs since 1870 when his porkers
brought him an even $40 hundred at the
stock yards. sixty-six head OF hogs aver
aging 26i pounds each brought this top
price. The hogs were solid by b. L. strohm
Of Gushing, la. Pork followed the lead and
advanced 15c above the highest point
recorded. the top being s247O per barrel for
May delivery.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. &-Hogs on the
local market today sold at 1896 a hundred,
record price here
SIOUX CITY, Ia, Feb.-2s.-Hogs sold at
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
COOK STOVE EXPLODES AND
FATALLY BURNS IOWA MAN
w. l.. Johns Probably VIII Die from
Accident Following START
ing OF Fire.

IOWA FALLS. Ia. Feb. 2S-(Speclal TeIe-
gram.)-w. l.. Johns was probably fatally
burned this morning by the explosion that
followed the starting OF a fire in his cook
stove The room was enveloped In flames
and John rushed from the house calling for
khelp Nelghbors soon smothered his burn
ling clothing, but not until one side OF lis
body was almost burned 10 a crisp The
house with Its contents Is practically a
total loss. Johns was taken TO hospital
and physicians say the chances are agalast
his recovery.
DIES MONIES, Ia, Feb. 9S-A lighted
gasoline stove which John Ratoliffe OF
Parlan VCs carrying into the yard exploded
In his arms early today. Ratcliffe died
within a few minutes from the injuries. He
Uas a plumber, 5 years old
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01

$3.50 today, Is cents over previous record.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo, Feb. ga new rec
ord price for hogs was made at the South
ST. Joseph market today when the top
was $0.65. which is 10 cents higher than
ever paid before in carlot and 12h cents
higher than the record top.
ST LOUIS. Feb, 2l-Hogs sold at the
stock yards here today for S9S5 a hundred.
10 cents higher than the previous record.
Hogs on the South Omaha market made
new top record OF $3.50 yesterday, the
figure being Is cents higher than the best
figures ever paid for fun loads in the his
tory OF local trade.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
SIXTY MINE BODIES FOUND
bodies of All but Seven of Victims of
PrimerO Disaster Are
Taken Out,

TRINIDAD, Colo Feb. 2S.-Workmen en-
gagged in cleaning up the main" Primero
mine, in which seventy-six miners lost
their lives in the explosion OF January 81,
carly today recovered the body of Fidel
Arguelo
This makes ninety-nine bodies that have
been removed from the mine
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
ST. JOE ALSO UNDER THE BAN

Leaving Only Kansas City Free.
ST. Joseph has been added TO tho roll OF
Missouri river cities that must pay higher
rates on dressed beef to Chicago, Kansas
City now has a monopoly on the favored
tariff that discriminates against Omaha.
Sioux City and 81, Joseph.
The last bomb in the meat rate fight
was thrown by the st, Joseph g. Grand
Island railroad in the announcement that
II would raise the rate 20 correspond with
that OF the other lines. The Grand Island
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
New bank at Onida.

PIERRE. s. D.. Feb. 2S.-(Special.)-
Articles of Incorporation have been filed
with the secretary of state for the sully
County State bank at onida. the county
seat. 1t is capitalized at $4,000. The in
corporators are John j. Dalton, Pierre;
Thomas ]. Dalton and r. j. Dougherty of
Onida-
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
No Change in Tibet,

PEKING, Feb. 2s.-The Chinese govern
ment has replied 10 an inquiry by Great
Britain setting forth it's intentions in Tibet
by the British foreign office. China de-
clRres that the interior administration of
Tibet viii not be changed
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
ARMOURS WILL PAY TAX
Packing Firm VIII Not .FiESs.t state
Assessment ON lPrSducca
in Kansas

