The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. XXXVI-N- O. 1U. OMAIIA, MONDAY MORNING, DECKMIJEK 3, 11W6. SINGIJ3 COPY THREE CENTS. PANAMA IS PLEASED OPENING UP OF BIG PASTURE FUNERAL OF DEAD MAGNATE MYENDORFF ANSWERS WARREN HONOR TO HERMAN KOUNTZE NEBRASKA WEATHER FORECAST WORK FOR CONGRESS Half Million Arm to Be Sold to the Denies Matters Imputed to Him by Fair and Colder Monday Taesday, Highest Fair. Bidder In Quarter Men Prominent in Railroad and Financial the Senator from Citizens of Omaha Far Tribute to Late . People on tba Iithmui Taken by Storm by Section Lota. ' World f Wyoming-- Appropriation fills lipected to Take Up at pencer'i hier. I financier in Fnblic Temperature at Omaha Yesterdnyi f resident Eflosevelt. llonr. pea. llonr Pea. Most o be ! ime. LAWTOS, Okl., Dec. the PORTLAND, Ore.. Iec. A. ft n. m :r t p. 4 COLORED CAR 31 . government land office here will begin re- PORTtRS BEAR THE BODY Myondorff. the special Jigent. who returned EICQUENT EULCG.tS ARE SPOKEN a. in 84 . 4l SPEECH STRIKES A RESPONSIVE CHORD T m . ceiving hUs for frJO.Ouo acrs of hind In th to Portland yesterday from Salt Lake City, a. .11 a p. ni 40 SESSION SHORT AND MEASURES IMPORTANT a. JWV p. BO Kiowa, Comanche and Apache reser- In reply United ni 4 m. Indian As Funeral Bell Tolls Every Wheel has made a statement to Representative Men Praise, the Work a. m ft p. m . 4H vation In Oklahoma, - Wy- Itl carrying out an act Btates Senator Francis- K. Warren of 10 a. m HT H p. , . 4A a Characteristic Compliment to on Ureal System Ceases to Tara of Ills Life, rower and ni Fourteen of The on, r.j. of congress opining the lund to settlement. oming. Mr. MyendorfT begins with a state- the 11 a. ni 7 p. 41 CarTjinc Approxi- in- 4t m. Foultney Bieelow. The lund Is spoken of as the "big pasture." aad Every Telegraph ment of those portions of the affidavit made Influence of Ills lil m 41 8 p. Ill . 4t mately Billion Dollar. Most of it is good for farming purposes. strument Is Stilled. by him before the Interstate Commerce Character. n p. ni. 43 Under the law no bids of less than fu an commission City, referring to SHONTS SAYS WORK IS PROGRESSING at Salt Lake bcto will be considered and each bidder Mr. Wnrren, and to which Warren takes BRIBERY CHARGE IS DENIED MUCH ORATORY ON OTHER SUBJECTS 2.-- may s. WASHINGTON, Dec. AJ1 Is put In as many proposals as ho that exceptions. He continues: "When a great oak In a forest which for t The maximum amount of land to mortal of Samuel Spencer, late president "If he (Warren) is correctly quoted he years has towered above the surrounning Street Railway Men Say The're Was Eeporti of Labir Tronblei Denied by of General Opinion, however, It Will Larf ely be sold to any one bidder, however, will the Southern railway, whose tragic asserted that In writing to him I described trees, has fallen, many years of growth !o ll) to Rny a Chairman of Commiialoi. death on hi own ecf be limited to a single quarter section. It railroad on the morning myself as being an 'old soldier of the civil of smaller trees Is required to fill the Franchise. End With lalk. Is belk ved that there will be $30,000 bidders. of Thank. giving day shocked the people ot war. This statement was never made by vacincy. We have met this afternoon to Under instructions issued by Secretary ot two hemispheres, was laid to rest this me and It would have been absurd any- do honor to the memory of a man who KEN CONTENTED WITH for erring to HOUSE BILLS IN CONDITIONS the Interior bids, which afternoon In the receiving vault at the Oak body many years stood an In this com SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. PLNDiNG THE SENATE Hitchcock, all must to have made any declaration of that for oak pa- be made upon a by the Hill cemetery, there to await final disposi- munity. will speak of the virtues dispatches appearing In some eastern blank furnished character. The records of the State de Others pers concernlng'the report Supervisor Alio land office at Lawton, or at Washington, tion. A notable tribute was paid to the partment waa In lma of Hoiman Kountze. My part is simply to that Takes Occasion to Dear show that it that Sanderson of Francisco had made a Ship Subsidy Measure and Phlllpplaa Eimc must be signed by the bidder and contain memory of the distinguished railroad mag- Lincoln my from call this meeting to order and Introduce Sin meat or Hla Daughter to a Titled Abraham obtained release confession of bribery In various matters Tariff, With Smoot Case, the bidder's postoffice nate by his associates, by