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Feb. 2s.-Repre-
sentatives Of the Armour Packing com
pany notified the commissioners Of Wyan-
dotte county, Kansas, today that the com
pany would pay the state tax on its fin
ished product on hand March 1, 1909. The
value Of the product was given as S5s7,7OO.
The tax will be about $4,000.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01

tHe W. Dll1zardS or the winter, Heavy
losses will be sustained by the live stock
men in the storm belt. A snow storm.
accompanied by wind with a velocity
of sixty miles an hour, was reported today
at many points along the line.
The Western Pacific line also has been
damaged east and west Of winnemucca,
and its roadbed in places will require
rebuilding.
EVERETT, Wash, Feb, 2s.-Four hund-
red men are striving to open the Great
Northern main line through the Cascade
mountains, and to release the last i'm
prisoned train, a Spokane local, which has
been dead near wellington, at the summit,
since February a.
There are thirty passengers on the train,
which is equipped with a diner. Supplies
are taken to the passengers by work
trains as far as they can CO. and hten are
carried on foot for the rest of the distance.
COLFAX, Wash, Feb. 2S.-The Palouse
river has overflowed it's banks, flooding
the business and resident districts. Water
is running several inches deep in many
houses and is still rising.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
Mile of Southern
Pacific Railroad
Washed Away
Six Passenger Trains, with 1900 Peo-
pie Aboard, Are Tied Up at Bat
tie Mountain, New.

RENO, New Feb 2s.-For a distance of
one mile the Southern Pacific railroad
near Battle Mountain, New, has been
washed away by a suden rise Of the Reese
rive ggnuper trains No . 2 ana
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
No matter what
your want may be.

Whether II is something you
want TO buy or something you
want to sell OF exchange.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01

Whether you want a job or
a man or woman to fill a job,
you have done your best when
you put the ad in The Bee.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
THE OMAHA BEE

rs tne most powerful busipess
getter in the west, because n goes
70 the homes Of poor and riob
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01
WEATHER FORECAST.

For Nebraska-Fair and warmer.
For lowa--Fair.
For weather report see page 2.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-01

WALLA WALIA, Wash, Feb. ga
special from Wallace, Idaho, says:
with a furious blizzard blocking efforts
OF rescuers progress In recovering those
buried In last nights avalanche is almost
impossible. Five hundred men sent from
this city had recovered only twelve bodies
at $3.50 a. m. II is virtually certain that
more than 100 persons have perlshed"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-11-02
All About the Goldfish,

Bill Nye on goldfish: "A CORE.
spondent of the New York Post says
that the Goldfish frequents the table
lands of the sea- The Goldfish no
doubt does this to secure as nearly as
possible a dry, bracing atmosphere.
This pure air of the submarine table
lands gives to the Goldfish that breadth
Of chest and depth of lungs that we
have SO often noticed. The glad, free
smile of the Goldfish is largely at
iributed to the exhilaration of this
oceanic altitoodleum. The correspon-
dent further says that the Goldfish
subsists largely on the sea cherry
Those who have not had the pleasure
of seeing the Goldfish climb the cherry
tree in search of food, or clubbing the
fruit from the heavily laden branches
with chunks of coral, have missed a
very fine sight. The Goldfish, when at
acme rambling through the submarine
forests, does not wear his vest unbut-
toned, as he does while loafng around
the grocery stores of tbs UnTreu
States"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-11-02
RANGERS BLAME RAIL ROAD
Official Inquiry Into Recent Destruc-
tive Forest Fires.

j =
General c. C. Andrews of the state
forestry board has received compre-
hensiVe report from George s. Chaplin
and Frank Curtis of Roosevelt, two
forest rangers whom the board or
dered to investigate the forest fires
which destroyed Baudette and Spooner
and devastated the surrounding coun-
try.
The report places the blame for the
fires on the Canadian Northern rail
road and the carelessness of many
locomotive engineers. It says that
the country through which the fires
travelled is wild and sparsely settled;
that the fires in many places did not
entirely destroy the trees, merely
scorching them enough to kill them.
These trees will fall this winter, ac-
cording to the rangers, and make con-
ditions as dangerous next year as they
were this if the debris is not cleaned
up. The dry weather of the summer
also is responsible to a great extent
for the fires, for at no time,'' accord
ing to the report, was there water
enough to put out the fires in the peat
bogs, which were burning frequently
to depth of two feet"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-11-02
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers,
FOR KILLING STEPCH|LDREN
lie Sueur County Farmer Declared
Guilty by Jury and Sentenced
to Be Hanged.