htatesmen, ana In the chairman, Henry W. Yates." address. exile Siberia and that I did not arrive connected with the Hoard of Supervisors, Frenchman Too Youn Bids will be only by men eminent In the walks of public life. lSGtt, year With these words Ourdon W. Wattles, as All Ready for Flaal received between the in this country until a after the Including the granting of the to Wed. hours of 9 a. m. on Monday, 3, The funeral obsequies, held in historic Si-- chairman of the special committee, opened Disposal. December close of the civil war. overhead trolley rights to the United Rail- and 4 p. m. on 8. John's Protestant Episcopal church, were the memorial services at Boyd's theater Saturday, December Each "Furthermore, I never solicited Senator ways, T. L. Ford, general counsel of the bidder must Inclose with his bid his check atterided by railroad officials, financier Warren or anyone else for tho position of a Sunday afternoon, the parquet and the NEW YORK, Deo. 2. "Pres'dent Roose- coun United Railways, today said: for one-fift- h of the highest amount bid by and public men from all parts of the special agent In the consular service. stage of the theater being filled with the i WASHINGTON, vcc. 2. The passage ot velt took the Panamans by m," said "Mr. Sanderson could not have made any .), him for any tract. The bids are to be try. Many of them were lifelong asso- "Mr. Warren Is also quoted as saying friends and relatives of Herman Kountze the apiiiupiiaiton bins, and as lutia ulnar Theodore P. Bhonts, Pan-im- a confession respecting bribery In connection chalrm placed In strong boxes. On December 10 ciates. Hundreds of friends came from he never to me any private to pay a tribute to the late financier. j general legislation as possioio. bucn, lu canal com in Union, wttv that read letters with our overhead trolley rights, for there he up, In the south. Mr. Yates told of his association with i urief, i no I no ses- Panama. ltn atamar r..ir... they are to be mixed numbered the of mine addressed to Commissioner Rich- was no bribery to confess. These rights is lorecast tor snort rder In which the envelopes chance to be Long before the hour snnounced for the ards. Never said he did. I did Herman Kountze In a small building near sion of the ritiy-inm- n congress, wmcn will Colon. Mr. 8ho nts suok enthu. '. A What were granted to the United Railways '' d up, sent to general land funeral, 2 p. in., admission to the churc'i say, however, waa Twelfth and Farnam streets before there oegm at nign noon tomorrow. and the senator of the recent visit of the chief ex.. that the read shortly after the earthquake and fire in Washington. The secretary of the. had to be d riled to all except the closest me extracts from which I had ad- were banks and before there was prac- there has not yet been tune for as gen- and declared work on the canal v letters San Francisco in response to a universal that Ml then award each tract to the personal and official friends of Mr. Spencer dressed to the commissioner of the general tically any Omaha. Judge W. D. Mcllugh eral an exchange of views among mem- progressing under satisfactory conditions. ' demand for street railway operation by amount of his bid. Hundreds of people stood outslrte tne land office. were official read the minutes of the meeting as they bers us is oruinarily desired by be- Purine; his talk with newspaper men dder for the These letters and tho then only means available, which was leaner the Dei, . of unsuccessful bidders are church In tho crisp December air, through not private they had been prepared by the resolutions com- - fore views, all s era Mr. Shonls took occasion to deny his the communications and have the overhead trolley. The only question expressing their but that to be returned, bids have been out the services, paying solemnly ana never been designated as 'private mlttee, and they were adopted by a rising . to the present as so sim- daughter, Theodora, become engaged after the letters' ' raised in any quarter was whether these regard situation had silently their tribute of respect. by anybody to my knowledge, by vote. Inter- to a titled foreigner. canvassed. except overhead trolley rights should be temporary ple ss to need comparatively little Shortly before 1;30 p. m. the officers ana Senator Warren himself. Isaac K. Congdon who had been one of course an understanding. It Chairman Bhonts said would pro- or should continue during the llfo of the to arrive at that he employes of the Southern railway, 319 in "Senator of having Mr.