Less than four hours after a jury
returned a verdict of murder in the
first degree Martin O'Malley, a pros
porous farmer of Dereynane township,
LIE Sueur county, tried at lie Sueur
Center for the poisoning of his step
children, Frances Bergel, aged five, and
Mary Bergel, aged three years, was
sentenced by Judge P. w. Morrison.
in the district court to be hanged.
Counsel for O'Malley Immediately
asked for a transcript of the evidence
and it is understood that an appeal for
reduction Of sentence to life imprison-
ment will be made. 0'Malley appeared
unmoved when sentenced. His de-
meanor throughout the trial has given
the impression that he is not mentally
sound. When taken to Jail O'Malley
remarked:
II did not do it, but I will tell who
did,
Evidence, however, was strong
against the prisoner and included
signed confession, which O'Malley, in
testifying at his trial, contended was
Wrung from him by threats of lynch
ing. O'Malley will be confined in the
county Jail for ninety days, pending
the fixing of the date Of hanging by
the governor.
O'Malley was arrested on July 16,
month after his marriage to Mrs. Ber-
gel, a widow of Montgomery, with
three children, the oldest of whom
was six years old. O'Malley was a
widower with eight children Soon
afterward two of the Bergel children
died and were buried. A LIE Sueur
Center doctor diagnosed their disease
as spinal meningitis, but suspicion was
aroused, the bodies exhumed and the
stomachs sent to the state university
for examination. The chemists re-
port was that the children had been
poisoned by arsenic which was found
in their livers and stomachs
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-11-02
Immense Damage by Storm and
Flood in Italy.
NAPLES SUFFERS SEVERELY
Many Houses Collapse Because Of Sub
sidence of Earth's Surface Due
to Volcanic Eruption.

Naples, Oct. 26.-As the news slow
~ filters in from the districts ravaged
by Mondays storm, floods and sub
sidence of the surface of the earth,
due to volcanic action, the magnitude
OF the disaster grows. 1t is admitted
by the authorities that the death list
exceeds 200 at Ischia and in the prov
inces of Salerno and Naples.
Thirty feet of mud covers many of
the roads in the provinces of Naples
and Salerno
Soldiers have been started at the
work of rescue and relief, but their
progress must necessarily be slow be-
cause of the blocking of the roads,
Here in Naples many houses col
lapsed. This was due to subsistence
OF the surface of the earth, due to the
recent volcanic eruption, and the in
habitants of the city are in a state of
panic.
A telegram received from the may
or of Casamicciola says that the city
has been very badly damaged and that
help is urgently needed.
It is possible that the loss of life
there may be heavy, as there are ru-
mors that the extinct volcano, Mount
Epomeo, is again active. The town,
which was destroyed by the volcano
in July, 1888, but. rebuilt by govern
ment aid, has been much resorted to
on account of it's baths and warm
alkaline and saline springs In the
earthquake of 1883 LOO lives were
lost
No Foreigners There at Present.
Fortunately there were no tourists
there, the hotels having been emptied
following the cholera scare An Amer
lean painter Robert Hale of st. Paul,
who returned from there a few days
ago, said that only natives remained
in the city.
The entire slopes of Mount Vesu-
vius were swept by cloudbursts and
the thousands of tons of lava and
ashes accumulated along the crests of
the mountain since the last serious
eruption were swept down into the
adjacent valleys, leaving death and
desolation in their wake.
Floods are reported at Cetara,
Amalfi, Salerno and in other places
The damage is estimated in the
millions, although no positive estimate
is possible for several days, and the
later reports may materially reduce
the figures.
Captains of vessels that were an
chored in the bay Of Naples say there
must have been submarine earth
quake, inasmuch as their craft heaved
violently and in several instances
dragged their anchor chains. It was
about this time that Vesuvius belched
mud and stones. This preceded the
cloudburst by less than an hour
Human bodies and the carcasses of
animals have been discovered in the
molten stream from Mount Vesuvius.